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Safarova to open semi against Schiavone
Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic will face former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone of Italy in the opening singles of a Fed Cup semifinal between the last two champions.
The 23rd-ranked Safarova is 4-3 against the 12th-ranked Schiavone, and has won all their matches on hard courts while the Italian has dominated on clay.
In the eastern city of Ostrava, the Czechs are counting on a fast indoor hard court at the CEZ Arena.
"I think the surface will be an advantage for us," Safarova said. "I never lost to her on a hard court."
Schiavone, who won at Roland Garros in 2010, said she was ready for the challenge.
"It's more about the quality of the players but, of course, the fast surface with the lefty service will be difficult. But we're ready."
Both Czech singles players are left handers.
No 3-ranked Petra Kvitova will play the second singles for the host against No 28 Sara Errani, who won her third Barcelona Open title in four years on Sunday.
"I respect her form," Kvitova said. "She won in Barcelona last week but I'll try to end her winning series."
In Sunday's reverse singles, Kvitova first plays Schiavone before Safarova takes on Errani.
In the doubles, French Open champions Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka will play against the Italian pair of Errani and Roberta Vinci.
The hosts are defending champions while Italy won the title in 2006, 2009 and 2010, when it stormed past the Czechs 5-0 in the semis.
Italy won the last four Fed Cup matches against the Czechs.
The winner of the best-of-five series faces Serbia or Russia in November's final. | <urn:uuid:c1c5110e-e63f-4f59-8a1f-d79384c190e5> | 2013-05-23T19:07:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"Skateboarding and wakeboarding have strong chances of being included in the 2020 Olympic Games. Make no mistake I'm all for these 2 excellent additions. However, I wonder how they could leave out surfing. One of the greatest Olympians of all time, Duke Kahanamoku was a surfer 1st. It is one of the worlds most popular sport, by far more so than several Olympic events (think: race walking). Come on committee, its time to do what is fair and right." Gq.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) wants new sports and new audiences in the Olympic movement. In the history of the Olympiads, only two board sports have delivered medals: snowboarding and windsurfing.
While kiteboarding seems to be making a debut in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, surfing is still struggling to prove how popular it can be, in terms of global audience.
leno Joke: Olympic officials have disqualified a champion race walker after determining that he was doping. They disqualified him. The man said getting caught doping is almost as embarrassing as getting caught being a champion race walker.
So on with the story....Unexpectedly, skateboarding has been boosted by cycling's world governing body - UCI - to be included in the Olympics. What do skateboarders and cyclists have in common? Apparently, only wheels.
But there's more. UCI wants to show its commitment to help modernizing the Olympic Games and skaters are cool and radical.
"I've heard talk about 2016 in Brazil maybe getting skateboarding. For me that would be like the ultimate to compete Winter and Summer," Shaun White told Reuters. "The only thing I could relate it to would be the Summer and Winter X-Games. I compete in both of those and have medals in both".
"At the time, I thought it was the biggest thing that could ever happen until I won the Olympics and then it changed the game."
Wakeboarding has been growing very fast. The water board sport evolved and can now be seen towed behind a motorboat or in a cable park system.
Multinational brands have been steadily supporting wakeboarders and the X-Games were a major success for the sport. With a complete set of high-flying tricks and moves, wakeboarding may see the light of the Olympic day, in a near future.
IOC will select one in eight bidding sports for the 2020 Olympic Games. Two of them are board sports. So, in the era of artificial waves and surf pools, where's olympic surfing heading to and what's hot in modern wakeboarding and skateboarding? Maybe these videos from the X-Games can clear things up: | <urn:uuid:fdc8fb5c-93d8-48ea-8641-91cd28a8f58c> | 2013-05-23T19:06:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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|Lapérouse: Favorite of Victor Hugo (and Nicole Kidman)|
|Part of Victor Hugo Museum in Villequier, France|
The home that belonged to his daughter Leopoldine's in-laws
|Victor Hugo's favorite daughter and muse Leopoldine|
who died at 19 with her new husband, his uncle, and cousin
when their canoe overturned in the Seine
If the demonstrable public sorrow at the 1885 state funeral held for Hugo is the measure--the greatly beloved poet, dramatist, artist, humanist, statesman, and author of novels including, "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" surpassed his youthful aim. For over 2-million lined the streets in Paris--many as desolate as he was on the death of his 19-year old daughter and muse, Leopoldine. A lifelong grief he conveyed in poems including, "À Villequier"~
“Alas! turning an envious eye towards the past,
inconsolable by anything on earth,
I keep looking at that moment of my life
when I saw her open her wings and fly away!
I will see that instant until I die,
that instant—too much for tears!
when I cried out: "The child that I had just now--
what! I don't have her any more!"
Victor Hugo on love~
~"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love another person is to see the face of God.”
~“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”
~“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
~“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.”
In Paris, Victor Hugo rests in the Panthéon alongside Alexandre Dumas and Emile Zola. Information about his museum in Villquier…about two hours by car out of Paris is (here).
Chateaubriand dinner recipes:
Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page for recipes to accompany the special main dish named for the man who set Victor Hugo's literary dreams soaring as a lad: (here) And from ‘Paris Je T’Aime’~ ‘We’re All in the Dance.” (here). Lift a toast to Victor Hugo on his birthday, February 26th! And very Happy Valentine's Day to you. Toujours l'amour~(here) | <urn:uuid:d5be58af-929b-4845-9479-c21e7a7db237> | 2013-05-23T18:32:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The purpose of this section is to provide a broad overview of the methodology used to construct the four separate Indices of Deprivation. Those wishing to access more detailed information should follow the links to the Indices' technical reports shown in the 'Useful links' section.
The methodologies used to derive the separate indices of multiple deprivation are broadly similar. In each case, the index measures the level of multiple deprivation experienced by individuals in small areas. Firstly, levels of deprivation are measured for a number of separate dimensions or 'domains'. The number and title of domains varies between each index but each measures deprivation across key themes of income, employment, education and health.
For each domain, deprivation is calculated according to a series of summary statistics or 'indicators'. These indicators are designed to measure key features of a particular deprivation theme. The choice of indicators is agreed through consultation and varies between each index. Typically there are between two and six indicators per domain.
For each index, the indicators are combined in broadly the same way to provide a domain level measure of deprivation. Where possible and most notably in the income and employment domains, indicators are summed and divided by the 'at risk population' (for example, the number of income support claimants as a proportion of the total population) to give an overall area rate of deprivation. Where rates are not possible, appropriate weights for combining indicators into a single deprivation score are selected using a range of techniques including Maximum Likelihood factor analysis.
The domain level scores which represent specific dimensions of deprivation are then ranked and transformed to an exponential distribution. Weights are then applied to provide the overall Index of Multiple Deprivation for each country in the UK. The weights are selected according to a number of criteria which are used to assess the level of importance attached to each domain theme in the overall measurement of deprivation. As each index uses different indicators and domains, the weights applied to aggregate domain scores are different. | <urn:uuid:59f29932-d11c-4c79-a142-ec1b53d42d82> | 2013-05-23T18:45:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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How can I install ESM CLI with out installing entire ESM manager ? I tried installing ESM console only but it doesn't have ESM CLI .
check the install guide, this will install ESM console silently
setup.exe /s /v"/qn /l*v \"%TEMP%\SymantecESMConsoleInstall.log\"
INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Program Files\Symantec\Enterprise Security Manager\"
ADDLOCAL=ESMConsole EXECUTEACTION=INSTALL EDITCONSOLEUSERNAME=ESM
Help Link: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/overview.jsp?pid=54619
Hi Pete ,
I'm looking for ESM command line interface . I think the above solution you gave is for installing ESM console silently (using command).
CLI is used to get the information, config and policy setting without use of UI. As far i know it does not help to install the modules.
I think I haven't put it clear, my scenario is this
I 'm doing an automation and wanted to use ESM CLI to get the details of the agents from different ESM managers inorder to do that I want to install ESM CLI in my system how can I install ESM CLI.
there is no seperate install. you need to browse to the path and use the esmc command for cli . The commands can be got from user guide
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The basketball game between Syracuse University and San Diego State scheduled to take place on the USS Midway on Nov. 9 is in danger of being canceled due to a lack of a national sponsor, according to a report in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The "Battle on the Midway" was just one part of a weekend-full of events for Veterans Day. According to the newspaper's story, several events have already been canceled including a fan fest on the pier, a concert for charity and a gala dinner.
The Union-Tribune reported that a final decision on the SU-San Diego State game should be made in the next day or two.
A source told the Syracuse Post-Standard that a "positive development'' is expected to be announced this afternoon. The source expressed confidence that the game would be played.
"We're in discussions with the schools and we're optimistic we can find a solution," said Fox Sports spokesman Chris Bellitti, whose network has the broadcast rights to the game. "We still want to produce and televise the game on the Midway as planned."
Pete Moore, Syracuse University's director of athletic communications, had no comment on Friday morning. Attempts to contact Syracuse athletic director Daryl Gross were unsuccessful.
Fox Sports San Diego is set to televise the game. Tickets to the game cost as much as $1,000. The game is not yet sold out, but tickets have not yet been available to the general public.
Several ticket packages offered by Syracuse University have sold out. | <urn:uuid:154886a3-072f-4e0f-97ce-7a73b0a0d66c> | 2013-05-23T18:33:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The City of Talisay used to be an Agustinian estate in 1648 but only became a municipality in 1849 with Silverio Fernandez as its first gobernadorcillo and Pedro Labuca as capitan. Some accounts trace the origin of its name from Magtalisay trees abounding in areas while others claim origin of the name from a town in Spain. In both the American and Japanese occupations, Talisay served as haven of colonial forces. During World War II, the city served as the center of guerilla intelligence operations for the Philippine residence movement in Cebu. The returning American forces made their historic landing in the beach of Talisay on March 26, 1945 - an event that marked the eventual surrender of the Japanese forces in Cebu. The event is now annually commemorated by the provincial government of Cebu. On December 30 2000, Talisay became a component city by virtue of Republic Act 8979.
To promote and sustain environmental balance, economic stability and social equity for the welfare of its empowered citizenry
An environmentally sustainable Aqua City with a happy empowered citizenry working towards a peaceful and progressive community in a diversified economy guided by dynamic and efficient local leadership. | <urn:uuid:78a38541-4af3-4743-9c5a-a6aaee717dc9> | 2013-05-23T18:53:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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PORT RICHEY — Gregory Jerome Oras was arrested Friday afternoon after, deputies say, he went to a stranger's house, swung a knife at him, and then punched the man in the side of the head.
Russell Pascoe told deputies an unknown man — later identified as Oras — showed up at his Port Richey house looking for his own girlfriend. Pascoe told Oras he didn't know who Oras' girlfriend was and to leave, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report states. He said Oras got mad, drew his knife and swung it at him.
When Pascoe turned to run back inside his home, he told deputies, Oras punched him in the side of the head. Pascoe turned back to fight and held Oras on the ground until deputies arrived.
Oras told deputies the situation was the other way around, that Pascoe attacked and he used the knife to defend himself.
Deputies arrested Oras, of Hudson, on charges of simple battery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He remained in Land O'Lakes jail Tuesday in lieu of $5,500 bail. | <urn:uuid:528f410b-1336-470c-99ce-bfe8a46d8f72> | 2013-05-23T18:31:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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KEYWORDS: Fertility, Creativity, Birth, Abundance, Success, Femininity, Nature
CARD DEFINITION: Execution of your decisions are in you own hands now. You need to take calculated risks to achieve your goals. You may receive some good news related to a wedding or birth of a baby. Now is the time to take action and develop your creativity.
REVERSE DEFINITION: Problems with other women are seen. You may not be able to develop your creative side. There may be indecision and hesitation. There may be infidelity, infertility or an unwanted pregnancy.Be prepared to face anxiety and depression.
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Interpreting The Empress Card
The Empress is the fourth card in the tarot deck's Major Arcana. The number associated with her is three, as at her core level she is the point at which the sequence of the tarot begins to deal with the relationship between the spirit, mind, and body. The Empress herself can be said to represent the last of these three - the body, as well as the world of the physical at large.
As a matter of fact, we can go one step further than saying that the Empress represents the physical world. In many ways she actually is this very world and all that makes it what it is. She is wealth, sensory pleasure, and prosperity in all their many forms as well. The world she lives in is our world exactly as it was meant to be - ideal, beautiful, and bountiful. As such, she is also said to be a representation of motherhood, nature and the creation of life. She is, quite simply, abundance in all its many forms.
The figure of the Empress is traditionally portrayed as a young, beautiful woman reclining in a natural setting that is the very picture of the fruitful earth she is meant to represent. Her attire is regal in nature - very much the vestment of an Empress - and includes richly embroidered robes, a diadem, and a scepter. Next to her couch rests a shield bearing the symbol of Venus, highlighting her connection to the concepts of desire and love. Behind her, a field full of corn is ripening and becoming golden in the sun while a waterfall flows in the distance to represent fertility and life force. In some tarot representations, the Empress is also very appropriately depicted as pregnant.
The Empress is often described as someone who derives her royal status through being the daughter of Heaven and Earth and all of the symbols included in her tarot portrayal support this. She is the very heartbeat of the earth and of all life. She is the divine potential represented by the cards that came before made real and tangible.
When the Empress makes an appearance in a tarot spread, she is relatively easy to interpret. When representing someone other than the querent, she is almost always going to stand for a mother figure. If she's not the actual mother, then she is very likely someone who plays a similar role for the querent in one way or another. If the Empress is situated in such a way that she represents the querent herself, then it should be taken to mean that she is at a point in her life when she's feeling somewhat maternal, although this does not have to be in a traditional sense that revolves around children. She may also be feeling protective or "motherly" in regards to a new business venture or a new relationship.
When the Empress decides to make an appearance, the message she sends is to take into consideration all the lessons that she teaches. Whether the situation in question involves a new business, a life change, or an actual baby, the Empress reminds us - whether we're male or female - that if it is to thrive, it must be cared for, tended carefully, and nurtured until it reaches that next stage. However, it's also important to note that it's perfectly possible to be too protective. Too much care, attention, and nurturing could smother the potential of the project in question before it ever has a chance to realize its potential. | <urn:uuid:63cbb881-0c98-4ef3-80b5-18c573ba9491> | 2013-05-23T18:39:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Quantum Teleportation Leaps to New Distance Record
A new record of roughly 60 miles has been set in the field of qubit transmission. "This is just a transmission method, so it could have wide utility, though I expect the cost will initially make it best for huge data streams," said analyst Rob Enderle. "Something like this could turn us into a SaaS world."
Scientists in China have transmitted quantum bits, or qubits, over a record distance of 97 km, or roughly 60 miles.
This is more than six times the distance of the previous record of 16 km, set by another team of Chinese researchers in May of 2010, as reported in Nature.com.
The results represent a step toward the establishment of a global quantum network, and the methods used in the experiment could be utilized for satellite-based quantum communications, the scientists said.
"This is just a transmission method, so it could have wide utility, though I expect the cost will initially make it best for huge data streams," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.
This technology "could end up changing much of the world" because it's both potentially higher bandwidth and lower latency, approaching zero, and these factors "could drive massive computer centralization on a world scale and force a massive shakeout of security, networking and computer companies," Enderle continued. "Something like this could turn us into a SaaS (Software as a Service) world."
The Theory Behind the Experiment
The latest experiment demonstrated quantum teleportation of an independent unknown state between two optical free-space links 97 km apart with multi-photon entanglement.
Quantum teleportation is a process for transmitting information using quantum physics to, in effect, encrypt the data transmitted. It's also known as entanglement-assisted teleportation.
In quantum teleportation experiments, beams of lights are used to encode qubits. The encoded beam of light, which is described as quantum entangled, is split into two and transmitted. When a qubit at one receiver is observed and take a defined form, the other half of the qubit at the other receiver takes the same defined form.
Quantum entanglement results when particles such as photons or electrons interact physically and then become separated but remain in the same quantum state. A quantum state is a set of mathematical variables, including position, momentum and spin, that fully describes a quantum system.
What the Researchers Did
The researchers used an ultra-bright entangled photon source based on Type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). The SPDC process involves using a non-linear crystal to split photons into two. Those photons in a pair whose polarizations are perpendicular to one another are termed "Type II" photons.
In an SPDC apparatus, a strong laser beam, called the "pump" beam, is directed at a beta-barium borate (BBO) crystal. That's exactly what the researchers did. This generated the beam of light, which was split and sent across Lake Qinghai in China. | <urn:uuid:9e0ed9cf-7ff0-4c4d-ae4c-98d6e5f83d62> | 2013-05-23T18:46:20Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Current Trends in Federal Civilian Backup: Part III - Replication-Based Backup
Replication technology has traditionally been used to accomplish disaster recovery and critical recovery time objectives for systems with the most critical data and with high-availability requirements. In this scenario, a primary system is replicated to a secondary system, either locally or at a remote location. Then, in the event of a primary system outage, users and services are redirected to the secondary system via automatic or manual failover. Depending on the vendor, replication is accomplished using technology within the disk array or through software running on the host system. | <urn:uuid:f2d6a973-d8c6-4ce2-b862-d4c62dea72c8> | 2013-05-23T18:52:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Mr Erdogan arrived in Cairo last night intent on burnishing his populist credentials after casting himself as a rival to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, as Israel's critic-in-chief in the Middle East.
In what appeared to be a deliberate piece of timing designed to maximise the impact of his visit, Mr Erdogan's office yesterday released a previously unpublished transcript of a redacted interview he gave to Al Jazeera's Arabic language service last week.
In it, Mr Erdogan claimed that Turkey would have been justified in going to war after Israeli commandos shot dead nine Turkish activists during the interception of an aid convoy seeking to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza in May last year.
"The attack that took place in international waters did not comply with any international law," he said. "In fact, it was grounds for war. However, befitting Turkey's greatness, we decided to act with patience."
Mr Erdogan's comments appeared to be designed to rile Israel at one of the most strained moments in relations with the Jewish state, which until recently was a close Turkish ally.
Incensed by Israel's refusal to apologise for the raid, Mr Erdogan announced the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Ankara earlier this month. He also downgraded diplomatic relations, suspended military ties and announced that warships would in future escort any vessels flying the Turkish flag that attempted to reach Gaza.
Although alarmed by the rapid deterioration of its relationship with one its few friends in the region, Israel has dismissed Mr Erdogan's increasingly bellicose rhetoric as sabre-rattling.
But while few believe Turkey has any wish to engage Israel, with its vastly superior military strength in a war, Mr Erdogan does seem to be intent on attempting to isolate Israel in the Middle East at a time of heightened vulnerability for the Jewish state.
Persistently rebuffed in his attempts to seek European Union membership for Turkey, Mr Erdogan has instead sought to concentrate on projecting power in the Middle East by presenting himself as a champion of the Palestinian cause, traditionally the single most emotive issue among ordinary Arabs.
The Palestinian Authority is expected to submit a controversial application for statehood at the United Nations next week, in a move that will further raise tensions across the Middle East.
Mr Erdogan's visit to Egypt, once a part of the Ottoman Empire, is the first by a Turkish leader in 15 years and comes at a time of growing popular discontent against Israel on the streets of Cairo and elsewhere.
Over the weekend, rioters angered by Israel's inadvertent killing of at least three Egyptian border guards last month, ransacked the Israeli embassy in Cairo. Israel was forced to evacuate its ambassador and nearly all its diplomats from the country.
But Mr Erdogan's visit is reportedly being viewed with considerable mistrust among Egypt's transitional military leadership, which has taken charge of the country after the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, the former president, in February.
Mr Erdogan had been expected last night to address crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the revolution against Mr Mubarak, but his speech was mysteriously cancelled.
In a further sign that Egypt would resist Mr Erdogan's anti-Israel advances, one of the ruling generals said a state of emergency would be expanded because of the storming of the embassy.
The announcement could further incense public opinion, already outraged after three protesters were reportedly shot dead in disturbances outside the embassy and elsewhere in Cairo over the weekend. | <urn:uuid:372e3ca6-4410-484a-be66-793ce25e9454> | 2013-05-23T18:33:09Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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With an Orion Narrow Side-by-Side Plate you can easily mount two telescope optical tubes to a single mount.
The Narrow Side-by-Side plate attaches to an EQ mount equipped with a narrow, or "Vixen-style" dovetail saddle, and accepts optical tubes outfitted with a narrow dovetail mounting plate. You can also mount an optical tube that is equipped with tube rings attached to a narrow dovetail mounting plate.
Having two telescopes mounted side-by-side is a great way to expand your visual observational abilities. You can, for example, attach one telescope optimized for wide-field views and another for high magnification use. Once you have the mount trained on a target object, you can alternate between wide-field and high-magnification views by looking through the two different telescopes. Imagine going to a star-party and showing off a powerful view of Jupiter's red spot region through one telescope AND a wider view of Jupiter's disk and bright moons through another telescope on the same mount - talk about a crowd-pleaser!
For astro-imaging pursuits, an Orion Narrow Side-by-Side plate allows you to mount an imaging telescope and guide scope next to each other instead of in a "piggyback" orientation. This can help reduce tracking errors and simplify your astro-imaging setup. What's more, you can easily swap out telescopes when using a Side-by-Side Plate if you wish to change your imaging or guide scope instruments in the middle of a lengthy imaging session.
Using a Side-by-Side Plate can reduce the amount of counterweight needed, since both mounted instruments are closer to the mount's pivot point compared to telescopes mounted piggyback. The distance between the two plates is 9 inches. The Narrow Side-by-Side plate measures 11.5 inches wide. Each narrow dovetail saddle measures 9 inches long and 2.5 inches wide. The entire assembly is 1.5 inches in height and weighs 3.85 lbs.
Two telescopes are better than one, and with an Orion Narrow Side-by-Side plate you can enjoy two telescopes on one mount!
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Meanwhile, Calleigh's busy shooting things. Alexx comes down to the shooting gallery and waves around a tox report on a case she's ostensibly avoiding. She demands, "Did you see this? Dennis had cyclopentalate in his blood stream. 150 micrograms per mil according to the tox report." Calleigh asks what I'm thinking with, "Aren't you supposed to be off this case?" Alexx replies, "Jones got the report. I can't help it if I can read upside-down." Calleigh smiles a little. Alexx explains that the cyclopentalate dilated Dennis's eyes, and finishes angrily, "And who has access to eye drops, and who is an eye doctor at Coral Gables Professional Building?" Why, it's Julie. Who else is surprised that Brad wasn't working alone? Raise your hands. You in the back? Oh, just stretching? Okay. Alexx is miffed that Calleigh's not going to ask why Julie slipped Dennis eye drops. Calleigh replies, "I'm a lawyer's daughter. I don't ask a question I have the answer to." So Foghorn Leghorn's a lawyer? "Object -- I say! -- objection!" Maybe Mrs. Leghorn's a lawyer. Who knows? We won't. Anyway, Alexx gives Calleigh a sassy look and struts off.
And now we're back with Julie. Calleigh asks, "Do you have any idea how your husband came in possession of this eye drop solution?" Julie claims to have prescribed it for him a few months ago. Hagen asks why. Julie responds, "Because I enjoy playing fast and loose with the AMA's ethical guidelines." Actually, she claims that their vasodilation powers can be used for good in the fight against migraines. We get a TMICam shot of the drops entering the bloodstream and going to work. It looks like a Flash animation. We establish that this is merely a side effect -- the eye drops are commonly used to dilate the pupil so the physician can get a better look at the underlying muscle. Calleigh notes how the blurry-vision side effect would have made it impossible for anyone who got those drops to see someone approach them with a gun. I'm more disturbed that Dennis was behind the wheel of a car with his vision all blurry -- that's just insanely unsafe. Not for Dennis; for the rest of the people on the road. Maybe Brad unwittingly saved lives by keeping Dennis from causing a five-car pileup. Has anyone thought of that? Anyway, Julie's all, "You're saying I slipped my husband eye drops before he left the house?" This raises two more questions -- how do you "slip" someone eye drops? And why didn't Dennis say, "Gosh, honey, I can't see my hand in front of my face -- can this urgent need for lotto tickets wait fifteen minutes?" Why do I even ask? Julie claims that Dennis dosed himself in the car in response to a sudden headache, and driving with impaired vision wasn't an issue. Hagen and Calleigh clearly aren't buying her stories, and don't bother to hide their feelings from Julie. Julie's all, "I guess it's time to call a lawyer." Calleigh says, "We have a phrase in law enforcement. It's called 'equivocal evidence.' It means when you can interpret the evidence both for and against the suspect equally. We are obligated to give the suspect the benefit of the doubt." Julie asks, "What happens to Brad? He's just twenty-two." Youth is no excuse. Hagen tells Julie her boy toy is going behind bars for murder one, life without parole. | <urn:uuid:c4d58ad6-01c4-42e9-923b-07d5bf9d180d> | 2013-05-23T18:40:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Originally Posted by ScreamingFalcon
They probably won't even do anything for Windows Mobile 7.
What do you mean, "won't even"? Isn't WM7's market shares around 1% and dropping? Not sure about those exact figures, but Android is probably a lot bigger, and a lot more wholesome as well.
They won't even do anything for Linux. | <urn:uuid:81a966cc-393b-4103-a89c-9d4d779d4b4e> | 2013-05-23T18:33:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Welcome to the Tennis4you Forums!!!
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I'd be happy to send you an invite to tennishaven. What's your email?To the moderator, is it cool to invite him this way on this thread?Anyway rgfootball.net is a great site but the commentary will always be russian. Tennishaven and t3nnis.tv often have matches in english but not always. | <urn:uuid:38ddd120-9a2f-4914-87f1-fc511b0f3fbf> | 2013-05-23T18:51:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I was playing doubles,set and ready to recieve a serve and then the net player on the other team start to wave his raquet out to the alley to what I feel was to distract me. I did not say anything then however it happened again latter in the set. so on the change over I said I felt that was unfair play. they disageed and we played on. Is that fair play? | <urn:uuid:25471ee8-ff79-497e-92c2-bcd5959f8731> | 2013-05-23T18:39:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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S@mwich wrote: Witches abroad- very whimsical of course
I think Witches Abroad could be a very art-concept film. There's all that "reflections" imagery - the mirror on the scarecrow, the reflections in puddles, the physical resemblance, the climactic scene, and the rethinking that is also part of the meaning of the word "reflection." It would work as a satire of things like Shrek. It would have to be funded and made entirely outside Hollywood, though, for reasons that should be obvious. Casting would be crucial, too, and Hollywood would never go for the correct person to play Magrat. But there would have to be a prologue explaining the term "wet", which, frankly, I have never really understood except as a generic term for "someone the popular kids don't like". | <urn:uuid:f39d44cc-4016-4220-b48c-a5db7b573a86> | 2013-05-23T19:05:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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As a suggestion from Jane in the broken drum conversation what made you smile today?
turn this into a game so my original post as below :
BANNED FROM WAL-MART
Dear Mrs. Samsel,
Over the past six months, your husband has been causing quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this behavior and have been forced to ban both of you from the store. Our complaints against Mr. Samsel are listed below and are documented by our video surveillance cameras.
1. June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's carts when they weren't looking.
2 . July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals.
3. July 7: Made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women's restroom.
4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, 'Code 3 in Housewares. Get on it right away.. '
5. August 4: Went to the Service Desk and tried to put a bag of M &M's on layaway.
6. August 14: Moved a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
7. August 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told other shoppers he'd invite them in if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department.
8. August 23: When a clerk asked if they could help him, he began crying and screamed, 'Why can't you people just leave me alone?'
9. September 4: Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose.
10. September 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were.
11. October 3: Darted around the store suspiciously while loudly humming the ' Mission Impossible' theme.
12. October 6: In the auto department, he practiced his ' Madonna look' by using different sizes of funnels.
13.. October 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, yelled 'PICK ME! PICK ME!'
14. October 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed a fetal position and screamed 'OH NO! IT'S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!'
And last, but not least .
15. October 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, then yelled very loudly, 'Hey! There's no toilet paper in here!'
so now you need to think of a reason you could be banned from walmart the funnier the better
here's my ideas to get it started :
October 25th :Caught running around the bedding department hidden under a sheet yelling "whoo whoo I am the Walmart ghost "
October 31st: was found in the vegetable area carving faces onto pumpkins
And in Heather's case, there were sometimes Third Thoughts and Fourth Thoughts, although these were quite difficult to manage and sometimes led her to walk into doors | <urn:uuid:6991cea0-a0f4-48d5-9d0f-476da55d20d8> | 2013-05-23T18:52:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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If I were to lie 11 roses next to you, you'd make the perfect dozen.
Can I snap your picture so I can show Santa what I gotta have for xmas?
Are you a cop, cause you're definitely one of New York's finest?
I wish I was a teddy bear, that lay upon your bed, so everytime you cuddled it, you cuddled me instead.
Do u believe in love at first site or do I have to walk by again?
If I said u had a hot body would u hold it against me?
If I could re arrange the alphabet I would put u and i together
A special smile a special face, a special someone I cant replace.I luv u I always will. You've filled a space no one can fill!
I luv ur eyes I luv ur smile. I cherish ur ways I adore ur style. Wot can I say? ur 1of a kind & 24/7 ur on my mind!
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CAIRO (AP) -- A plane carrying seven American pro-democracy workers took off from Cairo airport after sunset Thursday, airport officials said, easing a deep crisis in relations over charges that their groups funded and promoted anti-government protests in Egypt.
In the last step before the seven boarded the plane, the U.S. government posted nearly $5 million in bail for them and nine others who managed to leave the country before charges were filed.
One of the seven flying out of Egypt on a special plane to Cyprus was Sam Lahood, son of U.S.. Transport Secretary Ray Lahood. He was the head of the International Republican Institute office in Cairo, a well established pro-democracy group.
A convoy of white vans carrying the symbol of the U.S. Embassy arrived at Cairo airport Thursday afternoon. carrying the seven accompanied by U.S. Embassy officials. Egypt's state news agency MENA says the Americans were "happily" taking group photos at the airport, along with eight other foreigners who were also allowed to leave the country.
The affair began in late December, when Egyptian security raided offices of 10 pro-democracy and human rights groups. Workers, including 16 Americans, were then charged with using illegal funds and financing protests against the ruling Egyptian military. The groups and the U.S. government hotly denied the charges, and some U.S. officials threatened to cut off aid to Egypt over the affair.
The raids on the pro-democracy groups and charges against them dovetailed with frequent declarations by the ruling generals, blaming continuing unrest on unnamed "foreign hands." Local activists ridiculed the statements, charging that the military rulers were perpetuating the harsh, repressive tactics of the overthrown regime of President Hosni Mubarak and demanding that the generals hand over power to a civilian government.
The crisis started moving toward resolution on Tuesday, when the three judges in the case abruptly pulled out, citing "uneasiness." Lead judge Mohammed Shukry told the state-run newspaper Al-Ahram that there was interference in his work, but he did not say who pressured him.
"The problem started with the requests to lift the travel ban on the foreigners," he said. The ban was lifted Wednesday.
The resolution of the case was been seen by many as a concession by the ruling military under U.S. pressure, despite repeated statements by the generals that Egypt's judiciary is independent.
On Thursday, court officials said the U.S. posted bail for the seven and nine other Americans charged in the case who had already left Egypt. It was set at $300,000 for each of the 16 or $4.8 million. Egypt lifted the travel ban on the seven late Wednesday and set the bail.
Egyptian airport officials said that a U.S. military jet landed at Cairo airport on Wednesday, hours after Egypt announced lifting the travel ban. Its four-member crew spent their night inside the plane. It was set to fly to Cyprus with the Americans, the officials said.
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An alarming number of children, especially girls, are abused by older family members, who know that their country's legal system and social mores make it unlikely that they will be punished.
The slim woman I'll call Zoya is in her late 30s. She sits inside the home of her good friend, one of the very few people who she has trusted with a dark secret that has haunted her for years.
"It's a very difficult topic to talk about it's something very hard for me," she says.
Zoya's voice shakes at times. Dressed in a white shalwar kameez, her shoulder-length hair is pulled back. "My father had been abusing me since the time I was little kid." Tears roll down her face and she recalls the details of her abuse.
She was four when she first came to suspect that what was happening to her might not be normal. One day, "when everyone was sleeping, my father picked me up, took me to another room, undressed me," Zoya says. "I found myself lying in bed naked and I was frightened, I didn't understand why."
Later, Zoya tried to tell her mother.
"I said, 'Papa is taking me -- mama, papa is taking me at night to another room and he takes off my clothes and does things.'" Her mother answered, "Don't tell anybody." It's a common phrase for victims of sexual abuse in Pakistan to hear from their mothers.
Manizeh Bano, Executive Director of a Pakistan-based NGO called Sahil that works against child sexual abuse and exploitation, she says that the country's harsh gender restrictions makes it difficult for mothers to protect their own children. "It is the most difficult because mothers don't have options, they often have to live within that same family, they can't get up and go anywhere," she says.
Cases like Zoya's aren't uncommon, according to Bano, and lack of support that exists for women in Pakistan makes them often unable to help their daughters get out of the situation. In Pakistan most families are still overwhelmingly financially supported by men. Bano says that if a mother learns that her husband is sexually molesting her daughters, she has nowhere to turn because there is little to no state assistance for battered women in Pakistan if they chose not to live with their husbands.
In 2010, a total of 2252 cases child sexual abuse were reported in the news, according to Sahil. That's almost a 12 percent increase from the previous year. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) states that these numbers are a fraction of the actual problem. It suspects that many cases of sexual violence are simply covered up, especially when they happen at the hands of a family member.
Zohra Yousuf, the chairperson for Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, says that she doesn't suspect that the increase in number of reported cases in the media means that more crime of incest are happening, she says it could be that because Pakistanis are finally starting to come forward and discuss a type of crime that she believes is very prevalent in Pakistan but severely under-reported.
Incest and child abuse happen all over the world. But, according to a report by Equality Now, an international human rights organization, victims of incest in Pakistan face additional barriers in seeking justice.
The report also notes that, in the very few cases where a victim does come forward, the case rarely makes it past the procedural hurdles in the justice system. Even police officers, who are usually the first line of contact for these victims, sometimes refuse to file a complaint, sending the victim home and telling her that she is immoral for saying such things against her own father, according to Bano. The report by Equality Now also notes that perpetrators are never apprehended in most case or are often released without charges.
Prosecuting these abuses can be difficult as there are no specific provisions against the crime of incest in Pakistan's Penal Code. Incest is treated as any other rape, without any additional protection for the victim.
Many young victims are also deterred from coming forward, Bano suggests, especially because rape cases can be unusually slow to prosecute in Pakistan. Even if they do get in front of a court, they are often are encouraged, sometimes even by the judges, to settle the matter out of court for the honor of the family, through a process dubbed as "compromise," by accepting a sum of money in exchange for silence. This compromise, Bano says, has been the biggest challenge her organization faces in bringing the perpetrators to justice. After spending months working with the victim, in most cases, families "compromise," ensuring that the perpetrator is never convicted for his crime.
According to Sahil, incest is the least likely form of child sexual abuse to be reported because the adults most likely to intervene are often complicit or unwilling to turn in their own spouse or family members. Bano has found that families will often throw up their hand and say something like, "What has happened has already happened, what's the point in having someone from our family go to jail."
Sarah Zaman, who heads the Karachi-based NGO War Against Rape, says that combating predatory incest has been particularly difficult in Pakistan, where it can be difficult for political and social leaders to admit that such things could happen in an Islamic country.
"Absolutely!" Yousuf tells me when I ask about this theory. "That's totally taboo and totally denied here because it's not supposed to exist in Islamic society."
"There is this state of denial that this cannot happen in our family, it cannot happen in our country," Yousuf explains. "I think it's really under reported because it's linked to a family's honor in many ways. It's a crime that's covered up by the family."
Every time that Zoya would turn to her family for help, she says, she was given the same false promises: he'll stop abusing you.
"Oh, don't worry about it, your father won't do it," an uncle once told her.
And she wasn't alone. Zoya's two younger sisters weren't spared by their father.
When Zoya was 18, one of her young sisters took her own life by hanging herself. Two weeks later, her other sister did the same. Over a decade later, their deaths haunt her. She said she still feels guilty that she wasn't able to protect them from her father.
"I am still alive although my sisters are gone," Zoya says.
"In this society, we pretend it's not happening," Zoya says, "even if people know it's happening they'll turn their face and say, "We don't want to get involved.'"
The abuse only got worse after she told her mother, Zoya says.
"After that, my father would not let me talk to anybody, anyone at all, not even my family, not anybody," she says. "And that way he managed to keep me isolated for most of my life. I was always afraid."
Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto, the Minister of Women Development for the province of Sindh, says the government is trying to work on the issue.
"The government has continued to work on legislation dealing with sexual abuse and domestic abuse of women and children. If you say, 'Well Pakistan just doesn't have laws,' Pakistan has everything available, but we just need people who will work on these issues," she says.
Sahil, the NGO, is producing animated short videos, which it distributes to public schools as a teaching tool, on the dangers of sexual abuse. The video series, titled Meri Hafazit which means "my protection" in Urdu, teach about various forms of sexual abuse in gentle, kid-friendly language.
Zoya's nightmare finally came to an end with the sudden death of her father. "He died pretty violently. I'd rather not talk about it. He was murdered." She says she doesn't know who killed him.
"I have no idea. The police never found out. As for me I was glad that he was dead. My only regret for he didn't die earlier. That is my only regret."
This story was supported by The Fund for Investigative Journalism. Hilke Schellmann contributed reporting. A version of this story also appears at BBC's The World. | <urn:uuid:9929d58a-6d5a-422a-a1d4-c683b16ea49e> | 2013-05-23T18:32:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Gingrich told C-SPAN's Steve Scully on Sunday that there's "no possibility" he would attend a presidential debate moderated by Chris Matthews or Keith Olbermann, to of MSNBC's more popular hosts.
Both Olbermann and Matthews moderated presidential primary debates in 2007.
Here's what Gingrich said:
"There's no possibility that I would ever go to a debate and have Olbermann or Chris Matthews asking questions. I watched the debate a couple of years ago and it was an embarrassment because they were so relentlessly hostile and they were so left-wing that every question they asked of the Republicans was designed to embarrass and divide the Republicans. And every question they asked the Democrats was designed to make them look good. Well why would we participate in that?"And the video:
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At the age of 15, King Edward VI was dying. For his last act as king, he excluded both of his half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, from the line of succession. (To get Mary out of the line, he had to ditch them both.) His Protestant cousin, Lady Jane Grey, was named the Queen of England.
Two days after his death, Mary raised an army of nearly twenty thousand. It took just nine days for Mary—the only child born to Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon—to correct her half-brother’s final request. Coercion by force was an effective instrument, and it would come to define her reign.
I know it's Springtime and it's supposed to be renewal and flowers and budding trees and things like that, but I'm tired of stuff right now, you know? Among certain other things that happened this week, there is also like this thing with the goofball in Korea who is gonna launch a nuclear missile on his grandfather's birthday or something? It's depressing!
We (as in U.S.) might set fire to the sky over this guy's country because he says he has a nuke missile and he wants to use it, you know? Doesn't this guy know how dangerous We The People are? Look what we did to a country [...]
Longtime American enemy Iran made another bold move in its passive-aggressive hostilities toward Washington by … let's see, by reportedly sending a monkey into space. Who would do such a thing, to a monkey?
Press TV, the state-run satellite broadcaster, said the animal was launched in a space capsule code named Pishgam, or Pioneer. The development coincided with continued stalemate in the unrelated Western effort to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear enrichment program, which Western powers maintain is designed to create nuclear weapons technology—an assertion Iran denies.
So, sending this animal into orbit for a moment "coincided" with the "unrelated" 35-year problems Iran has with its [...]
A 25-year federal campaign against sea otters in Southern California is finally ending, because it turns out sea otters will go down the coast if they want to, because declaring the whole of Southern California from Point Conception to the Mexican border an "otter-free zone" just wasn't a very good idea.
In 1987, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began a program of forced otter relocation, capturing the endangered animals whenever they strayed into the Santa Barbara channel. Why? Because the U.S. Navy and the commercial fishing industry objected to an earlier plan to establish a backup population of the endangered sea mammals on San Nichols Island, [...]
David Petraeus is snide gnome with a toupée hairstyle, and he is not even very good at winning wars—his military career can be accurately described as a draw in Iraq and total defeat in Afghanistan. As his personal scandal of marital infidelity involves ever more civilian women, shirtless FBI agents sexting those women, fellow commanders in Afghanistan, and the entire state of Florida, perhaps we will take a pause in our race for additional sleazy details to ask additional, important questions that are also about as sexy as a 60-year-old man with his pants off.
Finally, our president has taken the battle home in our long war against birds. So long, eagles and hawks! Get stuffed! (If they can still stuff the twisted half-carcasses—more than half a million a year!—that remain after our wind turbines do their work.) MAKE LIKE THE BEES AND DROP DEAD.
Oh man, this total environmental collapse is going to be awesome!
Rancho Mirage sits between Palm Springs and the Coachella festival. The people are rich and generally Republican—the moderate show-biz GOP reigns in this land of Gerald and Betty Ford, Dwight Eisenhower, Palm Springs Mayor Sonny Bono and his widow, the longtime congresswoman Mary Bono Mack. And now this fancy desert resort town is deciding whether to ban aerial drones from the skies, which would make Rancho Mirage only the second town in the nation to outlaw the robot spy planes. (The first is tiny St. Bonifaciuis, Minnesota; a Virginia city passed a resolution "urging" the state to do something about drones.)
It would be wonderful to realize our rich citizens [...]
It seems like only yesterday that America's women were finally allowed to be killed in front-line combat. But it was a hollow victory, as so many victories are, because after losing something like nine consecutive wars, America now fights its foreign battles using genderless drone airships that will never cry or come home unemployable.
U.S. women who smoke today have a much greater risk of dying from lung cancer than they did decades ago, partly because they are starting younger and smoking more—that is, they are lighting up like men, new research shows. [...]
Lately there has been a lot of confusing stuff in the news about "Mali," and also "France having a war." What is going on? Didn't France lose the war in North Africa, maybe in the 1950s? Also, Vietnam, remember that whole deleted scene from Apocalypse Now, the way the French colonials ate their food, while Vietnamese were getting killed by Robert Duvall? Is he French? And where is this Mali, anyway?
We don't want you to have to go around feeling like an idiot all the time, so here's the information you need to deal with any offhand references to "the French war in Mali," in case you know [...]
Here is how not to use a bicycle lane: An 87-year-old Marin County man was driving to the Department of Motor Vehicles office when he mistook a narrow concrete-walled bicycle-pedestrian path for Highway 101, and then he just kept driving until his car was wedged so tightly between the cement barriers that a tow truck had to yank the Toyota out. Is this symbolic of the increasingly hostile urban turf wars between automobile drivers and bicyclists?
Maybe! Listen to what this guy said, after all the trouble he caused: "They should block that off, that passageway."
Raymond Pierce will have a mandatory re-evaluation of his driving privileges, under California [...]
Here is what is apparently a Chinese reporter planting a Chinese flag on some bit of disputed land in the massive South China Sea territory. Here is a Chinese hacker "planting" a Chinese flag on the website of the Philippines News Agency. Here are tit-for-tat pictures of people burning China's flag and people burning the flag of the Philippines. I would suggest to the Philippines that neighbors that have land disputes with China often end up in unhappy situations.
Also did you know that in 1951 we signed the "Mutual Defense Treaty Between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America"? It's [...]
Food marketing is psychotic. It creeps. Smithsonian magazine ran a cover story with the headline How the Chicken Conquered the World. "Let us now praise chicken in all its extra-crispy glory! Chicken, the mascot of globalization, the universal symbol of middlebrow culinary aspiration!" That was last year. "Nothing is more worthless than an individual chicken," Joy Williams once observed. Not for Smithsonian. Obviously there was some war going on and the chickens kicked our ass.
It’s not just the birds. For a character in Francesco Pacifico’s novel The Story of my Purity, the place of psychosis is apricot pastries: "Industrial apricots had become humanity’s enemy number one, [...]
Rogue ophthalmologist Rand Paul has been a disheveled weirdo for the entirety of his political career, because the apple does not fall far from the tree of liberty, but last night he won the hearts of many people on Twitter because he was up most of the night reading blogs aloud as part of a filibuster against Barack Obama's pick for the new CIA chief. (The last CIA chief resigned over sexting.)
The moral issue of drone assassins is very important, and there are obvious constitutional and police-state issues both domestically and internationally, but this is less a political shift than a technological evolution. Remotely controlled flying war machines [...]
"Suggestions that aliens from Sirius had imparted astronomical knowledge to the Dogon, created a modern myth and raised the tribe to cult status among UFO/ancient astronaut enthusiasts. Also, whites who rejected the African origins of mankind, could now claim their ancestors were from Sirius! As I have opined previously in this column, the whole Dogon business is hokum-perpetrated, perhaps, to help sustain the market for esoteric genre of books and film." —J.K. Obatala of Nigeria's The Guardian addresses the modernmythology of Mali's amazingDogon people and their supposed ties to a race of fish-headed space monsters from a planetary system around Sirius B.
Robots: friendly helpers or heartless monsters that will destroy humanity? This is no longer just a question for the movies that play all the time on "Spike" or TNT. As you may or may not have noticed, aggressor nations such as the United States are getting out of the people business when it comes to fighting wars. Drones and robots are where the action is today, because drones don't urinate on the corpses of innocent people in Afghanistan, and drones don't burn the Koran, and drones don't come home missing a couple of limbs or a chunk of brain and end up standing alongside a freeway ramp with a [...]
It's almost the 30th anniversary of the Falkands War! If you forget why that war was fought, well, let old Maggie explain it to you: "We fought to show that aggression does not pay and that the robber cannot be allowed to get away with his swag." So to celebrate, England is sending over the HMS Dauntless, which is "'armed with a battery of missiles that could "take out all of South America's fighter aircraft let alone Argentina's,' according to one Navy source." They will retain these thoroughly crappy little islands off the coast of Argentina! Who wouldn't want them? Meanwhile, it's a war of words between the [...] | <urn:uuid:3aac02e9-2e16-48bb-82d6-3e832365aeaf> | 2013-05-23T18:53:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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With the decline in Heart's popularity in the 1990s, its guitarist/singer/songwriter Nancy Wilson
made a first, tentative stab at a solo career by scoring the 1996 film Jerry Maguire and appearing on the soundtrack album. While working on the score, she began turning up at the hootenannies at the folk club McCabes Guitar Shop in Los Angeles, and the result is this album, which represents a second toe in the water for her. Playing acoustic guitar and mandolin, and accompanied only by a couple of friends on background vocals, Wilson
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The so called Dirty War in Northern Ireland was an MI5 affair, with the Brits going so far as to provide infra red equipment, which was used to provide the IRA with state of the art bomb detonation technology!!
The Omagh bombing 15 August 1998, at least twenty eight people were killed and about three hundred injured or maimed, including both Protestants and Catholics.
Both MI5 and the FBI were in on the IRA false Flag act, and that some of the most violent and feared members of the IRA, were in fact members of Britain’s special forces, including John Joe Magee, billed as the IRA’s torturer in chief.
The Troubles in Iraq!!
On February 5, 2007, the Telegraph reported that, Deep inside the heart of the Green Zone in Iraq, the heavily fortified administrative compound in Baghdad, lies one of the most carefully guarded secrets of the war, it is a cell from a small and anonymous British Army unit that goes by the deliberately meaningless name of the Joint Support Group JSG.
It was reported that, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the JSG operated under the cover name of the Force Research Unit, which between the early 1980s and the late 1990s managed to penetrate the very heart of the IRA. The FRU operators developed agents at virtually every command level within the IRA.
In 2002, the Sunday Herald reported on the allegations made by a former British intelligence agent, Kevin Fulton, who stated that ...he was told by his military handlers that his collusion with paramilitaries was sanctioned by Margaret Thatcher herself.
Fulton worked for the Force Research Unit, and had infiltrated the IRA, always while on the pay roll of the military, he tells of how in 1992, he told his FRU and MI5 intelligence handlers that his IRA superior was planning to launch a mortar attack on the police, yet his handlers did nothing, and the attack went forward, killing a policewoman.
Fulton said, "they knew that I was making bombs, and giving them to other members of the IRA and they did nothing about it, if everything I touched turned to sh*t then I would have been dead."
According to a Sunday Herald piece in 2001, security forces didn’t intercept the Omagh bombing team, because one of the terrorists was a British double agent, whose cover would have been blown if the operation was uncovered.
Kevin Fulton had phoned a warning 48 hours before the Omagh bombing, that the Real IRA was planning an attack, and gave details of one of the bombing team, and the car registration of the man thought to be the agent who is a senior member of the IRA.
In 2006, the Guardian reported that, two British agents were central to the bombings of three army border installations in 1990, the claims included tactics known as the human bomb, which involved forcing civilians to drive vehicles laden with explosives into army checkpoints, this tactic was the brainchild of British Intelligence.
In 2006, it was also revealed that, a former British Army mole in the IRA has claimed that MI5 arranged a weapons buying trip to America, in which he obtained detonators, later used by terrorists to murder soldiers and police officers, and British intelligence cooperated with the FBI, to ensure his trip to New York in the 1990s went ahead without incident, so that his cover would not be blown.
Martin Timothy, Brisbane Australia October 2009. He was a well known Irishman living in Brisbane Australia, the 1990's op in the US was taped by the FBI, whence I recognized his voice,
He had told me that the IRA were being supplied with explosives from UK military sources, that had been requisitioned on genuine UK military paperwork, I heard his voice a second time when he was taped in Ireland, attempting to persuade another Irishman to get into a car.. on both occasions the tapes were played on the evening television news in Brisbane!
He was a labor contractor with whom I worked in construction in Australia in 1981, it was while in his employ, that another Irishman told me that it was common knowledge that the IRA was an organ of Brit Intelligence!
Unsung Hero: by Kevin Fulton, the only double agent to have infiltrated the upper echelons of the Provisional IRA.
No known spy has spent longer within the organization or risen higher in its ranks, in order to maintain his cover within one of the world's most feared terrorist groups, Fulton was forced to take part in some of its crimes. So highly was he thought of by the IRA leaders that they made him a member of their feared internal police, ironically his job became to root out and kill informers.
In 1994, Fulton was forced to flee Northern Ireland after one of his operations compromised his safety. He was abandoned by the British Army, MI5 and the Force Reconnaissance Unit - a shadowy unit that operated above the law itself, and now lives like a fugitive, however he has fought back by doing what his military chiefs thought he would never be brave enough to do, go public with his story.
Fulton reveals that the truth about the death of Captain Robert Nairac of the Grenadier Guards, who was so badly tortured by the IRA, and so mutilated in the course of his interrogation, that the IRA knew that if his body was ever found, they would be regarded as little more then animals. So they scalped him, gutted him and put his corpse through a mincing machine in a factory in Derry, and used it to make pet food.
The book also reveals that the IRA was virtually run by the British state.
Fulton was betrayed by his MI5 handlers in order to ensure that a more senior IRA officer, Freddie Scappaticci, from the IRA 'Nutting Squad' its internal investigation department, was protected, in other words the British government and MI5, sanctioned a British soldier going undercover into the IRA, and then set him up for execution by the IRA in order to protect a more senior asset in the IRA.
It is later mentioned in the book that Scappaticci was not the most senior IRA man under the control of MI5, and this hints that it may have been Martin McGuiness who was the top IRA / MI5 officer under the control of the British government.
Later in the book, Fulton reveals the real reason why the Real IRA murderers who planted the bomb at Omagh, have never been taken to court or their cases investigated - it is because the actual bomber, Sean Hoey, was also working for the RUC.
This explains why the RUC were actively monitoring the bombers on the day, but allowed them through to deliver the Omagh bomb. and why no one will ever be prosecuted for Omagh, as to do so would mean the role of the RUC in the bombing would be exposed.
Fulton says that the murder of Sinn Feinn party official Denis Donaldson, who had been outed as a British spy, on the 4th April 2006 was actually committed not by the IRA, but by sections of British intelligence trying to cover up what they had been involved in, and also to ensure the identity of Martin McGuiness as a British spy, was not revealed by Donaldson.
For every Loyalist who thought the British state was on their side in the conflict, it reveals that the British State was virtually running the IRA.
It reveals how the RUC officers, British Army soldiers and loyalists who were slaughtered in the war were allowed to die - and often the killers in the IRA working for the FRU, were ordered to kill them by MI5 and the FRU.
Brigadier Gordon Kerr, identified as being involved in the deaths of at least fifteen Irish Republicans during his tenure as head of the FRU or the Force Reconnaissance Unit in Northern Ireland. Promoted from Lt. Colonel to Brigadier for his efforts, Kerr was given the job as military attaché in Beijing, largely to keep him out of the way of an investigation into the activities of the FRU, in the assassination of human rights lawyer Pat Finucane and as many as fourteen other people.
Assigned by foreign secretary Jack Straw before the invasion of Iraq took place, to de Baathify Iraq, it will come as no surprise that he was subsequently handed the task of heading up the rebranded FRU, now known as the Special Reconnaissance Unit in Iraq.
Two British SAS officers, arrested by the Iraqi police for planting bombs in Basra Iraq, September 19 2005.
For every IRA supporter who wants to understand the war, and the IRA's role in it the book reveals that the IRA was virtually run by the British state and was infiltrated from top to bottom.
For all those Catholics killed by the IRA, it appears that the IRA was virtually run by the British government, whilst the FRU was supplying death lists to the Loyalists, the FRU was also ordering their spies in the IRA to execute undercover British soldiers in the IRA, who were trying to save the lives of loyalists and innocent Catholics.
Whilst the FRU was organizing the death of Catholics through the loyalist para militaries, the IRA killers operating under the control of the FRU were killing Loyalists, British soldiers and RUC officers. Fulton contends that the ONLY reason the war in Northern Ireland went on for so long, was that it justified the powers, expenses, staffing and authority of the security services involved in it.
This means that many of the thousands of terrorists are MI5 assets - and therefore we have to wonder how many bombs that will explode on our streets will have been planted by MI5 operatives sanctioned to do so. The patsies for the 7/7, and 21/7 bombings, Muktar Said Ibrahim, Haroon Rashid Aswat and Rauf Mohammed were all MI5 assets.
The July 29 edition of FOX News Channel's Day Side program revealed that the so called mastermind of the 7/7 London Bombings, Haroon Rashid Aswat, is a British Intelligence Asset.
Former Justice Dept. prosecutor and Terror expert John Loftus revealed that the so called Al-Muhajiroun group, based in London had formed during the Kosovo crisis, during which Fundamentalist Muslim Leaders, or what is now referred to as Al Qaeda, were recruited by MI6 to fight in Kosovo.
Editorial: We know that the bombings were a Mossad sponsored false flag op, and that Al Qaida is similarly an organ of the Mossad dominated CIA!
Loftus stated that "...back in the late 1990s, the leaders all worked for British intelligence in Kosovo. Believe it or not, British intelligence actually hired some Al-Qaeda guys to help defend the Muslim rights in Albania and in Kosovo. That's when Al-Muhajiroun got started, this link shows how the SAS actually trained the Islamic extremist group the KLA. who were involved in murdering Serbs and Christians in the Balkans.
The old adage says - First you must create an enemy, before you have to fight an enemy. In other words before the pretext of fighting the war on terror against Islamic extremists could be used to justify the war in Iraq and the theft of the oil - the 'enemy' had to be created by the same governments that then set out to 'fight' the enemy. Al Qaeda are themselves a CIA created monster
The London Independent also reported 2 days before the London Bombings how MI5 has previously used so called Al Qaeda operatives as informants, allowing them to be left alone as a trade off. This only came to light when Bisher al-Rawi was captured by the CIA and taken to the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay. The original Independent link has now mysteriously been removed.
Now we know why the oh so fortunate "anti terrorism operation," was deployed in London on the day of the 7/7 bombings and also why the same security operation was in place in the US on 911 - both were operations planned and run in collusion with sections of the UK and US secret security services with terrorists who were actually working for MI5 and CIA assets , and not for Al Qaeda as they believed, to act as the pretext for the invasion of Iraq, and to ensure that the British and US public were foaming at the mouth for war, and for us to stay in Iraq and finish the job.
One former SAS sergeant, revealed a known special forces assassination technique, known as the 'Boston brakes,' former SAS officer and world famous explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, confirms that the 'Boston brakes' is indeed a commonly employed assassination technique used by hired murder squads, and that it involves the use of a device which remotely controls the target vehicle's steering and brakes.
Fiennes goes on to say that this method has been used at least once in England, in the assassination of one Major Michael Marman, killed in a car crash near Stonehenge in 1986.
There's no doubt that the operation that killed Major Marman, as described by Fiennes, as well as by former Equerry to the Queen, Air Marshall Sir Peter Horsley, was chillingly identical to the series of events that killed Diana.
They have done it in Northern Ireland, and they are doing it in Iraq.. where else!! | <urn:uuid:db3e6687-b9eb-4c65-bd8b-60e62c4751a7> | 2013-05-23T19:05:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Exhibition on view March 31, 2011 – October 16, 2011
The characters in Life? or Theatre? are Charlotte's family members and friends to whom she gave fictionalized names, including herself, appearing under the pseudonym "Charlotte Kann." The slideshow below matches each character in Life? or Theatre? with the real person.
Charlotte herself is Charlotte Kann in Life? or Theatre?.
Born: Germany, 1917
Died: Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 1943
Charlotte's depiction of herself.
Charlotte's father is Albert Kann in Life? or Theatre?.
Born: Germany, 1883
Died: Amsterdam, 1976
Charlotte's depiction of her father.
Charlotteʼs step-mother is Paulinka Bimbam in Life? or Theatre?.
Born: Germany, 1897
Died: Amsterdam, 2000
Charlotte's depiction of her step-mother.
Charlotteʼs great love is Amadeus Daberlohn in Life? or Theatre?.
Born: Germany, 1896
Died: England, 1962
Charlotte's depiction of Wolfson.
Charlotteʼs grandmother is Grandmother Knarre in Life? or Theatre?.
Born: Germany, 1867
Died: Villefranche, 1940
Charlotte's depiction of her grandmother.
Dr. Ludwig Grunwald
Charlotteʼs grandfather is Grandfather Knarre in Life? or Theatre?.
Born: Germany, 1862
Died: Nice, 1943
Charlotte's depiction of her grandfather.
Images: Charlotte Salomon, Gouaches from "Life? or Theatre?," 1940-1942, Villefranche, France. Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam. Copyright Charlotte Salomon Foundation.
This touring exhibition was organized by the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, and was specially created by Dr. Sabine Schulze, director at the Hamburger Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, and Edward van Voolen, curator of the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam. All works in the exhibition are from the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam. Copyright holder is the Charlotte Salomon Foundation.
The San Francisco presentation has been made possible by the generous and visionary support of Dorothy R. Saxe; Lydia and Doug Shorenstein; Roselyne Chroman Swig; Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation; Jim Joseph Foundation; Phyllis Moldaw; Jewish Community Endowment Holocaust Memorial/Education Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties; and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany - San Francisco. This project is also supported by several other individuals and public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services.
The exhibition publication has been made possible by the thoughtful support of the Brill Family Foundation, Karen and Michael Zeff, and Luba Troyanovsky.
The Koret and Taube Foundations are the lead supporters of the 2010 / 2011 exhibition season. | <urn:uuid:34e40907-7aad-4be0-a08f-5c70dbef6310> | 2013-05-23T18:53:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Derik didn't tag me, but I found his responses so similar to mine, that I thought I'd jump into the meme...
How old were you when you started programming? Like Derik, I was a relative late bloomer into programming. I had a IBM PC XT at home, and I had a knack for writing nice and tidy batch scripts, but I didn't really get into real programming until I took an programming class in high school. The normal class conflicted with the AP Calculus class that I was taking, so I took it with a friend independent study. We would get our assignments for the week on Monday morning, finish them all by the end of that day, and then tutor people in Calculus in the library.
What was your first language? Technically I guess it was True BASIC... though I also did a lot with QBasic. I also did a little bit with Pascal back then... oh those were the days. Aside from the basic learning programs in class, the biggest program I wrote back then was an analog clock with real time display and a second hand.
What was the first real program you wrote? I guess the first real program that I ever wrote was a web application (at least that's what we call it know) in Perl for a company to do online dispute resolution. It actually was a pretty major endeavor, and aside from some patent issues, was pretty innovative. To date, that is the one and only project I've ever written in Perl. *shudder*
If you knew then what you know now, would you have started programming? Duh... of course. I also would have started sooner, not that I ever felt that behind... it's just I would have enjoyed it just as much even earlier I think. I've never had a bad experience programming (aside from some normal bad jobs that any profession can have), that has made me regret being a programmer.
If there is one thing you learned along the way that you can tell new developers, what would it be? Document! Save emails! I don't know how many times a decision was made by someone which led to a major architectural decision, only to be undone later by the same person, claiming he had no knowledge of the earlier decision. If someone tells you something important verbally, send them a confirmation email and keep a record of it.
What was the most fun you've ever had... programming? I'd say the last few jobs I've had with a small group of guys from my consulting company have been the best. It's a great group, who knows what they're doing, just does the work, and we drink afterwards. Really... how much better can it get?
Who am I calling out?
I'm not going to call out anyone in particular, but if you do decide to add to the fun, just leave a comment so I know! | <urn:uuid:8e518372-b105-4b7a-a7b0-3b940335eb25> | 2013-05-23T19:06:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The concrete industry and most other industries are under pressure to gain better control over their waste streams. This industry hasn't been negligent, however. For years, we have incorporated various technologies for dust suppression and collection and reclaiming ready-mix. Unfortunately, these conservation efforts don't prevent many operations from continuing to dump on the back of their lots. The "washout mountain" takes up unnecessary space and can be an environmental hazard, usually necessitating costly removal. But there is another option: recycling the concrete by crushing and screening. This not only solves the problem of disposal, but creates a product that can be sold as a road base. Some producers also accept concrete from demolition work to their recycling program.
The amount of money saved by recycling instead of hauling concrete away is quite significant. The cost of excavation and hauling 40,000 tons of concrete totals around $138,000 while the cost of crushing the same amount and then selling the recycled material at $4 a ton comes to only $40,000. There is even a margin for profit if the market for recycled concrete will support higher prices. | <urn:uuid:ac27c33f-edf2-4bec-b2d5-fd5d550972e0> | 2013-05-23T19:00:35Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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CARLISLE INDIANS USED OLD TRICK OF LAMPY'S
Beat Harvard in 1903 With Same Stunt Lampoon Used Against Crimson in 1901 in Annual Publication Game
The recent encounter between a team from the Haskell Indian School in Kansas and Boston College's aggregation calls to mind the series of games between the University and another Indian team from Carlisle, which occurred during the period from 1896 to 1908. The Indians were victorious in only one game, that at Soldiers Field in 1903, and they won that battle only by the use of tactics so novel that the University team was completely dumbfounded.
When the Indians received the University kick-off they deftly concealed the ball under the back of the jersey of one of their players, and he jumped away to a touchdown, for no one could find he ball although Captain Marshall of the University did give chase, apparently the only player to suspect the ruse.
This trick should never have worked on the University, for Alfred Moo of the Lampoon had worked a similar stunt against the CRIMSON in the annual game between the two literary rivals two years before and everybody in Cambridge knew about it.
As Dillon, the Indian player who had the ball, passed the successive five yard lines and the audience defected the hump on his back, the rolling roar of laughter sounded like the incoming ride on a rocky coast | <urn:uuid:2714771b-7b5b-4f22-88c5-37d5f45b1f57> | 2013-05-23T18:53:11Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Liacos Report
THE CITY'S REPORT on the arrest and jail cell death of East Cambridge youth Lawrence P. Largey addresses itself to hardly a fraction of the issues involves. While the report may have provided shocking revelations for some, its conclusions or "findings of fact" are often weak and its recommendations inspecific.
Boston University Law Professor Paul J. Liacos, the author of the report, claims that his responsibility was only to investigate the possibility of "police misconduct" in the incident, which included the arrest of Thomas F. Doyle, another East Cambridge youth. Liacos was denied access to the testimony of the doctors who conducted the post-mortem examinations of Largey's body by Judge Morris N. Gould, who is presiding over the official state inquest. Consequently, Liacos rightly claims that he had "insufficient evidense" to attempt a denomination of the cause of Largey's death.
However, Lincos does not even tough upon the circumstances surrounding Largey's two autopsies and his hurried embalming-events which both Hard Times, the East Cambridge neighborhood organization, and Largey family attorneys claim were rise with police and official "misconduct." There is also no mention of widely reported police harassment during the period following the arrests Liacos recommends "disciplinary action" against four police officers, but he does not any what those sections should entail. Although Liacos claims that it would be legally questionable for him to make more detailed recommendations, the vague language he used could have been strengthened to ensure that Corcoran would treat the cases with the necessary seriousness.
Liacos finds that there was observable blood on Largy's face where he arrived at the police station, and that Largey had to be helped up the ramp to his cell by two police officers. Yet, Liacos merely accuses the Desk Commander of falling to provide "proper and timely medical examination" of Largey and Doyle. From Liacos's even findings, it was clearly a matter of rushing Largey to the hospital as quickly as possible: to do otherwise would constitute the grossest negligence.
LIACOS DEVOTES two sections of his report to criticizing the general practices of the Cambridge police. He finds widespread ignorance of basic operating procedures, as well as laxity in the registration of privately owned weapons and general neglect of records and reports. (Liacos even found that there was no official police record of Largey ever having been arrested.) Yet, Liacos leaves discipline in the heads of City Manager John H. Corcoran and Police Chief James Reagan--the two men ultimately responsible for the department whose procedures Liacos described as "lax" and "inadequate."
Liacos notes that adequate studies have been done on the Cambridge Police Department, and asserts that this is "a time for action." Yet, his report seems to presume that all of a sudden Corcoran and Reagan will correct malpractices they have left untouched for years. Liacos claims that it was not his responsibility to reform the City administration or the police department. Perhaps this is true, but basic reform is desperately needed. From what we know of Cambridge police behavior, the Largey case is not an isolated incident of "police misconduct."
And beneath all these circumstances is a spectre that has haunted the Cambridge City Council since last January: the Council's inability to fire and replace John Corcoran. Corcoran has the power to hire and fire all City employees, including the Chief of Police. The Council, in turn, has the power of fire Corcoran. It seems doubtful that any real reforms will be made unless Corcoran is replaced. | <urn:uuid:58dcaff9-439a-4868-93ec-7ad28a266cc2> | 2013-05-23T18:33:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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What is the difference from the Catholic Church and the Old Catholic Church?
Question by Claudia G: What is the difference from the Catholic Church and the Old Catholic Church?
I know that the Old Catholic Church does not respond to the Vatican, but what else?
Please respect other peoples beliefs. No spammers. If you don’t agree with something, please be kind and avoid offensive responses.
Answer by Tony B
It’s news to me! Far as I know, and I’m an ex-Catholic atheist, there is only one Catholic church, and that’s the Roman Catholic one with a nice German man at it’s head.
What do you think? Answer below! | <urn:uuid:3c0fb2ee-77cc-41a8-83fa-d42c3471448b> | 2013-05-23T18:32:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This past weekend, my youngest daughter, Kelly, (on the left) who goes to school in Louisville, KY and is on the womens' rowing team there, was participating in the regional finals for The Big East Conference at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
While Louisville did all right, it wasn't the kind of finish they were hoping for to their season, and that elusive entry into the NCAA National Finals won't happen this year. But there's still time for Kelly to get there. She's entering her senior (and final) year at Louisville in the fall.
I would have loved to have been at the regatta but getting there from here on the West Coast proved to be more than I could handle this year. Heather and I are hoping to be there next year.
However, my cousin, Charles Traynor, was at the regatta, since his daughter, Kat, (on the right in the photo) who is a year older than Kelly, goes to school at the University of Iowa and is also a rower at that school.
As luck would have it, both cousins are the strokes for their respective boats and they were lined up side-by-side on Saturday. Charles sent me a note that tactfully said it was a "great" race. Kelly put it more bluntly in a text message - "Iowa dominated."
After the race, Charles caught up with Kelly and Kat and grabbed this picture. There's something kind of cool about the fact that those two cousins grew up on different sides of the continent (Hamilton and Victoria) but ended up racing against each other in Oak Ridge, Tennesee. And I'm glad that Charles was there to capture the moment.
Congrats Kelly and Kat. | <urn:uuid:aedf9bfe-390b-4e6c-a9e2-680b436e9278> | 2013-05-23T18:52:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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After speaking further with his family and his attorney, Marquis Singleton, who took part in the random and fatal attack on Matthew Chew in New London two years ago with five other teens, had a change of heart Thursday and decided to plead guilty to a reduced charge of first-degree manslaughter.
Last Friday, Singleton, the remaining defendant to resolve his case, had rejected the state's offer. At that time, New London Superior Court Judge Susan B. Handy questioned if he understood how rejecting the deal could affect the amount of time he spends behind bars.
Singleton was originally charged with murder and faced up to 60 years in prison. He will now be sentenced to 16 years in prison, suspended after eight years served, followed by five years probation. He pleaded guilty under the Alford Doctrine, which means that he doesn't agree with all the state's evidence but has decided to resolve the case rather than risk a conviction at trial and face a harsher sentence.
The court has set a tentative sentencing date of March 7. Handy has been telling all of the defendants that she will schedule their sentences for sequential days in February or March so that Chew's parents, who live in California, can attend the proceedings.
According to prosecutor Stephen M. Carney, the six teens gathered at the home of Idris Elahi, where they decided to go out and "jump somebody" at random.
Chew, 25, a well-liked artist, disc jockey and pizza cook, was fatally stabbed with a knife on Oct. 29, 2010, as he walked home from his job at 2Wives Brick Oven Pizza.
Carney said that it was alleged that Singleton had a box cutter during the attack. Singleton disputed that claim and his attorney, Joseph Elder, said Elahi had fabricated the story to put the blame on Singleton. Elder said that Chew was killed by a knife.
Handy then reminded Elder that his client had pleaded guilty under the Alford Doctrine precisely because he didn't agree with all of the state's facts.
Carney said Chew's parents did not endorse the plea deal but were aware of it.
Handy allowed Singleton's mother to hug him but said she would not allow it at sentencing since Chew's parents are no longer able to hug him.
Elahi, 19, pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced in May to 35 years in prison. The state then began making plea offers to the other defendants based on whether they cooperated with the police investigation and participated in a court hearing on the case.
During a probable cause hearing for Elahi, Singleton testified that he participated in the assault.
The group headed downtown in search of a victim. The teens spotted Chew and then split up "in case he tried to run" when they attacked him, Singleton testified. Matias Perry asked Chew if he had a lighter and then hit him on the left side of the face when Chew reached into his pocket. Singleton said he then hit Chew on the right side of the face. Then the rest of the teens joined in on the attack.
Singleton testified that he went home and started crying because "somebody got hurt." He said he was unaware that Chew had died until Matias Perry called him the next morning and said, "We caught a body."
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06-04-2011, 07:52 AM
Collette held her breath as the Common Welsh Green gave an irritable snort. It certainly wasn't a pleasant noise, and Collette doubted it was friendly. She looked around and weighed up her options. If she performed a similar spell to Pyotr's she wouldn't score as well, but confusing the creature was certainly the best way to go about things.
The French girl muttered a few words to herself and with a flick of her wand a wall of mist descended on the arena, although it was still possible to make out the silloutte of both Collette and the dragon, it would hopefully slow down the dragon's progress. The dragon gave a roar, obviously making a connection between the strange creatureplaced before it and the sudden blanket of fog.
Not wishing to wait for the fog to clear Collette stumbled backwards, hurrying in the direction she knew the egg could be found in. The dragon's faint shale dissappeared for a few moments as it began to search for the intruder. It stopped a few meters away from Collette, and she could make out the shape of a head looking around. With a quiet wave of her wand the girl summoned voices from the other side of the arena. The dragon's head snapped backwards and it turned to go an seek out the creator of the mysterious noises.
Collette gave a sigh of relief and continued to edge towards the egg. | <urn:uuid:e9e8fafc-6852-441e-8986-19f692ca53bb> | 2013-05-23T18:53:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Our Birds - Barred Plymouth Rock Chicken
Our Animals > Barred Plymouth Rock Chicken
The Plymouth Rock, often called simply Rocks or Barred Rocks (after their most popular color), is a chicken breed that originated in the United States. The Plymouth Rock is a dual-purpose, cold-hardy bird and therefore makes a great breed for the small farm or backyard flock owner. These chickens are often called Plymouth Rocks, but this title correctly belongs to the entire breed, not just the Barred variety. There are seven varieties of Plymouth Rock chickens: barred, blue, buff, Columbian, partridge, silver-penciled and white.
The Plymouth Rock was developed in New England in the middle of the 19th century and was first exhibited as a breed in 1869. Several individuals claimed its invention, using crosses of Dominiques, Black Javas, Cochins, and perhaps Malays and Dorkings. John C. Bennett (1804-1867) has been credited with either creating or popularizing the breed. Plymouth Rocks were bred as a dual-purpose fowl, meaning that they were valued both for their meat and for the hens' egg-laying ability. The first Plymouth Rock was barred and other varieties were developed later. The breed became popular very rapidly, and in fact, until World War II, no breed was ever kept and bred as extensively in the United States as the Barred Plymouth Rock. Its popularity came from its qualities as an outstanding farm chicken: hardiness, docility, broodiness, and excellent production of both eggs and meat.
Most of the other varieties were developed from crosses containing some of the same ancestral background as the barred variety. Early in its development, the name Plymouth Rock implied a barred bird, but as more varieties were developed, it became the designation for the breed. The Barred Plymouth Rock was one of the foundation breeds for the broiler industry in the 1920s, and the White Rock continues to be used as the female side of the commercial broiler cross.
Plymouth Rocks are large, long-lived chickens. Some varieties are good layers while others are bred principally for meat. They possess a long, broad back; a moderately deep, full breast; and yellow skin and legs. The hens have a deep, full abdomen, which is a sign of a good layer. The face of a Plymouth Rock is red with red ear lobes, a bright yellow beak, bay-colored eyes, and a single comb of moderate size. Their feathers are fairly loosely held but not so long as to easily tangle.
Generally, Plymouth Rocks are not aggressive, and tame quite easily. They are docile and may show broodiness. The hens usually make good mothers. However, some males and females are big and active enough to be quite a problem if they become aggressive.
Breeders should be aware of the standard weights and not select small or narrow birds for the breeding pen. Common faults include a shallow breast, high tails, narrow bodies and small size. Friendly and curious. | <urn:uuid:774c49b0-6175-4b94-b205-3bc59c191ba5> | 2013-05-23T18:38:56Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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What's All the Buzz About Massage Therapy?
The best way to find out which massage therapy technique works best for you and your health issues is to explore the offerings of professional, licensed massage therapists in your area.Consumers might be astonished at the wide availability and diversity of massage therapy modalities. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are over 80 unique forms of massage therapy - and what''s more, the field of massage therapy is gaining in acceptance as a medical supplement to conventional medicine.
Aside from its growing mainstream popularity, massage therapy can be genuinely effective in relieving a broad assortment of common health conditions, including musculoskeletal pain, stress, and other ailments. Acupressure, for example, is specialized bodywork that works similarly to acupuncture; without any needles. This specific massage therapy was recently studied for its effectiveness in treating lower back pain. After a randomized controlled trial, positive results demonstrate that acupressure was more effective than physical therapy; with sustained relief for six months after treatment.
Another great form of massage therapy, healing touch therapy, was also studied at the School of Health . Thirty-five cancer patients received complementary treatment with touch therapy. Remarkably, significant improvements were notated in both physical and psychological functioning.
For those suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, you will be pleased to know that you may not need invasive surgery to repair the damage. A matter of fact, recent, documented studies of myofascial release - another massage therapy modality - has proven to be effective in treating this common physical disorder.
PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome) sufferers need look no further than the massage therapy technique known as reflexology. Using hand, finger and thumb pressure to specific pressure points on the soles of the feet, the palms of the hands, and on the external ears, reflexology seeks to alleviate pain and other health conditions. In a recent study, women who received reflexology treatment saw a measurable difference and significant decrease of symptoms related to PMS.
Of course there are countless other massage therapy methods that are in practice today; and almost all of these modalities offer some form of relief from a myriad of common health problems. The best way to find out which massage therapy technique works best for you and your health issues is to explore the offerings of professional, licensed massage therapists in your area. Whether you choose to receive a deep tissue massage; an Oriental medicine massage, like Tuina, or a beautifying face massage, you might just be surprised at the healthful outcome.
If you (or someone you know) are interested in finding massage therapy programs, let professional training within fast-growing industries like natural healing, cosmetology, acupuncture, oriental medicine, Reiki, and others get you started! Explore massage therapy near you.
What''s All the Buzz about Massage Therapy?
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Resource Box: CarolAnn Bailey-Lloyd - Freelance Writer and Web Consultant for HolisticJunction.com, in association with CollegeSurfing.com - Educational Resources for Massage Therapy, Massage Schools, and other Healing Arts. | <urn:uuid:24f8210e-3519-40e3-b6ea-16a54a5997d2> | 2013-05-23T18:59:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I was distressed to read Patricia Hughes and colleagues' article1
on women's psychological wellbeing after stillbirth.
First, the study followed fewer than 70 women, so I have to wonder how any definitive conclusions could be made from such a small grouping from only one country. Furthermore, I feel that it is inaccurate and a huge step backwards.
My first-born child was stillborn, and I got to see and hold her, which are memories I cherish. My mother also experienced the stillbirth of my brother's twin and dealt with guilt over not holding or seeing him for years, which was soothed somewhat from being able to hold her first grandchild.
The study is probably right in its findings that women who did not see or hold their babies experienced less mourning, but I think it has the wrong take on why that is the case. All women grieve, but if a woman did not “meet” the baby she was carrying, there is less attachment and less of a feeling that this was her child. For those of us who held and saw our children—especially for those who had further acknowledgment with pictures, family support, and permanent mementoes such as the issuing of stillbirth certificates—we knew that this was our child, and the grieving, although perhaps more difficult, was necessary and healthy in the long term. | <urn:uuid:c18113da-9f6a-4902-9968-a6cd3050d6d2> | 2013-05-23T18:39:58Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Theoretical Physicist and Novelist
An award-winning novelist (Einstein's Dream) and a theoretical physicist, Lightman's latest novel, Mr g, tells the story of Creation from the perspective of God. Lightman taught at Harvard, and is one of the first people to receive a dual faculty appointment, in science and in the Humanities, at MIT, where he is an adjunct professor of Humanities. The New York Times praises him as "a scientist in love with words, one who can write clearly and appealingly about his subject for a lay readership."
Lightman taught at Harvard, and is one of the first people to receive a dual faculty appointment, in science and in the Humanities, at MIT, where he is an adjunct professor of Humanities.
Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
Lightman's survey of Einstein's work, and an introduction to the strangeness of physical reality, the inadequacy of sense perception, and the triumph of imagination.
Based on his National Book Award nominated book, Lightman examines our society's compulsion for speed, information and money, and explores how the relentless pace of modern life affects our sense of intimacy and relationships, and how it alters our concepts of identity.
Using their original papers, Lightman delves into the minds and emotional lives of the scientists who made the 20th Century's great scientific breakthroughs. Are there common patterns of discovery in science? How many great discoveries were accidental, and how many intentional? What was the lasting impact of each discovery?
"As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe." So begins Alan Lightman's playful and profound new novel, Mr g, the story of Creation as told by God. Barraged by the constant advisements and bickerings of Aunt Penelope and Uncle Deva, who live with their nephew in the shimmering Void, Mr g proceeds to create time, space, and matter. Then come stars, planets, animate matter, consciousness, and, finally, intelligent beings with moral dilemmas. Mr g is all powerful but not all knowing and does much of his invention by trial and error.
Even the best-laid plans can go awry, and Mr g discovers that with his creation of space and time come some unforeseen consequences-- especially in the form of the mysterious Belhor, a clever and devious rival. An intellectual equal to Mr g, Belhor delights in provoking him: Belhor demands an explanation for the inexplicable, requests that the newly created intelligent creatures not be subject to rational laws, and maintains the necessity of evil. As Mr g watches his favorite universe grow into maturity, he begins to understand how the act of creation can change himself, the Creator. With echoes of Calvino, Rushdie, and Saramago, combining science, theology, and moral philosophy, Mr g is a stunningly imaginative work that celebrates the tragic and joyous nature of existence on the grandest possible scale.
An imaginary re-creation of Einstein's discovery of the nature of time, this novel takes us through the young patent clerk's many dreams depicting compelling conceptions of time.
An extraordinarily accessible, illuminating chronicle of the great moments of scientific discovery in the 20th century, and an exploration into the minds of the remarkable men and women behind them. We know and read the literary masterpieces; how many of us have had the opportunity not only to read but understand the masterpieces of science that describe the very moment of discovery? The last century has seen an explosion of creativity and insight that led to breakthroughs in every field of science: from the theory of relativity to the first quantum model of the atom to the mapping of the structure of DNA, these discoveries profoundly changed how we understand the world and our place in it.
Alan Lightman tells the stories of two dozen breakthroughs made by such brilliant scientists as Einstein, Bohr, McClintock and Pauling, among others, drawing on his unique background as a scientist and novelist to reveal the process of scientific discovery at its greatest. He outlines the intellectual and emotional landscape of each discovery, portrays the personalities and human drama of the scientists involved, and explains the significance and impact of the work. Finally, he gives an unprecedented and exhilarating guided tour through each of the original papers.
From the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams comes this harrowing tale of one man's struggle to cope in a wired world, even as his own biological wiring short-circuits. As Boston's Red Line shuttles Bill Chalmers to work one summer morning, something extraordinary happens. Suddenly, he can't remember which stop is his, where he works, or even who he is. The only thing he can remember is his corporate motto: the maximum information in the minimum time.
Bill's memory returns, but a strange numbness afflicts him. As he attempts to find a diagnosis for his deteriorating illness, he descends into a nightmarish tangle of inconclusive results, his company's manic frenzy, and his family's disbelief. Ultimately, Bill discovers that he is fighting not just for his body but also for his soul.
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LONDON // Backers from the UAE are ready to pour billions into a project to build a new London airport on an artificial island in the estuary of the River Thames, according to the city's mayor. The mayor Boris Johnson's plan to build the four-runway airport has attracted "incredible interest" from financiers in the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait, Kit Malthouse, his deputy, has revealed. The first "surface level" report on construction feasibility of the airport - nicknamed "Boris Island" after the flamboyant mayor - is due to be published this week.
Although initially dismissed as "fantasy island" when Mr Johnson proposed it last year, the project now seems to be winning over sceptics. Labour ministers in the government have flatly rejected the Conservative mayor's scheme, announcing in January that a third runway would be built at Heathrow. That, though, has brought threats of lawsuits that could last a decade. There are also increasing doubts that Britain could meet environmental obligations on emissions and noise if the Heathrow expansion were to go ahead.
Mr Malthouse said Mr Johnson has succeeded in creating interest among backers from the Gulf, as well as the Chinese, for the project, expected to cost £40 billion (Dh234bn). "We have had an incredible amount of interest from countries such as Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, which have signalled they would like to fund the airport. It is possible we could build it without taxpayers' money," the deputy mayor said. "Who wouldn't want to own an immovable fixed asset just off the coast? It's extremely valuable and the owners of sovereign wealth funds know they could bequeath it to their children."
However, the plan to build the airport on a man-made island in about four metres of water, almost 3km off the island of Sheerness in Kent, has appalled conservationists who say it could wipe out the area's bird population. Although the plan would be for aircraft to take off and land over water, residents in Kent look bound to mount their own legal challenge. Mr Johnson's own Conservative Party has not shown any enthusiasm for Boris Island, although members reiterated that if, as expected, they win next year's general election, they will scrap Labour's plan to build a third runway at Heathrow.
Current thinking among the party leadership is that, instead of providing more airport space, they will build a new, high-speed rail link to the north of the country, which, they reason, will reduce internal flights. A central reason for Tory opposition to their own man's idea is that it might affect electoral support for the party in Kent, a Tory heartland. Slowly, though, voices are being heard in support of the scheme. The Engineer magazine commented last week: "Forget the concept's arguably damaging association with Johnson, put to one side concerns over its environmental impact and cost, and there is some logic to the idea.
"With aircraft descending from the North Sea, rather than over residential areas, it would, claim its advocates, provide a neat solution to the problems that have bedevilled plans to expand Heathrow." Although the authoritative magazine predicts that Boris Island is unlikely to make it off the drawing board in the near term, "as changing climate puts growing pressure on land use and humans look to the sea as a source of both problems and solutions, it could still indicate a watery future to come".
The feasibility study due to be published this week has been compiled by Douglas Oakervee, the lead engineer behind the construction of Hong Kong International Airport. Mr Malthouse said the report will show that it would be technically possible to build Boris Island, which, in fact, would be two artificial islands joined together and capable of holding between four and six runways. The islands would be linked by tunnels or bridges to terminals on the mainland, which would offer rail links into London or to continental Europe. Power for the new airport would by supplied by turbines using Thames tidal power.
Mr Johnson is enthusiastic to see the project through. He told the London Assembly this year: "It is our duty, when you look at the environmental catastrophe that would be occasioned by constructing a new runway at Heathrow, to look at all available alternatives. "The environmental implications of a new airport in the Thames estuary depend entirely on where that airport were to be situated and the scale of that airport." | <urn:uuid:5e2a90a4-9e7e-4c50-9e2b-f4d91edbe3cc> | 2013-05-23T18:45:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A former female soccer player's hopes of becoming the first women to play in the NFL have been dashed after she aggravated a thigh injury just two kicks into her tryout.
Lauren Silberman became the first woman to take part in NFL tryouts when she tried her luck at one of the regional 'combines' in New Jersey yesterday.
But the 28-year-old, bidding to be the first women to play in the sport since rules preventing female players were lifted two years ago, pulled up after just two kicks.
Silberman, who played club football for the University of Wisconsin, kicked 19 and 13 yards in her two attempts before calling over a trainer.
She later revealed she had suffered a quadriceps injury during training for the combine, which had flared up during her kicking attempts.
"Obviously, it was a very frustrating day because I wanted to show the world how well I could kick," she told the NFL's website. afterwards.
"I kept trying to work through it, but between the pain and the risk of further injury, I thought it was best to stop."
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The analogy between Giuseppe Tornatore’s masterpiece Malena and the situation in Afghanistan has always fascinated me. One is a victim of its unique geographical location and the other suffers because of her provocative beauty. Both have their admirers and detractors. Both deal with hypocritical and marauding forces masquerading as good Samaritans. If one is a geographical incident, the other a symmetrical progeny of nature.
Both have no choice in what they are. If one bears the brunt of its location, the other that of her charm. Both are looked on as booty. Both are denied dignity, self-respect and honour. Regrettably, one is considered only a piece of land and the other just a piece of flesh. | <urn:uuid:ba17aeb6-cd40-4088-9ab9-e7acc207e74d> | 2013-05-23T18:53:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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It's Alucard, the world's favorite (and creepiest) vampire! I wanted to do one with his glasses on, but I couldn't find a picture I liked (and excuse the crudieness of the image.) Per usual, I don't like it.
Also, as I was typing Alucard I was thinking 'hmmm how do you spell Alucard?.... it's just like Dracula spelled backward... WAIT OMG IT'S LIKE DRACULA SPELLED BACKWARDS! HOW DID I NOT GET THAT EARLIER?!?!' I'm so slow sometimes. | <urn:uuid:05e59548-6b69-4470-a4e1-526faa781192> | 2013-05-23T19:07:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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DOHA: Noted Doha-based Islamic scholar Dr Yousuf Al Qaradawi has said that he was not speaking in favour of the mass protests in Bahrain because they were sectarian in nature.
“Many people ask why I am not talking about Bahrain. The Bahraini revolts are different from other popular revolts taking place in the Arab world against the tyrannical regimes. The protests in Bahrain are sectarian in nature. The Shias are revolting against the Sunnis,” said Qaradawi while delivering the Friday sermon at Omar bin Khatab mosque.
“I am not against Shias, I am against sectarianism that divide people on the basis of religion and sects,” said Qaradawi, adding that many people think he was anti-Shia.
He said the Shias protesting at the Pearl Roundabout in Manama assaulted several Sunnis and occupied their mosques.
“I was not interested to talk about this issue because of such incidents. I wish the Shias and Sunnis would get together and talk to each other to resolve the issues. Negotiation is better than dividing the community,” said Al Qaradawi.
He, however, said bringing troops from outside to suppress the protests was more harmful.
“It is better to bring the citizens under one umbrella to achieve common goals,” he said while calling on the Bahrainis to get rid of their differences.
Bahraini Shias were associating themselves to another country and were carrying pictures of Iranian leader Khamenie and Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, as if they belong to Iran and not to Bahrain.
“I want them to be real citizens of their country. I call for justice for all and remove the roots of oppression,” said the scholar.
He stressed the importance to establish a social fabric that enables all the people in the country to enjoy their rights. | <urn:uuid:9cdb2271-9f03-4618-a3b0-46c8d9cbfef0> | 2013-05-23T18:39:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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SOUTH WHITLEY — Whitko’s baseball team came off a win over Triton Tuesday to fall to Tippecanoe Valley Wednesday night, 6-0.
The Vikings got 10 hits, eight against Whitko starting pitcher Alex Stoddard. Stoddard recorded four strike-outs, three errors and gave up four runs.
Colin Nicodemus and Wes Gensch each went 1-for-2 at the plate, getting Whitko’s two lone hits.
Tippy Valley scored three runs in the third inning, and one-per inning in the fifth, sixth and seventh frames.
Win over Triton
Whitko beat Triton Tuesday night, 9-5. The Wildcats scored four runs in the sixth inning to pull away with the win.
Ethan Nicodemus pitched all seven innings with six strikeouts and one error. He gave up seven hits and five runs. Nicodemus also led in hitting, going 2-for-4 with a run and two RBI’s.
Colin Nicodemus scored Whitko’s first run in the first inning off a wild Triton pitch.
Whitko’s Alex Stoddard found home plate in the fourth inning, scoring on a single by Zach Snep.
Triton took its first lead in the bottom of the fourth, scoring two runs to make the score 3-2.
Colin Nicodemus got his second of three runs on the night in the fifth frame after teammate Josh Kessie was walked. Ryan Weigold also found home plate, scoring on a sacrifice fly by Stoddard.
Whitko tore the game open in the sixth, with Weigold, Ethan and Colin Nicodemus and Wyatt Wolf all scoring off hits by Weigold and Ethan Nicodemus.
Triton attempted a comeback in the bottom of the sixth, scoring two, but Whitko closed out the seventh frame with another run by Colin Nicodemus off a walk by Austin Mort.View more articles in: | <urn:uuid:76271702-eec5-42fb-9bd1-f3b34fa71024> | 2013-05-23T18:59:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is holding out hope that an international conference to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the Syrian civil war will be held in early June.
The U.S. and Russia have agreed to try to bring the Syrian regime and opposition to the negotiating table, but no date has been set.
Neither Syrian President Bashar Assad nor the main Western-backed opposition group has made a commitment to attend.
Ban Ki-moon is in Russia as part of efforts to convene the conference. The state RIA Novosti news agency quoted him saying Sunday that he is hopeful the conference can take place "very soon," possibly in early June.
In addition to the U.S. and Russia, he said he has spoken with Britain, France, China and "all other key parties." | <urn:uuid:85f3f2e6-d423-433a-bb02-6c3d46470dca> | 2013-05-23T18:46:23Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A musician's laptop, loaded with valuable proprietary information, was stolen while he was on tour in Germany. A reward was offered, initially set at $20,000, but later raised to $1 million. The plaintiff found the laptop and returned it, but the reward was not paid because the hard drive had allegedly been returned with corrupted information. The musician had the hard drive examined and wiped when the data could not be recovered.
The musician argued that he intended the reward to be for the return of his data and information, not just the physical laptop. He also argued that the reward was akin to an advertisement, but not a firm offer to pay anything.
The court in Augstein v. Leslie addressed the second argument first, and rejected it. A reward, wrote the court, was intended to "induce performance" by the "'offeree [for] a specific action.'" The news reports of the theft and subsequent reward "would lead a reasonable person to believe that [the musician] was making an offer." Notwithstanding the size and significance of the amount, the reward was a promise to pay if a service was provided. Because that was the case here, the plaintiff could collect the reward.
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Brotherson was inducted into the Virgin Valley High School Hall of Fame in 2011. Others inducted at the same time were Brady Walker, Evan Wilson, Erastus Romney, Eugene Hughes and Pat Reber.
Virgin Valley lost a giant of a man both on and off the basketball court when former coach Kirk Brotherson lost his battle with cancer early Saturday morning.
Losing, however, was not something that happened very often to Brotherson coached teams.
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How should the UK government respond to Argentinia?
Discuss events occurring around the world, relations between countries, or actions of any group or organisation with an international focus.
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View Poll Results: What should UK Government do?
Nothing 97 45.97% Pre-emptive Strike 36 17.06% Trade embargo 35 16.59% Sanctions 24 11.37% Stop them coming to the olympics 19 9.00% | <urn:uuid:0858c807-7f4a-4d57-b3f8-1856fce5d54b> | 2013-05-23T18:46:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Brit man arrested over woman's murder in France
A BRITISH art restorer was in custody last night after the savage murder of a woman jogger in the South of France.
The man — named locally as Robert Plant, 32 — was said to have been seen with scratches on his face after Joudia Zimmat, 34, was killed.
The mum of three was sexually assaulted, beaten with rocks and had her throat slashed in scrubland in Courbessac, a quiet suburb of Nimes.
A cop said of Ms Zimmat, who had two daughters and a son aged three to nine: “Her face was unrecognisable. She had been slaughtered.”
One source said Plant, originally from Chatham, Kent, claimed he found the body while jogging. They added: “He denies having anything to do with the woman’s death.”
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January 24, 2007 EditionAlso in this issue...
S-H falls to TuckermanDebbie Richey
Sloan-Hendrix hosted Tuckerman on Jan. 16.
In the senior high girls contest, Tuckerman eased to a 17-12 lead at the close of the first quarter. The Lady Hounds made a mini-rally in the second period, but still trailed 28-24 at halftime.
The Lady Bulldogs continued to lead 44-36 entering the fourth period. The Lady Greyhounds fought a hard battle throughout the final quarter, but fell to Tuckerman 57-45.
Amanda Green led Sloan-Hendrix with 17 points and three boards. Amy Green added nine points and two rebounds. Brittany Conrad closed with eight points and five rebounds, and Megan Break recorded eight points and pulled down 18 rebounds. Christie Caldwell chipped in five points and a rebound.
The Sloan-Hendrix senior boys fell to Tuckerman 66-49.
Rodger Dexter closed with 22 points to lead Sloan-Hendrix.
In junior girl's action, Tuckerman led 10-7 over the junior Lady Greyhounds after one quarter and continued to lead 21-14 at halftime.
Sloan-Hendrix was unable to detour Tuckerman in the third quarter, as they trailed 31-22 after three quarters and fell to the Lady Bulldogs 39-30.
Alivia Hackworth led Sloan-Hendrix with 12 points and seven boards, and Ashley Stallings added six points. Hannah Rowsey contributed four points and three rebounds, and Haley Slusser closed with four points and two rebounds. Kristin Belcher netted two points and two rebounds, and Heidi Powers recorded two points. | <urn:uuid:fd28f60c-d4a0-4bc4-b10d-ac57b8736798> | 2013-05-23T18:46:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Grass Valley Ladies Relief Society would like to thank Grass Valley SPD and Safeway Markets for their generous donation of shopping carts. Without them, we would not have been able to distribute all of the food that the school children and other community members donated.
This year, 150 needy families were given boxes of food. The Grass Valley Ladies Relief Society deeply appreciates the support they have given to the community throughout the years.
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Buhay Mindanaw (Life in Mindanao)
2010 Buhay Mindanaw (Life in Mindanao).
Mindanao's island's natural beauty, it's cultural diversity, various ethnic festivals, a pristine stretch of white, unspoiled, sand beaches, many diving opportunities teeming with rich marine life, panoramic volcanoes, scenic lakes and rivers and hospitable people make this island one of Asia's favored holiday destinations, a perfect getaway for tourists and an ideal place for foreigners seeking retirement.
A popular proverb says; "The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side", it is a truism that living in this tropical paradise is totally different than living in Europe, the United States or even in any other country in Asia. Life itself appears to go at a much slower pace and tends to be more easily going; people seem to have a more relaxed attitude towards daily life.
Mindanao has a pleasant, tropical climate, ideal for outdoor enjoyment almost every day of the year. There are several popular scuba diving sites and world-class beaches; the island offers a great number of luxury hotels, resorts with top of the line amenities, trendy restaurants and cosy bars. Agriculture is the sparking plug behind this natural resources-rich island's economy, because of the stable climate conditions and fertile soil it is well known as the untapped breadbasket of the Philippines. There is an abundance of fruits, crops and rice paddies. Aside from its productive fields is this oriental islet endowed with considerable rich mineral resources and the fishing industry is playing an important role in boosting the islands export business.
But the Philippines is also prone to various climate and weather-related hazards because of its location in the tropics, along the path of typhoons and monsoons. Mindanao is situated virtually outside the typhoon belt and enjoys a generally fair equatorial climate, which gives the region an all-year round predictability of its weather. Nevertheless, Mindanao is no stranger to natural disasters. Volcanic activity and frequent earthquakes are common in the Moro Gulf, because the Philippine archipelago is precariously located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, fortunately most of them are located far too deep to pose a serious threat to the Island. The more heavy tremors and the difficulties emerging from these tragedies have affected thousands of people already. Tropical storms and heavy rainfall are triggering mudslides and flooding rivers, wreaking havoc on hillsides and in valleys, whipping out entire villages. Natural disasters cause famine, hunger and poverty; the poor are always the worst hit for they have the least resources to rebuild.
Mindanao has many rural areas with the highest poverty levels in the Philippines. Numerous families are forced to live below the poverty threshold, caused by the continuing, internal conflicts and natural disasters. Mass media portrayal and unfair reporting of Mindanao by the national and international media, with images of people picking through garbage, living in slums and shanty towns near polluted rivers, has promoted an unfavourable image of the island. The negative travel advisories issued by some Western countries, do not have a sound basis. It is a fact that this region has enormous contrasts and multiple contradictions, but that does not mean that the entire isle is a war zone, that everyone is living in impoverished conditions, that all children suffer from malnutrition and that news from Mindanao is always bad news.
In spite of this, Mindanaoans are always ready and able to cope with wrongly given impressions, prejudices, conflicts, poorness, rainstorms and earthquakes, their unshakable faith, their adaptability, resilience and strength amid adversity has been tested may times under all kinds of calamities and trials. It seems almost impossible to break the Filipino spirit, for them "home is home' despite all the hardship they have to suffer, they always wear warm, spontaneous smiles and are in high spirits most of the time.
Living in this South East Asian Garden of Eden is living and getting along with natural catastrophes, poverty, local conflicts and religious differences. Life in this part of the Philippines is living in a region where the rich and poor live side-by-side, where people from all religions are finding common ground and work together for lasting peace, stability and sustainable development. Living in Mindanao is living with wonderful, heartwarming people in a rich, mixed culture with ancient traditions and customs amid a modern society, although always amazing and challenging, it is a life worth living.
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I'm being straight up and honest, I think atheist are the cream of da crop in a world of theist. I say this because I know one thing about all atheist, they can figure out B.S. That's why I'm asking this pointed question, do you think this is racist?
It is no more racist than Beyonce being called the most beautiful woman in the world by People mag.
I think it's racist that you assume it's racist. RACIST!!!
Why would it be racist? But it's pretty stupid to call her, or anyone, the "most beautiful."
Try to think of all the faces in the world many with the same shape as hers, and the "SCIENTIST" agreed, which makes her phenotype legitimate, (unlike Beyonce who looks just like a tan white woman, which is People's Mags OPINION along with OTHER women whites included) that Colgate's phenotype is the "most beautiful"...and she stand ALONE!!!
However if you don't think it racist, I can understand why..I speak of privilege of the European all the time..I'm curious tho, why do you guys say such things as, "why would it be racist" or "no more than Beyonce?"..just to be contrary? you ain't stupid I don't think...
No, I do not think it is racist, just as I do not think it's racist that blacks have won the Boston Marathon every year since 1991 (excepting the 2001 win by a South Korean). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_of_the_Boston_Marathon
In what sense does "most perfect" = "prettiest"? Can someone give me the argument in syllogistic form?
Is the most perfect lamprey also the prettiest lamprey?
Also, what is perfect about this chick? I was taught that most people have one eye slightly higher in the face than the other, aiding in depth perception. Her features seem to be symmetrical.
She's defective, not perfect.
most perfect, prettiest, most beautiful, you can use any superlative you may choose it doesn't really matter.. as long as "the scientist agreed"
Thinking this is racist is just ridiculous.
They selected the woman for the shape of her face, not for her skin color.
Shabaka I realize you make a hobby of looking for racists under every blade of grass, but the only consciousness of race I have seen on this forum is from YOU. If you want racism to end, as Morgan Freeman said, then stop talking about it.
The woman in the article is certainly beautiful when all you get to know about her is the look of her face. The golden ratio that is being talked about in the article is something I have read about many times. It really exists and it applies not only to our species but across many species. The more symmetrical an organism is (not just the face but the entire body) the more likely they are to have a really good set of genes and therefore be 'beautiful' to members of the same species. Asymmetry, especially easily identified asymmetry is often a signal that the organism in question has been affected by a disease, a genetic mutation, or a physical injury especially during early development.
Do I think this idea/article is racist? Absolutely not. There is nothing inherently racist about the idea behind the golden ratio's connection to beauty. I also think we should all know by now that beauty is multifaceted and be able to take this article in context. Honestly, I'm thinking that the reason this was brought up in the first place is because the woman selected as 'most prettiest in Britian' by the standard of the golden ration alone is white.
A few links on this idea which isn't new at all:
It's not racist but it's sure as hell stupid. Any measure of beauty or 'perfect' is purely subjective. Another disgusting addition to an already unrealistic standard of beauty. It's this kind of thing that ruins women's self-esteems.
It's the nature of ideals like beauty to be out of reach, isn't it? Suppose, for example, the ideal of "hero" was so easy to reach that picking up candy wrappers in the parking lot made one a hero. Attainable ideals are fairly worthless. Real ideals are meant to be goals which only the few can reach.
Personal standards of beauty are subjective. Cultural standards are not. They're not objective, either.
I've never understood why females are supposedly oppressed by female ideals of beauty represented by supermodels and movie stars but males are not oppressed by the male ideals of athletes and heroes and movie stars.
Maybe, instead, women's self esteem is damaged by people constantly telling them they are oppressed and that they are victims. Why? Because this affirms their worthlessness, helplessness, and smallness. There's nothing beneficial to their self esteem about being told that in order to be free they need to give up their culture's ideals of beauty.
"I've never understood why females are supposedly oppressed by female ideals of beauty represented by supermodels and movie stars but males are not oppressed by the male ideals of athletes and heroes and movie stars."
Unseen I think it may have to do with living in a paternalistic culture. The "most attractive" females get the best mates and supermodels are their representative..(which is in line with the topic of this discussion) and males (in general) aren't intimidated by athletes, heros, etc. because many have their own dominate little world (wife, children, girlfriend, job title etc.) to cushion them from it when they start to feel insecure..JMO | <urn:uuid:82d1ce26-36c3-420d-9330-64ec11048ea9> | 2013-05-23T18:54:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I personally do not believe in such things, but it makes me wonder why some of the people I know, really genuine, nice and truthful people, tell me these things that makes it hard to tell them to their face "You were halluccinating or possibly paranoid, it's not possible" If you guys can please help me, this is the only question I have on my mind! : Can you please help me figure out the reason why my co-worker, who I believe doesn't make stuff up, sees and feels paranormal phenomenon?
He told me this story about how all his life there's been something following him, and when he was little, about 8 or 10, he wouldn't believe in ghosts or demons because he thought it was nonsense, that's what his family told him and believed too. So when stuff would happen, he would say "There's an explanation for that" He truly didn't believe in that stuff. But it would still happen: Hearing noises, stuff flying in front of his eyes. At this point I asked clearly if he thought maybe he was paranoid or imagining it happen. He then said "Well if I was, I clearly was imaging all my life about my bed shaking and all the noises from different houses right?" I asked what makes him certain that it's a demon or ghosts. He then said that he thinks he's been possessed, that his mom saw him with glowing red eyes. He didn't believe at first either, he said there was no way scientifically that could happen. Then she showed him a video she recorded so she could have proof. He said everything was true. The final thing that made me weirded out was when he said recently it's come back, something's come back, and it's been messing with everything: furniture moving aroud and what not. THEN he said he's PHYSICALLY SEEN his roomate being DRAGGED from the floor!?! and that lighting candles and other religous stuff stopped it, but it wou ld continue. Sooooo, please give me reasons to be safe and know that some of this stuff is just in his head. He wasn't a believer and a skeptic, but he's said that it's happened and no matter what people say, that they aren't living it, and he has nothing to hide. He wants to show me the video and wants me to go over to see for myself about the phenomenon. So please help clarify this. Thanks!
If you decide to go see for yourself DO NOT GO ALONE!!!
Take another male with you, preferably someone big and who can handle themselves in a physical confrontation.
This individual sounds like a true blue nut.
They may be trying to prank you or worse actually believe what they have said.
My guess is you will go over to their home, nothing will happen and they will say "um, it knew you was coming so it laid low, it doesnt want to be revealed. So um, want to read the bible with me...NAKED?"
Then you can say so long fruit loop, dont ever bother me with your b.s. again. Peace.
Years ago, early 80's, I had nothing to do on a Sunday morning, so took in the show at a local newage church. While there, I ran into an interesting young fellow that seemed to know a little philosphy and needed lunch. So I asked him over to my place to talk for a few hours. Over the course of the first hour, he talked about some esoteric idea called the 'I am', where he claimed to be able to turn into wild animals, at will.
As a young nieve fool, I humored him, till he started to growl like a wild cat, get down on all fours, and start to circle around me! At this point, I realized that I needed one more quarter in Abnormal Psychology, before I talked to such a fellow. I was able to talk him down, but had no kibble to help move his ass out my front door, so resorted to the tried and true, 'I have a swing shift job to get ready for, sorry to have to cut this short, can you forgive me?' He got up off my floor, re-collected himself and left. No he did not leave any fur balls!
By all means, please ask for help when investigating the fringe! Its probably not the gate to hell you have to worry about, but the gate keepers!
Went to school with a guy who thought he was a werewolf. He ended up in counseling. Not sure how that went because I avoided him...he had the look in his face of an "off" person.
Sadly, we are all biological beings, and not independent of our underlying biochemistry. A few of my friends keep telling me, 'we are spiritual beings having a mortal experience', like this is very helpful..;p(. I keep wanting to responde, 'you know that might be right at some deep delusional level, but I think a neural transmitter is telling me to find something fatty to eat, should I ignore it?'
Your werewolf friend sounds familier, was he about 5'8" tall, rather pudgy, long hair, liked one of the punk rocker groups, and hailed from a small town in Oregon? This guy spent a little time in the local mental hospital, I think after eating one too many of his mother's sandwiches at her shop. He is out now, and seems to be holding it together. We run into each other, and continue to compair notes from a family that I was Big Brother to, which really was odd in the worst way.
I have tried 'avoiding' people other the years, but the world is a rather small place, and people are mostly not in closed gated communities.
Some people seem issolated, in their own minds. The gates can be much higher in the mind, than in 'reality'. Offering someone an anchor to this world, while surrounded by so many distractions in fantasy, might keep some from jumping off the edge. Sadly, for some, the 'jumping', is the ultimate planned result.
Thank you all, these comments help. I feel sorry for him, and it's a shame that he truly believes this... I won't be going to his place anytime soon! It is a bit creepy, thanks guys for your inputs.
Now that you say that, sometimes when I was skeptical he would say, "yeah that's exactly what I thought! but then...." So I agree with you too. I feel sorry if he does have a symptom!
I have a friend with scizophrenia who has almost text book symptoms of your description of your friend, please don't be afraid the mentally ill ( if he is) are just people and often highly intelligent and very interesting people.
He may already have seen a psychiatrist and be off his meds or need them adjusted they do tend to have episodes, hallucinations are tricky a person whom hallucinates cannot be told it is not real because the experience is extremely real to them . So advising them they are a nut wont help but you can openly say wow I don't see it but ok.
When I first noticed my friend first had an episode similar to what you described I asked her outright do you see a regular Dr ? Does someone look after you when you experience these things? and does anyone else know you experience them?
She flippantly said yes Dr *** but I don't like him he wants me to take pills I suspect mind control!
I don't trust Doctors !
I got her Dr's name with further discussion and where he was located and called him well his receptionist actually , for advise and for information, I work with people with Disabilities so i guess it's a fairly normal thing I know to do with the mentally ill , and they kindly sent me a plethora of information about scizophrenia and other ilnesses and how harmless it can and cannot be, they also asked for my friends name and advised due to privacy they couldn't tell me anything but assured me she was regularly getting help.
I hope this helps i think its a safer route than going to their home and playing into the hallucinations if you don't have the facts.
Thank you so much for this! It's true of what you are saying. I actually did just listen to him, but questioned everything, and at the end I did say that "Well I see you believe that and you do feel you experienced it, but I haven't seen anything or it's just not backed up by science so that's why I don't believe but hopefully you have some people there to talk with you about that. If it's real for you then I won't question your belief." But he kind of kept on ha. But thank you!
Please tell me you did not really think there were such things as demons. | <urn:uuid:9b64a1e6-172f-4296-961c-bcc85a23a5db> | 2013-05-23T18:47:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
Very few people would agree that words don't hurt. In fact, it has been said that the tongue is like a sword. What comes from it can be deadly: "I hate you." "You make me sick." "You really need to lose some weight. Oh, did I just say that out loud?"
Almost everyone can remember statements made to them in the heat of anger or out of frustration. One grown woman recalled when she was 14 years old, a supervisor told her she was being pushy even though the supervisor had agreed to get back to her with an answer the week before. A man with adult children shared how he is still haunted by the words a relative said to him as an adolescent, "You're no good! You're going to end up being just like your daddy." He has worked his whole life not to allow those words to define him.
Once something has been said, it is impossible to take back. You can apologize and say you didn't mean it, but the words are still out there.
How many of us have spoken disrespectfully to someone on the phone or behind a ticket counter in the midst of a frustrating situation? What statements have you made to your spouse or your children that you wish had never come out of your mouth?
Words are powerful, and they can impact people for life.
Questions to ask yourselF
* How do you talk about your spouse in front of other people?
* How do you speak to your spouse?
* How do you talk to your children?
* How do you talk to your co-workers?
* How do you talk to the clerk at the grocery store?
You can leave a person feeling trampled and beaten down or feeling supported and encouraged even if they are in the wrong.
There is a big difference in saying, "That makes you look like an elephant," and "That isn't your best look."
Choose your words carefully
Here are some things to consider as you prepare for your next conversation.
* Remember what you say and how you say it matter.
* Consider how you would like the conversation to go. Just because someone is condescending to you does not justify you dishing it right back.
* You can be angry, disappointed or frustrated and still be respectful.
* Avoid the use of sarcasm; it isn't helpful.
Communicating well is a skill. Your spouse, children, co-workers and neighbors all have the potential to say or do things that will make your blood pressure rise. Think before you speak, and choose your words carefully. Putting your foot in your mouth is always easier than trying to figure out how to get it out.
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For this HOWTO, I assume that you have the following:
Pentium-class computer capable of running Red Hat Linux 9
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Riggs told TMZ that Paris is working with his daughter, Rachel, to help her develop a more complete sound. He said that Paris is surprisingly shy when she sings, but, Riggs says, "she's getting there."
For those of you too young to remember, Milli Vanilli (Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan), won a Grammy award for Best New Artist in 1990, but had it taken back after it was revealed they didn't actually sing on the album. Riggs told TMZ that the pair "both could sing pretty damn well" and were "asked not to sing" on the album.
Riggs' website mentions that he has worked with a who's who of recording artists -- but fails to list Milli Vanilli. Good move, Seth. Good move. | <urn:uuid:99705675-8a9a-4c9e-9853-a9db15cf171d> | 2013-05-23T18:40:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Madam Walker Made Millions Door to Door with Her Line of Beauty Products
When a list is compiled naming the ten top famous African Americans from history, the name Madam C.J. Walker seldom makes the cut. But, that's a mistake: Her name should be included. Madam Walker was the first woman millionaire in the US. Not just the first African American millionaire, mind you, but the first woman ever to reach that lofty goal. And not only was she a shrewd and accomplished businesswoman, she was also a philanthropist and social activist.
Walker's story began in Delta, Louisiana, on December 23, 1867. Born to parents just recently freed from slavery by the Civil War, she was an orphan by the age of eight. She made her way by working in the cotton fields and eventually relocated to St. Louis to be near her four brothers. By then she was widowed and had a daughter of her own, Lelia. She supported her child by working as a laundress.
In the 1890's, suffering from an unknown scalp ailment, Walker began experimenting with homemade remedies and beauty treatments. When she and her new husband, Charles Walker, moved to Denver, Colorado, she started marketing her homemade hair and scalp treatments. Traveling the South and selling her products door to door, Walker watched the demand for her beauty treatments grow.
Madam CJ Walker's Accomplishments Helped Create Nearly 3,000 Jobs
By 1910, demand was high enough for her to begin mass production. Moving to Indianapolis, she built a factory to produce her growing line of beauty products. A hair salon and training school quickly followed. Her manufacturing company created nearly three thousand jobs in the area and her army of door-to-door saleswomen would eventually number nearly 20,000. Less than a year later, she was making headlines for her contributions to worthy African American causes in Indianapolis.
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Madam C.J. Walker died on May 25, 1919. She was only 52 years old, yet, during her relatively short lifetime, she had championed many worthy causes. She had been a major contributor to the NAACP, she had encouraged other budding businesswomen, and she had funded numerous scholarships for young men and women to attend the Tuskegee Institute, an all-black college founded by Booker T. Washington.
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Bond for a Toledo man accused of setting ablaze furniture inside his grandmother's West Toledo home was set at more than $2 million on Thursday.
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SOAP Fault Element
When an error occurs during processing, the response to a SOAP message is a SOAP fault element in the body of the message, and the fault is returned to the sender of the SOAP message.
The SOAP fault mechanism returns specific information about the error, including a predefined code, a description, the address of the SOAP processor that generated
A SOAP Message can carry only one fault block
Fault element is an optional part of SOAP Message
For the HTTP binding, a successful response is linked to the 200 to 299 range of status codes;
SOAP fault is linked to the 500 to 599 range of status codes.
The SOAP Fault element has the following sub elements:
||A text code used to indicate a class of errors. See the next Table for a listing of predefined fault codes.
||A text message explaning the error
||A text string indicating who caused the fault. This is useful if the SOAP
message travels through several nodes in the SOAP message path, and the
client needs to know which node caused the error. A node that does not act
as the ultimate destination must include a faultActor element.
An element used to carry application-specific error messages. The detail element can contain child elements, called detail entries.
SOAP Fault Codes
The faultCode values defined below must be used in the faultcode element when describing faults
||Found an invalid namespace for the SOAP Envelope element
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||There was a problem with the server so the message could not proceed
SOAP Fault Example
The following code is a sample Fault. The client has requested a method named ValidateCreditCard , but the service does not support such a method. This represents a client request error, and the server returns the following SOAP response:
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Former TV Executive Says He Deserves Community Service for Bringing Nancy Grace to TV ProPublica
Steve Brill, the founder of Court TV, tells the journalism organization ProPublica that he deserves "to do community service. I am the person who brought Nancy Grace to television."
Brill, asked about his nose for hiring inexperienced people who end up with strong careers, noted that he also made "a lot of mistakes" (which he followed with the Nancy Grace comment.)
Brill added that his attitude at Court TV was to "give people an opportunity, and if they get hired away, you use that to hire other people." Grace moved on from Court TV to become a fixture on HLN.
Said Brill: "When we started Court TV we had a couple of experienced people, and there was a producer there, a young producer, Cynthia McFadden." After she complained they didn't have enough people on-air, Brill said he told her, "Well, what about you?"
McFadden now is an anchor and correspondent for ABC News.
Brill added, "So Fred Graham, who was our experienced guy, takes me aside ... oh, and then I did the same thing with Terry Moran, ironically, because they now both do ‘Nightline.’" | <urn:uuid:7530dc45-675e-4f58-a394-2fc2284be3c8> | 2013-05-23T18:37:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Yemen has asked the U.N. Security Council to investigate a ship that Yemeni authorities said they seized with a cargo of Iranian-made missiles, rockets and other weapons, the U.N. envoy to the impoverished Mideast nation said Thursday.
Security Council members are discussing Yemen's request, Jamal Benomar told reporters Thursday after Security Council consultations on Yemen's political transition.
Yemen's Defense Ministry announced Wednesday that Yemeni authorities seized an Iranian ship last month carrying material for bombs and suicide belts, explosives, Katyusha rockets, surface-to-air missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and large amounts of ammunition.
Yemeni President Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi sent a message to his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, last week calling on him to stop sending arms to Yemen and quit supporting a southern separatist movement, according to an official in the Yemeni president's office, who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
Benomar would not say if the U.N. could confirm that the weapons were Iranian. He said it would be up to the U.N. investigation to determine "where the shipment came from, who the recipients were, etc."
Yemen recently has witnessed several cases of illegal arms shipments through its porous shores and also is home to an active branch of al-Qaida, which staged several failed or foiled attacks on U.S. territory.
Yemen has been struggling with a transition to democracy since Arab Spring protests a year ago forced Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down after 33 years as president. Hadi leads a transitional government that is trying to promote national reconciliation, draft a new constitution and hold elections.
Saleh, who was allowed to remain in Yemen under the power-transfer deal, has been blamed by many over the past year for using loyalists and relatives in powerful posts to stall reform efforts.
Britain's U.N. Ambassador Mary Lyall Grant and Moroccan Ambassador Mohammed Loulichki, who led a recent Security Councill mission to Yemen, said Hadi and other government officials urged the council to impose strong measures against anyone trying to undermine the political transition.
The Security Council adopted a resolution in June that threatened non-military sanctions against those trying to interfere with Yemen's move to democracy.
Benomar said council members "heard in no uncertain terms during their recent visit to Yemen that acts of obstruction are impeding the transition" and that it was clear who those actors were. He gave no details and the Security Council did not indicate if any sanctions would be discussed.
Lyall Grant said Hadi told council members that the first phase of the transition involving the restructuring of the military and consolidating gains against al-Qaida was complete.
A national dialogue, a key feature of the second phase, will begin March 18 to lead up to elections in February 2014, Benomar said.
Lyall Grant painted a grim picture of impoverished Yemen: half of its 24 million people have no access to clean water and sanitation, 10 million don't have enough food and 1 million children suffer from acute malnutrition.
Benomar told the Security Council he lamented that very little of the nearly $8 billion that international donors have pledged has actually been received to help Yemen overcome its humanitarian crisis. He said "the governments need to accelerate the establishment of a mechanism to absorb the donor funded programs and the donors in turn need to fulfill their commitments."
"I told the council that the ball is in their court. They will need to act now. There is no time for complacency. Time is running out and there will be no second chances," Benomar said. "Yemenis need their support now."
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You must ask the original test site to send us a sealed copy of your scores. We cannot accept your copy. Though this is permitted, we encourage examinees to retest with the original test site.
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TRAINING: It consists of everyday AM practices, with some time to rest and then two more sessions - late evening and night technical.
Thoughts on opponent, Vaughan Lee? I think Vaughan Lee is a very tough opponent and he's pretty well-rounded in there.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I started training in 2000, influenced by my cousin Gustavo Oliveira and legend Royce Gracie
What ranks and titles have you held? BJJ black belt/ Pan American champion/ Shotokan 2004 champion
Do you have any heroes? God
What is your favorite technique? Too many to list
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It means a lot to be part of such a high level (the biggest in the world) fighting organization. It’s the biggest in the world and it keeps me focused and motivated.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? No
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Carrollton, the seat of Carroll county, is located on the Ohio River at the mouth of the Kentucky River. The area was settled in the late eighteenth century and the town was established in 1794 as Port William, named probably for William Porter, an early settler. Port William was the seat of Gallatin county (formed in 1798) until 1838 when Carroll county was formed. Port William was made the seat of the new county and renamed Carrollton. The Port William post office opened in 1807 and was renamed Carrollton in 1838. The population in 1990 was 3,715. | <urn:uuid:23bf2913-e823-43c0-8a9c-a24988b3e598> | 2013-05-23T19:06:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Harris County informal marriage, July 26
The Harris County Clerk reported the following informal marriage in the area during the week of July 22-28:
Janna Michelle Spreeman, Alfonso Enrique Velez, Eunice, July 26
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Terps Finish Third as Freshman Tom Harris shoots a 148
Spring 2012: Did not compete.
Fall 2011: Did not compete.
Before Maryland: Attended Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School...led Pittsburgh Central to four sectional championships...won the individual sectional and regional championship in 2011, and finished 24th in Pennsylvania...finished eighth in the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League Championship in 2011...lettered in basketball all four years.
Personal: Full name is John Eric Urda...born in Wyomissing, Pa...son of John and Ellen Urda...John played basketball at Pittsburgh-Johnstown and Ellen swam at Wittenberg University...sister Emily plays on the women's tennis team at Villanova...chose Maryland over Purdue, Bucknell and Villanova. | <urn:uuid:3a4f6a00-d50a-4498-aa53-280d82c620e3> | 2013-05-23T18:44:55Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Drafting and Adopting United Nations Resolutions
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This course will allow participants to build the requisite knowledge and skills to draft and adopt UN resolutions. A detailed study of the content, structure and processes involved in passing resolutions will reinforce an understanding of decision-making at the UN. Drafting assignments will demand an application of the learned material enabling the participant to more effectively articulate and communicate his/her governmental or organisational interests within UN processes.
Objetivos de Aprendizaje
At the end of the course, participants should be able to:
- Draft the preamble and operative parts of a resolution;
- Explain the structure of UN resolutions and the functions specific to its constituent parts;
- Identify and describe the various phases and evolution of a resolution text before adoption, including consultations, drafting, and voting;
- Recognize the status and category of any UN document based on the numbering system.
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The course's content will include, inter alia:
- Structure and numbering of resolutions;
- Drafting the preamble and operative parts;
- Adopting resolutions of the UN principal organs (including consultations, voting, and debate);
- Individual drafting exercises.
e-Learning: The course is internet-based, moderated by a senior international expert, asynchronous, and places emphasis on online discussions and self-paced learning. The participants will be primarily responsible for their own learning over the four-week span of the course. The course will consist of the following components:
- Compulsory and optional reading material, intended to teach the basic concepts and principles of the lesson's subject-matter;
- External links to additional books, articles, documents, and websites related to the lessons;
- Quizzes and case studies at the end of each module. To be eligible for the course certificate, a passing grade of 80% on both quizzes and case studies is required;
- A Community Discussion Board will be available for participants to post questions or comments visible to the instructor and other participants. This discussion board will be moderated by the course director and UNITAR;
- Estimated learning time: minimum of 60 hours;
- Participants will be eligible to receive a certificate after the successful completion of the course.
The course targets mid to senior-level government officers in line ministries preparing for and/or taking part in conferences as well as staff of intergovernmental / nongovernmental organizations. It also targets entry-level and mid-career diplomats working in a multilateral setting. Private sector specialists and students whose work or studies are related to this subject are also encouraged to apply.
The course participation fee is 600 USD. You will receive an invoice by email after registration. You will receive an invoice by email after registration.
Participants from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are eligible to apply for a fellowship. Please click here for more details. Registration will be closed as soon as the course is full and your place will be secured once your payment is confirmed.
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President Barack Obama's first term officially came to an end at noon E.S.T. Monday (well, technically, Sunday) and his second term begins as he was sworn in on the steps of the Capitol Building.
Monday caps off the busy weekend of celebrations and ceremony marking the 57th presidential inauguration, which included a National Day of Service on Saturday, the official swearing-in ceremonies of President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday, and a a slew of inaugural balls, although fewer than four years ago.
But the main events take place Monday, beginning in the late morning when musical performances and other festivities bookended the presidential and vice presidential oaths of office and President Obama delivered his inaugural remarks.
When he put his left hand on the Lincoln Bible Monday, President Obama made history.
He became just the second president to be sworn in four times, except, unlike President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it wasn't because he served four terms.
At Obama's first inauguration four years ago, Chief Justice Roberts famously stumbled over the timing of the oath of office. Citing fears that detractors would use the mistake to challenge the legitimacy of Obama's presidency, Roberts returned to the White House the next day for a do-over, just to make sure.
This year, Obama said the oath twice again, but at least this time, it will be on purpose. The Constitution mandates that the presidential term begin on January 20th, but because that date fell on a Sunday this year, the public ceremony was be held Monday the 21st.
The official oath took place on schedule Sunday in the Blue Room at the White House, with just the first family, Chief Justice Roberts, and a few invited guests present.
This time, Obama and Roberts made sure to coordinate--even exchanging a copy of an oath card, complete with exact punctuation and emphasis--to avoid any errors.
"I did it!" Obama said to his younger daughter, Sasha, after the ceremony.
"You didn't mess up!" she responded.
On Monday, Obama maybe stumbled over the word "state", but it's unlikely anyone will challenge the legitimacy of his oath.
Place your left hand on the bible…
For his second inauguration, President Obama selected three Bibles to use for his oath of office: the Robinson family Bible, the Lincoln Bible and Martin Luther King's traveling Bible.
Presidents have historically chosen bibles (or even law books) of personal significance, sometimes closed, but often open to a particularly meaningful passage.
For his first inaugural ceremony, Obama chose the Lincoln Bible, the book on which Abraham Lincoln swore his oath of office in 1861. With the outbreak of the Civil War imminent, Lincoln was smuggled into Washington under the cloak of darkness, and his procession to the Capitol was surrounded by heavily-armed guards.
His belongings had yet to arrive, so the chief justice sent the clerk of the Supreme Court, William Thomas Carroll, to find a bible on which the president-elect would swear his oath.
President Obama was the first president (aside from Lincoln) to use Lincoln's Bible, a small book, bound in burgundy velvet with gilded pages, which is kept at the Library of Congress.
For Sunday's official swearing-in, Obama chose to use the Robinson family Bible, an heirloom from Michelle Obama's family.
According to the inaugural committee, the bible was a gift from Michelle's father, Fraser Robinson II, to his mother, Michelle Obama's grandmother, LaVaughn Delores Robinson, for Mother's Day in 1958. LaVaughn Robinson was the first African-American manager at a Moody Bible Institute bookstore.
On Monday, President Obama again used the Lincoln Bible and the 'traveling bible' belonging to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stacked one over the other. Both bibles were be closed, rather than open to a specific verse, when Obama took the oath of office Monday, as was the Robinson Bible on Sunday.
Anything but trivial…
The quadrennial celebration of a presidential inauguration, so full of pomp and circumstance, is ripe for trivia.
Here are some of the fun ones:
President George Washington's first inauguration took place on April 30, 1789.
From his second inauguration in 1793 until 1937, for Roosevelt's second term the subsequent ceremonies took place on March 4--the date on which the Constitution took effect in 1789--with a few exceptions.
- Four inaugurations (James Monroe's second term, Zachary Taylor, Rutherford B. Hayes and Woodrow Wilson's second term) were held on March 5, thanks to March 4 falling on a Sunday.
- Six inaugurations were held on other days, when a vice president was sworn in following the death of the president: John Tyler on April 6, 1841 (death of William H. Harrison), Millard Fillmore on July 10, 1850 (death of Zachary Taylor), Andrew Johnson on April 15, 1865 (assassination of Abraham Lincoln), Chester Arthur on September 20, 1881 (assassination of James Garfield), Theodore Roosevelt September 14, 1901 (assassination of William McKinley), and Calvin Coolidge on August 3, 1923 (death of Warren G. Harding).
In 1933, the Twentieth Amendment was ratified, setting the terms of elected federal offices and moving the end of the presidential term to January 20, with the intent of reducing the time between the election and the start of the new term.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, in 1957, and Ronald Reagan in 1985 are the only other presidents to be sworn in on January 21, each for his second term.
- Three other inaugurations were held on other days following the death--and in one case, resignation--of the president: Harry S. Truman on April 12, 1945 (death of Franklin D. Roosevelt), Lyndon Baines Johnson on November 22, 1963 (assassination of John F. Kennedy) and Gerald Ford on August 9, 1974 (resignation of Richard Nixon).
Washington's second inaugural was the shortest address given at an inauguration at just 135 words.
William Henry Harrison, in 1841, delivered the longest address, 8,500 words, and paid the ultimate price: he refused to wear a coat, caught pneumonia and died a just a month into his term.
Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution gives the specific wording for the oath of office. It says:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Only Franklin Pierce and Herbert Hoover chose the word "affirm" instead of "swear" when taking their oaths.
Just two presidents (that we know) have chosen to use books other than a bible for their oaths: John Quincy Adams, who used a book of U.S. law, and Lyndon Johnson, who was sworn in aboard Air Force One following the assassination of Kennedy. Johnson used a missal--a book used for Catholic Mass--found on a side table in Kennedy's Air Force One bedroom.
Thomas Jefferson, on March 4, 1801, became the first president inaugurated in Washington.
James Madison, on March 4, 1809, became the first president for whom there was an inaugural ball held.
Andrew Jackson, on March 4, 1829, became the first president inaugurated outside the Capitol Building, on the East Portico.
James Buchanan, on March 4, 1857, became the first president whose inauguration was photographed.
William McKinley, on March 4, 1897, became the first president whose inauguration was recorded by motion picture cameras.
Harry S. Truman, on January 20, 1949, became the first president inaugurated in a televised ceremony.
Jimmy Carter, on January 20, 1976, became the first president to walk from the Capitol to the White House.
Ronald Reagan, on January 20, 1981, became the first president inaugurated on the West Front of the Capitol building.
Bill Clinton, on January 20, 1997, became the first president inaugurated in a ceremony live-streamed online.
Attending the inauguration
Downtown Washington, D.C., will be extremely crowded Monday, but those attending inaugural events can get through the day with minimal hassle by keeping a few things in mind.
Know where to go...
Ticketed attendees should pay careful attention to which gate they are supposed to enter.
Guests with blue, gold, green, orange, yellow or red tickets must enter by one of the gates surrounding the Capitol, while non-ticketed attendees can find a place on the National Mall using the gates between 7th Street and 14th Street NW.
...and how to get there
Officials recommend using the Metro, rather than trying to drive in and park.
The Metro will open early, at 4 a.m. and close late, at 2 a.m. Tuesday.
Three stations--Archives, Mt. Vernon Square, and Smithsonian will all be closed Monday, and Pennsylvania Avenue will be closed between, including to pedestrian traffic, the Capitol and the White House for the parade.
The weather forecast anticipates cool and cloudy, but not miserable conditions on Monday. Wear plenty of warm layers and comfortable shoes for standing in long lines and security.
...because you'll be out there for a while.
Gates open at 7 a.m. and the musical prelude begins at 10 a.m. Expect long lines and several security screenings.
Food and drinks will not be available for purchase within the ticketed perimeter (non-ticketed areas may have access to food trucks), so bring something to snack on--but not a whole picnic. Thermoses are not allowed.
Restrooms--well, port-a-potties--have been set up throughout the ticketed and non-ticketed areas.
Make sure to leave items on the prohibited list at home so you don't have to throw them away, or prevented from entering the viewing areas.
- Firearms and ammunition (either real or simulated)
- Explosives of any kind (including fireworks)
- Knives, blades, or sharp objects (of any length), including pocket or hand tools, such as the “Leatherman”
- Mace and/or pepper spray
- Sticks, poles, or sign supports
- Packages, backpacks, large bags, suitcases
- Thermoses or coolers
- Laser pointers
- Signs or posters
- Animals (other than service animals)
- Alcoholic beverages
- Aerosol sprays
- Glass containers
- Air horns
- Non-ADA portable chairs
- Other items that may pose a threat to the security of the event as determined by and at the discretion of the security screeners.
Watch the parade
Ticketed attendees can follow designated routes to the bleachers along the parade route (shown on their tickets) and doors open at 8 a.m.
Everyone else can watch the parade from the sidewalk, on a first-come, first-served basis. Those gates open at 6:30 a.m., and for a spot, you'll need to get there even earlier.
Entrance points to the parade route:
- 2nd Street NW and C Street NW
- John Marshall Park at C Street NW
- Indiana Avenue NW between 6th Street NW and 7th Street NW
- 7th Street NW and D Street NW
- 10th Street NW and E Street NW
- 12th Street NW and E Street NW
- 13th Street NW and E Street NW
- 14th Street NW and E Street NW
- 12th Street NW and Constitution Avenue NW
- 10th Street NW and Constitution Avenue NW
- 7th Street NW and Constitution Avenue NW
- Constitution Avenue NW between 6th Street NW and 7th Street NW
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A really, really annoying thing that people from New Jersey say when the do something they can't explain.
Joe: What's a muff cabbage?
Jersey kid: Eh, you wouldn't understand. It's a Jersey thing.
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Adj. An Adjective pertaining to a behavior or event that makes people extremely uncomfortable. Something is "krangish" when it makes people unsettled with an underlying feeling of unnaturality.
Synonyms: Freaky-Deaky, Unnatural...
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"Dude, when Kenny got eaten by that fish it was hella Krangish!"
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A distinctly Ecuadorian dish of roasted guinea pig. Comes from the sound a guinea pig makes.... "cuy! cuy!".
Ecuadorians love to eat cuy.
Cuy = Guinea Pig Ecuador
The only "difference" is that in Ecuador cuyes are not pets, they are bred, much like chickens, to be later broiled and served as a delicacy.
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When your sexual partner chokes on your pubes. You usually notice that she is pubified when she begins coughing.
pubified is when your girlfriend chokes on ur pubes
justin timberlake got pubified by his boyfriend
A phenomenon that happens during oral sex when the performer inhales the pubic hair of the reciever, usually resulting in coughing/vomiting/diarrhea.
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|9/18/2000: Hearings on Religious Freedom in India and Pakistan: Mr. Mujeen Rahman Oral Testimony|
September 18, 2000
Mr. Mujeen Rahman
MR. RAHMAN: Mr. Chairman, members of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity for being here to talk about the situation of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan. The Ahmadiyya community has its presence in 166 countries of the world, and everywhere, they are identified as Muslims. It is in Pakistan alone that they have been denied that right of self-identification by the second constitutional amendment of 1974.
The constitutional amendment of 1974 denuded the Ahmadiyya community of their religious identity. Nothing is left of the Ahmadiyya faith if they are not allowed to profess their faith in Islam, which they consider to be their faith. But that right has been taken away from Ahmadiyyas.
As for the religious freedom in Pakistan, the Ahmadiyya case stands at a slightly different footing. I am not reading my statement which I've already submitted; I feel it is more communicative to talk to the members while I am here. So the Ahmadiyya faith has been defined by the constitution against their conscience. They do not accept it. That has been imposed on them. And thereafter, there is an institution in the Constitution of Pakistan known as the Islamic Ideology Council, which is a creation of Article 227 of the Constitution of Pakistan.
Now, this Islamic Ideology Council has drafted a statute which has not yet been passed; drafted a statute which makes apostasy punishable by death. So my faith itself has been defined an apostasy, and apostasy has been made punishable by death. That is the situation where I stand as a community.
But before that law comes into being, there is another law. The situation of Ahmadiyyas is different from other minority communities because the Ahmadiyyas have been picked up by statute by name. There are Ahmadiyya-specific laws. I have here a copy of that Section 298(c), which says any person of Lahore and Kadiani [ph] group who call themselves Ahmadiyyas who pose as Muslim or profess their faith as Islam, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, shall be punished with three years' imprisonment.
So Ahmadiyyas have been picked up by name for criminal legislation, which is unheard of in any part of the world. I am not aware of any law which picks up a community for a criminal law for punishment. So this ordinance 20, which created Section 298(c), it took a step further from this Constitutional Second Amendment act, and it denied me the right to profess and practice.
My constitution guarantees the right to profess and practice my faith, but ordinance 20 takes away that right, and unfortunately, the Supreme Court validates that law.
I am going to argue before you, and I can show it if necessary, from the chronology of judicial judgments that the judiciary in Pakistan has abdicated from its function of perfecting the religious liberty of the citizens, as it has also abdicated in certain other spheres. But I am presently talking of the Ahmadiyya situation.
Now, this section 298(c) denied me the right to profess and practice, to a certain extent that some observers were forced to observe that day-to-day life of an Ahmadiyya has been converted into a crime. What I do as a spontaneous reaction, as a habit, has been made into a crime. When we meet each other, we greet each other with a salaam walaikum [ph], which means peace be upon you. When [in foreign language] in the NWFP province of Pakistan, in the city of Noshara was charged with 298(c) for having greeted a fellow citizen with a salaam walaikum, and the court convicted him to six months' imprisonment.
He went and appealed, and while the appeal was pending, he died.
Saravdada Abdul Rashid [ph], another citizen of Pakistan, one of the distinguished families of NWFP, was charged because--and I quote--I am mentioning those cases in which I appeared as a defence counsel myself--he was charged under 298(c) because the FAR, the police report, said, the gentleman who reported, a clergy, he said "I was standing at the corner of the street, and I heard Koran being recited in his drawing room." And he was arrested because he thereby posed to be a Muslim.
The fact of the matter is the law does not prohibit the recitation of the Koran by an Ahmadiyya. It does not prohibit it. The fact was that he, right at that moment, switched on his television. The Pakistan television starts with a recitation of the Holy Koran, and that recitation of the Holy Koran which the clergy heard outside in the street was the recitation of the Koran on the Pakistan television, and this man was charged for that, and I had to run for about 21 days or about a month to get him bailed out.
I was the local president of Rahwal Pendi Jahmad [ph]. The [in foreign language] had [in foreign language] inscribed on the face of it engraved in a marble slab, [in foreign language], which means [in foreign language], which is the credo of the Islamic faith. The district magistrate of Rahwal Pendi called me in his office and then gave me a letter saying that I should remove that inscription from the face of my mosque. I gave him a written reply that I will not commit this accursed act, and I denied to do that.
And then, one fine evening, I should say, in the early hours of the morning, at 3:00 in the night, about 100-strong police people came, policemen came, and they put a ladder outside, and they removed that from that mosque.
[In foreign language] and some boys in [in foreign language], and I defended their case in court, the high court; they had badges of Kalimata Yeva [ph], and they were convicted. The High Court maintained that conviction, and the case went up to the Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court, I appeared with a panel of lawyers along with Justice Fathwa Denghi Ibrahim [ph], and the Supreme Court validated the law and maintained the convictions.
Mr. Thomari Dries [ph], who was the chief secretary of the province of Sind, was taken as a minister in the interim government by Munthazale [ph] Bhutto. And when he was taken as a minister, the newspapermen wanted to interview him. And while they were interviewing him, they asked him doing do you get your permission from your spiritual head, who is in London? He said I did not need his permission, but I wrote him a letter for prayer and blessing, and here is what he has written back to me: that you should do your job honestly, to the best of ability for the service of mankind.
And that letter was published in the newspaper. That letter, on the top of it, had the inscription of Raman Ibrahim [ph], which means in the name of Allah, the gracious, the merciful. And this man was charged under 298(c) for blasphemy because he had shown that letter to the press which was printed in the press, and thereby, this had been blasphemy of Prophet Muhammad has been committed; how, we do not know.
But he has been called into the court; summoned; he is under bail, and the case is going on. The court did not bother to ask how is the Prophet's name defiled when you say the name of God almighty, the gracious, the merciful? How is the Prophet's name defiled with this? Nobody asks that. 295(c), punishable by death, that charge is framed against him.
Dr. Hafiz of Bularchi in Bulochistan [ph]; he is a doctor, a Ph.D. doctor. He helped a citizen to fill up a declaration form for census, and in that declaration, the religion of the person was declared as Ahmadiyya. It transpired that that declaration was not rightly put in the right column. So the clerics made a lot of hue and cry about that, and he was arrested, and he has been sentenced to 11 years under the antiterrorist laws because he wrongly filled a form of recommendation of another fellow citizen at his dictation.
This situation, I could go on counting hundreds of cases. In my statement, which I've filed before you, I've given a list of about 3,000 cases. Well, after arriving in Washington, I received this communication. This is in Urdu. In a village in Haniwal [ph] district, three Ahmadiyyas were arrested, allegedly on the charge that they were preaching to a Muslim who had come to their house and indulged into a controversy over religious issues. So they were charged under 298(c), and they have been put into the jail.
But while they were in jail, the other member of the family, three other brothers, were framed into a false murder charge so that the whole male population of the family goes behind the bars. So they were framed under a false charge, and they did not stop there. These people were taken, because it was a blind murder, these people were taken from the police lockup to the scene of incident, and from that scene of incident, they were made to walk to their house so as to take their footprints on the way.
And then, the dogs were brought so that the case is made up that the dogs have traced the murder to the house of these culprits.
So these incidents are taking place day and night. And the clergy in Pakistan is not satisfied that Ahmadiyyas--and then, the right to profess and practice; not only what are the--if a person writes [in foreign language] on an invitation card for the marriage, he has been convicted for that. That is a case; I am a defense counsel; the appeal is still pending in high court.
In another district, a lady died. She was the wife of a police inspector. She was buried in the own land which was given by her ancestors for the graveyard in the village common. She was buried in that graveyard, and the mullahs wanted that body dug out. They wanted to disinter the dead body, and the district magistrate ordered the disinterment of the dead body of that lady. I had to go to Lahore High Court to get a stay order, and that disinterment was stopped, but such cases have occurred in Pakistan at a number of places where dead bodies were taken out of the graves on the plea that this is a Muslim graveyard; an Ahmadiyya cannot be buried.
CHAIRMAN ABRAMS: The time is up; I need to ask you to conclude.
MR. RAHMAN: All right; so what I'm trying to say is that I have been denied the right of identification; I have been denied the right to practice and propagate, and the judiciary unfortunately has abdicated. I have given a list of the cases of how gradually, and therefore, that is the situation, and apparently, there is no hope for the change, because I have also given in my written statement the political conditions in Pakistan.
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elcome to historic Germantown!
George Washington and the capital were here in 1793. During the Revolution, the Battle of Germantown was fought up and down the main street, with muskets firing from house windows. The first American Bible was published here, and the first kidnapping in the United States also took place in Germantown. The writer Louisa May Alcott was born here and the painter Gilbert Stuart worked in a small barn in Germantown.
merica's history lies in the cobblestones of Germantown Avenue, echoes through the halls of Stenton and Cliveden, and is forever captured in Germantown's historic buildings, homes, and cemeteries. An incredible amount of history took place in the distance of a few miles in this historic town, now part of Philadelphia.
ermantown became a big industrial town in the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Then in the 1940's and 50's the area's affluent citizens began to leave for the suburbs. Today, Germantown is undoubtedly a very urbanized region; however, the historical sites have been very well preserved by the active Historical Society and the National Park Service. Most are open to the public. Explore historic Germantown with this virtual tour. | <urn:uuid:435531bc-5394-42de-b5d5-e3ec24ab0f1b> | 2013-05-23T18:39:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, Otto grew up in a city well known for its musical tradition. The younger of two children, Otto began studying the piano at age 10. After entering the Vienna Conservatory of Music, he gave his first concert at age 14. Encouraged by Maestro Bruno Walter, he hoped to become a conductor and concert pianist.
1933-39: After Germany annexed Austria in March 1938, Otto was kicked out of the Vienna Conservatory. One night, two men ordered him to go with them to a cellar, where they forced other people to mop and scrub. They told Otto to wait his turn, but in the confusion he escaped. To get out of Austria, he entered a piano contest in Belgium. From Belgium he went to France, and then sailed for America on August 11, 1939.
1940-44: In New York Otto gave piano lessons and concert recitals. He also gave benefit performances for Austrian resistance groups and Jewish refugees from Europe. After the U.S. entered the war, Otto was given a choice--either join the U.S. Army or be deported as an enemy alien. He chose the army. In October 1944 he was sent into combat in France and southern Germany. His job was to interrogate German prisoners; they all denied knowing anything about concentration camps, but Otto had already seen the camps with his own eyes.
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United States, December 8, 1941
Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, [the] United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation, and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor, looking towards the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States, and his colleague, delivered to our secretary of state a formal reply to a recent American message. Japan has therefore undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions, and well understand the implications for the very life and safety of our nation. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God [applause]. I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.
Portion of the speech in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the US Congress to declare war on Japan following the previous day's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Hello. My name is Marta. I am English student and a teacher to be. I am writing a diploma paper on group competition. I am trying to find out if it can help students to participate in the lesson. I would be greatfull for any tips and suggestions. Thank you
What age group will your students be?
(Say: "I am an English student and a teacher-to-be.")
My students are going to be 16
I am not certain what is meant by group competition. Are the students divided into groups that compete against each other? I think that would be good if it means that the students in each group help each other. I remember that at Froebel Branch (fourth and fifth grade) we were talking about opposites and one girl explained to another that it means the other way around. Sometimes the kids will help the teacher.
I don't have much in the way of classroom experience. Maybe Tdol will contribute something.
I'm not sure what is meant here, either. It isn't a fixed term- I presume it means activities involving the group where there is an element of competition, which can push students to strive harder. It can help students, though there are other factors, like age which might affect this- I don't particularly enjoy group activities and don't enjoy taking part in them when I'm on training courses. It also matters how well the group know each other and cultural differences.
Group work, when it goes well, works very well, but if it goes wrong can be disastrous. Where are you from, BTW, and your students?
Yesterday, I climbed up a tree.
Who did it? Why, it was me!
I'm the one that did the climbing.
It was me that people were watching.
I've got hands for handling.
I've got legs for walking.
I've got a nose for smelling.
I've got a mouth for talking.
We have words for everything.
We have words for telling
One thing from another,
Like mother, father, sister, brother,
So we can name them especially.
Now, as you can clearly see,
I'm one, not two or three.
Because I'm not you. I'm me.
We have eyes for seeing
And ears for hearing
Dogs that bark and birds that sing.
We have a name for every thing.
Every single person has a name.
In some ways we are the same.
In others we are different.
Now I have said just what I meant.
Now, your name is yours. That's fine.
Now, my name is only mine.
I have my own, don't you see?
It's not yours. It belongs to me.
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By TIM DAHLBERG, Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Rising Mexican star Canelo Alvarez landed the heavier punches and more of them Saturday night, defending his 154-pound title with a lopsided decision win over an aging Shane Mosley.
Alvarez shook off a cut over his left eye from a head butt in the third round and dominated the fight, landing big punches to the body and occasional uppercuts to the head. He won all rounds but one on two scorecards, and all but two on the third.
It was the fourth defense for Alvarez of his 154-pound title, and Mosley gave it his best. But at the age of 40 he simply didn't have the reflexes or strength to be competitive against the 21-year-old champion.
Two judges scored it 119-109, while a third had it 118-108. The fight was on the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Miguel Cotto undercard.
"It was a great experience," Alvarez said. "I felt really good and I want to thank Shane for giving me the experience."
Mosley hasn't won a fight in three years, losing five of his last seven. Mosley was trying to resurrect his fading career after losses to both Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, but he came into the ring a decided underdog against Alvarez, who is considered one of the top young fighters in the sport.
"His defense is very good. He's really fast, and he can go a long way," Mosley said. "When the kids start to beat you up, it might be time to start promoting."
Mosley, whose pro career dates back to 1993, moved forward the entire fight and tried to keep Alvarez off balance with flurries. He took punishment throughout and appeared hurt by shots to the body in the eighth round.
But Mosley (46-8-1) never went down and was still fighting hard in the12th round, though by then the fight had already been decided.
"I didn't expect him to be that fast or that good," Mosley said.
Alvarez, who remained unbeaten in 41 fights, said he tried to knock Mosley down every round, but was never able. Mosley has never been stopped in a fight.
"I tried to knock him out, he took a lot of punches, but it didn't work," Alvarez said.
Alvarez said he wasn't sure who he would fight next, though the win puts him in the upper echolon for fights against Mayweather or Pacquiao.
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- Binding: Paperback & Ebook
- Era: Cold War
- Number of Pages: 336
- Subject: U.S. Submarine Service
- Date Available: January 2001
When the nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton was commissioned in November 1959, its commanding officer, Captain Edward L. Beach, planned a routine shakedown cruise in the North Atlantic. Two weeks before the scheduled cruise, however, Beach was summoned to Washington and told of the immediate necessity to prove the reliability of the Rickover-conceived submarine. His new secret orders were to take the Triton around the world, entirely submerged the total distance.
This is Beach's gripping firsthand account of what went on during the 36,000 nautical-mile voyage whose record for speed and endurance still stands today. It brings to life the many tense events in the historic journey: the malfunction of the essential fathometer that indicated the location of undersea mountains and shallow waters, the sudden agonizing illness of a senior petty officer, and the serious problems with the ship's main hydraulic oil system. Intensely dramatic, Beach's chronicle also describes the psychological stresses of the journey and some touching moments shared by the crew. A skillful story teller, he recounts the experience in such detail that readers feel they have been along for the ride of a lifetime. | <urn:uuid:66e51cf1-2ebe-40b7-8825-d97bfd7da104> | 2013-05-23T19:05:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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American Airlines parent AMR Corp. is negotiating for closer ties and possibly an investment in financially troubled Japan Airlines Corp., according to a person familiar with the talks.
American would like to form a joint business venture with JAL in which the two carriers would seek antitrust immunity to work closely in setting schedules and prices for service around the world, according to the person, who spoke Saturday on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the talks.
The negotiations, which grew more intense over the past four weeks and included meetings in Texas and Tokyo, raised the specter of a bidding war for a piece of JAL.
Delta Air Lines Inc., the world's biggest airline operator, also is in preliminary discussions about buying a stake in JAL for about $300 million. Delta could become a leading shareholder in JAL and get coveted access to Haneda Airport, which is close Tokyo's business district, according to a person briefed on the Delta situation.
A spokesman for Fort Worth, Texas-based AMR, Roger Frizzell, said, "We are in discussions at the senior executive level in Japan with JAL." He declined to comment further.
The person familiar with AMR's negotiations said that while AMR might invest in JAL, the two sides had not settled on an amount or the nature of the investment. AMR could buy a stake in JAL or invest in senior debt that could be converted to stock, the person said.
A cash infusion would help JAL, which reported a $1 billion loss in its most recent quarter.
American and JAL already have a so-called code-sharing agreement in which they sell seats on each other's flights. If they won immunity from antitrust laws, they could cooperate in setting prices and schedules. For example, instead of each operating a Chicago-to-Tokyo flight around the same time, they could stagger the flights to maximize traffic while splitting the revenue.
Delta, which declined to comment, doesn't have a Japanese partner. A Delta-JAL hookup would raise doubts about JAL's ability to remain in oneworld, an alliance of airlines that includes American and British Airways. Delta is in another alliance, called SkyTeam, which also includes Air France-KLM.
A Japanese newspaper reported Saturday that JAL has entered talks with Air France-KLM. Yomiuri, Japan's top-selling daily, said JAL hoped to expand its business in Europe with through Air France-KLM.
JAL officials said Friday that they were considering various tie-ups with a wide variety of potential partners, but nothing had been decided.
JAL is in the midst of major restructuring. The airline posted its biggest-ever quarterly loss of 99 billion yen ($1 billion) in the April-to-June period. It has forecast a net loss of 63 billion yen for the current fiscal year, which ends next March, and plans to cut the number of flights and slash costs by 53 billion yen during this fiscal year and another 100 billion yen in the next year. | <urn:uuid:2a88046d-a5b3-4eca-b31d-562f9ebb5803> | 2013-05-23T18:52:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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In the past 10 years, four California cities have embraced ranked-choice voting, the system of computerized runoff elections that boosters say streamlines and reforms local politics.
Almost as soon as the new systems were in place, critics began trying to roll ranked-choice voting back.
Opponents are ready to go back at it this week. Tomorrow officials in San Francisco are scheduled to consider measures that would modify the new high-tech voting system. The Oakland City Council was asked to consider a measure tomorrow that would have abolished rank-choice voting entirely in that city. But Mayor Jean Quan blocked it from coming before the council, said Terry Reilly, a former San Jose election official and a ranked-choice voting opponent.
In a ranked-choice election, voters get three weighted choices for each office on the ballot. If no candidate wins 50 percent of the first-choice votes, a computerized "instant runoff" is held to select the winner.
Proponents, led by San Francisco political writer
argue that the system increases voter turnout, stanches the flow of special interest money into politics and encourages high-minded, positive campaigns.
But critics, say it confuses - and thus disenfranchises - many voters, especially members of racial minorities.
Whatever happens this week, opponents said they intend to keep hammering away until ranked-choice voting is replaced with the system that has been in place for decades in most cities - conventional runoff elections held weeks or months after the initial vote.
"I just don't see any way ranked-choice voting is going to sustain itself over the near future," said Tony Santos, former mayor of San Leandro, a third California city that has adopted the system. (Berkeley is the other one.)
Santos is a former advocate of ranked-choice voting who turned against it after he was beaten in a ranked-choice election in 2010. Since then, he has campaigned around the country against the system. Voters' distaste for it grows with every election, he claims.
"Most voters don't like it and don't understand it," he said. "Most people just want to vote for one candidate - people just are not used to ranking candidates in this country."
In San Francisco, ranked-choice voting was enacted in 2002 with the backing of the city's progressives, who saw it as a check on the money power of downtown interests.
That decision has made San Francisco "a national leader in elections," Rob Ritchie, leader of Fairvote, a nonprofit that promotes ranked-choice voting, wrote earlier this year. The system has "contributed to election of the most diverse Board of Supervisors in the nation," he wrote.
Complaints about the system's complexity flared during the 2007 mayor's race, when even then-Mayor Gavin Newsom, the winner, said he didn't understand how the system worked.
In the 2011 mayor's race, which was won easily by acting Mayor Ed Lee, critics said the system didn't live up to its other promises: Turnout was the worst in decades, they noted, and there was heavy spending by independent soft money committees.
Worse, complained Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, the ranked-choice dynamic makes it more difficult for voters to scrutinize candidates. | <urn:uuid:64c3f107-43d9-4d33-a70f-ba68fcdb8e8b> | 2013-05-23T18:44:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Dangling Modifiers are words or phrases which “dangle” because they have no word in the sentence to describe:
While taking a shower, the doorbell rang.
--The doorbell was taking a shower?
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While I was taking a shower, the doorbell rang. OR
While taking a shower, I heard the doorbell ring.
A Misplaced Modifier is placed too close to some other word that it does not intend to modify:
I only speak one language.
--All you ever do is speak one language?
Revise misplaced modifiers by placing the modifier next to its headword:
I speak only one language.
Split Infinitives are misplaced modifiers which are placed between the preposition to and the verb in an infinitive--a grammatical unit consisting of the word to plus a verb (to eat, to sleep, etc.):
Dentists encourage children to regularly brush their teeth.
--The modifier regularly is splitting the infinitive to brush.
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Dentists encourage children to brush their teeth regularly.
Squinting Modifiers are misplaced modifiers that seem to modify two words:
Patty who was walking quickly reached the disco.
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What is feline diabetes?
Diabetes mellitus, the clinical name for "sugar diabetes," is a condition that affects the concentration of glucose, a type of sugar, in a cat's blood. Diabetes in cats is rarely the result of a shortage of insulin (Type I Diabetes). More commonly, diabetes results when a cat's body has trouble using the insulin it has made properly (Type II Diabetes).
Insulin affects the way a cat's body uses food. When a cat eats, food is broken down into very small components that the body can use. One component, carbohydrate, is converted into several types of sugars, including glucose. Glucose is absorbed from the intestines into the blood. Once in the bloodstream, glucose travels to cells where it can be absorbed and used as a source of energy-if insulin is present. Without enough insulin, glucose can't enter cells and builds up in the bloodstream. So a cat may act hungry all the time and eat constantly, but still lose weight because its cells can't absorb glucose.
Most cats develop Type II Diabetes, in which their cells no longer respond normally to the amounts of insulin produced by the pancreas. While many cats initially require daily insulin injections, the treatment goal is to correct the factors or conditions causing insulin resistance. If these factors, such as obesity, can be adequately controlled, many cats will experience temporary remission or permanent resolution of their diabetes. Many cats with Type II Diabetes will experience marked improvement in their insulin sensitivity when changed to a species-appropriate high protein, low carbohydrate food. However, not all cats with diabetes are suited to this type of diet. Your veterinarian will conduct a thorough evaluation and recommend the most appropriate diet and treatment for your cat's diabetes.
- Older Cats
- Neutered Male Cats
- Physical Inactivity
- Medications (Steroids and Progestins)
If you think your cat may be at risk, make an appointment today to get your cat checked for diabetes.
Diabetes is one of many conditions that can affect your cat and cause visible changes in behavior and other signs. That's why it's important your cat be thoroughly examined by a veterinarian at least once a year or more frequently, if your veterinarian advises.
- Drinks more water than usual (polydipsia)
- Urinates more frequently, produces more urine per day, or has "accidents" outside the litter box (polyuria)
- Always acts hungry (polyphagia), but maintains or loses weight
- Is less active or sleeps more (lethargic)
- Has thinning, dry, or dull hair
When evaluating your cat for diabetes, your veterinarian may ask about these signs and will check your cat's general health to rule out the possibility of other conditions or infections.
A sample of your cat's urine may be tested first for the presence of glucose, ketones, and/or a urinary tract infection. If glucose is present in your cat's urine, your veterinarian will want to determine your cat's blood glucose concentration and fructosamine concentration. If the blood glucose concentration is consistently higher than normal, your cat's pancreas may not be secreting enough insulin or your cat's body is "resistant" to the insulin being produced. Regardless of the cause for increased blood sugar, your pet is suffering from diabetes mellitus.
A diabetes diagnosis is considered definite when glucose is found at a persistently high concentration in blood and in urine.
- Diet–determining the best type of food for your cat. Cats, as carnivores, often have significant improvement in their blood sugar levels when placed on a high protein, low carbohydrate food. This is also the perfect time to address weight loss if your cat is overweight or obese
- Insulin–how to store and administer it properly
- Hypoglycemia–how to identify and treat potentially life-threatening low blood sugar
- At-home monitoring you should perform and when you should alert your veterinarian. Ask how you should monitor your cat for the possibility of diabetes remission
- Recommended veterinary rechecks
- Diabetes Mellitus in Cats
Diabetes Mellitus is a disease of the pancreas. In simple terms, it is caused by the failure of the pancreas to regulate blood sugar. Click on the link to learn more.
- Diabetes in Cats – Testing and Monitoring
There are several recommended tests to have done on your cat when Diabetes Mellitus is suspected. Cats can live happily and healthfully with diabetes if proper monitoring is performed by you at home and your cat has regularly scheduled visits with your veterinarian. For the best monitoring of a diabetic cat and the highest chance of diabetic remission, blood glucose can be checked by you at home. Ask your veterinarian if this monitoring approach might be right for you and your cat. Click on the link to learn more.
- Giving Injections to Cats
Diabetes Mellitus can be controlled in cats by administering daily insulin injections. Click on the link to learn more.
To learn more about diabetes in dogs and cats, check our Pet Health Library.
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Games to keep your puppy fit but safe
Puppies seem to have boundless energy, so at first, you might assume keeping them active and fit will be easy. However, anyone who has owned a puppy and carried her home after a long walk can tell you that as energetic as puppies are, they also tire quickly.
In addition, puppies have certain limits that some owners might not notice when their little ball of fur's energy seems literally endless. According to Animal Planet, puppies should not go on long runs or jogs until they are about a year old, since this is when their joints are mature. Too much impact exercise while the dogs' bones and joints are still developing can lead to arthritis in dogs or dog hip dysplasia.
Then again, it's critical that you give your young canine enough exercise to keep her at a healthy weight - you don't want to set her up for obesity in dogs before she's even fully grown! So, how can you strike a happy balance? Try some of these games to keep your puppy fit, healthy and having fun.
A good old fashioned walk
It sounds simple, but walking your young dog is an important time for socialization, exercise and certain puppy training lessons. The news outlet reports that puppies' walks should be relative to their age - for every month old your pup is, the walk should be 5 minutes. That means a 3-month-old puppy needs 15-minute walks. Anything longer and you'll probably be carrying her home.
Walking - and all the sights, sounds and smells involved - is already stimulating for your puppy, but you can make it even more fun. Bring some treats and lead her along curbs, or practice commands like "sit," "wait" and "stay" while out. The additional distractions add a challenge!
Hide and seek
This classic game is as fun for dogs as it is for young kids, and it is a great way to establish a strong bond with your puppy. To play, have a friend hold your pup while you run and hide. Then, say her name every few seconds until she finds you. Using the "come" command during this game is also a great way to reinforce training. Finding you is a treat in and of itself for your puppy, but if she doesn't seem to be listening to the "come" command, make sure to bring treats with you when you hide.
Most dogs love water, and it's a great place to bring your puppy for low-impact exercise that won't hurt her developing joints and cause dog hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia or other joint and bone problems as she grows up. Fetch is probably the most popular game for dogs in the water, but make sure you choose the right toys - a small, soft toy that floats is ideal. Avoid using sticks, since they can splinter and cause oral injuries.
It's also a good idea to use a puppy life jacket at first, even if your dog takes to the water naturally. Use this until she has proved to be a master swimmer. Of course, if your puppy seems to hate the water, never force her into it. | <urn:uuid:6bd84fbf-2244-4a50-ac06-a0890334585c> | 2013-05-23T18:54:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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It was the beady eyes, and the erratic behavior that first got me thinking, but I now believe there's evidence to suggest an evolutionary link between the housefly, the squirrel and the bad driver. Somewhere in the ancestry of the two mammalian species there was a mutation that introduced the gene sequence responsible for the housefly's characteristic unpredictably.
If you've cycled for any length of time you'll recognize the startling similarities between squirrels and bad drivers that go far beyond the size of their brain pans. Both have motion tracking disorders and an inability to gauge speed. It reminds me of the old adage. "Why did the squirrel cross the road? To stop in the middle"
Freeze. Accelerate. Reverse direction. Never indicate which way you're going next. It's an all too familiar pattern for those with tails and tail lights.
Then there's their respective reactions to nuts. Offer a squirrel a nut and it's likely to run right up your leg to get it. Call a bad driver a nut and they're likely to run you over just to prove the point. Both species chase each other in traffic. The squirrel is obsessed with telephone wires, the bad driver is obsessed with cellphones. Both make the same chattering sounds over them.
Granted bad drivers are able to multi task in ways the squirrel cannot. Changing clothes as they change lanes, watching a DVD while parking, reading a map while entering a highway, these are just a few examples. Squirrels also don't shave, apply makeup, or floss during the week.
Some have labeled them all pests; houseflies spread disease and squirrels have been known to carry rabies, but it's the bad driver who poses the greatest threat to cycling life on this planet. It doesn't happen very often but every once in a while you'll see a bad driver trying to swat a housefly on the move. Little does he or she appreciate the profound bond they share. As the vehicle weaves from lane to lane you'd be wise to imitate a squirrel, get off your bike and climb the nearest tree. | <urn:uuid:68a8215d-3602-4e93-b131-5ba3eb10609b> | 2013-05-23T18:53:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Latvia is a small country on the Baltic Sea with the ancient history and traditions. There are many interesting tourist sights which will attract everyone. If you want to enjoy nature - there is not only the serene Gulf of Riga and the open Baltic Sea, but also nature parks, fast rivers and lakes with the beautiful forests on the shores.
Ask a Latvian and he'll tell you there is something naturally magical about this country.
That's why his ancestors have been living here for thousands of years. The rest of Europe discovered Latvia a thousand years ago, and everyone from Viking raiders to German Crusaders made a home here. Once the destination of choice for foreign traders and invaders, today Latvia is being discovered by investors and tourists from all over the world.
Today as Latvia joins NATO and the European Union, more and more people are discovering why Latvia has always been a keystone of the Baltic. Come, not just to look, but to listen. You'll soon understand why those who come once tend to come back again and again. After all, a land that sings like this always deserves an encore. | <urn:uuid:cda7bbcd-3e01-4cd5-9b28-6a9f0ff2d730> | 2013-05-23T18:39:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Graduate Level Accounting Course Descriptions
– Fraud Examination, 3 Cr.
Study of fraud
prevention, detection, and investigation. Topics include the fraud triangle,
procedures that can be implemented to prevent fraud, types of fraud committed
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An Egyptian military court has postponed an appeal hearing for an Egyptian blogger who is on a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment on charges of insulting the country's military rulers.
Maikel Nabil Sanad was arrested in March and given a three-year jail sentence for publishing articles accusing Egyptian military leaders of human rights violations, including the use of violence against pro-democracy activists.
The military court was due to hear Sanad's appeal on Tuesday, but postponed the hearing to October 11, saying the proper documents for the case were not in order.
Media rights group Reporters Without Borders said Monday Sanad's health is "deteriorating steadily" as a result of the hunger strike he began August 23. It said the blogger is suffering serious kidney problems and anemia.
Sanad's brother, Mark, criticized the postponement of the appeal, saying Maikel may not survive another week of refusing food.
Reporters Without Borders said Egypt's leaders must show a commitment to human rights, justice and democracy by releasing Sanad. It said he was unfairly convicted because of his views and articles.
Reporters Without Borders said it wrote to Egypt's attorney general in Cairo on September 26 requesting permission to visit Sanad in prison. It said no reply has been received.
Some information for this report was provided by Reuters.
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With tensions high over whether Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, Iran on Tuesday repeated that it is open to talks on its nuclear program, and it accused the West of a double standard on the nuclear issue.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi stressed the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program as he addressed the U.N. Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
He called for nuclear disarmament worldwide - saying the gravest threat to sustainable security is the existence of thousands of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of a few countries.
Western countries and Israel fear that Iran, despite its denials, is trying to join that group of nuclear-armed nations.
Last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it has "major differences" and "major concerns" with Iran over its nuclear program and possible weapons development.
U.N. inspectors said their latest visit to Tehran, aimed at gaining greater access to key nuclear sites and scientists, ended in failure.
On Tuesday, Salehi told the U.N. conference that Iran will continue to develop nuclear power for peaceful purposes. He said other countries have two choices on how to deal with this program.
“One way is engagement, cooperation and interaction, and the other is confrontation and conflict. The Islamic Republic of Iran, confident of the peaceful nature of its nuclear program, has always insisted on the first alternative," said Salehi. "When it comes to our relevant rights and obligations, our consistent position is that Iran does not seek confrontation, nor does it want anything beyond its inalienable legitimate rights.”
Salehi said the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Iran has signed, upholds the right of member states to produce nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
He criticized the sanctions placed on Iran by nations that fear Iran's nuclear intentions are not peaceful.
“Monopolizing selfishly the scientific knowledge and the technology of peaceful nuclear energy and depriving others from it through various means including atrocious assassination of scientists is an illusion, which will certainly not lead to the preservation of their perceived supremacy,” said Salehi.
Salehi was referring to the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist last month. Iran blames the killing on Israel.
The Iranian foreign minister accused the West of double standards and discrimination in supporting Israel, which has not joined the NPT and is widely believed to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East, although it has never confirmed having a nuclear arsenal.
The U.S. ambassador to the disarmament conference, Laura Kennedy, cast doubt on Iran’s nuclear program. She said the Iranian minister’s stated commitment to nuclear disarmament stands in stark contrast to Iran’s failure to comply with its international obligations.
She said Iran has just expanded its ability to enrich uranium and noted Tehran continues to deny U.N. inspectors full access to its nuclear facilities. | <urn:uuid:f4d352c9-638c-4fc1-9598-f7d9834a3dae> | 2013-05-23T18:40:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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My guts tell me it's option 1 or 3. I just think they'd make up a better story if the whole story was made up.. You know?The three far more likely possibilities are:
1. There was a figure, or several figures, that had careers as itinerant preachers at the end of the first third of the first century, and that the gospel of Mark is a compelation of various oral traditions surrounding this individual.
2. That the entire story is a collection of fabrications and folk myths/legends, possibly again loosely based on the claims of previous Messiah cults, concocted by St. Paul and his followers.
3. A combination of the previous two.
Oh yes, awesomest passage in the Koran and Jesus is in it:
I'll post a decent response when I'm back from my trip!After the prayer, Isa (Jesus - peace be upon him) will prepare himself to do battle and shall take up a spear. An army shall return from a campaign launched before the arrival of Isa (Jesus - peeace be upon him). They shall bring glad tidings of victory over India, granted to them by the Lord Almighty. Isa (Jesus - peeace be upon him) shall set out in pursuit of Dajjal. All those who embraced the evil of Dajjal shall perish even as the breath of Isa (Jesus - peeace be upon him) touches them. The breath of Isa (Jesus - peeace be upon him) shall proceed him as far as the eye can see. Dajjal will be captured at Lydda. The Dark Messiah shall begin to melt, as lead melts in fire. The spear of Isa (Jesus - peace be upon him) shall plunge into Dajjal’s chest, ending his dreaded reign. The followers of Dajjal will be rooted out, for even the trees and rocks will speak out against them. Then all battles shall cease and the world will know an age of peace. Then truly the sheep will lie in the shadow of the wolf without fear. The rule of Jesus will be just and all shall flock to him to enter the folds of the one true religion, Islam. | <urn:uuid:263cd9b7-f224-4e7c-ace1-7dbcddbe3eee> | 2013-05-23T19:05:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Actor Andy Griffith, who played folksy Sheriff Andy Taylor in the fictional town of Mayberry, died Tuesday at the age of 86, his family said.
Griffith died at about 7 a.m. at his home on Roanoke Island, according to Dare County, North Carolina, Sheriff J.D. "Doug" Doughtie.
He passed away after an unspecified illness and "has been laid to rest on his beloved Roanoake Island," the family said in a statement.
"Andy was a person of incredibly strong Christian faith and was prepared for the day he would be called Home to his Lord," his wife, Cindi Griffith, said in the statement issued through the Andy Griffith Museum in Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Best known for his role on "The Andy Griffith Show," the University of North Carolina music graduate also starred as a murder-solving Southern attorney in the television series "Matlock" during the 1980s and 1990s. He was also known for his roles in movies and on the stage, as a producer and as a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer.
"North Carolina has lost its favorite son," Gov. Beverly Perdue said.
"Throughout his career, he represented everything that was good about North Carolina: a small town boy and UNC graduate who took a light-hearted approach to some of the attributes he grew up with and turned them into a spectacularly successful career," she said. "And regardless of where that career took him, he always came back to North Carolina and spent his final years here."
Actor and director Ron Howard, who played Griffith's son, Opie Taylor, on "The Andy Griffith Show," said he is "forever grateful" to the actor.
"His pursuit of excellence and the joy he took in creating served generations & shaped my life," Howard said on Twitter.
President Barack Obama also noted Griffith's death, saying the actor had "warmed the hearts of Americans everywhere." | <urn:uuid:35ce0792-b4d2-498a-bd19-0d47bf4c765b> | 2013-05-23T19:01:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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It's official. "Bieber Fever" has broken and given way to "Gangnam Style."
Rapper Psy on Saturday edged out the teenage pop star for the distinction of most-watched YouTube video ever, netting more than 806 million views.
Justin Bieber, who was first discovered on YouTube by a talent scout in 2008, had previously held the crown with just under 804 million views.
But the portly South Korean and his four-minute video catapulted to the front with a deluge of online viewers, while bringing his signature galloping dance to global recognition.
Clad in a tuxedo and sunglasses, the 34-year-old Psy -- whose real name is Park Jae-sang -- is featured and often flanked by scantily clad women as he dances.
Named for a pricey neighborhood in Seoul, "Gangnam Style" in October snatched the Guinness World Record for the "most liked" YouTube video ever.
"I described the district as normal and calm in the daytime and going insane in the nighttime," he told CNN. "That's what the lyrics are about."
And if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Psy's video is no slouch.
It's inspired countless parodies, with tributes ranging from the Ohio University's marching band to Filipino inmates and even a caricature from the North Korean government. | <urn:uuid:09d11c03-0f03-4799-bc4b-29b5a972bb9f> | 2013-05-23T18:59:34Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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