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Alison O'Brien is the associate dean of Undergraduate Programs for the School of Business at George Mason University. O'Brien, an assistant professor of management at Mason since the fall of 1999, directs all academic support and student service programs for the undergraduate student body at the School of Business. She assumed the post effective January 25, 2005.
Since joining the Mason faculty in 1999, O'Brien has taught courses in management strategy and policy, organizational behavior, and decision science and finance. She also served as chair of the School of Business's undergraduate policy committee, guiding the development of a number of new initiatives that have enhanced academic procedures and the quality of student experiences in the undergraduate program.
O'Brien's research interests center on organizational behavior and work motivation. She has published works in a wide-range of academic journals, including the Journal of Management, Journal of Family Relations, and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Her professional affiliations include the Academy of Management, American Psychological Association, Society of Human Resource Management, and Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
O'Brien came to George Mason University after a highly successful career in business consulting and the telecommunications field. She served as Director, Finance Planning and Controller of the Sprint Corporation throughout the 1980s and now serves as Managing Director of ASO Consulting, Inc., an independent consulting firm specializing in business planning and organizational analysis.
O'Brien earned her undergraduate degree in finance from the University of Florida, Gainesville. She also holds an MBA from Brenau College in Georgia, master's degree in industrial and organizational psychology from George Mason University and a PhD in industrial and organizational psychology from George Mason.


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40 Tempting Potluck Dessert Recipes
Peanut Butter-Fudge Pie [1]
Vanilla ice cream, gooey fudge sauce and peanuts sit on a chewy rice-cereal crust. Trust us, it's out of this world—perfect for potlucks or family dinners.
Tres Leches Cake [5]
A Mexican standard and guaranteed backyard crowd-pleaser, our brown-sugar sheet cake is soaked in milky syrup, chilled, then topped with whipped cream and berries.
Tres Leches Cake [6]
Pina Colada Cupcakes [9]
Cocktail meets cupcake with the tropical marriage of pineapple preserves, crunchy macaroon bits and toasted coconut. We bet you won't even miss the rum.
Pina Colada Cupcakes [10]
Peanut Butter Chip and Jelly Bars [13]
The flavor of these bars from Connie Siegel of Wisconsin will take you right back to your school lunchroom! If you don't like grape jelly, strawberry would work well, too.
Strawberry Shortcake Trifle [17]
Prep time is just 10 minutes for this easy summer mix of strawberries, light frozen whipped topping, prepared strawberry topping and pound cake.
Neapolitan Party Cake [21]
This crowd-pleaser is easier than it looks. (You only make one batter.) Garnish the strawberry-frosted cake with double-dipped berries to hint at the festive stripes hiding inside.
Root Beer Float Cupcakes [25]
These soda-shop-cute cupcakes are inspired by the whimsical treats served at Designer Desserts Bakery in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Berry Easy Cobbler [29]
This warm, crunch-topped cobbler calls for 3 cups of blueberries, but if you'd like a version with extra color and flavor, reduce the blueberries to 2 cups and add 2 cups fresh or frozen tart cherries.
Berry Easy Cobbler [30]
Strawberry Pretzel Salad [33]
This classic potluck dessert includes a crushed pretzel crust, a layer of sweetened cream cheese, and a top layer of strawberry gelatin and strawberries.
Chocolate-Strawberry Shortcake Sliders [37]
Classic strawberry shortcake reveals its dark, chocolatey side with these luscious mini cakes. The recipe makes 18, so they're perfect for parties.
Caramel Heavenlies [41]
Graham crackers form the base for this bar cookie with layers of marshmallows, brown sugar, almonds and coconut. "I've made these cookies since 1984," says Georgine Simmonds of Genesee, Michigan. "They're one of my family's favorites."
Caramel Heavenlies [42]
Tropical Ambrosia Shortcake [45]
Classic shortcake meets church-basement standard ambrosia salad in this surprising and crowd-pleasing dessert that's packed with tropical fruit flavor.
Strawberry-Blueberry Cookie Crisp [49]
Prep this easy dessert in just 10 minutes, then bake for 25 minutes. Crumbled pecan shortbread cookies form the topping over a fresh fruit filling.
Chocolate Mocha Gooey Butter Cake [53]
We used a cake mix in the crust for this creamy chocolate dessert from the former Chocolate Cafe and Coffee House in Missouri. The recipe makes a generous 24 bars, so it's perfect for a potluck.
Peach Upside-Down Cake [57]
The family behind Illinois' Rendleman Orchards has amassed some great peach recipes in 135 years of growing peaches. This cake is no exception. Peach slices and brown sugar form a moist base for the tender, square cake--and when flipped over, that base becomes the topping. We like the cake warm with ice cream.
Co's Candy-Bar Brownies [61]
Combine packaged sweets with homemade frosting for this easy dessert. Top with your favorite chocolate-covered candy bar, chopped, or small chocolate candies.
Caramel and Chocolate Kettle-Corn Crispie Bars [65]
This recipe from Judy Reynolds of Bloomington, Indiana, was the $10,000 winner in our first Best of the Midwest cook-off. Start with a Hoosier staple—popcorn—and stir together these sweet-salty snack bars. Homemade caramel sauce helps makes them a standout.
Out-and-About Cheesecake [69]
Combine sweetened Brie and cream cheese with fresh blueberries for this no-bake dessert designed for single-serving cups.
White Chocolate Brownies [73]
White chocolate and macadamia nuts give traditional brownies a flavor and color makeover.
Danish Pastry Apple Bars [77]
One of the most popular recipes on our website, these bars taste like apple pie in a baking pan. "You can't go wrong with these," writes one of our website reviewers "I've taken them to all kinds of events and they are always the first dessert to go!"
Luscious Lemon Bars [81]
Sweet and tart, these moist, powdered-sugar-topped dessert bars will disappear fast.
Luscious Lemon Bars [82]
Orange Cream Pop Cupcakes [85]
For this party-special cupcake, combine white cake mix, orange-flavor gelatin, orange juice, and cheesecake-flavor instant pudding and pie filling mix. Cream cheese frosting gets a flavor punch from orange gelatin and shredded orange peel.
Salted Caramel, Chocolate and Peanut Cracker-Stack Bars [89]
These fantastic potluck bars come from Patrice Hurd of Bemidji, Minnesota. She won the grand prize in our 2012 Best of the Midwest® Recipe Contest. Patrice says they're a twist on her grandmother's cracker bars. They cut beautifully and brim with salty-sweet-nutty-chocolately flavor.
Salted Caramel, Chocolate and Peanut Cracker-Stack Bars [90]
Strawberry-Coconut Thumbprints [93]
Linda Roberts of Rapid City, South Dakota, tops her buttery cream cheese, coconut coated cookie with fruit jam. This recipe was a finalist in our first Best of the Midwest cook-off.
Buttermilk Banana Bars [97]
These moist snack bars with creamy frosting taste a lot like banana bread. The recipe is from a Wyoming, Michigan, reader.
Berry Trifle [101]
Mix buttery pound cake, creamy vanilla pudding, soft cream cheese, and fresh strawberries or blueberries for a rich comfort-food dessert. To trim calories, try making it with angel food cake, fat-free pudding, and low-fat or fat-free cream cheese.
Berry Trifle [102]
Our Own Dream Cookies [105]
It's not easy satisfying everyone, but this cookie from the Midwest Living® Test Kitchen tries to meet the challenge! It's packed with oatmeal, chocolate, peanut butter and nuts.
Our Own Dream Cookies [106]
Cherry Phosphate Icebox Pie [109]
A humble pie if you ever saw one, this unassuming potluck star has an almondy crust and a yogurt-based filling that mimics the acidic tang of a phosphate. Amaretti (Italian almond cookies) are available at large supermarkets. You can substitute graham cracker crumbs.
Candy Bar Cookies [113]
These bite-size treats feature a creamy mixture of chocolate pieces, butterscotch pieces and peanut butter over a cooked oatmeal-brown sugar layer. The recipe is from a Madison, Wisconsin, reader, who takes the bar cookies to potluck gatherings.
Candy Bar Cookies [114]
Blueberry-Almond Bars [117]
Fruit fillings complement the sweetness of other bar cookie ingredients. Blueberry-Almond Bars was a grand champion award recipe at the Marshall County Fair's annual Blueberry Bake-A-Rama in Plymouth, Indiana. Lori Van Der Weele combined blueberries, butter, white baking pieces and almonds for this winner.
Blueberry-Almond Bars [118]
Fudge Brownies [121]
The key to a perfect homemade brownie is not overcooking it. Rather than a toothpick test, trust your eyes and nose to tell you when the brownie is set. The center will stay ever-so-slightly moist.
Fudge Brownies [122]
Cherry Crumble Pie Bars [125]
Zesty lemon peel adds zing to this fruit bar cookie; almond extract and brown sugar give it extra sweetness.
Cherry Crumble Pie Bars [126]
Blackberry-Pecan Streusel Pie [129]
Precook the juicy, tart blackberry filling before pouring it in the crust. The streusel topping becomes a crunchy sugar-pecan crown.
Raspberry Cheesecake Bars [133]
Layers of cheesecake, raspberry filling, almonds and coconut form dessert bars perfect for summer picnics and potlucks.
Macaroon Brownies [137]
Dollop a mixture of shredded coconut and sweetened condensed milk on brownie batter for a fun flavor variation on traditional fudge brownies.
Macaroon Brownies [138]
Prairie State Oatmeal Cake [141]
Rolled oats keep this old-fashioned cake moist. You'll love the gooey coconut-walnut topping.
Double-Cherry Supreme Pie [145]
Dried tart cherries add extra flavor to this classic pie, which was pictured on a cover of Midwest Living®.
Easy Peanut Butter Bars [149]
These sturdy bars travel well; pack them in lunch boxes or take to a picnic or potluck.
Easy Peanut Butter Bars [150]
Krista's Kitchen Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies [153]
These big cookies—loaded with chocolate chips and nuts—are a customer favorite at Krista's Kitchen Bakery/Cafe in Portage, Wisconsin. The cookie bakes crisp on the outside, cakey inside.
Hunka Chocolate Cookies [157]
This recipe will satisfy chocolate lovers' cravings with semisweet chocolate pieces, unsweetened chocolate, melted white chocolate and melted semisweet chocolate. Just a half a cup of flour goes into this fudgy delight.
Hunka Chocolate Cookies [158]
Cherry-Brickle Coffee Cake [161]
This coffee cake recipe, one of the winners in a Midwest Living® potluck recipe contest, comes from a Robinson, Illinois, reader. Cherry pie filling stars in the cake.

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Eigene PBI-Paketquelle erstellen
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Als Voreinstellung zeigt AppCafe® die PBIs an, die von der offiziellen PC-BSD®-Paketquelle verfügbar sind. Es unterstützt aber auch fremde Paketquellen, die es Organisationen erlauben PBIs für ihre eigenen Anwendungen zu erstellen und sie für ihre Benutzer über AppCafe® verfügbar zu machen.
In order to create a custom repository, you need to:
- create the OpenSSL signing key which will be used to sign custom PBIs
- generate a repository file and populate it with custom PBIs
- generate the meta-data for the PBIs which are available within the repository
This section describes these steps in more detail.
Generate the Signing Key
Running a repository requires that all the PBIs in the custom repository be digitally signed for security and identification purposes. In order to sign the PBIs, generate an OpenSSL key pair using the following commands:
Generating RSA private key, 4096 bit long modulus ..................++ .............................................................................++ e is 65537 (0x10001) openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -pubout > pub.keywriting RSA key
These commands will create the files privkey.pem and pub.key. The privkey.pem file will be used to digitally sign your created PBI files and the pub.key file will be included with the repository configuration (.rpo) file.
Create the Repository
In order to create the repository you will need a FTP, HTTP, or HTTPS server to host your repository's meta-data files and to store the repository's PBIs. The server can be a public URL on the Internet or a private LAN server, as long as it is accessible to your target audience.
Once you have the URL to the server, create the repository's .rpo file using the pbi_makerepo command. Replace the values in the following example with your own description, path to your generated pub.key file, the URL to the location where the PBIs will be hosted, the URL to the location to contain the repository's meta-data files, and the directory to place the created .rpo file.
This command will generate the pbi-repo.rpo file in the specified directory on the server. This file is needed for clients to register with and begin using the new repository. Instruct your clients to download this file to their PC-BSD® desktop, then to configure their system to use the repository using this command as the superuser:
Once the repository is registered on the clients system, their pbi daemon will automatically keep track of downloading and updating both meta-files and PBIs from the URLs you specified in the repository configuration file.
Generate the Repository's Meta-Data
On a PC-BSD® system, you can now create the meta-data and PBI files so that clients have something to download. The meta-data file is used to give the client information about the PBIs available from the repository, such as categories, application names, and descriptions. When creating categories, you can use the same category names that appear in AppCafe®, or you can create your own categories. Each category and each PBI will need its own icon. These icons need to exist on the server before generating the meta-data file.
When you are ready, create an empty meta-data file in the format pbi-meta-<Major Version Number>. This command should be used for 9.x series PBIs:
Then use the pbi_metatool command to add the category for a PBI. The following command adds the "Archivers" category, its description, and the URL pointing to the mandatory 64x64 .png icon file to the specified meta-data file.
Next, add the following information about the PBI: the name of the application, the category, the application author, a description of the application, the URL pointing to the mandatory 64x64 .png icon file for the application, a comma delimited list (with no spaces) of search keywords, the type of license, the type of application ("Graphical", "Text", or "Service"), the URL to the application's website, and the name of the meta-data file to add the information to.
Repeat this command for each PBI that will be available in the repository, creating new categories as you need to do so.
When you are finished adding the information for the repository's PBIs, compress the file with bzip2 and upload it to the server. The location in our example would be http://www.example.org/pbi-meta/pbi-meta-9.bz2. Once the file is uploaded, clients can use the pbi_browser command or AppCafe® to browse the repository's PBIs.
You should now create your custom PBIs then upload them to their specified category in the download directory on the server. In our example, the download directory is ftp://ftp.example.org/pbi-files. Refer to the section on creating PBIs for instructions on creating PBIs using either the EasyPBI2 graphical utility or the pbi_makeport command line utility.
When creating your PBIs, remember to sign them with the private key. If you are using EasyPBI2, specify the location to the privkey.pem file by clicking the "Change File" button shown in Figure 8.1d. If you are using the pbi_makeport command, include --sign privkey.pem in the command.
Lastly, create the pbi-index-9 file and add the names of the uploaded PBIs to the file. Use the pbi_indextool to add each entry, specifying that PBI's filename (will end in .pbi), the download location (in the format category/pbi_name), and the name of the index file.
When you are finished adding entries to this file, use bzip2 to compress it and upload the pbi-index-9.bz2 to the same location on the server where the pbi-meta-9.bz2 file is stored. Clients can now download and install PBIs from your custom repository, using the pbi_add command or AppCafe®.
Configure the Automatic Build of Updated Ports
Over time, the PBIs in your repository will become out-of-date as the versions of the underlying ports change. You can automate the process of automatically rebuilding the newer version of a PBI, as well as generating the binary diff changes to the PBI (which users use to upgrade their installed version of the PBI), whenever an underlying port changes.
To configure this scenario, ensure that all of your PBI modules exist under the same directory and follow the directory structure of the ports tree. For example, if you have created PBIs for cabextract and firefox, the subdirectory structure for /usr/local/my_pbis/ would be archivers/cabextract/ and www/firefox/.
To start the build process, use the pbi_autobuild command as seen in this example:
This command keeps the last 2 versions of the PBI, reads the modules located in the subdirectories of /usr/local/my_pbis, places the built PBIs in the /usr/local/my_pbis directory, removes any PBIs which no longer have an associated module, uses tmpfs to optimize build speed, signs the PBIs with the specified key, and generates the .pbp patch files needed by users to upgrade an installed version of the previous PBI. The new PBIs and .pbp files will be placed in the specified outgoing directory. If an earlier version of the PBI exists in that directory, it will be placed into the archived subdirectory.
If the ccache FreeBSD port is installed on the build system and the CCACHE_DIR variable is set, pbi_autobuild will detect and use it which can greatly speed up the process of building the PBIs.
Depending upon the load on the build server and how many PBIs are affected by the build, you may wish to modify some pbi.conf values in particular PBI modules. The variables that can affect a build are:
- PBI_BUILDKEY: set to a numerical value to instruct pbi_autobuild to rebuild that particular PBI. This is useful when a port has failed to build or you wish to rebuild a PBI with new compile options even though the upstream target port has not changed.
- PBI_AB_PRIORITY: when automatically building a large number of PBIs, the build process occurs alphabetically. By setting an incremental integer value, it is possible to artificially force the building of PBIs in the specified order of importance.
- PBI_AB_NOTMPFS: typically, using the --tmpfs flag greatly speeds up the build process by extracting a port's files into memory, and compiling directly into RAM. However some ports, such as OpenOffice, require more memory than is available, causing the build to fail. By setting this variable to YES in that PBI's pbi.conf, it is possible to flag that port as needing to build in the traditional manner from disk.
- PBI_MAKEOPTS: if you use ccache, you may occasionally run into a port that will not compile properly with CCACHE enabled. For that PBI, edit this variable to include NO_CCACHE=yes which will disable CCACHE for that specific port build.


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Oh yes! Undoubtedly, the greatest surprise to almost everyone was that several Southern Baptist pastors actually came to a microphone and publicly promoted the drinking of alcoholic beverages and wanted the SBC to do the same! Actually, I never thought I would see that take place, and it is not only a surprise but an outrage! My father was addicted to alcohol, which contributed to his early death. He advised me that if I would never take the first drink I would never end up like he did. I did not, and he was correct!This kind of mischaracterization is inexcusable--especially from one who actually presided over the meeting in Greensboro. Dr. Welch did an admirable job in moderating with gentleness and fairness. I and many others have commended him for the humble, professional leadership that he exhibited while wielding the gavel. It is a shame that he follows that with these outlandish and untruthful accusations. When he writes that "several Southern Baptist pastors actually came to a microphone and publicly promoted the drinking of alcoholic beverages and wanted the SBC to do the same!," he at best is misrepresenting what actually happened. At worst, well, at worst, he is simply being untruthful.
I understand one pastor's blog site indicates he believes his drinking assists him in soul-winning! What a pathetic joke! These blogging Baptist pastors just blew their collective cork!
From my vantage point, as presiding officer of the Convention, I took a slow and deliberate look at the number of ballots raised in support of such foolishness and comparatively, there was hardly anyone who was in favor of encouraging the use or promotion of the use of alcoholic beverages. In fact, the overwhelming voice and raised ballot vote made it clear that Southern Baptists do not want leaders that use or promote the use of any type of alcohol.
We have many outstanding young pastors and others on their way to leading this Convention to its greatest days, and they are smart enough to know they will not do it as "sipping saints," but as sober soul winners! God help us to never, ever elect a user or promoter of the use of alcoholic beverages to any leadership position, and I am personally sorry and ashamed if we have any in those positions now!
I was there. So were thousands of others. But don't take my word for it. Go to the video archives at the SBC website and watch the proceedings from Wednesday morning's report from the Resolutions Committee. One need not speculate on what was said and not said. I encourage you to watch and listen for yourself. If you discover "several Southern Baptist pastors" who spoke publicly and "promoted the drinking of alcoholic beverages and wanted the SBC to do the same," please transcript their promotional appeals and send them to me. I will post them here and will publicly repent for questioning Dr. Welch's comments. If such evidence cannot be found, then Dr. Welch should publicly repent. After all, the ninth commandment has not been excised from the inerrant Word of God, has it?
I know that some--maybe many--will consider me impolite (and worse) for addressing this issue in such strong language. But truth matters. And no one should get a pass on bearing false witness regardless of who he is or what positions he holds or has held. Welch's misrepresentation of fellow Southern Baptists is very harmful to our convention. It causes those who know better to mistrust leaders. Other SBC leaders who know that Welch's characterization is inaccurate should speak out publicly to correct him. However, if recent history is any indicator, this is not likely to happen. This kind of uncorrected character assassination will inevitably breed further frustration among the growing number of pastors and church leaders who continue to wonder why those denominational leaders who shout the loudest about the authority of the Bible stand by silently when its precepts are publicly shattered by one of their own. Will bureucratic loyalty always trump biblical fidelity?
What was the conservative resurgence all about? Was it not a fight to recover full commitment to the authority and accuracy of the Bible as the Word of God written? I say this reverently but with genuine concern as one who loves and seeks the welfare of the SBC: What difference does it make whether or not we have an inerrant Bible if our leaders are allowed to ignore and violate its teachings and to do so in the very public forum of our denominational journal? We have every right to expect more from champions of inerrancy.


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ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and its part-qualified students took top honours at the PQ Magazine Awards recently, with ACCA winning the prestigious Accountancy Body of the Year accolade.
The success didn't stop there for the global accountancy body. Other ACCA winners were Alina Stahie, an ACCA student at Kaplan Financial, who collected the Distance Learning Student of the Year award, ACCA members Jonathan Simons, Grant Thornton and Saad Mir, Deloitte (Pakistan) who jointly took the NQ of the Year title. Personality of the Year went to ACCA Ronnie David of UHY Hacker Young, while Boss of Year was ACCA examiner and head of Manchester Metropolitan University's accounting and finance department, Graham Holt. Neil Stevenson, ACCA executive director – brand, picked up a PQ Champion award for his support to PQ Magazine and the profession over the last 10 years.
Andrew Leck, head of ACCA UK, said: 'It was a memorable awards night for ACCA and its own PQs and I congratulate all the winners from the evening on their valued contribution to our profession. We have worked hard to ensure that ACCA is the recognised finance qualification around the world and one that embraces the concept of a complete finance professional, producing finance leaders with a broad set of skills that can go beyond the geographical boundaries of the UK.
'The ACCA members who won awards, as well as the many other ACCA qualified professionals across the globe, have a broad range of abilities and knowledge that help them adapt to new environments, new circumstances and the changing needs of clients and businesses.'
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If former Pistons coach Larry Brown did the postgame interview for Jim Schwartz, this is what he would have said:
"I don't know what was going on out there with our offense — we played like strangers."
The word that came to mind watching the Lions on offense was disarray. Quarterback Matthew Stafford and his receivers, but for a few spurts, were completely out of sync. Passes were dropped. Passes missed their mark, many by wide margins. Wrong routes were run and route adjustments were missed.
"I didn't play my best," said a terse Stafford. "It was a little bit of everything."
He didn't care much for the word disarray, however.
"Disarray is probably not the right word," he said. "Coming into the week we were the No. 2 offense in the NFL, so if that's disarray, then OK. But, obviously, we didn't play our best against a good football team."
Schwartz said it was failure in every facet — the quarterback missed throws, receivers dropped passes, pass protection was spotty — but he may have hit the nail on the head when he said the communication was bad in route adjustments.
That means Stafford was changing plays at the line and the receivers weren't making the adjustments. Or there were two options against certain looks and they were taking the wrong ones. That would explain some of the balls that were thrown a time zone away from the intended receiver.
Titus Young and Tony Scheffler seemed most out of sync with Stafford. Young was targeted six times and caught one ball. He was benched on the final possession. Scheffler, who had been a non-factor in the three previous games, was thrown to 10 times with only two catches.
Stafford's decision-making at the line wasn't flawless, by a long shot. There were at least four plays when the Packers loaded up the box and left receivers single-covered on the edge and Stafford didn't check out of the run.
On his two interceptions, one was a poor decision (he didn't see Casey Hayward jump the route) and the other was ball thrown behind Scheffler, which turned into a 72-yard pick-six for M.D. Jennings.
"I have to play better to give us a chance to win," Stafford said.
Second down
If this continues to go downhill, if the offense continues to have disjointed performances, if coaches continue to squabble on the sideline, somebody is going to be scape-goated. And as unfair as it may be, offensive coordinator Scott Linehan is probably going to take the hit.
He has already taken heat for the team's season-long battle against slow offensive starts. There has been tension behind the scenes all season between Linehan and some of his offensive assistants. On Sunday, it spilled out publicly when receivers coach Shawn Jefferson was shown on the Fox broadcast shouting and gesturing at Linehan.
Linehan remained stone-faced and didn't respond.
There was 1:13 left in the game when the exchange took place. The Lions had failed to score a touchdown when they had it first-and-goal from the 10. Later, after Green Bay took the lead, the Lions misfired on four straight pass plays.
Jefferson seemed to shout at Linehan, "I said throw the ball!" That would have been a reference to two straight run calls against a loaded box from the 10.
It could also have been in reference to the fact that Calvin Johnson didn't get a pass thrown to him in the three plays from the 10, nor in the four-and-out series that followed.
"We've all been through this," Johnson said. "We've seen all of this happen before. We should be able to bounce back from that. It shouldn't be a problem."
Linehan, all things considered, has done an outstanding job with this offense. He has come up with innovative ways to get rookie tackle Riley Reiff involved. He has tried to build up the run game. He has been masterful at moving Johnson around and finding favorable matchups.
Losing receiver Nate Burleson to injury has hurt the cohesiveness of the receiving corps. Young, in his second year, still makes too many undisciplined plays, too many mental errors. Rookie Ryan Broyles is just getting his feet wet.
Should Linehan take the fall for that? No. But if this continues to go bad, it's a pretty good bet that he will. Schwartz signed an extension before the season. Stafford and Johnson aren't going anywhere. Coordinators usually always take the fall.
Third down
Two plays by Packers tight end Jermichael Finley broke the Lions' backs.
The first one was his 20-yard touchdown catch early in the second quarter. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers executed a fake screen and middle linebacker Stephen Tulloch bit on it.
That left Finley open down the seam. Cornerback Jacob Lacey, who was playing in the slot, was late to get over to him.
The Lions had good success using the nickel package against Rodgers, but that was one occasion where it hurt them.
The Lions were also in nickel when Finley struck for 40 yards in the fourth, a play that set up the winning touchdown. Rodgers made an adjustment at the line, moving Finley off the edge. Finley caught the ball in the flat and receiver Jordy Nelson was blocking while the ball was in the air.
He was able to take out Lacey, who gave up too easily on the play, and Finley dodged the tackle of Tulloch and raced down the sideline.
"It was a subtle adjustment there," Rodgers said. "We talked about it on Saturday, actually, in a meeting, about how we wanted to block that. I am guessing Jordy blocked at least two guys because he came open late."
Fourth down
It was a mixed bag for Lacey. He got his first interception as a Lion, but he also got beat on the winning touchdown.
With 1:55 left, Rodgers threw an air ball toward the back of the end zone toward Randall Cobb. Lacey didn't turn around in time to react to the ball, and safety Ricardo Silva arrived just a split second too late.
"Just didn't make the play," Schwartz said. "You have to find the ball in the air and get it knocked down. The quarterback just threw it straight up in the air."
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The career of Tayshaun Prince came full circle during his 11 years with the Pistons.
Prince was the guy fans wanted more of his rookie season and his career here ended Wednesday with Prince being the guy fans could not wait to get rid of.
Prince is a Piston no more. He became the final piece of the 2004 championship team to leave when the Pistons traded Prince along with Austin Daye to Memphis in a three-way trade that brings point guard Jose Calderon to the Pistons from Toronto, which also dealt forward Ed Davis to Memphis. Forward Rudy Gay and center Hamed Haddadi went from Memphis to Toronto.
Prince's departure makes the Pistons a better team, something Prince fought hard to do but failed to do the last three years. The Pistons desperately needed a point guard because Brandon Knight is not ready to lead a team to the playoffs.
Still, there won't be many tears shed as Prince moves on to the next chapter of his career.
Age, rust and a buildup of losing records do that. It erases memories. Prince, 32, left as a guy who was more appreciated outside of Detroit than he was in Detroit. That is why he made the 2008 U.S. Olympic team. We remember the pump fakes to nowhere, the fading numbers and the sullen face.
What fans forget is the block of Reggie Miller in Game 2 of the 2004 Eastern Conference Finals against the Indiana Pacers that turned that series around and propelled the Pistons to their first NBA championship in 13 years. They forget his defense coupled with Ben Wallace that made the Pistons one of the best defensive teams in the league that season. Prince was a second-team All-Defensive Team pick four times in his career.
His best moments outside of the Miller block came in the 2004 NBA Finals when he frustrated Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant during what is called by many as the Pistons' "five-game sweep" of the Lakers.
And they forget the important role Prince played in two NBA Finals runs. Prince fit in well when he was one of the gang playing alongside Wallace, Richard Hamilton, Chauncey Billups and Rasheed Wallace. He was a great fifth wheel. He was never a true superstar but played a super-important role. At times he was the Pistons' best player, especially in the playoffs.
Prince got exposed when he was asked to be a leader of the team. Although Prince carried great knowledge and experience, he lacked the personality and charisma to relay his great teachings to younger teammates. He followed Wallace and then Billups. And maybe that is his best role. Prince is a great follower and can be a wonderful glue guy in the right situation.
However, the Grizzlies should lean on Prince for more. He has a lot to give and Prince will become better on the floor because Memphis is in better shape to make a playoff run. They will love him in Memphis because Prince is a professional.
He was never really embraced here because Prince lacked the personality to win over fans. He had that sullen-looking mug that turned fans off. He said things that ticked off the fan base even when he spoke the truth.
In that regard he reminded me of Isiah Thomas, another Piston unafraid to speak his mind.
Sadly, there's hardly a dry eye with Prince's departure. He was a third wheel even on a bad team. When the Pistons asked him to carry the team, he usually failed. Scoring points in bunches never was Prince's game.
He's a facilitator. During our last conversation before the trade Prince spoke proudly of his role as a point forward. He was inching his way up the Pistons career assists list and he was just as proud of a big pass as he was of a big basket.
"I've been a point forward since day one," Prince said. "I forced coaches to let me get involved and make decisions. I knew eventually I would not be a center. They (coaches) had faith in me to kind of develop my game in different areas. "
Many questioned why team president Joe Dumars signed Prince to a four-year deal that has two years to run after this season. It was for this moment and this chance to shock a team that wants to desperately end a three-year playoff drought.
Prince was not that guy to lead the Pistons to the playoffs. But perhaps his departure can. Players can taste the playoffs, but the Pistons are on the outside looking in. Before leaving Prince summed up the importance of a playoff run.
"It would mean a lot," he said. "One thing it would mean from a mental standpoint is we have gotten better. When things went south before, they continued to go that way. This year when things are bad, we were able to pick each other up and get a win when we needed. That was the most important thing, when you lose, bounce back and not let things slide and slide and slide."
The Pistons were going nowhere with Tay. Now this might the shock to the system the team desperately needs.


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Wesley Clark and his Romulus team face a daunting task in playing Grand Rapids Christian in the Class A semifinals Friday at the Breslin Center. (Elizabeth Conley/Detroit News)
Romulus — As important and intense as its 93-91 quarterfinal victory over Detroit Pershing was Tuesday, it was just the midterm exam for Romulus. The final exams are this weekend at Breslin Center in East Lansing.
First up is a skilled and athletic Grand Rapids Christian team in the Class A semifinals at 1 p.m. Friday. Should Romulus pass that test, Saturday's championship awaits.
But it's Christian that Romulus coach Nate Oats has top of mind.
Christian has one of the state's top juniors in Drake Harris, who had a career-high 37 points in a 78-70 victory over Holt in the region final and 25 in a 64-61 victory over Muskegon in the quarters.
Among the concerns Oats has is keeping Harris off of the free-throw line — Harris was 14-for-19 against Muskegon.
"We've got to keep our hands off when we're playing defense," Oats said.
Oats also is concerned with the health of his team.
Entering the quarterfinals, senior point guard Wes Clark's availability was uncertain. Clark suffered an injury to his right knee March 13, but he responded well to treatment and played.
Pick: Romulus by 4
Class A
Detroit Southeastern (20-5) vs. Saginaw (23-3), 2:50 p.m. Friday: Southeastern prefers the half-court game; Saginaw excels in transition. Saginaw by 5
Class B
Detroit Country Day (23-3) vs. Cadillac (21-4), 6 p.m. Friday: Cadillac is making its first semifinal appearance after holding Big Rapids to 29 points. Country Day will score more that in the first half. Country Day by 17
Detroit Community (17-9) vs. Wyoming Godwin Heights (23-2), 7:50 p.m. Friday: Venias Jordan Jr., took over a talented team that was suspended from the tournament last season (eligibility). Godwin Heights' play in the backcourt is the difference. Godwin Heights by 6
Class C
Flint Beecher (25-1) vs. Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central (23-2), 1 today: Beecher might have a letdown after beating Consortium. Beecher by 13
Negaunee (24-1) vs. Laingsburg (23-2), 2:50 today: After blowing past most of its opponents, Negaunee escaped in the quarterfinals. Laingsburg has won 16 straight. Negaunee by 2
Class D
Southfield Christian (21-4) vs. Lansing Christian (22-3), 7:50 tonight: It's not been an easy road for the defending champions, and Lansing Christian is a worthy foe . Southfield Christian by 4
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Billboard Magazine calls The Savoy Family Band "an Acadian gem." The band made of Marc and Ann Savoy and their sons Joel and Wilson will perform at the Liberty Center downtown Eunice on February 28 at 6:30 p.m.
The event is part of the LSU Eunice Performing Arts Series. Tickets are $5 for general admission into the theater. Children 12 and under and LSU Eunice students are admitted for free. Tickets will be available at the door 45 minutes before the concert begins.
Legendary performer Marc Savoy plays the accordion & fiddle while his wife, Grammy nominee, Ann will play guitar and sing. Joel will play fiddle while Wilson will sing and handle the keyboard/piano and the accordion. The band demonstrates how Cajun must has evolved. Early French ballads have been added to the lineup to show other historic elements of early southwest Louisiana as they join in celebration of Louisiana's 200th anniversary of statehood.
"If there is such a thing as Cajun aristocracy, Marc and Ann Savoy must be its king and queen...the Savoy kids are just as brilliant as their parents already fully mature musicians in their twenties…Marc Savoy is...the finest Cajun accordion player of the era. He has impeccable taste, is creative without ever being affected, and plays as hot as anyone yet his playing always sounds very relaxed, as if he's having the time of his life...Wilson Savoy is a powerhouse on the keyboard, whether it's piano or accordion...and he's also a terrific jazz pianist...Joel Savoy's beautiful fiddling evokes the Balfa Brothers right down to the tone of the violin...Ann grounds the whole thing with her rock solid guitar playing...her vocals, always wonderful, sound better than ever," said The Old-Time Herald, a magazine dedicated to old-time music.
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During the 1990s, Thomas Quick confessed to one unsolved murder after another, becoming, in the words of the father of one of his alleged victims, "a ghost who ran through Scandinavia killing more than 30 people". The sadistic murderer was a media sensation and his bespectacled face stared out from front pages and television screens. The newspapers called him "the cannibal". Thomas Quick became Sweden's very own Hannibal Lecter.]]>
But then, in 2001, he stopped co-operating with the police. He withdrew from public view and changed his name back to the one he was born with. In 2008, Hannes Råstam, one of Sweden's most respected documentary-makers, became intrigued. He visited the former Thomas Quick, now known as Sture Bergwall, at Säter, trawled through the 50,000 pages of court documents, therapy notes and police interrogations and came to the startling conclusion that there was not a single shred of technical evidence for any of Bergwall's convictions. There were no DNA traces, no murder weapons, no eyewitnesses – nothing apart from his confessions, many of which had been given when he was under the influence of narcotic-strength drugs. Confronted with Råstam's discoveries, Bergwall admitted the unthinkable. He said he had fabricated the entire story.
TAMPA, Fla.—Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican who served under George W. Bush, declared his support for a second term for President Barack Obama.
"I voted for him in 2008, and I plan to stick with him in 2012," Powell said Thursday during an interview with "CBS This Morning." "I'll be voting for he and for Vice President Joe Biden next month."
Powell said he believed Obama's economic policies were helpful in turning around the sluggish economy, and he criticized Republican challenger Mitt Romney's stance on foreign policy.
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However, each time the serial offender was stopped he managed to evade justice by giving a different address.
But then his cover was blown.
It was discovered that the man every member of the Irish police's rank and file had been looking for - a Mr Prawo Jazdy - wasn't exactly the sort of prized villain whose apprehension leads to an officer winning an award.
In fact he wasn't even human.
"Prawo Jazdy is actually the Polish for "driving licence" and not the first and surname on the licence," read a letter from June 2007 from an officer working within the Garda's traffic division.
Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian parachutist who broke the sound barrier by jumping to earth from the stratosphere said in an interview published Sunday he backed the idea of a dictatorship, though a moderate one.
He told Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung that such a dictatorship should be "led by experienced personalities coming from the private (sector of the) economy" to solve present social and economic problems.
Schwarzenegger's experience, said Baumgartner, who did not reveal whether the thought came to him during the four minutes and 20 seconds of his descent, showed "you can't do anything in a democracy."]]>
Police in Suðurnes were, for possibly the first time in the history of the region, called out to break up a party being held by cats.]]>
Morgunblaðið reports that residents living around a house known to be unoccupied for some time noticed several cats coming in and out of an open window. This piqued the curiosity of residents, who summarily called police to the location at around noon last Sunday.
Police arrived at the scene and, entering the house, found no people there. However, two to three cats - the exact number is still unclear - were allegedly occupying the house. According to police reports, the cats were "snuggling" on a couch that had been left behind by the previous residents.
Officers on the scene sprang into action, immediately evicting the cats from the house. They then ensured that all doors and windows into the house were securely closed and locked, in the hopes of preventing an incident of this sort from ever happening again.
Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which cracks the urea into nitrogen, water, and hydrogen.
The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.
The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.
This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.
1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity.
"Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and is the 15th largest economy in the world, it is practically feasible for Texas to withdraw from the union, and to do so would protect it's citizens' standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers which are no longer being reflected by the federal government."]]>
This was the kind of bullshit Ricks and Broadwell had been pushing — and it not only wasn't called bullshit, it was embraced as serious work. Ricks wasn't the only offender, of course — Petraeus more or less had journalists from many major media outlets slurping from the Pentagon's gravy train. The typical route was to have all the cash and favors funneled through a third party like the Center for a New American Security.]]>
CNAS was a Petraeus-inspired operation from its inception in 2007, and it made its reputation promoting Petraeus' counterinsurgency plans. No problem, right? Except that it put the journalists who were covering those same plans and policies on its payroll. For instance, New York Times Pentagon correspondent Thom Shanker took money and a position from CNAS and still covered the Pentagon; Robert Kaplan, David Cloud from the Los Angeles Times, and others produced a small library's worth of hagiographies while sharing office space at CNAS with retired generals whom they'd regularly quote in their stories.
Speaker Rebecca Kadaga described the bill's passing as a "Christmas gift" for the Ugandan people.]]>
The law will broaden the criminalization of same-sex relationships by dividing homosexuality into two categories; aggravated homosexuality and the offense of homosexuality.
'Aggravated homosexuality' is defined as gay acts committed by parents or authority figures, HIV-positive people, pedophiles and repeat offenders. If convicted, they will face the death penalty.
The 'offense of homosexuality' includes same-sex sexual acts or being in a gay relationship, and will be prosecuted by life imprisonment.
As part of Virginia's waiver to opt out of mandates set out in the No Child Left Behind law, the state has created a controversial new set of education goals that are higher for white and Asian kids than for blacks, Latinos and students with disabilities.
Here's what the Virginia state board of education actually did. It looked at students' test scores in reading and math and then proposed new passing rates. In math it set an acceptable passing rate at 82 percent for Asian students, 68 percent for whites, 52 percent for Latinos, 45 percent for blacks and 33 percent for kids with disabilities.
The death of a woman who was 17 weeks pregnant is the subject of two investigations at University Hospital Galway in the Republic of Ireland.And I can just see the hospital staff explaining all this Very. Slowly. But. In. A. Slightly. Shouty. Voice. Because, you know, foreign.
Savita Halappanavar's family asked several times for her pregnancy to be terminated because she had severe back pain and was miscarrying.
Her family claimed it was refused because there was a foetal heartbeat. She died on 28 October.
Her husband, Praveen, told the Irish Times that medical staff said his wife could not have an abortion because Ireland was a Catholic country and the foetus was still alive.
He has lost the ability to use a keyboard altogether and can do very little with a pen. His most recent four books have been written entirely by dictation, and with the help of his assistant of 12 years, Rob Wilkins.
Pratchett's assistant of 12 years, Rob Wilkins, also reveals that earlier this month, the author suffered an atrial fibrillation in the back seat of a New York taxi. Were it not for emergency CPR, he would have died.
[Rhianna] will be a co-writer on the BBC Discworld series The Watch, news of which has had fans like me chewing their cheeks in excitement. Mine may never recover after hearing some particularly exciting casting details that I'm absolutely not allowed to tell you about.]]>
Run by Pratchett's new production company, Narrativia, The Watch will continue the well-loved City Watch saga where the books left off, and Rhianna will be an important member of the writing team. The author tells me that he will be happy for her to continue writing the Discworld books when he is no longer able to do so. "The Discworld is safe in my daughter's hands," Pratchett assures me.
Austin Texas continues to suffer difficulties stemming from the lack of civil, religious, and political freedoms imposed upon the city by less liberally minded Texans. It is entirely feasible for Austin to operate as its own state, within the United States, in the event that Texas is successful in the current bid to secede. It is important for Austin to remain in the union as to do so would protect it's citizens' standard of living and re-secure their rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers.]]>
We would also like to annex Dublin Texas, Lockhart Texas, & Shiner Texas.
Meat-eaters "easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes", according to a controversial school textbook available in India.]]>
New Healthway, a book on hygiene and health aimed at 11 and 12 year-olds, is printed by one of India's leading publishers.
Canadian scientists have shown that the deadliest form of the ebola virus could be transmitted by air between species.]]>
In experiments, they demonstrated that the virus was transmitted from pigs to monkeys without any direct contact between them.
The researchers say they believe that limited airborne transmission might be contributing to the spread of the disease in some parts of Africa.
They are concerned that pigs might be a natural host for the lethal infection.
A South Pacific island, shown on marine charts and world maps as well as on Google Earth and Google Maps, does not exist, Australian scientists say.]]>
The supposedly sizeable strip of land, named Sandy Island on Google maps, was positioned midway between Australia and French-governed New Caledonia.
But when scientists from the University of Sydney went to the area, they found only the blue ocean of the Coral Sea.
The phantom island has featured in publications for at least a decade.
However some in the twittersphere pointed out that those sharing the video shouldn't be also voicing their own prejudices, such as stereotyping people because of where they live]]>
"we collected data on 915,601 signatures [...] 319,415 unique combinations of names, places and dates, suggesting that a large number of people were signing more than one petition"
"In first week, of the 302,502 respondents with gendered names, 63% had male names and 38% had female names. This 26 point gender gap is twice the size of the gender gap for voters in the 2012 Presidential election. For signatures more recently, the gender gap has risen to more than 34 points."
The message was discovered by David Martin when he was renovating the chimney of his house in Surrey.
Among the rubbish, he found parts of a dead pigeon including a leg. Attached to the leg was a red canister. Inside the canister was a thin piece of paper with the words "Pigeon Service" at the top and 27 handwritten blocks of code.
This was given to GCHQ at the start of the month.
"We didn't really hold out any hopes we would be able to read the message because the sort of codes that were constructed to be used during operations were designed only to be able to be read by the senders and the recipients," said GCHQ historian Tony, who asked that only his first name be used.
He told the BBC: "Unless you get rather more idea than we have of who actually sent this message and who it was sent to we are not going to find out what the underlying code being used was."
"It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico."I'm not saying it's a US Navy death squad hunting down dolphins who have a secret past, but...]]>
A team of scientists can verify that their 5-year long DNA study, currently under peer-review, confirms the existence of a novel hominin hybrid species, commonly called "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch," living in North America. Researchers' extensive DNA sequencing suggests that the legendary Sasquatch is a human relative that arose approximately 15,000 years ago as a hybrid cross of modern Homo sapiens with an unknown primate species.]]>
Scientists have found life in an Antarctic lake that was sealed off from the outside world by a thick sheet of ice several thousands of years ago.
Brine collected from boreholes drilled into Lake Vida contains scores of bacteria that clung on to life despite making their home in one of harshest environments on Earth.
The lake lies in a barren region called the McMurdo Dry Valleys, in the east of the continent. The water in Lake Vida is acidic, starved of oxygen, and so salty that it remains liquid despite its temperature hovering around the -13C mark all year round.
Researchers identified organisms from eight major groups of bacteria, among them common forms such as proteobacteria, firmicutes and bacteroidetes. Another group, the verrucomicrobia, are named for their wart-like bulges.
"Lake Vida is an incredibly harsh environment. It has not been exposed to the surface for thousands, if not millions, of years," said Mike Bentley, a professor of geology at Durham University. "If you understand life in extreme environments, you understand life better: it tells you what the controls are on life."]]>
On Aug. 30, a Japanese mathematician named Shinichi Mochizuki posted four papers to his faculty website at Kyoto University. Rumors had been spreading all summer that Mochizuki was onto something big, and in the abstract to the fourth paper Mochizuki explained that, indeed, his project was as grand as people had suspected. Over 512 pages of dense mathematical reasoning, he claimed to have discovered a proof of one of the most legendary unsolved problems in math.
Mochizuki was different. Depending on how you calculate it, he'd been working on a proof of ABC entirely by himself for nearly 20 years. During that time, he'd constructed his own mathematical universe and populated it with arcane terms like "inter-universal Teichmüller theory" and "alien arithmetic holomorphic structures."
Before mathematicians can even start to read the proof, or understand his four papers, they need to wade through 750 pages of Mochizuki's incredibly complicated foundational work in anabelian geometry. At the moment, there are only about 50 people in the world who know anabelian geometry well enough to understand this preliminary work. Then, the proof itself is written in an entirely different branch of mathematics called "inter-universal geometry" that Mochizuki—who refers to himself as an "inter-universal Geometer"—invented and of which, at least so far, he is the sole practitioner.
The show, Acercate a Los Astros, is an Astrology/Psychic/Numerology show. The host, Franklin Barazarte, is the producer. He personally burned Wayne. Franklin's wife, Adriana Azzi is the normal host, but she was out of town. The voodoo charges, and the suggestion that this was God's revenge, were made against the the show in general, and the Curiosidades team that were on the show (BJ Bueno, Wayne and Fran) in particular, by Domngo Bautista, host of the television program Super Revista.
In Samana (same island...Dominican Republic) a few years ago, during holidays...]]>
The owner of an hotel and the local magician asked me to perform the Steve Fearson floating cigarette in his discotheque. I did
Then, about 10 guys left their chairs, towards me. The owner told me not to move. The local magician had to explain to the group that it was THROUGH ME, thanks to my powers (I remember he used the formula "white great magician") that he could do his daily show on stage !!!!
As a precaution !
The following day, the owner told me that in fact, these clients wanted to ask me to "give" them the power to do the same thing with their own cigarettes...but as he also said...we never know.
Local mayor Miodrag Vujetic admitted: "People are worried, everybody knows the legend of this vampire and the thought that he is now homeless and looking for somewhere else and possibly other victims is terrifying people. We are all frightened."]]>
He added that it was all very well for people who didn't live in the area to laugh at their fears but he said nobody in the region was in any doubt that vampires do exist.
"We are 99.999 percent certain it was suicide," a Hamburg police spokeswoman told The Local.]]>
"There is no other explanation; no other motive and no other evidence."
Detectives have worked out that there was enough of an opening in the sack between the cable ties for Sattler to get an arm out and shoot himself so that afterwards the gun would fall to the ground. He would have had to have done this while perched on the edge of a bridge or jetty to ensure falling into the water.
News of a pioneering sex change operation, one of the first involving both surgery and hormone therapy, was announced in 1952 - exactly 60 years ago this weekend.]]>
"Ex-GI becomes blonde beauty!" screamed one headline as newspapers in the United States broke the news.
A quiet boy from New York, George Jorgensen, shocked a nation by returning from a trip to Denmark transformed into the glamorous Christine.
Sex changes in the UK:
• 42 - Median age at time of operation
• 11% - Rate of rise year on year
• 80% of sex changes are male to female
This assignment was this year given to year nine students at Northern Bay College in Geelong.
Denis Duthie was celebrating his parents' 50th wedding anniversary with drinks when his world suddenly went dark. As Stuff.co.nz reported, following a four-hour drinking spree — involving vodka on ice and whiskey — at his home on New Zealand's North Island, the 65-year-old chef tutor discovered he had gone blind.
Doctors suspected that Duthie was suffering from formaldehyde poisoning, which occurs when methanol — a common byproduct of home-brewed alcoholic beverages — metabolizes into formaldehyde, the Herald reported. In his case, they believed that the alcohol he had ingestedreacted with the five medications he was taking to manage his diabetes, stuff.co.nz reported. Treatment for this type of poisoning involves administering ethanol, which is commonly found in alcoholic beverages and prevents the formation of the harmful compound.
There was just one problem: the hospital lacked enough ethanol to serve as an effective antidote. All hope was not lost for Duthie, though, thanks to the medical staff's decision to improvise. They sent the hospital's registrar to purchase a $55 bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label whiskey from a local liquor store, and Duthie received a whiskey drip to his stomach through a tube routed first through his nose, the Herald reported.
Five days later, Duthie awoke in the intensive care unit with his sight restored, feeling "good as gold." Although he lost 14 kg (almost 31 pounds) in the hospital, he told the Herald that he was impressed with the creative cure.
Hannah Sabata is 19 and not very smart. Here's why: she stole a car and then robbed a bank of $6,256. She then made a YouTube video where she bragged about it, even going so far as to flash the cash that she stole, and the car keys to her new (stolen) car. Oh, and an ounce of weed… and an Insane Clown Posse pipe.]]>
A former death row inmate with intellectual disabilities has languished in the Texas prison system for over 30 years despite having no valid criminal conviction. Jerry Hartfield, an illiterate man with an IQ of 51, had his capital conviction overturned in 1980 because the jury at his trial had been improperly selected. A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial for Hartfield, but that trial has never happened. In 1983, then-Governor Mark White attempted to commute Hartfield's former death sentence to life without parole. However, a federal court has recently ruled that the commutation was irrelevant since Hartfield was not convicted of a crime. No action had been taken on the case until 2006, when another inmate helped Hartfield file a handwritten motion, asking that he be either retried or set free. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the petition, but a federal judge agreed with Hartfield, saying the decision overturning his conviction still stands. U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Hughes said, "Hartfield's position is as straightforward and subtle as a freight train....The court's mandate was never recalled, its decision never overturned, the conviction never reinstated; yet Hartfield never received the 'entirely new trial' ordered by the court." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit called the state's defense of Hartfield's incarceration "disturbingly unprofessional" and returned the case to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for further action. Given the Sixth Amendment's right to a speedy trial, it is not clear that Hartfield could be re-tried.]]>
The gunman, who was believed to be in his 20s, walked into a classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School where his mother was a teacher. He shot and killed her and then shot 18 students in the classroom. He also shot five other adults, and then killed himself inside the school. Various news outlets identified the shooter as Ryan Lanza. The shooting ranks among the worst in recent United States history.]]>
The suspect in the Connecticut school shootings is Adam Lanza, 20, the son of a teacher at the school where the shootings occurred, a law enforcement official said Friday. A second law enforcement official says the boy's mother, Nancy Lanza, is presumed dead.]]>
Adam Lanza's older brother, Ryan, 24, of Hoboken, N.J., is being questioned by police, said the first official. Earlier, a law enforcement official mistakenly transposed the brothers' first names.
MMA fighter Ray Elbe -- who competed on "Ultimate Fighter 9" -- had to be rushed to a hospital in Malaysia earlier this month and required 10 stitches ... after he BROKE HIS PENIS during sex.< /clench >]]>
Elbe told the whole story -- in painfully graphic detail -- on an MMA website ... explaining how he was having sex with his GF, who was "on top" ... when she bounced a little too high, and crunched Ray's erect penis.
According to Ray, his penis "fractured" ... and "blood was everywhere." Ray says he immediately passed out from the pain.
Jennifer Wederell, of Hawkwell, Essex, died at home in August - 16 months after the transplant at Harefield Hospital in London.(emphasis by me.)]]>
She had been on the waiting list for a lung transplant for 18 months when in April 2011, she was told there had been a match.
She married her fiance David Wederell in September last year, but by February 2012 a malignant mass was found in her lungs.
Colin Grannell said he believes his daughter would not have agreed to the transplant had she known the middle-aged donor was a heavy smoker.
The hospital has apologised for not giving her that choice.
Conspirators murdered Egyptian King Ramesses III by slitting his throat, experts now believe, based on a new forensic analysis.]]>
The first CT scans to examine the king's mummy reveal a cut to the neck deep enough to be fatal.
The secret has been hidden for centuries by the bandages covering the mummy's throat that could not be removed for preservation's sake.
It wasn't uncommon for boys to lie about their age in order to serve. Ray Jackson, who joined the Marines at 16 during World War II, founded the group Veterans of Underage Military Service in 1991, and it listed more than 1,200 active members, including 26 women.]]>
Among the study's other findings:]]>
• While aging has a detrimental effect on reasoning and short-term memory, it leaves verbal abilities "completely unimpaired."
• Smoking has a negative impact on verbal abilities and short-term memory but does not affect reasoning skills.
• People who play video games performed "significantly better" in terms of both reasoning and short-term memory.
• Products that are advertised to improve brain function aren't effective. "People who 'brain-train' are no better at any of these three aspects of intelligence than people who don't," Owen said.
People can still take the tests at cambridgebrainsciences.com/theIQchallenge. Owen said he hopes that 1 million people across the globe will eventually participate.
The fox urine is mixed with glycerin and water and is sprayed on the trunks of hundreds of evergreens in city parks to prevent them from getting clandestinely cut down and stolen. The smell of the fox urine is dulled outdoors in the cold, but becomes unbearable when "thawed" and brought into a warmer environment, like a house.]]>
"The fox urine smells like skunk. And this year, we added a little bit of skunk essence to it, so it's a really good batch," Dave Allder, a city parks supervisor, told the Lincoln Journal Star.
The freedom to vote, drive, conduct business, earn money, drink, smoke, swear, own a gun or wear pants was traditionally the exclusive province of men. Young girls were commonly forced into arranged marriages, often with much older men in distant villages. As an alternative, becoming a Sworn Virgin, or 'burnesha" elevated a woman to the status of a man and granted her all the rights and privileges of the male population. In order to manifest the transition such a woman cut her hair, donned male clothing and sometimes even changed her name. Male gestures and swaggers were practiced until they became second nature. Most importantly of all, she took a vow of celibacy to remain chaste for life. She became a "he". This practice continues today but as modernization inches toward the small villages nestled in the Alps, this archaic tradition is increasingly seen as obsolete. Only a few aging Sworn Virgins remain.]]>
In a 14-page opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that the "ancient gesture of insult is not the basis for a reasonable suspicion of a traffic violation or impending criminal activity."]]>
The Italian central bank has suspended all bank card payments in the Vatican, citing its failure to implement fully anti-money laundering legislation, Italian media report.]]>
The Holy See was required to meet European Union safeguards on finances by the start of 2013.
Its failure means tourists will have to pay cash at its museums and shops.
In August of 1966, 2 years prior to the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick wrote to the vice president of his production company and asked whether IBM — a company with whom Kubrick consulted during production, and whose logo briefly appears in the film — were aware of HAL's murderous actions in the story. His letter, and Roger Caras's reply, can be seen below.]]>
It's worth noting that both Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke have since denied that HAL represented IBM, and have claimed that the "one-letter shift" between the names "HAL" and "IBM" is purely coincidental.


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Rapper Layzie Bone of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony fame is the latest in a long list of celebrities who have acted heroically outside the spotlight. Here are some of the other celebrity turned real-life heroes.
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Later named Murrieta is located in Southern California's Inland Empire. Everyone who has a drivers license in this town has received a speeding ticket or a stop sign ticket by one of murrtowns douchie cops who hide behind bushes and small children to give tickets to old ladies and small children at the skate park. Most kids in high school are either jocks hoping to go to some college at the beach or out of state or dgaf bromiester scene rats taking everything from prescription pills to bong rips of DMT. More professional motocross riders live here than anywhere in the world, the metal mulisha was originated in Murrtowns neighbor city TeeMec and there are more lifted trucks on every street than an Indian reservation. Tons of hot blonde chicks drive white Scions with Dior shades and if you hit up Old Town on a thursday night you have about 35% better chance of getting laid(though the women may be older than your mom). Tom Cruise is rumored to have a house in Greer Ranch and Pro skater Johnny Layton mastered most of his skills at the MurrPark Located on Cal Oaks. Mad kids are always running around the colony is the capital of golf for old people world wide. Most people in Murrtown complain about being bored allot and having nothing to do when they cant throw a party in there parents house so they post definitions on websites like this one to save themselves from the terrible death of masturbation.
MurrTown blows, lets take a trip to the bay and come back with a sheet of Lucy.
The last time I went to MurrTown I got crabs.
I swear god the next time I'm in MurrTown I'm bustin out my nine and bustin a cap in that pigs ass.
The last time I went to MurrTown I got crabs.
I swear god the next time I'm in MurrTown I'm bustin out my nine and bustin a cap in that pigs ass.
Hector Salvador Rahman Sabir tərəfindən 25 Aprel 2011
A slang term used by Murrietan kids to describe their town.
We're gonna give these guys an old-fashioned Murr-town Beat Down!!
jimmy002 tərəfindən 23 Yanvar 2009
Lesser known as Murrieta. A city full of nothing but dicks and sluts. Every girl claims to have been raped, and every guy claims to be a pro MX duude. If you don't smoke, put out, pretend to ride dirtbikes, or act fake, please don't come here.
Yooo dude, lets go to murrtown and pretend to inhale cigarettes and listen to shitty rap in our lifted truck!
Yeahhhhh d00d tərəfindən 07 May 2008