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City returned to winning ways as David Silva scored the only goal of the game during a thrilling top-of-the-table clash with Arsenal.
Silva's goal ensured a 1-0 win over the Gunners and saw the Blues return to the summit having being knocked off briefly by neighbours United a few hours earlier.
The victory also means City have now completed a calendar year unbeaten at home as the title race continues to twist and turn.
Roberto Mancini made three changes to the side that started the match at Chelsea with Kolo Toure replacing Joleon Lescott, Pablo Zabaleta coming in for the suspended Gael Clichy and Samir Nasri recalled in place of James Milner.
The main talking point leading up to the game was, of course, how would the Blues respond to their first Premier League defeat of the season at Stamford Bridge last Monday?
There is, it seems, a thirst for a 'the wheels have come off' scenario following City's Champions League exit and loss to Andre Villas-Boas' side, but don't believe the hype – the Blues are well on track for their most successful campaign ever.
Victory over Arsene Wenger's rejuvenated Arsenal, however, was crucial ahead of the busy festive programme. Manchester United's win at QPR earlier in the day had seen the Blues temporarily dethroned from the top of the table prior to kick-off.
That, if nothing else, underlined the need for City to keep winning and there was the added incentive of knowing that victory would leave the Gunners 12 points adrift and with a mountain to climb in order to challenge for the title.
The visiting fans' jeers for Nasri were drowned out by loud cheers from the sell-out crowd and it was City who made all the early running with Sergio Aguero guilty of a glaring miss on nine minutes after a terrific cross from Pablo Zabaleta had played him in.
Then Mario Balotelli produced a sublime piece of skill when marked by two defenders that ended with a low drive that Wojciech Szczęsny did well to block.
Arsenal had their chances, too and grew in confidence as the first-half wore on and Joe Hart was forced to make a couple of bread and butter stops before Kolo Toure made a superb last-ditch tackle to prevent Laurent Koscielny putting the visitors ahead in what eventually transpired into a goalless first 45.
However, it took just eight minutes of the second period for City to finally end the Gunners' resistance – and the man who started the move just had to be Samir Nasri
...City 1 Arsenal 0
The French international played the ball into the path of Mario Balotelli who skipped past his marker and fired a low drive that was parried up into the air and Aguero's challenge was enough to see the ball fall at the feet of Silva who poked home his sixth goal of an already stunning campaign.
The Blues could – and should have doubled the lead within minutes as Nasri went close and then the impressive Zabaleta's shot thundered against the post in what was turning out to be a thrilling end-to-end match.
There were fine performances all over the pitch, with Vincent Kompany superbly snuffing out the threat of of the dangerous Van Persie, Barry and Yaya Toure solid in the middle and Nasri, Silva and Aguero rarely giving the visitors' defence a moment's peace.
Arsenal played their part in a full-blooded encounter and Hart made at least two stunning saves before Phil Dowd blew for full-time to the delight of the home fans and make Mancini's second anniversary as City boss a very happy occasion.


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Rios agreed to be wired with a microphone and followed with cameras by Major League Baseball Productions as he performed for the World team against the USA in Sunday afternoon's fifth annual contest of baseball's top prospects.
"I'm trying not to put any pressure on myself, just have fun," Rios said.
Rios has learned that sometimes it's better to slow down. In fact, slowing down could turn out to get him to his big-league future quicker. At Double-A New Haven, Rios leads the Eastern League in batting (.348), hits (115) and triples (eight), and is in the top five in slugging percentage (.518), doubles (22) and extra-base hits (36).
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After making 253 appearances at shortstop in 2001 and 2002, Castillo is being used more at second base (41 games) than at short (38 games) at Double-A Altoona.
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He wasn't forgotten: New York Mets Australian catching prospect Justin Huber played in last year's Futures Game in Milwaukee and went a quiet 0-for-2.
After starting this year slowly and battling nagging injuries at Single-A St. Lucie, Huber was afraid he would become as forgettable as his appearance in last year's Future's Game. But Huber brought his batting average to .284, with nine home runs and 36 RBIs and earned a promotion to Double-A Binghamton.
After striking out 30 times and walking 17 in 50 Single-A games, Huber has struck out seven and walked seven times -- with a homer and eight RBIs -- through 12 games at Binghamton.
"Just getting the chance to be here after getting off to a slow start with injuries and what not, this is good for my confidence," Huber said. "I just felt like I was up against my entire body for most of the first month. But now it's going the other way. I'm feeling good. I want to get on to the second half and do my thing."
A different look: Colorado Rockies right-handed pitching prospect Chin-hui Tsao, 22, who leads the Double-A Texas League with 118 strikeouts, was chosen to the Futures Game in 2000 as a 19-year-old but didn't pitch.
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But his fastball is running in from the low-to-mid 90s and he is real happy with his circle changeup. Just a week ago, he began using a two-seam sinking fastball that can help him accomplish another goal -- keeping the ball out of the air. He is excited about it.
"I never threw it before -- it was always a four-seamer -- but it was working last week," said Tsao, who struck out one and gave up a hit in one scoreless inning on Sunday. "My changeup is better than my slider."
Rockies general manager Dan O'Dowd said recently that if the Rockies need Tsao -- they're taking a look at breaking some of their young prospects in the bullpen -- they have no qualms about having him skip Triple-A Colorado Springs. Tsao spent most of his recovery from injury studying English and the America culture, and is much smoother in communicating than he was even at the start of the season.
Worth the wait: While Sunday's game showcased those on the cusp of the Majors -- such as World starting pitcher Rich Harden, a Canadian whose next start is expected to come in an Oakland Athletics uniform -- it's good for those who are a long way from the top.
For example, Boston Red Sox right-handed prospect Jorge De La Rosa, 22, is third in the Eastern League at Double-A Portland in strikeouts with 83. But because he threw 138 2/3 last season in his first year as a starter and pitched a heavy workload in winter ball, the Red Sox have been limiting him to not much more than five innings per start.
Ron Johnson, De La Rosa's manager at Portland and a coach with the World team, said they want De La Rosa, from Mexico, to learn to continue sharpening command of his fastball, changeup and curveball before pushing the track to the Majors.
"With him, it's just about commanding two things, his pitches and himself," said Johnson, who added that it would make sense to keep De La Rosa in Double-A this year, see if he can make the jump to Triple-A at the start of next season, then be judged on merit late next season. "With George, thus far he's done outstanding.
"He's gone from being a reliever two years ago when we first got him. Now he's able to go out and understand what he has. So if he does give up a run, he doesn't lose his confidence or his exposure. He realizes he's always a pitch away from getting out of an inning with the stuff he has."
De La Rosa pitched for two years in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization and one in the Mexican League before the Red Sox signed him for the 2001 season.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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18-year-old Caisen Green met with Jason Chennault, the Cherokee County Undersheriff, Tuesday afternoon. Green told the Undersheriff he was target practicing in his yard when two dogs came up to him. He tried to scare the dogs away. One dog ran off, but Caisen said the pit bull growled at him. The Undersheriff said Caisen admitted to shooting the dog and says his dad burned the body because the dog looked diseased.
The Undersheriff will present this information to the District Attorney's office on Wednesday. The DA's office will determine if charges should be filed.
Public outrage and calls for action have only increased since Saturday night when FOX23 reported about the picture Green is accused of posting on Facebook. The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office says this situation is going from bad to worse. The Undersheriff says he's received multiple calls and emails about the young man who posted the pictures. While deputies try to figure out if it was a crime, they're also dealing with people making death threats against the teen. The town of Tahlequah and surrounding Cherokee County can't stop talking about the photo that was posted on Facebook. It shows a young pit bull lying on the ground with an arrow in its side. The photo was posted on Green's Facebook page. "He needs to be punished the right way, and not by people doing something to him," says Tahlequah resident, Charles York. Chennault says he and his dispatchers have been getting calls from other countries from people angry about what Caisen posted. 'I understand your concern over the animal, but you're going to have to stop making threats," says Chennault. We checked Oklahoma law and it allows for the right to defend yourself, your family and your livestock from a threatening animal. However, after the caption in his Facebook post, many believe the dog was simply shot for sport. "Something needs to be done and he shouldn't be able to get away with killing a dog like that and putting it on facebook and have nothing done to him," says Jennifer Tillison. Caisen could face a felony charge and up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
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- Wilton Rolling Pin
- Wilton Comfort Grip™ Skull Cutter
- Wilton 6-Pc. Halloween Mini Metal Cutter Set
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Prepare roll out cookie dough. Cut 7 Comfort Grip Skull cookies, 1 ghost cookie (trim right arm down), 1 spider cookie (cut legs off), 1 mini bat, 3 mini skulls, 1 mini cat, four 1 x 4 in. rectangles, five 3 x 1 ½ in. triangles. Bake and cool.
Prepare chocolate roll out cookie dough. Cut one 4 x 2 ½ in. rectangle and score lengthwise with knife every ½ in. Cut one 12 x 3 ½ in. rectangle and score lengthwise with knife every ½ in. Cut three 11 x 2 in. rectangles. Bake and cool.
Tint fondant: ½ oz. copper, ½ oz. gray (with a small amount of black color), 1 oz. white, 1 oz. brown; reserve 1 oz. white. Roll white fondant ¼ in. thick, cut out four ¾ x 1 in. rectangles for arms. Turn Comfort Grip Skull Cutter with bottom of cutter at top; use as guide to trim arms so they will fit flush against the scientists' bodies. Roll four ¾ in. copper fondant balls for hands, flatten and cut slits for fingers and shape into hands; attach to arm with damp brush. For sleeves and cuffs on lab coats, roll out white fondant 1/8 in. thick cut four strips of white fondant 3/8 in. x 1 ½ in. Attach to arm with damp brush. Let dry on surface sprinkled with cornstarch.
To make scientists, attach skull cookies for heads to upside down cookies for bodies with melted candy. Ice heads smooth with cooper icing and ice bodies smooth with white icing. Use tip 3 to pipe white dots of eyes, black dot pupils, copper noses and black mouths (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch). Use tip 3 and copper icing to pipe eyelids on scientist with gray hair. Use tip 3 and black icing to pipe pull-out hair and eyebrows on one scientist and tip 3 and gray icing to pipe pull-out hair and eyebrows on other scientist. Use tip 1 and white icing to pipe pull-out teeth on scientist with gray hair. Use tip 3 and white icing to outline and pipe-in lab coats and black icing for shoe details and ties (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch). Let dry for 24 hours.
Attach arms to scientists (cut from skull cookies) with melted candy; let set. Attach two easel to backs of each scientist with melted candy; let set.
To make hunchback, attach spider circle to ghost's body with melted candy. Ice face smooth with copper icing, ice pants and shirt smooth with black icing. Use tip 3 to pipe white dots of eyes, black pupils and outline and fill-in mouth. Use tip 3 and copper icing to pipe dot nose and pull-out ears. Use tip 1 and black icing to pipe pull-out hair and eyebrows. Pipe tip 3 black bent arm and copper hands. Attach easel (triangle cut cookies) to back of cookie with melted candy; let set.
To make Frankenstein, ice head cookie with green icing. Pipe tip 3 black hair and eyebrows. Pipe tip 1 black zigzag mouth. Pipe tip 3 green nose and whites of eyes; add tip 3 black dot pupils. Pipe tip 3 gray bolts on neck and score with knife. Score with knife to resemble wood. Sandwich three of the 11 x 2 in. cookies for table with candy; let set. For body of Frankenstein, stack two skull cookies for upper body and attach 1 x 4 in. rectangle cookies for legs with melted candy; let set. Ice shirt brown and pants black. Pipe tip 1A arms with brown icing and tip 3 hands with green icing and score fingers with knife. Attach head to body and prop up with a 1 oz. ball of brown fondant. Roll two 1 ½ x 1 in. x ¾ in. black fondant ovals for shoes and attach to legs with icing. Roll gray fondant 1/8 in. thick and cut two 5 x ½ in. strips for straps and attach to body with damp brush. Attach six pretzel sticks, cut to 1 in. each, to bottom of table with melted candy; let set.
To make small table, cut four pretzels to 2 ¼ in. lengths and attach to bottom of small table cookie (4 x 2 in. rectangle) with melted candy. Score with knife to resemble wood. Mold white candy bones and position on table. Ice skull head cookies white and pipe tip 1 black facial features (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch). Ice cat and bat smooth in black and pipe tip 1 green eyes, black pupils and facial features.
Prop bat with melted candy on test tube.
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We often do two cities per day, then travel to city three to spend the night before the next morning's meeting. Our groups range in size from 100 to 250. Attendees have been invited by mail, which includes a Web site for registration. This process gives us their e-mail addresses for follow-up reminders as well as information for generating a name tag.
Show me the goods — Since my presenters are all "walkers," I use wireless lavaliere microphones. All four participate in the Q&A session, so I need four of them. I also need two handheld wireless microphones with mike runners for the agents to ask questions. I added a lectern with a microphone and a reading light for the local manager to make introductions. Since this is a fairly complicated sound setup, I rent the gear at each location and hire a sound tech. We also need a record of the Q&A sessions, so I add a cassette recorder. I need a data projector for the PowerPoint visuals with enough brightness that they can be seen even with the room lights up. To allow my presenters to get used to the equipment, I provide the laptop and data projector.
Road support — My local staff recommends at least two hotels that will work for this event. Because of the tight timing, they need to be close to the airport, but also close to any of our major offices — since I try to do a separate meeting with employee groups. We require a meeting room with a ceiling height to allow a 7.5-foot-by-10-foot or 9-foot-by-12-foot front projection screen.
This road show has been fun, but I could go another 20 years before I do the next one — and it wouldn't hurt my feelings a bit.
Ken Pickle, CPCU, CMP, is manager, incentives and conferences, for Safeco Insurance Cos., Seattle.
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Our presentation was created in PowerPoint 97, the version that most of the field was still using. I sent it out ahead of time to have it loaded, any screensavers removed, and the laptop's power management functions disabled so it wouldn't time out on us during the Q&A sessions. We had some problems with PowerPoint locking up, probably because we use an animation created in PowerPoint 2000, then saved in '97. (It's always safer to create your presentation in the same version that you will be using to present it.)
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I purchased the Sanyo PLC-XP45 for this road trip. (It will also do double duty in larger meetings I put together.) Although it weighs 18.5 pounds, it has the brightness I wanted and some great features. It lists for almost $13,000, but the actual price was about half that. To rent this same projector would have cost me at least $1,000 per stop.
The Sanyo comes with an infrared remote control that acts as a wireless mouse through the data projector back to your laptop via a PS-2 cable. It works well, but, because the data projector was set up at right angles to the presenters, the infrared remote receivers (one at front and one at rear) couldn't "see" the commands. So I have gone to a radio-frequency remote control — an Interlink Electronics product that has a much greater range and plugs into the back of the laptop. It lists for about $249.


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21-06-2013, 20:37 #231
Re: New life expected in Dawnmaster's MansionD3 Trading Forums: Europe - America
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You know I'm born to lose / and gambling is for fools / but that's the way I like it, baby / I don't want to live forever!
21-06-2013, 20:41 #232
Re: New life expected in Dawnmaster's Mansion
Is that true? I heard of a new wave of people who now think you can overfeed babies and think babies can be too fat. I think it sounds silly but how would I know.
22-06-2013, 01:10 #233
Re: New life expected in Dawnmaster's Mansion
The net effect is that he's now nearly as chubby a trencherman as his mum. Even more than I am.
22-06-2013, 03:43 #234
Re: New life expected in Dawnmaster's Mansion
The main problems with babies is that their muscles aren't developed yet, overfeeding him will cause several problems:
- they get fat, which "flaps" their skin, makes it harder to wash if dirty, and with all the droplets of milk and water
that get spilled when he drinks, slipping in those flaps, which are very very hard to clean, ...
- their stomach muscles aren't developed at all, when they just ate and are a little chubby,
all their intestines lie on one side when the baby rolls to one end, preventing proper development of muscles
- change in normal diet might lead to unhealthy "producings" in the diaper area
(Kevin's "producings" went from "healthy" light green to a sickly dark green for a few days, milk is the same type)
- getting toomuch milk doesn't get broken down in their system enough, they can develop additional rashes etc
Luckily the short overfeeding period had no lastig effect on Kevin, he's taken much of it in is height as well,
which is why he's as big a someone twice his age.
(his body parts were bulging a lot more than supposed to, which was our first clue of overfeeding,
our next were all medic personell, friends and family telling us he got really really fat ^^)
22-06-2013, 17:34 #235
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26-06-2013, 10:22 #236
Re: New life expected in Dawnmaster's Mansion
*feels a little scared right now*
Tomorrow Kevin is getting his first shot (tbc or polio or whatever it all is)
And most people are telling me he will get sick whatever the odds, and he will be crying inconsolable.
I can imagine him crying for a little while when he gets a needle stuck in <insert bodypart here>
but I can't imagine it being impossible to calm him down.
And I can imagine certain children getting sick from a shot,
but seeing how he has been healthy ever since he was born 2 months ago,
and those other children are sick every other week,
I have good hopes that he'll come out of it without too much problems?
Or am I seeing things wrong here?
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I don't think either of my kids had any issues with shots. A little momentary pain, but nothing long laying.
26-06-2013, 16:13 #238
Re: New life expected in Dawnmaster's Mansion
@ dawnmaster
My place seems to ebb and flow between completely tidy or the avalanche of clutter that becomes more than i can take so I just let it go. Everytime i clear it all out, it starts accumulating again. I'm not sure what all this crap is. perhaps this weekend I'll clear it all out again.
Also, that nail video is hilarious. I've had the same conversation countless times (the nail being metaphorical of course).
@ Bob
I have my sneakers that I wear everyday. I actually bought the ones I found for Jmerv like a year or so ago. Black New balance. THen i have leather black, and leather brown. Almost never wear them, save for important meetings, the occasional job interview, or when i try too hard on a date. Then Crocs. One fuzzy winter pair, one regular summer pair. These are for messing around in the garage. That's it. I have other shoes, but I haven't worn any in a couple years.
I used to have a pair of all stars just for canoeing, but I don't do much of that anymore either. plus the crocs would be better.
Women have a lot of shoes because they think they have to match all the colors all the time. Years ago I dated a girl with over 60 pairs of black shoes. I know because I built a 4x15 cubby box for them, and there were leftovers. I don't understand it. She could go over 2 months wearing a different pair of Black shoes! Good thing that didn't work out. She'd have shopped me poor!
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28-06-2013, 07:05 #239
Re: New life expected in Dawnmaster's Mansion
Kevin was a very good boy during his shots, he only sobbed (no loud crying) after the 2 needles jabbed him,
walked the room for half a minute and he was comforted, sofar he hasn't developed any fever or
other related symptoms, and if he doesn't by tomorrow, he should be fine.
That's all for today!
28-06-2013, 17:47 #240
Re: New life expected in Dawnmaster's Mansion
Don't make a big thing out of shots, or you end up what I had to witness in primary school.
We were getting our compulsary shots but since my birthday is late in a schoolyear they only later realised I should have been there too, so I arrived maybe 15 minutes later than the rest.
It was like a war had taken place with casualties all over the place. Boys whimpering and sobbing, girls fainting and screaming, etc. Pathetic.
All the kids that bullied me, reduced to a pile of hysteria. I have many faults but I was never hysteric when getting any shots.
Just aswell with all the medical tests I've been getting over the past few years. I don't like to look as it makes me think - "the needle's in the vein!"- so I count the ceiling tiles, but I don't cry.


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The exhibitor's fee for this conference will be $300.00 for the full conference, $150.00 for a partial conference, and $50.00 for a one day display, all of which include:
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We will also be hosting a "Vendor Hospitality Night" in the Vendor's Exhibit Area (La Joya Room) on Tuesday, June 24, 2014 from 5:30PM to 7:30PM. A door prize contribution would be greatly appreciated, as we raffle off door prizes on Vendors Hospitality Night and throughout the conference.
There will be a TGIA Awards Reception on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 from 5:00PM to 7:00PM, as well as a Networking Session on Thursday evening, June 26, 2014 from 5:30PM to 8:00PM. As a conference vendor you are invited to attend these events at no cost.
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My campus is on an American Indian reserve and because of this the campus is designed to have very nice aesthetic. There is a place called Two Waters Circle in the middle of campus. It is a beautifully designed pond surrounded by a grassy area where many students relax. It is a gorgeous part of campus.While the campus is very pretty I do not like the current state of the library. Renovations of the library were supposed to end last year but they are still going on currently and will not be finished until next year. Meanwhile, the library has been moved to a very small area that does not have computers or places to read. Only the librarians are allowed in the stacks so students can not browse. If a student wants a book they must have the librarian get it for them.
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08:23 AM ET 01.21 | Dare to dream, Indiana basketball fans. Selection Sunday is eight weeks away, but it's never too early to speculate about the NCAA basketball tournament bracket. Anyone want to see an Indiana/Butler rematch in the Midwest Regional at Lucas Oil Stadium? It is allowable. The Bulldogs, coming off Saturday's 64-63 victory over Gonzaga at a pulsating, sold-out Hinkle Fieldhouse, have never had a resume in mid-January like this one. Included is an 88-86, overtime victory over then-No. 1 IU. It is a body of work that puts Butler (16-2) in the mix for a No. 2 or 3 seed in March. ... Indiana (16-2) is 14th in RPI but has such a strong remaining Big Ten schedule that it could climb to a No. 1 seed. Its projected RPI is 15th.
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You stumped me with that one, TM. "It's a Wonder Life" is the only Stewart/Capra film I know. Definitely a Jeopardy question there.
It's a bit of fluff from 1938. Pre-war Jimmy hams it up as a girl-focused dreamer whose being groomed for leadership by his very successful banker father. He meets and begins to woo this fairly normal, charming young woman played by Jean Arthur... Only, she comes from a family without means who all march to a different drum, so to speak - The Sycamores. The film's been made available on DVD.
The story is quite popular (originally written and performed as a play), with other versions being produced over the decades. One notable version produced for TV in 1979 featured Art Carney as Grandpa Sycamore, along with Jean Stapleton, Beth Howland, Blythe Danner, Robert Mandan, Barry Bostwick, Kenneth Mars, Howard Hesseman and Polly Holliday. There was a recorded version of the stage play (with Jason Robards) produced for PBS in 1984, and they tried to make a TV sitcom out of it in the late 80s with Harry Morgan as Grandpa Sycamore.
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In the early hours one morning last September, Lu Lobello rose from his bed, switched on a light, and stared into the video camera on his computer. It was two-thirty. The light cast a yellow pall on Lobello's unshaven face. Almost every night was like this. Lobello couldn't sleep, couldn't stop thinking about his time in Iraq. Around San Diego, he'd see a baby—in a grocery store, in a parking lot—and the image would come back to him: the blood-soaked Iraqi infant, his mother holding him aloft by one foot. "Why did you shoot us?'' the woman demanded over and over. Other times, Lobello would see a Mercedes—a blue or white one, especially—and he'd recall the bullet-riddled sedan in the Baghdad intersection, the dead man alongside it in the street, the elderly woman crying in broken English, "We are the peace people! We are the peace people!" He'd remember that the barrel of his machine gun was hot to the touch.
Once a wild teen-ager in Las Vegas—"I was a crazy bastard!"—Lobello had become, at thirty-one, a tormented veteran. When he came home from Iraq, he bought an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, the weapon most like the one he had in combat, and two pistols, and kept them close at night. "You lay them on the bed, like it's your girlfriend, and go to sleep," he said. That had helped a little, but then he moved to California, where the gun laws were stricter, and he'd left them behind.
The marines had shot a terrible number of Iraqis that day—maybe two dozen in all. At times, as Lobello lay awake, he wondered, Whom had he killed? Who had survived? He combed the Internet for names, dates, and addresses; he pestered the members of his Marine company for details and consulted a cousin who had travelled in the region. He piled up documents. At last, the clues led him to the Facebook page of a young woman named Nora: maybe, he thought, it was the young woman he'd seen in the back seat of the Mercedes, with the bloody shoulder. And so, at two-thirty that morning, eight years after he had sprayed bullets into cars filled with Iraqi civilians, Lobello turned on his video recorder.
"It's very hard for me to say this, Nora, but we met on April 8, 2003,'' Lobello said. "I was with Fox Company, Second Battalion, Twenty-third Marine Regiment, and our fate crossed that night. I'm not sure if you remember, because it was so long ago now. Almost a decade."
He turned the camera to show the documents he'd gathered. "I have been trying to learn what happened that day, I think, since that day ended,'' he said. For nearly ten minutes, he spoke about his family and his plans for the future. He asked about Nora's mother, whether she was alive. He talked about other marines. "Lots of the people I was with that day,'' he said, "they don't do too good sometimes." At one point, he started to cry. "I'm so sorry for your loss,'' he said, composing himself. "I just think that talking to you guys will help me out so much. I know it seems really selfish. I hope it helps you, too, but really I can't—I can't go on not trying to say hello to you.
"I need to talk to you, if you let me,'' Lobello said. "I have so much to say to you. I have so much to say."
Lobello switched off the camera and attached the video to the Facebook message. He pressed send and went back to bed.
On April 16, 2003, I was driving a rented S.U.V. through the streets of Baghdad when I spotted a crowd rushing the doors of an Iraqi hospital. Saddam's regime had collapsed a week before, and the Iraqi capital, like most of the country, had disintegrated into bloody anarchy. Baghdad was burning; mobs were swarming government buildings; ordinary Iraqis were robbing and killing one another. I drove up to the hospital, Al Wasati, just as a doctor walked out the front door and fired a Kalashnikov into the air. The crowd backed off, but only a little.
Inside, wailing patients wandered around, clutching ravaged limbs. Doctors were treating wounded people in the hallways. There were no lights, no medicine. In the lobby, a doctor introduced himself as Yasir al-Masawi. "There is a very tragic case here, one that sticks in my mind,'' he said. "Come, I will show you.'' I followed him down a hallway, into a ward reeking of old bandages and festering wounds. In a corner, seated on the edge of a bed, was a young woman with blond hair, which was rare in Iraq. Her left shoulder was heavily bandaged; blood and pus had seeped through and dried in a dark-red stain. She was semi-coherent, talking one second, murmuring in a deep voice the next. In a lucid moment, she said that her name was Nora Kachadoorian.
Two women stood next to the bed: her mother, Margaret, and her aunt, Dina. They told me that, as the American forces closed in, the Kachadoorian family was living in eastern Baghdad, in a neighborhood called Baladiyat. As ethnic Armenians and Christians, they had quietly prospered on the fringes of Iraqi society, running a business that sold machinery. They did not welcome the war. "We thought of leaving Baghdad, but where would we go?" Margaret said.


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In a recent Slate column — with a nod to the upcoming Vancouver Olympics — I describe a study by Dartmouth economist Eric Zitzewitz, who analyzed the sometimes shady world of Olympic figure skating. The figure skating community was shaken by a scandal in the 2002 Salt Lake City Games when a Russian judge, together with a bloc of other judges, allegedly colluded to hand victory to a Russian ice dancing pair over their Canadian competitors.
The International Skating Union responded by changing the way competitions are judged. Today, the scores are reported anonymously and only a subset of those are used in the final judging process. It may seem odd, at first, to expect that by removing direct public scrutiny of individual judges and concealing their identities, it would curtail vote trading. But the idea is that anonymity makes it hard to verify that corrupt judges have actually delivered the scores that they've promised — no one can tie any individual judge to a score. It's hard to collude if you can't tell whether your partner in crime is keeping up his end of the bargain.
Yet the study finds that these attempts at reducing collusion actually had the opposite effect. While it may have become a bit more difficult for corrupt judges to maintain a collusive arrangement, this effect was overwhelmed by the negative impact of reduced public scrutiny. Zitzewitz found that in the new system, having a home-country judge on the anonymous panel boosted a skater's score by even more than it did under the earlier regime. (His data did not reveal, however, whether the home-country bias came just from the skater's countryman, or a cabal of colluding judges — they were anonymous, remember.)
These findings are interesting even if you are not a fan of figure skating or sports in general, as they reveal some of the challenges in designing rules to fight corruption. With the right data we could run a similar type of study for, say, highway procurement contracts in California to analyze whether making bids public decreased corruption — because of greater public scrutiny — or increased it by making collusion among bidders that much easier.
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Supervisors in the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff members to destroy documents that helped justify $4.7 million in funding allocations for regional health programs, according to an investigation by the Legislature's watchdog agency.
The report released Thursday by the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability dismayed lawmakers on the Government Oversight Committee. Their concerns centered on several findings, including evidence that documents were shredded and "strong indications" that supervisors manipulated the selection criteria to allow the Penquis health district to receive a grant of more than $600,000.
The grants go to regional districts to fund health programs, including smoking cessation and fitness programs that often are used and praised by employers and health advocates. The Healthy Maine Partnerships funds are distributed primarily through the Fund for a Healthy Maine, which has had severe budget cuts over the past three years.
The grant program distributed $7.5 million in 2012. The grants were reduced to $4.7 million in 2013 through a supplemental budget enacted by the previous Legislature.
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An investigation into the grant process was fast-tracked after a whistleblower in the CDC filed a complaint with the Maine Human Rights Commission.
Sharon Leahy-Lind, former director of the agency's Division of Local Public Health, alleged that her supervisor, Deputy Director Christine Zukas, told her to shred documents related to the competitive awards to health outreach nonprofits. Leahy-Lind claimed that she was harassed and discriminated against for not complying with the directive.
The report by the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability does not identify who ordered the shredding of the documents.
Leahy-Lind resigned in July, saying through her attorney, former state lawmaker Cynthia Dill, that the harassment continued and that she was denied use of an office phone and treated like a "pariah."
The Attorney General's Office is also investigating the document-shredding claim, said Beth Ashcroft, director of the government accountability office. The office will open a public comment period and, if directed by the Government Oversight Committee, may investigate further.
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While atheists might attack or make fun of the Bible because of biblical literalists, it is important to distinguish between the quality of a book and the behavior of its adherents. For better or worse, the Bible and the many religions it spawned have deeply influenced our culture and the world. For that reason alone, the Bible is worth reading. Although atheists rank highest in religious knowledge, atheists should try to understand why so many love the Bible even if they haven't actually read it.
Some atheists make the same mistake as theists, treating the Bible as either all good or all bad. While it contains many boring, anachronistic, contradictory, and repetitive sections, it also has passages with rich and diverse meanings. The same can be said for Greek mythology–fictional tales that were once considered religious texts.
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Last week, comScore released data that should toss a wet blanket on the negative talk surrounding the shift from the desktop to mobile devices.
Because the numbers do not support the media's hysterical story about mobile, you're unlikely to see them make headlines. Of course, when Facebook falls or Zynga crashes, we get inundated with the same story from myriad sources.
It's sad. If the media accurately reflects society, we have more patience with a 10-year-old occupation of Afghanistan than we do one of the most profound changes to impact the Internet.
Here's the important part of what comScore reports:
- Growth in e-commerce sales dwarfs the relatively meager uptick in brick-and-mortar sales (15 percent vs. 2 percent, respectively, in the second quarter of 2012).
- In the second quarter of 2012, 9 percent of all e-commerce sales came via mobile device. Two years ago, that number was 2 percent. ComScore notes that the surge coincides with increased tablet ownership.
- Tablet owners are more engaged in e-commerce than smartphone owners; 39 percent of tablet owners made a purchase via tablet in the last month compared to 18 percent of smartphone users. The same discrepancy exists between tablets and smartphones on the metrics for researching items and comparing prices.
- On almost every metric related to mobile e-commerce actions, including purchases made, Apple iPad owners are far more engaged than users of Amazon.com's Kindle Fire tablet.
It would be epic if Apple found a way to monetize this engagement even more than it already does. If I compete with Amazon.com, I form a consortium of a handful of retailers and get on the phone with Apple.
If Apple can box out other social networks in favor of deeper Twitter integration, there's no reason why it cannot send a similar salvo Amazon's way.
More important at this moment, as an Amazon bull and long-term Apple bear, are my concerns that: a) Amazon does not provide specifics on how it has monetized Kindle Fire in terms of e-commerce sales; and b) iPad owners appear more likely to buy something on their tablet than Kindle Fire adopters.
Amazon created the Kindle Fire as a conduit for shopping, yet iPad seems to accomplish the task with less overt effort. Of course, sales on iPads could come through the Amazon shopping app, but it's still a concern.
In that regard, score one for Apple here, particularly if it can do more to monetize this impressive level of engagement.
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