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1 cup each of dried organic black, red, and white beans
1 large organic onion, diced
3/4 cup of diced celery
a large handful of organic italian parsley, chopped
1/3 cup of red wine vinegar
1/3 – 1/2 cup of Sierra oil
1 teaspoon of cumin, coriander, and thyme
sea salt to taste
Put each of the three kinds of beans in a separate pot. Add four cups of water and a teaspoon of sea salt to each one. Put the coriander into the black beans’ water, cumin in the red beans’ water, and thyme in the white beans’ water. Add half a teaspoon of baking soda to each pot, and stir thoroughly. Bring all the beans to boil, keeping in mind that they will foam a bit once they come to boil (due to the baking soda) so be prepared to lower the heat as soon as they begin to foam. Boil each one for two minutes, and turn off the fire. Leave them all to soak overnight.
The following day, bring each pot to boil (beware of the foam). Boil gently for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally. If the beans are still hard, cook them for a few more minutes. Once all of them are soft, turn off the fire and let them cool to room temperature. While the beans are cooling down, prepare the onion, celery, and parsley. When they reach room temperature, drain the beans in a colander and combine them in a large bowl. Add the onions, celery, and parsley, and mix gently. Then add the vinegar and some salt. Stir gently but very thoroughly for a minute. Taste the mixture, and adjust the salt and vinegar.
(Recommendation: add slightly more vinegar than you would like, since the beans will continue to absorb it.) Let the bean salad rest for some time, stirring occasionally. Add the Sierra oil, and mix again. Taste the salad, and do any desired adjustments. It can be served either chilled or at room temperature, but it should be stored in the refrigerator. Don’t worry about leftovers, since the salad is better the next day. The leftovers will probably need some more vinegar, so be sure to have some on hand.
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I'm not helping but I would like to seize oportunity to ask similar question. Is it possible to create a completly new region code for a country that currently exists in a group only? For example, is it possible to take one country from Estern Europe region code and create a new region code just for that country so that it would have it's own unit designes?
OP: wouldn't changing Israel region code to match the USA code solve your problem? I know there is a possibility that this is a completly idiotic suggestion 'cause I don't have any modding experience but it seems logical (which doesn't mean it truly is
). If that turns out to be the case, please don't get upset with me
Correct. In the .CVP there is a line for each nation
israels is most likely like this
Add the U.S Code behind israels code (or replace it depending on your preference) then recache.
Which would look like this
Would allow israel to research all american and israeli units.
(Not sure how many region codes the line will handle.. I know 2 works though.
Just to add a bit more info.. there are a few unused characters that can be used if you wanted to say specify Units for a nation that doesn't have its own region code. There is a post about this buried somewhere in the SR2020 forums the only one I remember off the top of my head is @ Only remember that one because I use it as a Turkey only code in modern world
When I get around to using more I'll dig around for the post and Add the others here. (Think theres 4 total valid unused characters)
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The 2904 computer was much smaller than the 1906A, with far fewer program development facilities, but it was dedicated to this one application initially. The major requirement of the new system was that update and enquiry of the database should be interactive, via VDUs distributed around SRC Central Office at Swindon. All the work on the new system was carried out in close collaboration with the Swindon Office staff.
The Grants system was completely re-written, but offered the old 1906A interface to users as well as the new one. Fully interactive update and enquiry were added. Two commercial software products were used:
- TPS: teleprocessing software
- TOTAL: Database Management System
Mike Chiu, Mike Claringbold, Ray Walters and Terry Dunwoody from the Atlas Computing Division and one person from Swindon Office were involved in the design, programming, system maintenance and day-to-day administration. Some short term assistance with the programming was provided by contract programmers.
The 2904 Grants System went live and replaced the 1906 system on 25 June 1979.
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The "High Score" Problem
I've been doing a lot of research on this topic recently and I'm sort
of stuck. For those who don't know about this type of problem, it is
the security concern that communication between Flex (a Flash
front-end application) and a server through PHP is thinly-veiled and
prone to attack. Specifically, when a Flash game tries to tell the
server that a user got a high score, an attacker can find a way to
fake this high score and achieve the best score (sometimes resulting
in a cash prize).
The measures that I've been studying seem to only get in the way for
attackers, but not thwart them entirely. For example, one could simply
encrypt the data that is passed to a PHP file, but the Flash
application can be decompiled and the encryption technique is
discovered. Alternatively, one could obfuscate the application, making
the decompilation produce jargon, but this too can be translated into
human-readable text. A server can check data for feasibility by using
a timer to detect super-fast computer-generated PHP POSTs, but this
too can be overridden by slowing down the auto-POSTs. This is the case
for other "human" feasibility checks. If the server checks the POST
headers, they too can be faked by proxies.
Is the simple conclusion that Flash applications are inherently
transparent? There is no such thing as Flash application security?
Does SSL patch any of these risks?
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Be part of the legendary Running of the Bulls on our 4 day Pamplona experience. Every year over 350,000 flock to Pamplona, a sleepy fortress town in Spain to be part of this centuries old festival. Get ready for action as you don your red & whites (if you dare) & literally, run with the bulls! It’s the perfect way to party Spanish-style in the awesome summer sun. With free shuttle services, a souvenir tee to take home & lots of inclusions, it’s a not to be missed experience.
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Hola! Welcome to Pamplona! Get ready for the adrenalin pumping experience: the population of Pamplona explodes for this 9 day party, known as San Fermín, with around 350,000 travellers heading to this usually quiet town to experience a slice of the bull running action for themselves. On arrival your tent & airbed will be set up for you so you're ready to go (just don’t forget your sleeping bag!) Tonight gets the party started with our delicious dinner and sangria part!
Jump on a shuttle & head in to town Pamplona for your first experience of the bull run. Live it like a local & play a part in this 400 year old tradition, where bulls are let loose through the city streets. This buzzing atmosphere is guaranteed to be a once in a lifetime experience! Don your red & white gear if you're game enough to get amongst it - or steer clear as a spectator - the vibes are just as exciting. After the run, choose to stay around town, or you could take it easy too - relax back at the campsite & top up your tan by the pool. You can take it up a level tonight, there’s loads of fun at the campsite or stick around town at a local spot or see a bull fight as the shuttle service runs late into the night.
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[Haskell-cafe] Fast code question
michael at snoyman.com
Thu Jun 4 17:38:53 EDT 2009
I *do* know what Packed Decimal is; at my previous job, I actually had a
whole Haskell library for parsing them. The only immediate suggestion that
pops to mind is to use Int instead of Integer (Int uses regular 32- or
64-bit integers, Integer uses arbitrary precision integers). If you send me
a sample Packed Decimal file, I can test out your code and get a better feel
for it that way.
Good luck with those mainframes, they can be beasts sometimes. Have you had
to parse EBCDIC yet? *That* was fun, manually copying all those character
codes from some IBM web page... ;)
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Bartosz Wójcik <bartek at sudety.it> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I had to transform Packed Decimal file into csv format (does anybody here
> what this Mainframe format is?). Because of the file size I could not do
> this on mainframe directly. So I've created simply program using
> Generally I'm happy with my solution: pgm processes arroud 2MB/s on my pc,
> my 3GB file was transformed in reasonable 30 min time.
> My question is: how to do this faster?
> module Main
> import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as B
> main = B.getContents >>= myPrint . myConcat . B.unpack
> myConcat = myConcat' 0
> myConcat' :: (Integral a) => Integer -> [a] -> [Integer]
> myConcat' _ =
> myConcat' acc (x:xs) = case x `mod` 16 of
> 12 -> (10*acc + (restOf . fromIntegral) x) : myConcat' 0 xs
> 13 -> ((-10)*acc + (restOf . fromIntegral) x) : myConcat' 0
> 15 -> (10*acc + (restOf . fromIntegral) x) : myConcat' 0 xs
> 10 -> fail $ show acc
> 11 -> fail $ show acc
> 14 -> fail $ show acc
> v -> myConcat' (100*acc + (numberOf . fromIntegral) x) xs
> where restOf n = (n - 12) `div` 16
> numberOf n = n - 6 * (n `div` 16)
> myPrint = return ()
> myPrint xs = mapM_ myShow (take 14 xs) >> putStrLn "" >> myPrint (drop 14
> myShow x = (putStr . show) x >> putStr ";"
> I knew that csv output had to be 14 fields per line.
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Nothing boosts productivity like an application or piece of software that makes if very easy to get your computing tasks done without fighting your way computer all the way. And I am always in search of such applications. In the past few months, five such applications have come to my attention. And they are all free software, available on your [...]
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ROSA Company has announced the release of ROSA Marathon 2012 LXDE beta edition, following the earlier release of ROSA Marathon 2012 beta, which uses the KDE 4 desktop environment. You may read a review of that KDE edition of ROSA Desktop at ROSA Desktop 2012 beta review. This is the Moscow-based outfit’s desktop distribution that uses the Lightweight X11 Desktop [...]
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ROSA Desktop 2012 beta is a distribution that I am currently reviewing. It is a desktop distribution derived from Mandriva Desktop. It has all the features that you will find on its parent distribution. It has also a few cool features brand new to it. One of those, KLook, I have already written about. (See KLook: A Swiss Army Knife [...]
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GOP Still Blocking Climate Bill
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) says she will move forward on climate legislation tomorrow, with or without Republicans, who have pledged to boycott the markup.
Republican leaders sent a letter to Boxer on Monday afternoon saying they want more analysis before participating in a markup. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), a member of Boxer's Environment and Public Works committee, made the initial request. He's since been joined by a number of GOP ranking members of key committees: Lisa Murkowski (Energy and Natural Resources), Saxby Chambliss of Georgia (Agriculture), Chuck Grassley (Finance), James Inhofe (Environment and Public Works) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (Commerce, Science and Transportation).
The big problem with the senators' claim is that there's already plenty of analysis available about the climate bill. The proposal largely mirrors the Waxman-Markey legislation that passed the House in June, which has been scrutinized by the EPA, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Energy Information Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency released a preliminary study of the Senate bill, along with the chairman's mark, on Friday, Oct. 23. And if that wasn't enough, Boxer's committee held nine different panels with 54 expert witnesses last week. For months, Voinovich has been asking for new studies from the EPA, presumably ones that produce doom and gloom predictions that the bill will devastate the American economy. But the raft of studies completed so far show just the opposite.
Although the GOP is trying to hide behind relative moderates like Voinovich—who at least admits that climate change is a problem—in its latest gambit, they're really aligning with the denialists like Inhofe. The goal is to mire the process in bitter partisan fights until the climate bill stalls indefinitely in the Senate.
EPW committee rules require that at least two Republicans be present to begin markup. In a statement on Monday, Boxer urged Inhofe to call the Republicans back to work and announced that she plans to proceed on Tuesday whether or not her GOP colleagues show up. The markup is slated to begin at 9 a.m. What will happen is anybody's guess. | <urn:uuid:c080bdd1-3be0-4bc0-bbbe-0c5e89e9bdc2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/11/gop-gums-work-climate-legislation | 2013-05-20T11:29:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941805 | 453 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Last Updated: 12:37 AM, November 8, 2011
Posted: 9:54 PM, November 7, 2011
So just who are those top 1 percent of Americans that we’re all supposed to hate?
If you listen to President Obama, the protesters at Occupy Wall Street, and much of the media, it’s obvious. They’re either “trust-fund babies” who inherited their money, or greedy bankers and hedge-fund managers. Certainly, they haven’t worked especially hard for their money. While the recession has thrown millions of Americans out of work, they’ve been getting even richer. Worse, they don’t even pay their fair share in taxes: Millionaires and billionaires are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries.
In reality, each of these stereotypes is wrong.
Roughly 80 percent of millionaires in America are the first generation of their family to be rich. They didn’t inherit their wealth; they earned it. How? According to a recent survey of the top 1 percent of American earners, slightly less than 14 percent were involved in banking or finance.
Roughly a third were entrepreneurs or managers of nonfinancial businesses. Nearly 16 percent were doctors or other medical professionals.
Lawyers made up slightly more than 8 percent, and engineers, scientists and computer professionals another 6.6 percent.
Sports and entertainment figures -- the folks flying in on their private jets to express solidarity with Occupy Wall Street -- composed almost 2 percent.
By and large, the wealthy have worked hard for their money. NYU sociologist Dalton Conley says that “higher-income folks work more hours than lower-wage earners do.”
Because so much of their income is tied up in investments, the recession has hit the rich especially hard. Much attention has been paid recently to a Congressional Budget Office study that showed incomes for the top 1 percent rose far faster from 1980 until 2007 than for the rest of us. But the nonpartisan Tax Foundation has found that since 2007, there has been a 39 percent decline in the number of American millionaires.
Among the “super-rich,” the decline has been even sharper: The number of Americans earning more than $10 million a year has fallen by 55 percent. In fact, while in 2008 the top 1 percent earned 20 percent of all income here, that figure has declined to just 16 percent. Inequality in America is declining.
As for not paying their fair share, the top 1 percent pay 36.7 percent of all federal income taxes. Because, as noted above, they earn just 16 percent of all income, that certainly seems like more than a fair share.
Maybe Warren Buffett is paying a lower tax rate than his secretary, as he claims. But the comparison is misleading because Buffett’s income comes mostly from capital gains, which were already taxed at their origin through the corporate-income tax.
Moreover, the Buffetts of the world are clearly an exception. Overall, the rich pay an effective tax rate (after all deductions and exemptions) of roughly 24 percent. For all taxpayers as a group, the average effective tax rate is about 11 percent.
Beyond taxes, the rich also pay in terms of private charity. Households with more than $1 million in income donated more than $150 billion to charity last year, roughly half of all US charitable donations. Greedy? It hardly seems so.
And let us not forget the fact that the rich provide the investment capital that funds ventures, creates jobs and spurs innovation. The money that the rich save and invest is the money that companies use to start or expand businesses, buy machinery and other physical capital and hire workers.
It has become fashionable to ridicule the idea of the rich as “job creators,” but if the rich don’t create jobs, who will? How many workers have been hired recently by the poor?
No doubt dishonest or unscrupulous businessmen have gotten rich by taking advantage of others. And few of us are likely to lose much sleep over the plight of the rich.
But shouldn’t public policy be based on something more than class warfare, envy and stereotypes?
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Techland has released a trailer for Hellraid, a “first-person co-op slasher that offers a single-player, story-driven campaign of hack & slash action.” The game is being developed by Techland and is planned for a 2013 release on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Check out the trailer below.
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Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers releases for the first time in America tomorrow, here are some screens and a trailer to whet you appetite for the new dungeon crawler. You can read our review for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers when it releases for the 3DS [...]
City Interactive has released a new trailer for their upcoming First Person Shooter, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2. The trailer is titled Brutal War Crimes Bosnia. It takes place within the city of Sarajevo, where a conflict has reached the boiling point and many atrocities are being committed. It’s up to you the player to silently stalk your [...]
Atlus has released a new trailer for their upcoming Action/RPG for the Nintendo 3DS Etrain Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan; the trailer, named “Landsknecht”, shows off the game’s different characters and styles. The characters shown are the Swordsmen, a couple of fighters that the game calls the “Experts at [...]
Konami announced a release date for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate yesterday. The game is scheduled to release on March 5th for the Nintendo 3DS platform. The game, which is being published by Konami will take place 25 years after the first Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, and [...]
Atlus has released a new teaser trailer for their upcoming retro RPG tribute; Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan for the 3DS, along with the teaser are some screenshots and the game’s box art, you can watch the trailer below followed by the screenshots and the synopsis. Synopsis and [...]
City Interactive has released a new trailer on their YouTube channel that teases the gameplay of their upcoming First-person shooter, Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2. The original Sniper Ghost Warrior was released in 2010 to a very mediocre response, but it looks like City Interactive has improved greatly on the game. Stealth is key in, [...]
A new trailer for Square Enix’s stealthy third person shooter, Hitman: Absolution was released by the company yesterday during the Golden Joystick Awards. The trailer does show you a little more about the story behind the game, and you can kind of piece together what Agent 47 is really up to. Near [...] | <urn:uuid:ac633f7e-77d6-41b4-a773-5a056241e0d6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.omnigamer.com/tag/trailer/ | 2013-05-20T12:09:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93528 | 558 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
# India Orthodox Church’s only TV channel steps into second year of operations
# Fr Punchakonam says the visual media was launched with a prayer and we felt the unseen
power leading us more than our expectations
# Programs will be available through Android and Roku boxes on regular TV channels
# Function to be graced by HGs Mar Eusebios, Dr Mar Nicholovos and Dr Mar Yulios
# Ample opportunities for Orthodox members to showcase their talents
HOUSTON, Texas : As Orthodox TV (http://orthodoxtv.in) leaps into its second year of operations, it is stepping into a major change. It will be the transition of the TV to the regular TV on July 2, when it will be officially launched at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Houston.
Orthodox TV was inaugurated on July 3, 2011 at Chicago by its Chairman Dr Pulikkottil Geevarghese Mar Yulios, Metropolitan of Ahmedabad Diocese.
The authorities are happy to see the slow and steady growth as the only TV for the Indian (Malankara) Orthodox TV celebrates its successful first year of operations with a most modern studio.
Another major step from July 2 is that the Orthodox TV will be made available on regular TV through Android and Roku boxes, the package which is being included on Asianet (5 channels), Kairali, India Vision, Reporter, Jai Hind, Shalom, Power Vision, Raj TV, Jeevan, People Channel and up to 24 channels.
The shifting of the Orthodox TV programme to the Regular TV will be inaugurated by Zacharias Mar Nicholovos, Metropolitan of the Diocese of the North-East America and the distribution of Android Box will be inaugurated by Alexios Mar Eusebius, Metropolitan of Diocese of South-West America.
The meeting will be presided over by HG Dr Pulikottil Geevarghese Mar Yulios, Chairman of the Indian Orthodox TV.
Dr Alexander Karackal, Fokana President, G K Pillai, Fokana Trustee, Board Chairman Paul Karukapalli will deliver felicitation speeches at the function.
Charly Varughese Padanilam, Director Board Secretary and PRO, Indian Orthodox TV Inc, says, “By the grace of God we will continue the webcast along with the telecast on regular TV. We are thankful for God’s abundant mercies on this project and also thankful for the kind co-operation. We expect the same throughout. We are planning to give opportunities to talented Orthodox members. Those interested to show case their talents on Orthodox TV, please do contact us.”
India Orthodox TV Inc Board of Directors include Rev Fr Johnson Punchakonam (CEO), Charly V Padanilam (Secretary and PRO), Pulikottil I Joy (CFO), Dn George Poovathur (Director USA, Europe and Far East), Mathews John (Director Middle East & India), Mathew Ninan (Director, Programmes), Thomas George Poovathur (Director), Dr Kadavil C Chacko (Director), Abraham Eapen (Director), and Mathew George Poovathur (Director) under the Chairmanship of HG Dr Pulikkottil Geevarghese Mar Yulios.
Orthodox TV, CEO, Fr Johnson Punchakonam, notes that it was the dream of many Malankara Orthodox faithful to have a visual media of their own in order to spread the teachings on faith, worship and traditions of Orthodoxy. “We took this seriously and tried to establish it with prayer and that gave us strength to work to establish an Orthodox visual media. We started as a web TV and it has now reached the level of a regular TV status. ”
During every moment of our work, we felt the unseen power leading us, more than our expectations. Even though we were not financially sound to run such a project, the unseen power made everything possible at every moment and we firmly believe that is the power of God. Seven more faithful believers of the Orthodox Church joined with us and strengthened our team.”
The package is reasonably priced and available at $150 for 6 months and there are no other initial charges, which are renewable every 6 months and should be be subscribed directly from Indian Orthodox TV only.
For details contact Fr Punchakonam on email: firstname.lastname@example.org, cell: +1-678-342-0246 or
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Books & Literature Community Internet: AIAW Iranian American Manijeh Nasrabadi Persis Karim writers
by Pars Arts
The Association of Iranian American Writers (AIAW) has just launched their website, iranianamericanwriters.org, which features member profiles, excerpts of member work, and a blog. From the group’s mission statement:
The Association of Iranian American Writers is a member-based organization dedicated to promoting the work of fiction and non-fiction writers, essayists, poets, journalists, photojournalists, and artists who work with words. Iranian heritage and/or Iranian history and culture are important aspects of our work, although not necessarily our essential subject matter.
Membership starts at $50 ($35 for students). The group was founded by professor and writer Persis Karim and is co-directed by her and writer Manijeh Nasrabadi.
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Who: Angela Shaw
Where: Rosie's Bar and Grill, 2449 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors, 954-563-0123, RosiesBarAndGrill.com
What it is: A creamy, aromatic mix of white chocolate and peanut-butter liqueurs made as an entry in a Pinnacle Vodka competition.
What she says: "I used the white chocolate because I wanted it to have the creaminess," Shaw says. But that's not her taste. "I can't have dairy. At home, I drink margaritas."
Only through the grapevine: The Whipped Nuts cocktail is not on the menu at Rosie's because the place doesn't carry a cocktail list. Shaw's bar is stocked with the necessary ingredients, though, so she can make it on request.
Although bar staff is working to craft a drink menu, the Pinnacle contest creation most likely will not make it as a regular offering. The details of the new menu aren't settled, but Shaw says it will include a few cucumber cocktails.
— Maria Murriel, @mariamurriel
1 1/2 ounces peanut butter vodka
1 ounce whipped cream vodka
1/2 ounce Godiva white chocolate liqueur
Peanut butter morsels
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a small cordial glass. Garnish with bits of shaved chocolate and peanut butter morsels.
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If you're looking for hockey action in the Burlington, Vermont area, head to the C. Douglas Cairns Recreation Arena and check out the intense sports matchups taking place at the venue! Cairns Arena is the go-to place in the Burlington area for hockey practices and games, and there's something for every hockey lover at the arena. Get sports tickets today and head to Cairns Arena!
Cairns Arena is a 600-seat hockey arena that is owned by the South Burlington Recreation Department. Several hockey teams have called Cairns Arena home over the last several years, including the University of Vermont Club Hockey team as well as St. Michael's College Hockey team and more. Patrons that get Burlington Waterfront Park tickets are sure to enjoy the action at Cairns Arena during hockey season!
When it comes to hockey action in Vermont, one of the most renowned places for hosting hockey games is at Cairns Arena, an area hotspot. Cairns Arena is the ultimate place for hockey games and practices in the Burlington area, and there are plenty of teams to choose from when selecting an event to watch at the venue. Check out tickets to upcoming events at Cairns Arena!
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Story: Air crashes
Page 3 – Accidents and the development of aviation
The development of aviation in New Zealand has inevitably been accompanied by accidents, from which tragic but necessary lessons have been learned.
First air accidents
Nineteenth-century balloonist David Mahoney (alias Captain Charles Lorraine) was the first New Zealander to die in an air accident, drowning after his balloon came down in the sea beyond the entrance to Lyttelton Harbour in 1899. Balloons gave way to aeroplanes before the First World War, and the pioneering phase of aviation stretched into the 1930s. During these years aerial displays and tours were popular, and there were numerous mishaps. The first aircraft fatality occurred in 1919 when a biplane crashed during an aerobatic display over a race meeting at Christchurch, killing pilot Cecil Hill. Such accidents brought home the hazardous nature of flying.
An aerobatic error
Formation flying is risky – the slightest error of judgement can lead to disaster. A miscalculation led to the fatal crash of a Skyhawk in the RNZAF formation flying team, Kiwi Red, in 1989. The plane clipped another as it attempted a roll, and crashed into the ground. Subsequently, the team disbanded.
Early commercial aviation disasters
Commercial aviation began before the Second World War, flourishing after 1945 when a state airline, the National Airways Corporation (NAC), was established. In just under 11 years from 1938 there were five major fatal accidents. The two crew members of a Union Airways Electra that crashed at Māngere, Auckland, in May 1938 were the first people to die on a scheduled air service in New Zealand. In May 1942 another Union Airways Electra collided with Mt Richmond on a flight from Wellington to Nelson, killing five people. An NAC DC3 freighter carrying two crew hit a ridge overlooking Tory Channel in August 1948, and then in October 13 people died when an NAC Electra flew into Mt Ruapehu on a flight from Palmerston North to Hamilton. In March 1949 NAC suffered another calamity when a Lodestar flying from Auckland crashed only minutes from landing at Paraparaumu, killing all 15 on board.
While there were various causes, these disasters highlighted the need for industry regulation – including more rigorous in-flight safety procedures for commercial pilots – and revealed deficiencies in both aircraft and ground navigation aids. At that stage navigation beacons were not available everywhere in the country, and aircraft instruments were often unreliable. Influenced by recent events, in 1948 a government commission recommended restructuring civil aviation.
Stewards of safety
‘In the unlikely event of an emergency, follow the instructions of your crew – they know what to do.’ These words are familiar to New Zealand air travellers, but before the mid-1950s cabin crew were carried on only a few flights. After the crash of a DC3 near Raumati in 1954, some surviving passengers suggested that an air hostess might have helped save the lives of the three children who died. In 1956 NAC began employing air hostesses, and from 1960 attendants were mandatory on aircraft seating more than 14 passengers. They are trained in first-aid and emergency procedures and play an important safety role.
The 1963 Kaimai crash
The 1963 crash of an NAC DC3, with the loss of 23 people, remains the worst air accident within New Zealand. On 3 July the flight departed from Auckland, bound for Wellington via Tauranga, Gisborne and Napier. The weather was stormy, but forecasts underestimated the force of the wind. As the plane began its descent towards Tauranga it was caught in a downdraught and slammed into a ridge on the Kaimai Range. Insufficient altitude and navigational problems contributed to the crash, but the ferocious winds were the deciding factor. It took two days for rescuers to locate and reach the crash site.
The inquiry noted that there was no distance-measuring equipment at Tauranga airport, which would have given the pilot an accurate indication of how far he was from his destination. One recommendation was that this equipment be installed at all airports served by commercial flights. It also suggested a review of minimum safe altitudes for flights, taking into account terrain and weather conditions, and the provision of locator beacons for aircraft so they could quickly be found in the event of a crash. These were finally made mandatory in all passenger planes after several light aircraft were lost without trace in the early 1980s. Digital data flight recorders were gradually introduced to help determine the cause of accidents. Since 1989 they have been required on all multi-engined turbine-powered planes.
The New Zealand government regulated the aviation industry from 1918, when it passed an act to control civil aviation. The Air Board was established in 1920. Licensing of air services began in 1934, and from 1951 was administered by the Air Services Licensing Authority. In 1937 the Air Department was established to administer both military and civil aviation, and in 1964 a separate Department of Civil Aviation was set up. It became a division of the Department of Transport in 1968.
Restructuring and funding cuts in the 1980s reduced the government’s involvement in aviation. The much-reduced Air Transport Division, responsible for policing the industry, and the profit-making Airways Corporation, which managed air traffic control, were both established in 1987. Another development was the deregulation of the aviation industry, which led to a proliferation of new, mostly small, airlines. In 1990, air services licensing was abolished.
The diminished government role overseeing an expanding industry is widely believed to have contributed to deteriorating air safety. 1989 was a particularly bad year for accidents. Although there have been further changes, notably the establishment of the Civil Aviation Authority in the early 1990s, the monitoring of air traffic control and airline operations draws criticism into the 2000s. | <urn:uuid:9a146a05-f956-456a-b336-2db8cb8cc315> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/air-crashes/page-3 | 2013-05-20T11:54:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971089 | 1,199 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Give me an idea of when you two want to get started. I can't quite remember, but I think the infrastrux are in place. I need to start preparing the text.
I can't promise to get lots of lessons done in advance. Rather, I will try to stay a lesson or two ahead of you and perispomenon.
perispomenon wrote: Bert, can we test wether we can send each other emails with unicode text? Otherwise, we could just stick to a schedule and post in the textkit forum.
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IGN have 3 new still photos (which is exclusive to IGN, according to themselves) for the upcoming RE movie.
IGN RE Afterlife Gallery
Some short clips of the movie can be seen here.
Official web site for RE Afterlife has been launched:
RE Afterlife Official Site
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Above:Shown in it's original sealed case. Each of the three sides has a golden sticker attaching the top to the base that reads "Pyraminx Meffert".
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The white 1981 Meffert version.
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Clams belong to the group of animals called bivalves, which includes clams, mussels, oysters, and scallops. The soft body parts of these animals are enclosed between two shells; hence, the word bivalve. Bivalves are closely related to limpets, abalone, snails, slugs, squids, and octopuses. These animals, including bivalves, are collectively called mollusks.
Most bivalves reproduce by discharging sperm and eggs into the water where fertilization occurs. Some will spawn only when the water temperature reaches a critical level. The fertilized eggs develop into microscopic larvae, which are carried about by water currents for various lengths of time (usually 3-4 weeks) before setting, depending on the particular species and water temperatures. The larvae feed on microscopic organisms called plankton, and most species, after developing to the advanced stage, settle on and attach to gravel, shell, or sand grains, then burrow into the bottom. In contrast, oyster larvae cement themselves to hard, clean surfaces such as rocks and shells.
Since larval clams spend a considerable amount of time drifting about in the water before settling, the location where a particular larva ends up may be many miles from its parents. Many people assume that, if they transplant adult clams to their beach, they will soon populate the beach with clams. If the transplants survive and spawn, the resulting offspring will likely be scattered for several miles. A successful set of young clams on, any particular beach depends on a mass spawning of adult clams in a very large area, and on setting and survival on the beach in large numbers.
Hardshell clams include Manila and Native littlenecks, Butter clams, Cockles, Macomas and a few others of little harvest interest. These clams are found on beaches of mixed sand, gravel, and mud. They are commonly harvested using shovels or rakes. Except for the larger butter clams, rakes are usually most effective, and are less damaging to the clams and the beach
Manila and Native clams are similar in appearance and grow to 3 or 4 inches in length. The shells of both species have concentric rings and radiating ridges, making a kind of lattice sculpture. Manilas seem to have more distinct radial sculpture at the posterior end. Both species can draw their siphons completely into their shell. | <urn:uuid:91908869-56a1-4bda-bd29-7a8c5cf67fa0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfish/clams/ | 2013-05-20T12:02:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953567 | 505 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Well, the apple crisp went over OK at my mommy's group this morning. There wasn't a whole lot of time to do it, so the rush just kinda ruined the fun of it. But, here's my yummy apple crisp anyway! Between my cinnamon rolls baking this morning & the apple crisp in the oven this afternoon, my house smelled WONDERFUL!!!!
And, here's the recipe--as I did get a request from a certain British blog buddy. (**waves to Kara!**) I didn't have orange juice to add to the apples, so I added about 1/4 CUP of apple juice instead. BUT, when it was all baked up, the apple crisp was FULL of juicy liquids on the bottom. Too much, in my opinion. So, next time I wouldn't even add any juice.
I did a LOT of math when gathering all the ingredients. The bulk bin at the grocery store made for tremendous savings!!
At the meeting I had all the ingredients separated into different boxes for each table, including: cutting boards, knives & measuring cups/spoons. Once cut up, the apples were placed in a large freezer-type bag & the yummy crumbly topping was kept in a small ziploc bag. The moms each went home with their 2 baggies PLUS the recipe card. They could choose to toss it in a pan & bake it when they got home, or store it in the freezer for future baking.
Tonight the hubby & I are going to hang my new large dry-erase board. It's taken me so long to put the dang thing up because I wanted to paint it. And guess what color it is? PINK! 'Fairytale Pink' to be exact. I love spray paint. And like I've said in a previous post, I'm hoping this is just the beginning to my organization hassles. It is important to me to make even the mundane things in my art studio (file cabinet/bulletin board/dry erase board/shelving/etc) be exciting & interesting & artsy as well. I'll have to take pics of some of those "mundane" things for you in a later post.
And this is weird, but I'm gonna google around to find some cool colored dry-erase/white board markers. Do you think they make 'em in colors other than drab red/green/blue & black? I sure hope so. I'll let you know what I find. | <urn:uuid:a79eb674-d023-4633-9c11-f8fb99c1c276> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.whimsy-love.com/2007/10/apple-crisp-licious.html | 2013-05-20T12:23:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698924319/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100844-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957219 | 519 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The definition of hoodwink is to trick or deceive someone.(verb)
An example of hoodwink is when you tell a lie to your friend about why you want to borrow his car, saying you need to take a sick aunt to the hospital when you really want to go on a date.
See hoodwink in Webster's New World College Dictionary
See hoodwink in American Heritage Dictionary 4
transitive verb hood·winked, hood·wink·ing, hood·winks
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|Movie Name||Viewing Progress||Run Length|
|The Outlaw Josey Wales||135 min|
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|Trailer||The Outlaw Josey Wales: 3/12/2008||2 min 18 sec|
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The Outlaw Josey Wales: 3/12/2008
- The flipside of "Unforgiven". In the days following the Civil War, a Confederate soldier seeks revenge against the renegade Union troops that burned down his farm and killed his family. Fine acting and direction by Eastwood!
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Thursday, August 25, 2011 | 11:23 AM
Labels: AdWords Editor
AdWords Editor Version 9.5 highlights:
You can now do the following to maintain your campaign experiments:
Version 9.5 supports new and existing location extensions. You can create new manual location extensions for any address, modify existing locations, and download/upload location extensions in CSV and XML formats.
If you’re working on several large accounts, you can now download them in the background while you’re working on another open account. This can be a great timesaver by allowing you to continue working rather than waiting for the download to finish. | <urn:uuid:ccee22fa-ea3a-47df-9b77-f9618e9a1121> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://adwords.blogspot.com/2011/08/adwords-editor-version-95-for-windows.html | 2013-05-23T04:54:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87143 | 133 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
"They may sound a little weird, but if you decide to use some good semi-sweet chips, they turn out mighty tasty. You may substitute walnuts for the chocolate chips if you wish." — Barb
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3 1/3 cups
canned pumpkin puree
semisweet chocolate chips
These are wonderful! I am always looking for different recipes with pumpkin. Pumpkin is a great source of vitamin A. Making muffins, pancakes, cookies, bread, etc with pumpkin is a fun way for kids (and adults) to get that A. I did switch to half and half whole wheat flour and all purpose, used only 1 1/2 cups of sugar, and added cinnamon, ginger, and all spice.
I cut this recipe in half BUT I cut the sugar in half again to 3/4 cup for 12 muffins or a half recipe. I only used 1 1/2 cups flour because for 12 muffins, that's usually what I use and I was afraid the muffins would come out dry if I added more flour. Baking these at 350*, my muffins were done at just about 20 minutes. Thirty minutes and I would have had overdone muffins. These turned out okay but they didn't have much flavor. I think if I were to make these again, I'd increase the spices (like maybe use pumpkin pie spice) and I'd use some kind of fat (melted butter or vegetable oil) or even some cold brewed chai instead of plain water.
SO EASY! These tasted better than the muffins you get at the store. I added a few extra chocolate chips and they still turned out great.
I made this recipe for Kindergarten treats. More than one child came back for seconds. The leftovers went to the teachers and to my husband's place of employment. The demand for the recipe has been amazing! I really like the feature on this site that lets you customize the size of the recipe.
These muffins have a good flavor but you have to eat them as soon as they cook or they get tough/dry due to lack of oil. They have a good flavor but I think they really need some oil added for texture. I've made these several times before deciding what was wrong.
My husband bought some pumpkin-chocolate-chip-cookies and they tasted so good I wanted to make some pumpkin-choc-chip-muffins for a brunch that I was hosting. I halved the recipe, used half whole-wheat flour, cut down the sugar to 1cup ( half white, half brown) and used pumkin-pie-spice instead of nutmeg. My batter was pretty thick so I added a splash of milk and about 1/4c apple sauce to add moisture. The batter was plenty for 15 cupcakes-size muffins that rose beautifully and were done after 24mins. The muffins were absolutely delicious!! Very moist and rich. I did the calorie count and one muffin came down to only 150kcal!!! Next time I'll try substituting half the sugar for sweetener to cut down on the calories even more. Can't believe something this moist and decadent is actually fat-free!! Will be making again!
I divided the batter into two loaf pans and baked them for about 50 minutes. We are enjoying one loaf now and freezing the second for later. Fresh pumpkin puree worked well with this recipe. The "muffins" turned out moist and delicious.
These turned out exactly as I hoped they would. Moist, and darker on top than the picture. They did not stick to muffin tins as some said, but I was generous in greasing them. Cutting the sugar to 2 1/2 cups didn't hurt them. Also, I increased the chocolate chips to 1 1/2 cups.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Barb's Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
Serving Size: 1/24 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 24
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 213
** Calories from Fat: 29
See how to make super-moist pumpkin bread with chocolate chips.
These muffins are moist and tasty, and freeze well.
See how to make simple homemade muffins that are moist and chocolaty. | <urn:uuid:19b164a9-97af-4739-84d2-d14868410c1e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://allrecipes.com/recipe/barbs-pumpkin-chocolate-chip-muffins/detail.aspx | 2013-05-23T04:28:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967009 | 897 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Approximately 0 seeds per gram
seed-counts are only a guide, not to be used for accurate calculations.
B and T World Seeds' reference number:
Type of plant - annual
Fruit: ............(May-June crop)
Foliage: good quality protected WHITE curds
Common names for Brassica oleracea Cauliflower Peron late:
Brassica oleracea Cauliflower Peron late
is included in the following B and T World Seeds flowering plant categories:
161: Edible Flowers
185: Plant Species whose germination is improved by Smoke
Brassica oleracea Cauliflower Peron late seeds will usually germinate in 14-21 days. Sow seeds about 13mm deep in a Peaty seed sowing mix at about 22°C.
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Will not build a service business, will not build a service business, will not… oh snap! I just did.
The allure of immediate revenue from services is too strong of a temptation for many to resist. Software companies often walk an especially slippery slope: bespoke software systems (aka. custom made software). It’s almost impossible to say no: the customer is willing to pay for the development of the first version of your product, and actually use it and give you feedback?
But a bespoke software system fitting the needs of one client, and a product loved by many have so little in common.
Vision vs. Empathy
With a bespoke system, empathy comes first, vision second. You build exactly what the customer needs. You answer their specific requests. You immerse yourself in their world to really understand. You make it fit their way of working, and their environment. And everyone has their own way of working and slightly different needs.
With a product, empathy matters, but only in function of your vision. You envision a product, and then check if a large number of customers agree. And then obsessively iterate until you discover a product.
Yes, you have to discover it. First envision, then search hard until you find it.
Treat the Product Business as a Startup
And I don’t believe you will easily switch back to a product, after a couple of projects. Changing tracks back to product development is virtually impossible… A product and a service business are very, very different. Product requires investment of time and resources, focus and a freedom to search for a new business model. And a strong visionary entrepreneur (intrepreneur) to drive this process.
Let me break this down.
1. Time and commitment. Employees of a service business are very busy delivering. You don’t build a product company between answering customer calls and running after pressing deadlines. A startup project requires a real commitment. Count at least 20h-30h a week of focused work for 3-4 months just to develop the idea and have an initial validation.
2. Yes, a startup project. Developing a new product for a mass market is by definition a startup project. Startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. You’re not only building a product, but a complete business around it.
3. Focus. Discovering a product (and the business around it) is more often than not about deciding what not to do and not to implement. A service business can afford to be much more opportunistic. Master the illusive art of focusing.
4. The entrepreneur. You’ll need a focused, visionary entrepreneur to become the driving force behind the product. A “gets sh*t done” person – able to deliver high quality execution under conditions of extreme uncertainty. The entrepreneur will soon need a team of committed, creative and hard working people to jump in the adventure.
5. A mind-shift and a different approach. Service is a one-to-one relationship. You deliver exactly what your customer needs. The better you can understand the specific situation, the better you can tune the service for your client. Product also thrives on deep understanding of your customers. Many customers. It’s not about fine-tuning to meet specific request of one person. It’s about zooming in, scoping down, and finding that sweet spot – the product – that many will love.
Ever wondered about these funny terms of “customer discovery” and “customer development”? The terms and the approach behind them are counter-intuitive. You envision a product, and you find customers for it. And because this doesn’t work the first time, you start iterating. You have to discover the product.
Have it all covered? Good. Doing this in practice is hard. That is exactly why I keep blogging about a thing or out I do figure out the hard way. You can subscribe to my posts here.
You think you can pull it off differently? Do let yourself be heard – comments are open as of… now! | <urn:uuid:0e77e5a8-e465-47ba-9bd8-4952dbc6fa43> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.launched.be/2012/03/resist-the-temptation-product-not-a-service/ | 2013-05-23T04:54:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942489 | 860 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The 2013 Honda Civic is vastly improved over the 2012 model, and Honda wants you to know about it. While the Japanese automaker still sold heaps of 2012 Civics, the media—including a few of us here—were none to impressed by the lack of effort, and overall blandness of the previous model. In our editors’ collective about our Best and Worst of 2011, I wrote about the “shame of the 2012 Honda Civic,” saying:
“While doubtless the car is still a good, reliable car, there was no hint of passion, inspiration, excitement in that car. The fabric and dash were lackluster, and there was a general somberness about the car. We hear Honda execs have caught wind of their faux pas, letting such a storied model be shamed in such a manner. The questions are, what are they going to do about it, and when?”
It was to a chorus of calls such as this that Honda took notice, and its CEO even apologized and said Honda would do better. Continuous improvement, that’s the new slogan, and after recently driving the 2013 Honda Civic, we can say without hesitation that Honda made good on its promise to be better. To highlight its new motto, Honda has released a series of ads that are currently airing, for both the Civic sedan and Civic Si Coupe. Check out the one for the Civic Sedan below; you can see the rest on Honda’s YouTube page.And in case you haven’t caught them, you can check them out below. | <urn:uuid:ce1b3a31-a432-475c-820a-17d93359cb9e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.automotive.com/honda-ads-tout-continuous-improvement-2013-civic-123655.html | 2013-05-23T05:01:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97623 | 324 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Watch the action from the Third day of the RS:X Youth Worlds in Cyprus, including interviews with Polish team member Agnieszka Bilska and UK entrant Connor Bainbridge.
http://www.rsxclass.com – 3nd day of the 2010 Youth World Champioships and the low winds prevailed. The top windsurfers had to take risks. Some of them paid of – some didn’t. The key thing is that windsurfers entered the finals with small point differences.
For more info visit http://youthworldwindsurfingchampions | <urn:uuid:6b2e274f-23a3-4e89-bdda-d7b7b50619a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://boards.mpora.com/news/rsx-youth-worlds-2010-day-3.html | 2013-05-23T04:27:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888645 | 122 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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RE: Ceratopsian Frills
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Andrew A. Farke wrote:
> > From: firstname.lastname@example.org [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of
> > Richard W. Travsky
> > It occurs to me that a ceratopsian frill employed actively could also be
> > effective. Given the weight of a frill and the strong neck muscles needed
> > to hold and move the head around, a sudden jerk back could deliver
> > considerable force against a predator going for the neck.
> Hmm. . .an interesting thought. Very possible in Triceratops, which has a
Not to mention styracosaurus, which has frill spikes similar to those
> nice heavy frill. This might be a little dicier in animals such as
> Torosaurus, which have a very thin frill. Maybe I'll have to do some frill
> strength calculations among everything else these days!
Thin and "porous". That frill practically goes back to its butt. It looks
like it wouldn't be strong enough to hold up as a barrier either. | <urn:uuid:77bddacd-2da5-40f6-8975-81029a522b3e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dml.cmnh.org/2004Apr/msg00504.html | 2013-05-23T04:47:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905527 | 281 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
One Quick Handwriting Transcription Challenge Every Day-for the genealogist in you
Otto H Sarwitz is my guess...and that's all it is is a guess.
Otto H Saraitz.... but again, just a guess.
Otto H Sarwitz
Otto H Sarritz
Otto H Sararitz
Otto H.. Sarnitz, Samnitz, Sawitz, or Sarwitz.. the write over makes it trickier
Otto H. Sarwitz.
Otto H Sarawitz
You missed answering the "Lauaca, Texas" signature. I wonder what the last name is?
Otto H Sasaritz is it | <urn:uuid:537ae2d7-ea3d-490e-ba3c-a66928717ef2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://genealogytranscriber.blogspot.com/2012/07/lauaca-native-registers.html?showComment=1343962990220 | 2013-05-23T04:47:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.829542 | 143 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
It is probably a sign of my own wishy-washy character that I have a hidden bias against people who advertise themselves or others. (And here I sit writing a blog which could be equally accused of advertising myself.)
An example of this poorly-founded bias is my slight cringing when I see people wearing clothing with labels on the chest or ass or carrying hand bags with the maker's logo all over them. It's as if, without someone else's label to support them, these people might be less worthy, less elevated, less deserving of respect as people with their own personalities. "Chickenshit!" my querulous bias observes, although there is no solid evidence to prove that those adorned with labels are any less substantive than anyone else.
In England, the top gun Roman Catholic, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, is said to be planning to urge Christians to wear a cross around their necks ... "proudly." The sermon isn't to be delivered until tomorrow, Easter, but I doubt if any changes will be made, given the high probability that the sermon was leaked from the highest levels as a means of expanding its impact.
As in any endeavor, there is always a deep chasm that may divide artifacts from authenticity ... but still: Running around saying, "Look Ma! I'm a Christian!" makes me cringe as fingernails on a blackboard might make me shudder.
Look Ma! I'm a Buddhist!
Look Ma! I'm wealthy!
Look Ma! I'm a good person!
Ick! Ick! And more ick.
Oh well, fighting with bias is probably a poor strategy. But noticing it holds out some hope ... I hope. | <urn:uuid:ab6533c1-328a-42af-adca-41cfde1bed27> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://genkaku-again.blogspot.com/2012/04/religious-advertising.html | 2013-05-23T04:55:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960875 | 348 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Verplank plays through wrist injury at BMW
LEMONT, Ill. – Scott Verplank never expected to be in Chicago this week after withdrawing from the Deutsche Bank Championship with tendinitis in his left wrist.
Sore and already on the FedEx Cup bubble, Verplank didn’t really care about playing golf in Chicago as the pain in his wrist had gotten to the point of no return.
But when Charlie Wi made a long birdie putt on the 18th hole in Monday’s final round in Boston, Verplank moved from 71st to 70th on the list and earned an invitation to Chicago.
After receiving a cortisone shot on Monday, as well as an MRI, Verplank made the decision to make the trip.
“I don’t know that I ought to be,” Verplank said when asked why he was in Chicago. “I’m not going to hurt myself by playing; it’s just a matter of how much pain I could put up with.”
Verplank has been dealing with the pain for the much of this year, and while this is his first cortisone shot of 2010, the former U.S. Amateur champion said he averages two to three shots a year.
“I guess I always think I can figure it out and get better,” Verplank said. “That’s why I came here because I haven’t been playing very good and I know I’ve been hurting, but it really didn’t hurt much today.”
Hitting only 15-20 balls on Wednesday at his home in Oklahoma, Verplank decided it didn’t hurt enough to not make the trip.
Making four bogeys in the first seven holes at Cog Hill, Verplank was a little skittish about taking divots and bladed some shots before he decided to commit to hitting the ground.
“It wasn’t very good for the first five, six, seven holes, after that it actually wasn’t that bad,” Verplank said of his opening-round 76. “It hurt a lot less today than it’s hurt over the last two or three weeks.”
Verplank comes into this week 70th on the FedEx Cup list, and short of a win this week will not make the trip to Atlanta for the Tour Championship in two weeks.
If that is the case, he will shut it down for the season and let his wrist heal.
As part of that healing process, Verplank will have to stop lifting weights where gripping is involved. The gripping of the weights has been the reason for the recent inflammation.
One thing Verplank intends to do is pay Charlie Wi back.
“I sent him a nice text and told him I owed him dinner,” Verplank said after Wi made birdie on Monday. “He called me later and said glad I could help.” | <urn:uuid:30548dbd-f81c-4538-9286-593b9a35cf53> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://golfweek.com/news/2010/sep/09/verplank-bmw-pga-tour-wrist-bmw/ | 2013-05-23T04:41:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980547 | 638 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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In theory, a Wifi-enabled SD Card should make it easier to get photos off your camera, but there are some caveats. The card can communicate over wifi networks, but only when the camera is on and sending power to the SD card. This means if your camera puts itself into standby or "power save" mode, it may shut off the SD card and the wifi on it.
Be sure to read the reviews before spending this much on a SD card. | <urn:uuid:a2ed0e78-229b-48ef-9da1-95df48e2ce90> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hotdealsclub.com/deal/71c8f9240c1f31ed5808e4b0d20d1b6c/ | 2013-05-23T04:34:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.82541 | 248 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
October 15, 2011
Logan on "Mosaic Theory" and Megan's Laws
This essay urges reexamination of the privacy implications of registration and community notification (RCN) laws, commonly known as Megan’s Laws. Applying the analytic construct recently employed by the D.C. Circuit in United States v. Maynard to conclude that extended use of a GPS tracking device constitutes a search for Fourth Amendment purposes, the essay argues that the collection and aggregation of registrant data entailed in RCN implicates a protectable Fourteenth Amendment privacy interest. In both contexts, the government collects nominally public data – in Maynard, car travel, with RCN, registrants’ home/work/school addresses, physical traits, etc. – and creates an informational “mosaic” of personal life that would not otherwise practically exist.
With the Supreme Court’s recent grant of certiorari in Maynard (docketed sub nom. United States v. Jones), mosaic theory will soon be the subject of considerable debate. The essay seeks to contribute to this debate, pushing the applicable bounds of the theory and allowing for a more robust examination of RCN, as well as similar data-based social control strategies likely to emerge in coming years.
October 15, 2011 | Permalink | <urn:uuid:1943e42a-9cd2-4629-9b69-ae1d584e95e6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2011/10/logan-on-mosaic-theory-and-megans-laws.html | 2013-05-23T04:50:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914781 | 269 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Professor of the Graduate School Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
We are interested in the structure, function, assembly and interactions of biological macromolecules, with particular emphasis on the regulatory enzyme, aspartate transcarbamylase (ATCase).
Revisiting allostery. Recent x-ray diffraction studies resulting in a high-resolution structure of the free, nonallosteric, catalytic trimer of wild-typeATCase and mutant forms of the holoenzyme call into question the widely accepted structure of the so-called, relaxed (R) conformation of the holoenzyme. Previous crystallographic studies had designated the complex of ATCase with a bisubstrate ligand as the R state of the enzyme. However, it is now known from these recent studies that changes in the conformation may be the result of the actual binding event rather than the allosteric transition whereby the enzyme is converted from an inactive, taut (T) state to the activated R conformation. Various mutant forms with greatly altered allosteric equilibria serve as excellent targets for resolving this perplexing problem and for demonstrating the role of flexibility in controlling enzyme activity.
Formation of active enzyme from circularly permuted and fragmented polypeptide chains. Instead of the polypeptide starting at residue 1 as in wild-type ATCase, it is formed biosynthetically with N- and C-termini at many different locations in the chain and the wild-type termini linked through a covalent bond. These circularly permuted molecules serve as models to relate in vivo folding of growing polypeptide chains to in vitro refolding studies of denatured proteins. We have developed a method for producing randomly circularly permuted genes, inserting them in an appropriate vector, and allowing E. coli to select those permuted chains, which assemble into enzyme. Parallel studies with fragmented polypeptide chains are aimed at understanding the formation of domains and the effect of deletions of helical regions on stability and the folding and assembly pathways.
Quantitative Urea Gradient Gel Electrophoresis for Studies of Dissociation and Unfolding of Oligomeric Proteins. [N. N. Kalnine and H. K. Schachman (2002) Biophysical Chemistry (in press)]
In vivo assembly of aspartate transcarbamoylase from fragmented and circularly permuted catalytic polypeptide chains. [X. Ni and H. K. Schachman (2001) Protein Sci. 10, 519-527]
Random circular permutation leading to chain disruption within and near a-helices in the catalytic chains of aspartate transcarbamoylase: Effects on Assembly, Stability and Function. [P. T. Beernink, Y. R. Yang, R. Graf, D. S. King, S. S. Shah, and H. K. Schachman (2001) Protein Sci. 10, 528-537]
Binding of bisubstrate analog promotes large structural changes in the unregulated catalytic trimer of aspartate transcarbamoylase: Implications for allosteric regulation. [J. A. Endrizzi, P. T. Beernink, T. Alber, and H. K. Schachman (2000) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 5077-5082]
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The Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research (IGHR), hosted by Samford University every summer in Birmingham, Alabama, is one of the most valuable educational opportunities available to genealogists. Each year, the Institute provides several courses–including several perennial favorites like the “Advanced Methodology and Evidence Analysis” course coordinated by Elizabeth Shown Mills and the “Writing and Publishing for Genealogists” course coordinated by National Genealogical Society Quarterly co-editor Thomas W. Jones. For more information about the 2012 offerings, visit Samford University’s official IGHR website.
In the summer of 2010, the Birdie Monk Holsclaw Memorial Fund Committee announced the establishment of an annual scholarship for attendance at the Institute. The deadline for scholarship applications is 1 October of each year.
To apply for this scholarship, applicants are asked to submit to the Committee:
- The length of time you have been conducting genealogy research;
- The name of the IGHR course you plan to attend;
- In 500 words or less, a description of how participation in this course will benefit you;
- In 250 words or less, tell us about yourself;
- A letter of recommendation from another genealogist.
For full details, see http://www.cocouncil.org/documents/BirdieIGHR.pdf.
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THE mood in Davos late last month reflected the clear blue sky above the snow- capped peaks, where the chatter among 2,500 participants was mostly about Europe and the West, and less about the rest.
The prevailing mood was more upbeat than at any time since the outbreak of the global financial crisis (GFC). This year's "Davos consensus" was that the worst was over: The euro zone crisis had receded, better times were ahead for Europe; the United States had averted its fiscal cliff; and Japan, with freshly minted "Abenomics", was dashing for growth. However, I remain very sceptical about this consensus.
The Davos consensus was most pronounced on macroeconomic policy. Practitioners and experts displayed shades of grey on fiscal policy. International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde, reflecting the official IMF position, argued for fiscal "consolidation", though "paced" to prevent austerity-choking recovery. Others argued for looser fiscal policy. Hardly anyone held out for more stringent austerity to reduce public debt mountains in the West.
The consensus was firmer on monetary policy. Luminaries favoured continued monetary expansion, applauding rock-bottom interest rates and massive quantitative easing (QE) by the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (ECB), as well as expected QE by the Bank of Japan. Many saw room for much more QE. Some even held up Japanese Abenomics - coordinated expansionary fiscal and monetary policies - as a role model.
I found this talk deeply worrying. Policymakers and macroeconomic experts are clearly willing to tear up the rulebook in which central-bank independence and inflation targets were adopted to defeat the scourge of inflation. Fiscal rules, such as a balanced budget over the economic cycle, were adopted to restore order to public finances.
Escalating public debt (over 80 per cent of GDP in the European Union, over 100 per cent in the US and 220 per cent in Japan) is considered "manageable", as is the huge expansion in central banks' balance sheets. This is dangerous complacency, sending all the wrong signals for saving, investment and entrepreneurship - wealth-creating activity, in other words.
Where does this leave Asia? The answer is, with the exception of Japan, in much better shape than most advanced economies. Generally, Asian countries have quite low budget deficits and low levels of public debt (under 30 per cent of GDP on average). They are growing strongly - at about 7 per cent, compared with 1.4 per cent for advanced economies, according to the latest IMF forecasts for this year. And they are enjoying a "shift to the East": The short-term divergence of economic performance is accelerating the long-term convergence of Asian emerging markets on the West.
However, market reforms have stalled in most Asian countries. They still have repressive business climates that restrict domestic and foreign trade and investment, bloated public sectors, and especially restrictive markets in finance and energy.
With the exceptions of Hong Kong and Singapore, not one Asian economy is in the top 10 of the World Bank's Doing Business Index. Only five others (South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand and Japan) are in the top 25. The rest are way behind.
Generally, Asian economic institutions - public administration, enforcement of property rights and regulatory authorities, for example - are weak, and keep business costs high. Pervasive complacency on market reforms should temper sunny Asian optimism.
Now to look beyond the short-term to the medium-term prospects of the world economy's Big Three: the US, the European Union (EU) and China.
The new conventional wisdom is that EU leaders saved the euro. But this is a period of calm before another storm. Only the ECB's massive injection of liquidity into European banks, and its open-ended guarantee to buy distressed sovereign debt, saved the euro, and keeps it afloat.
There are three reasons to doubt the euro's survivability. First, ECB firepower, in addition to bailout funds in the European Stability Mechanism, may not be enough, given governments' and banks' addiction to cheap money.
Second, common fiscal rules will never be automatic. Inevitably, they will be bargained over and watered down to a low common denominator, and broken by countries unwilling or unable to stick to the rules.
Third, fiscal union and other centralised policies may prove to be disastrous political hubris. This latest march of top-down integration could spark populist backlashes.
The EU either faces perpetual firefighting to save a dysfunctional currency for many years ahead, or the euro breaks up sooner or later. Scant progress has been made on structural reforms, and Europe remains saddled with unsustainable debt, taxation and welfare-state entitlements.
Like the EU, China has mounting structural economic problems that, if not addressed, presage a major growth slowdown, possibly a crash. China's promotion of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has trumped market reforms. To combat the global financial crisis, there was a supercharged fiscal and monetary stimulus directed mainly at SOEs via state-owned banks.
These measures have reinforced the public sector, which guzzles capital and energy but employs only 13 per cent of the workforce, at the expense of the much more productive, labour-intensive domestic private sector and multinational enterprises. China's "demographic dividend" is also coming to an end, as the percentage of the workforce in the total population declines.
China's economy needs to "rebalance". Savings and investment need to decrease as a proportion of GDP, and the efficiency of investment needs to increase, as does private consumption. This demands supply-side reforms, mainly in "factor" markets for capital, labour, land and natural resources.
But these reforms are elusive, much more difficult than previous product-market reforms - they strike at vested interests at the heart of China's party-state, particularly the nexus between SOEs, state-owned banks, and government and party officials.
Substantial market reforms to rebalance growth and make it more sustainable are unlikely to materialise soon. China will likely face a major growth slowdown, perhaps down to 5 per cent to 6 per cent per annum, along with increasing conflict between a restless, marketised society and authoritarian politics.
That leaves the US. The conventional view is that it has escalating public debt and a gridlocked political system. There is a giant question mark hanging over public debt. Nevertheless, the US has "deleveraged" more than Europe since the global financial crisis: Households and banks have sharply reduced their debt burdens.
Also, the economy is undergoing three structural transformations: an energy revolution based on shale oil and gas; a manufacturing revolution based on advanced-materials technology; and a services revolution, which will allow US multinationals to serve the burgeoning middle class in Asia.
These revolutions are not happening elsewhere. They are testament to the underlying dynamism of American society, based as it is on secure private property rights, free enterprise and the free circulation of ideas.
In Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, main character Hans Castorp intends to stay at the sanatorium in Davos for three weeks - but ends up staying seven years. Much of the European economy will stay in the sanatorium for seven years or longer. The US has a good chance of checking out before that. China is not in the sanatorium, but it might end up there if it does not change bad habits.
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Got my 3 covers from overseas in today. Outstanding quality and service from the site. they delivered on time and for free. only had to pay customs R26 clearance
Rock Quicksand in light grey
Nillkin ultra slim shield in black
Nillkin Dynamic colour in black
Currently using the dynamic colour and it is fantastic. Good quality and the look and texture is great. It gives the phone grip and looks unique
The quicksand is also great. Very different texture to other cases and the other Nillkin is just a plain good quality black case
The Nillkins also come with screen protectors too
I think I'll probably end up just using the colour but had to buy before I could try
They look great
What about pricing
Thanks for the feedback. How did you go about ordering these? They look great.
expansys says theres a delay with my order.some yr end stuff in uk
My phone keeps on loosing signal. When I reset it, it works usually for a bit and then looses the signal eventually again. This seems to happen mostly when I am moving (between towers?). Everything was fine for the first month or 2 - so I doubt it is the sim. (Although I have a homemade micro sim...)
Does anyone else have this problem?
mmm sounds like the much publicised antenna issue (the Sim and wifi antenna are the same), whats yr Serial Number if its XX26HXXX.. or earlier then I think its the antenna problem (which was fixed from S/N XX26IXX... onwards)
Strangely, I never have 3G issues. I have 3G (good speeds) but no network signal...weird. It is definitely not limited to just moving. I restarted it this morning (after the post) and when I looked at the phone now for the serial number I noticed that there is no signal again
I guess the serial number is on the original package? Will have to check at home, but was hoping it is not the antenna issue. I have read it also only appears after a while, but thought maybe it is not the same antenna. (I have not tried the wifi).
Mayurh: So I must turn auto off?
Will MTN replace the phone?
Would GSM vs WCDMA vs GSM/WCDMA auto make a difference? I have no idea what it means under network mode...
If a manually select the network it doesn't want to connect to MTN - saying that "your sim card doesn't allow connection to this network".
if you set it to auto it should use 3g when possible
problem is when 3g coverage is poor it would keep switching to gsm
if you set to wcdma only then its only going to use 3g and not all areas have 3g.so here in s.a we can not use wcdma only
you should either have it on auto or gsm only
easiest way to check is when the signal is low or gone (check signal icon in status bar) then hold the phone between thumb and finger at the top of the phone between the camera lens and volume button and press together, while pressing look at the signal icon and see if it improves (give it 5 seconds or so of pressing) if it does its the antenna issue... | <urn:uuid:54cd8257-219a-4a77-8e27-2d2af8a92b27> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/418854-HTC-One-X/page36 | 2013-05-23T04:40:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958405 | 692 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This is a really thought provoking and interesting article with points that go far beyond what the title implies. Whilst focused on the Green Brigade, brilliant as they are, there are parts that delve into far bigger questions in a really positive way. Particularly in terms of how football authorities and the clubs themselves materially value control over campaigns such as anti-racism rather than encouraging effective grassroots action, the importance of autonomous left/progressive organising amongst football fans and debunking the deliberate criminalisation of youth supporters and ultras culture under the guise of hooliganism. Well worth a read.
And as always, welcome any comments or questions to provoke discussion - lot of points raised in the article.
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Could Texting Make Kids’ Grammar Worse?
We already know texting while driving is bad, but new research seems to indicate that even before kids are old enough to get behind the wheel, texting might have another downfall: it’s making their grammar worse.
Middle school students tend to use shortcuts or “techspeak” while texting — for example, “great” becomes “gr8″ and “would” is changed to “wud,” and so on. If it stayed within the realm of texting, that would be one thing, but apparently it’s creeping into the kids’ non-digital world as well.
Researcher Drew Cingel from Northwestern gave a group of tweens a grammar test, and then surveyed them on their texting habits. The results showed a link between poor grammar scores and frequent texting, and found that the more tech-speak texts the kids sent and received, the lower their grammar scores were.
In addition, the students seemed to be influenced by the grammatically incorrect messages sent by their friends and family.
“In other words, if you send your kid a lot of texts with word adaptations, then he or she will probably imitate it,” said S. Shyam Sundar, a Penn State communications professor who worked with Cingel. “These adaptations could affect their offline language skills that are important to language development and grammar skills, as well.” | <urn:uuid:88ae0988-42ba-4ae6-8bd2-0bd96a997393> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newstalk1290.com/could-texting-make-kids-grammar-worse/ | 2013-05-23T04:33:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967135 | 303 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Errrm...love Angel and BTVS, and I'm particularly hooked on a few of the following couples: Cordy/Angel, Willow/Spike, Dawn/Spike, Buffy/Spike, Dawn/Connor, Fred/Gunn, Faith/Wesley, and Anya/Xander. But I'd have to say my faves are C/A and W/S.
I read and write fanfiction, though most of my fics are not of the posted-already. Um, I own S3 and S4 of Angel, and I have about eleven or twelve Buffybooks and Angelbooks.
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Taken from Wikipedia: "BDD is a mental disorder in which the affected person is excessively concerned about and preoccupied by an imagined or minor defect in his or her physical features. The sufferer may complain of several specific features or a single feature, or a vague feature or general appearance, causing psychological distress that impairs important functioning or social aspects of life."
Panelists used the example of men in the gay community who have a preoccupation with big and lean muscles, one which drives them to spend countless hours in the gym.
Also from Wiki: "Most people wish that they could change or improve some aspect of their physical appearance; but people suffering from BDD, generally of normal or even highly attractive appearance, believe that they are so unspeakably hideous that they are unable to interact with others or function normally for fear of ridicule and humiliation about their appearance."
Panelist Elan Cohen described many of his male clients with BDD as having "ideal" body types (ripped abs, huge arms and chest, etc) who still believe themselves to be fat. Another therapist, Carly Schulman, mentioned that 90% of her BDD clients - mainly women who believed themselves to be fat - weren't actually overweight.
BDD should not be taken lightly as it seems to go hand-in-hand with depression, OCD, anxiety, and eating disorders. The panelists spoke of the frequent need to medicate clients with BDD.
So how do you recognize this condition? Some signs include:
- Compulsive mirror-checking or obsession with one's reflection
- Reassurance-seeking from loved ones
- Social withdrawal
- Frequent referencing of celebrities the person wishes to resemble
- Obsession with plastic surgery
- Someone who makes a promise or an agreement to do (or not do) a certain behavior - i.e. "Today is my day off from the gym." - and then still does it, may be suffering from BDD.
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Welcome to our monthly spotlight blog hop. You should have come from Carol's blog. This month we are featuring Just Blooms. I love these little flowers, they come in big flowers, little flowers and in various shapes and colors. I have them all but my favorites are the ones are the little colonial white ones. They can add so much to any project. Today I thought I would just showcase a card.
I decided to add some green buttons to my card for the centers of each flower.
These little flowers are also perfect to stamp on or to dye. You can dye them with reinkers or you can even sponge them to gradually build color.
Here is my completed card. I used one of my
favorite papers from the Twitterpatted paper pack. This paper is so fun and flirty which is exactly what I think of when I see these girls from the Be Yourself stamp set.
Here is another view of the card
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IBOC's real return
When I was asked about the return on investment of IBOC, my initial reaction was skeptical; after all, how can we quantify the return in terms of hard dollars? Even if we could, would I expect the answer to be something like “profit”? Not really.
IBOC is still in its infancy and any startup technology takes time to work its way through the masses. Radio has a unique advantage, however, in that virtually everyone over the age of five already knows about it and, more importantly, which stations they prefer. One would think that a simple transition to a digital format would be easy, assuming that there are radios to pick it up--right?
Unfortunately, in the past five years a multitude of competitive technologies-webcasting, satellite, Wi-fi, digital wireless telephones--have hit the market, most of which offer technical capabilities at least as good as IBOC.
You can't help but notice that when it comes to virtually any form of data broadcasting there is an IP address (or some derivative) involved. Most devices that have the ability to transfer data to another destination have some form of unique digital address.
This is how connections get established from one source to the intended destination in our new IP-based society. While not currently using formal IP addresses, IBOC could presumably permit radio to implement selective addressing in the future. In my mind, this is what IBOC really brings to the table; not improved audio, not expanded data services and certainly not multichannel broadcast capabilities, but the possibility to become digitally compatible with the other emerging data services.
As subscriptions to satellite radio push the four million mark and well-established air personalities are considering (or already committed) to moving to the new medium, terrestrial radio operators are finally paying attention. Countless articles appear in the trades talking about creative methods to reposition terrestrial radio against the satellite operations and an on-air campaign has recently appeared with artists reminding us that they got their start on the radio. These are cute and might help preserve the erosion, and any attempt is definitely better than remaining silent, but the larger competitive issue doesn't lie exclusively with the satellite operators. Webcasting is all over the Internet; it seems like there is a broadcast for every taste.
Apple has done an excellent job of marketing the Ipod. To make the device more appealing, particularly to us older users, the company made deals with some high-end auto manufacturers to provide a plug-in interface to the auto sound system; smart move. There are countless other add-ons to appeal to just about everyone. Why does the Ipod present a challenge to radio? Enter the Podcast. Here is an idea that is so simple, but it needed a device like the Ipod (or any other digital device that can record and play the MP3 format) to take off.
Podcasting is downloading prepackaged programming content; instead of hearing a show in real-time, you can download programs that can be enjoyed when convenient. Of course, these could also be played from your PC as well, but the portable digital player gives the flexibility of using it anywhere. Think of this, it would be pretty easy to use IBOC data streams to provide this type of content to listeners. An argument could be made to abandon the push to provide multiple channels of audio content over IBOC in favor of maintaining a traditional audio channel and keeping the additional data bandwidth as large as possible.
The next big competitor
While the Internet provides a rich source of diverse program content, it's not always available wirelessly over large areas, until the deployment of digital mobile phones. Wireless mobile phone carriers have quietly been upgrading their networks and handsets to provide a wide variety of digital services including e-mail, Web browsing and video services. As most of us are aware, any handsets purchased in the past three years has at least one of these capabilities and most current phones offer the full array of features. What you might not be aware of the next generation of network enhancements enable the phones to take advantage of high-speed data services.
The enhancement is called high-speed circuit-switched data (HSCSD). Wireless carriers are implementing this service currently and it is already in operation by some carriers in the top markets. So what's the big deal? In December, Sprint signed a deal with Music Choice to provide programming content to its subscribers.
For a monthly fee its customers will be able to access the audio (and possibly video) content of their choice. Other carriers will follow as their network capabilities are upgraded. Cingular expects to completely cover at least the top 20 markets by end of this year. Consider that wireless networks reach nearly 100 percent of the top 100 markets, and if current wireless telephone use is an indicator, this adds up to 40 or 50 million potential listeners.
Also consider that mobile phones provide full-duplex capabilities, which in the future might open some interesting interactive applications. As wireless network operators complete the move into third-generation services and begin to rollout the fourth generation of services, their capabilities will be on par with high-speed wired connections.
Put a data port on the radio
Finally, if indeed the ability to broadcast streams of data to listeners is important, radio needs to have the ability to interface with other devices. I think this will ultimately be the key to integrating terrestrial radio to the mainstream devices that we are beginning to rely on as a society. It will be necessary for standards to be developed that permit porting ancillary data streams through a USB port or, even better, use a wireless scheme such as Bluetooth that will allow similarly enabled devices, located in close proximity, to communicate.
Perhaps the answer to the return on investment for IBOC lies in its ability to keep pace with the emerging services. Viewing IBOC as a platform that is capable of accommodating a variety of technologies rather than simply a method to broadcast information and entertainment is the key to radio's longevity. Our mobile society is becoming conditioned to access all of their information and entertainment on fewer devices that can be carried with them. It's not hard to imagine the demise of traditional AM/FM radios, not unlike what happened to AM-only radios. To ultimately realize that investment, terrestrial radio operators need to stop viewing themselves as a provider of readily available free entertainment, but as a digital content provider.
McNamara is president of Applied Wireless, Elkins Park, PA.
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Homemade items add a homey touchAuthor: • Sep 12th, 2012 • Category: arts, lead
Photo by Erin Iverson
By Elizabeth Derstine
A menagerie of maps, a plethora of posters and a glut of greenery can be spied in the Yoder, Miller and Kratz dorms this year. As a person keeps looking, more individualized items start materializing. One can find plaster lion heads mounted on walls and displays of flat brimmed hats. Original Goshen College art is harder to come by, but for what it lacks in quantity it is make up for in quality.
Tessa Ray, a first-year, hates white walls and has brought with her three large canvases she painted last year to conquer the barren atmosphere. Two of the paintings have dream-like trees and scenery composed of fanciful colors. At first glance, the other canvas doesn’t look like much: an off-white shade with a swatch of blue on the bottom, though from certain angles one can see the words “Shut up” inscribed in it.
The room of Aaron Bontrager and Jordan Weaver, sophomores, has an otherworldly feel. One wall, completely papered in spray paintings of outer space, is an immediate attention grabber. Bontrager and Weaver created the paintings this summer using advice from YouTube clips that involved mixing colors and working with bowls to create the round planets.
David Pauls, a first-year, has a passion for spray painting. Silhouettes of Bob Marley, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn and Samuel Jackson, among others, are stuck to the walls. Pauls creates all his own stencils, one of which can take up to an hour to make. Pauls hopes to eventually cover the room with his art, so most of his free time is devoted to the creation of stencils.
Wall hangings are not the only way students have decided to show their artsy side in the dorms this year. Sophomore Alma Miller sewed four dolls, each in the likeness of a girl in her quad. Miller had extra fabric lying around over the summer and decided to make caricature dolls of the Harry Potter characters. After completing the Hermione doll, though, Miller said, “I decided I didn’t really want to make seven or eight dolls and instead made something special for our quad.” So the Hermione doll became Miller and now all four dolls are displayed on a shrine in the room | <urn:uuid:33d9f5ea-be04-4abd-8917-b8f5cc91c0e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://record.goshen.edu/2012/09/21362-homemade-items-add-a-homey-touch | 2013-05-23T04:48:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946165 | 518 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
At a recent San Francisco stop on the Portlandia tour, Thao & Mirah joined the show’s two stars, Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen, to cover Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It,” basically one of the most perfect songs in the history of the English language. It’s impossible to tell whether they’re joking, but everyone seems to be having fun, so whatever. Watch it below.
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Mario and Luigi Rings for You and Your NES Friend
January 14th, 2010
Do you have a childhood friend who you always used to play Nintendo games with? Then you might want to get a pair of these ridiculously cute Mario and Luigi “best friends” rings.
Each pair is lovingly hand-sculpted from polymer clay by Patricia of Charlie Carter Creations. They feature the slightly bulbous, cartoony heads of your favorite little plumber brothers, each attached to a silver-tone adjustable ring. For some reason, their googly eyeballs remind me of Marty Feldman more than Mario or Luigi, though.
The pair is available over at the artist’s Etsy shop for $20 (USD), and they take about a week since each one is made to order. And if you don’t have a best friend, you could always buy the set and hog them both for yourself. | <urn:uuid:66d0b93e-9b4a-41c9-9581-79fcf685bbff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://technabob.com/blog/2010/01/14/mario-and-luigi-rings/ | 2013-05-23T04:41:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943201 | 188 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Ph.D. Program FAQ
1. What is the deadline for applications?
The deadline is in early December of the year prior to starting the program. Please note that this is earlier than the SBU Graduate School deadline. We advise you to meet the departmental deadline in order to submit the most competitive application.
2. Do you have more information on the program to send?
All of the information on the program is available on the website. If you have read this information and are still trying to decide if Stony Brook University is right for you we suggest that you study the research interests of the faculty and students to see if these topics coincide with your graduate research interests.
3. Does the Department of Anatomical Sciences have a masters degree program?
No, we have no formal Masters Degree program. Students advancing to the Ph.D. do receive a Masters Degree in the course of the Ph.D., however, we do not admit students whose next goal is to obtain a Masters Degree.
4. Should I visit Stony Brook?
Students may visit the campus at any time. We prefer, however, to invite candidates for extensive interviews by department faculty after the applications have been reviewed (typically after December 1). It is also frequently possible to meet our faculty at national scientific meetings such as the annual meetings of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology or the Association of Physical Anthropologists.
5. Does the program have any prerequisites?
Applicants should hold a BA or BS degree by the time they would enroll in the Ph.D. program. In the past, successful applicants have typically majored in such disciplines as biology, anthropology, geology, however, we do not specify that applicants take particular courses or have followed particular majors. A course in anatomy is not a prerequisite.
6. Are any GRE subject exams, particularly the biology subject exam, required for admission?
7. How old is the program?
The Ph.D. in the Department of Anatomical Sciences has been granted since 1971 when the School of Basic Health Sciences was granted the authority to offer a Ph.D. by the New York State Department of Education.
8. How large is the program?
Our program is highly selective, and typically there may be four-seven active Ph.D. students at any time. Due to close interactions with the Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences (IDPAS), the student body feels much larger because many students from other departments work in the laboratories of the faculty in the Department of Anatomical Sciences.
9. Are there opportunities for fieldwork?
Approximately half of the faculty in the Department of Anatomical Sciences have active national and international field projects and frequently there are opportunities for department graduate students to participate.
10. Do Stony Brook graduate students work while they are getting their Ph.D.?
It is a program requirement that graduate students teach anatomy with dissection at least once to obtain the Ph.D. This is typically accomplished during the second year. We support our students by a variety of different funds (university, department, National Science Foundation, etc...) and we strive to identify steady support for students in good standing. The program is quite demanding thus our students typically do not hold outside jobs while they advance towards the Ph.D. Exceptions to this pattern are occasional opportunities to tutor students in anatomy, or to teach a short summer anatomy course. Work of this kind also reinforces teaching skills and shapes professional development.
11. Does the department have stipends, research assistantships or teaching assistantships?
Yes, as noted above we strive to support our the students in good standing through a variety of funds (university, department, National Science Foundation, etc...). This support may take the form of research or teaching assistantships.
12. What do your students do after graduation?
Many of our students hold highly competitive academic positions at colleges and universities. These positions typically combine work in teaching, research and administration.
13. Does the application require any supplemental materials?
14. Do applicants have to have a Masters degree to apply to your PhD program?
No. A Masters degree is not required, many of our students enter the PhD program after completing a BS or BA degree.
15. Where do I mail my transcipts?
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Play.me Announces Music ‘Caching’ Android App for US
Recently launched digital music service, Play.me, has announced an Android app which gives users the ability to temporarily save playlists directly to their phone.  The current browser-based setup allows for instant access to over 2.5 million songs, custom playlists and radio stations for streaming and sharing through social networks.
Play.me enables music fans to quickly find and play all the songs they love from a comprehensive, continually updated catalog and find new artists with Play.me’s discovery tools, including similar artist suggestions, new releases, and dynamic commercial-free radio stations which can be instantly created based on genre, artist, and decade. – press release
The Play.me Android app, touted as a “first of its kind in the US market” allows users to temporarily save playlists directly to their phone for uninterrupted playback should a cell phone/WiFi connection be lost. This would come in handy for jet-setters and daily commuters who often find themselves on the subway.
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Why it has to be played loud
Brian Gygi, Ph.D.
I know from my experience as a "rock" musician that there are certain amplifiers (Mesa Boogie, Gallien-Kruger and Marshall seem to be the best examples) which sound their best when the gain is nearly at full. The harmonics are richer, and there is an edge to the sound that is just not present at lower settings. In fact, one G-K amp I had sounded fabulous right before it caught on fire (really). I don't know if this is a conscious engineering design (I suspect so) but I have found it's pretty reliable. That's why the joke about "turning the amp to 11" in Spinal Tap had such resonance.
Speech and Hearing Research
Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System
150 Muir Road
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(925) 372-2000 x5653
From: Laszlo Toth [mailto:tothl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: Hearing Loss "False Positives"
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, reinifrosch@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Old guys with undamaged hair cells have the advantage that they can fully
> enjoy classical tonal music with its change from dissonant to consonant
> chords and back. According to the Helmholtz consonance theory that
> change is due to the presence or absence of beats generated by pairs of
> partial tones of almost equal frequencies. These partials tend to be
> soft, and their frequencies tend to be high.
Do you know the answer to the opposite: why is rock music more enjoyable
loud? I think that it would be important to understand.
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Can someone please recommend any plain text file editor or at least viewer? I have been searching high and low in the stores and can't find anything.
This has been discussed before
, but the thread is closed. Someone there said:
Put the .txt on the memory card. Go to 'Media', push the menu button (the one to the right of the trackball, with BB logo), select 'Explore', find your file, select, click, and enjoy. You can view it just fine, cannot edit text though.
But no, that does not work for me. I just get a black screen.
Oh, and I think that Mobipocket sucks. It has to be running all the time even when I'm not using it, the letters don't look very good, converting is an inconvenience and their converter requires Windows. So Mobipocket is ruled out.
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the website of St Mary's Boys National School, Monaghan where each
Dignity is respected,
Talents are encouraged,
Needs are supported.
St Mary's BNS was originally
founded by The Christian Brothers in 1866 -over 140 years ago
The old school
was in Lakeview and in 1989 we moved into the present building which
was the old secondary school. The school was locally known as The
The current enrolment in St. Mary's NS on September 30 2008 was
298 Pupils -
This includes one girl who
is enrolled in the Speech
and Language unit based
in the school.
In recent years our school has taken on an international culture
having students from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Russia,
Somalia, Nigeria, Croatia, Pakistan, Slovakia in many of our classes.
This variety of cultures and languages provides a unique learning
experience for all our students and is indicative of an ever-changing
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Fit and finish are fine, I think the interior will be shot in anouther 20k, with a custom CD player what's not to like while you sit in traffic.
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Kellan Lutz Talks RPattz and 'New Moon'
New Moon hunk Kellan Lutz was in Australia this past weekend, busy promoting the Twilight franchise and cuddling up to Miss Universe Australia.
Kellan, who plays Emmett Cullen in the Vampire flick, was on the Australian radio show Kyle and Jackie O and gave quite a revealing interview, including the fact that they're already halfway through filming the second movie! Here are the best parts:
On Rob Pattinson as a musician: "Everytime he picks up guitar, opens that part of his throat and sings.. It's magical."
If Rob is pissed about the smelly rumors: "Rob never gets pissed, shy guy.. humble. I dont think anything can get to him really...He's so talented. I've never met someone who can ...just do anything and everything!"
On Rob's naked scene in Little Ashes: "Good for him for doing something out there."
How is New Moon different than Twilight? "It's more action based, not as much a love story. It's more about the best friend relationship (Bella and Jacob) and the CGI."
Is he jealous of all the attention Rob gets? "I have cut-outs of Rob's magazine and put my face on them." (Joking)
On his relationship status: "I'm quite single."
And just for fun, here's a video of Kellan and co-star Edi Gathegi doing a traditional Australian dance called "The Nutbush" at a party called "Twilight Prom" on Saturday evening: | <urn:uuid:76949530-f5a5-4a8a-83c8-d33a4967ee7b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.celebuzz.com/kellan-lutz-talks-rpattz-new-s103001/ | 2013-05-23T04:55:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970195 | 330 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Vancouver’s serenade to summer
Noon concerts, Six to Sunset series entertain people of all ages
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Riverview Six to Sunset Series
Family-friendly free concerts, 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 11, starting today at Esther Short Park, Eighth and Columbia streets in downtown Vancouver.
Terry Lee Noon Concerts
Noon to 1 p.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 10 at Esther Short Park. Free.
Riverview Six to Sunset Concert Series
6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays at Esther Short Park.
July 14: 5 Guys Named Moe.
July 21: Patrick Lamb Band.
July 28: Quarterflash.
Aug. 4: The Antics.
Aug. 11: Hit Machine.
Terry Lee Noon Concerts
Noon to 1 p.m. Wednesdays at Esther Short Park.
July 13: Justin Klump.
July 20: Key of Dreams.
July 27: Flexor T.
Aug. 3: Tom May.
Aug. 10: Misty Mamas.
With a light breeze easily carrying the sounds of the Vancouver Pops Orchestra, Mindy Sievers sat in the shade at Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday with blankets spread around her, visiting family lounging and her two kids splashing in the nearby water fountain.
Everything seemed on target for a perfect afternoon — except they could have used some chairs. Instead, Sievers leaned on her husband, Tony, who balanced them both on the cooler holding those icy drinks. The family was among several hundred people who showed for the first Terry Lee Noon Concert of the summer, held in the state’s oldest city park.
Sievers, 35, said she’s attended the concerts for the past several years.
“It’s a charming part of the city,” said Sievers, a Salmon Creek resident. “You get your kids a little culture, it’s a good way to spend the afternoon.”
The noon concerts join the Riverview Six to Sunset Concert Series, set to start its 25th year of free music tonight.
That’s what Chuck and Grace Prochnow of Hazel Dell said they were waiting for. The pair said they stopped by to enjoy Wednesday’s noon show and a sandwich after working out nearby, but the “main event is tomorrow night,” Chuck Prochnow, 78, said.
“It’s a great community feeling, coming down and watching families having a good time,” said Grace, 72.
The longtime evening concerts first took place at Waterworks Park near Clark College, before moving to Esther Short Park, and feature family-friendly acts.
The Thursday night series is presented by Riverview Community Bank with support from Dr. Bonny Lund, a Vancouver dentist; and contributions from the Port of Portland, Stanford’s Restaurant and Bar, Waste Connections, The Columbian and Corwin Beverage Company.
Both the noon and evening series, held weekly through Aug. 11, have food vendors and kids’ activities.
As the Vancouver Pops Orchestra played tunes from Tchaikovsky to John Philip Sousa marches, little girls in tutus spun with excitement while other children blew bubbles and conducted science experiments at a Science in the Park booth.
Terry Lee, the Vancouver attorney who sponsors the noon concerts with support from The Columbian and Corwin, stood back, watching the scene unfold.
“It’s fun seeing the crowd — it’s either families or older folks,” he said. “Isn’t it great?”
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Planet of the Apes: The Complete TV Series
After Battle for the Planet of the Apes was a modest theatrical hit and a TV broadcast of the original Apes scored for CBS, everyone was poised to bring Apes to the small screen. The concept the producers settled on was a pretty good one, actually: Two new astronauts family man Alan Virdon (played by Ron Harper) and smart-ass younger guy Pete Burke (James Naughton) crash-land on a future Earth where apes rule and humans are slaves. To bring back Roddy McDowall (who'd emerged as the heart and soul of the Apes series), the producers created Galen a decidedly Cornelius-like, arched-eyebrow sissy who was forced to flee with the astronaut fugitives when he saved them from the treacherous gorilla General Urko (Mark Lenard) and Machiavellian orangutan Councilor Zaius (Booth Coleman). Not a bad set of ideas. But "Apes" TV was for the most part an aggressively mediocre series (with sporadic flashes of goony fun and inspired acting) that got well and thoroughly creamed by the one-two punch of "Sanford and Son" and "Chico and the Man." (The show premiered in September 1974; it was canceled that December with one episode never even getting a first-run U.S. broadcast.) The central problem? The show's "watered-down" vibe. The series doesn't dive into the "Apes" universe in any sort of detail; our heroes simply scratch the surface, moving from village to village along the northern-California coast. Even worse, the show dilutes the movies' delicious mix of social commentary, brutal violence, stagy histrionics, and light sadomasochism. Even the cornerstone racial commentary is blunted: Where the movies adopted a pessimistic view of humanity eventually cloaking their apes in revolutionary fervor "Apes" TV is all about how Virdon and Burke are smarter than (and morally superior to) those stupid, backwards monkeys. Every week, our astronaut heroes upstage ape society with 20th-century technological know-how, spreading revolutionary fervor and hope among the simple humans populating the countryside with Galen oohing and ahhing in approval all the while. It's a near-total inversion of previous "Apes" themes. Which isn't to say the show's a total wash: Roddy McDowall is eminently watchable as Galen one of the chief joys of any Apes installment is watching him find new ways to emote within the constricting makeup. And there are also a few campy "parlor games" to be played with this series most notably trying to find the myriad in-jokes that seem to refer to Galen's/McDowall's, ahem, "alternate lifestyle." It's also fun to (a) spot the human mouths plainly visible under the ape mouths, and (b) point out the MacGuyver-like skills of our human heroes, who are the most holistically educated astronauts in history. Fox's four-DVD set collecting all 14 episodes of this nonsense is bare-bones, unsurprisingly. The full-frame transfers (1.33:1) are solid, but picture quality varies wildly from near-mint to fleck-tastic. Dolby Digital in both English and French, with English and Spanish subtitles. Four-disc keep-case. | <urn:uuid:594ab1d7-c9c8-4d79-a20d-53a27047ed57> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dvdjournal.com/quickreviews/p/planetoftheapes_tv.q.shtml | 2013-05-23T04:26:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954631 | 717 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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绿茎槲寄生 lü jing hu ji sheng
Shrubs dioecious, green or yellowish green, 30-50 cm tall. Branching apical, beneath inflorescence, dichotomous or trichotomous, terete; internodes 4-8 cm. Leaves reduced to pairs of ± scarious scales, 0.5-1 mm. Inflorescences terminal, cymose spikes; peduncle 2-5 mm; 3-5-flowered, central flower with 2 bracts, lateral flowers each with 1 bract; bracts triangular, ca. 1 mm. Male flowers yellow, ovoid in bud, ca. 3 mm; perianth lobes 4, ovate, apex acute. Anthers elliptic, ca. 1.5 mm. Female flowers ellipsoid-ovoid in bud, 2-2.5 mm; perianth lobes 4, triangular, ca. 0.5 mm. Stigma nipple-shaped. Berry greenish yellow, ovoid, 5-6 × 4 mm, smooth. Fl. and fr. Mar-Dec.
* Forests, mountain slopes; 2000-3800 m. W Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan.
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Chinese letters on your computer
You've landed on this page because you're interested in writing Chinese letters. The first thing you need to know is that there are no Chinese letters - not strictly speaking, anyway! The Chinese writing system is very different from the alphabetic system we use in the West, which connects written symbols with certain sounds. Because of this, there are no Chinese equivalents of the letters A, B, C and so on.
The Chinese system is based on words rather than sounds. The Chinese letters are called hanzi, and originally there were separate "letters" for each word in the language. There was one letter for dog, one for fish, one for house, and so on.
It's easy to see why this system, which some say is the oldest in the world, has resulted in the enormous number of different Chinese letters that exist today. Some dictionaries list as many as 60,000 letters, although only about 4-6,000 of them are in daily use. Compare this with the fact that the average Western alphabet only has between 30 and 40 letters, and you start to sympathise with Chinese school children!
Modern Chinese has moved on from the one-word-one-letter system, and nowadays most characters represent a syllable rather than an actual word. Most Chinese words consist of two or more syllables, and so require two or more symbols to write.
So, let's say you want to write a letter or an email in Chinese, or perhaps just type your own name in Chinese - how do you type Chinese letters on your keyboard? The answer is complicated, because there isn't one definite system. Most Chinese computer users type using a standard Roman alphabet keyboard (like the one you're probably using right now), and write all the words the way that they sound. "Beijing" for the capital, "ré"; for a person, "quánguó" for the nation, "mù" for eye, and so on, all according to a strict spelling system known as Pinyin.
Once they've typed the word, the computer automatically converts it into the correct Chinese letter, which appears on the screen (at least in theory - the system doesn't always work).
Older people sometimes use an electronic writing tablet instead, as this enables them to write with the precise strokes they are used to.
As you can see, typing in Chinese isn't particularly easy. Fortunately, there's a far easier system for those of you who simply want to insert a few Chinese letters into a document or an email: PopChar.
This easy, user-friendly character map lets you insert Chinese symbols with a quick mouse click - and it works with all your applications. Whenever you need a Chinese letter, PopChar is there to help. Click the little "P" box in the system tray to display a table of letters. Select the desired Chinese symbol and it instantly appears in your document.
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What can I teach my daughter?
I have a four year old girl who lives with her mother in Texas. I am slightly concerned for her educational upbringing and I am hoping she is not a slow learner as I was, but what is more is that I want to be able to be ready to answer many of her questions and give her parental guidance on where to go to school, what profession she should look into, what sports are interesting and physically strengthening for women, socialization and how to be cautious about the people she spends time with, and finally and most importantly, financial security. Words of experience?
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|Clark named treasurer|
For Larry Clark the Franklin Parish Court-house has a familiar feel. The new treasurer of the Franklin Parish Police Jury began his working career in the clerk of court's office in 1977, soon after he graduated from the University of Louisiana at Monroe (formerly Northeast).
"I was here in the clerk's office from '77 to '84," Clark said. "And now I am glad to be back."
Clark was hired by the police jury on March 13, and admits that at the time he didn't realize the enormous responsibility he was taking on.
"It really hit me when I went to the bank and had to sign 20 signature cards so I can write checks," he said. "That's 20 different accounts to manage for the police jury."
Clark has learned in his first few weeks on the job the vast the scope of the police jury.
"There are seven jurors with seven districts and each one has to take care of their district, plus do what's best for the parish as a whole," Clark said. "They are knowledgeable and well informed on everything that is going on."
Clark said he's impressed with the dedication of the jurors and the police jury staff – and not just those at the courthouse office. Clark said the crews at the road barn are doing the behind-the-scenes work that keeps the parish running smoothly.
"Most of us average citizens don't see these people out there working," Clark said of maintaining the parish infrastructure. "The roads, the drainage, the bridges. It's a tremendous undertaking."
Clark will have to manage the funding for the parish's infrastructure and he said that's something else the residents don't always understand.
"People don't realize where a tax is going, all the ins and outs. Once we pull the lever (and a tax passes) or we get a grant, the work is just beginning. All of these projects have to be managed from the bid process to completion," Clark said.
Clark referred to the parish as a "non-profit organization" and said, "We have to account for every dollar we get. We're not making any money here."
Clark said the state is good about informing the parish when funding and grants are available for different projects.
It can be a confusing process, but he's had help from the former treasurer, Shannon Gwin, who last week spent a few days going over procedures with him. Clark said staff members Johnnie Wesley, Bobbi Wood and Mary Beth Smith have been vital to his smooth transition into the office.
"They really have been a big help, showing me where things are and what things are called," he said. "All of them have been here several years and know what they are doing."
Clark said the biggest challenge for the treasurer is getting and keeping all of the components working together.
"I'm working on how to mesh the administration, technology, laws, bid process and grants. It's a big job and so far, I love it," he said.
When he's not at work, Clark said he enjoys golfing and he used to play tennis, until he "got too old." Clark has three grown sons who were born and reared in Winnsboro and still live here with their families. Clark also has four grandchildren and one on the way.
He said he's fortunate his children were able to find jobs and stay in their hometown.
"So many parents have their children leave for jobs and end up making their homes somewhere else. I'm proud of all three of mine and am thankful they are here," he said.
Clark feels pretty thankful about being here, too.
"This has always been my home and here I am, back (at the courthouse and working for the parish) after all these years. It's good to be back. I'm proud and thankful I have this job," Clark said. | <urn:uuid:13b9cc1f-1a67-461b-9349-3aa173e1b31d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.franklinsun.com/archives.php?id=902 | 2013-05-23T04:27:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982956 | 1,073 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Girl Talk>STS9 Gogol Bordello>Bassnectar Dr John>Bootsy Collins
We all know it's gonna be Dr John followed by Bootsy or the other way around. I would assume out of Girl Talk, STS9, Gogol Bordello and Bassnectar that both STS9 and Bassnectar get the longer slots, thus being the last to play in two seperate tents.
Dr. John>Bootsy will be epci. I didn't even think about it till now but they should call this "Legend-roo" look at this living legends we have here! Neil Young, Stepehen Stills, Bootsy Collins, Robert Plant, Greg Allman, Dr. John. Incredible! | <urn:uuid:d50275c8-32d5-4d65-af7e-169b78519815> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.inforoo.com/thread/24242/airlines-mock-schedule-thread-2011?page=36 | 2013-05-23T04:50:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877871 | 155 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
ecLS, the customer loyalty specialist based in Hamburg, Germany, will use its high-performance systems to process the international open and closed loop prepaid cards of LaSer. LaSer, a French company, is the leading European provider in the field of customer relationship management. Its cooperation with ecLS began with an initial pilot in three countries in December 2010. This partnership represents a further step towards the internationalisation of the ecLS business model.
Within the framework of this cooperation, ecLS makes its systems available to LaSer. While the French partner supports customers and carries out the card issuing and administration, ecLS is responsible for the processing of the payment procedures. All international transactions by LaSer customers are processed in the ecLS data centers.
The state-of-the-art IT infrastructure at ecLS enables to process both the so-called closed loop and open loop prepaid cards, which was an essential requirement for this partnership. The term "closed loop" is used for cards that are only accepted within a limited area, for example by retailers subscribing to a loyalty card programme. Open loop cards, on the other hand, enable prepaid cards to be used at all retailers that accept the cards. This leads to a customer retention tool that is even more effective and beneficial to end users.
LaSer is the leading European company for intermediation and customer relationship services combining, in its broad approach to customer relationship, the full range of card and consumer credit with loyalty and customer relationship management expertise.
Equally owned by the Galeries Lafayette Group and BNP Paribas Personal Finance, LaSer is the number one proprietary card company in Europe with 20 million cards as well as the number one provider of loyalty programs in France. Present in several countries, the Group's customers include a multitude of well-known international companies such as BP, Modelo Continente, AS Watson, Game, The co-operative, Woolworths SA, ICI Paris XL and Galeries Lafayette. Alongside its work in the business domain of Marketing Services, LaSer proposes a wide offer of financial and affinity products for individuals. | <urn:uuid:ac8a4883-21ba-465b-b799-4adf1e32dfc4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ingenico.com/cs/0/easycash-loyalty-solution-an-ingenico-company-pa_gv9a6oo0.html?s=RdbkKuEOsGmwdeAFx | 2013-05-23T04:54:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95563 | 424 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
You know the kind. The ones where time itself seems to slow down, and the minutes stack upon themselves in boundless abundance. It was the kind of day where you can hit up brunch, the farmer's market, and wine tasting....all to find out that it's still only lunch time. So you drive down country roads and let the hair blow across your face. And you don't care for a second how it will look when you're done. When you finally get to wherever it is that you're going. You breathe deep.
And you let go.
You sit on a porch swing. And eat homemade gazpacho. In white Pottery Barn bowls that make you feel like maybe, just maybe, Giada would be proud.
You walk in bare feet, and you slow dance in the kitchen.
And when the light finally sinks low and the day sighs into slumber, you say goodbye to the setting sun as it shines over your whole world. The two of them there together swimming in the water.
And you remember that this, this, is what living is for. | <urn:uuid:23dd4df6-c207-4d00-8983-5af01503acb8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.justinmarantz.com/index.cfm?postID=1468 | 2013-05-23T04:49:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962833 | 226 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Most of the cakes are consumed at midnight on New Year's Eve -- though some cultures cut their cake on Christmas or the Epiphany, January 6 -- and include a hidden gold coin or figure, which symbolizes a prosperous year for whomever finds it in their slice.
Cotechino con lenticchie, Italy
Italians celebrate New Year's Eve with La Festa di San Silvestro, often commencing with a traditional cotechino con lenticchie, a sausage and lentil stew that is said to bring good luck (the lentils represent money and good fortune) and, in certain households, zampone, a stuffed pig's trotter.
The meal ends with chiacchiere -- balls of fried dough that are rolled in honey and powdered sugar -- and prosecco. The dishes find their roots in Modena, but New Year's Eve feasts thrive across the country.
Pickled herring, Poland and Scandinavia
Because herring is in abundance in Poland and parts of Scandinavia, and because of their silver coloring, many in those nations eat pickled herring at the stroke of midnight to bring a year of prosperity and bounty. Some eat pickled herring in cream sauce, some have it with onions.
One special Polish New Year's Eve preparation of pickled herring, called Sledzie Marynowane, is made by soaking whole salt herrings in water for 24 hours and then layering them in a jar with onions, allspice, sugar and white vinegar. Scandinavians will often include herring in a larger midnight smorgasbord with smoked and pickled fish, pate and meatballs.
Kransekage, Denmark and Norway
Kransekage, literally wreath cake, is a cake tower composed of many concentric rings of cake layered atop one another, and they are made for New Year's Eve and other special occasions in Denmark and Norway. The cake is made using marzipan, often with a bottle of wine or Aquavit in the center and can be decorated with ornaments, flags and crackers.
Those who can't make it to Copenhagen this year for Danish treats should check out Larsen's Danish Bakery in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. They have a long-running mail-order business to accommodate kransekage lovers across the country and carefully pack each ring on the tower individually for easy assembly right before your New Year's Eve feast. A 10-ring cake goes for $86; an 18-ring cake is $150. | <urn:uuid:dd888677-2191-4ef0-b9d5-7dbd726b9d2c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ksat.com/lifestyle/travelgetaways/Eat-your-way-into-the-New-Year/-/477882/17933996/-/item/1/-/133e8cz/-/index.html | 2013-05-23T04:41:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944949 | 527 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Drawings by John Moss
Heroes - Military & Civilian
people of courage, self-sacrifice and valour
Kelly VC MC
Henry Kelly was born on July 10th 1887 in Collyhurst, into
an Irish Catholic family. Much decorated and ever the perennial
soldier, Henry was to take part in many of the wars of the
20th century and to earn distinction in all of them. By the
age of sixteen, Henry was working at the Post office as sole
support to his widowed mother and her ten children.
At the outbreak of war in 1914, Henry was quick to volunteer
and initially joined the Cameron Highlanders before later
moving to the Manchester Regiment, where he quickly rose to
the rank of Sergeant Major. He later gained a commission as
a Second Lieutenant in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment.
By 1915 he was on active service on the Somme where, showing
outstanding bravery, he saved the lives of a number of his
comrades for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Later
he was also awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre and the French
Medaille Militaire. In Italy he was awarded the Military Cross
and a Bar to Military Cross at Piave. In 1918 he rose to the
rank of Major. During his army career he'd been wounded on
After the war, he and his brothers opened grocery shops on
Rochdale Road and Upper Chorlton Road. Later Henry was landlord
in a number of local Manchester pubs. Henry went on to join
the 'International Brigade' as a foreign volunteer fighting
against Fascists in the Spanish Civil War and was ranked Commandente
Generale. Here he was awarded the Grand Laurelled Cross of
San Fernando. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939
he rejoined the British army.
Henry Kelly died in Prestwich Hospital 18th January 1960 and
is buried in Southern Cemetery, Wythenshawe. His medals can
be seen at the Duke of Wellington's Museum in Halifax.
Smith VC JP
Much decorated Issy Smith was actually born in Egypt at Ishroulch
Shmeilowitz on 16th September 1890, where his father served
in the French Consulate. At the age of 11 Issy stowed away on
a ship for London and in 1904 he enlisted in the 1st Battalion
of the Manchester Regiment where he took on the anglicised version
of his name - to be known henceforth as Issy Smith. In 1912
he was discharged and emigrated to live in Melbourne in Australia.
However, in August 1914 he was recalled to the Manchester Regiment
and in April 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, Corporal
Smith was to gain several major awards for bravery and heroism.
With little regard for his own security, he carried a severely
wounded comrade some 250 yards to a place of safety and later
returned, despite heavy German gunfire, to bring back many more
of his wounded comrades. For this action he was awarded the
Victoria Cross. Later, as Sergeant Smith, he served in Mesopotamia
where he was awarded the Russian Cross of St George for the
heroic rescue of a Russian soldier. He was also awarded the
French Croix de Guerre.
During the First World War he was severely gassed and wounded
After the war he was married in London and in 1925, with his
wife and young daughter, he returned to Melbourne where in 1930
he was appointed a Justice of the Peace. Issy Smith died on
the 10th September 1940 and was buried with full military honours
in the Hebrew section of the Fawkner Cemetery in Melbourne.
Since writing the original account on Issy Smith, I subsequently
received an email from broadcaster James H Reeve, which throws
much of my information concerning Issy Smith into question.
His email read:
been looking into the fascinating Issy Smith, and I have to
report that he didn't get the Order of St. George for rescuing
a Russian soldier in Mesopotamia. He did serve there, but contact
between Russian and British troops was minimal. He actually
received the decoration before he left for Mesopotamia in recognition
of the VC he won for his deeds in Flanders. This
is stated in the London Gazette supplement of 24 August of 1915,
three months before he was posted to the Middle East. Lots of
references to Issy make the claim about the Russian, but I'm
afraid it's a myth. In fact, a great deal of Issy's story seems
to be questionable, but the VC is genuine. All the best, James
(7 December 2007).
Colquhoun Charlton VC
The very last Victoria Cross awarded to a soldier in the European
theatre of World War II was to Edward Colquhoun Charlton of
the Irish Guards for actions on the 21st April 1945. Charlton
was born on 15th June 1920 and had lived at 12 Basford Road,
Old Trafford in Manchester since the age of 15, though he
was actually born in County Durham. He was conscripted in
September 1940 into the Guards Depot in Caterham and later
went on to join the 2nd Armoured Battalion Irish Guards.
He died as a result of wounds received as a tank driver in
action at the village of Wistedt in Northern Germany on the
21st April 1945 and was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross
by King George VI. During the action, he was reported to have
grabbed the Browning machine gun from his damaged tank and
advanced single-handed against a division of German Panzers,
continuously firing, despite numerous wounds, and inflicting
heavy casualties on the enemy until his left arm was completely
shattered. He continued fighting with his one good arm but
eventually fell as a result of his wounds and loss of blood.
Later, even captured German prisoners of the action praised
his valour. He is buried at the British Military Cemetery
near Becklingen in Germany.
John Henry Code was born on 16th February 1869 in Audenshaw.
As a young man he had been employed by Manchester Corporation
as a carpenter at the Clayton Gas Works. Like many others
at the time, he was released to serve in annual Territorial
Army camps. In 1886 he enlisted in the 5th Ardwick Volunteer
Battalion of the Manchester Regiment and was promoted to the
rank of sergeant in 1890.
Code soon demonstrated that he was a highly skilled rifleman
and actually won the Singleton Trophy for sharp shooting.
Code also served during the Boer War in the Imperial Yeomanry
where he was promoted Colour Sergeant in December 1902 - here
he attracted increasing recognition for his excellent marksmanship.
In 1914 the Ardwick Battalion was posted to Egypt and later
on to Gallipoli where Code was appointed Regimental Quartermaster
Sergeant. His service at Gallipoli gained him the Distinguished
Conduct Medal for "...conspicuous gallantry, devotion
to duty and continuing good services, courage and skill".
He spent the remainder of the War serving in France.
After the First World War, John Henry Code left the army and
found work with his former employer at Clayton Gas Works.
In 1920, he founded St. Andrews Ladies Hockey Team based at
Edge Lane, Droylsden, where both of his daughters played for
Code retired from the Council's employment in 1934 and he
died of natural causes on the 27th February of the same year.
James Kirk was one of many young local men to have been awarded
the Victoria Cross posthumously for their gallantry. Kirk was
born on 21st January 1897 and grew up in Cheadle Hulme, though
later his family moved to live in Droylsden, where James distinguished
himself as a keen and successful sportsman.
At the outbreak of the Great War he enlisted in the Manchester
Regiment and was posted to the Dardanelles in 1915 as a Private
in the 10th Battalion. He served later in France and in June
1918 he was made Second Lieutenant.
On 8th October 1918 he carried out an act of the most conspicuous
bravery and devotion to duty north of the village of Ors whilst
his Company were attempting to lay a bridge across the Olse
Canal. Lieutenant Kirk, armed with a Lewis Gun, and under intense
enemy fire, paddled across the canal on a hastily constructed
crude wooden plank raft to give covering fire to his comrades.
Ammunition was paddled across to him so that he was able to
continuously maintain covering fire for the bridging party from
his very exposed position. Ultimately, he was wounded in the
face and arm and died as a result of a head wound on 4th November
This act of supreme heroism and self-sacrifice prevented many
casualties and enabled two platoons to cross the bridge before
it was destroyed. Lieutenant James Kirk is featured in the Museum
of the Manchesters in Ashton-under-Lyne. Kirk's remains are
buried at the English Communal Cemetery at Ors. Seven days later
the Armistice was signed, marking the end of the war.
Norton Schofield VC
Harry Norton Schofield was born on 29 January 1865 in Audenshaw,
the son of a chemist who had a shop on Ashton New Road, Clayton.
Later, after a time living in Ardwick, his father's prospering
business enabled them to move home to live in the (then) more
desirable area of Whalley Range. Schofield went to the Royal
Military Academy at Woolwich and passed out as a Lieutenant
in the Artillery in 1884. By 1893 he had attained the rank
In 1899, during the Boer War campaigns in South Africa, Schofield
was Aide-de-camp to General Buller, who commanded British
forces during the siege of Ladysmith. It was during this action
that Schofield would be awarded the Victoria Cross. On 15th
December of that year British forces at Colenso railway station
came under heavy fire from entrenched Boer positions across
the Tugela River. Butler ordered various field artillery units
to move up in support of the British advance. However, heavy
enemy gunfire quickly downed gun battery drivers and horse
teams. Survivors took cover in a nearby water course about
five hundred yards to the rear. Seeing their plight, Captain
Schofield gathered a number of men and gave the order to make
a dash toward the stranded gun batteries. Under heavy fire
they succeeded in limbering up two of the guns and saved them
from capture. Captain Schofield sustained six bullet wounds
in the action. Later he was promoted to Major and was also
awarded the South African Medal with six clasps. In 1911 became
a member of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms. He
died on the 10th October 1931 in London and his funeral was
held at the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace.
Albert Hill was born in Hulme on 24th May 1895, one of ten
children. In 1907 his family moved to live in Peacock Street
in Denton. After leaving school he began work at the Alpha
Mill and then became an apprentice planker at Wilson Hat Manufacturers
on Wilton Street.
At the outbreak of the First World War, Hill enlisted in the
10th Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, with whom he
served in France and Flanders. He was awarded the Victoria
Cross for his gallantry and "...most conspicuous bravery".
On 20 July 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, Private Hill's
battalion advanced under heavy gunfire to assault an enemy
position in Delville Wood. When the order to charge was given
Hill confronted two German soldiers and bayoneted them both.
However, finding himself cut off from the rest of his battalion
in the confusion, and, being surrounded by the enemy, he fought
them off with hand grenades, killing and wounding about eighteen
and scattering the remainder. He then rejoined his company
and fought his way back to the lines.
Later, on discovering that his Company Officer and a scout
were lying wounded in no man's land, he went out, without
any thought of his own safety and helped bring in the mortally
wounded Officer, two other men bringing in the scout. Finally,
Hill single-handedly captured two enemy soldiers and took
Hill returned to Denton as a public hero in October 1916.
In November he was awarded the Victoria Cross by King George
V at Buckingham Palace. He was also awarded the Croix de Guerre
and the Russian Cross of St George of the First Class and
three campaign medals.
In February 1919, Hill returned to work at Wilson's Factory.
He and his wife lived in Denton until 1923, when they emigrated
to the United States.
In 1956 Hill made a brief return to England for the VC Centenary
Celebrations. He died 17th February 1971 and was buried with
full military honours at Highland Memorial Cemetery in Johnston,
Rhode Island. His medal is in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers Regimental
Born in Middleton on 29th December 1881, Lance Corporal Joel
Halliwell was to be awarded the Victoria Cross for "Conspicuous
bravery and devotion to duty".
On 27 May 1918, Halliwell was captured by the Germans and
remained a prisoner with them for a short time before he managed
to escape. On his way back to the British lines, seeing many
wounded comrades lying on the ground, he mounted a stray German
horse which he rode back to pick up a wounded man and brought
him back to safety, in spite of heavy shellfire. He went on
to repeat this process, back and forth, through heavy enemy
gunfire, with no thought for his own safety, some ten times,
until his horse received a severe wound and he could no longer
Lance Corporal Halliwell was a modest man, maintaining that
he had simply done as he was told and that any other man in
his battalion would have done what he had done if they had
the chance, as they never thought of anything but their duty.
He returned to Middleton amid public jubilation and a civic
welcome by the Mayor and Mayoress of the borough. Joel Halliwell
died on the 14th June 1958.
Edgar Leach VC
Second Lieutenant James Leach of the 2nd Battalion. Manchester
Regiment was born on 27th July 1892 at North Shields in Northumberland.
He lived in Manchester as a boy and later joined the 1st Northamptonshire
Regiment, to serve in France from the outbreak of the First
World War. On the 1st October 1914 he was promoted to Second
Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment.
Leach distinguished himself while serving near Festubert in
France on 29th October 1914, when, after two abortive attempts
to retake an Allied trench that had been captured by the enemy,
Second Lieutenant Leach, together with Sergeant John Hogan
and a party of ten volunteers went to recapture it themselves.
They completely overwhelmed German troops by their sudden
bayonet attack. Fighting hand-to-hand at extremely close quarters
and with great bravery, they retook the trench, killing eight
of the enemy, wounding two others and making 16 prisoners.
For their contribution to the defence of the Manchesters'
trenches, Second-Lieutenant Leach and Sergeant John Hogan
were awarded the Victoria Cross.
Thomson Lyall VC
Graham Thomson Lyall was born in Chorlton, Manchester on 8th
March 1892, though after qualifying as a mechanical engineer
he went to live in Canada, enlisting in the
19th "Lincoln" Regiment (a Canadian militia regiment)
in August 1914 and served with it doing duty with the Welland
Canal Force. He
transferred to the 81st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary
Force in September 1915, and went overseas with the Battalion
in April 1916. When that unit broke up in June 1916, he was
transferred to the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, which was
designated a battalion of the Central Ontario Regiment.
Lyall gained rapid promotion through the ranks until, for
conspicuous bravery in action, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant
in April 1917.
In 1918 Lieutenant Lyall was awarded the VC for "Conspicuous
bravery and skilful leadership" north of Cambrai while
serving with the 102 North British Columbia Battalion. On
the 27th of September he had captured an enemy fortified position
as well as attacking a German machine gun position single-handed,
killing the commanding officer, and succeeded in capturing
many prisoners. Just four days later he virtually repeated
the whole episode, capturing yet another strong point and
taking some 47 prisoners as well as machine guns. During two
days of operations Lyall captured in all, three officers,
182 other ranks, twenty-six machine guns and one field gun,
exclusive of heavy casualties inflicted. He was decorated
with the Victoria Cross on 15th March 1919 at Buckingham Palace.
In the 1930s Major Lyall continued to serve in various military
functions, including as an Ordnance Mechanical Engineer, commanding
a Territorial Company of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Lyall
was also a member of the Loyal Orange Lodge No 720, St Catharines,
Ontario. In early 1940 Major Lyall was promoted to Lieutenant
Colonel and volunteered for overseas service. He was promoted
further to the rank of Colonel later in the same year. Lyall
eventually took his discharge in the UK and was married here.
Colonel Graham Thomson Lyall died whilst on active service
in the Western Desert on 28th November 1941, aged 49, and
is buried in the Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery.
are indebted to Sir William Smy of Ontario, Canada, for supplying
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Strong Q2 Performance for Amaya Gaming Group
Amaya Gaming Group, the Montreal-based entertainment solutions provider,
posted its numbers for the second quarter of 2012, up to June 30, 2012, which
showed a staggering revenue growth of 285%.
The massive growth was attributed by the company to a number of important events during the period, including the acquisition of top online gambling software vendor Cryptologic, which meant incorporating the company's games and partners into its own network.
In the second quarter, Amaya and Cryptologic extended the contracts with four existing customers, namely Ladbrokes Plc, BetClic Everest Group, Betsson Malt and the Belgium group, Circus Services.
Amaya will launch at least 10 of Cryptologic's award winning games on Ladbrokes' platform, adding to the two games which the site already carries.
At least eight games will be launched through the BetClic Everest group's gaming sites, while the ten gaming sites in the Betsson Malta group will have access to Cryptologic's portfolio of over 100 casino games.
One of Belgium's first regulated online casino, to be operated by Circus Services, will also offer some of Cryptologic's branded games.
Cryptologic Launches Three Slot Games
Amaya Gaming also announced that Cryptologic launched three new slot games during the last quarter, namely Fire Flies slot, Captain Nemo slot and Monte Cristo slot.
The games will go live at InterCasino.com at first, but will eventually be available at other licensees during the course of this year and next.
Strong Revenue Growth for Amaya Gaming
The President and Chief Executive Officer or Amaya Gaming Group, David Baazov commented on Amaya Gaming Group's Q2 performance and said: "We continue to deliver very strong revenue growth achieved both organically and through acquisition. The successful implementation of our growth strategy has led a larger and more diversified customer base, as well as a more comprehensive product offering that improves our competitive position."
"Our recently completed financing provides us the resources to continue to execute and pursue some significant opportunities available in our industry," he added.
The second quarter of 2012 saw revenues of $14.548 million - a growth of $10.77 million or 285% (compared to $3.77 million in Q2 2011).
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Thought I'd post a That Sh!t Ain't Right - Good vs. Evil - to celebrate Thanksgiving (for those readers in the US of A, anyway). Let's proceed, shall we?
That Shit Ain't Right - GoodJulie Bowen, the more I see you, the more I inappropriately love you. Though I am not loving your hair here, your dress - which is SMASHING - and those shoes - more than make up for it. Do you want to be BFFs? Yes ___ No ___ Maybe ___ Please stop stalking me ___
Zoe Saldana, you are killing me softly with this dress. And I know I ranted last week about Project Accessory referring to Kelly Osbourne as a style icon, but I truly believe you can apply that term to Mz. Saldana. She's like buttah. A biiiiig bowl of buttah. Only those of you old enough to have watched SNL in its Mike Myers/Linda Richman heyday will appreciate that, and that's okay, cuz I'm good enough. I'm smart enough, and doggone it, PEOPLE LIKE ME. There. How's THAT for a twofer?
DAYUM, J-Hud! Girlfriend BROUGHT IT with the continuation of Zoe's black and gold look. You deserve two snaps, a twist, and a kiss. Can't touch this.
Oh, Naomi Watts - I REALLY hope those rumors this summer about Liev Schreiber cheating on you were not true, cuz I love you both. What else do I love? That flapperesque sparkly numbah you're wearing. It'th delightful.
Michael Fassbender? When I look at you in this suit, all I can hear is Beyonce singing "To the left! To the left! Everything you have in your pants to the left!" That shit ain't right, but in the best way possible....
That Shit Ain't Right - Evil
I don't know what it is about Katherine Heigl, but I have an almost visceral reaction every time I see a photo of her. Cannot STAND the woman. Her slicked back hurr, bewbs a-plenty and leg-o-mutton in your face is no exception. BLECH.
What in the name of Sweet Baby Jesus is going on with Christina Aguilera???? So she's gained a little weight - so what. What REALLY concerns me is her hair and makeup. Won't someone PLEASE stage a beauty product/hair color intervention with girlfriend???? Seriously. It is tragic. Anytime I have seen her sans makeup, or with very little, I cannot believe it's even the same person. She looks 10 years younger without all of the crap on her face - SO much better. Come on girl, you cannot REALLY think this 47 year old divorcee out on the town after work look is working for you, can you????
Blake Lively hits the red carpet for the premiere of her new movie: "Nancy Kerrigan: The Day the Skating Stopped."
Seriously, Ed Westwick - STOP MAKING THIS FACE. It's CREEPY.
Let's end on a funny, shall we (I mean, besides that skating costume above)... Oh how I miss the days of In Living Color, when I would patiently wait for the show to start, hit record on the VCR, then a) try to recreate the Fly Girls' ensembles (cutoff denim shorts? check. over the knee socks with garters? check check. bustier? check check check. black hat with netting? yup, that too), and b) watch their routine overandover until I learned that week's dance. True story. ILC was pretty ground-breaking for its time, and my favey fave characters? Men On Film, aka Blane Edwards and Antoine Meriweather. That shit ain't right. Enjoy. Happy Thanksgiving! | <urn:uuid:2b2fe83d-8f62-4b87-a22d-626567d2709d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.merciblahblah.com/2011/11/happy-turkey-day-tsar.html | 2013-05-23T04:54:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941818 | 825 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Russell Mechling Jr. (left), 78, and his wife, Sheila (right), stand in their office lobby at Fayette Engineering in Uniontown, Pa. Russ has traditionally voted Democratic; Sheila is still undecided about whom she will vote for in November.
Russell Mechling Jr. (left), 78, and his wife, Sheila (right), stand in their office lobby at Fayette Engineering in Uniontown, Pa. Russ has traditionally voted Democratic; Sheila is still undecided about whom she will vote for in November. David Gilkey/NPR
Sam Wood (left) and Rich Miner talk politics at Wood's roadside corn trailer in Uniontown, Pa.
Sam Wood (left) and Rich Miner talk politics at Wood's roadside corn trailer in Uniontown, Pa. David Gilkey/NPR
Like many towns across the country, Uniontown, Pa., is struggling through tough economic times. The voters there have historically been friendly to Democrats, but Sen. Barack Obama faces some challenges in this part of the swing state — Sen. Hillary Clinton won nearly 80 percent of Fayette County's vote in the Democratic primary, and a recent Time magazine poll shows Republican Sen. John McCain with a 20-point lead among white male voters nationwide.
Fayette County is the area of Pennsylvania that once powered the steel industry. Coal was taken from the ground in places like Uniontown and then burned into fuel.
Sam Wood, 84, worked in those now defunct coal mines.
"You couldn't see the stars at night," he recalls. "All you saw was red sky."
Nowadays, Wood sells ears of sweet corn by the roadside in Uniontown. They're so sweet that customers can eat them uncooked while Wood talks about things like the election.
"I think our country's in bad shape," he says. "See, I remember the other Depression. I was only about 8 years old, but I got a good memory. We always had a man for the time when this country was in bad shape. I don't see any now."
Wood says he has thought about McCain but is unsure about him.
"Now, I like his vice president. Not because she's good looking, but I think she's got a lot of common sense," Wood says. "And you know what? She don't owe anybody anything in D.C."
Although he is a registered Democrat, Wood says he'll vote for the Republican ticket. He says Obama hasn't impressed him much and that it was Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin who really made the difference in his choice.
Rich Miner pulls up to the corn stand. He says he has thought long and hard about the election. Miner, 68, works for the local sewage authority and voted for Hillary Clinton in the primary. These days, he says, he looks at McCain and sees a carbon copy of President Bush, which he doesn't like.
"Obama? I guess we take a chance on him. He's a rookie. But he sounds good," Miner says.
But this isn't an easy decision for him. He says there was a time he might not have supported a black candidate.
"I myself was one time very prejudiced," Miner says. "But I ain't no more. I just changed my attitude. I've always been around colored people. I work with them. I've always worked with them, and I found early on that blacks sort of took advantage of the situation. I don't know, anymore — I think they're OK as long as they do their end of the job. I don't see nothing wrong with that."
Miner says he's optimistic about the job Obama would do as president.
"He sounds like he's working for the middle-class people," Miner says. "That's where he comes from. Hopefully he'll do us some good."
Industries and businesses come and go in this part of Pennsylvania, but Fayette Engineering has hung on. Russell Mechling Jr. recently retired after 46 years as president of the company, and he says although he's voting for Barack Obama, he doesn't go around boasting about it.
"You know it's a little hard when you think about back in the primary, when 80 percent of your neighbors didn't vote for him, to go around telling people, 'You made a big mistake, you should have voted for him,' " Mechling says.
But he says there's another reason he's careful to not be too vocal about his support.
"You know, there still seems to be the race issue. Nobody admits it — nobody. ... But I think there is a racial component there," he says. "It's there. And it shouldn't be."
Mechling says he hopes people take a look at the other differences between Obama and McCain.
"I think there are people who've been telling themselves, and telling their friends and neighbors, they just wouldn't vote for Obama, who are thinking now that, wait a minute — given the choice they may vote for Obama," he says. "I think he may do better in Fayette County than you may have expected."
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Former Minister Shane Jones has admitted using his ministerial credit card to pay for pornographic movies while staying in hotels but said he wasn't a "sex fiend".
Labour MP Jones said he has had an "extreme bollocking" from Labour leader Phil Goff, but said he was "not immediately thinking about resigning".
In a mea culpa to a press conference at 2pm, Jones said: "Not only have I embarrassed myself, my family and my party colleagues, but I got into a pattern of expenditure that was inexcusable.
"It's beyond excuse and it's a day of humiliation for me.
"During the time that I was staying in hotels around the country, from time to time I definitely watched blue movies. Although I paid them back, it should never have gone on my ministerial card. It was personal expenditure and I offer no excuse.
"It's a day of extreme shame. I obviously lost the plot. Whether or not it's fatally injured me as a politician, I'll dwell upon that.
"I'm not immediately thinking about resigning. I don't make those decisions in the heat of humiliation. But I've had a severe bollocking from my leader, Phil Goff, which I thoroughly deserved, a stern talking to from Annette King , and I will front up to my colleagues in caucus and give them an opportunity to tell me what they think.
"And really, the only way forward is to identify what opportunities there are to redeem myself."
Jones said he no longer watched "blue movies".
The politician, once tipped as a rising star for Labour, had earlier told National Radio's Nine to Noon he was a "chump" and had "cocked up".
"It was a mistake," said Jones. "There's no justification for it."
On RadioLive, Jones told hosts Willie Jackson and John Tamihere he was "a red-blooded adult".
"I'm going to put my hand up and say I watched blue movies and ended up paying them back," said Jones. "It was something that I've done and I'm not happy that I've done it. I've disappointed a lot of people."
"I won't deny it, I've done it more than once," he continued. "I don't habitually watch blue movies but from time to time I did in a hotel. It is what it is and I am what I am."
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"I don't have stage fright, I have life fright," says comedian Ben Hoffman over coffee in Los Angeles; except he is not drinking coffee today because, he says, "My idiot parents got me an espresso machine for my birthday, and now I have to quit caffeine. It gives me really bad anxiety." A neurotic with Southern charm, Hoffman channels his nervous energy into his hilarious new series, The Ben Show With Ben Hoffman, which recently debuted on Comedy Central (watch an exclusive clip below). The half-hour show combines staged vignettes – a rapper reading death notices in a segment called "YoBitchuaries" – with person-on-the-street humor, where the comedian's awkward interactions with strangers make for some of the best bits.
"The goal is always to make fun of me, not other people," he says. "During my late-night freakouts, I wake up and I'm like, 'I should have made fun of myself more!'"
Hoffman, 37, whose brother Scott plays guitar in Scissor Sisters, grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, and has been having "late-night freakouts" for as long as he can remember. He first fell in love with comedy as a kid lying awake with insomnia, watching David Letterman. After college, he moved to Chicago and took classes at the Second City before relocating to L.A. eight years ago. Appearances at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre led him to a gig co-hosting the Current TV comedy series InfoMania. "They had no money," Hoffman recalls, "so it was like, 'Go be funny at a technology convention,' and you have to create comedy out of nowhere."
More recently, he wrote for Norm Macdonald's Sports Show on Comedy Central. "He sort of reminds me of Bob Newhart," says Macdonald, "because Bob Newhart, you thought he was a regular guy, but he was subversive. The show mirrors Ben's personality, and I like that the agenda is just comedy."
Hoffman's newfound success hasn't dampened his worries about the "same old stuff": "Why haven't I heard of this brand of bottled water before? Did I wash my hands too much last night? They're kind of dry." He laughs. "At first I thought, 'OK, I have my own TV show, I'm in charge, I can do anything.' That flew out the window in five minutes, because I am incapable of having fun. Did I just spit on you? In fuckin' front of Rolling Stone, like an idiot. I can see the headline now: 'Spitting Man Gets Own TV Show.'"
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'I was addicted to getting a bigger butt'
A woman who spent approximately $15,000 (R120,000) on illegal butt and hip injections has shed light on the secretive world of black market cosmetic procedures in a new book.
CAPTION: Vanity Wonder, 30, has revealed how she became addicted to silicone shots to increase the size of her behind. In her new book, Shot Girls, she details the reasons women choose to undergo the procedure on the black market, risking infection and even death.
In a raw and honest account, Vanity Wonder, 30, a mother-of-two from America's Midwest, has revealed how she became addicted to silicone shots to increase the size of her behind.
Shot Girls sees her detail her own experiences of seeking out and having the injections, and how she became an assistant to a black market practitioner, who treated women as varied as a 17-year-old brought in by her proud mother and even a senior in her 70s with bifocals and false teeth.
With nurses, police officers and gospel singers also among the clients, many were 'people who know this is wrong,' Vanity told MailOnline.
She says the main reason she decided to write the book was because she wanted to tell her own story, but she was also keen to clarify many of the misconceptions about a secretive world.
Discussing the reasons women choose to undergo the procedure on the black market in the first place, risking infection and even death, she said it is not, as many people seem to believe, because they are trying to please a man, or are deeply depressed.
'It's not what people think,' she said. 'There's no common reason... Some girls get it done only because everyone else is. There's a lot of reasons.
'It's not even because they didn't already have a butt. They look in the mirror and they don't like what they see. They want the image they see in the mirror to match the image they have of themselves in their head.'
'I started in 2006 - this is when everything was hush, hush, hush. You had to search to find this stuff,' she recalled. 'Now anyone on the corner will inject you with whatever they buy at the Kwik-E-Mart or at the gas station.'
Vanity was referring to stories that have flooded the news in recent months, of deaths after women were injected with Fix-A-Flat tyre sealant and even cement.
She admits that her own first experience with butt shots could have been just as dangerous, as she had no idea what she was injected with - and still doubts the answer she was given.
'The first two times, I was injected by a lady... when we finally asked her [what we were being injected with], she said soybean oil. So my first two times I had no idea what I was being injected with.
'All the rest were done by [a different] lady, and it was medical grade silicone.'
She says the difference in the two substances was huge. The silicone, she says, is 'a lot more moveable and jello-like. The 'soybean oil' made the treated areas 'stiff and hard'.
Describing her butt now, Vanity said: 'Because that original work has been covered so many times, it's all jiggly and very moveable. A lot of people are amazed.'
Though Shot Girls serves as a warning to women who may be tempted by the low cost and fast results of black market injections, Vanity admits many still ask her where she can get them.
'Women are still begging me, "Please tell me where to get them from!"' Vanity admits. 'They are definitely chasing this.
'That's the reason why women are dying.
'They are so thirsty for these, they go to whoever they can find. Then people want to exploit this and that's where the problems come in.'
She admits she stopped when she was nearly sent to jail, and she realised that if anything were to happen to her, she would not be around to take care of her sons.
It was a reality check that cut her addiction short.
When looking in the mirror now, she says she does not feel dissatisfied with her body.
'It's not that I feel happy, but I look in the mirror and I love who I am,' she explained. 'I didn't go to jail, I have my arms and legs. I didn't die because of the dumb crap that I did.
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Weatherford's pension overhaul hits snag in Senate | March 13
Pension change hurts Floridians
Though he claims it's an improvement, Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford's proposal to make the Florida Retirement System into a 401(k) plan is a bad idea because it increases risk for government workers.
The existing retirement system guarantees fixed payments regardless of stock market performance. Under a 401(k) format, if the stock market collapses, retirement benefits collapse too. Think what would have happened if Social Security was tied to the stock market in 2008 when the Dow fell 50 percent. Both Social Security and the Florida Retirement System function as safety nets for Floridians. Weatherford wants to erode that safety net.
It is not just those who receive payments from the retirement system who would be adversely impacted if Weatherford's proposal goes through. Businesses that serve Florida retirees would also be impacted by the drop in retirement revenues. According to a 2012 report, about 800,000 Floridians benefit from the Florida Retirement System pension plan. Rational businessmen should be wary of a proposal that undercuts the spending power of 800,000 Floridians.
Weatherford's proposal isn't an improvement, it's a step backward and an attack on the middle-class lifestyle.
Bill Mitchell, Tampa
Citizens Property Insurance
Reduce Citizens' exposure
As a CFO, I know how challenging it is to make fiscally responsible decisions. With a business or household budget, it's a must to make sound financial decisions. This must also apply to state government.
As a Clearwater resident, I'm lucky to have property insurance through a mutual company whose sole focus is on me and other members of the mutual. Many of my neighbors aren't so lucky and have been left with no other option but Citizens Property Insurance Corp.
While Citizens is supposed to act as a market of last resort, it underwrites far too many policies in Florida. Because Citizens relies on assessments rather than adequate premiums, all Floridians are at risk for significant taxes when the next major hurricane hits.
Proposed legislation contains a new mutual incentive program, which would allow Citizens to loan money to new mutual insurers to provide a significant reduction in Citizens' aggregate exposure. This would provide an alternative to Citizens for many policyholders and reduce the potential assessment burden on all.
Additionally, given the interest rate on the loan from Citizens to a mutual is reasonable, the profit load built into the cost of insurance from a mutual will be less than a similar company using private investor capital. Therefore, insurance from a mutual should be more affordable.
I think the new mutual insurer incentive proposal is a unique private sector solution to the overexposed and underfunded Citizens. I hope our state's policymakers seize this opportunity this session.
Bob Losi, Clearwater
Family fumes over police killing | March 18
Mental health services
I would like to offer condolences to the family and friends of Arthur Dixon, who recently died in a confrontation with police during a suicidal episode. As a community psychiatrist, I would like to focus on ways to help others with an untreated mental illness to get help so that similar incidents are minimized and hopefully prevented.
Suncoast Center Inc. in Pinellas County provides psychiatric services to any individual or family in the community, whether they have insurance or not. These services can be accessed in multiple ways and include psychiatric evaluation and medication management; individual, family and group psychotherapy; case management; forensic services; and many other psychosocial services.
I would like to finish with a message of hope to all those who are suffering from the consequences of a mental illness. There are multiple effective treatments for mental illnesses, and they are available to anyone in the community. Please use these services and encourage others you know who need them to do the same, as they work and they will help.
Linda Lefler, M.D., medical director, Suncoast Center, St. Petersburg
Judge: 2 football stars guilty in rape | March 18
I am outraged by the sentences and media coverage of the Stuebenville, Ohio, rape case. These two teenagers are only receiving a collective three-year sentence in juvenile detention. Pirating music in the United States has a longer minimum prison sentence than what these two received.
The media continues to sympathize with the rapists. CNN talked of how ruined these star football players' lives will be now that they have the label "sex offender" following them around for life. There was no talk of how traumatized the 16-year-old victim must feel after being drugged, raped and then having pictures of her circulate. There was no talk of how her life will change forever. There was no talk of how any kind of normal life for her will be nearly impossible from this point on.
The rapists deserve a much harsher sentence.
Chelsea Helt, St. Petersburg
Study charts large flow of guns from U.S. March 19
Borders and blame
Once again Mexico blames lax gun laws in the United States for the estimated 253,000 guns smuggled into Mexico each year. Mexico's inability to control guns flowing into Mexico from the United States due to a high demand for weapons in Mexico by corrupt officials, gangs and cartels doesn't fit with their blaming the United States for the drug trade because of a high U.S. demand for drugs.
Notwithstanding, the drug trade plays a huge role in keeping Mexico afloat. Much as they say that reducing the demand for drugs in the United States would solve drug production and smuggling issues, cleaning up Mexico's corrupt government — which allows the continued activities of gangs and cartels — would solve the gun smuggling issue. You can't have it both ways, so enough whining.
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The team of 542 athletes, supported by official staff of 519 and a further 300 volunteers has been entered with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) at the delegation registration meeting on Monday morning.
More than 200 other countries will now follow suit and officially nominate their team to enter the Olympics.
"This is a very important and significant milestone on Team GB’s journey to the London 2012 Olympic Games," said British Olympic Association chief executive and chef de mission Andy Hunt.
"Our greatest team is now officially entered. There is no other sporting competition in recent history which Great Britain and Northern Ireland has fielded such a large, diverse, talented and ambitious team to represent our great nation with pride and excellence.
The youngest athlete selected in Team GB is 15-year-old artistic gymnast Rebecca Tunney, who is also the shortest member of the team at 4ft 9in.
- TEAM GB: IN NUMBERS
- Total: 542 athletes
- Official staff: 519 plus 300 volunteers
- Youngest: Rebecca Tunney (15, artistic gymnastics)
Oldest: Richard Davison (56, dressage)
- Shortest: Rebecca Tunney (4ft 9in)
Tallest: Dan Clark (6ft 11in)
Basketball player Dan Clark is the tallest at 6ft 11in. The oldest athlete to compete for Team GB this summer will be 56-year-old dressage rider Richard Davison.
There are four sets of siblings: Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee (triathlon), Peter and Richard Chambers (rowing), Jenna and Asha Randall (synchronised swimming), and Lucy and Kate MacGregor (sailing).
Hunt as well as deputy chefs de mission Clive Woodward and Mark England, and villages and operations manager Louise Whitehead submitted the Team GB names – which will be the biggest in over a century and include entries for all 26 sports on the London Olympic programme.
When London first hosted the Games in 1908 there were 676 athletes in the British team. This time the number of men only slightly outnumber the women 280 to 262, however the female representation has increased significantly from four years ago in Beijing when only 143 women were part of Team GB.
"We have seen women from Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the forefront of Olympic sports over the past four years and I believe that, together with their male team-mates, and with the support of the nation behind them, they will unite the country and inspire many future generations with their performances this summer," added Hunt.
Three athletes are particularly experienced, competing at their sixth Olympic Games this summer – Alison Williamson (archery), Mary King (eventing) and Nick Skelton (showjumping) and are expected to be headline performers alongside cyclist Chris Hoy, who will be looking to add to his four gold and one silver medals, Ben Ainslie aiming for his fourth consecutive gold medal in the sailing and double gold medallist Rebecca Adlington in the pool.
The first Team GB athletes from across five sport disciplines – diving, equestrian, football, shooting and swimming – will enter the athletes' village in the Olympic Park when it opens on 16th July.
The BOA has already delivered over 10,000 units of equipment including everything from sports equipment to furniture, sun lotion and umbrellas into the Team GB area of the athletes' village.
But Hunt acknowledged that this landmark would also be disappointing for the athletes who have been controversially omitted from team selection.
World No 1 taekwondo athlete Aaron Cook, former England football captain David Beckham and 800 metres runner Jenny Meadows all missed selection, and there were unsuccessful appeals by scores of other athletes.
“It is important at this moment to also acknowledge and recognise the many athletes who have given their all but narrowly missed out on their dream of selection to Team GB," he said.
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In the course of my job as a book reviewer I have recently read a powerful and sombre novel, Slogum House, by Mari Sandoz. To its indubitable merits as a piece of writing I have paid my tribute in the notice of the book. There is an energy in the author's style which has my admiration, and I shall not soon forget the central character, Gulla Slogum, as impressive an incarnation of insatiate greed as I have met in fiction for a long time. She recalls Balzac's misers, she recalls the grand manner in villainy; and to the imagination which created her I give my willing homage. Miss Sandoz has, I think, the right to create any kind of character to which she can give plausibility; and in this case the character is so vast and vivid that objection to Gulla Slogum on the ground that her moral principles are those of Satan himself would be idle.
In the course of the story Mrs. Slogum drives all her daughters save one to prostitution in her own house—prostitution carefully calculated to permit Mrs. Slogum to break the laws of the United States and of the State of Nebraska, where the novel is laid. It seems incredible that a mother would serve as a madam to her own daughters, but Miss Sandoz has made me believe it can be true. Mrs. Slogum furthermore drives most of her sons to commit murders of one sort or another in order that the glory and possessions of Slogum house may increase. She shields her brother, a fugitive from justice, so long as he is useful to her, and then raises no obstacles to his being 'bumped off' by the family. The lover of one of the daughters, a rather likable upright young man, is gelded, largely through her instigation, and there are various other acts of darkness in the book. The characters talk with great frankness, and make reference to matters of defecation and copulation much as certain groups of characters talk in real life.
As I think over Slogum House my eye wanders to my bookshelf, and I go over and take down the first six or seven review copies of other novels as I come to them. The first of these is diversified by a seduction scene on a golf course, a murder, a lynching, a riot, besides what other derelictions I do not now recall. The next, an admirable novelette, has for one of its chief characters a psychopathic father whose son is the captain of the ship on which the father serves as mate, and reaches its climax when the father throws some unoffcnding live birds into the furnace of the boat, whereupon he is slain by the Mohommedan keeper of the birds, to the vast relief of the other characters and of the reader. The third is the story of a bootlegger's daughter. Most of the characters live outside the law, and there are various scenes of violence and cowardice in its pages. The fourth is dedicated to the proposition that American history is the history of fools; it begins with a savage hunt for witches and ends with the hysteric folly of the post-war years, and in between are piratical murders, mob violence, scenes of corruption and bribery, and other treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The next is devoted to showing how a bereaved husband discovered after his wife's death that she was a female cad. The sixth is principally laid among tenant farmers in the South; it ends with a murder and includes a seduction or two, a prostitute, an unhappy marriage involving adultery on both sides, and one or two characters who are slightly deranged.
If I were to take down more of the novels of recent vintage on my shelf, I know I should but prolong the same Thyestean banquet of authors creating characters only to destroy them, physically or morally as the case may be. Or, if the characters are not thus destroyed, I may safely expect them to be strong, violent men or weak, frustrated human beings. I shall expect them to commit rape or suffer seduction, just as I have learned to expect that fictional weddings are but the opening scenes in a long series of unhappy episodes for husband and wife. I know from novels that children are born to be miserable and that old people are a burden to themselves and to others. No one in a novel who has a job is satisfied or contented with his work, and a good many characters are sure to lose their jobs.
I have trained myself to believe that the true pith and marrow of existence, or at least what the novelists believe to be those parts of existence worth writing about, are mostly outside the law and beyond the jurisdiction of the limited moral codes I am familiar with. It is true that this extra-legal life does not seem to bring the characters any greater amount of satisfaction than if they lived within the law and within a moral code of general application, for they are uniformly unhappy and customarily come to a bad end. The novelists report—are they not the true abstracts and brief chronicles of the time?—that life in the United States is compounded of boredom and horror, violence and despair. It is a verdict which is supported by many of the poets—Mr. Robinson Jeffers, for example—and, as poets are also persons who see into the heart of things, I must of course believe. If I did not believe, the dramatists would persuade me of a similar truth.
So far as I know, I have no objection to literary violence per se. As a student of literary classics I know that Agamemnon and Clytemnestra were murdered, that Antigone violated the moral code of her time, that Hamlet accused his mother of incest, that Dickens reveled in criminal melodrama, and that Moby Dick is a symbol of man's struggle against evil. The Italian critic, Mario Praz, has demonstrated how large a portion of nineteenth-century literature is devoted to themes of sensuality, lust, abnormal sex, necrophilism, and other matters of that sort. What is Macbeth at bottom but bloody melodrama? What is Don Juan but a brilliant, cynical comment on all modem society?
I happen to be interested in Victorian literature,—a literature not undistinguished by scenes of violence in its fiction,—but I see, or at least I hope I see, the limitations placed upon literature by Victorian propriety. I think 'Ulysses' is a great poem, but I do not admire 'Dora' or 'Enoch Arden.' I like to read Trollope, but I know his novels are only a partial report on life. I think Colonel Newcome is a bore, and I find I can get through George Eliot only by determination. I am probably a bit of a Victorian,—most of us are, but I do not think I am enough of a spiritual inhabitant of that much-injured century for my interest in it unduly to warp my artistic judgments.
I also believe in the freedom of the artist to treat the scenes and create the characters which interest him. I think more harm than good is accomplished by the censorship of literature, and I could support no movement which, by legislation or by police interference, would through force take away his corncob from Mr. Faulkner or his 'sons of bitches' from Mr. Farrell. I do not believe the literary artist should be bound to any programme, Victorian or Marxist, proletarian or aristocratic. I think there must be a vast deal of wasted experimentation in any literary movement before lasting results are achieved, and I think twentieth-century American novelists—some of them—are achieving enduring books. I think the relation of morality to art is so subtle and important an affair that it cannot be confined to any formula, however well intentioned, whether it originates in a church, a college, or a critical school.
Nevertheless, I am bored by these novels. I think a great many other readers are bored. I think one of the most exciting things that could happen in American literature would be a sit-down strike among novel readers. I think it is time for somebody to lead a protest against monotony. I am fed up with this interminable procession of weak and cowardly men, strong and brutal men, oversexed women, undersexed women, frustrated children, bewildered parents, hopeless farmers, and greedy overlords. I have had my fill of cruelty, rape, seduction, incest, Lesbianism, illegality, lynching, murder, castration, and general hellishness. I am willing to admit that the language of the uneducated has its moments, but I should like to read some merely civilized conversation. I long to be introduced to a cultured human being in a story and to enter an ordinary home. So far as I know, I do not say these things because I am a hopeless Victorian or a college professor or a theorist about literature or a bourgeois or an upholder of a particular moral code. I say them in my simple capacity as a reader of books. I think I have had about all of this diet that my system can assimilate.
The pride of the hard-boiled school is that it is realistic. We do not care, say these novelists in effect, whether you like our picture of life or not, for this is existence as we find it, and as honest artists we portray what we see and feel. Any other approach to the artistic problem would be suicidal. We are discovering that life in the American republic is not wrapped in the rose-pink cloud of Jeffersonian idealism. We are telling you what the tenant farmers and the workers feel; we are telling you the real thoughts of the men and women, so docile, so civilized, so meek and well behaved, whom you see daily on the streets or in the country. If you don't believe us, see them at a lynching or a labor riot. Trace their secret thoughts, and you will find at the bottom of their love affairs and their family relationships the lust and cruelty and frustration we portray.
Bosh! I know only one human being intimately, and oven that intimacy is imperfect, for no man can know himself. American life has been historically an unruly and violent life, and if earlier American novelists intended to report the whole truth concerning it, some of them certainly omitted much that could have been told. Nevertheless, bosh! It is the pleasing delusion of every literary movement that it, and it alone, has got at the truth at last, but I sec no reason to suppose that the reigning fashion in fiction is any nearer ultimate reality and truth to life than any earlier literary fashion, and I am puzzled to know why novelists so intelligent as ours are taken in by their own rhetoric.
As a literary historian I know something about fashions in literature. Professor John Livingston Lowes has written a book called Convention and Revolt in Poetry, in which he shows how the history of one of the most individual of the arts is really a vast systole and diastole of expansion toward freedom and contraction toward restraint. Somebody ought to write a book called Convention and Revolt in Fiction.
For example, there existed at the turn of the eighteenth century a popular school of fiction writers known as the Gothic or Terror novelists. We smile at the absurdities of the conventions upon which they depended for their effects, but it appears upon inspection that we are not entitled to smile—at least not very broadly. For what were the ingredients of the Gothic novel? Violence, horror, seduction, rape, murder, incest, adultery, illegitimacy. In Ambrosio, or The Monk, the hero rapes a nun in a burial ground and uses language which is still sufficiently indecent. In the novels of Mrs. Radcliffe the leading character lives outside the law and abandons all moral codes in order that he may commit as many crimes, sexual and otherwise, as the lady thought the palpitating reader could stand. In Melmoth the Wanderer an ageless hero, outside the ordinary canons of humanity, wanders the earth as the hero of Mr. Hunt's Greathouse wanders through American history.
The literary historian can point to novels having to do with parricide, infanticide, matricide, and various other melodramatic modes of destruction. The only reason why tile writers of Gothic fiction did not create a few morons of sadistic tendencies, such as Mr. Faulkner sometimes employs in his extraordinary novels, is, I suppose, because the earlier school had not yet learned about morons, but they did what they could. They ravished as many virgins in their badly printed pages as romantic probability could stand for, and they got a lingering thrill out of every sexual act. The conventions of this group, in fact, so curiously resemble the conventions of the reigning school of violence that I wonder why rape and murder and holocaust and fornication are in the one case dismissed as romantic hocus-pocus and in the other case are considered seriously as a disillusioned report on life.
Now of course there is more to contemporary novels than murder, incest, rape, and adultery. They rest upon sociological grounds. They picture American discontent. They report the truth about the tenant farmer and the workingman in language used by such persons, and they are therefore to be considered seriously as art.
How much of it is art? I turn to the preface of a once famous novel no longer read—Charles Kingsley's Yeast, published in 1851—and I read: 'This little tale was written between two and three years ago, in the hope that it might help to call the attention of wiser and better men than I am, to the questions which are now agitating the minds of the rising generation, and to the absolute necessity of solving them at once and earnestly, unless we would see the faith of our forefathers crumble away beneath the combined influence of new truths which are fancied to be incompatible with it, and new mistakes as to its real essence.' But eight years later, in a preface to the fourth edition of Yeast, Kingsley was compelled to say that 'so many things have changed since then' that his novel had in 1859 only a sort of historical interest.
Or I turn to Mrs. Gaskell's Mary Barton, published in 1848 because Manchester workingmen 'seem to me to be left in a state wherein lamentations and tears are thrown aside as useless, but in which the lips are compressed for curses, and the hands clenched and ready to smite.' The preface ends on this ominous note: 'The state of feeling among too many of the factory people in Manchester . . . has received some confirmation from the events which have so recently occurred among a similar class on the Continent.' And my point is, not that Mrs. Gaskell was not justified in telling the truth as she saw it about industrial Manchester, but that the revolution she was afraid of never came off.
Or I turn to Dickens's Hard Times, published in 1854 to show that 'the English are, so far as I know, the hardest worked people on whom the sun shines. They are born at the oar, and they live and die at it.' But John Ruskin said of this novel: 'The usefulness of that work (to my mind, in several respects, the greatest he has written) is with many persons seriously diminished because Mr. Bounderby is a dramatic monster, instead of a characteristic example of a worldly master; and Stephen Blackpool a dramatic perfection, instead of a characteristic example of an honest workman.' And yet Dickens, like Kingsley and Mrs. Gaskell, basing his novel upon a sociological truth, was like them actuated by honest indignation at the social conditions of his time, and like them in consequence created characters that shortly seemed incredible.
I do not wish to deny any contemporary novelist the power of honest indignation. The honest indignation of the three Victorians undoubtedly helped to ameliorate the lot of Victorian workingmen, just as the honest indignation of Mr. Upton Sinclair in The Jungle helped to clean up Packingtown. I hope the indignation of contemporary novelists will have similar results. But it will not have a proportionately adequate result if their indignation is conveyed through characters who are dramatic monsters.
Moreover, the judgments of art are not the judgments of sociology—a fact which leads contemporary novelists into arguments curiously confused. The contemporary novelist mutters something about bourgeois morality if the harassed reader finally tells him he is tired of dramatic monsters, but in the next breath he appeals to his reader for support because the author is morally on the right sociological side. The novelist draws these pictures of greed and violence, lust and cruelty, he says, because in the long run he thinks it will improve American life to know the worst. But if the artist demands our moral approval in the one case, he cannot consistently dodge our moral disapproval in the other; and if he insists that moral judgments have nothing to do with his characters, he cannot complain if the reader remarks that his sociology is at bottom moral, and does not belong in the novel.
Nobody writes for posterity, but everybody hopes his own book will endure. Books written out of moral indignation about society do sometimes outlive their day,—Uncle Tom's Cabin, for example,—but they are not usually improved by taking a sociological stand. Social indignation in art is a good servant, but a bad master, as Ruskin pointed out when he said that Bounderby is a dramatic monster and Blackpool a dramatic perfection, for the monstrosity of the one and the inhuman perfection of the other were the direct products of Dickens's social indignation.
Or take the case of Kingsley, who became extraordinarily angry because the Church did not serve society, and society neglected the Church. I defy any reader to warm up the dead ashes of Kingsley's moral indignation in Yeast, the hero of which begins by breaking his leg at a fox hunt (that striking bit of conspicuous waste among the upper classes) and ends by becoming a preacher to the poor; and in the same novel Squire Lavington, Lord Minchampstead, Lord Vieuxbois, the ineffable Argemone, and other pale wraiths from Kingsley's sociological pen haven't a spark of indignant life loft in them. As for Mary Barton, in an effort to express her honest indignation about the poor, Mrs. Gaskell strewed so many deathbed scenes in that book as to provoke a modern smile. Most of us prefer Cranford, which has no sociological attachments. As a prop for enduring fiction, I fear that social indignation is a frail reed.
As for psychological reality—oh well, what's the use? La Nouvelle Héloïse was once a profound revelation of human emotions, but its few readers nowadays find it lachrymose and long-winded. There used to be solemn discussions in the better magazines about the psychological realism of George Eliot, but any practising novelist nowadays will carve you half-a-dozen characters before breakfast more psychologically 'true' than Silas Marner—and yet the Corinna of the later nineteenth century rather prided herself on her profound knowledge of men and women. Mr. Meredith was once a novelist to puzzle the young withal, and even poor old Bulwcr-Lytton rather fancied himself as a psychologist. There are fashions in fictional 'psychology' just as there are fashions in fictional themes, but some writers without a speck of psychology in them seem to surpass the experts when it comes to vitality of character. I don't suppose Mr. Pickwick or Mr. Micawber would know an Œdipus complex from a compound fracture of the tibia, but the two characters nevertheless exist. I don't know whether Shakespeare had a profound insight into the human soul or not,—sometimes I think he did, sometimes I think it is mostly a matter of magnificent language,—but, unencumbered by psychology, he created Hamlet. I am speculating how profound the psychology of contemporary fiction really is. I wonder how much of it is another example of the solemn acceptance of a literary convention.
But the horror school is true to American life—or at least true to important aspects of American life. Is it? Suppose that by the twenty-fifth century a great natural catastrophe has destroyed all vestiges of American civilization, but that an exploring expedition from New Zealand digs in the ruins of the apartment house where I live and finds preserved the contemporary novels on my shelves. These they take back to Auckland, that centre of the Japanese-Eurasian culture of the day, where delighted anthropologists and historians set to work to reconstruct the vanished culture of the United States as we, from brick tablets, try to reconstruct Babylonian civilization or from the remains of Anglo-Saxon literature try to imagine what life in the British Isles was like between Julius Cæsar and William the Conqueror. What extraordinary conclusions they will draw! Not finding anything important in these books about the public school systems, symphony orchestras, medical foundations, the efficiency of our railroad system, our bus lines, or our highways, gymnasiums, churches, philanthropy, humor, health, or a dozen other matters we take for granted, they will solemnly conclude from the evidence that the vanished Americans lived in a state of perpetual insanity; that their whole lives were spent in crimes of violence; that rapine filled the land, thievery was common, every man was unhappy and every woman unchaste. They will draw, in short, a picture of a desolate and degraded culture without order, without government, without a code of conduct (or with one but feebly enforced), without means of subsistence (for all farmers in fiction fail), a land in which gangs of desperate men banded together to loot the few remaining seats of justice, a people that treated, its children with unexampled brutality, a country of greed, famine, selfishness, a nation living in the dark ages of mankind.
Doubtless the test is unfair. Doubtless if I could lift off the hat and look into the skull of the man who is driving last year's car past my window I might find, given the right insight, that his stream of consciousness was compounded of whoredoms and abomination, a lust for cruelty and an insane desire to kill. I sadly know that social justice is not yet attained in the United States. The newspaper daily informs me and hundreds of thousands of other Americans of murder and adultery, violence and death. Lust and cruelty are altogether too rampant in the world. But as a mere reader I protest that lust and cruelty do not operate twenty-four hours a day, even in the United States, that singular country in which I happen to have been born.
I hear a good deal of conversation of all sorts during the course of a year, some of it freely sprinkled with obscenity, but I fancy most of us do not begin breakfast by shouting: 'You ------, pass me the ------ cereal or I'll ------ ------ ------!' I have not, in the course of forty-five years of reasonably diversified existence, known any murderers, and I gather that the number of murderers in actual life is proportionately less than the tally of fictional characters given to homicide might lead me to believe. I never met any woman who was seduced on a golf course, though she may exist. Some of my acquaintances have committed suicide, and one or two have met violent deaths, but most of them seem to live relatively peaceful lives. A few are actually happily married. Most of the workingmen I have talked with have seemed much more interested in the World Series and the Old Gold contest than they were in bashing in their employer's head with a bloody club. I suspect that the plea of the school of violence that its members are faithful reporters of the American scene is just about as true and just about as false as Zola's belief that he, and he alone, had discovered the last secrets of fictional art.
All this may well be wrong. Undoubtedly art changes, and undoubtedly as you get older you are increasingly puzzled by the later manifestations of literature. Perhaps I live a sheltered life—I think I do—and therefore I don't know the proper people. But have I no rights as reader which the novelist is bound to respect? I have no objection to violence per se, I repeat, and a novel without wickedness would be, I suspect, rather flat reading. I am quite willing to accept murders and rape and noble souls breaking their hearts over the girls they have, or haven't, slept with, provided only that the percentage of these things in fiction shall have some faint proportion to their probable percentage in actual life.
It so happens that, along with a good many other Americans, I read detective stories, and detective stories always centre around a violent crime. Sometimes the inhabitants of the country house where the dastard killed the victim are unpleasant people; sometimes the victim deserved to be killed and sometimes he did not; but, under all circumstances, reading the detective story gave me the pleasure of the chase. But I suspect that another reason why readers turn eagerly to the machine-made detective story is that violence is kept within some due proportion to the art of fiction. It is also curiously true that a detective story is almost the last kind of novel in which you can read reasonably civilized conversation as it is carried on by fairly sane and, if you like, ordinary people.
I have no illusions about the art of the detective story, and I think the novelists I have been talking about are much greater artists than any writer of detective stories whatsoever. But as a reader I demand—and I do not think the demand altogether unreasonable that, mixed with whatever instruction and awe, insight and disgust, one of these novelists wishes to give me, he shall also give me a little entertainment, and I am getting to the stage where I am no longer entertained. If the novelists in question want to say that my aesthetics are beneath contempt or that I am filled up with bourgeois ideology or that I am just an old moralist at heart, I shall not combat the charge. I am willing to waive everything I have said as wrongheaded and misleading with one exception: I am not willing to waive my suggestion for a sit-down strike among novel readers—a rebellion against the tedious convention which furnishes us with an unbroken diet of frustration and violence and insanity among a set of characters as stereotyped as any set of characters in past fiction. I think we are entitled to a new deal in novels. When do we get it?
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FRENCH STEWART GUEST STARS IN A SPECIAL ONE HOUR EPISODE OF
"ZEKE AND LUTHER" MONDAY, JUNE 21 ON DISNEY XD
"Luther Waffles & The Skateboard of Doom" - Zeke and Luther embark on the summer adventure of a lifetime when they land jobs at Garm Industries, a skateboard test lab. However, it quickly becomes apparent that the job is not everything it appears to be when they discover their boss, Garm Garoosh, has an ulterior motive, in a new episode of "Zeke and Luther," MONDAY, JUNE 21 (8:30-9:30 p.m., ET/PT) on Disney XD.
"Zeke and Luther" stars Hutch Dano as Zeke, Adam Hicks as Luther, Daniel Curtis Lee as Kojo and Ryan Newman as Ginger.
Guest starring is French Stewart ("3rd Rock From The Sun") as former skate pro and Garm Industries CEO Garm Garoosh.
"Luther Waffles & The Skateboard of Doom" was written by Matt Dearborn and Tom Burkhard and directed by Roger Nygard.
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Barnstaple to Exeter commuters angry as train fares rise by 4.2%
PEOPLE travelling to work or back home after the Christmas and New Year break were faced with the news of a price increase in rail fares.
From yesterday commuters travelling from Barnstaple to Exeter have to pay an extra 40p for a cheap day ticket.
Average ticket prices have increased by 4.2 per cent nationally.
For people travelling to Exeter for work on a cheap return ticket five days a week will pay an extra £2 a week. This will add up to an extra £104 a year.
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Those taking the same trip on a single ticket will pay an extra 80p. Over 52 weeks this will add up to an extra £208, which commuters say they can do without.
Joanne Williams, 24, lives in St Albans and says the increase in train fares will have a dramatic impact on how often she can visit her mum in Northam.
Joanne said: "It is hard at the moment anyway. I can't come down and see my mum as much as I would like because I can't afford it.
"At a glance people might not think 40p is a lot but it will soon add up, it is annoying. For four of us to come down just before Christmas it cost us £200. It then cost us an extra £160 to get the train back home.
"When you think about the cost the money could pay for a family holiday. Mum offered to pay half of my train ticket but she can't really afford it either. It will be hard."
Cathy Woodcock, 25, lives in Bideford and says she is not surprised to hear of a price increase.
She said: "It is not unexpected. It still works out cheaper for me to take a train if I am travelling on my own.
"For people having to commute from Barnstaple to Exeter each day for work the price increase will have a impact.
"It's unfortunate, but we have to get used to it. I do think people would use the trains more often if tickets weren't so expensive."
Liz Belcher is retired and lives in North East Scotland. She used to live in Hele Bay and still has family there. She said price rises are bound to have a negative impact on the train industry. Liz said: "I don't see how the price rise can be justified. It won't help people who travel by train.
"Sometimes a train is the only mode of transport for people. Sometimes they don't have an alternative."
Dave Ladbrook, 55, from Bath uses the train to visit family in North Devon. Even though the price increase won't stop him from travelling by train he can see it causing problems for others.
He said: "There are pay increases all around us. This is just another added pressure because people's wages are staying the same.
"It is extra cash people have to find which will be hard. I think this will rumble on for years and I can imagine it will be tough for lots of people."
Dan Paynes, a spokesman for First Great Western, said: "The changes are based on a government fares formula. It is designed to make sure we can cover costs such as fuel and staff costs. Across the board there is a 4.2 per cent increase on tickets. | <urn:uuid:8b599621-29f8-4498-bb33-b092243070a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/Barnstaple-Exeter-commuters-angry-train-fares/story-17740383-detail/story.html | 2013-05-23T04:28:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970176 | 831 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Department of Surgery
Residency Program - Application Information
ERAS is the Electronic Residency Application Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Beginning in 1999-2000 the Department of Surgery began accepting resident applications through ERAS only. General information about ERAS is available through the internet at www.aamc.org/eras/. For additional information about ERAS, students and graduates of U.S. medical schools should contact the student affairs office at their medical schools.
We accept foreign medical graduates from accredited medical schools. The graduate must have passed their ECFMG and we do sponsor J-1 visas. Students and graduates of foreign medical schools should contact the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG).
Please have your application and supporting documents submitted by December 1 of each year. After your application and documents have been received, the Department Review Committee will screen them and, if indicated, you will be notified about arrangements for an interview. Applicants interested in a surgical specialty program, but who are applying for a first-year residency position, must apply to the General Surgery Program as well as to the program of their specialty interest.
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center participates in the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP). We generally fill three (3) categorical positions and three (3) preliminary positions for PGY-1 applications. Those applying for first-year positions should obtain information on the Match from their deans or from:
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A house fire late Monday closed a part of State Street.
The fire was reported around 3:45 p.m. at 2408 east State Street. Fire officials say an elderly woman and her five-year-old grandchild were in the house but escaped unharmed.
The grandmother told police she thought she saw her grandchild playing with a lighter before the blaze started, the fire caused parts of east State Street to be blocked off from Welty to Shaw, about two blocks those streets have reopened.
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Radix sp. The two larger specimens shown here are preparing to mate. Each of these snails is a hermaphrodite. Both have a complete set of male and female reproductive structures. The snail on top will act as the male during the coming copulation. After copulation is completed, the two snails will change positions, and the previous female-acting snail will then become the male-acting partner, and vice versa.
John B. Burch (photographer; copyright holder), Mollusk Division, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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Scientists monitoring the Yenisey, Lena and Ob’, Arctic rivers comparable in size to the Mississippi that push fresh water from the Arctic into the north Atlantic, are concerned about potential climate changes (via NPR) — ironically, an ice age produced by the melting of glaciers in the Arctic due to global warming. As explained by Thom Hartmann:
[I]f enough cold, fresh water coming from the melting polar ice caps and the melting glaciers of Greenland flows into the northern Atlantic, it will shut down the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe and northeastern North America warm. The worst-case scenario would be a full-blown return of the last ice age – in a period as short as 2 to 3 years from its onset – and the mid-case scenario would be a period like the “little ice age” of a few centuries ago that disrupted worldwide weather patterns leading to extremely harsh winters, droughts, worldwide desertification, crop failures, and wars around the world.
Here’s how it works.
If you look at a globe, you’ll see that the latitude of much of Europe and Scandinavia is the same as that of Alaska and permafrost-locked parts of northern Canada and central Siberia. Yet Europe has a climate more similar to that of the United States than northern Canada or Siberia. Why?
It turns out that our warmth is the result of ocean currents that bring warm surface water up from the equator into northern regions that would otherwise be so cold that even in summer they’d be covered with ice. The current of greatest concern is often referred to as “The Great Conveyor Belt,” which includes what we call the Gulf Stream.
The Great Conveyor Belt, while shaped by the Coriolis effect of the Earth’s rotation, is mostly driven by the greater force created by differences in water temperatures and salinity. The North Atlantic Ocean is saltier and colder than the Pacific, the result of it being so much smaller and locked into place by the Northern and Southern American Hemispheres on the west and Europe and Africa on the east.
As a result, the warm water of the Great Conveyor Belt evaporates out of the North Atlantic leaving behind saltier waters, and the cold continental winds off the northern parts of North America cool the waters. Salty, cool waters settle to the bottom of the sea, most at a point a few hundred kilometers south of the southern tip of Greenland, producing a whirlpool of falling water that’s 5 to 10 miles across. While the whirlpool rarely breaks the surface, during certain times of year it does produce an indentation and current in the ocean that can tilt ships and be seen from space (and may be what we see on the maps of ancient mariners).
This falling column of cold, salt-laden water pours itself to the bottom of the Atlantic, where it forms an undersea river forty times larger than all the rivers on land combined, flowing south down to and around the southern tip of Africa, where it finally reaches the Pacific. Amazingly, the water is so deep and so dense (because of its cold and salinity) that it often doesn’t surface in the Pacific for as much as a thousand years after it first sank in the North Atlantic off the coast of Greenland.
The out-flowing undersea river of cold, salty water makes the level of the Atlantic slightly lower than that of the Pacific, drawing in a strong surface current of warm, fresher water from the Pacific to replace the outflow of the undersea river. This warmer, fresher water slides up through the South Atlantic, loops around North America where it’s known as the Gulf Stream, and ends up off the coast of Europe. By the time it arrives near Greenland, it’s cooled off and evaporated enough water to become cold and salty and sink to the ocean floor, providing a continuous feed for that deep-sea river flowing to the Pacific.
These two flows – warm, fresher water in from the Pacific, which then grows salty and cools and sinks to form an exiting deep sea river – are known as the Great Conveyor Belt.
Amazingly, the Great Conveyor Belt is only thing between comfortable summers and a permanent ice age for Europe and the eastern coast of North America.
Full article, from 2003, here. With the as-yet unmeasured effect of the melting of glaciers in Greenland, says Jonathan Overpeck, a professor of geosciences and director of the University of Arizona Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, “… you are talking about quite a bit more fresh water than we have now, and I don’t think anyone can say with confidence that we’re safe from a large scale, abrupt change in the north Atlantic.” | <urn:uuid:12f327b2-0c01-4e2f-b32d-4cad062d244a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://armageddoncocktailhour.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/an-ice-age-caused-by-global-warming/ | 2013-05-25T13:09:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947802 | 1,000 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A bank owned sign is seen in front of a foreclosed home July 29, 2010 in Miami. (Joe Raedle, Getty Images )
Banks need to show evidence they own and hold the mortgage on a home when asking judges to foreclose on a property, according to a ruling issued in the 4th District Court of Appeal In West Palm Beach on Wednesday.
A three-judge appellate panel overturned an earlier summary judgment by Palm Beach Circuit Court Judge Thomas Barkdull III, that allowed US Bank National Association to repossess a Boca Raton couple's home. The foreclosure went through even though the lender did not show the original note or other acceptable proof of ownership.
"Some judges have been lax about the rules of evidence," said Peter Snyder, the Boca Raton lawyer representing homeowner Guiseppe Servedio. "I think that what this case says is you better have the original note."
The decision comes amid mounting reports of foreclosures getting judicial approval despite missing or poorly prepared documents, including lost notes. On Wednesday, lender Wells Fargo admitted it made mistakes in 55,000 foreclosure cases and promised to fix them.
The San Francisco-based bank said it plans to refile the documents by mid-November in 23 states, including Florida, where foreclosures must go through the courts. The move comes just two weeks after Wells Fargo officials issued a statement saying its affidavit procedures and daily auditing "demonstrate our foreclosure affidavits are accurate."
The company said the mistakes were technical and that it had no plans to halt the foreclosure process as some other large banks have done. "We don't believe that there are instances in which the foreclosures would not have occurred otherwise," says Teri Schrettenbrunner, a Wells Fargo spokeswoman.
Bank of America is scheduled to meet Thursday with officials investigating allegations the bank rushed the foreclosure process without properly reviewing documents.
A spokeswoman for the Charlotte, N.C.-based lender declined to comment.
Attorneys general in all 50 states and the District of Columbia are jointly investigating whether paperwork and legal procedures were handled properly in hundreds of thousands of cases.
Although the Servedios' house was sold after foreclosure, Snyder won court approval for them to continue living there during their appeal. The appellate decision is not final for 15 days, giving the lender time to respond.
Shapiro & Fishman, one of four large Florida foreclosure law practices being investigated by the Florida attorney general for alleged inaccurate or false documents, is handling the Servedio case for US Bank. The firm could not be reached for comment Wednesday despite several attempts by phone and e-mail, but in the past has denied any wrongdoing.
In the appellate opinion, the judges said that even though US Bank later gave the courts a copy of the original note, it was insufficient because it was submitted after Barkdull finalized the foreclosure. "Without evidence demonstrating [the bank's] status as holder and owner of the note, genuine issues of material fact remain," the judges wrote.
Staff researcher Barbara Hijek, staff writer Harriet Johnson Brackey and the Associated Press contributed material to this report.
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For those that can think back a month or so, you may have recalled that I used the title, “The Return of the King, baby!” to describe Rob Howard returning to writing his column on MSDN. Well, that tumultuous event has a echo. Part 2 of Rob's Provider Design Pattern is now live on the ASP.NET Developer Center. I'd add something else 'funny' here, but I'm trying to do too many other things right at this moment to be clever. Think of something that would amuse yourself.
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The offseason is officially upon us following the St. Louis Cardinals' victory in the 2011 World Series, and free agents have filed with the Major League Baseball offices, including eight players from the Boston Red Sox.
David Ortiz and Jonathan Papelbon highlight the group of eight Red Sox players who filed for free agency. Joining Ortiz and Papelbon are J.D. Drew, Erik Bedard, Conor Jackson, Trever Miller, Jason Varitek and Tim Wakefield.
Of that group, it's likely that Ortiz and Papelbon will be labeled Type-A free agents and Varitek would be labeled a Type-B free agent, per WEEI's Rob Bradford. That means if the Red Sox lost out on Ortiz or Papelbon after offering them arbitration and having them decline and leave the team, they would receive two draft picks while receiving only one for Varitek in the same scenario.
It's likely that, of the eight free agents, the Red Sox are likely to bring back a maximum of four or five. Papelbon and Ortiz may likely return, despite all of the offseason controversy, while it's not inconceivable that the team would bring back captain Varitek and Wakefield. Erik Bedard, J.D. Drew, Conor Jackson and Trever Miller are likely to not return. | <urn:uuid:40c846cb-d557-4d1b-b2af-17aaa76d1f3b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://boston.sbnation.com/boston-red-sox/2011/10/31/2527110/boston-red-sox-offseason-2011-free-agents-david-ortiz-jonathan-papelbon | 2013-05-25T12:48:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940582 | 272 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
(1989) Adventure (Paramount) Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Allison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, Julian Glover, River Phoenix, Kevork Malikyan, Robert Eddison, Richard Young, Alexei Sayle, Alex Hyde-White, Paul Maxwell, Isla Blair. Directed by Steven Spielberg
In the third film in the series Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Spielberg and producer George Lucas wisely returned to the elements that made the first movie great. The movie opens with a prologue that shows Indy as a teenager (Phoenix) trying to foil grave robbers from stealing Coronado’s Cross. Much of his backstory is explained, including how he got the scar on his chin, where he acquired his fedora and the genesis of his phobia of snakes. We also see some of the dynamics of the relationship between Indy and his father, Dr. Henry Jones (Connery) who is obsessed by the legend of the Holy Grail, which he believes to be a real artifact.
After retrieving the Cross as an adult, Indy (Ford) receives a strange package at his office in the University from his father . He is then summoned by wealthy industrialist Walter Donovan (Julian Glover), Indy learns there is an expedition underway to retrieve the Holy Grail itself. That expedition’s leader has disappeared; and the leader turns out to be Indy’s father. Indy and Brody go to Venice, to meet up with his father’s colleague on the team Dr. Schneider (Doody), who turns out to be a she, and together they find the missing information needed to locate the resting place of the Grail.
First, however, Indy is determined to rescue his father, whom he discovers is being held in a castle in Austria. Indy arrives there only to discover that not everyone he has been trusting should be trusted and that some of them are in league with the Nazis (them again). Once again, with Brody and now Sallah (Rhys-Davies), Indy and his father set out to rescue the Grail in a race against the Nazis.
The chemistry between Connery and Ford is absolutely awesome; the two often communicate with merely a glance or a stern look. Their relationship becomes so well defined because of the natural qualities of their by-play. The two spar with each other verbally, with Ford as the son trying to please his father who may well be unpleasable. Screenwriter Jeffrey Boam (who to that point had done Innerspace and The Lost Boys) gives Ford and Connery a slambang story to work with, and the two run with it. Spielberg provides some stunning visuals, and John Williams provided one of his best scores in any film ever.
Doody is an appealing blonde who may well be the prettiest of Indy’s love interests; she is his intellectual equal and is stronger a character than either Karen Allen’s Marion or Kate Capshaw’s Willie from the first two movies. Rhys-Davis and Elliott turn in strong performances and prove why they were so instrumental to the success of the first movie.
The third installment of the Indiana Jones films is almost as good as the first, and in some ways, better. There are some wonderful action sequences (such as a fight in the canals of Venice, a rescue from an Austrian castle and subsequent motorcycle chase and a daring desert rescue from a tank. At the center of the movie however is the relationship between father and son and Connery and Ford, two of the best in the business, make it believable; touching at times, funny at others but authentic in every moment. It is a little ironic that the measure of success for a big summer blockbuster lay in the details of the relationship between father and son, but it is true here. Hollywood could learn a lesson there in how to make a summer film timeless, as this one is.
WHY RENT THIS: Great chemistry between Ford and Connery. Excellent action sequences. A slambang story that has familiarity to the legend. A lighter touch than the last.
WHY RENT SOMETHING ELSE: The villains are a little less vicious in some ways than the first film.
FAMILY MATTERS: There is some sensuality as well as a bit of action violence. There are a couple of disturbing images as well.
TRIVIAL PURSUITS: The character of Fedora (Young), the character who chases the teenaged Indy through the Utah desert, was originally meant to be Abner Ravenwood, the father of Marion and Indy’s mentor.
NOTABLE HOME VIDEO FEATURES: All of the special features on the DVD are on the fourth disc of the four-disc collection and include a massive Making of the Trilogy featurette that is more than two hours long and includes much behind the scenes footage. There are also featurettes on the stunt work, the music, the special effects and Ben Burtt’s amazing sound work. There is also a promo for the new (at the time) Indiana Jones video game.
BOX OFFICE PERFORMANCE: $474.2M on a $48M production budget; by any standards the movie was yet another blockbuster in the trilogy.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Raiders of the Lost Ark
FINAL RATING: 10/10
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