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In one of the many scenes of eye candy from Wes Anderson's enchanting "The Grand Budapest Hotel," an apprentice baker played by Saoirse Ronan carefully boxes up a colorful confection that looks so sinfully delicious, you want to reach into the screen and gobble it up.
That tempting dessert could serve as a metaphor for Anderson's stylized sense of moviemaking. In his eight feature-length films, he has consistently whipped up a Parisian patisserie of visual treats. While all have been attractively packaged, composed of choice ingredients and executed with a Michelin-starred craftsmanship, not all have been winners. His 2007 "The Darjeeling Limited" simply went off the rails, so to speak.
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" is a bit different, a darker tweaking of a winning formula that has made Anderson into one of our most captivating storytellers. "Budapest" has more bite than some of his other productions, especially the breezy, innocent and much-loved "Moonrise Kingdom." It's by no means a downer, but there are shadows clinging to its storied, screwballesque narrative.
The film centers on the adventures of a dandy of a concierge (Ralph Fiennes) and his loyal lobby boy protege (Tony Revolori) as they get drawn into a thickening plot that leads to an art theft, a prison break, even a villain with fangs. Anderson wrote the screenplay and has said "Budapest," which is set mostly in a regal, striking hotel in the fictional region of Zubrowak, celebrates the works of Viennese writer Stefan Zweig, along with filmmaker Jacques Becker, among others.
No clue as to who they are? No worries. You're still in for a royal treat as Anderson puts his imprint on the frenetic goings-on. All the Anderson trademarks are rolled out: the surreal sets, the whimsical bursts of animation and the sumptuous production design.
The story shifts time sequence as it latches onto the importance of art and literature, juxtaposed against the cancer of fascism. Anderson once again adopts a storybook approach by dividing the narrative into chapters. We arrive near the story's end, as a writer-blocked character (Jude Law) makes the acquaintance of the former lobby boy Zero Moustafa (now played by F. Murray Abraham). Zero and the unnamed writer dine in the barren, beaten-down hotel, a place to which history has not been kind.
Zero relates an incredible tale, whisking us back to a happier time when the hotel was thriving, and concierge Gustav H. (Fiennes) was keeping older, lonely clientele cozy. When one of his dalliances, the 84-year-old Madame Céline Villeneuve Desgoffe und Taxis (Tilda Swinton) — Madame D, for short — winds up dead, upheaval begins, and soon Gustav becomes a murder suspect, while relatives, including Dmitri (Adrien Brody), along with his fanged henchman (Willem Dafoe), try to stop a second will from surfacing.
The lunacy leads to some shocking jolts of gory violence, along with the entrances and exits of intriguing secondary characters: Jeff Goldblum as an attorney with an affection for his cat; the young baker Agatha (Ronan), who is the love interest of Zero; and numerous small, well-placed cameos that include Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman and other Anderson regulars.
Everyone is a delight, but it is Fiennes as the proud hotel showman who gives the storied performance. The Oscar-nominated Fiennes, so good as Charles Dickens in "The Invisible Woman," has sometimes been a difficult actor to warm up to on screen. But that emotional distance works in his favor as Gustav, a fascinating and erudite man who seems shallow, but eventually reveals pools of depth and compassion. Fiennes' refined performance keeps the film from becoming too sweet.
But it is Anderson's filmmaking that upstages nearly everyone and everything else, except the production design. With "The Grand Budapest Hotel," the beloved filmmaker has made one of his sharpest and tartest films yet: a sobering message movie that still knows how to tickle us with a goofy ski chase that is joyously and purely Wes Anderson through and through.
'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
* * * ½
Rating: R (for language, some sexual content and violence)
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Saoirse Ronan, Jude Law, Tilda Swinton
Director and screenwriter: Wes Anderson
Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes


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Imagine you want to install FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD and
1. you do not have a CDROM drive
2. you do not have an existing installation of the OS and
3. you do not have network access to one of the above (no PXE).
How would you do it?
FreeBSD and NetBSD each provide "memstick" images for their install sets. You could login to their ftp server, download the img, write it to your device and boot. Very simple.
You can even install either of them from... gasp... Windows using a small standalone program that can write images to physcial or logical devices. Amazing.
All BSD's provide such utilites; NetBSD has a good one. I believe future versions of Windows may even enable this to be done without using third party software. Things are getting easier.
What if you purchase a netbook that is loaded with Windows? What if your computer does not have a CD/DVD drive? Do you have to purchase an external one? Do you have to run a hefty virtual machine, just to make a bootable fs image? Not with NetBSD and FreeBSD. Your problems are solved because they provide imgs to download.
With the FreeBSD and NetBSD memstick images you can install BSD anywhere, assuming you know what you're doing, you can create live USB's, live CD's, whatever you want to do. You can run from RAM, on read-only USB, HDD, whatever. It's a great convenience.
But the real reason providing these images is such a great benefit is because without an existing BSD installation how do you install the appropriate BSD bootblocks?
To replicate the system, e.g., to make your own bootable "live" installation, you always need at least three things: bootblocks, a bootloader and a kernel. At least.
It would be nice if you could install OpenBSD biosboot to a device or fs image file using FreeBSD, or install FreeBSd's boot1 using NetBSD. Or maybe you could do it with some ad hoc Linux utility. Alas, all these OS's are subtly different in how they handle booting and so their code for the disk utilities differs as well. Is the code for FreeBSD's fdisk and Net/OpenBSD's installboot the same? Do they locate their bootblocks in the same place? I wish.
Once you have an existing installation of your target BSD, then this bootblock issue is no problem. You can replicate it at will.
But what if you do not have one?
OpenBSD still does not officially provide a memstick image.
My understanding is we have to get the memstick image from Sourceforge. Or run an iso in an emulator. Is this correct?
If so, why? There must be a good reason for this.
It's not a big deal. It can be worked around. But I'm just curious. Memstick images are an amazing service.
Thank you for your time.
Best wishes for 2012.
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Few OpenBSD developers -- Project members -- visit this forum. Since your question is aimed at them, you have a better shot at reaching them via official channels. Approximately half of the developers follow misc@, which is where such questions should be posted.
However, I think I know what some of the answers you would receive are likely to be, were you to reach out to the Project. The most polite comments you might receive may be:
Keep in mind, the OpenBSD Project goals do not include pleasing us. The members don't see the user community as a market with unmet needs. Instead they write what they need for their own use, and we lucky users go along for the ride.
Patches and new modules the community at large produce are reviewed and graciously included in the base if acceptable. (If not accepted, usually advice is given as to what can be done to improve the code or to make it acceptable, if possible.) Feature requests are ignored, unless they include hardware, funding, or both to meet the needs of the effort.
This is all my opinion about the culture of the Project, of course. But it comes from watching the rough-and-tumble of discussions on the mailing lists ... and making my own share of mistakes there.
All I can say is the cat is out of the bag: someone is already offering memstick images via Sourceforge. So users who are not OpenBSD developers are going to get the images, one way or another.
Another thing I did mot mention- curiously, OpenBSD does not include makefs. That is a very useful utility in making bootable images. It's been accepted by all the other BSD's. The decision not to include it is an interesting one.
There's really no "development" needed to offer memstick images. It's simply a matter of including them in the routine builds. NetBSD has more arch's to support and they have memstick images. Hence those canned mailing list replies are nonresponsive.
OpenBSD developers are users too. They have little control over the often seemingly irrational decisions of hardware manufacturers. In time, I'm certain OpenBSD will offer memstick images because I'm sure some of them will eventually find themselves using computers without CD drives, and having to jump through too many hoops just to install OpenBSD.
Meanwhile there is probably a way to write OpenBSD bootblocks using another BSD.
Here is one
OpenBSD usb key installer
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1. If you download 4.7 image you can use it to make install media for 5.0.
2. The instructions on the website you mention assume you have a working installation of OpenBSD. Note the use of installboot and the bootblocks in /usr/mdec.
What if you have no working installation of OpenBSD to begin with?
In any event, I've found a workaround endorsed by an OpenBSD developer: the vax floppy50.fs loaded via simh.
qemu has too many dependencies for my tastes. It requires Xorg just to compile. And I'm only interested in console use with the -nographics option anyway.
Bochs is another possibility I have not explored.
Still, having to install an emulator just to make install media is jumping through too many hoops, imo.
Unless there is an easy way to install OpenBSD bootblocks without using OpenBSD itself (cat+dd?), my prediction is the OpenBSD developers will eventually grow tired of jumping through hoops to install OpenBSD on hardware that lacks a CD drive. And we will see them generate memstick images for their ftp site, just like NetBSD and FreeBSD.
Of course, another possibility is that eventually emulators in one form or another will become part of the base BSD distributions (e.g., see NetBSD's rump).
As the Open Source movement has matured, one fundamental axiom has emerged -- if one can't implement needed features themselves, one can either pay someone else to do the work or wait until the cognoscenti do the same. The OpenBSD project is small in comparison to most other OS efforts. Their target audience is themselves. Casual users have no say in directing the project unless they are willing to submit code for consideration or make a sizable donation towards the same ends.
For better or worse, that pretty well summarizes the cultural view.
The build instructions on the sourceforge site utilize QEME which is available for Linux and Windows.
Also fdisk is available for many operating systems but disklabel will be a challenge. I have not taken time to play with it but this article indicates that linux fdisk can make the needed slices/partitions. Your mileage may vary and if I were in your shoes I would try QEME first.
The bootloader install programs require an understanding of FFS filesystem metadata, a formatted filesystem containing the bootloader, a proper BSD disklabel, all as dependencies.
It is not trivial to write such tools...else someone would have completed the effort.
But this is moot, as we are the wrong audience for this message...we are users.
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Raymond Martin wins fourth gold medal at London 2012 Paralympic Games
Highlighted by the London 2012 Paralympic Games, called the greatest Games ever by International Paralympic Committee President Sir Philip Craven, 2012 was a thrilling year for the Paralympic Movement in the United States and around the globe. Records were broken and legacies were made. From Dec. 20-31, USParalympics.org will unveil the Top 12 moments of 2012 for U.S. Paralympics in chronological order.
Before the men's 200 meter (T52) qualification race at the London 2012 Paralympic Games rolled around on Sept. 8, the final day competition at Olympic Stadium, Raymond Martin was exhausted. Six days into his competition, he had already won three gold medals in three events at his first ever Games, and he still had two more races.
"I need to get a lot of rest," Martin told reporters after winning the 400m gold on Sept. 7. "I'm just going to go back to the village, hop in the bed, get a good night's sleep and get ready for the prelim tomorrow morning."
Just hours after leaving the stadium with his third gold, Martin of Jersey City, N.J. returned to the track for his 10:42 a.m. qualification race. And he won, securing him a spot in the final, which was the third to last race of the program, scheduled for almost 9:30 p.m.
That night, Martin pushed through the exhaustion to beat Japan's Ito Tomoya by more than a second. Martin raced a Paralympic record 30.25 to end the Games.
"It's unreal," Martin said after the race. "Getting a sweep of my class was just a pie in the sky dream coming to this Games but I had no idea I'd make it a reality."
Four events.
Four gold medals.
A sold-out stadium of 80,000 fans every night.
"It's my first Games, so I had no idea what to expect," Martin said. "Incredible. Everything has been beyond my dreams. It's unreal. It doesn't get better than this— a sold-out Olympic stadium. Just unreal."
Martin won every event he competed in, including Team USA's first track and field gold of the Games in the 100-meters. Martin, who competes in the T52 class, also won gold in the 400- and 800-meters.
The 200m world record holder wasn't surprised by his Paralympic record time of 30.25 seconds in that event, but he was shocked to win the 100-meters by beating his teammate, Paul Nitz, who has won three Paralympic gold medals in the 100.
"My first race, the 100-meters, I was only ranked third; that was absolutely my worst race," Martin said. "My U.S. teammate and I raced together 10 times and he beat me every time. He has the world record. He was the favorite going in.
"It was a little shocking I won because I was just getting my feet wet in the whole stadium atmosphere. After that it just started rolling and I started getting momentum."
The momentum helped him become the most golden U.S. male of the Games. He finished second in the overall medal count to swimmer Jessica Long, who won five gold medals, one silver medal and two bronze medals in her third Paralympic Games.
"I've never been to the Paralympics before this but now I know I want to come back," Martin said.
Martin, a freshman at the University of Illinois, was named the 2012 Paralympic SportsMan of the Year by the United States Olympic Committee.
Connor Nolte and Justin A. Rice contributed to this report.


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From Early Modern English manage, menage, from Middle English *manage, *menage, from Old French manege ("the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, maneuvers, proceedings"), probably from Old Italian maneggiare ("to handle, manage, touch, treat"), from mano, from Latin manus ("the hand"); see manual.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmænɪdʒ/
- (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈmænədʒ/
- (no weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈmænɪdʒ/
- (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈmænədʒ/
- Rhymes: -ænɪdʒ
- Hyphenation: man‧age
manage (third-person singular simple present manages, present participle managing, simple past and past participle managed)
- (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
- (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
- (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
- 1705 (revised 1718), Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
- It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
- The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].
- 1705 (revised 1718), Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
- (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt.
- He managed to climb the tower.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
- 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, "Letters: Say it as simply as possible", in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:
- Congratulations on managing to use the phrase "preponderant criterion" in a chart ("On your marks", November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
- (transitive, intransitive) To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
- It's a tough job, but I'll manage.
- 2013 July 20, "Welcome to the plastisphere", in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
- To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
- (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (To handle with skill, wield): bewield
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to direct or be in charge
to handle or control a situation or job
to handle a tool with ease
to succeed at an attempt
to achieve without fuss, or without outside help
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manage (uncountable)
- (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xii:
- the winged God himselfe / Came riding on a Lion rauenous, / Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe [...].
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, "The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet", in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
- the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xii:
- (horseriding) Manège.
- (Can we date this quote by Peacham and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
- You must draw the horse in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto and leaping.
- (Can we date this quote by Peacham and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
See also[edit]
- man
- Management on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading[edit]
- manage in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- manage in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Hair Drug Tests in Criminal and Civil Proceedingsby Dimma & 1 other
Hair drug tests and other forms of drug screening are highly controversial. With new U.S. government guidelines that seek to expand drug testing, analysis of the accuracy of hair drug tests are being analyzed by a wide range of legal and medical professionals.
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MURPHYS - Ric Ryan is healing war wounds.
MURPHYS - Ric Ryan is healing war wounds.
It happens every time someone in a passing car waves at Ryan as he takes his regular walk along Highway 4 between Murphys and Angels Camp.
Ryan always waves back. He keeps a count. For every time he waves, he donates 25 cents to Operation Mend, a University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center charity that surgically rebuilds the disfigured faces of soldiers wounded in the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"He is one of the most amazing human beings I have ever met," said Becky Mancuso-Winding, the UCLA Medical Center staffer who processes Ryan's donations.
"His donations now total $16,000, and he sends checks regularly," Mancuso-Winding wrote in an email.
The wounds Ryan is helping to heal aren't just those of the soldiers whose faces were melted by roadside bombs.
Ryan, 67, served in the Marine Corps in Vietnam. He has a few invisible wounds of his own.
And he also sees the way wars over the decades have damaged the relationship between an entire society and its soldiers.
"When I came back from the 'Nam, we couldn't even wear our uniforms," Ryan said.
Now, Ryan, 67, proudly and publicly displays his status as a veteran. The initials "USMC" are across the back of the reflective vest he wears during his walks.
Ryan, who is retired on an iron worker's pension and Social Security, started walking regularly in 2008 because he decided he needed the exercise. About the same time, he saw a television news story about Operation Mend. He decided to donate any time someone waved at him.
But his mission to help returning troops didn't stay a secret long. Ryan is well known in Angels Camp and Murphys. He coached soccer for many years at Bret Harte Union High School. He's been active in the Lions service club and served on the board of the local veterans memorial district.
People started pulling over and giving him donations during his walks. Some hand him $10 or $20. Some give checks for hundreds of dollars. The single largest donation was a check for $2,500. That one brought tears to Ryan's eyes.
Meanwhile, Ryan is also trying to heal himself. He attends Veterans Administration classes on post-traumatic stress disorder and anger management.
He's learned his limits.
"I can't watch war movies anymore," he said.
He also avoids fireworks displays, even on Independence Day. "It reminds me too much of a firefight."
The long walks also help. His regular loop is from Murphys to just west of Red Hill Road and then back. It takes him about 21/2 hours to walk 81/2 miles.
Typically in that time between 40 and 70 people will wave at him. That translates into a donation of $10 to $17.50 per walk. If he doesn't get at least 34 waves, then he instead donates $1 per mile walked.
Ryan also collects recyclables and goes through the vacuum bins at a car wash for change. All that is donated to Operation Mend.
Ryan doesn't walk every day. Often enough, however, that he is known as The Walking Man of Murphys. Often enough that he sends hundreds of dollars a month to rebuild the faces of his fellow soldiers.
"We have to do as much as we can for the young men and women coming back from these wars," Ryan said.
Contact reporter Dana M. Nichols at (209) 607-1361 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/calaverasblog.


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Liberty welcomes St. Joe's to Lynchburg for its season opener tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Liberty Field Hockey Field.
Liberty field hockey, the defending NorPac East Division champions, opens the 2013 campaign at home on Friday versus Saint Joseph's. The contest against the Hawks is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m at Liberty Field Hockey Field.
How to Follow the Lady Flames Live stats and live video will both be available for Friday's matchup on LibertyFlames.com by clicking on the live stats or live video links on the field hockey schedule/results page. Jacob Johnston and Robert Morris will handle the call on the video stream, which is free courtesy of the Big South Network. Fans can also follow the game through periodic twitter updates from @libertyflames.
Series Against Saint Joseph's Saint Joseph's holds a 1-0 edge in the all-time series with Liberty. For the second consecutive year, the Lady Flames will open the season against the Hawks. Last season, Liberty fell 2-1 in Philadelphia. Abbey Basom recorded her first career goal in the loss.
Liberty at a Glance The Lady Flames return 10 starters from last season's squad which finished with a 16-6 overall record and captured the NorPac East Division title with a 7-1 conference mark. Competing as the No. 1 seed from the east division, Liberty downed Pacific, 2-1, in overtime, before ousting Davidson, 3-1, in the semifinals. The Lady Flames magical season ended at the hands of nationally ranked Stanford, 3-0, in the title contest. Head coach Jodi Murphy earned NorPac Co-Coach of the Year honors, after leading Liberty to a 10-win improvement from its inaugural season in 2011.
Liberty returns all of its offensive firepower from last season. The Lady Flames led the conference in scoring margin and finished second in goals per game. Headlining the group of returning offensive players from a year ago are sophomores Natalie Barr, Sarah Gipe and Basom. Barr, the 2012 NorPac East Division Offensive Player of the Year, led the squad with 40 points (16 goals, 8 assists), while also leading the Lady Flames in shots (100), shots on goal (59) and defensive saves (4). Gipe finished second on the team with 28 points (13 goals, 2 assists), en route to the NorPac Rookie of the Year award. One of Liberty's two all-conference honorees along with Barr, Basom racked up 22 points (8 goals, 6 assists).
On defense, the Lady Flames welcome back Ann Jefferis for her senior season. Jefferis redshirted last season after starting every single game in the cage for Liberty in 2011. Jefferis anchors a defense which also returns strong backs Megan Johnson and Hannah Jones. Liberty's defense put up impressive numbers last season, ranking first in the conference and 11th overall in the nation in goals-against average.
Welcome to the Program Liberty welcomes its smallest class of incoming freshmen in the short three-year history of the program. Twins Serena and Bethany Barr join their older sister Natalie Barr on the team. Ketura Landis, Olivia Carroll and Carrie Logie round out the Lady Flames' class of 2017.
Durable Doolittle Junior Helen Doolittle has been a mainstay in the Lady Flames' lineup in its first two seasons of competition. The Lancaster, Pa. native is the only player in program history to start all 39 games. Saint Joseph's at a Glance The Hawks finished the 2012 season with a 4-15 overall record and a 1-6 mark in the Atlantic 10. Head coach Michelle Finegan enters her 17th season at the helm of the program.
Saint Joseph's returns a pair of all-conference performers from a year ago. Junior Jordan Martin earned second-team honors, while sophomore Megan Brosious was tabbed to the all-rookie team. Martin paced the Hawks with 16 points (7 goals, 2 assists) in 2012.
The Hawks return just two seniors this season. Finegan will have to rely on a number of underclassmen as 14 of the team's 23 players are either sophomores or freshmen.
Looking Ahead The Lady Flames will trek across the country next weekend to square off against a pair of NorPac West Division foes. On Sept. 6, Liberty will face UC Davis in a neutral site game at Cal at 10 p.m. EST. The Lady Flames will wrap up the weekend versus Cal on Sept. 8 at 5 p.m. EST. The contests will serve as the beginning of a six-game road stretch for Liberty.
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The NAACP is celebrating a Supreme Court decision today that will allow early voting in Ohio. Without even needing to deliberate, the United States Supreme Court turned back the law that restricted early voting in the state.
The win in Ohio may have been the biggest yet, as the state has recently been highlighted by both Republican candidate Mitt Romney and President Obama as a must win. Many suspect that Ohio Republicans were targeting the weekend before Nov. 6 because many elderly African American and minority churches use that Sunday to vote. Large groups take busses straight from church to the polling place to cast their ballots.
"The high court's decision again demonstrates the tide is turning in the fight to protect voting rights across the United States," stated NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. "Early voting is a critical tool for so many hard working Americans that don't have the luxury of taking off work or standing in long lines on Election Day. We will continue to fight until all attempts to suppress voter participation are turned back."
The Obama campaign and Democrats in Ohio had challenged the law, which allowed only voters in the military and their families to cast ballots in person three days before the election. They argued successfully that the law would burden tens of thousands of Ohio voters who had been able to vote during the same time period in previous elections.
In 2008 approximately 105,000 voters in Ohio took advantage of the early vote in the three days prior to the election.
NAACP officials in Ohio called the ruling confirmation that voting was a "right and not a privilege."
"Restrictions on access to the ballot box are an affront to our democracy," NAACP Ohio State Conference President Sybil Edwards McNabb said. "The Supreme Court decision reaffirms the federal court's ruling, deciding that voters should be able to to cast their votes in person without risking their jobs, income, or family responsibilities. The NAACP and our allies will continue to stand in one voice against voter suppression."
In the past few months, laws restricting access to the ballot have been successfully fought in Florida, Wisconsin, Texas, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania while gubernatorial vetoes have limited similar legislation in Michigan and Virginia.
Last December, the NAACP released the report "Defending Democracy" which detailed the various attacks on voting rights, including cuts to early voting across the country.


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Kaeng Krachan National ParkClinton Joyce
Myself and girlfriend visited Thailand in January 05. We had seen Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries over a 2 month period and the most unforgettable place we visited (which for some reason is rather hard to get to?) was Kaeng Krachan National Park!!!! This place was incredible, we have told many other people about it and they say, "what?' "where?. We stayed overnight in the park – heard tigers roar, saw wild elephants, monkeys and countless other wild animals – it was amazing. It's only 2 hours from Bangkok and yet most tourists don't know about it! We had to catch a large public bus from Bangkok to Petchburi 1.45hrs we caught it not far from Khaosan Rd.
When we got to Petchburi we found accommodation and stayed a night. This was cool because they had some big market on this particular night. Lots of Makak Monkeys in Town and Monks! We met lots of locals as there were very few tourists. We had to catch a smaller (minibus) especially for the trip to the National Park, this took about another hour. We ran into 2 French backpackers and they came with us. They were just as glad to see other westerners. Once we got to the National Park it was fantastic they really looked after us and provided us with everything we needed food, water, tents even our own driver around the park!!!!! The park rangers even took us on a night safari.
We saw over 10 different large animals – Wild pigs, Barking Deer, Sanbar, Dusky Langur, Sivits (at night) squirals, we herd wild tigers roaring (one was rather to close for comfort) gibbons, we saw 3 massive horn bill birds and countless butterflies we saw wild elephants and saw heaps of wild elephant dung on all the jungle tracks! We were only there for 2 days!!!!! I could go back and stay for 2 weeks!!! My girlfriend and I are considering it!
Some people pay $10,000 or more to go to Africa and go on Safari! We saw all these amazing things in the space of four days for around $100US for both of us!
This park is a huge resource that I believe is not getting promoted enough! It should be as well known as Kruger in Africa! Please let me know why it isn't!


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1. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass. Try not the pass! the old man said. (Longfellow)
2. A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
3. A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
4. A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc, between the rolls.
5. State of things; condition; predicament. Have his daughters brought him to this pass. (Shak) Matters have been brought to this pass. (south)
6. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass. A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. (Kent)
7. A thrust; a sally of wit.
8. Estimation; character. Common speech gives him a worthy pass. (Shak)
9. Cf. Passus A part; a division. Pass boat, a wooden or metallic box, used to carry cartridges from the service magazine to the piece. Pass check, a ticket of admission to a place of entertainment, or of readmission for one who goes away in expectation of returning.
Origin: Cf. F. Pas (for sense 1), and passe, fr. Passer to pass. See Pass.


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Two City Council incumbents from Queens were not endorsed by the city's largest public employee union because they did not apply for the nod, the union said.
DC 37 released its endorsements for the November general election last Wednesday, which included multiple sitting councilmembers in the borough and candidates who won primaries in September.
Left off the Queens list were Speaker-hopeful Mark Weprin and Elizabeth Crowley — both who are Democrats, facing fairly easy challenges for re-election in a blue-dominated borough.
The pair joins a handful of city incumbents who were not endorsed because they did not apply to be part of DC 37's long-established screening process, according to Wanda Williams, the union's political and legislative director.
The list includes City Council incumbents Dan Garodnick, Maria del Carmen Arroyo, Annabel Palma, Brad Lander and David Greenfield.
"The lack of an endorsement should not be construed as a commentary on their performance but as a reflection of their decision not to submit themselves to our rigorous screening process," Williams said.
"Only the kind of transparent and rigorous screening process we have adopted assures we give all candidates a fair hearing they have initiated," she added.
Weprin said he was unaware of the union's screening policy. He was also running unopposed until August.
"We didn't really reach out since I didn't have an opponent until the summer," he said. "This year, I certainly would have loved their endorsement. They are certainly a valuable and important union to me. I don't take offense at it. I just wasn't aware of the process. No hard feelings."
Crowley did not comment.
Contested Queens incumbents who enjoy the union's backing this year include Peter Koo, Karen Koslowitz, Eric Ulrich, Ruben Wills and Donovan Richards.
DC 37 also endorsed unchallenged incumbents Julissa Ferreras, Danny Dromm and Jimmy Van Bramer and primary winners Paul Vallone, Rory Lancman, Daneek Miller and Melinda Katz.
The municipal workers' union, which has 121,000 members and 50,000 retirees, said it sends out an army of volunteers to work phone banks and do door-to-door "Get Out The Vote" operations.
- Elizabeth Crowley, Craig Caruana face off in heated District 30 debate
- Councilmember Mark Weprin faces potential challenger in general election
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Romantic Music
romanticism, term loosely applied to literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and 19th cent.
Characteristics of Romanticism
Resulting in part from the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the romantic movements had in common only a revolt against the prescribed rules of classicism. The basic aims of romanticism were various: a return to nature and to belief in the goodness of humanity; the rediscovery of the artist as a supremely individual creator; the development of nationalistic pride; and the exaltation of the senses and emotions over reason and intellect. In addition, romanticism was a philosophical revolt against rationalism.
Romanticism in Literature
Although in literature romantic elements were known much earlier, as in the Elizabethan dramas, many critics now date English literary romanticism from the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798). In the preface to the second edition of that influential work (1800), Wordsworth stated his belief that poetry results from "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," and pressed for the use of natural everyday diction in literary works. Coleridge emphasized the importance of the poet's imagination and discounted adherence to arbitrary literary rules.
Such English romantic poets as Byron, Shelley, Robert Burns, Keats, Robert Southey, and William Cowper often focused on the individual self, on the poet's personal reaction to life. This emphasis can also be found in such prose works as the essays of Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt and in Thomas De Quincey's autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822). The interest of romantics in the medieval period as a time of mystery, adventure, and aspiration is evidenced in the Gothic romance and in the historical novels of Sir Walter Scott. William Blake was probably the most singular of the English romantics. His poems and paintings are radiant, imaginative, and heavily symbolic, indicating the spiritual reality underlying the physical reality.
In Germany the Sturm und Drang school, with its obsessive interest in medievalism, prepared the way for romanticism. Friedrich Schlegel first used the term romantic to designate a school of literature opposed to classicism, and he also applied the philosophical ideas of Immanuel Kant and J. G. Fichte to the "romantic ideal." Major German writers associated with romanticism include G. E. Lessing, J. G. Herder, Friedrich Hölderlin, Schiller, and particularly Goethe, who had a mystic feeling for nature and for Germany's medieval past.
France and Other European Countries
The credo of French romanticism was set forth by Victor Hugo in the preface to his drama Cromwell (1828) and in his play Hernani (1830). Hugo proclaimed the freedom of the artist in both choice and treatment of a subject. The French romantics included Chateaubriand, Alexandre Dumas père, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Alfred de Musset, and George Sand. Other leading romantic figures were Giacomo Leopardi and Alessandro Manzoni in Italy, and Aleksandr Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov in Russia.
The United States
In the United States romanticism had philosophic expression in transcendentalism, notably in the works of Emerson and Thoreau. Poets such as Poe, Whittier, and Longfellow all produced works in the romantic vein. Walt Whitman in particular expressed pride in his individual self and the democratic spirit. The works of James Fenimore Cooper reflected the romantic interest in the historical past, whereas the symbolic novels of Hawthorne and Melville emphasized the movement's concern with transcendent reality.
Romanticism in the Visual Arts
In the visual arts romanticism is used to refer loosely to a trend that appears at any time, and specifically to the art of the early 19th cent. Nineteenth-century romanticism was characterized by the avoidance of classical forms and rules, emphasis on the emotional and spiritual, representation of the unattainable ideal, nostalgia for the grace of past ages, and a predilection for exotic themes.
Romantic artists developed precise techniques in order to produce specific associations in the mind of the viewer. To convey verbal concepts they would, for example, endow inanimate objects with human values (e.g., the wild trees and shimmery moonlight used in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich to suggest an infinity of human longing, the weltschmerz of his time). The result was often sentimental or ludicrous. In the case of Delacroix, however, his painterly style and color sense exalted the romantic attitude in a singularly effective fashion.
In England landscape gardening was used to express the romantic aesthetic by means of deliberate imitation of the picturesque in nature. In architecture Wyatt's preposterous, mock medieval Fonthill Abbey displayed the romantic building style in extreme form. The host of lesser artists of the romantic tradition included the French Géricault, the Swiss-English Henry Fuseli, the Swiss Arnold Böcklin, the English Pre-Raphaelites, the German Nazarenes, and the American artists of the Hudson River school.
Romanticism in Music
Romanticism in music was characterized by an emphasis on emotion and great freedom of form. It attained its fullest development in the works of German composers. Although elements of romanticism are present in the music of Beethoven, Weber, and Schubert, it reached its zenith in the works of Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Wagner. Less totally romantic composers usually placed in the middle period of romanticism are Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, and Grieg; those grouped in the last phase include Elgar, Puccini, Mahler, Richard Strauss, and Sibelius.
Many romantic composers, including Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms, worked in small forms that are flexible in structure, e.g., prelude, intermezzo, nocturne, ballad, and cappriccio, especially in solo music for the piano. Another romantic contribution was the art song for voice and piano, most notably the German lied (see song). Romantic composers, particularly Liszt, in combining music and literature, created the symphonic poem. Berlioz also made use of literature; much of his work is described as program music. Romantic opera began with Weber, included the works of the Italians Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi, and culminated in the work of Wagner, who aimed at a complete synthesis of the arts in his idea of Gesamtkunstwerk [total work of art].
While Tchaikovsky was inspired by a more universal romanticism, the movement in Russia was nationalist in nature, exemplified by the works of Mikhail Glinka. The music of the Czech composers Bedřich Smetana and Dvořák and that of the Norwegian composer Grieg also expressed romantic nationalism. Toward the end of the 19th cent. interest in classical forms was revived by Bruckner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Franck. The end of the romantic period—frequently described as decadent and grandiose—is often referred to as postromanticism and is represented by the works of Holst, Elgar, Mahler, and Richard Strauss.
See J. Barzun, Romanticism and the Modern Ego (1944); L. R. Furst, Romanticism in Perspective (1970); R. F. Gleckner and G. E. Enscoe, ed., Romanticism (2d ed. 1970); M. Praz, The Romantic Agony (tr., 2d ed. 1970); I. Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism (1999).
For treatment of romanticism in the visual arts, see K. Clark, The Romantic Rebellion (1974); H. Honour, Romanticism (1979); C. Rosen and H. Zerner, Romanticism and Realism (1984); A. K. Wiedmann, Romantic Roots in Modern Art (1984). In music, see A. Einstein, Music in the Romantic Era (1947); R. M. Longyear, Nineteenth Century Romanticism in Music (1969); P. Conrad, Romantic Opera and Literary Form (1981).


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Internal Categories
Just like we have monid objects, we can actually define something we could sensibly call a "category object". In this case, however, it will be a little more accurate to use the term "internal category".
This is because a (small) category isn't just a set with extra structure. It's two sets with extra structure. We have a set of objects, a set of morphisms, a function assigning the identity morphism to each object, functions and assigning the source and target objects to each morphism, and an arrow telling us how to compose certain pairs of morphisms. This involves a "fibered product", which is just the pullback in . We take the arrows and from to and pull back the square to get the set of all pairs of morphisms so that the source object of one is the target of the other.
Then there are a bunch of relations which hold:
- The source of the identity arrow on an object is the object itself.
- The target of the identity arrow on an object is the object itself.
- The identity arrow on an object acts as a left and right identity for the composition.
- The source of a composition is the source of the second member of the pair.
- The target of a composition is the target of the first member of the pair.
- The composition is associative.
I'll leave you to write these out purely in terms of the functions , , , and .
Now we can take this whole setup and drop it into any other category, as long as that category has pairwise pullbacks. If does have these pullbacks, then a category internal to (or a "category object") consists of a pair of objects and four morphisms of , which must satisfy the above relations. Then a category internal to is a small category.
When we're talking about categorifying something like a group, we want to replace the underlying set of a group with a small category. That is, we want to have a group object in . But we know that internalizations commute, so this is the same thing as a "category object" in groups! That is, instead of looking for a category with a multiplication functor and so on, we can instead look for a pair of groups with source, target, composition, and identity homomorphisms between them.


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His first sensation was that it was cold, and wet, but not uncomfortably so at least. It meant that his current host had standards, and, considering his history, probably some decent ones. The gentle sound of waves lapping at the ship allowed him some moments to think, and to adjust his robe (still a lovely shade of forest green, thankfully) and take in the surroundings.
It was a pleasant night, too, one blessed by a full moon that would've made it easy to sail by if he were still so inclined. It made him vaguely miss the days of slogging through the forests, discovering new and exciting things no other beast had laid eyes on before. Perhaps those days weren't as behind him as he'd hoped at one point, years ago, when he was younger, more reckless. More in love with her. The pain was dim after so long, although it seemed as if the very ship he was on let out a slight groan in echo of it. "Don't move."
A form peeled away from the shadows of the deck, revealing a shrew with vaguely white shirt and brown trousers, with a red bandanna on his head. The slightly hungry look in the shrew's eyes filled the green-robed visitor with a feeling of deep sympathy, but the unsheathed cutlass barely pricking his skin filled him with a small bit of worry. "So, we gots ourselves a stowaway, do we? Cap'n don't like stowaways, ya know, not one bit."
"Your 'captain' is expecting me."
"Oh, that's as what they all sez, heheheh..." The visitor fixes his shrew captor with a gaze speaking of complete and utter calm, waiting for the shrew to make a move. For a moment, recognition seems to dawn on the shrew, and the robed personage barely catches a muttered "...cap'ns not gonna like this..." before the shrew finally relents. "Cap'n! Stowaway here t' see you!"
"What'd I tell ya to do with stowaways after th' last time?" "Run em through, but..." "No buts, dammit." "But cap'n..." A long, drawn out sigh answers from what the visitor presumes is the captain's quarters. Finally, a bit of shuffling can be heard, and finally, the sound of the captain getting up and heading out to the deck. Even knowing what he did, the visitor had to fight down a bit of awe at seeing the noble-looking lupine form stride out of the captain's cabin, a small but familiar rat following behind.
"Oh... shit. Its you." the wolf captain replies. For a moment, the captain seems to be shocked. Finally, he settles on leaning on a rail, looking out at the moonlight reflected in the water. "Why the hell did you think coming HERE was a good idea?" Bitterness is strong in that statement. A whole world of it.... but a little sadness too. The visitor stood there, silent for a moment as he pondered this. Then, "I came to see you. To see what you're like."
"Spying on me for his sake, eh? Fine then. I ain't got nothin' to hide."
"Because you hide enough from him, is that right Aramis?"
For a moment, as if by trick of the light, the wolf seemed a little more... mangy. The tail a little less hairy, perhaps. The captain, Aramis, frowned at the visitor then. "Ain't right to go peepin' at people's secrets, ya know." he replied warningly.
"Its hard not to notice. What, do you think he will hate you? Fear you after all this time?" responded the visitor. Aramis merely stood there and watched the moon at that. "You don't think he's caught on by this time? You stole from good beasts. You lied and cheated, even killed."
"Yeah, so what if I have?" said the wolf, as if these revelations did not matter. "Why would they want us anyway? Why should they even care?" The almost-whispered comment from the small rat caused the visitor's head to turn to him, still hiding behind the wolf's tail. The kid.... he seemed utterly frightened, with a scrawny, malnourished look to him. The visitor, realizing something, looked from the kid to the wolf, wondering how things had come to this for him. Aramis suddenly turns to the visitor with a hard stare. "That's why you're here, after all, ain't it? To tell him to leave me the fuck alone?"
"He's trusted you with his life so far. And hers." At that the wolf gave out a low chuckle. "Yeah, well, nobeast's perfect, right?"
"You should believe in him, trust him. He means well, and does his best to help everybeast he can."
"That's just it. He's not LIKE me. He's never had to steal to survive, to learn to fight or have everything he owns taken from him, to ha..."
"That doesn't matter."
"Whatever. It don't mean he needs someone like me along holding him back and shit."
"You're his friend," replies the visitor. "And he believes in you. Trusts that you won't do anything that isn't necessary. You haven't so far, and I doubt you will. After all, you know what its like to be hated. Feared. And you've overcome that. For the wrong reasons, sure, but you did."
"I just.. don't feel like I'm good enough." At that statement, plain and simple, the visitor chuckled. "That's a good sign in itself, at least. And the gods seem to have special plans for you, too. You'll need help for those, and he is willing to help. So am I, for that matter."
Aramis, now a rat, chuckles and looks over at the green-robed one once more. "You know, for such a fearsome warrior, you're not so bad a beast." The visitor just smiles and adjusts his robe before heading towards the single rowboat. "Perhaps we can talk again, Aramis. And maybe before then you'll be able to tell him that you had that crush on him." The rat boy squeals gleefully and heads back towards the cabin as Aramis himself stays to sputter. "Wh...WHAT? How'd you find that out! Hey! GET BACK HERE!"
But by then, Martin had already sailed away, leaving Aramis alone and pondering what this intrusion meant for the future.
(Writing this at 2:30 AM, like all of my bad and/or crazy ideas. Its pretty much coming out of my head as-is with no guarantees, so please tell me what you think.)


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This a tougher question than it sounds. The simple answer is: The National Fire Protection Association Standard 211 says, "Chimneys, fireplaces, and vents shall be inspected at least once a year for soundness, freedom from deposits, and correct clearances. Cleaning, maintenance, and repairs shall be done if necessary." This is the national safety standard and is the correct way to approach the problem. It takes into account the fact that even if you don't use your Chimney Cleaning FAQs much, animals may build nests in the flue or there may be other types of deterioration that could make the chimney unsafe to use.
The Chimney Safety Institute of America recommends that open masonry fireplaces should be swept at 1/8″ of sooty buildup, and sooner if there is any glaze present in the system. This is considered to be enough fuel buildup to cause a chimney fire capable of damaging the chimney or spreading to the home. Factory-built fireplaces should be swept when any appreciable buildup occurs. The logic is that the deposit is quite acidic and can shorten the life of the fireplace. Chimney Cleaning FAQs Wayzata MN
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Q7. Have you made business with any large companies? A: Yes, we have long term business clients, such as Goodbaby, Cybex, Uppababy, Johnson etc.


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BEST OF 2008: Check out our package of year-end best-of content. We've got a look at the best political moments of the year, several movie and music features, a roundup of the best weird news stories, a special look at 2009 and more. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/features/x415884208/GateHouse-presents-Best-of-2008
SPECIFICS ON INAUGURATION PLANS: Find answers to your questions about the inauguration special section plans and more on ghnewsroom.com.
YEAR-END PACKAGES: Get ideas of how to involve readers, look at 2009 issues in year-end packages on ghnewsroom.com
NEW YEAR'S CONTENT: Check out our links package of New Year's Eve/New Year's Day content. Links will be added as new stories are posted. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/homepage/x16588296/New-Years-Eve-content
BOOMERS MAGAZINE: Check out our quarterly Boomers publication.
INTERACTIVE HOLIDAY GREETINGS: See how the State Journal-Register created an interactive holiday greeting opportunity for its readers.
MORNING MINUTES: Word of the Day, Web Site of the Day and Number to Know. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/morning_minutes
LOOKING UP: (moved early because of the holiday) What time is it? If you left your watch at home and the stars are out, just look up. You can learn at least a general idea of the hour knowing the time of year. (Note: Column moving early this week because of Christmas.) http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/features/x1060483879/Looking-Up-Telling-time-under-the-stars
TABLE TALK: Children are no longer expected to be seen and not heard, to rise when visitors enter the room or to speak only when spoken to, but learning to mind their manners is still an ages-old, though updated, lesson taught today in the Boston area. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/east/massachusetts/x946490759/Table-talk-How-kids-can-develop-manners
DR. MURRAY FEINGOLD: At times, the holiday season can be detrimental to your health. However, there are a number of measures that you can take that will help prevent this from happening. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/health/x1060487809/Dr-Murray-Feingold-Be-holiday-humble-about-keeping-healthy
DARIN ST. GEORGE: Don't make the wrong moves in the gym. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/health/x1647207084/Darin-St-George-What-am-I-doing-right
DR. JEFF HERSH: My dad was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, and the doctors said the best plan was to hold off on treatment and "wait and watch." Isn't leukemia a serious condition that needs treatment? http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/health/x946490709/Dr-Jeff-Hersh-Different-types-of-leukemia
SUDOKU PUZZLES: Latest installment is on the site.
POP QUIZ: Think you know the key moments of 2008 pop culture? Take this quiz to find out. (Story embargoed until Sunday.) http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/holidays_seasonal/x1277298782/Think-you-know-pop-culture-2008-Take-this-quiz-to-find-out
BEST OF 2008: The year's best music http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/music/x260980715/
BEST OF 2008: Will Pfeifer takes a look at the best DVDs of the year. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/dvds_cds/x1737132599/Best-of-2008-The-years-best-DVDs
TOP 18 MOVIES OF THE YEAR: Ed Symkus weighs in with his picks for 2008.
TOP MOVIES OF THE YEAR: Al Alexander takes a look at the year's best movies. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x1060485219/Best-of-2008-Ledger-Downey-Slumdog-lead-the-way-in-a-year-of-great-movie-moments
--With list of the good, bad and ugly: http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x16585256/Best-of-2008-The-best-and-worst-of-this-year-s-movies
'WRESTLER' DIRECTOR: Profile on Darren Aronofsky, who packs a punch in his film, starring Mickey Rourke. SYMKUS, CNC
'WRESTLER' REVIEW: Rourke and Tomei a winning tag team in 'Wrestler'. ALEXANDER, LEDGER
'BENJAMIN BUTTON' REVIEW: 'Gump' wannabe 'Benjamin Button' doesn't even have a hot Brad Pitt working for it. ALEXANDER, LEDGER
'GRAN TORINO' REVIEW: Vintage Eastwood drives 'Gran Torino.' http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x946488670/Vintage-Eastwood-drives-Gran-Torino
'VALKYRIE' REVIEW: Tom Cruise weakens weak 'Valkyrie.' http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x946488663/Cruise-weakens-weak-Valkyrie
MYSTERY OF LIFE: Crime author Margaret Press, of Salem, finds inspiration in the everyday. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/east/massachusetts/x946490720/The-mystery-of-life-Crime-author-finds-inspiration-in-the-everyday
O'MAHONEY CARTOON: On returning gifts and Obama. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/east/massachusetts_cartoons/x1060483916/OMahoney-cartoon-On-returning-Christmas-presents
BRITT: Toon on taxpayers getting soaked by bailouts.
PHILIP MADDOCKS: Embattled AIG will put its CEO up for sale in an attempt to raise capital.
WOOD ON WORDS: As time passes, so do the meanings of words - A few days ago we found out whether we had been bad or good. This week we'll resolve to be better. Time marches on.
ELIZABETH DAVIES: These resolutions will stick - I'm not even trying to lose weight for the New Year this time around. Never mind that I'm waddling into 2009 about eight months pregnant, so weight loss is pretty much an intangible dream right now. The reality is, I've lived through New Year's resolutions long enough to know that wanting to lose 10 pounds in January isn't the same as actually doing it.
LLOYD GARVER: I can't be the only person who feels that the end of 2008 has dragged on and on. It seems like 2008 will never end. Doesn't it seem like it's been the longest year ever? http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/features/x1647206289/Lloyd-Garver-2008-not-so-great#
RICK HOLMES: Tough choices on the economy for President-elect Barack Obama, America's next CEO. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/features/x16588335/Rick-Holmes-Tough-choices-for-Obama-Americas-new-CEO
BOB ELLIS: Ode to a New Year's resolution.
EDITORIAL: The legacy of Mark Felt's bold secret - Without the help of Mark Felt, one of this nation's great political scandals might have ended quite differently. But despite conflicted loyalties and unknowable pressures, Felt took a stand on behalf of truth, accountability and the law. An editorial from the Peoria Journal Star.
FOOTBALL BRIEFS: PFW news on the Patriots, Titans, Texans and Browns, plus the latest Fantasy Buzz. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/pro/football/fantasy_football/x16588215/Football-briefs-Prospect-of-running-another-club-growing-on-Pioli
MIKE NADEL: 2008 was annoying, crazy, inspirational sports year
INSIDE THE LINES: Peoria Journal Star Sports Editor Bill Liesse takes an irreverent look at this weekend's NFL games. Will be posted this evening.
SUNDAY QUICK SHOTS: By Matt Trowbridge of the Rockford Register Star. Will be posted Saturday evening for use Sunday.
THIS YEAR IN WEIRD: A roundup of the year's best weird news stories, as reported by GateHouse newspapers. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/features/x1060480653/This-Year-in-Weird
WHAT'S IN/WHAT'S OUT: Isn't it fine? It's 2009! Your guide to what's in and what's out - Is it really possible that another year has already gone by? Well, aging is out, so we'd rather not admit it — but it's true, 2009 looms just around the bend. And that means it's time for us to bring you your annual update on what's in and out in society, politics, the arts, sports and life in general. CNC, Chianca et al, on wire now
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OBAMA'S TEAM: Who's who in Obama's White House. Here's a list that we're continually updating: Rahm Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett, Ronald A. Klain, Phil Sciliro, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, Ellen Moran, Dan Pfeiffer, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Melody Barnes, Christina Romer, Heather A. Higginbottom, Alyssa Mastromonaco, Peter Orszag, Rob Nabors, Austan Goolsbee, Paul Volcker, Jonathan Favreau, Cecilia Muñoz, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, James Jones, Robert Gates, Janet Napolitano, Susan Rice, Louis Caldera, Bill Richardson, Eric K. Shinseki, Tom Daschle, Jeanne M. Lambrew, Arne Duncan, Tom Vilsack and Ken Salazar. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/politics_elections/x466656920/
INAUGURATION: Check out our links package of the prepared preview page of the inauguration, as well as other content. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/features/x1009174358/Inauguration-preview-page-and-original-content
AIRING GRIEVANCES: Lawmakers air grievances with Blagojevich in impeachment hearings - SPRINGFIELD – It's enough to make Frank Costanza proud. A special committee of House lawmakers has just spent several days "airing grievances" with Gov. Rod Blagojevich, not far from the tall, blue aluminum pole standing in the Capitol rotunda -- both part of the fictional Festivus holiday the character created on the popular 'Seinfeld' sitcom a decade ago. By Ryan Keith of the State Capitol bureau. For use Monday, Dec. 29.
Business / Ag
BIZ BITS: Weekly rail, leads with resolving to manage your credit in 2009. Also includes Forbes list of the richest fictional characters and more.
FEWER HOLIDAY RETURNS: Gift cards lessen post-holiday returns - SPRINGFIELD – Some businesses say they no longer anticipate a post-Christmas rush of returns and exchanges of unwanted holiday presents due in part to the popularity of gift-card giving. With gift cards, people can be their own "Santas." By Tamara Browning of the State Journal-Register.
GEARING UP FOR RETURNS: Many happy returns: Stores ready for different kind of rush - ROCKFORD – Now that the rush for Christmas gifts is done, stores are preparing for a whole new slew of traffic from holiday returns. Although the National Retail Federation's 2008 holiday returns survey stated 65.2 percent of gift recipients did not return any gifts last year, stores still are adjusting their return policies to be more accommodating to gift returnees. By Sean F. Driscoll of the Rockford Register Star.
RESTAURANTS AND NUTRITION INFO: Standardized nutrition info may be next on restaurants' menus - ROCKFORD – Denise Nanni seeks the nutrition information for food when she dines out. It's one step in her plan to stay healthy after being diagnosed as diabetic 14 years ago. More restaurants nationally are providing nutrition information either at the restaurants or online, said Mike Donohue, vice president of media relations for the National Restaurant Association. The problem lies in that individual states, counties and cities have passed different rules for calculating and posting the information. Legislation was introduced in Chicago, for instance, but not enacted. By Melissa Westphal of the Rockford Register Star.
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Welcome to the Ready! Set! School! Parent Center. The resources listed below are made available on this site to help parents find more experiences and ideas to prepare their children for kindergarten. You can access these resources at any time by clicking on the top menu.
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Marcassin Three Sisters Vineyard Chardonnay 2004
Winemaker Notes
Critical AcclaimAll Vintages
Marcassin (french for 'young wild boar') is a VERY small winery – in fact it's so small that the wines have actually been made at the Martinelli winery in Russian River Valley. Located on the Sonoma Coast, the Marcassin vineyard is planted to 50/50 Chardonnay and Pinot Noir and is about 10 acres in size. Fruit for the other vineyard designated wines is sourced from other neighboring vineyards. Marcassin will always be a small winery; John & Helen feel the perfect size is 100 barrels, enough for 2,500 cases.
Helen's winemaking philosophy is simple: great vineyards, meticulously farmed, limited yield, long hang time and natural yeast. She approaches every project with these same priorities.


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What many people think of as generic Middle Eastern Food is, in fact, Lebanese. Lebanon, a country whose history is fraught with conflict, is also a center of culture widely influential all over the Arab-speaking world.
By far the largest community of foreigners to arrive in Mexico is from Lebanon. Since the end of the 19th century, there have been several waves of immigration of people from Arabic speaking nations, principally Lebanon, but from Syria and Iraq as well. At present, there are upwards of 400,000 people in the country of Lebanese descent, mostly in Mexico City, Mérida and Puebla. Escaping the persecution of the rigid Ottoman regime, the first wave of immigrants arrived between 1880 and 1910, during
the so-called Porfiriato, when Mexico received foreign immigrants with open arms. More came before and during World War II, once again to a post-revolutionary Mexico looking for some new input. A final wave arrived after the civil war of 1990. The majority are Orthodox Catholic, although some are Jewish and a few are Muslims. Many run garment and textile shops and factories, others, who settled in the Yucatan, became rich in the hemp industry. They all seem to have blended into a tightly knit community, despite religious differences. Illustrious Mexicans of Lebanese descent include moneybags Carlos Slim, glamour puss Salma Hayak, poet Jaime Sabines and underground diva Astrid Hadad. These days, most are people who were born here and have adapted to Mexican culture - they consider themselves Mexican and are not particularly connected to the homeland.
Naturally, Arab and Lebanese-Mexicans have left a distinctive mark on Mexican cooking. Ethnic groups who arrive in a new country where familiar ingredients are not available, always have to adapt, and so often the creative fusion of the old and new produces exciting new dishes. Most notable here is the spit roasted meat served as tacos and known all over the country as "al pastor". This quintessentially Mexican dish was born on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean as shawarma and is known in its first-genreration form here as tacos Arabes. The Mexicanized version, which developed in the capital, is made with pork, chili, and fresh pineapple.
Lebanese specialties that have been adapted are kibbeh, jocoque and stuffed grape leaves, here called tacos de parra. Kibbeh is a paste of ground meat (traditionally lamb but here, often pork or beef). In Mexico it's sometimes called kebe and comes in various formats, sometimes raw, similar to steak tartar, or as a fried crusty ball (kebe bola). It is usually served with a green salsa or jocoque, a form of yogurt that has been drained of some of its liquid.
Stuffed grape leaves became tacos de parra, filled with seasoned rice and ground meat. Spinach turnovers here are called empanadas de espinaca, flavored with parsely and mint and spices. The ever popular garbanzo dip called hummus, the eggplant dip known as baba ganouj and the herb and bulgar salad called tabouleh are ubiquitous, and retain their distinctly Lebanese identity. The flat bread called pita is served at all meals. It is perfect for scooping up hummus, baba ganouj, jocoque or kebe cruda. Pita is also served sprinkled with the spice mixture zahtar, baked in the oven and served as chips for dipping.
Lebanese desserts are sweetened with honey or sugar syrup, filled with nuts or dates and perfumed with orange and rose flower waters.
Amongst the many Middle Eastern and specifically Lebanese places I have tried, two stand out.
Restaurante Al Andalus
Mesones 171 (several blocks east of Pino Suarez)
Tel. 5522- 2528
Open daily 9-6
Branch: a small cafe in Colonia Napoles at Nueva York no. 91
Situated in a lovely 18th c. mansion in the centro, near many Arab-owned businesses, this restaurant opened its doors 15 years ago. Founded by chef Mohamed Mazeh, whose goal is to provide fresh and authentic foods and to dispel the idea that Lebanese cuisine is greasy or heavy. The large wood-beamed dining rooms look over an old patio at trees and other colonial buildings - it is hard to believe you are surrounded by the epi-center of the teeming centro.
A "plato Libanés" could be your whole lunch. All of its components are correctly done and beautifully presented. Composed of nine elements, the 'dips' are distinctly flavored, grape leaves fresh and retaining their texture, kepes crunchy and spicy and a typical rice and lentil mixture moist and toothsome. Other entradas are jocoque seco con anchoas (dry sour cream with anchovies); shashlish (a paste of anchovies, capers and fine herbes); falafel (a "croqueta" of fava and garbanzo); the kibbeh, here spelled 'kepes'. One of their specialties for innards-lovers is tripa de cordero rellena (stuffed tripe of lamb).
I recommend the taco de chorizo arabe, tender, aromatic chunks of spicy, tart chorizo bathed in jocoque and parsley and blanketed in a warm, freshly baked pita. Desserts are, as usual, the aforementioned very sweet honey cakes and the coffee is strong and fresh. Prices are reasonable – lunch for 2 should be $300-400 pesos.
El Jamil
Amsterdam 306, corner of Celaya, Condesa
Tel: 5564-9486
Open Monday-Saturday 2pm-11pm, Sunday 1pm-7pm
Mexico's only truly authentic Lebanese restaurant is the dream-come-true of chef and owner Mohamed Jamil. He presides over every aspect of his restaurant – you will recognize him by his movie-star good looks. A native of Beirut, he studied hotel and restaurant management but his dream was to share his love of good cuisine. In Mexico he saw the opportunity to do something a little different – to create a higher end, cleaner "hipper" venue for fresh and creative Lebanese cuisine. "What most of the world thinks of as Middle eastern food is actually Lebanese," he claims. "Our menu is 100% authentic, not the usual fusion of cultures. Someone came in and asked for cous cous recently" he recalls, bemusedly. (Cous cous, remember, is from North Africa, not the Middle East). " I invited them to eat here and they were just blown away….they didn't even miss the cous cous". He imports some of his own products: cracked wheat, olives, oil and grape leaves are of the highest quality. There are standard mezze (appetizers) – I like the eggplant, sort of a deconstructed baba ganouj, redolent of its oven roasting and anointed with good green olive oil. Standout main dishes are the tender beef brochettes, and, my favorite (and the chef's), fish filets in sesame sauce dotted with roast pine nuts. This dish will be a surprise to all who thought of Lebanese food as meaty and heavy. The decor is simple, the music authentic (Fairuz, the grand diva of Lebanese song reigns supreme), and the sidewalk tables, each with its own water pipe, have views of tree-lined Avenida Amsterdam. The food is clean and fresh, the bread hot and service attentive. El Jamil is a favorite of both locals and members of the tribe.
Also worth visiting are:
Café Jekemir
Isabel la Catolica 72, near Mesones, Centro
Tel: 5709-7038
Forget those ubiquitous Seattle-based chains. I make a trip to this place in the Centro to buy my Veracruzano coffee beans; they are the best as well as the cheapest. You can also sit here to have a cup of coffee and Lebanese pastries or light food. Owned and run by several generations of a Lebanese family, it is still presided over by the Guraieb sisters and, when he is able, their father Fred, son of the founder.
Dumas Gourmet
Alejandro Dumas 125, near Mazaryk, Polanco
Tel.: 5280-1925/8385
Open Monday - Friday 8am - 8pm, Saturday 10am - 9pm,
Sunday 11am - 6pm
Glamorous chef Sonia El-Nawal, an ex-New Yorker of Lebanese descent, presides over her sleek "traiteur" style store with interesting Mediterranian dishes to eat at home, many of them out of the Lebanese lexicon, others smart creative fusions.On sale as well are good breads and gourmet products. www.dumasgourmet.com
Al Malak Productos Arabes
Av. Cuauhtemoc 160 at Guanajuato, Roma
Open daily 9:30am-7 pm
This shop and restaurant sells the best Lebanese pastries I've ever had. Also available are olives, nuts, couscous and breads. They have a small restaurant which offers light food.
Hegel 205, Polanco
Branch in Tecamachalco, Av. de Las Fuentes no. 49-B
Open daily Monday-Wednesday 1PM-12AM, Thursday-Saturday 1PM-2AM, Sunday 1–7PM
Tel. 5531- 6940/ 5531-8081
This well known Polanco venue serves generous portions of typical Lebanese fare including good hummus, tabule "tacos Arabes", and kibbe. There is a well stocked shop around the corner featuring breads, olives and excellent Middle Eastern pastries.
Rep. del Salvador 157, (between Las Cruces & Jesus Maria), Centro
Inside an unassuming doorway a few blocks east of the Zocaló, at the end of the dingy hall, is an excellent take away - great pastries both savory and sweet. It has been here since 1949 and is still run by the grandson of the founder. His name is Helu - is he related to Carlos Slim?
La Nueva Libanesa
Dr. Vertiz no. 1111, Colonia Navarte
Tel. 5575-4324
Open daily, 10-10PM
This family-style place offers a copious lunch-time buffet.
Restaurante Miguel
Córdoba 226, Colonia Roma
Open Sunday 10-8, Monday-Thursday 10-10, Friday, Saturday until 11PM.
This dependable restaurant, frequented by Lebanese Mexicans, offers an enormous buffet comida on Wednesday and Friday. If you are lucky, they will put out the superb roast leg of lamb. It's a deal at $150…
Gante 11-A, Centro
Good Middle-eastern food is served at outdoor tables on this pedestrian-only street.
Text and Photos © 2009 Nicholas Gilman - all rights reserved.
Photo Sonia El-Nawal courtesy Dumas Gourmet
The Lebanese Connection: Middle Eastern Cuisine in Mexico City
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Thanks! We'll be in Mexico, D.F. next weekend, and El Jamil may be on our "must try" list.ReplyDelete
Don Cuevas
You´re worth every penny you´re paid, señor.ReplyDelete
Wonderful topic. We have Lebanese family in Washington, DC, who own a string of very popular restaurants with fantastic food. Until now, we did not know where to begin here to find the tastes we love and new variations.ReplyDelete
Wonderful topic! We have Lebanese family in Washington, DC, who own restaurants with fantastic -- and very healty -- food. Until now, we did not know where to begin to look for the tastes we already love and new variations. We'll be starting at Jamil's this weekend.ReplyDelete
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Server Side Includes
What are Server Side Includes?
SSI [Server Side Includes] are directives that are placed in HTML pages, and evaluated on the server while the pages are being served. They let you add dynamically generated content to an existing HTML page, without having to serve the entire page via a CGI program, or other dynamic technology.
The decision of when to use SSI, and when to have your page entirely generated by some program, is usually a matter of how much of the page is static, and how much needs to be recalculated every time the page is served. SSI is a great way to add small pieces of information, such as the current time. But if a majority of your page is being generated at the time that it is served, you need to look for some other solution.
Configuring your account to permit SSI
Using your favorite editor create a file called .htaccess in the web directory where you want to permit SSI. In the .htaccess file, you'll need the following directives:
Options +Includes
This tells Apache that you want to permit files to be parsed for SSI directives. Not just any file is parsed for SSI directives. You have to tell Apache which files should be parsed. There are two ways to do this. You can tell Apache to parse any file with a particular file extension, such as .shtml, with the following directives:
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
Basic SSI directives
SSI directives have the following syntax:
<!–#element attribute=value attribute=value … –>
It is formatted like an HTML comment, so if you don't have SSI correctly enabled, the browser will ignore it, but it will still be visible in the HTML source. If you have SSI correctly configured, the directive will be replaced with its results. The element can be one of a number of things.
Ex: Today's date
<!–#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" –>
The echo element just spits out the value of a variable. There are a number of standard variables, which include the whole set of environment variables that are available to CGI programs. Also, you can define your own variables with the set element.
If you don't like the format in which the date gets printed, you can use the config element, with a timefmt attribute, to modify that formatting.
<!–#config timefmt="%A %B %d, %Y" –>
Today is <!–#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" –>
Modification date of the file
This document last modified <!–#flastmod file="index.html" –>
This element is also subject to timefmt format configurations.
Including the results of a CGI program
This is one of the more common uses of SSI – to output the results of a CGI program, such as everybody's favorite, a "hit counter."
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Ensure that glass is clean and at room temperature – approx 20Oc (68Of).
Brush onto glass evenly.
Produce texture using a small dry sponge roller or a small synthetic sponge, working lightly across the wet surface.
Use masking tape and stencils to create your designs, in positive or negative. Carefully remove tape and stencil before medium dries.
Use only soapy water to clean glass once frosted.
To produce coloured frosting add Polyvine Universal Colourant or for a metallic finish add Polyvine Metallic Paint.
Always try the technique on a test piece before embarking on the project.
Protect from extremes of temperature during storage and application.
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Non-hazardous. Ensure good ventilation.
Keep out of reach of children. Contact with eyes - wash immediately with warm water. Remove excess from tools and mixing vessels before washing in warm soapy water. Do not empty into drains or watercourses.


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Hydro's governance model is shown in the figure below.
Company shareholders exercise ultimate authority through the general meeting. Shareholders registered in VPS, the Norwegian Central Securities Depository, can vote in person or by proxy.
Eighteen members. Twelve are elected by the General Meeting of Shareholders, six are elected by and among the group's employees in Norway.
In accordance with Norwegian law, the Board of Directors assumes the overall governance of the company, ensures that appropriate management and control systems are in place and supervises the day-to-day management as carried out by the President and CEO.
According to Norwegian corporate law, the President & CEO constitutes a formal governing body that is responsible for the daily management of the company.
The Nomination committee consists of four members. who shall be shareholders or shareholders' representatives
Consists of four of the board of directors' nine members. The audit committee meets Norwegian requirements regarding independence and competence.
Consists of three of the Board of Directors' nine members.


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