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When Nelson Mandela recently watched footage of "Mandela," a new biopic in which Idris Elba plays the charismatic South African leader, he was so transfixed by the performance he posed a telling question.
"He asked, 'Is that me or is that an actor?' " said Mark Coulier, the makeup artist who helped Elba incarnate the role. "That's what Idris is able to bring to the part."
As the world prays for the ailing leader's health — the 94-year-old icon remains in critical condition in a Pretoria hospital — the film has grown in importance. Weinstein Co. is set to release the movie this fall, the realization of a 2-decade-old dream of film producer and longtime Mandela friend Anant Singh.
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Directed by Justin Chadwick ("The First Grader") in part from Mandela's bestselling 1994 memoir "Long Walk to Freedom," the movie follows the anti-apartheid crusader known as Madiba from his student days and early leadership of the African National Congress to his long imprisonment on Robben Island and eventual freedom and political ascension.
Despite the sprawling nature of the tale, Harvey Weinstein told reporters in Cannes that the movie takes pains to avoid the pitfalls of a traditional biopic. "This is not your daddy's HBO version of Mandela," he said of the historical piece. "It's a warts-and-all story of Mandela and the end of apartheid."
The movie isn't the first modern take on the leader's life, of course. Clint Eastwood took on the early-90's period after South Africa won the rugby World Cup in the wake of Mandela's liberation (Morgan Freeman played the leader), while a long-delayed biopic "Winnie" has Jennifer Hudson incarnating the leader's longtime wife Winnie Mandela and Terrence Howard as the man himself.
ON LOCATION: Where the cameras roll
As for Mandela's desire to see the Chadwick film, Coulier, at least, has a strong opinion.
"It would be a tragedy if Mandela won't be able to see it," Coulier said. "He waited a long time to see this dream come true."
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View the Video Audrey Reynolds and Saving Horses Inc.
Audrey Reynolds has spent much of the past seven years helping hundreds of horses that otherwise would be destined for abandonment or slaughter. She knows the heartbreak and disappointment that accompany the equine side of animal rescue.
The Alpine resident is a former show jumper and rider who suffered a career-ending injury nearly 20 years ago. She now spends the majority of her days working to educate the public about the realities of horse breeding and horse racing as she rescues, rehabilitates and finds homes for as many of the animals as she can.
"While racegoers enjoy a day at the races watching these magnificent and beautiful animals run their hearts out for money, I bet they don't think for a moment where the horses go at the end of their racing career," Reynolds says. " Most of them go to slaughter."
Reynolds puts her efforts into saving animals as the co-founder and president of Saving Horses Inc., a nonprofit group. It's mostly a one-woman show, though Reynolds has a volunteer who comes three mornings a week; another person comes on Saturdays to give her a hand with six horses that are boarded in Lakeside.
The group is moving this month as Reynolds and her husband, Neal, relocate to the Olivenhain area. The horses at their Lakeside sanctuary — Beau, age 20; Gracie, 19; Pirate, 16; El Nuki, 14; Buddy, 8; and Aero, 8 — will be moving to a 2½-acre home along with three more horses Reynolds has in Alpine, rescues Lucky Girl, 19; Dolly, 16; and Tuffy, a 30-year-old quarter horse gelding, who was her event horse when she rode competitively. Tuffy was also a rescue horse, "picked up by a cowboy at a local auction, then sold to me," Reynolds said, when Tuffy was 4.
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It is also illegal to ship horses out of California for slaughter, but Reynolds says the law is not enforced.
Consequently, she says, many healthy horses are given up and end up at auctions. Reynolds goes to auctions and tries to save them from people known in the rescue world as "kill buyers," who buy the horses for meat consumption. She also has rescued and found homes for horses from the kill buyers' feed lots, pregnant mares and Bureau of Land Management mustangs. She has rescued elderly, physically challenged and emaciated horses.
In the worst cases, Reynolds will go to an auction on a "mercy mission," in which she will buy a distressed horse and immediately take it to be euthanized.
"It takes me a week to recover emotionally," Reynolds said. "I'm a real wreck after some of these auctions."
As it readies to move, the group has applied for grants to purchase new fencing, but is still $5,000 short of its fencing fund goal.
"It is a struggle each month just to have the necessary funding to feed and care for the horses; this fencing fund is over and above what we usually need," Reynolds says.
There is some hopeful news on the horizon for horse lovers like Reynolds. In March,
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Saving Horses Inc. will host a fundraising trail ride from 9 to 11 on April 27 at Tumblewood Arena on Willow Road in Lakeside. Cost is $30 and includes brunch after the two-hour ride along a sandy river bottom. Raffle tickets will be available for purchase. Brunch-only tickets are $10.
A "Casino Night" is also planned for June 1 at the Lakeside Rodeo Grounds to raise funds for Saving Horses Inc.
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Reconnaissance – mind vision
How often have you been in a party that lacked a stealthing player (rogue or druid) and wondered what the layout was around the corner? For that matter, how often – even WITH the stealth players – have you had a clue what the layout was going to be before the battle even began?
You, as a priest, have one of THE most effective tools for seeing the situation. And the odds are you almost never use it. Allow me to remind you of the spell Mind Vision.
Level 1 – at level 22 – is impressive. Range 100 yards. Channeled, "Allows the caster to see through the target's eyes for 60 sec." You have to have line of sight to the target. But – and this is really, really important – it generates NO THREAT even if it fails.
So you get where you can barely see a target in the room – any target will do. cast the spell, and start telling everyone what you see without ANY chance of pulling. If you are the group leader, you can mark the mobs (see the Marking article for more on that). You can even do this if the other players are scouting — make your own assessment of what you'll need to do as the battle proceeds, and have input on the battle plan because YOU HAVE SEEN THE FIELD OF BATTLE. Oh, that's nice, and it only cost 65 mana.
But it pales in comparison to Mind Vision Rank 2, which you get at level 44. The tooltip for that reads: "Allows the caster to see through the target's eyes for 1 min. Will not work if the target is in another instance or on another continent." What? Another continent or instance? wtf?
The range is 50,000 yards – 60,000 if you've got the right talents. You do NOT HAVE TO BE IN LINE OF SIGHT to use it.
Pick a mob, any mob. target it. Cast Mind Vision 2. Enjoy looking around with NO THREAT.
Let me mention a gotcha, and a use.
If you target a trash mob, you get the nearest. In some instances, the nearest may not be in the next room, especially if the path twists, turns and doubles back.
One use I have for this spell is when I'm wanting a rare named mob in an instance – one who could be anywhere. I enter the instance and /target [name of the mob]. If that mob is in the instance, the target appears. I can then use my mind vision to see where it is, and what's nearby.
Recall that I can use the raid icons from the eyes of my target? I can also chain-process the mind vision – even MV1. I can cast to a target I can see, use that to see another and cast to that, and so on till I reach the limits of my range. Oh, one of those targets can be friendly. So I can start by targeting my party's rogue who stealths around to see the nasty group of mobs, to which I can jump and continue. In simple, after level 22 the only reason I should be denied a look at what's around the corner is if there's something else in the way – like a gate or a door.
Oh — mind vision works in battlegrounds. MV2 can see the entire battlefield (except AV) from just about anywhere. Hunting a flagcarrier? Target the name and cast. Note, please, that it has some weaknesses. Not least, Vanish will drop it.
Even so, using it will give you a significant increase in awareness of the battlefield – be it PVP BG or PVE Instance or, well, questing along. See, know, and communicate. It's a deadly thing for the other side, PVE OR PVP.
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I am SO going to have to play with this.
I didn't realize I could use the /target soandso — from a non-instance viewpoint, does that work on players? Like if I'm waiting at a summoning stone and someone's in Shattrath and I want to see if they're REALLY just grabbing a stack of water, or if they're really afk or chatting with friends?
MV2 can see the entire battlefield (except AV) from just about anywhere.
What is this restriction in AV?
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MAPLE PARK – Carol Fabrizius is as surprised as anyone that stock-car racing and demolition derbies are still a weekly attraction 50 years after Sycamore Speedway first opened.
"So many people said, 'They'll never make it. Those kids will never make it,'" Fabrizius recalled. "They had their doubts about what we were doing. I guess we fooled them all."
"Those kids" refers to Fabrizius, her late husband, Joe Fabrizius, and her brother Bob Oksas. The trio opened Bob-Jo Speedway for its first clay track motorcycle race on May 30, 1963. In subsequent years, the speedway changed its name to Sycamore Speedway, Oksas sold his share of the partnership to his sister and brother-in-law, and the track switched from hosting motorcycle races to car races.
Joe Fabrizius was killed in a freak accident at the speedway in 2001, in the only accidental death ever experienced there. Two Fabrizius daughters, Julie Andrews and Linda Gerace, now operate the track.
Carol Fabrizius, now 80, still lives within earshot of the speedway. She sat down at her kitchen table to reflect on a half-century of racing with MidWeek reporter Curtis Clegg.
MidWeek: Tell me about yourself and your history with the speedway.
Carol Fabrizius: We were young. We started out racing go-karts. That didn't work out too well. We paid $10,000 to lay down asphalt for the track and it peeled right up. …We didn't have any money to pay that $10,000 back so my husband thought we would start a motorcycle track. That was his love and that's what he wanted and the people came but those people didn't cover the expenses and insurance, so finally we had to drop (motorcycle races).
MW: As long as I can remember there has been a motorcycle dealer at the speedway.
CF: Yes, that has been probably about 58 years we have had that. We had it right here in our garage, and then the family across the road sold us a few acres at a time. As the years went by, the land got more and more expensive.
MW: Have all of your kids worked at the speedway?
CF: Our kids have always had a place to work and they are all hard workers. Even when they go to work somewhere else, (employers) will tell us how hard they work. …The speedway is like running a small city. You've got to make sure you have all your help on the track, in the pits, both gates, the beer wagon, both concessions, the tower, ticket sellers – there's just a lot.
MW: Tell me about your husband.
CF: He loved motorcycles. He raced at Santa Fe Speedway (in Chicago) every Wednesday night. …That's why he thought we could race motorcycles here. We tried for years but it just wasn't cost-effective.
MW: Tell me about his death.
CF: We were just sitting here and I thought I'd go over and see if the girls were OK and pitch in if they needed me. It was just practice. …I left him sitting here eating supper and I was working a little bit and talking to the girls and someone ran over and said "Something terrible has happened to Uncle Joe! Come quick!" I guess a tire had come off a late-model car, and it went up in the air and came down on his head or shoulder and hit him. He was at Loyola (hospital) for a few days but there was no hope so we pulled the plug. That's what he would have wanted. He made me promise him a thousand times that we wouldn't keep him alive.
MW: How big is your family?
CF: I have eight kids, four girls and four boys, and then I have 20 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
MW: What roles do your kids have in running the speedway?
CF: Well, I sold it to my two daughters, Julie Andrews and Linda Gerace, and Linda's daughter Tiffany manages the speedway.
MW: Are clay tracks common?
CF: No, asphalt is more common because clay is too much upkeep.
MW: Is clay less expensive to maintain?
CF: No, because calcium is expensive and you have to put that on. And your blue clay is so hard to find, especially the last couple of years because the construction people haven't been digging to build new houses or strip malls or that kind of thing. We would keep our eyes open and our friends would help us out if they found a source of blue clay. It's hard to find.
MW: You are technically in Maple Park. Why did you name it Sycamore Speedway?
CF: When Red Johnson was mayor of Sycamore, my husband went and asked him if we could change the name to Sycamore Speedway so people would know the location better, and he said, "Oh sure, that would be just fine." So we changed it. My husband always said that Route 47 is like a wall. People in the east don't ever come west of 47.
MW: Are there race drivers or fans who prefer the clay track experience?
CF: I think there are a certain amount of people who think that clay racing is the best but those are few and far between anymore.
MW: How far do some of your drivers come to race?
CF: I would say from about 30 to 40 miles.
MW: Were you involved with the filming of "At Any Price" at the speedway?
CF: No, but I did see the movie. I thought it was fine. I was surprised at all the little twists in the movie. I thought it was a racing movie but it wasn't, it was a movie about a farm family and what they went through. I didn't expect to see a murder in it.
MW: Did you imagine 50 years ago that you'd be sitting here now talking to a newspaper reporter about a half-century of racing?
CF: No. I don't think anybody dreamed that we'd last 50 years, but we have been so lucky with people that have helped us along the way and made it possible.
MW: What is the secret to your success?
CF: Hard work. You don't give up. We have had good times and bad times, like one year we had 13 rain-outs. …We have always had good employees that have stuck with us.
MW: As you look into the stands over the years, who do you see there? Is it mostly families, individuals or other groups?
CF: We try to keep it a family thing. Every once in a while we'll get a group of guys in here who decide they want to drink too much beer, but we try to watch that really carefully. …I used to yell at drivers when we did payouts with their wives. We used to get some drivers (who used foul language) and I'd tell them, "If you don't quit, I'm going to close this window and you're going home without your pay." They would listen to me. …We try to keep it family affair because I think it's important for families to come together and enjoy things together.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – A throwing error helped Georgia College baseball (26-17, 16-8 PBC) to take a 9-8 walk-off 11-inning victory from Columbus State University (27-17, 13-12 PBC) Friday night at John Kurtz Field.
Tied 8-8 into the bottom of the 11th inning, second baseman Seth Bancroft (Sugar Hill, Ga.) led off with a single up the middle. After a sacrifice bunt moved him to second, a flyout made it two down for catcher Benton Yaun (Marietta, Ga.). Yaun sent a pitch on the ground to deep short, and when the throw bounced past the first baseman, Bancroft came in to score the game-winner.
GC reliever Matt LaMothe (Troy, Mich.) picked up the win (4-0) throwing 2 2/3 innings, allowing a run on two hits and a walk. Cougar reliever Drew Dades (4-1) took the loss in four innings of work.
Leftfielder Josh Young (Lake Havasu City, Ariz.) was the lone multi-hit performer for GC, going 2-for-4 with two RBI. The Bobcats spread out 11 hits, as each of the nine batting slots recorded at least one safety. The teams combined for 24 hits, but just one extra-base knock –a double from Bryce Williams (Manhattan, Kan.). He finished with two RBI and a run as well.
GC jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first, but CSU chipped away at the advantage, eventually taking over with a three-run ninth for an 8-7 score.
Backs against the wall in the bottom of the ninth, first baseman Clay Ardeeser (Loganville, Ga.) walked with one out, and pinch runner Heine Rivera (Fayetteville, Ga.) promptly stole second. Williams then pulled a full-count pitch through the legs of the third baseman to left, which scored Rivera for the 8-8 tie at the end of regulation.
The Bobcats and Cougars finish the three-game set with a doubleheader tomorrow, April 21 at 1 p.m., as GC hosts Military Appreciation Day and Alumni Day at Kurtz Field.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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This wonderful traditional building was renovated especially for guests by its owner, who also built our Chalet Arktic and refurbished the Atlas.
The refurbishments combine the rustic warmth of a traditional Savoyard chalet, evident in the wood ceilings and panelling, with stylish high-tech facilities and features. The bedrooms all have modern en suite multi-jet showers or hydro-massage baths, built-in speakers for your own MP3 player, flatscreen TV/DVD and hairdryer and some also have balconies. The dining-room and separate lounge also have large south-facing balconies, ideal for watching the sun go down or admiring the floodlit peaks by night.
Set in the most attractive part of Tignes-le-Lac, the chalet is only two minutes' walk from the nearest ski-lift, and offers some of the best views in Tignes, across the lake to Val Claret and La Grande Motte glacier and the Tovière ridge, which is beautifully lit at night.
The owner, one of Tignes' most famous instructors and off-piste guides, lives on the lower ground floor.
We set very high standards for our cuisine, and train our staff extensively before the season starts, to ensure that you will thoroughly enjoy every meal on your holiday with us. We also take our Health and Safety responsibilities extremely seriously, so all our chalet and Chalet Hotel staff involved in food preparation are trained to the City & Guilds qualification – Level 2 in Food Safety during the pre-season training course. For six days of the week for our 2017/18 season, and five days of the week for 2018/19, our staff prepare all your meals, as described below.
A good breakfast is essential on a ski holiday, so we provide both a hot option, as well as a continental selection with a choice of cereals or porridge, fruit juices, plentiful tea, coffee and bread (and croissants in France), cold meats, cheese and preserves, which is normally presented buffet-style for you to help yourself. On our staff's day(s) off, only the continental breakfast will be provided.
Our Chalet Hotels can also prepare a packed lunch for you on request, at a small local charge. For skiers keen to keep their Euro-spending to an absolute minimum, this is the ideal way to keep your costs down!
The traditional 'welcome home' after a day on the slopes will be laid out for you in your chalet or Chalet Hotel, ready for your return, every day except on the staff's day(s) off. A good cup of tea or coffee is the perfect accompaniment to a delicious slice of freshly home-baked cake and keeps hungry skiers happy until dinner is ready.
2017/18 season cuisine
A three-course adult-only chalet dinner starts with Prosseco, followed by an appetiser, main course and dessert, and completed by coffee to round off your evening. Your choice of complimentary quality red and white wines is unlimited during the meal service, and chilled water is also of course always available.
2018/19 season cuisine
Our hosts will cook you a three-course adult only meal 5 nights a week. Consisting of an appetiser, main course and dessert – with unlimited complimentary red, white and rosé wine during service! The staff nights off are a great opportunity to experience some local restaurents and cuisine. Speak to your resort representative for recommendations and help with reservations.
We are very proud of our wine selection for chalets and Chalet Hotels, which combines crisp and fruity whites with medium to full bodied reds, for a variety of palates. In our Chalet Hotels we also offer an additional light fresh rosé to our guests' choice. We select our wines in conjunction with our good friends Nicolas and Véronique – the third generation in the Perret family's fine wine business based in the Savoie. Nicolas is a qualified wine expert, having trained at the prestigious Burgundy Wine University in Beaune. Each season in October, Nicolas & Véronique bring over a new selection for us to sample (someone has to do it!) and together we choose our wines for the coming season, based on our menus and their pure enjoyment factor. Wine is an incredibly subjective and emotive subject, however the feedback we have received from our guests over recent seasons endorses our aims of providing wines to enhance your meal and to suit most tastes. We hope you will enjoy them as much as we do!
In Chalets and Chalet Hotels with family guests, High Tea provides children under 13 years with a healthy menu, tailored more towards children's tastes and puréed food is available for infants on request. High Tea is at 5.30pm, and children do not join the main adult-only dinner.
Families staying in one of our Chalet Hotels may choose to eat separately (High Tea at 5:30pm) or all dine together at the later adult dinner time if children who have received a child discount pay the meal upgrade charge of £39 at the time of booking only.
Vegetarian options are always on our 'Culinary Choice' menu in our Chalet Hotels, and are available in our chalets - just advise us at time of bookings so that we can ensure that our staff can prepare. Other special diets can generally be catered for at a cost of £35 per person per week. Any dietary requirements must be advised to us at the time of booking in order for us to be fully prepared.
All of our chalets and Chalet Hotels will serve a traditional Christmas dinner with a glass of Champagne to start off the evening. This will include roast turkey with all of the trimmings, Christmas pudding, mince pies, crackers and party hats plus a fantastic Alpine atmosphere in which to enjoy the day.
A special festive menu will also be served on New Year's Eve, alongside the added bonus that many resorts put on fantastic firework displays. A glass of fizz, whilst watching fireworks over the snow-capped peaks of the Alps.. what better way to bring in the New Year!
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•Espace Killy ski area •Fantastic après ski •High altitude skiing
Tignes is somewhere you can ski longer, higher and further than most other resorts in the Alps. Owing its snow-reliability to the Grande Motte glacier, the local ski area is joined with Val d'Isere's to form the mammoth Espace Killy - intermediates will have a whale of a time here. Choose between 5 different villages, whether your priority is convenience, cosiness or cheap accommodation. Tignes also has one of the most famous New Year parties in the Alps.
Great for •Families •Glacier skiing •Non-skiers •Groups •Off-piste •High altitude skiing
Snow Report: Top 150cm, Bottom 75cm
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Snow History: December average depth 89cm
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Night skiing: Yes, every Thursday
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – On a frigid day at John Kurtz Field, the Georgia College baseball team's (6-3) bats were hot, outscoring Clark Atlanta University (3-4) 13-1 and 15-2 in doubleheader action Saturday. The Bobcats plated a total of 28 runs on 23 hits over the two games.
Junior outfielder Taylor Hinshaw (Winder, Ga.) drove in a combined 10 runs over the two games, finishing 5-for-7 total.
In game one, Hinshaw and Jake Sandlin (Evans, Ga.) each had two hits, oddly enough both from the eighth spot in the order, as Hinshaw entered as a pinch hitter. Sandlin was 2-for-3 with a run, and Hinshaw 2-for-2 with five RBI and a run, posting two doubles. Catcher Steve Hazel (Kentwood, Mich.) drove in three with just one hit, a double.
Righty Justin Blue (Mulberry, Fla.) got the win (2-1) going six innings, scattering five singles and a walk while fanning nine. The Panther pitchers walked 13 on the game.
In game two, Hinshaw added a 3-for-5 effort, driving in five more with a double and a triple. The only other multi-hit performer was shortstop Daniel Bick (Alpharetta, Ga.) going 3-for-3 with three runs and two RBI. The Bobcats put up multi-run innings in each of the first four frames.
Lefty John Clark (Duluth, Ga.) got his first start of the season, going five innings of shutout ball, fanning eight for the win (1-0). Panther pitchers walked 12 more in game two.
The Bobcats are back in action Saturday, Feb. 23 at 1 p.m. in doubleheader action at Flagler College to kick off the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) season.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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HUNDREDS of mental health patients are being referred to private hospitals due to a shortage of NHS beds in Lancashire.
The shock figures, which show Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust shelled out more than £5million to private hospitals in the last two years, came after the trust slashed its provision of inpatient beds by about a third.
The data was obtained by the Lancashire Telegraph through Freedom of Information laws and raised serious concerns from health campaigners.
There were 251 patients sent to private facilities in 2013/14, at a cost of £3.6million, which was up from 136 referrals the previous year (£2.1million), which represented an average spend of £15,000 per patient. All these referrals were due to a lack of available NHS beds.
Russ McLean, chairman of the Pennine Lancashire Patient Voices Group, said: "These figures are staggering and I think there's something sadly wrong here. We want this cash spent on NHS beds in the community and not going into the coffers of private companies."
The number of beds at facilities run by Lancashire Care, such as those at the Royal Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals, has dropped from 492 in 2011 to 318 last year, although there has also been a reduction in inpatient admissions over the same period, from 4,603 to 3,560.
As reported last week, the trust is planning to further reduce its inpatient units, from eight to four, which could bring more bed closures.
Julia Berry, Chorley Council's lead member for health, said: "This is a non-sensical situation... Wards have been intentionally closed locally and yet they're saying they don't have the capacity. It's outrageous that so much money has been spent on private beds."
Most of the spending on private hospitals went to The Priory Hospital in Preston (£2.6million last year), with about £700,000 paid to Cygnet Health Care Ltd.
Lancashire Care said a number of factors had led to an increase in demand for mental health beds, including more patients with complex problems needing a longer stay.
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Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran's national backers awakened to a wrenching decision Wednesday: whether to continue pouring energy and cash into an effort to rescue a six-term incumbent who failed to win a majority of the vote in this week's primary.
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The dilemma is agonizing on every level, forcing longtime Cochran allies who have already spent millions defending him to gauge how realistic the beloved senior senator's chances are to win a June 24 runoff.
Independent groups have already reported spending over $8 million in the Mississippi race, with more than $5 million going to support state Sen. Chris McDaniel, the hard-charging tea party candidate who held Cochran below 50 percent of the vote. With 99.6 percent of precincts reporting, McDaniel led Cochran by just under 2,000 votes, 49.5 percent to 48.9 percent.
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Cochran enjoyed the backing of a muscular array of corporate PACs and interest groups, and received an extraordinary injection of late money from his Senate comrades. He took $27,000 in contributions from colleagues including Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Orrin Hatch of Utah, Rob Portman of Ohio and John Boozman of Arkansas. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, which deployed field staff to Mississippi ahead of the primary to bolster Cochran's operation, gave him $45,400 on May 20.
With the race all but set for a runoff vote later this month, Cochran's most loyal financial backers quickly reaffirmed their support for the senator. In a Senate GOP lunch after the primary, Republicans repeatedly emphasized that there is an electability argument to make against McDaniel before June 24. ("He was a talk radio host," one senator said.) No one, including McDaniel's personal heroes such as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, spoke up on the challenger's behalf.
But left unsaid by all parties Wednesday was precisely how much money Republicans might continue to pump into the race, whether they believe Cochran and his operation can sustain a three-week sprint to the next ballot — and just how intensely Republicans are willing to target a challenger who may end up as their nominee.
Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran, who chairs the NRSC, said Wednesday he continues to believe Cochran would be a far better general election candidate than McDaniel. At the same time, he expressed deep reluctance to go after McDaniel in the runoff.
( Also on POLITICO: Weep not for Thad Cochran)
"If Sen. Cochran has the Republican nomination, I think it's just nearly — it's just so highly likely that he is reelected and continues to be a senator," Moran said. "If McDaniel is the nominee, then I think it's a much more difficult race, but we will be supportive of the efforts to reelect a Republican in November."
Asked if it made sense to attack McDaniel over the next three weeks, as the NRSC did during the primary, Moran said: "It does not to me."
Moran also strongly indicated it would not be his preference for the national party to shore up Cochran financially in the runoff.
"It's always seemed to me that incumbent senators ought to be able to raise the money they need to get reelected," Moran said in an interview. "No decision has been made about money, but my inclination is that this is not about NRSC money going into Mississippi."
Sen. Roger Wicker, Cochran's home-state colleague, gave a blunt answer to the question of whether national Republicans should keep investing in Cochran: "Oh yeah."
"I think spending money effectively in the next three weeks saves millions in the general," Wicker said.
Cochran's most powerful outside-group allies indicated that they, too, would keep boosting the well-liked lawmaker. A top official at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce tweeted that the business lobby would "stand by Cochran." Henry Barbour, the Republican National Committee member who leads the top super PAC supporting Cochran, said in an email that his group would continue to go "all out" in the race.
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If you've accidentally deleted text messages by mistake, fret not! You can get lost SMS back with a 99% chance of success, but there's one ingredient that is most important: time! If you've deleted your SMS inbox you have to act quick, because the messages are only recoverable until the portion of memory on which they are saved is rewritten. So the longer you wait the higher the likelihood of getting new text messages, app updates or who-knows-what saved to the same location, obliterating them forever. Here's how to recover lost text messages on Android.
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Depending which program you choose, the steps may be different, but all you essentially have to do is the following (I'll use Wondershare for illustration purposes):
1. Download and install one of the programs above. Launch the program on your computer.
2. Enable USB Debugging on your Android. To do this, you need to have access to the Developer Options in your main Settings menu. If you don't, just go to About Phone, scroll down to Build Number and start tapping repeatedly.
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3. Connect your Android to your computer (with the recovery program installed and program running) with a USB cable.
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NEW ORLEANS – Both the UMBC men's and women's track and field teams have climbed up the standings in the latest United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Mid-Atlantic Regional Poll, the organization announced on Tuesday.
The Retriever men jumped up one spot from last week and now sit at 12th in the area while the women climbed two places and rank 13th in the Mid-Atlantic. Penn State leads both standings with Princeton second in the men's rankings and Georgetown trailing just behind in the women's poll.
Senior Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) has paced the Retriever men all season and looks in prime position to advance to the NCAA Championships in Albuquerque, N.M. in the 800m run after a blistering race on Sunday. In Boston at the BU Last Chance Meet, Smith topped his previous-best and school record of 1:49.15 by .33 and now ranks 16th nationally with a time of 1:48.82.
Smith leads a men's distance team which has broken four school records during the 2013-14 season. In addition to Smith's record time in the 800m, junior Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley) claimed the 1,000m UMBC record (2:25.48) and sophomore Hassan Omar (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson) snapped the school marks in the 3k (8:22.56) and 5k (14:32.71) events. All four times met the IC4A standard and each athlete earned a top medal at the 2014 America East Indoor Championships, led by Smith's gold in the 800.
Junior sprinter Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) has once again fueled the women's rise up the rankings. Jackson swept the gold medals in both the 60m and 200m dash events at the conference meet in New York for the second straight year and ranks 41st in the nation in the 60m event (7.41). In three years, she has won five individual conference indoor gold medals and holds the school record in both events.
Women's distance runners Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) and Sarah Daly (Lake Orion, Mich./Lake Orion) also put together record-breaking seasons for the Retrievers. The two traded the school record in the 1,000m with Daly claiming it now with a time of 2:53.04. Mezebish, meanwhile, holds the top mark in the 800m with her silver medal-run of 2:12.44 at the conference meet.
In addition, junior Alisha Beeman (Bridgeport, Conn./Bunnell/Hartford) claimed the top spot in the Retriever record book in both the high jump and the pentathlon this season. After breaking both records during the invitational season, Beeman bettered both at the conference meet. On day one, the versatile junior reset the pentathlon mark with a score of 3,324 pts. The next day, she bested her previous record, and the rest of the field, while clearing 1.74m (5'8.5") to win gold in the high jump.


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[UPDATE] Captivity Writing Unbound, October 11-13, 2012 Deadline for proposals extended to May 31, 2012.
Proposals for panels and papers are invited for a conference entitled "Captivity Writing Unbound," to be hosted by the University of South Alabama's Department of English and held at its Baldwin County campus, which is set in the heart of the quaint artist community of Fairhope, overlooking scenic Mobile Bay. As conference organizers, we envision a relatively concentrated event in which select scholars working in various disciplines and historical periods will present new ideas about the general area of writing and captivity. We are particularly interested in papers that explore and extend the traditional boundaries of the study of captivity writing, whether these are conceived generically, geographically, historically, or in disciplinary terms.
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• Captivity and the Body (especially the obese, the diagnosed and/or medicated body)
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Last updated: March 16, 2012
Statement on the Senate's Passage of the - Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2003 - (S. 1053)
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Statement on the Senate's Passage of the
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2003
Dr. Francis S. Collins
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
Department of Health and Human Services
Oct. 14, 2003
In 1995, the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health convened a working group to discuss the issue of genetic discrimination. That group published recommendations on preventing discrimination, many of which are reflected in this bill. We have seen many attempts to draft legislation on this important topic, but this bipartisan bill represents an outstanding effort and successfully addresses the concerns we in the research and health community have had. Should it become law, S. 1053 [thomas.loc.gov] will clearly protect all of us from genetic discrimination in health insurance and employment.
No one should lose his job because of the genes he inherited. No one should be denied health insurance because of her DNA. But genetic discrimination affects more than jobs and insurance. It slows the pace of science. We know that many people have refused to participate in genetic research for fear of genetic discrimination. This means that without the kind of legal protections offered by this bill, our clinical research protocols will lack participants, and those who do participate will represent a self-selected group.
Last April, with the completion of the Human Genome Project, the genomics community released A Vision for the Future of Genomics Research. The primary focus of this document was a plan for translating genomic research into health applications. Without protections in place like those outlined in S. 1053, this vision may not be realized because of the public's fear of taking advantage of these advances. Today, at the dawn of the genomic era, is the ideal time to pass this legislation and get it onto the President's desk for his signature.
- White House Office of Mangement and Budget (OMB) Statement [whitehouse.gov]


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Lion fatally mauls woman at Calif. sanctuary
Updated 9:17 p.m. ET
DUNLAP, Calif. A female intern-volunteer was killed Wednesday by a lion at a private wild animal park in Central California, and state and local authorities were trying to determine what might have caused the fatal attack.
Cat Haven founder and executive director Dale Anderson was crying as he read a one-sentence statement about the fatal mauling at the exotic animal zoo he has operated since 1993.
The 24-year-old intern was attacked and killed when she entered the lion's enclosure, Anderson said, but he refused to answer questions or provide more details.
Sheriff's deputies responding to an emergency call from Cat Haven, in the Sierra Nevada foothills about 45 miles east of Fresno, found the woman severely injured and still lying inside the enclosure with the lion nearby, Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Bob Miller said.
Another park worker had unsuccessfully tried luring the lion away and into a separate pen, so deputies shot and killed it so they could reach the wounded woman, who died at the scene, Miller said.
Investigators were trying to determine why the intern was inside the enclosure and what might have provoked the attack, sheriff's Sgt. Greg Collins said. The facility is normally closed on Wednesdays, and only one other worker was there when the mauling happened, Collins said.
CBS affiliate KGPE reports that there had been no problems at Cat Haven prior to the incident, according to authorities.
The lion, a 4-year-old male named Couscous, had been raised at Cat Haven since it was 8 weeks old, said Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Project Survival, the nonprofit that operates Cat Haven.
Osegueda did not know how the park acquired the cub.
Cat Haven is a 100-acre wild animal park just west of Kings Canyon National Park. Since the property opened in 1993, it has housed numerous big cats, including tigers, leopards and other exotic species.
Couscous was one of about two dozen animals at Cat Haven, which has had a good safety record, Spada said.
Another big cat sanctuary, Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Fla., told the AP last year that at least 21 people, including five children, have been killed and 246 mauled by exotic cats since 1990. Over that period, 254 cats escaped and 143 were killed.
Tatiana, a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo, was killed by police after jumping out of its enclosure and fatally mauling 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. and injuring two other people in 2007.
Cat Haven has housed Bengal tigers, Siberian lynx, caracals, jaguars and leopards of various types as well as bobcats native to the area. Its founder Dale Anderson, described the private zoo several years ago as one of a handful of facilities across the U.S. that has all of the big cat species in one place.
The facility's website says it promotes conservation and preservation of wild cats in their native habitats and offers visitors tours and educational outreach.
The below video of Couscous was taken in 2009 and was posted on YouTube.


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Tical 0: The Prequel
- 2003-01-14 11:24:33
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- 2003-01-14
Conventional wisdom dictates that a person can't achieve success unless they're able to learn from their mistakes. But if you ask
Method Man
for the secret to his success, the Staten Island hip-hop icon will admit that much of his musical success came despite his mistakes.
"I was unfocused. It's like ignorance was bliss for me in those years," remembered Method Man, looking back on the days of his first solo album, Tical (1994), and his group the Wu-Tang Clan's first album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993). Nearly a decade later, a more mature Meth sits at the soundboard in Daddy's House recording studio, where he is working on his latest album, Tical 0: The Prequel, and acknowledges that he had some real problems back in the day.
"I didn't know what was at stake when I did that first video 'Bring the Pain' [and] came to the set dusted," the rapper confessed. "That's why I looked crazy like that ... Niggas was high! Not just weed high. Dust. Angel dust high. "The second album [1998's Tical 2000: Judgement Day] was unfocused," he continued. "My head was in the clouds somewhere. I was like, 'Yeah, I can do this. This ain't nothing. I can do this by myself!' That's the mistake a lot of us make."
According to the 1995 Grammy winner, it was Tical 2000's disappointing sales that served as his wake-up call. And along with that misstep came a new battle with self-doubt.
"What was bringing [me] down was the drugs, the partying, the drinking and the fake love kept me blinded for a long time. [For example, people said,] 'You're already established, you ain't gotta work hard.' That type of fake love." But while Meth, a.k.a. Johnny Blaze, a.k.a. Tical, has traded in his hard-partying ways for the natural high of working on Tical 0, his memories of the "good ol' days" aren't all bad. In fact, the title of his upcoming third solo album actually speaks to the more lighthearted atmosphere of Meth's life before he first cannonballed into the spotlight.
"I ain't trying to go back to my youth or nothing like that," he explained, "but [rather] the mentality that I was in ... I'm basically trying to have fun again. Let's make it fun while we do it."
Meth's first step toward reviving rap's fun factor was a physical change. He decided to record his new album in
P. Diddy
's midtown-Manhattan studio rather than in the more predictable space of the
Wu-Tang Clan
's 36 Chambers Studios. And he replaced the traditional rowdy Wu entourage with a one-man music consigliere, Bad Boy vice president
Harve Pierre
"I'm happy to be working with different people," Meth said about his unusual choice for Tical 0's executive producer. "It feels like I'm going against the grain, like, 'Oh, he's fuckin' with Bad Boy now?' But it's not even like that."
"I'm coming into this head clear, no evil thoughts, no thinking about what they gonna think about this," Meth added. "It's just uggghh! My time."
While rumors of a Method Man defection from Def Jam to Diddy's camp can safely be squashed, the pairing of Meth and Pierre has resulted in a slew of Tical 0 tracks. The album, which is due for a spring release, features such tracks as "Reasons" (produced by Chicagoan
No I.D.
), "Rodeo," (featuring
), "Afterparty," (featuring fellow Wu-Tanger
and produced by
, a former member of the group
Da Youngstas
) and the
-produced "The Turn" (a collaboration with
). For many hip-hop fans, the collaborations with Ghostface and Raekwon would seem like encouraging evidence that another Wu-Tang Clan album is on tap. When asked about his longtime rap supergroup, though, Meth only offers his favorite motto and new version of "no comment": "Um, I got kids" & making it clear that the group's status is still up in the air.
For now, it seems Meth is purely focused on Meth. And with an upcoming album, several movie roles: he recently wrapped "My Baby's Mama," with
Anthony Anderson
Eddie Griffin
, and "The Other Side of Simple," with
Vince Vaughn
and a documentary on exotic dancers that he's directing all in the works, Method Man's plate is nearly overflowing. But this time around, Meth seems determined to keep his music on the front burner.
"You don't know the relief I get, after I spit out three 16 [bar verses of lyrics], because that's one in the bucket for me. The hard part is done. I got out all that shit that was in me," he explained. "I take my time with everything that I write because for every person that's not listening there's three people that are. And I don't ever want it to be said that I fucked the game up."
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