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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the effectiveness of the Navy inspectors general activities, focusing on a draft revision of Instruction 5040.7K which prescribes the objectives, policies, and procedures that inspectors general staff are to follow when inspecting Navy units. GAO found that: (1) the objectives and policies of the Naval Command Inspection Program are stated differently throughout the draft instruction; (2) the draft instruction should include an initial section that clearly states inspection objectives and policies; (3) the term inspection is not consistently defined or used in the draft instruction; (4) the instruction does not require the use of inspection guides; (5) the instruction should expand the current requirement for inspection guides in order to better define the inspection approach, the areas to be inspected, and the types of assessments and techniques that should be used; (6) the instruction does not address conducting trend analyses or developing and using performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of the inspected unit; (7) the instruction does not require full reporting of the scope, methodology, and results of each inspected area; and (8) the instruction should include a standardized format for inspection reports.
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Victims of Child Abuse Act:Further Actions Needed to Ensure Timely Use of Grant Funds and Assess Grantee PerformanceGAO-15-351: Published: Apr 29, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 29, 2015.
Mar 23, 2015
Department of Justice:Alternative Sources of Funding Are a Key Source of Budgetary Resources and Could Be Better ManagedGAO-15-48: Published: Feb 19, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 23, 2015.
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Criminal History Records:Additional Actions Could Enhance the Completeness of Records Used For Employment-Related Background ChecksGAO-15-162: Published: Feb 12, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 16, 2015.
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Whistleblower Protection:Additional Actions Needed to Improve DOJ's Handling of FBI Retaliation ComplaintsGAO-15-343T: Published: Mar 4, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 4, 2015.
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Whistleblower Protection:Additional Actions Needed to Improve DOJ's Handling of FBI Retaliation ComplaintsGAO-15-112: Published: Jan 23, 2015. Publicly Released: Feb 23, 2015.
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Immigration Benefits:Improvements Needed to Fully Implement the International Marriage Broker Regulation ActGAO-15-3: Published: Dec 10, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 10, 2014.
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Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act:Additional Outreach and Notification of Tribes about Offenders Who Are Released from Prison NeededGAO-15-23: Published: Nov 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 18, 2014.
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act:Survey of Federally Recognized Tribes on Implementation of the Act (GAO-15-30SP, November 2014), an E-supplement to GAO-15-23GAO-15-30SP: Published: Nov 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 18, 2014.
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Alternatives to Detention:Improved Data Collection and Analyses Needed to Better Assess Program EffectivenessGAO-15-26: Published: Nov 13, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 13, 2014.
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NEWORLEANS-- Saints coach Sean Payton sent one versatile running back packing in a trade that picked up legs late Wednesday night.
Late Thursday, he welcomed another.
Former Chargers running back Darren Sproles has agreed to a two-year contract with the Saints, the free agent told the Associated Press.
Sproles told the AP in an e-mail that he's a Saint now and 'can't wait to get started.'
The NFL Network's Jason LaCanfora says the contract is a four-year deal worth $14 million with $6 million gauranteed. FOXSports.com's Alex Marvez first reported the move.
The Saints were in need of a matchup-rich running back after trading former No. 2 overall pick Reggie Bush to Miami Thursday morning.
'I think he (Sproles) is an exceptional talent. He is very versatile and dynamic,' Payton said Thursday during his pre-training camp news conference, but before the team had agreed to terms with the running back.
Since taking over as the kick returner for San Diego, Sproles (5-foot-6, 190 pounds) hasn't finished with fewer than 1,008 return yards.
Throughout his career, which began in 2005 out of Kansas State, Sproles has been a more of a threat in the passing game, recording 11 touchdown receptions to just six rushing scores.
Payton said there was never an idea to find someone to replace Bush, though he admitted their skill sets were very similar.
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As soon as the first rays of sun announce the end of the winter, locals head out of the city in droves. And many of them end up in this traditional beer garden, a leafy oasis with stunning views of the River Rhine. Situated north of the city, Brand's Jupp is popular with walkers, cyclists and day-trippers, who pop in for refreshments after a day out. The coffee, cake and hearty local dishes like sauerbraten, are sure fire ways to regain your strength after an energetic walk. If the weather is bad or the beer garden is full, there is plenty of space in the bistro, which is decorated in typical Rhineland style.
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If you can imagine it
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By this time I thought I'd be writing all about the prep and procedure for the colonoscopy I'm having to make some doctors happy. Would you believe colonoscopies are so popular that there is a waiting list? Can you envision the line outside of a row of portapotties? With a tour group in England, I quickly learned the word "queue," meaning to line up and wait for the next available seat, no matter what the nature of the need might be. Webster delicately gives the example of "a line at the post office." I am now in the queue and will be entertaining myself with other amusing activities until my number comes up.
During this waiting period, I received a letter from the IRS saying I am being investigated for tax returns from 2013. I thought it was an unimportant form letter and nearly destroyed it. Fortunately I read it and handed it over to "Boss of the Money." He read it, recognized it was genuine and didn't find it entertaining. He pointed out to me a major problem. My modest retirement income hasn't been enough to require me to file a return since 2009. The letter stated that I "might be the victim of identity theft," they'd contact me again in 60 to 90 days and meantime I needn't worry. Then I threw up. RB told me I'd done nothing wrong and the IRS had made a mistake. He promised he'd take care of Earl and they'd visit me in prison until the problem was solved.
For half a week I forgot about it, then the State of Ohio wrote me, referring to the income tax return of 2013, which is non-existent, enclosing a check for $6,181.00, which is not enough to leave the country and my passport has expired so I didn't run with it. I did contact our kids so they'd know, if I was missing, that I left voluntarily and that RB had not done me in. There was no rush, my scooter only goes 5 miles an hour and I don't believe the scooter would get me to Troy
Then another letter from the IRS confirmed that my identity HAD been stolen. Why would anyone want to be me? I don't; there's no money in it. We learned the check had been canceled before I ever held it in my hand. From the beginning of our marriage, RB has always handled the money, an effortless job since we never had any. He put himself in charge of the investigation, which was wise because it involved several trips around. He can drive and I can't, Actually, I CAN drive; I just can't see where I'm going. Both letters had a list of individuals and businesses, email addresses, fax and phone numbers, to know where to start. We'd begun with the bank, of course, and secured private information and any possibility of our account or credit cards being accessed. RB spent days holding the receiver to his ear, and sometimes he actually said a few words. And sometimes the "Official Person" wanted to speak with Jenny C. Stevens, me, then I got to hold the receiver. Nearly everyone was courteous except a Mrs. Watson, who didn't like my lack knowledge. I tried to tell her I couldn't see the fine print; it didn't matter to her.
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He admitted that "it's purely a lack of oversight on our part," and said that starting from scratch has been mentioned as the way to go about fixing the agency's problems. But, he added, "in essence, we have started from scratch twice. When I came on board in April '07, we had a task of organizing 11 police departments into one."
Schenkel said that once he learned of the GAO's initial findings, he took the situation seriously and ordered immediate action.
But despite the action taken since the investigation, the security tests highlighted critical issues.
"We brought in all the components that we needed to make a real bomb," the GAO's Mark Goldstein said as he explained the tests to lawmakers today.
He said the materials used are available in stores and on the Internet, and that the assembled bombs carried around by investigators cost less than $150 to produce and took less than four minutes to assemble.
Goldstein noted that the investigators "did use actual bomb components, but they were at a level that would not actually set the bomb off. The concentration was below the trigger point."
The government investigators detonated bombs that would have produced the same results as those used in the tests. The result? Powerful, potentially deadly explosions. Video of two detonations show one exploding at a test site and another blowing up in the trunk of a car.
Goldstein expressed concern that at several of the security checkpoints tested as part of the probe, "guards were not even looking at the screens that would show materials passing through."
And the security breaches didn't end with smuggled bomb parts, according to the GAO.
Investigators also found stunning examples from among the ranks of the Federal Protective Service, according to the GAO's preliminary results. Investigators caught one armed guard sleeping at his post after taking the prescription painkiller Percocet during his shift. Another "accidentally fired his firearm in a restroom while practicing drawing his weapon." One "was caught using government computers to manage a private for-profit adult Web site" while absent from his post.
But one incident in particular highlights concerns about guard training.
According to the GAO's preliminary findings, an incident occurred after a mother placed her baby's carrier in front of an x-ray machine as she reached for her identification.
"Because the guard was not paying attention and the machine's safety features had been disabled, the infant in the carrier was sent through the x-ray machine," the report found.
The agency fired the guard after an investigation, but the guard sued, claiming that the FPS didn't provide adequate training. "The guard won the suit because FPS could not produce any documentation to show that the guard had received the training," the investigators found.
"When I first heard about the story, about a guard allowing a baby to go through the screening device, on a baby seat, I thought it was made up," Lieberman said. "But it wasn't made up. It was real, and it all speaks to a lack of caring, really. I mean, when you hire someone to be a guard, a security guard at a high-security federal building, they've got life and death responsibility."
The GAO's preliminary findings also indicate that in one FPS region, the agency "has not provided the required eight hours of x-ray or magnetometer training to its 1,500 guards since 2004."


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New Delhi: The Centre informed the Supreme Court on Friday that a "Do-not-call registry" would be ready by September 5, and it would put an end to the menace of unsolicited calls received by subscribers from mobile phone and telemarketing companies. "Those in the registry will not receive any unsolicited calls," Government counsel P.P. Malhotra told a Bench, comprising Justices A.K. Mathur and Dalveer Bhandari, hearing a public interest petition seeking a ban on such calls.
"The Government is also planning to impose a fine of Rs.50 crore on those service providers who violate the new norms being framed to prevent tele-harassment of customers," he said.
Senior counsel C.A. Sundaram, appearing on behalf of some telecom companies, said, "Toll-free numbers will be set up from August 2 to enable subscribers to register themselves. Once subscribers register, they will no longer receive unsolicited calls."
Taking note of the submissions, the Bench adjourned the hearing to the last week of September.
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Acting on a public interest petition filed by social activist Harsh Pathak, the court issued notice in 2005 to the Centre, the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd., Hutch, Reliance Telecom, IDEA Cellular, Bharti Telenet, Citibank, HSBC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank seeking their response.
The matter came up for further hearing on Friday. The petitioner contended that he and his family members were subscribers of various mobile phone companies. They were fed up with the unsolicited calls made to them by cellular, banking and other companies using telemarketing as a strategy for business promotion.
The petitioner sought a direction to the respondent cellular companies to check, regulate and end the endemic invasion of privacy of their subscribers of the mobile telephony services at all times and hours through such unsolicited calls.


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Despite the ban on animal acts and the labour crunch, companies like Crown Circus promise to thrill their audience
The circus, long romanticised in popular culture and literature, has had to adapt rapidly to the changing times. Counted among the oldest forms of public entertainment, the circus – big top, ringmaster, lion-tamer and all - has had to reinvent itself in a kinder and more politically correct avatar.
The show goes on nonetheless for companies like Crown Circus, which has pitched up its tents at the Corporation Grounds in Anna Nagar, Tiruchi until September 16. "The circus is still popular in India, but the banning of animals like the lion, tiger, panther, monkey and green parrots has hit our business," says K.P.Unni, manager of the Bangalore-based company.
The Central Zoo Authority is also considering a ban on elephant performances, and has started restricting the inter-state permits issued to circus companies to transport pachyderms, says Unni. In a matter of two or three years, there may be no elephants left in circuses, according to him.
Animal rights activism and general audience apathy are just some of the obstacles facing the circus business in India these days. Increasingly projected as an unstable and dangerous means to earn a living, the circus is in the midst of a labour crunch. Veteran circus performers themselves prefer to educate their children in other fields.
"The ban on employing artistes below 14 years of age has limited our staff intake," says Unni. "Actually you need to start training in childhood to become equipped for life in the circus, but kids these days are made to study with a well-paying job in mind. This is also the reason why we have had to bring performers from Europe and Africa."
Tough life
An artist's day is full of performances and practice sessions. "We don't get a vacation, though we are allowed to go home whenever we want," says Unni, who started his career in Devar Films before switching to circus management. He later qualifies it with "once we find the replacement staff."
The absence of a contract means that artists can hop between companies.
"We don't have to pay entertainment tax," says Unni, "but a medium-sized company like ours needs an average earning of at least Rs50,000 daily to stay functional. We have other expenses like the electricity, staff salaries, diesel, animal maintenance and so on."
How the Big Top spins
Maintaining each of the three horses that the Crown Circus has brought to Tiruchi takes around Rs. 700 per day, while the two camels each need fodder worth Rs800, including a gruel made of fenugreek. The circus has also got performing Pomeranian dogs on its roster of 30 attractions. All of these are used in tricks that don't strain them, assures the manager.
"We have not closed down any act due to the unavailability of artists," says Unni. "But the time duration of our shows (Crown Circus is offering three every day) has been shortened. We now plan only for no more than a 2-hour show these days, because nobody has the time to sit longer."
Crown Circus uses a fireproof tent that is secured with pegs dug 6ft into the ground and covered with mud to withstand Tiruchi's strong winds. "Our tent masters are all self-taught engineers," says Unni proudly.
All circus companies keep in touch with each other to devise an annual schedule to avoid date clashes. "The circus has to work for at least 25 days in a month ," says Unni.
With a history that starts in the late 19th century, circus artists were among the first to be employed in India's nascent film industry. Today, as with most folk arts, the juggernaut of cinema has nudged the circus out of public consciousness.


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Situated in a quiet position just a few minutes from the centre of Courmayeur, the cosy, comfortable Residence Checrouit apartments are an excellent addition to our programme in Courmayeur. Filled to bursting with fine restaurants and characteristic bars, Courmayeur is an ideal resort for an apartment-based holiday and the Residence Checrouit is perfectly placed to take advantage of this wealth of choice. Guests will find that the Residence Checrouit offers apartments with a difference – the difference mostly being Laura, the friendly manager who serves an optional breakfast of freshly-baked pastries in the mornings and goes out of her way to ensure that all guests feel welcome and comfortable.
· 3 minutes walk to the Checrouit cable car · 8 minutes walk to centre of Courmayeur
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Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.
Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like."[1] In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich." Emma, however, is also rather spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives, and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray.
Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his loved ones. Emma's friend and only critic is the gentlemanly George Knightley, her neighbour from the adjacent estate of Donwell, and the brother of her elder sister Isabella's husband, John. As the novel opens, Emma has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her best friend and former governess. Having introduced Miss Taylor to her future husband, Mr. Weston, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she rather likes matchmaking.
Against Mr. Knightley's advice, Emma forges ahead with her new interest, and tries to match her new friend Harriet Smith, a sweet, pretty, but none-too-bright parlour boarder of seventeen —described as "the natural daughter of somebody"— to Mr. Elton, the local vicar. Emma becomes convinced that Mr. Elton's constant attentions are a result of his attraction and growing love for Harriet.
But before events can unfold as she plans, Emma must first persuade Harriet to refuse an advantageous marriage proposal. Her suitor is a respectable, educated, and well-spoken young gentleman farmer, Robert Martin, but Emma snobbishly decides he isn't good enough for Harriet. Against her own wishes, the easily-influenced Harriet rejects Mr. Martin.
Emma's schemes go awry when Mr. Elton, a social climber, fancies Emma is in love with him and proposes to her. Emma's friends had suggested that Mr. Elton's attentions were really directed at her, but she had misread the signs. Emma, rather shocked and a bit insulted, tells Mr. Elton that she had thought him attached to Harriet; however Elton is outraged at the very idea of marrying the socially inferior Harriet. After Emma rejects Mr. Elton, he leaves for a while for a sojourn in Bath, and Harriet fancies herself heartbroken. Emma feels dreadful about misleading Harriet and resolves—briefly—to interfere less in people's lives.
Mr. Elton, as Emma's misconceptions of his character melt away, reveals himself to be arrogant, resentful, and pompous. He soon returns from Bath with a pretentious, nouveau-riche wife who becomes part of Emma's social circle, though the two women soon loathe each other. The Eltons treat the still lovestruck Harriet deplorably, culminating with Mr Elton very publicly snubbing Harriet at a dance. Mr Knightley, who had until this moment refrained from dancing, gallantly steps in to partner Harriet, much to Emma's gratification.
An interesting development is the arrival in the neighbourhood of the handsome and charming Frank Churchill, Mr. Weston's son, who had been given to his deceased wife's wealthy sister and her husband, the Churchills, to raise. Frank, who is now Mrs. Weston's stepson, and Emma have never met, but she has a long-standing interest in doing so. The whole neighborhood takes a fancy to him, with the partial exception of Mr. Knightley, who becomes uncharacteristically grumpy whenever his name is mentioned and suggests to Emma that while Frank is clever and engaging, he is also a rather shallow character.
A third newcomer is the orphaned Jane Fairfax, the reserved, beautiful, and elegant niece of Emma's impoverished neighbour, the talkative Miss Bates, who lives with her deaf, widowed mother. Miss Bates is an aging spinster, well-meaning but increasingly poor; Emma strives to be polite and kind to her, but is irritated by her constant chattering. Jane, very gifted musically, is Miss Bates' pride and joy; Emma envies her talent, and although she has known Jane all her life has never warmed to her personally. Jane had lived with Miss Bates until she was nine, but Colonel Campbell, a friend of her father's, welcomed her into his own home, where she became fast friends with his daughter and received a first-rate education. But now Miss Campbell has married, and the accomplished but penniless Jane has returned to her Bates relations, ostensibly to regain her health and to prepare to earn her living as a governess. Emma is annoyed to find the entire neighborhood, including Mrs. Weston and Mr. Knightley, singing Jane's praises, but when Mrs. Elton, who fancies herself the new leader of Highbury society, patronizingly takes Jane under her wing and announces that she will find her the ideal governess post, Emma begins to feel some sympathy for Jane's predicament.
Still, Emma sees something mysterious in Jane's sudden return to Highbury and imagines that Jane and Miss Campbell's husband, Mr. Dixon, were mutually attracted, and that is why she has come home instead of going to Ireland to visit them. She shares her suspicions with Frank, who had become acquainted with Jane and the Campbells when they met at a vacation spot a year earlier, and he apparently agrees with her. Suspicions are further fueled when a piano, sent by an anonymous benefactor, arrives for Jane.
Emma tries to make herself fall in love with Frank largely because almost everyone seems to expect it. Frank appears to be courting Emma, and the two flirt and banter together in public, at parties, and on a day-trip to Box Hill, a local beauty spot. However, when his demanding and ailing aunt, Mrs. Churchill, summons Frank home, Emma discovers she does not miss her "lover" nearly as much as she expected and sets about plotting a match between him and Harriet, who seems to have finally gotten over Mr. Elton. Harriet breathlessly reports that Frank has "saved" her from a band of Gypsies, and seems to be confessing her admiration for him. Meanwhile, Mrs. Weston wonders if Emma's old friend Mr. Knightley has taken a fancy to Jane. Emma immediately dismisses that idea and protests that she does not want Mr. Knightley to marry anyone, and that her little nephew Henry must inherit Donwell, the Knightley family property.
When Mr. Knightley scolds her for a thoughtless insult to Miss Bates, Emma is stunned and ashamed and tries to atone by going to visit Miss Bates. Mr. Knightley is surprised and deeply impressed by Emma's recognition of her wrongdoing, but this meaningful rapprochement is broken off when he announces he must leave for London to visit his brother. Meanwhile, Jane reportedly becomes ill, but refuses to see Emma or accept her gifts, and it is suddenly announced that she has accepted a governess position from one of Mrs. Elton's friends.
On the heels of this comes word that Frank Churchill's aunt has died, and with it the astonishing news that Frank and Jane have been secretly engaged since they first met on holiday a year ago. They had been keeping the engagement quiet because they knew that Frank's imperious aunt would disapprove and likely disinherit him if he went through with the match. The strain of the clandestine relationship had been much harder on the conscientious Jane than the carefree Frank, and the two had quarreled bitterly; but now that his aunt has died, his easygoing uncle has already given his blessing. The engagement becomes public, the secrets behind Jane and Frank's behavior are revealed, and Emma is chagrined to discover that once again she has been so wrong about so much.
Emma is certain that Harriet will be devastated by Frank's engagement, but Harriet reassures her that this is not the case. In fact, Harriet tells Emma, it is Mr. Knightley who has captured her heart, and she believes he returns her feelings. Emma is dumbstruck over what she at first thinks is the impropriety of the match, but as she faces her feelings of dismay and jealousy, she realizes in a flash that she has long been in love with Mr. Knightley herself. She is shattered to think that it may be too late and resolves to support her dear friends in whatever they do, even at the cost of her own broken heart. However, when Mr. Knightley hurries back to Highbury to console Emma over what he imagines to be the loss of Frank Churchill, she discovers that he is also in love with her. He proposes and she joyfully accepts.
There is one more match to be made: With encouragement from Mr. Knightley, the farmer Robert Martin proposes again to Harriet, and this time she accepts. Jane and Emma reconcile and all misunderstandings are cleared up before Jane and Frank leave for their wedding and life with his uncle in Yorkshire. Emma and Mr. Knightley decide that after their marriage they will live with Emma's father at Hartfield to spare Mr. Woodhouse loneliness and distress. They seem headed for a union of "perfect happiness," to the great joy of their friends. Mrs. Weston gives birth to a baby girl, to the great satisfaction of Emma, who looks forward to introducing little Miss Weston to her young nephews.
Emma Woodhouse, the protagonist of the story, is a beautiful, high-spirited, intelligent, and 'slightly' spoiled young woman of the age of twenty. Her mother died when she was very young, and she has been mistress of the house ever since, certainly since her older sister got married. Although intelligent, she lacks the necessary discipline to practice or study anything in depth. She is portrayed as very compassionate to the poor, but at the same time has a strong sense of class. Her affection for and patience towards her hypochondriac father are also noteworthy. While she is in many ways mature for her age, Emma makes some serious mistakes, mainly due to her conviction that she is always right and her lack of real world experience. Although she has vowed she will never ever marry, she delights in making matches for others. She seems unable to fall in love, until jealousy makes her realise that she has loved Mr. Knightley all along.
George Knightley, about thirty-seven years old, is a close friend of Emma, and her only critic, although he cares deeply for her. Mr. Knightley is the owner of the estate of Donwell Abbey, which includes extensive grounds and a farm. He is the elder brother of Mr. John Knightley, the husband of Emma's elder sister Isabella. Mr. Knightley is very annoyed with Emma for persuading Harriet to turn down Mr. Martin, thinking that the advantage is all on Harriet's side; he also warns Emma against matchmaking Harriet with Mr. Elton, correctly guessing that Mr. Elton has a much higher opinion of himself. He is suspicious of Frank Churchill and his motives; although his suspicion turns out to be based mainly on jealousy of the younger man, his instincts are proven correct by the revelation that Frank Churchill is not all that he seems.
Mr. Frank Churchill, Mr. Weston's son by his previous marriage, is an amiable young man, who manages to be liked by everyone except Mr. Knightley, who considers him quite immature, although this partially results from his jealously of Frank's supposed 'pursuit' of Emma. After his mother's death, he was raised by his wealthy aunt and uncle, whose last name he took. Frank enjoys dancing and music and living life to the fullest. Frank may be viewed as a careless but less villainous version of characters from other Austen novels, such as Mr. Wickham from Pride and Prejudice or Willoughby from Sense and Sensibility.
Jane Fairfax, an orphan whose only family consists of an aunt, Miss Bates, and a grandmother, Mrs. Bates, is regarded as a very beautiful, clever, and elegant woman, with the best of manners, and is also very well-educated and exceptionally talented at singing and playing the piano; in fact, she is the sole person whom Emma envies. She has little fortune, however, and seems destined to become a governess – a prospect she dislikes.
Harriet Smith, a young friend of Emma's, is a very pretty but unsophisticated girl who is too easily led by others, especially Emma; she has been educated at a nearby school. The illegitimate daughter of initially unknown parents, she is revealed in the last chapter to be the daughter of a fairly rich and decent tradesman, although not a "gentleman". Emma takes Harriet under her wing early in the novel, and she becomes the subject of some of Emma's misguided matchmaking attempts. Harriet initially rebuffs a marriage proposal from farmer Robert Martin because of Emma's belief that he is beneath her, despite Harriet's own doubtful origins. She then develops a passion for Mr. Knightley, which is the catalyst for Emma realising her own feelings. Ultimately, Harriet and Mr. Martin are wed, despite Emma's initial meddling. The now wiser Emma approves of the match.
Philip Elton is a good-looking, well mannered, and ambitious young vicar. Emma wants him to marry Harriet; he wants to marry Emma. Mr. Elton displays his mercenary nature by quickly marrying another woman of means after Emma's rejection.
Augusta Elton, formerly Miss Hawkins, is Mr. Elton's wife. She is moneyed but lacks breeding and possesses moderately good manners, at best. She is a boasting, domineering, pretentious woman who likes to be the centre of attention and is generally disliked by Emma and her circle. She patronises Jane, which earns Jane the sympathy of others.
Mrs. Anne Weston, formerly Miss Taylor, was Emma's governess for sixteen years and remains her closest friend and confidante after she marries Mr. Weston in the opening chapter. She is a sensible woman who adores and idolises Emma. Mrs. Weston acts as a surrogate mother to her former charge and, occasionally, as a voice of moderation and reason, although she is the one to yield in arguments more often than not.
Mr. Weston, a recently wealthy man living in the vicinity of Hartfield, marries Emma's former governess, Miss Taylor, and by his first marriage is father to Frank Churchill, who was adopted and raised by his late wife's brother and sister-in-law. Mr. Weston is a sanguine, optimistic man, who enjoys socialising.
Miss Bates is a friendly, garrulous spinster whose mother, Mrs. Bates, is a friend of Mr. Woodhouse. Her accomplished niece, Jane Fairfax, is the light of her life. One day, Emma humiliates her on a day out in the country, when she pointedly alludes to her tiresome prolixity. Afterward, Mr. Knightley sternly rebukes Emma. Shamed, Emma tries to make amends.
Mr. Henry Woodhouse, Emma's father, is always concerned for his own health and comfort, and to the extent that it does not interfere with his own, the health and comfort of his friends. He is a valetudinarian (i.e., similar to a hypochondriac but more likely to be genuinely ill). He assumes a great many things are hazardous to one's health, and is generally a difficult person to handle because he is always fussing about the trifling things which bother him and which he assumes must bother everyone else just the same, to the point of trying to convince his visitors to deny foods he considers too rich. He laments that "poor Isabella" and especially "poor Miss Taylor" have married and been taken away from him, because since he is unhappy about their being gone, he assumes they must be miserable as well; moreover, he dislikes change in general, and marriage is a form of change.
Isabella Knightley (née Woodhouse) is the elder sister of Emma and daughter of Henry. She is married to John Knightley, and spends much of her time at home caring for her five children (Henry, 'little' John, Bella, 'little' Emma, and George).
John Knightley is Isabella's husband and George's younger brother. He is an old acquaintance of Jane Fairfax. He indulges his family's desires for visits and vacations, although he would prefer to stay at home, especially if the weather is less than perfect.
Early reviews of Emma were generally favourable, but there were some criticisms about the lack of story. John Murray remarked that it lacked "incident and Romance";[2] Maria Edgeworth, the author of Belinda, to whom Austen had sent a complimentary copy, wrote:[2]
there was no story in it, except that Miss Emma found that the man whom she designed for Harriet's lover was an admirer of her own – & he was affronted at being refused by Emma & Harriet wore the willow – and smooth, thin water-gruel is according to Emma's father's opinion a very good thing & it is very difficult to make a cook understand what you mean by smooth, thin water-gruel!!
Emma Woodhouse is the first Austen heroine with no financial concerns, which, she declares to the naïve Miss Smith, is the reason that she has no inducement to marry. This is a great departure from Austen's other novels, in which the quest for marriage and financial security are often important themes in the stories. Emma's ample financial resources put her in a much more privileged position than the heroines of Austen's earlier works, such as Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. Jane Fairfax's prospects, in contrast, are bleak.
In contrast to other Austen heroines Emma seems immune to romantic attraction. Unlike Marianne Dashwood, who is attracted to the wrong man before she settles on the right one, Emma shows no romantic interest in the men she meets. She is genuinely surprised (and somewhat disgusted) when Mr. Elton declares his love for her—much in the way Elizabeth Bennet singularly reacts to the obsequious Mr. Collins. Her fancy for Frank Churchill represents more of a longing for a little drama in her life than a longing for romantic love. Notably too, Emma utterly fails to understand the budding affection between Harriet Smith and Robert Martin; she interprets the prospective match solely in terms of financial settlements and social ambition. It is only after Harriet Smith reveals her interest in Mr. Knightley that Emma realises her own feelings for him.
While Emma differs strikingly from Austen's other heroines in these two respects, she resembles Elizabeth Bennet and Anne Elliot, among others, in another way: she is an intelligent young woman with too little to do and no ability to change her location or everyday routine. Though her family is loving and her economic status secure, Emma's everyday life is dull indeed; she has few companions her own age when the novel begins. Her determined though inept matchmaking may represent a muted protest against the narrow scope of a wealthy woman's life, especially that of a woman who is single and childless.
Populated by small "minute detail" (to borrow the term from Sir Walter Scott), very realistic but anodyne, the novel disoriented a number of Jane Austen's contemporaries by its immersion in the daily life of a small town, and with the corresponding absence of spectacle. We see, for example, Emma accompanying Harriet to Mr. Ford's boutique and, while her friend gets on with her shopping, she posts herself at the door to observe the spectacle of the street:
[...] the butcher with his tray, a tidy old woman travelling homewards from shop with her full basket, two curs quarrelling over a dirty bone, and a string of dawdling children round the baker's little bow-window eyeing the gingerbread [...].[3]
We find the centre of Highbury life in Mr. Ford's boutique. It's there, for example, that Harriet Smith meets her admirer, Robert Martin (volume II, chapter III). Also, convinced of the importance of the place, Frank Churchill declares:
that I may prove myself to belong to the place, to be a true citizen of Highbury, I must buy something at Ford's[4] (volume II, chapter VI).
Emma has been the subject of many adaptations for film, TV, radio and the stage.
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ESPN interviews Te'o about dead girlfriend hoax
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SOUTH BEND, Indiana — Manti Te'o gave an interview to ESPN in which the network says he answered questions about the dead girlfriend hoax that exposed the feel-good story of the college football season as a bizarre fabrication, and left many wondering if Notre Dame Heisman Trophy runner-up participated in the scam.
ESPN announced Friday night it was interviewing the All-American linebacker off camera and that audio clips of the session would be available on the network later.
Earlier, Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said during the taping of his weekly radio show that Te'o has to explain exactly how he was duped into an online relationship with a fictitious woman whose "death" was then faked by perpetrators of the scheme.
Skeptics have questioned the versions of events laid out by Te'o and Notre Dame, wondering why Te'o never said his relationship was with someone online and why he waited almost three weeks to tell the school about being duped.
According to Notre Dame, Te'o received a call on Dec. 6 from the girl he had only been in contact with by telephone and online, and who he thought had died in September. After telling his family what happened while he was home in Hawaii for Christmas, he informed Notre Dame coaches on Dec. 26.
Notre Dame said it hired investigators to look into Te'o's claims and their findings showed he was the victim of an elaborate hoax.
Te'o released a statement on Wednesday, soon after Deadspin.com broke news of the scam with a lengthy story, saying he had been humiliated and hurt by the "sick joke." But he has laid low since.
ESPN officials posted a photo on Twitter late Friday night of reporter Jeremy Schapp with Te'o and his attorney. Te'o has been working out at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, as he prepares for the NFL combine and draft.
Swarbrick said earlier in the day that he believed Te'o would ultimately speak publicly.
"We are certainly encouraging it to happen," he said. "We think it's important and we'd like to see it happen sooner rather than later."
He said that before the Deadspin story, Te'o and his family had planned to go public with the story Monday.
"Sometimes the best laid plans don't quite work, and this was an example of that. Because the family lost the opportunity in some ways to control the story," he said. "It is in the Te'o family's court. We are very much encouraging them."
Former National Football League coach Tony Dungy, who mentored Michael Vick when he returned to the NFL after doing prison time, had similar advice.
"I don't know the whole case but I always advise people to face up to it and just talk to people and say what happened," Dungy said while attending the NCAA convention in Dallas on Friday. "The truth is the best liberator, so that's what I would do. And he's going to get questioned a lot about it."
Te'o led a lightly regarded Fighting Irish team to a 12-0 regular season and the BCS title game, where they were routed 42-14 by Alabama and Te'o played poorly.
Dungy said Te'o could face the toughest questions from NFL teams.
"If I was still coaching and we're thinking about taking this guy in the first round, you want to know not exactly what happened but what is going on with this young man and is it going to be a deterrent to him surviving in the NFL and is it going to stop him from being a star," Dungy said. "So just tell the truth about what happened and this is why, I think, that's the best thing."
Deadspin reported that friends and relatives of Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, a 22-year-old who lives in California, believe he created Kekua. The website also reported Te'o and Tuiasosopo knew each other — which has led to questions about Te'o's involvement in the hoax.
Swarbrick understands why there are questions.
"They have every right to say that," Swarbrick said "Now I have some more information than they have. But they have every right to say that. … I just ask those people to apply the same skepticism to everything about this. I have no doubt the perpetrators have a story they will yet spin about what went on here. I hope skepticism also greets that when they're articulating what that is."
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Jorma Ollila, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Nokia has told the Financial Times that the company is looking into tablets, as well as alternate form factors like "hybrids".Read More
500 Million active users and phasing out of the Windows Live brand as Windows 8 is around the corner.Read More
Microsoft and Barnes & Noble Inc. have joined hands to announce a strategic partnership – A B&N subsidiary, provisionally referred to as Newco. Read more for more details, and the unanswered questions.Read More
Microsoft has announced that the Windows 8 Release Preview will be available within the first week of June.Read More
Microsoft has announced that they will be expanding the Windows Store to additional markets come the next pre-release version of Windows.Read More
Technically there are five, three matter to the end user.Read More
Gartner Group has released a report predicting that Windows 8 will gain 4.1% of tablet marketshare this year, and 11.8% by 2016.Read More
WinRT Development Manager Martyn Lovell said while speaking at a conference that Microsoft would like developers to create languages for WinRT.Read More
Deep Windows 8 integration and an undecided UI, Mozilla has Firefox Metro working for Windows 8.Read More
A comparison of the different design elements in iOS and Windows 8.Read More
According to a Bloomberg report, Windows 8 will be finalized (RTM) sometime this summer and subsequently will go on sale in October (GA).Read More
HP will combine its PC and Printer businesses in a bid to reduce costs, improve profit margins and increase sales which have seen a significant decline in the last year.Read More
According to the I'm a WP7 app, it would appear that someone installed it — a Windows Phone app — on a Windows 8 PC.Read More
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LONDON (ICIS)--The European naphtha market may soon win over more petrochemical buyers from the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sector, as the price spread between the two feedstocks remained narrow for the third week in a row, industry sources said on Thursday.
A spread of around $60/tonne (€78/tonne) for July spot cargoes was heard on Thursday, compared with $125/tonne on Friday 7 June, reducing the pull towards cheaper feedstock LPG.
A major petrochemical buyer in Europe said: "Certainly some petchem guys have switched to naphtha. Not all of them [have, as] they all have different economics."
The feedstocks are used to produce ethylene, propylene and other widely-used petrochemicals in Europe.
The naphtha-LPG spread has been volatile over the past three weeks, but is narrower than in early June. The price gap was $68/tonne on 14 June, before it increased to $75/tonne last week.
The volatility over the past three weeks had held petrochemical buyers back from switching to naphtha sooner, a naphtha trader said.
"I think they have made slight adjustments, but the volatility in propane probably makes them reluctant to switch too much too early," a naphtha trader said.
A closing price gap provides buyers with the choice to switch to the normally more expensive naphtha without compromising on margins.
On 21 June, ICIS analysis of downstream ethylene margins revealed LPG-based margins have lost their premium over naphtha-based margins, and lag behind by more than €60/tonne ($78/tonne), compared with a €9/tonne premium over naphtha-based margins the previous week.
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EAST LANSING, MI – Michigan State will meet Mid-American Conference champion Bowling Green in the first round of the Kansas City region in the NCAA women's basketball tournament.
The fifth-seeded Spartans (22-9) are making their second straight tournament appearance and seventh in the past eight seasons. They finished No. 24 in the final Associated Press poll after losing to Iowa in the Big Ten tournament semifinals.
Bowling Green, the No. 12 seed, is 27-6.
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Hey guys. I've got a few updates for you all before I get to the main part of this entry.
First of all, my two unfinished fanfics: "Drag Sisters" and "Pups in Disguise", I am hoping to eventually finish, but I currently have writers block on how I'm going to finish them. If there are any fans of PAW Patrol or My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic who think they might want to help me finish them, just send me a PM, and maybe I'll like your idea.
Well, with that aside, it's now time for the main part of this journal:
I have a lot of requests I'd like to give based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. So if you're a pony artist who might be able to take on any of these requests, or if you know someone who might, let me know. These are all in the piggyback ride/human ladder/totem pole trench category, just so you'd know.
1. Totem pole of the Main 6.
From top to bottom:
Twilight Sparkle
Rainbow Dash
Pinkie Pie
2. The Main 6 doing totem pole trenches.
Group 1 from top to bottom:
Twilight Sparkle
Group 2 from top to bottom:
Rainbow Dash
Pinkie Pie
3. Spike getting a pony ride from each of the main 6 ponies.
4. Spike and Twilight Sparkle doing a totem pole trench.
5. Pinkie Pie giving Rainbow Dash a piggyback ride.
6. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie doing a totem pole trench with Rainbow on top and Pinkie on the bottom.
7. Derpy Hooves and Rarity doing a totem pole trench with Derpy on top and Rarity on the bottom.
8. Bon Bon giving Lyra a piggyback ride.
9. Lyra and Bon Bon doing a totem pole trench with Lyra on top.
10. Pinkie Pie getting a piggyback ride from Maud Pie.
11. Pinkie and Maud doing a totem pole trench with Maud on the bottom.
12. Lyra, Bon Bon and Derpy doing a totem pole trench.
13. The Cutie Mark Crusaders doing a totem pole trench.
From top to bottom:
Sweetie Belle
Apple Bloom
14. A reenactment from the scene from "Rainbow Rocks". The main 6 try to get out through the trap door from the stage, and they all stack up on each other to try to reach it with Twilight at the top.
15. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna doing a totem pole trench with Luna on the bottom.
16. Cadence giving Twilight a piggyback ride.
17. The following totem: Shining Armor supporting Cadence supporting Twilight supporting Spike.
18. The main 6 doing a totem pole trench as some kind of creature. Their lineup is the same as what I had for #1.
I know that sounds like a lot, but if there are any pony artists out there who's like to draw one of these, please leave a comment or send me a PM.
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Charm bracelet beads from Ohm Beads include a sock monkey, gift and castle. Credit: Ohm BeadsThe latest in beaded baubles has us charmed, we're sure. Dangling charm bracelets? They're sorta last year. Today, it's all about charm beads, beau...European-style beads lend a charming new twist to traditional bracelets.
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Biologists See Combined Structure of Cold Virus and Receptor Molecule
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. "" Biologists at Purdue University have determined the combined structure of a common-cold virus attached to a molecule that enables the virus to infect its host, information that ultimately may help researchers develop methods for treating certain viral infections.
Coxsackievirus A21 infects host cells first by recognizing a "receptor molecule" called ICAM-1, which is located on the cell's surface, and then by anchoring itself to the molecule. ICAM-1 stands for intracellular adhesion molecule 1.
"ICAM-1 is the same receptor molecule used by the vast majority of viruses that cause the common cold," said Chuan Xiao, a doctoral student who is leading the research in the laboratory of Michael Rossmann, the Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences in Purdue's College of Science.
Findings will appear in the July issue of the journal Structure.
"The real objective of this work is to study the whole complex of ICAM-1 and the virus as a single entity," Rossmann said. "Being able to characterize the combined structure of the virus and ICAM-1 will teach us how the virus recognizes a particular kind of molecule and how it then anchors to the cell, which represents the initial stages of infection."
Ultimately, researchers are trying to learn more about the binding mechanisms because such knowledge might eventually lead to new treatments.
"One of the many different ways of inhibiting viral infection is to stop the virus from binding to cells," Rossmann said. "That has not been our objective in this case. We just want to learn how this virus infects its host cell. In other words, how does the virus get into the host?"
Coxsackievirus A21 is one of several viruses that cause the common cold.
The researchers used two methods to learn the structure of the virus-molecule complex. One method, a technique called X-ray crystallography, yielded images of the virus with a resolution of 2.5 angstroms, which is nearly fine enough to see individual atoms. Using this technique, researchers create crystals of a substance, in this case the virus. Then, X-rays are passed through the crystals, creating a "diffraction pattern" that can be interpreted with various computational procedures to produce an image.
The other method, a powerful imaging tool called cryo-electron microscopy, was used to determine the entire three-dimensional structure of the virus-molecule complex. With this technique, specimens are first frozen before they are studied with an electron microscope. Cryo-electron microscopy enables scientists to study details as small as 8 angstroms, resolution high enough to see groups of atoms. An angstrom is one ten-billionth of a meter, or roughly a millionth as wide as a human hair.
"The electron microscopy is necessary for studying the entire complex because you can't crystallize the complex of ICAM-1 and the virus," Rossmann said. "That's because crystallization often takes days, weeks or months, but the complex is only stable for hours, which means it doesn't stay together long enough to crystallize."
The researchers pieced together the overall structure of the virus and ICAM-1 by combining the high-resolution X-ray crystallography images of the virus with the lower resolution electron microscope view.
The findings represent the first time researchers have seen fine details of the complex's structure.
"It's important to see the shape of the complex because that could tell us how the virus recognizes the host cell," Rossmann said. "Knowing the structure might also reveal the initial stages of what happens after attachment, and indeed there probably are different steps in the attachment process.
"The receptor apparently binds into what we call a canyon, which is a surface depression on the virus, and it might do that in at least two different steps. Perhaps it binds once loosely on the surface, and then it might bind again deeply into the canyon to strengthen its attachment."
The research paper was written by Xiao; Carol M. Bator-Kelly, a technical assistant in Rossmann's lab; Elizabeth Rieder, a technical assistant for Eckard Wimmer, a virologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; Paul R. Chipman, an electron microscopist at Purdue; Alister Craig, a researcher from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom; Richard J. Kuhn, a professor of biological sciences at Purdue; Wimmer; and Rossmann.
The images are revealing new details about how amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins, interact during the binding of Coxsackievirus A21 and ICAM-1.
"In general, some amino acids have a positive charge, and some have a negative charge, and these opposite charges can play a critical role in attracting a virus to a host cell," Rossmann said. "It turns out the attraction between negative and positive charges on the virus and on the host cell seem to be a dominating feature but not the entire story of the recognition process.
"There is also shape involved, and the canyon on the virus and features on the ICAM-1 molecule have to match each other, like a key going into a keyhole."
The research has been funded primarily through a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Xiao said the research is ongoing, and future work may delve into how Coxsackievirus A21 binds to another cell-receptor molecule called DAF, or decay acceleration factor. The virus binds to both ICAM-1 and DAF at the same time, so future work may result in finding the structure of a complex that includes both molecules attached to the virus.
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