the larger fight for human rights a priority. My life’s purpose is bigger than football.”

Set to turn 37 in October, Boldin operated as a starer during all 14 seasons of his career. The Florida State product finishes his run as a three-time Pro Bowler and having helped the 2012 Ravens to a Super Bowl title. He also teamed with Fitzgerald and Kurt Warner in elevating the Cardinals to their franchise peak, with an NFC title and narrow Super Bowl loss in 2008.

Boldin authored seven 1,000-yard seasons — for three different teams — and caught a career-high 11 touchdown passes during that ’08 season. He also recorded one of the best rookie seasons, with the ’03 Cards, by a receiver in NFL history, catching 101 passes for 1,377 yardsculture in danger of disappearing in the modern world. By creating interesting portraits of those involved in the production of a Yiddish play, the film raises profound questions about the nature of Jewish culture on the edge of the 21st century.

Katzir’s film is not an all-encompassing history of the rich theatrical tradition that existed in Jewish communities throughout Europe in the late 19th century and perhaps achieved its greatest heights in New York City in the decades leading up to World War II. (Those interested in such an historical overview should see the 1968 documentary "The Golden Age of Second Avenue" or read Nahma Sandrow’s excellent book, Vagabond Stars.) Katzir also ignores the particulars of Spaisman’s "forced retirement" from the Folksbiene, the Yiddish theater she ran for decades,


Zypora Spaisman. Katzir, who narrates the film and asks questions of his subjects from behind the camera, seems smitten with the elderly actress, and he films her lovingly as she prepares a meal in her apartment, braves the snow drifts of the Lower East Side, and puts on make-up in her dressing room. A representative scene: the diminutive Spaisman, wrapped up in a fur coat, slowly makes her way down the stairs and onto the subway, while "My Yiddische Mama" plays on soundtrack. The film’s poignancy relies on the fact that this seemingly sweet little old lady is actually a fiercely tenacious woman who survived Hitler and Stalin-but she is fighting a losing battle to keep her art alive. The show closes, and Spaisman must clean out heraged mentors. Joad Krohn learned Yiddish in his Orthodox Jewish family in Williamsburg, but he left those traditions behind for tattoos, rock and roll, and the theater. Both young performers exist in between cultures: Israeli and American, traditional and modern, religious and secular. Perhaps Yiddish theater has always existed on such borders, which can account for its vibrancy, but also its precariousness. As the troupe plays its final performance, the simultaneously plaintive and optimistic Krohn notes, "Nobody believed that it would make it as long as it has." The same could be said of Zypora Spaisman, who passed away in 2002 at the age of 86, after a lifetime of dedication to the Yiddish theater. And the same could be said of all Yiddish theater, which cannot continue


aspect of. Part of Apple’s success is that it controls every part of its own technology – screen sizes, memory, security – and now others also want this level of control. Trends for 201752

53. SOFTWARE TO HARDWARE Amazon produced its first hardware, the Kindle eReader, in 2007. They’ve recently increased their focus on the physical, releasing their voice-controlled Echo and Dash buttons within six months of each other. Google has previously relied on others to make its tech, but now has two new branded products: the Pixel phone and its voice controlled Home. It has also bought companies such as Motorola and Nest, that make tech hardware. Snapchat has announced the release of its Spectacles – a wearable video camera that takes clips perfect for sharing. Even Ubermove to the genital ridges, and in females, they differentiate to oogonia in the ovary. Depending on the species, oogonia increase their numbers up to several thousands, and finally all of them differentiate to primary oocytes with entry into meiosis at the diplotene stage of prophase I. The process of this oogenesis is a process of oocyte production and is quite different to spermatogenesis in the testis, where stem cells for spermatogonia are present throughout most of the lifespan. Except for the report by Tilly \[[@r6]\], the ovary has no stem cells after oogenesis.

After differentiation of oogonia to oocytes, each oocyte is enclosed in a single primordial follicle with a few flattened granulosa cells. Initiation of follicle development from primordial (non-grown oocyte) to antral follicle stages (full-grown oocyte),


Cuba signs deal for faster internet access to Google content Published duration 12 December 2016

image copyright AP image caption Most Cubans can only access the internet from public wi-fi hotspots

Cuba's state-run telecommunications company Etecsa has signed a deal with Google that will enable faster access to content from the American company.

Under the deal, the technology giant will install servers in Cuba to improve connectivity speeds to Google services, including Gmail and YouTube.

Google and Etecsa have reached their agreement in the final weeks of Barack Obama's presidency.

It is not clear whether his successor will change US policies towards Cuba.

President Obama restored relations with Cuba earlier this year, after more than five decades of hostility between the two former Cold War rivals.

Donald Trump has made arguments both for and againstmake it vintage clothing. However, repurposing of deadstock in new products is one way to improve sustainability in the fashion industry.

Sizing
In the United States, due to changes in clothing sizes, vintage sizes are often smaller than the corresponding contemporary size. For example, a garment from the 1970s labeled as Medium (M) might be similar in size to a 2010s Extra Small (XS). As obesity was relatively uncommon prior to the 1980s, larger sizes are typically rare. Vintage sewing patterns offer an option for those who want a historically accurate garment but cannot find one in their size.

Retail market

Popular places to buy vintage clothing include charity-run second-hand clothing shops, consignment shops, garage sales, car boot sales, flea markets, antique markets, estate sales, auctions, vintage clothing shops and


at the bottom of the screen, and the retrace bar as a visible black bar between the top and bottom parts of the screen. The picture continues to "roll" with increasing speed as the frequency of vertical sync pulses increases from the normal 60 cps. At the normal frequency, successive frames overlap. Thus, it can be seen that, if the vertical sync pulse is delayed in a next frame by a slight amount, such next frame appears to move up from the screen position of the original image. This is described in the art as "vertical roll" as described above wherein a large horizontal black bar appears across the screen and separates the bottom of the original image (appearing at the top of the "rolled" screen) from the;
Risks: White-collarcrime is widespread, Slap on the wrist for white-collarcrime, Misrepresentations, Initial public offering, IPO, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Fraud, Investor confidence crushed, no trust or buying, United States, 20030501 A slap

. Wuckert, 52, is serving a six-year prison term for selling non-existent accounting franchises across the country between 1989 and 1995.
Brought to you by WikiFranchise.org
Risks: Fraud, Outright scam, Slap on the wrist for white-collarcrime, Convicted fraud artist, Canada, 20000329 Frauds restitution

-laundering proceeds dumped into the Canadian banking system each year are from drug trafficking.
Brought to you by WikidFranchise.org
Risks: Money laundering, Proceeds of crime, Slap on the wrist for white-collarcrime, Canada: white-collarcrime haven, Canada, 20040920 Canada a


WEST INDIES TOUR OF INDIA 2019

Chahar ruled out of final ODI due to lower back pain

by Cricbuzz Staff • Last updated on

Chahar felt mild pain in his lower back following the second ODI. © AFP

India seamer Deepak Chahar has been ruled out of the third ODI against West Indies due to some pain in his lower back. Navdeep Saini has been called up as his replacement.

"Deepak felt mild pain in his lower back following the second ODI played in Vizag on Wednesday," the BCCI stated in a release on Thursday (December 19). "The BCCI medical team examined him and has suggested that the fast bowler needs some rest in order to fully recover. He has thus been ruled out of the final ODI."

Saini, who hasn't played any ODIcricket for India, will join the team in Cuttack as the third seamer in the squad alongside Mohammed Shami and Shardul Thakur. He last turned out in Indian colours in a T20I series against South Africa in September, but wasn't part of the subsequent T20Is against Bangladesh on grounds of injury.

The third and final ODI between India and West Indies takes place on Sunday (December 22).

© Cricbuzz

TAGS

RELATED STORIES


Stray Dogs DEAD APPLE

Bungo Stray Dogs DEAD APPLE

Remember Bungo Stray Dogs? In the series, we met Nakajima Atsushi, just kicked out of his orphanage, standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, and there he rescued a man who was attempting suicide. That man was Dazai Osamu and a member of a special detective agency that deals with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. The series’ first season ran from April to June in 2016, followed by a second season from October to December 2016. In the first season, GRANRODEO performed the opening theme song “TRASH CANDY” and Luck Life performed the ending theme songs for both seasons. (“Namae o Yobu yo” and “Kaze ga Fuku Machi”)

If you loved Bungo Stray Dogs,Sakura. She discovers that she has magical abilities after she frees a deck of magical cards by accident from a book in which they have been sealed. She’s given the task to catch the cards in order to save the world from an unspecified impending doom. Her name, Sakura, means cherry blossom in Japanese, and her surname Kinomoto means ‘the origin of wood’. According to a new promotional video released for the upcoming series, Sakura is now in middle school and have strange dreams…

Morio Asako, who worked on the first anime series and two movies, is returning to direct the new series. CLAMP’s Nanase Ohkawa will handle series composition while Kunihiko Hamada is the character designer. Maaya Sakamoto is also coming back to do the theme song ‘Clear”


lost his entire right arm and part of his left leg and his little brother Alphonse nearly dies but is plucked from death as Edward desperately fused his brother’s soul to a suit of armour with alchemy before he passed out. Alphonse took his body to their adoptive family, the Rockbells who happens to be prosthetic (called automail in this world) experts, who fitted Edward with automail limbs. They set out on a journey, after recovering and learning more on alchemy at a special academy, to become State Alchemists, which will help Edward to do research as he aims to get their bodies back through alchemical means.

FullMetal Alchemist’sworld premiere will be on October 25 when they open for the Tokyo International Film Festival, and on December 1 theand granny shows us how to make a pot of delicious Oden.

Donquixote Doflamingo

Birthday of the month

Donquixote Doflamingo is the Captain of the Donquixote Pirates, a former Shichibukai with a frozen bounty 40,000,000 Beli on his head, Donquixote Doflamingo and our birthday boy for this month. His birthday is on the 23rd of October. This fiend became the King of Dressrosa Island by force, after grasping the throne from poor king Riku Dold III that he ruled with tyranny. Luckily Monkey D. Luffy and his Strawhat Crew defeated this monster and his crew and saved the Kingdom of Dressrosa. He has one of the creepiest laughs in the One Piece anime.

Donquixote Doflamingo is a devil fruit user. After he ate the Ito Ito no Mi it granted him the


DETROIT – Two people believed to be squatting at a home on Detroit's east side were shot Friday morning.

Police said two people barged in through the front door of the home at Coram and Queen streets. A woman in her 30s who was sleeping on the couch was shot in her rear.

A man in his 30s was shot, too. He was shot multiple times and was killed.

The woman has been going in and out of surgery and fighting for her life all morning. She is in critical condition.

Police are trying to figure out why this happened. They are unable to talk to the woman at the hospital because she is in and out of surgery.

Meanwhile, no arrests have been made.

Stay with ClickOnDetroit for updates.half-Jewish schmuck like Michael to know about kosher meat, though... I don't often listen to Radio 2 on a Saturday after Jonathan Ross, but I managed to catch Hot Gossip yesterday. Hosted by Claudia Winkelman, it's a very funny panel game based on tabloid tittle-tattle. I'll be tuning in again.

Books: I finished the brilliant Beneath the Bleeding by Val McDermid, who delivered not one but two crimes for solving, plus a tentative glimpse of Tony Hill's ghastly abusive mother. No doubt she'll be making an appearance in a later book. On a crime fic roll now, I've just started Minette Walters' latest: The Chameleon's Shadow. It's shaping up well so far.

09 May 2008

I received a press release today promoting next Thursday's "National Work From Home Day". I thought


to, and has never marketed, a "lite" or "light" version of its product.

4
In 1953, five years before American registered the mark "PAM," Stuart Hale had introduced the name "Pan-Lite" to market a nonstick cooking oil.  Prior to 1988, however, Stuart Hale had only used the name "Pan-Lite" to market its cooking oil in the wholesale market by the use of fifty-five gallon drums sold directly to bakers;  it was not sold in the retail grocery market.  Indeed, from 1953 to 1988, Stuart Hale sold the Pan-Lite product to only six customers.  In April 1988, Stuart Hale applied for federal trademark registration for the name Pan-Lite to market its nonstick cooking oil as an aerosol spray.  This product was a different formulation than theand a caricature of a chef, also in white, adorns the cap."   Id. at 7.  American invites our attention to several similarities in the two products' appearance, including the common yellow and red color scheme, the similar depiction of eggs in a frying pan, and similar representations that the products have "no cholesterol" and are "all natural" and "sodium free."   Additionally, American emphasizes the phonic and visual similarity between the mark "PAM" and the dominant word "Pan" in the Pan-Lite name.  Stuart Hale counters that the terms "Pan" and "Lite" and the depiction of a frying pan containing eggs are descriptive of the function of cooking sprays generally.  Further, contends Stuart Hale, American has overplayed the similarity between the mark "PAM"


own medical-billing business, I've had my share of challenges, but at least I have my son." "In heaven, everybody has long outie belly buttons that double as guitars." "He's our miracle boy." "Themiracleboywho 's capturedtheworld'sheart." "Butwillthatbeenough towin"TheBitchin'Race ?"" "We'llfindouttonight ontheexcitingseasonfinale." "♪♪" "I know I should root for someone in the family, but Justin has captured my heart." "Oh, I'd love to throw it in his mom while he's sleeping like an angel in the next room." "♪♪" "♪ Good morning, U.S.A. ♪" "♪ I got a feelin' that it's gonna be a wonderful day ♪" "♪ The sun in the sky has a smile on his face ♪" "♪ And he's shinin' a salute to the American race ♪" "♪ Oh, boy, it's swell to say ♪" "♪the nation's second-largest general farm organization, told Bloomberg that Trump's latest tariffs would hurt American farmers — a large part of his own voter base.

"Trade policy is not a game — it has real and serious consequences for rural America," Johnson told Bloomberg, adding "Immediately after President Trump tweeted his tariff threats, already low commodity prices slipped yet again, but the long-term implications for our country's reputation as a reliable trading partner are likely to be even more damaging."

Trump announced in a Tweet that he would be stepping up tariffs adding 10% on top of the already 25% tariff on Chinese goods. Markets plunged on the news.

"It may take President Trump just a few minutes to write 280 characters, but family farmers and ranchers could be dealing with


NEW DELHI: Nirav Modi has hit back at Punjab National Bank , saying its 'overzealousness' has shut the doors on his ability to clear his dues, which he claims are much lower than the Rs 11,400 crore that the bank has gone public with.In a letter Modi wrote to the bank's management on February 15/16, he pegged the amount his companies owe the bank at under Rs 5,000 crore."The erroneously cited liability resulted in a media frenzy which led to immediate search and seizure of operations, and which in turn resulted in Firestar International and Firestar Diamond International effectively ceasing to be going-concerns. This thereby jeopardised our ability to discharge the dues of the group to the banks," Modi, who left the country along with his family inthe first week of January, wrote."In the anxiety to recover your dues immediately, despite my offer (on February 13, a day before the public announcement, and on February 15,) your actions have destroyed my brand and the business and have now restricted your ability to recover all the dues leaving a trail of unpaid debts," he wrote.The letter also referred to the extended discussions between him, his representatives and bank officials, as well as his emails on February 13 and 15. PNB, the country's second largest public sector bank, on February 14 informed the stock exchanges that it had detected a Rs 11,400 crore fraud at Mumbai's Brady House branch and named the firms led by Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi's Gitanjali Group . The bank


has also filed criminal complaints with CBI and the ED, both of which launched nationwide searches on dozens of offices and residences of the alleged fraudsters. The bank has named Nirav Modi's brother, his wife Ami, an American national, and uncle besides some others in the FIR.On the size of the fraud claimed by PNB in the FIR, Modi said, "As you are aware, this is entirely incorrect and the liability of the Nirav Modi Group is substantially less. Even after your complaint was filed, in good faith I wrote to you saying please sell/allow me to sell Firestar Group, or their valuable assets, and recover the dues not just from Firestar Group, but also from the three firms."Valuing his domestic business at around Rs 6,500 crore, hethe years been earning bank charges to the tune of crores of rupees on the buyers credit facility extended by it to the three partnership firms and that PNB had extended the money to the firm's buyers as well from where also it had been receiving full payments, with interest and on time, all these years.On the valuables worth Rs 5,649 crore that CB and ED searches had yielded, he wrote, "These, and other assets of the group and the three firms could have settled all the amounts due to banks. However, now that stage appears to have passed."He concluded by requesting the bank to "be fair, and support my efforts to make good all the amounts that are found due by my group to all banks."He said


the bank had wrongly named his brother, who was not at all concerned with the operations of the three firms or any other. "My wife is not connected with any business operations at all and she has been wrongly named. My uncle is also wrongly named in this complaint since he has an independent and unconnected business and none of them are aware or concerned with my dealings with your bank.""Whatever may be the consequences I may face for my actions, the haste was, in my humble submission, unwarranted," Modi wrote, requesting the bank to permit payment of salaries to 2,200 employees from the balance lying in the current accounts.doubled off Carlos Villanueva in the fifth.

Pete Kozma had an RBI single.

STARTING TIME

Cardinals: Adam Wainwright threw a three-inning simulated game on Monday morning and ran some sprints afterward. An abdominal strain has slowed the Cardinals ace thus far, but Wainwright could make his first Grapefruit League start of the season this weekend.

Tigers: Justin Verlander is scheduled to make his third start of the spring on Tuesday. Verlander has yet to allow a run in five innings.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cardinals: Center fielder Jon Jay was among the hitters to take hacks against Wainwright in the simulated game. He had two singles off the big righty. Jay has yet to appear in an exhibition game following offseason wrist surgery but that could change by the end of the week.

Tigers: Slugging third baseman


Film returns to U.S. theaters on April 22 with English dub

Aniplex of America reported on Friday that the Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale anime film surpassed US$1.35 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend in North American theaters.

Aniplex of America and Eleven Arts opened the film in the United States on March 9 after a Hollywood premiere on March 1. The film is also screening in Canada during the March 17-19 weekend.

The film will return to U.S. theaters with an English dub starting on April 22.

The film opened in Japan on February 18, and sold about 308,376 tickets for 425,762,760 yen (about US$3.76 milion) in its opening weekend. The film was the first anime film to rank #1 in both weekend attendance and weekend box office receipttotals since Makoto Shinkai's your name. The film also set the opening-weekend record among films distributed by Aniplex. It has since sold more than a million tickets in Japan.

The film also opened in Taiwan, South Korea, Thailand, and Mexico over the past four weeks, and it ranked in the top 10 at the box office in all four countries.

[Via Yaraon!]


Forest University School of Medicine and completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center.

He has been a docent at the Clara Barton Office of Missing Soldiers, a member of the speakers Bureau of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine in Frederick, a member and Board member of the Society of Civil War surgeons. He has been researching a book on Dr. Charles Leale, the first physician to attend to President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on the night of his assassination on April 14, 1865. Also in connection with Lincoln he is a board member and Vice President for Education and Outreach of the Lincoln Group of D.C.

He will provide a reenactment in Sydnor Hall where there was a hospitalin 1862 after the Battle of Fredericksburg.

We can thank John Hennessy for the title of the evening, “Fredericksburg: City of Hospitals.” John is the chief historian for the National Park Service in Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania and a popular local lecturer. He has presented this topic many times around the area, but this is the first time at St. George’s. He began his career with the National Park Service in Manassas and is the author of The First Battle of Manassas: An End to Innocence, July 18-21, 1861 and Return to Bull Run, about the battle of Second Manassas. John is noted for helping to bring the National Park into social media, particularly with the blogs he manages.

John focused attention on Fredericksburg’s hospitals in an April, 2016 Free Lance-Star


(APN) ATLANTA — Comcast Cable got their way, with a unanimous vote of the City Utilities Committee of the Atlanta City Council on November 26, 2019; and by the Full Council on December 02, 2019, in support of 19-O-1598, approving a seven year Franchise Agreement with the City of Atlanta.

Numerous advocates, as well as the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board, opposed the Council’s adoption of the contract, especially while the City is still auditing Comcast.

NO COUNCILMEMBER GAVE A DARN ABOUT 216,000 DOLLARS IN FRAUDULENT OVERBILLING

Atlanta Progressive News revealed troubling information about Comcast in November: that the company overbilled customers by approximately 216,000 dollars from 2009 to 2016 in “PEG Fees,” or Public, Educational, and Government public access fees, which they kept for themselves, calling the money “interest.”

Comcast was allowedPolice today confirmed they are treating the 'frenzied' knife attack at a train station in Manchester as being terror-related.

Officers said a man, 25, had been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after three people were stabbed in the attack at Manchester's Victoria station.

Police said two knives were involved in the attack at around 9pm on New Year's Eve.

A man was filmed after the attack last night shouting 'Allahu Akbar' as he was bundled into a police van.

Theresa May issued a statement today saying: “My thoughts are with those who were injured in the suspected terrorist attack in Manchester last night. I thank the emergency services for their courageous response.”

Two commuters - a man and woman in their 50s - were taken to hospital with knife injuries.

Police today said


the pair suffered 'very serious' injuries and will be in hospital recovering for some time.

A British Transport Police (BTP) officer was also stabbed in the shoulder. The officer, a police sergeant in his 30s, was later released from hospital, Greater Manchester Police said.

An eye-witness to the attack, which occurred at around 9pm on New Year's Eve, said they heard the assailant shout "Allah" during the incident.

Video posted on Snapchat after the man's arrest showed him shouting 'Allahu Akbar' as he was forced into the back of a police van

Police said a man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remains in custody.

Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts said the investigation was being led by counter terrorism police and officers were keeping an "open mind".

He said: "Tonight's events willhave understandably worried people but I need to stress that the incident is not ongoing, a man is in custody and there is currently no intelligence to suggest that there is any wider threat at this time."

Sam Clack, a BBC producer, was on a platform at Manchester Victoria railway station waiting for a tram home when he witnessed the attack.

The 38-year-old said: "I just heard this most blood-curdling scream and looked down the platform.

"What it looked like was a guy in his 60s with a woman of similar age and another guy all dressed in black.

"It looked like they were having a fight but she was screaming in this blood curdling way.

"I saw police in high-vis come towards him.

"He came towards me. I looked down and saw he


had a kitchen knife with a black handle with a good, 12-inch blade.

"It was just fear, pure fear."

Mr Clack said police officers used a Taser and pepper spray before "six or seven" officers jumped on the man and held him down.

He said he heard the suspect saying: "As long as you keep bombing other countries this sort of shit is going to keep happening."

Mr Clack said it looked like both the man in his 60s and the woman with him had been stabbed, but both were conscious and were walked to a waiting ambulance.

He said he also heard the knifeman shouting "Allah" during the attack.

"He shouted it before, he shouted it during it - Allah," Mr Clack said.

As police appeared "within seconds" the knifeman backed down the platformtowards where he was standing alone.

Mr Clack described how he feared the man would attack him.

"I just had a feeling in the pit of my stomach," he said.

"Here's a man who's very agitated, angry, skittish. It appears he had already attacked someone. He had police coming towards him and he's coming towards me.

"I thought what I need to do is jump onto the tracks because next thing he's going to do is turn around and stab me. He's looking about, side to side and jumpy.

"At one point one of the police officers fired the Taser but it missed him.

"Then he got pepper sprayed and tasered and he want to the ground.

"The guy, his exact words were, he said: 'As long as you keep bombing other countries, this sort


A man who spent four days lost in bushland in remote Far North Queensland has survived by drinking from waterholes known to be inhabited by crocodiles.

Jerry David, 44, was dressed only in a pair of shorts and had no food or water when his four-wheel drive hit a cow about 25 kilometres from the township of Pompuraaw in Cape York last Thursday.

Jerry David was found by police on Monday after surviving in the bush with no shirt, shoes, or food for four days. ( Supplied: Queensland Police Service )

With the car a wreck, disorientated, and in pitch darkness, Mr David set off on foot back towards his hometown of Kowanyama, more than 100km away.

Police became aware that the man was missing after the man's family noticed he hadnot arrived in Pormpuraaw.

Sergeant Nick Ziersch, from Pompuraaw Police, said Mr David was found wandering in the bush near the Mitchell River, about 30 kilometres from the crash site on Monday afternoon.

He said it was a "remarkable" story of survival given the searing temperatures approaching 40 degrees Celsius.

"He had no shirt, no shoes, and no food and managed to stay alive by drinking from waterholes," Sergeant Ziersch said.

"He had enough local knowledge to be able to avoid crocodiles while drinking."

Sergeant Ziersch said Mr David was in relatively good spirits when he was located by rescuers, despite four days lost in one of the most remote areas in the country.

Map Pormpuraaw, north and Kowanyama, Cape York

"We are dealing with a very isolated, remote area of 150,000 square hectares," he


said.

"There are obvious hazards in the environment; we have the high temperatures, a lack of water, and there is some quite hazardous wildlife in the area."

Sergeant Ziersch said Mr David had been examined by medical authorities and was immediately given the all-clear.

"He did say he had had nothing to eat since Thursday afternoon and had drunk about 10 to 12 litres of water during the time he was missing," Sergeant Ziersch said.

Sergeant Ziersch said Mr David's traditional knowledge of the land had undoubtedly helped him survive.

"It's quite remarkable when you consider the factors involved," he said.After Ownership Drama, Dodgers Want To Play Ball

Matt Kemp of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a RBI single against the Oakland Athletics during a spring training game at Camelback Ranch on March 8 in Glendale, Ariz.

Christian PetersenGetty Images

Listen

Listening...

/

Originally published on March 18, 2012 3:50 pm

Things are looking pretty good at the Dodgers spring training complex in Glendale, Ariz. They have Cy Young Award winning Clayton Kershaw anchoring their pitching staff and at the plate, the National league MVP runner-up, Matt Kemp.

"Hopefully, we can start out the way we finished last year and be consistent throughout the whole year," Kemp said.

Everyone has had enough of what's been happening off the field.

"The focus on the Dodgers and in the city of Los Angeles needs to be on the field," says


Bill Shaiken, who covers the Dodgers for the Los Angeles Times. "On folks like Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw, two of the best players in baseball. Not on ownership drama and who's going to bid how much and what revealing court document made the team look bad this week."

It's been 21/2 years since Dodger owners Frank and Jamie McCourt announced their divorce, and started an epic legal battle over control of the team.

Frank McCourt won, only to have Major League Baseball take over operations. Then, last June, the Dodgers filed for bankruptcy, owing tens of millions of dollars to former players and others.

It was the low point. It was also the turning point.

McCourt was forced to put the team up for sale. It's fair to say he's notthe most popular guy in L.A. But he is shrewd. Normally when you sell a team, you find a buyer and Major League Baseball approves or doesn't approve the sale. But Shaiken said McCourt got himself a better arrangement.

"He was able to negotiate a setup where Major League Baseball would still get to approve buyers but he would get a final list of approved buyers and could negotiate in a an auction fashion with those buyers," he said.

Four groups appear to be left in contention: one involving former L.A. Laker basketball star Magic Johnson, another led by a hedge-fund billionaire, the third by the owner of the St. Louis Rams football team and the last group headed by the owner of the Memphis Grizzlies basketball team.

The Dodgers are


league MVP runner-up.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Unintelligible) number 27, Matt Kemp.

(SOUNDBITE OF CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

MATT KEMP: You know, hopefully, we can start out the way we finished last year and just continue to be consistent throughout the whole year.

ROBBINS: Everyone has had enough of what's been happening off the field. Bill Shaikin covers the Dodgers for the L.A. Times.

BILL SHAIKIN: The focus on the Dodgers and in the city of Los Angeles needs to be on the field, on folks like Matt Kemp, on Clayton Kershaw, two of the best players in baseball, not on ownership drama and who's going to bid how much and what revealing court document made the team look bad this week.

ROBBINS: It's been two and a half years since Dodger owners Frank and Jamie McCourtannounced their divorce. That started an epic legal battle between the two over control of the team. Frank McCourt won, only to have Major League Baseball take over operations. Then last June, the Dodgers filed for bankruptcy, owing tens of millions of dollars to former players and others. It was the low point.

(SOUNDBITE OF CHEERING)

ROBBINS: It was also the turning point. Frank McCourt was forced to put the team up for sale. It's fair to say he's not the most popular guy in L.A., but he is shrewd. Normally, when you sell a team, you find a buyer and Major League Baseball approves or doesn't approve the sale. But Bill Shaikin says McCourt got himself a better arrangement.

SHAIKIN: He was able to negotiate a setup where Major League


Baseball would still get to approve buyers, but then he would get a final list of approved buyers and could negotiate in an auction fashion with those buyers.

ROBBINS: Four groups appear to be left in contention: one involving former L.A. Laker basketball star Magic Johnson, another led by a hedge fund billionaire, the third by the owner of the St. Louis Rams football team, and the last group headed by the owner of the Memphis Grizzlies basketball team.

The Dodgers are expected to fetch about $1.5 billion. That would be a record for a North American Sports franchise. Frank McCourt has until the end of April to close the deal, the same day he owes his ex-wife, Jamie, a $131 million divorce settlement.

SHAIKIN: I think everybody, and honestly probablychallenge POStPlan before the PRC, or anywhere else for that matter. In exchange, the Postal Service allowed the organizations to participate in the development of POStPlan. With them out of the picture, it was almost inevitable that the advisory opinion process would be short and the opinion itself, well, agreeable.

A third possible reason the advisory opinion process was brief has to do with the pressure the Commission has been under to speed up the process. Senator Carper complained about how long the Saturday delivery case took, and he has written the PRC a letter encouraging the Commission to move more quickly or risk having its decisions become irrelevant. The Commission is in the process of revising its own rules in ways that may speed things up for all


no cost savings analysis at all. The press release, however, mentioned $500 million, and in a reply to an interrogatory, the Postal Service presented a spreadsheet showing how it came up with that number.

The spreadsheet shows a cost savings of $516 million. To come up with that number, the Postal Service took the average postmaster salary & benefit total for each EAS level, multiplied it by the number of post offices in each level, and added the numbers together. That sum represented the total cost of labor under the current system. The Postal Service then estimated the new salaries for the part-time workers who will replace the postmasters. The difference was the savings. (You can see the original cost-saving calculations here.)

When he was being cross-examined, Mr. Day acknowledgedDesigners Yeohlee Teng and Monica Botkier pose for a photo at the 2nd Annual Capsule Collection for Vogue Eyewear launch at Sunglass Hut Flagship on September 27, 2011 in New York City.
(September 26, 2011 - Source: Jemal Countess/Getty Images North America)
see more angles »


status quo of indefinite military occupation.

When asked what they would prefer if their favored approach fails, almost two-thirds – 63 percent overall – said a one-state solution. This includes 70 percent of Democrats and 50 percent of Republicans.

Just 10 percent overall would contemplate what appears to be the direction Israel is heading: annexation of the West Bank without giving Palestinians equal citizenship.

According to Telhami, who summarized some of the poll’s findings in a Washington Post article, the survey results show strong polarization between Democrats and independents on the one hand, who tend to be more favorable to Palestinian rights, and supporters of President Donald Trump, on the other, who strongly back Israel.

On Wednesday, Trump received Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at the White House as part of anotheran announcement by the Labor Department late last week that consumer prices have gone up too little to warrant a cost-of-living increase in retirement benefits for 2011.

It will be the second year in a row that benefits have not risen. The consecutive years without an increase are unprecedented since the mid-1970s, when the government began to adjust such payments automatically, based on the inflation rate.

The largest group of people touched by the freeze are the nearly 54 million retired and other Americans who receive monthly Social Security checks. But the same formula that determines whether Social Security payments go up has ripple effects, affecting benefits for retired federal workers and for retired and disabled veterans, as well as former railroad workers.

In the final two weeks before the midterm


elections, after which Congress will come back for a lame-duck session, most - though not all - of these constituencies are pressing hard for lawmakers to give more help to people on fixed incomes.

Democratic House and Senate leaders say they want to offset the lack of a cost-of-living adjustment with a one-time $250 payment, similar to one that Congress granted in 2009 as part of its economic stimulus efforts. Republicans largely oppose the idea, cautioning that it would deepen the federal budget deficit.

"Everyone is trying to figure out who we lobby," said Deirdre Parke Holleman, executive director of the Retired Enlisted Association, which represents retirees from the enlisted ranks of all armed services branches. Even though the increase has been small in the part of the consumer pricedisabled. "The White House is justifying it as an economic stimulus payment," Strobridge said. "We support it on that basis."

Like the association of railroad retirees, the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association has begun urging its members to lobby their representatives on Capitol Hill. The group represents nearly 2 million federal retirees and an additional 600,000 surviving spouses who get government pensions. More than 300,000 federal retirees and survivors live in the District, Maryland and Virginia.

The association is trying, in particular, to secure the $250 for a small subset of retired public employees who are not part of the Social Security system and will not get the same payment as other older Americans unless Congress gives them special attention.

Retired federal workers "are very unhappy," said David B.


in the Talkers Magazine rankings as the 6th largest syndicated talk radio show in America, through merit. TRN Enterprises owns no stations  our shows have to earn their keep and stations love what this show does for them - through merit alone.

Today that show will jump several spots to become the new 3rd or 4th largest syndicated show in the United States.

Jet pilot, Wall Street investment banker for 10 years, Hollywood star for 12 years, former congressional nominee and now radio giant who has earned his right to this spot for close to 9 years. Jerry Doyle is the future of talk radio. He will bring massive audiences through word of mouth because he is brilliant and funny, showing both emotional and intellectual range that is beyondrare.

The Jerry Doyle Show is eminently saleable. He understands the advertising business like few others; Jerry is a triple-rated William Morris Agency voice-over artist who has voiced national ads for AT&T, Chevrolet, TGI Fridays, Anheiser-Busch, Panasonic, The US Armed Forces and many others.

Jerry will work with his stations reading their ads and promos, because he understands radio isnt about host ego, its about high levels of performance, and its about business.

Jerry shows up 5 days a week, 3 full hours a day because his work ethic is second to none.

Mark Masters, CEO of TRN Enterprises, notes that, Jerry Doyle is the vanguard of talk radios next evolutionary step, and he has been setting the standard for talk radios profitable, saleable and sustainable future for some time now, with


Andrea Thompson (also of B5 fame, and NYPD Blue, too) also tried to break into the newsie business by anchoring on CNN Headline News for a year. She wasn't as successful as Doyle has become.

-PJ

29
posted on 10/01/2012 6:28:48 PM PDT
by Political Junkie Too
( It doesn't I naturally when you're not natural born.)

If he was the guy I was listening to tonight he sounded like a rino. He was saying that the republican party is too right and too white. It also needs to bring more diversity into its ranks. I changed the station in disgust while he was ranting against conservatives who complain about media bias and the rigged polls.

34
posted on 10/01/2012 6:33:44 PM PDT
by peeps36
(America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)

JD has replacedWith two England internationals in the coming week lets look at the next set of England connections with Tottenham. We discover which clubs players have scored the most goals for the country. There is the managerial links between Spurs and the England hot seat. We wonder when is an international not an international and why do players win ‘caps‘. There is also some assorted connections to round things off.

Two men, Terry Venables and Glenn Hoddle have managed and played for Tottenham and England. While Alf Ramsey and Peter Taylor both played for Spurs and managed the national side. Terry holds the record being the first player to have represented England at every level from Schoolboy to Full. With Youth, Amateur and Under23 in-between. As well as playing for


the Football League. He signed for Spurs in 1966 and won the FA Cup. He was Tottenham’s manager 1987 - 1991. He became England manager in 1994 and left at the end of the 1996 European Championship when England finished third. He later managed Australia for a year. Glenn Hoddle (1) took over from Venables and led England at the 1998 World Cup (2) His coaching team were John Gorman, Ray Clemence and Peter Taylor (all ex-Spurs players) was in charge of the Under 21’s. Previously he had managed Tottenham 2001- 2003. Alf Ramsey was England manager from 1962- 1974. He was the first England manager to select his own side, prior to this the team was chosen by a selection committee. (2, 3) Apart from victory inthe 1966 World Cup he led England in the 1970 tournament and the European Championships in 1968. Peter Taylor was in charge for one game in November 2000 as a caretaker after a successful spell in charge of the Under 21 side. A 0-1 defeat in a friendly away to Italy where he made David Beckham (5) captain for the first time.

Darren Anderton, Paul Gascoigne and Teddy Sheringham Euro 1996

Once again various sources differ in their findings, see notes England-1. Tottenham lay second in the goals forthe country by each club. Only Manchester United players have scored more with 218. Whilst Tottenham players have netted 194 for England. Liverpool are behind us on 147 and Arsenal are way back in 6th place with 84. That’s less than half


of Tottenham’s total.

So when is an international, not, well when caps are not awarded. Here are (at least some) of the games (with a Tottenham connection) where England (sometimes calling itself the FA) were involved in such a game.

In November 1939 at the start of WW2 Wales played England. England picked only players from the Southern clubs as they drew 1-1 and Ron Burgess was in the Welsh side. In 1944 another wartime international and England played Scotland at Wembley where Ted Ditchburn made his debut. Laurie Brown who joined us from Arsenal and had previously played in the 1960 Olympics went on a tour with the FA to the Far East and New Zealand in 1961 and played the ‘internationals’ V Singapore and Hong Kong. He scoredin three of the games against regional sides in NZ.

Then in 1969 The FA went to the Far East and the Pacific. The team included our own Keith Weller (6)who would win a full cap later. Keith scored four times against regional sides, including a hat trick V Otago. Then he scored four in the three ‘internationals’ with NZ. He also scored two more V Singapore. He played V Hong Kong and the crowd at the game became hostile and lit fires and the friendly game ended with the players being taken off the pitch by the police. Then on to Thailand and Weller hit two more goals. At the same time as this tour the full England team were in Mexico where the World Cup would be


held the following year (2). After one Full international another non -international game was played and Martin Peters and Alan Mullery both played. Alan who was the first player to be sent off for England a year earlier was sent off again. England went back to South America the following year as the World Cup warmed up and Ralph Coates(4) set up Jeff Astle to score the only goal in a B international but was then dropped from the final 22.

So why do we win “Caps.”In the earliest days offootball players on the same side would not necessary wear matching shirts. Teams would be identified by wearing caps. These were some times held on by chin straps. These varied in style from ’school caps’ to ’pill box hats’.

In1886 the FA received a proposal that players representing England should be presented with a white silk cap bearing a red rose. The term caps spread to other sports even when they were not physically presented.

See also Talking Tottenham 62, for the story of the Tottenham players on the England / FA XI tour to Australia in 1925. In Connections - England 4, we will reverse the process and look at England links to the Tottenham’s mangers job. There are some more non-international games with Spurs links and the eight Tottenham boys who have scored on their international debuts to date.


Rob Blake’s jersey number 4 now hangs from the rafters at Staples Center after it was retired by theLos Angeles Kings on January 17, 2015.Photo: Gann Matsuda/FrozenRoyalty.net

ROB BLAKE JERSEY RETIREMENT: In the final installment of a multi-part series on the Los Angeles Kings retiring superstar defenseman Rob Blake’s jersey number 4 on January 17, Frozen Royalty wraps up coverage with several audio interviews, most of which you will find only on Frozen Royalty.

EL SEGUNDO AND LOS ANGELES, CA — On January 17, the Los Angeles Kings retired former defenseman and captain Rob Blake’s jersey number 4 during a pre-game ceremony at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Over the past few days, Frozen Royalty has brought you a series of stories leading up to the ceremony on January 17, basedon exclusive interviews. Below, you can listen to all of those interviews, as well as an interview with Blake after the jersey retirement ceremony.

ROB BLAKE JERSEY RETIREMENT: In part 4 of a multi-part series on the Los Angeles Kings retiring superstar defenseman Rob Blake’s jersey number 4 on January 17, former Kings defenseman and captain Mattias Norstrom spoke exclusively with Frozen Royalty about Blake, both as a player, and as a person.

EL SEGUNDO, CA — With the Los Angeles Kings’ retirement of superstar defenseman Rob Blake’s jersey number 4 coming up tonight, Kings alumni, most notably, several of his former teammates, have made their way back to Los Angeles to pay tribute.

As one might expect, Blake’s long-time defensive partner and close friend, Mattias Norstrom, is one of those


he left the organization after the 2007-08 season. Some also hold a grudge against him regarding his departure at the trade deadline during the 2000-01 season.

Former LA Kings defenseman Mattias Norstrom (center), was honored by the Kings
during a pre-game ceremony on October 30, 2010, when the Kings hosted
the New Jersey Devils at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Photo: Los Angeles Kings

EL SEGUNDO, CA — During the Los Angeles Kings’ February 14 practice session at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California, a strange, yet familiar figure was taking in the goings on, both on the ice and off.

This player patrolled the Kings blue line for more than ten seasons, serving as their captain from the 2001-02 season through 2006-07. The physical, stalwart blue liner was a warrior onthe ice, a competitor as tough as they come—not necessarily in terms of dropping the gloves—and he always was the consummate professional.

FROZEN ROYALTY EXCLUSIVE: It was not so long ago that the Los Angeles Kings dressing room and training room might have looked more like a hospital ward than anything else. After all, back in 2002-03 and 2003-04, they set unofficial records for man-games lost to injury. Retired head athletic trainer Pete Demers had to treat all those injuries, and Frozen Royalty takes a long, hard look back at those disastrous seasons, as well as more of Demers’ thoughts on the mechanics of injuries, their treatment, and their prevention. Part ten of a series.

The logos of the Los Angeles Kings, the 29 other National Hockey League teams, and


Patriarch Mark of Alexandria

Patriarch Mark of Alexandria may refer to:

 Patriarch Mark I of Alexandria, ruled in 43–68
 Patriarch Mark II of Alexandria, ruled in 141–152
 Patriarch Mark III of Alexandria, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria in 1180–1209
 Patriarch Mark IV of Alexandria, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria in 1385–1389
 Patriarch Mark V of Alexandria, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria in 1425–1435
 Patriarch Mark VI of Alexandria, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria in 1459–1484The Ottoman sultan Selim the Grim – having defeated the Mamluks in two major battles in Syria and Egypt – entered Cairo in 1517.

He celebrated his victory by watching the crucifixion of the last Mamluk sultan at the Zuwayla Gate. Then he presided over the systematic looting of Cairo’s cultural treasures. Among that loot was the content of most of Cairo’s great libraries. Arabic manuscripts were shipped to Istanbul and distributed among the city’s mosques. This is probably how the manuscript of Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange ended up in the library of the great mosque of Ayasofya.

There it lay unread and gathering dust, a ragged manuscript that no one even knew existed, until 1933 when Hellmut Ritter, a German orientalist, stumbled across it


stories were compiled and in some cases composed in the 10th century in either Syria or Egypt.

This means that the text we have is older than the oldest substantially surviving manuscript of The Thousand and One Nights (from the late 15th century), which Antoine Galland took as the basis for his translation of the Nights in the 18th century. The authors and compilers of both Tales of the Marvellous and The Thousand and One Nights are anonymous.

Not only do the two-story collections resemble one another in the variety of their contents, but they have a handful of stories in common including the intriguingly titled The Story of Abu Muhammad the Idle and the Marvels He Encountered with the Ape As Well As the Marvels of the Seas anda historical figure, Muhammad ibn Suleiman, plays a leading role in three of the stories. Why, I do not yet know.

The Fifth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor Illustration by Charles Folkard from the book The Arabian Nights (Hilary Morgan / Alamy)

More generally, the fantastic is even wilder and more prominent in Tales of the Marvellous than it is in the Nights. The sheer mad inventiveness of The Story of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle, with its jumbling of Muslim, Christian and pagan beliefs and rituals would take some beating. Here we have a mechanical vulture, visionary dreams, conversation with a pagan god, magical transformations, thrones of wrath and of mercy, an enchanted gazelle, a herder of giant ostriches, lustful jinn, speaking idols, a queen of the


crows, a weeping lion, a fortress guarded by talismans, a crocodile with pearls in its ears, the sacrifice of virgins to the Nile and much else.

The narrative is one long carnival of extravagant fantasy. The Story of ‘Arus al-‘Ara’is and Her Deceit, As Well As the Wonders of the Seas and Islands features an Arab Medea who uses poison and sorcery to slay the men and jinn she sleeps with (and she sleeps around a lot). In Said Son of Hatim al-Bahili, a jihadi expedition heads out to India where it encounters not only the armies of the pagan Indians, but also a monk who remembers his times with the Prophet Daniel and with Jesus, but who has since converted to Islam, and he utters many cryptic prophecies.Then the Muslim expeditionary force travels on to lands farther east to discover the Valley of the Ants and the Valley of the Apes.

As I have read and reread these stories, I have slowly become convinced that the person who first wrote them down in the 10th century did not just collect them from other sources, but in some cases he or she actually composed them. Several of the stories show signs of having been driven by inspiration and written down in great haste. For example, in The Story of the Talisman Mountain and Its Marvels, only belatedly does the storyteller remember to bestow a name on the savage mamluk.

The Thousand and One Nights contains one long story about a quest for treasure, The City of Brass, in


wealth of the ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as of the Pharaohs and Persian emperors.

As the stories of dangerous automata suggest, medieval storytellers envisaged advanced technology not as something that would be achieved in the future, but rather as something whose secrets were lost in the distant past. In Tales of the Marvellous, death-dealing automata guarded the treasures sought by the protagonists of the quest stories.

The Story of Alladin or The Wonderful Lamp Illustration by Charles Folkard from The Arabian Nights (Hilary Morgan / Alamy)

Unusually in The Story of Julnar, the sorceress Queen Lab is mistress of a group of singing automata. Statues were dangerous. In several of the tales in Tales of the Marvellous demons enter the statues and speak through them. Stone monks guard treasurein the first of the four treasure-hunting stories. A statue on the Talisman Mountain has the power to immobilise ships. Such things, neither alive nor dead, are intrinsically uncanny.

Treasure-hunting stories are full of marvels and excitement, but, as with the Nights story The City of Brass, they also carry a lot of moralising about the transience of worldly wealth and the vanity of earthly power. One gets the sense that the treasure hunters are not so much seeking tangible treasures as they are on a quest for adventure and strangeness. The story of a quest for treasure turns out to be the story of the quest for a story.


clicking the banner on the top right of the Blog.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

American Idol Season 8 winner Kris Allen performs "Live Like We're Dying' Live on Good Morning America November, 17 2009. Order the single below or the full debut album by clicking the iTunes or Amazon banners on the right side of the Blog!

The wonders of Walt Disney World Resort await you and three others. You'll fly into Orlando, stay five nights at Animal Kingdom Lodge, enjoy five days of fun at any or all of the six theme and water parks, and get a $2,000 gift card to spend on food and souvenirs. No purchase necessary

Sometimes, good guys do finish first. That's what supporters of "American Idol" winner Kris Allen believe on the eve of thedebut release from last season's soft-spoken champion.

With Allen's album due Tuesday, the long journey from surprise winner to young man on the cusp of superstardom is just beginning. Though, in typical Allen fashion, the buildup to his musical debut has been much more subtle than the fireworks and silver lip-gloss barrage of news and images from runner-up Adam Lambert.

In fact, until the leak of Allen's album last month, the premature release of snippets of his songs two weeks ago and the recent debut of his big budget-looking first video, news about Lambert appeared to be vastly overshadowing updates on the guy who actually took the "Idol" crown all those many months ago.

"Absolutely, I've noticed the discrepancy in coverage," said Josh Jenkins, a friend of Allen's and webmaster of


echoed by MJ Santilli, the founder of a popular "Idol" blog, who said she'd noticed the coverage discrepancy, along with Allen's fans. "The media seems to be in love with Adam, as they were all through the competition," she said of the musical-theater belter whose flashy goth/ club-kid style and coy reveal of his sexuality has earned him practically nonstop coverage since "Idol" wrapped at the beginning of summer. "He's a big, colorful personality with an interesting backstory. He's mad talented. It will be interesting to see if he'll live up to the hype and become the superstar some in the media are predicting."

Allen, on the other hand, is the low-key type who appears to shy from the limelight almost as much as Lambert is drawn to it,even as he has begun doing more interviews and appearances to promote the album over the past few weeks. "His project, on the surface, seems more conventional than Adam's, and his collaborators aren't quite as sexy," she said of such Lambert ringers as Lady Gaga, Muse and Rivers Cuomo of Weezer. Allen, on the other hand, has written with less splashy collaborators such as the Fray's Joe King, Switchfoot's Jon Foreman and former "Idol" finalist Chris Daughtry, whose song "Send Me Down an Angel" will be a bonus track on the Wal-Mart version of Allen's album. "However, I still think it's going to all come down to the records Adam and Kris put out. In Adam's case, the hype surrounding him will help him, but it won't guarantee


success."

One reason Allen's first single, "Live Like We're Dying," might not have gotten as much breathless hype as Lambert's first two songs — the "2012" super-ballad "Time for Miracles" and the glitter-sprinkled, dance-remix-ready title track "For Your Entertainment" — is because Allen's song is yet another cover. That's the theory espoused by Derrius Lockett, webmaster of an Allen-centric website, who likes Allen's do-over of the tune by Irish pop band the Script but was hoping for an original for the first single. "Live Like We're Dying" has gotten a solid, if slow, start on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, resting at #92 at press time after hitting #89 following its release and settling in at #38 on the current top 40 chart. By contrast, Lambert's "Miracles" debuted at#50 on the Hot 100 two weeks ago before falling out of the running, while "For Your Entertainment" has not yet charted.

"We, the fans, just wanted something new," he said. "As for Adam, I think it's just because he has all these star friends like Katy Perry, Ferras and many others. He even went to the Michael Jackson premiere in London with Katy Perry, where he could talk about his new song — which I do love — and CD, [and] before that he did the announcement for the American Music Awards, which I think Kris should have done."

Lockett lamented that the only places he's seen Allen are at a recent Miami Dolphins football game and some other scattered appearances that don't add up to the blitz from


Lambert. That said, "Kris has the star potential, too, and I think his CD will be #1 on the charts," Lockett predicted. Download Live Like Were Dying Now!

Kris Allen knows he's not garnering as much attention as Adam Lambert — and that's OK with him.

Since foiling Lambert at the "American Idol" finale last May, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter from Conway, Ark., has not appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and declared he's gay. His music can't be heard during the credits of the apocalyptic action flick "2012." And you won't find him posing in a racy Details photo shoot with a naked woman.

"I don't mind," an always modest Allen says while perched in "Idol" overlord Simon Fuller's quiet office 10 stories above the Sunset Strip. "I thinkthat's how I went through the competition as well. I did my thing, and it worked out. And that's how I'm going to do my music career. I'm just going to do my thing, what I like to do, and hopefully it works out."

His thing now is his self-titled album, which comes out Tuesday, a week before Lambert's "For Your Entertainment" is scheduled for release. As one might expect after watching his soulful "Idol" renditions of Kanye West's "Heartless" and "Falling Slowly" from the indie musical "Once," Allen's album is filled with melodic ballads and toe-tapping rock tunes.

Allen teamed with experienced producers like Toby Gad, Steve Kipner, Andrew Frampton and Saalam Remi, but contributed more than just his voice and guitar-and-piano-playing prowess. Allen's name appears on the songwriting


credits for all but four of the album's 13 songs — including "Red Guitar," a ditty Allen wrote for his wife, Katy, before his "Idol" run.

"I bought my wife a red guitar for her birthday a long time ago, hoping that she would play it," he says. "She never learned how, so it became a wall decoration in our apartment. One day, I took it off the wall and started playing it, and just started writing a song that ended up being about the guitar itself, which was not the greatest guitar in the world."

His beaming wife's face became a constant presence in the audience during Allen's "Idol" tenure, a move that judge Simon Cowell teased at risk of scaring off female fans. Throughout the post-"Idol" zaniness —and that's make music. That's what makes me happy. That's the thing that has always driven me."

Allen is looking forward to touring with his band next year and hopes to keep an Allen family Christmas tradition going strong this holiday. Every year, Allen's mother gives him and his brother, Daniel, a new pair of pajamas and a board game, which they play — no matter how long it takes — before going to bed. He already knows what game he wants this year.

"The new Monopoly with the big towers," he says, his eyes widening. "You can build cities. It's weird."Download Live Like Were Dying Now!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Does your city always get skipped during major concert tours!? Here's your chance to bring a one of a kind lineup


is the lead single taken from Allison's debut studio album "Just Like You" which is going to hit the stores across United States on December 1. It has been re-recorded in Spanish called "El Viernes Te Olvido Yo ".

Most recently, "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest announced that he will bring in Allison Iraheta together with her Idol pals Kris Allen and Adam Lambert for a reunion gig. The city with the most demands on Ryan's blog will get their visit.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

American Idol season 8 winner Kris Allen is less than a week away from releasing his self-titled debut album. To start off his promotion rounds, the singer stopped by the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien to perform his first single Live Like We’re Dying. With guitarin hand and backed by his band, Kris gave a spirited performance of the song.

Next up for Kris will be a performance on Good Morning America’s fall concert series on November 17th. Kris will play tunes from his debut that will be released the same day.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Kris Allen, Allison Iraheta and Adam Lambert all certainly have very distinct senses of style. So when the trio of "American Idol" stars teamed up for an Elle magazine photo shoot, they each got to express their individual sense of fashion. And, yes, that means that Lambert was wearing eyeliner and spiky platforms.

Lambert appears in the spread all dolled up in a glam suit posing with a microphone. "Accessories were the big thing for Adam," Elle creative director (and "The


City" regular) Joe Zee says in his A to Zee column in the December issue.

"He's got a classic uniform of nonconformity," Zee continued about Lambert's look. "But I wanted the finishing touches to make his look a look. Think dangerous: chainmail scarf, link-chain gloves, spiked boots."

Just to illustrate the contrast of the singers' styles, Zee dressed Allen in Lambert-style wings and platforms — a look the "Idol" winner clearly can't pull off. But in the real spread, Allen embraces his "soulful quality" in a tie, vest and skinny black pants, holding an acoustic guitar. "He's like a young Chris Isaak who can sing in a stadium and make every person feel like it's a one-on-one performance," Zee wrote.

As for the only lady in the group, Zee wanted tokeep Iraheta's personal aesthetic alive and make sure her rocker spirit was captured in the photos, dressing her in a figure-hugging one-sleeve dress and leopard-print ankle boots. "I'm very inspired by girl rockers," Zee explained, "especially a young Courtney Love and Grace Slick, and mixed kick-ass sexy with the toughness of her attitude and the music."

Thursday, November 12, 2009

The people have spoken--and they love Kris Allen. The American Idol winner was nominated for Favorite Breakout Artist and he took time out of his busy schedule to talk to Hollyscoop about his upcoming album, adapting to life in LA, and being a People's Choice nominee.

Here are some highlights from our exclusive one on one interview:

Hollyscoop: You won American Idol and now you’re getting all the nominations, do you feel


it's an irresistible love song about a red guitar he gifted her. The U2-esque guitar sound on this one is especially winning, particularly because makes sense thematically. Although his wife isn't the best guitar player, he hears beautiful strums every time she picks it up. And as far as guitar players, U2's Edge is one of the top, yes?

» "Is It Over"Kris begs and pleads with a girl who recently dumped him on this bluesy guitar-driven waltz. But the "Woe is me" theme and the dramatic flare-ups on the song would make it a perfect contender for next season's "America Hates You This Week" elimination song on "Idol" results show.

» "Let It Rain"Kris penned this tune as a response to all the pressure he was feeling while makingto knoooow" to his disinterested love, a tinkering electronic guitar fills out the sound. Kris might not have been known for his ballads on "Idol," but apparently we missed out. It's a great way to close the album.

» "Heartless"Kris arguably earned his spot in the "Idol" finale thanks to his acoustic switch-up of Kanye West's "Heartless," so it's not surprising that he included said cover as a bonus track. What is surprising, however, is the Phil Collins "In the Air Tonight" arrangement Salaam Remi whipped up. It's a fail. An interesting fail, but a fail nonetheless.

It's not a perfect album by any stretch of the imagination. (Don't you wish there was just one totally-acoustic song on there, Kris fans?) But as far as "Idol" albums go, it's fantastic.


the band's debut album "The Script" but appeared in a b-side of their mini album "We Cry".

The album is slated for November 17 U.S. release. Snippets of its thirteen tracks have been made available for stream on Amazon Germany earlier this week. Four of them have been showcased live at Dolphin's Tailgate Stage Sunday, October 25. Most recently, a footage showing the album's photo shoot has been found.

Kris Allen will perform at New York City's Z100 Christmas Ball on December 11. He will be joined by David Archuleta, Jordin Sparks, Taylor Swift, John Mayer, Justin Bieber, The Fray, Boys Like Girls, Pitbull, Owl City and Jay Sean.A.J. Foyt: Scar never healed after seeing friend die in horrific crash at 1958 Indy 500

Jim Ayello | IndyStar

INDIANAPOLIS — Sixty years later, and the memory still shakes A.J. Foyt to his core. His friend’s arm dangling, lifeless, as the car burned.

Doctors would later say that fan-favorite Pat O’Connor probably died instantly from a skull fracture suffered when his car flipped upside down amid a horrific, 15-car, Lap 1 pileup.

But that was little consolation to a 23-year-old Foyt as he circled the track, easing up the gas, a rookie just trying to survive his first Indianapolis 500. He considered O’Connor a mentor as well as a friend. The jovial Hoosier, who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated the week before the race, taught Foyt the ropes of


of balloons, charged by the buzz of anticipation. It all turned to horror on the first lap of the 42nd 500-Mile Race.A third-turn crash collected 15 cars, eliminated eight and killed North Vernon native Pat O'Connor. "It was a nightmare. I lived with it for 200 laps," grim-faced race winner Jimmy Bryan said before ducking away from reporters that day.

The crash occurred when Ed Elisian spun in the third turn, He took out pole sitter Dick Rathmann and the first two rows. It was instant mayhem. Jerry Unser's car ran up over Paul Goldsmith's and cartwheeled end over end over the wall, where it landed upright."I looked up and saw him go over me," recalled Goldsmith, whose coveralls bore the tread marks and whose right shoulder and armstill bear the scars.

"Cars everywhere," remembered Bob Christie, who started 17th and found a hole through the carnage that put him suddenly among the leaders. O'Connor's car hit one driven by Jimmy Reece. It flipped, landed hard upside down, skidded across the track and burst into flames before rolling back onto its wheels. The race continued under caution. As the wrecks were cleared and O'Connor's body was transferred into an ambulance and slowly driven away, the horror on the track took hold in the crowd.

"Why did it have to be Pat?" an onlooker murmured at the track hospital.

— excerpted from a 2008 article by Phil Richards


listed here.

Honeycombe House is an imposing Victorian house overlooking the picturesque fishing port of Mevagissey with breathtaking views of both inner and outer harbours, yet only a few minutes walk from the centre of the village.

You'll be spoilt for choice for where to eat and drink along the Path. With lots of local seasonal food on offer, fresh from the farm, field and waters. Try our local ales, ciders, wines and spirits, increasing in variety by the year, as you sit in a cosy pub, fine dining restaurant or chilled café on the beach. The businesses that support the Path, where you've chosen to visit, are listed here.

Interactive Elevation

Route Description

To reach Mevagissey by car leave Boswinger YH along the road heading inland. At the junction by Seaview InternationalHoliday Park turn right.Take the next left and stay on the road, joining the Gorran road by forking left. Keep going passing the Lost Gardens of Heligan,eventually reaching a crossroads. Turn right on the B2273 towards Mevagissey. The fee paying car park is on your left as you enter the village.Mevagissey is an attractive village on the south coast of Cornwall. Its narrow streets clustered round its harbour with houses rising steeply around make it the perfect example of the Cornish fishing village.The village is first recorded in 1313 and has been involved in fishing for many centuries. The first pier was built here as early as 1430 and the current inner harbour in 1770-73. In the late 1800s the outer harbour was added. The mainstay of the


fishing fleet was pilchards, but these largely disappeared at the end of the 19th century. Nevertheless, fishing remains an integral part of Mevagissey's life.

The walk starts from the Valley Road car park. Turn left out of the car park and head into the centre of Mevagissey along Valley road and River Street.

Turn left into Church Street, pass the Post Office, and keep going along Church Street. Keep ahead at the junction then when the road forks keep left on the lower, narrower road.

A little way along this road is Mevagissey's church. There are traces of Norman work in the building, but most of it dates from the 1400s. It is now dedicated to St Peter, but historically to two more obscure Cornish saints, giving rise to the settlement'sname from the Cornish “Meva hag Issy” (meaning Meva and Issy, the names of the two saints).

As the road bears right around the church and begins to climb, turn left down the narrower lane which soon arrives at the B3273 St Austell-Mevagissey road. Cross this carefully (be careful of traffic coming round the bend from the right), then bear left along the lane signed as a footpath and cycleway to Heligan.

This is part of the Cornish Way cycle route. This is part of route 3 of the National Cycle Network, and is itself split into sections, this one the Coast and Clay Trail, and all these titles are found on the various signposts. Although a cycle route there is plenty of space for walkers.

Follow this excellent path along


the attractive valley, forking left just after Cheesewarne Farmhouse. Keep along the valley bottom to another fork, at a gate, and bear right here, slightly uphill on the cycle route.

Through the gate straight ahead the public footpath leads to the Lost Gardens of Heligan.This estate was owned by the Tremayne family for 400 years and it was they who established gardens here in Victorian times. When the staff were called to service during World War I most failed to return and the gardens fell into disrepair. They were discovered and restored in 1990 and are open to the public.

Continue uphill, out of the valley, gently at first then a little more steeply.

From the top there are excellent views over much of the Heligan estate. Among the work donethere is a wildlife project specialising in ensuring conditions are right for the local barn owl population; keep aware, you may be lucky enough to see one of these magnificent birds.

The path curves around the head of the valley then forks again. Go left here, over a wooden bridge and still on the cycle route, then continue parallel to the Mevagissey-Gorran Haven road.

Shortly after passing some ruined farm buildings (keep specially alert for barn owls here) there is another junction. The path bearing left is another route into Heligan, but for the Coast Path circular bear right to pass underneath the road.

This overbridge would have been built for the Tremaynes in the 19th century to ensure the privacy of the estate.The path descends steadily through a quiet wooded


landscape towards a valley visible through the trees, eventually reaching the valley floor.This is the Pentewan Valley, cut by the St Austell River on its way to the sea. It was a major transport corridor in the 1800s between the St Austell china clay area and a harbour at Pentewan on the coast.

At the valley floor the path comes parallel to the B3273 St Austell-Mevagissey road. Continue ahead, crossing the road with the cycleway at the nurseries. A little further on, just past the caravan site, the path turns right away from the road and crosses the St Austell River to a junction on the far side. At this point the Cornish Way turns left on its way to St Austell and points north and east. However, abranch of the cycleway goes right, to the sea at Pentewan, and this is the route now followed.

Note that the river has been straightened and its banks strengthened. In former times it used to run white with discharge from the china clay pits inland of St Austell.

When the riverside track divides keep left on the main route, away from the river and into the woods.

The track now followed through the wet woodland is on the line of an old horse-drawn tramroad, built in 1830 to carry china clay to the harbour at Pentewan. In 1874 it became a proper narrow-gauge railway, but closed in 1918 because of the silting up of the harbour.

Approaching Pentewan the track diverts to the right away from the line of the tramroad, then


bears left past a cycle hire business to arrive at a road.

At the road turn left for a short diversion into Pentewan village and its pub, refreshments and toilets. Here will also be seen the old harbour. A first harbour was built here in 1744 but the present one dates from 1820. However it became blocked by natural sand build-up and by china clay silt coming down the St Austell River and was last used in 1929. The basin is now separated from the sea and is filled with fresh water.

To continue, return to the cycle hire and continue along the road (if missing the diversion to the village, turn right at the road after the cycle hire). At the main road turn left, now on the lineof the Coast Path for the return to Mevagissey. Leave the road along the footpath next to the entrance to Pentewan Sands Holiday Park. After skirting the holiday park keep an eye open for a kissing-gate on the left which takes the Coast Path off the hedged path and along a field edge to the cliff top. On the cliffs, the path descends almost at once to the little cove at Portgiskey.

The ruined buildings are pilchard cellars and boatyards, all abandoned in the late 1800s.The path now begins the climb to the headland of Penare Point.From this length there are superb views back over Pentewan Sands to the prominent Black Head. Beyond, on the far side of St Austell Bay, it should be possible to see the red


and white striped landmark on Gribbin Head, built in 1832 to mark the entrance to Fowey Harbour. Beyond, the coast continues away, with views possible as far as Rame Head, at the mouth of Plymouth Sound, if it is really clear.

Follow the Coast Path up and round Penare Point.

Rounding Penare Point the harbour at Mevagissey comes into view ahead, the regular walls contrasting with the jagged rocks. This is the outer harbour, built in the late 1800s to increase the village's fishing potential. Just north of Mevagissey you pass the path leading down to Polstreath Beach with its fine golden sands. Dogs are permitted on this beach all year round.

The Coast Path descends steeply into a narrow valley, climbing out again to the outskirts of Mevagissey. Cross aMedia

Please watch the CBS video and read the cover story in Newsday reporting on the disastrous Middle States review and the possible ramifications. Frank Frisenda, NCCFT President and Kimberley Reiser, NCC AAUP President were interviewed. Their message: NCC has a wonderful faculty and staff that serve a deserving student population. The faculty will continue to provide a high quality, robust education. Our need: an open, transparent and competent administration to lead NCC into the future.

Like this:

Kayleen Freyre, President of Amnesty International Club, speaks out at the Let Us learn/Let Them Learn campaign kick-off event on September 24, 2015 on how NCC transformed her life. The website at the end of the video is here: tinyurl.com/letter-to-cuomo-2015.

Special thanks to students/videographers Anri Tchelidze and Alex Thomas.

Like this:

This is a video of


the NAAC Kick-Off Event on November 24, 2014. Opening remarks were made by Dr. Kimberley Reiser and the guest speaker was Dr. Julie Schmid, AAUP Executive Director. Link to Dr. Julie Schmid’s .ppt file: nccpresentation.

Post navigation

At the AAUP's annual conference, three members will be honored for their extraordinary dedication and accomplishments as faculty activists. The AAUP's Georgina M. Smith Award will go to Deborah Smith of Kent State University. The AAUP's Outstanding Achievement Award will go to Alexander Zukas of National University. The AAUP-CBC's Marilyn […]

Investigators into a case at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln concluded that the dismissal of a lecturer was related to the political content of speech and thus may have violated academic freedom. The case, which crystallizes the current right-wing assault on higher education, involvesissues that the AAUP has been working on intensively this year--faculty […]

An AAUP amicus brief filed on Friday argued that professor Teresa Buchanan’s academic freedom was violated when Louisiana State University dismissed her for making statements in the classroom that the university improperly characterized as sexual harassment.

The AAUP joined with the American Council on Education and other higher education groups in submitting an amicus brief to the Supreme Court opposing the Trump administration’s most recent travel ban. The current iteration of the travel ban places restrictions on entry to the United States from citizens from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad, North Kor […]

The AAUP calls on our members and all faculty and students, on college and university administrators and trustees, and most of all on our political


leaders to support broader sensible gun control measures like those proposed by the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The national American Association of University Professors joins its California state conference in urging the suspension of two executive orders, EO 1100 (revised) and EO 1110, that make extensive changes to the general education requirements, placement testing, and remedial education policies applying to all of the California State University campuses. The […]

The AAUP joined in an amicus brief supporting a permanent injunction against a Trump administration executive order that sought to strip federal funding from “sanctuary jurisdictions.” The AAUP’s interest in the case stems from the potential application of the executive order to colleges and universities.mandatory five-year conditional release term, but stayed execution of the sentence and placed him on probation for ten years. As part of the terms of his probation, the court ordered Kaquatosh to attend and complete sexual offender treatment. The court explained that if Kaquatosh denied the offense it would be considered a failure to participate in treatment and the court would revoke Kaquatosh's probation. The court's probation order filed on March 16, 1999, reiterated the requirement that Kaquatosh successfully complete sex-offender treatment and that "denial of offenses [is] not acceptable as reasons why not accepted into a treatment program."
On March 15, 1999, Kaquatosh applied to the office of the state public defender for assistance in appealing his conviction. On March 26, 1999, Kaquatosh appeared before the court and


his prior convictions not subject to appeal. Psychologist Douglas Williams informed Kaquatosh that the prior convictions were not grounds for participation in sex-offender treatment and that he should wait until after his appeal was resolved to participate in Alpha's treatment program. Williams informed the probation department that Kaquatosh was inappropriate for sex-offender treatment at this time but might be reconsidered for treatment at a later date. Based on this information, Kaquatosh was arrested for not cooperating with sex-offender treatment and a probation revocation hearing was held on April 21, 1999.
At the hearing, defense counsel advised the court that Kaquatosh's appellate counsel had independently advised Kaquatosh he had a "constitutional right" not to make admissions. Defense counsel explained that Kaquatosh had been found inappropriate for the sex-offender treatment programThis most beautiful season brings celebrations filled with the joy and love of family and friends. If you believe, the holidays deliver the gifts of harmony and hope, wrapped in magic and decorated with glamour! Bob Mackie again presents a beautiful gift for this special season.

The 2006 Holiday™ Barbie® by Bob Mackie is wonderfully sophisticated in a black gown and white faux fur, embellished with festive multicolored stars. 2006 Holiday™ Barbie® marks Mr. Mackie's second Holiday™ Barbie® doll creation, sure to be treasured for years to come.


*Glebe Place Residence by Rafael de Cárdenas*

*A Remarkable Project With Boca do Lobo’s Manueline Aesthetic

Located in the city of Design, London, Rafael De Cárdenas elevated the design to the next level with Glebe Place Residence, by mixing novel styles, gathering together such dissimilar traditional Portuguese pieces and modern design. Still, the distinguished designer guarantees the most harmonious environments with this ambitious project.

The New Yorker Designer recreated several different rooms, each one with its own classic touch. One of the three dining room has a special Portuguese reference completing the whole ambiance with the perfect piece of art, D. Manuel I cabinet from Boca do Lobo’s Limited Edition Collection.

The astonishing six-bedroom residence was renovated to evoke timeless luxury, balancing contemporary classics with the home’s historic character. A restrained paletteof Portland limestone, hardwood, and natural materials is punctuated by vibrant accents of turquoise, fuchsia, brass, and deep purple furnishings from modern European and American designers.

The Dining Room is filled with a gigantic cream marble dining table and large upholstery chairs which gives the possibility to the room, to be more than a dining space. It can perfectly be a place to have an informal meeting with closest professionals or business partners. The blossom rose wallpaper gives life to the walls and color to the room delighted with classic hue and textures like beige, old greys, and dark woods.

Right beside the entrance door, D. Manuel was chosen strategically to expand the space and cut the contemporary design of the rest of the pieces. The cabinet surface has a


copper leaf finish, with a sophisticated black lacquer gradient applied on the outside. Its legs are made from solid mahogany and are crafted to a traditional and handmade form, finished in high gloss black lacquer.

Manueline Style is the sumptuous, composite Portuguese style of architectural ornamentation, incorporating maritime elements and representations of the discoveries brought from the voyages of Vasco da Gama and Pedro Álvares Cabral, two of the most renamed discoverers in Portugal history.

Glebe Place Residence it is way more than a platform of design, it has its own personality keeping most of the original details intact.

MANUEL CABINET

King Manuel I of Portugal is best known for his support of Portuguese maritime exploration. During his reign, Dom Manuel saw his fleet discover India, Brasil, and reach distant lands suchas Greenland and Newfound Land, and solidified trading routs and agreements between Persia, China, Morocco and Portugal. This noble cabinet draws inspirations from his legacy, the Manueline aesthetic and style, and pays a tribute to Portugal’s most influential epochs.

The Techniques of Boca DO LOBO

FILIGREE

‘When crafting a piece like this, the end result is always different, each piece is unique. It is hand-crafted work, a work of love’

The art of filigree was born during Roman period and it was passed down through the generations of skilled medieval jewelers, often emulating the work of the Byzantine goldsmiths of Constantinople, embellished crosses, reliquaries and the covers of bibles. Later, the filigree became very popular in the French fashion world from the 60’s until today. And actually, countries such as India, Italy,


Day that you could share a sweet treat with, whether it be a friend, co-worker, brother, sister, parent, neighbor, husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, lover, aunt, uncle, grandparent, etc. was important because at the end of the day it's really about being happy with the people in your life. Sharing and caring for others, that's what we do as a society, and what better way to bring a smile to that significant person's face, and taste buds I might add,...

Story of Lisa Cotoggio: One Cheesecake at a Time. from Karishma Vanjani on Vimeo. Lisa Cotoggio, a Bayside resident unlike many women did not choose to stay hush about sexual harassments she faced at her jobs, whether it was hospitality, sales or the restaurant industry. The final straw in her30 years of career was an incident that led her to file a lawsuit against the company. These experiences she said made her decide to start her own business- Grandma’s Cheesecake Sandwiches. The video narrates Lisa's journey to being a 57-year-old woman entreprenuer in the city of New York. It also adds in a word of caution for the aspiring entreprenuers looking to own a food truck on the streets...


Internet and copied, you're never going to regain total control," Hilkey said.

Thousands of pages of confidential information were vulnerable from April until Nov. 24, when someone notified authorities after finding their name on the Internet. Officials said the database was accessed from within the United States, as well as outside the country, before it was removed from the server.

The information was so stunning that Jay Seaton, publisher of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, thought it was obtained illegally.

A source provided the western Colorado newspaper with a computer disk shortly after Thanksgiving. The paper first published details of the leak — but not its contents.

"We got that disk returned to the proper authorities," he said. "As a general rule, I don't mind taking some risks. But in something likeNovember 2011

Star-Crossed: George Eliot and Fyodor Dostoevsky

GEORGE ELIOT & FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Each issue the Star-Crossed column chooses one or more writers who were born during a particular month and talks about their work.

November Birthdays:

George Eliot � born November 22, 1819, Warwickshire, England

Fyodor Dostoevsky � born November 11, 1821, Moscow, Russia

Eliot and Dostoevsky were nearly exact contemporaries. Born within two years of each other, they died less than two months apart, Eliot in 1880, Dostoevsky in 1881. For both of them, the period from 1860 to 1880 marked their most significant stretch of writing, when they reached their maturity as artists.

The contrasts between them are huge. Eliot�s novels are models of moderation. They�re balanced in form, rigorous in theme, judicious in presenting their characters. Dostoevsky�s novels are built on excess


and contradiction. He never stops swinging through the arcs of his extremes.

I like to imagine both writers in the same room. They try to have a conversation. Dostoevsky paces back and forth. He pours out his passionate views on the decadence of Europe and the holy mission of the Russian Orthodox Church. He wrings his hands, rises to a higher and higher pitch of excitement. His agitation largely blinds him to Eliot�s presence. He argues not with her but with the phantoms of all the viewpoints he carries around with him everywhere he goes. Eliot sits and watches. Calm and amused, she tries to point out the flaws in his reasoning. Once she realizes the task is hopeless, she makes mental notes on how she might use himfor one of her novels. ���

1 � Dostoevsky: A Writer�s Diary

Dostoevsky�s writing is so unstable that it seems to be in a constant state of trembling. Almost every page jitters and quakes with all the anxious ideas and emotions struggling to take possession of the story. The young author who started as a colleague of Petersburg radicals eventually became a reactionary conservative, a Slavophil jingoist with semi-fascist religious views. In modern American terms, he changed from a Vietnam Era hippie into a Born Again Bush-worshipper with a regular rant-show on Fox News.

Ideologically, it�s an off-putting metamorphosis. Artistically, though, it�s one source of his greatness. Whatever his beliefs at any given time, the radical Dostoevsky always had a reactionary inside him, and the reactionary a radical. Moreover, both the


radical Dostoevsky and the conservative Dostoevsky engaged in endless combat with nearly every stray thought that came their way. As a polemicist, Dostoevsky is beautifully self-destructive. He can rarely state a position without imagining its opponents. The more he protests against their predicted hostility, the more life he injects into them. Ultimately you�re far more aware of the characters he brings to the battle than you are of who�s winning the fight.

You see this quality most dizzyingly in the novels, but it also explodes his attempts at propaganda, destroying his arguments while mesmerizing his readers. A Writer�s Diary is his miscellany of reactionary diatribes and editorials, over 1,400-pages long in the full two-volume edition, and for years I avoided it because I thought it must be insufferable. Iassumed it was nothing but Dostoevsky riffing on the forgotten news stories of his time, devouring them to feed his extremism and intolerance. That turns out to be true as far as it goes, but I should�ve also realized Dostoevsky could never sustain his opinions without repeatedly coiling back and swallowing his own tail.

Part of the rubbernecking-at-a-car-crash fascination of A Writer�s Diary is that it gives us the same volatility we find in the narration of Notes from Underground. The tone, hectoring and insecure, is as precarious as nitroglycerine. The voice is always on the verge of rupture, of dividing and multiplying into the shouting and stammering and elaborate self-doubts of all those fantastically impulsive characters running loose through the novels.

In one chapter, for instance, Dostoevsky undercuts his


dream, a new lie, even a terribly crude one, perhaps, but one that you were quick to embrace lovingly only because it resolved your initial doubt? ��������

Throughout his many anti-Semitic rants, which we�ll come back to later, he seems particularly sensitive to his malicious preposterousness. In his efforts to defend himself, he twists his thoughts into ludicrous contortions. Take the semi-justification, semi-surrender that he flourishes when considering an invented objection to a letter he has published from a young woman. The letter describes a Protestant doctor who was supposedly loved by �the poor Jewish women� he helped, and who supposedly represented a �moral center� Jewish people might someday be taught to emulate. After printing the letter, Dostoevsky swings blindly at phantom dissenters, collapses into concessions no one hasasked him to make:The 1877 portions of the Diary contain Dostoevsky�s notorious hymns to the glory and patriotic necessity of Russia�s war with Turkey. At the end of the September section he asserts that the war will bring absolute and irrevocable change to the whole world. He cites Napoleon as an example of a �new man,� the human force who had taken the French Revolution in directions none of the revolutionaries could foresee. Vaguely yet vehemently, Dostoevsky suggests we are about to encounter another Napoleon. He scarcely says it, though, before he pulls back from the idea, like Raskolnikov finally pulling back from the megalomania of his somewhat different Napoleon fantasy:With his alertness to self-deception -- alertness grounded in his personal susceptibility to the many textures and levels


is founded:The absurdity of this goes to the core of Don Quixote, and also to the core of Dostoevsky�s writing. The instability of Dostoevsky�s prose reflects his compulsion to track the bizarre motions of our self-deceptions. It catches the flipping and thrashing we do when we�re reeled in by the fishing-line of our private fictions. Dostoevsky understands how we fight to escape the barb inside the bait, even as our struggles drive the hook deeper into our flesh:

2 � Eliot: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

For Dostoevsky in his reactionary conservative mode, the enemy was Western thought and culture, �all these Mills and Darwins and Strausses,� as he puts it in the final part of the 1873 section of the Diary.

For George Eliot, on the other hand, Mill and Darwin and Strauss arecrucial figures. Her intricate evaluations of their work helped refine her forceful and compassionate mind. She was heavily involved with the Westminster Review, which Mill had edited earlier. Throughout her career, she also joined in the debates over Mill�s On Liberty and his advocacy of women�s rights. She knew Darwin�s ideas early and well. Even before The Origin of Species, she had explored the scientific theories on which evolution was partly built.

Her engagement with the writings of Strauss was particularly important to her life and her thinking. Eliot started off with a provincial Christian viewpoint. Some of her religious ideas were as dogmatic as the ones Dostoevsky ended up holding. She then moved away from these ideas as she grew up. The development of her increasingly wide-ranging sympathy


forms a startling contrast with the gradual escalation of Dostoevsky�s fanaticism.

Rosemary Ashton tracks the shift in George Eliot: A Life, one of the many Eliot biographies since the indispensable John Cross volumes came out in 1885. Eliot was named Mary Anne Evans at birth, picked up a fervent Evangelicalism in one of her childhood boarding schools, and attended another boarding school run by Coventry Baptists when she was a teenager. At the age of eighteen, in the years after her mother�s death, she changed the spelling of her name to Mary Ann, while remaining, she said, �strongly under the influence of Evangelical belief.� She constantly read books with a religious or doctrinal cast. She even planned to publish a chart of ecclesiastical history, a project she abandoned onlywhen she learned about the recent publication of a similar chart.

The letters of her adolescence, printed in the first volume of the Yale collection, are sometimes exhaustingly pious. In her messages to her friend and former teacher, the highly religious Maria Lewis, Mary Ann displays an aggressive sanctimoniousness, laced with an amusingly overwrought humility. This letter from August 18, 1838, which begins with a line from Hebrews 6:12, is typical:

�That ye be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises,� is a valuable admonition. I was once told that there was nothing out of myself to prevent my becoming as eminently holy as St. Paul, and though I think that is too sweeping an assertion, yet it is very certain we are