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One year ago today, I wrote this…
You may remember my story about the day I spent with my 8 year old (
9 10 now!) cousin. She is also the twerp responsible for an infamous series of sketches, including "Peter Pooping."*
Let's call her "the monkey."
Please don't confuse her with ACN (Adorably Cute Niece) or this dude.
This morning I stumbled upon an old journal that had been collecting dust on my bookshelf. It was given to me by a huge fan of the monkey, so that I could chronicle her many adventures.
And I did… for 6 or 7 months.
It began at Christmas 2000 and ended in August 2001. After that, her adventures became too numerous for one person to keep track of.
The following are excerpts from said book. She was 3 1/2 years old.
Dec. 25, 2000 – The monkey's daddy recently went in for a vasectomy. The monkey knows that she can't jump on him because he hurt his "Pecker, pecker, pecker. Bird, bird, bird."
Dec. 26 – The monkey's mommy tells the story of a recent day at daycare. The monkey is sent to time out over and over all day. Finally, they sent her for the last time and she starts sobbing. They ask her what is wrong and she replies, "I've been in trouble all day and I just can't take it anymore."
Dec. 26 – The monkey tells her daddy to "Take your big butt out of here," as he tries to share a chair with her.
Dec. 29 – The monkey tells us that it is time to get up because it is "Eight five three and two dots!" (8:53 on a digital clock.)
Early January 2001 – The monkey is looking at wedding pictures. "Oh, I LOVED the wedding. I was so good at the wedding. I'm cute right now."
Early January – A tow truck comes to pick up her uncle's van. She and I stand outside and watch. The monkey has many questions. "He is lifting the van… is he strong?" "Can I throw a snowball at him?" and "Is he going to take my sleigh?"
Early January – As I pull the monkey around in her sled, she sings Christina Aguilera's "What a Girl Wants."
Early January – The monkey listens to a Bill Cosby stand up routine. Bill makes sounds, she mimics. Bill laughs, she mimics. Bill says, "When I was a boy, I thought my father was an idiot." She looks at me and says, "Idiot? I thought MY father was an idiot."
Early January – The monkey passes me a skittle. I put it on her counter and tell her that I was afraid it would melt in my hand. She passes me a penny, so I put it in my pocket. She says, "Why are you putting it in your pocket, Peter? Money doesn't melt!"
Early January – The monkey gives me a blue cassette tape to give to my parents. Her instructions are, "If they like it, they can keep it. If they don't, then you can bring it back to me. The tape: Disney's Lullaby Classics.
January 23 – I'm sitting on the couch watching TV as the monkey strolls in. She crawls up on the couch, sits next to me, and puts her arm around me. She looks at me and says, "Peter, do you know how much I love you?" Then after a brief pause, she answers herself, "Fifty!"
Janury 25 – The monkey's mommy checks her answering machine this morning. There is a message from the monkey from the previous day. It was, "Hi Mommy. I'm at daycare. I learned my phone number today! Bye!"
January 31 – She refers to me as "Billy Bossy."
February 3 – With a mouthful of french toast, she tells me, "Peter, you are the precious boy in the world."
February 12 – The monkey got in trouble at daycare today. She got another "time-out." Her explanation was, "Chantal didn't want help, but I wanted to help her." Then a pause as she searches her memory, "I made a saucy face at Jacques."
February 13 – The monkey is mad at her father for saying that she is "no fun." "Daddy apologize. You are breaking my feelings."
March 3 – The monkey's grandmother is tucking her shirt in and pulling up her pants, to get her ready for daycare. The monkey is not happy. "No! They are going to call me Steven Urkel!"
April 1 – The monkey's daddy tells her that she has to go home at 8:15. So, at 8:14 she looks at the clock and then looks at me, "Peter, who can stop the clock?"
August 12 – The monkey is wearing a tiara, so someone asks her if she is a princess. She replies, "No, I'm not a pricess. I'm a princess to Peter."
August 12 – My dad tells the monkey that "If you eat your vegatables you'll get smart." She looks at his plate and then at him and says, "Okay… get smart."
[*Please note that she didn't see me or anyone else pooping.]


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While pedaling a stationary bike might not sound like the most exciting workout, the instructor in a spinning class leads the group through various drills and visualizations on the cycle.
The instructor may call out, "you are climbing a long hill and you are almost at the top!" Participants are asked to vary their pace, sometimes pedaling as fast as they can, other times cranking up the tension and pedaling from a standing position, said Kyle Smith, fitness coordinator at the Haywood Regional Health and Fitness Center.
"Spinning is an excellent exercise class for a number of reasons. Spinning burns serious calories, sometimes as many as 450 calories in a 45-minute class," Smith said. "It is also a wonderful cardiovascular workout. You can really feel you heart working."
The tension knob of each bike can be adjusted individually, allowing the beginner to keep up with more advanced cyclists by toning it down a few notches, or the pros to get a better workout by cranking it up.
Due to the popularity of spinning, Haywood Regional Health and Fitness Center has added 15 state-of-the-art spin bikes that displays RPMs, resistance, distance and heart rate.
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Are the rumors true that Madonna, the famous pop star will sing on the New Year eve in Brazil? You must let go with the samba, not because of any customary loyalty to "Local" art. Samba, frevo and the other performances will redefine dance, even life, for you. Imagine a four-mile long stage, putting up dances, music, and revelry, throbbing with over 2,000,000 visitors; you will be near to an idea of what the celebrations on the Copacabana beach are. As the fireworks dazzle and go away, the vibrant music takes over. Black Eyed Peas or Caetano Veloso may be performing there – the celebrations last all night until the sun raises.
First Breakfast Of The Year
Brazilian tradition says eat lentil soup, lentils with rice for prosperity. It has been like no other night and no other New Year eve. Yes, that was the special Brazilian New Year. More than the lights and music and the electric dance, the vibrant energy of the land has caught hold – a memorable experience. Get ready for another great custom. Traditionally, the first breakfast of the New Year is almost solemn. It is a hearty (and healthy, considering the hectic night) meal of lentils or what ever you choose. Rest a little while and head for the Ipanema Beach. It is nice to swim and then nap on the sands.


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Galileo services
The Galileo System will be an independent, global, European-controlled, satellite-based navigation system and will provide a number of guaranteed services to users equipped with Galileo-compatible receivers.
In 2011, after the deployment of the four initial satellites of the in-orbit validation phase, the GPS/EGNOS/Galileo combined services will be progressively provided.
The Galileo system will provide navigation and Search and Rescue services on a global base.
The following Galileo satellite-only services will be provided worldwide and independently from other systems by combining Galileo signals-in-space:
- The Open Service (OS) results from a combination of open signals, free of user charge, and provides position and timing performance competitive with other GNSS systems.
- The Safety-of-Life Service (SoL) improves the open service performance through the provision of timely warnings to the user when it fails to meet certain margins of accuracy (integrity). It is envisaged that a service guarantee will be provided for this service.
- The Commercial Service (CS) provides access to two additional signals, to allow for a higher data throughput rate and to enable users to improve accuracy. The signals are encrypted. It is envisaged that a service guarantee will be provided for this service.
- The Public Regulated Service (PRS) provides position and timing to specific users requiring a high continuity of service, with controlled access. Two PRS navigation signals with encrypted ranging codes and data will be available.
- The Galileo support to the search and rescue service represents the contribution of Europe to the international COSPAS-SARSAT co-operative effort on humanitarian Search and Rescue activities. Galileo is to play an important part of the Medium Earth Orbit Search and Rescue system (MEOSAR). Galileo satellites will be able to pick up signals from emergency beacons carried on ships, planes or persons and ultimately send these back to national rescue centres. From this, a rescue centre can know the precise location of an accident. At least one Galileo satellite will be in view of any point on Earth so near real-time distress alert is possible. In some cases, feedback could be sent back to a beacon, something which is only made possible by Galileo.
Open Service (OS)
The Galileo Open Service (OS) is defined for mass-market applications. It provides signals for timing and positioning, free of direct user charge. The Open Service is accessible to any user equipped with a receiver, with no authorisation required. While up to three separate signal frequencies are offered within the Open Service, cheap single-frequency receivers will be used for applications requiring only reduced accuracy. In general, Open Service applications will use a combination of Galileo and GPS signals, which will improve performance in severe environments such as urban areas.
The Open Service does not offer integrity information, and the determination of the quality of the signals will be left entirely to the users. There will be no service guarantee or liability from the Galileo Operating Company on the Open Service.
Safety of Life Service (SoL)
The Safety-of-Life (SoL) service will be certified and its performances will be obtained by using certified dual-frequency receivers. Under such conditions, the future Galileo Operating Company will guarantee SoL. To benefit from the required level of protection, SoL is implemented in the frequency bands reserved for Aeronautical Radio-Navigation Services (L1 and E5).
This service will increase safety, especially where there are no traditional ground infrastructure services. This worldwide seamless service will increase the efficiency of companies operating on a global basis - airlines and transoceanic maritime companies. The EGNOS regional European enhancement of the GPS system will be optimally integrated with the Galileo Safety-of-Life service to have independent and complementary integrity information (with no common mode of failure) on the GPS and GLONASS constellations.
Commercial Service (CS)
The Commercial Service (CS) is aimed at market applications requiring higher performance than offered by the Open Service. It provides added value services on payment of a fee. CS is based on adding two signals to the open access signals. This pair of signals is protected through commercial encryption, which is managed by the service providers and the future Galileo operator. Access is controlled at the receiver level, using access-protection keys.
The uses foreseen for the commercial service include data broadcasting and resolving ambiguities in differential applications. These will be developed by service providers, which will buy the right to use the two commercial signals from the Galileo operator.
Developing commercial applications either by using the commercial signals alone, or by combining them with other Galileo signals or external communications systems, opens a wide range of possibilities. The worldwide coverage brings a strong advantage for applications requiring global data broadcast.
Typical value-added services include service guarantees, precise timing services, the provision of ionosphere delay models, local differential correction signals for extreme-precision position determination and other services based on the broadcast of system information data.
Public Regulated Service (PRS)
Galileo is a civil system that also includes a robust and access-controlled service for government-authorised applications. The Public Regulated Service (PRS) will be used by groups such as police, coast-guards and customs. Civil institutions will control the access to the encrypted PRS. Access by region or user group will follow the security policy rules applicable in Europe.
The PRS is operational at all times and in all circumstances, including during periods of crisis. A major PRS driver is the robustness of its signal, which protects it against jamming and spoofing.
Search and Rescue (SAR)
The Search and Rescue (SAR) service is Europe's contribution to the international cooperative effort on the humanitarian search and rescue. It will allow important improvements in the existing system, including: near real-time reception of distress messages from anywhere on Earth (the average waiting time is currently an hour); precise location of alerts (a few meters, instead of the currently specified 5 km); multiple satellite detection to overcome terrain blockage in severe conditions; increased availability of the space segment (30 Medium Earth Orbit satellites in addition to the four Low Earth Orbit and the three geostationary satellites in the current COSPAS-SARSAT system).
Galileo will introduce new SAR functions such as the return link (from the SAR operator to the distress beacon), thereby facilitating the rescue operations and helping to reduce the rate of false alerts. The service is being defined in cooperation with COSPAS-SARSAT, and its characteristics and operations are regulated under the auspices of IMO and ICAO.


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Guitar legend Stephen Stills signed a 10-feet "There's Something Happening Here" GuitarTown guitar by Los Angeles artist Juliana Martinez. The guitar honors his work with influential '60s group, Buffalo Springfield.
Buffalo Springfield's "There's Something Happening Here" especially inspired the artist, Juliana Martinez. She said: "Here are a group of guys making amazing music that not only has a message, but delivers a challenge to the 1960s establishment."
Gibson GuitarTown on The Sunset Strip is supported by the Sunset Strip Business Association, City of West Hollywood and the West Hollywood Marketing & Visitors Bureau. GuitarTown on The Sunset Strip is administered by the Gibson Foundation, the philanthropic division of Gibson Guitar Corp. For a map and photos of the guitars, please visit www.thesunsetstrip.com/guitartown. For additional information, please visit www.gibson.com/sunset-strip and www.gibsonfoundation.org.
L-R Stephen Stills with artist Juliana Martinez.
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It seems Brown had been quietly dropping in on sheriffs and county officials around the state to gauge the effectiveness of one of the signature achievements of his latest tenure as governor: a law that reduces California's prison population by sentencing lower-level offenders to county jails.
The governor's office almost never announced the visits ahead of time, and he rarely spoke publicly afterward so reporters could assess how the visits went. Verdin contacted the governor's office to find out why they hadn't been listed on Brown's official schedule. Brown's spokesman told him it did not need to be because such visits with public officials were 「private,」 and that the official photographs distributed by the governor's staff via Twitter would suffice for public disclosure.
Reporter Don Thompson has been aggressively covering prison realignment as part of his statehouse beat, resulting in a number of other newsbreaks and AP exclusives. In the seemingly innocuous local news item, Verdin and Thompson saw an opportunity for more accountability journalism.
Thompson began by requesting the list of counties Brown had visited. Not wanting the publicity of a formal public records request, the governor's office complied, and Thompson began making calls to sheriff's departments and county supervisors on the list. Over several weeks, he contacted half the counties Brown had visited, a representative sample that included urban and rural, coastal and inland.
Across the spectrum, the message was consistent: Local officials said they needed more money and that the governor had not yet followed through on his statements and promises. Two of them said Brown's office had not gotten back to them on concerns they had raised: 「I haven't heard a thing,」 said one local official.
Thompson's reporting showed that the statements Brown was making in public _ that 「realignment is working」? _ contradicted what he was hearing from county officials.
Additionally, Thompson got an advance look at data showing the jail population for all of California's 58 counties, before and after realignment, before they were released publicly. That chart moved in advance so members could localize the story if they wished.
Several major California dailies put Thompson's story on their front pages, including The Fresno Bee and Santa Barbara News-Press. 「The advance notice on that story was great,」 said Santa Maria Times Editor Marga Cooley, whose newspaper ran it across the top of Sunday's A1 with a localized sidebar. 「The story was timely and of significant interest in our area.」
Photographer Rich Pedroncelli also was able to gain access to a jail in one of the counties Brown had visited, and the package ran with a chart showing the inmate population before and after the realignment law in all 58 counties.
Two days after the story ran, the moderator cited Thompson's reporting during a public policy forum on prisons. One of the panelists, state Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, evoked Brown's 「it's working」 quote by saying 「It depends on your definition of working, I guess.」
For striking a blow for transparency, holding the governor to account for his misleading statements on an an important accomplishment of his administration, and advancing AP's efforts to share data with members so they can localize our state- and nation-level reporting, Thompson wins this week's $300 Best of the States award.


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Dale was a township of Men lying between Erebor and Esgaroth. It was destroyed when Smaug the dragon descended on the Dwarf-kingdom of Erebor. For one-hundred seventy-two years city lay in ruins, until the Battle of Five Armies. After the battle, Dale and was refounded by Bard the Bowman , the descendant of its royal line. Dale, once again was a prosperous city. It had a long lasting friendship with the Dwarves of Erebor and the Iron Hills, and the people of Lake-Town, trading with them and allying with them in times of war.
During the War of the Ring, the Easterlings attacked the city. Not able to hold the Easterlings back the Men of Dale and their allies, the Dwarves of Erebor, retreated into the the Lonely Mountain, but not without losing both Dale and Erebors' kings Brand and Dain II Ironfoot who were both slain at the gates of the mountain. For seven days the Men and Dwarves barricaded themselves in Erebor until news came from the south of the defeat of Sauron, the new kings of Dale and Erebor (Bard II and Thorin III Stonehelm), broke the siege and chased the Easterlings out of Dale. After the siege, the Men of Dale rebuilt Dale, with the help of the Dwarves. Bard, also sent a emissary to the coronation of king Elessar.


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My e-mail in-box is out of control. It's constantly full of junk and spam and stuff I think I'll get to later. It desperately needs to be cleaned out--but, since I have slight hoarder tendencies, I have a hard time throwing things away. Even virtual things.
(What if I need that 20%-off-at-Michaels coupon for a craft I'm going to start next month but not complete until October 2017?!?! WHAT IF???)
Tonight I opened g-mail to see yet another ad from Old Navy. Didn't I just get one, like, yesterday???
I typed "Old Navy" into my search box, checked "select all" and deleted 20 Old Navy e-mails. Safe to say I wont need any of those in the future. I did it again and again until they were all gone. I thought of what else might be eating up my allotment of Cloud and searched for Target.com. I clicked "select all" but noticed one of the e-mails wasn't from Target. It was from my mom. I clicked it open.
It was my mom responding to a blog post written just before I left Japan. (Somewhere in the post I had mentioned my excessive use of Target.com while overseas.) We went back and forth talking about my family and my excitement and anxiety surrounding coming back to The States. She praised my writing. She said she was excited to see me again. She reassured me. And she chided me for bagging on my family in the blog post. ;)
I could hear her voice saying the words. It was like she was still here.
Just on the other end of an e-mail. Just separated by a plane ride.
She signed the e-mails the same way she always did:
"Lots of Love, Mom xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo"
{One of her Aunties signed letters "Lots of Love" so my mom did too.}
I wonder how many e-mails I have from her? I want to check. But I can't check.
Not yet. Cause then I'll have to read 'em. And I'm not ready to read 'em.
But it's nice to remember they're there. With all those x's and o's.
Some things are worth keeping.
Lots of Love Mommy! Lots and lots and lots of love!
P.S. This is the post she was responding too--if you're curious: http://actegratuit.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-head-and-my-heart-all-over-place.html


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The unexpected presence of jalebis (an Indian street food/sweet treat) at a friend's party in Australia transports Saroo (Dev Patel) back to India and memories of being a hungry child desiring that delicacy, which was always out of reach but his older brother promised him he would have one day. Saroo was adopted at age five from a Calcutta orphanage by a loving Australian couple living in Tasmania. Lion would have you believe this jalebi moment is the first time he has thought about his birth mother and family (a dramatic interpretation from this true-life tale) since then, but we the viewers have that story and its compelling images and emotions seared into our brains by this point. Thus we willingly go along with adult Saroo's journey back to those moments on his quest to find his original home and family.
The film wisely plays out the drama in chronological order. We first meet Saroo and his family when he is five, where they live a harsh but happy rural life…one that disappears when Saroo falls asleep on a train that takes him 1600 km from home to Calcutta where he becomes a street urchin running from danger at every corner. Even in light of the clever cinematography (aerial shots early on meld into dream-like memories and scanning of Google Earth for home in his adulthood), the star of the film is without a doubt young Sunny Pawar, who leaves an indelible mark that follows the proud tradition of orphans and lost and wandering children in such classics like Pather Panchali and Salaam Bombay! The episodic nature of the film's first half is effortlessly compelling and casts a Dickensian spell over the viewer as Saroo encounters increasingly shady characters before finally connecting with those who could help him. Continue reading


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What makes someone wish to burn their own cultural heritage? Mali's jihadists, retreating from advancing French and Malian troops, set fire to a modern library built to house and study the thousands of camel hide-bound books native to Timbuktu. The city's university was established before Oxford's founding, but now a radical faction of its people found fit to burn to the ground the storage site of a major period of intellectual inquiry and thought.
Fortunately, TIME Magazine is reporting many of the books may have been saved from the fires of radicalism.
In interviews with TIME on Monday, preservationists said that in a large-scale rescue operation early last year, shortly before the militants seized control of Timbuktu, thousands of manuscripts were hauled out of the Ahmed Baba Institute to a safe house elsewhere. Realizing that the documents might be prime targets for pillaging or vindictive attacks from Islamic extremists, staff left behind just a small portion of them, perhaps out of haste, but also to conceal the fact that the center had been deliberately emptied. "The documents which had been there are safe, they were not burned," said Mahmoud Zouber, Mali's presidential aide on Islamic affairs, a title he retains despite the overthrow of the former President, his boss, in a military coup a year ago; preserving Timbuktu's manuscripts was a key project of his office. By phone from Bamako on Monday night, Zouber told TIME, "They were put in a very safe place. I can guarantee you. The manuscripts are in total security."


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A calm and composed congressional intern who underwent basic nursing training while in high school said Monday that he knew that if U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was to have any chance of surviving her gunshot wound, he would have to stem the flow of blood coming from her head.
"I could tell she had a very severe gunshot but I was just trying do my best until emergency medical services could arrive," Daniel Hernandez, 20, told TODAY's Matt Lauer via satellite.
Hernandez and a handful of witnesses to a lone gunman's shooting spree outside a Tucson supermarket are being hailed for their actions in the aftermath of the gunfire that transformed a peaceful Saturday morning political gathering into a scene of carnage and chaos.
When the shooting stopped, five people were dead. A sixth — 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green — died on an operating table a short time later. Giffords and 11 other victims remained hospitalized, all in critical or serious condition.
Hernandez, who was trained in first aid and triage at a hospital as part of his nursing assistant class, said he checked the pulse and breathing of two or three victims before determining that the congresswoman was the most seriously wounded of the victims who were still alive.
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To keep her from choking on her own blood and to stop the flow of the blood, Hernandez sat her upright in his lap and applied pressure to her head wound until paramedics took over, he said.
'Get the magazine!'
While Hernandez was attending to Giffords' wounds, other bystanders were focused on the alleged gunman, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner. Retired Army colonel Bill Badger and a man named Roger Salzgeber tackled Loughner, according to the Tucson Sentinel, citing the Pima County Sheriff's Department. A third man, Joe Zamudio jumped on top of the suspect to hold him down. A woman, 61-year-old Patricia Maisch, grabbed a magazine out of the gunman's hands as he tried to reload.
"Somebody said 'Get the magazine!' so I got the magazine, and I was able to secure that," Maisch told reporters Sunday. "That's what needed to be done."
Zamudio said he didn't really have time to think about what he was doing.
"I just heard something and I thought I could help," said Zamudio, who was buying a pack of cigarettes when the shots rang out. "I tried to react as I could, as best as I could."
Salzgeger has not commented on his role, saying only that he is "still dealing with it all," according to a report by ABC.
After the gunman realized that he was overpowered, Maisch scolded him, but he did not say anything in return, according to Zamudio.
"We were all laying on him. He wasn't going anywhere," Zamudio told Lauer. "I felt like he was very cold. His expression was almost a smirk. He seemed like it didn't matter."
Badger, 74, was grazed by a bullet to the back of his head in the scuffle, but didn't realize it at first, according to the RepublicanHerald.com.
"While we had him on the ground I saw blood running and it wasn't until then I realized it was coming from the back of my head," he is quoted as saying. He was treated and has been released.
Steven Rayle, a physician who attended Giffords' constituent gathering, was among those who held the gunman down. He told Lauer that after shooting Giffords, the gunman turned to look for other victims.
"I saw him as he shot her. And without hesitation he began spraying bullets randomly," said Rayle, who was just 10 feet away from the shooter when he starting firing. "He had additional ammunition. He seemed very determined and cold-blooded."
Loughner faces federal and state charges that could bring his execution if proven.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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I'm starting to develop a little "agenda" technique with these liveblogs to keep the conversations on track. You good with that?
On tap today - more discussion on the MTV Movie Awards: has Twilight made them boring or is it a fair forum for the fans? Also, Reese Witherspoons's speech - targeted to Blake? Was Reese tipsy? And Kristen Stewart: awkward and shy...or Rich Hippy?
Then to Scarjo and why she looks like sh-t. And Leo loving Blake. And Daniel Craig's massive movie career.
Also - we need to fight about whether or not Posh's picky food particulars are offside. I can't wait to get into this. All of it.
You ready?
As always, we're ok if you yell but we're not ok if you're racist.
One hour of liveblogging begins now!


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Lots of videogames promise, choice, but none have ever offered it at such a deep level as "Mass Effect." Microsoft's new sci-fi title can be played as a stats-laden role-playing game, a story-driven action game or any mix of the two. But while developer Bioware deserves kudos for making a vidgame that can appeal to so many types of players, "Mass Effect" is ultimately weighed down by a series of shortcomings in the visuals, story and action that will keep it from being a broad based hit.
From the start, it's clear there's something different about "Mass Effect." In less than a minute, players can choose to be Commander John Shepard and jump into the action. Those who want to, however, can change "John" to "Jane," select the character's back story and attitude, and design him or her with any other look they desire.
The option to, essentially, choose your own adventure or do a straight-ahead reading imbues all of "Mass Effect" and makes it significantly less intimidating than traditional role-playing games, the videogame descendants of old school geek fests like "Dungeons and Dragons."
But as Commander Shepard sets out to save the universe, it becomes apparent that "Mass Effect" can barely hold itself together. That's true quite literally at times, as the game suffers from frequent glitches that makes the onscreen action pause for a few seconds at a time.
Character models are detailed and outstanding, both for the dozens of alien species and Shepard him- or herself. Not nearly as much work went into the environments, though. The only difference between most planets is whether the winding road between the landing point and final destination is surrounded by dusty mountains, snow-covered mountains or grass-covered mountains.
Unlike the tedious, turn-based action in most RPGs, "Mass Effect's" battles are fast and furious. It works well enough in small skirmishes, but becomes almost dysfunctional in major end-of-level fights. "Mass Effect" enemies can move as quickly as those in "Halo," but players have to manage more than a dozen weapons and "biotic" powers in battle, some of which take a few seconds to activate.
"Mass Effect" promises an "epic" adventure, but that word really applies only to the size of the galaxy, not the scope of the story, a simple affair that borrows liberally from "Star Wars" and other sci-fi classics.
Nonetheless, working through the plot can be fun, thanks to a dialogue system that lets players pick Shepard's response through short phrases like "I'll do it" or "That's illegal" that reflect the idea of what s/he will say, but keep the actual dialogue fresh.


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It's finally here! MBV (that's My Bloody Valentine to you and me) have gone and released their first album in 22 years also called mbv. Having spent twenty-four hours encompassing a total of eleven listens (one has to eat, drink and sleep too you know) in its company, here's DiS' first impressions of possibly the most eagerly anticipated album in history.
It was only a week ago at their Brixton Electric warm-up show that Kevin Shields remarked to an audience member asking when the new album was likely to be out, "Maybe in two or three days." Yeah right, we all shrugged back. Even the one new composition aired at that show seemed to have little more than a working title - 'Rough Song'. How on earth could there be a whole new album ready by close of play Wednesday? Never gonna happen, not this month anyway...
So, it's perhaps ironic that at approximately 9:05pm on Saturday evening while watching two bands whose very existence could be called into question were it not for My Bloody Valentine, I receive an excited text from an old friend. "New My Bloody Valentine album. TONIGHT!" it screamed. OK, whatever. Obviously just trying to cheer me up because Forest lost again. Then I receive another text. And another. So with these smartphone devices making it easy to connect to the Internet an' things I decide to seek clarification for myself. Surely this can't be happening, can it? According to the band's official Facebook page it is! Only one thing left to do. Unfinished pint of Tuborg discarded and Saturday night aborted, off home I trot. Could this really be happening? I mean REALLY? By midnight I could be the owner of a new My Bloody Valentine record?
OK, so that last sentence didn't quite happen thanks to a large proportion of the cyberworld having the same thoughts, and almost three hours of attempting to gain entry to the now infamous mybloodyvalentine.org without it crashing the server, I gracefully retire to bed, believing that when I rise in a few hours time all will be fixed. 7:30am and voila! Here it is in all its glory. A new My Bloody Valentine album, perhaps rather uninspiringly titled mbv. But what's in a name, eh? Kevin Shields could have purposely titled it Soiled Pants and it wouldn't make a difference. All that matters of course is what it actually sounds like.
Since unleashing Loveless and changing the face of music forever back in 1991, so much has changed. We've had post-rock, britpop, grunge, triphop, dubstep, Coldplay among other assorted musical exponents and genres. Each and every one inspired to some degree by that record. "DUBSTEP?!?" I hear you cry. Yes, dubstep. Without the crackly, skipping beats that underlie the core of 'Soon' would the likes of Skream, Benga et al have defined then forged their own niche? Debatable, but unlikely.
By the same token Shields himself hasn't exactly been slacking either. Listen to Primal Scream's XTRMNTR (and many of their live shows around the same era), The Go! Team's Thunder, Lightning, Strike, Dinosaur Jr's Hand It Over and Paul Weller's Sonik Kicks you'll hear his majestic reverence in all its glory. And then of course there's 'Lost In Translation', arguably the point where the genius of Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine reached a whole new audience at the tail end of 2003. Up to that point, despite the seminal status of Loveless, "shoegaze" and its assorted offspring was still a dirty word. It wasn't big or clever then so why should it be any different now? What did happen was a new wave of artists emerging in thrall to Shields and many of the bands influenced by My Bloody Valentine first time around. M83, Ulrich Schnauss, A Place To Bury Strangers, Deerhunter, No Age, TV On The Radio, School Of Seven Bells, Emeralds, Mogwai... the list is endless.
Anyway, back to the new record. When DiS spoke with bass player Debbie Googe in the latter part of 2012, one thing that became apparent was this was a Kevin Shields rather than My Bloody Valentine album. Even more so than its predecessor, if the revelations Shields did pretty much everything bar Bilinda Butcher's vocals and a few drum takes are anything to go by. Listening to mbv now it's apparent which drum parts were pre-processed and which had live segments tagged on later ('is this and yes' sounding the most obvious candidate). Not that either process detracts from the record in any way, shape or form.
Because of the furore and to an extent, hype, surrounding this release it's difficult to attain a sense of perspective when critically assessing its merits. Does it meet expectations? Absolutely. Will some people be disappointed? Possibly. Those expecting another wheel reinvention like Loveless might rue the fact it sounds exactly how one would expect it to. Particularly considering the twenty-two years wait. One factor that hasn't been revealed yet is around the record's timeline. In terms of which composition dates back the furthest it's easy to hazard a guess; opener 'she found you' could quite easily be tagged onto the end of Loveless or indeed the Glider and Tremelo EPs for that matter. Built around Shields now trademark heavily reverbed guitar and dreamy vocals, its place as the introductory statement to mbv perhaps strategically orchestrated to bridge the gap between both records? 'only tomorrow' which follows suit, this time featuring Bilinda Butcher on vocals, also suggests for the first three-and-a-half minutes at least that it maybe dates back to the same era. What sets it apart though is the uncharacteristic (for My Bloody Valentine at any rate) guitar solo in the final third. Almost signalling the exact point where Shields wanted the record to progress to the next juncture, it doesn't so much confound expectations as merely indicate many of these pieces probably started life as simply orchestrated melodies on an acoustic guitar. Seriously.
'who sees you' follows a similar template to the opener, comprising six minutes of unadorned, effects-laden bliss. Then mbv takes its first real diversion. 'is this and yes' might be a long lost Broadcast demo in another world, or maybe an idea Melody Prochet was toying with at some stage of her musical development. Whatever Shields intentions, it represents one of the most mesmerising pieces of music he's orchestrated and delivered in the thirty years of My Bloody Valentine's existence. Listen carefully and there's even a nod to Yann Tiersen's Amelie soundtrack. 'if i am' could be the quietly unassuming stepsister of 'To Here Knows When', floating along cordially amidst Butcher's seductive coos and a heavily layered concoction of backing tracks further suggesting the first half of mbv at least might not be the easiest of records to replicate in a live setting.
Those in attendance at Brixton's show last weekend will recognise 'new you' as the aforementioned 'Rough Song'. While the numerous mobile phone recordings that have surfaced since on You Tube don't really do the song justice, its recorded version makes clear its intentions from the off. Focusing heavily on a rhythm track not entirely dissimilar to the Primal Scream output Shields was involved with at the turn of the millennium. What's also apparent are Bilinda Butcher's delicately whispered vocals, something sadly lost between the stage and the sound desk on Sunday.
At this point I'm joined by fellow DiSser jordan_229 and a Eureka! moment occurs; that mbv, especially 'in another way' is heavily influenced by Godspeed! You Black Emperor. Indeed, watching this video of 'Gamelan' taken from their 2010 show in Athens; particularly from the 6:30 mark; the drum sequence is remarkably similar.
The final two tracks on mbv, 'nothing is' and 'wonder 2', stand out as personal highlights at this moment in time. Not forgetting this record has only been in my possession a mere twenty-four hours of course! The former contains one of the heaviest riffs Shields has ever put his stamp on. Equal parts G!YBE, Disco Inferno and Bark Psychosis. It sounds like nothing My Bloody Valentine have released previously, contains no vocals whatsoever and has all the hallmarks of being a showstopping beast of epic proportions live. Similar 'wonder 2', its introduction resembling a jetplane preparing for take-off via The Cure's Faith. Again breathy vocals dominate over distorted guitar sounds that suggest it has the potential to take over from 'You Made Me Realise' as the ear-splitting climax for the live shows.
Obviously time will tell, but as first impressions go, mbv is as good if not better than anyone could have expected given its delay. Whether we'll still be making same claims this time next week or come the end of the year remains to be seen, but for now it's a welcome return that while not exactly a giant leap forwards from Loveless, still manages to wipe most of their imitators off the face of the earth. For that reason, eleven listens and twenty-four hours after one of the most eagerly anticipated album releases in the history of music, my initial rating would be a well deserved 8/10.
For those yet to hear 'mbv', here it is in all its glory.


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The George W. Bush Institute and Syracuse University are undertaking a study on issues affecting veterans who have served since Sept. 11, 2001.
Bush described on ABC News "This Week" how his spirits are always lifted when he meets with veterans. He said that many in the U.S. are incredibly comfortable and yet have a "woe is me" mentality. He says that's not the case with veterans, who ask how they can continue to serve.
Bush said the mission of his institute is to help society serve veterans more efficiently. For example, it's working to show employers how various military experiences can translate into marketable job skills.


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The '10 Ford F-150 Raptor is the most highly anticipated off-road vehicle of the year. Over the last 12 months, bits and pieces of its story have leaked out on the Internet. Reports of the program's being canceled and revived have only added to the truck's mystique. Even the project's code name, Raptor, has set a precedent. It's the first time a vehicle's code name became the actual brand name!
Secretly the F-150 Raptor program has been in development for more than two years. Prototype trucks, known as mules, were blasting around the southwestern deserts and Michigan's Upper Peninsula for months before anyone in the media caught on. While other magazines and online speculators have fed the Raptor fire with rumors, guesses, and flat-out error, Petersen's 4-Wheel & Off-Road is the only source poised to give you the full story, right from the people who made this truck into a reality. We're also the only ones that were on hand to witness the final 1,000-mile durability test of the upcoming 5.4L Ford F-150 SVT Raptor. Check it out.
After each 62.5-mile lap, Durability was hoisted on a lift to inspect the chassis. Eight engineers and two Roush technicians combed the vehicle for any signs of wear or damage. The level of punishment the truck went through was evident by the bashed-in front skidplate. In fact, during our lap even we stuffed it into the ground through a torn-up section of the course.
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Testing vehicles over the harshest terrain in one of the hottest places on earth can be downright dangerous. But for nearly 20 years, when auto manufacturers and suppliers need to develop advanced prototypes or verify a concept in the real world (in a way computer simulation just can't do), they call on Pacific Contract Services (PCS), a logistics company.
Owned by Larry and Karen Rae, PCS has operated in more than 45 countries and employs a staff of special operations personnel, county sheriffs, paramedics, and pilots to, as Larry puts it, "Take people places to do things."
PCS handles the client's every need, from food and fuel to auto repair and air support. PCS focuses on the well-being and safety of the automotive engineers so that the engineers can focus on the testing and development they came to do.
In addition to working with Ford Motor Company, PCS handles some of the world's biggest auto suppliers and military contractors-companies like Bosch, Continental Teves, BorgWarner, and even a well-known electric car manufacturer. In fact PCS claims that every production vehicle sold in the U.S. to go off-road has been tested in some part at a PCS facility.
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Well I never!
I am not averse to tattoos, I in fact was the first in our immediate circle to get one....or 3 ...little stars on my shoulder...
I felt like a BAD ASS..and that was about 20+ years ago...
Then in '97 on a trip with friends to Maui, we all piled into a tattoo parlour before hoping on our extremely long flight home.
For the want of knowing what to have and wanting to stay small and within my 3 stars...I asked for a Chinese symbol for : Life....I got : Light....then again it may well be : sandwich for all I know.
The tats have not faired well..I actually forget I have them.
As for feeling BAD ASS...my sister has more tats than I and she now wears the Bad Gal crown.
So....if you like the idea but haven't the cojones to go for it...here is a wonderful alternative :
a Sharpie Tat!
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A panel of top advisors took to the stage during the afternoon keynote at ASPPA's 401(k) Summit on Sunday, all of whom were nominated for the 2012 401(k) Advisor Leadership Award sponsored by Morningstar Inc. Prior to the announcement of the winner, the advisors discussed major trends affecting advisors in the 401(k) space.
The nominees were Plan Sponsor Advisors from Chicago; Greenspring Wealth Management of Towson, Md., and Retirement Resources Investment Corp. of Peabody, Mass. The finalists were selected from more than 80 nominations submitted by peers and colleagues in the retirement plan industry. Plan Sponsor Advisors won the Leadership Award.
The panel was hosted by Will Marquis, defined contribution and retirement plan manager with Morningstar.
"It's an interesting time in the advisory business; there's opportunity, but that opportunity can also be scary," said Josh Itzoe, managing director of Greenspring. "Plan sponsors are realizing fiduciary is a verb, rather than just a noun. Simply calling yourself a fiduciary is not a sustainable differentiator. You must act like one through tenured experience, thought leadership, and training and continuing education."
There is an increasing focus on fees, which is leveling the playing field for clients, he added. Accountability for the level of service advisors provide will also be an area of increased focus.
"Plan sponsors want to focus on running a business, and they'll increasingly look to advisors to help them do it," Itzoe said. "The investment process is commoditized and is something we spend only about 25% of our time on. What we do the rest of the time involves back-end issues like governance, documentation and benchmarking. These aren't as forward-facing as the investment process portion, but we see these as the real factors that keep clients happy."
Patrick McGinn and Jim Phillips of Retirement Resources Investment Corp. then took over. Phillips said there is greater recognition among clients that they'll have to provide for their own retirement, driven by solvency concerns over Social Security
McGinn said contribution percentages are becoming more realistic, and 10% is now the baseline. McGinn also rhetorically asked how a company match can be used to affect employee investment behavior.
Phillips noted the firm's recent success with postcard campaigns that make it simple to increase contributions.
"We had set amounts from which they could choose as well as an area to write in the amount by which they wished to increase their contributions," Phillips explained. "Because we made it easy for them to do so, we had 23% of the individuals increase their percentages."
"We have to turn participants into decision makers, and train them to make their own smart decisions," McGinn concluded.
Plan Sponsor Advisors' Don Stone said plan design had "never been more important than today, which offers and immense opportunity for advisors."
"The way in which defined contribution plans are currently structured will not provide people with enough income for a dignified retirement," Stone said. "Plans must focus on more sophisticated designs that align with investor objectives."
Plan sponsors must also think differently about their definition of success, he added. Today, it's about participation rates and contribution percentages, but advisors must think about what these really mean.
"As advisors, how would you feel about your career if after 30 years, no one is retiring successfully?" he wondered.
ASPPA executive director and CEO Brian Graff and John Rekenthaler, vice president of research for Morningstar, then joined Marquis on stage to present the award to Don Stone and his team at Plan Sponsor Advisors.
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Canibus allegedly apologises for using notebook in rap battle | Music News
Days after his much-hyped King Of The Dot rap battle with Dizaster, that turned out to be a disaster (the veteran lyricist forgot his lines and subsequently pulled out his rhymebook mid-battle – which is against etiquette, something to warrant a frown, at the very least), now it seems Canibus has taken to his (unconfirmed) Tumblr to issue an apology-slash-excuse for his bizarre antics. As the emcee argues himself, he was feeling the effects of a broken arm and stitches in his head.
"Doubt me and you will be defeated" he concluded. Read the full statement below and see exactly how Canibus failed after the jump, as the good KOTD folks have just released the full battle today.
The day of the battle my memory and mental state wasn't 100% due to these circumstances. I knew this so I brought my copybook to practice the 30 plus pages of infinite rhymes that I had structured for Dizaster. The stitches in the back of my head were hurting me and my shoulder was killing me but The Ripper doesn't need medication, he controls pain with his mind. At the event I was very confident with the likes of Supernatural behind me and the guy who's strong stomach was showing- But to protect him from any abduction I won't reveal his name- Lets just call him Subject 10. The crowd showed me energy as well and as I delivered my first round I could see in Dizaster's eyes he was intimidated by the mind with the infinite rhyme. Eventually the traumatic effect I suffered days before caught up to me and I could no longer be as sharp as I needed to be. The fans paid money, as did the KOTD staff, so even though there was nothing left in my mental tank, I reached for what is now the infamous notepad and decided to read my infinite rhymes. Needless to say, the results were underwhelming and it didn't look right, but now, realizing the actions that preceded the event I'm sure you all understand.
Firstly, I want to apologize first to 'Subject 10' whose vehicle I abandoned when the agents were approaching me. Secondly, I'd like to apologize to Supernat because I made him come support me and stand behind me for that embarrassment. Thirdly, I'd like to apologize to all The Rippers in attendance who I let down. Finally, I'd like to apologize to Dizaster and the entire KOTD staff. I tried my best and stood there like the solider I am but there was nothing I can do. As I said in the event, I could only do what I can do. For everyone who seems to be making a mockery out of my just- Remember this; dinosaurs once ruled the planet, Rome was once a powerhouse, The Blazers drafted Greg Oden, and every dog has its day. Doubt me and you will be defeated.
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The feminine soul-force contains a persuasive power that can nurture and induce cooperation from others, stilling disruptive energies by harmonizing differences in the spirit of collective good will.
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The Strength card reversed suggests that you are in a position where you have little power to affect behavior. No amount of modeling, persuasion or leadership will affect the out-of-control, untamed force that is set loose.
Subtleties are overlooked, and the inducements which have served in the past to reward order may meet with scorn. You may have to lay low and do what you can to preserve yourself, and let this upside down time blow over.
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Wendy: The streets of London are full of history. But not all the famous characters associated with this city were real. More than a hundred years ago when people travelled by horse and cart and the foggy streets were lit by gaslight, one famous detective was leading the fight against crime. It was Victorian London, the time of Sherlock Holmes.
The fictional character of Sherlock Holmes has been popular ever since he was created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 1800s. Since then, Holmes has appeared in many films …
Roland Carstairs: Mr Holmes?
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone): Hello.
Wendy: … from black-and-white classics to Hollywood blockbusters and TV dramas.
Even though Sherlock Holmes wasn't a real person, you can find evidence of him all over London. There is a statue of Sherlock Holmes near Baker Street. Just around the corner, you can find his famous address, 221B. Ah, look! More evidence of Sherlock Holmes, a pub named after him. Let's pop in.
There are lots of Sherlock-related things inside the pub. The pub even has its own room which is supposed to look like Sherlock Holmes's study with his famous pipe and laboratory instruments for his forensic or scientific approach to solving crimes. You can just imagine Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Doctor Watson discussing how to solve crimes here.
Dr Watson (Nigel Bruce): Well, whoever's behind all this thing must be out of his mind.
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone): On the contrary, my dear fellow. If my assumptions are correct, this little scheme has behind it the most brilliant and ruthless intellect the world has ever known.
Wendy: Roger Johnson is from the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.
What makes Sherlock Holmes so interesting?
Roger: He's a hero, but he's a flawed hero in a way. He doesn't have superpowers in the way that, say, Superman does or the Marvel Avengers. He's a real human being and you can feel with Sherlock Holmes, as you can't do with Superman, 'Yeah, I could be like that'.
Wendy: Why is he still so popular?
Roger: The main reason is that the original stories are so good. They're very well written and they're tremendous fun to read.
Wendy: The Metropolitan Police Heritage Museum shows the history of policing in London. Holmes was famous for his use of forensic or scientific techniques to solve crimes. His creator, Conan Doyle, visited police museums to gain inspiration for his stories. Alan Moss is a former policeman and historian.
Do you think it was useful for Conan Doyle to visit places like this?
Alan: He was really interested in real-life crimes, but actually making those crimes into a really good story.
Wendy: Police methods and crime-solving techniques have changed since the time of Sherlock Holmes. New technology means the scientific or forensic method is even more important.
So there's evidence of Sherlock Holmes all across London. It looks like he's going to continue being a popular fictional character for many more years to come. I wonder what Sherlock would make of today's forensic work and policing techniques. I guess we'll never know.
Do you like detective stories and mysteries? Which are your favourites?
yes, I love all kinds of historys ´cause the histories can show us to many different Worlds, they have the power to pop you into the history and that´s great!
I really like the character of sherlock holmes in my opinion he is interesting because he is not a super hero he is a human being a simple police of london like others and
his best interpretation was that of Robert Dawney Jr
Yes, I like the detective and mystery histories, and specially Sherlock Holmes, because it is the history of a man that, with his own knowledge can solve the must difficult cases, without any superpower it´s just him.
I hadn´t read another of this stories except from Sherlock Holmes and his movies.
I actually don't like detective or crime stories but I really enjoyed every single word of the Sherlock Holmes book, it's very catchy and it really makes you curious about what's going to happen next cause' the story is unpredictable. I also liked all the movies, specially the one that Robert Downey JR. is the main character.
I really enjoy the detective stories and I actually think that those types of stories are my favourite, the mystery, the suspense, the crimes, I don't know, but I think that those things are just amazing, my favourite book series is ''The Three Detectives'', each book is something that you won´t ever forget, I love it so much.
I love Robert Downey Jr's Holmes!
His play is so funny!!!!
I really love Sherlock Holmes and I have read all the stories of him. When I start to read a Sherlock Holmes story, I can't stop reading until the end because it wakes up my curiosity a lot.
Yes. I like detective stories. One of my friend suggested me " Dancing Men " case of Sherlock Holmes. And ı really enjoyed it.
I love sherlock holmes, he's the hero of my infancy
Yes, I like reading a detective story and enjoying a detective drama on TV! The detectives in some stories usually impressed my young mind and once I considered to be a detective in the future! But soon after, I saw actual detectives working and found them uncool, rather they looked like mafias....
Fiction would be fine!!
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I love detective stories so much.I alwaus watch Scherloch Holmes i just watched the episode where he tells John and his wife Mary that they are going to be parrents:)
Yes, I really like detective stories and mysteries. I like Sherlock. This serie is very interesting. I like Rizzoli and Isles is mystery and comedy.
There are others series about mysteries that I like.
I like very much the detetive stories, but I don't have a favorite story, I have readed some Sherlock Holmes's novels, and I have watched the movies, and TV dramas, one is Sherlock, and other is Elementary, also I watch and read a Anime and Manga called Kuroshitsuji that is about a kid and your butler, who's solving misteries in Victorian London, but actually the boy is seeking revenge, because your parents were killed, and he did do a contract with a demon, who is your handsome and intelligent butler. :3
Yes i do like detective stories and i like crime investigation movies too. My favorite is CSI Miami.
I like detective storie very much.
Benedict Cumberbatch!!!!!!!!!!
I like detective stories and mysteries and my favourite detective is Sherlock Holmes.
Anyone knows Benedict cumberbatch??He is playing as sherlock holmes in his tv series .. U must watch it he so awesome..and his best friend Dr. Watson..i enjoy watching it..a lot !!
I'ts not my favorite stories I enjoy other type of stories but I still like watching programmes that involve mystery and detective films like Sherlock Holmes.
I am a deep admirer of the character Sherlock Holm,es.I've read almost all his detectives and they amaze you witheir gripping;bloodchilling and very keen obsevative stories.I honestly havce a great respect for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie;forever outmatches for what we have today..
I like nancy drew , hardy boys nd agatha christie for detective stories..
I have watched his movies and tv series...i m a gr8 fan of his..he is so fast and accurate!!
I don't really like detective stories but I do enjoy watching Sherlock Holmes
I didn't watch the movie actually but i read all chapters of the book !!!
and it is very intresting !!!
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A Brazillian sex worker has been forced to go into hiding after publically speaking out against police actions following an illegal raid in Niteroi, Brazil in May of this year.
On 23 May 2014 police occupied a building in the centre of Niteroi where sex workers live and work. The building had known sex work venues for about 400 self-organised sex workers. Some sex workers were residents and lost their homes after the illegal raid.
Sex work is not a crime under Brazilian law, as it is a profession recognised by the Ministry of Labour since 2002, as such the raid was justified by basing it on the "bad structural conditions and conservation of the installations" of the building. However, the police only closed the four floors where sex workers lived and worked, leaving the remaining six floors undisturbed,
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But erosion isn't the biggest culprit. Instead, scientists say, the mountains of Oahu are actually dissolving from within.
"We tried to figure out how fast the island is going away and what the influence of climate is on that rate," said Brigham Young University geologist Steve Nelson. "More material is dissolving from those islands than what is being carried off through erosion."
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"All of the Hawaiian Islands are made of just one kind of rock," Nelson said. "The weathering rates are variable, too, because rainfall is so variable, so it's a great natural laboratory."
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Bobby Flay helps inaugurate his restaurant at new casino
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The ingredients don't include opening night jitters here. With a few hours to go, it's all about preparation, getting it right.
Bobby Flay was in the kitchen at his Bobby's Burger Palace at the Horseshoe Cincinnati Casino, slicing the sandwiches and calling the shots on his signature burgers. The restaurant, and the casino, opens Monday night.
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"I don't think I've actually had a burger in Cincinnati. I've had chili in Cincinnati," Flay said. "And I'm a huge Graeter's fan, which is the real reason why I've opened here so I can have some black raspberry chip ice cream."
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LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. — A train engineer and two colleagues were led past rows of Lac-Megantic townspeople and journalists Tuesday prior to their arraignment in Canada's deadliest railway blast.
Engineer Tom Harding, operations manager John Demaitre and company controller Richard Labrie were freed on $15,000 bail.
Each man faces 47 counts of criminal negligence causing death, one count for each person who was killed when a runaway train derailed and exploded in the centre of the border town last July.
They face maximum sentences of life in prison if convicted.
All three men were ordered to remain in Canada and refrain from working in the railway industry.
The next court date was set for Sept. 11, when the Crown is expected to table its evidence.
Prior to the brief hearing, the defendants showed no expression during the short walk from a prison van to a makeshift courtroom in Lac-Megantic's sports complex.
All three men, employees of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic (MMA) Railway, were in handcuffs.
The first to be led into the building was Harding, who had parked the 72-car crude-oil train that rolled into town before it derailed and exploded into huge fireballs.
According to police sources, the criminal investigation also centred on the railway's CEO, Ed Burkhardt, who is based in Illinois.
So far Burkhardt has not been charged, but his bankrupt railway is named in the indictment.
The railway also faces $50 million in wrongful-death lawsuits.
A provincial police SWAT team arrested Harding at his home in Quebec's Eastern Townships, QMI Agency learned.
Tactical officers were called in because police had previously found firearms in his home, a source told QMI.
Police last winter discovered an improperly stored firearm and determined that he might have posed a suicide risk.
Raymond Lafontaine, who lost his son Gaetan and a secretary in the inferno, witnessed the arraignment.
He said he isn't angry at the defendants but wants to see justice done.
"I am relieved," Lafontaine told QMI. "What people want to see is to see the people, see their faces. Who are these people who didn't do their jobs as they should have?"
He called for railway police to be deployed across Canada to prevent future disasters.
The Lac-Megantic explosion led Canada and the United States to tighten railway security and safety rules.
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Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said the government will ban the substandard DOT-111 tankers from carrying flammable liquids on Canadian railroads by May 2017.
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After Webster Shooting, Calls Renewed For Gun Control
Rep. Louise Slaughter said the shooting near Rochester today is another reason for tougher gun laws in the country.
"Our nation must address out-of-control gun violence and I am firmly committed to doing my part," Slaughter (left), D-Fairport, Monroe County, who will represent Webster in January, said in a statement. "Congress must pass comprehensive legislation as soon as possible and bring an end to the senseless gun violence that has taken too many innocent lives."
Two firefighters were killed and two were injured in what police said appeared to be an ambush by a lone gunman when Webster firefighters responded to a house and car fire in a lakefront neighborhood. The gunman is dead, police said.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman didn't call on the state Legislature to pass tougher gun laws, but said "As this investigation unfolds, we stand with our partners in law enforcement to ensure that lethal weapons are out of the hands of dangerous people, so that the brave New Yorkers who risk their lives every day to protect us are not exposed to additional danger."
Even before the Webster shooting, the state Legislature was expected to pass a package of gun-control laws either by month's end or next year. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has wanted tougher gun laws
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In his statement today about the Webster shootings, Cuomo didn't use it as an opportunity to address gun control.
He called it a "senseless act of violence" and said that "New York's first responders are true heroes as they time and again selflessly rush toward danger in order to keep our families and communities safe."
Tom King, president of the state Rifle and Pistol Association, warned lawmakers to not make any decisions in haste. He said today he was confident that Senate Republicans, who will still maintain a hold on the chamber in January, would not adopt any burdensome measures on gun owners, such as a possible confiscation program hinted by Cuomo last week.
"Any lawmaker who says passing another gun-control law will make the streets safer and the people can sleep better at night because they don't have to worry is very much uninformed," King said on WGDJ-AM (1300).
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks also called for calm at a news briefing on the shooting.
"Emotions are extremely high. There's a heightened awareness to this kind of violence in light of what happened in Connecticut. I just want everyone to remember: It's Christmas eve. We have first-responders and we have families who are in pain and in crisis today," Brooks, a Republican, said. "And we need to as a community keep them in our thoughts and prayers."