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Robyn Carr, Redwood Bend.
A woman headed for Virgin River with her twin 5-year-olds is stranded by a flat tire and falls
for a biker who stops to help.
Zuri Day, Love on the Run.
A sports manager with a rule against mixing business with pleasure takes on a record-breaking
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Lori Foster, Run the Risk.
A woman hiding out from a corrupt club owner is attracted to her new neighbor, who is really
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Laura Griffin, Scorched.
A forensic anthropologist ends up on the run from someone she thought she could trust after a shocking discovery in a mass grave in the Philippines.
Donna Kauffman, Sweet Stuff.
A writer returns to his childhood home of Sugarberry Island in Georgia to finish his latest
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Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number.
After losing her engagement ring and her cell phone in a hotel fire drill, a woman appropriates a company phone belonging to a businessman who wants to get it back and stop
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Susan Mallery, All Summer Long.
A former male model who wants to be taken seriously as an entrepreneur falls for a
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JoJo Moyes, Me before You.
When a thrill-seeking man has an accident that makes him a quadriplegic, his mother hires a woman as his companion to teach him that life is still worth living.
Carla Neggers, Secrets of the Lost Summer.
After being betrayed by a colleague she trained, a woman moves back to her New England
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Nora Roberts, The Witness.
A police chief in the Ozarks is intrigued by a woman obsessed with security who is hiding from
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Jill Shalvis, At Last.
A woman with a troubled past who started a new life in Lucky Harbor gets lost on a nature hike
and is rescued by a forest ranger.
Julie Ann Walker, Rev It Up.
A Navy SEAL comes to Chicago to join a covert unit run by the brother of a woman whose husband
was killed on an op gone wrong in Afghanistan and who is determined not to let herself or her son be hurt again.
Samantha Young, On Dublin Street.
An American woman who moved to Scotland, leaving a tragic past behind her, is reluctant to start a new relationship until her neighbor entices her with a no strings attached arrangement.
Victoria Alexander, What Happens at Christmas.
Hoping for a proposal from her very proper suitor at Christmas, a lady with an eccentric
family hires a troupe of actors to pose as her relatives, but things become even more complicated when an old flame turns up on her doorstep.
Kristen Callihan, Firelight.
A lady who has a secret power over fire is wed to a lord who wears a mask to hide his
disfigurement and who becomes a suspect in a series of murders.
Pamela Clare, Defiant.
Charged with a crime he didn't commit, a Scotsman is sent to America to fight for the British
in the French and Indian War and is ordered to rescue his commander's niece who was taken captive by the Shawnee.
Tessa Dare, A Week to be Wicked.
Determined to present her discovery of a fossilized footprint to the Royal Geological Society, a lady asks a rake to escort her to the meeting in Scotland.
Julianne Donaldson, Edenbrooke.
Sent to live with her aunt in Bath while her prettier sister has a London Season, a lady is
delighted to receive an invitation to a country estate, where she finds herself embroiled in an unexpected adventure and romance.
Suzanne Enoch, Taming an Impossible Rogue.
Dismayed that the man she's been engaged to since birth has made no effort to get to know her, a lady leaves him at the altar and works at a gaming establishment, while her humiliated fiancé sends his cousin to get her back.
Elizabeth Hoyt, Thief of Shadows.
A lady teaching social graces to the stuffy headmaster of a foundling home comes to the aid of
an injured masked man who helps the poor, not realizing it's the same man.
Sabrina Jeffries, 'Twas the Night after Christmas.
A gentleman who was abandoned by his parents and sent to live with distant relatives as a child is surprised to receive a letter claiming his mother is on her deathbed, only to find her meddlesome companion hopes to reunite them at Christmas.
Julie Anne Long, A Notorious Countess Confesses.
A courtesan becomes a countess after an earl wins her in a card game and dies shortly after
the wedding, leaving her a manor in a small town where she catches the eye of the local vicar.
Monica McCarty, The Recruit.
A Scotsman competing in the Highland Games hoping to win a place in Robert the Bruce's
Guards meets a widow whose husband was hanged as a traitor and whose son was taken from her by the English king.
Sherry Thomas, Tempting the Bride.
Discovered having an affair with a married man, a lady reluctantly agrees to elope with her
brother's friend who secretly loves her, but a carriage accident leaves her with no memory of how she ended up with her new husband.
Kresley Cole, Lothaire.
The ruthless Lothaire plots to seize the crown of the vampire kingdom, but first he must extract the soul from a human woman who is possessed by a demon.
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So how gullible are we? Food manufacturers say their caffeine-pumped food is intended for adults. Included in those foods are Jelly Belly "Extreme Sport Beans," which have 50 mg of caffeine in each 100-calorie pack. A cup of coffee has about 100 mg of caffeine.
You probably don't see many grown-ups putting down their mugs of coffee and tea or even cans of cola in the morning to reach for a package of caffeinated jelly beans.
And now that Wrigley's has introduced a caffeinated gum, the Food and Drug Administration has decided to look at the issue of caffeine-laden foods more closely and find out specifically how children's health is affected.
The FDA already is studying the safety of energy drinks and energy shots because of reports of illness and death possibly associated with their consumption. Consumer Reports says some of the drinks contain much more than a cup of coffee. And the safe limit of caffeine for children, depending on their size, is 45-85 grams a day.
Caffeine is a stimulant that needs to be treated as such. The FDA hasn't tackled the issue much since the 1950s when soda companies were allowed to add caffeine to their products. As caffeine is now being added to a growing list of foods, the sooner the FDA looks at the issue and regulates it more tightly, the better off children will be. If a child drinks caffeinated soda, chews caffeinated gum, snacks on caffeinated candy, it won't take much for him to go over the recommended limit.
As Michael Taylor, FDA's deputy commissioner of foods, said: Carrying around a pack of Wrigley's new gum is like having "four cups of coffee in your pocket."
Kids have easy access to lots of food that's not good for them, and parents need to help educate them about good choices. But when a drug is added to more everyday foods that the young population has access to, the FDA needs to step up its control.
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Youthdale presently has three positions available for psychologists and psychiatrists:
- Psychologist
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Employment Opportunity - Psychologist
Youthdale employs psychologists to provide psychological assessments and child psycho-therapy on a fee-for-service basis.
Successful applicants will possess:
- Ph. D., Ontario registration
- Competence in psycho-educational and personality assessment (including projective testing) with children and adolescents
- Skill and experience in a variety of treatment modalities
- At least three to five years' experience in a children's mental health setting
Youthdale offers competitive salaries and benefits, and an excellent opportunity for professional development.
Please fax your resume to the Director of Psychological Services at (416) 363-7945.
Youthdale's professional staff includes child psychologists with special training in psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy uses a variety of means - including talk, play and art - to help youngsters express their feelings and work through their conflicts. This therapy may be used on its own or combined with family therapy, day treatment or residential treatment.
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- Youthdale provides individual psychotherapy on a fee-for-service basis.
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Youthdale employs neuropsychologists to provide neuropsychological assessments and consultation on a fee-for-service basis.
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- Research interests
- Minimum five years clinical experience in children's mental health
Youthdale offers competitive salaries and benefits, and an excellent opportunity for professional development.
Please fax your resume to the Director of Psychological Services at (416) 363-7945.
Employment Opportunity: Child Psychiatrist
For over thirty years, Youthdale Treatment Centres has enjoyed steady growth as a highly specialized clinical service for children with significant mental health needs and their families.
We're looking for skilled and energetic child psychiatrists to join our busy multidisciplinary team.
Staff positions include a flexible combination of out-patient and in-patient work in our Psychiatric Crisis Service, and additional opportunities for research, education, and consultation to our longer-term treatment residences.
Youthdale's team of ten child psychiatrists affords its members a light "on-call" schedule which is remunerated through Ontario's Health Insurance Plan (OHIP), plus session fees for non-billable, indirect clinical services.
Additional benefits include an office and administrative assistant with no overhead, extended health and dental coverage, and participation in our pension plan.
Child psychiatrists interested in pursuing opportunities at Youthdale should contact Dr. Nathan Scharf, M.D., F.R.C.P., Medical Director, at (416) 368-4896, ext. 202.


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A Common Meta-Model for Data Analysis Based on DSM
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Problems are often created by advanced support systems because they are not only highly expensive but also difficult to implement. In such a case, small and medium scale businesses are often unable to afford the systems. Therefore this paper is dedicated to solving the problem of data collection and analysis task by creating a Domain Specific Modeling (DSM) which is based on a top-down approach. For this purpose they make use of Domain Specific Language (DSL) which is a group of specific languages that have a special purpose. With the help of DSL it is possible to make a large problem look small and makes the rendering of several web pages an easy task. It also specifies a technique that helps in identifying a particular problem and creates a series of patterns so that there is relationship among the different expressions in the language. The paper accounts a research conducted by R&D Division Health Escherweg 2 Oldenburg, Germany to implement this specialized analytic information systems. They developed a special platform which goes by the name of Multidimensional Statistical Data Analysis Engine (MUSTANG) and the research was conducted on a data warehouse. The division also went forward and used this new top-down approach in a step by step manner to extend the MUSTANG platform to accommodate data analysis on the DSM basis. The result was a cost efficient platform that required minimum of manual programming. The DSM made it easy to extend MUSTANG and data integration made possible in that single meta-model.
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Michael Naylon, the Newtown man who has been missing since Friday, was seen Wednesday at the local PetSmart, his family said. Naylon may be disoriented due to a stroke, according to his daughter Megan.
Megan said a PetSmart employee recognized the picture of her father that was on the flyer she dropped off at the store. The Petsmart employee said he believed he was in the store Wednesday evening. He was looking at fishtanks and seemed confused, Megan said.
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towards Newtown from Worthington Mill Road. He was wearing a black t-shirt and jeans. The family has filed a police report but is seeking clues as to where their father may have gone.
Megan said she believes her father had a stroke while walking on Route 413 and it caused him to become disoriented. He has had four strokes in the past, she said, and two of those strokes caused him to become confused and disoriented. The other two times he made it to the hospital in time.
"He had a stroke before and walked from Penndel to Bristol," she said, adding he followed familiar landmarks he recognized from growing up in that area.
"We're hoping he stays in Newtown," Megan said, adding he may also have been inclined to head toward Richboro or Ivyland, where the family lived prior to moving to Newtown last summer.
He is 5 feet, 9 inches, about 170 pounds, he daughter said. He has grey hair, brown eyes and tattoos on his arms and left shoulder blade.
If you see Naylon, call the police or Megan at 215-954-9176. However, his daughter asks that you don't tell him he's missing or that his family is searching for him. That may confuse him and cause him to leave.
Instead, she suggests approaching him and making small talk about the weather or his children.
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CHICAGO (AP) - Prosecutors say a suburban Chicago mother and caretaker planned for more a week to kill a 14-year-old boy with severe autism.
A Cook County judge denied bond Wednesday for 50-year-old mother Dorothy Spourdalakis and 40-year-old caretaker Jolanta Skrodzka. Both women are charged with first-degree murder. Neither spoke at the hearing. Authorities say 14-year-old Alex Spourdalakis was stabbed numerous times in the chest. He was found lying on his bed in a second-floor River Grove apartment.
Authorities say the women lived at the apartment where the boy was found. They were found semi-conscious but uninjured in the locked apartment.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that the women were upset about lack of proper care for the boy. Police say the boy needed constant care because of his severe autism.
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Both men and women are victims of sexual assault, but the vast majority of victims is women. In the United States, 1 out of every 6 women has been raped during her lifetime and 1 out of every 33 men. Of all rape victims identified in a national survey of 8,000 women and 8,005 men, 85% of the victims were women and 14.2 percent were men.
No matter what the biological sex of the victim is, the perpetrator tends to be a man. In 2006, the National Institute of Justice reported that 99.6% of female victims and 85.2% of male victims were raped by men. Less than 1% of female victims and 18.2% of male victims were raped by women. (Because some victims had been raped by a man and a woman, the total exceeds 100%.) For more statistics about rape and sexual assault, download the Sexual Victimization of College Women report.
Rape is an act of violence, not sex. It is not the result of sexual desire or sexual deprivation. Perpetrators tend to be motivated by control and anger. Part of their gratification comes from gaining power over the victim or discharging anger. For example, heterosexual men have raped gay men as a form of gay bashing, acts based on hate.
All rape, no matter what the biological sex of the victim is, tends to be inspired by feelings of power, discharging anger or eroticizing aggression.
- Feeling ashamed, as if it was somehow your fault that this happened. It wasn't your fault. Even if you made yourself vulnerable somehow, that doesn't give someone else permission to take advantage of your vulnerability.
- Being angry with your assailant -- or even with your friends, roommates and other people -- when the reality of what happened begins to sink in.
- Having an overwhelming feeling of fear that life will never be the same again.
- Experiencing a change in your eating and sleeping patterns.
- Feeling depressed.
- Crying at unexpected times.
- Having nightmares.
- Abusing alcohol or other substances as a means of escaping the pain.
- Feeling as if you don't know who you can trust any more.
Counselors at the Center for the Awareness of Sexual Assault and UWEC Counseling Services will help you explore the range of options available to you, and the counselors serve all students regardless of gender. You will not be pressured to make a police report if you don't want to do so.
Definitions and penalties for sexual assault
1. Sexual assault: It is a criminal offense for a person to engage in sexual contact or sexual intercourse with any other person without their consent.
Sexual contact is the intentional touching of a person's intimate parts for the purpose of sexually degrading or humiliating the victim, or sexually arousing or gratifying the perpetrator. Penalties for one convicted of this offense range from a fine of up to $10,000 and imprisonment for up to nine months, to up to 20 years imprisonment. Factors which may make the offense more serious or allow an increased penalty include:
- The sexual intercourse resulted in pregnancy or great bodily harm to the victim.
- The sexual intercourse or contact was accompanied by the use or threat of use of a dangerous weapon.
- The sexual contact or intercourse was aided or abetted by another person or by use or threat of use of force.
- The sexual contact or intercourse was with a person suffering from a mental illness or deficiency rendering that person incapable of appraising their conduct, and the perpetrator knows of such condition.
- The sexual contact or intercourse was with a person known by the perpetrator to be unconscious.
2. Sexual assault of a child: It is a crime for any person to have sexual contact or sexual intercourse with anyone under the age of 16. The maximum penalty for one convicted of this offense may be a fine of up to $10,000 or 10-20 years imprisonment depending upon the age of the victim. Consent of the victim is not an issue for this offense.
Tips for risk reduction
The most important thing to remember is that the criminal frequently plans the crime, looking for the right chance — and the easiest victim. The best defense is to eliminate the opportunity for attack or to create the belief in the person's mind that the opportunity doesn't exist. Play it safe. Read the following suggestions and exercise common sense and caution. People can be and are being sexually assaulted by friends, family, neighbors, dates, acquaintances, co-workers, service people, etc. In most cases the criminal is known to the victim and often trusted. Such situations are called Acquaintance Rape.
- Accepting a ride home from someone you have just met, perhaps at a party — no matter how pleasant he/she may seem — may put you at risk.
- Use alcohol responsibly. The use of alcohol and drugs is often related to incidents of acquaintance rape - alcohol is the number one date-rape drug. If you are in a situation where people are abusing alcohol and drugs, you may be at higher risk for harm and should exercise caution.
- Say no when you mean no; say yes when you mean yes. Intentional, healthy sexual communication is critical when engaging in any sexual contact.
- Believe in your right to express your feelings and learn how to do so assertively.
- Trust your instincts. Be aware of specific situations in which you do not feel relaxed or in charge.
Bystander Intervention
You can play a vital role in the prevention of sexual assault and sexual violence by being able to identify unsafe situations and knowing when and how to intervene safely. The National Sexual Violence Recourse Center provides free online education on the role of bystanders in preventing sexual violence. For more information, visit the NSVRC website or contact the UWEC Center for the Awareness of Sexual Assault.


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The sentence is 'Role up all cost reduction numbers on a quarterly basis'. Is it a phrasal verb or is it a mistake and they mean 'roll up'?
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Daume to Join Coaching Staff
Fort Myers, Fla. – FGCU women's basketball Head Coach Karl Smesko has announced that Nathan Daume will become the newest member of the Eagles coaching staff.
"We are very fortunate to be able to hire someone with Nathan's experience," said Smesko. "His experience as head coach and his connections will be valuable to the program."
Daume comes to FGCU from Hutchinson Community College, where he spent the past five years as Head Coach. He was only the fifth women's head coach in the program's 33-year history. Daume leaves Hutchinson CC with a record of 97-59.
Daume led Hutchinson CC to three 20-win seasons, including a 23-8 record in 2005, the fifth-best season in HCC women's basketball history. This past season, the HCC women finished the season 21-11 and lost in the quarterfinals of the Region VI Tournament. His 97 wins place him fourth on the HCC women's coaching list.
Defensive strategy is something that Daume will bring with him to FGCU. HCC ranked in the Top 10 nationally in scoring defense in four of Daume's five seasons; three times they were ranked fourth or better. His 2004 team was No. 1 in the nation, allowing only 48.0 points per game. In seventy of the 154 games that Daume coached at HCC, his teams limited opponents to less than 50 points. On 35 of those occasions, HCC allowed less than 40 points. Hutchinson also allowed 70 points or more only 10 times during Daume's tenure.
During his time at Hutchinson CC, Daume had great success in moving players on to the four-year level. In five seasons, eight of his players moved on to the Division I level, six more to Division II and four others to NAIA schools.
"I'm excited to be here," said Daume. "Florida Gulf Coast has had a lot of great tradition. Coach Smesko has done a tremendous job since the program has started. This is a great situation for me, it's a situation where I can come in and learn from a very good coach."
Daume, along with fellow new hire, Ericka Haney, fills a vacancy created by the departure of Eagles Assistant Coach LeAnn Freeland, who accepted the head coaching position at the University of Indianapolis. Freeland spent four years at FGCU prior to accepting the position at the NCAA Division II institution.
"Nathan and assistant Ericka Haney complement each other well," said Smesko. "I am eager to start working with them."
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Full Report: 60 in "crash for cash" scam
It was a fraud so large that it cost local people up to a hundred pounds extra on their car insurance bills.
Tonight we told you about the organised crime family who made millions of pounds from scamming the insurance industry.
In all, sixty people either pleaded or were found guilty, in what the police have described as "organised crime on a massive scale".
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AT&T's Lurie Is CEO
If you've been in the wireless connected devices industry for any length of time now then you know the name Glenn Lurie.
Cleaning Up Cyber
It seems every day we hear of yet another data breach. Data breaches are not new, but it seems there has been a surge in the number of companies and organizations that have experienced an attack.
Patent Report: Aug. 12-19, 2014
It looks like some of our favorite companies have shaken off the summer doldrums and are back to normal levels of patent grants.
Thread Sparks a Feud
Have you heard about Thread? If you haven't you should. It seems to be causing just enough of a stir to warrant your attention.
Unicorns Are Real (They Just Look Different Now)
Unicorns are the stuff of legends, and some recent fantasy movies. From creatures that people in medieval times believed were real, to their use as psychological archetypes and advertising props in recent times, what they looked like was unchanging.
Patent Report: Aug. 5, 2014
This week, we appear to be in the grasp of the Summer Doldrums. I have 103 technology companies on my patent "watch list."
Reality Check When Driving Distracted
The Kardashians might make millions, but do they have a clue that distracted driving kills?
It Takes a Cyber Village
It's seems like all we talk about these days is defending our digital network, otherwise known as our cyber systems, (i.e., the Internet, information systems, computer systems).
Patent Report: July 29, 2014
I'd wager that there is no adult in the world that has not heard the aphorism, "Guilty by association," or a similar non-English version. Used as either a behavioral warning by parents throughout time, or as a condemnation of a person or company because of their association with some form or wrongdoing or ethical misbehavior, it is decidedly a negative connotation.
PTC Saves Axeda
If you have been following the M2M/IoT (Internet of Things) space at all, then the recent acquisition of Axeda, www.axeda.com by PTC, www.ptc.com certainly is no big revelation. Candidly, I am surprised that Axeda was able to survive this long without being gobbled up sooner


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A Dale City man is accused of not letting an acquaintance out of the car during an argument and taking her cell phone, Prince William County Police said.
Kevin Gonzalo Flores Alvarado, 21, of Lashmere Court, is charged with abduction.
No one was injured during the incident that took place around 10:36 p.m. Wednesday, when the woman reported that he allegedly refused to let her out of the vehicle they were in.
She said that she tried several times to get out, but was unable to, and that Flores Alvarado took her cell phone. The woman was eventually taken back to her residence.
After an investigation, police obtained a warrant for Flores Alvarado's arrest. He turned himself in to the police without incident.
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Re-Examining Breast Health
One great way to stimulate lymph flow all through the body is with a vigorous vinyasa practice. A sweaty round of Suryanamaskar (Sun Salutations) is an excellent way to do this. This sequence can be modified to provide an appropriate level of challenge for almost any student.
More specifically, many yoga poses directly contract and stretch the muscles of the chest, arms, and shoulders, massaging the nearby lymph nodes and encouraging lymph flow through the area. Poses like Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward-Facing Dog Pose) and Pincha Mayurasana (Elbow Balance) work and stretch the chest, as do backbends. Gomukhasana (Cow Face Pose) especially stretches the armpit. Even simple poses and actions, like backbending over a bolster and stretching an arm overhead, can be very effective at loosening and stimulating this area. Shifting the hips from side to side in Balasana (Child's Pose) and rocking back and forth along the spine in Padangustha Halasana can actually massage breast tissue to stimulate lymph flow.
Change Your Attitude
Despite decades of encouragement from public health officials, providers, and educators, some polls indicate that as many as nine out of 10 women still don't perform regular breast self-exams. Kami McBride, director of the Living Awareness Institute in Vacaville, California, has devoted her life to helping women heal their relationship with their bodies. "One of the most important things a woman can do is to shift her perspective on her breasts away from wishing they were different," says McBride. She encourages her clients to use nonsexual touch and herbal pampering to improve their relationship with their breasts. She contends, "It is so important for girls and women to learn to discern how they feel based on their inner experience. Instead of looking at ourselves in a mirror and comparing ourselves to the latest magazine image of how breasts 'should' look, we need to feel the inherent joy of being alive in a female body."
With its focus on concentration, presence, and fully conscious activity, yoga can be a crucial tool in connecting with what your body feels and what it can do. Many women find that yoga helps them experience a new appreciation for their body as they experience the sweetness of a deep stretch or the contentment that can follow a vigorous practice. This increased awareness of and comfort with the body can in turn make it easier for a woman to familiarize herself with the ways her breast tissue changes as she moves through her monthly cycle, establishing a clear baseline understanding that increases the value of regular breast self-exams.
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While running a demo application on LOCKED Nokia - 6131 phone I am getting
MFStandardException : Read / Write failed.
Its getting connected to the card but when I try to read or write it throws exception.
On an UNLOCKED phone the same app runs fine.
I want to know whether we can read/write the Mifare part of secure element without unlocking Nokia - 6131 phone ???
FYI : The midlet is signed and the firmware version is 5.12.


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|Lady Archers pummel Jeffcats
|Wednesday, April 10, 2013 11:50 AM
The visiting Lady Archers used 10 hits, seven errors, seven wild pitches, six free passes, two hit batters and two passed balls to amass a 15-3 5-inning rout.
"We graduated seven starters from last year and we only had three letterwinners back. We are basically a senior and the rest sophomores and freshmen," he added. "We've got a lot of fresh faces that have to learn how to play varsity softball, so mistakes will be made. We've been in games but we always have THAT inning that costs us; we made a mistake or two and it snowballs. We want to be aggressive and we did that today. Plus, we got solid pitching from one of our letterwinners."
The Lady Wildcats (0-4) got one back in the home half against Archer starter K. Jemison. Hannah Sensibaugh walked to lead it off, advanced on a wild toss and scored on a 2-out single to center by Branham for a 2-1 deficit. The Archers made it 4-1 in the second with two down. A walk to M. Flint, a steal and a misplayed grounder hit by Braaten scored the first run. Braaten, who was on second, stole third and scored on a passed ball for a 4-1 edge.
The visitors made it 7-1 in the third, combining two hits: a 1-out solo shot over the 200-foot mark in left center by A. Sawyer and a 2-run double down the left-field line by O. Tempel (scoring Jemison and D. Bauer) to make it a 6-run game.
Jefferson got within 7-3 in the third. Alexis Cook walked, followed by a bloop to left by Sensibaugh. An out later, a misplay on a Fallon Van Dyke grounder loaded the bases. Branham walked to score Cook and Jasmine McDougall singled to right to score Sensibaugh for a 7-3 scoreboard. However, the hosts left the bases loaded.
Kayla Kill walked to start off the Delphos fourth inning and advanced to second on a Cook ground ball. However, she could get no farther.
The Lady Archers put on three more runs in the fifth, this time without an error. They had two walks, a hit batter and three hits, including a run-scoring double to right by Sweet-Miller (Braaten) and a run-producing knock up the gut by Sawyer (Sweet-Miller), plus a bases-loaded wild pitch that scored Cline for the final run.
Jefferson visits Miller City 5 p.m. tonight. Antwerp hosts Holgate Thursday.


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Most affordable house in the Dunes!!
Located between the ocean and the bay right off Dune Road. Walk across the street to the bay where you can fish, boat and swim or walk across to the ocean to one of the most beautiful beaches in the country.
2 Bedrooms-one with queen size bed, the other with twin trundle beds. Living room has a pull out couch.
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Short drive to the town of Westhampton Beach with great shopping, fine restaurants, live, entertaintment, movies, theatre, playgrounds, bike rentals and more!
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Celebration of Maestri's first anniversary in office, City Hall
Caption on reverse of photo reads: "At Maestri celebration: Left to right, Mrs. A.L. Ducasse, sister of the mayor, Mrs. Angele Maestri, his mother, the Mayor, Mrs. Eda Fassman, another sister, and two gents name unknown."
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|2003-11-06, 21:17
|Link #5
Afflicted by the vanities
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fish-shape Paumanok
Age: 26
It looks like something very bad has happened... http://www.scarywater.net/ has been replaced with a blank page.
So many s :\
Props to Seichi for using an alternative tracker.
|2003-11-06, 23:53
|Link #8
Join Date: Jul 2003
I get this message. Is it attacked or something?
Moya, Mother of Talan.
Since I have found this host listed in the DShield Database being reported as an attacker machine, here is a clarification : This host never connects to hosts that did not connect to here first. If you are seeing connections on ports 6881-6889, you (or one of your users) are very likely running BitTorrent; whenever a connection is made to this server from BitTorrent, it will check back to prevent abuse. If you don't want that happening, don't use BitTorrent.
no wait, http://a.scarywater.net is the correct address, not http://www.scarywater.net/.
|2003-11-16, 13:19
|Link #9
uhh...wen was it ever www.scarywater.net its always been a.scarywater.net ...hasnt it?
|2003-11-16, 19:03
|Link #10
Hmmm....... lookin that way again
I'm not intirely sure, but it looks like scarywater is going down again.....
we don't have the yellow triangles yet, but nobody seems to be downloading/uploading. also, the dl i have for You're Under Arrest 2 (on scarywater) is not doing anything.
we now have yellow triangles......... i guese its down now. hope they get it back up soon; I only had one meg left on my dl.
It seems as thought it is back up. Mind you i am thinking this because my dl started to wark again; not because of animesuki.
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|2003-12-22, 11:47
|Link #11
Inactive Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
some research, scarywater.net is hosted on the rackshack/ev1 network. I currently have a server on that network and scarywater.net is UP and running, I can connect to it from my server (tracker and webpages) so i did some testing
standard traceroutes
This is a traceroute of one IP higher than scarywater.net
C:\>tracert 22.214.171.124 Tracing route to plain.agriya.com [188.8.131.52] over a maximum of 30 hops: 9 51 ms 52 ms 51 ms dist-01-so-0-0-0-0.hsto.twtelecom.net [22.214.171.124] 10 50 ms 47 ms 46 ms 18.104.22.168 11 42 ms 44 ms 44 ms 18.104.22.168 12 48 ms 46 ms 44 ms ivhou-207-218-245-45.ev1.net [126.96.36.199]
C:\>tracert 220.127.116.11 Tracing route to toronto2.azu.com [22.214.171.124] over a maximum of 30 hops: 9 49 ms 49 ms 50 ms dist-01-so-0-0-0-0.hsto.twtelecom.net [18.104.22.168] 10 72 ms 48 ms 50 ms 220.127.116.11 11 43 ms 43 ms 42 ms 184.108.40.206 12 49 ms 46 ms 44 ms ivhou-207-218-245-45.ev1.net [18.104.22.168]
9 52 ms 51 ms 61 ms dist-01-so-0-0-0-0.hsto.twtelecom.net [18.104.22.168] 10 47 ms 47 ms 46 ms 184.108.40.206 11 * * * Request timed out. 12 * * * Request timed out.
the problem seems to be either 18.104.22.168 blocking outgoing traffic to that IP address or 18.104.22.168 blocking incoming traffic to that IP
220.127.116.11 is owned by TIME WARNER TELECOM
22.214.171.124 is owned by FORT BEND TELEPHONE
|2003-12-22, 15:35
|Link #13
Inactive Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
true but then the problem would between
22.214.171.124 and 184.108.40.206
220.127.116.11 and 22.214.171.124 which is a link EV1 servers cannot control
|2004-02-19, 17:36
|Link #14
Certifiably insane
Join Date: Nov 2003
Having problems with Scarywater torrents
This is the third day that I'm having a hell of a time with torrents using Scarywater's tracker. Up to now, everything was fine, and suddenly, connecting with other peers was extremely slow and only to a handful. Status pages and TorrentSpy report tens of peers and seeders, yet I can only connect to maybe 5 or 10, very slowly, no matter how many hours I leave it.
Torrents using other trackers work as good as usual. My PC is directly connected to my cable modem, no router, no proxy or firewall (yes, I'm that crazy).
My client is Shadow.5.8.7 and the torrent health icon is usually green (when I do get to see a seed), or blue, but never yellow (which indicates a NAT/Router problem). It spends a lot of time (10-30min) in red, trying to connect to somebody.
I just installed the latest Azureus, and things are a little better, I can see a few more peers. Interestingly, sometimes the torrent health status turns yellow at the start (again, NAT/Router problem according to the help).
I don't think it's my connection or my client, so it should be a Scarywater's tracker issue, but the status pages show lots of peers as usual. Am I alone with this problem?
Please help me somebody, I'm on the verge of suicide ;_;
|2004-02-20, 06:04
|Link #15
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2004
|2004-02-26, 16:17
|Link #17
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Riga, Latvia
Age: 41
Interesting fact. I use 3 bittorrent clients: newest ABC 2.6.3., newest TorrentStorm and Azureus. Tried to download PMK ep.20. (scarywater tracker). It has 879 seeds and 779 peers just right now. Quite a lot, I tell you. Tried first to download with ABC. I could connect only with 1 seed and could download zero. Waited 10 min. Switched to Azureus. Almost instanly (20 s) conected to 30 seeds and 15 peers and in 5 min my download speed skyrocketed to the max. Strange.
|2004-03-21, 16:31
|Link #18
Serious problems with Scarywater Tracker !
Dear everybody,
I've been using Animesuki to download Anime for almost a year.
Until know everything was fine, but since I bought a router I've serious problems with torrents placed on the Scarywater Tracker concerning NAT.
Well, I'm using Azureus 184.108.40.206, I'm connected to the Internet over ADSL (ISP is Arcor for the Germans here ) with some kind of Netgear router and my OS is Windows XP (Firewall disabled). Since Azureus uses only one port, I only forwardet port 6881 (and yes, I checked my Azureus settings regarding the Port).
So far my Bittorrent works fine, except with Torrents hosted on Scarywater (and it's really just on Scarywater). Somehow, my status keeps being yellow, wich means that there must be some sort of NAT problem. Well, I've already tried everything, wich came to my mind. Since almost all torrents on Animesuki are hostet at Scarywater this situation is kinda worse. So I would appreciate all kind proposals
And NO, I'm not some kind of BT Noob, who is to dumb to configure his router properly to forward a Port !!!
And if you think, that it's impossible, that this issue can only remain on Scarywater, I didn't believe it at the beginning too, but I'm absolutely sure about it now !!!
Thanks to everybody, who took time to read my problem !
Greets Samir
|2004-08-01, 07:00
|Link #20
Just call me Ojisan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: U.K. Hampshire
All I can suggest is keep trying. A torrent I was trying earlier eventually connected and I'm able to download but I suspect it was just because I was lucky.
Other than that, we can only wait.
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LONDONDERRY — The town is gearing up for a full schedule of summer playground events beginning July 8.
Londonderry's Summer Playground Program is held every summer at the Matthew Thornton Elementary School on Mammoth Road and will run for five weeks this year, ending Aug. 8.
The program is open to all children in town who will be entering the first grade this fall and up to age 14.
Program participants can enjoy arts and crafts activities, games, sports and special theme days.
Children are grouped by age and interest. They are supervised in small groups by experienced staff. The summer program also includes several field trips.
There is no pre-registration for the program; parents can sign up their children the first day of attendance.
The program runs daily from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p.m. Children can stay for as much or as little as they want.
The cost is $40 per child, $50 for two children in the same family, and $60 for three or more in the same family.
Some special activities planned for this summer include a baton twirling show, storyteller and demonstrations on bicycle safety.
For information on the town's summer schedule, call 437-2675. Information is also available on the town website at londonderrynh.org.


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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- I come not to bury the University of Louisville football team. Just to shovel a little dirt on top of it.No, this isn't the time, and I'll tell you why.Eight days ago, after the Cardinals struggled to pull out a 14-point win over Rutgers, was the time for criticism. They were laying claim, verbally, to being one of the best teams in America, but had not played like it.Tonight, after losing a 21-point second-half lead to Central Florida in a 38-35 defeat, there's no point in grading on that kind of curve.You are what the score says you are. And Louisville and Central Florida are roughly the same. Louisville has a bit more star power. But Central Florida had the better game plan, the better running game, and now the better chance of representing the American Athletic Conference in a Bowl Championship Series game.Close the book. Don't worry so much about the BCS rankings this weekend. Pull the plug on a possible Charlie Strong live appearance on College GameDay Saturday. Now, instead of looking up in the polls and hoping someone loses to create daylight, the Cardinals are looking up in the conference standings, wondering if they'll get a shot at a second straight BCS trip."I just don't know how good they are but they beat us, so I guess they're pretty good," Louisville coach Charlie Strong said after watching the Knights score more points on the Cardinals in the game's final 19 1/2 minutes than they'd given up in the past four games combined.There were plenty of strange things about this loss. A U of L defense that had been nearly airtight -- against albeit mediocre offenses -- all of a sudden could not tackle, and couldn't stop simple running plays. How simple? Central Florida coach George O'Leary said his team ran basically the same handful of plays the whole game."I thought the line did a great job," said O'Leary, whose team got its first win over a Top 10 opponent in program history. "We didn't try to overburden them with a lot of runs. We ran three or four plays. That's all. That was the game plan. When they put more people in there, we threw it."U of L appeared to have control of the game after pushing out to a 28-7 lead early in the second half. Dominique Brown came out on a mission. He carried five times for 54 yards and had one catch for 11 on the Cardinals first drive of the half. Then after the defense got a stop, freshman James Quick scooped up a fumbled punt attempt and ran 30 yards for his first college touchdown. The Cardinals led 28-7 with less than eight minutes to play in the fourth quarter.One more stop and it's over. Instead, UCF needed only six plays to drive 74 yards to stay within two touchdowns.Despite Brown's dominance on the opening drive, Strong went with his regular running back rotation. Senorise Perry fumbled, giving UCF the ball back at the Louisville 20.On the sideline, Brown was yelling at coaches. Michael Dyer, due up next at running back, gave up his spot in the rotation. He said Brown was running well, let him have the ball. Later, Perry would give up his turn, as well.But the play after Perry's fumble, UCF scored. In 70 seconds, it had cut its deficit to one touchdown. By the end of the third quarter, it was tied.UCF took its first lead of the game -- and the first lead anyone has had on Louisville all season -- with 7:36 left to play on a 34-yard Shawn Moffitt field goal. Strong could've backed the Knights up another 10 yards on third down (Moffitt's long on the season was 37 yards, and he'd not attempted one longer than that) but appeared not to want to risk giving up a big play on third and 20. At that moment, you got the feeling Strong's confidence in his defense had evaporated.Teddy Bridgewater calmly led the Cardinals back into the lead. Nine plays, 88 yards. Brown carried it in from 15 yards out. But 3:00 remained.UCF needed only 2:37 to score the game-winning touchdown.After the game, Louisville players seemed a little stunned, but not overly disappointed.Teddy Bridgewater, on whether the loss damaged the dreams U of L had for this season: "It doesn't damage them at all. We are still 6-1. This is college football and anything can happen. Anything is possible. We are going to keep our faith, keep our heads up and continue to finish the season the way we want to."Dominique Brown said players were down in the locker room, and a few were angry, but nobody was tearful: "It's the game of football. You win some, you lose some. You can't get demoralized."Preston Brown: "We can still win the Big East, or AAC, or whatever they call it."Strong, meanwhile, said he'll keep throwing positive messages at his team."They've heard enough negative talk already," Strong said. "I just have to continue to build them up and we have to continue to move forward. They've heard enough already. We were undefeated and we still hear it. That's why I keep telling them we're the best team in college football."But they were not the hungry team Friday night. Central Florida, in fact, looked like Louisville of a decade ago. They fought for a long time to get to a BCS league, and once in, had just one season to make the most of an automatic bid. Their players have had to listen to talk about Louisville all season. Florida guys, just like many of them, getting national publicity while they sat in the background.This was their one shot. And they played like it. If you've watched Louisville's journey, you have to appreciate that.A bit of irony? Nobody lobbied harder for UCF's inclusion into the Big East than Tom Jurich. He wanted them in the league years ago, and said it publicly and privately. He said UCF was a "sleeping giant." He said if you gave them BCS status, they'd become a power.And U of L? The question now becomes how it will respond to defeat. A year ago, one loss at Syracuse turned into a second against UConn. Strong says he believes his team has matured.But chances for an undefeated season don't come along too often. U of L may not have it teed up like it did this year for a long time, with the combination of a favorable schedule with players like Teddy Bridgewater and DeVante Parker.Bridgewater still completed 29 of 38 passes for 341 yards and two touchdowns. He hit nine different receivers, including Eli Rogers 10 times for 95 yards. The Cards go to a struggling South Florida team next week.But the question is what happens when they wake up in the morning and realize what they've lost. They still have plenty to play for, but not near as much as they had going into the Central Florida game.The 100th game in Papa John's Cardinal Stadium might've been U of L's most painful loss in the building. It's probably going to hurt for a while.Copyright 2013 WDRB News. All Rights Reserved.
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(CNN) - Violence ramped up in the West Bank after three kidnapped Israeli teens were found dead.
The Israeli military said that forces had carried out strikes against 34 targets in Gaza after the firing of 18 rockets at Israel since Sunday evening.
Mourners gathered in front of the Israeli consulate in New York on Monday, paying tribute to the three teens found dead in the West Bank two weeks after they were kidnapped.
President Obama, Pope Francis and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon all condemned the killings.
The teens disappeared from a Jewish settlement in the West Bank around mid-June.
Leehy Shaar, the aunt of Gilad Shaar, one of the kidnapped teens, described her nephew as "young and innocent" and calls news of the teens' deaths "too sad to imagine."
"They just found them, both bodies in the hole, and I guess they killed them, murdered them in the beginning," Shaar said. "I didn't have a good feeling, the same feeling when they were kidnapped; I didn't feel good. Now unfortunately, I have the same bad feeling."
Israeli authorities immediately pointed the finger at Hamas, the Palestinian organization labeled a terrorist group by both Israel and the U.S.
"Hamas says every Israeli man, woman and child - every civilian - is a legitimate target for these kinds of terrorist attacks," Mark Regev, spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said.
And now Israel is striking back. Netanyahu vowed "Hamas will pay."
Israeli airstrikes hit targets throughout Gaza shortly after the teens' bodies were found.
"My prime minister was very clear," Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Ron Dermer said. "Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay a very heavy price. Your government would do the same thing; any government would do the same thing."
Israel called for the Palestinian authority to end its pact with Hamas.
The FBI is also investigating, as one of the teens had dual Israeli-U.S. citizenship.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has also called an emergency meeting of his government. The Palestinian leadership is expected to meet Tuesday to discuss the developments.
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Here's one that will confound you if you're a New York state taxpayer: Employees of certain lobbying groups, including associations of counties and school boards, qualify for full state pensions.
That is, it will confound you unless you happen to be one of those fortunate employees.
The Associated Press found this practice to be rampant; the situation exists in 20 states, including New York. It surely should rankle taxpayers who pay these retirement costs, especially since so many people these days find themselves without any retirement plan at all.
It used to be that when a young man or woman would launch a career with a company, there was a certainty that, when retirement time came, a healthy monthly check would be waiting. It wasn't even an issue.
These days, though, private companies are finding 401(k) and other plans more to their liking. Why not? The employee pays for almost all of it.
With the two severe economic downturns in the 2000s, companies have just about had to abandon traditional retirement plans. Among companies that have frozen plans are United Airlines, General Motors, IBM, Sprint/Nextel, Unisys and Verizon. A few that never offered them in the first place are Dell, Google, JetBlue, Microsoft and Starbucks. Among the entities that continue to offer them are most governments.
So, when we learn that lobbyists are cashing in on public pensions, we are understandably upset. The lobbyists don't work for the public, though some of their work benefits the public. Some is actually in direct conflict with the public's well-being.
They are not accountable to the public. Their salaries can soar unchecked, which means so can the pension benefits for which they are eligible.
And, even though the number of individuals who qualify for this pension coverage is small — about 120 in a sea of 633,100 current state workers in the pension pool — it's galling to realize they get this perk, of which most private workers can only dream.


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This Haier HB3600VD1M22 Standard Air Handler has some cosmetic damage incurred during shipping. The front panel is bent in. For detailed photos please click 'See Additional Images' above. This Haier HB3600VD1M22 Standard Air Handler meets the full manufacturer's specifications, comes with the full manufacturer's warranty, and includes Alpine's premium guarantee. For product specs and photographs of product in its original condition, click here.
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…it still rocks!
Black Dahlia Murder aren't exactly innovative, mainly because their vocalist, Trevor Strnad, breaks absolutely no new ground. He has two vocal styles: he yells high shrieks and comes down for cliche, death metal grumbles. Lack of innovation aside, however, "Unhallowed" is a great listen from probably the best death metal band of the new millennium. This album isn't at all boring. In fact, with Trevor spilling his guts out over brutal and uncompromising music, "Unhallowed" is actually very intense and exciting. The album begins and ends with a creepy, spoken word passage, but as soon as the breakneck tempo change of the first track kicks in, you know you're in for a wild ride. This disc is 36 and a half minutes of crushing guitars, bullying drums, and booming beats. Tracks three, four, and seven ("Elder Misanthropy," "Contagion," and "The Blackest Incarnation") are the best examples of Brian Eschbach's and John Kempainen's scorching riffs, and "The Horror Cosmic" and "Closed Casket Requiem" have pounding power chords and double bass drums. Elsewhere, "Hymn For the Wretched" and "Apex" feature almost rocketing, almost careening guitar work, and track five, "When The Last Grave Has Emptied" has an awesome, lightning fast guitar-drum give-and-take. The bottom line is this isn't the most original C.D. you'll ever hear, but you'd be hard pressed to find another album that rocks more profusely.


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Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament : Student Union for Peace Action : New Left Committee fonds. -- 1960-1968. -- 2.8 m of textual records and graphic material.
The Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CUCND) was founded in the late 1950s. In December 1964 it was succeeded by Student Union for Peace Action (SUPA) which was concerned with a wide range of social issues, not simply nuclear disarmament. SUPA's head office was in Toronto but there were branches on many university campuses in Canada. SUPA projects included work with blacks in Nova Scotia, poor whites in Kingston, Ontario, native peoples in Saskatchewan and Doukhobors of Nova Scotia, and anti-Vietnam protests and marches.
By the winter of 1965 SUPA was an exhausted organization and was beginning to fall apart. From late 1965 to 1967, SUPA's role consisted mainly of supplying literature from its Research, Information and Publications Project (RIPP). SUPA was formally dissolved in September 1967 and succeeded by the New Left Committee which lasted until the summer of 1968.
Issues of the SUPA Newsletter, New Left Committee Bulletin and Wine Press have been removed from this fonds and catalogued as part of the Division's serials collection.
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Can I claim that my age [78], my life's experience [WWII Nazi occupation, two dictatorships plus a revolutionary civil war], my birthplace [Athens, Greece], my profession [civil engineering], and my strict adherence to rationality and honesty, as an atheist, give me the right to address [mostly] young Britons and young Americans and "lecture" them on the subject presented below? The answer is: No! I do not have the right. I have the duty to address them. Here is the subject:
The German weekly magazine "Der Spiegel" ["The Mirror"] is one of the most important mainstream magazines of Europe and arguably of the world. "Der Spiegel" is definitely not a radical leftist publication. In its latest issue, that of February 25, 2008, on page 56 we read: "A clean 'surgical coup' would have been 'attractive in many respects', noted on May 6, 1976 the Planning Staff of the British Foreign Ministry".
Now, what is a "clean surgical blow"? It is a method of killing women and children by using technology developed in institutions of higher learning, also known as "universities" or "institutes of technology". The greatest experts in the world in this kind of "surgery" are Bush father and son, husband and son, respectively, of Barbara [of New Orleans fame]. This technology involves bombs, rockets, etc. By extension a "surgical coup" is an occupation of a country without the use of bombs, etc, but through torture and intimidation.
What was the target of this "surgical coup"? Rome! The cradle of Christianity [or something of the sort]. Note the date: it is 1976! Why would rational people want to do a thing like that? The [rational] people we are talking about are: US President Gerald Ford [plus "Kissy" of Harvard, aka Henry Kissinger], James Callaghan [British Prime Minister], Valery Giscard d'Estaing [President of France], Helmut Schmidt [Chancellor of Germany], et al. The reason for the coup: a "horror picture" [Horrorvorstellung] of the Italian Communist Party winning the elections.
[Note: That the Italian Eurocommunists (a term coined by the CIA!) were very "soft" communists, almost social democrats of the German kind, and most importantly note that they were completely independent from the Soviets and therefore they did not constitute a "threat" to the West, that was known to the Americans, the British, and the rest of the "civilized" West.]
The "Der Spiegel" article goes on: "Since the end of the Second World War again and again the USA has paid millions to [foreign] politicians and parties. One part of the money landed at Secret Service officers who cooperated with extreme rightist terrorists, whose bomb attacks with dozens of dead were then charged to radical leftists." Beautiful and Christian world!
Thus, declassified documents in the UK, the US, and Germany "show that the British above all [the others] were thinking about a radical solution… a coup d' etat through rightist military in Rome [emphasis added]", by means of the above mentioned civilized "surgery"!
Now, addressing the ordinary Britons, especially the young Britons, one could ask why the British insisted in sowing murderous violence (that is what a coup means) in the lives of a peaceful people? The answer is not very difficult. The British elites are the poodle of the American elites. To secure the favor of the "owner" they, the British elite, have to be arse-lickers. The expressions: "The British are the lieutenants of the Americans" or "there is a special relationship" between them, are rather hypocritical.
How about the ordinary Britons? On the basis of my personal experience I have concluded that, in very general terms, in any given population the "distribution" of socio-political ideology is approximately as follows: about 30%, for a strange biological [?] reason, are rightists (that is crypto-fascists or even crypto-Nazis, but are called, simply, "conservatives"), about 40% consider themselves "moderate" or even "progressive" (but in reality they are scared people striving to make a living), about 15% are politically indifferent to the point of cynicism, about 10% are leftists (honest people with integrity and dignity), and finally there is the 5% of economic elite with their servant personnel ( the latter are called, also, politicians, military, etc).
Therefore, it is a considerable part of the ordinary Britons that allows the British elites to be the "poodle" of the US elites. That part could be the 30% of the "conservatives" reinforced by part of the cynics or it could be the 40% of the "moderates" aided again by the cynics. The nomenclature in Britain is Conservatives vs. Laborites, in the US it is Republicans vs. Democrats, and so on for other countries.
Let us go back to the case of Italy. Notice that the date for the discussion about a coup in Italy is May 1976. Only 20 months before that date, in July of 1974, the same coup scenario ended in Greece after a seven-years-long dictatorship instigated by the US elites through the rightist military in Greece. No need to elaborate on the brutality of the 1967-1974 military dictatorship in Greece. However, there is an interesting lesson to be learned: today in the central prison of Athens there are two members of the military dictatorship, Ioannidis [the master torturer and dictator for the last lap of the scenario] and colonel Dertilis [a sheer murderous person]. They have been in prison for 33 years. The only protection their US mentors could offer them was a modicum of luxury in their cells. It would be equally interesting to follow the fate of Musharraf of Pakistan, when the people tortured by his goons demand justice.
The "Der Spiegel" article closes with the following paragraph: "Luckily for Italy things turned differently. In the June 1976 election it was surprisingly the DC [Christian Democracy] that won 38.7 percent. The PCI [Italian Communist Party] stayed at the opposition with 34.4 percent." Does the word "luckily" show how "mainstream" is the position of the German magazine or does it mean that the Italian people avoided "surgery"? Let us hope it is the latter. As for the 34.4 per cent of the 1976 Italian communists, in no way all of them can be considered leftists of the above mentioned 10%. Most were of the "moderate" variety.
What would have happened if the Italian communists had won? Not much. The state would have been a copy of the Christian Democrats with a more humane face this time and possibly with some benefits for the working people. However, the climate could have been favorable to plant the seeds for a pareconish kind of society!
So, finally, we arrive at the crucial question. Why is it that the British and the American elites, products of Oxford and of Cambridge or of Harvard and of Yale, respectively, do not give a damn about human life and act in an immoral and even in a rather "psychotic" way?
Let us try to see who these elites are. They are white, they profess to be Christians, they are very rich, they have the arrogance of the highly "educated" [education supposedly based on the classical Greek ideas], they are deeply racist, they carry the complex of the awareness of being untalented [so, they buy Rembrandts!], they grow in families of cruelty and hypocrisy, they are cowardly [so, they build armies and brutal police forces to dominate the ordinary people and thus feel secure], their women are equally brutal [in some cases even worse, e.g. Thatcher]. No need to go on, there is enough accumulated evil up to this point to last for the next dozens of Vietnams and Iraqs, not to mention "surgical" interventions in Italy, Greece, etc.
But, as the [Chomskyan] argument goes: it is the institutions that use the individuals to carry out the brutality. If the present "batch" of elites goes, then there would be another one to replace them, say a "batch" of Soviet communist elites. However, could it be that the institutions are products of the culture of the particular societies, the UK and the US ones, for the case we are talking about? But the culture of a population is the sum of the beliefs and acts of the individuals that constitute that specific population.
Therefore, the only way to stop the brutality by the UK and the US elites is for the ordinary people of these countries to start thinking about changing their culture.
[Note: Of course I did not mean to "lecture" anybody. All I tried to do is furnish some bits of information about the Italian case which might be unknown to young Britons and to young Americans. Information, that helps one to understand the human pain of the Iraqis, the Afghans, and the Palestinians.]


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Police unable to act over Overton car
7:00am Monday 4th February 2013 in News By Emily Roberts, Chief Reporter
QUESTIONS have been raised about a vehicle left in Overton.
The parish council newsletter reported that residents have asked about the vehicle in Poyntz Road, which never moves and has a puncture.
But they said police can not take action to have it moved while it is taxed.
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Luke Scott's walkoff home run, Roger Clemens' final home appearances in an Astros' uniform, two huge late home runs by Lance Berkman and Aubrey Huff, a walk-off single by Craig Biggio, and a 15th-inning win. Who would have thought these events could have been packed into a single week?
On September 19, 2006 the Astros were 8 1/2 games behind the Cardinals in the NL Central after losing 5-4 to the Cincinnati Reds. Scarcely a week later, nine days in fact, they would find themselves 1/2 a game behind the Redbirds, in what must be heralded as one of the most shocking divisional turnarounds ever.
Yet for all the attention the comebacks of 2004 and 2005 received, 2006 gets far less, partly due to the fact that it was unsuccessful. Five years later, and coming into a series with the Cardinals, where the Astros could possibly wreck their playoff hopes, now is a good a time as any to look at that stretch in some detail.
Nine Days that Rocked the NL Central
September 20, Astros beat Reds 7-2, Cardinals lose to the Brewers 1-0 (7 1/2 behind)
In what was thought to be his last start at Minute Maid Park, Roger Clemens threw six shutout innings and got a standing ovation after being pulled by Phil Garner. Craig Biggio and Luke Scott hit home runs, with the latter running his season batting average to .382.
September 21, Astros beat Cardinals 6-5 (6 1/2 behind)
Lance Berkman launched two home runs almost single-handedly beating Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter. Even with the victory their magic number to clinch the division was 5, and their beat writer echoed the team's confidence with this statement after the loss:
"The Astros are clinging desperately to the fringes of contention in both the National League Central division and the NL Wild Card race, while the Cards' march to October has taken on an inevitable quality."
September 22, Astros beat Cardinals 6-5 (5 1/2 behind)
150 games into the season and Biggio's RBI single in the ninth was the club's first walk-off hit of the season.
"We've got a really good challenge," manager Phil Garner said. "We've got something to play for. Thank goodness we have something to play for."
Down 5-2 in the eighth, the Astros rallied against the Cardinals' bullpen. If alarm bells were not ringing in St. Louis before this game they probably were after this game.
September 23, Astros beat Cardinals 7-4 (4 1/2 behind)
Roy Oswalt looked to be crusing through six, but in the seventh a Chris Duncan home run gave the Redbirds the lead. They soon took the lead back only for Dan Wheeler to blow the save, rectified in the bottom of the inning by a 3-run walk off home run by Scott.
September 24, Astros beat Cardinals 7-3 (3 1/2 behind)
Jeff Weaver, the one-time Astros nemesis was outpitched by Clemens, who started on three days rest in this crucial encounter. Again the Astros blew a late lead with Miller being the guilty party, but Aubrey Huff's three-run shot off Randy Flores proved the distance in the game.
"They're tough to play here," said reliever Josh Hancock. "They have a 10th man out there with the crowd. This place gets loud. Things are going well for them right now."
September 25, Astros beat Phillies 6-5, Cardinals lose to Padres 6-5 (2 1/2 behind)
Before heading to Pittsburgh the Astros had a make-up game to play at Citizens Bank Park. With the starting rotation effectively down to Oswalt, Pettitte and Berkman, Chris Sampson started what turned into a bullpen game, tossing 3 2/3 scoreless innings. Wandy Rodriguez and Dave Borkowski coughed up leads, but the offense rallied for three runs in the seventh to take its sixth straight win.
September 26, Astros beat Pirates 7-4, Cardinals lose to Padres 7-5 (1 1/2 behind)
No luck for the Cardinals as they dropped their seventh straight as the Astros won their seventh straight.
After the game Tony LaRussa said: "I like a lot of things I see, except the score."
Meanwhile Andy Pettitte did enough to earn his 14th win of the season, Craig Biggio drove in three runs and the team kept on rolling.
September 27, Astros beat Pirates 7-6, Cardinals beat Padres 4-2 (1 1/2 behind)
Albert Pujols ended the slide with a decisive 3-run homer against the Padres bullpen while the Astros ground out a result against the Pirates. But their magic number stayed at four as the Astros battled through a grueling 15 innings, Brad Ausmus getting the all-important sac-fly. Sampson, Brad Lidge and Wheeler all tossed 2+ scoreless innings in relief.
September 28, Astros beat Pirates 3-0, Cardinals lose to Brewers 9-4 (1/2 behind)
One of Roy Oswalt's finest efforts, only 200 stuck around to watch the Wizard blank the Pirates on a damp day in Pittsburgh.
"It definitely puts us in a tougher spot, but they're looking up at us still, whether it's by a half a game or not," said Preston Wilson, who started the season with Houston. "It's still half a game. They're looking up at us, so they have to do more than we have to at this point."
In nine days the Cardinals magic number to clinch the NL Central dropped from just five to four. Comparisons were already being made to the 1964 Phillies, who blew a 6 1/2 game lead with 12 games remaining.
Beaten by the Braves
This is where the story went sour. The Astros bats, who had delivered over the nine-game winning streak when they needed to, went ice cold in Atlanta. With the Cardinals magic number sitting at four, the Astros needed to keep winning and hope the Redbirds kept on losing. Roger Clemens pitched another six solid innings, but was outdueled by Chuck James, and what made it worse was that the Brewers were beaten 10-5 by the Cardinals. Their magic number was now at 2.
The next night the offense bailed out Trever Miller, who blew Pettitte's lead in the eighth inning, prevailing 5-4. All looked to be going well in St. Louis, with the Brewers leading 2-0 late in the game, but a late 3-run triple from Scott Spiezio off Francisco Cordero gave the Cardinals an invaluable win.
Going into game 162 for the Astros and game 161 for the Cardinals the math was simple. The former had to win and the latter had to lose to keep Houston's series alive. Pull that off and the Redbirds would have to make up a game with the Giants. Lose that and they would head to Minute Maid Park for a one-game playoff.
St. Louis held up its end of the bargain, but the Astros managed nothing off John Smoltz in the first six innings and fared little better against the Braves bullpen, losing 4-1 and ending the season with a whimper.
The Aftermath
The September stretch was the last Astros fans would see of several players. Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens both returned to New York, Willy Taveras, Jason Hirsh and Taylor Buchholz were dealt to Colorado for Jason Jennings, and Russ Springer was shown the door by Tim Purpura. Never mind that those three never made it, I still have no idea how that deal made sense in Purpura's head, nor anyone else's. 2007 would be the last season before Ed Wade's great cleanout, heralding few survivors.
The Cardinals would go on to win the World Series, putting behind them the sweep by the Red Sox two years earlier, taking the series from the Tigers, despite the piece of cake on Kenny Rogers hand (I also greatly enjoyed this moment in the NLCS).
The years 2007-2011 have not been kind to the Astros, but neither have they treated the Cardinals that well. Between 1996-2006 only one season saw postseason play without either of the two teams, 2003. Assuming the Braves beat out the Cardinals for the NL wildcard, only once in the past five seasons has either made the playoffs. The rest of the division, which was at times chronically awful, has suddenly become far more competitive.
Our period of 'dominance' is well over. Rather than pointing fingers while analyzing the period 2004-2008 in which decisions made irreparable damage to the franchise as a whole, as an article on Grantland did, or saying that their fall from grace is unprecedented as Richard Justice said recently, I prefer to marvel at an extraordinary five seasons.
In those nine days I remember the Houston section of the media going more and more crazy, but it all seemed insulated. It got nowhere near the attention the Phillies received in 2007 for ousting the lolMets. I always thought at the time and I still believe today that that team did not get enough credit for its incredible streakiness. If success is never certain, why is failure treated like it is? Why do people get credit for good luck, but blame for bad luck?
All this talk of falling off a mountaintop is trash, because, looking at 2006 and even 2008 you can see that sometimes even things don't go the right way for good teams. The margin for error in all sports is tiny. Anything from Chuck James to Hurricane Ike can ruin a season. This fatal misunderstanding of an apparent zenith in 2004 and 2005 has fatally skewed Justice and a few others' analysis of the period in my opinion. In some cases good judgement can only be seen in hindsight, in other cases they can be picked straight away.
The sky may seen as black as midnight at the moment for the Astros, but who knows when they will have a big nine games and watch the stars align for them again?


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METAIRIE, La. — Nick Toon was well on his way to having a standout training camp in 2012 before injuring his foot badly enough to be placed on the Saints' injured reserve.
But instead of wallowing, instead of going into a mental bunker, he took the time to observe and watch and learn.
And a year later, he's having as good a training camp as anyone, building on the lessons from his redshirt season.
"It was really just trying to take advantage of my opportunity to learn," Toon said. "I sat back and observed, watched the older guys, sitting in meeting rooms, trying to learn as much of the playbook as I could, watching film, and just trying to watch and observe. I kind of got the opportunity to step back and learn.
"Obviously, I wish I would have been out there playing but last year was still a great learning experience."
The 6-foot-4, 218-pound receiver so far has taken full advantage of a wide open battle for one of the roster spots at the position.
With Marques Colston on the physically unable to perform list, Lance Moore is the only receiver with more than one season of catching passes from quarterback Drew Brees full time.
That's opening up spots with the first-team offense for players like Andy Tanner, Kenny Stills, Joseph Morgan and Toon.
Thus far, Toon has very few drops and has shown a knack for being a big target in the middle of the fray.
It doesn't hurt that he's receiving passes from Brees, one of the NFL's most accurate quarterbacks in its history.
"Drew is a great player and one of the best in the game if not the best in the game," Toon said. "It's awesome being out there with the ones and getting the opportunity to go out there and showcase what I can do."
But it gets back to his rookie season, receivers coach Henry Ellard said.
"He has a better idea of what he's doing," Ellard said. "That's the benefit of having him here last year on campus even though he didn't practice at all, to see how things are done, watching Lance and watching Devery at the time and watching Colston, (seeing) how things are done on a week in, week out basis and just continue to build on that."


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Two SUNY Plattsburgh students received top awards in a scientific research competition: Justin Andrews of Warrensburg and Mackenzie Kilkeary of Plattsburgh. Andrews, a junior earth and environmental science major, started working on a DNA database of the Lake Champlain basin frog population in the summer of 2011. He entered his work into the Society of College Science Teacher's poster contest and placed first. Kilkeary worked to determine the sex of juvenile ancient Maya skeletons. He placed second in the poster contest. He will study in the forensic science graduate program at Marshall University in West Virginia.
Area students who were awarded bachelor's degrees at the University of Vermont, Burlington, are: Jane F. McClelland of Keene Valley, nutrition and food sciences; Michael M. Clark of Lake Placid, history; Alice Robinson of Peru, professional nursing; Jordan L. Stepheny of Peru, dietetics nutrition and food sciences; Anders O. Franzon of Plattsburgh, civil engineering; Justin M. Houle of Plattsburgh, exercise and movement sciences; Joseph N. Shannawi of Plattsburgh, electrical engineering; Sarah M. Lake of Saranac, elementary education K-6; Michelle L. Brown of Saranac Lake, natural resources, Arielle N. Retrosi of Saranac Lake, global studies, Megan K. Ryan of West Chazy, athletic training education; Dana V. Allen of Westport, social work; and Sarah J. Gibbs of Westport, studio art.
Joshua Leblanc of Saranac Lake graduated from the University of New Haven in West Haven, Conn., with a master's degree in industrial/organizational psychology.
Two local residents have been accepted into the Class of 2017 at Union College, Schenectady: Amy DeMane of Plattsburgh, a graduate of Plattsburgh High School, and Tucker West of Lake Placid, a graduate of National Sports Academy in Lake Placid.
Christopher T. Crain of Plattsburgh received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Design from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University. He is the son of Stephen and Elizabeth Crain of Plattsburgh and a graduate of Peru Central School. He was one of five doctoral degree recipients.


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Photo Flash: Stark Naked Theatre Presents FAITH HEALER and THE GOOD THIEF, Beg. Tonight
Following the regional premiere of All Girls, Stark Naked Theatre Company's third season continues with two critically acclaimed Irish plays-Faith Healer and The Good Thief-performed in repertory and directed by the incomparable John Tyson. This special two-play rotation opens tonight, January 24th with the Houston premiere of Faith Healer, a Tony award-winning play written by legendary Irish playwright Brian Friel. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Faith Healer, written by legendary Irish playwright Brian Friel, chronicles the life of Irish faith healer Francis Hardy and stars Philip Lehl as Hardy, Kim Tobin as his wife Grace, and John Tyson as manager Teddy. Praised by the New York Times as an "exalting tale" with the "addictive pull of a detective yarn," this engaging monologue-based play provides audiences with a "transcendent experience." First produced on Broadway in 1979, Faith Healer received four Tony nominations and one Tony award for the play's 2006 revival starring Ralph Fiennes.
The second play featured in Stark Naked's repertory program is the Houston professional premiere of the one-man play The Good Thief. Written by Olivier award-winning and Tony-nominated playwright Conor McPherson, the play features Santry Rush in an unforgettable story of one man's journey from the criminal underworld into redemption.
Continuing its innovative collaboration with Houston's talented visual arts community, Stark Naked is combining Live Theatre with an equally powerful visual arts experience. To provide audiences with the opportunity to further explore the highly relevant themes of Faith Healer and The Good Thief, Stark Naked Theatre is sponsoring a corresponding art exhibition entitled Obsession and Grace. The exhibit features a range of media and will be curated by award-winning local artist Dianne K Webb (Stark Naked Theatre's in-house Art Coordinator). Obsession and Grace is available for viewing one hour in advance of each performance show time, with complimentary admission for Faith Healer and The Good Thief ticket holders.
Faith Healer opens on January 24th with previews January 23rd. Soon after, The Good Thief opens on January 29th with previews January 28th. Tickets (priced at $20 for general admission, $17 for seniors and $10 for students) are available for purchase at www.starknakedtheatre.com or by phone at 832.866.6514. As the plays alternate, check the website for details on which production is scheduled for a specific day and time.
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