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In attempting to sidestep the wary expectation of musty, library-bound decrepitude that is the burden of any literary biopic or period piece (and this film is both), the people responsible for Young Goethe in Love (i.e., director Philipp Stolzl and cowriters Christoph Muller and Alexander Dyoyna) have steered it to the opposite extreme, making the kind of bargain that their subject -- one of the Faust legend's best-known and most important bards -- would recognize all too well. They've pulled out all the stops in order not to scare off the kids, and they have in the process almost entirely betrayed anything valid or worthwhile they could have made of the project (and even backhandedly insulted the pandered-to, supposedly post-literate young audience they're transparently courting by showing what they really think of them) by turning out a film whose abject slavery to contemporary disposable-movie clichés makes even the most prim, stolid, author-venerating stuffiness sound appealing by comparison.
Young Goethe in Love (whose original German title is, amusingly, just Goethe!) proposes to tell the tale of how the 18th-century German godfather of literary Romanticism came to write and publish his early masterpiece, the short 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, in his early twenties. It's a potentially resonant story of the interrelationship between life and art: the plot of Young Werther is more or less a poeticized version of the very same heartbreak experienced by the young man in his real life -- the sorrow that constitutes the true story told by the film. A struggling wannabe poet and lazy, irresponsible, unwilling law student perpetually hectored and reprimanded by his unremittingly stern father, 23-year-old Johann Goethe (Alexander Fehling) is shipped off to the Superior Court in the distraction-free German backwater of Wetzlar, where his unruliness bumps up against the severity of his new, very staid superior, Albert Kestner (Moritz Bleibtreu, recognizable from Run Lola Run and The Baader-Meinhof Complex). His poetic spirit has trouble fitting in with the bureaucratic hierarchy, of course, but he manages to befriend an affable, stuttering colleague, Wilhelm Jerusalem (Volker Bruch), who invites him to the dance where the writer's raw, unappreciated, discouraged talent will meet its destiny: to be fired in the kiln of a passionate, doomed love for Lotte Buff (Miriam Stein), the daughter of a struggling, widowed petit-bourgeois who, in the interests of her own and her siblings' security, has practically arranged her marriage to the wealthy Kestner.
Goethe and Lotte fall head over heels in love with each other, and the young man's relationship with Kestner warms up after its initial frostiness, but once it's revealed that they're both in love with Lotte and it's too late to extricate themselves from the love triangle they've inadvertently stepped into, rivalrous tempers flare, leading to Goethe's disgraceful imprisonment for illegal duelling. There, cut off from his love and in a delirium of anxious, unfulfilled desire, he feverishly scribbles The Sorrows of Young Werther and sends it off to Lotte, who has decided she cannot marry him despite her feelings but continues to devote her unflagging support and benevolent influence to his vocation, taking the liberty of handing off his manuscript to a publisher. By the time Goethe arrives back in Frankfurt, roundly scolded by his father and with his tail between his legs, the bookshops are fighting off crowds of Werther-seekers and cannot keep the book in stock; he has become an overnight sensation and literary celebrity, and, in a cherry-on-top happy ending, his father can finally see the incontrovertible proof that his son's artistic ambitions weren't such a waste of time, after all.
The one halfway intriguing, well-done thing about the film is the extensively green-screened 18th-century exteriors that have been created by its production design and technical teams who seem to have hogged any inspiration that might have been floating around the project; these artisans have wisely avoided the bland, grayish, "realistic" quality that frequently accompanies such maneuvers, instead embracing the aesthetic possibilities arising from the artificiality of what they're up to, a choice that gives the film a strikingly rich visual dimension that recalls Eric Rohmer's The Lady and the Duke (which used a similar technique and approach) and the glorious matte work that enhanced the auras of Hitchcock's Rope and Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Otherwise, unfortunately, the film is not even dismissably slight, but actively obnoxious. Stolzl and cinematographer Kolja Brandt's competent but shamelessly by-the-numbers setups and movements (ditto for Sven Budelmann's predictable editing); Ingo Frenzel's relentless score, ill-advisedly used as bluntly manipulative punctuation for every little action or feeling occurring onscreen; and the awful way Fehling has been allowed or encouraged to mug his way through every scene all conspire to make most of the film feel like a romantic comedy and/or sitcom we've seen and groaned at dozens of times before. This cookie-cutter approach to story, storytelling, and execution of style through deployment of camera and actors stamps indifference and inconsequentiality onto virtually every frame; there's accessibility, but then there's this -- the kind of pure, bland, servile, mindless conformity that gives accessibility a bad name.
Such a glaring lack of interest is a shame, because Young Goethe in Love's story is one that could conceivably give rise to a movie that actually takes flight; Goethe's emotion-flooded view of the world, the reality from whence that view sprang, or both offer plenty of visual and dramatic possibilities. And there are certainly viable alternatives available to anyone looking for something cinematic to quell their appetite for the capital-R Romanticism of which Goethe (whose Werther, like some 18th-century analogue to a Nirvana album, accrued legions of young fans across Europe and was blamed for a spate of suicides) was one of the founding practitioners. If it's a biographical picture regarding a leading light of Romantic literature you're looking for, Jane Campion's excellent Bright Star, with Ben Whishaw as poet John Keats, will hit the spot and then some. If it's Goethe filtered through a contemporary perspective you're after, by all means indulge yourself with Jose Luis Guerin's short In the City of Lotte and its accompanying extended riff on Goethian Romanticism, In the City of Sylvia. As for Young Goethe in Love, there's simply nothing remotely Romantic about it at all; it's certainly not "stuffy," but it is so constrained by its adherence to nonthreatening averageness that it becomes lifeless. It's the kind of picture whose overeagerness to please makes it not only forgettable but particularly, resoundingly displeasing.
The transfer presents the film anamorphically at its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and ranges, for the most part, from good to excellent, with no pixellating, aliasing, flicker, or other compression artifacting noted, and with all the colors, blacks, and skin tones looking vivid and sharp. The one glaring visual flaw is some unbelievably blatant aliasing around the two principals for the entirety of a key moment in the film (the moment that, if you look somewhere off to the right of this review, is captured -- minus the aliasing, of course -- for the DVD cover).
The disc has both Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround soundtracks, in German with optional English subtitles. Either one works wonderfully well for the sound capabilities they're made for (though the surround track is the theatrical version and preferable if you have the setup for it), with full clarity, depth, dimensionality, and sonorousness of sound and without even a trace of distortion or imbalance.
A 27-minute making of does go "behind the scenes" for footage of the shoot and interviews with cast and crew, but it's about as busy and empty as the film itself; the bits and pieces of technical revelation are interesting regardless, but it seems everyone has something dully rehearsed and/or glib to say about the film's conception and story. Much better is the 90-second "visual FX of Young Goethe in Love", which is not so much an explanation as a demonstration of the actually remarkable special-effects construction of the entire period aura of the whole film. The disc also includes the film's U.S. and international theatrical trailers along with several previews for other Music Box releases (including one for Terence Davies's exquisite The Deep Blue Sea, which feels like a taunt the context of the fairly leaden Young Goethe in Love).
Skip It. It was bad enough when we had that run of misleading Jane Austen movies that egregiously mistook Austen's lightness of touch for being simply lightweight; are we now in for a widespread cinematic misunderstanding of Goethe's lush, thundering, passion-drenched Romanticism, in his work and in his life, as mere, forced sitcom whimsy and template-based rom-com convention? If Young Goethe in Love is any indication, the answer is a disappointing yes. In reimagining the great, rebellious, yearning Romantic as a smirking, self-amused renegade character type, and his formative experience as something that was evidently pitched (and, unfortunately, followed through on) as "It's Love Story! But in 18th-century Germany!", director Philipp Stolzl and the rest of those responsible have done their audiences -- either those who already appreciate Goethe or, their more likely cynical target, kids whose ostensibly tiny attention spans they're trying to placate with something cut down into easily digestible familiarity -- a disservice. It's a film whose willful silliness and inconsequentiality, its near-automated regurgitation of stylistic and narrative convention, probably do have to be seen to be believed; I would not, however, advise it.


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Explain why the one you chose is more significant to you.
I choose Love because without love their would only be a continuous amount of hate, and we'd all end up like the Uchiha.
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The Stars have placed Brent Krahn on waivers today and are hopeful he'll clear by 11 a.m. tomorrow and then be assigned to the Texas Stars. That means that Andrew Raycroft has won the battle to be the backup goalie for now.
``I think it was a good experience for both goalies, and I thought both goalies raised their game and played very well,'' said Stars coach Marc Crawford. ``We gave Andrew the edge, but we think we have three good goalies here.''
Krahn did not practice this morning and Crawford said he had a discussion with him yesterday. Krahn, 28, has battled injuries throughout his career and has played in just one NHL game for 20 minutes. He was very excited about the chance to earn a spot on the NHL roster.
``This is as close as he's been to the NHL, so we want to make sure he isn't discouraged,'' Crawford said. ``When I talked to him, I told him that he learned a lot this camp and I saw improvement in his game, and that's important. We're hopeful that he makes it through waivers, because he's a huge part of the organization. You don't see a whole lot of teams go through an entire season with just two goalies, so he knows that there are definitely opportunities in the future.
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Juventus striker Carlos Tevez says there was "way too much pressure" to succeed during his time at Manchester City.
The 29-year-old ended his stay at the Etihad Stadium this summer, joining Serie A champion Juventus in June for a fee of around 12 million euros.
City failed to progress out of the group stages of the Champions League in consecutive seasons and Tevez believes pressure played it's part.
"Yes, there was way too much pressure," Tevez told CNN. "It came from everyone - the club, the fans. I think that too much pressure just hurts the team.
"What happened was that there was so much hype and pressure to be one of the giants of Europe and we didn't do it. We dropped out in the first round of the Champions League on both occasions."
Tevez, who failed to register a goal in Europe last season, despite netting 11 times and assisting eight goals for City in the Premier League, moved to Turin on a three-year deal.


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Ideas on stereo improvement IN Boat...
I am very pleased with my stereo... (4 Exile SXT65s on Tower with Harpoon, Exile 12" sub with 1500.1) and have a ZLD to install.
In boat i have the factory Kicker speakers and amp...
Here is whats up.. I am on a private lake now.. 1000 acre.. I havent yet been harassed about loud tower speakers... but suspect i will one quiet day out there...
The SXT65's arent meant to be real loud at wake distance... i'm good with that.. They do great.. for what I want..
What i am pondering is beefing up the cockpit to get louder / stronger in boat audio and run the tower less most times.. SO, 2 questions..
1. With the ZLD, if I turn the tower control down how is that affecting the amp? Voltage? Wattage? or is it just lowering the volume post amp? (i am no electrician.. ) My concern is i dont want the Harpoon running wide open with the tower vol turned down...i'd want the harpoon running lighter...
2. Suggestions for cockpit.. My first thought is 6 Exile SX65M and a 800.4.. pretty easy.. i am very pleased with all the exile stuff i have, BUT, I have to ask... how much improvement am i going to get from stock kickers and kicker amp to this setup? midbass improve? highs? strength of volume?
ALSO, GRADY, if you see this.. do you know of a trusted shop in Hattiesburg to do some work? I have my wires run for my ZLD, but want someone of knowledge to do the amp work/connections.. if I do this, i'll probably wait and have the amp swapped and do the ZLD at same time.. ALSO, should I run new speaker wire to these 6 to replace factory wiring?? last boat I replaced any cockpit speakers in had some realllllllly cheap thin wire...
THANKS.. TGIF! Answer this post and then go to the lake this weekendBrad
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Brad, what amp is powering the cabin kickers right now? The exile system match is a great setup. for the towers I guess I would turn down some of the gain. but with the zld I don't thinks its running the harppon wide open and only hearing a fraction of the volume. I think your safe there.A Day at the Lake...Priceless
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I like your plan with the 6 Exile SX65M and the 800.4. That's going to be my next upgrade . . . some day. I'm sure the experts will chime in with the technical questions.My Mom said I'm not allowed to get wet!
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For the ZLD its acts like a Fader, and when you turn the tower down it lowers the input voltage to the amp, so the amp is running less, not wide open with it muted per say.
When i went from the Factory Kickers to the Exile cabins it was a huge improvement man not just volume wise but sound in general. I have always liked the kicker speakers but to me there is too much tweet when they get loud and they just scream at you then. The SXM cabins have a warmer sound and surprising they can handle a lot of mid bass.
I would replace the cabin amp due to it most likely being a 250.4 kicker and thats not enough to run the Exiles. I would get the 800.4 to go with it. Then the cabin of your boat will rock so much you can just crank it up when surfing and just keep the towers at 50% so its not blasting way behind you.Malo <--- Means--Evil or Mean One. This explains a lot.
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not sure what the factory kicker amp is.. i think it is 250.4.. probably underpowered even for the kickers
Appreciate the response.. hoping the ZLD does lower voltage on Harpoon.. lately, i have been turning down the tower with the PAC LC1 thats on it.. just wasnt sure if that affected the amp.. i suspect the way it feeds into the RCA's it just lowers the line level input into the amp so the amp is still running wide open to power the speakers at a low level..
Thats what i want to avoid is having the Harpoon running wide open with line level lowering..Brad
2011 Launch 21V Sold... boatless replaced with a Jeep JKUR
2006 Moomba Mobius LSV sold
2004 Outback sold
Ideas on stereo improvement IN Boat...
Hope this helps,
Taylor2004 Outback Blue on White *Sold
2008 LSV Blue on White
EXILED with 6 SX65-M in cabin & 2 XM9s rockin the tower
2 Kicker ZX700.5 Amps powering the entire boat with 2 10" Subs under the dash
Krypt KMA4200 EQ under driver's side dash to control all the madness
Z5 Cargo Rack annnnnnnd She's NEKKKKED....
I'm no expert, I just read up on the Moomba Forum...
The OEM Kicker that SC uses, which i believe is still the km6130, is a 6.5 continuous mid-bass cone coax with a .5" tweeter. The Exile in-boat is also 6.5" mid-bass cone, but it has a 1" tweeter. I've demo'd both the exile "C" and "M" version. Both have an extremely aggressive tweeter as compared to even the Kicker KM6250.2 components with a 1" tweeter. The "C" was a pole-mounted tweeter and lacked the mid-bass to keep pace with the tweeter. The "M" has a grill-mounted tweeter. It offers a little more mid-bass, but still has a very strong tweeter.
Saying a .5" tweeter is too much high as compared to a 1" is like saying a 10" woofer is too much bass so i need a 12" . yes, the OEM amp choice is not pushing them to their potential. For a 2011, I think it was the DX200.4. Maybe Phil will know. Im running all 3 tweeter sizes Kicker offers, on 85Wrms @ 80Hz hi-pass. In a blind taste test, you would not believe they where the same speaker. So going from 25W rms to 75W rms with an amp upgrade like the xi800.4, regardless of a speaker change, would be a night and day difference. Also, with out knowing how those OEM's were tuned, makes it hard to make a fair comparison. Sounds like yours where just tuned way to high for your liking.
The OEM Kickers use a W-dome (hybrid dome/cone) that has always had an erratic treble response regardless of which manufacturer employed it. It's especially edgy when played loud. However, when you step up in the Kicker line to the next series they adopt a true dome tweeter which is as smooth as any metal dome. Funny how the two Kicker marine speakers look identical at a glance but sound nothing alike.
Lets also agree i wasnt Comparing the 2 speakers, i was stating what i thought sounded different, I dont know anything technical about the 2 speakers. I just know how they sound different.
What Dave with Earmark is saying make complete sence.
It would make sence that the Facotry Kicker speakers have a smaller tweeter and it sounds different then a 1 inch tweeter.
Also if Brad wants to stay with Kicker cabins then thats for you and Earmark to give him sugestions because i dont know the brand well enough to speak on it technically.
How ever Brad has Exile towers, and a ZLD, and sub system, so just to keep him all on the same brand and he sugested he was thinking of the Exile cabins i offered my thoughts on a sound level to my ear how they were different.Malo <--- Means--Evil or Mean One. This explains a lot.
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GE-Reagan Scholarship Helps Freshman Achieve Lifelong College Dream
GE-Reagan Scholarship Helps Freshman Achieve Lifelong College Dream
November 18, 2011
Even as she collected her Rose-Hulman issued laptop and finished moving on campus, freshman Erin Campbell was still incredulous that she was actually attending her first-choice college. It had long been on her wish list, but being one of seven children of a pastor who doesn't believe in carrying personal debt, she was forced to set her sights on other educational options.
"I had applied to 13 colleges, including two military academies," Campbell says. Her dad kept a chart with of all of the colleges, paying close attention to their costs, scholarships, and grants.
Campbell had applied to Rose-Hulman at the behest of 1974 alumnus Bill Finley, her dad's best friend and someone Campbell considered a mentor. "He knew that I was interested in engineering and he knew that Rose-Hulman was the best engineering school," Campbell says.
Finley, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, urged Campbell to apply to Rose-Hulman because of his own experience at the college. She did, and was accepted. But the financial issue remained a heavy burden.
Then Campbell received the GE-Reagan Foundation Scholarship, a $40,000 award to students demonstrating exemplary leadership, drive, integrity, and citizenship.
At 18 years old, Campbell has completed more hours of humanitarian and service work than most people will in a lifetime. There's the two week-long trips to rehabilitate homes after Hurricane Katrina, the weekly volunteer shifts at a local hospital, the summer internship with a humanitarian organization, the stint tutoring a third grader in reading, the hours of roadside trash pick-up, and the experiences volunteering in a soup kitchen and crisis pregnancy center. Family and faith instilled in Campbell a desire to help others.
Campbell is also a member of the Civil Air Patrol, has recently earned her pilot's license, sings in an a capella women's ensemble, is SCUBA certified, and plays Celtic harp.
Service-Oriented Freshman: Erin Campbell talks with Phil Cornwell, vice president for academic affairs, in Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's Moench Hall. Campbell has completed several community service projects and wants to help people in third-world countries.
The Rose-Hulman student was an ideal choice for the scholarship, according to Stewart McLaurin, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.
"Ronald Reagan believed in educating and inspiring the future leaders of tomorrow," he stated. "The GE-Reagan Foundation Scholarship Program enables us to continue this tradition and keep his spirit alive among the youth of today. The Reagan Foundation is so pleased that Erin Campbell is among those deserving award recipients."
Campbell is pursuing a degree in biomedical engineering with the intention of continuing to medical school. "My goal is to help people in third-world countries. I think there's a need out there for Christian doctors to be able to help people physically and spiritually," she says.
Sadly, Finley did not live long enough to see Campbell attend Rose-Hulman. But, she reflects, "He'd have definitely been thrilled if he had known I was here."


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The name Breckland was first applied in 1894 by the Norfolk naturalist W.G. Clarke to part of rural East Anglia, extending into northwestern Suffolk. It refers to medieval times when the region's infertile soils were farmed by rotation, each section being ploughed perhaps 1 year in 10 and lying fallow in the intervals. This gave a series of "breaks," or "brecks," a kind of shifting agriculture. Eventually this spasmodic farming ceased, and the region became mainly shooting preserves and rabbit warrens, remaining so until shortly before World War II.
Since then much of the region has been transformed. New agricultural techniques have brought wide areas of the Breckland into permanent and stable agricultural use, while the spread of forest plantations has obliterated much of the earlier heathland. Preserved are relics of an earlier era, for the Breckland was once a major centre of flint production; some of the Neolithic flint mines have been reexcavated and preserved at Grime's Graves, near Brandon, a town which long supported a flint-working, or flint-knapping, industry in the age of flintlock firearms. The district's largest towns are Thetford and East Dereham. Area 504 sq mi (1,305 sq km). Pop. (1998 est.2001) 117121,500422.


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CARSON, Calif. –Michael Stephens is well aware that he has an opportunity to solidify his place with the LA Galaxy this season and now it's up to the energetic 23-year-old to lock one down.
After spending three seasons behind the likes of David Beckham, Juninho, and Marcelo Sarvas in LA's midfield depth chart, the departure of Beckham represents an opportunity for Stephens to lock down a regular spot with the Galaxy starting lineup in 2013.
"Personally, it's a really important year for me," said Stephens. "I've been kind of a role player. It's time for me step up here and define a role on this team."
While Stephens may be looking to carve out a place in the Galaxy's starting XI, just where he fits on the field is still to be decided.
"We're going to be playing him a little out wide as well as inside [the midfield]. In those terms, there are some adjustments depending on where he plays, he's got to tactically understand and do it right," said head coach Bruce Arena. "He's been behind some good players, he's been dealing with in the middle Beckham, Juninho and Sarvas last year and out wide [Mike] Magee, Christian [Wilhelmsson], Landon [Donovan] so it's not a criticism of Mike because he's just been competing against some good players."
A few preseason notes…
*Bruce Arena on the situation surrounding goalkeeper William Hesmer, who was selected in the MLS Re-Entry Draft: "Nothing at this point."
*Robbie Keane and Juninho will arrive in Southern California later this week. It appears doubtful that they will play in Friday's preseason match against the U.S. Under-17's
*Arena on Friday's preseason match: "It's the first time that we'll go onto the field 11 v. 11 and just transitioning into a big game and play a little bit as a team."


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In essence, the RIDO 'R2' saddle is the answer for cyclists who suffer varying degrees of perineal or crotch pain, who can't get comfortable on their existing saddle, who can't finish those centuries because their back hurts, and who simply cannot find a saddle that fulfils their comfort needs.
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But tracks are not a safe place to walk. In the January-April 2013 period, there were 152 trespasser fatalities, up 20.6% from the same period last year. There 665 highway/rail incidents, up 2.6%.
FRA also said that 761 reporting railroads recorded 3,432 accidents/incidents, down 0.5%; 542 train accidents, down 1.8%; but 53 collisions, up 26.2%.
The FRA, in partnership with Operation Lifesaver Inc., on June 1 announced more than $200,000 in grants to 12 State Operation Lifesaver programs for a variety of rail crossing safety and anti-trespassing public education projects and public service announcements around the U.S.
Operation Lifesaver organizations in Alaska, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine , Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, and Wisconsin will use the grants to establish programs and broadcast public safety messages on television, radio, and in movie theatres; erect billboards on distracted driving; target outdoor sportsman and Spanish-language speakers, and create new rail safety products and presentations.
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• Four Operation Lifesaver programs, in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Ohio, banded together to place billboards along highways near major rail corridors that caution drivers against using any electronic devices while driving. This behavior is often a major factor in vehicle-train collisions. The billboards will supplement radio public service announcements buttressing the rail safety message.
• Louisiana's sugarcane season is in full swing, and the state's Operation Lifesaver program has developed PSAs, publications, signage, and presentations aimed at farmers, truck drivers, and mill workers involved in the sugarcane harvest to heighten awareness of railroad crossing hazards and the dangers of trespassing on railroad tracks.
• Utah Operation Lifesaver partnered with its state Division of Natural Resources to purchase ad space in publications targeting hunters, fishermen, and recreational vehicles drivers.
• North Dakota Operation Lifesaver, now contending with booming commercial truck traffic due to oil extraction from Bakken shale, will use graphic images and messages in a variety of formats targeting professional truck drivers.
Some projects target younger audiences, such as in Maine, which will provide middle school students with rail safety puzzles. Others, such as in Oregon, will ensure that the large Latino community hears the rail safety message on Willamette Valley's Spanish-language radio station.
The 17 approved grants were awarded through a competitive process. Selections were made by a panel of railroad safety experts using criteria such as successfully leveraging the federal funds with private partnerships, targeted messaging, and the ability of the program to quickly roll out an initiative over the summer.
Operation Lifesaver plans to announce the results of a similar grant program for rail transit safety education projects in early August.
"Our OLI state coordinators proposed some very exciting initiatives to help further Operation Lifesaver's mission of eliminating collisions, injuries, and deaths at crossings and along rail property," said OLI President and CEO Joyce Rose. "These projects will go a long way toward increasing the number of eyes and ears that receive our message. The Federal Railroad Administration, our national partner and advisor, provides the funding for these grants."
"Safety is our highest priority," said Federal Railroad Administrator Joseph C. Szabo. "While the number of grade crossing incidents over the past decade decreased by nearly 34% nationally, fatalities at highway-rail grade crossings and trespassing continue to constitute 95% of all rail-related deaths. The FRA is committed to working with our partner Operation Lifesaver to continuously improve safety at highway-rail grade crossings."


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Time not on V-Mart's side for '12 return
By Jordan Garretson / MLB.com
Martinez continues to work toward being able to make that return, but reports from Tigers head athletic trainer Kevin Rand don't bode well.
"He's just doing single leg strengthening until he reaches a point where they feel comfortable starting a running progression," Rand said. "He's basically running out of time."
Martinez, who tore his left anterior cruciate ligament during offseason workouts in January, underwent microfracture surgery later that month. He was initially expected to have no chance to play this season and undergo reconstructive surgery in April, but the doctor treating him decided his knee healed enough to not require it.
So the 33-year-old instead underwent a less serious procedure to assist in the healing process, thus restoring some hope for him to play this year.
"We were hopeful," Rand said. "I was hopeful at the point in time at the end of July that he would test out a little bit better than what he did. Unfortunately, you just don't know in those instances."
Martinez hit .330 with 103 RBIs for Detroit in 2011. He is signed with the club through '14.
"To me, I'm looking at this from the standpoint -- we have 2013, 2014," Rand said. "I'd love to have him here. But by the same token, you can't put him at risk for those two years."
Anibal not finding same results in AL
MINNEAPOLIS -- Anibal Sanchez's first full-time foray into the American League hasn't gone particularly well.
The right-hander is 1-3 with a 7.97 ERA in four starts since the Tigers acquired him from the Marlins on July 23. He was 5-7 with a 3.94 ERA for Miami before the trade.
Tigers manager Jim Leyland said he looks at a couple of factors when pitchers come over from the National League.
"The one point -- the DH -- that's a huge factor," Leyland said. "But I also look at the other point. A lot of teams haven't seen these guys. So that should be [the pitcher's] advantage."
That perceived advantage hasn't manifested itself in Sanchez's performance, at least not yet. While his results against designated hitters don't entirely explain his struggles, he hasn't fared well. The four he has faced since joining the Tigers -- Justin Morneau (Twins), Eric Chavez (Yankees), Jose Lopez (Indians), and Colby Rasmus (Blue Jays) -- have gone a combined 4-for-10 with 4 RBIs against him.
Meanwhile, Sanchez made easy work of opposing hurlers in the NL. Pitchers hit .103 against him with only three hits in 29 at-bats when he was with the Marlins this season.
Sanchez has also struggled to go deep into games for Detroit, with none of his outings spanning more than six innings.
"I know the American League has the DH," Sanchez said. "... But no matter who's there, I have to make some pitches. I have to figure out how to keep in control and go deep into games."
As far as Leyland is concerned, keeping the ball down would be a good start. Too many of Sanchez's pitches have caught the higher portions of the strike zone, evidenced by the five home runs he's allowed in 20 1/3 innings with the Tigers.
"I didn't know Sanchez before we got him," Leyland said. "You have to wait and look. So far, he hasn't really gotten the ball down. I certainly know that he's a better pitcher than what he's shown so far. We just have to keep looking and see what happens."
Putkonen comfortable in third stint with Detroit
MINNEAPOLIS -- Luke Putkonen is hoping his third stint with the Tigers this season is the charm.
The rookie right-hander was recalled from Triple-A Toledo prior to Tuesday's game against the Twins. Detroit optioned reliever Duane Below to Toledo after Monday's 9-3 loss.
Putkonen said he feels more comfortable with the big league club after spending time with the Tigers earlier this season. He posted an 8.59 ERA over 7 1/3 innings in six games during his previous two stints with Detroit.
"It's good -- a little experience helps," he said. "I still don't want to ever think [about] it, I just want to go out and pitch.
"I kind of know some of the guys by now, so it's a little more comfortable."
The 26-year-old owns a 4.68 ERA with 44 strikeouts in 50 innings for Toledo this season. Tigers manager Jim Leyland described Putkonen as an innings eater, someone who can throw two or three innings at a time for Detroit if necessary.
"I just want to keep doing what I've been doing," Putkonen said. "I don't want to do anything different. I went down there [to Toledo] and worked on the location of my pitches and just got ready to pitch."
Jordan Garretson is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Title: 마의 / Horse Doctor
Chinese Title: 馬醫
Also known as: The Horse Healer / Veterinarian
Director: Lee Byung-Hoon Lee Byung-Hoon (Dong Yi~2010, Yi San~2007, Song of the Prince~2005, A Jewel in the Palace~2003, Sangdo~2001, Heo Jun~1999)
Writer: Kim Yi-Young ( Dong Yi~2010, Yi San ~2007-2008, Marrying a Millionaire~2005-2006, My Love Patzzi~2002)
Genre: Historical, Romance
Episodes: 50 (To Be Confirmed)
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2012-Oct-01 to 2013-March-19
Air time: Mondays & Tuesdays 21:55
This drama tell the story of a veterinarian in the Joseon Period as he goes through various obstacles and become a royal physician.
Baek Gwang Hyun (Cho Seung Woo) will be the aspiring Royal Physician. Lee Sung Ha (Lee Sang Woo) will be his rival. Kang Ji Nyeong (Lee Yo Won) would be the female physician involved in the love triangle. Jang In Joo (Yoo Sun) is a talented acupuncturist interested in Gwang Hyun.
1. Director Lee Byung-Hoon & screen writer Kim Yi-Young previously worked together in the 2010 MBC period drama "Dong Yi" and the 2007 MBC period drama "Lee San, Wind of the Palace".
2. Korean title 마의 "Maui" is a term used during the Joseon Period to describe a veterinarian.
3. "Horse Doctor" takes over the MBC Mondays & Tuesdays 21:55 time slot previously occupied by "Golden Time".
4. Staff & cast of "Horse Doctor" visited an oriental hospital in Bundang, South Korea on July 27, 2012. The visit lasted for more than 2 hours and the staff & cast received training on oriental medicine and acupuncture.
Main Cast
Cho Seung Woo as Baek Gwang Hyun / Ahn Do Gyu as Baek Gwang Hyun (child)
Lee Yo Won as Kang Ji Nyeong / No Jung Ui as Kang Ji Nyeong (child)
Son Chang Min as Lee Myung Hwan
Yoo Sun as Jang In Joo
Lee Sang Woo as Lee Sung Ha
Lee Soon Jae as Ko Joo Man
Han Sang Jin ad King Hyunjong
Kim So Eun as Princess Sookwhee
Jo Bo Ah as Seo Eun Seo
Jung Gyu Woon as Prince Sohyun
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Lee Yo-won and Jo Seung-woo star in The Horse Healer
Lee Yo-won (49 Days) will be returning in the new MBC medical sageuk The Horse Healer, starring Jo Seung-woo (Go Go 70s, Tazza) as the titular horse whisperer. I could have gone with Dr. Horse, but that sounded more Mr. Ed, and less historical epic drama.
The production will be helmed by the team behind Dong Yi and Yi San — writer Kim Yi-young and PD Lee Byung-hoon. (PD Lee is most famous for directing Dae Jang Geum / Jewel in the Palace.) Jo Seung-woo will play Baek Kwang-hyun, a person born to the lowest class who starts as a horse healer, becomes a renowned veterinarian, and then eventually rises to the position of royal doctor. So he goes from treating horses to treating the king? Pretty impressive.
Lee Yo-won plays Kang Ji-nyung, his love interest. She lives an unpredictable carefree life, and takes an interest in the study of medicine, eventually becoming a doctor who treats the common people. Her character is described as a very progressive woman in the Joseon era. Lee said herself that the character is like a cross between her characters in Queen Seon-deok and Surgeon Bong Dal-hee. Lee has a backlog of films to finish shooting first — Total Love and Fists of Legend — before joining the drama production.
The Horse Healer plans to premiere in September on MBC.
Lee Sang-woo in "The Horse Healer"
Actor Lee Sang-woo is attempting at a historical for the first time in his acting career. He's been cast for the new MBC drama "The Horse Healer". "The Horse Healer" is produced by Lee Byeong-hoon and written by Kim Ee-yeong, and is an oriental medical drama about the values of a generation and history.
Lee Sang-woo will take on the role of Lee Seong-ha, a handsome and intelligent man who forms a three way relationship with Baek Gwang-hyeon (Jo Seung-woo) and Kang Ji-nyeong (Lee Yo-won).
Baek Gwang-hyeon and Lee Seong-ha will create a rival route against each other as Lee is the son of the man involved with the death of Baek's father.
This is Lee Sang-woo's first historical since his debut. Lee claimed, "I am very nervous about this drama and I am going to do my best to show you what I've got". The chairman of his agency says, "This will be a turning point of his acting life. He is busy analyzing his character".
Meanwhile, "The Horse Healer" has a cast of Jo Seung-woo, Lee Yo-won, Kim So-eun, Yoo Seon and more and is to be aired after "Lights and Shadows".
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Interesting. It's gonna be a battle of the saeguks come September, seeing SBS is offering The Great Seer.
Yoo Seon to star in "The Horse Healer"
Yoo Seon has been cast for "The Horse Healer" which is created by producer Lee Byeong-hoon and writer Kim Ee-yeong. Jo Seung-woo and Lee Yo-won make up the other parts of the cast.
Yoo Seon will take on the role of Jang In-joo who is a genius daughter of a physician with a talent for acupuncture. She meets Baek Gwang-hyeon (Jo Seung-woo) in the middle of everything that happens to her.
Yoo Seon has built on her reputation for a long time with her fixed number of fans. She is coming back with a historical for the first time in 10 years since a historical drama in 2002.
Meanwhile, MBC "The Horse Healer" is an oriental medical drama which will show the values of the generation back then and history.
Ahn Sang-tae to star in Lee Byeong-hoon's "The Horse Healer"
Comedian Ahn Sang-tae has confirmed to star in the drama "The Horse Healer". Ahn Sang-tae will take on the role of Park Dae-mang in the new MBC drama "The Horse Healer".
"The Horse Healer" is a collaboration by producer Lee Byeong-hoon and writer Kim Ee-yeong. It is a medical historical drama about a horse doctor during the Chosun times who rises to become the king's medical aid. The cast includes, Lee Yo-won, Lee Sang-woo, Han Sang-jin, Yoo Seon, Kim So-eun and more.
Ahn Sang-tae's agency revealed, "Ahn Sang-tae is now in "The Horse Healer" after "Hooray for Love" and "The Rooftop Prince"".
Meanwhile, Ahn Sang-tae has moved over to Mersen Agnecy and has been getting acting lessons and physical training.
Jeong Kyeo-woon to star in "The Horse Healer"
Actor Jeong Kyeo-woon is coming back with "The Horse Healer". MBC announced on the 10th, "Jeong Kyeo-woon is appearing in "The Horse Healer" as prince So-hyeon".
Being the eldest son of In-jo and elder brother to Hyo-jong (Choi Deok-moon), Prince So-hyeon was taken hostage by Cheognara when the Manchu War broke out and is known to have been an unfortunate king who passed away at the age of 34.
Jeong Kyeo-woon revealed, "I decided to s tar in this drama out of trust for director Lee Byeong-hoon. It's short but I shall create a strong impression of prince So-hyeon".
As a sequel to "Golden Time", "The Horse Healer" is about the life of Baek Gwang-hyeon who is a humble horse vet become a royal physician.
Meanwhile, the cast of "The Horse Healer" incudes Jo Seung-woo, Lee Yo-won, Son Chang-min, Yoo Seon, Lee Sang-woo and more.
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Horse Doctor's cast and crew took acupuncture training
In order to make their drama believable, Horse Doctor's team, from the director to actors, started to learn acupuncture.
On July 27, they started the education of oriental-medicine and acupuncture in a oriental medical clinic. They learned the theory and practiced acupuncture on their own body.
MBC's upcoming drama Horse Doctor tells the journey of Baek Kwang Hyun in the background of Chosun dynasty. He starts his career as the horse's doctor until finally becomes King's doctor.
The leading cast are Jo Seung Woo and Lee Yo Won.
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Producer Lee Byeong-hoon's "The Horse Healer"
Lee Byeong-hoon's "The Horse Healer" will be aired on the 1st of October. According to Kim Jong-hak Productions on the 19th, new MBC drama "The Horse Healer" will be aired for the first time on the 1st of October at 9:55PM.
Currently airing "Golden Time" is about to end on the 25th of September with twenty-three episodes.
"The Horse Healer" is about the real character of Baek Gwang-hyeon who started off as a horse healer and ended up becoming a royal physician. This is a collaboration between Lee Byeong-hoon an writer Kim I-yeong.
Source : osen.mt.co.kr/article... ( English )
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"The Horse Healer" Kim So-eun is a Chosun Princess
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'Horse Doctor' Reactions After 2 Episodes "Can't Wait For More" vs. "What A Disappointment"
MBC 51st Anniversary Special Project 'Horse Doctor' placed last after airing its first episode on October 1st. The reactions of the netizens were split between "it's interesting" and "it's a disappointment".
After the second episode aired on October 2nd, one netizen listed the problems with 'Horse Doctor' and said, "The male child actor does not know how to act cute. The outside lighting makes me think I'm watching an old movie. Also, the lines are all cheesy and the editing is choppy. Is this drama really directed by Lee Byung Hoon?"
Other netizens have also stated their disappointment on the message boards. They said, "The childhood casting is not particularly good", "'Dong Yi' was also boring in the beginning; this drama feels the same", "I don't expect the ratings to be high for this one", "There is a lot left to be desired for start of this drama", "This drama feels old-fashioned", and "It doesn't have a trendy feel to it at all."
However, there are a lot of words of encouragement as well. There were plenty of kind words like "The childhood actors, they're pretty decent", "It has a Lee Byung Hoon-feel to it so I like it", "I am more excited to see Jo Seung Woo and Lee Yo Won act", "It's more fun than I expected", "I have good feelings about this drama", and "I look forward to watching more episodes."
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One more week and all the Tebowites will be gone.
Excellent Christmas gift.
The only bright spot is that the stinking POS Teblow will be $H1TCANNED no later than a week from tomorrow
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One more week and all the Tebowites will be gone.
Excellent Christmas gift.
@BrianCoz: Confirmed ESPN report that Tebow said he no longer wanted to play wildcat after being informed Tuesday he was third string QB, per source
the ny jets, now 44 yrs of misery
I too can't wait for Tebow to be gone, the sooner he leaves this POS organization he can begin working on his SB ring. You can bet he will get one before this POS organization does.
After 44 years I am finally free of this albatross that call themselves an NFL ballclub.
Tim Tebow has more class in one breath then this entire franchise ever had in their history.
1 You only became a Jet "fan" this March
2 The Elite League of India where they play way down at Teblow levels has no Super Bowl
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Nobody cares about Tebow!! He needs to just say what he feels. He sounds like such a *****!!
wow to bad he did not do that after week 2.
I feel sorry for the kid but this season was a complete waste of my time
The thing is....
If Rex was the one that lied to him, we would have learned about this much earlier and Woody would have fired his ass on the spot because of all the bad publicity he would get.
Plus I don't think Rex is capable of doing this.


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The IEEE will revise its laptop battery standard, coded IEEE 1625, which was
approved back in 2004 as part of the "Livium" family of battery standards. The
revised standard seeks to improve overall performance, make systems more
reliable and address concerns over the recent laptop battery
IEEE 1625 adopts a systems approach by addressing the battery envelope from
cells to the mobile computers they power, both alone and in concert. It
encompasses such areas as battery pack electrical and mechanical construction,
cell chemistries, packaging, pack and cell controls, and overall system
"In revising IEEE 1625 to further safeguard the reliability of
these batteries, we will leverage the streamlined corporate standards process
and incorporate lessons learned in developing the IEEE 1725 standard for
cellular telephone batteries," says Edward Rashba, Manager, New
Technical Programs at the IEEE-SA. "We have an opportunity to
further strengthen the Livium portfolio, which already incorporates hundreds of
man-hours of technical work and represents consensus views on best practices
from leading industry experts."
The update looks to guide the industry in planning and implementing controls
for battery design and manufacture. It also defines approaches for evaluating
and qualifying such batteries, verifying their quality and reliability, and
educating and communicating with end users.
"The 1625 update will be a global effort," says
Rashba. "The leading laptop OEMs and battery manufacturers such as
Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lenovo, Panasonic, Sanyo,
Intel and Sony have indicated
strong interest to participate."
The group will meet bi-monthly in the U.S. and Asia, with
project completion expected within 18 months. The first working group meeting is
scheduled for November 15-16 at the Intel in Santa Clara, California. A
follow-on meeting is planned in Japan for January 16-18 of next year.


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Oh lotus-eyed one, sweet of touch, when singing, seeing, tasting, be aware you are and discover the ever-living.
Wherever satisfaction is found, in whatever act, actualize this.
At the point of sleep, when the sleep has not yet come and the external wakefulness vanishes, at this point being is revealed.
Illusions deceive, colors circumscribe, even divisibles are indivisible.
Civilization is a training in how to become unreal. Tantra is the reverse process - how to prevent yourself from becoming unreal, and if you have already become unreal, how to touch the reality which is hidden within you, how to contact it again, how to be again real. The first thing to be understood is how we go on becoming unreal, and once this process is understood many things change immediately. The very understanding becomes mutation.
Man is born undivided. He is neither a body nor a mind. He is born undivided, as one individual. He is both body and mind. Even to say that he is both is wrong. He is body-mind. Body and mind are two aspects of his being, not two divisions - two polarities of something which we may call life, energy or anything - XYZ - but body and mind are not two things.
The very process of civilization, education, culture, conditioning, starts with the division. Everyone is taught that he is two, not one, and then, of course, one begins to be identified with the mind and not with the body. The very thinking process becomes your center and the thinking process is just a periphery. It is not the center because you can exist without thinking. Once you existed without thinking: thinking is not a necessity to exist. If you go deep in meditation you will be, and there will be no thinking. If you become unconscious you will be, but there will be no thinking. Moving into deep sleep you will be, but there will be no thinking. Thinking is just on the periphery; your being is somewhere else - deeper than thinking. But you are being taught continuously that you are two, body and mind, and that, really, you are the mind and you possess the body. The mind becomes the master and body becomes the slave, and you go on struggling against the body. This creates a rift, a gap, and that gap is the problem. All neurosis is born out of that gap; all anxiety is born out of that gap.
Your being is rooted in your body, and your body is not just something separate from existence. It is part of it. Your body is the whole universe. It is not something limited, finite. You may not have observed it, but try to observe where your body really ends - where! Do you think that your body ends where your skin ends?


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Photographs into Models: Documenting the World Trade Center Ship
By Carrie Fulton If you attend any archaeology conference or glance through recent issues of…
The term "public outreach and engagement" is a popular, credence-lending industry buzzword, but do we know what that actually means in archaeology today? And are we as a profession committed to using these components of our work to their greatest advantage in our field? Unfortunately, the answer to both of these questions, far too often, is: No.
Public outreach and engagement in archaeology should be holistic, meaningful and a primary component of our scientific research design—and this includes all projects, from the beginning. Unfortunately, fully integrated public engagement in our collective archaeological work is a rarity. When we do see purposeful engagement, it is often uni-directional, refusing to engage the public in an equal exchange of information. At best, the public is often an "add-on" instead of a meaningfully-planned, integral part of the process.
There are, of course, notable exceptions to learn from in our quest to meaningfully improve our public engagement. One such example is the California Gold Rush shipwreck Frolic, lost along the rugged northern California coast in 1849. Although known to wreck divers, the ship's association with the history of the area was brought to the public's attention when Chinese artifacts excavated in a Native American contact site in the coastal range led to the identification of the gold rush shipwreck on the coast. This identification spurred local residents of Mendocino to explore the connection between the Frolic and the founding of their city.
This exploration originated from a diverse set of voices from throughout the community. A complex exhibit of the shipwreck spanned three museums, exploring many community voices and the rise of lumbering in the Redwoods. Research on the ship's manifest revealed a sizeable cargo of ale, leading a local microbrewery to replicate the drink. Community interest in heritage led to a theater production about the shipwreck's historical significance, as well as the return of many salvaged artifacts to local museums. And all this in addition to a series of historical books by Thomas Layton, regarding the ship, the cargo, her history, the people, and the places associated with the ship's career. Years later, the collections and collected stories helped inform the underwater archaeologists who finally studied the submerged remains, and reconstructed the final moments of the fateful voyage.
The defining public engagement variable in this project was the community's active participation at each stage from the start—from the research design phase all the way through public presentation, including interpretation and implementation of both the outreach and the archaeological investigation. In other words, the "public" was not just an outreach activity. Instead, the public became an active member of the research team that impacted both design and outcomes. The engagement was meaningful because there was a clear role for the public to be an active participant, not just an observer.
We live in an exciting age for archaeology. Technology is changing the very nature of our work, and increasing accessibility to large volumes of knowledge. More crucially, these changes allow us to actively engage the public with far less friction than ever before. It's time to move beyond measuring public outreach and engagement only in terms of "site visits": lectures, tours, school visits, streaming video and websites. It's time to make meaningful engagement—in which the public is a fully contributing member of our research team—a standard for every stage of the process.
The good news is that this trend is changing – share with us your examples of the public as part of the science.
Read the other Tech Week posts, all about public archaeology and underwater archaeology!


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First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.
-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!
Which kinda brings back the opening of the first book! What about you guys? Happy reading!


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Friends and family of the late Keith Vidal joined residents of Boiling Spring Lakes and neighboring communities for a walk and vigil remembering his life. Vidal was shot and killed earlier this month by a police officer. (Jason A. Frizzelle)
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The Dramatic Future of Steve Carell
In the tradition of many comedians before him, the 48-year-old veteran is heading into more serious territory. Careful, Steve! Also today: two big stars sign on to TV projects, the zombie genre gets another treatment, and we gauge the success of murder.
- Steve Carell is leaving The Office at the end of this year. We all know this. So what movies is he going to be doing now that he's a free man? Well, we recently heard that he'll be playing Meryl Streep's marriage counselor in an upcoming comedy. OK, sounds good. But how about this: he's also just signed on to star in a drama called The Dogs of Babel, based on a novel about a man who finds his wife dead in his backyard. He suspects it was foul play, but the only witness was the family dog. So, he sets out to teach the dog how to talk so she can tell him what happened. So it's a quirky drama, not a straight-up stark 'n' gritty Drama. Still, Carell is enjoyable in dramedy (ick) parts like the ones he had in Little Miss Sunshine and Dan in Real Life (despite what some might say about the overall quality of those movies), so this should be up his alley. Just please don't go all late-'90s Robin Williams on us, Steve. A serious role once in a while is perfectly fine, but no one wants to spend too much time with the overly sensitive clown. We do not need another What Dreams May Come. We did not need the first one. [THR]
- The ever-growing ABC Family network has been giving series orders to various pilots recently, the most recent being The Lying Game, about a girl who finds out she has an identical twin sister and switches places with her so the twin can go investigate the mystery of their birth mother. But then the twin goes missing and the original girl doesn't know what to do — confess her true identity and risk danger, or stay quiet? So it's basically The Parent Trap, only with more intrigue and murder. But only slightly more. If we're talking the new version of that movie, you just know that in a couple years time Chessy was totally going to murder Martin in a drunken rage. And then she would have kidnapped Hallie and driven away like mad, the Napa sky blood-red behind her. That was absolutely going to happen eventually. (This Lying Game show also sounds a lot like the Sarah Michelle Gellar pilot about a girl who switches place with her twin. A trend!) [Deadline]
- The oft-overlooked Minnie Driver has signed on to play the lead in a new CBS pilot called Hail Mary. She'll be playing a weather girl named Mary. (No, but wouldn't that be a great?) She'll be playing "a suburban single mom who teams up with a street-smart hustler to solve crimes." Aha. Man are there a lot of shows about amateurs gone a'sleuthing. It's just a trendy trend! Or maybe it just seems that way because I finally, finally decided to listen to you jerks and watch Veronica Mars, and... Well, let's just say that I'd appreciate it if you kept the Toldja So's to a minimum. It's good, OK? It's a good television show. [EW]
- Sigh. Sony has acquired the rights to a script based on a comic called Zombies vs. Robots. It's about a girl who's the last survivor on Earth and is protected by a group of robots from evolved zombies who want to kill her or something. Can we just... I mean, man do we beat down and strangle and bleed dry popular movie tropes really quickly these days. I feel like zombies have been back on the radar for all of five years maybe but just like that I'm feeling very ENOUGH ZOMBIES FOREVER. (And I love zombies!) I know that's not a terribly original sentiment, probably because the trend of bitching about movie trends has also gotten stale. So I don't know what to say. Go ahead, Hollywood. Feast on the brains, eat the whole carcass. What can we do anymore? [Deadline]
- Beloved TV torturer Kiefer Sutherland may soon be back on the airwaves. He's agreed to star in a pilot called Touch, from Tim Kring. That's the one about the guy who realizes that his autistic son can see the future. So I guess he teams up with his son to.... solve mysteries? Yeah, probably. And they're probably mostly murder mysteries. I wish people would spend more time solving other, non-murder-related mysteries. There are so many! I wish Touch was about Bill O'Reilly talking with an autistic boy and saying "How'd it get there? C'mon." a lot. That would be a bipartisan hit for sure. [THR]
- Last night's somewhat-hyped Lifetime movie Amanda Knox: Murder On Trial in Italy did pretty well in the ratings, with 2.8 million curious eyeballs tuning in. While a success, it didn't come close to the recent boffo numbers of The Craigslist Killer, which pulled in 5.4 million viewers. It just goes to show you: why send a woman to do a man's job? Which, in this case, is sensational murder. [Deadline]


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When former Montezuma County Assessor Mark Vanderpool resigned to work in the private sector, William "Scott" Davis was the employee chosen to fill the role until the 2014 election. He has done a good job and should be elected to a full term.
For the past 12 years, he has served as deputy assessor, a position that has given him a clear understanding of the issues facing the assessor's office. He can explain them clearly and systematically, and he has concrete ideas for the future.
Both Davis and Cynthia Claytor have expressed positive values for the office: an open door for the public, professionalism, support for employees, equipment and software that improve the functioning of the office. Both have identified problems that need to be corrected. Whichever candidate is elected, that person should listen carefully to the other.
Davis, though, is better equipped to head the office. He has Vanderpool's support; he has actual experience in the role; he has a vision for the office, including a broad view of the reasons and strategies in the Kinder-Morgan case. He deserves the job.


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National Parks in Northwest Europe > Snowdonia/Eryri > Snowdon/Yr Wyddfa > Miners Track > Climber's Log
Miners Track Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Easy descent
Date Climbed: Nov 20, 2011
|Quick and easy route down from the mountain if it's getting dark. Wonderful views of the lakes and don't forget to explore the old mine (take a headtorch).
|Posted Nov 23, 2011 10:51 am
|great hike
Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2010
|Great Hike up and some stunning gorgeous scenery along the way! Would like some suggestings for a more challenging climb up next time. It was also very busy which took a bit of the shine off as it was full of kids and youth groups all messing around but a good hike up!
|Posted Sep 13, 2010 6:24 am
|August 1992
|This was the first of the two times I climbed Snowdon. Miners Track is as easy as anything as far as the foot of Snowdon - a broad dirt road - but then it gets pretty steep and slippery; I believe to remember that in certain spots there was no trail at all. I reached Snowdon in time to be in heavy fog, which fortunately lifted again and let me enjoy the view coming down via Y Lliwedd.
|Posted Sep 6, 2010 6:35 pm
|broken wrist - but not that day
Date Climbed: Apr 9, 2003
|Did this on a misty day - with my arm in plaster! I had a broken wrist but had to wear half a yard of plaster as it healed.
Got some worried looks from people passing us on their way up as we went down. Probably thinking "is it really that difficult further up?"
(date not confirmed, can't remember exactly)
|Posted Aug 25, 2010 12:38 pm
|Several times
|Starting around the age of 11 (and no doubt more times to come). Winter, summer, sun, fog, rain, snow, seen it all on this route, sometines on the same day.
|Posted Jul 16, 2008 5:34 pm
|Did this once on steep deep hard snow.....very exciting compared with normal conditions
|Posted Jan 27, 2008 10:44 am
|Good scenary
|Beautiful route beside the lakes and can always carefully venture into the odd mine (very wet and dark). The route has changed over the years and there are now some huge deep rock crevasses. I find with the introduction of the steps at the upper section where it joins the Pyg can be very hard on the knees and when wet/icy dangerous.
|Posted Jan 25, 2008 9:51 am
|Nigel Lewis
|Descent only
|Came down from Snowdon using this path once.
|Posted Jul 29, 2007 1:28 pm
|Nice route
|Nice route, I've decended by it twice
|Posted Jul 28, 2007 3:27 pm


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In January, Dallas (and one-time Denton) rapper D. Smiley was "Young Don," dropping compact verses over beats, passing a blunt and on the verge of jumping into the hip-hop game feet first, without a safety net and without one single hint of apology.
D. Smiley has a couple of things in common with local hip-hop artists in the Golden Triangle. He doesn't pretend to be a young pimp creeping in a Bugatti or making it rain dead presidents — he raps about his desires, his work ethic and his talent, all of which are formidable. He writes about the identity crisis that can arise even in the 21st century for a young black man with a white girlfriend of five years and a yen to be part of the "game" (code for the hip-hop business) but who isn't so thrilled with the one-dimensional demands it makes of its young, talented and driven.
"I've been working on this record for eight months," Smiley said as the release of his first full-length album, Golden Child, Rightful Sinner drew nearer. The record hits the streets on Friday, about three weeks shy of the video for the first single, "Battlefield."
The song is the clear standout on a record that is led by words and followed by beats. In the "Battlefield" video, the artist appears in two different settings — a shut-down gas station and the wild green banks of a creek. For the most part, Smiley bounces on the balls of his feet as if he were a boxer champing at the bit waiting for that bell to clang. He throws punches and gestures, glaring into the camera. He's all lyrical promise ("one, two, Smiley's comin' for you," voices rap through the chorus countdown) and rippling six-pack.
Smiley celebrates the release of Golden Child with a bash at Andy's Bar on Friday.
"The record's very introspective. You see the world through my eyes," he said. "This record, you could close your eyes and hear everything from '88 to '13. This is all about how time has passed for me. From the struggle to the success. There is a full connection to both of those things, as an artist who is growing, but also a connection from me as an artist in the world."
Smiley teamed up with producer Exotic Swisha on eight of the 11 tunes, and with producers Jordan Strong, Buffalo Black and King Zel for the remainder. Artist CLV guests on two tracks.
Smiley said he chose his producers carefully.
"Each of them is strong," he said. "I was really comfortable with all of them. I knew their source and knew mine. I knew they would get the emotional things I was looking for, I was reaching for."
Some albums are a journal of a single episode or timeframe in an artist's life. Others are a constellation of the highs and lows, the mundane middles of life. Golden Child is the latter.
Exotic Swisha created "dub" to Smiley's rhythmic "lub" on the album.
"One thing I wanted was faster raps, and I was able to use faster flows. I used metaphors and double entendres," Smiley said.
The artist was intent on the words leading the music. He'd write or rap for Swisha, then the two would work the producer's beats.
"You're working together to get your point across," Smiley said. "Sometimes, you're a little more vulgar, a little more direct. And then there are times when you want to show a little more emotion. I was able to connect with so many different emotions. There are times where you want to touch somebody, times when you want to piss somebody off. I wanted to use a lot of different emotions."
On "I Said," D. Smiley and CLV swap verses about the realities that can come with a determination to keep one's art animate. They grieve the loss of friendships too weak to endure musical success.
The song references D. Smiley's label, brand and crew called MacBroadz, and the naysayers in D. Smiley's circle who predicted the project would go belly-up. Macbroadz is still slinging beats, T-shirts and ball caps in Dallas-Fort Worth, and the naysayers can help themselves to a heaping helping of deep-fried crow, as far as Smiley's concerned.
"Foreva Eva" tips a hat to Outkast's "Ms. Jackson," but flips the script from burned baby-daddy lament. Instead, D. Smiley spits steady and fast over Jordan Strong's lazy loop of doo-wop "oohs." He cops to being 25 and broke. But that's if you're looking at his bank draft and not his life. He pledges to rap "foreva eva" and reminds us all that we are listening to a record made by him and on his terms. Even if someone dismisses Golden Child as a proper demonstration of hip-hop, it's an inarguable artifact of D. Smiley's striving.
King Zel and Smiley lifted a short vocal loop by the incomparable Nina Simone on "Yes, I Do," a sleeper track that both surprises in the maturity of Smiley's poetry and his ease with meter and metaphor. He details the ways in which he's had to defend his choices. The first and most uncomfortable is the way racism persists in a so-called post-racist America and the hackles raised all around by his relationship with a white girlfriend ("But y'all don't wanna hear it 'cause everybody hates the truth/'Cause it's what sets you free, and gets you locked up, too").
Zel's decision to slip Simone's silky contralto into the beat is a touch of awareness — both musically and culturally — and a shimmer of genius. In "Yes, I Do," Smiley and Zel reaffirm that rap — like jazz before it — bears the burden of being thought of as too dirty — and too black — for polite society.
But by the time Smiley declares "word is bond!" and promises that his art will never buy out his experiences or his relationships, the listener understands that while this rapper can posture with the best of them, hip-hop is still the province of the pen. You know, that thing that is mightier than the sword.
He connects with the likes of Simone and Gil Scott-Heron, but D. Smiley occupies the here and now.


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Back in December 1982, the closest you could come to an ebook was a "softbook" (a regular book with a bundled disk). Congressmen weren't tweeting: They were toying with the idea of using a time-share, server-based, automated constituent reply system named Dialcom. These were simpler, relatively low-tech, Internet-free times where BBSes ruled the day and subscribers could read primitive "On-line Newsletters" for just $24 to $120 an hour(!).
I found this information and more in a December 1982, 400-page edition of PC Magazine. The magazine wasn't even a year old back then. This volume is full of classic bits like debugging an 8087 microprocessor PC and reviews of Zork *(version 1) and Lost Colony. The hefty tome also includes some truly memorable advertisements. These full- and partial-page ads shed light on the technology and interests of that bygone time almost 30 years ago.
It's easy to get lost in these volumes (we have our entire magazine history readily available, of course). Nestled amidst the stories on computer camp ("one camp director remarked that some computer whiz kids have already begun to work and have no time for camp; some have even formed their own companies") and others on "The Participant Novel" are classic ads on everything from massive memory add-on cards to Microsoft Multiplan. Every single one of the following classic ads was pulled from PC Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 8.
If you like this story, we have good news for you. Our deep dives back into the PCMag archives are about to become a regular thing around here. We'll bring you more retro ads and even full-blown features that look at fresh technology developments from the last 30 years through the prism of those who were there to experience them.
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Some bees have started what appears to be a nest of some kind in my garden. I was digging the soil ready for planting and they have 'taken over' a corner of the dug soil. They fly in regularly and are using two holes to enter the soil.
They are not wasps - and not honey bees either. They are a bit fatter in shape looking than honey bees (I think) and are a brown colour (with shades of yellow also). I live in Surrey and in a residential area. I attach some photos - best I could manage with the camera.
Could anyone help identify these bees for me - and advise me whether I need to have them taken away etc.?
Cheers - and thanks in advance,
Hi johnlodge47
I don't really know bees well. But I found this site. The bumble bee on those photos looks similar to yours.
I wouldn't see any reason to remove any bees/bumble bees from a garden unless they are european wasps and direktly in a heavyly used area.
These are Red Mason bees, Osmia rufa, which are one of the 250 or so solitary bee species found in the UK. The activity you have witnessed is the female bees collecting moist soil/mud to use for the construction of their brood cells. Each female selects a crevasse or hole in an aerial position in which to make these cells and she packs each cell with a paste made of pollen and nectar which will feed and nourish the single larvae in each cell. Each female provisions her own cells hence the solitary nature of these bees, though they often nest in agregations giving the impression of a colony - but this is more to do with strength in numbers than true sociality. They can sometimes construct nests in peculiar places including door locks and folds in curtains.
This species is also an excelent pollinator of fruit trees and you can even buy nesting tubes to encourage them.
You can also build your own solitary bee homes from bricks and wood with varying sized holes drilled in and sited in a sunny position in the garden - here are some of mine, which are already used by several species and are a-buzz with Red Mason bees at the moment.
Many, many thanks for your replies.
I'm delighted to learn something new about bees - and to know I can leave them alone with little risk of being stung as I move aound the garden


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"This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We managed to keep the against-all-odds, can-do spirit that kept us going when no one thought we could win."
"Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes."
"If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail."
"It's a deceptive and deceitful campaign, ... Domestic violence is not on the ballot. Alcohol is not on the ballot. Marijuana is on the ballot."
"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."
"A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in."
"Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27- year-old woman came forward to deny rumors that she had an affair with Democratic front- runner John Kerry. The woman added, "I would never cheat on Bill Clinton."


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Outlaw country artist David Allan Coe was in a car accident early Tuesday in Florida. He was struck by a tractor-trailer near downtown Ocala.
According to a report in the Ocala Star-Banner, Coe was apparently at fault. He was cited by Northern Florida police for running a red light. Neither speeding nor alcohol, however, are suspected. Coe told an officer at the hospital that he didn't remember anything just before the crash.
Coe's official website reports that the 73-year-old performer is "recuperating from his accident and will be OK," with Coe's agent confirming the cancellation of his concerts in St. Louis and Louisville, Kentucky.
Often associated with the 1970s Outlaw country scene, Coe has a reputation as a rebel (one of his guitars is even emblazoned with the image of the Confederate flag), partly thanks to the time he spent in prison. His music, though, can be introspective and at times surprisingly gentle.
He's best known for such songs as "Longhaired Redneck," "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile," "Would You Lay with Me (in a Field of Stone)," and "The Ride." He also wrote the 1970s Johnny Paycheck anthem"Take This Job and Shove It."
– Alex Long, 98.5 WNCX/Cleveland and Kurt Wolff, Radio.com


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Janet Monge will present the topic "Of Big Brains and Small Teeth: The Evolution of Humans".
Dr. Monge is Adjunct Associate Professor in Anthropology and Keeper of Skeletal Collections at the University Museum.
Working with Alan Mann, Janet Monge developed the traveling exhibition on human evolution, "Surviving: The Body of Evidence," the largest exhibition grant ever awarded to The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: a three year, $1.7 million continuing grant from the National Science Foundation. Less well known is the work of Monge and Mann on forensic anthropology. As scholars who spend most of their time poking around in our distant past, their legal work is not a side-specialty they like to advertise. He and Monge have accepted about a dozen cases over the past 20 years, "losing" in only one of them. In one case, the essential distinguishing mark was a pair of attached earlobes; in others, a duck-like gait or a widow's peak helped secure a defendant's freedom. They have established some ground rules: They work only for the defense, and only when they believe the defendant is innocent.
The luncheon is at 12:00 noon on Monday, September 20, 2010, in the Lenape Room of the University Club.
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McClung sent to Minors
Reliever surprised, hurt after being optioned to Triple-A
By Chris Girandola / Special to MLB.com
"I did not anticipate this at all," said McClung, after he was told by Joe Maddon on Friday morning that the Rays had optioned him to Triple-A Durham. "It's a numbing acceptance. I definitely didn't think driving to work this morning that this would be the last day here."
In addition to McClung, the Rays also sent Chad Orvella to Durham and they reassigned Carlos Pena to Minor League camp. Pena can decide to take a release from the team instead, though. With the demotions of McClung and Orvella, the Rays pitching staff is set with Juan Salas and non-roster invitee Gary Glover making the squad.
"We talked about open competition at the beginning of spring and [McClung] was part of it," Maddon said. "We set forth philosophy, and if somebody has a proven track record of success, then you don't necessarily evaluate Spring Training performances as heavily."
McClung came into camp with a different outlook, both on the exterior and the interior. McClung had shed 20 pounds off his 6-foot-6 frame as a way to let the organization know he was ready to assume the closer role, a position that carries heavy responsibility. But McClung was also willing to work on things to let the coaching staff understand he would help in the relief corps wherever needed.
The 26-year-old reliever had both impressive and less-than-stellar outings this spring. For instance, he combined to toss 2 1/3 scoreless innings in two consecutive appearances on March 15 and 18, in which he allowed two hits with three strikeouts on 18 pitches, all strikes. But he preceded those stints with games in which he surrendered a combined seven runs and six hits and only one strikeout in two innings of work. More recently, after he had seemed to secure his spot in the bullpen, McClung gave up a total of five runs and seven hits with three strikeouts and two walks in a combined three innings on March 25 and 28.
"To the layman, you look at my spring and you see numbers that are ugly," said McClung, who went 4-2 with six saves and a 4.43 ERA in 24 games last year as a reliever in 2006. "I took an intelligent approach to [the] spring where I knew I needed to work on some things. They wanted me to work more on the command of my fastball. I'm disappointed the numbers turned out the way they did."
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"I'm very surprised and disappointed," said McClung, who faulted his agents on the miscommunication. "I thought they couldn't send me down without trying to pass [me] through waivers. "Part of this is saying I understood what they wanted me to do, so I put aside personal goals of being a closer to just focus on working on things as opposed to just having the sense of being a closer and having that mind-set of doing so." Despite the dispointment, McClung is committed to returning to the Major League club as quickly as possible.
"I told Joe I'm ready to throw," said McClung. "Yeah, this hurts, but all I want to be right now is a Major League baseball player. The only thing I can do now is go to Durham and throw well."
Maddon believes McClung will return to the parent club.
"We look for him to pitch well and come back at some point," Maddon said. "We're looking for consistency."
Chris Girandola is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text: Mark H 14 Report post Posted February 24, 2014 Lotus Cup UK will kick off with a 90 minute race on the Saturday. Simon Deacon and Andy Napier are the reigning champions in the SuperSport and Production categories respectively. A capacity grid is expected, with V6 Cup, 2-Eleven, Exige Cup and Open Class cars racing for overall and SuperSport honours. The 2013 season ended on the same 300 circuit and just like that event, the extra distance is expected to add further spice to the race. There's even more Lotus content on the Sunday, with the inaugural Elise Trophy championship round providing the main highlight. Both new and familiar names are expected to make up the full grid for the 20-minute races. The day will also see the second round of the new Lotus Cup UK Speed Championship. A capacity entry should provide a thrilling set of qualifying-style laps as the sprint competitors put on a show that should prove to be every bit as good as the racing. Seven Lotus track sessions will complete a superb weekend for enthusiasts of the marque. Adding to the fun, anyone turning up to the event in a Lotus can sample the circuit for themselves by taking part in a parade lap during the lunch break on Sunday, as well as benefit from a Lotus parking area. Tickets will go on sale from www.lotrdc.com/calendar/5-6-april-snetterton-300-10848 at just £6 each including postage and packing for Lotus enthusiasts. Entry is also free for children aged 12 and under. This post has been promoted to an article Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Osborne vows exporters loans boost
Billions of pounds of extra lending will be made available to exporters and costs cut under plans announced by George Osborne to boost Britain's trade with emerging markets.
At the start of a three day trade trip to Brazil, the Chancellor said banks will now have access to a Bank of England facility that will make it less risky for them to give loans to exporters.
Around £4 million of funding will also be used by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) to support 3,000 companies to increase exports and £2 million will go on expanding the organisation's operations in Latin America and helping to secure contracts in £1.5 billion worth of infrastructure projects around Brazil.
In a speech to business leaders in Rio de Janeiro, Mr Osborne said he was part of the "most pro-Brazil British government for over 70 years".
" We both flourish, we both succeed, we both grow, both create jobs when we do business and work together," he said.
"We have woken up and understood that."
He added: " For decades we have not been exporting enough - not just to Brazil, but to all the fastest growing markets in the world.
"So I am confronting that historic weakness head-on. In my Budget last month I fundamentally reformed our export regime.
"I cut the tax on flights to emerging markets, including Brazil, so that you don't pay more to fly to Rio or São Paulo, or indeed Beijing, than Washington or New York.
"And I massively extended the financial support we give to our exporters.
" I am doubling the amount of government lending for exports and cutting the interest rates on that lending, by a third.
"I am clear: Britain will no longer have some of the least competitive export finance in Europe. We are going to have the most competitive export finance in Europe.
"But the job is never done and so today I can announce further reforms.
"Where Budget boosted government lending - today we will boost private lending too.
"Banks will now have access to a special Bank of England facility that will make it much less risky for them to extend loans to our exporters.
"That should mean billions of extra lending will be made available to our exporters. And it will mean cheaper lending - saving potentially millions of pounds for large projects.
"That's how we make British exporters competitive."
Mr Osborne said he had "discovered one of the toughest jobs in the world" during his trip - refereeing a Brazilian football match.
The Chancellor was at the famed Maracana stadium - which will host the World Cup final in July - to watch Vasco da Gama draw 1-1 with Flamengo in the first leg of the state championship decider.
"Great game and discovered one of toughest jobs in world - ref in Brazilian match," he posted on Twitter.


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Have recently applied ZoneAlarm Pro 6.5.737.000 update.
Decided to keep existing privacy settings, but cleared out the programs and components list.
Program Control set to Medium, SmartDefense Advisor set to Auto.
Privacy site list used to log visited sites, but no longer, also 3rd party cookies are being written, then some removed by
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The organization "Students for Life of America" has released yet another undercover video of a nurse at a New Jersey Planned "Un-Parenthood" facility describing how an abortion would be performed on a 22 week-old unborn child and admitting that some babies survive such abortions. "It does happen," the nurse said.
Well, here we are again with another YouTube.com or Eyeblast.tv video (www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=e46UqG8zSU) demonstrating either the illegality (i.e., not reporting minor girls pregnant by adult men) or immorality of Planned "Un-Parenthood" Clinics.
In the SFLA's video, the nurse explains the late-term abortion procedure to the pregnant woman, while the woman questions the nurse about the details. "Is the baby alive?" asks the pregnant woman. "Usually not," the nurse replies. The woman asks if the baby could be born alive, to which the nurse responds: "Usually, for the most part no, but it does happen. It's an actual delivery," her explanation continues, "but it wouldn't be able to survive on its own, so eventually the baby does die."
According to the Catholic News Agency, Kristan Hawkins, SFLA Executive Director, commented on the video: "I was absolutely stunned when the Planned Parenthood nurse revealed that allowing a baby to die after being born alive is a common practice for abortionists. This is outright infanticide."
SFLA has called on Congress to investigate Planned Parenthood, which reportedly receives about $300 million in taxpayer funding each year. Apparently, there is not a law protecting those who survive abortions. Critics of such a bill claim that such a law or requirement – to tend to the life birth – would burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.
Oh my gosh, when a human being survives the attempt to destroy them, they are left to die in order not to burden a physician and an almost-mother? What kind of civilization thinks this way?
I'll tell you what this is really about: if Planned "Un-Parenthood" saved the lives of babies who survive their abortions, then women would less likely come to them for abortions, and that would hurt Planned "Un-Parenthood's" bottom line.
According to National Right To Life (www.nrlc.org/News_and_views/july07/nv071907.html), the dedication of Planned Parenthood to abortion is…apparent: "against 264,943 abortions, Planned Parenthood saw just 12,548 prenatal clients. This means that it was 21 times more likely that a pregnant woman coming into a Planned Parenthood clinic would receive an abortion than receive prenatal care. In 2005, in its entire nationwide network of over 860 clinics, Planned Parenthood saw just 248 infertility clients. Put another way, this means Planned Parenthood Federation of America treated just one infertility patient for every 1,068 abortions it performed. Adoption services or referrals aren't even mentioned."
Planned "Un-Parenthood" is always screeching in its fundraising warning letters that it is about protecting women's reproductive choices, but what one of its latest service reports shows is how rarely Planned Parenthood's plans involve parenthood, and just how often they involve abortion, which is why I call it "Planned Un-Parenthood."