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Ohio State stifles Marquette to end home winning streak
A short jumper off the glass. A stutter-step shot that drew a foul. An easy layup after a teammate sealed off a defender in the middle.
After a bruising tussle with Marquette in the first half, Shannon Scott helped energize No. 10 Ohio State early in the second half for a big win on the road.
Scott scored 13 points, including the three buckets during the 12-4 run after halftime, and the Buckeyes pulled away for a 52-35 win Saturday over the cold-shooting, 17th-ranked Golden Eagles.
Sam Thompson also scored 13, while Aaron Craft added 10 points and 10 assists for the Buckeyes (3-0), who ended Marquette's 27-game home winning streak, second-longest in the nation.
It was the school's first loss at home since Vanderbilt beat the Golden Eagles 74-57 on Dec. 29, 2011. Only South Dakota State (30) had a longer winning streak in the country entering Saturday.
Didn't look like they could pull it off after shooting just 27 percent in the first half. But things opened up after halftime, when coach Thad Matta's team was 15 of 26 from the field (58 percent).
"Eventually, it's got to go in the basket," Matta said in recounting a halftime talk. "Fortunately we had that run. It was the difference in the game."
Scott, Craft and Thompson were the sparks, while Marquette (2-1) came out flat in the second half in front of a full house of 18,700 friendly fans in the BMO Harris Bradley Center.
"As I told our guys, I don't feel sorry for us at all. They beat us," coach Buzz Williams said. "They beat us straight up. They beat us at home before a sellout crowd."
It certainly didn't help that the Golden Eagles had 20 turnovers and shot just 10 of 53 (19 percent) for the game, including 4 of 24 (17 percent) in the second half.
Tied at 19 at halftime, the game opened up with Ohio State going on the run and finding room to maneuver inside.
Center Amir Williams started the spurt by muscling out Chris Otule in the post for a basket. Then Williams sealed off Otule in the lane to allow Scott to go in for an uncontested layup.
After forcing a steal of Jake Thomas, Scott sped down the court and drew a foul on Thomas on the stutter-step jumper. Lenzelle Smith Jr. lowered his head driving the baseline and flipped up a tough shot around Marquette's big men for a 31-23 lead with 16:21 left.
"Defensively, we just didn't get back in transition, and from that point on they had the advantage," point guard Derrick Wilson said. '
Coach Williams called a timeout that briefly settled his team before the Buckeyes pulled away again.
Ohio State had just three turnovers in the second half to 10 for the Golden Eagles, who are breaking in a new backcourt with last year's starting trio of Vander Blue, Junior Cadougan and Trent Lockett all gone.
Wilson is the new starter at the point. Todd Mayo, helping to fill the minutes left by Blue's departure at shooting guard, led the Golden Eagles with 11 points.
Whatever the reason, Ohio State found its rhythm on the fastbreak, with a 16-0 edge, including 12-0 in the second half.
"The biggest thing we wanted to do was get out in transition," Craft said. "If we could get rebounds and run, we could get lay-ups before they could set up. And that's what we wanted to do."
It was another momentous day in Craft's career after he eclipsed 1,000 career points, to become the first player in team history to have that many points along with 500 assists and 200 steals.
The bruising first half featured tussles under the bucket, plenty of rebounds and lots of missed shots. The teams combined to shoot 13 of 55 in a half that ended in a 19-all tie on Buckeye forward Marc Loving's 3 from the corner with 7 seconds left.
The Golden Eagles had briefly taken control with an 8-0 midway for an 18-14 lead with 4:47 left through the half by making tough shots in the lane, mainly with Amir Williams on the bench.
Marquette managed to outrebound Ohio State 50-34. Davante Gardner had 10 points and six rebounds.
The teams were scheduled to meet last year in the Carrier Classic in Charleston, S.C. aboard the USS Yorktown, but the game was called off because weather conditions caused a slippery court.


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A few weeks ago, Guppy and I were reading one of my all-time favourite children's books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.
Mr. Willy Wonka's Chocolate Store
It was so rewarding to snuggle with Guppy and read a chapter every night before bed, however, there was a down side.
Suddenly, I was constantly thinking about chocolate – just like poor Charlie!
Chocolate cravings don't generally hit me (ever), but I found with each passing chapter I was day dreaming about the stuff.
So I gave in.
I thought I would try something new, so I went for these two flavours from my favourite free trade brand – citron noir and noir quinoa. I thought they were both so fantastic that I would share them with you! I must share them with someone, they are that good.
The citron noir is loaded with candied lemon zest – lemon and chocolate! Brilliant. If you're not a big citrus/chocolate fan, then you'll probably prefer the quinoa and dark chocolate bar. Somewhat reminiscent of a crunchy type chocolate bar, this one was also a big hit with yours truly. Both bars are also vegan, organic and fair-trade so you can indulge without guilt.
Would you like some chocolate? Just leave a comment below and let me know which one you'd like – you've got until next Thursday, November 25th at midnight France standard time to enter. Winners will be announced before the end of Vegan MoFo. Wee!

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Kate Upton Named Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Cover Girl
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Kate Upton has been chosen to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition for the second year in a row.
"POLAR BARE: @KateUpton in Antarctica is your 2013 SI Swimsuit Cover Model! bit.ly/UMdgck #WhereISwim," the magazine tweeted on Friday along with this photo of the cover.
Check out stars who don't look their age
Upton, 20, was last year's cover girl and in 2011 was named the issue's Rookie of the Year. Just last weekend, the model made headlines for her racy Mercedes Super Bowl ad. (You can watch it here.)
The issue lands on newsstands Tuesday.
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Knotted necks? Not a problem. Soothing muscle aches? Mastered it. You're the one who knows what clients need to keep their bodies working. But when was the last time someone asked what YOU needed? Massage Envy franchised locations* provide a consistent clientele, all the supplies you need, comprehensive sanitizing and disinfecting protocols, a safe and therapeutic environment, and freedom from the marketing and administrative work that comes from running your own business. And that's just the beginning of how you'll be empowered to do more of what you love.
We're looking for people who are:
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Are you concerned about having a therapeutic space to practice massage with precautions in place to promote the safety of you and your clients?
Massage Envy franchisees have never been more committed to safety. Outside experts–leaders in their field–were engaged to review the Massage Envy brand standards targeted at sanitation and infection prevention and control with the safety and comfort of members, guests, and employees in mind. You can learn more about the brand standards that all Massage Envy franchisees must follow at https://www.massageenvy.com/about-us/health--and-safetyIf you're struggling to find a way to feel safe or comfortable practicing your craft on your own, join our team where you'll have access to all the disinfecting cleaners and equipment you need to get back to doing what you love.
As a massage therapist at our Lakeland franchised location, you're part of a team that's passionate about helping people feel their best through total body care. Our massage therapists are full-fledged employees and valued team members who get the support they need to feel safe and confident doing what they love. We take care of overhead costs and supplies, marketing, and building your book of business so you can focus on performing as many massages as you want. And with the repeat clientele that the membership model provides, you'll get to see the long-term impact your services make for members.And the perks don't stop there. We support and inspire you to be your best inside and outside the treatment room with:
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As a team, we're committed to offering excellent professional services that help clients do more of the things they love. Your role and the work you do every day is at the very heart of our mission. This includes:
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- Thirsty for knowledge, seeking continuing education to build on their modality mastery (which must include Swedish and deep tissue massage)
- Clear communicators who can effectively identify each client's needs, set clear expectations, and stay connected to the client throughout the session to achieve the goals of each service.
- Total body care champions who can recommend follow-up visits and additional services and products as needed to help clients pursue their wellness goals.
- Great teammates who show up on time ready to jump in wherever needed to get the job done.
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We're excited to hear from everyone with the skills, experience, and passion to do a great job. We do not unlawfully discriminate against any applicants or employees on any applicable legally protected basis, including race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
If you're ready to bring your healing skills to a place where you can focus on doing what you love, we can't wait to meet you.
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There is no Massage Envy without massage therapists. To celebrate all you do, the Massage Envy Therapist of the Year award program was created.
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America's Best Climbing Area: Red River Gorge
It took the spotlight of the Petzl Roctrip to show what the locals already knew: The Red River Gorge is America's Best Climbing Area.
What likely started as a small flame in the engine of an overheated truck erupted into a massive fire at Red River Outdoors.
RRO is just minutes down the road from Miguel's Pizza, the humming campground, restaurant and climbing emporium of the Red River Gorge, Kentucky. Matt and Amy Tackett had successfully cultivated RRO, a breakfast, Internet and guide-service boutique, into a staple of the geographically diffuse but tight-knit climbing community that calls the Red home. But on Tuesday afternoon, April 24, while Matt was out climbing, Amy had just enough time to escape the fast-moving fire and watch from afar as their future burned to the ground.
It didn't take long for the climbers milling around Miguel's in typical rest-day lethargy to show up on the scene.
Amy was standing outside, barefoot, says Dario Ventura, son of Miguel, so I brought her a pair of La Sportiva sandals from the store. Ventura's gesture was one among many as people gathered at the scene to help inventory lost items.
It was amazing, Michelle Ellington, wife of the local guidebook author Ray Ellington, said. Within hours [Amy] had more clothes than she'd had to begin with.
By the weekend, word of the disaster had spread. On Friday night, it looked like a Woodstock festival, says Bentley Brackett, a local climber from Tennessee. Despite the grim situation, Brackett says it was a happy time.
Everything that could be salvaged from the fire was sitting on the front porch, he says. This included the Tackett's wedding photo, now crumbled and brown around the edges, but intact nonetheless.
The fire had claimed mostly material possessions, as well as the Tacketts' beloved dog, River. But if anything, it illuminated how strong the local climbing community really is.
Gear donations from outdoor companies, a pancake breakfast at Miguel's, and a Paypal account set up on www.redriverclimbing.com brought in enough funds for the Tacketts to get their business rolling again.
They even raised $500 for a dog, says Ellington. Imagine that.
Unfortunately, the RRO fire is one of a few catastrophes to have stricken the Red in recent years. Guidebook author and prolific Red first ascentionist John Bronaugh died of a heart attack in autumn 2004; his son Alex was killed in a car accident only months later. Then, in 2006, Jeremy Petrovitch, an incredibly strong, talented climber from Ohio, was paralyzed in a car crash when he was hit by a drunk driver. The community responded to these unbearable events by raising money for the Bronaughs and to help offset Petrovich's medical costs. One of the many newly discovered crags was named in honor of John and Alex.
Here, says Brackett, if something happens, you know you're going to get taken care of.
The Red River Gorge is a complex landscape of dense forests, rivers and overhanging sandstone hollows. For climbers, it is like a chubby kid's pants: Treats are stuffed in every pocket. And with 750 acres in the Pendergrass-Murray Recreational Preserve alone, the possibilities for finding the tasties are practically endless.
Thick drapes of oaks, rhododendron and magnolia trees hide the cliffs from view most of the year, but locals take advantage of the winter visibility to search for new crags by starting atop known crags and walking along the cliff line. Kenny Barker, from Columbus, Ohio, has pioneered many of the new crags in recent years. His outstanding Purgatory is home to the Red's first 5.14c, Lucifer, first sent by Canadian Mike Doyle, in 2006, and many other five-star 5.13b's and a few excellent trad lines.
There's endless cliff line on [the PMRP] alone, Barker says. Roughly 34 crags have been discovered in just the past five years, and that's not even counting those still unknown to the general public. On a cold, rainy afternoon in the fall of 2006, Barker and Doyle unearthed the newest area gem, the Chocolate Factory. The crag, Barker and Doyle decided, would be the perfect place for the Ultimate Routes for the Petzl RocTrip, when a team of mega athletes would visit their home area.
This rare type of freedom for the Southeast®to have a wealth of rock that's perfectly suited for climbing at your fingertips, and to be permitted to find and develop it®came slowly, only after years of labored efforts by local climbers in love with the region. Hugh Loeffler, longtime Red local, remembers the Murray property discovery in 1994/95.
Jeff Moll, Chris Martin and Gene Hume had already been climbing at Drive-By crag, says Loeffler. At the time no one cared who owned it. We were still in the infancy of responsibility.
However, in 1996, after Loeffler and fellow locals had explored the property beyond these emergent crags and stumbled across lines that would later become A Clean Well-Lighted Face (5.14a) and Skeletor (5.14c), he wanted to know who owned it. I knew just looking at it that it was world-class climbing and the most aesthetic lines I'd ever seen. I knew people would come if they found out.
Loeffler tracked down the owners, first by asking around among the oil workers that were manning the rigs in the area. As he recalls, relations between climbers and the oil workers at the time were pleasant.
Using the workers' information, he contacted James Paul Murray, an insurance adjustor who lived on Fixer Road. Loeffler said to Murray, Look man, here's the deal: We want to climb on your land, and if we climb there we are going to bolt some routes. You have world-class property. If you let us bolt there, you will have lots of people climbing on your land.
He says today, I wanted to be able to sleep at night knowing I had given him full disclosure. When Loeffler returned a few weeks later, Murray told him, You can climb all you want, but I don't have to know about it. Murray said he would be happy for people to enjoy his property, and gave Loeffler and his fellow climbers a go-ahead.
The climbers were not the only ones with their eyes on the land. These rocky hills are pregnant with natural gas and infamous black gold, and Charmane Oil, the predominant company, had not only been drilling the land, but was always looking for new reserves. So when the land was put on the market in 2004, the Red River Gorge Climbers' Coalition (RRGCC) and Charmane Oil were both interested in investing in land that, in very disparate ways, held great wealth and potential.
The RRGCC, penniless when compared to Charmane, missed the original deadline to make a payment for the property, and the oil company stepped up and told Murray that it not only had the down payment, but was ready to buy the land right away. Yet because climbers had shown such congeniality to Murray, he told Charmane, Over my dead body, and moved the deadline back.
With efforts from Dr. Bob Matheny, current RRGCC president, and a $15,000 grant from the Access Fund, $83,000 was initially secured in December 2004.
The RRGCC successfully purchased the 750 acres of property, and named it the Pendergrass-Murray Recreation Preserve to honor Murray's mother and family. This was the largest land purchase ever made by a group of climbers, and every year the RRGCC is tasked with coming up with $30,000 in mortgage payments, money raised entirelyby communal donations and fundraising events such as the annual Rocktoberfest (joined this fall by the Petzl RocTrip).
At first, coming up with the cash was difficult and grim. In 2006, three months before the initial mortgage payment was due, the RRGCC had less than $3,000 in the bank. The coalition needed $29,000.
This time, under the aegis of Michelle Ellington, the community took over and raised the money though raffles, shirt sales, an online PayPal account and postings on various websites. In less than five months, the community brought in $27,000.
Having previously relied on private funding, Morgain Sprague, who later became RRGCC volunteer and fundraising coordinator, and Bentley Brackett, now director of corporate fundraising, visited the hothouse of industry members, the annual Outdoor Retailers trade show, in August 2006.
No one [from the RRGCC] had gone to the outdoor industry for support, says Brackett. Here I was, fresh out of college, having never been to the Show, having never attempted fundraising, trying to get support.
Regardless of Brackett's lack of experience, many companies-®La Sportiva, FiveTen and Petzl, to name a few®signed on for Rocktoberfest in 2006. With their backing, and a keyed-up community, the 2006 event surpassed everyone's expectations, once again ensuring that the PMRP, which at last count contains a whopping 40 percent of the Red's sport routes, would be kept climber-owned and protected from the oil companies.
Still, oilrigs are not an unusual sight. At Drive-By crag, the slow, undulating churn of the oilrig rings just 50 yards down from the cliff line (just adjacent to the PMRP property). Most crags are reached via old oil roads, and at one time, oil workers and climbers butted heads when increased traffic to the crags began wearing out the roads. Relations grew tense for a while as the two sides harbored feelings of resentment that sparked arguments and, in one case, a temporary, unauthorized road block.
Thankfully, today the oil companies and climbers live in relative harmony. Just recently the RRGCC paid Charmane nearly $2,000 for road repairs. Paul Vidal, regional Access Fund rep and local Red climber, says, There's no doubt these repairs were needed, it was still mainly an act of goodwill and diplomacy. The RRGCC hopes to mollify Charmane, but there will always be that underlying understanding that if the RRGCC misses a payment, Charmane will attempt to swoop in.
As a former local of the Red River Gorge, I'm no stranger to the hordes of weekend warriors that pour into Miguel's every Friday night. Endless lines across the parking lot to order pizza are hardly a sight worth mentioning, but when Petzl decided to bring the sixth annual RocTrip here on October 12-14, 2007, and join forces with the Red's annual Rocktoberfest event, people flocked to the Red like the Mecca that it is.
For months prior to the event, the community was anxious to see how the Red would stack up in comparison to the international crags that these well-traveled athletes have visited. Everyone, for example, was wondering whether Thanatopsis (5.14b), the hardest route at the Motherlode, could or would be flashed. Their question was answered a few days before the event kicked off as the young Sean McColl, of Canada, not only became the first person to flash Thanatopsis, but onsighted White Man's Shuffle(5.13d) the same day.
The Red is one of North America's premier climbing destinations, says John Evans, marketing director of Petzl America and member of the Access Fund board of directors, and having been there, I knew the athletes would be psyched to spend time there climbing and supporting the cause. Evans knew there would be a good showing, but what he had not anticipated was the enthusiasm of the community, and the amount of help they offered: volunteers were practically falling out of the sky.
The Ultimate Routes at the Chocolate Factory were specifically bolted for the occasion, and bottles of bourbon and cases of Ale-8 made their way to Miguel's newly expanded dining area to welcome the event.
With Miguel's back goat field now open to accommodate extra climbers' tents and cars®and shuttle services to run the thousand-plus attendants to and from Miguel's, the Red River Outdoors venue, and the Flash Rally Comp®people came from all over the country to see the most read-about and heard-of strong-arms in the sport.
Hundreds of spectators packed into the Motherlode like sardines just to get a glimpse of the Flash Rally. By all accounts, it was one of the biggest outdoor climbing events ever in the United States. Cars lined the road all the way to the Drive-By parking lot a mile away.
Morgan Burton, local Lexington climber says, The Motherlode is now four inches lower, because the whole place got pulled down!
Perhaps more impressive was the Petzl Bounty Route comp, which included six Ultimate Routes of unsent projects or first female ascents and raised $2,500 for the RRGCC. Most notably, Mickael Fuselier made a quick two-day first ascent of Fifty Words for Pump (5.14c), previously undone for nearly a decade. By the first night of the event®with the help of the community and the $10,000 grant awarded by the Petzl Foundation to match the first $10,000 raised®the RRGCC secured the $30,000 payment for 2008, almost a year in advance.
But not only was the community psyched to see the athletes crush for their cause, the athletes themselves were blown away.
I was nervous [the athletes] wouldn't like the Red, says Sprague, laughing, but all the athletes loved it. Other than Joe Kinder and Said Belhaj, no Petzl athletes had previously been to the Red.
This is some of the best quality rock I've ever seen, says Dave Graham, who decided to extend his trip past the event. Cedar Wright, who hosted a slideshow and book signing with Katie Brown in Louisville, Kentucky, that raised $5,000, says, [The Red] is the only world-class climbing area in the United States.
It had been over a year since I last visited the Red and much longer since I'd lived there. But as soon as I stepped into Miguel's one-room shack, packed wall to wall with gear and people, I was bombarded with hugs and old friends shouting, Whitney, long-time no see!
And when I finally made it back outside, amidst a sea of loitering climbers, physically wrecked after another killer day, someone stood atop Miguel's picnic table and screamed, Long live the Red!
And we all shouted back, Hell yeah!
Whitney Boland, once a Red local now living in Colorado, became very homesick after writing this article. So she flew to Kentucky, at once.
John Evans, a voracious photographer, donated the proceeds from the photos in this article to purchase an RRGCC/Access Fund ad, to run in the next issue of Rock and Ice.


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Get sand in your shoes, not in the gears of your Nook or Kindle, at the beach this summer
By Janice Harayda
Have you noticed that many of this year's summer reading lists sound as though they were written for the economic boom times of the Reagan era? Some of the most prominent round-ups have consisted only or mainly of new hardcovers with $25–$30 price tags. Yes, those books may have had $9.99 digital editions. But do you want to drip suntan oil onto — or get sand in the gears of — a Nook or Kindle? If not, here are some of the best recent paperbacks that you can buy for $16 or less.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Random House Trade Paperbacks, $15, 2012), by Deborah Moggach. A group of spirited British men and men women move to a retirement home in India in a comic novel that has a thicker plot and sharper wit than the 2012 movie based loosely on its story.
Drawing Conclusions (Penguin Trade Paperbacks, $15, 2012), by Donna Leon. The humane Venice police investigator Guido Brunetti makes his 20th appearance in a mystery about the murder of a widow whose art works have disappeared, a book that Library Journal called "literary crime fiction at its best."
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (Random House Trade Paperbacks, $15, 2011), by Yiyun Li. Intelligent Chinese men and women maintain hope against the odds while trapped by circumstances fostered by a repressive Beijing government ("Souvenir") or difficult upbringings ("Gold Boy, Emerald Girl") in a collection of nine elegant short stories.
The Imperfectionists (Dial Trade Paperbacks, $15, 2011) by Tom Rachman. Staff members at an English-language newspaper in Rome face the decline of their publication in a collection of tragicomic parables about the human illusions that lie at the intersection of love and work in a digital age. Their grief doesn't keep them from writing headlines such as "WORLD'S OLDEST LIAR DIES AT 126."
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Scribner paperbacks, $16, 2011), by S.C. Gwynne. With journalistic balance and novelistic flair, S.C. Gwynne tells the story of the fall of the Comanches in a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. He filters their decline through the lives Quanah Parker, their last great chief; Quanah's white mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, kidnapped by the tribe as a 9-year-old and removed from it against her will 24 years later by Texas Rangers; and Ranald Mackenzie, a brilliant Indian fighter who attended West Point with Gen. George Armstrong Custer.
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Misson of World War II (HarperPerennial paperbacks, $15.99, 2012), by Mitchell Zuckoff. Never mind that the "most incredible rescue mission" of World War II took place on the beaches of Dunkirk. Mitchell Zuckoff has written an exciting and fast-paced account of how in the last days of World War II, the U.S. Army rescued service members stranded when their military plane crashed into a mountainous rainforest in New Guinea, where pythons grew to 15 feet and the natives were believed to practice cannibalism.
Mr Tibbits's Catholic School (Slightly Foxed paperbacks, £15, 2011), by Ysenda Maxtone Graham. An English biographer has written a captivating history of a London boys' school that thrived despite an eccentric headmaster and a staff of largely untrained teachers. Yes, £15 is slightly more than $16, but this book has had too little attention in the U.S. It deserves a break.
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Spiegel & Grau paperbacks, $16, 2012), by Barbara Demick. A Los Angeles Times reporter won the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction for this remarkable portrait of North Korean defectors and the lives they had led under Kim Il-sung and his son, Kim Jong-il. Demick shows the catastrophic effects of one of the world's most repressive regimes as she tells the stories of six people who escaped to South Korea by dint of forged passports, bribed border guards, or other cloak-and-dagger efforts.
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Recent Incidents of Persecution
Karnataka, India, April 15 (CDN) — Police on April 10 arrested a pastor and other Christians of the New India Church in Mysore after some 25 Hindu extremists from the Sreeram Sena attacked their Sunday service, accusing them of forcible conversions, reported the Mathrubhumi daily. Pastor Vinod Chacko was leading the service when the Hindu nationalists barged into the church, stopped the prayer service and complained to police of alleged forcible conversions. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that the extremists along with police detained the worshippers inside the church building, including 20 women and 10 children, taking down personal details about them and asking them whether they were paid money or otherwise lured to attend. Police also seized vehicles belonging to the church and those attending the service. Police charged Pastor Chacko, his wife Asha and others identified only as Sabu, Simon and Sayazu under section 295A of the Indian Penal Code with "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings."
New Delhi – A mob of about 150 Hindu extremists on April 9 attacked a Christian worship meeting in Bhajanpura, East Delhi, beating Christians with clubs and stones, including women and children. Pastor Solomon King told Compass that the Assembly of God church organized an open-air "Festival of Deliverance" meeting at which he was speaking; there were about 150 people in the arena when he arrived with 40 choir members. After the meeting began at about 6 p.m., some present suddenly shouted "Jai Shri Ram [Praise Lord Ram]" and started beating the Christians. Two Christians identified only as Prabhu and Abhisek sustained head injuries and received hospital treatment. Pastor King, his wife and other Christians also suffered bruises. The intolerant Hindus also destroyed furniture, a sound system, a generator and some Christians' vehicle. The Christians had received permission from government officials to conduct the worship meeting, and five police officers were on duty to protect it; the Hindu extremists also severely beat them. The attack lasted for about an hour before police reinforcements arrived, and the extremists fled. Police were able to arrest two of the assailants.
Madhya Pradesh – An enraged mob of Hindu extremists on April 7 stormed into the prayer meeting of a Christian Assembly house church shouting anti-Christian slogans and filed a police complaint of forceful conversion against those present in Sagar. The Hindu extremists accused Pastor Joy Thomas Philip of forceful conversion, Pastor C.P. Mathew of Bhopal told Compass. Police arrived and took Pastor Philip and three other Christians into custody for questioning but claimed it was a protective measure. After area Christian leaders' intervention, the Christians were released on bail on April 9.
Karnataka – Mulki Circle police officials on April 4 forcibly took church documents from Hebron Assembly Church in Mulki and told the pastor not to allow any Hindus to enter. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that officials identified only as Inspector Shivaprakash and Sub-Inspector Neelakanta, along with five police officers, verbally abused Pastor I.D. Prasanna and harshly denigrated church activities. Police officials questioned Pastor Prasanna for three hours, telling him what church activities he can and cannot undertake, and threatening to close the church if he disobeyed. They also ordered the pastor to give detailed information about the families that attended the church service.
Karnataka – Police in Shimago on April 3 detained Pastor Abraham K.G. and a Christian identified only as Eerappa for their faith in Christ. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that Hindu extremists led by area Bajrang Dal member Subbraya Shetty interrupted the worship meeting of the Jehovah Nizzi church and warned them to stop meeting. The extremists had been harassing the pastor since March 27, reported the GCIC. As the April 3 service started at about 10:30 a.m., a sub-inspector from the Hosanagara police station arrived in a Jeep with three other police officers to make the arrests. When the Christians asked about the reasons, the officials said without basis that the Christians were using abusive language. Later that evening, police released the Christians without charges after taking a statement from them pledging that they would conduct no future worship meetings – and that they should leave the area.
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Vivia's Death
Nearly 140 years ago, on a bitterly cold morning in January of 1870, a lone sentry patrolled the grounds around the U.S. army military outpost called called Fort Gibson, Indian Territory (present day eastern Oklahoma), and discovered the body of one of the fort's soldiers, a young private the soldiers called "Thomas," lying across a grave in the cemetery just north of the fort. The body was taken to Fort Gibson's infirmary, and as the doctor began to perform his examination to determine cause of death, a shocking discovery was made: the soldier was actually a woman..
The doctor immediately reported the strange discovery to the Fort Gibson's commanding officer, and an inquiry began to determine how female soldier had managed to pass herself off as a man and get into the United States Army. It was known that "Thomas" had enlisted in the U.S. 6th Infantry, stationed at Fort Gibson, just a few weeks earlier, but nobody knew the background of young Thomas. Eventually, a minister who assisted the soldiers at Fort Gibson's came forward with one of the strangest stories in American military history. It seems that just a few days before "Thomas" had told the pastor her secret. As the commanding officer and chief medical officer listened minister tell the story of a the young woman named "Vivia Thomas," events were being set in motion that would eventually lead to her burial in the Officer's Circle of Fort Gibson's Military Cemetery.
Vivia's Life as a Boston Brahmin
Vivia Thomas was born into a wealthy family from Boston. From a child, she received all the special privileges of the Boston Brahmin, including the finest education and invitations to all events involving Boston's upper society. It was during one of Boston's elegant parties at the conclusion of the Civil War that Vivia met and fell in love with a handsome Union Army officer.
Boston, Massachussets in the 1860's
The courtship continued and deepened for several months until one day Vivia's family excitedly announced that Vivia was engaged to be married. Wedding plans were announced to the Boston elite, and Vivia's dreams of marriage and family seemed to be on the verge of fruition. Those were happy days for Vivia Thomas.
Sadly, just prior to the wedding day, the young United States Army officer disappeared. He left Vivia a lengthy, apologetic note and explained that though he loved Vivia, he was unsure married life was for him. He wrote that he felt his heart was pulled toward the western frontier and that he had made arrangements with the U.S. Army go west. He wanted adventure. Though he would not specify his post, the letter detailed that he would be stationed at one of the many frontier army outposts of the United State. He did not feel it would be fair to force his wife to leave the comforts of Boston to endure the wilds of the frontier. For this reason, he was breaking the engagement and going west alone.
Broken hearted, and deeply embarrassed for the humiliation she had brought to her own family, young Vivia Thomas determined to leave Boston and go west in search of her lover. Through offical inquiries Vivia learned that her fiance was being stationed at Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory, and one day she suddenly and secretly left her home and family to go find her lover. Her journey west began.
Vivia's Journey West
During the several months it took for Vivia to reach Indian Territory, which included river rafts down the Ohio and Missisippi, and up the Arkansas River, Vivia cut off all of her long, flowing hair and started dressing in men's clothing. She rarely spoke, and would avert anyone's gaze, and would often roughen her face with dirt and coal. At first, her motive had simply been to disguise herself for protection while traveling through rough country as she headed to the frontier to find her lover. The disguise, however, proved successful. Vivia soon became known as "Thomas" and upon arrival at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory via the Arkansas River, she determined to get close to the young officer who had jilted her by enlisting in the 6th U.S. Infantry stationed at Fort Gibson. In those days, when the Army would often receive substitute solders, it was not uncommon for enlisted men to join the ranks of Army Infantry with little knowledge of the soldier's background.
In the weeks that followed, as "Thomas" went about doing various jobs at the fort, including patrolling for Indians, cooking, cleaning and sundry other tasks assigned enlisted men, she was able to hide her identity well. She carefully stayed away from her former lover; but she would watch him closely. Vivia would often find herself vacillating between thoughts of revenge for her hurt and a reunion that would end in an embrace of long lost love.
Vivia's Discovery
One night Vivia decided to secretly follow her former lover as he left the fort. The young officer travelled a short distance from Fort Gibson where Vivia observed him greet with a hug and a kiss a young Indian woman. It seems that the officer had begun a courtship with an Indian woman who lived a short distance from the fort. Vivia would soon discover that her fiance had been making regular evening trips to visit his Indian lover. Vivia followed him through the darkness on many occasions, each time growing more and more bitter.
How could he leave Boston, Massachussets and let her face the humiliation of family and peers? How could he move west and fall in love with an Indian! How could he? The more she thought about what he had done to her, the more the cloud of bitterness descended over her soul.
On a cold winter evening in December 1869, Vivia followed her former lover on his nightly rendezvous with his Indian girlfriend. She waited for him behind an outcropping of stone, debating whether or not to confront him. The longer she waited the more her bitterness motivated her to not reveal herself, but to extract revenge by simply ending his life in payment for how he had ended hers. When the officer finally headed back to Fort Gibson that evening, he rode by on his horse, and Vivia shot him. She never said a word. She never revealed herself to him. She simply shot him, hitting him in the chest and knocking him off his horse. Immediately, she was overcome with overwhelming remorse. She went to where her former lover lie on the ground, only to discover she had shot him dead. With tears streaming down her face, she quickly made her way back to Fort Gibson, where she slipped into her bunk, quietly grieving over the murder.
The next morning, the body of the officer was discovered by a passerby and brought to the fort. The soldiers at the fort assumed that he had been killed by Indians. A small cavalry from the fort went out to search for clues, but in a few days the case was closed. The Indians had ambushed an officer of the United States military.
Vivia's Guilt
The guilt over what she had done overwhelmed Vivia. She continued to leave her quarters every night, but this time she would make her way to Fort Gibson's cemetery. She would go to the young man's grave and weep uncontrollably, praying for forgiveness. Within a couple of weeks, she broke down and told her story to the minister of the fort. She knew he would be honor bound to not divulge her confession. But a couple of nights later, with temperatures below zero degrees, on January 6, 1870, Vivia went to her former lover's grave. This time she stayed for hours, well into the early morning of January 7th. At reveille, a soldier walking the grounds of the cemetery found the body of the soldier he knew as "Thomas" lying prone across a recent grave. Vivia Thomas had frozen to death.
Upon hearing the story of Vivia Thomas from the minister, the commander and military officers made a decision about the burial for this young lady. They had never liked her fiance in the first place because of his various attachments with the local Indians, and they all felt deep admiration for Vivia because of the courage it took for her to traverse the United States - alone - to find her lover. In their own small way of acknowledging that never in the history of the United States military had a woman ever been enlisted in the infantry, and in appreciation of her dogged determism and heroic courage, they gave to Vivia Thomas a plot in the prestigious officer's ring of the Fort Gibson National Cemetery.
Next time you are near Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, take time to find her tombstone. Every grave holds a story, and Vivia's is one of the more remarkable ones.
In His Grace,
Wade Burleson


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A website related to the Dalai Lama is hosting attack code that attempts to surreptitiously install OS X-based spy software on the Macs of people who visit.
The backdoor trojan, dubbed Dockster by antivirus providers, has the ability to capture the keystrokes of infected machines. It also provides an interface that allows attackers to download and execute additional malware, according to this brief analysis from F-Secure. Dockster was uploaded to the VirusTotal malware detection service on Friday, presumably by attackers who wanted to see if it was detected by AV services, according to a separate post from competing AV provider Intego.
The drive-by attacks exploit a now-patched vulnerability in Oracle's Java software framework. CVE-2012-0507 is the same Java bug used earlier this year to infect more than 500,000 Mac users with malware known as Flashback. Oracle has since released an update that patches the hole, and recent changes introduced by Apple also remove a Java-based plugin from default versions of OS X. But users who are using older installations or have changed default settings could still be susceptible.
Dockster is only the latest Mac-based threat to hit organizations and people sympathetic to Tibet's conflict with the Chinese government. Earlier this year, researchers uncovered another malware-based espionage campaign that also targeted pro-Tibetan users of OS X.
The exploit pushing Dockster on gyalwarinpoche.com has been active since at least November 27, F-Secure said. The site is also pushing Windows-based malware, but those exploits don't appear to work.


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This list shows the highest points in designated Wilderness Areas in New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. These include the federally designated Wilderness Areas on National Forest and Wildlife Refuge land, plus the New York state Department of Conservation Wilderness Areas in the Adirondacks and Catskills. These two ranges are unique in the US in being managed by a state agency, not a federal one, and the state wildernesses are functionally equivalent to the federal ones. So it made sense to include their high points on this list.
Note that the boundaries of many Wilderness Areas are indistinct and not always shown accurately on topographic maps. In addition, many Wilderness high points are "liners" or "slope points" located where a boundary is excluding a summit area that has road or tower development. So finding the exact point for many of these summits may be difficult, and being sure of reaching them may require independent research. In some cases, where a wilderness boundary came very close to a prominent undeveloped summit, that summit is assumed to be the wilderness high point even if the official boundary may be a few feet away.
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A restaurant, a hotel, a nail bar? So long as it isn't baby related goods. Because according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office Beyonce and Jay-Z don't get to hog Blue Ivy. They tried though. They tried to legally monopolise the name after the B.I.C. was born which was a concern to Veronica Alexandra who filed her own Blue Ivy request in 2009 for wedding planning. Alexandra can now continue with her Blue Ivy bride business and considers it a victory for the small people:
"I knew this was going to be a bittersweet roller coaster," Alexandra, 32, tells Rolling Stone. "If this wasn't going to work, I'd go after both of them. Like, 'Let's do it!' In my mind I had some protective rights. There's no way by way of being a celebrity they should have entitlement [to the name]. Shame on them."
So now there could be a Blue Ivy something in every city Beyonce stops on tour. Blue Ivy Donuts! Blue Ivy Florist! Blue Ivy's kids' books! We could all own a Blue Ivy.
The true Blue Ivy has not yet issued a response through her mother's Tumblr.
Here are B and Jay out for dinner in New York the other day consoling themselves over their setback.


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Muslim who converted, married Christian woman opposed Joseph Francis' efforts.
LOS ANGELES, July 23 (Compass Direct News) – Pakistani minority rights defender Joseph Francis has been unjustly jailed by Islamists and others who oppose his work on behalf of Christians, according to the legal aid organization Francis directs.
An Islamist in Punjab Province who said he had converted to Christianity subsequently converted a young woman to Islam and married her, setting into motion a series of spurious charges when her parents brought her to Francis for counsel, according to the Lahore-based Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS). Angered when her family brought her to Francis hoping he would counsel her away from Islam, Mehboob Basharat then arranged for baseless charges to be filed against Francis, director of CLAAS, for allegedly detaining her and setting her on fire, CLAAS officials said in a statement.
Francis was jailed on July 12 after Basharat filed specious charges against him for forging documents and concealing his travel out of the country while on bail. Those charges arose out of the previous case, in which Basharat arranged for the woman he converted to Islam to charge the CLAAS director and others with forcibly detaining and assaulting her in 2006 – even though she previously had told police she suffered no ill treatment at the CLAAS offices.
"His only crime was to help suffering parents of a young Christian girl who was taken away from her family," according to the CLAAS statement.
Francis' predicament began when Basharat went to Bishop Samuel Azariah of Raiwind diocese in 2006 and told him that he, his wife and two children had converted from Islam to Christianity. Since his conversion, he told Bishop Azariah, his Muslim family and friends had ostracized him, and he pleaded with the clergyman to employ him. Bishop Azariah gave him a job in the diocese and provided a living space for him on the church premises, according to CLAAS.
Though he never attended church services, Basharat started socializing with Christian families of the congregation and showed excessive interest in their daughters, according to CLAAS. Pastor Emmanuel Khokhar took note and gave Basharat a warning, according to CLAAS.
Basharat became close with Roma Masih, one of six daughters in a family at the congregation, and on Sept. 26, 2006 he took her to a Muslim education center called Jamia Naeemia Lahore, where she embraced Islam and took on the name Aisha; he later eloped with her, and on Nov. 26, 2006 they married under Islamic rites, according to CLAAS.
When her family found out, they went to Bishop Azariah, who referred them to CLAAS for help. Roma/Aisha's parents, Khursheed Masih and Shamim Masih, asked Francis to talk with their daughter. Basharat, meantime, returned to Raiwind (25 kilometers from Lahore) to collect his first wife and children, at one point threatening Bishop Azariah when the clergyman tried to talk to him. On Dec. 23, 2006 Basharat allowed Roma/Aisha to go to her parents' house. They immediately brought her to CLAAS offices, insisting that Francis keep her in the organization's second-floor shelter for abused women.
"They said that if she stayed away from Basharat, maybe she will change her mind and come back to her family," according to the CLAAS statement.
Roma/Aisha, some of her sisters and their mother stayed overnight at the shelter, and the convert told Francis that she was now a Muslim and did not wish to associate with "infidels." Francis told Roma/Aisha's parents that she now considered herself a Muslim and urged them not to insist on their daughter remaining with them, according to CLAAS.
Upon learning that the Masihs had taken their daughter to CLAAS offices, Basharat on Dec. 23, 2006 complained to police in Lahore that the Christian parents of his wife were detaining her. The next day, police summoned Francis. When he and Roma/Aisha arrived at the station that evening, Basharat and a crowd of 40-45 mullahs (Muslim clergy) were waiting for them.
Nevertheless, Roma/Aisha signed a statement at the police station saying that she had not been held hostage or detained against her will, that she went to CLAAS offices of her own free will and that no one misbehaved or ill-treated her there, according to CLAAS. She left with Basharat.
On Feb. 18, 2007, Basharat, Roma/Aisha and attorney Raja Nathaniel, a church-going attorney at odds with the local Christian community, held a press conference in which Basharat accused Bishop Azariah and Francis of abducting his new wife and forcing her to reconvert back to Christianity. Nathaniel, according to CLAAS, at times "has converted to Islam to marry young girls" and has several cases pending against him for illegally confiscating church property in Raiwind; CLAAS notes that in most of those cases it provides legal assistance to the church.
Three months after the press conference, under the guidance of Basharat and with the financial support of Nathaniel, Roma/Aisha filed charges at the Icchara, Lahore police station against her father, mother, three sisters, Bishop Azariah, Pastor Khokhar and Francis; she accused all of them of forcibly detaining her, mistreating her and attempting to burn her.
All of the accused obtained pre-arrest bail. In July 2007, Francis went to England at the invitation of the late former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, along with prominent political leaders, to attend a three-day conference in London. Summoned to a bail hearing on July 14, 2007, he came back on July 15, 2007 and appeared in court the next day, according to CLAAS.
On Dec. 24, 2008 Francis learned that Basharat had filed a new case against him, accusing him of concealing his travel abroad while on bail and forging a medical certificate. Also charged were CLAAS employee Ashar Sarfaraz and Sarfaraz's brother-in-law, Zulfiqar Wilson.
The forgery charges arose after CLAAS submitted a medical certificate indicating that Francis, who suffers from diabetes, was too ill to return quickly for the court hearing on July 14, 2007. CLAAS Program Officer Katherine Sapna said that former CLAAS staff members Aneeqa Maria Akthar and Justin Gill submitted the medical certificate, but Akthar told Compass neither she nor Gill submitted any documents related to the certificate and never went to the court. She added that CLAAS had not even assigned her to the case.
"When someone submits any document before the court," she told Compass, "the court takes the submission by getting signatures of a person who submits the document, and certainly there are no signatures of mine."
She acknowledged that she discussed the matter with CLAAS lawyers at the time – Akbar Munawar Durrani, Tahir Gull and Aric John – and that she suggested that if Francis were to try to return in time for the July 14 court summons, it would cause an undue hardship on him as a diabetic to appear in court after arriving in Pakistan from England early in the morning.
"It was just a suggestion, and it did not lead to [me committing] forgery," she said. "Instead, Ashar Sarfaraz heard this and he went to the doctor himself who was treating Mr. Francis, without asking or telling any of us, and got the certificate. He also submitted the certificate himself in the court, and not the lawyers."
On these charges Francis obtained pre-arrest bail on Dec. 29, 2008, and when CLAAS filed a petition in Lahore High Court for the dismissal of this case, the court set a hearing for June 8, according to CLAAS.
At that hearing, Basharat's lawyer accused Francis not only of being in contempt of court by having traveled abroad while on bail but of using his influence to harass Roma/Aisha into forsaking Islam – the young woman's remaining a Muslim notwithstanding.
Francis' counsel tried to explain to the court that Basharat and his wife were "misleading the court by purposely making it a religious issue for their own vested interest." They informed the court that his travel was not concealed but public knowledge, having been published in major newspapers, and that therefore Francis had no reason to prepare or submit any documents explaining his actions.
"But the court overlooked every argument and dismissed the petition for dismissal," according to CLAAS' statement. "On July 9, the same judge who dismissed the petition rejected Mr. Joseph Francis' bail in this case and ordered the police to arrest Mr. Francis."
This is not the first time that Pakistani courts have put their bias against Christians on display, according to CLAAS.
"Over the years, CLAAS has perused several such cases in which law was overlooked and justice was denied to victims on the basis of their religion, gender, political affiliation and social status," organization officials said in the statement.
CLAAS urged proponents of human rights to write the Pakistani president, prime minister, foreign and interior ministers, chief justice, federal minister of Law Justice and Human Rights, and Pakistani Embassies around the world.
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Canonical has come up with a replacement for the global menu bar, one of the most notable features of Ubuntu's Unity desktop and also one of its most problematic.The global menu bar places application menus at the top of a user's screen rather than within the application itself.
"Despite displaying the menu contents outside of the window, the menus are still window-specific," we noted in a review of Ubuntu 12.04 in May 2012. "By design, the global menu bar displays the menu of the focused window. This proves awkward in some applications with dialogs and multiple windows."
The intent of moving application-specific menus into the global menu bar was to leave more room for content in applications. But even for people who liked the design, it has grown more problematic over time with the proliferation of bigger monitors, according to Canonical employee Marco Trevisan. The Ubuntu desktop team is bringing the application windows back into the application windows themselves for the 14.04 release in April this year, Trevisan wrote today.
Ubuntu developers wanted to "propose a solution to fix the main UX bug we have [had] in Unity since its very first release: the menus being hard to find or too far from their parent window," Trevisan wrote. "In fact, having the application menus in the top panel really worked very well in small screens but now, especially with HiDPI monitors getting more and more popular, the top panel could be really too far from the actual window location."
The fix, which Trevisan credited to desktop user experience lead John Lea, is a new locally integrated menu for applications, similar to the design of pre-Unity versions of Ubuntu.
In a video, Canonical Engineering Manager Stephen Webb said, "We're putting the menus back where the windows are by adding them to the window title bar. You still have the increased content area but you have less work for your trackpad finger. As always, when you're not using them, the menus hide to reduce the visual clutter in your work area."
The first prototype of local application menus for Unity landed a couple of years ago, but it didn't work well, Trevisan wrote. "The amount of technical work needed [to implement this is] not to be underestimated," he wrote. "Being more precise, one of the blockers we had in 12.04 was our dependency on the legacy compiz decor plugin + gtk-window-decorator, that has worked 'OK' in the last years but—apart from using deprecated technologies (gtk2 in primis)—it really would have made this concept impossible to realize."
"So, the first step has been moving away from the old gtk2-based decorations and writing brand new decorations supporting Gtk3 CSS theming inside Unity itself; this has been a huge work (including writing a brand-new widget system for handling compiz textures in a more natural way), but it gave us great benefits in the end such as much faster windows resizing, [an] improved look, [and] support for dynamic scaling (for both HighDPI and accessibility reasons)."
Ubuntu 14.04 is a Long Term Support release, intended to be more stable than other versions, so the Ubuntu desktop team is seeking community feedback before turning the new menu mode on by default. Users with a pre-release version of 14.04 can turn the local menus on now. In the Ubuntu software updater settings, check the option for pre-released updates and download the latest updates. Then, in the Appearance panel, select the option to put application menus in the window title bars:


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Yes, the hero teaches courses in the nonexistent field of "symbology" at Harvard University. But too many lines in The Lost Symbol (Doubleday) flunk English, logic, history, or other subjects. Dan Brown wins the Grand Prize in the 2010 Delete Key awards for these lines:
"The only wrinkle was the bloody black-clad heap in the foyer with a screwdriver protruding from his neck."
Yes, a screwdriver sticking out of your neck is always something of a wrinkle.
"It was no coincidence that Christians were taught that Jesus was crucified at age thirty-three …"
Just as it's no coincidence that people were taught that Baskin-Robbins has 31 flavors.
"Thankfully, this particular crypt contained no bodies. … The entourage hurried through, without even a glance at the four-pointed marble compass in the center of the floor where the Eternal Flame had once burned."
As opposed to one of those three-pointed compasses you usually see.
"His hips and abdomen were the archways of mystical power. Hanging beneath the archway [sic], his massive sex organ bore the tattooed symbols of his destiny. In another life, this heavy shaft of flesh had been his source of carnal pleasure. But no longer."
That "archways of mystical power" helps to make this passage read like a cross between The Secret and recruitment brochure for McDonald's.
"According to Nola's spec sheet, the UH-60 had a chassis-mounted, laser-sighted, six-gigahertz magnetron with a fifty-dB-gain horn that yielded a ten-gigawatt pulse."
Did Tom Clancy send in a play from the sidelines here?
Tom Chivers of the Telegraph collected 20 of the worst lines from Brown's The Da Vinci Code and other books.
Read the shortlisted passages from all the finalists here.
© 2010 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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After Sandy, lower Manhattan limps back to life
- The South Street Seaport, a popular tourist destination, remains a ghost town
- Of the nearly 50 office buildings shut down after Sandy buffeted the Financial District, about half have reopened
- Offices home to large financial and law firms still could be closed for weeks, if not months
NEW YORK (AP) — The hum of massive mobile generators, boilers and pumps emerges blocks from Manhattan's Financial District and turns into a steady din south of Wall Street — the now-familiar sound of an area laboring to recover from Superstorm Sandy.
Other parts of the city have gotten mayoral visits and media attention after the Oct. 29 storm killed dozens of residents and tore apart homes in coastal neighborhoods. Less obvious were the millions upon million gallons of sea water that wreaked havoc on subterranean electrical panels and other internal infrastructure throughout lower Manhattan, making them unusable even after power was restored to the area.
"There were waves on Wall Street, and it all ended up here," Mike Lahm, a building engineer who rode out the storm at 120 Wall Street, said during a recent tour of the skyscraper's basement.
Nearly a month later, some of the high-rises that are home to investment banks, large law firms and luxury apartments have bounced back quickly. But others buildings remain eerily dark and vacant.
Landlords have warned full power won't be back for weeks, if not months, leaving businesses and residents displaced and uncertain about when — and even whether — they'll return. JP Morgan Chase, the Daily News and the American Civil Liberties Union are among tenants still operating in satellite locations after getting washed out of their headquarters in lower Manhattan.
Heavy flooding also hit a complex of multimillion-dollar apartments along the Hudson River, whose well-heeled owners — reportedly including Gwyneth Paltrow and Meryl Streep — could quietly retreat to second or third homes on higher and drier ground.
"What you're looking at here is a mass exodus," downtown resident Gail Strum said as she retrieved some files and other belongings from a rental apartment building that's still without power. "It feels like there's no coming back."
On paper, Strum's assessment sounds too pessimistic. The city Buildings Department declared only nine buildings in lower Manhattan unsafe because of structural damage from the storm, and the power company, Consolidated Edison, says all buildings citywide had access to electricity and steam power by Nov. 15.
A real estate consulting firm that's tracking the lower Manhattan recovery, Jones Lang LaSalle, says 49 of the 183 office buildings in the business district were closed because of mechanical failures. By the latest count, at least half were back in full operation, even if it has meant relying on temporary power. More are expected to follow.
"We see that as a very healthy pace," said John Wheeler, a Jones Lang LaSalle executive.
One success story was 120 Wall Street, a 600,000-square-foot, 34-story skyscraper built near the East River that's home to nonprofits such as the National Urban League, the United Negro College Fund and the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration.
Even before Sandy hit, landlord Silverstein Properties got ahead of a scramble for recovery resources by securing portable diesel generators each capable of providing 2 megawatts of power. Afterward, the building brought in its own fuel tanker from Pennsylvania — and a security team from Florida to guard it — so it could keep the generators going during the gas crunch.
Using a mix of generator power and restored Con Ed service, engineers had the elevators, lights and heat up and running by mid-November.
To the tenants, "It's as if the building's operating normally," said Jeremy Moss, a vice president with Silverstein Properties.
What tenants don't see in the bowels of 120 Wall Street is a thicket of temporary, exposed wiring that runs everywhere. The warning "LIVE WIRE. KEEP OUT" is spray-painted in red on the door of a room housing switches, fuses or circuit breakers after it was submerged. The air is clammy and musty — "the smell of the East River," said Lahm, the building engineer.
Fearing the East River might one day try again to meet the Hudson, 120 Wall Street and other buildings are facing an even bigger, more expensive job: Moving critical infrastructure to higher floors or even roofs.
"We're going to need to relocate equipment so history doesn't repeat itself," Moss said.
Farther uptown, NYU Langone Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital Center had put generators on high floors where they could be protected in a flood. But they still suffered failures with Sandy, apparently because other critical components of the backup power system, such as fuel pumps and tanks, remained in basements just a block from the East River.
While 120 Wall Street enjoys a degree of normalcy, other newer and taller glass towers around it remain shut as teams of contractors and workers struggle to restore power, phone and other services. Tractor-trailers providing emergency services such as "microbial remediation" crowd the streets. Cabs are few.
Fire engines became a part of the mix on Friday with the report of a fire in the basement of another vacated office building at 55 Water St. — the address for financial services company Standard & Poor's and the city Department of Transportation — that left two dozen people suffering from smoke inhalation and sent four to a hospital. The cause wasn't immediately clear.
The lower Manhattan disarray has also reached the courtroom. Last week, a resident of a still-evacuated luxury high-rise filed a $35 million lawsuit against his condo board and management company, accusing them of "gross negligence" in the wake of Sandy.
The management company, Cooper Square Realty, fired back in a letter from its chief executive, David Kuperberg, claiming that contractors recruited from as far away as Wisconsin and Michigan have been working nonstop to tear out wet walls, carpeting and wallpaper to prevent mold; installing new generators; rebuilding a water pump; and mopping up residue left by oil-tainted salt water.
"While Cooper Square Reality did not cause the storm, the company is doing everything it can" to get people back in their homes, Kuperberg wrote.
The uncertainty also is evident at South Street Seaport, a cluster of early 19th-century mercantile buildings converted to retail shops and apartments. Usually teeming with tourists, the seaport remained a ghost town late last week, despite postcard-perfect weather.
Inside a shut-down brew pub still without lights, workers wearing masks and white jumpsuits scrubbed down the bar, floor and tables. Many businesses, including Ann Taylor, Body Shop and Guess outlets, were still boarded up with plywood.
Also shuttered was "Bodies ... The Exhibition," the show featuring dissected human cadavers that has been a fixture there since 2005. Its website says that due to "damage to our venue, we are closed until further notice."
Some seaport residents have electricity back but no heat or hot water. Liz McKenna, 54, who was living in a third-floor apartment overlooking the East River when a deluge filled the entire first floor with water, said she expects to be able to move back in a couple of weeks — maybe.
"That's only a guess," she said as she picked up her mail. "Look around. Nobody really knows how bad it is down here. ... We've been ignored."
One of the few businesses to open its doors, Meade's bar and restaurant, had no customers at lunchtime.
"We're open, but who are we open for?" said 28-year-old bartender Nichole Osborne. "All of my regulars are displaced."
An etching on the front window, quoting Dylan Thomas, offered a glimmer of resolve: "Rage, rage against the dying of the light."


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What we're talking about HERE, folks, is the widespread belief that the so-called End Times can't be forestalled by any of that fancy scientific stuff:
The United States has failed to take action to mitigate climate change thanks in part to the large number of religious Americans who believe the world has a set expiration date.
Research by David C. Barker of the University of Pittsburgh and David H. Bearce of the University of Colorado uncovered that belief in the biblical end-times was a motivating factor behind resistance to curbing climate change.
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Front row, from left: Kathy Squibb-Ludowese (co-owner) and Deb Jacobs (co-owner); back row: Mary Freitag, Joyce Walter-Larsen, Jane Eskridge-Dale, Joanne Reinert, and Sue Sandgren.
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Athmann's Inn, 110 N. Main St., Bird Island, MN 55310; 320/365-9997. Steak, seafood, soups, and sandwiches.
Black River Crossing, 801 Highway Ave., Bird Island, MN 55310; 320/212-3809. Home decor, clothing, and bags.
Broaster, 745 Highway Ave., Bird Island, MN 55310; 320/365-4590. Delicious cinnamon and caramel rolls.
Emma's Coffee Shop, 130 S. Main St., Bird Island, MN 55310; 000/000-0000. Located across the street from the quilt shop.
Karen's Creative Quilting, 175 S. Main St., Bird Island, MN 55310; 320/365-4191. Long-arm machine-quilting service and Bernina dealer.
Max's Grill, 2425 W. Lincoln Ave., Olivia, MN 56277; 320/523-2833. Pizza, pasta, soups, and sandwiches.
Sheep Shedde Inn, 2425 W. Lincoln Ave., Olivia, MN 56277; 320/523-5000. Newly renovated hotel located 5 miles from Bird Island.
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"You are about to witness history in the making," intoned the Nassau Coliseum announcer as the Washington Nationals racing presidents made their second annual Presidents Day weekend appearance at a New York Islanders home game.
YouTube member Dcfd3694 caught this terrific video of the presidents racing on ice skates between periods of Sunday's game. Highlights include this take down of Abe by Thomas Jefferson, and a vicious body slam by Teddy Roosevelt that sent George Washington into the boards. Teddy unfortunately slipped later, allowing George to pass him for the victory.
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COMMENTS: Did you sit through last night's slogfest? Did you see the announcement that Jason Schmidt is scheduled to start tomorrow? Yeah, I'd be depressed too.
If it seems the Dodgers can't score to save their lives — they have 33 hits but only three runs over the last three games — then Lohse might be just what the executioner ordered. It's his fourth start since coming off the disabled list earlier this month; in his last outing, he was roughed up by the Phillies. Of course, they had the help of Cliff Lee, who, upon learning he was traded to Philadelphia, traveled back in time and actually had a pinch-hit RBI single. The Dodgers won't have that advantage because Ned Colletti refuses to trade Clayton Kershaw.
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