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The Easter holidays are upon us, bringing to the capital's streets, parks and cultural institutions an influx of excitable children, flaunting their leisure time and carefree outlook. But there's no reason why the kids should have all the fun. London is full of adults-only U-rated events to get stuck into where you can roll back the years and recapture your youthful joie de vivre by indulging in some seriously childish behaviour.
Regression Sessions
Fire, SW8, Thursdays, regressionsessions.com
It's 10.30 on a Friday night and most of London's playgrounds are firmly locked. But the party is just beginning for the big kids. At Fire, the cavernous club beneath the arches of Vauxhall's railway lines, Regression Sessions has set up shop for a night of pure childhood nostalgia. Since its inception three years ago the cutester club night has gone from venue to venue, transforming each, for one night only, into a giant play area soundtracked by house, garage and drum 'n' bass.
I arrive as the doors open and join the throng: hundreds of young raver types in cut-off shorts, slogan tees and hair scrunchies. I am offered a selection of stick-on moustaches, and a pile of celebrity masks. I opt for Arnold Schwarzenegger as those beside me fight over Miranda Hart and Jessie J.
Kidult Easter activities - in pictures
Kidult Easter activities - in pictures
1/9 Whodunnit
Guy Paisner lends a helping hand as his son Douglas poses with props at Sherlock Night Owls at Museum of London
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Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures
2/9 Feet up
...and settles in for a nighttime showing of Hound of the Baskervilles
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Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures
3/9 Ahoy there!
Patricia Nicol and son Joe on the set of Punchdrunk at The Maritime Museum in Greenwich
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Adrian Lourie
4/9 Ravers
Dancers at one of Morning Gloryville's early-morning Bethnal Green raves
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Marc Sethi
5/9 Having a ball
The famous ball pit at Regression Sessions
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6/9 Reach for the sky
Toy Story showing at the Pixar Pyjama Party
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Allstar/WALT DISNEY / PIXAR Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar
7/9 Victoriana
Punters calm their nerves at the London Dungeon bar before heading below
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Chris Gloag
8/9 Back to school
Late night learning at the Science Museum
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9/9 Headphones on
Silent disco at Late Nights at the Science Museum
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Barry MacDonald for Science Museum
The scene in the main space tells newcomers everything they need to know: the music is already blaring, and the dancefloor is almost completely submerged in a carpet of inflatable toys — pink guitars, giraffes and dice — quickly seized for adult playtime by the crowd.
I am inexplicably sober, so put down my new dolphin pal, find a gin and tonic and go off to explore. Upstairs I find staff painting faces. Beside the bar there's candyfloss and a vintage popcorn machine.
In the next room a group of friends is embroiled in a spacehopper race. In the garden, where revellers queue for the photo booth, wrapped presents are stacked for the late-night pass-the-parcel session and laughter emerges from the bouncy castle.
Admittedly, it's not exactly my cup of tea. The enthusiasm of the Regression Session regulars isn't initially contagious and I find myself telling off a girl who sprays me with silly string. Is it possible that, at 27, I am just too old for this kind of activity? Should I be at home listening to The Archers with a cup of tea?
But as I don my moustache, finally manage to sit straight on a spacehopper and bounce around with two strangers in Julia Roberts and Gary Barlow masks, I start getting into the swing of things. Next time I'll see you in the ball pool.
Guy Pewsey
Punchdrunk presents Against Captain's Orders: A Journey into the Uncharted
National Maritime Museum, SE11, tomorrow-Aug 31, punchdrunk.com
With much banging, drilling and head-scratching from Hackney types, a strange new alternative universe is taking shape in a dimly lit basement of the National Maritime Museum.
There is a weathered boardwalk with four wooden dinghies tethered to it. In the walls are hidden doors that lead down disorientating corridors to a series of fantastical spaces. This is Port Greenwich, the mustering point for cult immersive theatrical experimentalists Punchdrunk's latest adventure.
"We like a room to tell a story as much as a character," says Peter Higgin, founder of Punchdrunk Enrichment, the theatre company's educational arm, and co-director of the 50-minute show aimed at six-to 12-year-olds that starts previewing tomorrow.
Punchdrunk is known as much for wrong-footing its audience's expectations as for its vividly visual theatrics. Higgin reassures me that the performers are gentler with their younger participants. This will be "a led experience", with no free roaming.
The conceit is that everyone is on a curator's tour. Instead of being forced to wear claustrophobic masks, each of the 40-strong audience will be given a lifejacket and assigned to a crew — Navigation, Salvage, Ship's Watch or Midshipman — with a museum object as each group 's talisman. When, however, something goes terribly awry, does the audience dare to go covertly behind the scenes at the museum to help put things shipshape?
The show, which has been a year in development, is called Against Captain's Orders: A Journey into the Uncharted. For the museum, it is just that. "We want it to help children think about our museum in a different way, to have a greater curiosity about how our objects hold history and are vessels for stories," says Sarah Lockwood, head of learning and Interpretation at Royal Museums Greenwich, who contacted Punchdrunk Enrichment after seeing the company's 2012 Christmas show The House Where Winter Lives.
The fun is not restricted to kids. On Thursday evenings Punchdrunk keyholders (participants in its supporters' scheme) and museum members can sign up for adults-only voyages. "Though it's the same show," says Higgin, who believes child audiences need less "debaggaging". "Children are more willing to be swept away," he says. "One reviewer's child emerged from The House Where Winter Lives asking 'Was that real?' As a company we find it very interesting to tap into someone's psyche like that… to plant an idea that adventure could happen behind lots of doors."
Patricia Nicol
Pixar Pyjama Party
Prince Charles Cinema, WC2, tomorrow, princecharlescinema.com
For most of my childhood Saturday mornings were spent in pyjamas watching Scooby-Doo, Looney Tunes and The Flintstones. And then there was that special bank holiday teatime TV tradition Disney Time, where celebrities du jour — Noel Edmonds, Anneka Rice, The Krankies — introduced clips from much-loved animated movies. Again, the uniform for this pre-bedtime treat was always slippers and dressing gown, so watching cartoons wearing daytime clothes feels slightly wrong to me.
It seems I'm not alone in remembering those days wistfully, as hundreds of plaid-clad grown-ups flock to the Prince Charles Cinema every time it hosts a Pyjama Party. At these all-night movie marathons, audiences are encouraged to dress for bed. Most people let their inner child out to play, so onesies and Kigus mingle with traditional two-piece ensembles, and elements of film-themed fancy dress creep in too.
Tomorrow the cinema will be showing back-to-back Pixar films from 8.45pm through to 9.45am on Sunday morning, including Toy Story, Monsters Inc, The Incredibles and Up. Nightwear is the only appropriate attire for such a mammoth toon fest.
A room full of people dressed in their PJs is also a great leveller. Three days before my 37th birthday I found myself at a Prince Charles Cinema teen movie Pyjama Party. Everyone there was over 18 — a requirement of the event as there's an all-night bar — yet decked in our jimjams, quoting along to Mean Girls, we were all teenagers again.
The juvenile fun didn't stop there. Between Clueless and 10 Things I Hate About You, the whole cinema played pass the parcel. There was a prize in every layer and I won a Wayne's World DVD box set. Party on!
Sweets, popcorn and fizzy drinks (as well as coffee and alcohol) were available in the foyer to help us over the 3am tiredness hump — sleeping is allowed, although it's hard to drift off when people are coming and going, chatting and singing along. This is not a sedate viewing experience, and all the better for it; true to its name, it feels like a party.
My sugar rush crashed halfway through Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I admitted defeat and emerged into the early morning light of a deserted Leicester Square to find the night bus.
Those with the stamina to make it through to the end of Brave, the seventh and last film in this weekend's Pixar marathon, will be invited to appear in the survivors' photo. Dress code: sleep chic.
Sarah Cohen
Sleeping with Sherlock
Museum of London, EC2, tomorrow, museumoflondon.org.uk
"What have I roped myself into?" I thought as my eight-year-old son beamed up at me with unrestrained joy at the prospect of sleeping the night in a museum. We had visited the excellent Sherlock Holmes exhibition at the Museum of London a few months earlier but this time we were armed with pyjamas and a Tupperware snack box for the museum's inaugural all-night event.
I initially agreed to take part in this as a selfless act of fatherly love, but as we arrived, I began to feel a little excited myself. We laid out our sleeping bags in the Medieval gallery, surrounded by glass cases of ceremonial daggers and religious icons, and then assembled with a bunch of other enthusiasts to be split into teams for some serious sleuthing.
Our first activity was to solve a series of clues in the Expanding City gallery. It wasn't easy to spot a ship that had been carved into the wooden wall of a debtor's prison cell, so we felt a real sense of achievement when we did finally find it, and returned to our team leader with a completed sheet of answers.
For the next activity we had to examine a crime scene, applying Sherlock's deductive methods. The short workshop on fingerprints helped us on our way. After a snack break we were each given dynamo torches and asked to tour the Victorian Walk gallery in darkness to solve another crime. We were guided by a Victorian lady who remained in character throughout — it felt like a mini Punchdrunk performance of immersive theatre.
It was 11pm by the time the organised fun had finished and my son was truly ready for bed. I led him back to our sleeping corner and he was tucked up and fast asleep within moments, still smiling from the excitement of the evening. I wasn't quite ready to nod off myself so wandered down to the museum's cinema to see the Hound of the Baskervilles. Sitting there watching Basil Rathbone, I realised the night at the museum had been as much a treat for me as for my son.
Grown-ups without children have their chance to participate tomorrow night when the museum holds an adults-only sleepover. The sleuthing theme remains, but some of the activities will be different. There will also be a three-course dinner and a bar, open until 1am, to lubricate late-night ghost story sessions.
Guy Paisner
More frolicsome fun
Morning Gloryville Sleepover
Oval Space, E2, Apr 3
Slumber party staples like pillow fights, bedtime stories and barely a wink of sleep will precede one of Morning Gloryville's signature early-morning Bethnal Green raves (above).
Alice's Adventures Underground
The Vaults, SE1, Apr 9-Aug 30
Tumble down the Waterloo rabbit hole for an interactive theatrical experience where you'll search Wonderland for the missing Alice.
Dino Snores for Grown-ups
Natural History Museum, SW7, Apr 17
Creatures of the night come out to play at this long-established night at the museum before bedding down with the dinosaurs.
Science Museum Lates
Science Museum, SW7, Apr 29
Press the buttons and twiddle the knobs in the museum's Launchpad interactive gallery without those pesky kids hogging the exhibits.
London Dungeon Lates
London Dungeon, SE1, May 8
Calm your nerves at the Victorian Gin Palace Bar before you plunge into the dark entertainment.
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Sherman: "I don't think we have 11 rookies on our roster. We drafted 11 but we don't have 11 right now. We might have eight."
For the record, the Packers enter Sunday's game against the Lions at Ford Field in Detroit with 11 rookies on their 53 (9 of the team's 11 draft picks this year, and two undrafted free agents). The Packers have a total of 21 first- and second-year players. Linebacker Roy Manning and center Chris White are the two undrafted free agents to make the team.
Packers could be starting three rookies in a season opener for the first time in 17 years. Second-round draft pick Nick Collins is entrenched at free safety, and seventh-round draftee Will Whitticker is penciled in at right guard. Manning, meanwhile, could get the call at weakside linebacker Sunday.
Of the second-year players, either Joey Thomas or Ahmad Carroll will start at left cornerback, and Corey Williams is a possibility to replace the deposed Cletidus Hunt at defensive tackle.
"My first year, when we won the Super Bowl (in the 1996 season), these young guys were not even in high school yet," Pro Bowl center Mike Flanagan said almost incredulously. "But, once you get between the hashes, those numbers don't matter anymore."
The 31-year-old Flanagan is one of only nine Packers who are 30 or older. By comparison, there are 27 players aged 25 or younger.
At 35 going on 36 next month, quarterback Brett Favre is the second oldest of the bunch this season, with long snapper Rob Davis the oldest by 10 months.
Favre decided in March to return for a 15th NFL season, and 14th as the Packers starter, in part because he felt the team coming back was talented enough to remain a championship contender.
However, the Packers released a number of veterans that they figured could plug the gaps at certain positions. Safety Arturo Freeman, guard Matt O'Dwyer, linebacker Ray Thompson and defensive tackle Cletidus Hunt were set free by new general manager Ted Thompson.
At least for now, Favre is willing to roll with the decidedly younger cast around him.
"I'm not sure who all the guys are. I'm still learning," Favre conceded Wednesday. "I don't know if we're too young, not old enough or if we're not in the middle. But just from an outside-looking-in perspective, if you just walk into our locker room, you go, 'Who's that?' It seems like you're saying that a little bit more this year than in years past. Is that good or bad or indifferent? We will find out.
"I don't think there's any substitute for experience because experience sometimes is better than talent. But if you're unsure what guys can do, there's only one way to find out. That's to play for real."
With the youth, the Packers must get off to a fast start this season. In the last two years, Green Bay has stumbled out of the blocks. The Packers were 1-4 last year before turning their season around with a convincing win over the Lions in Detroit. In 2003, the Packers started 1-2 and were 3-4 before the bye week before finishing 10-6.
This year, the Packers' schedule faces teams that are very beatable, even for a younger team, early in the season. After Detroit, Green Bay returns to Lambeau Field to play the Cleveland Browns and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After a Monday night game in Carolina, the Packers return home again to play the New Orleans Saints.
After their Oct.16 bye week, the Packers play a number of opponents who are expected to be in the playoffs this season, including Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Philadelphia.
A three point underdog to the Lions, the young Packers could gain a jolt of confidence with a win on Sunday.
Todd Korth
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SAN FRANCISCO – "All he had to do was tell the truth.''
That was prosecutor Jeff Nedrow's first statement to the jury in making his closing argument today in the trial of Barry Bonds on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
Nedrow focused on the central point of the case, that Bonds lied when he told a December 2003 federal grand jury that he had never knowingly used steroids, and argued that such falsehoods under oath impair the justice system.
Nedrow pointed out Bonds was granted immunity from prosecution when he testified to the grand jury, on the condition he speak truthfully, but chose not to.
"The reason is he had a secret, and it was a powerful secret,'' Nedrow said. "That secret is using those illegal drugs was part of his training regimen. … He had a concern (word getting out) would taint whatever athletic accomplishments he had managed to achieve during his career.''
Bonds, a seven-time NL MVP, broke baseball's single-season home run record when he hit 73 in 2001 and set the career mark with 762.
Early in his closing, Nedrow alluded to the testimony of Kathy Hoskins, Bonds' former personal shopper, who said she saw his weight trainer, Greg Anderson, administer an injection to him. Bonds had told the grand jury only doctors had injected him.
Hoskins quoted Bonds as saying, "Got to have a little somethin', somethin' for when I go on the road. You can't detect it. You can't catch it,'' a quote Nedrow repeated three times to the jury.
That perjury count, one of three remaining from the original indictment, represents the government's best chance at getting a conviction against Bonds, legal experts have said.
The other two perjury charges are tied to Bonds' assertions that he never knowingly received steroids or human growth hormone from Anderson. The obstruction of justice charge stems from what the government alleges were Bonds' attempts to impede the grand jury proceedings by giving intentionally evasive, false or misleading testimony.
Each count carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail, although federal sentencing guidelines call for 15-21 months.
In his 90-minute closing, Nedrow also laid out testimony from Bonds' former girlfriend, Kimberly Bell, who spoke about the slugger's physical and personality changes. She told the jury Bonds' testicles shrank and he lost his hair, and he became more aggressive, to the point of threatening to "cut my head off and leave me in a ditch.''
Prosecutors have tried to link those changes with steroid abuse.
The prosecution also played a tape secretly recorded by Steve Hoskins, Kathy's brother and Bonds' former personal assistant, where Anderson is heard talking about his strategy for injecting Bonds to avoid developing an abscess, and also says the drugs he has been distributing are undetectable.
Four major leaguers, three of them now retired, testified they received performance-enhancing drugs and instructions on how to use them from Anderson. Bonds said he thought Anderson gave him flaxseed oil and arthritis balm.
"He testified falsely because he had to keep it secret. He could have saved himself a lot of trouble just by telling the truth,'' Nedrow told the jury. "The evidence shows he knowingly testified falsely about getting steroids from Greg Anderson. He knowingly testified falsely about getting injections from Greg Anderson. And he testified falsely about getting human growth hormone from Greg Anderson. You should hold him accountable for these crimes.''
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Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) places Location-Based
Intelligence at the heart of its e-Government strategy
The UK's e-Government initiative to provide all services online by 2005 is currently a major focus for local authorities and councils. While turning this concept into reality has been fraught with challenges, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) has made significant progress in delivering online services to its citizens by placing location-based solutions at the heart of its IT strategy.
Rotherham's initial e-Government goals were to provide methods of working
that would make it easy for citizens to contact the Council, allowing them
to access services directly. This would include online access where
the boroughs' citizens could find information relevant to their location,
based on a single postcode search. This kind of information would
encompass everything from access to planning regulations through to vital
services such as bin collection times.
Through achieving this high level of information access, RMBC has seen a dramatic cultural change in the way different departments are now working together and sharing core information to deliver better, timelier services.
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC), a 'Beacon' Council serving a population of 248,000 in the North of England, has successfully exploited the potential of GIS for many years and has utilised the benefits of MapInfo Professional, across dozens of departments for functions such as planning, research, statistical analysis and service delivery. These intensive users tended to be GIS experts who typically created and edited data. Their work was and still continues to be shared with other council employees who require 'lighter' functionality for answering the thousands of 'who, what, where' questions that a council deals with on a daily basis.
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Effective though this has been, RMBC's use of GIS still remained largely 'departmental' serving the requirements of individual groups of users 'working in silos'.Little information was shared outside of these departments and consequently it was difficult to reap the advantages that working with one consistent set of data brings, nor was it easy to deal with inquiries both internally and from the public without passing requests from one individual to another and so on.
In order to meet its e-Government objectives an essential task for RMBC therefore has been to ensure that all staff, regardless of location and level of technical ability, were connected to the full range of council information internally. But it also was vital that this information could be shared effectively across the entire organisation.
For Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, the goal of 'joint working' has been made possible with the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN), derived from Rotherham's Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG). This digital database, maintained using MapInfo's BS7666 toolbox, provides the key to joining up RMBC's services.
"Location-based information is the key to the way a Local Authority works and the LLPG provides the common thread, enabling us to link the many disparate address-holding databases that council employees work with every day, from council tax to social services to education and a multitude of specific departmental data", explains Richard Copley, principal systems analyst (GIS) for RMBC.
"For the first time, we will be able to store a single Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) in all our address-holding systems. The use of the UPRN as the common search element will enable council employees to retrieve all information held by Rotherham Council on that location instantly. This will not only be more efficient but once completed will also provide a significant time saving on current procedures", he adds.
Currently Rotherham is working hard to make the UPRN an integral part of its entire IT systems and it has already recorded a major achievement in making much of its location-related data available to all internal users cost-effectively via an Intranet based solution called MapKey. This solution was built on MapInfo MapXtreme, an Internet mapping server for enabling the broad deployment of mapping applications.
MapKey empowers the council's 3,000 employees to utilise, via a browser, an easy-to-use secure website to access and share location enabled data. The system, which receives in excess of 600 visits per day, is available from every PC within RMBC and currently makes over 150 different datasets available to everyone within the council - information that hitherto has not been shared.
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Data is stored on central GIS web servers making maintenance, updates and dissemination simple. This includes maps and analysis created in MapInfo Professional, aerial photography and databases of location enabled point information. As more and more address holding databases are integrated with the LLPG so more information can be retrieved that is relevant to a specific location.
The key benefit of this new enterprise wide system was accessibility for all, according to Richard Copley. "MapXtreme has delivered a level of accessibility previously unknown by RMBC. The GIS data held on our Intranet is now available to everyone. A point-and-click format makes it easy-to-use by all our employees, regardless of whether they are power or relatively inexperienced users."
While Rotherham has succeeded both in sharing information internally and making disparate data accessible, it has also done much to improve its services to customers. The principle way in which it has achieved this is through a dedicated contact centre for handling calls from the public. RMBC has also invested in a new, multi-functional website called Rotherham Connect (www.rotherhamconnect.com). Here citizens in the borough can go online to directly access a variety of information including planning, education, housing, local taxes and other address-specific information. Such has been the success of the site that it recently won a prestigious CRM award in the UK.
"We want our customer's contact with us to be a quick and successful experience.We don't want people to be passed from 'pillar to post' in their attempt to find the answer to an inquiry", Copley said."Rotherham Connect provides an interface between us and our customers. Underpinning the delivery of this service is the high quality spatial information, which already exists in our Council departments."
While RMBC still has some of its original 'joined-up government' goals to attain, it has demonstrated that for any local authority e-Government project to succeed, location enablement is a key factor. Equally important however has been the cultural change that the process has driven within RMBC."There is a new openness and understanding of the importance of sharing our information and joining up our services", Copley concludes.
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For a team that was conducting a draft party without the benefit of a first-round pick, the Vikings' event was filled to capacity, selling out all 3,000 tickets and filling the Winter Park fieldhouse with rabid fans looking forward to the 2008 season.
While the Vikings would never be on the clock during the draft party itself, that didn't matter to the fans in attendance. For them, it was going to be their first chance to meet new Viking Jared Allen and they weren't disappointed.
When Allen appeared in front of the crowd a little after 2:30 p.m. Central Time, the crowd went insane with cheers and applause. In his first interview in front of Vikings fans, he was able to work the crowd like a pro.
When asked about his former team taking defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey with its first pick, Allen said, "I don't care. I'm a Viking now. I hope he's a bust."
On a follow-up question, he was asked about the Vikings heading to Lambeau Field for the season opener and he was just as candid, saying of Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, "You have to let those rookie types know you're there. By the time we're done, he's going to have his jaw wired shut."
Both responses drew thunderous ovations from the fans and set the tone for the afternoon – which was centered around Allen. Those entering the fieldhouse were welcomed by a huge banner of Allen celebrating a sack with a photo-shopped Vikings jersey on – which proved to be a portent of things to come.
Once inside the fieldhouse, it was hard to miss the Allen jerseys throughout the crowd. Despite only being a Viking for a few days, Allen's impact was already being felt with fans draped in purple No. 69 jerseys. But it almost didn't happen due to a timing issue at the Mall of America.
The Minnesota Vikings Locker Room store had Allen jerseys on hand, but they were flying off the shelves and, as the draft party was nearing its conclusion, they continued to be a top-seller.
"Our manager missed the UPS delivery this morning and we had to call them and plead with them to come back and bring them," said Michael Zellmer, manager of the Locker Room store at Ridgedale Mall. "We explained we had a huge event going on and couldn't show up empty-handed. UPS helped us out and we were able to get them and run them out in time for the opening of the draft party. We came out with 96 jerseys and we're down to about 20 already (about halfway through the party)."
Fans were proud to be wearing the new No. 69, although one Brock Lesnar No. 69 jersey was spotted in the crowd. The fans came to see Allen and show their support, up to and including putting his number on their backs.
"I had to have one," said fan Denny Theisen of St. Paul. "It cost $85, but it was worth it. I had to spend $10 more because I needed a 2-X size. I guess they needed more material for us big guys, so they charged more."
The expressions of man-love for Allen wasn't limited to the fans. His new teammates showed their admiration as the front four of Allen, Pat Williams, Kevin Williams and Ray Edwards were introduced as a group to the fans. Allen, decked out in a white cowboy hat, said he was going to get a similar outfit for Big Pat – including a hat, a big belt buckle and a pair of tight jeans. Perhaps not everyone wants to see that, but they do want to see how this new defensive front is going to look on game days. That includes the
Vikings themselves.
"The sky is the limit for us," Kevin Williams said. "(Allen) has a relentless motor. He's led the league in sacks, so you know he can bring it. We can't wait to get this thing going."
The tone of the voices of the Vikings defensive line expressed their excitement. For a guy like Pat Williams, who was consistently double-teamed last year, the chance to get pressure on the quarterback without having to call all-out blitzes is something he's looking forward to.
"He's going to make a huge difference," Williams said of Allen. "Last year if we wanted to get pressure (on the quarterback), we were bringing cornerbacks, safeties, linebackers, everybody. Now those guys can stay back and play their spots and know that we'll be able to get to the quarterback without bringing them all the time."
The question opposing teams will have to ask is who do they double-team? One thing is clear. Things are going to look a lot different than they were last year.
"Teams are going to have to pick their poison," Kevin Williams said. "Last year, Pat and I got a lot of double-teams. If people are going to keep trying that this year, they're going to pay for it. We've got a lot of pieces in place. Now it's just a matter of putting them in play."
The reaction of his teammates was music to Allen's ears – both from the fans and his new teammates. After having an acrimonious relationship with the Chiefs organization that led to his being traded, enjoying such an about-face with his new team and the reaction of the fans had Allen pumped up like a little kid.
"This has been beyond great," Allen said. "Coming here just started out as an idea. I was looking to make the rounds – I hadn't signed my tender for the franchise tag. Obviously, I wanted out (of Kansas City). As it progressed, it became more and more realistic that I would come here. Next thing you know, I'm here and we're working on a contract. It was almost like it wasn't real."
The kinship the new teammates on the D-line have developed was obvious. While Allen was talking to the media, all three of teammates messed with him. Kevin Williams stared over his shoulder. Pat Williams tried on his hat. Edwards interrupted a question-and-answer session to announce Allen is the second-ugliest member of the defensive line. The ugliest? "Pat," Edwards said with a laugh. "But don't tell him I said that."
The friendship the players have formed in such a quick period of time is a bit surprising, but, according to the players, Allen has assimilated with his new teammates extremely well.
"He's only been here a few days, but it's like he's been here his whole career," Pat Williams said. "He fits in with everyone really well. He's a great guy and he's going to step right in like he's always played here."
It would seem the only thing left is to get a nickname for the new front four. Purple People Eaters has already been taken. But there will be a nickname coming.
"We're going to get together and come up with something," Kevin Williams said. "You can bet that by the time we start training camp, we'll have one."
For not having a first-round pick for the first time since the final year of paying off the Herschel Walker trade, the excitement at the draft party is getting contagious. With fun like this, who needs a first-round pick?
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On Sunday, a hacker stole nude photos of a long list of female celebrities and posted them to online forum 4chan. Over Labor Day, the photos circulated the Internet and garnered the usual inane line of questions: "Why did she have naked photos of herself anyways?" "If she wanted privacy, why did she keep those photos on her phone?" You need only to search "hacked pictures" on Twitter to see how many people jumped to that response.
Thankfully, others have reaffirmed a different perspective: these stars have a right to privacy, and shaming them for the publicity of the photos falls in line with other forms of victim-blaming. Lena Dunham put it bluntly:
The "don't take naked pics if you don't want them online" argument is the "she was wearing a short skirt" of the web. Ugh.
— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) September 1, 2014
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Stop calling it a scandal. "Ms. Lawrence, Ms. Winstead, and the like have absolutely nothing to apologize for," Scott Mendelson writes for Forbes. This isn't an affair or an offensive quip to which these women need to "own up." Their personal property was stolen and distributed, and they're victims of that crime.
It's less a display of nakedness than one of vulnerability. Roxane Gay writes about the time-honored tradition of revealing photos as revenge, and how it reminds us that "women cannot be sexual in certain ways without consequence." Read more on the Guardian.
Get past the photos. Kelsey McKinney writes for Vox about how a hashtag like #ifmyphonegothacked is an act of social media superiority that comes something close to slut-shaming. And it misses the point: "this isn't about what's on our phones. This is about women being shamed, and objectified, and treated like property."
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None of George Bush's appointments has aroused more outrage. None will do more good. As they recover the use of vocal cords paralysed by shock, the liberal/lefties who detest the thought of Paul Wolfowitz running the World Bank are claiming that he is primarily interested in America's security. They have a point. That is why he is such splendid news for the world's poor.
Paul Wolfowitz is an intellectual and an idealist. He is not a conservative in any European sense of the word. He does not believe in original sin. He thinks that most of the sin in the world arises from bad government. He also refuses to be sceptical about progress. If you want men to progress, he would say, you only have to make them free.
This puts him in absolute disagreement with many of those who have been running the world's foreign aid industry. Though neither side would be happy to acknowledge it, old European conservatives and the aid wallahs have far more in common with each other than either does with Paul Wolfowitz. The conservatives do not believe in progress. The aid commissars try to ensure that it never happens.
If one examines the statements of Christian Aid, Oxfam, Cafod and their EU equivalents, there is an inescapable conclusion. In the most benign, paternal and unconscious fashion, these people are racialists. Implicit in their views is the assumption that Arabs and Africans are merely children of a larger growth.
A couple of generations ago, when it was proposed to equip miners' homes with baths, there were those who protested that this was pointless. They would only use the bath to store coal. We now hear variants of the coal-in-the-bath disparagement over votes for Arabs and free-market economics for Africans. A lot of western liberals who would be horrified to be accused of patronising anyone from the Third World are in fact patronising everyone.
Mr Wolfowitz would never accept that anyone should be condemned by history - let alone by race or religion - to an inferior destiny. He believes that all mankind is entitled to the same opportunities as are now enjoyed by the inhabitants of the advanced West. He also believes that this is in America's interests. The US's security is bound up with the progress of the rest of the world.
The al-Qa'ida high command excepted, no one was less surprised by 11 September than Paul Wolfowitz. For a number of years, he had been devoting his intellectual powers to the dangers emanating from failed states. He urged successive presidents to remove Saddam Hussein, but he knew that the problem did not end there.
After the twin towers, when other members of the Bush administration were asking why so many people in the Middle East hated the US, Mr Wolfowitz had the answer. He told them that in the average Middle Eastern failed state, 60 per cent of the population was under 24. There are millions of young men with little hope of a decent life, subsisting on pitta bread and dates, in search of a cause to give meaning to their existence. They find it in fanaticism; in mullahs who tell them that if they are in misery, the blame lies with the Jews, the Christians, and above all with the Americans. Nurtured on dreams, hate and violence, their dreams turn into our nightmares.
After 11 September, as President Bush expanded his response from an instant riposte to terror and death to a geopolitical reassessment of the entire Middle East, Paul Wolfowitz was an important counsellor. He is one of the authors of the evolving Bush doctrine, which this column has summarised as "leave no state behind''.
Globalisation assists terrorists as well as traders. During the Renaissance, map-makers amused themselves by peopling the unknown centre of Africa with drawings of monsters. Today, the monsters can hijack a plane. A state left behind in failure is the carrion on which terrorism can feed; the swamp breeding the plagues which could infect us all.
In the West, we know what works: the rule of law, free markets, democracy. Yet we have spent decades pouring hundreds of billions of aid into countries without that basic infrastructure. As a result, we have been pouring water into leaky buckets - and Swiss bank accounts.
The late Peter Bauer often said that foreign aid was a subsidy from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. Throughout the advanced world, government aid departments have gone to great expense to prove him right.
This does not mean that all aid should be suspended until African countries reach western standards. It does mean that aid should be made conditional on improvement. That is now the World Bank's philosophy. The World Bank staffers whom I have met are bright, dedicated and realistic. Given that their politics are almost always left-of-centre, they make a surprising amount of sense, and they are not naive. They want to help poor countries to climb out of poverty. They also know that the best form of help is self-help. If an African country is willing to get on its bike, the West should be happy to buy it a new pair of tyres. African governments that try to prevent their people from pedalling should be named, shamed, shunned and sanctioned.
That is where Paul Wolfowitz will find a valuable ally in John Bolton. Until the Wolfowitz appointment was announced, Mr Bolton, the new US ambassador to the UN, was even more hated by the international bien-pensantry. That is not his sole claim to our respect. Over the past four years, he has shown himself to be a formidable advocate of neoconservative principles and US interests (almost a tautology). It is alleged that Mr Bolton is not a team player. If so, he is now in the perfect role. As long as the UN team games are hypocrisy, corruption and sycophancy towards tyrants, those are not sports that any American should wish to play. John Bolton will talk truth to the misusers of power. That should aid Paul Wolfowitz's efforts.
Mr Wolfowitz will need a good chief of staff. By temperament, he is thoughtful and academic: less Wolfowitz than pussycatowitz. The "wolf'' is more appropriate to his predecessor, Jim Wolfensohn, who practises rule by rampage. On a quiet day, Mr Wolfensohn is a wasp trapped in a jam jar. On most other days, he is a swarm of killer bees. They may not realise it yet, but the able and committed employees of the World Bank have nothing to fear from Paul Wolfowitz, and will find it much less stressful to work for him.
Some of Mr Wolfowitz's critics have commented on the appropriateness of George Bush sending one of the planners of the Iraq war to take charge of the World Bank. The attempt at sarcasm is pitiful. An architect of Operation Enduring Freedom moves to an organisation committed to enduring development in order to underpin freedom: nothing could be more appropriate.
This decision also refutes those who claimed, and hoped, that second-term George Bush would be a more limited, even chastened figure, and that the neocons would be sent back to the think-tanks from which they should never have escaped. Paul Wolfowitz is indeed a one-man think-tank. His thoughts will now be at the service of those who most need them: the people of the world's failed states. The Wolfowitz appointment is in the spirit of the Marshall Plan and all the other generous initiatives over the past 60 years by the US to help less favoured nations.Reuse content


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A relationship is charted from its promising beginning to its sad collapse in this independent drama from Derek Cianfrance. Dean (Ryan Gosling) meets Cindy (Michelle Williams) when they're in their late teens; he's working for a moving company, she's a college student visiting her elderly grandmother at a home for the elderly. Cindy is dating Bobby (Mike Vogel), her boyfriend from high school, but as she gets to know Dean better, a mutual attraction grows between them. Years later, Dean and Cindy are married and have a daughter, Frankie (Faith Wladyka), but they're clearly not as happy as they once were; Dean loves his daughter but feels distant from his wife, they have to look after an elderly relative (John Doman), and when Cindy bumps into Bobby while running errands, it's clear he still holds a grudge against her. Dean and Cindy go away for a weekend together at a hotel, but it doesn't take long for them to realize that the magic isn't coming back. Blue Valentine received its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Triskaidekaphobia ( /ˌtrɪskaɪˌdɛkəˈfoʊbiə, ˌtrɪskə-/, TRIS-kye-DEK-ə-FOH-bee-ə or TRIS-kə-DEK-ə-FOH-bee-ə; from Greek tris meaning "three", kai meaning "and", deka meaning "10" and phobos meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is fear or avoidance of the number 13. It is also a reason for the fear of Friday the 13th, called paraskevidekatriaphobia (from Παρασκευή Paraskevi, Greek for Friday) or friggatriskaidekaphobia (after Frigg, the Norse goddess after whom Friday is named in English).
The term was used as early as in 1910 by Isador Coriat in Abnormal Psychology.[1]
Judas theory[edit]
From the 1890s, a number of English language sources relate the "unlucky" thirteen to an idea that at the Last Supper, Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table.[2] The Bible says nothing about the order in which the Apostles sat, but there were thirteen people at the table. Also, the number 13 is not uniformly bad in the Judeo-Christian tradition. For example, the attributes of God (also called the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy) are enumerated in the Torah (Exodus 34:6–7).
Hammurabi theory[edit]
There is a myth that the earliest reference to thirteen being unlucky or evil is in the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (circa 1780 BCE), where the thirteenth law is said to be omitted. In fact, the original Code of Hammurabi has no numeration. The translation by L.W. King (1910), edited by Richard Hooker, omitted one article:
If the seller have gone to (his) fate (i. e., have died), the purchaser shall recover damages in said case fivefold from the estate of the seller.
Other translations of the Code of Hammurabi, for example the translation by Robert Francis Harper, include the 13th article.[3]
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Triskaidekaphobia may have also affected the Vikings: it is believed that Loki was the 13th god in the Norse pantheon—more specifically, Loki was believed to have engineered the murder of Balder and was the 13th guest to arrive at the funeral.[4] This is perhaps related to the superstition that if 13 people gather, one of them will die in the following year. However, the oldest source of this myth, Lokasenna, has far more than 13 guests (17 of the guests are mentioned by name) so this example should not be taken too seriously.[5] Another Norse tradition involves the myth of Norna-Gest: When the uninvited norns showed up at his birthday celebration (thus increasing the number of guests from ten to thirteen), they cursed the infant by magically binding his lifespan to that of a mystic candle they presented to him.[citation needed]
Apollo 13 was launched on April 11, 1970 at 13:13:00 CST and suffered an oxygen tank explosion on April 13 at 21:07:53 CST. It returned safely to Earth on April 17.[6][7]
The Costa Concordia Disaster occurred on Friday the 13th January 2012, with the loss of 33 lives.[8][better source needed]The November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks took place on Friday November 13, 2015.
On Friday, October 13, 1307, the arrest of the Knights Templar was ordered by Philip IV of France. While the number 13 was considered unlucky, Friday the 13th was not considered unlucky at the time. The incorrect idea that their arrest was related to the phobias surrounding Friday the 13th was invented early in the 21st century and popularized by the novel The Da Vinci Code.[9]
In 1881 an influential group of New Yorkers led by US Civil War veteran Captain William Fowler came together to put an end to this and other superstitions. They formed a dinner cabaret club, which they called the Thirteen Club. At the first meeting, on Friday, January 13, 1881, at 8:13 p.m., thirteen people sat down to dine in Room 13 of the venue. The guests walked under a ladder to enter the room and were seated among piles of spilled salt. Many Thirteen Clubs sprang up all over North America over the next 40 years. Their activities were regularly reported in leading newspapers, and their numbers included five future US presidents, from Chester A. Arthur to Theodore Roosevelt. Thirteen Clubs had various imitators, but they all gradually faded from interest.[10]
Vehicle registration plates in the Republic of Ireland are such that the first two digits represent the year of registration of the vehicle (i.e., 11 is a 2011 registered car, 12 is 2012, and so on). In 2012, there were concerns among members of the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) that the prospect of having "13" registered vehicles might discourage motorists from buying new cars because of superstition surrounding the number thirteen, and that car sales and the motor industry (which was already ailing) would suffer as a result. The government, in consultation with SIMI, introduced a system whereby 2013 registered vehicles would have their registration plates' age identifier string modified to read "131" for vehicles registered in the first six months of 2013 and "132" for those registered in the latter six months of the year.[11] The main reason for this was stated to be to increase the number of car sales in the second half of the year. Even though 70% of new cars are bought during the first four months of the year, some consumers believe that the calendar year of registration does not accurately reflect the real age of a new car, since cars bought in January will most likely have been manufactured the previous year, while those bought later in the year will be actually made in the same year.[12] This system continued after 2013, with vehicles registered in the first half of 2014 labelled "141" rather than "14".
The Siachen Conflict started on Friday, April 13, 1984.[13][better source needed] More soldiers died on both sides due to weather, rather than real war.
Similar phobias[edit]
- Number 666 (Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia) or 616, see Number of the Beast.
- Tetraphobia, fear of the number 4. In China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Korea and Vietnam, as well as in some other East Asian and South East Asian countries, it is not uncommon for buildings (including offices, apartments, hotels) to lack floors with numbers that include the digit 4, and Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia's 1xxx-9xxx series of mobile phones does not include any model numbers beginning with a 4. This originates from Mandarin Chinese, in which the pronunciation of the word for "four" (四, sì) is very similar to that of the word for "death" (死, sǐ), and remains so in the other countries' Sino-Xenic vocabulary.
- 17 is an unlucky number in Italy, perhaps because in Roman numerals 17 is written XVII, which can be rearranged to "VIXI", which in Latin means "I have lived" but can be a euphemism for "I am dead." In Italy, some planes have no row 17 and some hotels have no room 17.[14]
- Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th, which is considered to be a day of bad luck in a number of western cultures. In Greece and some areas of Spain and Latin America, Tuesday the 13th is similarly considered unlucky.[15]
- Curse of 39, a belief in some parts of Afghanistan that the number 39 (thrice thirteen) is cursed or a badge of shame.
Lucky 13[edit]
In some regions 13 is considered a lucky number. For example, 13 is lucky in Italy except in some contexts, such as sitting at the dinner table.[16] Colgate University was started by 13 men with $13 and 13 prayers, so 13 is considered a lucky number. Friday the 13th is the luckiest day at Colgate.[17]
Several Venezuelan sportspeople have chosen 13 as squad number, most notably Dave Concepción, Omar Vizquel, Oswaldo Guillén and Pastor Maldonado.
Triskaidekaphilia is its antonym, and has been described as "love of the number 13".[18]
Effect on US Shuttle program mission naming[edit]
STS-41-G was the name of the thirteenth Space Shuttle flight.[22] However, originally STS-41-C was the mission originally numbered STS-13[23][24] STS-41-C was the eleventh orbital flight of the space shuttle program.[25]
The numbering system of the Space Shuttle was changed a new one after STS-9.[26] The new naming scheme started with STS-41B, the previous mission was STS-9, and the thirteenth mission (what would have been STS-13) would be STS-41C.[26] The new scheme had first number stand for the U.S. fiscal year, the next number was a launch site (1 or 2), and the next was the number of the mission numbered with a letter for that period.[26] In the case of the actual 13th flight, the crew was apparently not superstitious and made a humorous mission patch that had a black cat on it.[26] Also, that mission re-entered and landed on Friday the 13th which one crew described as being "pretty cool".[26] Because of the way the designations and launch manifest work, the mission numbered STS-13 might not have actually been the 13th to launch as was common throughout the shuttle program; indeed it turned out to be the eleventh.[27][25] One of the reasons for this was when a launch had to be scrubbed, which delayed it launch.[20]
Some have suggested this system was created solely to avoid then-NASA Administrator James Beggs' triskaidekaphobia, or fear of the number 13. As former astronaut Paul Weitz recalled, "He didn't like the number 13. So he didn't ever want any mission numbered 13, so we went through this system." This explanation behind the designation change was so widespread that the astronauts who flew on STS-41C, what would have been STS-13, created their own "Black Cat" mission patch. Former crewmember James "Ox" Van Hoften recalls, "We flew around with our STS-13 patch on, and that was a lot of fun. We ended up landing on Friday the 13th, so that was pretty cool." While this is an appealing story, especially given the unlucky events on Apollo 13, it is not the full story.— NASA[19]
However, NASA said in a 2016 news article it was also for a much higher frequency of launches that was planned at that time pre-Challenger disaster.[26] As it was the Shuttle program did have a disaster on its one-hundred and thirteenth mission going by date of launch, which was STS-107.[28] The actual mission STS-113 was successful, and had actually launched earlier to do the nature of the launch manifest.[29]
At first glance, it may seem surprising that an agency whose focus lies in science and technology should devote such an emphasis to an ancient superstition.. but for one thing: the unlucky voyage of Apollo 13.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Abnormal Psychology" p. 319, published in 1910, Moffat, Yard and company (New York). Library of Congress Control No. 10011167.
- ^ Cecil Adams (1992-11-06). "Why is the number 13 considered unlucky?". The Straight Dope. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
- ^ English translation of the Code of Hammurabi Online Library of Liberty.
- ^ Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, "Companion for the Apprentice Wizard", Career Press (2006), p 200.
- ^ http://runeberg.org/eddan/se-08.html
- ^ http://www.universetoday.com/63342/13-things-that-saved-apollo-13-part-9-position-of-the-tanks/
- ^ http://www.spaceacts.com/newsap13.html
- ^ Costa Concordia disaster
- ^ Robinson, John J. (1990). Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry. ISBN 978-0-87131-602-8.
- ^ Nick Leys, If you bought this, you've already had bad luck, review of Nathaniel Lachenmayer's Thirteen: The World's Most Popular Superstition, Weekend Australian, 8–9 January 2005
- ^ 2013 number plates to be changed to avoid 'unlucky 13', Irish Independent, 24 August 2012
- ^ "2013 Number Plates To Be Changed To Avoid 'Unlucky 13'". Irish Independent.
- ^ Siachen Conflict
- ^ Harris, Nick (15 November 2007). "Bad omen for Italy as their unlucky number comes up". The Independent. London.
- ^ Tuesday is generally unlucky in Greece for the fall of Byzantium Tues 29th May 1453. In Spanish-speaking countries, there is a proverb: En martes no te cases, ni te embarques 'On Tuesday, do not get married or set sail'. The 13th card in Tarot's major arcana is Death.
- ^ "Aggiungi un posto a tavola, siamo in 13!" (in Italian). Retrieved 31 March 2012.
- ^ Colgate University. "Lucky 13". Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ [1]
- ^ a b [2]
- ^ a b c Evans, Ben (2012-06-01). Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit: The Eighties and Early Nineties. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781461434306. Page 211
- ^ Ben Evans (2007). Space Shuttle Challenger: Ten Journeys into the Unknown. Google Books. Retrieved May 30, 2012.
- ^ [3]
- ^ "James D. A. van Hoften" (PDF). NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. December 5, 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
- ^ "Terry J. Hart" (PDF). NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. April 10, 2003. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
- ^ a b [4]
- ^ a b c d e f Almeida, Andres (2016-12-05). "Behind the Space Shuttle Mission Numbering System". NASA. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ^ Evans, Ben (2012-06-01). Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit: The Eighties and Early Nineties. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781461434306.
- ^ [5]
- ^ KSC, Lynda Warnock:. "NASA - STS-113". www.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel (2004). 13: The Story of the World's Most Popular Superstition. New York: ISBN 1-56858-306-0.
- Havil, Julian (2007). Nonplussed: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas (Hardcover). Princeton University Press. p. 152. ISBN 0-691-12056-0.
- O'Neil, Daniel (2008). "Fear of 13: Tales over dinner."
- Coriat, I.H. (1910). "Abnormal Psychology", p. 319, published in, Moffat, Yard and company (New York). Library of Congress Control No. 10011167.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Triskaidekaphobia.
- 'Unlucky' airline logo grounded BBC, 21 February 2007
- Would you buy a number 13 house? BBC Magazine, Friday, 12 December 2008
- Triskaidekaphobia on MathWorld
- Who's Afraid Of Friday The 13th? on NPR


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- ↑ Jerry Moss As seen in May 16, 2009.
- ↑ Zenyatta stings El Encino rivals - NTRA
- ↑ "Zenyatta takes Breeders' Cup win". BBC Sport. 2009-11-08. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/8345133.stm. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
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