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NEW DELHI: The Sohrabuddin encounter killing case threw up a new twist on Wednesday with the Gujarat government producing in the Supreme Court a 15-page list signed by a CBI officer acknowledging receipt of documents, including some call record CDs after the investigation was transferred from state police.
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Santa Fe Gold Corporation (OTCBB: SFEG) today announced that it has signed a Binding Heads of Agreement to pursue a business combination with International Goldfields Limited (ASX: IGS). Key terms of the transaction have been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, subject to satisfactory completion of due diligence, definitive agreements, regulatory and required consents and approvals. The companies are targeting prompt execution of definitive documents and a first quarter 2013 closing date, subject to shareholder approvals and other customary closing conditions. The contemplated transaction structure would be effected solely through an exchange of SFEG shares for IGS shares in connection with a merger transaction.
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Pierce Carson, President and CEO of Santa Fe, commented, "This is an exciting opportunity for the shareholders of both companies as the proposed merged entity is anticipated to result in a diversified and well-capitalized gold-silver miner, explorer, and developer, with projects located in emerging mining districts of Brazil, West Africa, and the Southwestern United States. We believe that the proposed business combination will maximize collective shareholder value for numerous reasons, including:
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17 Then, taking a cup of wine, he made the b'rakhah and said, "Take this and share it among yourselves. | 17 After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, "Take this and divide it among you. |
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It's A Boy! Mike Tyson Welcomes His Eighth Child
A source close to the couple says, "Mike and Lakiha are very happy and everyone is doing great." The two married just 10 days after the tragic death of his 4-year-old daughter Exodus in May 2009.
In an interview on 'The View,' the boxer admitted, "I'm totally destitute and broke. Yeah, I have no money." When co-host Joy Behar asked how that was possible, given his success and endorsements, he replied, "Um, I had a lot of fun."
Mike also told the ladies of 'The View' that he has "always had a lot of responsibilities. I just didn't take em. I didn't care. It's hard living up to them. It's harder than being the heavyweight champion of the world."
In addition to being a new dad, Mike has an upcoming documentary series on pigeon racing premiering later this winter on Animal Planet, and he'll also be reprising his role in 'The Hangover 2.'
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- Thursday 27 JanuaryBy jsumnersumHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I wonder if he beats her also?
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy Hi ToddHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Mike is a dumb as a box of rocks! He is showing signs of parkinsons from his boxed brain, that baby has more live brain cells than he has, sad for the child. What is his wife thinking staying with that mental midget, she will divorce him and get out before the drooling and slobbering starts...
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy Hi ToddHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Many are proponents of "spay and neuter from birth" for these kinds of "thug" births!
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy AmyHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I wonder how behind he is on child support with the "other mothers?" Like a breeding dog he needs to be neutered. He used to be on top of the world-now he's a has been.
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy RUssHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Get out your checkbooks America. We've got seven more kids to feed, house, and take care of for 18 years.(or probably for life)
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy srsnakes
Hope Mike invites you to step into the ring.
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy AmyHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
All I ever think about when I hear his name is that he is a rapist. The lowest of the low. I wouldn't waste my time watching anything on TV he is involved with. And you might say he's paid his debt to society with his jail time but the person he raped is scared forever.
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy daprhu59High Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I don't know - I feel sorry for Mike, anyone that disturbed deserves some pity. I think his problem was a total lack of self control and moral base. I think if Cus had lived longer, the Tyson story would be much different.
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy PamelaHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Don't people know when to stop having kids? To support, love and be there for them is impossible for 8 children in this day and age. In a normal family, the oldest child would be a Mother to the new baby as the Mother & Father could not take care of all the children themselves (if even one of them is working) and this is unfair to the older children taking care of their siblings.
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy DonaldHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Great. Another knuckle dragging missing link.
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy Goober
It's a good thing he is spreading his gene pool...we need more of him....and those death row guys in California that the taxpayers pay for the saving of their giz, so that those fine genetics can be repro'd too.
Oh, oh, ...and your standard run of the mill prisoners (murderer's, rapists, and whatnot)in California get those conjugal visits where they can reproduce, also on the taxpayer dime. NICE - Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy JoyceHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
Please I am really sorry to say this but the guy has an IQ of 70
and he is producing imbecites......god help us - Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy srsnakes
Bush had an IQ of 65, and his daughters turned out ok....
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy teriHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
I hope to God he has an IQ above 45
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy nealHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
what is wrong with all these women, he has the IQ of a turnip, a convicted rapist and an ear biter!
- Wednesday 26 January
As long as they take proper care of the child, and the tax payers are not picking up the tab, good for them.
I cant help but wonder why any woman, would want to have Mikes child though. - Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy Ted BundyHigh Rank Vote downVote upReport this
He should have been neutered.
- Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy kenhp1
It is another example of a man creating babies he does not support. It does not matter if the Mother is a doctor. She is paying, he is not. He abandoned his kids and decided he was going to have "fun" as he stated on the Joy Behar Show. He also says he is destitute due to having "fun" so how does he pay child support? He Doesn't!! Just another one who thinks the world owes him a living.
He has admitted he can't handle the responsibility, so are we suppose to be glad he created yet another child. I think not!!!! - Wednesday 26 JanuaryBy Earbgone
Isnt that a boy standing next to him? UGH. youd think at least with his money, he would get a honey. not a dummy.
- Thursday 27 JanuaryBy macddarch
cmon mike you 44 years old don't you think your child making years are behind you?? by the time your child is 30 you'll be 74!
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How do you get going again after pregnancy?
You haven't killed it Minks! Always someone from a different time zone to pick it up!! Glad the running is going well and potential holiday drama resolved!
TTid that is so frustrating and stressful for you. I hope someone gives you a resolution soon!!
We are having major success with a sleep training clock at the moment!! Got a momo monkey clock (like a gro clock but monkeys eyes open/shut). I think I am actually in love with it!! Took 2 days to get to grips with it and now she stays in bed until monkey wakes up! Sometimes comes I but happy to be taken back to bed and stays there! Not bad considering she often wakes at 5.30 and alarm goes off at 6.50am!
Ha ha Minks, that's usually the effect I have!! Great to hear your running is going so well, and even more importantly that you are enjoying it. It's great when it all feels like it's coming together. Holiday accommodation sounds a bit of a nightmare but now something sorted so all good.
Seals were probably 5-6m away from us yesterday - have never been in the water and that close to them. It was just a pair playing near us - they were in no hurry to go at all, kept ducking under and then popping up and looking at us right in the face! When I saw one on the beach on Sunday and tried to take a photo it very rapidly rolled into the sea so I didn't expect these to hang around. There is a sandbar about 300m away which they all hang out and bask in the sun on, these ones had obviously got bored of sunbathing!!
TT - must have missed the horrors re your land, that sounds absolutely dreadful, I hadn't realised there was likely to be problems with building, just what you don't need. Hope it all comes together and is sorted very soon.
Camlo - my body felt much like you described yours when I went on my run tonight - everything seemed to be hurting!!! Night sweats, vile moods, nausea and headaches ... hmmm ... well I definitely get all of that lot around TOTM and I definitely find the nasty moods seem to hang around a lot longer than they used to ... I guess stress will make all these things a lot worse!
Miserable wet day here for most of it, house was desperate for some cleaning so quick whizz round and then supermarket and library with kids - well, I said to them that it's the price we pay for having lovely days out on the beach etc!! kids friends for lunch, accompanied by their dad as he's on childcare duties for part of this week ... then my lovely lovely babysitter who is disappearing to university in Sept and I set off for longish run. Did first 4 miles with her mum and then rest on my own. 15 miles of beach running and coastal path and man did it hurt! I am so out of the zone of regular running my body (especially my Achilles) is in shock!! Hubby did suggest that perhaps four days between long runs was not really long enough, but of course, I don't believe him!! Much loved trail shoes are on last legs though and they've changed the darn model ... not what I need with an ultra in six weeks time ...
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Hope the sun comes out for you tomorrow CC - sounds like you need it!! Boo to the babysitter leaving! I don't know what I would do if ours left!!!
I hate it when they do that with shoes, CC. I've worn Nike Pegasus since forever (with the odd foray into something else every now and again that never usually works out) but with each model they "refine" the design - not always to the benefit of the wearer in my opinion. The ones I'm currently wearing are two models old (got them for £28 on Runners Need so can't complain) and they are much roomier in the toe area than the newer models. I buy size 4.5 usually but the last couple of pairs of newer models have been a lot more snug than with previous versions so I may have to chance a 5 next time and risk running like Coco the clown!
Kit has a friend here today - second playdate of the week; this is time I want back at the end of my life! I've taken most of the week off work as Kit's been doing a summer swim school each morning and the timing is such that it's not worth my while to go into work afterwards (shame!)
Hubby and I are like ships that pass in the night at the moment. If he's not rowing, I'm running and vice versa. Plus regattas most Saturdays or Sundays and they are pretty much full-day events. It'll be weird going on holiday and actually spending time together!
Boo to lack of babysitter CC. Saying that, we don't have one either unless I ask my mum, who is always happy to oblige but prefers to go home rather than stay the night, so means one of us can't have a drink or we have to pay for a cab for her which adds a bit on to the cost of the evening. May explain why we haven't actually been out together (just the two of us) at all this year!
It's tough to get siters isn't it? We use my parents a bit but no one else. Glad to hear running going well for you Minks. Runs and swim sound fab CC - even if you are a bit sore now! Hope you get the building underway soon TT. house stuff is super stressful eh?
Just popping on quickly before bed. Sleep well all and have a good day to those in other time zones!
We have a lovely babysitter - if only we could afford to use her more!! I'm trying to set up some reciprocal babysitting with friends but at the moment they have babysat for us but not asked me to babysit in return - will feel guilty asking until they ask!!
We tend to take our 2 everywhere with us. Not always appropriate but we aren't good at planning Had a lovely dinner out at our beach club tonight overlooking the Atlantic. Was beautiful. Max in bed 1 hour past his bedtime and Os now wriggling around on the living room rug.
Trying all avenues at the moment for a mortgage. Keeping fingers crossed that HSBC can come up with something.
Happy birthday today to another mummy. AF who I think is MR on here??
hi all and belated happy birthday to MM and MR. sorry to hear things are not good MM. i think i am also heading for early menopause. consultant couldn't find anything wrong with my womb or ovaries but periods still all wonky - every 2 weeks-ish. he said it's definitely hormonal and if i wanted i could take drugs, but at the moment i don't.
just back today from fabulous holiday in spain and feeling very VERY glum. we went to murcia in the east of spain and stayed in a village on the coast near puerto de mazarron. can't recommend it highly enough as it is quite rural, and very spanish. the only time we saw any other brits were when we went into the port to a chinese buffet (at J's request!). idyllic bays along there - hired a pedalo with a slide on it; spent hours in the pool and the sea. beautifully warm and clear seas. also went up into the mountains one day and fed crisps to the wild boar (hmmm - but very cool) and spent my birthday at a waterpark in murcia where the kids and i swam with sealions. hardly ethical i guess but so much fun.
dropped kids at their dad's on the way back so am now extremely glum and low as the holiday was just perfect. they were brilliant the whole time and didn't argue much at all. in fact, they even played together which is UNHEARD of!
i shall go back to sulking now - but will try a little plod in a while. the only problem with temps in the 30s is that running is a struggle. i went out twice at night (10pm ish) but it was still 29 degrees which was too hot for me. also very humid so it was not pleasant!
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Come here tom CM? Adult party starts 8pm. X
holiday sounded amazing CM. post holiday blues are Carp and after such a fab time no wonder you're glum. Pics on FB look great - you all look so relaxed and happy!
Good luck with mortgages TTid. We're doing exact same thing at the mo - all the documentation they ask for! It's so stressful. Hope HSBC can come up with the goods.
gazebo thing looks cool MM. Oh and yes Minks - fab that your running is so great right now! I love times like that - & you deserve it after the disappointments earlier in the year. I just cannot WAIT to start running again when no doubt i will asking those of you who had c sections how long it was before you started again!
PS summer cold here - sneezing away. Rage!
Our winter heatwave continues - glorious days of 20 degrees!!!
CM your holiday looked wonderful and great that the kids got on so well - the photo of them holding hands is beautiful!!!
boo to end of holiday CM, Mazzaron is where my friend has bought an apartment for us to use.... was going to leave it this year as it isn't furnished yet but from then on its fair game! Your pics are great and hopefully kids will spend the next few days crowing all about it!!!
Menopause is just carp..... why can't it be simple?!
hope party has gone well MM
yippee to heat waves and boo to falling off bike (yep, me again.... scuffed new bike and my elbow, but did get 39mph downhill!!)
Anyone used approved foods before? I got an order this week which would have been £87 in the shops but was £37 inc postage. All short dated stuff but I figured tinned stuff was ok and most of it seems to be ok. Wouldn't buy out of date nuts again as they aren't brill but tins of olives were 4 for £1 are are excellent. I think I can send a link which will get money off if anyone wants me to look.
whoop whoop Camlo, that sounds speedy AND painful!! Go easy there.
Holiday sounded fabulous CM, and lovely pictures of the kids too
Saw a fetching photo of MM and her hubby on FB in fancy dress
Weekend seems to have gone in a flash, hubby was home Thurs eve but I was in Edinburgh all day Friday - long there-and-back day but very worth it. Hubby out on bike yesterday morning, friends round for bbq late afternoon/evening; I did 10 miles this morning in my road shoes which are not trashed and fine for coastal path but NOT for Lakeland trails so need to sort that situation out very soon. Tennis in park with kids this afternoon and then hubby has gone again ... sigh
Last week of the holidays for us now, has been lovely, especially with the weather but by the end of last week I had pretty much had enough!!! I think I cope in the week usually because I don't get to see them 24/7 - hey ho, you never know, one day my husband will resolve his job situation!!
blimey camlo - hope you didn't come off at 39mph!!
how was party, MM? looks like it was fun on FB!
can't believe your hols over already, cc. mind you, ours are trotting by now and i'm just panicking about the logistics of the beginning of term as E starts reception but is only in for 30 mins on one day during the first week. ARGH!!!! I know and appreciate school is not childcare, but really - this isn't making it easy on us working parents. particularly as she isn't entitled to attend day nursery anymore at that point, so I literally cannot use any form of wrap-around for the first week of term. the second week is a bit better - she is in from 9am until 1.45pm but even then there's no after school wrap-around until she starts full-time the following week. gah! and I've used all my bloody holiday already so I can't take any more leave. I don't actually know what I am going to do!!
I can report some running - rather worried about that because it usually all goes tits up as soon as I do that. I am doing Cardiff half in oct so am doing a 10week plan. just finished week 2 and yesterday I did 3 miles timed - first mile 8.30; second 8.22 and third 8.10 . And today I did my 6 miles slow but didn't take garmin deliberately as I was doing a very hilly route. felt absolutely fine, and that was after a walk up a (small) mountain this morning which was about 5.5miles. I will say it is a lot easier to exercise in these temperatures than in spain. it was sweltering and very unpleasant trying to run - even at 10pm. I saw loads of people still running at midnight over there!
can well imagine the complete nightmare CM, I am so very glad I am not in a type of job that requires me to be working some of the holidays ... hubby has hardly any holiday left for the year (and he took very little off during these holidays) and I still have two weeks of 'tattie hols' and then two inset days to go before we get to the Christmas holidays so he wouldn't be able to help much even if he was here!!
Running in heat is tough ... can remember doing a couple of runs in Thailand when we took Explorer Scouts on Jamboree there, and sweating gazillions!
Well done on the running though, fingers crossed. I've just been feeling totally shattered, the 10 I did this morning were at a decent pace considering I was running straight into the wind all the way back (1.30) on the beach, but boy I just feel like I haven't slept for weeks!!! Never mind, easy day with the kids tomorrow.
cc - I have just worked it out for next year and I don't have enough holiday to take every day off that the kids are with me during the holidays / half terms, and I only have them for 50% of the time in the holidays and I only work 4 days a week as well. and that is if I buy the maximum amount of extra holiday that I can so that I have 7 weeks a year. it won't be so bad hopefully now as I can probably persuade them both to go to a holiday club together for a day or so during the holidays - up until now, J has been reluctant to go because he thinks he won't know anyone and E hasn't been big enough to go. but if E is going too, then he may be more inclined to agree. well - at the moment at least because they are actually not beating the crap out of each other all the time! by the next holidays that will have changed, i'm sure!
boo to inconsiderate schools, worn out trainers, lack of holidays (in fact boo to working full stop...), disturbed nights and running in the heat.
yippee to some fab running from CM and CC, parties, successful holidays and kids getting on for a change.
You will be pleased to hear I did not fall off at 39mph, rather embarrassingly I fell off before I left the drive at 0 mph. Went karting today and had a laugh, kids were brill but then I dropped them off with grandma for a few days and got a call later to say I hadn't packed any of Archie's night bags. gggrrrr it is such a pain having to remember all his catheters, tapes, bags, dressings, medicine etc etc every time we go out.


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Very tasty! It was missing a flavor though, so I added some parsley and a little lemon juice and that fixed it right up.


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Robert Pattinson Strolls Solo Following Days With Kristen Stewart (PHOTOS)
Robert Pattinson stepped out in London on Friday, with his phone and a briefcase of sorts in tow. Dressed casually in blue pants, a black jacket and baseball cap, Rob headed out for the day.
He and girlfriend Kristen Stewart have been inseparable in London ever since the Breaking Dawn press tour finished up, including some night's out with his family.
So is there really tension between Kristen and Robert Pattinson's mom?
Not at all, like In Touch reported.
In fact, Kristen and Clare Pattinson get along very well, sources assure.
Stewart, Rob, and the Pattinson's all went out to catch Marcus Foster's show, and they looked like one happy family an insider there tells Celebuzz. Although, Kristen's attention was more focused on Rob, of course!
The couple were able to totally let loose, dancing, enjoying some drinks and some kisses Wednesday. Onlookers say Kristen and Rob had their arms wrapped around each other all night, and had a blast singing along to Marcus Foster's songs. Stewart was especially animated, yelling things like "don't stop Marcus!" and other encouraging words to the stage! Rob dotted on his lady the entire time, of course.
Remember, Stewart appeared in Foster's music video for "I Was Broken."
So glad these two had a romantic, and fun date night! Unfortunately the paparazzi definitely put a damper on that hounding them on their way home (although R.Pattz did his best to shield Kristen).
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Bangladesh's left-arm pacer Syed Rasel has been sidelined for two months after sustaining an injury during a three-day game against Leicestershire.
Rasel, who is touring England with the Bangladesh A team, injured his waist during the match against the Foxes last week but the extent of the injury was not known until a scan.
The 24-year-old has spent much of the past eight months on the sidelines since being sent home from New Zealand with a dislocated shoulder in December 2007.
He is expected to get a recall into the Bangladesh team which will play a four-nation Twenty20 tournament in Canada from Aug. 14 to 17. Bangladesh then go to Australia for three one-day matches from Aug. 31 to Sept. 6.
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If Hezbollah installs advanced anti-aircraft batteries in Lebanon, the Israel Air Force will have to alter its overflights of Lebanon significantly, a senior IAF officer told Haaretz Tuesday.
However, he added that the IAF has successfully coped with similar threats elsewhere, and could do so in Lebanon as well.
Senior government and army officials have recently held feverish discussions on this scenario. Some of those involved have termed the installation of anti-aircraft batteries a "red line" to which Israel would have to respond with a "violent signal."
There have been conflicting reports in the Arabic media as to whether Hezbollah has already smuggled in such missiles, or is merely seeking to do so. Senior General Staff officers opined recently that while Hezbollah clearly wants such missiles eventually, they doubt it is interested in heating up its conflict with Israel just now.
Meanwhile, the diplomatic-security cabinet will meet Wednesday to discuss the situation in Lebanon, and especially Hezbollah's rampant arms-smuggling via Syria. The Foreign Ministry plans to recommend that Israel seek to increase international pressure on Syria to halt this smuggling.
Israel views this matter as urgent, especially in light of the reports that Hezbollah is trying to smuggle in sophisticated anti-aircraft batteries. This will be the cabinet's second discussion on the matter in recent weeks.
In addition to upping the pressure on Syria, Israel would also like the international community to increase pressure on Russia, since some of the sophisticated weaponry Hezbollah is procuring is Russian-made.
Another key focus of today's discussion will be the new government guidelines the Lebanese cabinet adopted last week, which formally authorize Hezbollah to attack Israel whenever it pleases.


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MANDYA: October 12, 1911, is a red-letter day for lakhs of farmers in the Mysore region whose life changed for the better with a government order being issued by Krishna Rajendra
Wodeyar, the then king of princely state of Mysore.
The order was to built a massive irrigation dam near Kannambadi village to store Cauvery water for the twin purpose of irrigating the vast tract of rain-fed agricultural land and generating electricity.
It's been exactly a century since that order passed, and to this day, Krishnarajasagara (KRS) reservoir stands testimony to the progressive mind of the king. It also shows the ability and far-sightedness of statesman and dewan Sir M Visvesvaraya.
According to archives, then chief engineer of Mysore state, Visvesvaraya, prepared a blueprint to build a dam across Cauvery river near Kannanbadi. For that, he had to persuade the king and the then dewan T Ananda Rao. Satisfied with the "revolutionary concept which would change the fortune of Mysore state", the king issued GO No. C.13198490 on October 12, 1911, and gave the go-ahead for the project costing Rs 81 lakh. However, it rose to Rs 103.42 lakh later.
Biggest dam in india
As per the initial plan, Sir MV wanted to build 194-foot tall dam to hold 41.5 tmcft of water. But it was restricted to 124 feet following objections from Madras presidency state to build the dam. However, the works began with the permission of the British government, and ended in 1932. The dam had the distinction of being the then biggest dam in India and second biggest in the world.
The dedication behind building such a massive dam is noteworthy, and it is for this reason that thousands of farmers in Mandya district literally worship Krishna Rajendra Wodeyar and Visvesvaraya.
But the government has not organized any event to commemmorate the day. When TOI contacted a senior irrigation officer on this, he claimed ignorance of the date on which the historic order was passed. "The decision to organize any event will be taken at the government level. We don't know anything about it," the officer said, pleading anonymity.
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quote:Yeah...the moon is farther than the sun. Idiot.
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quote:They would have to. Amateur astronomers would figure it out pretty quickly.
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quote:I was surprised at how close it's going to get to the earth. Only 17,000 miles out which is much closer than the Moon and within satellite orbit range.
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Tuesday, 19 March, 2013 - 19:30 to 21:30
A fascinating talk in which you'll find out more of the science behind some everyday communications equipment created by Scots. Their inventions and discoveries include the telephone, television and radar.
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Haha thanks buddy. Truth be told, I wasn't overall happy with it. Feel like I need the practice.
That Ic'ing/promo from Bray has gone down a storm Ha! I'm pleased I added it too the show. As soon as I seen it, I thought.. that's quality, it needs to be seen. Kudos man!
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Melody E. Myers
Melody Elizabeth Myers March 18, 1962 - April 2, 2012 Melody was born March 18, 1962 to Hollis and Inza Myers in Sulphur, OK. She attended Cement Elementary. They moved to Verden where she played basketball and graduated in 1980. Melody enjoyed playing music and was in a band with Robert Hackworth, Gary Don Schmidt, and Richard Smart for a few years.
Irene Phelps
Irene Phelps 1910 - 2014 Funeral Services for Mrs. Irene Phelps, 104, will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday April 5, 2014 at Ferguson Funeral Home with Michael Oberlender officiating. Mrs. Phelps died on March 31, 2014 at Glenhaven Retirement Village in Chickasha. Irene Phelps was born in Hobart, Oklahoma, on March 11, 1910. She was the daughter of Samuel Thomas Mask and Vessie Barnhart Mask.
Mildred M. Venters
July 5, 1927 - April 6, 2014 YUKON Mildred Mary "Millie" Venters, 86, was born July 5, 1927, in OKC and passed away on April 6 in Yukon, OK. Millie graduated from Capitol Hill High School and attended one year at the Oklahoma College for Women. She worked for Tinker Air Force Base, then FAA, where she worked in aircraft registration until her retirement.
Mary F. Wilson
Mary Frances Meeker Wilson (1913 – 2014) Mary Meeker Wilson was born on Christmas Day, 1913, at home, upstairs, in American Fork, Utah. Mary's father John Scudder Meeker was a Presbyterian National Missions minister who with his wife Georgia Poage Meeker and four children served churches in Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Illinois, Colorado and Kansas.
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New York City, January 28, 2015
★★★ A few elongated clouds arrayed themselves on the sharp morning blue. The light on the slushy crosswalks was blinding; the puddles were a sinister clayey gray-brown. Mostly, though, the snow was enduring, still presentably white. The wet floor of the subway made it too risky to rush and jump into the open car at the warning tone, but the down parka made it relatively easy to take the blow of the slamming doors and squirm through. The sidewalks were everything from open pavement to solid packed snow, on opposite sides or even different lengths of a single block. An oncoming stroller bore down down along a channel just wide enough for its wheels. The paint of the window frames diffused generous portions of daylight into the office. Walking at dusk, small muscles in the lower legs tensed and ached a bit from making constant minor corrections on the slippery ground. The crisp-cut half moon, barely turning gibbous, was startling.
Fred Armisen on the Evolution of 'Portlandia,' 'SNL,' and American Accents
Portlandia's fifth season premiered on IFC earlier this month, and for longtime fans of the show, the newest crop of episodes have been the perfect culmination of four years' worth of exploring the many characters, small businesses, and human idiosyncracies in the magical world of Portland. But Portlandia isn't the only thing that's evolved and changed over the past few years—co-creator and star Fred Armisen has moved from his SNL roots to be the new Late Night band leader and has a brand new IFC show set to debut later this year, so it looks like 2015 will be another busy year for one of TV's favorite punk rock/comedian hybrids. I recently spoke with Armisen about how he approached the new season of Portlandia, NBC's upcoming SNL 40th anniversary special, and his hopes to one day master every American accent since 1930.
The last time we interviewed you was almost a year ago, right after you started at Late Night. How's your year been?
Inside the Mind of the Teen Male, Approximately
I don't command a nerd army, or preside over a realm of the socially ill-equipped. I'm small for my age, young for my grade, uncomfortable in most situations, nearsighted, skinny, awkward, and nervous. And no good at sports. So Dork is accurate. The King part is pure sarcasm, though: there's nothing special or ultimate about me.
— Frank Portman, King Dork (2006)
King Dork Approximately is the recently published sequel to King Dork. They are very funny and truthful YA novels, written by Frank Portman, with a quite pro- sex and drugs and rock and roll vibe to them. They are told by protagonist Tom Henderson, a disaffected, cynical, guitar-playing teenager in a band whose name changes every other minute (The Mordor Apes, with Mithril-hound on guitar, Li'l Sauron on Bass and Necrology, and Dim Todd on Percussion and Stupefaction, soon gives way to The Elephants of Style: Mot Juste on guitar, Sam Enchanted Evening on Bass and Animal Husbandry; First Album, Devil Warship). In King Dork, Henderson's discovery of his late dad's annotated copy of The Catcher In The Rye creates all kinds of havoc for our hero. The movie of the first book has been in production for ages at Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's production company, Gary Sanchez; Miguel Arteta (Freaks and Geeks, Youth in Revolt) is attached to direct. Portman is also the frontman of the old SF pop punk band, The Mr. T Experience. MTX, as it is known locally, was formed in Berkeley in 1985, so Tom Henderson comes honestly by his rock and roll bona fides.
These are the only YA books I know of that describe teen
sexuality convincingly from the boys' side of the equation. Here is
a quote from Tom Henderson:
You can't control "the hots." You don't say, like oh, I would ordinarily like this girl's ass, but now I know she's a Republican or likes the Doors then I suddenly don't. It doesn't work like that, at least not for me. And it's true the other way too: things like accomplishments or abilities don't much matter like people seem to think they should. "Well, Gwendolyn, now that I know you came in second in the spelling bee, I suddenly inexplicably want to ramone you." No, not so much. An ass is an ass is an ass. You either like it or you don't, and spelling bees don't enter into it, so to speak. But honestly? I usually do like it.
In the travails of Henderson and his friends and foes, Portman expertly portrays the real-life horrorshow teens face in attempting to form a halfway operational understanding of—well everything, but most specifically, how gender politics will operate in the adult life they're about to embark on. We really aren't serving the teens too well there, it has to be said. What have they got to work with? Some ghastly farrago of Grand Theft Auto, The Fault In Our Stars, The Hunger Games and Nicki Minaj videos.
I met Portman in the sumptuous wood-paneled Tap Room at the Huntington in Pasadena, where he was staying during his book tour for King Dork, Approximately. He's handsome, not too tall, dark hair, blue t-shirt. Strikingly, Portman's gimlet-eyed, cherubic mien has remained unchanged for decades.
What is YA literature, even?
Well, another question is: What is an adult? and then, What is a young adult?
The Man Who Won't Let Go
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" might well be George Jones's most famous song, but I don't think it was his best. Eighteen years before that one, he released my favorite: "She Thinks I Still Care."
The two songs are a little like bookends. "She Thinks I Still Care" is a first-person confession from a man who cannot stop loving a woman who has left him; "He Stopped Loving Her Today" is a second-person elegy for a man who only stopped loving a woman when he died. George Jones didn't write either song, but he made you believe he had lived both, falling in love so foolishly that only death could release him from loving a woman who had long stopped loving him.
The Possum never said the two songs were related, but they've always seemed that way to me, especially since the man in "He Stopped Loving Her Today" is reading love letters from 1962, the same year that "She Thinks I Still Care" was released. Jones stretched a single love affair the way he did the songs themselves; he never met a syllable he didn't like well enough to turn into two. Part of what's so distinctive, so delightfully Jones is that his vowels seem to go on forever and ever: Sheeeee thinks I stiiiiiiiill caaaaaaaare, and that's just the chorus.
A Poem by Henry Israeli
The car is a machine
that spins the world beneath it.
The heart is a machine
that sits like a hunched little man.
A child is a machine
to keep balls bouncing.
Balls are machines that keep
gravity from crushing us.
All machines depend
on all the other machines.
The Sporting Contest As Metaphor For Life: A Consideration In Verse
What Time Is The Super Bowl?
The Super Bowl is always now.
It takes place every minute.
It doesn't happen somewhere else
Just look around—you're in it.
You start out full of faith and hope
and joy for what will be.
You end up with your brains bashed in
and fractures in your knee.
Your arms are sore, your legs are weak
Your mouth is slack and muddy.
You've wet yourself and crapped your pants
The rest of you is bloody.
At every turn you're smacked around
And even if and when
You somehow reach a goal of yours
They send you back again.
A bunch of larger angry men
Keep mashing up your head
And when they finally stop the clock
It's over and you're dead.
The Super Bowl? Well, that's your life.
The suffering's what sticks.
Oh, you meant this Sunday's game?
That starts at half past six.
The Fusion Masthead
Guess who is coming to @DIRECTV? We are! Check us out
Jan 21st on Channel 342. pic.twitter.com/8OxjxbnpEM
— Fusion (@ThisIsFusion) January
13, 2015
What is Fusion? Fusion is a joint endeavor of ABC and Univision. So it is mostly a TV channel! (That's channel 108 in New York City, if you have Verizon. It's not a channel at all if you have any other cable provider.) But it is also a digital enterprise, embedded inside the TV-ness, to make things happen across all platforms as the future of TV changes in whatever ways it will. It is something of an experiment. Mostly what you likely know about Fusion is that they just keep hiring people! But who? And what do they do? Here is an attempt to organize those hires at the digital side of the organization into a masthead. (The TV side is even more complex.) They have so many titles!!! Some of them may or may not be at all what they sound like. And maybe there are a million more people? Or not…??? Who knows! Here's what we have so far. Undoubtedly we should regard this as as a living document and we will receive a few dozen updates.
The Best Time I Had Bed Bugs While Housesitting For Someone Else
I was very sure it was not bed bugs.
I was so, so sure.
In fact, I knew it was not bed bugs because I had done some extensive googling and cream buying and had gone to the doctor and decided what it really was was an obscure skin condition called Polymorphic Light Eruption.
Polymorphic Light Eruption is a skin rash caused by exposure to the sun affecting approximately 1 in 10 European women. Damn you, England, I thought to myself, damn you straight to hell. But secretly I was relieved.
My doctor was less convinced. "To be honest, it looks more like scabies or bed bugs or something," she said. I snorted. To be fair, she had literally just googled "scabies rash" in front of me, so my smug doubt was, I felt, somewhat justified. The itchy, red bumps decorating my arms, back and chest were clearly PMLE (the abbreviation used by My Community), and all I needed to do was never go outside in the sun again, fine.
I went home from the doctor and tore the sheets off the bed. Eggs.
Earlier this week I was commiserating with a friend who expressed discomfort over an increasing feeling of futility that had made itself manifest only recently and, as something of an expert in the field of not totally being in love with life all the time, it occurred to me that the knowledge I have concerning this condition might be helpful to more than just the people in my social circle, so I will share my message with anyone else out there who is similarly situated from an emotional standpoint. You are not wrong to feel down: This is winter. Real winter. We're in it now. The holidays are a distant memory, spring seems impossibly far away and even the lengthening of the days is something you observe solely through windows. Whatever flash of light you see in the hours before the evening is a taunting reminder that most of your life is spent indoors, in an artificially brightened environment designed to disguise a darkness that is always with you no matter how you try to convince yourself otherwise. We're at the point in the calendar year where the pervasive hopelessness of nature sends a signal to your brain to start a steady leak from its carafe of chemicals that more than ever makes you realize just how bleak and pointless life really is and that there is no amount of alcohol or television or sex or expensive noodle dishes and the photos you post thereof that can keep you from confronting just how alone you are no matter how many people you number in your life. You are suffering from a state that can best be described as human existence, the only cure for which comes at its end, and even that eventual promise of blissful oblivion makes it no easier to cope with the shabby scrim of suffering that drapes itself over all that you see in your sad eyes. Normally this is the part where I would offer some hope but I am sorry to tell you that I cannot. It's all dark. It doesn't get better. There is a temporary respite come spring and summer but even that you will waste and suddenly you will find yourself back in fall, the days growing shorter and your ability to delude yourself that it will all be okay once again proving wanting. It is an endless cycle of suffering only occasionally interrupted by your brain's begrudgingly allowing you to pretend things might work out while the weather is warm. That said, I hear flights to L.A. are not super-exorbitant these days; if you can swing it, it might make you okay for a week or two, which is really all you can ask for.#
New York City, January 27, 2015
★★★★ What the daylight revealed was a letdown, indisputably—a historic letdown, a ludicrous scene of ordinariness: walkways already shoveled clear; cars showing their flanks and hubcaps. Maybe there was still some fine snow blowing, but who cared? Looking out the window was like making eye contact with someone who had just been badly embarrassed. Yet was this snow the governor? Was this snow the things people had said about the storm or done around the storm? Or was it merely new and substantial and clean? The three-year-old went out to play with a friend and came back scarlet-cheeked, eating snow from the back of a mitten, resigned to the loss of a Batman figure somewhere in the playground drifts. Most things have a disappointment in them. The noodles in the cold-case ramen package, picked up the day before in the panic line at the store, had sprouted mold. Out in the late afternoon someone walked along the bare wet sidewalk carrying cross-country skis and poles, heading for someplace where snow would be. A plastic toboggan and saucer were coming home from the other direction. A fat-bellied two-ball snowman with cups for features stood beside the bus shelter. The statues by the fountain wore little white hats of snow. Out the window now, one had to admit the snow lay prettily enough on the far side of the Hudson. And then a brilliant little ray of orange shot under the edge of the clouds to decorate the buildings to the west, and then the three-year-old stood marveling at the colors surging out of the west, orange boiling into pink, a phenomenon beyond the scope of the record books.