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The novel follows Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier, and a number of other characters. Most events occur while the airmen of the fictional Fighting 256th (or "two to the fighting eighth power") Squadron are based on a fictional version of the island of Pianosa, west of Italy. Many events in the book are repeatedly described from differing points of view, so the reader learns more about the event from each iteration, with the new information often completing a joke, or setup, the punchline of which was told several chapters previous. The narrative often describes these events out of sequence, and are referred to as if the reader already knows about them.
A magazine excerpt from the novel was originally published as Catch-18, but Heller's agent, Candida Donadio, requested that it change the title of the novel so it would not be confused with another recently published World War II novel, Leon Uris's Mila 18. The number 18 has special meaning in Judaism (it means life in Gematria) and was relevant to early drafts of the novel which had a somewhat greater Jewish emphasis.
The title Catch-11 was suggested, with the duplicated 1 paralleling the repetition found in a number of character exchanges in the novel, but due to the release of the 1960 movie Ocean's Eleven this was also rejected. Catch-17 was also rejected, so as not to be confused with the World War II film Stalag 17, as well as Catch-14, apparently because the publisher did not feel that 14 was a "funny number". Eventually the title came to be Catch-22, which, like 11, has a duplicated digit, with the 2 also referring to a number of déjà vu-like events common in the novel.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," Yossarian observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
Much of Heller's prose in Catch-22 is circular and repetitive, exemplifying in its form the structure of a Catch-22. Heller revels in paradox, for example: The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him, and The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with. This atmosphere of apparent logical irrationality pervades the whole book.
Other forms of Catch-22 are invoked throughout the novel to justify various bureaucratic actions. At one point, victims of harassment by military police quote the MPs as having explained one of Catch-22's provisions so: Catch-22 states that agents enforcing Catch-22 need not prove that Catch-22 actually contains whatever provision the accused violator is accused of violating. An old woman explains: Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing. This nightmare of a bureaucracy crushing the individual with absurdity is similar to the world of Kafka's 'Trial', and Orwell's '1984', the concept of 'doublethink' having definite echoes in Heller's work.
Yossarian comes to realize that Catch-22 does not actually exist, but because the powers that be claim it does, and the world believes it does, it nevertheless has potent effects. Indeed, because it does not exist there is no way it can be repealed, undone, overthrown, or denounced. The combination of brute force with specious legalistic justification is one of the book's primary motifs.
The motif of bureaucratic absurdity is further explored in 1994's Closing Time, Heller's sequel to Catch-22. This darker, slower-paced, apocalyptic novel explores the pre- and post-war lives of some of the major characters in Catch-22, with particular emphasis on the relationship between Yossarian and tailgunner Sammy Singer.
Another theme is the turning on their heads of our notions of what people generally think of as morally right or wrong, particularly patriotism and honor, which, because they are simplistic ideas, lead most of the airmen to accept abusive lies and petty rules of bureaucrats, though Yossarian is modeled whole-heartedly disregarding all such notions. When Major Major asks why he wouldn't fly more missions, Yossarian answers:
"I'm afraid."
"That's nothing to be ashamed of," Major Major counseled him kindly. "We're all afraid."
"I'm not ashamed,' Yossarian said. 'I'm just afraid."
Several themes flow into one another, for example, 'that the only way to survive such an insane system is to be insane oneself,' is partially a take on Yossarian's answer to the Social dilemma (that he would be a fool to be any other way); and another theme, 'that bad men (who sell out others) are more likely to get ahead, rise in rank, and make money,' turns our notions of what is estimable on their heads as well.
Heller suggests that bureaucracies, especially when run by bad or insane men, lead the members of the organization to trivialize important matters (e.g., those affecting life and death), and that trivial matters (e.g., clerical errors) assume enormous importance. Everyone in the book, even Yossarian at the beginning, is behaving insanely in their clerical decisions.
While the (official) enemy are the Germans, no German ever actually appears in the story as an enemy combatant. As the narrative progresses, Yossarian comes to fear American bureaucrats more than he fears the Germans attempting to shoot down his bomber. This ironic situation is epitomized in the single appearance of German personnel in the novel, who act as pilots employed by a private entrepreneur working within the U.S. military. This predicament indicates a tension between traditional motives for violence and the modern economic machine, which seems to generate violence simply as another means to profit, quite independent of geographical or ideological constraints.
Among the reasons Yossarian fears his commanders more than the enemy is that, as he flies more missions, the number of missions required before he can go home is continually increasing: he is always approaching the magic number, but he never reaches it. He comes to despair of ever going home and is greatly relieved when he is sent to the hospital for a condition that is almost jaundice. In Yossarian's words:
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live. (Chapter 12)
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The development of the novel can be split into multiple segments. The first (chapters 1-12) broadly follows the story in during present day time, though the story is fragmented between characters. The second (chapters 12-20) flashes back to focus primarily on the "Great Siege of Bologna" before once again jumping to the present in the third part (chapter 20-25). The fourth (chapters 25-28) flashes back to the origins and growth of Milo's syndicate, with the fifth part (chapter 28-32) returning again to the narrative present but keeping to the same tone of the previous four. In the sixth and final part (chapter 32 on) while remaining in the present time the novel takes a much darker turn and spends the remaining chapters focusing on the serious and brutal nature of war and the world we live in.
While the previous five parts develop the novel in the present and by use of flash-backs, it is in chapters 32-41 of the sixth and final part where the novel significantly darkens. Previously the reader had been cushioned from experiencing the full horror of events, but now the events are laid bare, allowing the full effect to take place. The horror begins with the attack on the undefended Italian mountain village, with the following chapters involving despair (Doc Daneeka and the Chaplain), disappearance in combat (Orr and Clevinger), disappearance caused by the army (Dunbar) or death (Nately, McWatt, Kid Sampson, Dobbs, Chief White Halfoat and Hungry Joe) of most of Yossarian's friends, culminating in the unspeakable horrors of Chapter 39, in particular the rape and murder of Michaela, who represents pure innocence.
Czech writer Arnošt Lustig recounts in his book 3x18 that Joseph Heller personally told him that he would never have written Catch-22 had he not first read The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek.
The analogy is explicitly suggested by Colonel Korn:
"Who does he think he is — Achilles?" Colonel Korn was pleased with the simile and filed a mental reminder to repeat it the next time he found himself in General Peckem's presence.
The comparison is made more subtly in a description of the chaplain's feeling of déjà vu:
But the chaplain's impression of a prior meeting was of some occasion far more momentous and occult than that, of a significant encounter with Yossarian in some remote, submerged and perhaps even entirely spiritual epoch in which he had made the identical, foredooming admission that there was nothing, absolutely nothing, he could do to help him.
Heller here alludes to Book XI of Homer's epic, the Odyssey, in which the hero Odysseus has descended to the spirit world of Hades and met the dead Achilles. Achilles asks Odysseus for news of the living, which Odysseus provides. In contrast, the chaplain cannot help Yossarian.
The differences between Achilles and Yossarian are explained by other literary influences for Yossarian's character:
They couldn't touch him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees.
"You're crazy," Clevinger shouted vehemently, his eyes filling with tears. "You've got a Jehovah complex." "I think everyone is Nathaniel." Clevinger arrested himself in mid-declamation, suspiciously, "Who's Nathaniel?" "Nathaniel who?" inquired Yossarian innocently. Clevinger skirted the trap neatly. "You think everybody is Jehovah. You're no better than Raskolnikov — " "Who?" " — yes, Raskolnikov, who — " "Raskolnikov!" " — who — I mean it — who felt he could justify killing an old woman — " "No better than?" " — yes, justify, that's right — with an ax! And I can prove it to you!" Gasping furiously for air, Clevinger enumerated Yossarian's symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everybody around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him.
Near the climax of the novel, during Yossarian's harrowing walk through Rome, the comparison with Raskolnikov is again made:
He heard snarling, inhuman voices cutting through the ghostly blackness in front suddenly ... On the other side of the intersection, a man was beating a dog with a stick like the man who was beating the horse with a whip in Raskolinov's dream. Yossarian strained helplessly not to see or hear ... A small crowd watched. A squat women stepped out and asked him please to stop. "Mind your own business" the man barked gruffly, lifting his stick as though he might beat her too ... Yossarian quickened his pace to get away, almost ran ... At the next corner a man was beating a small boy brutally in midst of an immobile crowd ... Yossarian recoiled with sickening recognition. He was certain he has witnessed that same horrible scene sometime before. Déjà vu?
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?
New Testament references to the life of Christ abound in the final chapters. When Yossarian returns to "The Eternal City," he finds it a hell, filled with starving children, beggars, people beating and raping each other. He then returns to the base and is offered salvation, ala Christ and the devil, by Colonel Cathcart and Lieutenant Colonel Korn. They will send him back to America if he will only agree to like them. (The Devil offered Christ salvation if he would bow down and worship him.) As Yossarian is leaving their office, he is stabbed by Nately's whore, stabbed in the rib cage as Christ was on the cross. Yossarian, like Christ, achieves resurrection when he learns that Orr has not died but has rowed to Sweden. This gives Yossarian the power to rise up and head for Sweden and safety himself.
Also mentioned are Moby-Dick, the works of psychiatrist Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing read by the sexually obsessed Mrs Scheisskopf, and allusion to William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice when describing the Chaplain as an outsider:
If they pricked him did he not bleed? ... It seemed never to have occurred to them that be, just as they had eyes, hands, organs, dimensions, senses and affections, that he was fed by the same food...
Heller also plays with Malvolio's lines in Twelfth Night when describing Major Major Major:
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
References to nineteenth century American author Washington Irving also feature, with Yossarian, Major Major, and Corporal Whitcomb all forging documents with his name at some point. The 17th-century English poet John Milton's name is briefly used for the same purpose.
T.S. Eliot's name is mentioned by Ex-PFC Wintergreen as a poet that makes money (sparking a paranoid chain of phone calls between Generals Peckem and Dreedle)
Reviews in publications ranged from the very positive; The Nation ("was the best novel to come out in years"), the New York Herald Tribune ("A wild, moving, shocking, hilarious, raging, exhilarating, giant roller-coaster of a book") and the New York Times ("A dazzling performance that will outrage nearly as many readers as it delights") to the highly negative; The New Yorker ("doesn't even seem to be written; instead, it gives the impression of having been shouted onto paper," "what remains is a debris of sour jokes") and from another critic of the New York Times ("is repetitive and monotonous. Or one can say that it is too short because none of its many interesting characters and actions is given enough play to become a controlling interest").
Although the novel won no awards at publication, and some highly respected critics such as Sid Feddema thought that the novel "was destined to fade into irrelevance in a decade or so," it has stood the test of time and now is seen as one of the most significant novels of the 20th century.


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Okaloosa County Commissioner Dave Parisot has filed a complaint against state Rep. Matt Gaetz with the Florida House of Representatives, alleging that Gaetz made false statements about him at a local legislative delegation meeting in late January.
Parisot sent the complaint to House Speaker Will Weatherford on March 11 along with a sworn statement detailing his accusations. He accused Gaetz of lying during the delegation's Jan. 30 meeting at the Niceville Community Center.
"(Gaetz) was the chairman at it, and he told some falsehoods," Parisot said Monday.
Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, dismissed Parisot's accusations, saying they show only that he "is trying to find new ways to embarrass himself."
"Everyone in the Capitol building realizes this is a frivolous complaint from an even more frivolous person," he said Monday.
Gaetz said Parisot's complaint against him is a response to the state's Joint Legislative Auditing Committee's questioning Parisot and other county officials about their handling of the Tourist Development Council scandal.
"Dave Parisot would rather change the subject than change any of the practices in the county that have eroded the public's confidence," Gaetz said.
Parisot's complaint is based on comments Gaetz made during the Jan. 30 meeting, which was held to discuss the state auditor general's final report on the county's mismanagement of millions in bed tax money and BP oil spill grants. About 200 members of the public attended the meeting.
The delegation had previously scheduled a meeting to discuss legislative priorities for Northwest Florida, but Gaetz changed the topic to focus solely on the auditor general's report.
Parisot alleges that Gaetz told the audience he'd initially received a comment form from Parisot indicating he wished to speak at the meeting but that Parisot had declined to attend.
In his complaint, Parisot called Gaetz's comment a "bold-faced lie" and said he'd never filled out a comment form to speak at the meeting.
"I had not made any oral or written comments of any kind to Representative Gaetz on this topic prior to the meeting on January 30, 2013," Parisot said in the complaint. "I had also had no contact with Representative Gaetz or his office as to whether or not I would be attending the meeting on January 30th on the topic of the Auditor General Report."
But Gaetz said he had Parisot's comment form in hand when chairing the Jan. 30 meeting. He said he'd received a request from the Okaloosa County administrator's office for a comment form on Parisot's behalf.
Parisot said that comment form, which indicated he wanted to speak, referred to the delegation's previously scheduled meeting instead of the one focusing on the TDC scandal.
"It was for a meeting about the legislative priorities, not for a meeting about the auditor general's report," he said.
Gaetz said he sent a copy of Parisot's comment form to Weatherford in a March 14 letter responding to Parisot's complaint.
"Mr. Parisot didn't want to attend because he didn't want to be accountable," Gaetz said of Parisot's absence at the delegation meeting.
Parisot said he didn't attend because Commissioner Nathan Boyles was scheduled to represent the county at the meeting.
"I was advised it would be a Sunshine violation," he said.
Parisot said he felt compelled to point out Gaetz's "false" comments because he and other legislators "have been trashing the commissioners on ethics and throwing innuendos out there."
In his complaint, Parisot requests several actions including that his allegations be investigated by Weatherford and the Ethics and Elections Sub-Committee of the Florida House, that Gaetz be removed as chairman of the Northwest Florida Legislative Delegation and be assessed a monetary fine for making false statements.
Parisot said he is waiting to hear from Weatherford.
"The ball's in his court right now," he said.
Gaetz has waived confidentiality regarding Parisot's complaint and told Weatherford he can make any responses to the matter public.
"I'm getting back to work," he said. "I'm not interested in pecking back and forth with Dave Parisot."
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Kari C. Barlow at 850-315-4438 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @KariBnwfdn.

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If you mention this to the forum over at TBF, there might be someone who is willing to lend you a copy. I'd lend you an extra english translation if I had one but I only have a rather large 25th anniversary hardback version.
I know there are tons of members at TBF that have numerous copies. I am sure someone there would be willing to mail you a copy.
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I still get a kick out of the author thinking a win over Browne would have put AO back into title contention. A one-win streak over a then unranked fighter--not to mention a highly publicized PED bust--would be title-shot worthy.
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September is National Honey Month, which means that there's more of an excuse than ever to find something to spread it on. But to fully appreciate honey, it helps to know about all that honey and honeybees contribute to your daily diet.
Honeybees are responsible for $15 billion in added crop value to large farms, and Albert Einstein once quipped that one out of every three bites an American takes is pollinated by honeybees—which is why colony collapse disorder is so distressing. Scientists still don't know what's causing the ailment, which first struck in 2006 and killed up to 90 percent of some beekeepers' hives. But small-scale organic beekeeping operations didn't see the same drastic declines in bee populations, and haven't reported as many collapses as large-scale commercial beekeepers have. So when the dust settles, the disorder may leave us with nothing but locally produced honey.
Continue reading for four more reasons you should support local organic beekeepers:
#1: They take a hands-on approach.
Commercial beekeepers use antibiotics on their hives to combat a bacterial disease called American foul brood, says Ross Conrad, author of Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture (Chelsea Green, 2007). "It's a very deadly, very contagious disease," he says, that can spread quickly to other hives as bees in those hives eat honey from the affected hive. But, while antibiotics are good a wiping it out, they also kill the "good" bacteria that bees need. "Bees are like humans," Conrad says. "They need beneficial bacteria to help their digestive processes, and they also need it to process pollen, which provides nutrients and protein." Some tests have found traces of antibiotics in honey imported from abroad, so buy honey from local beekeepers who use mechanical methods, such as thoroughly cleaning out hives and removing infected honeycombs, rather than antibiotics, to kill diseases.
#2: Honey can heal.
Honey is often touted as a cure-all for everything from burns (put raw honey on a burn as soon as possible to speed healing) to cuts and scrapes (honey's natural antiseptic properties allow it to work a bit like hydrogen peroxide). It's soothing for sore throats. And it may be good for your heart, too. Research by food scientists at the University of Illinois found that honey, especially dark honey, slowed the action of LDL "bad" cholesterol in test-tube studies. Buckwheat honey seemed to have the biggest effect. Honey is also full of health-protective antioxidants, though the clover honey that's ubiquitous in supermarkets has the least. Try buckwheat, sunflower, tupelo, and acacia types.
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#3: They feed their bees well.
"Bees collect honey all summer and store it away to eat all winter," says Conrad. "It adds back a lot of minerals, vitamins, and nutrients that are found in the nectar from plants." In organic beekeeping, farmers are pretty responsible about leaving enough honey behind for the bees and harvesting just enough so bees don't get hungry. However, he says, if the bees don't produce enough, or if they eat up all their honey in the first few months of winter, beekeepers have to feed them something to keep them going. "Typically, an organic beekeeper feeds them organic sugar syrup," he says, but commercial and large-scale beekeeping operations may feed them corn syrup or even high-fructose corn syrup, which Conrad says contains sugars that are mildly toxic to bees. And a study just published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry proves him right. Those researchers found that that high-fructose corn syrup produces a toxic chemical that kills honeybees when it's heated, as it often is before it's fed to the bees.
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1970 O-Pee-Chee Baseball Cards
The 1970 O-Pee-Chee set is nearly the same as the 1970 Topps set, aside from the words "Printed in Canada" located on the back of the OPC version. Also unique to the OPC set is the bilingual reverse side of the card, where player statistics, as well as the player's biography, appears in both French and English. The fronts feature a color photo of the player surrounded by thin white border with the players name and position on the bottom, and the team name in the upper right corner. The cards are 2 ½" by 3 ½" and come in a 546-card set. The 1970 O-Pee-Chee set was then distributed in eight-card dime packs which came 36 packs per box
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Does a timing chain (as opposed to timing belt) need any specific maintenance? In particular I'm talking about a BMW Z4
While regular maintenance is not required it is advisable to check how much the chain has stretch, say every few 100K. If the chain stretches too much the tensioner may no longer be able to perform its job. There's also the problem of the pins becoming a bit loose in the side plates.
The chain should also get a visual check whenever the opportunity presents itself to ensure there is no evidence of things like side plates starting to become loose. Rollers should be felt to ensure there is no discernible ply between roller and pin.
Timing chains don't often break but when they do they generally take chunks of engine with them, as well as allowing valves to get too friendly with the pistons on most engines.
I'm used to timing chains on American V8's, but they will "stretch" over time (think 200k miles) and sometimes on high mileage engines they could "jump" a tooth if they are too stretched out.
But they do not require any maintenance.
Regular maintenance is not needed. However, a "rattling" noise that changes with engine RPM may indicate a problem with the chain or timing gears. Usually this isn't an issue until higher mileage (150k +).
Next time you go by your dealership, ask them if they've had any problems in particular with your year model. If you hear of instances of chains commonly being replaced at X miles because of some problem (and you trust your source), then you may want to take preemptive action.
BMW timing chains are engineered for the life of the engine and never need maintenance or replaced. To prove that point BMW has always performed several long distance tests on its new engines before they are put on the market. Back in the 90s they took a e34 (5 series) and ran it over 2 million miles, just performing the standard maintenance. When they took apart that engine everything measured to spec.
Enjoy your Bimmer and just make sure to get the regular maintenance performed but no need to worry about the timing chain. Now if your a e30 guy like myself your stuck with the single worst decision, sorry second worst (hiring Chris Bangle), Bimmer engineers made and that was to go with a 'quieter' rubber band timing belt. Argghh!!
long chains will get loose sooner, hard shifting will knock it around and shorten its life, infrequent oil changes will interfere with lubrication as the carbon biulds up on the chain. most engines either have a auto tensioner, or a good guide to help it from slaping ,belts are good but some are very hard to change, to bad the manufactuers dont try to make the belt easy to change as it isneeds to be replaced at some significant exspence


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Tolkien/C.S. Lewis/Inklings DiscussionEvent Details: 4:00 p.m., November 29, Pius XII Memorial Library
The English Department and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host a question-and-answer session on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and the Inklings at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, in the Knights Room at Pius XII Memorial Library.
All are invited hear stories and ask questions from English department instructors and Colin Havard, whose father was doctor to Tolkien and Lewis and a member of the Inklings. The Inklings was a literary discussion group founded at the University of Oxford, England, in the early 1930s. Both Tolkien and Lewis were members of the organization.
Light refreshments will be served after the discussion, courtesy of the English Department and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.


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Alex Smith, the San Francisco 49ers' starting quarterback turned clipboard holder due to Colin Kaepernick's stunning success, will reportedly request to be released before the start of free agency rather than wait to be traded, according to Pro Football Talk.It's not surprising the 29-year-old former No. 1 draft pick wants to retake the wheel after losing his starting job due to injury.Smith has leverage with the organization because he handled his demotion like a champ. San Francisco's incentive to let him walk rather than attempt a trade is the $1 million bonus owed Smith if he is still on the roster March 15th, three days after NFL free agency begins. Plus, his base pay for 2013, $7.5 million, will be guaranteed if he's still with the team on April 1st.Although Smith has improved considerably under head coach Jim Harbaugh: QB rating: 72.1 (2005-10); 95.1 (2011-12) -- teams would rather acquire him via free agency on their own terms, then swallow Smith's current $18.75 million cap...
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Sunderland have bid for their third new defender in a week, offering £5 million for Zenit St Petersburg centre-back Nicolas Lombaerts…
Manchester United set to use Jonny Evans as bait to land Everton right-back Seamus Coleman…
Sunderland have reportedly agreed a fee of £2 million for Celtic right-back Adam Matthews, just a day after signing central defender Sebastian Coates on a permanent deal…
Stoke City have announced a one-year contract extension for Peter Odemwingie after the player recovered from a long-term knee injury to feature down the stretch in the 2014-15 season.
According to the Manchester Evening News, Manchester United have made an official bid for Morgan Schneiderlin with £20 million the mooted figure.
West Ham chairman David Gold has revealed the club are "working hard" behind the scenes to secure the services of Arsenal full-back Carl Jenkinson for another season.
Arsenal youth midfielder Ainsley Maitland-Niles has moved to Ipswich Town on loan for the 2015-16 season.
Jay Rodriguez is expected to make his long awaited return from injury next Wednesday when Southampton take on RasenBallsport Leipzig in their first pre-season game in Austria.
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The Daily Express are reporting that Chelsea are willing to sell Oscar to Juventus if the Italian champions meet their £25 million valuation of the player.
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A tumultuous summer got even worse for Javier Hernandez as he added an injury to his uncertain club status heading into the 2015-16 season.
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Helpless now, the last werewolf watched aghast as her grandson faced the silver cross-bolt firing squad. The citizens of Bonk weren't taking any chances on a comeback from this execution. Smiling a sorrowful little smile Serafina von Uberwald (aka mC) turned and walked away as the barbs streaked towards TinTin's heart. She made her away out of the town and into the snow-clad woods. Only there did she change forms and break into a loping run on all fours, pumping strong and fleet as she climbed the range and headed in the general direction of Kneck...
If only she could have saved Pip's. Just one vote against the enemy, but 2 votes cast against him and her abstention and the die was - well you know!
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How to Activate an OEM copy of Vista or 7 Over the Internet
This will be a very short guide. I'm creating this guide because of what I saw in a thread regarding, activating an OEM copy of Vista. The general consensus was that you had to Activate via the telephone because Windows Vista and Sometimes 7, told you that the key you are using cannot be activated over the internet.
To Activate an OEM copy of Vista over the internet you simply need to tell the activate wizard that you want to change the product key. Then enter the exact same key off the side or bottom of the machine you used during the setup. For some reason when you enter it a 2nd time, windows will activate without issue. While retyping the key works great, an easier way to do it is to use a program called ..
Jellybean keyfinder.
1) Install Windows Vista OEM
2) Get your network card working http://www.neowin.ne...#entry594035224
3) Open Jellybean keyfinder and copy the Vista key
4) Open the activate wizard and tell it you wish to change the key.
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Ever since I updated to Firefox 20 on my Mac (10.8.3) and the latest version of Flash Player, I've found any sites using flash videos to be extremely choppy if I switch tabs or pause and then play the video again. Not got the problem in Chrome or Safari so it leads me to believe its Firefox that is causing the issue and not Flash.
Anyone else noticed the issue? Is there a settings fix in about:config?


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Beach safety officials want to tighten Okaloosa County's restrictions on swimming in the Gulf of Mexico.
Under proposed changes to the law governing county parks, beachgoers would be prohibited from swimming more than 300 feet from shore. Also included is a ban on swimming, diving, surfing or watercraft use within 150 feet of the Okaloosa Island Fishing Pier.
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Beach Safety Director Tracey Vause said the proposal stems from a trend that has caused major problems the past few years.
"There are some folks who want to swim well beyond the second sandbar during red flag conditions," Vause said. "That's when they choose to do it."
When those "extreme swimmers" go beyond the second sandbar, they are more than a football field's length from the beach and more difficult for lifeguards to reach, he added.
Vause said other beachgoers often spot the swimmers and, thinking they're in distress, call 911.
What follows is a huge response involving lifeguards, EMS, fire and rescue and law enforcement. Sometimes the swimmer who sparked the call doesn't need or want help, he said.
"These people refuse to come in because there's no ordinance that says they can't do it," Vause said. "There's no law against it."
He said he has seen the "unnecessary response" unfold several times a day during the height of the summer season.
"What we want is to at least keep (swimmers) inside that 300-foot limit," he said.
Vause added that keeping swimmers closer to shore also avoids putting lifeguards at unnecessary risk.
Vause modeled his proposal on an ordinance in Volusia County. He said Walton and Escambia counties have similar restrictions.
Okaloosa County commissioners are scheduled to discuss the proposed changes at a public hearing Jan. 22 in Fort Walton Beach.
The proposed swimming restrictions were first presented to the board Dec. 18 as part of a long list of changes to the law that governs county parks. That list included tougher litter regulations that would make it illegal to leave tents, chairs and other personal items on the beach overnight.
The board balked at approving any of the proposals, and postponed discussion until Jan. 22.
Some commissioners have questioned whether increased swimming restrictions can be enforced.
"How does a lifeguard determine the 300-foot point?" Commissioner Nathan Boyles said. "The Gulf of Mexico is not a swimming pool, and I'm not sure it's our job to treat it as such. I think you have to allow folks to make their (own) decisions, both good and bad."
But Vause said too many beachgoers think they're in good enough shape to make it to the second sandbar and back safely when they're not.
"Your typical, average swimmer is not capable of swimming home," he said. "Statistics show that well over half aren't capable of doing it."
Those swimmers' decisions put lifeguards at risk, particularly when the surf is rough, Vause said.
He likened the proposed restrictions to those that exist at major skiing destinations.
"If you go to the slopes in Aspen, there are slopes you can't go on unless you can demonstrate a certain level of skill," Vause said.
Commission Chairman Don Amunds said he understands the safety concerns, but doubts that a 300-foot limit can be enforced on a crowded beach during the summer.
"I don't know how you would regulate it," he said. "Would you tie a string to the back of their swim trunks?"
Amunds said he is "not a fan of trying to overgovern," and that most people are going to do what they want.
Boyles said the best solution might be for lifeguards to continue communicating their concerns to beachgoers, reminding them not to swim past the first sandbar.
In addition to the 300-foot rule, proposed revisions to the parks law bans the use of rafts, floats, boogie boards, belly boards and other flotation devices more than 300 feet from the beach.
Under the existing law, when double-red warning flags are flying, no one except for surfers with leashed surfboards can enter the water. That provision would remain unchanged, but the proposal would make it illegal to ignore the direction of lifeguards and law enforcement officers.
Vause said he thinks the new rules could be enforced if the county publicizes the new restrictions through news releases and on Facebook and park signs.
Under the proposed litter restrictions, beach visitors would be prohibited from leaving personal items on the beach between midnight and 8 a.m.
County Public Works Director John Hofstad said the county has been seeing more chairs, tents and other items being left behind.
"You're coming down here with a family and a group and you want to stake out your little slice of paradise, and I get that … but it creates problems for us," Hofstad said. "First and foremost, the beach cleaner does not have open access to the beach because he's having to run an obstacle course out there."
Abandoned items also cause problems for endangered species during their nesting season, which runs from March to October.
"We are under a federal mandate from the Fish and Wildlife Service that you have to maintain an open corridor for these endangered species, namely turtles, to be able to access the beach during their nesting season," Hoftstad said. "Those types of items — beach tents and canopies — create obstructions. That could get us into some hot water with the feds."
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Kari Barlow at 850-315-4438 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @KariBnwfdn.