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Knoxville, Tenn. – One of the most heated rivalries in college football throughout the years is back at Rocky Top this Saturday as Tennessee prepares to host No. 1 Alabama.
The Vols, who have more wins over the Crimson Tide (37) than any other team in the country, know that they have a daunting task ahead of them, but are ready to tackle the challenge head on.
"We all know about Alabama," UT head coach Derek Dooley said. "They have been the standard of college football for the last four years. It is a good opportunity for our players and we've gone toe-to-toe with all of the teams [we have played] so far. Let's see if we can do it against the best team in college football.
"We feel like we are pretty good on offense and they are the best defense in college football. I think all of our guys are really excited about seeing if we can go toe-to-toe with them."
Tennessee is quite aware of everything Alabama has accomplished this season, but is more concerned about getting its own team right than focusing on factors it can't change.
"There are really not [any weaknesses with Alabama]," Dooley said. "They have absolutely annihilated everybody they have played, physically and on the scoreboard. They are deep, they are talented. They just change jersey numbers every year, but the guys all look the same. My biggest concern is us and I mean that. If we can go out and play to our capacity for 60 minutes, we can find ourselves right in that position that we have been in every week and I believe that."
While every year in the rivalry brings its own unique set of triumphs and challenges, one thing that has seemed to remain constant in recent seasons is the talent on the Alabama roster.
"They sign the same guys every year, just different names," Dooley said. "And they draft, we recruit. And they get the first 25 picks of the draft."
Although the Tide will be the third of four consecutive ranked opponents for the Big Orange, don't expect them to ask for any sympathy. Instead, the Vols are embracing the opportunity to prove themselves against the best the nation has to offer.
"This is the SEC so if you are looking for an easy way through, there isn't one," Dooley said. "Our players are excited about playing these teams, they are. They had something to prove coming into this year, we got kicked around in this league the last two years. We haven't gotten the results that we want, but we are playing better. We certainly are not on that one little area that we have to fix, but what we have to do is say, 'Can we do it every week?' This is a heck of a challenge because now it is everybody getting in the tank, we have the number one team in the country, all that stuff. Let's go out there and compete and see what we've got."
Knoxville native Daniel Hood has been around the Tennessee-Alabama rivalry all of his life and can remember back to his childhood when it comes to the third Saturday in October.
"It meant everything," said Hood, who graduated from Knoxville Catholic. "I think it was Manning that directed the band when we beat Alabama. I'm excited for it. Talking with Condredge, I don't think he ever beat Bama.
"To see what it means to him and people like that. I think they said that any time they have a letterman's meeting, they always start out with `stand up if you beat Alabama.' So that's just the nature of the Tennessee history."
Fellow Knoxville native Devrin Young knows how pivotal the battle with Alabama is.
"It's a rivalry game," Young said. "It's one of the biggest rivalries in all of college football. I'm just blessed and happy I get to play in it. I've been playing this game for a long time, since I've been like 5 years old. I know how it goes by now."
Adding to the rivalry is the fact that Alabama enters this game ranked as the No. 1 team in the country, the fourth time the two teams have met when the Crimson Tide was in the number one spot.
For Hood, it's why he came to Tennessee to play football.
"That's part of the SEC," Hood said. "That's why we all came here, to play the best. This year, we've played against Florida, a top five team, Alabama, Georgia, we'll play against South Carolina. So it's competitive and it's the type of atmosphere we live for."
For Knoxville natives Daniel Hood and Devrin Young, the Tennessee-Alabama rivalry is big. For Tennessee football legacy Ben Bartholomew, it's personal.
"This game for everybody is a little more personal than any other games," said Bartholomew. "It's such a rich tradition. It's the number one team in the nation, so you have to bring everything you have."
Bartholomew's brother Will played at Tennessee from 1998-01 and was a captain of the Vols, his grandfather Sam donned the Big Orange from 1937-39. Ben knows how much this game means.
"You know, I think some of the new guys don't exactly know what is happening, but I think all the guys that have been around know what's up," said Bartholomew. "This is a personal game and it's between us and them. It's rivalry that goes back for a long time. It's real serious."
Like his brother and grandfather before him, Bartholomew stands in the backfield for the Vols, he just packs a bigger punch. Which will come in handy against Alabama's defense.
"They are a big strong team," said Bartholomew. "Their linebackers like to stand in there and take hits. It's a little different than most other teams. They come out to compete so you have to bring all you have."
Bartholomew is coming off a career game against Mississippi State where he recorded his first TD as a Vol. When he faces Alabama Saturday, he will bring all he has.
"It's exciting," Bartholomew said. "It's why someone comes to Tennessee. You get to play the number one team in the nation. Tennessee and Alabama, it doesn't get any better than that. I know from being the guy that's been around, we know the tradition and we're excited about it. The team just focuses on the family and everybody inside. We're not really worried about outside opinions. It's Tennessee and Alabama and the expectation is to win, no matter what."
How does an offensive line know when it is running the ball so well that it is in its own world?
When the line doesn't even realize which backs are running the ball behind them.
That was the case on Saturday at Mississippi State. Even when the Vols were on their third back of the game with injuries to starter Rajion Neal and backup Marlin Lane, Ja'Wuan James said he wasn't even aware that Devrin Young was as the team's primary tailback.
"As an offensive line we didn't even know that they were hurt," said James. "Devrin came in we didn't miss a beat, he was running hard."
The line helped the Vols amass 213 yards on the ground, the team's most in an SEC game since 2009, when UT finished the regular-season with 222 against Kentucky.
The line is feeling great about its effort so many areas. UT is running for 183.3 yards game and has allowed just three sacks all season — third fewest in the nation.
"Confidence level is we can run against anybody and pass against about anybody."
James feels the increase in carries has helped the line excel as the Vols are more than doubling their rushing numbers from a year ago.
"It helps that we have been running pretty good," said James. "Coach Chaney believes in us and the running backs believe in us so that helps."
In his first season at Tennessee, Cordarrelle Patterson has taken over in all facets of the game.
Listed as a wide receiver on the roster, Patterson has played some snaps at tailback, controlled end-arounds and is shining on special teams as a kick returner.
Against Mississippi State, the Rock Hill, S.C., native tied his career high with 195 all-purpose yards, highlighted by a 98-yard kick return for a touchdown, and finished with 57 yards rushing, 25 receiving and 113 kickoff return yards. Oh, and a tackle.
Patterson is pleased with his involvement.
"I am not sure how many ways they can get me involved," Patterson said. "Coach Chaney has a big playbook and it is special to see how many things he can do to get me the ball. I am just going to hope there are more opportunities for me to showcase myself."
Showcase he has.
On Saturday, Patterson put his a knack for making big plays when a play appears to be dead on full display, turning what looked like a 10-yard loss on an end-around into a 34-yard gain.
"When I was running, I thought `I'm going to go out of bounds and just have to get to the next play'," Patterson said. "Then I saw a crease on the backside, took it, hit it and tried to see what I could do with it.
"Going back to the kickoff, I saw a hole so I just hit it and on the run I saw a crease so I tried to get around and make a play."
Patterson made a lot of big plays Saturday and, in doing so, did what he likes to do best. Showcase his talent.
"It feels pretty good getting out there and showing my talent and doing different things," Patterson said. "I wasn't surprised [when I went in to run]. I had been begging them all week to give me a little toss or something to show what I can do."
(On Tyler Bray blocking for him)
"I saw him out there blocking. It doesn't surprise me. A week ago he blocked good against Georgia and helped me out with a block."
(On being second in the country in all-purpose yards)
"I haven't thought about it but it would be pretty amazing to lead the country and be a leader in that. Being back there and showcasing yourself and the things that you can do when you get the ball."
(On kick returns)
"You can't coach that. They can get you ready to go but you just have to go out there and be yourself when you get the ball."
(On playing both running back and wide receiver)
"When you are a running back, everyone is just coming after you and you are about to get hit. When you are a receiver there is more open space, you can make a move and get free."
(On having VFL attitude/his post-game tweet)
"The thing is no matter how much adversity you face, you have to come in every week with the mindset to get better. You can't just drag around. I just wanted to let the fans know and everybody on the team know that we have to continue to get better. You are going to face adversity, things are going to happen. We've lost three SEC games and in my opinion I think we were better than all three of them, but you know sometime it doesn't go your way. We just got to keep getting better."
(On what's working with the O-Line)
"Nobody is making mental errors. We are getting five guys on a hat, that's the difference. I feel like we've got the talent. This is my second year but before I got here, we had the same guys and same personnel. You know it's been there."
(On running against Alabama front)
"We've seen the front they run; our defense runs it, so we see it every day. You can't sugarcoat it, they're good. I just feel like we come in there and just do what we have to do, if we get our five on their five we're going to be successful."
(On what makes Bama defense good)
"They all rally to the ball and they are technically sound. They are very well coached. They get eleven guys to the ball; that's one thing I have noticed about them is they all fly to the ball. They are very powerful and have a really good base across the front seven so that's what makes them pretty good."
(On maintaining confidence against Alabama)
"I definitely think there's confidence. Our offense knows our capabilities and we expect greatness and we expect to do it against anybody. It's about our team and not theirs."
(On the offensive line)
"The offensive line is doing a really great job communicating and getting downfield blocks. The receivers are doing well blocking too. The running backs are running harder than ever and its really showed out."
(On postgame atmosphere)
"You know, we're coming together as a family. We're all each other has and were playing for each other. It doesn't really matter what happens outside the team, but we're going to come together and be the best we can be the rest of the season. Everyone treats it differently. I think some people are starting to watch film and correcting already. Some people are focusing on what they did and how they can get better. Overall I think we've realized we have to come together as a team and start playing for each other."
(On moving forward to Alabama)
"It's hard not coming away with these tough losses, it's really hard. But nothings better than having Alabama, the number one team in the nation, coming in. it just excites the whole team so we're all practicing hard. Losses are hard, but I think we did a lot of good things, and we're going to keep building off that. I think the team's going to be better. Definitely, you can see in the o-line, the running backs, the receivers, quarterbacks, everyone is having a great time out there. We're playing Tennessee football and I think if we can execute our plays, I don't think anybody can stand with us."
(On why Alabama's defense is strong)
"Their scheme and they have the pieces to the puzzle for that scheme. They have some big guys and they have depth."
(On what has changed from this time last year until now)
"We felt like we knew we could we just needed to go out and prove to everybody that we could. The difference is experience and Coach Pittman."
(On Coach Pittman)
"It can make a lot of difference, it changes the whole room, it changes everything. It has help and it is seen on the field."
"He is more personable with us and he has our room excited to go out there and have fun out there playing football. We are having more fun this year. His energy and what he is allowing us to do out there. He is allowing us to play fast, we just go out there and play."
(On getting tiresome in a game)
"No, I love it. I love doing everything and being out on the field as much as I can possibly be. I did it last year against Alabama and probably going to do the same thing against Alabama. I love it. I love being out there and doing everything I can to help the team out."
(On being surprised by staying in the whole Mississippi State)
"No, it is the way the cookie crumbles. It happened to be that my name was called and I had to go out there and perform. I think I did a pretty good job. Trying to carry it over into this week and whatever coaching decisions and depth chart decisions are made by the coaches, that's what's going to happen and I have to just go with it."
(On facing Alabama)
"I'm not worried about rankings or hype or anything like that. I'm here to come out and the team's here to come out and do the best we can and play to our ability. We come out on top, we come out on top and we play the way we can. That's the way we want to do it. We come out here from a special teams standpoint and work just as hard, if not harder, and keep improving every week and doing what we can."
(On Alabama's offensive line)
Big, physical. Probably the biggest offensive line compared to ours. Big guys that love to run blocks. It seems like that's all they do. It'll be a good game for us."
(On Alabama's offense)
"They have a great center, a smart guy who gets the offense going that way. The guards are really physical, some of the biggest tackles in the SEC. They consistently have receivers who make plays. That's kind of the nature of playing Bama, but it looks fine. I think we're going to have a game plan for them."
(On the defense's confidence level)
"I think it's good. The good thing is we've seen what we can do when we stay in this game. When we make the right plays, focus on our assignments and do things like that. We put together stretches like that in the second and fourth quarter of Georgia, the third quarter against Mississippi State. So now we just have to go out and perfect it and make that all four quarters."
(On consistent stretches)
Having the right guys and trusting the person beside you that he's going to do his job. You're not worrying about if they make a late call to us and switch up pressure from the right to the left, I can trust that Big Dan (McCullers) is going to go to the right and he's going to handle it so I don't' have to worry about anything else but my technique. I know the linebackers will fit us and they're the right guys on the blitz. It's just trusting everybody around us and playing technique."
(On Alabama being No. 1)
I could see why they would be. I haven't seen much of their defense or special teams. All I can talk about is their offense. From what I've seen this far, they've got one of the better offense that well play against. Really similar to Florida. Just bigger guys and really physical and been in the system longer."
(On Coach Dooley)
"Coach Dooley really cares about this program and cares about us individually. It's one of the things you can point out: all the hours he puts in, the VFL program. He cares about everything. It's easy to get sidetracked sometimes, but we're going to ignore that and focus on this week."
(On loss to Mississippi State)
"It was really disappointing, especially for me. I personally felt like I might have lost the game for us with that key fumble. It hurt me real bad. I was real sad about that loss. We're given 24 hours to be sad about it, and then it's time to move on."
(On Tennessee's fans)
"Being from here, you know how passionate the fans are and how much love they have for this program. It happens. We love it when they're cheering for us, but when they're emotional like that, it's easy to be like 'why are they being like this,' but in the end, they're there for us all the way."
(On efficiency of running the ball against Alabama)
"I feel like we can run against anybody. Look at the lineman we have, the receivers we have, I feel like we can run against anybody at any time. Alabama has a great defense obviously, but if we execute our game plan it's going to show."
(On Mississippi State game)
"I believe we executed our plays, the play calling went well, but we just messed up on a couple of them and they just outplayed us. They made good plays and we didn't stop them."
(On "not getting the job done")
"Maybe someone isn't getting to their gap on one play or maybe someone isn't sealing the edge on another. It's just the little things that we have to correct."
(On his 21-tackle career game)
"I just played my responsibilities, fit the gaps and then try to get to the ball. I just kept hustling every play and jumping into piles."
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My introduction to Zayante Road came on a particularly frenetic ride led by Jobst Brandt back in 1900 and 80. A fit bunch of riders they were, mostly racers and at the top of their game.
We made our way from Palo Alto over the Santa Cruz Mountains, taking a dirt road (not government approved) that tested our steel and sew-ups like no other. I for one was hammered by the time we reached Santa Cruz, but there was more to come.
Jobst took us up a steep, winding, narrow road that would become one of my favorite routes in the years ahead. But this was no fun ride as attack after attack ensued on the gnarliest climbs of 14 percent. There is one particularly nasty stretch, the last of the steep stuff, topping out at 17 percent. But don't let that dissuade you.
By the time we reached Skyline about half of us were fried and strung out to find our way home at a manageable pace. I'll never forget Marc Brandt begging me for a Fig Newton, totally bonked. Jobst had gone on ahead, unfazed by the long ride that clicked in at around 120 miles. Those were the days.
Zayante Road is so remote it sees little traffic, and the view — inspiring as you embrace the redwoods and the deep narrow canyons with creeks below.
On this day I rode down Zayante after climbing Hwy 9, temps in the upper 30s, low 40s. Plentiful sunshine didn't help much until the return up 9.
Zayante Road will test your riding skills on the twisty, bumpy descent. There's only one brief gentle climb on the way into the town of Zayante, which has but one store. I stopped for a cup of coffee, a first for me, but it hit the spot and made the ride up 9 go a little faster.
On the easy climb of Quail Hollow Road I spotted a dead pine tree riddled with woodpecker holes. Acorn woodpeckers and others spend hours drilling holes and pushing acorns into dead trees, which is no doubt why this tree was cut. They're in there tight and, yes, sometimes even woodpeckers can't get them out.
On the ride up 9 the sun budged the thermometer to the low 50s, but nearing Skyline it dropped back to 44. Not bad for the last weekend ride in January.

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Kandice Morris is a British actress who portrayed Kellah in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.[1] Her role is listed in the film's credits as simply "Girl 1".
For several years there was confusion over who Jennifer Smith was as Morris played a notable Gryffindor female and for a long period it was believed she was Lavender Brown. However it later was discovered she was a character made for the films called Kellah, much like the character Bem.
- Amoc (2010) - Mother
- Invalid Debris (2010) - Kaya Matthews
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) - Kellah
Notes and references
- ↑ Kandice Morris's profile from the Young Persons Theatre Group Casting Agency
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The family-size, 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco hybrid sedan is the most fuel efficient Malibu ever, with a combined city/highway federal government mileage rating of 29 miles per gallon.
This is 11.5 percent higher than the combined mileage of any non-hybrid 2013 and 11.5 percent better than any 2012 .
Better still, the redesigned and re-engineered 2013 Malibu Eco received the top safety rating — five of five stars — in both frontal and side crash tests by the federal government.
In comparison, the 2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid received four out of five in frontal crash testing, as did the 2013 Toyota Prius and the 2013 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid. There was no posting for the 2013 Camry Hybrid crash test results.
While it may not be apparent from pictures, the new Malibu Eco also has significantly new styling, including a taller hood, wider track and a 4.5-inch shorter wheelbase from the 2012 .
Additionally, the 2013 Malibu Eco uses the Buick Regal"s mild hybrid powerplant that mates a 2.4-liter, gasoline four cylinder with an electric motor and lithium ion battery pack.
Starting retail price is $26,855 for a base 2013 Malibu Eco, putting it amid midsize, hybrid car competitors.
Unfortunately, though, the major competitors have higher fuel mileage ratings from the government than does the new Malibu Eco.
For example, the 2013 Toyota Prius, the top-selling hybrid in America, carries a starting manufacturer"s suggested retail price of $24,795 and has a combined city/highway mileage rating of 50 mpg. The Prius is a five-passenger, mid-sized hatchback.
Toyota"s midsize, 2012 Camry Hybrid sedan has a retail starting price of $26,785, or $70 less than the Malibu Eco, and has a combined mileage rating from the government of 41 mpg. Toyota has not announced 2013 Camry Hybrid pricing.
Ford"s newly revamped Fusion Hybrid, while priced higher at $27,995, is rated by the government at 47 mpg.
The 2013 Malibu Eco also is $3,705 more than the base, non-hybrid 2013 .
In contrast to the Prius and other full hybrids, the Malibu Eco cannot travel on electric power alone, not even for short distances.
The test car, for example, accelerated acceptably on flat pavement and moved along well in city traffic. But the test Malibu Eco, with three adults inside, felt sluggish going up mountain roads.
Drivers don"t ever plug in the Malibu Eco. Electric power is generated as the car travels. For example, regenerative brakes on the car help save braking energy that would dissipate and be wasted.
And gasoline is saved because the engine, which develops 182 horsepower and peak torque of 172 foot-pounds at 4,900 rpm, is shut down automatically at stoplights, when the car is stopped and idling curbside and other times when power is not needed.
The tester, with 70 percent city travel and 30 highway driving, averaged just over 26 mpg, which isn"t that different from the mileage that was racked up in a non-hybrid, 2013 Mazda CX-5 sport utility vehicle.
Ann M. Job writes for the Associated Press.


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Would You Floss for $8,000?
Today's topic is not pretty, but unless you have $8,000 earmarked for your friendly neighborhood periodontist, it could prevent a lot of pain—both dental and financial.
Periodontal disease is an infection that affects the gum tissue around the teeth, the fibers that hold the teeth in the jaw bone and the bone itself.
Bacteria get caught between the teeth and also under the gum, forming a sticky substance called "plaque" that hardens to form tartar. This leads to infection known as gingivitis. As it spreads deeper into the bone it begins to decay and pus forms which causes swelling, redness and bleeding. If not treated, the teeth will become loose and fall out.
If you remove the soft plaque from the gum margin around the teeth you will toughen the gum and prevent the disease. Here's how to do that:
1. Floss between the teeth and under the gums. This is the only way to remove plaque effectively from between the teeth.
2. Use a power brush such as a Oral-B Professional or Phillips Sonicare to effectively scrub and vibrate the soft plaque away.
3. Use a rubber tip stimulator (available at drug stores) to massage the gum between the teeth. This toughens the gum and makes it more impervious to bacterial infection.
4. Have a good professional cleaning at least annually.
Dental floss is cheap. You can get yards and yards of it at any drug or grocery store for a buck or two. Most rechargeable, battery-powered toothbrushes sell for $60 to $100. A professional cleaning and exam varies across the country, but runs around $50 to $140.
If you absolutely cannot afford a powered brush the best alternative is to brush with a soft-bristle, nylon toothbrush. The bristles should be pressed between the gum and the tooth surface at a 45 degree angle just as you would use a scrub brush to clean the angle between a floor and a wall. Brush horizontally, back and forth. Flossing and brushing is the only way to prevent periodontal disease.
In terms of the cost of failing to prevent gum disease, allow me to scare you to death.
If you have gum disease with no bone damage (called gingivitis) the cost of scaling and root planing with follow-up appointments may cost up to $1,600. If there is bone damage (called periodontitis) which needs surgical intervention, the surgical fee could tack on another $3,000 to $4,000. If bone needs to be re-grown by various bone regenerating methods, the cost may be an additional $300 to $400 per tooth.
If you are unfortunate to have untreatable periodontal disease, extraction of hopelessly diseased teeth could cost $100 or more per tooth. And a full set of dentures will run up to $8,000.
Here's a plan: Spend a little time and money now to prevent gum disease so you can spend that $8,000 on something else more enjoyable.
Question: How would you rather spend $8,000?


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journal entry. late at night. once upon a time:
why is it that even in a situation where you know you don't even like or see a future with or care about a guy (even though he IS kinda cute), after you have sex with him, inevitably it's the girl who feels like she was used somehow? or as if she now, out of cultural obligation, has to feel bad about giving her puss away to a guy too quickly?
here's why i feel bad: i know that I'm too special and precious and smart to let some guy just put his dick in me, even though we barely know each other, cuz that's what he wants. i don't want to give myself away so easily. at least, I'd prefer not too. but i did it anyway. i gave in. i caved. i was easy. i wasn't even dying for sex! (i can't stand the word 'horny') So there wasn't even the payoff of feeling relieved and gratified afterwords/sexually satiated. (wait, does that mean it was BAD sex too? if it were good, would it have felt gratifying in another way? god dammit! this is such a multi layered bummer!)
here's why i don't feel bad: i don't like the dude, but sex feels good and I had nothing to lose cuz i don't wanna date him anyways… although i HAVE had experiences where I've had first date sex and we went on to date seriously.
Q: why did i do it though if i could have just as easily been watching tv and eating pretzels?
A: I'd had a few drinks, I let him come up to my place, we got naked and I felt obligated. I should have just kissed him in the car and at the bar and left it at that. I didn't take care of myself/check in with myself to see where I wanted the night to go. Instead, I went on auto pilot. (alcohol & boredom). And by the time we were rolling around naked and kissing in my bedroom: I came from him going down on me, and wanted him to cum and now that I've had sex enough in my lifetime, i decided it was just easier to let him get off while fucking me. i didn't even see the point of giving him a blow job to end the experience, or mutually masturbate. we'd both already gone down on each other… so now the finishing may as well be something we can both enjoy. i mean, oral sex is still sex, unprotected, and involves fluids! ahhhh! in reality, an unprotected blowjob is way more intimate and seems much more dangerous than protected sex. (but i'm talking about sex where the dude's wearing a condom and pulls out before he cums inside me. how dare you?!)
the aftermath that left me sad was this: what i lacked in the end wasn't my self-respect. no. it was the lack of meeting a guy whose shoulder i wanted to put my head on. it was the lack of having the arms of someone i wanted to be held by. it was the lack of my interest in his life, the humor in his jokes. he was fine, but i felt dead inside and way too self-aware about it all. i'm a romantic. but other times i'm cold. maybe that just means i'm with the wrong person. oh shit, duh. i want a guy to be in love with me, but i'm jut as unavailable as the men whose love i crave but who don't love me. but i get upset when i don't get to reject someone first- i get upset when i give myself over to them and with that, potentially my power. well, hopefully some lesson was learned here.
probably not though. on to the next. i'll try to cope using advice from my various friends & ex boyfriends i texted while taking a bath after the guy i sexxed left and i'd locked the door behind him:
various texts from friends and ex's talking me off the ledge:
1. don't feel bad! you're a baller vixen. you can be in as much control as you want to be. it's not about your vagina, it's about your brain. (from an ex)
2. don't be hard on yourself. you thrive off experience and impulse. think of it this way: your brain is spinning more now after having unfulfilling sex than it probably would be from having not put out. i give my dick to plenty of unworthy people, but i only give my heart, eyes, and brain to people who matter. so chillax you wonderful soul, that guy will wish you'd fuck him again and you won't. you win. and part of what makes you great are these weird reflections that this bullshit causes you to have. you're one of the few women i've ever encountered who even if you fucked someone you met 25 min prior- you come off as the winner. it's an admirable and enviable freedom you exhibit. and you think about and are in tune to how that affects you. (from an ex)
3. don't worry about it. gay men have sex on the first date to make sure the chemistry's good! you're like a gay man! and gay guys are the best! (from a girlfriend)
4. As my mom says 'bonobo monkeys know best- and sex is the most therapeutic thing you can do for your body.' So REALLY it was just a therapy session last night. : ) (from a girlfriend)
5. Totally. I got you. I totally understand. I've def been in the same position. But it's all meant to be. Maybe you needed to do it for some reason. To get your head back into work or whatever reason… (from a girlfriend)
6. do you want to come over? (from an ex)
7. do you want me to come over? (from a guy i thought was my friend, but who i now know wants to sexxx me)
oh wait. reading this back, i just answered my own question. the answer was in the question:
"why is it that even in a situation where you know you don't even like or see a future with or care about a guy (even though he IS kinda cute), after you have sex with him, inevitably it's the girl who feels like she was used somehow? or as if she now, out of cultural obligation, has to feel bad about giving her puss away to a guy too quickly?"
From now on, i will listen to my therapist and learn from the point he made when he said 'would you have had sex with him if you hadn't been drinking alcohal?' and my answer was 'no'.
Update: by the next afternoon i was fine. and yeah, he called. he asked me out again. i didn't go out with him though. i chose not to. and i did learn a lesson from this: no sex or even dating unless i'm REALLY excited about someone. cuz even then you take the chance of spiralling & heartbreak. but at least THEN it's for someone you felt was worth it.


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With opening day just around the corner, I'm recalling all the fishing reports from years gone by. Statements like "I couldn't find the fish", "It was too windy to keep the bait in front of their noses", "I didn't have the right bait", or "There aren't any fish in this lake, it must be the dead sea!" are all comments heard around opening day. Sure, some of these reasons may be true for not getting opening day walleyes, but I believe that most problems lie with the tackle and presentation.
You don't need a lot of flash and fancy gadgets for early walleyes. As a matter of fact, it's just the opposite. You need to slow down your presentation and keep it simple. To catch some opening day walleyes, concentrate on the following three things and you shouldn't have any problem putting some fish in the boat; location, boat control and bait presentation. Success on opener starts long before getting to the lake, by studying a lake map and developing a plan. The first places to look for walleyes are areas adjacent to where they have just spawned. Shorelines with pea to marble size gravel are ideal! The areas where rivers or small feeder creeks dump into the lake will warm the fastest and will also act as a walleye magnet. Sandbars will hold their share of walleyes too. Finally, don't forget to check the northern most shorelines; the sun will warm those areas first. Start shallow and watch your electronics. Once you have found the depth and an area that is holding walleyes, its time to get your rigs ready. Once you have positioned your boat where you want it and are seeing fish on the locator, the next step is to get the bait down to the walleyes.
Since it is early in the year and the water temperature will be low, you will need to present your bait so that it moves very slowly. Two of the best presentations to use are minnow-tipped jigs, and live bait rigs. I believe that nothing beats a live bait slip sinker rig. I prefer using the following set up: From the main line I tie on a #14 barrel swivel and a 5 - 7 ft. snell made from 6 lb. Berkley Trilene Fluorocarbon. On the business end, I use colored Gamakatsu Octopus hooks in sizes ranging from #8 to #2 depending on what live bait I am using. With the variety of colors that Gamakatsu has to offer, there is no problem finding one that will attract the walleyes. Lastly, make sure to use a removable weight so you don't have to retie if you change depths. Walleye bites can be difficult to detect. Sometimes you will feel a sharp tap while at other times your line will just start to get "heavy".
If you like to pitch jigs, this is the time of the year to do it. You can use the same set up that you use for live bait rigging. Just cut off the swivel and tie on a time proven, fish catching jig such as Fin-Tech knuckle ball Jig. These short-shanked, wide gap hooked jigs make jigging easy. At this time of the year, I think minnows work best. Fatheads are usually the choice because they are so readily available and are more durable than shiner minnows. Don't just rely on minnows though; crawlers can be good, and if the water is warm enough, leeches can be ideal.
The bottom line, to eliminate the "I didn't have the right bait" comment, be prepared to bring a variety of live bait along with you. So if you slow down your presentation, have precise boat control, prepare by bringing a variety of live bait choices, you should get your opening day walleyes, and not have to end the day saying "There aren't any fish in this lake, it must be the dead sea". See ya on the water.


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Brits and open-neck shirts
It's an instant moisturiser for me. David Beckham, Clive Owen, Hugh Grant, white shirts open at the neck, what is it about when an Englishman wears it that makes it extra extra sexy? Or is it just me the Anglophile? Probably.
Hot Harry on a Horse was out last night at a private member's club in London, photographed leaving in good spirits at 3am. He was even pleasant with the paps, thanking them for "being so nice".
Why the easy temperament?
Perhaps it's to do with Chelsy. They're back together, publicly, and so it appears that Hot Harry is forgiven. Until, of course, the next time he f-cks up which, as you know, usually doesn't take very long.
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Longstanding video game company LucasArts is soon to be no more.
The San Francisco-based video game company, which is known for classic Star Wars video games such as X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, will be shut down by new parent company Disney, the San Francisco Business Times first reported.
LucasFilm later released a statement that said it was shifting from building video games to licensing out the Star Wars names to developers.
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Disney recently paid $4 billion for Lucasfilm Ltd. and will shut the studio — which will result in the loss of 150 jobs — as a way to consolidate costs.
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Geneva – On Hand Hygiene Day (5 May), more than 15 000 health-care facilities from 156 countries are participating in the WHO Save Lives: Clean Your Hands Initiative by committing to improve patient safety by practicing better hand hygiene.
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Per this thread on gaf this is happening.
Halo 2 Anniversary along with a whole bunch of other MS news. Keep in mind that the guy posting had to reveal via PMs to admins his sources, and the admins allowed it.
Halo 5 is apparently pushed to 2015, Halo 2 this year which makes sense given the new ilovebees activity such as Major Nelson's twitter post, etc.
Halo 2 Anniv rumored to have original online multiplayer with all the maps on xbox one.


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BAKU, Azerbaijan
Emin Fatullayev is nervous. His son, the newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev, has been in prison for a year, and Emin is convinced the family's ramshackle, one-story brick house on the outskirts of this city is bugged. He leads a visitor to the backyard where, he says, it may be safer to talk. When asked why authorities went to such extremes to prosecute his son, piling up criminal charges from defamation to terrorism and imposing a prison term of eight and half years, Emin lights a cigarette and says it is rooted in a news story--Eynulla's investigation into the 2005 murder of his boss and mentor, the editor Elmar Huseynov.
"Eynulla found Elmar's killers," he whispers, describing his son's reporting trip to Georgia just months before he was arrested.
Huseynov was shot in the stairwell of his apartment building in Baku on March 2, 2005, in what bore the hallmarks of a contract-style murder. The building's entrance light was broken, witnesses told CPJ, and telephone lines in the neighborhood were cut. Huseynov, 37, editor of the newsweekly Monitor,was a sharp critic of the administration of President Ilham Aliyev. The weekly closed after his death.
Fatullayev founded the Russian-language weekly Realny Azerbaijan as an editorial successor to Huseynov's Monitor. He also set out to find his friend's killers. "Until I draw my last breath, I will be investigating this assassination," Fatullayev told the newspaper Yeni Musavat.
To mark the second anniversary of Huseynov's murder, Fatullayev published a first-person piece headlined "Lead and Roses," accusing authorities of deliberately obstructing the investigation and ignoring evidence that could lead to the masterminds. He said the assassination was carried out by a criminal group that included several Georgian citizens who had been hired by an unnamed official in Baku. Although Azerbaijani officials publicly claimed to be seeking Georgian citizens in the case, Fatullayev wrote that they had not provided authorities in Georgia with arrest warrants or supporting evidence.
Four days after the piece was published, on March 6, 2007, Fatullayev's mother received an anonymous phone call. As a "wise woman," the caller said, she should "talk sense" into her son or "we will send him to Elmar." Fatullayev reported the threat to police, but it was he who came under intense investigation. Eight months later, he was charged, convicted, and sentenced on four criminal counts--the most serious-sounding a "terrorism" charge based on an article in Realny Azerbaijan that analyzed the domestic impact of a U.S. attack on Iran. In the meantime, authorities swept into the paper's offices and its sister publication, the Azeri-language daily Gündalik Azarbaycan, and issued citations for fire-code violations that effectively shut down both papers.
The case encapsulates the breadth of press freedom abuses in this oil-rich country on the Caspian Sea. A CPJ investigation has found at least eight other serious violent attacks against reporters and editors in three years, not one of which has resulted in an arrest. The government has jailed at least 11 journalists under false pretenses and has moved in to suspend or close at least four critical news outlets in the last five years.
With Fatullayev behind bars and other journalists under attack, there is virtually no ongoing scrutiny of the Huseynov murder in the press. The secretive official investigation has yielded no arrests, and CPJ found no tangible evidence of progress. While Azerbaijani authorities have repeatedly said that they have enlisted the help of international police in arresting suspects in Huseynov's slaying, the public record does not substantiate those claims.
In a recent meeting with CPJ, Aliyev administration officials said two ethnic Azerbaijani citizens of Georgia--Tair Hubanov and Teymuraz Aliyev--are the main suspects in the Huseynov case. "Azerbaijan remains fully committed to solving this terrible crime," said Arastun Mehdiyev, deputy head of the Department for Public-Political Issues.
But he and Vugar Aliyev, head of the Section on Press and Information Bodies, said Interpol, the international police agency, bears the primary responsibility for apprehending the two men. The officials declined to discuss what Azerbaijani authorities themselves are doing to obtain the arrests, referring questions to domestic investigators at the Ministry of National Security (MNB). The MNB did not respond to CPJ's written requests for comment.When Huseynov was killed, President Aliyev immediately condemned the crime, calling it a barbaric act aimed at destabilizing the country ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled that fall. He pledged the murder would be solved within 40 days and invited the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Turkish agents to join the probe. He soon characterized the crime as a terrorist act, a categorization that would prove significant in the handling of the case.
Pursuant to the "terror" designation, the MNB took control of the case from the prosecutor general's office in April 2005. That month, several suspects were briefly detained in Baku but were freed for lack of evidence. In May, authorities publicly named the Georgian citizens Hubanov and Aliyev as the main suspects but gave no information about their purported roles. Aliyev has denied involvement; Hubanov has not been located for comment. In the three years since, the MNB has not released photos of the two wanted suspects or disclosed any information about them or their alleged roles.
Azerbaijan reportedly filed requests for the extradition of Hubanov and Aliyev, but on July 28, 2005, Georgia's prosecutor general said he would not grant any request without being presented with sufficient evidence, the independent news agency Turan reported. Officials in the Georgian prosecutor general's office did not respond to CPJ's written requests for information.
In August 2005, Azerbaijani media reported that Hubanov and Aliyev were being sought by Interpol. In one of President Aliyev's last public statements on the case, he told journalists at a November 2006 press conference that "the murderers are wanted, they have been identified." As reported by the regional news Web site EurasiaNet, the president added: "However they are not in the country, which makes it difficult to detain them. We are waiting for Interpol to find them to bring them to justice."
But Interpol's actual involvement is not nearly so clear cut. The agency's public database of wanted fugitives does not list either of the suspects identified by Azerbaijani officials. In a written statement, Interpol said it does not comment on specific cases but noted that it issues notices for wanted fugitives, known as "red notices," only after member countries provide "details of a valid arrest warrant." Interpol also said that while it assists member countries in locating suspects, it does not itself send officers to make arrests.
Interpol said a member country can request that a fugitive notice not be publicized. That would seem unlikely, however, given repeated public statements by Azerbaijani officials identifying the suspects and asserting that Interpol was looking for them.
Domestically, MNB investigators failed to follow up on basic leads. Huseynov's wife, Rushana, for example, said MNB investigators were uninterested in her description of a man she had seen following the editor before the slaying. When she approached MNB officials, most recently in the fall of 2006, she said that "they refused to record my testimony or follow up on my accounts. They tried to persuade me that I was wrong and to pressure me to not publicize my conversation with them." Rushana Huseynov, growing fearful, fled the country.
Eynulla Fatullayev was becoming frustrated. He decided to travel to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi with three other journalists in October 2006 to look for the suspects identified by Azerbaijani officials. In a press conference after their return, the journalists said they had met with Teymuraz Aliyev, who was living openly in Tbilisi, and had taken his photo, which they distributed.
The MNB soon questioned the journalists about their trip. The agency disputed that the man in the photos was Aliyev and warned the four to stop their investigation, according to local press reports. Fatullayev pressed forward nonetheless, giving a series of interviews to the local media. In a November 17, 2006, interview with the independent daily Ekho, Fatullayev cast doubt on the authorities' good faith in solving Huseynov's murder. "Law enforcement structures are behaving quite dubiously," he told the newspaper. "As we uncover something, they try to cover up the tracks."
A month after "Lead and Roses" ran in Realny Azerbaijan, Fatullayev was imprisoned. Since then, the lack of investigative progress and the absence of information have opened the case to wide and sometimes head-spinning speculation. Ibrahim Bayandurlu, a reporter with the independent Russian-language daily Zerkalo, accompanied Fatullayev to Georgia but came away with a different theory than his colleague. He believes Russian security services were behind the killing as a way to damage Azerbaijan's image with the West.
Mehman Aliyev, director of the Turan news agency, who has followed the case closely, told CPJ he thinks the murder was organized domestically by would-be coup plotters who served in the presidential guard of the late Heydar Aliyev, father of the current leader. The editor said an MNB official told him that the former guard members were planning to kill prominent journalists and activists to create societal unrest. Elements of this theory have been reported in the local media.
And at one point, in July 2006, an ex-military official even "confessed" to killing Huseynov on the orders of former Economic Development Minister Farkhad Aliyev. The statement was made in open court by Haji Mammadov, a former Ministry of Internal Affairs officer, during his trial on unrelated murder and kidnapping charges. The statement was widely discredited within weeks, though, after the economic minister denied involvement and no evidence emerged to support the assertion. Mammadov has not been charged in the Huseynov case.
It's little wonder then that Huseynov's father, Sabir, appears frustrated when asked about the probe. "What investigation? Three years have passed! What investigation can we talk about?" he says during a visit to his son's grave. "All they do is confuse people."
His daughter-in-law and grandson having left the country in fear for their safety, Sabir Huseynov reminisces about the family he hasn't seen in more than a year and the son he will never see again. "Elmar was not afraid of anything and anyone. He was calling things with their real names. I used to read his magazine and would sometimes tell him: 'Elmar, maybe you should tone this down a bit, huh?' And he would say: 'I can't. It doesn't go this way. I would write it as it is or not at all.' You know, I loved my son, of course. But I loved him twice as much because of Monitor."
Ilham Aliyev effectively inherited the presidency from his father in 2003 and has since consolidated his position as a supreme executive--maintaining authority over the cabinet, the legislature, the military, and the judiciary. Embattled and fragmented opposition politicians have posed little challenge.
Aliyev is bolstered by his country's strategic importance to the United States and Europe. Oil in the Caspian Sea basin provides an alternative to Russian and Persian Gulf supplies, and Azerbaijan is a hub in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Bordering Iran, Azerbaijan provides the United States with a stable, strategic partner in the region. These interests have tended to mute Western reaction to the administration's human rights abuses.
Domestically, Aliyev's success is built in good part on his clampdown on the independent media. Television--the most influential news medium in the country--is under the administration's control either directly or through pro-Aliyev owners. The only independent channel with national reach, ANS, has toned down its criticism of the administration since the state media regulator--the National Television and Radio Council--suspended its license in November 2006. Once back on the air five months later, local journalists told CPJ, ANS changed its editorial content; it no longer gives live airtime, for instance, to opposition politicians.
Low-circulation print media have more editorial freedom, but their impact on public opinion is small. And with authorities cracking down on critical journalists, fewer reporters are willing to cover sensitive topics, the most dangerous of which is reporting on Aliyev and his family. Disgruntled officials use criminal defamation charges frequently, demanding jail time and high damages. The government has resisted persistent calls by international organizations, including the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, to decriminalize libel laws.
The most critical journalists have also been subjected to violence. Since Huseynov was gunned down in early 2005, CPJ has documented abductions, beatings, stabbings, and other physical attacks against eight independent and pro-opposition journalists. The attacks are all unsolved.
Uzeyir Jafarov, who covered military issues for Gündalik Azarbaycan before it was shuttered, was attacked by two men who struck him on the head several times with a metal object as he was leaving his office on April 20, 2007. Shortly before the beating, he had written articles about corruption in the Azerbaijani defense ministry. Jafarov sustained serious head injuries, for which he was hospitalized. He said he recognized one of his attackers as an officer from the Yasamal District Police Department in Baku and gave the names of five witnesses to police. The witnesses told him that police never approached them. Instead, Minister of Internal Affairs Ramil Usubov said publicly that Jafarov had injured himself. "How can police investigate when the interior minister himself is practically instructing them not to?" Jafarov said.
In May 2006, five men in Baku abducted and beat Bakhaddin Khaziyev, editor-in-chief of the opposition daily Bizim Yol. The assailants drove their car over his legs, leaving him with serious injuries and a lasting limp. There have been no arrests or any apparent developments in the investigation. "When I was attacked, both the president and the minister of internal affairs condemned the crime," Khaziyev said. "Minister Usubov even said that, for him, solving my case is a matter of honor. But, unfortunately, two years after, there are no results." Khaziyev said he regularly seeks information from Baku prosecutors and police but gets a standard answer: "The investigation is ongoing." Shortly before the attack, Khaziyev published articles in Bizim Yolcriticizing high-ranking MNB officials.
Hakimeldostu Mehdiyev, Nakhchivan correspondent of Yeni Musavat, said he was attacked by authorities themselves. On September 22, 2007, several agents with the MNB in Nakhchivan forced him into a sedan, took him to their station in the village of Jalilkand, beat him for seven hours, and warned him to stop his critical reporting, he recounted for CPJ. The next day, police raided his home, arrested him on charges of disobeying law enforcement officials, and took him to a district judge who immediately ordered him jailed for 15 days. In the weeks before his ordeal, Mehdiyev reported on human rights abuses, economic crimes, and corruption in Nakhchivan. He also did a commentary on economic woes and labor abuses that aired on the Azerbaijani service of the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Convinced that the case cannot be properly addressed on the local level, Mehdiyev sent appeals to President Aliyev, the prosecutor general's office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the MNB, and the ombudsman for human rights. "They haven't even answered my letters," Mehdiyev said.
Azerbaijani authorities have proved efficient at one thing: jailing journalists who work for independent or opposition media. Over the past two years, CPJ research shows, Azerbaijan became the leading jailer of reporters in Europe and Central Asia. At one time in 2007, at least 10 critical reporters and editors were jailed on trumped-up charges such as defamation, drug possession, hooliganism, and terrorism. President Aliyev pardoned several late last year in the face of an international outcry, but at least four remain in prison today.
The government has sought to isolate them and keep them from public view. CPJ's formal requests to visit the jailed journalists were met with a series of vague and evasive responses: a government fax machine was out of paper; the request was forwarded to the wrong mailbox; the official in charge of making the decision was out of town. The requests, while never officially rejected, were effectively rebuffed during CPJ's week-long trip in May.
The brothers Genimet and Sakit Zakhidov--journalists with Azadlyg newspaper--are among those in jail. Baku police arrested Sakit Zakhidov, a prominent reporter, poet, and satirist who wrote under the name Mirza Sakit, in June 2006 for alleged heroin possession. Sakit denied the charge and said a police officer placed the drug in his pocket during a staged arrest, but authorities did not question the officer. In October of that year, a Baku court sentenced Sakit to three years in prison. Three days prior to the arrest, Executive Secretary Ali Akhmedov of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party publicly urged authorities to silence Sakit. "No government official or member of parliament has avoided his slanders. Someone should put an end to it," EurasiaNet quoted Akhmedov as saying.
Rena Zakhidov, Sakit's wife, said her husband's writing had long angered authorities. His latest book of satirical poems about life in Azerbaijan, titled Ey Dadi-Bidad! (Woe Is Me!), is banned in the country. "No bookstore or vendor would carry it, so I keep the copies here," Rena said, pointing to boxes stacked in her living room. Rena, who lives in poverty with her five children in a dilapidated house outside Baku, told CPJ that her 12-year-old son, Jahandar, has been harassed by school authorities because of his father's work, and that she has been turned down from every job she has sought. "Last week, I applied for a job at a pastry shop; they liked my pastries," Rena said. "But this week they changed their mind. They told me: 'You understand, don't you? We just can't [hire you].'" Rena said Sakit continues to write in prison--on pieces of cloth he tears off his bed sheets and pants.
In another strange scenario, authorities arrested Genimet Zakhidov, Azadlyg's editor, on November 7, 2007, after a man and a woman assailed him on the street outside his Baku office building. Zakhidov managed to fend them off with the help of passersby, but the pair went on to file a police complaint. On March 7, 2008, a Baku district court sentenced Zakhidov to four years in prison on charges of hooliganism and inflicting bodily harm, despite contradictory statements from prosecution witness and the absence of any documented injuries, Zakhidov's lawyer, Elchin Sadygov, told CPJ. Eyewitnesses for the defense were barred from testifying, he said. Nonetheless, Genimet Zakhidov was sentenced to the maximum penalty under the law.
But the Fatullayev case, in particular, illustrates how far the government is willing to go to silence reporters. Authorities creatively used a wide array of criminal statutes--articles of defamation, incitement of ethnic and religious hatred, terrorism, and tax evasion--to ensure Fatullayev remained in custody for a long time.
The terrorism and ethnic hatred charges, which account for eight years of the sentence, stem from a March 30, 2007, Realny Azerbaijan article headlined "The Aliyevs Go to War," which analyzed possible consequences for Azerbaijan if the United States were to wage war with Iran. The piece sharply criticized President Aliyev's foreign policy. "There were many articles similar to [Fatullayev's] already published in the Azerbaijani and the Russian press--and we presented them in court," Fatullayev's defense lawyer, Isakhan Ashurov, told CPJ. "Yet only Eynulla was put on trial." Ashurov said the terrorism indictment alleged that international business people and diplomatic officials had complained about the story. Flimsy as that assertion might have been, no such witnesses even testified. Instead, Ashurov said, the court based its verdict on the testimony of a series of government employees who said Fatullayev's article "stirred their emotions" and "frightened" them.
The defamation charge stemmed from an Internet posting attributed to Fatullayev-- which the editor denies having written--that said Azerbaijanis were responsible for the 1992 massacre of residents of the Nagorno-Karabakh town of Khodjali. "No one could prove that he made the statement. How could they? The whole case was bogus," said Ashurov, pointing out that under the law an entire class of people cannot be libeled in the first place. "The honor and dignity of Azerbaijanis, as a people, are not protected by Azerbaijan's laws."
Ashurov said the tax evasion charge was not supported by the evidence, either. The case was put together by prosecutors while Fatullayev was jailed on other charges, making it very difficult to collect records to mount a defense. In June, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upheld Fatullayev's convictions--an unsurprising result, said Ashurov. "Our courts lack independence. ... The courts in Azerbaijan are nothing but an empty symbol."
Shut down by the domestic courts, Ashurov and the Fatullayev family have persuaded the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights to review the case. They are asking the court to overturn Fatullayev's convictions and pay him damages. As a member of the Council of Europe and a signer of the European Convention on Human Rights, Azerbaijan is bound by the court's decision. "Strasbourg," said the editor's mother, Gulshan Fatullayeva, "is our only hope."
The Aliyev administration, it seems clear, has little interest in addressing the press crisis created by violence, impunity, and false imprisonment. The troubles, top officials told CPJ, rest with journalists themselves. "One of the main problems of Azerbaijani journalists is that those who enter the profession lack professionalism," said Mehdiyev, deputy head of the Department for Public-Political Issues. "Most of their problems stem from that."
Nina Ognianova is CPJ's Europe and Central Asia program coordinator.
To the government of Azerbaijan
- Release all journalists imprisoned for their work, including Eynulla Fatullayev, Sakit Zakhidov, Genimet Zakhidov, and Novruzali Mamedov. End the practice of jailing journalists in retaliation for their reporting.
- Publicly disclose the status of the investigation into the murder Elmar Huseynov, including the status of arrest warrants, extradition requests, and international fugitive notices. Disclose the specific steps being taken by the Ministry of National Security to identify and apprehend those responsible. Regularly inform Huseynov's family of the status of the investigation. Ensure that all investigative steps are conducted in a thorough and timely manner.
- Stop harassing critical journalists and their families. End the use of tactics such as pressuring employers to fire or withhold jobs from journalists and their families; damaging family businesses and sources of income through regulatory harassment; and summoning journalists for interrogations following critical stories.
- Decriminalize defamation laws and end the practice of using the criminal code as a means to punish critical journalists.
- Stop using government-controlled media for smear campaigns against critical journalists.
- Ensure that physical attacks against journalists are investigated in a thorough, transparent, and prompt manner. Bring to justice all those responsible for these assaults.
- End regulatory tactics intended to obstruct critical journalists. This includes halting such practices as the refusal to grant broadcasting licenses, the blocking of access to sources and information, and the withholding of press accreditation to independent journalists and media outlets.
- Respect Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Azerbaijan ratified and which guarantees "the right to hold opinions without interference" and the freedom "to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media." Ensure legislation complies with international standards for press freedom.
To the European Court of Human Rights
- Promptly hear the case of Eynulla Fatullayev v. Azerbaijan. Consider all remedies available, including the overturning of convictions and the granting of damages.


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What a difference a year makes! Twelve months ago, the world of Java was beset by fear and uncertainty. There was grave concern about Oracle's takeover of the language via its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Many people wondered how committed the company was to the forward progress of the language. And given the Oracle's initial ham-fisted handling of several developer communities (such as Open Solaris and the Hudson project), there was a pervasive feeling that the company could easily ruin the language through either neglect or, more likely, by pursuing its own agenda so aggressively that it would destroy the existing Java community. The then-recent lawsuit against Google only furthered these concerns.
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This year's JavaOne conference, held last week in San Francisco, continued the buzz. The show and conference were significantly larger than last year, and there was far more electricity in the crowd than in the past two years. In part, this was due to Oracle's announcements about features and revised dates for the upcoming releases, the unveiling of a significantly better version of JavaFX, the elaboration of a new process to put Java apps on the iPad, and the company's plans for overhauling the Java Community Process (JCP). For the first time in a long time, attendees had reason to listen and good reason to believe. Oracle committed to progress on many fronts; it had specific plans; and the plans made sense. (Eric Bruno captured details of these announcements in his blog.)
To me, the most suprising of the announcements was certainly the reworked JavaFX 2.0. When Oracle acquired Java, JavaFX was viewed as a moribund technology interesting, well implemented in parts, but so poorly marketed that it would never gain traction. To everyone's surprise, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison committed publicly to JavaFX in his very first speech after the acquisition of Sun. This support sounded then (and even in retrospect) like an extravagant promise that would quickly be forgotten. However, the company rearchitected JavaFX from top to bottom: It got rid of the scripting portion, refurbished the APIs, and made the product far easier to use. In addition, it anointed JavaFX as the client interface product of choice for Java going forward. That is, it takes over from Swing, the expansive, but little loved, amalgamation of interface toolkits and APIs that has been Java's client development framework for a decade. JavaFX might be one of the primary beneficiaries of Oracle's announcement that it will get Java apps on iOS (by integrating a shrunken-down JVM in the app). Either way, columnist Eric Bruno will shortly begin a series of deep dives into JavaFX 2.0.
Another long-needed change Oracle announced was a top-to-bottom reform of the Java Community Process (JCP). The JCP was instituted by Sun in response to pressure from the community of users to participate in Java's future growth. Despite this provenance, the JCP was formed of committees comprising self-appointed experts who were interested in adding some piece of functionality to the Java platform or the libraries, generally at the behest of their employers. The JCP documents were obscure, the committee activities unclear, and the whole system had the feel of a series of fiefdoms, working in anarchy, with a few reaching the tipping point of proposal adoption. Many committees were stillborn, while others died from atrophy, often as the result of a change of course by the primary sponsoring company.
Oracle is cleaning this up. JCP projects will begin using publicly visible mailing lists for all communication, and they'll make test code available to all interested parties. I'd like to see more done, but this is an excellent start at making the JCP more transparent and, I hope, participatory and useful.
Between the clear articulation of features and calendars, delivery on the commitment to JavaFX, solving the iOS problem, and providing new transparency to the JCP, the collective feeling last week was that Oracle is moving Java very much in the right direction.


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The gardenia is one of the most well-known and most popular flowers you'll find. Before you see it, you'll likely smell its unique fragrance wafting by you, particularly in the streets of the French Quarter and other stretches of homes with ornate gardens. It is a spring and summer-flowering plant, and its predominant month is May. It is also referred to as cape jasmine if you ask around town.
The magnolia is perhaps the most prominent flower representing the city as it is the official state flower of Louisiana. You can find many magnolia trees with blossoms opening up throughout the season, but also others as it is actually an evergreen. It has a lovely, unique smell and a large and distinct shape that you won't miss if you pass it. The Magnolia has inspired names of buildings, gathering sites and even a Mardi Gras Indian tribe.
Chinese wisteria blooms in April and May. You'll also see this vines growing wild in the wooded areas. It is the most beautiful shade of purple. The Court of Two Sisters down on Royal Street has a vine that covers the entire courtyard and is over a 100 years old. I don't recommend the food but do stop in for dessert and coffee and admire the wisteria.
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On my walk from the car to Jazz Fest, I was taken aback by the plethora of big and beautiful hibiscus flowers in gardens throughout Mid-City. This is also another common garden plant in the city, as it is both shapely and adorns with lovely colors.
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I guess people will remain obsessed with the guy this century as they were with Jardine in the last.
I guess people will remain obsessed with the guy this century as they were with Jardine in the last.
I am so going to watch this movie...
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I do hope with Hansie's elder bro involved in won't prove to be too much of a whitewash. There seems a rather distasteful effort to paint him as some kind of Afrikaner martyr in SA, where he was actually a victim of his own greed. It may also be instructive to consider that the two players he successfully drew into his machinations were Henry Williams & Herschelle Gibbs; both non-whites who may've been uncertain of their positions in the SA side.
The story has all the elements of the classic tragedy or morality play: a man at the very peak of his powers, revered by his countrymen brought down by his insatiable avarice.
It's a tragedy the poor guy died so soon, he was ultimately denied any chance of redemption.
Anyone have any ideas for an actor to play him? I'd go for Gary Sinise, he shares Cronje's feral, slightly world-weary look.
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I would pick Ray Leotta as the guy who has the face closest to Hansie , but he is much shorter than Hansie.Originally Posted by BoyBrumby
My next pick would be Ralph Fiennes !! (with a little bit of facial change he would fit the bill - Height wise would be pretty close to Hansie too )
Wonder who others on CW would pick to play Hansie ?
I would like to pick a British actor considering he would know some thing about the game!
Seriously, le, there are some things you don't joke about and hiding behind DD isn't appropriate.Originally Posted by luckyeddie
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Never mind the tragedy of Cronje's death, it's a darn shame he didn't play more ODIs than he did.Originally Posted by BoyBrumby
Gibbs, uncertain of his place?Originally Posted by BoyBrumby
Gibbs did have a need for urgent money, as you'll know remembering his explanation of why he took the offer up - but Gibbs was one guy who could have had no doubts of his place in the side!
need for urgent money does NOT justify dishonesty and selling your country short. Period.Gibbs did have a need for urgent money, as you'll know remembering his explanation of why he took the offer up - but Gibbs was one guy who could have had no doubts of his place in the side!
I hope the movie potrays hansie for what he really was: a greedy player who was a good captain, mediocre batsman and an absolute disgrace ethically.
PS: I hope Pete Sampras gets some acting training because he looks so much like Cronje that he should play Cronje!
I was hoping the same thing but Sampras must not know much abuot cricket or acting.Originally Posted by C_C
Is this going to be an Indian production or a South African production or a Hollywood production or what?? And whatever it is, will it be released to a large scale global audience or just amongst cricket playing nations??
Will it be more of a commercial movie or a documentary?
Hollywood wouldn't touch cricket with a bargepole.Originally Posted by chekmeout
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