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Lasso Me Tender
Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain and a season of gay cinema.
In dubbing Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features) "Marlboro men in love," I'm not being flip. OK, I'm not only being flip. Ang Lee's films often focus on the tension between people's formal roles—those ritualized, culturally mandated poses they feel compelled to strike—and the passions under the surface that struggle to express themselves. Even manners as elaborate as the ones in the martial-artsy (a reader's phrase) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon were destabilized by the characters' unruly ardor and volcanic sex drives.
So, in Brokeback Mountain—adapted by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana from a plain but evocative story by Annie Proulx—you have two guys with slim hips and dungarees and cowboy hats pulled low. They lean against pickups, smoke cigarettes, and trade monosyllables (if that). They're suitable for framing. But in the course of an early 1960s summer herding sheep on an isolated Wyoming mountain, they find themselves growing closer and closer and … yes, on Brokeback Mountain they make the beast with two broken backs.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger play the men. Gyllenhaal's Jack Twist is the more extroverted one, the rodeo rider, the cowboy who makes cow eyes. Ledger's Ennis Del Mar is the quintessential Westerner of few words, and the words he says are not always audible: He speaks with a Wild West lockjaw that's sometimes annoying but also weirdly hypnotic. Ledger's performance is prime Oscar bait: He's ostentatiously immobile, with uncanny low tones—his voice is 50 fathoms deep. The whole performance is subtextual.
What does Brokeback Mountain (the place) symbolize? It's the natural world in which society's strictures fall away and these men can be true to their own natures—where dinners of canned beans yield to elk-hunting, shirtless romps, and hungry coupling. Lee and his cinematographer, Rodrigo Prieto, mirror the forces in play with vast mountain backdrops full of mysterious planes, huge cumulous clouds, slashes of lightning in the far distance, and hailstones the size of apples. When Jake and Ennis return, as they must, to civilization, they live amid squat, faceless, pre-fab buildings set far apart from one another, and the flat landscapes once again mirror their emotions—now flat-lined.
They take wives—Michelle Williams as Ennis' high-school sweetheart, Alma, and Anne Hathaway as Lureen, a kind of Texas rodeo queen with a wealthy daddy who's the perfect trophy for an up-and-comer like Jake. But these are passionless unions, and Ennis' drift into unemployment and alcoholism is relentless. Despite the physical distance between them (Ennis is in Wyoming, Jake in Texas), they come together again and again and head back to the wild—aware that if they're caught, they could be lynched by all their neighbors, those less-than-liberal "real" men who wouldn't know a real man if he fucked them in the ass. (Or maybe that's the only way they would know a real man.) The lovers wonder: Can you build on Brokeback Mountain?
Cartman on South Park famously dismissed independent movies as "gay cowboys eating pudding." I have no idea where the pudding image came from, but I'm bound to say that Brokeback Mountain could use a little more of it—by which I mean more sweat and other bodily fluids. Ang Lee's formalism is so extreme that it's often laughable, and the sex is depicted as a holy union: Gay love has never been so sacred. On the other hand, Lee treats the wives as either sexless drudges (Williams) or lacquered mannequins (Hathaway). Williams gives a fine performance (more Oscar bait) as the kind of wife who inevitably gets labeled "long-suffering," but she seems to exist only in relation to her husband, and only then to drag him down.
As distant as I felt from the movie, there were people around me weeping uncontrollably at the end—gay men, some of them, and a few women who were moved by the spectacle of cowboys in tears. (This is actually something of a chick flick.) And I did find Brokeback Mountain more powerful in retrospect, when its tone and images and emotions lingered beyond all its elevated Oscar-worthiness. There were also moments in which Lee deconstructed the cowboy persona so completely that he made me wonder: Are a lot of cowboys, like, totally gay?
There's certainly a lot of breaking free for the holidays: 'Tis the season to be gay—transvestite, transsexual, or prone to burst into song to express the anguish of AIDS.
You'll be singing along to the soundtrack of Neil Jordan's enchanting Breakfast on Pluto (Sony Pictures Classics), which boasts the most felicitous use of wall-to-wall pop songs I've ever heard. T. Rex's "Children of the Revolution" is a special treat, and while I hoped never to hear Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" again in this lifetime, in context it's extraordinarily winsome. The tone throughout is an improbably cheerful plaintiveness.
Jordan adapted the movie with Patrick McCabe from McCabe's novel. (They also made The Butcher Boy together.) Their small-town Irish hero/heroine—as the title would suggest, a farther-out Holly Golightly—is Patrick "Kitten" Braden (Cillian Murphy). In chapters with superimposed titles he tells the story of his life, beginning with being dumped by his mother on the steps of a church, where the priest, Father Bernard (Liam Neeson), squeamishly hands him off to a brusque foster mother. She's none too happy when she finds the 10-year-old Patrick (played by Conor McEvoy) modeling her dresses: She warns him that the next time she'll make him parade through the street dressed like that, and he says, "Promise?"
Subtitled birds comment wryly on this turn—an example of Jordan's playful technique, the gaiety juxtaposed against acts of shocking brutality. (The Irish Republican Army looms large in the mid-'70s.) Patrick/Kitten grows up obsessed with his absent mom, who's said to resemble Mitzi Gaynor, and flits off to London to track her down.
Patrick's poverty and homelessness in the big city is the stuff of nightmares, but you never catch him brooding on it. There's a bubble around him. In truth, he seems slightly bonkers—on Pluto. And while bad people do bad things to him, others treat him kindly: Among his contacts are Brendan Gleeson's surprisingly tender drunken laborer and Stephen Rea's sad-sack, Stan Laurel-esque magician. (There's a touching, semiparodic reenactment of Jordan's The Crying Game.) Even a police investigator (Ian Hart) who roughs him up ultimately carts him to a welcoming house of ill repute to earn a "decent" living.
With his unearthly face—high, razor-sharp cheekbones that frame irradiated blue eyes—Cillian Murphy makes a mysterious and transfixing object. A more down-to-earth actor would sentimentalize Breakfast on Pluto and make for an awkward fit with its peculiar mix of tones. Murphy's strangeness—his chill estrangement—makes his campy "Kitten" persona more poignant. Transvestitism is the only way that such a damaged soul can find beauty and harmony in a cold and colorless world.
Felicity Huffman's face is what holds you in Duncan Tucker's delightful Transamerica (The Weinstein Company), too, but her semi-transsexual Bree (nee Stanley) Osbourne is the antithesis of a camp drag queen. A mismatched buddy road-trip picture in which the Los Angelino Bree, shortly before her final operation, discovers she's the father of a teenage son, a homeless-in-Manhattan delinquent named Toby (soulful newcomer Kevin Zegers), Transamerica skirts sitcom terrain. But Huffman has purged all extravagant artifice from her manner. She's smart enough to know that Bree would never risk calling attention to that artifice. A prim social conservative, she doesn't believe that she is artificial. Despite a brief teenage experiment with a woman (it yielded Toby), she has no doubt that her male organ was a genetic screw-up.
Huffman's performance is a thrill-a-minute—and a thrill-a-motion. An actress playing a man playing a woman is a mind- as well as gender-bender, but Huffman's face is made up to look as if she's right on the male-female border, and her ladylike movements are studied, with the timing always slightly off: Before our eyes, she deconstructs a woman and then puts her back together. When, in Texas, a Native American (Graham Greene) in a cowboy hat takes Bree for a born female and admires her form, she shivers with pleasure, and I felt sad that he would ever have to know the (rather misleading) truth. Toby opines that it's weird to see an "Indian in a cowboy hat." He has a greater job of reorienting himself ahead of him: He doesn't know that this uptight woman who bailed him out of juvenile detention (posing as a Christian do-gooder) is his sperm-donor.
Transamerica has a couple of melodramatic turns and the paternity revelation is delayed unconscionably. But the movie builds to a marvelously over-the-top sequence in Bree's upper-middle-class home, in which her horrified Christian mother (a hilarious Fionnula Flanagan) lavishes attention on her new grandson (who doesn't know he's her grandson); her hapless Jewish father (Burt Young!) fumbles to explain the family position on their son's transsexuality ("We love you, but we don't respect you"); her cynical, recovering-drug-addict sister (Carrie Preston) struggles to reconcile the trippy discontinuum between her brother and Bree; and Toby decides he wouldn't mind becoming Bree's lover. Farce born of sadly irreconcilable impulses: Bravo!
In a rare burst of discretion, I've put off writing about Rent (Columbia), in part because I don't want to seem unsympathetic to the emotions that gave birth to Jonathan Larson's musical and its subsequent—posthumous—enshrinement in Broadway culture. I don't share the view of some critics that this souped-up La Bohème is faux bohemianism, no more authentic than a Gap ad. It's real—and, on screen, it's really cringe-worthy. Not quite Phantom of the Opera cringe-worthy, but not as much fun to blow raspberries at, either.
Rent is set in 1989, when too many people had already died from AIDS and too many were about to—before the current cocktail of meds brought the virus under control (somewhat). Most of the major characters are sick, and when they open their mouths to sing—it's undistinguished Lite Rock in the promiscuously emotive style of the numbers on American Idol—they're quickly joined by other members of the large ensemble. I can see how comforting and inspiring this instant communal oneness might seem to some people, but I found it tiresomely undramatic, even saccharine. Not to mention monotonous. Chris Columbus directs fluidly (for him), but in a family-movie style that makes the musical seem even more homogenized than it probably is. It's like a ride at Disney World: the Urban AIDS-Victim Jamboree.
Click here to read David Leavitt's essay on whether Brokeback Mountain is a gay film.


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Ariana Grande, who is gunning for a possible No. 1 debut with her first album 'Yours Truly' next week, bloomed in a pretty, floral party frock with a retro edge at the 10th Annual Style Awards at Fashion Week in NYC.
The singer, 20, performed and she turned up in a blue and white, custom designed Kenley Collins dress, which she paired with sky-high, nude YSL heels.

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A US congressional commission is warning that the cross-strait military balance continues to shift decisively in favor of China, a draft of this year's report to US Congress says.
The report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission recommends that Congress urge US President Barack Obama to remain alert to the dangers and says the Obama administration should continue talks with Taiwanese officials on the nation's future defense needs.
Those talks should concentrate on "sales of arms and equipment such as may be necessary to offset the growing capabilities of the PLA [People's Liberation Army] for coercive power projection," it said.
The report, which will officially go to Congress next week, says that the warming of relations between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC) has significantly reduced tensions across the Taiwan Strait and the US should support engagement between Taipei and Beijing.
"However, the underlying issues that divide the two sides remain," it said.
"The deepening of cross-strait economic ties has not been matched by progress in security ties," it said.
According to the report, the PRC's military build-up continues to take place amid "constrained channels for crisis communication," increasing regional tensions over conflicting territorial claims and "an ever present risk of accident or miscalculation involving the armed forces of the two sides."
"Although it has tabled the issue for the time being, Beijing continues to insist on movement towards political reunification," the report said.
"The divisions that remain are rooted in issues of identity and sovereignty that will not be easily resolved," it said.
"As a supporter of the expansion of democratic freedoms around the world, it is in the interests of the US to see Taiwan's status resolved peacefully and without the coercion of its population," it added.
The report says that the US Department of Defense estimates that the PLA Air Force has 490 aircraft within unrefueled operational range of Taiwan.
At the same time, the PLA Second Artillery Corps has about 1,200 short-range ballistic missiles based in southeastern coastal areas within range of Taiwan.
And this year, newer and more advanced aircraft and missiles with improved ranges, payloads and accuracy have been introduced.
"Of particular concern to both Taiwan and US military defense planners is the steadily increasing capacity of Chinese military forces to employ extended-range strike warfare and other anti-access/area denial capabilities," the report said.
"This growth in capabilities could seriously impact the future ability of the US military to surge forces into the Western Pacific in the event of a major regional contingency operation," it said.
The report warns that Taiwan has been "rocked" by revelations of highly damaging cases of espionage conducted by military officers working for the PRC.
Such cases indicate "continuing and concerted efforts by Chinese intelligence services to penetrate military and national security agencies in Taiwan," it said.
Controversy continued throughout this year, regarding the possibility of US sales of the more advanced C/D version of the F-16s requested by Taipei.
"There is some concern in the US and Taiwan that selling F-16C/Ds to Taiwan would set back progress on cross-strait relations," the report said.


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1. Re: @Resource Annotation fails to inject custom ConnectionfactoryStephen Coy May 8, 2012 8:39 AM (in response to pascal salg)1 of 1 people found this helpful
This looks like a classloading problem.
Does your application contain a JAR with the Neo4JConnectionFactory class file in it?
If so, try removing it from the runtime deployment.
2. Re: @Resource Annotation fails to inject custom Connectionfactorypascal salg May 8, 2012 4:16 PM (in response to Stephen Coy)
Well yes, my EAR contains "neo4j-connector-api-0.3-SNAPSHOT.jar" which has Neo4jConnection.class and Neo4jConnectionFactory.class in it.
What exactly do you mean by "remove it from the runtime deployment"? I think I would need the jar in the ear so I can use the ConnectionFactory ?
Packaging in my project is as follows:
- lib
- neo4j-connector-api-0.3-SNAPSHOT.jar
- src
- Neo4jClient (Which has the @Resource Annotation in it)
- TestBean (Stateless Bean to get called from View (Richfaces 4) )
- WebContent
- index.xhtml
- beans.xml
- faces-config.xml
- web.xml
- lib
- Richfaces 4 libs & dependencies
A little confused =D
Greetings from Germany,
3. Re: @Resource Annotation fails to inject custom Connectionfactorypascal salg May 10, 2012 2:05 PM (in response to pascal salg)
Okay, I finally got it working.
My current solution is this:
- I removed the WAR from my EAR File,
- As Stephen suggested, I removed the neo4j-connector-api-0.3-SNAPSHOT.jar from the build path of the project
- Instead I put the neo4j-connector-api-0.3-SNAPSHOT.jar in jdk/jre/lib/endorsed directory which is used to build the project and run the server with
- deployed neo4j-connector.rar in {server-home}/standalone/deployments
- added jboss-deployment-structure.xml file in {war}/webcontent/web-inf (as seen in http://groups.google.com/group/xadisk/browse_thread/thread/47b7324ece6b884a?pli=1)
- configured the server to use the connector (see <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:resource-adapters:1.0">)
- then injected the connectionfactory in my class with @Resource annotation (as seen in http://alexsmirnov.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/neo4j-java-ee-connector/)
I will provide a full tutorial as well as soon as I've written it.
Thanks for the help =)
Greetings from Germany
4. Re: @Resource Annotation fails to inject custom Connectionfactorypascal salg May 18, 2012 7:19 PM (in response to pascal salg)
I have completed the tutorial now, it can be found here:
(Though I still didn't get it working with an EAR.. will look into that again)
Greetings from Germany


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Inspirational Guidance for Honoring the Call to Create
Many of us wear a mask that covers not our faces but our souls, hiding the authenticity we yearn to express. But how do we remove these masks and step into our full creative power? On Your Creative Soul, Caroline Myss and Sandra Joseph, the author and actress best known for her role as Christine in Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera, investigate the profound relationship between our spirituality and our creative lives—and why it's essential for each of us to honor the impulses of the soul.
Caroline begins by offering her understanding of the inherent connection between spirituality and creativity and why every breath we take is itself an act of creation. She illuminates the many levels of creative expression beyond artistic pursuits and illustrates the energetic anatomy of the creative process chakra by chakra. Sandra and Caroline discuss the most common blocks to creativity, then Sandra points the way toward six "doorways" to creativity, as together they explore:
- Re-evaluating our relationship with the survival instinct of fear
- The shadow of creativity—what happens when we squelch the soul's call
- How to "empty oneself and let go"—the key to authenticity in performance
What are you longing to create right now? What inner gifts are waiting to be revealed? Your Creative Soul is an inspirational guide for giving voice to your deepest truths. Features five beautiful songs performed by Sandra Joseph.
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- Review for Your Creative Soul Review by Nicole J
Caroline Myss is flawless as always but this "match" was sour and did not blend well at al.
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- Review for Your Creative Soul Review by Catherine S
This program is well presented and full of useful information. Happy that I am now aware of Sandra Joseph. I always learn from Caroline Myss, she's such a wonderful teacher. The songs are nice too.
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Not one of my programs that I will listen to again. It was a let down.
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A mildly interesting programme. I expected more depth from these authors / lecturers, but there are some useful tips in the sessions. Additional problem for me is that the order of the downloaded MP3 files are rearranged by my Sony MP3 player. Although the chapters and sections are identified by numbers in the downloaded file, the MP3 player shows them as headings (titles) and changes the order. This has never happened with CDs I have converted. Is there something that SoundsTrue can do to label MP3 files in future?
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- Review for Your Creative Soul Review by priya
caroline is great, but this felt like regurgitation of old material -- new with broadway star. just not for me. if you like musicals + audio-learning, it might be your thing.
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- Review for Your Creative Soul Review by Cindy M
I love this program. Having listened to other programs of Caroline Myss, I knew I would not be disappointed.
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- Review for Your Creative Soul Review by Donna C
Caroline Myss and Sandra Joseph share incredible wisdom, I've listened to it over and over. I love this audio program.
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- Review for Your Creative Soul Review by Susan W
This program is particularly helpful for anyone wrestling with the pangs of inner critic issues. Expressing ones creative spirit is a self-honoring experience, and as Sandra Joseph shares, maybe someone else has said something similar but your authentic voice is just that - yours, and who knows who might connect and be inspired by it.
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- Review for Your Creative Soul Review by Kim D
If you are familiar with Caroline's work, this is one of her best. It's a heightened consolidation of all her earlier work, packaged and amped in practical, congruent and inspirational teaching. In this, she really is giving you the 'Keys to the Kingdom' for your life and for others. Sandra Joseph provides sweet illustration of Caroline's teaching. This recording is brilliant. Five stars. There is so much depth here. So many jewels. You can listen to this over and over again and get more and more out of it with every listen as you grow. Brilliant.
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- Review for Your Creative Soul Review by PC L
An excellent program. Sandra's down-to-earth self-disclosures and Caroline's helicopter approach was a dynamic fusion. If not for the multiple files which made it cumbersome and tedious to play - I'd to click on each of the 49 files - I'd given it 5 stars. Please indicate the number of files a program contains. Or put the recording in MP4 format.
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Great recording! A lovely combination of Caroline's insight and wisdom with Sandra's spirit and experience. Thank you Sounds True.
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- Review for Your Creative Soul Review by Kathryn M
I enjoyed Caroline's insights as always and also aspects of Sandra's creative journey, but found the songs unnecessary(4-5?)..seemed more like filler content which I skipped over. Would have preferred to hear more from Caroline.
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- Review for Your Creative Soul Review by judith
I give this collection 5 Stars because it hit the home run and went straight to the heart and soul of exactly what was needed.
I would recommend "Your Creative Soul: Expressing Your Authentic Voice" to anyone and everyone who questions their purpose and anyone who wants clear, clean guidance on channeling ones own unique creativity.
Sandra Joseph and Caroline Myss are a perfect team in this awe inspiring audio
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WASHINGTON A united U.N. Security Council strongly condemned North Korea's nuclear test and pledged further action Tuesday, calling Pyongyang's latest defiant act "a clear threat to international peace and security."
A press statement approved by all 15 council members at an emergency meeting hours after the latest underground test called the atomic blast a "grave violation" of three U.N. resolutions banning the North from conducting nuclear or missile tests.
North Korea conducted nuclear weapons tests weeks after rocket launches in 2006 and 2009, and this third test followed a rocket launch in December.
The Security Council pointed out that in a resolution it approved unanimously last month, which strengthened sanctions in response to the December missile test, members promised to take "significant action" in the event of a new nuclear test.
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PSE&G Named Founding Partner of 2014 Special Olympics USA Games With $1M Pledge
Games Expected to Involve 80,000 People and Bring $50 Million in Economic Activity to New Jersey. PSE&G will Serve as Presenting Sponsor of Youth Leadership Initiative.
(PRINCETON, NJ) JULY 23, 2012 - The Organizing Committee of the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games today announced a $1 million commitment from PSE&G, making the company a Founding Partner of the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games. The Games are expected to have a $50 million impact on New Jersey's economy as thousands of athletes, coaches, and supporters descend upon the Garden State for the Games. The Games will be the largest Special Olympics national games since they began in 2006.
PSE&G will be the Presenting Sponsor of the Games' Youth Leadership Initiative, which will challenge high school students to develop strategies to bring together students with and without intellectual disabilities. Activities will start next year in schools throughout New Jersey, challenging students to become leaders who create cultures of acceptance in their schools and communities. PSE&G will also sponsor the Games' national Youth Leadership Summit, which will bring to New Jersey youth from throughout the country for a week of activities that teach them how to become advocates for each other. These efforts are designed to lead to greater acceptance of Special Olympics athletes in the classroom.
"We're proud to help bring a world-class event like the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games to New Jersey. We have great respect for the impact that this organization has had in showcasing the incredible spirit and abilities of athletes with intellectual disabilities," said Ralph LaRossa, president and chief operating officer of PSE&G. "The Games will bring an influx of people and investment to New Jersey, and provide tens of thousands of the state's residents an opportunity to get involved in activities that bring people together. We're strong and steady supporters of initiatives that strengthen the communities we serve."
The 2014 Special Olympics USA Games will take place at sporting venues throughout New Jersey, June 14 through June 21. More than 3,500 Special Olympics athletes from all 50 states and the District of Columbia will compete in 17 sports. An estimated 10,000 volunteers as well as 50,000 additional spectators will be in attendance.
"The impact of these Games on New Jersey will go far beyond the new dollars it brings to the state," said TJ Nelligan, Chairman & CEO of the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games Organizing Committee, "PSE&G's support will help create a legacy of acceptance in our schools and a new generation of leaders who are committed to ensuring that all people are valued and fully included in our society."
"Young people are the future of our Special Olympics movement and we are thrilled that PSE&G will help power their leadership leading up to and during the 2014 USA Games," shared Timothy Shriver, Chairman and CEO of Special Olympics. "By providing youth the opportunity to engage with athletes with intellectual disabilities, they will be helping pave the way for more inclusive and accepting communities."
The PSE&G sponsored Youth Leadership Initiative has two distinct initiatives. The first is the 2013 Special Olympics New Jersey Leadership Institute, which will engage New Jersey students as leaders to create cultures of acceptance in their schools and communities through sport. The second element is 2014 Special Olympics USA Games Youth Leadership Summit, which will assemble youth from throughout the country to participate in a week of idea exchanging and leadership development, including taking on leadership roles during the Games, in preparation for implementing programs of inclusion and acceptance in their home schools and communities.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama has spoken with more than a dozen world leaders following his re-election and expressed his desire to continue to have close cooperation with them.
Obama spoke Thursday with British Prime Minister David Cameron, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and several other world leaders. The calls came in the aftermath of Obama's winning of a second term against Republican Mitt Romney.
The White House says the president thanked them for their friendship and partnership and interest in maintaining close cooperation between the U.S. and their country.
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Japanese automaker Toyota (NYSE:TM) is the world's largest automaker with over 19.0 trillion yen in revenues for fiscal 2010.[1] Toyota's sales are concentrated in Japan and North America but have seen rapid growth in Asia and South America.
Sales of the company's three automotive brands: Toyota, Lexus, and Scion. Profits on exported vehicles made in Japan have also been hit by a strengthening Japanese yen.[2] Toyota has a near choke-hold on the US hybrid/low-emissions vehicles market thanks to the redesigned Prius. As the American Big Three struggle to meet the 35 mpg mandate by 2020, Toyota has a head start.
Toyota has 51 bases in 26 different countries and regions worldwide, in Australia, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Kenya, South Africa, Russia, the U.K., Turkey, Portugal, Poland, France, Czech Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, the U.S., Canada, and obviously Japan.[3] Despite this apparent diversity, 60% of production still occurs in Japan, 15% in North America, 11% in Asia, and 8% in Europe.[4]
Business is divided into three main divisions:
The Auto segment includes the Toyota, Lexus, and Scion brands.[13]
Toyota follows a pyramid strategy, selling large numbers of low-cost models (Corolla, Camry) and smaller numbers of higher-cost models (Tacoma pickup truck, Lexus luxury vehicles). This product breakdown reflects Toyota's strategy of segmenting the market into wealth levels and selling accordingly. Below are several of Toyota's most important models:
Toyota's financial arm provides various credit services to customers.[17]
Toyota's other segment includes revenue from investments as far-flung as housing, aerospace[18], marine operations, biotechnology, and telecommunications.[19]
Growth in car sales in the developed economies of the United States, Japan, and Western Europe is expected to remain slow as the GDPs of developed economies grows more slowly and the automotive needs of most consumers are already satisfied. This means that major automakers like Toyota will increasingly look to emerging markets to produce sales growth, especially Brazil, Russia, India and China - BRIC countries. Toyota tapped demand in emerging markets earlier than most other automakers and has thus developed numerous manufacturing facilities, distribution networks, and brand reputation.
Several major trends in the United States economy bear upon Toyota's business:
As a Japanese company, Toyota's profits are recorded in Japanese yen, but its sales are denominated in euros, dollars, pounds, Chinese yuan, and many other currencies. Fluctuations in the exchange rate between these currencies and the yen can lead to fluctuations in Toyota's profits; these fluctuations can be very large. Had the dollar-yen exchange rate been 1% lower last year (say 118.5 instead of 120), Toyota's profits would have fallen by 5 billion yen ($42 million). Toyota hedges its exchange rate risk by arranging currency swaps and purchasing futures, but these operations are costly and threaten to cut into the bottom line. In the long run, these effects are even more exacerbated: as the dollar depreciates against the yen, American sales are worth less to Toyota, and Toyotas are more expensive to consumers, so they buy fewer. Thus profit per revenue and absolute revenue both fall from depreciating exchange rates. While Toyota can hedge out the risk to its profit margins, it cannot easily manage the risk from falling demand. Exchange rates have become a sensitive subject among US legislators, who allege that Japan has kept the yen undervalued to stimulate sales.[20]
Distinct from norms of Western business culture, major Japanese firms have long practiced extensive cross-shareholding.[21] This process serves to both smooth domestic business relations, while at the same time preventing widespread foreign acquisition of Japanese businesses. This has several potential pitfalls for common shareholders. First, it means that a company can experience significant write downs due to stock declines of other companies it owns, even when business is otherwise healthy. Second, accumulation of such ownership stakes means that capital is being diverted from other often more profitable tasks, such as reinvestment in the automaking business or dividends to shareholders. Third, cross-shareholding makes it more difficult for shareholders to hold management accountable, as the managers at other major firms who own the firm in question, can and frequently do run interference for their counterparts.[22] Below are a few examples of Toyota's cross-shareholding:
While Toyota was traditionally known for its smaller more fuel efficient vehicles, the company has since diversified into both luxury vehicles and large trucks and SUVs. Toyota is the largest seller of hybrid vehicles in the world and the first to commercially mass-produce and sell such vehicles, the best example being the Toyota Prius. It is important to note that while most automakers lose money on the sale of every hybrid, Toyota actually makes money on every Prius sale due to its high production volume.[23] By 2020 Toyota plans to offer its entire lineup of cars, trucks, and SUVs with a Hybrid Synergy Drive option.[24]
After General Motors announced it would produce the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, Toyota announced that it, too, would make one.[25] Toyota is currently testing its "Toyota Plug-in HV" in Japan, the United States, and Europe. Like GM's Volt, it uses a lithium-ion battery pack. The PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle) could have a lower environmental impact than existing hybrids.[26][27]
Toyota has a large market share in the United States and Japan, but a smaller presence in Europe. Toyota vehicles such as the Hilux and Hiace van are also well regarded in developing markets for their reliability. Due to its Daihatsu subsidiary it has significant market shares in several fast-growing Southeast Asian countries.
The size and diversity of Toyota's product offering means the company competes with all the world's major car manufacturers for all passenger car niches. In addition to these established competitors, Toyota faces a number of regional car companies in developing markets, such as Russia, China, or Indian, that it seeks to penetrate. The problem is that Toyota's cars are often too expensive for these developing markets, while companies like Tata Motors (TTM) or produce considerably cheaper cars that are affordable to a wider phase of the populace.


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It seems that Whoville's big, green villain isn't the only one with a heart that is two sizes too small. One mean Grinch in Seattle stole toys that were meant to go to 250 children in need.
Staff members were shocked to discover the stockpile of toys—worth $6,250—missing from a storage room of a YWCA in Seattle's Central District. A staff member had noticed the storage room door open on Friday and thought nothing of it. But that following Monday morning, the YMCA facilities director called community resource coordinator Nichelle Hilton and informed her that the toys were gone. Cardboard boxes and a lone Hello Kitty shopping bag were all that was left behind.
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"Who would do that? Who would steal Christmas presents from homeless children?" asked Hilton.
Luckily, all was not lost: Rick's Toys for Kids, the nonprofit founded by Seattle Mariners broadcaster Rick Rizzs that had originally bought all of the toys, said that it will use its reserve funds to replace all of the stolen items. The nonprofit tries to maintain a $40,000 fund for emergencies like this.
Plus: Little Boy Found at Stranger's Door after Being Left by Car Thief
And as word of the theft spread, passers-by began dropping into the center to donate armfuls of toys. "I've gotten wonderful people just walking off the streets, donating toys," Hilton said late Monday afternoon. "I hope to be able to call Rick [Rizzs] and say, 'We're covered.'"
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|2007-03-30, 00:23
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xD No I think I agree with you in thinking no-one is going to sing that song :P
The song I'm going to sing is the song I won the last Talent Scouting at my school with xD and I should really pick up practising the lyrics again... fast lyrics... real fast...
One of the judges, who commented on me, just talked Japanese... O.o
|2007-03-30, 12:20
|Link #43
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I'm looking forward to hearing your daughter's entry, cheyanne; and yours, too!
Best of luck to everyone who's going to enter; may you be free from voice-affecting sickness and may your vocal cords cooperate. (Especially now, with the air starting to be all pollen-y.)
~Adonic Meki
|2007-03-30, 14:23
|Link #44
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Location: Northern VA
|2007-03-31, 03:03
|Link #45
Needs more sleep~
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: #animesuki
How I wish the DKC was coming up sooner. I believe I have the perfect duet recording (just need someone as good to record the other half )... I wonder if the potential partners I approached months ago after the last DKC are still interested. PLEASE CONTACT ME!!!
As for this solo karacomp.... hmm...
|2007-04-06, 01:19
|Link #47
Senior Member
I have another question for everyone: Does anyone know a good way to make it so "P" sounds while recording aren't so harsh? I'm recording a song that has a few harsh p sounds in it and it always pops. I can't get it to stop. >_< It's annoying because I'll just be listening and it sounds ok and then it's just like *PPPPPFUZZCRAP*...or something. I keep re-recording trying to fix it and it's the same every time.
|2007-04-06, 02:53
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Try to take some distance from the mic and, at the same time, turn the mic input somewhat higher. Then you have the same volume recorded, but your breath, while pronouncing P, does not reach the mic.
At least, that's what I do
Hope that helps.
|2007-04-06, 04:25
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
I have another question for everyone: Does anyone know a good way to make it so "P" sounds while recording aren't so harsh?
A pop filter is exactly what you need!
A link for a do-it-yourself pop filter is here, but you can go one step cheaper than that ($2) by simply covering a coat hanger with pantyhose and suspending it from the ceiling with string and duct tape. Works for me, at least.
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|2007-04-06, 21:15
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@llama, if your mic is not too unidirectional, try overhead recording. This assumes the mic is situated above your mouth somewhere in front of you (at an angle, so that it points to your mouth). The air pressure of the P's will pass unnoticed below the mic's membrane (my P's and S's are too hard too... while said technique works well for P's it will not really help with S's).
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|2007-04-07, 18:55
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That's okay. I almost never do it since the whole process does get picked up by the mic (when I turn it off and when I turn it back on), but if your mic doesn't do that, go ahead.
PS: That's a cute avatar!
|2007-04-11, 08:19
|Link #53
pitch? key?
Is this contest as serious as it seems to be? I was kinda hoping it'd just be a fun way of hearing eachother FAIL at singing. My entrance in this could have only one consequence: Being charged with crimes against humanity.
Seriously though, can I hear examples of previous editions of this? None of the torrents seem to be seeded. Wanna hear just what sort of quality ppl produce before making too much of an ass out of myself. ;-)
It would be so much fun to do Princess Bride by KOTOKO btw, lol. =P
( About half of the song: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8P32zKf1qHk )
Wonder if there's a karaoke version of it though, one would have to be slightly insane to sing along with this. Especially since its lyrics do not exactly obscure the fact that the song was made for an H-Game
|2007-04-11, 09:01
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Location: Fürth (GER)
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|2007-04-11, 09:24
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Counting days
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Not even close to the Caribbean anymore
I was finishing recording my song when all of a sudden my two year old came and spoke loudly next to me. I listened to the song and there is indeed a baby voice at the end. But I really don't feel like trying it again since the song strains my voice and my throat is not faring too good today. Still, I'm not sure if I'll submit the song like that. Maybe if I don't find any more inspirational moments to do it again?
|2007-04-11, 14:13
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003
the song was made for an H-Game
There is nothing wrong with eroge songs. I did one last time, and I think I'll do one this time as well. Break the stereotype!
EDIT: According to this, there is a karaoke version of Princess Bride on the "arranged album". Good luck hunting!
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|2007-04-11, 19:03
|Link #58
Queen of the Underworld
There are people who sing it for fun, and some who take it really, really seriously. So it doesn't matter which stance you take.
Besides, a certain someone will try to up you on the "crimes against humanity" category.
Which reminds me... I just heard one of the entries... Which means, time to start sending in your entries!
|2007-04-12, 03:22
|Link #60
Needs more sleep~
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: #animesuki
Hum.... for some reason I haven't had the time/mood to sing a good enough/perfect entry yet, but some earlier "drafts" are good enough I guess (though some people may have heard them already ^^ ;; ). I really hope to hear the entries from Chibi Nasu and Shiemi.
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Friday, Sept. 26, 2007
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MIDLAND —Michigan's performance on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress fell or remained the same in both reading and mathematics, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Education. The results underscore the need for the state to reject status quo approaches to public school reform, said Dr. Ryan S. Olson, director of education policy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
"Lansing policymakers who are battling for higher public school spending ignore the well-established fact that simply raising more revenue for schools has not and will not improve results," Olson said. "Michigan public schools have received generous annual funding increases — total revenues reached more than $19 billion last year — and yet our NAEP results have basically stagnated, in some cases declined and in only one case improved by two points."
In eighth-grade reading, Michigan students ranked 32nd among the 50 states with an average scale score of 260 points, a decline from the state's previous ranking of 29th on the 2005 NAEP reading test. Similarly, Michigan eighth graders ranked 36th in mathematics with a score of 277 points, having fallen from 33rd place in the 2005 state rankings. According to the 2007 results, 29 percent of Michigan eighth graders are "proficient" or "advanced" in mathematics — the same as 2005 — and 28 percent scored at those levels in reading in 2007 and 2005.
Michigan maintained its 2005 rankings for the fourth-grade NAEP reading and mathematics tests, ranking 30th both years in reading and 32nd both years in mathematics. In reading, 32 percent of fourth-grade students were proficient or above in 2007 — the same percentage as in 2005 — and in mathematics, 37 percent of students scored at those levels in 2007, one percentage point lower than in 2005.
"On the whole, our neighboring states are making gains in reading and math, while Michigan's results are flat or falling, revealing yet again the need for incentives-based reforms in Michigan," Olson said. "Like every other part of American life, education can benefit from competition, which will provide incentives to lower costs and improve services. Student learning will improve when we adopt policies that create more competition in Michigan education — competition among those who administer and provide health benefits, those who provide support services and those who seek the privilege of educating Michigan children."
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I thought I knew what I was doing. But I didn't. And I am glad. An adoption story.
This post is paid for by the Ad Council. All opinions are my own.
I knew I wanted to adopt since I was a kid. I thought that was because I was adopted. It turns out, non-adopted people also have long held dreams to adopt children. I know this because people tell me all the time.
Most of the people who tell me that they have always wanted to adopt, don't end up adopting. Most people that tell me this, express some regret. They wish that they had done it. Taken that scary leap of faith. Maybe they heard a horror story about an adoption gone wrong. Maybe they weren't sure that they could love a child not born to them. Maybe they thought it was financially out of reach. Maybe they thought the kids that need families need more than they could give. Maybe they thought they weren't good enough, strong enough, brave enough.
I had no such reservations. My husband, Kurt, had some, but I dismissed them. I knew we could do it. By the time we adopted our first son, we had been parents for 17 years. We had loads of experience. Our two daughters were in high school. And they were awesome. We clearly knew what we were doing. Also, being an adopted person, I was obviously an expert. What wasn't obvious at the time, was that I was an idiot. I had NO idea what we were getting into. Good thing. Had I known, I might have chickened out. And that would have been the worst mistake of my life.
I didn't know that the only way either of us would ever get rest was to drive aimlessly through cold winter days until he fell asleep. I often would pull in the closest parking lot, jump into the back seat with him and sleep with him until he woke up. I remember once, waking up in the parking lot of a beach a couple of towns away, my car was cold, the sun was setting. We both had been drooling and two hours had passed. But his hand was on my head, he smiled at me as he woke up and I was content. I thought, even if life is going to be like this forever, me a little old woman driving around my grown man son so we could rest after he had a busy day destroying the house, it would be okay. Because he was my son. I loved him.
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February 26, 2010
Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald columnist and 2004 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary, will be the distinguished speaker at Loyola University New Orleans' 2010 Gillis Long Poverty Law Center Award Ceremony. The annual award ceremony honors Loyola University New Orleans students, faculty, staff and alumni who have engaged in public service.
The event takes place on Monday, March 15 at 6:30 p.m., in the Frederick J. Gisevius Jr. Lecture Theater, College of Law, Room 405. It is free and open to the public.
Originally a music critic at the Miami Herald, Pitts received his own column in 1994 after only a few years offering candid opinions on race, culture, families, relationships and politics. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists named him Columnist of the Year in 2002. He has also received awards for his exemplary commentary from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Today, Pitts' column appears in approximately 150 newspapers.
Pitts gained critical recognition and acclaim for his column, "We'll Go Forward From This Moment," printed the day following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Pitts published his first novel, "Before I Forget," last year. He is also the author of "Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood" and "Forward From this Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2008." Books by Pitts will be available for purchase at the event.
Prior to the lecture, the Poverty Law Center will present public service awards to members of Loyola's faculty, staff, students and alumni for their outstanding service to the community. The 2010 recipients are College of Law alumnus, Frank Jurovich, J.D. '07; law students, Steven Aronson, Anna Levin and Peter Morris; associate clinical professor of law, Cheryl Prestenback Buchert; assistant clinical professor in the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice, Davida Finger; and professor of law and director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center, William Quigley.
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The Taylorsville Police Department and Kentucky State Police Post 12 in Frankfort are partnering to "Cram the Cruiser" — two cruisers, actually. A Taylorsville Police cruiser and a KSP cruiser are parked outside of Country Mart with the agencies' goal of collecting enough food to fill them both, then deliver to families in need in the community. To help, drop off non-perishable items at The Spencer Magnet, Hometown Pizza, Country Mart or The Tea Cup. Pictured are TPD Chief Toby Lewis and KSP Sgt. Scott Felder.
Pictured are Buckle Up Committee members, from left, Kristen Benham, Kristen Smith, Danny Hilbert, Janet Oliver, and Niki Ethington. "Wishing you a safe Thanksgiving holiday," committee members said. "Please always buckle up."
Trick or Treat on Main Street photos now available for pickup
If you purchased a photo (or two, or three) at Trick or Treat on Main Street, the photos are now available for pickup at The Spencer Magnet office, located at 100 W. Main St. in Taylorsville.
Our office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Magnet closed for Thanksgiving
The Spencer Magnet office will be closed Thursday and Friday in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Spencer County Public Library's third annual Food for Fines program kicks off on Friday. Patrons with late fees on books or DVDs can help the community and wipe out the fines on their accounts by donating canned goods or other nonperishable food items to the library.
The Library is offering $1 credit toward any fine for each canned or boxed item brought into the library between Friday and Monday, Dec. 31.
This year, the toy sale sponsored by the Spencer County Ministerial Association will partner with local toy store, Toytopia, to let parents choose toys for their children at reduced rates.
Each year at the annual Community Thanksgiving Service, the association collects an offering to support the toy sale. Then, after registration, the association determines how much is available to spend on each child.
This year the Spencer County Public Library created an additional parking area off of Mill Street. The gravel lot adds approximately 24 parking spaces. A new library entrance is now open on the north side of the library that allows patron access to the library and the Meeting Room from the new parking area. Pictured is Dawson Barr, the first patron to use the new entrance. Library hours are Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, call 477-8137.
Boy Scout Troop 176 attended the Merit Badge Fair in Bardstown over the weekend of Oct. 26. Despite the frigid winds and rain, the troop had a great time and earned several merit badges. Pictured, from back left, are Paul Codner, Scoutmaster Doug Hayes, Robert Osborne, Dwight Greenwell and James Osborne. From front left are Logan Kurtz, Nathan Hedden, Ethan Codner, Joe Hayes, Trevor Codner and Owen Baxter.
2013 Relay for Life kick off Thursday
The 2013 Spencer County Relay for Life kick off is Thursday, 6:30 p.m., at Taylorsville United Methodist Church. Taylorsville UMC is located at 145 W. Main Street. The meeting has a Thanksgiving theme and attendants are asked to bring their favorite Thanksgiving food!
SCHS yard sale to benefit scholarship fund
Spencer County High School will host a large, indoor yard sale on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the school's cafeteria.
On Saturday, Sept. 29, 18 residents of Spencer County, 15 of those from Spencer County High School, participated in the UPS Plane Pull for Special Olympics in honor of a SCHS student who competes in Special Olympics.
Saturday, Spencer Countians will have a chance to honor their fellow citizens who have served or are serving in the United States Armed Forces.
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All international exchange students interested in attending the University of Wisconsin-River Falls are required to obtain approval from their home institution regarding the exchange. After gaining consent from their institution, the following documents should be submitted to International Student Admissions at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls:
1. Submit the UW System application for admission. In the applicant statement section, please indicate that you are applying as an exchange student.
2. Applicants whose native language is not English (identified by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Public Affairs) must provide evidence of English language proficiency. The English proficiency requirement may be fulfilled by meeting one of the following:
TOEFL iBT: 78
The TOEFL, IELTS or TOEIC exams must have been taken within the past two years, with scores submitted directly to UWRF from the testing service. Exchange students are expected to demonstrate English language proficiency. This is usually documented with an acceptable TOEFL score; however, some institutional exchange agreements rely upon faculty recommendation(s) from the home institution.
3. A copy of the biographical data pages of a student's passport (the pages with their picture, name and date of birth) or copy of a government-issued ID should be submitted with the application. The DS-2019 will be issued using the name on their passport/government ID. The name will also be the one used to create their official University record.
4. A copy of the student's current transcript.
5. Proof of sufficient funds to cover all expenses to study and live in the U.S. for the length of the exchange. To provide evidence of sufficient funds, students are required to provide a completed Certification of Finances Form along with appropriate documentation. Email International Student Admissions to request the Certification of Finances form that aligns with your exchange program.
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Participants asked to contact event organizers by June 4
JUNCTION CITY -- The 12th Annual Governor's Golf and Fishing Classic will be held June 13-14 at Rolling Meadows Golf Course and Milford Reservoir, near Junction City. Participants may enjoy a round of golf at Rolling Meadows Golf Course on Friday, June 13. On Saturday morning, anglers will compete for the Governor's Cup, which will be presented at lunch following the event.
Fishing Classic participants must attend a brief meeting at 5:30 Friday evening to pair guides and contestants. A barbecue dinner and auction will follow the meeting.
Fishing tournament participants will be limited to three contestants (including guide) per boat. Each boat will comprise a team, and each member of a winning team will receive a prize.
Team prizes will be awarded in the following categories:
- 1st Place -- heaviest walleye stringer wins the Governor's Cup and $1,500 cash;
- 2nd Place -- heaviest wiper stringer wins $1,000 cash;
- 3rd Place -- heaviest catfish stringer wins $500 cash;
- 4th Place -- most fish of all species wins entries into the 2009 Governor's Golf and Fishing Classic.
The Fishing Classic will begin at the South Boat Ramp Area at Milford Lake to check in for each event. Boats may launch at 6 a.m., and all state licenses, park permits, and other statewide regulations will be in effect.
Those who plan to attend should contact the Kansas Wildscape Foundation -- 785-843-9453 -- by June 4. More information may also be obtained by emailing Mary Lee Norris at firstname.lastname@example.com or phoning 866-655-4377.


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Farmer Mac Names R. Dale Lynch As New Chief Financial Officer
Feb 11, 2013, 04:35 EST
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac,NYSE :AGM and AGM.A) today announced the appointment of R. Dale Lynch as Senior Vice President – Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Farmer Mac, effective February 15, 2013. Mr. Lynch succeeds Timothy L. Buzby, who was appointed as Farmer Mac's President and Chief Executive Officer in October 2012 and continued to serve in his prior role of Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer during the interim period before Mr. Lynch's appointment.
Mr. Buzby stated, "I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dale Lynch as Farmer Mac's new Chief Financial Officer and a member of the senior executive team. Dale brings a wealth of experience to his new role, having a strong familiarity with capital markets, credit, and investor communications. He is an experienced business professional with a broad set of financial and operating skills to lead our finance team. All of us at Farmer Mac look forward to working with Dale as we build Farmer Mac and fulfill our mission of serving rural America."
Mr. Lynch stated, "I am proud and excited to serve as the CFO of Farmer Mac. The company is uniquely positioned to offer solutions to rural lenders that provide credit to farmers, ranchers, rural utilities, and other rural businesses. I look forward to working with Tim, the rest of the management team, and the entire Farmer Mac organization to further Farmer Mac's important mission and to help ensure the continued growth and prosperity of rural America while growing the value of Farmer Mac to all its constituencies."
Prior to his appointment at Farmer Mac, Mr. Lynch worked as Vice President of Finance at U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc., where he helped lead the company's public company readiness and IPO. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President of Finance of Allied Capital Corporation from 2004 to 2010. From 1989 to 2004, Mr. Lynch held various investment banking and analyst positions with Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank, and Merrill Lynch. Mr. Lynch earned a B.S. in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
About Farmer Mac
Farmer Mac is a stockholder-owned instrumentality of the United States chartered by Congress to help increase the availability of credit in rural America through the operation of a secondary market for eligible loans to agricultural and rural borrowers. Additional information about Farmer Mac is available on its website at www.farmermac.com.
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The debut from Los Angeles' Allah-Las can be safely slotted into the current retromania craze. The band expertly mixes sleek garage rock with traces of pop, surf, and gentle psychedelica. In a blindfold test, most listeners would probably identity these songs as B-sides from vintage mid-1960s Sunset Strip bands such as Love and Dino or Desi & Billy. But while the band's immaculately crafted and concise songs like "Catalina" and "Don't You Forget It" are unfailingly breezy and pleasant, there's nothing at stake emotionally in any of them. The true drama seems to come from whether the group can dial up just the right amount of reverb, whether the mix of tambourine, high-hats, and kick drum sounds perfectly authentic. To their credit, Allah-Las pull off their sonic fetishization without it feeling belabored, resulting in an album that plays like a perfectly genuine forgery. —Jeff Jackson
Tim Eriksen
Josh Billings Voyage
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Josh Billings Voyage is beautiful and captivating from the very first notes. Eriksen's haunting voice carries most of the songs, however, the album also relies on the varied instruments that sit like ingredients in a pantry where Eriksen goes to carefully select what sounds he needs for each track. Banjo, fiddle, bowed glockenspiel, great fife and tambourine all mix together to make a perfectly hearty stew—each song is like a bite of some fantastic dish with sounds that warm the soul. There is something distinctly Irish in the well-proportioned melancholy of the lyrics, but while the album pulls heavily from Celtic traditional singing and songwriting, Josh Billings Voyage is rooted in America—it's in the banjo, the electric guitar and the twang that Eriksen often gives his voice. From the " Bonny Bay of Biscay" to " The Mountains of Pomeroy" to "Philadelphia," the album is a journey around places that are familiar, even if you've never been there. —Kathleen Broadhurst
Chandler Travis Three-O
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Cape Cod's prolific pop madman Chandler Travis seems to spawn projects and albums at giddy speed. His latest, the Three-O (with four members), differentiates itself quickly, with an opening track that mixes a circus of instruments into a peppy, somehow amusing ride. From there, he heads to more usual territory, somewhere between back-alley swing and guitar-fueled pop balladry. Travis possesses a quirky sense of lyrics and a comfortable baritone, and it's a reliable pleasure to hear the tales he weaves. On this disc, Travis seems to favor a more introspective, even nostalgic brand of songwriting, and a pervasive air of melancholy blows through nearly all the tunes. The disc feels at times like a back-porch session somewhere near Morocco, at other times like a lazy ramble through a smoke-filled pawn shop. All that salt air seems to produce a devil-may-care approach that results in songs that are nonetheless incisive and compelling. —James Heflin


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The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department filed charges against two state residents, Steven Hill and Chiaki Ito, who were each indicted on seven counts of operating an unlicensed captive hunting facility.
The pair faces charges of up to $1,000 for each count and stand to lose their hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for up to three years.
According to Fish & Wildlife law enforcement officials, Hill, 51, and Ito, 21, both of Fairlee, Vt., are accused of operating the "Hunt the Ridge" captive hunting facility in Fairlee. They are alleged to have charged visitors up to $6,000 to hunt exotic wild animals. The list of animals advertised for hunters at the 129 acre facility included whitetail deer, buffalo, sika deer, elk, fallow deer, wild boar, Spanish goats, Texas dall sheep, and moose.
Seven counts were brought against Hill and Ito based on the testimony of individual hunters or witnesses to a hunt. Two of these hunters were undercover Vermont Game Wardens who paid $750 each to hunt a Spanish goat and a wild boar.
Hill and Ito were ordered by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department to immediately cease operating the facility without a permit. An estimated 200 animals remain on the property.
Arraignment is set for February 27 in Orange County Superior Court in Chelsea, Vt. The investigation continues and additional charges are possible.


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It's great to see that not only are USB chargers becoming more accessible, but less expensive, too. This 4400mAh battery will charge iPhones, handhelds, digital cams, cellies, MP3 and CD players, PSPs and other electronic gadgets that the well-equipped techie has to have. At a size of 69 x 21 x 21mm and a weight of only 122g, it features an on/off switch, a 3-level LED indicator, and comes with USB cable for a price of $45.00.
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• Sept. 4
Tim Henry, new home, 1070 Simpson Ridge Road, 2,009 square feet, estimated cost $260,000; permit fee $606.83.
Mark Bingham, addition, 875 Violet Road, 612 square feet, estimated cost $22,000; permit fee $195.68.
• Sept. 7
Richard Davidson, storage shed, 314 Russell Drive, 192 square feet, estimated cost $2,700; permit fee $44.70.
• Sept. 10
Paul Kenkel, foundation, 210 Price Hill Drive, 508 square feet, estimated cost $35,000; permit fee $181.
Civil Suits
June 21:
Gary Lynn Lawson vs. Melanie Lee Lawson, petition for dissolution of marriage
June 25:
Jackson Hospital Corporation vs. Barbara Ann Fitzwater, complaint for money due on account
Capital Alliance Financial, LLC vs. Larry D. Grizzell, default of payment on note
Bank of America vs. Ricky Elliott and Unknown Spouse (if any) of Ricky Elliot, complaint for foreclosure
June 26:
Bank of America vs. Kevin Robinson and Felicia Robinson, default of payment on note
June 27:
The grand jury, which met Aug. 1, returned indictments against 17 people.
An indictment means there is probable cause to believe a crime has been committed; guilt or innocence is established later through the trial process.
Those indicted were:
• Charles E. Jones, 26, burglary in the second degree.
• Matthew J. Ratliff, 20, burglary in the third degree and theft by unlawful taking with a value under $500.
• Joseph F. Chandler, 19, burglary in the third degree and theft by unlawful taking with a value under $500.
June 28:
Eva Louise Barnes, 29, Dry Ridge, homemaker, to Michael Shane Pullen, 37, Dry Ridge, customer service rep
Jessica Ann Fredericks, 31, Florence, teacher, to Phillip Ray Brown, 36, Florence, stock broker
July 3:
Annie May Garner, 33, Williamstown, homemaker, to Robert Allen Wagers, 40, Williamstown, retired
July 6:
Jacqueline Spaw, 58, Dry Ridge, disabled, to Ralph Franklin Fry, 68, Dry Ridge, retired
Briseida Ramirez, 31, Dry Ridge, clerk, to Emmanuel Aguazul Rafael, 21, Dry Ridge, farm work
• July 2
Dry Ridge Auto Parts, temporary tent, 77 Broadway ; permit fee $125.
• July 5
Robbie Eldridge, new home, 5420 Stewartsville Road, 1,268 square feet, estimated cost $136,000; permit fee $385.88.
Bryan Lonkard, new home, 245 Stone School Road, 2,556 square feet, estimated cost $180,000; permit fee $751.66.
Theresa Collins, garage, 205 Vallandingham Road, 1,200 square feet, estimated cost $12,600; permit fee $179.28.
Civil Suits
June 14:
Bank of America vs. Jason Manning and Unknown Defendant, Spouse of Jason Manning, default of payment on note
Jennifer Spurlock vs. Ryan Spurlock, petition for dissolution of marriage
Roy David Wynn vs. Barbara Louise Wynn, petition for dissolution of marriage
Amanda Marie Ayers vs. Matar Sylla Diop, petition for dissolution of marriage
Jillian Margaret Butcher vs. Stephen Frederick Butcher, petition for dissolution of marriage
Erica Marie Abner vs. Joseph William Abner, petition for dissolution of marriage
June 21:
(Quit Claim Deed) Penny Shell and James W. Shell, Jr. to Penny Shell, lot 37, Section 1 of Eagle Creek Subdivision, $119,900
June 22:
(Quit Claim Deed) Doyle R. Meek and Cynthia A. Meek to Doyle R. Meek and Cynthia A. Meek, Lemon Northcutt Road property, $120,000
(Quit Claim Deed) Paul D. Stoutenborough and Joan Stoutenborough to Paul D. Stoutenborough and Joan H. Stoutenborough, as Trustees of the Stoutenborough Living Trust, lot 59, Section 2 of Winnie McGee Subdivision, $130,000
Civil Suits
May 15:
Terry Lynn Sanders vs. Danny Gene Sanders, petition or dissolution of marriage
Discover Bank vs. Gregory A Evans, default of payment on credit agreement
Grant County Deposit Bank vs. Edward Clemons, Sharon Clemons, Forcht Bancorp, Inc., Williams Smith, Marcia Smith and Grant County, Kentucky Served: Joe Taylor, Grant County Attorney, default of payment on note
Bank of America vs. Gigi I. Cummins, SEMC Federal Credit Union and Richard David Schreck, default of payment on note
• June 6
Rick Wood, roof, 208 Ridgelea Drive, estimated cost $10,000; permit fee $53.88.
USA Fireworks, temporary tent, 1000 Fashion Ridge Road, 1,200 square feet; permit fee $125.
USA Fireworks, temporary tent, 111 Stewartsville Road, 800 square feet; permit fee $125.
• June 7
Ricky Green, doublewide, 350 Scaffold Lick Road, 1,680 square feet, estimated cost $71,000; permit fee $113.65.
Rex Benson, temporary tent, 11 Taft Highway, 1,680 square feet; permit fee $125.
• June 8
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As a fan of both Savage Worlds and Unisystem, it's sounding like Savage Worlds might be the direction you'd want to go. Here's why:
1) A group of former D&D players will appreciate some of the extra combat crunch and advancement options (Savage Worlds' Edges are kinda like D&D Feats in a lot of ways).
2) The players will appreciate getting to make use of all of their fancy polyhedrals.
3) The "Powers" rules in Savage Worlds are available and easily inserted if you want to introduce "Psionics" or even just fancy, hyper-tech gadgets.
4) Savage Worlds is built for fast, flashy, action-y types of game which seems to match the style you're looking for.
5) Savage Worlds system is very similar in many ways to the system behind the Serenity and Battlestar Galactica RPGs which means they can make excellent soure material that is easy to convert (if you're not familiar with it for some reason, the show Firefly/Serenity is a "Spacewestern" and a very good one at that).
All of this is not to say that Unisystem wouldn't work but it does seem like Savage Worlds would be an easier starting point. If you were to try using Unisystem, you'd at least need the All Tomorrow's Zombies book in addition to the core rules so that you would have the sci-fi toolkits that you need.


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On the brink of annihilation, mankind resumes the fight against the unstoppable Chimera on the shores of the United States. And thus the stage is set for Resistance 2, the highly anticipated follow-up to Insomniac Games' best-selling PS3 launch title, developed exclusively for the PS3. Players will once again step into the war-torn boots of Nathan Hale, who not only faces near impossible odds on the battlefield, but also constantly struggles with the Chimeran virus raging inside his own body. In addition to an epic single-player campaign, Resistance 2 will offer a truly unprecedented eight-player, class-based online co-op campaign with a separate, parallel storyline and 60-player online competitive multiplayer built upon a 'massive battles, greater intimacy' mantra. Players can also expect a re-designed MyResistance.net featuring social networking tools designed to enhance a user's gameplay experience whether they're engaged in single, co-op or competitive combat
Picking up immediately where Resistance: Fall of Man concluded, Resistance 2 follows. Nathan Hale as he finds himself once more in a world transformed by war and invasion. Undaunted by their defeat in London, the Chimera have continued to advance, now poised to attack the United States. Entire cities have been leveled and communities annihilated. In this war where the odds are so heavily stacked against the human race, few are left who are willing and able to fight.
Fortunately, Hale is not alone. A group of super soldiers simply known as the Sentinels will fight alongside Hale as they collectively attempt to thwart the inevitable.
The game's multiplayer modes are also set to make a huge impact in the gaming world. Co-operative play, where players team up to tackle a campaign, can often feel constrained in levels designed for single players. Not so with Resistance 2, where squads can undertake a fully independent online campaign built specifically for co-operative play – a feature that demonstrates developer Insomniac Games' commitment to online gaming. The large scale battles are combined with levels that are designed to be slightly different each time you play. Up to eight players can join forces to face the Chimera together while choosing from three distinct class types. Players can also look forward to vast 60-person online battles in which players join squads with distinct battlefield objectives and fight it out on PlayStation Network, the home of multiplayer online play. The combination of squad objectives and large player-count will give Resistance 2 the perfect blend of epic battlefield chaos and intimate close-quarters combat.
Features :
- Take on the role of Nathan Hale as he battles the Chimeran virus raging within. Fight for humanity's survival against new swarms of vicious Chimera equipped with new weapons along with re-designed favorites from Resistance: Fall of Man such as the Bullseye and Auger.
- Set in an alternate reality 1953 America, explore highly-detailed and interactive environments where the familiar meshes with the alien, resulting in an American landscape both beautiful and haunting.
- Experience online co-op in a completely new way. Choose between three distinctive character classes and join seven other players to battle through a unique story that parallels the main campaign. Players will also enhance their characters' attributes as they unlock new armor sets and equipment along the way.
- Online competitive multiplayer – a cornerstone to Resistance: Fall of Man's global appeal – just got better. Engage in massive 60-player competitive combat with an entirely new squad-based focus designed to balance progression, firefights and rivalries.
- Join MyResistance.net, an unrivaled FPS community complete with skill-based match-ups, dedicated gaming/community/stats servers, social networking tools and an open invite system.
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These Carhartt work dungarees are looser fitting with more room in the legs for excellent freedom of movement while you work. Triple-stitched seems prevent tear out and hold their shape. 11.75-oz. 100% cotton pants are prewashed and made to stand up to dirt and repeated washings. These work pants are full of pockets including two front waist pockets, a right side waist coin pocket, right leg tool pocket, left leg ruler pocket and hammer loop, and two large reinforced back pockets. 19" leg opening fits over work boots. Zipper fly. Darkstone. Carhartt B13. Specify waist size and inseam from drop-down menus above.
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I have a programmable thermostat that is, well, dumb. It is willing to set times and abide by those, but it doesn't take in to account the weather. What I'm looking for is a smart thermostat that can learn my behavior and also make decisions based on the humidity inside the house and the temperature outside.
NEST and other smart thermostats seem to be able to predict temperature but not more advanced analytics. Does anyone know a thermostat that can move with the weather? Especially for sudden warm or cold fronts, it makes sense to set thermostat based on temperature and not hours of the day. We generally keep our thermostat warmer in the summer due to the wide difference between RH and temperature inside and out. 80 feels so much cooler on a hot summer day than in a late spring heat wave.
Ideally it would be a thermostat that can raise the setpoint with the outside temperature (say 15degrees trailing, max 85 degrees) throughout the day and also based on relative humidity (say 60%). Then, as the day cools down, lower the setpoint based on the outside temperature and the relative humidity (Leading 15 degrees with a floor at 72, 40%RH). This way I could minimize the deltaT while keeping my house relatively dry.
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There are three settings on the Nest. Heat Only == Cool Only == Heat Cool. I have several customers on the H/C setting during these shoulder seasons. It does that. Not as sophisticated as your description above. Effective, yes.
The best equipment for doing this "communicating" equipment. I'm most familiar with Carrier Infinity series, but American Standard and Goodman offer similar control I believe.
Infinity can manage airflow and staging. This allows it to adjust focus from removing sensible to removing latent. If you really want air conditioning to have that "doesn't feel like air conditioning, just feels comfortable" outcome, you need to go this direction.
Some Inverter Driven Mini-Splits can operate using the same principals.
If you can't afford/justify changing equipment, you can adjust certain set up features of Ecobee and Continuous commissioning/ watching performance. http://bit.ly/4ecobeethermostats.
Ted, Without using name brands or proprietary terms, how would you suggest specifying 'communicating equipment'?
Very easy to spec 'Builder's Grade' 80 AFUE, single speed draft induced gas fired furnace with 13 SEER AC. Or Upgrade to 90+ AFUE sealed combustion with 15 SEER or Upgrade 2 to 94+ sealed combustion with 16+ SEER AC. and so on.
I could use an Upgrade Level III in my arsenal.
Hi John,
That is stretching me a fair distance outside my expertise. Let me convey the idea, then you can design to it:
Imagine you have a milk jug with a few holes in it. You want to keep it 1/2 full of water and place it under a tap. Your design strategy is to keep it as close to 1/2 full without ever shutting the tap off. Shut the tap off and you get a big penalty. Turn the tap on like a fire hose, you get a big penalty.
The water is proxy for thermal comfort and fresh air. A modulating boiler outdoor reset on steroids.
So your thermostat needs to know how to manage the throttle on a LOT of things. BTU management AND adjusting airflow, and in the really sweet equipment, compressor adjusts and exv adjusts refrigerant efficiency.
NOW we have to design so airflow stays above .08 and below .4-.5 if you really want optimal distribution, distribution cost, and even comfort. Too high, costly and noisy. Rare occasion too low, trickling/uneven distribution. So we test ESP on existing equipment and hope we can bring that typically terrible number into line when we drastically down size the replacement.
Since you are constantly and cheaply (fans laws) mixing air, why not inject fresh, latent managed air into that btu circulation? Sure, why not? http://bit.ly/VentDehum
All temps stay in line - Latent/Sensible/Mean Radiant. Super efficient. Super comfortable.
Comfort - http://bit.ly/comfortcalculator
Super Efficient - http://bit.ly/rickchitwood
Hope that helps. Let me know if it looks like Greek instead of English...
Some of the higher end Emerson thermostats do this. It's called "cool savings" and adjusts the setpoint automatically based on system run time. The more the system runs, the greater the offset.
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