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Excellent sourcebook on Vampire great stuff one of the best
This is, in some respects, a tricky book to tackle. On the one hand, the later third of the book - dealing with vampire specific monsters (the Strix, Dampyr, Draugr & Larvae) is a veritable gold mine of delight. The systems and narrative support for each of these offers lot of value to ongoing Vampire games and is a very worthwhile addition to the line.
The middle third of the book, however, is somewhat less weighty. Although it purports to deal with 'vampire type' creatures using (for convenience sake) the 'Vampire' rules, many of the entries feel extraneous. I suspect, in point of fact, that most would feel more at home in other game lines entirely.
As such, if you do run/play any of the other White Wolf lines, much of this book's middle section may feel more valuable but speaking from a strictly 'Vampire' point of view, much of it seems .. unnecessary. Some of these creatures are interesting and some, encountered sparingly, may even make for a nice change of pace in a 'Vampire' game, but the selling point of this book lies in the final third, not the second.
In terms of layout, design, accessibility, writing & art, all of White Wolf's traditionally high standards are hewn too nicely. It is a gorgeous book to look at and an intriguing one to read. Bear simply in mind that as a companion to 'Vampire' games, 1/3 of the book is extremely valuable and 1/3 is of middling worth. (The first 1/3 is the introduction & set-up for what follows)
(5 stars for the last third, 3 for the second third .. so an overall average of 4 stars given)
Role-playing has been raiding historical mythology for as long as it's been around; the Monster Manual cheerfully grabs monsters from dozens of different mythologies and slaps them into a single setting. You want German and Egyptian mythologies in the same dungeon, throw in some kobolds on the top level and a sphinx on the sixth. Wicked Dead does the same thing, and that's kind of the tragedy. Allow me to explain.
If you look at the various iterations of Vampire, they essentially synthesize about four hundred years worth of vampire mythology into something that allows you to simulate dozens of different kinds of vampires into a single whole. Instead of having a unique kind of vampire whose entire schtick is turning into a wolf, you have the Animalism discipline, and you can turn it into a Bloodline if you make it particularly specialized. That way, you don't have dozens of different kinds of vampires who share disparate origins and powers.
Wicked Dead kind of turns back the clock on this particular innovation. I believe that it's meant to act as much as an antagonist guide for Hunter: The Vigil and/or standard World of Darkness play, but it simply replicates the abilities of various vampires from around the world without doing much with them. Instead of having a Bloodline inspired by the penaggallan myths of Malaysia, we have the stats for an actual penaggallan; instead of a bloodline inspired by Asian hopping vampires, we've got stats for actual hopping vampires.
I have to say it: I think that White Wolf gets away from its fundamental strengths when it starts trying to do monsters from other cultures. It's done a splendid job of assimilating a whole bunch of vampire myths from the Western tradition into something that works as a whole, but we're familiar with those creatures - vampires, werewolves, the Frankenstein monsters, fairies and wizards - pretty much from birth. We know exactly who they are and what they mean, so when White Wolf does something odd with them - turning werewolves into spirit cops, or ecological defenders - we're able to appreciate the synthesis. But when you import a foreign vampire into a culture that doesn't have any record of them, they just look silly to us. (Kindred of the East attempted to create the same sort of synthesis, but that's an essay for another day.)
Consider the aswang. It's a Filipino vampire who's a normal person by day, and then some kind of weird monster by night. Some of them are kind of scary, but have goofy names, like the Tik-Tik; normal human by day, enormous bat-bird predator by night that sucks blood and whose wings make a tik-tik noise when it flaps, or the halimaw, a vampire that can shift into the form of the last person it killed. The sigbin, by contrast, shifts into a creature like a hornless goat whose ears are long enough to be able to be clapped, like hands; and the clapping lulls its victims into a stupor, so that the sigbin can feed.
I'm sure that the sigbin is creepy in its original context. If you're Filipino, then I'm sure that the sigbin fits into a particular story and is appropriately creepy within that context - a man who can crawl on walls like a bat is comic in broad daylight, terrifying if he's Count Dracula and skittering down a wall towards you at midnight. A man-swallowing whale kinda makes sense in the Bible, or Pinocchio, but doesn't make so much sense when it's lurking in the back alley behind the bar wearing a cape and dark sunglasses. But it's hard to find the sigbin scary, and I imagine that anybody whose character is paralyzed by the clapping of a monster's ears is going to be in giggling fits for a long time.
(In fact, Sylvania did a hilarious commercial - in Thailand - that shows off various kinds of Thai ghosts and how they look in broad daylight, culminating with the revelation that they're a lot scarier with the lights off. But most of them look goofy to a Western audience because we're not familiar with their cultural backgrounding. I would link to it, but links to Youtube tend to have mayfly lifespans. Make sure you see the long version, which mentions the banana ghost.)
And the other thing is that the halimaw's central schtick, being able to turn into its victims, could easily be replicated by an Obfuscate devotion. Their thunder has already been stolen by the inclusive nature of vampiric discipliness, so that a lot of vampires with a single schtick, like turning into mist, or blending into shadow, can be replicated without having to be that exact kind of vampire. I suppose that you could use them as a switchup in a Hunter campaign, but the introduction of unusual vampires just for the sake of having some novel is usually a sign that the campaign is going stale.
Also - and I realize that this makes me the world's first vampire racist - as I'm reading about these Filipino vampires, my first thought is that they should go back home to the Phillipines and let American vampires drink from regular Americans. Non-blood-drinking Filipinos, we need all we can get, but Filipino vampires, one is too many.
The Baykosh is another example of a transplant from a foreign culture - well, a variety of Native American cultures - that doesn't quite make it. It's an undead ghost that tracks down the survivors of battles and kills them with their own weaons; it's not subtle, the book going so far as to describe it as "the supernatural equivalent of a sledgehammer." It's got Essence 10, rolls nine dice in most of its Numina - it's hardly unkillable, but I'm not sure where the need for an undead Terminator that tries to kill you with your own weapons - but only if you've been in battle - comes from. If you did, it would be fairly simple to build one with whatever rules you happen to be using, instead of using The Ghost What Shoots You With Your Own Gun For A Stupid Reason.
I guess if you're looking for stats for ghuls - not ghouls, ghuls - hopping vampires, penaggallan and points related, you're going to be in hog heaven. Maybe if you're looking to do some sort of Kolchak The Night Stalker / X-Files thing, this'll be of use to you, but the X-Files is stone dead, culturally speaking, and - well, insofar as I can tell, Kolchak: The Night Stalker is a major influence on the new World of Darkness, which is fun for me, because when it was on TV, I was a sperm. I have a rant stored up for that whole emphasis, but that's for later.
Anyways, if you're looking for classic odd vampires to throw at your players, you've got them - presuming that your players don't go do a minimal amount of research and come up with the exact weakness of the vampire that you're throwing at them. ("Penaggallan? Oh, throw some broken glass on the windowsill, it'll get caught, we throw it out with the trash in the morning. We have more trouble with the mice. Those little bastards are canny.") I think that it would have worked much better if White Wolf had decided to flesh these vampires out - describe the context in which they appear, update some of their abilities and central themes so that they're more in line with regular Kindred - rather than just portraying them as straightforwardly as they do.
There are nonstandard vampires that I was really impressed with. It gets brilliant with the formosae, who are vampires who feed on - well, if they were just vampires who fed on fat, I could make the obvious joke and note that a single gaming convention would provide feeding material for years. Instead, we get a cunning commentary on exactly that kind of body hatred/self-loathing; the formosae don't eat fat, they eat self-loathing. You get prettier and prettier as you die, while the formosae get fatter and fatter - but they can use their own childer to keep them thin, creating a sort of undead pyramid scheme, where you exploit other people's self-hatred to enrich yourself. (Especially cutting is that the formosae get extra Vitae if their vessels have a mental illness - they're literally feeding on your instability.) It weakens itself by picking off low-hanging fruit, invoking pro-anorexia websites, but really, there's no need to do that given America's complicated relationship with self-image and obesity. I could say more, but really, you're better off reading it for yourself; you could run an entire campaign around these things, each adventure touching on some commentary about the relationship between the body and the mind. I also like the body-hopping Bhuta, and the Cihuateteo are pretty evocative (except for their habit of using brooms for ritual magic, which will probably come off as silly), but they don't quite live up to their billing. I really like the Mnenmovores; besides having a decent short story attached to their profile - with a kiler last line - they have some really neat abilities based around memory, which they eat in place of Vitae. If it can stay out of sight long enough, you have to fight just to remember that you saw it.
Let take a moment for a parenthetical aside. I've noticed a consistent trend for White Wolf authors to take stuff from various News of the Weird sites and recontextualize them for the World of Darkness. For instance, a fungus that covered approximately three states became the Tzimisce Antediluvan in Vampire: The Masquerade. The drawback of this is twofold: In an era where information sprints like the wind, as opposed to appearing only on In Search Of with Leonard Nimoy, it's entirely probably that people have already seen the thing that you're referring to - in which case you're going to have to really put on the dog in order to make it work. The other problem is that what initially looks also spooky as shit often turns out to be something entirely mundane, which invalidates any supernatural framework you might have built up around it. For instance, the Montauk Monster almost got its own game line, complete with a backstory involving the lost Virginia colony of Roanoke and the ceaseless struggle to keep the moon from crashing into the Earth until naturalists pointed out that it was just a dead raccoon missing its fur and a part of its upper jaw, at which point White Wolf vowed to write an even angrier rant about scientists for the back of the next edition of Exalted.
(Cracked has an excellent article about debunked monsters on its website; poke about.)
That being said, you've probably already seen the parasite that nips out the tongue of a particular kind of fish and replaces it, literally becoming the tongue. Wicked Dead has something that does the same thing to humans, but it actually does a pretty good job of creating something that feels very much like a new World of Darkness version of The Fly - you feel better and better while the parasite takes you over, and then you're watching your own body hunt and kill people while you're locked into your own skull. There's some advice given about the idea of a one-shot campaign where you play the victim of one of these parasites, but they make far better - and really creepy - antagonists. We even get the comments for a Youtube video featuring somebody showing off the parasite poking out of somebody's mouth. I will say two things: First, you never read the comments on a Youtube video, because to do so is to come into contact with a stupidity so huge that it will suck your IQ right out through your mouth. The other is that I'm not entirely sure I like the whole "let's imitate an Internet trope" thing for books; when Hunter: The Reckoning did it with its Hunter-themed message board, I found myself mentally rolling my eyes at yet another group of people who needed moderation. ("Drinker34, you are not a blood-drinking monster. Knock it off. Cupcake001, you are a blood-drinking monster, but personal attacks aren't allowed; take a week off. Violin01, stop being a dick.") I spend enough time on the Internet as it is; I don't want it chasing me around in my books.
Other nonstandard vampires, I'm not so sure about. The Ragged Men are an interesting idea; they're a form of insect that basically uses Kindred bodies for reproduction, eventually hitting their apex as a humanoid maggot-thing, hungry for any kind of blood they can get. They're meant, insofar as I can tell, to take the form of sexually transmitted disease for vampires, because only vampires who feed in unsanitary or dirty conditions pick up the disease, and vampires who get the disease are said to feel shame, fear and guilt - becoming social pariahs - for having the disease, which makes its transmission easier. As a metaphor for an after-school special about gonorrhea, it's not bad, but when it comes to vampires, fear and guilt should be caused by stuff that you did - hence the Humanity mechanic - not because you have something wrong with you and you haven't yet found the kindly guidance counsellor who gives you a pamphlet that explains the new changes that your body is going through.
The book's latter half covers some familiar ground, both from the old World of Darkness and the new. The Draugr - known as wights in Vampire: The Masquerade - are vampires whose humanity has finally hit zero, rendering them entirely in the thrall of their Beast. White Wolf takes a slightly different tack than before, though; they're still much more animal than man, but we get a choice as to how they behave after they've bottomed out their humanity. Mindless predators are pretty much that, but they base their behavior on a former vice; a draugr whose central vice was greed keeps everything that it can lay it hands on - the bodies of its victims, their clothes, kill trophies from the corpses, all stacked in its lair. The careful predator variant of the draugr is like a serial killer amongst Kindred; it looks like a low-humanity vampire, but there's nothing left of a mind, just a ceaseless hunting instinct with a couple of remembered social niceties covering the ragged spots where the human being used to be.
I found it to be a very evocative idea; I don't know if I quite agree with the idea of limiting it to just the seven deadly sins, but it wouldn't be that difficult to come up with different themes for draugr. (I also like the book's note that regular vampires enjoy killing lust-driven draugr - who tends to be rapists as well as murderers - because "(v)ampires don't get to be righteous often.")
Also - and I'm not entirely familiar with the playstyles of Masquerade versus Requiem - but I was under the impression that Masquerade vampires could slip into zero Humanity simply because they didn't try enough to stay human; thus why the Sabbat offered the Path system instead of hovering permanently at one or two Humanity. It's pointed out in Wicked Dead, however, that the draugr in Requiem have to consciously choose to do stuff much worse than serial murder in order to become draugr; they don't drift into damnation, they have to actively choose it. I think that in a perverse way, it actually lessens some of the horror of the draugr. Rather than acting as the cautionary Gollum to the PC's Frodo, the draugr are more along the lines of Saruman, somebody who was actively working for the devil rather than somebody who drifted into it. I'm not sure that I entirely like that change, but it's a purely personal feeling, rather than a criticism.
One of the things that Vampire has always been missing is the swarm vampire - mindless, predatory pack-undead vampires who used to be human but are now essentially fast zombies with fangs. In keeping with its trend of giving GMs as much flexibility as they can to simulate what they want, the book offers Larvae, which are essentially what's described above. I'm delighted that I can now replicate the thrill of the only good scene in John Carpenter's Vampires without having to declare that the lesser vampires are low-humanity Sabbat shovelheads, or something. (Or you can take a page from Matt Wagner's Grendel, and have a single Larvae start an embracing frenzy in a fancy Las Vegas hotel/casino.) They even have a specialized fighting style designed to mimic the dogpile-and-tear attacks of movie zombies.
I have to say that I my love of the Larvae is disproportionate with my ability to explain exactly why. Part of is that the World of Darkness has been missing low vampires for a long time. Another is that I've seen them crop up in pop culture over and over again, and they make for excellent antagonists; they don't just charge, they creep around, make sudden blitzkrieg attacks and fade away. They're perfect for Hunter: The Vigil campaigns because they allow the hunters to kill a vampire without having to worry about its ability to communicate its distress to fellow vampires, or to wield the power and influence that can really fuck hunters up - plus, you can start hunters against the Larvae, then have them move up to their boss.
Speaking of which, that's another thing that I like. Both regular Kindred and the draugr can wield influence over a Larvae pack, so it's easy for that zero-Humanity vampire to whomp himself up some cheap help to aid him in his fight against the coterie sent to bring him down, or for the Prince of the city to create a hunting pack of feral vampires as cheap muscle. (Vampires have to know how to Embrace somebody as a Larvae, so it's not possible for just any vampire to whomp up six or seven feral vampires the day after they get embraced.) I also like the plot implications of the fact that Larvae can be re-embraced under certain conditons - you could get a lot of mileage from trying to bring a Larvae back to a sentient state. (A family member? An important ex-ghoul?)
One problem that I had is one of the sample Larvae characters is somebody who was a Larvae, but who recovered from it with the aid of a mysterious vampire who left shortly thereafter. The problem is one that's bothered me throughout the new World of Darkness - we're given some vague clues about a massive conspiracy that involves, apparently, wanting to wipe out every vampire in the world, and it having something to do with the . But that's not a useful story seed; it's the basis for a campaign, and one that needs a lot more fleshing out before it can be used. It's possible that I'm just not the target audience for this kind of thing, but I really dislike how hints have replaced what used to be solid information.
The Strix - the banes of the vampires of ancient Rome - make a reappearance, which is useful - they seem to be intimately tied to the origin of the Beast in the vampire, as well as having something to do with the birth of the Ventrue as a clan. (I believe that the new Ventrue clanbook goes into more detail on this.) Unlike before, when they were dedicated to persecuting and destroying the Julii clan, the body-possessing Strix are present in the physical world without any particular purpose except to experience the joys of having flesh - particularly undead flesh, which offers sensations that simple humans can't. They're sort of like the Z'bri, minus the fleshcrafting. They make really decent antagonists; you can kick the crap out of the body that they've possessed, but they just come back unless you find some way to rid yourself of them permanently, and they're canny enough to avoid a direct physical confrontation. The book has nemeses as one of their nicknames, and - yeah. They're exactly that. They're the perfect vampiric antagonist, using the weaknesses of a vampire against them without feeling like they're overpowered.
We've seen dampyr before in the World of Darkness - as children of the Kindred of the East - but they're much different here; in fact, there's some amusing comedy in the opening fiction about how dampyrs relate to vampires. (Upon feeding on one, a vampire remarks that it's like "a golden unicorn fucked my skull and ejaculated rainbows into my brain." Somebody's been watching Sealab...) In fact, I have to wonder if they're a subtle parody of the Twilight series - there's even a scene where a vampire gets glitter on him. Or consider the description of how they're made:
"Well, son, when a mommy and a daddy who are deeply in love decide they want a little baby, mommy murders a homeless man and drinks up all his yummy blood until her belly is big and full of it, and then daddy lays on top of her, and puts his wing-wang in her hoo-haa and moves up and down, and then his seed and her egg meet, and mommy uses some of the blood to make the little baby growing in her big and healthy, but because she's eating for two now, mommy gets very very hungry, and has to murder lots and lots of homeless men so in nine months a perfect little bouncing baby is born, with daddy's nose, and mommy's sickening occult affliction."
Essentially, dampyr are irresistible ot vampires - but as soon as the vampires take a drink, they pick up the dampyr's supernatural curse, and suffer as a result. For instance, when a Daeva feeds from a Daeva-spawned vampire, they wind up obsessed with the dampyr until they lose all will to live and eventually consider suicide. (It's kind of a parody of Edward's crush on Bella, about which I have taken pains to learn as little as humanly possible, and yet still know far too much.) Gangrel become social and lose their Beast, Mekhet become obsessed with the smallest detail of the dampyr's blood, and Nosferatu eventually wind up wanting to flaunt their hideousness to everybody around them, becoming walking Masquerade violations. (There's a highly amusing picture of a Nosferatu walking around a nightclub while everybody around him recoils in horror.) They make great antagonists, thanks to the story arc built into a vampire's obssession with them; as player characters...possibly. As every vampire's obsession with a dampyr follows the same arc, the GM's going to have to work to make sure that the players have something other to do than endure the attentions of a lovesick vampire.
Is it a worthwhile buy? For the Larvae, for the Strix, for the draugr, for some of the odder vampires - yes, I would say so. It's not a perfect product, but it makes up for a weak beginning with an astonishingly strong finish.
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May 1, 1949 - February 6, 2013
Rock Tavern, NY
Phyllis Eich of Rock Tavern, NY entered into rest on February 6, 2013 at home, with her family by her side. She was 63.
Phyllis was born in Buffalo, NY on May 1, 1949 to Donald and Margarie Jones Wood. She was the wife of William C. Eich.
Phyllis was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, sister and dearest friend. Phyllis was a member of the NRA and the NHRA and owner of Pro stock racing team and top sportsman. She was devoted to her family, extended family as well as her friends that she would cook for as if they were her own family. Her one fear in life was walking in the ocean and going in water over her ankles, but she loved vacationing with her daughter and granddaughter at the beach.
One thing Phyllis was very proud of was her Dad, who was a World War II Army veteran, who served in four Campaigns and was awarded four Purple Hearts and made her who she was today.
She is survived by her husband, William C. Eich of Rock Tavern, NY; children: Paul Wood of Florida, Shane Wood of Albany, and Sonya Wood of Rock Tavern; stepchildren: Kevin Eich of Newburgh, Eliot Eich of Buffalo, Denise Nati and Kelly Eich, both of Buffalo; grandchildren: Victoria "Maggie" Burris, Ryan, Darren and Erica Eich, Mickey, Cory and Jenine Nati and two great-grandchildren; a brother, Griff Lanthier of Buffalo and a sister, Patricia Goulding, also of Buffalo, as well as many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by a brother, Paul Wood and her sister, Urlyn Wood.
Visitation will be on Friday, February 8th, from 1 to 3 and 6 to 8 p.m. with a service to follow at 8 p.m. at the David T. Ferguson Funeral Home, Washingtonville, NY. Cremation will be private.
Arrangements are under the care of Thomas A. Murray of David T. Ferguson Funeral Home, 20 North St., Washingtonville, NY 10992, 845-496-9106; for further info or to leave condolences or a fond memory of Phyllis for the family, please visit our website at www.davidtfergusonfh.com


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Out of the Woodwork: Woodworking Can be a Blast
Black powder fits the bill to split large urban logs.
By Sam Sherrill
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From the June 2006 issue #155
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For the past decade, I have been getting all the lumber I need for my projects from downed urban trees in my area that would have otherwise been dumped in local landfills, ground up for mulch or cut for firewood. I follow the same two-step procedure: First, as the tree is being prepared for removal, I make sure the trunk is cut to sawlog (not fireplace) lengths and, second, I then either haul the logs to the sawyer or tow the saw mill to the logs. After sawing, the boards are stickered and stacked for air-drying. However, last year for the first time ever, I inserted an extra and highly unusual step between cutting the log and sawing it into lumber.
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July 1, 2010
Pratt, KS - Tuttle Creek State Park ranger Luke D. Nihart
was killed early on Saturday, June 26, in an ATV accident while
working at the park. Nihart, 32, of rural St. George, was working
through the night at the park, which was full of campers attending
the four-day Country Stampede music concert event.
Nihart had been with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
for 10 years, starting at with a short stint at El Dorado State
Park. He spent most of his career as a park ranger at Tuttle Creek
State Park, near Manhattan. He was awarded the Kansas Department
of Wildlife and Parks Award of Valor in 2005 for his role in a
harrowing midnight rescue of stranded boaters on Tuttle Creek
Reservoir during a severe storm. Nihart also received the Kansas
Recreation and Parks Service Award in 2003 and 2004. He started
the annual Youth and Disabled Spring Turkey Hunts at Tuttle Creek
State Park, passing on his love for the outdoors. He married Keri
Lynn Herrman on April 26, 2003, and they had two children, Hunter
and Brooke.
All KDWP staff, and anyone who enjoyed Kansas state parks and the
outdoors will miss Luke. He exemplified what a park ranger should
be, working long hours to ensure park visitors were safe and
enjoying their stay and willingly risking his own life to save
Funeral services for Luke will be held at 11:00 a.m., Thursday,
July 1, 2010 at the Wamego Sports Complex, Highway 24 and
Columbian Road just West of Wamego. Luke will lie in-state
beginning at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday at the Stewart Funeral Home,
where the family will greet friends during a visitation from 7:00
p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Burial will follow in Admantha Cemetery,
south of Westmoreland. Memorials are suggested to the Nihart
Children Education Fund, and may be left in care of the Stewart
Funeral Home, P.O. Box 48, 66547.
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Throughout the month FSG publisher, poet, and translator Jonathan Galassi will be adding his thoughts on various aspects of the poetry world.
Poetry Month so soon? Here it is, catching me up in the midst again, as we always are. We've been producing a lot around here, and I think the array is both broad and deep. Our new books this spring include Carl Phillips's Double Shadow, Yusef Komunyakaa's The Chameleon Couch, the Selected Poems of Robert Pinsky, and Les Murray's collection Taller When Prone, as well as Murray's poem-rich memoir of overcoming depression, Killing the Black Dog. FSG is participating in Eric Fischl's heroic America Now and Here project by publishing the fascinating collaborative poem Crossing State Lines: An American Renga, edited by Bob Holman and Carol Muske-Dukes. Charles Wright's Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems is out next week; Adam Zagajewski's Unseen Hand, in Clare Cavanagh's brilliant translation, will be out in June; and the big, fat FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry, edited by Ilan Stavans, is on the shelf next to new editions of Elizabeth Bishop's Poems and Prose that we published for the centenary of her birth last February, along with Joelle Biele's delicious, revelatory Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence.
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Driven February 2011
You might have wailed, you might have cribbed, you might have stomped your feet in disgust, and promptly went and got yourself another car only because the Maruti SX4 – which you might have liked – was only available as a revvy, generous petrol. If so, the fact that Maruti has just launched a diesel version of the car may not reduce your degree of disgust by any less. But hey, the SX4 is now available as a diesel. And the only bone we have to pick with this car is that it could have come way earlier.
But it's here. And is pretty good. The kind of stuff the SX4 offered when it came in 2007 was so good and was at such a good price that Honda and Ford were forced to introduce features like airbags, which weren't even an option till then. The diesel SX4 continues with the brilliance of being feature-packed along with being a competent, fun, car. With 90bhp and 200Nm of torque, you get proper in-gear performance you would appreciate in real-world roads, with real-world traffic. Not to mention, fuel-efficiency.
For now, you have what's always been a good car, getting an enhancement it always deserved.
Sriram Narayanan


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STS 50th Anniversary Task Force
STS will be celebrating its 50th year as an ACRL section in 2011. We will celebrate this milestone at the ALA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, June 23-29. Members of the task force are listed below. We will use this space to collect our ideas for the celebration, and welcome input from STS members who are familiar with the venue or just have a good idea to share!
Task force members:
Nan Butkovich, chair
Kara Whatley
William Simpson
Katherine O'Clair
Paul St. Pierre
Maribeth Slebodnik
NOTES from 6/30/2008 initial task force meeting ALA Annual, Anaheim, CA STS 50th Anniversary Task Force Notes from 6/30/2008 Meeting
Maribeth will set up wiki area for us. [STS Council was asked to contribute ideas to the wiki. Jenna Ryan (firstname.lastname@example.com) offered to help us.]
Out of the box funding ideas: Oil Biotech? Pharma? Food technology? (e.g. Tabasco) Alcohol producer? Local publishing companies and/or vendors? We should check to see what companies are headquartered in the NO area and consider contacting their librarians for more information.
Field-Trip ideas: Hot sauce tour Wetlands field trip Corp of Engineers? We should keep a list of our discarded ideas as "science tourism" to send to members via STS-L.
Celebration: We should consider having a party rather than a dinner on Sunday night. We may want to consider partnering with the zoo or the aquarium to host this event.
Speaker ideas: "science of gambling" "science of zombies"
Questions for STS Council:
1. When will ALA choose its conference theme? [Too late for us to use it.] 2. How was the 40th celebration handled? 3. Can we ask ACRL to co-ordinate "ask" for fundraising after National 2009? [Contact Julia Gelfand. She is on the ACRL Budget Committee and has helpful information. I believe she also helped plan the 40th celebration.]


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Louis C.K.'s Next Hour Special Gets a Premiere Date
It will be on HBO.
Last fall, we learned that instead of self-releasing again, Louis C.K. was going to debut his next stand-up hour special on HBO. Today, HBO announced that Louis C.K.: Oh My God, C.K.'s fifth hour special, will premiere on the network on April 13 at 10 p.m. It was filmed earlier this month at Phoenix's Celebrity Theater. Remember, Louie isn't coming back this summer, so this might be your only time to see him on the small screen all year. (Well, unless you have Netflix streaming on your TV and you decide to watch old Louie episodes, but come on, you got the idea.)


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- Application of Payment to Tax, Interest and Penalties
- Repeal of Pay to Play Legislation
- Massachusetts References
Application of Payment to Tax, Interest and Penalties
Taxpayer Directed Payments:
The Appellate Tax Board ruled in the Molesworth case that the Department is obligated to follow a taxpayer's directions with regard to application of voluntary payments. A taxpayer who wishes to direct a voluntary payment to one or more specific assessments, tax types, or to tax, penalties or interest must give such directions on Form TDP-1 or in a signed and dated letter containing the name, address, and identification number of the taxpayer, along with a clear statement of the particular liabilities to which the taxpayer's payment should be applied.
Undirected Payments:
In the event that a taxpayer has liabilities in multiple tax types, an undirected payment will generally be applied first by tax type in the order below, second to the oldest liabilities first, and within any one tax type to tax, penalties, and interest in that order. The general payment application may be adjusted, in the discretion of the Department, when a particular liability is approaching the statute of limitations for collection:
- excise of domestic corporations;
- excise of foreign corporations;
- personal income tax (other than fiduciary income);
- tax on income received by fiduciaries;
- taxes withheld from wages;
- room occupancy excise;
- sales tax on meals;
- sales taxes (other than meals);
- estate tax.
Application of Payment Prior to January 1, 1993:
In November 1990, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of Jack Molesworth regarding:
- The application of payments to outstanding tax liabilities, and
- the "pyramiding" of interest and penalties on interest and penalties.
Mr. Molesworth argued that his partial payments should have been applied first against his underlying tax liability rather than against interest and penalties. This computation would have resulted in a lower balance than that computed by DOR. The Commissioner argued that payments should be applied against interest and penalty first and that additional interest and penalties were properly computed based on the underlying tax liability, which remained.
The Appellate Tax Board ruled that the Commissioner is not authorized by statute to apply partial payments contrary to the taxpayer's express directions. This decision was upheld by the SJC on appeal. The SJC also stated that there is no statutory authority for the imposition of penalties or interest on unpaid penalties and interest.
Repeal of Pay to Play Legislation
Taxes are due and payable at the time the tax return is due, determined without regard to any extension of time to file. Any amount of tax not paid before the statutory due date accrues interest and penalties.
Beginning on July 1, 1999, a taxpayer is not required to pay, and DOR may not involuntarily collect, certain taxes if the taxpayer is contesting the amount of tax due. Under the new law, disputed taxes are not required to be paid:
- as long as a timely application for abatement has been filed with DOR; or
- while a petition has been filed with the Appellate Tax Board (ATB) or with the probate court; or
- any amount determined not to be due by the ATB or probate court while an appeal is pending from those courts.
These provisions apply only to an assessment or portion of assessment that is in dispute.
Involuntary collection includes liens, levies or the use of collection agencies.
The statute of limitations on collections is suspended during the period that collection of the tax is stayed.
Interest and all penalties except 33(c) penalties will continue to accrue on the unpaid disputed tax amount even though collection activity has been stayed. Taxpayers may avoid the accrual of interest and applicable penalties by voluntarily paying the amount in dispute. If the taxpayer ultimately prevails in the appeal process or in court, the voluntary payment will be refunded with statutory interest.
For Late File/Late Pay Penalties
If a taxpayer does not prevail and does not voluntarily pay, the amount of tax in dispute must be paid at the earliest of:
- thirty days following a decision by the ATB or probate court in favor of the Department;
- the date any petition before the ATB or probate court is withdrawn;
- the date any right of appeal from a refusal by the Department to grant an abatement expires, if no appeal is filed; or
- in the case of a deficiency assessment, but not a deemed assessment, ninety days after DOR gives notice of assessment if no abatement is filed.
If the tax in dispute is not paid by these dates, then the 33(c) penalties accrue.
Trustee Taxes Not Withheld or Collected:
In the case of trustee taxes which include but are not limited to sales and use, meals and withholding, taxpayers are not required to pay disputed taxes provided the taxes were not withheld or collected. Any taxes withheld from employees or collected from purchasers must be remitted to the Department, regardless of whether the amount is in dispute or not.
Posting of Security:
Taxpayers will be required by the Commissioner to post security if they wish to delay payment of tax for the following reasons:
- when the collection of the tax will be jeopardized by delay;
- when the history of the taxpayer raises doubt as to the collection of the tax if delayed;
- when any application for abatement or petition is frivolous and has been filed to avoid prompt payment of the tax.
Application of Payment to Tax, Interest and Penalties
- 830 CMR 62C.33.1(8),(9): Interest, Penalties and Application of Payments
- TIR 92-6: Statutory Changes in Calculation of Interest and Penalties
- TIR 91-2: Calculation of Interest and Penalties under Molesworth Decision, superseded by TIR 92-6
Repeal of Pay to Play Legislation
- M.G.L. Chapter 62C, Sections 32(e); 33; 65
- TIR 99-18: Legislative Repeal of So-Called "Pay to Play" Provisions (Revokes TIR 99-11)
- TIR 99-11: Repeal of So-Called "Pay to Play" Provisions (Revoked by TIR 99-18)


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Tottenham defender Michael Dawson is set to miss the rest of the season after the injury he suffered in Wednesday night's FA Cup win over Stevenage was diagnosed as a ruptured ankle ligament.
The centre-back fell awkwardly after jumping with Stevenage player Chris Beardsley and the club tonight confirmed he would be out for up to 12 weeks.
A Tottenham statement read: "Scans taken this morning have determined that Michael Dawson is likely to be absent for a period of 10-12 weeks. The central defender was stretchered off in the first half of the FA Cup tie against Stevenage last night, with it now confirmed that he suffered a ruptured ligament in his right ankle."
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News Service
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For the campus
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Annette Hacker, director, (515) 294-3720
Office: (515) 294-4777
Student veterans with financial need may qualify for ISU Veterans Grant
ISU has allocated $100,000 for the ISU Veterans Grant, a new program the Office of Student Financial Aid hopes will help supplement existing GI Bill benefits. The grant will provide up to $1,000 per semester for students whose veteran status is confirmed. Preference will be given to students whose status is confirmed by Jan. 2, 2009. Awards will continue to be made as long as funding is available.
Iowa State Biobased Industry Center studies carbon emissions, other industry issues
Iowa State University's new Biobased Industry Center will support interdisciplinary research of the biorenewables industry and its economic, policy, business, social and workforce issues. The center is now sponsoring four studies, including three studies related to carbon emissions.
Iowa State's Hira offers retirement savings resolutions for the New Year
Tahira Hira, an ISU professor of personal finance and consumer economics who serves on President Bush's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, offers 10 New Year's resolutions for investors who are planning to reassess their retirement options.
Commencement set for Dec. 19-20
An estimated 1,601 students will receive degrees from Iowa State during winter commencement events Dec. 19-20. The graduate ceremony will be at be at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19, in Stephens Auditorium. The undergraduate ceremony will begin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, in Hilton Coliseum, and will include an address by Kenneth Quinn, president of the World Food Prize Foundation and a former United States Ambassador to Cambodia. Quinn also will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
Global resource systems major first in the nation
An interdisciplinary major that allows students to pick an international region, language and area of expertise will be offered next fall through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The first-in-the-nation major is expected to attract students interested in addressing issues of hunger and poverty in developing nations and those who want to work for companies with global connections.
Three design college programs rank in top 15 nationally
Iowa State University's programs in landscape architecture, interior design and architecture are among the top 15 in the nation, according to a survey of practitioners by DesignIntelligence, a bimonthly publication for leaders in design professions. The magazine's annual report, "America's Best Architecture and Design Schools," is the only national college ranking survey that focuses exclusively on design.
Regents approve tuition rates for 2009-10
Tuition at Iowa State for resident Iowans, both undergraduate and graduate, will go up 4.2 percent next year, following approval by the state Board of Regents Dec. 10.
Carver Trust awards Iowa State University $508,000 for two projects
ISU has received two grants from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, based in Muscatine, Iowa, to study the biochemical mechanism by which the Ebola virus evades the host immune response to infection, and also to establish an educational technology classroom within the Parks Library on campus.
Iowa Energy Center candidates to visit campus
Four finalists will interview for the position of Iowa Energy Center director the week of Dec. 15. The finalists include Anne Kimber, director of energy services for the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities; Bill Nesmith, independent consultant and senior energy advisor, National Association of State Energy Officials, Salem, Ore.; Kevin Nordmeyer, partner, RDG Planning & Design, Des Moines; and Harvey Sachs, senior fellow, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, Washington, D.C.
ISU names new multicultural student affairs director
Santos Núñez Galicia has been named the new assistant dean and director of multicultural student affairs, effective Jan. 20, 2009. Núñez Galicia has been program director of the Multicultural Resource Center at the University of Kansas since June 2001. She will provide leadership to the progress ISU's Office of Multicultural Student Affairs has made in improving retention and graduation rates for students of color.
Cy's in the finals
Cy has made it to the finals of the grueling Capital One National mascot of the Year competition. Fans can cast votes daily through Dec. 15.
In the news
Survey: Americans plan to scrimp, save
The Des Moines Register
A new survey indicates that, come Jan. 1, Americans will save more and accumulate less credit card debt. But cravings for instant consumption may prove too tempting to resist, says Joydeep Bhattacharya, associate professor of economics. "Consumers have the right intentions, but they overestimate what they can do," he said. "Credit card access has been easy for the past 15 years...so Americans have never had to try to quit. They've not had any practice.""
Beating washers into wind turbines in Iowa
National Public Radio
Iowa has taken the lead in the emerging field of wind energy. Some of the same workers who used to make appliances are now busy building wind turbines. Iowa State economist David Swenson provides perspective.


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Teams listed in order of 2002 finish
Manager: Bob Brenly.
2002: 98-64, 1st; lost to St. Louis in first round.
Payroll: $94 million.
Rotation: Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling, Elmer Dessens, John Patterson, Byung-Hyun Kim.
Meat of the order: Junior Spivey, Luis Gonzalez, Danny Bautista.
Turning point: No two players provide a better barometer for their teams than Johnson and Schilling. Arizona goes as far as its aces carry it.
Fresh face: Despite a disappointing spring training, Lyle Overbay takes over as the regular first baseman. He's a career .345 hitter in the minors.
Best guess: Johnson's strong spring created confidence for a team that should be favored to win a third straight division title.
Manager: Felipe Alou.
2002: 95-66, 2nd; beat Atlanta in first round, beat St. Louis in NLCS and lost to Anaheim in World Series.
Payroll: $80 million.
Rotation: Kirk Rueter, Jason Schmidt, Damian Moss, Ryan Jensen, Kurt Ainsworth.
Meat of the order: Rich Aurilia, Barry Bonds, Edgardo Alfonzo.
Turning point: Owner Peter Magowan and GM Brian Sabean are banking on a fast start to keep players and fans from missing Dusty Baker, who was more popular than Bonds.
Fresh faces: In right-handers Ainsworth, Jesse Foppert and Jerome Williams, the Giants may have the league's best pitching depth. Foppert starts in Triple A but is a good bet for 20-plus starts.
Best guess: It will be a frustrating year for Bonds, who might get walked even more often with Jeff Kent gone. Can't wait to see how he handles intentional walks from Baker.
Manager: Jim Tracy.
2002: 92-70, 3rd.
Payroll: $100.3 million.
Rotation: Hideo Nomo, Odalis Perez, Kevin Brown, Darren Dreifort, Kazuhisa Ishii.
Meat of the order: Shawn Green, Brian Jordan, Fred McGriff.
Turning point: McGriff, who has been cast off by Tampa Bay and the Cubs in the last two years, finds himself being counted on as a key player for a contender. He seems out of place at Dodger Stadium, where he never has hit well, but could provide a boost with another 30-homer, 103-RBI season.
Fresh face: Chad Hermanson, acquired from the Cubs along with Todd Hundley, could play an important role off the bench.
Best guess: With Brown and Dreifort back in the rotation, the Dodgers have a legitimate shot to make the playoffs for the first time since 1996.
Manager: Clint Hurdle.
2002: 73-89, 4th.
Payroll: $59.8 million.
Rotation: Jason Jennings, Aaron Cook, Shawn Chacon, Darren Oliver, Denny Neagle. On the DL: Denny Stark, Scott Elarton.
Meat of the order: Todd Helton, Larry Walker, Preston Wilson.
Turning point: With newcomers Charles Johnson, Jose Hernandez and Wilson joining Helton, Walker and Jay Payton, Colorado will try to outslug the competition. GM Dan O'Dowd will look smart if thin air helps Wilson and Hernandez reduce their strikeout totals.
Fresh face: The 23-year-old Cook pitched well in spring training and could join Jennings to give the Rockies back-to-back rookies of the year.
Best guess: A comeback by Neagle could help the Rockies get over .500, but Hurdle will deserve manager-of-the-year honors if they keep things interesting all season.
Manager: Bruce Bochy.
2002: 66-96, 5th.
Payroll: $43 million.
Rotation: Brian Lawrence, Adam Eaton, Oliver Perez, Jake Peavy, Clay Condrey. On the DL: Kevin Jarvis.
Meat of the order: Mark Kotsay, Ryan Klesko, Rondell White.
Turning point: The loss of closer Trevor Hoffman and Phil Nevin to possible season-ending injuries in spring training makes it easier for Bochy to turn loose an interesting wave of prospects.
Fresh face: Xavier Nady, once touted as a power-hitting third baseman, fills the roster spot opened by Nevin. He's a good bet for 20-plus homers if he gets 400 at-bats between the outfield corners.
Best guess: With good arms in the rotation and an intriguing replacement for Hoffman in Brandon Villafuerte, the Padres will win more games than in 2002 and could move up in the standings.


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Rick Steves' Europe "Scotland's Islands and Highlands" Rick tosses a caber (log) at a Scottish clan gathering, remembers Highland massacres and takes a ferry to Iona.G
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Grand View "Joshua Tree National Park" This episode reveals one of the most mythical botanical wonders in America: the Joshua Tree. Baumann explores this Desert oasis in southern California, renowned for it's sublime energy, and beautiful landscapes. Interviews include interpretive ranger Sarah Hinton, explaining the evolution of the parks botany; Climber Eric Foltz and his colleagues as he takes us up one of the sandstone formations; and Joe Zarki, ranger and historian, details the human history of the region. D
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Essential Pepin "All Puffed Up" Sugared Puff Paste Sticks; Fast Puff Pastry; Crystallized Puff Paste Of Orange; Choux A La Creme; Chocolate Paris-Brest Cake. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Vegetarian Pasta Night" Test cook Becky Hays shows host Christopher Kimball how to make Great Vegetable Lasagna. Then, science expert Guy Crosby teaches Chris about the science of cornstarch. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of whole wheat lasagna noodles. D
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Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "Tacos On Fire!" Grilled lobster and black beans in a warm corn tortilla and Super Tacos Chupacabras are showcased.G
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Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends "How to Enjoy Artichokes" The Pences prepare grilled artichokes with caper marinade and deep-fried baby artichokes with her olive airoli.G
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Rick Steves' Europe "Scotland's Islands and Highlands" Rick tosses a caber (log) at a Scottish clan gathering, remembers Highland massacres and takes a ferry to Iona.G
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Theater Talk "Ethan Mordden Onlotte Lenya & Kurt Weill" Author Ethan Mordden discusses his new book Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, a dual biography about two of the twentieth century's most influential artists. D
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Closer to Truth "What's The Far Far Future of the Universe?" When we speak about the future of the universe, we mean when the sun burns out, when galaxies collide, when everything flies apart and ultimately evaporates. Do the untold billions and trillions of years from now make it irrelevant for us today? No. The far far future of the universe conveys meaning now. D


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Janet Yellen, nominated to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, signaled she will carry on the central bank's unprecedented stimulus until she sees improvement in an economy that's operating well below potential.
"A strong recovery will ultimately enable the Fed to reduce its monetary accommodation and reliance on unconventional policy tools such as asset purchases," Yellen said in testimony for her nomination hearing before the Senate Banking Committee today in Washington. "Supporting the recovery today is the surest path to returning to a more normal approach to monetary policy."
Yellen, the Fed's vice chairman, voiced her commitment to using bond purchases known as quantitative easing to boost growth and lower unemployment that remains above 7% more than four years after the economy began to recover from the deepest recession since the Great Depression.
"Her approach is, 'Let's do more QE now to get the job done faster,' " said Laura Rosner, a U.S. economist at BNP Paribas SA in New York and a former researcher at the New York Fed. "Yellen is repeating her commitment to getting the job done."
In three pages of prepared remarks for the 10 a.m. hearing, released yesterday, Yellen, 67, said unemployment is "still too high, reflecting a labor market and economy performing far short of their potential," and that inflation is expected to remain below the Fed's 2% goal. She also highlighted areas where the economy has improved, saying housing "seems to have turned a corner" and the auto industry has made an "impressive comeback."
'Inflation Hawk'
Treasury 10-year yields rose one basis point, or 0.01 percentage point, to 2.73% as of 10:11 a.m. in New York. The benchmark yield slid seven basis points yesterday, the biggest one-day drop since Oct. 22.
Because inflation is low today, a policy maker "can be an inflation hawk and be in favor of policy accommodation at the same time," said Lou Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson ICAP LLC, a research firm in Jersey City, New Jersey.
"I expect to learn more about her style than anything substantive" under questioning today from senators, Crandall said. "As far as specifics, she doesn't want to antagonize those who would vote against her."
Yellen's testimony comes at a critical moment for monetary policy. The Federal Open Market Committee she is poised to lead is considering whether to begin slowing its $85 billion monthly bond-purchase program, which is pushing the Fed's assets toward a record $4 trillion. The Fed has kept its target interest rate near zero since December 2008.
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Vasquez leads Hornets past Pistons 100-95
Vasquez leads Hornets past Pistons 100-95
Mar. 02, 2013
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As Greivis Vasquez dribbled along the perimeter in the final half-minute of a one-point game, he could only hope to overcome the memories of anti-clutch moments that have plagued the young Hornets.
"In my head I've got all the games that we couldn't close and we lost," Vasquez said. "That was one thing I got in my mind at the end when I took the last shot. We were just messing a lot of games up at the end and I've got to get better quick. ... We have to make good decisions at the end of the game."
Now there's evidence of progress on that front.
Vasquez capped a 25-point, nine-assist performance by hitting a running floater off the backboard with 12 seconds left, and New Orleans beat the Detroit Pistons 100-95 on Friday night to snap a two-game skid.
"He's one of the most improved players in the league," Pistons coach Lawrence Frank said of Vasquez. "He's got great court vision plus he shoots it well enough where you have to respect his shot."
Eric Gordon added 21 points and Ryan Anderson 19 points and 13 rebounds for the Hornets, who were short-handed in the frontcourt with starting forward Anthony Davis sitting out his second straight game because of a sprained left shoulder. New Orleans was also without 7-footer Jason Smith, a top reserve forward and center. The club announced earlier Friday that he'd miss the rest of the season with a right shoulder injury.
Anderson, known more for his scoring, said he knew he had to pick up some of the slack on the defensive end.
"We need to really get to the boards a little bit more, so that's something I came out tonight and knew I needed to do," Anderson said. "It's tough because they're a big team and we had to be active."
New Orleans native Greg Monroe had 27 points and 10 rebounds for Detroit, while Brandon Knight added 22 points, including a 3-pointer that tied the score at 91.
Vasquez's final basket made it 98-95. Rodney Stuckey then missed a 3-point attempt that could have tied it in the final seconds, but Frank said that shot came only after Detroit's initial plan for a quick two points failed.
"We wanted to go directly into Greg," Frank said. "We didn't execute like we wanted to, and that was disappointing."
Though not for Hornets coach Monty Williams.
"I was really pleased the way we defended the last play," Williams said. "It was nice to see us execute properly. We forced Stuckey into a fast shot."
New Orleans closed the third quarter with an 8-0 run, capped by Anderson's second 3, to take a 74-69 lead.
New Orleans was still ahead 91-84 when Gordon scored inside, but Detroit responded with a 9-0 run that Knight began with a driving layup. Jason Maxiell then dunked, Knight came back with his tying 3 and Monroe dunked to give the Pistons a 93-91 lead with 1:58 left.
Vasquez then hit two free throws to tie it, Gordon added another free throw and then Anderson used a perimeter fake to set up a driving layup that made it 96-93. Maxiell had a chance to tie it when he dunked as he was fouled, but he missed the free throw, allowing Vasquez to put New Orleans up by three again with his late floater.
The Pistons wound up shooting 50 percent (39 of 78), scoring 56 points in the paint. But the Pistons also turned the ball over 14 times, were outrebounded 47-40 and were outscored at the free-throw line, 23-10.
The game was competitive throughout, with Detroit building the largest lead of either team at 10 points in the first quarter. There were 12 ties and nine lead changes.
"It was a tough game and both teams played really hard," Monroe said. "A couple more plays could have won the game for us. They had more plays.
"They did a good job fighting for the ball," Monroe added. "They just kept working harder than us, that's all."
Al-Farouq Aminu had 14 rebounds and Robin Lopez scored 10 points for New Orleans. Maxiell and Kyle Singler each scored 10 for Detroit, while Jose Calderon had 11 assists.
New Orleans struggled throughout the game to stop Monroe, who helped Detroit take a 14-4 in the opening five minutes with strong inside baskets to the delight of a large contingent of fans in his hometown.
Detroit maintained the lead into the second quarter, going ahead 33-25 on Stuckey's fast-break layup.
New Orleans then surged ahead for the first time with a 10-0 run highlighted by Vasquez's three-point play and Anderson's 3-pointer.
Gordon had 18 of his points in the opening half, including six free throws, the last of which put the Hornets up 45-40.
The Pistons' however, took a 49-47 lead into halftime after scoring the last five points of the period, including Monroe's putback after he'd grabbed two offensive rebounds in the same possession.
NOTES: With Smith missing the remainder of the season with a torn labrum in his right shoulder, Williams said the Hornets would try to sign another big man soon. ... The game was the second and last between the teams. The Hornets won the first, 105-86 in Detroit on Feb. 11. ... With Monroe being a local native, the Hornets permitted fans wearing T-shirts bearing his name to line the tunnel leading to the court from the visitors' locker room, and they cheered wildly for the visiting Pistons as they took the court for the second half. ... Sitting in the first few rows were singer and songwriter Brian McKnight, actor and "Treme" star Wendell Pierce, and former LSU star Tryann Mathieu.


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BETHESDA, Md. — Crestline Capital Corp. has sold 10 Residence Inn hotels to Apple Hospitality Two Inc., a Richmond, Va.-based REIT. Acquisition of the portfolio, which is expected to close in the third quarter, will cost $119 million, including $54 million of assumed debt.
Washington, D.C.-based Marriott International manages the 10 hotels. Crestline Capital CEO and president Bruce Wardinski said the sale is consistent with Crestline's strategy of selling hotels it does not manage. Crestline Capital, the parent company of Crestline Hotels & Resorts, owns and manages more than 7,000 rooms in 37 hotels, resorts and convention centers across the U.S.
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Stockton, CA
Donna McMichael French Worman
Aug. 22, 1927 - Mar. 15, 2014
Donna McMichael French Worman, 86, was accompanied by her family as she passed away
on March 15, 2014, at 8:36 a.m., at Meadowood Convalescent in Stockton, CA. Donna was born August 22, 1927 in
Stockton, Kansas. She married Kenneth Ralph French in 1947. She was preceded in death by husbands Kenneth French, L. Lee Worman, and her grandson,
Christopher Riffel. Donna is
survived by her three children and their spouses: Michael (Jan) French, Kathy (William Shepard) Van Pelt, Rebecca (Larry) Riffel ; three grandchildren; three great grandchildren; and four great-great grandchildren.
A Memorial Service is planned for 11 a.m. on June 21st at San Diego Taiwanese Presbyterian Church,
formerly La Mesa Presbyterian Church, 4426 Harbinson Ave., La Mesa, CA 91942, with inurnment following at Greenwood Memorial Park at 4300 Imperial Ave., San Diego, CA.


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Annual, perennial herb, sometimes aquatic
Leaves generally basal and cauline, generally alternate, simple or compound; petioles at base generally flat, sometimes sheathing or stipule-like
Inflorescence: cyme, raceme, panicle, or flowers solitary
Flower generally bisexual, radial; sepals generally 5, free, early deciduous or withering in fruit, generally green; petals 0many, free; stamens generally 10many; pistils 1many, ovary superior, chamber 1, style 1, generally ± persistent in fruit as beak, ovules 1many
Fruit: achene, follicle, berry, or utricle-like, 1many-seeded
Genera in family: ± 60 genera, 1700 species: worldwide, especially n temp, tropical mtns; many ornamental (Adonis, Aquilegia, Clematis, Consolida, Delphinium, Erianthis, Helleborus ),
some highly TOXIC (Aconitum, Actaea, Delphinium, Ranunculus )
Reference: [Duncan & Keener 1991 Phytologia 70:2427]
Annual, perennial herb, sometimes from stolons or caudices, terrestrial or aquatic; roots generally fibrous
Stem prostrate to erect
Leaves basal and generally cauline, generally reduced upwards, generally glabrous; petiole base flat, stipule-like or not; basal and lower cauline petioles generally long; blades simple to dissected or compound, entire to toothed
Inflorescence: cyme, axillary or terminal, 1few-flowered
Flower radial; sepals generally 5, generally early deciduous, generally glabrous, generally green to yellowish; petals generally 5, generally > sepals, generally white to yellow, shiny; nectar gland near petal base, pocket-like or with flap-like scale; anthers yellow; pistils generally many
Fruit: achene, generally compressed, beaked, generally glabrous; walls thick
Species in genus: ± 250 species: temp worldwide, tropical mtns; some ornamental
Etymology: (Latin: (Pliny) little frog, from generally wet habitats)
Perennial 525 cm, scapose or not
Stem generally erect, glabrous; branches 0few, at base
Leaves: basal and lower cauline (if present) petioles 18 cm, blades 13 cm, round to reniform, with 35(7) lobes > 1/2 way to base, lobes entire to few-toothed or -lobed; upper cauline leaves 0 or 12, sessile, deeply 3-lobed to 1-ternate, lobes or leaflets oblong to elliptic, entire
Flower: receptacle glabrous; sepals 3.57 mm, hairs 0sparse; petals 512 mm, 59 mm wide
Fruits 17many; cluster narrowly ovoid to subcylindric; body 1.52 mm, ± plump, sides ± 1 mm wide, glabrous, back rounded; beak 0.51 mm, ± straight
Chromosomes: 2n=56
Ecology: Meadows, rocky slopes, ledges
Elevation: 18004000 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, Cascade Range, High Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, Great Basin Floristic Province
Distribution outside California: to Alaska, Montana, Colorado, Arizona
Some plants difficult to separate from typical var. of AK and w Can.
Leaves: basal and lower cauline (if present) with 3 lobes > 1/2 way to blade base, middle lobe with 3 teeth or lobes, tips acute
Ecology: Meadows, rocky slopes
Elevation: 17002200 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges
Distribution outside California: to Washington, Montana, Wyoming
Horticultural information: TRY; DFCLT.


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RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a body found floating in the water off a Southern California cove is that of a young man who went missing after diving off a cliff.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's authorities said the body was that of 18-year-old Joseph Sanchez.
Sanchez was dragged underwater Wednesday after he dove into the ocean Wednesday from Abalone Cove below Rancho Palos Verdes. A group of his friends told authorities the water was too rough for them to reach him.
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For NH's economic growth, there is something better than a casinoBY REP. JOHN CEBROWSKI
May 01. 2013 6:54PM
New Hampshire has been nibbling at casino gambling to fund needed government services for decades. The promise of easy money is hard to pass up. And it is also a way to deftly step around the political hot potato of pursuing an income tax or a sales tax. Just as people look to Powerball and Mega Millions for the "big hit" to ease their financial pain, the state wants to gamble on gambling to satiate its revenue appetite. Yes, there will be initial localized construction jobs and low-paying casino jobs, but as far as the New Hampshire citizenry is concerned, gambling is wealth-draining.
We are in this revenue- constrained situation because we have not been pursuing an obvious, and the better, revenue-generating alternative. That better alternative is manufacturing - advanced high-tech manufacturing - to drive tax revenues. To accomplish that, New Hampshire needs a comprehensive economic development plan, something it hasn't had since 2001.
Here are a few facts:
1. Manufacturing is the state's No. 1 industry, while business taxes account for approximately 23 percent of general fund revenues, the largest portion. Over the last five years, that percentage has been stagnant. To increase revenues for New Hampshire, we need to help existing manufacturers grow, and we need to recruit more advanced manufacturing and high tech businesses to move here and stay here.
2. New Hampshire is being out-invested and out-marketed by other states that are aggressively driving economic development. International and domestic firms seeking desirable landing places are responding to those states. As a consequence, New Hampshire's job growth for the past 12 months ranks 37th, and from 2011 to 2012 New Hampshire personal income grew by 2.8 percent, ranking New Hampshire 39th.
3. The University System and the Community College System have committed to doubling the number of science, technology, engineering and math graduates by 2025. The pipeline of talent will be filling up with few places to go in New Hampshire.
4. World markets love American products. Export sales growth translates to profit growth, which translates to more business tax revenue - but first we need the manufacturers here.
5. We have a wealth of private capital in New Hampshire, at least $13 billion in endowments, trusts and other funds, for example. One fund manager says, "I would like to see these funds invested in New Hampshire economic development, but there is no channel for us, so our investment dollars flow out of state."
6. Although energy rates are high in the Northeast, New Hampshire has the skills and incentives to help advanced manufacturing organizations approach "zero net energy" in their facilities.
Norm Fisk, director of the Regional Center for Advanced Manufacturing in Keene, writes in "How manufacturing will save NH" in the March issue of Business NH magazine, "The only way to create wealth is to grow it, mine it, or manufacture it." In the same article, Dennis Delay, economist for the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy, speaking of manufacturing's high wages says, "This has a huge effect on our economic future because, simply put, if we have a growth in higher paying jobs, those people can buy homes, products, and services. It brings about a positive ripple effect on New Hampshire's entire economy."
The cover story in the April 22 issue of Time magazine, "Made in the USA," is also inspiring, stating, ".perhaps the best economic news the U.S. has witnessed since the rise of Silicon Valley: made in the USA is making a comeback." Being an integral part of that comeback seems safer and smarter than relying on slots, blackjack and roulette.
Consider these questions:
Should we depend on the vagaries of a single casino, which represents an industry in trouble, or should we tie the state's fiscal future to numerous leading-edge high tech producers?
Would it be better to be burdened with the negative social ripple effects that accompany casino gambling, or would it be better to reap positive social benefits as a result of higher-paying jobs and more assured tax revenue flows?
Do we want to tarnish New Hampshire's enviable "brand" with gambling, or do we want to embellish that brand by being the prideful source of a growing array of exportable goods and services?
Should we enable casino amenities to cannibalize existing entertainment venues, restaurants and other small businesses, or enable New Hampshire's entire economy to flourish, as Delay stated?
Casino gambling may be the easy thing to do, but a plan based on advanced high-tech manufacturing is the best thing to do for New Hampshire citizens and state government.
Rep. John Cebrowski is a Republican representative from Bedford and a member of the House Finance Committee. Rep. David Borden is a Democratic representative from New Castle and chairman of the Science, Technology and Energy committee.


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Fisher Cats lose slugfest in Binghamton
April 12. 2013 11:47PM
Switch-hitter John Tolisano had a pair of doubles as the Fisher Cats banged out 18 hits, but the Binghamton Mets prevailed, 15-7, in a slugfest between division foes at Binghamton, N.Y., on Friday. The Mets scored 11 runs in the third inning, chasing New Hampshire starter Tyson Brummett (0-1) and reliever Clint Everts before a crowd 1,353 at NYSEG Stadium.
Mets lefty Mark Cohoon (2-0) picked up the win after working two innings of relief.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joe Morton and Lena Headey are ready for their moment in the Emmys spotlight.
The "Scandal" actor and "Game of Thrones" actress were among the celebrity presenters on hand Sunday afternoon to rehearse ahead of Monday's NBC broadcast.
Headey was looking relaxed in a pair of denim cutoff shorts and a white shirt as she ran through her lines. In addition to presenting, she's up for her first-ever Emmy in the outstanding supporting actress in a drama category. Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister on "Game of Thrones," seemed surprised at how heavy the trophy was when she was handed one to mockingly deliver to a stand-in.
Morton, dressed in a black shirt and slacks, pretended to present an Emmy to "House of Cards" just once before dashing off stage at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. He won his first-ever Emmy for outstanding guest actor in a drama series at last week's creative arts ceremony for his fatherly role on "Scandal."
Other presenters scheduled for Monday's 66th annual Primetime Emmy Awards include Ricky Gervais, Katherine Heigl and Hayden Panettiere. "Late Night" talk show host and former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Seth Meyers is serving as the ceremony's host.
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Was in my etc/rcx scripts and copying out some to fd for evaluation later. Then, lo, the file manager froze when I was in between copying. A msg pops up but is unreadable. Then something like vfstab no such file found and boom, klingons attack. So I booted it in a variety of ways but it won't talk to me. After a while I thought I might have to reload the OS but it won't let me.
The console msg is "fast data access MMU miss". Sounds like an asic died but?
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FRANKFORT, Ky. - Governor Steve Beshear Monday announced that Trimble is among a number of additional Kentucky counties that have been classified as drought disaster areas by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Other area counties included in the declaration include Carroll, Gallatin, Owen, Franklin and Shelby.
Local law enforcement and emergency units were dispatched to the scene of two traffic accidents on Wednesday, Aug. 15.
The City of Milton Commission will be holding a special meeting in the Milton Municipal Building on Thursday, August 23, 2012 at 7 p.m. the meeting is being held to discuss water/sewer issues.
The Second Annual Party in the Park sponsored by the Milton Lions Club will be held Friday from 5-9 p.m. Featured entertainment will be Renfro Valley country star Shefton Kash and his band.
The weather was right-low 80's, breeze blowing, blue skies with white fluffy clouds. Milton Fire House Station No. 2 held an open house Saturday, Aug. 11 from 11a.m. until 5 p.m. But, amongst the celebration was an umbrella of sadness for they had lost one of their own the night before in a fatal motorcycle accident.
The 23rd Annual Bedford Bash will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. this Friday, Aug. 17th.
Entertainment gets underway at 6:30 p.m. with the Trimble County High School Band and Trimble County cheerleaders performing. Popular local band Young Country will perform starting at 8 p.m. In the event of rain the band will perform inside at the Bedford Volunteer Fire Department.
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By Lars WielandOn Nov 29, 2017 Bathroom Furniture
IT is quite obvious that the décor of your bathroom should complement the décor of the rest of the house. For instance, if you have a modern minimalistic design theme for your home, then you should opt for the same for your bathroom. If on the other hand you have a French colonial look to the house then your bathroom should also reflect the theme in its color schemes and accessories. At the same time the bathroom furniture should complement this theme. It will be a good idea to have carved wooden cabinets in a French colonial style bathroom. On the other hand you can opt for sleek and stylish steel cabinets for a minimalistic modern looking bathroom.
Furniture in the bathroom is of many different forms and for different purposes. It can be anything from practical cabinets and storage units to the more decorative and stylized mirrors, vanity units and washstands. Whatever furniture you are opting for, your main consideration should be whether or not it complements the rest of the décor of your bathroom.
The furniture in a minimalistic bathroom should be of a light color palette, because minimalistic décor usually goes with softer shades like pastels, ivory, grey and whites. The idea behind minimalism is to create a subdued feeling in the room and the bathroom furniture should also be subdued and soft. White gloss furniture will be ideal for a minimalistic bathroom.
In this way with a little bit of thoughtfulness, you can choose the right kind of bathroom furniture to create a bathroom that reflects your personality and artful taste.
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Often in the designing and décor of the home, the bathroom is overlooked. However this place is where you can appoint the most luxurious and aesthetic fittings and make a style statement of your own. Apart from the accessories and the necessities like commode, bathtub etc. the bathroom furniture also plays an important role in look and feel of your bathroom. You have to be very careful while choosing furniture for your bathroom. This is because nothing can mar the look of a beautifully appointed bathroom like mismatched pieces of furniture.
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Albert Goodloe, 32, was killed and one victim was injured during a stabbing, three were shot and one was beaten, according to law enforcement.
One man was killed in an early morning shooting at a Stuttgart nightclub.
The incident took place at approximately 1:15 a.m. Sunday at Casey's Warehouse, located in 100 block of North Maple Street. According to Stuttgart Police Department Assistant Chief Steven Bobo, Albert Goodloe, 32, was killed from what appeared to be a gunshot. Goodloe had already been transported to the hospital in a personal vehicle when officers arrived.
Five other victims suffered injuries during the incident that spread into the parking lot. One victim was injured during a stabbing, three were shot, including one female, and one was beaten.
All five victims were transported to receive medical care, according to Bobo. Information on their condition is unknown at this time.
Due to the amount of victims that were spread throughout area hospitals, including Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff and St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock, the Stuttgart Police Department called in resources from the Arkansas State Police, who will be assisting in the investigation.
No arrests had been made as of press time. Due to the ongoing open investigation, the names of the injured victims are not being released.
"As usual in these circumstances we are having trouble with people coming forward with information," Bobo said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Stuttgart Police Department at (870) 673-1414.


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The magnificent Cody Mural covers a domed ceiling 36 feet in diameter and 18 feet to the top of the dome. Perfectly blended into the mural are selected historical scenes from the first 70 years of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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text: Just a quick pedantic note here: Whilst I would love the idea of an Obama t-shirt based on that scene from Office Space, it's more than likely based on the picture above of Vince Carter dunking on Fred Weis during the 2000 Olympics. The 'O-Face' probably stands for facial rather than anything else. You can see the actual dunk after the jump, if you're so inclined.


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There hasn't been a lot of coverage of this week's House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management preliminary hearings to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which is too bad because it was pretty explosive.
The primary purpose of the hearings was to explore ways to improve customer protections but the panelists participating used it to hammer away at the CFTC's residual interest rule proposal.
Rarely do you hear a regulator criticize a fellow regulator but the National Futures Association President and CEO Dan Roth was sharp in his criticism of the CFTC on this matter. He pointed out that the rule—which isn't really a new rule but a new interpretation of an existing rule—would not have prevented either the MF Global debacle or the Peregrine Financial Group fraud, in fact one of the panelists pointed out how it could have doubled the losses of customers of MF Global.
In the end Roth stated simply, "It is a bad rule."
Subcommittee Chairman Rep. K. Michael Conaway (R-Tex) may have set the stage in his opening remarks by stating, "When crimes occur it is essential that our justice system acts diligently and decisively."
The topic of criminal prosecution came out at several points in the hearings. Roth pointed out while a lot can be accomplished with civil penalties, "The strongest deterrent [to acts of fraud] is criminal prosecution."
CME Group Executive Chairman Terry Duffy said criminal prosecution was in order in the MF Global case.
Perhaps most bold was James Koutoulas co-founder of the Commodity Customer Coalition who noted that the Department of Justice did not seem to pursue criminal prosecution despite "a mountain of evidence" and should look into whether MF Global executives perjured themselves in previous testimony before this committee.
Koutoulas pointed out that the leadership at MF Global was allowed to continue to run the company after the MF Global Inc. unit was split off into a SIPC bankruptcy despite nearly $1 billion missing in customer funds.
Unfortunately, none of the committee members asked the panelists more specific follow-up questions on what criminal prosecution should have occurred. I know of at least one panelist that would have been happy to add some meat to that bone.
They seemed content to talk about criminal prosecutions generally but did not seem appropriately curious about specific crimes that occurred in the MF Global situation and why a more vigorous prosecution did not take place.


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SOURCE: Sheppard Mullin
February 08, 2013 12:26 ET
Firm's China Offices Continue Expansion
Firm's China Offices Continue Expansion
SHANGHAI, CHINA and LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 8, 2013) - Tony K. Mou has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the Corporate practice group and will be based in the firm's Shanghai office. Mou joins from Morgan Lewis in Beijing.
Mou advises multinational companies operating in China in a broad range of general corporate and transactional matters. Mou focuses on representing private equity/venture capital clients, entrepreneurs, venture-backed companies as well as inbound and outbound mergers and acquisitions. He also provides advice in the areas of foreign direct investment, foreign-exchange control, employment and international tax. Mou also assists overseas investors in setting up operations in China and acquiring local Chinese companies.
In addition, Mou's practice supports workforce issues related to transactional matters, including noncompetes, labor contracts, leave rights, and terminations. He also serves clients on M&A-related workforce transfer planning and negotiation.
"Tony's broad-based Corporate practice dovetails well with the firm's existing expertise and expands our dealmaking capabilities in China. He is a significant addition to our Shanghai office and to the Corporate practice group, given his concentration on company-side representation of established and emerging companies looking for venture capital or private equity financing," said Guy N. Halgren, chairman of Sheppard Mullin.
"I am excited to join Sheppard Mullin, as well as relocate to Shanghai. I look forward to growing the Asian corporate and private equity practice with partner Don Williams in the Shanghai office. The firm's successful expansion in China is impressive, and I was particularly attracted to Sheppard Mullin's robust Corporate practice and collegial culture," Mou commented.
Mou received his J.D. in 2001 from Cornell Law School, M.B.A. in 1994 from City University of New York, Bernard M. Baruch College and B.A. in 1989 from National Taiwan University. Mou is a native Mandarin speaker. In addition to being an attorney, he is a certified public accountant (with an inactive status).
In Dec., Megan Gess joined Sheppard Mullin's Orange County office as a partner in the firm's Corporate practice group from O'Melveny & Myers.
Sheppard Mullin's Corporate practice group includes 150 attorneys firmwide. The firm has 20 attorneys based in its China offices (Beijing and Shanghai).
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Cockneys vs. Zombies
2011, dir. Matthias Hoene, 87 min.,
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When a badly planned bank robbery and a zombie outbreak collide, hilarity ensues in this balls-out, irreverent British comedy.
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Andy and Terry are two clueless brothers with hearts of gold. Spending their days delivering meals-on-wheels and their nights picking fights in bars, the pair of misfits seem to care for nothing more than then their aging grandfather, Ray. In a desperate attempt to save Ray's retirement home pension, the duo hatch a half witted plan to rob a bank. When the heist is bungled by the arrival of the cops, the team is forced to take two hostages and flee the scene, not realizing there are even bigger problems than the authorities in store for them. A mysterious virus has been let loose in East London and is rapidly turning all the inhabitants into good ol' foot-dragging, flesh-eating zombies.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, Ray begins to mount an elderly army, determined to save themselves from the cockney undead. Ranging from the very ornery to the downright horny, Ray's geriatric band of soldiers, armed with wheelchairs and crutches, barricade themselves inside their home, awaiting the impending bloodbath. One zombie at a time, Ray is out to prove that determination runs deep in the blood lines and that family should always stick together.
Commercial director Matthias Hoene comes out strong with his first feature, a zany, bloody comedy that has as much fun playing with culture as it does playing with guts. Peppering the story with quirky flashbacks and hilarious asides, Hoene creates fast-paced atmosphere,full of blood-soaked quick wit, along with kills crazy enough to satisfy the most gore-thirsty viewer. Reminiscent of the best zombie comedies like SHAUN OF THE DEAD and DEAD ALIVE, COCKNEYS VS. ZOMBIES is an outrageously good time. (Michael Lerman)