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This review is from: The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (Hardcover)
American University Professor Deborah Brautigam writes that China is listening to Africa.
All good relationships involve communication. In the past. when South Africa complained about the "tsunami" of textiles from China, Beijing agreed to voluntary export restraints. When Zambian workers rioted at Chinese-owned mines, Chinese officials openly criticized the owners' labor practices. There are clearly rocky areas in this relationship, but on balance, Brautigam sees more on the positive side of the ledger that the Chinese are doing well by Africa.
Brautigam believes it is up to Africans to ensure that the net result for Africa is good. China's huge demand for Africa's commodities has created new opportunities for African governments to realize the hopes of their people for a better life. Countries that set their house in order, can position themselves to benefit, and those that do not will find their resources continue to be simply a "curse"--with or without China.
China has ratcheted up its manufacturing investment in Africa, where new industries were sorely needed to counter decades of deindustrialization. China has established investment funds to promote Chinese investment in Africa. Teams from China have visited Mauritius, South Africa, and elsewhere - scouting locations for enterprise zones and industrial districts, which would join Chinese industrial zones in Ethiopia, Zambia, and Nigeria, and Chinese factories making batteries in Mozambique, shoes in Nigeria, ethyl alcohol in Benin, and a host of other products across the continent.
Chinese factories offer not only jobs--they also use production technologies that African entrepreneurs can easily adopt. Chinese firms act as catalysts and models for the African Diaspora to invest their investment capital in Africa. Taiwanese and Hong Kong firms stimulated a rush of copy-cat local investment in Nigeria and were catalysts for the boom of local investment in the "Mauritius miracle" of the 1980s and 1990s. Brautigam says let's have more of this.
This well-timed book, by one of the world's leading experts, provides the first comprehensive account of China's aid and economic cooperation overseas. Deborah Brautigam tackles the myths and realities, explaining what the Chinese are investing, how they are contributing to African Industrialization and agribusiness, how they do it, how much aid they give, and how it all fits into their "going global" strategy. Drawing on three decades of experience in China and Africa, and hundreds of interviews in Africa, China, Europe and the U.S., Brautigam shines new light on a topic of great interest.
Table of Contents
Prologue: The Changing Face of Chinese Engagement in Africa; 1. Missionaries and Maoists: How China Moved from "Red" to "Expert"; 2. Feeling the Stones: Deng Xiaoping's Aid Experiments; 3. Going Global: Foreign Aid in the Toolkit of a Rising China; 4. Eastern Promises: An Aid System with Chinese Characteristics; 5. Orient Express: How Does Chinese Aid and Engagement Work?; 6. Apples and Lychees: How Much Aid Does China Give?; 7. Flying Geese, Crouching Tiger: China's Changing Role in African Industrialization; 8. Asian Tsunami: How a Tidal Wave can also be a Catalyst; 9. Exporting Green Revolution: From Aid to Agribusiness; 10. Foreign Farmers: Chinese Settlers, African Plantations; 11. Rogue Donor? Myths and Realities of Chinese Aid and Engagement; Conclusion: Engaging China
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Men's Basketball | Friday, January 30, 2004
McDevitt's 3, Clutch Foul Shooting Give Bearcats 61-54 Win at Pacific
FOREST GROVE - P.J. McDevitt's only basket of the night proved to be the game-winner Friday night, as the Willamette University men's basketball team held onto first place in the Northwest Conference with a 61-54 win over Pacific Friday night at the Pacific Athletic Center.
McDevitt's three from the top of the arc capped off an evening that saw the league-leading Bearcats shoot 38 percent from three-point range. David Force led all scorers with 17 points and Josh Erickson had 11 as the Bearcats (12-5,7-1 NWC) outshot the Boxers 49 percent to 45 percent.
Erin Gram led Pacific with 16 points and five assists. B.J. Anderson finished with a double-double of 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Willamette led by as many as 12 in the second half before the Boxers went on a 10-0 run to draw within two at 39-37. Pacific took their only lead of the half on Tim Dougherty's lay-in with 7:12 left.
Erickson quickly responded with two jumpers, including a three-pointer, to build a six-point advantage. Gram cut it to three with his three-pointer with 3:18 left. Both teams remained scoreless until McDevitt's three at the 1:42 mark.
The Bearcats hit five of six free throws in the final minute to cap the road win.
In the first half both teams came of the gate sluggish, trading leads through the first 10 minutes. Ryan Rahlf's lay-in at the 11:32 mark opened a 12-11 Willamette lead.
Pacific tied it at 20-20 on Phil Burns' lay-in, but Harold Sublett Jr.'s short jumper with 4:12 left and a pair of hoops in the final minute by Rahlfs sparked a 12-5 run to give Willamette the 32-25 halftime edge.
The Bearcats won the battle of the boards, 31-23, led by Force's seven and Miles Sandgathe's six. Sandgathe also scored eight points.

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Ex-teacher who slept with student now seeks bar entry
In 2006, James Melnick, now 35, was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to two Criminal Code charges related to a sexual relationship with the girl. Melnick taught her in grades 7 and 8 and was her guidance counsellor during the second year.
After that, their relationship progressed from phone, e-mail, and instant message communication to a physical one that included kissing, oral sex, and sexual touching. Melnick was arrested in October 2004 after spending the night with the girl at a motel 50 kilometres from her home.
Melnick had to defer entry to law school at the University of Western Ontario so he could serve his jail sentence but has since completed his studies and is currently articling at a legal aid clinic associated with the university.
He told a law society panel last week that he has struggled to come to terms with his actions in the years since his arrest. "I like to put it in perspective by considering it an aberration.
It was a mistake, a very serous mistake, I made that hurt a very great number of people. I'm aware of it and I own it but I don't consider it a part of my character," Melnick said during testimony under examination by his lawyer, John Hill. "I feel awful and very remorseful for it. I wish I could undo it more than anything but I can't."
Melnick qualified as a teacher in 2001 and taught at a school in Parkhill, Ont., which is just outside London and near where he grew up.
He told the panel he became absorbed in work during a rough patch in his marriage and allowed the lines between his personal and private lives to blur.
"It became a social outlet, and I started to treat students far too much like friends," he said.
Melnick and the girl exchanged more than 500 e-mails during the relationship and eventually began taking walks and trips together outside school.
Melnick called his actions even before the relationship became physical "reprehensible."
"I allowed myself to float into a relationship, to take active steps towards forming a relationship with her under some misconception that it was above board," he said.
"I fantasized she was closer to 20 or 22 than 14. Really, I was acting more like I was 16. I knew I was in a spot I shouldn't have been in."
Things came to a head on Oct. 23, 2006, when Melnick and the girl went on an overnight trip while her mother was out of town. The pair spent two weeks planning the trip, but on the day of it, Melnick said he got cold feet over fears they'd be caught.
In the end, the pair spent the night at a motel and returned to Melnick's house the next morning to discover that police were looking for them.
During an interview with police that evening, Melnick said he was "very scared" and "lied fulsomely" by denying any sexual contact with the girl. It wasn't until he saw his police charge sheet that "I knew I couldn't get out of it," he told the panel.
He then confessed everything to his wife and began seeing his family doctor, a specialist in helping people with "boundary issues." Melnick has also attended sessions with a forensic psychiatrist as well as marriage counselling with his wife. The couple now has two young children.
In August 2006, a judge, describing the crime as "extremely disturbing and egregious," handed Melnick a six-month jail term and a further 15-month conditional sentence. He's also required to register as a sex offender until 2016.
A year later, the Ontario College of Teachers revoked Melnick's licence, although he hadn't taught since his arrest. The discipline committee called his actions "disgraceful, dishonest, unprofessional, and reprehensible."
"The law society obviously shares these concerns," said law society counsel Susan Heakes at the hearing.
"In addition to the abusive relationship with the 14-year-old former student, there was dishonesty with the victim's mother, his wife, and the police. We're talking about a relatively recent abuse of trust and power by the applicant."
But Hill told the panel his client was a model student who had accepted his guilt and taken steps to tackle the issues that facilitated his "crossing of boundaries."
For his part, Melnick said he has learned his lesson. "I'm hyper vigilant about the kind of relationship we, as professionals, should have and I'm less likely to err for having made a mistake with such terrible implications for so many people."
Melnick started at Western in the fall of 2007. A parade of faculty came to Osgoode Hall to testify on his behalf over the two-day hearing.
Professor Erika Chamberlain, for example, taught Melnick several classes and took him on as a teaching assistant when he was in his second year.
She said she was surprised to hear about Melnick's past when he disclosed it to her before she wrote him reference letters for articling positions.
"From an academic perspective, he was the top student in my legal research class, far and away. As a teaching assistant, he really went above and beyond what was expected."
Melnick told Western's former law dean, Ian Holloway, about his convictions early on in his studies. Holloway kept Melnick's confidence and offered to speak to law firms about his situation during his search for articles.
"I came to have the highest regard for him as a student," Holloway told the panel. "In terms of his leadership skills, he was above par. I would retain him."
The panel also heard from a lawyer at Lerners LLP that while Melnick was high on its list of potential articling students, the firm was wary about investing resources in a lawyer who might not get licensed.
In the end, Melnick received a part-time articling position at the university's Community Legal Services clinic. Margaret Capes, an adjunct professor who supervises him, said she has been impressed by his work.
The clinic restricts Melnick's files to clients over 18. "I've been so impressed with him that we have developed a few programs that we are teaching together," Capes said. "I have no hesitation exposing him to clients."
The panel postponed Melnick's cross-examination on July 6 after deciding it should see all of the exhibits filed at his criminal trial. Both sides have struggled to gain access to the exhibits, which include victim impact statements from both the girl and her mother.
The parties will meet by teleconference on July 15 to set dates to complete the cross-examination and hear closing arguments.
+2 # 2011-07-18 16:29
One can only hope that the LSUC does not lose sight of what has to be the single most important factor in this application. Namely, that Melnick was, at the time of the offences, a 30 year-old man who sexually exploited a 14 year-old CHILD. An "aberration"?A "boundary issue"? If she was an adult student, perhaps. But let's call a spade a spade - this was nothing less than a grown man taking advantage of an impressionable child for his own ends. Who knows how long it would have continued if he hadn't been charged by police (to whom he initially "lied fulsomely")? If his glowing references from teachers and colleagues somehow sway the LSUC into deciding that Melnick is of now of sufficent "good character" for admission to the bar, it makes the entire process something of a joke. The most serious criminal backgrounds would pale in comparison to being a good student and a savvy co-worker. And I, for one, think that crimes against children should be viewed very seriously.
-5 # 2011-07-19 06:11
I think Anonymous hits the nail on the head. The "good character" requirement is a bitsilly, a tad arbitrary and lends itself to debates about optics rather over substance. The chief concern should be competence as assessed by a qualified articling principal and administered by LSUC. Reviewing the material above, I wonder what more this person could have done or could be doing to clear his name.
+12 # 2011-07-19 08:22
I think Mike may have misunderstood the point that Anonymous was making. Anonymous is opposed to a child molester being accepted into the bar. However, Mike doesn't seem to have a problem with same so long as the guy is competent.
+4 # 2012-06-13 13:22
I think that anyone can make a mistake, even a grievous one such as Jayme has done but at some point, we have to let him move on with his life. He made a mistake, he paid the price but most importantly, he has never repeated it and there is no evidence that he did it previously. Imagine if all of us were held so publicly accountable for some of of the skeletons in our closet. The people closest to him speak highly of him and accept him for who he is today. Give the man some credit for learnng his lesson!!!!!
-1 # 2013-08-03 00:48
I hope that Jayme can move beyond his past, but even health professionals sometimes get it wrong when they declare that a client is fully rehabilitated, as in the case of Russell Williams: http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/10/12/a-book-of-sadness-and-forgiving/ I wonder if long term monitoring around minors might be a reasonable step.
-2 # 2012-07-22 14:54
No one has addressed the PROBABILITY that James took a lawyers advice to plea guilty. Why would he do that after fighting for 2 years at great cost to have the truth exposed. The courts are never about finding the whole truth. James can never go back on his plea so he must work within the fictitious parameters that the courts have documented. We are all aware of willful children, not so innocent, addicted, acting out, promiscuous at ages younger than this alleged victim. What do we know about her history, did she and her family ever lay similar charges prior to those against James? Where were her guardians when all this was going on for 2 years? We fail to acknowledge that the courts create fiction every day due to plea bargaining with constraints on; all the facts, all the witnesses and all the history of both the alleged victim and so called perpetrator. This panel unfortunately must consider Jame's future based on the fiction of this case on James plea to accept all responsibility.
-1 # 2012-10-08 11:31
Lets be clear and I hope the people posting did some research. Melnick signed the agreed statement of facts, its pretty clear he knew what he was doing and tried to lie to the police. Do you really believe he has acted as a professional and deserves a second chance? They don't just hand out the title "Sex Offender" to anyone. The teachers association acted properly by not concealing his name from speaking about the case as well. Poor guy, I don't think he is the one we should feel sorry for here.
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Appeal succeeds:
James Maurice Melnick of the City of London, appealed from the Decision and Order of the hearing panel dated November 19, 2012, seeking an order setting aside that Decision and Order and granting his application for a Class L1 licence.
By Order dated July 29, 2013, the appeal panel ordered as follows:
The appeal is allowed. The Decision and Order of the hearing panel is set aside and the appellant is granted a Class L1 licence.
Should the Appellant seek costs on appeal, he may serve and file brief written submissions within 21 days of release of the reasons in this matter. The Society may serve and file responding submissions within 14 days thereafter.
(Counsel for the Society, Susan Heakes and Loretta Arci / Counsel for the Appellant, Tiffany D. Soucy)
James Maurice Melnick of the City of London, appealed from the Decision and Order of the hearing panel dated November 19, 2012, seeking an order setting aside that Decision and Order and granting his application for a Class L1 licence.
By Order dated July 29, 2013, the appeal panel ordered as follows:
The appeal is allowed. The Decision and Order of the hearing panel is set aside and the appellant is granted a Class L1 licence.
Should the Appellant seek costs on appeal, he may serve and file brief written submissions within 21 days of release of the reasons in this matter. The Society may serve and file responding submissions within 14 days thereafter.
(Counsel for the Society, Susan Heakes and Loretta Arci / Counsel for the Appellant, Tiffany D. Soucy)


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Serious question for Rafa fans. What are your expectations for the South America swing?
NB: Anyone who thinks that he is bound to win all three tournaments because they are on clay an that every other player is a mug need not bother replying.
Mark Lenders is correct, that is indeed the most likely outcome. I love Nadal but am not being biased when I say I think he will win the three tournaments. the reason is less based on high expectations about his form returning as much as knowing that for at least 2/3 of the tournaments Rafael is playing, the draw is full of very mediocre players on clay as far as his standards.
Ferrer I believe is playing the Mexico tournament so that could be tough but the other two are pretty soft of draws. and, after all, Nadal has Ferrer's number on clay to an extreme amount
it would be different if any of the top guys played these South American events, but since they seem to evade them like the plague, it certainly gives Rafael some good odds to win them even despite his long absence. then again it wouldn't be TOO Shocking if he bowed out early on his first tournament back, but seriously mate, look at the players signed on to play! nothing too intimidating
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On Apr 23, 2004, at 8:08 AM, Emiel Kollof wrote:
Yes of course. Maybe it would be a cool idea to maintain a lits of junior hacker tasks that is relevant?
I don't want to differentiate tasks into types. A task is just that, a task.
The MFC list I have prepared is about to get a whole lot bigger and yes, it would be nice for someone to prepare the changes.
I have done whatever was possible to make it easier for a person to prep patches. Stuff like Makefile and style changes that were MFC'ed can be left. I am mostly interested in actual utility and kernel source updates/bug-fixes. I have highlighted these using a different color on the MFC list.
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List of distinguished retirees grows longer
February 18, 2014
Debbie Berto joined a growing, distinguished list within the past year when she announced her retirement. After 40 years at The Issaquah Press, she was ready to move on to the next challenge in her life.
She wasn't the only one to call it quits on service in the public eye.
Locally, Ava Frisinger ended her run in January as Issaquah's longest-serving mayor after 17 years. When Frisinger announced in 2009 she would not run for another term, her reasoning was simple.
"I didn't want to become stale," she said. "It's important to let others in and run things with a fresh set of eyes."
Press publisher to retire Jan. 31
February 1, 2014
40-year career comes to a close
When Debbie Berto assumed the helm of The Issaquah Press in the early 1970s, she was only a couple years out of college and had no managerial experience. To top it off, she was just 24 and pregnant with her first child. But her boss saw something in her that made him confident he'd made the right choice.
"I never had any training in business management," Berto admitted. "The Press was losing money in those early years, so John Murray didn't have much to lose by putting me in charge. It wasn't long before he predicted that I would retire from The Press. I couldn't imagine that that was possible."
Now, 40 years later, Berto is indeed ready to retire, having worked from advertising representative to publisher of the 114-year-old newspaper.
Chamber honors top volunteers at annual community awards
June 4, 2013
In a night of honoring local volunteers, the city handed out top recognition at the 34th annual community awards. Cecilia Gambill was named Citizen of the Year and Debbie Berto was named to the Issaquah Hall of Fame.
Those awards finished out the May 30 banquet, held at the Hilton Garden Inn and sponsored by the Greater Issaquah Chamber of Commerce.
Chamber CEO Matt Bott presented the award to Gambill, co-owner of Illuminate Contracting. Bott celebrated her hours of volunteering and her enthusiasm. Gambill has been in the community for three years after moving to Issaquah from Florida.


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In today's upwardly mobile age, the mobile phone has become an important information source. Cell phones store information on addresses and appointments, and regular exchanges with home computers keep the data in sync. The command line tool Gammu [1] lets you manage data on a wide selection of mobile phones – no matter whether you use a data cable, an infrared connection, or a Bluetooth connection. Wammu [2] provides an intuitive front-end to take the hard work out of using Gammu.
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CISC127 Spreadsheet Concepts and Applications
Department of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics: Computer/Information Science
- I. Course Number and Title
- CISC127 Spreadsheet Concepts and Applications
- II. Number of Credits
- 3 credits
- III. Minimum Number of Instructional Minutes Per Semester
- 2250
- IV. Prerequisites
- Math Placement Test score of 5 or better or MATH095 (C or better)
- Corequisites
- None
- V. Other Pertinent Information
- Lab assignments are an essential part of this course and a minimum of 8 laboratory projects aimed at developing spreadsheet expertise will be used. Lab time could be devoted to lab exercises, as well as demonstrations. Students will be evaluated by test results, laboratory projects, class participation, attendance, and initiative. There will be at least two tests which will comprise at least 50% of the grade. There is no comprehensive final examination.
- VI. Catalog Course Description
- This course is an in-depth study of the spreadsheet, database, and graphics capabilities of a widely used software package. Topics include: creating worksheets and templates, printing reports and graphs, using macros, and writing simple programs. Extensive laboratory work is required.
- VII. Required Course Content and Direction
Learning Goals:
- Course Students will:
- solve "what if" and other problems using a spreadsheet and its powerful functions;
- create a database and perform various types of data manipulation, including sorting, extraction of data, and production of graphs and charts;
- write macros which eliminate detailed repetitive routine; and
- write programs which include looping, subroutines, and "if" statements.
- Core (if applicable) This course is not included in the Core.
Planned Sequence of Topics and/or Learning Activities:
- Computer Basics
- navigating the computer operating system
- copying files and creating subdirectories
- The Spreadsheet Environment
- navigating the package
- menu/command structure
- spreadsheet organization and default parameters
- entering simple formulas involving basic arithmetic operations
- loading and saving a file
- use of short-cut keys
- solving a simple "What if" problem
- The Spreadsheet Component
- building a spreadsheet
- row/column operations
- formatting and printing capabilities
- developing templates
- creating windows and titles
- building complex formulas using date and logical functions
- solving more complex problems using data and logical functions
- The Graphics Component
- creating bar, line, and pie graphs
- formatting and sizing a graph
- printing graphs
- The Data Management Component
- creating a database
- sorting and extracting data
- database functions
- Spreadsheet Macros and Programming
- entering and invoking a macro
- writing a simple macro
- programming macros
- user-interaction commands
- use of subroutines, if statements, and looping
- screen control commands
- string functions and other special functions
Assessment Methods for Core Learning Goals:
- Course
- Core (if applicable) This course is not included in the Core.
The assessment of Course Learning Goals is based on written tests, labs and other assignments, as well as performance-based tasks as appropriate.
Reference, Resource, or Learning Materials to be used by Students:Departmentally selected textbook and other learning materials. Details provided by the instructor of each course section. See course format.
- VIII. Teaching Methods Employed
- Section VIII is not being used in new and revised syllabi as of 12/10/08.
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Diane Romero became a member of the Sheriff's Office in September of 2002. Diane has over twenty years of financial and budgeting experience. Prior to joining the Sheriff's Office, she served as a finance manager for the Douglas County Finance Department and had worked closely with the Sheriff's Office relative to budget and accounting issues since she became a Douglas County employee back in June of 1996.
Diane's role enables her to work with the Sheriff, Undersheriff, Bureau Chiefs, and staff members throughout the agency on the day-to-day financial and operating issues of the Sheriff's Office. She directs the Sheriff's overall budget process, provides revenue and expenditure forecasts, and oversees grant administration, asset management, and the purchasing and accounts payable functions within the Sheriff's Office.
Diane holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Business Administration (Management Emphasis) from Regis University.


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the "Little Ice Age." Such an experiment would resolve the conflict among more indirect measures of the history of the solar constant, some indicating a significant brightening of the Sun since Galileo's time and some claiming no brightening.
The information about the variation of the solar constant, derivable from the Moon's regolith temperature profile, has important implications for the interpretation of Earth's currently observed global warming and is a prerequisite to any estimate of humanity's contribution to global warming.
Radio observations of solar eruptions have played an important role in understanding the Sun, but the terrestrial ionosphere blocks all radio frequencies below 10 MHz to 20 MHz, which cover virtually all radio emissions originating above 1 to 2 solar radii from the Sun's surface.
Multi-site observations of low-frequency radio signals from the Moon, where there is no blocking ionosphere, would allow imaging of the sites of particle acceleration in the extended solar corona. In this region, the primary radio sources are fast (2 keV to 20 keV) electrons from solar flares and suprathermal electrons (~100 eV) accelerated by shocks. The associated radio emissions are called Type III bursts and Type II bursts, respectively. Both sources produce a plasma instability, which leads to amplification of electrostatic waves, some of which are then converted to electromagnetic (radio) waves. The process takes place at the characteristic frequency of the plasma—the electron plasma frequency—thus, the frequency of the radio emission indicates directly the electron density of the source, and imaging the radio source would map the extent of the acceleration region.
To make such images at low frequencies would require a synthetic aperture that is large compared with the wavelengths of interest. An angular resolution of 1 degree at 1 MHz requires a minimum diameter of 15 km. The Moon offers a large, stable surface on which to build a large, capable low-frequency radio array for the purpose of imaging solar sources at wavelengths that cannot be observed from the ground, an array that is well beyond the current state of the art for antennas in space. Figure 6.1 illustrates an antenna concept, operating at somewhat higher frequencies for radioastronomy purposes, being deployed on the Moon.
The design for the first (test) array would be based on the designs of Earth-based arrays (working at higher frequencies) currently in development. The deployment of the initial test elements could be done by astronauts or robotic deployers or both. Subsequent deployment of additional elements of the array would be carried out over time, permitting one to maximize lessons learned from implementing each phase.
The major components of the observatory are the antenna array and electric connections, the radio receivers, the central processing unit, the high-gain antenna unit, and the power unit. For a test array with 16 to 32 antennas, the expected total mass for a lunar observatory would be significantly less than 400 kg, and the power requirement would be less than 500 W.
Were it visible to the naked eye, Earth's magnetosphere would be the most spectacular object in the lunar sky. Subtending about 20 degrees at Full Earth and gradually expanding to envelop the entire lunar sky near New Earth, the magnetosphere would be an awe-inspiring phenomenon. Elements of the magnetosphere can, however, be imaged from the Moon through the use of modern instrumentation on timescales and at spatial resolutions of great interest to magnetospheric plasma physicists and specialists in space weather analysis and forecasting.
A unique advantage of the lunar perspective would be the ability to stare at the space neighborhood of Earth, providing global long-term images of the time development of extended magnetospheric phenomena such as the plasmasphere and ring current. The time period for significant evolution of these phenomena is a few hours, a time interval over which the perspective of an Earth-orbiting satellite changes significantly, while observations from the Moon do not vary appreciably in perspective.


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Unbuttoning Annie Hall
By RUTH LA FERLA
Published: February 22, 2004
IN "Something's Gotta Give," Diane Keaton, who plays the comically uptight 50-something playwright Erica Barry, startles Jack Nicholson, her leading man, when she appears, albeit briefly, entirely in the nude. The baring of her middle-aged flesh is not nearly so shocking, though, as her decision, about midway through the film, to discard the white turtleneck sweaters she wears like a talisman in favor of a black jersey T-shirt and skirt. The slinky fit and plummeting neckline made the most of her curves.
By shedding the high-necked sweaters and trademark glasses she has kept behind for years, Ms. Keaton, some say, has finally come out of hiding. "It's like seeing her for the first time," said Nancy Meyers, a friend, who not only wrote and directed the film but conceived the role with her in mind. "She doesn't wear glasses — she wears Gap shirts — but they're form-fitting," Ms. Meyers told a reporter. "She's not hiding behind anything."
To others who have watched Ms. Keaton morph from a jittery ingenue into a deliriously flighty adult, trading her turtleneck for something more sultry represents a long-delayed coming of age. "For the first time Diane let herself be grown-up," said Caroline Rennolds Milbank, a fashion historian who has studied Ms. Keaton's career. What is striking about her in her latest role, for which she won an Oscar nomination (for best actress), is "how confident she has become," Ms. Milbank said, "more confident than many women half her age." Ms. Keaton is an unabashed 58-year-old, a fact she proclaimed to great laughter at the Golden Globe Awards in January.
Her self-assurance has been a long time coming. For the better part of her 30-odd-year film career, Ms. Keaton has hidden her light under bowler hats, oversize jackets and calf-grazing skirts — and almost always prim gloves — cultivating a persona that on screen and off is less siren than librarian. In her life, "she tends to cover herself up," said Suzanne McCabe, who designed Ms. Keaton's "Something's Gotta Give" costumes. "She wears a lot of layers, and she definitely likes to have the structure of a blazer." Conservative she may be, but Ms. Keaton has wilfully nurtured a maverick streak by forging a fashion identity that is two parts WASP and one part whimsy.
A fashion plate? Maybe not. "She is too quirky for that," and her mature style has never been widely copied, Ms. Milbank said. "But that's just it — what made her style so notable and hard to imitate was that it was so personal."
André Leon Talley, Vogue magazine's editor at large, elaborated. "When you do see her out, she is not overegging the pudding," he said. "It's never too rich, the way she looks. It's like Katharine Hepburn in a way, the mystery of being covered up, the simplicity — that's the ultimate American style."
Ms. Keaton began charming film audiences in the late 1970's with her Oscar- winning performance in "Annie Hall." Her character, a Midwestern naïf determined to make it in Hollywood, was loosely based on Ms. Keaton herself, who was at the time the muse and girlfriend of Woody Allen, who directed the film. Her apparently haphazard chic, based on a wildly discordant mélange of mannish hats, baggy pants and loose-fitting overscaled jackets, helped to sear her image into the minds of filmgoers.
"Her throwaway verbal style and her thrown-together dress style became symbols of the free, friendly, gracefully puzzled young women who were busy creating identities out of the epic miscellany of materials swirling in the American cultural centrifuge," rhapsodized Jack Kroll, Newsweek's film critic at the time.
Her fashion influence in those days should not be underestimated, Mr. Talley said last week. "What Sarah Jessica Parker is to young women today, Diane Keaton was in that day," he said.
Her style, starchily eccentric, has remained consistent through the years, indeed sometimes doggedly so. In preparing for "Something's Gotta Give," "we did have to work at getting Diane to give up the protective coating of a suit jacket," said Ms. McCabe, the costume designer. "She didn't need that armor."
Other colleagues have said that Ms. Keaton has been known to arrive on film sets with her own wardrobe, creating a look that seems self-conscious, even fey: the ingénue who simply will not grow up. She was demure as a Mafia wife in the "Godfather" films, her shoulder-length hair center-parted, her long neck concealed in a round-collar blouse and satin bow; she was sulky as Louise Bryant in "Reds," the 1981 epic, in velvet from her hemline to her crown, her face scarcely visible under long bangs and a cloche.
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The future is already here — at least in video form. I used my cell phone camera to copy video on display at Sikorsky's exhibit booth inside the gargantuan AUSA convention hall. Hope you enjoy.
Sikorsky X2′s potential future as a military helicopter
The future is already here — at least in video form. I used my cell phone camera to copy video on display at Sikorsky's exhibit booth inside the gargantuan AUSA convention hall. Hope you enjoy.
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eg 8 October, 2008 at 7:05 pm #
Could this be the solution to tilt-rotor performance without the tilt-rotor problems? Considering the weird things blades do, can they control the drooping, flapping, etc when under + – G's? Is this going to be a Cheyenne redux?
I saw the X2 at HAI. The other question is, what happens when you scale the system up. The X2 is not much larger then a large homebuilt aircraft.
Stephen Trimble 8 October, 2008 at 7:40 pm #
Those are all the big questions, and Sikorsky hopes the answer is yes to them all. Top speed for X2 is promised to be 250kts, but there is some skepticism that can be achieved. Tiltrotors are supposedly able to cruise around 300kts (although I've heard skepticism about the V-22′s ability to do that, too!). I think the army is hoping for a higher speed solution from all new technologies like stop-fold rotor, CR/W or disc rotor. X2 would be one of the options — along with the Piasecki/Boeing X-49 — for the more practical compromise.
EG 8 October, 2008 at 8:53 pm #
Fairey Rotodyne?
Of course the speed wasn't close to what they want now.
Stephen Trimble 8 October, 2008 at 9:59 pm #
Correct! Sikorsky basically revived XH-59 ABC for X2. The latter adds fly-by-wire and modern avionics to hopefully overcome the vibration and crew overload issues that doomed ABC.
yasotay 8 October, 2008 at 11:16 pm #
Kudo's to Jeff Pino and John Piasecki for hanging in there when "Horse Cavalry" myopia remained the order of the day for Army Aviation.
One can only hope that, even with the economic challenges to come, the Armed Forces will continue to see that it is time to jump into the late twentieth century for rotorcraft (not a typo by the way).
Stephen Trimble 9 October, 2008 at 12:12 am #
Sadly, if anything about Heliplane was there, I didn't see it.
Matthew Saroff 11 October, 2008 at 2:24 pm #
Can the X2 do a rolling takeoff to increase payload/range?
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – A North Carolina rural development organization that saw its state funding eliminated this summer is prepared to shift its $85 million state grant portfolio to a new government agency as the group downsizes and retools.
The North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center board has agreed to a transition framework with a new division within the state Commerce Department that will now administer center grants and money for the projects. The center and the state also will share millions of dollars in interest.
Center spokesman Matt Ehlers said Tuesday the deal approved by the board Monday came about after the legislature decided not to fund the center and state budget office later froze its assets. This followed a state audit in July questioning center operations and the pay of its president.
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The Food and Drug Administration released new warning labels for cigarette packages on Tuesday, with photographs showing a dead body after an autopsy, a man exhaling smoke through a tracheostomy, and other images of health problems meant to deter smokers.
Tobacco companies have until next year to put them on all packs of cigarettes.
(PICTURES: The FDA's Nine New Cigarette Warning Labels)
"These warnings mark the first change in cigarette warnings in more than 25 years and are a significant advancement in communicating the dangers of smoking," the FDA said in a statement.
"We want kids to understand smoking is gross, not cool, and there's really nothing pretty about having mouth cancer or making your baby sick if you smoke, " Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a White House briefing.
Smoking rates plummeted from 42 percent of the population in 1965 to 21 percent in 2004, but they have been stuck at 21 percent since then.
"So over the last two years, we've gone to work making it harder for tobacco companies to market to kids," Sebelius said. "We've restricted companies from using terms like 'light' and 'mild' on products and in marketing. We're supporting local programs to help people quit smoking and to stop children and adults from starting. And as part of last year's health care law, we gave Americans better access to counseling to help them quit smoking before they get sick," she added.
"So today we're announcing a measure that will forever change the look and message of cigarette packs and ads. The new graphic warning labels will be the toughest and most effective tobacco health warnings in this country's history, and they tell the truth. They'll replace the old warning phrase with pictures showing negative health consequences of smoking that are proven to be effective."
The FDA proposed the new labels in February and settled on nine pictures to illustrate nine separate warnings such as this one: "Tobacco use can rapidly lead to the development of nicotine addiction, which in turn increases the frequency of tobacco use and prevents people from quitting. Research suggests that nicotine is as addictive as heroin, cocaine, or alcohol."
One illustration is a cartoon; another shows the damaged teeth and gums of a smoker.
"We found in the past in research that we conducted ... that, in particular, the picture with the mouth with the teeth communicates the message more effectively," Roswell Park Cancer Institute behavioral scientist Maansi Bansal-Travers http://www.roswellpark.edu/maansi-bansal-travers, who tested the warnings and others in several countries, said in a telephone interview.
"It's apparent to me they have chosen some that might be more effective than others in communicating the message."
Bansal-Travers said testing has shown that pictures draw attention to the written warnings and people are more likely to remember them. "Pictures really do communicate better than words," she said.
Sebelius said that FDA can change the pictures to keep them freshly horrifying.
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Olive, 105, 'will be sadly missed'
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ONE of Derbyshire's oldest residents has died at the age of 105.
Olive England, of Ripley, died peacefully at Wallfield House Care Home, in Findern, Derbyshire.
Olive was born to Hyram and Ethel England in Lower Hartshay, near Ripley, in 1909, but moved with her mother, father and sister Violet to Hopton, near Wirksworth.
She left school at 13 and drove supply trucks for the Army during the war.
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She worked for 19 years at Midlands Drapery, in St Peter's Street, Derby, after her family moved to Shelton Lock.
Miss England, who never married, lived independently at Chellaston Park Court until she was 103 but moved to Wallfield House last year.
Toni Norbury, manager of the home, said: "She had a fantastic memory and sense of humour. She liked to have a bit of banter and was so friendly – she will be sadly missed."
Her funeral will be held today at 3pm at Markeaton Crematorium.


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This is good news for the President's re-election. When voters are happy its good for the incumbent!!
And, why not? We should all have made a few bucks and have rang the cash register. Thank you Dr. Bernanke!
consumer confidence will be higher in the coming months because of the Holiday season.
Pathetically laughable! At least I know where the Enron PR men went. These cumbaya moments are micro flash seconds. Trillions in debt issuance are the reality. Nobody escapes a liquidity trap.Expect a currency crisis in the near future. Denial is a funny thing/
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The Road to Grand Junction begins for top-ranked TallahasseeMay 10, 2013
LAKELAND, Fla. (May 10, 2013) – With, arguably, the program's greatest regular season in the books, Tallahassee Community College's baseball team returns to the diamond on Friday with the hopes of adding another historic chapter to the 2013 campaign.
The eight-team, double-elimination event will take place at Joker Marchant Stadium, spring training home of Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers.All games will be carried live by Panhandle Sports Broadcasting at www.PSBlive.com.
McLeod's Eagles are one of the favorites to emerge from Lakeland with the championship banner and the accompanying berth to the JUCO World Series in Grand Junction, Colo., which would be Tallahassee's first-ever trip to the NJCAA's premiere baseball event – and for good reason.Tallahassee is ranked No. 1 in the NJCAA's Division I Baseball Poll and has sat atop the FCSAA Baseball Coaches' Poll since mid-March. The Eagles are No. 2 in Perfect Game's JUCO Top 50.
Rankings aren't the only gaudy numbers on Tallahassee's resume. The Eagles boast a 45-8 record and won their sixth Panhandle Conference Championship with a 16-4 mark.Those numbers, however, will be tested in a big way on Friday when Hillsborough sends ace right-hander Ryan Etsell to the mound. Though only 6-3, he has struck out 97 batters and issued only nine walks in 101.0 innings – numbers that overshadow the Hawks' 23-26-1 overall record.
Win or lose, Tallahassee will play on Saturday against either St. Johns River State College or Palm Beach State College. If the Eagles win on Friday, they'll move into Saturday's 4 p.m. winners' bracket game; lose, and they'll start the morning at 10 a.m. in an elimination contest.NJCAA Gulf District/FCSAA State Baseball Tournament Notes
• Tallahassee is making its eighth postseason appearance, all under the direction of head coach Mike McLeod.


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As an alumnus of the graduating class of 2003 from Carrollton High School, I am deeply disappointed and shocked by the current banner hanging in the high school gymnasium. During a trip to the craft extravaganza Nov. 3, I witnessed the volleyball poster featuring the current high school posing provocatively above the caption, "We Will Drive You." The sexual nature and ambiguous message is almost too obvious to even warrant an explanation. However, with the clear connotation of the word "drill" coupled with the sexually postured female students, the nature of the banner is explicit and embarrassing. I find it hard to believe this kind of messaging was not only thought of, but approved and hung for the whole community to see.
Understanding that the caption has a connection to athletics, this picture features no visible reference to the volleyball at all. In fact, it includes power tools, wood working machinery and cowboy boots. There is no net, no volleyball or other obvious sports equipment.
I attended Carrollton High School from 1999 to 2003 and I am saddened that my alma mater has chosen to exploit their students in such a degrading manner. I only hope this banner will be removed immediately.
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Oct. 3, 2013
The University of Louisville women's tennis team will be competing at the USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regional Championships at the University of Memphis beginning October 18-22.
The singles and doubles champions from the NCAA Division I USTA/ITA Regional Championships will advance to the 2013 USTA/ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, taking place November 7-10, at the indoor facilities at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, located in Flushing, New York.
Over 8,000 student-athletes from NCAA Division I, II, III, NAIA, Junior and Community Colleges are set to compete in 84 Regional Championships across the country. All levels of varsity college tennis compete in one comprehensive event, and any ITA varsity student-athlete has the opportunity to play and win at the prestigious USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
The Louisville women's tennis team had a strong showing at the Miami Invitational, a two-day, round-robin-style tournament held at the Hepburn Courts in Oxford, Ohio. Freshman Chloe Willetts shined as she went undefeated in her first weekend of college tennis. Senior Rebecca Shine went 3-0 in singles and won 30 games in a row. The Cardinals faced off against individuals from Bowling Green, Miami, and Xavier.


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Why are we addicted to vintage drums?
I've wondered this very thing for a long time. Now, I get to have a bunch of different opinions on the subject :-)
I'm sure there is probably a similar thread on here somewhere...it's either buried deep or so old it's not worth resurrecting. But, I think this will be a slightly different take on the subject anyhow. I'll explain:
Years ago, I first heard Buddy Rich and his big band play. Wow! When I finally got over his chops and musicianship, I noticed the sound of his drums...and I loved it. Since then, I've gotten acquainted with Max Roach, Joe Morello, Jo Jones, etc. No matter what I listened to, I always thought the sound of those drums were yummy.
When it was time to get into a new kit (honestly, when is it NOT time), I wanted a vintage kit. I'm not a spontaneous or superfluous person by any means so I did what I always do with decisions like these...RESEARCH!
I learned everything I could about vintage drums in terms of what contributed to making them sound the way they do. How were they constructed? What woods were used? What hardware was used? Now, anyone who's taken a stab at learning about vintage drums knows that the amount of diverse information is staggering. I was overwhelmed with it all. There is not a great vintage drum market where I live so actual specimens are hard to find but I did manage to try out an old Radio King snare, a round badge Gretsch, some B/O and Keystone Ludwigs. Weeks turned into months. I felt I was getting nowhere. I liked it all but which one to search out and buy? Was I a Gretsch guy? A Slingerland guy? A Rogers guy? I had no clue. I just knew that I wanted that great vintage sound.
I became quite frustrated with the whole endeavor, not to mention that once I had decided on what make and model, then the idea of trying to hunt down my prey one drum at a time was starting to give me a headache. I know many drummers love the "thrill of the chase" and all that, but I'm not wired that way. It was making me positively nauseous lol.
I nearly gave up when I had an epiphany. I was looking for that "sound"...not that drum. So then I began to consider what the vintage sound REALLY is...the qualities in the tone that make it vintage sounding. I went back and listened to my jazz standards and realized that the vintage sound is a particular set of attributes. Generally, vintage drums have a mellow, round tone with a softer attack, shorter sustain, and a quicker decay as compared to modern drums. Now of course there are variations to this formula but by and large I think it holds true when you look at vintage drums as a whole.
Armed with this new perspective I began searching for drums that would give me those attributes. I renewed my efforts toward vintage drums but quickly decided that I needed to look at modern drums which had those attributes.
Which finally brings me to the question of this thread. Why do we want vintage drums specifically? Vintage drums were inconsistent, quirky, troublesome, and some were just downright bad. Wonky hardware. Shells out of round. No two drum heads were alike. For that matter no two shells were alike. They got it right some of the time, but compared to today's methods and standards, they were woefully inadequate. So why do we want them? For those shells and bearing edges? I've seen many drummers buy vintage drums, strip them down to the shells, and upgrade the finish and hardware so it looks like a modern kit. And of course the other method of "retrograding" a kit so that's its all original. Either way of doing things seems strange to me. I want the vintage sound, not the vintage experience. At the same time, it seems a little sad (I'm a little teary-eyed actually) to cannibalize a vintage drumkit for the sake of resurrecting it as a modern kit with really old shells.
There are modern drums that speak with a vintage voice. As Bill Cardwell put it in a video, those drums back then were new drums, not vintage drums. I'd be a complete liar if I said I didn't drool at the thought of a Max Roach replica...right down to the crappy bass drum spurs and cardboard box snare. There is nostalgia in those drums, even though I'm too young to have seen them in their hayday. But now I recognize that I want the sound, not the drums and all the headaches that come with them.
Anyone here feel differently (or the same) and why?
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Another day, another $1,000 fine -- maybe -- for House Democrats
INDIANAPOLIS - Another day away from the Indiana House of Representatives could mean another light paycheck for Democrats who stayed out of the chamber Thursday, for the seventh time in three weeks, in an effort to stall passage of right-to-work legislation.
That is, if Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma gets his way. He has imposed $1,000-a-day fines for Wednesday's and Thursday's absences, and will do so again today if the 35 boycotting Democrats don't show up.
But a legal battle has called the collection of those fines into question.
Three of those Democrats are arguing in court that while Bosma can fine them, he has no authority to dock their paychecks. A Marion County Superior Court judge agreed with them Thursday.
Judge David Dreyer issued a temporary restraining order blocking the fines against Democratic Reps. Bill Crawford of Indianapolis, Shelli VanDenburgh of Crown Point and Vanessa Summers of Indianapolis.
He has scheduled a hearing to further consider the matter on Jan. 27. Between now and then, more Democrats are likely to join the lawsuit, said Mark GiaQuinta, the attorney for the three who sought to block the fines.
Here's how the fines against the 32 Democrats who are not yet included in the case are to be collected:
State lawmakers are paid salaries of $22,616 each year. That amount is divided up into two $11,313 checks, one of which they get Jan. 15, and one Feb. 15.
They also get "per diem" pay — daily sums worth $152 while they're in session, and about $65 when they're out of session. And they are reimbursed the federal gas mileage rate once a week for their trips to and from their districts.
During the session, they get checks each week worth $1,064 — the $152 a day for seven days. They receive that pay every Wednesday.
House Republican leadership determines the amount owed to each lawmaker, and then sends those instructions to the state auditor's office. That office has no policy-making role, but writes the checks.
The first $1,000 fine was deducted from the check lawmakers receive on Jan. 25, which means those checks, for the 35 Democrats who skipped, will be worth just $64.
The next already-ordered $1,000 fine would be applied to the following check. That means if Democrats come back Friday morning, they'd get another check worth $64, and then the fines would be paid.
If they continue the boycott, though, the size of the fines would outgrow their weekly per diem checks. That means Republicans would then have to turn to the large February pay check for the rest of their annual salary, or could also take the money from monthly gas mileage payments.
Strengthening the hand of Republicans is the "anti-bolting" law they passed last year. That law gives them the authority to fine boycotting lawmakers $1,000 per day, although Democrats could still challenge their method of collecting those fines.
House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, said his party won't be back until it has prepared an amendment to the right-to-work bill that somehow gives voters a say.
Another condition: They want an amendment that doesn't conflict with the Indiana Constitution, as a simple statewide referendum would seem to. Bauer said he's afraid Republicans would use that as a rationale to vote against the Democratic amendment.
"We're eliminating the excuses," he said, adding that Democrats want majority Republicans to have to "vote up or down, clearly, whether they want to give consent to the people on this issue or not."
Bauer had pledged that Democrats would be on hand Tuesday to debate amendments. But after a Legislative Services Agency analysis requested by House Republicans raised concerns about the constitutionality of a statewide referendum on right to work — the key amendment Democrats hoped to offer — he changed his mind.
He said Democrats have been consulting attorneys both in Indianapolis and Washington, D.C., to work on a new draft of the amendment, and that there is "a reasonable chance" they could finish in time to return to the House today to offer it.
"It could be tomorrow, if we have the amendment and if, once it's listed, they don't begin to raise a constitutional cloud," Bauer said Thursday.
On the House floor Thursday, Republicans once again criticized all but the five Democrats who were present. Protesters, meanwhile, stood outside the chamber, chanting and shouting in support of the Democratic allies who were not there.
State Rep. Sue Ellspermann, a freshman Republican from Ferdinand who has advocated a right-to-work bill, said absent Democrats are teaching Hoosier children a bad lesson about the way democracy works.
A voter in Ellspermann's district said he wishes she'd change her mind.
Anthony Lawrence, a union pipe fitter who lives in Boonville, Ind., said he spent 20 years working in Florida — the first half without union representation, and the second half as a union member.
"It wasn't until I joined a union that I got the benefits and the pay raises, even in that high economy down there," he said.
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Bus bosses begin probe after woman breaks a leg
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A bus company is to investigate an incident in which a passenger suffered a broken leg in a fall on one of its vehicles.
It is believed that the woman, in her 60s, was injured after another passenger, thought to be her husband, slipped on the stairs and fell onto her when the driver pulled away at the St Ives park and ride site last Wednesday lunchtime.
Andy Campbell, managing director of Stagecoach East, said they would investigate the incident and would be looking at CCTV images from the bus.
He said the driver had only just started to move away when the incident happened.
A doctor from the emergency medical charity Magpas praised the driver for his "extremely helpful" actions in keeping the passenger comfortable before the emergency services arrived.
The incident happened just after noon and the team from Magpas administered pain relief, antibiotics and anti-sickness treatment to the patient.
She was then taken to Hinchingbrooke Hospital by ambulance where her condition was described as stable.
Mr Campbell said: "It happened at St Ives park and ride as the driver started to pull away.
"He had only gone a few feet when a gentleman, believed to be the lady's husband, slipped on the stairs from about four stairs up and fell backwards onto his wife, and she then fell breaking her leg."
A driver supervisor was then sent to the incident.
Mr Campbell said: "We will pull the CCTV, as with all incidents, to see if there is anything we could do to prevent a reoccurrence."
He said drivers were unable to see where passengers were after they had moved onto the stairs until they emerged at the top.


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Actress Katherine Heigl, who played the popular role of Izzy on Grey's Anatomy, has signed on to replace Halle Berry in the upcoming Garry Marshall film, "New Year's Eve," which just began filming at the end of January. The film tells the story of several couples and singles in New York whose lives intertwine on New Year's Eve. The ensemble cast also includes Ashton Kutcher, Robert DeNiro, Sofie Vergara, Lea Michele, Josh Duhamel (ex-Leo DuPres, All My Children), Hilary Swank, Jessica Biel, Zac Efron, Michelle Pfeiffer, Abigail Breslin, Alyssa Milano, Sienna Miller, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jon Bon Jovi, Ryan Seacrest, and more. The movie is scheduled to debut in December of this year.
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syncategorematic (comparative more syncategorematic, superlative most syncategorematic)
- (linguistics, of a term) Needing other terms in order to make a meaningful constituent of language.
- In a logical theory, tautologies could be regarded as being syncategorematic and contingencies as being categorematic.
2009, MacFarlane, John, "Logical Constants", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, accessed on 2012-05-07:
- In sum, it is not clear how the distinction between categorematic and syncategorematic terms, so natural in the framework of a term logic, can be extended to a post-Fregean function/argument conception of propositional structure.


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In this country a person at 18 is deemed to be enough of a man to fight, kill or be killed in a war for this country. He's also deemed, at the same age, to be responsible and mature enough to decide who is the president of the country and who all the other elected officials are. It's not until 3 years later is he deemed responsible enough to buy a beer
18 year olds: Old enough to take orders/absorb gunfire.
21 year ollds: Old enough to make decisions.
The voting thing changed but I think that's still the way middle aged America basically feels about it.
I was once a normal kid
Till the Devil came down and flipped my lid
He gave me a switchblade and he gave me a muse
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3275653.htmlAs 19-year-old Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev awaits trial, a legion of Americans -- often teenage girls -- has been furiously filling the Internet with fan club sites and support groups.
Alisha, a blond, blue-eyed 18-year-old from Topeka, Kan., is one of these Tsarnaev's "fans." Using her Twitter handle @keepitbluntedd, Alisha has been questioning the government's case against the younger Tsarnaev brother...
ABC News adds that this phenomenon is not limited to "cute" teenage suspects, either.
Luka Magnotta, the so-called "Cannibal killer," has a devoted female fan base as well, the outlet reports. Accused Aurora shooter James Holmes had a legion of fan girls all his own, including Aurora, Colo., resident Misty Benjamin, who told reporters she was "physically attracted" to Holmes.
"When I get upset, I look at his picture and I calm down," she said at the time.
I find it hard to be surprised by the evilness of women.
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Anybody else see the flick "Cloud Atlas"?
Cloud atlas was interesting for me because during the first half an hour I wanted to turn it off. I was bored but by the end I was sad to see it finished. The cinematography was fantastic as well as the visual effects. It might be a movie u need to see more than once but to me, at least it was worth it.


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Trace the anatomy of the PDAF scam on 'Bantay Kaban ng Bayan'
GMA News and Public Affairs Special Report
Sunday September 15, after Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho
Millions upon millions of pesos stacked on top of a bed or tucked away in money bags inside a bath tub. This is how Benhur Luy, whistleblower in the alleged 10B-peso pork barrel scam, described the cash flow that allegedly went to Janet Lim-Napoles, accused of masterminding the controversial scam. Using connections in government, Napoles and her group allegedly gained billions from the Priority Development Assistance Fund or PDAF, more commonly known as "pork barrel", through an elaborate 'kickback' scheme.
In GMA News and Public Affairs' special report this Sunday hosted by veteran journalist Mike Enriquez, Bantay Kaban ng Bayan traces the anatomy of the scam. The Bantay Kaban Team goes on-ground—from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao—to physically inspect projects that were funded by the pork barrel and questioned by the Commission on Audit. In various provinces in Luzon, correspondent Joseph Morong and the team are met with ghost projects and overpriced packages given to beneficiaries. Marginalized farmers cry foul over the undelivered projects which were handled by the questionable NGOs being linked to Napoles.
But among the 82 NGOs questioned by COA, only 8 are being linked to Napoles by her former employees.Bantay Kaban ng Bayan asks: who are behind the 74 other NGOs? The team uncovers at least 450 names behind these dubious NGOs and investigates the persons behind the top ten foundations that received billions in pork barrel.
Aside from the dubious NGOs, the COA Special Audit Report for 2007-2009 also questioned infrastructure projects funded by the pork barrel. Region V (Bicol Region) was listed as having the highest amount of pork allocations questioned by COA. In Legazpi City, on-ground correspondent Maki Pulido investigates three road projects totalling more than 100 million pesos in cost. Instead of concrete infrastructure, she discovers dirt roads that appear unfinished and unused. And in Lanao del Sur, buildings worth millions of pesos are not buildings at all—Bantay Kaban arrives and sees only unfinished building posts.
The much talked-about COA Special Audit Report only covers the period of 2007-2009. As more and more records—even from recent years—are examined, it appears that the misuse of pork did not stop in 2009. And while the congressional pork barrel already puts at least 25 billion a year in the hands of lawmakers, the fact is there are trillions worth of special and regular funds disbursed and possibly misused year after year.
We've only seen the tip of the iceberg.
GMA News and Public Affairs' Bantay Kaban ng Bayan uncovers more this Sunday, September 15 on IMBESTIGADOR right after Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho.


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5 Reasons to Have a Temper
By: Paul Kita
Read the paper, watch TV, listen to the radio, or simply survive a day at the office and you'll encounter plenty of things to get angry about. But turn the other cheek? Never, says Yann Martel, the author of Life of Pi and the new book Beatrice and Virgil. "I shout and I beat and I kick until I'm satisfied that the jerk who brought it on himself is deeply sorry and won't ever do it again," he says. It's all safely contained inside Martel's head, of course—a freeing truth that allows him to shout at, spit at, set fire to, and bury alive anyone he wishes to his heart's content.
You can make anger work for you, too. Research shows that occasionally blowing your lid can ease your mind, improve athletic performance, boost libido, and facilitate business negotiations. In fact, we've found 5 healthy reasons to have a temper. One disclaimer from our lawyers: Seek professional help if your anger fantasies threaten to cross the line into really going postal.
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How do I upgrade ESET Smart Security or ESET NOD32 Antivirus to the latest version?KB Solution ID: SOLN2476|Last Revised: November 18, 2014
- You receive the notification "A new version of ESET Smart Security/ESET NOD32 Antivirus is available" from your ESET product
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- "New product version" is displayed in the Home window of your ESET product. View a screenshot
- A new version of ESET Smart Security/ESET NOD32 Antivirus has been released and you want to upgrade
How can I tell which version of ESET I have?
Do you have version 4.x or earlier?
- Open Your ESET product. How do I open my ESET product?
- Click Update Check for updates.
- Your ESET product version will be displayed and you will be notified if a newer version is available. Click Install.
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- The latest version will automatically be downloaded and installed.
- Once you receive the notification "The program modules have been updated," restart your computer. If you experience issues or installation errors, see the Troubleshooting section below
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- Error 2878
- "Product activation fails," error 0008 or error 0009
- Additional activation issues
- "Virus signature database update failed"
- "Installation ended prematurely"
- How do I install ESET on a computer that is not connected to the internet?
- Click the link below that corresponds to your ESET product to download ESET live installer. Save the file to your desktop.
- Uninstall your current ESET product:
- Click Start All Programs ESET Uninstall.
- Once uninstallation is complete, restart your computer.
- Double-click the file that you downloaded in step 1 and follow the on-screen instructions to install the latest version of your product.
If you experience upgrade issues or installation errors, see the Troubleshooting section below.
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