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Neville A. Cross
I am Admnistrative Manager at Hotel Mansion Teodolinda at Managua city, capital of Nicaragua. I have a business degree, so I am not a deep knowledgeable computer person. I am a Amateur Radio since 1993, and a enthusiast on packet radio. By now I have a license of the highest level.
My very first attempts with linux were with Red Hat around 1999, I had several hardware problems and leave it for some years. I took a book of FC4 bible in 2006 and have been using Fedora as my main OS ever since.
There is no much Linux formal training opportunities at Nicaragua, so I took a short course in Linux Server Administration based on openSUSE (May - June 2008). This helped me a lot to fill in where my empiric learning have left voids.
I have joined the local Fedora community called Fedora-ni on march 2008. By the same time I have joined the local LUG: GUL-NIC (Grupo de usuarios Linux de Nicaragua).
I applied to become fedora ambassador on August 20th, 2008.
Contact Data
- Blog: http://neville.siqueres.com (Spanish)
- Website: http://www.geocities.com/displicente (Spanish)
- E-mail: nacross (at) gmail (dot) com
- IRC: yn1v (usually #fedora-ni and #fedora-es at freenode when time allows it)
- Fedora Account: yn1v
- Location: Managua, Nicaragua. 1206.29 N / 08615.91 W
- Time Zone: UTC +06:00
- Languages: Spanish (first language), English (as second language), Portuguese (just a bit).
- Nacionality: Nicaraguan
- Higer Education:
- BA Business Administration - Universidad Centroamericana, Nicaragua.
- MSc Organisational Change and Development - The University of Manchester - United Kingdom.
- Call Sing: YN1V (for Amateur Radio)
Fedora Ambassador
- Editor of Fedora-ni wiki
- Support at the Fedora-ni Mailing List and Fedora-es Mailing List
- Free Media Program member since November 26th, 2008.
Projects as an Ambassador
- Promote a monthly gathering where users that get Fedora installed from different install parties can get support. Working with local FOSS community we have established Pizza-Bash events. This are an informal activity where people can get help face to face. I have been hanging Fedora posters and helping Fedora users.
- Set up a local repository at Nicaragua. In the mean time set up a private repository for updates a give access to users that do not have internet and also to be used at install parties without internet access. A local ISP has shown interest in this project, they are allocating server space for this.Update(19fed2009) the server is on. Most files are stored, rsync is completing them. Test looks fine so far.
- Participate in the Spanish translation of The unofficial Fedora FAQ
- Help on the documentation of Amateur Radio applications that are included on Fedora
Fedora Upcoming Activities
- Fedora 11 Lauch Party (details soon)
Fedora Past Activities
- 2008
- Fedora 10 Lauch Party (suspended)
- August 16th Un día con la UCA - UCA
- Coordinate the event
- July 22th Software Libre para No-Informáticos - UCA
- Coordinate the event
- Speak promoting GNUCash
FOSS Projects
- Set up a wiki to share instructions for setting up linux for amateur radio use. Specially the topics related to AX.25.
- Set up a local forum to provide support for GNUCash
FOSS Upcoming Activities
- February 21st and 28th Repo Workshop at UCA
- April 25th FLISOL 2009 - Nicaragua
FOSS Past Activities
- 2009
- March 26th Pizza-Bash IV at Hotel Mansión Teodolinda
- Fedora face to face support - Fedora Media distribution
- March 25th DFD 2009 at UAM
- Speach
- Fedora Media Distribution
- CD Libre Media distribution
- March 21st Linux Tour Honduras as Universidad Politécnica, Tegucigalpa, HONDURAS
- Speach
- Fedora Media Distribution
- Fedora T-shirt gifts
- March 20th Linux Tour Honduras at Universidad Tecnologica Centroamericana, San Pedro Sula, HONDURAS
- Speach
- Fedora Media Distribution
- Fedora T-shirt gifts
- February 20th Pizza-Bash III at Hotel Mansión Teodolinda
- Fedora face to face support - media distribution
- January 23th Pizza-Bash II at Hotel Mansión Teodolinda
- Fedora face to face support - media distribution
- March 26th Pizza-Bash IV at Hotel Mansión Teodolinda
- 2008
- December 19th Pizza Bash at ISI Managua
- Fedora face to face support - media distribution
- September 26th Ubuntu Barcamp 1.5
- Drinker
- September 20th Software Freedom Day Nicaragua 2008 at UCA
- Staff - Coordinate the conference area.
- One of the best event world wide!
- August 14th Dia Debian 2008 at UNI-IES
- Provide a projector
- June 20th openSUSE day at UNICIT
- Support
- June 14th Mandriva Install Party 2008 at UNI-IES
- Support
- Provide Projector
- June 13th Ubuntu Translation Sprint at ISI
- Translator - 84 strings
- June 12th Jornada Ubuntera at UCA
- Speach
- Provide Projector
- June 5th Jornada Ubuntera at UCA
- Provide a projector
- June 4th to 6th Feria Tecnologica at UNAN-Managua
- Support
- May 23th Linux Tour at ISI Managua
- Support
- April 26th FLISOL 2008 at UNAN
- Registration Desk
- December 19th Pizza Bash at ISI Managua
- Article: Software Freedom at Nicaragua at Observador Economico Magazine online version (spanish)


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State Representative wants free sex change operations for all Massachusetts residents
James Lyons 'outraged' by Michelle Kosilek decision
Andover State Rep. James Lyons is so outraged at a ruling requiring the state to pay the lawyers' fees of a convicted murderer who wants a sex change that he plans to file a bill that would give all Massachusetts residents the same legal benefits, the Eagle-Tribune reported.
Lyons, a Republican, said he will introduce the measure when the new Legislature takes office. The bill is being co-sponsored by Rep. Marc Lombardo, R-Billerica.
Michelle Kosilek, 63, was convicted of killing Cheryl Kosilek by strangling her.
Robert Kosilek changed her name to Michelle Kosilek in 1993, claiming she suffered from a gender identity disorder. She sued the state Department of Correction, demanding that the agency pay for a sex change operation.
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled in her favor in September and ordered the state to fund the operation. The judge also ordered the state to pay Kosilek's legal expenses, which Lombardo estimated exceed $700,000.
Lyons told the newspaper that if the state is going to be forced to pay a convicted murderer's legal fees resulting from a demand for a sex change, then the Legislature should consider extending that privilege to every Massachusetts resident.
"This is an issue of fundamental fairness," Lyons said. "The hard working citizens who follow the rules and pay their taxes do not qualify for benefits like this. If we provide extravagant benefits like this to a vicious murderer, then why deny them to the law abiding citizenry? It's a simple matter of fairness and justice."
Lyons did not directly answer the question of whether he thought the bill would pass.


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Borders has bought a stake in on-line book seller Kobo, which will take over the bookselling giant's eBook store and extend the service onto PDA phones too.
Borders UK might be clearing the shelves, but the US company is expanding its electronic presence in the face of competition from Amazon and Barnes & Nobel amongst others. Borders already has a decent store selling eBooks, but only in ePub format and bound up in Adobe's Digital Editions DRM. Kobo supports Adobe too, but additionally has its own format with associated clients for the iPhone , Android, Palm Pre, and Blackberry devices with a back end that can cope with providing the same title in multiple formats.
Adobe's Digital Editions works across eReader devices, including just about everything except Amazon's Kindle, but Kindle books can be read on an iPhone while Adobe's system is limited to dedicated eReaders and desktop computers.
The ePub format is an open standard, albeit one managed by Adobe, so anyone can create a client application (an open-source one for Windows Phones was launched last week) but those only work for DRM-free texts - protected content is restricted.
It's possible that Adobe will release its Digital Editions for PDA phones; it would certainly make the platform more competitive with the Kindle and there's no obvious technical reason why it couldn't be done, but nor is there any sign that such an application is in development: Borders obviously decided it couldn't wait.
Kobo reckons to have two million books listed, but most of those are freebies - free books serve a useful purpose in giving customers the confidence that they can read, and enjoy, an eBook, but they present a dilemma for a book store unused to giving away the product.
Some have suggested that Borders could launch its own hardware, as Barnes & Nobel has done with the Nook, and Amazon with its Kindle, but while the Nook might be a flagship device even B&N has made it clear that its content will be available for other devices such as the long-awaited Que from Plastic Logic. So the question becomes whether Borders needs a flagship device to be taken seriously, or if customers are ready for a device-independent retailer. ®


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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor James Avery has died, TMZ reports. He was 65.
Avery passed away at a Glendale, Calif., hospital while recovering from open heart surgery.
"The world has lost a truly special man. I am very saddened to say that James Avery has passed," Alfonso Ribeiro, who played Avery's son on the sitcom, posted on his Facebook. "Even though he played my father on TV, he was a wonderful father figure to me in life. He will be deeply missed."
Avery's most famous role came in 1990 when he was cast as patriarch Philip Banks, dubbed "Uncle Phil" by Will Smith, on NBC's The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The series ended in 1996. In 2011, Avery and his former costars reunited for a charity event.
Born in Virginia, Avery appeared on many shows throughout his career including That '70s Show, CSI, The Closer and most recently Grey's Anatomy. He also voiced The Shredder in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle series.
Avery is survived by his wife Barbara.


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Tina started this week's off-topic posts with cats, and I kept it going, but I thought I'd close out the week with some dogs. Not just any dog. Ginger, one of the internet's greatest dogs.
Look, I don't know why it's so funny. I mean, I know why it's funny. But I still don't know why it's so funny. But I could watch videos of ginger eating stuff and working at a desk all day.
The laugh track is redundant for this one.
Ginger's ability to keep those ears on is makes her the definition of "good dog."
This is maybe my favorite… because of the leather jacket.
Anyhow. It's been a stressful week! I figured everyone might want to unwind with some videos of a dog with person arms. Feel free to discuss ginger, or anything else you like, here or in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. Have a wonderful weekend.


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My first thought was Snow Bunny Padme but i am pretty sure the clone wars line isnt starting up that early. A rebel fleet trooper would be good and needed. What other battlepacks came out this year?
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The early battle packs were Ilum, Felucia, Tantive IV. I guess you'd have to count Treachery on Saleucemi as well.
Rebel Fleet Trooper.
Quote from: Dressel Rebel on December 7, 2007, 09:16 PMRebel Fleet Trooper.If you're right, I'm going to start collecting names of people who want to help me compile an army of 500 POTJ Rebel Fleet Troopers to send to Jesse.
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Avg Price in Trophy Club: $636,500 / County Avg $536,300
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My cooperating teacher loaned me a book to read to give me some insight into the lives and minds of middle school students: Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers.
The Highlights of Middle School
- I got the opportunity to help a student open his locker today. I actually ended up having to do the combination three times before it would open. That's something that didn't happen at the high school level.
- I also had my first experience working with students who are hard-of-hearing. During two class periods, there is an interpreter. I ended up getting a little flustered while helping one of the students for the first time. Because though I was talking to the student, he was looking at the interpreter. It was difficult for me to see how much the student was understanding.
- One girl adamantly refused to let me help her with her homework. Her reasoning: her sister who is in high school can explain it in a way she can understand. When I asked her if I could try to explain it, she said that my explanation wouldn't be as good since I didn't know what she called a popsicle when she was a baby. Umm...
- One boy decided that he and I should have a secret handshake. So, if having a secret handshake had been on my bucket list, I could have crossed that off after today.


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'It's A Great Day In South Carolina,' If You Have A Job
South Carolina has an unemployment rate of 9.9 percent, above the current national figure.
But that's not the message you'll get if you call Republican Gov. Nikki Haley's office, where you'll be greeted with a cheery message: "It's a great day in South Carolina ..."
And that's the same message you'll receive when calling any other state agency. Or attend any recent event with the governor, like one last month in Columbia where TD Bank announced its plans to create a regional hub.
"It's another great day in South Carolina, and we celebrate TD Bank's decision to increase its operations throughout our state and create 1,600 new jobs," Haley said.
The conservative governor took some heat recently for mandating that state agencies use such an upbeat greeting when the unemployment rate is higher than the national figure.
But Haley points to the more than 15,000 new jobs she has announced in South Carolina since January.
In October, Nephron Pharmaceuticals announced it will invest $313 million in Lexington County to build a new manufacturing plant and hire more than 700 people. That same month, Continental Tire also announced a $500 million investment to build a manufacturing plant in Sumter County.
Both were called "big wins" by Haley, who recently endorsed GOP presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
"Big Wins" To Correct A Big Loss
For some perspective on those 15,000 new jobs, consider that South Carolina's economy has lost 78,000 jobs since its employment peak in 2007. The vast majority of those jobs were in construction, and that was a major blow to fast-growing counties that are the engine of South Carolina's economy.
Before the recession, people flocked to places like York County to build new homes in a rural setting with a quick commute to the once-booming Charlotte region of neighboring North Carolina.
Now, York County's unemployment rate is 11.1 percent, the highest of the state's large counties.
John Harding is a custom-home builder in York County, but the only home he is building at the moment is his own. In 2008, Harding had eight employees and work backed up six to eight weeks. Now it's just him and his wife, with business down by half.
"They're killing the economy. They're absolutely killing it," said Harding, when asked about his opinion of Congress and President Obama.
Harding is looking for a strong leader to take charge. But he has yet to make up his mind and is not certain the current field of Republican presidential candidates has the answer.
"I'm not sure that even the Republican Party right now has that person," said Harding. "You know, Mitt's got a lot of problems. Newt Gingrich's got a lot of problems. I tell you, Michele [Bachmann] ... a lot of people need to be looking at her."
Undecided Voters Look For Economic Solutions
Indecision is a hallmark of South Carolina Republican sentiment in the coming primary. The economy may be the top issue for voters, but voters are not at all sure who can fix it. In seemingly every poll, a different presidential candidate pulls ahead.
Meanwhile, South Carolina's economic picture is far from monochrome: Optimism is popping up among job searchers in metro areas that are starting to rebound.
"I think we're getting there, because there's some people that have started out with their unemployment with me that have found jobs within the last six months, so I think that's better," says Cheryl Jenerette, who lost her York County government job two years ago.
Neighboring Chester County is a different story.
Its unemployment rate is 14.1 percent. In 2010, it was above 20 percent. This is one of many rural South Carolina areas where textile mills once employed entire towns.
Now, the mills are closed and the state's shift toward modern manufacturing has left Chester behind. Low education levels are a key problem, so Chester residents raised millions of dollars to open a technical college campus in 2009.
The college has given people like Walter Turner a reason to stay in town, while so many of his peers flee in search of work. Turner, the 20-year-old son of a former millworker, hopes to become a graphic designer.
2012 will be his first time voting, and the economy is on his mind,
I mean, who's to blame for unemployment rates? I don't really know. ... I hope a Republican will come up who can do better.
"I mean, who's to blame for unemployment rates? I don't really know," remarked Turner. "I guess, I hope, I hope a Republican will come up who can do better."
Outside the Chester County unemployment office, Juanita Johnson's hopes are focused on finding work to replace the job she just lost at a snack food plant an hour away.
"It's just, there's nothing. It's poor morale right now, because you got just enough to get by," said Johnson.
And all those new jobs the governor's been announcing? So far, only 50 have arrived in Chester County.
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Public says take Obamacare and shove it
Obama fails to understand he is on his way out!
The massive coast-to-coast campaign to get people to sign up for Obamacare is light on mentions of one central element: the widely-disliked individual mandate.
Poll after poll has found that Americans don't like being told they have to get insurance or face a penalty. So the groups doing outreach don't plan to draw much attention to it.
"For the most part no, because [the mandate] doesn't apply to very many people at all," said Ethan Rome, executive director of Health Care for America Now, citing government estimates that only a small proportion of uninsured Americans would actually face a penalty by 2016.
The early stages of the enrollment push has been all honey and no vinegar. Organizing for Action, President Barack Obama's advocacy group, has released two ads focusing on the law's benefits. Other advocates are counting on Mom to get their adult kids to sign up. Oregon's exchange released its first ads this week, featuring – what else? – indie musicians strumming on guitars for the "Live Long Oregonians" campaign.
No mention of the "m" word.
The GOP has no such compunctions. Republicans reclaimed the individual mandate as an attack line this month, vowing to put it on hold for at least a year now that the White House has delayed until 2015 a parallel requirement for businesses. Putting off one set of rules while forging ahead with another just isn't fair, say Republican lawmakers, who'll force House votes on each mandate Wednesday.
The Obama administration staked its health care law on a politically sensitive requirement that individuals get covered or pay a fine and it fought all the way to the Supreme Court to keep the mandate in place. The court kept the mandate alive last year by ruling that it was a tax – which didn't exactly help its popularity problem.
With all that baggage in the background, don't count on Obamacare supporters to bring a "sign up or else" mandate message as they strive to enroll millions in the health insurance system just a few months from now. The penalty for not having insurance the first year is only $95, although that will rise in the future.
The whole idea of the mandate was to make sure enough people purchase health insurance to make it possible to include the things in Obamacare that people generally like, such as a ban on discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions and outlawing lifetime and annual caps on insurance. Those elements are getting attention in OFA's ad campaign.
"Before Obamacare, insurance companies could put lifetime caps on your health insurance. Once you hit that cap they don't pay anymore," says a mother of a young girl in OFA's second Obamacare ad released this week. "Obamacare ended lifetime caps," a narrator states.
Without a requirement for everyone to get covered, the fear is people would wait until they were sick to get coverage. And if only the sick get covered, insurance costs would go through the roof.
Jon Kingsdale, who oversaw the rollout of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform law that featured an individual mandate, said the state was upfront about the requirement, without making it the central message of the outreach.
"We were pretty direct – it's the law, you need to do it," said Kingsdale, who now advises states on Obamacare implementation. "The messaging and advertising and so forth is about the value of insurance, as opposed to the requirement for insurance."
But that was in Massachusetts, where health care reform was bipartisan. One reason the controversy died down nationally for a while after the Supreme Court decision was that GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney couldn't run against the individual mandate when it was the centerpiece of the health plan passed when he was governor.
In the view of many Republicans, the White House's abrupt decision during the July 4 holiday week to put the employer mandate on ice until 2015 made the requirements for individuals fair game.
via Obamacare's missing mandate – Jason Millman – POLITICO.com.


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — CC Sabathia turned and looked over his right shoulder, watching intently after Nate McLouth turned on a 93 mph fastball and sent it soaring down the right-field line.
Yankees-Orioles. Playoffs. Disputed home run.
McLouth's long drive was called foul by the slimmest of margins — hello, Jeffrey Maier — and New York hung on to beat Baltimore 3-1 Friday in the deciding Game 5 of the AL division series.
Sixteen years later, the Orioles still can't find the right stuff in the Bronx.
1010 WINS' Sonia Rincon With Elated Yankee Fans
With Alex Rodriguez benched, the Yankees advanced to the AL championship series against the Detroit Tigers, starting Saturday night in the Bronx.
"It is still a long way to go," Sabathia said. "I still got hopefully three or four more starts. So the job is not done yet."
Sabathia pitched a four-hitter, wriggling out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth inning for his first complete game in 17 postseason starts, and the first for the Yankees since Roger Clemens in 2000.
PHOTO GALLERY: Yankees Advance To ALCS
Yet it was another piece of history that this game evoked.
The Orioles were in a foul mood, stung on a close play in right that echoed what happened across the street at the old Yankee Stadium in the 1996 AL championship opener, on a fly ball involving the young Maier that still stirs emotions in Baltimore.
This time, with the Orioles trailing 1-0 in the sixth, McLouth sent a 3-1 pitch deep. Eyes turned to right field umpire Fieldin Culbreth, who demonstrably waved foul with both arms.
Orioles manager Buck Showalter jogged onto the field to ask for a video review, and four umpires went down a tunnel on the third-base side examine the images on a screen near their dressing room. When they ran back onto the field about two minutes later, they didn't make any signal — meaning the original call stood. McLouth struck out on the next pitch, ending the inning.
"I saw it go to the right of the pole," Culbreth said. "There is netting there and it didn't touch the netting. It did not change direction," he added, indicating he did not think the ball grazed the pole.
Added crew chief Brian Gorman: "We saw the same thing on the replay. There was no evidence to overturn the decision."
Showalter? Not sure.
"I couldn't tell. It was real close," he said.
McLouth wondered, too, what the umps would decide.
"It started off fair and it was just hooking a little bit. I thought it was foul just in game speed," McLouth said. "A couple of people mentioned it might've ticked the pole, but he was way closer than I was and I was satisfied after they went down and looked at the replay that it was foul."
That's the way Yankees right fielder Nick Swisher saw it.
"I didn't see any redirection," he said. "If it had hit, I would have been the first to know."
Steven Ellis, a fan from the Broad Channel section of Queens, caught the ball with his Yankee cap in the second deck.
"It was foul all the way, never hit the pole," he said.
Ada Cruz, sitting behind Ellis, added: "No way, no way. I watched it and he caught it."
A stadium usher who wouldn't give his name, however, said he saw the ball glance off the pole.
Back in 1996, the 12-year-old Maier reached over the wall above right fielder Tony Tarasco and deflected Derek Jeter's fly ball. Umpire Richie Garcia called it a home run, which tied the score 4-all in the eighth inning, and the Yankees went on to win in the 11th.
"Just watching at home, I promise," Maier texted to The Associated Press after this play.
Sabathia defeated the Orioles for the second time in six days, Raul Ibanez hit a go-ahead single in the fifth off Jason Hammel after former Baltimore high school star Mark Teixeira singled and swiped second in a rare steal. Diving second baseman Robert Andino just missed gloving Ibanez's hit.
Ichiro Suzuki added an RBI double of the right-center field wall in the sixth. Curtis Granderson boosted the lead to 3-0 with a second-deck solo homer against Troy Patton in the seventh.
Sabathia, who improved to 4-0 in his last eight postseason starts, didn't allow an extra-base hit. He struck out eight and walked two and matched his season high of 121 pitches.
"He didn't pitch all five, but it certainly felt like it, didn't it?" Showalter said.
Since going winless in four straight starts in late August and early September, Sabathia is 4-0 with a 1.51 ERA in five outings.
"He's our go-to guy," Jeter said. "He's been our go-to guy since he's been here."
Sabathia took a one-hit shutout into the eighth but allowed Matt Wieters' leadoff single and Manny Machado's walk. Mark Reynolds struck out, and Lew Ford — starting at DH in place of Jim Thome — hit an RBI single.
Andino hit a bouncer to the third-base side that Sabathia gloved, but Eric Chavez left third uncovered and Sabathia's throw to second was late, leaving the bases loaded. With David Robertson warming up in the New York bullpen, McLouth struck out on a changeup and Sabathia escaped when J.J. Hardy hit a slow three-hopper to shortstop that Jeter, playing on a sore left ankle, charged and gloved elegantly before throwing to first just in time.
Sabathia pitched a 1-2-3 ninth, finishing a 121-pitch effort as Wieters hit a comebacker. The Yankees ran out of their dugout to celebrate on the third-base side of the mound and the Orioles walked off slowly and somberly.
New York doesn't have much time to get ready for the Tigers. Andy Pettitte, the career postseason leader with 19 wins, starts for the Yankees with a rested bullpen behind him, opposed by Doug Fister.
"I came back to hopefully help this club get into this position," Pettitte said.
For Baltimore, which beat Texas in the first AL wild-card playoff, it was a disappointing ending to a renaissance season for the proud franchise. The Orioles went 93-69, finishing behind the Yankees in an AL East race decided on the final night, and ended a streak of 14 consecutive losing seasons.
"It's been about as much fun as I have had in the big leagues watching how they play the game every day, the standard they held themselves to and the way they raised the bar in Baltimore with each other," said Showalter, who has not reached the LCS in 14 major league seasons.
New York won for the 12th time in 23 meetings between the teams in a matchup so close the Yankees outscored the Orioles 106-102. The teams were within one run of each other at the end of 46 of 52 innings in the division series. New York totaled just 16 runs in the five games and Baltimore 10, ending a dynamic six-week struggle. After 10 different nights in September, the two rivals were tied for first.
"They are a very good club and they are a very resilient club," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "You have a bunch of young kids over there that just play the game the right way and play hard. And you think about it, we played 23 games, and there were four runs that separated us. It's an accomplishment for both clubs because they never went away. People thought they were going to go away, they never went away."
A-Rod (2 for 16), Robinson Cano (2 for 22), Swisher (2 for 18) and Granderson (3 for 19) all slumped against Baltimore. The Yankees advanced despite hitting .219 with runners in scoring position (7 for 32) — but Baltimore was 3 for 22 in that situation during the three games in New York.
Slumping Orioles hitter included Wieters (3 for 20), Hardy (3 for 22) and Jones (2 for 23).
"It's just unfortunate a lot of guys got cold at the wrong time," Adam Jones said.
With a 5:07 p.m. start on the first chilly night of autumn, there was an unusual sight at Yankee Stadium at the start — large patches of empty seats. And Baltimore fans could be heard chanting "O" during "The Star-Spangled Banner." But the ballpark filled up by the middle innings.
The 37-year-old Rodriguez, hitless in 12 at-bats against right-handed pitchers with nine strikeouts, was a spectator, too, in a decision that could have long-term repercussions for the Yankees, who owe him $114 million over the next five seasons. He did not speak with reporters after the game.
Chavez, who replaced A-Rod at third base, went 0 for 3 with a pair of strikeouts.
In the Yankees clubhouse, where anything less than a World Series is failure, the celebration was muted. Three postseason wins down, eight to go.
"We'll enjoy this one for a few minutes," Jeter said, "and then get ready for tomorrow"
NOTES: The crowd of 47,081 was the smallest in 18 postseason games at new Yankee Stadium, which opened in 2009. … New York is 11-3 in the ALCS. … The 26 runs were the fewest in a five-game postseason series since St. Louis (12) and Arizona (10) combined for 22 runs in the 2001 NLDS.
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Spring Break
Will you be taking a spring break this year? March seems to be the time of year to head out for a little respite for those suffering from Cabin Fever. College students, free from classes, flock to the beaches where there is plenty of sunshine. Party time!
The Iowa Tourism Office sent out a news release, offering family-friendly spring break options. Shawna Lode, Manager of the Iowa Tourism Office, suggests:
Big 12 Gymnastics Championships, March 23 (Ames, www.cyclones.com)
The Iowa State University Cyclones will compete against Oklahoma and West Virginia as they host the 2013 Big 12 Gymnastics Championships. This marks the third time the event has taken place at Hilton Coliseum.
Kings Pointe Resort (Storm Lake, www.kingspointeresort.com)
Guests at King's Pointe can stay in the hotel or family sized cabins, splash and slide in the indoor and outdoor water parks rent numerous types of watercraft and enjoy outstanding dining options.
Long Lines Family Recreational Center (Sioux City, www.sioux-city.org/llfrc)
The Long Lines Center features a world-class 53-foot climbing wall and free-standing boulder where visitors can practice their rock-climbing techniques, and a Tiny Tot Indoor Gym with toys, games, and activities for children ages 1-7.
Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park (Grimes, www.skyzone.com/DesMoines)
Sky Zone features wall-to-wall, interconnected trampolines that form a massive trampoline surface. More, Sky Zone is enclosed with angled trampolines so visitors can literally bounce off the walls.
A T. Rex Named Sue at the Science Center of Iowa (Des Moines, www.sciowa.org)
Discovered in the cliffs of the Cheyenne River in western South Dakota, Sue is the largest, most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever found. At 42 feet long and 12 feet high at the hip, Sue was one of the largest flesh-eaters to have ever inhabited the earth, and a dramatic, life-sized skeleton is the centerpiece of this special exhibition.
Union Pacific Railroad Museum (Council Bluffs, www.uprrmuseum.org)
The "Building America" exhibit incorporates video game technology to put visitors to work at the scene of the transcontinental railroad construction. From entering a tunnel at Donner Summit to trying their hand at driving a spike, visitors will see the 19th century feat of technology and engineering come to life like never before.
World's Greatest Spring Break for Kids (downtown Waterloo, www.worldsgreatestspringbreak.com)
Eight locations, including the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum, Phelps Youth Pavilion and Bluedorn Science Imaginarium, team up to provide families with the world's greatest spring break. Extended hours, $1 admission to each location and special events, March 18-22.
You really don't have to travel to enjoy spring break. Here are some local options the family can enjoy:
A family afternoon at the Smith Wellness Center.
Ice fishing on Five Island Lake.
Plan a trip to the Lost Island Nature Center at Ruthven.
Interested in museums? Call to make an appointments to visit the Victorian on Main Museum in Emmetsburg or the West Bend Historical Museum.
Take your family to a Sunday matinee at the Riviera Theatre, downtown Emmetsburg.
Round up some snowshoes or cross country skis for some outdoor fun.
Walk across town to visit a friend.
Build a snowman.
We have a lot to offer right here in your backyard. And don't forget the ultimate spring break activity:
Emmetsburg's St. Patrick's Celebration!


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in reply to Re: Node cache refactoring (DBI profiling)
in thread Node cache refactoring
I just had an idea: We should have a nodelet (allowed for all -- that is, in sidebar nodelets or the allowed-to-all section of allowed nodelets) that gives the current web & db server load (probably cached), and, perhaps more importantly, how much db load this page caused. (Being a nodelet means that it will miss load caused by later nodelets, but I think that's better then putting it at the very bottom, where it's too easy to not notice.)
The best way to do this would seem to be adding $NODE->{node_id} (the node id of the node being rendered) and $USER->{title} (the username of the logged-in user) (possibly also a unique id for the HTTP request, but I'm not sure how to generate that -- mod_perl, as opposed to CGI, thing, thing).
Then the nodelet would have to sum up the information by parsing the logfile.
Come to think of that, that last step is probably rather difficult. A better way may be for the loging methods to also add information to $HTMLVARS (a global hashref, which is reloaded with every request).
In fact, we could also add logic to add daily totals to $VARS (user settings), which show how much total DB load you have caused today. That may be too much overhead for the logging methods, though -- they'd have to check if the day has changed every time. Also, that would mean yet more data in each fetch and store of the user, which is generaly a bad thing.
If you want, I can start working up code.
Warning: Unless otherwise stated, code is untested. Do not use without understanding. Code is posted in the hopes it is useful, but without warranty. All copyrights are relinquished into the public domain unless otherwise stated. I am not an angel. I am capable of error, and err on a fairly regular basis. If I made a mistake, please let me know (such as by replying to this node).


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Brisbane's BNI B2B group meet every Thursday morning in the Brisbane Club in the heart of Brisbane's CBD and we generate thousands of dollars in business every month from high quality referrals. Join us as a visitor for a delicious breakfast and see how 30+ complementary businesses work together and network in a relaxed, supportive and professional atmosphere.
What are my transport/parking options for getting to and from the event?
Discounted secure parking is available at Secure Parking, Queens Plaza, 250 Edward Street, Brisbanentry corner Edward and Adelaide Streets). At the time of writing, the parking, which is avialble for the full day, is capped at $22 with a validated ticket. Tickets can be validated at the Brisbane Club. This is subject to change. Please call to confirm. Central Train Station is a 300 meter walk from the venue.
What's the refund policy?
Tickets are non refundable from midnight Tuesday before the event's booked date.
When should I book?
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Source: Former school board member used man's academic record
Man says Anthony Hamilton's name linked to his Social Security number at Coppin
The man who resigned from the Baltimore City school board on Thursday, questioned about false credentials, used another man's academic record, according to a graduate of Coppin State University.
According to sources, while working at Coppin State University as an admissions counselor, Anthony Hamilton got the security codes needed to have access to student records. He then changed the transcripts of another man, sources said, to make it appear as if he was the one who had the degree.
WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team lead investigative reporter Jayne Miller spoke with that man by phone Friday afternoon. He said he realized the problem eight or nine years ago when he tried to get a copy of his record from Coppin.
"They could not locate it by my name. But when I gave my Social Security number, they were able to pull it up, but it was not my name on it. It was his name on it under my Social Security number. Anthony Hamilton's name was on my transcript," the man said.
The man told the I-Team that the Attorney General's Office got involved at the time, but no charges were filed. The man said Hamilton left his job at Coppin but continued to use the man's academic record to earn a living and build a resume.
"He used five years of my hard work at Coppin, putting myself through school and he's made money," the man said.
Last month, Hamilton was appointed by the mayor and governor to the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners, claiming a resume that included the degree from Coppin and a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University -- neither is true, according to those institutions.
The city is now investigating Hamilton's background.
Not only did he use apparently falsified records to get the school board appointment, in 2008, he got a job in the city Health Department that requires at least a bachelor's degree. Hamilton still holds that job, which pays $52,000 a year, even though he may not have the necessary qualifications.
Hamilton worked as a substitute teacher in the city school system in 2006.
The man with whom the I-Team spoke on Friday said he complained to the system about the misuse of his transcript.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 18 (UPI) -- A geologic anomaly 60 miles under central California is a remnant of an ancient oceanic plate pushed under North America 100 million years ago, scientists say.
Known as the Isabella anomaly, the large mass of cool, dehydrated material is a "fossil" slab of the Farallon oceanic plate, linked to known Farallon slabs at similar depths under Washington, Oregon and Baja California in Mexico, Brown University geophysicists reported Monday.
It is also due east of a known fragment still off the California coast, they said.
Most of the Farallon plate has been driven deep into the Earth's mantle since the Pacific and North American plates began converging about 100 million years ago, forming the San Andreas Fault at their boundary.
Off the west coast of North America, the Farallon plate fragmented, leaving a few small remnants at the surface that stopped subducting and became part of the Pacific plate, researchers said.
"Many had assumed that these pieces would have broken off quite close to the surface," Brown researcher Donald Forsyth said.
"We're suggesting that they actually broke off fairly deep, leaving these large slabs behind."
The findings could force scientists to re-examine the tectonic history of western North America, Forsyth said.


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Greece is an underdog, in many ways. But it faces particularly long odds in Friday's game against Germany in the Euro 2012 quarterfinals.
This is football we're talking about. Soccer for you Yanks.
The match, in official parlance, is fraught with political overtones.
(Insert witty sports metaphor here).
For Greece, it presents an opportunity to score a symbolic victory over the nation's "paymaster," as the Germans have become known.
Related: Fight for pride moves from summit to pitch
But there is something else riding on the game: Money.
On this score, Germany is by far the safer bet, according to the odds-makers at sportingbet.com.
The bookies give Germany 3/10 odds. Greece gets 17/2, meaning a 2 pound bet would yield a 17 pound payout if Greece wins.
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We're Moving to Reddit!
Dear faithful wOwaholics followers,
We've decided to pack up shop and move the site to Reddit for the following reasons:
- Increased ease of submitting and moderating content
- Improved commenting system
Hopefully these changes will give us a tighter sense of community.
Check out the new site at: http://www.reddit.com/r/nowow/
We will be gradually reposting your stories on the new site.
If you do now want your own individual story transferred, please contact us via reddit mail.
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The man who jumped the train and never returned
So I'm currently an ex-Wow player, been playing since around 2005 on and off.
While WoW is rather liberal with the game time (you can just pop right in, do a hour and then quit while some other games will consume your time with puzzles which can take days to solve), it's mostly extended to the point where you will be spending every second trying to achieve something in the game.
While many say that one symptom of an addiction is denial I would strongly disagree, it's if you're in control or conscious of what you are doing if you are not then you might be addicted.
And to tell you the truth, I've never felt that.
Every second I've played on WoW, I've enjoyed, I didn't play it because it was some job I had to maintain or something like that.
Not at all, I did it to achieve something in the game which gave me joy.
Be it competitive in the guild or just some silly mount, it still was joyful and really kind of an new way to gain experiences in life (some more benefiting than others).
And while this may sound a bit like a requirement back to WoW.
It isn't the point.
It's to raise awareness that as long as you can control and see what you're doing and you're fine with that.
Go and do that.
I quit WoW whenever I felt like it, because I knew that I wouldn't loose anything.
But to sum it up and to have a little tips on how to make sure you never get way to hooked on WoW or anything, simply think this:
"Friends, Family, Others before the game/work/etc.".
Thanks for reading!
WoW wants you to stay addicted
I started playing WoW around Christmas 2007, and didn't stop until April 2009 or so (right about after Ulduar came out). Essentially, my second half of my freshman year and all of my sophomore year of college. My grades tanked--I was an engineering major and apparently the stuff you learn in sophomore year are important to the other years. My grades only began to recover the second semester of my senior year when I had finally caught up.
In order to quit I first weened myself off by playing ES IV (Oblivion). It was so liberating to be able to pause the game and quit whenever you felt like it. I met my girlfriend September 2009, and she showed me the futility of games generally. There's no point in sitting and staring at a box all day. Even if you do well in the game, what does that matter?
I remember my ex one time complaining that he couldn't put guild-leader on his resume. I think that's when I realized I had to quit. That on top of the fact that WoW isn't a fun game. It's a grind, and it's exhausting.
I sold my account, and it ended up getting completely banned. It didn't matter. I felt so free and clean.
And then, Blizz allowed WoW to be free to play under level 20. I immediately took advantage of these trials, and the next thing I knew, I had purchased up through WOTLK (it was only $10 each...Cata was out at that point, and you got free months of play).
Yet I started grad school so I let my "free" game time run out. I was great, I was clean. And then I logged in the other day at had a Cata 10-day trial. I don't want to play again. Yet somehow I am now looking at a level 71 char that used to be 60 a few days ago. I even purchased the $10 copy of Cata because of the discount.
My free trial runs out in a half an hour, and I already want to go back. WoW wants you to stay addicted--that's why it's always free to play. Even a few bgs that go horribly, and I want more. I know that if I play, if I hit the level cap, if I begin raiding...I know that this won't make me happy. I know that any victory is fleeting and at the end of the day, my head is dizzy from playing. Yet I have this impulse to keep going.
I never thought of it as an addiction before--I always thought because it wasn't an altering substance that didn't really make sense. But I realize something. I'm hiding my playing from my girlfriend now. And that seems like a dark and scary road. Some people solve this problem by playing with their significant other. But that seems even further removed from reality than needed.
I feel like I need help, and I'm glad I found this site. I hope people can understand that Blizzard just wants your money and wants to find ways to manipulate you into playing again. I feel like a fool for having purchased the $10 Cata. Even with the newest expansion I really don't have a desire to play. This game is terrible and getting worse.
I think I'm going to turn to books to save me this time, not Oblivion. But what bothers me is even getting rid of your major account isn't enough. The impulse never goes away, and I don't understand how this happened to me again.
My former best friend will NOT get off this game.
He has not quit yet, and I don't think he will. He plays from when he gets home at 3 all the way until 2-4 in the morning. He wakes up and is tired as hell, and this is a cycle that repeats indefinitely. He has no real friends other than me and a few other guys, and is extremely socially awkward because of his WoW addiction. All he talks about is the game, and he makes tons of references to it in real life even if nobody gets them. He is never seen without his laptop, and if his laptop (even as school or work laptop) can't run the game on max settings, he refuses to buy it.
His parents are also rich, so he can use their credit card to buy new shit for the game and they wont even notice.
I hate this game with a passion, Blizzard NEEDS to address addiction on their website. This is freaking ridiculous how people lose their ENTIRE lives due to a fantasy world. To hell with Blizzard, who is even WORSE than activision, and to hell with that friend. I can't even stand him anymore because of his addiction.
World of Warcraft
Ha, I'm a 26 year old male and about a year ago I quit playing wow. 4 1/2 years prior I was known as either Arielle or Jezielle, depending on the realm I played on. It started out amazing, best thing since sliced bread, and soon I was in head over heals. I became one of those players who knew everything about the game: the lore, the way things worked, the exploits, how to get stuff done, multiple realms economy and guild political status. My wife, family, job, and many more things soon began to here all of this. All I could talk about, all I could think about, and do in my spare time was wow. I quit about 3 or 4 times before actually quitting for good. I tried other mmo's, I tried deleting my toons, I tried attaching an authenticator and then "loosing it" but successfully found ways back to wow after each one. Finally, I deleted wow and even dropped Windows as my computers operating system. It would be harder for me to play wow if I started using a linux operating system like Ubuntu. Wow has no native client and I'm a complete and total noob on a linux computer. So that's what I did. Immediately I found myself wondering what to talk about, wanting to play wow again and reading up on ways to get wow to work on ubuntu. About a year later after quitting I still think about wow, go to the website, browse forums and stuff like that. It's not as bad as it used to be and the feeling of wanting to play slowly slips away as time passes. A part of me would like to get my hands on an mmo, anything at this point, but it would be just another timesink. I try to live my life in a way where I can end up saying "I don't regret doing hardly anything because it makes me who I am". However, I do regret wow. If I would have known this is the struggle that was coming that game would have never made it onto my desktop. It's nice to see websites such as this where people can talk about their warcraft addiction without being ridiculed or talked down too by someone who doesn't understand. As for my Jezielle, she'll just have to be frozen in a virtual world. It's time to move on and has been but that first step is so hard to take. Still feels like my foot hasn't fully moved.
A New Life
I just took a 16 Lb. sledgehammer to the fallowing CDs; WOW, BC, WotLK, and CAT. I am going to burn the rest of my WOW crap. I am starting to remember the good things called life, love, work, and responsibility. I'm doing things a man should do, instead of playing that black hole of a game, such as working like God intended and earning money to support my wife. This is only my first step yet what a big step this is.


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Vegetables with Sumiso Bagna Cauda from 'Hiroko's American Kitchen'
I've long been a fan of bagna càuda, that magical Italian elixir of anchovies, garlic, and olive oil. I figure that almost any ingredient can be made better by dragging it through the potent sauce. But seeing its name in a Japanese cookbook was, frankly, a bit of a shock. Japanese plus Italian? I had to try it.
The recipe, in Hiroko Shimbo's new cookbook, Hiroko's American Kitchen, melds the traditional bagna cauda elements with her sumiso sauce—a mixture of white miso, grapefruit juice, lemon juice, mirin, vinegar, and sake. These two elemental sauces then unite to form a delightfully potent base for a healthy pile of steamed vegetables. And while steamed vegetables may not be the most exciting item on your culinary radar, they make for an excellent vehicle for the bagna càuda—anything more flavorful would simply overwhelm.
Why I picked this recipe: A twist on bagna càuda? Sign me up.
What worked: Miso, anchovy, and garlic effortlessly meld together for a serious umami-bomb. Delicately poached vegetables are the perfect mild vehicle for sopping up all that sauce.
What didn't: My sauce turned thick a little quicker than directed. Be sure to keep a watchful eye and a spatula handy to prevent scorching.
Suggested tweaks: Feel free to substitute whatever vegetables are in season for the mix listed here. I swapped in asparagus for the Brussels sprouts and used little Hakurei turnips in place of the larger winter variety. As written, the dish is scaled for appetizer portions, but you can increase the amount of vegetables and serve it with rice if you want a main dish.
Reprinted with permission from Hiroko's American Kitchen: Cooking with Japanese Flavors by Hiroko Shimbo, copyright 2013. Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC. All rights reserved. Available wherever books are sold.
- Yield:Serves 4
- Active time: 45 minutes
- Total time:45 minutes
- White Sumiso Sauce
- 1 cup medium-aged light brown miso
- 1/4 cup sake
- 3 tablespoons mirin
- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons grapefruit juice
- Steamed Vegetables and Bagna Cauda
- 1 small clove garlic
- 4 salt-packed anchovy fillets
- 5 tablespoons Kelp Stock or water
- 1/4 cup White Sumiso Sauce (above)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil or vegetable oil
- 4 large Brussels sprouts (3 ounces)
- 4 medium red radishes (5 1/2 ounces)
- 2 medium turnips (5 ounces), peeled
- 1 large carrot (5 ounces), peeled
- 8 string beans
- Salt
- 8 large cauliflower florets (regular or Romanesco; 6 ounces)
For the sumiso sauce: Place the miso, sake, mirin, and sugar in a medium pot and stir until smooth. Cook the mixture over medium heat for 4 to 5 minutes, stirring with a whisk. Add the rice vinegar and the juices and cook until the miso sauce is no longer watery, about 8 minutes. (Extra sauce can be stored in the freezer for up to 3 months.)
For the bagna cauda: Press the garlic through a garlic press and add it to a small saucepan. Add the anchovy fillets, stock, White Sumiso Sauce, and olive oil, and place the saucepan over medium-low heat. Whisk the sauce until all ingredients are fully blended and the sauce is no longer watery. Divide the sauce among bowls.
For the vegetables: Halve the Brussels sprouts and radishes. Cut each turnip into 4 wedges. Cut the carrot into 4 diagonal slices. Remove the stems of the string beans, leaving the bottom needle-like tips if they are not damaged. Place the turnips, radishes, and carrots in a medium pot. Add enough water to cover the vegetables by 2 inches. Add salt, and bring to a boil. Cook the vegetables for 3 minutes. Without removing the vegetables in the pot, add the Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and string beans and cook for an additional 3 minutes. Drain all of the vegetables in a colander, shake to remove excess water, and allow the vegetables to air-dry. Divide the vegetables into each bowl of sauce, and serve.
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- The goal of Jungle Bubble is to clear all the bubbles hanging from the roof by bursting them with as few shots as possible.
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- By directing your arrow you can aim using the dotted sight to shoot the bubble straight up or bounce it off a wall to hit the hanging bubbles.


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Blood on the tracks: Who pays for deadly railway accidents?
One of Japan's enduring urban legends is that railway companies demand compensation from families of people who commit suicide by throwing themselves in front of trains. Because the media doesn't report such matters it isn't easy to verify, but according to the Chunichi Shimbun railways "in principle" send bills to families of people who die in railroad "accidents" if the railroad is not at fault and the accident causes a delay that costs the railway money. The articles don't say anything specific about suicides, however.
The subject of the piece is a case that was recently decided in Nagoya District Court. JR Tokai sued the family of a 91-year-old man from Obu City, Aichi Prefecture, who was hit by a train and killed while walking along the tracks of the Tokaido line in December 2007. JR Tokai was demanding ¥7.2 million from the family for losses incurred due to delays caused by the accident, which affected 27,000 passengers and 34 trains, forcing the railroad to provide alternate transportation, such as buses, to inconvenienced customers.
In court, JR Tokai's lawyers said the company sent a bill to the family of the man "as it usually does in such matters," but the family never responded, so they filed a lawsuit and in the end the judge awarded JR the full amount it asked for. The family will appeal.
At issue was the responsibility of the family in the actions of the old man, who suffered from dementia. Six years ago local welfare officials determined that the man required 24-hour supervision. The family placed him in an institution several days a week, but on the remaining days he was at home with his 85-year-old wife, who can mostly fend for herself. In addition, the man's eldest son, who lives in Yokohama, set up a care system for his father that included his wife regularly traveling to Obu to help out. On the day the accident happened he was alone with his wife, who dozed off, and he wandered out of the house and to the nearest station where he somehow ended up on the tracks.
Chunichi says there is no precedent for a railway company suing over an accident caused by a person with dementia, and the lawyer for the family said that the case could have serious repercussions for families with elderly members who have serious cognitive disabilities, since it means they could be liable for all sorts of incidents, and not just those involving trains.
In court the family said that JR Tokai should bear some of the responsibility since it didn't prevent the man from getting on the tracks after he entered the station (presumably without a ticket, which raises another question). JR countered by saying it had "fulfilled all our legal obligations" with regard to track safety, and the judge agreed, adding that it was the responsibility of the family to monitor and supervise the actions of the old man.
But if families are monetarily liable for actions carried out by members who are senile, can they also be liable for members who are suicides? So far there doesn't seem to be a court precedent for such a situation. It seems to depend on the circumstances, suicide or not.
For instance, recently a 40-year-old woman was killed trying to help an old man who stumbled trying to cross the tracks of the JR Yokohama Line. The old man survived, but there has been no report that JR East is demanding he pay up, maybe because the media reports on the heroism of the woman drowned it out or made the company think twice about possible negative publicity if it made such a demand in this case.
Then again, earlier this week a 47-year-old man was killed while crossing the tracks of the Tobu Tojo Line in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward. Witnesses say he was walking and absorbed in his cell phone when he was hit and didn't notice the train, though obviously he had enough presence of mind to go through the gates, which were down. Now that guy's family will probably receive a bill.
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Natasha, 23, Female
At what age (approximately) and how did you come to know about sexual intercourse?
I vaguely remember a girl I went to school with [who my Mom didn't approve of for being classless] whispering to me what 'sex' was at lunch time when I was about 6 years old. I went home later that day, and decided to inform my Mom all about this 'sex' I'd heard of. She sat me down, gave me a basic scientific speech, and told me that sex was an expression of love between an adult man and woman, and that was that. I must admit, when the girl told me about sex, it sounded totally gross to me – probably normal for a six year old…
Is Pakistan sexually repressed as a nation?
Definitely. The amount of attention women get on the streets is filthy, as a woman, you feel almost embarrassed to possess breasts when people look at you that way.
Oh I totally agree, I remember going to the Sunday bazaars and other markets... not only being felt up in the crowds but fuck i have never had anyone look at me in such a 'molest-ey' way before... it was hella disturbing. They are practically salivating....sometimes my husband got stared at in that way too....There is just so much repressed sexuality, in my opinion, that there is no gay or straight in a lot of cases.... its just sexuality out of necessity....and its oozing out of them... the people... the men in the streets...they can hardly control themselves... my grandmother had her butt pinched at a market once... I mean, COME ON!!! *shudder* Sorry to interrupt, do continue;
This does not happen in the same manner or to the same extent in England, where there is less repression.
I honestly don't think that level of gawking and salivating happened in Saudi either... but the 'religious police' might've had a hand in that. I was in the Dominican Republic last week and I noticed that the male staff at the resort were really the least pervy men I've ever been around... they were surrounded 24/7 by women in thongs and bikinis... there were nip slips galore... and it didn't phase 'em. Like not in the least... they would never even glance at a girls behind...Everything was so open and free.. women were dressed so skimpily that the men had kind of become de-sensitized. I admit, I enjoyed the freedom to dress however I wanted and not be stared at, as a woman, it made me feel more human and less like an object.
Whether that level of desensitization is a good thing or not is a whole other discussion...but put simply, yes I agree with u. The amount of exposure to women correlates with how much or how less they are perceived as an object.
Our issues with sex are definitely multifactorial; Pakistanis are obsessed with gossiping and commenting on/having an opinion about EVERYTHING, no matter how unrelated to them it can be, and I see a lot of this in interactions with people. Once, when I was about thirteen/fourteen, my father and I went to his village to give our condolences to the widow of his childhood friend. I was meeting the unknown, unrelated woman for the first time in order to express my sadness at her husband's [my father's childhood friend] passing, and she gave me a speech about the size of my breasts, informing me that girls with big breasts were considered to be girls of bad character, and I should try to 'do something' about them. Naturally, she didn't specify WHAT I could do with the breasts that this stranger deemed too big, but nevertheless, she still had her opinions about my sexual organs. The amount of wrong there is with a situation like this cannot be explained, but all of these issues with the female gender and sexuality feed in to each other, causing issues within Pakistan.
Wow there is all kinds of wrong happening in the situation you just described. And sadly, I'm not that surprised that a complete stranger felt it was her place to tell you how inappropriate your breasts were....when you were there to offer your condolences nonetheless.
I have been in situations where my body parts have been scrutinized by strangers (in Pakistan)... In fact, I was at a wedding once....innocently dancing away... when one woman jumped up and asked that i be seated. She claimed that i looked too 'provocative' and was dancing in too attractive a manner to be seen in public. Now let me put this into context here; I was seventeen, a fucking kid. I was not stripping or grinding up against anyone... and to this day I have no clue what that woman found inappropriate about my dancing...All I know is that at some point she had wanted to approach my parents for rishta (marriage) purposes and thus felt that she had a right to my body. Anyhow, I prolly ruined my chances of getting a proposal from her son that night... and good for them, cuz I can't imagine them enjoying me laughing in their face.
Anyhow.. back to the situation u described... I mean how sick is this woman that she puts aside grieving for her husband to tell you your breasts are too big. Not-so-subtly implying that you are a girl of bad character, for some physical characteristic you had no control over....what does she expect you to do with them anyway? I would love to hear her solution...it'd prolly be something like put a dupatta over them, or wear loose fitting clothing...
I can't get over how inappropriate this woman is. her husband has died.... and that is why you are there...could she not control her urge to put you down for the time you were there so that she seemed more genuinely upset about her recent loss...? For fuck's sake, thats just manners...
Anyhow, hope u didn't take it personally... that woman was clearly nuts.
Have you ever had/Do you enjoy having sex?
Yes, I'm sexually active, and immensely enjoy my sex life. Sex can be loving and beautiful, it can be hot, therapeutic, comforting, cathartic, happiness inducing and great exercise, it has many different 'faces' and 'effects' and never monotonous. In short, I think sex is the bees knees.
On premarital sex:
I do engage in premarital sex. My current sexual partner is my boyfriend of almost two years, and we are in a loving happy relationship, which I find sex to be a very natural part of. I feel that people's sexual choices, as long as they are not physically or mentally abusive and between two consenting, competent adults, are their own to be made, and should not be dictated by anything else. Living in England, I have an exposure to people who are virgins until marriage with limited contact with the opposite sex, as well as those who live on the other end of the sexual spectrum, and choose behavior characterized as more 'promiscuous.' I have seen pros and cons of both existences, and I definitely try to avoid judging either people's choices. I think living my own life, I have no right [or need] to judge others and their choices, and definitely should not have a 'say' in their bedroom activities.
Have you had more than one sexual partner in life?
On Arranged Marriage:
I am not married, and I do not know anyone in an arranged marriage, therefore have no perspective on its effects on sexuality.
On Sex & Equality:
It definitely can be equal. For instance, many acts, practices and positions can be enjoyed equally by both partners. However, there are some that feel obliged to engage in things that do not give them pleasure solely for their partner's pleasure, or because they think it is expected of them. For instance, a man may not enjoy sex as much with a woman on top, however he may oblige her as it is a position that works better for her. Conversely, I have spoken with many girls who do not enjoy giving oral sex, but feel [due to media, film, magazine, porn etc] that it is expected of them or that they should do it solely because their partner enjoys it. Healthy relationships can include compromise, as long as neither partner is compromising their health, comfort, safety and values.
What do you think nature and the physical differences between men and women have to do with gender roles in society?
I think that men and women were created equal, but different. I would be blind to ignore the physical differences between men and women, as obviously, physically, a man can easily overpower my small physique. However, I do not think that men and women should have different rights or expectations in society, and unfortunately, this is the case in Pakistani society. There are different rules for men and women by and large, and this, to me, is unacceptable.
Have you ever experienced a multiple orgasm?
Yes, I find multiple orgasms to be a frequent occurrence in my sex life. I originally believed the phenomena of female ejaculation to be a phenomenon seen only in porn, but with my partner have frequently experienced this, thanks to his love and exploration of my body. They are awesome.
Have you ever found or had your g-spot found?
Yes. I have never found this alone, and I find that it is easier with a partner. My partner often engages my G-Spot, which I believe to be linked with the experiencing of multiple orgasms.
Do you know anyone who has sex but has not yet experienced an orgasm? What are your thoughts on that?
I think that this phenomenon is seen more frequently in women, and I know a couple of girls who have experienced this. I think there are rare cases where orgasms are very difficult to achieve for women, but I think that inexperience, on their own part and their partner's part, are the more common reasons for this. I think that with understanding of your body and your partners, there comes a better understanding on how to make them come. Women's bodies are very different to men's, so it can be difficult for some men to understand what to do. However, I think women can help this situation by better understanding their own bodies, and conveying it to their partners to aid mutual sexual satisfaction.
Do you think about sex every day?
Yes, depending on the day, it can range anywhere from 5 times a day to a hundred.
Do you think sex plays a major role in your life?
I think sex plays a major role in the human experience in general. Our natures and the nutured aspects of our personalities, as well as extrinsic factors upon our lives such as faith, society and defining experiences come together to define the specific 'face' and 'role' that sex has for everyone personally. Some people are given negative sexual experiences, where others are luckier. In order for a healthy, functioning society, it is our duty to sexually educate our young adults. This ranges from warning them about sexual predators so that they may be aware of the dangers one can face in the world, to education about sex in a scientific manner, even to the dangers and implications of rape etc. I believe that if a person has a good sex education at a definitive age, then it arms them with a better chance of having positive sexual experiences. I think that this is a VERY difficult job, but a worthwhile one, nonetheless. To me, sex is an integral part of my relationship, as well as an expression of my sexuality, and I feel I have been lucky in my parenting, education and experiences, which have better armed me to find sex as being 'positive.'
On Masturbation:
I think masturbation is a natural exploration that adolescents engage in, and can be healthy or obsessive. Masturbation can be a healthy part of adult sexual experiences also.
I find it interesting that adolescents were the first thing that came to your mind when thinking about masturbation. :) Of course u do mention that its a healthy part of adult experience too... but I wonder why that came as a second thought..
Would you morally, ethically or in any way, have a problem with marrying someone who had had sex with someone before you?
Absolutely not. I can see why people have this religious preference, but it should work both ways. If a man wants a wife who is a virgin for religious reasons, he should be adhering to the same standard that he expects from his partner.
On Pornography:
The term pornography is a wide net to cast. There are many types and subtypes of pornography. First of all, the pornography that I speak of is not in reference to anything involving children, animals, or depicting snuff scenes or rape scenes. Excluding these, I think that certain types of pornography can be healthy and enjoyable. I have enjoyed watching porn both alone, and with my boyfriend in certain moods. As a woman, I have oft heard the complaint from other women saying that they find very little porn to be erotic. Apparently, female-oriented porn is a largely growing market in a world of breaking taboos where women have also become consumers in the adult market. This can be seen with the huge popularity of the erotic novel series, 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' Although I attempted to read this novel from an Academic viewpoint, I was not able to associate with it, or understand why it has become one of the fastest-selling novels of all time, but I understand that women worldwide have enjoyed the book immensely – perhaps the future alternative to pornography for women?
To what extent, in comparison with the rest of the world, do you think people practice bestiality (sex with animals) in this country?
I have never heard of this practice from anyone I know, in fact, the first time I was exposed to this idea was through this blog. However, in England, we joke that the Welsh engage in sexual practices with sheep, and this is a common joke world-wide. I just want to point out that bestiality is a sickness, and although I believe in exploration of one's self sexually, if you do this with animals, you need serious psychiatric help. I do not think that the excuse 'there are no other outlets' are acceptable.
What are your thoughts on homosexuality?
Although I think that homosexuality is not in congruence with the laws of nature [if it were, it would result in reproduction as with all mating in nature], I do not believe it to be wrong. I think that homosexuality is inherent, and a part of a person. They can no more chose being straight, than they can choose their ethnicity. I think that homosexual couples are no different to straight couples. I believe them to have the same inherent rights of marriage and having children. I do not think that being gay makes you a better or worse parent, nor a better or worse man/woman. Personally, if I had the choice between my parents being an unhappy, unloving straight couple, and a gay couple who love each other, I would chose the latter. I think a loving household is better than a straight household.
Do you think education is important, when it comes to something like sexuality?
Immensely so. I actually spoke about the importance of sex education in an earlier question. As I attended a Catholic school for my Primary education, the sex education there was limited to the Menstrual Cycle and information about sex leading to pregnancy. However, at my High School, we had a much wider sexual education covering all bases; scientific, health and disease, social contexts and counseling. We even learned how to correctly use condoms, and had an anonymous Q & A session for people's embarrassing questions. I think that this is VERY important in schools. I understand that more Conservative societies may not wish to do things quite the same, but none the less a scientific and health and disease portion is unavoidable from basic knowledge.
What kind of role do you think sex plays in religion?
Absolutely none. I can understand the benefits of religion for society, and I am a large advocate of everyone's right to religious affiliation, but that same right of freedom applies to people's sexuality. I understand that religiously, sex is seen as an act of consummation of a marriage, and that is why it is sacred. I also think that times have moved on, and since we no longer get married at the age people did 1500-2000 years ago, then our natural sexual needs remain largely unfulfilled until marriage, and therefore it is less realistic a concept to remain virginal until marriage. I do expect that sex with a partner in marriage can have layers to it that more 'promiscuous' sex does not. Despite this, I do not see why there would be certain acts, or times of the month that should be off limits since clerics/religion say so.
Do you think we have a problem in this country with sexual predators and Paedophiles, and to what extent, in comparison with the rest of the world?
I think that sexual predators and pedophilia are a human condition. I believe them to exist in the same percentages in Pakistan as they do worldwide. However, I feel that we are less aware of this issue than the rest of the world. We trust our children alone with MANY people that we believe to warrant our trust, when truly, one should always be vigilant with their children. Family members abuse children worldwide, as do people in authoritative positions such as doctors and teachers and priests. However, our society doesn't accept this happens, we are blinded to it, and do not raise awareness/educate ourselves and our children, and this is our crime, not 'more perversion' than the rest of the world.
As far as sex lives are concerned, do you ever wonder what other people in this country are doing?
I do not really worry about other people's practices, or try to define my own through the lens of others. There have been times where I have spoken to my female friends for advice concerning sexual matters, and they may have related their own lives as advice, but other than this, no.
What are your thoughts on oral sex:
I think oral sex can be highly pleasurable for both men and women, and can be used actively and frequently within a healthy sex life, as long as both partners enjoy both giving and receiving oral sex.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Natasha. You made some very good points and shared some interesting personal stories. I'd just like to refer back to the aunty who thought ur breasts were too big for a second, and point out that her and women like her are indicative of a much deeper problem in our society... one where patriarchy is ingrained in every fibre of (almost) every woman's being. So much so that women are policing other women, its fuckin' 1984 up in here... they automatically think that a woman's body is an object... a thing of shame.. something to hide...something to be controlled...
Till next time :) I'd love to hear more from anyone who has an interesting story to share. Send me an email NicemangosDOTblogATgmailDOTcom, a tweet or even a facebook msg.


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If one were able to move information or matter from one point to another faster than light, then according to special relativity, there would be some inertial frame of reference in which the signal or object was moving backwards in time
A 2008 quantum physics experiment performed in Geneva, Switzerland has determined that the "speed" of the quantum non-local connection (what Einstein called spooky action at a distance) has a minimum lower bound of 10,000 times the speed of light. [13] However, modern quantum physics cannot expect to determine the maximum given that we do not know the sufficient causal condition of the system we are proposing.
Where is a mistake? Because if there is no mistake about that, then time traveling is possible and is almost reachable by today's technology.
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A New York referee has told 10-time platinum recording artist Prince, formerly the artist known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, he must pay a Philadelphia cosmetics company close to $4 million. The lawsuit stems from claims about a perfume named for his last LP, 3121, The New York Law Journal reports.
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The suit states Prince has been totally mum to the smell-smiths, as has anyone related to its promotion:
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The Porsche 928 was a brilliant car that had one problem — it was too expensive to buy, own, and fix for anyone to really hoon properly. Or was it? I shall put this theory to the test.
TEST ONE: Rally. Can a Porsche 928 be entered in stage rally, where a little bit of sideways action can be the fastest way around a corner? YES.
TEST TWO: Skidpad. Can a Porsche 928 get all its tires working on a round-and-round-again skidpad? YES, SORT OF. There aren't any big oppo moments, just tidy four wheel drifts.
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And there he is again in 2011 at a competition...
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The Worst Haircut in (Non-Sci Fi) Movie History
That's Teri Hatcher in The Big Picture (1989, Christopher Guest). You've heard of haircuts that look like someone stuck their finger in a light socket? To get this one you need to sit on a high tension wire.
Now because the film is directed by Christopher Guest from Best in Show and A Mighty Wind, movies that make fun of weirdos with funny habits and strange looks, you might think he's making fun of big 80s hair. He's not. SHE'S THE SEXY CHARACTER.
She looks like she skinned Chewbacca and made a hat out of him.
"Look lady, you're nice and all, but it's called The Big Picture not The Big Hair."
If you saw someone walking on the street with this haircut, you start fishing through your pockets for some spare change.
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