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Writing in hostile spaces: a critical examination of South African prison literature.
Oswald, Eirwen Elizabeth
Prison, a place that no one can call home, a place where all that was familiar no longer exists, a place where a friendly face is nowhere to be seen, a place that is full of hostility. That which becomes 'home' is nothing more than a concrete space, a hole in which one is expected to live. Those with whom the prisoners come into contact are hostile, unkind and unfair. Thus, as a means by which to retain sanity and show the world what happens on the 'inside', prisoners begin to write – they begin to write in hostile spaces. This study will argue that the body of writings that constitute 'South African prison literature' is both substantial and under-researched. For both of these reasons it warrants closer examination. Another argument that this thesis will advance is that specific authors have made major contributions to this collection of works, with Herman Charles Bosman being the foremost of these. Bosman not only pioneered the prison novel in South Africa, but also set the mould within which most of the other prison-authors have patterned their works. Herman Charles Bosman is often referred to as the 'father' of South African prison literature. Such a statement of course presupposes that there is a discernible body of writing that can be called 'prison literature'. This study will attempt to show that within the larger corpus of South African literature there is indeed a body of writing that can usefully be categorized under the broad rubric 'prison literature'. Undertaking such a categorization, however, requires generating certain criteria, and then applying these criteria to determine whether specific works adhere to them. For the purposes of this study, the most important criterion is that, for a work to be considered as belonging to the corpus of South African prison literature, it must be about the writer's personal experience of prison. In other words, fictional (imaginative) narratives about prison life will fall beyond the purview of this study. While it must be conceded that this criterion is not unarguable and self-evident, as the study proceeds it will, I believe, be seen that there is good sense in excluding purely fictional works. (Chapter Three advances the argument for this criterion in more detail.) Other variables have been accommodated – for example, from which prison the prisoner is writing, whether the prisoner writes about his or her experience during or after imprisonment, the nature of the crime committed and when the imprisonment took place. In addition, there is no rigidity about the number of criteria a particular work must fulfil in order to be included in this study (Chapter Three also discusses these criteria at length). One of the questions this thesis will attempt to answer is why prisoners write in the first place. Society's stereotypical view of a criminal – someone lacking in morals and education – is no doubt dominant, and the notion of a 'criminal' adding value to the study of literature is not often conceptualized by many. Writing becomes a powerful tool for the authors examined here, often for different reasons and purposes, but a tool nonetheless. Paul Gready says that, "the word is a weapon that both inflicts pain and secures power. Prisoners are relentlessly rewritten within the official 'power of writing'… Within this process the prisoner's sense of self and world is undermined, pain is made visible and objectified in writing and converted into state power [but] prisoners write to restore a sense of self and world, to reclaim the 'truth' from the apartheid lie, to seek empowerment in an oppositional 'power of writing' against the official text of imprisonment" (1993: 489). The thesis will attempt to show that, notwithstanding their considerable diversity, individual works within the corpus of South African prison literature share many common characteristics. Despite this the study will show also that, even though the prison writings have many common threads running through them, there are many differences within individual writings and the body of literature as a whole. It could be argued that, in earlier years, the works that are the subject of this study were quite satisfactorily regarded as part of other genres (for example, autobiography). So is the whole process of reclassification necessary? In other words, is there any point in attempting to argue for a distinct category of writing ('prison literature')? One of the points that will be made in detail later is that frequently the prison writings of a particular writer are only a small aspect of his or her larger oeuvre, and these writings have merely been included in more general discussions of the author's body of work as a whole. Clearly, this does not do justice to the distinct nature of such a writer's prison writings. It is the purpose of this study to give the works that make up the corpus of South African prison literature their due. The thesis begins with a brief summation of the prison system in South Africa. This chapter puts the experiences that follow into context. Many of the laws under which these writers were held no longer exist and so, in the interest of better understanding, these are explained in the first chapter as well. This is followed by a brief survey of prison literature. Chapter Two attempts to provide a concise and up-to-date list of the primary and secondary sources that make up the category 'prison literature.' Chapter Three introduces the term 'prison literature'. The chapter includes many of the common characteristics found in prison writing, and outlines the essential criteria of this body of writing. This is followed by a brief examination of the various theories of literature that can be found in prison literature. Chapter Four introduces a vital aspect of the thesis and the argument provided within it. An examination of the theories of Foucault takes place in this chapter. He offers a thread that binds all prison literature together when he states that the prison system is put in place to punish an offender. Modern power to punish is based on the supervision and organization of bodies in time and space. The thesis will then argue that it is in this very space that prisoners write. Thus the hostile space of prison and prison life provides the context in which the literature under examination can be created.The second section of the thesis contains the close examinations of the prison writings of various authors. This section begins with a fairly comprehensive chapter on Cold Stone Jug (Chapter Five), and attempts to describe the foundation that Bosman laid in the writing of this novel. The chapters thereafter include comparisons between each individual prisonauthor's work and Bosman's seminal novel, noting the similarities and differences. Each of these chapters (Chapters Six to Nine) also provides a justification for the selection of each of the authors discussed and attempts to show why their writing must be considered some of the greatest prison literature produced in South Africa. Chapter Six examines the prison novel as exemplified in the writings of Breyten Breytenbach and Hugh Lewin. Chapter Seven introduces the concept of prison poetry. It is shown how poets like Jeremy Cronin and Dennis Brutus have also followed the example of Bosman, despite the generic difference in their work. This chapter also attempts to show why poetry must be considered an important part of this novel-dominated category of writing. This argument continues in Chapter Eight, in which prison letters and diaries are discussed and shown to be a vital part of prison literature. The main focus of this chapter is the writings of Ahmed Kathrada. Chapter Nine introduces the writing of women prisoners. This writing shares the typical characteristics found in the works of the prisoners' male counterparts. No one novelist or poet is examined in detail. This section rather examines women's writing as a topic in terms of the study as a whole. Importantly, however, it shows that prison writing is not gender- or race-specific. The thesis concludes by discussing the notion that these authors wrote and lived in hostile spaces not only during their imprisonment, but also afterwards: life after imprisonment becomes a hostile space too. The conclusion argues that a clear development can be found in this writing – vii from the publication of Cold Stone Jug in 1949 up until the publication of the final documents from Robben Island in the 1990s.
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The following article, which appeared in the American Mathematical Monthly, 116, no. 2 (February 2009): 99-114, is available as a PDF as well.
Table of Contents | |
1 | Introduction |
2 | Dissertation |
3 | Mathematical Legacy |
4 | Teaching Career |
5 | Life and Family |
6 | Conclusion |
7 | Archival Sources |
8 | References |
Anna Mullikin received her A.B. degree in 1915 from Goucher College, where she displayed promise as a mathematician in her senior year by solving a problem on geometry in this Monthly [11, p. 166]. Figure 1 displays her photo from the 1915 yearbook.
For the next three years she taught mathematics at the Science Hill School (KY) and at the Mary Baldwin Seminary (VA) [A1]. She arrived in Philadelphia in the fall of 1918 to begin graduate study in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), where she quickly came to Moore's attention and was enrolled in his graduate class.
At that time Moore was only at the beginning of his career as a research mathematician and mentor of students. In the first year she discovered a counterexample presented below that became the starting point of her dissertation.
In her second year, 1919-1920, she continued in Moore's class and advanced her research but also returned to secondary teaching. In 1920 Moore left the University of Pennsylvania for the University of Texas. There he arranged to have Mullikin appointed as an instructor so she could complete her thesis under his guidance, perhaps the first instance of a practice he continued for twenty-five years until the University insisted that he stop.
Figure 1. Anna Mullikin in the 1915 yearbook Donnybrook Fair 1915-1916, courtesy of the Goucher College Archives. (Click to enlarge.)
Mullikin's dissertation, "Certain theorems relating to plane connected point sets," appeared in the September 1922 issue of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society three months after she officially received her doctorate. The major theme, as suggested by the title, is to characterize connected sets in the plane. Sometimes, however, it is apparent that generalization to n dimensions is easily attainable.
Mullikin cited an important and recently proved result of the Polish topologist WacÅ?aw SierpiÅ?ski that served as the impetus for her investigation [43]:
SierpiÅ?ski's Theorem: A closed, bounded, connected set M in â?n cannot be expressed as a countable union of disjoint closed sets.
Mullikin wrote: "It will be shown in the present paper that for the case where n = 2, this theorem does not remain true if the stipulation that M is closed be removed" [38, p. 144]. To accomplish this, she constructed an example of a bounded and connected set in the plane that is the disjoint union of a countable collection of closed, bounded, and connected arcs in the following way.
For each positive integer n, define an arc Mn to be composed of four line segments drawn from the x-intercept (1/(2n-1), 0) to (1/(2n-1), 1/(2n-1)), thence to (-1/(2n-1), 1/(2n-1)) and (-1/(2n-1), -1/(2n-1)), and finally to (1, -1/(2n-1)). (The abscissa of the final point is always x = 1.)
This example can be used instructively today for students in a calculus or analysis course to extend the notion of a limit point from the real line to the plane. Mullikin stated that each arc Mj contains a limit point of the union of every infinite subset of the collection {Mn : n â? j}.
Take, for example, M3, which is composed of the line segments connecting (1/4, 0) to (1/4, 1/4) to (-1/4, 1/4) to (-1/4, -1/4) to (1, -1/4). What point on M3 is a limit point of the union of the entire collection {Mn : n â? 3}?
Mullikin's insightful idea was to form the countable disjoint union M = â?ªMn, which we will call "Mullikin's nautilus." Students should be encouraged to sketch M; we reproduce Mullikin's drawing in Figure 2, which shows the arcs Mn for n = 1, 2, 3. The website "Demos with Positive Impact" illustrates the figure by drawing one arc after another.
Students who can identify the limit point in question are probably poised to advance from limit points in a metric space to the concept of closure in a general topological space with little difficulty, so it seems appropriate to pose another question: What is the closure of Mullikin's nautilus?
Figure 2. Mullikin's nautilus, Figure 1 in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 24 (1922), p. 145, printed with permission of the American Mathematical Society. (Click to enlarge.)
The set M is obviously bounded. Mullikin concluded that M is also connected by noting that each arc in the nautilus contains a limit point of every subset of M which consists of an infinite number of the remaining arcs. Her simple yet elegant nautilus thus provides the counterexample she sought of a bounded and connected set in the plane that is the disjoint union of a countable number of closed and bounded sets.
Moreover, it sparked several investigations afterwards. R.L. Moore modified it slightly to obtain additional results related to other theorems due to SierpiÅ?ski. (Footnote 2 in [35] cites Mullikin's role.) And a few years later, Moore's student Gordon Whyburn constructed a similar counterexample, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Whyburn's nautilus, Figure 3 in Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (1927), p. 399, printed with permission of the American Mathematical Society. (Click to enlarge.)
In typical R.L. Moore theorem-proof style, Mullikin moved directly from the nautilus to the first of five theorems in her dissertation. Her proof relied heavily on two major results from the 1911 dissertation of Zygmunt Janiszewski that was published the next year [23].
After proving Theorem 1, Mullikin moved directlyâ??and without supplying motivationâ??to her second technical result. Its proof is much shorter than the first. We reproduce the proof with original wording and notation in order to convey a sense of the Mullikin, as opposed to, say, the Bourbaki, style of presentation. Using terms adopted by Sir Michael Atiyah, we might characterize the distinction as tactical (concerned with the minutiae of the argument) as opposed to strategic (involving the development of a theory, an architectural structure) [4, p. 87].
Theorem 2. Let H be a closed and bounded set. If H contains disjoint closed subsets K and M but does not contain a closed, connected subset L with L â?© K â? â?? and L â?© M â? â??, then H is the disjoint union of two closed sets, of which one contains K and the other contains M.
Proof. There exists a positive number ε such that no point of K can be joined to a point of M by a broken line made up of intervals of length less than ε such that the end points of these intervals are points of H. For otherwise there would be a closed, connected "limit set" as in [the proof of] Theorem 1. This limit set would belong to H, since H is closed, and it would contain a point of K and a point of M, since K and M are both closed. This is contrary to the hypothesis.
Now let H1 denote the point set composed of K together with the set of all points [P] of H such that P can be connected with some point of K by a broken line of intervals of length less than ε such that the end points of these intervals belong to H. Let H2 denote the point set composed of all other points of H. H2 will contain M and it can easily be seen that neither H1 nor H2 contains a limit point of the other, since every point of H2 is at a distance greater than or equal to ε from every point of H1. â??
Next, Mullikin supplied a crucial definition, stating that a set A disconnects (or separates) the plane if its complement â?2A is a union of separated sets. For example, the x-axis disconnects the plane since its complement is the union of the upper half-plane and the lower half-plane, but none of the arcs Mn in Mullikin's nautilus does because the complement â?2Mn is connected.
With this in mind, Mullikin stated and proved a powerful lemma that applies to these arcs Mn and was used in the proofs of the remaining three theorems in her dissertation.Having established these preliminaries, Mullikin was ready to prove two principal results.
With Theorem 3, Miss Mullikin achieved one of the major goals stated in the introduction to her dissertation, to prove that "a plane point set, regardless of whether it be closed or bounded, which separates its plane cannot be expressed as the sum of a countable infinity of closed, mutually exclusive point sets, no one of which separates the plane" [38, p. 144].
The next major result in Mullikin's dissertation, Theorem 4, would live in the literature for another 50 years. The proofs of Theorems 3 and 4 required elaborate constructions and a deep analysis that constituted almost two-thirds of the Transactions paper.
The power of the Moore Method is seen in the techniques that Mullikin discovered for these proofs. For instance, she generalized a result from Hausdorff's classic book on topology that had only appeared, and in German, a few years before [20] and she drew heavily upon three theorems from Moore's groundbreaking 1916 paper [36].
Theorem 4 would ultimately be called the Mullikin-Janiszewski Theorem, the Janiszewski-Mullikin Theorem, or simply J.M.T. after it was determined that Janiszewski had published it first, though, as we detail below, in a journal inaccessible to the Americans [22].
A footnote in the dissertation states, "Various parts of this paper were presented to the Society on October 25, 1919, December 28, 1920, and February 26, 1921" [38, p. 144]. All three meetings were held at Columbia University but Mullikin attended only the one in 1920.
Moore read her paper at the 1919 meeting. American Mathematical Society (AMS) secretary F.N. Cole reported,
In one dimension no countably infinite collection of mutually exclusive closed point sets ever has a connected sum. One might rather naturally be inclined to believe that this proposition holds true also in two dimensions. Miss Mullikin shows by an example that this is, however, not the case. [10, p. 147]
Surely, the example presented at that meeting is Mullikin's nautilus.
She must have returned home from Austin during the holiday break in 1920 to deliver her first lecture at the Society's annual meeting. The title of the lecture, "Certain theorems concerning connected point sets," almost matches the title of the dissertation.
The abstract in the secretary's report on the meeting indicates that Mullikin established Theorems 1 and 3 but it did not mention Theorem 2 or the Lemma [41, pp. 248-249]. Moreover, the presentation of Theorem 3 required that M be closed, a stipulation that Mullikin was able to eliminate shortly.
Theorems 4 and 5 were presented as one entity at the AMS meeting held two months later [40, p. 349]. This means that Miss Mullikin had completed her dissertation before leaving Austin.
Neither Moore nor Mullikin was present at the 1921 meeting, so her paper was read by title: "A necessary and sufficient condition that the sum of two bounded, closed and connected point sets should disconnect the plane."
Moore too submitted a paper that was read by title and dealt with issues very similar to those Mullikin presented at the annual meeting two months beforehand.
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WILLIAM ARNOLD wasborn in Perry county, Pa., in 1825; came to this county in 1852, locating, about six miles south of Monroe, and remained there about four years. In 1856 he made Petersburgh his permanent home. He is by trade a carpenter and Joiner, and in pursuit of his vocation has had the superintendence in constructing many of the finest buildings of the locality, and among them the present beautiful high school building of Petersburgh, which shows his skill as a master mechanic.
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Transnationalism and Minority Travel Writing [UPDATE: Deadline Extended] (10/15/2010; ALA 05/27-30/2010)full name / name of organization: Prof. Lucas Tromly contact email: firstname.lastname@example.com Transnationalism and Minority Travel Writing (01/15/2010; ALA 05/27-30/2010) Papers are invited for a proposed panel at the 2010 meeting of the American Literature Association in San Francisco (27-30 May, 2010). Examinations of the politics of travel writing frequently assume that the paradigmatic tourist is white. The figure of the minority traveler or tourist demands that we rethink the structures of power and identity revealed by travel and revisit familiar conventions of travel writing, including the topoi of "home" and "away," the epistemology of the gaze, and the dynamic of "the self discovered in apprehension of the other" (Ashcroft). I seek papers that consider the experience of travel outside of the U.S. for Americans who are members of racial minorities. This panel will focus on extra-national travel in order to examine how the minority traveler's relationship to America is called to light when he or she departs from it, and how the racialized American is received into other national imaginaries. While all relevant proposals are welcome, papers that deal with minority travel that takes the form of "return" to an ancestral or ethnic homeland are particularly encouraged. Relevant issues may include: Comparative racisms inside and outside of the U.S. The construction of the other or the exotic in minority travel writing. Activist or imperialist implications of minority travel. "Heritage tourism" and the commodification of the past. The possibility of transnational coalitions or identifications. Relationships among minority tourists and other global migrants. Please send paper proposals of 350 words and a short CV to Professor Lucas Tromly, Department of English, University of Manitoba. Submissions should be sent by e-mail to email@example.com by 15 January, 2010. cfp categories: african-american american childrens_literature cultural_studies_and_historical_approaches ethnicity_and_national_identity film_and_television gender_studies_and_sexuality international_conferences popular_culture postcolonial theory travel_writing twentieth_century_and_beyond


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I am THEE Yukon Wolf, accept no substitutes!
Sorry to report this folks. Vids have been removed by myself for an undetermined amount of time.
That is all.
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Hey Yukon. Thanks for accepting my friend request. I really love your fursuit you have so much. And I really would love to chat with you. Please add me on Skype: RaiderSonicWolfsky FA: http://www.xtube.com and/or Facebook: http:www.facebook.com/RaiderSonic/
Hey Yukon. I love your fursuit you have so much. And I really would love to chat with you. Please add me on Skype: RaiderSonicWolfsky FA: http://www.xtube.com and/or Facebook: http:www.facebook.com/RaiderSonic/
D'ahttp://www.xtube.com I was hoping you'd posted some of your vids. Would be awesome to see them here. =)
I sincerely apologize to you for taking so long to reply to your message. Real life "happened" to me. Though I am back now after a year of being absent from XTube! By the way, I've recently updated my XTube profile. Please check it out. Thanks! Also, please keep your eyes open for some new HOT & NASTY vids of me which are cumming soon.
*HUGGGGGGGS* Wuffy T. Wolf
aw man i realy want to cuddle up in bed with you big strong handsome wolfy ! and hope fully you can give this dog a bone
Havn't seen any new posts, or the old ones laying around here....but seeing you online is fine enough, for me. Hope ya still having a good time back east, & where ever else you've been finding yourself be. Just swung by to letcha know, You, Yokon Wolf still happen to be some of the best furs around.
Im a noob here. But if you did bring your vids back, i would like to see some cute diapered butt! You in a diaper and your mate fucking you like a daddy...You were so hot in a diaper!
would love to see the wolf being breed multiple times :P an watch it drip out of ur raised tailhole :P
Aside from that... great vids. ^_^ cute fursuit. :P
Mrow heya Yukon! You should hit me up on YIM, or live. This kitten would love to hear from ya.
Youve got some of the sexiest fursuit vids around ;3
just thought the sexy wolf should know :3
Oh, if you're taking requests I would love to see the wolf fucking a guy, rather than being fucked, at least for once.
Oh my! I live in Pittsburgh and I've seen a few of you walking around, I had no idea you all did THIS. Next time I see a furry I'll definitely have to have a... talk... with him or her...
Hey dude, great video's! I love the fursuit ones!
In your general info, you ask if we have any ideas for new content. I have one: Fursuit yiff in an outside area, like a backyard or something. I have yet to see any videos that include actual fursuit yiff in an outside area. Would be new if you could do that. Thanks! Keep up the awesome work!
I -love- your combination of suit and kink! Great profile, pics, and vids man, keep it up! ^^
Very sexy stuff, truly one of the sexiest wolves on xtube. If you ever want to play with a boy toy, let me know :3.
hey bud ^^ when can we be expecting the next installment of yukon ? ^^ the suspense is killing me :3
*blush* Thanks for the comment. Your suit is awesome too. Problem is I need more friends to help make videos in the suit now...as well as get my suit better recognized and known
*licks yer cheeks* <3 you better believe it cutie ;3 <3 hope ya like it rough >:3
Yay, cute woofie put vids back, foxie is happy again.
Keep the goods cuming, I just love that smexy suit of yours.


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TALLAHASSEE -- Attention, chicken-scratching doctors: Start writing those prescriptions so we can read them.
If you don't, you may soon be breaking the law.
The House Subcommittee on Health Standards took aim at doctors' sloppy penmanship Wednesday, unanimously approving a bill (HB 363) requiring that prescriptions be "legibly printed or typed."
The measure, sponsored by Rep. Shelly Vana, doesn't spell out any penalties for doctors who don't write neatly, leaving that to the medical disciplinary boards that oversee various types of doctors.
Rep. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, questioned whether the measure would accomplish much because it lacks a specific punishment.
"It was not my intent to have any kind of heavy punitive damages," said Vana, D-West Palm Beach. She said the measure would make it clear to disciplinary boards, however, that doctors who repeatedly write sloppy prescriptions should be sanctioned.
As weighty matters go, doctors' messy cursive may seem a trivial matter, but a lobbyist for the Walgreens drug chain said it's one of the biggest safety problems in medicine.
"The biggest fear we have is dispensing errors," said Michael Schwartz. He said pharmacists may give patients the wrong drug when they misread the doctor's script, and often have to waste time calling doctors to clarify a prescription.
Negron also questioned who might be the judge of good penmanship.
"What's legible to one pharmacist might not be to another," Negron said. "I would hate to see a doctor penalized because one pharmacist couldn't read what the rest of us could."
The bill now needs approval from the full House Health Care Committee and budget committees. A similar measure (SB 2084) is filed in the Senate.
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Internal diameters of the ventriculo-arterial junctions and great arteries of normal infants and children: a data base for evaluation of congenital cardiac malformations. | |
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In order to obtain reference data for a better evaluation of the operability of infants and children with congenital heart malformations, investigations were made on the growth of the aortic ventriculo-arterial junction along with the aortic arch as well as of the pulmonary root and the pulmonary tree. The internal diameters of the junctions and of various sites of both great arteries were measured in fresh post mortem specimens of 126 children having an age from 21 weeks of gestation up to 10 years after birth and who died from noncardiac diseases. Linear correlations were found between the internal diameters and body length. The post mortem data were in agreement with echocardiographic observations. |
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And if the Democrats were in power as usual, they would not give the GOP the time of day ... as usual.
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Sweet Potato Wedges with Cider Reduction
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Shortstop Rumors: Mets like Drew, but not for 3 years, turning to trade market
It was reported Tuesday that the Mets are still active in the shortstop market (Cafardo, Dec. 10).
10:00 am: In the event the Mets acquire a starting shortstop, it will likely be through trade and not free agency, Sandy Alderson told reporters before leaving the Winter Meetings on Thursday.
9:20 am: Mets like free-agent Stephen Drew, but they prefer he sign a two or three years and they believe he will stay with the Red Sox (Sherman).
Matthew Cerrone, Lead Writer
This reads to me like, yes, the Mets are willing to give Drew a two-year deal. However, if Drew needs to choose, he'll take two years from the Red Sox over the Mets. And, since the Mets are not willing to give him a three-year deal, they're backing off and turning to the trade market, which has not been very active.
8:40 am: The Mets are willing to give up their top draft pick (a third rounder) to sign Drew, but they'll need to free up payroll to be able to sign him (McAdam, Dec. 10)…
Red Sox are still talking to Drew, and they'd like him to return (Heyman). The Yankees and Dodgers are not interested (Gammons, MLB Network).
The Mets, Twins and Red Sox continue to be talked about as the the most likely destination for Drew, according to people with knowledge of his market (Cerrone, Dec. 10).
LOL! Its so much fun going back and seeing all the commenters losing their mind over not signing Stephen Drew. Imagine if we were stuck with this bum for 3 years!
Let's try that again
They don't want to give 3 yrs but 2 yrs for a 40 yr old pitcher is fine?
DONT SLEEP on a Cubs trade..
--When it comes down to it the Cubs also are shrewd with pay roll and they love their SS stud Baez in the minors who hit 37HR and 110RBI in last year..who is blocked by a big contract in Castro.. They also want to move Samardzja and want to upgrade from the .200 hitting no HR bringing Barney at 2B....and we need a SS and a SP and want to move a 280 hitting 8HR 2B Murphy.. it is a great fit.. Castro makes 15mil less over next 3 years than what we would have to pay for Drew and he is only 23.. he bats 2nd and we can solidify EYjr at 2B and leadoff.. Murphy and Samardzja cancel out on payroll and we add only 6mil with Castro
TRADE: MURPHY/MONTERO/PUELLO/ROBLES for CASTRO/SAMARDJZA
This solves 5 issues...
3-final rotation spot
4-keeps payroll under level
5-Leaves us $ to finalize bullpen (Perez?)and upgrade 1B (maybe Moralaes or Morse)
Though I'm happy we got Granderson and Colon, you've got to be kidding me right?! We've been hearing for years that this is going to be our season to go out and spend and aquire a winning team/era...what if two years ago they told you that that would encompass getting Colon and Granderson????? Jeez, thanks...ugh.
I like the idea of Ike for Jean Segura from the brewers. its a gamble because Brewers don't know what Ike they are getting and this is Segura's second full year as starting SS, so we don't know what we are getting for a bat, but he has speed, 44 SB's last year, and a nice defensive glove. I think this trade makes the most sense
I wonder who they're thinking of if we're looking trade, or if this is a just a tactic to try and force drew's hand a bit and see if he really will go back to Boston if he can only get two years? Perhaps the Ike trade gets a pitcher we can use to flip for a SS? There's really not a lot of great options out there. JJ Hardy? Lowrie would be nice but i didn't think he was available.
It makes no sense to me at all that the Mets wouldn't offer this guy three years. Despite the "report" above I gotta think Drew is holding out for a fourth year, not a third year. 3 years for a 31 yr old SS is reasonable, but 4 is too much. It's not like we have an ace SS prospect that's sniffing MLB in the next three years. And the third round pick? Better to have a SS right now that adds value to the team on the field.
I don't see how we really are that much better... sure we added grandy, which im thrilled about, but honestley wheres the rest of our lineup? same ss, same lack of a firstbaseman, no real leadoff hitter...oh and no Harvey, which you mentioned, but your putting a lot of faith into Bartolo Fernandez, I mean Colon. NO power in RF or at First base. Winning teams have great pitching, but they also have to score runs
Good not jumping on Drew, Average player at best and wants too much $$$. Mets can get lucky and trade for someone.
Also I like the Colon deal, Solid starter with 3 years of good pitching in the AL so imagine in the NL? Besides I like this deal rather than signing Hughes or Kazmir ( inconsistent )
Suggested this before. Find takers for Ike and Duda and even Murphy for a chance to sign Kendry Morales for 1B and platoon EY and Flores. Make a run for a young shortstop as we have no chance at landing Drew!
Headline: "...Mets like drew, but not for 3 years..."
Body Copy: "Mets like free-agent Stephen Drew, but they prefer he sign a two or three years and they believe he will stay with the Red Sox."
oh Metsblog...
What on earth does this sentence say? "Mets like free-agent Stephen Drew, but they prefer he sign a two or three years and they believe he will stay with the Red Sox"
What is a "two or three years" when you are saying the Mets will only offer 2? Seriously...
For all you people who have sat here and complained, complained and complained about not spending any money, I have one word for you...STOP! The Mets are already a better team than they were last year. Think about it, no more retreads like Cowgill, Baxter, Brown, and awful prospects like Kirk, and den Dekker.
The Mets significantly improved their OF this season. Colon is a bridge gap for when Harvey comes back. Look, our rotation is deeper now with the acquisition of Colon.
We need one more bat for this team to be contenders. I truly believe it.
Those who suggest Murphy at first need to stop with that idea. We are fortunate he is serviceable at 2nd base. Forget 1st. been there tried that. He plays a better 2nd and his offensive stats make up for his lack of D at that position.
There's not much available in SS market. I would rather keep Tejada and find another OF and sign Kendry Morales. Trade for Ichiro. Absolutely no risk with him, he can play RF and lead off for mets. Sign Kendry to play 1B and bat 4. I assume that signing morales would require mets clearing salary by trading Murphy Duda n Ike. Get what you can for Duda & Davis. Hope mets trade Murphy to Royals for Tim Collins n Bubba Starling. Put EY/Flores at 2B. Ichiro, CY, wright morales grandy Flores DArnaud Tejada.
Another option would be to sign infante to play SS. 3 years, 25.5 should get a deal done. Then they can keep Murphy.
Not that the Mets were ever going to sign Drew anyway, but Jody Mac on WFAN (subbing for Benigno & Roberts), just said the Sandy put the Kibosh on Drew this morning. I didn't expect us to get him anyway based on the fact we needed to free up some payroll - which is actually comical since we are already in the bottom half of the league in that department. Anyway, looks like Drew was just a pipe dream and unless there is a trade made, we will be looking at Ruben Tejada for another year. That should be fun...
Oh we don't need a SS,they got no money for that now...we got a 40 year old pitcher Jabba the Hutt for 2 years 20 mil
Get Brandon Phillips, play Murph at first base and we can live with Reuben at short.
Should the Rays decide on trading for Ike Davis, is there any possibility to acquire Yunel Escobar?
@mcreynolds Well i somewhat agree.. I would say hmm Grandy sure 40 HR CF sure.. But Colon would be like idk for 20mil? But in this situation we just need a inning eating 2 yr guy until HArvey gets healthy or Syndergard emerges.. so not a bad move for the situation..
I do not like Cyoung.. if you told me 6yrs ago e may get him sure. but he has gotten worse every year since his best season in 2007 and one after in 2010.. he is a bust . and we are wasting time and $ we could have used on a guy like Morales who is proven to be a legit hitter.. even if Morales got a 3 yr 10 per year its still a guy who will hit 275/20/80 on the regular and can play 3B/OF/1B so you have more options and they are the same age.. so for about 3 mil more I would have opted for a more legit guy for 3 yeas who we can count on. not a use to with some speed and a decent glove who bats 225
Segura is so much better than Ike though. We would have to include Montero to make that deal realistic.
I'm hoping we can get Chris Owings from Arizona. He is young and athletic, with a very good OBP and OPS in AAA. I would offer Montero for him.
Colon was a great signing, as was Granderson. I really wish they had brought back Byrd instead of signing Chris Young. Byrd is a much more legit #5 hitter.
@anthony G. Decesare it's kind of a catch22 if you ask me. i don't think the mets can compete with this lineup. but i think to maintain "flexibility" (other than having money to spend at all times), the best way is to not have too many contracts coming off the books at once. of course sandy signing drew on a 3 year deal would space all 4 of his contracts out perfectly (to end in each of the next 4 years) but we'll see what he does.
i'm not too sold on drew yet, but i'm honestly not sure. i've heard some boston fans are very scared of losing him, but that doesn't necessarily mean we should be in on him. so far, i've built enough trust in sandy to get the right move done
LOL...I read that too. What does that even mean??? If you like him, sign him. If not, move on...
@Henny Cognac My view is, as long as Jeff Wilpon is COO, the Mets are headed in the wrong direction. So I guess my vote will always be "no" going forward.
@Henny Cognac no idea. colon gets signed and suddenly everyone is all optimistic? ok nice move, points for and against, but how does that change the mindset of the fanbase. are they so easily swayed. we'll see how long the fan confidence rating stays up there at 26%. my guess is not long.
@Henny Cognac They signed Granderson!!! Didn't you pop your champagne like everyone else did for a 240 hitter? The Franchise is saved!
@Eli Battistoni fill the holes in OF, SS, and 1B, then talk to me. a job isn't finished til its finished. do you leave work halfway through your day and feel accomplished?
@Freddie Morales yeah not sure why infante hasn't been tossed around for ss but why not? better than tejada at least. maybe not the best option but better than what we have
I like this, and it sounds like a solid lineup and acquisitions. I just honestly don't see this happening, plus Yankees would never trade with the Mets.
Sandy likes to say one thing to the media and think something completely different behind closed doors. Sandy could be posturing. Not reveal his hand in public.
@kenmetskni I agre.. Segura is much more valuable than Ike.. and younger .. I would trade Degrom/Ike/Flores for him.. he goes to SS and becomes our leadoff hitter for next 5 years at a great price allowing us to sign Morales for 1B .. and another OF maybe add Hart next year or Cuddyer or rasmus
@fuwilpons Who cares? They are finally spending on talent for the field and in the end that's the only thing that matters.
I voted Right Direction for the first time ever. I did so because I see the FO spending significant money to address areas of need. I agree there is a long way to go, but they have begun to take steps forward. They have added a top of the rotation starter and a power OF bat. Also, they have done so without giving up any of our young pitching talent so far.
He could hit 200 for all I care. If he scores 100 runs and drives in 100 runs I will take it. Runs produced is the bottom line.
@Mike @Eli Battistoni Would you rather have Nolasco- 4 years? Hughes- 3 years? Feldman- 3 years? or Colon- 2 years?
@fuwilpons well he didnt get caught for anything last year and won 18 games so maybe he wasnt doing it...honestly even if he is doing it, i dont care anymore. I am tired of only our crap players doing PED's. Lets get some of our better players doing them...
@fuwilpons If he is 75% of last year's production. It will be a good signing. It's a small commitment for a guy who's 40. Only two years!


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WOW Trail Fundraiser at Patrick's Pub & Eatery
LACONIA — The WOW Trail is in a final push to raise funds to build Phase 2 of the trail later this year, and Patrick's Pub & Eatery in Gilford is inviting the public to their "High 5 for the WOW Trail" fundraiser to help make this happen.
"Visit us at Patrick's this month and donate $5 to the WOW Trail and we'll give you $5 Off on your next visit" explains Allan Beetle, co-owner of Patrick's and president of the WOW Trail. "And as a thank you for your support you'll have the chance to win some really great prizes from our WOW Trail sponsors." Sponsors supporting this effort include InnSeasons Resorts, Piche's Ski & Sport, Laconia Athletic & Swim Club, MC Cycle & Sport and the Woodstock Station.
The 1.3 mile WOW Trail runs from Elm Street in Lakeport to Downtown Laconia at North Main Street, mostly along the active state-owned railroad corridor. Phase 2 of the planned 9 mile rail trail will extend to the Belmont town line, where it will connect with the proposed first section of the Belmont trail making a contiguous 4 ½ mile recreation trail. Ultimately, the 9 mile WOW Trail will be part of a 25 mile Franklin to Meredith rail trail corridor.
"We're delighted with the activity out on the first phase" says Beetle. "Trail counts show over 40,000 users a year on the first section, and this will only increase as the trail grows to include more connection points. With 4 ½ miles of trail, this begins to get more interesting. But the real impact will be when we connect up to the Weirs and then on to Meredith, offering trail users retail, lodging, public beaches, residential areas and outstanding scenic vistas. That's when we will see the maximum economic impact we are working towards".
An Economic Impact Study prepared by the Belknap Economic Development Council estimates that a completed WOW Trail would generate 152,000 users each year, with 38,000 of those users coming from out of area generating net new spending of $1.8 million annually. Nationwide, rail trails demonstrably improve quality of life, encourage healthier lifestyles, provide a safe place for active commuting and generate significant economic impact to the communities they serve.
The community is invited to visit Patrick's during the month of April and donate $5 to the WOW Trail and in return, get a $5 Off coupon for a return visit. Patrick's hosts Team Trivia Monday's at 7 p.m.; Family Night (kids ½ priced meals with games and prizes) every Tuesday night and live music Wednesday thru Saturday night.
Patrick's, located at the junctions of Rt 11 and Rt11B in Gilford, is about to celebrate their 20th year in operation under Jeff and Allan Beetle. They have twice been recognized as the NH winner of the Good Neighbor Award by the National Restaurant Association in part for their work and support of the WOW Trail.
For more information about Patrick's entertainment schedule or specials, visit www.patrickspub.com or for the WOW Trail, visit www.wowtrail.org.
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NH Charitable Foundation announces new regional advisory board members
CONCORD — The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation has appointed 21 new members to its regional advisory boards.
The Foundation's eight regional advisory boards — Capital, Lakes, Manchester, Monadnock, Nashua, North Country, Piscataqua and Upper Valley — are comprised of local members who monitor the needs of their communities to inform Foundation grant-making programs and provide guidance and counsel to staff and the board of directors on local and statewide issues.
Each regional advisory board member serves a three-year term. Current membership across the eight regional advisory boards totals 106.
New members in the Lakes Region include Cynthia A. Hemeon-Plessner of Laconia, the vice president of marketing at the Meredith Village Savings Bank; Jeff Kantar of Alton, a financial advisor and planner with Northwestern Mutual and Carol Gerken of Meredith, a principal of Wingate Enterprises Consulting.
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CASA of NH enrolls 12 new child advocates into training program
LACONIA — CASA of NH is pleased to announce that twelve new volunteers have recently completed the pre-service training necessary to be an advocate for children who have been abused in our communities. They have received comprehensive training and are assigned a volunteer supervisor so they always have someone to turn to as they get to know the child they are assigned to and represent the child's best interests, complete court reports and show up to hearing approximately every three months until the child is able to have a safe and permanent home.
Laconia resident, Frieda Yueh added, "The training was in incredible and our class was phenomenal. So fun and informative and funny! We loved it and look forward to the next experiences.''
"The training program was an amazing experience. I am so impressed with this organization and am energized to become a contributing member," said Peter Bixby of Laconia.
Their efforts in conjunction with the existing volunteers at CASA of NH save the State of NH approximately 3.5 million dollars a year. Volunteer advocates meet with the child they are assigned to work with monthly, attend periodic court hearings and speak with the various adults involved with the child.
Statistically, young people who have a CASA have far better outcomes than those who do not and get into a safe and permanent home faster than those without a CASA volunteer advocate. CASA of NH is working diligently to recruit, screen, train and support enough advocates to serve every child, but because of the demand they are only able to take on 82% of the abuse / neglect cases throughout the state.
Due to the critical need for more advocates in the Lakes Region, trainings are scheduled in the next few months in Plymouth, Manchester and throughout the state. If you are interested in becoming a CASA volunteer or exploring various ways you can support CASA of NH, contact Jen Buteau at 536-1663 or visit www.casanh.org .
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Take Down Birdfeeders to avoid contact with bears
CONCORD — While it may look more like mid-January rather than late March across the New Hampshire landscape, don't be fooled. Spring is here. The late March sun is strong and snow will soon start to melt fast. As the days become warmer, bears will start to get active and it is time to put the birdfeeders away until late fall. Some homeowners have already reported seeing bears at birdfeeders in different areas across the state. To help prevent bear visits, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department recommends taking down birdfeeders from April 1 to December 1.
The Fish and Game Department urges the New Hampshire public to be proactive and take action now to prevent attracting a bear to their home. Do not wait for a bear to get the birdfeeder and then respond. Doing so encourages foraging behavior by bears near residences. A single food reward will cause the bear to return and continue to search the area for food.
While bear/human conflicts during 2013 (527 complaints) were below the long-term average (695 per year), 2012 was a challenging year resulting in a record total of over 1,100 statewide complaints, according to Fish and Game Bear Biologist Andrew Timmins. Nearly 10% of the bear complaints during 2012 involved bears at bird feeders. Additionally, another 40% of the complaints were the direct result of bears raiding unsecured garbage at homes and businesses. "These two common food attractants accounted for half of the total bear-human conflicts in that year and could have been easily avoided by removing or securing common food attractants around the yard," said Timmins.
"The rate of bear/human conflicts that will occur this spring and summer is unknown and difficult to predict. Bears went to den in good shape due to generally abundant foods (i.e., beechnuts, apples, mountain ash berries, and choke cherries) last fall. However, it has been a long denning season and bears have depleted considerable body fat," said Timmins. "When bears emerge, they will be hungry and food will be limited until spring green-up occurs. We are hoping homeowners will be vigilant and remove/secure attractants so as not to entice bears and create nuisance behavior."
Black oil sunflower seeds are simply too high a quality of food (high in fat and protein) for bears to ignore. Natural bear foods during spring and summer are generally high in carbohydrates and low in protein and fat. As a result, birdseed is high on the menu. If bears have previously acquired sunflower seeds at your home, they will be back looking for more. The best way to prevent attracting bears is to remove birdfeeders until December 1 and secure other household food attractants.
Homeowners should take action to reduce the chances of a bear visiting their home. Avoid encounters with bears by taking a few simple precautions:
* Stop all bird feeding by April 1.
* Clean up any spilled birdseed and dispose of it in the trash.
* Secure all garbage in airtight containers inside a garage or adequate storage area, and put garbage out on the morning of pickup, not the night before. If using a dumpster, inform your dumpster company that you need a dumpster with metal locking tops and doors that are inaccessible to bears and other wildlife.
* Avoid putting meat or other food scraps in your compost pile.
* Don't leave pet food dishes outside overnight.
* Clean and store outdoor grills after each use.
* Finally, never feed bears!
These steps will help to ensure that your backyard does not become attractive to bears and other wildlife, which is important because it prevents property damage by bears and because it keeps bears from becoming nuisance animals.
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LNG, CNG sales more than double Texas projections
Sales of natural gas for motor vehicles are surging way ahead of state projections.
According to the Texas Railroad Commission, tax revenues from sales of liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas exceeded $2.2 million through the end of July. The Texas Comptroller's Office had only projected revenue of $992,000 for the 2014 fiscal year, which ends August 31.
"Natural gas vehicles are becoming mainstream faster than expected," Railroad Commissioner David Porter said in a statement. "And there's plenty of room for growth. These excellent sales figures represent only a fraction of potential sales."
Between public transport operators like DART and major shipping companies like UPS making significant commitments, natural gas as a motor fuel has gained steam in recent years.
Natural gas stations are going up in anticipation the larger motorist market will start to switch over from gasoline to take advantage of potential cost savings – natural gas runs about $2 a gallon right now.
But there's a long way to go.
At a tax rate of roughly 15 cents per gallon of natural gas equivalent, Texas CNG and LNG sales in fiscal 2014 figure to total around $32 million.
In 2012 petroleum sales in Texas exceeded $118 billion, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.


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Captain Sulu Novel Update
By ChristianApril 12, 2000 - 12:12 AM
Over at Pocket Books' Star Trek Books Board, Trek novel editor John Ordover has posted the following message regarding his Excelsior challenge:
Star Trek
The Cry of the One Thousand
The story begins with a death threat
against the lives of 1000 clerics on a
distant planet who are about to complete a sacred hand-written scroll - the completion of which will elevate them - and lower their enemies - in the eyes of the populous.
No, I'm not kidding. If the Sulu
challenge works, the campaign will serve not only as the motivation, but the inspiration of the story.
You're welcome to spread that around, if you think it might help.
While I don't believe that there is a
big enough readership for a Captain Sulu novel, I want you all to know that if it turns out there is, no one will be happier than I am. I even have a title and the beginings of the story set up.
Besides this post, a huge discussion regarding the Captain Sulu challenge has been going on at the Star Trek Books Board for the past few weeks. Meanwhile, David Henderson at Psi Phi has made another update to the Captain Sulu Progress Page, indicating that Pocket Books has now received a 150 letters in support of a Captain Sulu novel - if by the 1st of May they've received a thousand such letters, they'll actually publish a Captain Sulu novel.
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A new toolkit of equations will help theorists determine whether a promising agreement between particle physics and string theory is fact or fancy.
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The research is reported in Physical Review Letters and accompanied by a Viewpoint in the September 21, 2009 issue of Physics.
Physicists long for a single theory to describe the universe, but so far can't shoehorn Einstein's gravity and quantum mechanics into one elegant mathematical box. In 1997, a physicist named Juan Maldacena raised hopes of unification by proposing that the four-dimensional kingdom of a specific quantum theory was merely the border of a five-dimensional spacetime ruled by string theory. The possible harmony tantalized string theorists, but eluded proof, because the two theories were almost impossible to compare.
Now Nikolay Gromov, Vladimir Kazakov, and Pedro Vieira have assembled a hefty toolbox of equations to help the thwarted string theorists tackle the question. With these tools in hand, theorists can measure the predictions of string theory against a slew of the quantum theory's results with unprecedented ease, placing them closer to finding out if Maldacena's idea is rock solid or the stuff of dreams.
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The right to earn a living and enjoy the fruits of one's labor is a fundamental human right, guaranteed by the Constitution. But government now intrudes on this right in countless ways, imposing unnecessary training requirements on workers, forbidding businesses from lowering their prices, confiscating wealth, rewriting contracts, and fostering frivolous lawsuits against business owners. In his new book, The Right to Earn A Living, Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Timothy Sandefur details the fascinating history of the Constitution's protections for economic freedom, and describes some of the remarkable cases in which he has helped defend entrepreneurs from intrusive government. He will be joined by David E. Bernstein, the nation's leading scholar on Lochner v. New York, the most important of the Supreme Court's decisions on economic liberty, and Clark Neily, who heads the Institute for Justice's litigation in defense of entrepreneurs.
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The Vuyani Safari Lodge is currently one of the most exceptional and bespoke safari lodges in South Africa. With only 7 suites on one of the largest private game reserves in the country, featuring many of the rarest animals to be found in South Africa, Vuyani Safari Lodge offers a safari holiday exclusivity which goes unrivalled on the southern African continent.
The cuisine, a mixture of refined European and typically South African influences, is complemented by South African wines that have achieved world class status.
A 12-meter eternity pool, lounge chairs on the deck, an observation upper deck, a Boma with an open fire for traditional South African braais and individual decks (for both honeymoon suite chalets), will guarantee perfect relaxation when not on safari with our rangers.
The team at the Vuyani Safari Lodge also offers a very large choice of excursions and activities every day. This offer is perfect if you want to explore one of the most stunning nature spots in the world, located near the lodge grounds, when you are not out on safari on our game reserve (which take place in the early mornings and the late afternoons, so there is plenty of time in-between for activities and half-day trips). Please click here to see all that is on offer! Our head ranger recommends in particular a visit to the Kruger Park, our Blyde River Canyon cruise (the world's third largest and only green canyon) as well as the Elephant Sanctuary and a visit to the local Cheetah Rescue Centre.
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Due to the lodge's size (only 7 bedrooms), our rangers and chefs are able to focus on the specific wishes and preferences of our guests in a way and quality that has made the safari lodge renowned for it. So whether you require romantic breakfasts or intimate candle-lit dinners at your own chalet patio, relaxing sunbaths at the pool, an introduction to Moditlo's breathtaking wealth of birdlife, usage of our telescope to observe the millions of stars that litter the African skies, or just excellent food, we at the Vuyani Safari Lodge will make it all possible.
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TAMBARAM: A two-year-old boy died after eating a biscuit that was reportedly contaminated after it came into contact with naphthalene balls. The incident took place at Kadaperi near Tambaram on Sunday night.
Tambaram police, who are investigating the case, said Rathnamani (5) and his two-year-old brother Vimal, children of a lorry driver and residents of Kadaperi, had gone to a relative's house where they picked up some naphthalene balls. They are reported to have put them in their shirt pocket along with biscuits and other snacks. The boys did not have their dinner till 10 p.m. on Sunday and ate the snacks and biscuits on Sunday night. As the poison from the insect repellent contaminated the snacks, the boys fell unconscious, police said.
They were rushed to hospital, where Vimal was declared dead on arrival. His elder brother was admitted to the Children's Hospital, Egmore, and was reported to be out of danger.


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John Roberts delivered his second opinion last week as chief justice of the United States. It was more interesting than his first opinion, which scored 98.7 on a dullness meter in the press room. Things will pick up steadily from now to the end of term in June. A good thing, too.
The chief's maiden opinion, on Dec. 7, understandably drew no attention at all. It is the court's venerable custom to give a newcomer a real dog, and Martin v. Franklin Capital Corp. was woof-woof all the way. The case involved the determination of a proper standard for awarding attorney's fees when a case is remanded from federal court to a state court. That is all you need to know about the court's unanimous decision in Case No. 04-1140, except that Roberts managed to throw in a citation to U.S. v. Aaron Burr (1807), which provided a touch of class.
Last week's 8-0 opinion in Gonzales v. Uniao Do Vegetal, Case No. 04-1084, was more fascinating, but not by much. Roberts' 18-page effort set off some musings on appellate style and brought a commendable ending to a mildly interesting case.
The case involved a small religious sect in New Mexico. As part of their ritual, the 130 members twice a month sip a sacramental tea made from a Brazilian plant known as hoasca (pronounced "wass-cah"). Because the imported beverage produces mild hallucinations, the Justice Department sued to have it banned under the Controlled Substances Act.
The 10th Circuit, based in Denver, ruled on the case in November 2004. The 13 judges split like a rack of pool balls. Finally a majority agreed, in a 153-page opinion, that the ritual is "legitimate religious expression." The effect was to thwart the government's effort to stop the petitioners from observing the Brazilian rite. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appealed. Last week he was foiled again.
Roberts may have been turned off by the government's perfervid rhetoric. Gonzales argued that the lower court's "extraordinary" opinion threatens to inflict "irreparable harm" on international cooperation in combating traffic in narcotics. The government, he warned, would be forced to violate an international treaty. To affirm the circuit court would "open the nation's borders to a mind-altering hallucinogen," a substance "so profoundly harmful that it is not even safe for use under medical supervision."
To all of which the chief justice said, in effect, pooh! The government's argument "cannot carry the day."
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All work and no play has left Jane a very dull girl indeed. When she's not working her day job, she's spending any free time toiling for the benefit of her neighbors as the president of her condo association. At the annual holiday party, her Secret Santa gives her a basket full of naughty sex toys, someone's inappropriate joke at her expense. Next thing Jane knows, she's waking up in a strange bed with very little memory of the night before.
Sprawled across red satin sheets with a pounding headache and throbbing private parts, Jane struggles to recall whose bed she's in before her new bed buddy finishes showering. Bits and pieces of memory come back to her, but the recollections don't comfort, only confound her. It seems she's going to have a merrier Christmas than she was anticipating.
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Test stuff, break stuff, mix stuff, heat stuff… and discover how strange matter can be!
Strange Matter, our newest hands-on exhibition, uses science to explore the bizarre world of modern materials and offers a glimpse into where the future might take us.
Dive into the world of materials science — the study of "stuff." A dynamic blend of physics, chemistry and engineering, this field of research studies how things are put together, how they might be improved, or how they can be changed to create brand new materials.
• Zoom down to the micro level and find out why Post-It® notes stick and Teflon doesn't
• Play with liquids that defy gravity and morph mysteriously
• Discover what your skull and soap bubbles have in common
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