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Topps 3D Baseball Cards
I'm sure there are some baseball fans who visit this site, and if you collected baseball cards like I did…you'll find this amazing and eventually "on-topic" for a politics site…
But there is an economic angle to this…
Topps needs to augment reality because baseball cards are struggling in the Internet age. Today's collectors, most of whom are still boys, can just as easily and less expensively find the sports facts they want online.
While once a $1 billion business, the market for sports trading cards has shrunk to $200 million in yearly revenue today, according to information provided by Major League Baseball Properties in a recent lawsuit against a former card licensee. (The players' association licenses the right to use players' likenesses.) […]
Michael Eisner, the former chief of Walt Disney, did too, and in 2007 his Tornante Company and Madison Dearborn Partners bought Topps for $385 million. They hatched big plans to make trading cards relevant again.
Total Immersion, a French company, brought Topps the augmented reality technology. It has already been used in a theme park and for some auto design work. Using the technology, card collectors see a three-dimensional version of a player and can play elementary pitching, batting and catching games using the computer keyboard.
Mr. Eisner said Topps expected to ship 10 million packs of Series 1 (12 cards for $2) and Topps Attax cards this year (5 for $1). Scott Kelnhofer, editor of Card Trade, an industry publication, says the Total Immersion technology could strike a chord with boys. "This is the boldest technology idea we've seen in sports cards so far. The key is not to have it be a novelty and then it's on to the next one.
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A New Look and a New Design for our magazine has begun with the Fall issue of Civitas Review. We examine predatory borrowing, and how our state has grown deeper into debt over the past 8 years. Other articles include discussion on oil drilliing, unaffiliated voters, and life/family issues.
Civitas Review – Fall 2008
This article was posted in Civitas Review by efield on October 29, 2008 at 9:18 AM.
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PONTOTOC – Starting pitcher Jon Michael Hannon and Pontotoc were sailing through Monday night's game against Tupelo before the unfortunate happened.
Pontotoc's 2-0 lead entering the sixth inning became a distant memory as Tupelo (9-3) erupted for 14 runs in the final two innings to beat the Warriors 14-2.
"I thought we played really good baseball for 51/3 innings," said Pontotoc coach Phil Webb, "and as soon as Tupelo put some pressure on us we didn't handle it very well.
"We made two critical errors in that sixth inning and we never regained our composure."
Hannon (1-1) was effective through five innings, allowing no runs and no hits, while striking out seven and walking eight. He struck out the first batter to begin the sixth before allowing three consecutive singles to load the bases.
Blake O'Callaghan then relieved Hannon and things went downhill from there for the Warriors (14-3-1).
O'Callaghan walked Collin Dexter to force in a run, surrendered RBI singles to John Gatlin and Lex Rutledge, and was victim of a two-run throwing error on a ground ball to short.
However, three of Tupelo's runs that inning were charged to Hannon.
Getting 'a chance to win'
Hannon "did a real good job," Webb said. "He got out of some jams. He got out of some big bases-loaded jams with some strikeouts. Couldn't ask for anything more out of him.
"He gave us a chance to win and unfortunately we couldn't play defense behind him and get it done."
Jake Smithey put Pontotoc up 2-0 in the bottom of the fourth when he homered to left center off Tupelo starter Perrin Crews following a one-out double by Nathan White.
Crews, who made his first start of the season on Monday, was lifted for Kyle Graham with one out in the bottom of the fifth.
Graham only allowed two runners to reach base in the final 22/3 innings as he earned his first win of the season.
Crews allowed five hits and two walks, while striking out two.
"Just what we wanted out of those two," Wave coach Gary Enis said. "I'm very proud of those two for the way they threw strikes and allowed the defense to make plays."
Dexter and Jacob McGregor had three-run homers in the top of the seventh for Tupelo.
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The Big Downside Of The Natural-Cosmetics Movement
One of the more interesting points (one that we had actually never considered) is how the backlash against parabens may actually be making our products more harmful. Although there is no scientific evidence that directly links (key phrasing there) parabens to any health concern, cosmetics companies know it's a scary buzzword among their consumers. So, before finding alternative preservatives, they'll pull parabens from their products.
Good idea, right? Not always. Pull your preservative and you're opening the door to an increased risk of microbial contamination in products. In fact, natural brand Badger — which keeps parabens out of its products — had a massive sunscreen recall in 2013 because of microbial contamination.
Now, the post doesn't claim that parabens should be present in all of our products (and we agree — no need to go overboard). But, it does point to a bigger issue. We rely on synthetics to keep our products safe, but not everyone is happy with synthetics. Still, instead of finding alternative preservatives, we simply ditch the chemical ones and call it a day. We'd like to see the natural community and the cosmetics industry putting resources into finding a preservative that makes both sides happy. Then, maybe, we could make a little headway on the whole "natural or not" debate.
Fashionista's post covers many aspects of the safe-cosmetics movement, so head over there to read more. You may start to see the debate in an entirely different way. (Fashionista)
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I've done a ton of web3d earlier in the decade and not as much now...what are you making the 3D for? Ie, are you wanting to make stuff to use with code you write for a game? or just looking to make cool graphics for ads, web, etc?
I ususally point people to Blender if you're wanting a WYSIWYG tool and it can export to X3D for the Web or other formats that can be used with 3DS Max, Maya, etc and is the right price (free) vice the $5K for a legal copy of 3DS Max, etc. Course if you're the type who codes your HTML in a text pad, then X3D-Edit is a cool, free tool for X3D (web based XML 3d). Believe 3DS Max and Maya can only export to X3D now-adays but haven't mucked with those tools for a while now.
Blender and X3D both have some decent, free tutorials online. I usually teach folks to:
1 - Make something with geometry
2 - Add color and light
3 - Add some textures (2D images mapped to 3D)
4 - Make it move (ie animation)
5 - Repeat, then make a basic game to get down game scripting
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Kate peeked under her bandaged up hand and winced at the dark gash on her hand. She visited the Doctor, who praised her on her quick reactions in cleaning the wound, he supplied her with some antibiotics in the instance that the wound became infected. So far it hadn't.She applied her lip stick and picked up her hand bag and walked out the door. She got in her car and turned on the radio, a slow romantic like song played straight away. She sighed and reversed, keeping the song playing. She drummed on the steering wheel, not to any particular beat, but more her own. The pressure on her injured hand sent sharp strikes of pain up her arm. She probably should of walked, but she just didn't have the energy for it.Eventually she arrived at the part of town she had intended to park, she dropped her coins into the parking meter and walked the extra ten seconds to the entrance to the cafe, she peered around and saw Ollie, sitting alone, waving at her.
"Sorry I'm late, I decided to drive." she apologised.
"Oh thats fine, didn't realise" he laughed.
"So, where's Jo today then?" she faked interest.
"Oh she's off with her friends again, not sure what they're up to though."The pair changed the subject mutually with no lingering awkwardness, Ollie peered down looking at Kate's bandaged hand.
"So did you go to get that checked?"
"Yeah the Doctor told me I'd be fine... No losing limbs for me" she laughed the same almost strained laugh Ollie witnessed most of the time, and as usual he could only smile back.There was a fragility to Kate that Ollie noticed a lot, he wondered if she noticed his and doubted it."Anything planned after this then?" Ollie asked smiling,
"Gosh, I need to clean the house, James is home tomorrow and the place is a tip..."
"Oh is he? Great."
"I'd love for you two to meet up, after christmas obviously." Kate smiled again.
"That would be cool, love to meet the guy."The pair finished their coffees and departed from one an other, Ollie returned to work and Kate to her home.
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The Locust Grove Car Show will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Fiat that was built in Poughkeepsie.
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A 1913 Fiat built in Poughkeepsie will mark its 100th anniversary at the eighth annual Locust Grove Car Show on Sunday.
According to owner Ed Dina of Marlboro, after it was purchased by the Smiley family, who owned and operated Mohonk Mountain House, a historic Victorian castle resort, for more than 140 years, the car was passed among several foreign collectors before making its way back to America in the mid-1990s. ...


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The ability to integrate with a video program may be useful feature in the future.
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Giant Food Stores on Wednesday announced it had removed a product from shelves after a recall by Simply Natural Foods LLC.
Simply Natural Foods recalled its Simply Lite Dark Chocolate Bars because of an allergen's not being properly listed on the ingredient label. The product may contain milk protein, while the label says it may only contain trace amounts.
The allergy can cause a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction. Symptoms include hives; flushed skin or rash; tingling or itchy sensation in the mouth; face, tongue or lip swelling; vomiting and/or diarrhea; abdominal cramps; coughing or wheezing; dizziness and/or lightheadedness; swelling of the throat and vocal cords; difficulty breathing; loss of consciousness.
The item at risk and included in the recall is the 3-ounce Simply Lite Dark Chocolate Bar, with UPC 0079020012, with lot numbers 01182015A and 01192015A.
Giant has received no reports of illness related to the item recalled, but it is advising customers to discard unused portions and bring their purchase receipt to the grocery store for a full refund, according to a news release.
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Why Swedish-speaking Finns are better than Finnish-speaking Finns
Roughly 5% of Finns are native Swedish speakers known as the "Swedish Finns" or [confusingly] "Finnish Swedes" or [more accurately] "Swedish-speaking Finns" or [Swedishly] "finlandssvenskar" or [Finnishly] "pappa betalar".
You'll find most of them located on the southern and western coasts of Finland. They came over centuries ago from Sweden as part of the country's crusade to spread Christianity and more importantly, expand Sweden's borders. While most are bilingual, speaking both Swedish and Finnish, you will find a few hillbillies up north who only learned Swedish, essentially quarantining themselves off to a very small part of the country.
They have their own political party which unsurprisingly gets roughly 5% of the vote during elections. They even created their own flag. (identical to the Finnish flag, but with bright red background and Ikea-yellow cross). They have their own semi-autonomous islands, the Åland Islands, located southwest of Finland, but actually much closer to Sweden. Rumor says when all good Swedish-Finns die they go to Åland, or "Finlandssvenskar heaven" – it's kinda like South Florida for American Jews.
Swedish-speakers are far superior to the Finnish-speakers in every way imaginable – They're wealthier, they're more educated, they're more cultured, they're more sophisticated, they're more international, they're have better social skills, better clothes, better looks, a wayyyyy better language (and easier), they don't get drunk, they all drive Mercades, they all have boats, they all have summer cottages in the archipelago for their boats, their language is pleasing to the ear, they throw crayfish parties in the summer where they systematically throw expensive crayfish into the trash and giggle while drinking schnapps, their language doesn't sound robotic drone from the 1950′s. I could go on and on, but you get the picture: Swedish-Finns are better. (once more: Jews)
Unfortunately my partner is a Finnish-speaker, so I won't ever inherit a boat or a cottage in the archipelago for that boat – so here's some nasty stereotypes Finns say about the Swedish-Finns: they're snobs, they think they're better than everyone, they're gay, they're Swedish, they don't allow Finnish-speakers into their cliques, they don't give jobs to Finnish-speakers, they control all the power in Finland, they force people to learn Swedish, they have an easier time getting into schools cause the requirements aren't as hard, they're loud, at pubs they feel the need to sing stupid songs in unison, they bribed Google Maps to display only Swedish city and road names, handball is lame. I could go and on, but you get the picture: Finnish-speakers are jealous.
I kid, I kid. But it's all true: There's probably know bigger taboo in Finland than the relationship between the Finnish speakers and Swedish speakers. You'll never hear the feeling of animosity discussed publicly. When the two groups are together they'll never say anything mean, but get them each alone and they'll…make subtle, caddy comments. But in reality, they're all just one big unhappy family.
This car is clearly owned by a Finnish-speaker, as it's an Opel and not a Mercedes.
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Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
|The Right Honourable
The Lord Rothschild
Bt, GBE, GM, FRS
|Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild
31 October 1910
|20 March 1990(aged 79)
|Alma mater
|Trinity College, Cambridge
|Barbara Judith Hutchinson
Teresa Georgina Mayor
with Hutchinson:
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|Charles Rothschild
Rozsika Rothschild (née Edle von Wertheimstein)
|Amartya Sen (Son-in-law)
Serena Dunn Rothschild (Daughter-in-law)
Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, Bt, GBE, GM, FRS[1] (31 October 1910 – 20 March 1990), was a biologist by training, a cricketer and a member of the prominent Rothschild family.
Early life[edit]
Rothschild was the only son of Charles Rothschild and Rozsika Rothschild (née Edle von Wertheimstein). He had three sisters. Rothschild was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Physiology, French and English. He played first-class cricket for the University and Northamptonshire. At Cambridge he was known for his playboy lifestyle, driving a Bugatti and collecting art and rare books.
At Trinity, Rothschild joined the Cambridge Apostles, a secret society, which at that time was predominantly Marxist, though he "was mildly left-wing but never a Marxist".[2] There he became friends with the future Soviet spies Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, who were also members, and Kim Philby—not a member—who became the most important Soviet spy in Britain. Rothschild gave Blunt £100 to purchase "Eliezer and Rebecca" by Nicolas Poussin.[3] The painting was sold by Blunt's executors in 1985 for £100,000 (totalling £192,500 with tax remission)[4] and is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum.[5]His flat in London was shared with Burgess and Blunt. This later aroused suspicion that he was the so-called Fifth Man in the Cambridge Spy Ring. Rothschild inherited his title at the age of 26 following the death of his uncle Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild on 27 August 1937, and sat as a Labour Party peer in the House of Lords.
World War II[edit]
Rothschild was recruited to work for MI5 during World War II in roles including bomb disposal, disinformation and espionage, winning the George Medal for "dangerous work in hazardous circumstances".[6] He was the head of B1C, the "explosives and sabotage section", and worked on identifying where Britain's war effort was vulnerable to sabotage and counter German sabotage attempts. This included personally dismantling examples of German booby traps and disguised explosives.[7]
Because of his association with Burgess and Blunt, he was questioned by Special Branch at the time of Blunt's unmasking in 1964 (though Blunt was not publicly identified as a Soviet agent until 1979 in the House of Commons by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher) and was apparently cleared, subsequently working on projects for the British government. Rumours continued to circulate, and Rothschild himself took the step of publishing a letter in British newspapers on 3 December 1986 to state "... I am not, and never have been, a Soviet agent." Roland Perry's 1994 book The Fifth Man (London: Pan Books, 1994) repeated the charges without firm authority, and there remains no hard proof to say that Rothschild in fact spied for the Soviet Union.[8]
However, in 1993, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, six retired KGB colonels in Moscow including Yuri Modin, the spy ring's handler, alleged that Rothschild was indeed the "Fifth Man". Perry writes: "According to ... Modin, Rothschild was the key to most of the Cambridge ring's penetration of British intelligence. 'He had the contacts,' Modin noted. 'He was able to introduce Burgess, Blunt and others to important figures in Intelligence such as Stewart Menzies, Dick White and Robert Vansittart in the Foreign Office...who controlled Mi-6."[9] By contrast, Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin's book The Mitrokhin Archives makes no mention made of Rothschild as a Soviet agent and instead identifies John Cairncross as the Fifth Man.
Post-war work[edit]
After the war, he joined the zoology department at Cambridge University from 1950 to 1970. He served as chairman of the Agricultural Research Council from 1948 to 1958 and as worldwide head of research at Royal Dutch/Shell from 1963 to 1970. He continued to work in security as an adviser to Margaret Thatcher. He was also head of the Central Policy Review Staff from 1971 to 1974 (known popularly as "The Think Tank")[10] a staff which researched policy specifically for the Government until Margaret Thatcher abolished it. In 1982 he published An Enquiry into the Social Science Research Council at the behest of Sir Keith Joseph, a Conservative minister and mentor of Margaret Thatcher.
He appears several times in the book Spycatcher written by Peter Wright, who he hoped would clear the air over suspicions about his wartime role. He was still able to enter the premises of MI5 as a former employee. He was aware of suspicions that there was a "Mole" in MI5 but he felt himself to be above suspicion. While Edward Heath was Prime Minister he was a frequent visitor to Chequers, the Prime Minister's country residence. Throughout his life he was a valued adviser on intelligence and science to both Conservative and Labour Governments.
Despite being an opposition Labour party peer, in 1987, during the Thatcher Government, Victor played a role in the sacking of BBC Director General Alasdair Milne, who had backed the programmes 'Secret Society', 'Real Lives',[11] and 'Panorama: Maggie's Militant Tendency' which had angered the Thatcher government. Marmaduke Hussey, who was Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors at the time, implied Rothchild initiated the Milne sacking in his autobiography Chance Governs All.[12]
At the end of his career, he joined the family bank as chairman in an effort to quell the feuding between factions led by two of his younger relatives. In this he was unsuccessful.
In 1933, he married Barbara Judith Hutchinson (born 1911). They had three children.[13]
- Sarah Rothschild (born 1934)[13]
- Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild (born 1936) (later Jacob Rothschild) 4th Baron Rothschild[13]
- Miranda Rothschild (born 1940)[13]
In 1946, he married Teresa Georgina Mayor (1915–1996). Mayor's maternal grandfather was Robert John Grote Mayor, the brother of English novelist F. M. Mayor and a greatnephew of philosopher and clergyman John Grote. Her maternal grandmother, Katherine Beatrice Meinertzhagen, was the sister of soldier Richard Meinertzhagen and the niece of author Beatrice Webb.[14][15] They had four children:[13]
- Emma Georgina Rothschild (born 1948), married the Bengali Hindu economist Amartya Kumar Sen (b. 1933) in 1991.[13]
- Benjamin Mayer Rothschild (born and died 1952).[13]
- Victoria Katherine Rothschild (born 1953) is an academic lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London and the second wife and widow of English writer Simon Gray (1936–2008).[13]
- Amschel Mayor James Rothschild (1955–1996), married to Anita Patience Guinness of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Guinness family. Amschel committed suicide in 1996.[16] They had three children:
- Kate Emma Rothschild Goldsmith (b. 1982) who married Ben Goldsmith, the son of the late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith {of the Goldschmidt family} and Lady Annabel Goldsmith, in 2003 at St. Mary's Church in Bury St. Edmunds. They have three children: Iris Annabel (b. 2004), Frank James Amschel (b. 2005) and Isaac Benjamin Victor (b. 2008). In 2012, the couple announced that they were divorcing after it was alleged that Kate had an affair with American rapper Jay Electronica.[13][17]
- Alice Miranda Rothschild (b. 1983) is engaged to Zac Goldsmith, British Conservative Party politician, and the brother of her sister Kate's husband.[13][17]
- James Amschel Victor Rothschild (b. 1985)[13] is engaged to Nicky Hilton, second child and second daughter of Richard Hilton and his wife, née Kathy Avanzino, and a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, who was the founder of Hilton Hotels.[18]
Born into a nominally Jewish family, in adult life Rothschild declared himself to be an atheist.[19]
His sister Miriam Louisa Rothschild was a distinguished entomologist.
His sister Nica de Koenigswarter was a bebop jazz enthusiast and patron of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.
Honours and awards[edit]
- 3rd Baron Rothschild, of Tring, co. Hertford [U.K., 1885], 27 August 1937.
- 4th Baronet Rothschild [U.K., 1847], 27 August 1937.
- Knight Grand Cross, Order of the British Empire (G.B.E.), 1975.
- Knight, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (K.St.J.).
- Knight, Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
- Fellow, Royal Society (F.R.S.), 1953.
- Major, Intelligence Corps.
- George Medal (G.M.) (United Kingdom), 1944.
- Legion of Merit (United States), 1946.
- Bronze Star Medal (United States), 1948.
See also[edit]
- ^ Reeve, Suzanne (1994). "Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, G.B.E., G.M., Third Baron Rothschild. 31 October 1910-20 March 1990". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 39: 364–326. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0021.
- ^ Rose, Kenneth (2004). "Rothschild, (Nathaniel Mayer) Victor, third Baron Rothschild (1910–1990)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (revised ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 March 2007.
- ^ Rose (2003), pp. 47-48.
- ^ "Eliezer and Rebecca by Nicolas Poussin". Art Fund. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ "Eliezer and Rebecca". Fitzwilliam Museum Collections. 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 36452. p. 1548. 4 April 1944.
- ^ Macintyre, Ben (2007). Agent Zigzag : the true wartime story of Eddie Chapman. London: Bloomsbury. pp. 172–173. ISBN 9780747587941.
- ^ The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography concludes: "The carefree friendships of Rothschild's early Cambridge years that had continued throughout the war cast a shadow over the last decade of his life. The defection of Burgess to Russia and the uncovering of Blunt as a Soviet agent exposed Rothschild to innuendo and vilification in press and parliament. Rather than let his name record of public service speak for themselves, he sought unwisely to clear himself through the testimony of Peter Wright, an investigator employed by MI5 had every reason to know of his innocence. Clandestine association with so volatile a character aroused further suspicions that Rothschild had broken the Official Secrets Act. Only after voluntarily submitting himself to a long interrogation by Scotland Yard did he emerge with honour and patriotism intact."
- ^ Perry, Roland (1994). The Fifth Man. London: Sedgwick & Jackson. p. 89. ISBN 9780283062162.
- ^ Wright, Peter (1987). Spycatcher. Toronto: Stoddart. p. 347. ISBN 0-7737-2168-1.
- ^ "History of the BBC: Real Lives 1985". BBC.
- ^ Hussey, Marmaduke (2001). Chance Governs All. Macmillan Publishing Company. ISBN 9780333902561.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "The descendants of Charles Rothschild" (PDF). The Rothschild Foster Trust. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- ^ "Teresa Georgina Mayor". The Peerage.com. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ Annan, Noel; Ferguson, James (18 September 2011). "Obituary: Teresa, Lady Rothschild". The Independent (London: INM). Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ Ibrahim, Youssef M. (12 July 1996). "Rothschild Bank Confirms Death of Heir, 41, as Suicide". The New York Times (New York, NY: NYTC). Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ a b Nicholl, Katie (2 June 2012). "Rothschild heiress's marriage to Goldsmith scion is over... after she falls for a rapper called Jay Electronica". Daily Mail Online. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ Lee, Esther; Brown, Brody (12 August 2014). "Nicky Hilton Engaged to James Rothschild: Hotel Heiress to Marry Heir". Us Weekly. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ Wilson (1994), p. 466.
- ^ Jonkers, Philip A. E. "Movers and Shakers of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta". moversandshakersofthesmom.blogspot.com. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- Rose, Kenneth (2003). Elusive Rothschild: The Life of Victor, Third Baron. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-81229-7.
- Wilson, Derek (1994). Rothschild: A story of wealth and power. London: Andre Deutsch. ISBN 0 233 98870 X.
- See also the list of references at Rothschild banking family of England
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Is there anyone out there who has children at Two Rivers Primary in Tamworth. My daughter has autism and is due to start in September in reception.
I have elder children at our local mainstream primary, and my concern is that I also work so need before/after/holiday care. My other children can attend their primary school breakfast and after school club, or any of the avaiable holiday clubs, but this isn't the case for my daughter. The impression i get is that this isn't avaiable at Two Rivers so wondered if there was anyone who has children there and to ask what you do as working parents???
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Hi my son has been at two rivers for a year and is staying in purple room next year so will be in the same class as your daughter he's also severely autistic there are no before and after school provisions unfortunately, prob due to being special ed but they do run a playspace scheme for two weeks during the summer hols x
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The Orlando Sentinel spoke with Dave Andreychuk, former NHL player and current Tampa Bay Lightning executive about the NHL lockout that busted an entire season with the owners getting the same kind of reset the NBA owners are now aiming for. Andreychuk says that standing up for your profession just isn't worth it. Because you'll lose anyway.
"If players think its better to sit out the season, let me tell you, its not. Its just not," Andreychuk says. "In the end, it will be worse."via NBA Lockout: Former NHL player Dave Andreychuk tells current NBA players: Sitting out the season will only make it worse - OrlandoSentinel.com.
"As the pressure built — after a month, two months, three months — it started to sink in," recalls Andreychuk, now a team executive with the Lightning. "Guys were saying to themselves, Im 25 years old and hockey is how I make my living. We need to get a deal done. "
"The deal got worse by us sitting out," Andreychuk admits. "At the end, we were so willing to sign, we had to agree to what the owners wanted. We gave back a tremendous amount just to get a deal done so we could go back to work."
Pretty uncool statements from one former player to another. But his point that the players are going to lose anyway, that's the reason so many people were urging the players to at least return the offer with modifications instead of disclaiming interest or decertifying. The players have put themselves in a position where if they don't win a court decision, several of them consecutively, actually, or if the threat thereof does not spook the owners, they'll lose everything. They'll have their collective bargaining heads caved in when they recertify to approve the deal.
But still, you'd think that a player that has been down that road that has fought that battle would at least publicly support another professional athlete. Maybe Maybe he and Michael Jordan can go bowling and talk about what it's like to bail on your former colleagues.
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What Phil said: "Despite the popularity of cheap smartphones, this will never be the future of Apple's products ..."
What Phil didn't say: " ... outside the People's Republic of China."
What he meant: "We might need to make a cheaper iPhone specifically for China Mobile, that only runs on their proprietary 3G-variant network, in order to get them to sign a deal. Don't get your hopes up, Western cheapskates. It will only run on China Mobile's network."
What I say: "And it would be worth it. Vastly increased China market share, hundreds of millions more iOS / iCloud users. Zero gray market cannibalization of the 'expensive' iPhone models."
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You and I are never going to agree on this processor issue. Fine.
You said yourself on the other thread Apple could handle Mac-like 6 month upgrades without re-branding the hardware every time. And those Mac upgrades were for small feature bumps to things like the processors.
So if Apple does as you suggest with the iPad family, wouldn't they do it with the iPhone family? In which case how would they distinguish the flagship iPhone from the last two year's budget iPhones? It's easy with the iPad mini -- it looks different. You see the reason to spend more or less.
I don't gloss over the processors at all in my list. I focus on the major improvements that compel most users to upgrade. And the main items are usually features -- the ones Apple targets. The 3G added 3G but little else. The 3G and 3GS were virtually identical, but the "S" stands for speed as marketed by Apple. And it was only a marginal improvement, but Apple promoted he hell out of it, knowing that the 2 year contracts on the original 2G phones were expiring and those users would all upgrade to get the 3G alone. Any speed bump was a bonus, but substantial compared to the original pokey little processor. In fact those three are a perfect example of distinguishing a choice had they been offered as they are today -- 2G-free, 3G-mid, 3GS high. The 4 was marketed almost exclusively as a retina display device. That was the reason to upgrade. And it was sexy. And it had a flash, and it was faster. Obvious distinction. When the 4S replaced it, it offered high speed HSPA+. It wasn't just faster internally, it offered access to faster Internet speeds the 4 doesn't! Likewise for the 5. There are arguably not a lot of reasons to upgrade other than it offers 4G LTE and the 4S just doesn't. But lets say your satisfied with AT&T pseudo 4G, they also offer a bigger screen!! And a faster processor to boot. There's a clear distinction for the consumer. If the next gen iPhone is essentially a "5S", what will distinguish it? Merely that it has a faster processor? Just how fast does a phone need to be, especially when battery life must be considered? That's when the distinction breaks down. That's when the choice between the 5 & the "5S" becomes confusing. Not to mention a "6".
I'm not saying a new processor doesn't warrant an upgrade along with all the other minor improvements, but if its not a distinct choice for the consumer, most will opt to save $100. All I'm saying is when you have three generations of LTE technology for sale at once, and the only major difference between them is processor speed, then it seems to me Apple's current marketing strategy will not be as effective. S why not take a page from the iPad marketing and introduce a dedicated mini?
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But that's not… It doesn't have to be. Why does it have to be last year's crap just because it's smaller? The iPhone makes sense: it's literally last year's device, cheaper. The iPad: it's two sizes, one with new hardware, the other "new" with old hardware.
Good. That's Apple's point. Buy the expensive one. And people actually think we need a cheaper iPhone?! HA!
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Remember when Verizon skewered the FCC's net neutrality rules? It may have won the battle, but Tom Wheeler doesn't believe that the carrier has won the war. The FCC chief has let slip that he's working on a plan to reinstate provisions for a free and open internet in the near future. He's backed by five Democratic senators, who are urging the head to be swift in restoring balance to the
force US communications business. The belief is that, in order to get around the loophole Verizon used to such good effect, the commission will simply reclassify broadband providers as common carriers, liable to the same regulation covering phone companies. It wouldn't go down well with Big Red and the like, but at least it'd hamper their evil plans to penalize you for that Netflix subscription.
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President Obama wants us to trust that our government will not abuse the massive collection of phone call records and Internet data by the National Security Agency.
We don't. And we shouldn't. There simply isn't enough meaningful oversight in place to assure us the information will not be used improperly. That has to change.
Obama's now-famous line that "Nobody is listening to your phone calls" contained more than a hint of disdain, as if Americans concerned about the surveillance exposed by leaker Edward Snowden were nothing more than crazed conspiracy theorists. Yet it was Obama and his fellow Democrats who were highly critical of similar NSA spying exposed under former President Bush in 2006.
In truth, the vast majority of Americans can be comforted by the fact that their lives are far too boring to interest our government. Spies aren't sitting around scrutinizing the latest church gossip from small-town Nebraska or catching up on the twentysomething social scene in Manhattan. The black helicopters won't come swooping in because you dared to put up a Republican campaign sign on your lawn.
But, somewhere out there in the vast unknown of the American populace is a large gray area of citizens in whom the administration may indeed have interest, not because of their potential involvement in terrorist activities or other criminal behavior, but because of their politics. When a government has this much unfettered power to track phone and Internet activity, domestic and foreign, it isn't hard to imagine an easy leap to misuse of that information against political enemies. All it takes are a few rogue elements, as was supposedly the case with the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups, or the Department of Justice obtaining phone records of Associated Press reporters.
Obama's defenders insist the president cannot reasonably be held accountable for every misstep that occurs within the vast government structure beneath him. It's a fair argument, but that also renders meaningless his assurances about the NSA, because he doesn't know.
What's needed here is genuine scrutiny of intelligence operations. Oversight exists - in name at least - from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Senate and House intelligence committees, but those activities are bathed in secrecy. The court also appears to be of little effect, reportedly turning down just 11 of more than 30,000 government requests for surveillance authority over 34 years. Obama's supporters say his administration's surveillance stands in contrast to the Bush-era activity because it had legal approval, but that's of little consequence - it came from the rubber-stamp surveillance court.
Despite all of these concerns, however, Snowden is no hero. While there was arguably value to the public in exposing the program, we also don't know to what degree national security has been jeopardized by the leaks. More importantly, however, the nation ultimately suffers if individual Americans with sensitive government jobs start deciding for themselves whether a particular government program is justifiable, because they won't always be right. Snowden needs to pay a stiff price.
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For the first time since crack cocaine sparked a war on drugs 20 years ago, the number of black Americans in state prisons for drug offenses has fallen sharply, while the number of white prisoners convicted for drug crimes has increased, according to a report released today.
The D.C.-based Sentencing Project reported that the number of black inmates in state prisons for drug offenses had fallen from 145,000 in 1999 to 113,500 in 2005, a 21.6 percent decline. Over the same period, the number of white drug offenders rose steadily, from 50,700 to more than 72,300, a 42.6 percent increase. The number of Latino drug offenders was virtually unchanged at about 51,000.
The findings represent a significant shift in the racial makeup of those incarcerated for drugs and could signal a gradual change in the demographics of the nation's prison population 2 million, which has been disproportionately black for decades. Drug offenders make up about a quarter of the overall prison population.
The Sentencing Project report and other experts said the numbers could reflect two factors: an increased reliance by prosecutors and judges on prison alternatives such as drug courts, and a shift in police focus to methamphetamines, which are used and distributed mostly by white Americans. In addition, the report said, crack cocaine use has declined steadily since the 1990s, and so have police arrests.
The report relied heavily on data compiled by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics and covered six years ending in 2005, the last year the bureau broke down the state prison population by race and drug offense.
African American drug offenders, who have been convicted most often for dealing and possessing crack cocaine, still made up a disproportionate share of the total, 44 percent in 2005. That was down from nearly 58 percent six years earlier, but still represented a disproportionate share, because black Americans make up only about 12 percent of the U.S. population.
The number of white state drug offenders rose from 20 percent to 29 percent, and Latino prisoners made up 20 percent of inmates.
"I have no doubt that crystal meth explains some of the white increase, but I'm not ready to say it's the reason for all of the white increase," said Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, which opposes stiff penalties for nonviolent drug crimes. "It's also hard to imagine that [drug courts] are not having some effect. Most drug courts are in urban areas where African Americans live."
Twenty percent of white inmates used methamphetamines in the month before they were arrested, compared with 1 percent of black inmates, according to interviews conducted in the nation's 14,500 state prisons and 3,700 federal prisons.
Drug courts offer nonviolent offenders the option of undergoing rigorous substance abuse treatment and criminal rehabilitation or going to jail. There are more than 2,000 such courts in operation, mostly in cities with large black communities that were ravaged by violence associated with crack cocaine. White suspects are also increasingly winding up in drug courts for abusing methamphetamines.
Mauer also hypothesized that drug dealers might have shifted from open air crack cocaine markets to dealing indoors, making them harder for police to bust. And he speculated that because so many African American men have been incarcerated, there are fewer on the street to be arrested.
But James E. Felman, co-chairman of the Sentencing Committee for the American Bar Association, said that in Tampa, where he practices law, police are still arresting black suspects for crack possession and distribution, and handing out long sentences.
"I can't second-guess their study, but I haven't seen a change," Felman said. "Maybe we're getting smarter on crime in some states. That could be part of it."
David Muhlhausen, a senior policy analyst for the conservative Heritage Foundation, said stronger police enforcement of methamphetamine trafficking and use, coupled with treatment options mostly for urban crack cocaine offenders, probably caused the shift. "There is some data out there that suggests that drug courts and drug treatments reduce recidivism," he said. "If you take the less serious offenders and put them into programs other than prison it would be a benefit to society."
The war on drugs began in 1986, when Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act to combat violence associated with the crack cocaine trade. Lawmakers were prompted by the death of University of Maryland basketball player Len Bias, who they mistakenly believed had died from ingesting crack. Bias overdosed on powder cocaine.
Last year, then-Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) joined several of his colleagues in saying his support of the legislation was a mistake. As a result of the law, more than a half-million people have been incarcerated for drug offenses in state and federal prison, a massive increase from the 40,000 who were jailed for the same offenses in 1980.
According to a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics last year, 7.2 million people are under prison supervision, as inmates, parolees and probationers, at a cost of about $45 billion per year.
California, which has one of the nation's largest prison populations, farmed out 170,000 inmates to private prisons as far away as Tennessee in 2006 to relieve costs, and has relaxed its penal code to relieve prison overcrowding.
Jeffrey L. Sedgwick, a former director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, said the record incarceration might be worth the cost. "As the number of people under correctional supervision goes up, crime goes down," he said. Conservative estimates put the cost of violent crime at about $17 billion, Sedgwick said.


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Naomi is one of Chicago's most celebrated environmentalists, advancing economic development in black neighborhoods. An attorney, activist, proud granddaughter of Mississippi sharecroppers Naomi is President/Founder of BIG: Blacks in Green™ – a national network and thought leader on green jobs and enterprise across 13 economic sectors. She authored and teaches "The 8 Principles of Green-Village-Building" -- a whole-system solution for the whole-system problems common to black communities everywhere – in lectures and workshops around the country and at the University of Chicago Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. Naomi works with neighbors to create "walk-to-work, walk-to-shop, walk-to-play, walk-to-learn villages."


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"Water is important since there is no life without it. Our people cannot move away from our wetlands because our life is bound to water. We draw our food from water. In the water we maintain our homes, and we live without harming our environment," says one Guato man. They call themselves "people of the river." North American researchers call them "aquatic nomads."
Once considered extinct, the Guato Indians now number approximately 400. They live in the Pantanal Region of southwestern Brazil, the largest wetland area in the world, and one of the most pristine and biologically diverse areas on earth. Some of this region spills over into Paraguay and Bolivia.
In the past, they practically lived in their canoes. The women sat in back to steer, while the men hunted from the front of the canoe. During the dry season, from April to October, the Guatos sometimes even spent the night on the river in their canoes. Only during the rainy season do they move to a high, dry spot of land and erect temporary shelters.
Today, some of the Guato have menial jobs, while some of the men serve as guides for eco-tourists. About 20 percent consider themselves Catholic, and about 80 percent practice folk religion.
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* Pray that the Lord would send hearty evangelical missionaries to live in the vast Pantanal Region.
* Pray that the Guato will come to know Christ, the true Living Water.
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Pet Tales
by Barry B. Burtis D.V.M.
Summer is almost here! Let the fun begin! For many families, enjoying a backyard pool will be a big part of that summer fun. Here's a word of caution, though, to make sure that this source of fun does not become a danger for your pet.
There are now approximately 60 million dogs and 67 million cats in North America. There will be between 400,000 - 450,000 new pools installed this year. 41.3% of pool owners have at least one pet. These numbers mean that accidental pet drownings will continue to increase unless there is increased awareness of the problem by pet owners.
Most healthy dogs and cats have an instinctive ability to swim. However, in many cases, they are able only to swim for a short time and for a short distance. As a result, if they are unable to get out of a pool, they may quickly experience difficulties. Vocalization which might alert the pet's owner to the problem, is usually not possible when the pet is in the water and swimming. Also, often the pet may try to escape by clawing or scratching at the nearest edge of the pool. Nails are broken to the quick, bleeding may begin and pain and panic worsen. The danger of the situation quickly escalates when this happens. Water is swallowed, breathing becomes laboured and the animal soon becomes exhausted.
Very old, very young and animals with a disability are most at risk of falling into a pool, in the first place, and will probably be in danger more quickly if they do. Pool covers that allow water to accumulate in them over the winter months can also be hazardous. Solar covers are also particularly dangerous for pets. They fall or try to walk on them, go under and are unable to get up.
Pet owners with pools should ask themselves: Is escape from the pool possible for my pet? Can my pet swim? Is my pet trained to escape from our pool? If the answer to any of those questions is no, then there may be no more than two to five minutes to rescue your pet to prevent an accidental drowning.
Here are several measures that a pet owner can take to try to prevent pool dangers for their pet. It is always best to prevent any pet access to a pool, if it is unsupervised. If a pet owner swims with a pet, it should be trained to go to steps in the shallow end of the pool, if they exist. It should also be remembered that even if steps are present, they may be too high for a small animal. Also, steps below the waterline may be invisible so a pet, particularly when stressed, may not be able to recognize them as an escape route. There are pet immersion alarms that pets can wear that alerts owners if their pet falls into a pool or off a boat. One such type of alarm, called the " Safety Turtle", produced by Terrapin Communications, fits a pet of any size, is portable and has been available for a number of years in North America.
With these facts in mind, you and your pet should be assured of many enjoyable hours in those lazy, hazy days of summer ahead. Barry Burtis is a local companion animal veterinarian. Past Pet Tales can be found at


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Not surprisingly, as with all emerging technology trends, finding people with the requisite skills is proving to be a challenge. Experts predict the role of data scientist will gain traction; typically a role focusing on data acquisition, and tackling complex questions such as 'what is its value?' and 'how do you change a business process based on the information that comes out of that analysis?'.
"Data architects will also become a real in-demand skill," Henrys predicts. "Having a consistent cross-organisation data architecture is a cornerstone to success."
But Professor Mark Whitehorn, chair of analytics at the University of Dundee, said finding the right people to work on Big Data projects was more about finding people with the right mindset and less about finding 'scientists in white coats'. "They have to be fundamentally curious, communicative and reasonably good with numbers. You can find [them] in your organisation or hire the skills in," he explained.
Big Data also stresses the need, more than ever, for business and IT to work together. But business-savvy IT staff are proving to be as elusive as ever. "Use of unstructured data demands a set of new skills," said Alpesh Doshi, a partner at Fintricity, a consultancy specialising in cloud, Big Data, social media and social business. "Insight requires creativity – it's not just about analysing the data, it's also about interpreting it."
Cultural shifts will also be required to embrace Big Data effectively, warned Christine Ashton, regional CIO at BG Group.
"We need to encourage data professionals to spend more of their time analysing data and less time massaging it," she said. "We also need to have trusted sources of data and let business people play with it. A lot of this is about behaviours and attitudes and the way we divide jobs up."
Identifying what data is relevant to your business is a good starting point. Bear in mind, experts say that one company's Big Data is the product of another company's 'data exhaust'. "Don't try to be too ambitious in your business case and build the perfect technology solution. By breaking the problem down, we've been able to get a lot more insight," said Ashton.
Needless to say, you're not going to find any shrink-wrapped solutions to solve your Big Data problems. "This isn't just about technology acquisition," warned Henrys. "There's a need for a holistic approach and an integrated business and IT strategy for this to really work."
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Advances in data insight may be the opportunity that growth-hungry businesses have been waiting for, and also offer the potential for public-sector organisations to improve their performance while potentially slashing their costs.
"Big Data offers a new paradigm for how we compete," said Richard Hammell, lead partner at Deloitte Analytics UK. "It should change the way we interact with customers. Get it right, and you will enter into a new era of competitiveness."
But this begs the question, as organisations look to exploit information assets, of the extent to which customers are losing control of their own data. Hammell is not alone in expressing concern at the lack of dialogue across both government and business about the implications of Big Data on protecting information assets. "How many companies ask themselves 'should we?'," he asked.
David Wilde, CIO of Essex County Council, is confident that the public sector has a good grasp of the privacy issues at stake: "The public sector is familiar with dealing with anonymised and private data. There's a very strong desire to gain access to very powerful data and the question is how you reconcile that with the right of the individual. We can't afford to get it wrong once and lose that trust – it's fundamental to what we do," he said.
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MY 86-year-old father is wheelchair-bound and lives in a residential home in Toton. He has communication problems following a stroke and has to attend a clinic at the City Hospital in Nottingham for a blood problem.
The following passage is taken from the QMC website and relates to hospital transport for the trust provided by Arriva Transport Solutions: "A new 'ring when ready' booking system has been introduced for return journeys. This means that patients are booked onto transport as soon as they finish their appointment, avoiding unnecessary waiting times... Patients will be collected within an hour."
Recently, my father and I sat for four hours until 8pm waiting for Arriva Transport to collect my father from the City Hospital to be taken home. I believe that if the hospital staff had not been so persistent, my father might not have been collected at all.
This is not the first time we have been stranded at the hospital but it has never been a four-hour wait before.
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The nurses who assisted us said that the transport system was not working and Arriva didn't seem to have enough ambulances or staff. Certainly their phone-answering system is not fit for purpose as they just keep you waiting.
Hospital transport is used by disabled, elderly and frail patients who are unable to travel by other methods. Arriva, as you can see from the above passage, promise to collect patients within an hour. This is not our experience and my father cannot even use a normal taxi, which can be ordered by the hospital staff should Arriva leave a patient stranded like this.
If we are paying Arriva to provide a service, then that is what they should be doing. If they cannot, then they should be replaced by a company who can. At present they are giving a substandard service and adding stress to vulnerable patients and stretched hospital staff.
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AR-15 with high-capacity magazines used by Adam Lanza in Sandy Hook School shooting
NEWTOWN, Conn. - Adam Lanza was equipped with an assault rifle and two handguns inside Sandy Hook School, Conn. State Police said. An additional weapon, a shotgun, was found in Lanza's vehicle outside the school.
Sunday was also the first official confirmation that Lanza was the shooter who killed six adults and twenty children inside the school.
According to Connecticut State Police Lt. Paul Vance, Lanza had multiple high-capacity magazines for the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle. Those high-capacity magazines held 30 rounds each, Vance said.
Lanza also had multiple magazines for the Glock 10mm and Sig Sauer 9mm handguns.
As a result, Vance said, Lanza was armed with "hundreds of bullets."
Saturday, Connecticut medical examiner Dr. H. Wayne Carver said the 7 victims he examined had each been shot between three and eleven times. He also said he believed each victim was shot multiple times.
If the three-to-eleven shot estimate is accurate for each victim, and Lanza used only 30-round magazines, he would have used between four and ten magazines.
State Police refused to comment on precisely how many magazines were emptied or shell casings were found, but said they had collected those items for examination.
Still, the shooting ended while Lanza still had enough unused ammunition to carry out significant additional carnage.
"There was a lot of ammo, a lot of clips," State Police Lt. Paul Vance. "Certainly a lot of lives were potentially saved."
Vance said Lanza used one of the handguns to take his own life, but wouldn't speculate on when or why Lanza decided to end his spree.
Early in the Sunday afternoon statement, Vance also confirmed that the shooter's mother, Nancy Lanza, was the victim found at an alternate location. She was shot four times in the head and found in her bed wearing pajamas, said a state official who was not authorized to disclose details of the investigation and spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Education officials said they had found no link between Lanza's mother and the school, contrary to news reports that said she was a teacher there. Investigators said they believe Adam Lanza attended Sandy Hook many years ago, but they had no explanation for why he went there Friday.
As President Barack Obama prepared a visit and churches opened their doors to comfort a grieving town Sunday, federal agents fanned out to dozens of gun stores and shooting ranges across Connecticut, chasing leads they hoped would cast light on Lanza's life.
Among the questions: Why did his mother, a well-to-do suburban divorcee , keep a cache of high-power weapons in the house? What experience did Lanza have with those guns? And, above all, what set him on a path to go classroom-by-classroom, massacring 6- and 7-year-olds?
At St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic church in Newtown, Jennifer Waters, who at 6 is the same age as many of the victims and attends a different school, came to Mass on Sunday in Newtown with a lot of questions.
"The little children — are they with the angels?" she asked her mother while fiddling with a small plastic figurine on a pew near the back of the church. "Are they going to live with the angels?"
Her mother, Joan, 45, assured her they were, then put a finger to her daughter's lips, urging her to be quiet.
An overflow crowd of more than 800 people attended the 9 a.m. service at the church, where eight children will be buried later this week. The gunman, Adam Lanza, and his mother also attended church here. Spokesman Brian Wallace said the diocese has yet to be asked to provide funerals for either.
Boxes of tissues were placed strategically in each pew and on each window sill. The altar was adorned with bouquets, one shaped as a broken heart, with a zigzag of red carnations cutting through the white ones.
In his homily, the Rev. Jerald Doyle, the diocesan administrator, tried to answer the question of how parishioners could find joy in the holiday season with so much sorrow surrounding them.
"You won't remember what I say, and it will become unimportant," he said. "But you will really hear deep down that word that will finally and ultimately bring peace and joy. That is the word by which we live. That is the word by which we hope. That is the word by which we love."


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We love the Yankees, and we love World Series baseball, but we don't love the fact that Fox is airing the Fall Classic this year.
That means no new Glee episode until November 11! Sigh.
Fortunately, we can at least give fans a sneak peek at what's to come on the installment "Wheels." It focuses on Quinn and Puck's relationship; while also letting Artie take center stage.
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Report: Furniture store that wagered with Texas A&M-South Carolina game now owes $1 million to over 600 customers
You may remember that the Ashley Furniture store in College Station ran a pregame promotion promising full refunds if Texas A&M beat South Carolina by more than 10 points.
Well, the Aggies came out on fire Thursday night and won by 24 points. And according to ESPN's Darren Rovell the store will repay more than $1 million to the over 600 customers who bought furniture between Aug. 16 and Aug. 27.
"Mark Wilks, who owns the store, told ESPN.com on Thursday night that more than 600 people bought items during that time period totaling more than $1 million in sales," Rovell reported. "One customer, Wilks said, bought $20,000 worth of furniture."
Wilks told Rovell that he has wanted to run the promotion for several years and that it paid off with the best month of sales in the store's eight-year history.
The catch? Wilks took out special insurance to cover the promotion. The insurance company will repay the customers, and the store will pay the insurance company 15 percent of the sales.
"We're going to have a big check-writing party at the store," Wilks said.