Washington, D.C. - As a Democratic majority in the Senate moves to pass a non-binding resolution to oppose President Bush's plan to send over 20,000 additional troops to Iraq, allies of the Bush administration in the Senate are frantically putting in an effort to prevent a potentially embarrassing rejection of the plan.
Supporters of Bush's plan, including Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, have been involved in a heated debate over how to best handle the backlash by both Democrats and Republicans alike. Their goal is to block two non-binding resolutions directly critical of the White House during a rising period of public unrest over the war.
Some Republican Senators have suggested that opponents of the White House plan risk undermining the military commander in Iraq, as well as Bush. "There is a lot of pressure on people who could be with us not to be with us," said Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine). A large group of bipartisan senators including McCain, Graham, Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and David Vitter (R-La.), have backed an alternative to that measure that would set benchmarks for the Iraqi government and describe the troop increase as a final chance for the United States to restore security in Baghdad.
At the confirmation hearing for Admiral William J. Fallon, who has been nominated to command American forces in the Middle East, a personal assessment of the situation in Iraq provided no comfort. He said "time is running out" for positive action by the Iraqi government to show it can reduce sectarian violence.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee began working on the blocking effort to place new limits on the conduct of the war in Iraq, in a possible attempt to force a withdrawal of American forces. According to The New York Times, Republican senators now appear widely divided over how to proceed. Allies of the White House are attempting to gather at least the 41 votes needed to prevent a vote on the measure under Senate rules. McCain is sponsoring the resolution that would establish benchmarks for the Iraqi government rather than increase troops alone. He said the proposal also "could be fashioned to give Congress more oversight."
Some feel McCain's plan may be a way to keep Republicans from joining resolutions more critical of Bush, and many Republicans have indicated his plan would be preferable to one criticizing the troop buildup outright. At his confirmation hearing, Fallon told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee during his testimony that the United States may have "erred in its assessments of how effectively the new Iraqi government could manage the nation's affairs."
"Maybe we ought to redefine the goals here a bit and do something that's more realistic in terms of getting some progress and then maybe take on the other things later," Fallon said, adding that "what we've been doing is not working and we have got to be doing, it seems to me, something different."
In the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) joined Democrats and asserted that Bush "cannot simply ignore Congressional opposition to his plan to send 21,500 additional troops to Iraq."
"I would respectfully suggest to the president that he is not the sole decider," Specter said, in regards to a statement Bush made before the November election that gave the House and Senate to the Democrats. "The decision is a joint and shared responsibility."


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Union of India &
Ors. Vs. M/S Green Alloys P. Ltd.  INSC 850 (28 April 2009)
IN THE SUPREME COURT
OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURI SDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO. 2894 OF 2009 (Arising
out of SLP (C) No. 30427 of 2008) Union of India & Ors. ..Appellants Versus
M/s. Green Alloys P. Ltd. ..Respondent
Dr. ARIJIT PASAYAT,
in this appeal is to the order passed by a Division Bench of the Punjab and
Haryana High Court directing release of the goods seized from the respondent on
furnishing undertaking to pay the duty or other dues which may be found due
without furnishing any cash security or bank guarantee for the value of the
goods. Certain other directions were given which we are not primarily concerned
with. By the Writ Petition (CWP No. 17287 of 2008) the respondent had sought
for a direction for release of raw material seized by the Anti Evasion Branch
of the Central Excise, Faridabad on 15.9.2008 and also to quash letter of
seizure on 24.9.2008 alongwith Panchnama.
of the present respondents was that under the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004, only
the finished goods are excisable and there could be no evasion of duty unless
the goods are manufactured and cleared. Condition of executing Bond in form
B-11 or giving of cash security for releasing the goods was not justified. Bond
B-11 was applicable for release of finished goods only.
the reply filed on behalf of the present appellant stand taken is that the
present respondent had shown low value addition and paid very less amount of
duty from the cash account. The imported scrap was of the value of Rs.70-80 per
kg. while finished goods were of the value of Rs.120-130 per kg. They also
found that against the declared stock of 453326 kg. aluminium scrap entered in
the stock RG-23A Pt-I register, the balance shown was nil. In the table
reproduced in para 3 of the written statement, it is mentioned that though
there was entry of goods received in register RG- 23A, in the register
maintained in computer in Excel Sheet, the entry of 7.9.2008 and 8.9.2008 was
nil. It is thus pointed out that under Rule 15 of the Cenvat Credit Rules,
2004, the goods were liable to confiscation and penalty."
the High Court observed that it was not expressing any opinion on the merits
yet it went into various aspects and ultimately the direction was given which
is impugned in the present appeal.
counsel for the appellants submitted that the approach of the High Court is
counsel for the respondent on the other hand submitted that the order of the
High Court does not suffer from any infirmity.
counsel for the respondent submitted that in a similar case this Court had
declined to interfere in SLP (C) No. 30354 of 2008 by order dated 5.1.2009. The
order reads as follows:
granting liberty to the petitioners to issue additional show cause notice, the
special leave petition is dismissed."
is pointed out by learned counsel for the appellant that in the instant case
two show-cause notices have been issued. We find that while passing an interim
order the High Court had given certain categorical findings on merits. It has
held that it cannot be held that there was a clear case for confiscation only
on the ground that in the computerised excel sheet some of the goods were not
High Court appears to have decided that aspect finally even though that was not
the stage for doing so and that was beyond the scope for adjudication of the
writ petition. In the circumstances we direct that the respondent shall be
permitted to release goods on furnishing cash security or bank guarantee for
25% of the value of goods. The same shall be done within a period of four
weeks. The appeal is allowed to the aforesaid extent.
(Dr. ARIJIT PASAYAT)
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Adam covers proteomics and life science mass spectrometry for GenomeWeb.
The Singapore-based firm plans to use its single-cell RNA and protein assay to help optimize the production of CAR T cells and guide their use in patients.
New instrument releases at this week's meeting reflected proteomics' increased emphasis on throughput and the continuing spread of ion mobility technology.
A recent pair of papers presenting deep learning approaches to mass spec proteomic data analysis build on several previous efforts to develop such methods.
The facility will be mass spec-focused and comprise a service contract lab for developing protein tests and a CAP- and CLIA-certified lab for offering them.
The startup will sell tools and services based on the Nucleic Acid Programmable Protein Array technology developed by Biodesign researcher Joshua LaBaer.
In work presented at the recent American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, they found that T-cell cytokine production predicted patient response.
Roche ran a mock clinical trial in which it used DIA mass spec and targeted proteomics to profile 30 colorectal cancer samples under GCP conditions.
A study from the University of Montreal adds to findings indicating the approach can help reduce sample complexity and interferences in quantitative work.
The tool is the latest such package to be released as the field continues to move towards open searching, which could significantly expand breadth of analysis.
The work suggests DIA can be a rapid way to confirm the outcome of CRISPR experiments while looking at the downstream effects of the targeted alterations.
A letter criticizing actions by the US government and research institutions toward Chinese and Chinese-American scientists has garnered more than a hundred signatories.
NPR reports that researchers in New York are investigating whether it is possible to edit the genomes of human sperm.
In an opinion piece at the Nation, Sarah Lawrence College's Laura Hercher argues that everyone should be able to access prenatal genetic testing.
In Nature this week: ancient DNA uncovers presence of Mediterranean migrants at a Himalayan lake, and more.

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What is PCOS?
PCOS, or polycystic ovary syndrome, is a common medical problem among women of childbearing age. It is also an easy disease to overlook despite the fact that roughly one woman in ten will suffer from it. Learn more about PCOS and the signs and symptoms associated with it to ensure you’re not being affected by it.
What is PCOS?
PCOS is a hormonal problem that can occur in women after puberty. Women who suffer from PCOS have unusually high androgen levels in their systems. Androgens are masculine hormones which can lead to a variety of symptoms for women when they are present in unhealthy levels.
The precise cause of the disease is unknown, but researchers have found some factors that appear to be linked to it. It is likely that there is a genetic component but there is also evidence for environmental factors. It is extremely common regardless of the precise cause, so many women will need to deal with it at some point in their lives.
Signs and Symptoms
Sex hormones play an important role in the human body, so we can see a fairly wide variety of symptoms among people who suffer from PCOS. Most of these symptoms will get worse for patients who are also obese, but anyone with the disease can suffer from them.
Menstrual symptoms are common. Many women who suffer from PCOS will have irregular periods. Their timing can change or they can even stop entirely. On the other hand, some patients suffer from unusually heavy periods instead. The precise changes vary, but irregularity is common.
We also see patients that develop masculine traits. The development of extra facial or body hair is common. Some people also develop male-pattern baldness or heavy acne as a result of the hormonal changes.
The ovaries can also develop the cysts that give the disease its name. They can get in the way of normal ovarian function and even cause infertility in some cases.

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A multidisciplinary analysis and optimization is carried out for a propeller in a real pusher aircraft configuration with the goal of reducing the radiated noise power levels, while preserving the aerodynamic efficiency. The optimization process involves the shape of the blade and the position of the engine exhaust ducts. A coupling of the unsteady aerodynamic and structural-dynamic blade models provides the aeroelastic propeller model that drives a tonal and broadband aeroacoustic prediction. The tonal noise results from the periodic flow unsteadiness due to the nonaxial flight and to the impingement of the engine exhausts on the propeller disk. The broadband noise is mainly due to the interaction between the blade leading edge and the exhaust turbulence. It is shown that the tonal noise overwhelms thebroadband noiseandthat the optimization affects the shape of the blade at the tipandin the spanwise segment hit by the exhausts. An overall sound pressure level reduction of 3.5 dB is achieved at the takeoff condition, while preserving the design propeller thrust and resulting in a small penalty on the propeller efficiency in cruise.
Pagano, A., Barbarino, M., Casalino, D., & Federico, L. (2010). Tonal and Broadband Noise Calculations for Aeroacoustic Optimization of a Pusher Propeller. Journal of Aircraft, 47(3), 835–848. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.45315


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Was Zimbabwe ever the breadbasket of Africa?
A hackneyed expression is that Zimbabwe went from the breadbasket of Africa to its basket case under long-time autocrat Robert Mugabe. But was the first part true?
There is a commonly held view that Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of Africa, although the specific timeframe in history is usually unclear.
This vague narrative gives an impression that Zimbabwe lost its “breadbasket” status during former President Robert Mugabe’s tenure. While Mugabe’s land reform programme seemingly contributed to a decline in Zimbabwe’s agricultural output, there’s limited evidence to suggest that the country was a dominant player in Africa’s food production prior to that period – at least from a staple food production perspective.
Zim’s production never topped 10% share
A country should be able to meet its staple food consumption needs and simultaneously command a notable share in exports of the same food commodity to be considered a “food-basket”.
Looking at the production data of the key staple foods maize and wheat, Zimbabwe’s production of these commodities has never surpassed a 10% share on the continent over the past 55 years. (Note: The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations started recording African agricultural statistics in 1961.)
While that is the case, a closer look at the data paints a fuller picture.
For example, in the two decades prior to Mugabe’s leadership (1960–1980), Zimbabwe contributed an average share of 6% of Africa’s maize production, almost at par with Nigeria, but lower than Kenya’s contribution of 7%. During that period, Zimbabwe’s maize production outpaced consumption by an average 400,000 tonnes a year – making it a net exporter.
During the first half of Mugabe’s rule (1980–2000), the country’s maize production contributed a share of 5% to Africa’s output. While it was a net importer in most years, on average, the country remained a net exporter of maize, with a declining maize trade balance (the difference between a nation’s exports and imports).
The decline in Zimbabwe’s maize production and trade balance worsened following theintroduction of the country’s Fast-Track Land Reform Programme in 2001.
The country’s share of maize production on the continent dwindled to an average of 2% between 2001 and 2016. During this period, Zimbabwe’s maize consumption outpaced production by an average of 550,000 tonnes per year – turning it into a net importer.
Wheat and other grain commodities present a similar trend in Zimbabwe’s contribution to Africa’s food system.
Fails to fit idea of food-basket
The available data, which covers three distinct phases in Zimbabwe’s agricultural sector, suggests that the country was self-sufficient before and in the two decades after Mugabe came to power.
Even then, Zimbabwe’s maize and wheat output were generally modest and volatile. It wasn’t sufficient to support strong exports to the rest of the continent and world – which fails to fit the idea of a food-basket.
In the third phase, the country’s maize and wheat production significantly declined, which further weakened Zimbabwe’s standing in the continent’s food system.
Overall, we view Zimbabwe as a self-sufficient food producer prior to its land reform programme. However, there is limited evidence to support the notion of Zimbabwe having ever been “the breadbasket of Africa”.
- Wandile Sihlobo is an agricultural economist at Agricultural Business Chamber (Agbiz).
- Additional reporting by Sifiso Ntombela, trade economist at Agbiz and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pretoria.
-This article was first published at Africa Check

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Things to know about Oakland Park FL
Oakland Park, officially the City of Oakland Park, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is part of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 6,166,488 people at the 2020 census. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city's population was 44,229.
Originally named Floranada (a blend of Florida and Canada), the town was forced into bankruptcy after the hurricane of 1926. When the municipality reincorporated, residents chose to make it a city and voted for the name Oakland Park. The original boundaries went from the Atlantic Ocean, west to what is now U.S. 441, and from the north fork of Middle River north to Cypress Creek Boulevard, but when the boundaries were reestablished, it was to approximately the west side of U.S. 1, west to Northeast 3rd Avenue and the north fork of Middle River north to what is now Prospect Road. Over time, it has expanded to its current boundaries, mainly due to acquiring a few other areas, such as recent annexations of previously unincorporated neighborhoods of Twin Lakes South and North Andrews Gardens.
Oakland Park is located at 26°10′35″N 80°8′40″W / 26.17639°N 80.14444°W / 26.17639; -80.14444 (26.176362, –80.144509). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 8.1 square miles (21.1 km2), of which 7.5 square miles (19.3 km2) is land and 0.69 square miles (1.8 km2) (8.40%) is water.
Oakland Park is bisected by the Florida East Coast Railway, which runs parallel to Dixie Highway through the city's downtown. The City of Oakland Park has put into place new zoning regulations intended to transform downtown Oakland Park into a mixed-use pedestrian community. One element of the proposal is the creation of a new commuter rail station on the FEC rail line.
Oakland Park borders the city of Wilton Manors. Increased property prices in Wilton Manors have pushed up prices in Oakland Park and spurred interest in the city's downtown redevelopment plan.
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 44,229 people, 16,971 households, and 8,956 families residing in the city.
As of the 2010 United States census, there were 41,363 people, 18,027 households, and 8,768 families residing in the city.
As of 2000, 24.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 32.3% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 48.6% were non-families. 35.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 3.00.
In 2000, the city the population was spread out, with 20.9% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 38.7% from 25 to 44, 21.3% from 45 to 64, and 10.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 109.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 109.8 males.
In 2000, the median income for a household in the city was ,493, and the median income for a family was ,571. Males had a median income of ,269 versus ,514 for females. The per capita income for the city was ,873. About 13.3% of families and 16.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.1% of those under age 18 and 11.3% of those age 65 or over.
As of 2000, English as a first language comprised 66.52%, while 18.16% spoke Spanish, 6.95% spoke French Creole as theirs, 3.32% spoke Portuguese, 1.99% spoke French, Italian was at 0.64%, and German as a mother tongue made up 0.52% of the population.
As of 2000, Oakland Park was the fifteenth most Brazilian-populated area in the US (tied with several other areas) at 2.1%, and it had the twenty-fifth highest percentage of Haitians in the US, with 7% of the population (tied with Ramapo, New York.)
Also, as of 2000, the North Andrews Gardens section of Oakland Park is the sixty-third most Cuban-populated area in the US at 5.76%, while the rest of Oakland Park had the 113th highest percentage of Cubans with 2.03% of all residents. The North Andrews Gardens section was also the thirty-third most Peruvian-populated area in the US, at 1.51% of the population, as well as having the seventy-fourth highest percentage of Colombians in the US, at 2.03% of all residents.
These are the neighborhoods and communities that are officially recognized by the City of Oakland Park.
Oakland Park is represented by 5 City Commissioners who are elected to serve a 4-year term. Commission Members may only serve for 2 consecutive terms. A Commission Member who has served 2 consecutive terms may not run for election for a 2-year period.
The City operates under a commission-manager form of government in which the City Manager is appointed by the City Commission, and serves as the head of the City's administration.
The City Manager's goals are to provide a capable and inspiring leadership for City staff, to make day-to-day decisions that allow for the most effective use of resources, and to operate in a manner that improves the quality of life for Oakland Park's business and residents.
The United States Postal Service operates post offices in Oakland Park, including the Oakland Park Post Office at 3350 NE 12th Avenue, the Fort Lauderdale Main Post Office at 1900 West Oakland Park Boulevard, the North Andrews Annex at 3400 North Andrews Avenue (closed), and the North Ridge Annex at 4350 North Andrews Avenue (closed).
The movie theater chain Muvico had its headquarters in Oakland Park before going defunct in 2017.
Oakland Park is also home to the Funky Buddha Brewery, a facility that produces beers unique to the South Florida market, its most popular arguably being Hop Gun.
Oakland Park is a part of the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood media market, which is the twelfth largest radio market and the seventeenth largest television market in the United States. Its primary daily newspapers are the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The Miami Herald, and their Spanish language counterparts El Sentinel and El Nuevo Herald.
The Oakland Park Library, officially named the Ethel M. Gordon Oakland Park Library, is a public library in Oakland Park, Florida. It is located at 1298 NE 37th Street, Oakland Park, FL 33334.
In 1951, Gordon donated her personal book collection and housed the collection in the Oakland Park Women's Clubhouse. Gordon later won a seat on the City Commission after campaigning on the promise to create a municipal library. On February 10, 1958 the City of Oakland Park Library was officially opened.
On October 16, 2013, the Oakland Park City Commission voted to officially re-name the Library in honor of Ethel M. Gordon.
The city is served by Broward County Public Schools.
Schools in the city limits:
Portions are zoned to Floranada (Fort Lauderdale), Oriole (Lauderdale Lakes), Rock Island (Fort Lauderdale), and Wilton Manors elementaries. Portions are zoned to William Dandy (Fort Lauderdale), Lauderdale Lakes, and Sunrise (Fort Lauderdale) middle schools. Portions are zoned to Boyd Anderson High School (Lauderdale Lakes) and Fort Lauderdale High School.

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4.) Cinematography and edits- Cinematographer captured wrestling scenes very well and edits of certain scenes were good.
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Writer: Gavin Kelley-Day
Date:Wednesday August 20 2014
Philippe Coutinho has earned a deserved international recall as he looks to add to his paltry tally of just one cap...
Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho has been named in the latest Brazil squad.
The call-up is just reward for the 22-year-old's superb form since arriving in England from Inter Milan for £8m in January 2013.
To date the creative maestro has earned just a single cap for his country and that was in a friendly against Iran back in 2010.
His selection is one of a number of changes by new coach Dunga, who replaced Luiz Felipe Scolari in the aftermath of the host nation's embarrassing 7-1 defeat by Germany at the World Cup.
In total only 10 players who were in that squad are retained with the likes of goalkeeper Julio Cesar, Barcelona right-back Dani Alves, Real Madrid's Marcelo and Tottenham midfielder Paulinho all left out.
Since moving to Anfield, Coutinho, who featured regularly for the Samba Stars at youth level, has made 51 appearances and scored eight goals.
Amongst a number of people to congratulate him since the news broke is Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard.
"Well deserved call-up for our little magician. Well done mate," remarked the Reds captain on social media site Instagram.
Despite the former Vasco da Gama man's inclusion, there is no place for club mate Lucas Leiva.
The 27-year-old's own disappointment didn't prevent him from saluting Coutinho as well though.
"My brother I know how much it means for you to have the chance to play for Brazil," commented the defensive midfielder. "Go there and show all your talent because you deserve this."
Lucas has won 24 caps and featured as recently as last year.
Dunga's 22-man squad will play friendlies with Colombia and Ecuador in the United States next month.
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It’s not usually news that Apple (s AAPL) has scheduled its quarterly earnings call with analysts and investors, but this quarter is a bit different. Expectations are sky-high for the iPhone and iPad maker. The reason? CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer put them there. At the last earnings call, in October — in which Apple missed investors’ expectations — the pair went on record that the fiscal first quarter of 2012 (October through December) would be the company’s biggest yet.
The call is set for 2 p.m. PST on Jan. 24.
Specifically, Cook stated in October, “I’m confident that we will set an all-time record for iPhone this quarter.” Oppenheimer put a bold forecast out there to match: He said Apple would hit $37 billion in revenue for the holiday quarter — up 38 percent from the $26.74 billion of the same quarter last year — and earnings per share of $9.30, up from $6.43.
Those numbers are not at all out of the realm of possibility, thanks to the events of the quarter: It began with the iPhone 4S going on sale, saw the mobbed opening of a new flagship retail store, and ended with the all-important Christmas shopping and gift-giving period that has historically been good for the iPhone/iPod/iPad business units.
Analysts are expecting Cook’s promise of an all-time high for iPhone sales to hold true. There are estimations of up to 30 million iPhones sold, which is 10 million more phones than Apple’s previous quarterly record. There is reason to feel confident in that too: In just the first weekend in October that the iPhone 4S went on sale, Apple sold 4 million of them. And by early December, iPhone carrier AT&T (S T) was already saying it was on the cusp of breaking its own record for quarterly iPhone sales with 6 million, with several weeks in the quarter to go.
IPads won’t be too shabby either. Analysts are expecting between 13 and 14 million iPads sold, which would easily beat the previous quarter’s record of 11.2 million.
We will be covering the announcements here on Jan. 24, so be sure to join us. Besides just talk of records broken, expect discussion around China (Apple’s second-most-important market), enterprise use of the iPhone and iPad, and investors’ favorite topic: the long-sought dividend.

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|Kindle with ads - is that a good bargain?
|Written by Sue Gee
|Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Amazon has announced an advertising-subsidized version of the Kindle. But at $114 the "Kindle with Special Offers" is only $25 cheaper than the ad-free edition. So which will customers prefer?
It's a well-known fact that advertising is unpopular and many people will go to great lengths to avoid having it imposed on them.
So why would anyone choose an e-reader with built-in ads?
In this case the lure is likely to be the deals and offers that are going to be exclusive to the Kindle with Special Offers, which will include $10 for a $20 Amazon.com gift card. discounted Audible books and Amazon mp3 albums, and a $10 credit when you buy one of 30 Kindle bestsellers with your Visa card. The advertising is also restricted in that e-books themselves won't have ads in them, just the home screen and the screensaver.
The first series of the specially-designed screensavers come from big brands including General Motors Co's Buick, Procter & Gamble's Olay, and Visa Inc.
Why should these advertisers be interested in promoting themselves to a cheapskate audience - a group which is looking for special deals and has decided to put up with advertising for a 20% discount on the hardware?
Perhaps part of the appeal is "AdMash", a free Kindle app and website capable of providing useful market research results. AdMash asks users to choose between alternative versions of the display advertisements that will become Kindle sponsored screensavers.
In addition, Kindle with Special Offers customers provide Amazon with feedback on the style and types of sponsored screensavers they would like to see. From the Manage Your Kindle page on Amazon.com, customers can use Kindle Screensaver Preferences to indicate what screensaver elements they would like to see more or less of:
So customers are lured by exclusive deals; sponsors are attracted by getting feedback on how best to appeal to a potentially huge audience; and Amazon, of course, sells ever more products.
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Craigslist Montreal – Missed Connections – August 27th, 2016 – Anonymous
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I'll be gone a while. The war. It's not fun. Will you still be around?
When I return I won't be the same. The ocean might make me better.
Will you still be waiting? Can I give you a flower?
Show me a sign in life.
I'll give you a sign tomorrow at noon. Outside the window. Watch.
(N.B.: “Cathy’s song . . . as I walked on . . . “ - a note from the editor
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ANTHEM: a treatise.
Byline: Subterranean Blue Poetry
Title of Book: Anthem
Author: Kimberlynne Darby Newton
Publisher: Subterranean Blue Poetry
Date of Publication: 2017
“Come on take me to war
Take me to war
I’m ready for invasion
Take me to shore”
- from Take Me To War by Blue Peter
“And I’m proud to be an American
Where at least I know I’m free,
And I won’t forget the men who died
And who gave that right to me”
- from God Bless the U.S.A. by Beyonce
Anthem by Kimberlynne Darby Newton. A brilliant offering in the New Age Renaissance Republic of Poetry, the story of the African American goddess in the essence
of love and beauty, a truthtelling inside the brutality of the dislocated places of the post-modern world. Kimberlynne Darby Newton was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
She was a journalist for several years and is a retired history professor from the University of Alabama. She is the author of over 13 books, and has recently
compiled the Freedom Writes Anthology (Subterranean Blue Poetry, 2017). This is the second book review This Writer has written for Kimberlynne Darby Newton,
the first being for Freedom Writes.
Anthem is a dialogue in gender and race relations, an African American Poet revealing great suffering and in the telling a crucible for peace. This poetry is a
no holds barred truthtelling, that dispells the demons, the raw emotions fashioned into poetic climes brings into the light, dance and celebration in healing. The poetry
is in the imago of the Black Madonna, harsh realities told bare bones and through the beautiful essence of the Poet, the Reader is brought to a place of love.
Protest poetry, against oppression, sometimes in the Beat tradition, shines a beacon of light into the dark of night. There is occasional rhyme, and a recreation
of language in original spaces, using Black meme, she sometimes invents new words, Poet Newton is a very considered and accomplished writer. This poetry is inspirational,
as if having been born from listening to the speeches of Malcolm X or Martin Luther King, Jr. It rises like a bird in the blue of sky, taking your spirit high and higher.
As if to give both sides their due, both Black and White for black and white people`s are capitalized, a new form in the politics of race relations, perhaps assigning
credence to both sides can make people feel better, lessening violence.
Rib is a fresh perspective on the Garden of Eden story in a post-modern context, that riffs on the empty spaces of gender relations, the conflicted story
of post-modern love.
Don`t is a stand-alone anthem for the results of conflicted love lives and the resulting violence to the psyche that creates a soldier mentality. A bred in the
bone piece that lays bare the truth, the incredible violence of a brutal world.
Silenced is a beautiful write in a dance of anger, a dance in turmoil of emotion, a story of possession in love. The poetry, is broken, an intricate weave of
emotion, as if a tarantala, a story of conflicted love.
The poem Anthem is about race, about being Black in a white world, the otherness and also about connection.
“I’ve never felt
We are our anthem.”
Song of the South is the quintessential poem, a classical rendering, it weaves nature imagery and the passion of place, the southern United States, into a
song of resurrection, writes of life in a death culture.
The poem begins,
“Culleygaps and cowcummer leaves
under paint-stained eaves.”
The new words in Black meme, pictures a hot day in the deep South, it is the meaning of place and people throughout time. As if influenced by the classical poetry
of Maya Angelou, Song of the South is everlasting and celebratory with original images, the Poet and the poem is of the very cloth of America.
As if poetry inside the eye of God, of good and all that is right, a gift of the essence of woman, the Black Madonna, a treatise in the power of love. A brilliant read,
Anthem by Kimberlynne Darby Newton.
“Mr. Bojangles, Mr. Bojangles, dance, dance, Mr Bojangles, dance.”
- from Mr. Bojangles by Bob Dylan
This book of poetry is a soundbite, a short 12 pages of original lightening in the New Age Renaissance Republic of Poetry, Taxi Cab Voice by Neil Flowers. A Poet
who has worked as a writer, director and actor for theatre, film and radio. A Poet of aliases, Neil Whiteman, Monk Besserer amongst others was born in Montreal and
has lived in the United States, Mexico, Italy and British Columbia. He studied literature at Carleton University under Poet/Professor Robert Hogg. Poet Flowers
edited the Northern Comfort Anthology published by Commoners’ Press, 1973.
The Poet travels and Taxi Cab Voice was written in Los Angeles, Ottawa, and Albuquerque over a period of years. This poetry write is a celebration of new images,
new use of language in sophisticated working class blues. There are references to broken serial lovers, and the manifestation of emotional flat line after much time,
the violence of broken covenant. And the idea of travel, driving the car across the country, some endless highway, as if in rhetorical sequence. In the background it
is as if the memory of the Canadian Great Depression of the 1930’s lingers, infuses the writing, you can feel the dust across the Prairies, people riding the rails,
the breadlines, the want and not. The Quebecois Poet also occasionally uses French words, adding a distinct Montrealais ouvre to the write. The Poet is an Oracle,
infusing the work with a subtle wisdom.
“1: LES NEIGES D’ANTAN
said your Mexico journal
back in the 60s
our classical Athens
O where have they gone the lean aces and maximus men?
Jongleurs of the folk scene, the blues revival?
Women with rainbows for eyes?
We meet to part and go our separate ways
No one in the streets now
save the old lady in broken shoes
and Sally Ann overcoat
chartreuse with gold (plastic) buttons
lugs her bags
shuffles toward that trailer park
mind on tinned tomato soup
You were there
etching the empty spaces
A million burst from my head every day
Finding your own you stepped clear
Clear out of frame”
The poetry is post-modern, a broken thought train, no rhyme, in parts as if you are seeing one half of a conversation. In parts, cadence is created through the repetition
of words and lines, a sing song rhythm that creates sonance, a certain reckoning with the world. And it is a stark truthtelling, the places where love aches and
Like some song sung on the back of a flatbed truck, the wind in your hair, in your eyes, open to all the elements of nature, the poetry rains down. And it’s another
day, another night on the road. A brilliant read, Taxi Cab Voice by Neil Flowers.
Rebecca Anne Banks lives in the New Age Renaissance Republic of Poetry. She is the author of over 27 books of poetry, a family cookbook, a book of
children’s stories, a book of World Peace Newsletters and a primer on marriage discernment all available at Amazon.ca.
She is also the CEO/Artist at Tea at Tympani Lane Records (www.tympanilanerecords.com) and
The Book Reviewer at The Book Reviewer (www.thebookreviewer.ca).
Neil Flowers (Poet, actor, writer, screenwriter, director) aka Neil Whiteman, Monk Besserer amongst others since forgotten, born in Montreal,
currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He has worked in theatre, radio and film. He has lived in Montreal, Mexico, Italy, British Columbia and the
United States. He studied literature under Poet/professor Robert Hogg at Carleton University. Poet Flowers
edited the poetry anthology, Northern Comfort published by Commoners’ Press, 1973.
D.H. Lawrence was born in the U.K., 1885 in a mining town. He is a Poet/Writer/Teacher/Playwright/Literary Critic/Painter and is remembered as one
of the greatest writers of the 20th century. As a child he was physically frail and prone to illness, an intellectual out of place in a blue collar family.
He was a teacher. He became engaged to Louie Burrows an old friend from college but then ran off with Frieda von Richthofen, the wife of one of his professors.
They travelled widely, Australia, Italy, Ceylon, United States, Mexico, the south of France as his writings were published. There was an obscenity case over
“Lady Chatterley’s Lover” and at the time of his death from tuberculosis, he was not considered highly by most critics. He is best remembered for the novels
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Rainbow, Sons and Lovers, and Women in Love.
Kimberlynne Darby Newton was born in Montgomery, Alabama. She has degrees in Literature, Southern Studies and a Phd. in African American and Women's History.
She has worked as a journalist at the Times Picayune in New Orleans, and at the Jackson Advocate and The Clarion Ledger in Jackson,
Mississippi. She is a retired professor of world history from the University of Alabama. Poet Newton is the author of over 13 books, and has recently
compiled the Freedom Writes Anthology (Subterranean Blue Poetry, 2017).
Jamie Nicol. Living in the forested hills of Northern Spain, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea;
giving over my time to the expression of the abundance of life that creates and sustains each day.
Trained as a Zen teacher, recovering philosopher, and small scale natural farmer; everything eventually
gets stirred into the pot of life if we live long enough. Sitting each day in the dawn silence, listening
to the forest wake, writing just what comes.


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As a gamer, one of the coolest things about Black Ops III is the ability to customize your guns in the paintshop. But let’s be real, not all of us know how to do that. That’s why I’m here, dawgs, to give you the ultimate bo3 paintshop tutorial.
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As we read in the speech delivered by the White House’s top advisor on homeland security and terrorism on dropping the use of phrases such as war on terror and jihad we realize that the administration is going backward in understanding the threat and explaining it to the public.
They say the “new” doctrine is “to safeguard the American people from the transnational challenge that poses one of the greatest threats to our national security — the scourge of violent extremists who would use terrorism to slaughter Americans abroad and at home.”
What does that mean? In fact, not much. It is as if the narrative is in abstract. Which transnational challenge is posing the greatest threat to United States national security today? Of course it is the global jihadist threat, with its two networks, the Salafists and the Khomeinists. It is not the Nazis, the Soviet Communists, or militaristic regimes. Why is the Obama administration regressing into a level way below what most educated Americans understand?
Wishful thinking can't change ideologies
The administration criticizes the narrative of its predecessor and we do as well, but instead they propose something weaker and in some aspects dangerous to U.S. national security. After eight years of confrontation with a world web of jihadists, including Salafists and Khomeinists, on battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in various regions of the world such as Pakistan, Somalia, Indonesia, the Levant, the Maghreb, and as the threat penetrates the West with homegrown cells, the administration's doctrine on the threat understanding is entirely disconnected from reality.
In short, the new doctrine asserts that the U.S. is no longer engaged in a “war on terrorism.” They disengage from the conflict as if wishful thinking can redesign world realities in different colors and names: As if one party in a conflict can decide on the ideology and strategies of the foe.
We are at war, words won't change it
Undoubtedly this policy decision is a unilateral withdrawal from this conflict and its war of ideas, but terrorism is going to continue to strike us and our allies. Actually, terrorism is escalating and expanding, not regressing from the moment the administration began its retreat. This policy is not going to change the fact that there is a real “war.”
A war means mobilizing your national defense, intelligence, and economic resources to defeat a foe that can jeopardize your national security. As long as the administration and Congress are spending billions of dollars on several battlefields, deploying task forces around the world, funding the homeland security department and other agencies, and talking about strategic communications across the defense institutions, they are still waging war. Such a policy is dangerous for the U.S., as it puts it against international law, bypasses the will of its own people, and strengthens the enemy's ability to expand and to legitimize itself.
The administration can quit using words it doesn't like, but that would not pull the other side away from conflict, won't deter it, won't sway hearts and minds against the terrorists, and won't create a change in the terminology used by the jihadists.
Dr. Walid Phares is a senior fellow the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the author of “The Confrontation: Winning the war against Future Jihad.” His pieces are posed on www.walidphares.com.
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Nothing I love more, than a great blog hop, to get all our holiday juices flowing! We all know that Sew Cal Gal does it better than anyone , now don't we? Thanks for having us again this year. We love you!!
I would like to share this quilt with you.
Kind of bright isn't it?
Nothing beats a "fun" quilt for the holiday season.
This beautiful pattern is Timeless Treasures "Springfield Stars".
It seems that they have taken it down from their website. I can't even find it in the archives! :-( Boo Hoo.
The original pattern was this beautiful pastel floral,
But I had this bright silly Christmas print! What is a girl supposed to do???
You would never recognize this pattern now.
This year was my year to use what is in my sewing room instead of rushing out and buying more fabric. You know the prices of cotton have sky rocketed...
OK, so I am not at 100% yet, but I am working on it. (Baby steps - baby steps)
And I have to tell you, with those high prices, you don't want to waste any of your precious fabric. There was some waste with the flying geese units on this one, but did it go into the trash???? NOOOOOOOO Remember those scraps cost the same as all the rest of the fabric, so hang on to em.
I've got some fun things you can do with them, coming up in February.
But that is another post all in itself. I wish I could tell you more, but you know what they say... If I told you I would have to kill you!! :-) :-)
Just remember don't throw a thread away.
Really, I mean it.
Your gonna be very surprised... February isn't that far away!
So on that note, I want to leave you with this thought...
If I, a visual person, who finds thinking outside the box a challenge can do it, you can too.
So grab a pattern, something from your stash, and see what treasure you can create.
Oh yeah, be sure to show us. You know we all want to see,
it's that visual thing again!
What are you waiting for...
And have a blessed Holiday Season!
I love the quilt. Bright is always good. Is it a keeper or a gift for some very lucky person.ReplyDelete
I'm looking forward to your February post as I have scraps aplenty.
Yes it is bright, but it is cheerful and fun. And the original design is pretty. I think 2012 is going to be my year for using stash only. Hopefully:)ReplyDelete
Great use of some fun fabric! Love the quilt! What a tease you are. I'm looking forward to February and using up lots of my scraps.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful way to use what you already have. Such a different quilt from the pattern example. I have to say, I like your version of it better!=)ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see your fun stuff...love the quilt!ReplyDelete
wonderful quilt, very festiveReplyDelete
great looking quilt. Love the fabricReplyDelete
It is a wonderful christmas quilt.ReplyDelete
Your quilt is so cheerful and bright...just like Christmas should be. I love your fabric choices for this pattern, just wonderful. Hugs...ReplyDelete
As you sauy, it's not traditional colours, but it's terrific fun.ReplyDelete
I love the bright colors! Gorgeous quilt.ReplyDelete
It looks beautiful in bright colors. I like bright too.ReplyDelete
Fantastic quilt! I'm planning something for February, too (wink,wink). Love your bright Christmas quiltie!ReplyDelete
Love your quilt. You did great!! Thanks for sharing!! HugsReplyDelete
Those colors are wonderful together and that quilt is beautiful. It was a lot of work, but well worth it for you.ReplyDelete
Bright is good...and I know what you mean by the price of cotton....great looking quilt.ReplyDelete
That is one cheery happy looking quilt! I love it! Looking forward to Feb. and what you have planned. I have so many scraps and I really love scrap quilts best. I do think my scraps are mating at night, oh my, more is better I guess.ReplyDelete
You've been doing some great work lately, Joan -- talk about fun, fun, fun!ReplyDelete
What a whimsical Christmas quilt! Fun, and beautiful!ReplyDelete
I love the use of your stash!!!ReplyDelete
I had to blow up the photo to truly appreciate the cute fabric - just darling!ReplyDelete
Love your quilt, it's so FUN!ReplyDelete
So are you just teasing us again!!! Making us wait until Feb!!ReplyDelete
Love your quilt. Yes it is bright but that's why I like it. It's great that this came from your stash.I am impressed. This is a lovely quilt for the season. Is it staying at home with you?
So Christmassy, I love itReplyDelete
What a bright and cheery quilt!ReplyDelete
Too beautiful!! I love you take on the colours.ReplyDelete
Una trapunta molto carina e simpatica!ReplyDelete
i like it very much.ReplyDelete
it looks great.
Very fun use of a great Christmas novelty fabric. :D Can't wait to see what you're doing with your flying geese scraps. I always "double-seam" so I cut off HSTs already sewn instead of throwing out any scraps. Need to do something with my growing collection!ReplyDelete
Great idea and great quilt. It is amazing how the fabrics can change the whole look of the quilt.ReplyDelete
Very cool way to use the fabric! Love how it is so cheerful. Just perfect for the season.ReplyDelete
Aren't you the wise one to use fabrics that you have on hand. Love the bright colors! Makes me smile!ReplyDelete
A very fun Christmas quilt! I look forward to seeing what you do with the little scraps. I have LOTS of them to use up.ReplyDelete
you gave that dull pastel quilt a fresh fun look. too bad the pattern is gone.... :(ReplyDelete
lovley quilt...i love the fabric...ReplyDelete
Bright is perfect for the holidays and your quilt is great.ReplyDelete
I love your quilt, xmas should always be bright and cheerful, just like your quilt!ReplyDelete
Certainly is bright! Your quilt looks great.ReplyDelete
This next year is my year to use up my stash (although it might take 10 years and not just one). Love what you did with yours, and you've inspired me to get going on mine! :)ReplyDelete
Great quilt and some great sentiments too! You took a chance with those bright fabrics and it paid off :)ReplyDelete
Love the bright colors.ReplyDelete
stunning...love your choice of colors!!ReplyDelete
I love your use of blue in this quilt. My favorite color palette is brights, so this quilt looks great to me :)ReplyDelete
Great quilt!!!! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
What a fun holiday quilt :-)ReplyDelete
What a beautiful Christmas Quilt. And I love your insights and encouragement to live outside the box of our comfort zone. Great inspiration!ReplyDelete
I did search my collection of electronic patterns and unfortunately didn't have this pattern from Timeless Treasures. Darn, you inspired me to want to make it. Love yours.
Thanks for sharing in the Christmas Quilt Show. You help make it so much fun!
A fun and happy quilt. I keep trying to use up my stash but the allure of new fabric is soooo great!ReplyDelete
i think christmas quilts are definitely a time to have fun - yours is great!ReplyDelete
Beautiful quilt! Thanks so much for sharing it!! Looking forward to February!!ReplyDelete
Very pretty! I love the bright fabrics you used...and I'm looking forward to hearing what you did with the flying geese scraps!ReplyDelete
I like bright. Pretty pattern. Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
Chrismas quilts should be cheerful!! Love this one.ReplyDelete
Bright is great, especially on a child's bed.ReplyDelete
It's fun and beautiful! Great job.ReplyDelete
What a fun quilt! Great creativity.ReplyDelete
those zebra's are adorable!ReplyDelete
I too spent all year shopping from my stash, and using scraps. If you use the waste the corners method of flying geese, sew another seam right away, 1/2 inch from the sewing geese one you did, so when you trim off those corners, you have HST's. I will watch to see what you are making in Feb.ReplyDelete
Aww, what a fun, happy quilt! Thanks for showing it!ReplyDelete

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UPDATE: ‘Legally Blonde’ Draw Is High, Price Is Flat24 Aug, 2001 By: Joan Villa
MGM Home Entertainment will extend flat pricing "for the foreseeable future," filing the $85 million box office comedy Legally Blondeas its third rental title under the simplified pricing strategy.
The Reese Witherspoon-starrer will be released on VHS at a $40 retail price Nov. 6 (prebook Oct. 16). The DVD, priced at $26.95, will streetthe same date (prebook Sept. 25).
MGM expects Legally Blonde to be the last major title of substancereleased to the rental market this year, says executive v.p. of sales Robert Wittenberg. The title follows on the heels of a $40 price for the Oct. 2 release Heartbreakers and the $45 Hannibal, which reached stores last week.
"We exceeded our expectation on Hannibal and all expectations are we’re going to do even better on Heartbreakers," explains Wittenberg. "Icertainly think Legally Blonde is a perfect video film and it’s demonstrated great staying power in the theaters. We think it’s a great early Christmas gift for the rentailers."
Distributor David Ingram of Ingram Entertainment says his company was "very successful" at selling Hannibal and predicts Legally Blonde will also tally strong sales.
"Flat pricing is a no-brainer from distribution’s standpoint," explains Ingram. "We would like to get back to selling the product and not selling programs."
Wittenberg says the $40 price, which allows retailers to buy the quantity they need without purchase goals or restrictions, has alsoeliminated the need for "sideways" selling by distributors or retailersseeking to circumvent complicated studio programs.
"It’s definitely put a big dent in [sideways selling] and it’s not something the sideways sellers are happy about," agrees distributorSteven Scavelli of Flash Electronics. However, Scavelli adds, somesubdistributors are still offering the MGM product at the same price or marking it up $4 to $5. Retailers who buy all their product from oneplace will pay the higher cost, he says.
"We wholeheartedly support it and I think the retail community does as well," said Jim Ulsamer, president of distributor Baker & Taylor. "They may quibble about the price, but I think they’re generally happy. Wecertainly sold more [of Hannibal] than if they were under a program because the darned programs get abused by the part-time distributors."
Nonetheless, Scavelli dubs the MGM strategy "a breath of fresh air" that led to smooth sales for Hannibal and put the focus back on sellingproduct rather than explaining mathematical formulas. Although it’s tooearly to predict numbers on Heartbreakers, which prebooks Sept. 11, Scavelli says he is pleased at MGM’s decision to drop the flat pricing to $40, more in line with the average $35-per-unit price retailers expected under MGM’s previous copy depth program, Simple Solutions.
Ingram agrees a $40 price puts product costs well within most retailers’acquisition averages of $35 to $45 per unit under copy depth programs and will have the added effect of reducing sideways selling. "When there’s a flat price there’s no incentive for sideways selling," he says. "Studioslike MGM, when they go to a flat price, are demonstrating to their distribution partners that they want to see product going throughtraditional distribution and see traditional distribution kept healthy."
Although the flat pricing provides lower margins for distributors, Scavelli endorses the strategy because it frees his time for marketing and other services that in the long run will strengthen the retail base.
"I welcome a world where we’re selling product based on exact stores’ demographics and their needs at that time, rather than what we’ve beendoing the last three years," he adds.


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Create a Nice Ocean Scene in a Cartoon Style
Under Drawing Effect, Photoshop Tutorial
There would be a lot of funs if you could apply your design and creativity in a cartoon way. In this time, the designer has created a 3D cartoon scene in mixing a cup of water with the ocean living species in a glass.
If you own any iOS devices, you will be all too familiar with the dock connector. It sits there, on your desk, only letting Apple products use it. But have you ever stopped and looked at its beauty? Despite being a simply cable, Apple has added some nice curves and a design which makes it ideal for a bit of Photoshop illustration.
Sky is always a wonderful background. Here will show you some tactics to create clouds and different timing of skies such as at night time and sunset. Therefore, you can use the ideas to create different skies to suit for your design easily.
Different planets have different characteristic. Earth is one of most popular planet we usually to work with. You will find the most difficult part to be the cloud and the colour mixture. Once you get rid of this, the rest is just piece of cake.
This tutorial is going to show you to paint a beautiful portrait. There are some painting techniques will be shared in this. You will see how a draft portrait to be painted layer by layer. This style painting is different from normal one you see and is applicable for some soft objects such as puppy or female portrait.
If you are a big fan of cartoon, you may wonder how to create a nice piece of cartoon artwork. Here are a high quality example, which demonstrate you to use Photoshop brush to work out the painting of a nice cartoon artwork.
In this tutorial, it will describe a workflow that allows you to make a realistic and painterly scene, and easily generate and integrate 3D elements to it. You can use the skills and ideas to create any supernatural scene you want.
This tutorial is going to present you how to draw a dark forest scene. It will go through with you the ideas and techniques for coloring, adjustment of brightness for a forest scene. It will be useful for you to work on other artworks.

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Leslie Templeton was maybe the best-known agent in Metropolis, and she had certainly lived up to her reputation that night. Well, at least her professional reputation. Lex's copy of his contract lay on the passenger seat next to him, waving at him in the late-night breeze. It still amazed him a little. A brief meeting in her office earlier this evening, just long enough to sign his name so many times it stopped looking real to him, and it was official.
Lex Luthor was a professional athlete.
He'd tried sleeping, but the excitement still buzzed under his skin hours later. Official or not, something just didn't feel right yet. Finally, he decided to go for a drive. There was something he knew he had to do.
He drove passed the arena, and turning on Western Avenue, Lex stopped in front of Carl's Ice Box. The Ice Box was a like second home to Lex, and the owner, Carl, had existed in that strange middle ground between father and friend. Lex had spent countless nights at the Ice Box, drinking oceans of cream soda (and later, beer), eating mountains of ribs, and watching the 'Gliders games on Channel 5 with Carl, all the while telling anyone who would listen that this day would come. Carl used to just snicker and pat Lex on the shoulder when he really got going, but the amusement in Carl's eyes had faded into belief over the past couple years, and that had only strengthened Lex's drive.
When Carl had cleared a space on the wall between signed pictures of Gretzky and Lemieux, he told Lex it was only a matter of time, he expected the first autographed photograph. It was the closest Lex had ever gotten to crying in public, and maybe the happiest he'd been since before his mother died; Carl just wiped down the bar, and pretended he didn’t notice.
As happy as he was, as much as he had worked for this, Lex knew his dream was only half complete. He sighed, running a shaking hand absently through his hair as he climbed out of his car.
The grimy, soap-covered windows hurt his heart, and someone had spray-painted words of soundless fury on the front door. Though Carl had only been dead for a few weeks, the Ice Box already had a feel of lingering desolation. His daughter had been unwilling to sell at first, and then she'd asked for far more then the place was worth, but she was no match for a Luthor's tenacious will. Carl could have told her that.
Lex unlocked the door, and with a small push, it swung open silently. He took two steps into the darkness and reached out for the light switch he knew was there, just behind the bar. A soft glow filled the main room, and shadows were cast at bizarre angles by chairs turned over on top of the tables.
So many nights he'd stayed to help, running the trash out to the dumpster in back while Carl turned the chairs and swept the floor. Everything looked exactly the same, and Lex half expected Carl to come walking out of the storeroom with a towel thrown over his shoulder and a cigarette behind his ear. Lex eyes blurred with unshed tears, but he just blinked them back.
Lex stepped through the low swinging door that divided Carl's domain behind the bar from the rest of the Ice Box. He reached above the cash register, hanging the picture he'd carried in on the small nail, right between Gretzky and Lemieux. It was taken during the playoffs a couple years before; Carl's beefy arm was slung casually around Lex's neck, and they were laughing.
It was truer than any posed family photo Lex had ever taken with his father, and Lex couldn't think of a better place for it. When he had it lined up straight with the other pictures, he stepped back. He shut the light off again, crossed to the door, and locked behind him.
Standing on the sidewalk, he stuffed his hands in his pockets to keep from wiping at his eyes, and looked up at the stars. Despite the tears, Lex smiled.
It felt right now.

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Hanson Series to Explore Diversity in Hollywood
The UA's Hanson Film Institute has launched a new conversation series, "The Hanson Dialogues," and inaugural guest speaker Moctesuma Esparza is scheduled to discuss diversity in Hollywood.
Moctesuma Esparza, an Academy Award-nominated film and TV producer, entrepreneur and activist, will discuss diversity and opportunity in Hollywood during a new Hanson Film Institute conversation series at the University of Arizona.
Esparza will be the inaugural speaker for "The Hanson Dialogues," a live, onstage talk with top talents and creators in the film and television industry. The April 29 event will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Fox Tucson Theatre.
The series of dialogues will be moderated by Peter Murrieta, a Tucson native, UA alumnus and Emmy Award-winning producer and humorist. Audience members will be encouraged to contribute comments and questions.
An industry power player, Esparza has devoted his career to empowering and transforming the images of Latinos in Hollywood.
Because less than 5 percent of actors in top films are Hispanic, Esparza has devoted his efforts to developing talent and distribution pipelines. An early agitator for Mexican-American civil rights, Esparza was a member of the East LA Thirteen, the organizers of the 1968 walkouts by thousands of high school students protesting the inequality of Mexican-Americans.
A graduate of the film school at the University of California, Los Angeles, Esparza has had a career of more than 40 years, including film and television titles that include "Selena," starring Jennifer Lopez in her breakout role; the Robert Redford-directed "The Milagro Beanfield War"; "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge," starring Halle Berry; and "Walkout," directed by Edward James Olmos.
"In an age when we're absorbed with technology, there's a great need for civil discourse and interaction with others," said Vicky Westover, the UA's Hanson Film Institute director.
"'The Hanson Dialogues' will focus on film, TV and culture — elements that are so much a part of our lives," Westover said. "We're delighted to be teaming up with UA alum Peter Murrieta to launch the Hanson Film Institute's newest program, and our inaugural guest will address an important topic — the need for diversity in Hollywood to accurately reflect American society."
WhatThe Hanson Dialogues: A Conversation on Diversity and Opportunity in Hollywood With Film and TV Producer Moctesuma Esparza
WhereFox Tucson Theatre, 17 W Congress St., Tucson
WhenApril 29, 7-8:30 p.m.
The event is free and open to all. The first episode of the new series is being introduced with support from the UA College of Fine Arts; Cox Communications; community partners including the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Tucson Urban League; and media sponsor the Arizona Daily Star.
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The most heartening development from the escalating political row about the amount of tax that big companies pay in Britain has been the move by Starbucks, the coffee chain, to engage in talks with HMRC about its future tax payments. The company was acting within the law in paying much of its earnings as royalties through a sister company in the Netherlands, which reduced its corporation tax bill here to zero, but it is one thing to act within the law and it is quite anoter to act in a manner that strikes customers as right. And in the case of a coffee chain there is no shortage of other options for consumers.
It remains to be seen whether consumer pressure can be brought in the same way on other multinationals that go out of their way to minimize their tax payments in the UK, such as Google, Amazon and Apple. Certainly, the Chancellor is right to be boosting the number of skilled workers at HMRC whose mandate is to investigate the tax tactics employed by big companies to see whether they comply with the law, and whether the law itself should be changed. Companies that make money here should pay tax here.
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This victory, snatched away from what seemed like almost certain defeat, was enough to make believers out of the most skeptical of doubters. This fourth-quarter phenomenon will turn heads and change minds of football fans and football professionals across the country. But that's not the half of it. What transpired on the bitter cold ground of Heinz Field yesterday was the special kind of victory that can take a very good team and elevate it to another level.
The Steelers, 10-3, are not just poised to enter the playoffs, they are primed to make it to the Super Bowl. There are many hurdles to overcome, starting Sunday in Baltimore, but the Steelers of 2008 have the look of the Steelers of 2005.
To play so poorly for so long against a championship-caliber team such as the Dallas Cowboys and yet come away with a 20-13 victory isn't just special, it's magical.
The Steelers scored 17 points in the final 7 minutes, 15 seconds to send the Cowboys to a staggering defeat and spread joy throughout their worldwide fan base.
It was a game of offensive ineptitude more than of defensive brilliance.
It was a game of botched chances and broken plays. What was expected to be another renewal in the grand rivalry between two members of the NFL aristocracy turned into a bit of a farce. If this was a preview of the Super Bowl, as some had suggested, well, call off the Super Bowl.
But Mike Tomlin looked past all of that. Tomlin is a football coach and a realist. He saw a win, and he saw much more.
Brimming with pride, Tomlin opened his remarks at his postgame news conference by saying, "What a beautiful game, and I mean that. I just told the team that. People are too preoccupied with style points. That was a beautiful football game because we displayed mettle and we hung together."
This was a victory forged mostly by what is the best defense in the NFL.
The defense shut down the Cowboys offense and made the big plays that have come to be expected of it. James Harrison forced yet another fumble. Troy Polamalu, the NFL leader, intercepted a pass, as did the previously cement-handed Ike Taylor. But those plays were small-time compared to the interception snatched by Deshea Townsend on the Dallas 26, on a ridiculously thrown ball by Tony Romo, with 1 minute, 51 seconds remaining, and returned for the game-winning touchdown.
None of that was out-of-the-ordinary stuff for this unit that leads the NFL against both the pass and the rush. What was unexpected was the offense, which had been nothing but awful, coming to life in the final minutes.
Simply put, for the first 50 minutes of the game the offense could do virtually nothing. It gained 101 yards in the first three quarters, and that after gaining 50 on the first two possession. On possessions three through 10, the Steelers ran 28 plays and gained 51 yards.
The Steelers, mostly on the strength of a 47-yard pass from Ben Roethlisberger to Santonio Holmes, moved to a first and goal on the Dallas 5 early in the fourth quarter. What followed was pretty much what the offense had done all game: Willie Parker ran for 2 yards twice to move the ball to the 1. A pass to Gary Russell gained nothing. On fourth down from the 1, Tomlin, trailing, 13-3, rejected a field-goal attempt and sent Gary Russell into the heart of the Dallas defense. He was thrown for a 2-yard loss.
But this failure seemed to arouse the Steelers. They used the good field position earned from this near-score to get a field goal minutes later.
Then, after a bad Dallas punt gave them the ball on their 33, the offense awoke.
Roethlisberger called it "desperation."
He said, "The guys knew we had to do it. We knew it was time to score and score quickly."
The offense that couldn't move the ball all of a sudden raced down the field -- 67 yards in eight plays -- to tie the game.
Townsend and the defense took care of the rest.
Too often, victories of this magnitude are followed by a letdown, which is something the Steelers cannot afford. If they had trouble with the Dallas defense, they will have even more at 9-4 Baltimore, which is ranked second in the league. A week later, they play at Tennessee, which is 12-1 and has the third-ranked defense.
It's a schedule of immense challenge. But based on what they did against the Cowboys, it's one the Steelers are capable of handling.


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Bunge to sell Brazilian fertilizer business to Yara for $750 million
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Bunge Ltd., which has operations in St. Louis, has agreed to sell its Brazilian fertilizer business to Yara International ASA for $750 million in cash.
The deal includes the fertilizer unit's blending facilities, brands and warehouses, but Bunge will keep its fertilizer terminal in the Port of Santos, Brazil, the company said. The sale is expected to close in the second half of 2013, subject to regulatory approvals in Brazil and other customary closing conditions.
Bunge and Yara also agreed to a long-term fertilizer supply agreement through which Bunge will continue to supply fertilizer to farmers as part of its grain origination activities, the company said Friday.
"The transaction is a good one for both companies," Alberto Weisser, Bunge's chairman and CEO, said in a statement. "It enables Bunge to size our fertilizer activities so they are a more streamlined complement to our agribusiness operations and provides Yara with a larger position in a high-growth market."
White Plains, N.Y.-based Bunge Ltd. (NYSE: BG), an agriculture and food business, reported revenue of $58.7 billion during 2011. Bunge North America, a food and feed ingredient company, is based in St. Louis. Soren Schroder is CEO of Bunge North America.
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Is 2020 Done Yet…?
I think that we can all agree that 2020 has been one of, if not the most difficult years ever. We've seen everything from the COVID-19 pandemic, protests, riots, to the loss of many big names in lots of different industries.
We've lost Kobe Bryant, Charlie Daniels, Chadwick Boseman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mac Davis, Regis Philbin, Wilford Brimley, Peter Green, John Lewis, Jerry Stiller, Little Richard, Ian Holm, Max von Sydow, Neil Peart, Kenny Rogers, Fred "Curly" Neal, Roy Horn, and many others.
Then, today, we got confirmation of another loss of 2020 - another BIG loss.
Today, we found out that Eddie Van Halen, former lead guitarist and - obviously - founder of the band Van Halen, passed away at the age of 65. He had been battling cancer for awhile, and it took a toll on him. Not only was this a loss for the rock and classic rock community, but it's a huge loss for the music industry altogether.
Just looking at the list of names that have passed away this year, it brings one question to the front of my mind:
Is 2020 done yet?
We're just at the beginning of October. We've got the rest of this month, then two more full months before we reach 2021. So, what else will 2020 have in store for us? Will we lose more prominent figures? If so, who will it be?
Two months is a long time. We've got a way to go before day one of 2021. So, we'll just keep on going strong, and keep on heading to January 1, 2021.


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Fun with YUPO
At my Saturday workshop we painted on YUPO. Been a while since I painted on this surface but we all picked it up rather quickly. Being a subtraction surface it's really fun to paint snow scenes. Cut out stencils for the trees, rolled gouache, and then painted the rest with a dagger brush. This one is quarter sheet for a demo and maybe half sheet would work even better. For me I like how you become more of a designer using Yupo and stencils. Give it a try. If you don't like it just wash it off.


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New Music for Organ & Percussion
George Ritchie and Albert Rometo
About the Performers
George Ritchie is head of the Organ Department and Professor of Organ at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Prior to this appointment he was Chapel Organist at Duke University. Dr. Ritchie has played concerts throughout the United States and in Europe. He is noted for performances that reflect a sensitive use of performance practices of various stylistic periods from the 17th century to the present. He is co-author, with George Stauffer, of the book Organ Technique: Modern and Early, and his other recordings for Titanic Records include Organ Works of J. S. Bach (Ti-158) and Four New American Organs by Bedient (Ti-176).
He has studied with Helmut Walcha in Frankfurt and André Isoir in Paris and was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at Harvard in a seminar on J. S. Bach under the direction of the noted Bach scholar Christoph Wolff. His other teachers have included Robert Baker, Raymond Boese, Vernon de Tar, Clyde Holloway, and Leslie Spelman. He is represented as a concert artist by Karen McFarlane Artists, Inc.
Albert Rometo is Professor of Percussion and Vice Director of the School of Music at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is active as a traditional percussionist and as a timpanist, jazz/show drummer, clinician and adjudicator at both the state and national levels.
Mr. Rometo's teachers have included Dr. Gary Olmstead at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and William Platt of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he has studied with Richard Holmes, Principal Timpanist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He received a B.S.Ed. degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Music degree from Ohio University-Athens.
Assisting in the performance of The Enigma Syncopations are the following members of the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln: John Bailey, flute; Rusty White, contrabass.
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PM Narendra Modi Monday said ‘bahubalis’ (musclemen) in UP go to jails with smiles on their faces as prisons in the state are like mahals for them from where they can operate their gangs. He was addressing a rally in Mau Sadar, where BSP has fielded don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, currently in jail in BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai’s murder case. BJP’s ally Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) has fielded Mahendra Rajhbhar from the seat.
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Pointing towards Rajhbhar, who was holding a stick, which is also SBSP’s poll symbol, Modi said power of the stick will be seen on March 11 when the poll results will be announced.
“Jails in UP are like palaces for bahubalis… they execute heinous crimes and illegal activities… by operating their gangs outside while staying in jail. Luxuries are available to bahubalis inside jails… They also get legal security. In any serious case, such as murder, he (bahubali) says before the court that he was in jail (when the crime took place). This is a perfect arrangement,” said the PM.
“Those who are out of jail till now and those who carry food inside jail, carry my message to them… zamana badal chuka hai.. waqt badal chuka hai… 11 March ke natije ke aane ke baad… hum sachey arth mein jail ko jail bana kar ke rakhenge. Phir hum dekhte hain kaise guzara karte ho… phir kaise mauj masti karte ho… kaise jail se bahar apne khel khelte ho… 11 March ke baad ye aapke saare khel khatm ho jayenge (The times have changed. Wait for the poll results on March 11. Jails would really become jails then… Then we will see how you survive, how you enjoy and play your games outside the jail),” he added.
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He said that after the 2014 Lok Sabha results, some had said that Modi did not need other parties’ help to form the government. “But BJP has a different character and aptitude. We maintain lifelong relationships. And for that reason, despite having an absolute majority, we inducted MPs of smaller allies into the Cabinet,” he added.
“BJP is going to get majority on its own in UP. Even if we get a majority, smaller parties who are with BJP will also be part of the government,” he added.
On the SP-Congress alliance, he said that while “SP sat on the lap of Congress” after sensing defeat, the latter was a “drowning boat”.
The PM said that those who have a two-third majority in the Assembly now are appealing for a second chance, with an assurance that they would rectify their mistakes. “You think that when there would be a hung assembly, you will get an opportunity to do saudebaaji. But UP will give a clean majority to BJP just like it did in the Lok Sabha election,” he claimed.
Targeting the Akhilesh government on law and order, he said: “Women cannot move around alone in the evening and police stations have become offices of samajwadis who extort money for getting FIRs registered.”
“Akhilesh recently claimed that he made a comment on donkeys in lighter vein. I want to ask him if deterioration of the functioning of police stations, chain snatchings, murders, land grabbing too happened in jest,”he added.

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