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BreathBuddy is a natural drug-free way to reduce stress. BreathBuddy learns your natural breathing rate with a specially designed algorithm, then coaches you through breathing exercises that are customized to bring maximal results. Each session gradually improves your breath rate, and BreathBuddy gives you instant feedback and charts your progress.
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(Watchdog.org) Des Moines, IA – As the deadline to pay income taxes approaches, it's important to remember that government does more than just take your money — it also uses your money to let others skip paying taxes.
The Iowa Economic Development Authority announced Friday it had approved almost $1.7 million in tax credits and other incentives for four well-established, profitable companies that intend to expand or build manufacturing facilities in the state.
The biggest state tax break announced Friday went to Tyson Fresh Meats, which was awarded more than $950,000 in tax credits. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tyson Foods, the second largest food production company in the country. Since opening its doors in Iowa in 1986, the company has received more than $7 million in tax credits and loans from the state.
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September 1971. Greenpeace co-founders Bob Hunter on left at the helm of the Phyllis Cormack (also called "Greenpeace") together with Ben Metcalfe, en route to Amchitka. The very first Greenpeace voyage, departed Vancouver on the 15th September 1971, with the aim of halting nuclear tests on Amchitka Island by sailing into the restricted area.
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Hi Archinect!
By now, you've probably seen Google's April 1 release of its 8-bit map for NES.
But have you seen this real-time animated map of wind in the United States?
And this Metro Distortion Map that shows the travel time to stations in Washington DC?
And Mapnificent, which shows what places you can reach by public transit within a given travel?
And of course, there are Eric Fischer's maps of ethnicity, Twitter Geotags, Locals and Tourists, and his Geotagger's World Atlas.
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Awesome stuff, Lian!
This may be more in the realm of infographics, but visualcomplexity.com has plenty of sexy maps.
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Plant Available Phosphorus From Bone Char And Biochar Additions In A Phosphorus-Fixing Soil (2013-08-19)Managing phosphorus (P) plant availability in soils and efficient usage of P fertilizers are essential for agricultural sustainability worldwide. Since P is an immobile nutrient, preventing Pdeficiency in crops becomes ...
RESONANT X-RAY DIFFRACTION FROM CHARGE DENSITY WAVES IN 1-T TANTALUM DISULFIDE (2008-04-30)By tuning the incident x-ray energy close to the Ta-L$_3$ edge, we studied resonant (elastic) x-ray diffraction (RXD) from the charge density waves (CDWs) of 1$T$-TaS$_2$. Our goal was to separate the scattering from the ...


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Shun Yuan, the author of the lovely poem above, is a student of the Tao (also called the Way), an Adept of Taiji martial arts, and the primary subject of Robert Shaeffer's truly remarkable forthcoming book, 10 Methods of the Heavenly Dragon. I asked him to enhance the experience of the poem with his commentary, which is below:
My Journey
As a novice I was convinced that I was living in darkness. I was "looking" everywhere for "enlightenment". I knew intellectually that I was "in the forest of the Tao" and might even have had a vague sensation of the forest all around me, but this was drowned out by the insistent urge to "keep looking", caused by the notion that "I haven't found it yet". Even while making progress forwards I berated myself for the fact that it was "stumbling" and blamed my own "blindness" for the state of darkness I was living in. If only I could "see" the truth!
It was through an entirely unexpected avenue that the first hint of awareness came. As far from my preconceived notions as my foot is from my eyes. So strange and unexpected it was that it felt as if it had happened by "pure luck". I did not then have the understanding that my every step and my stumbling gait were intimately part of my foot meeting that root. Even less did I understand the significance of a seed falling in a certain place ages ago and the effect on the growth of the tree that the passage of the seasons ever since had had. Nor did I have the experience of long years of reliance on the Tao to recognize that these moments of magnificent good fortune are all around and demonstrate the abundance of the Tao.
Stopped in my tracks, stillness came to me then at that perfect moment. I still name it a magnificent gift!
Penetrating deep into me in that quiet state, yet another blossoming of awareness, yet again through an entirely unexpected but intoxicating way. Then suddenly the life of the forest is revealed all around me and in that same instant I gaze upon the shining star which had always been there for the eye to see, had my head not been lowered to the dirt looking for "something precious".
The Methods
In the physical methods of my Order, one talks of three "levels" or perhaps more correctly "modes" of work. The tree represents the first mode called the "fixed way". Novices spend a lot of time working on their physical structure. The exercises are strictly defined and "feeling wooden" is a very common statement to hear from them.
After some time, the body learns to relax into the new form which it is taking on. The movements become much looser and more fluid. This "living way" is represented by the leaping stag.
Ultimately, one sheds any notion of a predetermined form and allows the energy to flow freely. This "changing way" is represented by the light of the star.
With much love,
Shun Yuan
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. – On the second day Bill Joergens Memorial Classic hosted by University of Southern Indiana, the King University men's basketball team faced their second ranked team in as many nights, taking on #3 Bellarmine University. The Tornado stayed with the Knights most of the game, but ran out of gas late as the fell 84-71.
The three-point baskets fell early and often in the first half as Scottie Hendricks drilled three straight in the first two minutes to give King (2-4) a 9-3 advantage. Logan Lyle followed with another triple to give the Tornado a 12-3 lead and force Bellarmine's second timeout of the game.
However, the Knights (4-0) hit back-to-back triples to get back within three points. After a pair of free throws and layup, Josh Derksen hit another three-point basket to give the lead back to Bellarmine. Josh Stoner followed with another three-point basket, and Derksen hit another to stretch the lead to 22-14 before C.J. Good took a pass from Michael Fortune and connected on his first triple of the game. Nathanael Hughes stole ensuing inbounds pass and drilled another from long range to pull King within 22-20 with just under 11 minutes remaining in the first stanza. Good made in a 9-0 run, giving King the lead with another triple following a Lyle steal.
The game was then played within a two point spread until Rusty Troutman connected on another triple to give the Knights a 36-33 lead with 3:39 left in the first half. Bellarmine stretched their lead to five before Good cut the deficit to 38-36 with another three-point basket. However, the Knights closed the half on an 8-2 run, including a triple as the horn sounded to give Bellarmine a 46-38 halftime lead.
King shot 9-for-18 from three point range while going 12-for-26 (46.2 percent) from the floor. However, the Knights shot 65.2 percent from the floor, making 15 of their 23 shots, while going 11-for-16 from long range for a 68.8 three-point percentage.
Hendricks stayed hot in the second half, connecting on his first two attempts to pull King within 49-44 just over a minute into the frame. The Knight lead reached as many as 10 points on two occasions before Shamarae Watts and Drew Standifer pulled the Tornado within six twice, the second time at 61-55 with 9:33 left.
However, Bellarmine quickly scored five straight points to stretch their lead to 11 points before Hendricks answered with another triple. Malcolm St. Louis cut the deficit to seven with jump shot with just more than seven minutes remaining.
The Knight lead grew to as many as 17 points with more than three minutes remaining before Fortune made a layup, and Hughes converted a three-point play to cut the King deficit to 80-68 with less than three minutes left. However, the Tornado couldn't get any closer than seven points as they fell to their third ranked team this season, 84-71.
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Pia – Spokane, WA
A: A de-icer is an important piece of equipment in areas where water features freeze over during the winter. This little device maintains a small opening in the ice, which allows harmful gas to escape into the air allowing for efficient air exchange. It can be the difference between life and death for the fish and other inhabitants in your pond.
Which de-icer is best for your situation? It will depend on how many gallons your pond holds, and if you're using it alone or with an aeration system.
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K&H™ Perfect Climate™ Pond De-Icer comes in 250-, 750- and 1,500 watt options. The thermostatically controlled de-icer is designed for floating or submersible use. Farm Innovator's Floating Pond De-Icer, pumps out 1,250 watts of ice-melting power. It's also thermostatically controlled and turns on when water temperature drops below 35°F.
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Aeration systems – can help maintain a hole in the ice while adding oxygen and are infinitely more energy-efficient than pond de-icers. When used in tandem, aeration can significantly reduce the wattage requirements of your pond de-icer, allowing the use of a smaller 100 watt de-icer. It'll cut energy costs and save you money all season long. For example a 2,000 gallon pond using the PondAir™ 4 and 100 Watt Thermo-Pond De-Icer will cost $5.40 per month instead of $75.00 using a de-icer alone. Not a bad deal!
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To be a bit more specific, say I give you $N$ unit squares and ask you to do as you wish with them in terms of making a connected polyomino. Once you've finished, I then count how many many of the $4N$ tile edges are shared between two tiles. Your goal is to maximize this count.
How well can we do as a function of $N$? What tiling geometry is optimal - perhaps a rectangle or a square?
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SAN FRANCISCO — The 49ers triumphantly bid a likely farewell to Candlestick Park on Monday night, and as a result, they clinched a playoff berth for the 23rd time in 43 seasons at the iconic, Bay-front stadium.
A harrowing, 34-24 victory over the Atlanta Falcons guaranteed at least a wild-card playoff berth for the defending NFC champs, who are going to their third postseason in three years under coach Jim Harbaugh.
A third straight NFC West title remains a remote possibility, but only if the 49ers (11-4) win Sunday at Arizona (10-5) and the first-place Seahawks (12-3) lose at home for the second straight week; Seattle will be hosting the St. Louis Rams (7-8).
As was the case in last season"s NFC Championship meeting, NaVorro Bowman provided the heroic finish against the Falcons, this time with an 89-yard interception return for a touchdown with 70 seconds remaining. Bowman"s interception return was the 49ers" longest at Candlestick and fifth-longest in team history.
"That"s the best thing I"ve ever seen in a football game," Harbaugh said. "It might have been close to "The Catch." "
It was only Bowman"s second interception of his career, the other coming in last season"s opening win at Green Bay.
"I"m good for one a year," Bowman quipped at his locker.
For the second straight year, he was good for a win-clinching play against the Falcons, having batted down a fourth-down pass to seal the 28-24, NFC Championship win in Atlanta.
"It just dawned on me," Bowman said of that fourth-down play, before adding: "Want to know another fact? The Falcons were the only team that worked me out (before the 2010 draft)."
Bowman, a 49ers third-round draft pick out of Penn State, mentioned that Candlestick historians now will have to redo the stadium"s Top 10 moments to include his. A potential nickname for it: "The Return."
Arguably this season"s team MVP, Bowman had 11 tackles Monday night. Fellow inside linebacker Patrick Willis had 18 against the resilient Falcons (4-11).
Only a minute before his return, Bowman watched an onside kick bounce past him and get recovered by the Falcons, who were looking to wipe out a 10-point deficit. They had pulled within 27-24 when soon-to-retire Tony Gonzalez caught a 2-yard touchdown pass with 2:09 left.
Asked about Bowman"s interception return, wideout Michael Crabtree reflected back on the onside kick and said: "It made up for what happened before that. (The return) was a big play."
When Crabtree confirmed he is not on the so-called hands team for onside kicks, fellow wideout Anquan Boldin chimed in: "Now he is."
In the end, the 49ers got to celebrate Candlestick"s probably send-off party, which included many 49ers legends, including Eddie DeBartolo, Jerry Rice and Steve Young.
Tramaine Brock made an interception in the end zone as time expired, and that was fitting inasmuch as it was Brock who broke up a pass to Harry Douglas that Bowman snagged and returned for the playoff-clinching touchdown.
A victory seemed in hand with 5:04 remaining when Frank Gore"s 1-yard touchdown plunge gave the 49ers a 27-17 lead.
After entering halftime with a 10-3 deficit, the 49ers offense came out strong as Colin Kaepernick engineered three consecutive scoring drives. Once he dove across the goal line on a 4-yard touchdown run, the 49ers owned a 20-10 lead with 12:34 remaining.
But the Falcons answered with Roddy White catching a 39-yard touchdown pass over rookie safety Eric Reid with 8:34 remaining to make it 20-17.
"We were resolute and were going to win it by any means possible," Harbaugh said.
Boldin"s 10-yard touchdown catch behind the blocking of tight ends Vernon Davis and Vance McDonald tied it at 10-10.
Phil Dawson hit a 30-yard field goal to push the 49ers back on top, 13-10, with 3:16 remaining in the third quarter. It was Dawson"s 26th consecutive successful field-goal attempt, an ongoing franchise record.
The Falcons scored 10 unanswered points to take a 10-3 halftime lead. In the end, the 49ers were able to think about the potential rewards, such as a second straight trip to the Super Bowl.
"It gives us a chance at the ultimate chance," Harbaugh said of clinching a playoff spot.
A postseason home game is a long shot, contingent upon the 49ers" landing a top-two seed or hosting an unprecedented No. 5-vs.-No. 6 conference final.
Added Boldin: "For us to be consistent and get in the playoffs is big. That"s what you play the game for, to get in the playoffs."
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Thompson II: 49ers go from possible losers to thrilling victors. WWW.MERCURYNEWS.COM/SPORTS
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I visited Durham this weekend when the Lumiere Festival was on. The four day festival has artworks made from light that transform the landmarks, streets, river and bridges of the city. It included Ross Ashton's Crown of Light shown on the exterior of the Cathedral.
Of course I spent a lot of time in the Cathedral described as 'one of the great architectural experiences of Europe' with its architecture going back to 1093. It is a magnificent building with so much history and artwork within its walls even discounting that linked to the festival.
Unlike some of our historic cathedrals, Durham does not charge tourists and those visiting for none religious purposes. However there is a suggested visitors' donation of £5. Where I have seen this protocol before the donations have been for a Trust linked to the upkeep of the building or specified for building maintenance and I have usually contributed. However at Durham it said, "Donations are hugely important to the Cathedral's future. It is thanks to the generosity of people who love Durham Cathedral that we are able to protect its heritage and support its mission."
To my mind my money would have gone to the general work of what was a religious institution rather than for the conservation of a building at the centre of a World Heritage Site. I did not donate.
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I think I would have done the same as you and not donated. I'm a huge admirer of architecture. I've always said, if there's one good thing about religion, it's the building of those amazing temples, mosques, churches, cathedrals, ect. They really are great historical works of art to me. If I could be sure the money was for the purpose of preserving them I would gladly donate, but definitely not if the money went to support a mission that I don't see any social benefit in.


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Logo: Something clean, bright, professional, colorful. We will eventually use it on business cards, and other print media so it should be resizable.
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Colors: This isn't totally set, however we'd probably like to focus on the CMYK colors just because it ties into what we are doing, ink and toner cartridge refilling. Our store front has a lot of yellow and blue/cyan inside, but we arent locked into these.
Flyer: Bright and colorful as well. It will be an insert to a newspaper so it needs to grab their attention quickly, however all people need to realize is that they get the same quality stuff, at HALF the price they normally pay just by letting us refill their cartridges. We have been in this business for right about 1 year now, and it continues to grow, just looking for an extra boost via marketing now. There is a similar chain of stores, however none in our area called Cartridge World and feel free to check out their website and what they do. The following content isn't all 100% required, and if you want to take some creative license with it, feel free. We're very open to sugestions and ideas, so don't hesitate to make sugestions/tweak/change wording, add or leave stuff out. Also the section "The Process" should probably be a small after thought. The biggest focus should be on the Save 50% part, and the 10% off with this coupon/flyer part.
Flyer Content:
We refill your cartridges and save 50%
Ink & Toner cartridge refilling - Save 50%
We refill your ink & toner cartridges - Save 50%
Cartridge Outlet
4810 US Hwy 98 N
Lakeland, FL 33809
(Mayflower Plaza, Across From Twistiee Treat, Inside Pyramid Computers)
10% Off With This Flyer
We buy HP, Dell, and Lexmark cartridges for $2.00 each.
The Process
Ink Cartridges*
- Extract ink residue
- Clean ink chamber
- Clean print head
- Refill to manufacturer's specs
- Seal and pull vacuum on cartridge
- Test and Package
Toner Cartridge*
- Remove toner residue
- Clean waste bin
- Disassemble cartridge
- Clean parts and replace as needed
- Refill to manufacturer's specs
- Surface clean and package
*Process may vary depending on cartridge
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- Logo Design
- Print Design
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I'm fairly new to JAVA and taking a class. One of the big parts of my assignment is to read from a text file and write those values to an array.
For the most part, I got it to work where it will read in the values and my object array will populate.
The text file is along these lines (item name and corresponding price...first line shows number of items):
item1 250
item2 350
item3 1050
item5 1610
item6 1505
My problem comes about when it hits that "item4" line. I want it to not only add that item to my array, but to assign a value of "0" for that missing data. When I go into the text file and put in that zero, everything works beautifully. When I run it with that blank, it will skip the line entirely. I know that every time there is a "null" it throws me into NoSuchElementException, but I just don't know how to handle that blank the way I need it to.
My code for this section is as follows:
public void readArray (String fileName) { File inFile = new File(fileName); BufferedReader bufReader; FileReader fileReader; StringTokenizer tokenizer; String line, item; double price; int i =0; try { fileReader = new FileReader(inFile); bufReader = new BufferedReader(fileReader); Scanner scan = new Scanner(inFile); n = scan.nextInt(); stuff = new Inventory[n]; while((line = bufReader.readLine()) != null) { tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(line); try { while(true) { item = tokenizer.nextToken(); price = Double.parseDouble(tokenizer.nextToken()); stuff[i] = new Inventory(item,price); i++; } } catch(NoSuchElementException exception) { //what do I even do here? } } } catch(FileNotFoundException exception) { System.out.println("Unable to open file. Check if the file exists or path is correct" +inFile.getAbsolutePath()); System.exit(0); } catch(IOException exception) { System.out.println("Could not open input file" +exception.getMessage()); } }
I even tried just doing
stuff[i] = new Inventory(item,0);
just to see if it would pick up that row, and it doesn't. It will assign a 0 to every item, but completely skip item4.
Thanks guys!


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When large employer members of the HR Policy Association sent out a request for proposals asking health plans to design a product for their uninsured part-time workers and contractors recently, plans' typical response was a quizzical but interested, "Huh?" says Marisa Milton, associate general counsel and director of health care policy for the trade group for human resource executives.
Insurers did respond to the RFP, and the result is the National Health Access program, which will be launched this fall. Companies will offer access across the country to a range of products from UnitedHealth Group, Humana, and Cigna. Options will include everything from access to discounted provider networks to coverage that includes inpatient and outpatient care. Employers will not contribute to the premiums that the workers pay for the insurance, but the coverage will be employer-based, meaning workers will not be subject to medical screenings or long waiting periods, as they often are when they attempt to purchase insurance individually, Milton says. How many people will be eligible is unclear, though initial estimates put the number at about 3 million.
"This is unique," Milton says. "It will be a learning process, but we are hoping that it ends up being something that can help a lot of people."
With the number of uninsured in the United States at about 45 million and health care costs continuing to rise, employers today are increasingly interested in playing a role in solving the problem, says Robert Galvin, MD, director of global health at General Electric, one of 20 companies that are committed to offering the National Health Access insurance to workers. "If you are really going to wrestle this health care cost problem to the ground, you are going to have to go about it in many different ways. One of the ways that has been neglected is the impact of the uninsured. We're very aware that when uninsured folks need medical care, they get it. And because the hospitals and doctors aren't paid, costs are shifted to employers. After many years of sustained cost increases, employers are looking at more than just cost sharing with employees and changes in benefit design to reduce costs. This is part of the whole solution."
As employers work together — and with state governments — to test new ideas to offer coverage, the trend could mean health plans will be fielding more innovative RFPs.
"This is not easy work for health plans; we are creating something new," Galvin says. "But for them, it means more customers. More people covered means more enrollees for them — 45 million is a big number. And though the cost of caring for the uninsured ultimately comes through to employers, it doesn't make it any easier for plans that have to talk with us about raising rates because of a system that has 45 million people uninsured. I do think there is opportunity for more of these innovative pilots in the future" (see "Small Pay Means Small Plans for More and More Workers.").
The National Health Access program has the potential to translate into similar efforts by regional or statewide employer coalitions, says Christopher Queram, CEO of the Employer Health Care Alliance Cooperative, a coalition of mid-size employers. The project is an example of employers being proactive, in part because of a concern that if the private sector can't address this problem, it is more likely that the government will expand its involvement in health care, he says. "Some of these large employers are very devoted to market-based approaches and want to maintain a market-based orientation for health care. Mid-size employers feel the same way."
Employers' activity is also rooted in their belief that health care coverage is an essential component to a productive workforce, says Sara Collins, a senior program officer at the Commonwealth Fund. Nearly 60 percent of companies, including more than half of small firms, believe it is important for employers to provide health care coverage to their workers, the organization found in a survey. More than half of employers prefer requiring employers to offer coverage as a way to decrease the number of uninsured Americans over public program expansions, Collins says.
Many states are designing programs that help companies offer more affordable coverage to low-wage workers, who may decline insurance because they can't afford the premiums. Some states are picking up the tab for health care claims that exceed specific dollar amounts for certain workers; others are paying part of low-income workers' premiums, and others are negotiating directly with health plans to lower the cost of health care for people who are employed but who qualify for state assistance.
"States are using a variety of strategies to lower the cost of coverage and keep employer dollars in the mix," says Jennifer Edwards, director of the State Innovations Program at the Commonwealth Fund.
In New Mexico, where about 22 percent of the population is uninsured, the state's efforts have taken on a new urgency, says Matthew Onstott, deputy director of the state's medical assistance division. Gov. Bill Richardson has backed an initiative called Insure New Mexico that seeks to decrease the number of uninsured in the state, in part by increasing the ability of small businesses to offer health insurance to their employees.
The state has designed a program to subsidize employer-based health care coverage for employees whose earnings place them at 200 percent or below the poverty level. The state issued an RFP and accepted bids from three of the state's largest insurers, Molina Healthcare of New Mexico, Lovelace Community Healthcare, and Presbyterian Health Plan.
Each will work with small businesses to provide a comprehensive plan that covers inpatient and outpatient care, preventive care, pharmacy costs, diagnostic testing, and behavioral health. Employers will pay $75 per month toward the premium for each worker; employees will pay up to $35, depending on their income, and state and federal funds will make up the difference, says Mari Spaulding-Bynon, program manager for the State Coverage Initiative.
In selecting the health plans, the state "evaluated the managed care plans' ability to coordinate this public-private partnership as well as their network capacity," says Spaulding-Bynon. All of the plans had participated in public programs in the past, she adds.
State support and employer interest occurring at the same time may bode well for new approaches to covering the uninsured. Wisconsin's Queram says employer efforts in the past have been thwarted by a lack of cooperation among stakeholders. "Our experience in Wisconsin in trying to increase access to health care has really been marked with more failures and frustrations than successes.
"Employers, health plans, providers and the public sector all need to come together and take a hard look at what would be required to make insurance more affordable."
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'
Mary McCarthy's quote about Lillian Hellman
which sparked their famous feud.
which sparked their famous feud.
Lillian Hellman was the provocative playwright who authored The Children's Hour and The Little Foxes. She authored a memoir, Pentimento, which included the story of her close friend, Julia. The book became an Oscar- winning film of the same name. The story of "Julia" it was later revealed was not that of Hellman's "friend" but the story of New York psychiatrist, Muriel Gardiner, who claimed she was "Julia" and that she had never met Hellman, though she did share lawyer with Hellman.
In keeping with Hellman's "borrowing" of material, we are being very forthcoming about the fact that we are stealing this post from www.cookbookoftheday.com. We have altered it just enough to prevent plagiarism. Well, probably not, but then I write both blogs, so I doubt I will sue myself, though I may start a feud with me, but that's a later blog, now back to the cookbook...
One work that did belong to Hellman was a cooking memoir, Eating Together, she wrote with Peter Feibleman. They spent spent many summers together on Martha's Vineyard. Both were writers, both were Southerners born in New Orleans, and both were a bit difficult – Lillian Hellman much so.
The tradition in the kitchen was to work separately as neither liked to have the other interfere in their cooking. Each was right, always! There was no interference, or sparks flew. Lillian Hellman says, "he puts up with turkey, while I think it is worthless." As for her recipes, Hellman points out,
"You will note that we haven't always given exact timings because there is no such thing in cooking. Exact timing cannot be done. It's a fake. It depends on your stove, the opt you're cooking in, the temperature outside and too many other factors for any cookbook to tell you how long to do anything."
Peter Feibleman notes that,
"the social mores of the artist-intellectual set on the Vineyard are the flip side of Easthampton which is to say that a man who wears a tie is gauche elegance is outré, discomfort a virtue, modesty a must, casual living reigns and who has air-conditioning in a bedroom admits to it."
In spite of their opinionated beliefs, a strong bond formed which led to many parties. They say that the people who are most impressed with celebrity are other celebrities and making a guest list for a party on Martha's Vineyard is an inescapable exercise in name dropping. So when Mike Nichols visited Hellman, there was need for a dinner party. The guest list was a Who's Who dripping with Kennedy, Cronkite, Mailer, Graham and Styron to name a few. Hellman vacillated till the bitter end on what to serve. In keeping with the bohemian existence of the Vineyard, she chose a pasta, salad and dessert. By the day of the dinner, Hellman announced, "Fuck all of them." But the dinner progressed. Feibleman was heading out of the kitchen with the following salad. Hellman stopped him at the kitchen door and removed a lone radish he had stuck on the top, tucking it deep into the salad saying, " You don't want people to think you're decorating food around here. Some of them would never speak to you again."
Chopped Vegetable Salad
1 zucchini, cut into bite-size pieces
2 carrots, cut into bite-sized pieces and lightly blanched
2 cups green beans, cleaned, cut into bite-sized pieces and blanched
1 red pepper, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 bunch scallions, chopped
1 bunch radishes, sliced
2 packages frozen mixed vegetables
2 cups Romescu sauce
Combine all vegetables in a large bowl. Toss with 2 cups Romescu sauce. Refrigerate and serve well chilled.
Romescu Sauce
1/4 cups almonds, toasted
1 clove garlic
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon salt
1 tomato, peeled, seeded, and chopped
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1 cup olive oil
Pulverize almonds, garlic, cayenne pepper, slat, tomato and vinegar in a blender. Slowly drizzle in oil, making sure that each addition is completely absorbed. Adjust seasonings to taste with additional salt and pepper.
Not only is this post stolen but I am pretty sure this recipe belongs to Peter Feibleman!
Though I do believe my salad would pass Hellman's undecorated muster.
For those of you wondering, Lisa demurred.
For those of you who know more about The Simpson's than Lillian Hellman, there is no truth to the rumor that she invented Hellman's Mayonnaise.


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SILENCE! Resumes Performances Tomorrow at the Elektra Theatre
Due to popular demand, Silence! The Musical will resume performances tomorrow, January 19th at the Elektra Theatre in the heart of Times Square. Following the announcement that SILENCE! would be ending its long run December 30th, ticket sales unexpectedly soared, shattering all previous box office records for the show so far. As a result, the producers determined that the smash hit show will reopen on January 19th. Originally announced as a strictly limited engagement through August 13, 2011, SILENCE! was extended numerous times by popular demand and transferred theatres twice, ultimately landing at the new Elektra Theatre, which was constructed especially for the show. SILENCE! opened at Theatre 80 on July 9, 2011 to unanimous rave reviews and spawned a highly successful L.A. production starring Davis Gaines and Christine Lakin.
Winner of the 2012 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical, Silence! The Musical is the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, with book by Hunter Bell, music & lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan, and direction & choreography by Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli. The show was selected by Time Magazine as one of the Top 5 Musicals of 2011.
In the Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs, rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling matches wits with the brilliant but insane cannibal, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to catch the serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill. Clarice faces her own demons while racing the clock to unlock Lecter's clues before another innocent girl is killed and skinned by Buffalo Bill. The laugh-out-loud raunchy satire, Silence! The Musical, features a singing chorus of floppy eared lambs narrating the action as Buffalo Bill gleefully dances a hoedown while kidnapping hapless Catherine Martin. Even Dr. Lecter, scary as ever, sings about the life he'd like to lead someday outside the prison walls.
With Sean McDermott (star of Broadway's Miss Saigon, Grease, Falsettos, and Starlight Express) as Hannibal Lecter, the cast of Silence! The Musical also features David Ayers, Pamela Bob, Ashlee Dupré, Stephen Hanna, Natalie Joy Johnson, Howard Kaye, Topher Nuccio, Ronica V. Reddick, Kimberly Stern, and Doug Trapp.
Created by Jon and Al Kaplan in 2002, Silence! The Musical began as a collection of songs on the internet which immediately attracted a staggering number of fans. The Kaplans' subsequent screenplay Silence! The Musical was adapted by Hunter Bell into a live stage show, which also featured newly composed songs by the brothers. Fueled by a rabid cult following, SILENCE! shattered every box office record at the 2005 FringeNYC Festival, winning the award for Best Musical. SILENCE! met with further success in London where it garnered ecstatic reviews at the Above The Stag Theatre.
Set design for Silence! The Musical is by three-time Tony winner Scott Pask, with costume design by David Kaley, lighting design by Jeff Croiter, and sound design by Carl Casella. Music Supervisor is Mark Hartman, with musical direction by Brian J. Nash.
SILENCE! The Musical has hosted an unusually large number of celebrity attendees including Jodie Foster, Matt Bomer (twice), Joan Rivers, Kelly Ripa, Jonathan Demme, James Earl Jones, Perez Hilton, Josh Groban, Rachel Dratch, Justin Kirk, Jonathan Groff, T.R. Knight, Lisa Lampanelli, Andy Dick, Neil Simon, Corbin Bleu, Richard Kind, Alec Mapa, Ben Schwartz, Willie Garson, Steven Pasquale, Lindsey Shaw, Mario Cantone, Erin Cummings, Linus Roache, Stephen Schwartz, David LaChapelle, Jeremy Jordan, Chad Allen, Heather Matarazzo, James Lapine, John Kander, Chita Rivera, Danny Burstein, Vicki Lewis, John Billingsley, Georgia Engel, Christian Campbell, Will Swenson, Barrett Foa, Tovah Feldshuh, Randy Harrison, Stephen Flaherty, Julie Brown, Cady Huffman, Audrey Wasilewski, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Barbara Feldon, Shuler Hensley, Reed Birney, Michelle Clunie, Anthony Heald, Donna McKechnie, James Barbour, and Telly Leung.
Produced by Theater Mogul, Silence! The Musical runs 90 minutes with no intermission. The playing schedule is Fridays at 7 PM and Saturdays at 2 & 7 PM at the Elektra Theatre, 669 Eighth Avenue (at 42nd St.) Tickets are available by calling 212-352-3101 or through www.SilenceTheMusical.com.


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Health District administrator Lyman Duncan reports that the federal government reimburses each state for 75 percent of the Medicaid billing. However, the state reimburses just 58 percent of the total billing to rural hospitals. Duncan says that the rural hospitals seek the unpaid portion of the federal reimbursement.
"For every $1,000 in billable expenses to Medicaid, the state is paid $750 by the federal government, but we are being paid just $580 by the state," said Duncan.
He added that the state has paid the $580 for a number of years and then had an end-of-year adjustment for the remaining balance. Duncan said that this year, as governments face tightening budgets, the state suggested that there would be no end-of-year adjustment.
Duncan said rural hospitals generally have more Medicaid patients than hospitals in urban areas. As a result, the decrease reimbursement rate for Medicaid billing has a bigger impact in rural areas.
San Juan Hospital, which is operated by the San Juan Health Service District, has the highest percent of Medicaid patients of any hospital in the state.
The hospital came out of the slow summer season with a positive net income for the year. While business has increased in recent months, the standard delay in reimbursement has created a cash crisis. Duncan reports that the hospital is solvent and able to pay its bills under the current reimbursement rate, but an increase in the reimbursement rate would be a tremendous help.
Duncan also mentioned that the hospital has provided approximately $300,000 in charitable care so far in 2008. The amount of charitable care could increase during an economic downturn.
In other health care news, officials plan to announce a new chief operating officer for the district. Duncan has served as the acting CEO since the departure of Craig Preston in October.


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"A Combined Correction Scheme For EPI Distortions at 7 Tesla", Belgian Day on Biomedical Engineering - IEEE/EMBS Benelux Symposium, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 147-150, 2006.
"A total correction scheme for EPI distortions at high field", 22th Annual Scientific Meeting - European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, Warsaw, Poland, pp. 328-329, 2006.
"Spatiotemporal properties of the BOLD response in the songbirds auditory circuit during a variety of listening tasks", NeuroImage, vol. 25, pp. 1242-1255, 2005.
"Functional Magnetic resonance Imaging meets animal vocal learner", Third One-Day Symposium of Young Belgian Magnetic Resonance Scientists, Brussels, Belgium, November, 2004.
"Automatic EEG signal restoration during simultaneous EEG/MR acquisitions", SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing, vol. 3979, San Diego, California, USA, pp. 1482-1491, February, 2000.
"Changes during pentetrazol-induced epilepsy in rat recorded by simultaneous EEG/MRI at 7T", SPIE Medical Imaging, vol. 3978, San Diego, USA, pp. 485-493, February, 2000.
"On-line simultaneous BOLD/EEG measurements of functional activity during pentylenetetrazol induced epilepsy in the rat", 16th annual meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB00), Paris, France, September, 2000.
"Reduction of ECG and gradient related artifacts in simultaneously recorded human EEG/MRI data", Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 881-886, 2000. Download paper (2 MB)
"Restoration of EEG signals distorted during simultaneous MR acquisitions", Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Denver CO, USA, pp. 118, April, 2000.
"Special designed RF-antenna with integrated non-invasive carbon electrodes for simultaneous MRI and EEG acquisition at 7T", Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 887-891, 2000. Download full paper (179 KB)
"Automatic, adaptive filter for MRI related artefacts in simultaneously recorded EEG/MRI data", Third Meeting Belgian Society for Neuroscience, no. 31, May, 1999.
"Novel design of an RF-antenna with integrated EEG electrodes for combined EEG and fMRI in animals", 16th annual meeting: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology, and Medicine, Sevilla, Spain, September, 1999.
"Restoration of EEG signals distorted during simultaneous MR acquisitions", annual meeting: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology, and Medicine, Sevilla, Spain, pp. 212, September, 1999.
"Restoration of MR induced artifacts in simultaneously recorded MR/EEG data", Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 1383-1393, 1999. Download full paper (519.76 KB)
"Estimation of the noise in magnitude MR images", Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 87-90, 1998. Download paper (64.9 KB)
"Imaging birds ... in a bird cage: In vivo MRI microscopy of the canary brain at 7T", Proceedings of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: Sixth Annual Meeting, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 162-163, April, 1998.
"Imaging birds in a bird cage: in-vivo FSE 3D MRI of bird brain", MAGMA: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 22-27, August, 1998. Download paper (1.33 MB)
"Segmentation Scheme for Volume Quantization from 3D Microscopic MR images", Proceedings of the Joint Meeting NVvM & BVM, Gent, pp. 168-169, December, 1996.
"Semi-automatic mouse cerebellum extraction from 3D magnetic resonance data", Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 3, New York, USA, pp. 1585, April, 1996.
"Volume quantization of the mouse cerebellum by semi-automatic 3D segmentation of MR images", Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, vol. 2710, Newport Beach CA, USA, pp. 553-560, February, 1996.
"The construction of a gradient set", 4th Meeting of the FGWO/FRSM Contact Group Biomedical MR, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, pp. 5, 1993.


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The .NET Ecosystem is a Wonderful Place
One of the hallmarks of a successful programming environment is its ability to generate interst among independent software vendors. From that point of view, .NET must surely be measured as one of the major success stories of the past several years. From all-encompassing development environments to quick single-use utilities, Developer.com readers had no problem coming up with nomineers in the .NET Tool of the Year category of the Developer.com Product of the Year 2005 contest. Here are the finalists that the list was whittled down to:
- Altova XMLSpy 2005 Integration Package for Microsoft Visual Studio .Net
- ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Subscription
- DeKlarit
- RADvolution Designer 2005 Professional Edition
- SharpDevelop IDE
- The Mono Project
All in all, that's a fine selection of products. Let me introduce them in a bit more depth before announcing the winner..
XMLSpy and Visual Studio: Two Great Tools in One Shell
Altova's excellent XMLSpy XML editor was nominated in the Development Utility category of this year's contest. It's not too surprising, then, to find their Integration Package for Visual Studio .NET over here. The idea is simple: if you have both XMLSpy and Visual Studio .NET (either Professional or Enterprise) installed on your computer, you can replace the somewhat anemic XML editor in Visual Studio with the full XMLSpy set of tools. XMLSpy becomes the XML editor, blending seamlessly with the rest of the Visual Studio .NET shell.
This blending is thanks to one of the shrewdest possible moves on Microsoft's part: the release of a supported and free Visual Studio Integration Partners program. This program gives anyone the code and know-how to build their own utilities into VS .NET, which then becomes a sort of universal platform for development-related tools. For developers who prefer to work in an IDE, having tools handy right there is a blessing.
Altova made excellent use of the VSIP interfaces with this integration package. Everything just works the way you'd expect it to: one of the distinguishing features of a fine tool. If you've got XMLSpy and VS .NET, installing this piece to link them together is a no-brainer.
More Components Than You Can Shake a Stick at
Do you remember software development before components? I do, and it wasn't pretty - literally. Before the rise of user interface components (fueled largely by Microsoft's unleashing of VBX controls on the world) no one had time to build fancy user interfaces. But now things have changed. Thanks to offerings like ComponentOne Studio Enterprise anyone can build a spiffy-looking user interface with the latest doodads and styles on top of their otherwise pedestrian application.
ComponentOne isn't the only company in this business, but they pack a heck of a lot into their annual subscription of presentation-layer components. You get menus, toolbars, grids, spell-checking, web reporting, mobile device components, and dozens more. With their subscription pricing, ComponentOne also delivers a stream of updates, new releases, and beta software throughout the year.
On a bang for the buck basis, it's easy to see why this product got nominated. It doesn't take very long for it to earn its keep by providing far more user interface value than the average developer could easily write.
Pushbutton Application Development
It's every developer's dream: just describe your application to the computer, push a button, and then relax while the computer writes all of the source code. After all, writing code is just boring repetitive work, so why not let the computer do it? We're not at that promised land yet, but DeKlarit brings us one step closer.
DeKlarit is a generator for your application's business framework: the database schema, data access, and business logic layers. It's integrated into Visual Studio .NET, so you can just add some additional high-level design tasks to the work you're already doing. For example, you take input from end users to describe business components in terms of business rules and the data that they hold, and DeKlarit takes care of building the database and all of the code to work with it. DeKlarit supports C#, VB .NET, Access, SQL Server, and Oracle, so you've got a good amount of flexibility in what you generate.
All in all, DeKlarit succeeds well in its goal: hiding a lot of messy goo from the developer. You describe your business objects, you use them through well-defined interfaces, and you can pretty well forget about the low-level code that maintains them. DeKlarit does all the bookkeeping for you. We're going to see more and more of this approach in the coming years, but why wait? It's clear that products that build business applications fast are gaining in importance right now.
Supercharged Form Design
Another product that takes advantage of the extensibility built into Visual Studio .NET is RADvolution Designer. The basic idea of RADvolution is that it runs while you're designing Windows Forms and does a lot of the work for you.
For example, suppose you're designing a menu. RADvolution Designer will build the shell of the most common menu items for you. It will let you add forms to the menu easily, and build the code to open them. It also manages status bar text in concert with the menu choices, and does this without requiring you to write any code. To take another example, you can plop a bunch of controls nearly at random on form, select "Auto Layout", and have them all set up in neat rows and columns, with a sensible tab order and labels.
If you're tired of fussing around with things like layout panels, tab order setting, and anchoring things by hand, this is the sort of product you've been waiting for. And one of the nice things about the .NET universe is that such products exist.
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To provide more flexibility in charging mobile systems, designers are creating methods such as wireless and solar charging, but their challenges don't end there; they must also be concerned about environmental and safety issues related to charging. Wireless and solar charging are excellent topics, but we will narrow the focus to environmental and safety concerns caused by charging mobile devices. Fortunately, those issues can be addressed with a range of innovative ICs that provide connection, protection, and detection.
Protection not only applies to protection of the system but extends to environmental protection by reducing electronic waste. For example, when a cellphone user gets a new phone and disposes of an old one, the charger normally goes to the dump with it. In fact, nearly a billion phones and their attendant chargers are being discarded each year, thus populating landfills. If chargers could be transferred from one phone to the next (i.e., be universal), a more environmentally friendly situation would arise to reduce this wasteful practice.
Fortunately, that is exactly what is starting to happen across the globe. The European Commission has proposed a memorandum of understanding to harmonize chargers, which is driving phone manufacturers to use micro-USB connections on chargers for data-enabled smartphones (the fastest-growing tier). Chargers can therefore be used from phone to phone and generation to generation. In the US, to promote a greener world, major cellphone suppliers are joining with cellphone chipset producers, service providers, and two US wireless trade associations — the GSMA and CTIA — to push the Universal Charging Solution (UCS) initiative. The Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) of Korea has recognized the advantages of reusable charging solutions for some time and has approved a universal 20-pin connector for chargers and earphones to address slimmer phone profiles than the former 24-pin connector could (see photo above).
Regarding safety concerns, China has taken a universal approach that also uses the USB port. Safety concerns have grown because the notion of cellphone batteries exploding is unnerving to say the least. High-profile reports of injuries in China have prompted the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry to issue its Technical Requirements and Test Method of Charger and Interface for Mobile Telecommunication Terminal Equipment to promote charging safety.
Overvoltage protection
A key element of the Chinese and other safety standards relates to protection from overvoltage conditions, which, as the name implies, is when the voltage used to recharge a battery is higher than a specified safe level for that particular battery. Overvoltage can damage a battery even to the point of catching fire, so overvoltage protection (OVP) integrated circuits are designed to ameliorate such concerns. OVP ICs monitor the voltage and isolate the phone from the charging source if the voltage gets too high. Typical OVP ICs contain internal MOSFETs or control one or more external MOSFETs to switch off the offending charging source. They are a simple, cheap, and effective way to enhance safety.
Because space is always at a premium in a cellphone, a compact package is necessary, and being battery-powered, a low power drain is mandatory. The Korean application, as an example, requires the protection IC to be in-circuit at all times and protect the handset against ±20V. Also, the device must be bidirectional, passing the battery voltage back to the device for USB On-the-Go (OTG) detection. To comply with Korean standards, triggering should be set at a battery voltage of 4.35 with ±1 percent tolerance. Other places have slightly different requirements, so there should be constant attention to the particulars.


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Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen at LAX
Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen Toast Their $55,000 Creation
Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen Toast Their $55,000 Creation
Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen were together yesterday as they took off from LAX. It was a short stay on the West Coast for Ashley, who only traveled to California earlier this week. They were in Hollywood to toast their line The Row's $55,000 12 Nile backpack, which was a collaboration between the sisters, artist Damien Hirst, and the luxury store Just One Eye. The Olsens gathered friends, including Mary-Kate's ex Stavros Niarchos, to the shop to check out the 12 bags for sale.
The girls are looking forward to wrapping up the year together. At their bash Wednesday, Ashley mentioned her holiday plans. She said, "I'm really ready for Christmas, which I'll be spending at home with my family." It's an extraspecial time for Mary-Kate — she's entering her first holiday season with boyfriend Olivier Sarkozy.


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Internationally renowned for her work, respected for her courage and still mourned by thousands around the world five years after her murder, Anna Politkovsakya has become an iconic symbol in the global human rights struggle. But Sunday night, family, friends, colleagues and others came together to share a more personal picture.
The event "Remembering Anna Politkovskaya" at London's Frontline Club was organized by Reach All Women in War (RAW) to mark the five-year anniversary of Politkovskaya's murder and RAW's annual Anna Politkovskaya Award, created in her honor. This year's recipient, Syrian human rights lawyer Razan Zaitouneh, lives in hiding and was not able to attend.
An emotional evening - one man sitting next to me told me "I've been on the verge of tears the whole time"-- was chaired by John Sweeney of BBC's Panorama and included readings of excerpts from Politkovskaya's books, "Is Journalism Worth Dying For?; Final Dispatches" and "Nothing But the Truth: Selected Dispatches, cellist performances, and a screening of a documentary on Politkovskaya's life, followed by a panel discussion with among others Politkovskaya's sister, the filmmaker, and Iranian activist Leila Alikarami, 2010 recipient of the Anna Politkovskaya Award.
The 2011 film "A Bitter Taste of Freedom" was made by Russian filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya, a close friend and one of Politkovskaya's journalism professors. Goldovskaya had featured Politkovskaya in a documentary ("A Taste of Freedom") which she started two decades previously. It follows Politkovskaya's family among other "characters" over time to show a multi-dimensional Russia in transition. The filmmaker combines this with recent interviews with friends, family, colleagues and Politkovskaya, before her death. The result is a remarkable fusion of past and current footage that documents Politkovskaya's personal and professional life but also captures pivotal moments in Russia: from the early hopeful years of Perestroika, to the Moscow theatre hostage crisis and through two Chechen wars.
While much of the world is familiar with Politkovskaya as compassionate, brave, unyielding and prolific reporter, the Politkovskaya which emerges is also a woman of great humour, modesty, warmth and devotion to her family - one who struggles with an oversized dog, is excited about a new boyfriend or complains about cooking borscht. Watching a vibrant Politkovskaya casually breeze in and out of the halls of her apartment building, the scene of her killing, is chilling.
In the film we see Politkovskaya's growth from documenter of Caucasus refugees' struggles in Moscow to the voice of all victims of the wars in Chechnya, motivated by an indomitable desire to hear and tell people's stories. Toward the end she tells Goldovskaya, "I've seen so many men's tears that I no longer cry myself."
Among the audience was Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev, who lives in exile in the United Kingdom and spoke of a long friendship with Politkovskaya. On the documentary he said, "I knew her as she was in this film. Now the world will know her too."


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Sometimes it is fun just to veg out and watch the good guys wipe out the bad guys in a grade B action movie. Unfortunately, "Safe" isn't one of them.
Jason Statham stars as Luke, a washed-up mixed martial arts fighter who wins a fight he was supposed to lose. He ends up homeless and destitute.
About to throw himself in front of a subway car, he notices Mei, a 12-year-old Chinese girl who is trying to escape from a bunch of mean-looking dudes. What follows is an absolutely ridiculous chase involving a Russian gang, a Chinese gang and, of course, crooked cops, all of whom are trying to get their hands on Mei.
Why? Because she has memorized a long list of numbers that contain the combination to a safe that everyone is looking for.
Along the way, Luke kills half the population of New York City, ravages a hotel and nightclub, eludes the bad guys from every angle, and never cracks a smile.
Rated a big R, with profanity and extreme violence.


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The NeilPryde Racing Series continues its global tour with the first stopover in the heart of Singapore, in collaboration with the Extreme Sailing SeriesTM.
The NeilPryde Windsurf Racing Series delighted fans in 2012 as the main warm-up act to the Extreme 40 racing, with world class windsurfers including three-times RS:X World Champion and Olympic silver medallist Julien Bontemps from France and British Olympic bronze medallist Bryony Shaw amongst those that graced the role call.
The NeilPryde Windsurf Racing Series is unique in that it provides a platform for windsurfers of all levels, ages and ability to compete together on a level playing field on the one-design ISAF windsurfing class, the RS:One. And with windsurfing back on the roster for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, this dynamic series is expected to draw even more attention in 2013.
Emmanuel Messiaen, One Design Racing Manager at NeilPryde commented: 'The popularity of windsurfing is on the up and the global platform that the Extreme Sailing SeriesTM provides will help boost that further. Racing on the 2016 Olympic waters in Rio de Janeiro for the final act of this year will be a real highlight for us and we invite windsurfers in each venue to join us.'
The windsurfers will be racing from the 13-14 April in the world famous Marina Bay reservoir in Singapore as part of a full programme of entertainment which also includes try sailing sessions, 'chat with champions' for local kids, a free public Race Village including food stands, bars, live music, a family area and a welcome and after party open to the public and hosted by Red Bull.
As Official Windsurfing Supplier to the Series, the NeilPryde Windsurf Racing Series will join all the remaining Extreme Sailing SeriesTM venues this year.
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Myanmar - 4th to 7th AprilSingapore - 13rd to 14th April*Quingdao - 4th to 5th May*Istanbul - 22nd to 23rd June*Dunkerque - 29th to 30th JunePorto - 27th to 28th July*Cardiff - 24th to 25th August*Nice - 5th to 6th October*Rio - 16th to 17th November*
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