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Indianapolis Motor Speedway CEOJeff Belskus isn?t expecting a big crowd Sunday.
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There will be no hiding the obvious this weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Brickyard 400 isn't the draw it used to be.
That's not to say NASCAR isn't popular in central Indiana, which remains a stock car hotbed. This is a case of ticket buyers becoming scarce.
Last year's crowd was said to fill every other seat, but that might have been a stretch. Sunday's crowd won't be any larger, IMS boss Jeff Belskus said. ...

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Team: Little Falls Mounties
Sport: Football
Age: 18
Year in school: Senior
Position: RB/LB
Sport to play: Football
Sport to watch: Football
Athlete: Adrian Peterson
Team: Giants
Class in school: Math
Movie: Friday Night Lights
TV show: 2 a Days
Actor: Adam Sandler
Song: Till I Collapse
Musician: Lil Wayne
Food: Steak
Explain what you enjoy most about your sport and athletics.
I enjoy football just because it is such a competitive sport.
What is your most memorable athletic moment?
My most memorable moment of football is probably when I scored my first varsity touchdown at the end of my junior year.
Tell us about someone who inspires you in sports and why
The person that inspired me the most in sports is probably my dad because he's the one that started me off playing football and he was a good athlete and taught me everything he knew and it paid off in the long run.
What are your greatest challenges balancing academics and sports?
Academics come first because if I wasn't doing good in school I wouldn't be able to play sports so academics definitely come first.
What are your plans after graduating from high school?
After I graduate high school I am attending Utica College to study construction management and play football.
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81-year-old 'scared to go round the corner' after being mugged in Scunthorpe
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An 81-year-old woman who had her bag snatched in broad daylight has called for a CCTV camera to be reinstalled to stop it happening to someone else.
Ann White, has lived in the Brumby area of Scunthorpe for the past 64 years and has regularly walked from her home to the shops on Healey Road.
But one morning, when Mrs White was walking to the shops, a car pulled up and the female passenger asked for directions. The woman grabbed her bag and the driver sped off.
Mrs White bravely revisited the location to make others aware.
She said: "I've been scared to come around this corner all week in case it happens again.
"The bruise on my hand is still coming out. If I had kept hold of my handbag I could have been pulled under the wheels of the car.
"I'm soft hearted – if they had asked me for money I would have given it to them."
Mrs White was crossing over the road in front of Costcutter, at the junction of Healey Road and Warley Road, when a small, beige car with a male driver pulled up.
The front seat passenger, a woman, asked Mrs White for directions before grabbing hold of her handbag. The car drove off along Healey Road towards East Common Lane.
Mrs White said: "I didn't get chance to answer – she grabbed my bag and the car drove off.
"I didn't know what to do – there wasn't a soul in sight. I had no keys or money. I came back to the shop because I knew they would help me."
The stolen "shopping" bag contained a purse, keys and around £100 in cash.
And although Mrs White had a lucky escape, having sustained a minor graze to the thumb that did not require hospital treatment, she has called for a CCTV camera to be reinstated to protect other pensioners. She said: "I want to see the camera put back, not for my sake but for other pensioners."
Mrs White's daughter, Valerie Milne, said: "She's quite badly shaken up by it – she's more nervous now to go out and has lost her confidence.
"I think it's cruel what they've done to a pensioner and it's a lot of money for someone like her to lose.
"I hope that if somebody knows who did it they will report it to the police."
She has also called for North Lincolnshire Council to replace the camera.
A council spokeswoman said: "The council deploys mobile cameras in areas of greatest need and Healey Road is not currently classed as a priority area.
"We continually review intelligence information and crime data and respond to risks as appropriate."
The woman in the car is described as white, approximately 30 years of age, with dark brown or black hair worn underneath a light brown headscarf. She was also wearing a dark coat. Police are asking witnesses to the robbery which took place on Wednesday, October 31 at around 11am, to call police on 101 referring to log 210 of October 31, 2012.


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Now I hate to crush a lot of peoples dreams by saying this, but so what if you are a shooter. Shooting is not an essential skill one needs to be successful in the executive protection industry. Time and time again you will hear heads of major companies and executive services department say, "it is a nice skill, but it's not what I am looking for". I am not saying that employers don't want you to have a license to carry, it's more along the line of, you will rarely ever actually need to use your weapon, cause let's be realistic when was the last time you heard of an executive protection agent or even a bodyguard drawing and firing their weapon here in the states?
You are ten times more likely to have a medical emergency with your client then you are to ever have the need to draw and fire your weapon. Now I know many of you think this industry is all about what a great shot you are, but it just isn't. The thought of the possibility of firing your weapon is what makes this industry so sexy to many people. Being a shooter does not make you an executive protection specialist, it doesn't even classify you as a bodyguard. That's why here at ESI we place an emphasis on your soft skills. If you think that an executive protection school should be about shooting, you will be sorely disappointed. Get your range time in, make sure you have your license to carry, just don't think for one minute that the job is going to always require you to draw that weapon and fire.
In this day and age the job requires one to be more observant. To be able to see an on coming attack and prevent said attack without the client ever knowing about it. This skill is known as situational awareness and is a vital tool to your success as an executive protection agent.


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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, April 24, 2009 The New Mexico National Guard transported several Costa Rican dignitaries, including the vice minister of public security and the U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, via UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter yesterday so they could observe the progress of exercise Fuerzas Aliadas Humanitarias 2009.
The exercise is designed to test and improve regional and national disaster response capabilities within Central America and the Caribbean Basin.
New Mexico National Guardsmen are heavily involved in the exercise, performing search-and-rescue rehearsal missions, exchanging disaster response techniques and procedures with Costa Rican emergency officials, performing remote-location medical treatment and interacting with residents all over the country.
In an interagency meeting to assess the simulated disaster in Costa Rica, Coast Guard Cmdr. Mark Camacho, the military group advisor for the U.S. ambassador, said this is the first time the National Guard's State Partnership Program has been used in a disaster relief exercise in a foreign country. It also is the first time helicopter assets have been transported and used in a state partnership country.
The military group has been working on putting the exercise together for more than a year.
"It's very exciting to see this realized," Camacho said. "We are really pleased with everything that's going on."
The State Partnership Program is a national diplomatic program that links the National Guard with foreign nations to promote regional security, peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, counterdrug operations, and to promote open trade markets. It is instrumental in building worldwide stability by nurturing collaborative relationships with foreign countries around the globe, officials said.
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Satellite image of massive cold front nearing N.J.
Posted By Todd B. Bates On September 18, 2012 @ 1:14 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled
Watch out for severe weather in the Garden State today.
It's pretty windy outside our office in Neptune, N.J.
And we're under a tornado watch until 7 p.m. [1], according to the National Weather Service [2].
A strong cold front [3] is headed our way, and a wind advisory [4] is also in effect until midnight, according to the weather service.
Here's a NOAA satellite view of the cold front [5]:
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[1] tornado watch until 7 p.m.: http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=NJZ013&warncounty=NJC025&firewxzone=NJZ013&local_place1=&product1=Tornado+Watch
[2] National Weather Service: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/phi/
[3] strong cold front: http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=PHI&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=0&highlight=off
[4] wind advisory: http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=NJZ013&warncounty=NJC025&firewxzone=NJZ013&local_place1=&product1=Wind+Advisory
[5] NOAA satellite view of the cold front: http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail2.php?MediaID=1188&MediaTypeID=1
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Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon and former Dancing with the Stars contestant, has filed for divorce from Lois Driggs Cannon, his third wife of more than 23 years, People magazine reports on its website. The 81-year-old cites "irreconcilable difference" in his divorce petition filed Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
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Quite frequently I am advised that my Galaxy Tab is not supported for many apps which it should be. There are apps that I have had for my Tab for a long time, such as Netflix and Touchdown for Exchange that are suddenly saying Not Supported. There are also apps that others have advised work for them but the apps say Not Supported when I try to get them. I am wondering if the Market is detecting that I am rooted or or that I have a GB leak, or something like that. I read before that changing your LCD density can cause this to happen, so I have changed it back. Still doesn't work.
Just now I went to market.android.com to try installing from there, and if I filter my search by Galaxy Tab, it finds results, but then when I try to send them to MY Galaxy Tab, it shows it grayed out and says Not Supported.
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A simple multivitamin delivers much of the nutrition a person's body needs, but it might be insufficient for eye health. Studies show that higher than average levels of vitamins and minerals are needed to make a true impact on visual acuity. Thus, nutrition stores should offer eye care supplements since most people's diets and multivitamins won't be enough to improve their eye health.
How much do you really know about the thyroid? If asked to gesture toward its location inside your body, would you point, correctly, to the front of your neck? Especially given its importance as a hormone and metabolism regulator, the thyroid gland is perhaps too little understood by the general public.
How many of your shoppers believe getting omega-3s is a one-way street to fish and marine oils? Sure, these are great sources of DHA and EPA, but consumers might be missing out if they think of plant-based omega supplements as the alternate route. Rather, these vegetarian supplements can be an important highway to nutrition, equal to their ocean-derived counterparts.
Hey! Over here! You were about to read this article on natural supplements that support attention and focus, remember? Like every other aspect of cognitive performance, the ability to maintain concentration and perform complex mental tasks is based upon certain structures and chemicals in the brain.The following information will help you get a handle on how this works by giving you the lowdown on these brain support substances and the research that backs them. Let's get started, before I lose you again…
Summer is the time of year when many people are hoping to look their best—it is bathing suit season, after all. But looking good takes more than just getting exercise; what goes on the skin and which nutrients go into the body can be just as important.
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It's that old, familiar feeling: For too many people, digestion woes are a part of their routine. Whether it's heartburn, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or one of the many other common digestive tract discomforts, their condition is something planned around and accounted for ahead of time. It can limit what one eats, as well as where and when. Gastrointestinal (GI) difficulty can even be debilitating, and can thus be a limiting factor in one's quality of life.
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The Center for Modeling Integrated Metabolic Systems (MIMS) combines mathematical modeling, computer simulation, and in vivo experimentation to quantify relationships between cellular metabolism and physiological responses of tissue-organ systems and the whole body. The MIMS Center was inspired by Dr. Marco E. Cabrera (deceased), who together with Prof. Gerald M. Saidel, co-directed this Center. It was established in 2002 with a $11.8 million grant (P50-GM066309) from NIGMS of the National Institutes of Health as a Center of Excellence in Complex Biomedical Systems (later Systems Biology). The MIMS Center involves multi-disciplinary research teams from Case Western Reserve University, Case Medical Center of University Hospitals of Cleveland, and Cleveland Clinic.
The primary aim of the MIMS Center is to develop mechanistic, mathematical models to simulate cellular metabolism in various tissues and organs (i.e., skeletal muscle, heart, brain, and adipose tissue) and to integrate these components in whole-body models. These biologically and physiologically based computational models incorporate cellular metabolic reactions and transport processes of a large number of chemical species. Model parameters quantitatively characterize metabolic pathways and regulatory mechanisms under normal and abnormal conditions including obesity and hypoxia as well as in disease states including type-2 diabetes, cystic fibrosis, and chronic kidney disease. The large-scale, complex mathematical models are solved numerically using sophisticated computational algorithms to simulate and analyze experimental responses to physiological and metabolic changes. Model parameters are optimally estimated by minimizing differences between model simulated outputs and experimental data using large-scale, nonlinear optimization algorithms. Experimentally validated models are used to predict the effects of altering metabolic processes with disease states, pharmacological agents, diet, and physical training.


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Heroin and Seattle … darkness injected right into the soul. The big names go down – Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley - because of it (at least it was a factor) and the world turns to Seattle and thinks: Heroin.
"In the days after Kurt Cobain's violent suicide, the nation again gaped at Seattle's grunge music scene. The lead singer of Nirvana was on heroin when he shot himself in the head, renewing speculation that Seattle is a hotbed of heroin abuse, particularly among grunge musicians and fans." That's what the Seattle Times wrote in 1994.
And after Cobain's body was found on April 8, his widow, singer Courtney Love, characterized Seattle as a drug mecca, the Times continued, where heroin was easier to get than in San Francisco or Los Angeles.
And it didn't end with them or the youth of grunge.
According to a publication by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, 50 heroin-probable deaths were totaled in 2010, a drastic decrease from 1998, in which 144 died from the drug.
"Nationally, Seattle is fairly high in heroin use," said Caleb Banta-Green, a research scientist for the ADAI in a press release. "Even higher in use are prescription-type opiates."
The major demographic change, according to his study, in the last decade is with young users. Admissions for heroin among those 18 to 29 years old has increased by 74 percent.
Photo caption: The body of Kurt Cobain is taken from his home on April 8, 1994. He had not been seen since April 3. Photo: Mike Urban/Copyright MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 2000.107_19940408_0048.
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In a wide-ranging interview with Fortune magazine, Mitt Romney says that a group of analysts made "garbage assumptions" about his tax plan in a report that concluded it would raise taxes on the middle class.
"There's an old expression in the computer world: garbage in, garbage out," Romney said of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, which issued the report. "They made garbage assumptions and they reached a garbage conclusion."
Romney explained that he would not reduce the home mortgage-interest deduction for the middle class, as the group assumed. He said the center "chose to ignore" his principles that "high-income people would continue to pay the same share of the tax burden they do today," and that there would be a reduction in taxes for the middle class.
He also reiterated his calls for subsidy cuts to Amtrak and PBS, and to spin off Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers to the states.
Romney also said in the interview that he can lead a comeback in American manufacturing. "I believe you're going to see manufacturing return to this country over the coming decade, particularly as we take advantage of our low-cost natural gas," he said.
He also held firm in his stance on gun control. "I don't think that this is a time for us to be passing new gun legislation," he told Fortune.


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Clifton Hill House was built between 1746 and 1750 as an imposing semi-rural mansion of Palladian inspiration for Paul Fisher, a highly successful linen draper, merchant, and ship-owner who participated in the slave trade. Despite his involvement in the slave trade he was described by his contemporaries as a very benevolent man and great benefactor for the poor of the community. He was prominent in the foundation of the Bristol Royal Infirmary in 1735.
At the height of his wealth, Paul Fisher employed Isaac Ware, the Palladian architect and designer of national renown and protégé of Lord Burlington. Most of Ware's works were for private clients. His most famous surviving building is Wrotham Park, the plans of which appear in Soldi's portrait of Ware and his daughter (a copy of which now hangs in the Fisher Drawing Room at Clifton Hill House). Fisher chose Clifton for his mansion, following the growing idea of the time that the suburbs were preferable to, and more salubrious than, the bustling city. The design of Clifton Hill House appears in Isaac Ware's book A Complete Body of Architecture of 1756. There remains some remarkable rococo ceiling carvings by the local craftsman, Joseph Thomas, in several of the reception rooms.
In 1851, Clifton Hill House was bought by Dr Symonds, a well-known Bristol physician, famous not only for his medical proficiency, but also for his gift at entertaining the literary and artistic elite of his time. As his son quoted: "He was open at all pores to culture, to art, to archaeology, to science, to literature". The house was filled with many distinguished and talented people, like Lord Landsdown, the great classical scholar Benjamin Jowett, John Percival, the first Headmaster of Clifton College, and Jenny Lind, the celebrated Victorian singer, known as 'the Swedish Nightingale'. She sang several times at the Victoria Rooms and, in 1862, stayed at Clifton Hill House and sang in the Symonds Music Room. "The pitch of her exceptional voice was such that it broke a fine crystal glass that was on the mantelpiece of the marble fireplace" (p. 18, Vaughan). Others who stayed at the house were John Masefield, the Poet Laureate, and Dame Clara Butt who, in 1921, gave a concert in the house to launch a fund for the construction of Manor Hall.
When Dr Symonds died in 1871, the house passed on to his son, John Addington Symonds, the poet, historian, literary and art critic. In her biography of Symonds, Phyllis Grosskurth writes: "Symonds is best known for his seven-volume Renaissance in Italy, but he was also the author of many volumes of poetry, criticism and belles lettres. Though his work is little read today, he was a leading participant in the literary culture of his time, an early enthusiast of Whitman and a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James and Edward Lear". We know that 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat' was written for Symonds' eldest daughter, Janet.
In 1877, the Symonds family decided to emigrate to Davos in Switzerland partly due to John's poor health. They returned briefly to Clifton in 1880 to empty the house and, unfortunately, to burn or bury many of the family possessions. Margaret Symonds (Mrs Vaughan) wrote:
"When the papers were done with, my Mother had her way with the busts of all those unlovely emperors and philosophers such as our grandfathers duly bought on their 'grand tours' and stuck up in their halls or bookshelves to depress both themselves and their children with for ever after. My Mother had a large trench dug in the garden, and the busts were all wheeled down in wheelbarrows and put in the trench, and then the earth was shovelled in, and my Mother got in herself and danced upon the earth. She was indeed an heroic young lady, for all that happened fifty years ago; and people didn't destroy their family trophies at that period, and certainly did not dance on them." (p. 187, Vaughan)
It is worth noting Symonds' great interest in the founding of Bristol University College, and how pleased the family was when the house was finally sold to the University in 1909 for £5,500, and became the first hall of residence for women in the South West of England. In 1994, a large and little-used ladies cloakroom was transformed to house all of the remaining possessions of the Symonds family that were scattered throughout the house, and a permanent exhibition with family photographs and memorabilia can now be seen in the Symonds Library.
In 1998, an International Symposium on John Addington Symonds - The Private and the Public Face of Victorian Culture - was held at Clifton Hill House.
The main garden, the layout of which has not changed greatly since the eighteenth century, boasts several rare tulip trees.
Callander House is an eighteenth-century adjacent house that was bought for £4,000 by the University in 1911, also from the Symonds family. Callander House was extended in the 1920s, mainly thanks to the generosity of the Wills family. A new dining room was created on the site of the stables and is now known as the Wills Reception Room.
In 1909, Clifton Hill House started its hall life as a 'Women's Hostel', accommodating 15 young ladies, and is now a popular mixed hall of residence, housing a vibrant community of 225 students from the University of Bristol. It is also well known for hosting conferences, civil weddings, and special events in the restored rooms.
In November 2004, Clifton Hill House was the winner of the London Georgian Group Architectural Awards in the category 'Restoration of a Georgian Country House'. This prestigious national award is held annually to assess the best restoration works across the United Kingdom, and attracted 87 entrants that year.
Brown, H. (1895) John Addington Symonds - A Biography (London : John C Nimmo)
Grosskurth, P. (1964) John Addington Symonds - A Biography (London : Longmans)
Vaughan, M. (1925) Out of the Past (London : John Murray)


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Belly Fat Mistaken For Pregnancy
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"off to the gym. lord knows when this 600 lb baby comes out that I've been growing for 8 years, i better be strong and physically prepared!!!"
I must admit this happened to me in my heavier college days. In line at a drug store wearing a fitted tank top, some woman came right up to me and asked, "Oh, when are you due?" I was shocked and quickly responded, "I'm not!" Did the misplaced question hurt my feelings? Yes. And it also motivated me to lose weight. I'm wondering . . .
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5 years
Yes, this guy I know once asked if I was pregnant when I was bloated. I'm a size 00-0 and have an eating disorder. Needless to say I went home and cried.
starbucks2 5 years
My grandma asked if my sister-in-law was pregnant twice (on different occasions). Once to her face, once behind her back (but loud enough that she could hear it...) She just doesn't have a filter...
Allytta 5 years
yes, it happened to me and it came from some random night club bouncer, complete stranger. and he started off with tell tale sign 'can i ask you a personal question?' which is never something pleasant. and then he proceeded to ask if i was prego. i carry my weight mainly in my belly, but other parts of my body are also overweight, so such a thing was a bit ridiculous, but I know I have extra weight and people are not blind. but still, it's on him, he's the one being rude, not me.
socalbeachgal 5 years
When my son was about a year old, I was asked when the next one is due!! I still had the belly, it was embarrassing but motivating. I never ask if a woman is pregnant, wait for them to say something just so I won't stick my foot in my mouth.
inlove23 5 years
I wait until people tell me because I don't want to be rude. I used to have a "pooch" where my lower part of my belly was larger (a few times it looked like I was slightly pregnant because it stuck out more than the rest of my stomach) but luckily I am slowly taming it =) haha. To Beaner oh no! But it's okay, we're all humans, we all make mistakes.
insanitypepper 5 years
I've only had coworkers make comments like this based on my appetite, not my physical appearance. And, much like the skinny jean, the Empire waist is never a good fashion choice unless you are very, very, very thin.
MsTyque 5 years
I'm skinny everywhere except my belly and was asked by my bikini waxer. never went back there again!
5 years
Yeah, this happened when I was fifteen. Yes, FIFTEEN. (I'm seventeen now.) I weighed 110-115 then at 5'4. I was wearing one of those baby doll tops, so of course... I must have grown a baby overnight. Don't you just love high school?
5 years
No, it's never happened to me. I'm really slender, but unfortunately, I often get gassy and bloated, especially right before my period. I can gain several inches in my belly just from that and easily look 3 months pregnant. Luckily, no one has ever said anything about it. Seriously, I see what some of these magazines call baby bumps and think it is ridiculous! I look like that about once a month!
lilkimbo 5 years
Yes, this happened to me while I was waiting for the bus. The odd thing is that I don't carry weight in my stomach. I pretty much have a flat stomach; my thighs are my main problem area. And then, instead of being embarrassed, the woman said, "Oh, I guess that's just good eating." Oddly, this is one of the more "normal" interactions I've had while on/waiting for the bus. Public buses in D.C. are...interesting, for lack of a better word. And Anon #4, did he just ask if you wanted his seat or did he make some sort of reference to you being pregnant? People (especially men) offer their seats to women on public transportation from time-to-time; it doesn't necessarily mean he thought you were expecting. Or am I missing something in your comment?
divinedebris 5 years
No, but I have to be careful because I will put on a top that has an empire waist and it will make me look like I'm a couple months pregnant- I even confirm with the husband and he says, "yeah, could make someone ask if they're rude". I carry my weight in my midsection and I make it a point to stand up straight, hold my core and be mindful of sweet intake. This is slightly connected- when I was younger I had a classmate ask me if I was fat or if it was the dress. I was 5, it was the 90's and baby doll dresses were all the rage. I think she started my weight issues...just sayin'. ;)
HoneyBrown1976 5 years
Yes, it has happened to me. But, mind you, it happened after having a child.
GlowingMoon 5 years
Not with my belly (as I don't have one), but with my clothing. I used to wear regular size clothing, and they were really baggy on me (I'm petite). Someone once thought I was wearing maternity clothing, and thought I was expecting. Ever since then, I've been mindful of buying clothes with the proper fit, i.e. buy clothes from the petite line. Also, the junior lines fit me, too.
Pistil 5 years
No, but I've had friends tell me stories about it happening to them. It's the people who are asking that should be embarrassed.
benheld 5 years
It's never happened to me. It can go the other way too: At work, a few of us were hanging around at the reception area, and a co-worker came by to chat with us. I looked at her and thought, "Geez, she's gained a LOT of weight." And then about a half an hour later, I found out she's six months pregnant. Even though I didn't say anything out loud, I felt bad that I had thought anything.
Soniabonya 5 years
Never happened to me. And I never ask a woman if she's pregnant. I'll wait until she announces it.
juicebox07 5 years
Never happened to me, but I've mistaken others before.
TammyO 5 years
Never when I wasn't pregnant, but when I WAS pregnant I was accused of being fat by my own mother.
5 years
This has actually happened a few times to me. Now I just turn around, smile my sweetest smile and say, "Oh no, I'm not pregnant, just fat." and walk away.
GirlOverboard 5 years
I had it happen once back when I was about 18 and while I was able to laugh it off (especially considering how awful the girl felt) I was a bit mortified. It sadly didn't get my butt into the gym, but I did cut back on the snacks and improved my posture, because one of the major reasons the girl said she thought I was pregnant was because of the way my hand was on my belly - a habit I had formed whenever I was sitting with a slouch.
lawchick 5 years
No, but anytime I wear anything loose around the waist, people at work say "that would make a good pregnancy dress/top." Thanks, like that's what I was going for.
Kensington7 5 years
No one has ever said anything to me directly but I always carry my weight around my stomach so I would not be surprised if people have thought I was pregnant. It was definitely motivating to lose weight because I had to lose a lot to get rid of all my belly fat. Now that I'm thin and fit when ever I gain an ounce it goes straight to my stomach so it keeps me at a healthy weight because I don't want to grow my belly back!
snarkypants 5 years
hasn't happened to me, but the people who thought pink was chubby are crazy! it's just an unflattering dress!
twinkles 5 years
This has happened to me not once, not twice, but three separate times, all years apart! Apparently I just carry my weight there, but it's so humiliating. I actually have kind of a complex about it now.
KMattes 5 years
I work in the same place as my husband and people are always asking us when we're going to have kids (sersiously? none of your business!). But I sometimes see people peeking glances at my belly, so that kinda gives me motivation to not give them anything to see!


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The economy is struggling, gas prices are up and temperatures are down, but it's the (sing along here): longest travel season of the year.
Apparently, it takes a lot more than drooping financial circumstances to keep travelers off the roadways during this 11-day traffic holiday, which began Friday and runs through Jan. 2. Whether by land, air or ... well, any other forms of transportation available in East Tennessee, year-end holiday travel volume is expected to be the second-highest in the past decade, according to AAA East Tennessee.
More than 5 million drivers will be on the road during the period in the four-state regional area that includes Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi. That's a 1.2 percent increase over last year. AAA credits a mix of slight economic recovery and cabin fever for the inspiration behind that "Travelin' Jones" that typically begins as the year cycles to its end.
"We do not have specific numbers for Johnson City or the Tri-Cities, but if I had to guess, based on our local economy, we will get a lot of travelers because East Tennessee is a crossroads," said Don Lindsey, AAA East Tennessee public affairs director. "Most folks will be traveling by car. Here in East Tennessee there are pockets of areas that are better off economically than others, so it's difficult to forecast who will be traveling and who won't."
Lindsey did stress the fact that there will be a high volume of motorists passing through the area during the holiday season.
"There will be people that are tired and a little bit frazzled — so we need to keep that in mind."
Gas prices in Tennessee on Friday ranged from a low of $2.86 a gallon for regular unleaded in Memphis to $3.62 a gallon in Knoxville. In Johnson City, the lowest prices were found at Sam's Club and Kroger at $2.93 and $2.96, respectively. The highest prices for a gallon of regular unleaded hovered around $3.19 at numerous locations around town.
Johnson City resident Rachel Singleton prepared for her weekend journey on Friday by filling up at One Stop Convenience Store on South Roan Street.
"My husband and I, and our two dogs, are leaving for Greensboro, N.C., tonight to see family," she said. "We will be seeing my mom and dad. The plan from there is to go to Charlotte to see my husband's family."
When asked if the economy has affected her travel plans our those of her friends, she said most of her friends chose to travel by car this holiday season, rather than flying or by other means.
Tri-Cities Regional Airport Marketing Director Melissa Thomas said Friday she did not immediately have the final numbers to show the total number of travelers choosing to fly. However, she did say she has seen a "positive trend."
"For the past several months, our load factors (ratio of number of passengers to available seats) have been increasing over the same time last year," Thomas said. "I think we're seeing a bounce back from previous years. We anticipate that this will be a good holiday travel period for us."
Meanwhile, it's easy to forget that local travel agents have helped arrange travel during the holidays months and months in advance. Though many agents may already have taken flight themselves Friday, Angie Phipps, Johnson City's Summit Travel manager was at her post.
"We've had a lot of people booking family trips, Caribbean cruises, ski trips and flights to resorts," she said. "But most of those booked for this time of year made arrangements a long time ago. There are many more families and groups that have booked travel than individuals. Our overall number bookings have dropped slightly, but the volume — the number of people traveling hasn't changed."
When it comes to weather, motorists and holiday revelers will not likely see snow on Christmas Day. The chance of precipitation is forecast not to exceed 20 percent through Tuesday, but overnight temperatures for the next four days will be below the freezing mark, ranging from 25 to 30 degrees, according to the National Weather Service in Morristown.
On the other hand, the high temperatures will range from the high 40s to low- to mid- 50s. Look for partly cloudy conditions each day except for Monday when the skies are forecast to clear. The National Weather Service is forecasting a zero-percent chance of rain today, a 10-percent chance Sunday, a zero-percent chance Monday and a 20-percent chance Tuesday.


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Wilma packs a wallop
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Today hurricane Wilma became the most powerful storm ever, and it's heading toward Florida. And disaster officials are still regrouping from Katrina and Rita. Can they get it together by the weekend? Cheryl Glaser reports.
Tort reform, aka cheeseburgers and guns
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Today the House passed the "cheeseburger bill," limiting lawsuits against fast food. Up tomorrow: a bill to shield gunmakers from certain liabilities. John Dimsdale explains.
Cash bonuses for Washington brides
In the fine print of one huge spending bill this week the Senate will consider bonuses for low-income couples in Washington who get married. From the Work and Family desk, Hillary Wicai has the story.
Army Corps of Engineers projects in question
Tomorrow, Congress is holding hearings on how to protect and rebuild the Gulf coast. For AmericanRadioworks and Marketplace, William Kistner reports there are real fears that mistakes of the past are set to be repeated.
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Companies work hard to generate profits: they invest and cut costs. And they hang around with the right crowd. Joel Podolny is the dean of the Yale School of Managment, explains to host Kai Ryssdal.
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Mortgages, car payments, school loans: bills have been piling up along the Gulf. Marketplace commentator Robert Reich says it's going to take some creative accounting to get them paid anytime soon.
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AVEPM 2014 Schwabe Symposium
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– A Symposium Honoring the Professional Legacy of Dr. Roger Morris –
During the more than 40 years of his career, Prof. Morris has established himself as one of the world's leading veterinary epidemiologists with an outstanding global profile as a researcher, educator and policy adviser. He has had a major impact on the veterinary profession and society in general through his work on epidemiological surveillance, animal health economics, the use of information technology in epidemiological decision-making and his contribution to capacity building of veterinary services around the world.
Prof. Morris has been influential in the development of evidence-based policy and disease control in many countries as well as for international organizations including World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Bank. He has had a significant role in having veterinary epidemiology recognized as a scientific discipline within veterinary science with direct impact on animal disease risk management. In doing so, he has made an enormous contribution towards the global community being able to more effectively deal with new and emerging disease threats associated with the continuing globalization of trade in animals and animal-derived products. His networking and contributions have helped change standards and legislation to incorporate evidence- and risk-based approaches. This has led to improved policies from which farmers and consumers continue to benefit in many countries. Between 1969 and the present, Dr Morris has been involved internationally in advice and consultancy to governments, international organizations, research institutions and industry bodies on animal health and human implications of animal diseases.
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• Assessing disease incursion risk and response strategies in data-sparse environments - Shiyong Wang (World Bank, Washington)
• The dilemmas of a current emerging disease – porcine epidemic diarrhoea in North America – Peter Davies (University of Minnesota)
• How epidemiological tools and insights can be used to produce decisions out of dilemmas for difficult disease control problems – Roger Morris
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Despite the shouts coming from fellow death row inmates, Damien Wayne Echols' voice sounds relaxed as I listen to him on a speakerphone in the Los Angeles home of one of his supporters. In a matter-of-fact tone, the "star" of the Emmy Award-winning 1996 HBO documentary "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" and its recent sequel, "Paradise Lost 2: Revelations," describes his surroundings in the Tucker, Ark., maximum-security unit: "I'm in a 9-by-12-foot cell," explains Echols. "Kind of squatted down here in the doorway. The telephone is a pay phone on wheels they can push up to the door. The phone's sitting outside. I have the receiver inside. I have to reach out to dial the number."
A recorded voice interrupts the collect call to tell us there are two minutes left. Calls are cut off after 10 minutes, though Echols can call back as long as no other prisoners wish to use the phone. Echols continues without comment.
"In my room, there's a concrete slab in the back where you put one of those mats like kindergartners take naps on. That's where you sleep. There's a sink, a metal toilet and a little table bolted to the wall. You're allowed to have one blanket, an Army reject. Sometimes, you can see through them because they're so old.
"The entire cell is concrete, except for the door, which is a sliding bar door they control from a booth. The walls are bare. You're not allowed to have anything hanging on them. They do have air conditioning, but they don't run it too often in the summer to save money. If you move, you're covered in sweat."
Echols is locked in his cell 24 hours a day, except for Mondays and Thursdays when guards take him outside for an hour, though he says this doesn't always happen. He's also out of his cell for a 10-minute shower on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. When he has visitors (he's allowed one per week), he gets three hours with them. On the plus side, Echols has a radio he can listen to, though he's not allowed CDs or tapes. He can receive printed matter, and he has subscriptions to several magazines such as the New Yorker and Harper's. Sometimes supporters send him books via Amazon.com.
As for death row cuisine: "They don't even wash a lot of it," says Echols. "They grow it here themselves, certain vegetables and stuff. You can't really tell what it is because they cook it all the same. Sometimes you'll find grasshoppers or crickets in it." Then the recording announces the end of the call, and the line goes dead.
What did you expect? It's Arkansas' death row, not the Marriott. The reason Echols has spent six years in this little patch of hell is that in 1994, at the age of 19, he was found guilty of capital murder in the deaths of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Ark. The boys — Steve Branch, Michael Moore and Chris Byers — were discovered May 6, 1993, naked and hogtied with their own shoelaces at the bottom of a creek bed in a patch of woods known as the Robin Hood Hills. All three had been brutally beaten. Two died from drowning. The third, Byers, bled to death from wounds to his groin. He'd been repeatedly stabbed, and castrated.
The West Memphis police said that Echols was the leader of a makeshift satanic cult, and that the murders were ritualistic and intended to confer demonic power on the killers. The cops said that Echols' accomplices were two other local boys: a soft-spoken 16-year-old named Jason Baldwin and Jessie Lloyd Misskelley Jr., a mentally handicapped 17-year-old with an I.Q. of 72.
Echols and Baldwin were tried together and convicted in '94. Echols, regarded by the jury as the ringleader in the killings, was sentenced to death. Baldwin got life without parole. Misskelley, tried before the other two, was found guilty on the basis of his confession and sentenced to life plus 40 years. Baldwin and Misskelley are each doing their time in different prisons from Echols.
Darkly charismatic and obviously intelligent, Echols has always been the enigma at the epicenter of the tragedy. Even he admits that most people "cannot separate me from the case." In the first "Paradise Lost" film, Echols' disaffected manner, his encyclopedic knowledge of all things occult and his comment that he would be forever feared as the "West Memphis boogeyman" made him look like one of the nihilistic teens in the 1986 movie "River's Edge." On the stand, he was a defense attorney's worst nightmare.
"It was pretty much just scared childishness," says Echols of his infamous "boogeyman" comment. "That's how I was at the time. Young and stupid."
In hindsight, his persona bespoke a sensibility shared by many with an interest in the macabre or the Gothic — a pose more suited to art college than death row. In any case, Echols grew out of the phase. Now he devotes himself to Buddhism while waiting for his death sentence to be carried out — by lethal injection.
He's not without friends. A growing group of defenders believe that Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley are victims of an injustice. Fired up by the first documentary, a Free the West Memphis Three Support Fund sprang up with a Web site run by three professionals in the entertainment industry — photographer Grove Pashley, screenwriter Burk Sauls and art director Kathy Bakken. This trio, all in their 30s, jumped into the fray in 1996. They visited Echols and the others in prison, attended appeals hearings, hired a forensic profiler who discovered exculpatory evidence and launched the site, which they say gets from 4,000 to 8,000 hits a day.
"It's like my second job," Sauls tells me. "When I get up in the morning, I'm working on this case. And before I go to bed at night, I'm working on this case. Sometimes, I have to remind myself to do some 'work-work' so I can make money to keep going."
Bakken says that her company was designing the posters for the first "Paradise Lost" film when she saw a screener. Engrossed, she passed the tape on to Sauls and Pashley, both friends of hers. Soon all three were reading everything they could about the case, and a few months later they traveled to Arkansas for the first time to meet with the young men they would dub the West Memphis 3.
"When we went there, the lawyers hadn't talked to him in about a year," she says of Echols. "He was just sort of abandoned. I think all of the support has helped him a lot."
Convinced of the WM3′s innocence, Bakken eventually went so far as to take a class in criminal profiling given in Los Angeles by noted profiler Brent Turvey. She asked Turvey to look into the case, and Turvey discovered what he thought might be bite marks on the body of victim Chris Byers. A forensic odontologist later testified during a 1999 appeal of Echols' case, known as a Rule 37 hearing, that there were indeed bite marks on the Byers boy, according to his examination of autopsy photos. Impressions made of the teeth of Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley reportedly ruled out all three as sources of the marks. However, the prosecution disputed the evidence with its own forensic odontologist, and the appeal was later denied.
Bakken, Sauls and Pashley have aided the WM3 in other ways. They've cultivated celebrities to aid their cause, and have become the means through which Echols and the others communicate with the outside world. On June 9, their Web site received an enormous spike when "South Park" co-creator Trey Parker exclaimed "Free the West Memphis 3!" while accepting a trophy at the MTV movie awards. Parker caused another spike on July 16 when Access Hollywood showed an interview with Parker and his partner, Matt Stone. Parker was wearing one of the support fund's black T-shirts imprinted with the WM3 site's URL.
In addition, the Free the West Memphis Three fund has been crucial in bolstering the theatrical release of "Paradise Lost 2: Revelations," in which all three organizers appear. The opening night of the film's limited run in Los Angeles on July 28 drew more than 200 people, impressive considering that it has been running on HBO for several months now. "PL2″ was scheduled for theatrical release Thursday in Seattle. It will open in New York, Portland, Ore., and San Francisco in September.
Bakken, Sauls and Pashley are organizing a banner comprising postcards in support of the WM3 from all over the world. They plan to surround the Arkansas Supreme Court in Little Rock with the banner on the date of Echols' appeal (yet to be announced). They're also touting the release of a WM3 benefit CD in September from Aces and Eights Recordings, which will include tracks by Eddie Vedder, Tom Waits, L7, Nashville Pussy and others.
Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky — the creative team behind both documentaries (and the widely acclaimed "Brother's Keeper," released in 1992) — say that Bakken, Sauls and Pashley have helped move the case of the WM3 from the entertainment pages to the editorial pages. "We used them extensively in the second film," says Sinofsky. "One, because they were good subjects. Two, because they had involved this criminal profiler. And three, because the first film had become this event documentary and attracted tens of thousands of people to their Web site. They were there, and they were active in what they considered to be their search for justice."
Indeed, in the second film, Bakken, Sauls and Pashley — each one clean-cut and well-spoken — parallel to some degree the roles played by the Canadian activists in Norman Jewison's "The Hurricane." They energize other supporters and act as self-appointed watchdogs and secondhand sleuths.
"I probably wouldn't get near [as much] support or interest that I have without what they've been doing," says Echols. "Without them being constantly there 24 hours a day to give out information, people would see the film and say, 'Oh, that's too bad,' and just go home and forget it. Now they go on the Web site and get involved."
Strangely, the argument in favor of a new trial for the WM3 can be summed up in a statement from Gary Gitchell, the former chief of detectives for the West Memphis police and the lead investigator on the triple homicide. Gitchell, who retired in triumph after Echols and the others were convicted, now works as a manager for Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations in Memphis, Tenn. He says he still adamantly believes in the guilt of Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley. But he concedes the prosecution's case was far from bulletproof.
"You've got a lot of circumstantial evidence is what you've got," Gitchell says. "There's no smoking gun. This is not a smoking-gun-type case."
Instead, Gitchell says that one has to look at the preponderance of the evidence. According to him, this includes statements made by two teenage girls who claim to have overheard Echols confess to the crimes; a hunting knife found in a lake behind Baldwin's home (though it was never linked to the murders); a fellow inmate's statement that Baldwin made a jailhouse confession; and the hotly contested confession of Misskelley.
Misskelley's confession was the main evidence presented against him in court. The West Memphis police questioned Misskelley for several hours, gave him a polygraph, told him he flunked (an expert retained by the defense later said he passed) and then informed the mildly retarded teenager that he could either play ball with the law or fess up. Misskelley confessed as the police taped the last 30 minutes or so of his interrogation. But he made a series of mistakes, even though the officers asked leading questions. Misskelley got the time of the crime wrong until the cops corrected him. He said the boys were tied up with brown rope, instead of their own shoelaces. And more than once he misidentified the boys shown to him in pictures.
"I was telling them I don't know nothing about this," Misskelley told the filmmakers in "PL2." "But [the police] kept aggin' it on, aggin' it on, aggin' it on. Finally, I just said something so they would leave me alone."
Misskelley's attorney, Dan Stidham, now a municipal court judge in Arkansas, put experts in false confessions on the stand and presented a dozen witnesses to Misskelley's alibi that he was 50 miles away in another city on the evening of the murders. But the jury chose to believe the prosecution.
"I have it from a very reliable source that the initial vote was eight to four," says Stidham. "Eight for guilty on capital murder and four for outright acquittal. Over the next 12 hours, the jury came to a classic compromise verdict. Four said we'll vote guilty, but you're not going to do the death penalty because we're not sure. Mr. Misskelley was actually convicted on two counts of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree murder. Even though he confessed, and the state had the strongest case against him, he got the least punishment, ironically."
Stidham is appealing his client's case, though the focus of the WM3 cause is now on Echols because he's sitting on death row. Interestingly, Stidham does not believe that Gitchell set out to elicit a false confession from his client.
"Gitchell just didn't realize how mentally handicapped Mr. Misskelley really was," he says. "I think the situation got carried away, and they put too much pressure on this kid. Even though he was chronologically 17 years of age in 1993, he literally had the mind of a 5-year-old. Five-year-old children believe in the Easter Bunny and Power Rangers. You take someone of that intellect, you hook him up to a polygraph machine, give them an exam and then tell them they're lying their ass off. When you do that, you distort their view of reality. You're going to get what you want to hear, basically."
Yet Gitchell insists his conscience is clear. "When you put it all together, it's a convincing case," he says. "We treated Jessie and everyone else who was involved in this case as if they were our own kids. It's the law. You've got to. But we also knew the media was watching. We had to watch what we did because we knew we would be judged on it."
In 1994, Circuit Judge John Fogleman was the deputy prosecutor on both trials and he played a key role in convicting all three young men; he is a constant presence in both films. Over the phone, his accessibility and Southern charm are disarming — like someone who has run for office before and no doubt will again.
"I don't have any problem with any amount of investigation," he tells me in his pronounced drawl. "If I'm wrong, if the jury is wrong, it ought to be corrected. But I don't believe we were wrong. I welcome any investigation."
Fogleman says he did have some "problems" with Misskelley's confession, but on the whole found it credible. He says he does not believe it was in any way coerced.
Like Gitchell, Fogleman cites the knife found near Baldwin's home as well as the hearsay testimony of the teenage girls and others. But all combined, it seems like an unusual paucity of evidence with which to seek a murder conviction, much less an execution.
"I would've loved to have had a stronger case," says Fogleman. "But you get what you've got. And when you get the evidence we had, and it was sufficient to go to a jury, what choice do you have?"
Fogelman concedes, "There was a lack of physical evidence to tie anyone or anything to the crime scene. There was not a drop of blood — not that could be seen with the naked eye. The crime lab did some luminol testing, which is not admissible as evidence, and where we say that the murders happened, there was a reaction."
Fogleman and his fellow prosecutor, Brent Davis, also turned to the occult to help them out. As evidence they offered books that Echols had obtained from the local library on witchcraft, read excerpts from Echols' rambling notebooks, showed the jury "satanic" images Echols had on the walls of his room and offered "cult cop" Dale Griffis as an expert in teenage Satanists.
Possessing a mail-order Ph.D. from Columbia Pacific University, Griffis testified that the murders occurred near a couple of pagan holidays and were probably occult inspired. He also testified that some signs of occult activity by teenagers included black fingernails, black T-shirts and tattoos (the combination of which would be enough to indict many teenagers in America as followers of Beelzebub).
The prosecution was clearly playing to popular hysteria, which held that Echols was the leader of a satanic cult and that occult activity was rampant in that part of Arkansas. The defense blundered by putting Echols on the stand to explain his beliefs. Echols didn't help matters by describing himself as a Wiccan, a practitioner of "white magic." He told the jury that while investigating Catholicism he changed his first name to Damien in honor of the Catholic martyr, Father Damien, who ministered to lepers in Hawaii, caught the disease himself and died.
Like his testimony, this name change was highly unfortunate. No matter how noble the motivation, it's hardly surprising that in the minds of many (and especially in the context of the trial) the name he appropriated evoked the 1978 horror movie "Damien: Omen II," in which a boy possessed by demonic powers kills people. And Echols' cerebral explanations for his various interests as well as his naturally black hair and pale complexion undoubtedly damaged his situation.
For Mara Leveritt, a contributing editor at Little Rock's alternative newsweekly the Arkansas Times, who is herself working on a book about the case for Simon and Schuster, the courtroom focus on Echols' beliefs transformed the proceedings into something of a witch trial.
"The admission of that kind of testimony was to my mind pretty unusual for a court of law," Leveritt says. "To bring in 'experts' in the occult, for instance, and end up with prosecutor Fogleman's statement that it's not wrong to wear black, read certain books from the library about paganism and the occult or listen to heavy-metal music, but you put all that together and you see there's 'no soul there.' That tenor of the prosecution coupled with the publicity that surrounded the case — immediately after the arrests West Memphis was the scene of many churches holding meetings where they brought in religious experts on Satanism — certainly created the climate where the convictions were made possible."
Leveritt notes a "profound change" in the time she has been following the case from a common knee-jerk reaction that Echols and the others were guilty to the introduction of substantial doubt. In spite of that doubt and the efforts of many to free the WM3, does Leveritt believe there's a chance Echols may still be executed?
"I certainly do," she says. "Shoot, I've seen a lot of executions out here. And I know that once the initial trial takes place, all appeals are against great odds after that."
But there are also several factors in Echols' favor at this point. "PL2″ was a far more exculpatory film than the first, and it throws greater suspicion on victim Chris Byers' stepfather, John Mark Byers — portrayed in both films, variously, as erratic, drug-addled and knife-toting. Whatever the truth may be, the film makes Byers, a buffoonish character who seems to have leapt straight from the pages of a Faulkner short story, look guilty as hell. And some believe a more convincing circumstantial case could be made against him than against Echols and the others. Byers is currently in jail on drug charges, but he's not on death row. Echols is the man with that distinction, though at times it seems as if Echols' primary sin was being weird in a small town.
Echols also has as his counsel Houston attorney Ed Mallett, a veteran defense lawyer with experience in appealing death penalty cases. Prickly and precise, Mallett is the sort of lawyer you'd want on your side if you were in Echols' place. Though Mallett's Rule 37 appeal to trial Judge Burnett was denied, the next stop is the Arkansas Supreme Court. If that fails, there will be a federal habeas corpus petition, and perhaps an appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ironically, one of Mallett's points in the Rule 37 appeal was that the first HBO film helped taint his client's case. He argued that the lack of funds provided to the defense by the state of Arkansas led Echols' counsel to engage in an unholy alliance with filmmakers Berlinger and Sinofsky, who provided much-needed financial support to the defense.
"The lawyers let the cameras into the courtroom because HBO agreed to pay the expenses of the defense which the state of Arkansas refused to pay," says Mallett. "The result was to create a certain kind of circus atmosphere, which I think you can perceive by watching the first movie."
Sinofsky accepts Mallett's legal strategy, but believes that his film has had a positive impact. "If Joe and I hadn't made these films," says Sinofsky, "Damien would be dead already."
Echols says he's appreciative of the films and notes that he "probably would've been convicted anyway," without the involvement of the filmmakers. But he also states that HBO's presence "definitely impacted" the way his attorneys acted in the first trial. "I think it made them take things not quite so seriously as they should have," he says.
For the time being, Echols leads his life as best he can. He reads, meditates, takes college correspondence courses and tries to answer his voluminous mail — sometimes up to 125 letters a day. Last December Echols was married in a Buddhist ceremony to a woman from New York who now lives in Little Rock and visits him once a week for a "contact" visit (just touching — it's "contact," not "conjugal"). And this September he's scheduled to receive ordination from a Buddhist priest who's coming from a Japanese monastery to perform the ceremony.
"I only use the term Buddhist because it gives people a handhold," Echols says, explaining his dedication to Zen. "The thing I've learned is that it's all pretty much the same. It's like everyone's going to the same well, but coming away with different water."
As for the likelihood of his release, Echols remains philosophical. "I know I'll get out. This may sound kind of morbid, but I'm on death row. So at least I know that one way or another I will get out. Either I'll walk out or they'll carry me out. I kind of like that idea more than [sitting] in prison for 50, 60 or 70 years and never knowing what's going to happen tomorrow."
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It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. The murder provokes national hysteria. The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes - scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing - arouses fear and a kind of excitement. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment. A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery - a body; a detective; a country house steeped in secrets. In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life.
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Kate Summerscale was born in 1965. She is the author of the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, which won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize. She lives in London with her five-year-old son.
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*** Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for 2008 ***
Author Kate Summerscale received a cheque for 30,000 pounds for winning the 10th Samuel Johnson Prize -- and she thoroughly deserved it! The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is a wonderfully well-researched, exquisitely paced and captivating analysis of the chilling murder of three-year-old Saville Kent at Road Hill House, Wiltshire, way back in 1860. More than that, however, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is simultaneously a history of detective fiction and how it reflected and refracted the hypocrisy and hysteria of Victorian society itself. Summerscale is particular good on how her hero, Scotland Yard detective Jack Whicher, influenced the father of the detective novel Wilkie Collins (and his good friend Charles Dickens too) and on why so many of us feel the need to read about such awful crimes in the first place.
Judiciously finding a compelling narrative path through all the original police papers, newspaper articles, reports, official records, letters, interview notes etc., Summerscale has written an illuminating study of both murder and our cultural responses to -- and fascination with -- such barbaric acts. Essential stuff.
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This cinematic encounter is Werner Herzog's exploration of Antarctica. Anticipating its natural beauty, this voyage investigates what human life in this environment can be like.
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In May 1991, Sergei Krikalev blasts off into space from the Soviet Union, and boards the USSR's crowning achievement, the MIR Space Station. But as Krikalev orbits around Earth, his country collapses and ceases to exist. He is unable to return as scheduled. When he ultimately does come back to Earth, his world has been transformed.
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In an epic battle against the world's biggest polluters—the oil and gas corporations—Kivalina, a tiny village in Northwest Alaska, struggles to survive and save itself from the consequences of global warming. Within the celebratory aftermath of the widely disseminated Mayan prediction of the End of the World, and in conjunction with the Centre for Research Architecture's discourse on the Anthropogenic Unconscious, this series of film screenings continues to playfully interrogate cinematic interpretations of our complex understanding of the potentiality of these future catastrophic events. Traversing the viewer from the deepest depths of our melancholic self conscious, through an accumulated archive of the dizzying heights of outer space, back down to the heated melting pot of environmental legal discourse, this series intends to interrupt and deface our epistemic understanding of what could be the 'Screening of the End
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Can I Drive My Car Without A ThermostatPosted in Cooling Perfomance
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If so, how much and what are the consequences apart from refrigerant cool?
yes you can. the only real issue that you will have is no heat
yes you can just be care ful about overheating and damagine parts
It can overheat from not allowing the coolant enough time in the radiator to cool off.
Yes. Although it should have a thermostat, driving without one is OK but before it gets cold you will want to replace it.
Computer controled? The engine will run bad because it will never go into "closed loop".
Carbureted older car? Poor gas mileage.
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The entire engine package is clearanced and designed to run most efficiently at what ever yout specified thermostat temperature is.
If your engine does not get up to temperature internal condensation raises he*l with motor oil. Soon varnish and sludge will cake inside the crankcase.
Yes, you can drive a car without a thermostat. The thermostat function is to force the engine to operate at a specified temperature. Combustion engines are more efficient when operated hot. Of course too much heat is detrimental to the engines life.
Drive it as long as you desire without the thermostat. Since thermostats are very cheap; one might wonder why you would want to run the engine long with out it installed.
You can but I wouldn't recomend it. In the summer it could cause your car to run too hot especially if you are doing a lot of city driving. In the winter the car would run too cold (depending on where you live) never heating the water up enough to give you heat in the car and causing the engine to run cold all the time.
Most cars can operate fine without a thermostat, with no long term problems. It means a longer warm up period in the winter months for cars that have a carburetor. But with fuel injection it should be no problem. But you should keep an eye on the temperature gauge or light, because some vehicles may even overheat without a thermostat because the water is running through the radiator too quickly and not getting a chance to cool off before it goes back to the engine. And in the winter time a missing thermostat will mean a longer period before the antifreeze warms up and provides heat to the inside of the car.
You can drive it as far as your want without a thermostat but when you shut off the engine you might have coolant spew out the overflow. Also your fuel mileage will go to pot.
If its computer controlled then a stat is recommended. On my older performance vehicles I eliminate the thermostat and replace it with a restrictor plate. It looks like an over sized washer, you have to experimant with different sizes to see what works best for any given vehicle
Lots of people run their car with out a thermostat… Especially in the winter… The thermostat is for heating up the engin quickly… and you can drive your car forever with out one if you like… But if you are saying while you are driving and its bad.. Then what will happen you will over heat and probably crack a head gasket or blow a hose line… Good luck Grant M from Pennsylvania


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The Town of Hempsted has a great new crew of goats for mowing in their parks. Other groups like Google, have been doing this for a while yet this is the first municipal government in New York that I have heard giving this a try.
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Carabus olympiae is listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list of threatened species as vulnerable.
The species is also listed on annex II of the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention) and as a priority species on annexes II and IV of the EC Habitats Directive.
Recently efforts were made to introduce the species into the French Alps in order to extend its distribution and reduce the threat of local extinction. However these introductions appear to have failed.
Conservation of the species will rely on protecting its native habitat - forests and rhododendrons - on the sites where it is known to occur. Surveys of neighbouring areas may also pinpoint previously undiscovered populations.
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We also took delivery on our second order of base layer underwear. We ordered a different brand this time, as I mentioned on Thanksgiving day (OccupySupply – What We Need). It's even better than the first brand we bought, which is still the #1 most requested item from all the occupiers. It's really thick midweight base layer, absolutely gorgeous. As Occupy Austin liaison KrisAinTX said yesterday in his excellent diary, it really gives occupiers a tremendous morale boost to get nice things they really need from people who support their courage and their determination.
It's a great feeling for all of us to be able to get these things to the occupiers at a time when they're being shut down and harassed. Many thanks to everyone who has donated and spread the word about OccupySupply.
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