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On November 17, a Department of Game and Inland Fisheries officer picked up a Black Bear cub in Frederick County, Virginia. The cub's mother was reportedly shot, and the cub was observed under a citizen's porch for a few days. The cub appeared to have mange. The cub was taken to the Blue Ridge Wildlife Center on November 17 and transported to the Wildlife Center the following day.
Dr. Peach, one of the Center's veterinary interns, examined the male cub when he arrived. The cub was thin, severely dehydrated, and had areas of hair loss and skin thickening around his eyes and ears. Biopsies were taken for further study.
The rest of the bear's physical exam was within normal limits, and Dr. Peach gave subcutaneous fluids to the cub and started him on a course of anti-parasitic medication. The cub was moved to Bear Pen 1, where he will continue to live until the mange resolves. Once healed, the bear will receive colored identification ear tags and will move to the Black Bear Complex.
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Saturday, November 04, 2006
Another Sunday Scribble, another Memory.
I reach into my secret place of memorable mornings. The morning after giving birth to my daughter, the morning I woke up an honest woman, the morning I awoke a college student in a dorm room in Murray Kentucky, the morning I was driving up US 119 into the Smoky Mountains and the golden sun light dancing through the canopy of trees gave everything the most surreal brilliant glow that it stays in my mind like a magnificent masterpiece.
Perhaps the most dramatic was a morning in Cancun last October. I was not certain if that morning would ever arrive.
My husband and I were vacationing in Mexico when hurricane Wilma arrived. When I use the word, dramatic, I do not use it lightly. We were herded into a shelter the day before the storm was to arrive. The next afternoon, the roof began to lift off, not being able to withstand the growing fury of the wind.
I had a heavy feeling of doom. Panic was rising from my stomach and making its way to my mind as I watched the roof lift and fall showing us the violence in the sky. 2500 of us were evacuated as quickly as possible to seek out other shelters before the storm reached land.
Approximately 25 of us boarded a bus and headed into the storm. We were let off at a school in the heart of Cancun and we ran, being pursued by the trees beginning to loose root, and the 100 miles per hour rain and wind battering us.
We landed in a room with the random selection of 25 other soaked and scared souls. We became close family for the next five days.
We locked ourselves in and waited for Wilma to hit. It was 6pm.
Wilma began her assault on Cancun at 7. The sky turned black and the wind became an unrelenting roar that did not cease for the next 12 hours.
I prayed all night. I used my fingers as rosary beads. We were in pitch black, hearing only the sounds of breathing and the murmur of pray, and the soft offerings of assurance to those most frightened. Evil sounds swirled around the outside. Trees flying into the building, metal sheets disengaged from the shacks surrounding us slammed into the sides of the school, the occasional wailing of an animal, and the most horrifying of all, the sounds of humans still out there.
No one slept. We waited. Waited for it to pass or swallow us.
As morning approached, the wind began to calm. The rain no longer beat against the walls forcing her way into the small room through the wooden slat windows.
A total calm arrived in time.
Morning broke.
And we ventured outside to see what remained. The whole area was under water, the trees tossed about like rag dolls, Stunned local folk came to the school, tentatively at first, then as friends bearing what food they could offer and the little information available.
It was the eye of the storm.
And in time we were forced back into the room for a second siege of Wilma. She was smitten with Cancun and spent another night making violent overtures to her.
We all knew we would survive to see the next morning.
17 comments:
- Ali la Loca said...
How terrifying! The power of nature is something else. You did a great job of recreating what it felt like to be at her mercy.
- Cynthia said...
You are such a good writer. This piece was incredible.
- Donna said...
How well I recall your series of entries on AOL back then. Amazing!
- Robbie said...
I got chills reading this. I don't remember you writing this side of things when you did your original entries. This one has a vulnerability to it. Very wonderfully done!
- Robbie said...
P.S. I love the picture in your title bar. Perfect!
- Paul said...
When I saw the new logo, I started having flashbacks. We booked Cancun for early February. I remember the whole hurricane series vividly.
- AnnieElf said...
That was indeed terrifying. A co-worker of mine was stranded in Cancun as well. They could not get out for 10 days. And it wasn't like didn't try to leave beforehand. They simply could not get out. Definitely not a repeatable morning.
- Wenda said...
So glad you survived to tell this tale ... and so well told, too. I was faint by the end from holding my breath.
- Lisa :-] said...
This description of the night in Cancun was so vivid, I could not only see the violence of the weather, I could feel your dread.
Our Memories of Wilma...
Hurricane Wilma
26 October 2005
Dallas, TX
Dysentery, vomit, sleeping with 1550 of our closest friends, betting on when ceiling tiles would fall, water coming in from the roof and walls, people lining up for the one shower we were allowed to take...all 7.5 minutes of it, hearing building parts being ripped from the building which is a shelter, stoic faces, silent crying, rosary saying, the actual smell of anxiety and fear, leaving suitcases behind, seeing people in clothing stained with feces and urine, clothing that is taken off and discarded rather than taken home to be washed, laughing as hard and loud as you can, giggling like school kids, newly weds stealing kisses when no-one was looking, meeting the nicest people in the world, sharing toothpaste and floss, listening to people ask when the military (the US military) was going to invade Mexico to save US citizens, playing a 6 hour round of cards, imagining you were home, watching people fight for a place in line, no communication to the outside world and wondering what happened out there, hearing nothing when the eye passed, no air conditioning, lighting so low that it was difficult to see, lighting so bright that it was difficult to sleep, people sharing their last cigarette, pieces of gum, breath mints, seeing a man help a downs syndrome child cross the rainy 50mph winded path so the boy could shower, giving up your dignity, your sense of time and days, coughing, snoring, wheezing, watching a woman in a wheel chair being pushed by her best friend to the food line, planning the day to count cots, ceiling tiles, floor tiles, just to have something to do, begging the staff for peanut butter for breakfast, telling things to people that you would never tell to your lover or husband or wife, listening to people cry on each others shoulders, cot neighbors sneaking out of the shelter at 5:30 am to get a ride to Tulum 50 miles south to call their families to ask if a flights can be arranged from Merida, the 6.5 hour away closest city, paying a cab driver $800 to drive you there, getting to the airport at 5:30 PM so you can get in line before others do at 4:00 am, giving a man and his family the cleanest of your dirty clothes as he, his wife and 3 children were told to keep their suitcases in their room which the contents are now floating in the Caribbean, watching the flight crew from a Continental Airliner step off the plane, stepback from the smell of refugees who last showered on Thursday or maybe if they were lucky Saturday night, learn that the only American carrier to shuttle refugees back to the USA was Continental, landing in Houston, relief that you were back in the USA, taking pictures of a sign that said Dallas - Love (Field), phone mail with 25 messages from friends pleading with you to PLEASE call and let us know you are all right, getting e-mail messages from the people with whom you traveled across the Mexican jungle that they were home as well, sleeping for the first time in 120 hours.
And never once was there a doubt that we'd go back.
- A.Roberson said...
What an amazing story! After seeing that you hadn't updated in a while, I thought you were just busy with your husband and child....I had NO Idea!!!, but we're all glad you're ok.
LOVE the new logo!!
Rock on Hippie ;-)
Nicely written. I felt like I was there with you. Glad I wasn't...
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- Nelle said...
I remember eagerly awaiting your next installment when you wrote your entries at the time. I have to tell you that I simply LOVE your picture on the top of your journal. Is that something you made yourself? The license plate on the car is a great touch.
I can hardly imagine what it was really like for you, but you made me feel like I was right there - what a good piece of storytelling this is. Glad you made it home safe!
- Kay said...
A great retelling. It was very real. I love the last line.
- tracifish said...
I love your writing...and the photograph.

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Michaela Davis, 14, had the unique experience last month of celebrating her paternal great-grandmother�s 100th birthday in Roxboro before she passed away March 3, and next week Michaela will be attending her maternal great-grandmother�s 102nd birthday party.
Michaela, of Burlington, understands that not everyone has had the chance to meet their great-grandparents, and that being able to visit both great-grandmothers for several years is extremely special.
But it also was life as usual for the teenager, who�d never known anything different.
�It�s normal,� Michaela said.
A freshman at Southern High School, Michaela said, �In my second period class, they have a �Good News� section,� and she recently shared about her great-grandmother Shirley Crabtree�s 100th birthday, and her great-grandmother Essie Reinhardt�s upcoming 102nd birthday on March 16.
�I feel like it�s crazy for them,� Michaela said, referring to the other students in her class. �I feel like I take it for granted, because it�s all I�ve known.�
Michaela said when she visits Essie at the Homeplace of Burlington, her maternal great-grandmother usually wants to catch up on current events and wants to talk about what Michaela has been up to recently.
�Lately it�s just been school and soccer, because that takes lots of time,� she said.
When Michaela used to visit her paternal great-grandmother at an assisted living facility in Roxboro, it was all about games.
�With Grandma Crabtree, we used to play �Crazy 8�s,� � Michaela said. �She hated �Go Fish,� which is one of my favorites.�
After a while, Michaela had figured out Shirley�s secret.
�Every time she had an eight, she�d scratch her head with the card,� Michaela said, laughing.
She and Shirley also spent their visits watching Duke basketball games, and the centenarian tended to get vocal. A Bushy Fork girls basketball coach for 20 seasons in Person County, Shirley had brought home 17 first-place trophies, said Mike Davis, her grandson and Michaela�s father.
�She still critiqued Duke on the television,� Michaela said. �The language (came) out sometimes,� Mike added.
Both Mike and his wife, Tonya Davis, came from big families and remember regularly visiting their grandmothers � much like Michaela regularly visited her great-grandmothers.
Mike recalled that as a child, his family would visit both sets of grandparents on a weekly basis.
�We would go every Sunday,� he said. �We would make the trek � to visit one family at lunch and one at supper.�
In addition to being a girls� basketball coach, Mike said his Grandma Crabtree strung tobacco and cooked for all the farm workers.
�She�d always say, �A man�s work is sun to sun, a woman�s work is never done,� � Mike recalled. �She reminded us of that at least once a week.�
Like Shirley, Essie was a hard worker, both in the fields and the factory.
Essie grew up on a farm in Newton and planted cotton, corn, peanuts and potatoes. She also worked 45 hours a week at a white glove manufacturing factory, earning $4.25 a week for 40 years.
�She told me I needed to get an education because I�d never make it there,� Brenda Hill, Essie�s daughter and mother to Tonya, said.
Though the two centenarians shared the same extended family and grew up in the same time period, Essie and Shirley had never met before Shirley�s 100th birthday party on February 5.
�That was the first time I�d seen her,� Essie said. �She looked good.�
�For my grandma and Mike�s grandmother to meet was very emotional for me,� Tonya said.
And since Shirley�s recent passing, the photos and memories from the day are even more special to the family.
In a room with four generations of women sitting together, it�s interesting to see and hear what�s been passed down, picked up and inherited � and what�s supposedly skipped a generation.
Brenda said both her mother�s cooking and sewing skills skipped her and were passed onto her own daughter, Tonya.
Tonya�s husband, Mike, argues that only the sewing skills stuck with his wife and that he�s the cook in the family.
Michaela doesn�t talk about cooking or sewing, but when she does talk she punctuates her sentences with the same hand motions her great-grandmother Reinhardt uses. And she�s athletic, like her great-grandmother Crabtree was � though Michaela said she never pushed her to play basketball.
And both Mike and Tonya can see other aspects of their grandmothers in their daughter.
Mike said Michaela�s learned a lot about hard work from both her great-grandmothers and said, �I think that�s why she�s so independent.�
Tonya said that unlike many children who are uncomfortable with or don�t know how to converse with seniors, Michaela seems at home talking to her elders.
�I think they have allowed her to communicate with older people better,� Tonya said.
Added Michaela: �I�ve just learned to work hard because they did so much.�
Living a century
� According to the 2010 Census, 53,364 people in the United States were age 100 or older
� There are more centenarian women; for every 100 centenarian women, there were only 20.7 centenarian men in 2010.
� In the period from 1980 to 2010, the centenarian population had a larger percentage increase than the total population; the centenarian population increased by 65.8 percent, while the total population increased by 36.3 percent
� Centenarian women were slightly more likely to live in a nursing home, while centenarian men were more likely to live with others in a household than any other form of living arrangement
� In 2010, 85.7 percent of centenarians lived in an urban area
� Most centenarians, or 17,444 individuals, lived in the South, but the state with the largest population of centenarians was California at 5,921.
Source: Information gathered from the 2010 Census and �Centenarians: 2010,� a 2010 Census Special Report.


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i Formatted my acer aspire 5742 with windows 7 home premium yesterday but I cannot seem to install any program . i've tried to install norton and java and the installation always stops and tells me there is an error.What should I do?
Any help is appreciated.
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Hello kttyxkat3 and welcome to Seven Forums.
It's possible that your format/reinstall was corrupted in some way (bad disk, computer glitch, etc.) Without knowing exactly what method you used I can only point you to these tutorials for th specific steps that need to be taken:
Clean Install Windows 7
Clean Install with a Upgrade Windows 7 Version
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Sorry i completely forgot about that, although I have a system restore disc I used my hard drive to format the laptop.
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Why did you format and reinstall? You already had major problems?
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sfc /scannow chkdsk/f c:
Reboot and see if there are disk errors. Are there errors? .... repaired?
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Sorry for the late reply, I did the scan and no errors appeared. I get a message saying that any file i try to install is corrupted (Norton,java,games,etc.) Although i somehow managed to install norton it is full of glitches although java seems to be working fine. I have a system repair disc for my laptop but I used the recovery partition to format .Do you think that may have caused some problems?
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What is exact error message?
Do windows updates install succesfully?
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Thanks everyone for your help , i managed to solve the issue.
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my method was with a dvd of vista maybe thats why, but it wasnt difficult at all, and it installs the bootloader right over grub so no errors or anything when booting.
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Thank you for the sample Sil!
This one was really good, a nice caffeine kick. I mostly get notes of malt, woodsy with just a touch of smoke, and slight fruity notes similar to a Keemun that I had recently (but I can't remember which one). The astringency is fairly mild.
To order or not to order, that is the question….
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I have been wanting to try this FOREVER but didn't want to buy 4oz of something that I had never tried before! So now, to figure out which one(s) I want to order from this company!
I have a fascination with tigers, they are just amazing creatures. So of course this is the tea that I brewed up first. It is malty and smooth, a high quality assam for sure. It is bold, however, I am getting quite a bit of astringency. I seem to enjoy my blacks at around 3 minutes, so I will try that next time. I really enjoy this tea and I am guessing that this will be on the order list.
Thank you for the sample Evol Ving Ness!
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This is a delicious creamy oolong. The maple and cheesecake are certainly present, but subdued. I actually appreciate that the flavouring is subtle to let the base have an appearance as well. Really, if I wanted something more robust, I would have reached for a black tea right!
I would definitely order this next time I make a 52teas order (if it happens to be available at the time)
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Since it was so nice on the weekend, I needed a cold brewed white tea, and I very much enjoyed this. It is so summery with peach and vanilla and a little note of caramel. The raspberries somehow didn't make it into my jug, but that's ok because it was still good.. Slurp…..that disappeared quickly!
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I really enjoyed this rooibos. I used the whole sample in my giant bird mug. It was a cold rainy evening and it spruced up my mood!
It isn't too sweet which is what happens sometimes with maple flavoured teas IMO. I didn't get much vanilla but I did detect notes of cinnamon. I would consider ordering this in the fall (if it is available again!)
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Fruity whites will forever be a favourite for me. I also enjoy blending them in fruit smoothies. So healthy!
I really enjoyed this hot, but as it cooled down, I enjoyed it even more. For me, the pomegranate stood out the most, and the guava is in the background. It tastes fairly natural. The flavours are fairly light.
It is also made a very good cold brew!
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No tasting notes on this one yet?
Unfortunately, the day that I drank this was one of those "hurry up and gulp your teas before it gets cold" kind of days and I forgot to jot down my tasting notes. Next time, I will pay more attention.


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The New England Revolution continued their torrid start to the 2005 season and laid an early claim as the team to beat in the Eastern Conference, scoring a pair of goals late in the first half and then holding their ground in the second for a comfortable 3-0 victory against the Chicago Fire on Wednesday night at Soldier Field.
The Revolution carried a two-goal lead into the halftime break on beautiful goals 11 minutes apart from Clint Dempsey and Pat Noonan before a goal from Taylor Twellman -- the 50th of his career -- in second-half stoppage time sealed the victory for a suddenly powerful offensive juggernaut that has scored two or more goals in every game this season, 10 goals in their last three games and won two consecutive road matches with a slew of goals.
New England entered the game in first place in the Eastern Conference with seven points after three games, the best start in their history. In the first half against the Fire on a very blustery night in the Windy City they wasted little time establishing their presence, controlling the early possession though offensive opportunities were limited.
Noonan saw an early effort skim the outside of the right post, and then later he hit a tame shot into the safe hands of Chicago goalkeeper Zach Thornton.
Last year's MLS Rookie of the Year, Clint Dempsey, was at the heart of all the Revolution's dangerous movements in the opening half hour and fittingly he provided the goal as the visitors finally broke through in the 33rd minute.
Midfielder Shalrie Joseph threaded a pass deep into the box from the right hand side to Dempsey, who was marked closely by two Fire defenders. Dempsey stepped through the defenders by flicking the ball into the air, took one step, and ripped a full volley into the top right corner past a stunned Thornton.
The Fire seemed to wake up after falling behind, applying decent pressure on the Revs. A spell of pressure led to a corner kick in the 42nd minute -- which then turned disastrous for the home side.
A drive from the top of the New England area was deflected to Dempsey, who immediately took off on a rampaging run down the right touchline. As Dempsey approached the Chicago area, he slowed down and slipped a ball to James Riley in the corner.
Riley ran onto the ball and unleashed low cross across the length of the Fire goal, where it found its way to Revs forward Pat Noonan who deftly corralled the ball and fired a low, hard shot back across the face of goal and inside the far post.
In the second half the Fire attempted to press, and were largely successful in controlling possession for extended periods, but the Revs appeared to be very comfortable in counterattack mode. While the Fire had numerous solid offensive chances later in the second half, they were unable to get back into the match by solving Revolution 'keeper Matt Reis for that crucial first goal.
Substitute Chris Rolfe provided a spark for the Fire coming off the bench, and after screwing a shot wide of the mark while in almost completely alone on goal, he then did force Reis into a late save in the final real gasp for Chicago.
The icing on the cake for New England came in the 94th minute as Twellman took the ball from just near midfield, marched in and drilled an angled shot from 15 yards past a defenseless Thornton to complete the scoreline.
The Revolution return to Gillette Stadium for the first of four home games over the next five when they take on Chivas USA on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET (FSC). The Fire travel to Columbus where they will take on the Crew on Saturday night (7:30 p.m. ET).
MLSnet.com Man of the Match: Clint Dempsey (New England Revolution)
Toby True is a contributor to MLSnet.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Soccer or its clubs.
New England Revolution (2-0-1) vs. Chicago Fire (2-1-1)
April 27, 2005 -- Soldier Field
Scoring Summary:
NE -- Clint Dempsey 3 (Shalrie Joseph 1, Taylor Twellman 2) 32
NE -- Pat Noonan 3 (James Riley 3, Clint Dempsey 3) 43
NE -- Taylor Twellman 3 (unassisted) 95+
New England Revolution -- Matt Reis, Jay Heaps, Michael Parkhurst, Avery John, James Riley (Luke Vercollone 86), Clint Dempsey, Andy Dorman, Shalrie Joseph, Marshall Leonard, Taylor Twellman, Pat Noonan.
Substitutes Not Used: Connally Edozien, Ryan Latham, Doug Warren.
TOTAL SHOTS: 10 (Pat Noonan 3, Taylor Twellman 3); SHOTS ON GOAL: 6 (Pat Noonan 2, Taylor Twellman 2); FOULS: 8 (Shalrie Joseph 3); OFFSIDES: 6 (Pat Noonan 3, Taylor Twellman 3); CORNER KICKS: 3 (Andy Dorman 3); SAVES: 3 (Matt Reis 3)
Chicago Fire -- Zach Thornton, C.J. Brown (Andy Herron 78), Jim Curtin, Samuel Caballero, Kelly Gray, Chris Armas, Jesse Marsch (Chris Rolfe 69), Ivan Guerrero, Thiago, Nate Jaqua (Chad Barrett 72), Justin Mapp.
Substitutes Not Used: Scott Buete, Leonard Griffin, Will John, Logan Pause, Matt Pickens, Jack Stewart.
TOTAL SHOTS: 17 (Justin Mapp 5); SHOTS ON GOAL: 3 (3 tied with 1); FOULS: 10 (Samuel Caballero 3, Thiago 3); OFFSIDES: 6 (Nate Jaqua 2); CORNER KICKS: 3 (Justin Mapp 2); SAVES: 3 (Zach Thornton 3)
Misconduct Summary:
CHI -- Samuel Caballero (caution; Professional Foul) 14
CHI -- Jesse Marsch (caution; Reckless Foul) 28
NE -- Jay Heaps (caution; Professional Foul) 48
NE -- Shalrie Joseph (caution; Tackle from Behind) 70
CHI -- C.J. Brown (caution; Game Disrepute) 72
Referee: Abiodun Okulaja
Referee's Assistants: -Chris Strickland; Anthony Vasoli
4th Official: Hilario Grajeda
Weather: Partly Cloudy-and-48-degrees
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COBRA - Trade Paperback
The last thing captain Benny Griessel of the Hawks needed, was trouble. Because he might be hitting the bottle again, he's lying to his colleagues and his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor. And moving in with Alexa was a mistake. A rascal of a mistake.
But the guest house bloodbath near Franschhoek was the work of a professional assassin - three victims, three perfect head shots. And it isn't only the the inexplicable engraving of a spitting cobra on the shells - and the looming media circus - that's making Griessel very nervous.
Two of the deceased were lean military types. Special Forces. Or Spooks.
Down the passage, in the last bedroom on the right, are signs of a struggle, and too much evidence that someone was kidnapped. Probably a foreigner
Big trouble..
But the passport is fake, the British Consulate is playing spy games, and the same assassin goes on a shooting spree at Cape Town's Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. Then, the shadowy State Security Agency wants to take over the case, and the Hawks has to hunt down a very slick, very smart and very elusive pickpocket to save their pride - and the democracy.
Maximum trouble.
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Regarding the possibility of future additional content, there's something interesting about the "compartment like" design of some portions of games like Breath of the Wild and Odyssey. In the case of the former it's related to the modular design of Shrines and in the later the Challenge Rooms.
Originally Posted by Panajev2001a
I hope we get a Galaxy 2 style sequel or plenty of DLC, I have not beaten it fully yet, but I know I will want more ;).
Is a positive for developers in the sense that it's a clever design sortcut but it also benefits the prospects of DLC as it takes less resources to make content of good quality. These spaces been isoleted from level and not neccesarily require to be thematically and geographically alined with it means changing it's layout for new content is faster.
In the end is up to Nintendo if they want to offer more advanced Shrines or Challenge Rooms. Resource and time wise there's not much of an obstacle.


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6 large Bramley apples
6oz/175g Demerara sugar mix of dried fruit (dates sultanas, apricots chopped a few hazelnuts without skins)
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150 ml (1/4pint) cider or water
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re-heat oven to 190C gas mark 5 Select 6 even sized new apples without blemishes. Wipe them with a damp cloth, remove core and cut the skin through the centre of the apple with a sharp knife. This prevents the apple from bursting during cooking and you can remove this cap later on before serving. Cream the butter, sugar, lemon rind and ground cloves together in a bowl. Add approximately 2 tablespoons of mixed fruit into the butter and mix well. Divide this mixture between the six apples by filling into the hole left after coring the apples. Put the apples into a greased ovenproof dish. Add the cider or water. Bake for approx 40 minutes until the apples are soft. Baste once or twice during cooking. If the apples are very tart add some granulated sugar or honey to the cider or water and this helps to sweeten the apples. Serve with pouring custard, cream or ice cream and remove the cap if liked
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Want to figure out who is going to win a congressional race? Find out which candidate received the lion's share of tweets in the lead-up to Election Day.
That's the takeaway at the core of a newly-released study conducted by four researchers at Indiana University. The paper stands in stark contrast to other research assessing the usefulness of tweets in assessing public opinion, as well as a number of high-profile whiffs from the Twittersphere.
The study looked at more than 537 million tweets sent between the beginning of August and the start of November 2010, alongside 406 contested congressional elections. "Our results show that the percentage of Republican-candidate name mentions correlates with the Republican vote margin in the subsequent election," the researchers write. "This finding persists even when controlling for incumbency, district partisanship, media coverage of the race, time and demographic variables such as the district's racial and gender composition."
In other words, they found a connection between the number of tweets that included a candidate's name -- relative to how many tweets that candidate's opponent received -- and how the candidate performed on Election Day, as the following chart from the study illustrates. The candidate with the higher percentage of tweets about them overwhelmingly tended to do better. (Read the entire study here.)
The study doesn't include any data about the context of the tweets -- whether they were good/bad, flattering/unflattering, and otherwise positive/negative. This seems to reflect a long-standing view about the importance of name recognition in politics. Getting people to know you and talk about you -- in whatever context -- is a part of finding success in campaigns.
"The relative share of attention compared to the opponent is all that is needed," write the researchers, Joseph DiGrazia, Karissa McKelvey, Johan Bollen, and Fabio Rojas. "This is evidence for the conventional wisdom that 'all publicity is good publicity.'"
It's an interesting study, especially considering that other data suggest a vast disparity between reactions to major political events on Twitter and the opinions Americans expressed in polls about the events.
In last year's presidential election, the tone of Twitter's reaction to campaign events matched the balance of public opinion in random sample surveys only 25 percent of the time, according to a Pew Research Center study.
Some high-profile misses are also illustrative of the challenge of using tweets to reliably project elections. Anthony Weiner's nearly 250,000 mentions on twitter (according to topsy.com) are unlikely to revive his downward spiral in the New York mayoral race – current front-runner Bill de Blasio has received barely 10,000 mentions in the same period. And while then-Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) received wide recognition on Twitter during the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, he failed to win a single contest.
As Twitter has grown into a dominant means of communication and information-gathering, questions about what it means for politics will continue to get asked. And studies like the one from Indiana University will continue to try to answer those questions.
Scott Clement contributed to this post. Clement is a pollster with Capital Insight, the independent polling group of Washington Post Media.


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Monday, April 18, 2011
Cruising the Web
Unions are fighting the entry of Wal Mart into the D.C. market, but they're not that happy with Giant either.
Michael Barone coins another nickname for President Obama - President Whatever.
Tim Carney notes the corporate welfare boondoggle that Obama supports in the tax code to give grants to foreign companies. Helping out special interests, even if they're foreign corporations, is all fine if it can be sold as "green energy."
If the President objects to rich people taking itemized deductions, why doesn't he provide a moral example for us and just use the standard deduction?
Why should the federal government be more interested about protecting the privacy rights of a child abductor than trying to find the child?
Will Republicans still be as enthusiastic for Donald Trump when they hear some of the things that he was saying when he toyed with running in 2000? How about pushing for universal healthcare in a system that resembled Canada's plan? If Romney can't win because of Romneycare in Massachusetts, why should Trump be immune for some of the things he was advocating a decade ago? I just don't get why a guy whose financial history includes bankruptcy is the go-to guy in an election that will focus on how to rescue our country's fiscal picture.
In a few weeks, my AP Government students will be taking their exam. For years, I've been predicting that one of the four essay questions should relate to the effect that the internet has had on politics. That seems to me to be the biggest change in the past decade in politics and it's about time for College Board to catch up. For example, they could check out this headline in today's Los Angeles Times: "Twitter, Facebook and YouTube now crucial to presidential campaigns."
Thank you very much to those who wrote to ask if my family suffered any problems due to the weekend's tornadoes in North Carolina. We were quite lucky and didn't suffer any damage. It just goes to show how random tornadoes can be. My heart goes out to those families who have not been as lucky.
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- ic said...
"we still have fewer safeguards on our own elections than..."
That is a feature, not a bug.
How else do we count those votes from cemeteries, abandoned warehouse,...? A whole lot of experts whose expertise is to create votes, a whole lot of lawyers whose expertise is litigations over new "found" votes, a whole lot of fundraisers whose expertise is to fund raise for recounts, ... will all be unemployed. And a senator or two such as that guy from Minnesota, a comedian who is not funny, an airwave executive and anchor who bankrupted the whole broadcast company, a leech who used to live in luxury on other people's money. It's unfair to expect these people who have no other skills to hold a real job.
- ic said...
"Helping out special interests, even if they're foreign corporations, is all fine if it can be sold as "green energy.""
That is not true. He helped out Petrobra too. As long as his sugar daddies such as Soros who owns a huge chunk of Petrobra, and the connected, such as Al Gore who owns a whole chunk of a tiny Spanish green energy, are happy to kick back (donate?) to him.
- lorraine_lanning said...
I don't understand the flocking to potential candidates such as Donald Trump and Herman Cain. Sure, they have lots of business experience, but neither have held public office or have any kind of foreign policy experience.
The right justly criticized Obama for his lack of experience, why would anyone vote for someone equally inexperienced, even in a poll?
Although he's a Democrat, Colorado's John Hickenlooper is doing it the right way. He was a geologist, then a business owner of a brew pub. He was Denver's mayor for 8 years and is now governor.
I want to see that mix of extensive experience in a Republican candidate. Where is he/she?
- Locomotive Breath said...
No Republican I know is really enthusiastic for Trump. We just like watching some who can make Obama squirm and against whom Obama can't really retaliate.
IOW a diversion upon which Dems waste resources while some more viable candidate plans. Palin is in the same category as Trump.
- muckdog said...
I don't think it's going to be Trump. He's making too much from TV.
- 77kart said...
Betsy, I'm really surprised you are linking to David Weigel at slate. I'm open minded about the Trump candidacy and am willing to go either way, based on facts. But David Weigel is not a credible source.
- 77kart said...
Betsy, I'm really surprised you are quoting Dave Weigel at Slate. I'm open minded about Trump and am willing to praise or condemn him, based on facts. Unfortunately, Dave Weigel is not a credible source. Didn't he casually call conservatives, "ratf!@##@s?" Nor have I seem a shred of redeeming actions from him [Weigel] since he left wapo in disgrace. The enemy of my enemy ... is not necessarily someone I would pay attention to. Regards.
- objectivist said...
Upon inspection, Trump certainly is not as fiscally conservative as he appears. (I'm thinking of the health care plan you referenced and his plans for taxes on imported Chinese goods.) But I wonder if we have a better alternative for the Republican nomination.
The combination of a fiscal conservative, who at least moderately respects personal freedoms, and is a legitimate contender against Obama is not easily found. Certainly not Romney. Probably not Trump. Maybe Huckabee?


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1, 2, 3…
1. Quick! Name the last store you went to where you had an awesome experience—the kind you could hardly wait to tell a friend about.
What was so special?
Take your time.
I'm stringing this out right now while you remember back.
Oh, that was a nice time, wasn't it? I can almost imagine it.
2. Ready? Name the last store you vowed you'd never step foot in again.
What did they do?
To you, or to a friend you were with?
Now that you think about it, were there other signals?
Yes, I hear you.
Wow. All that?
And how many times before had you thought, "I shouldn't come here again," before deciding this was the last straw?
Jeez. That's bad.
3. Confess… Which one did you actually tell someone about?
And how many someones have you told, so far?
Scoring for this quiz is measured in customers gained or lost. Including potential customers, who heard about the companies through your word-of-mouth.
Even though you said, gosh, that was wonderful, I can hardly wait to tell someone, if you're like most folks you probably never told anyone about #1.
#2, you're still mentioning. Not only that, you can still remember every hairy moment, and the three to five trips before that when you should have said never again, too. That's all become part of the story, to give clear proof to your listener why they should also never shop there. (Skip their name, but do share the dirt in the comments!) The awesome experience has sort of faded. Sure, it was great, but for most of you, I'm guessing you can't tell nearly as detailed a story about that positive experience.
The good experience you provide at your office or your store (or even your online experience) is important. In fact, it's absolutely critical.
But let just a few bad customer experiences slip through your fingers, and you'll find out the business-crushing truth: the power of one angry customer can outweigh the joy of a hundred happy ones.
Food for thought.
Let's get a little catty today!
If question #2 got you steamed all over again, I'd love to hear your horror story. (Remember, no naming names. To protect the guilty, we'll need that rule of civility.)
What did the business in question do to get you to turn on your heels for good—and how many people have you told?
Grow and be well,
Kelly Erickson
10 Responses to "I'll Never Go Back There Again! QUIZ"
I'd love to name and shame loads of travel companies who have truly horrific customer experiences. However, those companies just don't care, so no matter how many people I tell, the situation won't change. Don't worry – times are a changing and those companies will not be around much longer.
I'd like to highlight an important message about customer experience you've embedded. The great experience is what your ideal customer expects. It's what they want and what they're willing to pay for. So, unfortunate as it is, why would they thank you and spread the word on something that was 'what they were wanting and expecting?'
Seth Godin calls it being remarkable. Kelly calls it the *maximum* customer experience. Once you're damn sure that you have rid yourself of the bad apples, what are you doing to do to turn it up a notch and make it next to impossible for your prospects to NOT tell others about you?
.-= Andy Hayes | Travel Online Partners´s latest blog… The Most Important Part of Your Online Strategy =-.
Did you go through my e-trash? I actually had that pointed out a lot more clearly and decided to hit "delete" and let it be more implied. Hahaha, so glad you caught that!
Oh, the travel stories I could tell. Just as you say, I expect that some will not be around long because of it. That's the business-crushing truth, eh?
Kelly – I come to MCE everyday for some business-crushing truth. Nothing better than that!
.-= Andy Hayes | Travel Online Partners´s latest blog… The Most Important Part of Your Online Strategy =-.
You wanna get catty?
There was this small motel in Lake Placid.
I used to stay there when I went hiking, once or twice a year. I was a loyal customer. Among dozens of motels, it was the only one I'd give my business to.
Last time I dealt with them, I tried to make a reservation over the phone. I mentionned that I was coming in from out of town, and that I won't arrive till late (midnite). Maybe if I gave them my credit card number, can they leave a key in the door, and I'll do the paperwork in the morning.
The desk clerk said they dont' like to do that, because they've been burned in the past by people who dont' show up. And the next thing I know, they were proceeding to give me shit! Scolding me over the phone, and telling me to forget it. Just forget it. If I'm not going to be there on time, there are no rooms for me. Just Forget it!
I hung up, phoned another motel down the road. Who gladly accepted my credit card, and were perfectly fine with my late arrival.
At that point, I phoned up the first motel. Told them I'd been coming to their place for 10 years. And that their competitor gave me a room when they WOULDN'T. And that they just lost me as a long-time customer.
And I never went back.
That was years ago. But even now, I'm half tempted to GLADLY broadcast that nasty Motel's name as a place NOT to go to.
(Even here, if I know it wouldn't get moderated). 🙂
Aw, shucks. Thanks!
Ah, you didn't disappoint. That is a horror story. Shooing away a customer who's been loyal for ten years is just. not. sane. (Thanks for not naming names, though.)
Isn't it terrible how an experience like that can still make your blood boil years later? The old saying back when I took business and marketing classes was that every upset customer would tell seven friends and colleagues. Now, with the web, we tell hundreds and sometimes thousands (in addition to the seven we still run into in person!).
Plus now, you let your blood boil on a little Internet page, and it's out there in the ether forever. Forever's a mighty long time to be getting negative publicity from bad customer experience!
Until later,
P.S. You should go about two hours south. My parents will put a key out if you even hint at being late. They love their guests but there is no *way* they're staying up for you, LOL.
Not a business, per se, but how about a TV show? Just a couple of weeks ago, I vowed (literally) never to watch a certain crime scene investigation show based in a hot tropical (rather than hot arid) city again after the episode where (spoiler alert) the killer ran a steel cable from a golf club tied to the top of a lifeguard post down under the sand to a beach volleyball court where the intended victim just happened to be playing and was killed when a blue-sky bolt of lighting electrocuted him.
'Course I should have by all rights packed it in after the episode when the wife shot the husband, but it turned out she really shot his secret twin brother, but then it was her secret twin that really did the shooting, and (here's the kicker) her baby wasn't actually hers, but her secret triplet's kid. When online dictionaries start using YouTube to give definitions, this episode will be there to explain the word "contrived".
It's like the writers and producers are sitting there going "You're stupid". I finally got the message.
Haven't seen the offender in question. By the time I got to the triplet, I was laughing out loud. If they were playing that for laughs, it would be perfect.
Sounds like it's just waiting for Saturday Night Live to do a parody of it.
"Hey stupid" is the easiest way to get me to run screaming from a show, too. Good call.
SNL doesn't have to touch it — it's already parodying itself. It's like that employee who wants to see how far he/she can push it before getting fired.
Maybe that's exactly what's happening…


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The Final Push, 70 years of Liberation
More than 100 militairy trucks, along the same route the Allieds went 70 years ago to defeat the Germans in my hometown Groningen....!!!
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My late Father-in-Law finished his combat role in the Nederlands, somewhere east of Groningen. His unit, part of the 50th Northumbrian Division was withdrawn and returned to the UK prior to being sent to the Far East to fight the Japanese. The war in Europe ended as he was passing through the Bay of Biscay and he saw out the rest of his service, until he was demobbed in Italy.
He joined either (not sure which at the moment) the Durham Light Infantry or the Green Howards. He was sent to North Africa and took part in a number of engagements before moving on to Sicily and from there up the leg of Italy before being returned to Britain in preparation for D-Day.
From there he landed on Gold Beach and after eventually moving north was in the XXX Corps follow up to Operation Market Garden and ended his D-Day adventure on the Dutch-German border.
During his time in the army in northern Europe he was in The Green Howards, Durham Light Infantry, machine gun section of The Manchester Regiment, The Cheshire Regiment, and The East Yorkshire Regiment. It's possible he spent time with the Essex Regiment as he once mentioned being with "a load of Southerners". He also seems to have served in two different anti-tank batteries. All this was due to the high casualty rate the division took and companies were often merged with others. We took my in-laws to France on a number of occasions and I noticed that he became very thoughtful at certain points in the holiday. I often wondered what, or who he was thinking about.
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Thanks for the post and the video Peter. Great stuff.
I'm not sure the modern police bikes had a place though, they being BMWs
These were all American vehicles whereas I'd have thought the Brits would have liberated your home town. Can you clarify? (yes, I expect my history to be wrong, the ground war isn't covered all that well and I'm an air nut anyway)
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The Canadians liberated the northern part of The Netherlands, as far as I know...
But don't take these parades to seriously, all makes and sorts of military vehicles can join in...as long as they are made in the correct period...
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We have our annual ANZAC parade which commemorates all Australians who have fought, but when it comes to vehicular parades, we only get historic/vintage/classic car parades where the military vehicles are just a small part of them. Although our soldiers/airmen/sailors played a major part in the world wars, our country was lucky enough not to have been invaded although the Japanese had a damned good try and numerous bombing raids hit the northern parts of Australia. Then there have been the conflicts since. As a species, homo-sapien really does have to find a better way of resolving conflict.
We do have historic military vehicle groups here, I'm now going to have to chase them up and see how they operate. It's funny that my interest in Land Rovers started with my time in the Army Reserve and the military Landy's but the one I'm restoring is a Series 1 which our armed forces didn't use (it's very much a farm truck)
I'm enough of a history buff to enjoy it, but sadly not enough of one to know the fine details. I'd be jumping up and down on the sidelines if a parade like this came to town, just like I am every year when we have the Bay to Birdwood historic/classic car parade.
Tell me, do you have historic air shows? That'd REALLY have me jealous.
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Yes we do have historical airshows, in fact, it's very near where I live, and it's held every two years..
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Starting with a Spitfire is pure evil Peter
And there were Tiger Moths later on.
Then that aerobatic glider (something I've yet to see in real life dammit).
Great display. Those wing walkers are seriously brave.
It's been a few years since I've been able to get to an air display, but I'm pretty sure we don't get quite that variety except in the eastern states. You are soooo lucky.
One thing I've been pleased to see on recent internet videos are the German WW2 fighters. Yes, I know the Germans were the 'baddies' but that's no reason to ignore the machines they gave to the world's history.
Land or air (sea is a bit problematic I guess, not many people restoring battleships or U-boats), I think it's appropriate to restore and remember the kit that was used, by all sides.
That's not to ignore the behaviour of some of the people involved - some were heroes, some were pure evil, there's no need to laud evil. The machines themselves are different and allow us to reach across political divides.
Ironically, as I type this, there's a show on telebox about the Christmas football matches on the Western Front in 2014 where soldiers on both sides defied their superiors, met on no-man's land and played football (the Germans won apparently).
But point me at an aeroplane and I get all sooky. I'm marginally better when it comes to Ferraris or (sorry) MGs. Learning to love Fiats again. I owned a 128 Sport in the 80s and one of our trips included a Siamese cat and a trip from Adelaide to Sydney to Brisbane and back to Adelaide again - said Siamese used to lie across the dashboard with the heater blowing onto his tummy with his head hanging over the edge where he could watch the speedo needle flicking (because a steady needle was a thing of fantasy).
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Why do we cry when famous people die?
David Bowie's death has received many column inches in newspapers around the world. Radio and television have given the man wall-to-wall coverage.
I have met rock artist and commentator BP Fallon on a few occasions so when he was talking on radio about David Bowie after his death I did sit up and listen. It seems Madonna tweeted that she was 'devastated' to hear of the death of Bowie. Maybe they had met on a few occasions but it doesn't seem that they were close friends. Facebook was deluged with lesser mortals expressing their 'devastation' at David Bowie's death.
His private cremation was interesting. All the famous people, who could have been there, complete with shades, never got a chance. Nor were any of his fans able to show their pain. Maybe I have no heart, no soul, no feelings but I am confused about how people can get so upset about the death of someone they did not know.
I mention David Bowie because he is the most recent world famous person to die. I admit that the death of a handful of people whom I might have followed on the world scene may have made me think for a moment but I have never been devastated or broken-hearted. The death of former English politician Tony Benn in 2014 caught my attention as he was a man I greatly admired but not for a moment was I 'devastated'. Or when a pope dies why do people seem to get so upset? Since I don't have relationships with famous world figures how in heaven's name can I get upset about their deaths?
It's sad to see anyone, anywhere die. You turn on the radio and you hear of someone losing their life in a road accident. Of course you are sad, it's terrible to hear such bad news. But how can you be 'devastated' by such news. To watch people being killed as a result of war and famine certainly pulls on the heart strings and it is a terrible scandal. But again, how can I be devastated when I have never met the people or been in any sort of relationship with them.
When my mother and father died I was devastated, broken hearted. I hope this does not sound horrible but I was also greatly upset when Jessie my labrador dog died. I had lost a soul companion. She knew me and I knew her.
Journalist Brendan O'Connor said that he cried when he heard of David Bowie's death. Maybe it is that David Bowie's music built bonds between him and his fans. Music certainly brings people together, it builds bridges, so perhaps that could give some explanation to the outpouring of such grief. But I'm still not sure I'm convinced. Is it that the media plays tricks with our feelings? It's more complicated than that. But it certainly is a puzzle for me. Has it something to do with how we use words?
Has it something to do with giving power to people? We are always talking about living in liberated times. But maybe we want to be slaves to our masters. Is there something in our psyche that wants us to look up to people? Do we like having someone to 'worship'? Or maybe we simply admire talent and then lose the run of ourselves?
In preparing this column I discussed it with a friend. Her comment was: 'I would agree with you-except about Bowie.' She went on to say that Bowie was a 'spaceman', 'a separate life-form'.
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CARTAGENA, Spain (Reuters) - Spain will ask the European Union to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization against Argentina for seizing control of energy company YPF, which is majority owned by Repsol, a high-ranking government source said on Wednesday.
The source did not wish to be named and gave no further details.
Madrid has threatened economic and diplomatic "consequences" for Argentine President Cristina Fernandez's decision to nationalize 51 percent of YPF owned by Spanish oil major Repsol.
EU foreign ministers will debate how to deal with the Spanish-Argentine row at a meeting on Monday.
Spain will also decide its own measures against Argentina at a cabinet meeting on Friday, the source said, while the European Parliament will discuss the dispute between Spain and Argentina on Wednesday.
However, Madrid may find it hard to put pressure on a nation that has been shut out of world debt markets and has ignored international fines in previous disputes.
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The film is written by John Gatins and Dan Gilroy and directed by Jordan Vogt Roberts. It is produced by the producers of super hit film "Godzilla". Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni and Mary Parent have produced it under the banner of Legendary Pictures and Tencent Pictures. Warner Bros. Pictures has taken the distribution rights of the film to release it world wide. The film will release on 10 March 2017 worldwide.
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The Yellow and Mauves managed to secure a point against the Porcupine for the first time at the T and A Park
Asante Kotoko's leading scorer in the First Capital Plus Premier League, Ahmed Toure made the headline for the wrong reason as he missed from the spot kick to deny his side a famous away win against Medeama who have been unbeaten at home this season.
The home team enjoyed greater part of the ball possession in the first 45 minutes but failed to create clear goal scoring opportunities in the half.
Resumption from the half time break, Kotoko made an incursion upfront with Ahmed Toure beating his marker and with Muntari Tagoe to beat the goalie stood tall to save the situation.
The game was more of midfield battle with Hans Couffie dominating play for Medeama.
Despite Tarkwa lads being slightly ahead of the league champions, the best chance of the day fell the way of Kotoko, when the centre referee awarded a penalty in their favour, but Ahmed Toure's resultant spot kick flew over the bar to give the home team a big sigh of relief.
Medeama have therefore gone 11 home games this season without a defeat: have won 7 and have drawn 4.
Kotoko are still undefeated in the hands of Medeama in the league since, they beat Kotoko in 2010 at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium as Kessben fc.
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President Who Sees in Absolutes Awaits Voters' Definitive Answer
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
PENSACOLA, Fla., Nov. 6 -- These are trying times for President Bush. On the last day of the last campaign that will affect him directly, he came here as a favor to his brother on behalf of the Republican candidate for governor. Only the Republican candidate for governor skipped the event. Too busy, he said, to be with the president of the United States.
So it goes these days. Bush shrugged it off and delivered a robust speech, firing up a crowd of Republicans and defiantly predicting victory. Any doubt he may harbor, he kept to himself. Any feelings of regret are locked tight inside. The rest of the world may see an unpopular president in the midst of an unpopular war. But Bush soldiers on. He does not publicly stew as other presidents have. He powers through event after event as if he were still the leader the country rallied behind after Sept. 11, 2001.
To his critics, it sometimes seems as if Bush lives in his own world, oblivious or unwilling to accept the shifting reality around him. His is a world of absolutes. "I view this as a struggle of good versus evil," he said the other day about the war with terrorists. To Bush, that is strength, not weakness -- the certitude of conviction, the power of principle. He's "the decider" in a business afflicted by equivocation and thumb-sucking.
Few deciders have gone through such a period in which the decisions seemed so out of their hands. He told North Korea not to test nuclear weapons, but Pyongyang detonated a bomb anyway. He tells Iran to stop pursuing nuclear weapons, only to have Tehran thumb its nose. He orders generals to find a way to stabilize Iraq, but bombs and bullets claimed more U.S. lives in October than in any other month in two years.
Now the voters are the deciders, and it's a verdict Bush can no longer influence. They will decide whether to give him back a Congress that stands by him more often than not or to turn over at least one house to the opposition to force change. Bush insists he's not worried. But at least one person who saw him in private a few days ago interpreted his body language to mean that he did not think Tuesday will be a great day for him.
Bush woke up Monday at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., and was briefed by strategist Karl Rove on the shifting races. Rove told reporters later that of 20 recent polls in critical places, 16 had moved in the Republican direction and three were flat. "I knew we were going to finish strong," Bush said here.
Bush is not a nervous election-eve politician, obsessively poring over precinct-by-precinct reports, but he can be edgy or impatient and understands what is on the line, according to associates. As he embarked on his last day on the trail, Laura Bush came along, a calming presence during moments of pressure.
The president and his staff were offended by the last-minute snub by Charlie Crist, the Republican candidate to succeed term-limited Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. The White House scheduled the stop here in the conservative Panhandle as a favor to Jeb Bush entirely for Crist's benefit. But Crist decided to go elsewhere in the state. The White House schedule Monday morning still listed Crist as introducing the president.
Rove did not hide his consternation: "Rather than being with the governor and the president and 10,000 people in Pensacola, they made a last-minute decision to go to Palm Beach. Let's look at the comparison. Let's see how many people show up in Palm Beach on 24 hours' notice versus 8,000 or 9,000 people in Pensacola."
The president was left with a rainy-day rally here for no one. The local congressman does not face a competitive race and the Bush brothers are estranged from Rep. Katherine Harris, the GOP Senate candidate, who polls show losing in a rout. Harris was given a three-minute speaking slot more than an hour before the president arrived and was not on stage during his appearance. Bush mentioned her only once in passing.
At times, Bush appears confounded by the political problems confronting him. He is absolutely certain that, as he puts it, "they're coming after us," meaning terrorists, but does not understand why many others do not see it with the clarity he does. "I am in disbelief that people don't take these people seriously," he told National Review and other conservative outlets last month.
That conversation provided a glimpse into Bush's aggravation and isolation. One participant, Lawrence Kudlow of CNBC, told Bush that he has supported the war but was discouraged and looking for hope.


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NBCC Reads: Alex Ross on Doctor Faustus
by Mark Athitakis | Nov-14-2012
As part of our NBCC Reads series on favorite books about music, we asked Alex Ross---a 2007 winner in criticism for The Rest Is Noise---for his choice. He responded with Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus, and a choice passage from the book:
"It seems to me…that despite the logical, moral rigor music may appear to display, it belongs to a world of spirits, for whose absolute reliability in matters of human reason and dignity I would not exactly want to put my hand in the fire. That I am nevertheless devoted to it with all my heart is one of those contradictions which, whether a cause for joy or regret, are inseparable from human nature."
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Film of Ryo Rex. The premiere took place in 2014, with a production coming from USA. You can watch My Deja Vu online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
Rating: 5 by 10 users./
Runtime: 13 minutes
Paul Coster, Zoey Diaz, Mark Register, Lisa Roumain and Katie Savoy.
Short film, Science fiction.
13-minute film (full movie) directed by Ryo Rex.
The original audio of My Deja Vu has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2014.
Screenplay written by Ryo Rex.
Ryo Rex and Jackie Gomez.
Composed by Henrik Åström.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie My Deja Vu has a duration of 13 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in EnglishDolby Digital in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
See the page of this full movie, My Deja Vu in FULLTV Movies.