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Six Nations 2013: Phillip Matthews on Ireland v France
- Venue: Aviva Stadium
- Date: 9 March
- Kick-off: 17:00 GMT
Coverage: Watch live on BBC One, BBC One HD, mobiles and online; listen on BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio Ulster and online; text commentary on BBC Sport website and mobiles
At the outset of this year's Six Nations, Ireland's clash with France in Dublin was being touted by some as a potential Championship decider between two of the tournament favourites.
Instead, with Ireland having won only one out of three and France having lost all their games, Saturday's encounter has become more of a scrap to avoid contesting the Wooden Spoon in the final round.
Former Ireland captain Phillip Matthews, part of BBC Sport's coverage at the Aviva Stadium, assesses the issues facing the hosts.
Was Declan Kidney right to drop Ronan O'Gara?
Declan Kidney left himself with little or no option but to drop Ronan O'Gara, given what transpired against Scotland . What I'd be asking, if I was Kidney, is: "Could this have been managed differently?"
O'Gara has been an icon of Irish rugby, is close to the hearts of so many supporters and they would have loved to have given him a standing ovation with 20 minutes to go in a match at Lansdowne Road.
O'Gara would have liked to have designed the way he bowed out, but as an athlete you always run the risk of giving that decision to somebody else rather than making that decision yourself.
But when somebody is as strong mentally as O'Gara and has so much belief in himself, it's difficult to say: "I still believe but maybe the time is right to hang them up."
O'Gara being dropped is part of a wider theme of the need to bring in younger players with talent and not just wait for older players to fizzle out. The understudy to Jonathan Sexton last year should maybe have been somebody who was going to be there until the next World Cup.
Neither Leinster's Ian Madigan nor Ulster's Paddy Jackson had any bench time before this season and Ireland were relying on Ronan beyond his useful time.
In the early part of O'Gara's career it was him and David Humphreys who were vying for that fly-half spot and Sexton then vied with O'Gara. It's unfortunate that Sexton has been injured, Jackson has been thrown in and he hasn't had an in-form O'Gara to help him through it.
It's a very public and difficult way to learn but Jackson has the talent, he has the class, all he needs is place-kicking experience under pressure.
How is Jamie Heaslip coping as captain?
My own situation was very similar to Heaslip's when I was first made captain. The existing captain, Donal Lenihan, was still in the team and it weighed heavily on me that first year, I wasn't the player I was.
Jamie was put in a very difficult situation: to say no would have been a tough thing to do, it's the type of thing you've got to say you're proud of doing.
But the enormity of it has been fairly apparent. It's difficult to know how to captain a side that has already got Brian O'Driscoll in it and I think both Kidney and Heaslip under-estimated the weight of it.
But knowing Heaslip he will learn from it and be stronger and better for it. The best lessons are those that are most difficult to learn.
Should Kidney be retained as head coach?
If the Irish Rugby Football Union don't have a succession plan then it would be wrong not to renew his contract after the Six Nations without a viable alternative.
There are good, young Irish coaches out there like Harlequins' Conor O'Shea and Saracens' Mark McCall who are probably five years away from even wanting to be considered for the role. Therefore the best plan would probably be to give Kidney a short-term extension and involve him in the succession.
Is Irish rugby in crisis?
For all the talk of O'Gara and Kidney and Ireland's disappointing Six Nations, Irish rugby isn't in crisis - absolutely not.
The media like to go hyperbolic but we've got seven or eight players injured and the difference between winning and losing at this level is a pass caught or a kick missed: against Scotland, if Luke Marshall's pass to Craig Gilroy had gone to hand or one more kick had gone over I'm quite convinced Ireland would have won by 20 points.
Irish rugby is very healthy. In the past it was Munster, then it was Leinster, now it is Ulster who are bringing lots of young talent through. What Ireland need to do is bring that youth through in the right way and at the right time and make sure it's developed and not squashed. I'm not pessimistic at all.
Will Ireland have too much for France?
Saturday's game will be a real desperate, psychological battle: whose resilience will be the strongest and who will be the most fragile?
At times in the past, Ireland have struggled to match French physicality. But I'm sure if they meet that challenge in Dublin, learn the lessons from the defeat by Scotland, take the chances they create, then they will have enough to win it.
If Ireland get on top early there is a very strong chance French heads will go down. To have lost five Championship games in a row for the first time since 1958, there must be discord in the France camp. Ireland's challenge is to turn those cracks into crevasses and split the visitors in two.
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Comment number 85.
9th March 2013 - 22:55enthralling game, shame about red serious injury and also that there was a welsh tmo re earls incident; ref said "I'm happy with the shoulder to shoulder running", this didn't take place with the prop sub he had no intention of playing the ball just taking earls out, think ref could be accused of leading slightly by even saying that to the tmo anyways, you ask the question and let him decide
Comment number 84.
9th March 2013 - 21:07Heaslip is so overrated. When do you ever see this guy brake tackles like Sean O'Brien or Ferris?? At the end of the game the commentator says Heaslip "has played better today" and the stat box came up v. Picamoles....Heaslip had only ten meters in carries v. nearly 70 for Picamoles. Heaslip should not be on the Lions tour that's for sure.
Comment number 83.
9th March 2013 - 18:52Ireland should be out of sight. Imagine how good they would be if they had a decent coach
Comment number 82.
9th March 2013 - 18:08O'Brian carries a lot but doesn't do to much damage. Heaslip looking better though. The French lock Maestri has been poor all 6N's.
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By Rob Edwards
Environment Editor
13 August 2006
THE British nuclear industry has reported 39 lapses in security
against terrorism in the past year, including laptop thefts, internet
misuse, a power cut and lightning strikes.
The failings are revealed in a report from the Office for Civil
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protected from terrorist attacks.
The revelations have disturbed experts and environmentalists, who are
calling for security to be tightened. The OCNS has itself warned of
"complacency" on leaks of sensitive nuclear information.
According to the OCNS report, eight breaches in information security
were reported in the year to March 31. They included "the theft of
laptops from parked vehicles" and "inappropriate transmission of
restricted information over the internet", the report said.
"Assessments suggest that no major damage had occurred, but the fact
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Nuclear plant operators reported a further 26 breaches of site
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Five security lapses in nuclear transports were reported, though they
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of nuclear material has not been prejudiced," he said.
But this hasn't reassured everyone. "As the threat from terrorism
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the Earth Scotland's chief executive, Duncan McLaren.
"They may appear trivial to some, but if they are not acted upon the
nuclear industry is literally leaving the door open for those who
might wish to deliberately do mischief, or worse."
Pete Roche, a nuclear consultant based in Edinburgh, questioned
whether "dangerous nuclear technology" was compatible with an open and
democratic society. "Isn't it time we stopped exacerbating the
problems we have already created for ourselves by planning even more
reactors and potential terrorist targets?" he said.
The risks of nuclear terrorism have also been highlighted in a new
study on the security of industrial radioactive sources in Iran. More
than 80 sources of material capable of being made into "dirty bombs"
were discovered to be outwith regulatory control or vulnerable to
Outside hospitals and the nuclear industry, radiation is used in some
500 factories and universities across Iran to measure and test
materials. Scientists from the Iranian Nuclear Regulatory Authority
sampled 48 of them to check how well the sources were looked after.
In the latest issue of Radiation Protection Dosimetry, the researchers
reported 39 lost or abandoned sources at five sites. They said a
further 49 radio active sources were vulnerable to theft or damage.
According to Dr Frank Barnaby, a nuclear security consultant with the
Oxford Research Group, there was a real risk of radioactive sources
being stolen and combined with conventional explosives to make a
"dirty bomb".
"It's absolutely amazing that this hasn't been done already," he told
the Sunday Herald. "I'm surprised that those who plotted the latest
airline attack didn't go for dirty bombs. It would have been easier
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MATTHEWS Peter married Emma CUNDALL 1874
Information & Research Journal.
Peter MATTHEWS (born Cornwall) and Emma CUNDALL (born Leeds) were married in Victoria in 1874.
Peter died 1903 in Tarnagulla, Victoria, aged 54 years. Parents recorded as unknown.
Emma remarried in 1905 to David Russell ARNOLD. She died in Tarnagulla in 1918 aged 65 years. Parents recorded as John CUNDALL and Hannah ROCKETT.
Seven children located Victorian records for Peter and Emma.
Rosetta Hanah MATTHEWS.
Born: 1876 Sandhurst, Victoria.
Died: -
Elizabeth Ann MATTHEWS.
Born: 1877 Sandhurst, Victoria.
Died: 1879 not recorded, Victoria, aged 2 years.
Annis Jane MATTHEWS.
Born: 1879 Sandhurst, Victoria.
Died: 1954 Bendigo, Victoria, aged 75 years.
Married: John Thomas SMITH.
Year: 1896.
Place: Victoria.
See Post: John SMITH married Annis MATTHEWS 1896.
Charlotte MATTHEWS.
Born: 1882 Sandhurst, Victoria.
Died: 1886 Eaglehawk, Victoria, aged 4 years.
Harriet Eveline MATTHEWS.
Born: 1885 Eaglehawk, Victoria.
Died: 1885 Eaglehawk, aged 7 months.
Victoria Adelaide Cundall MATTHEWS.
Born: 1886 Eaglehawk, Victoria.
Died: -
Married: George TREGILLIS.
Year: 1905.
Place: Victoria.
See Post: George TREGILLIS married Victoria MATTHEWS 1905.
Thomas William John MATTHEWS.
Born: 1889 Eaglehawk, Victoria.
Died: 1951 North Carlton, Victoria, aged 59 years.
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria.
Corrections and further details to help complete this family record would be appreciated. Thank you.
on 2010-12-30 10:58:04
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The Six Simple Principles of Viral Marketing by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson
I admit it. The term "viral marketing" is offensive. Call yourself a viral marketer and people will take two steps back. I would. "Do they have a vaccine for that yet?" you wonder. A sinister thing, the simple virus is fraught with doom, not quite dead yet not fully alive, it exists in that nether genre somewhere between disaster movies and horror flicks.
But you have to admire the virus. It has a way of living in secrecy until it is so numerous that it wins by sheer weight of numbers. It piggybacks on other hosts and uses their resources to increase its tribe. And in the right environment, it grows exponentially. A virus doesn't even have to mate. It just replicates, again and again with geometrically increasing power, doubling with each iteration.
In a few short generations, a virus population can explode.
Viral Marketing Defined
What does a virus have to do with marketing? Viral marketing describes any strategy that encourages individuals to pass on a marketing message to others, creating the potential for exponential growth in the message's exposure and influence. Like viruses, such strategies take advantage of rapid multiplication to explode the message to thousands, to millions.
Off the Internet, viral marketing has been referred to as "word-of-mouth," "creating a buzz," "leveraging the media," "network marketing." But on the Internet, for better or worse, it's called "viral marketing." While others smarter than I have attempted to rename it, to somehow domesticate and tame it, I won't try. The term "viral marketing" has stuck.
The Classic Hotmail Example
The classic example of viral marketing is Hotmail.com, one of the first free web-based email services. The strategy is simple:
- Give away free email addresses and services;
- Attach a simple tag at the bottom of every free message sent out: "Get your private, free email at http://www.hotmail.com";
- Then stand back while people email to their own network of friends and associates;
- Who see the message;
- Sign up for their own free email service; and then
- Propel the message still wider to their own ever-increasing circles of friends and associates.
Like tiny waves spreading ever farther from a single pebble dropped into a pond, a carefully designed viral marketing strategy ripples outward extremely rapidly.
Elements of a Viral Marketing Strategy
Accept this fact. Some viral marketing strategies work better than others. Few work as well as the simple Hotmail.com strategy. But below are the six basic elements you hope to include in your strategy. A viral marketing strategy need not contain ALL these elements, but the more elements it embraces, the more powerful the results are likely to be. An effective viral marketing strategy:
- Gives away products or services;
- Provides for effortless transfer to others;
- Scales easily from small to very large;
- Exploits common motivations and behaviors;
- Utilizes existing communication networks;
- Takes advantage of others' resources.
Let's examine at each of these elements briefly.
1. Gives Away Valuable Products or Services
"Free" is the most powerful word in a marketer's vocabulary. Most viral marketing programs give away valuable products or services to attract attention. Free email services, free information, free "cool" buttons, free software programs that perform powerful functions but not as much as you get in the "pro" version. Wilson's Second Law of Web Marketing is "The Law of Giving and Selling". "Cheap" or "inexpensive" may generate a wave of interest, but "free" will usually do it much faster. Viral marketers practice delayed gratification. They may not profit today, or tomorrow, but if they can generate a groundswell of interest from something free, they know they will profit "soon and for the rest of their lives" (with apologies to "Casablanca"). Patience, my friends. Free attracts eyeballs. Eyeballs then see other desirable things that you are selling, and, presto! you earn money. Eyeballs bring valuable email addresses, advertising revenue, and ecommerce sales opportunities. Give away something, sell something.
2. Provides for Effortless Transfer to Others
Public health nurses offer sage advice at flu season: Stay away from people who cough, wash your hands often, and don't touch your eyes, nose, or mouth. Viruses only spread when they're easy to transmit. The medium that carries your marketing message must be easy to transfer and replicate: email, website, graphic, software download. Viral marketing works famously on the Internet because instant communication is easy and inexpensive. The digital format makes copying simple. From a marketing standpoint, you must simplify your marketing message so it can be transmitted easily and without degradation. Short is better. The classic is: "Get your private, free email at http://www.hotmail.com." The message is compelling, compressed, and copied at the bottom of every free email message.
3. Scales Easily from Small to Very Large
To spread like wildfire, the transmission method must be rapidly scalable from small to very large. The weakness of the Hotmail model is that a free email service requires its own mail servers to transmit the message. If the strategy is wildly successful, mail servers must be added very quickly or the rapid growth will bog down and die. If the virus multiplies only to kill the host before spreading, nothing is accomplished. So long as you have planned ahead of time how you can add mail servers rapidly you're okay. You must build in scalability to your viral model.
4. Exploits Common Motivations and Behaviors
Clever viral marketing plans take advantage of common human motivations. What proliferated "Netscape Now" buttons in the early days of the web? The desire to be cool. Greed drives people. So does the hunger to be popular, loved, and understood. The resulting urge to communicate produces millions of websites and billions of email messages. Design a marketing strategy that builds on common motivations and behaviors for its transmission, and you have a winner.
5. Utilizes Existing Communication Networks
Most people are social. Nerdy, basement-dwelling computer science graduate students are the exception. Social scientists tell us that each person has a network of 8 to 12 people in his or her network of friends, family, and associates. A person's broader network may consist of scores, hundreds, or thousands of people, depending upon his or her position in society. A waitress, for example, may communicate regularly with hundreds of customers in a given week. Network marketers have long understood the power of these human networks, both the strong, close networks as well as the weaker networked relationships. People on the Internet develop networks of relationships, too. They collect email addresses and favorite website URLs. Affiliate programs exploit such networks, as do permission email lists. Learn to place your message into existing communications between people, and you rapidly multiply its dispersion.
6. Takes Advantage of Others' Resources
The most creative viral marketing plans use others' resources to get the word out. Affiliate programs, for example, place text or graphic links on others' websites. Authors who give away free articles, seek to position their articles on others' webpages. A news release can be picked up by hundreds of periodicals and form the basis of articles seen by hundreds of thousands of readers. Now someone else's newsprint or webpage is relaying your marketing message. Someone else's resources are depleted rather than your own.
Put Into Practice
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When I first offered this to my readers in February 2000, many took me up on it. Six months later a received a phone call.
"I want to speak to the King of Viral Marketing."
"Well, I'm not the King," I demurred. "I wrote an article about viral marketing a few months ago, but that's all."
"I've searched all over the Internet about viral marketing," he said, "and your name keeps showing up. You must be the King!."
It worked. Even five years later this webpage is ranked #1 for "viral marketing."
To one degree or another, all successful viral marketing strategies use most of the six principles outlined above. In the next article in this series, "Viral Marketing Techniques the Typical Business Website Can Deploy Now," I'll move from theory to practice. But first learn these six foundational principles of viral marketing. Master them and prosperity could flow your direction.


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"Release water for agriculture and drinking water from Palar - Porundalar dam to old ayacut region in Palani"
A division bench in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has issued directions to the Secretary of Public Works Department (PWD), Tamil Nadu, to consider the plea of a farmers' association to release water for agriculture and drinking from the Palar - Porundalar dam to the old ayacut region in Palani.
In a public interest litigation (PIL), K. Janaharajan, president of the Porundalaru Anicut Rajavaikkal Irrigation Farmers Association, said farmers owning nearly 5000 acres of land in and around Palani depend on water from the Palar-Porundalar dam. "As per the permanent record of the reservoir, release of water to the old ayacut region is scheduled from September 15 to January 31 and for the new ayacut region, from December 1 to April 15. But a PWD order announced release of water only to new ayacut region this year."
According to the petitioner, the Secretary of PWD, in a government order issued on December 7, 2012, had directed the water resources organisation and Dindigul district administration to release water to the Left Main Canal in the new ayacut region for the benefit of agriculturalists in the new ayacut region. However, no mention has been made regarding the requests of the old ayacutdars in the government order, the petitioner pointed out.
Therefore, he filed the PIL in the High Court stating that the order was passed against the usual procedure and against the rights and interests of a large number of farmers in the old ayacut region who depend on the Palar-Porundalar rivers.
"The district administration and water resources organisation erroneously made a representation to the PWD that water is required predominantly to the new ayacut region. The new ayacut region has only 'punja' lands, whereas the old ayacut region has a vast stretch of agriculture land," he said. The petitioner association also made a representation to the Assistant Engineer of PWD, Palar-Porundalar Dam, seeking release of water to the old ayacut region. Thereafter, they also filed the PIL.
A Bench comprising Justice M. Jaichandren and Justice S. Nagamuthu heard the case. On Thursday, the special government pleader told the judges that the Assistant Engineer of PWD had already forwarded the petitioner association's representation to the Assistant Engineer of PWD, Palani Sub-Division.
Recording the submission, the judges in their order said: "This Court finds it appropriate to direct the Secretary of PWD to pass appropriate orders, based on the said communication, as expeditiously as possible, keeping in mind the interests of the ayacutdars of the petitioner association."
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No Blood For Libyan Oil
Shame on us.
Philly journalist Chris Friend serves up some salient points on Obama's war for oil.
The United States' involvement in Libya, a nation that in no manner attacked America or caused it harm, sets an extremely dangerous precedent. Ironically, this effort, executed with no foresight and one that has absolutely no endgame, further endangers our national security. Playing into the mentality of millions of Muslims that the U.S. seeks to dominate their countries will only enflame anti-American feelings.
Chris calls out what I've been questioning regarding the media's coverage of the uprising by insurgents in Libya. Why is the MSM labeling insurgents as rebels in Libya? How different are they from the Iraqi insurgents or the muslim Brotherhood? On this blog, any reference to supporters of Libya's uprising will be called by their proper name – insurgents.
A seasoned thinker who hails from fair England left a thought provoking message in the comment section of Philly Mag that is just too good not to share with my readers. Robert blogs at Atlantic Crossings and it is well worth the time to read his posts.
Just a minute. Gaddafi has never been just another ho-hum dictator sitting on oil. For one, imagine what Ronald Reagan would have given for this opportunity?
Yet you and so many others now contend it is unimportant whether that US airplane-blowing up lunatic is in power or not? While Gaddafi "settled" over Pan Am 103, a Gaddafi son (busy now slaughtering "rebels") said in 2008 Libya had admitted responsibility just to get sanctions dropped. And that bombing was not a one-time thing: how about UTA 772? Heard of that? There were Americans on that too, including the wife of a US ambassador.
No one is comparing anyone involved with Madison. By the same token, since when is there a statute of limitations on murdering Americans by the planeload? Good grief, we launched a WWII-like ground assault against Saddam Hussein over less direct damage to Americans.
Feels good to treat those blown out of the sky in that December 1988 as just historical footnotes now? Guess what, millions of us don't. Those of us who actually remember feel we still owe them something.
Indeed where was our military then, as they died deaths out of one's worst nightmare, as their passenger plane was breaking up, blown apart by his sneaky luggage bomb, just days before Christmas? I would support this if Bush had ordered it, or Obama. Or the late Gus Hall for that matter.
This is what was needed: to take advantage of a situation. This should have happened two decades ago. But without a viable revolt to help, naturally we had to put up with him after 1988 – so eventually deals were cut with him the way deals with thugs sometimes have to be.
That did us no credit. But now that Libyans themselves have risen, and are begging us for help, you're uninterested? You think our credibility in the region will be enhanced if they are defeated and swung from lamp posts and we seem not to care? Are you serious?
I, for one, sure hope if one of our missiles blows up over Gaddafi's head (accidentally, of course) it had had a big "Pan Am 103″ scrawled on its side. Those Americans that ba-tard prematurely sent to eternity deserve at least that much now of us: better late than never. Somewhere, as US missiles rain down, smash his tanks and cripple Gaddafi, Ronald Reagan is smiling too. Finally.
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text: Anya Groner teaches writing at Loyola University in New Orleans. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of Mississippi where she was a John and Renee Grisham Fellow, and her writing has since appeared in journals including Guernica, The Oxford American, The Rumpus, The Atlantic, and Meridian, who awarded her the 2014 Editor's prize in fiction. Before getting her MFA, Anya taught health education for Planned Parenthood and worked for a non-profit which advocated on behalf of homeless and low-income residents of Poughkeepsie, New York. In addition to short stories, essays, and poetry, Anya is finishing a novel about teenage twin sisters and eco-terrorism set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The first chapter appeared in the Fall/Winter edition of the journal Ninth Letter and a later chapter is available at Terrain.org.


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Sunday, November 7, 2010
Pumpkin Patch & Petting a Giraffe!
Despite growing up in a more rural state (Arkansas), I'd never been to an apple orchard or pumpkin patch before though my family definitely attended fruit-centric seasonal festivals like the Tontitown Grape Festival and the Apple Festival. Unfortunately we missed apple picking season here in Illinois by about a week so instead my we went to a pumpkin patch on Halloween weekend. It was pretty amusing-- a bunch of 'grown ups' in their mid to late 20s frolicking around Goebberts Pumpkin Farm like we were 5 years old!
We had to drive an hour outside the city to go to South Barrington to a farm that my co-worker suggested. It had everything we were looking for-- pumpkins priced by the pound, a corn maze and apple cider DOUGHNUTS.
There were also lots of odd sculptures to climb on or take pictures with, we all got pretty snap-happy. Above I'm hugging a giant pumpkin with my roommate Adeline.
The farm has a petting zoo and it didn't have just the usual animals (goats, bunnies) but also had more 'exotic' animals like giraffes, camels, llamas, deer and a cartoon-like Indian cow. Best of all was the GIRAFFE that we could pet & feed. Its tongue felt like a wet bristle brush on my hand and it was surprising how laidback she was around people.
We couldn't stop petting this cow, I'm not sure if it was the shape of her eyes or her diminutive stature but she seemed right out of an illustrated children's book.
Why is it whenever I see deer I have to shout 'Bambi!'? We cleverly figured out that the deer liked our cameras so when we wanted to pose with them we held the cameras out to them (one of the deer is actually licking my Canon Elph above).
The chair reminded me of Ripley's Believe it or Not, it would have comfortably fit 3 adults! I felt rather majestic sitting in it, like Queen of the Pumpkin Farm. My outfit was a bit prim for the farm (guess I've turned into a city slicker)-- I wanted to wear my 1950s yellow wool swing coat that I bought at the Salvation Army over the summer for $3. Yes $3! It's worn over a tan raw silk dress from the 1960s and a brown felt 1950s hat that is quintessential autumn-- it has little beaded leaves around the edges of it. I'll have to take a better picture of it sometime soon!
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- Danièle said...
Sounds like fun. We dont have anything like pumpkin patches in Ireland or in France.
- November 8, 2010 at 6:09 AM
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What is the sexiest race out of all playable races in WoW?
It's all about them Night Elves, I'm sure after thousands of years they know what to do in bed but that's besides the point... What do you guys think?
Night Elf
Blood Elf
What is the sexiest race out of all playable races in WoW?
It's all about them Night Elves, I'm sure after thousands of years they know what to do in bed but that's besides the point... What do you guys think?
You've probably never heard of him.
Course it's night elves! The others look like pensioner grandmas compared to dem amazonian chicks <3
Blood Elves.
Just listening to the female jokes and flirts makes them so damn tempting... They have a sinister side which is unpredictable especially during pleasure.
Males got good muscles, posture, a heroic voice and good looks. Ignore some of the jokes they make, pour some sugar on them and rock'n roll all night and party every day.
Lol this is easily going to be a competition between night elves, draenie and male blood elfs.
Draenei Males, the things they could do with those face tentacles...
Level 100 BRM/WW Monk: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ditas/advanced
Level 90 Shadow Priest: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...a1lem/advanced
Level 90 Hunter: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ender/advanced
Level 88 Mage: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...drayn/advanced
As much as I hate them, Blood elves are always depicted as the pinnacle of sheer beauty and sexyness...
ONCE blood elves, this is a one time thing you win something ! *shakes fist*
"Why do we fight? To protect home and family, to preserve balance and bring harmony. For my kind the true question is, what is worth fighting for?"
Night Elves ftw!
But as usual Draenei will win the poll. It happened a month ago, it happened a year ago and it will happen a year in the future.
Only with the new models have the Night Elves a chance on winning this.
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Humans of course, look at those thick legs! >_<
For me it has to be pandaren women. I like them curvy and cute.


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One nation may extend across several countries, and one country may include many nations. Kurdistan is an unrecognized nation that includes parts of Turkey, Armenia, Syria, Iran, and Iraq. The United Kingdom is a nation that includes the countries of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.First Nations
Native American tribes are considered independent nations in the United States and Canada. There are hundreds of nations, from the Ho Chuck Nation of Wisconsin to the Makah Nation of Washington state. For many Americans, the term First Nations has become a term for indigenous people of North America.
First Nations is the official term for Canadian tribes. First Nations include the Dene in Canadas Arctic, the Mikmaq Confederacy on Prince Edward Island, and the Grand Council of the Crees in Quebec.A nation is a territory where all the people are led by the same government.
The word "nation" can also refer to a group of people who share a history, traditions, culture and, often, language—even if the group does not have a country of its own. People within this type of nation share a common identity, and think of themselves as belonging to the same group.
Palestinians, who live in and near the nation of Israel, fit in this category. Though Palestinians share a national identity, elect their own government, and share cultural beliefs, they do not have an internationally recognized nation of their own.
The United Nations currently recognizes 193 nations around the world, though only 192 are members of the UN's General Assembly. (Vatican City, which is led by the Roman Catholic Church, is recognized as a sovereign nation but is not a member of the General Assembly.)
Other nations are not recognized by one or more states for varying reasons. Sometimes, a single nation does not recognize another nation. North Korea and South Korea do not recognize each other as nations, for instance. They each oppose the politics of the other. Other nations that are not fully recognized as of 2011 include Palestine, Kosovo, Taiwan (known as the Republic of China), and South Ossetia.
The leaders of some unrecognized nations maintain a "government in exile." These leaders were ousted by social change, such as a revolution, in their country. The leaders currently live in another country, but consider themselves the leaders of their nation.
Sometimes, people of that nation want the leader to return. Many Tibetans, for instance, look forward to a time when the Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibet's government in exile, will return to the country. The Dalai Lama has not been to Tibet since 1959, when Tibet became a part of China.Other times, a government in exile can form entirely outside the nation it wants to govern. The Free Republic of Vietnam considers itself a government in exile of the nation of Vietnam. The Free Republic of Vietnam was formed after the Vietnam War by emigrants who did not want to live in the new, socialist government of Vietnam.
Term Part of Speech Definition Encyclopedic Entry Catholic Adjective having to do with the Christian denomination with the Pope as its leader.
culture Noun learned behavior of people, including their languages, belief systems, social structures, institutions, and material goods.
Dalai Lama Noun leader of Tibet.
diplomacy Noun art and science of maintaining peaceful relationships between nations, groups, or individuals.
Encyclopedic Entry: diplomacy emigrant Noun person who moves from their existing country or region to a new country or region.
First Nations Noun Native American people of Canada.
General Assembly Noun main unit of the United Nations, made up of representatives from all member states.
govern Verb to make public-policy decisions for a group or individuals.
government Noun system or order of a nation, state, or other political unit.
government in exile Noun leaders of a nation who live in another land, but hope to return to their native country.
indigenous Adjective native to or characteristic of a specific place.
nation Noun political unit made of people who share a common territory.
Encyclopedic Entry: nation national identity Noun reputation and culture of a country.
Native American Noun person whose ancestors were native inhabitants of North or South America. Native American usually does not include Eskimo or Hawaiian people.
political body Noun organization that makes or influences public-policy decisions.
politics Noun art and science of public policy.
recognize Verb to identify or acknowledge.
revolution Noun overthrow or total change of government.
social change Noun alteration in attitude and outlook on issues, such as civil rights, that affect large communities.
socialism Noun system of organization or government where all property, industry, and capital is owned by the community, not individuals.
sovereign nation Noun independent state with control over its own territory.
territory Noun land an animal, human, or government protects from intruders.
tradition Noun beliefs, customs, and cultural characteristics handed down from one generation to the next.
United Nations Noun international organization that works for peace, security and cooperation.
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Luther, 37, had been convicted in 1982 of brutally raping and beating Mary in Summit County. "Why do I do these things?" Luther had asked the arresting officer, Joe Morales. He was also a suspect in the murders of two women--Bobby Jo Oberholtzer and Annette Kay Schnee--last seen in Breckenridge in early January 1982, five weeks before Luther's Summit County attack.
Luther served nearly eleven years in prison for the sexual assault on Mary and was released in early 1993.
That March, Cher Elder disappeared after an excursion to a Central City casino where she was photographed with Luther. Confronted by Lakewood detective Scott Richardson, Luther claimed to have dropped Elder off at the apartment of her boyfriend, Byron Powers.
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n late April 1993, Summit County Undersheriff Joe Morales took the call from Detective Scott Richardson of the Lakewood Police Department. "What do you know about one Thomas Edward Luther?" Richardson asked.
As much as he had expected to someday get this call, it still sent a chill up Morales's spine. Over the past ten years, he had kept track of Luther. It wasn't hard.
Luther had returned to the Summit County jail half a dozen times to argue legal technicalities regarding his conviction for sexual assault. Each time, Morales appeared in court to testify against him. There was no question the two hated each other. "It was mutual," says ex-Marine Morales. "He is the complete opposite of everything I believe is good and decent. He's a sociopath." Back in prison, inmates reported, Luther said he planned to get even with those who'd put him in prison. One claimed Luther wanted his old girlfriend, Laurie Wagner, dead "because she knew too much."
When Luther got out of prison in 1993, Morales distributed copies of his mug shot throughout Summit County. Shortly after his release, Morales learned, Luther had been inquiring as to Laurie Wagner's whereabouts.
Morales, a tall man whose shoulders barely fit through doorways, wasn't worried about his own safety. In fact, he sort of hoped that Luther would come gunning for him. But he didn't believe his old enemy had the cojones to take on a man. No, when he next heard of Luther, it would be because some woman was in trouble.
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There was a long pause on the other end of the line. "We have a missing girl...," Richardson said.
"Was he the last one seen with her?" Morales interrupted. He knew the answer. Feared the answer. But he still had to ask.
"Yep. We got them together on a videotape from a casino up in Central City."
Morales sighed. "I'm sorry. But she's toast."
Over a decade had passed, but Breckenridge detective Richard Eaton was still determined to find who had killed Bobby Jo Oberholtzer and Annette Schnee. Every year he received Christmas cards from Annette's family, along with letters of encouragement and thanks.
Other cases had come and gone, some worse than others. Like the woman who had given birth, then drowned the infant in a bathtub and disposed of the tiny body in a paper bag that also contained an empty oil can and a half-eaten McDonald's fish sandwich. There were all kinds of monsters, and Eaton had rejoiced to see her convicted. But the monster he wanted most was still out there.
The case consumed him. He couldn't drive over Hoosier Pass without wanting to pull into the parking lot at the summit, retrace Bobby Jo's final flight toward the trees. If he was near Fairplay, he'd go check on the small cross erected at the spot where Annette died.
A 1992 Unsolved Mysteries segment about the murders had generated some real leads, including a man in Idaho who had been bumped to the top of the suspect list... where he joined Thomas Edward Luther. Richardson's call to Morales and subsequent meetings had reinvigorated the interest in Luther. But once again Eaton was confronted by the sloppy police work that had marked the start of the Oberholtzer and Schnee cases, before he was assigned to them in 1984.
There was nothing he could do but begin tracking down the inmates who had claimed to hear Luther brag about killing women more than ten years earlier.
Richardson was at his desk on May 18, 1993, when he took a call from Deborah Snyder, the nurse who had fallen in love with Tom Luther while he was a prison inmate.
"J.D. just picked him up," she said. "You guys need to find where he's going."
Snyder, a single mother, was unconvinced that her boyfriend had played a part in Cher Elder's disappearance. Still, she was well aware of his violent temper and had agreed when Richardson asked her to report Luther's comings and goings, particularly when they involved Byron Powers or one of his two half-brothers, J.D. and Tristan, sons of Jerald "Skip" Eerebout, an old cellmate of Luther's.


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