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Great fun!
Loved every essay and story in this book!
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Posted February 20, 2010
we enjoyed this fun book
Most people are familiar with Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but did you know that there were a couple of other sequels? One was Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and the other is this short novel in which Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder, as narrated by Huck Finn. It is a satire of the immensely popular detective novels of the time.
Tom's Uncle Silas, a preacher in Arkansas, is doing poorly because a rich neighbor, Brace Dunlap, wants to marry Tom's cousin Benny, and she said no, so Brace is trying to stir up trouble for Silas, who hires Brace's no account brother Jubiter to work for him in an attempt to smooth things out, although Silas and Jubiter are constantly arguing. Aunt Polly sends Tom and Huck on a steamboat down the Mississippi to help cheer Silas and his family up. On the boat, they meet Jake Dunlap, Jubiter's long lost twin brother who had become a criminal and was assumed to have been killed many years before. He and two other men have robbed a diamond store in St. Louis, and he has sneaked off with the diamonds, but the other two men followed him on to the boat, so he is now trying to escape them. His plan is to go home to his brothers and pretend to be a deaf-mute.
On the day Tom and Huck arrive, Jubiter Dunlap disappears. He later turns up dead, Uncle Silas is accused of killing him, and there is a trial. Will Tom be able to save his uncle from hanging? We did this as a family read aloud, and everyone enjoyed it. In the "Dover Evergreen Classics" edition, the word "nig*er" is replaced by "Negro." I had to do a little further editing because of some common euphemisms and a few instances of taking the Lord's name in vain. There are also several references to tobacco and smoking. Otherwise, this is a fun book. In 1938, the story was made into a movie directed by Louis King, with Billy Cook as Tom and Donald O'Connor as Huckleberry Finn.
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Mum Meg will never forget the moment she had to kiss her newborn daughter goodbye.
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After delicate surgery to remove the valve, Sharlize was put on life support for five days as her condition teetered from bad to worse and then bad again.
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|(Updated 9:15 p.m.) Elmwood softball wins NBC title (5-20-13)
|Written by By JACK CARLE Sentinel Sports Editor
|Monday, 20 May 2013 19:01
JERRY CITY — There were plenty of smiles as the sparkling grape juice and the cameras came out Monday afternoon at Elmwood High School.
After the Royals defeated Rossford, 14-3 in a game called after 4 1/2 innings due to the mercy rule, the Northern Buckeye Conference trophy was presented to the team, currently 12-1 in the league.
It was also senior day for the Royals. If those things not enough cause for celebration, it was the 300th career victory for head coach Matt Hoiles, who is in his 14th year at Elmwood. Hoiles was doused with ice water after a postgame interview.
''It means a lot, especially my senior year,'' said Elmwood's Katie Bottesch about the league title. ''We worked really hard for it.''
''It feels amazing. I haven't participated in a game in softball where we have won a championship, so this feels awesome,'' said Elmwood senior Tori Hillard.
Against Rossford it was the usual M.O. for the Royals — hit the ball all over the field and run the bases aggressively.
Led by Bottesch, Elmwood banged out 13 hits while scoring 14 runs. Seven different players had at least one hit in the game for the Royals.
Bottesch was 4-for-4, including two doubles, and six RBI to pace the Royals.
Also for Elmwood, Olivia Myers with 3-for-4, with a triple, and two RBI, while Madison Arnold and Hillard each drove in two runs and Chelsie Schmitz had two hits.
''We just had to come out strong after the Eastwood game (a 4-2 loss last Thursday) and that's what we did,'' Hillard said.
The top three hitters in Elmwood's order — Brittany George, Myers and Bottesch — were a combined 8-for-10 with eight RBI and 11 runs scored.
''They're the best team (in the NBC),'' said Rossford head coach Tom Kralovic. ''One through nine they have the best hitters ...They were going to hit the ball, I just knew that they were.''
Hoiles was pleased seniors George, Bottesch, Hillard, Ragan Yarnell and Jenilee Myers were able to win the NBC title on their home field.
''To do what they did to win the league outright, they came out and showed that they wanted it,'' Hoiles said.
Rossford took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on Lyndsey Skala's RBI base hit.
In the bottom of the first, George doubled, Myers tripled and Bottesch doubled to get things started. Myers, Bottesch and Rebecca Harvey each had an RBI as Elmwood took a 3-1 lead.
The Royals scored five times in the second inning with Bottesch and Hillard each driving in two runs.
The cavalcade on the basepaths continued with three more runs in both the third and fourth innings for Elmwood.
In the third, Arnold drove in two runs and Bottesch had one RBI. In the fourth, Bottesch finished her afternoon with two more RBI and Myers drove in a run.
Skala hit a solo home run in the fourth inning, clearing the fence in right-center field, and Maggie Leahy had an RBI single in the fifth inning for the Bulldogs.
''Them scoring early did not surprise me. Rossford has a good hitting team and Tom does a great job,'' Hoiles said.
''It was fun today,'' Hoiles added. ''Getting on the board and staying on the board every inning was very good for us.''
Skala was 2-for-3 for Rossford with a home run and two RBI.
Elmwood's Miranda Benschoter pitched a four-hitter, striking out seven and walking the first two batters in the game.
Elmwood, 21-5, plays Gibsonburg Tuesday afternoon at Bowling Green High School in a Division III district semifinal. Game time is 5 p.m.
Rossford is 20-7 overall and finishes 10-4 in the NBC.
''I wanted the girls to watch (the postgame celebration) to see what it's like to win a championship,'' Kralovic said. ''We were in it to the last game and everybody is back, we have no seniors.''
ELMWOOD 14, ROSSFORD 3, 5 innings
HITS — (R) Skala 2, Lahey, Jackson; (E) Bottesch 4, Myers 3, Schmitz 2, B. George, Arnold, Harvey, Hillard. 2B — (E) B. George, Bottesch. 3B (E) Myers. HR — (R) Skala. RUNS — (R) Keller, Gauthier, Skala; (E) B. George 4, Myers 4, Bottesch 3, Yarnell 2, Harvey. RBI — (R) Skala 2, Lahey; (E) Bottesch 6, Myers 2, Arnold 2, Hillard 2, Harvey. HBP — (E) B. George (by Longeway), B. George (by Gauthier); Yarnell (by Longeway); Yarnell (by Gautheir). LOB — Rossford 4. Elmwood 5.
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MarbitChow wrote:CroverusRaven wrote:Also, is it possible to remove his sword and shield and give him big arms? Just curious.
It's no XCom alien, but would this be an acceptable new look?
I love it
MarbitChow wrote:CroverusRaven wrote:Also, is it possible to remove his sword and shield and give him big arms? Just curious.
It's no XCom alien, but would this be an acceptable new look?
No. Only units and structures adjacent to the Target, and between the Target and the Firing Unit can grant a Cover bonus.tigerusthegreat wrote:Question regarding blocking in this enclosed terrain Do units not adjacent to the archer or target but in between them count as blocking for the shot, and provide a +4 defense bonus?
The corridor is actually N12/13, so I assume you mean L11. L11 would be able to reveal some of the additional corridor, but you'd really need a unit at L12 or M12 to see down the entire way.tigerusthegreat wrote:Question regarding LOS: what squares can see into the N11/12 corridor? would L 10 be able to see into it?
If no other players have any objections, we can consider all of the PCs in the tunnel to have cautiously retreated. The golems do not react if this action is taken.Nnelg wrote:And on the topic of Meta, nobody outside of the tunnel has had a clear view of what's happened yet. So, unless anyone has any objections... Can we move the game forwards to the next round? If those golems aren't going to advance by themselves, we can start forming up for the assault.
tigerusthegreat wrote:Best option seems to be retreat and end turn guarding tge door and contacting our leadership.
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LTDave wrote:Wegio watched as the Kitty Cat and the Foolamancer squeezed past, and rolled his eyes at Whump and Zed2.
"I don't know about you boys, but that song did not sound good to me. And those puppy dogs are bigger than the three of us put together. Might be time to go."
tigerusthegreat wrote:That sounds incredibly dirty....
GJC wrote:Two guys with basically the same name in a discussion about a character getting cloned.
There's gotta be a good joke in here somewhere.
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MarbitChow wrote:Nnelg wrote:In pursuit of this, I must know your intentions. If you are an enemy of the elves, then speak so plainly.[/b]
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LTDave wrote:If Nemo is in the tunnel, can he see down the passageway to the right?
If not, can he slink forward enough to do so?
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Colorado State hosts former WAC member UTEP on Saturday Sept. 28 at 3:30 p.m. ET, and the game will be shown on CBS Sports Network.
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There's a guy Jessie Hernandez who is actively working on namespace implementation for PHP: http://news.php.net/php.internals/17304
It's pretty amazing...
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There's a guy Jessie Hernandez who is actively working on namespace implementation for PHP: http://news.php.net/php.internals/17304
It's pretty amazing...
Yes, but I am still waiting for their reply on my ideas/comments <g>
Don't know if I'd go so far as to call it amazing, but it's definitely promising :). We've tried working around it with things like using/import() and __autoload to define where to find classes, but this would be so so so much better.
Looks exiting..... keep it working...
You won't give up with your quest for namespaces will you....
.... Ruby has namespace /module support ;)
Heh :) I already had class names clashes with PHP 5.1 spl and was forced to append useless prefixes...Quote:
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Yeah, i know, i spent the last night admiring Ruby specs...Quote:
.... Ruby has namespace /module support ;)
Really?? Is there anything that Ruby doesn't have, or isn't capable of? Can it make me a cup of coffee huh?Quote:
Ruby has namespace /module support
Didn't think so :D :p
Well, Ruby isn't capable of being a pretty language :goof::)
How did I guess you were gonna leave a response to that comment! :PQuote:
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Ruby doesn't have a totally stupid company called "Zend" screwing the language up ;)
That's a bit daft to say. Read a rails app, then read a PHP app. You'll see what's more elegant and more expressive. We are trialing Ruby for new work at work, and as it stands Ruby needs only a small fraction of code, it's more readable and we will be able to work about 2-3 faster (well it's not quite that fast yet as the boss and I are still learning certain things)Quote:
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What do you mean by @@more_readable!? :D
P.S. Python also has namespaces, y' know. Lots o' them. And Java too (it calls them packages). And C++. And C#. And probably other languages I know nothing about.
Oh common, not again. People, stop talking about Ruby. It's getting old.
OK, I think we all get it. Ruby is good. So what ? So is Python. So is Perl.
We are talking PHP here.
For those who don't realise the only reason I jokingly brought up the topic of Ruby was because I was discusing Ruby with pachanga a while back before I started learning / using it, and he jokingly asked 'has it got namespace support?' over MSN as I know that pachanga has a lot of woes with PHP5 dropping namespace support.
Had it been anyone else, I wouldn't have mentioned Ruby seeing as it looks like it turned into a swear word here (Maybe the the moderators will replace it with stared '*'s for us ;) )
OK Let's start using C++ ;)Quote:
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Of course that is more readable thanCode:
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::std::cout << staff->getName();
or even (just so we don't leave PHP out ;) )Code:
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I'm sorry, but I find that a lot more expressive than the other examples you've posted.PHP Code:
if ($person instanceOf Staff) echo $person->name;
But let's not all get silly on this now...
I'm watching your posts from now on ;) Btw, it is a lowercase 'p' you need to use for the smillie :p (see what I mean?)Quote:
How did I guess you were gonna leave a response to that comment!
Dude, don't forget Java ;) :Quote:
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Method myMethod = person.getClass().getMethod("getName");
Sorry for this other post but apparently it appears it can be written like this:
Oh it's a good thing I don't use/know Java. What a farce! It's hardly much (if at all) more readable than the C++ version. I can see myself loosing my sainity when I go to uni and get forced into the evil world of Java.Quote:
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Hmm... dude, go out, see the world :) . Are you telling me C++ templates are more readable than the Java reflection api ? Sorry, but you're just religious about it. Oh yeah, you like @@more_readable languages :p.Quote:
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No, I just detest Java with a passion. Java seems so pointless to me. Java has failed to replace C++, after all they seem to have given into using C++ idioms that they once frowned upon, such as Templates / Generics. Java just seems a totally unnatural language. For a start, why does everything need strict static typing in a bytecode / "scripting" (I use the term loosely here language loosely as it's not used as a scripting language, but used in places where scripting is used commonly like web development) language.Quote:
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Java is a bloat. All the tools and downloads you need to get to use it are huge and cumbersome when you compare it to PHP, Python, or Ruby.
Hmm, flame...
Java has failed to replace C++
It wasn't meant to replace C++
...that they once frowned upon, such as Templates / Generics
Generics are not templates. Please note I know what I am talking about.
Java just seems a totally unnatural language
I could say the same thing about Ruby
For a start, why does everything need strict static typing in a bytecode / "scripting" language
For security. Because it is general purpose. And any oppinions you might have here are highly debatable. Also note that unlike C++ Java is semi-dynamic. Also, Groovy kicks as* and there's also Jython and also many other scripting languages build on top of Java.
Java is a bloat.
Can you build Java on top of Python or Ruby or PHP ? No. Also, not very healthy to have such an oppinion towards the world's most used enterprise language.
Sounds good, looks good. I posted a similiar concept some months ago in my blog (http://blog.siteartwork.de/?sectionid=2) - I'd be glad to see that it works :)
Java style namespaces aren't that good for PHP. A better approach would be Python style modules, where a namespace is associated with a directory:
I like them allot. Very clean.
In regards to post #14, by MiiJaySung, I find the PHP the most readable. Fair enough, I am not a Ruby developer, but here are 2 good reasons why I find this:
- You have the condition after the action. In the mindset of a programmer, it is usually the other way round (ie. if condition is true, print person name).
- The question mark after the ?, adds to the confusion.
However, I think anyone (with appropiate OO knowledge) would understand the PHP code.
It could be biased, or simply my opinion though.
Highlly debatable and innacurate your point of view. Don't forget everyone thinks in the language he knows.Quote:
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A 718-page digital document obtained by Mother Jones contains names, phone numbers, neighborhoods, and alleged activities of thousands of dissidents apparently targeted by the Syrian government. Three experts asked separately by Mother Jones to examine the documentessentially a massive spreadsheet, whose contents are in Arabicsay they believe that it is authentic. As Bashar Al-Assad's military continues a deadly crackdown on dissent inside the country, the list appears to confirm in explicit detail the scale of the regime's domestic surveillance and its methodical efforts to destroy widespread opposition.
The document does not contain any identifying government markings. But the experts consulted agree that its organization and contentwhich they say is striking in scopeare characteristic of lists used by intelligence services in the Middle East. A link to the document, which surfaced in mid January in discussions about Syria on Twitter, was provided to Mother Jones by a self-described hactivist who tweets frequently in Arabic and English, and whose identity is unclear. A redacted sample of the document is below; Mother Jones is not publishing the full document or revealing the names of individuals in it because we cannot definitively confirm its authenticy nor predict how the document might be used if more widely disseminated.
But the experts who examined the document say it shows what many observers have strongly suspected: In addition to relentless bombing of cities such as Homs and Hama, the Assad regime is tracking down thousands of its own people for interrogation, coercion, or far worse. Joshua Landis, a scholar on Syria who has consulted for the State Department and other US government agencies, said he thinks the document merges the records of several Syrian intelligence agencies in order to better coordinate the crackdown. "This is what a secret service does," he said. Actions allegedly taken by individuals in the documentsuch as setting up a roadblock near Homs, or issuing instructions about how to attack a Syrian military outpostare "the kind of thing that people get whacked for all the time, or at least tortured for."
According to Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syria expert and fellow at the conservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the document contains the names of people wanted by the government's military and security services. It lists many of them with specific contextthe year of their birth, names of their relatives, and descriptions such as, "he leads rallies in the Sakhaneh neighborhood." The list also includes military defectors, and their units and ranks, Abdulhamid said. "This kind of info on this scale cannot be available to the general public, or faked."
The hactivist who alerted Mother Jones to the online document said that it was posted by members of an activist organizing committee inside Syria, but declined to provide any details confirming that, citing security concerns. It's conceivable that the document involves deception by the Syrian regime or counterintelligence operations by its adversaries; the United States, Israel, and other Western powers are known to have run sophisticated covert operations against Syria and Iran for many years.
Andrew Tabler, a Syria expert and fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, agrees that the list appears to be authentic, despite that there is no way to know for sure. "The way it's organized looks similar to other documents I've seen," he said, citing a hit list he saw when he was in Syria in 2006. (That list, he said, also did not contain identifying government markings.) "It organizes people in such a way that it would allow the security services to be able to track them down." Tabler also said the document is longer than any he's previously seen; it allows the Syrian government to "more effectively round up these folks and choke them off as part of the crackdown."
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Newburyport Daily News
---- — It was in May 150 years ago that Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee made the fateful decision to invade the north with the Army of Northern Virginia.
He aimed to capture or at least threaten Washington and force President Abraham Lincoln to sue for peace and recognize the Confederacy.
Lee's decision led to the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg. Over three days, from July 1 to 3, 1863, more than 50,000 men fell on those Pennsylvania fields and hillsides, more than in Korea or Iraq or Afghanistan and almost as many as in Vietnam.
The bloody battle forced Lee to retreat to Virginia, beginning the inevitable trek to Appomattox and surrender.
Today, as we observe Memorial Day and honor all those men and women who gave their lives in service to their country in all our nation's wars, we pay special tribute to those whose sacrifice at Gettysburg 150 years ago preserved the Union and our freedom.
Gettysburg is inextricably entwined with Memorial Day. The day was originally called Decoration Day, as the day when survivors of the Civil War dead decorated their graves with flags, flowers and other tokens.
In November 1863, Lincoln spoke the words that made immortal the sacrifice of those who fell at Gettysburg five months earlier and made clear why we observe a memorial day.
Lincoln's words still resonate because they are not only a tribute to the fallen but also a stern reminder to "us the living" of the debt we owe to them and our obligation to dedicate ourselves to defending the cause for which they fought and died, our nation's freedom.
We reprint Lincoln's address here this Memorial Day in honor of the dead of Gettysburg and of all our fallen warriors and as a reminder of our responsibility to them.
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."


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By Jamie Wachter / Sports Editor
The Meridian Star
When Gelese Lampton nailed her sixth 3-pointer with 13:32 remaining Wednesday night at Graham Gymnasim, the Meridian Community College women's basketball team was right where it, apparently, didn't want to be.
That bucket gave the Eagles a 53-34 lead against Miss-Lou Conference foe Southern-Shreveport. Armed with the seemingly insurmountable lead, MCC relaxed and the Jaguars pounced. Using an immediate 17-2 run, Shreveport battled back and rallied for a 69-67 road win.
"We just got relaxed and we talk daily about how you can't get relaxed when you get a lead, you have to continue to attack the other team and put them away," MCC coach Jocelyn McGillberry said.
"But we relaxed and once Shreveport got a little confidence, there wasn't anything we could do about it."
After the 3 from Lampton, Shreveport scored six straight before Malaka Johnson scored on a putback to push MCC back up 55-40. From there, though, three straight MCC turnovers helped spur an 11-0 run that brought the Jaguars back to life. Alexis Glasper had two straight baskets to spark the run, while Shreveport also got 3-pointers in the run from Rene-Ceah Beard, Tytionna Pratt and Trianna Wilridge.
Lampton answered the run with her final bucket with 7:34 remaining and following a Kristen Sampson basket, MCC's lead was back to eight. That was the biggest it would get the rest of the way as Shreveport continued to close. After pulling with 63-60 on a Glasper bucket with 4:11 remaining, Shreveport missed two straight chances to make it a one-point game and then former Meridian High star Reyada Stinner looked to give the Eagles the momentum it needed.
The 5-foot-X sophomore point guard grabbed a defensive rebound and after driving the length of the court, shifted the ball around her back to the opposite hand while driving the lane and finished over a pair of taller Jaguars to put MCC up by five with 3:13 left.
The Eagles, though, wouldn't score again until the final horn sounded. Instead, they continued to turn the ball over, finishing with 20, and also missed five free throws in the final nine minutes of the game, including three front end of 1-and-1s in the final 3:30.
"The past two practices have been like that," McGillberry said. "After our last win, those two practices, we've been too relaxed. And I've told them how you practice is how you play, and unfortunately, it was."
With MCC stalling, Shreveport capitalized. The Jaguars clawed back within three on a Pratt basket with 2:12 left and then Wilridge drilled a 3 to tie it with 48 seconds remaining. After MCC missed a pair of shots, Pratt was fouled getting the rebound with 15.7 seconds left and hit two free throws to put Shreveport up 67-65. It was the Jaguars' first lead. Wilridge added two more free throws with eight seconds left. Wilridge and Pratt both finished with 23 points to pace Shreveport, with Pratt hauling in 10 rebounds as well.
Lampton poured in 30 to lead Meridian, which falls to 12-6 and 1-1 in the Miss-Lou. The sophomore, who also finished with nine rebounds, had 22 at halftime as she pushed the Eagles to a 37-24 lead at the break. Stinner assed 10 points and 10 assists.
Shreveport 78
Meridian men 57
The Jaguars held MCC scoreless for nearly the first four minutes Wednesday, building up a 6-0 lead and cruised from there.
Shreveport gradually pulled away from the Eagles, who fell to 0-19 and 0-2 in conference, in the first half in leading 42-34 at intermission. MCC did make a run early in the second half after the Jaguars went up 50-29 on a Donald Francis 3-pointer at the 16:23 mark.
Limiting Shreveport to just one bucket over the next five minutes, MCC closed within 52-38 as Nick Waters, a former Meridian High standout, started the run with a bucket. TJ Jones, who led the Eagles with 22, then scored four straight before Kenny Davis hit a free throw and a bucket.
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The war in Vietnam ended in 1975, for some. But for Vietnam's gay community, it still continues, whether they be at home or abroad. Though the Southeast Asian country recently had its gay pride and the current government is hearing a debate on whether to legalize same-sex marriages, historically and culturally, homosexuality still remains taboo.
As Dr Natalie Newton, a Vietnamese-American anthropologist whose parents migrated to California, points out, homophobic Vietnamese call homosexuality a Western disease while Westerners called it a Vietnamese disease, specifically during French colonialism of Vietnam.
'Frenchmen claimed that Vietnamese women were so ugly with blackened teeth from betel nut chewing that this "forced" colonials into engaging in homosexuality under the influence of opium.'
Newton, whose dissertation analyzes how the global LGBT human rights movement interfaces with the local lesbian community in Saigon, has embarked on an online project. The Viet LGBT History Campaign aims to 'bring visibility to the contributions of LGBTs in Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American history'.
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by LindainCincinnati, Wed Feb 08, 2006 at 10:24:45 AM EST
They continue Politicizing any event for the Bush administration. I am sick and tired of their lack of respect and dignity.
Now they are politicizing Corretta Scott King's funeral by trying to make something out of speeches given by Democrats. They can't even find their way to being balanced on a funeral service. They try to put down President Carter or Rev. Lowery for their speeches, but I don't hear any mention of that personal dig by Bush Senior.
How dare the media politicize the King funeral this way. I don't care if they're acting on Bush's behalf or their Corporate CEO's. President Carter knew Corretta S King. He gave a speech close to her lifes work and the Media is politicizing their families sadness for their own personal gain.
CNN, FOX and all others owe the King family an apology
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Sin City, The Mist and Scream are all heading to the small screen, courtesy of The Weinstein Company...
Robert Rodriguez is hard at work on the eagerly-awaited second Sin City movie, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. The movie was originally due in cinemas this year, but has been put back to a release in August 2014 instead. That means it'll follow the first movie by nine years, but you won't have to wait too long after that for further on-screen Sin City adventures, it seems.
That's because The Weinstein Company is reportedly mulling over a Sin City television spin-off, which would follow the cinematic release of A Dame To Kill For. Both Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez are involved in the television production.
The Weinstein Company also has the television take on Scream on its slate, A pilot for that is underway for MTV.
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University shuts down student mock prison camp
Members of the Washington University chapter of Young Americans for Liberty erected a mock Soviet prison camp, or gulag, in front of the Women's Building Monday morning, but were later told by a representative from Event Services to disassemble the display.
The University said in a statement Tuesday that the students had not mentioned the display when requesting the space and built the display using power tools without permission and without oversight from the facilities office. YAL members said the display was not in violation of Event Services' policies and that while the students did use an automatic drill, Event Services did not specify in its policies that students could not use power tools.
"We feel that this was more of the administration and faculty getting upset about the display than it was about safety issues," said junior Dirk Doebler, president of the University chapter of YAL.
YAL members built the mock gulag to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and to condemn Soviet communism and socialist regimes. The display was a four-sided wooden structure with fake barbed wire on top and Soviet Communist propaganda posters on its sides. A large sign on the structure read "Peaceful Justice Social Reeducation Clinic."
Several students who were dressed as prisoners stood inside the mock gulag, some of them with fake blood on their clothing. Other YAL members who were dressed as Soviet soldiers patrolled around the structure. Students played Russian opera music at the display.
YAL members at the display also handed out fliers to students that detailed the history of gulags and included a passage on resisting tyranny.
After the students had finished building the display, a representative from Event Services told them they had to disassemble it.
The University statement said the display was shut down because it had not been approved and was unsafe, not because it was controversial.
"The University has a long history of accommodating disparate and often unpopular points of view and continues to support the rights of its students and faculty to express their differences and opinions, as long as the venue has been reserved, described accurately and deemed safe and free of physical risk to themselves and others," the statement said.
Sophomore Emily Piontek, a member of the YAL who posed as a prisoner in the mock gulag, said the main purpose of the display was to raise awareness about problems with Soviet communism that are connected with the Berlin Wall. Piontek said another reason for the display was to raise concerns held by some members of the YAL that U.S. government health care reform is bringing America closer to socialism.
"I think it was mostly about the Berlin Wall, but I think certain policies that are going on today and certain things in the government, and mostly the health care plan, were reasons that we wanted to host the event," Piontek said.
But James Wertsch, the Marshall S. Snow Professor and director of International & Area Studies, said that the emergence of communism and socialism are not big issues today and that new forms of nationalism are currently greater issues for America.
However, he said that it was appropriate for YAL to commemorate the gulag since huge numbers of people suffered in these prison camps.
"If I would have stopped and talked to them and seen that it was a gulag exhibit I would have been interested, but for the reason of commemorating it, not because I'm afraid that communism is coming back," Wertsch said.
John Burns, an area resident who is not a student but who is involved with the Washington University YAL and participated in the display, said he felt the University censored students in a manner similar to Soviet communists.
"I guess the students at Washington University were in a gulag all along, and the administration proved it through their stifling of free speech," Burns said.
With additional reporting by John Scott
Here is another article, from KMOX, "Students against socialism turn heads at Washington University", http://www.kmox.com/pages/5635175.php?
This article quotes some Russian students who were offended by Russian stereotypes and the targeting of Russia instead of China or some other officially socialist or communist country.
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Here is an article from STLtoday, "Gulag gets the heave-ho at Wash U demonstration,: http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-grade/higher-education/2009/11/gulag-gets-the-heave-ho-at-wash-u-demonstration/
The article quotes Washington University Event Services:
"The Young Americans for Liberty chapter did request space for Nov. 9 on the Women's Building lawn, but only indicating that they planned "a small service and moment of silence" as well as to hand out pamphlets at the site. No mention was made of constructing a display, particularly one of significant proportion that could present risk to those building it, as well as to those in the immediate area. Power tools were used without permission and without facilities office oversight.
"The students were not asked to disband or discontinue their approved activities, but they were asked to remove the structure that they did not have permission to build on this site."
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Richard Markel: "I mean, I'm against almost everything YAL stands for"
You are against liberty?
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I just heard more about the Mizzou Speaking Circle, from an alum, who tells us that free speech is really practiced there, especially lively criticism of the University Administration, at top volume. Let's start this here, and everywhere, without further delay.
We can't let Mizzou put us to shame, can we?
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Check out this link. It shows what the administrators were saying before shutting down the event: http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/12/undercover-video-university-political-officials-shut-down-gulag-memorial/
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Maybe the gulag was a little extreme, but there really isn't any doubt that this was taken down because it rubbed someone the wrong way. No power tools? Please. I've built structures for Thurtene that a 5 mph wind could take down. While Devil's advocate has a reasonable point, they went through the proper channels and got approval. Someone didn't agree with the message, and decided to shit on it. Luckily for YAL, that kind of holier than thou attitude is bound to generate some internet press these days.
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Wow. America is turning into a gulag, eh. Someone should give these morons a good beating, that'll be a good simulation of a gulag
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Hey clown,
It wasn't russian opera music, it was communist paul robeson singing the russian national anthem. Clown.
Further, as emily eloquently states, why didn't they just shut it down immediately then? Hmmm?
And why oh why did they allow the same crew to deconstruct what had been constructed.
If it is dangerous to construct it is just as dangerous to deconstruct.
It was censorship, clown. Deal with it and stop being an apologist for the man.
Just further proof that Wash U students are sellouts to the "Man."
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Emily, fabulous point. I hadn't considered that. You're exactly right. If there was a public safety issue, then why didn't they stop the erection (giggle) immediately.
and just to be clear, ain't NOBODY that can stop an erection faster than Wash U admins.
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I find it very interesting that several WU security officers stood by and watched the Gulag being built without intervening in the name of safety, and then waited three hours to shut the event down. If event services was truly concerned about the safety of the YAL members, why didn't they stop the erection of the structure, or take it down themselves, considering that the students used the same "dangerous" materials to take it down?
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what was done was wrong. however, its done.
just follow the policies they stated, and rebuild it. don't wait till next year, just re-file the forms, and rebuild.
and if they won't let you rebuild just stand in areas in costumes they can't keep you all from doing that.
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This was certainly not a free speech issue, considering the university has allowed far more controversial things. I would be worried too if someone built a structure on my lawn without telling me about it, even if i knew they would have an event there.
The structure may have looked sound to some people, but looks can be deceiving. Unless you were there observing the construction, you may not be sure of the structural integrity.
As for the idea that WashU is a gulag, please. No one's been dragged away without trial and forced to work inhumane jobs. It's very insensitive that YAL chose to use a gulag more to advance their own political agenda than to commemorate a solemn event.
As for the fake blood, I really just have to wonder about their taste. Gulags were already terrible places; there's no need to sensationalize them.
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Wait a second–if the University shut it down, doesn't that make them Ronald Reagan?
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I would venture to guess that the take-down notice had more to do with the fact that they'd built a free-standing wooden structure and put people underneath it than the fact that they used power tools. Would the university have preferred that they lash the whole thing together with duct tape? Event Services did what they were supposed to do – you can't have students putting up a structure with people under it (even if though it was pretty safe looking) without some kind of oversight. ES just didn't do it well, since their policies weren't clearly articulated and they (presumably) didn't oversee the deconstruction. That's bureaucracy for you, but there are reasons for it, and I really don't see any evidence to say this had to do with the message of the display itself. Event Services had its hands tied even without that. If the display had been a lemonade stand, I suppose it might not have attracted the attention of ES in the first place, but putting people underneath wooden construct really is grounds for the University to worry about being sued, whether the danger was particularly grave or not.
It just doesn't seem appropriate to start accusing the University of censorship when there really were legitimate reasons (albeit somewhat needless ones) for the building to come down. If YAL does the same thing next year, following whatever the policy might actually be, I strongly suspect that the opposition they'd face would be that of the students who disagree with their message, and not anything resulting in their display being closed down.
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I facepalmed so hard when I saw these kids on the lawn.
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Okay, glibertarians, chew on this. That patch of grass you built your mock gulag on? It's private property. Not yours, not public property, but the University's. Because that land is private property, the University's got fairly broad latitude to prevent you from using it in ways they don't want. (And I don't remember signing any contract with the University that permits me to erect slapdash fake prison camps on any part of their property.)
And as for University policy, I don't have any problem with, "Hey! Don't build elaborate structures whose collapse could endanger people without clearing it with us first, okay?"
This is not remotely a free-speech issue. "Stifling of free speech" is when police pull you off the street and you're never seen again because you expressed unpopular viewpoints, not when Event Services freaks out because the University would be liable if your pretend gulag fell down and hurt someone.
P.S. Russian opera music? Really? Vodka is Russian too, but that doesn't make it Communist.
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Reasonable is a clown. Your line of reasoning is ludicrous.
The whole point here is that the university is being entirely INCONSISTENT.
Were the "powertools" (we're talking about an electric screwdriver) and materials unsafe, then why didn't the university demand that the school facilities take down the structure?
As it was, the students were allowed to do it themselves – with the same "unsafe" tools and "unsafe" materials.
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I am a long-time human rights activist and former employee, and I have firsthand knowledge of the safety measures mandated by other student groups using power tools on campus–namely the Thurtene Honorary and the hundreds of students who build facades according to specific codes every April. When a student is hurt building a facade for the Carnival, the Honorary is to blame. But when someone is hurt as a result of no standards employed for a political demonstration, who will be sued? This is a rare example of Event Services doing the right thing by being consistent.
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While I totally disagree with the messaging of the event (which could have been reported on more accurately here), I am disturbed that the University decided to shut down the display. While the protest certainly espoused controversial and unpopular perspectives on American politics, this is no reason to shut down the event. I can only guess that some found the display offensive for its violent content and the University was surprised by the elaborate nature of the display and decided to intervene.
I would like to point out, as should be obvious from the picture but is misreported in the article, that the banner on the gulag reads "Peaceful Social Justice Re-Education Clinic." I was not sure how to interpret this banner, and many others (including StudLife) seem to have been confused by the messaging of the event. Depending on how the banner is interpreted, its presence on a gulag full of bloodied students could have sinister and threatening implications. Was this YAL's intent? If so, cause to shut down the event?
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Having worked in event services, I can say that there is no such policy. I think this event was awful for other reasons, but this is just a total pretext by the university to silence speech, much as they do on the Palestinian-statehood issue as well.
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From the event services website: "The policies for the outside spaces are currently under construction. Feel free to contact Event Services for more information on these spaces."
So that's a problem. But at the same time, if there really is a policy against unapproved structures (and there probably is), then Event Services did what it was supposed to do, even if it came across looking like censorship.
I disagree with the last paragraph in this article and with the first comment, but that's an entirely different question, unless there's some proof I'm not seeing that Event Services did anything other than react poorly to a miscommunication. In all likelihood, though, it's the miscommunication that's the issue here.
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I honestly think the University is entirely wrong on this one. I mean, I'm against almost everything YAL stands for, although I'm going to side with them on this issue. Having stood and talked to a friend of mine who was inside the structure, having examined the edifice up close for about fifteen minutes, and having three years of drama set design and construction experience under my belt I can only say that structurally that thing was sound. I was actually legit-impressed by how much work went into building that thing and that view is entirely unchanged by the fact that I think the group is wrong about everything.
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I'd like to see the specific policy (and if it exists, where it is posted) that Event Services says YAL violated?
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My knowledge of this is based entirely on the coverage in this issue of Student Life, in your News and Forum sections. Based on what I have read, I do not think this should have been shut down. The stated reason–, the safety of students–, sounds like a pretext. Although I object to some members of the YAL equating health care reform with the abuses of Stalin, I support their right to free speech and expression.
I appreciate good political theater, and the lively expression of unpopular views, as long as it does not become mean spirited. As far as I know, that line was not crossed.
Mizzou has a Speaking Circle, an outdoor forum next to their library, surrounded by benches and bulletin boards, at which free and spontaneous speech is encouraged, and practiced. This is very popular, I hear from an alum. Why don't we try this here?
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Why does the administration does not support students????? seems like administration does not understand the core and values of our students; why does NOT student union stand up for students instead of having meeting and passing stupid resolution! We need student leaders who stand up for students.
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When Philadelphia Magazine this month ranked the top 100 public schools in the Philadelphia area, both Lower Merion High School and Harriton High School made the top 5.
Using graduation rate, test scores, student/faculty ratio, spending per student and other factors, the magazine ranked Lower Merion No. 2 and Harriton No. 5. Rounding out the top 5 were Masterman in Philadelphia (No. 1), Unionville (No. 3) and Conestoga (No. 4).
So we ask students, parents, teachers and taxpayers:
- Are you impressed by where Lower Merion's schools ranks? Are you surprised?
- Do you think of Lower Merion as better than Harriton or vice versa?
- Taxpayers: do you feel you get your money's worth from the school district's performance?
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This project will replace the existing at-grade signalized intersection at Hwy 36 and Hilton Trail with a grade-separated diamond interchange. The north frontage road (60th Street) will be extended over the Gateway Trail. The Hwy 36/Demontreville Trail intersection will be converted to a ¾ intersection and a reduced conflict intersection—which is also known as a J-turn—will be constructed just east of the intersection. The median crossing at the Highlands Trail intersection will be closed. When complete, allowable movements will include right turns from eastbound Hwy 36 to Highlands Trail and right turns from Highlands Trail to eastbound Hwy 36. Shoreline protection will be established on the south end of Long Lake adjacent to westbound Hwy 36. The vision for Hwy 36 is to improve safety and traffic flow while reducing the amount of through traffic that may be cutting through residential areas.
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Ross students identify public firms that hold promise of generating significant value for private equity investors.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—A six-member team of graduate students has won the latest round of the Michigan Private Equity Investment Competition at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
The winning team consists of MBA students David Kase, Vishaal Rana, Rachel Weingrad, Chris Wolohan and Xu Yao, and engineering student Raj Pandravada.
The competition, which is in its third year, challenges Ross students to identify public firms that hold promise of generating significant value for private equity investors. The top two teams in the contest share $10,000 in prize money.
Fifteen teams from Professor David Brophy's private equity finance class searched out companies that represented compelling public-to-private plays. They analyzed the firms' financial performance, operational strengths and weaknesses, corporate culture, management and competitive position. And each team used its research in a formal buyout proposal that consisted of detailed analyses, an investment thesis and a recommended capital structure for the deal.
Recently, two finalist teams made formal presentations to a group of private equity and venture capital professionals assembled by Brophy, director of the Ross School's Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance. Members of the winning team, which proposed buying a Kansas-based cement company, split the $7,500 top prize. The runners-up recommended a buyout of a hydraulic valve manufacturer in Florida and received $2,500.
Two Michigan alums have been instrumental in the Private Equity Investment Competition from its inception�David Evans, chairman of Chicago-based Glencoe Capital (www.glencap.com), and
Alan Gelband, president of New York investment-banking firm Gelband & Company (www.gelband.com).
The student teams are directed to develop proposals that would be a good fit for Evans' firm�and he is deeply involved in scrutinizing and evaluating their pitches and underlying assumptions. Gelband provides the competition's prize money�from a business school scholarship he established 15 years ago.
The participants said the competition provided an invaluable hands-on lesson in business analytics, finance strategy, deal execution and devising and defending a business plan.
"It's the most practical class you could have," said MBA student Brian Stearns, a member of the second-place team.
Pandravada said the project provided students significant experience in research and analysis.
"I learned the value of information�and teamwork," he said. "It's been extremely valuable. I hope to (work in private equity) in a couple years."
That's music to Brophy's ears.
"We're trying to get young people geeked about working in this direction," he said. "It's a springboard. The private equity market is enormous globally. This is what's going on in the country and the world today. It's a business model that's finally getting wide and broad acceptance."
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A special prosecutor was appointed this morning to handle a murder case in which the victim had relatives working in the county court system.
Gerald Little, 60, of Princeton, appeared for a status and motions hearing in Mercer County Circuit Court before Judge John Hrko, the senior status judge assigned to the case. Little was arrested in March 2012 after the murder of Jerry Buckner, 57, of Princeton, who was found at his home on Honaker Avenue. Little is facing charges of first-degree murder, first-degree robbery and burglary. Buckner was the brother of former magistrate and sheriff Harold Buckner.
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Ed Bibb, who serves at the Raleigh County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, was assigned to the case, according to information at the Mercer County Circuit Clerk's Office.
A motion for a change of venue was not addressed today. A hearing about that motion was scheduled for Feb. 28. Little waived his right to a trial during the current term of the Mercer County Circuit Court. The new term begins in late February. Little is currently at the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver.
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'Opportunities multiply as they are seized' -Sun Tzu
One of the biggest mistakes people make is spending too much time looking for the big opportunity or the perfect timing to do something. The over-used axiom 'Patience is a virtue' is irrefutable. But it is equally true that 'he who hesitates is lost'. Seize the opportunity.
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3. Weed out worry.
Earl Nightingale wrote about what he called the 'Fog of Worry' and provided an authoritative estimate of what most people worry about.
* 40% of the things you worry about will never happen.
* 30% of the things you worry about couldn't be changed by all the worrying in the world.
* 12% of your worries are needless worries about your health.
* 10% of your worries are about petty, miscellaneous things.
* 8% of your worries are about real and legitimate concerns. In other words, 92% of your worrying is a complete waste of time.
Here's one last thing in closing.
Keep in mind that opportunities don't disappear they simply move on to next recipient. An opportunity that comes your way is probably an opportunity that someone else procrastinated or passed on. If you pass up on a good opportunity someone else will capitalize on it.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Seeking to quell a public backlash, the U.S. Department of the Interior dropped the White River last week from a new federal program that recognizes conservation and recreation efforts along waterways.
The decision to rescind the National Blueway designation for the 700-plus-mile river, which flows through southern Missouri and parts of Arkansas, had the support of opponents and one-time backers alike. Opponents said the designation, given in January, could lead to new regulations or land seizures. One-time backers said the dispute could make landowners resistant to voluntarily cooperating with conservation efforts.
The Interior Department had received two letters from one-time Blueway backers requesting that the designation be lifted. One was from six Arkansas state agencies, while the other was from two conservation groups — the Arkansas chapter of The Nature Conservancy and Ozarks Water Watch.
"In light of requests received from local and state stakeholders to withdraw the White River and its watershed from the voluntary National Blueways recognition program, the Department has withdrawn the designation," Jessica Kershaw, a spokeswoman for the Interior Department, said in an email.
The National Blueways System was created in 2012 and is part of President Barack Obama's America's Great Outdoors Initiative, a program intended to promote outdoor recreation in national parks, wildlife refuges and other public lands. The designation doesn't include new regulations.
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To tap bond market:The CMD of GAIL (India), Mr B. C. Tripathi, addressing a press conference with the Director Finance, Mr. R.K. Goel, in the Capital on Monday.
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New Delhi, Aug. 2
GAIL (India) Ltd has reported a 35 per cent increase in its net profit for the first quarter of the current fiscal, as it transported more natural gas and LPG as well as made more revenues from marketing margins.
The company's net profit for the quarter stood at Rs 887 crore against Rs 656 crore in the corresponding previous quarter. GAIL has registered an increase of 18 per cent in turnover at Rs 7,096 crore (Rs 6,039 crore).
This is despite the heavy subsidy burden which GAIL had to share along with ONGC and Oil India to partially compensate the public sector oil retailers. GAIL has shared Rs 445 crore towards domestic LPG and PDS Kerosene subsidy in the first quarter (Rs 75 crore).
Net Sales
Addressing newspersons after the board meeting, GAIL Chairman and Managing Director, Mr B.C. Tripathi, said: "The net sales from natural gas trading during the first quarter increased by 17 per cent to Rs 5,452 crore and revenue from natural gas transmission business rose by 22 per cent to Rs 897 crore."
"During the quarter GAIL's revenue from LPG transmission increased by 8 per cent to Rs 114 crore and the net sales from LPG and liquid hydrocarbons business increased by 14 per cent to Rs 781 crore," he said.
About GAIL's fund raising plans to meet its capital expenditure requirements of close to Rs 40,000 crore in the next three years, Mr Tripathi said, "We are going to raise $150 million via external commercial borrowings (ECB) by the end of this fiscal." The company has got the Board's nod to raise a total of $500 million through ECB in tranches.
Besides, for the first time the company plans to tap the bond market. GAIL is planning to raise Rs 500 crore via bonds in January with a green shoe option of 50 per cent having a tenor of 7-10 years.
The board has also approved raising Rs 1,250 crore loan from HDFC Bank, he said. GAIL plans to double capacity of its petrochemical plant at Pata from 5,00,000 tonne per annum for Rs 8,200 crore in next 36 months.
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by Ron Allen, Peru Town Historian
Nestled between the Adirondack Mountains and Lake Champlain, the Town of
Peru was formed from Plattsburgh and Willsborough on Dec. 28, 1792. A part
of it was annexed back to Willsborough in 1799 and the towns of Ausable and
Black Brook were taken off in 1839. Its present boundaries are the towns of
Saranac, Schuyler Falls and Plattsburgh on the north, the towns of Ausable
and Black Brook on the south, Lake Champlain on the east and the town of
Black Brook on the west. The area of the town is approximately seventy-nine
square miles. Some of the early settlers thought that the mountains
surrounding the town resembled those of Peru, South America. Hence, the
origin of the town's name. The earliest concentration of settlers was in an
area called the "Union", a Quaker settlement in the vicinity of the present
Keese Homestead and Quaker Cemetery on what is now Union Road. These early
Quaker settlers or "Friends" as they preferred to be called, were mainly
farmers and came from Dutchess County, N.Y. and previously, England. Some
of the family names of those pioneer settlers still abound in the town
today: Allen, Arnold, Baker, Elmore, Everett, Hay(s), Keese and Thew, to
mention a few.
John Cochran has the honor of being the founder of the present site of Peru
Village about the year 1795. He built a house and a grist-mill on the banks
of the Little Ausable River. Harvesting abundant timber became Peru's first
industry and resulted in several saw-mills being built along the river. A.
Mason & Sons lumber mill, located in the heart of the village, flourished
for nearly a century, from 1883 to 1972. The mill was the town's largest
employer for most of those years. Now, the empty stone Heyworth/Mason
building is the only surviving remnant of that once busy mill site. As the
lands were cleared of timber the area's rich, fertile soil gave rise to
agriculture which persists to this day in the form of dairy farms and
several apple orchards. Iron making also played a major role in the
economic development of early Peru with the discovery of high quality iron
ore in the Arnold Hill area in 1810.
As the population of Peru grew from a small handful of settlers in 1792 to
1,923 in 1810 and 2,710 by 1820, other settlements within Peru's boundaries
came into being. Goshen, Lapham's Mills or Bartonville, Peasleeville, Port
Jackson, later Valcour and Peru Landing all contributed to the town's
growth. The bustling Lake Champlain ports of Peru Landing and Port Jackson
led to railroads and stations built at Valcour, Lapham's Mills and Peru
Village. Churches, schools, businesses and ever expanding industries all
increased in number throughout the township.
Peru has an exceptionally rich past in the form of military history. Its
Lake Champlain shores saw much activity during the French and Indian War
period. The lake was the main north-south corridor for war parties of
Native Americans and French and British armies. Benedict Arnold's most
important Revolutionary War naval engagement with the British at the Battle
of Valcour Oct. 11, 1776 took place within the town. The War of 1812
brought forth the Peru militia under the leadership of Capt. David Cochran.
They fired the first shots in the victorious and decisive Battle of
Plattsburgh in Sept., 1814. The opening of Plattsburgh Air Force Base in
1955 brought thousands of military personnel to the area. The majority of
those personnel resided within the Peru Central School District. The school
district grew from 800 students to over 3,000 necessitating the building of
four new schools.
The present population of Peru is 6,370 according to the 2000 census. Long
gone are most of the timber and iron related industries and the many mills
that once lined the banks of Peru's rivers. Fires have taken their toll on
many buildings in the center of the village. It is now a relatively quiet
semi-rural residential area surrounded by thousands of acres of apple
orchards and dairy farms.
Further information re: Peru's history may be obtained from Hurd's History
of Clinton and Franklin Counties; Lincoln Sunderland's 3 vol. History of
Peru; and, the Town of Peru website: http://www.perutown.com
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