Shear spent seven weeks in the hospital

  This was the first Holden to be made in Australia, a 1947 prototype for what is now referred to as the FX or ''Humpy Holden''. The vendor, Peter Briggs, was looking for a cool million, but in the end, auctioneer James Nicholls accepted a bid of $662,000 (IBP), which he believes is a world record for a Holden at auction.Briggs must have been reasonably happy with the result, as he picked up the Holden from a used-car yard in 1980.Harold Larwood's MCC sweater failed to find a buyer.Harold Larwood's MCC sweater failed to find a buyer.The National Museum might have been interested in it if it didn't already have something similar in its collection. Theirs is one of three even earlier prototypes built for testing in the United States.On October 27, Leonard Joel included a collection of thoroughbred-racing memorabilia in its classic furniture, objects and collectables sale. The feature was a set of faded purple, black and yellow silks believed to have been worn by Jack Purtell to win the 1954 Melbourne Cup on Rising Fast. That spring, Rising Fast won the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate Grand Slam, the only horse to do so.
 
   The Sydney Harbour Bridge is an icon, so any letters posted on the bridge on opening day - bearing the official postmark dated March 19, 1932 - are also desirable. Three envelopes carrying Harbour Bridge stamps sold for $7572 at the Phoenix Auctions sale on October 26. This was more than double the estimate of $3500.It might be a stretch to describe Geraldine Gee as an icon but she, her brother Gerry Gee, and their human partner Ron Blaskett were stars of early Melbourne TV and have since achieved a cult following.Then he heard the yelling, as someone screamed there was a horse loose on the grounds. Shear, who was 90 at the time, raced to clear the crowd away as the horse charged toward them, and at the last possible second, he noticed the girl. Shear threw himself between the horse and the 5-year-old as both of them took the impact of the collision. "I thought there was a possibility I was going to die, but you cannot stop and think should I or shouldn't I," Shear told ESPN's E:60. "There is a 5-year-old girl. I'm 90. I have had a life. She hasn't had a life. You got to safe that life.
  

Sometimes Corrigan sells her pieces to people

Soon she added snowmen and other Christmas-themed objects to her repertoire.Sometimes Corrigan sells her pieces to people who ask for them. She has also participated in art shows. But her primary purpose in carving is the sheer joy of it."It was supposed to be fun, and it is," she said.Corrigan creates her pieces out of basswood, a straight-grained, medium-density wood."It's relatively easy to carve, although you can find a hard piece once in a while," she said.The High-Country Carvers primarily use hand tools in their work. The touchably soft edges to Corrigan's pieces are nearly all achieved through careful whittling."I very seldom ever touch any sandpaper to anything," she said. "It's all with knives and gouges."Gouges sound potentially dangerous, but Corrigan is quick to assure would-be carvers that whittling is actually safer than it looks.It's amazing how very few cuts we get," she said. "We wear safety gloves and have a thumb guard on usually. A few don't, but 95 percent of us do use safety gear."The group is always searching for new carvers to join them. High-Country Carvers' membership has dwindled over the years.

At one time, anywhere from 15 to 20 carvers met regularly to enjoy their hobby and share tips and stories, Corrigan said. But over the years, the group's average age has risen. Some members have died.The group has about six to eight regular members now, Corrigan said. Three of them are women.Anyone, of any age and ability, is welcome to join the carvers at their weekly meetings, she said. Group members are always willing to offer tips and help novices get started.Police are searching for a white male who robbed a Lake Sunapee Bank branch at gunpoint shortly before noon on Wednesday.Lebanon police officers arrived at the Hanover Street bank just seconds after the robber took off on foot toward the Lebanon Towers senior housing community with an undisclosed amount of money.Surveillance video released by police shows a man wearing a black mask and carrying a black bag entering the bank. Police said the man stepped up to a teller's window, demanded money and brandished a handgun. He then stuffed the cash into the bag and left the bank, according to police."I saw a masked man come out of the bank and pull the mask off and run away," an eyewitness said minutes after the robbery.

Eggleston said hiring a community development

Township manager Ryan Eggleston presented the draft budget in detail at a public hearing Nov. 13. It is a balanced budget with revenues and expenditures standing at $9.096 million. The proposed millage rate of 3.48 will also remain the same. Commissioners voted to authorize the advertisement for the adoption of the budget at its December voting meeting.Eggleston is not including a separate garbage fee in the budget for the coming year.The proposed budget includes a few changes for 2014, including the addition of a public works superintendent. Eggleston said the township currently employs a public works director and two foremen. He is proposing that one of the foremen's titles be changed to superintendent and that one will remain a foreman.A part-time community development director is also included in the figures, with a proposed salary of $19,000 per year. Eggleston said hiring a community development director would be a "smart move" for the township as South Fayette "tries to increase the things we're doing from a development standpoint."

An additional $5,000 is proposed for community development expenses.A $640,000 capital budget was also presented at the meeting. Eggleston said when the budget process began, he went to each department head and asked them for "reasonable requests." He said the original request from all of the departments combined was nearly $2 million.In recent years, the awards media has caught on to the relationship between the categories of Best Film Editing and Best Picture. Even films like "Argo" and "Crash," which did not win the Best Director Oscar, picked up the trophy for Best Film Editing. Every year, the vast majority of nominees in this category are also cited in the top category.The didn't used to be the case. Long gone, it seems, are the days when films like "Speed" or "Se7en" or "Air Force One" could consistently make an appearance, though we do get a "Blood Diamond" or "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" surprise every now and then these days. With that in mind, it tends to be a fairly predictable "type of film" that manages to score here in the absence of a Best Picture nomination. Most obviously, films that have a significant amount of action and suspense tend to do quite well.

Clemson scored on the next two drives

 Tahj Boyd converted on a 3rd-and-18 on the drive, and a 4-yard touchdown pass to Mike Williams seemingly put Georgia Tech away at 20-0. The Jackets, however, would fight back in short order.David Sims found the end zone on the next drive, capping an 82-yard response, and despite a 76-yard bomb from Tahj Boyd to Martavis Bryant, Tech still cut the lead a bit as a result of a field goal to end the half. At 27-10, most people likely believed that Tech was out of striking distance, but Robert Godhigh had some other plans.Godhigh had a monster 2nd half for Tech, scoring 2 touchdowns, but the play of the day was his 65-yard touchdown run that began the 2nd half scoring. At that point, the Jackets were the closest that they would be for the remainder of the night, and for a brief moment, all of the momentum in Memorial Stadium was on the visiting sideline. Almost on cue, however, Clemson scored on the next two drives, making the remainder of the night virtually inconsequential.The aforementioned Godhigh was the brightest spot  for Georgia Tech on Thursday night.

 The senior running back led the team in both rushing and receiving, and the fact that he cracked triple-digits in both categories is a bit mind-boggling in a blowout defeat. It would be tough to not be excited for a guy with as much invested in the program as Godhigh, and despite the loss, it was fun to see what he unleashed on Clemson.Defensively, this was a blood bath at times. Clemson accumulated 547 total yards of offense, but it was the quick strikes that seemed to do the Tech defense in for the most part, and it was almost fitting to see Clemson QB Tahj Boyd set the all-time ACC record for career passing touchdowns in this game. In fairness, this Clemson offense is probably a top-5 unit in the country on that side of the ball, but the different in explosiveness was a reminder of how far these two teams are from each other in the "upside" department.In all truth, the offense performed reasonably well, especially if we ignore the 1st quarter struggles.

which is increasingly working to ensure

 There is set to be strong demand from the government sector, which is increasingly working to ensure that at least a proportion of large project financing is structured in compliance with Shariah law.The Euromoney Qatar 2013 Conference, which will be held under the patronage of Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Prime Minister, Qatar, will provide a major platform for discussion for the direction of the Islamic financial sector, and the models for cooperation and competition that will help sustain it.Co-hosted by Qatar Central Bank, the conference will see a major presentation on "Islamic Markets and Economic Growth", presented by Dr Khaled Al Fakih, secretary general and CEO of The Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI).Qatar has one of the fastest-growing Islamic banking sectors in the world, driven by the demand for local credit to finance government infrastructure and investment projects.This in turn is having an impact on the assets of Qatar's Islamic banks, increasing their share of the country's banking system.

The investigators also found his links to network of hired killers and drug traffickers which included John Felix Cordero (Copelin), and Edgar Rijo (Maestrico), whose bodies were found two weeks ago in a farm at San Cristobal (south).Mateo said in Liriano was dishonorably discharged and will be arraigned at the San Cristobal Courthouse today.Meanwhile National Police Criminal Investigations Deputy director Jacinto Javier Minaya said a report shows that from 199 to1998, Liriano was accused of using a fake Massachusetts license plate, aggravated robbery, domestic violence against his wife and illegal possession of weapons.He said Liriano formed part of the criminal network headed by Salomón Eusebio Rosario (Piki), a known drug trafficker from the eastern region and the right arm of Winston Rizik (El Gallero), wanted for the murder of at least 15 people. "The Police managed to dismantle this powerful structure and apprehended 13 of its gunmen and/or helpers in different tasks." "I thought we played a good first period. I thought we were fortunate to score four goals," said Jets head coach Claude Noel.

How we got them out to fields

In 1978 I was not long out of university, trying to become a writer, scraping a living on the edge of Exmoor as a milk recorder and in odd farming jobs. Out of nowhere, the producer of Emmerdale Farm contacted me. He had seen a play I'd written. I hoped he wanted me to write for Emmerdale. He offered me a job as the programme's script editor.I moved from Exmoor to the Burley Road, but the world in my head wasn't so far from North Devon. Emmerdale had farming at its heart. I learned to love the countryside north of Leeds. It wasn't the Dales but within a short distance of one of England's great cities were rural communities and landscapes of beauty and character. For a while I stayed in Headingley, but eventually I moved out to live by the Nidd, just north of Harrogate.Fifty percent of the show was shot on location, using pantechnicon-sized mobile studios meant for the likes of race meetings.

How we got them out to fields and forests and moorland was a triumph of ingenuity over sense. It was rare for soap operas to shoot outside.Even Coronation Street had no 'real' street. But somehow Emmerdale managed not only to do it, but do it in the middle of nowhere. Even the farm at Leathley was a working farm.Part of the style of the programme's creator, Kevin Laffan, was butting broad comedy against drama. There was nothing else like the eccentricity of Ronnie Magill's Amos. It was as much a part of the show's distinctiveness as its rural storylines and location work.I worked at YTV for ten years, always maintaining a connection with Emmerdale. I became a regular writer. In my last two years I was the producer, and a gatekeeper between old and new. With the next producer 'Farm' went. The programme pushed into a future where the farming faded, not entirely, but it would never again be at its heart.The cast would grow ever bigger and so would the programme's success. With change went some of Emmerdale's uniqueness.

When we talk and communicate

The Pelicans recorded 30 assists, led by Holiday with eight and Evans with seven."We were doing a great job of talking," Davis said. "When we talk and communicate with each other we are a tough team to beat."The Bobcats were 30 of 80 from the field and were outrebounded 43-41.New Orleans led 56-41 at halftime, and with a frontcourt led by Davis effectively closing off the middle the Bobcats never seriously threatened. The Bobcats trailed 77-62 at the end of three quarters but could come no closer than 14 points in the fourth quarter. A jumper by Gerald Henderson cut the Pelicans' lead to 83-69 but Roberts answered with a four-point play to give New Orleans an 87-69 lead with 8:12 left."It was bad," Henderson said. "We didn't come out with the focus we needed. We made a lot of mistakes, especially at the start of the game."Playing at home for the second time in three games, the Pelicans made their first three shots and scored on their first eight possessions, including one sequence in which they grabbed two offensive rebounds and took a 15-4 lead with 7:19 remaining in the first half.

The Pelicans led 33-15 after the first quarter, nearly equaling their 36-point first-half output against the Magic. New Orleans shot 50 percent from the field and held Charlotte to 6-of-20 shooting.Evans' layup with 11:12 left in the second quarter gave the Pelicans a 37-15 lead, their largest of the half. Charlotte got within 56-41."At halftime I thought we had a chance," Bobcats coach Steve Clifford said. "I thought we would hang in there and respond. The disappointing part to me was the beginning of the third quarter where we just came out with nothing. "Three games into his second season Anthony Davis is quickly establishing himself as the leader of the baby-faced New Orleans Pelicans.Davis had 25 points, eight rebounds, a career-high six blocks and four assists to lead New Orleans to a 105-84 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats on Saturday night, its first win changing its nickname to Pelicans.The No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, Davis has scored at least 20 points in each of the Pelicans' first three games and has made 19 of 20 free throws.

which was easy for him to find prototype

    Because of his serious illness, he was unable to draw large pictures. And then he turned to paint still life, which was easy for him to find prototype. His interest in painting flowers produced during learning at the museum, but he went to the museum aiming to explore the ancient painters' secrets.During his travel to wife's hometown-Holland, he studied very delicate works representing flowers, fruits and precious tableware made by Flemish painters. These things were put in a white tablecloth or carpet, reminding people of the feast and dishes related to the western churches. As defined by the tradition, still life was never reduced to simply imitate the real things, and always implied the philosophy or religion. A lot of Holland paintings appeared fully mature flowers and fruits which collapsed under the accumulated materials and pigments and stood side b side with other withered flowers or fruits swollen by worms. The transient beauty can be only kept long through the artist's brush to remind people of the death situation.
   
    In 1864, Manet had abundant reference materials and worked a series of peony paintings. Peony was his beloved flower, but difficult to draw, because it died out early, as petals quickly fell as rain. The painter drew the first painting where he put flowers in different mature stages in a vase to perform the life cycle of peony from flower bud to petals. He also did a small painting which only two peonies placed beside the pruning shear in the same theme, which allowed people to feel the cut flowers were sure for death. The dark background chosen by the painter made the delicacy of white outline hazy and pink petals foil.The painting was made with a brush dipped in paint with more concentrated pigment and texture. The green leaves around the flowers enriched the auxiliary color points, fixing the theme of flowers on the upper left corner of the painting. These flowers in plenty of strokes were what the painter devoted to the writer and art critic Champfleury who was naturalism pioneer, one of his friends, and a close friend of Courbet, to express his respect for the conducive struggle for modern painting. Its been a long week, but you cant complain. In a matter of minutes the Iconic tower will soon be in sight.