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President Obama engaged in good politics in his speech at Knox College last week, but continues to emphasize the strength of the U.S. and is completely silent on what he and the Congress can do to revive the economy.
The U.S. has the best of research, innovation, productivity, skills and graduate education but the president refuses to enforce our trade laws. He is hung up on "free trade" and "protectionism."
This nation was built on protectionism (Tariff Act of 1787). If this continues, we'll face three more years of the economy tide going out.
Understand our dilemma. Corporate America withholds $2 trillion in offshore profits because it wants to invest in the United States. Deficits concern CEOs. Taxes going up keep them in limbo. With a balanced budget in 2001, neither Bush nor Obama paid for tax cuts, wars, prescription drugs, bailouts, stimulation and government. Ten trillion dollars were added to the debt, and the White House announced recently that $759 billion would be added by Sept. 30. Borrowing continues. CEOs hold up on investing and creating jobs.
After World War II, Japan closed its market, subsidized its manufacture, sold its export at cost, making up the profit in its closed market. Steve Biegun, vice president at Ford, recently stated in The Financial Times: "Japan is the most closed auto market in the world."
I spent 40 years fighting Japan's predatory practices. In 1961, I brought the witnesses for the Kennedy Cabinet hearing to find textiles the second most important to steel to our economy. Enforcing the Defense Production Act of 1950, President Kennedy promulgated his Seven Point Program in 1961, saving the textile industry.
By 1968, the industry was slipping, so I got the Senate to approve a textile amendment to a House trade bill, but President Johnson had Wilbur Mills "deep-six" the measure in the House — never calling it for a vote.
With the support of Corporate America, I was able to get four textile bills through both houses of Congress only to be vetoed: one by President Carter; two by President Reagan; one by President George H.W. Bush.
Presidents spreading democracy treated textiles and autos as expendable.
South Carolina has the skills to make the "ultimate driving machine" for BMW and Boeing's Globemaster but we have 8.1 percent unemployment. Detroit, the most skilled city in the U.S., declares bankruptcy because the auto industry suffers from a $12 billion a month deficit in the balance of trade.
When President Clinton favored China's entry into the World Trade Organization and in 2000 gave China "permanent normal trade relations," Corporate America stopped trying to have trade laws enforced. Offshoring hemorrhaged!
Between 2001 and 2010, the U.S. lost one third of its manufacture.
In December 2006, Princeton economist Alan Blinder estimated that in 10 years Corporate America would offshore 30-40 million jobs. A Wall Street Journal headline last week: "Growth Outlook Stuck in Neutral."
The economists continue to blame the lethargic economy on a lack of consumer confidence in the economy. It's lack of money. We're offshoring payrolls. It's trade deficits.
In 1971, President Nixon imposed a 10 percent surcharge on imports when our deficit in the balance of trade was a miniscule fraction of what it is today. Economists estimate a loss of 9,000 jobs for every trade deficit of $1 billion. Running a trade deficit of $600 billion this year means a loss of 5.4 million jobs. President Obama's recipe for the economy does nothing to limit offshoring or the running of horrendous trade deficits.
Finally, it's the corporate income tax that's not rebated on exports. One hundred and fifty countries compete in globalization with a value added tax (VAT) that's rebated on exports. President Obama and Congress could solve the offshoring, deficit, jobs and budget problems, making it attractive for industry to invest in the U.S., by replacing the 35 percent corporate tax with a 7 percent VAT.
This immediately releases $2 trillion in offshore profits for Corporate America to repatriate tax free and create millions of jobs in the U.S. This VAT tax cut has no loopholes, giving instant tax reform; is self-enforcing; allowing the size of government (such as the IRS) to be cut and, with computers, easily administered.
Not having a VAT is killing manufacturing in the U.S. An entrepreneur can be making a profit but pays a 35 percent corporate tax and a 17 percent VAT when his exports reach Shanghai. A competitor can produce the same product in China, import it tax-free to the U.S. and put the entrepreneur out of business.
According to Congressional Budget Office, the 35 percent corporate tax for 2012 produced revenues of $236.8 billion. A 7 percent VAT for 2012 would have produced $922 billion. With the VAT, the budget can be balanced in two years instead of 10.
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I suspect many people share my opinion about separation of church and state in America: Crosses on public property aren't that big a deal.
I could write a book about things that concern me more. Children starving to death in underdeveloped countries come to mind.
But some people do think it's a big deal, right here in Appalachia.
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Officials in the Jefferson County, Ohio, community of Stratton have run afoul of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wis. It seems the FFRF learned Stratton's municipal building has been decorated with two crosses, one Latin, one Eastern Orthodox, for the Easter season.
The crosses have to go, FFRF has ordered the village. Mayor John Abdalla reportedly has said he'll have them taken down at the end of the month.
This isn't the first time we've heard of the FFRF. It harasses local governments throughout the nation for allegedly disobeying the Constitutional requirement of separation of church and state. Most of the time, displays such as that in Stratton are involved.
But here's something to bear in mind: As far as I know, the FFRF does not send out patrols to check for crosses hanging on municipal buildings. Someone local had to tip them off. That means someone local agrees with them.
I don't. What the nation's founders were doing with the so-called "Establishment Clause" was attempting to prevent very real harm and discrimination by a state-sanctioned church.
Back then, not belonging to the church of England could disqualify one from a government job. Some states and towns collected taxes to support churches. There were other active means of discriminating against those who did not ahere to a particular faith.
That doesn't happen these days (except, of course, when laws requiring people and organizations to do things that go against their faith are enforced). So outfits like the FFRF - and some of our friends and neighbors who agree with them - have resorted to worrying about crosses on public property.
Fine. Take them down.
But what real good does that do? None, really. Was anyone actually suffering any harm from the crosses? No.
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I have requirement to change already existing mapping which is up and running in Prod.
AS-IS mapping is; it creates one file based on the one input file. (one-one)
Required change is: create multple files based on the value(date) of one feild. (one-many)
now it should create me three files:
file1 with date 032412
file2 with date 032512
file3 with date 032612
when I change the occurence of the target structure; it addes Messages as the main node and Messages1 as subnode on both source and target.. n everything messesup
help is appricated.
Prema Boodi
>>it addes Messages as the main node and Messages1 as subnode on both source and target
this is how the multimapping works
whats your exact problem??
in case you want to create dynamic file name then go for variable substitution...
Amit Srivastava
thanks amit;
actually my problem here is; i dont want a change in source structure, because that is a standard structure from bank..
how do i change just the target structure occurence to 'n' without being affecting the source; otherwise my interface wont accept the input value..
Execute your scenario end-to-end using the actual source message (without having Messages and Message1 node) and it will work (PI will handle the mapping accordingly).
Amit Srivastava
Hi Prema,
When you make any changes in root node, mapping for all elements inside it goes and you have to re map them. However, You can use Correct Structural inconsistencies functionality to get them re - map quickly as they were before.
Refer this blog on how to use this feature
Hope this helps,
thanks ankit..
i got the mappimg corrected with mapping template; my problem now is; after the change my mapping does not accept the input file; strucure is different.. and i dont want to disturb the input.. just the mapping n the ouput..
Hi Prema,
If you did not made any changes to input structure, then your file should be accepted. Could you verify the file if the structure is correct ? Can you post the error you are getting that will help us to give correct suggestion.
Also, check if your nodes contexts got misplaced as you used correct structural inconsistencies feature and your mapping failing because of it.
When I want to unit test; after loading the test instance, the node is red; it means it doesn't accept the input or the input is wrong.. One of above blog says "remove the elements<Message> and<Message1>" is this only for unit testing or end to end testing?
Hi Prema,
I think you have used Signature change feature for changing the occurrence, So for this if you want to do unit test in Test tab, fit your test XML message between
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns0:Messages xmlns:ns0="http://sap.com/xi/XI/SplitAndMerge">
Your test XML
Else you can do End to End testing, here PI will take care of <Message> and <Message1>.
hope this helps,
Hi Prema,
When you test your message mapping(multi mapping) source structure will have addition elements in Messae mapping test tab, but when you run interface end to end it handles automatically. so you no need to wory about it. Make sure that you have created mapping logic correctly and You source staructure should capble of accepting mutiple records in one payload.
here comes the problem.
when i did end to end testing, i got the below error and it is with handling Messages of multi occurence.
Execution of mapping "http://xyz/JPM_TO_MRI_PaymentData" failed. Reason: MappingException: Mapping failed, ApplicationRuntimeException: Runtime Exception when executing application mapping program com/sap/xi/tf/_JPM_TO_MRI_PaymentData_22_; Details: com.sap.aii.mappingtool.tf7.IllegalInstanceException; Cannot create target element /ns0:Messages. Values missing in queue context. Target XSD requires a value for this element, but the target-field mapping does not create one. Check whether the XML instance is valid for the source XSD, and whether the target-field mapping fulfils the requirement of the target XSD, IllegalInstanceException: Cannot create target element /ns0:Messages. Values missing in queue context. Target XSD requires a value for this element, but the target-field mapping does not create one. Check whether the XML instance is valid for the source XSD, and whether the target-field mapping fulfils the requirement of the target XSD
my operation mapping contains below 4 message(graphical) mapping
JPM_TO_MRI_PaymentData1 : which is 1-1
JPM_TO_MRI_PaymentData2 : which is 1-1
JPM_TO_MRI_PaymentData22 : which is 1-n here is the problem
JPM_TO_MRI_PaymentData3 : which is n-m
solution to this is highly appriciated.
i have passed the above error at mapping..
now i have error writing to target file:
below is the log from RWB
Apr 4, 2012 11:26:14 AM Information Write to file "/interfac/JPMC_PaymentData_20120404-112614-271.txt" as text (encoding ISO646-US) size 244 bytes.
Apr 4, 2012 11:26:14 AM Information Start converting XML document content to plain text
Apr 4, 2012 11:26:14 AM Error File processing failed with java.lang.Exception: Exception in XML Parser (format problem?):'java.lang.Exception: Message processing failed in XML parser: 'Conversion configuration error: Unknown structure 'ns0:Message1' found in document', probably configuration error in file adapter (XML parser error)'
After your target structure (and mapping and so on) changed, you need to adjust the File Content Conversion parameters of the receiver file Communication Channel to the new structure. See here for detailed description of the attributes: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/en/44/686e687f2a6d12e10000000a1553f6/content.htm
Let us know if you still need some help with some particular conversion attribute.
Hope this helps,
how do i change fcc parameters; if my mapping changes from 1-1 to 1: n mapping
is fcc going to be diffrent? if yes, then what should i change to handle n files.. thanks for your help Greg..
Closing this thread.. as i have opened another thread for related query..


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We were 7 persons staying for 6 nights in the appartment and had a very nice stay. The apartment is in a superb location just outside the very central and "commercial" part of wonderful Prague, but still within short walking distance of almost everything. Nice accomodation, furniture. Recommendable.
The house was over our expectations. The area was nice and quit, the pool was clean and a good size for all our children (aged 8-17). Very spacius parkinglot and nice and clean house, with all we could wish for fore.
We spend most of the evening in the house, cooking our dinner and sar out under the shadowed balcony.
Renting through interhome was also very easy and they were very helpfull at the office with any questions, we could have.
Certainly not the last time, we would go for this house.
Thank you.
The appartment was amazingly beautiful and perfectly clean. The landlords are the loveliest couple you can imagine and they were also really helfull. Thanks a million!
Our stay there was nice. We had a great time. The Charles' Bridge is very near and the castle too. We didn't need any public transport. The place is busy but the windows are at the back and it was quiet. The flat is dark and the stairs are hard to climb with luggage. But our host brought them for us. Thanks.
The Positano Elegant Terrace was just that. We loved this place. We would love to live here! Everyone was so helpful with picking us up at the train and on the way on to Venice they drove us in to Naples to catch the train. This was our favorite place in the three weeks we stayed in Italy. It was heaven and the perfect honeymoon spot. Will definitely want to stay in one of their places again.
Awful! This apartment is managed by Interhome agency, and there is one surprise provided by them - cleaning fee. Then you are choosing a room you do not see any mentions about addition costs - only after reservation. We realized that we had to pay extra 66 EUR after getting booking confirmation.
It is a little bit unpleasantly, but then we came there we saw an absolutely dirty apartment - all the surfaces was covered with dust. And this is is AFTER 66 EUR cleaning! We spent a half oh a day to clean everything by ourselves.
More than that - there was not any blankets there. We asked a charwoman to bring us at least one, she promised to come with them in the evening but did not come and did not bring any.
We was needed to sleep under thin cover for sofa, and it was quite cold.
After all this they took money for cleaning from my credit card without my agreement and did not answer my mails with photos of dust in their apartment.
Don't book anything from Interhome!
Very nice, wellplanned, clean and nice villa. Big and well equipted kitchen.
Apartment was nice, very clean, spacious, quiet even though located on a big street and generally up to standard. Overground and Bus Stops very close, Underground stop can be reached by bus or walking easily. Few small issues (key for one of the windows missing, toilet seat broken, plastic bit of toilet flush falling down, bathroom pipe slightly leaking) but overall this apartment can definitely be recommended. HOWEVER, be aware that the key has to be picked up somewhere else (close to Camden Road Overground Station - so not far from the apartment) and you can't get the keys for the apartment at the apartment itself.
Thank you very much the appartement was perfect!
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Katrina in Texas
Over half a million people left New Orleans and moved west in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Reports now estimate that up to 300,000 New Orleans evacuees moved into Houston, Texas, swelling that city's population by up to 10%. Just two days after Katrina forced thousands into the Louisiana Superdome, Commissioner of Education Shirley Neeley announced that Texas schools would be opening their doors to the New Orleans youth. Other reports echoed this sense of welcome and camaraderie. Former first lady Barbara Bush famously led the suggestions that many of the displaced wanted to stay in Texas.
Within months, that happy welcome had worn off. In March of 2006, Newsweek and Bloomberg joined others in reporting a rising crime wave in Houston that was expected to develop in other cities. The spike was directly linked to the influx of evacuees. Houstonians reported feeling conflicted between pride in helping those in need and angry at a perceived drain on their city's resources. As FEMA set up permanent relocation plans for tens of thousands of the displaced, vitriol continued to increase. Marking the four-year anniversary of Katrina's landfall, radio talk show host and Texas A&M University alum Neal Boortz had this to say about evacuees living in the Lone Star State:
Houston has slowly acknowledged, Katrina evacuees pushed up Houston's rates for some crimes, particularly homicide, not just the raw number of offenses. Houston's post-Katrina crime surge is an extension of the pre-Katrina violence of New Orleans's criminal underclass…. Since Katrina, Houston police have identified New Orleans evacuees as either suspects or victims (or often both) in more than 30 Houston-area homicides. Of an evacuee population of 175,000, this works out to a per-capita annual murder rate of about 34 per 100,000, well above Houston's pre-Katrina rate. News of violent murders committed by and against Katrina evacuees has created a bit of a backlash in Houston.
Such reports continued to gain traction, spurred by a reliance on stereotypes, readily-available anecdotes, and a general lack of data. Gary Blankinship, president of the Houston Police Officer's Union, effectively summarized this trend in his statement: "It seems like there was more crime, and the officers talked about it, but I don't have any actual data." He was interviewed in response to a January, 2010, article that reported, "Contrary to much popular speculation, only modest effects were found on crime" (Varano, Schafer, Cancino, Decker, & Greene, 2010). In their study of Houston, San Antonio, and Phoenix, the authors analyzed nearly three years' worth of criminal data that bookended Katrina's landfall. They found insufficient support for claims that crime rates increased as a direct result of the displaced population, noting that:
Effects were neither widespread (across all crime categories), nor pervasive (across the three cities). This suggested that local circumstances, coupled by the volume of displaced persons being absorbed by any particular city play a role in increasing crime, and that disaster planning and relief efforts should be cognizant of issues of "over-saturation" in the capacity of receiving communities to adequately adjust to such disasters. Equally important was the idea that those displaced were not a criminogenic mob to be "blamed" for crime increases. (p. 47)
In presenting much-needed research on the real effects of Katrina evacuees on their adopted cities, there is a reminder of the need for perspective. Despite early hostilities, there is still potential for a positive resolution between the old and new residents in Texas. As most participants have come to accept their new situations, there are signs of change and improvement. Politically, the relocations should at least help Texas gain greater political clout, as the added population is expected to bring greater voting power to what is already the second-most populated state. Perhaps some of that added clout will support changes in how the federal government handles environmental displacement in the future.
And what about the future of those young evacuees Commissioner Neeley so readily welcomed into Texas schools? Apparently it was a good thing they wanted to stay in Texas. In April of this year, the Texas Education Agency released a report noting that evacuee students have begun to outperform their native Texan peers on state assessments.


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Surendra Verma: Vista Transactional File System
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keeron wrote:Would love to see people talk about real-world usage and places where it makes more sense to use this than to use traditional system calls (given the cost of using transactions).
What is the difference between a transactional file system and a journaling file system, if any?
I'm pretty sure Verma said you can still use traditional file operations when you don't need transactional guarantees; both are supported. However, any changes that are committed by another transactional action will show up for any app using non-transactional operations on the same file. So, use transactional operations if you need a guaranteed state either when reading or writing, otherwise, using traditional file operations are your best for less overhead. Or you can just do what the pros do, and wave a magnet over the platters in the correct sequenceph wrote:You talk about the performance cost of transactions...for applications that do not need transactions (not all applications do), can an application not use the transaction features and recoup the performance hit?
We almost met in Sao Paulo on Friday. I recognized your face and planned to ask you a few questions about TxF, but then we didn't meet
1. If you compare the isolation level that TxF provides with the typical isolation level of databases, which would be the best match? Snapshot by any chance?
2. I read that the TxF API changed a lot in RC1. For what I have seen (superficially), it looks a lot less transparent than before. I may be wrong, but it seems that before you could just create an ambient transaction and begin working with files as usual, and now you have to explicitly invoke transactional versions of the file systems APIs to get transactional behavior. Am I right? Was this design change implemented on purpose or was it because of a roadblock that you had to sacrifice the original simplicity?
3. I would like to understand better the role of KTM and DTC. Does it work similar to promotable transactions in ADO.NET? Is it correct to think of KTM as some kind of lightweight transaction manager that will only delegate to DTC when it needs to coordinate with resource managers of other kinds?
4. Do you think DTC is too expensive nowadays performance-wise for what it does?
Thank you. And it was nice to see a Channel 9 celebrity with my own eyes
SurendraVerma wrote:Hi Diego,
Sorry I missed you in Sao Paulo. I really enjoyed Brazil and Sao Paulo in particular.
You asked some really good questions. Let me try to address them:
I did not see your answer until Saturday. Thanks for being so kind to give me your address. Unfortunatelly, I am not sure if you are receiving my messages because I am not getting any delivery confirmation. I just hope you are busy celebrating Vista shippment
Well, my email was actually a follow up to this thread, so here it is:
Sorry for trying to understand TxF and TxR from a database/managed developer point of view, but this is where I am coming from after all
Regarding the isolation level you describe, I guess if I had to explain TxF/TxR isolation level to a database geek, I would just tell him: "it's just like REPEATABLE READS".
Regarding the change in the APIs, I understand why you had to switch to an explicit model; however I grieve over what you had to give up.
While the problem with the implicit model is that you cannot opt-out of the ambient transaction, with the explicit model you cannot easily get transactional behavior through the "upper" programming stack without rewriting a good share of it.
I am sure that alternatives were carefully considered. However, if it is not abusing your tme, may I ask you about the merits and flaws of an alternate approach that I am thinking of? For sure I am not the only one that thought about this:
1. The original version of the API supports an ambient transaction and you mentioned that you could still expose that transaction handle at the thread level. I am not sure where things landed in the final Vista build.
2. Apparently, to work with any of the managed or unmanaged APIs that could take advantage of transactional semantics, you have to call a function with a file name (or key name for TxR) as a parameter at some point, and in case you are talking to one of the higher level layers, those will ultimately invoke one of a small set of Win32 name-based APIs.
So, what if you could define a "transactional" moniker that you would need to preppend to the file name or registry key parameter in order to get "implicit" transactional semantics? I can imagine something like "txfile:", but it could be something else.
I think this would have a few significant effects:
1. The non-transactional semantics of existing code would be preserved even in the presence of an ambient transaction, because hardcoded and existing strings would be lacking the moniker.
2. You would get back the possibility of using transactions with any existing API that takes a file name (or a key name) from Win32 through the .NET Framework, requiring minimal changes.
3. If you included something like this in a future version of Windows, you could still mix explicit, Vista-like calls, with implicit, moniker based calls enlisted in the same transaction.
I understand that this is not completely a clean approach and maybe it there is even something naïve about it. But in any case, it would be nice to learn what you think the tradeoffs are.
Thank you for listening! And congratulations for shipping this cool technology in Vista! It is really something I wish I have had a lot of times.
I have an application which archives data of a file out to the cloud. Which 1. renders the file offline and 2. leaves a 4K stub on the local file system. In an XP file system modifing properties does not invoke a file recall (done by reading any part of the data). With the transactional changes the file is recalled when view system properties. 2 questions: 1. is viewing system properties of a file read data? 2. Is there a way to disable the trancational model in Vista or Win7?
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When a person is very intoxicated/drunk
"Dude, Max and I got so sloshed lastnight at Keith's party!"
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Consuming large amounts of alcohol to the extent that you are passed out with your head in the toilet.
I got so fucking sloshed last night!
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To get really fucked up or to be completely wasted.
You were sloshed at the party, you drank a whole bottle of Jack.
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A terms for being very under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
I was 'sloshed' that night at Bennys.
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To get so merrily inebriated on alcohol that you to do things you wouldn't normally do.
I was so sloshed I ate a Kebab and woke up next to a Monster.
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it's a description of what happens to your beer when you try to pick it up. If you don't spill it, when attempting to move it between the table and your face, you aren't sloshed.
Your friend orders another round of beer and rather then consuming any only manages to pour it down their front. They are sloshed
Karl Vollmer tarafından 30 Kasım 2006, Perşembe
Consuming large amounts of alcohol to the extent that you are passed out with your head in a box of Bud Ice.
Dude I went to the movie theater last night and got so fucking sloshed!
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SPRINGS MILLS - The West Virginia State Police are investigating a robbery that occurred Tuesday at a pharmacy located within the Spring Mills Walmart in Berkeley County.
The robbery occurred at approximately 3:25 p.m. at the Walmart Supercenter store's pharmacy, located at 5680 Hammonds Mill Road.
Cpl. Z.L. Nine of the State Police said the suspect made a threat of a weapon, but none was displayed.
The suspect is described as a white male in his mid-to late 20s, who was seen wearing a red coat with a striped hoodie. The suspect fled in a white passenger car after the robbery. Police did not disclose whether the suspect demanded drugs or money from the pharmacy.
"He came in and demanded things and talked about a firearm or being shot, so it's obviously something very serious we've got to take care of," Nine said.
Additional suspect descriptors and a description of his vehicle's make or model were not immediately available Tuesday afternoon, as the investigation into the robbery was still in its early phases. It appeared the suspect left the store heading toward W.Va. 901, but until a further review of surveillance video footage is completed, Nine was unable to say whether the vehicle turned left or right out of the store or if the suspect's car turned toward Interstate 81.
The pharmacy at the Walmart was temporarily closed after the robbery while police were conducting their investigation.
Anyone with information about the robbery or the suspect's identity is asked to contact the West Virginia State Police at 304-267-0001.
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Not since Buddy Holly has a 22-year-old left such a legacy after such a short life as Dan Eldon. And, with all due respect, Buddy Holly was no Dan Eldon.
�His take on the world was so mature. I couldn�t believe his insight and ability to express himself,� said Open Shutter Gallery owner Margy Dudley.
The gallery will open a stunning exhibition of Eldon�s journals and photojournalism tonight. �The Journey is the Destination� will introduce many to the fascinating life of Eldon, which ended 20 years ago in Mogadishu, Somalia, at the hands of an angry mob.
Eldon was born in England to a pair of globe-trotting adventurers. By the time he was 7, he was living in Kenya. That instilled in him a love for East Africa that never faded away. After a stint living in the U.S. and traveling to 46 countries on four continents, his humanitarian soul drew him back to that part of the world.
�As an artist, he was like a global citizen before that was a buzzword,� said Cynthia Young, artistic director for the Dan Eldon Legacy, a foundation started by Eldon�s mother shortly after his death in 1993. Kathy Eldon discovered her son�s cache of 17 journals, which are more like scrapbooks � the pages are covered with Eldon�s photos, illustrations and his words.
�They knew what he was doing but had no idea how extensive they were,� Young said of the journals. �They started the foundation to try to help other young people use media art to create positive change.�
Eldon was, and remains, the youngest staff photojournalist ever hired by Reuters, the international news agency. His potential was limitless, and judging by the company he kept, it�s a safe assumption that he would be a major player in today�s mass media industry.
�I�m sure Dan would be doing something off the grid. He had that compassionate humanitarian soul, and it would�ve carried him someplace,� Young said. �He would go off and sleep in the streets, or in jails if it was insecure. Kids were trekking all over, and at that period of time, it wasn�t done in style.�
In 1990, Eldon led a group of aspiring media types on an East African goodwill mission. Along for the ride were future Oscar-winning director Chris Nolan (�Batman,� �The Dark Knight�) Oscar-nominee Roko Belic (�Genghis Blues,� �Happy�), The New York Times East Africa bureau chief Jeffrey Gettleman, (who survived a 2004 kidnapping in Baghdad and a hijacking in Ethiopia in 2007), and Elinor Tatum, publisher and managing editor of the Amsterdam News, America�s largest African-American newspaper.
�We�re going back and looking at the people who were his colleagues, who went on safari with Dan in Somalia,� Young said. �It�s interesting that all those kids were together in the same place. They were all impacted from being in Africa, the freedom they were given as kids.�
One of the new exhibits created by the foundation is being called �The Durango Series,� because the large prints will debut at the Open Shutter exhibit. In addition to the exhibited prints, Eldon�s journal No. 14 will be on display for the Durango show.
Eldon�s journals were filled with irony, satire and heartfelt sadness as he witnessed Somalia and other East African nations fall into civil war. He was in Mogadishu during the fighting portrayed in the film �Black Hawk Down�, and had gained the trust and admiration of the locals as one of few non-Africans who reported on the violence honestly and without Western bias.
On the day of his death, a helicopter was bombing a small village and one of Eldon�s friends asked him to document that they were bombing women and children. He grabbed a videographer and driver and drove about an hour to the site. But when the frenzied crowd spotted them, they saw only Americans and didn�t realize he was coming to help. They chased the small group and stoned them to death. Eldon died of a head wound.
Young will not be able to travel from California for tonight�s opening, but she will speak on a panel later this month during Durango Film, the local film festival. She will discuss the making of the documentaries about Eldon�s life, �Dying to Tell the Story� (1998) and �The Art of Life� (1997), though neither film is included in the Durango Film program.


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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Time is running out. Homebuyers must sign a contract by today to take advantage of federal tax incentives.
In the rush to make a deal, one detail that they'll need to weigh carefully is securing the appropriate insurance to protect their investment.
Keep in mind these basics when thinking about homeowners insurance coverage:
1. Determine how much
Insure your home for its replacement value, not what you paid for it. You want your insurance coverage to reflect what it costs to bring materials to the site and rebuild the home if it's damaged or destroyed, says Sean Meehan, a vice president at Travelers Insurance. The home will likely cost more to rebuild because of inflation. If you have home on a large piece of property, be aware that the insurance company isn't insuring the land, so the amount of your policy may be significantly less than what you paid for the home.
2. Know claims history
Ask the seller to provide a home's insurance claim history report. Two companies keep databases used by the insurance industry. ChoicePoint has the largest database called CLUE (for Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange), and Insurance Services Office Inc. maintains the other called the A-Plus (Automated Property Loss Underwriting System).
These reports outline previous fires, flooding and other claims that may have been made involving the home. They can tip you off to potential problems you might not be able to see, said Meehan. Certain problems such as previous water damage could make insurance more expensive on the home or in some cases, make it difficult to get insurance.
The reports must be purchased by the current homeowner. The CLUE report is $19.50 and can be purchased at: tinyurl.com/26m57uo. The A-Plus report is $9 by mail and $13 by fax and available at: tinyurl.com/293slq7
3. Understand what's covered
Homeowners insurance typically covers the structure of your home, clothing and personal items. It also provides liability protection against lawsuits for injury or property damage to others on your property.
Also covered are living expenses in the event your home is damaged and you're temporarily displaced. These coverages often have various limits in standard policies, but can be adjusted by paying more. You'll need to think about levels appropriate for you given your location.
4. Consider special circumstances
Most policies protect you against fire, lightning strikes, wind or hail damage. Losses from vandalism and theft are also typically covered to varying degrees. Other coverages may be included, too. You should check the list of the perils covered by your policy and make sure you understand them.
Flooding and earthquake damage typically are not covered but you can buy coverage separately. You should consider if you're in an area prone to such disaster and weigh the cost with the risk. Also not covered is damage caused by poor maintenance, mold or pest infestation such as termites.
5. Recognize that location matters
When looking at homes, keep in mind location can cut 5 to 15 percent off your premium costs. For example, a home near a fire hydrant may cost less to insure.
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A timeline of Nick Bryant's very boring Thanksgiving Break for Karl Gude's Jrn 203 class at MSU.
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Around 4 I embarked on the 97 mile journey back to East Lansing, thus ending my Thanksgiving Break.
Okay. It's 10 in the morning. I'm heading back to East Lansing around 4. I still have to pack and finish any homework I still have. What do I do? Play Resident Evil until 2 in the afternoon, then start packing.
After pumping iron and working up a sweat and finally feeling like I accomplished something... I decided to go back to playing Resident Evil 5. I beat it, and started again. didn't stop until about 4 Sunday morning.
I told myself I was going to work out every day during break. You can see just how well that went. My brother, Jacob, will be starting his freshman year of high school in the fall, and wants to try out for the football team. He wants me to train him for that. So I decided to start on Saturday. Before we do, my friend Kameron, who may as well be my brother, calls me up to see if I want to work out. So the three of us met in my basement for two hours of treadmill, free weights, and ab exercises. While the equipment was a lot worse than Kam and I were used to, it was a great experience. It had been a few months since I had worked out with anyone, and training someone else is a reward in itself.
Yup. I did my shopping the day after Black Friday. Mostly because I wasn't looking for anything big and elaborate, so the lines weren't worth dealing with. I was looking for the simple dorm room supplies. Paper towel, chips, water bottles. The basics.
After feeling completely lame for playing video games all day I decided to call up some people to hang out for a bit. The first (and only) person to respond was my old friend Lisa. We did what we do best, eat pizza, drink slurpees, and watch T.V.. 4 hours of NCIS.
My 7.5 hour gaming spree left me a wee bit exhausted, resulting in me waking up just after noon. I didn't object to that in the least. I'd rather sleep in then get trampled or shot in 3 hour lines in the mall. So I got up, microwaved myself some mashed potatoes and turkey, and went back to Resident Evil 5.
That entire day consisted of me playing Resident Evil and burning CD's to my computer. Occasionally I would help unload the Black Friday treasures from my parents vehicles, and they'd go right back out, and I'd go right back to Resident Evil 5.
In my dorm room I have a television and a Xbox 360, but both of them are my roommates, and I rarely touch them. I'm not a huge fan of his games. Back home, however, I have enough games to last me months. And it just so happened my brother had bought Resident Evil 5 (a relatively older game) a few weeks before. After waking from my turkey-induced coma I decided I'd start on that. This was just about 9 at night. The next time I checked my phone it was 4:30 in the morning. Night well spent. If you haven't played it, it's not bad, the trailer doesn't do it justice.
Thanksgiving seems to flow the same way every year. My mum freaks out and we clean the house for an entire 36 hours before people are expected to arrive. Relatives show up one by one and bring some sort of dish to add to the feast. And the little cousins decide it's fun to make a mess and try to knock me down. So I spend most family holidays playing babysitter for 7+ younger cousins. That's always fun. I left that day with a couple bruises, cuts all up and down my arms and my right cheek, and a sore back from hours of piggyback rides. It was good to see the family. The turkey-induced coma that followed the family gathering wasn't bad either.
I swear, sometimes I do the most interesting things while I'm home. Cleaning before the relatives arrive. Cleaning while the relatives are there. Cleaning up after the relatives. At least I got to steal some of the cookies before relatives arrived.
If you went to get technical, there were 21 people and 3 dogs. Broken down further into: Myself My 3 siblings My parents My Dad's dad My mom's parents 2 aunts 2 uncles 7 little cousins A great uncle My great uncle's 3 dogs. There was football watching, card playing, and face stuffing, as could be expected.
While hanging out with Mr. Clean and Windex was fun and all, I felt the need to see some living friends of mine, so I went out to hang with my friend Andy. There's something you should know about Andy. He's a gamer. A big gamer. Like a "I'm content with living in my parents basement and playing games for the rest of my life" gamer. So, guess what we did for 5 hours? Now I have no problem with video games. I was a big gamer myself once. But I haven't watched TV all semester. Much less spent hours focused on little moving characters on the screen. So by the wee hours of the morning my eyes were about to pop out of my head.
I did not partake in any of the shopping for or making of Thanksgiving food. However, I was around when my folks came back from grocery shopping. It seemed we weren't making very much this year, because everything was microwavable. Mashed potatoes, corn mush, stuffing, green beans, you name it. And pie. Not a pie. Not a couple pies. 6 pies. 2 pumpkin, an apple, a blueberry, a french silk and a pecan. There wasn't enough room in the kitchen fridge, so the excess groceries were taken to the second fridge. In the basement. 20 feet from my bed. Pies and booze. Nothing but pies and booze.
And by "la Familia" I mean my younger brother. Between loads of laundry would be the ideal time to chill with the family, but everyone was conveniently busy with their own final preparations for Thanksgiving, which would once again be held at the Bryant household. So I spent a few hours with my brother between loads of laundry. And we did what we always do when I come back, our own odd form of mixed martial arts. It's odd in the sense that he's 14, and can't hurt me, but I don't want to bloody him up too much, so I just counter and throw him , and the cycle repeats. Oh, and we fought off the invading horde of zombies. Nothing brings brothers together like some good old-fashioned zombie killing.
Not very exciting, I know, but it's what I spent a good portion of my day doing, so I thought it was worth mentioning. As a college student I am a number of things, two of them being lazy and cheap. So instead of taking the time to find a place to break my bills into quarters and then drag all my clothes to the basement of my dorm to do laundry, I stuff all my dirty clothes in a big, black garbage bag and bring them home with me. There I can do my laundry for free, and at my leisure (the washing machine is 20 feet from my bed.) For this method to be effective, you either have to wear the same clothes over and over for a while, or have enough clothes to last a few months. Luckily for everyone around me, I go with the later option. Last I counted I had 77 t shirts and over a dozen pairs of jeans. As you can imagine, this lead to a lot of laundry over the break. I also caught up with some old friends of mine on Wednesday, namely Mr. Clean and Windex. We spent hours cleaning the bathrooms and scrubbing the basement. Those are the memories that stick with you, I'm tellin ya.
My night was spent doing homework (the only productive night of the break.)
After approximately 97 miles we pull into my driveway. Home bitter home.
Picked up by the father (yes, you read right. I did not bring my van to MSU) and the ride went like this: First half of the trip home= my sister talks about theater related things, my dad doesn't care. Stop at a T.G.I. Fridays in Novi for some dinner. Second half of the trip home= I talk about some journalism stuff, my dad still doesn't care.
Skipped Karl's class so I could pack everything up for my trip home (Sorry Karl.) I was almost going wait to pack because I could have missed something like this.


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5 Ways Computers Are Revolutionizing the Legal Profession
Northwestern University law professor John O. McGinnis, writing in the latest issue of City Journal, explores how the rise of machine intelligence is disrupting and transforming the legal profession.
In the journal, which is published by the conservative-leaning Manhattan Institute, Mr. McGinnis identifies five areas of the law that "face encroachment" by computers:
1) E-discovery is the area "ripest for computational transformation," he says:
Private firms are also beginning to specialize in these sophisticated services. With a combination of computational and legal knowledge, they can innovate more readily than lawyers who are left to their own devices. Last year, Modus raised $10 million to continue its data-driven competition with law firms in e-discovery. Such innovation will render e-discovery more accurate and less expensive, making use of such methods routine.
2) The rise of computation in legal search isn't a "one-time disruption" but "a continuing revolution," he writes:
Lexis and Westlaw still charge for their superior legal search engines, but free search is now available from FindLaw and Google Scholar, among others, and these sites offer more than adequate assistance for many purposes … Today's search capabilities still require people to identify the legal issues at stake in a given matter, but search engines will eventually do this by themselves, and then go on to suggest the case law that is likely to prove relevant to the matter.
3) The automating of legal forms "will take on ever-wider scope," according to Mr. McGinnis:
Already one firm, Kiiac, is focusing on contracts. Kiiac's idea is to evaluate different versions of agreements and determine, through the accumulation of data, the best way to write provisions. With the growing interconnectedness of data, machines can relate specific contracts to relevant court decisions, creating a dynamic for continual improvement of legal forms. A company like Kiiac shows that contracts can essentially become a computer code, rather than simply words on a page.
4) The automation of simple briefs and memos is also over the horizon, the professor says:
In their early stages, machine-made briefs and memos will serve only as rough drafts, even for the simplest matters. Nevertheless, an experienced lawyer could then easily shape a computer-generated draft into a more polished product. As with other advances in machine intelligence, moreover, once programs start being useful, they get more effective over time. That's been true of everything from word processing to speech-to-text programs.
5) Legal analytics are another source of competition:
Analysts can now buy a data set of patent cases compiled by a new company, Lex Machina, to forecast outcomes in patent litigation. More generally, legal-management consultants analyze big data to help companies decide when to litigate, when to settle, and how to manage litigation costs. Companies such as Huron Legal employ analysts with expertise in data analysis. As with e-discovery, these firms will probably innovate faster than law firms in applying the new science to practical legal problems.
Mr. McGinnis says the biggest winners of this transformation will be "lawyers who can use machine intelligence to create an automated large-scale practice."
But for "journeyman" lawyers — those who "do routine wills, vet house closings, write standard contracts, or review documents on a contractual basis" — the prospects are much bleaker, he concludes.


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Parents are often shocked when I tell them that pediatricians think it's a bad idea for children to watch TV before age 2. Surveys tell us about 40% of infants are watching some sort of video by age 5 months, and by age 2 the number rises to 90%.
To answer these questions we have to return briefly to the child's developing brain. Kids' brains grow profoundly during the first 3 years of life, with the brain tripling in mass in just the first 12 months. The stimuli children experience during this period profoundly influence brain development. Images on screens behave in ways that differ dramatically from those in the real world. Because we're all steeped in the visual language of screens, it's easy to forget those differences until we think about them.
Imagine a ball in real life and a ball on TV. Infants are developing 3-dimensional vision. The world of the screen exists in 2 dimensions, so the ball is just a flat, shaded circle. If you roll a ball across the floor it proceeds in a single motion, slowing gradually until it stops. The same action on TV is broken up—you see the ball leave someone's hand, then there's a shot of it in motion, then a picture of the ball at rest. If your infant wants to grab a ball in real life he'll lunge for it, grasp at it, or crawl after it. The stuff on the screen just disappears, to be replaced by other stuff; you can never get your hands (or mouth) on it. Infants may stare at the bright colors and motion on a screen, but their brains are incapable of making sense or meaning out of all those bizarre pictures. It takes 2 full years for a baby's brain to develop to the point where the symbols on a screen come to represent their equivalents in the real world.
Because of this confusion, children up to age 3 learn better from the real world than they do from any screen, especially when it comes to language. They do seem to learn a little more if they're watching in the company of a person who is talking to them about what they're seeing, in the same way you would while looking at a picture book.
So sure, babies and toddlers don't get anything out of watching TV, but if they seem to like it, where's the harm? If a little TV is what it takes for you to get dinner on the table, isn't it better for them than, say, starving? Yes, watching TV is better than starving, but it's worse than not watching TV. Good evidence suggests that screen viewing before age 2 has lasting negative effects on children's language development, reading skills, and shortterm memory. It also contributes to problems with sleep and attention. If "you are what you eat," then the brain is what it experiences, and video entertainment is like mental junk food for babies and toddlers.
The problem lies not only with what toddlers are doing while they're watching TV; it's what they aren't doing. Specifically, children are programmed to learn from interacting with other people. The dance of facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language between a toddler and parent is not only beautiful, it's so complex that researchers have to record these interactions on video and slow them down just to see everything that's going on. Whenever one party in this dance, child or parent, is watching TV, the exchange comes to a halt. A toddler learns a lot more from banging pans on the floor while you cook dinner than he does from watching a screen for the same amount of time, because every now and then the 2 of you look at each other.
Just having the TV on in the background, even if "no one is watching it," is enough to delay language development. Normally a parent speaks about 940 words per hour when a toddler is around. With the television on, that number falls by 770! Fewer words means less learning. Toddlers are also learning to pay attention for prolonged periods.
Toddlers who watch more TV are more likely to have problems paying attention at age 7. Video programming is constantly changing, constantly interesting, and almost never forces a child to deal with anything more tedious than an infomercial.
After age 2 things change, at least somewhat. During the preschool years some children do learn some skills from educational TV. Well-designed shows can teach kids literacy, math, science, problem-solving, and prosocial behavior. Children get more out of interactive programs like Dora the Explorer and Sesame Street when they answer the characters' questions. Educational TV makes the biggest difference for children whose homes are the least intellectually stimulating.
Naturally, children learn more when they watch TV with a parent than if they watch alone. Content matters, a lot. All programs educate kids about something, but stick with ones that are designed to teach children stuff they should actually know.
Regardless of content, cap your child's TV time at 2 hours a day. Remember, too, TV is still TV whether you actually watch it on a TV screen or on a mobile phone or computer.


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When asked by the media after the game about his injury, Miller wanted to only address the hit.
"I'm not going to go into that. I just stuck around because I just wanted to say what a piece of [expletive] I think Lucic is," Miller said to the Buffalo News. "Fifty pounds on me and he runs me like that? It's unbelievable. Everyone in this city sees him as a big, tough, solid player. I respected him for how hard he played. That was gutless. Gutless piece of [expletive]."
Boston ended up winning the game 6-2. The last three goals were scored on the back-up goalie Jhonas Enroth as Miller was pulled after the second period due to "sore neck".
Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff said that Miller was suffering from a "little bit of a sore neck." He was also disappointed that there was only a minor penalty on Lucic.
"I thought it was a major," Ruff said. "I thought if it's open season on the goalies, then let's get at it."
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Luxury, Sure, But Buyers Try For Low Key
The rich are back, spending as much or more than ever on New York real estate, though a bit more discreetly than in the past.
That is the finding of a new report on the strong luxury real-estate market last year, amid signs that the pace of high-end deal making is picking up further in 2013.
The report, by Stribling & Associates, found that co-op and townhouse sales of $5 million or more hit a record in 2012, exceeding totals in 2008, the peak year for Manhattan before the financial crisis stalled sales.
Condominium sales closed in 2012 lagged behind their totals in earlier years, but brokers said that may be due in part to a rush of contracts signed for new luxury condos in buildings that are still under construction.
"While there is no law of nature requiring that what comes down must go back up, the luxury residential $5 million plus market in Manhattan certainly has done just that," said Kirk Henckels, director of Stribling Private Brokerage who prepared the report.
Mr. Henckels said that after the demise of Lehman Brothers Holdings in the fall of 2008, wealthy buyers operated on the basis of fear and only bought when they came across a bargain.
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Now, citing market research, he said the wealthy still want to keep a lower profile, but are willing to spend more on homes and other luxuries that provide value and quality and improve "their personal and family lives, even at full asking price."
This translated into top prices in 2012 for Manhattan co-ops and condos, a shift that some brokers see as a reaffirmation of New York.
Wealthy people who had been buying big places outside New York—in Florida or the Hamptons, for example—are now deciding to stay in New York "and be comfortable and have a big home," said Dolly Lenz, a luxury broker at Douglas Elliman.
Some wealthy international buyers interested in American real estate are looking for something more than value, said Pamela Liebman, president of Corcoran Group.
"Many of them are not just looking at this as a place to dump their cash," she said. "They want a place they can use and enjoy when they come to New York, many of them have family here."
The highest closed sale of 2012 was the $88 million sale of a condo penthouse at 15 Central Park West, on the corner of West 62nd Street. It was sold by Sanford Weill, the former chairman of Citigroup, to the family of a Russian billionaire.
But during 2012, Extell Development reported that two buyers had signed contracts for even higher prices: at least $90 million for full-floor duplex penthouses near the top of the 1,004-foot-high One57, a new condominium under construction on West 57th Street across from Carnegie Hall.
The record high for a co-op was set in November by David Geffen, the music executive. when he paid $54 million to Denise Rich, the socialite for a penthouse at 785 Fifth Ave. near East 60th Street. The top townhouse sale of the year was the $42 million sale of a mansion at 973 Fifth Ave. designed by Stanford White.
Last week, a fourth-floor co-op owned by Adam Clayton, the U2 bass player, was sold for about $8.85 million—about $150,000 over the asking price—at the Eldorado on Central Park West and West 90th Street showing the strength of the market. The buyer was identified by brokers as Bruce Willis; the apartment has seven windows facing Central Park.
Emma Kerins, a broker at Halstead Property who had the listing, said there were several bidders for the Clayton apartment. She said prices were being pushed higher because of a shortage of "good apartments, in very solid buildings with direct park views."
One new element in the market is the strong sales in developments still under construction that are targeted at very wealthy buyers. These deals—about $2.5 billion or more in these luxury apartments may now be in contract, according to reports from developers—but may not close for many months or years.
Last month, two new downtown buildings officially launched sales, and quickly reported very strong results. At 150 Charles St. in the West Village, a condo that combines a converted warehouse with two new 16-story wings, reported 60 of its 91 apartments in contract, with a total value of more than $500 million.
Leonard Steinberg, a broker at Douglas Elliman who is overseeing sales there, said the signed contracts now include a $34 million penthouse.
He attributed the strong sales to the "low-key luxury" favored by the wealthy today. "Crystal chandeliers and marble lobbies are not what buyers are looking for today," he said. "They want rich, warm character."
Farther downtown in TriBeCa, the developer of a 57-story tower of stacked boxes known as 56 Leonard St., announced that buyers had signed contracts for more than half the 145 condos since it officially launched sales last month. Contracts totaled more than $450 million, according to Alexico Group.
"I've never witnessed so much pent up demand," said Kelly Mack, president of Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group, which is handling marketing and sales for the building.


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An Andover Avenue woman allegedly killed by her abusive husband last Monday died of blunt-force trauma, Buffalo police spokesman Michael J. DeGeorge said.
Nedra E. Thomas-Mattox, 38, a mother of three, was attacked by her husband, Antoine D. Mattox, who was arrested in Rochester, DeGeorge said.
According to a Buffalo police arrest and booking form obtained by The Buffalo News, Mattox is accused of killing his wife of 10 years "by beating her with his fists, kicking her and beating her with an iron."
Currently awaiting grand jury action, Mattox, 32, was arrested by Rochester police at a bus terminal last Monday after Buffalo police put out an all-points bulletin seeking his arrest.
Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda said last week that Mattox was seen fleeing from the couple's home at about 1:30 p.m. Monday.
Derenda and Dennis J. Richards, Buffalo chief of detectives, said Mattox was believed to have been on his way to Virginia when the bus he apparently boarded in Buffalo in the midafternoon Monday stopped in Rochester to pick up other passengers.
Thomas-Mattox, police said, had a history of being the victim of domestic violence.
The Mattoxes' landlord found her body in a rear bedroom in the city's Bailey-Kensington neighborhood.
Richards said investigators are still putting together the events that led the death.
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Has anyone ever read a book or manga that has inspired you to make one yourself or do something you rather wouldn't have done? For me it would have to be the american made manga Megatokyo, the book inspired me not only to make my own mangas and books, but also made me hopeful that there is someone out there for me that understands who I am and will well, more or less love me. I know sounds a little too shojo, but still it made me hopeful.
way more like myself and to not care about wat people think and to be careful. um the book was about a boy who turns out to be a girl and his friends find out and they try to be his(her) boyfriend and it's about them trying the whole series to date her =)
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Akira more than many other books made me want to draw comics all the time. So did the Evangelion, Trigun, and Blade of the Immortal manga.