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The Washington Post Co. has sold Newsweek to Sidney Harman, a wealthy industrialist and husband of Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), and Jon Meacham will not remain as the magazine's editor, the company has confirmed.
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The sale is a painful acknowledgement of failure by Graham, who had stuck with the magazine, part of his company since 1961, through years of heavy losses. In announcing that Newsweek was for sale in May, Graham cited losses "in the tens of millions for the last two years," and said that the company did not see " a path to continuing profitability under our management."
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Harman, 91, the chairman emeritus of Harman International Industries, made his fortune selling audio equipment, beginning with the world's first stereo radio receiver in 1958. The exact size of his fortune is hard to quantify, as he doesn't make the Forbes or Fortune billionaire lists, but the Wall Street Journal points to the fact that his wife is often cited as one of the richest members of Congress with a fortune estimated at $112 million in 2009.
Harman has been active in philanthropy and politics, serving in the Carter administration and on numerous boards, and is thought to be interested in enhancing his legacy by buying a symbol of Washington and global influence, the sources said. In Washington, he was the benefactor of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Harman Center for the Arts.
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A 26-year-old San Francisco man was shot to death early Saturday when he went to a unit on the wrong floor of his apartment building after returning home from a night out.
Stephen Guillermo had been out drinking with friends, his family said, and apparently pressed the wrong floor number on the elevator of the building in the 900 block of Mission Street in the South of Market area. He got off on the third floor instead of the fifth floor, where he lived with his brother and sister, and went to the unit in the same location in the building as his home two stories above.
Guillermo was shot at 1:40 a.m. inside the third floor unit of a 68-year-old man, Amisi Sudi Kachepa, who later surrendered to police and was arrested in the shooting.
Kachepa reportedly told people in the building that he blamed Guillermo for breaking the knob on the door of his unit. The knob on the door was missing Saturday.
Guillermo's brother, Marc, who lives on the fifth floor with his brother, said he could not understand what happened.
He said Stephen was studying international business at San Francisco State University, worked both driving for Lyft and selling Puma athletic shoes, and hoped to join the U.S. Foreign Service.
"He's not aggressive or violent," Marc Guillermo said Saturday. "He's a quiet person."
"It just doesn't fit," said his sister, Sharrmaine Guillermo, adding that her brother did not become hostile when he drank, and she cannot figure out how he would even start some sort of confrontation. "Stephen is not the kind of guy who would do that."
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VATICAN CITY – Hospital officials and the Vatican say Pope Benedict XVI broke his right wrist in a fall during his vacation in the Alps.
The ANSA news agency reported the pope was undergoing surgery to reduce the fracture, but the spokesman for the local hospital where he is being treated, could not confirm that.
The pope, 82, fell in his room in a chalet overnight and despite the accident, celebrated Mass and had breakfast before going to the hospital, a Vatican statement said.
Tiziano Trevisan, a spokesman at the Umberto Parini hospital in the nearby town of Aosta, said doctors had taken an X-ray of the pope's right wrist and found a small fracture.
"The pope will be held for a few hours as the doctors treat his fracture. He will then stay for observation," possibly for a few more hours, Trevisan told The Associated Press.
He could not immediately confirm ANSA's report of surgery.
Benedict has been healthy during his five-year pontificate. There have been no reports of medical problems.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said earlier Friday that Benedict had slipped and was hurt, but that it did not seem serious.
He said the pope went to the hospital in the northwestern Italian town for an examination after the accident. ANSA reported that Benedict arrived at the hospital by car and walked into the first aid ward with an aide.
Benedict has been vacationing at a chalet in the village of Les Combes in the Valle d'Aosta region near the French border since Monday.
His predecessor, Pope John Paul II, also spent several summers at Les Combes. While John Paul liked to hike, Benedict spends most of his time inside the chalet that looks out on Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps.
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Earlier in the week, U.S. computer security firm Mandiant issued a report that a group associated with the China's People's Liberation Army - suspected to be based in a 12-storey building near Shanghai - has stolen data from 141 global companies since 2006.
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Mark Goodney is proof positive that the Renaissance man is alive and well. Not only has he directed Worcester County Light Opera Company's season-opening "Avenue Q" and designed one of his customarily ingenious sets, but he also can take credit for creating the various puppets that kept the audience licentiously entertained on Friday evening.
It's clear that a lot of preparation and effort has gone into making this show as rousingly good as it is. The great challenge of "Avenue Q" is to assemble a cast that can handle the puppets with self-effacing artistry, and to that end, everyone here does that marvelously. One never feels that the actors are upstaging the puppets. They bring them alive with uncanny symbiosis.
This is "Sesame Street" for adults served up in grand style, full of scrumptious, subversive irony. If it weren't for the hilariously performed puppet sex between Jake Nichols' Princeton and Libby Schap's Kate Monster, Lucy the Slut's (Brian Hunter) very bad behavior, talk about racism, homosexuality and Trekkie Monster's (Kevin H. Brady) insistence that "The Internet is For Porn," and of course the frequent profanity, this is a wonderful show for children. Come to think of it, there is a sanitized version of "Avenue Q" out there that addresses the show's coming-of-age subtext in a kid-appropriate way.
Princeton is a recent college graduate looking for a place to live and a job. Nichols poignantly conveys Princeton's anxiety about being out in the real world on "B.A. In English/It Sucks To Be Me." One of the many amusing touches in Goodney's production, is the use of a flat-screen TV above the stage, which imposes Princeton's face on several possible career opportunities, including that of a birthday party clown, as he's trying to determine his "Purpose" in life.
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Three of the actors, by design, do not have puppets. Mark Blessington plays Brian, an out-of-work comedian. His Japanese fianc�e, Christmas Eve (an ingratiating Christine Verzosa), harps on him to get a job, even though she's a therapist with no patients. For those who remember Gary Coleman on TV's "Diff'rent Strokes," Hanifa Nelson-Kamau plays him here as the building superintendent. It's a clever device used to illustrate the idea that life isn't as easy as we've all been led to believe, and what better way to do that than having a once celebrated child actor now tending to an apartment building?
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Al Dano's sweetly rendered Nicky, Rod's straight roommate, patronizes him with not caring if he's gay ("If You Were Gay"). Both actors handle their puppet counterparts with the same deft aplomb that everyone in the cast does, animating them with the quirks, gestures, and inflections of real human beings.
Which brings us to the scene-stealing antics of Hunter's fabulous Lucy the Slut, who here is the man-eating, puppet version of Mae West. Hunter makes Lucy a slinky wonder of off-the-charts sex appeal on "Special," first coming up the center aisle of the Grandview Playhouse, sensuously working her way up to the stage under bright spotlight. Her seduction of Princeton is a riot.
Brady is boisterously hilarious as the porn-obsessed Trekkie Monster, the one truly outsized puppet in the show, an explosion of russet fur. Rachel Blessington and Sean Dillon are deliciously devious as The Bad Idea Bears, urging Princeton and Kate to gulp down those Long Island iced teas and get down to some hanky panky.
Candy Schap, as Kate's not-for-long boss Lavinia (last name unprintable), berates her for being late to work the morning after her love match with Princeton. In real life terms, it's Mother Schap pretending to scold Daughter Schap, and the exchange between them is funny indeed.
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The Chi Rho () is one of the earliest forms of christogram, and is used by some Christians. It is formed by superimposing the first two (capital) letters chi and rho (ΧΡ) of the Greek word "ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ" = Christ in such a way to produce the monogram. Although not technically a Christian cross, the Chi-Rho invokes the crucifixion of Jesus, as well as symbolising his status as the Christ.[1]
The Chi-Rho symbol was also used by pagan Greek scribes to mark, in the margin, a particularly valuable or relevant passage; the combined letters Chi and Rho standing for chrēston, meaning "good."[2] Some coins of Ptolemy III Euergetes (r. 246–222 BC) were marked with a Chi-Rho.[3]
The Chi-Rho symbol was used by the Roman emperor Constantine I as part of a military standard (vexillum), Constantine's standard was known as the Labarum. Early symbols similar to the Chi Rho were the Staurogram () and the IX monogram ().
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Christian accounts of Constantine's adoption of the Chi-Rho
According to Lactantius,[4] a Latin historian of North African origins saved from poverty by the patronage of Emperor Constantine I (r. 306–337) as tutor to his son Crispus, Constantine had dreamt of being ordered to put a "heavenly divine symbol" (Latin: coeleste signum dei) on the shields of his soldiers. The description of the actual symbol chosen by Emperor Constantine the next morning, as reported by Lactantius, is not very clear: it closely resembles a Chi-Rho or a staurogram, a similar Christian symbol. That very day Constantine's army fought the forces of Maxentius and won the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (312), outside Rome.
Writing in Greek, Eusebius of Caesarea (died in 339), the bishop who wrote the first surviving general history of the early Christian churches, gave two different accounts of the events. In his church history, written shortly after the battle, when Eusebius didn't yet have any contact with Constantine, he doesn't mention any dream or vision, but compares the defeat of Maxentius (drowned in the Tiber) to that of the biblical pharaoh and credits Constantine's victory to divine protection.
In a memoir of the Roman emperor that Eusebius wrote after Constantine's death (On the Life of Constantine, circa 337–339), a miraculous appearance came in Gaul long before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. In this later version, the Roman emperor had been pondering the misfortunes that befall commanders that invoke the help of many different gods, and decided to seek divine aid in the forthcoming battle from the One God. At noon, Constantine saw a cross of light imposed over the sun. Attached to it, in Greek characters, was the saying "Τούτῳ Νίκα!".[5] Not only Constantine, but the whole army saw the miracle. That night, Christ appeared to the Roman emperor in a dream and told him to make a replica of the sign he had seen in the sky, which would be a sure defence in battle.
Eusebius wrote in the Vita that Constantine himself had told him this story "and confirmed it with oaths" late in life "when I was deemed worthy of his acquaintance and company." "Indeed", says Eusebius, "had anyone else told this story, it would not have been easy to accept it."
Eusebius also left a description of the labarum, the military standard which incorporated the Chi-Rho sign, used by Emperor Constantine in his later wars against Licinius.[6]
Celestial chi
Although modern representations of the Chi-Rho sign represent the two lines crossing at ninety degree angles, the early examples of the Chi-Rho cross at an angle that is more vividly representative of the chi formed by the solar ecliptic path and the celestial equator. This image is most familiar in Plato's Timaeus, where it is explained that the two bands which form the "world soul" (anima mundi) cross each other like the letter chi.[7] Not only did the two legs of the chi remind early Christians of the Holy Cross, "it reminded them of the mystery of the pre-existent Christ, the Logos Theou, the Word of God, who extended himself through all things in order to establish peace and harmony in the universe," in Robert Grigg's words.[8] Hugo Rahner summarized the significance: "The two great circles of the heavens, the equator and the ecliptic, which, by intersecting each other form a sort of recumbent chi and about which the whole dome of the starry heavens swings in a wondrous rhythm, became for the Christian eye a heavenly cross."[9] Of Plato's image in Timaeus, Justin Martyr, the Christian apologist writing in the 2nd century, found a prefiguration of the Holy Cross,[10] and an early testimony may be the phrase in Didache, "sign of extension in heaven" (sēmeion ekpetaseōsen ouranō).[11]
An alternate explanation of the intersecting celestial symbol has been advanced by George Latura, claiming that Plato's visible god in Timaeus is in fact the intersection of the Milky Way and the Zodiacal Light, a rare apparition important to pagan beliefs that Christian bishops reinvented as a Christian symbol.[12]
Later usage
The use of a wreath around the Chi-Rho symbolizes the victory of the Resurrection over death, and is an early visual representation of the connection between the Crucifixion of Jesus and his triumphal resurrection, as seen in the 4th century sarcophagus of Domitilla in Rome. Here, in the wreathed Chi-Rho the death and resurrection of Christ are shown as inseparable, and the Resurrection is not merely a 'happy ending', tucked at the end of the life of Christ on Earth. Given the use of similar symbols on the Roman standard, this depiction also conveyed another victory, namely that of the Christian faith: the Roman soldiers who had once arrested Jesus and marched him to Calvary now walked under the banner of a resurrected Christ.[13]
After Constantine, the Chi-Rho became part of the official imperial insignia. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence demonstrating that the Chi-Rho was emblazoned on the helmets of some Late Roman soldiers. Coins and medallions minted during Emperor Constantine's reign also bore the Chi-Rho. By the year 350, the Chi-Rho began to be used on Christian sarcophagi and frescoes. The usurper Magnentius appears to have been the first to use the Chi-Rho monogram flanked by Alpha and Omega, on the reverse of some coins minted in 353.[14] In Roman Britannia, a tesselated mosaic pavement was uncovered at Hinton St. Mary, Dorset, in 1963. On stylistic grounds, it is dated to the 4th century; its central roundel represents a beardless male head and bust draped in a pallium in front of the Chi-Rho symbol, flanked by pomegranates, symbols of eternal life. Another Romano-British Chi-Rho, in fresco, was found at the site of a villa at Lullingstone (illustrated). The symbol was also found on Late Roman Christian signet rings in Britain.[15]
Insular Gospel books
In Insular Gospel books the beginning of Matthew 1:18, at the end of his account of the genealogy of Christ and introducing his account of the life, so representing the moment of the Incarnation of Christ, was usually marked with a heavily decorated page, where the letters of the first word "Christi" are abbreviated and written in Greek as "XPI", and often almost submerged by decoration.[16] Though the letters are written one after the other and the "X" and "P" not combined in a monogram, these are known as Chi-Rho pages. Famous examples are in the Book of Kells and Book of Lindisfarne.[17] The "X" was regarded as the crux decussata, a symbol of the cross; this idea is found in the works of Isidore of Seville and other patristic and Early Medieval writers.[18] The Book of Kells has a second Chi-Rho abbreviation on folio 124 in the account of the Crucifixion of Christ,[19] and in some manuscripts the Chi-Rho occurs at the beginning of Matthew rather than mid-text at Matthew 1:18. In some other works like the Carolingian Godescalc Evangelistary, "XPS" in sequential letters, representing "Christus" is given a prominent place.[20]
The Chi-Rho symbol ☧, Catacombs of San Callisto, Rome.
The Chi-Rho symbol ☧, Catacombs of Domitilla, Rome.
The Chi-Rho symbol ☧ with Alpha and Omega, Catacombs of Domitilla, Rome.
Constantinople Christian sarcophagus with XI monogram, circa 400.
Christian pendant of Maria (398–407), wife of the Emperor Honorius (r. 395–423), with text in the shape of a Chi-Rho, Louvre.
Roman Christian mosaic with Chi-Rho, Hinton St. Mary, England.
Reconstruction of Chi-Rho fresco from Roman villa at Lullingstone, including Alpha and Omega.
Sarcophagus with Chi-Rho symbol and Alpha and Omega, 6th century, Soissons, France.
Folio 34r of the Book of Kells is the Chi Rho page, expanding the first two letters of the word Christ
Sequential "XPS" in the Carolingian Godescalc Evangelistary
Chi-Rho on the roof of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Rome.
Chi-Rho and Alpha and Omega on a modern Catholic altar.
Chi-Rho on YMCA building, Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
With the Alpha and Omega at the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth
Computer encoding
The Chi Rho symbol has been added to the Miscellaneous symbols Unicode block as U+2627 ☧ chi rho as early as Unicode 1.1. A second instance is encoded in the Coptic block as U+2CE9 ⳩ coptic symbol khi ro.
See also
- ^ Steffler 2002, p. 66.
- ^ Southern 2001, p. 281; Grant 1998, p. 142.
- ^ von Reden 2007, p. 69: "The chi-rho series of Euergetes' reign had been the most extensive series of bronze coins ever minted, comprising eight denominations from 1 chalkous to 4 obols."
- ^ Lactantius. On the Deaths of the Persecutors, Chapter 44.
- ^ The well known sentence In hoc signo vinces is simply a later Latin translation of Eusebius's Greek wording.
- ^ Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine, Chapter 31.
- ^ Plato. Timaeus, 8.36b and 8.36c: "And thus the whole mixture out of which he cut these portions was all exhausted by him. This entire compound divided lengthways into two parts, which he joined to one another at the centre like the letter X, and bent them into a circular form, connecting them with themselves and each other at the point opposite to their original meeting-point; and, comprehending them in a uniform revolution upon the same axis, he made the one the outer and the other the inner circle."
- ^ Grigg 1977, p. 477.
- ^ Rahner & Battershaw 1971, "Mystery of the Cross", pp. 49–50. See also Grigg 1977, p. 477 (including Note #59)
- ^ Justin. Apologia, 1.60.
- ^ Noted by Grigg 1977, p. 477 (Note #42).
- ^ Latura, G. "Plato's Visible God: The Cosmic Soul Reflected in the Heavens." Religions 2012, 3, 880-886. http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/3/3/880
- ^ Harries 2004, p. 8.
- ^ Kellner 1968, p. 57ff. See also Grigg 1977, p. 469 (Note #4).
- ^ Johns 1996, p. 67.
- ^ In the Latin Vulgate the verse was "Christi autem generatio sic erat cum esset desponsata mater eius Maria Ioseph antequam convenirent inventa est in utero habens de Spiritu Sancto" ("Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit")
- ^ Lewis, 142-143
- ^ Lewis, 143-144
- ^ Lewis, 144
- ^ Lewis, 153
- Grant, Michael (1998). The Emperor Constantine. London, United Kingdom: Phoenix Giant.
- Grigg, Robert (December 1977). ""Symphōnian Aeidō tēs Basileias": An Image of Imperial Harmony on the Base of the Column of Arcadius". The Art Bulletin 59 (4): 469–482.
- Harries, Richard (2004). The Passion in Art. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company.
- Heiland, Fritz (1948). "Die astronomische Deutung der Vision Kaiser Konstantins". Sondervortrag im Zeiss-Planatarium-Jena: 11–19.
- Johns, Catherine (1996). The Jewellery of Roman Britain: Celtic and classical Traditions. Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
- Kellner, Wendelin (1968). Libertas und Christogramm: Motivgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zur Münzprägung des Kaisers Magnentius (350-353) (in German). Karlsruhe, Germany: Verlag G. Braun.
- Lewis, Suzanne, "Sacred Calligraphy: The Chi Rho Page in the Book of Kells", Traditio, Vol. 36, (1980), pp. 139-159, Fordham University, JSTOR
- Rahner, Hugo; Battershaw, Brian (translator) (1971). Greek Myths and Christian Mystery. New York, New York: Biblo & Tannen Booksellers and Publishers Incorporated.
- Southern, Pat (2001). The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine. New York, New York and London, United Kingdom: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
- Steffler, Alva William (2002). Symbols of the Christian Faith. Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cambridge, United Kingdom: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing.
- von Reden, Sitta (2007). Money in Ptolemaic Egypt: From the Macedonian Conquest to the End of the Third Century BC. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.


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Joey Logano and Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be facing an uphill slog in Sunday's Sylvania 300
LOUDON, N.H. — Kyle Busch is off to the best start of his career in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Joey Logano is off to his worst.
At face value, the significance of both nuggets would seem to be betrayed by their sample sizes.
Logano is competing in only his first Chase, so it's difficult to judge how his team will rebound from an engine failure that dropped him to 12th in the standings.
And though Busch has been dogged by sluggish beginnings in the Chase, his runner-up finish at Chicagoland Speedway marks only the first of 10 races that will determine the 2013 champion in NASCAR's premier series.
POINTS LEADER: Everyone's chasing Matt Kenseth
But even though it's a long stretch, there's a small window for a comeback from a crippling finish.
"It's like SEC football — you can have one loss and get to the championship game if everybody else ends up losing one game," said Kurt Busch, who is ranked sixth. "If you're making a run through the Chase and everybody is undefeated, you can't make it if you have a loss. So guys like Logano, you can't come back from that big of a deficit."
Logano and Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be facing an uphill slog in the standings entering Sunday's Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway after both finished outside the top 30 at Chicagoland because of engine malfunctions.
Each has more than a full race worth of points to recover.
Earnhardt, who is facing a 53-point deficit — one behind Logano — and is ranked last among the 13 drivers, showed signs of life Saturday in practice, posting the top speed in the final session with his No. 88 Chevrolet. But he will start 17th on a 1.058-mile oval where passing is at a premium, and he wasn't in much of a mood to pontificate about his points predicament after qualifying.
"We haven't talked about it much," he said. "I'm just worried about my car and trying to win the race."
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Logano gave himself more of a fighting chance after posting the sixth-fastest qualifying speed in his No. 22 Ford, though he still was lamenting his 37th at Chicagoland. The Penske Racing driver started on pole and led the first 32 laps.
"We had a really fast race car last week, one that I felt like could have won and instead we came home with a (37th), and that part is just really hard, but it happens," he said. "Sometimes you have a mechanical issue like that, and the guy who wins the championship usually doesn't have that, but that's not to say we can't come back.
"This team is strong. We've been digging out of a hole all year, and every time we get our head just above water, we get pulled back under again, and we keep fighting to get back up. We'll be fine. I'm not worried about it. I feel like we still could win this thing."
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There is some cause for optimism. Jimmie Johnson finished 39th in the 2006 Chase opener at New Hampshire but still started his march to the first of five championships.
But in the nine editions of the Chase, champions have an average finish of 9.0 in the opener, and seven finished in the top 10. The past two titlists, Brad Keselowski and Tony Stewart, also won Chicagoland — a trend that bodes well for points leader Matt Kenseth, who backed up his top seed in the Chase with a victory last week.
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And there is boundless evidence of drivers who stumbled in the opener and didn't contend for the title — despite strong results in the remaining races.
After making last year's Chase through a miracle run at Richmond International Raceway that seemed to supply his No. 24 Chevrolet with plenty of momentum, Jeff Gordon crashed with a throttle problem and placed 35th at Chicagoland. Even though he responded by reeling off three straight top-five finishes, Gordon couldn't climb higher than sixth in the points.
"That changed our whole Chase," the four-time champion said of last year's opener.
That's why the Hendrick Motorsports driver was so relieved to recover for a sixth at Chicagoland last week after a pit miscue. Gordon can appreciate why spirits might be sagging for teammate Earnhardt.
"I think they are looking at it like, 'Listen, unless something miraculous happens we are not going to be back in this thing' to the level that they would like," Gordon said. "I think there is a part of you that just says 'OK, let's just see how high up in points we can get,' and there is a part of you that says, 'We go for broke and if we get on a heck of a roll, we can still do this.' "
Though they are buried in the standings, Earnhardt and Logano will have the luxury of making risky calls on setups and strategy — knowing that it could pay off with a big points swing, but if it doesn't, their situations can't get much worse.
"It changes the way you look at the race because before we had a lot to lose and a lot to gain," Logano said. "We have a lot more to gain than we have to lose right now, so we can be a little bit more aggressive."
Kenseth, though, believes there aren't any advantages to racing from behind.
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Kyle Busch is all too familiar with it. In 2008, he entered as the top seed but was wiped out by mechanical problems in the first three races and finished 10th in points. In five previous Chase appearances, Busch has a best finish of fifth in points and three of 10th or worse. He also had an average finish of 21.4 in those Chase openers.
Maybe that's why Busch is saying he doesn't know where he is in the points entering New Hamsphire — and doesn't care.
"I'm not paying attention to any previous stats," he said. "I'm running this Chase as differently as I've ever done because I've never been a champion yet. So we'll see if it works.
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(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) -- Magazine Mountain is Arkansas' highest point. But it's also one of its lowest, with most families barely getting by. On a hot Saturday morning before dawn, families are lined up outside their church because Pastor Bob Caldwell is feeding the town.
"If people don't believe in miracles, all they had to do was show up today," Caldwell told ABC News.
Caldwell is a son of poverty himself. His father was out of work for years, and now he spends every day traveling the state asking factories and businesses for free food to feed those who need it the most. He receives frozen chicken from Tyson Foods, and bread and soup from local grocery stores.
Caldwell and his church spend just $700 a month and are able to feed more than 700 people.
"All you have here is people who knock on the door and say, 'Preacher, if I don't -- if you don't help me, I don't eat tonight,'" Caldwell said. "That may not bother a lot of people, but it bothers me."
The families who line up call it Miracle Saturdays. The food giveaway takes place the third Saturday of every month, and each family is given enough food for a month.
"It would just tear us apart, if Pastor Bob wasn't doing this," said Johnathan Essman, who was standing in line.
Gene Damron receives $50 every month for food and gas from the church.
"It makes a lot of difference whether you're going to eat all month or not," Damron said, holding back tears. "Makes a lot of difference."
Damron drove his neighbor Betty Hicks to the church. She told ABC News her food stamps only go so far.
"We ate dog food," she said. "We ate it because we had to and we ate out of our dusty dumpster... We'd check the rot, and we'd cut it off the food, and what was left we'd eat."
This isn't just one small community. There are 4,700 people across three counties in the mountainous region who have trouble putting food on the table. Although there is a lot of hardship, there is very little sadness. These families have accepted this condition as a way of life.
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Scarpinato, Daniels and Medick, along with many others throughout the country, are determined to help families move past these desperate times.
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Molineux was a mishmash of misery and magnanimity on Saturday. Looking at the fixtures over Christmas, Wolverhampton Wanderers could have licked their lips at the prospect of six points from home games against two sides below them.
They got none – beaten 3-0 by Peterborough on Boxing Day and now 2-0 by Ipswich Town. They entered the year 16th in the Premier League and facing Chelsea. They leave it 17th in the Championship.
They are in supposedly good company. Bolton and Blackburn, who came down with them, are also in the bottom half of the division, parachutes notwithstanding or perhaps not opening in straitened times. Those two have changed manager once or twice since. Wolves did in February after a 5-1 home defeat by West Bromwich Albion. Mick McCarthy was sacked after six years in which he took them to the top flight at the third attempt but could not get them to finish higher than 15th. His assistant, Terry Connor, invited to revive them, took four points from the last 13 games.
Now managing Ipswich, McCarthy, reunited with Connor, was well remembered by Wolves fans struggling to see a brighter future in Stale Solbakken. Last month, after a ninth game without a win, the Norwegian had paint poured over his car. Three wins in the next four games resprayed his image but he may have been relieved to see Alex McLeish go to Nottingham Forest.
Solbakken took the rap after the Boxing Day defeat . "Mentally we were weak," he said. "We didn't look lively and that disturbs me. It is my responsibility. You can explain it when one or two players have a bad day with the ball but I think I saw seven, eight or nine." On Saturday it was more like 13, all except Carl Ikeme in goal. "I think at the moment we look a little bit scared," he said. Time and again the crowd groaned as defenders cleared aimlessly and conceded possession.
The second goal, beyond the hour, was a case in point. Bradley Orr returned it first time to send DJ Campbell haring beyond the central defence which, half an hour earlier, had stood off to let Aaron Cresswell complete a concerted assault with an astute finish. Campbell's goal was his 10th in 16 games on loan from Queens Park Rangers. Solbakken's response was a triple substitution. The crowd's, to the removal of Kevin Doyle, was a chorus of "You don't know what you're doing" and boos such as had assailed the manager at half-time and did so again at the end. It was a capacity crowd, too, the first of the season and 7,000 above the previous average. There was a feeling of last chance about it.
McCarthy by contrast might have been a favourite uncle returning as Father Christmas. He shook hands with divot menders (Hoe! Hoe!) and kissed tea ladies. He was regaled with warmth, applauded as he turned left for the alien dugout and later given a standing ovation by those who stayed beyond disappointment to give it. He was possibly as near to being touched as he is likely to admit. "My last game here I had to go out of the back door. Today was a lasting memory, on the pitch having won and being applauded off. It was lovely and thank you for all who did that for me. The ones who were singing to get me out are doing it for Stale now. Be careful: you might get what you wish for."
As a son of Barnsley, McCarthy may have been early aware of the noble Duke of York. Before Wolves he marched Sunderland up and back in shorter order. His start with Ipswich promises another reprise – seven wins in 12 games that have taken them within a point of Wolves, who may be wishing now they had gone firmer on Steve Bruce before settling for Connor.
On Saturday McCarthy was in the odd position of knowing more than Solbakken about Wolves and less about his own side than about his opponents. Seven of Wolves' starting XI were his signings; six started his last match as their manager.
Typically, though, his new charges knew what they were about. Wolves' front men, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Doyle, got little service or sight of goal; the sometimes influential captain, Karl Henry, was overrun by Guirane N'Daw and Andy Drury in midfield; and the centre-backs, Roger Johnson and Christophe Berra, lacked the strut they had under McCarthy. Solbakken has tried to introduce zonal marking. On Saturday no one was in the zone. With the six points Wolves may mentally have banked before Christmas they would have been close to the play-offs. Their programme unusually gave the dates. They may be of greater interest to McCarthy.
Last summer, after Solbakken was engaged, Wolves made all but £20m from selling Steven Fletcher and Matt Jarvis. They splashed out £20,000 on Jamie Tank, a Walsall defender who has yet to play. Stale? Scared? The month has surely come for the club to restate its ambition.
This article was written by Jeremy Alexander at Molineux, for The Guardian on Monday 31st December 2012 00.10 Europe/London
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On December 9, 2002, Cher received a lifetime achievement trophy at the Billboard Music Awards. Overcome with emotion, the Armenian-American singer noted that she had faced "critics for the last 40 years saying that I was on my way out every year." Then she added, "F*** 'em." Fox broadcast the scene live, f-bomb and all.
So began an epidemic of unexpected expletives at award shows. A month later, as NBC transmitted the Golden Globes, the singer/lobbyist Bono announced that his Best Song prize was "really, really f***ing brilliant." And in December 2003, when the Billboard Music Awards came on Fox again, the reality TV star Nicole Richie asked the audience, "Have you ever tried to get cow sh** out of a Prada purse? It's not so f***ing simple."
Before the contagion could spread, the Federal Communications Commission stepped in. After initially announcing that Bono's comment was acceptable—his phrase "may be crude and offensive," the regulators had declared, "but, in the context presented here, did not describe sexual or excretory organs or activities"—the agency reversed itself, ruling that broadcasters could be fined for airing even fleeting, unplanned cussing at live events. The f-word, it explained, was "one of the most vulgar, graphic, and explicit words for sexual activity in the English language," and there was no place for it on television.
No place, that is, except the hundreds of channels that the content cops weren't allowed to regulate. When it came to "indecent" images and language, the Bush-era FCC toughened its rules, increased its fines, and stepped up its enforcement, but the Commission's grip on mass communications wasn't as complete as it used to be.
As cable and then the Internet exploded, the area outside the indecency police's grasp was growing. Like the sheriff of a dry county surrounded by rowdy biker bars, the FCC could make life miserable for the people under its jurisdiction but it couldn't do a thing about what was going on right next door.
The crackdown was bipartisan. The noisiest censor at the Commission, Michael Copps, is a Democrat— but it was a post-Clinton development. In the '90s the networks had started to behave as though they had the same liberties as their cable competitors: You could hear the word "piss" on Northern Exposure, see Dennis Franz's bare butt on NYPD Blue, watch Schindler's List— naked bodies and all!— in prime time on NBC.
In 1997, when then-congressman Tom Coburn complained about the latter program's "full-frontal nudity, violence, and profanity," he was roundly mocked for treating an earnest Holocaust drama like it was Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS. In 2004, by contrast, after the clampdown was underway, several ABC affiliates refused to air an equally earnest Spielberg picture, the World War II drama Saving Private Ryan. In a model example of a chilling effect, the stations feared the government would fine them for the film's rough language.
Yet while the FCC was reasserting control of its corner of the media, audiences were exiting in ever-greater numbers for non-network news and entertainment. If you wanted to see a singing turd on South Park, or Tony Soprano doing a stripper in a back room at the Bing, or a bestiality film on a fetish site— well, there wasn't anything the Commission could do about that. But a fleeting expletive at an awards show: That was fair game.
Whether it stays fair game is another matter. After the Commission declared that Cher-style vulgarity was verboten, the major broadcast networks jointly filed a suit to stop the policy. Their case has been bopping up and down the courts for several years now. The U.S. Supreme Court recently refused to accept a procedural argument against the FCC's orders, but the justices left the door open to later declaring the rules an unconstitutional infringement on speech.
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When the justices wrote their reactions to the case, some of the sharpest comments came in Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion. While siding with the Commission on the technical legal question immediately at hand, Thomas signaled his sympathy with the argument that the rules violate the First Amendment.
The two precedents that supported the FCC's authority— 1969's Red Lion decision, which upheld the Fairness Doctrine, and 1978's Pacifica decision, which upheld the government's right to restrict indecent language—"were unconvincing when they were issued," Thomas wrote, "and the passage of time has only increased doubt regarding their continued validity."
He continued: "Broadcast spectrum is significantly less scarce than it was 40 years ago....Moreover, traditional broadcast television and radio are no longer the "uniquely pervasive" media forms they once were. For most consumers, traditional broadcast media programming is now bundled with cable or satellite services....Broadcast and other video programming is also widely available over the Internet....And like radio and television broadcasts, Internet access is now often freely available over the airwaves and can be accessed by portable computer, cell phones, and other wireless devices....The extant facts that drove this Court to subject broadcasters to unique disfavor under the First Amendment simply do not exist today.
There is no credible reason we shouldn't have the same right to free expression on the FM and VHF bands that we have when using WiFi or cable. Now, there are those in the Commission, the courts, and the Congress who would resolve the contradiction by extending the indecency rules' reach to cable and cyberspace. But if the courts respect the language of the First Amendment, they'll extend the reach of free speech instead.
In the meantime, the FCC is simultaneously empowered and impotent, an agency reduced to chasing passing curse words on network TV while cable subscribers enjoy unhindered access to Spice and the Playboy Channel. The bad news is that the courts might tell the Commission it's within its rights when it censors the networks. The good news is that the free speech zone outside the FCC's dominion keeps growing.
Jesse Walker is managing editor of Reason Magazine, where he has covered everything from pirate radio to copyright law to suburban sprawl. He is the author of "Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America."
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"World War Z," better known as "Brad Pitt's Troubled Zombie Movie," has been the subject of many a magazine article and blog post questioning its cost overruns, reshot ending and six-month delay. Originally scheduled for release last December, it finally arrives in theaters today. Will "World War Z," produced by Pitt for a reported $200 million, launch a sci-fi franchise as intended? Or will it go down as Pitt's "After Earth"?
Neither seems like a just fate. "World War Z," based on the novel by Max Brooks, is a smart, entertaining zombie flick that's slightly cleverer and classier than most. It adds nothing new to the genre, but what sets it apart is precisely its massive budget, big-scale effects and the unmistakable feel of studio muscle. Directed with white-knuckle efficiency by James Bond alum Marc Forster ("Quantum of Solace") and written by numerous pros whose credits range from "Thor" to "Prometheus," this is a glossy, globe-hopping, star-driven action thriller. With zombies.
Pitt's charisma helps us buy the implausible character of Gerry Lane (invented for the film), a former United Nations investigator pressed into service when the zombie pandemic begins spreading. That's all there is to the plot, but "World War Z" has great fun explaining how different countries tackled the zombie problem. India went down hard, while North Korea pre-emptively yanked everyone's teeth ("social engineering," says an impressed CIA agent). As for Israel, that wall doesn't seem so controversial now.
Pitt's main co-stars are a weepy Mireille Enos as the wife Gerry longs to return to, an intriguing Daniella Kertesz as an Israeli soldier who joins his quest and, of course, several million zombies. They move with impressive vigor, and their niftiest trick is to climb atop each other in antlike mountains. But they're also a rather gore-free bunch. The film's PG-13 rating may help sell tickets, but there's something disappointing about a zombie movie that won't show you the crowbar trapped in the skull.
Still, "World War Z" is darn good popcorn fare. That may come as a disappointment to Pitt, who seemed to have higher hopes and grander ambitions. For the rest of us, it'll do just fine.
PLOT During a zombie pandemic, a United Nations worker travels the globe looking for a cure.
RATING PG-13 (violence, language, sexuality and drug use)
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BOTTOM LINE Culturally behind the curve, but this big-budget, globe-hopping zombie flick still works as solid doomsday entertainment.
For much of its production life, director Marc Forster's film of "World War Z" has had another z-sound hanging over it -- buzz. Bad buzz. Delayed, pulled from the release schedule last fall for reshoots, the Brad Pitt zombie movie has been branded with the phrase "troubled production." All part of the plan, Forster jokes: "Sometimes, it's not a bad thing for people to walk in with low expectations."
Forster, the German-Swiss filmmaker who directed Monster's Ball, Quantum of Solace and Stranger han Fiction, had a good reason for the release delay: "We changed the ending. The original ending was like a lot of blockbusters, a big fight with lots of explosions -- a final battle.
"I said, 'Look, I think we've already had a big battle. It would work much better with something quieter.' I wanted something more like a haunted-house type of storytelling ending. So we went for something very different, more intense, I think. I think that will set us apart among the big summer movies."
Forster says he searches for projects with a message.
" 'World War Z' has a lot to say on a sociopolitical level. The geopolitical backdrop gives it substance. It's more academic than your typical end-of-the-world horror film. Zombies have always been a great metaphor for other things -- trends in society, outcasts. And when they show up, the rest of us have to put aside our differences, don't we?"
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1) We (a team of 4 translators) translated Richard Dawkins' latest book "The Greatest Show On Earth" from English to Turkish and it was finally published in March. We have been receiving many many good comments about how great the translation turned out. Very proud of this!
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Republican hopefuls jockey for 2016
Take their word for it: Every major official in the Republican Party is really, truly, 100 percent enthusiastically committed to electing Mitt Romney this November, and they're convinced he'll win on Nov. 6.
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On the off-chance Romney doesn't get across the finish line, a handful of ex-rivals and prominent Republicans are suddenly showing up in the states that would be first to vote in a 2016 presidential primary.
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On Saturday, a trio of once — and possibly future — presidential candidates will speak to a conservative forum in Iowa hosted by the group Citizens United and a prominent Iowa social conservative organization, the Family Leader. Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee and Texas Gov. Rick Perry will all appear at the event.
The Republicans all have good explanations for being there: Perry is supposed to be representing Romney, according to officials involved in the forum, and Santorum and Huckabee were invited as the 2008 and 2012 Iowa caucus victors.
But Iowa is Iowa, and a joint appearance in the land of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses inevitably opens the door to the topic of 2016.
The Iowa visit is only one instance of how heavyweight Republicans appear to be positioning themselves with an eye toward the next cycle at the very height of a general election campaign. At least two potential 2016 candidates have already conferred with national advisers about a possible campaign in the event that Romney loses, according to sources familiar with the conversations.
"People think Mitt has a real shot. But everyone is getting in position just in case," said Faith and Freedom Coalition President Ralph Reed, who said some of the jockeying reflected a generational handover in the Republican Party.
"We have the deepest and strongest bench I have ever seen," Reed said, citing such GOP stars as Paul Ryan, Nikki Haley, Scott Walker, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Bob McDonnell and Rob Portman.
He added to the list: "Santorum, Huck and Perry, if they decide to go for the second bite at the apple — or at least that I have seen since 1980 when Reagan, Bush, Dole and Howard Baker ran," Reed said. "And yet they are not yet ready to run the Derby either because [now] is not time or because they have to keep their head down while Romney is the nominee."
Ready or not, an array of name-brand Republicans has been hitting the road while their presumptive nominee is busy trying to knock off an incumbent president.
Last weekend, Sarah Palin made a surprise appearance at an annual dinner hosted by Iowa businessman Bruce Rastetter, a major bankroller of Republican causes in the state and nationally. In May, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul spoke to the Iowa branch of the Faith and Freedom Coalition. Virginia attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, a favorite of national conservative activists, addressed the Iowa GOP's Lincoln Day Dinner the same month.
If Republicans are mostly careful not to undercut Romney too directly, the quasi-public weighing of options for next cycle is not a big vote of confidence in the GOP's 2012 candidate.
Ed Rollins, Ronald Reagan's campaign manager who ran Huckabee's 2008 race, said these are the normal rhythms of the closing days of a national race, adding that the interest around the GOP bench reflects a simple fact: "People don't think Romney's got that great a shot. He hasn't run a very good campaign."


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May 27, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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North Country Elder Prgrams Berlin Senior Center, Tri-County Community Action Programs, Inc celebrates a monthly Birthday Party, on the last Wednesday of each month. Come and join us and offer birthday wishes to those haveing a birthday! For more information or to purchase your tickets, call 603-752-2545