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Will Jamie Oliver be the new Great British Bake Off presenter?
Can this one man replace Mel and Sue?
By Anna Lewis
This week has been dark. Real dark.
On Monday we heard the sad news that The Great British Bake Off was leaving the BBC because it had been sold to Channel 4 for a whopping £75million.
Then an even bigger blow came in the shape of a statement from GBBO presenters Mel and Sue saying they wouldn't be following Bake Off to Channel 4,so the current series would be their last.
Heartbroken doesn't even start to cover it.
So who will take over from Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins?
Well one young man who seems quite keen to take on the role is Jamie Oliver.
The TV chef said the programme was "really great watching" and revealed he would "love" to be closely involved.
"We watch Bake Off. The whole family loves it," he told Now magazine. "Secretly, there's always a part of me in mourning because I'd love to be one of the judges.
"I love Mary Berry and it's really great watching."
He added that he'd been offered a judge's role on the short-lived US version of the show in 2013, and that his inability to take part had been a "big regret for me".
Bookies Coral have some other ideas about who might take over from Mel and Sue. They've tipped former Celebrity Masterchef winner Lisa Faulkner as the most likely to take over, but they also reckon Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain is in with a shot, as well as Channel 4 favourites Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer.
And of course you can't underestimate the presenting power of Davina McCall.
But no offence to Jamie and all these other possible hosts – if it ain't Mel and Sue it just ain't right.
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Anna Lewis News Editor Anna Lewis is the News Editor at Delish UK, which means she's always either writing about food, cooking food or eating food.
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Google Acquires AdMeld For $400 Million
Michael Arrington	@arrington?lang=en / 9 years
AdMeld, an advertising optimization platform for publishers, has been acquired by Google for around $400 million according to multiple sources. The company, which launched in 2007, has raised just $30 million in venture capital from Foundry Group, Spark Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Time Warner Investments.
This is a sweet comeback for CEO Michael Barrett. As I noted in our first post about AdMeld in 2009, Barrett was fired from News Corp. in 2008 when the division that owned MySpace failed to meet a $1 billion revenue target. Most sources we spoke with at the time said he was the fall guy for an unrealistic revenue target to begin with, set by News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch in a previous earnings call.


Showcasing an anthology in which poets and novelists retell the stories of asylum seekers who have suffered at the hands of Britain's policy of 'indefinite detention'.
In Refugee Tales, poets and novelists retell the true stories of asylum seekers who've suffered at the hands of Britain's policy of 'indefinite detention', in the form of a modern-day Canterbury Tales. Introduced by Anna Pincus, a co-organiser and a founder of Refugee Tales with readings by Patrick Gale and Jackie Kay. Jackie Kay reads 'The Smuggled Person's Tale' from Volume II of the series and Patrick reads his never-before-heard tale which will be included in Vol III (out next year).


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The Captain of the Typhoon è un cortometraggio muto del 1916 diretto da Henry MacRae (con il nome Henry McRae).

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Produzione
Il film fu prodotto dall'Universal Film Manufacturing Company (con il nome Big U).

Distribuzione
Distribuito dall'Universal Film Manufacturing Company, il film - un cortometraggio in due bobine - uscì nelle sale cinematografiche USA il 6 agosto 1916.

Collegamenti esterni

Cortometraggi drammatici

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Uzi Geffenblad has recently become a jury member in Plein la Bobine, a children's film festival in La Bourboule, France. The Sancy film festival for young people, shows children's films i all suitable ages for the entire family.
The festival will focus on Swedish cinema, Workshops, exhibitions, meet & greet events, activities, silent films accompanied by a live band and more… It will also screen films from Zigzag Animation, the newly released "Spot and Splodge at the Dentist","Apricots", "Aston's Stones", "Wing gets lost" and "Among the thorns".
For more information about the festival and to schedule an interview with Uzi, please visit Plein la Bobaine's website (in French).


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By Steve Gidlow Behind the Scenes in Hollywood Archives
Earlier this month, Paramount+ launched the latest in its ever-expanding Star Trek franchise with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Like many of the titles already in the existing Trek universe, Strange New Worlds borrows characters from the Star Trek pantheon, beginning with Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount, pictured above), who made his debut in the original Star Trek series, then reemerged in Star Trek Discovery (and Short Treks) before taking the helm of the starship Enterprise. For this new set of adventures, he's accompanied by some familiar names in his crew. As an intermediate Trekkie, I generally give each new installment of the popular franchise a chance, but I have to say, this fast-paced action-packed series, thus far, has delivered in taking this writer where he's boldly never gone before -- having a weekly Star Trek series as appointment viewing.
For me, the main reason is the tone, which strongly resembles that of the original series. According to executive producer Akiva Goldsman, that resemblance is not accidental. "We tried to harken back to some of the values and styles of the original series -- the one that, for those of us who are a little older, ignited our Trek journeys," he explained recently while promoting the series.
"We have tried to look back and interpolate some parts of the original series that might not have made it to the screen [since]," he continued. "Some things that might have happened just before [Capt.] Kirk took over the Enterprise, and as such, some familiar faces are finding new life."
Beyond Pike, two familiar characters from the original series include Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck, pictured above) and Cadet Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), characters originally brought to life by Leonard Nimoy and Nichelle Nichols, respectively. To say that reimagining an iconic pop-culture character like Spock doesn't come easy is an understatement. "There are a lot of challenges," Peck said of the role. "The ears are burdensome in many ways, but I would say in our series, it's finding the balance between his human and emotional sides, human and Vulcan sides, and between his deeper emotional sides and his deeper logical sides. We go much more into his inner life and world, and it feels as though we're treading [new] ground. So, it's a very delicate dance I'm attempting with the wonderful cast and crew we have.
"[Still], there is a box and limitations," he added. "But the more you zoom into the box, the infinitely larger it becomes. In a way, there are boundaries [to playing him], but as we zoom in on him, and his [past] life and experiences we haven't yet seen, we're unfolding our kind of infinite possibilities of him and his life. A lot of it is done in the writing. I get a new script, and I'm faced with something totally unfamiliar to me in my work as Spock. So, the sky is kind of the limit, in my opinion, but there are rules."
The importance of reimagining Uhura, one of television's truly groundbreaking characters when it comes to diversity and inclusion, is not lost on Gooding (pictured above). "I think there are so many incredible things that Nichelle brought to this character," she shared. "She brought a level of brilliance and grace and I think that's what made her character so iconic. She was one of the first Black women in television not playing a role of service or servitude, and she was just effortlessly brilliant, capable and powerful. I was very excited to have an opportunity, as a young Black woman constantly looking for representation of herself in media, to bring that.
"I'm also excited to, sort of, introduce a side of unsureness and uncertainty [to her], especially for this first season," she continued. "I think something Nichelle had with the original Uhura was a level of understanding and clarity. Having an opportunity to represent such an iconic character in a multifaceted way is an honor for me as an actor. It's also exciting to hear what other people think of it, and to see the other sides of Uhura that we didn't see because of the limitations for Black women in film in the '60s."
Mount is no stranger to the world of genre entertainment, having appeared in both the Marvel (Dr. Strange) and Star Trek universes. However, sitting in the USS Enterprise captain's chair was beyond his wildest dreams. "There was something about Star Trek that was far off the radar for me," he said. "It wasn't even on my bucket list, and I never thought I'd end up captaining the Enterprise. Every single day I'm on set, it's both disbelief and a feeling of tremendous gratitude. I think having a healthy dose of humility and appreciation are [also] the greatest qualities in Captain Pike. If I can live up to him at all, it's through my appreciation of being a part of this universe."
Being accepted by the legion of Star Trek fans doesn't hurt either. "The fan reaction has been unlike anything I've experienced in my career," he smiled in closing. "It's like being an actor and trying to judge your own work, and it's impossible to judge sometimes. Getting that kind of feedback is both surprising and deeply encouraging."
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is available to stream on Paramount+, with new episodes dropping weekly.
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Recounting Israel's Journey
1These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. 2Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the Lord, and these are their stages according to their starting places. 3They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians, 4while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had struck down among them. On their gods also the Lord executed judgments.
5So the people of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth. 6And they set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. 7And they set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol. 8And they set out from before Hahiroth1 and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah. 9And they set out from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there. 10And they set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea. 11And they set out from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin. 12And they set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah. 13And they set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush. 14And they set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. 15And they set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai. 16And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah. 17And they set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth. 18And they set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah. 19And they set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez. 20And they set out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah. 21And they set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah. 22And they set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah. 23And they set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher. 24And they set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah. 25And they set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth. 26And they set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath. 27And they set out from Tahath and camped at Terah. 28And they set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah. 29And they set out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah. 30And they set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth. 31And they set out from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan. 32And they set out from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad. 33And they set out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah. 34And they set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah. 35And they set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber. 36And they set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh). 37And they set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
38And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the Lord and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. 39And Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.
41And they set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah. 42And they set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon. 43And they set out from Punon and camped at Oboth. 44And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the territory of Moab. 45And they set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad. 46And they set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim. 47And they set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. 48And they set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho; 49they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
Drive Out the Inhabitants
50And the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 51"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places. 53And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it. 54You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit. 55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell. 56And I will do to you as I thought to do to them."
1 33:8 Some manuscripts and versions Pi-hahiroth
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Assemble Jokes
A US special forces team is assembled in Afghanistan...
The team's objective is to try to extract as many transsexuals from Afghanistan as possible before the Taliban find them.
The leader of the team makes it clear to his commanding officer, that an auto mechanic will be crucial for the success of this operation.
When asked why a mechanic...
I'm so smart it only took me 6 months to assemble a Jigsaw puzzle
The box says "2-4 years"
What do you call instructions on how to assemble multiple Ikea products into a single unit?
A Svenn Diagram
Here's a great idea for a boyband. Go to an old age home, assemble a group of old men and give one of them Viagra. The bands name you ask?
One erection
The CEO of IKEA was just elected Prime Minister of Sweden.
The first thing he'll do is to assemble his cabinet.
It's 2021, and President Joe Biden is told he needs to assemble a cabinet
Coming back from IKEA, he realizes he's greatly misunderstood the task
A Londoner, a Parisian and a New Yorker get captured by cannibals…
The cannibals are pretty pissed off because these guys have just wandered into their territory without asking permission. So the cannibals tell them, "We're going to kill you, we're going to eat you, and we're going to make a canoe out of your skins. But just because we're in a good mood today will...
An elderly lady calls her neighbor and says,
"Please come over and help me. I have a puzzle and I can't figure out how to get started."
Her neighbor asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's done?"
The little silver-haired lady says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a rooster."
He decides to go over and help ...
My favorite joke I've ever read on Reddit, one of the first I've ever read here too: Everyone Knows Dave
Dave was bragging to his boss one day, "You know, I know everyone there is to know. Just name someone, anyone, and I know them."
Tired of his boasting, his boss called his bluff, "OK, Dave, how about Tom Cruise?"
"No dramas boss, Tom and I are old friends, and I can prove it." So Dave ...
My son is playing with the newly assembled LEGO truck after playing "Lego Indiana Jones" for a bit.
In the course of playing, he says "I'm driving to Indiana Jonestown!"
To which I replied "Well once you get there, don't drink the Kool-Aid, Junior"
Halley's Comet
From: General Manager
To: Departmental Heads
On Friday evening at 5 p.m., Halley's Comet will be visible in this area-an event which occurs only once every 76 years. Please have the employees assemble in the park area outside the building and I will explain this rare phen...
Farmer Greg
A seasoned farmer named Greg had finally mastered his craft. He toiled day and night to understand every detail to growing the perfect crop. After 30 years he had made enough money to retire, but Greg wanted more. He wanted local recognition and fame.
So he decided to grow the state's ...
At a convent, all nuns assemble for the morning sermon
The mother superior speaks up: "Last night, a man has been on our lands."
All nuns: "Ooooh!", except one nun: "Hehehe!"
MS: "The man entered one sister's chamber!"
MS: "The man stayed in the chamber for one hour!"
All n...
As I write this I'm trying to assemble bicycle wheels using quite a complex process.
Damn, I spoke too soon.
Woman visits the antique store
And find a beautiful wardrobe. She decide to buy, but says, that it is too big and won't fit through her door.
The clerk tells her that they can disassemble it, deliver to her house and then assemble it again. She accept so they do just that.
Next day woman calls to the store explainin...
A monastery had a rule: No talking whatsoever.
Once a year, there was an exception to the rule. One monk would get chosen to get up and speak.
The first year, Brother Matthew stood up. Naturally, the hall was silent. He stared at his audience for a minute. Then he spoke. "Hot this year, wasn't it?"
With that, he concluded his speec...
I used to sell vacuum cleaners door to door and do demonstrations by appointment. Seriously I did.
I had an appointment to demonstrate a machine at a home in a rural area. The house looked rough and as I walked to the door carrying all my demonstration equipment, a big mangy dog with a matted eye crowded me and followed me to the house.
I rang the bell and the lady let me in and the stupi...
A woman goes to IKEA to buy a new bedroom closet
She comes home and assembles the closet but as soon as a bus drives by her house, the closet collapses in on itself.
Frustrated she tries again, this time taking care to follow the instructions to the letter. Just as she is finished, another bus drives by her house and the closet collapses ag...
I'm organizing a rally against the right peaceably to assemble.
It will be the protest to end all protests.
(There, original joke. Looking forward to coming back in a few days and seeing a re-post of it make the front page.)
How do you assemble a computer?
A woodworker opens up a new shop
A woodworker opens up a new shop to sell his lumber and assembled pieces. He is making a decent living, but one day he discovers a new type of tree in the forest with some of the best wood he has ever worked with. He found out the tree was called the Arge Oak.
He started to try to feature th...
The new backyard grill I got for Memorial Day weekend is actually assembled in America...
The box of components are imported, but I had to put it together myself in my garage.
A woman decides to surprise her husband with a brand new luxury wardrobe...
While he's at work she goes to IKEA and finds a beautiful wardrobe, buys it, and returns home. Reading the instructions, she easily assembles the marvelous piece of furniture
Then, as she stood satisfied about her work, a bus passed by the window and the whole wardrobe fell apart. Stunned, ...
A doctor assembled a large auditorium of people.
He says thank you for join me today, I'm going to ask you personal questions as a group, this is for a study of mine please be honest and don't be shy.
How many people have sex everyday? The people who raised their hands where happy good looking and seemed to be doing great in there lives....
In 1946, Sean Connery joined the Royal Navy...
In 1946, Sean Connery joined the Royal Navy. During his time there, he was in charge of a covert operation to spy on a Russian military installation which was directly next to a small lake.
He was in charge of a small team of highly trained soldiers, a few locals recruited to help with the op...
A confused blonde asks her boyfriend to help her assemble a puzzle she bought in the supermarket.
She tells her boyfriend that the puzzle formed a chicken, since a picture of a chicken was on the box.
Eager to help, her boyfriend asked her to bring him the puzzle as soon as possible.
The blonde brings the puzzle to her boyfriend's house. When she sees her boyfriend, she shows him t...
The Detroit Lions have almost assembled a team to win the Super Bowl...
All that's missing is a great quarterback. A scout has been looking everywhere for someone good enough, but cheap enough to keep them under the salary cap.
The scout, after a long day of searching, comes home defeated. He slumps down into his chair and decides to watch the news.
As h...
A soap factory had a problem.
They sometimes shipped empty boxes without the bar inside. This challenged their perceived quality with the buyers and distributors. Understanding how important these relationships were, the CEO of the company assembled his top people. They decided to hire an external engineering company to solve th...
At the beginning of Creation...
God created humanity and he told his angels to assemble all the human parts. There were mountains of; head, arms, legs and every other body parts. And he explained how to assemble the parts. Heads on shoulders, arms by the side, etc.
So they started making a lot of people because they had a l...
Have you heard about the Swedish mutation of Covid-19?
You have to assemble it yourself.
A Therapist has a theory that couples who make love once a day are the happiest. So he tests it at a seminar by asking those assembled, "How many people here make love once a day?"
Half the people raise their hands, each of them grinning widely. "Once a week?" A third of the audience members ...
Today is National Puzzle Day and National Corn Chip Day
I thought of a joke, but couldn't quite piece it together. Side note: corn chip puzzles are difficult to assemble but they taste good!
Thank goodness it's my first cake day!
I bought a fan from Home Depot and it came fully assembled.
I love it when a fan comes together.
There was once a brilliant gastroenterologist.
There was once a brilliant **gastroenterologist** whose fame spread far and wide. He had the reputation of treating the worst of cases with best results. If nothing worked, his magical hand would.
But, this brilliant guy had a deep burning passion of his own. He had always wanted to be an aut...
An Air Force Colonel is about to brief his men.
An Air force Colonel is about to start the morning briefing.
While waiting for the coffee machine to finish brewing, the Colonel decides to pose a question to assembled staff.
He explained his wife had been a bit frisky the night before, and that he failed to get his usual amount of ...
What did Optimus Prime say after hauling his new Ikea coffee table into the house?
Autobots assemble!
(Writing credit to u/Apollonius_Cone)
Pete writes a letter to Santa the day before Christmas. It says: "Dear Santa, please be so kind and give me 100$, I was a good kid this year and we are very poor".
He posts it and waits patiently. The next day one of tha mailmen opens it and reads the letter. He feels really sorry for the kid knowing he won't get the money.
The postman talks to other colleagues and they feel sorry for the poor kid too. They manage to assemble 50$ only. Although it's not...
A rich business man suspected his wife of cheating
So he hired a shady private investigator to confirm his suspicions. One afternoon while at work he gets a call from the PI to meet him top of a high rise building. He immediately rushes there. Once there the PI hands him a pair of binoculars and points across the street at the neighbouring high rise...
An old man decides that he wants to see a bullfight before he dies.
Immediately upon arriving in Spain, the man makes his way to the arena, then cheers along with the crowd as he watches the matador fight the bull. For as much fun as it is, he soon realizes that the travel and the excitement have left him feeling worn out, so he decides to find a nearby restaurant b...
There was a church that had a bell that no one could ring.
One day, a boy came and asked the priest if he could try. He went up into the tower and ran straight into the bell face-first. The bell tolled loud and clear. The priest gave him the job.
One Sunday, the boy ran straight toward the bell with his face and missed, so he fell off the tower and died....
3d Jigsaw on the cheap..
..bag of frozen fries, re-assemble the potatoes.
Pinata joke, not mine but thought it was funny. Sorry if you have heard before
Two guys are bungee-jumping one day. The first guy says to the second. "You know, we could make a lot of money running our own bungee-jumping service in Mexico."
The second guy thinks this is a great idea, so the two pool their money and buy everything they'll need - a tower, an elastic cord,...
Russian mafioso visits Italian mafioso
They talk about their lifestyles and Italian asks "Hey, do you have newest model of Mercedes?" No, I don't." Admits Russian. "Well, how can you call yourself mafioso if you don't. Russian fumes but doesn't say anything. "And does your house have three storeys?" "No, it does not." "Well, how can you ...
My wife bought us an avengers puzzle to do together...
I said great. We can put some music on, have a few drinks and assemble the avengers.
A buddha puts a hotdog stand and gets a customer...
"I want one with everything!" says the guy to the solemn looking monk. With ceremonious presicion and speed the guy virtually assembles the hot dog with all the sauces, condiments and extras in mid air.
Within seconds he hands the hotdog to the baffled guy. "That'll be 5 dollars sir."
Three engineers are trying to figure out what sort of engineer God is
The mechanical engineer says "God must be a mechanical engineer. Look at how perfectly our joints are assembled and how fluid our movements are!"
The electrical engineer says "Not at all, God must be an electrical engineer. The bio-electric processes in our brain exceed anything we can invent...
Patrick O'Leary passed away at his job at the brewery.
His workmates realized that they would have to be the ones to inform his widow of his passing.
They trooped over to Patrick's cottage at the end of their shift and solemnly gathered in a semicircle before the door. The foreman politely knocked. Mrs. O'Leary opened it, and looked at the assemb...
The only things not Made in China today are...
Assembled in China
Even robots need a day off.
When I was a young man in in Army Cadets, we had big ornamental robot that we called 'old-iron-sides' with a big brass bugle that would play all the calls to the troops. In the morning it would play 'reveille' to wake, 'mess call' for meals, 'drill call' to assemble in the square, etc. We all got so...
King Arthur was preparing to go out on an expedition and would be away from Camelot for an indefinite period of time. He was worried about leaving Queen Guinevere alone with all those horny knights of the Round Table. So he went to Merlin for some advice.
The good wizard showed him his latest invention. It was a chastity belt... except that it had a rather large hole in the most obvious place.
'This is no good, Merlin!' the king exclaimed, 'Look at this opening. How is this supposed to protect m'lady, the Queen?'
'Ah, sire, just observe...
Thor, Iron Man and Hulk walk into IKEA...
Avengers... Assemble
A Redneck Wedding
Some time ago when I was hitchhiking through the deep South, a fella who gave me a ride invited me to a redneck wedding. Now this was a proper wedding, two days of tractor pulls, shooting shit and falling down drunk off moonshine, before we were finally assembled in the chapel for the big ceremony o...
Kim Jong-un has unfortunately died and the North Korean subordinates gathered for a serious meeting.
After hours of discussion, they decided it'd be best to replace him with a look alike to fool the foreign leaders. A Kim Jong-un look alike contest was organised and the winner was to be selected to rule Korea.
Fliers and posters of the contest was all over North Korea and a majority of the...
If you watch a movie with Jackie Chan backwards...
You will get a documentary about a Chinese guy who assembles furniture with his feet.
Sharing...
An elderly couple stands at the counter at the local burger joint. The man orders a deluxe burger, large fries, and a cup of decaf. The counter clerk turns to the woman and asks her what she would like.
"Oh, nothing for me, deary. My husband and I share everything.'"
The clerk hits a...
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Freedom of Information:
FDA's Program and Regulations Need Improvement
HRD-92-2: Published: Oct 11, 1991. Publicly Released: Nov 14, 1991.
Mark V. Nadel
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) implementation of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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Tom Kilburn: A Tale of Five Computers
One of the preeminent figures in the early history of computer design was Tom Kilburn. Over the course of some 30 years, he made significant contributions to the development of five historically significant computers. Although a natural team leader possessed of a somewhat dominating personality, who inspired in those who worked closely with him great loyalty and affection, Kilburn was, on casual acquaintance, a self-contained man who chose his words with care. Tom Kilburn was born August 11, 1921, in West Yorkshire, England. His father, John William Kilburn, was a statistical clerk who rose to become a company secretary.13Tom had a somewhat specialized education at Wheelwright Grammar School having been permitted by his headmaster to study almost nothing else from around the age of 14. It was hardly surprising therefore he emerged from school as something of a mathematical specialist. In 1940, Kilburn went Sidney Sussex College, in Cambridge, with several scholarships. Wartime courses at Cambridge were somewhat truncated and in 1942, Kilburn graduated with First Class Honors in Part I of the Mathematical Tripos and in the preliminary examination for Part II.
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The Misinterpretation Of Muhammadu Sanusi II By Gimba Kakanda
There is a reason the North of Nigeria is yet to be "on top of the situation", as our policymakers tend to say even when a crisis is out of control, in the quest to redeem the escalating social problems that abound there. It is because we are in denial of the origins, starting from our manipulation and misapplication of religion in governance to the stark deficiencies of our ruling class, and its implications on the present.
by Gimba Kakanda Apr 13, 2017
The North is a generation or two behind the South. Critics of this underestimated tragedy have been quickly made persona-non-grata in their constituencies by a class of people one can only understand as the Conservatives. Some have been severely cited as bad examples for "speaking ill" of their people or region. One of the prominent characters in the Black Book of the Conservatives is Sarkin Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II. He wasn't a recent entrant into that book though, having first become a recurring figure in "embarrassing the North" as a sharp-shooting, cerebral social commentator then known as Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
His emergence as Sarkin Kano, after a historic disapproval of the Jonathan-led government he once promoted, catalyzing the nation's rush to replace that infraction of an administration, was the advent of a revolution long overdue. Why? Because, whether as Sanusi Lamido Sanusi or as Sarkin Kano, he's a vastly well-informed and cosmopolitan thinker in a society awaiting revolutionary overhaul of certain socio-cultural, political and pseudo-religious thinking and practices. The road to revolution is an uphill one because he's bound to stir the rage of anti-intellectual and robotic characters programmed to reject even the rumor of changing an institutionalized cultural malpractice.
If nobody foresaw the ongoing rage from familiar quarters over Sarki's method of addressing the region's social problems, it only means he or she had been a truant in the study of an aspect of the region. Radical confrontation of defective norms in this region has always been interpreted as "girman kai" - arrogance - or an effort to impress "yan kudu" - southerners. A radical critic is either portrayed as spoiling for a fight with the subjects of his or her frank observations or exhibiting "iyayi" - know-it-all disposition - instead of unsentimental rebuttals. I should know. In my little corner of Minna and in my little sphere of Nigerian literature and political discourse, I have been confronted with this bewildering reality.
But Sarki's problems didn't even begin with the so-called Conservative elements who accuse him of desecrating the throne of the Kano Emirate for simply rousing the consciousness of the region. It was the pro-Buhari partisans who first launched a volley against him, for his critical remarks on the government's mismanagement of the economy. And what these legions of critics expect or have proposed is, Sarki is intended to serve as unheard and rarely seen advisor, like the other hundreds of "monarchs" playing the same role in the region and all over the country.
Before Sarki's remark in Kaduna, at the summit hosted by the Kaduna state government between April 5 and 6, Zamfara state Governor Abdulazeez Yari attributed the meningitis outbreak in his state to the wrath of God, that the implication of his inability to provide primary healthcare facilities in his state was in fact due to divine punishment for the Zamfarawa's deviation from the way of God. Sarki addressed this rather devastating clowning in Kaduna, offering that "we have adopted an interpretation of our culture and our religion that is rooted in the 13th century mindset that refuses to recognize that the rest of the Muslim world has moved on."
At the Mo Ibrahim Forum in Marrakesh, Morocco, a few days later, he shattered the glasshouse that is Zamfara state, faulting the gimmick the politicians impose on the people as sharia and that, despite which, "(Zamfara state) has the highest rate of poverty in the country today." His diagnosis of sharia as a mere conduit for political power can be corroborated not only by the economic mess that is Zamfara state today but the legacy of corruption left behind by its past leaders, especially the primal Senator Ahmed Yerima, perhaps the most successful political scam artist amongst them.
This brutal honesty polarized public discourse, pushing the angry to resort to publishing false claims of Sarki's private life, some already refuted, including a photograph of him and his wife presented as that of him and a mistress. This is the style of shallow intellectualism and incomprehension we are reduced to in northern Nigeria, amused by how even holders of postgraduate degrees interpreted his commentary absurdly differently, describing it as an affront to the region and to Islam, when it's only an indictment of their literacy.
That the North builds its cultural and religious practices and formations with the thirteenth century mentality is an overrating of our culturally unadventurous spirits and rearward growth. The thirteenth century, noting its ideological conflicts, was actually the peak of the Golden Age of Islam, an era of ground-breaking scientific breakthroughs and intellectual pathfinding by Muslim scientists, philosophers, artists, scholars and clerics which began in the eight century. If Northern Nigeria had adopted that period as a model and its achievements as inspiration, we would have been somewhere around the front rows in this modern civilization.
We are, as Sarki also said, in denial, and the whys are an everyday eyesore: "The north-west and the north-east, demographically, constitute the bulk of Nigeria's population, but look at human development indices, look at the number of children out of school, look at adult literacy, look at maternal mortality, look at infant mortality, look at girl-child completion rate, look at income per capita… The north-east and the north-west Nigeria are among the poorest parts of the world."
It's heartwarming that someone who heads an agency of our traditional institutions has the courage to serve as mirror to the unsightly society we have built. What Sarki has been saying, again and again, isn't strange to us. What we have had in short supply over the seasons past are leaders who combine knowledge and audacity as he does. And if I had not been a witness to his audacious confrontation of topical issues, I would have predicted his eventual taming by the conservative establishment.
The idea that a turban should serve as a rein is pre-medieval era mentality. To say a monarch must act like a deity, by avoiding or limiting interactions and associations with the public, only shows we are yet to erase our memory of the master - slave relationships our forefathers fought to abolish. It's even more troubling when such position is being promoted by those who have previously ridiculed the redundancy of our traditional institutions as a waste of human capital and public funds.
The difference between Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and Muhammadu Sanusi II is the latter had no effective platform to match his words. The similarity, however, is both are the subjects of scathing attacks and damaging labels, dismissed, at various points, as Shiite, westernized, apostate, ignorant, arrogant, Zionist mole and more—empty labels from those incapable of appealing to reason, only sentiments. It's a pity to have one's faith and personality questioned by a generation mis-educated by this anti-intellectual system of ours. There's no challenger of a malpractice or flawed thinking based on a perception of religion or culture, who hasn't been labeled. It was so with Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as it is with Muhammadu Sanusi II.
Our delusional Conservatives are worried that the Sarki fraternizes with "peasants", shaking hands and posing for selfies, destroying their pre-medieval era perceptions and portrayals of the monarch as a deity. What they highlight as a fault is, in actual sense, a praise. But that's a mere telling of their ignorance of the happenings around the world, of humanizing monarchs and the implications of such laudable fraternity. We must choose what we want, a redundant Sarki or one who rouses our consciousness. A few months ago, the visionary ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Muhammed Al-Rashid Ibn Maktoum and his son, Hamdan, were seen on a public train in London, interacting and posing for selfies. They were all in T-shirts. It didn't make them small, it only made them human. Their idea of monarchy isn't to pretend to be deities, as promoted by a people with slave mentality in my part of the world. Royalty shouldn't be confused for divinity, but embraced as an opportunity, an opportunity to serve as the cultural visionaries and revolutionaries of one's society. Even if without constitutional powers to execute one's proposals, as is the case with ours.
Imagine the reaction of the so-called Conservatives here if constitutionally restricted Sarkin Kano or any monarch from the North of Nigeria is spotted in that way, in T-shirt and in public transport. Yet, the T-shirt-wearing monarch isn't incapable of procuring the entire Northern Nigeria if the region, with its seventeenth century infrastructure, were a public enterprise. The world has evolved and so should our thinking - of solutions to tackle these fast-evolving problems that breed almajiranci, Boko Haram, poverty, illiteracy, and mentally unfit leaders of Yari's class.
The way out of this cultural entrapment is a mental revolution. "We must wage an intellectual war," the Sarki proposes. "Because Islam is not univocal; there are many voices, there are many interpretations, there are many viewpoints, and we have for too long allow the ascendancy of the most conservative viewpoints. The consequences of that is that there are certain social problems."
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WASHINGTON—I realize that Julian Assange isn't high on anyone's Christmas card list after he and WikiLeaks played monkey-mischief with the 2016 presidential election, largely through the dissemination of hacked emails in which was exposed the interior monologue of the Democratic National Committee. I realize that his defenders—Bernie Bros or not—can be completely insufferable and a plague upon Twitter feeds.
Hours later it was reported by CNN that authorities have prepared charges against Assange, who is currently holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Donald Trump lavished praise on the anti-secrecy website during the presidential election campaign - "I love WikiLeaks," he once told a rally - but his administration has struck a different tone. Asked whether it was a priority for the justice department to arrest Assange "once and for all", Sessions told a press conference in El Paso, Texas on Thursday: "We are going to step up our effort and already are stepping up our efforts on all leaks. This is a matter that's gone beyond anything I'm aware of. We have professionals that have been in the security business of the United States for many years that are shocked by the number of leaks and some of them are quite serious."
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3) It's these guys. This is the lens through which any action this administration takes must be judged. The president* is Donald Trump. The attorney general is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. The presumption of incompetence on the one hand, and authoritarianism on the other, must always control in any action this administration takes. The Espionage Act is a terrible law. JeffBo is a terrible AG. This is the ironclad context in which any action taken should be judged.
I don't care what you think of Julian Assange, or Glenn Greenwald, or The Intercept, and I don't care which side you were on during the 2016 Democratic primaries. (In fact, I wish you'd all shut the hell up about that.) Unleashing Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III on the Bill of Rights is a ghastly prospect that should be fought at every turn. The only court in which Assange rightly should appear is in Sweden.


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Hail Mary, Full of Grace
By John Lyttle, The Express
Mary Black is still in the process of furnishing what she hoped would be her country retreat, a site far removed from the demands of recording and touring, for herself and her family, a place where the artist might quietly reconnect with the rich, green earth; but already the Irish press has jigged its way to her Kerry home.
"Sure, there was a piece in the Sunday World with pictures of 'Mary's secret hideaway'," says the singer, more in exasperation than anger. "Ach, it's not much of a secret if it's all over two pages of the Sunday World, is it? Already the letters are starting to arrive..."
Mary toys with a plate of seafood. She is what my grandfather would have called "a handsome woman"; not much in need of make-up. Diners at other tables are making a production number of not eavesdropping; but having the Mary Black, "the voice of Ireland", a woman who sung before Presidents Mary Robinson and William Clinton, resident in beauteous Dingle Bay is the whispered talk of the town.
Recently arrived Cranberries' rock chick Dolores O'Riordan Burton hasn't caused half the excitement. Mary is, as the auld saying goes, "one of our own". The repect is returned: "Mind you, don't get me wrong, they're nice letters. My fans, they're good people."
Good and legion, here in Eire, the US and Japan. Which seems odd, yet actually isn't: "I was a bit taken aback, too, at first. When we toured Japan the venues would be packed, but the audiences never made a sound. I thought I was dying out there. But at the end there were standing ovations, weeping, the lot. And tiny, beautifully packaged presents backstage."
Capable hands trace dainty shapes in the air: "It was a shame to open them... I found that Japanese folk songs are very emotional. About love and loss. You know, coping with what life throws at you. Like my songs. That must have been what they responded to."
Without a doubt. The solo albums began in 1983 as folk, soon became "contemporary" and now defy convenient categorisation but, from the debut of the self-explanatory Mary Black to 1997's risky and cirtically misunderstood Shine, the work has offered, for want of a better phrase, womanly intimacy and accepting warmth, a mature understanding of wounds daily inflicted and discreetly hidden.
Driving down long windling lanes to our destination, Sinead, the record company publicist, has been listening to the latest LP, Speaking With The Angel, and sighing. "Isn't that song, Cut By Wire, great? We've all been there. How does the line go? The one about 'Now as then lovers walk the fire'. Mary knows."
Mary Black's career parallels the coming out and rising up of women in Irish society. Her move away from her traditional folk roots and the Black Family band - her mother was a singer, her father played the fiddle - for a more adventurous, less hidebound sound mirrors a broader advancement. She and her music bridge old world and dawn. She has raised three children and her husband has always managed her career, but it is unabashedly her career.
Mary knows it: "As a woman who has a family and works, I face the same sort of problems as millions of women around the world who are trying to raise kids and hold down a job. I think a lot of women think and feel the same way about various issues. They have a basic sympathy with each other, which doesn't mean they always agree all the time. But I think we have an emotional bond. As a woman, I react to certain sentiments in a song. And I think that women do relate to the songs I choose for that reason."
As she doesn't write her own material, she chooses her tracks carefully. She even fusses compulsively over the running order; changing listings over and over again: "You'd be surprised how big a difference it can make to the mood of a thing."
Speaking With The Angel contains not only specially written tunes but almost casually aching covers of Sting, Fairpoint Convention and Crowded House hits. As she says, not arrogantly: "What makes them Mary Black songs is what you bring to them - the first thing being respect. I'm not the sort of person who says, 'This song doesn't sound right.' I'm the sort of person who says, 'This song doesn't feel right.'"
For some, the feel hasn't been quite right since she split with longtime producer Declan Sinnott. However, the assault she suffered for the rockier Shine had a little something to do with sexism. Mary shrugs it off: "I admit I was nervous when Declan decided he wanted to do other things. I couldn't sleep at nights. I didn't want to tell the band. But Declan was right and in my heart I knew it. No harsh words were spoken, but we were getting too comfortable. We were going stale.
"Being shaken up turned out to be the best thing. It gave me courage. And you know what some critics are like. They complain if you keep doing the same thing and if you do something different that's a fault as well. I do what I do because I love singing."
Mary isn't about to stop singing. Or picking and mixing. Not in an age where The Corrs are revamped for the dance floor; Boyzone appear on the verge of recording Danny Boy and the dreaded penny whistle has been shamelessly employed to add ethnic kick to Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On.
Mary was collapsing categories and fusing influences long before Sinead O'Connor brought keening to the Prince canon and the pomp Oirishness of U2 and the Cranberries made them the aural Guinness and Irish coffee of the international music industry.
Not that she's busking for credit. Mary Black is hip enough to know that each successive generation believes it invented the wheel. It's the best sort of hip: "My kids are listening to Ocean Colour Scene and Radiohead and Supergrass. When I listen to it, I like it all. It makes sense to me. This might be 1999, but it sounds exactly like the music I grew up with. If Oasis are the Beatles, then Blur are the Kinks and there's not much that hasn't been done before."
Tired of diners' eyes burning into me, I slope off to the toilet for respite. When I return, a waitress is sitting in my seat. She and Mary are gabbing away about the weather; the restaurant, what they'll be doing tomorrow and for the rest of their lives. It's hardly rock 'n' roll, but I like it.


In is what is sure to be a popular shore excursion offered by the luxury cruise line, guests sailing on the Crystal Serenity voyages that stop in Tauranga, New Zealand, on the 20th December and 29th January, will enjoy an exclusive guided tour around the iconic set before settling down for food and drink served in the Green Dragon Inn.
The tour will include trips to see the famous Hobbit holes inhabited by Frodo and Bilbo Baggins in Brandywine Bridge, and allow guest to take in the stunning views overlooking the lake and stroll around the leafy surroundings and rolling hills.
Following the tour, guests will take their place at the Green Dragon Inn – a cosy watering hole frequented by the hobbits in the films – where they will enjoy traditional New Zealand beer, wine and a Kiwi BBQ served up by staff dressed in full Lord of the Rings regalia.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the highest grossing movie productions of all time, making just under 3 billion USD at the box office alone. The prequel film, an adaptation of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit is set to be released in December 2012 and looks certain to repeat the success of its predecessors.
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Social media has become one of the most popular ways for people to communicate with each other today. The largest and most popular social media platform is clearly Facebook. This is a social media experience that can be used by any user that claims to be 13 years old. One thing is clear, that it all people of all ages have found that Facebook has become one of the most popular modes of sharing communication with the world.
Facebook was founded in 2004 and first looked at as a college experience, it was soon adopted by mainstream society and people of all ages started forming accounts. Facebook Mark Zuckerberg turned a small time college program into a worldwide, history making entity. The size of Facebook attracted the interest of businesses. This many people in one location meant that Facebook soon became an area for all business of all sizes. Any business or group can start a Facebook page and through the system of "liking" they can pick up followers who will be informed each time you make a post to your Facebook account.
The rise of mobile devices has not diminished the popularity of Facebook. In fact it has made it more popular than ever. With the use of almost any device a person can access their Facebook account. That means it can be accessed on the phone and a person can keep track of their friends no matter where they are. That is why it is important to sign up for a Facebook device account as soon as possible. Below is a guide on how to sign up for your own Facebook device account.
What You Need to sign up for your own Facebook device account:
A computer or tablet with internet access
An active Facebook account
Your Facebook account information
Follow these simple steps to sign up for your own Facebook device account:
Copy and paste the following URL into your browser or if your system allows, click the link we have provided here: www.facebook.com/device
Log into your Facebook account.
Get your activation code. Follow the instructions on your device to get the Facebook device activation code.
Enter the code and click "Connect". Follow the instructions on the resulting dialog to grant permissions to the application.
You're done! Your device is now connected with Facebook and ready to use.


Download e-book for iPad: Adhesion science and engineering by Pocius A.V., Dillard D.A.
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Fixing Our Nation « Politics As Usual »
So what's wrong with our nation?
Lotsa stuff. The only problem is, ask 10 different people, and you'd get 10 different answers.
Some people want us to be more Green. Some people want us to be more libertarian. Some people want anarchy. Some people want us to return to traditional values. Some people want every-increasing freedom, more programs, higher taxes. You name it, there's probably someone who supports it.
So who is right? Tough question. Aside from the obvious answer: "Me." heh.
You see, I feel there is an underlying series of problems bringing about all this chaos and polarization and dispute and invective. In fact, I think there are three main problems.
1) The series of checks and balances is breaking down.
2) There is little incentive for anyone in government to be concerned with our nation's long-term welfare...doing so gets you defeated.
3) Not enough people vote.
Our forefathers came up with a dang good system. It is flexible, balances out most powers, and has helped us avoid many problems encountered by other nations, all while slowly allowing increasingly more inclusive groups of people unprecented levels of freedom, prosperity, and equality. That's pretty amazing.
But I really fear the system may be breaking down, as different special interests exploit cracks in the system in pursuit of their agenda.
My proposed solutions?
1) Repeal the 17th Amendment, which would give more power to state legislatures and get people more interested in that level of politics.
1a) Further, I propose we add another house to the Supreme Court, say 5 people who are elected for life. Any Supreme Court decision would have to hammer out a compromise between these two groups, just like the Senate and House of Representatives have to hammer out compromises, thus balancing population with states. The appointment system was supposed to get politics out of the Supreme Court...can anyone look at Bader-Ginsburg and/or Scalia and insist politics doesn't affect things? Or how about the Democrats' push in 2000 to throw out the Constitutionally-mandated separation of powers on the justification that if President Bush wins the election that he would pack the Court with pro-life judges? Or how about the whole Senate confirmation fiasco since then when a minority party prevents the Senate from even voting on the justification that they don't want a pro-life judge or conservative Hispanic on a Circuit Court? I admit, how we balance the court is less important to me than finding some way to balance it. Right now, the checks/balances system toward the Federal Court system isn't responsive enough to the people.
2) Extend the Presidential term of office to 10 years, and allow two terms.
2a) If it seems advisable and doesn't seem counterproductive, allow a "no confidence vote" once every two years; if the President doesn't survive it, a new election must be held within six months with pre-selected candidates, rather than automatically being handed to the opposition party.
3) Index the salary for members of Congress to the number of people on welfare: less people on welfare, higher salary; more people, lower salary. That should diminish the practice of buying votes with government entitlements.
4) All government programs (except medicare, defense, and social security) must sunset after five years (or other set term). They can be reinstated, but only by a majority vote by both houses of Congress.
5) Everyone who votes gets 5% off the following year's taxes. That should also help determine when dead people's names are used to stuff ballot boxes.
5a) after a person votes, they can take a test regarding candidates, issues, and propositions. If they pass, they can take an additional 5% off the following year's taxes (to encourage people to study the issues)
6) All members of Congress must wear a patch on their clothes to show from which lobbies they have accepted gifts, money, or dinner. Thus, it will be possible to tell at a glance who is accepting the most influence.
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This course investigates how pacts with the devil appear in our culture and the special connections of this tradition with music. We will look in detail at Marlowe's tragedy Dr. Faustus at Goethe's Faust, Parts I and II (1808 and 1832), at some Faust operas and films of the 19th and 20th centuries, and Bulgakov's comic novel The Master and Margarita. We will explore how the legend of the pact with the devil came to represent the West's view of itself and of the dangers inherent in our advancing scientific knowledge. Several short exercises and a take-home final.


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Clijsters loses at US Open in last match of career
Dolphins fall to Cowboys to wrap up preseason
Gophers look to trump Rebels in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS — The time is here for the University of Minnesota football team. It's time to see if this Gophers squad is improved off consecutive 3-9 seasons. It's time to see if head coach Jerry Kill, like he has at his previous stops, can help a struggling program take a step forward in his second season at the helm.
Minnesota opens up the 2012 season on the road as Kill and Co. will take on UNLV in Las Vegas. The two teams combined for just five wins last season, and the Rebels are a team that hasn't had much, if any, success over the last decade.
The Gophers talked during the spring and again this fall about how this year's team is bigger, quicker and more athletic than the one that won only three games a year ago. Minnesota faithful will get their first chance to see if that holds true on Thursday night in the desert. Here are five things to watch as the Gophers take the field for the first time in 2012.
1. Who will get the bulk of the carries out of the backfield?
Entering fall camp, the starting running back job seemed to be James Gillum's to lose. The junior college transfer, who played two seasons at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, had the most experience of any of Minnesota's running backs — albeit not at the Division I level. The Gophers' other options included redshirt sophomore Donnell Kirkwood, sophomore David Cobb and redshirt sophomore Devon Wright. Freshman K.J. Maye, listed as an athlete, also got reps at running back this fall.
While Gillum was the early frontrunner for the starting job, Kirkwood has stood out in fall camp and has caught the eye of his coaches. Plagued by injuries in 2010 and 2011, Kirkwood is finally healthy. If he can stay healthy, he should get a good number of carries this year, starting Thursday at UNLV.
Minnesota doesn't seem to have a problem rolling with a committee of running backs to start the season, but the Gophers' game against the Rebels could dictate which running back could be the featured back in the following weeks.
2. The Gophers feel MarQueis Gray has taken a step forward as both a quarterback and a leader. Now it's time for him to prove it.
Last year was Gray's first season as Minnesota's starting quarterback after spending his freshman and sophomore seasons as a wide receiver. Gray certainly struggled at times, often relying on his legs to make plays when his first or second reads weren't open.
That hasn't been the case this fall. Gray appears more poised in the pocket, letting the plays develop and making the proper reads. His accuracy, which was a concern in 2011, also seems improved. Gray is also a father, as his fiancé gave birth to twins last November. He feels that off-field responsibility has helped him grow as a leader on the field.
Gray will also have to battle the heat on Thursday. Last season in Minnesota's opener against Southern Cal, Gray left the game with cramps. He'll likely be playing in even more heat Thursday as high temperatures could exceed 100 degrees. Playing at night should help with that, but it's something to keep an eye on.
"MarQueis sweats a ton, so we'll have to make sure he takes plenty of fluid in," Kill said. "We're going to make sure that we do everything we can."
3. Can a pair of freshmen help jumpstart the wide receivers?
Minnesota continues to look for playmakers, and the Gophers feel they've found a few in a pair of freshmen wide receivers.
Andre McDonald and Jamel Harbison have impressed in fall, and both possess the size and talent to make an impact as freshmen. McDonald is a Minnesota native who played his high school football at Hopkins High School. He originally committed to attend Vanderbilt but decommitted after coaching changes on the Commodores staff. At 6-foot-2, 200 pounds, McDonald has intriguing size. Harbison, a Charlotte native, was ranked by Scout.com as a three-star recruit.
Senior Brandon Green figures to be one of Gray's go-to targets, but Minnesota's quarterback may have a few more weapons in McDonald and Harbison. If either sees the field Thursday — and they probably will — it will be their first college action and their first chance to show what they can bring to Minnesota's offense.
"I think we feel better about that position than we did going into the spring," Kill said of the team's wide receivers. "It was a concern, because we weren't making a lot of plays out in the field in some of those things, but I think we've helped ourselves through the recruiting process and then some guys getting healthy."
4. Can Minnesota's defense capitalize on an inexperienced quarterback?
It wasn't until early last week that UNLV coach Bobby Hauck named redshirt freshman Nick Sherry as the Rebels' starting quarterback for Thursday's game. Sherry beat out veteran Caleb Herring, UNLV's starter last season, for the starting job.
As Herring steps under center for his first college game, Minnesota's defense will have an opportunity to show that it's a much-improved unit from 2011. Last year, the Gophers defense recorded just four interceptions, tied for third-fewest among all Division I teams. Additionally, Minnesota only registered 19, third-fewest in the Big Ten in 2011. Will the defensive line and linebackers be able to get their hands on the 6-foot-5, 235-pound Sherry on Thursday?
"I think any time you've got a quarterback like that, you want to keep him off balance and don't want him to get comfortable," Kill said. "I've known Coach Hauck a long time, so I know he's a good ball coach. All the stuff that's being said, you better be prepared for both of (the quarterbacks), not just one of them. So we'll prepare for both."
5. This is a game the Gophers are expected to win. Will they play like it?
Given the recent struggles of both Minnesota and UNLV, it wouldn't be surprising if Thursday's game is decided by a touchdown or less. Still, the Gophers are favored to beat the Rebels. Then again, Minnesota had no business losing to New Mexico State and North Dakota State last season — at home, no less — but the Gophers were upset in both.
Part of rebuilding a program is instilling confidence in the players and the fan base. Minnesota should take the field Thursday with the expectation that it will win. When the Gophers lost to New Mexico State and NDSU last year, they didn't look like a team that expected to win.
That can't happen against UNLV. To start the year with a loss against a lesser opponent, even if it is on the road, would be a highly disappointing way to begin Kill's second season.
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Canyon Laker Alexa McKee has donated her hair five times. The donations totaled more than 60 inches of hair. Alexa was just five years old the first time she donated her hair to "Locks of Love," a non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. She would go on to donate her hair a total of five times before her 18th birthday.
The second time Alexa donated her hair she was eight years old and a 3rd grader at Cottonwood Canyon Elementary. She donated it for Bailey Howe's "Hair Raising" event at California Styles in June 2007. According to her mom, Delfina McKee, Alexa decided to cut her hair because she wanted to help someone in need and was ready for a new shorter hairstyle. Two years later, the then 10 year old Canyon Lake Middle School student cut and donated her hair again.
The fourth time Alexa donated her hair she was a 12-year-old 7th grader and honor roll student at Canyon Lake Middle School. This time she was motivated to donate her hair for an event organized by Canyon Laker Cyndi Hermanns. This Locks of Love event was sponsored by Pure Glo Tan in the Towne Center in 2011.
Last year, before heading to college at University of California San Diego, Alexa had 12 inches of her hair cut so she could donate once again to Locks of Love. She plans to grow out her hair and looks forward to donating to the organization a sixth time.
Those wishing to donate hair to Locks of Love may do so by mailing their hair to 234 Southern Blvd., West Palm Beach, Fl 33405-2701. Ten inches measured tip to tip is the minimum length used for a hairpiece. Hair must be clean, dried and in a ponytail or braid before it's cut. Ponytails should be placed inside a plastic bag and then an envelope when mailed. For more information, visit the Locks of Love website at locksoflove.org.


On behalf of the residents, businesses, Somers staff, and Somers Village and Town Board, the donations received from the following businesses are greatly appreciated!
Somers Fire & Rescue has initiated a new smoke detector program to prevent injuries and death due to fire and smoke. The Department's goal is to inventory smoke detectors in the station so they can be installed in residences who do not have a detector, or replace one that is not working. Thank you for being the first local businesses to assist in our effort to keep our community safe.
*Safe Kids Kenosha-Racine is led by Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-All Saints, which provides dedicated and caring staff, operation support, and other resources to assist in achieving our common goal: keeping kids safe. Based on the needs of the community, this coalition implements evidence-based programs, such as car-seat checkups, safety workshops, and sports clinics, that help parents and caregivers prevent childhood injuries.
While Lt. Pete Wicklund was conducting banking business at Educators Credit Union, he noticed pens on the counter and mentioned how pens used on Somers Fire & Rescue report clipboards on fire rigs and ambulances seem to walk away from the vehicles! The staff at Educators responded by offering to donate a few. Lt. Wicklund gladly accepted the offer, thinking he would receive a dozen pens. He never expected to receive an entire box! Although the Educators branch is located in the City of Kenosha, the Village of Somers boundary is directly across the street on Highway 31 and Somers Fire & Rescue is responsible for emergency calls on Highway 31 in front the Educators branch. We thank our neighbors at Educators for their donation!


Here's a stylish comedy that turns today's sexual mores upside down! Patty Duke Astin stars as Helen, a woman who lives, loves and runs a business with her friend Angie. Under the circumstances, the two women live a relatively normal life, until Helen decides she wants to have a baby.


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Home » Food and Beverage » Antonio Sotos Saffron, The Red Gold.
Located in La Mancha region, ANTONIO SOTOS, S.L. is the fourth generation in a family business with over 90 years experience dealing with saffron. Established in 1912, it soon focused its business overseas, being one of the pioneer companies in the foreign trade of saffron.
Its scientific name (Crocus Sativus L.) comes from kroke, a word of Greek origin meaning filament and Sativus means cultivable. It is a bulbous and perennial plant which belongs to the Iridaceae family. The flower is characterized for having an intensive purple colour and the stamens are yellow and there are three red stigmas. These stigmas are joined to the base of the flower by the style and once removed, toasted and dried become what we know as saffron.
For healthy growth and development, the plant requires a continental climate, being able to resist high temperatures and intensive cold. The plant does not need too much water, although there are 2 seasons during the year, spring and autumn, where the plant requires more humidity-in spring for favouring bulb formation and at the beginning of autumn to help flowering. The planting of bulbs is done between June and September.
Harvesting time is at the end of October to beginning of November. The rose blooms at dawn and must be picked from the soil instantly. Lengthy exposure to light must be avoided, otherwise the flower withers and the stigmas lose colour and aroma.
Afterwards, the stigmas are taken out from the rest of the flower. This work done by hand is called "monda" or "esbrinar" and is considered as the most delicate part of the whole process.
Later, the stigmas are toasted and dried. The aim is to keep the saffron in perfect conditions. Remember that saffron is basically made of water and presents a high grade of humidity. We should obtain 200 grams of saffron ready for consumption with every kilogram of natural stigmas.
To conclude, the saffron must be kept in a dry place and protected from the light.
The use of saffron as a remedy against numerous harms and ions has its origin during the Classic Antiquity.
During many centuries saffron was considered as the elixir of the life because of its characteristics and chemical composition.
Saffron properties for the human beings' health are endless and demonstrable. I should emphasize its tonic character (appetite stimulant) helps digestion, fight against cough and bronchitis, helps menstruation, fortifies heart and eliminates liver obstructions.
Textile industry as colouring agent.
Saffron (Crocus Sativus) is regarded as the finest and delicate spice. Saffron has endless gastronomic qualities. Saffron has a particular strong and exotic aroma, as well as a slightly bitter taste. Saffron is great at adding flavour, able to transmit deep aromas, but at the same time it is smooth and tender being the only one irreplaceable spice in many of Spanish and International recipes.
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Q: Has Tolkien ever commented on the relative leadership skills of prominent Middle-earth figures? If we look at some of the prominent figures in Middle-earth at the time of the War of the Ring:

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*Théoden

*Denethor

*Aragorn

*Elrond

*Gandalf

All of these are 'leaders' of one form or another, but some are more effective than others. Of course there are various aspects of leadership: charisma, inspiring others to follow you, decisiveness, impartiality, and so on. How many of these characters could be described as alpha males?
What has Tolkien said about the leadership skills of these characters?
Is there any sort of commentary in his notes or letters, or anything to suggest clearly how he rated them all as leaders?

A: The closest thing to 'Gorilla vs. Shark' 'Elrond vs. Aragorn' in Tolkien's writings is the answer to the question 'Who would have the ability to beat Sauron with the One Ring?'
Here I rely on Stan Brown's excellent FAQ of the Rings, and the answer is Gandalf the White, with Aragorn coming up second. (Of course, any Ring-aided victory would have been a defeat for Middle-earth). All the relevant speculation is contained within Letter #246.
Yet the question tends to characterize Middle-earth's leaders by the moniker 'alpha males'.
Tolkien's leaders are anything but alpha males. They don't rule for greed, nor preferential access to females. They do what is right.
The alpha male stereotype is what some of Tolkien's villains conform to:

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*Ar-Pharazôn (usurped the throne, wedded his cousin against her will)

*Celegorm (became a de facto ruler at Nargothrond, intended to marry Lúthien against her will)

*Brodda and Lorgan the Easterlings

In short, Tolkien's rightful monarchs are patently different from the politicians of our age (JFK, Berlusconi, Putin, Bill Clinton etc.)

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