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If you are moving the mail queue, follow these instructions.
Become root on the mail host or assume an equivalent role.
Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services. To configure a role with the Primary Administrator profile, see Chapter 2, Working With the Solaris Management Console (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.
Kill the sendmail daemon.
# svcadm disable network/smtp:sendmail
Now sendmail is no longer processing the queue directory.
Change to the /var/spool directory.
# cd /var/spool
Move the directory, mqueue, and all its contents to the omqueue directory. Then create a new empty directory that is named mqueue.
# mv mqueue omqueue; mkdir mqueue
Set the permissions of the directory to read/write/execute by owner, and read/execute by group. Also, set the owner and group to daemon.
# chmod 750 mqueue; chown root:bin mqueue
Start sendmail.
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Here's mine:
Just wondering what the average WoW players character list looks like.
You only need to post your main realm.
Here's mine:
Just wondering what the average WoW players character list looks like.
You only need to post your main realm.
Since I'm at work I can't take a screen. On my main server I have a 90 lock, 85 druid, 85 warrior, 80 paladin and 80 mage.
I've only got one realm. :P
90 Blood Elf Priest
90 Pandaren Monk
90 Blood Elf Paladin
85 Troll Druid
85 Troll Shaman
85 Blood Elf Mage
81 Orc Hunter
85 Draenei Shaman
81 Draenei Hunter
Thought I'd post the first realm I started on:
What addon/mod do you use to make your character select screen look like that?
A hunter named Legnolas? DELETE HIM!!!
Not sure if I should post my list, some poster here here may know me from my realm :P
Not at my computer, and not sure I want to list ALL names, but...
90 orc warlock (main)
90 tauren druid
85 pandaran monk
85 goblin shaman
85 blood elf paladin
85 troll rogue
85 undead death knight
85 draenei priest
85 night elf mage
85 worgen hunter
77 dwarf warrior
There are a few (three? four?) on a second server, but I only log on to them when (a) my server is down, (b) the other server is up, (c) I really want to play WoW and don't mind "wasting" the time I'm playing on a character I don't care about. Poor buggers see game time maybe once a year...
... and before anyone asks, yes I hold down a full time job, and yes my guild raids (10/16 heroic right now on my warlock). BoA gear and rep bonuses make leveling those alts a LOT faster.
Leaving out my character names and realm:
90 tauren warrior (main)
85 undead warlock
87 orc death knight
85 blood elf priest
85 draenei warrior
85 worgen hunter
38 orc shaman
20 troll druid
48 human priest
20 pandaren monk
Here's the link:
90 Priest- Schumacher (Crying irl I had to namechange to that when oom was taken on the realm I moved to in pandaria)
89 Priest
70 Priest - leveled this one on my bro's acc to lvl 70 to raid with an alliance guild on my realm when my horde guild was farming BlackTemple (couldn't be arsed)
54 Priest
(I just looooove priest)
90 Mage
90 Rogue
90 Shaman
85 Paladin
85 Druid
85 Warlock
85 Hunter
85 Warrior
71 Monk
I got really bored duing cata so I leveled all chars to 85, before Cataclysm I had my 2 priests, shaman, paladin and mage and that was it. In Vanilla I only had my priest.
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Since I'm unsubbed at the moment..
90 Blood Elf Mage.
86 Blood Elf Paladin.
85 Blood Elf Priest.
85 Blood Elf Death Knight.
85 Blood Elf Hunter.
85 Blood Elf Rogue.
85 Troll Druid.
85 Orc Shaman.
76 Blood Elf Warlock.
69 Orc Monk.
59 Orc Warrior.
Yes, I like my female Blood Elves.
let me see if i can remember mine:
lvl 85 blood elf warlock(affliction/destruction)
lvl 85 blood elf mage(frost/fire)
lvl 85 night elf warrior(protection/arms)
lvl 47 draenei shaman (elemental)
lvl 85 blood elf rogue (subtlety)
lvl 85 blood elf priest (disc/shadow)
lvl 85 blood elf hunter (marksmanship/beastmaster)
lvl 85 blood elf death knight (unholy/blood)
lvl 19 night elf druid (balance)
lvl 10 worgen druid (balance)
lvl 20 human paladin (holy)
lvl 3 goblin warrior (wanted to see the goblin starting zone but forgot about it)
90 mage (fire pvp and main)
90 shaman (ele pvp ... currently on ice)
monk (next twink)
warrior, warlock, priest, paladin, hunter, death knight, rogue (inactive mostly)
45 (?) druid (had a 70 druid during bc on alliance side but deleted her rather then doing server trans to see the new zones during cata)
i skipped cata allmost entirely. only 85 char was mage.
1. Orc Hunter (main) BM/Surv
2. Belf Paladin Ret/Prot
3. Belf Warrior Arms/Fury
4. Goblin Warlock Demo/Aff
5. Worgen Mage Arcane/Frost
6. Tauren Death Knight Frost/Blood
7. Undead Rogue Combat/Assassination
8. Pandaran Monk Windwalker/Brewmaster
9. Orc Shaman Enh/Ele
10. Troll Druid Feral/Boomkin
As you can see i have almost every class except priest and nearly all my toons are horde except my worgen cause worgens are cool
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As a roleplayer I feel myself pushed to not only post their names but a bit of who they are... you are warned
Only Ranardrae and Rolanthas are level 90, Mathindrae is 86, Oyah and Raagmund are 85 and the rest a work in progress.
Ranardrae Ravenwing: nondescript handsome rogue who is attracted to both male and female, maybe mostly male. He is a swashbuckler who doesn't take many things too serious, but who at least pretends to know when to not act up too much.
Mathindrae Dawnstar: Stick-in-the-mud paladin, at least according to his twin brother Ranardrae. Mathindrae himself would say he merely knows what's proper and what duty demands. Hasn't found any person to love, and only gets in trouble because of Ranardrae.
Oyah Marsterblarster: Some would say he is green with envy, but Oyah is a goblin, which means he is green with greed. He doesn't mind when other people get rich, nor is he envious at their riches as long as he gets his moolah. He also loves it when things go boom!
Raagmund Stormhoof: a quiet and thoughtful shaman, slow to anger but once riled he is like the storm, the volcano, the tsunami, the earthquake. And then he cools down after he did what he had to do. Also he sheds quite a bit.
Tandinia Silvercloud: A naive, young priestess who tries hard to find her place in the big wide world. Tries to act tough but often fails utterly to convince people.
Brenca Doomcleaver: Undead deathknight, fights for horde, end of story. Still trying to figure out who she actually is besides a sword wielding maniac.
Horatio Scrubbley: A lovable insanely happy psychopath, who loves nothing more than to sing a happy song, skip and dance while watching people die a horrible death. I mean, if you are undead, you can have at least some fun, right? After all, it's not like anyone else really counts. He is also a Fairy Princess... no really. A fairy princess. He is purple and pink and has wings, thus: fairy princess.
Rolanthas Dusksinger: Former Warrior now Druid. Has had a run of bad luck concerning love and thus decided that maybe he is not destined to have a mate. He had some friends on the horde side, way back when after the third war there was a feeling of "maybe you hordies aren't that bad".
Bradforth Sablesmith-Wrythe: Gilnean Hunter. Brad finally came to grips with the fact that he is shedding just as much as his more animal friends. Has resisted the urge to sniff their butts though.
Dramni Silveraxe: Former barmaid, now warrior. She decided if she has to let someone pinch her rear, she can at least take up a sword and whack them a bit. After whacking those pinchers she was fired and is now whacking other stuff. And she has fun doing it!
Chi de bao bao: Pandaren monk who decided to join the Alliance. And after comparing the food of the Alliance with the Horde, he was glad he did that. Doesn't really get the whole Horde versus Alliance stuff, but hey... BEER!
"Reality: The refuge of those who fail in RPGs"
~Though this be madness, yet there is method in't~
90 Troll Druid
88 Orc Shaman
86 Undead Warlock
86 Dwarf DK (Off-server, only for Double Agent achievement)
85 Tauren Paladin
85 Troll Mage
85 Undead Hunter
83 Tauren Warrior
70 Goblin Rogue
58 (or was it 54??) Tauren Priest
24 H-Pandaren Monk
1 Bank/Auctioneer
90 Shaman.
90 Death Knight
85 Hunter
85 Priest
85 Paladin
85 Warlock
85 Mage
85 Druid
85 Death Knight
90 Pandaren Warrior
90 Worgen Warlock
90 Dwarf Shaman
87 Dranei Monk
86 Panderen Hunter
85 Human Paladin

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The Oscars are just a few weeks away but for the most part, Oscar-nominated movies have stalled at the box office. Lincoln has ranked 10th or 11th for the past few weeks. Argo is now playing in fewer than 1,000 theaters and Les Miserables' box office has fallen 40% each weekend for the past two weeks.
The exception is Silver Linings Playbook. The film from The Weinstein Company is expected to earn another $6 million this weekend ranking it 4th, according to Exhibitor Relations. The film is nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Writing. Actress Jennifer Lawrence is considered the front runner for the Best Actress award.
How is a movie that's been in theaters since November 16th still earning so much money? Because it's gotten what's known as a platform release.
A platform release is when a studio releases a movie in a few theaters (usually in New York and Los Angeles)and then slowly rolls it out to the rest of the country. It's a common tactic for Oscar movies that are smaller and more personal and might need some good work of mouth to find an audience.
But the Silver Linings roll out has been incredibly slow. It expanded from under 1,000 theaters to 2,523 January 18th but it kept expanding after that. Last weekend the film was in 2,809 theaters, according to Box Office Mojo.
During that time the film has been earning nominations and wins from different organizations. The movie was named Movie of the Year by the American Film Institute. The Broadcast Film Critics named in Best Ensemble and Best Comedy and Lawrence won for Best Actress Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes.
The slow release schedule has also helped the film to turn a nice profit. The movie cost an estimated $20 million to make and it's already earned $111 million. That's a huge profit and if Silver Linings nabs some Oscars, it can expect to do even better when it goes to home video.
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Buzzfeed! It was neither one of those three officers that "assisted the fallen runner". It was what looked like a civilian/volunteer that helped the man up. If you watch any number of the videos out there you can see the scene in this photo played out. Even the picture itself gives no indication that they are "assisting" him. Please stop lying. I am sorry in advance to be the type of person to point this out at such a time.
I have to agree/disagree with you Jack.Ihave seen the video and the officers do not "assist" this fallen runner. In fact it looksathoughacivilian helps him off the ground. To say they are ignoring him though?
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (Dec. 16, 2013) — Just in time for your holiday gift giving, the Kentucky Division of Historic Properties announces the release of the Kentucky Governor's Mansion ornament to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Commonwealth's architectural landmark in 2014.
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Even Windows 7 can't save us now
God bless John Markoff's ethics-addled heart. The veteran New York Times reporter sucks up industry-spin bullshit, fake quotes and all, then repackages it as truth I can cut and paste. Why is Windows 7 suddenly in the news? Same reason Microsoft's cloud-based Office knockoff, whatever it's called, was also demoed to developers in Los Angeles this morning:
The problem was highlighted last week when Microsoft reported its financial results for the most recent quarter. Its Windows unit reported just a 2 percent rise in revenue against a 4 percent decline in operating income. The computer industry viewed the setback as a shift of historic proportions. The company acknowledged last week that the mix of Windows sales in both mature and emerging markets had tipped more toward low-cost PCs, which come with lower-margin versions of Windows and often not Vista. Sales of Office software rose 23 percent, bringing in more revenue than the operating system.


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What's the source for this character being named after James Komack? Komack did direct an episode of Trek, but that wasn't until a season later. --From Andoria with Love 22:14, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
- Here, probably from text commentary from "Amok Time": "According to Denise and Michael Okuda, the character was named for James Komack, director of "A Piece of the Action"." --Alan 22:29, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Hmm, i see. Well that's rather odd, considering the character was created before he directed his episode. Thanks for clarifying. --From Andoria with Love 06:39, 3 May 2009 (UTC)


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ANCHORAGE - As two longtime players in Alaska's oil industry announced landmark plans for a gas pipeline out of the North Slope fields, the president of Shell Oil Co. seemed a bit sheepish about calling a teleconference to discuss his first-ever visit to the region.
"It's hard to compete against the big news," John Hoffmeister said Tuesday, shortly after the announcement from BP and ConocoPhillips.
But after roughly a decade of absence from the Alaska oil patch, the Dutch oil giant has been making headlines of its own. While most production is focused in the Arctic coastal tundra of the North Slope, Shell is trying to revive its presence by taking oil and gas exploration offshore, into the Beaufort, Chukchi and Bering seas.
"This is a totally new frontier in development in Alaska," said Hoffmeister, who met in February with officials from four North Slope communities. "The purpose of my visit was to reassure them that this is a long-term play by Shell."
The company faces strong opposition from environmental groups and many Alaska Natives and fishermen, who worry that undersea drilling or a major spill will cause irreparable harm to polar bears, seals, whales and other marine species.
Although he did not discuss specifics, Hoffmeister said his job was to reassure people that the company is open to balancing social, cultural and environmental issues with oil production. The trip took him to the Inupiat Eskimo communities of Wainwright, Nuiqsit, Point Lay and Barrow, the northernmost town in the U.S.
"It was really about getting to know one another, to understand how a big company like Shell thinks and respects the village life," he said.
Barrow Mayor Michael Stotts said he compliments Hoffmeister on taking the time to visit the tiny communities, 700 miles north of Anchorage.
"We understand that oil makes the world go 'round and it's in everyone's best interest to communicate with the industry," Stotts said. "There is great concern that it would definitely be detrimental to the mammals of the Arctic Ocean and of course many people still depend on the mammals as a food base."
With oil prices spiking in the last few years, Shell has invested about $2.2 billion in leases that give it the right to drill in federal waters around Alaska. Lawsuits have largely halted those plans for now and Hoffmeister said production, if it happens at all, would not begin for at least another 12 years.
Meanwhile, BP and ConocoPhillips announced on Tuesday that they would start developing a $30 billion, 2,000-mile pipeline to move natural gas from the North Slope to an energy hub in Alberta, Canada. The two companies, along with Exxon Mobil Corp., are the major producers on the North Slope.
Hoffmeister said Shell does not have plans to participate in construction of the pipeline, which could be the largest-ever construction project in North America, but the company would be interested in using it to get its products to market.
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Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, well known as city of fine muslin, mosques and rickshaws has a fairly long history of evolution. Before it rose into prominence as Mughal capital of Bengal in 17th century and urban & commercial centre, it was under the Sultanates from 14 century. It came under British control in 1757. Dhaka with passage of time testify different faces of history. Photographs and digital archives are the most effective ways that can keep visual records of its colourful history.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Dhaka city view - October 2007
River Buriganga
Mill barrack Godowns, Sutrapur - police/army barracks of British Raj
Biswa Sahittya Kendra Library on wheels, near Sitalakkhya river
View of old Dhaka from City Corp. building
Old dhaka buildings
Century old buildings, Shankharibazar
Babupura police station, near Patuatuli
Od dhaka building near Becharam Dewry
Dhaka rickshaw art
Katabon-Shahbagh road
Maghbazar intersection
View of old High Court gate, now entry to Masjid and Chistia Mazar
British Council building in the University area
Banani road
Airport road
Tongi Gazipur road
Karwanbazar rail crossing
TSC centre, Aparajeo Bangla, Dhaka University
Police Head office building on left
Dhaka north west view from City Corp. building, High court dome at centre
City Corp. building lawn, view from top
US Embassy building, Baridhara
3 pearls on the road
Lake Peelkhana
Children's park, Ramna
Kazi Nazrul Islam Ave.
Apollo Hospital gate, International school, Baridhara
View of Kanthalbagan area
Twilight - central Dhaka
BATA signal intersection at night
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6 comments:
- November 06, 2007 10:19 AM
- Joel said...
Dhaka looks amazing! :)
- November 06, 2007 9:40 PM
- Rehan said...
Great shots! Looking forward to more pics.
- November 07, 2007 11:04 AM
- November 12, 2007 9:30 AM
- Einstein said...
thank u for highlighting OLD DHAKA.
- December 23, 2009 9:58 AM
- Einstein said...
thank u for Old Dhaka's Pic.Its really nice shots!
- December 23, 2009 10:01 AM
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We were walking towards The Great Hall. Hazel, damn her, was already at breakfast. Bonnie had kindly stayed behind to make sure I did not fall back asleep.
"Oi! Over here."
Hazel's shout echoed throughout the hall. Several people turned to look around. Cheeks flaming, I half walked-half ran to the table, and slid in my seat.
"Here, you need this."
Hazel shoved a glass of pumpkin juice under my nose. I shot her a filthy look, before gulping it down.
"Where is Professor Flitwick? We should be getting our timetables by now."
"Really Bonnie, you need to take a deep breath and let all the studies go."
Taylor Boot slid in the empty place next to me, his black hair hanging on his head. He was in my year and the Quidditch captain of our house. His best friend Ernie Macmillan II pompously wished us good morning.
Ernie was so like his dad. His manner was something Mr. Goldstein always laughed at, said it reminded it of Ernie's father.
"Morning, Ernie." Bonnie greeted him cheerfully and flicked her braid over her shoulder, hitting Ernie on his face.
Taylor and Hazel laughed. Professor Flitwick made his way over to us.
"Here you are my seventh year students." He said. "Where are the rest?"
"Sleeping." Said Taylor. Nobody expected anything else from Logan and Daniel anyway.
Professor Flitwick started with the boys while we three girls quickly shoved our breakfasts in our mouths. I poured a healthy dose of chocolate syrup on my waffles before attacking them.
"Now, you three," Professor Flitwick said, "have almost all the classes together. Bonnie here's yours with Arithmancy, Hazel's with Divination and Allison's with Care of magical Creatures."
"Thanks Professor." We scanned our timetables. Hazel let out a snarl.
"Professor Flitwick, why do we have almost all our classes with Gryffindor this year?" I scanned my timetable and sure enough, there it was. Almost all was right.
"The Headmistress felt that it was necessary to have a little change of house patterns this year, so instead of you and Hufflepuff's having most of the classes together, it'll be you and Gryffindors." He chuckled under his breath. "The Slytherins can do with a little time of the Hufflepuff's anyway."
He walked away after that. Hazel watched with her mouth hanging open.
"Why is the world out to get me this year? First he is the Head boy, and now I have to share my classes with him. Why, oh why?" Bonnie laughed quietly and patted Hazel on her arm.
"It'll be okay, sweetie. Don't worry. We'll be there. But now we have to run. We have DADA now."
We walked towards the room where DADA was held. The class was half full already. Teddy Lupin was standing in the middle, getting the stuff for the class ready.
All around the class there were posters depicting the battle of Hogwarts, metamorphmagus' and werewolves. Given his heritage, it was no surprise he would be interested in such things.
His hair was a dark blue today, his signature colour. It was almost black. It suited him a lot.
Across the room, the Gryffindors and were sitting; DADA was one of the few classes with too many children continuing it for the NEWT level; therefore two houses had it at once.
"Welcome to the Defence against Dark Arts for the first time this year. I don't need to lecture you on how important this year is or the impact your NEWT grades will have on your career, your other teachers are going to go on about it for today anyway." Some people chuckled.
"This year we have non-verbal spells, the 3 Unforgivable curses and a 2 wandless spells." A murmur went through the class as Professor Lupin named the curses. Taylor and Daniel put their heads together and started whispering, Roxanne Weasley clutched her wand tightly and her best friend, Mia Thomas bounced up and down her seat in excitement. Evie and Emma Longbottom pulled out their textbooks and quickly started turning the pages. Ernie and Logan were exchanging notes on their views about this topic. The four Gryffindor boys: James, Louis, Fred and Liam Wood were all having some kind of heated discussion.
"You all learned the non-verbal spells last year, this time we're going to practise more advanced spells non-verbally. This year, you'll try the Aguamenti charm without speaking. And then we'll try some few minor jinxes and then we'll start with our next topic."
Everyone started to pair up with their friends; I turned to Bonnie to ask just as Professor Teddy's voice boomed in the class again.
"Hold on class. I'll be pairing you up today, and for the future too." He grinned wickedly.
"Aww Teddy, come on. Don't be so rude." Potter's grumbled like a sullen child.
"Sorry James, new rule."
"What rule?" Louis asked?
"Ravenclaws and Gryffindors have to be paired together."
Taylor groaned and mumbled under his breath "As if the Hufflepuff's were not nitwit enough."
Teddy shot Taylor an amused look as if he had heard what he said. I guess he had, with ears like him. His werewolves' gene had some plus points.
"It just keeps getting better and better." Hazel muttered darkly. I had a feeling that she was going to burst soon.
"It's okay" Bonnie said, but even she looked worried.
"Even your luck couldn't be that bad." I scoffed lightly.
"We'll see." Hazel muttered.
"Here are your pairs, please take a seat beside them. Taylor Boot and Roxanne Weasley...."
And it started. Mia got paired with Logan, Evie with Ernie (she groaned pretty loud at this announcement), and Emma with Daniel.
"Next we have Bonnie and James." James sighed as if in relief, Fred tensed. Bonnie Huffed.
"Allison and Fred." I smiled, Fred was cool. He smiled too.
"Last we have Hazel and Louis."
Hazel banged her fist on the table, making everything on it jump. Bonnie caught hold of her hand.
"Relax Haze." She whispered.
Louis, I thought, looked terrified.
"Ok class. Swap."
Everyone got up and shuffled towards their partner. I went and took a seat beside Fred.
"Hi." He said politely. Ok. This was going to be a bit awkward since the only time we have had a proper conversation would be in the train, and I don't know if it was one anyway. But it'll be okay, I guess.
"Hey." I grinned.
Bonnie came and sat behind me with James.
"Hey Fred." She called out.
"Hey Bonnie." His face had a light pink shade at this time.
Hazel and Louis sat at the end of the row, both looking in opposite directions.
"Oh, I'm so sorry Liam; you're partnered with Roxanne and Taylor. You three will take turns." Teddy told a slightly angry Liam, who was standing there looking lost.
"Thank you." He said and went to sit beside them.
"Now we are going to start with Expelliarmus again, but non-verbally this time."
We all got up from our seats and the desks all magically vanished. I stood in front of Fred with a smirk on my face, my wand extended in my right hand.
"Be ready to be embezzled." He grinned.
"Oh, you're on bitch." I retorted.
"Boys will try to disarm girls without uttering the spell. Girls will try to deflect it likewise." Teddy instructed and then moved to help Liam, Roxanne and Taylor.
"On the count of three?" Fred nodded.
"One, two, three."
I felt a tug on my wand, and thought "Protego". A shield erupted in front of me and Fred flew backwards.
"I topped this section of DADA last year; did I forget to mention that?" Fred groaned at me as he got up, and I laughed.
"Come on, Freddy boy. Get up." I taunted him. He shot me a dark look, and stretched his wand.
"Be ready to be embezzled, this time for sure."
I grinned as I got ready again. This year was gonna be fun.
A/N: Sorry for the really long gaps between the chapters but I'm kind of lazy that way. So reviews, comments, thoughts, criticism, praise and everything in between? Down in that little box.
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Avenging London bike bobby puts his beat to right, parodically
How could we have expected the London 2011 riots to be brought back for the big screen? The least likely answer must be as a black comedy about a bicycle cop who after a bad concussion has woken up as a one-man vigilante who's taking out the villains on his beat, but asking their permission first. That last detail explains the title of Stuart Urban's May I Kill U?, which brings this particular wayward member of her majesty's constabulary rather into Carry On territory, with a twist of Ealing comedy on the side.
The odds are already stacked towards absurdity when your hero's called Baz Vartis, played rather winningly by comedian Kevin Bishop as a cheeky chappie who probably didn't have that many brains even before he bashed his head in an incident, but has become something of a rightwing moron after it. Add in the fact that when this copper pulls up to the latest incident, he's being supported by a Smith and Wesson (the bike, that is, not the revolver - and that's not the director's invention, actually).
Baz puts helmet cam-shot killing pictures on the internet, then tweets under the moniker @N4cethelaw
Then give him a home life dominated by his dipso mum Bernice (Frances Barber, pictured below right), who looks like she's trounced Steptoe Snr. in the geriatric bloodymindedness stakes. And, finally, watch Baz kill a series of people on screen in front of us, the first and most impressive being when he bashes a looter to death with the wide-screen telly he's trying to walk off with. Baz isn't a murderer, you see, but a self-styled "death facilitator".
Except that that's when it stops being quite so funny. Intentionally, I think, because if we've been lured into the absurd by now (and Urban knows very well how to work the levers of his own script), the violence does come as a jolt.
Just as it sticks in the throat somewhat when Baz puts helmet camera-shot killing pictures up on the internet, and then tweets the befores-and-afters of each under the moniker @N4cethelaw, acquiring rapidly growing public support in the process (screen graphics move the whole action along slickly). Baz even has a choice of love interests, though he's essentially too infantilized - thanks to mum - to grasp what that might mean. A completely farcical climax comes together in a closing scene that sees him overcome the real thug (Jack Doolan) who's out for revenge (not for the killings actually, but on family business), and walk off with the girl.
All of which makes for whatever the opposite of good, clean fun is. But it's quite fun nevertheless, a "dead black" comedy (in the director's words) that should work with the right audience, preferably at a late night screening. Even critics can relish Barber's pulling out the harridan housewife stops, and she's matched in a cameo by another veteran, Rosemary Leach, as the parodically innocent little old lady, who's actually a longterm lawbreaker. Bishop's performance is irritatingly personable, Urban's direction crisp and laconic. The suburbs will never look the same again.
- May I Kill U? opens January 11
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text: An effusively admiring biography of the brilliant jazz pianist whose mellow crooning made him one of the first black performers to win mainstream success with white audiences. As in his book about controversial 1920s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson (Sister Aimee,1993), Epstein displays a warm affection for his subject that is appropriate when detailing the breathtaking work of Nat King Cole (1919—65) as a key figure in the transition from the Golden Age of Jazz to the Swing Era, but somewhat much when dealing with his personal life. The cooperation of Cole's widow, Maria, explains Epstein's gushy portrait of their marriage and ain—t-it-sad coverage of the singer's divorce from his first wife, frequent casual infidelities on the road, hard-hearted financial dealings with his sidemen when he hit the big time, and late-life affair with a white teenage chorus girl. Nonetheless, this is a marvelously evocative rendering of American jazz in its glory days and a thoughtful assessment of Cole's transition to ballad singing, which resulted in such megahits as —Nature Boy,— —Mona Lisa,— and —Unforgettable.— Purists cried 'sellout,— yet Epstein makes a strong case for Cole's desire to reach a wider audience without abandoning his musical sophistication. Wealth and prominence brought Cole into direct conflict with racism: Residents tried to prevent him from buying a mansion in Los Angeles's affluent Hancock Park section in 1948; Las Vegas hotels that paid him thousands of dollars a night to perform wouldn—t permit him to stay in their rooms. Although he sued two hotels in the late 1940s, Cole was by nature nonconfrontational; he played before segregated audiences in the South, justifying it as the best way to challenge prejudice. The horrifying depiction of the chain-smoking singer's ghastly final days as he succumbed to lung cancer might prompt a few readers to chuck their cigarettes. Could use a bit more edge, but Cole emerges as a lovable man with forgivably human flaws—and, more to the point, a great artist in both the jazz and pop idioms. (b&w photos)


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Fate may not be written in the stars, but what if it's written in our genes? First, Paul Auster raises the specter of "rhyming events," his term for those spooky coincidences that seem more than ordinary mathematical flukes.
Then, a seemingly simple experiment devised by Walter Mischel to test will power: put a kid in a room with a marshmallow, and tell her if she can resist eating it for 15 minutes, she can have 2 marshmallows. It turns out the kids who could wait were much more likely to be successful as adults. Jonah Lehrer helps make sense of the implications.
Correction: An earlier version of this piece incorrectly stated that the kids who performed better on the marshmallow test had higher GPAs in high school and went to better colleges. Those elements were not a part of Mischel's original study. The audio has been adjusted to reflect this fact.
I heard this broadcast some time back and have had a chance to experiment with my grandson. Here is my experience: When the child could trust the adult to keep the promise, the child was able to delay gratification. When the adult had a history of not keeping their promise ('you'll get more marshmallows later' and not delivering any marshmallows), the child is unable to delay gratification. I think that at about 4 years old, the child has this figured out. If more adults disappoint the child by not keeping their word, then adults that keep their word, the child find the world unpredictable and acts impulsively. I propose that the children that could not delay gratification and later went on to have more difficult lives, learned early on that life is chaotic and unfair. Children that could delay gratification, learned that there is a benefit to trust the future because their early experiences have been fair. So: Always keep your word to a child no matter how small or insignificant the promise.
Couldn't believe you called kids who could wait "good" and kids who couldn't wait "bad." Does that mean if you get a lower test score that you're bad? Wow!
I keep wondering whether the experiment itself was causative. Did putting 4-year olds in the position of having to make a choice have a long term impact? Did the choice they made influence their later development? Did whether or not they found a delaying mechanism, in that artificial situation, impact later development?
I was a kid with no impulse control (now an adult with no impulse control), and I am now a teacher of inner-city kids. If you would like a great example of privilege, it is this experiment. If my students did the things I did as a kid, they would be expelled or serially suspended with no way of recovering. I was "asked to leave" my private school in 7th grade and warmly welcomed to another school. Ultimately, I was accepted to a top college with all of my terrible habits because of my family background. Had I been a minority, I would be working at a grocery store to this day. Just thought I would point this out.
Re "rhyming events": I knew someone from Norway who had an uncle who visited the US and stayed at the Waldorf Astoria. Their family name is unusual and so the uncle opened the phone book in his hotel room, finds one person listed, and the name is underlined. When he is back in Norway he tells the story. Turns out that another relative had stayed in the same room, also checked the phone book, and underlined the name.
Jonah Lehrer helps (make up) make sense of the implications.
Re: Oreos and delayed gratification. It was rightly pointed out later in the show that correlation is not causation. What was not discussed was the role that the choice of factors plays in framing explanations and identifying "predictive indexes." It's been noted often that poverty has a bearing on how well children develop and succeed in later life. While timing how long it took the little girl to succumb to temptation, did anyone think to ask her if she was hungry?
I was tellimg my husband about this and he started laughing. A coworkers dad must've been listening and had asked him if he would wait for a cold beer for 15 minutes to get 2, or if he'd just take the beer. When he replied that he'd have to drink the 1 immediately he got a disappointed head shake. LOL
An interesting take on the Marshmallow Experiment is presented at http://boingboing.net/2012/10/11/marshmallow-study-and-class.html.
In a nutshell: Privilege is still a fairly good predictor of future success in life, and it is a factor in whether you learn that delaying gratification can be useful - or in whether delaying gratification is in fact the correct strategy.
If Mischel's study is on delaying gratification, it is fatally flawed. However the study does reveal something very important.
The fatal flaw is that the problem is not the kids, the problem is the marshmallows.
What Mischel has discovered is a group of people who are biologically oriented towards processing carbohydrates in a way that will make them hungry, craving more carbohydrates, and seemingly lazy.
The subjects who fail the test likely have a metabolism that reacts to refined modern carbohydrates by using digestive hormones to lock the energy into their fat cells. This makes it unavailable for powering their minds and bodies. These people could be well-fed and maybe even look fat, but will still be hungry and tired.
Because there is a likely genetic predisposition to this condition, Mischel has identified the families most likely to have the worst time under in the modern carb-centered diet. Their parents will be less successful. The kids themselves will eat the marshmallow. When they get older they will be obese. They will not exercise and if they do, they will get tired earlier or hurt easier because their joints will be inflamed. They will not have the energy to complete school work because the energy from their food is locked in to their fat cells.
The experimenters, doctors and yes radio-labbers are likely to be from the group with the genes to tolerate these foods and so it looks like a problem of willpower. It's not a psychological problem, a problem of upbringing or a problem of willpower. If you respond to your diet this way, there is nothing you can do as a matter of will to keep from eating more if the wrong foods are in front of you.
I wish you had also interviewed a rehab therapist or a psychoeducational specialist who works with severely emotionally/behaviorally disturbed children. Effective milieu therapists know that the key to delayed gratification is teaching impulse control. Developing the ability to wait is a part of many treatment plans. Music therapy is one treatment modality that can be particularly effective in helping children develop this learnable skill. The special education department at the University of Georgia has done a lot of work on this.
I find it odd that the first interpretation of the marshmallow study results would be that the ability to wait might be hard-wired. Simple observation of everyday parent-child interactions makes it clear that some parents never teach delayed gratification, but instead rush to meet their children's demands. Some parents will do anything to get a child to stop whining or crying. After working with over 1100 severely emotionally disturbed children, I've found that kids learn quickly to do whatever it takes in reality to get what they want. That includes waiting and speaking in a reasonable tone.
Did I miss the audio while listening online here where you hear one of the kids talking while waiting for the cookie/marshmellow reward, or is this segment a different version than what was broadcast on CPR? The voice of the kid had so much character and depth, I was hoping to hear it again in while re-listening...
My only issue with this, is that the kids may all be four, but they are not all the same age. Some may be four turning five, and others may have just turned four. It sounds like there are quite a few variables.
I was tickled when I heard the idea of "rhyming events." Because, if they are so, than that makes life... poetry.
It's clear that life is some variable confluence of "fate" and will (which itself is influenced by other forces). And will power isn't the ONLY psychological factor that affects outcomes (and also the diversity that can enrich a society). Certainly an interesting peek into an age-old topic.
It is reported that self-control can be taught through delay of gratification.
I wonder, as some hinted, what were the environment of these children. I am willing to bet children whose parents taught their children to behave and to be patients are the ones who waited longer to take that marshmallow... I also believe that this self control is not hard-wired is the study trying to imply. It does say, however, that this is an indication of the child may have issues in the future. If the parents now this, they may be able to turn arround that...
I don't think it's right to claim that one is "screwed" for having a lower-paying job and/or IQ.
Perhaps part of the problem with today's society is we think everyone needs to have a professional job, thus there are negative connotations with any other occupation (e.g. garbage men, mailmen, maids, food service, etc.).
The rest of the study should be focused on how they are raised prior that. Kids are smart and know how to get what they want and have strategies to acheive. My theory is that how a child is raised determines how well a child progresses through the cognitive phases prior to 14. If parents give in to their kids demands easily a child doesn't learn coping strategies. I believe it is likely that this is just hitting home the importance of good parenting. I feel this is more important than good education.
Re the hotel room shared by two generations over a wide time span, (and many other important things tpeople don't talk about because they don't want to be considered insane; one thing I like about yr program), check out C. G. Jung's concept of Synchronicity. i.e. meaningful coincidence. And read his interior memoir, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", great book that deals with much of what you did on this program and much much more and more profoundly. No, he wasn't anti-semitic, wrote and drew The Red Book, shown at the Rubin Museum. He saw Europe awash in a sea of blood predicting the two world wars, for example.
And according to Buddhism there is no
inherently existent "self". We and all things coexist interdependently. ("dependent arising"), so the idea that ten thousand things could influence a person, is an under estimation. Everything affects everything else. In Hinduism, Indra's Net, in which all reflects all, as in drops of rain in an infinite spider web. Similar or same things happen simultaneously w/o temporal spatial connection. As Va. Woolf, Joyce, and Einstein coming up with similar ideas simultaneously. The upshot: Things are MUCH weirder than we think. That's a main part of your beat and why I love your program!
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Disappointed that it was given as fact that Wayne Gretzky at 2 years old loved ice hockey because he cried at the end of games he'd been watching on evening TV. As a mother, I would bet that more likely he cried at the end of the evening program because he knew that now he had to go to bed!
Re: Auster's comments at the beginning: Didn't we already go over this with the Stochasticity episode? The F over middle C and apartment stories seem really meaningful until you consider all the coincidences that fail to happen throughout our lives. Auster's a fantastic writer, but perhaps he should stick to fiction.
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Target Bends to Labor, Tells Contractors to Meet With UnionsBy
Target is introducing a potentially precedent-setting policy imposing new rules on companies it hires to clean its stores in the Twin Cities, the retail giant's hometown. It's a step forward for union-backed efforts to force major corporations to raise standards for workers they don't directly employ.
According to a Target memo that the labor group Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha provided to Businessweek, Target's Twin Cities janitorial vendors will be required not only to comply with federal and Minnesota labor laws but also to give workers the option of at least one day off each week; establish safety committees and let employees choose half the members; and invite unions to meet at least once a year with management.
Most significantly, the document instructs each vendor—unless released from the obligation at Target's discretion—to reach deals with labor groups that want to represent their workers. According to the memo, such deals should dictate "terms and conditions of employment" (making life easier for workers) but they must prohibit "economic interference with Target's operations" by labor groups (making life easier for management).
In other words, Target—whose U.S. store workforce is 100 percent union free—is telling companies that want to clean its Twin Cities buildings to make nice with unions.
Asked about the new policy, Target spokesperson Molly Snyder declined to get into specifics. "We don't typically disclose the details of our vendor contracts," she wrote in an e-mail. After "engaging with" CTUL, she said, Target "agreed that it was important to reiterate our strong commitment to maintaining high standards and complying with employment laws to our vendors."
Pressuring companies to enter into such "labor peace" deals has become an increasingly common labor tactic. Management agrees to conditions more favorable to unionization, sometimes for only some workers, and labor leaders agree to limits on strikes or protests and sometimes to limits on what workers can negotiate.
For four years, CTUL, a Minnesota labor group supported by the Service Employees International Union, has been pushing Target to raise standards for workers who clean Target stores but receive paychecks from Target vendors. CTUL-backed janitors mounted strikes in February, June, and November last year. These protests didn't mobilize a majority of the workforce or shut down any stores, but that wasn't the point. Instead, they aimed to shame Target, attract more employee-activists, and build public support for better working conditions for workers whom shoppers rarely see or think about.
"We didn't think we'd get to this point," CTUL striker and Prestige Maintenance employee Enrique Barcenas, speaking in Spanish, says. "But thanks to our struggle, we did it."
CTUL's victory is a limited one. First, it's limited to the handful of Target stores in and around Minneapolis and St. Paul. And the document includes language stressing that Target "reserves the right to determine in its sole discretion which terms, if any, it will include in its vendor contracts." It also says Target will relieve vendors of the requirement to deal with labor groups if the corporation judges those groups' proposals illegal, "arbitrary," or "capricious."
While acknowledging the document remains only "a piece of paper," CTUL co-director Brian Payne not-so-subtly suggests that Target has every incentive to live up to its terms. "After really developing a strong core of leaders in the industry, who have gone on three strikes, have participated in hunger strikes–that's the mechanism of enforcement," he says. It's a strategy labor will try to spread beyond Target, and beyond the Twin Cities.


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Local residents curious to learn more about the volcano and the situation at the Drift River Terminal will have the opportunity to do so tonight.
Members of the Unified Command, a joint body that includes representatives from the Department of Environmental Conservation, the Coast Guard and Cook Inlet Pipe Line Co., the operator of the terminal, will be on hand from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. to field questions from the public at the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska in Kenai.
"We wanted to give Kenai Peninsula residents a chance to voice their questions and concerns," said Trent Dodson, public outreach director for the Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council.
CIRCAC is hosting the meeting.
The UC and the Alaska Volcano Observatory have held several briefings in Anchorage on the status of the volcano and operations at the terminal since the volcano first erupted. This will be the first such event on the peninsula.
Residents unable to attend the meeting may also call in by dialing 866-744-4861, and entering the access code, 3986553#.
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Cataract SurgeryA cataract is a loss of transparency, or clouding, of the normally clear lens of the eye. As we age chemical changes occur in the lens that make it less transparent. The loss of transparency may be so mild vision is hardly affected or so severe that no shapes or movements are seen, only light and dark. When the lens gets cloudy enough to obstruct vision to any significant degree, it is called a cataract. Having a cataract can be compared to looking at the world through a foggy window.
Phacoemulsification (phaco) is the surgical method most commonly used to remove cataracts in the United States. In phaco, the surgeon uses an ultrasonic needle to break up and liquefy (emulsify) the cataract so it can be removed through a very small incision. Earlier cataract surgery methods removed the lens in one piece. This required a larger incision and meant a longer healing time for patients. Breaking the lens up and removing it in sections allows surgeons to reduce the incision size significantly (from one-half inch to one-eight of an inch) and allows patients to resume normal activities quickly.
Phacoemulsification with a small handpiece allows the creation of a very small wound.
Just as a camera cannot take a clear picture without a lens, the human eye cannot see clearly without a lens. Therefore, after the natural lens is removed, a foldable intraocular lens (IOL) implant is placed permanently inside the eye to help focus light onto the retina, or the "film" of the eye, to allow a much clearer image than without a lens implant. Unlike contact lenses, which must be removed, cleaned, and reinserted, the IOL remains in the eye after surgery. IOL implants have been used for almost 30 years and are very safe and effective. Among the most worrisome complications following cataract surgery are infection (endophthalmitis) and retinal detachment. Fortunately, these complications are rare. Vision returns quickly following cataract surgery and one can resume normal activities within a short period of time.
An intraocular lens takes the place of the natural lens that has to be removed during cataract surgery.
Cataract and IOL implant surgery is one of the most successful operations performed on the human body. Three million people have the surgery every year and 95% percent of them recover quickly and enjoy many years of good vision.


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Update 2: Collector's Edition!
To celebrate being able to break this exclusive news, Wowhead is holding contests for the next week. From Monday through Friday, two LK beta keys are being raffled off each day, and the rest of the competition will be announced next weekend. Maybe you can win a beta key and help get the game a little more ready for shipping; a lot of testing and changes are still required. I'm quite surprised they're committing to a firm release date this far out, actually, but it's nice to be able to mark my calendar. And this should take some of the buzz away from Warhammer Online's release this week. Who's up for a midnight release pilgrimage?
To recap, the expansion will feature the following major features:
- The continent of Northrend
- The Death Knight class
- Inscription, a new profession (actually will be available in the 3.0.2 patch, which is now on the PTR)
- New raids and dungeons. All raids will be available in 10- and 25-player versions, and the first one will be a retooled Naxxramas.
- Wintergrasp, a non-instanced outdoor PvP zone with siege vehicles and destructible buildings (and a raid boss)
- Level cap raised to 80, with new spells and talents for all classes


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Barry Halper
One of the pioneers of baseball memorabilia collecting, Barry Halper acquired more than 80,000 baseball-related items. Halper displayed much of them in the basement of his residence in Livingston, New Jersey, for many years. The New York Times called him a "one-man Smithsonian." His enthusiasm for baseball was such that when visitors rang Halper's doorbell it played the baseball anthem, "Take Me Out to the Game."
Mr. Halper spent more than five decades collecting baseballs, mitts, bats, uniforms, and other autographed items, and was a devoted fan of the New York Yankees. Through the years, Barry Halper befriended players such as Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, and Mickey Mantle, among others. Halper was also a proud limited owner of the New York Yankees for many years.
Known for collecting highly atypical baseball memorabilia, Barry Halper always liked to share the stories of the items in his collection. The uniform that Lou Gehrig wore during his 1939 farewell speech at Yankee Stadium was once part of Halper's collection, as was Honus Wagner's autographed cigar box, and the bat that Babe Ruth used as a cane during his 1948 farewell celebration at Yankee Stadium. Another notable item collected by Halper was a questionnaire filled out and signed by Jackie Robinson in 1946 for his admission to the Brooklyn Dodgers' Montreal farm team.
Barry Halper worked at the wholesale paper supply company owned by his family for many years. Halper attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, from 1957 to 1959.
In November of 1998, Barry Halper sold a portion of his collection to the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball. The collection was then donated to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. Halper auctioned off nearly all of the remaining items through Sotheby's less than a year later.
Halper's collection inspired a three-book set first published in 1999 by Sotheby's and in 2000, publisher Harry N. Abrams, Inc., released a second, more economical, edition. Entitled The Barry Halper Collection of Baseball Memorabilia, the set contains photos of all of the items sold at auction by Sotheby's. The collection sold at Sotheby's is widely regarded as the largest private collection of sports memorabilia in existence at the time of its sale.


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I have Elbert Benson Keeter born 1811/1812 Rutherford Co, NC and died 1869 or 1902 ; buried Sardis Church Cemetery, Canton, GA. Married 1834 Mahala Azarene Taylor, born 29 May 1812.She is buried in Sardis Church Cem. also. There are 13 kids: Christopher Mills--12 Mar 1852 Canton, Cherokee, GA; married Susan Francis Timmons.
Sophronia (Sophie) Keeter--born 21 May 1853 Canton also, and married Perry Hasty.
Susan Katherine-1844 Spartanburg, SC; married Ruben Ellis.
John Henry--1836 Spartanburg; married Vinetta Adeline Timmons.
Albert Lafayette--4 Oct 1847 Canton, Cherokee, GA; married Julia Ann Ellis 19 Oct 1865
James Jefferson--28 Jul 1838 Spartanburg, SC; married Melinda Bass,7 Jan 1862; 2) Nancy Rebecca Bass.
Andrew "A.N." --1840 Spartanburg,SC; died in Civil War 20 Sep 1862 MD.
Rufus A--born 1842 Spartanburg, SC;
Perry Benson--4 Jan 1845 Spartanburg, SC; married Phoebe Louise Akins.
Elizabeth Leticia--31 Dec 1846 Canton, Cherokee, GA; died Oct 1902 Texas
William Worth--Apr 1850 Canton, Cherokee, GA; married Mary Nancy E. Timmons
Mahaley A. "Haley"--1855 Canton, Cherokee, GA; married William Robinson
Missouri Amberdine--1858 Canton, Cherokee, GA.
Albert died in Keeter, Wise County, Texas--the town was named after him.
Elbert Benson's father is John Keeter and mother is Susannah Benson.
One source for this family is Nancy Timmons of Texas; another source is Patsey Keeter, and her dictionary of Keeter.
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Reports say that Katherine and Joe Jackson talked to Oprah this weekend and the interview will appear on a future segment for O's show.
According to THG, Oprah's production trucks were parked all Sunday in front of the Jackson's residence in Encino, Calif.
Moreover, the show host was seen taking a tour of the house while interviewing family members.
There is a big confusion around the Jackson family but the interview should clear things out.


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Template:Gta iv forum So when i first downloaded Lost and the damed it said do u want to play it, what Happens when u load the game again (after turnign it off and that) and what happens if u have both DLC, does it still ask how?
For some strange reason, after 2-3 times starting up a DLC, it doesn't ask you anymore. Simply go into the pause menu in the game, and scroll to the "Game" tab. Click that and load your preferred game.
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It's not hard to imagine seventy-three-year-old bluesman R.L. Burnside kicking ashes up off the floor of some old Mississippi juke joint when you hear his latest Fat Possum album, Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down. Take a listen to "See What My Buddy Done," and you can almost see the women in their Saturday finest, grinding real slow-like on a make-shift dance floor, getting lower than their poor old knees want to go, stockings slipping further down, pushing up next to some young buck with a Budweiser tall boy he ain't got no business holding. And there's old Burnside, holding court with a lopsided grin and a half-empty glass of Bloody Muthafucker (his own concoction of Old Grandad and tomato juice), spinning tall tales and flirting with the ladies. When he gives a wink and launches into "My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble," you don't doubt him. This is indeed Mississippi's finest living emissary of the blues.
But being an emissary of the blues means you can't spend all your time staying southbound jukin' it up at house parties. So Burnside takes his act on the road and brings the spirit of those juke joints to blues-starved audiences like the one at a recent sold-out gig at the Village Underground in New York. Far from being out of his element, Burnside is every bit as commanding in a room full of Yankees and Southern transplants as he used to be at the fabled joint his late friend (and Fat Possum label mate) Junior Kimbrough used to run down in Mississippi, before Junior passed on and the club burned down. The only difference is there's no hip-grinding going on here -- the predominately white, hipster crowd (including celebs like Richard Gere and Uma Thurman) prefers to listen in rapt attention to the legend sitting on stage. With a gulp of his modified Muthafucker (Jack stands in for Old Grandad), Burnside wipes his mouth, gives the crowd a wink and shares his wisdom. "I ain't gonna drink no mo' after tonight . . . unless I'm by myself or with somebody." Sure enough, you can take the blues out of Mississippi, but you can't take Mississippi out of the bluesman.
About the only place Burnside looks out of place is in his tiny room at Manhattan's Moderne hotel a few hours before the Village Underground gig. With no crowd before him, he's just a rumpled old man sitting on a tidy bed, staring at the TV, quietly waiting for show time. He sits so still that it's hard to believe this weary man is out on tour, playing for sold-out clubs across the country. There's still a twinkle in his eye and a flash of a sweet smile when he begins telling stories about cutting up and getting into trouble in his youth, but time is catching up with him. His ticker and his ear have been giving him fits. He says he can't walk too far without getting dizzy. "I ain't going to do but four or five shows at a time," he says. "I ain't going to go on tour for two or three weeks like I used to. You need to get rest when you get young like me."
Burnside first heeded the call of the road as a restless young man in the late Forties, when he left the cotton and corn fields of Mississippi and set out for the big city. "I had to get off the plantation," he explains. "I just went on up to Chicago and stayed with my daddy and my uncle for a while. I was making a good bit of money, but of course, at that time, it was bad there."
For a detailed account of Burnside's time in Chicago, listen to the harrowing "R.L.'s Story," an honest and raw spoken word track on his new album. Suffice to say, "It was bad there" is an understatement. "I liked it when I was living there," Burnside elaborates, "but I wouldn't live there no more cause I had two uncles, two brothers and my father that all got killed."
On the plus side, Burnside hooked up with his cousin Anna Mae in Chicago and found that she was married to Muddy Waters: "I didn't know it until I went up there!" Burnside learned to play guitar by watching his neighbor, Mississippi Fred McDowell, play the blues back home, but, listening to Burnside's past albums, it's not hard to see that he was influenced just as much by his new cousin-in-law.
When he got back to Mississippi, Burnside took to playing house parties and juke joints across the county on the weekends. "They pay about $15 or $10 for you to play all night," he says. "Course you get all the whiskey you want!" He specialized in electric guitar, out of personal preference and necessity. "People got so loud 'round the country jukes and house parties that you couldn't hear an acoustic," he laughs.
During the Nineties, Burnside ventured even further off the track of traditional acoustic blues. In 1996, when he heard that the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion wanted to record with him, Burnside told the record company he'd do it. "What he's doing," laughs Burnside, "It ain't blues, but he can play that!" The end result was A Ass Pocket of Whiskey, a naughty but nice romp that brought Burnside to the attention of a young, white crowd that hailed him as the new indie-rock god.
"People are just now beginning to realize that the blues is the roots of all the music," reflects Burnside. "That's where the music all started from." And while he garnered praise from a new generation of fans, Burnside took care not to alienate his home crowd with his live show. "People were glad that more people were coming out to the shows," he says, "but they still want the old blues."
With a clear nod to his more purist-minded fans, Burnside admits that Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down represents a return to his roots -- and a sharp contrast to his last album, the beat-heavy Come On In. But even if it's a bit more traditional than his other recent output, Burnside shows little sign of slowing down on the album, and he brings on some young whippersnappers to add malt to the old home brew. On "Bad Luck City," Burnside gets on some sexual healing; his sandpaper falsetto cries in sweet urgency over an unctuous groove, slick enough for Beck's DJ Swamp to whip up some buttery biscuits from his subtle scratch. Then there's Burnside's adopted white son Kenny Brown, who plays guitar on the title track like he's gutting an Abbeville catfish with an old rusty fishing knife. Throw in a wicked take on "Chain of Fools," and Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down sounds nothing like the work of a man ready to call it a day. "As long as I'm healthy, I may go on for another four or five years," vows Burnside. "'Cause I don't mind going out and playing as long as I'm feeling good."
And back at the Village Underground, drink in hand and a room full of adoring fans before him, Burnside looks to be feeling very good indeed. With each long pull from his Bloody Muthafucker, his grin gets more and more lopsided. "Well, well, well," he says. "I believe there's a hole in my glass." However far he may be from Mississippi, as long as he's on stage, Burnside is on his home turf -- and everyone in the room is right at home with him. Because, if you close your eyes and listen hard, you can hear the swish of nylons rubbing together on hot legs, moving in adulation and rhythmic reverie as the screen door slams on another sweltering summer night in Mississippi.


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5. IAMGOLD Corp. (NYSE:IAG): Engages in the exploration, development, and production of mineral resource properties worldwide. Dividend yield at 1.49%, payout ratio at 16.74%. Current ratio at 4.99. Correlation with the VIX index at 0.739 over the last 60 days.
6. InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC): Engages in the design and development of digital wireless technology solutions. Dividend yield at 1.07%, payout ratio at 17.95%. Current ratio at 4.66. Correlation with the VIX index at 0.513 over the last 60 days.
7. JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAKK): Designs, produces, markets, and distributes toys and consumer products worldwide. Dividend yield at 2.57%, payout ratio at 0.00%. Current ratio at 3.07. Correlation with the VIX index at 0.83 over the last 60 days.
8. Kinross Gold Corporation (NYSE:KGC): Engages in mining and processing gold ores. Dividend yield at 1.08%, payout ratio at 13.56%. Current ratio at 4.43. Correlation with the VIX index at 0.761 over the last 60 days.
9. RPC Inc. (NYSE:RES): Provides a range of oilfield services and equipment to the oil and gas companies primarily in the United States. Dividend yield at 3.21%, payout ratio at 15.98%. Current ratio at 3.49. Correlation with the VIX index at 0.585 over the last 60 days.
10. Tiffany & Co. (NYSE:TIF): Engages in the design, manufacture, and retail of fine jewelry worldwide. Dividend yield at 1.81%, payout ratio at 31.16%. Current ratio at 5.26. Correlation with the VIX index at 0.766 over the last 60 days.
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Nowadays my family enjoys a comfortable suburban home, but not too many years ago we lived deep in the woods, where, if we wanted to, we could go days without seeing any neighbors. That life had its own priorities: I split wood for the stove that heated our home and fought an unending battle with brush that tried to overtake the passage we called a driveway. Country life is different, you know, and a journalist who covers rural areas needs to respect that.
So I have great admiration for people who track the news in places where there aren't many news consumers. They know what's important to their neighbors.
Take, for instance, the headline in a recent issue of The Eastwick Press, a tiny paper that covers the communities of eastern Rensselaer County where I used to practice deep country living. I no longer often see the Press, which I still remember by the name it carried when it first appeared, The Petersburgh Poop. Back then, it was owned by an iconoclastic fellow who explained that he hoped his paper could answer that vital question, "What's the poop?" — that being, like, 1950s beatnik slang for, "What's going on?" You don't hear that much anymore.
Anyhow, the little paper got sold to a bright young man, who wisely changed its name a couple of times and expanded its reach, so that now it covers not only Petersburgh (pop. 1,563), but also Hoosick, Grafton, Stephentown and Berlin (pronounced BUR-luhn by locals). That's a big area, but the population is pretty sparse.
Sparse is a good approach to writing about such communities, not to mention to journalistic writing, in general. Thus we come to a fine recent Press story reporting on a Berlin Town Board meeting under the headline, "Dogs Die In Berlin." (As, sadly, they do elsewhere, but that's for some other paper to report, naturally.)
The article recounted the oral report of Dog Control Officer Doug Goodermote — there are lots of Goodermotes in Berlin, many engaged in public service — and noted that he had related the story "in his usual low-key, matter-of-fact way." He said: "Two dogs were in a fight; the owner shot one dog and then shot his own dog."
This being the 21st century, I will direct you to http://eastwickpress.com to read the full account, though it is worth recounting that reporter Kieron Kramer noted the site of the tragedy as "Bly Hollow Road, an area of continual dog insurgency." And it is comforting that Goodermote believes "the two owners are reasonably reconciled about the event," according to Kramer's account.
These things happen in the country, and I know that because I lived not all that far from Bly Hollow, near a dirt road called Puckertoot Lane. One of my neighbors once went down the road to confront a man about his vicious dog, who had attacked her little pooch, and when the man and his growling beast came to the door, she blurted out, "Your dog there ate my dog!" To which he calmly replied, "Nope. Not this dog. That'd be my other dog… ."
But we digress from the showdown in Bly Hollow.
There's something wonderful about journalism that is so local. Our coverage in the Times Union reaches further — we bring you news from both down the street and around the globe — but it's simply not possible for a regional newspaper to present, say, the dog control officer's report for readers in all the reaches of its far-flung community. One of my mentors once described the Times Union's coverage as a tapestry. We can't focus on all the threads that make up the scene of the tapestry, but in the interweaving of those individual threads, we reveal an image that we hope truly portrays what's important and interesting for the 200,000-plus people who may read the paper on a given day.
By the way, Goodermote also reported that small dogs have been disappearing from Cherry Plain, and he noted that coyotes "are all over down there." Berlin residents whose animal companions are diminutive are thus forewarned.
Between splitting firewood and clearing brush and all the other challenges of life in the country, I hope there's time for the folks of Eastwick to pay attention to such journalism: See there the threads of community life; step back, too, and absorb here the full scene of our tapestry.
Rex Smith is editor of the Times Union. Share your thoughts at http://blogs.timesunion.com/editors.