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Opera 4.48 Psychosis review - an extraordinary look at the devastation of depression
PHILIP Venables opera 4.48 Psychosis, performed at the Lyric, Hammersmith by the Royal Opera House is, on the one hand, the most unremittingly depressing piece of theatre I have ever seen; on the other hand, however, it is an extraordinarily vibrant and unusual work.
4.48 Psychosis comes across as devastatingly depressing but unique
Based on a play by Sarah Kane, who suffered from severe depression and killed herself shortly after completing it, 4.48 refers to the time she often woke up in the morning and began the daily struggle against her own negative emotions.
With good reason, the play has been described as her suicide note as it consists entirely of conversations about the pointlessness of life and friendship and particularly psychiatric treatment.
One side of each conversation is Gwen, played with magnificent hopelessness by Gweneth-Ann Rand, clearly based on Sarah Kane herself.
In the play, as originally written, it is unclear who her conversational partners are meant to be or whether they are indeed all internal voices as Gwen/Sarah tries to come to terms with herself.
4.48 Psychosis focuses on the death of playwright Sarah Kane
They may be hospital orderlies, or doctors, or psychiatrists, or well-meaning friends or just voices. It does not really matter.
By turning the play into an opera, Venables adds an extra emotional dimension to the piece, and even in places adds some relief-bringing humour. Music can be better than words at describing or underlining emotions.
My favourite moments were when the conversation was projected onto the back of the stage with each syllable accompanied by a drum beat and other percussive sounds adding punctuation. The vigorous drumming of Louise Goodwin and Sarah Hatch added both emphasis and humour to the argument.
As an example of the way music can enhance the emotions of a story, this is an extraordinary achievement, but it is definitely not a comfortable or enjoyable night out.
Box Office: https://lyric.co.uk/shows/4-48-psychosis or 020 8741 6850 (until May 4)

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For a lot of people, free gifts and fancy events sum up the life of a fashion blogger. But let me start by telling you that blogging, by all means, is a passion driven job and most of the time a thankless one. There is no boss to report to, but there is no one to give you an appraisal every year for your hard work either. We bloggers work 24/7 and our biggest asset that keeps most of us going are people who follow us and cherish our work. Really! Behind those beautiful gifts, fancy parties and events is an ugly truth which mostly we bloggers know of.
What I earn when I write a blog post, is the joy of opening up and connecting with my readers and the satisfaction that I get when people appreciate what I do. My website, apart from being a source that allows me to be myself, is a portfolio where I share my creativity, which I hope might also someday open a few doors where genuine, professional people can see my potential and might want to work with me.
This brings me to my question to some of the brands and PR agencies, "What goes through your mind when you think that I should market your products/events without any monetary compensation?"
"Things a Fashion Blogger gets lured with…"
If nothing else, their rebuttals amaze me. "You get to keep the dress, or, cosmetics for free", "Cash, or, a store voucher, same thing, no?". Tell me, if I want something for myself, why would I not just go ahead and buy it with the money that I very respectfully deserve to be paid for getting somebody else's work done in the first place anyway? At least it would be something for me to check off my shopping list, something that I actually want.
And, how exactly are cash and store vouchers the same thing? Is there any way I can use that voucher and buy myself food, or, pay my bills? lol
Unlike many, we do not have the concept of 9-5 and weekend offs and I am well aware that a lot of people and brands think that all that a blogger needs to do is to pick a topic, take pictures and write about it. If you are one amongst them, read along to know what seven days in my life as a blogger looks like.
– Waking up, reading and responding back to emails over a cup of coffee.
– Image selection, editing.
– Sharing images on social media in between, while working on captivating captions and adding relevant hashtags! (a minimum of 2 times a day)
– Replying back to all the pending comments on previous posts, which might be no less than 80-100. And then there is liking and commenting on other profiles too, that would help increase engagement and the number of followers on all my media platforms. This alone takes up to 70% of the time that I am awake.
Besides all the tasks I mentioned above, there is a lot of planning that goes into a photo shoot. Including thinking of relevant blog topics to write about, determining an outfit, that perfect hair and makeup, to location scouting. Sometimes I am even up till 2-3am finishing a story, just to wake up and repeat the same routine again the next day.
I do not know what a Friday night is anymore, for I have to wake up by 4-5 am, shower when the rest of the world is comfortably tucked under their blanket, get dressed and wear expensive makeup (which I take off immediately after the shoot anyway). But it doesn't end there, I get ogled at by every moving thing on the street while I am trying to ignore and give my best, for I cannot compromise on my image quality.
Having said that, blogging has also opened up a whole new world, where competitors willingly help each other grow and in the process I have made some wonderful friends which I am grateful for.
A message to my fellow bloggers:
I know you feel the same and remember that I speak for everyone. Do not break and know your worth. The world might see us the way they want to, but we know how hard we work, we know we are warriors!
Hope you liked the post. If you have anything you would like to talk about, please share it in the comments section below, I would love to read and communicate with you further.


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New York plays Dallas on 4-game win streak
New York Knicks (1-7, 15th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Dallas Mavericks (5-2, second in the Western Conference)
Dallas; Friday, 8 p.m. EST
New York comes into the matchup with Dallas as losers of four games in a row.
Dallas finished 33-49 overall with a 24-17 record at home a season ago. The Mavericks averaged 6.5 steals, 4.3 blocks and 14.2 turnovers per game last season.
New York went 17-65 overall with an 8-33 record on the road in the 2018-19 season. The Knicks averaged 104.6 points per game last season, 44.1 in the paint, 14.7 off of turnovers and 11.1 on fast breaks.
The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.
Mavericks Injuries: None listed.
Knicks Injuries: Dennis Smith Jr.: day to day (personal), Mitchell Robinson: out (concussion), Elfrid Payton Jr.: out (hamstring), Reggie Bullock: out (cervical disc herniation).
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.


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Friday, June 06, 2008
Kristie, the drug-addict
I thought about it for a moment, and then replied, "No tree huggers."
The counselor had never heard that term, so I explained to her what I meant: no "crunchy" people. No couple who wanted me to take pre-natal yoga classes, and get pre-natal massages or acupuncture. No giving birth in a bathtub, or pool of water in my living room, or in my own bed. No chanting or incense or monk music playing in the background during delivery. No bouncing on a delivery ball, no hypno-birthing, no bean-bag birthing chairs, no birthing stools. Basically, I wanted a couple that was medically main-stream. I wanted to give birth in a traditional hospital setting, and most importantly, with drugs on board. Lots and lots of drugs, in fact, if I decided I needed or wanted them. At all. Even for a hangnail.
Now, that's not to say I think all of those less-conventional birthing methods are inherently bad. But even the first time I was pregnant, and planning to deliver Kellen, the idea of a home birth or water birth was a little out of the realm of "comfortable" for me. Do I think those things work for other people? Of course. Did I think, prior to giving birth to Kellen, that *I* wanted any of them? Not really. And especially not after giving birth twice, and discovering both times, that although I do the pregnancy thing really, really well ---- well, I pretty much suck at the delivering part.
My body doesn't seem to know how to go into labor spontaneously, and I was ten days past due with both kids. I had to be induced both times (did you know that at so many days past due, your placenta starts to fall apart like a moldy sponge, and you really have no choice but to induce labor for the health of the baby? No? Neither did I. But me and my moldy-sponge placenta learned it both times.) And once induced, I am the tortoise-woman of labor. Entire shift changes can happen in a hospital, while I struggle to dilate even one more centimeter. I hear about women who show up at the hospital already dilated to a ten, and push for ten minutes and out pops a baby. That, no doubt, would be fabulous. But, it's not me. My body is basically crap at the delivering part.
With Kellen and Kendrie both, I labored for hours, and then pushed for literally HOURS, and then still, no baby. Kellen wound up being a c-section because I had already been at the hospital 28 hours and quite frankly, didn't have it in me to keep going. I pushed with Kendrie for over two hours before crying Uncle and letting the doctor pull her out with forceps, something that has apparently traumatized her for life.
Whatever. My point, in talking to this counselor, is that while I loved being pregnant, and was very excited about the possibility of being a surrogate …. Not so much with the deliveries. So I needed a couple who understood, and supported, my decision to give birth in a traditional hospital setting, in case another c-section became necessary. And a couple who wouldn't be disappointed if I used pain relief during my marathon labor session. Because while I say more power to the women who *want*, and are successful, giving birth without drugs, that's simply not me.
The counselor assured me that the final decision about whether or not to get pain relief during labor was up to me and my doctor; that under no circumstance could a couple dictate drugs or no drugs for a surrogate. Well, ok, I suspected as much, but I wanted to be sure any couple she matched me with not only knew I most likely would want drugs, but that they would be perfectly fine with that decision ahead of time. Other than that, I didn't really have any deal-breakers. Match me with pretty much anyone, and I'd be happy, so long as they agreed with me that "epidural" was synonymous with "heaven."
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had to giggle when I read tree-hugger. hehehe! But I am with you- I was planning to try hypno-birthing, but had to be induced at 2 weeks past due. I was in labor for about 6 hours when I finally relented and got the epidural. And man did I love that dr!
Oh I am the first commenter!! Go me! I live in rural nowhere and when I had all 4 of my babies there was no such thing as an epidural...so it was all natural, luckily I was the woman that walked in dialated to 10 and pushed them out. Boy do I thank god for that everyday of my life. Anyway, I love hearing this story. Out of curiousity will you be sharing all of your surogate stories with us or just this one. I am all nosy like that. You don't have to answer if you don't want. Have a super Friday!
Drats I wasn't the first..took to long to type...but I forgot to tell you, I am so with you with the "traditional" birth...no bath tubs or other stuff, I am sure it works for some but for me...don't touch me or talk to me let me be in pain by myself.
- Grandma J said...
Oh yeah, it's been 42 years and I still thank God for the invention of epiderals.
I had to go back and read the funny parenting episodes....love the salad tong story!! Classic Kendrie!
- Tricia said...
Your first two births sound pretty brutal. Good for you for now letting those experiences deter you from pregnancy and surrogacy. It takes a huge amount of courage!
Girl I'm with you on the miracle of drugs during labor and delivery. 15 years ago I had my twins and we won't even go into the fact that all doctors back then that hot hot August summer of 93 were freakin liars.That or like you I am good at getting pregnant I just really suck at the giving birth part.I can't seem to go into labor even with twins when everyone expects that you 'll be lucky to make it to 36 weeks. Yeah I made it to 36 then 37,38,39,40. Induced me 1 day prior to their due date labored for 22 hrs with a numb right leg!yeah, numb leg..that is all the epi. did for me. They tried 4 and couldn't or just wouldn't for another. So I push 2 big 7 1/2lbs a piece boys, one with a rather large head I might add out the hoo haa basically drug free, you know except for the right leg...no pain there! 6 yrs later I made sure everyone in the hospital knew that I was a speacial case and would need speacial drugs and please don't forget. Told anyone and everyone that would listen of my past expierience and that of course I needed the really good stuff. Ended with having a C- after 12 hrs. but they were a way more bearable 12 hrs than before.
Dana in SC
I expected when I moved to Oregon that everyone would be a granola loving, hippie, tree lover. Oh, many might want their granola. A bunch of people love trees (it's so beautiful that part is understandable), and there are a bunch of hippies who love the idea of water births and accupuncture. But every single one of my friends threw that out the moment she when into labor. "DRUGS! I WANT DRUGS!"
I will be no different. Give me the best stuff you got. It takes forever to numb me up for anything. I just hope it works.
- Stacie from MN said...
Your pregnancies sound like mine, I had to kick both of my boys out, too. Thank goodness for Petosin! I agree with you on the drugs, & I tried to have drugs with both of mine, but they didn't do it soon enough for the second one, so I still felt everything. I recommend drugs!
We had the same birth experience! Jake - 10 days to 2 weeks late...induced on the 16th but born on the 17th (of March, no less!) after 23 hours and 40 minutes of labor. Somewhere around 10-12 hours, my doctor broke my water and sent me into EXTREME pain - and, as I was on my 2nd or 3rd shift of nurses but still only 3-4 centimeters dialated, I had to wait for the epidural. Finally got it, finally got to nap for a while. At around 16 hours, they ALMOST did a caesarian; but, my doctor had to go do another one first for some other poor woman who had been in labor even longer than I. When he finished and came to check me, I was finally "moving along at a reasonable pace", according to him. Jake was born early in the morning with the first shift of nurses that I'd had the day before. We must have the same bodies/genes/hormones/whatever...which, I have to say, does not bode well for you in the next 10 years, kiddo - so sorry! Chances are, your body and menopause will NOT like each other - but, maybe you'll be more fortunate than I!
- CAT said...
Hey Kristie,
I can totally relate to the very long and difficult task of delivering babies. My 10lb 7oz, 23 3/4 inch daughter was not having ANY part of coming out on her own. After 28 hours of hard labour and 6 hours of pushing with...I can't even count how many doctors, nursed etc... sat at the end of my bed waiting for her to emerge, they FINALLY suggest c-section. I was like you at that point, just get it out of me now! Anyways she has grown into a 5'8" beautiful 18 year old woman, the pain was well worth the results. Needless to say my second one was a prebooked c-section, there was no way I was attempting that again, ever.
I give you credit for going threw this unselfishly in order to help others...I am far too wimpy to do that! You rock girl!
Have a great day,
- Neurotically Yours: said...
I love it - "no tree huggers"! I call those types "granola crunchy" :)
I LOVE IT!! I wanted an epidural in my 8th. month :-) No, just kidding. Although I knew that I wanted an epidural ahead of time, like as soon as I arrived at the hospital (I had nothing to prove and I wasn't going to) my doctor wouldn't give me one until after they started pitocin. I am a nurse and KNEW that they were not about to start pitocin without it. I told them NO WAY!!! You go girl!!
- Ryley said...
okay.. i have questions for you if you even want to do a question and answer day..
after having the babies.. when you went home from the hospital and laid on the couch or in your bed.. we're you ever sad for a second?
I know we've talked about the shrivled raisin heart thing.. :)
but did you ever miss having them in your tummy?
are any or all of your families open with their children? Like do they still send you pictures and letters and stuff?
do you talk to kids before you start another pregnancy? are they aware when you are doing it? and do they ever ask you to have another baby for your family? :)
okay.. i know weird questions.. but the internet is nosey! :)
- Eloise said...
I'm really enjoying your story! Keep it coming!
Goodness Kristie,
You are brave. I also went through endless labor only to endure a C-Section. God bless you for taking on this "adventure" for another couple. This was truly an act of unselfishness. Can't wait to hear the rest of the story. Thanks again for sharing.


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H will sit at home.
H- Meg, the bank just called to verify a $100 charge to D & B.
M- Really?? That's strange.
H- Do you know anything about this?
M- Humm.....What was the purchase??
H- I don't know, why don't you tell me.
M- Umm....I don't know.....maybe a diaper bag.
H- MMMMMMEEEEEEEEGGGGGGG!!! (he turned my 1 syllable name into 2)
-He has been looking at golf clubs according to our internet history.
- August is when we travel to the Bahamas, H thinks our trip should be "my purchase" of the month.
Last night I presented my case. And won. He said that I was right- which is why he didn't flip when I ordered a diaper bag.
And to think I needed his help in Math with the Praxis!! Who was I kidding!!
This is a perfect example of what marriage is all about: Don't yell about purchases. Just spend what your spouse spent and call it even.


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487 Last Days or End Days – Tom Donnan pt 2
Last Days or End Days – Tom Donnan
Unprecedented Flooding in Nebraska March 2019
Dams broke, bridges collapsed, crops and livestock lost.
Community comes together
Earth Magnetic pole shift? Moving at about 34 miles per year.
Affects the magnetic fields that protect us from radiation.
Affects the electric grid.
Last polar "flip" shift occurred 780,000 years ago – so we are overdue
Scientists believe we will see a shift in this generation.
Space rocks and the warning information lag
It took over 3 months to report it to the public (an asteroid 10x more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb).
Seattle Washington is dying
(along with other major metropolitan cities on the west coast)
What are they going to do to fix it? HING: None list God as an option.
Typhus affects LA city hall
Small church buying million-dollar property
House church is planning on purchasing a building for church and grounds for a conference center
Pastor Phil is getting two portable building for additional teaching centers
JFA adding third service and planning on satellite churches.
What Tom Donnan is learning from traveling ministry.
God seems to be gearing up for 2020/ churches entering big building stages (major problems will bring people closer to God).
What can a pastor or church do (wherever they may be located) to enter into what God is about to do in the USA?
As darkness increases, God is preparing for a release of His love and light.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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by Augustine Low The other day, over drinks and casual talk, somebody blurted out: "You guys are grumblers, you are a bunch of losers!" Which begs the question, is there truth to the notion that grumblers are losers? It would appear that there are grumblers in every corner of the globe. Farmers grumble about the weather. Sports fans grumble about …Read More »
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More developments in opposition politics? Dr Tan Cheng Bock meets up with Lim Tean
Former People's Action Party Member of Parliament and candidate in the Presidential Election 2011, Tan Cheng Bock had a meeting with lawyer and politician, Lim Tean at a Macdonald outlet in Choa Chu Kang Lot 1 Shopping Mall on Saturday. This was shared in a Facebook post by Mr Lim on Sunday, saying "MacDonald's breakfast with Dr Tan Cheng Bock …Read More »
1.5 million IC numbers stolen from SingHealth but cyber security chief says no worry
It was reported on Friday (20 Jul) that cyber hackers have broken into the computer systems of SingHealth and stolen the personal particulars of 1.5 million patients. The stolen data included confidential records of patients' name, IC number, address, gender, race and date of birth. Of these, 160,000 people, including PM Lee Hsien Loong and a few ministers, had their …Read More »
Train delay along DTL on Saturday evening due to signaling fault
The Down Town Line (DTL) experienced a disruption in its train service on Saturday evening (21 Jul), which SBS Transit said was caused by signaling fault. At 5:41pm SBS Transit posted information on its Twitter platform about the fault and delay, asking for 10 minutes addition to travel time: DTL svc is delayed due to a signalling fault. Add'l travel …Read More »


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Saturday, September 21, 2013
Die Little Darling
I love the title Djinnocide. To me, it's perfect. It says what I need it to say about the book - something is killing djinn (basically genocide for genies*). But it's not obvious about it. It's witty, but not overly so - like the idea I chucked early on to call this Djinn and Tonic (doesn't fit the story or I would've used it because I'm just that demented).
But I think I have to kill it**.
It's hard to wrap your brain around if you're not familiar with djinn it's hard to pronounce (djinn = 'gin', btw). Plus, it's not a real word, which makes wrapping the brain around it harder. It's an amalgam of two words and will most likely confuse the hell out of people. (Or already does as the case may be.)
So, I've put up another poll over there. Go pick the alternate title you like best, if you would.
*Hey! Genocide for Genies? Could that be the title? I've been staring at this too long when everything looks like a title.
** And with it, kill a page full of titles for subsequent books in this series - Djinnesis, Djinntuition, Djinnuine... Yeah, I have a few dozen of them. :headdesk:
PS. I tossed The Third Wish as a title because it didn't fit and I decided I didn't like it. Sorry for them what voted for it.
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Nope. Sorry. Raining on your parade. I don't like any of them. All of them sound like romantic suspense titles. I would not describe Djinnocide as a romantic suspense. It is a suspense. There's a little romance, but there's a lot more fantasy of the urban variety there. I have no suggestions for you. My brain is burned toast at the moment. The only titles I can come up with are "If Wishes Were Genies" (or "If Genies Were Wishes") and "Olly, Olly Genie Free." I warned you.ReplyDelete
Why yes, I will be drinking tonight. Why to you ask? *~shifty eyes~* Oh! Wait! "Kill One, Get One Free." *ducks and runs*
LOL, Silver. Ya know, the more I think about it, the more 'Wish in One Hand' grows on me. But I'll get over it. ;o)ReplyDelete
Other fun potential titles:
Immortal's Not Forever, Stupid
Buttonfly Genies
Immortality's Only Skin Deep
Genie Splicing
D.N.A - Djinn Neutralization Association
Efreet of Foot
I took the poll down. Silver was right. Those titles weren't embodying what my book is.ReplyDelete


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Jon Gruden sees visions of Jeff Garcia in Browns' Baker Mayfield
The NFL career of Baker Mayfield is in its nascent stage, comprising a little more than one half of intriguing football. And still, Raiders head coach Jon Gruden, who analyzed young quarterbacks for a living with his previous employer, had a comparison ready this week for the Browns' rookie.
Mayfield, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner and No. 1 overall draft pick who makes his first NFL start Sunday in Oakland, "has a lot of Jeff Garcia in him," Gruden said.
"He'll dive for first downs, he'll extend plays," Gruden said. "He's got a really good, competitive spirit about him. I love the way he plays."
While best known for his time with the 49ers, Garcia played two seasons late in his career with Gruden as his coach in Tampa Bay, making his last Pro Bowl after the 2007 season at age 37. In the lead-up to this year's draft, Garcia said, he heard several pundits make the comparison between Mayfield and him.
His own impression?
Browns (1-1-1) at Raiders (0-3)
When: 1 p.m.Where: ColiseumTV/Radio: Channel: 2Channel: 40/740, 106.9
Spotlight on: Raiders DE Bruce Irvin. The Raiders' pass rush, you may have heard, has struggled. Oakland's defense has three sacks in three games. Irvin was almost nonexistent last weekend at Miami, playing just 26 snaps. If all that's going to change, though, this is the game. Cleveland has allowed 14 sacks, tied for most in the NFL. Yes, 13 of them came with Tyrod Taylor under center — but Irvin and company still have to make Baker Mayfield uncomfortable in his first NFL start.
Injuries: Raiders — S Karl Joseph (hamstring) is out; DT P.J. Hall (ankle) and CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (hamstring) are questionable. Browns — LB James Burgess Jr. (knee) is out; TE Seth DeValve (hamstring), DB Damarious Randall (heel) and QB Tyrod Taylor (concussion/back) are questionable.
Things to watch for
— Matt Kawahara
BROWNs AT Raiders
When: 1 p.m.TV:Channel: 2Channel: 40Radio: 740, 106.9
49ers at Chargers (Story, b10)
When: 1:25 p.m.TV:Channel: 5Channel: 13Channel: 46Radio: 810, 107.7
"I just see Baker Mayfield as a scrappy, smart, headsy player, a guy that is going to do anything and everything to be successful on the football field," Garcia, 48, said in a phone call this week. "I see a young man who makes good decisions, who's accurate with his throws, who's able to extend plays and make things happen, whether from within or outside the pocket."
Garcia said he figures a lot of the comparisons probably stem from Mayfield's height. Garcia was undersized at 6-foot-1 and 195 pounds, and his scrappy image was magnified by the fact that he didn't break into the NFL until age 29 after years in the Canadian Football League. He went on to make four Pro Bowls, three with the 49ers.
Mayfield, listed at 6-1 and 215 pounds, was a walk-on at Texas Tech who transferred to Oklahoma and went on to win the Heisman last season by the third-highest voting percentage in the trophy's history. Still, it was widely viewed as a surprise when the Browns used the No. 1 overall pick to select Mayfield from a touted quarterback field in this year's draft.
"He's undersized in a lot of ways, as far as what people have stereotyped the position to be," Garcia said. "And that was something that I always fought as a player. But I didn't allow it to slow me down or keep me from making plays and leading teams to wins and playoffs and all those things."
While Mayfield has much to accomplish on that front, his debut against the Jets on Sept. 20 spurred the Browns and kindled the hopes of their maligned fan base. After starter Tyrod Taylor suffered a concussion, Mayfield came off the bench with 1:42 left in the second quarter with his team trailing 14-0 and led the Browns to a 21-17 win, snapping a 19-game winless streak.
Mayfield completed 17 of 23 passes for 201 yards and led scoring drives on four of six possessions. He also caught a pass for a two-point conversion on a trick play.
"He throws well on the run, makes plays happen on the run, but that's not his only strength," Garcia said. "And we saw it ... where he was making plays from within the pocket, throwing on time, hitting receivers out of their breaks, making the right reads, going through his progressions, doing all those things."
Raiders defensive coordinator Paul Guenther, who was also the opponent in Cincinnati when former Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel made his first NFL start in 2014, also cited Mayfield's ability to make throws with his feet set and a rush bearing down.
"For a young guy, he stands in the pocket, remains a passer," Guenther said. "You don't always see that. He'll move around some in the pocket. So we've got to make it uncomfortable for him in the pocket."
That has not been a strength of the Raiders' defense, which has three sacks in three games.
Despite going winless the first two weeks, Browns head coach Hue Jackson this week stood by the decision not to start Mayfield immediately. Jackson said Mayfield was "a real student" for those weeks, which helped him "nail the opportunity" when he entered against the Jets.
Jackson said on a conference call Mayfield's debut reinforced "that he can really play." He also tried to temper the hype.
"This is a humbling league for that position," Jackson said. "He knows he has a lot to learn, a lot of growth that's got to happen. And it's going to be a huge growth spurt this week. It's going to be different for him. It's not going to be like coming off the bench. He's going to walk out there first."
Matt Kawahara is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: email@example.com Twitter: @matthewkawahara


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COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa rejects Indian claim of surgical strike
ISLAMABAD (92 News) – Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has rejected Indian claim of conducting a surgical strike in Pakistan.
According to DG ISPR, the Indian army chief is deceiving himself by making this claim.
He said that Pakistan armed forces are ready to respond to any Indian aggression.
Earlier addressing a ceremony on Thursday, COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa said that Balochistan is heart of the country and peace will be established at every cost there.
He said that a campus of Engineering University is being set up in Quetta.
The COAS said that 25,000 children were getting education under the FC and Army.
He said that 30,000 Army jawans were performing duties in Balochistan. "Balochistan will be given representation in the Pakistan Navy, PAF and other law enforcement agencies," he said.
COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa said that today's Balochistan is more united, stable and heading towards restoration.
"The nation defeated nefarious designs of the enemy through their vigorous struggle," he maintained.


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The Cost of Cheap Labor
(Part of The Darkness Visible series)
As the Aung San Suu Kyi says goodbye to the United States the rest of the world has begun to place their bids on Burma. Companies across the globe have started buying out the country that was just recently off limits to the outside world. From China to Europe to the United States and Canada... the rush for the next Taiwan went off without much fanfare.
For those of us in the consumer world this means that soon you could be buying goods made in a country that is currently engaged in genocide. Your next phone, your next pair of jeans, your next blu-ray... they all might be funding a campaign of ethnic cleansing. To complicate this is the fact that you don't currently know what companies are operating in what countries and with whom they are doing business.
In recent years we learned that diamonds you purchase here in the United States could be coming from countries currently using child soldiers and forced labor. It took decades for this information to reach the surface as corporate jewelers willingly racked up profits while innocent people died as a result. It wasn't till pressure was applied by the citizens of the Western world that these corporations backed off and stopped using blood diamonds (well most of them).
When you go to the grocery you can now find labels that say "free trade". This means that when you buy these products your money are is going to the people who grew the product and not their exploiters. The product you buy under "free trade" can help you rest assure your money is not fueling war crimes or exploitation of cheap labor.
So that is how we end up in Myanmar once again.
With the end of sanctions upon Myanmar's exports the West is ready to start importing cheap goods from a shamefully poor country. These products aren't being made in any large supply just yet. So nobody can say for sure where the products we will be importing will be made or who will profit from them. That is why those who are watching Myanmar's economic whirlwind of change are dazzled by the opportunities.
For those of us who are aware of the genocide in Myanmar it is clear who will ultimately pay the price of economic change in Burma. The Rohingya are already forced into solidarity and remain cut off from any sense of what an economy really is. Their lives remain under threat as the Buddhist population of Burma continues to attack relentlessly. And with laws that ban the Rohingya from participating in the economy and community it remains impossible for the Rohingya to gain from economic growth.
With the Buddhist majority in Myanmar growing the oppressed minorities will become more isolated than ever before. The people who attack them on a daily basis will have more resources to draw upon while the Rohingya will be even more vulnerable than before. Their suffering will then continue to be ignored as the Western world will indulge upon the cheap boost to their corporations' profit margins.
That is why a lot of people just like you are taking action now. You can do your part to hold these companies honest as they venture into business with genocidal regimes like Myanmar. All you have to do is read the following page and sign the petition. It will tell the United States Government that you want to know who is doing business in Burma and with whom they are doing it. That way we don't have to wait to know what products they are producing with the blood of innocent lives.
Please read, please sign, and please share. This petition only has till October 4Th.


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Portia de Rossi, actress and wife of TV host Elle DeGeneres has come forward to accuse Legendary actor Steven Seagal of Sexual Harassment during an audition for one of his movies.
Taking to Twitter page, the 44-year-old actress wrote:
My final audition for a Steven Segal movie took place in his office. He told me how important it was to have chemistry off-screen as he sat me down and unzipped his leather pants. I? ran out and called my agent. Unfazed, she replied, "well, I didn't know if he was your type."
— Portia de Rossi (@portiaderossi) November 8, 2017
This comes days after American actress and producer Julianna Margulies opened on her alleged encounter with the actor.
Sharing her experience with Sirius XM's "Just Jenny" she said she met Seagal in a hotel room after a casting director told her he wanted to rehearse a scene:
"He made sure that I saw his gun, which I had never seen a gun in real life," she said. "I got out of there unscathed. I never was raped, and I never was harmed. I don't know how I got out of that hotel room."
Also taking to Twitter today she urged that more actress join her exposing their "horrible and humiliating" experience with Seagal.
Aaaand another one.
More actresses join me in publicly sharing our horrible and humiliating experiences with Steven Seagal. Thank you Jenny McCarthy, Rae Dawn Chong, Julianna Margulies & now Portia de Rossi. #MeToo #Enough #NoMore https://t.co/kjRdxImJHx https://t.co/37oGkswqGV
— Lisa Guerrero ?? (@4lisaguerrero) November 9, 2017


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2019 news of a "MegaBreach" & non-private Twitter messages – this type of security hack affects us all. Learn the details & how to better protect yourself.
The HighTechDad 2018 Holiday Tech Gift Guide of 25+ Reviewed Products
Shopping for tech gifts for the holidays? Read the HighTechDad 2018 Holiday Tech Gift Guide of 25+ Products that have been reviewed on HighTechDad.com!
PepCom Holiday Spectacular 2018 – HighTechDad Awards for Tech and Gadgets at the Show
HighTechDad awards for tech companies at the PepCom Holiday Spectacular 2018 media event. These awards reflect a variety of categories for tech and gadgets.
*Privacy Not Included…But Should be Required! Mozilla's Connected Shopping Guide
If you're buying a connected gift this holiday season, learn about its privacy & safety. Review of Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included guide & how it helps!
Top 10 iOS 11 Features You Should Know About & Use Immediately
Here are the top iOS 11 features as compiled by HighTechDad. iOS 11 has many great enhancements so this article outlines how to use the top iOS 11 features.
Delivering More Than Just the Mail – USPS Delivers Innovative Experiences!
At CES 2017, the USPS showcased several prototypes of new innovations which move beyond mail delivery and into innovative experiences.
The iPhone 7 Plus Is All About Nuance
Apple's latest flagship iPhone, the iPhone 7 Plus, is about nuance. Subtle & not-so-subtle design changes make it a powerful upgrade, but not for everyone.
18 Year Old Launches Speedy Consumer Drone Company: Teal Drones
Teal Drones is an amazing new consumer drone, but equally as amazing is the 18 year old running the company, George Matus. Interviews and videos included.
A Backyard Conversation: Cord-Cutting Couldn't Be Easier with Sling TV – #TakeBackTV
How Sling TV enables the easy process of cord-cutting as explained to a neighbor. Touting the benefits of taking back TV #TakeBackTV
Review: HopperGO, a Tiny Mobile Storage Device Let's You Bring Your DISH Recordings Anywhere
Review of the DISH HopperGo, a tiny, stand-alone, mobile storage device that allows you to take your DISH recordings on the go and stream wirelessly.
Print a Circuit Board using Just your Printer and Printem
Printem, a new technology coming from the University of Toronto, enables inventors, hobbyists and students to print circuit boards using just a printer.
Solartab Review: Tablet-Size Battery Packing Power from the Sun
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iPhone 6S & 6S Plus Rumor Round-up
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Less "Stranger Danger" – Kik Messenger Updates App Over Privacy Concerns
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Police are investigating a fire at a Vermont home and the discovery of a badly burned body in St. Johnsbury.
Police say they are working to identify the victim of the fire at the home on Crepeault Hill Road on Tuesday night. Thursday, state police said DNA analysis would be required because of how badly the person was burned.
According to WPTZ-TV, the house was completely engulfed when firefighters arrived at the scene.
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Police told WPTZ-TV, the homeowner, 52-year-old Timothy Persons, and his green Dodge Caravan were missing.
Thursday, the vehicle was found parked on Pearl Street. It was believed to have been moved there by an unknown person overnight Wednesday.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Anyone with information about the fire or the Dodge Caravan is asked to call 802-748-3111.


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The Glenrothes Select Reserve is a single malt Scotch whisky produced by The Glenrothes Distillery.
Inspired by Krug Grande Cuvée, The Glenrothes used parts of several casks from different years to create Select Reserve. At the beginning it was made as a house style whisky but then it became the only whisky made consistently every year. Perhaps this is the embodiment of The Glenrothes philosophy: maturity is more important than age. The Select Reserve represents the essence of the range, both olfactive and taste qualities. These taste qualities were rewarded with a double gold medal at the 2007 San Francisco Spirit Awards.
The Glenrothes Select Reserve is bottled at its peak of maturity and flavor, after being aged in American and Spanish oak casks, and after two years of careful tasting and selection. The nose lasts for a long time and consists in plum flavors, orange zest, brioche and calvados. It will pamper your palate with delicious aromas of creamy vanilla and mixed notes of malt that are carefully complemented by a fresh twist of citrus. The finish is slightly spicy, with flavors of nuts and orange. The Select Reserve is a whisky that can be enjoyed both before and after dinner.
The distillery was built in 1878 by James Stuart & Co who already owned another distillery, Macallan . The first distillation takes place on, the same day as the railway disaster of the Tay Bridge.


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Thieves target construction tools as building industry picks up
Robberies on building sites surge to 13 a day as criminals target lucrative equipment
The nature of the crime can be both opportunistic and targeted. Courtney says that of the crimes reported within the construction industry in the past year, 90 per cent involved the theft of tools. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins
"People magpie them. We refer to them as magpies. It is fairly common," says Billy Wall, the head of one of the trade unions representing workers in the building industry, of the increasing number of thefts in the sector.
"As my father always said to me: 'Hang your tools from your bottom lip'," said the tradesman.
The mobile nature of construction work means that builders and tradespeople must transport and carry expensive tools with them. The recovery in the building industry over the past four years has brought with it opportunities for criminals stealing and trading in lucrative equipment. There is a ready and growing market for it.
In the past year, construction-related crime, more specifically thefts from sites and vehicles, has soared.
"It can happen any time. It can happen at night or during the day," said Wall, the general secretary of the Operative Plasterers and Allied Trades Society of Ireland, better known as Opatsi in the industry.
Explaining how common and easily thefts are occurring, Wall referred to the recent theft of a set of stilts from a fellow tradesman on a building site in south Co Dublin. By the time the worker went up and down a flight of stairs, the stilts had been stolen.
"Within one flight of stairs, they were gone. It can happen that quick and it can happen anywhere," he said.
Construction activity has increased for 50 successive months, as one metric for the sector, Ulster Bank's monthly purchasing managers' index, has shown. While Operation Thor, the Garda's overall crackdown on roaming, organised burglary gangs, slowed the rate of thefts last year, construction-related robberies have risen this year.
Statistics from An Garda Síochána, yet to be officially signed off by the Central Statistics Office, show that construction crime has increased 35 per cent over the past year, from about 3,400 to 4,500 incidents, or roughly 13 a day. The value of tools and equipment stolen from building sites and tradespeople's vehicles topped €7.7 million in the 12 months to October. Of that, equipment worth €3.6 million was taken from vehicles.
Increased activity
"It is down to increased activity in the industry," said Sgt Kelvin Courtney of the Garda's National Crime Prevention Unit. "There are more opportunities for people to carry out these crimes."
The nature of the crime can be both opportunistic and targeted. Courtney says that of the crimes reported within the construction industry in the past year, 90 per cent involved the theft of tools.
Among the incidents of items stolen from vehicles, almost four in 10 thefts were from public car parks and among those incidents, almost six in 10 involved robberies from builders' vehicles parked outside hotels, cafes or restaurants.
Many incidents could have been avoided, says Courtney, if workers had taken better precautions. He says that of the thefts from vehicles, vehicles were left unlocked in one in 10 incidents.
"The majority of items stolen would be saws and drills. You can 'fence' them off fairly handily," he said, using the criminal term applied to individuals who trade in stolen goods.
"They can be packed up and exported abroad. Investigators have found container-loads of tools and they have found them ready to be shipped out of the country."
In June the Garda tried to link recovered equipment back to their owners as part of a "national recovery day" initiative by laying an estimated €200,000 worth of equipment stolen from the construction and farming industries at a warehouse in Nenagh, Co Tipperary. The items covered the equivalent of half a football pitch, said one representative from the farming community who attended the event.
Courtney urged workers in the construction industry to be more proactive in taking the security of their tools and machinery more seriously. Mobile tracking devices have dropped dramatically in price, he said, and could be used by tradespeople for their vehicles and tools. It may not be possible to lock away equipment while working on building sites, but marking equipment by etching the owner's Eircode from their postal address or keeping a photographic record of them helps investigators recover and return the equipment to their owners.
"It is important to mark your property in a way that you know it's yours, both overtly and covertly. You can etch them with your identification with ultra-violet pens so you can identify them back to you. We have plenty of tools that we have seized but we cannot find owners for them," he said.
Nightmare summer
Marci Bonham, managing director of Hilti Ireland, said her tools company endured a "nightmare this summer" with break-ins to seven vans in its 40-vehicle fleet and a burglary at their head office in Finglas. She conservatively estimates that the thefts and damage over a four-week period cost the firm more than €50,000.
"This was the worst rash we have seen," she said.
She said that Hilti-branded vans makes the vehicles "easy marks" for thefts. More generally, the demands of the market have led to greater investment in new products, which in turn has attracted more crime.
The company has changed the locks on all its vans and installed a type of deadbolt lock for the back doors of its vehicles (known as a "slam lock") to prevent future robberies.
Hilti's stolen goods have shown up for sale at public street markets and on websites such as DoneDeal and Gumtree. Others have reported stolen goods being sold through Facebook groups aimed at builders and tradesmen.
"If it looks too good to be true – a brand new Hilti at a low price – the buyer questions it," said Bonham.
The company registers the serial number of every tool it sells so it can trace any item reported it to the company to determine whether it has been stolen. If it has, the company can return it to the market.
Anecdotally, others in the industry report incidents that support the Garda statistics.
In a call around of companies in the sector, Dermot Carey, director of safety and manpower services at the Construction Industry Federation, said that one company reported back that four compressors, all large pieces of equipment, were stolen this year.
Heavy equipment
Another also had heavy equipment, rock breakers and compressors, taken. In one case, a large piece of equipment that would normally only be towed, was stolen from a building site in the back of a van.
"They have no idea where they are. They haven't turned up. You could take it from that that they [the pieces of equipment] have probably gone abroad," he said.
The Garda said that 31 diggers, or excavators, were stolen in 2016.
Jer Bergin, the Irish Farmers Association's national treasurer and spokesman on rural crime, said that there had been "a pick-up" in the theft of construction equipment from the Laois-Offaly-Kildare area. He pointed to the increased Garda resources being deployed the Midlands under Operation Thor.
Earlier this month, gardaí recovered a substantial quantity of suspected stolen power tools and equipment worth tens of thousands of euro during a routine patrol stop in Mountmellick, Co Laois at around 5am.
"What we would be saying to farmers is to stop dealing with these people and dealing with hooky guys coming in with equipment in vans. Tell people if you see something," said Bergin.
Sgt Courtney says removing the motivation to steal-and-sell-on will help prevent further crime.
"These tools are being bought and sold amongst the industry so if you are buying stuff for a price that you know is not the market rate, you know that you are contributing to some criminal activity," he said.
"It is up to people in the industry to not purchase them and remove that reward."
Tracking stolen equipment online
DoneDeal.ie, the classified website, posts on average 8,000 ads a day and does not have the resources to monitor the provenance of every item it sells, but if a product is suspected of being stolen, the Garda will be alerted.
"We don't police an ad before it goes up; that would be an impossible task," said Finbarr Garland, trust and safety officer at Distilled SCH, the company behind DoneDeal.ie, Adverts.ie and Daft.ie.
"If somebody puts up something that is stolen or suspected to be stolen we will take the ad down and take guidance from the Garda."
The company has an agreement with the Garda whereby if some criminal activity is suspected, it contacts the force, which, in turn, makes an application under the Data Protection Act for information on the vendor. Garland has attended court six times so far this year to give evidence in cases.
"As trust and safety officer, my job is to try to keep the bad guy off the site and follow up with anyone who has posted an ad where we suspect that there is something not right with it," he said.
The former detective sergeant who ran the Garda's stolen car unit said that as little as 0.01 per cent of ads posted involve suspected stolen goods or fraud. At one point this week the website had 34,000 live ads for building materials and equipment, mostly small industrial goods such as drills, angle grinders or chainsaws.
"It is very difficult for us to review every day," said Garland.
"We do look at people and see if there is anyone posting up to 100 ads over a particular few days and they are not in the trade. We might contact the Garda to say that this might be something you may be interested in."


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The NCW cannot hold money in a savings account. Also, we do not collect money during the Eucharist as they do in the parish. Collection of money are made for a specific purpose and must be used up.
For example, a case of wine cost $100, and there are 20 brothers in our community. Everyone contributes $5.00 in the trash bag and everyone is able to afford to put in $5.00. The case of wine is brought to our community. There is the accountability. It is the same with ordering flowers.
At the end of the weekend a bill is issued reporting the total cost for all expenses incurred at the hotel. The bill is split according to the number in attendance. Those who can, pay. Those who are unable, dont. Those who are happy to give more, give. Its as simple as one, two, three. The collection is then taken straight to the counter for payment. No one leaves the premises with a huge sum of cash. Only the exact amount needed for full payment is collected, no overage. So yes you are right in regards to who ever collects, they use it down to the last penny.
Now in regards to the money you donate to your respective parish; if you are either writing checks or indicating your name on cash donations then there is accountability to determine your end of year contributions. However, this does not apply to those donating to the trash bag for the mere fact that they do not want it to be known the amounts they have contributed. Also, the collections are made with a specific intention and with an exact amount. For example, if the community needs to purchase a case of wine for the Eucharist then a simple collection is made, only enough for the case of wine. In this situation, whoever is tasked to make the purchase is then the one who takes with him the cash collection. Accountability is guaranteed when this person delivers the case of wine. If someone offers to incur the cost entirely then he is most likely asked to make the purchase himself. Therefore avoiding any need for accountability.
You wont understand anything of this if you are looking at the NCW as a formal association, club or organization. As is always stated, we are an itinerary, a way of formation. More so, we look to each other as family, as brothers and sisters.
So I want to pose one question to Mr. Terlaje.
So Mr. Terlaje, you get your receipt at the end of the year, because we assume you write a check and or attach your name to your cash donations, what about the majority of parishioners who donate by cash, how do they get their receipt? What if when the basket of collections/cash make it to the back and people counting the money count 1000 dollars and they decide to keep 200 of it and only report 800.
Okay, that was more than one question. But the questions are in the same line of questioning that Mr. Terlaje is asking about accountability in the NCW. Which is as I have shown is very much the same as the parish collections with regard to cash contributions.
To reiterate one last time to Mr. Terlaje that I know how much the three night stay at the hotel with meal cost, so I can choose to pay at the hotel counter or I can simply throw the money in the trash bag and not worry about it. This is the same for every brother who attends the convivence.
Mr. Terlaje that invitation for you to attend a Catechesis stands in perpetuity. :-))


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I still like Braveheart but what an ass!
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Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce.
Notice of initiation of antidumping and countervailing duty new shipper reviews and rescission of countervailing duty expedited review in certain softwood lumber from Canada.
January 8, 2003.
The Department of Commerce (the Department) has received requests to conduct new shipper reviews of the antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on certain softwood lumber from Canada. In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 351.214(d) (2002), we are initiating AD and CVD new shipper reviews for Scierie La Pointe & Roy Ltee.Start Further Info
Vicki Schepker or Keith Nickerson (AD review) at (202) 482-1756 and (202) 482-3813, respectively; Gayle Longest or Eric B. Greynolds (CVD review) at (202) 482-3338 and (202) 482-0671, respectively; Group II, AD/CVD Enforcement, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.
On November 26, 2002, the Department received timely requests from Scierie La Pointe & Roy Ltee (La Pointe & Roy), in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(c) (2002), for new shipper reviews of the AD and CVD orders on certain softwood lumber from Canada, which have a May anniversary month.[1]
As required by 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(i), (ii), and (iii)(A), La Pointe & Roy certified that it did not export certain softwood lumber to the United States during the period of investigation (POI), and that it has never been affiliated with any exporter or producer which exported certain softwood lumber during the POI.[2] Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.214(b)(2)(iv), the company submitted documentation establishing the date on which it first shipped the subject merchandise to the United States, the date of entry of that first shipment, the volume of that and subsequent shipments, the date of the first sale to an unaffiliated customer in the United States, and that it has informed the Governments of Canada and Quebec, through counsel, that they will be required to provide a full response to the Department's questionnaire.[3]
In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.214(b), and based on information on the record, we are initiating AD and CVD new shipper reviews for La Pointe & Roy.
Initiation of Reviews
On December 12, 2002, the Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports Executive Committee (the petitioners) submitted comments regarding the new shipper review requests of La Pointe & Roy. The petitioners allege that La Pointe & Roy should not be considered a new shipper because it was allocated quota under the 1996 U.S./Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement. According to the petitioners, as a holder of quota, La Pointe & Roy had a strong incentive to sell subject merchandise to the United States either directly or indirectly.[4]
Furthermore, the petitioners assert that even if La Pointe & Roy did not export subject merchandise during the POI, there is no valid reason to initiate a CVD new shipper review, since the company has requested an expedited review. According to the petitioners, La Pointe & Roy is withdrawing its request for expedited review because the company did not export subject merchandise to the United States during the POI. The petitioners argue that a company does not have to export the Start Printed Page 1031subject merchandise during the POI to be a part of the expedited review process and that a CVD new shipper review would have the same focus as a CVD expedited review—whether and to what extent a particular product benefitted from subsidies. Therefore, the petitioners assert that there is no reason for the Department to initiate a CVD new shipper review as the same result can be obtained through the expedited review process.
On December 19, 2002, La Pointe & Roy submitted rebuttal comments to the issues raised by the petitioners; the petitioners responded on December 24, 2002. Although on December 19, 2002, La Pointe & Roy stated that transfer of its allocated quota during the POI was done without the specific knowledge of what the ultimate use of the quota would be by the customer, on December 27, 2002, it corrected its statement to indicate that, in fact, it "was not allocated any quota by the Canadian government between April 1, 2000 and March 31, 2001," [5] the POI.
In addition, on December 31, 2002, La Pointe and Roy clarified that the quota it received in 1998 and 1999 was transferred to other companies in 1998 and 1999 and was not carried over into the POI. Furthermore, the company stated that the transfers of quota described as occurring during the POI in its December 19, 2002, submission occurred prior to, not during, the POI.
After reviewing the submissions of all parties, we have determined that La Pointe & Roy's certifications that during the POI (1) it did not export to the United States and (2) it did not receive any quota which would have allowed it to export to the United States, are sufficient, for purposes of initiation. Moreover, there is no conflict with any expedited review because La Pointe & Roy is withdrawing its request for expedited review on the grounds that it did not export during the POR, as stated in their November 26, 2002, submission. In sum, we have considered La Pointe & Roy's requests and find that they meet the requirements set forth in the Department's regulations. Therefore, in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B)(ii) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(d)(1), we are initiating new shipper reviews of the AD and CVD orders on certain softwood lumber from Canada. We intend to issue the preliminary results of these new shipper reviews not later than 180 days after initiation of these reviews. In addition, we are granting La Pointe & Roy's request to rescind the ongoing expedited review.
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|Scierie La Pointe & Roy Ltée
We will instruct the Customs Service to allow, at the option of the importer, the posting, until the completion of the reviews, of a bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for each entry of the subject merchandise from the above-listed company in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(e). Because La Pointe & Roy certified that it both produces and exports the subject merchandise, the sale of which was the basis for these new shipper review requests, we will apply the bonding privilege only to subject merchandise for which La Pointe & Roy is both the producer and exporter. Interested parties that need access to proprietary information in these new shipper reviews should submit applications for disclosure under administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305 and 351.306.
This initiation and notice are in accordance with section 751(a) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) and 19 CFR 351.214(d).Start Signature
Dated: December 31, 2002.
Bernard T. Carreau,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Group II, Import Administration.
1. (See Certain Softwood Lumber Products from Canada, 67 FR 36068, 36070 (May 22, 2002).Back to Citation
2. See submission from Alston & Bird LLP to the Department, dated November 26, 2002, at Exhibits 1 and 2.Back to Citation
3. See Id., at Exhibits 3, 4, and 5.Back to Citation
4. See submission from Dewey Ballantine LLP to the Department, dated December 12, 2002, at 5.Back to Citation
5. See submission from Alston & Bird LLP to the Department on behalf of La Pointe & Roy, dated December 27, 2002.Back to Citation
[FR Doc. 03-348 Filed 1-7-03; 8:45 am]


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If it doesn't attack women's autonomy, what's the point?
Two new bills were passed this week that ostensibly existed to help protect women against sexist hate crimes committed against them, but the only thing that got them passed was wording designed to reduce women's bodily rights. One of course is much more serious than the other. Of course, in the Georgia case, it's almost a little more insulting because they are pretending that they don't know that their bill banning the abhorrent practice of FGM is cleverly worded to go after adult women who choose to pierce their genitals. At least the assholes who passed the Unborn Victims act don't take pains to hide the fact that it's a step towards removing the decision to have an abortion or not from women's hands and giving back over to men's.
Of course what's really saddening about this is that the suffering of women who are mutiliated or attacked for being pregnant would pretty much go unheeded if they couldn't be used as a token to take away rights. It's putting feminists in a horrible position, because we support and have always supported the notion that women have a right to government protection against violence, but we want to be able to have that protection in the same way that men have it, without having to give up the right to autonomy. I fear a situation like in The Handmaid's Tale where certain feminists are tricked into supporting women's total subservience in exchange for relief from rape and other sexual violence.
That line of logic isn't as outlandish as it sounds. Fundamentalist Muslims are often arguing that keeping women locked in the house and veiling them in the street has reduced the incidence of rape. Of course, I don't believe that for a millisecond. Rapes probably just go unreported because if women can't leave the house alone, they certainly don't have the freedom to pursue criminal charges against a rapist who is likelier to be believed anyway due to his male superiority.
The Laci Peterson case has done alot to galvanize support for this bill. It seems like men murdering women whose pregnancy is causing them problems is a surprisingly common problem. Actually, not surprising at all. Sexism is alive and well in this country and there is no doubt in my mind that plenty of assholes get so angry about losing control over the bodies of the women in their lives that they lash out violently. This stupid bill isn't going to do a damn thing to actually reduce the violence against pregnant women. Anything that is going to actually address the problem has to reduce, not increase, male entitlement to control over female bodies.


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Nineteen-year-old stripper Penny Lynn doesn't have dreams. She has bills, and that's enough for her. Until she finds out her body can generate magic mushroom spores. And that her boss is addicted to them.
Nineteen-year-old stripper Penny Lynn doesn't have dreams. She has bills, and that's enough for her. Until she finds out her body can generate magic mushroom spores. And that her boss is addicted to them.
New Orleans, Louisiana, United StatesNew Orleans' Bywater neighborhood as it recovers from Hurricane Katrina and eases into gentrification. It's an enclave of service industry workers, strippers and musicians that pulses with gunfire at night.
Recent PastPost-Katrina New Orleans, August 2007
Pennylynn doesn't know she's a spore girl. She just knows rent's past due and the lap dance business has been slow. So she crashes a private party at her Bourbon Street strip club, where the owner, Funky Freddy, is running a magic mushroom drug ring. When he attacks her in a BDSM scene gone wrong, Pennylynn glows just like the shrooms. Weird news for Pennylynn, but good news for Funky Freddy, who recognizes Pennylynn as a spore girl—someone whose body generates the hallucinogenic drug. Pennylynn must fight off Funky Freddy and discover who she is before she gets trafficked into his drug ring.
Pennylynn goes to a bar after a shift at Jail Bait, the strip club where she works. She blows all her cash and meets a weird but hot dude, Mig, who tells her she has a "spore nature." She dismisses him as a tripping weirdo.
Because she blew her rent, she tries to go work the next day, but gets told there's a private event and she's not on the schedule. She crashes the party with the help of Mig. The private event is strange – apparently a BDSM/drug party where Pennylynn meets the club's major partner, Funky Freddy, who invites her to the VIP lounge, where he indulges a unique fetish by trying to throw her off a balcony. As Pennylynn's adrenaline flows, she begins to glow, something Freddy is excited about because it makes her exactly the kind of girl he is looking for.
Pennylynn escapes and goes to the police, who dismiss her as a drugged out prostitute. The next morning, Pennylynn's sister, Gates, arrives to take Pennylynn to a fitting for her maid-of-honor's gown for Gates' wedding. Gates questions her about her lifestyle and what she's doing at Tulane in the coming semester, but Pennylynn blows her off.
Pennylynn uses her landlord's phone to call the police again, but her landlord propositions her, and the cops don't show. She goes to the club to talk to Terry, who warns her about Freddy and Camille and the drug ring and how they have essentially stolen the club from him with threats of implicating him in the drug ring.
Pennylynn goes home, gets a message from Terry to meet Mig at a sports bar, which she does. Mig tells her about spore girls and different human species—the homo amanita. Pennylynn doesn't believe him, though she feels some recognition in what he tells her. As she leaves the bar, she encounters Freddy, who gives her $1,000 so she'll talk to him and offers her a job because of what she is – a psychedelic mushroom factory. Pennylynn turns him down.
Pennylynn gets a call from her mother reminding her about her sister's bridal shower the next day. Her mother, Kittie, arrives to take her to the bridal shower. They discuss Gates and John Ed's wedding. One of Gates' friends pulls Pennylynn aside to talk about how Pennylynn is screwing up her duties as maid of honor, then offers to do all the work while Pennylynn can take care of the bachelorette party.
Pennylynn questions her mother about her origins, and Kittie tells Pennylynn that Pennylynn was a virgin birth, which Pennylynn thinks is ridiculous.
She gets a text from Terry asking her to meet him at the End of the World, where he tells her about his backup security system at Jail Bait. He tells her to come by his place to get a flash drive with the files that will prove Freddy is guilty of attempted murder.
Back at home, Pennylynn discovers her body has been shedding spores when she sees a glow coming from her bedroom and calls Mig to help her investigate. He says the spores are evidence of that she's a homo amanita, and shows her how she can use them to inhabit other bodies. She goes to Terry's apartment to retrieve the flash drive. She sees a photo of Terry with Marie and assumes Marie is his daughter. Then she finds Terry's body. It looks like he died of an overdose of Amanita. Pennylynn takes the flash drive and leaves.
At home again, Pennylynn's roommate, Brandy, returns from camping. Pennylynn fills her in on what has been happening, giving her all the details leading up to Terry's death.
Pennylynn meets Gates for lunch and Pennylynn asks about her father. Gates gives her more details about Kitty's stint in rehab and backs up Kitty's weird pregnancy story. On the way home, Gates offers to help Pennylynn with whatever is going on for her. They formulate a plan to hold Gates' bachelorette party at Jail Bait to give Pennylynn a chance to break in and download Terry's secret surveillance tapes.
Pennylynn, Brandy, Gates, and a couple of friends head for Jail Bait. Pennylynn makes her way to Terry's secret office and is trying to access the files when she finds herself inhabiting Camille's body.
Part of the plan included drugging Camille with Amanita, but because they used the spores Pennylynn had shed, there has been some kind of consciousness transfer. When Pennylynn tries to use that to her advantage to get to the office, Freddy arrives, locks the door and tells Pennylynn this was all a trap to lure her to the club so they could capture her and harvest her spores.
Pennylynn's awareness starts to fade. She finds herself in a room talking to Terry, Mig, and Marie, who explain what has been going on – that they are trying to round up all the spore girls to keep them safe from Freddy. They ask if she will join them in their efforts. She agrees.
When Pennylynn regains her consciousness, she and Terry dispatch Camille and Freddy, and they call the police.
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