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Michelle Kennedy
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The Army is constantly working to ensure that Soldiers are prepared for training and combat. However, Army leaders also are working to help service members prepare for life's everyday challenges.A mobile training team from the Army's Master Resilience Training program has been here for more than a week providing Level I instruction to 89 active-duty and reserve-component Soldiers, Civ- ilian Employees and Family Members. Along with the MTT, members of Fort Drum's Compre- hensive Soldier and Family Fitness program also provided instruction, support and assistance during the 10-day course. The class is scheduled to graduate Friday."We're training them to be master resilience trainers for their units and organizations," said Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Mason, Army MRT Level I noncommissioned officer in charge. "When they are done, their responsibility will be to go back to their units with the skills they've learned in this course. They will become the official trainers for their units."This course is all about bouncing back in the face of adversity," he added. "We teach them a set of skills that can help people when adversity hits. They can bounce back and they can maintain and grow (from the experience)."MRT courses are not just useful in deployment preparation, Mason explained. The information students learn during the classes teach important life skills. The class teaches individuals about identifying "icebergs," or negative thoughts, as well as effective communication skills."I believe the skills we teach in this training – if taught properly – will have a ripple effect," Mason said. "It can change thinking patterns throughout the military and cause true change to happen. "We don't go to the field, we don't deploy or do anything without (performing preventative maintenance checks and services on) our equipment, but we send people out in the world and say 'go be a Soldier' without PMCS for their minds," he continued. "These skills they've learned can help them stay on track and help them in life."Many of the participants found the information invaluable, not just for improving their professional leadership performance, but also to help them make an impact on the Soldiers and Families they encounter.Staff Sgt. Carlos Lane, a section leader with 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, said his company didn't have an MRT, and he was selected because of his leadership potential and background as an instructor."It's not like the Army's intervention programs; this isn't about intervention or prevention pro- gram," he said. "This is designed to help Soldiers be more proactive with things like problem solving and how they react to adverse situations."Lane said he believes this training can benefit the Army because it is principles-based."It's not centered on a quick-fix solution to Soldiers' problems," he said. "It's basic, easy to understand and easy to apply. "The principles carry over from professional to personal life," Lane added. "One skill that I've learned that's going to help me is active listening. We have so many bad habits in how we deal with professional situations. It forces you to really see yourself."Lane said that MRT is unlike any Army training he has ever taken. "Most courses focus on learning how to use equipment or some type of system, but this course forces you to internalize what you're learning," he said.First Sgt. Danilyn McLaurin, 3rd Battalion, 85th In- fantry Regiment, Warrior Transition Battalion, said she was interested in learning more about how become a better and more effective leader. After attending the course, she said that MRT fosters a lifestyle change. "This class has helped me think about things more," McLaurin said. In her 20 years of Army experience, McLaurin said most training is "black and white," and answers can easily be found in a book. "In this class, there's no specific answer," she said. "It requires you to think about the specific situation at hand."The course not only has allowed McLaurin to think about her professional duties, but also how she interacts with her Family. After just five days of training, she said her husband could tell a difference in her demeanor."I'm dual military, and when we come home our automatic reaction is the (unload the stresses of the day)," she said. "In this week, it's opened my eyes. I'm trying to 'leave the uniform at work.' I'm trying to think of more positive things and have the energy when we get home." McLaurin added that she hopes that by living and leading by example, her Soldiers will "buy in" to the resilience principles she will teach them.First Lt. John Lemmon, a platoon leader with 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, agreed, add-ing that expectation management also can help when interacting with Soldiers. "That is extremely important, especially up here at Fort Drum," he said. "In the summer time, the (operations tempo) picks up exponentially compared to the winter. It's all about managing expectations. When you can manage your own expectations as a Soldier, I think your unit will operate more efficiently."Being able to reach out to Soldiers is another important role for unit MRTs, according to Staff Sgt. Ryan Wilkins, a radar section chief with the New York Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 258th Field Artillery Regiment, based in New York City."You need someone set in place for Soldiers to talk to," he said. "You have to be that mediator and that individual who can provide guidance to those individuals – especially as an NCO. We're starting to tap into that part of the brain that we never use. The information is there, but this course is bringing it to life."At the company level, a lot of the Soldiers are lower-enlisted," Wilkins said. "They are predominately younger Soldiers who may not know how to practice resilience, manage energy or communicate with one another. When you break it down to the company level, you're able to identify and provide guidance."Like McLaurin, Wilkins also enjoyed learning about energy management, a skill he says will help at work and at home."When we go to work, we use so much energy," he said. "When we get home, we're dead in the water and we're not able to engage with our Families they way I think we'd like to. I think if we utilize energy management, we'll be able to devote more time and energy to our Families. They are ultimately the driving force for us to be successful in this business."Family Members also were represented in the course. Courtney Ryder, an FRG leader with A Company, 1st Battalion, 10th Aviation Regiment, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, has been a military spouse for seven years.She said she enjoyed learning about how to better communicate with others. As an FRG leader, Ryder interacts with Family Members on a regular basis."It doesn't matter if this is your first deployment or your third," she said. "It's all different. You might have children this time or you may have moved mid-deployment. These are skills that we can talk about and get to the root of the issue rather than screaming at each other or being depressed or being angry.""At the beginning of the class, they warned us that this class could get uncomfortable," Ryder added. "Life is messy. It's not always prim and proper and sometimes you're going to be vul- nerable, but it's how you assess that and move forward that matters."


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Metro Atlanta is Georgia's principal urban area, and the eighth largest metro area in the United States, with a population of over 5.5 million. It encompasses Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dekalb, Douglas, Gwinnet, Henry, Fayette, & Fulton Counties.
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Great places to go in Metro Atlanta, that are safer than Downtown are Buckhead, Gwinnett County, and Cobb County. Gwinnett and Cobb Counties boast a great enviroment for people who want to leave the city and explore nature. For example, a really good place to go is Stone Mountain Park, which is in Northern Dekalb County. It is a great tourist attraction for families and people who love the enviroment. It has a beautiful lake and a plantation on it, which is open for tours for a history buff.
Also in Cobb County, is the Cobb Galleria. This holds amazing Broadway plays and shows, shopping, and much more. Also, for the family Six Flags is a great place to go (but not at night) to have family fun.
In Hall County, which is a short ride up Interstate 75, is Lake Lanier. It is a huge lake with boating and many other tourist attractions. Lake Lanier Islands is a water park and resort for a family.
In Gwinnett, you might also want to visit Historic Lawrenceville, Historic Lilburn, or Historic Duluth. These places have fountains and old buildings that are immaculantly preserved. Make sure to visit these places in Gwinnett County.
Located in Northern Georgia, Meropolitan Atlanta is a diverse set of people who are different from county to county. Centered by Atlanta (Fulton County), and outskirted by Gwinnett, Cobb, Hall, Forsyth, Walton, Dekalb, Clayton, and Gilmer just to name a few. The Metro Atlanta area has 28 large Counties spreading from the Georgia-Alabama Border, east to Athens, south to about Macon, and north to Jasper. It is over about 8,376 square miles and holds over 5,475,213 people, making it the ninth largest metropolitan area in the United States.
With many false asumptions that Georgia is a "backwoods" state, the Metropolitan Atlanta area is a mixture of people. And yes, you will find the occasionall southerner with a charming southern accent, who will greet you with southern charm and hospitality.
Also in the metro area, people take offense to you calling Atlanta "The ATL", "Hotlanta", and "The Big Peach". If you say these to locals they will know you are a visitor, and assume you know nothing about Atlanta. Many locals call Atlanta simply "Atlanta" or "The Metro".
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Fortis, the Belgo-Dutch bancassurer, received a vote of confidence from investors yesterday after launching a heavily discounted rights issue to help fund its part of the takeover of rival ABN-Amro and giving an optimistic earnings forecast.
Widely seen as the weakest link in the consortium with RBS and Spain's Santander bidding €70bn (£49bn) to acquire the Dutch bank, Fortis saw its shares jump as investors backed the fully underwritten €13.2bn capital raising - part of its €24.7bn share of the joint bid.
The rights issue, underwritten by Merrill Lynch and 13 other banks, is offering two new shares for every three held by investors at a price of €15 each, a 43.7% discount to the closing price on Thursday night. Fortis strengthened confidence in the success of the issue with an accompanying trading statement forecasting that full-year net profit before divestments would "at least" reach the consensus estimate of €4.2bn and the acquisition of ABN's Dutch business and its private banking and asset management operations would boost earnings per share by 2.7% by 2010.
Fortis chief financial officer Gilbert Mittler said the bank needed to raise a further €7.4bn and €3.6bn from asset sales and debt. Fortis has told the European commission, which cleared the RBS and Santander bids this week, that it would divest 10% of assets acquired from ABN to win its approval by October 3. The likely success of the Fortis capital raising suggests that the consortium bid will win the day over rival bidder Barclays.


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That is the ideal from of discipline and it requires patience and consistency and love. A wonderful parenting tip is to pay attention to the best way your actions can affect your child. Authoritative parenting could seem strict to permissive dad and mom and lax to authoritarian parents, but you could discover that your children reply finest to any such parenting. Tetsuya Ando, director of Fathering Japan, a Tokyo non-profit organization that came up with the test and can supply it to eager dads from next March, mentioned the examination was a catchy way to get fathers into parenting.
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Re: Race Over
Mark Blumenthal | January 8, 2009
Topics: Andrew Gelman , Barack Obama , Cornell Belcher , John Sides
Maybe my post yesterday on Marc Ambinder's review of race and the Obama campaign was a day early.
As soon as I returned to the keyboard after publishing the item -- which emphasizes details provided by Obama pollster Cornell Belcher on how the campaign dealt with "racial aversion" -- my RSS reader produced links to a new Carl Bialik item on the role race played in Obama's victory. It summarized another article by two political scientists, Stephen Ansolabehere and Charles Stewart, who used exit poll data to argue that "Obama won because of race — because of his particular appeal among black voters, because of the changing political allegiances of Hispanics, and because he did not provoke a backlash among white voters."
Crucial to their argument is that Obama barely gained among white voters compared to Sen. John Kerry in 2004; Obama won 43% of white votes, compared to 41% for Kerry. That slight gain didn't tilt the election to Obama; instead it took blacks' and Latinos' rising share of the electorate, coupled with Obama's big win among both groups — far bigger than Kerry's. (Obama won 95% of black votes and 67% of Latino votes, compared to 88% and 53%, respectively, for Kerry.)
"Had the racial composition of the electorate stayed the same in 2008 as it was in 2004, and had whites remained as supportive of Republicans as they were in 2004, Obama would still have won the popular vote, albeit by a much smaller margin," Ansolabehere and Stewart wrote. "But, had Blacks and Hispanics voted Democratic in 2008 at the rates they had in 2004 while whites cast 43 percent of their vote for Obama, McCain would have won."
A few hours later, Andrew Gelman chimed in with more details from his analysis of county-level voting patterns:
You can also slice up the vote swing geographically, by counties in different regions of the country, and you find that Obama did close to uniformly better than Kerry nearly everwhere, except for Republican-leaning poor counties in the South (where Obama pretty much stayed even with Kerry). The geographic patterns are striking (see graph at the end of this post).
Race matters, yes, but we're still seeing a national swing.
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I think Ansolabehere and Snyder are right on the money when they write, "the results of the 2008 election challenge much of what has been conventionally thought about race and politics in America. Barack Obama has accomplished an astonishing political move [by] disproportionately energizing nonwhite voters and converting erstwhile Republican supporters within the minority community without alienating white voters."
My summary: as Carl said, the election outcome is multidimensional. Because Steve and Charles were writing a short article, they very properly focused on a single feature of the election--race. I'd say that the #1 feature of the election was a bad economy that produced a national swing toward the Democrats in general and Obama and particular. But once you want to break this down by demographics, I agree that ethnicity is the biggest factor.
Next, John Sides linked to all of the above and took issue with my post on two points. First, he interprets my post as an argument that political scientists forecast an Obama landslide on the basis of political fundamentals. "Neither the fundamentals nor the existence of racial prejudice," he writes, "should have led a sensible analyst to predict a landslide. Most political scientists certainly didn't. I railed against the perception that this race should have been a landslide here."
The use of the term "landslide" was Ambinder's. I have to admit, I'm not sure what would constitute a "landslide" in the context of last year's election, as defined by Belcher, the unnamed "Obama advisors" he differed with or anyone else. Was Obama's 7.2% margin in the popular vote or his 365 to 173 margin in the electoral college a "landslide?" I'm not sure, although I read the Ambinder passage as implying skepticism from Belcher "in the fall" that Obama's margin would be as wide as it ultimately proved to be.
Second, Sides hears me arguing, perhaps inadvertently, that "political scientists will think they're right no matter what happens." Well, no, I didn't mean to imply that all political scientists tend to declare themselves right regardless of the outcome (or even that some do), only that had the outcome been different, another set of scholars somewhere would have been ready to declare (rightly), "I told you so."
Most electoral outcomes are "multi-dimensional." Rarely, if ever, are they about just one thing. And I will grant that the machinations of the campaign -- rallies, paid advertising, field organizing, etc. -- tend to be less consequential in presidential general elections, where voters get massive, direct exposure to the candidates through televised debates and a year's worth of news coverage, than in almost all other types of elections. However, I think the tendency within political science to use presidential general election forecasting models to dismiss the notion of "campaign effects" is overdone. That point aside (or perhaps on that point as well), Sides, Gelman and I mostly agree.
Finally, in the midst of writing this post, I stumbled on yet more from Obama pollster Cornell Belcher via Marc Ambinder. The latter posts a 14-page analysis (PDF) by the former produced for the Democratic National Committee based on data collected in two post election surveys. The memo includes data on "the surge among new voters of color" and much more.
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The high turnout of minority voters and their strong support for Obama changed the outcome from 2004. But do we know white voters increased their support for the Democrat/Obama? Is there a way to tell from the data whether whites switched from Republican to Democrat, or simply didn't vote? If, say, Bush got 6 out of 10 white votes, and one white voter does not vote this time, then McCain gets 5 out of 9 and Obama "gained" 5% among whites. In Ohio, where turnout declined statewide, it seems very probable that Obama did not appeal to white voters (more precisely and more fairly, he was no better at appealing to white voters than Kerry or past Democratic candidates) since Obama only got some 50000 more votes than Kerry statewide. Although most new voters were non-white, I think there is evidence to show Obama did well among new (young) white voters. But I have seen no convincing evidence that very many white voters actually switched to Democratic or even, except for new voters, that many more whites voted Democratic than in past elections. Do you know of any evidence, or any way to tease out this relationship? Perhaps it is different state by state, so in say Alabama or parts of Virginia Obama lost white votes; and perhaps in other places he gained.
But, and here is my question, is it fair to say that, in an election with terrible economic conditions and an historically unpopular President and a war (or two) and an extremely articulate and inspiring Democratic candidate with a huge advantage in money and who ran an almost flawless campaign, there still seemed to be little or even maybe a net negative movement among white voters from the (black) Democratic candidate? Is that consistent with the data?


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Review: Susanne Bier's 'Things We Lost in the Fire'
Published 4:00 am, Thursday, October 18, 2007
Things We Lost in the Fire: Drama. Starring Halle Barry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny, Alison Lohman and John Carroll Lynch. Directed by Susanne Bier. (R. 119 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)
Benicio Del Toro turns in a first-rate performance as a recovering addict in the intense "Things We Lost in the Fire," the first American film by the talented Danish director Susanne Bier. She's working with a script by Allan Loeb that could have lent itself to soapy treatment, but Bier knows the difference between drama and melodrama.
The director, whose "After the Wedding" won an Oscar nomination this year, has a penchant for emotionally rich stories often set in a family context (as in her powerful 2004 drama "Brothers") and is adept at creating a sense of intimacy with her lead characters.
"Things We Lost in the Fire" focuses on Audrey (Halle Berry), a mother of two who is overwhelmed by the sudden death of her husband (David Duchovny) and invites Jerry (Del Toro), an old friend of her husband's, to move into her house. The film's emotional core is the non-romantic relationship that develops between these two devastated people, who are brought together through their love of a dead man.
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We meet the husband through flashbacks and learn that he was the admirable and virtuous head of a very happy family, and died as the result of an act of heroism. One of the few sore points between the couple was the husband's insistence on trying to help his boyhood pal Jerry, who threw away a law career and wound up living a junkie's life in a seedy hotel.
Jerry cleans himself up enough to attend the wake, and Audrey invites him to stay in a spare room in her house and maybe do some chores. Audrey is shell-shocked and in denial - she simply can't shake her loss.
Her invitation is not a romantic overture. She badly needs the company and perhaps senses that it will help her son and daughter to have someone else around. Jerry becomes like a doting uncle to the youngsters, which troubles Audrey. She wants Jerry around, but also resents him. Complications ensue. Del Toro manages to convey the junkie's misery without chewing the rug and even gives the character odd and winning moments of charm and humor. He's got the meatier role, but Berry in some ways has the more difficult one. We're rooting for Jerry, but Audrey is ambivalent and often unreasonable - understandable reactions to the death of a beloved spouse - and Berry doesn't hesitate to be unlikable.
The film offers hints of Bier's previous association with the austere Dogme movement, particularly in its use of handheld camera. She uses jump cuts and lots of extreme close-ups, which are often abused but employed carefully here. (The cinematographer is the talented Tom Stern, who frequently works for Clint Eastwood.)
Outstanding in support roles are Alison Lohman, playing a friend of Jerry's, and John Carroll Lynch, playing a neighbor who befriends Jerry.
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Punk Rock favourites Vice Squad return to Derby for the first time in a decade to play at The Old Bell on Sadler Gate on October 8.
The band, a key part of the UK punk scene since 1981, will perform as part of The Lost Weekend, which sees five bands playing over two nights in two different cities.
Fronted by the iconic Beki Bondage, the band keep going from strength to strength and continue to write and record new material rather than resting on past glories. They will be playing all their old classics such as Last Rockers and Stand Strong Proud, as well as newer material, including tracks from their forthcoming album Punk Rock Radio.
Tickets are £5 for the gig in advance or £7.50 on the door. For further information, or to purchase tickets, email email@example.com or visit www.stilldying.com/lostweekend. Doors open at 6pm.


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Marco Parolo has spoken of his hopes for current club Parma and himself ahead of the new Serie A season.
The midfielder joined the Tardini outfit last summer from Cesena on a loan deal and impressed sufficiently enough to have now been netted outright.
"I thank Parma for signing me from Cesena," the former Como and Verona man commented. "I'm happy to still be here.
"Last year I came in after a negative season with Cesena, then I slowly took confidence and consciousness of my values, integrating well with my teammates.
"I am feeling good. I've known most of my teammates and the club for a year now.
"I want to score more goals this season though as three were not enough. I hope to get at least five, but it will be the goals of the team that count at the end of the day."
Parolo insists that escaping relegation will be the main aim, but some football betting [12] pundits are suggesting the Gialloblu could have an outside shot at challenging for Europa League qualification in 2013-14.
"We need to start with the mentality of last year," he continued. "We can do well and reach a safe position in the League which is always the first target.
"But we will try and take a step up in quality thanks to the new players."
There is no doubt about the club's stand-out buy of the summer after they did a deal with Inter for Italian international Antonio Cassano.
"Cassano has exceptional talent," Parolo added. "He has unthinkable moves, I hope I can use them to score more and reach my personal target of goals."
While Parma are at the forefront of Parolo's mind, he admits that he's also thinking of the Italian national side with the World Cup now less than a year away.
"I hope that I can return to the international set-up, but it all depends on what I do here. To earn a call-up by Cesare Prandelli I have to do well for Roberto Donadoni."
Parolo was given his one and only cap to date in March 2011, when Italy beat the Ukraine 2-0 in a Kiev friendly.
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Without knowing much about them, when I was a pup my favourite English football team was Reading; it was something to do with the name; it had a ring about it. At the time I didn't know they were nicknamed The Royals so that was a Brucie bonus when I found out. Little did I know that I would grow up to be The Royalist.
Reading FC are pronounced -as I'm sure you know- Redding and not reading as in what you're doing just now. Though I can understand Guillaumey foreigner being confused. My kingdom for a homonym, indeed. Where one tries to lead the other is stuck in lead. You can chip your nail varnish with a nail. Have you ever been on a trip and tripped?
Enough of homonymphobia, let's cut to the stream. Spotify are one of the best music streaming services on the line (© The Internship 2013). Now I am not ashamed to admit that my knowledge of computers is limited. The technological age beats me all the time. Something went wrong with my Spotify account, I don't know what, I pressed the wrong button or something. The downshot was that I was forever off the line ( that's a wee © from me). Seeking help from one that knows he suggested that the problem was with my firewall setting. Firewall? I didn't even know I had one of those fearsome sounding things aboard.
So I messed about with the firewall. As you do. No matter what I did with it: turn it off, turn it on, pass go, go west, go deep, exit stage left, turn it on again, go straight, collect $200, go right, go to jail- Spotify remained offline. A further remedy suggested was uninstall the programme and then install it again. This option had the potential to go through all those motions previously stated with the end result being the same but…it worked. By re-installing the prog, my music streamer of choice is now online and I can comb through its vast network of sounds again.
Which brings us to Sweden's Yngwie Johan Malmsteen. This Nordic guitar lord juxtaposes heavy metal with a touch of classical; Yngwie, has an idiosyncratic shredder style. As my stream was running again I spotifyied the Swede until my ears bled. The name Yngwie is a toe-curler for those that first see it. I've heard Yang-wee, Nnn-vee and, absurdly, Gang-way being said.
Reading time over, let's listen to the baroque guitar hero as he soars over the battlefield. Ride of the Valkyries was never as good as this.


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I am interested in your Portpatrick Beggs family.My gggg-father William (1800?)and wife Jane(Jenny) Graham/Grahams (1803-1872) lived in Co Antrim but I have been unable to discover either of their birthplaces in Ireland.Their youngest son Nathaniel (born 1846) married Margaret Arthurs in Lanark in 1866 and was known to be living in Coatbri (Coatbridge) in 1874.I am now thinking that possibly William went back to wherever he had come from as I've not been able to discover his death details in Ireland either.5 of their children had come to Australia in the 1850s...so none of his children were left around the Ballymena area. Would be interested in any guidance here.


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As winter turns into spring and temperatures rise, so does the amount of time children spend outdoors playing sports. Reduce your all-star's risk of injury by keeping an overall healthy approach to nutrition, hydration, training and competition.
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On Twitter, Jim Louderback @louderb pointed out that RealNetworks released a controversial new product called RealDVD. What is RealDVD? It will copy your dvd movie, bit for bit, on to your harddrive with the CSS encryption intact. For your enjoyment, it slaps on a DRM scheme as the dvd is being transferred to your computer. That's 4GB to 9GB of space taken up by a single movie.
Does this mean you can take the dvd copy you made and put it on your iPod or video player? Nope. The iPod and most portable mp4 players have no way to interpret the dvd copy. So, what can you do with the dvd copy made by RealDVD? Well, you can play it on your computer and possibly burn it to a dvd blank. You can even play it on up to 4 other computers. Forget about copying to other people even if you are able to strip the DRM, the dvd copy is watermarked with your information.
There are several FREE programs that will allow you to copy a dvd movie, bit for bit, without the DRM being added. There are others, such as Handbreak, that will even rip the dvd and present you with a file ready to be uploaded to your iPod.
At this point, RealDVD doesn't appear to be of any real value for us. It does bring a lot of attention on to RealNetworks though. Makes me wonder if this is nothing more than a marketing ploy.
The only way the MPAA will sanction this will be as direct competition to the iTunes movie Store.


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Alpha Louise Jenkins
Funeral services for Alpha Louise Jenkins, 84, of Chickasha, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, August 1, 2013, at the Fairlawn Cemetery with Vaughn and Joanna Wand officiating.
Alpha Louise Jenkins was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, on September 11, 1928, the daughter of W.A. Spears and Millie May Ellis Spears. She died Monday, July 29, 2013, in Chickasha.
Louise grew up in Ninnekah, Oklahoma. She attended school at Union Hill Public Schools.
She married the love of her life Eddie "Jack" Jenkins, on December 30, 1948, in Pawnee, Oklahoma.
After getting married she came back to Chickasha, where she worked as a cook at the Shannon Springs Nursing Home and also at Bitsches Nursery, but most of her life she was a home maker raising her four children. She loved gardening and canning.
She was a member of Grand Assembly of God in Chickasha for over twenty years, where she helped in the women's classes.
She was preceded in death by: both parents, brother; Raymond Spears, two sisters; Betty Prather and Wilma Spears, and granddaughter; Jennifer Smart.
Survivors include: husband Eddie "Jack" Jenkins of the home, son; Charles Jenkins and wife Beverly of Ninnekah, Oklahoma, daughter Jan Lee of Chickasha, Oklahoma, son; Larry Jenkins and wife Donna of Yukon, Oklahoma daughter; Pat Smart and husband Greg of Chickasha, Oklahoma, five grandchildren; Melissa Jenkins Johnston, David Lynch, Chris Jenkins, Janine Jenkins Hankins, and Natalie Smart Bobbitt, four great grandchildren; Chase Jenkins, Shelly Haynes, Holly Jenkins and Noah Hankins and one great great grandchild; Mason Daggs.
Services are under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home.


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Sexagintuple Vanilla Bean Mocha Frappuccino: a $55 Starbucks drink
I would buy one of those, put it in the fridge, and drink it over the course of a week. Or at least that's what I thought until I realized it would still come out to more than $7.85 per drink, which is way more than I want to pay for a single beverage that hasn't been aged in a barn on a Scottish isle for at least twelve years.
I don't know, upon first glance, I already have an aversion to it, at any price.
I wonder how many calories that thing has?
That's getting close to the 150-200mg per kg ld50 of caffeine!
was my first thought when i seen it...then i did the math...to meet the LD50 for this you would have to weigh 23 kilos (~50lbs) or drink 4 of these if you weigh 100 kilos like me (yeah i know...i need to lose weight..and drinking 4 of these sure wouldn't help with that...also i'd have a 50% chance of being dead)
Sexagintuple Vanilla Bean Mocha Frappuccino, extra shot. Record broken. We could play that game all day.
Yea, I did the math (roughly) in my head. IMO 4x is quite close enough to the ld50 for me, heh, and for a small adult it would only be double!
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Las Caletas Wedding in October '08
Posted 17 January 2008 - 06:41 PM
We have visited PV several times over the past few years and had taken a canopy tour with Vallarta Adventures when we came across the brochure for Las Caletas - and that was long before our engagement, but certainly in line with talk of marriage : )
Our deposit has been made for our wedding and Save the Dates have been ordered. Dress shopping is underway. Other than that, the rest is to be planned. Lots of work to do over the next months. This may be a second wedding for both of us, but I am planning this wedding with more excitement than I ever could imagine.
Until two days ago, I had no idea this forum even existed (thank you, AnnR) and am glad to have the links/support available.
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I'd say you're doing great with the planning. You've found the groom and the location, the rest are just details!
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You seem to be on the ball with the planning. Nice work. After finding this forum, you will find yourself taking on more tasks that you had originally planned. So many ideas and luckily for you, so much more time! Have fun!
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Re: Karl F. Carl RADTKE > WI c. late 1800
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I am looking for information on Carl Radke and Hannah (Schultz?) Radke, including where they were born and died and any siblings.They were the parents of John Louie Albert Radke, born 7/13/1879 in Loganville WI, married Minnie Augusta Koenig 5/4/1904 in Loganville, and died 7/6/1952 in Loganville.
Our Aunt Meta had put together a family history before she died of the Koenig side of the family with a note that "John Louie Albert Radke was the son of Carl and Hannah (Schultz) Radke".Carl and Hannah would be her Grandma and Grandpa.
Could this be the same Carl and Hannah that are in your family? Who were the children of your Carl and Hannah Radtke?


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It has certainly fired the imagination of the English public but the question of whether the Olympic flame – and the Games in general – will be embraced across the whole of the UK will begin to be answered on Friday when the torch is carried into Wales.
Over the next week the flame will be taken to the summit of Snowdon, carried on the back of a Welsh cob horse and transported along an aqueduct on a hand-drawn boat.
All excellent photo-opportunities but the deeper issue will be whether the people of Wales see the Olympics as an event that includes them or as essentially London-based.
The chair of Sports Wales, Laura McAllister, conceded that there were dissenting voices but believed a proud sporting nation would back the Games.
"All the signs are that the Welsh public will turn out in force to see the torch," she said on Thursday. "There's a real surge of excitement around the Games that we are keen to capitalise on. We're keen on ensuring a long-term legacy in Wales not only for the elite athletes but for grassroots ones."
More than £8m of lottery money that would have gone to grassroots sport has been diverted to help fund the Olympics but McAllister said it was right that Wales contributed.
Thanks to help from the Welsh government, Sports Wales will still be able to invest almost £32m a year into community sport over the next three years and hopes that the sight of British and Welsh athletes doing well at the Olympics will inspire children and adults to get involved.
Welsh athletes tend to do well at the Olympics. An exhibition touring Wales called Following the Flame highlights the fact that at the Beijing games its sportsmen and women won 11% of the British medals, though the country accounts for only 5% of the UK population. It won 14 Paralympic medals in China and, on the basis of population, would have topped the medal table.
But there are problems. Many Welsh football fans are upset that Welsh stars, including Ryan Giggs and Gareth Bale, will be representing Team GB rather than Wales, fearing this move could jeopardise the long-term future of a Welsh football team.
There are also concerns that ticket sales for many of the football matches taking place at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff are not going well, though the London 2012 organising committee claims it is pleased overall with sales of football tickets.
Also centred on the Millennium Stadium is something of a row over the Welsh flag. The union flag will be flown over the stadium because it is Great Britain rather than Wales that is hosting and competing.
The Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru has protested. Its spokesperson on the issue, Bethan Jenkins, said: "It is important for Wales to be visual in the games and flying the flag of our country is integral to people in Wales feeling our country is a key part of the Games." The organising committee says it is the International Olympic Committee rather than itself that sets the rules over which flags can be flown.
Meanwhile, the MP Dan Rogerson has written to the organising committee asking for an apology after the Cornish flag was apparently taken from a member of the torch relay.
Rogerson, MP for North Cornwall, said the St Piran's flag was taken from torchbearer as he neared the Tamar Bridge, which separates Cornwall from Devon. Rogerson raised the issue in parliament on Wednesday.
He said: "When the last runner with the Olympic flame left Cornwall and set off across the Tamar Bridge, he held in his hands a Cornish flag that was sadly confiscated by the police who were running alongside. Despite a helpful policeman initially carrying the flag with Mr Ball, his colleague clearly received instructions to remove it.
"This incident has understandably sparked anger across the Duchy. To many in Cornwall, this sends out a signal that English, Welsh or Scottish identity is fine, but that Cornish identity is not to be accepted by the London-based Olympic authorities."
Meanwhile, feelgood stories about the torch's progress thus far continue to surface. It turned out that while in Plymouth, Devon, the organising committee team allowed a newly married couple, Rebecca and Darren Treloar, to pose with a torch in their wedding snaps. Happily, Ms Treloar was in a Grecian-themed dress.
On Thursday, the torch's tour of the west of England continued as the route wound its way through Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. A highlight was to bea trip on board a steam train on the Severn Valley railway. The train was stoppingat the West Midlands Safari Park, where elephants Five and Latabe had been trained to trot up the hill and wave a flag – a union one – at the locomotive.
Meanwhile, organisers faced renewed criticism over their ticketing website, which was out of action for 12 hours overnight on Wednesday for "scheduled updates". They said it had to be taken out of service to process orders so far received and went online again at 11am on Thursday morning.
But John Biggs, a London Assembly member, said it "beggars belief" that the website should have to pull down its shutters less than 24 hours after tickets went on sale.
"Who in their right mind would schedule updates to a ticketing website in the middle of a 24-hour sales window?" he asked.
"I shall be writing to Seb Coe to find out why this has happened and for him to apologise to all those Londoners who are paying for the Olympics via their council tax but have been prevented from getting a ticket."
Following complaints from prospective purchasers about the way the system works, Biggs also criticised the fact they had to wait in a virtual queue to find out whether their chosen tickets were available or not.
"I think it is reprehensible that Locog have been unable to design a ticket-selling system that only offers ticket for sale that actually exist, rather than allow people to try and buy tickets that have long since sold out," he said.
"It appears Locog have tried to win the gold medal for the worst ticket-selling operation in the whole of human history."
The final 500,000 tickets went on sale on Wednesday morning and many of the lower priced tickets on offer have already sold out. They will be augmented by another 150,000-200,000 that will be placed on to the site as seating configurations are finalised.


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[atlas] Reasons to celebrate - passed 1K active probes :)
Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Fri Dec 23 19:10:41 CET 2011
fre 2011-12-23 klockan 17:36 +0100 skrev Philip Homburg: > On 12/23/11 17:27 , Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote: > > If some people want to run different code, they need the interface to > > communicate with the atlas infrastructure (commands, arguments,...), > > and probably this info is in the source code ;-) therefore, you won't > > have problems. > I'm not worried about people getting their modified firmware to talk to > the atlas infrastructure. A lot of that stuff is even documented :-) > > The problem is, do you trust those results to be correct? And it is not > just faking results. That can be done today, to some extent. But more, > what if somebody decides to improve traceroute and it works just > slightly different and gives also just slightly different results? One way to deal with that is to let the probes send in the hash value of its firmware or something similar, which can be used to detect problems like that. And you could prepare "official" reports based only on the probes running "official" firmware. I really think this is orthogonal to releasing source code though. If you haven't built in any security mechanism, people can already do what you appear to be afraid of today. /Simon


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Besides the engineering-and-architectural marvel that is Cowboys Stadium, here's five things to keep an eye on in the team's second preseason outing:
1) The starter at the corner opposite Terence Newman: With Mike Jenkins healthy again, look for him to replace Orlando Scandrick in the starting lineup. It's become more apparent each day that it's Jenkins' job to lose even though I believe Scandrick has out played him thus far.
2) Sam Hurd: He was the star of training camp, making circus catch after circus catch. But he won't pull completely ahead of Miles Austin at No. 3 receiver until he shows he can be a consistent threat in the preseason. He's off to a good start after a five-catch, 79-yard outing last week in Oakland.
3) The starters getting more time: Tony Romo was an efficient 4-for-6 for 36 yards against the Raiders. He says he wants more time tonight. If he gets it against a tough Titans defense, we'll be able to see how much progress he's really made in the ball-security department.
4) Felix Jones returning punts: I'm not saying it's going to happen, but if the Cowboys are serious about him doing the job in the regular season, he's going to have to do it at least a few times in the preseason. Why not start tonight?
5) Anthony Spencer's pass rush: So far, it's been pretty tepid. Yeah, he's a better-than-average run stopper, but what the Cowboys really need is another strong edge rusher to take the pressure off of DeMarcus Ware.


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In response to an Obama campaign ad that reminded viewers of John McCain's computer illiteracy, bloggers circulated reports that war injuries may prevent the Republican presidential nominee from using a computer keyboard.
On Friday, the Obama campaign's new ad called "Still" criticized McCain for being "out of touch" and reiterated the fact that McCain "doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an email..."
McCain supporters like Ed Morrissey of "Hot Air," went after the ad. Morrissey found a Boston Globe article from 2000 that reports that "McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes."
The text of Obama's ad extended a storyline that has thread through the campaign, where McCain's digital communication failings are seen as a symbol of his being out of touch more generally with the public and unable to lead a country desperately looking to turn the page on the past.
"Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn't. He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an email, still doesn't understand the economy, and favors 200 billion in tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class. After one president who was out of touch, we just can't afford more of the same."
Yahoo opened the topic when it questioned the Republican candidates about whether they used Macs or PCs. McCain's reply: "Neither, I'm a illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get."
Political bloggers had a field day with that. Atrios wrote:
"I think in 2008 computer use and understanding of the internet should be part of the basic skill set we expect from people in positions of prominent public leadership. It's pretty much impossible to have any kind of understanding of how people in the modern world go about their lives and work without that."
Then in June, Internet strategists convened at the Personal Democracy Forum, culminating with a heated debate on stage about whether candidates must be able to use technology to have a real understanding of it.
McCain countered in an interview with the Chronicle late July saying "It's changing the information age, and I've got to stay up with it." Also "I am forcing myself... let me put it this way, I am using the computer more and more every day." He added that his staff was "constantly showing [e-mail] to me as the news breaks during the day." That didn't ilicit much new confidence from techies in McCain's abilities, but it felt like a step.
Whether McCain's physical limitations are part of what is keeping him from using computers remains to be seen, but if so, there are a lot of assistive devices out there for using computers for people who have injuries or disabilities: certain types of mice, voice activation software, special keyboards, keyboard usage training, etc. Still, training to use those kinds of devices can take time - something presidential candidates do not have at their disposal. With less than two months left in the campaign, there's definitely not enough time for a self-proclaimed computer illiterate to get up to snuff.
As Sarah Lai Stirland of Wired News noted, Rahm Emanuel explained in Friday's media conference call about the ad, "There's a whole economic revolution going on that has fundamentally changed the economy and fundamentally changed people's lives, and he's removed from that."


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According to an article just published on WNYT's website, the local casting call for "The Place Beyond the Pines" has been announced.
On June 4, open calls for men will be held from 10 am to 12 pm; for women, from 1 pm to 3 pm. On June 5, open calls for boys will be held from 10 am to 12 pm; for girls, from 1 pm to 3 pm.
According to the Schenectady Film Commission there will be at least 50 roles for locals, and one leading role for multiracial teenage boy. For full details you can read WNYT's article here.
We learned last week that the movie, which is set in Schenectady, will be filmed here this summer. We also learned that I will be changing my house guest policy for people named Bradley Cooper and/or Ryan Gosling.


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Inspired by an Amy Butler design, these DIY wrist corsages are so stinking pretty. Adorable for bridesmaids or flower girls...OR you could use them to tie up napkins on guest's place setting! Too cute!
Strips of Fabric
Sewing Machine/Thread/Needle
Hot Glue Gun
Pretty Strips of Ribbon
1. Cut a 4x18 inch strip of fabric - you may need to play with the width and length to get the look you are going for.
2. Fold the fabric hot dog style (so the long edges meet) with wrong sides together. Press with an iron.
3. Using a loose straight stitch sew the open long edges together (leaving about 1/4 inch)
4. Pull the bobbin thread to gather the material. The more you pull the more it gathers. You will have to kind of play with the fabric to make it gather evenly.
5. Once you are happy with the amount of gather begin rolling the strip up - so it looks like a spiral. So start at one end and just roll. The tighter you roll the more open your flower will be.
6. Once you are happy with your flower hand sew the bottom together (the bottom is the edge with the seam - the folded side should be the open part of the flower). Be sure you get through all the layers - don't worry this part doesn't have to be pretty.
7. Once your flower feels like it is secure and will not unravel use a hot glue gun to attach it to a piece of ribbon. Voila! You have a corsage.
I love these because they are so quick and easy, but so beautiful. You can also make these flowers to adorn bags or sweaters. My husband's grandmothers LOVED that I had made special corsages just for them.


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Hi, I have some concerns about the DOMConfiguration interface that was recently introduced in DOM Level 3. After implementing an old version of the spec, (http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-Core-20021022/core.html#DOMConfiguration) containing different method signatures for boolean parameters (ie setBooleanParameter, getBooleanParameter), I was suprised to see that the new spec does not distinguish between features and regular parameters, and considers them all to be DOMUserData. In a C++ implementation, for example in xerces-c, one would have to rely on void *, which is not particularly type-safe without the use of RTTI. It also means one cannot distinguish between int and bool, since both are integers in C++. I don't understand why the interface relies on DOMUserData, when types for all underlying parameters are defined. Wouldn't it be preferable to have specific methods like 'void setErrorHandler(DOMErrorHandler handler)', for the parameters and 'void setBooleanParameter(DOMString feature, boolean flag)' for features, so that they could be type safe? I understand that expandability is an argument for the current interface, and I could understand that a non-type-safe method could be provided, but I am not overly comfortable with the 'cast and hope' scheme. :-) Thanks very much in advance, Caroline -- Caroline Rioux, Software Engineer +44-1865-203192 DecisionSoft Limited http://www.decisionsoft.com XML Development and ServicesReceived on Thursday, 27 March 2003 14:14:13 UTC
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New Caledonian crows manufacture two very different types of tool for finding prey. Hooks crafted from twigs are used to poke grubs from holes in trees, while they also cut up stiff leaves with their beaks, carefully sculpting them into sharp instruments for probing leaf detritus for insects and other invertebrates.
A New Caledonian crow in captivity learned how to bend a piece of straight wire into a hook to probe for food. (Watch a video of the crow doing this.)
Such sophisticated tool manufacture and use is unique in non-human wild animals, according to Jackie Chappell, a UK-based zoologist who has studied the birds.
Emery and Clayton compare the crow's handiwork to minor human technological innovations. And because different New Caledonian crow populations make these tools to slightly different designs, some scientists take this as evidence of some form of culture, as has been suggested in chimpanzees.
Other corvids may use memories of past experiences to plan ahead.
In the case of Western scrub jays, a previous study by Emery and Clayton suggests jays with past experience of pilfering food caches collected by other jays can then use this knowledge to protect their own caches.
Lab experiments showed that if a habitual thief was observed while burying its own cache, it would later go back and move it when no other bird was looking. Meanwhile, "innocent" jays did not exhibit the same cunning.
The researchers also argue that such behavior suggests Western scrub jays are able to second guess another's intentions, or, to put it another way, get into another bird's mind. In which case, this could be evidence for imagination.
Emery and Clayton write, "Western scrub jays may present a case for imagination because the jays needed to have remembered the previous relevant social context, used their own experience of having been a thief to predict the behavior of a pilferer, and determined the safest course of action to protect the caches from pilferage."
Studies to assess similar cognitive abilities in apes have been inconclusive, according to John Pearce, professor of psychology at Cardiff University in Wales.
"[The Western scrub jay study] is some of the best evidence going that one animal can understand what another is thinking," he added.
Pearce believes we can gain insights into the basic mechanisms of human intelligence through the study of animals. He says language is generally considered to be one of the major divisions between human and animal intelligence, which makes Western scrub jays especially noteworthy.
He said, "What's so interesting is that while Western scrub jays may not have language, the research shows they've got many of the intellectual abilities that humans have. This suggests that many of our intellectual abilities which we think we need language for perhaps we don't in fact need language for. That then makes us try to understand these abilities in a different way."
If we're as smart as we think we are, perhaps we need to keep an even closer eye on those clever old crows.
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The consummate curmudgeon at his summer house
Andy Rooney indulges his passion for words, wood
Published 2:12 pm, Wednesday, October 26, 2011
This story was originally published Aug. 12, 2001.
''Let's go to the Pentagon,'' Andy Rooney says. We pick our way around stacks of boards and assorted power tools and move a few paces from woodworking shop to five-sided writing shed.
These are the two crafts Rooney, at 82, pursues with passion. Even on vacation at his summer home in rural Albany County, Rooney labors each day with wood and words.
He pauses to call out in that bandsaw voice -- instantly recognizable to a legion of ''60 Minutes'' fans -- after an old, arthritic and partly deaf English bulldog.
''C'mon Spencer. Let's go,'' Rooney barks. A frown crosses Rooney's jowly cheeks. His bushy, gray eyebrows knit.
It's late morning and Rooney is dressed for work. A patina of sawdust clings to a short-sleeve denim shirt, pale green khakis and New Balance hiking boots.
The 12-year-old bulldog follows creakily. Rooney shuffles on ahead, slowly and deliberately, stooped by age.
He's surely written a column about how owners begin to look like their dogs -- classic Rooney terrain. Spencer technically belongs to Rooney's daughter, Emily, the host of a public TV show in Boston. It's a kind of fresh air fund arrangement.
''Spencer summers with us. He loves getting out of the city,'' Rooney says as the dog settles under a handmade desktop and snoozes.
Early riser: Rooney built the pentagon-shaped writing shed and its accoutrements a decade ago and immediately regretted the design inspiration. ''Never build a five-sided structure,'' he warns, pointing out gaps in the difficult, miter-cut angles. Five triangular skylights that flood the cozy retreat with leaf-dappled sunshine cancel any flaws.
Rooney comes here each morning at 6 o'clock, stealing silently out a side door of the farmhouse so as not to awake Spencer. He works for two hours until pausing for breakfast. After writing and eating, he segues into woodworking for the rest of the morning.
Displayed on a bookshelf in the writing shed is a prized possession, a slightly tarnished brass cup from Albany Academy awarded in 1937. It was Rooney's prize for contributions to the Cue, the Academy's literary magazine.
''I wasn't a good student, but that cup gave me courage to think that I could write,'' says Rooney, who was drafted into the Army after his junior year at Colgate University.
For six decades he's made a living by constructing sentences. His 12 books, mostly collections of columns and a World War II memoir, are routinely bestsellers. He still writes two columns a week, which appear in 147 newspapers across the country, including the Times Union.
He's made his fame and fortune, though, for playing the observant curmudgeon on ''60 Minutes.''
''It bothers me some that my reputation is for doing three-minute pieces,'' he says. He thinks the long-forgotten documentaries and special reports he wrote for Harry Reasoner were some of his best work.
Rooney has no intention of killing the column. You might say he's a bulldog about keeping it alive.
''I'll die, but I won't retire,'' he says. ''If I lost my marbles and knew it, I'd quit writing. I keep looking for signs that I'm losing it, but I feel as vital about writing and the drive to be creative at 82 as I did at 22 or 42 or 62.''
It's not about the money, although he could live nicely on the six-figure column revenue alone. ''I'm compulsive about writing,'' he says. ''I enjoy sitting here. I think I'd write if nobody even read it.''
Not mellowed: Rooney gets a thick package of letters at home each day and 300 to 400 pieces of mail arrive day after day at his CBS office. The volume is steadily overwhelming and mostly goes unopened.
''I'm pretty accurate about assessing my own writing ability,'' Rooney says. ''I'm very average. Hyper-normal, even, which is at the heart of my success.''
A few hours earlier, Rooney put the finishing touches on a column about stem cell research. He boned up on the controversial issue with background information faxed by his daughter, Martha, who works at the U.S. National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Md.
Rooney insists he hasn't mellowed with age. His strong opinions continue to touch off a flood of angry mail. But he's learned to let a piece settle and not to shoot from the hip so readily.
''I backed off a little on the stem cell column after fussing with it some more,'' Rooney says. ''It's funny what you can't say anymore. I find I can't be as blunt or rude as I'd like. Especially around my friends up here. Now, if I'm with Mike Wallace in New York, there's nothing I can't say to him.''
A 2-foot-tall stack of printouts of previously published columns rests on a bookshelf. He's planning another collection and will select, categorize and tinker among the 1,000 or so pieces in the pile. ''It gives me plenty to throw away,'' he says. ''I'll rewrite them a little so they'll stand better on their own.''
Rooney has an IBM and a Toshiba laptop in the writing shed and alternates between the two, depending on which one isn't malfunctioning.
A manual Underwood, one of 19 he owns, sits on a bookshelf. He occasionally uses the old machines to type letters.
''I held out for a long time, but I had to face the fact it's much easier to write and revise on a computer than a typewriter,'' Rooney says.
Growing up in Albany: He's been thinking a lot lately about growing up in Albany. His publisher wants a memoir of Rooney's childhood, some of which was covered in ''My War,'' an account of World War II. Rooney was a Stars and Stripes correspondent with exceptional access to the fiercest combat.
Rooney isn't sure he wants to write that book on his early life, although he's happy to free associate with nostalgic memories.
He grew up at 204 Partridge St. in Albany's Pine Hills. He drives through the old neighborhood at least once a year to see the trees he climbed, the houses on his Knickerbocker Press paper route. He can close his eyes and describe the sweet smells from the old Hagaman's Bakery. And taste the bite of the Cliquot Club Ginger Ale he bought as a boy at Evans' grocery store.
When he was 12, Rooney met Marguerite Howard at Miss Munson's dancing class on State Street. They married in 1942. The farmhouse in a Hilltown he prefers not to name (although an open secret) belonged to her parents. The Rooneys have spent summers here for 30 years.
That's about how long Rooney has worked with wood. Just don't suggest it's his therapy.
''I don't need therapy,'' Rooney snaps.
In the wood shop: He calls Spencer from the writing shed into the woodworking shop. It's 90 degrees out. The shed and the shop are the only spots on the property with air-conditioning.
The shop is filled with stools and chairs. ''Whenever I don't know what to do, I make a chair to sit on,'' Rooney says.
He pauses in front of stacks of maple and cherry. Within the pile are some unusually wide pear and apple planks. He's particularly fond of American woods. ''I'll just sit and look at my boards for hours and figure out what I want to make,'' Rooney says.
Half of the garage was commandeered for 800 board feet of cherry Rooney couldn't pass up. ''My God, look at that cherry. It's 19 inches wide. Isn't that beautiful?'' he asks.
His wife regularly implores him to stop stockpiling the boards. But the wood compulsion is equally strong as the writing jones.
He's presented as gifts much of his smooth, glossy woodwork to his four children, five grandchildren and friends in the form of chairs, dining room tables, coffee tables, end tables. The farmhouse is filled with his labor of saw and chisel. To the untrained eye, they appear to be the work of a master craftsman. Their creator is more critical.
''I'm not great, but I use wonderful wood and I've got good tools,'' Rooney says. ''No woodworker would accuse me of being a perfectionist.''
Family man: He'll get no argument from his wife, whom he calls Margie. She's back from shopping and is happy to put her husband in his place.
''Do you want to see the real woodworker in the family?'' Margie asks and produces a photo of a classic wooden skiff.
Their son, Brian, an ABC News correspondent, built the boat in his garage in Los Angeles. He had the vessel crated and shipped to Lake George. The boat is powered by a vintage Johnson 10-horsepower outboard motor his dad bought Brian as a boy.
The kids -- the fourth child, Ellen, is a photographer based in London -- and grandkids converge on Lake George each summer. They still make their coffee with lake water, as always.
Rooney doesn't mind crowing about his cooking, particularly oatmeal cookies he claims are eaten as quickly as he bakes them.
For lunch, Rooney slices into a loaf of rustic white bread he made the day before and executes a perfect BLT sandwich. You've got to like an 82-year-old guy who's not stingy with the bacon or mayonnaise.
Rooney disappears for a while in a back room. He returns, muttering, with a bottle of Coca-Cola. ''I hate those plastic rings they put the bottles in,'' he says, and you imagine you're in a ''60 Minutes'' bit come to life.
Poster boy: Whether he's writing, woodworking, cooking or pursuing other hobbies, Rooney could be a poster boy for Modern Maturity.
His idea of a senior moment is playing tennis on the court he had constructed deep in a grove of pines on the seven-acre property. He built a tall umpire's chair out of oak, which has weathered well for more than a decade.
A die-hard New York Giants fan, he looks forward to attending training camp at the University at Albany.
He might drive his sports car, a 1966 Sunbeam Tiger convertible. It's a green beauty with black leather interior and the top down. About 4,000 were made in England with V8 Ford engines. ''It's the most overpowered car ever built,'' Rooney says, grinning.
He tries to keep the speedometer lower than his age. It's not easy. He's had the Tiger up to 125 and got a ticket on Interstate 88 doing 90.
He drives, you might say, the way he writes. Like a bulldog.


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– 8 boneless skinless chicken breasts
– 10 garlic cloves, finely chopped or minced
– 2 yellow onions, chopped
– 2 cups fat free, low sodium chicken broth
– 1/4 cup lemon pepper seasoning
– 4 tbsp paprika
– 2 tbsp fresh parsley, finely chopped
– 1 tablespoon kosher salt
– 1 tsp lemon zest
Rinse the chicken and pat dry. Mix together the lemon pepper seasoning, paprika and salt. Coat the chicken with the spice mixture. Place the coated chicken in the crock pot and cover with the fat free chicken broth, garlic cloves, parsley and onions and lemon zest. Cook on low heat for about 3-4 hours (or until done).
Entire recipe makes 8 servings
Serving size is 1 breast, with approx 4 tbsp of sauce
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Yesterday, we went to the church. The older people in the church helped us stuff goody bags for the Easter egg hunt coming on Saturday. While there, Jaydin's ear started hurting - but just a little at first. We left the church around 2. I was going to take her to the clinic immediately, but #1, we hadn't had lunch yet, and #2, the clinic person has to take a mandatory lunch break from 1:30 until 2:30. We got to McDonald's around 2:15 (across the street from the clinic), and ate quickly. We had to wait 45 minutes when we got to the clinic at 2:45. She was in tears the whole time we sat there .... it was pitiful. We were finally seen and the prescription was sent to our pharmacy. The good news there was that the medicine was free.
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8/06/2010 9:21am, #171
That is because of my bad English, sorry.
The German term "Leibeigener" translates as both "thrall" and "serf".
It was used until the early 19th century in German-speaking territories.
I think English knows the term "serfdom", but it's not exactly the same thing. Serfs in Germany would be correctly translated as "Hörige", AFAIK. The vast majority of the rural population were "Leibeigene" (="thralls"), though, as far as I can recall.
That's why I said we should maybe pre-define our vocabulary, lest we want to sink into endless semantical battles. :read2:
You're the expert, so I am willing to accept any semantical distinctions you apply.
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I'm just popping in to check-up on the debate. I see it's gotten rather technical. Which I find very entertaining and educational. Please continue.
When I said that is difficult for the modern person to comprehend the piety of a medieval person, I was being polite -- and deliberately vague -- in response to a comment from Dsimon.
It's been my experience that there is a tendency among modern people to believe that people in historical era thought and acted just like us. They didn't. In many cases, their thought patterns were horribly alien to us. I argued with a woman once about the famous Spartan mothers' admonition, "Come back with your shield, or on it." She insisted no mother would ever say that. She couldn't fathom the context of the times and clung to the notion that her 20th Century (this was '97) Middle Class American viewpoint was universal.
In the same way, I would venture the generalization that for the medieval mind, the existence of God was a given. Individual expressions of piety, such as prayer, or church attendance, or entering the religious life, may have differed, but their society was not secular.
But, I digress. Still I think it is important for readers to be wary of "provicialism" and attribute modern mores to historical persons. As you said, we must read the primary sources and other material and try to place ourselves in their shoes.
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I'm going to use those three very important words, "I don't know."
I don't have access to all my books on the Viking Era right now, but I don't believe I have much on the Jomsvikings specifically. I will have to look into this further and get back to you.
The "rules" I've seen attributed to the Jomsvikings are definitely regulating living conditions, how much they directly relate to fighting is an unknown. They do seem to have imposed some discipline upon the band.
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Kid, didn't go through the whole thread to see if you mentioned them, but it seemed like you forgot the Dahomey Amazons from Africa.
as for this...
So, should a practitioner of martial arts adhere to any sort of code of chivalry or behavior or work to defend what is right, just, and good, or should we simply learn how to attack, kill, maim, and slay without any regard for other people so that we can take what we want and be happy that no one can take it from us?
But I think there's two little things that stops the bolded part dead in its
1. Laws, which will have your ass in jail faster than you can say "what?" if you kill/maim/slay
2. Guns, I think Guns pretty much erased the notion of "no one can take it from us".
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8/07/2010 4:52am, #176
if you like things such as leibeigener, free/unfree and guns, you should definately read up on the prussian army.
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That's off topic, and Fritz the Great was a fag soooooo NEXT! :P
Besides: Östlich der Elbe beginnt die asiatische Steppe" in the words of the wise Adenauer
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8/07/2010 8:47am, #179
Whilst I guess this has been a semi serious discussion, why is in the investigations forum ?"To sin by silence when one should protest makes cowards out of men".
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8/07/2010 12:04pm, #180
So Rabbit cannot crap it up.
But, yeah, I am fully in it.
Semantical pre-definitions, so we are sure everyone talks about the same thing?


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Sichamps tourism and travel guide
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Sichamps is situated in the Nievre, Burgundy region (now part of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region), in the eastern-center of France at 20 km from Nevers, the department capital. (General information: Sichamps is 201 km from Paris).
Popular places to visit nearby include La Charite-sur-Loire at 20 km and Nevers at 20 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Sichamps, France: places to visit and attractions
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend when sightseeing close to Sichamps in Burgundy-Franche-Comté. Note that all distances shown are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater.
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Map of places to visit near Sichamps
Markets in and near Sichamps
- Nevers: market Saturday all day (20km)
- Fourchambault: market Sunday (22km)
- Corbigny: market Friday (32km)
- La Machine: market Saturday (33km)
- Saint-Satur: market Thursday (38km)
- Clamecy: market Saturday (38km)
- Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire: market Wednesday & Sunday & Friday (39km)
- Decize: market Friday (39km)
- Baugy: market Friday (42km)
- Sancoins: market Wednesday (45km)
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Tourist attractions to visit near Sichamps, France
Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Sichamps and wondering what to do next!
Heritage sites
- Abbatiale Notre-Dame de La Charité-sur-Loire (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (20km)
- Vezelay (49km)
- Vézelay basilica St Madeleine (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (50km)
- Asquins église St Jacques (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (51km) [Map]
Most beautiful villages in France
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- Apremont-sur-Allier (32km)
Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour)
- Sancerre (38km)
Churches and religious monuments
- Prieuré de Saint Révérien (Saint-Reverien) (18km) [Map]
- Eglise de Notre-Dame-du-Pré (Donzy) (27km) [Map]
- Eglise de Saint Barthélémy (Cervon) (37km) [Map]
- Eglise de Saint Germain (Blet) (50km) [Map]
Remarkable gardens
- Forgeneuve (18km) [Map]
- Parc et jardin du château du Chatillon en Bazois (31km) [Map]
- Parc floral d'Apremont (33km) [Map]
- Jardin du château de Limanton (40km) [Map]
Protected historical centre (fr: secteur sauvegardé)
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- Clamecy (38km)
Towns of Art and history
- Nevers (20km)
Villages d'etape
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- Pougues-les-Eaux (16km) [Map]
Geography and distances
Distance to Sichamps
from Nevers (prefecture): 20 km
from Paris: 201 km
from Calais: 434 km
from Nice: 494 km
from Bordeaux: 394 km
from Strasbourg: 369 km
Getting here
Sichamps is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car or drive from a channel ferry port, operhaps Calais or Dunkirk at about 5 - 6 hours. For driving distances to Sichamps from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
We have 6 other places listed as being close (less than 6 kilometres from Sichamps): Beaumont-la-Ferriere, La Celle-sur-Nievre, Nolay, Poiseux, Premery and Saint-Aubin-les-Forges.
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I agree that the show is not as gripping as it was, but I will stick with it and hope it lasts. Any shows that is not "reality tv" and that promotes musical theater is something I'll do my best to support.
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I agree that the show is not as gripping as it was, but I will stick with it and hope it lasts. Any shows that is not "reality tv" and that promotes musical theater is something I'll do my best to support.
I really like the way the dramaturge's character is being played. In any case, it seems a dramaturge may have gotten involved with this show during the hiatus
I do like Jennifer Hudson but not sure she adds much to the show.
I think Karen was interested in the other show when Bombshell was on hold but, of the two, if she had to pick, she would pick Bombshell. But the other show is still in its infancy (they mentioned it not having a second act) and probably won't be ready until after Bombshell had been on for some time so she could conceivably do both. After all, Derek can apparently direct both Bombshell and The Wiz.
I didn't care for the JFK song at all. I'm here for the dramaturg though...Daniel Sunjata...swoon.
I wouldn't mind them having Ivy be in another show. I guess it would split focus but how long can Ivy and Karen fight over the same role? And I like Ivy and want her to succeed.
Jennifer Hudson, on the other hand, can go. I fast-forward any time she's the focus of a scene.
I'm also rather unamused this season. I LOVED this show last season. What has happened? I guess I feel this way because I can only take Karen in small doses. She's so NOT Marilyn that I'm tired of seeing her try, but at this point, I'm just so over it. I wouldn't mind if they just give Ivy something great and let her go with it. She can do most anything, IMO. I can't get enough of her acting and singing.
I'm so not into Jennifer Hudson. I used to like her, but she is just not right or something. I ff through her parts.
I really hope this show can pull it together.
Apparently Smash is on death watch. This is just speculation, though fans are in an uproar.
Apparently, Steven Speilburg had high hopes for McPhee on this show. They refused to revamp the show by placing Hilty as the more talented and more believable lead, but continued to push McPhee into the limelight to plenty of unenthusiastic viewers. It's sad if the show folds because they couldn't accept the reality. I'm relieved to know it wasn't just me who couldn't figure it out.
TV Ratings: Smash Continues to Bleed Viewers -- Vulture
I'm sorry to hear that it may soon be gone. Hilty was perfect to win the role of Marilyn both in looks and talent. I hope she'll get another chance soon. I like McPhee's voice, but this was not the role for her, thought she might have been quite good in the two young guys musical. Spielberg usually doesn't make that kind of mistake.
I think tons of people love Karen and Ivy and that distinction/conflict is one of the main driving forces for viewership--if people love Megan they watch to root her on and vice-versa. I think KatMcPhee is more talented because she has such a beautiful lower register and really incredible vocal nuances (Megan is more of a belter in general albeit a great one) but I respect Megan's incredible voice as well. (on a side note, I think both leads are better than JHudson who is just a belter to me)
The show is really suffering from poor writing. People like conflict and Karen v. Ivy is great but the other storylines are underdeveloped and poorly done--Debra Messing's character is a pathetic waste and her family just disappears randomly, they could not have done a worse job with angelica houston's character or her "criminal" boyfriend (I think its safe to say NONE of us had any idea what was going on there because they didn't flesh out the story at all, just had him pull some money from behind the bar and them hop into bed..then he vanished), derek could carry more focus but they detract from his time by introducing a character we know nothing about and just expect us to be instantly warm and fuzzy while he tries to incorporate it into some adjacent storyline--it is simply a HOT MESS.
The good news is the show gets great bumps from DVR viewership and its in a non-primetime spot...also, the music sales will really help to keep this show going bc thats just bonus income.
This could be such an amazing show if they cleaned up the writing and plot lines, though :confused
i too have lost interest. The break also didn't help. They should have made it a successful "bombshell" and move on with a new broadway show, or something like that. I am a fan of Jhud but i am not sure what her role is really.


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Countrywide, the UK's largest residential property broker, faced at least 38 cases of litigation against it last year alone for negligence related to surveying of properties in the housing boom era.
Most of the negligence suits have been filed by major lenders such as Barclays Bank plc and Lloyds. Countrywide, like many of the property surveyors, normally takes out professional indemnity insurance to protect themselves against claims of negligence, but in these cases is determined to fight the lawsuits tooth and nail.
A typical example of negligence brought up by one of the lenders is the case of a man called Suninder Sandha. He had an apartment inside a country mansion near Leicester, surveyed by Countrywide's surveying department, and took out a loan with Barclays based on the surveyed price at 1.2 million pounds in 2005. When the property boom collapsed, so did the value of the property and Sandha was unable to keep up the mortgage repayments. Barclays has sued Countrywide for its losses, having seized the property and only being able to sell it for 500,000 pounds.
The number of cases of litigation that the company is facing appears to be far more than the number that any one of Britain's major banks had in 2011. Countrywide was bought by Apollo Management LP in 2007 and since that date 97 cases of negligence, all arising from losses incurred due to the collapse in property prices, have been directed at the company.
The lawyer, who has been representing Countrywide and several smaller surveying firms facing similar litigation, stated that the blame for the losses really fell at the door of the lenders themselves. She said that the banks had suffered huge losses and were looking for a scapegoat. She said further that the lending practices the banks had been using at the time were the real reason for the huge losses.
Countrywide, which has additional property divisions as well as its surveying arm, put its charges up significantly in 2010, largely due to increasing premiums charges for PI insurance. The increase in premiums was as a direct result of the huge number of professional indemnity claims which the company was facing.


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|Reviews for Mooonlight Sonata
| deaderthandisco chapter 1 . 5/28/2010
Well written. I feel like a poem like this could be much improved and expanded, but it is still good the way it is. I just feel like it could be better. As I said, it's still a good poem.
| Eternal Skies chapter 1 . 5/5/2010
that's very beautiful!
i loved the imageries you used and i didn't find anything here pessimistic, actually it sorta cheered me up
| Punslinger chapter 1 . 5/4/2010
I didn't find this as clever and amusing as some of your other wiork. But it is well-rhymed and creates an enchanting mood that I quite enjoyed.
| Ganondorf The Dark Knight chapter 1 . 3/25/2010
There lurks a haunting, in a sense, feel to this that I am no doubt drawn to. The piece is rather easy-going and straight-forward, but almost beneath the veil of clouds you describe, there is more. The title fit well as I found this to be very musical and majestic.
| FelleLLoyd chapter 1 . 3/12/2010
I like the different relations you've added to the moon & what great diction you've worked in. Though, I think the rhythm of this needs a wee bit of work. Nonetheless, love this piece.
| Isca chapter 1 . 3/5/2010
"The birth of the moon struggling through the night." This is my favourite line from the poem; the word "struggling" definitely adds a nice sense of angst to the imagery.


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