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Steeple Ashton
"STEEPLE ASHTON, a parish, township, parish, and large village, in the hundred and division of Whorwellsdown, in the county of Wilts, 4 miles to the N.E. of Westbury, the same E. of Trowbridge, its post town, and 9 S.E. of Devizes. It lies a little to the S. of the Kennet and Avon canal, and contains the chapelries of West Ashton and Semington, and the tythings of Hinton and Littleton. It was formerly a market town, and the surrounding district was a common. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury, value with the perpetual curacy of Semington, £852, in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
The church is a large edifice, in the perpendicular style, partly erected in 1480. It has a battlemented tower, which was formerly surmounted with a lofty spire. From this spire, which was destroyed by a storm in 1670, the parish took the addition to its name. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. In addition to the parish church there is a district church at the village of West Ashton. There area Primitive Methodist chapel and a National school. There is a small endowment for educational purposes. Petty sessions are held here, and a fair takes place on the 18th September. The parish contains 6,789 acres, chiefly the property of Walter Long, Esq., M. P., lord of the manor, who resides at Rood Ashton House, a handsome Gothic mansion, a little west of the village."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Steeple Ashton is 3 miles SE of Trowbridge. Grid Ref ST905571. Postcode BA14 6EJ. Population 1,231 in 1951.
Berrett, LaMar - Down Berrett Lane; the Steeple Ashton Berrett Family from 1604 to 1978.
Reed, F.F. - History of the Silverthorn family.
Goddard, Julie - The crime of Moses Angel.
The Friends of Steeple Ashton - Steeple Ashton; Village Guide and History.
Smith, Betty - Our Wiltshire Village; Steeple Ashton [a more recent history with coloured illustrations]
- St Mary the Virgin, Church Street, Church of England
Miscellaneous Censuses. 1695-1887: Part I published by Wiltshire FHS includes Steeple Ashton 1770.
Church Records
- St John, West Ashton, Church of England
- St Mary the Virgin, Church Street, Church of England
- Baptist Chapel, Other
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Other
- Primitive Methodist Chapel, Other
You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Steeple Ashton area that are recorded in the GENUKI church database. This will also help identify other churches in nearby townships and/or parishes. You also have the option to see the location of the churches marked on a map.
Common to all parishes is a Key to Abbreviations and a description of Church Records and Indexes for Wiltshire, including a complete Marriage Index for the county.
Indexes and registers of the parish church of Steeple Ashton, St Mary the Virgin:
- WSRO registers: Chr 1538-1856, Mar 1558-1987, Bur 1538-1900
- BTs with gaps from 1584
- White Horse Baptisms 1701-1800
- Wiltshire Index Service Burials 1800-1812
- Pew Lists published by Wiltshire FHS includes Steeple Ashton c.1760 and 1888.
- A transcription of the section for Steeple Ashton from
the National Gazetteer (1868).
- The entry for Steeple Ashton from
A Vision of Britain through time.
- Ask for the gazetteer for a calculation of the distance from Steeple Ashton to another place.
- The entry for Steeple Ashton from British History Online.
A brief History of Steeple Ashton, provided by Julie Goddard.
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Cartoon: Satish Acharya
Everyone - well almost everyone - was rooting for her; but Malala Yousafzai has not won the Nobel Prize. It seemed, to me, at bit far-fetched in the first case. She herself had repeatedly said in the past that she had not "done enough" to merit such an honour. Sensible girl. Her case of being nominated by many has, however, served to demonstrate just how polarised Pakistani society has been on her versus the Taliban. That is the most important dilemma we face, challenge we face. Because it will ultimately determine if we emerge from and defeat terrorism.
Many Pakistanis are, of course, disappointed. It would have been really great if she had won. Shortly before the Nobel announcement was made at 2pm Pakistan time, the assassinated Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto's son Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had tweeted: #Malala4Nobel pretty please. He lost his mother to terrorism.
I spoke to a few people, journalists in her province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the photocopy wallah, secretary and students at my school. So much surrounds Malala but what is clearly emerging is: two Pakistans.
There is a Pakistan that supports Malala - venerates her and her cause.
There is a Pakistan that doesn't.
BBC's Aamer Ahmed Khan very pointedly just tweeted: "Of mainstream leaders, I've only seen Bilawal [Benazir's son] and Imran [Khan] wishing for #Malala so far. Why are the Sharifs [PM Nawaz Sharif and CM Shahbaz Sharif] so quiet?"
You'd think our prime minister and president would have something to say? Does that give you a picture? A senior minister told BBC that Malala was giving a bad impression of Pakistan - that we were not educating girls. Her message is good for the areas where it is a problem but there are many places where girls go to school unhindered. This kind of stupid thinking was spawned by former military dictator Pervez Musharraf who came to power post-9/11 and hung around like a bad smell till very recently. He chastised Mukhtaran Mai for bringing a bad name to Pakistan internationally. What was she doing? Well, she was gang raped, did not get justice, and went on to talk about women's rights on the international stage. Musharraf came up with the phrase "enlightened moderation". Orwell is turning in his grave.
The two Pakistans exist and their reaction to Malala is just a symptom of a malaise that runs much deeper and is the reason why we have tolerated terrorism for so long in our midst.
A journalist in Peshawar, who I cannot name, explained that the attack and subsequent story has divided or polarised people, which in his mind is not a good thing. It complicates reporting on the issue as well; you are either with her or against her.
[INSPIRING VIDEO: Malala makes Jon Stewart speechless]
A journalist in Karachi added that one would have thought that the attack would have been the last straw for Pakistanis - but it wasn't. It did not turn the tide. In fact, just a day ago bombs went off in all provincial capitals.
"At least she's still standing," debated one of my students in English General A' Level class this morning. A girl of 16 or 17 herself.
"Standing in America - not in Pakistan!" hit back another student. A boy. (It was perhaps lost on him that she is not based in the US; his comment so indicative of a camp that is 'anti-America' or at least largely sceptical of American foreign policy and applies it to everything American to justify hatred).
"At least it's symbolic," replied the young girl.
At the photocopy booth at school, I asked the young man behind the counter what he thought of Malala. "Miss," he replied, after a few seconds. "This whole attack - did it even really happen or was it orchestrated?"
And so, as you can see, some people doubt the entire thing even happened. Just like people who still ask me, when they find I blog for the Jewish Journal, if the Holocaust even happened. Somehow they assume I am an expert and the two are linked. I say, yes, six million Jews were killed. There are survivors and documentary evidence etc etc. They go on to quote Ahmadinajad. The same thing happens with 9/11.
This is the kind of thinking that makes me sad. This is the reason why the Taliban are still around. The spin machine or conservative media that is pro-jihadi and pro-Taliban create it. I don't want to give them space here. But needless to say, they have long been confusing the Pakistani public about the Taliban agenda and its effects. One of the biggest problems we ignore is that when a bomb goes off in Peshawar Muslims are killed. Taliban violence (and sectarian) is Muslims killing Muslims. But no one talks about this. It's our dirty secret.
I was until very recently confused about how one emerges from this kind of thinking. And while this may seem like an aside, it was a very powerful lesson for me. One of our reporters went on a fellowship to Belfast. He returned with an incredible story: it was only when the Catholics themselves, fed up of the bloodshed, withdrew support from the IRA that it was forced to the negotiating table. (We see similar examples, as our senior subeditor Neha Ansari pointed out to me, in Timor Leste, Sri Lanka etc.)
The question we often ask ourselves in the newsroom is WHEN will the Pakistani people withdraw their entire support for the Taliban and extremists, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the Sipah-e-Sahaba, al Qaeda, Jundullah - all those hate-mongering outfits with double-barrelled names. When will they stop being apologists for violence?
Unfortunately, we seem not to have reached that point. I have been reading Steven Pinker and his study of violence. He has shown how it has gone down over the centuries. Sometimes people argue that we are (at least the Taliban are) in the equivalent of the Middle Ages. In fact, Gordon Brown, the former British PM, commented in the BBC documentary that is seems as if the fight for education that Malala has espoused, the civil rights movement, is like what the US saw in the 1960s. It is a non-violent movement. I know that Pinker is right in that we are not living in a world that is violent if compared to the centuries before. I know that Pinker argues that violence goes down with 'englightenment' and changes in human psychology. But I fear that we still have a long way to go. And spin tends to obfuscate the debate. All of this is complicated by something I need to explore more: violence fatigue. I liken it to reader fatigue or donor fatigue. But that is a topic for another blog.
Suffice it to say now though that education is one of the most powerful tools to combat terrorism in Pakistan. And our biggest challenge is to convince people. So let me return to the 2 Pakistans.
Scepticism and clarity, celebrities and causes
Many Pakistanis are wondering how the Malala machine works. There is the book, the movie, the tea with the Queen. AFP hit the nail on the spot by doing this story. It explains how, "One of the world's biggest public relations firms, Edelman, has a team working on her behalf while politicians, journalists and book publishers are making her into something of a global brand."
I was thinking about this myself - but then I stopped. Why is it so alien for us for a Pakistani to get so big. I guess we aren't really used to it. This is the international stage. Of course people are needed to surround her to help her manage her money and the mechanics of her foundation etc.
The only other people with "swollen bureaucracies" surrounding them, to use a phrase from Camille Paglia, are people in the Pakistani government. We are used to seeing them surrounded by such entourages, experts, PR managers, etc etc. It is sort of new, at least for me, to see a teenager from Swat fitting into this picture.
Our former ambassador to the US, a former journalist herself and a woman I personally admire, Sherry Rehman, wrote a stellar piece 'The Malala Moment' in my newspaper today, addressing this phenomenon. "Yes, she is in danger of being over-packaged and objectified," Rehman wrote.
"ut so what? At this level of global stardom, some PR-cum-development-world machinery has got to grind its mills. That's not the point. Yes, there are hundreds of brave young Pakistanis being egged on to ask why their own trauma didn't propel them to fame, but that's not the point either. At all.
"This is the postmodern leftist, who hand-wrings at the poor young girl's commodification by the 'west'. Mostly, this is not a Malala-phobe per se, who resents her identity as a poster child for resistance to coercion, but quibbles because she has become a brand bigger than her authentic, grassroots self. But their reductive, often well-meaning, criticism misses the simple point that even Brand Malala fills a deep vacuum in Pakistan. It also ignores the volume of damage their objecting voices do in a polarized, fraught environment where the air is taut with the gun-smoke of terror and the wild-eyed certainties of suicide missions. They ignore the need for clarity against an enemy which is contemptuous of doubt, or its philosophical groundings."
Rehman has summed up who the two Pakistans are:
The Pakistan that supports Malala's CAUSE, which Rehman describes as "glittering core of unyielding resilience which has become the backbone of every citizen's daily challenge in going to school, office or the marketplace in contemporary Pakistan."
Malala herself said to BBC that it didn't matter who she was, what she looked like, or perhaps even whether X, Y, Z supported her; what was important was the cause of education.
The other Pakistan is the Pakistan that says Malala is the work of the devil. I take the liberty of quoting Rehman here at length because of the beauty of her summation:
"One is the rightist that conflates Islam with the worst excesses of millenarian militancy and misogyny, demonising Malala as a handmaiden of satanic coalitions. This protagonist is no longer a marginal voice, lurking in the shadowed, layered protections of guns, cash and sweaty muscle. This is the barbarian now at our gates. This is the extremist who spews hate on the internet, manufacturing cyber shrouds on women's bodies, which they fetishize. This is the militant who threatens people at mosques if they question sermons that valourize violence, in the name of religion that privileges peace above all. This is the terrorist that bears arms with the intent to kill, maim, kidnap and steal. They all hate Malala for fighting back, and what she stands for."
I have always wondered why for many people in Pakistan it is difficult to handle celebrity. Someone else's success. Someone like Malala. I thought about it again when the whole country was waiting to hear who would get the Nobel prize. We are familiar with celebrity figures in the sense that we admire many people beyond our borders such as Madonna, Bill Clinton, Edward Said, Yasser Arafat, Mother Teresa, Angelina Jolie, Che Guevara, Steve Jobs. The cult of celebrity exists for many people at home too. Our cricketers especially can be said to have achieved that kind of fame. They have espoused causes in their own time. We have artists, singers, painters. But the more I tried to come up with a name for a woman, the more I drew a blank. Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy came to mind in the sense that she and stellar filmmaker Sabhia Sumar (of Khamosh Pani or Silent Waters) won an Oscar for the documentary, Saving Face. But the magnitude of their celebrity status comes nowhere near Malalas.
Perhaps you have heard of Mukhtaran Mai? She was gang raped many years ago and her case became known in the West as well. She now pursues the agenda of education for girls as well. But even she is not as big as Malala. This is not to belittle any of their achievements but to just coldly measure.
There is little point in such objective metrics but I went in this direction because I wanted to articulate to myself somehow that we have never seen something like Malala. This is the first time something this big has happened to us in recent memory.
In the West or even the Far East - K-pop is big - we are used to seeing celebrities and the news around them. We are used to seeing people get that big. Achieve big things. It is normal for me, for example, to read Pulitzer Prize winning non-fiction or Booker prize-winning fiction. I listen to music by artists like Justin Timberlake who are surrounded by entire media empires.
Perhaps America is used to this kind of bigness. Perhaps we are not. Benazir Bhutto was a celebrity for sure. But her record wasn't entirely clean at home. I am talking about the kind of celebrity that is above reproach. We have seen this rarely.
So, I thought yesterday that it would take some getting used to. But this is good for us. We need a Malala; we need to be players on the international stage as well for important causes like education.
In order for anyone to understand the negative reaction Malala gets from within the country, perhaps it could help to look at our general perception of celebrities. I am convinced there is a link. All of this is perhaps really new to us in a country where we don't have a lot of people we can look up to on a national stage or international stage. I'd just like to throw that out there; of course I'd like to be wrong about it.
While watching the BBC documentary on Malala this morning, I realised that this girl intends to be in this for the long haul. We have to stand firmly behind her and wherever possible try to debunk or deconstruct useless conspiracy theories to undermine her cause.
Pakistan's only Nobel prize winner
Then there is the fact that we are talking about the Nobel. Pakistan has not been in this league for a long time. But if you want to consider it, take a look at how we treated the last, and only, Pakistani who won a Nobel Prize: Dr Abdus Salam.
He was born in Jhang, Pakistan in 1926. After much academic success, he went on to do a PhD in theoretical physics at Cambridge. He returned to Pakistan and after working there, went back abroad. In 1979 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics for "contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current".
How did Pakistan treat him? Well, as Dr Salam was an Ahmadi, who are considered non-Muslims here, the epitaph on his tomb which initially read "First Muslim Nobel Laureate", the word "Muslim" was erased on the orders of a local magistrate, leaving the nonsensical "First Nobel Laureate". There is a comprehensive piece on this and his links to Higgs Boson here.
Dr Abdus Salam - Pakistan's first Nobel Prize winner (1979), linked to the Higgs Boson. His grave's epitaph was desecrated as he was an adherent of the Ahmaddiya sect, who are considered non-Muslims in Pakistan.
As we wait, I'd like to share our reporter Fazal Khaliq's story for the anniversary of the attack on Oct 9 which appeared in our newspaper, The Express Tribune. He wrote:
Unlike the rest of the world where it was fervently celebrated, the first anniversary of the attack on Malala Yousafzai, the child-education activist who spoke against destruction of schools in Swat, went quietly in her hometown. The Khushal School and College, where Malala got her early education, remained sadly closed for security reasons.
The silver lining in a solemn Swat district is that enrolment in the girls' education institutes throughout the valley has substantially increased – a fact which seems like fulfilment of Malala's dream.
"We have 14,022 new admissions in the girls' schools just this year, while a total 30,000 enrolments have been recorded since we returned to Swat after normalcy," disclosed Dilshad Begam, a female officer in the district education department.
"Irrespective of regional boundaries, people today want education, and the proof that came out loudly was that the world raised voice together for Malala as she raised hers for uplift of education. And now she is the strongest candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize," Azmat Ali, a social activist in Mingora told The Express Tribune.
According to analysts, even the anti-Malala campaign, which has deep roots in the valley, has borne a positive fruit.
A photo The Express Tribune's reporter in Swat, Fazal Khaliq, took a long time ago of Malala with a medal.
"A change of mindset is being observed as more and more girls want to express their abilities on higher platforms to prove that Malala was not the only brilliant and outstanding girl on the Pakhtoon soil," Gulalai Rahim, a graduate student in Mingora, said. Where many think ill of Malala and consider her an agent of the West, there are many others who miss her in Swat valley.
"We, her friends, feel proud that we have had the company of such a bright icon who attained international fame," Noorul Kainat, her former classmate said to The Express Tribune.
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ok, so i'm smoking crackSubmitted by s3v3n on Sat, 2006-08-12 09:43. Malware
be careful...
ok, and so i went to this one site http://www.lomalka.org/ and was just looking for some new stuff to play with. i clicked on http://windows.2003.and.windows.xp.sp.2.anti.product.activation.crack.v1.2.fixed.cracks.lomalka.org/CRACKS/W/I/Windows_2003_and_Windows_XP_SP_2_Anti_Product_Activation_Crack_v1.2_Fixed.en.html
and low and behold my little antivir goes off. wtf?
Old file virus?Submitted by Ichinin on Fri, 2006-08-11 17:24. Malware | Sample Requests
I am looking for a standard file virus, you remember the type that propagate itself by infecting other files and so on.
Now for the hard part, i have some requirements:
1. It must NOT crash or corrupt the system, like prevent it from rebooting, i do not want to reinstall each time i run it.
2. It must NOT require a network connection, the testing environment will be totally isolated from networks.
3. It must NOT crash any debugger tools.
4. It must NOT lock files while running.
5. It must NOT alter any ACL on NTFS partitions (Did any virus even bother to do this?)
Impending MS06-040 Worm? Don't PanicSubmitted by dannyquist on Fri, 2006-08-11 14:52. Malware
With the release of the first unauthenticated remote executable exploit in a couple of years, many in the press have taken to predicting that a new worm is on the horizon. No doubt the AV companies are all prepared to disassemble, analyze, and most importantly name the new worm.
There are some things that will limit the effects of this worm. First, under XP Service Pack 2 it is widely thought that the only effect will be a denial of service attack. Where the real threat occurs is under previous service packs and older versions of Windows. Microsoft is probably the only one to comment on the percentage of Windows 2000/XP SP1 vs. XP SP2 machines available. Given my impression of organizations we have dealt with, the SP2 install set has been widely adopted.
Given all these issues, it's probably not worth getting too riled up about. Some events that should get your attention are if a reliable XP SP2 exploit payload is released, or there are a lot of non SP2 systems on your network. If the latter is the case, it's probably time to get with the program and upgrade. Don't bank on a reliable exploit not being released. Many smart people are thinking very hard about how to make this happen.
Further into rustockSubmitted by valsmith on Mon, 2006-07-31 17:06. Analysis and Samples | Malware
So I was sitting in Hoglund and Butler's Advanced Rootkits class playing with instdrv and injecting processes via device drivers, when I had an idea.
I know where rustok puts its rootkit driver from the partial unpacked disassembly I was able to do, but I can't get at it because its in an ADS which is hidden by the rootkit itself. But here I am playing with instdrv which lets you load and unload drivers by path.
So I told it to unload pe386.sys and then I ran lads.exe to see if I could find the ADS now. Indeed it was there. From there it was a matter of doing cat.exe c:\windows\system32\:pe386.sys > c:\owned.sys to extract the driver! However this driver is protected somehow so on to the next step :)
Looking for Troj/Riler-SSubmitted by mythx on Wed, 2006-07-26 22:21. Malware | Sample Requests
I am looking for Troj/Riler-S - the powerpoint 0-day exploit.
Undetected HaxdoorSubmitted by valsmith on Tue, 2006-07-25 07:33. Analysis and Samples | Malware
Looks like we got a copy of the new undetected haxdoor. Undetected is relative because some AV's detect it. Its in the database under this MD5 82a365b7a90b47d9cf0f2c9cd63c3ad1
Donald Smith from SANS has some initial analysis of it.
Unrecognized malware!Submitted by Pi on Sat, 2006-07-22 10:34. Malware
Uploaded: A file called 'Windows Picture And Fax Viewer.pif', which was sent in a link via AIM. All I know about it is that it's not packed with UPX.
I'm totally a newb to this sort of thing.
MD5(Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.pif)= e57d647eed5a6ff815cd472fee90b1ba
SHA1(Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.pif)= a1a9c7ae90f9a285223faa26e033755615a2ab57
SHA256(Windows Picture and Fax Viewer.pif)= fcbb213c123ad91942018b91576b17e6a60affcdc3e826152f021a7c13cecffc
Rootkits Get Better at HidingSubmitted by dannyquist on Wed, 2006-07-19 14:31. Malware | Press
CNet is running a story on the new Rustock/Mailbot.AZ malware making the rounds. The hiding methods used by Rustock are certainly a threat, but hardly anything new. If anything this is a good example of a piece of malware that amalgamates the different methods together.
Is anyone actually surprised this happened? Is Greg Hoglund going to pop a vein when he sees CNet headlining Rootkits == Malware?
Preliminary Rustock AnalysisSubmitted by valsmith on Mon, 2006-07-17 09:46. Analysis and Samples | Malware | Site Discussion
Rustock is pretty interesting and challenging. I had to hide from IsDebuggerPresent() to get anything out of it. Below you can see where it is generating the file name for the .sys driver which holds the rootkit capabilities.
.text:00410530 push offset aWin23PeFilesLo ; "Win23 PE files loader"
.text:00410535 push offset aPe386 ; "pe386"
.text:0041053A push edi
.text:0041053B call ds:dword_40FA80
.text:00410541 nop
This looks interesting here :
.text:004105A9 push offset aCmd_exeCDel ; "cmd.exe /c \"del \""
RustockSubmitted by mythx on Sun, 2006-07-16 17:48. Analysis and Samples | Malware | Site Discussion
Edited by Chamuco 7/16/2006
Thanks mythx for uploading Rustock. You can search for any of these sums in our search tool.
MD5SUM: 111d19b60ae921ac90c2b73c2afe18e0
SHA1SUM: 2bd44dc6ca2d18913b89035955a1871644cb3a49
SHA256SUM: 5d22c25f26c1f768afa995f6602c83597636d7cdb414444e6c926a54a9f61dba
MD5SUM: 28a56f3a53ca91e85185bb28541b43b7
SHA1SUM: e5ffb6eb7a5222005f2d3748f0d4cf9bb3648dfc
SHA256SUM: 612d976771ab9fdc0ede065a6f032aee2ae280bd4aa16328bfff507d90f30b06
MD5SUM: 0dace30934e7435a78140bc4bc19ed30
SHA1SUM: 2fbfef2383a4abfbc3256367e155cfaf933d912f
SHA256SUM: 3a45e865498a868ec32a47c08fa21950160dc4ef5d287b77f15f89b59d52e4f7


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Flour Bluff falls in IV-4A final
CORPUS CHRISTI - Needing to win to advance to the Class 4A state tournament, Flour Bluff picked the wrong team to fall behind Saturday to try to get that elusive victory.
There would be no playoff comeback by the Hornets girls soccer team this time, as defending Region IV-4A champion Boerne Champion scored two goals in the first seven minutes of the match en route to a 4-0 Region IV-4A final victory at Cabaniss Field.
It was the second straight season the Chargers knocked the District 59-4A champion Hornets (24-2 overall) out of the regional championship match.
"To not go further than we did last year is frustrating to us," said Flour Bluff defender Caree Carlson, the team's lone senior. "But I don't think people expected us to go as far as we did (in the playoffs) this year and we proved them wrong."
"They're an extremely good team," said Hornets coach Mario Lopez, whose team had its 18-match winning streak snapped Saturday after rallying to beat Gregory-Portland 4-3 in Friday's regional semifinals. "We played hard and we did create some things here and there after awhile but it wasn't enough. They were just too much for us today."
Boerne Champion (22-3-4) returns to play in Friday's Class 4A state semifinals against an opponent to be determined.
"We wanted to jump out on them early," said Chargers coach Samara Weinstein, whose team won its two previous playoff matches in shootouts. "We wanted to put two quick ones on them and be able to cruise from there."
Boerne Champion did just that, scoring on three of its first six shots on goal to take a commanding 3-0 lead nearly midway through the first half.
The Chargers used their impressive passing to limit Hornets standout junior forward Kaitlyn Kasperitis' touches and keep Flour Bluff junior midfielder Kaitlyn Belew, the team's leading goal scorer in the playoffs, more on the defensive side of the field in the first 40 minutes in building that lead.
Boerne Champion held the Hornets without a shot on goal in the first half, while taking 10 shots on goal against Flour Bluff junior goalie Julia Eckardt, who finished with a match-high 10 saves.
Julie Essick, Tabria Williford, Karis Watts and Alexa McDaniel scored goals for the Chargers to give Boerne Champion goalie Morgan Glick (who stopped all three of the Hornets' shots on goal in the match) more than enough offensive support on this day.
Kasperitis said Flour Bluff already is looking forward to next season.
"We did really well this year and we feel we can do the same again next year," Kasperitis said.
"We're lucky to have this group of girls," Lopez said. "We'll just start again next year and go from there."
GOALS Boerne Champion: Julie Essick 1, Tabria Williford 1, Karis Watts 1, Alexa McDaniel 1. ASSISTS Boerne Champion: Cassie Lange 1, McDaniel 1. SHOTS ON GOAL — FB: 3, BC: 14. SAVES — FB: Julia Eckardt 10. Boerne Champion: Morgan Glick 3. CORNER KICKS: FB: 4. Boerne Champion: 3. RECORDS Boerne Champion, Overall, 22-3-4. Flour Bluff, 24-2.
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Pretty Little Liars
We Found Keegan Allen's Les Mis Match! Check Out His Lookalike Eddie Redmayne (PHOTO)
We've had Les Miserables on our minds ever since we sobbed throughout Anne Hathaway's "I Dreamed a Dream" scene. So, it's no wonder we were reminded of our dear Keegan Allen (Toby Cavanaugh) when we caught a glimpse of hunky Les Mis actor Eddie Redmayne (Marius).
Between the brown hair, chiseled jawline, light eyes, and pouty lips, these two could totally be long-lost brothers.
And as long as Eddie is cool with joining the "A" team and Keegan is down for a little barricade action, we're sure these two would get along swimmingly!
Do you think these hunky actors look alike, or are we just seeing things? Let us know your thoughts in the reaction buttons below!
Catch the next episode of Pretty Little Liars on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC Family.


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Harford County Executive Eileen M. Rehrmann, a Democrat, easily won re-election last night with 62 percent of the vote, and Republican Joseph P. Meadows scored a major upset over incumbent Sheriff Robert E. Comes.
Republican Joanne S. Parrott narrowly beat Democrat Theresa M. Pierno to be the next president of the County Council.
Mrs. Parrott, a two-term councilwoman, led a Republican sweep of the seven-member panel.
Two open seats in Districts B and C were taken by Republicans, and a Republican challenger beat the incumbent Democrat in District F.


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Federal agencies increase efforts into identifying Medicare fraud on the Treasure Coast
For More Information
To report suspected Medicare fraud, call the South Florida hotline at 866-417-2078 or the national Medicare fraud hotline at 800-447-8477.
Learn about Medicare fraud and efforts to combat it by visiting www.stopmedicarefraud.gov. Another helpful website is aarp.org. Type "Medicare fraud" in the search box.
To request a speaker from the Florida Senior Medicare Patrol or to volunteer, call 866-357-6677.
Medicare fraud that's been rampant for years in Miami/Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties is making its way into the Treasure Coast.
"With more pressure to combat fraud in Miami, (fraud suspects) are spreading out," said Brian Martens, a regional assistant special agent with the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "Federal agencies are putting increased efforts into identifying fraud in the Treasure Coast area."
Local efforts are part of a nationwide expansion in the attack on Medicare fraud with funds from the Affordable Care Act.
A federal report released Feb. 14 shows the campaign is paying off. Money the federal government recovered from Medicare swindlers in 2011 totaled $4.1 billion, the most ever recovered in one year.
The program's success comes in part from a new emphasis on enlisting the help of Medicare beneficiaries.
"It's vitally important that we identify Medicare fraud as early and efficiently as possible," said Dave Bruns, spokesman for AARP Florida. "(Health and Human Services) is wise to get seniors involved."
The federal agency involves seniors through its Senior Medicare Patrols. These senior volunteers are trained to speak to community groups about how to prevent, identify and report Medicare fraud. The AARP also trains volunteers to provide similar information to groups at senior housing complexes, assisted-living facilities and the like.
Although the Treasure Coast lags behind in having Senior Medicare Patrols, advocates expect to recruit volunteers soon. Consultant Leo Scarpati planned to meet with potential volunteers in Vero Beach last week.
"We need volunteers to spread the message," said Makeba Huntington-Symons, Florida program manager for Senior Medicare Patrols. "We need seniors teaching seniors."
Combating fraud starts with prevention. Advocates urge seniors to safeguard their Medicare account number. All a shyster needs to bilk Medicare is an enrollee's name and Medicare number.
ucksters sometimes get Medicare information from people over the phone. Never give it out to solicitors, even if they say they're with Medicare. Medicare agents don't call beneficiaries. Also, don't give out your Medicare number to anyone offering a free service, such as blood-pressure screening at a health fair. Never leave Medicare statements out when workers or other strangers are in your home.
To nip fraud in the bud, review every Medicare statement to be sure you received the goods and services listed.
"A lot of fraud comes from durable medical equipment providers," said Ken Thomas, a Boca Raton-based manager for Senior Medicare Patrols.
One crook was caught when beneficiaries with two feet noticed they were being billed for a prosthetic foot.
"Look for diagnostics you don't think you got," Bruns said. "Look for illnesses being treated that you've never been diagnosed with. Look for names of providers you've never met."
A new trend Martens sees is pill mills using the identities of unwitting seniors to bill Medicare for the narcotics they illegally prescribe.
If something on the statement looks suspicious, call the doctor, hospital or other provider. They sometimes make innocent mistakes. If you're not satisfied with their answer or if the provider's name doesn't ring a bell, call HHS's fraud-prevention hotline
We hear people say, 'The government is paying for it; why should we report it?'" Scarpati said. "It's not free money. You paid for this through your taxes."
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Nawras Telecom launches customer service centre in Salalah
Qatar Telecom's first overseas project, Nawras Telecom, opened its first customer service centre in Salalah to cater to customers from the sultanate's Dhofar region, a Qtel spokesman, said in Doha Saturday.
The new centre was opened by Sheikh Abdullah bin Saif Al Mahrouqi, deputy governor of Dhofar, Abdullah Zaid Al Talib, vice chairman, NT and senior officials from Qtel.
Speaking on the occasion, Sheikh Abdullah bin Sauf, said, "We are pleased that NT has opened a customer care centre here and hope that subscribers will enjoy the benefits that come in with competition, such as a wider range of products, services and competitive pricing."
NT's vice chairman, said that with the Salalah branch, the number of NT's branch offices in the sultanate have now reached nine.
NT, which is Oman's second mobile services provider, is Qtel's first venture abroad and was officially launched at celebrations held in Muscat on March 15 and 16.
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- Nawras opens the doors of its new flagship store in Salalah to customers and festival visitors
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What happened to cause the divorce?
I started to drink way too much. I guess I was unhappy and used the alcohol as a crutch. My wife gave me several warnings and I didn't want to listen. I am now very much regretting my bad decisions. My wife has since remarried, and has moved on with her life. I was lucky, and did get joint custody of my kids; otherwise I don`t know where I would be. I only wish I could turn back the clock, and have another chance. Of course this is not an option, and I now have to live with my choices. I have tried dating, but after 3 years, I can`t seem to shake my depressed state. I hope that I will eventually be OK, and start anew.
How did you personally cope with the divorce?
I have not coped very well, I must admit..it has been hell. I lost my family, my money, and my health has been not so well. I keep telling myself that I will be all right, and hope that happens. My kids are my world, and I know I over-compensate by living my life through them, but they are all I have. Most days are long and hard, and sleep has been hard to come by. At this point, I have lost many many friends; most do not want to hear my woes, and I do not blame them. My dad says I depress him, and he rarely calls, and when he does, it is mostly critical of me. Dating has become impossible, as all I do is talk about my former life. I am not a great date. I have completely gone off anti- depressants, and sleeping pills, and have changed my diet to include lots of fish, and vitamins. I have yet to see much change, but it has only been a week since I came off my meds. I wish that I could round up some energy to go out and live, finding work has been difficult. I was a self made man, and was wealthy. I am now just a shell of that person. My best advice to all, is to try and work things out, take a vacation with or without your spouse, and realize that the grass is not greener on the other side. If you do decide to go through your divorce, save save save. Go to mediation immediately, and do not talk to your lawyers unless it it of the utmost importance. Good luck, and God speed.
Lessons Learned
- So many...
- 1) Try and work it out
- 2) Separate first
- 3) Don`t spend a lot of money
- 4) Talk to friends about what to do
- 5) Make a list of the good and the bad
- 6) Don`t waste money talking with your lawyer; be quick on the phone
- 7) Don`t bad mouth your ex to friends; it will bite you
- 8) Fight for your kids
- 9) Don`t date too soon
- 10) Have a plan
- 11) Eat well
- 12) Exercise
What was your experience with legal process?
The legal process is a scam. They are all in cohorts with one another, lawyers, psychologists, custodials, and so forth. Go to mediation as fast as you can, don`t worry about personal goods like furniture, it is not worth much. Keep kids out of it, try and be cool, and level headed.
What was the outcome of the divorce proceeding?
My outcome was legally all right, I did get joint custody of my kids.
How is it going now?
Right now things really are not great. I never sleep, wake up 5-6 times a night. I am not in great shape, but have been trying to eat well.


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'We were united in the one belief, the constructive approach to painting, and this insistence of the abstract elements in building a design was the keynote of teaching with both Lhote and Gleizes ... Although the model was used in the class, the student was discouraged from making merely a faithful record of a nude, a draped figure or a portrait. The abstract elements in line, shape and colour were introduced in order to induce the student to construct from it a design within a given space.'
Grace Crowley, 1966
This drawing was made during the artist's time in Paris, where she studied under André Lhote a leading teacher of the Cubist movement. Her strongly delineated contours and volumetric modelling of the body accords with Lhote's emphasis on the simplification of forms into basic geometry. The drawing also reveals Crowley's strong grasp of anatomy, acquired through earlier academic training at Julian Ashton's Sydney Art School.
Nicolas Draffin, Three years on: a selection of acquisitions 1978-1981, 'Prints and Drawings - Australia, European and American', pg. 47-66, Sydney, 1981, 62 (illus.). cat.no. 30
Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997, 42 (illus.). cat.no. 30
Hendrik Kolenberg, The portrait and the nude: Australian drawings from the collection, Sydney, 1990. cat.no. 19
Elena Taylor, Grace Crowley: being modern, Canberra, 2006, 17 (colour illus.), 59. NOTE: date of work (circa 1928)
Daniel Thomas (Curator), Project 4: Grace Crowley, Sydney, 1975. cat.no. 17
Project 4 - Grace Crowley (1975), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 May 1975–08 Jun 1975
The portrait and the nude: Australian drawings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Aug 1990–28 Oct 1990
Australian drawings from the Gallery's collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 1997–15 Mar 1998
Bodyline, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, 03 Feb 2001–08 Apr 2001
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Findings of the Fordham Que(e)ry: Report to the Fordham University Community (PDF) This campus climate report was compiled using data from 351 students gathered between November 25th, 2012, and March 1st, 2013. It represents an estimated 70% of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Genderqueer (LGBTQ) students at Fordham College Rose Hill and the Fordham Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as well as an estimated 35% of LGBTQ students at Fordham College Lincoln Center and 28% of LGBTQ students at the Fordham University School of Law. Overall, they represent more than half of all LGBTQ students in these schools.
HERI Class of 2012 College Student Survey: Climate Questions (PDF) This document details a few relevant responses from the exit survey that the class of 2012 took before graduation. It shows that 3.5 - 3.9% of seniors strongly disagreed with the statements that the Fordham community accepts and respects everyone "regardless of sexual identity." Tellingly, this is very close to the estimated 4% of students who self-identify as LGBTQ. (This survey and document were compiled by the University, not by the researchers behind the Queery.)
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The Class of '76 has pioneered the development of individual class scholarships. These scholarships are awarded annually to medical and graduate students. If you are interested in donating to the class scholarship please contact Bub Parker, Director of Alumni Relations in the Office of University Development & Alumni Relations or call 717-531-8497.
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Jamaican dancehall and reggae artiste Demarco of the I Love My Life fame is in Kampala this Saturday to perform in what is billed to be a thriller of a show.
DeMarco will take on the stage at Lugogo Cricket Oval alongside his hit-maker compatriots Wayne Wonder and Madtraxx. Local artistes like Bobi Wine, Peter Miles, Radio and Weasel, Navio, Jackie Chandiru and Raga Dee are expected to curtain- raise for the trio.
Expect other DeMarco's hits like Show It and She's All I Need and This Is The Life that have been a staple on the mainstream airwaves here. Tickets go for sh30,000 (silver) and sh120,000 (gold). Go catch yourself some dancehall and reggae music this weekend.


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The Cricketer teams up with GulliversThe Cricketer is delighted to announce Gullivers Sports Travel as the official travel partner of the Davidstow Village Cup 2014.
The Gloucestershire-based luxury sports-travel expert regarded the burgeoning reputation of the 41-year-old amateur cricket competition as hugely attractive, exemplifying the true spirit of the game and its timeless appeal. Gullivers' Managing Director Noel Magnay said: "We are proud to be associated with this fantastic grassroots competition which culminates in a prestigious final at the Home of Cricket and relish the opportunity to interact with all of the clubs involved.''
Commercial Director Jim Hindson said: "We are obviously delighted to welcome Gullivers Sports Travel as an official sponsor. The Cricketer has enjoyed a long-standing relationship with Gullivers and this new twelve-month agreement, that includes cross-platform activation, provides the opportunity to further build on that good feeling ''
Davidstow, the Dairy Crest-owned Cornish cheddar giant, are headline sponsors of the competition until 2016, adding its name to a proud list of former sponsors that include npower, Alliance & Leicester and Yorkshire Tea.
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ELIZABETHTON — The Elizabethton Police Department continues to search for a man who robbed Milligan Grocery around 9:30 p.m. Monday.
The store clerk told Investigator James Sexton that she was cleaning in the back of the store as she was preparing to close for the night when she heard someone say "Hey."
The clerk said she came from the back and saw a man holding a small black pistol. He demanded money and the clerk complied, giving him the money in the cash drawer.
After taking the money, the clerk said the man ran out of the store, running toward Gov. Alf Taylor Road.
A witness said he was driving on Gov. Alf Taylor Road and nearly struck the robber with his vehicle. He said a man wearing a ski mask and plaid shirt jumped from the tree line. After he was nearly hit, the witness said the man jumped back into the tree line.
EPD Capt. Mike Merritt soon came to the scene and took over the investigation.
The clerk said the man was wearing a black ski mask, blue plaid shirt and dark jeans. She said he was about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighed between 150 and 160 pounds and had a small body build.
Anyone with information about the robbery should call the EPD at 542-4141. To submit a tip anonymously, call 542-7574.


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Dell Studio 16 OLED concept shown off
Dell has unveiled a concept laptop featuring a 16-inch OLED screen showing what could be possible in the future for notebooks.
Packed into a Studio XPS 16, the OLED is just 2mm thick and comes with virtually a 180-degree viewing angle.
If that wasn't enough to get you giddy with excitement, the screen offers a contrast ratio that exceeds 10,000:1 and come with a response time of 0.004ms, 1000 times faster than current LCD technology.
The only concern we have? It means virtually everyone on the train is going to know what you are working on.


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Introducing: the Burley Plus! The Burley Plus extends the life and value of your Burley Piccolo or Kazoo trailercycle by converting it into a bike! Now, you can
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Among those to emerge victorious at the event in The Arches was Julie Speers, pictured, who won best acting performance for the gritty short film Wyld. The part, written specially for Speers, was her first taste of acting.
Jude MacLaverty, director of Bafta Scotland, said: "The British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards reflect the sheer breadth of up and coming talent."
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|Nintendo DS Lite revolutionizes the way games are played with ultra-bright dual screens and touch-screen technology. Connect wirelessly to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and put your skills to the test against players across the room or across the world.
With impressive 3D rendered graphics and ultra-bright screens, Nintendo DS Lite delivers cutting-edge portable games for fans of any genre. With the Nintendo DS Headset, you can talk and chat over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection or voice command games.
System: With Nintendo DS Lite, dual screens and touch-screen technology allow you to interact with games like never before. Wireless communication allows you to experience real-time multiplayer gameplay, and the free Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service allows you to compete against players from around the globe.
Dual Screens: Two incredibly bright LCD screens offer one of the most groundbreaking gameplay advances ever developed. Each 3-inch screen can reproduce a true 3D view, with impressive 3D renderings that can surpass images displayed on the Nintendo 64.
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection: Ready to take on the world? Now, with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, you can connect wirelessly, chat and play with Nintendo DS owners across the globe. All you need to play is a Nintendo DS and a Wi-Fi-ready game. There are no subscription fees -- the service is free!
Touch Screen Technology: The lower screen offers something never before provided by any dedicated game device: touch-screen capabilities.
You no longer have to rely on just buttons to move your character or shift perspectives. Navigate menus or access inventory items simply by touching the screen with a stylus or fingertip. The possibilities are limited only by developers' imaginations.
The touch screen features a tougher film cover for durability, and the included stylus is stored in the back of the unit.
Microphone Port: A built-in microphone port means that with Nintendo DS, you only need to tell your games what to do.
The Nintendo DS microphone gives you even more ways to interact with your favorite games.
Wireless Network: With Nintendo DS Lite, you can connect with a local wireless network of up to 16 players. The wireless range can be an incredible 30 to 100 feet and for some games, multiplayer requires just one Nintendo DS game card.
Note: Nintendo DS Lite wireless communication, including PictoChat, is not private and is not monitored by Nintendo. We recommend that you never reveal any personal information or arrange to meet a stranger.
Rich Stereo Sound: Nintendo DS Lite sound capabilities allow for greatly expanded use of voices and music, and a richer, more immersive game experience. Stereo speakers allow for virtual surround sound and a plug for headphones transmits stereo sound.
Backward Compatibility: Nintendo DS Lite features a separate media port for Game Boy Advance cartridges, allowing you to play all your favorite Game Boy Advance games in single-player mode.
Customer Reviews of DS Lite (Crimson & Black)
Is a really fun thing to play on. There are so many fun games to play on it. There are pictures and games that you can buy of the ds shop. It is smaller and can fit in your pocket and is portable. There are even math and learning games for it so it is good for the whole family.
Nintendo ds lite3/29/2012
overall good basic handheld game system
Great system if you still want to play GBA games!9/24/2011
This is a great handheld system, it's unfortunate that the new models can't play old GBA games because they lack the GBA slot. This DS lite system is small in size and extremely portable so if you're on the bus or some sort of commute you can easily pull it out and play with it. The screens are a bit smaller compared to the new systems but they're still high-quality. The DS games play great as well so it all depends on what functionality you want. I'd definitely recommend this!1 Helpful | 0 Not Helpful
Perhaps not as powerful as the PSP, the NDS makes up for it with an array of innovative features and terrific game properties.
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Although the price of this DS is same every where, It still is a no brainer to buy it from buy.com. No Taxes and free shipping. Love the 4GB micro SD card I bought and all the games I can play on it.
Your wife will love it8/8/2008
Does you wife stay at home with your kids? Does she play solitaire on the computer to break away? Does she love simple games like tetris? Buy her a DS! Seriously look at Cake Mania and Cake Mania 2. My wife loves them - and it really gives her the break she needs from the kids. There is a side note though - if your kids don't have one, they will watch over her shoulder which kind of defeats the purpose of giving her something to get away from the kids. But if your kids have a DS as well, some of the games allow connection between the two - and they have a blast! My wife has the Pink, and I bought this one for my son - you know why.
for a brain work out4/2/2008
I bought this strictly for Brain Age 1 & 2 and fast focus to exercise mine and my wife's brains. Millions of these things have been sold and it seems like all our nieces and nephews have them but even for adults, with the right game, it is a lot of fun. Have not been able to get the wireless function to work, not intuitive at all. The unit is a nice size and handy to have on a trip or waiting around for something and the 3 games I mentioned are surprisingly effective.
Portable and powerful!1/20/2008
The great graphics on the DS are clear as well as sound effects. I bought Brain Age for the game and there are no glitches. A little hungry for power when playing on extended periods but that is to be expected.
Nintendo DS Light - Crimson / Black1/10/2008
I have stayed away from the DS and DS light since it was introduced, but I have to say, the Crimson / Black color is much more grown up and less kid-like. I have seen several other adults in coffee shops plunking away at their DS lite with such adult titles as the Brain Age series and My Word Coach to help those of us in the second half of their life. My older sister now plays Zelda, and I am hooked on the Need-for-Speed series. In comparison to the Sony PSP, I have to say, that graphics are a slight step down, with the DS, but the DS can do nearly everything the PSP can do, even watch movies and get on the internet. More important are the titles for adults. Nintendo is finally hitting my age group, and I am a happy, and old camper!
Ten Year Old Heaven11/29/2007
My son got this for his birthday, and he loves it so much that we've found him sneaking playing time whenever and wherever he can. I don't know if is newfound obsession is a good thing, but I know he loves his DS and its cool color. My one complaint is that the games don't necessarily tell him how to use the touch pad all the time, but he doesn't seem to mind figuring it out.3 Helpful | 0 Not Helpful
I love my Crimson DS Lite!11/28/2007
I bought this game system for my son, but my husband and I use it just as much. There are so many great games geared toward adults. There are lots of great kids games, also. The crimson color is really nice. I'm so glad we bought it!


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Cincinnati Bengals weak-side linebacker Vontaze Burfict flunked the equivalent of a high-profile job interview during a disastrous NFL scouting combine last year.
Burfict ran the slowest 40-yard dash (5.09 seconds) of any linebacker prospect. He finished slower than several offensive linemen. He bench-pressed 225 pounds just 16 times, fewer than many defensive backs.


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Didya miss Justin Timberlake in a leotard on 'SNL?'
What? You didn't bother to watch 'Saturday Night Live' last week because the presidential election is over and there's no more Tina Fey's hilarious dead-on impersonation of Sarah Palin?
Then you missed seeing Justin Timberlake in a high-cut leotard and high heels.
He played one of "the dancers" in Beyonce's Single Ladies (Put a ring on it) music video.
OK, it's a one-joke skit. But Justin does have great gams. And he's got the Beyonce hippy-jiggle down pat.
What do you think of JT's gams?
More Justin Timberlake:
Justin Timberlake boozing in Belfast.
No sparks for Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears at Madonna's concert
Justin sings Vote in a Box for Obama
Justin talks about marriage and Britney!
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Fayetteville 2030: Transit City Scenario
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas. Southern city
"Streetcar cities understand there's a real competition for 'quality of place' in the New Economy, that urban real estate has to accommodate higher-value uses than wide streets and big parking lots, and that streets have to be used more efficiently than to merely accommodate single-occupancy vehicles." - Gloria Ohland and Shelley Poticha, cds., Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities in the Twenty-First Century.
Building Resiliant Cities through Scenario Planning
According to the Brookings Institution, 80% of the built environment projected to exist by 2050 has not yet been built. While seemingly upbeat for smart growth advocates, such potential cannot be optimized until risk-averse, market-oriented municipal planning porcesses explore alternatives that may seem counterintuitive. As a complemenet to Fayetteville's 2030 City Plan (adopted in 2011 by its city council) a 2030 transit city scenario plan was indepenently prepared over a ten-month period from 2010-2011, modeling a future based on development of a streetcar system. We asked: what if 80% of future growth was incented to locate around a street car system proposed for Fayetteville's main arterial now dominated by aged low-density commercial development? The city could create a five-mile signature multi-modal transit corridor transforming underperforming suburban development into mixed-use transit-oriented neighborhoods.
Fayetteville will add more than 50,000 people to its population of 73,000 by 2030, entailing 28,000 additional housing starts on top of the current 32,000 units. Despite Fayetteville's comprehensive plan, development outcomes unwittingly promote sprawl and assume stability in the usual drivers of growth. The city's built environment lacks responsiveness to changing energy futures, contraction in the cheap credit that underwrote suburban development, demand shifts in transportation markets favoring public transit, and emerging concerns over food security and affordability. Despite the city's progressive planning record, if its long-term decision making remains reliant on homogenized data from past preformance, city planning will lack resiliency in the face of paradigm shifts and "black swan" event.
Retrofitting Commercial Corridors with Streetcar Transit
The multi-modal corridor plan covers a five-mile segment between the downtown/university district and the outlying regional shopping mall area--a recently designated "uptown." Three interconnected planning principles underpin the retrofit.
1. Corridor Planning to retrofit an auto-dominated arterial using complete streets policy to increase transportation accessibility for all users. New geometrical relationships among travel ways/multi-ways, streetsides, intersections (roundabouts vs. signalization), utility easements, and landscape architecture systems anchor new neighborhood formats. Improved street connectivity optimized access and walkability through the redistribution of parking from large surface lots to connected urban blocks that
2. Station Area Planning to concentrated growth around transit stops creating new transit-oriented neighborhoods with integral employment centers and ridership populations. Because corridor widths reflect urban development patterns across three eras (19th century, early 20th century, and contemporary), the plan explores various urban retrofit strategies and transit mode-sharing configurations. Unlike the hub-and-spoke of light rail, streetcar grids need contiguous corridor density to support adjacent low-density
3. Sprawl Repair and Transit Supportive Land-Use Design to retrofit decling auto-oriented commercial properties toward higher value mixed-use place types along the corridor. Sprawl repair tools include restructuring of sprawl into neighborhood forms with clear centers and edges, form-based coding of public open space and streets, and general intensification of both urban and ecological system
Scenario visioning helps the city envision a plausible planning possibility that would not have emerged from charrettes and similar public processes reliant on consensus. While Northwest Arkansas was crisscrossed with extensive rail development eighty years ago, the memory of such has entirely disappeared. Fayetteville residents now understand that the streetcar city is an underutilized North American urban form. Akin to the early 20th century streetcar cities built at 7-14 dwelling units per acre our plan updates the role of rail transit in serving small town markets.
The design team--including nonprofit organizations collaborating with planning staff and citizen committees received support through a 2011 federal planning grant. Rather than seen as threatening, scenario planning effecitively released community creativity and feedback since radical visioning was expected. Rail transit as a function of smart growth is now a significant issue in local election for federal office. The city is exploring transportation planning consultants who specialize in streetcar development, aligning developer interest, and studying transfer of the College Avenue right-of-way from state management to city oversight.
Key Principles: Reversing TOD--development-oriented transit
Akin to lessons learned from the North American streetcar systems developed over 100 years ago, transit should be planned in anticipation of development to not only enhance mobility choices but to ensure as well the development of vibrant urban neighborhoods. This coordinated sequencing of public and private investments recalls value-capture methods once used to finance infrastructure costs from the increased property values attributable to enhanced accessibility. Given escalating public-sector transportation funding gaps, ongoing urban growth will have to simultaneously address compact mixed-use neighborhood form, economic development, and intermodal transit planning--even in small city markets.
The proposed streetcar system revitalized a five-mile segment of the city's primary commercial arterial, currently suffering from land use underutilization, high vacancies, and property abandonment, despite the corridor's adjaceny to high-quality neighborhoods. Cutting through urbanisms from three different era, corridor revitalization coordinates urban retrofit strategies that facilitate: 1) downtown infill and preservation; 2) sprawl repair and transition; and 3) edge city restructuring.
From Auto-Dominant Arterial to Transit-Oriented Boulevard
A 2011 report reveals that the typical Northwest Arkansas household spends a shocking 29% of its annual income on transportation--more than they do on housing and far more than they do on housing and far more than the average household in rail transit cities, which is 16%. Using rail transit to improve the corridor's public realm and land use for enhanced mobility and accessibility is a prosperity-building program.
2030 Growth Scenarios
Two 2030 development scenarios--one showing current sprawl patterns entailing enormous fiscal liabilities, and another showing an anti-sprawl alternative at a fifth of the cost--visualize consequences of current planning policies for public consideration. While citizens view the commercial corridor as an undesirable, ugly place, the transit scenario shows how a corridor retrofit can shape a smart-growth future.
Replacement of Fungible Commercial Property with Complete Neighborhoods
The elastic commerical fabric comprising the corridor (vs. the adjacent non-elastic residential fabric) is highly disorganized, fungible, and ripe for replacement by mixed-use compact development in neighborhood formats with clear centers, edges, and anchoring public spaces.
Breeding the DNA of the City's Beloved Downtown
New neighborhood formats responsive to existing built contexts and geography along the corridor connect downtown with the regional shopping mall and big box district to the north--recently designated the "uptown center" by the city. Why not breed the DNA of Fayetteville's beloved town square and downtown along the corridor?
Downtown Infill and New Shared Street District
The downtown context inspires infill development and design of a shared street district framed by high-density urban housing. Small-scale infill within the shared street district creates compatibility with historic structures centered on Dickson Street.
New Neighborhood Boulevard and Squareback in the First Ring Suburb
Introduce a town square configuration into a congested suburban arterial intersection. The "squareback" configuration redistributes some traffic around the intersection and accomodates new layers of mixed-use development, including incorporation of streetcar service facilities.
From Strip Commercial to Mid-Town Center
The 1960s strip commercial development and right-of-way cross-section allow for development of a multiway boulevard that accommodates new multi-modal transportation facilities and varying traffic speeds. The multiway and new street network extension reconfigures large parking lots into a park-once environment serving mixed-uses, including new job centers.
Neighborhood Parkway: From Cloverleaf to Traffic Circle
Edge-city expressways are redeveloped into configurations featuring a multi-decked traffic circle that improves city imagability and way-finding. Transit investments are also used to improve ecological functioning of existing floodplains and riparian communities that cross the corridor. Urban infrastructure thus delivers the 17 ecological services found in all healthy ecosystems.
Retrofit of Suburban Mall District
We route the streetcar through the mall, creating an indoor galleria. In addition to providing a mixed-use walkable town grain, big development related to new high school and sports facilities are plugged into the galleria, living up to the new "uptown center" designation unwittingly applied by the city.
Lessons Learned: Challenges in Discussing Rail Development
Since many of assume that rail transit development will displace funding for roads, we initiated community discussions with the stipulation that the project is foremost a road improvement initiative--i.e., we use rail investment to upgrade the road's functionality and aesthetics. Unlike light rail, which requires dedicated right-of-way, streetscars are a low impact mode since they are adaptable to existing right-of-ways. Any discussion of mode split should emphasize complementarities, as most public policy, decision-making, and citizen understanding remains committed to one mode--whether it by bicycles, pedestrianism, or automobilies.
While streetcar development enhances mobility and transportation ecology, a more impactful benefit is the attendant change in development patterns. Since streetcar transit and walkable mixed-use neighborhoods are symbiotic--i.e., most riders become pedestrians--the desire for rail intrinsically leads people to want transit-supportive development codes. Many residents have come to understand the relationship between transportation planning and livability.
Unlike consensus-based participation formats, scenario planning creates a permissive planning enviornment where radical visioning is expected. Citizens are intrigued by a planning proposition structured around a specific driver of growth, and become better informed about latent long-term trends structuring their communities. City planners and citizens alike are horrified by the results of visual projections stemming from their city's current policies. While the city is accustomzed to moving forward from the results of a charrette, not knowing precisely where to start makes it more difficult to act on a scenario plan.
Since funding is the determining factor of feasibility, we are exploring the role of "value capture" in devising regional-scaled revenue mechanisms for maintenance and operations. The question is will value capture work at the scale of a city given state enabling legislation regulating municipalities. Aligning developer interest with public investments is also tricky since the emerging post-recession development community is not local and not well known.
Transect Zone(s): T1 natural, T2 rural, T3 sub-urban, T4 general, T5 center, T6 core.
Status: Proposed
Project or Plan's Scale: Region
Land area (in acres): 2300
Total built area (in sq. ft.):
Total project cost (in local currency): 1e+08
Retail area (in sq. ft.):
Office area (in sq. ft.):
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Number of hotel units:
Number of residential units (include live/work): 26000
Parks & green space (in acres):
Project team designers: University of Arkansas Community Design Center
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Innovation is our regular column that highlights emerging technological ideas and where they may lead
Blasting zombies may seem to have little to do with serious research, but video game hardware is helping scientists in a variety of ways including helping them to unravel the mysteries of the brain.
Specialist programmers have long been repurposing the graphics processing units (GPUs) that power action-packed scenes in games for non-graphics tasks. Now recent advances have opened up GPU-based supercomputing to non-specialists.
GPUs have greater raw computational power than conventional CPUs, but have a more limited repertoire of tasks. Combining hundreds of individual processors, they excel at applying simple repetitive calculations to large bodies of data.
Nicolas Pinto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is using them in his efforts to crack the brain's formula for recognising objects in images. "The interesting thing about a GPU is that they are made to produce a visual world," he says. "What we want to do is reverse that process.
Hidden rules
"When an object moves across your retina, it will obey certain rules, the physical rules of the world," Pinto says. "We are trying to learn these rules from scratch."
Last year, for less than $3000, he built a 16-GPU "monster" desktop supercomputer to generate and test over 7000 possible variations of an object-recognition algorithm on video clips.
To test each model, Pinto's makeshift supercomputer performed statistical analysis in both space and time on thousands of frames of video to find objects moving through the scene. Selecting for the models best able to decipher the action, he was able to match or better more traditional approaches.
He says this kind of work would previously have only been possible with a fully fledged supercomputer.
"If we weren't newcomers in this field and could apply for multi-million dollar grants, then yes, we could probably get one of these massive computers from IBM," he says. "But if money is an issue, or you are a newcomer, that is too expensive. It's very cheap to buy a GPU and explore."
Easy power
The latest graphics cards, from manufacturers ATI and Nvidia have 512 individual processors. By dividing the work among these processors, they can reach speeds of half a trillion calculations per second.
Previously it took specialist programming skills to set GPUs to work on serious, non-graphics science, but the process was difficult and time-consuming.
"The path from describing the problem to getting results was pretty treacherous," says Nvidia general manager Andy Keane.
"Things were in computer graphics shader languages and texture coordinates – none of the stuff we were used to in scientific computing," says Chris Johnson, director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. "It was extraordinarily difficult to map your problem to a GPU."
Johnson says this changed around 2007 with the advent of new programming languages that make it easier for programmers without specialist graphics experience to program GPUs. Since then, researchers in both academia and industry have used them to, for example, analyse astronomical signals, simulate molecular interactions and rapidly check files for malware.
Exaflops beckons
While GPUs make desktop supercomputing accessible to a wide range of researchers, flagship computing centres such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have also taken notice. Oak Ridge announced last October that its next supercomputer, predicted to be the world's fastest, would be built from GPUs.
"As we look at how to get the next 1000 times faster, to an exaflops, or 1018 calculations per second, we see a lot of big challenges," says Buddy Bland, a project director at Oak Ridge.
He says that the lab already uses clusters of GPUs for some number-crunching computing tasks such as climate modelling and simulations of supernovas. He says that increased precision and speed, along with reduced power consumption, make the cards an attractive option for the next generation of supercomputers. "We think this is one path to getting the higher-performance computing that we need."
Read previous Innovation columns: The Wi-Fi database that shamed Google, One web language to rule them all, Robots look to the cloud for enlightenment, iPad is child's play but not quite magical, Only mind games will make us save power, Gaze trackers eye computer gamers, Market research wants to open your skull, Sending botnets the way of smallpox, Bloom didn't start a fuel-cell revolution.
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| Pyongyang, March 17 (KCNA) -- The Chemical Engineering Institute under the State Academy of Sciences has developed a magnetization device for prevention of fur.
The device made of permanent magnet is especially effective in preventing boiler pipes from being covered with fur as its strong magnetism changes physical characters of water.
Its installation reduces fuel consumption by 5 to 20 percent and does not need reagent, salt and cation-exchange resin when cleaning pipes.
The device has already been introduced in boilers at the February 8 Vinalon Complex, the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex and other industrial establishments to help operate them at full capacity.
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Magician, acrobat, and vaudeville headliner Long Tack Sam (1885-1961) was one of the first Chinese entertainers to achieve international celebrity. His peers and colleagues included Harry Houdini, the Marx Brothers, George Burns, Jack Benny, Laurel and Hardy, and many others.
Long's stage illusions and acrobatic skills were esteemed on five continents. His Austrian wife, Leopoldine (Poldi), and two young daughters joined his troupe after World War I, and for over a decade the Long Tack Sam show traveled the world as the epitome of a "class act," much like Cirque du Soleil today.
Early photo of the Long Tack Sam troupe. Long is 4th from the right.
Why has the world forgotten him? Finding the answer to this question led his great-granddaughter Ann Marie Fleming on a quest to document the life of her illustrious but elusive relative. The results of her research can be found in the charming documentary THE MAGICAL LIFE OF LONG TACK SAM (2004), available on DVD from the National Film Board of Canada. Fleming tracked down long-lost family members, interviewed experts on stage magic and vaudeville history, and unearthed a marvelous archive of posters, playbills, and photos. Sam and his daughters, stage-named Mi-na (Fleming's grandmother) and Nee-sa, rode the wave of vaudeville stardom right up to the door of Hollywood. There they encountered a pervasive racism and stereotyping that Long called "despicable…I won't play those roles."
Long Tack Sam (left) with Poldi (center) and daughters (front).
Retirement on the eve of World War II followed, but was far from restful. The interracial couple first settled in Austria, where the rise of Hitler forced them to flee. Turned away from the US on the grounds that Poldi was an enemy alien, the family sought refuge in Shanghai, where Long Tack Sam owned several theaters, only to be trapped there by the Japanese occupation. After the war, the Longs were able to return to New York. Long Tack Sam was revered by the local stage magic community, and he periodically came out of retirement to perform through the 1950s. He died in Austria in 1961 while recuperating from injuries resulting from a car accident.
Long demonstrates the flexibility that made him a vaudeville star.
Long Tack Sam was not, strictly speaking, a martial artist. Surviving documentation of his act indicates that he was an extremely talented acrobat and had the jaw-dropping flexibility of a contortionist. Had he lived a hundred years later, he would have made an outstanding stuntman. One of his routines involved diving through a ring of swords, points angled inward, just slightly larger than his body. In his most famous routine, he displayed a silk scarf to the audience, draped it over his shoulder, then executed a forward roll, coming up from the roll with scarf in hand, then whipping it away to reveal a large bowl of water with goldfish swimming in it.
THE MAGICAL LIFE OF LONG TACK SAM is a truly magical film, melding family and history and cross-cultural pop entertainment into a delightful package. Fleming's innovative use of animation to bring old photos and posters to life takes us right into Long Tack Sam's life and times. For a sample of the film, visit the Long Tack Sam website.
To learn more about another Chinese magician from the same era, Zhang Huichong, see this article in The Chinese Mirror.
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During The Alchemical Wedding of 18 December 1968, John Lennon and Yoko Ono climbed into a large white bag and writhed around, the excitement causing Texan Elizabeth Marsh to take off her clothes. When stewards tried to cover her, more members of the audience began to strip in sympathy.
A new survey was commissioned and the Acoustical Investigation Research Organisation was appointed. They carried out various recordings and tests over many months and this information on echoes and reverberations was analysed by the Building Research Station at Garston. The suggested solution was a complete new ceiling, but as this was impracticable and too expensive, acoustic saucers provided a workable alternative. The 135 fibreglass rigid mouldings in the shape of inverted domes filled with glass fibre wool were suspended from 360 points, over an area of 10,000 square feet. The cost of 8,000 pounds was shared by the Arts Council and the BBC.
The Pop Proms of June and July 1969 ran for 9 concerts and featured many of the big names of the day including Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac and The Who with comperes including John Peel.
Miss World was held at the Hall from 1969 to 1988, the 1970 contest being disrupted by feminist protestors throwing flour bombs. Previously, from 1951, it had been held at the Lyceum Ballroom. On 27 November 1969 there were 50 delegates, Miss Eva Rueber-Staier from Austria was crowned the winner by Omar Sharif.
One of the principal dressing rooms in the 1970's.
Rothmans International Tennis Tournament in March 1970 was the first tennis event at the Hall, and featured leading players of the day such as Rod Laver, John Newcombe, Ken Rosewall, Roger Taylor and Fred Stolle. Tennis continues to be played in December each year with the Masters Tennis tournaments.
H M The Queen unveiling a plaque to commemorate the centenary of the opening of the Hall on 29 March 1971. The following concert contained 'Jubilate', a piece composed by Prince Albert.
A programme for Muhammad Ali, who boxed eight exhibition rounds on 19 October 1971. On 29 May 1979 in 'Farewell to London, the Magic of Ali' he made his final appearance at the Hall.
The Radio City Rockettes from Manhattan with their eye-high leg kicks performing in perfect unison with chorus line precision, a spectacle which they include at the end of every performance.
John Curry's 'A Symphony on Ice' was the first time the arena had been frozen over. At the end of the run the ice was chopped up, put into skips and dumped in the Thames.
The Phil Collins 'No Jacket Required' tour had 6 performances at the Hall and was filmed for a show entitled Album Flash.
Fashion Aid, on 5 November 1985, featured a host of well known celebrities such as Bob Geldof, Jerry Hall, Grace Jones, Tina Turner, Paula Yates, Freddie Mercury and Annie Lennox, together with all the top designers of the day including Calvin Klein, Katharine Hamnett, Jasper Conran, Jean Muir, Giorgio Armani, Betty Jackson, Bruce Oldfield, Zandra Rhodes and Yves Saint Laurent, to raise money for famine in Africa. Freddie Mercury rounded off the evening by eating the bridal bouquet.
Eric Clapton pictured here on 12 January 1987, the start of a long regular series of annual concerts. He first appeared at the Hall on 7 December 1964 with the Yardbirds in one of the early pop concerts Top Beat, and continues to return and sell out the venue, recently passing his 150th appearance.
The ICI 'Perspex World Squash Championships' were held over 7 days in October 1987, in a Perspex court. It is the only time squash has been played here.
Shirley Bassey appeared many times at the Hall during the 70's, 80's and early 90's, photographed here on 24 April 1988. She sang Happy Birthday for the Duke of Edinburgh's 80th birthday concert in 2001 and in the BBC's 'Children In Need Rocks the Albert Hall' on 12 November 2009.
Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and Liza Minnelli, three of the greatest icons of American popular music, appeared together in April 1989 in a show dubbed 'The Ultimate Event'. Sammy Davis was suffering from cancer and was not able to dance. He died the following May.
The Hall has played host to a large variety of sporting events. Here, on 4 December 1989, in 'The NatWest Basketball Trophy Final', The Kingston Kings played The Manchester Giants. The first basketball took place here in March 1945.
On 19 December 1989 Her Majesty The Queen read part of her Christmas speech from a podium on the stage at the Hall, recorded during a 'Joy To The World' Christmas concert. This meant that, for the first time, an audience heard the speech prior to its international airing.
Ella Fitzgerald with the Count Basie Orchestra. She first came to the Hall on 22 February 1955 with Oscar Peterson.
For the first time in 1500 years, an official Sumo tournament was held outside Japan. The most expensive seats around the dohyo (wrestling ring) were cushions on the floor.


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http://www.ford.com/page.asp?model=explorer&year=1999A more presentable way of rewriting the URL using subdomains might be:
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