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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Illustrations in the classic Winnie the Pooh often show Pooh carrying a gray paper-like nest on a tree branch — with honey bees flying around it. Fond childhood memories aside, there's a fundamental problem with this picture.
"Winnie the Pooh liked honey and he always got the honey from a thing that was supposed to be a bee nest," said Elizabeth Capaldi Evans, an associate professor of biology and animal behavior at Bucknell University. "But the picture of the 'bee nest' was in reality a picture of a wasp nest. So we don't really know what he was eating."
This portrayal is just one of many common misconceptions about bees, which eat only pollen and nectar from plants while wasps eat insect larvae, spiders and plant materials, said Evans, who explores the various aspects of bee behavior, their importance in human food production and other bee facts in a new book, Why Do Bees Buzz? Fascinating Answers to Questions about Bees (Rutgers University Press 2010), co-authored with Carol A. Butler.
From bee biology to killer bees
The book, which is set up in a question-and answer format, answers more than 100 basic and complex questions for beekeepers, scientists and others interested in bees. The subjects range from basic bee biology to the aggressive nature of killer bees and a mysterious condition, colony collapse disorder, which is threatening bees' very existence.
Why Do Bees Buzz? is part of a series of question-and-answer books published by the Rutgers press. Others in the series, also co-authored by Butler, answer questions about butterflies, bats, hummingbirds and salt marshes. The bee book includes photographs by Debra Cook-Balducci, an instructional technologist at Bucknell, and illustrations by Bucknell alumni Julie Dlugos and John Cullum, both Class of '08.
Evans, who has a bachelor's degree in biology from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and a Ph.D. in zoology from Michigan State University, became interested in bees after college. She began studying the orientation and navigation of bees during graduate school, studies that continued when she worked as a post-doctoral research scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Evans joined Bucknell in 2000, shortly after she published a paper in Nature demonstrating for the first time that bee flight may not be dependent on age but on flight experience.
Intriguing insects
Evans did not always have an affinity for bees but through her research she developed respect for them.
"I was scared of and intimidated by bees when I started my graduate work but saw how powerful an organism they are and how complicated they are," she said. "Bees have some interesting behaviors like the use of a dance-like movement to recruit nestmates to find profitable food sources. The way they do this waggle dance is based on the position of the sun's azimuth and opposing gravity. They are great navigators and can communicate about where to find food outside in the world, from inside the dark of the nest."
Evans has found that many others are fascinated by bees as well. She most often is asked about bees' "waggle dance," allergies — which often are related to wasps rather than bees — and killer bees.
Killer bees are a more aggressive type of honey bee that resulted from the cross-breeding of two subspecies from Africa and Europe. Originating in South America in the 1950s, they have been found along the southern border of the United States but are not a major threat in most parts of the country.
"Cross-breeding causes different behavior," Evans said. "Killer bees have a higher sensitivity to alarm and disturbance. Their venom is exactly the same as the European varieties. When they sting they leave behind a perfume that makes the other bees react and become aggressive, too. You are marked by the venom and stinger. You may get 1,000 stings from African bees where you might only receive a few stings from the European bees. The chemical is exactly the same."
Evans noted, however, that beekeepers have been managing killer bee colonies for years after proper training, so people should not fear bees because of the reputation of the killer bees.
Colony collapse disorder
One of the more pressing matters facing bees is the emergence of colony collapse disorder (CCD), which is decreasing the honey bee population exponentially. Considering that one in three bites of food is ultimately dependent on insect pollination, the far-reaching effects of CCD could be catastrophic.
The immediate causes of CCD, which was discovered by a central Pennsylvania beekeeper, are unknown. There are many potential factors involved, including diseases, colony management strategies or pesticides in the environment, Evans said. Parasitic mites are believed to be transmitting viral infections, which contribute to colony stress and ultimately kill the bees.
"In general, the average person doesn't know much about bees, which is a shame," Evans said. "If you're a beekeeper or you use bees for research or teaching you are intimately connected to what affects their health. Long before colony collapse disorder was identified, beekeepers had complained about 'fall dwindling disease.' Beekeepers and researchers noticed their bees were sick in the fall season."
'Social' insects
One of the reasons that diseases are challenging beekeepers is because when one bee is sick, it affects the whole colony. Honey bees are social insects. They differ from other bees because they have cooperation in their colonies. As such, they also are models of social behavior.
"They have a social stomach, meaning if one bee is hungry, they will signal a sister and she'll be obliged to share her food," Evans said.
Bees also divide the labor needed to maintain their hives and, contrary to "Bee Movie," starring Jerry Seinfeld, bees do not choose one job and stick with it; they change jobs throughout their lives. Worker bees also are female, not male, as the movie portrays.
The queen bee
Another intriguing fact about worker honey bees is that they know within 20 minutes if their queen is gone from the hive, Evans said. Because workers need a queen to maintain their colony, they will quickly rear a new queen from an egg laid by the queen.
"As the egg grows into larvae, the workers feed it 'royal jelly' from special glands in their heads, which turns the larva into a queen," Evans explained. "Without royal jelly, female bee larvae grow into workers."
Rather than wait for the workers to rear a new queen, a beekeeper can take control of the re-queening process, Evans said.
"If you take the queen out of a hive and put another one in immediately, the worker bee will kill it," she said. "If you take the queen out for 24 hours and then just put a new queen in, they will mostly not accept her as the new queen. They get agitated because she doesn't smell like their mom. But, if you put the queen in the hive within a screened cage stoppered by sugar candy, by the time they eat through the candy to free the queen, they will most likely accept the new queen as the head of the colony, even though she may not be related to the rest of the family. It's quite fascinating."
Evans hopes her book will provide a resource for those who are curious about bees in the general public so that more people will understand their importance.
"We can't leave all the information about bees, pollination and food production to scientists, farmers and beekeepers," Evans said. "We all share our dependence on these insects, so we need to know about their biology and how to keep them healthy."
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When For Colored Girls (34th Street Films/Lionsgate) opened in movie theatres November 5, the film adaptation of the award-winning play by Ntozake Shange '70, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, became the third-highest grossing film that weekend. Shange (née Paulette Williams) appreciates the big screen success, describing it positively as "very surprising and very gratifying." The present momentum feels like "a tremor, like an earthquake" for her. Just as the play's Broadway debut did 34 years prior, the cinematic debut of polarizing writer- director Tyler Perry's interpretation of Shange's seminal work has also caused a disturbance in the cultural atmosphere.
Shange originally created "seven ladies in simple colored dresses" who speak, sing, and dance their painful life experiences on stage. Through their poetic re-telling, these women find mutual support and healing. Perry's writing and direction takes us out of the suspended time of performance art and into the simulated real time of cinematic narrative. His multi-millionaire independent auteur status also attracts recognizable names to the cast: Loretta Divine, Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Tessa Thompson, and Kerry Washington. The seven women retain their colors throughout their wardrobe, but Perry shuffles the poetry and redistributes it among the women, which include two new voices, Gilda and Alice, portrayed by Phylicia Rashad and Whoopi Goldberg, respectively.
Admittedly, Shange had reservations about Perry as a director. "I was concerned with Mr. Perry because he does primarily [broad comedy]," she says. Recalling director Oz Scott, who directed the play in the 1970s, and the PBS telecast in 1982, Shange says, "Oz was fabulous to work with. He's a brilliant director, a brilliant artist. Very sensitive. His work has a textual and visual quality."
Although Perry's reassignment of some of the poetic language works well, as do many of his cinematographic choices, his own lack of finesse with dialogue at times snags the creative fiber of the film, most evident through the hit-or-miss interweaving of his words with Shange's, and by over-writing where visual impact and emotional resonance would be more powerful. Shange has said she's 85 percent happy with Perry's results, yet his reputation for conservative, moral-driven films where independent women characters are vilified and require adaptation to traditional roles in their relationships with men has dissatisfied skeptics and critics alike. "I was aware of Mr. Perry being accused of not being sensitive to women and their lives in his films," Shange acknowledges. "That was the 15 percent I wasn't happy with."
Perhaps not surprisingly, men also were not happy about some of these characterizations. One male reviewer, for New York Magazine, describes the male characters as "one stereotypical dog after another." The angry, violent reactions of black men to the play in the 1970s are matched by their new-millennium cyber attacks on the film, primarily energized by one Washington Post column-gone- viral that suggests the film be renamed For Black Men Who Have Considered Homicide After Watching Another Tyler Perry Movie. Shange, however, remains blissfully out of the loop. "I wasn't aware of [men's current criticisms of the film], probably because this time it's not directed at me," she admits with a laugh. What the similarity of reactions reveals is a bit more sobering for her. "It makes me very sad, and it makes me think we haven't come very far in 30 years," she laments. "We have to communicate with each other. We can't speak past one another. It's sad."
As her surname suggests (Claude Sloan, Shange's assistant, says the name was a gift bestowed on the author by two South African revolutionaries), Shange "walks like a lion" through both the negative and positive aftereffects. This ability might be attributed to her survival of very challenging moments in her life—attempts at suicide, two debilitating strokes, daily living with mental illness. Asked if any of these personal experiences show up in her writing, particularly in for colored girls, Shange concludes, "I'm not sure how much it represents my life. My poems are usually pretty literal. I'm sure there's some [of myself present]." Yet she shrugs off the notion that she is some sort of cultural figure for women who tell her that they have achieved catharsis and healing through her work. "I don't think about that. I continue to write. I've been writing. I've been living in the present." That present includes the critical acclaim of her new novel, Some Sing, Some Cry (St. Martin's Press, 2010), coauthored with her sister Ifa Bayeza. An award-winning playwright and theatrical producer in her own right, Bayeza has been a part of the For Colored Girls journey from its incarnation as a solo performance piece, through its theatrical unfolding, to its feature film success. "[Her] being with me has been very important," Shange intimates of her sister. "We're only a year and a half apart. I value her judgment and her vision, and I treasure her talent. I'm able to be frank with her and she's able to see things in my work that I don't see or that I miss. She's an incredible writer."
Coinciding with For Colored Girls' feature film release, Scribner re- issued the published choreopoem in a hardcover Scribner Classics edition featuring elements from the iconic 1975 cover art. They also created an eBook, updated the trade paperback version (with the original cover), and came out with a movie tie-in paperback featuring the movie art on the cover. All editions include two new poems, a new introduction, as well as photos relating to the work. An audiobook from Brillance Audio was also just released in January.
This year, Shange will take her writing "back to the beginning," when for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf returns to Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater (a 2008 revival was canceled when a major investor withdrew from the production).
"It's already been cast," Shange reveals. She'll also return to her original casting sensibility. Although the play and the film featured all black women in their respective casts, Shange emphasizes, "It was never for black women entirely. The earlier performances in San Francisco [featured] African American, Latina, and Asian actresses. Mr. Papp (Joseph Papp, founder of New York's Public Theater) insisted on an all black cast because [a diverse cast] would baffle a New York audience. On Broadway in 2011 we plan to have Latinas and Africans in the cast."
The For Colored Girls blitzkrieg across the genres of poetry, theatre, publishing, television, and film is also something Shange takes in stride. "I was an African studies major. I left Barnard as a person who combined history, literature, and art history in my work," she explains. "I never experienced a separation of the genres. My work transcends barriers of all sorts because I never wanted it to be stuck."
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Packers tight end Jermichael Finley talked during the offseason about not having "chemistry" with Aaron Rodgers. After being hurt his past week in Indianapolis and his status still uncertain for the upcoming Texans game, Finley returned to the chemistry issue in an interview Wednesday with Jason Wilde of ESPNMilwaukee.com and placed the burden on his quarterback. "Not good enough at all," Finley said about his chemistry with Rodgers. "Something to be worked on, and try to work on it as much as I can, try to talk to him as much as I can, but like I said it takes two people." Perhaps it's a case of Finley not being aware of what he's saying, but ignorance isn't an excuse. Now into Finley's fifth year in the NFL, he's no longer worth the time and effort of developing any longer. Between his comments, his drops and now his injury, it's time to make D.J. Williams and the rest of the tight ends a much bigger part of the Packers offense.
More on Jermichael Finley comes from JSOnline, PackersNews.com and ESPNMilwaukee.com.
First-round draft pick Nick Perry was reportedly fined $15,000 for his tackle on Colts quarterback Andrew Luck this past week when he was penalized for hitting with the crown of his helmet. "He seemed surprised by the amount of the fine, especially considering it wasn't a helmet-to-helmet hit," writes Rob Demovsky of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. "The fine was nearly twice what defensive lineman B.J. Raji received last week ($7,875) for throwing a punch against the New Orleans Saints." Perry said he plans to appeal the fine. I can't speak to the amount of the fine, but I agree with the penalty and don't mind that Perry was fined. He was basically unblocked and had all the time in the world to lower his aiming point and make a form tackle with his shoulder and place his helmet to the side of Luck. This is the new world of the NFL and players must conform.
More on Nick Perry comes from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, ESPNMilwaukee.com and Packer Report.
After placing running back Cedric Benson on the injured reserve/designated for return list, the Packers are moving forward with their plans to replace Benson. "Coach Mike McCarthy said (Alex) Green will be the starter Sunday night at Houston because he's the only one of the three with any snaps from scrimmage this season," writes Pete Dougherty of the Press-Gazette. "But the job of primary runner will end up with whichever back is playing best in any given game." James Starks has not been active for a single game yet this season as he's nursed a turf toe injury, but he will be part of the Packers offense going forward, as will Brandon Saine to a limited extent. I think McCarthy will be a man of his word and go with the hot hand. If either Green or Starks rips off a run over 10 yards, they'll be in line to see more playing time.
More on Alex Green and the running back situation in Green Bay comes from Fox Sports Wisconsin, ESPNMilwaukee.com and the Journal Sentinel.
The Packers offensive linemen talked about wanting to keep running the football in an article by Tom Silverstein of the Journal Sentinel.
Linebacker Clay Matthews reiterated his stance on his perception that the NFL has a double standard of protecting offensive players while neglecting the safety of defensive players. Matthews spoke to Houston reporters on Wednesday in advance of the upcoming game against the Texans and spoke about the recent season-ending injury to his former college teammate, Brian Cushing at USC. "I think it's anybody's nightmare," Matthews is quoted as saying at JSOnline. "I think anytime you suffer a knee injury or the dreaded ACL that you'll have to have surgery on is difficult because it's a long recovery process and it is something that can be avoided. I know a lot of emphasis had been put on head protection and head trauma, but we can't neglect other injuries that are major contributors of people falling out of games and missing the remainder of seasons."
More on Clay Matthews comes from ESPNMilwaukee.com.
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers talked about his play this season with reporters on Wednesday. More appears at the Press-Gazette, Packer Report, Packers official website and Fox Sports Wisconsin.
More on the Packers placing Cedric Benson on injured reserve comes from Packer Report, Associated Press, Fox Sports Wisconsin and JSOnline.
Defensive lineman B.J. Raji talked about his ankle injury in an article at PackersNews.com but said little and said he's taking it day by day.
Former Penn State player Andrew Quarless reacted to news that Jerry Sandusky received his prison sentence.
Cheesehead TV's own Zach Kruse says the Packers offense needs to evolve in his weekly column at JSOnline.
Former Packers safety Matt Bowen breaks down over at the National Football Post what went wrong with the Packers defense in giving up the game-winning touchdown this past Sunday to Reggie Wayne.
The challenge of facing Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt is taken on by Pete Dougherty.
Hypothesizing that Bryan Bulaga's knee injury may have affected his play is Adam Czech of AllGreenBayPackers.com.
Video: The Press-Gazette crew previews the Texans game in their latest Insiders episode...
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WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY 17, 2003 -- A bill that includes millions of dollars of funding sought by U.S. Senator Pete Domenici for the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Roswell and the Antiterrorism Assistance Program (ATA) was approved today by the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The $18.1 billion spending bill next goes to the full Senate for consideration.
The bill has $7.1 million for the ILEA, which includes funding to construct a new facility for the program at the Roswell Industrial Air Center. The bill also provides $106.4 million for the ATA, which involves the New Mexico Tech at Socorro.
"Roswell is proving to be a very good host for the ILEA program, which is helping the State Department meet its law enforcement training goals. This bill provides steady funding to keep the program on course, and to move forward with building a new facility for the program," Domenici said.
The ILEA funding is provided through the State Department's International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement Program. ILEA training in Roswell began in 2001 using $10 million secured by Domenici and Skeen in 1999 and 2000. It is being operated under a five-year contract with New Mexico Tech, which has partnered with Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell, Sam Houston University, and the Science Applications International Corporation to carry out ILEA training.
ILEA is used to fulfill a U.S. commitment to international law enforcement in order to tackle transnational criminal issues, such as counternarcotics or money laundering.
In addition to supporting the $106.4 million appropriation for ATA, Domenici was also successful in including language directing the State Department to fully utilize the antiterrorism resources at New Mexico Tech. Earlier this year, Domenici protested moves by the State Department to relocate some ATA programs at the Socorro school, including the Rural Border Patrol Operations and Hostage Negotiation courses.
"The funding for ATA is important, but the bill also puts the State Department on notice that we in Congress expect the State Department to maintain ATA courses at New Mexico Tech. The school has provided great facilities and resources and capabilities to carry out the ATA mission. That should not end," Domenici said.
New Mexico Tech has voluntarily provided an exclusive training area, which consists of 3,137 acres, for the Rural Border Patrol Operations program. The school has also developed a state-of-the-art firearms range for ATA training.
Established in 1983, ATA provides training and equipment to law enforcement personnel in friendly countries to deter and counter terrorist threats within their borders. ATA is carried out by Louisiana State University with New Mexico Tech as a partner.


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David Pogue at the New York Times loves the iPad mini, even though the screen isn't super sharp.
In a very short review he says:
"Over all, the Mini gives you all the iPad goodness in a more manageable size, and it's awesome. You could argue that the iPad Mini is what the iPad always wanted to be."
And while it's more expensive than the Kindle Fire HD and the Nexus 7, Pogue says:
"the iPad Mini is a far classier, more attractive, thinner machine. It has two cameras instead of one. Its fit and finish are far more refined. And above all, it offers that colossal app catalog, which Android tablet owners can only dream about. "
And about that non-Retina display?
Nobody's going to complain about the sharpness — it packs in 163 pixels per inch (ppi) — but it's not the same jaw-dropping resolution as the big iPad (264 ppi). Gotta hold something back for next year's model, right?


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Debate continues in the Missouri legislature over the Obama administration's "contraception mandate," which will require health insurance to include coverage for birth control. In this week's Health & Wealth update, a House committee hears testimony on a largely symbolic bill, opposing the mandate.
The mandate to cover contraception, announced in January, ignited the furor of Catholic bishops, including John Gaydos, the bishop of the Jefferson City diocese.
"To put it simply, no person should be forced to pay for abortion drugs or other items that violate their moral and religious convictions," Gaydos said, testifying before a Missouri House committee on Tuesday.
Last month, the Missouri Senate passed a bill stating that no employer in Missouri can be required to cover contraception if it goes against religious beliefs.
"Federal law will ultimately trump this law," admits the bill's sponsor, Republican John Lamping of St. Louis County. "But it's really all Missouri can do."
Yesterday, Lamping presented his bill to the Missouri House health insurance committee, where he was grilled by the Democrats in the room, including Representative Mary Still, of Columbia. She cited a study that found 98 percent of sexually active women have used birth control at some point. Denying them access, said Still, would discriminate against women.
"Most women want to have access to birth control, because it is an opportunity for them to really control their economic future," she said.
Lamping responded, "This has nothing to do with access to those services. This has to do with the right of an employer to offer a benefit that he or she chooses to offer."
The Obama administration rule is part of the health reform law, which requires coverage of preventive care with no co-pay. President Obama said he took the advice of the Institute of Medicine, which recommended contraception should be included as preventive.
But religious organizations that are opposed to contraception don't want to pay for health insurance that covers it. Peggy Forrest runs a religious charity in St. Louis, and she told lawmakers yesterday that her group had to fight with her insurance carrier to get coverage that did not include contraception.
"To say it has been challenging is an understatement," she said. "Our board of directors, myself, the other leadership, believe that providing health care insurance coverage to our 16 full-time employees is a moral responsibility that we hold. But we want to provide that coverage in a way that does not force us to violate our moral and ethical beliefs."
Republican Representative Chris Molendorp, from Cass County, chairs the House health insurance committee. "I don't want to infringe anyone's right, or their ability to exercise their right," said. Molendorp. "I also don't want to pass a law that's going to create years and years of litigation. There's got to be a balance here."
Molendorp worried this bill could put insurance companies between a "rock and a hard place:"
"Shall we violate state law or shall we violate federal law?"
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You can certainly say Treyarch has its work cut out for it: every CoD game developed by franchise creator Infinity Ward (that's 1, 2 and 4) has ended up on various "Game of the Year" lists, while console-only releases like Finest Hour, Big Red One, and the most recent, Call of Duty 3, have received less glowing response. But Mark Lamia, studio head of Treyarch, eagerly points out that, unlike with CoD3, this team has had a full two years to build the game (CoD3 was created in one). As he told the press in attendance, "We're out to make the best shooter this year."
The first level we were shown showed was a bit on the grisly side: perhaps taking a cue from the opening of CoD4: Modern Warfare, you find yourself captured, watching one of your mates being tortured by a Japanese soldier. Things aren't looking too good until you're saved at the last second and gameplay moves out to the beachhead. While it's obviously removed from the usual European settings we've become accustomed to, the action is still unmistakably Call of Duty, as our squad scrambled through a coastline village as bullets flew everywhere and explosions rocked the area.
One emotional aspect Treyarch is looking to add to this Call of Duty is apprehension. Traditionally, the CoD games have been nonstop action, but taking a cue from history, Japanese soldiers will sometimes hide in the ground or in trees, waiting as long as it takes to ambush your squad. In one scene, the nighttime sky is lit up by flares and you find yourself almost blinded and instantly under attack from all directions. According to Treyarch, come of the game testers got into the habit of scorching every last bit of grass with the new flamethrower (more on that in a second) to make sure no one was lying in wait... and that's exactly the type of fear Treyarch's going for.
World at War is being built on the same tech that powered CoD4, which was one of the more impressive-looking games of 2007. As part of our demo, Treyarch showed off a test bed level for physics and other effects. In one area, a Japanese soldier was hiding in a tree, and when shot, would fall out and dangle realistically by the rope he'd tied himself to the tree with (in case he fell asleep while waiting for enemy soldiers). In another area, a log trap had been set up, where the player could shoot out a rope and send a log swinging to slam into an enemy. Parts of buildings may be destructible, so when you're seemingly trapped, it may be possible to make your own back exit. Water effects include buoyancy for dead bodies in the water, wake effects for boats, some cool grenade reactions and tracer effects if you happen to be underwater.


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Bono sang to us!Another fabulous memory was meeting the band. A small group of us had waited for hours outside the Entertainment Centre in the afternoon listening to soundcheck and rehearsals. After they finished Edge came out...OMG we couldn't believe it. I was 24 and was trying so hard to get the 'younger' :-) people to not scream as I was scared he would leave. But he was wonderful and gracious. Talked, signed autographs, posed for photos. That night after the show we were back there again and the whole band came out. Again, so obliging. The next day during soundcheck we were there again, and this time Bono came out! It was about 3 pm or so. Again, just a small group of us. Someone had a guitar and he sat down and told us he had just written a song for Willie Nelson and wanted to play it for us to see what we thought....then he sat down and played "Slow Dancing" !!!!!! Everyone was so quiet and so mesmerised in what they were seeing. I will never forget it! Feel so privileged to be one of the first people ever to hear that song. Truly special moment. Afterwards Bono, talked to us, posed for photos and signed autographs. He was a true and utter gentleman. One of my best memories ever.
10 December, 2010
First time....and the crush!Just reading the comment below....so many memories. I was 24 and it was my first U2 concert and I was beyond excited! I had queued up for 3 nights in the Queen St mall months earlier to get my tickets and was about 8 or so rows from the front. All rows of unbolted seating on the floor (what were they thinking!! ). When the band started the crowd behind all rushed forward down the aisles. Security didn't know what to do. I was so excited hearing the opening of 'Streets' I didn't realise at first I was so close to getting my legs completely crushed between the rows of seats as they all pushed forward. To save myself I got up on the seat...as did others...then security was telling us to get down. I'm like "I have nowhere to stand". Eventually it sorted out and later on I saw security carrying out rows and rows of completely mangled, broken and twisted seating. Amazing! And the show was amazing! But those opening bars of Streets....will never forget how excited I was. Have just seen my 14th and 15th concerts in Brisbane at Suncorp on Dec 8 and 9 for the 360 tour, and I can say without a doubt that the Dec 8 show is easily up there with the best I have seen. So excited...I think my first Lovetown show is the only time I have been more excited. LOVE the band! LOVE the concert and music. Time of my life!!
09 December, 2010
Blown AwayI have just seen my 8th U2 concert in Brisbane and thought I should look back to where it all started. The Lovetown tour was unbelievable, BB King was amazing and when they sang "When love comes to town together" wow there are no words. I went to all three Brisbane Lovetown concerts and loved them all. The first night was thrilling and when The Edge played the first cord of Streets those of us who were seated in what is now the general admission standing area all bolted to the stage and stood all over the seats. The shear mass of people and our weight collapsed the seating from under us, which resulted in my finding out 4 days later that I had torn liguments in my knee,still very worth it. The security for the second night was tight they tried really hard to keep us controlled but to no avail. The third night was when the boys took the experience to another level, being the last night in Brisbane, there are simply no words to describe their brilliance. My biggest highlight was going back to the Sheraton Hotel where they were staying and waiting for them to arrive after the show. They were always very generous with their time, never seemed to be in a hurry. On the second night Bono had nearly lost his voice and Edge spoke to us all, he was very unsympathetic for Bono and enjoyed the spot light for a change. I remember him to be very funny and witty. Along with my favourite songs of the tour and the feeling of being so close to them. I loved hanging out with the other U2 fans and swapping stories and experiences and sharing musical magic for 3 unforgettable nights in 1989. U2 not just a band but a way of life. (That last bits copyright protected!)


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'Tis the season for giving -- and getting siblings involved in creating gifts for each other will foster familial bonds and hopefully curtail any sibling rivalry that might be brewing as the presents stack up under the tree. Here are 6 simple project ideas for brothers and sisters to get crafty over the holidays.
1. DIY SHARPIE TIE-DYED TEES – INSTRUCTIONS – Beneath the Rowan Tree
• Permanent markers in desired colors (or black works too)
• Rubbing alcohol
• Eye droppers
• Rubber bands
• Plastic or other cups
• Cotton t-shirts
*be aware of ventilation as the alcohol is stinky!
(image from Moments with Maisie)
2. RECYCLED FORTUNE COOKIE CRAYONS – INSTRUCTIONS – Heartmade
• Crayons (old or new)
• Silicon molds (I used a number mold, but you can use any shape)
• Exacto knife
• Pirex
(lots of funny food molds here)
3. RECYCLED DETERGENT BOTTLE CARS – INSPIRATION – Martine Camilleri
• Recycled detergent bottle
• Warm water (to remove labels)
• Hot glue gun
4. FUNKY PET ROCKS – INSTRUCTIONS (as if you need them) – Your Imagination
• Rocks
• Googly eyes
• Glue
• Black permanent marker
• Chalk {for dark rocks}
• Other materials: beads, pipe cleaner, yarn, puff balls, feathers, felt
5. DIY SNOW GLOBE SOAPS – INSTRUCTIONS – Alphamom
• A brick of clear glycerine
• Dye
• Scent (I chose peppermint because that's what Christmas smells like to me)
• Glitter
• Microwave
• A dish to melt and pour things in (my Fiestaware gravy boat worked marvelously but a glass measuring cup would be fine too)
• Potato peeler
• A cheese grater
• A spoon for stirring
• A bar of white soap.
6. DIY DUCT TAPE WALLET – INSTRUCTIONS – PhilmanJ
• Duct tape
• Plastic card for sizing
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Devils acquire Loktionov from KingsNHL.com @NHLdotcom
The New Jersey Devils have acquired Andrei Loktionov from the Los Angeles Kings for a fifth-round choice in the 2013 NHL Draft, the Devils announced Wednesday.
Loktionov was a fifth-round pick by the Kings in the 2008 draft. He has seven goals and 14 points in 59 career NHL games, including 39 during the 2011-12 season. He appeared in two Stanley Cup Playoff games for the Los Angeles Kings during their march to last season's championship.
This season, Loktionov has played only for the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League, with seven goals and 22 points in 37 games.


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Medical experts have concluded that petting the walrus for Jesus, wrestling the bald-headed champ, punchin' the munchkin, bopping the bologna, beating off, masturbating, or whatever you choose to call playing with yourself will not help a person fall asleep – no matter how much they do it. Shucks.
In fact, while scientists say that stroking the old one-eyed weasel as a means to getting some shut eye has been closely linked in the past, there is just no substantial evidence that proves that j'ing o into an old gym sock is any more beneficial to taming a rabid insomniac than say, counting sheep. Counting, not mounting! Stay with us!
Well boys, it looks like science has yet again screwed us out of another one of life's simple pleasures by putting it underneath a microscope. However, we're not buying into this anti-whacker propaganda. After all, do you know how many times we've stirred from a good night's sleep with our limp noodles still in our hands? We'll give you a hint: A lot!


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The rapidly developing field of stem cell research mobilises immense amounts of money in private and public grants. But it also raises deep ethical questions regarding health justice and the dignity of human life.
Stem cells have the ability to evolve into a diverse range of specialised cell types. They can be cultivated so as to produce cells identical to those of various tissues such as muscles or nerves. Research in this field is oriented mainly towards finding therapies for a number of diseases, from cancer to Parkinson's disease. Embryonic stem cell research requires the destruction of human embryos to obtain the cells.
Key ethical and social issues related to stem cell research were addressed by some 40 scientists, ethicists and theologians at an international consultation which met in Greece at the Volos Academy for Theological Studies from 9 to 11 November 2009. All participants left with their perspectives changed by encounters across nations, religions and cultures.
Dr Fabian Salazar Guerrero from Latin America challenged his listeners: "The problems discussed in this consultation have world dimensions. But those in the poorest regions of the world are excluded from discussions. This exclusion kills in a long agony".
The issue at stake here for those in the poorest regions of the world is one of health justice. About 90 percent of the world health budget is being spent on 10 percent of the world population.
The issue, put starkly, is this: why are so few resources poured into curing the most basic, preventable diseases, when so many resources are dedicated to stem cell research? This applies to all forms of this research, from adult to embryonic stem cells.
This problem is compounded by fears that unregulated stem cell treatment will proliferate in nations which do not have the legal and regulatory infrastructure to cope. The need for ova in embryonic stem cell research has given rise to a new form of exploitation of women.
Concerns for disparity in research spending matched a deep sense of responsibility. From a Jewish perspective, Professor Aviad Raz put it this way: "'Know before whom you stand, and to whom you are going to give account'…. The idea also comes from Moses standing before the burning bush in Midian. Stem cells can be our burning bush. We are forced to rethink humility, self awareness, and accountability in the wider context of sustainable economy, the environment, equity and disparities, and social justice. We are all in this boat together."
The ethical and social difficulties forced participants to consider more deeply their own religious traditions. They found common ground in an affirmation of life as gift from God. This means, in practice, listening carefully and with humility to those who are different. A sense of the importance of relationships, and the deep community spirit in those regions of the world marginalised from high-tech science, is a salutary reminder to secular Western individualistic societies.
The rhetoric of stem cell research, full of promises for increased longevity and enhanced human beings, seemed out of touch with countries struggling for survival. At the same time, some nations are lured into this technology by the prestige and the promise of lucrative rewards. Prof Un Hey Kim from Korea insisted that "The question of who will be the beneficiaries of stem cell research is crucial but not adequately addressed". Stem cell therapy may not be the most effective approach for many genetic diseases which are influenced by social and environmental factors.
Given that the human being is, according to the Christian tradition, created in the image of God, the special sanctity and dignity of the human person struck a common chord. However, not all Christians present were prepared to endorse the Roman Catholic and Orthodox view that a human being – with personal characteristics and a soul – is present in the fertilised ovum from the very moment of conception. Nonetheless, participants agreed with the strong intention to value human life as graced by God from the very beginning.
All human life is surrounded by a profound mystery of being. Rev. Prof. Vasileios Kalliakmanis suggested that while Christianity needs "holy rules", it also needs the "ecclesial economy" which allows for "a temporary divagation from them". Flexibility may be present in particular pastoral situations. This idea is rooted in a theological tradition of the Divine Economy, knowing God as one whose holiness is always tempered by love and mercy.
Overall the mood of the consultation was that of shared struggle. Stem cells, including the most recent technologies such as induced pluripotent stem cells, symbolise a thin end of a wedge. Other bio-engineering methods involving nanotechnology are already on the horizon.
Participants agreed that if the church is going to speak into this public sphere, then education is vital. We need determination to dig deep into the wisdom of religious traditions in order to inform complex decisions. In as much as practical wisdom means deliberation, judgment and action, all religious traditions cannot afford to stand still, for inactivity amounts to acquiescence.
(c) Celia Deane-Drummond is professor of Theology and the Biosciences at the University of Chester. An executive summary from the consultation in Volos can be found here: http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=7328


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Red Sox bullpen likely to see change
Second in a series of spring training roster breakdowns coming this week. Monday: starting pitchers. Tuesday: Relievers. Wednesday: Infielders. Thursday: Outfielders. Friday: Catchers and DHs.
As the Red Sox prepare for spring training, here is a look at their relief pitchers:
Expected bullpen: RHP Joel Hanrahan (closer); RHP Andrew Bailey, LHP Craig Breslow, RHP Junichi Tazawa, RHP Koji Uehara, LHP Andrew Miller, LHP Franklin Morales or RHP Alfredo Aceves.
In the mix: RHP Daniel Bard, RHP Clayton Mortensen.
Prospects of note: RHP Alex Wilson, RHP Brock Huntzinger, RHP Aaron Kurcz
Organizational depth: RHP Oscar Villarreal, RHP Pedro Beato, RHP Anthony Carter, RHP Jose De La Torre.
Breakdown: The Red Sox have 10 relievers and probably only seven spots in the bullpen. Something has to give. Hanrahan, Breslow and Uehara are sure things if healthy. Tazawa proved he belonged last season with a strong 37 appearances (1.43 ERA, 45 strikeouts in 44 innings). Bailey and Aceves are trade candidates, as are Miller and Morales. Or will the Sox keep three lefties? Bard is a wild card after last season's disaster and Mortensen is out of options. He could be dealt, too.
What's good: There's lots of depth and plenty of arms with strikeout stuff. ... Hanrahan has 76 saves the last two seasons along with 128 strikeouts in 128.1 innings. ... The underrated Uehara was signed as a free agent after a terrific 2012 season. ... Breslow shackles lefties but fares well against righties, too. ... Miller and Morales have big-time fastballs. ... Aceves, when focused, can do just about anything required of a pitcher and Bailey is much better than he showed last year.
What's bad: Hanrahan is a career National Leaguer who has yet to pitch for a team with a winning record. Now he's going right in the deep end. ... Bullpens thrive on set roles. So who is the set-up man? There are many candidates. ... How will Bailey handle being demoted? ... Aceves was a troublemaker last season. John Farrell has made it clear he won't stand for that. ... Tazawa, for all his good work last season, was pitching for a team going nowhere last season and the pressure was slight.
Theme song: "Too Much Of Anything" by The Who.


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"Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what's been on the table all along, in front of everybody, rather than from discovering something new."
"Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what's been on the table all along, in front of everybody, rather than from discovering something new."
In his open, omnivorous writing on literature, visual art, and performance, Hilton Als has made critical analysis and introspection a conjoined practice. The essay, which he has called "a form without a form," is his primary mode, and he invariably interweaves family and friendship, American fixations on and lived experiences of race and sexuality, metaphor and reality.
"My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights."
"There are all kinds of books I'd like to write that seem to be out of my grasp."
"The really good ideas are generated in the process of writing, and only if you're working at white heat. You don't get those ideas if you're worrying about the commas."
"Writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock."
"A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hand and pray to it."
"The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author."
"There is no one truth, but there are an awful lot of objective facts. The more facts you get, the more facts you collect, the closer you come to whatever truth there is."
"Like everyone, I know some big words, but I try my damndest not to use them."
"In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems."
"Smart people say such dumb and disappointing things about translation."
"I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it."
"It knocked you off your horse, taking LSD. I remember going to work that Monday, after taking LSD on Saturday, and it just seemed like a cardboard reality."
"I find what happens in reality very interesting and I don't find a great need to make up things."
"I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black."
"The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error."
"I'm a person with virtually no feelings."
On American Psycho's Patrick Bateman: "The more he acquires, the emptier he feels. On a certain level, I was that man, too."
"It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way."
"Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination."
"What I want to do is write something that seems like it means something and doesn't. I want to write a novel that even I don't understand.'
"What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page."
"Coming from New York, when I was a kid, anything west of the Hudson was out of this world."
"As a girl—twelve, thirteen years old—I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me."
"When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well."
"I wanted to make room for antiheroes."
"That's the hardest thing to do—to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has been accomplished."
"I meant my first novel to be an epic which would contain, in an artistic narrative, 'everything I knew.'"
"On January 10, 1974, Transports et Transit Maritimes Associés came to the rue de Tournon and took away three large metal trunks and I closed the Paris office of The Paris Review for good."
"A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation."
"I was rather a goody-goody as a child… It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it."
Born in London in 1945, Richard Holmes has written ten biographies and books of biographical essays. Even in his early works Shelley (1974) and Coleridge: Early Visions (1989), Holmes demonstrates a keen eye for place and a striking empathy for his subjects.
"I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were."
"It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think."
"I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across."
"I know that black life, like all life, outstrips our perceptions, that so much of black life still remains—to invoke Ellison here—invisible, unseen."
"Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me."
"I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read."
"What's a revolution? It's when a regime can no longer control the populace, when the regime is brought down to the ground."
László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in Gyula, a provincial town in Hungary, in the Soviet era. He published his first novel, Satantango, in 1985, then The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), War and War (1999), and Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming (2016).
"In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy."
"If a word that was used by Flaubert or Césaire falls into desuetude, if it becomes passé, we still keep it in the dictionary because it was used by an important writer."
"The good effect of translating is this cross-pollination of languages."
"One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before."
"Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined."
"The book attained a mind of its own, a subjectivity or an autocatalytic machinelike quality."
"I want to create absurd and hilarious, but also dark and revealing, edifices of language."
"I've got the fucking gift for it. Instinct, call it."
"A novel should reflect its society and its circumstances."
"The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention."
"I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian."
"It was a great time to be young and restless in New York. I wasn't getting much writing done, but I like to think I witnessed a great moment and I internalized it."
"With nonfiction, you've got your material, and what you're trying to do is tell it as a story in a way that doesn't violate fact, but at the same time is structured and presented in a way that makes it interesting to read."
"Is there such a thing as overreading? Just because it wasn't part of my grand design doesn't mean it isn't there. Things do happen in books that the writer is too submersed in bringing the narrative to life to notice."
"All my editors have been white."
"Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?"
"People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience."
"I just want to see whether it's possible to entertain Freud's fantasy of a realistic biography. It may not be a possible thing to do."
"I feel as if I start in a kind of wilderness, and I'm sort of making a way, a crossable path through it. Eventually I can realize where a poem came from—but that's rarely what the poem is about."
"There is an immense abyss between the very few who have money and the vast number who are poor."
"Writers had better not be too cocksure that they've got inspiration on their side."
"I think of America as my audience, and inside that space are white people as well as people of color."
"I worked at a library and that's where I first read James Baldwin. I think it was Notes of a Native Son. It stopped me cold."
"I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe."
"Those who have earned respect should be given respect, regardless of their human faults."
Anyone else might have easily written off a life of Véra Nabokov as impossible. In the two major biographies of her husband—both written during her lifetime, when she controlled access to his papers—she is a cipher.
"I love going to plays. There's a subconscious side to it, obviously–some people like to be spanked for XYZ psychological reasons, and I like to go to plays, and I can't entirely explain why."
"There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school."
"Fiction tells you, by the making up of truth, what really is true. That's all fiction writers can do."
"Before you have the assumptions implicit in the first sentence, anything could happen. But once you have that sentence, you've narrowed your options down to a point where there really isn't that much left to write."
"I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that."
"In general, the food world … it's just so against our nature."
"I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can."
"TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing."
"I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it."
"Before the film is finished, I have to be able to put into words why I have selected each shot and the meaning I attach to the order of the sequences."


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David Myers
THE TALK's month-long food festival continues with with chef David Myers who drops by to show the co-hosts how to prepare the perfect summer feast, Monday, July 22, 2013 on the CBS Television Network. David Myers, from left, Sharon Osbourne and Julie Chen, shown. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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The National Endowment for the Arts announced $1 million in grants for the Big Read projects taking place across the U.S. in 2013-14.
The Big Read was launched in 2005 to help create one-city-one-book-style projects; for each title on its list, it offers reading guides, discussion questions, and other supporting materials -- as well as grants, which in this round range from $3,000 to $17,300.
Grants are made to nonprofits in communities that, in addition to promote reading the books, plan a range of activities around them. Seventy-seven community organizations will get the Big Read grants, with 24 receiving them for the first time.
One repeat recipient is the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. With its grant, it will encourage Angelenos to read "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri. Books that have previously been promoted by the Big Read in greater L.A. include "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima."
"The Namesake" is one of three titles that were added to the possible list of books this year; the others were "Into the Beautiful North" by Luis Alberto Urrea and "True Grit" by Charles Portis.
In all, there are 30 possible works and authors that nonprofits can design projects around. They include Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," "Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson, the poetry of Robinson Jeffers, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451."


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Stacy Keach's dance card is quite full these days.
"I have done four sitcoms in five weeks!" said the 72-year-old actor, who first demonstrated his comedic chops as Cheech and Chong's nemesis Sgt. Stedenko in the 1978 stoner comedy "Up in Smoke."
Just last week, he appeared in the L.A. Theatre Works production of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" at UCLA, and on Sunday he'll be narrating Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" at the "EEK! At the Greek" Halloween concert with the Symphony in the Glen Orchestra.
Keach brought poignancy to his role as a veteran plane named Skipper in "Planes," Disney's animated hit — he'll be back for the sequel — and he has a showy supporting role as the boorish former business partner of Woody (Bruce Dern), an elderly man who believes he's won $1 million in a sweepstakes, in Alexander Payne's "Nebraska," opening Nov. 22.
"I'm sort of the bad guy," Keach said with a smile during a recent interview at his publicist's office in Beverly Hills.
The actor's schedule is already mapped out for the next several months. He is about to fly to Vancouver, Canada, to start a movie, and come spring, he'll play Shakespeare's larger-than-life rapscallion Falstaff in "Henry IV, Parts I and II" in Washington, D.C.
"Falstaff — oh, I love him," extolled Keach, whom the New York Times once described as "the finest American classical actor since John Barrymore" because of his memorable portrayals in Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" and Shakespeare's "Hamlet," "King Lear," "Macbeth" and "Richard III."
His dedication to theater is legendary. As a drama student at Yale, Keach was so disappointed in the school's "archaic approach to theater" that he started his own acting class. Needless to say, he reports, his professor "despised me — with justification."
Four years ago, while appearing at L.A.'s Ahmanson Theatre in the play "Frost/Nixon," Keach suffered a minor stroke. He was back onstage in just 10 days.
"That's how minor it was," Keach said. "I wanted to get back onstage as soon as possible."
Keach is one of those rare actors who has been able to combine a life in the theater while maintaining a career in film and TV. But it hasn't been easy.
"I always wanted to combine classicism with pop art," he said. "It was always a struggle to convince agents and producers that you could do that. They wanted you to be this or that way. They don't want you to do both."
Between all of the acting projects, Keach managed to find time to write his autobiography, "All in All: An Actor's Life On and Off the Stage," which was just released.
Keach doesn't shy away from discussing in the book the darkest period in his life — when he became addicted to cocaine. In fact, the opening chapter chronicles his arrest in 1984 at London's Heathrow Airport for smuggling a little more than 1 ounce of cocaine in a can of shaving cream that had a false bottom.
He decided to "tell it head on" because "it was a major event in my life," he said. "I paid my debt."
Keach was starring as Mickey Spillane's famed gumshoe in the popular CBS series "Mike Hammer" when he was arrested.
"I was zipping in from Marseille in the south of France, where I was shooting the TV movie 'Mistral's Daughter,' to London for 'Mike Hammer' voice-over work," Keach writes in his book.
"It was one day's work, but I was deep enough in the grip of the White Lady that going empty-handed for even a short jaunt seemed unbearably long."
He served six months in prison.
Keach is also refreshingly honest about his rocky romance with singer Judy Collins in the early 1970s, his three failed marriages and finally finding happiness with Polish actress Malgosia Tomassi, who had been a guest star on "Mike Hammer." The actress, whom he married in 1986, stood by him when he was incarcerated. They have two grown children, son Shannon and daughter Karolina.
"She's my rudder," he said with a warm smile.
Keach will be discussing his career and his autobiography Friday evening at the American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre in Santa Monica between screenings of two of his best films: William Peter Blatty's surreal "The Ninth Configuration" (1980), which finds the actor portraying an outrageous commanding officer at an old castle-turned-asylum for U.S. soldiers, and John Huston's downbeat "Fat City" (1972), in which Keach is heartbreaking as a washed-up pugilist.
"He was a legend," the actor recalled of Huston. "He had two directions: 'a little more' or 'a little less.' That was it."
Aero screenings
Where: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday
Price: $11
Information: https://www.americancinematheque.com
"EEK! At the Greek"
Where: Greek Theatre, 2700 N. Vermont Ave., L.A.
When: 5:30 p.m. Sunday
Price: $7-$100
Information: https://www.GreekTheatreLA.com


text: Oppenheimer are an indie pop band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The band is made up of musicians Shaun Robinson and Rocky O'Reilly. Robinson and O'Reilly were previously members of the now disbanded Belfast group, Torgas Valley Reds. They met in 2003, in Belfast. O'Reilly had been mixing sound and recording Torgas Valley Reds, whom Robinson drummed for. Inspired by their mutual love for Moog synthesizers, vocorders, and airhorns, O'Reilly and Robinson formed Oppenheimer in late 2004, using O'Reilly's spare room to record 3 songs, which they sent to their favourite labels.


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NM Tech Distance Education Program Implements New Software, July 15, 2005
by Shawna Carter
Right: A satisfied Distance Ed customer
SOCORRO, N.M., July 15 — The New Mexico Tech Distance Education program recently purchased and implemented a new software program called "Breeze," which makes communications between instructors and students, well, a breeze.
Breeze is a powerful, web-based communications software product produced by Macromedia. The software allows users to communicate using the latest in web conferencing technology.
New Mexico Tech's Distance Education program will use Breeze to produce virtual classrooms for most of the courses that the research university offers through Distance Education.
By using this program, instructors can lecture using a live video and audio feed while sharing and interacting with lecture notes, slides, computer applications, and more.
Students enrolled in Tech's distance education classes will be able to communicate with the instructor and with other distance education students using video (via an inexpensive webcam), audio, and text chat.
Students taking these high-tech distance education courses will be able to access Breeze through New Mexico Tech's server by simply accessing a website and navigating to their virtual classroom.
Distance Education administrators hope this software will help shorten the communication gap between off-campus students and instructors. The shorter communication gap will enrich the virtual classroom experience and help make the Distance Education program at New Mexico Tech stronger.


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Your health comes first. That's why it's so important to keep up with health care reform's changes. In this section, you'll be able to take a short quiz to find out how the changes will affect you and your family, explore an interactive timeline of when the changes will take effect and read a breakdown of each law in everyday terms.
The health insurance marketplace (or exchanges) gives you one more way to get health care coverage.
The individual mandate requires people to buy a minimum amount of health insurance coverage, or pay a tax penalty.
The Health Action Network is a grassroots movement advocating for market-based solutions to the country's health care challenges.
Log in or use your Anthem ID card to make sure you find a doctor or hospital in your network, which will help keep your costs down.
Note: If you are a member with Medicaid or other state-sponsored programs, search with the prefix (first three values) of your identification number or search by selecting a plan/network.


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Kentuckiana Alums Help Mental Health Agencyby John Grannan • November 7, 2005 Share:
The Kentuckiana Association of Wabash Men met October 30 to help LifeSpring, Inc, a community-based mental health services agency located in Jeffersonville, Indiana to help LifeSpring with a beautification project.
LifeSpring moved into an 1880's era bank building in downtown Jeffersonville that had been abandoned for years. Wabash Alumni helped continue that beautification effort by planting flowers, bulbs and doing general clean-up around the grounds.
Dr. E. Ray Knight, '69, serves on the LifeSpring Board of Directors, and was happy to lend a hand. He worked with John Grannan, '97 planting mums and tulip bulbs that will help the facilities attractive in both the spring and fall. Beautiful weather helped make the work easy, and a good time was had by all.
LifeSpring, Inc. is a non-profit health services agency that serves six counties in Southern Indiana.
"LifeSpring depends on the help of those in the community to enable us to help those in need," said Jon Reiter, LifeSpring's Development Coordinator. "We appreciate the contributions of Wabash men, who help us in our mission to provide services to lower income families in need of mental health services." We were glad to help make their facility a bit brighter now and in the future.


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Last week, a judge in Florida issued an arrest warrant for former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson for violating his probation on a domestic violence charge from last summer.
Johnson was reportedly out of the state at the time that the warrant was issued, but he's back in Florida on Monday and TMZ reports that he's now under arrest. Per the report, which features a picture of Johnson being cuffed by police officers, Johnson appeared in the Broward County courtroom and the judge ruled that he had violated his probation by missing two visits with his probation officer and failing to produce proof that he had enrolled in a domestic violence education class.
Johnson was placed on probation when he pleaded no contest to charges stemming from an incident with his then-wife Evelyn Lozada last August. Johnson's arrest led to his release by the Dolphins and, most likely, the end of a professional football career that was already on its last legs.
There's no word yet on bail or future court dates for Johnson.


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The role of the Safety & Occupational Section is to:
identify, evaluate and control occupational hazards to protect the County's investment in employee life, health, the environment and property, and to avoid business interruption.
The Occupational Safety & Health team uses the classic scientific approach in order to anticipate, identify and evaluate occupational hazards - including chemical, biological and physical agents - and to make recommendations regarding their control. We also oversee the County's medical surveillance program, ensuring a robust match between medical testing and potential workplace exposures. The team coordinates the new hire and recurrent occupational physicals and related medical testing. We also provide a variety of outreach services, including training, consultation and problem-solving.
The Investigative Services team submits and disseminates information regarding Criminal background and driving records history for post-offer county employment, as well as other government agencies that utilize our services. We regularly monitor all county authorized drivers' license status to ensure that licenses are valid. We conduct liability investigations regarding vehicular incidents, property damage and theft. We also administer the county's drug testing in conjunction with Human Resources.


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No one should read too much into the second pre-season game.
Thus the asterisk in the headline.
But while playing their starters in the first quarter and much of the second, the San Diego Chargers were terrible Thursday night. Unless they improve dramatically, or they really are holding back until the games count as new coach Mike McCoy suggests, the Texans should have little to worry about in the regular-season opener at San Diego.
Unless, of course, the Texans look equally bad in their second pre-season game Saturday night at Reliant Stadium against Miami.
It's almost unfathomable they could look that bad.
The two starting quarterbacks, Houston's Matt Schaub and San Diego's Philip Rivers, are both believed by many of their teams' fans to have underachieved. Rivers didn't do anything to change that perception against the Chicago Bears. When he left the game, the Chargers trailed, 17-0, in the second quarter.
Rivers threw an interception on the Chargers' second possession.
He fumbled under pressure on the second.
He was sacked on third down on the third.
Not all of it was his fault. As in recent years, he still doesn't seem to have much protection from his offensive line. His top two wide receivers are injured.
Maybe they'll improve in time for the regular season. Fozzy Whittaker, the rookie used most effectively, as a wildcat back at Texas, was a bright spot. Manti Te'o might make a difference when he returns from an injury. Dwight Freeney definitely will if he is as much of a force as an outside linebacker as he was as a defensive end for Indianapolis.
But, as of Thursday night, I'll take the Texans for the win and against the spread, whatever it might be, in Game 1 at San Diego.


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Last night, Emma brought you the sorry tale of Jason Popp, whose 15-0 Richmond Heights High School boys' basketball team was trying to overthrow him since he regularly called them the n-word.
Well, this afternoon came word from Cleveland that Popp "was suspended for the rest of this year with the option to come back," per the News-Herald. His assistant will try to extend their season to 16-0 tomorrow night.
Popp is accused of using "inappropriate language as well as racial and economic harassment," according to a letter drafted by parents of the boys varsity basketball team. ...
Gross said he didn't hear a lot of the alleged conversations, but he didn't travel on the bus with the team and wasn't with the team during pregame.
The Plain-Dealer caught up with superintendent Linda Hardwick, who said the whole damn district needs cultural-sensitivity training. Thus, she is open to Popp's return should he get culturally sensitive.
"Coach needs to show these young men that he's willing to work," she said. "He needs some connection with them. He needs to find a way to regain their trust."
This update was brought to you by tipster Jason, who wrote, "HS hoops coach in the middle of 15-0 season gets run off by whiny parents cause he is too hard on the kids."
New head basketball coach takes over in Richmond Heights [News-Herald]
Richmond Heights removes Jason Popp as boys basketball coach for remainder of season [The Plain Dealer]


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Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered!
A sacred Pascha today hath been shown unto us:
a Pascha new and holy,
a Pascha mystical,
a Pascha all venerable,
a Pascha that is Christ the Redeemer;
a Pascha immaculate, a great Pascha;
a Pascha of the faithful;
a Pascha that hath opened the gates of Paradise unto us;
a Pascha that doth sanctify all the faithful.
As smoke vanisheth so let them vanish!
Come from the vision, O ye women, bearers of good tidings, and say ye unto Sion: receive from us the good tidings of the Resurrection of Christ; adorn thyself, exult, and rejoice, O Jerusalem, for thou hast seen Christ the King come forth from the tomb like a bridegroom in procession.
So let sinners perish at the presence of God and let the righteous be glad!
The myrrh-bearing women in the deep dawn stood before the tomb of the Giver of life; they found an angel sitting upon the stone, and he, speaking to them, said thus: Why seek ye the living among the dead? Why mourn ye the incorruptible amid corruption? Go, proclaim unto His disciples.
This is the day which the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad therein!
Pascha the beautiful, Pascha, the Lord's Pascha, the Pascha all-venerable hath dawned upon us. Pascha, with joy let us embrace one another. O Pascha! Ransom from sorrow, for from the tomb today, as from a bridal chamber hath Christ shone forth, and hath filled the women with joy, saying: proclaim unto the apostles.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. Both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
It is the day of Resurrection, let us be radiant for the feast, and let us embrace one another. Let us say: Brethren, even to them that hate us, let us forgive all things on the Resurrection, and thus let us cry out:
Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, And on those in the tombs bestowing life.
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