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In his article for The Royal Ballet's programme book on Don Quixote, writer and musicologist Gavin Plumley examines the sunny wit in Minkus's quintessential ballet score.
Ludwig Minkus is the polyglot of ballet music. Born in Vienna to a Czech father and a Hungarian mother, he studied in the Austrian capital before moving to Russia. There, and in Paris, his exotic ballet scores, including the Hispanic Don Quixote and the oriental La Bayadère, gained him international recognition.
In creating the musical text for this latest version of Don Quixote by Carlos Acosta, conductor Martin Yates has gone back to Minkus's original Russian piano score. Yates and Acosta have constructed their new three-act structure for this production, highlighting the colourful and contrasting nature of Minkus's score.
Act I centres on the romantic interest, Kitri and Basilio. For these scenes and the third act, Minkus wrote dazzlingly sunny music in bright G major. Kitri and Basilio are given peppy, swaggering entrances to contrast with the clipped, pompous chromatic music of Gamache, Kitri's unwanted fiancé. Kitri's kowtowing father Lorenzo unsurprisingly echoes Gamache's 'aristocratic' bearing. No less amusing, but instantly more endearing, is Don Quixote's hapless, slapstick sidekick Sancho Panza, while the eponymous, chivalric Quixote has poco maestoso ('somewhat majestic') music. The high energy of triple-time dances dominates, coloured by an appropriately Spanish tinge of seguidilla and habanera rhythms and the continual clack of castanets. Equally indigenous are the dotted rhythms of the Toreadors' entrance (though without their tambourines and castanets, these dances could easily be mistaken for the waltzes and marches of Minkus's Viennese youth).
The second act is in much darker hues. F major and F minor predominate, while more rhapsodic structures, with harp, woodwind solos and other wistful touches of orchestration, supplant the first act's quick-fire dance sequences. Minkus also provides a good dose of local colour with stamping gypsies and, in Martin Yates's version, a decidedly Hispanic dream sequence. Collectively, this act – particularly with its hallucinatory second scene – looks forward to the Kingdom of the Shades in La Bayadère and the lake scenes of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. It is from such ambiguous and occasionally violent tones that Minkus rescues us, returning via G minor to the sun-drenched key of Act I.
Having re-established the primacy of G major at the start of Act III, Minkus provides a veritable riot of nuptial colour, made even brighter by the comparative darkness of the second act. As Kitri and Basilio prepare, somewhat pre-emptively, for married life, Minkus's waltzes rub shoulders with yet more seguidillas and habaneras, whose melodies are decorated with the curlicued turns, trills and mordents of flamenco tradition. And there is jeopardy here too, with the strutting, chromatic reappearance of Gamache. As Basilio pretends to stab himself, Minkus sends up Gamache's pompous idiom, throwing it all away with a rapid fandango and the catchy Viennese Luftpausen (a breath, literally 'air break', for the orchestra) of his Grand pas de deux. Witnessing the happiness of Kitri and Basilio, Don Quixote gives up his hazy claims and realizes that he has, rather unexpectedly, completed his quest to right the wrongs of this world. As he ventures off anew, in search of Dulcinea, the ballet closes with his poco maestoso music in raucous C major.
This extract is taken from Gavin Plumley's article 'An Innate Flair for Dance Music'. The full article can be found in the Don Quixote programme book, available in the theatre at performance times and from the ROH Shop.
Don Quixote runs 25 November 2014–22 January 2015. Tickets are still available.
The production is generously supported by the Friends of Covent Garden.


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The Raiders are relatively healthy for it being six games into the season. Even so, they still are without a handful of players as they near their game against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.
Middle linebacker Rolando McClain (ankle), fullback Marcel Reece (ankle), cornerbacks Chris Johnson (hamstring) and Chimdi Chekwa (hamstring) and running back Rock Cartwright (knee) aren't practicing today.
Chekwa and Reece are working with trainers on an adjacent field, going through agility drills and testing out their injured parts. At this point, it's a stretch to envision either of them playing Sunday.
Given the Raiders have a bye after the Chiefs game, it makes perfect sense to give them two more weeks to recover and get back into football shape and then turn them loose for the final nine games.
Quarterback Carson Palmer was spotted throwing sideline passes to tight end Kevin Boss in the first portion of practice, as offensive coordinator Al Saunders looked on and dished out pointers.
Suffice, Palmer's arm strength is just fine. His passes arrive in a hurry, in a tight spiral. So, cross off arm strength from your list of possible concerns.
The Raiders have not announced whether Sunday's game is sold out. The deadline is 1:05 p.m. today. The Raiders have sold out all three of their regular-season home games this season.
The Raiders are in the midst of an eight-game winning streak against AFC West opponents. That is the longest such active streak of any team in the league.
Coincidentally, the Chiefs were the last AFC West team to beat the Raiders, and it came in Oakland on Nov. 15, 2009.
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We Chat with Chef Angelo Romano of The Pines
Chef Angelo Romano has a nice gig going on in Gowanus—refurbished furniture and some unique accents from shuttered upstate resort The Pines (check this out for some eery historical info) and a chef-driven menu that brings the familiar and the adventurous together with skill. Set where it is, the place aims for middle-aged locals with a bit of eating experience under their belts, but also nomadic Manhattanites and Brooklynites looking for something new.
With a newly opened back area boasting a 10-foot grill, several bins of growing greens, a serious cider bar and casual, straightforward food offerings and an interior menu with potential to grow, Romano has a lot on his hands. Here he talks about what it takes to make it all work, and why his heart is in Gowanus.
You've been open for a bit now. Are you feeling good about where you are? I feel it's going in a good direction. We're learning things as we go along and kind of just trusting our gut while trying to push it as far as we can.
Do you feel like this neighborhood gives you a decent license to push a little further? For a courageous city, we're still pretty tame. Yeah, I think with kid gloves to a certain level. It doesn't go as weird as it could.
Why? It's not by choice; it's just by the nature of things. You just kind of do it subconsciously. There might be an ingredient that you don't have that often, but the flavor is still going to translate in a way that you're very familiar with, if it's a level of salt or acid or texture or bitterness. You could never have heard of mibuna before, but when you eat it you're like, "Oh, it looks like a dandelion green but it's not as bitter and it's got a slight sulfuric flavor." It kind of teaches you, in a way, whether you're trying to be taught or not.
Has there been anything you've been unsure of but your guests loved? We're blowing through garganelli right now; we do a ton of sea urchin. The squab has been the only thing that has taken a while to get going but we still keep it on because I love that dish.
You grew up eating all sorts of animal parts—does that help you fill our growing demand for offal? Is it a convenience for you? Convenient is a good word for it. You definitely cook from a level of familiarity, and growing up cooking gives you much more of an advantage than someone for who the focus of their family life wasn't based around the kitchen. You also have a level of base flavors that you relate to, versus just cooking the way that someone taught you when you were 19 and in culinary school.
It seems like part of your competition is other chef-driven menus around the city that give younger chefs a chance to show their talent. But that doesn't mean the food always backs them up—how do you make sure yours does? You're right, it's putting more on the chef's shoulders because you're carrying not only the restaurant but the idea of what the restaurant is starting from and going. So you have to always be a month ahead of the restaurant as far as where you're going with it. And you definitely have to pay attention to what the guests want and to what makes you the happiest, because I think that translates into the food.
What's the most vital part of staying one month ahead? I think the most important thing is being able to conceptualize dishes in your head before you're testing them, especially with such a short budget. It's like, "Oh, I'm getting in a whole pig and in two weeks I'm getting nectarines in from California." We can't wait until we have these things in house because we'll waste a lot of time and the product will go bad. Thinking of the dish in our heads first is so much more important than spending three days tasting it and testing it; it's more about getting the base dish down and then tweaking it that day. We're never going to put something on the dish we're not 100% happy with, ever, but thinking what we want that entity to be saves more time and adds more integrity to the dish.
You've also added the bar menu to your list of recipes. Yeah, my sous chef John does most of the cocktails, and I do the wine with Zev Rovine and my buddy Justin Chearno. It allows us to add cool ingredients, because at a lot of places I've worked with it's hard for the bartender to work with seasonal stuff unless they take their days off to visit Flushing or look online for private growers or foragers. I do that already. We know when wild huckleberries are coming in. Sour plum is in season now, so we're doing a drink with sour plum. It actually almost makes it easier and a little more fun. It adds a little bit more to everybody's work load but it keeps thing interesting. And a lot more honest, I think.
Do you feel your breadth of technique contributes more, too? We did this event last weekend and the drinks were really good, but there was a pinch of purple micro basil on top of one drink and a shiso leaf sticking out of the side and a shitload of frothy egg on the top. And it was balanced by the time you got through all of the bullshit, but it's like micro greens are cool to mixologists right now but they don't know any better. Bar programs have gotten so aggressive but are also ten years behind, I think.
You've got a new backyard just opening with a much more casual menu, and are changing your inside one regularly. How do you want your near future to progress? I love the direction that we're headed, and I just want to focus on the area we're in and reach out to the community more. I think it's an amazing neighborhood that has a lot of potential.
Parts of Brooklyn seem to have just a ton of Manhattan chefs transplanted. Do you feel like this neighborhood is sparking potential of people planting their stake and doing something that's uniquely Brooklyn? Yeah, there are so many neighborhoods in Manhattan that are engulfed by tourism, so they're not getting sustainable people that are going to return all the time. There's so much more of a sense of community in Brooklyn, hands down. So it makes more sense to be in a neighborhood that's going to embrace you and evolve as you evolve, and trust in what you're doing.
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If you accept the ecologists' view of the "energy crisis"—that the heart of the problem, at least in overdeveloped countries, is too much use, rather than too little supply—the framework of the debate concerning our possible future energy sources changes fundamentally. Its focus is no longer on how to get rapid short-term increases in supply and long-term superabundance, but instead on how to achieve rapid short-term reductions in demand and a long-term sufficient supply, with a minimum of destructive ecological and social side effects.
Even those who take the "too little" view of the energy situation are beginning to realize that conservation, which dampens demand, is the only feasible solution in the very short term. The fact is, you see, that even the most dramatic possible commitments to more nuclear power plants, synfuels (coal gasification and liquefaction, fuels from oil shales and tar sands), solar power, or what have you will produce little impact on energy supplies for a decade or more.
The need to conserve in the near future is, then, more or less agreed upon. But such necessity is seen as a permanent feature of our energy economy by those with the ecological view. The long-term commitment to conservation is not espoused, of course, by the "too little" crowd. For example, Roy Meader has written in Future Energy Alternatives (Ann Arbor Science Publishers, 1979): "When fusion energy becomes available, as the experts confidently expect, it may come suddenly like a blinding flash of light and inspire a worldwide religious revival, singing in the streets, and a veritable orgy of turning on all lights and air conditioners and letting them run till dawn."
But divergent as the different points of view are, we believe that both schools of thought would concur on another point: Whatever energy is mobilized for society—everything else being equal—it should be mobilized in a manner that is least disruptive socially, as well as environmentally.
Safety in Decentralization
In a previous column we argued that the renewables—which are primarily various forms of solar energy—appear to be the most benign alternatives from the standpoint of the health of both human beings and ecosystems. Fusion might be equally (or more) benign, but this cannot be judged at the present time.
One significant advantage of a variety of renewable power sources is that of decentralization. Today's major energy technologies tend to be highly centralized and thus subject to control or disruption by actions taken at "key" points, from nuclear power plants to the oil tanker routes through the Straits of Hormuz. An accident or terrorist action at any such central locale could result in inconvenience, danger, or injury to many people over vast areas.
On the other hand, home solar water heaters and farm biomass systems are so widely dispersed that no accident or terrorist action is likely to inconvenience or threaten great numbers of people. No special "solar police force" is likely to be required to guard rooftop solar collectors, or—for that matter—square miles of similar units making up solar electric power plants. But Britain already has an extraordinary Nuclear Police Force, and such a potentially freedom-threatening organization is thought by many in the United States to be a necessary price to pay for the "benefits" of nuclear power.
Another enormous advantage in the use of decentralized renewables comes in the area of risk/benefit analysis. As should be evident from our previous columns on energy matters, the costs of different energy technologies are difficult to assess.
For one thing, such results are often hard to predict: Is, for instance, a fossil-fuel-CO2 /climate-induced famine that kills a billion people more likely to happen than a nuclear-power/terrorist-induced atomic war that kills the same number?
For another thing, even where costs can be predicted with certainty, it's often extremely difficult to quantify or compare them. For example, while it's possible to say that acid rains are a serious threat to ecosystems, a quantitative assessment of their overall impact is impossible today and may well remain so permanently. And how is one to compare such ecosystem impact with, say, the risk of deaths, cancers, and mutations in the human population from a possible nuclear reactor meltdown? The apples vs. oranges problem pervades the assessment of costs—both realized and potential—of all energy technologies.
Indeed, the complexities of risk analysis are such that, even when it's done properly—which is certainly not always the case—the results will, at best, merely provide rough guidelines rather than sharp distinctions.
Who Pays?
A major complication, which physicist John Holdren has often pointed out, is that very often the benefits of an energy technology tend to be reaped by one group, while a large fraction of the costs are borne by other people distant in space or time.
Often, the rich power-users live in the clean air upwind from the utility plant, while the poor—whose per-capita energy use is lower—live in the smog downwind. And, as is well known, the lives of native Americans in the Southwest and ranchers in Montana are disrupted by the mining of coal, which primarily benefits people on the coasts. Hardly an equitable arrangement.
Should a climate change be brought on by CO2 in the atmosphere, generated primarily in the rich countries, the worst of the ensuing famines would almost certainly occur in poor nations. The mutations resulting from exposure to radioactivity and mutagenic chemicals released by power plants will cause health problems for centuries to come... and a thousand generations of descendants of those who use electricity generated in nuclear power plants may have to be concerned about the plutonium-laced waste that has been produced by such installations.
Holdren, one of the top experts in the field of energy risk analysis, has developed a two-pronged approach for dealing with these problems.
First, society should try to select energy options that allow the most significant external costs (like pollution) to be "internalized" by conventional means. For example; if the principal social and environmental impacts of a certain energy facility can be—and are—largely ameliorated by an expenditure of money, the costs will be "internal" to the bookkeeping of the utility company and therefore paid by the users of the power.
The second approach is set forth in Holdren's Principle: Energy options should be selected that tend to deposit on the same people who reap the benefits any costs that cannot be internalized monetarily. In other words, those who choose and use a particular energy technology should, as far as possible, pay the external as well as internal costs.
This would, of course, help solve the problem of "how much is enough." After all, if electricity is flowing to your house and the smoke from the generating plant floats into someone else's, you may demand more and more energy until the other person chokes or is buried in soot. But if you receive both the electricity and the pollution, you're likely to become a conservationist at a much earlier stage in the game ... since you can then subjectively measure the pleasures of high-energy living against the physical discomfort of choking and dealing with filth, as well as the mental anguish resulting from the specter of future cancers.
It's clear, even with the imperfect sort of risk analysis now possible, that decentralized renewable energy technologies are the most desirable under Holdren's Principle. More than any others, they place their environmental and social burdens on those who benefit from the energy produced.
Room for Mistakes
Reasoning similar to that presented in this column (and in our last one) has led energy expert Amory Lovins to urge strongly that society choose what he has labeled a "soft energy path"—based primarily on decentralized renewables—for future energy development ... a path that has room for many technologies. Lovins has concluded that there's already a large enough highly centralized, capital-intensive energy-mobilizing system in place, and that attempting to meet society's future needs with more of the same would be a serious error. The soft path, however, departs from—and is rooted in—a hard base.
There's been a great deal of debate regarding the feasibility of Lovins' path. "Hard technology buffs" (especially nuclear power advocates) tend to claim that not "enough" energy will become available from decentralized renewables ... whereas ample supplies can be provided by the "proven" technology of nuclear fission.
We believe that there's a simple way to resolve this argument. With reasonable conservation measures, more than enough fossil fuels are available to maintain industrial society for 50 years ... although a great deal of money will have to be spent on developing the most efficient ways to use them so that environmental impacts are minimized. Without conservation and care, dependence on fossil fuels could be a recipe for disaster.
With conservation and care, though, the continued use of fossil fuels can be a bridge to the future. At the same time, we can give careful attention to the most promising of the new technologies rather than engaging in crash programs that may turn out badly.
In short, the next two decades can be spent following Holdren's principle and exploring Lovins' path.
By the year 2000, the question of feasibility for many, if not most, of these new technologies should be answered. If all the decentralized renewables prove impractical, there will still be time to deploy an appropriate mix of hard technologies. And, by that time, it's possible that many of the technical problems (if not the social ones) associated with centralized solar power generation, synfuels, and/or both fission and fusion will have been solved.
On the other hand, if the hard path is taken now, there may never be a return to a soft one: It's very possible that the capital requirements of, say, going fully nuclear would so tax the world economy that another full-scale alternative could not be attempted if the nuclear route were later perceived to be a disastrous error. And some of the possible side effects of the hard path—notably climate modification and world war—might be irreversible.
The "soft path" strategy will—at the very least—leave our options open. The "hard" route might well foreclose them... and could be an extremely expensive road to a dead end.
The key article by Lovins is "Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken" (Foreign Affairs, October 1976). Debates by Lovins and those advocating the "hard path" can be found in The Energy Controversy: Soft Path Questions and Answers, Hugh Nash, editor (Friends of the Earth, 1979). Holdren's Principle was formally enunciated in his "Observations for the California Energy Futures Conference" (Sacramento, May 20, 1978).
Paul Ehrlich (Bing Professor of Population Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University) and Anne Ehrlich (Senior Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford) are familiar names to ecologists and environmentalists everywhere. As well they should be. Because it was Paul and Anne who—through their writing and research—gave special meaning to the words "population," "resources," and "environment" in the late 1960's. (They also coined the term coevolution, and did a lot to make ecology the household word it is today.) But while most folks are aware of the Ehrlichs' popular writing in the areas of ecology and overpopulation (most of us—for instance—have read Paul's book The Population Bomb), far too few people have any idea of how deeply the Ehrlichs are involved in ecological research (research of the type that tends to be published only in technical journals and college textbooks). That's why it pleases us to be able to present these semi-technical columns by authors/ecologists/educators Anne and Paul Ehrlich.


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You know what I'm really fucking tired of? I'm tired of people throwing animals in garbage cans and rivers and, today, just abandoning them. The video isn't violently disturbing, per se, but it is heartbreaking. Proceed only with emotional caution.
Update: The dog, Ginger, has had hundreds of offers for a new home, reports the BBC. (With a tip of the hat to the media attention the story has received.)


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I came across this deck a few years ago, on a recommendation from a friend who suggested I might find it interesting - and I surely did - in fact it has become one of the decks I work with personally quite frequently.
It is very different indeed from standards decks - a thought worth bearing in mind if you are at the beginning of your exploration of tarot. You would not find it easy to reconcile the Osho with more classical interpretations of the Tarot. Yet its insight and clarity is enormously refreshing and enjoyable.
Based very firmly in the tradition of Zen Buddhism, the deck brings a completely new slant to tarot. When I first began to work with the deck, I found it often confusing and sometimes downright contradictory but much of this was based in my own mindset, rather than the deck itself.
With a little further study I found the commentaries often extended or opened out my original concept of a given card, producing yet more layers of understanding which could be applied across a range of various styles of deck. Interpretations have a strong emphasis on the power of one's own belief system the habitual grooves in which the human mind tends to run. Suggestions for understanding given cards will often challenge these habits, and demand that a given symbol is seen from an extended perspective. I suppose it is this extension that I find most useful when working with the Osho.
There are probably too many re-allocations of familiar cards to detail here all Majors and Minors are afforded a title of sorts, which often (though not always) acts as a useful keyword. However it is easy to see many of the regular faces if viewed through a slightly differently focussed lens. For example the Devil becomes Conditioning, and tells the tale of a lion who thinks he is a sheep until he meets another lion who shows him his own reflection. The meaning offered by the card is to be willing to drop old, limiting views of self in favour of the awakening lion within. Studying the image, you can see the relationship to the more conventional Devil in the bindings which tie sheep and lion so closely together, reminding of the chained people at the foot of the Horned God.
The Hermit is another card which will certainly ring bells with those used to more conventional decks called Aloneness it celebrates the beauty of each individual's uniqueness and strength. Fortune becomes Change and address the great realm of cosmic cycles and shifts, and the image bears an fascinating blend of IChing and Western Astrological symbols. Judgement, or the Aeon is replaced with Beyond Illusion which bears the image of a butterfly, to symbolise rebirth and immortality. The Hanged Man becomes New Vision - an interpretation that I really love the card is astoundingly beautiful as well.
The artwork, by Ma Deva Padma, is exquisite there is no other way to describe it. Eastern and western imagery and symbols are artfully woven into a composite bound by a remarkable use of colour. The accompanying book is extensive in its explanations, interpretations and inclusion of some of the most basic tenets of Zen wisdom.
I really would recommend this deck to anybody who feels ready to expand the way they look at tarot. It's one of those must-have decks in my opinion.


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Fund: Inventages Venture Capital Investments
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You gotta wonder about a Swiss fund, run by Germans which needs an offshore tax haven (in Bahamian shark-infested waters). Giant ego at the top who with his blonde hair, suntan and blue eyes could play the villian in a Bond movie.
Former CFO of Nestle is a Senior partner and now lives in the Bahamas. Nestle is also the evergreen source of funds. Nice retirement package. Fastest growing investment team around, fabulous management fees.
Aki in Auckland is a great fellow. Open, straightforward and not arrogant, its a wonder he fits in. Oxana, an investment manager is a delight to work with.
Unbelievably one-sided termsheets with every trick in the book to screw over management. Full ratchets, ridiculous liquidation preferences, endless protective provisions, punitive antidilution clauses. Ask their coinvestors about their experiences and how keen they are to syndicate with them in the future.PRIVATE: Members Only (199 Characters)


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How we view ourselves and how the world views us are two different things.
A few ago years ago, I had a close friend whose writing career was in a bit of a slump. Naturally, he was depressed about this. And he had a right to be. His first book didn't perform to publisher expectations, and they released his second book without much support. One of the big chains didn't even carry it.
I'd like to point out here that I've read his work, and it's terrific. Everyone who reads it agrees. And he busted his hump promoting, traveling, and spreading the word about his books.
But fate gave him the finger, and his best efforts didn't bring him success.
In a long letter, he told me that he had lost hope. But he ended with something provocative: "My agent is constantly reminding me to act successful, no matter what."
This goes back to what I like to say about confidence. Being self-assured is damn attractive. People gravitate toward confidence, which goes back to my theory that everyone hates to make decisions. When you're meeting or seeing a new person, and that person is confident, it immediately helps you form a favorable opinion of them. To trust them. To believe in them.
The only naturally confident people are sociopaths. The rest of us wallow in constant self-doubt.
But the world doesn't have to see that.
The only way people can ever know what you're feeling is by what you let them see. If you show them confidence---even if the confidence is fake---they'll see confidence.
And I believe that confidence should extend to all of your professional connections.
An agent/author relationship is a weird mix of business partnership, employee/subordinate, and husband/wife. We tend to reveal more of ourselves, and our insecurities, to our agents.
But looking at basic human nature, I'm not sure how wise this is. Your agent isn't your friend or soul mate. Showing frailty to the person who is supposed to champion your work may be a disservice to you and your career.
Nobody ever gives Charlie Brown any Halloween candy, or picks him for the team. I don't want my agent to pity me, or feel like she's doing me a favor. I want her to believe she's going to get super rich off of me, and act accordingly.
Now, we all have times in our careers where we need to be nurtured. And that's when you call up a trusted peer and unload. But you don't want anyone in this publishing business to perceive you as a charity case, ever.
My writer friend did get back on track, and now his career is booming. His secret? Keep writing. Keep promoting. And Zoloft.
Remember that perception is everything. How you feel about yourself is not how the world feels about you.
The best way to become successful is to act successful.
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nice to see this is still going on! :)
At long last a halo mod X3 terran conflict! With all ships and features from the famous halo series. Play as the heroic UNSC or join the holy ranks of the covenant, both parties will have full story lines including many sectors and planet visited in the series, all the famous ships you have always wanted to captain and the deadly weapons they hold. Disclaimer: X3 Covenant Conflict was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from halo, © Microsoft Corporation.
nice to see this is still going on! :)
agreed... and love the idea of the modular shipyards
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Here we have a couple of shipyard designs, the larger one for the carrier class vessels and similar sized ships, and the smaller one for cruisers and ships smaller than carriers but bigger than frigates and destroyers. My idea was to have something that looked like it could be modular by utilising as many of the 'blocks' needed for the ships size. for example 3 'blocks' each side for the cruisers. Also, although i wont implement it, each block could slide side to side to build different parts of the ship, and if a ship was to be repared, just one side of the dock could be used. i also use similar design features as the smaller frigate shipyard, such as the bridge structures at the top. The structure on the side is inspired by the one in this picture: Halopedia.org. whilst allowing for a nice place to park when you want to buy something new.
Not 100% finished yet but gives you an idea along the sort of lines im thinking of.


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Language of Flowers
If you're looking to saying it with flowers, you may want to consider their language. Different flowers have traditional meanings that have mostly been forgotten.
Roses may be the exception. Red roses express love and romance. Pink roses can mean love gratitude, or appreciation. White roses, often in a bride's bouquet, signify marriage, spirituality, and new starts. Orange roses express enthusiasm and passion, while yellow roses mean friendship, joy, and good health. So, if you expected to get red roses from that certain someone and were presented with yellow, you may want to "have a talk"!
Other flowers have their meaning, too. Asters are a symbol of love and daintiness; yellow carnations mean rejection; geraniums signify stupidity, and calla lilies mean beauty. And if you receive a bouquet of withered flowers...well...rejection. (Sorry)
With a little research you can have fun writing your secret message with a bouquet of flowers.


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The Court granted certiorari in Tolentino v. New York. The case concerns the Exclusionary Rule and DMV records.
The Court also granted certiorari in Fowler v. United States. The case concerns the federal death penalty and whether the Government presented sufficient evidence that the defendant committed murder with the intent to prevent a person from communicating information about a federal offense to a federal law enforcement officer or judge of the United States.
Briefs and lower court opinions are available at Scotusblog.
Docket No. 54174
Carson City - 10:00 a.m. - Justices Cherry, Saitta, and Gibbons
This is an appeal from a Carson City district court order granting a motion to dismiss an inmate's lawsuit for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. Eduardo Lopez, an inmate at the Ely State Prison, brought a tort action alleging that the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) was negligent in failing to follow its policies and procedures by housing Lopez with a known enemy, Jeffery Troxel. Lopez allegedly sustained injuries caused by Troxel during an altercation in their shared cell on June 29, 2006. According to NDOC's inmate grievance procedure, an inmate must initiate an informal grievance involving personal injury within six months of when the claim arises. Lopez filed an informal inmate grievance on March 10, 2007, more than six months after the alleged claim arose. The NDOC rejected the grievance as being untimely. Lopez filed a first-level grievance on April 2, 2007, and it also was rejected as being untimely. Lopez never filed a second-level grievance. Lopez filed a civil complaint against the NDOC in the district court on June 24, 2008. The district court dismissed Lopez's lawsuit on the basis that Lopez failed to exhaust administrative remedies prior to initiating a state tort action. Lopez appeals. ISSUES: Did the district court err in granting the NDOC's motion to dismiss due to Lopez's failure to exhaust administrative remedies? Does NRS 209.243(1) violate equal protection by restricting a prisoner's right to file a personal injury administrative claim within six months of the date of the injury, while non-prisoners may file such an action within two years of the injury? Is the precedent set forth in Turner v. Staggs, 89 Nev. 230, 510 P.2d 879 (1973), still controlling law in Nevada?
Goodlow (Deljuan) v. State of Nevada,
Docket No. 54198
Carson City - 10:30 a.m. - Justices Cherry, Saitta, and Gibbons
This is Deljuan Goodlow's appeal of his judgment of conviction, entered after a Washoe County jury found him guilty, for first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon, home invasion, and burglary. The underlying incident began when Carolyn Van Loock and Royce Riley were staying at the Lido Inn in Reno during a trip from California and witnessed two men arguing. After seeing a gun, they went inside their motel room. Frank Smith and Deljuan Goodlow broke the couple's motel room window, attempted to kick down the door, and shot Riley, while Van Loock hid in the bathroom. Riley died from a gunshot wound to the chest. Security cameras from a neighboring property recorded some of the incident. Smith and Goodlow fled from the Lido Inn in a black car. Police searched for the black car and eventually found it, although no one was inside. Officers saw blood both inside and outside the car and then found Goodlow nearby, with cuts on his arm and the keys to the car in his possession. The police arrested Goodlow and showed him the surveillance video that recorded the incident. Goodlow admitted that he was in the recording. Over Goodlow's objection, the district court ruled that his case and Smith's should be tried together. During jury selection, the district court judge commented on the "horrible" crimes and referred to notorious historical figures. When Goodlow moved for a mistrial due to the statements, the district court denied the motion. The defendants also objected, under Batson v. Kentucky, to the State's use of peremptory challenges to exclude potential minority jurors, but the district court denied the defendants' objection. After a seven-day trial, the jury convicted Goodlow, and the district court sentenced him to consecutive sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. ISSUES: Did the district court abuse its discretion in joining Goodlow's and Smith's cases? Do the district court judge's comments during jury selection require this court to reverse Goodlow's conviction? Did the State's use of peremptory challenges to exclude potential minority jurors during jury selection violate Batson v. Kentucky? Was there sufficient evidence to support Goodlow's convictions for burglary and first-degree murder?
Kamalaudeen (Mohamed) v. State of Nevada,
Docket No. 53067
Carson City - 11:30 p.m. - Justices Cherry, Saitta, and Gibbons
This is Mohamed Kamalaudeen's appeal of his judgment of conviction, entered after a Washoe County jury found him guilty, for murder and solicitation to commit murder for the killing of University of Nevada, Reno, professor Judy Calder. Kamalaudeen was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murder, a consecutive term of 5 to 20 years for a deadly weapon enhancement, and 4 to 15 years in prison for solicitation to commit murder. ISSUES: Should the public defender's office have been disqualified from representing Kamalaudeen because it represented one of the State's witnesses in an unrelated case? Did the district court err by admitting gruesome autopsy photographs? Was Kamalaudeen's sentence for the deadly weapon enhancement correct? (Disclaimer: This synopsis is intended to provide only general information about this case before the Nevada Supreme Court. It is not intended to be all inclusive or reflect all positions of the parties.)
Smith (Frank) v. State of Nevada,
Docket No. 54234
Carson City - 2:00 p.m. - Justices Cherry, Saitta, and Gibbons
In this case, Frank Smith is appealing his judgment of conviction, entered after a Washoe County jury found him guilty, for first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon, home invasion, and burglary. The underlying incident began when Carolyn Van Loock and Royce Riley were staying at the Lido Inn in Reno during a trip from California and witnessed two men arguing. After seeing a gun, they went inside their motel room. Frank Smith and Deljuan Goodlow broke the couple's motel room window, attempted to kick down the door, and shot Riley, while Van Loock hid in the bathroom. Riley died from a gunshot wound to the chest. Security cameras from a neighboring property recorded some of the incident. Smith and Goodlow fled from the Lido Inn in a black car. Police searched for the black car and eventually found it, although no one was inside. Officers saw blood both inside and outside the car and located Goodlow nearby, with cuts on his arm and the keys to the car in his possession. After the police arrested him, Goodlow identified Smith as being involved. Smith was eventually extradited from California. During the seven-day joint trial, Goodlow testified on his own behalf, while Smith chose to remain silent. A jury convicted both men of first-degree murder, home invasion, and burglary. The district court sentenced Smith to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus an equal consecutive term for the use of a deadly weapon. Smith now appeals. ISSUES: Did the district court err by failing to sever Smith's trial? Does Smith's conviction rest on insufficient evidence? Should this court overrule its prior opinion in State v. District Court (Pullin), 124 Nev. 564, 188 P.3d 1079 (2008)?
This is the Court's 42nd opinion of the year.
"We have previously adopted the rule in Restatement (Third) of Property: Mortgages, section 7.6, that a lender whose loan proceeds were used to pay the balance of a prior note is equitably subrogated to the former lender's priority lien position so long as an intervening lienholder is not materially prejudiced. Houston v. Bank of America, 119 Nev. 485, 490, 78 P.3d 71, 74 (2003). The Restatement reasons that holders of intervening interests cannot complain about the application of the equitable subrogation doctrine because the intervening lienholder is "no worse off than before the senior obligation was discharged." Restatement (Third) of Prop.: Mortgages § 7.6 cmt. a (1997).
In this appeal, we consider whether an intervening lienholder suffers an injustice or prejudice precluding equitable subrogation where the terms, including the maturity date, of the refinancing loan are materially different than the terms and maturity date of the senior obligation. We conclude that material differences in interest rates and payment terms do not cause prejudice to the intervening lienholder because equitable subrogation generally limits the paying lender's priority to the amount and terms of the retired senior obligation. However, a materially accelerated maturity date for the paying lender's loan can, and did in this case, prejudice the intervening lienholder, precluding equitable subrogation. We therefore affirm."
State of Nevada v. Lucero (Arthur),
Docket No. 54375
Carson City - 9:30 a.m. - Justices Hardesty, Douglas, and PickeringThis is an appeal from a district court order denying the State's motion to correct what it argues is an illegal sentence that reduced a drug trafficker's prison term from 10 years to life, to 2 to 15 years. Arthur Lucero pleaded guilty to trafficking in a controlled substance and was sentenced to a term of 120 months to life in prison, pursuant to NRS 453.3385(3). The district court subsequently suspended Lucero's sentence and placed him on probation pursuant to NRS 453.3405, which allows a district court to reduce or suspend the sentence of a person found guilty of trafficking if it finds that the person has provided substantial assistant in the investigation or prosecution of any offense. Subsequently, the district court revoked Lucero's probation and modified his sentence to a term of 24 to 180 months in prison. The State filed a motion to correct an illegal sentence, arguing that the modification resulted in a sentence that was less than the range provided by NRS 453.3385(3). The district court denied the motion and the State has appealed that decision. ISSUE: Did the district court err by denying the State's motion to correct an illegal sentence?
State v. Huebler (Charles),
Docket No. 50953
Reno High School - 9:30 a.m. - Full Court (Justice Saitta disqualified)
This is an appeal from a Washoe County district court order granting
Charles Huebler's post-conviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Huebler was convicted in the district court, pursuant to a guilty plea,
of one count of lewdness with a child under the age of 14. He was
sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility after 10 years.
While Huebler did not file a direct appeal of his conviction, he did
file a post-conviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In his
petition, Huebler argued that his right to due process was violated
because the State failed to disclose evidence favorable to his defense,
which the prosecution has a duty to do under the United States Supreme
Court case Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). The district court granted Huebler's petition, and the State is now appealing that decision. ISSUES: Did the district court err in determining that Huebler had established a claim pursuant to Brady v. Maryland?
LeMans Corp. v. Provenza (Joseph),
Docket No. 51026
Reno High School - 10:30 a.m. - Full Court (Justice Saitta disqualified)This appeal and cross-appeal in a products liability case arose from a motocross motorcycle accident that caused severe burns to over 90 percent of Joseph Provenza's body. The appeals are from a multimillion dollar judgment and a post-judgment order denying a new trial. LeMans Corporation manufactured the clothing Joseph was wearing at the time of the crash. Joseph and his parents, Michael and Kim Provenza, sued several related Yamaha companies, which manufactured and distributed the motocross motorcycle Joseph was riding. The Provenzas also sued LeMans because, the Provenzas contended, the LeMans clothing exacerbated Joseph's injuries. In the early months of litigation, Michael Provenza and agents of the Provenzas' trial counsel deliberately altered and destroyed portions of the motocross motorcycle. When Yamaha's experts attempted to inspect the motorcycle, they discovered the alterations. As a sanction, the district court dismissed claims against Yamaha. However, the district court denied a similar motion to dismiss filed by LeMans, and the case proceeded to trial. A jury returned a verdict against LeMans for approximately $41 million in damages, plus approximately $10 million in prejudgment interest. The district court modified the judgment to exclude prejudgment interest for the reasonable value of medical services that the Provenzas had obtained for free from Shriners Hospital. LeMans now appeals the judgment against it, and the Provenzas have filed a cross-appeal challenging the modification of the judgment. ISSUES: Did the district court err in failing to dismiss the action against LeMans? Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying a new trial? Did the district court err in amending the judgment to delete prejudgment interest on one element of the Provenzas' damages?
Marrs (Shirley) v. Schiff (Dr. Steven),
Docket No. 53601
Carson City - 10:00 a.m. - Full Court (Justice Hardesty disqualified)
This is an appeal from a Washoe County district court judgment in a
medical malpractice action, which alleged that doctors diagnosed and
treated a woman for metastatic bone cancer that she did not have. In
May 2000, Shirley Marrs was informed by respondents Steven Schiff, M.D.,
and John Shields, M.D., that she had terminal metastatic bone cancer.
Marrs received continuous treatment until January 2003, which she
alleges caused her significant emotional and physical distress. Marrs
resumed treatment with another medical provider who informed her in
September 2004 that she, in fact, did not have metastatic bone cancer.
In September 2005, Marrs filed a complaint against respondents alleging
that they misdiagnosed her and then followed up with unnecessary
treatment. Marrs further alleged that respondents concealed their
misdiagnosis during the course of treatment. At trial, the district
court granted respondents' motion for judgment as a matter of law on the
grounds that Marrs's complaint was filed too late under NRS 41A.097(1),
which provides that an action for injury against a health care provider
may not be commenced more than four years after the date of injury.
Subsequently, Marrs moved to have the district court judge who presided
over the trial disqualified for bias. Another district court judge
denied the motion to disqualify. ISSUES: Did the
district court err in concluding that Marrs's complaint was
time-barred? Should the time for filing a complaint have been extended
due to respondents' alleged concealment of their negligence? Did the
second judge err by failing to disqualify the trial judge?
Southern California Edison v. Dist. Ct. (Dept. of Taxation),
Docket No. 55228
Carson City - 11:30 a.m. - Full Court
In this original petition for a writ of mandamus, the Supreme Court
is being asked to determine the standard of review a district court
should apply in reviewing refund decisions of the Nevada Tax
Commission. Southern California Edison filed several claims with the
Nevada Department of Taxation for refunds of use taxes Edison paid
between 1998 and 2000. The Department denied Edison's claims and Edison
appealed to the Nevada Tax Commission. Ultimately, the Commission
denied Edison's claims. Edison then filed a complaint in district court
pursuant to NRS 372.680, which allows for an independent action to be
brought in district court against the Department after a final decision
is rendered by the Commission. Such an action would be reviewed by the
district court de novo, that is, without deference to the Commission's
decision. The Department filed a motion to dismiss Edison's complaint,
arguing that recent amendments to the pertinent statutes have altered
the refund procedure and that the proper vehicle for challenging the
Commission's decision is a petition for judicial review pursuant to NRS
233B.130. Such a petition would be reviewed by the district court under
a substantial evidence standard, which would require the district court
to give more deference to the Commission's decision. The district
court ordered that the matter should proceed as a petition for judicial
review. The district court proceeding has been postponed until the
Supreme Court decides the petition for writ of mandamus. ISSUE: Did legislation alter the practice for use tax refund claims to allow only petitions for judicial review?
Guy (Curtis) v. State of Nevada (Death Penalty),
Docket No. 50350
Carson City - 1:00 p.m. - Full Court (Justices Douglas and Cherry disqualified)This is Curtis Guy's appeal from a district court order denying his post-conviction petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a death penalty case. Guy was convicted by a Clark County jury of first-degree murder in the death of Ceasor Evans stemming from a dispute over cocaine. Guy previously appealed his conviction and death sentence, which were affirmed by the Nevada Supreme Court. Guy then filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court, arguing that his conviction was invalid for numerous reasons. The district court denied the habeas corpus petition and Guy has appealed that decision. ISSUES: Was Guy's trial counsel ineffective, warranting a new trial? Did the district court err in finding that the jury's consideration of two invalid aggravators was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt? Did the district court properly deny Guy's claim of cumulative error?
In a separate Order of Reversal and Remand, the Court grants a new trial to Simpson's co-defendant Clarence Stewart.The Court found that the district court abused its discretion in failing to sever Stewart's trial from Simpson's trial.
Both decisions were issued by Justices Cherry, Saitta and Gibbons.
Orion Portfolio Servs. 2 v. Clark County - In an en banc opinion, authored by Justice Douglas, the Court addresses the following: "The United States District Court for the District of Nevada has certified two questions to this court, pursuant to NRAP 5. Although we accept the federal court's certified questions, we reframe them to better reflect the factual circumstances of the federal case and, accordingly, answer the following questions. When a local government entity sells property using the competitive bidding process, does NRS 332.185 require the government to follow public bidding rules outlined in Chapter 332? And, under Nevada law, is a contract obtained through competitive bidding void when it materially differs from the contents of the invitation to bid?
We conclude that the answer to both questions is yes. If a public entity chooses to sell property by competitive bidding, it must follow the rules set forth in NRS Chapter 332. And a contract obtained through competitive bidding is void if it materially differs from the contents of the invitation to bid."


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Liam Hemsworth Calls Miley Cyrus 'Extremely Strong' and 'Intelligent' in Men's Health Interview
While Australian actor and 'Hunger Games' star Liam Hemsworth got his start on soap operas, he probably never expected he'd be part of one himself.
But as the new fiance of Miley Cyrus — whose very public growing pains have resulted in battles with both her family and the press — he might want to get used to the drama that follows one of the world's biggest stars.
The pair met and began dating while co-starring in the 2009 film 'The Last Song,' and while it wasn't always smooth sailing, he popped the question with a 3.5-carat diamond ring earlier this summer.
"She's an extremely strong, intelligent, supportive person," Hemsworth told Men's Health about his superstar girlfriend.
Miley is probably glad for some of that strength right about now — on Wednesday, a semi-nude photo of her popped up on the web, becoming the latest in a series of sorta-scandals the 19-year-old singer and actress has weathered.
But at least these days, she's not weathering them alone. In fact, Hemsworth has helped her through a number of small fiascoes, most recently surrounding a penis cake she got him for his birthday. That's love!
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Duke Pearson rises to the challenge of writing for an all-star octet (with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, trombonist Garnett Brown, altoist James Spaulding, Jerry Dodgion on alto and flute, Stanley Turrentine on tenor, bassist Gene Taylor, drummer Grady Tate, and the leader/pianist), contributing colorful frameworks and consistently challenging compositions. The set is full of diverse melodies (the CD reissue has a previously unissued take of "Los Malos Hombres") played by a variety of distinctive soloists; many of these songs deserve to be revived. This is one of the finest recordings of Duke Pearson's career. ~ Scott Yanow


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This handsome volume offers for the first time an interlinear Hebrew-English version of the JPS Tanakh. While academic students of biblical Hebrew perhaps will prefer to study the Hebrew text without such a crutch, many with less scholarly aims will find this an especially welcome study tool.
By inserting Arabic numerals into the Hebrew text (as is done in the JPS Commentary series), and by aligning the Hebrew and English texts within one line at the bottom of each page, the work's layout facilitates rapid cross-referencing between the languages. Even the Qere-Kethib system has been adjusted to aid reading. Rather than placing the Qere in the margin, the volume places it in the text immediately after the Kethib, which appears in smaller type, thus placing the two forms in ready contrast. The type font and custom-designed Te'amim (with dotted "t") also add greatly to the legibility of the Hebrew text.
Especially useful is the edition's preface which offers the editors' approach to the volume, the work's context in the history of biblical translation, and a summary of editorial decisions. This section clarifies that the tome is primarily intended as a tool for study rather than worship, and explains the text's source, design, alignment, treatment of scribal errors, and numerous other features.
Indeed, the editors have done a remarkable job in comparing the recent Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) edition (1997), which provides the basis for the Hebrew columns in this work, with numerous codices, correcting at least eight errors in BHS and seventeen typographical errors found in the Michigan-Claremont-Westminster electronic BHS.
The volume's English translation is based primarily on the 1985 edition, but there have been updates, especially in the footnotes, which aim to clarify changes to the translation, or previously suggested emendations. Of interest, with reference to the notes, is the openness to literary features to which they refer. Obvious examples of word play and allusion are noted, thus edifying the editor's note that when translating one must allow for the "artistic expression" of the original Hebrew (p. x).
Its notes also periodically offer cognate information on difficult words (e.g., lo` yismax "[He]will not spare" whose note reads: "cf. Arabic samuxa 1QIsa reads yxmw"), and historical background to aid interpretation. Thus, the note to the word "screen" in Isa 22:8 reads: "… The screen is the fortress of Azekah, at the mouth of the gateway, which was captured by the Assyrians." The work also notes places where the Targum, Septuagint, Qumran, or other textual witnesses differ significantly.
Yet, at the same time, this is not solely an academic work. Its features meet the traditional rabbinic halakhah in terms of non-ritual format, and its notes, despite their primarily scholarly import and derivation, are judicious throughout.
This is an extremely well-produced volume, undertaken with sensitivity and meticulous care, and synthesizing scholarly and traditional needs, both in interpretation and layout. In short, it is a welcome and useful study tool that beginning students of Bible will greatly appreciate.


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Sink front tip out trays ensure that you always have a sponge handy, just when you need it most. These tip out trays are easy toinstall and last for years. And their convenience can't be beat. Each sink front tip out tray offers you ample space for brushes, sponges, and more. Tip it out when you need to clean up, and tuck it away with you're done. It's that simple.
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WA Attorney General Bob Ferguson Visits Yakima [MAYORS BLOG]
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson stopped by this morning on his visit to Yakima to introduce himself after 4 months on the job as AG. Attorney General Ferguson is the top lawyer in WA state and oversees an office of 1000 employees. We talked to AG Ferguson about a number of subjects and found outa few surprising facts about Washington's New Attorney General. He said in the interview below "I'm a pretty serious sports fan of all types, but Husky Football and Basketball I have to confess as a UW graduate are pretty high on my list."
He was a really nice guy who was very interested in how he can help Yakima and continue the great support we've had from his predecessor Rob McKenna.


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Patriots defensive end Jermaine Cunningham, a third-year player who has appeared in all 11 games this season with two starts, will miss the next four games.
Via Mike Reiss of ESPNBoston.com, the NFL has suspended Cunningham four games for violation of the league's policy regarding performance-enhancing substances.
The difference between the Cunningham suspension and the Richard Sherman/Brandon Browner situation is that Cunningham's appeal process has concluded and the suspension will begin immediately.


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If Chiefs owner Clark Hunt has indeed floated a trial balloon, it will be floating for a little while longer, at least.
Chiefs owner Clark Hunt has confirmed that coach Romeo Crennel has been fired. According to Bill Williamson of ESPN.com, Hunt has said that "[n]o final determination has been made at this point on the future of General Manager Scott Pioli."
Hunt also said that the entire football operation will remain under review.
It's unknown when a decision will be made, and whether Hunt will look outside the organization for advice. In recent days, rumors have spread that Pioli could stay, given Hunt's fondness for Pioli. If Pioli stays, the organization will need to hire the right coach at a time when plenty of teams are looking for coaches.
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Singer Jackie Lomax will perhaps be most remembered for what didn't happen during his long career.
Despite several brushes with fame — and solo recordings featuring no less than Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and Levon Helm backing him — Lomax never became a star. He never had anything close to a hit album, despite admiration for his wide-ranging, bluesy vocals.
Harrison even wrote a song for him, "Sour Milk Sea," that was released as a single, and that went nowhere too.
But Lomax, who played numerous concerts in the Ojai area where he'd lived in recent years, seemed to take it in stride. And he was not about to judge his career in music on the time when he was backed by members of the Beatles.
"Trying to cash in on that," he said in a 1980 interview with The Times, "would be like trying to stretch a string a mile. I'm English — I can't just go around telling people how great I am."
Lomax, 69, died in his sleep Sunday after a brief illness at the family home in the Wirral, a peninsula in England across from Liverpool, according to a statement released by his family.
The son of a millworker, his rock 'n' roll career ebbed and flowed even more than most in entertainment, from being signed by the Beatles' Apple records, to the point that he took restaurant jobs between gigs. But he said that was all part of the music life.
"This is what I picked," Lomax said. "You just have to accept, as I learned a long time ago, that you won't be busy and hyper-successful all the time. There are cycles when things are up and cycles when things are down, just as in life."
Jackie Lomax was born in the Wirral on May 10, 1944. He first gained notice as the vocalist and bass player with a band called the Undertakers, which was part of the Mersey Beat movement that swept England and other parts of Europe in the early 1960s. The band — which dressed in dark suits and black top hats, and had skulls and crosses painted on the amplifiers — scored high in popularity polls and played numerous times in the famed Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.
But it was another band that played the Cavern, the Beatles, that rocketed to fame, and the Undertakers broke up. Lomax's next big break came in 1966 when singer Cilla Black saw him at a party and told him that the Beatles manager, Brian Epstein, was looking for him, according to "The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia" by Bill Harry.
Epstein died the next year, but the Beatles label, Apple, signed the singer. Harry said the failure of Lomax's records "completely baffled the Beatles because Jackie had one of the rare and distinctive voices which have the potential of turning its owner into a superstar."
Lomax came to the U.S., where he formed bands, did more recording and took jobs to get through the bad times. Los Angeles producer Saul Davis said Lomax was the maitre d' at the Hollywood restaurant the Cat & Fiddle when Davis and his wife had their wedding reception there in 1987. "He needed to earn a living," Davis said. "He seemed OK with being there." In 1990, Davis co-produced an album featuring Lomax singing the Tim Buckley song, "Devil Eyes."
Lomax played session dates, toured as a backup musician and performed in mostly small clubs for the rest of his career. He was married to the former Norma Kessler, the mother of fashion photographer and music video director Terry Richardson. She died last year.
Lomax is survived by three daughters from his first marriage to Dionne Lomax and five grandchildren. He had returned to England in July to attend the wedding of one of his daughters and stayed until his death, according to Alistair Hepburn, the Lomax website manager.
At the time of his death, according to the site, the singer had recently finished a new album titled "Against All Odds."
[For the record, 9:40 p.m Sept. 16: An earlier version of this post said the Cavern Club is in Hamburg, Germany. It is in Liverpool, England.]
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Kimberly Ryder Biography :
Kimberly Alvionnella Ryder known since starred in the film Cahaya as a character Eva antagonist. Kimberly Ryder was born in Jakarta, August 6, 1993 it got the acting talent from his father, Nigel Ryder, a British citizen, and business modeling of the mother, Irvina Ryder, who is also a senior model.
The girl who in 2008 became high school student in Jakarta Mentari this foray into big screen by starring in the film Chika.
Kimberly Ryder Increase Achievement Through Homeschooling
Involved in the entertainment world is not without problems. Moreover, if the person is still young and just starting out activities that are vulnerable to various things, both positive and negative. Therefore, guidance and direction from parents is absolutely necessary for the child in the entertainment environment can be controlled. This hitherto experienced by Kimberly Ryder. Even a model that also actress beautiful movie player and the parents had banned if academic achievement sagging because of filming.
"So now there is a commitment. Parents can promise if you can to the value of entertainment. But if the ugly left. Because of my education remains the number one," she explained in Pejaten Village, South Jakarta, recently.
Kimberly Ryder further said, experience had never felt a bad performance when she was involved in a recent soap opera. Because not want the hassle she finally chose homeschooling as a place to gain knowledge.


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Just did a quick conversion based on the rate right now, $30. GBP = $57.5891 USD.
This running around between the vinty thread & the OTC thread is driving me I was thinking of merging both threads together but this is a vinty & modern subject so they can both stay where they are.
If I win the lottery or something I'll order a set of each, and maybe a couple extras for a few of you guys.
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Looking for a Soulmate - Islamabad
- City: Islamabad
- Country: Pakistan
- Posted on: October 11, 2017
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New Tudor Bypass Opens on State Route 99
Sutter County - The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and Sutter County today opened the newly-completed Tudor Bypass, a $54.8 million highway project that realigned and widened a four-mile section of State Route 99 south of Yuba City. The $54.8 million project was primarily financed ($31.9 million) by Proposition 1B, the $19.9 billion transportation bond championed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and approved by voters in 2006.
"As the voters intended, Proposition 1B is paying for vital projects that are improving California's transportation system and providing a shot in the arm to our economy," said Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. "With this freeway project, the people of Sutter County can see their tax dollars at work."
The new alignment features a four-lane highway and new signalized intersections at Wilson Road and at the SR-99/SR-113 junction.
"State Route 99 is essential for the movement of people and goods in Sutter County. The Tudor Bypass will make the highway safer and reduce congestion for thousands of local commuters," said Caltrans Director Cindy McKim.
In spring 2011, work will begin on a project to widen the Feather River Bridge on SR-99. When that project is completed in 2014, Caltrans will have achieved its goal of widening SR-99 from two lanes to four lanes between Sacramento and Yuba City.
Since its passage, Caltrans and the California Transportation Commission have allocated nearly $6 billion in Proposition 1B funding to more than 1,000 projects statewide.


text: The Two-Way Administration, Congress Target Campus Sexual Assaults December 7, 2010 Earlier this year, an NPR investigation looked at how colleges and universities fail victims of sexual assault. Now a federal official says Washington, D.C., is doing more to address the problem. But advocates say it's still not enough. Administration, Congress Take Steps To Address Sexual Assaults On Campus Listen · 4:16 4:16 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/131887810/131898966" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript


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Contrary to what everyone says about me, I'm not perfect.
Okay, actually no one says that about me. But feel free to start the rumor.
Striving for perfection, or at least trying to be the best you can be, is an admirable goal. Unfortunately, it isn't easy. Not due to lack of effort, but lack of subjectivity.
As a wise man once said, "A man's got to know his limitations." That wise man was Dirty Harry. And he's right.
Recognizing our own flaws, and then acknowledging that they need to be fixed, is hard to do.
One of my Achilles' heels is email. I just can't keep up. I answer the quick ones, but the ones that require more in-depth replies or scheduling issues get put off until I have an InBox of ninety-four urgent messages that all need to be answered yesterday.
Perhaps it's a discipline thing. Or perhaps it's a time issue thing. The fact that I don't like answering most email is also a factor. Whatever the case, I suck at email response.
My de facto coping mechanism for this flaw is to wait until the email piles up so badly I have no choice, then I'll waste two days answering it all. This adds unnecessary stress, hurts my career, and is just plain bad business.
But I'm halfway to fixing it. Because I've identified the problem, and the poor way I handle it, I can now try to brainstorm a solution. Here are some options:
1. Hire an assistant. While this would be helpful, I don't have the funds for it. And much as I would like having someone constantly remind me what I need to get done (another big Achilles' heel of mine is forgetfulness) I'm simply not at the stage in my career where it is necessary. I can still handle everything myself, I just don't.
2. Become less accessible. I see the allure in this. A lot of my email is fan-related, or new writers seeking advice. I open myself up to this because it's a way to help spread name-recognition, word-of-mouth, and brand awareness. I'm not a bestseller being bombarded with hundreds of emails a day, and seclusion could hurt more than help. So for the time being I'll keep public email address, and still allow people to contact me directly.
3. Schedule time. This makes the most sense, because it is within my power and budget. If I've established that answering email is important, then I have to devise a plan to get it done.But deadlines and travelling make consistency impossible, and uninforeceable.
4. Garbage in, garbage out. This is probably the best idea, and something I can certainly keep up with. As soon as I get an email, I should answer it immediately. Then I'll never get behind. But there's also a good chance I'll never check my Inbox again.
5. Schedule GIGO, adjusting accordingly. Now we're cooking. If I vow to answer email when it comes in, and chose to answer email at a semi-regular time (such as whenever I boot up the computer, when I wake up, or right after I finish writing my quota for the day) that addresses all of my concerns.
So I'll go with #5. But even though I have a semi-solution, there's still a chance of lapsing. Assuming I have very little self-control (a good assumption) what can I do to make sure I stick to this protocol?
Please hit me with your answer, and then take the opportunity to reveal one of your Achilles' heels, along with potential solutions.
A wise man (not Dirty Harry) once said, "There are no problems, only opportunities." Ask yourself what needs to improve about your career, then challenge yourself to do something about it.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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NASA's Voyager Edges Closer to the Stars
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The United States' Voyager 1 spacecraft is close to becoming the first human-made object to travel between the stars.
The spacecraft, which is now more than 11 billion miles from the sun, has entered the so-called "magnetic highway," showing scientists two of the three signs they believe will confirm it has entered interstellar space: the presence of charged particles from the sun shooting out into space; and cosmic rays from outside coming into the heliosphere, which can be thought of as the region of space dominated by the sun.
The third sign, an abrupt change in the direction of the magnetic field, would indicate the presence of the interstellar magnetic field. That has not yet been detected.
"We have speculated for many, many years on the nature of the interplanetary medium," William I. Newman, a professor of earth space sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles, told TechNewsWorld.
Crossing the boundary dividing the heliosphere from interstellar space is not like breaking through the skin of a bubble.
"It's not a barrier or sharp boundary -- it's just like leaving Earth's atmosphere," Newman explained. "There is a point where there is a balance between the magnetic forces associated with the sun and the interstellar medium."
This point, or boundary, is called the heliopause.
What Voyager 1's Up To
Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, are on a mission to measure the size of the heliosphere, among other things.
Scientists aren't quite sure how far Voyager 1 has to go to reach interstellar space. They think it could take up to several years to get there.
The heliosphere, which extends at least 8 billion miles beyond all the planets in our solar system, is dominated by the sun's magnetic field and what's commonly called the "solar wind," Carol Paty, an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, told TechNewsWorld.
Interstellar space is filled with matter from other stars and the magnetic field present in the nearby region of the Milky Way.
"As we move forward trying to figure out a context for our existence -- trying to understand how the sun, our solar system and our galaxy formed, and how these fit into the intergalactic patchwork that is our universe -- finding boundaries and understanding the physical reason for those boundaries is extremely important," Paty said.
"Until Voyager's last decade, and the recent observations of IBEX and Cassini, we only had a rough theoretical notion as to what happened at the end of our solar system," Paty continued. "We are now starting to have enough pieces of information to solidify and validate these theories and better understand our place in the galaxy."
Let's Get Technical
Understanding the magnetic highway, which is also called the "depletion region," requires a little background involving the solar wind and the interstellar medium.
The solar wind travels at 600,000 mph for the first 6.2 billion miles. Then it hits the interstellar medium and begins to slow down. Finally, it stops when the sun's magnetic force and the interstellar medium balance out, at the heliopause.
The point where the solar wind begins to slow down is called the "termination shock." After that, the area the wind passes through is called the "heliosheath."
In the heliosheath, the solar wind's magnetic field connects directly to the interstellar magnetic field, Paty said.
"This means that the plasma from the heliosphere can escape, leaving very few particles sourced from the sun in that region -- hence the term 'depletion,'" Paty explained. The direct connection also lets galactic cosmic rays from interstellar space come into the heliosphere. The bidirectional flow of solar particles led to the area being called the "magnetic highway."
Knowledge May Not Be Power
Voyager 1 will "continue to tell us more about this interesting region of space," Paty said. "How variable is it? Does it change rapidly or transition slowly? Is there a sharp edge to the heliosphere?"
Given the current economic situation, which has led to Washington's clamping down on the U.S. space program, that information may end up metaphorically collecting dust in a data warehouse.
"We are seeing the dawn of a new era," UCLA's Newman said.
"There are discoveries yet to be made, and what we will do with them remains a challenge," he observed. "We're living in an era where America's space effort has essentially wound down, and if we don't return to space in the near term and have a relatively cost-effective way of doing that, we may never return."


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Getting Healthy In 2012? Avoid Tips From The Right-Wing Media
Research ››› ››› CHELSEA RUDMAN
Right-wing media, especially Fox News, have a long history of attacking healthy eating and exercise while promoting unhealthy habits such as eating fast food or using too much salt, or getting Botox and going tanning. If getting healthy is one of your goals for 2012, here's why you shouldn't trust any advice from the right-wing media.
Don't Make Kids' Food Healthier!
Happy Meals: Right-Wing Media Attacked McDonald's For Healthier Kids' Meals. Following McDonald's decision to offer "more nutritionally-balanced" Happy Meals and First Lady Michelle Obama's praise of the decision, the right-wing media attacked McDonald's for supposedly bending to the will of the "fat police" and making Happy Meals "less happy." Co-host Steve Doocy said on Fox News' Fox & Friends that "there's about to be no more happy in [kids'] Happy Meals," and conservative pundit Michelle Malkin held an "unhappy meal" Photoshop contest on her blog, writing, "I'm running out to Sonic before [sic] right now before they get their grubby Nanny State hands on my cheesy tots and cherry limeade." [Media Matters, 7/26/11, 7/27/11]
Fox & Friends Freaked Out Over NYC Proposal To Ban Toys In Kids' Fast Food Meals "Unless They Meet Certain Nutritional Guidelines." On the April 6 edition of Fox & Friends, the co-hosts repeatedly attacked a New York City councilman's proposal to ban toys from kids' fast food meals unless they meet certain nutritional standards. The ban would have applied to meals over 500 calories, which is up to 40 percent of the recommended daily calorie intake for a child. [Media Matters, 4/6/11]
Doocy On Actress' Encouraging Kids To Cook: "They Don't Have To Make Healthy Stuff, Do They?" On the October 21 edition of Fox & Friends, the co-hosts interviewed actress Josie Bissett about her new children's books. When Bissett mentioned an upcoming book that will teach kids to cook, Doocy asked, "They don't have to make healthy stuff, do they?" [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/21/11, via Media Matters]
Fox Nation Mocked FDA Investigation Of Additive's Impact On Children's Health. In a March 30 post, Fox News' blog Fox Nation posted a link to a New York Times story about a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assessment of artificial food colorings under the headline, "Obama Cracking Down on Jell-O":
- In Fact, The FDA Was "Ask[ing] A Panel Of Experts" To Advise On Possible "Warning Labels On Food" With Artificial Coloring. In fact, the New York Times article to which Fox Nation linked said that "the federal government is for the first time publicly reassessing whether foods like Jell-O, Lucky Charms cereal and Minute Maid Lemonade should carry warnings that the bright artificial colorings in them worsen behavior problems like hyperactivity in some children." The FDA panel ultimately rejected the idea that warning labels would be necessary on foods containing such artificial dyes. [Media Matters, 4/6/11]
All Portion Sizes Must Remain Huge ...
Kilmeade Mocked Healthier, Smaller Happy Meal Fries Size: "You Might As Well Just Individually Wrap These French Fries." On the September 16 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade mocked McDonald's new, smaller kids' fries size, and said, holding up a sample carton, "Look at the new small fry! Is that unbelievable? You might as well just individually wrap these french fries. ... Even kids would say, 'Mom, come on, what, are you punishing me? Why don't you just ground me?' " Co-host Gretchen Carlson disagreed and supported the smaller kids' size. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/16/11, via Media Matters]
Right-Wing Media Freaked Out Over Red Lobster, Olive Garden Decision To Shrink Portion Sizes. In September, after Darden Restaurants Inc., the parent company of Red Lobster and Olive Garden, announced it would shrink portion sizes and reduce sodium in its meals, right-wing media responded by attacking the decision and claiming the company was "bending to the whims of Michelle Obama." In a blog post, Malkin claimed that Darden was "strong-armed" into "re-designing meals" by Michelle Obama, while the Drudge Report linked to the story with a picture of Michelle Obama and the words, "Adult Supervision for fries." [Media Matters, 9/16/11]
... And Should Have Lots Of Salt
Fox & Friends Attacked FDA For Considering Potentially Life-Saving Sodium Standards. On the September 26 edition of Fox & Friends, the co-hosts attacked the FDA for considering ways to get Americans to reduce their salt intake. Kilmeade claimed the plans showed there is a "war on salt," and Carlson said: "So the FDA has opened up now a formal inquiry into salt reduction, so what is that going to mean? Will we now see that you can't eat salt in your own home, potentially?" Kilmeade also hyped a study that found, according to Kilmeade, that "cardiovascular death rate was highest among those with less salt."
- · In Fact, Vast Majority Of Studies Show Salt Intake Linked To Heart Attacks, Coronary Heart Disease, Premature Death. In fact, the majority of studies conducted on sodium intake have found a link between high sodium consumption and cardiovascular disease. In 2009, Time magazine reported that cutting out 1 g of salt per person per day could prevent 30,000 cases of coronary heart disease, and that if Americans halved their salt intake, "as many as 150,000 premature deaths could be prevented each year." The study Kilmeade cited was criticized for its methodology. [Media Matters. 9/26/11]
Fox & Friends Doubles Down By Hosting President Of The Salt Institute To Call Regulations Part Of An "Agenda That Goes Beyond Science." On the October 3 edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy hosted Lori Roman, president of the Salt Institute, to claim that the government is considering sodium regulations because "they have an agenda that goes beyond science." Doocy also baselessly claimed that "if you actually followed what the government wanted you to intake with salt, you would have a big deficiency and you could be more unhealthy." [Media Matters, 10/3/11]
Fox's Gutfeld Claims That "Curbing Sodium Might Actually Harm You." On the August 23 edition of Fox News' The Five, co-host Greg Gutfeld hyped the same flawed study that Kilmeade mentioned, saying: "I've always believed that whatever you put salt on gets better. ... Which is why I'm not surprised that a new study has found that curbing salt intake doesn't save lives or prevent heart attacks. In fact, curbing sodium might actually harm you." Gutfeld later said, "I know there's evidence that lowering sodium intake can help drop blood pressure in some people," but he continued to suggest that the scientific community does not largely agree that high salt intake is harmful. [Fox News, The Five, 8/23/11, via Media Matters]
If Michelle Obama Wants Healthier Food And Exercise, They Must Be Bad
Right-Wing Media Attacked Michelle Obama And Wal-Mart Over Healthy Foods Initiative. In January, Wal-Mart announced, with the support of Michelle Obama, a plan to offer "more healthful foods." Right-wing media responded by attacking the plan; Rush Limbaugh claimed that Michelle Obama "bullied" Wal-Mart, while Fox Business host Andrew Napolitano likened her presence at Wal-Mart's announcement to extortion. [Media Matters, 1/21/11]
Right-Wing Media Tried To Link Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" Campaign To Pedestrian Deaths. In January, right-wing media, including blogger Jim Hoft, the Daily Caller, and Rush Limbaugh, hyped a Washington Examiner story that claimed Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign, which encourages Americans to exercise, "could be causing pedestrian deaths."
- In Fact, Washington Examiner Story Itself Conceded There Was "No Scientific Evidence That The Let's Move Campaign Has Led To An Increase In ... Deaths." The Examiner article conceded that there was "no scientific evidence that the Let's Move campaign has led to an increase in walkers and runners, or death." In comments to Media Matters, a spokesman for the Governors Highway Safety Association called the Examiner story a "total sham." [Media Matters, 1/20/11]
Attacking Kids' Exercising: Fox & Friends Complained That Children's Easter Egg Roll Also Promoted Exercise. On the March 30 broadcast of Fox & Friends, guest Laura Ingraham attacked Michelle Obama for promoting her "Let's Move!" initiative at the White House Easter Egg Roll. [Media Matters, 3/30/11]
Attacking Halloween Treats: Right-Wing Media Attacked The Obamas For Handing Out Fruit Along With Candy On Halloween. Right-wing media attacked and mocked Michelle Obama and President Obama for handing out dried fruit along with candy this Halloween. [Media Matters, 10/31/11]
Don't Forget To Check Out Botox And Indoor Tanning!
Fox & Friends Attacked HPV Vaccine Law While Promoting Teenage Tanning. During the October 11 edition of Fox & Friends, the co-hosts attacked a California law that will allow adolescents as young as 12 to receive the HPV vaccine, which can protect against cervical cancer, without parental consent. They also juxtaposed this law with a California provision that restricts those younger than 18 from using tanning salons, but failed to note that tanning beds increase the risk of skin cancer by 75 percent. [Media Matters, 10/11/11]
Fox & Friends Hosted Actress To Hype Botox Injections. On October 5, Fox & Friends hosted actress Courtney Thorne-Smith, who identified herself as a Botox spokesperson, to hype Botox injections, which Thorne-Smith referred to as a "cosmetic." The co-hosts encouraged Thorne-Smith to explain why viewers should consider getting Botox and failed to fully disclose potential side effects of the treatment, which had reportedly led to 180 serious health problems and 16 deaths as of April 2009. [Media Matters, 10/5/11]
Other Attacks On Healthy Eating
Fox's Gutfeld: "Why Are Health Food Freaks Always So Sickly Looking?" On the August 23 broadcast of The Five, Gutfeld said, "Why are health food freaks always so sickly-looking?" Co-host Andrea Tantaros replied, "They're unhappy, because they're not eating any fat." [Fox News, The Five, 8/23/11, via Media Matters]
Fox Promotes Hypothetical Junk Food Tax, Responds With A "Cultur[al]" Defense Of Macaroni And Cheese. On the July 26 edition of Fox & Friends, Carlson discussed a hypothetical junk food tax, beginning the segment by saying, "Do we really need the government ... policing this?" Her guest, Robert Ferguson, then claimed that "[n]o one has ever really talked about" "what makes foods healthy." He also said that a person needs to "tak[e] into account different cultures" in order to calculate nutritional value, then concluded: "In my world, I like mac and cheese. ... I'm going to eat it."
At the beginning of the segment, the following graphic aired:
- In Fact, "Junk Food" Tax Came From A New York Times Op-Ed. In fact, while Carlson did not explain where the "junk food" tax numbers came from, the "tax[es]" featured in the graphic appeared to have come from a New York Times op-ed, not a government proposal. [Media Matters, 7/26/11]
Fox & Friends Mocked NYC Health Dept. For Issuing Health Guidelines. On the April 4 edition of Fox & Friends, the co-hosts responded to a story that the New York City Health Department issued health guidelines for its workers, which included banning deep-fried foods from being served at work events, by mocking the decision and referring to the department as the "food police." Doocy listed some of the rules and asked, "How crazy is that?" while Kilmeade said, "Can you imagine being suspended because of three chocolate glazed donuts? Sorry honey, I've been furloughed -- too many calories." Carlson admitted: "I mean, they're saying -- they're saying that they're doing this because they have to practice what they preach, and you can just imagine that if we found out that they were serving nothing but cake at the Health Department, we'd be talking about it the next morning. So maybe they're -- I mean, I don't know. It's so crazy." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/4/11, via Media Matters]
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In just over 5 weeks The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will be released in North America. Traditionally I have waited until around the time of launch to release a Nexus site for Fallout 3, New Vegas, Dragon Age and The Witcher. However, I seem to be waking up every day to emails asking me if I'm going to release a site for Skyrim or whether I'm going to integrate Skyrim in to TESNexus, so I'm putting the flag in the ground today and putting the doubts (and hopefully, the questions!) to rest. Skyrim shall have its own Nexus site, and we shall name it Skyrim Nexus.
Naturally, interest in Skyrim is huge right now and that's only going to increase as we near the launch of the game. We already have over 20,000 posts in our Skyrim forum section and it's growing every day, so come join in with the rest of us.
Skyrim Nexus right now has been locked to the front page and some really good feature article written by some of the news crew here along with Zaldiir, who has been running and updating our 5,000+ post strong Skyrim information sticky thread on the forums. If you're in the dark about Skyrim or want to make sure you're up-to-date on what we know and what you should see then look no further than our featured articles:
- What we know about Skyrim, by Zaldiir
- Oblivion vs Skyrim: The differences, by Lingwei
- Interviews and previews you should read, by Galahaut
- Skyrim videos you need to watch, by LordFrostcraig
Naturally we're going to be keeping you up-to-date with the latest Skyrim news and information on the front-page of the site, and when the game launches on the 11th of November I'll open up the Skyrim mods section and Image Share straight away ready for use. Until then I'll keep it locked to prevent people creating placeholders for their My Little Pony mods (which, by the way, I can't wait to play).
5 weeks folks. I'll be playing Rage to pass the time, but something tells me it's still going to go very, very slowly.