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Hugh II: The Nedessey Continues… Part 1

We’re reaching halftime in the early games and the instant messages are really starting to pile up, this means it’s time for your first dose of the Hugh! Illinois and North Carolina are winning big over Wisconsin and and Miami respectively and everybody’s a bit freaked out. Let’s all just take a big deep breath while we wait patiently for LSU/Florida. Thanks to Awful Announcing for snagging the screen shot from ESPN’s Gameday. Even LSU fans are gay for the Gainsville Superman!I don’t know if anyone mentioned it yet but the funniest sign (for shock value) was “Tebow (heart)’s Coach Urban Meyer”. The only problem I, as a Gator fan, have with that sign is the C, U, and M were bigger than the other letters. Bastard LSU fans… -TattooedMess(iah)

That picture of the badger poon you got up for the bets o the week, has Donovan’s girlfriend in it, far right blonde in the middle, this is not a joke, just a fact. -dbach, oregon, WI

My cousin Mose calls Eastern Michigan University “Garbage” because they play like garbage. But they’re playing Michigan on the Big Ten Network, so they’ll probably win. Thanks a million, Lloyd Carr. -goathair

17-0 Illinois, 27-0 UNC…. the best football on right now is Friday Night Lights on USA. Coach Taylor will make for one helluva coach at TMU. -USCKB

i am a wisconsin student who got a flat tire and got stranded in the middle of nowhere in illinois last night and now wisconsin is shitting the bed against the illini…at least im not a notre dame fan. -Nebagamon4Life

The shirt that Coach Zook is wearing is showing his man-nipples. That’s going to replace Charlie Weiss mudwrestling in my nightmares. -Jame815

Badger fans, don’t worry just yet. Ron Zook will arrive soon enough - I Heart Poop

I can’t shake this disliking J Leman thing — not only for that painful “We put the Pain in Champaign” stuff, but because he just looks like someone who would own the customized “Pussy Wagon” truck out of Kill Bill and pump Winger full blast out of it. -Signal to Noise

Ron Zook is up to a 17-0 lead over Wisconsin and I’m just wondering how much money he slipped into Arrelious Benn’s and Rashard Mendenhall’s lockers prior to game time. -Signal to Noise (ed. note: Arrelious Benn’s integrity is beyond reproach.)

I think the ranks of Illini faithful have been swelled by everyone jumping off the Cubs’ bandwagon. -Zombie Jesus X

The commentators for K-State vs. Kansas were talking about how the strong winds might blow the players around today. One promptly deadpanned: it would take a hurricane to move Mark Mangino.-Chilltown

I would like to remind ESPN that LAST weekend with four Top 10 teams getting upset was more of a “Gut-Check Saturday” than this weekend could ever be. -Signal to Noise

Gut Check Saturday? Lame. ESPN must be punished. And is it even possible to have a gut check if you play in the Big 10? - Yunibomber

SU radio color guy and alumnus Chris Gedney: “Vincenzo Giruzzi should have made the tackle, but Pat White just outathleticised him.” That’s the power of an SU education — when you freely convert nouns to verbs. -bona1999

Boston College is up on Bowling Green 38-10, partially because Andre Callender has exploded for three touchdowns. And here I thought BC wide receiver Kevin Challenger was the explosive one. — Suss

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Gleams Theatre and Diamond Bookstore offer a new expression of live drama

Gleams Theatre and Diamond Bookstore will soon be offering a rare experience for theatre-lovers — contemporary plays performed in a cozy and intimate venue. Westmounters are being offered the thrill and fervour of live theatre in the warm and friendly atmosphere of a neighbourhood bookstore.

Gleams Theatre and Diamond Bookstore will celebrate their partnership with an opening and launch party on Sept. 7 at Diamond Bookstore. This fledgling collaboration, Gleams and Diamond Bookstore Theatre 21, will offer four productions per year, every Friday from September to June.

The first production, ‘Misreadings’, is composed of two short contemporary plays, and original music written and performed by Ira Sokolova.

Sokolova said the theatre group has often been described as having a distinctly “European flavour,” but points out that it actually incorporates many different approaches to drama. “Gleams Theatre is connected to theatrical art, philosophy and spirituality of drama,” she said.

Sokolova also refers to Russian actor and director Konstantin Stanislavski, whose idea of drama was, as she put it, “to find the best representation of a play onstage… ways for actors to look natural onstage by finding the emotional and psychological truths hidden within the lines of a text.”

Sokolova has been involved in the performing arts since childhood. “It’s a rich life,” she said, “with many changes since I was a young girl, between acting, music, singing in night clubs, I can say that I have worked in every single job connected to theatre.”

Constantin Sokolov, Gleams Theatre director, is also a widely talented artist who draws, writes as well as being a gifted cameraman, director and photographer. Sokolova spoke with admiration about Sokolov’s scope of ideas and philosophy. “That doesn’t mean we don’t argue,” Sokolova said, “we will never stop arguing, but as an actor, I would never put myself in the hands of any other director.”

As Sokolov describes his work as a director, “it’s my own way to express myself to the world.”

Nina Youssefi, who bought Diamond Bookstore in 2004 with her husband, has realized a dream through the partnership with Gleams Theatre. They pride themselves on being an independent bookstore that caters to a vast range of literary needs, at the same time placing emphasis on promoting the arts. “We don’t turn anyone away,” says Youssefi of the atmosphere of Diamond Bookstore.

Youssefi also said “music, art, theatre, poetry, they all go hand in hand.” Of the collaboration of theatre and bookstore, she said “it’s much more moving, interesting and stimulating in a smaller context.”

Diamond Bookstore has seating for 21 audience members. Price of admission is $12, including refreshments. Performances begin this Friday, Sept. 7, along with the opening launch party at Diamond Bookstore, 5035 Sherbrooke St., W., corner Grey Avenue.

For reservations, call Diamond Bookstore at 514-481-3000; for more information on Gleams.

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‘I always support the lower classes’: Jimmy Cliff’s response to his adoption by Cameron

As David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, stepped off the conference podium at Blackpool on Wednesday to the strains of “You Can Get It If You Really Want” and the applause of the party faithful, their status as the first couple of the Conservative party was secure.

Even those who had doubted their leader now seem convinced that he is the man to lead them back to power. The Tories are so excited that they have even posted a film of the party leader’s moment of glory on their website, citing the song as part of the success of his closing speech.

But the reggae classic has roots that would drain the blue rinse from those who chanted along so chirpily; roots more associated with drugs and violence than the values that Conservatives hold so dear.

Jimmy Cliff’s song was the main score of the soundtrack to his film The Harder They Come; a Jamaican exploration of marijuana, gun crime and gang violence. The psychedelic poster for the film gives a hint of what is to come: a gun-toting gangster straddles a car, dressed in bling jewellery, sunglasses and a leopardskin shirt, he points the barrels of his shot guns menacingly in the air.

And no one is more bemused by Cameron’s song choice than Jimmy Cliff himself – or Dr Cliff, as he now likes to be known. “I’ve never voted in my life”, he said by telephone from the Jamaican capital, Kingston, yesterday. “But I’m from the lower class of society and I tend to support them rather than the upper class. It’s not that I don’t have friends or family in the upper classes – I do – but I always prefer to support the lower classes.”

The singer had just been told of his song’s political use, and made it clear he was no Cameronian. “One of my band mates called me this morning to tell me the news. I can’t stop them using the song, but I’m not a supporter of politics. I have heard of Cameron, but I’m not a supporter. I don’t support any politician. I just believe in right or wrong.”

Cliff makes an interesting choice for the Tories. Last night, a party spokesman said: “The song makes a good point, which echoed the theme of the conference: that if the public really want change they can have change.”

But, when confronted with some of the Conservatives’ policies – in particular their hardline stance on drugs - the singer said: “I’m not for hard drugs, but I don’t think marijuana should be against the law.”

Cliff has been outspoken in his songs, in particular using them to campaign for freedom and human rights. It is unlikely that the he will want his song to be a soundtrack for the establishment if it becomes the Tory election anthem.

Although Cliff has reservations about the use of the song on the political stage, it isn’t first time it has been used in a bid for power; for it was also the choice of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua.

Certainly the imagery of the The Harder They Come is a far cry from the meek oak of the rebranded Conservatives. Directed by Perry Henzell, it has been credited with the emergence of reggae culture in America – a movement that was about much more than music.

Drugs feature heavily in the film, which follows the character Ivan O Martin, played by Jimmy Cliff himself, and based on the notorious Jamaican outlaw Ivanhoe Martin. The soon-to-be notorious Ivan heads to Kingston to find fame as a reggae star, before getting sucked into a world of drugs and crime. The film’s scenes of violence and drugs still shock modern audiences. But graphic knife fights are just the beginning for this ground-breaking film, which showed that dealing in ganja was far more profitable than the record industry for an up-and coming artist. The film ends in a showdown of bullets, but does not really come down on the side of the police: hardly a conclusion that would find favour in Conservative ranks.

But ever since Tony Blair proved the power of pop in politics by embracing the D:Ream song “Things Can Only Get Better”, and making it the anthem of New Labour in 1997, British politicians have come to realise the importance of a strong soundtrack. The reggae anthem of Jamaica of the early Seventies is Mr Cameron’s first such attempt to rally the faithful.

The power of the rousing political anthem has long been harnessed in the United States, where politicians have unashamedly embraced the idea of musical branding. But the songs are usually far more predictable; so much so that some have come around more than once. Randy Bachman’s rock classic “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” has been played on the campaign trails of both Ronald Reagan in 1984 and Al Gore in 2000.

But from across the Atlantic comes a warning that campaign songs can be as embarrassing as they are rousing. In 1996 Bob Dole had to stop using his version of the Sam & Dave classic “Soul Man” (which he had adapted as “Dole Man”) after the copyright owner sent him a threatening letter.

Jimmy Cliff won’t try to stop Team Cameron using his words and music. But whether it will have the same impact in the Home Counties as it had in Jamaica, remains to be seen.

Original: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article3033331.ece

Ideal conditions for the new wheat herbicide SumiMax

Wheat growers have held back on their pre-emergence herbicide treatments as seedbeds have been so dry and cobbly and they are waiting until conditions and soil moisture in particular improve. This scenario plays right into the hands of the new residual and contact-acting herbicide SumiMax, as its optimal performance is early post-emergence when weeds are between the one and three-leaf stage, says Interfarm UK Ltd.

“Farmers don’t want to commit to the expense of pre-ems under adverse dry conditions, particularly when grass-weed germination is so protracted. It is fortuitous that the new herbicide SumiMax, which offers excellent control of broad-leaved weeds and valuable control of annual meadow-grass, rye-grass and black-grass, works best when applied early post-emergence. This would normally be from the beginning of October up to around the end of November. It also offers excellent residual activity which will cope with the extended weed germination this autumn,” says Dr David Stormonth, Technical Manager for Interfarm UK Ltd.

He explains that flumioxazin, the unique active ingredient in SumiMax, works in a different way from all other herbicides currently in use in winter wheat. “In trials, applied early post-emergence at 100ml/hectare when weeds were between the one and three-leaf stage, flumioxazin gave 100% control of charlock, chickweed, fumitory, groundsel, field pansy, red deadnettle, ivy-leaved speedwell and mayweed, 99% control of cleavers, common field speedwell and Shepherds purse and 98% control of poppy. In fact in over 80 trials we never had to overspray in the spring for broad-leaved weeds, even those weeds that are regarded as difficult to control,” claims Dr. Stormonth.

“Flumioxazin also gave up to 90% control of annual meadow-grass, 80% control of rye-grass and 65% control of black-grass, applied early post-emergence,” he says.

This year David advises growers to wait for the optimum timing for SumiMax and not waste their money on applying a pre-emergence herbicide when conditions are not optimal for their performance. “For optimal performance of SumiMax, weeds should be 1-3 leaves and the crop should be hardened off by cooler weather. Ideally the soil should be moist. As is the case for most post-emergence herbicides, it is best to avoid soft or lush crops, waterlogged crops or crops under stress. The use of a tank cleaner is recommended after spraying.”

“SumiMax fits into most weed situations either alone or as the foundation product in a herbicide programme. In non-black-grass situations, it is already being seen as the advanced solution for the non-IPU era, offering season-long and consistent control of Annual Meadow-grass and a wide range of broad-leaved weeds,” says Dr. Stormonth.

For black-grass situations, it is helpful for growers that SumiMax can be tank mixed with a range of grass-weed herbicides and that it can be sequenced with any other herbicide or group. “In black-grass situations flumioxazin fits in very early post emergence when black-grass has 1-2 leaves. Here it can be mixed with other partner herbicides such as Liberator (flufenacet and DFF), Defy (prosulfocarb), chlorotoluron or IPU. It can then be followed up by Atlantis (mesosulfuron-methyl and iodosulfuron-methyl-sodium) later in the autumn. Alternatively it can be used with Lexus (flupyrsulfuron-methyl) early post-emergence. Having no following crop restrictions or following cultivation issues makes SumiMax a very flexible herbicide to use in any weed control programme,” says David.

SumiMax contains 300 gms ai/litre flumioxazin formulated as a suspension concentrate and is packed in a 500 ml pack. Recommended on all varieties of winter wheat, it is recommended pre or post-emergence up to before GS 15 for the control of a wide range of broad-leaved weeds and grass-weeds. It is recommended at 100ml/ha in 200 litres of water, with one application per crop. It has both residual and contact activity, affecting weeds via leaves, stems and emerging roots and shoots. It is compatible with a wide range of relevant autumn products but should not be used with any adjuvants. It can be sequenced with any product including sulphonylureas, but allow a 14 day interval. The use of a proprietary tank cleaner is recommended immediately after spraying to thoroughly clean all spray equipment, including booms, pumps, filters and lids. Flumioxazin is also available as Digital and Guillotine.

Alex Kelly; Psychiatrist Survived Bataan March

Alex Kelly, 90, a survivor of the Bataan Death March who pursued a career in psychiatry because of that wartime experience, died of cardiac arrest Sept. 22 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had lived in Bethesda for 54 years.

Dr. Kelly, a native of Augusta, Ga., graduated from Augusta Junior College and the Medical College of Georgia. He ranked highest in his 1938 medical college class and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical fraternity.

After completing residency training in internal medicine at the medical college, he was drafted into active duty in the Army Medical Corps in 1941 as a first lieutenant. Sent to the Philippines soon afterward, he was the battalion surgeon for the 57th Infantry Regiment Philippine Scouts.

In April 1942, he was captured by the Japanese in a field in Bataan and forced to march without food or water in tropical heat for days.

“The Japanese marched us from Bataan to prison camps further north in Luzon, which was about 60 miles for me and much longer for some people,” Dr. Kelly told the American Forces Press Service in 2004. “Many, many people died along the way. I saw dead people in the ditches along the road all along the way.”

The conditions in prison camps, O’Donnell and Cabanatuan, where he stayed until March 1944, were just as terrible, he said. He was then sent to Japan and held in Yokohama until June 1945, then was moved to Nagata, where he was at the end of the World War II.

Dr. Kelly, a POW for 3 1/2 years, said he contracted malaria a few times, dropped several pounds from his already skinny frame and endured what “seemed like a never-ending, dull, boring, miserable existence.”

The experience, he told the American Forces Press Service, caused him to make “tremendous changes in my life.” But, he added, “I can’t say that it scarred me.”

After the war, he decided to become a psychiatrist and completed residency training in psychotherapy at Johns Hopkins Hospital and staff work at a Roanoke hospital. He came to the Washington area in 1953 and practiced psychiatry in Washington until 1976, when he became a staff psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration Hospital. He was named temporary chief of the psychiatry service at the VA Hospital in 1985. He retired in 1990.

Dr. Kelly served as president of the Washington Psychiatric Society in 1975 and 1976.

He was an enthusiastic golfer and a member of Kenwood Golf and Country Club. He was also a life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

His wife, Marion K. Kelly, died in 2005.

Survivors include three sons, Alex R. Kelly III of Alexandria, and Dr. William K. Kelly and David S. Kelly, both of Bethesda; a sister; a brother; and six grandchildren.

Original: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/28/AR2007092801921.html