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The Fall Of Corregidor
"The Rock" was a proud island fortress, impregnable to attack from the sea. Unfortunately, the Japanese didn't come that way. Its capture climaxed the bitterest defeat in our history
August 1966 | Volume 17, Issue 5
In 1941, Manila Bay was the focus of United States power in the Orient: all of our war plans emphasized its importance. The Orange—or War with Japan—plan envisaged a naval campaign: if United States and Filipino forces could hold the Bataan peninsula and the fortified islands at the entrance to Manila Bay, thus denying their use to an enemy for a period of three to six months, the Pacific Fleet would fight its way westward from Pearl Harbor and relieve and reinforce the defenses.
But long before Pearl Harbor, this concept had been challenged by some of our military planners. The network of Japanese sea and air bases throughout the western Pacific, and the tremendous strength of Japan, which for years was grossly underestimated, made the hope of relief for the Philippines a chimera. By late 1940 and early 1941 there was at least a tacit understanding in Washington that if Japan struck, the Philippines were doomed to early capture.
Therefore, in January, February, and March, 1941, a new plan, Rainbow 5, grew out of staff talks between the United States and Great Britain. It was a global plan, anticipating war by the United States against both Germany and Japan. Rainbow 5 clearly called for a defensive strategy in the Pacific until Germany should be defeated and, implicitly at least, accepted the loss of the Philippines, Guam, and Wake to the Japanese.
In the summer and fall of 1941, however, the infectious and misplaced optimism and dynamism of General Douglas MacArthur, who at the end of July was appointed Commander, U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, was largely responsible for a new plan. MacArthur set forth his belief that the United States should—and in time could—hold the entire Philippine archipelago. The War Department caught his enthusiasm and allowed him to implement this plan, despite its discordancy with Orange and Rainbow 5.
Throughout his career Douglas MacArthur was cast—in his own mind and in history—as a man of destiny; he never doubted the validity of his own views and felt that whatever area he served in should be the focus of American efforts. He had an ability, too, to dramatize, to communicate, and to persuade; his powerful personality, his charm, and his military seniority mesmerized some of his Army subordinates, both in Manila and in Washington. Although, when the crisis came, his plan for the defense of all the Philippines existed chiefly on paper, he nevertheless predicted a strong defense that could turn away any enemy, or at least make conquest of the islands not worth the price. The plan had put more than 100,000 Filipinos into uniforms of some kind, but most of them knew little and cared less about the mechanics of warfare. As late as the summer of 1941, a few short months before castastrophe, a viable Philippine army was still merely a dream. The only well-trained Filipinos were 12,000 Philippine Scouts, an elite part of the U.S. Regular Army officered chiefly by Americans.
Thus at the outbreak of war, the United States had three plans for the Philippines' defense—Orange, Rainbow 5, and MacArthur's. None was followed through.
But the change in emphasis in U.S. war plans in the Summer of 1941 was not due wholly to MacArthur. The doctrines of Giulio Douhet, the Italian prophet of victory through air power, and of Alexander de Seversky, were exciting stimuli that summer, and theorists of strategic air warfare—notably General H. H. "Hap" Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Forces—found ready market for their views. Rainbow 5, which planned no increase in U.S. strength in the Far East, was revised to authorize offensive air operations. A strong air reinforcement of the Philippines began, the aim being to have 165 heavy bombers in the islands by March, 1942.
On November 15, 1941, three weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor, General George G. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, held a secret press background briefing. He said that war with Japan was imminent, but that the U.S. position in the Philippines was highly favorable. Our strength in the islands, he said, was far larger than the Japanese imagined. Thirty-five B-17 Flying Fortresses were based in the Philippines—Marshall called them the greatest concentration of heavy bomber strength anywhere in the world. The Philippines were being reinforced daily. If war did start, the B-17's would immediately attack the enemy's naval bases and would set the "paper cities of Japan on fire. Although the B-17's did not have enough range to reach Japan and return to Philippine bases, General Marshall (with a political naïveté characteristic of many of our military men at the time) said optimistically that the bombers could continue on to Vladivostok and would carry out shuttle bombing raids between there and the Philippines.
The new Convair B-2A bombers would soon be in production. General Marshall said; they would be able to fly higher than any Japanese interceptors.


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During the last few years the Society has lost through death no
fewer than six of its most active and distinguished members,
Professor C. H. Oldham who died in 1926, Sir William Thompson
and Dr. Ninian Falkiner who died in 1929, and Messrs. Thomas
Barrington, John Hooper, and Sparkhall Brown whose deaths
occurred in tragic succession within an interval of little more than
a year (1930-1931). All these gentlemen had occupied high office
in the Society, contributed notably to its proceedings, and had
worked indefatigably to further its objects. The following memoirs
record briefly some of the principal facts of their careers and of
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We're not sure which part of this video gets us more excited -- the idea of screwing around in the wide open country on motorcycles or two adorable women playing tug of war on said motorcycles. It might be a little of both.
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Somewhere along the way, an egg-toting, gift-giving rabbit became associated with the Easter holiday. We assume that soon after, sadistic parents decided that it would be fun to make sure any likeness of this generous rabbit should be creepy and frightening so they can take pictures and video of their children being completely freaked out.
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With that in mind, let's revisit some of the more memorable halftime shows — both good and bad — of years past.
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At least two Americans are among the estimated 16 people missing after a cruise ship hit a reef on Friday night and capsized off the west coast of Italy with 4,200 passengers and crew aboard.
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Reshaping the Holy
Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh
Columbia University Press
Reshaping the Holy
Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh
Columbia University Press
Through extensive field research, Elora Shehabuddin explores the profound implications of women's political and social mobilization for reshaping Islam. Specifically, she examines the lives of Muslim women in Bangladesh who have become increasingly mobilized by the activities of predominantly secular NGOs, yet who desire to retain, reclaim, and reshape-rather than reject-their faith. In their employment and in their interactions with the legal system, the state, NGOs, and political and religious groups, women are changing state practices, views of women in the public sphere, and the nature of lived Islam itself. In contrast to most work on Islam and Muslims, which has focused on the Middle East and has privileged the study of religious and legal texts, this book redirects our attention to South Asia, home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, and emphasizes the actual experiences of Muslims. Women and gender, as well as Bangladesh's formally democratic context, are central to this inquiry and analysis.
Reshaping the Holy may well prove to be one of the works that leads the field of Middle East and Muslim women's studies out of the dilemma in which we feel we must pinpoint and categorize pious women who are also political.
Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles
Rural, poor, landless, illiterate womenin Bangladesh, they are on the covers of aid agencies' and donors' brochures; they are pursued by well-meaning NGOs; they are the source of deep anxiety for emergent Islamicists; they present a tantilizing lode of votes for political parties. Here in rich detail, Elora Shehabuddin reveals how women at the very bottom rungs of the national and global ladders make their own calculations about spiritual purity, which party deserves their votes, and what strategies to craft to protect themselves when the weak state offers so little security. Every chapter of this important book is absorbing.
Cynthia Enloe, Clark University, author of Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link
Among the many accounts of religion and politics in South Asia, few foreground the experiences of impoverished rural women. Like scholars, political parties in Bangladesh have depicted religion and politics as deeply and inevitably polarized. By contrast, the major concern of poor rural women is the state's failure to provide essential social services. Their exercise of subaltern rationality, often fortified by NGOs, has forced political parties that seek their electoral support to take heed. Herein lie the hopes for the refashioning of Islamic politics in democratizing contexts. Reshaping the Holy is a welcome addition to the literature on gender and social change in South Asia.
Amrita Basu, associate dean of faculty, Paino Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
Elora Shehabuddin offers us a wonderful window into the complex practices that engage poor rural Bangladeshi women caught between the demands of social sustenance, piety, and a disenfranchising state. Against a backdrop of textual readings of Islam, she invites readers into women's lives as they respond to and create ways to negotiate the diverse resources available to them, whether offered by secularist NGOs or the Jama'at-i-Islami. Drawing on ethnographic accounts that highlight the needs and implicit demands of poor rural women as agents of their own lives, Shehabuddin challenges opposing western modernity and religious doctrine to unpack how institutionalized politics recasts secular and religious parties alike as they seek to secure their rule.
Shelley Feldman, director of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, and professor of development sociology, Cornell University
Reshaping the Holy: Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh is a welcome addition to what we know about Bangladesh, Islam, and development practices.
Journal of Asian Studies
1. Gender, Islam, and Politics in Bangladesh
2. Gender and Social Reform
3. "A Little Money for Tea": Rural Women's Encounters with the State
4. Contesting Development: Between Islamist and Secularist Perspectives
5. Democracy on the Ground
6. Beyond Muslim Motherhood
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NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street's expectations, BUT came up short on beating the revenue expectation. The revenue miss is a negative sign to shareholders seeking high growth out of the company. Shares are up 0.04%.
NRG Energy, Inc. Earnings Cheat Sheet
Results: Adjusted Earnings Per Share increased to $2.06 in the quarter versus EPS of $-0.48 in the year-earlier quarter.
Revenue: Decreased 3.24% to $2.06 billion from the year-earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: NRG Energy, Inc. reported adjusted EPS income of $2.06 per share. By that measure, the company beat the mean analyst estimate of $-0.15. It missed the average revenue estimate of $2.55 billion.
Quoting Management: "NRG withstood a weak commodity price environment in 2012 to achieve solid financial results and robust free cash flow," commented David Crane, NRG's President and Chief Executive Officer. "With the GenOn integration now well underway and proceeding smoothly we are in a strong position to both reinvest in the growth of our own businesses and step up our capital allocation program for 2013."
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"And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering...." (Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451)
Friday, September 22, 2006
The PGP Classic Soaps Blog wants to hear from you!
If you're joining us for the first time, check out our special features like Where Are They Now, Before They Were Soap Stars, Flashback, Broadway Babies and Social Issues, then use the Comments box to tell us which actors and what stories you'd like to see covered next.
Got a fan encounter with a soap star you'd like to share? This is the place!
Want to reminisce about your favorite supercouple or scene of all time? (Maybe we can dive into the vaults and pull it out for you). This is the place!
We might even be talked into letting loose a spoiler or two... Just ask!
Remember, this blog is our blog, this blog is your blog.... We want to hear what you think!
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- Mike said...
Any updates on when "new "Another World" episodes will be posted onto the P&G Classic Soap Channel.
Glad a blog has been created for the channel. Great idea. Keep up the good work. - 7:09 PM
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Hi, Mike!
A new batch of "Another Worlds" is being digitized as we speak, and should be up shortly.
We're glad you're enjoying watching! - 4:42 AM
- Kevin said...
Hi, I'm so glad that P&G has done this. I understand that right now you can't show old shows of Guiding Light, but when you are able, I'd love to see episodes that aired June-August 1983. Any idea when or if P&G will be able to show old shows of Guiding Light from that period??
- Steve said...
Hi - First thank you, thank you, thank you for this project. You have no idea what EON meant to me as a show. I grew up with it, and feel like my youth is being revisited.
Do you know when some new EON materials will be available?
I have heard that there are episodes of EON pre July 1979 that are extremely good, when Edge was at its best. From February 1978 and on. Is there anyway those will be ever posted?
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I have a little bit of an online shopping problem. I have an Amazon Prime membership and a Zappos VIP membership, so I can have pretty much anything delivered to my house in 1-2 business days. Often Amazon's prices will be about what the item would cost at Target/WM, and I don't have the hassle of driving to the store and dealing with crowds.Amazon has been really good to me, with great customer service. Their return policies are generous, and they pay return shipping if there's a problem with an item.I adore Zappos, even though I don't order from them too much. They offer free return shipping, which is a major perk. I can order six pairs of shoes, try them all on and pick my favorite, and return the remaining 5 pairs. Once, they somehow got a pair of snowboots for DH to hour house on a Saturday afternoon, after having ordered them at 9pm the night before. I don't tend to buy clothes online very much, though. I can be difficult to fit properly so I usually have to suck it up and go to a store.


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A TRIO known as one of the finest chamber ensembles in the world is coming to town.
Violinist Annalee Patipatanakoon, cellist Roman Borys and pianist James Parker are the Gryphon Trio and the resident ensemble at the University of Toronto. The trio has recorded four CDs and in 2011, won its second Juno award for Classical Album of the Year for the recording of Beethoven's "Ghost" Piano Trio, Op.70 No.1.
Patipatanakoon is a laureate of Belgium's Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition and one of Canada's most respected violinists. She is an assistant professor in violin at the University of Toronto (U of T).
Borys studied cello with Janos Starker at Indiana University and Aldo Parisot at Yale University. He also teaches at U of T, is artistic director of the Ottawa Chamber Music Society, and producer for the Gryphon Trio.
Parker is a graduate of the University of BC, the Juilliard School and has made frequent appearances on CBC, Bravo, and many stations around the world. For more details, including tickets, see City Scene on page 12.


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During its first year in office, the Ma Ying-jeou administration has brought greater stability to the cross-strait relationship and has sought to introduce greater predictability to relations between Taipei and Beijing (and by extension to U.S.-Taiwan relations). From April 24-26, representatives from Taiwan and the PRC met in Nanjing and signed three agreements in the effort to strengthen economic cooperation across the strait. The renewed dialogue--the Nanjing meeting was the third at that level since Ma assumed office--has introduced greater stability to cross-strait relations for the time being, but the renewal of cross-strait dialogue has thus far done little to shore up Taiwan's deteriorating long-term strategic position resulting from the Mainland's rising global political and economic leadership role and its growing military power.
As participants in a Center for Strategic and International Studies Freeman Chair-sponsored week-long observation tour of Taiwan that coincided with the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Taiwan Relations Act, we met with a range of senior government and party officials from the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). We were also able to observe Taiwan's efforts to address the effects of the global financial crisis. These conversations underscored both Taiwan's vibrancy and its vulnerabilities; future developments in cross-strait relations now hold an important key both to Ma's political success and Taiwan's capacity to pursue an effective international economic growth strategy.


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Jon R is back to tackle some more questions from viewers and fans. This week, he discusses the rumor of Apple possibly discontinuing the supremely powerful and supremely expensive Mac Pro. Jon also shares his thoughts on tablets, Ultrabooks, as well as some tips for budgeting for your tech shopping needs - just in time for the holidays!
Ask The Buffalo provides an insiders look to the world of recognized tech enthusiast Jon Rettinger, also known as jon4lakers on YouTube. He answers a bunch of random questions, tech or non-tech related, submitted through Twitter as well as the TechnoBuffalo website.


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Muta's Check It! still relevant today
IN just over a decade as an in-demand session guitarist, Earl 'Chinna' Smith had worked with some of reggae's top acts including Dennis Brown, Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff.
It was at a concert in Cliff's hometown of Somerton, St James in 1982 that he first met an artiste that was destined for greatness.
"Dis bredrin come out wid no shoes an' the first time him open him mouth was the poem, Every Time A Ear De Soun'," Smith recalled.
That poet was Mutabaruka.
Rastafarian Elder Mortimo Planno was standing next to Smith and was moved by the young poet's opening lines.
"Him sey, 'Chinna, yuh haffi record dat," Smith said. Smith agreed and recorded Every Time A Ear The Sound as part of Check It!, Mutabaruka's first album, at the new Tuff Gong studio at Hope Road.
In January, it was 30 years since American independent label Alligator Records released Check It!, arguably the most potent spoken word collection comparable to England-based firebrand Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dread Beat And Blood.
Broadcaster/musicologist Dermot Hussey says he was 'blown away' when he first heard Check It!
"Everytime a Ear The Soun, Butta Pan Kulcha, Sit Dung Pon The Wall; they all gave such an accurate portrait of the life 'people down below' lived. Muta's authenticity, it was as if he too had lived that life," Hussey told the Jamaica Observer.
Butta Pon Kulcha and Sit Dung Pon The Wall were on Check It!, as well as the provocative Dis Poem and Angola Invasion.
Bruce Iglauer, owner of Chicago's Alligator Records, was eager to distribute the album.
Even though his label specialised in blues music, Alligator did have some reggae ties, having distributed albums by Edi Fitzroy, the Mighty Diamonds and The Abyssinians. Check It!, Iglauer, remembers, was an entirely different project.
"I was immediately impressed by the vision, the lyrics, the instrumental tracks and of course Mutabaruka's charismatic voice. It was clearly an important, groundbreaking record," he said.
Produced by Smith for his High Times Records Ltd, Check It! featured an impressive line-up of musicians including Smith, percussionist Sydney Wolfe, bass players Christopher Meredith and Leebert 'Gibby' Morrison and drummers Carlton Barrett and Carlton 'Santa' Davis.
It was released in the United States by Alligator as 'The Essential Reggae Recording of 1983'.
According to Iglauer, it got "great reviews and every reggae programmer in the country was playing it."
He says Check It! remains Alligator Records' best-selling reggae album.
Born Alan Hope in Kingston, Mutabaruka had worked at the Jamaica Telephone Company before deciding to move to rural Jamaica in the early 1970s to concentrate on writing poems which touched on everything from poverty in Jamaica to African liberation.
He was among a growing group of Afro-centric youth (including Michael Smith) who expressed their militance in poetry. Check It! was the perfect launching pad for what, in 1982, seemed a promising career.
Iglauer recalls the first time Mutabaruka visited the United States to promote the album.
"He was just as charismatic in person as he was on recording. He was a serious man but not lacking in humour, and very self-aware."
Check It! would be the only album Mutabaruka did with High Times and Alligator. He went on to record several well-received albums for Shanachie, another American independent company including Blakk Wi Blak and Gathering of The Spirits.
Those albums also earned him a strong following on the US college circuit and in Europe.
Check It! was reissued by Washington DC-based 'indie' RAS Records in 2003 to mark its 20th anniversary.
The Dis Poem Word Festival in Hope Bay, Portland today is inspired by the poem of the same name. Mutabaruka, who hosts the longrunning Cutting Edge programme on Irie FM, is down to perform.
Smith says there is no doubt Check It! is one of the great reggae albums.
"Is a mad, mad thing. There is something 'bout song like Butta Pan Kulcha...The album carry some deep message."


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How could I lose to such an idiot? –AARON NIMZOVICH
What separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. I must have the guts to explode the game, to upend my opponents thinking and, in so doing, unnerve him. –GARRY KASPAROV
Ill play some of these really crazy moves that people are not going to be expecting. The way I play is not like most people. The moves are more computeresque. Theyre not the moves that most humans are going to play. –HIKARU NAKAMURA
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2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
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...all of Muḥammad's duties except the prophetic: as imams, they led the congregation in prayer at the mosque; as
khaṭībs, they delivered the Friday sermons; and as
umarāʾ al-muʾminīn ("commanders of the faithful"), they commanded the army.
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Randy Sandke's Outside In is a sequel to 2000's Inside Out. Once again the trumpeter brings together perceived avant-garde (saxophonist and clarinetist Marty Ehrlich, trombonist Ray Anderson, and pianist Uri Caine) and derrière-garde (Ehrlich's opposite number Ken Peplowski, utility man Scott Robinson, and Sandke himself), with trombonist (and former Marsalis regular) Wycliffe Gordon and drummer (and Mel Lewis protégé) Dennis Mackrel representing the mainstream, and bassist Greg Cohen qualifying as non-partisan. There's an increased emphasis on composition this time around, beginning with Sandke's robust arrangement of an unrecorded Jelly Roll Morton piece from 1941 recently unearthed by Morton biographers. "Ganjam," named for a place in India and crawling with "exotic" rhythms and voicings, is multi-thematic, like practically all Morton. Sandke, whose discography also includes "lost" Armstrong and Beiderbecke, gives Morton a modernist makeover, streamlining one of his themes (or "strains," as Morton would say) into an ostinato. The end result is more Ellington than Morton; with its plungered brass and keening clarinets, it could be a missing number from The Far East Suitea comparison I don't make lightly. Faithful to Morton or not, Sandke's arrangement is that fetching.
Outside In ends with an encore of "Ganjam," and this is where the surprise comes innot the expected alternate take, but idiomatic Morton, based on his original score. Five minutes of pure delirium, beginning with Mackrel's gong and added starter Howard Alden's guitar jangle, and ending with Peplowski wailing over the full ensemble, it retroactively justifies Sandke's liberties on the first versionthe Ellingtonian traits, including what sounds like a quote from "The Mooch," were already there in Morton. Raising the possibility that Jelly Roll, close to the grave and still smarting at being rendered passé by swing, was out to beat Ellington at his own game, "Ganjam" makes you rethink jazz historywhich is probably just what Sandke had in mind.
Between "Ganjam"s are Sandke's retooling of Ellington and Strayhorn's two-piano "Tonk" as a clarinet showdown, one original each by Anderson and Ehrlich, and nine by Sandke. Discounting a comic throwaway redolent of John Cage and David Tudor and two failed program pieces representing Genesis and Revelation (with Robinson's contrabass clarinet as the voice of God), Sandke's are the work of a composer for whom avant-garde connotes a mind-set, not a style. He loves counterpoint and chromatics and call-and-response, deploying common devices to uncommon ends. "Raising Caine," a free-form piano concerto with hints of ragtime, traverses styles and eras while anticipating the soloist's responses, and "Ornette Chop Suey" is what the play on words impliesArmstrong mutated into free. "Two as One," featuring Ehrlich's quicksilver alto, is a kissing cousin to Ellington and Strayhorn's woozy, sensual ballads for Johnny Hodges, and Mingus's dissonant ones for Charlie Mariano. The more straightforward pieces, including a nominal blues, succeed in showing links between the postmodernists and the swing revivalists, the whole point of the album.
Because Sandke is too generous as a leader, allocating himself no more space than anyone else, the more conventional Trumpet After Dark and Now & Again give a better sense of his prowess as a soloist. Spotlighting him with a rhythm section and a string consort, the first of these is subtitled "Jazz in a Meditative Mood." Fortunately, this is misleading. Sandke knows ballads don't have to be slow, he's a master of the lost art of the medium tempo, and his writing for strings is sophisticated and modestly inventive. The song selection is inspired, with only "Monk's Mood" (a duet with pianist Bill Charlap), "Soul Eyes," and "Lush Life" tempting overfamiliarity. The rest is evenly divided between obscurities and Sandke originals, including a lightly swinging adaptation of a Chopin étude and a knockout called "Being Human," written while he was an undergraduate in the late 1960safter a faux-renaissance opening that allows the violas to operate in their natural element, the tension mounts along with the trumpet bravura. Now & Again is an album of duets with the reborn Dick Hyman, and again, much of the charm is in the repertoireonly a trumpeter and a pianist steeped in history and absolutely sure of their place in it could take on "Weatherbird" without making you daydream of Armstrong and Hines.
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As with Ornette's harmolodics and George Russell's Lydian Concept, all that matters in the end is whether the music packs an emotional wallop. Both pieces pull you in with their dark, obsessive, churning power. And Sandke, Gordon, pianist Ted Rosenthal, and Robinson (sticking mostly to tenor) demonstrate metatonal's legitimacy as a springboard for improvisation.
"My metatonal music strikes some people as cutting-edge and others as conservative," Sandke pointed out, going on to say that while his unusual approach to harmony could be confusing, he also risked being seen as "old hat" because of his insistence on melody and structure. "I like music that sings and speaks to the soul," he concluded. In The Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer, in sympathy with the youthful protesters marching on the Pentagon but appalled by how much they took for granted, declared himself "a left conservative." Not a bad tag for a trumpeter into both metatonal and Jelly Roll Morton.
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BETHEL - Sitting among 400,000 people on the fields of the original Woodstock festival in 1969, Mark Silberman remembers two guys standing up getting and into an argument.
Not cool.
As they fought, he remembers, the crowding slowly began to "boo" them. First a few, then hundreds then maybe a thousand.
"They looked around and shook hands," Silberman said.
Now, standing on those same grounds 45 years later, Silberman says the crowd walking by him wearing fur vests, rainbow socks and flowers in their hair is just...different.
That's not necessarily a bad thing though, he says.
"This is performance art by the participants," Silberman said. "(Back then) we just came to listen to the music."
So on one of his many trips back to Bethel since the original Woodstock, this time for Mysteryland USA, Silberman says there's only one commonality.
"No similarity," he says. "Except for people coming together."
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September 30, 2008
Republican state Sen. Roger Pine and Democratic challenger Tom Holland dueled Tuesday over immigration and Pine's residence.
The two are vying on the Nov. 4 ballot to represent Senate District 3, which includes North Lawrence, much of eastern Douglas County, including Eudora and Baldwin City, all of Jefferson County and much of Leavenworth County outside the cities of Leavenworth and Lansing.
At the end of the debate at Lawrence High School, Holland, who is a state representative, hammered Pine about where Pine lives.
"I believe when you have a candidate who has not been truthful about where he lives, then I think you do have an issue of trust in this Senate race," Holland said.
Pine couldn't respond during the forum because Holland went last in presenting his closing statement.
But afterward Pine said, "I didn't try to do anything wrong or improper."
The dispute is over Pine listing Lawrence as his ballot city and having voted in Douglas County even though he lives in Leavenworth County.
In the August GOP primary, Pine had to file a provisional ballot because a poll worker knew he didn't live in Douglas County.
Pine has said he listed Lawrence as his residence because that is where he grew up and lived most of his life. And, he said, in recent years he occasionally spent the night at the family business in Lawrence.
On illegal immigration, Pine noted he voted for a bill in the Senate aimed at reducing illegal immigration, but Holland charged that the measure wasn't tough enough.
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The gang needs to perform an exorcism in an abandoned lighthouse. Care to join?
4.16 / 5.00 4,925 ViewsI've had many requests by flash authors how I do my flash scenes with 3 dimensional appearance. After explaining the the process of Point Perspective Drawing is not something that can easily be taught verbally, I have promised to release a tutorial covering the topic.
This tutorial explains how to use two methods of Point Perspective drawing to create the illusion of 3D in flash scenes and drawings.
THIS MOVIE IS NOT FOR EVERYONE! If you are not an artist or flash author, you may or may not find this tutorial interesting.
Along with the Turorial, I have included with both types of drawing tutorials, a Demonstration drawing. You can watch the tutorials to learn the methodology, or you can skip them using the main contents menu and just watch the DEMO drawing scenes which will be more interesting to non-artists.
The Two-point
Animation at the end was amazing :D
Service station geometry FTW
Jesus, Man...
5 out of 5, 10 out of 10.
This was the greatest and best constructed Flash Tutorial I've ever seen. Helpful, well drawn, well animated, and you REALLY know what thje fuck you're talking about.
Great job man, thanks for the lesson.
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your drawings are amazing most of them are better than drawings i can do with my hands let alone the computer. but your tutorials helped
WTF man urt fukin crazy awsome work but all the linne and crap u drew!
I loved it, but would have liked some music....
(i get lonely sometimes and paranoid that I may be deaf! am i deaf?!?!?!??!)


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Back Scratch, Anyone?
File this one under "Huh?" It is a site devoted to the admiration of men with long fingernails. It has lots of pictures, video clips and even a message board!
Wait!! This just in!! There are five new pictures of "Jay," and eight new pictures of "Sebastian." So, get moving, already.
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The Plume Adaptive Wi-Fi system sure is unique, but does it have enough to justify its cost? Here's CNET's full review.
The Bose SoundTouch 300 offers sound quality that betters its Sonos rival -- but this is not the sound bar to buy if you're looking for a subwoofer-less system.
The Onkyo TX-SR575 and TX-676 receivers offer a wealth of features, including Dolby Atmos and support for multiple, competing multiroom systems.
The new Gear VR Controller is the star of the show.
Get a desktop view of Android apps, complete with Bluetooth mouse and keyboard support.
Don't look for a fancier camera or smarter tricks -- the larger S8 flagship is all about getting you way more screen.
No longer a big eyeball, the shrunken 360-degree camera has a better design, improved video and more phone support -- including iPhone.
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At the Second Session of the General Assembly Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals
(New York, 17 -19 April, 2013)
Poverty Eradication
Mr. Co-Chairs,
I have the honor to make these remarks on behalf of the Troika consisting of Bhutan, Thailand and Viet Nam. I would also like to associate our Troika with the statement delivered by Fiji as Chair of the Group of 77 and China
We are pleased to note that poverty eradication is the first substantive matter to be discussed. We all attach most importance to eradicating poverty which is at heart of the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals and a key enabler for developing countries to achieve other goals. Thus it must remain the overriding objective of the Sustainable Development Goals.
At the global scale, the first MDG on eradicating extreme poverty has achieved encouraging results. We have gained more experience and have the advantage to further extend our collective efforts in the fight against poverty. At the same time, there remain gaps, obstacles and challenges. Current crises such as the global financial and economic slowdown, natural disasters, social vulnerabilities, food, energy and water crises place developing countries especially LDCs and LLDCS in extremely vulnerable positions and their efforts to eradicate poverty are negatively affected. This requires us to build resilience to multiple and simultaneous shocks to ensure the substantial and sustainable reduction of poverty.
Poverty has become a more complex and multifaceted problem as constantly changing characteristics of the poor requires efforts to reduce poverty to be equally responsive, adaptive and sophisticated. In this connection, Bhutan, Thailand and Viet Nam wish to share the following observations and comments:
First, the level of poverty reduction varies across geographic and demographic groups due to different levels of social and economic integration. In many countries, poverty occurs predominantly among people living in rural and remote areas. In others, urban poverty is of great concern. We are of the view that putting people at the centre should be the foundation of any poverty reduction policy. Governments should focus their support in multiple socio-economic aspects specifically for the most vulnerable groups who lag behind in poverty reduction.
Second, there is a disturbing fact that most of the developing and especially least-developed countries are countering persistent poverty with unsustainable economic growth. Conventional growth patterns involve intensive/exhaustive uses of natural resources (land, water, forest and fossil fuel) and cheap or low-skilled labor that lead to the evident increases of pressures on environment, number of natural disasters, inequality, job vulnerability and fiscal deficit. In this regard, the transformation into a green economy which supports social inclusiveness and environmental sustainability and in consistence with the level of development is recommended for every nation in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication.
Third, social development would not be sufficient if people could not fulfill their basic needs. Vulnerable employment, especially in the context of economic crisis and globalization is an increasingly grave issue, threatening people to fall back into poverty. Disadvantaged groups are still suffering from inequality and chronic poverty and social problems such as food (and nutrition) insecurity, gender inequality, poor health and education. Therefore access to adequate social protection is essential.
Last but not least, natural disasters and climate change are among the highest threats to the poor. To avoid them falling further into a vicious circle of poverty, governments and the international community need to build resilience among poor and vulnerable people and support them in adaptation to adverse impacts of natural disasters and climate change.
In order to achieve all these, means of implementation is very important. Our governments have spared no efforts to combat poverty at the national level over the past 20-30 years. We could not have attained so much success without the invaluable support from multiple partners in the international. We are fully aware that internal orientation of policies, efforts and resources are decisive but cannot ignore the importance of coordination and assistance from other international partners. We need a favorable international economic environment to facilitate sustainable global economic growth and poverty eradication. This requires a fair, equitable, transparent and rules-based system of international trade that is pro-development and against protectionist trends arising nowadays.
The MDGs look at issues across the board, thus inequality has been neglected. I believe addressing inequality should be a main deliverable for new set of development agenda and many delegations have raised the issue of addressing inequality within the country and among countries. In this context, we support regional integration and regional connectivity as one important means to achieve reduction of poverty and inequality and close the development gaps, especially for LDCs, LLDCs, and SIDS.
At the global level, the international community needs to remain committed to eradicating poverty not with and "one-size-fits-all" approach but in diverse forms of implementation, from development aid to trade facilitation, debt relief and technical transfer, infrastructure development with particular attention attached to countries in special circumstances such as the LDCs and landlocked countries.
Bhutan, Thailand and Viet Nam reaffirm our strong commitment to engage in international efforts on sustainable development and poverty eradication.
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Design of non-impounding mine waste dumps / M.K. McCarter, editor. New York, N.Y. : Society of Mining Engineers of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1985. vi, 216 p. : ill.
Geotechnical & geohydrological aspects of waste management : proceedings of the 9th Annual Symposium... February 1-6, 1987, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado / edited by D.J.A. Van Zyl... [et al.] Chelsea, Mich. : Lewis Pub., c1986. xiv, 312 p. : ill.
Geotechnical practice for waste disposal '87 : proceedings of a specialty conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 15-17, 1987 / sponsored by the Geotechnical Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; edited by Richard D. Woods. New York, N.Y. : The Society, c1987. vii, 864 p. : ill.


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Asthma in the Home Environment: The Healthy Homes ApproachNovember 29, 2012 12:30 - 2:00pm ESTAsthma is the single most avoidable cause of hospital admission, yet it remains among the most common reasons for admission to hospitals for children. Join us to learn more about how asthma impacts our state and how an environmental approach can reduce the burden of this chronic disease. Also featured is an innovative pilot project, Putting on Airs, that uses a community-based approach to asthma control. Webinar Learning Objectives:
Salina Hargrove, B.S. began working in the CT Department of Public Health, Asthma program in 2005. She is currently the Asthma Program's health educator and focus on developing community educational materials, community outreach and monitoring state community contracts. She is currently working towards a Master in Management and Organizational Leadership at Albertus Magnus College. Before entering the public health sector, Salina's background include being employed at the Greater Hartford Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center as a financial case manager for medical rehabilitation of traumatic brain injured patients, and working for the Alcohol and Drug Recovery Centers in human resources and medical billing. She also continues to work for the St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center's Behavioral Health as an admission's officer for acute psychiatric and substance abuse inpatient care. Hilary Norcia, MPH is currently the Community Health Coordinator for the Central CT Health District covering four towns in central CT with a total population of approximately 97,000 residents. Ms. Norcia currently works on a grant funded by the CT Dept of Public Health called Putting on Airs. This program sends health educators and sanitarians into the home to identify triggers and help the client understand what asthma is and how to properly use their medications. Hilary is also the Coordinator of the Region II Asthma Coalition that covers the Greater Hartford area and focuses on education and advocacy. She has over 12 years experience in public health field and is committed to serving the needs of the populations she serves. Ms. Norcia began her work at Waterbury Hospital as their Pediatric Prevention Coordinator on a federal Safe Schools Healthy Students Grant where she helped form the M.E.A.N. Coalition (Motivate Everyone to Adopt Non-Violence). Ms. Norcia has also worked with several national not for profit agencies including the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society where she led several community coalitions and implemented evidence-based community programs.


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This week's Night Cam and accompanying story on karaoke (BTW this was the night I met "Dan.")
Top 10 artists of all time selected by Capital Region karaoke singers
Top 10 songs selected by Capital Region karaoke singers in 2007:
9. "I Will Survive," Gloria Gaynor
8. "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond
7. "Don't Stop Believing," Journey
6. "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," Pat Benatar
5. "Summer Nights," Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta
4. "Paradise By Dashboard Lights," Meatloaf
3. "Friends in Low Places," Garth Brooks
2. "Picture," Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow
1. "Before He Cheats," Carrie Underwood
Source: Mark Haft, aka Mark the Shark, a Capital Region karaoke DJ


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Magic moment
The Great Marrdini mimes amazement at the close of the classic interlocking rings trick.
The Great Marrdini – better known as Alan Thomson – performed at the White Rock Farmers' Market recently.
The Newton resident captivated visitors with such magic as the classic interlocking rings trick.
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February 18, 2011
Charlie Griffiths, a Moffat County High School senior, snaps on his headgear Tuesday before getting on the wrestling mat at MCHS. Griffiths started wrestling in fourth grade and has helped coach his sister, Ashlee Griffiths, as she prepares to transition to MCHS wrestling.
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Growing up in Moffat County, Charlie Griffiths said he always had a three-part dream. At 9 years old, Griffiths' first dream, while wrestling in the Bad Dogs youth wrestling program, was to be a four-time high school state champion. While Griffiths, now a Moffat County High School senior, has qualified for the state tournament in his three previous years, he's managed to place only as high as third in his junior year.
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View of the flooded Colorado River in Black Canyon during construction on Hoover Dam. The portals of diversion tunnels nos. 3 and 4 are seen in the canyon wall and bridges and catwalks cross the river. Some buildings are seen in the riverbed near the diversion tunnels.
]]>View of the flooded Colorado River, facing the unfinished portal of diversion tunnel no. 3 during construction of Hoover Dam. A temporary building is seen on the riverbed in the flood waters.
]]>A stranded gas-air shovel is seen standing in the flooding of the Colorado River riverbed during construction on Hoover Dam. The mouth of one of the diversion tunnels is seen in the canyon wall in the background. Other construction equipment lies overturned in the river bed.
]]>View from a partially washed-out truck bridge, looking across the flooded Colorado River during construction of Hoover Dam. The mouths of two diversion tunnels are seen in the cliff wall in the background.
]]>An electric dragline is seen loading gravel into a railway dump car in a gravel pit. Some workers stand beside the equipment. Mountains are seen in the background.
]]>A dragline dumps gravel into the railway dump car in a gravel pit. Plymouth gasoline locomotive switching. Construction workers are seen observing the operation.
]]>Close-up of construction workers installing the foundations of a trash rack in front of the portal of diversion tunnel no. 2. This is where the first pay concrete was poured.
]]>High scalers work on the cliff face above the unfinished portals of diversion tunnels no. 1 and no. 2. Construction equipment, trucks and workers are seen on the road in front of the tunnels. Rigging and ropes hang from the cliff face.
]]>View out of the upper portal of the unfinished diversion tunnel no. 2. A Bucyrus-Erie 43-B gas-aire shovel is seen near the mouth of the tunnel and reflected in a pool of water inside the tunnel. A man stands in the middle of the tunnel mouth.
]]>Construction workers are seen working with a drilling jumbo inside diverson tunnel no. 4.
]]>Close-up of construction workers using a drilling jumbo to excavate the interior of one of the diversion tunnels. The tunnel is illuminated by floodlight.
]]>A construction worker sits in a Caterpillar bulldozer in front of an unfinished diversion tunnel portal.
]]>A worker is seen inside a drill sharpening station using a drill sharpener. A hot forge is also seen inside the building in the foreground.
]]>View of construction on the highways which will cross the top of the dam in Black Canyon. A rubble stone masonry retaining wall is in place.
]]>A man sitting on a rock ledge views the Colorado River running downstream through Black Canyon prior to the construction of Hoover Dam. Bridges and catwalks are suspened over the river and dirt roads can been seen on both sides of the river banks. Buildings are also seen on the river banks.
]]>Construction workers using a drilling jumbo to excavate one of the diversion tunnels.
]]>View of the gravel plant, with cars and trucks parked in the foreground. Piles of screened aggregate and sand are seen in the foreground, and a storage pile for raw aggregate is seen in the background. The mountains are seen in the distance.
]]>Night view of the gravel plant, which is illuminated with electric lights. Piles of raw aggregate and a building stand in the foreground.
]]>Close up of an electric power shovel loading rock and debris into a dump truck. A driver sits in the truck.
]]>Close up of a construction worker sitting in a Mack truck which is being loaded with debris by a power shovel.
]]>View of a dump truck unloading debris during construction of a roadway. One construction worker sits behind the wheel of the truck and two others stand by observing from the road.
]]>Interior of a diversion tunnel, showing invert concrete pouring forms. Some construction workers can be seen in the foreground. The tunnel is illuminated by electric lights.
]]>A gantry crane is seen inside a diversion tunnel during construction of Hoover Dam. A flat bed truck is seen on the tunnel floor in the foreground and construction workers stand by. The tunnel is illuminated by electric lights.
]]>Interior of diversion tunnel no. 3, showing invert forms used for pouring concrete slabs. A trimming jumbo used for aligning the gauge of the tunnels is seen in the background. The tunnel is illuminated by electric lights.
]]>View of rock blasting in Black Canyon in preparation for construction of the Hoover Dam intake towers.
]]>View of the interior of diversion tunnel no. 2, showing the completed invert and side wall sections of concrete lining. The tunnel is illuminated by electric lights. On the tunnel floor, construction workers stand by a truck which is carrying two cubic yard concrete pouring buckets.
]]>View of the interior of diversion tunnel no. 3, showing completed side wall sections of concrete lining. The tunnel is illuminated by electric lights. Concrete pouring forms and a gantry crane are seen in the rear of the tunnel.
]]>View of the interior of a diversion tunnel showing the side-wall jumbo used for placing of the concrete tunnel lining. The tunnel and jumbo are illuminated by electric lights. A construction worker stands in the foreground. A truck loaded with concrete pouring buckets can be seen in the back of the tunnel.
]]>View of outdoor construction of steel forms to be used for lining the arch sections of the diversion tunnels. Construction workers are seen, one of them operating a bulldozer. A power shovel can be seen behind the steel forms.
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In a spectacular video released to the Web on the seventh launch anniversary of Mars Express, the "Mars Webcam" has captured an astronaut's eye view of one complete orbit around the Red Planet. Volcanoes, canyons, polar caps, and one of Mars' moons march through the view as the spacecraft sweeps its elliptical path in space around Mars.
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What do we see in the video? As it starts, the Tharsis Montes are on display: Ascraeus, Pavonis, and Arsia Montes in a line, with Olympus Mons above. Mars Express is near apoapsis, so is traveling very slowly in its orbit, which permits it to see the rotation of Mars and new terrain coming into the daylight. But as Mars Express proceeds in its orbit, it travels faster and faster, plunging past Mars' night side. As it recedes again and returns to daylight, the Martian surface fills the view, the spacecraft's relatively rapid motion causing it to pass by quickly. The swirls of ice that make up the summer-sunlit north polar cap swing by. Finally, at the very end, a dark spot speeds from top to bottom across the video -- that's Phobos zipping past on its own orbit. Wow.
Here's another version of the video, showing the relative positions of Mars Express and Mars.
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Some more facts about the videos:
- At apoapsis, Mars Express was 10,527 kilometers from Mars' surface; at closest approach, it was only 358 kilometers from the ground.
- There were 600 images in the observation, alternating between two different exposure settings; the video seems to have been made from the longer-exposure images, so some parts of the planet's disk are saturated.
- The images were taken on Mars Express' 8,194th orbit, May 27, 2010 between 02:00 and 09:00 UTC (03:00-10:00 CEST) and were transmitted to Earth a few hours later via ESA's 35 m-diameter New Norcia deep space antenna in Australia.
he "Mars Webcam" is actually the Visual Monitoring Camera or VMC. VMC is an engineering camera on Mars Express whose purpose was to document the departure of the ill-fated Beagle 2, and following the Beagle 2 deployment it wasn't used for years. In 2008, though, ESA brought it back online, because although it is a very low-quality camera (compared to the science cameras like HRSC and HiRISE), it has a unique capability to take full-globe shots of Mars, the only camera at Mars currently capable of doing so.
ESA didn't have many resources to devote to this camera. So, in an innovative (and cheap) move, they (by which I mean Thomas Ormston, a worker in ESA operations) tossed all the raw images from this camera into a blog on the ESA website and invited the public to do their best with the images. The public rose to the challenge. In particular, Gordan Ugarkovic, an amateur image processor whose work I've featured here numerous times in the past, developed a piece of command-line software called vmc2rgb that was able to convert the raw image data to color images. Ormston, in turn, incorporated vmc2rgb into his data posting workflow, so now the raw images as posted on the Web (here and here) are in beautiful color.
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Two years ago, Pakistan's selectors put their faith in two young batsmen who had been scoring heavily in domestic cricket. Today, both these batsman – Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq – are a permanent features of Pakistan's Test team and have become vital cogs in a strong middle-order for Pakistan.
They fit in perfectly into the void left in the middle-order that was created when Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mohammad Yousuf retired.
The time has come for another young batsman to be selected; it's time to bring Haris Sohail into the Pakistan team. The 23-year-old left-handed batsman from Sialkot made his First-Class debut in 2007 at the age of 18. His shot to prominence, however, when he represented Zarai Taraqiati Bank Ltd, for the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, in the 2010-11 season when he amassed 653 runs in 11 matches at an average of 54.4. His tally included five 50s and a century – including an unbeaten 211, his highest First-Class score.
Sohail maintained good form in the following season (2011-12) as well where he was the fourth- highest run-scorer in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy with 873 runs in 11 matches at an average of 51.4. He smashed four centuries that season along with four 50s.
During the same season, Haris was also one of the leading run scorers for the Pentangular Cup where he represented Punjab and smashed 311 runs in five matches at an average of 44.4 scoring one century and one 50 in the process.
Haris has been exceptional this season as well. In the ongoing President's Trophy, Haris has hit his third successive century. He missed the first three games of the season as he was away for the Champions League and on personal leave, but since his return in the game against WAPDA, Haris has been in super form.
In the six innings that Haris has played in the President's Trophy thus far, he has scores of 115 not out, 58 not out, three, 117 not out, 120, and five.
Sohail was selected for Pakistan's tour of Sri Lanka earlier this year, but didn't get a chance to play. The comfort we can derive from it is the fact that this showed that at the very least he is on the selectors' list of potentials.
However, that may not be enough; it is now time that he is seriously considered as a long-term feature in Pakistan's middle-order and potentially the long term replacement for Misbah-ul-Haq or Younis Khan.
It will be difficult for him to break into the Test team while both Misbah and Younis are around, though he can benefit aplenty by being around the team as part of the squad on the tours to India and South Africa.
His time is now and the selectors will do well by picking him first for the One-Day Internationals against India and then for the Test tour to South Africa early next year.
(Umair Qazi, popularly known as Q in the world of cricket blogging, has been a passionate cricket fan over two decades. An eternal optimist when it comes to Pakistan cricket and since 2007 his optimism has been flowing in his posts on his cricket blog known as Well Pitched. Umair has worked in the consulting and investment banking world in the past and currently he is pursuing his MBA in Manchester. The above article is reproduced with permission from www. http://tribune.com.pk/)


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Several parts of Metro Manila and nearby provinces are still flooded today even if Tropical Storm 'Ondoy' (International name: Ketsana) has already left the country. Almost 200 were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced when the storm hit the country's capital last Saturday.
The heavy rainfall triggered the worst flooding in the country in recent memory. The storm even dumped more rains than Hurricane Katrina:
RT @wizkitabet: FACT: Hurricane Katrina rainfall =380mm in Louisiana. Typhoon Ondoy rainfall = 410mm in Manila, Philippines.
Social media sites were maximized to inform rescuers about the location of flood victims. Typhoon Ondoy Situation Map was created to compile information about the needs of the flood victims. Google has created a special page to gather donations. Ondoy Relief Efforts has a comprehensive list of contact details of relief agencies, donation drop-off centers, and government emergency response teams.
Citizen videos were uploaded on cyberspace which captured horrible scenes of loss brought by the flooding. Below is a video by Youtube user didipusrex
My mother was able to take a video clip of the floodwaters of Typhoon Ondoy before the water surge forced them to flee to the second floor. They were trapped in chest deep water on the second floor until the waters subsided the next morning.
This video shows a passenger who was trapped in a car while a strong floodwater was rampaging outside a Manila hospital
Marikina City, located east of Manila, was heavily devastated by the floods
Pedestrians and even motorists in Paranaque City, south of Manila, use styrofoam to cross a flooded street
Cars are swept away by strong flood currents
Bulacan province, north of Manila, was also severely affected by the storm
Techpinas praises a radio station for devoting its program to update listeners about the storm. Many of its listeners were flood victims who relied on their cell phone radio for relief updates:
In the midst of uncertainty and suffering brought about by Ondoy and the lack of electricity in most parts of Mega Manila, DJ Gang, DJ Lambert and DJ Steph selflessly gave their time and effort into making sure that cellphone owners – especially those stuck in disaster stricken areas, whose only access to news was their dying cellphones' FM radio app – were kept updated on the status of relief operations and were somehow kept alive by Jam 88.3's display of resilient and pro-active hope. They practically turned the usually indifferent FM radio scene into a venue for disaster relief info dissemination and volunteer coordination.
Texting was used to advise flood victims on how to survive
What was truly heartening is the public's involvement in Jam's efforts. There were those who called the station to give updates on the traffic situation across the metro. Doctors texted to give tips to those staying on the roofs of their flood-engulfed houses on how to avoid hypothermia, while a former red cross volunteer shared the procedure on how to prepare an oral rehydration solution
Twitter is a reliable source of news about the disaster and to monitor rescue efforts. Through Twitter, netizens are able to report the flood situation in remote areas
ageofbrillig: RT: one of our staff went to Payatas yesterday. Dami na daw corpse. No media attention there. And not much aid.
Cocoy: RT @mlq3 @jeyaiy All I know is the situation in Candaba. The whole town is under water, except for the Church. Cannot leave town proper..
jovefrancisco: For most of Saturday, I thought my community was the hardest hit. That was until I saw the images on TV
Tweets advise relief team and police forces on where to deliver the goods
alexderossi: RT @momma_erin REPOST: Rosario Pasig & Cavite area have NOT received any relief goods. If you can, pls do something about it! – salamat po!!
maxenemagalona: GRABE. RT @kitel_anne Policemen needed in Provident Village Marikina. Der r robbers all over the place trying to break inside the houses.
Tweets remind the public about the status of relief efforts
ANDREWdecastro: How are the flood victims supposed to cook those instant noodles? Or open those cans? I'm just saying
philredcross: We are overwhelmed for the support of the youth on our Relief Operation. Interested volunteers may visit PNRC NHQ (near Anda Circle
cocoy: RT @dementia: Oh yeah, please donate ready-to-eat food and water. Victims have no means of cooking noodle
This tweet by a Senator of the Republic shows that the flooding affected both the rich and poor:
SayChiz: My in laws live in sinco hermanos. Only their roof was left above water. They sought shelter at the 2-storey house of a neighbor
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