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Work began on the Saint Louis Municipal Bridge in 1909. Piers were built, and steel was ordered. The three main steel spans were in place by 1912. At that time, funding ran out, and three successive bonding issues failed to pass during elections. As a result, the bridge sat without the approaches being built. The only part that was finished was the 6-foot wide walkway, which hung off the downstream side of the structure (it has since been removed, but the brackets that supported the walkway are still in place and visible in one of the photos below). Several hundred people a day crossed the bridge on foot. Funding kicked in again after several years, and the roadway on the upper deck was competed. Now known as the Free Bridge, it opened to auto traffic in 1917. The city and the TRRA were still feuding, so the TRRA put a de facto boycott on the bridge. It was not until 1928 that an agreement was reached, and trains started to use the lower deck. The bridge was in full operation by 1931.
Despite being a city owned "Free Bridge", a small toll was added in 1932. The money was used for depression relief. The bridge was renamed the General Douglas MacArthur Bridge in 1942 after the famous general. The bridge was designated as the route for US-66 from 1929 to 1935, having taken over that role from the McKinley Bridge, and then giving it up to the Chain Of Rocks Bridge. It was designated City US-66 from 1936 to 1955.
By 1981, the upper deck roadway had deteriorated to the point that it had to be closed. Later, a section of the upper deck was removed for safety reasons. The roadway remains closed today, with the approaches on the Illinois side being long bypassed by the tangle of freeways and ramps in the area. In 2006, more work was being done to the roadway, perhaps the remainder is being removed.
The City of Saint Louis is not interested in running railroad bridges, so in 1989, the MacArthur and Eads bridges were swapped between the city and the TRRA. The idea was that the TRRA would run the MacArthur as a railroad bridge, while the city would rebuild and operate the dual use Eads bridge.
The photo above is looking south along Leonor K. Sullivan Blvd, which runs along the riverfront in front of the Gateway Arch. The image below is a vintage postcard featuring the bridge when it was known as the Municipal Bridge prior to 1942. Given that the upper deck is in use in this postcard, it is probably an early 1930's view. | <urn:uuid:82bf5c9f-492a-4475-b51f-c76c3543e211> | 2013-05-18T17:57:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A local United Way office realized that the organization had never received a donation from the town's most successful lawyer. The person in charge of contributions called him to persuade him to contribute.
"Our research shows that out of a yearly income of at least $500,000, you give not a penny to charity. Wouldn't you like to give back to the community in some way?"
The lawyer mulled this over for a moment and replied, "First, did your research also show that my mother is dying after a long illness, and has medical bills that are several times her annual income?"
Embarrassed, the United Way rep mumbled, "Um ... no."
The lawyer interrupts, "or that my brother, a disabled veteran, is blind and confined to a wheelchair?"
The stricken United Way rep began to stammer out an apology, but was interrupted again.
"or that my sister's husband died in a traffic accident," the lawyer's voice rising in indignation, "leaving her penniless with three children?!"
The humiliated United Way rep, completely beaten, said simply, "I had no idea..."
On a roll, the lawyer cut him off once again, "So if I don't give any money to them, why should I give any to you?" | <urn:uuid:7217d476-4222-4319-8273-65281b9f0ae5> | 2013-05-18T17:57:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Trends in Alcohol Intake in a Southern German Population from 1984-1985 to 1989-1990: Results of the MONICA Project Augsburg
Angela Döring, Bright Filipiak, Jutta Stieber, Ulrich Keil
This study was undertaken to measure trends in alcohol intake from 1984-85 to 1989-90 in a southern German population. In the surveys of the MONICA Augsburg Project conducted in 1984-85 (Survey 1) and 1989-90 (Survey 2) data on alcohol intake (in grams/day) were gathered from two independent representative samples (Survey 1: 4,016; Survey 2: 3,960) of men and women, aged 25 to 64 years. A validated recall method was applied. Self-reported mean alcohol intake was high in Survey 1 (36 g/day in men; 11 g/day in women), but decreased from Survey 1 to Survey 2 in both men and women (32 g/day in men; 9 g/day in women). The decrease is reflected also in the median and 95th percentile values of alcohol intake and in an increase of the proportion of self-reported nondrinkers from Survey 1 to Survey 2. Alcohol intake in the MONICA Augsburg population is rather high in comparison to other countries, but a trend to lower intakes was observed from 1984-85 to 1989-90. (J. Stud. Alcohol 54: 745-749, 1993) | <urn:uuid:9a5cf846-ad82-44e0-be42-396bac9d4c13> | 2013-05-18T17:37:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Saved By the Storm
Thanks to Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz Jr. won’t have to go to trial for federal tax evasion, at least not in early October as originally scheduled.
An indictment accuses Diaz and his former wife of filing misleading tax returns. The indictment says that in 1999 the couple underreported their income by more than $25,000 and in the following two years they failed to pay more than $42,000 in taxes on income they disguised as “loan repayment.”
Earlier this year, the judge was acquitted of federal bribery charges. A tribunal of seven judges, selected by the secretary of state, suspended Diaz with pay as soon as that bribery indictment became public.
Diaz was appointed to the high court by Governor Ronnie Musgrove in 2000 to fill a vacancy. The following year, Diaz was selected to an eight-year term. Before being elevated, Diaz served five years on the state Court of Appeals and six years in the state House of Representatives. | <urn:uuid:6ea332d8-aae5-4e5d-a9b7-14416780a1a2> | 2013-05-18T17:37:03Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Give Money to the Library
Your gift of money is always welcome at the Library. We have various programs to suit your giving needs. A gift to the library is a nice way to commemorate a person, a birthday or other special event.
Contact Library Director Anne Skaden for more information about donating to the library. | <urn:uuid:c22900dd-09ac-456d-ab8d-2f5bfcb868b2> | 2013-05-18T18:06:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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This is early footage of the fire at the Vancouver Apartments. It was shot by James Relyea of Ridgefield, WA and shows some of the damage caused by the fire.
Fire at Vancouver Apartments
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing party, victors of Tuesday's national elections but chastened over the rise of centrist challengers, heard the voters' populist voices loud and clear.
Netanyahu announced Wednesday three top priorities straight from the playbook of a new and surprising centrist rival, Yair Lapid, as he starts to pursue the formation of a new government.
They are: increasing equality in the burden on the public, seen as a reference to the practice, unpopular among secularists, of giving military exemptions to the ultra-Orthodox; the grinding issue of affordable housing; and changing what many see as Israel's "ineffective" system of government.
These happen to be major planks of Lapid's upstart party, Yesh Atid, which surprisingly came in second in Tuesday's elections to Netanyahu's Likud Beitenu party. And they are messages hammered home by others in the center and on the left.
In addition to security and diplomatic responsibilities, Netanyahu said, these three principles will be the focus in the formation of Israel's new government.
"We awoke this morning after the election with a clear message from the public," Netanyahu said. "We want to put together the widest possible government that will bring these changes to the nation and people of Israel."
No single party in Israel ever gets a parliamentary majority of more than 60 seats, so parties must rely on coalition-building. The question is whether Netanyahu will stay on the right or move to the center in political jockeying over government formation.
Netanyahu's statement indicates that he might try to attract centrists into a government coalition rather than form a hard-right bloc.
Their presence could mean a greater focus on addressing economic ills. It could also usher in a more amenable stance toward pursuing peace negotiations with Palestinians, a stance that would be embraced by the United States.
The Labor party, like Lapid, stressed domestic problems, while the new party Hatnua, led by former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, focused on peace talks. | <urn:uuid:f9eb597c-bd99-43b2-86e8-0b2f93e8c0c9> | 2013-05-18T18:06:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Special curling shoes and personal brooms are advanced equipment for the serious curler. All you need to get started is a good pair of rubber soled shoes to grip the ice and loose layered clothes to keep you warm to enter the world of curling.
Curling is a winter sport played on an indoor ice surface about 142 feet long and 14 feet wide called a 'sheet'. At each end of the ice surface there is a circular target area 12 feet in diameter called the "house". The object for each 4 person team is to deliver (slide) 40 lb. curling 'stones' from one end of the ice surface to the other. The team whose stone is closest to the center of the house (the tee) will score a point (or more if they have more than one stone that is closer to the tee).
Curling is a strategic game. Your team must position their stones so that they are protected from the opponent's attempts to remove them from the house, while trying to remain close to the tee to score points. As the name of the game implies as well as what makes curling so unique, the stones will curl (i.e. move in an arc) as they travel down the ice surface. This curling action allow a team to draw or hide their stone behind other stones. Each team must be able to "read" the ice to know what will happen to the stone as it is slides down the ice. The team members can help the stone slide further or reduce the curling action by "sweeping" the ice surface.
Each player delivers two stones, alternating shots with the opposing team. Once all sixteen stones are delivered an 'end' is completed and the team whose stones are closest to the center of the house scores a point for each stone. This process is repeated by delivering the stones back to the other end. There are typically 6 to 8 ends in a game lasting an 1.5 to 2 hours. The team with the most points wins the game.
How It's Made : Science Channel
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UK prosecutors: No charges in royal radio prank
Official says no evidence to support manslaughter charge
British prosecutors declined Friday to file charges against anyone involved with a prank carried out by an Australian radio show that targeted Prince William's pregnant wife and was followed by a nurse's suicide.
The decision by prosecutors came just days after it was announced that the radio show, "The Hot30 Countdown," at the center of the prank had been taken off the air for good after the network expressed deep regret for the nurse's apparent suicide after she routed through a call from the show's DJs to the royal ward.
"Having carefully reviewed the evidence currently available, we have concluded that there is no evidence to support a charge of manslaughter," Malcolm McHaffie, deputy head of special crime at the Crown Prosecution Service, said in an emailed statement.
He also said that although there is some evidence to warrant further investigation into potential communications violations, it was not in the public interest to pursue charges.
"However misguided, the telephone call was intended as a harmless prank," McHaffie said.
"The consequences in this case were very sad. We send our sincere condolences to Jacintha Saldanha's family."
In early December, the two DJs impersonated Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles and called King Edward VII's Hospital to gain information about the condition of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
The pair subsequently played the prank on air.
The nurse who transferred the call through to the ward, Saldanha, was later found dead after apparently committing suicide.
An uproar followed.
The two DJs, Mel Greig and Michael Christian, were taken off the air. And the network, Southern Cross Austereo, suspended all prank calls, pulled advertising and ordered a comprehensive review of relevant policies and process.
Greig and Christian apologized in interviews with the Australian TV shows "A Current Affair" and "Today Tonight."
A St. James's Palace spokesman said the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were saddened to learn of Saldanha's death.
Another palace spokesman told CNN at the time that "at no point did the palace complain to the hospital about the incident. On the contrary, we offered our full and heartfelt support to the nurses involved and hospital staff at all times."
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Pat Walsh is a native of Elk Grove, CA. He graduated from Elk Grove High School in 1978. Later, he attended Butte Community College and graduated from California State University, Chico where he received a degree in Communication Arts and Technology. Pat was a finalist for a 1989 Emmy Award for Video Documentary.
Pat's interest in baseball came from his father, William Walsh, who played for the Sacramento Solons during the 1950's.
Pat began his broadcasting career as a sports and news anchor for KPAY radio in Chico, CA from 1990 to 1993. He then became a news anchor and morning show producer at Talk 650 KSTE, Sacramento from 1994 - 1996. In 1996, Pat became the sports anchor at NewsTalk 1530 KFBK.
Pat's interests includes the mountains, Bluegrass music, Frank Zappa, The Andy Griffith Show, the Sacramento Kings, St. Louis Rams and LA Dodgers.
Listen to Pat's sports highlights every weekday morning and afternoon. | <urn:uuid:3e5f1e63-ef72-4998-b735-f878437aca3c> | 2013-05-18T18:06:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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San Diego, CA (Sports Network) - The San Diego Padres exercised the 2014 and 2015 contract options of manager Bud Black Monday.
"Buddy has a keen insight into team dynamics and creates a great environment for the players and coaching staff," Padres executive vice president and general manager Josh Byrnes said. "He is a gifted leader with a terrific mind for the game and a genuine interest and curiosity related to all areas of our organization."
Black has managed the Padres since 2007, leading the team to a 464-509 record and no playoff appearances over that span.
His best season came in 2010 when he earned the National League Manager of the Year Award after the club finished in second place of the NL West with a 90-72 mark.
San Diego finished last season with a 76-86 record, but went 49-37 over the final 86 games of the year, which was the fifth-best winning percentage in the NL from June 28 to the end of the regular season.
"I am honored and humbled by the faith Josh and our ownership team have shown in me, the coaching staff and our players," said Black. "I am extremely proud to be part of this organization, and I'm excited to continue working with ownership and our baseball operations team toward achieving our ultimate goal: bringing a championship to the great city and fans of San Diego." | <urn:uuid:b11b2c40-e90c-499d-b0e1-6c5d7b13504c> | 2013-05-18T17:27:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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LONDON (AP) — British rock guitarist Alvin Lee, founder of the band Ten Years After who burst to stardom with a memorable Woodstock performance, has died. He was 68.
A statement posted on Lee's official website said he died Wednesday unexpectedly from complications following a routine surgical procedure. Lee's manager, Ron Rainey, said the guitarist died in Spain.
"We have lost a wonderful, much loved father and companion," said the statement signed by his daughter Jasmin, wife Evi and former companion Suzanne. "The world has lost a truly great and gifted musician."
The Nottingham, England-born Lee founded the band Ten Years After in 1967. The group first toured the U.S. in 1967, but its popularity exploded following Lee's rousing performance of the song "I'm Going Home" at Woodstock in 1969. Lee's epic and electrifying solos on his Gibson guitar for the 11-minute performance were immortalized in the documentary film about the legendary festival.
Ten Years After released ten albums together featuring the group's mix of blues, swing jazz and rock and toured the U.S. 28 times in seven years.
Lee left the band in 1975 to embark on a successful solo career that saw him recording with the likes of George Harrison, Steve Winwood and Mick Fleetwood and experimenting with different styles of country rock, rhythm and blues.
In total, Lee released more than 20 albums over a 45-year career. His most recent, "Still On the Road to Freedom," was released in August 2012 and incorporated a range of styles from rock to blues to jazz to funk.
Rainey said he had developed a great friendship over the past 25 years with his client, who he recalled would "always end our conversations and his emails with 'Keep Rockin' Ron.'
"He was a great musician, writer, producer, performer, and a gentleman, truly one of a kind," Rainey said in an email.
Former Ten Years After bandmate Leo Lyons called Lee "the closet thing" he had to a brother, recalling "so many great experiences" shared together.
"He was an inspiration for a generation of guitar players," Lyons said in an email expressing shock and sadness over Lee's death.
AP writers Mesfin Fekadu in New York and Gregory Katz in London contributed to this report. | <urn:uuid:257d86a5-015c-4868-9611-ae786df65baa> | 2013-05-18T17:53:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"Our Capital Shall Be Jerusalem , Allah Willing" - Mohammed Morsi, currently elected President of Egypt... Khamenei said the coming has been promised by Allah. "There will come a time when all the oppressive powers of the world will be destroyed and humanity will be enlightened in the era of Imam Mahdi." Iranian police have shut down dozens of restaurants and coffee shops in a renewed crackdown on what the state sees as immoral and un-Islamic behaviour. Muslims are killing and terrorising us, but regardless of having the means to do so Jews do not obliterate them or even remove them from our land.
(a pseudonym of a former CIA operative in Iran's Revolutionary Guards)
Iran 's supreme leader, for the first time, is telling his nation that it must prepare for war and "the end of times" as it continues to develop nuclear weapons...
Shi'ite theology holds that great wars must engulf the Earth, during which one-third of the world' s population will die in the fighting and another third from hunger, lawlessness and havoc. Israel is to be destroyed, and only then, will the 12th imam, Mahdi, reappear and kill all the infidels, raising the flag of Islam in all corners of the world. Under the guidance of Khamenei, several centres have been established in Iran on research and information on the coming of Mahdi...
"Today we have a duty to prepare for the coming... If we are the soldiers of the 12th imam, then we must be ready to fight," Khamenei said... Referring to the Quran, Khamenei said the coming has been promised by Allah. "There will come a time when all the oppressive powers of the world will be destroyed and humanity will be enlightened in the era of Imam Mahdi."
...The latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency indicated Iran continues to enrich uranium at both the Natanz and Fordow facilities and now has enough nuclear material for at least five nuclear weapons. After a decade of negotiation with Iran , the West has yet to make any inroads in stopping the regime's illicit nuclear program.
While a majority of Iranians oppose the mullahs' brutal regime, Western sanctions have not curtailed its pursuit of nuclear weapons, which not only could lead to the collapse of the global economy but the killing of tens of millions of innocent civilians, including those in Iran.
Must the World Wait for Nuclear Iran?
Sir John Sawers, head of the British MI6 spy agency, said that covert operations by British spies had prevented Iran from developing nuclear weapons in 2008, but it would likely achieve this goal by 2014.
Food for Thought by Steven Shamrak
Jews are tolerant people. Christians depict image of our G-d, but we have not destroyed their churches, as Muslims do. Muslims are killing and terrorising us, but regardless of having the means to do so Jews do not obliterate them or even remove them from our land. Maybe we need to be less tolerant, and demand or impose the respect we rightfully deserve!
So-called Palestinians have Never Opened Door to Peace
After meeting Egyptian President Muhammed Morsi in Cairo on Wednesday, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas told reporters that "the doors of the political process with Israel are shut" and that the two sides were not holding bilateral talks.
(This is just few days after Morsi assured Hilary Clinton that Egypt will maintain peace with Israel. Muslims are lying to the Western world and we silently swallow this BS!)
Another Step in the Right Direction
Israeli officials have taken the highly controversial step of creating the first university in a settlement in Judea and Samaria. It is being seen as a significant victory for the settler movement.
(As usual our 'friends' in BBC are very 'supportive' of Israelexercising its sovereignty)
Iranian police have shut down dozens of restaurants and coffee shops in a renewed crackdown on what the state sees as immoral and un-Islamic behaviour. Police officers and members of the "morality police" raided 87 cafes and restaurants in a single district of the capital Tehranand arrested women for flouting the Islamic dress code. "These places were shut for not following Islamic values, providing hookah to women, and lacking proper licenses," said Tehran police official Alireza Mehrabi.
Self-centred 'Leaders' Oppose the Jewish National Dream!
More than 40 prominent American Jewish leaders and philanthropists sent a letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in which they implored him not to approve the judicial report that says Jews may settle freely in Judea and Samaria. "We fear that this report, if approved, will place the two-state solution, and the prestige of Israel as a democratic member of the international community, in peril" the letter said. The Levy Committee's report determines that Israel cannot be characterised as "an occupier" of Judea and Samaria because the territory never legally belonged to Jordan before Israel regained it in 1967.
(This 'Gullut' mentality - fear of "what would others think?" - has been the main reason for Israel still without control of all Jewish land!)
Hypocrisy of the Friends:
"The US position on settlements is clear. Obviously, we've seen the reports that an Israeli government appointed panel has recommended legalising dozens of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but we do not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity, and we oppose any effort to legalise settlement outposts." - Patrick Ventrell, US State Department spokesman
Spoken as a 'true friend'! He had deliberately avoided commenting on the legal status of the settlements. Settlements are legal! The Fourth Geneva Convention does not apply to Judea, Samaria and Gaza because " Israel does not meet the criteria of military occupation as defined under international law". There was no 'Palestinian' state at the time when Israel freed territories from Jordanian and Egyptian occupation - It has never existed!
President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor Tom Donilon secretly visited Israel. Donilon's visit reflects heightened US concern that Israel intends to attack Iran sometime during the summer or early autumn. That concern has been heightened by the recent failure of talks between western powers and Iran. The visit is viewed as attempt to convince Israel not to launch an attack anytime soon. Defence Minister Barak has estimated that up to 500 Israelis could be killed in an attack by Iran and its proxies on Israel.
(True friends do not help the enemy, by holding their friend's hands during a fight!)
Kadima Quits Collision - Good Riddance!
Kadima Party chairman Shaul Mofaz announced that the party faction voted 24-3 to pull out of the coalition because of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's failure to live up to a supposed agreement on changes in the draft law. Mofaz joined the coalition in early May, making an anti-religious agenda of "universal draft", but without penalising Arabs, its main platform.
(Self-destructive leftist idiots do not care about social justice or equality, but prefer to help Israel's enemies by attempting to destroy Israel society from within - antagonising secular and religious Jews against each other!)
Turkey Pays for Iranian Oil in Gold
Gold exports from Turkey to Iran quadrupled in April compared with the same month last year, rising to $1.2 billion, according to Azerbaijani and Russian sources. This volume remained stable up until June. Those sources say that Turkey is in effect paying for its gas and oil purchases from Iran in gold.
(The Islamic government of Turkey, a NATO member, violates international sanctions against Iran)
Idiocy of Jewish Leadership
Mick Davis, head of the United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA), UK Jewry's principal Jewish and Israel fund raising umbrella organisation, has appointed an extremist critic of Israel to act as "PR and Communications Manager" - the leading spokesman for that body.
(Apathetic Jewish leadership is not just self-serving but destructive to Jewish communities!)
Revolving Doors of 'War on Terror'
The terrorist who murdered seven and injured more than 35 on Wednesday at Burgas, Bulgaria, was Mehdi Mohammed Ghazali, who belonged to the Global Jihad. Ghazali is reportedly a Swedish citizen, with Algerian and Finnish origins, and had been held at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba from 2002 to 2004.
Quote of the Week:
"Our Capital Shall Be Jerusalem , Allah Willing" - Mohammed Morsi, currently elected President of Egypt (See Youtube)
Muslims do not care about the future of the fake Palestinian nation. Their objective is the destruction of Israel.
(I want to make it clear - I am definitely not a friend of Assad, but..)
At least 5,000 global jihadists are positioned near Syria's borders with Turkey and Lebanon attempting to infiltrate Syria to aid the opposition fighting Bashar al-Assad's regime, according to a senior Syrian government official. Turkey has been at the forefront of the opposition targeting Assad's regime, hosting the rebels and agitating for international military force to oust Assad.
Syria presented the United Nations and the USwith information indicating it was a group affiliated with al-Qaida, armed by Turkey , slaughtered more than 100 civilians in their homes in Houla in May. The information about al-Qaida among the opposition is significant. Reports have claimed the US is helping to coordinate massive weapons shipments to the opposition. The Obama administration denied the arming claims, stating the US is only sending nonlethal aid to the opposition.
(Turkey is using its NATO connection to resolve territorial dispute and political dominance in the region with Syria. Current anti-Assad propaganda is another example of how easily public opinion can be manipulated!)
Islamists Attack, but Assad is Blamed?
There are claims that the Free Syrian Army is hopelessly out-gunned, fighting with only small arms, RPGs and a handful of mortars. Even so, the rebels are making progress. A successful assault was staged on the main headquarters of government forces, a town hall of town of al-Qusayr, near the border with Lebanon. After taking control of the building, the fighters demolished it so it could not be retaken. In 17 months of brutal operations, the Syrian army has lost 8,763 dead and 21,357 wounded soldiers, 600 tanks and APCs.
(Syrian opposition rejected all diplomatic efforts and ceasefires. Since UN became involved the attacks escalated and casualties has risen. Opposition is advancing on Tripoli but international hypocrisy, with its hidden agenda, is only blaming the Assad regime for the continuation of violence).
About author: Steven Shamrak, born in the Soviet Union, lives in Melbourne Australia. He is a qualified civil engineer and software specialist, and was an active participant in the nascent Moscow Zionist movement before he arrived in Australia 25 years ago. Believing that "a sense of pride, nationhood and connection to all Jewish land" is missing from Jewish hearts, he spends his spare time Educating Jews and non-Jews about Jewish history in the Middle East.
He worked as a construction engineer at the Moscow Olympic Games project and as a computer consultant in Australia. For several years, he has been publishing an Internet editorial letter about the Arab-Israel conflict since August 2001 and has a website http://www.shamrak.com.
"It is the total annihilation of Israel and the Jews. This is what the center of the educational system in the whole Arab world is. We were taught Jerusalem is a Muslim city; Jews had nothing to do with it, and we have to liberate it... This is now coming to the West, this fear that I used to live in the Muslim world - with the fear of speaking my mind, fear of saying the truth - is now following me to America... My culture of origin is now infecting America with fear of speaking the truth." - Nonie Darwish
In southern Israel, he noted, there are 12 and 13-year-old children who have grown up with rocket fire as part of their daily reality. "It's not normal that children live this way in the state of Israel," Fogel said. On Sunday, 28 Oct, Hamas fired Grad missiles as target finders against Israel's nuclear reactor in Dimona. I'm angry that in 2012, over 600 rockets have already been fired from Gaza with no end in sight. I'm angry that the world only notices when Israel undertakes its (sovereign) right to defend its citizens. Can you imagine if even one rocket was fired on Washington, London, Paris or Moscow? No nation on earth can, or should, tolerate such attacks on its people. The Israeli government, according to former IDF Brigadier-General Tzvika Fogel, will not take real action against Gaza terrorists' rocket attacks until Jewish blood is shed.
This means that the United Kingdom had illegally ceded the Trans-Jordan to the refugees from the Saudi Arabian Peninsula. And the United Nation's partition plan of the remaining parts of Palestine in 1947 was also illegal. In addition, in spite of the fact that the partition plan was devised to sabotage the creation of the Jewish homeland (the creation of two states on six ugly triangles - a completely unworkable political map). The Arabs rejected it! Therefore, they lost any legal standing on the land. They knew it and that is one reason why seven Muslim states declared the war on Israel in 1948!
On September 28th the world was supposed to celebrate, but conveniently forgot the anniversary of the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement, widely known as the Oslo Accords. Three political stooges Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Perez received the Nobel Peace prize for signing this worthless piece of paper, which was based on fake promises made by Yasser Arafat in a letter to the Prime Minister of Israel, Rabin on 9 September, 1993. In this letter Yasser Arafat promised: "The PLO considers that the signing of the Declaration of Principles constitutes an historic event, inaugurating a new epoch of peaceful coexistence, free from violence and all other acts which endanger peace and stability.
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The Download book does not contain a section on Seder Olam
About the KingsCalendar Publisher
R.P.BenDedek is the owner and Editor of KingsCalendar.com which was originally set up to publicize his research results into the Chronology of Ancient Israel. Those results were published under the title: 'The King's Calendar: The Secret of Qumran'.
Whilst there have been many attempts to solve the chronological riddle of the Bible's synchronisms of reigns of the kings of Israel and Judah and their synchronism with other Ancient Near Eastern Nations, no other research is based on a simple mathematical formula which could, if it is incorrect, be disproved easily. To date, no one has been able to dismiss the mathematical results of this research.
Free to air Academic articles set forth Apologetics for and results of his discovery of an "artificial chronological scheme" running through the Bible, Josephus, the Damascus Documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Seder Olam Rabbah. | <urn:uuid:3ef648ff-4aab-4212-b716-1cfac5c31989> | 2013-05-18T18:06:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Due to constant changes in customer mix and product mix, most organizations do not understand the real drivers of revenue change in each of their lines of business. While many organizations attempt to measure price, unit volume, and mix shifts, few seem to do so accurately.
We have found that disaggregating revenues is critical to understanding the health and growth opportunities of a business. Consider the following chart:
There are key questions that make the search for opportunities less of a struggle and the analysis more accurate. In order to determine exactly which questions you should ask, you need to thoroughly understand whether prices and volumes are up or down.
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January 22, 1879
James Shields: Senator from Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri
Many men and women make politics a career and have been elected to Congress three or more times. None, however, have outdone Senator James Shields.
Shields was living in Illinois when he was elected to his first term in the US Senate in 1849. He later moved to the Minnesota Territory. When Minnesota was admitted to the Union in May 1858, Shields was elected one of the state's first two US Senators. After the Civil War, Shields settled in Missouri. On January 22, 1879, Shields was again elected to the US Senate.
To date, James Shields is the only person ever elected the the US Senate representing three different states. | <urn:uuid:221044ae-fdf4-44fe-a321-3b3d583fc45b> | 2013-05-18T17:21:08Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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"The art makes a bigger impression than the story, but the overall tone is appropriately dreamy, and as for that creeping nightmare: "you know it's not real." (Picture book. 5-9)"
At the behest of the Man in the Moon, shooting-star captain Sanderson Mansnoozie takes on a new responsibility—guarding Earth's children from the evil Pitch and his Dream Pirates.
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The drama that is Hollywood's awards season reaches its midpoint Sunday night with the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild honors -- the only industry awards that solely recognize performers.
Will Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" regain its best picture front-runner status lost when Ben Affleck's "Argo" won at the Golden Globes two weeks ago?
Who will take the best actor SAG trophy -- "Lincoln" star Daniel Day-Lewis or Hugh Jackman for "Les Miserables"? Both men won best-actor Golden Globes this month.
The SAG Awards, which are decided exclusively by actors, are distinguished from the Globes, which are chosen by a group of about 80 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The five film SAG awards traditionally set the stage for the Oscars, voted by about 8,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, to be handed out four weeks later.
The SAG ceremony at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles also includes eight primetime television categories, a followup to the Globes and last fall's Emmys.
The live telecast aired on TNT and TBS should offer emotional moments, especially when Carl Reiner and Alec Baldwin present television legend Dick Van Dyke with the SAG 49th Life Achievement Award.
The race for best picture
A win by "Lincoln" or "Les Miserables" in SAG's top category -- officially known as "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture" -- would create important buzz for the film in the Academy Awards best-pic battle. "Les Miserables," a big-screen adaptation of the smash Broadway musical, was given the Golden Globe for best comedy or musical movie, although "Lincoln" lost to "Argo" in the Globe's best drama film competition. If "Argo" upsets again this weekend, it could influence Oscar voters when they cast ballots next month.
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A stern Egyptian court ruling tied to a soccer riot spurred clashes that left at least 30 people dead on Saturday, the latest round of violence in the unsettled North African nation.
In addition to those killed, more than 300 were wounded when people in the northeastern city of Port Said clashed with authorities outside a prison where their kin were being held, the head of Port Said hospitals told state-run Nile TV.
They were angry because 21 of their relatives had just been sentenced to death for their role in a February 1 riot in a Port Said stadium.
That 2012 incident -- during a game between Cairo's prestigious Al-Ahly football club and the host Al-Masry team -- ended with 73 dead.
Two months later, Egypt's general prosecutor charged 75 people with "premeditated murder and attempted murder," while three Al-Masry officials and nine police officers were charged with "assisting the murderers."
According to the prosecutor's office, those in the latter group knew about the assault ahead of time, didn't confiscate weapons in advance, didn't stop them and -- in the case of an electricity engineer who was charged -- turned off the lights directly over the bleachers where the Al-Ahly fans were sitting right after the visiting team wrapped up its 3-1 victory.
Fans from both sides bashed each other with rocks and chairs, yet prosecutors claimed the Port Said supporters were also armed with knives and other weapons.
Many died after falling from bleachers inside the stadium, while others suffocated.
It was unclear whether intense sports rivalries or political strife sparked the riot, though witnesses said tensions had grown throughout the game with Al-Masry fans throwing bottles and rocks at the opposing players.
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BERKELEY, Calif. - GoldenBearReport.com is reporting that California has hired Andy Buh as their defensive coordinator.
Buh spent last season as the linebackers coach at Wisconsin. He was Nevada's defensive coordinator in 2010 and 2011.
Buh was also a two-year starter at linebacker for the Wolf Pack back in 1993 and 1994.
He began his coaching career at Cal, serving as a defensive administrative assistant in 2000 and 2001. | <urn:uuid:fc7b6348-5432-48b4-b5f3-7acfb1879af6> | 2013-05-18T17:20:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Second spy plane delivered for deployment
A second U.S.-made advanced surveillance aircraft has been delivered to Korea's Air Force, the state procurement agency said Tuesday.
The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said the Air Force will soon deploy its second E-737 by Boeing. Based on Boeing's 737-700, the airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft earned the moniker "Peace Eye" after a naming contest in 2008.
In 2006, Korea reached a $1.6 billion deal with Boeing to purchase four E-737s. The first Peace Eye arrived in South Korea in August and was delivered to the Air Force in September.
The DAPA said that under Boeing's supervision, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), a local aerospace company, built the radar and other electronic parts on the second E-737.
The E-737, equipped with a sophisticated radar system called Multi-role Electronically Scanned Array (MESA), can detect and monitor up to 1,000 airborne or surface targets simultaneously, it said. (Yonhap) | <urn:uuid:3237669f-ceac-466e-8b25-4d35994bd171> | 2013-05-18T17:48:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I bought a small (about 4" x3.5"
metal painted mermaid on a pedestal/stand. The metal is heavy, possibly painted brass, as it has a slight patina underneath the mermaid. Very detailed, attached to the stand by 2 screws. Underneath, where the nuts are holding the screws is a name with possibly2 initials.. Very hard to decipher, but it looks like M M Jonny or Jenny. The mermaid has a small plate shaped dish in her lap. The stand is painted black, and the mermaid is sitting and painted tannis brown. I'd just like to know its possible history, and where ir might have come from and the value, and if ther are any more like it! Any help would be appreciated. | <urn:uuid:dbb45578-0678-48b4-8cba-167ab67f9432> | 2013-05-18T17:57:40Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
After more than 50 years of service, the nation's oldest warship has just wrapped up its final deployment. The U.S. Navy put together a time-lapse video (complete with jazzy music) of the USS Enterprise pulling into Naval Station Mayport, Florida during her final port visit as a tribute to the Big E. Take a look above.
The Navy will hold a decommissioning ceremony for the USS Enterprise on December 1st. After the ceremony, according to the USS Enterprise website, the ship will remain at Naval Station Norfolk for about 6 months for equipment offloading. The Enterprise will then enter its four-year inactivation phase:
As part of the inactivation, hydraulic systems will be drained and expendable materials, tools, spare parts and furnishings will be removed. Additionally, tanks containing oil and other fluids will be drained and cleaned, any hazardous material will be removed, and the ship's electrical and lighting systems will be de-energized. Concurrent with inactivation, the ship will be defueled using the same proven techniques that have been used successfully to refuel and defuel over 350 Naval nuclear-powered warships.
After all of this is completed, the Navy will tow the USS Enterprise to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, where the remains of the Big E will be dismantled and recycled. | <urn:uuid:04026c6b-0561-44bf-9dc2-431de05051dd> | 2013-05-18T17:30:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Cool Things - Moon Rocks
A little piece of the moon is in Kansas in the form of these rocks brought to earth by Apollo 11.
When the Apollo 11 spacecraft left the Earth in July 1969, among the items it carried were small flags from each U.S. state, including Kansas. These flags later landed on the moon and traveled across its surface in the lunar module with the astronauts. The flags eventually returned to our planet along with numerous samples of material from the moon's surface.
NASA's purpose in carrying state flags to the moon was to return each to its home state along with a gift of lunar particles (crystalline rock, breccia, and glass) collected from the Sea of Tranquility. These mementoes of the country's first successful manned mission to the moon were mounted in a special walnut stand and presented to each governor. Kansas' flag and moon rocks were received by Governor Robert Docking from President Richard Nixon at the White House in December 1969.
The inscription printed on a plate at the base of the stand reads, "This flag of your state was carried to the moon and back by Apollo 11, and this fragment of the moon's surface was brought to Earth by the crew of that first manned lunar landing." The stand and its three particles of moon rock are on display in the main gallery of the Kansas Museum of History.
Although no Kansans accompanied Apollo 11 into space, a native was among the original astronauts chosen for the Apollo program. Ron Evans, born in St. Francis, Kansas, was a member of the capsule's support crew. A few years after the successful completion of the Apollo 11 mission, Evans served as Command Module Pilot for Apollo 17. This was the U.S.' last manned lunar landing, in 1972. Evans later donated a number of commemorative items illustrative of his career to the museum.
Entry: Cool Things - Moon Rocks
Author: Kansas Historical Society
Author information: The Kansas Historical Society is a state agency charged with actively safeguarding and sharing the state's history.
Date Created: October 2006
Date Modified: March 2013
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The King and Queen cheer on the Swedish men's team during the handball match against Denmark on Saturday. In the row behind are Queen Margrethe and Crown Prince Frederik. Photo: Rex Features/IBL
This week, The King and Queen have attended the Olympic Games in London.
They have watched events including show jumping, K2 1,000 metre canoeing and the quarter-final handball match between the Swedish and Danish men's teams, at which Sweden went through to the semi-finals. | <urn:uuid:a6227ea0-b54e-4f6f-b665-7aabdb0f57e7> | 2013-05-18T18:07:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sandusky moves for new trial
Former coach was sentenced to no less than 30 years in prison in October
Lawyers for former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who was convicted on multiple counts of child sex abuse, argued a motion for a new trial Thursday.
Judge John Cleland, who presided over Sandusky's conviction and sentencing, heard arguments Thursday at Centre County court in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but did not rule immediately. A motion for a new trial asks the trial court to re-examine issues it already ruled on in an earlier judgment.
In October, Cleland sentenced Sandusky to no less than 30 years and no more than 60 years in prison for abusing 10 boys during a 15-year period. Sandusky, 68, had faced the possibility of up to a 400-year prison term.
Sandusky's lawyers have argued that there was insufficient evidence to convict him, and that the court didn't allow them enough time to prepare for trial after the prosecution flooded them with documentation.
Defense attorney Joe Amendola testified Thursday that he had been unprepared for the trial. But he also conceded that after reviewing the documents post-trial, he didn't see anything he would have done differently in defending Sandusky.
Sandusky's legal team has also argued that certain counts against their client were too broad and should therefore have been dismissed.
Cleland could easily rule that evidence presented at the criminal trial was so overwhelming -- the victims' testimony, for instance -- that the defense's concerns would not have changed the end result, said Karl Rominger, one of Sandusky's lawyers.
The eight victims who testified, now young men, said that they were boys when Sandusky forced them to engage in sexual acts with him. The acts occurred, they said, in showers in Penn State's athletic facilities; hotel rooms; and the basement of Sandusky's home, among other places.
Testimony was often emotional and graphic. Jurors convicted Sandusky on 45 out of 48 sexual abuse counts.
This first attempt to overturn the conviction based on ineffective counsel, a common tactic, will be tough, his lawyers acknowledged before the hearing.
They said that if the court rejects it, they may launch appeals based on other arguments.
"If you win on one of the appeal issues, everything probably falls," Amendola has said. "All we have to do is convince an appellate court that one of the issues we will raise is worthy of a reversal."
Amendola and Rominger have also filed a motion to have Sandusky's sentence reconsidered.
The lawyers had attempted to withdraw from the case before the trial, telling Cleland the day before jury selection began that they did not feel adequately prepared and that it would be "unethical" for them to move forward. Cleland denied their request.
The sex abuse scandal led to the firing of head football coach Joe Paterno and the ouster of the university's longtime president, Graham Spanier. Paterno died in 2012 of lung cancer.
The NCAA slapped Penn State with fines and sanctions over the case, but Pennsylvania's governor announced a lawsuit last week against the collegiate athletic board, saying Sandusky's actions were a criminal matter and not a violation of NCAA rules. | <urn:uuid:a47ed184-3b19-488b-bb0f-c3c42e2bd616> | 2013-05-18T17:52:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Not a lot has changed in the jockey goggle business since 1947, when Israel Kroop first stitched trim around a molded sheet of plastic, added two brass vents from a mattress, and attached a strip of elastic.
Kroop's design — a made-in-Maryland variation on miners' protective eyewear — was an instant hit with jockeys at the Laurel racetrack and at Pimlico.
It didn't take long for the invention to catch on outside Maryland. Riders around the country swapped cumbersome motorcycle goggles for the wafer-thin, well-ventilated models. Today, the goggles remain a hit and will be worn by most riders Saturday at the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown.
Kroop, the son of a Latvian boot maker, created a business he could call his own — Kroop's Goggles Inc.
Meanwhile, the company Kroop's father built still makes and sells boots on C Street in Laurel.
Kroop "created what most people would think of as the jockey goggle. For years, it's been the racing industry's gold standard," said Andrew Tremblay, who bought the goggle business from the Kroop family four years ago.
Kroop goggles have been worn by skydivers and paratroopers, boat racers and bike riders. They've been seen in movies, from "Point Break" to "Con Air" (but not "Seabiscuit" — Kroop hadn't yet invented the goggles when the thoroughbred ruled racing).
Mostly, though, Kroop's goggles have been worn by jockeys, from Hall of Famer Willie Shoemaker to Mario Gutierrez, who has guided I'll Have Another to the brink of the Triple Crown.
The company, which has 75 percent of the market, advertises that nearly every winner of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes and Breeders' Cup has won wearing Kroop's invention.
The story began with Adolph Michael Kroop, who came to the United States in 1907 and opened a boot-making shop in New York. He moved to Ellicott City in 1927 and then to Laurel.
Sons Israel and Michael followed in his footsteps — until a jockey asked Israel to build a better goggle. Michael stayed with boots.
Israel Kroop set up shop on Whiskey Bottom Road on the back side of the Laurel track. After he died at age 76 in 1991, the business stayed in the family until Tremblay made his offer.
"I have absolutely no background in horse racing, but I have a background in manufacturing," Tremblay said. "I was looking for a great little company to buy and grow. I looked for five years before I found this."
Making a pair of goggles is a 15-step process, from cutting and shaping the high-grade plastic to attaching the strap and applying a final polish. Tremblay is reluctant to discuss the work in detail or show off the manufacturing area for fear a competitor could pick up tips.
Kroop's Goggles can turn out 1,000 pairs a day, and the company has almost outgrown its 3,000-square-foot space in a Savage industrial park off U.S. 1.
Three things have kept Kroop's goggles at the front of the pack, Tremblay said. First is their ability to be worn stacked like tortillas — as many as seven deep — so a jockey can peel off a dirt-covered pair to uncover a clear one without breaking stride.
At $42 for a pack of six, the goggles are "affordable and semi-disposable," Tremblay said.
And Kroop's has tradition and superstition on its side.
"All the top racers wear our brand," Tremblay said. "The new guys come in and they follow the older guys, and guys who win in our goggles are reluctant to change." | <urn:uuid:95e04171-a8b3-4656-9ab7-e3fab1cb7bbe> | 2013-05-18T17:39:15Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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COUNTY JUDGE AS PRACTICING PSYCHOLOGIST
Opinion No. 218 (1998)
FACTS: Prior to assuming the bench, a constitutional county court judge (who is also a licensed mental health professional) maintained a private clinical practice which included preparation of court-ordered social studies in adoption and child custody proceedings.
QUESTION: May a constitutional county court judge who is also a licensed mental health professional provide clinical and technical (but not legal) consultation to other licensed mental health professionals who are involved in the preparation of court ordered social studies? The consultations would only be given under the following conditions:
ANSWER: No. The purpose of a court-ordered social study is to provide evidentiary support for a determination of the best interests of a child in a custody or adoption proceeding, and it is ordered specifically prepared for use of a court in making that determination. Recognition of the contribution of the county judge in preparation of a social study would tend to lend the prestige of his judicial office to advance the private interests of others in violation of Canon 2(B).
This activity could also exploit the judge's judicial position, and by making him a potential witness in all cases in which he serves as a recognized consultant in preparation of a social study, it could involve the judge in frequent transactions with lawyers or persons likely to come before the court on which the judge serves, in violation of Canon 4(D)(1).
Canon 2(A) requires a judge to act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary, and the judge should restrict his private clinical practice to non-court related activities while serving as a county judge. | <urn:uuid:b5eb1342-a52d-4632-a5d4-a1a8f7c6adc6> | 2013-05-18T17:37:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I understand what you're trying to say, but it's different. At least in my situation it was and I know I'm not the only one. With exams in college, you're tested on the course material. No matter how big the exam, it comes down to whether you know the material or not. The LSAT and other standardized tests don't test knowledge. From my point of view (a non-native speaker with a different cultural background), standardized tests have an apparent bias. Aside from the bias, it also takes us longer to get through questions because we don't process the language as quickly as a native speaker. I'm not trying to make any excuses or anything of the sort, but I just wanted to share my experience to show that it is possible to not do well on exams such as the LSAT or the SAT and still be successful in school. | <urn:uuid:df72a2c1-c265-4dbe-a567-3904a7d9a9b1> | 2013-05-18T18:10:17Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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How safe is your password?
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- Periodically test your current password and change it to a new one. | <urn:uuid:c995d1f4-9172-43b6-b506-a61b455d2381> | 2013-05-18T17:37:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, February 27, 1833. As a consequence of the early brethren using tobacco in their meetings, the Prophet was led to ponder upon the matter; consequently, he inquired of the Lord concerning it. This revelation, known as the Word of Wisdom, was the result.
1 A a of Wisdom, for the benefit of the council of high priests, assembled in Kirtland, and the church, and also the saints in Zion—
2 To be sent greeting; not by commandment or constraint, but by revelation and the a, showing forth the order and b of God in the temporal salvation of all saints in the last days—
3 Given for a principle with a, adapted to the capacity of the b and the weakest of all c, who are or can be called saints.
4 Behold, verily, thus saith the Lord unto you: In consequence of a and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of b men in the last days, I have c you, and forewarn you, by giving unto you this word of wisdom by revelation—
5 That inasmuch as any man a b or strong drink among you, behold it is not good, neither meet in the sight of your Father, only in assembling yourselves together to offer up your sacraments before him.
6 And, behold, this should be wine, yea, a wine of the grape of the vine, of your own make.
7 And, again, a are not for the belly, but for the washing of your bodies.
8 And again, tobacco is not for the a, neither for the belly, and is not good for man, but is an herb for bruises and all sick cattle, to be used with judgment and skill.
9 And again, hot drinks are not for the body or belly.
10 And again, verily I say unto you, all wholesome a God hath ordained for the constitution, nature, and use of man—
11 Every herb in the season thereof, and every fruit in the season thereof; all these to be used with a and b.
12 Yea, a also of b and of the fowls of the air, I, the Lord, have ordained for the use of man with thanksgiving; nevertheless they are to be used c;
13 And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be a, only in times of winter, or of cold, or b.
14 All a is ordained for the use of man and of beasts, to be the staff of life, not only for man but for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and all wild animals that run or creep on the earth;
15 And a hath God made for the use of man only in times of famine and excess of hunger.
16 All grain is good for the a of man; as also the b of the vine; that which yieldeth fruit, whether in the ground or above the ground—
17 Nevertheless, wheat for man, and corn for the ox, and oats for the horse, and rye for the fowls and for swine, and for all beasts of the field, and barley for all useful animals, and for mild drinks, as also other grain.
18 And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments, a receive b in their navel and marrow to their bones;
19 And shall a b and great c of d, even hidden treasures;
20 And shall a and not be b, and shall walk and not faint.
21 And I, the Lord, give unto them a promise, that the a angel shall b by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen. | <urn:uuid:1c59d775-4126-49d5-a684-756ed32e0aaf> | 2013-05-18T17:18:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Rick Nash was born June 16, 1984 in Brampton, Ontario. The 1st choice, 1st overall selection of the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, Nash is a graduate of the OHL's London Knights where he captured OHL Rookie of the Year honours in 2000-01 and was a member of the OHL First All-Rookie Team and CHL All-Rookie Team.
A member of the OHL's Third All-Star Team in 2001-02, Nash was also a member of Canada's 2002 Silver Medal World Junior Team and member of Canada's Gold Medal Under-18 Team at the 2001 Six Nations Tournament where he led Canada in scoring (5-5-10 in five games).
In 2002-03, Nash made the jump from junior to the NHL and quickly became one of the bright young stars of the future. In 74 games with Columbus, Nash tallied 39 points (17-22-39) and was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team, and was a finalist for the Calder Trophy as the league's top freshman. Following a strong rookie season, Nash exploded offensively in 2003-04, tying for the league lead in goals (41) with Calgary's Jarome Iginla and Atlanta's Ilya Kovalchuk. Nash became a co-winner of the Maurice Richard Trophy as the league's top goal scorer and this in only his second season in the league.
After a strong NHL season in 2003-04, Nash suited up HC Davos in 2004-05 following the NHL labour dispute and subsequently helped Canada capture a silver medal at the 2005 World Championships. Nash's international experience carried over into the 2006 Winter Olympics where he skated with Team Canada.
That year Nash and Team Canada were unsuccessful in taking home the Gold Medal, however the following year Nash would lead team Canada to a World Championship. Nash was named MVP of the tournament after netting two goals in the game that lead Canada to its record 24th world title. He returned to the World Championships again in 2008, however managed to only capture a silver medal.
At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Nash was part of the Canadian team that captured gold on home soil.
The 2011-12 season was a difficult one for Nash and his Blue Jackets teammates. Though Nash reached the 30 goal mark for the 7th time in his career, the team finished the season in last place in the NHL standings.
After months of rumours and speculation, Nash was traded to the New York Rangers on July 23, 2012. In exhange, the Rangers shipped Artem Anisimov, Brandon Dubinsky, Tim Erixon and a first round draft pick to Columbus. | <urn:uuid:709ccef0-8c03-4b9f-b41c-365aaf9ec9d7> | 2013-05-18T17:18:27Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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§8-14-6. Qualifications for appointment or promotion to positions
in certain paid police departments to be ascertained by
examination; provisions exclusive as to appointments,
(a) All appointments and promotions to all positions in all paid police departments of Class I and Class II cities shall be made only according to qualifications and fitness to be ascertained by examinations, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive, as hereinafter provided.
(b) No individual, except the chief or deputy chiefs of police, if the position of deputy chief of police has been previously created by the city council of that Class I or Class II city, may be appointed, promoted, reinstated, removed, discharged, suspended or reduced in rank or pay as a paid member of a paid police department, regardless of rank or position, of any Class I or Class II city in any manner or by any means other than those prescribed in the following sections of this article: Provided, That an individual appointed chief or deputy chief of police who held a position as a member of a paid police department in that police department before the appointment as chief or deputy chief of police shall be reinstated to the officer's previous rank following his or her term as chief or deputy chief of police.
(c) The term "member of a paid police department", whenever used in the following sections of this article, means an individual employed in a paid police department who is clothed with the police power of the state in being authorized to carry deadly weapons, make arrests, enforce traffic and other municipal ordinances, issue summons for violations of traffic and other municipal ordinances, and perform other duties which are within the scope of active, general law enforcement.
(d) The term "appointing officer", as used in the following sections of this article, means the Class I or Class II city officer in whom the power of appointment of members of a paid police department is vested by charter provision or ordinance of the city.
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CT Scans FAQ
How does a CT scan work?
The CT scanner uses x-rays to produce cross sectional images of the human body.
What are the benefits of a CT scan?
- Precise staging of a disease.
- Safe, non-invasive diagnostic procedure.
- Provides detailed diagnostic information.
- Shorter time for definitive diagnosis.
- Earlier detection of disease with fewer invasive diagnostic procedures.
- Can result in less intensive surgery and/or avoidance of some surgeries.
- Identification of distant tumors.
What should I do prior to the CT scan?
- Tell your doctor and technologist if you are diabetic.
- Tell your doctor and technologist if you are allergic to IV contrast (x-ray dye).
- Tell your doctor if you are pregnant, think you might be pregnant or if you are a nursing mother.
- Wear comfortable clothing in layers.
- You may wear your hearing aid, glasses and dentures to the PET/CT center but leave valuables at home.
- Take any prescribed medications on the day of your test unless instructed differently by your doctor.
- Do not eat for at least four hours before your scan.
- Drink only clear liquids for four hours prior to your exam.
- Increase water intake starting the night before the exam.
- Depending on the type of exam you are having, you may be asked to drink diluted barium before your exam.
Can I eat or drink before my scan?
Typically, you will be asked to not eat or drink anything except water for at least four hours before your scan.
How long will the scan last?
You can expect to be in the CT area for approximately an hour. The actual scan takes about 15 minutes.
How do I prepare for the scan?
Different tests require different preparations. You may be asked to drink an oral contrast agent which may be diluted barium or diluted IV contrast. The oral contrast must be ingested approximately 90 minutes (1-1/2 hours) prior to the time you are scanned. The oral contrast allows the Radiologist to distinguish your normal intestines from abnormalities in the abdomen and pelvis.
Will the exam require an injection?
Other tests may require you to only drink clear liquids 4 hours prior to your exam or have some lab work done. Some exams require the injection of IV contrast material administered by a technician through an IV.
This allows the Radiologist to see your organs and soft tissue with more clarity. This contrast material may cause a warm sensation in your body; it will only last momentarily and will not cause any pain.
What do I need to tell my doctor or technologist?
If you have a history of prior allergic reaction, please let the doctor or technologist know.
What will the test be like?
The CT machine looks like a large square doughnut and only covers the area that is being examined. Once the technologist positions you on the table the scan will begin. During the exam you will be in the room alone; however, your technologist will be able to see and hear you throughout the whole procedure. Each CT room has pictorial “skylights” above the scanner to help you stay relaxed and comfortable.
How will I feel after the test?
You will be able to return to normal activities after your scan.
How will my physician get the results?
After your scan is completed, a Radiologist will study the exam by looking at the images on a computer using the Picture Archiving & Communication System (PACS). The Radiologist will issue a report and a copy of that report will be sent to your physician. Your physician’s office will then contact you with the results. Films of the exam can also be produced and sent to your physician. | <urn:uuid:5b7190b2-1ee6-47df-8ef7-f3621a888af0> | 2013-05-18T17:17:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Karlsplatz is a central meeting spot and just one of the reasons that the Hotel Königshof is envied for its location.
Munich's Karlsplatz is the city's largest square and always buzzing with locals and visitors. During the summer, kids run into the large central fountain; during the winter, an ice-skating rink delights. The fact that the square is such a central meeting spot is just one of the reasons that the Hotel Königshof is envied for its location on it (the square's proximity to the train station and main shopping thoroughfare are two more). The property is a favorite for special events, particularly at night when the private salons offer stunning views of the illuminated Frauenkirche cathedral. The restaurant itself attracts residents and guests alike for Michelin-starred cuisine based on local ingredients.
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Cystitis is an infection of the bladder. The bladder is the part of the urinary tract that collects the urine from the kidneys.
The Urinary Tract
Copyright © Nucleus Medical Media, Inc.
The urinary tract normally contains no microorganisms. However, sometimes bacteria or yeast from the lower gastrointestinal tract or rectal area enter the urinary tract. This usually happens through the urethra (tube that allows urine to pass out from the bladder). When bacteria or yeast cling to the urethra, they can multiply and infect the urethra. They can then travel up and infect the bladder.
Most cases of cystitis are caused by bacteria from the rectal area. In women, the rectum and urethra are fairly close to each other. This makes it relatively easy for bacteria to make their way into the urethra. Some women develop cystitis after a period of frequent sexual intercourse. This happens because bacteria enter the urethra during sex and cause infection.
A risk factor is something that increases your chance of getting a disease or condition.
Risk factors include:
Symptoms of cystitis vary from person-to-person and can range from mild to severe. They include:
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. A sample of your urine will be tested for blood, pus, and bacteria. If bacteria are present in the urine, you will likely be diagnosed with cystitis.
Children and men who develop cystitis may require additional testing. The doctor will use a cystoscope to check for structural differences in the urinary system that increase the likelihood of infection.
Bacterial cystitis is treated with antibiotic drugs. Antibiotics (usually trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, nitrofurantoin, or fluoroquinolones) will be prescribed for at least 2-3 days and perhaps for as long as several weeks. The length of the treatment depends on the severity of the infection and your personal history. You will probably start to feel better after a day or two. However, it is important that you complete the entire course of medication. Otherwise, the infection is likely to return. You may have your urine checked after you finish taking the antibiotic. This is to make sure that the infection is gone.
If you experience more infections, your doctor may prescribe stronger antibiotics or have you take them for a longer period of time. He or she may also recommend that you take low-dose antibiotics as a preventive measure, either daily or after sexual intercourse. If you still experience recurrent infections, you may be referred to a specialist.
(Pyridium) is a medicine that decreases pain and bladder spasms. Taking phenazopyridine will turn your urine and sometimes your sweat an orange color. This medication is generally available without a prescription. It can usually relieve symptoms effectively while waiting for medical treatment to work.
Here are some steps you can take to keep bacteria out of your urinary tract:
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Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome.
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Clin Infect Dis.
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Commerce is the exchange of goods, services, currency, or any other service or product that holds economic value. Commerce can take place between to companies in the same town or city, or on a wide-scale between different cites, provinces, or countries. States, cities, and towns usually have a voluntary group of people who select projects and business services that will improve the economic in a specific location. The These groups are referred to as a "Chamber of Commerce." Chambers of commerce may also work with corporations and groups in order to stimulate commercial growth. For example, they may work with tourism departments in order to draw visitors to their location in order to bring more income to their location. Chambers of commerce from different locations may also work together in different states, regions, or nations to improve international commerce. | <urn:uuid:ab09a728-2c07-496f-8f9e-d7461609ea7d> | 2013-05-18T17:39:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Notes on the Viacom Ruling
Jul 18, 2008, 02:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Jonathan Corbet)
"The data involved includes, for each video viewed, the time,
which video was involved, which YouTube user account was used, and
the IP address the request came from. Viacom claimed that the
privacy of YouTube users is not threatened by this release of data,
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Washing the windows myths. Program installation.
Jul 27, 2010, 18:33 (3 Talkback[s])
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[ Thanks to Locutus
for this link. ]
"I would have thought that this issue had been dead and
buried however, unfortunately there are still those out there who
believe that installing software is easier under windows than under
Linux. Let me tell you right now, it is not! It is far more
involved installing programs under windows than it is installing
the equivalent programs under Linux.
"Lets start from the beginning. Although I don't like to assume
because it makes an ass out of u and me I will have to in this
exercise to illustrate my point. Person A whom we shall call Arthur
buys a computer with windows installed. This windows computer, as
delivered from the shop does not do much. So Arthur decides to
install some programs to make his computer more usable as he is
writing a book about his travels. We will get back to Arthur
"At the other end of the scale there is person Z, Lets call him
Zaphod. Zaphod, according to his own description is a smart, witty
and cool guy. Not wanting to be run of the mill, Zaphod buys a
computer with Linux installed. On unpacking the box Zaphod finds
that he has all that he needs to run his business of such
complexity that Zaphod wishes he had two heads." | <urn:uuid:f77f4ed4-06d8-48f6-8fa1-a06676e5462e> | 2013-05-18T17:28:14Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Greening helped guide England to the Silver Medal at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and to second place in the HSBC World Sevens Sevens after previously captaining his country on the same circuit.
He takes over from Graham Shiel, who moves to a skills coaching role, and becomes the third high-profile Englishman to currently be involved with senior Scottish sides after joining Andy Robinson and Neil Back north of the border.
"This is a really exciting time to be joining Scottish Rugby and their developments in Sevens rugby. I can't wait to get started and back onto the circuit," said Greening, who was in line for a spot on the Lions' Test bench 11 years ago before injury robbed him of that opportunity.
"I want to cement the Scotland 7s team as one of the core competitors in the abbreviated game and help produce some exciting new Scottish rugby talents ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2016 Olympics."
After leaving his Sevens role with England five years ago, Greening spent three years with London Welsh in the RFU Championship before departing Old Deer Park in 2011.
The 36-year-old was linked with the head coach job at Nottingham earlier this year but will now turn his attentions to improving Scottish Sevens as Glasgow gears up to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Greening has signed a three-year deal with the SRU and the Murrayfield hierarchy are confident they will see big improvements in the coming seasons.
"We're delighted to welcome Phil into this new role. He brings with him a wealth of international coaching and playing experience," said Scottish Rugby's director of performance rugby Graham Lowe.
"His passion and understanding of Sevens is clear and he has taken every opportunity to remain at the forefront of developments in the game after his time with England Sevens.
"He will be a key part of helping us reach our goals at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, and before that at next year's Rugby World Cup in Moscow. He will also drive our players to stake a claim for inclusion in the Great Britain Sevens team in the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics". | <urn:uuid:0ee9cc44-246a-4696-aa53-792e9a5cca08> | 2013-05-18T17:27:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Raw video:Baghdad,Iraq:BAGHDAD - Iraqi police publicly questioned a teenage girl after she was allegedly caught wearing an explosives belt, parading her in front of reporters and pressing her to confess she was planning a suicide bombing.
Police distributed videos of the arrest and public interrogation to the media on Monday, a day after they were made. The girl gave her first name as Rania and said she was born in 1993.
She appeared confused in the questioning, giving conflicting answers about whether she knew two women who put the vest packed with 15 kilograms of explosives on her.
The arrest heightened concern about a rise in suicide bombings by women
The number of female bombers has more than tripled from eight in 2007 to 29 this year, according to U.S. military officials.
In the video of the arrest, a policeman standing next to the teenager could be heard saying that when she was picked up, she was initially unable to talk because she had been given drugs.
She denied under questioning that she planned to carry out an attack, saying she had been instructed to remove the vest when she got home.
The arrest video begins with the girl standing on a street in the city of Baqouba, capital of the volatile province of Diyala and a stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq. She is shown with her arms behind her back, cuffed to a metal structure with police surrounding her.
At some point, a policeman partially removes her brightly coloured, flowered robe and subsequent frames show her with her arms bare and chest partially exposed, wearing a white vest. Another picture shows a two-sided vest with pockets in both front and back filled with explosives.
The girl is then shown standing in a room, wrapped in a black cloak, her dark brown hair dyed a lighter shade and surrounded by several police officers.
During the public interrogation, reporters from local and foreign media stood behind cameras but did not ask the suspect any questions.
In the interrogation, she gives conflicting answers about whether she knew the women who gave her the vest.
"I swear to Allah that I do not know them. They were strangers," she is heard saying initially. But later she says "one of the women's names was maybe Fadhila and the other was called Widad."
When pressed about whether she knew the woman she then replied: "Yes."
Police asked if she intended to blow herself up.
"No, no, they put it on me and told me to take it off at home," she said. "They did not tell me to blow myself up."
A policeman then asks: "If so, why didn't you disconnect" the detonator?
The girl says: "I did not disconnect it (because) maybe it fell off me."
The circumstances of the girl's arrest remained unclear. U.S. officials said she had turned herself in, while local police said she was caught after arousing suspicion.
Her exchange with police offered a rare glimpse at a teenager allegedly recruited by insurgents.
An Iraqi police officer said the girl came from a family of "al-Qaida in Iraq" supporters in Baqouba and that her father had carried out a suicide bombing. The officer said a relative is suspected of having recruited her.
He said the girl led them back to the area of Baqouba where she was given the explosives, and that they found a second bomb belt there. But that the apartment was empty.
He said the girl's mother and sister have been arrested.
Some female bombers may have been motivated by revenge. U.S. commanders believe al-Qaida in Iraq is increasingly seeking to recruit women who are unable to deal with the grief of losing husbands, children and others to the violence.
Many Iraqi women wear long robes, ideal for covering bulky suicide vests, and Iraqi policemen hesitate to pat them down at checkpoints because of cultural taboos.
The military said that in Diyala, some 200 female volunteers recruited by the U.S.-backed group Daughters of Iraq are helping search women at checkpoints. Diyala has been one of the most violent areas in Iraq, even as the rest of the country witnessed a significant drop in insurgent attacks.
In: Iraq, Middle East
Tags: Iraqi, police, show, video, of, teenage, girl, in, suicide, vest
Location: Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq (load item map)
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The La Liga Primera Division is rated one of the best leagues in European football and you can watch a wide range of live streaming matches online.
The Primera Division, also known as the Liga BBVA, is the top-flight domestic football league in Spain and you can watch live streaming matches online at Bwin
The league has been in existence since the 1928/29 season where FC Barcelona were crowned the first league champions. Since then, the Catalan team has brought home the silverware a massive 20 times.
An impressive number, one that has only been beaten by record-breakers and 31-time champions Real Madrid. In addition to the top two teams, other classic Spanish clubs include Atletico Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, FC Valencia, Real Sociedad and FC Sevilla.
If you want to experience the Primera Division live, tune in each week to see fast, attractive football the way the game was intended to be played.
Simply switch on your PC, log in to your account and start the internet TV service. The best way to enjoy live videos is in combination with live bets.
You can watch the action unfold and place your bets when the "White Ballet" glide to victory or when Barcelona set the hearts of Catalan fans alight.
Live streaming coverage of La Liga is not available to customers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Argentina, France, Italy, Mexico and Scandinavia. | <urn:uuid:cbf31c1f-24d7-451d-b5a1-fe635fb4d15d> | 2013-05-18T17:58:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Situated in the Aragon region of Spain amongst beautiful scenery, discover the charms of this bustling town on your holiday to Zaragoza.
Perfect Holidays in Zaragoza
Zaragoza, also called Saragossa in English, is the capital of the Zaragoza Province. It is situated on the Ebro River in a valley which boasts a variety of beautiful landscapes, including thick forest, meadows and mountains.
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Originally Posted by Inyri
Bastila has a very compelling character. On the surface she seems haughty and shallow (which in and of itself is unusual for a Jedi), but she obviously has some inner demons regarding the Force and the Jedi Code, and her game-long battle with it makes for a very interesting character.
Your words are mine. Although I found her darkside personality a little too forced. | <urn:uuid:ffc465bb-0df4-476a-a89f-404f3e882197> | 2013-05-18T17:38:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Since your opinion thread got closed, I'll go ahead and express my opinion on the -series- in this thread:
The series is hit or miss, and I mean that in both love and hate. I cannot say that is overall sucks, but it definitely hits some highs and lows.
The highs of the series focus primarily on episodes that focus entirely on the clones. This is what the series should of always been about. The clones are interesting, and have some of the better dialogue out of LucasArts in awhile. They can be funny, the tactics aren't bad, and watching them doesn't make me lose complete hope.
On the other hand, you have Asoka.
Why does she exist?
It makes no sense at all for her to be there. She is young, brash, untrained, and worst of all she is Anakin's padawan. PADAWAN?! This is the boy who the Council disagreed on training, whom proved in the Clone Wars to be irresponsible, brash, and untrained as well as severely immature. Why the heck would the council hand this boy a padawan learner in the middle of a war?
This doesn't even begin to hit the fact that Anakin is barely a Knight, and learner are often only handed to highly trained Knights or Masters. Sure, Obi-wan had one handed to him but he did so upon continued request to the council. Anakin got his Knight status so that it would give him power in war, but this is he same boy whom the Council originally did not ever intend to train.
Anakin's plot hole aside, why does Asoka exist? She continuously manages to disobey Anakin and Obi-wan, shows incredible immaturely, and gets out of every episode by the skin of her teeth. At the end of episodes it is showed that Anakin tries to teach her a lesson. This is obviously to make Anakin look better by comparison, but if this was the case he wouldn't be needing to punish her in the first place. There is a particular episode when Asoka meet another Padawan whom is actually well trained and respectful, and she cringes at the sight of her. Why? Didn't they train in the same place?
This also puts the Council in question for putting an under trained 12 year old on the front lines of war. It was already shown in Kotor and even the 6 movie EU that the Council would rather revoke a child's training than send someone under trained into War, or under a learner but... well, another point for the prequel Council being the absolute worst to date.
Asoka should have been Anakins age, well trained yet still fun, and should have been there to sort of take over for Obi-wan as a compass for Anakin. She could have been a fold for Anakin, and taught him much that Obi-wan just didn't have the heart to. This would fix the hole of Anakin being far more mature in Clone Wars than he ever has been in any other media.
Overall the series didn't need to exist considering we already had the animated cartoon a few years back that, honestly, treated the characters with more respect than this has done. Overall its rubbish.
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Was it activated before?
If you still can't download the file, there are two things that you can try:
1) Click Start and type "slui.exe 3" (sans quotes) in the search box and click the link that appears in the window. Type your product key in the window that appears and click Next. When it asks if you want to activate, click OK.
2) Click Start and type "slui.exe 4" (sans quotes) in the search box and click the link that appears in the window. Navigate to the nearest activation center, have your product key handy, call the number and tell them what's going on.
"Mind your wants, 'cause someone wants your mind."
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Alain, thatīs not bad for even a few pro photographers who donīt speak of themselves as artists; perhaps the ones on a good wave donīt remember (or choose to forget) how it was and can very rapidly revert to being. If you want security try something else.
I agree. I have been there . . . and I remember. It's important to remember where you started and what path you followed. | <urn:uuid:03bd3fd9-a3bc-46b3-aac5-411f34a05509> | 2013-05-18T17:29:25Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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No matter what your intentions were or what they are going to be, there are four things you should never do the morning after sex. If you are looking to proceed in your relationship with the woman, the morning after should be viewed as a bridge between a night of passion and any future communication. If you were just looking for a one-night stand and didn't make that clear ahead of time, you should proceed lightly through the delicate situation. Either way, your reputation as a classy individual is on the line.
Never rush out as soon as you wake up. You had that chance when the sex was over the night before, and now, a little responsibility goes a long way. Remember, even if you don't plan on seeing her again, you're bound to run into each other down the line, whether it's at the supermarket or on a date with a new woman. An ugly scene is never pretty or fun.
Never make yourself too much at home at her place. Just because she let you stay doesn't mean that you have a license to finish off her box of cereal. Keep your morning routine to yourself for the time being and let her lead the way. Especially if the two of you were drinking the night before, you don't want her first solid image of you to be with your face stuffed with food.
Never ignore your hygiene. Whether you're preparing for some morning sex or are cuddled up together, it's time to be proactive. That doesn't mean you should carry around a toothbrush like you expected to have sex. It means that you should roll over and make the most of a mint or some breath spray while she's off in the bathroom freshening up.
Never leave without commenting on your future intentions. If those intentions are good, show affection when you say goodbye, with a kiss and a hug, and go your separate ways. If the future doesn't look good, treat her like an adult. She was willing to have sex with you, so the least you can do is observe a cold stare or some harsh words instead of leaving her hanging with only regrets. On the other hand, don't over-explain what she did wrong. | <urn:uuid:9d391767-a359-4d17-b0c5-2e03fbf967f3> | 2013-05-18T18:08:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Here is what happened tonight, according to a Council member:
"Basically, after the hearing, the Jud Board began deliberations and took a straw poll of the four voting reps. 3 found in favor of Ruby/ the defense, and 1 was undecided. After about three hours of deliberation, they found something else to look to--the issue of whether there should have been an abstention option on the referendum ballot (there wasn't, but the issue of abstention came up during the hearing and ultimately decided this case). The Jud Board ruled against the VSA, declaring the referendum null based on this omission.
VSA Exec feels that the issue of abstention had not come up during the hearing, and that since no evidence or argumentation had been presented, the grounds for the decision were unfair and unrelated to the question at hand. Exec has filed an appeal on these grounds, and a hearing is scheduled for tomorrow (time unknown). Filing for Spring elections will be postponed for another 24 hours and will begin Wednesday morning." | <urn:uuid:f52515f6-07b9-4e10-b7dd-57e7615ca14d> | 2013-05-18T18:06:12Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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11 ounces (dry weight; half of a 22-ounce package) angel hair pasta
About 1/4 cup sesame oil
About 1/4 cup clarified butter
2 to 3 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
Soy sauce, as needed
Cook the pasta in 2 quarts of boiling, salted water until tender but firm (4 to 5 minutes). Drain pasta then rinse well with cold water until cool. You'll have about 6 cups cooked pasta. Keep pasta in colander and air dry until all water has drained and noodles feel slightly sticky (about 10 minutes). Divide pasta into 6 mounds on a cookie sheet, pressing slightly flat; set aside. This step can be done several hours ahead of time; cover pasta with plastic.
Heat 2 tablespoons of the sesame oil and 2 tablespoons of the clarified butter in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until very hot. Place 2 pasta mounds into hot pan and cook until golden on bottoms. Turn noodles pancake-style and sprinkle with some of the toasted sesame seeds and a small amount of soy sauce. Cook until second side is golden and crisp; remove pancakes from pan. Continue to cook remaining batches of noodles, adding clarified butter and sesame oil as needed. As noodle pancakes are done, keep warm on a cookie sheet in 250-degree oven.
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The Monarchical Exception
While republican dictators fell, Arab monarchies remain stable
If there is one thing that can be said for certain about the Arab Spring, it is that monarchies have fared a lot better than republics. Opinions differ over why that is. Cultural legitimacy and institutional statecraft do make monarchies more stable than republican dictatorships. More cynical observers have cited oil security and geopolitical stability as more tangible explanations for why uprisings have not erupted in Riyadh or Rabat.
Amid this debate, there is a less perceptible factor that has been largely overlooked, and it has much to do with the way states manage popular expectations. What regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Syria all had in common was that they emerged at a time of high optimism, when Arab nationalist republicanism was at the forefront of progressive politics.
At the time, Arabs believed that self-determination could only be realised by sweeping away regressive internal forces through top-down revolution and by keeping out malign foreign interference. Those were the heady days of Nasserism.
The Nasserite republic in Egypt offered countries in the region a model to be emulated. In return for surrendering certain freedoms, including the freedom to elect one’s government, a military elite guaranteed the people stability and security, as well as universal education and healthcare, cheap food and jobs for all. What was also promised was dignity. The Nasserite-type republic swore to restore Arab pride by nothing less than victory on the battlefield.
Stretching the laws of sociology and economics to breaking point, the Nasserite-type republics promised so much but delivered little. As decades dragged on, people became disillusioned with what they saw as a case of diminishing returns.
The death knell for the Nasserite-type republic came on 9th April 2003 when US forces invaded Iraq and, in swift and humiliating fashion, unseated Saddam Hussein, the ruler who more than any other took the Nasserite model to its most brutal and absurd conclusions.
But by then, similar regimes had already begun reverting to a system of government reminiscent of the ancien regimes that they had overthrown in the 1950s and 60s. Whether it be hereditary leadership or adoption of free-market capitalism, the republics began to take on the political and economic characteristics of Arab monarchies. In seeking to emulate the monarchies, however, the republics failed to adjust their people’s level of expectation.
The monarchies did not promise their people a welfare state nor to liberate Palestine nor to confront the West. The monarchies cultivated positive relations with the West, which secured foreign investment but also contributed to a partial settlement of the Palestine issue through negotiations. Even in those monarchies that didn’t have oil, standards of living were generally higher than republics with similar economies.
In many ways, the kings and emirs were more honest with their peoples inasmuch as they didn’t attempt to sell them a pipe-dream; their policies suited the social, economic and geo-political circumstances of the countries they ruled, and not much more. The cautious and conservative policies adopted by the monarchies, based on gradual and organic change, would appear to be better suited to the conditions of societies newly emergent into modernity.
The republics on the other hand maintained the rhetoric of the all-powerful, progressive state, and with it the apparatus of state repression, but they were neither able to deliver on the economic pledges that were part-and-parcel of the grand bargain, nor the military victories promised.
The republics became accustomed to raising people’s levels of expectation, and by way of their construction, could not afford to lower those expectations lest people demanded political rights. They were, in essence, trapped by a rigid and deceitful rhetoric that was wearing thin.
According to this interpretation, the monarchies did not really survive the Arab Spring since they were never in real danger of falling in the first place. Their peoples’ expectations were never that high to begin with, and so they were not judged according to a particularly harsh criterion.
When seeking to explain why republican regimes fell and monarchies didn’t, the notion that uprisings swept across the Arab World is unhelpful. The facts are that uprisings only swept across Nasserite-type republics, and it is in the failures of these types of regimes that the roots of the Arab Spring lie. | <urn:uuid:be5f4875-55cb-4a1d-a7e0-6599c771f42a> | 2013-05-18T17:28:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Maranui's Aspiration and Values
- Provide education and prevent drowning and injury on Wellington beaches.
- Develop surf skills and confidence in a fun family oriented environment for all our club members.
- Provide an environment and resources for competitive athletes to achieve their goals and experience all the world of surf lifesaving and surf sports has to offer.
Key Behaviour qualities of Maranui Club members, coaches and parents.
Treat others as you would like to be treated;
Everyone's contribution and ideas are valuable;
Communicate openly, honestly and with respect;
Positive feedback motivates others;
Punctuality and meeting commitments shows respect to others;
Respect the facilities and equipment provided; and
Respect and grow the club's positive image in the community.
A little History of Maranui
Since 1911 the Maranui Life Saving Club has been actively training surf lifeguards and providing voluntary patrols at Oriental Bay and other Wellington City Beaches.
The word "Maranui" means "long sands" and was used by Maori to describe an abundance of sand and sea. At the turn of the 20th century, the entire sandy isthmus between Evans Bay and Lyall Bay was known as Maranui, a name that is still used on maps to denote the hilly area west of Lyall Bay.
In 2009, the Maranui SLSC was gutted by fire and faced permanent closure, but with community support the club rose from the ashes to rebuild the much-loved heritage building that remains an iconic structure on the sweep of Lyall Bay. | <urn:uuid:1b3b5d23-f75d-4678-a9b5-fdca02682286> | 2013-05-18T17:27:13Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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One or two high readings does not a trend make. BP can fluctuate quite a bit depending on water retention, consumption of caffeine or alcohol, stress, readings taken too close to workout, etc. Trend it out longer. I'd only worry if your BP was spiking dangerously high, which it is not. If you're mostly following PB, your BP should settle back down just fine. | <urn:uuid:84e5a895-d138-4e99-abef-57d1506d8929> | 2013-05-18T17:57:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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January 8, 2013
Dear Aunt Brie,
Every year, I am sure, thinking of Christmas gifts for me is hard. I do not intentionally
make it hard for everyone but I know it is dif?cult, especially when I appear so
unappreciative. The truth is, I am very grateful for every present I have ever received
but sadly my actions speak just the opposite. So this year I get the chance to express
my gratitude, thanks to an English assignment.
I've never been really sure about how you think of me as a writer. I just always strive to
be as good as you or Grunda. I hope I can accomplish that some day. However, you
must have felt drawn to my article about the building to go to such lengths on my
present. I can't tell you what the painting of the Black Diamond building means to me
and especially that you thought I was worthy of such a present. Yes, I am honored to
have a painting from such a historical memory, but what is more important to me, is you
wanted me to have it! The time and energy, not to mention expense, you incurred on
my behalf is greatly appreciated and will forever be remembered!
Your favorite nephew, | <urn:uuid:0e0f4bae-0524-4ca4-9bec-b8b6ae9a49e0> | 2013-05-18T17:37:16Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The mission of the Meyersdale Area School District, in partnership with parents and community, is to provide our students a high quality education enabling them to communicate effectively and function as responsible and productive citizens in a changing world.
GOAL 1: Student Achievement
The Meyersdale Area School District will improve students’ knowledge, skills and abilities in all subject areas as measured by an increase in PSSA scores to meet or exceed the advancing state expected performance levels. The district will make continuous improvement in the area of student achievement during the implementation of this strategic plan. Student achievement will be measured by performance on the PSSA and other variables necessary to meet adequate yearly progress (AYP).
GOAL 2: 21st Century Education
The Meyersdale Area School District will provide a 21st Century learning opportunity so that each student will graduate with the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in and contribute to our changing society. The district will continue to provide and enhance a sequential curriculum, program options, learning experiences, equipment and support services necessary to ensure success for each student. During the implementation of this strategic plan, the district will make continuous improvement in the area of providing a 21st century education. Progress will be measured through student advancement in the K-12 curriculum and the tracking of graduates in attaining post-secondary success.
GOAL 3: Professional Development
The Meyersdale Area School District will enhance student achievement by providing relevant and appropriate professional development to all instructional staff. The school will provide necessary resources, training and opportunities to staff to develop an environment of continuous district, school and individual improvement. Ongoing professional development will be provided that is strategically designed to make continuous improvement in student achievement according to the goals of the district. Due to the comprehensive nature of professional development, progress will be measured through the success of the district’s goals.
GOAL 4: Community Environment
The Meyersdale Area School District will provide a safe, secure, nurturing and healthy environment to the students of the school. The school will remain a community facility that will develop and foster a shared sense of responsibility and mutual respect among students, parents, staff, and community. During the implementation of this strategic plan, the district will make continuous improvement in the area of providing a community environment. Progress will be measured through data collection on factors that contribute to a successful community environment such as safe school data, counselor and Student Assistance Team reports and community surveys.
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did you manage to find a good solution to replace or revive the steereing wheel?
I am also facing with this problem... but my steering wheel is still in one peice now.
Noone has come forward with a brown steering wheel. I am considering covering it in leather. It should be possible to make a decent looking, and feeling, cover in a soft leather. Might try to get help from an upholsterer I know | <urn:uuid:161ebac6-b5e0-4e93-9926-733ae109ed5d> | 2013-05-18T17:57:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld California's relatively flexible approach to handling inmates' appeals.
In a case that arose out of a 1986 Sacramento murder, the court unanimously accepted California's unusual standard for deciding when inmates have waited too long to challenge their convictions. Unlike most states, California doesn't set a specific deadline.
"Discretion enables a court to home in on case-specific considerations and to avoid the harsh results that sometimes attend consistent application of an unyielding rule," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the court.
By contrast, Idaho and 12 other states set strict one-year habeas corpus deadlines once convictions are final. Florida and three other states set two-year deadlines. Texas and 15 other states set fixed deadlines of various lengths. Sixteen other states have no deadlines.
The 13-page decision rejecting the appeal of convicted killer Charles W. Martin united the court's liberal and conservative wings, perhaps for different reasons.
All agreed that California is reasonable in requiring only that inmates file habeas corpus petitions "as promptly as the circumstances allow." Liberals, such as Ginsburg, could emphasize the advantages of discretion. Conservatives could avoid unsettling the way California's Supreme Court handles hundreds of inmate petitions annually.
The decision in Walker v. Martin also gave the conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court another opportunity to overturn a decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Martin filed his habeas corpus petition nearly five years after his conviction for the murder of Charles Stapleton became final.
Stapleton had been stabbed eight times in the neck, back and throat. Children playing along the Sacramento River discovered his body, stuffed into a plywood box, on Dec. 7, 1986. Eight years later, Martin was captured in Florida.
Convicted of first-degree murder and robbery, he was sentenced to life without possibility of parole.
In March 2002, Martin filed his habeas corpus petition with the California Supreme Court. He claimed that his original trial attorney was ineffective. Martin, for instance, claimed that the attorney had allowed the jury to hear certain questionable statements made by a drug addict who testified for the prosecution and had failed to investigate another suspect.
The state court said Martin had waited too long, and law-and-order advocates agreed.
"Although California's flexibly defined timeliness standard may be uncertain in some cases, there is no doubt five years after (final conviction) is untimely," Kent Scheidegger, the legal director for the Sacramento-based Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, argued in a brief.
The California Supreme Court rejected more than 1,350 inmate petitions in the first six months of last year. Often, the reason cited was that the petition came too late. On the same day in 2002 that the state court turned away Martin's petition as tardy, it rejected 21 other inmate petitions on similar grounds.
Martin's appellate attorneys argued that the state's overly flexible guideline for judging timeliness left inmates in the dark.
"The exhortation to file reasonably promptly fails to provide meaningful guidance," Martin's Sacramento-based appellate lawyer, Michael B. Bigelow, argued in a brief.
Ginsburg, writing for the U.S. Supreme Court, countered that states should be able to adopt "supple prescriptions" that guided when inmates must file their petitions, so that inmates wouldn't "lose the opportunity" to potentially secure review of their convictions.
MORE FROM MCCLATCHY Follow the latest legal affairs news at McClatchy's Suits & Sentences | <urn:uuid:0843da6a-b1f8-4194-a2a1-73c489852ad2> | 2013-05-18T17:27:36Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Friday, August 28--Del. Man Jailed After Stabbing
OCEAN CITY - A Middletown, Del. man was arrested on attempted murder and other serious charges after allegedly stabbing in estranged wife and injuring two children and the victim's new boyfriend during an altercation at an Ocean City condominium on Monday evening.
Around 5:10 p.m. on Monday, Ocean City police responded to the Siesta Villas condominiums in the area of 51st Street for a reported domestic assault in progress. Upon arrival, OCPD officers observed a woman, later identified as the victim, and a man, later identified as Craig William Taylor, 35, of Middletown, Del. The officers quickly determined Taylor had allegedly stabbed the female victim.
The investigation revealed the victim was Taylor's estranged wife and was visiting Ocean City with the couple's two children and her new boyfriend as well as two other children who are friends of the victim's children. Taylor allegedly came to Ocean City and forced his way into the condominium where his estranged wife, her new boyfriend and the children were staying.
A knowledgeable source said this week the victim and her estranged husband stayed in the same mid-town unit in which the stabbing occurred last summer. The source also revealed the woman had an active restraining order against Taylor. It appears once Taylor learned she was in Ocean City in the apartment they had previously rented, he reportedly became enraged and drove to the resort to confront her.
Once he forced his way into the condo, Taylor allegedly stabbed his estranged wife. During the altercation, the victim's boyfriend and two of the unrelated children visiting the victim's children were injured while trying to get away from Taylor.
The victim was transported to PRMC in Salisbury for treatment of her injuries and remains hospitalized today. She is expected to make a full recovery.
The injured children and the victim's boyfriend were taken to Atlantic General Hospital and were treated and released. Taylor was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, carrying a deadly weapon with intent to injure, and first- and third-degree burglary.
Taylor had a bond review hearing this week and was ordered held without bail. A preliminary hearing has been set for Sept. 23. | <urn:uuid:400947cb-a6ff-4658-b31f-df53c85f2d8e> | 2013-05-18T17:48:50Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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J.S. Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, in 1685 and died in 1750. He came from a long family history of professional musicians including church organists and composers. Like his father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, J.S. (Johann Sebastian) would learn and surpass him in this art of classical music composing.
Bach's childhood wasn't that great as his father passed away when he was 9 and his mother also died when he was a young boy. Although he spent much time with his musically inclined uncles, he also spent time studying and learning from his older brother, Johann Christoph Bach.
Growing up, Bach learned much about organ building. Back in those days, the church organ was a highly complex instrument with many mechanical and moving parts/pedals and pipes. His early experience with repairing and talking with organ builders & performers would prove valuable as he mastered the musical craft. | <urn:uuid:fb14bcdf-7ddb-4fc4-8f3f-d9cdd0bc6d21> | 2013-05-18T17:57:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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1. A newborn baby's brain grows almost 3 times during the course of its first year.
2. The left side of human brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.
3. A New born baby loses about half of their nerve cells before they are born.
4. As we get older, the brain loses almost one gram per year.
5. There are about 13, 500,00 neurons in the human spinal cord.
6. The total surface area of the human brain is about 25, 000 square cm.
7. The base of the spinal cord has a cluster of nerves, which are most sensitive.
8. An average adult male brain weighs about 1375 grams.
9. An average adult female brain is about 1275 grams.
10. Only four percent of the brain's cells work while the remaining cells are kept in reserve. | <urn:uuid:16378e2a-eb43-43ce-9d82-8746a30a3353> | 2013-05-18T17:29:05Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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WASHINGTON -- The FDA has approved the oral drug teriflunomide (Aubagio) for treatment of adults with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.
In the primary phase III trial submitted to the FDA, called TEMSO, the drug reduced annualized relapse rates by 31% relative to placebo.
A similar placebo-controlled phase III study called TOWER found a 36% reduction in relapse rate.
Teriflunomide, made by Genzyme/Sanofi, is the active metabolite of the rheumatoid arthritis drug leflunomide (Arava). Its specific mechanism of action is to inhibit pyrimidine synthesis, which in turn reduces proliferation of certain immune cells.
In clinical trials, side effects reported by patients included diarrhea, nausea, and reversible hair thinning.
Abnormal liver function tests were also seen in the trials, prompting the FDA to order a boxed warning. It will "alert prescribers and patients to the risk of liver problems, including death, and a risk of birth defects. Physicians should do blood tests to check liver function before a patient starts taking Aubagio and periodically during treatment," the FDA said.
Since animal studies suggest that the drug may cause fetal harm, women of childbearing age will be required to have a negative pregnancy test before starting the drug.
However, clinicians familiar with the clinical trial results consider teriflunomide to be relatively safe compared with other drugs used to treat MS, with relatively modest efficacy as the tradeoff.
That was the chief finding from a third phase III trial of teriflunomide called TENERE, reported at a meeting earlier this year.
It tested teriflunomide head-to-head against the injectable agent interferon-beta-1a (Rebif), a traditional mainstay of MS therapy. The trial was designed to show that the oral drug was superior to interferon in a composite measure of efficacy and safety.
Teriflunomide missed that endpoint, with a subanalysis showing that while discontinuations due to adverse effects were less frequent with teriflunomide, relapses were more common.
"I think most people's impression of teriflunomide is that its potency is moderate, but it's well tolerated and it will be a useful addition," Jeffrey Cohen, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, told MedPage Today after seeing the TENERE data.
Russell Katz, M.D., director of the Division of Neurology Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation, said in a statement announcing teriflunomide's approval that it was important to "have a variety of treatment options available to patients."
Results of two other phase III trials of teriflunomide have yet to be publicly reported. These include TOPIC, evaluating teriflunomide as monotherapy in early MS or clinically isolated syndrome, and TERACLES, testing the drug as an add-on to interferon beta.
Approval of another anticipated new drug for MS, also made by Genzyme/Sanofi, has been delayed, the company said late last month.
The FDA told the company to rewrite its marketing submission for alemtuzumab (Lemtrada) to allow agency staff to "better navigate the application."
The drug, a monoclonal antibody against the CD52 immune cell marker, is currently approved under the name Campath for treating leukemia.
For MS, it would be administered by infusion just once a year. It has reduced annualized relapse rates by about half in its phase III trials, but with side effects including autoimmune thyroid disease.
Because the drug depletes both B- and T-cells, infection rates are increased as well. Some researchers have also expressed concern about the resulting alterations in immune regulation, which appear to be irreversible.
Also in the late-stage MS pipeline is another oral drug, dimethyl fumarate (BG-12). Its manufacturer, Biogen Idec, filed for U.S. marketing approval in February 2012. | <urn:uuid:3f4c87a7-7b40-4a4e-8211-1c7715f6525e> | 2013-05-18T17:18:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Why Do Tomatoes Change Color as They Ripen?
Tomatoes contain two pigments for photosynthesis—chlorophyll, which is green, and lycopene, which is red. When tomatoes start to grow, they contain much less lycopene than chlorophyll, which gives them their green color. But when harvest season arrives, the days shorten and temperatures drop, causing chlorophyll to dissolve and lycopene to take over the shade of the fruit. During this time, sugar levels rise, acid levels drop, and the tomato softens. It becomes ready to eat.
The trick is that this final stage of a tomato’s life takes place in a relatively short period of time—and that poses a big problem for farmers trying to get ripe produce to grocery stores before it rots. Most farmers begin picking tomatoes while they’re still green on the vine, and then they treat them with a ripening agent called ethylene gas to induce the red color. Far from being a synthetic compound, ethylene gas is produced naturally by other fruits and vegetables as they ripen. In fact, bananas release ethylene gas directly into the air. If you place a ripe banana next to a green tomato, the tomato will ripen, too. | <urn:uuid:161961fc-9974-40c9-9878-ddf44a474536> | 2013-05-18T17:57:57Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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DEAR AMY: My boyfriend and I are 22 and have been dating for almost four years.
We both used marijuana on a daily basis before we met. We found this as a way to bond and get to know each other, while enjoying life.
After a year of dating I decided to quit smoking and focus on my education. After going to college and receiving a degree, I do not wish to continue this habit. My boyfriend continues to smoke on a daily basis.
It does not bother me that I cannot do this with him. but I don't want him to do this for the rest of his life.
We have been talking about marriage and starting a family. He says he will quit when we are ready to have children.
I have been thinking about our relationship and realized that I have never known him when he was sober. I asked him to get sober for a short period of time so we can spend time together without being under the influence before we take the next steps in our life.
When I talked to him about this, he became mad and agitated, but I think he is going to agree. Now I am hoping that if he quits he won't start smoking again (although I doubt it). Is it wrong of me to ask him to do this?
High on Life
DEAR HIGH: When you quit smoking, did you quit for your boyfriend?
I assume that you quit for yourself. It is obvious that you like the changes sobriety has brought
Now you are hoping your guy will quit his habit for a short time, and you are worried about his choices beyond the sobriety he hasn't even achieved.
The questions for you to ponder are: What will you do if your boyfriend doesn't make any changes in his life? Can you be with him as is -- pot and all? And do you want him -- as is -- to be your spouse and the father of your kids?
DEAR AMY: Recently, our 12-year-old daughter was out skateboarding with friends when one of them asked if my daughter would hold her iPhone while she practiced a trick.
My daughter agreed and tried to put the girl's phone in her pocket when it dropped and the screen cracked. Now the girl's mother thinks our daughter should pay $100 toward the screen's replacement.
According to the mother, it's the responsible thing to do. We refused. While our daughter apologized, we didn't feel that making her pay is appropriate.
It was an accident. Now our daughter is no longer welcome at her friend's house, and the mom went so far as to send us an email telling us what irresponsible parents we are and how sorry they feel for our daughter. What gives?
DEAR SPEECHLESS: First of all -- a 12-year-old with an iPhone? The only thing about this story that is age-appropriate is the skateboarding part.
The other parents should chalk this up to both their daughter and your daughter simply being too young to handle and be responsible for this expensive and delicate technology.
Their response to you is rude and over the top. I assume this friendship is over.
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Regina Jackson has vivid memories of the aid received from Reach Out Lakota when she was out of work for seven months in 2008. The nonprofit organization provides food, clothing and other necessities to the needy in Butler County in southwest Ohio.
After winning $1 million in a New Year's Raffle by the Ohio Lottery, she said she'd like to donate a truckload of toilet paper, or at least enough cash for one, to Reach Out Lakota. Jackson, age 60, recalled that she and her 81-year-old mother had to ration the two rolls they got each month while she was laid off.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports (http://cin.ci/WdfHAg) that Procter & Gamble Co. executives saw her comments.
"When we heard about Regina, we were just inspired to give back," said Charmin spokeswoman Laura Dressman.
The Cincinnati-based consumer products company will donate 5,000 rolls of Charmin, with a retail value of more than $4,000, in Jackson's name.
Reach Out Lakota gave out 5,500 rolls last year. The donation means Jackson's own $5,000 donation will go to food and clothing instead.
"I couldn't wish for anything better," Jackson said.
Reach Out Lakota says it helped 2,445 needy families last year. Jackson recalled being reluctant to ask for aid, but found it was a major help until she got
"In the beginning, I didn't want to come, but it ended up being a godsend because it took a lot of weight off my shoulders," she said. After winning the lottery—which will net her a lump sum of $710,000 after taxes—she immediately thought about giving back.
Jackson also plans donations to a church that helped out and also to animal protection groups.
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In the Roman Catholic church, the assembly of cardinals gathered to elect a new pope and the system of strict seclusion to which they submit. From 1059 the election became the responsibility of the cardinals. When, after the death of Clement IV (1268), the cardinals dithered for more than two years, the local magistrate locked them in the episcopal palace and fed them only bread and water until they elected Gregory X. The system of meeting in closed conclave was codified in 1904 by Pius X. Voting is by secret ballot; one ballot is held on the first afternoon of the conclave and four on each subsequent day, two in the morning and two in the afternoon, until a new pope is chosen. In 1996 John Paul II declared that, after 30 ballots, the traditional requirement of a two-thirds majority plus one for the election of a pope could be superseded, at the discretion of the cardinals, by election by a simple majority. Ballots are burned in a stove after each vote, and the smoke produced by their burning, which issues from a special pipe through a window, indicates to the crowd assembled in St. Peter's Square whether a new pope has been elected: if there is a new pope, the smoke will be white; if no majority has yet been reached, the smoke will be black. In addition, bells will be rung to confirm the signal. Additives are mixed with the ballots to ensure the proper colour of the smoke. | <urn:uuid:f9d7de22-4aaf-4fd7-a5e5-3d1b58b8595a> | 2013-05-18T17:30:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Metaphysics - The Study of the True Nature of Reality.
Metaphysics has evolved over the centuries as human consciousness has developed to include science and spiritual awareness as tools to explore and observe the true nature of reality.
Reality, or physical reality, includes everything we experience. Thoughts, ideas, emotions, perceptions, even what we call dreams and hallucinations, life and death; all are included in this experience that we call "reality".
Science attempts to separate, categorize, quantify, and objectify physical experience, labeling certain aspects as "real" and others as "not real". Metaphysics includes science, and goes beyond it to encompass all aspects and dimensions of life experience as "real".
Religion attempts to separate the physical from the non-physical, or spiritual, aspects of life experience, rejecting the physical and calling it "bad" or "evil" while embracing the spiritual and calling that "good" or even "God". Metaphysics goes beyond religions, recognizing that the physical and non-physical are one and not separate, neither good nor bad, and that everything is in fact what we might call "God".
At this point in our conscious evolution, metaphysics has taken its place as the most comprehensive and most effective means of gaining knowledge and understanding or who we really are, why we are here, and the true nature of the physical Universe that we can perceive from our present point of view.
While science helps us perceive and understand the qualities of various aspects of physical existence, and religion and spirituality can help us integrate what we call non-physical experience into our lives, it is only through metaphysical studies that the "big picture" can be seen and applied.
The impact of gaining knowledge of the big picture and learning how to manipulate and affect our world at that level will lead to unimaginable developments in our technologies, social systems, health and well being, and our relationships to our planet and the Universe. To ignore metaphysics is to ignore the potential of our future; To embrace it is to embrace everything that life has to offer.
So how can you study metaphysics?
I have found the only reliable method is to access Truth from the Heart. By the Heart I mean that zero point in the Heart that connects us to Source, All That Is, God, or whatever you want to call it. Once you access this point, you will find your level of awareness expands in a way that permits your conscious mind to perceive physical reality more accurately and effectively. You will then find that the words you read, hear and experience coming from "others" are in fact mirrors reflecting back to you the Truth you perceived from the Heart. This is true Knowledge and it will replace belief as your main mode of conscious functioning.
Learn how to access the Heart and continue your studies by exploring the links below.
~~ Spirituality: How Everything Is Connected.
Many aspects of the physical world were once beyond the range of human perception. Spirituality is the exploration of those aspects of human experience that are still considered "non-physical" only because our technology cannot as yet measure or detect them. Ultimately, as science continues to explore spirituality, it discovers that everything is in fact connected.
~~ Famous Scientists and Philosophers.
These famous scientists and thinkers have devoted a great deal of their lives and energy to the advancement of metaphysical knowledge and ideas. Most have made valuable contributions and advancements in areas that contribute directly to the quality of everyday human life.
~~ Cosmology and The Mayan Calendar - 2012.
Today, scientists know that there are powerful electromagnetic fields emanating from the Earth, the Sun, the center of the Galaxy, and even our own Hearts. These electromagnetic fields affect and interact with each other. But what is most relevant to the Mayan Calendar and 2012 is the impact that these cycles, both large and small, have upon life on Earth.
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James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)
Charcoal and pastel on dark brown wove paper
11 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (29.8 x 18.4 cm)
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917 (17.97.5)
Whistler went to Venice in the fall of 1879 with a commission to make etchings for the Fine Art Society of London and, thereby, to help repair his finances, which had been damaged by the lawsuit he had brought—and won—in 1878 against the English critic John Ruskin. During his sojourn, he also created about 100 pastels that feature the expanse of the city and its lagoon and vignettes of narrow alleyways and picturesquely worn buildings. Here, dark brown paper and sketchy black lines form an armature against which Whistler drew color patches that pertain to doorways, bits of drapery, and a few women and children. Seeing Whistler's Venice pastels on view in London in January 1881, a critic for The Times observed sympathetically: "These 'pastels' of Mr. Whistler are his perfect works—suggestive little pictures which, if he had tried to make them more than this, would have been deformed into elaborate failures. So it is that . . . Mr. Whistler, with his slightest sketch, sets the imagination going and makes us conjure up a picture of some well-remembered beauty." | <urn:uuid:cf823cc3-2a7a-4ab2-9ce4-fe8d36d6bb5e> | 2013-05-18T17:19:26Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Today A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly after 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. Southeast wind 8 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
Tonight Rain likely before midnight, then occasional rain and snow. Low around 31. East wind 5 to 14 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Tuesday A 50 percent chance of snow. Cloudy, with a high near 35. Breezy, with a west wind 16 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph.
Tuesday Night Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 22. Blustery, with a northwest wind 13 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph.
WednesdaySunny, with a high near 39. Northwest wind 8 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Wednesday NightMostly clear, with a low around 21.
Thursday Mostly sunny, with a high near 45.
Thursday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 30. | <urn:uuid:f44f2662-7a53-4ddf-9f5f-ca5d36c77f82> | 2013-05-18T17:48:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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another questiong,what was the reason obrador sayd the previous elections where fraud too?
cuz once again,if he sayd the previous elections wehre fraud them why run for president again?
was there a recount of votes too?
cuz if he runs into elections again them that means he recognized the previous elections isnt it?
and why keep posting those pics instead of more "proof"?
your behaviour is very similiar to the same leftist propaganda that I have seem,the more you try the less trust you generate
and saying obrador was your favorite candidate is not surprise
and funny how small the diference of votes ended up considering the supposed millions of votes bought by the pri,and that the supposed millions of votes count are 5,exactly the same to beat the votes gained by nieto,how interesting......
and when are you going to post denounces of fraud made by someone other thant the 132 movemente people? where is the denounces of the pan party? and the other parties?
so go and wear a che tshirt and get a ak47 cuz probably thats the next thing obrador will tell you to do | <urn:uuid:953d8d4c-ca0b-47a3-9ffa-5f7b156f970d> | 2013-05-18T17:28:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Chicago recently unrolled its pedestrian safety plan, joining the ranks of cities such as Portland and New York, which have their own plans for preventing serious pedestrian accidents. The Chicago plan has 250 recommendations to prevent injuries and fatalities. Could Fort Lauderdale benefit from a similar plan? Some of the recommendations in the Chicago policy could help prevent Fort Lauderdale pedestrian accidents as well:
1) Chicanes. Chicanes are extra turns added to a roadway to slow traffic down. Since in many cases Fort Lauderdale traffic accidents are caused by speeding, reducing traffic speed can be a good way to slash the risk of accidents.
2) Pedestrian islands. In some cases, Fort Lauderdale pedestrian accidents occur because a car enters a pedestrian area. Pedestrian islands keep pedestrians separated from cars and discourage pedestrians from entering traffic.
3) Midblock curb bumpouts. These narrow portions of a street to slow traffic, usually by extending the curb. This is yet another way to reduce speed in order to help prevent Fort Lauderdale car accidents.
4) A system for repairing two high-collision areas and four dangerous intersections each year. The Chicago plan calls for authorities to find and address dangerous intersections and corridors annually. Fort Lauderdale also has high collision areas and areas that are considered especially dangerous. Identifying and rectifying these problems can help prevent traffic accidents.
5) Speed humps. Reducing speed with speed bumps is effective, according to experts, because speed bumps work whether there is enforcement or not. Most cars will slow down rather than taking speed bumps at a high speed, making them more effective than simply lowering the speed limits.
6) Pedestrian scrambles. A pedestrian scramble stops all vehicle traffic at an intersection and allows pedestrians to walk in every direction at the same time. Pedestrians can even walk diagonally. Pedestrian scrambles work because they prevent pedestrians and cars from sharing an intersection at the same time. It helps prevent Fort Lauderdale pedestrian accidents caused by cars turning into a pedestrian area.
7) Road diets. Road diets reduce the number of lanes on some roads, reducing traffic and therefore crashes. Former Florida Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator Dan Burden is a fan of road diets, noting that they improve road safety and may help prevent Fort Lauderdale bicycle accidents and Florida traffic accidents.
Roundabouts. These round intersections separate pedestrians from traffic entirely, by having pedestrians stay one car length outside of the intersection. When crossing this type of intersection, pedestrians only face oncoming traffic from one area and traffic is slowed down significantly in roundabouts, which could also reduce the risk of Fort Lauderdale traffic accidents.
9) An improved pedestrian network, including wayfinding systems and better walking access points to public transit. In some cases, Fort Lauderdale pedestrian accidents occur simply because pedestrians do not have safe areas to walk. For example, some neighborhoods do not have adequate sidewalks. | <urn:uuid:85e87738-c52e-483c-936b-ff3e82d26ee6> | 2013-05-18T17:18:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Ask Marilyn: This Week's 'Strictly Personal' Question
Laura in Cambridge, Massachusetts, writes:
Marilyn: I've thought about different ways to phrase this question, but it just amounts to this: How can I find people like myself? I've suffered so much from loneliness. But now I know that I'm not looking for smart people, good-looking people, or successful people. I'm truly looking for people who are more like me. I've tried my favorite places, but I didn't quite find anyone. Where else can I look?
Get involved in politics, and I don't mean heavy-duty volunteering. Just see what your favorite party is doing nearby, and start to attend events or whatever interests you. With time, I'll bet that you'll find people more like you.
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curs_terminfo(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual curs_terminfo(3)
del_curterm, mvcur, putp, restartterm, set_curterm, setterm, setupterm, tigetflag, tigetnum, tigetstr, tparm, tputs, vid_attr, vid_puts, vidattr, vidputs - curses interfaces to terminfo database
#include <curses.h> #include <term.h> int setupterm(char *term, int fildes, int *errret); int setterm(char *term); TERMINAL *set_curterm(TERMINAL *nterm); int del_curterm(TERMINAL *oterm); int restartterm(const char *term, int fildes, int *errret); char *tparm(char *str, ...); int tputs(const char *str, int affcnt, int (*putc)(int)); int putp(const char *str); int vidputs(chtype attrs, int (*putc)(int)); int vidattr(chtype attrs); int vid_puts(attr_t attrs, short pair, void *opts, int (*putc)(char)); int vid_attr(attr_t attrs, short pair, void *opts); int mvcur(int oldrow, int oldcol, int newrow, int newcol); int tigetflag(char *capname); int tigetnum(char *capname); char *tigetstr(char *capname);
These low-level routines must be called by programs that have to deal directly with the terminfo database to handle certain terminal capabilities, such as programming function keys. For all other functionality, curses routines are more suitable and their use is recommended. Initially, setupterm should be called. Note that setupterm is automatically called by initscr and newterm. This de- fines the set of terminal-dependent variables [listed in terminfo(5)]. The terminfo variables lines and columns are initialized by setupterm as follows: If use_env(FALSE) has been called, values for lines and columns specified in ter- minfo are used. Otherwise, if the environment variables LINES and COLUMNS exist, their values are used. If these environment variables do not exist and the program is run- ning in a window, the current window size is used. Other- wise, if the environment variables do not exist, the values for lines and columns specified in the terminfo database are used. The header files curses.h and term.h should be included (in this order) to get the definitions for these strings, numbers, and flags. Parameterized strings should be passed through tparm to instantiate them. All terminfo strings [in- MirOS BSD #10-current Printed 26.4.2013 1 curs_terminfo(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual curs_terminfo(3) cluding the output of tparm] should be printed with tputs or putp. Call the reset_shell_mode to restore the tty modes before exiting [see curs_kernel(3)]. Programs which use cursor addressing should output enter_ca_mode upon startup and should output exit_ca_mode before exiting. Programs desiring shell escapes should call reset_shell_mode and output exit_ca_mode before the shell is called and should output enter_ca_mode and call reset_prog_mode after returning from the shell. The setupterm routine reads in the terminfo database, ini- tializing the terminfo structures, but does not set up the output virtualization structures used by curses. The termi- nal type is the character string term; if term is null, the environment variable TERM is used. All output is to file descriptor fildes which is initialized for output. If errret is not null, then setupterm returns OK or ERR and stores a status value in the integer pointed to by errret. A return value of OK combined with status of 1 in errret is normal. If ERR is returned, examine errret: 1 means that the terminal is hardcopy, cannot be used for curses applications. 0 means that the terminal could not be found, or that it is a generic type, having too little in- formation for curses applications to run. -1 means that the terminfo database could not be found. If errret is null, setupterm prints an error message upon finding an error and exits. Thus, the simplest call is: setupterm((char *)0, 1, (int *)0);, which uses all the defaults and sends the output to stdout. The setterm routine is being replaced by setupterm. The call: setupterm(term, 1, (int *)0) provides the same functionality as setterm(term). The set- term routine is included here for BSD compatibility, and is not recommended for new programs. The set_curterm routine sets the variable cur_term to nterm, and makes all of the terminfo boolean, numeric, and string variables use the values from nterm. It returns the old value of cur_term. MirOS BSD #10-current Printed 26.4.2013 2 curs_terminfo(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual curs_terminfo(3) The del_curterm routine frees the space pointed to by oterm and makes it available for further use. If oterm is the same as cur_term, references to any of the terminfo boolean, numeric, and string variables thereafter may refer to in- valid memory locations until another setupterm has been called. The restartterm routine is similar to setupterm and initscr, except that it is called after restoring memory to a previ- ous state (for example, when reloading a game saved as a core image dump). It assumes that the windows and the input and output options are the same as when memory was saved, but the terminal type and baud rate may be different. Ac- cordingly, it saves various tty state bits, does a setup- term, and then restores the bits. The tparm routine instantiates the string str with parame- ters pi. A pointer is returned to the result of str with the parameters applied. The tputs routine applies padding information to the string str and outputs it. The str must be a terminfo string vari- able or the return value from tparm, tgetstr, or tgoto. affcnt is the number of lines affected, or 1 if not applica- ble. putc is a putchar-like routine to which the characters are passed, one at a time. The putp routine calls tputs(str, 1, putchar). Note that the output of putp always goes to stdout, not to the fildes specified in setupterm. The vidputs routine displays the string on the terminal in the video attribute mode attrs, which is any combination of the attributes listed in curses(3). The characters are passed to the putchar-like routine putc. The vidattr routine is like the vidputs routine, except that it outputs through putchar. The vid_attr and vid_puts routines correspond to vidattr and vidputs, respectively. They use a set of arguments for representing the video attributes plus color, i.e., one of type attr_t for the attributes and one of short for the color_pair number. The vid_attr and vid_puts routines are designed to use the attribute constants with the WA_ prefix. The opts argument is reserved for future use. Currently, ap- plications must provide a null pointer for that argument. The mvcur routine provides low-level cursor motion. It takes effect immediately (rather than at the next refresh). MirOS BSD #10-current Printed 26.4.2013 3 curs_terminfo(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual curs_terminfo(3) The tigetflag, tigetnum and tigetstr routines return the value of the capability corresponding to the terminfo cap- name passed to them, such as xenl. The tigetflag routine returns the value -1 if capname is not a boolean capability, or 0 if it is canceled or absent from the terminal description. The tigetnum routine returns the value -2 if capname is not a numeric capability, or -1 if it is canceled or absent from the terminal description. The tigetstr routine returns the value (char *)-1 if capname is not a string capability, or 0 if it is canceled or absent from the terminal description. The capname for each capability is given in the table column entitled capname code in the capabilities section of termin- fo(5). char *boolnames, *boolcodes, *boolfnames char *numnames, *numcodes, *numfnames char *strnames, *strcodes, *strfnames These null-terminated arrays contain the capnames, the termcap codes, and the full C names, for each of the termin- fo variables.
Routines that return an integer return ERR upon failure and OK (SVr4 only specifies "an integer value other than ERR") upon successful completion, unless otherwise noted in the preceding routine descriptions. Routines that return pointers always return NULL on error. X/Open defines no error conditions. In this implementation del_curterm returns an error if its terminal parameter is null. restartterm returns an error if the associated call to setup- term returns an error. setupterm returns an error if it cannot allocate enough memory, or create the initial windows (stdscr, curscr, newscr). Other error conditions are docu- MirOS BSD #10-current Printed 26.4.2013 4 curs_terminfo(3) UNIX Programmer's Manual curs_terminfo(3) mented above.
The setupterm routine should be used in place of setterm. It may be useful when you want to test for terminal capabili- ties without committing to the allocation of storage in- volved in initscr. Note that vidattr and vidputs may be macros.
The function setterm is not described in the XSI Curses standard and must be considered non-portable. All other functions are as described in the XSI curses standard. In System V Release 4, set_curterm has an int return type and returns OK or ERR. We have chosen to implement the XSI Curses semantics. In System V Release 4, the third argument of tputs has the type int (*putc)(char). The XSI Curses standard prototypes tparm with a fixed number of parameters, rather than a variable argument list. This implementation uses a variable argument list. Portable ap- plications should provide 9 parameters after the format; zeroes are fine for this purpose. XSI notes that after calling mvcur, the curses state may not match the actual terminal state, and that an application should touch and refresh the window before resuming normal curses calls. Both ncurses and System V Release 4 curses im- plement mvcur using the SCREEN data allocated in either in- itscr or newterm. So though it is documented as a terminfo function, mvcur is really a curses function which is not well specified.
curses(3), curs_initscr(3), curs_kernel(3), curs_termcap(3), putc(3), terminfo(5) MirOS BSD #10-current Printed 26.4.2013 5
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Will Fly to Your Town Will Travel with You
My name is Inez, and with me you'll never be bored!
When it comes to life, I swear by the philosophy of never letting anything get you down and to live for the moment. The world is a playground, so why not just hop on the merry-go-round and enjoy it all?
So for a short summary:
I love having fun. I care about people and nature. Life is a beautiful thing that's not to be wasted. Traveling is second nature to me, and I'm never bored.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you. If there's anything you wonder, please don't hesitate! xx
I am very open minded, and like I said I love traveling and there is no place I don't want to visit. As for a travel partner, anything goes. If we hit it off, who knows what might happen. Whatever comes along, I hope to find a friend in you, who wants to experience all kind of new things with me. | <urn:uuid:fb918b48-c7e9-4a86-bef9-cd4ae539c794> | 2013-05-18T17:38:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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If Sean Sherk's body had an odometer, it would probably read 500,000.
All those miles have taken a severe toll on him in the 10 years since he
started fighting professionally, and several longstanding injuries have
returned following his split-decision victory over Evan Dunham this
past September at UFC 119.
Sherk today told MMAjunkie.com that he won't fight again until he's fully healed. | <urn:uuid:349ebd32-eb35-4c3b-ad62-79f718a3ee5c> | 2013-05-18T17:53:06Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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February 14, 1876
Bell vs Gray
After years of independent research, two men each filed for a patent (or caveat) on February 14, 1876. One was Alexander Graham Bell; the other was Elisha Gray. Bell received patent #174,465 in March for what was later described as "the most valuable patent in history." Gray legally challenged the decision, but after a two year court battle, Bell went down in history as the inventor of the telephone. | <urn:uuid:62d69381-687e-4e21-93b7-146fda597c59> | 2013-05-18T17:28:31Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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We recently received this intruiging article from Dave Horvath and invite you to read it and then join in the discussion.
A substantial number of unexplained crashes of radio control model airplanes on 2.4GHz frequency prompted me to write this article on the so-called “interference free” radio control systems on the 2.4GHz band.
The electromagnetic wave spectrum is subject to the immutable laws of physics.
The propagation characteristics of the 2.4GHz wavelength and the environmental effects of this frequency are more complex than on the 72MHz band. To better understand this, we have to look at the electromagnetic wave spectrum where 72MHz band is in the broadcasting region and the 2.4GHz band is in the microwave region. It is easier to see the huge difference between 72MHz and 2.4GHz frequencies when we convert 2.4 gigahertz to megahertz. Now it is 2400MHz versus 72MHz. When frequency increases, wavelength decreases. Therefore, the 2.4GHz wavelength is shorter and closer to visible light on the electromagnetic wave spectrum. Since visible light is also an electromagnetic wave, 2.4GHz wavelength behaves more like visible light and travels in straight lines until it is reflected, deflected, diffracted or absorbed. Reflection and diffraction will create interference. When parallel rays of light are reflected by a concave mirror, it greatly increases the intensity of light at the focal point. A parabolic dish antenna works the same way for a 2.4GHz electromagnetic wave. Since we cannot focus a high gain directional parabolic dish antenna between our constantly moving model airplane and our transmitter, we have to use an omnidirectional vertical antenna system which has much lower signal intensity.
The FHSS (frequency-hopping-spread-spectrum) and the DSSS (direct-sequence-spread-spectrum) techniques can share the same band. However, they interfere with each other causing a degradation of performance. Range decreases as the number of clear channels decreases. Bandwidth drops each time FHSS encounters a blocked frequency on a crowded spectrum.
The crowded spectrum on the 2.4GHz band reduces the bandwidth, increases the ever present background noise, increases the adjacent channel leakage ratio, reduces the range, and causes overlapping. Overlapping is a direct interference.
Unlike the 72MHz wavelength which penetrates most objects, the 2.4GHz wavelength behaves more like visible light. Signal absorption from objects on a model airplane like the engines, electric motors, batteries, servos, pushrods, landing gears, switches, wires, etc., may cause path interference.
Signal reflection from objects in the terrain, like fences, walls, buildings, trees, hills, power lines cause line of sight interference. High speed data transfer reduces the receiver’s sensitivity on 2.4GHz band. There is a trade-off between speed versus range.
The signal strength decreases quadratically as distance increases at constant radiation levels. This is called path loss. When frequency increases, path loss also increases. This is one of the reasons why 72MHz radios have a better range than the 2.4GHz radios. We can see this clearly when we look at the Wireless Range Calculator:
Frequency Distance Loss
100MHz 0.2 mile 62 decibel
2400MHz 0.2 mile 90 decibel
These calculations are under non-existing ideal conditions, less Fresnel (pronounced Frehnel) effect. When we fly our model airplane on 2.4GHz, the area around us is known as the Fresnel zone. Since we have to use an omnidirectional antenna system, the electromagnetic waves will scatter and diffract from objects and from the terrain around us. When the diffracted wave reaches the receiver antenna, it is slightly lags behind the signal which traveled to the receiver antenna in a straight line that creates interference due to the phase canceling effect.
The Fresnel effect also deals with the behavior of electromagnetic waves over a water surface. As mentioned before, the 2.4GHz radiation behaves more like visible light, so we have to think of reflections and shadows. Flying a 2.4GHz radio control model over a reflective surface like water, snow, ice or wet terrain negatively affects the radio link. Occasionally a 3D aerobatic model plunges into water while hovering. When the rudder is near the water surface, the prop wash creates a chaotic wave pattern which generates a myriad of false-signals.
The Fresnel effect and the described interference on the 2.4GHz band work pretty well. We successfully tested this at different locations. Unfortunately, the “unbreakable Tx-Rx link” broke when our model was over 0.2 miles away at 45 degree angle. Despite the fact that a 90 decibel signal loss over a thousand feet (0.2 miles) is rather significant, we should have had control at this distance. There are too many factors that can determine the overall range on 2.4GHz. 2.4GHz receivers are not immune to ignition and electrical noise as advertised. Occasional arc from high tension insulators could break the bind.
Latency is the time between stimulation and the beginning of response caused by propagation delays. There is a huge time difference in latency claims by different radio manufacturers. Some latency claims are in milliseconds, others are in microseconds! This is confusing since one millisecond is one thousandth of a second and one microsecond is one millionth of a second.
Velocity of electromagnetic waves is 186,283 miles per second. The velocity of the electric signal through conductors is nearly at the speed of light. With an adequate power output, our radio signal will travel one microsecond which is one millionth of a second to reach our model airplane one thousand feet away. This applies to all brands of radios on 72MHz or on 2.4GHz. As we know, nothing travels faster than the electromagnetic waves. Therefore, I don’t see how latency could be improved “50 %” over the leading competitors regardless of different processing.
A seven millisecond latency or a fourteen millisecond latency claim is irrelevant since the human being, the RC pilot, has a painfully slow 200 millisecond latency and can not differentiate between seven or fourteen milliseconds.
At huge events, like Nationals, the 2.4GHz pin-free radio system makes life easier for competitors and organizers. However, there is a huge difference between flying on 2.4GHz band in the beautiful country side near Muncie where chances are good that there won’t be any noticeable interference and flying on 2.4GHz band in the middle of one of the largest concentration of population and industries in Los Angeles or other urban areas.
2.4GHz radios under harsh conditions work most of the time, however most of the time is unacceptable. Illegal signal boosting, ham radio, and rolling hills further aggravate the situation. 2.4GHz wavelength has higher incurred losses than 72MHz wavelength. In any case, we should hold on to our assigned frequencies on 27MHz, 50MHz, and 72MHz bands.
Despite glowing reviews, the so-called “bulletproof 2.4GHz technology” has had range and reliability problems since day one. A bench test inside a building in a controlled environment where the receiver is a few inches away from the transmitter is meaningless.
2.4GHz wavelength is not the best choice to control model airplanes. Furthermore, we have ended up with complex radio systems on an overcrowded band on the electromagnetic wave spectrum.
The bottom line is that glitch-free software, error-free computers, and an interference-free radio link is only an illusion.
www.google.com electromagnetic spectrum Images for electromagnetic spectrum Videos for electromagnetic spectrum
www.google.com Frequency-hopping spread spectrum DSSS and FHSS-Spread Spectrum tutorials www.google.com 2.4 GHz interference Interference in the 2.4GHz ISM Band: Challenges and Solutions by N Golmie 20 Myths of Wi-Fi Interference (RF Solutions)
www.google.com path loss in the 2.4GHz Speed vs. Distance ISA 900 MHz versus 2.4GHz – Learning Center
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VANCOUVER - Markus Naslund's day began Wednesday like so many others.
He turned on his computer to check the previous night's NHL summaries, starting of course, with the Vancouver Canucks.
"That's nothing unusual," Naslund said in a phone interview from his home in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden. "I have followed the Canucks every morning, basically, since I came back here. I like to keep up with what is going on and how things are going for people that you know."
People like Henrik and Daniel Sedin.
Naslund was pleased to see the Canucks won Tuesday night's game, but a tad disappointed that Henrik was held off the scoresheet and remains two points shy of surpassing Naslund's franchise mark of 756 points. When he left Vancouver after the 2007-08 season, Naslund knew it was only a matter of time until both of the twins passed him. The only question was which was one was going to be first. Time lost to injury has left Daniel needing 29 points to pass Naslund.
"It's nothing that you really think about too much after you have left that scene," Naslund said of his franchise scoring mark. "I'm very impressed with the years that both Daniel and Henrik have had recently. They have really established themselves as world-class players and have been able to do it game-in and game-out."
He's even more impressed with the Sedins as people.
"In general, most hockey players are good people," Naslund said. "But then there's another level and that's where I put these guys."
PLAYOFF RACE: Naslund's real focus these days is on Modo, the Swedish Elite League team that he manages. Modo currently sits sixth in the 14-team SEL and has already locked up one of eight playoff spots.
Modo is five points out of fourth place, which would give it home-ice advantage in the first round. Eight regular-season games remain before the playoffs begin on March 12.
"We are progressing and taking steps here," Naslund said. "We have a junior program where we are No. 1 in Sweden in both the (under) 18 and (under) 20 standings and that's huge because we need to produce our own senior players. "We have quite a few prospects coming through our system now which hasn't been the case for a few years. There are a lot of good things that are happening. But it is a battle, too, because it is tough to do everything with a fairly small budget and in a small market."
FIN-TASTIC: Naslund was pleased to hear about Wednesday's appointment of Finnish native Jarmo Kekalainen as the new general manager of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Kekalainen becomes the first European GM of a NHL team.
"It's a global game and if you are a good hockey mind and prepared to put in the work that it takes I think nationality shouldn't stop you from becoming a general manager in the NHL," Naslund said. "I think it's good for the sport. It opens up another door."
QUARTER-POLE: And just like that, the Vancouver Canucks' regular season is one-quarter over.
Tuesday night's 2-1 win over the Minnesota Wild improved Vancouver's record to 8-2-2 and that matches Vancouver's best start through 12 games in franchise history. The Canucks also started the season 8-2-2 in 2003-04 and 2005-06.
"I think defensively we have been really good, our goaltending has been outstanding and we are getting contributions from a lot of different guys," general manger Mike Gillis said in an appearance Wednesday on Team 1040. "I think some guys are starting to find their games and get back to a level that we expect. We are moving in the right direction and hopefully we'll get some injured guys back shortly and see what we really have."
Heading into Wednesday night's schedule, the Canucks were tied for third in goals-against, giving up just 1.92 per game. The Canucks, who had the day off Wednesday, were 11th in goals for, averaging 2.75 per game. | <urn:uuid:9d745bc6-6844-4a48-88c4-9429f3f8bdc6> | 2013-05-18T18:01:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Definition of acetabular
a. - Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform. 2
The word "acetabular" uses 10 letters: A A A B C E L R T U.
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Adding one letter to acetabular does not form any other word in this word list.Words within acetabular not shown as it has more than seven letters.
All words formed from acetabular by changing one letter
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Definitions of why
adv. - For what cause, reason, or purpose; on what account; wherefore; -- used interrogatively. See the Note under What, pron., 1. 2
adv. - For which; on account of which; -- used relatively. 2
adv. - The reason or cause for which; that on account of which; on what account; as, I know not why he left town so suddenly; -- used as a compound relative. 2
n. - A young heifer. 2
The word "why" uses 3 letters: H W Y.
No direct anagrams for why found in this word list.
All words formed from why by changing one letter
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I believe it's the owner not the animal, so how to deal with the owners is my question?
You're dang right it's the owner, solely and completely. But the solution is pretty simple. If a dog is doing something that's unacceptable (pooping with no cleanup, peeing on ropes, acting aggressively, incessant barking, taking food out of your pack -- I've seen all this and more), tell the owner to either keep their pooch at home or learn how to keep it under control. This is not a debatable topic. | <urn:uuid:e126aca2-d341-48a7-b0d3-9fd869efe5a7> | 2013-05-18T17:59:43Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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It looks likes spammers have now worked their way into the private messaging system. Thankfully, it is a very inefficient way of spamming so the problem is not serious at this time.
Regardless, you should not click on any links sent to you from people you don't know or trust.
In general the moderators and administrators of this forum do not send out messages (except for private conversations). Below is a list of moderators: | <urn:uuid:3e74cc9e-56e8-4673-aea4-51049f20f496> | 2013-05-18T17:38:01Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Michael J. Fox was born and raised in Canada. He dropped out of high school to work in television. He got his GED in 1995.
Michael J. Fox came to notice in his role on the popular television program, FAMILY TIES (1982-1989), as the conservative son of liberal young professional parents. He won three Emmys for his performances. During the run of the show, he starred as a time traveler in popular series of movie comedies, BACK
TO THE FUTURE (1985), BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989), and the in 1990, BACK
TO THE FUTURE III.
From 1996-2000 Fox starred as Mike Flaherty in the television series, SPIN CITY, a sitcom about a fictional government official of New York City, one of many weirdos running the mayors office. He won an Emmy in 2000 for his performance.
Michael J. Fox also starred in THE
FRIGHTENERS (produced by Robert Zemeckis and directed
by Peter Jackson)
He has been married to Tracy Pollan, since 1988, with whom he has 4 children. Pollan played his girlfriend Ellen on Family Ties. Of his initial attraction to Pollan, he remarked, ""One day, she came back from lunch with bad breath and I said 'Whoa, scampi for lunch?', and she said 'You are the rudest son of a bitch I have ever met in my life' and I was immediately attracted to her like 'Who is this woman?!'".
Michael J. Fox commented on working in the industry as a short actor: "When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch."
Artists are usually messy people. Fox quipped, "A creative mess is better than idle tidiness."
Michael J. Fox went public with the news that he has Parkinson's Disease. He founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation for research on Parkinson's.
Michael J. Fox's other film credits include:
MIDNIGHT MADNESS (1980)
CLASS OF 1984 (1982)
TEEN WOLF (1985)
THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS (1987)
LIGHT OF DAY (1987)
CASUALTIES OF WAR (1989)
THE HARD WAY (1991)
DOC HOLLYWOOD (1991)
STUART LITTLE (1999)
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY (1988)
LIFE WITH MIKEY (1993)
FOR LOVE OR MONEY (1993)
LIGHT OF DAY (1987)
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (1995)
MARS ATTACKS! (1996)
ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE (2001)
INTERSTATE 60 (2002)
STUART LITTLE 2(2002)
STUART LITTLE 3: CALL OF THE WILD (2005)
Michael J. Fox's television credits include:
POISON IVY (TV Movie) (1985)
FAMILY TIES (series regular) Start (1982)
SPIN CITY (series regular) (1996)
BOSTON LEGAL (2006)
RESCUE ME (2009)
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How do we recommend titles?
With more than a million titles, it isn't feasible to handpick recommendations for every film.
That's why we came up with a formula to suggest titles that fit along with the selected one.
The formula uses factors such as user votes, genre and keywords to generate an automatic
response. The system produces relevant results most of the time but since recommended
titles are not manually chosen, occasionally they may include less than perfect matches. | <urn:uuid:62853693-8cac-42ff-bd22-ffcc1330a291> | 2013-05-18T17:57:07Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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From lightest sky-blue to the deep blue of the sea, aquamarines show all these shades of an exceptionally beautiful range of usually light blues. It is a truly fascinating stone. Women all over the world covet it because of its fine blue colour, which suits almost any complexion or eye-colour to perfection, and creative gemstone artists get their inspiration for new cuts more often from aquamarines than from other stones.
Its light blue arises feelings such as sympathy, trust, harmony or friendship. These are good feelings, which involve a partner or companion, and prove their vale in long-lasting relationships. Aquamarine blue is a divine and eternal colour, since it is, after all, the colour of the skies. Aquamarine blue, however, is also the colour of water with its life-giving properties. And in fact aquamarine seems to have managed to embody the light blue of the seas. This is not surprising, for according to legend it has its origin in the treasure chest of the legendary mermaids, and has for ages been reputed to be a lucky stone for sailors. Its name has been derived from the Latin terms "aquaż meaning water, and "mareż or sea. Allegedly its powers develop best if the stone is immersed in sun-drenched water. However, it seems a wiser course to carry it, because according to ancient traditions, carrying an aquamarine is supposed to guarantee a happy marriage and to make its owner happy and rich. The ideal gemstone, not only for lovers and married couples. | <urn:uuid:12f813cb-1fc5-48bb-8010-8c8aaee2e75f> | 2013-05-18T17:17:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The alpine pasture with old buildings has lately been restored and is
an active enterprise as well as a museum. The main building is probably the oldest wood construction in the South Tyrol
and gives evidence of mountain pasturing and history as well as of
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Prisoner with a cause
Artist and suffragette Olive Wharry became active in the Women's Social and Political Union in 1910. In March 1913, at the age of 27, she was sent to Holloway Prison for setting fire to the tea pavilion at Kew Gardens. In prison she went on hunger strike for 32 days. This photograph was taken on her release, when she weighed just over five and a half stone (36 kg).
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Women at Holloway
Holloway prison opened in 1852 as the City House of Correction for men and women sentenced to short terms of imprisonment. From 1902, the prison was reserved for female prisoners. Between 1906 and 1914 hundreds of militant suffragettes were imprisoned there, many enduring hunger strikes and the torture of being force-fed. In 1970 the original Gothic-style building was demolished and replaced by a new, modern prison.
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Witty and Entertaining
'Sir John in Love', reviewed by ROBERT HUGILL
The programme book for English National Opera's new production of Ralph Vaughan Williams opera 'Sir John in Love' (seen Saturday 4th March 2006) states that the opera has not received a staged professional production since 1958. Thinking about it, I wonder whether any of RVW's operas have received staged professional productions since the composer died?
All RVW's operas are problematical. Hugh the Drover has a rather staid libretto by the leader writer of The Times; the operetta The Poisoned Kiss has a positively embarrassing book (despite some sterling work by Ursula Vaughan Williams in the 1950s). Riders to the Sea might be RVW's masterpiece but it lasts only fifty minutes and is tricky to place in a full evening of opera; Pilgrims Progress was called a morality by the composer and has rather an unoperatic cast to its construction which requires one to take it on its own terms. Sir John in Love is the most traditionally operatic of the group, it re-works the plot familiar from Shakespeare's play and Verdi's late masterpiece.
But Sir John in Love is not Falstaff, RVW had different intentions to Verdi and Boito. Boito simplified the plot, reduced the number of characters and strengthened Falstaff's part by adding speeches from Henry IV. RVW kept Shakespeare's full cast (twenty named parts), left as much of the plot as possible so that the 'Whitehall Farce' elements of Shakespeare's play are present; but RVW used contemporary Elizabethan/Jacobean poetry to give each of the characters their own lyrical moment.
So in Verdi and Boito's Falstaff, Falstaff is totally dominant, whereas RVW's Falstaff is simply primus inter pares. Thankfully ENO recognised this and gave us a wonderful cast of experienced and characterful Anglophone singers. Andrew Shore was glorious in the title role, all red hair and checked plus fours (Ian Judge's imaginative production sets the piece in the Edwardian era). Alastair Miles and Jean Rigby played the Fords, Russell Smyth and Marie McLaughlin played the Pages. Both Rigby and McLaughlin relished the fact that the opera gives the rare chance for singers of a certain age to display sexual allure, and they made a wonderful double-act. Miles was suitable over the top as the jealous Ford, displaying a neat turn for comedy but never guying the character so we retained sympathy and his 'pardon me wife' was profoundly moving. Sarah Fox and Andrew Kennedy made an attractive pair of young lovers. Fox has a lovely warm voice but does not quite have the Isobel Baillie-like clarity and focus the role calls for, but then voices have changed a lot since the 1920s. Kennedy was attractive and passionate though I would have liked a more lyric tenor voice.
Robert Tear and Iain Paterson were outstanding in the character roles of Dr Caius and Sir Hugh Evans, the parson; Tear sent up Caius's Frenchness unmercifully but Paterson understandably played down the parson's Welshness, which was a shame.
Copyright © 8 March 2006
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A San Marcos man died Tuesday night after he lost control of his car and slammed into a utility pole.
David A. Whitlock, 19, was northbound in the 1800 block of Post Road in San Marcos when he crashed his 2003 Chevrolet Cavalier, police said.
He was airlifted to University Medical Center at Brackenridge in Austin, where he died.
The cause of the crash hasn't been determined.
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The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk
Complete story, ready to print -- free -- by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Shortly after my marriage I had bought a connection in the
Paddington district. Old Mr. Farquhar, from whom I purchased
it, had at one time an excellent general practice; but his age, and
an affliction of the nature of St. Vitus's dance from which he
suffered, had very much thinned it. The public not unnaturally
goes on the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole, and looks askance at the curative powers of the
man whose own case is beyond the reach of his drugs. Thus as
my predecessor weakened his practice declined, until when I
purchased it from him it had sunk from twelve hundred to little
more than three hundred a year. I had confidence, however, in
my own youth and energy and was convinced that in a very few
years the concern would be as flourishing as ever.
For three months after taking over the practice I was kept very
closely at work and saw little of my friend Sherlock Holmes, for
I was too busy to visit Baker Street, and he seldom went
anywhere himself save upon professional business. I was surprised, therefore, when, one morning in June, as I sat reading
the British Medical Journal after breakfast, I heard a ring at the
bell, followed by the high, somewhat strident tones of my old
"Ah, my dear Watson," said he, striding into the room, "I
am very delighted to see you! I trust that Mrs. Watson has entirely
recovered from all the little excitements connected with our
adventure of the Sign of Four."
"Thank you, we are both very well," said I, shaking him
warmly by the hand.
"And I hope, also," he continued, sitting down in the rockingchair, "that the cares of medical practice have not entirely
obliterated the interest which you used to take in our little
"On the contrary," I answered, "it was only last night that I
was looking over my old notes, and classifying some of our past
"I trust that you don't consider your collection closed."
"Not at all. I should wish nothing better than to have some
more of such experiences."
"To-day, for example?"
"Yes, to-day, if you like."
"And as far off as Birmingham?"
"Certainly, if you wish it."
"And the practice?"
"I do my neighbour's when he goes. He is always ready to
work off the debt."
"Ha! nothing could be better," said Holmes, leaning back in
his chair and looking keenly at me from under his half-closed
lids. "I perceive that you have been unwell lately. Summer colds
are always a little trying."
"I was confined to the house by a severe chill for three days
last week. I thought, however, that I had cast off every trace of
"So you have. You look remarkably robust."
"How, then, did you know of it?"
"My dear fellow, you know my methods."
"You deduced it, then?"
"And from what?"
"From your slippers."
I glanced down at the new patent-leathers which I was wearing. "How on earth --" I began, but Holmes answered my
question before it was asked.
"Your slippers are new," he said. "You could not have had
them more than a few weeks. The soles which you are at this
moment presenting to me are slightly scorched. For a moment I
thought they might have got wet and been burned in the drying.
But near the instep there is a small circular wafer of paper with
the shopman's hieroglyphics upon it. Damp would of course
have removed this. You had, then, been sitting with your feet
outstretched to the fire, which a man would hardly do even in so
wet a June as this if he were in his full health."
Like all Holmes's reasoning the thing seemed simplicity itself
when it was once explained. He read the thought upon my
features, and his smile had a tinge of bitterness.
"I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain."
said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.
You are ready to come to Birmingham. then?"
"Certainly. What is the case?"
"You shall hear it all in the train. My client is outside in a
four-wheeler. Can you come at once?"
"In an instant." I scribbled a note to my neighbour, rushed
upstairs to explain the matter to my wife, and joined Holmes
upon the doorstep.
"Your neighbour is a doctor." said he, nodding at the brass
"Yes, he bought a practice as I did."
"An old-established one?"
"Just the same as mine. Both have been ever since the houses
"Ah! then you got hold of the best of the two."
"I think I did. But how do you know?"
"By the steps, my boy. Yours are worn three inches deeper
than his. But this gentleman in the cab is my client, Mr. Hall
Pycroft. Allow me to introduce you to him. Whip your horse up,
cabby, for we have only just time to catch our train."
The man whom I found myself facing was a well-built, fresh-complexioned young fellow, with a frank, honest face and a
slight, crisp, yellow moustache. He wore a very shiny top-hat
and a neat suit of sober black, which made him look what he
was -- a smart young City man, of the class who have been
labelled cockneys, but who give us our crack volunteer regiments, and who turn out more fine athletes and sportsmen than
any body of men in these islands. His round, ruddy face was
naturally full of cheeriness, but the corners of his mouth seemed
to me to be pulled down in a half-comical distress. It was not,
however, until we were in a first-class carriage and well started
upon our journey to Birmingham that I was able to learn what
the trouble was which had driven him to Sherlock Holmes.
"We have a clear run here of seventy minutes," Holmes
remarked. "I want you, Mr. Hall Pycroft, to tell my friend your
very interesting experience exactly as you have told it to me, or
with more detail if possible. It will be of use to me to hear the
succession of events again. It is a case, Watson, which may
prove to have something in it, or may prove to have nothing, but
which, at least, presents those unusual and outre features which
are as dear to you as they are to me. Now, Mr. Pycroft. I shall
not interrupt you again."
Our young companion looked at me with a twinkle in his eye.
"The worst of the story is." said he. "that I show myself up
as such a confounded fool. Of course it may work out all right.
and I don't see that I could have done otherwise; but if I have
lost my crib and get nothing in exchange I shall feel what a soft
Johnny I have been. I'm not very good at telling a story, Dr.
Watson, but it is like this with me:
"I used to have a billet at Coxon & Woodhouse's, of Draper
Gardens, but they were let in early in the spring through the
Venezuelan loan, as no doubt you remember, and came a nasty
cropper. I have been with them five years. and old Coxon gave
me a ripping good testimonial when the smash came. but of
course we clerks were all turned adrift, the twenty-seven of us. I
tried here and tried there, but there were lots of other chaps on
the same lay as myself, and it was a perfect frost for a long time.
I had been taking three pounds a week at Coxon's, and I had
saved about seventy of them, but I soon worked my way through
that and out at the other end. I was fairly at the end of my tether
at last, and could hardly find the stamps to answer the advertisements or the envelopes to stick them to. I had worn out my
boots paddling up office stairs, and I seemed just as far from
getting a billet as ever.
"At last I saw a vacancy at Mawson & Williams's, the great
stock-broking firm in Lombard Street. I dare say E. C. is not
much in your line, but I can tell you that this is about the richest
house in London. The advertisement was to be answered by
letter only. I sent in my testimonial and application, but without
the least hope of getting it. Back came an answer by return,
saying that if I would appear next Monday I might take over my
new duties at once, provided that my appearance was satisfactory. No one knows how these things are worked. Some people
say that the manager just plunges his hand into the heap and
takes the first that comes. Anyhow it was my innings that time,
and I don't ever wish to feel better pleased. The screw was a
pound a week rise, and the duties just about the same as at
"And now I come to the queer part of the business. I was in
diggings out Hampstead way, 17 Potter's Terrace. Well, I was
sitting doing a smoke that very evening after I had been promised the appointment, when up came my landlady with a card
which had 'Arthur Pinner, Financial Agent,' printed upon it. I
had never heard the name before and could not imagine what he
wanted with me, but of course I asked her to show him up. In he
walked, a middle-sized dark-haired, dark-eyed. black-bearded
man. with a touch of the sheeny about his nose. He had a brisk
kind of way with him and spoke sharply, like a man who knew
the value of time.
" 'Mr. Hall Pycroft, I believe?' said he.
" 'Yes, sir,' I answered, pushing a chair towards him.
" 'Lately engaged at Coxon & Woodhouse's?'
" 'Yes, sir.'
" 'And now on the staff of Mawson's.'
" 'Quite so.'
" 'Well.' said he, 'the fact is that I have heard some really
extraordinary stories about your financial ability. You remember
Parker, who used to be Coxon's manager. He can never say
enough about it.'
"Of course I was pleased to hear this. I had always been
pretty sharp in the office, but I had never dreamed that I was
talked about in the City in this fashion.
" 'You have a good memory?' said he.
" 'Pretty fair,' I answered modestly.
" 'Have you kept in touch with the market while you havebeen out of work?' he asked.
" 'Yes. I read the stock-exchange list every morning.'
" 'Now that shows real application!' he cried. 'That is the
way to prosper! You won't mind my testing you, will you? Let
me see. How are Ayrshires?'
" 'A hundred and six and a quarter to a hundred and five and
" 'And New Zealand consolidated?'
" 'A hundred and four.'
" 'And British Broken Hills?'
" 'Seven to seven-and-six.'
" 'Wonderful!' he cried with his hands up. 'This quite fits in
with all that I had heard. My boy, my boy, you are very much
too good to be a clerk at Mawson's!'
"This outburst rather astonished me, as you can think. 'Well,'
said I, 'other people don't think quite so much of me as you
seem to do, Mr. Pinner. I had a hard enough fight to get this
berth, and I am very glad to have it.'
" 'Pooh, man; you should soar above it. You are not in your
true sphere. Now, I'll tell you how it stands with me. What I
have to offer is little enough when measured by your ability, but
when compared with Mawson's it's light to dark. Let me see.
When do you go to Mawson's?'
" 'On Monday.'
" 'Ha, ha! I think I would risk a little sporting flutter that you
don't go there at all.'
" 'Not go to Mawson's'?'
" 'No, sir. By that day you will be the business manager of
the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited, with a hundred and thirty-four branches in the towns and villages of France,
not counting one in Brussels and one in San Remo.'
"This took my breath away. 'I never heard of it.' said I.
" 'Very likely not. It has been kept very quiet, for the capital
was all privately subscribed, and it's too good a thing to let the
public into. My brother, Harry Pinner, is promoter, and joins the
board after allotment as managing director. He knew I was in the
swim down here and asked me to pick up a good man cheap. A
young, pushing man with plenty of snap about him. Parker spoke
of you, and that brought me here to-night. We can only offer you
a beggarly five hundred to start with.'
" 'Five hundred a year!' I shouted.
" 'Only that at the beginning; but you are to have an overriding commission of one per cent on all business done by your
agents, and you may take my word for it that this will come to
more than your salary.'
" 'But I know nothing about hardware.'
" 'Tut, my boy, you know about figures.'
"My head buzzed, and I could hardly sit still in my chair. But
suddenly a little chill of doubt came upon me.
" 'I must be frank with yoli,' said I. 'Mawson only gives me
two hundred, but Mawson is safe. Now, really, I know so little
about your company that --'
" 'Ah, smart, smart!' he cried in a kind of ecstasy of delight.
'You are the very man for us. You are not to be talked over, and
quite right, too. Now, here's a note for a hundred pounds, and if
you think that we can do business you may just slip it into your
pocket as an advance upon your salary.'
" 'That is very handsome,' said I. 'When should I take over
my new duties?'
" 'Be in Birmingham to-morrow at one,' said he. 'I have a
note in my pocket here which you will take to my brother. You
will find him at 126B Corporation Street. where the temporary
offices of the company are situated. Of course he must confirm
your engagement, but between ourselves it will be all right.'
" 'Really, I hardly know how to express my gratitude, Mr.
Pinner,' said I.
" 'Not at all, my boy. You have only got your deserts. There
are one or two small things -- mere formalities -- which I must
arrange with you. You have a bit of paper beside you there.
Kindly write upon it "I am perfectly willing to act as business
manager to the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited, at
a minimum salary of 500 pounds." '
"I did as he asked. and he put the paper in his pocket.
" 'There is one other detail,' said he. 'What do you intend to
do about Mawson's?'
"I had forgotten all about Mawson's in my joy. 'I'll write and
resign,' said I.
" 'Precisely what I don't want you to do. I had a row over
you with Mawson's manager. I had gone up to ask him about
you, and he was very offensive; accused me of coaxing you
away from the service of the firm, and that sort of thing. At last I
fairly lost my temper. "If you want good men you should pay
them a good price," said I.
" ' "He would rather have our small price than your big
one," said he.
" ' "I'll lay you a fiver," said I, "that when he has my offer
you'll never so much as hear from him again."
" ' "Done!" said he. "We picked him out of the gutter, and
he won't leave us so easily." Those were his very words.'
" 'The impudent scoundrel!' I cried. 'I've never so much as
seen him in my life. Why should I consider him in any way? I
shall certainly not write if you would rather I didn't.'
" 'Good! That's a promise,' said he, rising from his chair.
'Well, I'm delighted to have got so good a man for my brother.
Here's your advance of a hundred pounds, and here is the letter.
Make a note of the address. 126B Corporation Street, and remember that one o'clock to-morrow is your appointment. Goodnight, and may you have all the fortune that you deserve!'
"That's just about all that passed between us, as near as I can
remember. You can imagine, Dr. Watson, how pleased I was at
such an extraordinary bit of good fortune. I sat up half the night
hugging myself over it, and next day I was off to Birmingham
in a train that would take me in plenty time for my appointment.
I took my things to a hotel in New Street, and then I made my
way to the address which had been given me.
"It was a quarter of an hour before my time, but I thought that
would makc no difference. 126B was a passage between two
large shops, which led to a winding stone stair, from which there
were many flats, let as offices to companies or professional men.
The names of the occupants were painted at the bottom on the
wall, but there was no such name as the Franco-Midland
Hardware Company, Limited. I stood for a few minutes with my
heart in my boots, wondering whether the whole thing was an
elaborate hoax or not, when up came a man and addressed me. He
was very like the chap I had seen the night before, the same
figure and voice, but he was clean-shaven and his hair was
" 'Are you Mr. Hall Pycroft?' he asked.
" 'Yes,' said I.
" 'Oh! I was expecting you, but you are a trifle before your
time. I had a note from my brother this morning in which he
sang your praises very loudly.'
" 'I was just looking for the offices when you came.'
" 'We have not got our name up yet, for we only secured
these temporary premises last week. Come up with me, and we
will talk the matter over.'
"I followed him to the top of a very lofty stair, and there,
right under the slates, were a couple of empty, dusty little
rooms, uncarpeted and uncurtained, into which he led me. I had
thought of a great office with shining tables and rows of clerks,
such as I was used to, and I daresay I stared rather straight at the
two deal chairs and one little table, which with a ledger and a
waste-paper basket, made up the whole furniture.
" 'Don't be disheartened, Mr. Pycroft,' said my new acquaintance, seeing the length of my face. 'Rome was not built in
a day, and we have lots of money at our backs, though we don't
cut much dash yet in offices. Pray sit down, and let me have
"I gave it to him, and he read it over very carefully.
" 'You seem to have made a vast impression upon my brother
Arthur,' said he, 'and I know that he is a pretty shrewd judge.
He swears by London, you know; and I by Birmingham; but this
time I shall follow his advice. Pray consider yourself definitely
" 'What are my duties?' I asked.
" 'You will eventually manage the great depot in Paris, which
will pour a flood of English crockery into the shops of a hundred
and thirty-four agents in France. The purchase will be completed
in a week, and meanwhile you will remain in Birmingham and
make yourself useful.'
"For answer, he took a big red book out of a drawer.
" 'This is a directory of Paris,' said he, 'with the trades after
the names of the people. I want you to take it home with you
and to mark off all the hardware-sellers, with their addresses. It
would be of the greatest use to me to have them.'
" 'Surely, there are classified lists?' I suggested.
" 'Not reliable ones. Their system is different from ours. Stick at
it, and let me have the lists by Monday, at twelve. Good-day,
Mr. Pycroft. If you continue to show zeal and intelligence you
will find the company a good master.'
"I went back to the hotel with the big book under my arm, and
with very conflicting feelings in my breast. On the one hand, I
was definitely engaged and had a hundred pounds in my pocket;
on the other, the look of the offices, the absence of name on the
wall, and other of the points which would strike a business man
had left a bad impression as to the position of my employers.
However, come what might, I had my money, so l settled down
to my task. All Sunday I was kept hard at work, and yet by
Monday I had only got as far as H. I went round to my
employer, found him in the same dismantled kind of room, and
was told to keep at it until Wednesday, and then come again. On
Wednesday it was still unfinished, so I hammered away until
Friday -- that is, yesterday. Then I brought it round to Mr. Harry
" 'Thank you very much,' said he, 'I fear that I underrated
the difficulty of the task. This list will be of very material
assistance to me.'
" 'It took some time,' said I.
" 'And now,' said he, 'I want you to make a list of the
furniture shops, for they all sell crockery.'
" 'Very good.'
" 'And you can come up to-morrow evening at seven and let
me know how you are getting on. Don't overwork yourself. A
couple of hours at Day's Music Hall in the evening would do
you no harm after your labours.' He laughed as he spoke, and I
saw with a thrill that his second tooth upon the left-hand side had
been very badly stuffed with gold."
Sherlock Holmes rubbed his hands with delight, and I stared
with astonishment at our client.
"You may well look surprised, Dr. Watson, but it is this
way," said he: "When I was speaking to the other chap in
London, at the time that he laughed at my not going to Mawson's, I happened to notice that his tooth was stuffed in this very
identical fashion. The glint of the gold in each case caught my
eye, you see. When I put that with the voice and figure being the
same, and only those things altered which might be changed by a
razor or a wig, I could not doubt that it was the same man. Of
course you expect two brothers to be alike, but not that they
should have the same tooth stuffed in the same way. He bowed
me out, and I found myself in the street, hardly knowing whether
I was on my head or my heels. Back I went to my hotel, put my
head in a basin of cold water, and tried to think it out. Why had
he sent me from London to Birmingham? Why had he got there
before me? And why had he written a letter from himself to
himself? It was altogether too much for me, and I could make no
sense of it. And then suddenly it struck me that what was dark to
me might be very light to Mr. Sherlock Holmes. I had just time
to get up to town by the night train to see him this morning, and
to bring you both back with me to Birmingham."
There was a pause after the stock-broker's clerk had concluded
his surprising experience. Then Sherlock Holmes cocked his eye
at me, leaning back on the cushions with a pleased and yet
critical face, like a connoisseur who has just taken his first sip of
a comet vintage.
"Rather fine, Watson, is it not?" said he. "There are points
in it which please me. I think that you will agree with me that an
interview with Mr. Arthur Harry Pinner in the temporary offices
of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited, would be a
rather interesting experience for both of us."
"But how can we do it?" I asked.
"Oh, easily enough," said Hall Pycroft cheerily. "You are
two friends of mine who are in want of a billet, and what could
be more natural than that I should bring you both round to the
"Quite so, of course," said Holmes. "I should like to have a
look at the gentleman and see if I can make anything of his little
game. What qualities have you, my friend, which would make
your services so valuable? Or is it possible that --" He began
biting his nails and staring blankly out of the window, and we
hardly drew another word from him until we were in New Street.
At seven o'clock that evening we were walking, the three of
us, down Corporation Street to the company's offices.
"It is no use our being at all before our time," said our client.
"He only comes there to see me, apparently, for the place is
deserted up to the very hour he names."
"That is suggestive," remarked Holmes.
"By Jove, I told you so!" cried the clerk. "That's he walking
ahead of us there."
He pointed to a smallish, dark, well-dressed man who was
bustling along the other side of the road. As we watched him he
looked across at a boy who was bawling out the latest edition of
the evening paper, and, running over among the cabs and busses,
he bought one from him. Then, clutching it in his hand, he
vanished through a doorway.
"There he goes!" cried Hall Pycroft. "These are the company's offices into which he has gone. Come with me, and I'll fix
it up as easily as possible."
Following his lead, we ascended five stories, until we found
ourselves outside a half-opened door, at which our client tapped.
A voice within bade us enter, and we entered a bare, unfurnished
room such as Hall Pycroft had described. At the single table sat
the man whom we had seen in the street, with his evening paper
spread out in front of him, and as he looked up at us it seemed to
me that I had never looked upon a face which bore such marks of
grief, and of something beyond grief -- of a horror such as comes
to few men in a lifetime. His brow glistened with perspiration,
his cheeks were of the dull, dead white of a fish's belly, and his
eyes were wild and staring. He looked at his clerk as though he
failed to recognize him, and I could see by the astonishment
depicted upon our conductor's face that this was by no means the
usual appearance of his employer.
"You look ill, Mr. Pinner!" he exclaimed.
"Yes, I am not very well," answered the other, making
obvious efforts to pull himself together and licking his dry lips
before he spoke. "Who are these gentlemen whom you have
brought with you?"
"One is Mr. Harris, of Bermondsey, and the other is Mr.
Price, of this town," said our clerk glibly. "They are friends of
mine and gentlemen of experience, but they have been out of a
place for some little time, and they hoped that perhaps you might
find an opening for them in the company's employment."
"Very possibly! very possibly!" cried Mr. Pinner with a
ghastly smile. "Yes, I have no doubt that we shall be able to do
something for you. What is your particular line, Mr. Harris?"
"I am an accountant," said Holmes.
"Ah, yes, we shall want something of the sort. And you. Mr.
"A clerk," said I.
"I have every hope that the company may accommodate you.
I will let you know about it as soon as we come to any conclusion. And now I beg that you will go. For God's sake leave me
These last words were shot out of him, as though the constraint which he was evidently setting upon himself had suddenly and utterly burst asunder. Holmes and I glanced at each
other, and Hall Pycroft took a step towards the table.
"You forget, Mr. Pinner, that I am here by appointment to
receive some directions from you," said he.
"Certainly, Mr. Pycroft, certainly," the other resumed in a
calmer tone. "You may wait here a moment and there is no
reason why your friends should not wait with you. I will be
entirely at your service in three minutes, if I might trespass upon
your patience so far." He rose with a very courteous air, and,
bowing to us, he passed out through a door at the farther end of
the room, which he closed behind him.
"What now?" whispered Holmes. "Is he giving us the slip?"
"Impossible," answered Pycroft.
"That door leads into an inner room."
"There is no exit?"
"Is it furnished?"
"It was empty yesterday."
"Then what on earth can he be doing? There is something
which I don't understand in this matter. If ever a man was three
parts mad with terror, that man's name is Pinner. What can have
put the shivers on him?"
"He suspects that we are detectives," I suggested.
"That's it," cried Pycroft.
Holmes shook his head. "He did not turn pale. He was pale
when we entered the room," said he. "It is just possible that --"
His words were interrupted by a sharp rat-tat from the direction of the inner door.
"What the deuce is he knocking at his own door for?" cried
Again and much louder came the rat-tat-tat. We all gazed
expectantly at the closed door. Glancing at Holmes, I saw his
face turn rigid, and he leaned forward in intense excitement.
Then suddenly came a low guggling, gargling sound, and a brisk
drumming upon woodwork. Holmes sprang frantically across the
room and pushed at the door. It was fastened on the inner side.
Following his example, we threw ourselves upon it with all our
weight. One hinge snapped, then the other, and down came the
door with a crash. Rushing over it, we found ourselves in the
inner room. It was empty.
But it was only for a moment that we were at fault. At one
corner, the corner nearest the room which we had left, there was
a second door. Holmes sprang to it and pulled it open. A coat
and waistcoat were lying on the floor, and from a hook behind
the door, with his own braces round his neck, was hanging the
managing director of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company.
His knees were drawn up, his head hung at a dreadful angle to
his body, and the clatter of his heels against the door made the
noise which had broken in upon our conversation. In an instant I
had caught him round the waist, and held him up while Holmes
and Pycroft untied the elastic bands which had disappeared
between the livid creases of skin. Then we carried him into the
other room, where he lay with a clay-coloured face, puffing his
purple lips in and out with every breath -- a dreadful wreck of all
that he had been but five minutes before.
"What do you think of him, Watson?" asked Holmes.
I stooped over him and examined him. His pulse was feeble
and intermittent, but his breathing grew longer, and there was a
little shivering of his eyelids, which showed a thin white slit of
"It has been touch and go with him," said I, "but he'll live
now. Just open that window, and hand me the water carafe." I
undid his collar, poured the cold water over his face, and raised
and sank his arms until he drew a long, natural breath. "It's only
a question of time now," said I as I turned away from him.
Holmes stood by the table, with his hands deep in his trousers'
pockets and his chin upon his breast.
"I suppose we ought to call the police in now," said he.
"And yet I confess that I'd like to give them a complete case
when they come."
"It's a blessed mystery to me," cried Pycroft, scratching his
head. "Whatever they wanted to bring me all the way up here
for, and then --"
"Pooh! All that is clear enough," said Holmes impatiently.
"It is this last sudden move."
"You understand the rest, then?"
"I think that it is fairly obvious. What do you say, Watson?"
I shrugged my shoulders. "I must confess that I am out of my
depths," said I.
"Oh, surely if you consider the events at first they can only
point to one conclusion."
"What do you make of them?"
"Well, the whole thing hinges upon two points. The first is
the making of Pycroft write a declaration by which he entered
the service of this preposterous company. Do you not see how
very suggestive that is?"
"I am afraid I miss the point."
"Well, why did they want him to do it? Not as a business
matter, for these arrangements are usually verbal, and there was
no earthly business reason why this should be an exception.
Don't you see, my young friend, that they were very anxious to
obtain a specimen of your handwriting, and had no other way of
"Quite so. Why? When we answer that we have made some
progress with our little problem. Why? There can be only one
adequate reason. Someone wanted to learn to imitate your writing and had to procure a specimen of it first. And now if we pass
on to the second point we find that each throws light upon the
other. That point is the request made by Pinner that you should
not resign your place, but should leave the manager of this
important business in the full expectation that a Mr. Hall Pycroft,
whom he had never seen, was about to enter the office upon the
"My God!" cried our client, "what a blind beetle I have
"Now you see the point about the handwriting. Suppose that
someone turned up in your place who wrote a completely different hand from that in which you had applied for the vacancy, of
course the game would have been up. But in the interval the
rogue had learned to imitate you, and his position was therefore
secure, as I presume that nobody in the office had ever set eyes
"Not a soul," groaned Hall Pycroft.
"Very good. Of course it was of the utmost importance to
prevent you from thinking better of it, and also to keep you from
coming into contact with anyone who might tell you that your
double was at work in Mawson's office. Therefore they gave
you a handsome advance on your salary, and ran you off to the
Midllands, where they gave you enough work to do to prevent
your going to London, where you might have burst their little
game up. That is all plain enough."
"But why should this man pretend to be his own brother?"
"Well, that is pretty clear also. There are evidently only two
of them in it. The other is impersonating you at the office. This
one acted as your engager, and then found that he could not find
you an employer without admitting a third person into his plot.
That he was most unwilling to do. He changed his appearance as
far as he could, and trusted that the likeness, which you could
not fail to observe, would be put down to a family resemblance.
But for the happy chance of the gold stuffing, your suspicions
would probably never have been aroused."
Hall Pycroft shook his clenched hands in the air. "Good
Lord!" he cried, "while I have been fooled in this way, what
has this other Hall Pycroft been doing at Mawson's? What
should we do, Mr. Holmes? Tell me what to do."
"We must wire to Mawson's."
"They shut at twelve on Saturdays."
"Never mind. There may be some door-keeper or attendant --"
"Ah, yes, they keep a permanent guard there on account of
the value of the securities that they hold. I remember hearing it
talked of in the City."
"Very good, we shall wire to him and see if all is well, and if
a clerk of your name is working there. That is clear enough, but
what is not so clear is why at sight of us one of the rogues should
instantly walk out of the room and hang himself."
"The paper!" croaked a voice behind us. The man was sitting
up, blanched and ghastly, with returning reason in his eyes, and
hands which rubbed nervously at the broad red band which still
encircled his throat.
"The paper! Of course!" yelled Holmes in a paroxysm of
excitement. "Idiot that I was! I thought so much of our visit that
the paper never entered my head for an instant. To be sure, the
secret must lie there." He flattened it out upon the table, and a
cry of triumph burst from his lips. "Look at this, Watson," he
cried. "It is a London paper, an early edition of the Evening
Standard. Here is what we want. Look at the headlines: 'Crime
in the City. Murder at Mawson & Williams's. Gigantic Attempted Robbery. Capture of the Criminal.' Here, Watson, we
are all equally anxious to hear it, so kindly read it aloud to
It appeared from its position in the paper to have been the one
event of importance in town, and the account of it ran in this
"A desperate attempt at robbery, culminating in the death
of one man and the capture of the criminal, occurred this
afternoon in the City. For some time back Mawson &
Williams, the famous financial house, have been the guardians of securities which amount in the aggregate to a sum of
considerably over a million sterling. So conscious was the
manager of the responsibility which devolved upon him in
consequence of the great interests at stake that safes of the
very latest construction have been employed, and an armed
watchman has been left day and night in the building. It
appears that last week a new clerk named Hall Pycroft was
engaged by the firm. This person appears to have been none
other than Beddington, the famous forger and cracksman,
who, with his brother, has only recently emerged from a
five years' spell of penal servitude. By some means, which
are not yet clear, he succeeded in winning, under a false
name, this official position in the office, which he utilized
in order to obtain mouldings of various locks, and a thorough knowledge of the position of the strongroom and the
"It is customary at Mawson's for the clerks to leave at
midday on Saturday. Sergeant Tuson, of the City police,
was somewhat surprised, therefore, to see a gentleman with
a carpet-bag come down the steps at twenty minutes past
one. His suspicions being aroused, the sergeant followed
the man, and with the aid of Constable Pollock succeeded,
after a most desperate resistance, in arresting him. It was at
once clear that. a daring and gigantic robbery had been
committed. Nearly a hundred thousand pounds' worth of
American railway bonds, with a large amount of scrip in
mines and other companies, was discovered in the bag. On
examining the premises the body of the unfortunate watchman was found doubled up and thrust into the largest of the
safes, where it would not have been discovered until Monday morning had it not been for the prompt action of
Sergeant Tuson. The man's-skull had been shattered by a
blow from a poker delivered from behind. There could be
no doubt that Beddington had obtained entrance by pretending that he had left something behind him, and having
murdered the watchman, rapidly rifled the large safe, and
then made off with his booty. His brother, who usually
works with him, has not appeared in this job as far as can at
present be ascertained, although the police are making energetic inquiries as to his whereabouts."
"Well, we may save the police some little trouble in that
direction," said Holmes, glancing at the haggard figure huddled
up by the window. "Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson.
You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such
affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his
neck is forfeited. However, we have no choice as to our action.
The doctor and I will remain on guard, Mr. Pycroft, if you will
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Syria Says Israel Bombed Military Center near Damascus as Reports Say Arms Convoy Hit near Lebanonإقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Syrian army said that an Israeli air strike at dawn on Wednesday targeted a military research center in Jamraya, near Damascus, after several media reports said Israeli warplanes bombed a weapons convoy near the border with Lebanon.
Residents who spoke to Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity, however, said the strike targeted a non-conventional weapons research center some 15 kilometers (10 miles) northwest of the Syrian capital.
"Israeli fighter jets violated our air space at dawn today and carried out a direct strike on a scientific research center in charge of raising our level of resistance and self-defense," the Syrian army's general command said in a statement carried by state news agency SANA.
The strike came "after terrorist groups made several failed attempts in the past months to take control of the site," the statement added of rebel groups fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad.
Israeli warplanes entered Syrian airspace via Mount Hermon, or Jabal el-Sheikh in Arabic, at low altitude and under the radar, the army said.
"They... carried out an act of aggression, bombarding the site, causing large-scale material damage and destroying the building," state television quoted the military as saying.
The army added that two site workers were killed in the strike.
Residents told AFP that six rockets hit the complex, leaving it partially destroyed, causing a fire and killing two people.
"This assault is one of a long list of acts of aggression and criminality against the Arabs and Muslims," said the army's statement.
The army denied earlier reports that Israeli forces had launched an air strike overnight on a weapons convoy from Syria near the border with Lebanon.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, security sources told AFP earlier on Wednesday that Israeli forces carried out a strike overnight on a weapons convoy coming from Syria in the Lebanon-Syria border area.
"The Israeli air force blew up a convoy which had just crossed the border from Syria into Lebanon," one source said, without giving a precise location for the attack.
The source said the convoy was believed to be carrying weapons but did not specify what type.
A second security source, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, also told AFP that Israeli warplanes had hit a convoy allegedly carrying weapons to Lebanon but said the incident occurred just inside Syria.
"It was an armed convoy traveling towards Lebanon but it was hit on the Syrian side of the border at around 2330 GMT," the source said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman declined to comment on the reports.
Lebanon's National News Agency later on Wednesday denied that an Israeli strike had taken place.
The Associated Press quoted U.S. and regional officials as saying that Israel conducted an airstrike inside Syria overnight near the border with Lebanon, hitting a convoy of trucks.
The regional officials said Israel had been planning in the days leading up to the airstrike to hit a shipment of weapons bound for Hizbullah in Lebanon. They said the shipment included sophisticated, Russian-made SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles, which would be strategically "game-changing" in the hands of Hizbullah.
A U.S. official said the strike hit a convoy of trucks. All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the strike.
The White House declined to comment on the raid as senior U.S. officials hosted Israel's director of military intelligence for talks.
"I don't have any comment for you on those reports," said White House spokesman Jay Carney when asked about the air strike.
"I'd refer you to the government of Israel for questions about deliberations or actions that they may or may not have taken," he said.
News of the raid came as Major General Aviv Kochavi, director of military intelligence for Israeli forces, paid a visit to Washington for talks this week, defense officials said.
Kochavi met the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, on Tuesday and was expected to hold talks with his counterparts in military intelligence at the Defense Department, said two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Officials said Kochavi's visit had been planned long in advance.
Among Israeli security officials' chief fears is that Hizbullah could get its hands on Syrian chemical arms and SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles. If that were to happen, it would change the balance of power in the region and greatly hinder Israel's ability to conduct air sorties in Lebanon.
Israel suspects that Damascus obtained a battery of SA-17s from Russia after an alleged Israeli airstrike in 2007 that destroyed an unfinished Syrian nuclear reactor.
A senior Lebanese security official said there were no Israeli airstrikes inside Lebanese territory. Asked whether it could have been along the border on the Syrian side, he said that that could not be confirmed as it was out of his area of operations.
He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Earlier the Lebanese military, said twelve Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace in less than 24 hours, flying low in several sorties over villages in southern Lebanon.
A Lebanese security official said there has been increased Israeli activity over Lebanese airspace in the past week.
The flights come amid Israeli concerns about the civil war in neighboring Syria and fears that weapons could reach hostile groups in Syria or Hizbullah in Lebanon.
Earlier this week, Israel moved a battery of its new "Iron Dome" rocket defense system to the northern city of Haifa, which was battered by Hizbullah rocket fire in the 2006 war. The Israeli army called that move "routine."
A Lebanese army communique said the last of the sorties took place at 2:00 am local time Wednesday. It said four warplanes which flew in over the southernmost coastal town of Naqoura hovered for several hours over villages in south Lebanon before leaving Lebanese airspace.
It said similar flights by eight other warplanes were conducted Tuesday.
The Lebanese official said the flights were part of "increased activity" in the past week but did not elaborate. The area of Lebanon where the flights took place borders southern Syria.
Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace are not uncommon and Lebanese authorities routinely lodge complaints at the U.N. against the flights.
A former head of intelligence at Israel's Mossad spy service, Amnon Sofrin, said on Wednesday that the Jewish state "should make any effort to prevent any weapons systems of that kind (chemical) going out to terror organizations."
Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem before reports of the attack emerged, Sofrin said Israel was unlikely to carry out air strikes on chemical weapons stocks because of the environmental risks.
"When you go and attack a... chemical weapons depot, you're going to do unwarranted damage, because every part will leak out and can cause damage to many residents," he said.
"But if you know of a convoy leading these kind of (chemical) weapon systems from Syria to Lebanon, you can send a unit to the proper place and try to halt it" on the ground, he added.
On Monday, Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had "urgently dispatched" his national security adviser Yaakov Amidror to Russia to ask Moscow to use its influence in Syria to prevent the transfer of chemical weapons. | <urn:uuid:2a6b95b7-042d-427f-ae43-80624612a060> | 2013-05-18T18:06:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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When "The Good Wife" star Julianna Margulies arrived in the backstage press area, hefting her newly minted SAG Award—universally acknowledged as the heaviest statuette by all of the night's winners—at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, she was admittedly still in shock after winning her second consecutive Actor.
"I'm overwhelmed," she beamed. "Honestly, I was taken aback [to win]. I'm so grateful to have this job, let alone have people recognize it, watch it, and give you awards for it. It's an embarrassment of riches and I feel very lucky."
Asked about the show's glowing critical reception and devout fan following, Margulies said, "This character seems to bleed into different genres of life; the working woman, the mother, the wife, the woman who's been cheated on. I've had women come up to me and start weeping about their cheating husbands, [who say] 'Don't go back to him because I went back to my husband and he did it again.' It's a real honor to be part of a show that's viewed that way."
Today, Margulies has a loyal audience for her hit CBS show and is fondly remembered for her Emmy-winning tenure on "ER," but all actors have to start somewhere. On a night where she was honored by fellow members of her guild, the actress revealed the role that earned her SAG card.
"Ready?" she grinned, pausing for dramatic effect. "Ahem, Steven Seagal's 'Out for Justice.' I played a hooker with a heart of gold, which is what you do in a Steven Seagal movie. I made two thousand dollars, I remember, and I played a Puerto Rican hooker. I've come a long way."
"The Good Wife" airs Tuesday nights on CBS. | <urn:uuid:2487bd4c-71ff-4fa9-9286-6b39cda4e196> | 2013-05-18T18:08:37Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Arianna Huffington's popular website will fund an investigative wing.
Pop quiz hot shot: What websites push the most traffic to news sites that isn't a search engine?
Thinking Twitter or Facebook? Think again. Google +? Negative.
Instead a new study finds that political aggregratos The Drudge Report and The Huffington Post are two of the largest traffic aggregators to content sites, according to a study by Outbrain.
The right-leaning and left-leaning aggregation sites come in fourth and fifth place respectively, ahead of both Twitter and Facebook, after search sites Googele, Yahoo and a combination of MSN's Bing and Live.com.
The study found that Drudge was responsible for driving 6.85 percent of traffic to sites in Outbrain's publisher network, which includes sites such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mashable and MSNBC.
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A Tampa Bay teacher allegedly head-butted a 13-year-old student — twice. The second head-butt came because the student said the first one didn't hurt, police said.
A Tampa Bay area teacher faces charges after another teacher accused him of head-butting a student.
Tampa police report that 33-year-old William Chaney was arrested and charged Monday with child abuse and battery. He was later released on $2,500 bail.
Police say Chaney was in an AMI Kids classroom last Thursday when a 13-year-old student was "horsing around." A report says Chaney head-butted the boy twice after the boy side the first time didn't hurt.
Another teacher reported the incident to school officials, who reported it to authorities.
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A construction worker from Pennsylvania was charged Friday with brutally beating and attempting to rape a woman in a restroom at Midtown bar after she rejected his advances.The man, identified as 30-year-old Mbarek Lafrem, of Norwood, Pa., was charged with assault and attempted rape, chief police spokesman Paul Browne said.
A construction worker from Pennsylvania was charged Friday with brutally beating and attempting to rape a woman in a restroom at Midtown bar after she rejected his advances.
The man, identified as 30-year-old Mbarek Lafrem, of Norwood, Pa., was charged with assault and attempted rape, chief police
spokesman Paul Browne said. Lafrem made statements implicating himself in the beating, Browne said.
Lafrem had been working at a midtown construction site and was staying at a hotel near Social, a three-story bar and lounge on
Co-workers called police after seeing Lafrem in a video walking down the sidewalk after the attack, Browne said.
Police picked up Lafrem on Friday at the construction site.
The woman, a 29-year-old pediatric nurse from Connecticut, was hospitalized with a broken eye socket, broken jaw and other injuries. When she regained consciousness, she told hospital workers she had been attacked.
The woman told police that she had rebuffed attempts by the man to dance with her, said police spokesman Paul Browne. When she went to the women's restroom on the second floor, he followed her and burst into a stall.
The man beat the victim until she was unconscious. There was bloody evidence of the attack left in the bathroom, police said. The victim was discovered by a friend went to look for her after she failed to return to the bar. The friend assumed the victim had simply fallen, and had the bartender go across the street to a firehouse to get EMS help.
Later when the victim regained consciousness, she told staff at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center that she had been attacked. It was only then, at 5:30 a.m., when police were finally called in.
On Friday the hospital released a statement on behalf of the victim's family saying they wished to "express their sincere gratitude for the outpouring of support they have received." They also said they would not be granting any interviews at this time.
Midtown regulars were horrified at the news.
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Michael Jackson's 14-year-old daughter Paris told Oprah in an exclusive interview that she was bullied after her home schooling ended.
Michael Jackson's teen daughter Paris opened up to Oprah about the challenges she faced from bullies at school and online in an exclusive interview aired Sunday.
"People try, but it doesn’t always work," the 14-year-old said. "They try to get to me with words."
Paris said the bullying began after she stopped being home schooled, and she was never sure when people were trying to get close to her to take advantage of her, the U.K. Daily Mail reported.
She said she didn’t know why people chose to bully her and whether peer pressure or personal antipathy were to blame.
The daughter of the late King of Pop also opened up about her unusual childhood and the masks her father made her and her siblings wear when they were in public.
"I was really confused," she said of the disguises, one of many eccentricities of the former frontman of the Jackson 5. "I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now."
Paris said she is still struggling to cope with the death of her father almost three years ago, Paris said.
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