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The best part? The bill they want to force a vote on is their own version of the Gang of Eight bill that passed the Senate, except with … less border security. Which, in fairness, is absolutely true to liberal priorities: Whatever happens on the legalization end of this, this cannot, should not, and will not be the last amnesty.
Remember, it's Republicans who are the unreasonable party on immigration reform.
Though aides say no decision has been made, House Democratic leaders are strategizing on when to deploy what's known as a "discharge petition," which would have to garner a majority of lawmakers' signatures to force immigration legislation onto the House floor for a vote…
Democrats and advocates are banking on the tactic creating yet another way for lawmakers, activists and voters to compel Republicans to act — particularly those more amenable to immigration reform. One source close to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who endorsed the strategy recently, laid out his thinking: Put enough pressure on key House Republicans that they turn to their own leadership to urge them to move on immigration — even if a discharge petition fails to get the appropriate number of signatures. Schumer is weighing a discharge effort sometime before May…
Only three House Republicans have co-sponsored a comprehensive House Democratic immigration bill that is largely the Senate's version, minus controversial border-security provisions that have turned off border-state Democrats.
If you can get a majority of the House to sign your discharge petition, you can force the Speaker to bring your bill to the floor. Pelosi's actually been kicking this idea around since last summer, when Boehner first started hemming and hawing over the Gang of Eight bill. It was too soon to make a move back then; there was no earthly way she'd convince 18 or so Republicans to cross the aisle on a vote as momentous as this when Boehner hadn't even had time to prepare his own bill. Well, he's had time now and the best he can come up with is a list of gassy immigration "principles" that fewer than 20 House Republicans are willing to endorse publicly. If she waits another two months, until after various state deadlines for filing for the primaries have passed, she's got nothing to lose in asking a few dozen jittery centrist GOPers to sign her petition.
She's got two big problems, though, one of which is that Republicans who sign on with her wouldn't just be betraying conservatives and border hawks, they'd be knifing Boehner and the RINOs in the back too. The whole point of amnesty from the perspective of GOP strategists is to build goodwill with Latinos by having Republicans play a major part in reform. If the Republican Speaker gets his own bill passed through the House, even if he needs mostly Democrats to do it, that can be spun as "a major part." If Pelosi gets her bill passed with help from a few dozen no-name Republican backbenchers, Democrats will get all the credit and then that spin becomes … harder. It would take some awfully bold RINOs in the caucus to help her get away with that, especially with the midterms less than six months away by the time any sort of bill happens.
Her other big problem is that she's pushing a bill that's actually weaker on core Republican concerns like border security than the much-derided Gang of Eight bill. Why on earth would she do that if the point here isn't really to pass somethingbut simply to maximize pressure on Boehner to propose something of his own? If she organized a discharge petition around the Gang of Eight bill instead of the House Democrats' bill, there's at least a chance she'd win some Republican votes. Jittery centrist GOPers could simply say they were supporting the same bill that Marco Rubio voted for in the Senate (before he began distancing himself from it, natch). Even if Pelosi lost some Democratic votes because lefties refuse to support the Gang of Eight's plan for "tough" border security, that's okay; again, per the excerpt above, the point here is simply to embarrass Republicans, not to get something passed. Having the House GOP line up to oppose a bill that Senate Republicans helped pass would give Democrats their talking point. And if, somehow, Pelosi did find a few dozen Republicans to sign a discharge petition and help pass the Gang of Eight bill, the bill could then proceed directly to Obama's desk for signature. That's not the case if House Democrats passed their own immigration bill, as that would have to be reconciled with the Senate bill and then more agonizing votes would follow.
The reason House Dems want to push their own bill, I guess, is that if you're going to pander, you might as well pander all the way. They know that centrist Republicans are too gutless to put their names on a discharge petition for amnesty, even though we all know they'd happily vote for it if they could keep their vote secret. The point here for Pelosi is simply to signal to Latinos that Democrats are trying to give them everything they want (even less border security than Chuck Schumer agreed to!) and they're being thwarted by the racist Republicans. Might as well add an "instant citizenship" provision for illegals to the bill too. Go all out.


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Honestly, there's a lot of strange information on this little bit of Trivia from the Nets-Kings broadcast on YES.
His twitter following is increasing, since the spot aired moments ago but he still has work to do before catching up to Brook Lopez News. Let's help @RealBrookLopez out!
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Error C00D1374 occurs when connecting to Zune Marketplace using the Zune Music + Video software
Note As of 15 November 2015, the Zune service has been discontinued. This may cause errors when attempting to stream or download content or update the service.
You see the following error and message when connecting to Zune Marketplace using the Zune Music + Video software:
This means that the Zune Music + Video software can't connect to Zune Marketplace.
Solution 1: Go to the Service Status page to see whether the Zune service is experiencing a temporary network problem.
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Solution 3: Make sure that you're connected to the Internet. To check, click Start, click Control Panel, click Network and Internet, and then click View network status and tasks. This screen will tell you whether you're connected to a network or not. If you're not connected, click Connect to a network from the status screen, and then select an available network.
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Epic Escape Superhero Webcomics 114 – The Strongly Worded Letter
Epic Escapers,
We have been doing two webcomics a week! I hope you're enjoying the accelerated publishing schedule. The Mars comic is about to hit its climax. We're heading for big things for our Superheroes.
Welcome to the Best Superhero Webcomic, at least, the Best Ranked Independent Superhero Comedy Webcomic, on the Internet. Follow our heroes as they have their zany adventures.
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A visit to Barron Falls - KurandaMonday, February 25th, 2008
This weekend has been pretty quiet, although we managed to get up early Saturday morning and make a trip to Kuranda. Ever since I showed Steve the pics I took of Barron Falls just a couple of weeks ago, he was very keen to go and see it for himself. So we went.
As you can see, the falls are just as impressive but we found this lookout where the views are even more magnificent. Steve was telling me the story of how, many years ago, they climbed the mountain just behind me with his brother Phillip until they reached one of the pools. They had planned to have a swim in the pool to cool off a bit. I was thinking what a hero my boyfriend, and his brother, was, until he admitted that they climbed during the dry season, when there's hardly any water in the Barron River. Not so brave after all, is he? Anyway, I must admit that climbing these rocks is pretty brave, whatever season of the year. So it seems, after all, he's still my hero.
The rest of the weekend was fairly quiet. Sunday morning we met up with a couple of people from Colombia, who got us to book their trips and accommodation for them. Last night they were off to Airlie Beach, where they will be visiting Whitehaven Beach and Hayman Island, two of the most beautiful places in Tropical North Queensland. Good luck, Alejandro and Dora, hope you have a fantastic time in Australia.
Later on, we enjoyed the visit of one of Steve's extended family's member: his cousin Trevor. He is in Cairns to give a lecture about kinesiology.
And Sunday evening was cooking time. We will be hosting a Spanish night next Sunday and there're a few dishes I would like to cook. But since I had never cooked them before, I thought I'd better try them first. As you can see in the pic, I wasn't so successful, so I may have to rethink the menu. However, Steve only left one of my cheese 'croquetas', I guess the result wasn't as bad although the look wasn't so appealing.


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- Stars: Bette Davis , Anne Baxter , George Sanders , Celeste Holm
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- Awards: Won 6 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 18 nominations.
- Plot: Eve (Anne Baxter) is waiting backstage to meet her idol, aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis). It seems innocent enough as Eve explains that she has seen Margo in EVERY performance of her current play. Only playwright/critic DeWitt (George Sanders) sees through Eve's evil plan, which is to take her parts and her fiancé, Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill). When the fiancé shows no interest, she tries for playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe), but DeWitt stops her. After she accepts her award, she decides to skip the after-party and goes to her room, where a young woman named Phoebe has sneaked into her room and fallen asleep. This is where the "Circle of Life" now comes to fruition as Eve will get played like she played Margo.
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SDCC Exclusive: AARON, SILVESTRI Relaunch INCREDIBLE HULK
Though the Red Hulk has been going strong in the Jeff Parker-written Hulk series, the future of the classic green-skinned Hulk has been much murkier in recent months. He's currently transformed into one of the Serpent's Worthy in Fear Itself, and in May news hit that the Incredible Hulks series would end when Greg Pak's run wraps with August's #635.
At their "Fear Itself" panel Sunday afternoon at Comic-Con International: San Diego, Marvel revealed what's next: a brand new Incredible Hulk #1 in October, from the high-profile creative team of writer/Marvel Architect Jason Aaron (Wolverine, Scalped) and artist/Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri (Uncanny X-Men, The Darkness).
As you might expect from major recent developments with the character, the new series isn't just Hulk business as usual. The story picks up with Hulk and Bruce Banner physically split into different beings, and the traditional inner conflict between the two becomes a very literal one.
Newsarama talked with Aaron about what attracted him to writing Incredible Hulk, working with Silvestri, and what we might see — and probably won't see — in the near future of the book.
Newsarama: Jason, people might be a bit surprised to hear about you doing Incredible Hulk, given how closely you're involved with the X-Men side of things right now. How did the gig launching the new Incredible Hulk series come about?
Jason Aaron: It's something we've actually been talking about and working on for a while. I've been pretty deep in the X-Men universe for a while now, doing lots of Wolverine and doing more X-Men stuff going forward. I relish the chance to kind of jump into a bit more of the center of the Marvel Universe, and Hulk's the kind of character I like, where it's not a traditional superhero character. He's had a lot of weird, crazy adventures over the years, from going to different dimensions, to other planets, at times he's a hero, at times he's a villain. I jumped at the chance to throw my hat in the ring and try to make my own mark on a character that's been so many crazy things over the years.
Nrama: Yeah, Hulk's a very versatile character in that way, which must be one of the big attractions for a writer. So I'm guessing you're a long-term Hulk fan?
Aaron: Oh, sure, going back to the TV show. I loved the Hulk TV show, I still watch it once in a while. One of the benefits of working from home is that you get to watch daytime television every once in a while.
I've always been a Hulk fan, and like you said, Hulk is a very versatile character. What's cool is that it's not a character you can really pin down. It's not a character with a history you can define in a couple of sentences. Captain America you can boil down, Spider-Man you can boil down — Hulk has been a lot of different things At the end of the day, it always comes back to that dynamic between Banner and this other persona that's inside him, the Hulk. That's what my book will focus on. I'll be trying to kind of turn the tables a little bit and look at that from a different perspective.
Nrama: It sounds like that conflict between Bruce Banner and the Hulk is very literal in your series — they're separate — and you'll be looking at Bruce Banner as the real threat, not the Hulk?
Aaron: Yeah. I did want to flip that dynamic on his head. For so many years, the stories have focused on Banner as a sympathetic character, and Hulk as this monster that he's sort of burdened with. This is very much a Hulk story. Banner is a big part of it, but we're more looking at things from the Hulk's perspective. This is a situation where for years what was an internal tug of war between these two characters is now being played out literally. For whatever reasons, whatever means, they've been split apart, gone their separate ways, but events serve to drag them back together. No matter what they do, no matter how far they go, they still seem to be brought back together, as we move towards a quite literal Banner vs. Hulk confrontation.
Nrama: Does this position Bruce Banner almost as the antagonist in the book, or is not quite that cut and dry?
Aaron: It's not quite that cut and dry. I'm not changing Bruce Banner; I'm not suddenly turning him into Dr. Doom. But certainly he's got some issues that are compounded by the events of this book. The Bruce Banner we pick up with in the pages of Incredible Hulk #1 is in a very different place than the Bruce Banner we saw at the end of Fear Itself.
The events of Fear Itself, and everything the the Hulk goes through in the pages of that, and everything the Hulk's going through in the pages of Greg Pak's last arc on the book, that all kind of feeds into the situation we see Hulk and Banner both in in Incredible Hulk #1. We don't initially know what happened, what was the breaking point, how this happened, why it happened — but as things go along, we see how all this stuff kind of fed into creating this strange, new dynamic for Incredible Hulk.
Nrama: The Hulk has a lot of familiar characters surrounding him, and a lot have been added — or altered — in recent years. This sounds pretty squarely focused on Banner and the Hulk, but will we see any other familiar faces?
Aaron: I did want to do something that would focus more squarely on just Banner and the green-skinned Hulk. The first couple of issues there are references to some of the other Hulks, there's a scene with Betty, but this is the book that kind of comes back to ground and focuses in on getting these two sides of this one persona, Banner and the Hulk. It's not a book where you need to be familiar with the last several years of Hulk continuity. It's a great jumping-on point if you want to check out some Hulk stories, but it's not a reboot. We're not throwing out any of the stuff from recent years, that'll all still come into play. Going forward, I'll be working with Jeff Parker who does Hulk, and we'll be working to create a cohesive Hulk universe. But with this book I wanted to focus in again on the original Hulk, and give people a fresh point to jump on.
Nrama: This sounds like you've got a pretty long-term run in mind.
Aaron: Yeah, what's set in motion in the pages of Incredible Hulk #1 is a dynamic and a new status quo that will play out over the course of several arcs. Certainly this first arc is a direct lead-in to the second arc, which is the quite literal Banner vs. Hulk story.
Nrama: And a very big element of this series is Marc Silvestri on art.
Aaron: Yeah, a guy I've never worked with before, obviously I've known his work for years, been a huge fan. I've been hitting him with a lot of crazy stuff. The first couple issues there are new characters, new threats, a lot of crazy monsters. He's had a lot of big things to draw, and he's just been knocking it out of the park. I've been really thrilled with the stuff I've seen coming in.
Nrama: And it definitely adds to the profile of the book to have an artist like Silvestri on the series, who doesn't take on ongoing series often, and his Marvel work especially has been limited in recent years.
Aaron: It makes it seem a little more special when you've got a guy whose stuff you don't see at Marvel very often.
Nrama: Going back a little bit, you mentioned new characters — is adding to the Hulk mythos one of the priorities of the series?
Aaron: You'll see a new supporting cast emerge. For the most part our cast will focus in pretty squarely on Banner and the Hulk, but outside of that we introduce some new characters, so you can expect some new big, burly creatures for Hulk to punch in the face — all manner of big, burly creatures, I should say. Some new sort-of allies — sometimes allies, sometimes enemies — that will be a part of the Hulk title for the foreseeable future.
Nrama: As a Hulk fan, are there any past runs on the book you're looking to as inspiration, either directly or indirectly?
Aaron: You can't really talk about the Hulk without talking about Peter David's run. I read all that stuff off the rack as it was coming out. I think I first started when [Todd] McFarlane, and then Erik Larsen, were drawing it. Even before that, I loved the short John Byrne run, which I think was the first time we had ever seen Hulk and Banner split apart into two different entities. And then the Bruce Jones run really hooked me on Hulk again. That was a book that really made the Hulk a monster again, it really kind of changed the tone of the book. It wasn't a superhero book, which I liked.Incredible Hulk
#3 cover.Then you've got to give Greg Pak big credit. He's taken the Hulk to all-new heights over the course of his long run, and done some amazing, character-defining stories.
It's an imposing legacy to follow — as with most Marvel characters, but Hulk in particular. He's one of those characters that are hard to nail down. He's been a lot of different things, he's functioned within a lot of different kinds of stories, from straight superhero stories — obviously, he was one of the original Avengers, and he was a Defender — but also, look at something like "Planet Hulk," and that's a straight sci-fi story. Or the Bruce Jones stuff, which is kind of espionage mixed with an element of horror. That's the kind of stuff I like, and that's what I've tried to do with Wolverine; mix it up and do different tones, and different genres. Some of the initial stuff on Hulk will be more high-octane, action/adventure stuff, but I look forward to mixing up a little bit more.
Nrama: Between the comics, the old show, two movies, cartoons, and more, Hulk is just one of the most recognizable characters in Marvel's stable, so a new Incredible Hulk #1 means a lot.
Aaron: And Hulk is in this little movie that's coming out next year, so that's not going to hurt his profile any, either.
Nrama: Your schedule's pretty full already — coming in the fall you've got Wolverine and the X-Men, along with solo Wolverine, PunisherMAX and of course Scalped. Are you going to have to maybe step away from one of those for Incredible Hulk?
Aaron: I won't be able to continue doing all of those, but it's worked out to where as I was started to kind of segue off of a couple of titles, I'd pick up a couple. So I'm not having to drop anything against my will.
Punisher from the get-go was one big story, and we're moving to the close of that story. I'm still getting to tell the story I wanted to tell there. There will be a few months there later this fall where I think the shelves at the local comic stores will be overflowing with books with my name on it, so people may start to get a little sick of me. I'm really excited about everything I'm doing. I'm getting to do a lot of different kinds of books.
Hulk is very different from Wolverine and the X-Men, which is very different from PunisherMAX, so I'm just happy I'm getting to mix it up a lot like that.UPDATED: More Marvel OCTOBER 2011 Highlights (New HULK) Got a comment? There's lots of conversation on Newsarama's FACEBOOK and TWITTER!


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Chinese equities have suffered the sharpest one-day crash in eight years, sending powerful tremors through global commodity markets and smashing currencies across East Asia, Latin America and Africa.
The Shanghai Composite index fell 8.5pc despite emergency measures to shore up the market, with a roster of the biggest blue-chip companies down by the maximum daily limit of 10pc. The mood was further soured by news that corporated profits in China are now contracting in absolute terms, falling 0.3pc over the past year.


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Griptonite's 3DS take on classic Sega property Shinobi has arrived on European shores and is expected in the US this week. Check out the launch trailer through the break.
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Check out the Ninjutsu available to Ryu in the upcoming 3DS version of Shinobi. That's "ninja powers" for those of us less excited by correct usage of Japanese terms.
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Holders Germany qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup™ quarter-finals, but they needed a 54th-minute Simone Laudehr goal to earn the win and end a determined Nigeria's campaign in front of a noisy, sold-out crowd in Frankfurt.
Germany's victory also confirmed France's progression and Canada's elimination, following a 4-0 victory for the former over the latter earlier in the evening in Bochum.
Nigeria went into their second group match knowing defeat would end their tournament ambitions, and indeed Germany got little return out of the well-organised Africans for periods of the match.
The Europeans made an early statement of intent as Birgit Prinz set Simone Laudehr free, but goalkeeper Precious Dede reacted quickly to make the save. The hosts dominated possession early and Kim Kulig's shot from outside the penalty area again called the Nigeria No1 into action.
The underdogs came alive in the attacking third midway through the half, with Rita Chikwelu stealing possession in midfield, but Sarah Michael was unable to deliver a precise square ball with the retreating German defence stretched.
Nigeria were now gaining in confidence, while the home side were occasionally guilty of sloppy passing, much to the chagrin of Silvia Neid, who sometimes cut an animated presence on the sideline. The Germany coach's mood would not have improved just past the half-hour mark as midfielder Melanie Behringer was forced to leave the field with what appeared to be a serious injury. Behringer's misfortune allowed a hero of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup 2010, Alexandra Popp, to enter the fray.
The half concluded with Nigerian starlet Ebere Orji firing an effort from 18 metres, which missed the goal by just a metre or so.
The home side's concerns were eased nine minutes into the second half as the deadlock was finally broken. Defensive midfielder Simone Laudehr collected a deserved reward for a hard-working display after thrashing home a loose ball from 12 metres, after Celia Okoyino Da Mbabi's free-kick had caused havoc in the penalty area.
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UC Students, Nader Hold Second Teach-In
UC Berkeley students held a second teach-in on Friday, protesting budget cuts, staff reductions and the increasing dependence of public education on corporate funds.
About three dozen students gathered in Tolman Hall's Education and Psychology Library for an action on the University of California budget crisis, with Anthropology Professor Laura Nader providing the keynote address.
The turnout was smaller and the event shorter than the Oct. 9 all-night event at the Kroeber Hall Anthropology Library, perhaps because one of the key reasons for the teach-in had been resolved, at least for the moment.
Thanks to gifts from alumni and parents of current students, the university has promised to restore normal library hours after cutbacks and weekend closings had been implemented as a cost-cutting measure in response to the state budget crisis.
UC's Board of Regents will vote in November on a proposed 32 percent fee increase for students, which would bring annual fees for students to more than $10,000 for the first time in the university's history.
Nader, now in her 49th year of teaching at UC Berkeley, urged the student activists to be patient—"Americans are used to making these marches and strikes and thinking doing it once will accomplish the result," she said—and to recognize that the struggle is part of a larger fight to determine "whether we are to be a plutocracy or a democracy."
Nader reminded the students that it was alumni and not the university and its administrators who had given the funds to allow the libraries to maintain normal hours, adding, "Thank goodness we have some alums who have their priorities straight."
Nader put the crisis of the university into a larger context. College education is considered a right in many nations, but, she said, "not here, in the richest country in the world, a country which is spending trillions on war, and not a defensive war. And look at the billions we are spending in California on prisons."
One possible tactic to protest the fee increases she raised drew applause from the students: "Imagine if everyone started a boycott."
She also criticized the university's football program and intercollegiate sports in general, which she said had amassed a $158 million debt, "as far as we can determine from the numbers."
She urged the university to follow the example of Robert Maynard Hutchins, who abolished intercollegiate athletics during his tenure at the University of Chicago. Nader said half of UC Berkeley's football players fail to graduate.
The anthropologist also decried the diminishing role of the Academic Senate in campus decisions, recalling that when she joined the university in 1960, "you could not hold classes when the Academic Senate was meeting."
She also urged alumni to organize more effectively on behalf of the school, citing the example of Yale alumni who have been organizing an alternative alumni association because the existing association "is now under the administration."
"There is also the problem of words and deeds," she said. "I was raised in a house where words and deeds had to go together. But now we live in a world where people say 'Hope, hope; change, change' and think they've got it done. And the people most susceptible to this are college graduates."
Akash Desai, a graduate student in environmental engineering, helped organize Friday's event.
"As a first year graduate student, you're pretty much on your own for funding," he said, explaining that grants and other resources become more available in later years of study. "I took out a loan to pay for my fees this year, and now it looks like I'll have to take out another one. And even if you're well off, the general character of the university is being endangered by increasing privatization."
Desai said he and other organizers "believe that education should be a social right, and access shouldn't be limited to people who can afford it."
Dan Nemser, a sixth-year graduate student in Spanish, agreed.
"I was inspired by the success of the Sept. 24 march and rally to continue with direct action in support of public access to education," he said, referring to demonstration that brought more than 5,000 students, faculty and campus workers to Sproul Plaza for the largest campus protest since the Vietnam War.
Nemser said students also want "to shine a light on the way the Berkeley administration and the university's Office of the President is handling the crisis. Professor Meister's report is a direct indictment of the way (UC President Mark) Yudof is mishandling university finances."
Robert Meister, president of the Council of UC Faculty Associations, is the author of "They Pledged Your Tuition to Wall Street," a 12-page report which alleges that regents are hiking fees specifically to raise the ratings on UC bond issues and to bankroll the system's extensive building program.


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But Griffith Park, the foremost green space in a city notorious for meager parkland and abundant smog, endures bravely, maybe even heroically. Venture into the park, or nearby Elysian Park, or one of the creative neighborhoods in between, and you'll find not only beloved landmarks such as Griffith Observatory and Dodger Stadium, but also happy surprises, such as the time-travel supply shop, or the cafe where cops dine daily to the sound of echoing gunfire, or the Korean greetings that echo at dawn every day atop Mt.
The more time you spend in these occasionally gritty, mostly gentrified neighborhoods around the park — Silver Lake, Los Feliz and Echo Park — the more you realize that they're incubators of American pop culture. Thousands who live here work onstage and off in movies and TV, make music, art and theater, keep up with the interwebs and savor all things ironic (including the nonword "interwebs," a.k.a. the Internet to the rest of us). Yes, Hollywood is glitzier and Beverly Hills is richer. But who's cooler? These 10 micro-itineraries, the third in a series that concentrate on Los Angeles and Orange counties, might help you decide. (Los Angeles Times)
Pictured: Griffith Observatory. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Pictured: Richard Neutra's VDL Research House II in Silver Lake. ()
Pictured: LAMILL Coffee Boutique. (Richard Hartog / Los Angeles Times)
Pictured: Fred 62 (1850 Vermont Ave.). (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Pictured: Figaro. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
Pictured: Alcove Café. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Pictured: Campo Gorilla Reserve at the Los Angeles Zoo. (Mariah Tauger / For The Times)
Pictured: Tiki Ti. (Perry C. Riddle)
Pictured: Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea (3922 Sunset Blvd.). (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Pictured: Cheese Store of Silverlake. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Pictured: Forage. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
Pictured: Secret Headquarters comic book store. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Pictured: Echo Park Lake. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
Pictured: Echo Park Film Center. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
First published on March 20, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012.
It's not easy being the lungs of Los Angeles.
But Griffith Park, the foremost green space in a city notorious for meager parkland and abundant smog, endures bravely, maybe even heroically. Venture into the park, or nearby Elysian Park, or one of the creative neighborhoods in between, and you'll find not only beloved landmarks such as Griffith Observatory and Dodger Stadium, but also happy surprises, such as the time-travel supply shop, or the cafe where cops dine daily to the sound of echoing gunfire, or the Korean greetings that echo at dawn every day atop Mt. Hollywood.
The more time you spend in these occasionally gritty, mostly gentrified neighborhoods around the park -- Silver Lake, Los Feliz and Echo Park -- the more you realize they're incubators of American pop culture. Thousands who live here work onstage and off in movies and TV, make music, art, theater and all manner of Web fodder, savoring all things vintage and ironic. Yes, Hollywood is glitzier, and Beverly Hills is richer. But who's cooler?
And what do we call these people? Many call themselves Eastsiders, which sounds great but annoys people who live east of the Los Angeles River in the area long known as East L.A. Maybe we should call this the Near East instead. Or maybe, given that Griffith Park, Echo Park, Elysian Park and the Dodgers' ballpark all rub against one another, these people are Parksiders.
1. From the ferns to the stars
In 1896, mining magnate Griffith J. Griffith donated 3,015 hilly acres that became L.A's biggest park. Later he put up the money for Griffith Observatory and the Greek Theatre. And in between donations, the hard-drinking Griffith shot his wife in the face (not fatally) and served two years in prison. But you're here to hike, not judge. Drive to the shady corner of Griffith Park known as Ferndell (or Fern Dell, depending on the source), park by the Trails Café (2333 Fern Dell Drive; www.thetrailslosfeliz.com), then head uphill. Yes, on foot. Follow the West Observatory Trail for about a mile up the scrubby hills until -- voila! -- three domes and a flawless lawn appear. That's Griffith Observatory (2800 E. Observatory Road.; www.griffithobservatory.org), the city's hood ornament. It opens at 10 a.m. on weekends, noon on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Browse the wonders of science within the 1935 building, which reopened in 2006 after a dramatic addition, mostly underground, that added dozens of exhibits and a cafe. Though shows in the Samuel Oschin Planetarium cost $3-$7 a person, most of the building is admission-free. Outside again, savor one of the city's best views. Check out the bust of James Dean, whose 1955 movie "Rebel Without a Cause" includes scenes here. Then head back down the hill to the Trails Cafe and its outdoor picnic tables, avocado sandwiches, vegan chili and homemade baked goods. Your kids -- the same kids who begged you to carry them down the hill -- will soon be hopping among the stumps and hay bales.
2. Modernism, murder and " Snow White"
Silver Lake, a series of hills surrounding a scenic pair of reservoirs five miles northwest of downtown L.A., is where many of America's leading Modernist architects first made their marks from the 1930s to the '60s, working on sloping lots because they were cheaper. Walt Disney built his first studio and made "Snow White" at 2725 Hyperion Ave. (now occupied by a Gelson's supermarket). And in 1969, Charles Manson and followers drove here and killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their home on Waverly Drive. For more on Disney and Manson, and much more on the architectural legacy of Richard Neutra, Rudolf Schindler and others, sign on for a two- to-three-hour tour from Laura Massino Smith, founder of Architecture Tours L.A. (www.architecturetoursla.com). After a cup at Lamill Coffee Boutique (1636 Silver Lake Blvd.; www.lamillcoffee.com) and a stroll along the east or west reservoir footpaths, you meet Massino Smith, who wheels you through the hills in her minivan, spinning the stories behind the dozens of homes whose open floor plans, big windows and spare geometry were revolutionary in their time. In the 2300 block of Silver Lake Boulevard, you go pedestrian to explore a colony of Neutra buildings (including his former home, which is open for tours 11 a.m.-3 p.m. most Saturdays; www.neutra-vdl.org). Atop Micheltorena Street, you glimpse the craziest tennis court ever, cantilevered from a hilltop as part of the Silvertop estate designed by John Lautner.
3. Cops and Dodgers
Elysian Park, near downtown, is home to Dodger Stadium (1000 Elysian Park Ave.; losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com). But first, take Stadium Way or Echo Park Avenue to Academy Road. And pretty soon -- boom! -- you're at the Los Angeles Police Academy (where you're likely to hear shots from the nearby firing range). Show up between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. on a weekday, and you can eat at the L.A. Police Academy Revolver & Athletic Club Café (1880 Academy Drive; www.lapraac.com), where the 9mm Burger is a bargain at less than $7. Don't miss the old photos, nightsticks, handcuffs, brass knuckles and true-crime magazines on the walls. If you get a chance, thank a cop. The city's crime rate has been dropping since the early 1990s, and homicides happen about as often as they did in 1967, when the population was far smaller and Don Drysdale was pitching in the nearby stadium. Speaking of which: The Dodgers play 81 home games a year in Dodger Stadium (which dates to 1962), and if you can afford it (remember, you're paying the many divorce lawyers of owners Frank and Jamie McCourt), see one. But whether you do or not, consider a nightcap at the Short Stop (1455 W. Sunset Blvd.) in Echo Park. For decades it was a cop bar, and it has a police patch collection by the pool table and a set of lockers where officers used to lock up their guns. The cops stopped coming a decade ago, and a younger, shaggier set has claimed the place. There's a jukebox, a batch of old Dodger pictures, a mirror ball hanging over the dance floor and a vintage photo booth. Mug shots, three bucks.
4. To the top of Hollywood
First, make yourself at home. Claim a suite at Los Feliz Lodge (1501, 1503 and 1507 N. Hoover St.; www.losfelizlodge.com), a collection of four Spanish-style courtyard bungalows from the 1920s, surrounded by residential blocks and available for short-term stays. The units, opened in 2007, are walking distance to dozens of restaurants, shops and the Sunset-Vermont Metro station. All have kitchens and rates well under $200 a night. But don't get too comfortable. Because on that first morning, you'll be rising before dawn and driving five to 10 minutes up the hill to the Griffith Observatory parking lot (which is free but fills fast; 2800 E. Observatory Road). You'll start at the Charlie Turner Trailhead, just north of the lot, and hike uphill. You're climbing Mt. Hollywood, whose peak (1,625 feet) offers staggering views. It's a three-mile round trip through scrub and chaparral, the pines of Berlin Forest and the shady oasis of Dante's View. From the mountaintop on a clear day, you can see the sun rise to the east and a sliver of Pacific to the west. Almost every day, you'll get an eyeful of the Los Angeles basin, the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Mountains and the Hollywood sign on nearby Mt. Lee. As the mist lifts from the ridges, listen to the bird song -- and the Koreans. Dozens of Korean Americans like to begin their days with hikes here. So does City Councilman Tom LaBonge, who hollers greetings in their language and carries a football on his dawn hikes. He's been on this trail almost daily since 1978.
5. The village of Los Feliz
Do happy people live in Los Feliz? Well, some. But the area got its name from Jose Vicente Feliz, an 18th century settler who received this real estate through a Spanish land grant. The Greek Theatre (2700 N. Vermont Ave.; www.greektheatrela.com), home to many summer concerts, is a few blocks north of the commercial district on Vermont and Hillhurst avenues. Barnsdall Art Park (including Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House and a picnic-ready grassy knoll at 4800 Hollywood Blvd. (www.barnsdall.org, www.hollyhockhouse.net) is a few blocks south. Once you snag a parking spot (or arrive at the Sunset-Vermont Metro stop), walk Vermont between Franklin and Prospect avenues. Begin with people watching and caffeination in a sidewalk seat at Figaro (1802 N. Vermont Ave.; www.figarobistrot.com), which carefully cultivates its French flavor, or Fred 62 (1850 N. Vermont Ave.; www.fred62.com), a 24-hour retro-kitsch diner with lime-green walls. Both draw celebrities and often show up on TV, and among customers at either, you may encounter attitude. For larger outdoor dining areas and more people-watching, there's also Alcove Cafe (1929 Hillhurst Ave.; www.alcovecafe.com) and Home restaurant (1760 Hillhurst Ave.; www.homelosfeliz.com; there's another Home in Silver Lake at 2500 Riverside Drive; www.homesilverlake.com). For unfancy food but warm welcome to kids, there's Palermo (1858 N. Vermont Ave.; www.palermorestaurant.net). Browse Skylight Books (1818 N. Vermont Ave.; www.skylightbooks.com), and check this week's memes at Y-Que Trading Post (1770 N. Vermont Ave.; www.yque.com), where today's news is tomorrow's silk-screen theme. If you stay on the block for dinner or drinks, the dull facade of Dresden Restaurant (1760 N. Vermont Ave.; www.thedresden.com) conceals a neighborhood treasure: the lounge act of Marty and Elayne, who have been playing and singing, Tuesdays through Saturdays, sometimes in matching caftans, for nearly 30 years.
6. Cowboys, Indians, gorillas and elephants
The Los Angeles Zoo (5333 Zoo Drive; www.lazoo.org) can't match San Diego's, but it's cheaper ($16 per adult in early 2012), and it's right in Griffith Park. A new Asian elephant exhibit recently opened, but the best entertainment is still the Campo Gorilla Reserve, where your kids might get within inches of a gorilla's nose (with a thick viewing window in between). Their near-human attributes (we mean the gorillas) are endlessly absorbing. If you're more interested in human doings, the nearby Autry National Center's Museum of the American West (4700 Western Heritage Way; www.theautry.org) may surprise you. It covers not only Indians, cowboys and other newcomers but also pop culture's portrayal of them. And it has a great gift shop full of books, art, music, blankets and belt buckles.
7. Tchotchkes and tiki
You owe somebody a gift? Perhaps a grown-up pop-culture sort of gift, not necessarily in good taste? Step into the vast and semi-subversive retail wonderland known as Soap Plant / Wacko and the Luz de Jesus Gallery (all at 4633 Hollywood Blvd.; www.soapplant.com) in Los Feliz. Tiki tchotchkes, concert posters, Beatles lunch boxes, Bozo kazoos, rubber frog handbags -- they're all here in a former post office building, along with many picture books not suitable for children. After shopping, get a bite at Umami Burger (4655 Hollywood Blvd.; www.umamiburger.com/umami-los-feliz), a block northwest. And then it's time to catch a movie at the Vista Theatre (4473 Sunset Drive), Spanish on the outside, Egyptian on the inside). Or maybe you'd rather head for a drink at Tiki Ti (4427 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.tiki-ti.com), three blocks southeast. No beer, no wine, no credit cards. What you get are tiki drinks, about 90 of them, served since 1961 in a 12-stool space that fills up quickly. Important note: Smoking is allowed inside because all bar employees are part of the Buhen family, which owns the place. The Ti is usually open Wednesday nights through Saturdays, but every three months, the Buhens take three or four weeks off. So check before showing up. Once you're inside, certain drink orders will cause everyone around you to start yelling, "Ooga-Booga!" Act as though you expected it. And when you've had enough, retire to your quarters at El Tres Inn (4439 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.eltresinn.com), an eccentric, three-suite lodging above El Chavo Mexican restaurant and El Chavito bar. It's not cheap, but for a place to crash after a night of tequila, it makes good sense.
8. Sunset Junction
Remember that weird spark Melrose Avenue had in the 1980s? Something like that is happening now at Sunset Junction, the stretch of Sunset Boulevard storefronts near Sanborn Avenue in Silver Lake. Slouching twentysomethings with high cheekbones and thrift-shop wardrobes. Budding authors and auteurs, poised over their MacBooks by the blue-and-white Nicaraguan tile work at Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea (3922 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.intelligentsiacoffee.com/location/silver-lake-coffeebar) or listening to Jacques Brel under the parasols at the Casbah Cafe (3900 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.casbahcafe.com). Now's your chance to inspect the 300 artisanal cheeses at the Cheese Store of Silverlake (3926-28 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.cheesestoresl.com), the 24 flavors of ice cream made from scratch at Pazzo Gelato (3827 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.pazzogelato.net), and the eight kinds of currywurst cooked at Berlin Currywurst (also at 3827 W. Sunset; www.berlincurrywurst.com), which opened in early 2011. To soak it all up, find street parking (arrive early) or grab a spot in the little lot on Sanborn just west of Sunset. Lunch at Forage (3823 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.foragela.com). Listen for stray solos outside the Silver Lake Conservatory of Music (3920 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.silverlakeconservatory.com), which was co-founded by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea. Browse the $12 shadow puppets at ReForm School (3902 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.reformschoolrules.com), the comic books at Secret Headquarters (3817 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.thesecretheadquarters.com), the music at Vacation Vinyl (3815 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.vacationvinyl.com), and the mixological marvels at Bar Keeper (3910 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.barkeepersilverlake.com). You get extra points for coming on a Saturday morning, when the Silver Lake Farmers' Market sets up near Sunset and Edgecliff Drive.
9. The lake, the ladies, Taix and time itself
Echo Park, a blue-collar Latino neighborhood for decades, keeps getting trendier and more affluent. For more than a century, there's been a 13-acre lake at the southwest end of the neighborhood along Glendale Boulevard — but it's been drained for an upgrade and is likely to remain fenced off through late 2013. Fortunately, you can still cruise by the aged ladies of Carroll Avenue -- the greatest concentration of well-tended Victorian homes in Los Angeles, seven blocks south of Sunset by way of Douglas Street. And walk Sunset between Echo Park Boulevard, where a striking Ricardo Mendoza mural wraps around a clinic building, and Taix, pronounced "tex" (1911 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.taixfrench.com), the long-enduring French restaurant (and lounge with live music) where Park Avenue comes to an end. You'll find the neighborhood's stalwart pawn shops and Mexican groceries jostled now by newcomers such as the bookshop-cafe Stories (1716 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.storiesla.com) and, farther south, the beer palace Mohawk Bend (2141 W. Sunset Blvd. www.mohawk.la), which features more than 70 local and regional brews on tap and skylit, semi-industrial dining room that once held a theater. Meanwhile, the Echo (1822 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.attheecho.com) and its downstairs sibling the Echoplex are among the city's leading venues for live rock music. El Prado (1805 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.elpradobar.com), once a dive bar, is now downright genteel (and plays mostly old vinyl on its sound system). On Saturday nights, the nonprofit Echo Park Film Center (1200 N. Alvarado St.; www.echoparkfilmcenter.org) often screens alternative and/or documentary films. But before the day gets away, you need to hit the storefront labeled Echo Park Time Travel Mart (1714 W. Sunset Blvd.; www.826la.org/store). In the rooms behind, tutors from 826LA (another nonprofit, part of a national network founded by author Dave Eggers) offer free academic help and writing workshops for students 6-18. Upfront, the outfit raises funds by selling supplies for time-travelers -- you know, like robot milk and centurion helmets. If you pretend this is normal, the clerk at the counter will too.
10. By hoof and rail
Got kids? Proceed to the ponies near the southeast entrance of Griffith Park at Los Feliz Boulevard and Riverside Drive (officially, the address is 4730 Crystal Springs Drive; www.laparks.org/dos/parks/griffithpk). There, Tuesdays through Sundays, your child (age 1 or older) can sit on a tethered pony (which will make eight circles for $3) or ride two laps, untethered, on a larger oval track (also $3). On weekends, the scaled-down Griffith Park & Southern Railroad carries children and parents for $2.50 a ride, and more trains await in Travel Town and at L.A. Live Steamers at the north end of the park. The park's biggest playground, Shane's Inspiration, is a short drive from the ponies, and along the way there's a spot to rent bikes and a historic merry-go-round that's open weekends all year and every day in summer. Show up around noon on a Sunday, and you'll hear a strange throbbing in the air. That's the Griffith Park drum circle, always free, frequently fascinating.


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Sapphire Technology has announced that its new 1GB HD4870 Toxic edition graphics card is available worldwide.
The high-end GFX card utilises Sapphire's Vapor-X, vapour chamber cooling technology along with three heatpipes and heatsinks and a thermally controlled fan. Cool.
Overclocked out of the box, Sapphire's HD4870 Toxic boasts a whole 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 100MHz and a GPU core clocked at 780MHz.
The graphics card supports AMD CrossfireX technology and can be daisy-chained via two high speed connectors.
Like others in the HD 4400 range the card features ATI Avivo technology, and features a second generation Unified Video Decoder for hardware accelerated decoding of Blu-ray and the now largely defunct HD DVD.
Don't expect the card to come cheap, however, with the 512MB version at the £200 mark and this one likely to come in at a far higher price point.
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Donations to Queensland flood appeal fall short of expectations
THE head of Queensland's flood appeal says donations are so low they won't go anywhere near helping those who have lost all their possessions. Terry Mackenroth said only $6 million had been raised, including $1 million each from the state and federal governments. ''For the amount of devastation I've seen just through watching television, it is not going to go anywhere near paying the sorts of claims we will receive,'' he said. ''When someone's house has been flooded, they probably don't even have a toothbrush. They've lost everything.'' Mr Mackenroth said just to make emergency payments, the committee would need to raise between $15 million and $25 million. He cited the flood appeal two years ago that raised $250 million, and the cyclone Larry appeal, which raised $25 million. The Queensland Flood Appeal Committee met for the first time on Monday at the Red Cross Queensland headquarters in Brisbane. Mr Mackenroth said members would be briefed on how many households would need help, begin outlining eligibility criteria and decide when applications could open. The first emergency payments would not be means-tested, but larger payouts are expected to require some proof of eligibility. Mr Mackenroth said he was conscious of criticism from the appeal two years ago about how long it took for payments to be made.


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At the same time though, I've been rather virtuous, subsisting on a diet at home that is mainly vegetable based, with the odd Friday night feast of something naughty like Buffalo wings. It's been dhal, salads (on the sunnier days), curries, soup. I'm not quite sure what's been going on.
Oh yes, and the brownies. Yes the brownies. I keep them hidden in the freezer, ready cut, and eat them straight from there, slightly chewier and with a delicious, cool, snap.
Perhaps it's the changing seasons – my body is gearing up for the warmer months. Mind you, I'd eat chocolate on the hottest and coldest days of the year, no problem.
I even woke up in the middle of the night the other day and snapped a few pieces of the bar(s!) I keep stashed away for a rainy day. Still, I ate my salad on the balcony in the sun the next day – getting my Vitamin D fix while I chomp through my other vitamins.


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Smoky Orange Barbecue Chicken Sandwiches
- 1 tablespoon olive or vegetable oil, 1 turn of the pan, plus some for drizzling
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 3 chipotle peppers (smoky hot peppers) in adobo sauce, found in cans in Mexican foods section 1/2 cup ketchup, eyeball it
- 1/4 cup orange juice concentrate
- 1 orange, zested and cut into wedges, for garnish
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- Vegetable oil, for drizzling
- Grill seasoning or salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Cos lettuce
- Sliced red onions
- 4 crusty rolls, split, toasted and buttered
- Red Cabbage, Beet and Currant Slaw Salad, recipe follows
- Crispy Topped bacon and spring onion Baked Beans, recipe follows
Preheat a grill pan or griddle pan over medium high heat.
Heat a small saucepan over moderate heat. Add oil and onion. Saute onion in oil for 3 to 5 minutes or until onions are soft. Combine chipotle peppers in adobo, ketchup, orange juice concentrate, orange zest and chicken broth in a blender. Blend on high until sauce is smooth. Pour sauce into saucepan with onion and heat to a bubble. Reduce heat to simmer.
Coat chicken lightly with a drizzle of oil and season breasts with grill seasoning blend or salt and pepper. Grill 5 to 6 minutes on the first side, turn. Remove 1/2of the barbecue sauce to a small bowl and baste chicken liberally with it. Turn chicken after 4 minutes, coat with sauce again and cook another 2 to 3 minutes.
To serve sandwiches, slice grilled chicken on an angle and fan out 1 breast on each bun bottom. Spoon remaining sauce from saucepan over the sliced chicken. Serve open faced with the lettuce and red onions setting on bun tops to the side. Pair these sandwiches with your favorite sides or, with Red Cabbage Slaw and Crispy Topped Baked Beans.Red Cabbage, Beet and Currant Slaw Salad:
1 pound red cabbage, cored, shredded
1 can sliced beets, drained and sliced
1 cup walnut pieces
1/4 cup dried currants, a couple of handfuls
1/2 cup water
1 lemon, juiced
1/4 cup apple cider or white vinegar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 cup prepared red currant jelly
1/2 cup olive oil or vegetable oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Combine cabbage and beets in a mixing or salad bowl. Sprinkle the slaw salad with walnuts. Bring the remaining ingredients to a simmer in a small pot: currants, water, lemon juice, vinegar and brown sugar. Simmer 5 minutes to dissolve sugar and transfer mixture to a bowl. Whisk in currant jelly and oil. Pour dressing over the slaw salad. Toss salad to coat evenly with dressing. Adjust seasonings with salt and pepper and serve or, stored chilled up to 3 days.
Yield: 4 servings
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Ease of preparation: easyCrispy Topped Bacon and Green Onion Baked Beans:
6 slices bacon, chopped
1 cup plain bread crumbs
4 scallions, thinly sliced
Coarse black pepper
2 (15-ounce) cans prepared barbecued baked beans, about 4 cups
In a medium skillet over medium high heat, brown bacon but do not fully crisp the pieces. Remove the skillet from heat and toss bread crumbs in the pan with the bacon and drippings. Add scallions to the bread crumbs and bacon and season the mixture with cracked black pepper, to taste.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Add 2 cans of barbecued beans or extra spicy beans to a shallow casserole dish. Top with bacon and bread crumb mixture and place in oven. Bake 15 minutes or until top is crispy and beans are bubbly.
Yield: 6 servings
Preparation time: 5 to 10 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Ease of preparation: easy


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Not Cricket: Hansie Cronje
With South Africa now at the summit of the international game, Gareth Bland looks back to the country's darkest episode since its re-admittance to the fold almost twenty-one years ago
by Gareth Bland
Not Cricket: Hansie Cronje
With South Africa now at the summit of the international game, Gareth Bland looks back to the country's darkest episode since its re-admittance to the fold almost twenty-one years ago
by Gareth Bland
Fantastic read... will have to watch the BBC4 now, for sure.
Great article. Wish I could watch the doccie.
I remember as a fan, just wanting my team to win, Hansie was captain, my captain and could do no wrong. At the same time, I remember older people who hated the SA team and would literally support any other team but them, these people mostly still do.
For me, the main source of bitterness was that. It was sometimes hard to be a SA supporter (especially a non-white one,) you were surrounded by people who disliked the team yet you still had faith in this guy, his pious image of righteousness, the certainty in your heart that you may lose but this team and captain would never, ever give up without a fight. He was *the man*
And then the news broke in India, my uncle called us up just before school and told us to turn on the TV, he'd always said someone's going to fall from grace soon so he was almost reveling in it. Now, I'm of Indian origin but that mattered little. Who were those (probably corrupt & overweight) Indian cops to say those horrid things?
He'd never do that, our Hansie, pure as the driven snow he was. He did do it though and it became more and more apparent after every passing hour, but that hope was still there. Hansie still denied it and for me, that meant it was still nothing more than lies. Then he said he did it and that was that.
I'm still a big Proteas fan and always will be but SA cricket has never recovered from that day. He shattered the image of the sport, he sold us out for a frakking leather jacket and a meagre handful of silver. I still remember people softening towards him in the later years, some even suggesting he be allowed back to do coaching, that pissed me off to no end. Forgive sure but even allowing him back onto a cricket field would have been too much for me I think. None of it to be in the end though.
I would have done it too if I was in his shoes. .....
Great read..Sad end..btw documentary is in u2be
Detest cheating in any form for any sport.
Digging up this old thread because a series of thoughts that started off with looking at Brett Schultz, led me to a YouTube clip that had Hansie in. Cricket is not the game it once was with players spending months away from family. Because careers and income are on the line, it is imperative that ever questionable decision be allowed a review ( not every decision), that is why I am so happy for UDRS especially the new rule on no balls, because then the umpire is not doing his job at the cost of a career.
Good to see some spirit back today and SA cricket seems to be over this.
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H.I.H., Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Georgii of Russia Attends the Reburial of King Zog I of Albania in the Royal Mausoleum in Tirana.
H.I.H. the Heir, Tsesarevich, and Grand Duke Georgii of Russia, at the behest of his most august mother, the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, who was at that time on an official visit to Russia, attended the reburial of the remains of King Zog I of Albania in the capital city of Tirana. The King had been previously been buried in Paris. His Imperial Highness was accompanied by Cyrille Boulay, an advisor on international relations to the Head of Russian Imperial House.
The coffin bearing King Zog I's body was placed in the Presidential Palace, where official, ambassadors, foreign guests, and ordinary citizens of Albania were afforded the opportunity to pay their last respects. Around noon, a procession on foot accompanying the King's coffin set out from the Presidential Palace to the Royal Mausoleum, led by the grandson of the late King—the present Head of the Royal House of Albania, Prince Leka II, his fiancée Elia Zaharia, and several other members of the Albanian Royal Family. Among those in the procession were the Head of the Montenegrin Royal House, H.R.H. Prince Nicholas; H.I.H., the Heir, Tsesarevich, and Grand Duke Georgii of Russia; the son-in-law of the King Michael of Romania, H.R.H. Prince Radu; and numerous foreign diplomats. The President of Albania, Bujar Nishani, and the President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, both spoke at the royal burial site. Afterward there was a memorial meal; and that evening, there was a formal reception in the Presidential Palace in memory of King Zog I.
King Zog I (1895-1961) ruled Albania from 1928. He had numerous accomplishments in the domestic and foreign policy of the young nation, but in 1939 was forced to flee his country because of the invasion of the Italian fascists. After the Second World War, a totalitarian, atheistic communist regime was established in Albania under Enver Hoxha, and in 1967 Albania was declared the "first fully atheistic country" in the world.
King Zog I died in Paris and was buried there. He was succeeded as King (in exile) by Leka I (1939-2011), his son from his marriage with Queen Geraldine (born the Hungarian Countess Géraldine Apponyi de Nagyappony). In 1976, King Leka I attended the marriage in Madrid of the parents of H.I.H. the Heir, Tsesarevich, and Grand Duke Georgii of Russia—H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria of Russia and H.I.H. Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich (Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia). The present Head of the Royal House of Albania is the son of King Leka I and his wife, Queen Susan, H.R.H. Prince Leka II (born in 1982).


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[simage=7266,200,y,left] Republican State Senate Candidate Stephanie Jones was arrested this weekend after allegedly being involved in a fight. Shortly after 2:00AM Sunday morning, the Knoxville Police Department was called to the Dingus Lounge on North Lincoln Street in response to a call of a fight in progress. Jones was arrested after police arrived on scene. She has been charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct.
Jones entered a plea of not guilty, and tells KNIA/KRLS News that she doesn't understand why she was arrested. She adds that she will work to prove her innocence, and that she will continue her campaign for Senate.
Jones was released on $1,000 bond. She is set to appear in Marion County Court for trial on March 26th.
Jones is a candidate for the District 14 Senate seat. Competing with her in the Republican primary are Amy Sinclair of Allerton and Steve Everly of Knoxville.


text: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 Functional-based Exercise Should Be Considered in Falls Prevention Functional-based exercise, such as such as ironing while standing on 1 leg, should be a focus for interventions to protect older, high-risk people from falling and to improve and maintain functional capacity, say authors of an article published August 7 in BMJ. Researchers in Australia conducted a 3-arm randomized trial in which 317 residents of Sydney older than 70 years who had 2 or more falls or 1 injurious fall within the previous year were recruited and randomly assigned to 1 of the following interventions—a novel activity-integrated exercise program called Lifestyle integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE), a structured exercise program, or a gentle exercise control program. "In the LiFE approach, movements specifically prescribed to improve balance or increase strength are embedded within everyday activities, so that the movements can be done multiple times during the day… whenever the opportunity arises," write the authors. For example, a prescribed activity incorporating the balance strategy of "reducing base of support" might involve a tandem stand while working at a countertop, and over time could be upgraded to working while standing on 1 leg. A prescribed activity incorporating the strategy to increase strength by bending knees might involve squatting instead of bending at the waist to close a drawer, and could be upgraded to picking things up from the floor. The researchers performed follow-up at 6 months and 12 months after study participants started their programs. After 12 months of follow-up, the authors recorded 172 falls in the LiFE group, 193 in the structured exercise group, and 224 falls in the control group. The LiFE, structure exercise, and control groups had 21, 24, and 26 people who fell once, and 39, 41, and 45 who fell at least twice, respectively. "The LiFE program provides an alternative to traditional exercise to consider for fall prevention," say the authors. Don't forget to sign up for the National Council on Aging's (NOCA) free webinar on August 28 and learn how you can participate in Falls Prevention Awareness Day, recognized September 22. Find patient care, consumer education, and NOCA resources, in addition to continuing education courses on balance and falls at www.apta.org/BalanceFalls/. Comments What exercises were used in the LiFE program? What type of patients/clients and diagnostic conditions participated in the exercise and control groups? Interested in additional information, and I am always looking for useful data collection looking at functional BALANCE TRAINING to enhance patient skill levels. Thank you. Posted by Heidi Harris on 8/21/2012 11:13 PM I live in Canada. where can I find a copy of the exercises Posted by Barbra Stock on 8/22/2012 4:30 PM I would like to have access to the recommended exercises in the LIFE program. Posted by Connie Gibbs-Morris on 12/14/2013 11:32 PM Thank you! I would love to have access to the recommended exercises in the LIFE program. Posted by Darci Alexander on 11/24/2014 1:34 AM


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Microsoft's Common Language Run-time (CLR) was a fantastic idea. The ability to interoperate safely and at a high-level between different languages, from managed C++ to F#, has greatly accelerated development on the Microsoft platform. The resulting libraries, like Windows Presentation Foundation, are already a generation ahead of anything available on any other platform.
Linux and Mac OS X do not currently have the luxury of a solid foundation like the CLR. Consequently, they are composed entirely from uninteroperable components written in independent languages, from unmanaged custom C++ dialects to Objective C and Python. Some developers choose to restrict themselves to the lowest common denominator (e.g. writing GTK in C) which aids interoperability but only at a grave cost in productivity. Other developers gravitate to huge libraries written in custom dialects of particularly uninteroperable languages (e.g. Qt). Both approaches have a bleak future.
The situation is compounded by the fact that Linux has a far richer variety of programming languages than Windows, thanks to Linux being the platform of choice for academics such as programming language researchers who develop and maintain a variety of state-of-the-art programming languages, libraries and tools on the Linux platform. However, despite any benefits of languages like OCaml, Erlang, Haskell, Lisp, Scheme, ATS, Pure and others, these languages are almost entirely uninteroperable because they do not have a shared run-time and many do not even have easy foreign function interfaces (FFIs) to access existing unmanaged libraries.
If there were a high-level virtual machine (HLVM) available for Linux that could act as a common language run-time for these kinds of languages then it may be possible to build a better future for software development on these platforms. The impedance mismatch between different languages (including C) would be a lot smaller and the ability to write and consume libraries from other languages would greatly improve productivity.
We believe this approach has a bright future and, consequently, we have begun developing a new HLVM that is designed to act as a common language run-time, initially for the ML family of languages, in the hope that others will build upon it and efforts can be combined between language communities. We are using the excellent LLVM library that provides high-performance native code generation across a variety of architectures and platforms, including x86/x64 and Linux/OSX.
Although the project is still at a very early stage of development, we already have some promising results. We can compile a subset of ML including bools, ints, floats and arrays types, we have full tail calls between internal functions and the C calling convention for external functions which can be invoked directly and our implementation is 2-4× faster than OCaml on x86 at several simple benchmarks including the Sieve of Eratosthenes and a Mandelbrot renderer.
The main features that we have yet to implement are algebraic datatypes, pattern matching and garbage collection. Once those features have been completed we shall release a first version of our HLVM as an open source project and ask for contributors and developers to start improving and building upon this foundation. This will take time but hopefully we can work together to build a better future for high-level programming on the Linux and Mac OS X platforms.


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St. Cloud school board elections feature Somali candidates
St. Cloud residents will vote in two elections Tuesday to narrow down candidates for school board seats.
For the first time in St. Cloud history, two of the candidates are Somali. One is running in a primary election that will narrow down the candidates from seven to six to get in the general election in November, while the other is running in a special election (that will narrow the candidates from three to two to replace a resigning school board member.
Hassan Yussuf has been living in St. Cloud since 2001. He has been closely following the problems that the St. Cloud school district has faced in recent months. The U.S. Department of Education is investigating allegations that school administrators ignored complaints of racial harassment. And in June, the superintendent resigned with one year remaining on his contract. The superintendent said he couldn't deal with the school district politics anymore. Yussuf said he's concerned about what he sees in the district.
"All that seems to me that the school board is not managing real well what's happening in the school and they don't have a good connection with the superintendent," Yussuf said. "That's why you see someone quitting or you have to have some other one being replaced."
Yussuf said, if elected as a school board member, he will work to help improve the relationship between the school board and the superintendent. He also wants to bridge cultural and religious misunderstandings among everyone at the school district by promoting more integration.
Yussuf said a recent event that focused on student achievements for students of color underscores the challenge. He said highlighting their gains was good, but holding separate events reinforce cultural barriers.
"They are brother and sisters who live together and go to the same school, so I don't know why they should have different meetings," he said. "So the management should foster integration where they bring students together of different race, different color, different background, different status, where the students feel they are in the same group."
Mohamed Yusuf, no relation to Hassan, also shares those goals. He's running in a special election to replace a resigning school board member. He said he wants to see more transparency about how the school district is using money for equity and integration programs, and he wants to help Somali parents with limited English stay abreast of school district issues.
"There are a lot of community members who normally attend school board meetings," Yusuf said. "Some of the people are actually people who do not speak English. They would like to know what's going on with their kids. Those are the people who I'd like to represent in the school board."
The two candidates said they are running to represent all students and families of St. Cloud, not just those who are Somali and Muslim.
At a community center, other members of the Somali community feel confident that the candidates will be able to help address the issues in the school district. Abdirahman Muhumed is a family coordinator with Catholic Charities.
"People don't understand each other," Muhumed said. "There's a lot of mistakes. There's a lot of problems between the children and the teachers, between the family and the teachers, or between the district and the families. And I think if they get this position, they may cover that gap and help both of the sides."
Muhumed said both candidates are well known and well respected among Somalis. He said more African and Muslim residents would feel comfortable approaching a diverse school board.
Mohamed Ukash, a cultural navigator for the school district, said the fact this is the first time Somalis are running for the school board is a big deal. He said it will be disappointing if neither wins, but it won't mark the end of Somali involvement in St. Cloud politics.
"If they do not make it, we will just fight to the end," Ukash said. "In next election, we will be there again, fighting for the same position until we reach the higher positions. Maybe one day we'll see a Somali mayor in this city."
Both candidates said they feel pretty good about their chances, and that they are ready to run again during the next election cycle if they don't make it.


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Meetings to help farmers sign up for ag risk programs
the decision process a bit easier. "We offer tips on how to minimize risks, which will help people to ...
Change Style Preference: Strengthening Your Capacity to Lead Self & Others through Change
people; • Identifying and gaining insights to your change style preference by completing Discovery ... support them; • Recognizing common reasons people resist change and their respective implications to the ... change process; and • Developing techniques & strategies to successfully manage and lead people ...
News tips and events for the week of Jan. 6
trash generated at Ohio Stadium—the beverage cans, nacho trays, and more of 105,000 people—away from ... go.osu.edu/cpestDayton. 13 West Ohio Agronomy Day, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., St. Michael's Hall, 33 Elm St., Fort Loramie, ... Series, Ice on Fire (new Leonardo DiCaprio documentary featuring firsthand accounts by people at the ...