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As we know, life under the dome isn't all rainbows and butterflies (though there is an abundance of the latter). But, as Barbie learned this week, an existence outside the dome isn't all its cut out to be either. Let's look at what happened in "Awakening."
Hacker and the Hero: Choosing to show a little faith in his father Don, Barbie asks the corporate head honcho to use his connections to drop the Dome's internet firewall and get a message to Julia that he is alive and not, in fact, a puddle at the bottom of the cave. Joe gets the email and relays the message to a skeptical Julia. But something is up. Thanks to a spritely young hacker named Hunter, Barbie is informed his father added a line to the email, telling Julia to jump though the portal with the egg. With a little sleuthing, Barbie and Hunter confirm the suspicious change and discover, among other things, pictures of Julia on his father's computer. Arriving just as the spy session ends, Don explains to Barbie that Akiaton Energy was the first to discover how to get a wifi signal into the dome, a secret the company promptly sold to the government. But they kept a backdoor, the key to which rests in the hands of Hunter, who neglected to inform Barbie he works for his father. After sending Julia a mushy romantic riddle about where to meet at the dome wall, Barbie threatens Hunter into getting him to the dome, "where the National Guard shoots trespassers on site."
Haters Gonna Hate: In a supposedly Barbie-less Chester's Mill, Big Jim – apparently relegated to random B-storylines these days – happily pens on the sheriff's star despite Rebecca's warning that it "has not been kind to those who wear it." Almost immediately, he is faced with a hate crime – against himself. The perp has disassembled the windmill he helped raise to stop the dust storm and burned a car in front of his car lot's billboard. After fanning out to interrogate a laundry list of potential Big Jim haters, Junior and Rebecca radio back to his father just as former DJ and current gunshot victim Phil hits Big Jim over the head. Handcuffed to the jail cell, Big Jim doesn't have wait long for Junior to arrive and break up the party, as the duo disarm and embarrass the DJ once more.
To the Wall: Barbie, meanwhile, heads to the dome's military perimeter, which he infiltrates thanks to his complex scientist costume: glasses and a briefcase. Past the gate, he barrel rolls under a military truck "Indiana Jones" style and hitches a ride until they reach the dome wall. After disembarking the convoy, which not one person sees him do, Barbie heads to the woods, tripping a silent alarm in the process. Making it to the wall where Julia has been yelling at the unknown dome makers about her troubles for what seems like hours, the lovers are reunited – only now they stand in two different worlds. As the military approaches in the background, Barbie writes on the dome for Julia to stay in the dome because it is not safe outside. As the military pulls him away, Big Jim looks on with the shocked and annoyed grimace of someone who just can't seem to get a Barbie-sized thorn out of his side.
Door to Somewhere: Elsewhere in Zenith, Pauline tells Sam and a now-coherent Lyle she wants to return to Chester's Mill and find out how the dome connects to what happened with Melanie 25 years ago. Putting together the prophetic postcards that she painted and mailed to Lyle pre-dome, they realize one hasn't come true yet: the painting of a red door. One that looks just like the door hidden in the Zenith woods. Could it be a way into the dome?
What did you think of this week's episode? Is Barbie's dad in on some nefarious plan? Will Barbie get back in the dome now that he has been arrested, and will Pauline, Lyle and Sam also find a way in? Curious as to how a wounded Phil disassembled a towering windmill all by himself? Me too. Let us know what you thought!


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Karl Amoussou wanted to make a statement and did just that in the opening-round of Bellator's season-six welterweight tournament.
The Frenchman sliced through season-five tournament vet Chris Lozano, cinching a first-round submission to advance to the semifinals.
Amoussou joined Bryan Baker, David Rickels and Ben Saunders in the winner's circle on Friday at Bellator 63, which took place at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. The main card aired live on MTV2 following prelims on Spike.com.
Amoussou had riled Lozano up prior to the fight by promising to make the Bellator vet his punching bag, and the two nearly clashed in the staredown prior to the opening bell.
But when the bout got underway, it was Lozano who circled cautiously, and the audience quickly voiced its displeasure.
After an extended feeling-out period, Amoussou drew blood with a high kick that slammed into Lozano's head. Lozano caught it and took the fight to the mat, but he was quickly reversed and flattened out.
Amoussou (14-4-2 MMA, 2-1 BFC) secured a rear-naked choke, and in a flash, the fight was over at the 2:05 mark of the first.
"My message: I'm not here to play, guys," he said afterward. "Now, you just saw the next tournament champion, OK? I'm not here to beat the guys; I'm here to destroy them. I wanted to make a statement – this is what I've done. OK? The French guy's going to be the new tournament champion!"
The French guy improves his current win streak to two while Lozano (9-3 MMA, 2-3 BFC) drops to 0-2 in his most recent Bellator outings after a knockout loss to Douglas Lima in the season-five semifinals.
Baker outworks a listless Pereira
Bryan Baker may very well have punched his ticket to the semifinals in the final 45 seconds of his opening-round fight with Carlos Pereira.
Truth be told, neither fighter put their all into finishing the fight, and so judges were forced to rule on the slimmest of margins.
Two found that Baker won two of three rounds while one saw it for Pereira by the same score. But while Baker could be reasonably be excused for a somewhat listless performance due to a 20-pound weight cut he endured fighting for the first time at welterweight, Pereira had no such pardon.
From the get-go, the Brazilian was clearly the more relaxed and more devastating striker. And though he managed to punish Baker's legs and reverse almost every takedown, he largely sat passively as the Baker racked up points being busier.
Pereira's best moments came when he countered an advancing Baker with punches. One uppercut briefly stunned the Bellator veteran in the second frame. But it was not followed up, and the fight lurched forward as the audience booed.
Baker, who at times resembled UFC vet Keith Jardine with his jerky movement and unpredictable strikes, kept pace with Pereira's leg kicks but couldn't dump his opponent to the mat. But when the action stalled against the cage, forcing the referee to restart the action with less than a minute to go, he capitalized.
Pumping out jabs and leg kicks, he charged forward with 15 seconds on the clock and nabbed a takedown before easily transitioning to the crucifix position. Hammering away with strikes, he ended the fight on an exclamation point.
"Sorry everybody, I'm still learning this weight cut," Baker said after his split decision was announced. "I promise to get better."
Two-time tournament vet Baker (17-3 MMA, 7-2 BFC) reverses a loss to Vitor Vianna in the semifinals of the season-five middleweight competition.
Pereira (33-10-1 MMA, 0-1 BFC), a Nova Uniao product, is now 4-2-1 in the past two years and sees his Bellator debut go south.
Rickels rides roughshod over Smith
David "The Caveman" Rickels put in a short night's work against Jordan Smith, knocking out the short-notice tournament replacement.
The two traded kicks in an initial exchange before Rickels sent landed a stiff right that sent Smith backward. Piston-like right hands followed as Smith toppled over, and referee Dan Mirgliotta stopped at the 0:22 mark of the opening frame.
Smith protested the call, but his stiff legs justified the wave-off.
"Lemme just soak in his moment real quick," Rickels said afterward. "That was amazing, man. Bellator, man. So easy a caveman could to it.
"I clipped him, and I saw he was hurt. I always try to finish. Soon as I hit him hard, I knew he was going down. A couple quick uppercuts after that, and it was good night."
Rickels (10-0 MMA, 2-0 BFC) extends his unbeaten streak to 10 fights after a successful promotional debut this past October.
Smith (17-3 MMA, 0-1 BFC), a onetime training partner of UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva, is 3-3 since a failed bid to make it into the house on "The Ultimate Fighter 11."
Saunders outmuscles brave Amaya
Although the scrappy Amaya proved his heart by escaping countless dangerous situations, Ben Saunders proved too big a challenge.
The season-five veteran cruised to a unanimous decision with scores of 30-26, and 30-27 twice in the first opening-round fight of the season-six welterweight tournament.
"He was tough as hell," Saunders said afterward. "I gave him respect after the fight, for sure. I'm pretty sure I closed his left eye shut, and he didn't care, man."
Indeed, Amaya thought nothing of sizable disadvantages in height and reach and charged Saunders from the opening bell after a head kick nearly removed his.
From the first round, Amaya put all of his energy into taking the fight to the ground but had little luck hoisting Saunders' bulk against the cage. Saunders, on the other hand, had no trouble taking things to the mat, where he defined the term "active guard" by threatening with armbars, omaplatas and triangles.
Amaya barely escaped the attempts. Nonetheless, he charged ahead in the second round with a flurry of punches that got Saunders' attention. Again, the UFC vet took dominant position but lost it going for submissions. Amaya spent the rest of the round on top, but did little damage.
The third frame saw Amaya again punch in and get bowled over in kind. Still banking on the submission finish, Saunders' mounted triangle failed and Amaya was able to take his back. For a brief moment, Saunders was mounted and in trouble as Amaya threw a flurry of punches. But he would again reverse and go from the mount to back mount, where the fight ended.
Saunders (13-4-2 MMA, 4-1 BFC) not only advances to the semifinals of the tournament but reverses a knockout loss to season-five champ Douglas Lima that snapped a four-fight win streak.
"It was definitely good to get it out of the way," Saunders said. "But above all, I wanted to make this show start out proper."
Amaya (9-1 MMA, 0-1 BFC), meanwhile, suffers the first loss of his professional career.
The night's full results include:
- Karl Amoussou def. Chris Lozano via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 2:05 – welterweight-tourney opening round
- Bryan Baker def. Carlos Pereira via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28) – welterweight-tourney opening round
- David Rickels def. Jordan Smith via knockout (punches) – Round 1, 0:22 – welterweight-tourney opening round
- Ben Saunders def. Raul Amaya via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28) – welterweight-tourney opening round
PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike.com)
- Ryan Quinn def. Marc Stevens via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
- Matt Bessette def. Saul Almeida via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
- Dan Cramer def. Jeff Nader via split decision (27-30, 29-28, 29-28)
- Andrey Koreshkov def. Taiwan Howard via knockout (punch) – Round 1, 1:26
- Munah Holland def. Marianna Kheyfets via knockout (punches) – Round 2, 4:45
- Brandon Fleming def. Pete Rogers via submission (Peruvian necktie) – Round 1, 3:39
For more on Bellator 63, check out the MMA Events section of MMAjunkie.com.

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Four months after winning the Super Bowl, Pete Carroll is already back in high-gear, post-NFL-draft mode, chasing another title. But he always makes time to defend USC.
The Seattle Seahawks' rout of the Denver Broncos in February made Carroll only the third coach to win a college football national championship and Super Bowl.
Carroll was USC's coach when the Trojans enjoyed an unprecedented run of success — he had a record of 97-19, including six wins in seven Bowl Championship Series bowl games — and NCAA scrutiny. He left USC for the NFL five months before the NCAA hammered the Trojans with crippling sanctions.
After an investigation of more than four years, the NCAA determined that former tailback Reggie Bush and his family received cash and benefits from sports marketers and that a USC assistant coach knew or should have known about it. It also found that Carroll's hiring of a special teams consultant for the 2008 season violated a rule limiting the number of assistant coaches.
Among the penalties was the loss of 30 scholarships over three years and a two-year bowl ban. USC also vacated two victories in games Bush participated during the 2004 season — including the Trojans' win over Oklahoma in the BCS title game — and all 12 of the team's wins in 2005.
Carroll, 62, has never shied from voicing his displeasure about what he has described as "a terrible error" by the NCAA.
"What I hope comes out of this is that this never happens to a university again," he said during a recent telephone interview. "I think it was extraordinarily overdone, an overreaction."
On the day the NCAA announced the penalties, Carroll said in a video statement that he "never thought there were any facts that supported significant sanctions."
"The university didn't know," Carroll added. "We didn't know."
Carroll met with NCAA investigators and, a month after accepting the Seattle job, appeared on behalf of USC at an NCAA infractions hearing in Arizona.
"I listened to the people talk. I listened to the venom that they had for our program," he told reporters years later. "They didn't understand a thing about what we were all about. … They never were here. And they didn't want to hear it."
Still, Carroll was excoriated by critics for the timing of his departure from USC.
Asked about it before the Super Bowl, Carroll explained that he had not been concerned about the NCAA when he left because the investigation had dragged on.
"It does bother me because it's not right and it's not accurate," he said of the criticism, later adding, "I didn't feel bad about leaving at all. I didn't feel bad about it because I knew what the truth was."
Asked last week what was inaccurate, and what was the truth, Carroll did not hesitate.
"The truth was, an opportunity came up and it was one I couldn't turn away from," he said. "… The NCAA came back at the university… 'Now we're going to revisit after five years.' I had no knowledge that was coming. We thought maybe it wasn't coming because they didn't have anything to get us with. It wasn't five days, it wasn't five weeks. It was five years.
"Had we known that that was imminent … I would never have been able to leave under those circumstances. When I look back now, I would have stayed there to do what we needed to do to resolve the problem."
Carroll, who coached the New York Jets and New England Patriots before USC, was courted by the NFL throughout his run with the Trojans. But Seattle gave him a five-year contract worth about $35 million that included the type of control over personnel decisions that other teams didn't offer.
USC Athletic Director Pat Haden said Carroll should be remembered as one of USC's greatest coaches, and he does not agree with critics who say Carroll shirked responsibility and ran out on the Trojans.
"In house [at USC] and by myself, Pete Carroll is revered," Haden said. "He did a lot of things incredibly well here."
Carroll says he occasionally sees Bush, who plays for the Detroit Lions and is preparing for his ninth NFL season.
"It's always been, 'How're you doing? How's it going?'" Carroll said.
They do not talk about what happened at USC.


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Here are some bands or albums I have had a chance to listen to. Most of them, I haven't liked. Some of them, I'm pretty lukewarm on. And some, I did like. As always, you can make up your own mind.
[Note: All tracks removed. Contact me for a copy.]
Tori Amos – American Girl Posse.
Amos has transformed herself from naughty maiden to mother, and I'm not all that fond of the move. "Yo George" is ridiculous and "Big Wheel" is … well, we all know someone that's old trying to be cool and using terminology that just tries too hard. I'm old and uncool, but even I know that "MILF" is practically antique, in slang years. And then there are all the new "girls." These personalities of hers were weird but bearable on "Strange Little Girls," but now they're just overwrought. I know Amos has multiple personalities, and that's cool and artistic, but I don't want to be exposed to their blogs and their stockings over the shower door, so to speak.
I long for the days of "Pele," when the songs were jagged and you cut yourself on them. Now they're smooth and "Scarlet's Walk"ish, but without the cohesion and interest that Scarlet's journey across America engendered. There are some chipper numbers like "Secret Spell" and "Code Red," and a couple returns to the early days, most interestingly in the short but pithy "Fat Slut." I can see the girl from "Icicle," finally driven to a point, yelling all the epithets she can at the people that hurt her. I don't wish Tori would return to the grrrl-feminist days of yore, but this song, as well as the sly "Programmable Soda," reminded me for a few short minutes why I used to idolize Tori.
Tori Amos
Tori Amos – Secret Spell
Tori Amos – Programmable Soda
Rufus Wainwright, Release the Stars.
In spite of the ravishing beauty of "Going To A Town" (and you should see the video, my friends, because it is Hot with a capital Haw), the songs on "Release" all blend into themselves sort of blandly. There's only one other standout number (see below), unlike "Poses," which was full of 'em. The weirdest thing to me is the song "Tiergarten" — Wainwright's conceit is that he pronounces it like "tear garden," and uses it that way, but I haven't forgotten all my German, and a Tiergarten is, well, a zoo. So it just doesn't work when he invites his beloved to "walk [him] through the Tiergarten." Unless they're going to be looking at some zebras or something.
Notable exception to this is "Between My Legs," which is as risqué as it sounds, but is also a commentary (as I read it) of the narrator's willingness to take a chance on love even when he knows it will probably blow up in his face. I love the piano backup too, mixed with the odd spoken word guy at the end, and even a little showtunes in the form of … well, you'll see if you listen to it. It's rather wonderful.
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright – Between My Legs
The Antlers, In the Attic of the Universe.
The very cool thing about this album is that you can download and listen to it for free, so you have absolutely nothing to lose. This is another album that I felt like I was supposed to like, but didn't. In retrospect it seems completely passionless. I think in a genre where you aren't even supposed to move at a concert, just sort of stand there and look dopey, it's easy to make passionless music (or damp your passion to where the listener is barely aware of it). But it doesn't appeal to me much.
The Antlers (site and download)
Young Galaxy, Young Galaxy
This one I go back and forth on. In spite of the strong start of "Swing Your Heartache," I just didn't like this album as much as I thought I would. If you like other Arts&Crafts type music, of course you will probably love this. And I do love some songs, like the sibilant, sweetly sung "The Alchemy Between Us" and the semi-gospel "Embers". But inbetween there are clunkers like "Lazy Religion," which is weird and goes on forever (or maybe there was some kind of timewarp, I don't know). What do you think, oh faithful reader? Should I give them some more chances or what?
Young Galaxy
Young Galaxy – The Alchemy Between Us (video)
Young Galaxy – Embers
The Detroit Cobras, Tied and True.
Oh man, is this ever gonna be an awesome album. It continues the fantastic faux-motown-punk tradition of "Baby," and though I have not heard all of it, it promises to be just as good. If you like Nagy's wailing remixes of r&b classics, then please go to Bloodshot Records site and pre-order the tunes! You can download "As Long As I Have You," a Garnet Mimms cover, while you're at it. Or holler along to the Beatles' "Leave My Kitten Alone." Meow!
The Detroit Cobras
The Detroit Cobras – Leave My Kitten Alone
Amadou et Mariam, Dimanche A Bamako
Racing faster and further than the rest of the African pop pack, this Malian dynamic duo make music that you cannot, I mean cannot, stop listening to. I received "Sénégal Fast Food" on a mixtape from a stranger, but I wish I could find her and bake her some brownies. "Dimanche A Bamako," released in 2005, is danceable and fun, and if you speak French you might even be able to know what they're talking about. Of course that might spoil it, because it might be all serious and stuff underneath (like I suspect "M'bifé Blues" and "Politic Amagni" might be). I prefer just to chair-dance to it — I get crappy political songs stuffed in my ears all day. Let me have some fun, okay? And I pass the sparkly happy fun baton to you — please. Enjoy.
Amadou et Mariam
Amadou et Mariam – Sénégal Fast Food
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P.S. Really appreciate the work and effort the CSP Team is putting into this. I wish you guys all the best and may you be able to successfully accomplish what you set out to do!


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Disney Reveals 'Shake It Up: I <3 Dance' Track Listing + Cover
The freshest crop of Disney darlings are releasing an album! Zendaya and Bella Thorne each have tracks on the latest soundtrack of their hit show, 'Shake It Up: I <3 Dance' tracking listing!
Via Just Jared Jr., the album also features a remix of the theme song to the dance-centered series, sung by none other than Selena Gomez. Other artists featured include Bridgit Mendler, Caroline Sunshine, the McClain Sisters, Roshon Fegan and more. You can snag your copy on March 5.
'Shake It Up: I <3 Dance' Track Listing:
1. 'Contagious Love' — Zendaya and Bella Thorne
2. 'This Is My Dance Floor' — Bella Thorne and Zendaya
3. 'Beat of My Drum' — Zendaya
4. 'Blow the System' — Bella Thorne
5. 'Afterparty' — Roshon Fegan and Caroline Sunshine
6. 'Holla at the DJ' (The DJ Mike D Remix) — Coco Jones
7. 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin'' — Olivia Holt
8. 'Sharp as a Razor' — McClain Sisters
9. 'Future Sounds Like Us' — Dove Cameron
10. 'I Can Do Better' — Young L.A.
11. 'Shake It Up Theme Song (Cole Plante Reboot Remix)' — Selena Gomez
12. 'We're Dancing (Alex Ghenea 3.0 Remix)' — Bridgit Mendler


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BAFTA Los Angeles is saddened to learn of the passing of long time member and dear friend, David Campling.
David was a long-time BAFTA Los Angeles Board Member, and previous Treasurer of the organization. He co-founded the Heritage Archive project and was responsible for the taping and editing of many of the most popular interviews in the series.
A renowned film and sound editor, David's work included The Day of the Locust and Sunday Bloody Sunday with John Schlesinger, Carry on Doctor, Platoon, Death Wish II, Cul de Sac and The Terminator. Trained at Pinewood and Twickenham Studios, David was BAFTA-Nominated for his work on Sunday Bloody Sunday and nominated for the M.P.S.E. Golden Reel Award for Platoon.
David also produced the BAFTA Los Angeles tribute to John Schlesinger at the Egyptian Theater, Hollywood in 2002.
He was a dear friend of BAFTA Los Angeles, and the Board and Staff send our most sincere condolences to Trish Campling and their family.


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Her Turn
"Two weeks ago I told Steve to move out," said Nikki, 35, the mother of two boys, Justin, 9, and Jeremy, 6. "I've said it before, but this time I meant it. Our 10th anniversary last month was my wake-up call. I realized we've been having the same ugly fights for years.
"Steve found a condo near our home in a Philadelphia suburb. I thought I'd be relieved but I'm devastated, and so are the kids. Justin has been acting out in school and Jeremy is inconsolable. I feel overwhelmed. I know I've threatened divorce many times but deep down I love Steve — even if it is hard to remember why I fell so hard for him in the first place.
"When Justin was 12 months old, we saw a therapist for a month. But we stopped because Steve didn't like the counselor, and it seemed pointless for me to go alone. Three years later, when Jeremy was born, we tried therapy again, then quit four months later. Once again, Steve couldn't be bothered. He thinks he's the only person on the planet.
"Steve is the kind of guy who walks into a room and the current shifts. He's funny, charming, and sexy. I met him at a real-estate conference we both attended. I noticed him right away, and when he sat down next to me at lunch and started a conversation, I was smitten.
"It turned out we had grown up near each other and had several friends in common. They warned me that Steve was known as a party guy and a ladies' man. I of course saw his 'deeper' side and was confident that he would have no trouble committing to someone who understood him so well. In any case, our chemistry — sexual and otherwise — was amazing. We dated for eight months before getting married, in a small ceremony at my parents' country club. We were both 25.
"My parents liked Steve immediately. My dad, who's a charmer like Steve, is a successful real-estate developer, so they enjoy talking business. Mom taught elementary school but stopped working to raise me and my younger brother. She's a screamer who spared no one. If my room was messy, if Dad forgot to do something, if my brother didn't put away his lacrosse equipment, she'd launch into a tirade. Everything aggravated her. Still, I love my parents and know I can always count on them.
"I was an English major in college and after graduating had no idea what I wanted to do. I spent two years jumping from job to job — ski instructor, waitress, lifeguard. Fortunately, my parents provided emotional — and occasionally financial — support. At 24 I took my real-estate licensing exam and started at a small firm. Having grown up in the business, I immediately felt comfortable.
"After we married, Steve and I sublet an apartment in downtown Philadelphia and took advantage of everything the city offered. I loved the fact that we worked in the same field. We weren't direct competitors, so it gave us an extra bond. Then, just six months after the wedding, I discovered I was pregnant. That's when things started to sour. I was excited; Steve wasn't. He gave me very little support during my pregnancy. He was in the delivery room, but he hadn't gone with me to a single doctor's appointment.
"I worked until the day I delivered, but I wanted to be home with my children when they were young. That was a source of fights before Justin was even born. Afterward, when I was home full time, Steve would make snide comments like 'Can't you straighten up around here? You're not even working.'
"I loved being a stay-at-home mom, even though it was exhausting. And I started to resent the fact that Steve was anything but the understanding, helpful husband I'd hoped for. He'd stay out late with clients and golf all day Saturday. It never even occurred to him to help me carry in groceries after I'd been to the supermarket. Lots of husbands do that sort of thing without being asked.
"Money is a constant sore spot. Steve is a spender, I'm a saver. I clip coupons, he buys a new flat-screen TV. Yet he put me down for 'not working'! Two years ago, I agreed to come in to the office — he opened his own firm a few years ago — three days a week to handle billing and bookkeeping. The business grew quickly, so those three days soon turned into five. Then I took over some of the residential sales while Steve handled the commercial side. I hired a teenager to stay with the boys after school.
"While I'm thrilled that our business — I'm officially a co-owner — is doing so well, it burns me up that Steve still expects me to do everything at home. I get up with the kids in the morning, put them to bed at night and juggle everything in between. Is it too much for him to pick up his dirty socks? Do I have to remind him every night to take out the trash? I hate the fact that I fly off the handle like my mother did, and I wish I were less anxious. But when he shows such utter disregard for me, it pushes all my buttons.
"Oddly enough, we function well at work. We operate in different aspects of the business and our offices are at opposite ends of the hall. And we put on a great act when we're with other people.
"Everyone thinks Steve is terrific. They see this giving guy who is Mr. Camp Director, organizing all the kids on the Little League field and making each one feel special. They don't see what I see.
"I can't believe we've let ourselves be so miserable for so long. That's why I told him to get out. But now that he's actually gone, I realize how much I have invested in this relationship — way too much to just let it die. I hope he feels the same way."
His Turn
"For years Nikki has told me to leave every time we have a big fight. This time I took her at her word," said Steve, 35, a handsome man who looked as though he hadn't slept in days. "When I walked out that door two weeks ago, I was convinced we were finished.
"Now I'm confused. My kids are beside themselves; Jeremy called me at 1 a.m., crying and begging me to come home. I don't want them to have the same kind of childhood I had, with parents screaming and fighting all the time, but Nikki and I can't seem to stop ourselves.
"I'll admit that in some ways I've been a jerk, totally immature. I had no idea how to act, what a good husband, let alone a good father, was supposed to be. I didn't understand why Nikki couldn't clean house when she had a 2-month-old who slept most of the time. But I did not march in and sneer at her. She always thinks I'm being malicious when I'm not.
"Nikki's diatribes go on forever — and she doesn't care if the kids hear. I refuse to fight in front of them, so when she doesn't stop, I walk out. We never resolve anything because of her animosity. If I don't do exactly what she wants, she explodes, 'Get out! Get out! I want a divorce!' Because I didn't bring in the groceries? Because I play golf on the weekends? Give me a break. Her reactions have seemed so out of proportion that I've never taken her threats seriously. I see now that I should have.
"I also realize that I was a jerk about counseling. I didn't like the first therapist we saw and I agreed to go the second time only to get Nikki off my back. But I'm uncomfortable talking about personal problems to a stranger. My family didn't believe in therapy.
"I grew up in Philadelphia, the youngest of four kids. My father owned a successful furniture store but he was an alcoholic who drank his salary. My mother handled all the household duties but also worked as a secretary to make ends meet. Dad wasn't physically abusive but he'd rage at my mother. I remember lying in bed at night, shaking as I listened to him. Amazingly, she still waited on him hand and foot. He never lifted a finger. My parents finally got a divorce when I was 17.
"I always had lots of friends, but I was a mediocre student. I went to college in Colorado — I wanted to get as far away as possible — but dropped out, moved back to Philadelphia and found a job in commercial real estate. I've never looked back. I enjoy meeting people and have a good head for structuring deals.
"People always ask, 'How can you work with your wife?' Well, we have the same vision for the company and, fortunately, we also have an ability to put personal stuff aside in the office. We have to — our financial future depends on it. If only we could do the same at home.
"When we first married, we couldn't wait to be together at night. Now she goes upstairs, I go downstairs. Or I did. For the last two weeks I haven't been living there at all, and it has been unbearable. I miss my family more than I ever would have dreamed.
"There are so many things I wish I'd done differently. That said, Nikki has changed. She used to be even tempered and playful. She liked going out as much as I did. Now she's irritable, defensive, and nasty, just like her mother. Still, I couldn't face my children, or myself, if I didn't try to patch things up. This time around, I'll give it 200 percent."
The Counselor's Turn
"After 10 years of marriage, two children and a business, Nikki's and Steve's lives were tightly interwoven, and it was hard for them to picture a life apart," said the counselor.
"Yet being together had become intolerable. Bitterness and resentment permeated every corner of their marriage.
"The transition from being partners to being parents triggered conflict and stress, as it does for many people. But these two had an added burden in that they had barely adjusted to being a couple before becoming a family. Not surprisingly, each slipped into negative patterns absorbed during childhood: Nikki became irritable, snappish, and hurtful, like her mother; Steve distanced himself and did nothing, like his father. These were extremely unproductive ways of relating.
"'Counseling can't help,' I warned them, 'unless both of you are willing to make a long-term commitment to it. In your past efforts, you gave up too soon.' The fact that Steve promised to try harder this time was an enormous step in the right direction. Before, he had been unwilling to accept any culpability or help. He was jolted into action when he saw how diminished his life really would be if his marriage ended.
"Nikki was right that they'd been fighting about the same issues for years. But she wasn't seeing the forest for the trees: It wasn't the housecleaning or absentee parenting that was driving them apart; it was a daily lack of respect and love. 'Repetitive arguments are a sign that you're stuck in a power struggle that gets activated whenever hot buttons are pushed,' I said.
"Even though Nikki's anger was sometimes justified, she had to find a new way to deliver her message — without sarcasm and criticism, and without issuing constant ultimatums about divorce. Because Steve's childhood was steeped in hostility, he assiduously avoided confrontation. When he couldn't, he felt trapped and lost his temper. Because his parents had never resolved conflicts in a mutually supportive way, he was clueless about how to accomplish that.
"After staying in the condo for a month, Steve, at Nikki's invitation, cautiously moved back home. Before he did so, however, we discussed at length two essential delements of marital harmony: goodwill and peaceful resolution of conflicts. Partners with a long history of fighting usually assume the worst in each other, and these two fit that description to a tee. Nikki assumed that Steve would not follow through; he assumed that she'd be on the attack. When a couple is always primed for battle, it's easy to slip into destructive tit-fot-tat blaming. 'You're reacting to something that might have happened in the past, not what's happening now,' I told them. 'Unload that extra baggage and put yourselves in the moment.'
"I pointed out that most arguments have a pattern, and identifying that pattern goes a long way toward changing it. 'Make a conscious choice not to get bogged down in the usual rough spots,' I said. 'When you push through you force a subtle but powerful shift in your attitudes and reactions to each other. You'll be able to disagree without having it degenerate into a shouting match.'
"And that, happily, is what they did. Instead of going into a rant, Nikki began airing her concerns after the kids were asleep, or on the commute to and from work (that time alone in the car, both said, provided a peaceful, neutral setting for serious conversation). Modifying her tone of voice and her body language to convey that she was truly interested in listening to Steve's views, Nikki learned to say, 'I could use some help in the evenings with the kids. How can we handle this differently?' Occasionally she would write e-mails to Steve; putting her feelings in writing had the effect of helping both of them because it forced them to focus on the issue at hand.
"For his part, Steve stopped withdrawing and began to follow through on promises. When an argument erupted and they had to table the discussion, he kept his word that they would return to it later. A relieved Nikki started to feel appreciated and heard. Since they no longer approached each other as adversaries, they were even able to discuss such sensitive subjects as money calmly. For instance, Steve wanted a motorcycle, but Nikki opposed it for financial as well as safety reasons. Avoiding an explosion, they discussed the issue over lunch and agreed that Steve would hold off while the children were small. 'We agreed to revisit it later,' he told me with a laugh. 'I haven't given up.'
"They've also reshuffled the household chores: Nikki gets the kids up and dressed in the morning, and Steve makes breakfast, packs lunches and walks the boys to the school bus. At night she cooks dinner, and he's in charge of baths. They take turns with story time. Steve plays golf only occasionally now, checking first with Nikki to make sure nothing is planned. 'He doesn't do the laundry,' Nikki said at our last session. 'But when everything else is going well, the small stuff is just that — small.'
"These two stayed in counseling for two years. Why did the process help this time? For starters, Nikki and Steve were finally on the same page. Both realized that marital healing is not a quick fix but a slow, often-painstaking process requiring patience and long-term commitment. Rising to the challenge, each had the courage to drop the defensive stance, stop the blame game, and open the door to real change."
"Can This Marriage Be Saved?" is the most popular, most enduring women's magazine feature in the world. This month's case is based on interviews and information from the files of Joyce Dolberg Rowe, clinical director of the Mars & Venus Counseling Center, in Quincy and Hull, Massachusetts. The story told here is true, although names and other details have been changed to conceal identities. "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation.
Originally published in Ladies' Home Journal, December 2004.


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Democratic candidate for governor Martha Coakley delivered an upbeat, optimistic message during her appearance Tuesday in Taunton, in which she officially picked up the endorsement of Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr.
TAUNTON — Democratic candidate for governor Martha Coakley delivered an upbeat, optimistic message during her appearance Tuesday in Taunton, in which she officially picked up the endorsement of Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr.
"I think the future is terrific for Taunton. More people from Boston should come down here and see what's happening," Coakley told a crowd of about a dozen, who heard her speak at the new headquarters and training center of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 223.
The state's first female attorney general was flanked by Hoye and Local 223 business manager/financial secretary David Fenton while addressing the crowd in an unfinished section of 475 Myles Standish Boulevard at the Myles Standish Industrial Park.
Coakley said new classrooms under construction at the Local 223 facility, as well as plans for a future life-sciences campus in another section of the industrial park, are emblematic of her commitment to the development of the renewable-energy industry in the commonwealth.
She also stressed the importance of pursuing a fresh, comprehensive approach to K-12 education to prepare young graduates with the skills needed to fill those jobs.
Hoye said he was endorsing Coakley for her continued advocacy of creating opportunities for Taunton and other "gateway cities," which are mid-sized cities with long-standing social and economic challenges.
The mayor said he also appreciates Coakley's commitment to keeping Taunton State Hospital open so families in the southeastern region can stay in close contact and visit with relatives who are patients there.
The mental-health facility currently has state funding to stay open through 2014 with 45 beds, down from its original number of 169.
Gov. Deval Patrick previously said he intends to close the facility in favor of a new hospital now operating in Worcester.
Hoye said Coakley has assured him that if elected governor, she would endeavor to increase annual, local funding aid to Taunton. He also complimented her office's blighted-property receivership program that has led to vacant sites being improved and placed back on tax rolls.
When asked what specifically differentiates her economic strategy from Republican frontrunner Charlie Baker, in terms of the greater Taunton region, Coakley said she is now fully focused on the September primary election.
But she went on to say that business growth continues to be hampered by red tape, which she said includes "overlapping regulations" and "agencies that don't always talk to each other."
Among those in attendance were candidate for Bristol County Commissioner Daniel Dermody and School Committee member Carol Doherty.
Doherty said Coakley's experience as attorney general was "a good training ground for making tough decisions."
"I think she's honest and straightforward," Doherty said.
Coakley's main challenger in the primary will be former state treasurer Steven Grossman.
Fall River Mayor Will Flanagan has also come out in support of Coakley's gubernatorial bid.


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One of Canada's best-known, respected Olympic wrestling coaches was stunned by the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) announced plans Feb. 12 to drop wrestling as a core sport at the 2020 summer Olympic Games.
"This will damage the Olympic movement," said Victor Zilberman, head coach of the Canadian wrestling team at the 1988 Games in Seoul, Korea, and a team wrestling coach at five others.
"Once wrestling is not part of the Olympics, funding from Sport Canada will dry up and there will no longer be the same interest.
"In Canada, it will have a devastating effect."
Zilberman, 65 and about to retire from his teaching position at Vanier College, said he was in his car driving to work when the news broke.
And like so many, he could hardly believe what he was hearing about a cornerstone Olympic sport so inextricably linked with the original Games of ancient Greece and so basic to the Olympic movement since the modern Games began in 1896.
The IOC's 15-member executive board voted by secret ballot and allowed the modern pentathlon, which is less popular internationally than wrestling, to stay as one of the 25 "core" sports.
Although the IOC does not make its final decision until September, few seemed hopeful that the decision would be reversed.
Zilberman ventured that the IOC's idea was to "make space" for new sports with a "higher profile" and, as the New York Times speculated, to make the Games more TV-friendly for a younger international audience.
But such an approach, Zilberman said, is shortsighted, and the decision was widely criticized, including by FILA, the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles, the sport's governing world body.
"It will be like having the Winter Games without men's hockey," Zilberman said, noting that amateur wrestling remains a popular sport in 180 nations.
In Canada, he said, "if the funding is not there, participation will go down," and potential talent will be discouraged from entering the sport.
Zilberman also declined to speculate on the potential effect of the IOC decision on the YM-YWHA Wrestling Club based in the Reinitz Wrestling Centre, a state-of-the-art facility funded by former national champion George Reinitz.
In an interview from Florida, Reinitz said he fears that his centre's days are now numbered. He was also critical of "weak" leadership within FILA that did not do enough to lobby for wrestling with the IOC.
"It is very sad," he said. "At first I was surprised [by the decision]," he added. "But after I analyzed it, I realized that the IOC is governed by bloc voting, especially from Asian nations, and how this was all manoeuvred to make it happen.
"The IOC operates like a political organization and is all about lobbying. I rub your back and you rub mine, is how it works," Reinitz said.
As many as 10 wrestlers trained by Zilberman have competed at the Olympics, among them his Montreal Wrestling Club Jewish wrestlers Andy Borodow (1992 and 1996), Garry Kallos (1984), his own son David Zilberman (2008) and Howard Stupp, a member of the Canadian Olympic team in 1976 and 1980 who works for the IOC in Lausanne, Switzerland, as director of legal affairs.
They've also included Canadian Olympians Martine Degrunier (2008) and Guivi Sissaouri, a 1996 silver medalist.
In all, Canada has garnered 16 wrestling medals at the Olympic Games.


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ESPN's Adam Schefter arguably had the Sunday pregame car wash story of the year today, reporting that Saints coach Sean Payton's contract extension, signed in September 2011, was rejected by the league office at some point within the past year.
Schefter also reported that Payton will become a free agent in 2013, notwithstanding the possibility that the last year of Payton's contract (i.e., this year) arguably has tolled due to his suspension.
Regardless of the contractual niceties, a league source tells PFT that the Saints are adamant that Payton will return as the head coach in 2013, after Payton's suspension ends.
Whether that happens because Payton's current contract tolls or his new contract is tweaked and approved or a separate new contract is negotiated or he becomes a free agent and re-signs while on the market, the Saints believe he will be back when his suspension ends.


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FILE - In this March 24, 1977 file photo, Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla is seen commemorating the first anniversary of the military coup in Asuncion, Argentina. The former Argentine dictator died of natural causes Friday, May 17, 2013, while serving life sentences at the Marcos Paz prison for crimes against humanity. Videla took power in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate "subversives." He was 87. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia, File)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate so-called "subversives," died quietly in his sleep Friday while serving life in prison for crimes against humanity. He was 87.
Federal Prison Service Director Victor Hortel said Videla died in his prison cell. He was found lifeless in his bed and declared dead at 8:25 a.m., according to an official medical report cited by the state news agency Telam.
Videla ran one of the bloodiest military governments during South America's era of dictatorships, and later sought to take full responsibility for kidnappings, tortures, deaths and disappearances when he was tried again and again for these crimes in recent years. He said he knew about everything that happened under his rule because "I was above everyone."
Some rights activists see Videla now as more of a tool than a leader, alleging that the junta served to consolidate the power of Argentina's wealthy elites.
Videla had a low profile before the March 24, 1976, coup, but quickly became the architect of a repressive system that killed about 9,000 people, according to an official accounting after democracy returned to Argentina in 1983. Human rights activists believe the real number was as high as 30,000.
This "dirty war" introduced two frightening terms to the global lexicon of terror: "disappeareds" — people kidnapped and never seen nor heard from again — and "death flights," in which political prisoners were thrown, drugged but alive, from navy planes into the sea.
Complaints from families looking for missing loved ones were later heard internationally, revealing that a regime many Argentines initially welcomed as an antidote to political violence and economic chaos was much bloodier than they expected.
"The disappeareds aren't there, they don't exist," Videla told a news conference defensively in 1977.
Videla's dictatorship also stood out for its policy of holding pregnant prisoners until they gave birth, and then killing the women while arranging for illegal adoptions of their babies, usually by military or police families. This happened hundreds of times, and the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo rights group has relentlessly sought to reunite these children, now in their 30s, with their biological families. Videla was sentenced to a 50-year-term for the thefts of these babies last year after some of the more than 100 people who have recovered their true identities to date testified against him.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel, who spent 28 months in prison during the dictatorship and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work documenting Videla's crimes, said his death is no cause for celebration, and urged Argentina's justice system to keep investigating the dirty war era.
"The death of Videla should not bring joy to anyone. We need to keep working for a better society, more just, more humane, so that all this horror doesn't ever happen, never again," Esquivel said in an interview with Radio Once Diez. Neither does Videla's death end an era, Esquivel said: "It goes beyond Videla, it's a political system that they implemented throughout the country and in Latin America."
Videla's regime, known as the "Process of National Reorganization," ousted President Maria Estela "Isabel" Peron, whom strongman president Juan Domingo Peron had named as his vice president before his death. Argentina was extremely politically unstable at the time, vexed by an economic crisis and waves of kidnappings and killings perpetrated by both armed leftists and right-wing death squads.
The widow Peron had already set extrajudicial killings in motion when she ordered the military to ensure the "annihilation" of small bands of leftist guerrillas who were promoting a revolution from a mountainous hideout in Argentina's Tucuman province. By the time of the coup, these bands were no longer a real threat, but the junta intensified the deadly campaign, eliminating political opponents, union members, student activists, social workers and even priests and Catholic lay workers. It became frighteningly common for squads of thugs to close off streets and then roust people from their beds, driving them away in unmarked Ford Falcons to be tortured in clandestine detention centers.
The process soon spread internationally as the junta joined Operation Condor, an effort launched by Chile's dictator, Gen. Augusto Pinochet to make sure the countries of South American's southern cone provided no refuge to each other's enemies. Paraguay's dictator Alfredo Stroessner joined the pact, as did the leaders of Bolivia, Brasil, and Uruguay. Secret documents released decades later showed that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was kept well informed.
Videla told journalists Maria Seone and Vicente Muleiro, authors of his 2001 biography "The Dictator," that the three essential elements of his state-sponsored terror campaign were clandestine detention centers, torture to obtain information and the subsequent disappearance of the prisoners, so that they "don't have identity," and are "neither alive nor dead."
Videla's junta closed Congress, banned political parties, intervened in unions and universities, and imposed an iron censorship over the media. The military leaders engineered a joint venture with the owners of the newspapers La Nacion and Clarin to control newsprint and thus ensure sympathetic coverage.
The high point of Videla's regime came in 1978, when Argentina hosted soccer's World Cup. Just blocks from the River Plate stadium where Argentina won the championship, detainees were being tortured inside the Navy Mechanics School, a leafy campus where thousands were taken, never to be seen again.
Videla retired in 1981 and handed leadership to a succession of other generals. By then the junta was weakened, pressured by persistent inflation, a sluggish economy and an explosion in Argentina's debt load after nationalizing the red ink of private corporations. The dictators then launched an ill-advised war against Britain for the Falkland Islands, which Argentina claims as the Malvinas and considers part of its territory. Argentina's defeat hastened the return of democracy on Dec. 12, 1983.
President Raul Alfonsin created a truth commission to investigate the dictatorship's crimes, and its report, titled "Never Again," served as the basis for a historic trial of the junta leaders, which ended in 1985 with Videla being sentenced to life in prison and stripped of his military rank. Alfonsin's government also passed amnesty laws designed to prevent other human rights trials.
But Alfonsin's successor, President Carlos Menem, pardoned the junta leaders in 1990, and Videla remained free until 1998, when a judge charged him in the baby thefts. He spent a month in prison before asserting the right Argentines over 70 have to house arrest pending trial.
In 2003, during the presidency of Nestor Kirchner, the Supreme Court nullified the amnesty laws, beginning a new era of human rights investigations that finally reached the trial stage in recent years. In 2010, Videla was condemned to life in prison for torturing and killing 31 political dissidents, and was ordered to serve the time in common prison. The baby thefts conviction was added in 2012.
Videla ultimately spent only five years behind bars after courts ended his house arrest in 2008. He died while standing trial for Operation Condor's kidnappings and killings. Videla's hated economy minister, Martinez de Hoz, also died, in March, while being tried for crimes against humanity. Argentina's justice system has moved slowly, but activists are proud that such dictatorship figures have been tried by civilian courts as part of a democratic process.
"History will evaluate the genocide and shame of the civic-military regime Videla headed, and of which he never repented," said the Grandmothers' president, Estela de Carlotto. She predicted that Videla "won't go to heaven" because "despite what man says on Earth, he up above says something else."
Videla's ancestors fought in Argentina's war of independence from Spain, and his father, Lt. Col. Rafael Videla, joined the coup that toppled President Hipolito Yrigoyen in 1930. Videla was born on Aug. 2, 1925, in Mercedes, a town in Buenos Aires province, and kept up the tradition. He became a general in 1971 and was designated army commander in 1976. He married Alicia Raquel Hartridge in 1948 and had seven children.
Associated Press Writers Daniel Zadunaisky and Almudena Calatrava contributed to this story.


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Nothing makes me feel better than setting a budget and sticking to it. I feel so pious when I make it to my next paycheck with a few dollars to spare. I get a major rush from saving up for something I want and purchasing it with cash, without it affecting my next three paychecks. Living within your means is a wonderful thing. It's also exhausting.
For me, budgeting everything down to the penny is difficult to sustain as part of a regular lifestyle. It's about constantly deciding what needs to be bought NOW and what can wait another week or month. Do I pay a little more toward an outstanding bill, or do I buy new socks for my kiddo? Should I get an oil change or new underwear? Stupid stuff. I'm not budgeting for vacations or an IPad. It's stuff I will have to get around to spending money on someday.
My husband and I have made some progress this year that I am truly proud of. I have been faithfully putting away a little of each paycheck into a savings account. I am contributing to a retirement account again. We have been diligent about grocery shopping regularly and cheaply, and have cut down our weekly food spending by about $50 or so per week. It seems like I am still doing something wrong though. I often run out of money before the next payday and have to use my credit card for gas or something. I can't ever seem to get ahead.
The first rule that any financial expert would tell me is to cut out unnecessary expenses. I am not even close to an extreme couponer, a garage-saler or even a good bargain finder, but I don't spend money on the things most people around me do either. The only items I regularly spend money on that would fall into the unnecessary category are cable tv at $75 a month and lunches or lattes a couple of times a week. Yes, I could take that $3.50 latte twice a week and put that money into savings and end up with an extra $30 a month. Big whoop. We don't go out to dinner anymore. We don't go to movies. We don't go out for drinks. We don't pay for entertainment or hobbies. When you consider that, the little luxuries of cable tv, lattes or a bottle of wine on the weekend become necessary rewards in the daily stress of working to live.
I know these times call for serious penny-pinching, and some people would consider me lucky to have food to eat and a roof over my head, so I hope I don't sound too ungrateful. I'm just having a problem with budget burnout. If you are constantly depriving yourself of anything fun, how long until you go on a spree? I read an interesting article today comparing budgeting to dieting. The premise was with budgeting as with diets, you can't go crazy for long-term results. Sure, restricting your calories or purchases to extremes will yield impressive results right away, but rarely is it sustainable over the long run.
How have you found a sustainable way to budget while not feeling deprived? Are there little treats that help you get through your day while staying on budget? Sometimes the only thing that keeps me trudging through 8 more hours of work is the reward of a latte break, but is that going to be the death of my bank account?


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New Way To Buy Federal Duck Stamps: The E-Duck Stamp
AUSTIN, Texas — Waterfowl hunters in Texas will have the option of purchasing a Federal Duck Stamp electronically this year, as part of a three-year joint effort between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and nine state fish and wildlife agencies, including the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Hunters who buy the Federal Duck Stamp from license retailers this year will be issued the actual stamp at the time of purchase and pay the face value of $15. However, purchases of the Federal Duck Stamp at TPWD locations — game warden offices, state parks and other sites that sell licenses — as well as online and phone transactions, will consist of an electronic authorization and the actual stamp will be mailed separately. These locations will only sell the new electronic Federal Duck Stamp, which costs $17, reflecting additional shipping and handling fees.
The "E-Duck Stamp" option is designed to make it more convenient for hunters, birdwatchers, stamp collectors, and others who support conservation of the nation's wetlands to buy federal migratory bird hunting and conservation stamps, commonly known as the Federal Duck Stamp.
To hunt any migratory game bird in Texas, hunters must have a valid Texas hunting license, HIP (Harvest Information Program) certification and a Texas Migratory Game Bird Stamp ($7). Along with this state stamp, they must also have a Federal Duck Stamp ($15 hard copy or $17 electronic) to hunt ducks or geese.
The new electronic Federal Duck Stamp program allows the fish and wildlife agencies of Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, Texas, and Wisconsin, to sell stamps electronically through their individual automated licensing systems, providing a special receipt as proof of purchase. This proof of purchase — a unique code given to the purchaser instantly — will be accepted as evidence of a Federal Duck Stamp purchase for 45 days — time enough for the printed stamp to arrive in the mail.
A Federal Duck Stamp and a Texas Migratory Game Bird Stamp are required of anyone 16 years of age and older to hunt waterfowl in Texas. Federal Duck Stamps also provide free entry into national wildlife refuges that charge entrance fees.
"This pilot program explores one way to improve service to duck stamp purchasers, in particular those from rural or remote areas," said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director, H. Dale Hall. "We are always looking for new ways to better serve the public, and enhance wetland conservation."
Funds from Federal Duck Stamp sales are a vital tool for wetland conservation, with 98 cents of every dollar generated used to purchase or lease wetland habitat for the National Wildlife Refuge System. Since the stamp's inception in 1934, more than $700 million has been raised to acquire more than 5.2 million acres of waterfowl habitat. In 2005, more than 1.6 million Federal Duck Stamps were sold.
"The Duck Stamp program provides much needed funding for wetland conservation, and it is important that they are marketed appropriately for today's web-savvy public," said Matt Hogan, Executive Director of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. "The E-Duck Stamp meets the needs of modern day hunters and stamp collectors and ensures continued success for wetland conservation."
The Electronic Duck Stamp Act of 2005 directed the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with state management agencies, to conduct a three-year pilot program under which up to 15 states could issue electronic migratory bird hunting and conservation stamps. The pilot program will allow the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to evaluate the program and make adjustments or assess other distribution options to better serve stamp buyers.
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LONDON — A Japanese fabless semiconductor company, Digital Media Professionals Inc., has launched a graphics processor called the Ultray 2000. Originally shown at the Siggraph computer graphics exhibition in Los Angeles the chip was expected to become available for sale in the fall of 2005. The chip is intended to allow the generation and rendering of three-dimensional graphics and has been made for the company by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. using a 0.13-micron CMOS manufacturing process, DMP said in a statement.
The Ultray 2000 copes with image sizes of up to 1280 pixels by 1024 pixels and supports in hardware an algorithm that generates physical light reflections and shadow properties for various materials. It is also able to create a hairy surface, the company said.
The chip operates at up to a clock frequency of 200-MHz with a DDR memory interface that is able to send data at a clock frequency of up to 400-MHz.
"Taking into the account the authoring side of the equation, it is impractical to introduce brand new graphics architecture. DMP's approach is to add new rendering scheme such as BRDF and gaseous object renderer on top on the de facto standard architecture to enable the next level of graphics computing," said Tatsuo Yamamoto, president and chief executive officer of DMP, in a statement. BRDF stands for Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function.


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No matter what our age or where we come from, everyone's experience of being LGBT is different. Likewise, we each have our own distinct relationship to annual Pride celebrations -- and the notion of Pride itself.
We asked LGBT people of all ages, throughout the U.S., what Pride means to them today -- and what it meant to their own generation at the time they first became aware that Pride celebrations existed.
Copyright © 2013 Remedy Health Media, LLC. All rights reserved.


text: Melbourne - World No 2 Maria Sharapova must be feeling like she has been down this road before. Last year the Russian arrived at the Australian Open without any match practice after struggling to overcome a nagging ankle injury sustained at the 2011 year-ending WTA Championships. The problems forced her out of the Brisbane International, the only tournament she had been scheduled to play before the season's first grand slam. Twelve months later, the four-times grand slam winner is again entering Melbourne lacking match practice after pain in her collar bone caused her to skip Brisbane, won by Serena Williams. Not that Sharapova seemed too concerned. "It's much more important for me to be healthy and to be ready than to try to go out and play a few matches," the 25-year-old said after her withdrawal in Brisbane. "I've always built my career around the fact that it's very important for me to go into something like the Australian Open believing and knowing that I'm healthy, that I'm confident. "I don't exactly need to play five tournaments in order to feel that way." Despite coming into last year's Australian Open cold, Sharapova made it to the final, although she was blown away by Victoria Azarenka in just 82 minutes. An error-strewn performance left some observers questioning whether it was the beginning of the end for the Florida-based Russian, who burst onto the scene as a 17-year-old in 2004 by winning the Wimbledon title. A career-threatening shoulder injury required reconstructive surgery in 2008 and recurrent injuries were starting to take their toll as a new generation of young players began to match her power. Instead, Sharapova silenced her critics and had one of the most successful years of her career. She won the French Open title to complete a career grand slam, became the first Russian woman to carry her country's flag at an Olympic opening ceremony in London, where she won the silver medal, and made the semi-finals of the US Open. Her only blip at grand slam events in 2012 was when she was beaten by Germany's Sabine Lisicki in the fourth round at Wimbledon. She also won titles in Stuttgart and Rome and made the final at the season-ending WTA Championships, Indian Wells, Miami and Beijing. Her Brisbane pullout meant she was one of the first players to arrive in Melbourne to begin practicing on Rod Laver Arena. Local media reported that while she appeared to be periodically flexing her shoulder, the intensity in her ground strokes was as powerful as ever. The question remains whether that practice against hitting partner Vladimir Voltchkov will be enough for her to lift the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup for the second time. Aside from Williams's dominance in Brisbane, a big concern for Sharapova will be her recent form against the American and Azarenka. She will probably need to beat at least one of them to clinch the title in Melbourne. The Russian had a 2-4 record against world number one Azarenka last year, three of those losses coming in finals. Against Williams, the most dominant player in the women's game, she had an 0-3 record, which included a 6-0, 6-1 loss in the Olympic final on the Wimbledon grass courts. Sharapova will doubtless be anxious to settle a few scores at the year's first major.


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francheezie needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 166 designs submitted by 53 freelance designers.
Chop Your Car Payment.com
Our company is helping out car owners during this difficult recession get ahead on their car payments. We help lower their monthly car payments!
Our audience is male/females from 18+ years of age. They are web savvy, so we need a professional grade and creative logo.
- Logo with the words "Chop Your Car Payment.com".
- Color scheme is wide open, but should be refreshing and bold.
- Some elements to include: car, dollar bill, dollar sign $, invoice... here's where your creativity should shine!
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Real Estate in Phuket, Thailand has been growing as a market during the recent years. New condominiums, houses, hotels, villas, and new business establishments are built around the island and more lands are available for sale on the market.
St. James Properties Co., Ltd, as a company, has been offering the best of Phuket properties for sale to discerning buyers from all over the world for the last 13 years. We are one of Phuket's leading property agents with a reputation for excellent service and accurate advice. Invest in a real estate in Phuket today and peruse our database of wonderful villas, homes for rent, and Phuket investment properties.
We are happy to advise you on how to invest your hard-earned money in the real real estate industry. Our expert agents will be able to show you more options and can show or drive you around the island for actual viewing. If you are looking to buy a Phuket property, or to sell your Phuket home, please contact us today.


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tfryer needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 88 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Young Life Surrey/Delta
We are a high-energy, Christian based non-profit organization that works with teens.
While our main work is with teens, our literature is targeted to supportive adults in the community. These may be donors, parents, or those who are interested in finding out more about us. We want to have an identifiable brand that reflects both the youth culture in which we work, but is simple and appealing to the community in general.
Letterhead and envelope with logo/brand that is clean and fresh. We are a regional office, and need something that our staff can easily work with, especially to customize their own business cards. We all work with Macs, using Pages primarily. If you can't design it as an IWorks Pages template, we'll need the graphics in a separate file so we can use them in Pages.
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