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Friday, December 31, 2010

Thoughts on 2010, and its recap (part 2)

Pia Film Festival and Skip City D-Cinema Movie Festival happened. One in Tokyo, the other in Saitama.

I was happy to see Kazue Fukiishi at the premiere of Gegege Nyobo in Pia.

Director Takuji Suzuki speaking to Kazue Fukiishi. Gegege No Nyobo world premiere at the Pia Film Festival

She didn't see me, though.

Thoughts on 2010, and its recap (part 1)

It is 5:39am, 31st of December, 2010 as I am writing this. Less than 18 hours left for the year. I guess I'll just take a bit of time to reflect on the past year and make some sense out of it.

My life is probably defined now, by my filmmaking career. Ever since I started actually directing in 2008, I had derived a lot of joy from creativity, to be surrounded by like-minded people, to indulge myself in films, to further my own craft. My last tweet was laced with some sort of irony-induced nostalgia.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Yadako's Christmas performance

It's quite a contrast, a year ago and today. A year ago, I had just finished the EXHALATION shoot and capped an unbelievable 2009. 2010 had been an incredible year as well (I am referring only to my own filmmaking career, anything outside that is a tragedy to describe), but as I am few hours away from the last day of 2010, I realize how quiet it is ending for me.

Solitude is fine, all the peace and stuff, yet to be occasionally being surrounded by like-minded people during film shoots is a warm feeling, maybe that's why I enjoy them.

Before I go for a more proper year-end blog entry, I'll just share with you all a very nice performance I had the pleasure of witnessing on Christmas day, of a lady named Yadako (you can follow her on Twitter).

Monday, December 27, 2010

(VIDEO) Bowling games of great intensity in Christmas Eve

I posted about a bowling game in Christmas Eve yesterday.

Kan was better with bowling

At that time, I was trying to find an editing software for my laptop that could help me edit the videos that I shot that night.

In the past, I used the Adobe Premiere Pro for PC. Edited my first few short films (Chicken Rice Mystery, Fleeting Images, Love Suicides) with it, also edited telemovies like Cinta Tiga Segi with that too.

But once I switched to shooting stuff on HD, I had to use Final Cut Pro on Mac, which felt immensely more convenient. (Ming Jin's two films WOMAN ON FIRE LOOKS FOR WATER and THE TIGER FACTORY, and my short films beginning from KINGYO, all done with Final Cut Pro)

I still use a PC laptop, and I don't have Adobe Premiere Pro anymore, so I scoured the net, trying to find a good free editing software that could help me. Downloaded a few (I won't name them), but none of them seemed to be able to edit Canon 7D videos.

The only good one I ended up using in the end was EDIUS, but it took a while for me to familiarize myself with the layout.

In the end I lost my patience and decided to just come to my editing lab at Waseda today to swiftly put together this video with Final Cut Pro. After almost an hour, I managed to slap this video together using the music from Nico Spahni's MUSIC FOR SEPT ELLES album.

The bowling alley was so psychedelic that I felt like I was in TRON: LEGACY.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Bowling games of great intensity in Christmas Eve

On a Christmas Eve, I had some delicious food at a place called Hana Hana in Shibuya. The food was delicious.

There's this egg dish.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Dubai International Film Fest 2010 Closing Ceremony

This concludes my Dubai International Film Fest 2010 recap.

Before the closing ceremony, I was excited to meet the star of Lee Chang Dong's POETRY, Yun Jeong-Hee, seen here with her husband, the renowned pianist Paik Kun-Woo.

More snapshots of Dubai International Film Festival 2010

Beginning from the 16th of December, I was staying at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel. It had a nice view of the Burj.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Exhalation's World Premiere

Okay, I'm back from Dubai, but I'll still have to give a quick recap on the very first screening of EXHALATION.

So here's a quickie.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

(Video) Colin Firth receiving Variety's Int'l Movie Star Of The Year award from Carey Mulligan

Here's Carey Mulligan, presenting Variety's International Movie Star of The Year award to Colin Firth, and also his acceptance speech, on the 13th of December, second day of the Dubai Film Fest.

He's really eloquent.

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Friday, December 17, 2010

Dubai International Film Fest 2010 Opening Ceremony

So, I'm now at Dubai. Today, my film EXHALATION will finally have its world premiere at the Dubai Film Fest.

But this will chronicle my first day in the place.

Here are some pretty photos of me right before the opening ceremony on the 12th of December, courtesy of Indonesian documentary filmmaker Daniel Rudi Haryanto.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Cinemanila International Film Festival 2010 recap

I'm now in Dubai, took numerous photos and videos. But before I give you all updates of my misadventures there, I'll do a recap of Cinemanila International Film Fest first.

Like I mentioned in a previous post, I went to Cinemanila right after the Torino Film Festival/ Film Lab.

3rd of December. I arrived in Manila during the afternoon, I was picked up at the airport. I intended the festival to be one where I could rest, since the Torino schedule was so hectic.

"Well, for tonight, I'll just relax, and maybe catch the SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD screening." I told Raymond, who was picking me up. His day job is actually as a TV writer.

"Oh, I'm afraid you can't do it. The awards ceremony is tonight." Raymond said.

"What? But today's only the second day of the festival!" I was flabbergasted.

"Yes, but they wanted to get the awards out of the way first." Raymond said.

So... that evening, we went to the award ceremony.

Here are the trophies.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Returning to Dubai International Film Festival with my short film, EXHALATION

I'm actually leaving for Dubai tonight.

My short film EXHALATION is making its world premiere in the Muhr AsiaAfrica Shorts competition section at the Dubai International Film Festival.

Student protesters crashing party in Torino

After visiting the National Cinema Museum, I saw another group of student protesters. Dum dum dum.

Museo Nazionale del Cinema (National Cinema Museum), Torino

Despite being slightly delayed by the student protests, the last pitching session went by pretty smoothly.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Junko Kamata performing in Shinjuku, great voice, great songs.

I'll take a break briefly from the Torino recaps to write about something that happened last night.

Torino student protests remind me of Antonioni's Blow-Up

30th of November, my last day in Torino. It was an eventful day, so I'll need perhaps 3 blog entries to cover them all.

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Torino Film Fest/ Film Lab 2010 recap (Nov 28-29)

It was snowing on the morning of November 28th.

Torino Film Fest/ Film Lab 2010 recap (Nov 25-27)

I flew to Torino on the 25th of November for the Torino Film Lab (which is part of the Torino Film Festival. 3 years ago, Ming Jin won a jury award in this festival for THE ELEPHANT AND THE SEA).

When I arrived, it was already dark. I had to take a bus to the city center. The journey lasted around 45 minutes.

Back from Torino and Manila.

Yup, I came back from Manila two days ago. For the past two weeks I was in Torino (Italy) and Manila for the film festivals and other stuff.

The screenwriting workshop I've been attending throughout the year concluded its session in Torino (the first two rounds were in Bratislava, back in March, and Brignogan, France, back in June).

Then I just headed off immediately to Cinemanila Film Fest to present INHALATION and THE TIGER FACTORY.

Many photos, videos to share, many stories to tell.

My computer died (again) just when I reached Torino, hence the lack of updates. Frustrating, but it had happened so often that I've grown numb.

I'm leaving for Dubai on the 11th. Not a lot of time to rest from my constant flying, haha.


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David Kipen: A True American

In 2007, the French Ministry of Culture had an annual budget of €3.18 billion. (To give you some sense of how this fits into the grand scheme of things, France’s national budget in 2005 was €288.8 billion. So that’s roughly around 1% of the national budget.) While the National Endowment of the Arts budget is at its highest mark since 1995, the NEA budget as a whole amounts to $144.7 million. A mere €91.94 million to France’s €3.18 billion.

A few more things to consider: Irish writers live tax free. In Cuba, art school is free and artists often earn a better living than many other professions. The German public arts funding model permits the nation to have 23 times more full-time symphonies per capita and 28 times more full-time opera houses than America. Last year, Italy raised its annual arts funding to $573 million — an annual budget more than three times that of the NEA. Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, unlike the NEA’s site, explains why it’s important to build a society that values culture on its front page and had an annual budget of 100.6 billion yen for 2006. (For those playing at home, that’s a little under a billion in American dollars.)

As an American, this embarrasses me. It’s bad enough that we’re the only industrialized nation without socialized medicine. It’s terrible that this nation, when stacked against others, is especially shameful on parental leave. But one would think that the “richest country in the world” would be somewhat capable of doling out a few dollars more to artists. Because, as anybody who works full-time in the arts knows, this is hardly a lucrative occupation.

Of course, there are grants. But the ones that the NEA does mete out must fall under “general standards of decency” — a coded phrase for “play it safe if you want to work full-time as a subsidized artist.” That’s hardly the democratic thinking one expects from a federal republic that frequently misinforms its citizens about its purported democratic values.

On Wednesday night, shortly after attending the big Mailer tribute at Carnegie Hall (a lengthy report of this will follow), I entered the appropriately named Commerce Building for a reception devoted to the NEA’s latest title in its Big Read campaign. There were few people there under the age of forty. David Kipen stood before the crowd, preaching to the converted about the current crisis in literature.

I listened to Kipen talk. He described his apparent frustration with the San Francisco Chronicle failing to hire another full-time book critic to replace him, conveying the reality of newspaper book sections facing serious cuts, and suggesting that the Big Read campaign was intended as a partial answer to the Reading at Risk hysteria.

When the talk was over, I approached Kipen. He was stunned to see me — in part because he still thought that I was in San Francisco. He thought that I was Kevin Smokler, a man who had collected many essays in his book, Bookmark Now, ably pinpointing the folderol behind the Reading at Risk hysteria and observing that reading was quite alive in many corners.

“I’ve got an idea that will kill two birds with one stone,” I said. “Something that addresses what you were talking about.”

“People were actually paying attention?” said Kipen, apparently astonished that anyone would take what he had to say seriously. This seemed a surprising attitude from a “Director of Literature.”

I asked Kipen if he really believed that reading was dead. He confessed that the Reading at Risk report was more of a “diagnostic.”

I then begin to outline to him a very simple idea. If newspapers were dying and reading was “at risk,” why not have the NEA sponsor an online book site that would function very much like the WPA Federal Writers Project? A place where emerging critics hustling from newspaper to newspaper could find a place to hone their thoughts about literature. A place that could subsidize current print critics, litbloggers, literary podcasters, and other parties. Something that would involve hard editing and encouragement. Essays that were just as committed to novels in translation, small presses, genre, and the like as they were the latest volume from John Updike. Not only would such a site be a training ground for emerging critics, but it would also be a place for freelancers to go when the newspaper markets dried up. Why not put the money in the hands of the impassioned and the thoughtful? After all, if they have the ability to get people thinking about reading, doesn’t this make more sense than spending money on a program in which the NEA deems one book — in this case, The Maltese Falcon — that everybody needs to read?

(To give you a sense of how little this idea would cost, $104,000 could pay for five reviews a week, 52 weeks a year, with each writer paid $400 per piece. Given this math, I’m wondered how much it had cost Kipen to rent out the Commerce Building and to pay for hotels, flights, food and drink. $10,000 maybe? Kill ten social functions along these lines and give the money to writers.)

Kipen attempted to brush this idea off, presumably because this sounded somewhat Communist. But I wouldn’t let him get away. In Kipen’s defense, I should also point out that I was quite effusive about all this. And this vivacity on my part tends to frighten some people. But since Kipen was likewise an animated person, I figured he could take it. Little did I realize that, over four years, Kipen had transformed, espousing the kind of muleheaded resistance to fresh and lively literary coverage that Frank Wilson once alluded to about management. Kipen had become a company man.

He had no real clue about what was happening on the Internet. (He still believed that John Freeman was President of the NBCC. But he intimated that there had been a few talks. I’m wondering, however, if Freeman’s efforts had encountered similar resistance.) I told Kipen a few things that I had accomplished with The Bat Segundo Show. Nearly 200 conversations, with more in the can. Emails from people who told me that I had transformed their commutes from plodding sessions with FM radio DJs playing lousy music into intelligent and entertaining talk that made them alive. I told him that a number of people had also emailed me about the Jeffrey Ford interview, pointing out that they hadn’t heard of Ford before and that, because of the interview, they were planning on checking out his work. I also told him about an interview I had scheduled with another author who was coming through New York. I had learned that this author didn’t have any additional interviews lined up except for me. The publisher had likewise dumped this incredible novel into the market as a paperback original. This was a considerable injustice that something like a NEA-sponsored program could correct.

“You’ve got something against paperback originals?” said Kipen, desperately trying to change the subject, his interest more in canapes than concepts.

I told him that I didn’t. I told him that he knew very well what the reality was. And that he was in the position of doing something about this in the NEA. Grants had helped the likes of Sherman Alexie. Why not help others? There needed to be more podcasts, more writing, more places for the literary. More places that could help starving writers so that they wouldn’t have to turn to day labor or temp work. The whole thing could be kickstarted on comparatively little cash. It could be initiated by the NEA.

Kipen was more fascinated by a drifting salver.

He showed somewhat more interest in a woman, who was not forthright about identifying herself to me. This woman declared that she was on a board of directors for an “online book review” project with Eric Banks and Nan Talese. This, of course, has been in the works since November and is highly suspect — given that Talese insisted that “the best book reviews are the ones in People magazine and Entertainment Weekly.” I don’t want to be a snob about magazines for the vox populi, but how exactly does this emphasis take into account the quality reviews frequently found in Bookforum or the New York Review of Books? There was also one major ethical conundrum: this venture would be subsidized by publishers. But what review space would there be for publishers who weren’t sponsoring the site? And would such a cozy relationship encourage more favorable reviews?

I told this woman that, contrary to her “innovation,” there was, in fact, an online book review already. It was known as the litblogosphere. There was Dan Green and the Quarterly Conversation. I told her that there were essays on my site five days a week (or thereabouts) and that everything was edited. Apparently, I grabbed her attention. I was out of cards. So I wrote my email address on the back of Kipen’s business card.

The fact that this woman showed more attention about the future of literature than the NEA’s Director of Literature suggests that the NEA is in serious trouble. It can’t be an accident that private interests are more intrigued than those governmental agencies purportedly set up to provide for the public. Kipen can bitch all he wants about the decline of the book review. But if he truly believes that “the indicator species for American daily journalism is the book review,” I certainly don’t see the NEA offering any kind of alternative, much less listening to people who have ideas.

So unless David Kipen can demonstrate that he’s less interested in dictating to the public what they need to read and more interested in helping those who are effectively getting people excited about books, I must believe him to be an unsuitable representative for promoting literature in this country. Then again, given the penurious support this nation gives to the arts, I’d say that Kipen is as American as apple pie.

[4/14/08 UPDATE: Clarifying the extent of this venture, Eric Banks has emailed me: “I’m not sure who the woman was who approached you at the Good Reads event, but there is no ‘board of directors’ for the review that Nan and I have at various times discussed. The way you outlined the funding for such a review is not correct — and what I have to stress as well is that this is at this point no more than a theoretical idea (guess that’s slightly redundant, but you know what I mean) that Nan and I have talked about. At one point we did speak to the AAP about some sort of advertising commitment on its part (and that was for collective support), but that would have been under the auspices of Bookforum–it would have been proposed as an expansion of bookforum.com and was intended precisely to allow Bookforum to cover more books than it is able to do given the size and frequency of the review.” I will, as time permits, conduct some additional investigations about this “theoretical idea.”]

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  1. […] we want to save literature or anything… Posted on April 10, 2008 by Elizabeth I read this and thought, Wouldn’t it be loverly? If newspapers were dying and reading was “at risk,” […]

  2. To give you a sense of how little this idea would cost, $104,000 could pay for five reviews a week, 52 weeks a year, with each writer paid $400 per piece.

    Have a consortium of publishers fund it. To avoid the taint of influence, they woud put their monies nto something like a blind trust that would dole out payments to reviewers.

    Failing that, approach Buffett, Gates, Soros or Turner. It’s pocket change for any of them.

  3. Hi Ed,
    There are some problems with government funding of the arts and they start with the institutionalization and conventional outlook that would necessarily follow from such – in fact, does follow from it. Next time you’re in DC, pay a visit to the Phillips Collection. The main part of it, the really interesting part, is Duncan Phillips’s house and the true Phillips collection is what Duncan Phillips himself collected. As with all great collections, it is informed by a unifying sense of personality. Once you enter the new wing, where what is hanging on the walls has been collected mostly by curators and other “experts,” the magic disappears. The last people in the world you want to patronize the arts are bureaucrats. It is also worth remembering that the government doesn’t make anything and it doesn’t sell anything. It’s income is whatever share of our income it chooses to confiscate. The inability of the arts to support themselves reflects primarily on the arts and artists.

  4. David Kipen was a “classmate” of mine when we both studied to become docents for the reopening of the LA Central Library. This would have been around 1992 and he was perhaps a little older than college-age.

    The course, about of ten sessions, was fairly comprehensive, requiring a great deal of time and effort on the part of our volunteer instructors.

    At the end of the course David disappeared and he made it perfectly obvious that he never had any intention of following through and helping to conduct tours. He scammed the system.

    Ever since, I have considered him to be a conniver and a certified phony. Amazingly, he continues to dupe people that should know better.

  5. […] support. But by who? Grants? Crazed philanthropists? You certainly won’t find it from the NEA or its puppet spokesman David Kipen, who viewed my WPA-style solution as something vaguely Communist. At the present time, you […]

  6. […] David Kipen refused to consider my Federal Writers Project […]

  7. […] after I personally proposed the idea directly to David Kipen, Mark Pinsky suggests the same in the New Republic. (via […]

  8. […] as the most popular genre. Well, considering that Kipen and company were actively pushing The Maltese Falcon as one of the Big Read choices last year, it seems to me that the NEA is eating a cold bowl of […]

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At a time when schools seem to be teeming with bullying and cyberbullying, teachers and administrators are often unsure of how to combat the problem. The following excerpt shows teachers and administrators how to create a safe and connected school climate while concurrently implementing a threat assessment program.

Some schools’ culture and climate can contribute to the prevention of violence. How does a school, its teachers and administrators, and its students work toward implementing a culture of safety?

Major Components and Tasks for Creating a Safe and Connected School Climate

Assess the school's emotional climate.
It is incumbent on those in positions of authority and responsibility to assess the emotional climate of their school. This perspective can be gained by systematically surveying students, faculty, parents, administrators, school board members, and representatives of community groups about the emotional climate of schools. Anonymous surveys, face-to-face interviews, focus groups, and school climate surveys allow school officials to gather valuable insights about the school’s emotional climate.

Emphasize the importance of listening in schools.
A school with a culture of “two-way listening” encourages and empowers students to break the ingrained code of silence. Listening also must be expanded beyond academic concerns. Communication between teachers and students should also include listening to feelings, especially those of hurt and pain. It is also important to “listen” to behaviors. Many students have a difficult time finding the words to articulate disenfranchisement, hurt, or fear.

Take a strong, but caring, stance against the code of silence.
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Work to change the perception that talking to an adult about a student contemplating violence is considered "snitching." Find ways to stop bullying.
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Empower students by involving them in planning, creating, and sustaining a school culture of safety and respect.
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Ensure that every student feels that he or she has a trusting relationship with at least one adult at school.
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Create mechanisms for developing and sustaining safe school climates.
A mechanism for developing and sustaining safe school climates should serve as a vehicle for planning and monitoring the climate and culture of the school. Questions to be considered in implementing this mechanism might include the following: What should be done to develop and support climates of safety? To what extent are teachers, administrators, and other school staff encouraged to focus on students’ social and emotional learning needs? How close is the school to achieving the goal of ensuring that every student feels that there is an adult to whom he or she can turn for talk, support, and advice if things get tough?

Be aware of physical environments and their effects on creating comfort zones.
Building structure, facility safety plans, lighting, space, and architecture — among other physical attributes of educational institutions — can contribute to whether a school environment feels, or is in fact, safe or unsafe. In large schools, administrators may wish to explore changes in the physical characteristics of the school that would permit the assignment of teachers and students to smaller, mutually intersecting and supportive groupings within the larger physical structure.

Emphasize an integrated systems model.
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Efes Osaka Construction and Trading Inc.

Partner since 1972 Ender Kızılkanat is in the construction sector. Construction Industry and Trading Co. in 1999 until Kızılkanat Has served as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors. Leaving the company in 1999 with a friend Efes Osaka Ins. ve Tic. Inc. yi established. Both the company's experience with Turkey's most experienced and qualified staff of construction companies has emerged.

General construction sector, construction, industrial buildings, architectural design, interior design, projects and planning, engineering and consulting company in this sector issues has proven itself.

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Centrica unveils unusual pensions funding deal

28 February 2013

Centrica, the energy group behind British Gas, has set up an unusual accounting structure to help finance its £5bn pension schemes, diverting interest-payments from various intra-group loans to give the schemes a secure income.

In its annual results yesterday, the gas and energy supplier said it had set up a special subsidiary company, a Scottish Limited Partnership, and transferred "certain loans to UK group companies" into it.

In addition to gas distributor British Gas, Centrica owns Centrica Storage, which manages an underwater gas storage facility beneath the North Sea, and Centrica Energy, which sources gas supplies from elsewhere in Europe.

The pension schemes, which now part-own the Scottish subsidiary, will receive £22m a year in interest payments from it, the company said yesterday.

In its statement, the company did not make clear whether the loans were also secured on group assets, which is a common structure for such pensions deals. The company's spokespeople did not respond to requests for further comment yesterday.

The company did not disclose the schemes' internal valuation figure yesterday, which drives negotiations on scheme funding, but last year Deryk King, chairman of the company's pensions trustees, said it was "likely" there would be a deficit thanks to the prevailing economic conditions.

Asset-backed pensions deals like this have become common in recent years, in order to help companies deal with these problems. According to the corporate advisers KPMG, £5.5bn's worth of deals were done from 2010 to 2012.

However, two-thirds of these have involved property assets being transferred. Marks & Spencer, Sainsburys, Whitbread and John Lewis are among the firms to have become effective tenants of their own pension funds.

Only about 11% of deals so far have involved companies passing loan notes to their pension funds, which are often based on loans from UK-based groups to international subsidiaries, according to Mike Smedley, a pensions partner at KPMG in the UK.

He said: "It's a way of giving the pension trustees money from a profitable overseas company they would not usually have access to."

Centrica's statement yesterday, however, made clear that its pensions deal is based on loans to UK subsidiaries.

The energy group's pensions funding deal is the latest in several steps it has taken to get its scheme finances under control. Last year, it reduced its expected pensions liability by £333m after securing agreements with staff to cap the pay increases that can feed through to increased pensions rights.

The group has also agreed deficit repayments in cash, of £77m a year between 2013 and 2016, in addition to the loans deal announced today.

Last year, the pension schemes invested £246m in new "diversified asset funds", slightly reducing the proportion of their money held in index-linked bonds, according to the company's statement.

The three principal Centrica pension schemes, whose money is managed through a single common investment fund under the leadership of chief investment officer Chetan Ghosh, made 8.2% on their money during the 12 months to March 31 2012, the most recent figures available. This was exactly in line with their internal target.

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3. Pollia macrobracteata D. Y. Hong, Novon. 7: 252. 1997.

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Herbs perennial. Stems ascending, to more than 35 cm × 5 mm, glabrous. Leaves sessile; leaf sheath ca. 6 mm, sparsely puberulent on side opposite leaf blade, glabrous elsewhere; leaf blade elliptic, 7--12.5 × ca. 3 cm, glabrous on both surfaces. Inflorescence nearly as long as leaves; peduncle ca. 4.5 cm, puberulent; cincinni numerous, in 6 whorls or nearly so, ca. 2 cm, puberulent with hooked hairs; involucral bracts ovate, ca. 13 × 7.5 mm, distal ones slightly smaller, puberulent; bracts membranous; pedicels ca. 4 mm at anthesis. Sepals ovate-orbicular, boat-shaped, ca. 6 mm, sparsely puberulent abaxially, often persistent. Petals white, purple spotted, ovate-orbicular, ca. 6 mm. Stamens 6, all fertile. Fruit not seen. Fl. May--Jun.

* Forests on mountain summits. SW Guangxi (Longzhou Xian).

Pollia macrobracteata is related to P. hasskarlii and P. japonica, and all have 6 fertile stamens. It differs from P. japonica in having inflorescence and peduncle much shorter, and involucral bracts ovate, larger, and apically broadly acute; from P. hasskarlii in having involucral bracts larger and herbaceous, cincinni, peduncle, and pedicels longer, and roots that arise from stem nodes thicker; and from both species in having much smaller leaves with shorter leaf sheaths.

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The referendum on secession for South Sudan is due to start on Sunday, 9 January. If the people of South Sudan vote to secede, a key decision will be what happens to Sudan’s external debt of $35 billion, $20 billion of which is interest on original loans.

Tim Jones, policy officer at Jubilee Debt Campaign, said: “No nation should be born into debt. The people of South Sudan need a fair start rather than taking on the burden of past unjust debts. If South Sudan does inherit any debt it should be immediately cancelled.

"The history of debt is that it is used by the IMF and World Bank to force free market economic policies on countries. The people of South Sudan are voting for independence, not to become subservient to organisations in Washington DC.”

Much of Sudan’s debt dates back to the early 1980s from the dictatorship of Gaarfar Nimeiry, when western governments supported the regime during the Cold War and to gain access to Sudanese oil for their companies. In 1985, it was $9 billion but has since grown to $35 billion due to interest and charges, as well as to new loans to the dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir.

Tim Jones said: “Sudan’s debt is illegitimate, coming from Cold War loans to dictator Nimeiry or more recent loans to the regime of Omar al-Bashir. The debt has served the interest of foreign powers, not the people of Sudan.”

Over recent years, 32 countries have had debts cancelled through the official IMF and World Bank debt relief process. Both Sudan and South Sudan potentially qualify for this debt relief. However, this usually takes several years, requires countries to make repayments in the meantime, leads to new loans and debts being created, and requires countries to follow IMF and World Bank conditions such as privatisation and deregulation.

The UK government claims Sudan owes it £650 million as a result of past failed export projects. However, the UK government has not revealed what projects this debt ultimately supported. If and when any or all of this debt is cancelled, the UK government will count this as ‘aid’.

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On Western Trails in the Early Seventies
Chapter XXIX
Start for northern fort and settlement on bank of North Saskatchewan—Found Mounted Police quartered at Edmonton---Col. Jarvis' marvellous stories—Police adapt themselves to new conditions—Find our cache on the Red Deer.

I had been told by the party who brought me the summons, as also in letters from the North, that this Chairman was going to put a stop to all trading and bartering on the part of missionaries, and I was therefore much surprised to find a postscript at the bottom of the summons, asking me to bring in to him "a couple of good buffaloes." I smiled as I thought of the inconsistency of the thing, right here apparent; but what of the larger inconsistency of the thought held by many, that the missionary had no right to barter or trade with the people to whom he is sent. Here we were, without any currency other than that of kind, no banks or mint, a horse, a dog, a gun, a blanket, a fathom of cloth or print, a shirt or a coat or a cap, and on the other hand, a robe, or dressed leather, or fresh or dried provisions, or furs of any kind; these were the only currency of the times, and how in the name of common sense could one do without bartering. No; there must always be adaptation to conditions, as these are found; and there can be no general law but that of equity and right dealing, and, by the grace of God, there we stood, and would stand, notwithstanding anybody's opinion or ruling. My brother was going in, and also the Hudson's Bay Company was sending in a couple of men; so we made ready and started just before Christmas for the winter journey to the northern fort and little settlement on the bank of the North Saskatchewan. We found the snow deep and almost intact, and we were continuously braking the trail; but as there were four of us taking this in turn we made pretty good speed. We were using horse toboggans, long, flat, two-board sleighs.

We travelled all Christmas Day, but coming to the Peace Hills, where the town of Wetuskewin now stands, late Saturday evening, we went into camp and prepared to spend the Sabbath at this point. There was an abundance of dry wood, and we worked late gathering an immense pile of this, and made a good comfortable open camp, and then settled down to rest, even as the Lord had, in His infinite mercy and wisdom, ordained.

Sunday evening David brought out from his sled a munificent supper and made a special spread, and I asked him the reason of all this. He reminded me that this was the 27th of December, and my birthday, and that my good sister-in-law had thus made ready and commissioned him to bring out this supper and give us the feast if possible. I was delighted and grateful for this kind thoughtfulness, and we, as a little company, in the profound solitude of the time, most thoroughly took pleasure in this genuine surprise birthday feast. I had, in the strenuousness of my life for many years, hardly ever thought of these things. The Sabbath was the only day we aimed at observing.

At Edmonton we found things much the same. The Mounted Police had come with the winter, and were quartered in the Hudson's Bay Fort. Col. Jarvis was in command. Capt. G-uion was his second. Sergeant-Major Steele (now Col. Steele of Strathcona Horse fame) and the rank and file did the work. A few strange faces were to be seen outside of the police. The new Chairman pro tern. was on the ground, having taken seventy-three days to come from Winnipeg to Edmonton. No wonder the Rev. Lewis Warner found the great North-West interminable.

We held our district meeting, and by my handing in the two buffaloes at the opportune time we avoided the lecture on trade and barter which had been in preparation for us. From letters I met at Edmonton, I found I was authorized to engage a teacher for my mission, and at once I began to look around for a suitable person. A Dr. Very, who had recently come into the country, being recommended to me, I engaged him to return with us to the mountains. The Hudson Bay Company's men who had come north with us had loaded imp and started back almost immediately. For the first fifty miles of our journey we had the company of Col, Jarvis. He had sent on Sergt.-Major Steele and some nine or ten men, and proposed to travel with us until we caught up to his party. Their objective point was Buffalo Lake, where a large camp of mixed-bloods and Indians were wintering, and where it was reported that whiskey was plenty. It was a keen, cold winter's night, 'and we were in the open camp under the lee of some willows, and the Colonel gave us a graphic account of the trip from the Red River to Edmonton. The expedition of Sir Charles Napier into Abyssinia, which had become quite historic, was not in it with this most formidable journey which the Colonel gave us a very fiery description of. It was gross blasphemy which spoiled the whole business, and I felt I must take the wind out of his sails and let him down easy in so doing, for he was our guest for the time.

After he had cursed the Canadian and British governments and the whole North-West country, the rivers especially, and wound up expecting us to applaud such wonderful heroism, I said to him, "Colonel, nine or ten miles north of Edmonton there dwells, when at home, a French half-breed who, when the spring comes, will load his carts with his winter's trade and catch of furs and pemmican, and, with his wife and children, will take the trail you came by, crossing all the streams you crossed. In due time he will reach Fort Garry; then he will sell his furs and robes, and purchase his fresh supply of goods and articles of trade, load these on to his carts, turn his face westward, re- cross all the streams, now at their highest, reach his home north of Edmonton, put up several stacks of hay, fix up his winter quarters, mend his carts and harness, and having carefully stored his goods, he and his family, with the same horses and carts, will cross the Saskatchewan and travel out from two to three hundred miles on to the plains, make a big turn through the country, run buffalo, stand on guard day and night, make many bales of meat, make many bags of pemmican, and finally, being now well loaded, return over the long journey to their home north of Edmonton. And still, it is not yet winter; and thus this native has travelled about three times the distance you and your party did, Colonel; and they had no government behind them, and what they have done is a common occurrence in this Western country."

It is needless to say that the Colonel saw the point, and we heard no more about the greatness of the feat of crossing the plain' on an old trail in a summer's time.

That was a cold night in the lee of a big snow- bank and some willows it had caught on to, sparkling stars gemming the firmament, the great disc surcharged with frost-laden ozone from 30 to 40 below. To the Colonel, from the comfortable home and barracks of Eastern Canada, and my doctor teacher from London, England, and the ship's cabin, such a capacious, marvellous, sleepy, living- room as we were now in was a new experience. However, we had the huge campfire, and if we worked hard we could keep this up with a sparkling, laughing flame, which, for a few feet around, tempered the climate of our huge refrigerator. We sang a hymn, and knelt in prayer, and if the act of worship did not do any more, at least it hushed the blasphemous soldier, and it also thawed our backs for the little while we turned them to the big fire as we knelt in prayer.

Up and on before daylight, and in course of a few miles we came up to the police outfit, some of whom, like their commanding officer, had now spent their first night in strong winter weather in the open. This was splendid discipline for these men, with the work they had come into the North-West to perform. Let but the native and the mixed-blood or lawless white man know that this force was always ready, through storm and cold and distance, then the law would be observed, and right there and then we would continue to lay the foundation of a peace-loving and law-abiding citizenhood.

I was glad to see these Easterners show as much adaptability as they did. Many a hard knock did they receive. To be battling with the elements on unbeaten trails and under beclouded skies is the hardest kind of work, and the man capable of strong development would stay and learn in such a field as was now opening before these men.

Soon our trails diverged, they to follow the sometime beaten roads to Buffalo Lake, and we to break a fresh one for ourselves, as already the tracks of our Hudson's Bay men were obliterated, except here and there where there was a bit of bush. We found the snow deep and drifts hard for our horses to break through, and our progress was slow, very slow; and yet we soon caught up to the Hudson's Bay men and passed them. I was ahead all the time, tramping a trail with my snowshoes, and keeping the most direct course. Our teacher doctor was in misery. He never dreamed of such horrible conditions. He seemed to take on melancholy, and we were afraid to let him out of our sight for fear of suicide. To make matters worse, provisions began to run short.

We had made a cache on the south side of the Red Deer. Last winter's experience had taught us a degree of caution, but still there were long miles between us and the cache, and the cold was steady, and the whole country from Edmonton to where Innisfail now is situated was as if there was no life in it. Tramp, tramp, and, struggle, and not only the doctor to watch, but now his horse was also playing out, and we had both man and horse to coddle and chirp up, and our rations growing smaller all the time. David and myself would sing and joke and try and laugh off the hardship, but the doctor was solemn and sour and ready to give up. As to our cache across the Red Deer, we had purposely never said anything about this to the doctor. We were not sure of it ourselves; some starving man might have found it, but our greatest fear was the cunning and skill of the omnipresent wolverine. If he had found our cache, and was able to circumvent our precautions, then alas for us.

It had been one of these dark, gloomy days, more or less drift and snow 'squalls, but almost too cold for the latter. The doctor was growing more depressed, and his horse, humor him as we would, showed signs of playing out. Nevertheless, we determined to make an effort, and reach our cache if possible.

It was some time after dark when I, being several miles ahead of my companions, came to the bluff of poplar not far from where we had left our store of provisions. I was greatly assured by not finding tracks of either men or beasts in the vicinity, so, taking off my snowshoes, I climbed down the precipice, on the slope of which stood the tree from which, extending away out over the bank by the use of another tree, we had hung the leather bag containing our precious store of provisions, and there, to my' great joy, it hung, just as we had left it. As I could not very well take it down alone, I climbed back up, and now, greatly encouraged, went to work making camp. This I did, so far as I could without an axe, and busied myself breaking down and carrying in the dry poplars, all I could manage in this way. I had shovelled away the snow with my snowshoe, and built a huge fire, and broken off several armfuls of frozen' willows with which to floor our camp, and packed in a lot of wood, and still my party did not show up. But presently I heard a horse neigh, and out of the darkness my little Bob trotted in. I very soon unhitched him and turned him loose to paw snow and forage for food. Then up came my brother with his string of horses and sleds, and the first question was, "Well?" and I said, "All right," and he was thankful.

We turned his horses loose and got our axes out and went to work in real earnest to cut wood and finish making camp, and as yet there was no sign of the doctor; so I started on the back trail, and on a hard run, for we were very anxious about our companion. I must have run some three or four miles when I heard his voice, and said to myself, "Thank God, he is still alive," and in due time we were all in camp. Up to this we had not mentioned to the doctor anything about our cache, and the gloom upon his face was heavy to behold, as he sat down before the fire without uttering a word. Then David and I slipped away into the night and took down our bag of provisions and carried it into camp, and the doctor was so absorbed in his own misery that he saw us not, neither the strange bag that had come into our' camp. There he sat, gloomily looking into the fire.

We melted snow and got our kettles boiling, and now we got out some of the mountain fort food and placed it to thaw before the fire. All of a sudden, the doctor noticed the spread, and then he woke up and began to take a fresh interest in life. Where did these provisions come from? When we told him, "Why, you never said a word about this." We told him we were not sure of finding it; the wolverine and the wandering Indian might have discovered them. But now we were better equipped than when we left Edmonton—splendid dried meat, soft, fat pemmican, buffalo tongues, some nicely cooked bread foods our good wives had put up for us—and it was wonderful how that Englishman. and Londoner came to and revived and became almost hilarious around that campfire. True, there was no trail; the snow and drifts were deep and difficult; the distance was not yet half accomplished; but now his stomach was satisfied, and thus his whole being was rejoicing. I suppose all men are more or less susceptible in this respect, but the ordinary Englishman is, in my experience, at the top of this sort of susceptibility. Undoubtedly, through his stomach is the shortest way to his heart and head. And now, with renewed vigor, we pursued our journey through the drifts.

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Plessey to make white power LEDs in Plymouth

Plessey to make white power LEDs in PlymouthPlessey has acquired University of Cambridge spin-out CamGaN, and will be using its technology to make white power LEDs in Plymouth.

Its critical intellectual property is a way of growing LED-quality GaN on silicon substrates.

“This technology is the product of substantial R&D investment over the past decade and the plans for its commercial development within Plessey have tremendous potential,” said co-inventor Professor Sir Colin Humphreys, director of Cambridge’s centre for GaN.

It if can be done commercially, growing LED-grade GaN on silicon offers significant cost savings over the more costly sapphire and SiC substrates currently used.

“Our solutions harness novel, patent-protected technologies that increase the epiwafer throughput of standard MOCVD reactors by more than 40%,” claimed CamGaN. “By increasing throughput without compromising quality, this technology offers the ability to decrease costs of LED dies by up to 80%.”

Belgian company EpiGaN and Welsh wafer maker IQE also have GaN-on-Si technology.

“We believe this acquisition positions us among the first commercial players to successfully manufacture high-brightness LEDs on 6in. silicon substrates,” said Plessey.

White outputs of 150 lm/W are planned for late Q4 2012.

This is a high efficacy. Is Plessey sure?

“The 150 lm/W figure is based on the normal benchmark of 350mA input current – 1W input. Hence we have to achieve >600mW light output, which is over 60% efficiency from the combined blue light output and phosphor conversion to white light,” Plessey marketing manager Derek Rye told Electronics Weekly. “This is recognised as a challenging target, but one we believe is achievable by around the end of 2012.”
First samples have peak emission at 460nm, said Plessey, and the technology extends to other wavelengths such as cyan and green.

The firm also announced plans to release a range of chips for lighting: “These smart lighting products will enable intelligent energy management, remote control, controlled dimming and automated response to ambient conditions.”

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Ray Rice dragging his unconscious fiance into an elevator, via TMZ

One of the #hottest #takes I hold in my #takes chamber is "Domestic violence is bad."

Domestic violence committed by men against women is especially reprehensible; even more so when the male is a professional boxer or another form of professional athlete.

Take, for example, Ravens running back Ray Rice. A few months back, Rice was caught via surveillance video dragging his unconscious then-fiancée out of an Atlantic City casino's elevator after what police described as a "mutual attack."

I don't know about you, but there's nothing "mutual" about that TMZ video.

Of course, the circus of depravity didn't stop there. In a meandering, bizarre press conference in which Ray Rice declared "sometimes life knocks you down," the true victim of domestic violence was made to apologize for HER ROLE in the debacle:

I don't know what's more baffling: That this was tweeted in the first place, or that the tweet hasn't been deleted over a month later.

Yet, according to Goodell's arbitrary sentencing, knocking the consciousness out of a woman is only 40% as bad as fleeing college to avoid NCAA repercussions. The latter, of course, is a matter of integrity:

From ESPN:

"I believe it is a fair conclusion that he intentionally took steps to ensure that he would be declared ineligible for further college play and would be able to enter the NFL via the supplemental draft," Goodell said in a news release. "Taken as a whole, I found that this conduct was tantamount to a deliberate manipulation of our eligibility rules in a way that distorts the underlying principles and calls into question the integrity of those rules."

That was Roger Goodell upon handing a five game suspension to Terrelle Pryor, something that was unprecedented in the NFL. It will never happen again, either. (The Tat Five was historically railroaded, y'all.)

Of course, Ray Rice was never convicted of a crime (because those are the benefits of being rich in America), but neither had Terrelle Pryor (despite what the NCAA might try to tell you).

Roger Goodell has stated he wants to send a message with his discipline. Yet, in the end, Terrelle Pryor was suspended for five games and Ray Rice was only suspended for two. A message was sent alright, but not the one I think he intended.

But hey, look on the bright side, women: the NFL wants to sell you pink and/or bejeweled team pride-wear.

Really makes you think, huh?

Eat the bread, everyone.

Earle's picture

Sometimes life knocks you down, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands.

--Ray Rice

Your Noble Savage is a Straw Yeti.

+8 HS
dubjayfootball90's picture

I got my pitchfork ready... Just waiting for a partner to run amok...

You can feed a bobcat all the chili it wants. That don't mean it's going to crap out diamonds.

+3 HS
BuckeyeVet's picture

DUBJAY - I'm bringing the torches & I've got your back. Effing hypocrites.

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."          - Groucho Marx

"The possible recipient of Oyster's ONLY down vote".

+1 HS
jamesrbrown322's picture

I got my torch...

Let's get him!

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

+5 HS
Buckeye419er's picture

More money buys a bigger broom.

+7 HS
808buckeye's picture

seize the carpe

hit_the_couch's picture

Something tells me earlier in the night, his fiance (or wife?) said something like, "I had more yards walking to the blackjack tables than you had all season."  I bet she'll never say that again.

The pic on the right kinda looks like a doberman (spelling) mauling a body. I guess that might describe or be about right for this situation. There for a second, I thought this article was gonna be about Mike Vick

I don't know the story behind the Ray Rice incident, but one would think that it would get more than a two game suspension, especially since Goodell upheld Pryor's suspension that was to be handed down before he jumped ship from college.

I can't wait til Goodell is has no affiliation with the NFL (for other reasons as well).

And then I told her...i'm no weatherman, but tonight's forecast is calling for several inches!

Crumb's picture

I hope when he plays, RDS (or any defender for that matter) breaks him in half and stomps on the pieces.

"The only good thing about it is winning the d*** thing" - Urban Meyer on The Game The War

+3 HS
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I hope Carlos doesn't read this.

+3 HS
DJ Byrnes's picture

Carlos lost more time for that swipe than Ray Rice.

Californian by birth, Marionaire by the Grace of President Warren G. Harding.

Young_Turk's picture

Ray-ray will take a financial hit for missing 2 games, but even here, Carlos probably got a larger penalty because his 'swipe' was pre-draft.

Not a big fan of what Carlos did by any stretch, and I'm on record as saying he should have been kicked off the team.

But assuming that Carlos thinks what I have to say is irrelevant, it would have to gall him that in this comparison he got ripped off big-time.

Hovenaut's picture

We have filled the Braxton Miller position.

+14 HS
FUqUespin's picture

F-ing worthless scumbag jerkoff a$$hole...

-2 HS
sharks's picture

Blackmon just got arrested for pot. Goodells going to waterboard him

A man got to have a code...

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Ya know, if Ray Lewis really has turned over a new leaf, he should have come out against this as a former teammate and ESPN/FL puppet...

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

+1 HS
PortlandBuckeye45's picture

It still amazes me how everything went down with TOSU, and then compare it to. What happened in Oregon, or with Johnny Maziel, and every year with Alabama. Did any of you know that Alabama has been on probation for.... i can't remeber but its been years now.  Oregon was practically buying players. We all know what happened with Johnny M. Which btw, im all for the kid being a kid and having fun. But he got a half game suspension. WTF to that. We lost a Coach, season games wiped from our record(which dosen't really change to much we still beat Arkansas.) Granted, we recovered better than any other team could have. It just still makes me think The NCAA hates TOSU, because we won't get down on our knees and kiss their feet.

ralEbuckI's picture

You guys are all forgetting that Pryor was a terrorist.  Come on!!!

+6 HS
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I am a conspiracy theorist. But as a huge fan of Tressel as a man, and a coach, I feel college football took the first opportunity to get him out of the game. I still feel it to be a shame, but with so much else going on with players and the law you think you'd need more Tressels involved in the sport. I don't know why this made me think of him??

"The people, who try to make this world worse... are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness. ~ Bob Marley

+2 HS
PortlandBuckeye45's picture

Tressel was a great man. And i believe this all was used as a message from the NCAA that no one is safe. Even tho we've seen how they handle other schools.

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In retrospect, "The Tat Five" really got a raw deal. There have been egregious violations committed by other schools' student athletes and literally NOTHING is done. Look at the UNC bball scandal. Can you imagine the media outcry if that had taken place at TOSU? It would be great to give the NCAA a collective Marcus Hall db flip by welcoming back "The Tat Five". Come home Terrelle !!

+7 HS
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retrospect?  We been yelling this up in here the whole time!

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Fatpants's picture

NFL discipline is a sham. Compare Riley Cooper's treatment to Donald Sterling's.

I'm just a poo gas huffin' toilet snorkeler at heart....

+1 HS
PortlandBuckeye45's picture

Josh Gordon, smokes weed, suspended for entire season. Ray Rice pulls a Chris Brown, suspended two games.

+4 HS
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Rice can go out and punch seven more women in the head and still get less of a suspension than Gordon. Message to kids, Violence against women not nearly as bad as smoking weed. Great message to send out Roger

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men

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Shameful. Domestic violence against any gender is just heartbreaking.

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Lets be real. Of course the NFL considers skipping out on an NCAA suspension more than domestic violence.  They wouldn't want to upset the people governing their very cost effective Minor League system....

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I am a Steelers fan but not the type that defends Ben Roethlisberger's prior behavior.  But, how do you not use the precedent of the six-game suspension (later reduced to four games) given to Roethlisberger?

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.  ~ Bruce Lee

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Domestic violence offenders should be banned from the NFL for life.  BTW...What is he doing drunk in an elevator in Vegas anyway.  Nice role model RR... There's me judging again...

"You do what I cannot do. I do what you cannot do. Together we do great things"

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If he really did pop her so hard that she went unconscious then shame on him. But, the truth is we don't know what went on in that elevator.

p.s. Ray just moved way down on my fantasy draft board...

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Even if she was going full out assault on him, he's Ray freakin' Rice of the NFL, don't tell me he can't restrain her without knocking her out.

I'm just a poo gas huffin' toilet snorkeler at heart....

+3 HS
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Ray best be careful from here on out ... some women in elevators fight back!

"No matter where you go, there you are." B. Banzai

+7 HS
Fatpants's picture

That's an awesome suplex. It looks like she holds the bridge at the end, I hope someone was there to count and award the pin.

I'm just a poo gas huffin' toilet snorkeler at heart....

+1 HS
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Somewhere, Kurt Angle is laughing his ass off at this.

Brady Hoke ate my comment

+3 HS
Boom777's picture

Fuck our justice system. If you got money or play CHILDS FUCKING GAME you can do whatever you like. He should be in jail still. I wish I were a rich sports figure I would just go around punching everyone. They do, especially to women. I thought the NCAA was a joke. He shouldn't be allowed to play. His career should be over.

Wherever you are, there you be!

-1 HS
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NCAA is the NFL's free farm system, there has always been collusion between the two organizations.... NFL should have to pay back the schools for any underclassman drafted... and indeed should  pay for the training and expertise that the CF provides the NFL.

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Ladies (are there ladies on here?) if you want to know why you make 75 cents to our dollar, it's this simple - you don't stand up for yourselves.

When the NFL started going pink a few years ago, every guy instantly saw it for what it was - a marketing ploy to get more women interested in the game.  Think about it - they decided to use breast cancer as a means to get your money.  Instead of being outraged, women started buying sparkly pink NFL shirts.

Then last year a report came out detailing that very little of the proceeds actually went to breast cancer research.  Again, no guy was surprised, and women kept their mouths shut.

Now we have this.  It's been pointed out many times, but Pryor got 5 games for trading shit he owned.  A woman getting knocked out cold?  No big deal really.  It's not like he smoked pot.

But come fall, you'll still be there in your pink shirts.

Come on women, get your shit together.  You should also be insulted by the notion that without an NFL wide receiver running around in pink socks you'd have no idea to check your boobs for lumps.

+2 HS
BrewstersMillions's picture

Swinging for the fences man. Well said.

Do I come off as arrogant? Shame on me, I was hoping it would be more obvious.

+2 HS
11UrbzAndSpices's picture

It's hard to reason why a man who hits his wife-to-be gets two games on the sideline while Terrelle Pryor got five games for "illegal" tattoos and Josh Gordon gets a full season for smoking marijuana.

It's great being paranoid about the media is out to get OSU and see something like that haha

"Quit skipping leg day bro" - Dr James Andrews

+1 HS
MAVBuck's picture

Goodell hands out a couple games for an altercation with a woman and Urban kicks people off the team. Speechless....

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So this means his first game back is at Cleveland?!?!...everyone will be Browns fans for a day!

"I will pound you and pound you until you quit." - Woody Hayes

+1 HS
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I am in 100% agreement with what Clay Travis (I know, I know...) said on local radio - (Paraphrasing) "After seeing that video, and hearing what happened, how was any man in her family willing to walk her down the aisle and give her away? I mean seriously, how could you be a brother, father, or uncle and sit there and watch her marry this guy?!?"

A fair point, IMO.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

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Wow, anybody else see the inside the elevator video yet this morning?  Raven's sure as hell better step up on this one, all of the excuses are out of the question now.


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When you are reading a story, do you ever notice (on a conscious level) who is talking? If the story is written well, most readers don't even notice who is doing the narrating or telling of the story. If you do notice these things, who do you prefer tells the story.

I know that most of the time, the story is told through the main character--either through the eyes of that character or a narrator that pulls you into the head of the main character. I've noticed that many stories nowadays are told in first-person with the use the "I" with all events filtered through that person. I've also noticed a trend toward telling the story this way and moving from one character's viewpoint to another at some point in the book. Use of the first-person seems very common in erotica.

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School Board interested in pre-packaged sex-ed curriculum

Calling Elmbrook's existing human growth and development curriculum "a failure," School Board members joined advisory committee members in asking for more information about a pre-packaged sex education curriculum.

Board Members Tom Gehl and Gary Jones were the most vocal at a Wednesday work session, requesting that district administrative staff look into the cost and possibility of implementing lessons created by a third-party company.

Eileen Depka, assistant superintendent of educational services, said a pre-packaged curriculum could be costly and might take as long as two years to implement.

She and Melanie Stewart, director of assessment and student learning, agreed to look into the option but urged that in the meantime the School Board approve an updated set of human growth and development outcomes.

The outcomes, concepts students should learn from the curriculum, are the result of almost 18 months of work by administrative staff and members of an advisory committee.

Board member Bob Ziegler said the outcomes should be approved soon, so the curriculum can be implemented in the 2009-10 school year. For this to happen, Depka said approval would be needed by May.

Gehl and Jones objected that the outcomes are based on the district's existing curriculum, which they believe is not adequately spurring students to avoid risky behavior involving drugs, alcohol and sex.

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Jism 2’s lead actress’ real name is not Sunny Leone but Karenjit Kaur Vohra.

The Canadian adult star's real identity was revealed when a Filipino actor-filmmaker sent a copy of Sunny's passport to a tabloid in India (MidDay).

A newspaper published the picture of her passport where her real name featured.

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Initially she was known as Karen the shorter version of Karenjit after which she called herself Sunny.

At the moment Sunny is busy shoot filmmaker Pooja Bhatt's movie 'Jism 2'. The actress is learning Hindi and seem to be enjoying her stance in Bollywood.

Reportedly, the Indo-Canadian adult star has also signed Ekta Kapoor's 'Ragini MMS 2'.

Sunny has also signed her first brand endorsement in India. "Super exited to have featured in Chaze Mobile TVC… had an amazing time shooting for it… can’t wait to see it on air," she tweeted.

There were talks of Sunny doing an item number but she denies doing any song for Zanjeer remake. "I am not doing any item song at the moment!!!!!!!" She tweeted.

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