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On the side of a hot, dusty road in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, peace activist Cindy Sheehan, 48, sits on the tailgate of an SUV with her sister, Dede Miller, 47. Although it is not yet 10 AM, a relentless sun beats down and the two women pass a tube of sunscreen back and forth, slathering up for the day of protest marching in front of them.
Dede, who quit her job of twenty-seven years as a human resources manager at a California K-Mart to head Sheehan's fledgling antiwar group, Gold Star Families for Peace, and to help manage her more famous sister's schedule, pushes dark curly hair off her already red and sweaty face. She wordlessly hands Cindy a baseball cap, which her sister promptly puts on.
The women sit in companionable silence, waiting to hook up with a parade of 100 antiwar marchers–and hurricane survivors–traveling from Mobile, Alabama, to New Orleans. Tired from air travel the day before, they sip from water bottles, squint against the glare as they peer down the road for signs of marchers, check their watches and wait. They are on autopilot; they have been around the block on this one before.
Soon, along with dozens of antiwar activists who will swarm Sheehan with requests for her to autograph their T-shirts, to pose for photos with their arms across her shoulders, to listen to their stories, she will be approached by CNN, a local reporter, the BBC, Al Jazeera, The Nation.
Over the next three hours, she will sign each T-shirt, pose for each photo, listen to each story and agree to every interview.
Cindy Sheehan is, of course, the grief-stricken mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, who garnered so much attention when she camped outside George W. Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch for three weeks last August. At the time Sheehan told the world that she wasn't leaving until President Bush had the courtesy to come and explain why her 24-year-old son, Army Spec. Casey Sheehan, had to die in this unnecessary war.
Bush declined to chat.
The media did not.
Reporters descended in droves to speak with this woman who had the audacity to mourn so publicly on Bush's doorstep. Suddenly, Sheehan's exhausted, sunburned face flashed across TV screens and into nearly every living room in the country–and around the world.
In the months since, Cindy Sheehan has emerged as the symbol of the antiwar movement, drawing crowds of well-wishers, counterprotesters and a slew of media to each of her many appearances across the nation and abroad. She is credited with galvanizing a nation whose approval rating of the President on Iraq was slipping to a dangerous 40 percent and injecting life into a sluggish peace movement. Sheehan's "fifteen minutes of fame" have stretched out to nearly fifteen months. She has rocketed from the obscurity of a low-key suburban California life where she did administrative work for the county–and before that worked for nine years as a youth minister at the local Catholic church–to Diane Sawyer's couch, Chris Matthews's hot seat and just about every national news program in between. Though she says she has always been politically left of center and admits that she opposed the Iraq War from the beginning, she was not an activist and had never spoken publicly against the war until July 4, 2004, three months after her son's death, when she addressed an antiwar crowd at a local church.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 24, 2013) – Each week during the volleyball season members of the ETSU volleyball team will be featured in a segment called "Getting to Know You."
The eighth player to be featured is junior middle blocker Meredith Hardy (Kingsport, Tenn.). During the preseason, the players were given the questionnaire, which can be found below, and each of them submitted their answers. Below are the responses by Hardy:
Name: Meredith Hardy
Academic Major: Exercise Science
Favorite Song: "Learning to Love Again" by Mat Kearney
Favorite Actor/Actress: Will Smith / Sandra Bullock
Favorite Book: "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult
Favorite Movie: "Anchorman"
Favorite TV Show: "House"
Favorite Food: Chips and salsa
Favorite Animal: Elephant
Favorite Ice Cream: Moose Tracks
Favorite Sports Moment: Winning the state championship my junior year in high school.
Favorite Quote: "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them" – Michael Jordan
Favorite Athlete: Kerri Walsh
Favorite Subject in School: History
Favorite Vacation Spot: Any beach … anywhere!
What's the number one thing on your bucket list?
If you could be on any reality TV show what would it be and why?
What is one thing you can't live without and why?
If you were stranded on an island what are two things you would bring with you?
Is there any meaning behind your number you wear?
If you could be one person for a day, who would you be and why?
If you weren't playing volleyball, what sport would you play?
Do you have a gameday tradition?
What are your plans after graduation?
What's one thing most people don't know about you?
What's your favorite thing to do in the off-season?
Hardy and the Bucs continue their homestand Friday night as ETSU hosts USC Upstate at 7 p.m., inside Brooks Gym.
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Capping a whirlwind promotional run that included hosting "Saturday Night Live," performing on five consecutive episodes of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" and playing an intimate club gig at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, Justin Timberlake enters the Billboard 200 album chart this week at No. 1.
Billboard reported late Tuesday that "The 20/20 Experience," Timberlake's third studio disc, had sold 968,000 copies between its release March 19 and Sunday evening, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the biggest first-week sales figure since Taylor Swift's "Red" moved 1.2 million in November, and it sets a new personal record for Timberlake, whose previous solo album, 2006's "FutureSex/LoveSounds," debuted with 684,000 copies.
Timberlake's old band 'NSync holds the all-time one-week record: In 2000, it sold 2.4 million copies of "No Strings Attached."
Bill Werde, Billboard's editorial director, said Wednesday that the album's impressive bow reflected the unique -- and "very combustible" -- combination of elements surrounding "The 20/20 Experience," which marked the long-anticipated return to music of a "talent juggernaut who can dance, sing, act and isn't hard on the eyes."
"There aren't a ton of teachable moments in the campaign," Werde said. "The ultimate takeaway here is that if you can be Justin Timberlake, that's a pretty good thing to be."
On July 17, the singer is to launch a month-long tour of North American stadiums with Jay-Z, who appears on Timberlake's single "Suit & Tie"; it'll reach the Rose Bowl on July 28. And last week, he confirmed rumors that "The 20/20 Experience" is the first installment in a planned two-part project. Details for the second album have yet to be released.


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Allen Lessels on Motor Sports: Joyce on career trackBy ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
September 19. 2013 10:50PM
LOUDON -- The calm before the Sprint Cup storm settled over New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Thursday.
The drivers and crews of the K&N Pro Series East worked their cars and went through technical inspections at one end of the infield and those of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Series held sway at the other.
All was quiet on the track. That changes in short order at 8:30 a.m. today when K&N practice kicks off the weekend.
Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth and the rest of the dozen drivers dueling in the Chase for the 2013 Sprint Cup Championship practice for the first time at noon. Center stage is theirs for most of the weekend.
Thursday was for guys like Cory Joyce, 21, and a former Gilford resident about to take his next step toward a NASCAR racing dream, and Nashua's John Salemi, a K&N veteran who has his eye on the future, too.
"This could jumpstart everything for Cory," said Mark McFarland, his crew chief in the Caplin Family Charities Chevrolet. "It's his K&N debut. It's at his home track. You can really shine or people can look at you and say, 'Well, I don't know if he's got it.' Not to put any pressure on Cory, but he can really do a lot for his career here in front of a lot of people."
That's the goal.
It's been a rough year for Joyce and he'd like nothing better than to turn it around and perhaps come out of Saturday's race with a headstart on setting things up for next year and beyond.
"It's been kind of a tough racing year for us," Joyce said. "Our motor blew up at Rockingham and we've been trying to get it rebuilt. My parents decided it was time to make our big step and go to a K&N race and what better place to make my debut than at Loudon?"
A year ago, Joyce finished eighth on the United Auto Racing Association STARS Series, but his engine blew in his first race on the circuit at Rockingham and he hasn't raced since.
With financial help from his parents, he got into this ride and will see what he can do with it.
It's not the end-all, be-all for his racing career, Joyce said, and he'll continue trying to build his career no matter.
"If it doesn't put us there, hey, I've driven a K&N car," Joyce said.
"That's the way I look at it."
He likes the bottom line.
"My butt's in the seat this week so I'm pretty excited about that," he said.
Still, a good showing here certainly could help.
Ideally, Joyce said, this race will help him line up sponsorship for next year and let him get into a K&N car fulltime and perhaps even a truck series race later in the season.
Saturday is the next stop in a journey that started when Joyce, at age 7, walked into the garage at home and saw the go-kart that his parents, Kevin and Teri, had gotten him for Christmas.
Joyce — who also has started a clothing business called Shibby Clothing Line with a friend — competed for a couple of years at Sugar Hill Speedway in Weare and then started racing regionally.
When he was 13, the family moved to North Carolina to let him get even more serious about the sport.
Joyce said he'd like to finish in the Top 20, maybe Top 15, on Saturday.
McFarland, who liked the way Joyce stepped in and offered feedback at a testing session last week, ups the ante a bit.
"I really think we can run in the top 10," he said. "I really do. You get on the other side of the garage and there are a lot of stout teams with a lot of money behind them. We've got a good car. We've got a good driver. We've just got to put everything together."
Salemi, who has cut back his K&N schedule the last couple of years largely because of the distance from home to races, is targeting a Top 10 finish as well.
"There's no reason why we can't do that," said Salemi, who has good equipment and a best finish of sixth here.
At 41, Salemi is looking ahead.
"We're going to keep with it," he said. "I have an 11-year-old son who's racing go-karts and he's wheeling it. He reminds me every day, 'Dad, don't give up because I need to run your car someday.' He does a very good job. When he's 15, I think he'll be ready."
If all goes well then, Kyle will take over in the seat and Dad will be his crew chief.
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With the NFL free agency settling down and the NFL draft nearing, teams are starting to get a feel for what their personnel may look like going into 2014. As always some teams come into the season with a more stable situation. There are some franchises in particular that have uprooted the core parts of their team and are facing major changes, which will require significant adjustments. But the parity in the league in the last couple decades is something that can give hope to an ailing squad. Stars sometimes align very quickly. Look at the 2006 Saints who rebounded from the 3-13 Katrina season to make the NFC Championship game the following season by adding Sean Payton and Drew Brees. Or the 2012 Colts who drafted Andrew Luck first overall and immediately went from 2-14 to 11-5 just like that. That Colts team was reminiscent of the 1999 Colts, by the way, who went from 3-13 to 13-3 in just one season with Peyton Manning. But while these success stories happened much faster than anyone could have dreamed, that doesn't mean there wasn't significant adjustments to go through. And for every Cinderella story like that, there are an infinite number more of squads that have needed time to gel under a new regime. Here are five teams that will be looking at significant change in 2014:
5. Tennessee Titans: Mike Munchak was let go after three seasons as the head coach and the Titans have since hired Ken Whisenhunt. That should be exciting news for Jake Locker and the Titan fan base as many feel the team was handcuffed by Munchak's supposed predictable and unimaginative offense. Munchak as a former offensive lineman has much more of a "throwback" style than Whisenhunt. Whisenhunt is a great offensive mind that will work very creative plays into the offense. He'll have to do that without Chris Johnson, though, who recently signed with the Jets after being let go. The Titans' offense has relied with fading success too heavily on Johnson, but while a more explosive playbook and a change of the guard will be exciting, it also may take time for Locker to accustom himself to a new scheme. Adding playmakers around him with be of primary importance, too, and it's not obvious that's be done well enough yet to make Whisenhunt an immediate success.
4. Washington Redskins: Gone is Mike Shanahan's revolutionary zone run blocking schemes and arrived is Jay Gruden's passing attack. Gruden is a former quarterback that will rely much more heavily on Robert Griffin III's arm than Shanahan did. The change had to be made, of course, because the relationship between RG3 and Shanahan had completely dissolved. Truth be told, Shanahan never wanted the superstar as his quarterback. Gruden does, but this will put more pressure on RG3 to make plays in the passing game. Gruden, on the other hand, will commit to RG3 unilaterally and try to develop with DeSean Jackson the tandem he had in Cincinnati with Andy Dalton and A. J. Green. Cincinnati's offense was best in the NFL in number of times the quarterback was hit last season (just 47), which demands precision passing and a quick release. This will force RG3 to make quicker decisions and get the ball out of his hands as oppose to making plays with his feet. That is better long term for his health but may affect his performance as he adjusts to a different style of offense. The good news is Jim Haslett is staying so the defensive side of the ball will undergo little change. But the most significant adjustment will be for the offensive line and backs as pass protection will become the emphasis.
3. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Everyone assumes Lovie Smith is a massive upgrade over Greg Schiano that will immediately transform the Bucs' fortunes. And there's a lot of merit to that line of thinking. Smith is inheriting a defense that was already solid a year ago and he'll be able to implement his Tampa 2 discipleship with ease and have success on that side of the ball. But offense has always been Smith's Achilles heel in Chicago. While he's very respected around the league, what ran him out of town was inconsistent quarterback play by Rex Grossman and Kyle Orton which prevented the Bears from reaching their full potential. This Bucs team, though less talented currently, has a bit of the same feel as those Bears teams. The talent is on defense, and the offense is struggling mightily. It remains to be seen if brand new quarterback Josh McCown can tap into the magic he had last year as the Bucs' 2014 starter. He's in a new environment as "the man" now, and he'll have to learn a new scheme. Gone is Darrelle Revis, too, which is a blow to the team. Lastly, while Smith is generally very well liked and respected, he's a bit of a control freak. That attribute is what soured so many on Schiano and ultimately got him run out of town. If the players didn't respond well to his attention to detail, they better be ready for more of it with Smith. From style perspective, it's not as big of a contrast as some might think with Smith replacing Schiano, and the big question remains if they have enough talent on offense to win games. Smith's offenses have generally been disappointing, so it remains to be seen if they can turn that around.
2. Detroit Lions: The big change here was Jim Caldwell replacing Jim Schwartz. Based on the success Caldwell has had developing Peyton Manning and Joe Flacco, many feel he's a great fit to pair with emerging star Matt Stafford. Perhaps all Stafford needs to get to the next level is the guidance of Caldwell. But while many will blast Schwartz for having little control of his team and the Lions playing with a total lack of discipline under him, there is no question the Lions played with a physical edge under him. Caldwell is more of a disciplinarian and it's fair to assume we'll see less off the field antics and penalties with him at the helm. But will the Lions be able to play with the same physicality? There's a pretty stark difference in approach between the two and it will be a real wake up call for a lot of the holdover players.
1. Houston Texans: While Bill O'Brien did an incredible job dealing with the disaster clean up situation at Penn State, this will be his first NFL job. Gone is Matt Schaub and no one is sure who the starting quarterback will be. The Texans have the first overall pick, but it remains to be seen if they'll take a quarterback. Most think they will not. If the Texans go into 2014 with Case Keenum and Ryan Fitzpatrick as their main passers, it's hard to envision them being a juggernaut right away and this transition could be a two to three year plan.


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Sophie is active as a soloist and chamber musician, performing and recording frequently as concertmater with the Ricercar Consort, Il Gardellino, Capriccio Stravagante, Les Muffatti, Ensemble Masques and as also member of the period instrument string quartet 'Mito Dell'arco', based in Japan. She was invited to teach at the Jerusalem Early Music Workshop in 2007, and regularly coaches chamber music at the Early Music Department Conservatorium in Antwerp. Recent recordings include Harp Consorts by William Lawes (FLORA 1206), and Concerti Grossi by J.C Pez (RAM 0705) with Les Muffatti.
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Matthew Truscott studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague and in Bloomington, Indiana where his teachers were Erich Gruenberg, Simon Standage, Vera Beths and Mauricio Fucs. He now shares his time between period instrument performance and 'modern' chamber music, appearing with some of the finest musicians in both fields.
As a soloist and director Matthew has appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Vienna and London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, as well as with the King's Consort at the Wigmore Hall on numerous occasions.
Recently appointed as one of the leaders of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, other engagements as concertmaster have included projects with English National Opera, The English Concert, The King's Consort, Dutch National Opera and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. He is leader of St James' Baroque, the Classical Opera Company and the Magdalena Consort. Matthew is professor of baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
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Jonathan Manson cello & viola da gamba
Jonathan Manson pursues a varied international career as a performer on both cello and viola da gamba. He was born in Edinburgh and received his formative training at the International Cello Centre in Scotland under the direction of Jane Cowan, later going on to study with Steven Doane at the Eastman School of Music in New York. A growing fascination for early music led him to Holland, where he studied viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijken.
While still a student, he became a founding member of the viol quartet Phantasm, which has since toured worldwide and earned several record prizes, including Gramophone Awards in both 1997 and 2004. In 1999, he was appointed principal cellist of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, with whom he has since performed and recorded more than 150 Bach cantatas. He has also appeared as guest principal with many of Europe's leading early music ensembles, as a chamber music partner in repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the Romantic, and as viola da gamba soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic.
Jonathan Manson may be heard on over 60 recordings, including a critically acclaimed disk of Rameau's Pièces de clavecin en concert with Trevor Pinnock and Rachel Podger, and Vivaldi's Concerto for two cellos with Yo-Yo Ma. His recording of the Bach sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord, together with Trevor Pinnock, has recently been released on the Avie label, and was hailed by Classic FM magazine as 'superb'. He is also active as a teacher, and has taught on courses in Hong Kong, Germany, Israel, the Czech Republic, America, Portugal and Iceland, as well as closer to home, at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Jonathan lives near London, where he is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music.
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Matthew Halls is one of Britain's most exciting young conductors as well as a leading harpsichordist and organist. He was Associate Director (2005-2007) and Artistic Director (2007-2009) of The King's Consort before taking up his current position as Artistic Director of Retrospect Ensemble. He studied at Oxford University, was organ scholar and later assistant organist at New College and graduated with a first-class degree in music. Whilst completing postgraduate research at Oxford he was also director of music at the University Church in Oxford. In 1998 he joined the European Union Baroque Orchestra, with whom he toured extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East. Since leaving this orchestra he has enjoyed a busy and exciting career, playing with many of the world's leading period instrument orchestras, including the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Theatre of Early Music, Montreal and the New York Collegium. As a soloist he has appeared at the Cheltenham International Festival; Handel Festival, Halle; Enescu Festival, Bucharest; Ottawa International Chamber Festival; Lamèque Festival; New Brunswick and Bermuda Festival.
As Artistic Director of The King's Consort he appeared in many of Europe's leading festivals and concert venues (most recently Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; La Cité de la Musique, Paris; and Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels) and broadcast extensively both on television and radio. His recently-released world premiere recording of Handel's 'Parnasso in Festa' for the Hyperion record label met with great critical acclaim. In addition to his work with Retrospect Ensemble and The King's Consort, he has conducted numerous other period-instrument ensembles, such as The English Concert, Portland Baroque Orchestra, USA, and Holland Baroque Society.
Matthew recently made important conducting débuts with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Hessischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, Scottisch Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and the RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin. Matthew is also active in the opera world as a freelance conductor and chorus master, working regularly at De Nederlandse Opera and the Nationale Reisopera in The Netherlands, the Komische Oper in Berlin and the Bayrische Staatsoper, as well as with English Touring Opera and New Chamber Opera. He was a tutor at St Peter's College Oxford and taught harpsichord at Oxford University. Matthew is also a tutor for the European Union Baroque Orchestra and regularly teaches on summer schools and courses such as the Jerusalem Early Music Workshop and the Dartington International Summer School. Forthcoming engagements in 2009 include conducting debuts with the Iceland Symphony, Ulster Orchestra and Hamburger Symphoniker as well as new productions of Rinaldo (Central City Opera, Colorado) and Floridante (International Handel-Festspiele, Halle).


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Today, we look at the changing workplace. Are we looking at a future of telecommuting, skyping, and emailing from home? Will employers increasingly move the workplace to the home?
|At Google's offices in Zurich, employees work in hanging chairs. (andrewarchy via Flickr)
Or will offices become more like those of Google and Facebook — with free food, games, and quirky decorations — all of which might encourage you to spend just a little more time at work?
A panel of experts joins us to take a peek at the future. We'll explore the kinds of labor increasingly being rewarded and accommodated and who will have trouble making it in the new workplace.
Wendy Murphy, assistant professor of management, Babson College
Fred Foulkes, professor, Boston University School of Management; and faculty director, Human Resources Policy Institute.
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About Innovation HubEach week, Kara Miller talks to Boston's most innovative thinkers, examining new ideas and potential solutions to today's many challenges. Topics range from education to health care to green energy. Join us on Saturdays at 7 a.m. and Sundays at 10 p.m.
As a radio host, Kara Miller has interviewed thinkers from E.J. Dionne to Howard Gardner, Deepak Chopra to Lani Guinier. She is a panelist on WGBH-TV's "Beat the Press," as well as an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The National Journal, The Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, and The International Herald Tribune.
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Western visitors here have often been surprised by Poland's avid pro-Americanism. For some it's a pleasant surprise: They find none of the anti-American stereotypes common elsewhere in Europe. For others it's an unpleasant one: What about the victims of America's imperial power?
Poles managed to find something deeply admirable in all American Presidents: They appreciated Carter for his human rights agenda, Reagan for his gut anti-Communism, Bush Senior for overseeing the end of the cold war and Clinton for his commitment to an inclusive globalization.
Until now. George W. Bush has managed to do what forty-five years of Communist rule could not: puncture the image of essential American goodness that has always been the United States' key selling point. Polish journalists now ask questions like, "How can we explain America's transformation from a country that introduced international law to one that intervenes militarily wherever it likes?" Or, more plaintively: "Does it really pay to be America's friend?" It is an astonishing turnabout: In more than twenty-five years of traveling to Poland I have never heard these kinds of criticisms.
The Iraq war has been the turning point. Poland was one of America's most zealous supporters, the leader of what Defense Secretary Rumsfeld dubbed the "new Europe." Unlike the situation in other supportive European countries, all major political parties supported the war. People elsewhere argued over whether Iraq really had weapons of mass destruction, but in Poland the calculus was more simple: America requested our help, so we gave it.
Both idealists and realists supported this approach. As a result of its Communist experience, Poland has a high number of so-called "liberal idealists" who share the American neoconservative view that force should be used against tyranny to bring about democracy. Adam Michnik and his mainstay liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza were the chief proponents of this view. "Violence and fanaticism are challenging the democratic world," Michnik wrote at the outset of the war, justifying unequivocal support of America's actions: "We do not accept the peaceful road for the criminals of September 11 and their allies."
Conservative-minded realists also supported giving President Bush carte blanche. Precisely because so many others opposed the war, they said, supporting it will earn us thanks from America and the dollars that go with that. According to Maciej Letowski, a prominent right-wing thinker, an imperial America needs strategic allies in key spots around the world, and Poland had a historic chance to become one. If it did, it would "achieve a goal which otherwise, with our meager resources, would be impossible: to become a regional power." In this view, Poland should aim to become the Britain of the East–the unfailing vassal of the superpower in all its various causes.


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-- 10 a.m.-11:45 a.m. (5 a.m.-6:45 a.m. EDT; 0900-1045 GMT): Cardinals attend Mass in St Peter's Basilica, then return to their Vatican hotel.
-- 3:45 p.m. (10:45 a.m. EDT; 1445 GMT): Cardinals travel from their hotel to the Apostolic Palace.
-- 4:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. EDT; 1530 GMT): Procession from the Pauline Chapel into the Sistine Chapel.
-- 4:45 p.m.-8 p.m. (11:45 a.m.-3 p.m. EDT; 1545-1900 GMT): Each cardinal takes an oath, most likely followed by the first vote. If the vote yields a new pope, white smoke will emerge from the chimney; if not the smoke will be black.
-- 8 p.m. (3 p.m. EDT; 1900 GMT): Cardinals pray in the Sistine Chapel.
-- 8:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. EDT; 1930 GMT): Cardinals return to their hotel.
-- 7:45 a.m. (2:45 a.m. EDT; 0645 GMT): Cardinals travel to the Pauline Chapel.
-- 8:15 a.m. (3:15 a.m. EDT; 0715 GMT): Mass in the Pauline Chapel.
-- 9:30 a.m. (4:30 a.m. EDT; 0830 GMT): Prayer in the Sistine Chapel, voting starts.
-- 12:30 p.m. (7:30 a.m. EDT; 1130 GMT): Cardinals retire to their hotel for lunch.
-- 4 p.m. (11 a.m. EDT; 1500 GMT): Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel.
-- 4:50 p.m. (11:50 a.m. EDT; 1540 GMT): Voting in the Sistine Chapel.
-- 7:15 p.m. (2:15 p.m. EDT; 1815 GMT): Prayer in the Sistine Chapel.
-- 7:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. EDT; 1830 GMT): Cardinals return to their hotel.
After every three full days of voting, the cardinals break for a day of prayer and reflection, then resume for another three days. The first pause will be on Saturday if no pope has been selected before that.
Smoke will emerge from the chimney once at the end of the morning session -- about 12 p.m. (7 a.m. EDT; 1100 GMT) -- and again at the end of the afternoon session -- about 7 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT; 1800 GMT). But if an earlier vote yields a pope, white smoke would emerge at that time, ending the conclave.
Once white smoke emerges from the chimney, a bell at the St. Peter's Basilica rings. Within an hour, the man who was selected emerges onto the balcony and his identity is known.
Tom Koch and Art Rascon are in Rome and will have the very latest on this developing story on Eyewitness News and abc13.com.
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This past weekend I pored over the magnificent new (Spring) issue of the Claremont Review of Books. The CRB is the flagship publication of the Claremont Institute and my favorite magazine. I want to persuade you to subscribe to it, which you can do here for the ridiculously low, heavily subsidized price of $19.95 a year and get immediate online access thrown in to boot.
As has become the custom, our friends at the CRB have let me pick three pieces from the new issue to preview on Power Line. This time around I have once again worked to select three pieces that would gave a representative sample of the wealth of riches on offer. Limited to three, I have of necessity passed over many truly outstanding pieces — pieces such as long-form essays on higher education by Harvey Manfield and Bill Voegeli and the illuminating reviews such as Michael Barone's on a new book on the decline of Detroit, Michael Zuckert's on three new biographies of Madison, and Charles Horner's on the monumental new history of China's Maoist famine. Please check out the table of contents at the link above.
First up is Colin Dueck's review/essay "Geography and World Politics." Dueck, a professor of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, turns a cold eye on the fervid dreams of our cosmopolitan elite, who mistook the fall of the Soviet Union for the end of geopolitical competition. Surveying recent works in the field, Dueck argues that the fundamental insights of the classic geostrategists-Alfred Mahan, Halford Mackinder, and Nicholas Spykman-remain as relevant today as when first formulated. What has changed, according to Professor Dueck, is the distribution of power within the international system.
Identifying this new distribution and analyzing it within the classic geopolitical framework is essential for America's success on the world stage. Failing to do that, we will have only ourselves to blame for the results: "Americans still have the ability to choose whether we want to play a leading role in the world. If we abdicate that role, we will one day awaken not to liberal dreams come true but to nightmarish realities that a sensible foreign policy could, and should, have averted."


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BURBANK, Calif. — (March 30, 2009) – The government will look to a new type of secret agent to help protect the planet this summer – an elite force of guinea pigs. Disney Interactive Studios today announced it will publish the G-Force video game, inspired by the upcoming feature film "G-Force" from Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. G-Force is scheduled to deploy to retail outlets in July 2009.
G-Force will carry out missions on the Wii home video game console, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, PSP system, Nintendo DS and Windows-based PC.
G-Force is a fast-paced action-platform game featuring a unique team of specially trained guinea pigs that use high-tech gadgets and specialised talents to complete a dangerous secret mission. Players control Darwin, the G-Force team leader, and housefly surveillance commando Mooch. Darwin and Mooch team up with the rest of G-Force to use their unique high-tech gadgets, stealth mastery, and pint-sized teamwork to save the world from a robot army of evil household appliances. G-Force features innovative gameplay with a unique sense of scale and puzzle solving that requires players to manipulate environments or enemies, including evil household appliances like waffle irons, water coolers and vacuum cleaners to complete their mission.
"The G-Force video game gives players the opportunity to take on new enemies, weapons and missions that pick up where the film leaves off and expands the experience," said Craig Relyea, senior vice president of global marketing, Disney Interactive Studios. "G-Force is filled with fast-paced action and memorable characters that will appeal to video game fans of all ages."
Published by Disney Interactive Studios, the G-Force game for consoles and Windows PC is being developed by Eurocom. The Nintendo DS and PSP system versions are being developed by Keen Games.
Popular actors Jon Favreau ("Hurley"), Bill Nighy ("Leonard Saber") and Sam Rockwell ("Darwin") reprise their roles from the motion picture, and help bring to life the characters and story in the G-Force video game.
In addition, G-Force: The Mobile Game will also be available in July 2009 on most major network operators. G-Force: The Mobile Game is an action-strategy game featuring core members of G-Force team. In this prequel to the movie, you and your teammates conduct a series of training missions by following clues, solving puzzles, and destroying enemy targets in preparation for real-life situations. G-Force: The Mobile game will be available for iPhone and Java/Brew platforms.
About the "G-FORCE" film
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer brings his first 3-D film to the big screen with G-FORCE, a comedy adventure about the latest evolution of a covert government program to train animals to work in espionage. Armed with the latest high-tech spy equipment, these highly trained guinea pigs discover that the fate of the world is in their paws. Tapped for the G-FORCE are guinea pigs Darwin (voice of SAM ROCKWELL), the squad leader determined to succeed at all costs; Blaster (voice of TRACY MORGAN), an outrageous weapons expert with tons of attitude and a love for all things extreme; and Juarez (voice of PENELOPE CRUZ), a sexy martial arts pro; plus the literal fly-on-the-wall reconnaissance expert, Mooch, and a star-nosed mole, Speckles (voice of NICOLAS CAGE), the computer and information specialist.
Directed by Academy Award-winning visual effects master Hoyt Yeatman—G-FORCE takes audiences on a high-octane thrill ride, proving once and for all that size really doesn't matter.


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The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) have received a grant from NSF entitled "Shaping the Preparation of Future Science and Mathematics Faculty." The project builds on and extends the Preparing Future Faculty program led by AAC&U and CGS since 1993 with support from the PEW Charitable Trusts. The goal of the project is to create model graduate programs to prepare future faculty for emerging and evolving roles in five academic disciplines-chemistry, computer science, mathematics, microbiology, and physics. The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) will be participating as a subcontractor to this grant along with the American Chemical Society, the American Society of Microbiology, the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education of the Association of Computing Machinery.
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September 25. 2013 11:13PM
Attorney General eyes elderly Portsmouth woman's bequest to police officer
By JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
BRENTWOOD — The state Attorney General's Office entered into a lawsuit that is contesting the estate of an elderly Portsmouth woman who left the bulk of her $1 million estate to a local police sergeant just prior to her death.
Anne Edwards, interim director of the state's Division Charitable Trusts, has filed an appearance on behalf of the "public interest," regarding the estate of Geraldine Webber, according to court records.
Webber died on Dec. 11 at the age of 93.
Last year, Webber made Portsmouth police Sgt. Aaron Goodwin the primary benefactor to her estate, which includes a waterfront home on Sagamore Creek and a variety of other assets. The change cut out or reduced inheritances for several other heirs, which include charitable organizations, the city of Portsmouth's police and fire departments and a Massachusetts high school.
Those groups have since filed appearances as interested parties, but noted they took no position on the validity of a change Webber made to her will before she died.
Jim Ritzo, Webber's lawyer for nearly 25 years, became the first to challenge the will earlier this year, suggesting that Goodwin asserted undue influence over his former client.
David Eby, an attorney representing Shriners Hospital for Children and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, suggested earlier this month that the state become an interested party because Webber left behind a charitable trust, according to court records.
Goodwin's lawyer, Charles Doleac, adamantly denied that his client committed any wrongdoing regarding his interaction with Webber. She and Goodwin met in November 2010, about 18 months before her will was changed, according to Doleac.
"Aaron Goodwin never tried to influence or convince Mrs. Webber to modify her already existing estate plan," Doleac wrote in a motion filed earlier this month.
"Aaron Goodwin did, by reporting the situation to the proper authorities, aid Geraldine W. Webber in preventing her former attorney from maintaining control over (her) against her will during her life under a power of attorney," Doleac said in the court motion.
He said in his motion that the Attorney General's Office ultimately intervened on Webber's behalf to keep her former attorney from contacting her. After that, Webber changed her will to add Goodwin as a beneficiary.
Doleac has asked Probate Judge Peter Hurd to toss out challenges made to Webber's 2012 will.


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I adopted Moon from outside a Walmart when he was 5 weeks old and the size of my hand. His mother was a feral cat who I suspect taught him to forage. In garbage cans.
Without fail, during the first six months of his life, he would knock over our kitchen trash every single night. He carried around discarded food in his mouth, most often banana peels that were bigger than he was. He defended those banana peels with his life, growling at his big brother if he came near.
When I cooked he used the kitchen drawers like a ladder, climbing up them to cling to the edge of the counter and mew his little head off. Holding on for dear life with his mewing mouth open like a baby bird I would stick little pieces of lettuce, cheese or whatever I was making that was safe for him to eat in his mouth.
His food bowl was never empty of cat food. He could eat all day if he wanted to.
Fast forward to adult Moon who is never far from the kitchen. Kind of like his Mom {me}. When he hears the fridge open he comes running to help you look in it.
He might be part dog, because he begs just like one.
I can't leave food unattended because he's been known to:
- Stick his paw in cream cheese frosting on top of cupcakes then lick it off his paw. Just like a kid.
- Steal lettuce leaves out of the salad bowl.
- Jump up and bite my pizza while the other end is in my mouth.
- Steal the top piece of bread off my sandwich and carry it away.
- Sit on pizza boxes when pawing them open doesn't work.
He's tall enough to stand upright and put his paws on the edge of the kitchen table to check out what your eating.
Did I mention his little pink piglet nose? He sticks it up and sniffs when the aroma of food is in the air.
He keeps me company when I spend long hours in the kitchen cooking for this blog. Like a sous chef.
Maybe it's wrong to say Moon became the Kitchen Cat when it's obvious he was born this way.
It was destiny that day outside of Walmart when a cat with a sincere love of food met a future food blogger. Fated.
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News item: The Prince Fielder derby has finally come to an end, with the slugging first baseman getting a nine-year deal worth $214 million from the Detroit Tigers, who now have two of the most productive sluggers in baseball at the heart of their lineup.
Schmuck's take: Once again, super agent Scott Boras has the last laugh. Everybody thought he overplayed his hand with Fielder earlier in the offseason -- and perhaps he did -- but the free agent landscape changed dramatically when the Tigers lost Victor Martinez to a serious knee injury.
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Adding further wind to the sails for short sellers is the persistently positive roll yield in the natural gas forward curve. Over the past 12 months, shorts have earned a cumulative return of about $1.08 rolling their positions each month, a substantial profit equal to roughly 25% of the underlying price of gas at current levels. While the forward curve has flattened in recent months, the positive carry persists, and natural gas front-month spreads have demonstrated a consistent tendency to widen as they approach the roll date.
We have been long-term bears on natural gas, and given the overbought condition of the market coupled with recent weather reports calling for above-normal temperatures beginning in April, now is a good opportunity to establish a new short position. Sell May natural gas, placing initial stops at $4.40.


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Posted on March 16, 2012
Now, I know most of you folks are the right kind of donors. You don't pack moldy books in banana boxes, and you don't slip slow-moving teenagers underneath your copies of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, thinking I won't notice. The very fact that you are reading this blog shows your superiority to most of the world. (You may call yourself the 1%, if you like, but I wouldn't.)
Still, I have had a few complaints from my pick-up volunteers, and one or two of them have come up more than once lately. If you could pass these along to those of your friends who aren't quite up in your level, I'd be grateful.
1. Have Your Books Sorted: I don't mean by subject or by hardcover and paperback, though you can if you want to. But please have your books sorted between what you're donating, and what you're not. Some of my volunteers adore standing around as you take books off the shelf, explaining the history of each one and what it means to you. Others have a rather tighter schedule and though they will smile, back here they will call you names that will necessitate the repainting of some of the walls.
2. Tell Security We're Coming. This is especially true if you're cleaning out an apartment for someone else, and don't live in the building. Doormen look askance at people who show up with a van and say "We're here for the books!" This is so unlikely a story that they have us pegged as jewel thieves from the outset.
3. Mention Stairs. Did I tell you about language that blisters the paint on our walls? When a volunteer comes out for eighteen boxes of books, and eight are in the basement and nine are on the second floor, we even have to repaint the ceiling.
4. Tell Your Dog We're Coming. We can sometimes smile nicely and convince a security guard we mean no harm. Your Rottweiler isn't listening to a word we say.
5. Consider Parking. While we haul thirty boxes of old comic books down the stairs one at a time, it is best if we are not parked in a) an alley so narrow nobody else can get through while we're there, or b) the front driveway everybody uses to pull up to the building. Again, if you live somewhere else and are just cleaning out, YOU may not care what these people think of you. WE may be called back there someday for someone else's books and be told to park in the next block because of what we did last time.
6. Tell Your Cat We're Coming. We'll be opening and closing all kinds of doors, and you may want to keep track of where little Moofin is at all times. ESPECIALLY if we're carrying books on the stairs.
7. Shut Up. Most volunteers love to meet people and talk: it's one of the prerequisites for the job. But there are certain phrases you should leave unsaid. "The book dealer took a lot, but there are plenty left." "I threw away all the cookbooks." "I set the boxes over there so the spiders wouldn't get into my suitcase."
8. Tell the Donor We're Coming. So far, it has always worked out without gunfire, but we disapprove of your staging an intervention while the owner of the books is elsewhere. It's not good for our morale, to say nothing of the donor. And it proves what the dog and the doorman thought about us in the first place.
9. Consider the Equipment. Please don't tell us "There's a cart you can use" and then offer us a TV stand with wheels, or a shopping cart, or that wooden object your grandmother used to bring the tea things into the parlor. AND don't tell us there's a cart we can use when there are two flights of stairs. Carts are not useful under these circumstances.
10. Tell Yourself We're Coming. If we're coming to YOUR place, we'd like to think you will have been awake for an hour or so, and are ready for visitors. If we're meeting you someplace to which you have the only key, kindly show up. A mutual swap of phone numbers means we can exchange notes on traffic mishaps and such. Traffic happens. This is really important if we're meeting you at a storage locker somewhere out in nowhere. One of the picker-uppers swears he hears music from Clint Eastwood westerns while he waits out there. Another thinks of slasher movies. It's supposed to be about books, plum dumpling, not the cinema.
If you could keep these things in mind, I'd be very grateful. I don't mind the smell of paint so very much; it's having to wash my ears out when the volunteers are done describing you.
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EBT Card Food Stamp Program – Why Work? [VIDEO]
By now you've heard about the problems with EBT Cards over the weekend. It was due to a glitch in the system, not the government shutdown as some thought. But the woman in this video puts a whole different spin on things.
I'll be honest, when I heard of the problem, I didn't even know what 'EBT' meant. Turns out, it stands for Electronic Benefit Transfer. The stories stemming from this glitch have been nothing short of insane, including Wal-Mart stores in Louisiana being ransacked!
I understand why people were upset. After all, if you were depending on your benefits to feed your family and didn't have the chance to plan ahead and fill your cupboards, I'd be frantic, too!
Who knew that people researched the government benefits available to them and were able to surmise that California would be the best state to live in and freeload off the system. I like Dominos and Subway, too! Where's my free $5 foot long? She asks why would you work with all of this available. Why work, indeed? Uggh!


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This healthy and delicious recipe for Chickpea and Orzo Pasta Salad is a spin-off from my Mom's favorite Chickpea and Tuna Salad. I built on the original recipe by adding orzo, lemon, Parmesan cheese, and toasted almonds. A light and summery pasta salad.
You can pick up a bit of smokiness and crunch from the toasted almonds, some pungency from the onion and garlic, saltiness from the tuna and Parmesan, and a hint of tartness from the lemon dressing that makes this wonderfully satisfying.
Chickpea and Orzo Pasta Salad
(by Reeni)
1 and 1/3 cup of uncooked Orzo
1 can Chickpeas (Garbanzo beans), drained and rinsed
2 cans solid white albacore tuna, drained
1/2 cup red onion, sliced
1/2 cup sliced almonds
2/3 cup Parmesan, fresh grated, plus more for serving
1/3 cup Basil leaves, chopped or 2 teaspoons dried
1 teaspoon thyme, dried
1/2 cup Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
3 tablespoons lemon juice, fresh squeezed
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon Sea salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Cook the orzo to al dente according to package directions. Drain and rinse with cold water to stop them from cooking further. Toast the almonds in a dry saute pan over medium-low heat until they turn golden. Add to a large bowl with the orzo, chickpeas, tuna, red onion, parmesan and basil. In a small bowl whisk the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper. Refrigerate for an hour before serving. Serve over salad greens or as a side.
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Kiki Kogelnik's Feminist Pop Deserves Its Place in Art History
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Although Kiki Kogelnik drew her palette and materials from Pop art, she eschewed the movement's traditionally commercial subject matter, instead making work about emerging technologies such as space travel. "I'm not involved with Coca-Cola," she once said. "I'm involved with the technical beauty of rockets." When she did focus on advertising, it was from a critical feminist perspective. Many of Kogelnik's works ironically draw on fashion illustration, offering a commentary on the portrayal of women in promotional media. Her career began in Europe among the abstract, expressive painters of the Art Informel movement, such as Arnulf Rainer, and peaked in America amid such Pop art pioneers as Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.
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I had no idea who this guy was until the lineup came out, but this song is pretty legit. Hoping for a good crowd at an afternoon tent set.
[EDIT: Kimbra re-joins Gotye on tour a few days before Coachella, so it would appear that we will all get to see this entire song performed live! http://www.songkick.com/artists/5392...lendar?page=3]


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US options for Afghanistan: 0 to 10,000 US troops
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer says the Pentagon has developed several options for the size of the post-2014 force in Afghanistan, ranging from zero to 10,000 troops. But he says that with every day that goes by some of the options become less likely.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, who was in Afghanistan last week, tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that there will be a period of greater instability in that country after the April elections.
President Barack Obama last week ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan because Afghan President Hamid Karzai refuses to sign a bilateral security agreement that would enable troops to stay. Obama says the U.S. can wait until after the elections to conclude the agreement.


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Jay Cutler talks about Steve McNair with Nashville newspaper
By Vaughn McClure
Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, who attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, understood Steve McNair's importance to the Nashville community. Cutler spoke about what McNair meant to him in an interview with Jim Wyatt of the Nashville Tennessean.
Cutler had private workouts with McNair, the former Titans quarterback, in 2006.
"Mac met with me on two occasions, and he would have stayed there with me all day, as long as it took for me to learn the offense,'' Cutler told the paper, talking about McNair. ``I'll never forget that, and that just shows you the type of guy he was. That was going to be a big step for me to go there and play well. Ever since then I have thought of him as a friend.''
McNair was gunned down by his girlfriend Sahel Kazemi. According to a police investigation, Kazemi shot McNair four times, twice in the head, while he was sleeping as part of a murder-suicide.


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by Dr. Boyce Watkins, YourBlackWorld.com – Scholarship in Action
Roman Caple is a senior at St. Augustine's College. He was set to graduate this weekend until he was informed by the school that he wouldn't be allowed to walk with his classmates. Caple says that his punishment was due to a Facebook post that allegedly "jeopardized the integrity of the college."
Caple argues that the reaction of school administrators came as a result of his posts following a tornado that hit Raleigh, NC two weeks ago. But he says that most of his comments were meant to be uplifting. One of his posts said the following:
"We all need to set our differences aside and help one another. Falcons we will continue to fly high because that's what we do. Help your neighbor, if need be, Falcons are one."
According to what Caple said to ABC11, "Here's the post that I believe they are referring to as to being putting this college in a negative light. It says 'St. Augs is holding classes tomorrow and students in Falcrest still don't have power. Like, wtf. Really? #dumb.'"
Caple is an active student who is a member of the school band and choir. He also played tennis for St. Augustine for the past three years. He's even had the school's logo shaved into his head, which is a surprising act of school spirit.


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Channel 10's Howard Eskin and Comcast SportsNet's Derrick Gunn both reported today that Eagles right tackle Ryan Harris has a herniated disk, and Gunn reported Harris will need surgery.
But Harris told your Eagletarian that though he still does not want to talk until he's back on the field, a stance he has maintained through his back problems the past few weeks, "I don't think it's going to come to that. But your source might be better than mine."
An Eagles spokesman said he would check into the reports.
Whatever Harris's status, it sure sounds as if the Eagles' right tackle is going to be Winston Justice, if Justice's repaired knee allows him to practice this week for the first time since training camp started, nearly a month ago. King Dunlap started Thursday's preseason game against the Browns and wasn't terrible, but also wasn't great. Dunlap took a false-start penalty. Reggie Wells, brought back last week, played only in the second half. He seems to be here for veteran depth, despite what Andy Reid said initially about Wells competing for the right tackle spot.
The potential move of left guard Todd Herremans to right tackle seems to be the fallback if Justice isn't ready.
Harris, a former Denver Bronco signed to a one-year deal, has been sidelined since playing the preseason opener two weeks ago.


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The Cubs' Roster Usage and Lineup Construction Has Been Fine and Other Bullets
I woke up in the middle of the night last night – probably one of the kids stirring – and I immediately thought to myself that I had to come up with something to put in this space. It was a pretty odd impulse, given that I usually just open up a new document for the Bullets, and start typing. Strikingly little thought goes into what goes up here in the morning. But, for some reason, I was gripped by a feeling that I just had to think of something good. This was, like, 2am. Obviously I didn't come up with anything, or I wouldn't be recounting this bizarre meta layer. The end.
- Jed Hoyer endorses the way Ricky Renteria has been managing his roster with respect to the starting lineup. "I think Ricky has done a nice job with Mike [Olt]," Hoyer told Carrie Muskat. "I get it — I think people are excited to see him and people love homers. It's fun when he's in the lineup. I want him to play, too, but I also think matching him up and finding the right matchups, you want to make sure there are days when [Luis] Valbuena is in the lineup. There are days you really want [Darwin] Barney in the lineup because he's our best defender. There are a lot of factors at play. Frankly, I think it's helped Mike in the long haul adjusting to the big leagues and getting comfortable here." I would say it better if I could, but I cannot. That's pretty much exactly what I believed to be happening, and fully support that approach. I suppose I'd add only this: Olt will play more and more (just as he has been) as the season goes on, and particularly as he demonstrates that he's getting increasingly comfortable.
- Hoyer offers this on the pitcher W/L stat (Cubs.com): "The wins thing to me is frustrating, because in general, it's a stat that we've all moved away from." In other words, Hoyer is telling folks to stop writing about the W/L stat because the W/L stat is stupid and nobody who actually works in baseball gives a hoot about it. I am so very glad I killed the win on this site before the season started. It was overdue by about 10 years.
- Mark Gonzales asked Hoyer about pitching prospect Gerardo Concepcion, the polished Cuban lefty on whom the Cubs spent $6 million a couple years ago, but who almost immediately struggled with injuries and ineffectiveness. Hoyer offered some general thoughts about how well-thought-of he was at the time, and how he's dealt with some injuries since then. Concepcion isn't quite entirely back on the radar.
- Jose Veras tells Cubs.com that he's feeling refreshed and fully healthy. The Cubs activated Jose Veras from the disabled list last night, sending lefty reliever Zac Rosscup to the DL with shoulder soreness.
- A fantastic piece on the draft and on scouting the mental side of the game from Vine Line.
- BN'er Michigan Goat is fighting MS – in more ways than one – and he needs your support. Check out his story, and learn more about what he's going through/trying to accomplish.
- The Ricketts Family is getting political, with Cubs board member Pete Ricketts winning the Nebraska Republican gubernatorial primary yesterday, and board members Laura Ricketts and Todd Ricketts each heading up a SuperPAC. To them, individually, I say: go forth, God bless, do what makes you happy. As intelligent, passionate, affluent people, political involvement is something of an inevitability. But, because I care about the Cubs, I do think about how the organization could be impacted. As we saw with the original Wrigley funding/Obama attack ad flap, there can be very real consequences borne by the Cubs when the political efforts of its owners touch upon the team's world. There is also the potential for bad optics/bad stories, with unscrupulous media tying the political actions of a Cubs owner to the Cubs, as an organization, and damaging the brand in that way ("Cubs Owner Vetoes Cheese Bill, But Team Still Serving Cheese"). Although I am smart enough – and I think that you, dear reader, are also smart enough – to understand that these are entirely separate issues, I just get nervous about the political interplay here, especially in a city as, eh hem, political as Chicago.
- The marquee at Wrigley Field is green now (though it'll be back to its usual red eventually) …
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The movie stars get the headlines at Comic-Con and the cosplay crowd gets the photos, but most people that come to the massive expo want to buy stuff — toys, comics, clothes, posters, games, artwork and, um, weaponry. We'll be dropping by different booths this weekend to size up the merch and report on the hot sellers and kooky artifacts we find along the way.
There is no greater villain in all of fanboy history than Darth Vader, and I don't think it's a coincidence that a robber decked out as the Dark Lord of the Sith pulled a bank job on the East Coast on Friday: I bet he was a fan trying to get the money to pay for a last-minute airfare to San Diego. If any of his dye-stained cash is left over, an investment option might be the Vader helmets at eFX Collectibles, where owner Bryan Ono showed me the sweet $899 display replicas that you see above.
"These are the Darth Vader's helmet from the first film, the 1977 movie, and we never did them before because we couldn't get the correct reference material to do them right. For the first film the helmets were hand-sculpted by a guy named Brian Muir. Back in 1977 there were three helmets made from Muir's original mold. Only one of them was used in the film. The other two came to the States. One went to Don Post, and Rick Baker got one of them and made a casting of that original helmet for the touring helmets for Darth Vader to go all around to promote the movie. [Ours is based on that cast] so this has direct lineage back to the original helmet."
There are two versions. One is sleek, shiny, the "cleaned-up" version, as Ono put it, while the other is closer to screen-accurate, with scratches, some rough, silver paint work and little imperfections — all of which were added to the on-screen helmet because "otherwise it was so dark it looked a black blob on screen," Ono said. There may be an edition of the helmets available that are autographed by David Prowse — the actor who wore the Vader suit — or sculptor Muir and, no surprise, the price might go up higher. It's enough to drive a dedicated Jedi to a life of crime…
— Geoff Boucher
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As Alistair just posted, some of the most active Cairngorm contributors within the Adobe Consulting team met for the day on Monday, to discuss our various innovations and thoughts and ideas on how we move the Cairngorm projects towards a Version 3 release. One of the outcomes of this meeting, was to re-ignite the idea of a Cairngorm committee that draws from Adobe Consulting, customers, partners and community leaders who are actively using Cairngorm to the degree we are, and who can provide counsel in future roadmap, drawing up the final charter for the project, and helping to manage the day to day logistics of running an open-source project.
What we're looking for is representatives from companies, system integrators, partners, or from individual contractors and consultants who are actively using Cairngorm – on a near daily basis – in their engagements, to join a team of Adobe Consultants. I'm very excited, as much as anything else, about the opportunity for collaboration this will create between Adobe Consulting and community leaders!
If you think you'd have energy to contribute and value to add to the team, please drop me a personal email to ("Steven").toLowerCase().substr(0,1).concat( ("Webster").toLowerCase(), "@", (("Adobe Systems, Inc.").split(" ", 2))[0]).toLowerCase(), ".com").
If you do manage to parse that above line in a way that a spambot can't, and drop me an email, then I'd like to hear from you about the number of projects you have deployed using Cairngorm, something about the scale and complexity of these projects, the typical environments (Java, .NET, LiveCycle Data Services, Blaze DS, Data Management Services, etc) your projects are deployed in, the challenges you have faced, the innovations you have made in your own projects around Cairngorm, the number of developers that you have worked with and mentored in using Cairngorm, etc. I'd also love to hear your thoughts around how you would want to contribute to the project, and the directions you think we can take.
We anticipate a number of different roles for participation, from the committee itself, to commiters, partial committers, etc.
I very much look forward to hearing from you!
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Playing for the Future: 5 Alternative Energy Toys
For many of us, kids are already back in school. Trying to ramp up after the summer slump can sometimes be painful, whether it's getting the kids up earlier or transitioning from thinking about a day in the pool to thinking about a day filled with math, reading, and social studies. Perhaps you can make the adjustment easier with one of these futuristic toys, all of which explore alternative energies and get your kids thinking about science.1. Owi T3 Transforming Solar Robot, $16 at RobotShop. A Transformer for the future, the T3 changes into a Tank, Robot, and Scorpion. Its animated movements are all powered by a solar fuel cell.
2. Stirling Engine Kit, $50 at ThinkGeek. The Stirling engine is not new; in fact, it was invented nearly 200 years ago as an alternative to the steam engine. It seems to run on air, but it's actually powered by the heat of your—or your kid's—hand.
3. Solar Powered Hydrogen Car, $90 at Sharper Image. This car uses multiple energy sources, including a hydrogen fuel cell combined with solar power. So your kids can have a car that runs on water and sunlight.
4. Enviro Battery, $12 at Fat Brain Toys. Learn a myriad of different alternative energy sources with this kit. Your kids can use natural materials like mud, lemons, and water to power a light bulb, a watch, and to activate a music chip.
5. OWI Salt Water Fuel Cell Car, $13.34 at Amazon. Solar powered cars are great, but how about one that runs on salt water? The small magnesium metal sheet in the vehicle can power the car for 5 - 7 hours continuously when you add a drop of salt water.
So how about it? Are you prepping your kids for the economy of the future?
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Things We Lost in the Fire (US - DVD R1)
Gabe has a list for the insurance guy, including the Picasso and the Rembrant
After the untimely death of her beloved husband Brian (David Duchovny), Audrey Burke (Halle Berry) is lost and troubled. Left to raise two children she decides to reach out to Brian's best friend Jerry (Benicio Del Toro), a drug addict she shunned during her husband's living life. Jerry moves into the family guesthouse and the unlikely friends help each other awkwardly through the burdens of grief and addiction.
I'll preface by admitting that Things We Lost in the Fire isn't the kind of movie I normally enjoy, so my review probably shouldn't be taken with very seriously.
Things We Lost in the Fire mopes and mopes, and knocks its audience's emotions around until the finale has nowhere to go but up. Yeah, it'll raise your spirits comparatively, but it'll do it though crafty heartstring pulling and artificial arterial jabs. I admit that certain scenes got an emotional response out of me, but it's the same as a cheap jump scare in a B-horror movie, or a gross-out gag in an Ace Ventura flick. It gets the desired effect, but only for an instant. I had to write most of this review out before the film was even over out of fear of forgetting any points I may've wanted to make. It's kind of like eating cotton candy—it's sweet, but it evaporates seconds after touching your tongue.
Story-wise the film works like a made for the Oxygen or Women's Entertainment television network original (this obviously didn't escape the filmmakers and they make a playful joke about it). The only difference is that a solid half of this particularly mopey, woman friendly story is told from a male point of view. Sometimes the dialogue, which isn't the worst in the world, has been calibrated based on some kind of electronic response system. I picture a woman in her early forties tied up to a couple dozen electrodes, and left in a white room with a big double paned mirror watching the film on a set of video glasses. Behind a two-way mirror is a team of scientists keeping track of her emotive response and restructured the film based on their findings. I found it frustrating.
On the good side, Things We Lost in the Fire feels surprisingly authentic, even if its story is entirely artificial on most counts. The acting is uniformly good—Berry and Del Toro emote all over the place, Duchovny is pleasant, and the kids are cute. The cinematography is minimal but effective for the scene and some of the close-up and more romantic sequences hold quite a bit of tactile weight. Del Toro and Berry's 'sleep scene' is probably the best thing in the whole movie, representing the film's strongest assets of heartfelt acting and natural photographic beauty.
I was hoping for an HD copy, but I'm not disappointed by the video quality of this standard DVD. Close-up details, of which there is a whole lot, are surprisingly sharp, but wider shots lose a bit of definition. Edge enhancement and noise is a problem throughout, but the overall contrast levels are nice. Sharp black and white edges, like those of close-up text strobe a bit, but the black levels are still particularly impressive. Things We Lost in the Fire isn't bursting with colour, but the hues are pretty realistic. Bright whites suffer the most noise and cross colouration in the print, and some skin tones have a tinge of green.
Director Susan Bier takes a very light touch with her sound design. The surround channels hum with occasional background sound (passing cars, footsteps, wind in the willows and such), but mostly they're devoted to the film's mawkish score. I don't know if I can take another slow acoustic guitar plucking sad chords to tell me how to feel. The score is natural and warm without overwhelming the centred and clear dialogue. There isn't any distortion on the track, but sometimes incidental sound effects scrape the soundtrack a bit too loudly (which may or may not be an aesthetic choice).
'A Discussion About Things We Lost in the Fire' is just an EPK featurette, not a deep philosophical dissection of the film. The thing is made to sell the movie, and the writer, the director, the producers and actors do their best to sell it. There is some decent behind the scenes information and footage, but this isn't a meaty documentary, and there's a whole lot of film footage mixed into the rather brief, twenty-minute featurette.
This is followed by seven deleted scenes. These are mostly simple character beats that don't drive many new points home, but there is an additional character and a very small subplot introduced as well (though it doesn't go anywhere, hence its deletion). The presentation is rough, non-anamorphic widescreen. The movie's already about twenty minutes too long, so despite some good acting these scenes shouldn't be missed. Things finish up with a trailer, and trailers for other DreamWorks releases (including a Martin Scorsese directed Rolling Stones concert I must see now).
Things We Lost in the Fire is a big plate of McFeelings, though without the extra cheese. It's not worth hating, and it is worth recognizing the good performances, but it isn't something more then a small handful of viewers will remember in six months. The look and sound are acceptable, and the deleted scenes will make fans happy. I do not recommend this disc casually, but if you're the type of person that thinks they'd like the film based on its box quote I say go for it.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian
Disc Details
Release Date: 4th March 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Extras: Discussion About Things We Lost In The Fire, Deleted Scenes, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Susanne Bier
Cast: Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny, Alexis Llewellyn, Micah Berry
Genre: Drama
Length: 118 minutes
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