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Benito Cocchi (ur. 5 listopada 1934 w Minerbio, zm. 5 maja 2016) – włoski duchowny katolicki, biskup diecezjalny Parmy 1982-1996 i arcybiskup Modena-Nonantola 1996-2010.

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Święcenia kapłańskie otrzymał 14 marca 1959.

12 grudnia 1974 papież Paweł VI mianował go biskupem pomocniczym Bolonii ze stolicą tytularną Zaraï. 12 stycznia 1975 z rąk kardynała Antoniego Pomy przyjął sakrę biskupią. 22 marca 1982 mianowany biskupem diecezjalnym Parmy, a od 12 kwietnia 1996 arcybiskupem Modena-Nonantola. 27 stycznia 2010 na ręce papieża Benedykta XVI ze względu na wiek złożył rezygnację ze sprawowanej funkcji.

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No Time To Die – The 25th Bond movie is an intense, personal story
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With the story of No Time To Die taking shape under the guidance of director Cary Joji Fukunaga and of long-time Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the producers and Daniel Craig also invited contributions from writer and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve), who brought her unique take on character and story, while also maintaining what Fellow producer Barbara Broccoli describes as Bond's "essential Britishness".
"The character development is very deep and the relationships are complicated yet interesting and emotional. I think the script has turned out great," says Broccoli.
"Phoebe had a big impact on the script and we love working with her," says Broccoli. "All the writers made a contribution and Cary tried to incorporate as much of everybody's work as possible. The story is very complicated but it is told in a very understandable manner. The revelations are fascinating."
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Where once the James Bond films played as separate adventures, linked by characters both malevolent and benign, EON Productions wanted the Daniel Craig series to unfold as a unified whole. Quantum Of Solace (2008) picked up immediately after Casino Royale (2006), which had tracked Bond's initiation into the life of a double-O agent.
Skyfall (2012) slotted into the series to reveal important aspects of Bond's early life. Now, the 25th film in the EON series, No Time To Die, begins in the aftermath of Spectre (2015) where the film's conclusion saw Bond (Craig) and Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) drive away in the Aston Martin DB5.
With No Time To Die picking up the story immediately after the events of Spectre, Fukunaga says that the first part of the film "is tracking the honeymoon story of Madeleine Swann and Bond once he's retired."
Of course, things don't always go to plan. "They end up going their separate ways," Fukunaga continues. "We then pick up with him five years later and the world's changed. The world's moved on. The whole political landscape has changed as well."
"There is a threat brewing that involves SPECTRE and some other outside elements, and Bond is drawn back in to helping MI6 prevent a diabolical weapon from getting out in the world. It's a fascinating tale with such brilliant characters, new and old."
Daniel Craig is back for his fifth and final outing, bringing to a close a journey that has introduced the world to a new, modern Bond. For all his excellence in certain fields, Craig's Bond is not infallible. He is not the hero of myth and legend; he has much to learn. Bond is a multifaceted hero, a man whose success is tempered by occasional failures. He is a mixture of the light and the dark; if he delivers a pithy one-liner, it is often shrouded in menace.
James Bond (Daniel Craig) in No Time To Die, an EON Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios film Credit: Nicola Dove © 2021 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Audiences have borne witness to this change. They have watched Bond learn to become an agent, to earn his licence to kill, and they have seen the toll it takes. He is a loner and yet he has learned to let people in. He has loved and he has lost. He lost Vesper Lynd. He lost M. And he wears those injuries for all to see.
"I started it like that with Casino," begins Craig. "That was how we went in and that was a lot of what defined the way I have played this wonderful character. I wanted Bond to look like a killer and I wanted him to behave like a killer because that's what he is, an assassin; that's what he was written as. But I wanted a modern take on that."
His journey throughout Casino Royale, Quantum Of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and now No Time To Die has been constant. Big themes have dominated. And so it continues. "With No Time To Die, the themes are as big as you can go," Craig continues. "That's how it is with Bond. If this isn't the time to use the expression 'Go big or go home' in a Bond movie, I don't know when is the right time to use it."
"I have always been very happy with the way the 007 films I've been a part of have turned out," he adds. "It's been a lot about the relationships and how those relationships affect him and how they change and steer his life. Whether it's with the villain or whether it's the people he works with, this movie has tackled that head on. And the biggest themes are love and trust. You can't really get much bigger than that."
"This is a Bond movie, of course, and Bond movies are action-adventure movies – we've got plenty of that – but to make action adventure movies work you have to have some elements of truth and you need a satisfying emotional journey for an audience to invest in the characters. So, in No Time To Die, there is this love story but it's really, really complicated and, hopefully, it is fascinating to watch."
"With No Time To Die there was a strong story to finish off, lots of loose ends to tie up," says Craig. "I think we have managed to tell that story and get everything rounded up."
Themes exploring secrets, betrayal and trust have stitched together the last four films and they propel the narrative towards its thrilling conclusion in No Time To Die.
After the heartbreak he suffered with the loss of Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) in Casino Royale, his fluctuating relationship with M and MI6, and the pain inflicted by the revelations imparted by Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), Bond has taken another risk, letting down his guard with Madeleine as he bids to try and love again.
"If Bond is going to commit to a relationship, this throws up so many emotional challenges for him," continues Broccoli. "So trust is the biggest theme in this movie; making an emotional commitment with someone is very difficult because of his history with attachments, and then betrayal being a big part of the break-up of those attachments."
Though he is committing to his relationship with Madeleine, No Time To Die begins with Bond having severed his longest-lasting relationship, his employment with MI6.
Associate producer Gregg Wilson notes that Bond's retirement opened the filmmakers to a new reality.
"Bond being retired was a new place for us," he says, "thinking what this man would be like if he didn't have his day job. When you have devoted your life to the service, like Bond, what is the legacy that you leave behind?"
To tell this story, the filmmakers turned to visionary filmmaker Cary Joji Fukunaga (Jane Eyre, Sin Nombre, True Detective), who stepped in after the production parted ways with director Danny Boyle. Michael G. Wilson and Broccoli had long admired Fukunaga's work as both a writer and a director and first met the filmmaker in New York shortly after the release of Spectre.
"When we met, Cary said he would love to do a Bond film at some point," explains Broccoli, "So when Danny Boyle exited the project, we were looking for a new director and he reached out. It was amazing that he was available. His enthusiasm for the project and also his ability as a writer really came into it. It all worked out miraculously."
Fukunaga is the first American to direct a Bond film.
"I think that all Cary's films are incredible and he is able to work in any kind of genre," explains Michael G. Wilson, "and he is also a wonderful writer."
"He is great with characters and with actors and he brings a level of complexity to everything he does. He is a very international person. He speaks several languages, is very well travelled and is also a kind of maverick. He is young and enthusiastic and he is visually extraordinary. Cary is also able to make very complicated things understandable and that fit so well with what we wanted from this story."
Fukunaga's introduction to the Bond stories came when he went to watch Roger Moore's swansong, 1985's A View To A Kill, at his local cinema. "I remember loving the finale on the Golden Gate Bridge," he recalls. "It seemed like Bond had crossed over into my world. It was just a cool film with Roger Moore kicking ass."
As Fukunaga's career developed as a writer, producer and director, those memories remained and he says that he always hoped to direct a Bond film one day and, like the producers, Fukunaga was particularly excited by Bond's emotional journey across the preceding films. "When you're coming after Casino, Quantum, Skyfall and Spectre, you have a good idea of the arc that Bond's character has been going through," he says.
"For us, this film comes five years after Spectre. The world has changed a lot since then and much of our discussion was around how we make this film feel of the time, but also of the universe of Bond, which is never really specific to a time. That was part of the very first conversations we had together with the producers and with Daniel. You also want to bring something new to the story and also you want to honour all the Bond films in terms of leitmotifs and expectations."
Chief among those expectations is adventure and the associated danger. "Every Bond film has danger," the director adds. "You take the scariest thing you can imagine facing the world, and then you have Bond to get in front of it and stop it. And what has been interesting in Daniel's run is the added layers that he's brought to that character."
"There's complexity, there's damage, there's also vulnerability that's been covered up since the first of his films when Vesper Lynd died. His decision-making is interesting because of his ingenuity and also because of his flaws. I think his is a really interesting story."
The Return Of Familiar Characters
Léa Seydoux's Madeleine Swann, an intelligent and highly capable psychologist stands as the most significant other in Bond's life. No Time To Die marks the first time that one of Bond's love interests has featured significantly in two movies (although the memory of Vesper Lynd has of course cast a long shadow across all the Daniel Craig films).
James Bond (Daniel Craig) in discussion with Dr. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) in NO TIME TO DIE, an EON Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios film Credit: Nicola Dove © 2021 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Seydoux was delighted to reprise her role. "At the end of Spectre, Madeleine is happy she's with Bond, and we think that they are united for the best," she says. "But we'll find out that they have problems to solve, and I think that in No Time To Die we learn more about their intimacy, in a way."
While aspects of Madeleine's private life were revealed in the last film — the SPECTRE assassin Mr White, first introduced in Casino Royale, was her father — audiences will learn even more about the character in her latest outing. "Cary wanted Madeleine to be more accessible and approachable this time around," continues Seydoux. "He wanted to explore the relationship that she has with Bond and I think it's a new aspect of the character that we will see on screen."
Naturally, Bond has many allies and another key MI6 member always on hand to help him out is Q. With the performance of Ben Whishaw, the Q-Bond dynamic has shifted across Skyfall and Spectre; the classic relationship as defined by series legend Desmond Llewelyn (Q in 17 James Bond films beginning with the second film in the series From Russia With Love in 1963), with a fastidious Q often exasperated by Bond's gung-ho treatment of his ingenious inventions, is no longer the default setting.
That said, there remains a friendly tension between the pair, with Q torn between his loyalty to MI6 and his friendship with, and admiration for, Bond. "Q's always caught between Bond, who's maverick, unpredictable and breaks the rules, and what he's told to do by M," says Whishaw. "Always his loyalty is with Bond; there's a real affection there, which I think comes out in this film quite a lot."
For the screenwriters, the pleasure was derived not only from Q's discomfort with the invasion of his private space, but also from the incongruity of witnessing Bond in a domestic environment.
"One of the funniest moments is certainly Bond going round to Q's house," says Purvis. "Q doesn't want Bond disturbing the life he has got now; it's been quieter without him around. But the whirlwind will start again with Bond's return so there's humour with how uncomfortable Q is with this situation."
Along with Harris and Whishaw, Ralph Fiennes also returns, reprising the role of M. Fiennes says that he was more than impressed with the story ideas on which Fukunaga wanted to concentrate.
"When Cary got on the phone with me and told me the story, I must say I thought it was very strong," says Fiennes, who stars in his third consecutive Bond film. "M has compromised himself by developing a secret programme that he thinks will be for the good of the country."
"But the scientist he's filched from the Russians and engaged to develop this programme has gone rogue and turned it into something horrific and dangerous. M has unwittingly developed something that got out of hand."
It is M's questionable decision-making that sees him turn to Bond. He needs MI6's best agent to return and help to right the wrong. The narrative helps develop a new relationship between Fiennes' M and Craig's Bond.
"To begin with," says Purvis, "M doesn't really want him around, he's been too much trouble, so there's a different dynamic."
Fiennes, for one, relished these scenes. "I've had a few confrontational moments with Daniel in this context in the previous films," he says, "but this felt the most live-wire as M is caught on the back foot, big time."
Another long-serving MI6 employee who reappears in No Time To Die is Tanner, played by Rory Kinnear, who identifies the "family of MI6" as one of the important themes in the film.
"This film has a strong link, thematically, with those that have gone before, especially the ones that I've been involved in," says the actor, who returns for his fourth Bond film. "There is that sense of tying up loose ends and there is a sense of family in many ways — that family of MI6, for one. The story looks at what loyalty requires of you, what it can take from you, and what it can do to your own personal life as well as your working life."
"The friendships are cemented and solidified by the pressure that the characters find themselves under towards the end, and I guess that's been the same over the last couple of films; they've been through a lot together."
(Ralph Fiennes), Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) and Tanner (Rory Kinnear) in a tense moment in M's office in NO TIME TO DIE, an EON Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios film Credit: Nicola Dove © 2021 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Also returning is the hero's most famous nemesis Blofeld, who debuted on screen in 1963's From Russia With Love, and whose first overt connection to the Daniel Craig's films began in Spectre, where he provided important insights into Bond's upbringing and the pain he has suffered from Casino Royale onwards. Christoph Waltz comes back for a second outing after the character's incarceration at the end of the last movie.
"Blofeld's story hasn't been fulfilled," says Michael G. Wilson. "He wasn't going to sit quietly in jail. He isn't that type of person and it certainly isn't the end of the story when he goes to jail. He has Primo out there in the world, who can be the eyes and ears of Blofeld in prison."
And Blofeld continues to poke at Bond's emotions. "I love it when Blofeld says to Bond, 'You were always so very, very sensitive,'" notes Barbara Broccoli. "All these men are all kind of sensitive."
There is a far more positive emotional connection between Bond and another returnee, CIA man Felix Leiter, whose friendship with Bond extends back to Casino Royale in the Daniel Craig series. Actor Jeffrey Wright returns as Leiter once again in No Time To Die. "With Felix and James there is a sense of fraternal kinship," says Wright. "They are almost like brothers in a very select circle."
This is the character's tenth appearance in the Bond series after he debuted in 1962's Dr. No and he plays an important role in this film, reaching out to a retired Bond and drawing him back into the world of espionage.
"James has pulled back from the game but Felix has a mission that needs to be taken on and it just happens to be in the neighbourhood of his old friend," reveals Wright. "For them there is a sense of familiarity; there is Felix's bond with Bond, owing to who they are and what they do and the disparate places that they come from. The story looks at this love for one another and respect for one another. Also, I think, there's a love for the game."
Not only is No Time To Die a landmark film as EON's 25th Bond movie, it also stands as the final chapter in the Daniel Craig era and, according to Barbara Broccoli, it is an intensely personal story.
"I think it is by far the most personal story, alongside On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Casino Royale," she says. "It is a fitting and very emotionally satisfying conclusion to Daniel Craig's character arc."
Not surprisingly, No Time To Die proved an emotional project for all of those involved, especially for Craig himself. "When I stop and think about what we have achieved over five movies, it's really very emotional; it's been nearly 15 years of my life," he says.
"And I felt with No Time To Die there was a story to finish off and lots of loose ends that we needed to tie up. I feel we've done that. I'm immensely proud of it and I am immensely proud of the huge collective effort that goes into making a Bond movie. Being just a small part of that has been an honour."
B25_05907_RC James Bond (Daniel Craig) in NO TIME TO DIE, an EON Productions and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios film Credit: Nicola Dove © 2021 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The most emotional moment came with Craig's final scenes, which, fittingly, were shot at Pinewood, the traditional home of the Bond films. Michael G. Wilson recalls the feeling on set: "It was late at night and usually people go home when they're done but everyone came on set. It wasn't a party atmosphere exactly but it was a special moment and people wanted to be there."
"They called 'Wrap' and Daniel said some beautiful words and everyone was tearful and hugging. We were all sorry to see this era end; it was very emotional for the crew."
The filmmakers remain extremely proud of what they've achieved across the last five films. "In these films, Daniel has brought a lot of humanity to Bond and developed a real character," concludes Wilson. "That's what he brings to the later films. He kept on developing that character and creating it. With his tenacity, understanding and tremendous talent, Daniel Craig has developed a version of James Bond that is unique."
Director Cary Joji Fukunaga and Daniel Craig
The Screenwriters
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade had their first success in 1991 with the screenplay of the controversial drama Let Him Have It. The critically acclaimed film, directed by Peter Medak, was screened for Parliament and played a part in Derek Bentleys' eventual posthumous pardon.
They have worked in a variety of genres with screenplays such as Plunkett & Macleane, starring Robert Carlyle and Liv Tyler, Johnny English starring Rowan Atkinson and John Malkovich. As well as writing the James Bond films The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day, they wrote and co-produced Return To Sender for director Bille August and performed the same duties on Stoned for director Stephen Woolley.
For Casino Royale they received two BAFTA nominations as well as an EDGAR nomination from the Mystery Writers of America. They subsequently co-wrote Quantum Of Solace, Skyfall, which earned them a BAFTA for Best British Film, and Spectre.
They adapted and exec-produced Len Deighton's novel SS-GB for Sid Gentle Films and BBC One starring Sam Riley and most recently adapted Jo Nesbo's The Son for Jake Gyllenhaal's Nine Stories, as well as a WW2 screenplay for GK Films. No Time To Die is their seventh James Bond film.
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a multi-award-winning writer and actor, known for the BBC 3/Amazon series Fleabag, in which she starred, created and produced. Waller- Bridge won three Primetime Emmy Awards for the second season, including Best Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series. She also won two Golden Globe Awards (Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy), two Critics' Choice Awards (Best Actress in a Comedy Series and Best Comedy Series) and the Screen Actors Guild Award (Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series), in addition to a BAFTA Television Award for Best Female Performance in a Comedy Program.
As a writer and producer, Waller-Bridge is known for her work on Season 1 of the critically acclaimed BBC America series Killing Eve. She contributed to the script of the latest James Bond film, No Time to Die, which will release later this year. On television, she has been seen in Crashing, which she also wrote, Broadchurch and Run, which she executive produced with Vicky Jones. On film, Waller-Bridge has appeared in Solo: A Star Wars Story, Goodbye Christopher Robin, and The Iron Lady.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, her debut play "Fleabag" earned a 2014 Olivier Award nomination and a Special Commendation from the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2013. In addition to the hit television series, the play spurred celebrated Off-Broadway and West End runs of the production (Lucille Lortel Award, Drama League, Drama Desk and Olivier Award nominations), and the publication of Fleabag: The Scriptures. Waller-Bridge has established her own production company, Wells Street Films, and serves as the Co-Artistic Director of DryWrite Theatre Company.
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David Thabo Simelane (born 1956) is a Swazi serial killer sentenced to death for the murder of 28 women, but is suspected of murdering 45.

Murders
Simelane left school, although his uncle tried to enable him to attend secondary school.

He testified in court that he had been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for robbing and raping a woman. Then, after his release in 1998, he set out to seek revenge by starting a murder series. The killings lasted from the late 1990s until 2001, when the police arrested him on public grounds.

Simelane made women go with him in the forest. He then tied his victims there and sexually assaulted them, stabbing or strangling them with his bare hands if they resisted too much. He also beheaded many of them, before or after death. Simelane often stole his victims' money and valuables to participate in gambling. Among his victims were several pregnant women.

Investigation
Shepherds in search of a runaway cow discovered body parts in the Usuthu-Pulp Forest in Malkerns and notified the authorities, who soon asked six South African forensics experts for administrative assistance.

Simelane was arrested on April 25, 2001 on a street near the graves and led the police to more graves, from which 45 bodies were found. Even the bodies of four babies were among the dead. Because of the highly advanced decay, Simelane was charged with 34 murders.

Conviction
During the trial he was found guilty of murder in 28 cases and sentenced to death by hanging. He showed no remorse for his actions during his trial.

After an appeal to the Swazi Supreme Court in November 2011, it was decided that the trial took an inadmissibly long time, but the death sentence that awaited Simelane has been confirmed.

See also
List of serial killers by number of victims

References

External links
 Artikel über Simelane in the Times of Swaziland
 Artikel from BBC News

1956 births
21st-century crimes in Africa
1990s crimes in Africa
2000s in Swaziland
2000s murders in Africa
2000 murders in Africa
2001 murders in Africa
Male serial killers
Living people
Swazi serial killers
Crime in Eswatini
Murder in Eswatini
Violence against women in Eswatini


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Eleganz und raue Sitten – Cornelis Bega (1631/32 – 1664)
Elegance and boorish manners - Cornelis Bega Exhibition: 15 March - 10 June 2012
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The Golden Age of the Netherlands has bequeathed us a timeless art. A Haarlem artist whose time had yet to come. And that time is now. It is time for the rediscovery of Cornelis Bega.
Regarded as a genre painter, Cornelis Bega's gaze was drawn inexorably to the subtle nuances. Whereas peasant paintings served as a source of amusement and edification for the so-called higher society, Bega sought out the commonalities which unify us all. Particularly today his world view demands validation.
Bega's compositions correspond with the present in the same manner as the great classics of the stage. His protagonists communicate with us in a head-on, uncompromising fashion, leaving an indelible impression. Their narratives speak of illusion and reality, exultant promises and sombre truths. Viewers possessed of a love for life and an appreciation of its tragedy will identify readily with Bega's paintings.
In Cornelis Bega, the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum has resurrected a forgotten master from the long shadows of his more illustrious contemporaries Rembrandt and Vermeer. Emerging into the light is an artist who in painterly terms matched the best of his age, and who on a human level was light years ahead of his time.
The exhibition Elegance and boorish Manners affords for the first time a retrospective insight into Bega's total oeuvre. 110 exhibits – his 40 most successful paintings, 34 drawings and his complete etchings- were literally sent from across the globe to Aachen.
The international loans come from over 30 renowned museums, including the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the London National Gallery and the British Museum, the Stockholm National Gallery, the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Numerous works from private collections across Europe and North America are also on show for the first time.
The Aachen Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum is collaborating with the Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. After the presentation in Aachen, the exhibition will be shown in the German capital.
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The Body Shop: Letter to the DEA
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To: The Honorable Donnie Marshall
Acting Administrator
Dear Acting Administrator Marshall:
My company, The Body Shop, has been an international pioneer in the renaissance of industrial hemp. We campaign so passionately on its behalf not only because hempseed oil has proved so successful for us — our hemp range of skin care products will account for almost 4 per cent of total sales in 2000 (our annual sales in 1999 were $996 million) — but also because we believe its countless applications make industrial hemp equally promising for other businesses.
It has come to my attention that the DEA is considering new regulations which would prohibit the sale of The Body Shop's hemp lip balms, oils, creams, shampoos and conditioners in the US. (These products are currently sold in 1,600 shops in over 100 countries.)
I strongly urge you not to adopt these misguided regulations. They would be damaging to our business and they are wrong in regard to the very nature of hemp, one of nature's most useful, beneficial plants.
As I understand it, under the proposed Interpretative Rule, the DEA would declare any personal care products that contain any amounts of THC to be a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance — even though such products are made from portions of the cannabis plant that are excluded from the definition of marijuana.
This proposed rulemaking apparently stems from claims put forth by the Office of National Drug Control Policy's director, General Barry McCaffrey, who has stated that "Recently, Cannabis sativa L seeds and oil, pressed from those seeds, have been imported for human consumption in various forms of hemp products. These later offerings include topical solutions, [emphasis mine] as well as products specifically designed for ingestion. Such applications for human consumption are confounding our Federal drug control testing programs, if they contain THC, and are of significant concern."
The Body Shops' hemp personal care products contain small amounts of hemp oil, which has little or no THC. There is no scientific evidence that any topical application of these products can convey any amount of THC into the body. And, as you are aware, there is well-established research in Canada that permits a level of 10 parts per million (.001 per cent) THC in hemp oil as impossible of producing any psychoactive effects.
Further, a recent toxicological study commissioned in part by the Canadian federal and the Manitoba provincial governments concluded "persons who frequently consume food items containing hemp seeds and oil are very unlikely to fail a workplace urine test for marijuana." If ingestion of the equivalent of a half pound of hempseed per day does not cause a positive drug test, it stands to reason that topical application of much smaller amounts of hemp oil could not do so, either. Such reports would seem to answer concerns about the "confounding" of drug testing programs.
But don't take our word for it alone. In March of this year, the Department of Justice stated what should be obvious: shampoos and conditioners, lip balms, soaps, oils and creams that contain hemp oil which may contain microscopic amounts of THC are not controlled substances. They do not promote "highs": They are simply very high quality health products, now bought by millions of health-conscious customers around the world from our shops.
Responding to an inquiry from your agency about hemp usage in nutritional supplements, John Roth, Chief, Narcotic & Dangerous Drug Section, Department of Justice, wrote to you in March of this year:
"Many of these products have tested positive for the presence of small amounts of naturally occurring tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). I have been informed that those hemp products intended for human consumption have THC at levels too low to trigger a psychoactive effect, and are not purchased, sold or marketed with the intent of having a psychoactive effect" [emphasis mine].
He further states that:
"Under the Controlled Substances Act, 'The mature stalks of such plant, fiber produced from such stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of such plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of such mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil or cake or the sterilized seed of such plant which is incapable of germination are excluded from the definition of marihuana.' Therefore, products derived from this portion of the cannabis plant commonly referred to as 'hemp' are explicitly excluded from regulation under the Controlled Substance Act.''
As for claiming that any amount of THC defines a controlled substance, Mr. Roth explained, "It has been suggested that 'hemp' products containing THC are subject to regulation under 21 U.S.C. S812©(17). However, [this statute] refers only to synthetic THC, not the THC naturally occurring within marijuana. Several courts of appeal have also held that the THC referred to in the statute is synthetic THC. No courts have held to the contrary, and we consider this well settled law.
"Thus, it appears we are not able to regulate or prohibit the importation of 'hemp' products based on any residual or trace content of naturally occurring THC" [emphasis mine].
And the distinction between marijuana and hemp is further described:
"We have considered the so-called 'marijuana derivatives' argument. Courts have held, for example, that hashish and other products are Schedule I controlled substances, notwithstanding the fact that they are not specifically listed within the statutory definition of marijuana. Courts have so held because of the obvious congressional intent to criminalize marijuana products derived from the marijuana plant, which have the same narcotic effects as marijuana itself."
"With 'hemp' by contrast, Congress has made its intent known by specifically excluding these products from its definition of marijuana [emphasis mine]."
Mr. Roth concludes,
"It is our legal opinion that we presently lack the authority to prohibit the importation of 'hemp' products, absent regulatory language that interprets, or legislative action to modify, the definition of marihuana."
I draw your attention to the phrases, "well settled law" and "Congress has made its intent known" re. hemp. It appears to me that DEA's response — the proposed new regulatory language — is an effort to circumvent the established history of judiciary rulings and the explicit purpose of congressional law as outlined by the Department of Justice. This is a bureaucratic usurpation of the express will of the judicial and legislative branches of government. It is wrong.
Again, I strongly urge you not to adopt these misguided regulations. They are grounded in misunderstanding, and will have enormously damaging effects on my business and many other international businesses currently involved in the import and export of hemp seed and oil.
Be assured that The Body Shop International will vigorously seek appropriate remedies in every possible national and international forum if such regulations were to be adopted.
Anita Roddick, OBE
Founder and Co-Chair, The Body Shop
Copyright © 2000, The Body Shop. All rights reserved.
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Cause of Artery Hardening Discovered and Potential Treatment
A team of UK scientists have identified the mechanism behind hardening of the arteries, and shown in animal studies that a generic medication normally used to treat acne could be an effective treatment for the condition.
The team, led by the University of Cambridge and King's College London, found that a molecule once thought only to exist inside cells for the purpose of repairing DNA is also responsible for hardening of the arteries, which is associated with dementia, heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke.
False color image of calcium phosphate deposits on bone
Credit: Melinda Duer
There is no current treatment for hardening of the arteries, which is caused by build-up of bone-like calcium deposits, stiffening the arteries and restricting blood flow to organs and tissues.
Supported by funding from the British Heart Foundation, the researchers found that poly(ADP ribose), or PAR, a molecule normally associated with DNA repair, also drives the bone-like calcification of arteries.
Additionally, using rats with chronic kidney disease, the researchers found that minocycline – a widely-prescribed antibiotic often used to treat acne – could treat hardening of the arteries by preventing the build-up of calcium in the circulatory system. The study, the result of more than a decade of fundamental research, is published in the journal Cell Reports.
"Artery hardening happens to everyone as they age, and is accelerated in patients on dialysis, where even children develop calcified arteries. But up until now we haven't known what controls this process and therefore how to treat it," said Professor Melinda Duer from Cambridge's Department of Chemistry, who co-led the research as part of a long-term collaboration with Professor Cathy Shanahan from King's College London.
"This hardening, or biomineralisation, is essential for the production of bone, but in arteries it underlies a lot of cardiovascular disease and other diseases associated with ageing like dementia," said Shanahan. "We wanted to find out what triggers the formation of calcium phosphate crystals, and why it seems to be concentrated around the collagen and elastin which makes up much of the artery wall."
In earlier research, Duer and Shanahan had shown that PAR – normally associated with the repair of DNA inside the cell – can in fact exist outside the cell and is the engine of bone production. This led the researchers to hypothesise that PAR may also play a role in biomineralisation. In addition, PARP1 and PARP2, the dominant PAR-producing enzymes, are expressed in response to DNA damage and oxidative stress, processes which are associated with both bone and vascular calcification.
"We could see signals from bone that we couldn't explain, so we looked for molecules from first principles to figure it out," said Duer.
"I'd been thinking for years that hardening of the arteries was linked to DNA damage, and that DNA damage is a pathway switched on by many agents including smoking and lipids," said Shanahan. "When this pathway is switched on, it drives the pathologies associated with ageing. If enough damage is present, the arteries will eventually reflect it."
Using NMR spectroscopy, the researchers found that when the cells become stressed and die, they release PAR, which binds very strongly to calcium ions. Once released, the PAR starts mopping up calcium into larger droplets which stick onto the components in artery walls that give the artery its elasticity, where they form ordered crystals and solidify, hardening the arteries.
"We never would have predicted that it was caused by PAR," said Duer. "It was initially an accidental discovery, but we followed it up - and it's led to a potential therapy."
Having discovered the links between DNA damage, PAR, bone and artery calcification, the researchers then looked into a way of blocking this pathway through the use of a PARP inhibitor.
"We had to find an existing molecule that is cheap and safe, otherwise, it would be decades before we would get a treatment," said Shanahan. "If something has already been shown to be safe in humans, the journey to the clinic can be much faster."
Working together with Cycle Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge-based company, the researchers identified six known molecules that they thought might inhibit the PARP enzymes. Detailed experiments with these showed that the antibiotic minocycline was highly effective in preventing hardening of the arteries.
"It's been 12 years of basic research to get to this point," said Duer. "We set out with absolutely no expectation of finding a potential treatment – there is no treatment currently and nobody would have believed us if we had said at that point we were going to cure hardening of the arteries."
The technology has been patented and has been licensed to Cycle Pharmaceuticals by Cambridge Enterprise, the University's commercialisation arm. The researchers are hoping to carry out a proof of principle trial in patients in the next 12 to 18 months.
"Blood vessel calcification is a well-known risk factor for several heart and circulatory diseases, and can lead to high blood pressure and ultimately, a life-threatening heart attack," said Professor Jeremy Pearson, Associate Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation. "Now, researchers have shown how calcification of the walls of blood vessels takes place, and how the process differs from normal bone formation. By doing so, they have been able to identify a potential treatment to reduce blood vessel calcification without any adverse effects on bone. This type of treatment would benefit many people, and we eagerly await the results of the anticipated clinical trials looking at whether this drug lives up to its early promise."
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Citation: 'Poly(ADP ribose) links the DNA damage response and biomineralization. Karin H. Müller et al. ' Cell Reports (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.05.038
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Q: Apache not serving some content from network share Apache is not serving some content from a mounted network share for me on Ubuntu.
Depending on the content of the file I try to open it is not correctly served:
This does not work:
is a link to another nifty site

This is a Medium Header

Chrome issues the following error message: "ERR_INVALID_HTTP_RESPONSE"
Postman: "Error: Parse Error: Expected HTTP/"
curl: "curl: (1) Received HTTP/0.9 when not allowed"
This works (just one more blank line)
is a link to another nifty site

This is a Medium Header

The network share is mounted in /media/data (cifs; for testing purposes permissions are set to 777)
There's a symbolic link from /var/www/server to /media/data and i can see and change the contents from inside the VM.
It does not make to much sense to me that apache is picky about the file contents. I'm not entirely sure how to interpret the error messages from the 3 different clients, but since all of them are failing it looks like Apache is the issue even though the error log does not show any problems.
After copying the file to /var/www/html (default directory) and changing the vhost to that location the files get served no matter what the content is.
I don't know if this does matter at all but while searching "ERR_INVALID_HTTP_RESPONSE" online I found some people talking about chrome behaving weirdly on some ports: I'm currently running the server on Port 28080 (for backwards compatibility with the current setup and because I'm planning on setting up nginx on port 80); nginx is already installed but I don't think it's interfering.
Please excuse me if this sounds somewhat confusing but that's propably just because I'm utterly confused myself.
This is a clean VM, the only additional packages are apache, nginx and cifs-utils as far as I know.
Has anyone else encountered weird behaviour with network shares in this context? I want the htdocs on the network share since it is easier for me to access from my windows machine, are there any recommended ways of accessing the htdocs other than a network share?
Edit:
curl --verbose --output out.txt --http0.9 localhost:28080/test.html gives the following console output:
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0*   Trying 127.0.0.1:28080...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 28080 (#0)
> GET /test.html HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:28080
> User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
> Accept: */*
>
{ [15 bytes data]
100   294    0   294    0     0     58      0 --:--:--  0:00:05 --:--:--     0
* Closing connection 0

While out.txt contains the following:
 18:55:12 GMT
ETag: *removed*
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 67
Content-Type: text/html

is a link to another nifty site

This is a Medium Header

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On another file the weird string at the end actually contains the keyword SMB. I don't know if this is a coincidence or if this actually means something:
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ETag: *removed*
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 6
Content-Type: text/plain

sadssa^@^@^@^@]﹟^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@)^@^A^Re ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@�����������������SMB@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^F^@
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I also noticed the r and X part which could have something to do with the file permissions?
Edit 2:
network share (fstab):
//www.example.com/Share      /media/data     cifs    username=user,password=pass,domain=WORKGROUP,vers=2.0,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777      0       0

symlink established with:
sudo ln -s /media/data/ /var/www/server

apache2.conf:
[...]
<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>
[...]

A: Do not symlink /media/data to /var/www/server but use bindfs instead:
# Install bindfs
sudo apt install bindfs

# Stop apache
sudo systemctl stop apache2

# Remove symlink
sudo rm /var/www/server

# Create dir
sudo mkdir /var/www/server

# Bind mount
sudo bindfs -u www-data -g www-data /media/data /var/www/server

# Start apache
sudo systemctl start apache2

If the served webpage is static or uses a database as backend you can also add the -r option to the bindfs call, to make the mount read-only.
Add an entry to /etc/fstab to automount at boot:
/media/data /var/www/server fuse.bindfs user=www-data,force-group=www-data 0 0

Most webservers expect the files to be owned by www-data and need certain capabilities of the filesystem that a samba mount does not provide. A symlink does not solve those issues. The bindfs solution provides all those requirements to the webserver by adding another, transparent layer of abstraction. FWIW, I would consider the bindfs approach to be the much cleaner solution.

A: In "/etc/apache2/apache2.conf", add:
EnableSendfile Off
EnableMMAP off

This saved my life~

A: This could also be an incompatibility with SendFile. See this answer: https://serverfault.com/a/62732
Or an incompatibility with MMAP. See this answer:
https://serverfault.com/a/1047215/191716

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Teaching children, with God's care: Vacation Bible Schools combine religious learning with serious fun
I found this article from 2003 about Vacation Bible School in The Anniston Star online archives. When I worked for the Calhoun Baptist Association, VBS time was always fun! It was fun to go back and read this...
By David Coombs Star Staff Writer
The Anniston Star
In the chapel at Parker Memorial Baptist, 18-year-olds Britney Palmer and Erica Yonker were leading a group of second-graders in song. Accompanied by a portable stereo, the second-graders sang, "Let compassion be my compass, let kindness be my key…"
The compass and the key are both means and end in "cracking the Christian character code," the goal of the Vacation Bible School programs taking place this week at Parker Memorial in Anniston and West Side Baptist in Jacksonville. Cracking the code is the central mystery of this year's "Caper in the Kingdom" program, a series of activities and lessons with a Great Britain theme.
In keeping with the British theme, the Rev. Truman Norred, pastor at West Side Baptist, wore one of Sherlock Holmes' double-billed, houndstooth hats while leading the children's recreation sessions.
The halls of Parker Memorial were filled with Sherlock Holmes silhouettes and life-size inflatable Scottish terriers, while cardboard versions of Big Ben, a London double-decker bus, and a red British phone booth decorated the church altar.
Down the hall from the singing second-graders, Parker Memorial's "sixth-grade sleuths" were given worksheets decorated with "confidential" and "top secret" stamps that were part James Bond and part Mission Impossible.
The worksheets have encrypted the two foundations of Christian character, and the sixth-graders use a key to decode the message, finding kindness and compassion again. After they finished, their teacher, Theresa Shadrix, led a discussion about kindness and compassion in the Bible passage studied that day, the Book of Ruth.
Earlier, the sixth-graders participated in a Ruth-themed relay during their recreation period. Instead of batons, the runners had to retrieve potatoes or onions, mirroring Ruth's gleaning wheat to support her widowed mother-in-law.
Combining activities and Bible study is the central concept of Bible school, and the spiritual growth it encourages is one of the main reasons for children to attend, said Chris Pennington, a Parker Memorial congregation member whose two children have attended the program there every year they were old enough.
"Exposing the children to the gospels is our primary goal here," said Gwen Moore, the Bible school director at Parker Memorial.
Appropriately for a program including the Book of Ruth, which emphasizes the power of kindness and devotion to cross barriers of ethnicity and nationality, Vacation Bible School also places importance on community building.
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Star Staff Writer
The bags are hidden behind clothes in the closet. The receipt was burned, destroying all evidence of the purchase. The credit card bill has been shredded. Such is the covert life of a shopaholic.
"I never really plan my shopping but I can go into Ace Hardware and find something," said Lila, who did not want to be identified.
Admitting that she wants to gain control of her spending habits, Lila said she is not proud of overspending and hiding purchases. "Once, I stashed 10 pairs of shoes that I bought at a Payless BOGO sale at a friend's house," she said with an awkward laugh. "We burned the boxes and then I slipped the shoes into the house."
According to a 2006 Stanford University School of Medicine study, 5.8 percent of people in the nation are compulsive shoppers.
The surprising result from the study was that women and men have similar habits in shopping, with six percent for women and 5.5 percent for men. But, the definition, treatment and causes of compulsive shopping as a disorder are still up for discussion.
In 2003, the American Psychiatric Association released a statement that it had no plans to include compulsive shopping as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, due for publication in 2010. A representative from the APA confirmed the 2003 statement is still in effect and it is too soon to tell what mental disorders will be included in the 2010 report because the task force has only recently been formed. Compulsive shopping is often classified as a symptom of other mental disorders, like obsessive-compulsive disorder.
One expert said it is the rush of buying that compels the shopper and the impulse should be a separate disorder.
"They are addicted to the purchase," said Terrence Shulman, founder of Shopaholics Anonymous and The Shulman Center for Compulsive Theft and Spending, based in Detroit. "All addictions become secretive. You feel so out of control and a lot people have this façade. It is masterfully constructed."
A former lawyer turned licensed counselor, Shulman counsels people who have compulsive shopping and shoplifting addictions. Arrested twice for shoplifting, Shulman speaks from both professional and personal experience. He didn't even realize he had an addiction to shoplifting when, as a law student, he was caught trying to steal a cassette player in 1986.
"I was totally paralyzed," he said of the arrest.
But he didn't stop. The shoplifting continued and he was arrested the second time in 1990 at the age of 25. Depressed and suicidal, Shulman said he confessed his addiction to his parents and sought help in counseling.
He said it was in a counseling session one day when he realized shoplifting was addictive.
"My therapist through up his hands and said it was like (I was) addicted to this. It had all the hallmarks of an addictive behavior."
While careful to not place the blame of his behavior on anyone else, he said that his father was a compulsive shopper and he picked up a lot of habits from him.
"He wasn't a good money manager or saver. He was not the kind of guy who thought about the future."
Shulman said his parents divorced when he was 10 and although his father could not pay child support, he could spend money on other things.
"(Therapy) made me realize I was more like my dad, in that he was an alcoholic and compulsive."
When Shulman couldn't find a support group for compulsive shoppers or shoplifters, he started Shopaholics Anonymous 15 years ago this month.
Like Shulman, Lila said her father was a compulsive spender, but her mother was budget-conscious.
"I feel bad when I think of all I have wasted," Lila said. "We used to have savings and investments. It is a constant guilt."
She said her problem started when she married about 10 years ago.
"I was so used to getting everything that I wanted and then I had to follow a budget."
When her children were born and Lila was a stay-at-home mother, shopping was an outlet because it was exciting. "It's not that I was bored," she explains. "It's like an unconscious thing. At the end of the week, I am like, "I spent $300!""
Shulman said many people feel family members will judge them but admitting the problem is the first step.
Matt Ratliff and Shannon Stewart
Shannon Stewart is on a mission from God.
The blond, 5'11" Ohio native is not a missionary in a foreign land, but rather a professional model and former reality TV show contestant.
The 22-year-old beauty also is unashamedly a virgin and does not smoke or drink. She takes no credit for her good looks — "I owe it all to God," she jokes — and is the type of girl every Mom wishes her son would marry.
But, she is taken and the lucky guy is model Matthew Ratliff. "Our relationship is totally because of Jesus Christ," she said. "He is my best friend."
Girded with their Christian faith, Stewart said she and Matthew just want to be a light in a business known for darkness.
They share experiences in the modeling world, like to hang out together and enjoy speaking as a team about their faith, when their modeling schedules permit.
In a telephone call from Chicago, she told me, "This is a tough business. Sometimes, I hate it. But, if no one shares the Good News, how will they know about Jesus Christ?"
It was this type of thinking that led Stewart to try out for season one of America's Next Top Model, the reality TV show created by Tyra Banks.
First aired in 2003, the season featured 10 contestants who lived together in a New York loft. Each week they were judged on various photo shoots, like one in swimwear and one in which the girls were wrapped in a huge snake. At the end of each episode, one girl was eliminated.
As in all reality shows, drama and conflict are the ingredients that create a spicy TV dish. For Stewart and fellow contestant Robin Manning from Memphis, Tenn., the openness about their Christian beliefs at times created tension.
Stewart and Manning were in the final four when the contestants were asked to pose nude in a photo shoot for diamond jewelry. They refused because of morality issues. Robin was the one eliminated at the end of that episode.
Stewart went on finish the season in second place to Adrianne Curry, who, since winning America's Next Top Model, has admitted to past drug use and bi-sexuality, posed nude for Playboy and married Christopher Knight, aka Peter Brady from the classic TV hit show, The Brady Bunch.
Stewart said she has found success in the modeling world, but it has taken her longer to achieve it because of her stand for righteous living.
Signed with Elite Model Management, she said, "It has taken me longer in this business because I won't go to parties or do certain things." But, she has no regrets and hears from people who commend her stand for clean living.
"I can't recall any negativity about not posing nude," she said about the TV show episode. "I do hear from people who thank me for standing up for something, which included Muslims and atheists.
Stewart does not focus on what the future holds, but rather what exciting journey God has in store for her.
"I would love to host a Christian TV show with Matthew for teens."
For the moment, Stewart is happy being God's Top Model.
Connect with Shannon Stewart Ratliff on Facebook.
Poverty is never fashionable
There is nothing fashionable about poverty. Poverty doesn't look good on anyone and is never in style.
Seriously, I have never heard a financially challenged individual, the monetarily disenfranchised or a plain ol' poor person say, "Wow, I am so glad that being poor is All the Rage this year, cause, ya know, being able to pay my bills and buy groceries is so yesterday."
The Bible tells us the poor will be with us always.
But, how do we know who they are and what do poor folks look like?
Most people, when asked, will probably tell you the face of the poor is a welfare mama with several kids by different daddies who sits around at home watching Maury on TV, being supported with money from hard-working taxpayers.
The Alabama poverty Project disagrees with this myth by providing numbers that encourage us not to be so quick to judge.
Among their statistics, poverty in Calhoun County is children zero to 17, female-headed households and those too old or too young to work. I guess you could say the faces of poverty in our community are young'uns, old folks and single moms.
So, what does one do to help?
How about when you clean out your closet, don't give away the T-shirt you spilled coffee on three years ago or the pants you ripped when you ate too much Sunday casserole.
If it's something you wouldn't wear, then why do you think someone else will want it?
It is not like poor folks really love wearing hand-me-downs so much that they will say things like, "Man, that coffee stain on that T-shirt is gonna bring out the brown in my eyes."
Jim Davis, the Baptist Service Center director for the Calhoun Baptist Association, told me volunteers waste many hours sorting through the good and bad stuff that is donated. And I know it is the truth because Jim took my former position at the CBA.
For six years, I smiled and thanked people when they donated clothes and goods from their home, then smiled again when I gave them a receipt. Then, volunteers sighed and shook their heads when they threw out old diapers (no kidding), soiled clothes, old underwear and such.
In our community, there are five organizations that provide clothing for free to those in need. The people are screened through Family Services and referred to them.
If you have clothing that is not suitable for wear, you can donate it to the Salvation Army for recycling. Just make sure to let them know your donation is not for the thrift store.
So, when you are spring-cleaning and you want to donate items to the less-fortunate in our community, just be respectful.
Where you can go to donate:
All Saints Interfaith Center of Concern
1029 W. 15th St., Anniston
Director: Sister Mary Roy
Hours of operation: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Monday-Friday
Baptist Service Center South
806 Stewart St., Oxford
Director: Jim Davis
Hours of operation: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Monday-Friday
Baptist Service Center Northwest
259 Halls Chapel Road, Alexandria
Hours of operation: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Monday-Friday.
Community Enabler Developer
1411 Gurnee Ave., Anniston
Director: Maudine Holloway
Hours of operation: 8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday
Jacksonville Christian Outreach Center
206 Francis St. W., Jacksonville
Directors: Mary Agnes Hester and Chalcy Evans
Hours of operation: 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Salvation Army — Recycled Clothes
420 Noble St., Anniston
If you are in an individual or family in need of clothes, then you must be screened through Family Services Center of Calhoun County, 15 E. 11th St., Anniston. Call 231-2240 for intake hours and more information.
Visit the Alabama Poverty Project online at www.alabamapoverty.org.
The personality of prom
Leah and Lauren Sparks share the same birthday, are involved in similar clubs at Oxford High School and complete each other's sentences, but the 16-year-old twins are total opposites.
Leah is an athlete with state championship trophies in track and field, while Lauren is a class beauty who has modeled locally and likes to watch America's Next Top Model.
Selecting a prom dress was as different as their personalities.
"Lauren was out there in the store, looking at herself in front of the mirror and twirling around," Shawn Jones, the girl's mother said. "Leah wouldn't even come out of the dressing room."
Leah recently placed fourth in the 100-meter dash at a track meet, plays volleyball, is a guard on the basketball team and was selected as Most Talented in Who's Who by her classmates. She rarely wears make-up and admits shopping is not her forté.
"I tried on long dresses, but I couldn't move in them. But I can in this one. I am ready to dance," she said about her mini gown with long, layered ruffles.
Both girls selected playful, colorful gowns, but while Leah's is short, Lauren's is long and straight. "I think it looks glamorous," Lauren's mom said about her dress.
Lauren can't wait to get dressed up for prom but said she is also excited for her sister. "Leah doesn't wear make-up or wear dresses or heels, and I can't wait for people to see her in this dress. It is like a total make-over!"
"OK, so I will wear make-up to prom," Leah laughs. "Enough already."
It is rare for Lauren to leave the house without make-up, and when she does it doesn't go unnoticed, but the duo will get help from their big sister, Lyndsey. "I don't want to look like I have on a mask," said Leah. "I trust her."
Noticing things like make-up, personality and style is one way to help girl's select prom gowns said JoAnne Kirby, manager of Prom Headquarters in Jacksonville.
"I let the girls pick out a few dresses and try them on and then I help them select the best one for their individuality. I just notice how they look and what they like."
With the charm of a grandmother, Kirby said she encourages girls towards dresses that fit their uniqueness, body type and trends.
"The A-line dress is perfect for girls with an hour glass figure or bigger hips," she said. "Brown is also the color this year for prom, but we have seen bright colors. It really just depends on the girl with what color they pick."
Kirby has noticed gowns like the brown and aqua Lauren is wearing are popular but so are full ball gowns.
Tammie Tuck, sales clerk at the Quality Shoppe in Jacksonville, agrees.
"This is the year of full dresses," she said. "We have had girls come in and they don't want poofy, but the mom talks her into trying one on and she walks out with one."
Tuck observed both the brown and bright color trend too. "We have sold a lot of chocolate brown, and they are normally straight dresses," she said. "The poofy, full gowns have been bright colors. Aqua, orange, raspberry, yellow…they are bright and fun."
The most popular prom gown for Alexander's Bridal Shop in Oxford is a chocolate brown, full length gown said owner Mike Alexander. He has also seen there is no one trend and the character of the girl is what matters most.
"We have about 1,000 dresses, and they make them to fit all personalities."
Alexander points out a full length, black and white polka dotted gown with a large red sash and bow. "This one has been popular." Then he directs his attention to a simple, straight aqua gown decorated with a stream of Swarovski crystals. "Oh, but this one is also popular too."
Alexander points out that prom is not just for girls and some guys are taking note of fashion for the social gathering of year.
"This year we had a few girls that told us they had to match their gown to the guy's vest."
Admitting it is rare for girls to select gowns around their dates, he said sometimes boys do take just as much time selecting a tuxedo as girls do with dresses.
"Guys no longer wear cummerbunds. There are no bow ties and no button covers," he said. "Now it is brown tuxes, long ties with matching vest and longer coats. They want to look good too."
Lauren and Leah's prom dates matched their tuxedos to their dresses and both say the like what was selected.
"He is wearing a brown tux, brown vest and an aqua tie," said Lauren, speaking about her date Taylor Clark. "I don't think he is too excited about it but he is wearing it."
Leah said her date, Devin Futral, is wearing all white. "His is a white tuxedo, white vest and white tie."
Now that they have their dresses and their dates have their tuxedos, the only thing on their to do list for their March 30 prom is picking up their shoes and waiting to get ready the day of the dance.
"We have to make a hair appointment, get our nails done, our eyebrows waxed and get our tan," said Lauren. Leah is excited about dressing up for the prom, but she just wants to have fun.
"It is going to be so much fun. It is a time to let loose and dance. But I will probably take off my shoes and go barefoot."
Miss Alabama Melinda Toole knows — for sure — only one thing about what she'll wear to Gov. Bob Riley's inauguration ball Monday: It will be glamorous.
"I love the old Hollywood look, and people have told me for years that I have the look," says Toole, who early last week had not settled on a design. She only knew that it would be a custom-made design by Ann Northington, the official dress sponsor of the Miss Alabama Scholarship Pageant.
And, since Toole is preparing to leave for the Miss America pageant on Friday, she had a lot of gowns to choose from.
"Ann has created some amazing gowns for me this year. To me, all of her gowns have that old Hollywood look to them."
Northington said the gowns she created for Toole this year are her best work yet. When Miss Alabama Deidre Downs won the Miss America pageant in 2005, the two-piece white gown was a Northington design.
"I make only pageant dresses and have been proud of my previous work, but I think this year is very special," Northington said.
Toole said Northington creates a signature style that fits each Miss Alabama, and she feels very good in all of the gowns created for her. After she makes up her mind which gown to wear for the inaugural ball, she said getting ready will not be that different than for a pageant. Except she will not have to worry about wearing a swimsuit or being interviewed by a panel of judges and entertainment at the ball will be left up to country music singer Sara Evans.
As Miss Alabama she said she is excited about attending the ball to celebrate Riley's next term and then representing the state at the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas.
"I know the ball will just be a very glamorous night."
If you want to get a glamorous look of your own, Miss Alabama Melinda Toole has some tips:
Try on as many dresses in various colors and styles as you can. Don't go for the first thing you try on. Take a friend with you. If you plan on shopping at two different stores, have a friend take a picture of you in gowns that you really.
Choose something that makes you feel comfortable and beautiful. But make sure it is the right fit for your body type.
The day of the event, plan a pampering day and get your hair and nails done.
Make good use of make-up artists at department stores. For Monday's inaugural ball, Toole will have her make-up done at Gus Meyer in Birmingham.
"It is always fun to play with make-up," she said. It also takes the guess work out of finding the right look for your skin type and coloring.
Choose accessories wisely. Don't over-do the look with too much jewelry in an embellished gown.
Don't forget to wear comfortable dancing shoes.
The Miss America pageant airs live on CMT, Jan. 29 at 7 p.m.
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Solving the mystery of the ball gown
The Anniston Star Staff Writer
Patsy Riley does not design and tell.
So when the red carpet rolls out at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex tomorrow at 8 for Gov. Bob Riley's inaugural ball, all eyes will be on his wife. After all, she is not only the First Lady of Alabama; she will be the belle of the ball in a couture gown she designed.
"I like secrets, and I don't usually tell too much," she said when asked what she will wear. Wanting to keep the details of the dress design a secret, because, "every girl should have an element of surprise," she said she just hopes the governor likes it as much as she does.
She did fess up that it will be a vintage-styled gown she designed with a little help from some friends. Inspired by her childhood fashion icons, it will be a 1950s and '60s-inspired ball gown.
"When I was a teen, I admired Doris Day, Audrey Hepburn and Debbie Reynolds in the movies," Riley said. "They were my role models. So my dress has a little bit of Doris Day, Audrey Hepburn and a dash of Debbie Reynolds."
It was Liz Stearns of Susan Lee Boutique in Atlanta on whom she called to help dress her for the ball.
"I described what I wanted, and she had it made," Riley said. Stearns also helped dress Riley for President Bush's inauguration and was excited when she received her call.
"I was just beside myself that she remembered me after two years," Stearns said.
Riley brought a picture of what she wanted, and Stearns said she knew a designer, Saul Kapilivsky of Rose Taft, who could make the dress a reality. Stearns said Riley knows what she wants and what looks good on her, and it makes dressing her for an event easy.
One thing Riley admits is that she is not sure how to do her eye make-up for the ball. She will do her own hair, foundation and blush but asked her cousin, Hayley Mauldin Daniel, a make-up artist at Gates of Pearls in Birmingham, to glam her up for the night by "painting her eyes."
With Sara Evans headlining as the entertainment at the ball, Riley said she can't wait to dance with the governor and celebrate his second term. He will wear one of his favorite tuxedos and his trademark black cowboy boots.
"Ya know, a man never looks as handsome as when he is in a tuxedo, she said in her distinct Clay County accent.
For the inaugural swearing-in ceremony, Monday at noon on the Capitol steps, the governor will most likely wear a favorite red tie with a dark suit. The First Lady jokes that she is not like her mother's generation in which the wife often laid clothes on the bed and selected the husband's outfit for the day.
"I used to think that was so funny. Now, I love to buy his ties, but he does dress himself," she insists.
Standing by her husband as he takes his oath as the 53rd governor of Alabama, the First Lady will wear a custom made suit by Sue Tang of Sue Tang Designs in Montgomery and a hat by Melanie McLaughlin of Mobile. McLaughlin designed the hat Riley wore to the first inaugural swearing in ceremony and she knew she wanted her to do another one.
"I'm going to reinvent the hat," she jokes.
Tang said Riley designed the suit, and she wanted something feminine and patriotic.
"The suit is full of life and is very feminine. She has a flowing skirt, and I think she looks very good," Tang said. Tang said it is important for any outfit to fit a person's personality and the first lady's suit is no exception.
"She is very outgoing, warm to people and we wanted to make her suit warm, with a happy color with a celebration look.
Stearns said Riley makes the process of dressing her fun and relaxing.
"She looks like a million dollars," Stearns said. "I can't wait. Alabama will really be proud."
Riley said when she is announced at the ball with her husband, she hopes southern young ladies will appreciate her style. More than anything she hopes Alabamians will see they are normal folks.
"We are just like everyone else but we so want to always put our best face and best attitude for the people. Ya know, they deserve it."
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The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation
A G Lafley
Lafley, the CEO of Procter & Gamble, and Charan, the bestselling author of "Know-How," show how to change the game of business by making innovation the centerpiece, driving everything from strategy and budgeting to employee selection, promotion, and reward.
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August 2009 Bestseller
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What We're Saying
Ram Charan: How to Kill an Idea
In addition to being in this month's Inc. , Ram Charan was interviewed on innovation by Fast Company. Ram recently co-authored The Game Changer with Procter & Gamble's A. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
Ram Charan and A.G. Lafley take on a $4 million business
This month Inc. magazine challenged A. G. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
Authors in the Press
Marci Alboher of The New York Times recently conducted a Q&A session with Guy Kawasaki via email. One exchange for you entrepreneurs: Q. What is your advice to entrepreneurs seeking funding or growth opportunities if the credit and capital markets continue on their current course? READ FULL DESCRIPTION
Summer Reading From the Wall Street Journal
Carol Hymowitz in her In The Lead column for The Wall Street Journal recommends summer reading. Among the business titles you will find: John Kotter change fable Our Iceberg Is Melting (John has a new book coming in September, more on that soon). A. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
April Titles
As we start the next month, here are a few of the titles coming out in April that are sure to be covered in various media outlets. From the author of A Whole New Mind, comes the first ever manga business book. Dan Pink's The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
The Best Business Books 0f 2008 - BusinessWeek Edition
While we're in the midst of announcing the shortlists for our annual awards, I think it behooves us to look at what others found worthy of the "best" title. Last week, BusinessWeek gave their blessing to what they see as The Best Business Books of 2008 in an article by Hardy Green. The following books made the article: The Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
The Best Books of 2008 - Business Pundit Edition
Business Pundit knows business books well, and has chosen the 10 from 2008 they think are the best. I think they have the right idea in describing the popular feelings of the year: 2008 came in two parts. Part I, which ran through Bear Stearns, carried the vestiges of prior years, when we thought we could get away with everything, never anticipating that in actuality, everything would get away from us. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
Booklist Top 10
Brad Hooper of the American Library Association's Booklist Online has posted his list of 2008's top 10 business titles (that have been reviewed on Booklist over the past year). The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr, W. W. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
Jack Covert Selects - The Game-Changer
The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation by A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan, Crown Business, 336 pages, $27. READ FULL DESCRIPTION
How you can increase and sustain organic revenue and profit growth . . . whether you're running an entire company or in your first management job. Over the past seven years, Procter & Gamble has tripled profits; significantly improved organic revenue growth, cash flow, and operating margins; and averaged earnings per share growth of 12 percent. How? A. G. Lafley and his leadership team have integrated innovation into everything P&G does and created new customers and new markets. Through eye-opening stories A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan show how P&G and companies such as Honeywell, Nokia, LEGO, GE, HP, and DuPont have become game-changers. Their inspiring lessons can help you learn how to: - Make consumers and customers the boss, not the CEO or the management team
- Innovate to grow a mature business
- Develop higher growth, higher margin businesses
- Create new customers and new markets
- Revitalize a business model
- Reach outside your own business and tap into the abundant brainpower and creativity of the world
- Integrate innovation into the mainstream of your managerial decision making
- Manage risk
- Become a leader of innovation We live in a world of unprecedented change, increasing global competitiveness, and the very real threat of commoditization. Innovation in this world is the best way to win--arguably the only way to really win. Innovation is not a separate, discrete activity but the job of everyone in a leadership position and the integral, central driving force for any business that wants to grow organically and succeed on a sustained basis. This is a game-changing book that helps you redefine your leadership and improve your management game.