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Josh Hutcherson's kissing scenes with Jennifer Lawrence on the set of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" were anything but steamy – because she was frequently sick and wiping snot from her nose during the shoot.
The co-stars opened up about their on-screen romance as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark during a panel discussion at Comic-Con in San Diego, California over the weekend, and when a fan asked about their chemistry in the second film, the pair admitted some of the takes were especially gross.
Lawrence said, "Oh my God, we should have brought the clip with the snot… I'll put it on YouTube or something, you gotta see it… there's all this snot coming out of my nose, and when I go to kiss Josh, it connects with his mouth. So, yes, it'll be very hot."
But the hunk didn't seem to mind the fluid exchange, grinning as he added, "There was a lot of slobber."
During the event, Lawrence also chatted about her elaborate costumes in the highly-anticipated sequel, confessing she had trouble walking in her character's wedding dress during the victory tour scene.
Poking fun at her infamous fall at the Oscars earlier this year, when she fell up the stairs while heading to collect her Best Actress prize, she added of the movie outfit, "Wearing it was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life, and you can tell, I think. It was huge. Five feet in circumference. I'm not good at walking in giant dresses, as we know."


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09 Mar 2012
(HONG KONG) The Dragonair Aviation Certificate Programme is celebrating its seventh anniversary this year. An inaugural event was held this afternoon to launch the 2012 programme with 24 young participants ready to embark on an exciting aviation journey over the next eight months.
The Dragonair Aviation Certificate Programme, an educational initiative co-organised by the Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps and an integral part of the Dragonair Youth Aviation Academy, has been running since 2005. The programme offers local youth a solid platform to explore the world of aviation through training sessions and facility visits hosted by various Dragonair departments and aviation-related organisations. Each participant is paired with a Dragonair pilot who acts as a personal mentor.
Out of the 24 participants in the 2012 programme, 12 are members of the Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps while the remaining 12 were recruited from the general public in Hong Kong. The programme was opened up to the public for the first time in 2011 and this year saw a 30% increase in the number of applications.
Officiating at the inaugural ceremony were Guest of Honour Director-General of Civil Aviation Norman Lo, Dragonair Chief Executive Officer Patrick Yeung and Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps Deputy Commanding Officer, Training Wing Commander John Siu. Guests from supporting organisations, programme participants, Dragonair pilot mentors and programme alumni were also in attendance.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Mr Norman Lo said that the aviation industry is developing rapidly and young talents are needed to sustain the development.
"Moving on to its seventh year, this programme has become stronger and more versatile. I learnt that the number of applications from the general public increased significantly compared with that in last year. I encourage mentees to embrace diversity among themselves and share their experience in the programme so as to inspire their friends and bring more talents into the aviation industry." said Mr Lo.
Mr Patrick Yeung said at the ceremony, "The prospects for the development of aviation in Hong Kong are very promising and there will be strong demand for new young talent. We are excited to see the Dragonair Aviation Certificate Programme bringing new blood into the industry, and to date around 30% of our programme alumni have already embarked on an aviation-related career."
Support from aviation-related organisations is one of the key factors in the success of the programme and three new partners - the Fire Services Department, the Hong Kong Police Force and Dragonair's inflight catering provider LSG Lufthansa Service Hong Kong Limited – are taking part for the first time this year.
The other aviation partners include Airport Authority Hong Kong, Aviation Security Company Limited, the Civil Aviation Department, the Government Flying Service, Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company Ltd, Hong Kong Airport Services Ltd, the Airport Meteorological Office of the Hong Kong Observatory, and TAG Aviation Asia Limited.
The mentorship scheme is a core part of the programme and Wing Commander John Siu said: "The examples set by the pilot mentors, including their high professional achievements and their very own unique personal experience, will serve to influence and inspire our next generation."
Mr Yeung expressed his appreciation to all the Dragonair pilot mentors for contributing their precious time. He also thanked programme co-organiser the Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps for sharing the same passion as Dragonair in nurturing Hong Kong's aviators of the future.
More information on the Dragonair Aviation Certificate Programme and other activities in the Dragonair Youth Aviation Academy is available at www.dragonair.com/aviationacademy.

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Project objectives
Three pillars of Smart Grids in distribution systems
The project Web2Energy is directed to implement and approve all three pillars of "Smart Distribution".
1. Smart Metering – the consumer participates in the energy market
A few hundred electricity consumers in the supply area of HSE AG will be obtained with smart meters. These advanced meters provide many innovative functions:
- Remote reading of metered values in short term intervals,
- Reception and visualization of price signals (variable rates)
- Disturbance signals and management of failures
- Estimation of manipulations and stolen energy
- Permanent meter data storage and monitoring of load profiles
- Supervision and control of distributed power producer, storage and controllable loads
Furthermore, they provide gateways to monitor the current demand with the related costs and to further functions of building automation and in-house energy management (smart home). Variable (up to hourly) rates are offered to the clients. Current rates, the rate forecasts and the current demand are monitored. The consumer gets the opportunity to control his demand regarding non time critical loads in accordance with the offered rates. The project Web2Energy is able to achieve experiences with such a practice. The advanced meter technology comes from Landis + Gyr Austria.
2. Smart Energy Management – Clustering of small power producers
A large number of small independent power producers are supervised and coordinated in such a way that at each moment a scheduled power feeds into the distribution network in accordance with the current demand or the request from the market. Consequently, the deviation of fluctuating wind or solar power from the predictions can be compensated in real-time through the aggregation with controllable generators, loads and storage in the framework of a virtual power plant (VPP). Inside the supply area of the HSE AG this coordination will be applied with benefits. Parallel with a number of volatile of wind power and photovoltaic plants a large number controllable hydro and thermo power plants with cogeneration of heat and power (CHP), storage and controllable industrial loads are in operation. They are able to contribute to the generation and load management. The central operated VPP participates on the markets for energy and control power and optimizes the operations and the overall power in-feed. In this way all participants can achieve higher efficiency and higher compensation of their expenses in comparison with the single market access. To support the VPP operations advanced storage technologies will be established. The EUS GmbH Dortmund implements the VPP procedures. The Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) contributes its experience of market access.
3. Smart Distribution Automation – higher reliability of supply
Today supply interruptions happen very rarely. When they do occur, they are caused by 96% in the medium (MV)-/low (LV) voltage distribution networks. In the case of a disturbance an inspection team has to drive along the MV/LV-terminals for disturbance allocation and supply recovery by switching operations. These procedures take on average 1 hour or more. The Web2Energy project implements an automated sequence to execute the former manual processes in a selected area of the HSE AG. This approach cuts the supply interruption down to minutes. Consequently, the very high reliability of supply in Germany will be significantly improved. The necessary control technology comes from iPLS (PL).
Linking the users: All three pillars of smart distribution require the information exchange between the users of the network like consumers, producers, terminals, control centre of the network operator, traders and VPP. Communication channels have to cover also the last meters to these participants.


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Having been together for a few years now, M. is used to waiting around a lot for a man that she loves, only to have him surprise her and come earlier than she excepted, which is to say...We've got a new baby boy!
Please welcome O, the newest cast member to our family. O was born on Saturday at our place, homebirth-style.
Chapter 1: The Water Breaks ( AKA Orinoco Flow (Preview) )
Here's the scoop. M. woke me up at 3:00 a.m. Friday night/Saturday morning and said, "I want you to come and look at something in the bathroom." I know what you're thinking, AND? Happens all the time, right? But, this time – this time it was different. This time her water had broken! Also, that is kind of a misnomer because water doesn't break, ice breaks, but anyway—the bag holding the water had ruptured/broken what-have-you. What this means for all you people at home without any kids, is that—It. Is. On.
At this point, it may help to picture the little digital clock from Kiefer Sutherland's 24 counting down in the corner of your mind throughout the rest of this story. (Pro Tip: Once the water breaks, the sterile environment that the baby has been in during pregnancy is no longer present. This means you want to deliver the baby within about 24 hours so you don't auto-infect the newborn with flora present in your own system or external bacteria.)
We called our fantastic midwife Maria, and UCSF at 3:15 a.m. & they both agreed that we should pop over to the hospital to get an IV with a little antibiotic cocktail (first cocktail she'd had in 38.5 weeks, poor thing). We also needed to confirm that the water had indeed "broken" and have the baby's heart rate monitored.
We took an UBER Black Car, because we figured A) they would be cleaner than a taxi, B) nobody ever takes them (easy to get) and C) because we don't own a car. (Joshua, I did actually suggest a Flywheel at this point, but M. wanted the leather interiors with the (likely false) hope that they had recently been wiped down...)
Chapter 2: The Hospital
We arrived at the hospital and the nurses ushered us into a little hospital triage room for a long time. The monitoring looked good, the IV was administered, and we were finally able to leave the hospital and head home at about 9 a.m. This means that we checked in at 4 a.m. and checked out at 8:45 a.m. for a grand total of *4.75 hours (did that in my head). Most of our time was spent hurrying up and waiting since they kept telling us to sit tight until we could talk to yet another doctor. But, we were kind of like, "If everything is good, and we already talked to the doctors, then why are we still in this room?" So we made our escape to the birthing center, AKA: our house! (*Pay attention to that that number, it comes in handy for comparison purposes later.)
Chapter 3: Home Again
When we got back home just after 9 a.m.,M. wasn't really having contractions yet and since that 24-hour clock was still ticking, we decided to do what anyone having a baby at home would do: give her diarrhea to kick-start the labor.
Chapter 4: Castor Oil
We explained the lack of contractions to Maria, our amazing midwife, so she told us about a popular old midwife's trick: castor oil. This trick is very simple. Go to Walgreens. Get a little $5 bottle of castor oil. Pour the oil into the blender with a lot of orange juice. You're now holding the world's worst Orange Julius. Drink the foamy laxative Vitamin C mixture. The oil says it will start to work anywhere between 4-12 hours. Tick tock. We decided to add some exercise to the mix to expedite things, so we left home and started walking around the neighborhood.
Chapter 5: 10:30 a.m. Go-Time
We came home from the walk and M. very quickly began feeling increasingly intense contractions. We walked around the house between contractions and then M. would post-up and lean against things like beds, couches, chairs, and me while she honed-in on her primal mama grizzly bear growl. After about an hour of increasingly vociferous and thunderous grumbles, all the small woodland creatures in the neighborhood had fled, leaving the house oddly still, save for M.'s impressive impersonation of Grendel's mother.
Chapter 6: 12:30 p.m. Calvary Arrives
Gabrielle (the great doula) and Maria (our midwife) arrived around lunchtime. Gabrielle began helping with encouraging words and a practiced soothing touch, that included hip-squeezes and a bevy of comfort measures. Maria moved about the house with the practiced efficiency of a Swiss timepiece, setting up her supplies and checking-in on M. and the baby with her remote baby heart-monitoring wand.
Chapter 7: Dilation: It's In the Details.
M.'s contractions were epic. Like Epic of Gilgamesh epic, and so Maria decides to check the cervix. The cer-what? Ha! M. laughs in the face of bottlenecks like this. Her powerful timbre and focused uterine surges had decimated the cervix and prepared the baby's escape route.
Chapter 8: Crowning Achievements
Maria tells M. that it's now okay for her to push anytime she wants.She is surprised. She asks, "Really? Already?" Maria nods, and M. continues her Ironman sprint towards motherhood. 40 minutes of pushing ensue over several venues in the house, and then…we see him. He's out, his powerful lungs quickly began filling the room with dulcet shrills, and Mom and son are helped up off the birthing stool into the bed. Per everyone's instructions, including second awesome midwife Michelle Wellborn (real last name), we go skin-to-skin and cuddle with the baby in the bed. The doula & midwife team proceed to clean up the house and make us some farm eggs and market-fresh veggies scrambled up from the fridge.
Chapter 9: In this corner…weighing in at…
Maria conducts the postpartum exam. She weighs and measures and listens. Here's what she found out:
Length 20.5 inches
Weight: 6 lbs. 1 oz.
Hair: Blond
Eyes: (currently closed) Blue (at the moment)
Chapter 10: Dirty Diapers & the Revenge of the Castor Oil
Special secret chapter for baby class only!
So, everyone's wondering, was there poop? Great question. Yes and no. The castor oil worked in that it caused her stomach to cramp up and jump-start the uterine contractions, but it didn't have the bowel shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse that were promised by CAKE. Don't worry, that oil was definitely going the distance, waiting until we thought everything had calmed down. At about 11 p.m., some 9 hours after the arrival of O., I was in bed holding him and M. said she needed to go pee.
After she finished she stood at the bathroom sink in her special post-delivery gauze boyshort undies – outfitted with a massive post-delivery maxi pad – calmly filling the rinse bottle that the midwife provided (she had been instructed not to wipe). At that moment, she felt a rumble. Before she could finish filling the bottle, or even move the 20 inches to the toilet, an explosive geyser of castor oil-lava spilled forth, quickly filling her boyshorts/pad with the house's very first dirty diaper. Who knew? Don't play around with castor oil, I think it's from the same plant they use to make ricin.
Day 3: The Postpartum Script
The baby has quickly taken to his new San Francisco lifestyle. In fact, he's already quite the foodie—he's particularly fond of free-range unpasteurized organic breast milk.
Our house now looks like the Playboy Mansion. Everyone is naked and lounging around in bathrobes. M. looks like she just invested 50k in breast augmentation; apparently Mother Nature is a boob man.
Le Fin (and by that I mean Le Beginning)~


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The iPhone 4S — Apple's newest creation — quietly went on pre-sale at 12 a.m. on Friday.
The homepage of the company's website, however, remained a dedication to the company's co-founder, Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday after a history of pancreatic cancer.
The phone, which has been panned by some critics who say it's more of a facelift to the iPhone 4 than a new product, features a faster dual-core processor and a camera with 8 megapixels of resolution.
It also has a "humble personal assistant" named Siri, which responds to voice commands and talks back to you.
Apple's new CEO, Tim Cook, unveiled the phone on Tuesday, a day before Jobs' death was announced.
The phone's price ranges from $200 to $400 with a two-year wireless contract. It's available on AT&T, Verizon and, for the first time, on Sprint's network.
The iPhone 4S goes on sale in stores on October 14 in the following countries: United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK. The new iPhone will be available in 22 additional countries by the end of October, Apple says.
Pre-sale orders can be placed at Apple's online store, as well as on AT&T, Verizon and Sprint's websites.
All of those brick-and-mortar retail stores also will carry the phone, along with select Apple-approved retailers — which as of Friday morning had not been listed by Apple.
BestBuy was making the phone available for pre-order Friday on its site. Walmart's site said only that the iPhone 4S was "coming soon."


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A timely phone call from her father stopped former "90210" star AnnaLynne McCord from taking her own life after a bad break-up with an ex-boyfriend in Spain.
After years of sexual abuse at the hands of boyfriends she urged to be violent with her in bed, the troubled actress found herself in Madrid with one beau shortly after an alleged rape at her home in Los Angeles.
Speaking candidly and emotionally about the moment she almost committed suicide, McCord tells "ccess Hollywood, "I found someone who would abuse me as much as I'd abuse myself and one time while I was in Madrid … it just hit a little too hard.
"People who are suicidal don't think one day, 'Oh, I'm gonna kill myself and they do it,' they've been thinking that for a long time. … I would write poetry in Sharpie on my arm and sometimes I would cut and smear my blood into the poetry."
And then one day, the actress decided to end the pain by killing herself: "I had the pills in my hand and I had the water bottle next to me. … Maybe the fact I'm an actress and I'm a drama queen saved me in that moment because I screamed… at the top of my lungs, like, 'Stop…' to myself.
"I just released enough to be able to think clearly again and realize I'm not gonna end my life right now, and then my dad called … and I was like, 'Daddy, I'm in a really bad place, I'm so glad you called'."
His chat gave McCord the strength to call her older sister Angel and ask for her help.
She adds, "In 17 hours she was with me. … We went to Barcelona together and we just breathed together and then I was OK. It never got that bad again."


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The little kid lurking in local architects' psyches became visible early this month, when 15 of their kid-sized playhouses went on display at Stanford Shopping Center. You can see them through June 11.
The imaginative structures will be auctioned off June 4 at a gala "Dreams Happen" benefit for Rebuilding Together Peninsula, a nonprofit that rehabilitates homes and community facilities for low-income individuals. Since 1989, the group has worked on more than 1,000 homes in northern Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, as well as nearly 300 community facilities, with the help of close to 80,000 volunteers.
This year's playhouses include a science lab, a pirate ship, a firehouse, a colorful "Oblique House" and a variety of more traditional home designs, from Tudor to a Cotswold Cottage. Some incorporate slides, ladders, climbing walls or ropes, ramps or even a rooftop terrace.
One playhouse located in front of Bloomingdale's, called the (f)un.box, was envisioned by Ana Williamson, Libby Raab and Eric Asato of the firm Ana Williamson Architect in Menlo Park.
Planning and design began six months ago. The playhouse was constructed by Mediterraneo Design Build of Menlo Park, with materials and skills donated -- from lumber and roofing to engineering.
Their thinking began with a basic question, Raab said: "What do kids love?"
Many of the past playhouses were "miniature versions of a house. Some are gender specific. We wanted to appeal to girls and boys, young and old," she added.
And when the kids grow up, the playhouse can evolve into a "shoffice," what Williamson defined as a shed/office/writing studio.
"This was so fun ... no clients, no codes," Williamson said, although there were certainly limitations: The house had to be built on a 10-foot by 8-foot platform, could weigh no more than 6,000 pounds, and could be no taller than 11 feet, 6 inches -- that way it could be lifted and transported by truck.
And, although there's no specific code for playhouses, the architects ran the drawings past a structural engineer, tweaking the specs as necessary.
One can enter the (f)un.box either through a red tunnel and pop up through a trap door, or up a ramp through a barn door, or through a Dutch door at ground level. A ladder leads to a roof hatch, taking you to a terrace with artificial turf.
Shelves along one side can hold anything that makes the playhouse into something else.
"Let kids decide what this is," Troy Turvy, a partner at Mediterraneo Design Build, said. "It leaves a fair bit to the imagination. Is it a clubhouse? A fort? A dungeon?"
Williamson kid-tested the (f)un.box on her own teenagers, who asked why they couldn't have one in their back yard.
"Every little kid wants to be up there," she said, who observed children standing behind the roped-off barrier at Stanford Shopping Center, looking longingly at the red tunnel entrance.
Williamson estimates that their playhouse took more than 100 hours to design, a month to construct and would have cost close to $40,000, if everything from ideas to materials hadn't been donated. Even working space down the street from Mediterraneo's office was donated.
Most of the playhouses will sell at auction for anywhere from $6,000 to $70,000, with $15,000 to $20,000 the average, according to Gary Ahern, who had such a "wonderful time" designing a playhouse in 1999 that he agreed to chair the event two years later.
And he's continued every two years since.
"I'm just a big kid, and I wanted to design a playhouse," he said, adding that he became more impassioned by the mission of the organization and now serves on the board of Rebuilding Together Peninsula.
The Dreams Happen fundraiser has raised $2.8 million since 1993. And Ahern is proud to say his design drew the high $70,000 bid a few years ago.
It's not so easy to predict which playhouses will get the most auction action. Two years ago, Ahern said, the ones he thought would be highlights were surpassed by others he didn't think would be as popular.
"It's whatever the temperature of the room is that night. Everyone comes in looking for something different. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," he said.
This year Ahern designed Casita del Sol, complete with tile roof, arched window, "wrought iron" balcony and a bright yellow slide.
He usually waits until late in the game to design his offering. As event chair, he sees himself as a bit of a challenge, not wanting to turn down someone who's come up with something too similar. "I usually design on the fly. It's kind of fun, coming up with something at the last minute," he added.
"It amazes me how creatively and differently people look at a design problem," he said. "This is the best assortment we've ever had."
The gala fundraiser begins with cocktails and dinner outside, then "a very fun live auction," followed by dessert and dancing. "It's one of the most enjoyable fundraisers," he said.
Williamson echoed his sentiments, adding "Architecture can be fun. It doesn't have to be serious."
What: Dreams Happen, a benefit for Rebuilding Together Peninsula
When: Saturday, June 4, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Stanford Shopping Center
Cost: $110 for tickets
Info: 650-366-6597 or www.rebuildingtogetherpeninsula.org or at the Guest Services Desk, located inside the Stanford Shopping Center courtyard next to Polo-Ralph Lauren


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Google is launching indoor maps for Android devices in the UK, to enable smartphone users to easily find their way around train stations, sporting venues, art galleries, shopping centres and department stores.
More than 40 venues in the UK have so far submitted their indoor floor plans to appear in the Google mapping system.
Kings Cross station, the Barbican Centre, and the Peter Jones department store in Sloane Square are among the indoor locations currently supported, said Google.
Razia Ahamed, Google geo indoor partnerships lead, said: "You'll no longer need to feel clueless when you're at the railway station, trying to figure out where to buy a coffee before you rush to catch your train.
"Nor will you feel embarrassed about asking for the lingerie section when you're in the department store, because you'll have all the answers in the palm of your hand."
To use the system Android smartphone users open Google Maps on their device, zoom in to the location they're in, and the indoor floor plan will automatically appear.
Users will also see where they are in the building via a blue dot on the map - if they have enabled the My Location feature on their phones.
Google said any building owner can now upload their maps for future inclusion in Google Maps.
Last month Google launched a location-based tool that combines its mapping technology and Android smartphones to deploy offsite staff effectively depending on their locations.
Using the new Google Maps Coordinate app, Google said call centre employees at a company could quickly send staff to a trouble spot or where service is required quickly, by finding out which of its employees are closest to the problem site.


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Cummings: Hicks remarks distorted
The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is accusing Republicans of distorting the remarks of a star witness testifying before the panel this week on Benghazi.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) sent letter to Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Friday asking that omitted portions of Gregory Hicks's testimony be added to the record.
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"I thank Mr. Hicks for coming forward, for working with our investigators, and for providing his testimony to the Committee," Cummings said in a statement. "Unfortunately, some have attempted to distort and manipulate what Mr. Hicks actually told the Committee. I believe this additional information will help clarify and complete the official record."
A Foreign Service officer and the No. 2 on the ground in Libya the night of the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Bengahzi, Hicks added fuel to the Benghazi controversy being pushed by Republicans against the administration and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
( Also on POLITICO: Rand Paul: Clinton 'absolutely' to blame for Benghazi)
On Friday, Cummings provided several additional details of Hicks pre-hearing interview that were omitted from the record and counter claims that State officials tried to keep him from speaking with Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). Instead, Cummings points to portions of the interview where Hicks says he was told to ensure an attorney was present if he spoke to Chaffetz.
In the omitted portion of the transcript, Hicks says the only thing he was warned about was not revealing "part of the FBI investigation or privileged to the FBI investigation."
Cummings also highlights portions of the transcript that were omitted from the committee's record in which Hicks says he was never told to withhold additional information.
"I guess, in any other way did they try to, sort of, get you to say certain things or craft the substance of what you were talking about?" Hicks is asked, according to the transcript.
( PHOTOS: Clinton's best Benghazi hearing lines)
"No, those were the two things," Hicks responds.
A Republican aide countered that since Cummings had access to the transcripts, that meant they were part of the record.


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Dr. Shai Frankenthal and Sivan Amran, assistant
Don't you feel great just looking at this pair? He lives in Tel Aviv's suburban Givat Shmuel. She (her beauty is equal parts Yemeni and Turkish), shifted from office administrator back to dental assistant during the two-hour dental implant surgery so that I could squeeze her hands (my request). They are in Dr. Philip Kaplan's practice — ten minutes' walking distance from City Hall, and twice that from where I live.
For those who follow the fine points of dental implant surgery —
- Phase One: Four teeth were extracted and three implants were placed.
- Phase Two (early 2011): A permanent bridge will be anchored to the three implants, replacing five extracted teeth (one was extracted last year, when it broke).
At the start of the surgery, Dr. Shai said, in Hebrew: You will be so happy with the results. What you had was a cat-as-tro-phah! I laughed my head off (mouth immobile, wide open).
This team joins Dr. Vicki Zaharov, internal medicine specialist, in a league of my own — outstanding Israeli health care professionals whom I shamelessly promote.
Dr. Philip Kaplan
Dr. Shai Frankenthal
Zeitlin 25
Tel Aviv, Israel
Phone in Israel 03.696.0650
(from abroad ++972.3.696.0650)


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Job Search / Re: Federal Public Defender - worthwhile?« on: September 27, 2009, 06:38:05 PM »
FWIW, I interned at an Office of the Federal Public Defender during my 1L summer and really enjoyed my experience there. It has not hurt me at all this fall during 2L OCI/callbacks. PM me if you have any specific questions.


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If you wish to register for the site, and use one of the "FREE" email accounts, i.e Hotmail for instance, you may see a message saying the email address is banned... THIS IS NOT PERSONAL!
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I have now added the Advanced User Tagging system to the forum..
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After finishing a job late Friday, it was time to clean up and get ready for the weekend. I placed all my tools in the toolbox, threw a new bucket of pull string in the bed of my F150, and off I went. Saturday morning I was supposed to meet a potential customer to look at a job. On my way to the meeting, I glanced out my rearview mirror, only to see a mile of string following me. Visualizing the string getting wrapped around the drive shaft of someone else's vehicle, I immediately pulled over, knowing that I couldn't just leave it in the road. Then I very carefully began winding the string up, making sure not to wrap it around my hands in the event a car should come by and catch hold of it — a task that took me around 30 minutes. Luckily, it was early in the morning, and there weren't a lot of cars on the road. What's the moral of this story? Make sure the end of the pull string is secured inside the bucket before you take off.
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Numerous other well-known names are listed on the host committee, including businessman Steve and Kathy Papermaster, lobbyist Buddy Jones, GOP consultant Matt Mackowiak, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul and UT regent Steve Hicks.
It's at 8 a.m. Aug. 31 at the Headliners Club. Cost for attending is the federal contribution limit of $2,500 per person or $5,000 per couple per election.
The fundraiser is the day before a fundraising reception and dinner at the San Antonio Country Club that has higher levels of giving for bundlers – people who promise to collect numerous smaller donations. Contribution levels for this event range up to $25,000; perks include a VIP reception and private dinner with Perry after the main reception.


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A young woman named Roopa committed suicide at a hotel in the name of love for Anil Kumar 'Sona' (Shammi Kapoor). Sona, an artist, performed as 'Rocky' at that hotel, which was where lovely Sunita (Asha Parekh) arrived with revenge on her mind. She would later befriend and fall in love with Sona. But would she discover that he was Rocky? Would Rocky's confidant Mr. Kunwer (Prem Nath) succeed in aiding him to mask the truth? What was the truth? And how devastating would Sunita's discoveries be? What role would her cousin Ramesh (Prem Chopra) play? And would Ruby (Helen) pay the price for her misdeeds, motivated mostly by attraction? Teesri Manzil answered these questions within the framework of a classic mystery, complete with the elements of Bollywood cinema of which by far the biggest highlight was the music.
1. The beginning to the film was just perfect;
Asha Parekh wasted no time in making an impression.
2. Given the plot, comedy wasn't going to take center stage, but it almost did in some unique ways, a testament to the comic timing of the cast who made the most of every opportunity. Few films of the genre double as entertainers (which this is!), enough to warrant repeat viewings.
3. The focal point of the film -- the mystery -- was very well depicted. Should have known with the fun in comprehending the title (as noted above), that it would be a strong, dialogue-based film. The screenplay was, for the most part, excellent. And character sketches preceding the problem statement were effective, especially for those at the heart of it all, the two beautiful women vying for one man's love.
4. Greatly complemented by a phenomenal soundtrack, the film had tune after great tune. R. D. Burman's music and lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri were excellent. Here are four of my favorites, the first three widely considered to be among the biggest hits by two of the best vocalists Indian cinema will ever have known in Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhosle:
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- O Mere Sona Re (view here)
- Tum Ne Mujhe Dekha (view here)
5. Other noteworthy elements included some interesting cinematography and art direction, often with delightfully elaborate color palettes (are those Snow White dresses?):
There was also a decent dosage of circles. A reference to the circle of life, perhaps? Here a circle...
...there a circle...
...everywhere a circle,...
And what better viewing instrument than one with circles?!
I'm not sure this was what the filmmakers intended, but all the circles involved could certainly be subtle references to poetic justice and karma. They say what goes around comes around. Sure, it does. Maybe it does in the film, too. But at what cost?
And if you believe in superstitions, maybe you'd appreciate it as being more than merely a coincidence that the digits in Sona's room number (the room served as the site for significant suspect activity) added to the number 13:
The acting was top-notch throughout. The film was engaging, and although the climax was slightly predictable (I used to be better at playing along and not trying to anticipate the end; here's one instance where that would have helped), it wasn't something one would mind too much. The fantastic performances across the board, splendid and fun music, and dialogue, made this one for the ages. I'm going with over four stars for the incredibly amazing ride! I hope you enjoy(ed) it!
Movie rating: 4.25/5 (Excellent!)
Music rating: 4.75/5 (Stuff of legends!)
My rating: PG-13 (for plot, some violence)
PS: Honorable mention to a special appearance by Salim Khan (that would be Salman Khan's father, Helen's husband) of the Salim-Javed duo. And given this, and that this was a film by Aamir Khan's uncle, we've come full circle, haven't we? :)


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Thanks so much for posting this!Jeff Albertson wrote:from the Economist's Buttonwood:http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwo ... /investingElroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of the London Business School are the acknowledged experts on global investment returns, having compiled data covering 22 countries over more than a century. As of February 2013, the longest period of negative real returns from US equities was 16 years. But it was 19 years for global equities (and 37 for world ex-US), 22 for Britain, 51 for Japan, 55 for Germany and 66 for France. Such periods are much longer than most small investors would have the patience to wait.
I've pretty much stopped debating with friends about the merits of having a bond/cash cushion to soften a significant market pull back. They usually quote "Average S&P returns since 1926 are 10%; Aren't you enjoying this rally? and I'd rather be an owner than a lender" (Bond reference) I have the majority of my portfolio in equities but I've never forgotten the quote from William J. O'Neal, IBD, "All stocks are bad."
I think many of us have -mostly- enjoyed fantastic equity returns since the 1980s and see this as a given.
Maybe its true, but then maybe its not
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Last weekend was He-Man Punt, Pass and Kick Competition Weekend at the Jody Ray Sports Complex.The seventh annual Junior He-Man PPK took place Saturday, with six lucky individuals placing. In the L'il He-Man Division for ages 6 to 8, Zayden "Downtown" Dennis won with 57 points and earned $100. Brett "The Hitman" Hoffman was second with 38 points and earned $75. Dallas "Romo" Roberts — this year's Most Improved Athlete winner — came in third with 24 points and pocketed $50. Caston "The Dog Whisperer" Qualls won the Got-a-Man Down Award.In the Junior He-Man Division for ages 9 to 12, my son, Jacques "Aaron Rodgers" Adams won with 65 points and pocketed $100. Colton "The Saw" Crenshaw was runner-up with 43 points and pocketed $75. Camryn "Witten" Wickware was third with 41 points and earned $50. J.D. "Butkus" Bickford was named the Most Improved Athlete, while Jon Jon "Risky Business" Marquez won the Got-a-Man Down Award.On Sunday, the 20th annual He-Man PPK took place. Joey "Killer" Clary took home first place with 54 points and won $500. Justin "Bad, Bad Leroy" Brown was second with 50 points and won $230. Heavener coach Russ McDonald, this year's Most Improved Athlete, placed third with 40 points and won $140. Teddy "Earrings" Clary won the Got-A-Man Down Award.


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The Southington library has received a grant from the Community Foundation of New Britain to fund two upcoming arts programs – a canvas mural and a three-dimensional printer.
As part of its most recent round of grants, the foundation has awarded funding to libraries in each of the four towns they represent – Southington, Plainville, Berlin and New Britain. In a larger-scale project, the foundation has also partnered with the libraries to introduce e-readers.
"We have learned a lot during that process about the value of libraries as centers for arts," said Jim Williamson, president of the foundation. "Art and music budgets for schools have been cut over the years, but the libraries have been doing wonderful things. This was very much a collaborative effort and we were delighted to make these grants happen for these outstanding programs."
Thanks to a portion of its $5,841 grant, Southington's library will now be able to purchase a Makerbot Replicator II printer, which uses a corn-starch based plastic filament to mold objects designed by users.
"They have been around for a while, but mostly for industry," said Library Director Sue Smayda. "It's only recently that a consumer version has been made. Someday we might all have these in our homes."
The powerful technology has many possibilities and the library plans to introduce it to the community with a project that will invite teenagers to design characters. These characters will then be used in a stop-motion production by younger children. The library also intends to host classes on using the three-dimensional printer.
The grant also made possible another program at the library that will likely be more familiar to Southington residents – a new mural. Mary DeCroce, president of Southington Community Cultural Arts (SCCA), is expected to lead a youth program where participants will help conceive the mural's theme and eventually contribute to its creation. SCCA has added many murals to the landscape of Southington, although this one is unique because it will be on a canvas.
"This way, it can be moved," Smayda said. "We're hoping to have a new library building someday and we wouldn't want it on a wall that might get knocked down eventually."
Meanwhile, the Plainville library received a $2,000 grant for the graphic designer Joe Molnar to teach a series of classes on the art of illustration.
Molnar, who lives in Plainville, will lead six classes for high school students in the summer. In the fall, classes will be offered to middle schools.
"The foundation is eager to promote the arts in the area," said Library Director Peter Chase. "Several libraries are working on this, so we looked at what we could do and we knew that we had this illustrator in town."
The classes will focus on the art of illustration for popular media and will culminate in an exhibition of student work. The library has made it a priority to introduce the community to the artistic talent among Plainville's youth. A reception for a student art show was just held on Friday, May 3.
The foundation also awarded a $1,500 grant to the Berlin library and a $2,150 grant to the New Britain library for similar art-themed programs. Among the grants unrelated to the arts, Southington's Early Childhood Collaborative received a $13,000 grant.
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The Southington library has received a grant from the Community Foundation of New Britain to fund two upcoming arts programs – a canvas mural and a three-dimensional printer.


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CALEDONIA (WIFR) -- You just never quite know when and where a random act of kindness is going to happen.
On this gloomy Saturday, three waitresses received the surprise of a lifetime while working at the Boone County Family Restaurant in the form of $15,000.
The day started just like any other for Amber Kariolich, Amy Sabani and Sarah Seckinger.
They were talking about bills and life when one woman asked for their names and promptly began jotting something down.
When she was done, she presented each of the girls with a check for $5,000, something that means the world to each of them.
"It means a lot," said Kariolich. "Well, we all want to go back to school. Everybody has bills and what not so it means a lot."
Kariolich was the waitress for the customer, who the restaurant is keeping anonymous, and the checks were a big surprise for Seckinger and Sabani, who were just standing nearby.
"I wasn't even waiting on her," said Seckinger. "I was just rolling silverware. We were talking about school and braces and loans and everything we can't afford and she just took it upon herself."
Tears quickly turned into joy for the girls who started to think about what they could do with the money.
Kariolich and Seckinger have school on their minds and as for Sabani, the check gives her a chance to one day pay it forward.
"I work two jobs and I have a little boy at home so maybe spend more time with him and do more things with him and just get ahead of myself," said Sabani. "I hope that one day I have the amount to do the same thing to somebody else."
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A trade that would send Matt Flynn from the Seattle Seahawks to the Oakland Raiders is close to happening. Someone might have to blink in a staredown between Flynn and the Raiders for the deal to go down.
NFL.com's Albert Breer reported Friday that trade terms between the Seahawks and Raiders have been settled. The Seahawks would acquire a 2013 draft pick and a conditional 2014 selection as part of the deal, if it's completed. The Seahawks' portion of the deal essentially is done. Now it's on the Raiders.
Sources familiar with Flynn's thinking told Rapoport that the quarterback would be resistant to changing the terms of his contract. That indicates the Raiders aren't necessarily happy with paying Flynn $5.25 million in 2013 and $6.25 million in 2014. This looks like the holdup.
It's telling that the Raiders might be looking to change Flynn's contract. If that's the case, they must not see him as a true starting quarterback. The $5.25 million figure is barely more than Matt Hasselbeck will get as a clear backup with the Indianapolis Colts. The Raiders must see Flynn as an option to start, but someone who will have to compete for the job. (Carson Palmer, meanwhile, surely would be released in short order if the Raiders add Flynn. It's also possible the Raiders are trying to find a suitor for Palmer in the meantime.)
It makes sense for Flynn to stand his ground. He's due good money from the Seahawks. Does he really want to take a lesser contract to join a difficult situation on the Raiders? Even if the Seahawks eventually cut Flynn, at least he'd get to choose his team.
One last thing to keep in mind: The Raiders don't have a lot of salary-cap space. Flynn might have to take less money to make this happen. We'll see if Flynn or the Raiders flinch first.
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Turmoil as 2 candidates in Honduras claim election victory
Honduras, a nation on a years-long quest to overcome political instability, found only new turmoil Sunday when two presidential candidates both declared themselves winners of the day's election.
With 43 percent of precincts reporting, official results gave Juan Orlando Hernandez of the rightist National Party a six-point lead over left-leaning Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, wife of a former president who was ousted in a 2009 coup.
Hernandez's followers, convinced of his triumph, poured onto the streets in the major cities of Honduras to celebrate, setting off fireworks. While leading a victory rally, Hernandez repeated a line he'd used often during the campaign to suggest how he'd combat crime: "I will do what has to be done."
But Castro, speaking to a crowd of fervent followers jammed into a banquet hall at a Tegucigalpa hotel, declared that exit polls gave her a "convincing and irreversible" margin of victory.
"Clearly, today I can tell you that I am the president of Honduras," she said.
The head of the European Union electoral observation team, Ulrike Lunacek, pleaded with Hondurans to wait a few more hours until further votes were tallied.
"Be patient, please!" said Lunacek, who headed a group of more than 100 election observers. "It is important to stay calm and respect the election results."
At 9:30 p.m. local time, with 43 percent of votes counted, Hernandez held 34.1 percent of the votes, while Castro trailed with 28.4 percent, said Supreme Electoral Tribunal chief David Matamoros. In third place was the candidate from the center-right Liberal Party, Mauricio Villeda, with 21 percent. Five other candidates split the remaining votes.
The Honduran electoral system does not provide for a runoff, so whoever finally wins will have a weak mandate from less than a majority of voters to address runaway drug violence, corruption, and a deepening fiscal crisis.
Honduras still has not fully recovered from the coup that toppled Manuel Zelaya, a Liberal Party member who transformed into a leftist while in office, pulling Honduras into alignment with nations such as Venezuela.
Political chaos following the coup coincided with a sharp uptick in the use of Honduras as a transit zone by global drug traffickers. Violent crime soared. Last year, Honduras had the highest homicide rate in the world, 88.5 per 100,000 people, according to the United Nations.
Nor has the Honduran economy recovered fully from the coup.
A left-leaning think tank in Washington, the Center for Economic Policy Research, said in a report earlier this month that "Honduras now has the most unequal distribution of income in Latin America" as it struggles to regain faster growth.
Honduras has been governed by a member of the National Party or the Liberal Party since 1902, with occasional interruptions for military dictatorship. But the current election cycle featured the rise of two new parties, Castro's Liberty and Refoundation Party and the Anti-Corruption Party of Salvador Nasralla, a former sportscaster who appeared likely to come in fourth among the eight candidates. With Honduras' 5.4 million voters also casting ballots for 128 deputies to the unicameral Congress, it seemed likely that if Hernandez maintains his lead, he will face a Congress where his party is in the minority.
The rise of Castro in pre-electoral polls suggested that much of the country was in the mood for change.
Hernandez, a former president of Congress, campaigned on a pledge that he would do "whatever it takes" to battle organized crime and rein in runaway homicides. Civil rights groups worried that an Hernandez victory would usher in an era of extrajudicial police actions that could be aimed at political dissidents.
While a number of irregularities were reported in the voting, only one major incidence of violence occurred. Unidentified gunmen killed five people near a voting station in the remote Gracias a Dios province along the Caribbean. The motive for the killing was not immediately clear.


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Remember the beauteous Bertie peachy brogues I bought at the start of the summer? I've worn them until they're practically falling to bits. I still love them too, which is why I cannot bear to part with them just yet. You see these brogues changed my perspective on all things shoe-related; for a while I thought you'd have to be uber-cool and/or leggy to get away with brogues, neither of which I am, or ever will be.
I've tried on lots of pairs since, and was particularly enamored with the pairs in Clarks. Yep, you read that right, I liked the shoes in Clarks, and I'm not ashamed of it. I was between a lovely deep maroon pair, or a leopard and black patent pair, that was until I saw that the leopard pair went to half-price and the maroon ones didn't. The retail Gods were clearly making the decision for me. So they've just joined the ranks of my leopard army!


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Identity theft – which costs the Internal Revenue Service an estimated $5 billion a year in illegal tax refunds – is at the heart of the first criminal case filed in U.S. District Court in Columbus this year.
Identity theft – which costs the Internal Revenue Service an estimated $5 billion a year in illegal tax refunds – is at the heart of the first criminal case filed in U.S. District Court in Columbus this year.
Perhaps that�s not surprising, since the IRS made identity theft a top investigative priority last year.
On Tuesday, a federal grand jury indicted a West Side man and woman on charges that they stole identities and used them to obtain more than $1 million in illegal tax refunds.
The indictment says that Jose Luis Martinez, 46, of 3515 Senator Court, and Mercedes Emelinda-Silie, 40, of 3711 Fountain Cove Lane, worked with unnamed people in New York on the fraud between February 2010 and December.
�This is a warning for people who think they�ll get involved in this kind of scheme and for others to be careful to protect their personal identification information,� IRS special agent Craig Casserly said.
IRS investigators say that conspirators in the case stole identities from people living in Puerto Rico, filed income-tax forms in their names and had the refunds sent primarily to unused apartment mailboxes in the Bronx and other New York locations.
Couriers in New York brought the checks to Columbus and had Martinez and Emelinda-Silie cash them, mostly through two businesses the defendants operated, investigators said.
Those companies, Grini�s Salon and San Isidro Cargo, were used as illegal check-cashing businesses, with the defendants keeping some of the money as a fee and returning the rest to the couriers, according to the indictments.
�It is a huge investigation� that is ongoing, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Brown, who is prosecuting the case.
Martinez and Emelinda-Silie are charged with 50 counts each: 39 of stealing public money, eight of identity theft, and one each of operating an unlicensed check-cashing business, conspiracy to commit money laundering and defrauding the government.
Casserly said this is the first time the IRS has charged anyone locally with theft of public money and operating an unlicensed check-cashing business as part of a tax-refund scheme.
Possible prison terms for each of the charges range from five to 10 years, with two-year minimum terms for identity theft. Fines can be up to $250,000 each for most of the charges.
Darryl Williams, special agent in charge of the IRS criminal-investigation field office in Cincinnati, said refund fraud and identity theft are high priorities for the IRS nationwide.
�Identity theft is a despicable crime that victimizes honest taxpayers and causes immense hardship,� Williams said.


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Wooten and Herring musically mismatched, perfectly paired
Guitarist Jimmy Herring and bassist Victor Wooten are like a couple of runaways on a wild adventure. Both are working with respective namesake bands while their primary gigs are on hiatus, and in both cases, Herring and Wooten are using the opportunity to expand their already considerable talents.
The Victor Wooten Band and the Jimmy Herring Band join forces Wednesday night at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston.
Wooten comes armed with not one but two records. "Words and Tones" is a funky, R&B-leaning collection of songs showcasing female singers, a departure from the instrumental work Wooten is best known for as a member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. "Sword and Stone" (move those s's around in the album titles and you get a sense of the wordplay Wooten enjoys on the vocal album) is an instrumental outing, but still not in the vein of a banjo-fueled Flecktones project. Some songs appear on both releases but typically emphasize different textures in their different settings.
Herring, who joined Widespread Panic in 2006 after stints with the Allman Brothers Band, Phil Lesh and Friends, and the Dead, took advantage of a break in Panic's touring schedule to make "Subject to Change Without Notice" (which does feature a cameo from Bela Fleck on banjo).
Herring is once again going an instrumental route, but unlike his 2008 jazz-rock solo debut, "Lifeboat," the new album focuses on melody, or songs that the guitarist calls "vocal-ish."
"I just love Jeff Beck and Derek Trucks, how they can make the guitar behave like a singer. It's in the phrasings and knowing where to take a breath," Herring explains from a recent tour stop.
But Herring wasn't keen on "singing" one kind of song. "Subject to Change Without Notice" is a grab bag with such tunes as the Gypsy jazz number "Red Wing Special," the lofty, majestic grooves of a song called "Aberdeen," and inventive covers of the Beatles' "Within You, Without You," Jimmy McGriff's soul-jazz bit "Miss Poopie," and Mahavishnu Orchestra's "Hope," which Herring transforms from its original two-minute mantra into a nearly seven-minute spiritual ascension.
"We didn't intend to make each song a different style, but the people I worked with, we've been playing music together for a long time, and we don't tend to think about labels," Herring says. "We'll just say, 'Let's play this,' and if it's funky or bluesy, it doesn't matter. It comes down to whether it's music we like or music we don't like."
Drummer Jeff Sipe, whom Herring worked with in the Aquarium Rescue Unit, bassist Neal Fountain, and keyboard player Matt Slocum join Herring on the road as well as anchor the new album, which features many guests.
Herring, who turned 50 this year, says that no matter how far out he and his bandmates can take a song, it all comes back to the quality of the tune.
"When I was growing up, pop music was the Beatles and Led Zeppelin. Those songs were crafted incredibly well. You couldn't have a hit back then if the song wasn't really well crafted," he says.
Speaking of craft, Herring marvels at Wooten's work, enthusing about all of the little surprises tucked into the bassist's songs.
"I was listening to a song of his and heard a slide player, but I couldn't figure out who it was. When I asked him he said, 'Me.' Slide bass. That's new to me," Herring says.
Wooten plays all sorts of bass guitars on his new records and on stage. His seven-piece band has four certified bassists. But don't expect a low-end blowout when the group performs at the Wilbur, as everyone also multi-tasks on different instruments. Wooten himself will also be playing guitars and cello. The musicians even change their instruments mid-song.
That fluidity is also part of Wooten's two records. On the vocal record, Wooten says he let the various singers come up with a lot of the lyrical content that ended up attached to his melodies and rhythms.
"I enjoy performing with a vocalist and just always liked the sound of female vocals. The voice is the greatest thing to accompany. I was really interested here in letting the singers add their ideas to my melodies," he explains.
Thus, "Words and Tones" has a poetic quality, ranging from Saundra Williams's dreamy ode to Brooklyn to Divinity Roxx's harder-edged gospel on "Say Word."
The virtuoso instrumentalist gives credit to one of his brothers for sparking the idea of exploring the multiplicity of meanings within words and how the Arthurian legend is symbolic of finding hidden meanings.
"Pulling the sword out of the stone is like pulling meaning out of sounds we utter, and there are so many words and meanings within words themselves. Simplicity is simple city. Musically and naturally are music ally and nature ally," Wooten says.
And for a short time this fall, two musical progressives who don't necessarily sound very much alike seem like natural allies on the road.
Scott McLennan can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ScottMcLennan1.


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CROP TIGER 40. How you benefit.
- TANGENTIAL AXIAL FLOW (TAF) is unequalled for harvesting versatility - wheat, rice, basmati, sunflowers, soybeans, chickpeas, mustard, mung beans, pigeon peas, etc.
- TATA engine (BS-III emissions standard) with 76 HP and plenty of torque in reserve
- Available in 2.60 m cutterbar with crop lifters
- Long service intervals, easy servicing
- High-quality fibre canopy for maximum operator comfort
Unmatched efficiency.
As a successor of the well known CROP TIGER 30, the new CROP TIGER 40 embodies its predecessor's well proven characteristics and complements them with further features and updates. As a result, this combine is the most efficient CROP TIGER ever built in India.
The 76 HP TATA BS-III engine with reduced rpm delivers a huge amount of power with high reserves of torque.
The 2.6 m cutterbar ensures easier maneuverability. The machine is able to traverse in places where space is less, hence eliminating the need of a trailer.
The CROP TIGER 40 is equipped with 14.9-28 front tyres, which make harvesting possible even in semi-wet fields. The CROP TIGER 40 is able to harvest multiple crops such as rice, wheat, soybean, legumes, mustard and chickpeas. The low loss level and the negligible proportion of damaged grains mean that it is even possible to harvest basmati with the CROP TIGER 40. There is no question: the CROP TIGER 40 ensures long harvesting seasons and maximum machine usage.
The level of comfort provided by the CROP TIGER 40 has been increased with the addition of a number of features, such as the large fibre canopy and the standard-fit air compressor.


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Disturbing: Bad Azz 9-Year-Old Boy Punching & Attacking Toddlers At Daycare!
Disturbing video released, daycare worker
" Surveillance video from Kiddie City Childcare Center in Vicksburg shows a nine year-old's reign of terror over a room of infants. The boy can be seen punching one little girl multiple times. Related Material Man charged with hitting child tells his story No court appearance yet for man accused of slapping child Man arrested for slapping 6 year old at daycare Then choking another, then patting her back as she cries in pain. Another time he violently shakes another child. In an exclusive interview with a WLBT photojournalist, the boy's aunt says the family is embarrassed by the attacks and the daycare should be shut down. "He bad. He fight but he don't fight little babies. He do also have a problem. He take medicine every day and he just a normal child," says Vinia Dolley." - 3 News
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Lady Gaga Announces Little Monsters Film Project
Lady Gaga is really turning her LittleMonsters.com social media network into the prime destination and preferred hub for all things Gaga.
Right after sharing the first-ever personal photo of her boyfriend, actor Taylor Kinney, with the adorbs caption "Me and T.," Gaga announced the Little Monsters Film Project. So what's that all about? Well, little monsters, you can create films based on Gaga and her music. If she likes what you do, she'll use it for one of her new songs! That's a chance of a lifetime right?
Gaga made the video announcement via Monster Vision, saying, "Since Twitter is broken down and we have you all to ourselves, pay attention. Pop culture takeover." She made the big reveal alongside Tara Savelo, her personal makeup artist who has been creating all those memorably dramatic and exotic looks on the Asian leg of the Born This Way Ball tour.
The Mother Monster said, "Basically what we're doing is the Little Monsters film project. We're doing a project for film. Send us a video — a film — that shows us how you would like to shoot me or an inspiration for how you'd like to shoot me."
Gaga was a bit spacey during this video, since she couldn't speak or give the directions in linear fashion. She was all over the place and either she was excited about the film project or she was might have indulged in a little something something! Maybe she was a little toked? Maybe!
She continued, "This is not an audition, it's a freefall. That's essentially what LittleMonsters.com is. How much can we get away with this on this website? So please send us movies and we will choose our favorite and you film a video for us for the new album and it will be one of many songs. It will be for the album. I am making a film for each song, some longer than others."
Essentially, the director that is chosen will get to film one of Gaga's songs, and she even shared that it will be premiered on something new. That "something new" is TBD. Gaga reminded her little monsters to do their vids in an "unscripted" way and to be "quick and raw," just how she likes it.
The blond babes sign off, but popped back on for a hot sec to reveal more details regarding the "how to" with the submissions. Did you guys notice what was playing in the background? No Doubt's 'Settle Down,' which Ma Monster claimed to be obsessed with. No Interscope plugs there. She really is digging that jammy jam.
So there you have it, monsters! A chance to film a Gaga clip! How effing amazing?! We cannot wait to find out on which outlet this will premiere. See, we told you to sign up for a LittleMonsters.com account. Big things in the Gagaverse happen and are revealed there. Perhaps the site is where she will reveal her new album title, since she's not about repeats and reportedly isn't even hitting the 2012 VMAs this year.


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well I had Swiss chard last night, sauteed in some garlic, and this morning knocked 90 sec of my PB in a TT -there you have it, it's the chard effect.
Rego + Fruitflow is a recovery product from Science in Sport (SiS). If you train hard and race hard, it may help you recover faster and improve your overall performance.
Unlike most recovery products, which are usually drinks or bars, Rego + Fruitflow is a gel. And unlike most recovery products, it does not contain much carbohydrate or protein. And unlike most recovery products, you take it before exercise, not during or after. Get the picture? It's different.
How does it work? Fruitflow is a brand name for a tomato extract that, according to SiS, contains naturally occurring compounds that reduce the muscle inflammation that normally occurs during strenuous exercise. By including this substance in the gel, it helps your muscles recover more quickly. The sooner you recover, then the sooner you can go out training again, and the more you train, the better you get.
The quicker recovery may also help those taking part in multi-day events.
Does it work?
That's the theory. Does it work in practice? Honest answer: I don't know. I tested Rego + Fruitflow gels a couple of times by taking them about two hours before a 90-minute slot of intensive indoor training (Sufferfest's Local Hero, since you ask).
A few hours later, my legs felt slightly better than they usually do the same period after a turbo torture session. But maybe it was my imagination, or maybe I was just having a good day anyway. Or didn't try as hard. I can't claim that my experience proves anything.
As well as the Fruitflow compound, the other main ingredients include chard (SiS call it Swiss chard; it's also known as spinach beet or silver beet, and is related to beetroot, although on chard the leaf is the major source of nutrition rather than the root) and good old water. There are also various sweeteners, preservatives and gelling agents.
The flavour of these gels is unusual, but OK. They're surprisingly sweet on the tongue at first, then have a slightly bitter after-taste. If I tried hard, I could just about get a taste of tomatoes – more like the sundried variety. I couldn't really taste the gel's advertised flavour which was supposed to be Banana & Mango.
The texture is quite runny, more like a drink than a gel. But that helps it slip down easily.
The only way to tell if Rego + Fruitflow gels work for you is to sample a few. They retail at £2.29 each on the SiS website, which isn't cheap, but won't break the bank to give it a try. Only you will know how your body normally feels after intensive training, so only you will notice the difference these gels might make to your recovery rate. On that basis, for the serious competitors out there, this is a product that's worth consideration.
A new product to help recovery after training; aimed primarily at racers and high performers, with additional benefits for multi-day events.
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Science In Sport Rego + Fruitflow Recovery Gel
Size tested: Banana and Mango flavour
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
This is a recovery product. Just to be clear, it's not a traditional recovery product. And it's not an energy product either. Each Rego + Fruitflow gel contains only 5% carb (much less than a normal energy product) and only 5% protein (much less than a traditional recovery product). Make no mistake – what you're taking this gel for is the Fruitflow, that clever stuff which SiS say will help your muscles more quickly recover after training, so you can go out and suffer all over again.
The SiS website also contains the following information:
"The world's first Fruitflow® recovery gel containing natural Fruitflow®; Fruitflow® is a clinically proven tomato extract which helps reduce over-stimulation of blood platelets; Reduces unnecessary total body inflammation during strenuous exercise, shortening recovery times; Designed to help you recover quicker when consumed before exercise."
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
The SIS website goes on to say that Rego + Fruitflow was:
"...developed to give your body a helping hand to cope with the additional stress of strenuous exercise."
Other technical information on the website included the following:
" Supported by human clinical trials Fruitflow® is the first natural ingredient with a scientifically approved health claim to contribute to healthy blood flow."
"SiS REGO + Fruitflow® gel will help reduce over-stimulation of blood platelets during intense exercise, reducing inflammation, which in turn can shorten recovery times."
Peformance seems good, in that I tested Rego + Fruitflow gels a couple of times by taking them about two hours before an intensive session on the turbo trainer, and then a few hours later, my legs felt slightly better than they usually do in the same situation. But that obviously isn't a scentific test and I can't claim that my experience proves anything.
Value is hard to pin down as there aren't any other energy products we're aware of that compare directly with Rego + Fruitflow. At £2.29 for 60g it's not cheap, but it's fair - and if it helps you train harder and race faster it may be a price you're willing to pay.
If you decide this is the stuff for you, then multi-packs are cheaper: six gels for £11.99, or a box of 30 for £56.99.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Probably not. For my level of training it's not necessary.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes, I'd recommend they try it, if they were training hard
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
It's hard to give an overall score to this product, as there's nothing else that's similar to compare it against. But, in my non-scientific experience, it does the job, and it's also fairly priced, so on that basis it gets a score of 8.
About the tester
Age: 51 Height: 5ft 10 / 178cm Weight: 11 stone / 70kg
I usually ride: an old Marin Alp, or an old steel classic My best bike is: an old Giant Cadex (can you see a theme here?)
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: A few times a week I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: touring, club rides, sportives, general fitness riding,


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Posted by: Ryan Allen on March 9, 2009 at 10:30 am
Welcome, bitches, to our first installment of the Monday Mixtape — a weekly collection of hot jamburgers that we're rocking around the office. For our inaugural edish, we're featuring some new tracks that we missed out on while we were away watching the first three seasons of "Weeds" on DVD.
Max Tundra :: Will Get Fooled Again
Perhaps best known for his remix work, UK digi-pop producer Max Tundra delivers an anthem for our social networking-obsessed society — proving that yes, you can even meet chicks on eBay.
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart :: Everything With You
Did Sarah Records ever go away? Not if you're a member of TPOBPAH, Brooklyn's resident fuzz-pop maestros, who lovingly nod to classic cuddle-core acts like Black Tambourine and the Field Mice, albeit at a much quicker pace.
American Princes :: Real Love
American Princes prove that chorus pedals sounds good beyond that of Nirvana's "Come As You Are," pushing it to the forefront of their angular, 80s-informed pop.
Grizzly Bear :: Deep Blue Sea
As anticipation for their new album reaches Merriweather Post Pavilion-like levels of blogsanity, Grizzly Bear try and tide us over with this lulling contribution to the Dark Was the Night compilation.
Wavves :: So Bored
If No Age is the Smell-scene's resident Guided by Voices, think of Wavves as every other kid in the 90s with a fourtrack and a dream. Think blown-out, lo-fi-as-fuck trash-pop by a skate kid in a oversized flannel and goofy hat, ollying over a pile of 7″ records.
Fucked Up :: Twice Born
Are they punk? Are they hardcore? Shugazi (shoegaze-meets-Fugazi, duh)? Who gives a rip? They're Fucked Up. Hands up if you think you're the only one!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs :: Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
From the War Child presents Heroes compilation, we have the Yeah Yeah Yeahs doing what they do best — spikey riffs, dirty beats, squealing — by way of this Ramones classic.
Asobi Seksu :: Me & Mary
Their new album, Hush, might be slightly lameburgers, but this breezy slice of dream-pop is remissible enough.
Ida Maria :: Oh My God
Lily Allen and Katy Perry might be all the rage in the mainstream pop world, but underneath it all is the clearly pissed off Ida Maria — heir to the throne that is PJ Harvey and Chrissie Hynde. Oh. My. God is this good.
Gentlemen Jesse :: All I Need Tonight (Is You)
Touring with Black Lips should turn this power-pop unknown into a slightly-better known power-pop uknown. For fans of Elvis Costello, Stiff Records, and staying up all night, drinking tall boys, and smoking weed out of an apple.
Tags: American Princess, Asobi Seksu, Fucked Up, Gentlemen Jesse, Grizzly Bear, Ida Maria, Max Tundra, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Wavves, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4 Responses to "The "We're Back" Mix"
Jon B. on
March 9th, 2009 11:04 am
I found a great article on The Pains of Being Pure at Heart at FLYP: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Antal on
March 9th, 2009 12:00 pm
That Pains of Being Pure At Heart disc has been in heavy rotation on my stereo lately, I can't get enough of it.
M on
March 9th, 2009 7:13 pm
Loving the Ida Marie track. Good looking out.
mariah on
March 10th, 2009 8:04 pm
"For fans of Elvis Costello, Stiff Records, and staying up all night, drinking tall boys, and smoking weed out of an apple"
Um, RAllen, are you talking about ME?!?
Wait, perhaps I didn't tell you that story, you just know me alllll too well.
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