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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona's Brandon McCarthy is taking medication and says he's confident he'll be fine after he collapsed at a restaurant with a seizure related to the head injury he sustained while pitching last September.
The Diamondbacks' right-hander underwent extensive examinations at the Mayo Clinic after the incident Monday. He was having dinner with his wife at a Phoenix restaurant when he passed out.
"It's something you get through," he said. "Now we know a little bit more about it. We know kind of how we'll treated it going forward, so I guess it means it's good to get one out of the way. At least now we know what we're dealing with."
McCarthy, speaking before Arizona played San Francisco on Sunday, said he knew that after a traumatic brain injury a person can become more "seizure-prone."
"There's always a chance of happening any time you have a bruise on your brain it doesn't actually ever heal, which always kind of leaves you at least somewhat vulnerable to it," he said. "So we knew the possibility was there. We had hoped we had kind of gotten past that."
McCarthy, on the 15-day disabled list with what has become an annual problem with his shoulder, said he will be taking anti-seizure medicine for the foreseeable future. He doesn't believe the seizure will impact his return to pitching.
"It's just a new thing to deal with, I guess, but it doesn't change me as a pitcher, what I do and how I go about my business," he said. "This just might be something else I have to deal with at some point. Outside of that there's no point in really changing anything."
While pitching for Oakland last Sept. 5, McCarthy sustained what was described at the time as life-threatening injuries when he was struck in the head by a line drive off the bat of Erick Aybar of the Los Angeles Angels. He had an epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion and a skull fracture. Emergency surgery was performed that night and he was released from the hospital six days later.
McCarthy, who signed a two-year free agent contract with the Diamondbacks, was 2-4 with a 5.00 ERA in 11 starts before going on the DL on May 31. He said he expects to begin throwing off the mound in the next couple of days and that the seizure would not set back that timetable.
For a time, McCarthy said, there was a chance that the situation would be much more serious after an initial CT scan showed a spot on his brain. The spot could have indicated bleeding and would have required surgery.
"When we went to sleep that night there was a chance that we wake up in the morning and someone would confirm it and we'd have to go through that whole process again," he said.
Instead, doctors concluded it was only a normal shadow.
Manager Kirk Gibson said he didn't want to comment too much on the situation because he considered a "somewhat personal" issue.
"I don't know what to say," Gibson said. "Everything that happened to him last year, when he got hit in the head, the first thing is you have a huge fear that this going to reoccur and is he OK. They're on it. He certainly won't pitch if he's not."
McCarthy insists he's not at any added risk for a brain injury despite what's happened.
"I'm not at any more risk than anybody else," he said.
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Danica Patrick, the first woman ever to lead laps in the Indianapolis 500, made more auto-racing history on Sunday.
Patrick, in her first full season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series, claimed the pole for next Sunday's season-opening Daytona 500 and became the first woman to win a pole for any race in Sprint Cup history.
Patrick turned a lap of 196.434 mph in her Stewart-Haas Chevrolet, the third-fastest qualifying speed at Daytona in the restrictor-plate era and edged Jeff Gordon's 196.292 in a Chevy for the top starting spot in the 55th Daytona 500.
"I was brought up to be the fastest driver, not the fastest girl," said Patrick, who has made just 10 Sprint Cup starts since beginning the transition to NASCAR from the open-wheel IndyCar Series in 2010.
"Thriving in those moments where the pressure's on has also been a help for me. I also feel like I've been lucky in my career to be with good teams and have good people around me. I don't think any of it would have been possible without that. For those reasons, I've been lucky enough to make history, be the first woman to do many things. I really just hope that I don't stop doing that. We have a lot more history to make. We are excited to do it."
Patrick, 30, shattered the previous record for top starting spot by a female NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver held by Janet Guthrie, who twice started ninth at Talladega and at Bristol in 1977. The previous best starting position for a female in the Daytona 500 was 18th by Guthrie in 1980.
The only other female to win a NASCAR national series pole was Shawna Robinson in a NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Atlanta in 1994. A year ago, Patrick won the pole for the Nationwide race at Daytona but finished 38th after crashing. And she finished 38th in her Daytona 500 debut in 2012.
Winning the pole is no guarantee of Daytona success. The last pole winner to win the Daytona 500 was Dale Jarrett in 2000.
But Patrick's achievement on Sunday transcends merely winning a pole. Patrick, who has known more success off the track for her marketing appeal and 12 Super Bowl commercials, can prove she can be as formidable in a racing suit as she is posing in a swimming suit for Sports Illustrated.
And, with NASCAR looking to fill seats and attract television audiences, she can bring more attention to the sport than any advertising campaign could dream of.
"I think it's really exciting," said Pat Warren, president of Kansas Speedway, where Patrick won a pole in an IndyCar race in 2005. "As a guy who has daughters, it's exciting for me to see a woman earn a pole at the Daytona 500. It signifies, not necessarily the beginning of a new era in the sport, but certainly a new opportunity.
"It will make a lot people pay attention to the sport, at least this week with the Daytona 500, which gets more attention than just about anything else we do. It probably helps because you have an icon, a certain Hall of Famer in Jeff Gordon on the front row next to her, and you have the newest driver to run a full series — her and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. there's an interesting personal story there as well. The first woman to win a pole is huge."
Indeed, the first few days of Speedweeks at Daytona came with the confirmation last week by Patrick and fellow Rookie of the Year candidate Stenhouse that they are in a romantic relationship.
But she was all business on the track on Sunday in becoming the first rookie to win the Daytona pole since Jimmie Johnson in 2002.
Even though Patrick's best finish in 10 career Sprint Cup races in 2011-12 was 17th, and she has just one top-five finish in 61 career Nationwide starts, she was considered a threat for the pole after turning the fastest laps in practice on Saturday.
As the eighth driver in the session, she had to wait about two hours as 37 other drivers tried to knock her off the top spot. Gordon, a three-time Daytona 500 winner, was the only other driver who eclipsed 196 mph on the 2.5-mile superspeedway and claimed the other guaranteed spot in next week's 500. The rest of the field will be determined in duel qualifying races on Thursday.
"It's great to be part of history," Gordon said. "I can say I was the fastest guy today."
Patrick raced part-time in NASCAR during 2009 and 2010 while racing competing in the open-wheel Indy Car series. In 2005, she finished fourth in the Indianapolis 500 — the best finish ever by a woman in the history of the race at the time — and led 19 laps, the first woman to lead at Indy. In 2008 she became the only woman to win an Indy Car race at Motegi, Japan, her only win in 115 IndyCar starts.
While Patrick has struggled in stock cars, her Cup car co-owner Tony Stewart never doubted her ability.
"You could tell watching her in the (IndyCars), you could see things, having run those cars " Stewart said. "She's got talent. To come here and have that kind of composure and to run a lap as smooth as she did that's a huge accomplishment.
"It's not like it's been 15 or 20 years she's been trying to do this. It's her second trip to Daytona in a Cup car. She's made history in the sport. It's never been done. There's only one person that can be the first to do anything. Doesn't matter how many do it after you do, accomplish that same goal. The first one that does always has that little bit more significance to it because you were the first."
Gordon was glad to play his part.
"I've always been a big believer in what's good for the sport is good for all of us," Gordon said, "so this is great for the sport. The rest of us will benefit from that, as well. I'm proud to be on the front row this year side-by-side with Danica.
"I'm glad I didn't win the pole, or we would have messed that story all up."


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The point 28N 8E is located in a big valley surrounded by a huge area of sand dunes named Erg Isaouane. In the Sahara such a valley is called "Gassi". So we had to find an easy way through the dunes and after nearly two days we reached this Gassi.
After a cold night and a wonderful sunrise in the dunes we started in the morning of 22 October 2002 and drove to the west exactly on the 28th latitude to reach the 8th longitude (see the blue line in the last picture). After 192 km in the dunes of Erg Isaouane we stopped our cars just a few meters before the point and walked to the point. There we placed a little red flag with our names on it.


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The shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut has local school officials looking into security procedures and counseling plans to protect and help students.
Tecumseh Public Schools has been proactive with respect to school security, said Superintendent Mike McAran. At Monday's Tecumseh Board of Education meeting, McAran said Tecumseh had instituted a number of security measures as far back as 1997, before the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado. It is a plan that has been updated and modified several times in the 15 years since its implementation.
"(Monday, TPS school) administrators met with the local police department to go over emergency plans in all of our buildings," McAran said. "We take them very seriously. We have to make reports every year, not just to the police departments, but also federal and state officials."
In each school year, he said, the district carries out a specific number of emergency drills. They include six fire drills, two tornado drills and two crisis or lockdown situations.
Procedures are periodically revised to reflect potential threats and situations. For instance, McAran said, in the event of a lockdown, no one is allowed to leave a building until all are accounted for and the situation is under control.
Emergency contact numbers and procedures are compiled in notebooks in each classroom. In addition, all teachers, administrators and other personnel are given detailed training. The first line of defense, though, remains the building secretaries. Visitors are required to fill out a sign-in sheet in the office.
"We are re-emphasizing that our personnel will ask everyone to identify themselves," McAran said. "We are going to continue not allowing people into the buildings and down the halls even if they are parents. You don't know who could be a threat."
Tecumseh Middle School Principal Rick Hilderley said the school district is taking the events from Connecticut to heart.
"I'm sure things will come from this latest incident that will modify our approach. School staffs everywhere are prepared," he said. "We will use this as a teaching moment with our staff here."
Tecumseh is not the only district with such measures. Every district has similar procedures in place, McAran said.
In Clinton, Superintendent David Pray talked to his board Monday about training and security measures in the district's school buildings. Pray said the training has paid off, with students getting involved and standing up for each other during student conflicts.
He also pointed out the many intruder drills the district performs, like other districts do. Clinton school personnel are in contact with both the village of Clinton offices and the village police department.
Addison Community Schools recently upgraded its security network as part of a nearly $20 million bond project. Visitors to Addison Elementary School must be buzzed in through the exterior doors, and visitors to the middle and high school cannot access the student areas without going through the main office.
"Teachers are aware of the ever-present dangers, and we are always reviewing and implementing our safety and security policies," Superintendent Steve Guerra said. "We constantly coordinate with staff and administration, and have scheduled lockdown and evacuation practices and unscheduled practices as well."
Mike Osborne, superintendent of both Hudson and Morenci school districts, said the districts communicate with families and staff to remind them of the security policies in place.
Because of the Connecticut shootings, Osborne said, staff meetings were held Monday to reaffirm those practices, and the administrative team and counselors are prepared in case students or staff want to talk about the tragedy.
"We take questions and if there are areas of security we need to look at, we ask for feedback," Osborne said. "We are also monitoring students' needs in the event some of them seek counseling or guidance. So far, we've seen nothing unusual."
The tragedy was also discussed Monday among staff and administration at Onsted Community Schools.
"Our principals communicate on how to address concerns, especially at the elementary level," Superintendent Mark Haag said. "Every school will review and re-evaluate its procedures and processes, and we may consider additional lockdown and evacuation drills."
Adrian Superintendent Chris Timmis said the district has accelerated the process of installing a magnet-based system that makes it easier for teachers to quickly lock classroom doors in an emergency. The district has also been experimenting at some buildings with keeping doors locked at all times, with a staff member letting people in, and has increased staff presence in hallways and open areas by shuffling some schedules and reminding staff to be vigilant.
The district has also been reviewing its security procedures with the help of the Adrian Police Department, Timmis said.
Through the Southern Michigan Criminal Justice Training Consortium, Lenawee County law enforcement has conducted training on various scenarios involving school buildings. In 2010, the training focused on a shooter or shooters in a school building, using Clinton Middle School as the training site.
The consortium is a voluntary association consisting of law enforcement agencies in Lenawee and Jackson counties. The consortium provides joint training in police methods and investigation techniques.
The departments began the joint training in 1999 after Columbine. Because every local police department participates, every department receives the same training and will know how to react.
Mary Tommelein was a counselor for many years with the Tecumseh schools. She is now a counselor at the Lenawee Intermediate School District Tech Center and assists other county school districts.
She said it is a sad day that such extreme security precautions need to be taken in schools to protect children. But she agreed with Hilderley that teachers will use the tragedy to step up their procedures and preparations.
"Individual teachers will handle this in different ways. The EMS teacher here at the Center will use it as a teaching moment," Tommelein said.
Some of the services available include helping students and parents deal with tragedy both on a large scale and in smaller instances. Schools have traditionally brought in grief counselors to meet with students in such cases as the death of a classmate or school employee, but they have limited resources, she said.
"Unfortunately, we have very few elementary counselors available here in the county," Tommelein said. "Hospice has a counselor who actually goes into schools."
Geoff Koglin, director of bereavement services for Hospice of Lenawee, said Hospice has several different resources with which it helps.
"Our main counselor is Lee Ann Straub. She is able to help in two main areas: one, to provide resources for counselors, and, two, she works — with parents' permission — to go into schools and work directly with students," Koglin said.
Hospice also has support personnel to work with parents and has five full-time staff working with Hospice families.
"We try to work with parents first," he said. "They are the ones children usually trust the most."
Freelance reporter Erik Gable contributed to this report.
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The new black stripe program implemented by Urban Meyer has received a lot of publicity this fall. First year players are required to wear a black stripe on their helmet and it is not removed until the coaching staff believes the player has earned the privelege to be a full-fledged Buckeye.
To date, eight players have had their stripe removed. The latest is a major surprise. Joe Burger, a walk-on linebacker from Cincinnati Lasalle had his stripe removed Tuesday. There are five true freshman scholarship linebackers on the OSU roster, but Burger got his stripe off before those five. Burger was a first-team Division I all-Ohio selection last fall. He had several scholarship offers from smaller Division I programs, but instead chose to walk-on at OSU. Don't be surprised to see him on the field at some point, at least on a special teams unit.
Also making news is an update on the legal issues of Storm Klein. He was originally charged with domestic violence this summer after an incident with the mother of his child. He was then dismissed from the team by Meyer. It was announced today that his charge was changed to disorderly conduct and he pleaded guilty to that charge. The question now is does he get his spot back on the team? Meyer said they would reconsider if anything changed in regard to the legal process, so it will be interesting to see if Klein gets another chance to be a Buckeye. Keep an eye on this one.


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After teasing bulls with a spike to 20¢ per pound, sugar prices (NYBOT:SBH14) have eroded all the way back to their July lows.
The Oct. 18 fire at the Santos Port terminal in Brazil turned out to be a one-day event. Total monthly sugar shipments for Brazil have been down by more than 10% as a result of the damage to the facility, but the market was never very worried about the world supply situation. Some sugar shipments from the damaged warehouses will restart in January. More capacity will be restored by May. A combination of other ports picking up some of the slack and a well-supplied world market has allowed sugar prices to fall back to the lows.
Atypical dryness for this time of year is a mixed blessing for the Brazilian cane industry. On the one hand, it allows mills to continue crushing the current crop, but on the other it deprives the developing new crop of much-needed moisture. In any case, despite the harvest of a 10%-larger cane crop, estimates for sugar output for the center south region – where 90% of Brazilian cane is grown – have not changed much from the 34.5-million-tonne estimates we've seen over the past few months.
In mid-October, a large percentage of sugar mills in India balked at the government-controlled minimum price that they must pay to farmers for cane, claiming that it is too high and that they cannot turn a profit while world sugar prices are so low. Crushing normally begins in early November, but the millers refused to start the crushing season. The protest lasted for a few weeks, but eventually the millers caved in, and the crushing season got under way.


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The Kiowa County Mavericks won in their fourth straight week against the Fairfield Falcons 50-36 on a damp foggy night in Langdon.
The Kiowa County Mavericks won in their fourth straight week against the Fairfield Falcons 50-36 on a damp foggy night in Langdon.
Fairfield, who entered the game with a 5-and-1 record on the season, was a great test for the Mavericks, who have shown considerable overall improvement over the past three weeks.
While #8 Trever Powell and #24 Creighton McDonald have solidified the offense, questions about the defense remain even as the season reaches it crescendo.
Powell and McDonald didn't disappoint, rushing for 463 combined yards with 4 touchdowns, despite the slick gridiron.
Number 22 Keenan Behee, the biggest little Mav in burn orange, had his best game of the season rushing for 131 yards with a pair of touchdowns and a two-point conversion. Behee has been used sparingly thus far in the season leaving some fans scratching their heads as to why we haven't seen more of him. You have to wonder if Mavericks Head Coach Clint Young has been keeping Behee in his back pocket for just such a game.
But the big story was the Mavericks defense in the first half.
The Falcons offense was well overmatched for the first 24 minutes of the game, with the Mavericks linemen pressuring QB #23 Ryan Ewy and keeping high traffic lanes congested on key downs.
A pair of turnover-on-downs in their own red zone were highlights in a best-of-season performance from #51 Rustin Ardery, #50 Eric Torres, #58 Aaron Heft, #40 John Terhune, #21 Evan Jacks, #20 Paul Negrete and #11 Payton Miller.
The defense wasn't able to duplicate their performance in the second half, resulting in a few nail-biting moments. You could almost feel the collective Kiowa County rousers calculating scores and determining possibilities as the Falcons matched the Mavs, scoring 22 points in the fourth quarter.
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Mildred Hines, 86 - April 04, 2007
Mildred Frances (Pohl) Hines, 86, of Gothenburg, died Thursday, March 22, 2007, at the Gothenburg Memorial Hospital Long-Term Care.
A family graveside service was held Wednesday, March 28, at the Gothenburg Cemetery with the Rev. Larry Viter officiating.
Hines was born on March 19, 1921, to Stephen J. and Birdie (Younghans) Pohl, on a family farm near Brady and grew up in Wild Horse Valley.
She received her education at Wild Horse Valley School and graduated from Brady High School in 1939.
On June 2, 1942, she married Arthur F. Hines at Newark. The couple made their home in Gothenburg and were married 63 years.
Hines was a member of the First United Methodist Church and the Gothenburg United Methodist Women. She enjoyed spending time with her family, sewing and cooking, according to family members.
She was preceded in death by: her parents, Stephen and Birdie; her husband, Arthur; sister, Doris Pohl Johnson; son-in-law, Dean Hueftle.
Survivors include: her daughter, Cheryl Hueftle of Gothenburg; two grandchildren—Dr. Stephanie (Dr. Jason) Vogel of Lincoln and Kelly (Faith) Hueftle of Holdrege; three great-grandchildren—Paetyn and Piper Vogel and Maximilian Hueftle; sister, Fern Johnson of Gothenburg; cousin, Lloyd (Billie) Pohl of Banning, CA.
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Sri Lanka secure first Test victory
Sri Lanka successfully completed a final-session run-chase to take their first Test with Pakistan in Galle.
After bowling their visitors out for 180 just after tea on the last day - Rangana Herath leading the way with six for 48 - the home side quickly rattled up the 99 runs they needed to record a seven-wicket win.
They still had a minimum of 4.4 overs remaining when the winning run was hit, showing how easily they got to the mark.
Sri Lanka bowler Rangana Herath took six for 48 to help his side to victory (AP)
Captain Angelo Mathews was unbeaten on 25 at the end, with Mahela Jayawardene (26) and Kumar Sangakkara (21) having also chipped in.
Their run-chase came about after Pakistan - four for one at the start of the day - slumped to 180 all out.
Sarfraz Ahmed made 52 of them, making Sri Lanka's job a little bit harder than it might have been, but - Azhar Ali apart - he had no support.
With Khurram Manzoor having perished on Saturday, Pakistan needed a solid start but nightwatchman Saeed Ajmal was unable to provide it, giving an outside edge behind off Dhammika Prasad.
Ahmed Shehzad was the next to go for 16, lbw to Dilruwan Perera, with Younis Khan then getting cleaned up by Herath.
Azhar Ali was the fifth man to go, edging Herath behind and there was no let-up as Misbah-ul-Haq was pinned lbw on the back foot to Perera.
Asad Shafiq also went leg-before, in his case on the front foot to Herath, before Abdur Rehman and Mohammad Talha both nicked behind for one and four respectively.
And then, when Junaid Khan was trapped by Herath, the game was up, leaving Sri Lanka with the chance to steal a march in the two-Test series.
Junaid got rid of Upal Tharanga and Jayawardene but it was not enough to cause a panic, especially with his eight overs going for 55 runs.
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Although Indie style icons are plentiful,
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If you own your car outright, you might not think it costs you that much to own it, but AAA's 2013 Your Driving Costs study shows that costs range from nearly $7,000 to more than $11,000 for the average American, depending on the kind of car driven. What's more, the cost of owning a car is rising, which means it's costing you more money to drive your car year after year even though it's worth less and less.
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Taking a look at the 2013 study provides some eye-opening data that may make you think twice about the kind of car you own, your driving habits, and whether you should shop around for auto insurance or the lowest gas prices.
Different car types equal different costs
AAA calculated the average costs for six different car types based on the ownership costs in the study. It found that the average cost of all sedans -- the majority of cars on the road -- is 60.8 cents per mile or $9,122 annually, based on 15,000 miles of driving. Small sedans cost the least -- $6,967 annually. Four-wheel-drive sport utility vehicles cost the most -- $11,599 annually -- largely due to the fuel costs of those cars. Perhaps surprisingly, large sedans cost almost as much -- $11,248 -- as four-wheel-drive SUVs, while minivans, which often have about the same amount of passenger and cargo-carrying capability as many SUVs, averaged just $9,795. Depreciation doesn't compensate
In last year's study, depreciation rates had slowed significantly, making cars worth more and partially offsetting the increases in ownership. According to the 2013 Your Driving Costs study, depreciation rose 0.78% to $3,571 annually on average. AAA attributed this to an increase of used cars available, which has softened resale values.
Next, for other ownership costs, we'll focus on the sedan as our example. Maintenance costs see big rise
In terms of car-maintenance costs, the AAA study found that there were significant increases in the cost of labor and parts over the past year. As a result, average maintenance costs are up by 11.26% on average for sedan owners, the largest percent year-over-year increase, to 4.97 cents per mile. Included in that figure are the labor and parts costs to maintain and repair the car for five years and 75,000 miles as well as purchasing an extended warranty. AAA noted that figure also has increased due to increases in extended warranty prices -- the result of high losses by underwriters. Car insurance costs more, too
While AAA notes that auto insurance rates vary widely due to numerous factors, car insurance is rising 2.76% to $1,029 annually for the average sedan owner over 2012. To arrive at its average, AAA used a hypothetical low-risk driver with a clean driving record and obtained quotes from five AAA clubs and insurance companies representing seven states. Fuel costs rise marginally
While gas prices have continued to rise, fuel costs are up only slightly, partially offset by improvements in car fuel economy. The average cost for regular unleaded gasoline is up 3.84%, but due to miles-per-gallon improvements, fuel costs have risen just 1.93% to 14.45 cents per mile on average for sedan owners. For its calculation, AAA uses the national average for regular, unleaded gas in the fourth quarter of the prior year. Tire costs stay stable
After an increase in the 2012 study, tire costs have remained stable this year, as manufacturing and shipping costs for tires have leveled off. The average sedan owner pays one penny per mile for tires.
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4 Bedroom House in Bassonia
Anne-Marie Cane
4 Bedroom House in Bassonia
R 9 800 000Can I afford this?
This prestigious and incredible home is situated in the heart off Bassonia Estate. Offers the discerning family the ultimate in living and entertainment from the awesome entrance hall which leads into open plan ultra mod kitchen, breakfast nook, separate scullery, dining room, stack doors to huge patio with built in Braai, pool and garden with incredible views over the surrounding areas, separate formal lounge, huge open plan family lounge with projector and big screen, impressive bar and wine cellar all open up to patio and pool deck, plus guest toilet. Upstairs there is a pyjama lounge, four extra large bedrooms all with ultra mod full en suite bathrooms and balconies. There is a full maids quarters, five automated garages with extra parking for guests and state of the art security.
Bassonia is an upper class affluent residential suburb of Johannesburg, in the municipal boundaries of Glenvista, and has merged with Johannesburg to form part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
Bassonia is home to a number of spectacular entertainment facilities, shopping malls and a popular Golf course and Country Club as well as a few world class restaurants. It is ideally situated between the major highways connecting Johannesburg, Alberton, and Pretoria, as well the East and West of Johannesburg. It offers a variety of living from the start-up one bedroom sectional title units to the exclusive family home, and stylish cluster complex units. Bassonia offers a variety of rental accommodation, which is utilized by the corporate and private market who take advantage of the excellent facilities and close proximity to business areas.
Set in the heart of Bassonias residential belt is The Glen Shopping Centre. This exclusive shopping centre is an established, well known and social facility, offering you the best anchor tenants, and a wide variety of fashion stores consisting of your brand stores such as Guess and your national retailers such as Edgars stores. The Glen is equipped with a variety of shops to meet a number of needs, such as sporting equipment, beauty salons, hairdressers, NuMetro cinemas, a pharmacy, shoe boutiques, accessory stores and much, much more. This mall has wonderful activities to keep kids busy during school holidays, or to help parents get their monthly shopping done. As one of the South of Johannesburgs finest shopping centres it graces us with all the amenities and with the latest extensions it offers ample parking for shoppers. Bassonia is also situated close to schools and Municipal transport and therefore has all the conveniences on hand.
There are many top class primary and high schools in the Bassonia area and being close to Glenvista and Meyersdal and surrounding areas, the variety of schools varies from Private to Government. Marian College offers you a Primary and High School, Glenvista High School, St Martins High School, Bassonia Primary, The Hill High School, Christian Harvest, and Mulbarton Remedial, to mention but a few.
Medical Facilities in and around Bassonia are of high standards. In close proximity there is the Mulbarton Hospital, Union Hospital and the Clinton Clinic. There are many other medical specialists, facilities and centres close at hand.
Bordering on Bassonia is Glenvista, Oakdene, Meyersdal, Alberton and Mondeor offering a variety of intimate to large shopping centres, cosy cafes and restaurants, health clubs (Virgin Active), leisure (Newscafe, Cappelos, Pubs, OHagans, Dros and our very own Little Italy in the heart of Bassonia, etc), recreational clubs (situated in Kibler Park) and commerce on your doorstep. Companies are rising to success in our community, and therefore increasing the standard of living day to day. With its easy access to road systems, airports and close proximity to Johannesburg CBD.
Many guests to our lovely neighbourhood have discovered the luxury and comfort of the great Thaba Ya Batswana Resort, giving you peace and tranquility at its best in the bush as South Africas specialty. Thaba Ya Batswana also offers you Conference and Hotel facilities in close proximity.
Bassonia is quality living in a major City where families, and lifestyle merge to give quality of life!!!
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Padma Lakshmi Runs 70 Flights Of Stairs Before Hitting The Gym! Is She Nuts?
Padma Lakshmi looks amazing for a woman who gave birth to a baby girl in February. But you would look fantastic too if you followed her super intense post-baby workout! That's one way to burn off every tasty calorie she consumes on Top Chef.
Padma Lakshmi gave birth to a baby girl, Krishna, in February, but clearly she didn't consider motherhood to be an excuse to let herself go. Instead, she kicked her workouts into overdrive. "I woke up at 6 a.m., I nursed. Then I ran up and down 70 flights of stairs," the Top Chef host tells PopEater.com about her daily fitness schedule. "Then I had breakfast, then went to the gym and lifted weights for an hour. Then I walked home." Whew. I'm exhausted just reading that! Is it just me or does it seem crazy to workout before working out?
Most new moms have a hard time squeezing a workout in to their hectic daily lives. That's why most of us take an eternity to get our bodies back into pre-baby shape. Apparently, Padma is a member of that rare breed known as supermom. The 39-year-old New Yorker doesn't even look like she ever had a baby in that flat belly.
Padma talks about losing the baby weight
According to Padma, she's not the only lady on the move at home. "[Krishna's] great. She's crawling," she gushes about her 8-month-old daughter, whose father is Padma's ex-boyfriend, businessman Adam Dell. The first-time mom can't get enough of her delicious little girl, and says, "Everything is better with her around. Anything from the beginning of the day til the end."
She calls Krishna a medical miracle
If you live in Manhattan be on the lookout for the slim star and her adorable daughter to be trick-or-treating around town on Sunday. "I'm going to dress up, but I haven't figured out what I'm going to wear," she reveals about her Halloween plans. Frankly we're surprised she's not going to be wearing workout gear, considering how dedicated she is to keeping fit!
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Layer8: "We've all fell victim to Windows 7 slowing down, but for some of us, our computer hardware is just not up to scratch to run Windows 7 in all its glory. These 15 tips should get that old worn out hardware kicking again, try them out and see for yourself."
Will surely try these after installing window 7 again.Presently using Window 8 developer preview
don't dare to disable Superfetch or Security Center like this article says! You may see an increase on ram performance but the overall system will run much more slower. But if you have an antivirus like 95% of them now come with anti-spyware too so disable the windows defender instead (not the Security Center).
Unless your pc is seriously lacking in power, these tweaks really aren't worth it.


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About Annie Wildey
Annie Wildey is a British painter and printmaker whose subjects are the weather and its effects on various landscapes. Wildey's paintings feature images of rolling landscapes in fog, snow-laden roads, and the tides on beaches and rocks. She has also made a series of urban landscapes depicting underpasses and bridges in New York, wanting to capture the "accidental environments comprised of structural voids between supporting columns and girders." In printmaking, Wildey favors monotypes, and works exclusively in a monochromatic palette so as not to detract from the impact and essence of her images, as she describes. As a result, these monotypes tend towards gestural abstraction.
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The Bank of Japan could usher in a growth spurt unseen in a generation by stepping up stimulus and ending deflation, according to Haruhiko Kuroda, the head of the Asian Development Bank and a potential contender for BOJ chief.
"Japan's economy has suffered from prolonged deflation that must be eradicated -- that would raise short-to-medium term growth prospects significantly," Kuroda, 68, said in an interview in Tokyo yesterday. "Two percent plus for calendar year 2013 would be quite possible and for some years could be sustained," he said, referring to a pace of expansion not maintained in Japan since stagnation set in in 1992.
Kuroda, who said he was "satisfied" with his current job amid Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's preparations for unveiling a nominee to succeed Masaaki Shirakawa, said that additional BOJ stimulus could be justified for 2013. The BOJ last month said it would start open-ended asset purchases only in January 2014, and the board is forecast to keep its policy unchanged at a Feb. 13- 14 gathering, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts.
Japan, along with other nations, has "really substantial room for monetary easing," he said. There's the equivalent of trillions of dollars of financial assets that could be bought by the BOJ, according to Kuroda.
He didn't specify how policy makers ought to add liquidity. Asked whether the BOJ could buy stocks, Kuroda noted that it has already been purchasing some. Decisions on how to add quantitative easing are up to the central bank, he said.
Job Prospects
Kuroda, a former career Finance Ministry civil servant and Tokyo University graduate who studied economics at Oxford, declined to comment on whether he was a contender to lead the central bank. He said he was "satisfied" with his current job at the ADB, with about four more years left on his term.
The head of the Manila-based development lender supported the yen's slide as a "natural adjustment" from overvaluation and said that the "global standard" for central banks to achieve their inflation targets is about two years.
"The identities of the new BOJ executives are of critical importance" to the policy outlook, Masayuki Kichikawa, chief Japan economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Tokyo, wrote in a Feb. 8 note. "We anticipate the BOJ will move steadily to adopt the course charted by the Fed, including a stepped-up expansion of its balance sheet" and extension of the maturities of government debt bought for its asset-purchase fund, he wrote.
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srabrgr wrote:Well I'm 5'10 and not going to put my weight, it is a LOT. I'm not really big, or tiny I am average, I just weigh a bunch cause I work out a bit much. All of my friends are dancers around 5'0 and weigh like 108lbs so I stick out in our little group lol, but I hate when they complain about their weight, it just like "Umm, if you and your tiny 108lb self think YOUR big, what are you thinking about ME"
But you're not big, and you can't compare yourself to them because you're not them. They're short, you're not. Your weight is proportioned to your height and your body type. And the reason you may feel you weigh "a lot" is because muscle weighs more than fat, and I'm assuming that you're pretty toned. So you take care of yourself by staying fit? That's awesome! Give yourself some credit, don't beat yourself up over it. And if you're friends can't talk about anything but their weight, they've got some issues of their own to deal with- again, that's their problem, not yours.


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Players move around the outside of the board answering questions on presidents and the Constitution, as you become a candidate. Then travel from state to state on the campaign trail answering questions on US history and geography to win electoral votes.
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It's hard to find a more interesting person than our Hotel Director Philip Herbert. Philip was born in Kenya, educated in the UK, and now travels the world with Azamara Club Cruises. In our latest Q&A, Phillip's passion for his job comes through in every answer. He chatted with us about his favorite ports for nightlife, sailing close to the London Bridge, his funniest story and most challenging experience on the job. What's a typical day like for Phillip? Well, on top of meetings, emails and safety drills, Phillip takes every opportunity to hear from Azamara guests. "Most days in port we meet on the gangway as the tours are being dispatched. We say hello to guests, get to know them, and hear their feedback. The guests know they will see us there every day and after a while they feeling comfortable bringing things to our attention. That's exactly what we want. If even the smallest thing isn't right, we want to hear about it." Phillip often has lunch with guests in Windows Café (you'll find him seeking out Thai, Indian or Japanese cuisine) and dines in Prime C or Aqualina. "It's another great way to hear feedback," he says. Read the whole interview here!
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I'm actually surprised it has taken this long for a national player to enter into the motorcycle rental business, but this week Enterprise Rent-A-Car announced that it was launching its own motorcycle rental business, Motorcycle Rental by Enterprise.
For now, the business is limited to one location in Las Vegas, and Motorcycle Rental by Enterprise offers only a small selection of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Presumably if the Las Vegas experiment is a success, Enterprise could expand the concept to other locations.


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At approximately 4:42PM EST, I began tracking massive infections on my network. All of my triggers pointed to the W32.Welchia worm however this seems to be a new variant that the AV companies aren't aware of as of yet. Seems that boxes patched with the latest RPC patch are not affected.
My external triggers and internal triggers are going insane. Looks like this is traveling across the internet very quickly. So far, the only footprints are port 707 TCP is open on infected hosts and my IDS is showing propigation source and destination as TCP 0 (which we know isnt happening).
Keep your eyes open folks. This should be a fun evening.
EDIT: 5:05 EST - Nachia IDS triggers are also going off on this one. This is gonna be ugly!


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We've just experienced a couple of big console launches this year with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. A lot goes into releasing a major system; you have to pick the right price, the perfect date, and a lineup of attractive launch titles.
Of course, Sony and Microsoft have a lot of history they can look back on for a little guidance. They and other companies, notably Sega and Nintendo, have worked on the art of the console launch for almost 30 years, and we've come a long way from limited-market releases that always came with at least one free game.
You can see this evolution for yourself. Below, we've looked back at every major console release, starting with the Nintendo Entertainment System and working all the way up to the recent Xbox One. Note that all of our data is from the U.S. launches, and we're only including systems that saw a degree of success in that territory (sorry, 3DO fans).
At the end, you'll find a poll listing each console detailed in the story, so you can vote for the one that you think had the best launch.
Now, let's get started. We have a long trip through history ahead of us.
Nintendo Entertainment System
Launch date: October 18, 1985
Launch price: $199 for the Control Deck (contained the system, two controllers, and Super Mario Bros.) and $249 for the Deluxe Set (contained the system, two controllers, the R.O.B. accessory, the gun-like Zapper controller, Duck Hunt, and Gyroscope)
The story: Despite first showing up in Japan on July 15, 1983, the U.S. didn't see the Nintendo Entertainment system until late into 1985, and even then, only a fraction of the country actually got its hands on one. That's because Nintendo originally only released about 100,000 units of the console in New York City as a test market. Nintendo added more test markets throughout 1987, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco. The NES finally launched nationally that September.
Notable launch games:
- Super Mario Bros.: Easily one of the most famous launch games ever, Super Mario Bros. sold over 40 million copies, making it one of the most successful titles in the history of the industry. Not bad for a little adventure starring two portly plumbers jumping on turtles and sliding down pipes.
- Duck Hunt: Duck Hunt was a showpiece for the NES' Zapper accessory, a gun-shaped controller that allowed players to aim and shoot at their TV. The name pretty much says it all; you hunted ducks as they flew around the screen in unpredictable, erratic patterns. However, most players better remember the dog who mercilessly mocked your misses than the scores of ducks they shot down.
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Atari, the manufacturer best known for the Atari 2600 console that was famous in the late '70s and early '80s, negotiated with Nintendo to release the Famicom (the Japanese name of the Nintendo Entertainment System) in the U.S. in 1983. That deal never came to fruition, causing Nintendo to release and market the NES on its own.
Sega Genesis
Launch date: August 14, 1989
Launch price: $189 (came with system, a controller, and Altered Beast)
The story: Sega originally launched the Genesis in Japan in late 1988 (named the Mega Drive there), where the 16-bit system was having a hard time competing with the popular Famicom and PC-Engine (known as the TurboGrafx-16 in the U.S., where it never saw much success). Similar to the NES, the U.S. launch of the Genesis originally started in New York City on August 14, 1989, with a national release on September 15.
The Genesis originally had trouble making an impact in a U.S. market dominated by the Nintendo Entertainment System. Things turned around when Sega replaced the original pack-in game, Altered Beast, with a new mascot-based platformer, Sonic the Hedgehog, in 1991.
Notable launch games:
- Altered Beast: Altered Beast was already a popular beat-em up arcade game before the Genesis' launch, so Sega packaged this console port with the original bundle of its new system to show off its ability to replicate arcade-style graphics. The game featured a beefy fighter punching and kicking monsters in ancient Greece while collecting power-ups that eventually turn him into a powerful werewolf.
- Golden Axe: Golden Axe was another arcade beat-em up ported for the Genesis' launch. Two players could fight monsters across a fantasy setting while occasionally riding beasts like dragons. Players could also fill the screen with powerful, magical attacks that got stronger depending on how many potions you had saved.
Did you know?
Just like Nintendo, Sega reached out to Atari to see if it would market its 16-bit system. Negotiations never got as far as Nintendo's, though. Atari decided to focus its attention on its own Atari ST computer system. Again, like Nintendo, Sega decided to market the U.S. release of the Genesis itself.


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Bold moves are nothing new for Beane
When it comes to pulling the trigger on blockbuster trades, A's general manager Billy Beane is fearless. On Thursday morning, several hours before the non-waiver Trade Deadline, he made one of his boldest moves in 17 years on the job.
Beane traded All-Star left fielder Yoenis Cespedes to Boston -- one of Beane's favorite negotiating partners -- in exchange for left-hander Jon Lester and former A's outfielder Jonny Gomes.
When it comes to pulling the trigger on blockbuster trades, A's general manager Billy Beane is fearless. On Thursday morning, several hours before the non-waiver Trade Deadline, he made one of his boldest moves in 17 years on the job.
Beane traded All-Star left fielder Yoenis Cespedes to Boston -- one of Beane's favorite negotiating partners -- in exchange for left-hander Jon Lester and former A's outfielder Jonny Gomes.
Bold, indeed. It's too soon to say where this trade ranks among Beane's best, but is it the boldest he's ever swung? MLB.com breaks it down.
5. Nick Swisher for Gio Gonzalez, Ryan Sweeney and Fautino De Los Santos (2008)
In May 2007, the A's signed Swisher to a five-year contract with a club option for 2012. Their first-round pick in the 2002 First-Year Player Draft, Swisher averaged 26 home runs and 82 RBIs in three full seasons in green and gold.
Eight months later, Beane shipped Swisher to the White Sox. In return, he got southpaw Gonzalez, outfielder Sweeney and pitching prospect De Los Santos.
Whether the trade was a success is up for debate. Swisher continued to produce over the next five seasons. Gonzalez struggled for two years and then had two great ones in Oakland, while Sweeney was a serviceable offensive player and De Los Santos never panned out.
Regardless, trading Swisher for three unproven players was gutsy.
4. Dan Haren and Connor Robertson for Brett Anderson, Chris Carter, Aaron Cunningham, Carlos Gonzalez, Greg Smith and Dana Eveland (2007)
This trade with the D-backs was both bold and lucrative. Haren, 27 at the time, was coming off three straight 34-start seasons of at least 14 wins. He went on to be just as good for the next four years.
But the haul of prospects Beane received for Haren and Robertson -- who made just nine career appearances -- was eye-popping. You may recognize the names now, but at the time, five of the six players dealt by Arizona had not seen a minute in the Majors. All six reached The Show.
Anderson found a long-term home in the A's rotation. Gonzalez played 85 games for Oakland in 2008. Carter faltered before starting to find his swing in 2012. Smith and Eveland spent time in the rotation.
Beane traded his ace, but he squeezed quite a package of prospects out of Arizona.
3. Addison Russell, Billy McKinney, Dan Straily and PTBNL for Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel (2014)
Beane began his July by parting ways with his top two prospects, including shortstop-of-the-future Russell. It was a quintessential win-now move, jeopardizing the team's future to some extent in order to bolster an already great 2014 rotation.
The long-term implications of the trade remain to be seen, but Beane's boldness stunned even the A's players, who saw it as a sign that Beane views this as a special group.
Samardzija has been unstoppable in Oakland so far, while Hammel has struggled. Of course, Beane had something to say about that on Thursday.
2. Mark Mulder for Haren, Kiko Calero and Daric Barton (2004)
Before Beane could deal Haren, he first needed to trade for him. To do that, he let go of Mulder, a five-year cornerstone of the A's rotation.
What made this move especially bold is the fact that Beane had traded Tim Hudson, another member of the Big Three, just two days earlier. The A's had missed the playoffs in 2004 after four straight exits in the American League Division Series, and Oakland could no longer afford to hold its pitching juggernaut together.
Hudson netted the A's Juan Cruz, Dan Meyer and Charles Thomas, none of whom contributed much. Mulder, on the other hand, netted them Haren along with Calero, their setup man during the 2006 AL Championship Series run.
Losing Mulder and Hudson was tough for A's fans to stomach, but Mulder had just one good season in St. Louis before imploding in 2006. Haren was not yet a proven starter, but Beane stuck to his guns and it paid off.
1. Cespedes and a Competitive Balance pick for Lester, Gomes and cash considerations (2014)
This one takes the cake.
Beane has made one audacious move after the next since becoming the A's GM in October 1997, but on Thursday, he reached new heights.
Cespedes has tremendous power and an outstanding outfield arm, and he hit third, fourth or fifth 359 times over the past two-plus seasons while endearing himself to the Oakland fans. Trading a heart-of-the-order bat in the midst of a playoff run: very bold.
Lester, though, is sparkling in 2014 and has a 2.11 ERA in 13 career playoff games (11 starts). The A's potential postseason rotation of Lester, Samardzija, Scott Kazmir and Sonny Gray is something to behold.
The greatest takeaway: Beane, at 52 years old, shows no sign of slowing down.
Aaron Leibowitz is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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How to be a faster writer.
Hunched over my keyboard, I'm haunted by anecdotes of faster writers. Christopher Hitchens composing a Slate column in 20 minutes —after a chemo session, after a "full" dinner party, late on a Sunday night. The infamously productive Trollope, who used customized paper! "He had a note pad that had been indexed to indicate intervals of 250 words," William F. Buckley told the Paris Review. "He would force himself to write 250 words per 15 minutes. Now, if at the end of 15 minutes he hadn't reached one of those little marks on his page, he would write faster." Buckley himself was a legend of speed—writing a complete book review in crosstown cabs and the like.
I remember, too, a former colleague who was blazingly fast. We would be joking at lunch—"Imagine if David Foster Wallace had written a children's book"—and there it would be in my inbox, 15 minutes later. Not a perfect draft, but publish-it-on-your-blog good. He could sit down at the keyboard and toss off Chopin or Ragtime, while I was banging away at Chopsticks and making lots of mistakes. Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-du-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-du-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-DAH!
It's no secret that writing is hard … but why can't I be one of those special few for whom it comes easily? What am I doing wrong? Why haven't I gotten any faster?
In search of the secret of quickness, I started with a Malcolm Gladwell passage that's always piqued me. In Outliers, he discusses the now famous 10,000-hour rule—the amount of time it takes to achieve true mastery—and quotes the neurologist Daniel Levitin: "In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concern pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again." Fiction writers? Really?
Had MFA students been sent to a lab and force-fed scones while they typed on their laptops? Or had some intrepid grad student done field research in the Starbuckses of the Eastern seaboard? Alas, nothing so interesting, but something ultimately more fascinating. Gladwell led me to a chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance—the much-cited but little-read (by regular people) academic tome. "Professional Writing Expertise," by Ronald Kellogg, contains enough writerly insight to fuel a thousand Iowa workshops. And the opening words could not be more comforting: "Writing extended texts for publication is a major cognitive challenge, even for professionals who compose for a living." See, Dad! This is hard work.
Kellogg, a psychologist at Saint Louis University, tours the research in the field, where many of the landmarks are his own. Some writers are "Beethovians" who disdain outlines and notes and instead "compose rough drafts immediately to discover what they have to say." Others are "Mozartians"—cough, cough—who have been known to "delay drafting for lengthy periods of time in order to allow for extensive reflection and planning." According to Kellogg, perfect-first-drafters and full-steam-aheaders report the same amount of productivity. Methinks someone is lying. And feel free to quote this line the next time an editor is nudging you for copy: "Although prewriting can be brief, experts approaching a serious writing assignment may spend hours, days, or weeks thinking about the task before initiating the draft."
The scientifically-tested fun facts abound. Ann Chenoweth and John Hayes (2001) found that sentences are generated in a burst-pause-evaluate, burst-pause-evaluate pattern, with more experienced writers producing longer word bursts. A curly-haired girl on a white porch swing on a hot summer day will be more likely to remember what you've written if you employ concrete language—so says a 1995 study. S. K. Perry reports that the promise of money has a way of stimulating writerly "flow." Amazing! One also finds dreadful confirmation of one's worst habits: "Binge writing—hypomanic, euphoric marathon sessions to meet unrealistic deadlines—is generally counterproductive and potentially a source of depression and blocking," sums up the work of Robert Boice. One strategy: Try to limit your working hours, write at a set time each day, and try your best not to emotionally flip out or check email every 20 seconds. This is called "engineering" your environment.
Kellogg is always careful to emphasize the extreme cognitive demands of writing, which is very flattering. "Serious writing is at once a thinking task, a language task, and a memory task," he declares. It requires the same kind of mental effort as a high-level chess match or an expert musical performance. We are all aspiring Mozarts indeed. So what's holding us back? How does one write faster? Kellogg terms the highest level of writing as "knowledge-crafting." In that state, the writer's brain is juggling three things: the actual text, what you plan to say next, and—most crucially—theories of how your imagined readership will interpret what's being written. A highly skilled writer can simultaneously be a writer, editor, and audience.
Since writing is such a cognitively intense task, the key to becoming faster is to develop strategies to make writing literally less mind-blowing. Growing up, we all become speedier writers when our penmanship becomes automatic and we no longer have to think consciously about subject-verb agreement. It's obviously a huge help to write about a subject you know well. In that case, the writer doesn't have to keep all of the facts in her working memory, freeing up more attention for planning and composing.
The modern multitasking style of composing next to an open Internet browser is one solution to limiting writing's cognitive burden. There are experimental programs that will analyze what you are writing and attempt to retrieve relevant definitions, facts, and documents from the Web in case you need them. Like many writers, I take a lot of notes before I compose a first draft. The research verifies that taking notes makes writing easier—as long as you don't look at them while you are writing the draft! Doing so causes a writer to jump into reviewing/evaluating mode instead of getting on with the business of getting words on the screen.
Alas, the cognitive literature offers no easy solutions. The same formula appears: "Self-regulation through daily writing, brief work sessions, realistic deadlines, and maintaining low emotional arousal." My old enemy, self-regulation. We meet again.
Kellogg does offer a few takeaway hints for would-be writers. First, if you haven't been writing stories since you were a little kid, give yourself a break since you are actually a "late bloomer." Second, read everything, all the time. That's the only way to build the general knowledge that you can tuck away in long-term memory, only to one day have it magically surface when you're searching for just the right turn of phrase. And, lastly, the trickiest part of writing—from a cognitive perspective—is getting outside of yourself, of seeing your writing through the eyes of others.
Most writers spend their entire careers happily avoiding such an emotional root canal. But not me! I'll read each and every one of your comments. After I go get coffee and a muffin. "Maybe banana nut. That's a good muffin."


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"I read Laura Hillenbrand's brilliant book, and I was so moved by Louie Zamperini's heroic story, I immediately began to fight for the opportunity to make this film," the 37-year-old filmmaker said in a statement. "Louie is a true hero and a man of immense humanity, faith and courage. I am deeply honored to have the chance to tell his inspiring story."
"In her life and in her work, Angelina has embraced stories and causes involving great struggle and triumph over tremendous odds and the basic human condition," Universal Pictures heads Adam Fogelson and Donna Langley said in a statement. "She has a real ability to illustrate he strength in human spirit which will be essential in telling Lou's story of survival and great heroism."
Unbroken will be Angelina's second feature as a director after last year's In the Land of Blood and Honey.
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I'm signed up and attending the Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling next week at Virginia Tech (http://www.conted.vt.edu/isect/). Should be fun.
Ed Skoudis, a SANS handler, will be the instructor. I'm looking forward to it. I have been gearing up for it for a couple weeks now. I have a new firewall, tools, VMWare (with a Fedora 4 VM), and a dual-boot (XP and Fedora 4) set up on the laptop. I'll be making a restore image of the system to an external drive so I should be able to take whatever is thrown at me.
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The Ukraine Crisis – The End of the System?
By Jack Harris, on 8 April 2014
By Anna Kruglova
The crisis in Ukraine has thoroughly put an end to Barack Obama's famous "reset" of relations with Russia. It has revealed a cyclical tendency in Russia's relations with the US and the West more broadly – much as in the 1990s, a relative thaw in relations has once again given way to tensions. Yet the Ukraine crisis has broader implications for international politics. It has revealed fundamental weaknesses in the international system that emerged from the conferences held in Yalta and Potsdam after the Second World War. State actors have created an environment that has left the system unable to engage with emerging issues and produce constructive responses, and allows problems to deepen and develop into full-blown crises.
The first problem – a lack of meaningful UN reform – has already been widely debated but bears repeating here. During the Ukraine crisis, the UN, the closest thing we have to a universal international institution, was once again been paralysed by divisions to the point where it was unable to muster any response beyond anodyne verbal condemnations and calls for negotiation. The structure of the Security Council must take most of the blame for this paralysis. The rotating memberships of the Security Council led to the bizarre situation in which countries with no direct stake in the crisis, such as Rwanda and Chad, were involved in the debates over the Ukraine crisis, while Germany, a key leader in the EU and an important partner of Russia, was excluded. As such, what discussions were held were largely useless, and the resolutions they produced were immediately vetoed by Russia. These issues have long been widely acknowledged, even by the Secretary General, but no efforts towards comprehensive reform has been made since 2005. Without reform, the UN will continue to be unable to respond effectively to international crises.
The second problem is that too many violations of sovereignty and international law have now gone unpunished for verbal condemnations to carry any weight. The invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 were not sanctioned by the UN, while in Libya NATO blatantly disregarded the limits of the mandate granted by resolution 1973, which gave it the authority only to enforce no-fly zones, not to directly interfere in the conflict by bombing ground forces. All of these acts were admitted to be violations of international law and yet went wholly unpunished. With such precedents now firmly established, states will face ever greater temptations to break the rules.
Thirdly, in place of the common standards provided by international law, double standards are now firmly settled in the system of international relations. Russia has recognised the break-away regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, while denying such recognition to Kosovo, which is recognised by the EU and the US. Debates over which of these new states truly deserved independence and recognition will likely never be conclusively resolved. What is clear, however, is that principles of sovereignty and self-determination enshrined in the UN Charter have become little more than tools deployed in support of concrete foreign policy goals of individual states.
Finally, one striking feature of the political rhetoric or "propaganda tools" on both sides in this crisis has been the frequent reliance on the trope of an "external enemy", whether the threatening, mercantile West, aggressive, authoritarian Russia, Middle Eastern autocrats or rising China. Despite the economic interdependence of almost all nations in the modern world and the demise of a bipolar system of international relations, hostile discourses centred on scary "others" still appear to carry great political appeal. In a world in which national economies are tied ever more strongly to one another, such hostile discourses and models of political behaviour create risks that cannot be afforded.
This combination of factors has left the international system ill and flawed. The crisis in Crimea has provided only further proof of the relevance of these flaws to international relations. Naïve as it may seem to call for sweeping reforms of the international system, a commonly accepted framework for international law has to be found if such incidents are to be avoided in the future. If actors continue to disregard the rules that they themselves have established, we will see more crises like that in Ukraine in the years to come.
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