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"Candid" is one thing. Another is "telling everyone we have this high-priced player we're desperate to unload, and if we can't unload him, we'll just be eating his salary rather than playing him, but please don't make us do that."
Source: "Dear Season Ticket Holders".
An SB Nation commenter put it well: " I'm fine with Adu leaving for nothing if it means the Union get his salary off the books, but as it stands, unless Hackworth gets a bidding war going, no team has an incentive not to lowball."
Another item in that letter that should make the River End shudder:
And I think it's time to clear up another misconception…
I know that the draft board described him as a forward, but we did not pick Don Anding as one. We picked him because he was literally one of the most athletic players available in the draft and in fact, the fastest player at the Combine.
Via another SB Nation/Brotherly Game post, we get this scouting report: "Technically a little choppy at times but makes up for it with his speed … As a winger he may not have the soccer IQ to man the position."
It's 2013, and American soccer teams are still drafting players based on speed and athleticism? Do we need Claudio Reyna to travel down I-95 and whack someone with a copy of the U.S. Soccer curriculum?
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Beshear, Conway Urge Kentuckians To Avoid Scams
Gov. Steve Beshear and Attorney General Jack Conway are warning consumers to beware of scam artists who might try to dupe them into divulging personal information on websites that mimic those where people can sign up for insurance policies.
Consumers have alerted state officials to suspicious websites that Beshear and Conway believe are being operated by scammers.
Beshear called it "appalling" that criminals would try to try to prey on Kentuckians looking for medical coverage. Conway said his office has sent out two civil subpoenas and cease and desist orders to the operators of two websites, which he declined to identify.
Conway said http://kynect.ky.gov is the only website Kentuckians should use to sign up coverage. He said any similar sites ending in ".com" or ".net" aren't legitimate.

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Carpal tunnel release is surgery to treat carpal tunnel syndrome. Carpal tunnel syndrome is pain and weakness in the hand that is caused by pressure on the median nerve in the wrist.
The median nerve and the tendons that flex (or curl) your fingers go through a passage called the carpal tunnel in your wrist. This tunnel is narrow, so any swelling can pinch the nerve and cause pain. A thick ligament (tissue) just under your skin makes up the top of this tunnel.
First, you will receive anesthesia (numbing medicine) so that you will not feel pain during surgery. You will be awake but also receive medicines to make you relax.
In carpal tunnel release, the surgeon will cut through this ligament to make more space for the nerve and tendons.
Sometimes surgeons do this procedure using a tiny camera that is attached to a monitor. The surgeon inserts the camera into your wrist through a very small incision and looks at the monitor to see inside your wrist. This is called endoscopic surgery. The instrument used is called an endoscope.
Patients with symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome usually try non-surgical treatments first. These are:
If none of these treatments help, some surgeons will test the electrical activity of the median nerve with an EMG. If the test shows that the problem is carpal tunnel syndrome, carpal tunnel release surgery may be recommended.
If the muscles in the hand and wrist are getting smaller because the nerve is being pinched, surgery will usually be done right away.
Risks of carpal tunnel release are:
Always tell your doctor or nurse what drugs you are taking, even drugs, supplements, or herbs you bought without a prescription.
This surgery is done on an outpatient basis. You will not need to stay in the hospital.
After the surgery, your wrist will probably be in a splint or heavy bandage for about a week. After the splint or bandage is removed, you will begin motion exercises or a physical therapy program.
Carpal tunnel release decreases pain, nerve tingling, and numbness better, and restores muscle strength. Still, most people are helped by this surgery.
The length of your recovery will depend on how long you had symptoms before surgery and how badly damaged your median nerve is. If you had symptoms for a long time, you may not be completely free of symptoms after you recover.
Wright PE II. Carpal tunnel, ulnar tunnel, and stenosing tenosynovitis. In: Canale ST, Beatty JH, eds. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. 11th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2007:chap 73.
Jarvik JG, Comstock BA, Kliot M, Turner JA, Chan L, Heagerty PJ, et al. Surgery versus non-surgical therapy for carpal tunnel syndrome: a randomized parallel-group trial. Lancet. 2009;374(9695):1074-1081.
Keith MW. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons clinical practice guidelines on the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2009;91(1):218-219.
Cellocco P, Rossi C, Boustany SE, di Tanna GL, Costanzo G. Minimally invasive carpal tunnel release. Orhtop Clin North Am. 2009;40(4):441-448.
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2Lei in SecondLife (from 19th to 25th November 2012), a photo by Aliza Karu [AD Creations Doll House] on Flickr.
2Lei in SecondLife
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
from 19th to 25th November
Mother, daughter, wife, girlfriend, lover, housewife, businesswoman, friend, educator. How many are the roles of a woman and in what way does she know take on them: all with proud spirit, with the smile. It's this smile that put on wings to the woman, making special, it's the awareness to take on many roles tirelessly.
But, there are still many women that these wings are wrenched. About the statistics, since the beginning of 2012 in Italy one woman was killed almost every two days (source Adnkronos), while it is difficult to estimate the number of those women who have locked in their houses crushed by abuses of various kinds, domestic and not.
For this reason, this year, we want to shout our anger and our support to all victims through "2Lei", the event born three years ago in Second Life with the target of highlight the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women" founded by the the United Nations in 1999. It is not solidarity, it is a request to come up against, all together, men and women, hear the subdued groans , reach out to take a look frightened, for raise one's voice of those who scream with arrogance and does not allow replies. The virtual worlds are an occasion of meeting and aggregation more and more, in little time they succeed in reaching a lot of people. They can be also an important means of deepest messages, as This, in particular when it is not the single person or single group that to shout, but they are so many different realities as those that cooperate to this project. In 2Lei there are Italian groups in Second Life working on art, culture, music, entertainment, and there are artists, musicians, different personalities, both Italian and international.
Our target is to reach as many people as possible because, if our furious hoot becomes a chorus and the chorus becomes real attention to what surrounds us every day, we could be able to bring a smile and cure some injured wings.


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NEW: Toll in attacks rises to at least 42 killed, more than 257 wounded
NEW: Attackers hit targets in at least six provinces
Shiite neighborhoods, police checkpoints, political offices are among the targets
Politicians fear violence will keep voters at home in this week's elections
A series of bomb blasts across Iraq on Monday killed at least 42 people and wounded more than 257 others, police said.
The attacks took place in at least six provinces: Baghdad, Anbar, Babel, Kirkuk, Salaheddin Diyala, and Nasriya, police officials across the country told CNN.
Two of the bombs exploded at a checkpoint near Baghdad's international airport.
Most of the attacks in Baghdad targeted Shiite areas, police told CNN. Al Qaeda in Iraq, made up of Sunni extremists, has claimed responsibility for many attacks in recent months.
Attacks elsewhere hit security checkpoints, Shiite areas and political offices.
With provincial elections scheduled to take place in five days, ongoing attacks have politicians worried that violence could skew the outcome, if Iraqis who fear attacks on polling centers stay at home.


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Hurricane Hanna blew through overnight (I know, because I was up listening to her around midnight), and by 5AM our little world outside had changed. It was cool and not too humid. No cloud cover, unfortunately, but I wasn't going to quibble.
So off we went over the Tappan Zee at 7AM to join around 400 other people to run 10 miles through South Nyack and Piermont in Rockland County. This is the third time I've run this annual race and I'm happy to say that I get faster every year. This year I knocked over nine minutes off last year's time, which was enough to finally put me over the edge into award territory.
Here's a map of the course. It's an oddly difficult course: the first mile is flat or fairly steep downhill, the next two and a half miles feature a slight downhill grade. Then you run a mile out and back along a very windy pier. Then back up the now slight uphill grade for two and a half miles. Mile nine is a short, steep hill, followed by a long, steep hill. And the last mile is a flat sprint along a gravel and cinder trail, where I always get outkicked by one woman or another.
As usual, my time goal was overly aggressive given both the conditions and the fact that I already had over 80 miles and two hard sessions in my legs this week (and 92 miles last week). By mile three I could tell that I was going to be running slower than I'd wanted to. My legs were just plain tired and I couldn't make them go faster, especially for the uphill (and headwindy) second half.
All of that was okay. The purpose of the race was really to get some sense of what my fitness level is and serve as a very long tempo run and training stimulus for the marathon in a few weeks.
Still, I averaged a 7:23 pace, despite hills, wind and a lot of running in direct sunlight. That was fast enough to get me an unofficial time of 1:14:29 (results not yet posted), compared to last year's time of 1:23:33. I didn't run as hard as I did last year (I averaged an 88% max heart rate; last year the average was 90%). So, of course, I regret not having run harder. But my legs didn't have it in them, and I can see why. Last year, they'd run a mere 25 miles in the week leading up to the race, as compared to 82 this year.
Today's 10 mile time was not my best by a long shot. In fact, the fastest 10 miles I've run thus far were during the Long Branch New Jersey Half Marathon in early May, with a time of around 1:11. That's no surprise: I'd had a full month of post-marathon rest and the course was nearly pancake flat. But I'm happy with my time today, all things considered.
I had some minor hysteria prior to the race when my watch went into its usual pre-race prima donna fit, refusing to find any satellites. It has a bad habit of malfunctioning only during races (the worst example being when it ceased to function properly after mile 15 of the More Marathon this year). Attention whore. Eventually, after multiple restarts and idle threats, it sorted itself out a few minutes before race time.
I ran and ran. And then I ran some more. And before I knew it, 10 miles had gone by. I got passed by two women, one with about three miles to go (she was young) and then, as usual, got outkicked by someone else in the last half mile (she was in the 50+ age group, sporting significantly less body fat than I).
Checking the results, it looked like I'd won second in my age group. But then it was revealed that they do overall awards (first, second, third), and then the age group placements start. Since the third overall was 42-year-old Carol Guzinski (a familiar competitor who always beats me by a fairly wide margin), I was in for first in the 40-44 age group. Hoorah! This may be the first time I've been happy to see someone beat me, as it meant the difference between coming home with a big ugly trophy vs. a small ugly medal.
- Finishing time: 1:14:29
- 50th place overall
- 8th woman
- 1st place women 40-44 (but 2nd place finisher in that age group)
If I look tired in this photo it's because:
- I got five hours of sleep the night before
- I'd just gotten up from a two+ hour nap
- I ran 10 miles as fast as I could this morning
I should also add that Jonathan ran a good race too. His goal was to come in under an hour, which he missed by a mere nine seconds. He came in fifth overall and first in his age group, so we've got matching ugly trophies.
That's the only tune-up race between now and Steamtown on October 12. We've got another NYRR long training run in Central Park next weekend, for which I'm hoping we'll get even better weather.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Few cinematic icons are as stalwart as Mr. Miyagi, the aphorism-spinning sensei who taught martial arts to bullied kids in the four "Karate Kid" films.
The role not only earned actor Noriyuki "Pat" Morita a best supporting actor Oscar nomination, but lifted him to the highest echelon of film icons, serving as a sage figure for the children of the 1980s and 90s. Morita became so associated with Miyagi -- as well as Arnold in "Happy Days" -- that his public persona was almost indistinguishable from the roles.
As it turns out, that was by design.
The documentary "More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story" tries to peel back the public layers of a private man to get beneath the facade of a calculated image. Morita, who died in 2005 at age 73, overcame institutional racism, battled personal demons and endured countless hardships just to continue to land roles.
Unlike his broken English-speaking characters, Morita spoke with no accent and hardly knew any Japanese. He didn't even know karate. He was happy to insinuate he did his own stunts while, in reality, a stunt double did much of the heavy lifting.
The film, which was set to launch on-demand Feb. 5, catalogs his tale of inspiration, mystery and sadness.
Director Kevin Derek rounds up family, friends, filmmakers and co-stars to give insight to the complicated comedian and actor. Ralph Macchio, William Zabka and Martin Kove -- who appeared in "The Karate Kid" and now carry on Morita's memory in the spinoff Netflix series "Cobra Kai" -- provide some transcendent perspective on Morita's personal side.
It's Evelyn Guerrero, Morita's third and final wife, who provides the most glowing praise and stinging insight. In addition to gushing about his work ethic, sense of humor and fortitude, Guerrero paints a picture of a troubled, possibly tortured soul. She and others say Morita was a high-functioning alcoholic who nearly always had a drink in his hand. They say he squandered some professional obligations and opportunities, and there may have been family difficulties as well. None of Morita's three daughters agreed to be interviewed.
Most fascinating are Morita's early-career stand-up routines, in which he twisted stereotypes inside out in order to score laughs and shine light on his talents.
He parlayed the stand-up success into TV and film, mentoring those he worked with even as he was struggling to find his own way through a career that would stall and sputter just when it seemed it was about to take off.
Only he could know the pain and ostracism that dwelled behind his stoic, studied demeanor. But what thoughts pulsed beneath those fiery eyes, no one could possibly say.
RATING: 3.5 stars out of 4.
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September 22, 2006
By Erin Post
During his winter of eating local food, Vermont-based author Bill McKibben said he missed one thing the most: oats.
The problem isn't that oats won't grow in the Champlain Valley watershed, he said to a crowd gathered at the Big Picture Theater; it's that the machinery necessary to hull oats can no longer be found within 100 miles of his home in Ripton without some serious searching.
Processing has been centralized in far-off locations on a scale that makes it nearly impossible for small, local producers to compete.
And it's not just oats; poultry slaughterhouses, milk processing, all types of agricultural business that used to provide the basis of a local economy are now run by huge, industrial operations: operations that depend on cheap fossil fuel to survive and often have little regard for long-term stewardship of the land.
It doesn't have to be that way, McKibben said.
He encouraged Mad River Valley Localvores to bring lessons they learned during the weeklong Eat Local Challenge to politicians in Montpelier.
Write a letter to the secretary of agriculture, he urged. Ask government representatives to take action to rebuild the regional agricultural infrastructure, so that next year during the Eat Local Challenge products like local oats, chicken, and milk won't be so hard to find.
It's one step towards shaping a radically different future.
"Food is a perfect place to start throwing sand into the gears of this machine that is careening out of control," he said.
McKibben, author of <MI>The End of Nature<D> and a scholar in residence at Middlebury College, appeared at The Big Picture Theater Thursday, September 14, as part of the Mad River Valley Localvore's Eat Local Challenge. He discussed his own experience eating locally-chronicled in a story for <MI>Gourmet<D> Magazine-as well as larger issues surrounding the food supply.
He said that 100 years ago about 50 percent of Americans farmed. Now, the U.S. Census Bureau doesn't even have a category for farming as an occupation. Eating is in many ways now dependent on a cheap supply of fossil fuel, one that may be coming to an end, according to some predictions. Add that to the changing climate-at a pace that appears to be faster than models once predicted-and the time is ripe to rethink how the system works, McKibben said.
"Everything we've learned in the last couple of years leads us to believe that the problem is worse than we thought," he said.
While the rate of climate change may be accelerating, McKibben pointed to some hopeful developments, signs that citizens are ready for change. The Mad River Valley Localvores and similar groups across Vermont are examples of this shift, he said.
"What you're doing is big and growing," he said. "It's not an isolated effort."
He said farmers' markets across the country are seeing a boom in business. Tens of thousands of people frequent the farmers' market in Madison, WI, on any given day, and a strong local foods movement in Oregon has led to the number of farms in that state doubling over the last decade.
"Here in Vermont we see some of the same kinds of things," McKibben said.
He pointed to the Intervale-120 acres of land outside of Burlington that supports a number of small farms-as a success story that deserves more attention than it gets. The total number of farms in Chittenden County increased by 19 percent over the last 10 years, bucking trends.
These small farms may help to rebuild the sense of community that has been lost in an era of cheap energy and industrialized agriculture, he said.
McKibben cited research that shows America near the bottom of a list of countries ranked according to the happiness of their citizenry. Americans say they have fewer close friends than prior generations and report an alienation from neighbors and community members.
Rethinking how Americans get their food-by frequenting farmers' markets, where conversation is plentiful, and creating relationships with neighboring farmers-builds connections, McKibben said. These connections seem to be the foundation of living truly happy lives and may bolster Americans for the challenges to come.
"We're going to need better
communities than we have now," McKibben said. "Belonging is going to be
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As a Gossip Girl fan, in general, and a Leighton Meester fan, specifically, I was quite amused to find this trailer for the upcoming film, The Roommate — a movie in which Leighton Meester seems to play an insanely psychotic college-aged killer. In other words, this is a movie about what would probably happen to Blair Waldorf, if she got dumped by Chuck Bass, and screwed over one too many times by that Evil Hobag, Jenny Humphrey . . . .
Although the promotional materials for the film, never say it explicitly, I am fairly certain that this film has two main sources. First, it is at least partially based on the 1992 thriller Single White Female, which starred Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
(I will post the trailer for the original film at the bottom of this article, for your viewing pleasure. But, for now, just compare the posters for both films. As you can see, they are virtually identical.)
Another likely source for this film is the young-adult novel "The Roommate," which was part of Francine Pascal's popular, Sweet Valley series.
The above book came out after Single White Female. However, some say that the former inspired the latter.
Now, obviously, The Roommate will be FAR from Oscar-winning material. However, it DOES boast a highly attractive cast — one chocked with stars from various CW shows. Also, the trailer is kind of unintentionally hilarious, in that cheesy, teen-slasher film, kind of way. So, I decided to post it here, for your enjoyment:
Let's break it down, shall we?
:14 – "You're in room 316."
Playing the role of lead protagonist "Sara" is Minka Kelly, who you might know better as Lyla Garrity from Friday Night Lights. Minka is also dating Yankee, Derek Jeter, and was voted Sexiest Woman Alive in 2010. (So, if you're itching to see this film with your boyfriend, those last two facts will probably be major selling points on its behalf.)
:19 – "I'm your roommate, Rebecca."
And here is Blair Waldorf herself, Leighton Meester, in the role of Psycho Stalker, Rebecca. Am I being a total traitor to Gossip Girl kind if I say, I really like her hair this way? (For those of you who don't watch the show, Blair Waldorf's hair is dark brown, and does not contain any of "Rebecca's" highlights.)
:29 – "I want to show you the big city."
Here, "Sara" and "Rebecca" are taking that oh-so-cliched "let's hold the camera, and take the picture ourselves" shot. I love how their's (of course) comes out flawless. Meanwhile, when I take pictures like these, I tend to look like something out of a horror movie . . .
:34 – "What should we name it?"
Unfortunately, I couldn't get the best screenshot of this scene. But, I can tell you that it features an ADORABLE black kitten. Now, from what I've heard, the adorable furry little animals in both Single White Female (a puppy), and "The Roommate" (a kitten) didn't fare too well in their respective stories . . .
Perhaps, I should mention that I LOVE animals. So, if anything bad happens to this kitten in this film . . . well . . .
Just saying . . .
:38 – "We're HOT!"
Here's Ally Michalka, who you might have seen on the new CW show, Hellcats. You may also remember her from the critically acclaimed Disney sitcom, Phil of the Future. Even though her character's name in the film is "Tracey," I've heard that the role she plays here can be likened to that of the Jessica Wakefield character in the Sweet Valley books. Well, I can definitely see a resemblance . . .
"Jessica" is the drawing on the left.
Leighton doesn't look too pleased about Ally's presence in her dorm room. Perhaps, that's because Ally reminds her of Jenny Humphrey . . .
:44 – "Dude, I see that guy checking you out!"
It's Cam Gigandet from The O.C., Twilight and the upcoming film Burlesque! You don't recognize him?
How about now? 😉
It appears that Cam will be playing Sara's love interest Stephen in the film . . .
Unfortunately, the boyfriends in these types of films tend to fair just as badly as the furry little creatures. So, I'll say it again, writers. If you hurt Cam . . .
:52 – (Oooooooh Spooky!)
Just like her alter ego, Blair Waldorf, "Rebecca" appears to wear a full face of makeup to bed. Girl! Do you have any idea how bad that is for your complexion?
:57 – "I'm her ONLY friend?"
What about Serena, Nate, Chuck, and Gossip Girl?
"Frienderz?" Seriously? What this screenshot tells me is that this film has been sitting in the can for awhile. For copyright protection purposes, the film writers have obviously chosen to use a fake "Friendster," to symbolize online social networking in college. It's telling that they did this, as opposed to using a website with the word "Face" in it, if you catch my drift . . .
1:09 – "It was never a home, when I lived here."
Doesn't that look like the Waldorf Mansion? What are the odds?
1:12 – "She's taking her medication?"
Woah! Eleanor Waldorf just got a VERY drastic dye job, and some serious color contacts!
Mid-life crisis much?
1:27 *Insert music from Psycho here*
Taking a shower in a teen-slasher movie ALWAYS makes you a liability. So, here's a rule of thumb for those of you who happen to find yourselves in one: Stay dirty, stay ALIVE!
1:29 – "You're a BAD INFLUENCE on her!"
This was probably the most disturbing image in the entire trailer
(aside from the one that alluded to Kitty Murder, of course). Is it just me, or does Leighton kind of look like that little girl from The Ring in this screenshot?
Come ON! When Blair Waldorf gets mad, she ruins your reputation. She doesn't douse you with kerosene, and SET YOU ON FIRE!
Or does she?
1:56 – Ummmmmm . . . . OK?
2:02 – That is SO NOT CHUCK BASS!
Actually, I think that's Matt Lanter from the new 90210. But let's check to make sure . . .
Yeah . . . it's the same guy.
2:03 – Nice knowing you NotChuckBass!
At least it looks like he went out with a BANG!
2:28 – "Somebody's been sleeping in MY bed . . . and she's STILL HERE!"
Coincidentally, this is ANOTHER image that should help support your case, if you want your boyfriend to take you to see this movie . . .
Rounding out the cast of this film are . . .
Billy Zane (Titanic),
Cherilyn Wilson (the new 90210)
Daneel Harris (One Tree Hill)
Lauren Storm (Flight 29 Down), and
Katerina Graham (The Vampire Diaries)
Oh, and before you go, I recommend you check out the below trailer for Single White Female. Aside from the film being ridiculously dated (the "computer" scene will definitely make you giggle), it's actually quite fun to try and count the NUMEROUS similarities between this trailer, and the one you just watched above.
The Roommate stalks into theaters Februrary 4, 2011. Will YOU see it?


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The Shakespeare Dispute: Bethell Replies
A rebuttal to Irvin Matus's "The Case for Shakespeare"
Irvin Matus has performed a useful service by disposing of some of the weaker anti-Stratfordian arguments. I agree that the Stratford man was at no time "packed off" to his home town, that Lord Hunsdon was the patron of the Chamberlain's Men, and that Elizabethans did not think holograph manuscripts worth keeping. Philip Henslowe's failure to mention Shakespeare doesn't concern me. I am pleased to hear that plays were classified as "riffraffs" by literary folk: this would help to explain the use of a pseudonym by a play-writing nobleman.
I agree that Shakespeare's reputation was not by any means the equal of Ben Jonson's in the seventeenth century. All the easier to believe that his identity could remain obscured, and all the more surprising that plays he did not write, such as A Yorkshire Tragedy, should be attributed during his lifetime to his pen. This never happened with Jonson, Beaumont, or Fletcher. (Beaumont died a month before Shakspere and—in contrast to the neglected Stratford man—was buried in Westminster Abbey.) As for Ben Jonson's "rudimentary schooling," David Riggs writes in his 1989 biography, "By the time he left Westminster, he had committed substantial portions of Cato, Terence, Ovid, Virgil, Cicero, and Horace to memory."
In insisting that the Stratford man was "a man of the theater," Matus is simply trying to smuggle in the playwright with the actor. What is the warrant for claiming that there is "an ample supply of references to Shakespeare as a player and PLAYWRIGHT..."? Except for Greenes Groats-worth of Wit (1592), which I will discuss in a moment, there are no personal references to the Stratford man as a playwright that antedate his death. "Shakespeare" appears on quartos after 1598, but whether the Stratford man wrote them is precisely the point at issue.
The dichotomy that Matus is so eager to establish between the stage-writer and the belletrist depends for its point on the bold claim (inserted parenthetically) that Oxford was not a man of the theater. Any evidence here? Oxford's comedies were praised by Meres, and he was the patron of two acting companies. The praise that Matus heaps on Shakespeare the stage-writer could apply equally to Oxford.
Stratfordian dogma has it that once plays were sold, the playwright surrendered all rights to them. But this claim should be treated with skepticism. By the time Shakspere joined the company, in 1594, Titus Andronicus was a hit and the two long poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, were selling well. Are we really to believe that, having written Othello, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra, the Stratford man remained in such a weak bargaining position with his fellow actors that he was reduced in later life to seeking remuneration in the small-claims courts rather than from publishers? Are we also to believe (as his will implies) that he remained indifferent to the fate of these masterpieces, then still unpublished? I don't believe it.
Curiously, Matus fails to mention the main evidence for Shakspere's claim to authorship, found in the introductory material to the First Folio. Poems by Ben Jonson, Leonard Digges, and two others contrive to praise the poet while failing to provide information about his life. As the Oxfordian scholar Peter Moore points out, the Folio even omits Shakspere's proudest claim: his hard-won title of gentleman, his coat of arms and motto. In a society as conscious of rank as England then was, this was tantamount to failing to give his full name.
Jonson does refer to the poet as "Sweet Swan of Avon," however, and Digges alludes to "thy Stratford Moniment." Those phrases, written after Shakspere's death, are the strongest links between the playwright and the Stratford man that we have. Jonson and Digges convey no other biographical information, however. We don't even know if the frontispiece engraving, by Droeshout, resembles the Stratford man.
Certain aspects of the First Folio are more than a little suspect. It opens with a dedication, supposedly written by Shakspere's fellow actors John Heminge and Henry Condell, "to the most Noble and Incomparable Paire of Brethren," William and Philip Herbert, the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery. A preface addressed to "the great Variety of Readers" is also imputed to these players. In the eighteenth century the Shakespeare scholar Edmond Malone argued that in all probability Ben Jonson wrote this preface. In parallel columns over several pages he juxtaposed extracts attributed to Heminge and Condell in the Folio with corresponding passages in Jonson's works. (In the Folio: "How odde soever your braines be or your wisdomes...." In Jonson's Discoveries: "How odde soever mens braines or wisdomes be.") It is likely that Jonson in fact wrote both the preface and the dedication.
Some claims attributed to Heminge and Condell are also suspect. In earlier (quarto) printings the plays had been "maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors," the Folio notes, but now at last they were made available "cur'd and perfect of their limbes." In this respect, it was implied, the author's clean copy had been a help, for "we have scarse received from him a blot in his papers." Textual scholarship has demonstrated, however, that for many of the previously published plays the Folio editors used not manuscripts but the same "maimed and deformed" quartos already cited.
Thus the testimony of the Folio, at least in part, is suspect. It cannot be taken at face value. Ogburn quotes James Boswell the younger (1778-1822) as saying that there is "something fishy" about the whole thing. Some commentators have noted the sharp contrast between Ben Jonson's earlier lukewarm or disparaging comments about Shakespeare and his effusive praise in the Folio. Was this a command performance? The Earl of Pembroke was Jonson's patron, not to mention the Lord Chamberlain. As Lord Chamberlain he controlled the Revels Office and the licensing of plays for performance and publication. In the Folio the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery are praised for having treated both the plays "and their Authour living" with "so much favour."
Who were these literary noblemen? In 1604 the Earl of Montgomery married Susan Vere, Oxford's youngest daughter. Marriage between Pembroke and Oxford's second daughter, Bridget, was proposed in 1597, but it fell through. The Folio, then, was dedicated to Oxford's son-in-law and the son-in-law's brother. The role they may have played in the publication of the Folio is a matter for speculation, but the circumstances are suggestive. In the strange 1609 preface to Troilus and Cressida, incidentally, the author of that play is coyly not named, and other works by him are referred to as being retained by certain unnamed "grand possessors."
Let us turn to Greenes Groats-worth of Wit, a pamphlet originally attributed to Robert Greene but now thought to have been written by Henry Chettle, and one of the stronger weapons in the Stratfordian arsenal. The pamphlet alerts playwrights to an "upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country." Since "Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hide" is adapted from Henry VI, Part III, and since there is a pun on Shakespeare's name, the Stratfordians contend that the passage establishes the Stratford man as a playwright. But does it?
The reference does seem to be to Shakspere—albeit a Shakspere who is apparently passing himself off in the "feathers" of a playwright. If the man really WAS a playwright, of course, this would have made little sense as an expose.
Now notice what happened next. Chettle swiftly backtracked. The pamphlet, written to "divers playmakers," had been "offensively...taken." Two people took offense, apparently. Chettle was acquainted with neither of them, "and with one of them I care not if I never be." (Shakspere, I surmise.) Chettle apologized to the other. "Divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing, which argues his honesty, and his facetious [polished] grace in writing...." Possibly, then, Chettle found out that the upstart Shakspere, relatively new in town, was putting on airs as a "playmaker" (that is, fronting for Oxford). Not realizing that a nobleman had arranged it, Chettle imprudently blew the whistle. He soon found out that divers of worship could do without investigative journalism Elizabethan style, and he duly groveled.
Stratfordians sometimes resemble fundamentalist theologians, who cling tenaciously to the idea that a sacred text is literally true and must then ingeniously explain away a mass of subversive evidence that contradicts it. That evidence is not going away, and it cannot be dismissed with the ad hominen argument (now frequently heard) that it is propounded by snobs who can't bear the idea of Shakespeare's being a common man. (Was Looney a snob?) It is the evidence itself that must be addressed. The many connections between Edward de Vere and the works of William Shakespeare can no more be explained away by attacking Oxfordians for their alleged snobbery than the apparent inadequacy of Shakspere of Stratford can be explained away on grounds of the "essential incomprehensibility of genius," to use Schoenbaum's phrase.
There may well be more material yet to be discovered. If the Oxford theory of authorship is correct, a great deal of the Shakespeare research in the past 200 years has been done in the wrong place. The academy's almost total lack of interest in the subject over the past seventy years has ensured that only a relative handful of people have done any Oxford-related research since Looney wrote his book. Steven May, of Georgetown College, speaks eloquently about the still unresearched Elizabethan archives in English country houses and record offices. He mentions in particular Longleat and the National Library of Wales. "The manuscript materials have not been searched as carefully as everyone thinks," he says. He is confident that more material on De Vere is out there.
Oxford's oldest daughter, Elizabeth, married William Stanley, the sixth Earl of Derby, and their granddaughter married into the Wentworth family in Yorkshire. Two years ago an unemployed Englishman (on welfare!) researched Wentworth Woodhouse, one of the largest houses in England. The most valuable portion of its library had been sold to Sotheby's in 1948. Among the books sold were Holinshed's Chronicles (1587 edition), The Noble Arte of Venerie or Hunting (l575), Castiglione's Il Cortegiano (1562), Hakluyt's Voyages, and the Amyot translation of Plutarch's Lives—signed by Shakespeare's friend, the third Earl of Southampton. (Sotheby's kept the names of the buyers.)
Probably nothing to it, Steven May said when I told him about this. And probably he's right. It's interesting, though. They never did find one book owned by the Stratford man. Possibly, just possibly, the big Shakespeare find that so many scholars have looked for in vain for so many years is still out there in the library or attic of one of those country houses.


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By Keith Peters
Palo Alto Online Sports
Cadence Lee has more decisions to make than most high school athletes, especially when it comes to practice. Does she wear the wrestling headgear today or is it time for the soccer cleats?
Decisions. Decisions. That's what happens when you play two sports in the same season.
Lee, a sophomore at Gunn High, can be found in the wrestling room one day and the soccer field the next. She is an outstanding grappler at 106 pounds and a solid soccer reserve for the Gunn girls' team.
Being a two-sport athlete is one thing, but doing it in the same season is another. That makes Lee a rarity in the already busy life of a high school student.
Cory Hatton of Sacred Heart Prep is believed to be the last local high school athlete to play two sports in the same season. He was a placekicker on the Gators' football team in 2005 in addition to playing soccer, which in those days was played in the fall before moving to the winter a few years later.
While soccer and football are similar, wrestling and soccer are not.
"It is rare, but Cadence is rare," said Gunn wrestling coach Chris Horpel. "The only other time I heard of this (combination) was with Jason Welch, now wrestling for Northwestern. He was the goalkeeper on his championship soccer team (at Las Lomas High in Walnut Creek in 2008) and he also won three California state titles (in wrestling). He, too, was very impressive."
Welch was the nation's top high school wrestler in 2008. Lee, of course, is not in that category but she can hold her own on the wrestling mat.
At the Central Coast Section Girls' Wrestling Championships last season, Lee won four matches by pin to win her 16-person division despite being unseeded. She advanced to the inaugural CIF State Championships for girls and finished seventh. During the regular season, she was 5-0 in dual matches (mostly against boys) while helping the Titans win the SCVAL El Camino Division dual-meet title.
In a dual match against Palo Alto last week, Lee dominated her male opponent and won, 16-1. On Saturday, she finished second in the 106-pound division at the Bianchini Memorial Tournament in Cupertino. On Monday, she scored a goal in the Titans' 3-1 nonleague soccer win over Menlo
"The girls' soccer team needed a player and Cadence was game to try both," Horpel said.
"Wrestling remains her priority, but she is attempting to do both."
Lee joined the Gunn soccer team shortly before winter break (in December).
"Coach Damian (Cohen) knew I played soccer since I tried out last year," said Lee, a former competitive club soccer player. "And, since the team was lacking players, he offered me the opportunity to participate. I'm extremely glad to be playing both sports."
Cadence sat down with her parents before finally deciding.
"My husband and I discussed the pros and cons with Cadence, but ultimately let her make the decision," said her mother, Emmie. "I don't think there was ever any doubt in her mind, but we wanted her to be aware that taking on two simultaneous varsity sports would not only be physically taxing, and carry with it an increased risk of injury, but would require her to be more efficient with her time in terms of schoolwork and music -- she plays the oboe in the Gunn wind ensemble."
"The greatest challenge of participating in both wrestling and soccer is making sure I am able to prioritize and juggle all my other activities without becoming overloaded or stressed," said Lee. "Both my coaches and I have agreed that whenever two event conflict, wrestling will always take the top priority."
Cohen said he's fine with that, especially in such an unusual situation.
"I don't think there are that many highly skilled wrestlers that are also excellent soccer players," Cohen said. "The trade-off is that she is first and foremost a wrestler. We are able to have her for a couple of practices and a handful of games, when such works with the wrestling schedule. In other words, she is a part-time soccer player and full-time wrestler.
"As a wrestler, she is scrappy. She hustles and will give everything she has. (In soccer) she has good vision, one-touch play, and isn't afraid to hold the ball, either."
When Lee is playing soccer, she fills in at either the midfield or forward spots. In wrestling, she's the team's No. 1 entrant at 106 pounds.
While wrestling takes place on Thursday (dual matches) and some Saturdays (tournaments) and soccer is Wednesday and Friday in most cases, the two sports do overlap.
"She cannot compete in all of our matches because she needs to meet weight heading into a wrestling meet," Cohen said. "Thus, timing is a factor."
Gunn hosted Palo Alto on Wednesday night in soccer, but Lee di not play because the Titans' wrestling team hosted Cupertino on Thursday night. Friday is free for soccer (at Los Altos) because there is no wrestling tournament on Saturday.
"Yes, unfortunately I will have to miss all the soccer games that occur directly before a wrestling event," Lee said. "The running and conditioning in a soccer game is good for keeping my weight down, but I believe that it definitely tires out my leg muscles more than is preferred."
And, for anyone who has ever wrestled, leg strength is crucial.
Aside from one sport tiring for the other, Lee believes the two sports are very compatible for staying in shape.
"Soccer and wrestling are excellent cross-training for each other," she said. "Soccer requires plenty of running and general fitness while wrestling requires adequate strength and coordination, and I think that each sport prepares me for the other.
"I think it would be wonderful if I could participate in both sports in my next couple of years, if things work out," she said. "But, it all depends on if I am needed on the soccer team."
The Gunn girls' soccer team has 16 players listed on the current roster. Palo Alto and Menlo-Atherton, for example, each have 22. Even Castilleja, the smallest school in the area in terms of enrollment, has 18 players. Once the Titans have enough able bodies, Lee's two-sport status could vanish.
Thus, Lee will continue to juggle her sports and schedules as long as possible -- even though friends can't believe what she's doing.
Said Lee: "Lots of people are amazed and almost everyone asks ' How do you do it?' But, I know that my family is proud of me for attempting to work things out and compete in both my favorite sports."


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Antibiotics, like many other drugs, are handed out by doctors as an end-all solution pill. Even for viral ailments doctors irresponsibly prescribe these pills as a solution. Unfortunately with all of the over-prescriptions and even necessary prescriptions, antibiotics have routinely been creating drug-resistant bacteria. Britain now seems to be facing their own massive increase in antibiotic-resistant blood poisoning caused by escherichia coli (E. coli).
Bugs and bacteria rapidly adapt to survive, only taking months to for the genetic mutations to occur. Antibiotics, although successful in wiping out most of the bacterial invaders, don't kill absolutely all of them. Over time the bacteria which survive the antibiotics become resistant, and continue to reproduce, only now with a quirk in their genetic structure allowing them to survive.
The slow but problematic growth of resistant organisms are resulting in antibiotics being nearly useless. The Independent reports:
Using standard antibiotic regimens, there is a one in 10 chance that treatment of an E.coli infection will fail because the bug is resistant. But, as numbers of resistant infections rise, there will be increasing pressure to use more powerful antibiotics, called carbapenems, which are the last line available. And resistance to those is already emerging…The warnings follow increasing reports from Europe of patients with infections that are almost impossible to treat.
But should this be a problem, as antibiotics, even if used in higher doses, are still killing off the invading bacteria? Sadly antibiotics do not discriminate against beneficial and bad bacteria. These medical giveaways are virtually depleting your body of all beneficial bacteria, leading to numerous health complications due to poor gut flora.
Antibiotics, linked to skyrocketing mental illness rates, are being identified as a player in the soaring obesity rates around the globe. In one study regarding the depletion of 'good' bacteria in the gut, researchers explained how antibiotics administered to mice ultimately resulted in altered behaviors far beyond diarrhea and pain.
With the combination of health complications and resistant superbugs, it is any wonder why antibiotics are still being used excessively. The drugs, making up what we at NaturalSociety like to call the disease machine, are perpetuating diseases that the medical establishment views as impossible to treat. All the while, their overuse is costing the National Health Service the equivalent of over $10.5 million per year.
Luckily a number of powerful natural antibiotics exist that do not come with such harsh side effects. Honey, garlic, echinacea, goldenseal, wild indigo and various amino acids have been shown to reduce the need for antibiotics. In addition, strengthening the body's natural defensive mechanisms with super supplements like turmeric or curcumin would be a wise choice.


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Logan Welcomes New President, Research Dean
June was a busy administrative month for Logan College of Chiropractic / University Programs, with Cheryl Hawk, DC, PhD, announced as dean of research on June 6 and Clay McDonald, DC, MBA, JD, officially inaugurated as the institution's seventh president on June 14.
"It is time to deliver on the obligation to provide access to quality, affordable health care that treats the whole patient," said Dr. McDonald in his inauguration remarks. "We can't ask or expect our students and graduates to seed and lead collaborative health care communities if we don't teach and model that behavior at the institutional level." Named president on Feb. 7, Dr. McDonald succeeds Dr. George Goodman, who announced his 2013 retirement plans in late 2012. Dr. Goodman served as president of Logan for more than 20 years.
Dr. Hawk, the college's director of clinical research since 2010, has also held research positions at Cleveland Chiropractic College – Kansas City (vice president of research and scholarship), Southern California University of Health Sciences (dean of research), and the Parker Research Institute (senior researcher). A 1976 graduate of National University of Health Sciences, Dr. Hawk assumes the new position at Logan beginning with the fall 2013 trimester, replacing Rodger Tepe, PhD, who returns to the classroom after eight years of service as dean of research.
Logan Alumni Association Passes Vote of No Confidence
But all is not sunny at Logan College these days, despite the latest academic appointments. On June 16, 2013, the Logan College of Chiropractic Alumni Association passed a vote of no confidence in the Logan University Board of Trustees and its general counsel. According to an association press release, "The Logan Alumni Board has been concerned about the financial and human resource management of the College for several years. The Logan Alumni Board has had repeated failed attempts to meet jointly with the Board of Trustees, most recently at this year's Homecoming. Furthermore, the Alumni Board sent a letter of questions to the Board of Trustees and received a letter back that did not address the concerns at all."
In the release, Logan Alumni Association President Christopher N. Shoff, DC, stated: "We hope that the Board of Trustees recognizes and listens to the concerns of the independent voice of the Alumni Association and works with us for the betterment of Logan College of Chiropractic. We have continued confidence in the faculty, staff, students, and new President of Logan College, but are concerned with the past direction of the Board of Trustees and their future direction of the College. I look forward to working with the Board of Trustees to address the concerns and wishes of the Alumni Association Board of Directors."
In passing the vote of no confidence, the alumni association has also demanded that an independent accounting firm audit Logan College's five-year financials.
Life West Student Wins $10,000 Scholarship
James Evans, who attends Life Chiropractic College West, is the 2013 recipient of the Dr. Michael Dobbins Excellence in Nutritional Education Scholarship. Evans received the $10,000 scholarship – awarded by Standard Process, Inc., for the fourth year – for an essay detailing his plans to educate and improve the health of patients with weight issues once he graduates and begins chiropractic practice.
AHC Holds Annual Meeting, Celebrates 50 Years of the NBCE
The Association for the History of Chiropractic (AHC) held its 33rd annual conference in Greeley, Colo., in late June at the headquarters of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners. The event marked the 50th anniversary of the NBCE, and several AHC presentations were geared toward recognizing the board and the chiropractic profession in general. For example, Dr. Alana Callender, ACH executive director, shared "To Contain and Then Eliminate ... Wilk, et al., v the AMA," while Dr. Patrick Montgomery presented a paper on the history of the national board. Other NBCE attendees of the AHC annual meeting included NBCE Vice President Dr. Donna Craft and Executive Vice President Horace Elliott.
To learn more about the Association for the History of Chiropractic, founded in 1980 to "promote the scholarly recording of the profession's history," click here. DC also reprints abstracts from the AHC's journal, Chiropractic History; review the most recent edition in this issue.


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Pair injures woman, 82, in fight over handicapped parking space, police say
The incident happened outside a busy Walmart store.
Two Austin, Texas, women are accused of injuring an 82-year-old woman during an argument Wednesday about a handicapped parking space outside a Walmart in Austin, according to an arrest affidavit.
Taylor Jones, 26, and Jennifer Ousley, 28, were both charged with injury to an elderly individual, a third-degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Jones and Ousley both said the victim beat them with a cane but video surveillance showed that did not happen, the affidavit says.
Police were notified at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday about the incident at a Walmart at 13201 N. RM 620, in the part of Austin located in Williamson County, the affidavit says. It says the officer who arrived found an 82-year-old woman on the ground with a bloody swollen lip and a bump on her forehead. She was taken to a hospital for her injuries, the affidavit says.
The victim told police the incident started when she got angry with two women — later identified as Jones and Ousley — because they had parked in a handicapped parking space and their car didn't have the appropriate placard or license plate allowing them to stay there, according to the affidavit. During the argument, Taylor spat on her and the victim spat back at Taylor, the document says. The victim told police that Taylor then punched her in the face.
Both Taylor and Ousley told police a different story about what happened. Taylor said she came out of the store and saw the victim yelling about how the car Taylor drove was parked in the handicapped space and didn't belong there. "Taylor stated that she knew that she should not have parked in the space, but she was only going to be a short time and it did not give (the victim) the right to start yelling at them," the affidavit says.
Taylor and Ousley told police that the victim made racial remarks to them and struck the pair and their car with her cane. After the victim spat on her, Taylor said she pushed her and called 911. Taylor "did not give a clear reason to how (the victim) ended up on the ground," according to the document.
Police reviewed surveillance video of the incident, which showed Taylor walking up to the victim, speaking to her and punching her in the face, according to the affidavit. It also showed the victim walking back to her car and Ousley approaching her, grabbing her cane and pulling on it until the victim fell face first onto the parking lot and struck the right side of her face, the affidavit says. Ousley then threw the cane away from the victim, the affidavit says.
The document says the video did not clearly show the victim swinging the cane in the way that Taylor and Ousley described.
Both Taylor and Ousley were being held in the Williamson County Jail Friday with bail set at $10,000 for each of them.


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Robert Upton convicted of murder in 2009 Hyannis slaying
A Barnstable Superior Court jury convicted Robert Upton of first-degree murder this evening in the 2009 shooting death of a man inside his Hyannis home.
Upton, 48, of Newton, was accused — along with his nephew Christopher Manoloules — of shooting and killing Aris Manoloules.
Aris Manoloules was killed at his 25 Ripple Cove Road home on Sept. 29, 2009, in what authorities said was a botched robbery attempt.
The jury announced the guilty verdict at around 5:30 p.m. Upton is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday and will receive life in prison for the conviction.
Just before Upton was escorted into a van headed to jail following the verdict, a voice from the crowd outside the courthouse shouted "I love you, daddy."
Upton replied, "Love you too, sweetie."
Treefon Manoloules, Upton's brother-in-law, was acquitted in October 2011 of masterminding the killing.
After being advised of the applicable law in the case, jurors went into deliberations around 11:15 a.m.
Three jurors were dismissed yesterday afternoon "in the interests of justice." Judge Gary A. Nickerson dismissed three jurors because of the possibility they were improperly influenced by outside information about the case.
During closing statements yesterday, defense attorney Daniel Solomon said Upton was a victim of circumstance, taken advantage of by Christopher and Treefon Manoloules, who wanted revenge on Aris.
"Treefon's filthy fingerprints are all over this case," Solomon said repeatedly as he walked around the courtroom.
In his closing statement Cape and Islands First Assistant District Attorney Brian Glenny said Upton had a financial motive to kill Aris: a promised $165,000 payment from Treefon. He had heavy debt after spending tens of thousands of dollars on his mistress and had financial obligations with his actual family.
The trial, which began Jan. 8, featured testimony from Upton's ex-girlfriend Erin O'Malley and his ex-wife Wendy Upton, forensic evidence and a taped October 2009 interview Upton had with Newton police and Massachusetts State Police.


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About Limön
Gävle's fishermen have used Limön as a seasonal fishing harbour ever since the eighteenth century. During the nineteenth century they made it a permanent fishing hamlet. In addition to fishing, there was agriculture, haymaking and pasture on the island. Up until the middle of the nineteenth century chalk was quarried for use in iron making. Thanks to the chalk-rich soil and good climate there are several plants unique to the island, and a rich bird life. The name Limön derives from ancient Norse and the English word lime, meaning chalk. There are three bathing areas on the island, Kalkudden, Scoutviken and Tärnviken.
Limö café is open in the summers for coffee, tea and light refreshments. There's also a small convenience store. At the café you can play parlour games, borrow books and rent canoes. During the summer there are various events and a summer camp for children and youths.
It's possible to rent accommodation on Limön; for further information contact Limö café or the Gävle Tourist Office.
There is a guest harbour at Limön for visitors arriving by boat. Approach using clearing marks and along the marked channel. The quay inside the headland is for the local touring boat. There are guest moorings by the two floating jetties. The depth at the inshore jetty is limited. The harbour is sheltered against all winds. There is potable water at the café.
In the summer boats run from Södra Skeppsbron 23 to Limön. The trip takes about 40 minutes. The Limön boat stops at Residence Engeltofta, as provides conference, accommodation, restaurant and has a beach. The archipelago with a rich variety of fishing, boat tours and water sports which are always available. The close proximity to a golf course, nature trails and fishing villages, makes Engeltofta a amazing place.
The boat also goes to Furuvik, that has an exciting zoo, an amusement park with rides that will make your stomach all a tingle, an aqua park with water slides, cool concerts and a variety of restaurants, some with magnificent sea views. If you want to stay overnight, there are several possibilities; why not try Furuviks sea camping?
Limön is a Natura 2000 area. This means it is home to flora and fauna that are valuable from the EU's perspective. They are protected by law and some activities within the area may require permits from the county council. Limön is also listed as being of national interest and is prioritized as a nature preservation area. Because the soil on the island is rich in calcium many chalk-loving plants thrive here, two good examples being Melampyrum nemorosum (Sw. Natt och Dag) and Saxifraga granulata (Meadow Saxifrage). Snails, which need calcium to build their shells, have also been found on the island, such as the narrow-mouthed whorl snail. There is a nature trail with information boards regarding the local flora and fauna.
Note! Do consider the countryside. Please tread carefully along paths and leave trees, bushes and moss undisturbed. Keep your dog on a leash, do not approach bird's nests and show consideration for the birds. Fires are only permitted at the special barbeque sites.


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All of the floor plans can be viewed on our website on the models page. . Our Yellowstone model has won an FPL Aurora award for energy efficiency. We have won multiple awards in the building industry from best bath to best overall floor plan. We build homes in plated subdivision, acreage and scattered lots.
Why Choose ADB Home As Your New Home Builders?
- As affordable New Home Builders, ADB Homes, LLC has built over 1000 homes from Naples to North Port. Our smallest home is an 1100 square foot 3 bedroom 2 bath starter home. Our largest home is an estate home over 3800 square feet. It is a split plan that has 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, a living room, family room and a dining room. It also has a large lanai and entry.
- All of our homes are concrete block construction with a full formed and poured 8" x 16" tie beam. We don't use a tiny bond beam with only 1 piece of steel like all the other builders. Our homes have wood frame interior for better sound proofing, more wall rigidity and ease of decoration or customizing after the purchase. We use custom Corian window sills for a more finished look than the Carrera/Marbelite of our competitors. We use 30 year dimensional shingles for better curb appeal and longevity.
- Our home prices include everything and our homes are truly move- in ready. We include all of the site preparation, fill, grade, water system and septic system. If the lot you choose is on water and sewer, the budget for the water system and septic can be used to offset the cost of hookups. Most of our homes come with tile everywhere except in the bedrooms. We have wood cabinets and granite tops in the kitchen and all baths. We have a full range of color selections to fit any taste with all of our finishes.
- We will help you through the entire home building process starting from finding a lender to picking your colors and closing. We will inspect your lot before you purchase to make sure that there aren't any issues that need attention before construction. We will always let you know if there are any problems associated with your lot choice prior to finalizing your contract. We strive to make your home building experience as easy as possible.
- We are a family owned and a second generation Florida builder with over 35 years of experience in the Southwest Florida construction industry and we are breaking in the third generation to carry the torch. We have been through the good times along with the bad times and we are still here for the long haul. There were a lot of years that were very bad in our industry but we stuck it out through thick and thin. This goes to show that we will be here for the long haul. We welcome the chance to be your affordable new home builders.
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7050 Bucks Ln, Fort Myers, FL 33912 - Ph: 239-437-2210
7050 Bucks Ln, Fort Myers, FL 33912 - Ph: 239-437-2210


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I loved Sherlock Holmes mysteries when I was a child. A few years ago I learned the disappointing news that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a spiritualist who believed in séances. Because of this, his once close friend Harry Houdini became a rival.
Their falling out began when Houdini joined the Doyles for an intimate séance, in which Lady Doyle proposed to contact Houdini's beloved mother. Although a skeptic, Houdini did believe in an afterlife, and as biographer Kenneth Silverman wrote, "closed his eyes and tried to rid his mind of all but religious thoughts." But by the time Lady Doyle had filled fifteen sheets with automatic-writing she claimed had come from Cecelia Weiss, Houdini had only become further convinced that he was witnessing a fraud.
So I guess I shouldn't have been surprised to learn that Doyle detested mathematics. In 1876 Doyle wrote "mathematics of every sort I detest and abhor." I should have been tipped off by the fact that the criminal mastermind and Holmes' archenemy, Professor Moriarity, was a professor of mathematics.


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Head for the Heights … Kam Heights
In light of this past weekend's tsunami scare, I'm sure a lot of people are looking into living higher and/or farther inland so they don't have to evacuate every time the sirens go off. Here's a brand-new home that's both. (Click here for details.)
Located in Kamehameha Heights, it's just below Kamehameha Schools. The city view goes clear out to the ocean, so you can watch the tsunami (or, more likely, the evacuating traffic) from the safety and comfort of your upstairs lanai.
The two-story house is brand new, with 2,623 square feet of living area. Three bedrooms and two bathrooms are upstairs with the main kitchen and dining area.
Downstairs, you'll find the three-car garage, a bedroom, a den (which can be used as a fourth bedroom) and two full bathrooms. There's also a wet bar and family room, which makes each level functional on its own. The lower level also has a separate entry on the side, making this house perfect for extended family.
The lot is 5,133 square feet and is a CPR with no maintenance fee.
Money talk: $869,000 fee simple
Contact: Vincent Lao, Five Star Realty, 808-382-6871, firstname.lastname@example.com


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SECOND UPDATE: A snippet of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's response:
"By intervening in the redistricting case, the Obama DOJ is predictably joining with Democrat state legislators and Members of Congress and the Texas Democratic Party, who are already suing the State. Also, by challenging the 2011 redistricting plans, Eric Holder is trying to resurrect a law that was never implemented and no longer exists — and then sue it. The 2011 redistricting plans have been replaced with plans that largely mimic plans drawn by three federal judges.
"Just two months ago the U.S. Supreme Court struck down federal preapproval of state election laws. The Court emphasized that the Tenth Amendment empowers states — not the federal government — to regulate elections. The Obama administration continues to ignore the Tenth Amendment and repeated Supreme Court decisions upholding states' authority to enforce voter identification and redistricting laws.
"The Obama administration needs to move beyond the cynical politics of race and focus on the real issues affecting the daily lives of all Americans, regardless of their race."
UPDATE: Gov. Rick perry response below:
"The filing of endless litigation in an effort to obstruct the will of the people of Texas is what we have come to expect from Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama. We will continue to defend the integrity of our elections against this administration's blatant disregard for the 10th Amendment."
Original Story:
The Justice Department said Thursday it is suing to challenge Texas over its controversial voter ID law.
"Today's action marks another step forward in the Justice Department's continuing effort to protect the voting rights of all eligible Americans," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement."
"We will not allow the Supreme Court's recent decision to be interpreted as open season for states to pursue measures that suppress voting rights. The Department will take action against jurisdictions that attempt to hinder access to the ballot box, no matter where it occurs.
On June 25, the Supreme Court threw out the most powerful part of the Voting Rights Act, whose enactment in 1965 marked a major turning point in black Americans' struggle for equal rights and political power.
In the voter ID lawsuit, the U.S. government will contend that Texas adopted a voter identification law with the purpose of denying or restricting the right to vote on account of race, color or membership in a language minority group.
Intervening in the redistricting case would enable the federal government to present evidence about the purpose and effect of the Texas redistricting plans. A federal court in Washington, D.C., has previously held that Texas failed to meet its burden of proving that its 2011 redistricting plans and its 2011 voter identification law were not discriminatory.
For more on this developing story, visit mysanantonio.com


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When i create a table oracle gives below mention error
Though there is enough space available in the data file of USERS2 tablespace.
I have oracle8i workgroup on windows-NT
datafile status of USERS2 tablespace from enterprise manager
size (M) used(M)
data1.dbf 650 512.932
data2.dbf 500 272.018 <-enough space here
data3.dbf 500 431.406 <-enough space here
create table abc
(acno char(1) )
tablespace users2 storage (initial 1m)
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01658: unable to create INITIAL extent for segment in tablespace USERS2
What could be the solution of this problem ?????
Thanks in advance.
from Anuj Pathak
Hero Financial Services Ltd.


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Penfolds Magill Estate Shiraz - Vertical Tasting Flight
- Duration: 30 Minutes (approx.)
- Location: Magill, South Australia
- Product code: ME Vertical
Renowned as one of Australia's most famous wine brands, Penfolds offers visitors iconic, wine, brandy and culinary tourism experiences. Penfolds Magill Estate is located 15 minutes from Adelaide and features the original vineyard, historic winery and cellars.
A rare opportunity to taste and compare three vintages of the single-vineyard Magill Estate Shiraz whilst overlooking the picturesque vineyard where the fruit is grown from the comfort of the Penfolds cellar door.
Magill Estate Shiraz, first produced in 1983, is an elegant, medium weight style with velvety texture and fine tannins, matured in both
French and American oak. It is a sleek, contemporary wine, yet crafted the original way; hand picked, vinified in open fermenters and then basket pressed to complete fermentation in barrel.
This vertical tasting is offered 7 days at 2pm and 4pm. Enjoy spending time in the new Penfolds fortified lounge overlooking the picturesque Magill vineyards and manicured gardens.
The tasting fee will be deducted from your purchase of any wines tasted in this flight, please note there is a limit of one per person/transaction


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Dad of Sunderland baby Reggie faces jail after son was killed by family dog
A father has been told he will be jailed after his three-week-old baby son was mauled to death by the family's terrier.
Ryan Young, 32, appeared at Newcastle Crown Court to admit being the owner of a dog which caused injury that was dangerously out of control.
The charge related to baby Reggie Richardson, who was just 20 days old when he died as a result of his injuries at the family home in Falkland Road, Sunderland, on June 20 2015.
A separate charge of neglect, which Young denied, will lie on file.
Recorder Nicholas Lumley QC granted Young bail to allow for a psychological assessment to be carried out ahead of a pre-sentence report.
The judge told him: "A prison sentence is inevitable.
"You must not read anything into the fact that the case is being adjourned."
The judge was told Young missed a pre-trial hearing on June 1.
Caroline Goodwin, defending, told the judge: "He simply could not face coming to court, there is no greater excuse than that.
"The defendant has had a very difficult time since the events of June 2015.
"It has been an emotionally devastating, dreadful chapter in everyone's life."
Young, wearing a blue ribbon on his grey suit, kept his head bowed for much of the hearing.
The baby's mother, Maria Blacklin, had not been in the family home when the dog attacked their son as she was attending an event following a death in the family.
The father will be sentenced at a later date.
He carried his son's coffin at the funeral.
During the service, Canon Provost Sheila Bamber said: "He was simply amazing in his perfection, absolutely gorgeous, a golden little boy who brought a ray of sunshine into your family.
"Reggie was a contented baby, easy and alert, smiley, but with a pouty face too - a charmer and a bit of a poser from the word go."


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Sept 21, 2011— -- Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal, the two U.S. hikers imprisoned in Iran for the past two years, sprinted to freedom today down the steps of a Royal Omani Air Force jet onto a tarmac in Muscat, Oman.
Looking healthy and upbeat, they were greeted by family and friends in an emotional scrum of smiles, hugs and tears, and a long kiss between Bauer and his fiancee, Sarah Shourd, a fellow American prisoner in Iran until one year ago this week.
"We are so happy we are free and so relieved we are free," Fattal, detained in Iran since 2009, told reporters upon arriving. "Our deepest gratitude to his majesty [Omani King] Sultan Qaboos [bin Said Al Said] for obtaining our release. We are sincerely grateful to the government of Oman for hosting us and our families."
Fattal, Bauer and Shourd were arrested two years ago while hiking along Iran's unmarked border with Iraq. They were accused of spying and last month Fattal and Bauer were sentenced to eight years in prison.
"Two years in prison is too long," Bauer told reporters, "and we sincerely hope for the freedom of other political prisoners and other unjustly imprisoned people in America and Iran."
The hikers' families have described the freeing of Bauer and Fattal as "the best day of our lives."
President Obama also hailed the development.
"I welcome the release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal from detention in Iran and am very pleased that they are being reunited with their loved ones," Obama said in a written statement. "The tireless advocacy of their families over these two years has won my admiration, and is now coming to an end with Josh and Shane back in their arms. All Americans join their families and friends in celebrating their long-awaited return home."
The men's release ends two years of diplomatic wrangling and, more recently, weeks of political infighting, as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the country's judiciary argued about freeing the Americans.
Bauer and Fattal were released after an Iranian judge who had twice delayed their release today signed an order to free the men following deposits of $500,000 bail each.
"Today can only be described as the best day of our lives," their families said in a statement issued from Oman before the two men arrived. "We have waited for nearly 26 months for this moment and the joy and relief we feel at Shane and Josh's long-awaited freedom knows no bounds. We now all want nothing more than to wrap Shane and Josh in our arms, catch up on two lost years and make a new beginning, for them and for all of us."
News of the release came moments before Obama was set to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Ahmadinejad is also in New York for the annual plenary.
Obama voiced his excitement about the hikers' release to a CNN camera as he left the U.N.
"Wonderful, wonderful news about the hikers," Obama said. "We are thrilled. And I could not feel better for the families and those moms we've been in close contact with. A wonderful day for them and for us."
Attorney Masoud Shafii, the lawyer representing Bauer and Fattal, told ABC News earlier today that, "The natural path has taken its course."
Shafii, along with the Omani and Swiss diplomats who've been negotiating the hikers' release, waited today inside the notorious Tehran prison where the pair was held to take them to their freedom. United States interests in Tehran are handled by Switzerland because there is no U.S. embassy there.
The delay of the hikers' release has been thought to be an attempt by Ahmadinejad's political rivals to prevent him from gaining traction on the world stage.
The Omanis played a key part in the negotiations of the hikers' release. Oman is the same place that their companion Sarah Shourd went when she was freed from Iran nearly a year ago to the day. Shourd was in Oman today to greet the men. she's engaged to Bauer.
Ahmadinejad announced plans to release Bauer and Fattal on $500,000 bail each last week. Although one judge had signed the paperwork Saturday, Ahmadinejad left for that meeting in New York Monday with the two Americans still behind bars.
It was disclosed today that the government of Oman paid the $1 million bail for the two men. A third hiker, Sarah Shroud, who was initially detained with the two men were released in 2009. Oman paid the bail for her release as well.
In their statement, the family thanked Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said, Oman's king.
Bauer and Fattal's release has been beset by mixed signals since Ahmadinejad indicated a fast-track release. Iran's judiciary, which is directly controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, swiftly reminded the public that only the courts have the power to control the release's timing.
The two men were convicted last month for spying and illegally entering Iran and were both sentenced to eight years in prison. They appealed the verdicts and an Iranian court set bail of $500,000 each, opening the way for their release.
Bauer, a freelance journalist, and Fattal, and environmental activist, have denied the charges, saying they were just hiking in Iraq's scenic north, and might have accidentally crossed an unmarked border with Iran.
Shourd was detained with them, but she was released last September with mediation by Oman after her $500,000 bail was paid. The payment of bail in the cases must be arranged through third parties, such as Oman, because of the United States' economic sanctions on Iran.


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However much you deny it, the fact still remains that the Web is a vast space of URLs that are linked together one way or another. If you just take the time to click through every single link that is connected to a single page you have just visited, you would be able to visit tons of other websites without even realizing it. Browsing around is like going through your campus where you actually know almost everyone even if you have not really exchanged even a single word with them.
This is the silent working principle that every Internet user knows by heart-even if they seldom acknowledge it. When you do research about a certain topic, you click through one of the links you find in the results page of a search engine. From there, you begin to dig deeper into the topic within that page until you find you have actually visited more than a couple of other websites already. Now, this is also the same principle that all online marketing individuals base their strategies on.
Link building is a concept that everyone who wants to know how to get website traffic has become familiar with. In a nutshell, link building is an online system in which a link to your website is posted in other pages. For optimized results, the link to your page must be posted or featured in websites that have a large following and that is considered as highly relevant by search engines.
As a marketing strategy, the success of link building is quite dependent on how good is the quality of the websites posting a back link to your own page. You want to be sure that only sites relevant to your brand, company, or product would be posting links to your page. Doing so benefits you in more ways than you would think of. One of the benefits you get from quality link building is that it helps in targeting exactly the market you want to reach. There is a bigger chance that the people who visit the websites featuring back links to your page are looking for something relevant to what your business offers. Having the link builds, therefore, can help you reach these potential clients.
Another benefit of link building is that it helps in guaranteeing that your website is search engine optimized to the extent that you gain high rankings in results pages. When search engines classify as of good quality the websites on which your links are posted, they are also likely to consider your own page as relevant and important enough to pull up in keyword searches in the future. This gives a boost in the reputation that your website holds, which eventually also leads you to more traffic and an increased chance of getting more sales.
Link building is just as helpful even if the Internet users do not really visit your page the first time. At the very least, the goal is to just be present in those high-ranking pages so that it can easily be seen when an Internet user suddenly feels the need to go to your website. Instead of going through the search engine process again, which most people find too inconvenient that they just discard the idea altogether, they would only have to revisit the page they have already been in and from there click through to your
In most ways, link building relates well to the word-of-mouth marketing strategy that most traditional business owners engage in. You have to build good and harmonious relationships with the owners of the websites in which you would like your links posted. Sometimes, this kind of relationship also comes at an expense in that they would only post a link to your website if you do the same for them. Others even charge a minimal fee for posting the link.
On the whole, link building is one of the best strategies on how to get website traffic. If you put your heart into it, you would be able to find that there are more benefits to link building than what you think. Add this to the roster of strategies you would be using and be amazed at how easily it can complement the other tactics you utilize.


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We must stay consistent
My message to the team has been to stay consistent. We can't get too high and we can't get too low, because the baseball gods will make you pay. This game has a way of kicking you in the butt really quickly. That would be the advice I give to all players that are being drafted this year: Stay humble and work very hard every day because you are getting paid to play baseball. Never take it for granted because there is always going to be someone ready to take your job.
We get Atlanta coming to town today for the first time. I'm always excited to see my buddy Greg Walker; he's a hell of a hitting coach and an even better friend. After that we get some more Interleague Play. It doesn't get any easier with Boston and the Rays, so let's go!


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Fire destroys 3 homes at Jersey Shore community
SEA ISLE CITY - Three homes have been destroyed by a fire that broke out near the beachfront of a Jersey Shore community.
Authorities say no injuries have been reported in the smoky seven-alarm fire, which erupted around 4:30 p.m. Friday in Sea Isle City and sent large clouds of black smoke spewing across the region. It was brought under control about two hours later.
The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
Multiple fire companies battled the blaze, but it wasn't clear if any of the homes were occupied when the blaze broke out. Officials say other nearby residences suffered minor damage due to the fire, but the blaze was not expected to consume any other residences.
Authorities say windy conditions hampered the firefighting efforts.


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It is no secret that Barack Obama is TIME's Person of the Year. However, revealing the name of the POY has been one of the most guarded secrets in our industry. The man in charge of the selection is Richard Stengel, TIME's managing editor. I had the opportunity to ask Mr. Stengel few questions regarding his choice of Obama as the Person of the year, the icon issues of TIME and the future of the newsweeklies and print in general.
Could you have chosen anyone but Obama?
We started thinking about it, (we asked ourselves) can you not choose him? And what would the consequences be? You could make the case that it was the American voter, or the economy, or the subprime mortgage, or some kind of a financial services product that tipped the scales in such a way to make an Obama victory possible. It all kept coming back to Obama himself… So, sometimes the answer is looking you right in the eye and is right in front of you and that's certainly how we felt this year.
What makes this issue special?
I think it's about the most beautiful Person of the Year issue that I can recall. It's very, very visual. The person of the year package opens with 18 pages of images that we collaborated with Flickr, the image sharing site, images done by regular people, not people of Obama. It's a dazzling array because he is, in many ways, the people's president. He inspired people in a way that we haven't seen in a very, very long time. And the art created by regular folks, regular voters around the world, is beautiful and inspiring. And (at the same time) it beautifully compliments the cover itself. I think it's just a gorgeous memorable iconic image done by Shepherd Ferry, who did the first original Obama poster with "Hope" on it. That (poster) became a symbol of the campaign. We went back to him and said hey what would you do now for President Elect Obama? And it's really an outstanding memorable iconic image. I think that people will be looking at for decades to come.
I noticed that this year's Person of the Year cover has no cover lines. Why?
Right, in fact we don't even have (Obama's) name on the cover. It just says Person of the Year and because of that very reason, we were thinking, it's so beautiful, it's so much a kind of iconic poster, (so) why you even put the name on it. In fact Arthur Hochstein, our great art director went and did a little research and the only other time we didn't put a name on a Person of the Year was when we did an Aaron Stickler portrait of Ronald Regan in 1980. It was just a portrait of Regan in Person of the Year.
How important for the survival of magazines like TIME all those iconic issues like Person of the Year, The TIME 100, The List issue, etc…?
I think the annuities, as we call them, are incredibly important. The most important one for us specifically is the Person of the Year issue. That's the greatest annuity in all of journalism and it's something that people know all around the world. It's a sub-brand of the TIME brand, but it's (also) intrinsically part of it. And I think it works so well because people associate us with history. They associate us with giving a perspective on history. They associate us with talking about people who make news, people who make a difference, people who shape history. That all works beautifully with the TIME brand and the Person of the Year issue embodies that. I think going forward as to your larger question about As to the future of magazines (in general), and the news magazines in particular, I think what has happened in our popular culture as a whole has affected magazines. Look at what's happened with the movie business. You have to have block busters, and that's what they look for. Annuities are our blockbusters. It's the thing that grabs people's attention and grabs them by the collar and says, look we have something that's special, that's different, that's not the same as what you get everyday or every week. So, I really place a high value in annuities and I would love to have even more. So if you have any suggestions, let me know.
What about the future? Are we in trouble or there is still a future for print?
I sometimes think is that even though we cover the whole world, we cover the economy, and we cover media, we're often myopic about ourselves. We fail to remember that we are part of the same sea; we're swimming with everyone else. We think that somehow we're immune to other trends in the economy. TIME Magazine is very healthy and very robust and profitable. We've had to go through some slimming downs, but that's like also what happens in the economy. I mean, we're not General Motors, Lehman Brothers, or any of the investment bank… Those places have failed; we're actually are doing well. I mean, I don't want to compare ourselves to other titles but I think they're in different situations than we are. There is a kind of survival of the fittest in all businesses that exist.
Well, if you look at an analogy with Detroit, to use General Motors again (as an example). They had too many products on the market. They had too many different types of cars they were making for their share of the market. I think (that is) one of the things that is happening in the media, apart from the rise of online and the digital space and all of that. I actually think is a great thing for the media. Maybe there are too many products out there. Certainly too many products for the share of the market and there will be some slimming down. I think that's inevitable. That's inevitable in every business. You know, they tell you in business school, there were 80 different car companies in America in 1920. That slimmed down before the golden age of the automobile industry…I think some of this is just necessary economies.
So, will print survive?
Our election commemorative issue was the largest newsstand seller since 9/11 and, you know, people want some historical object. I think that is one of the signs of health for print because people like things. And that will never go away.