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Great news this morning, I am up to 3rd again, and I'm pushing on for 2nd place in the race. However I'm reluctant to get too excited at this point, at this stage in the race, everything is ultimately a question of strategy. Jean-Pierre Dick (skipper for Virbac Paprec, currently in 5th) has opted to take a more southerly route, which means he will get the new wind first when it comes in the next 24 hours. I will be one of the last to get the new wind so I have to hope I continue to have a good strong wind for today and hope they do not!
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Rattlers Add MarTay JenkinsOctober 21, 2004 - Arena Football League (1987-2008) (AFL I) - Arizona Rattlers Press Release
Jenkins attended the Rattlers open tryouts this past weekend, and impressed GM Gene Nudo and Todd Shell enough to garner a contract.
He looked very impressive at our workouts, said GM Gene Nudo. I think he can step in and help us. Hes been in the NFL, so he can play at an extremely high level.
In his three seasons with the Cardinals, Jenkins appeared in 47 games, making 70 catches for 987 yards and four touchdowns. He also returned 151 kickoffs for 3,865 yards and two touchdowns.
Im real glad to be here in Arizona, its good to be able to stay home, said Jenkins, who will play WR/DB for the Rattlers. I know a lot of guys on the team, the coaches have already accepted me and let me become part of the team. What can I say, its good to be a Rattler.
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ATHENS, OHIO--Still in search of its first win of the season, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore prepares for its last game of the 2012 season. The Hawks will fight the Midwest snow and cold in search of a win against its Mid-American Conference opponent Ohio University. The game is scheduled for a 2 p.m. start in Athens, Ohio.
Without leading scorer Kyree Jones active, the Hawks will look to veterans Louis Bell and Ishaq Pitt to shoulder the Hawks offense. Bell started at Connecticut, and scored a total of 12 points. Jones was averaging 16.6 points per game. Troy Snyder ranked second on the team with an average of 11.7 PPG.
Bell and Pitt average 5.2 and 6.3 PPG, respectively. As a team, UMES is scoring an average of 57.1 PPG, in comparison to the average of 76.8 points it is allowing opponents to score. Ohio enters the game 7-4 overall, and are coming off a 85-76 loss to the University of Massachusetts.
The Bobcats have three double-digit scorers in D.J. Cooper (14.8 PPG), Walter Offutt (11.7 PPG) and Nick Kellogg (10.1 PPG). UMES will certainly have to find a way defensively to slow the Bobcat's offensive production.
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Sidney Crosby believes Marc-Andre Fleury needs to play.
Coach Dan Bylsma strongly hinted otherwise Monday. He indicated Brent Johnson will start for the Penguins at home Wednesday night -- adding that Fleury, the club's struggling franchise goalie, "doesn't have (confidence) right now."
Crosby's assessment differs. He thinks Fleury needs to play his way out of a funk.
"He's going to have good games. It's not like he can change overnight. He's going to put strings of games together, and he can't do that with one game. So, you've got to be patient, too, and let him get back there," he said after a practice at Southpointe Iceoplex.
"With a goalie, you've got to give him time. He's got to play four or five games maybe to prove that, but to sit here and question his psyche doesn't really give him a chance."
Since becoming the youngest captain in NHL history three years ago, Crosby has crafted a reputation for walking the company line. His support of Fleury -- off to a dreadful start and pulled early from a win Saturday night at Phoenix -- is an indication of his maturing leadership qualities.
Certainly, yesterday marked his first expressed difference of opinion with a coach.
Maybe he was just having the back of a long-time friend whose famous smiles have been few and far between this season.
Fleury, who declined comment, is not playing up to the standard of a goalie who garnered a big-game reputation during consecutive runs to the Cup Final in 2008 and 2009. In contrast, Johnson, a respected veteran backup, has played to a Vezina Trophy level.
He was fourth in goals-against average (1.63) and save percentage (.943) -- though he missed practice because of illness.
Johnson has won the confidence of Bylsma and teammates, many of whom believe the Penguins (7-7-1, 15 points) cannot afford to give away early-season points while Fleury works through his struggles.
"Some of it will have to be who gets it going right now and can play a good game for us, and still keeping in mind that we want to get an appropriate amount of work for Marc to get into his rhythm and get to his game," Bylsma said of the goaltending situation.
He added there is "not a formula" for how to handle this situation -- though last season the Boston Bruins ultimately replaced a veteran reigning Vezina winner Tim Thomas with rookie Tuukka Rask after Thomas never regained his former dominance following early struggles.
Thomas is again the Bruins' starter and was the leader in goals-against average and save percentage as of yesterday.
The frustration for Bylsma stems from having witnessed Fleury at his best: a 16-8 run with a 2.61 goals-against average and .908 save percentage during the 2009 playoffs.
He has allowed a first- or second-shot goal in eight of 21 starts dating to last postseason.
That trend, Fleury's penchant for surrendering untimely goals and Bylsma's recent allusions to unsatisfactory practice habits and focus has combined to spark debate among fans on the message-board and talk-show circuits that Fleury lacks the proper mental toughness.
Crosby denounced that speculation.
"You can analyze it all you want. Honestly, you can. He's mentally tough -- to be a goalie at this level you have to be. He wouldn't have got this far if he wasn't mentally tough," he said.
"As a group we need to put some wins together, and Flower's a part of that. He's going to put some together and we're going to be OK. You've got to be patient. You can't gain all this ground with playing the next game. It's going to be time and getting game after game. I don't think we have any worries."
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Oliver: Would Hulkster last at Belle Vernon Area?
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On Monday, the Belle Vernon Area School Board accepted the resignation of varsity wrestling coach Tyler Nauman and opened the position of swimming coach Rob Reda.
Normally, these actions might not raise many eyebrows, but in this case they do.
In the space of a year, BVA has either let go or accepted the resignations of six varsity head coaches — including two for wrestling.
Gone in that span have been boys' basketball coach Eric James, wrestling coaches Jack Jolley and Nauman, baseball coach Dan Palm, football coach Aaron Krepps and Reda.
That is an alarming rate of turnover for one school.
By comparison, Monessen has had the same boys' basketball coach for 30 years in Joe Salvino, the same football coach for 11 years in Andy Pacak, the same baseball coach for 11 years in Bill Matush, th esame softball coach for five years in Bo Teets, the same girls' basketball coach for six years in Gina Naccarato (who was hired after Major Corley retired after 23 seasons) and the same boys' soccer coach in Sam Perry for 10 years.
See the difference?
I would never stand up and say all of those changes at BVA were caused by meddlesome parents, but I have no doubt that some of them to a large degree were.
In the case of the wrestling program, how do two outstanding coaches — one esteemed and the other up and coming — resign in a space of 10 months?
Doesn't make sense, does it?
I know there are two sides to every story. There always are. I just wonder what is true and what is concocted sometimes.
Whatever happened to the coach being the boss? Whatever happened to the coach running his own program?
Does that exist in any sport at BVA?
With turnover like that, one can only wonder. It's not like all of the coaches who left BVA went on to bigger and better things. By contrast, my guess is that most of them would still be at BVA had the interference not been so unbearable.
And let's remember that several of those coaches had decent to excellent resumes as coaches at BVA.
Not every coach is perfect, but six in a year?
I'm not saying all parents are meddlers. That would be unfair. Many parents go above and beyond supporting their children, their children's coaches and the programs.
Many programs couldn't raise the money needed to keep them solvent without dedicated parents.
Still, I can't believe the lack of support/authority some coaches seem to have been saddled with at BVA.
It is depressing.
Anyone who thinks coaches coach for money — especially at Mid-Mon Valley schools like BVA — is a fool. These men and women do it for love of the game, to give back to their alma maters, to mold youngsters into better athletes and citizens, whatever.
I would not insist that coaches who can't win or improve their players should be given carte blanche to continue as coaches.
Still, a coach should be allowed to run the program as he or she sees fit, within reason.
I remember when my sons played sports at Monessen — on every level. One thing I always told them if and when they complained about the coach is that sports is a microcosm of life. You find out what is fair and not fair and deal with both.
I also asked them point blank, "If you can't deal with your coach, what will you do when you get a job and you don't like your boss? Just quit?"
I don't know if things will change at BVA and I'm not insinuating that BVA is the only district with this problem.
But the coaching turnover is certainly alarming.
If I were a quality coach looking to improve my situation, I'm not sure I would pick BVA. At least, not right now.
After losing two wrestling coaches in a year, I'm wondering how long the great Hulk Hogan could last at BVA?
Not long, I would suspect.
Hulkamania wouldn't run wild; it would probably be run out of town.
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Garmin intros connected nüvi 1690 GPS
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New nüvi gets online search, social networking
Garmin on Thursday said it would soon begin shipping its latest portable navigator, the nüvi 1690. The device has a built-in wireless module that connects to Garmin's nüLink service which allows users to access Google local search as well as traffic, weather, fuel prices, movie listings, flight status and more information. They can also connect to Ciao!, Garmin's location-based social networking system. In the US, buyers will get two years of free nüLink access.
There is also an integrated white pages telephone directory and users can browse by category as well as typing text into a box. Results return a business address, phone number, popularity rating and description. Local events can also be looked up, as well as movie listings and up-to-date flight times. As expected, a traffic update feature informs users of any congestion.
There is also a comprehensive points of interest database from NAVTEQ that provides users with turn-by-turn, voice prompted instructions. A junction view helps users keep track of which lane to stay in at complex intersections.
Using the Ciao! network lets users find their friends and family and navigate to their location. The nüvi 1690 also has Garmin's ecoRoute feature, which can find the most fuel efficient route that may not be the shortest or quickest. Hands-free phone calls can be made thanks to the nüvi 1690's Bluetooth support.
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Since its foundation as a discipline, biochemistry has illuminated many of the problems that have fascinated and perplexed biologists for generations. As biochemistry and molecular biology have become an essential part of much of modern science, a Biochemistry BSc is a valuable beginning to many different careers.
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- Application deadline
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- Subject area
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- Total intake (by subject area)
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- Applications per place (by subject area)
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A Levels
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- AS Levels
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- GCSEs
- English Language and Mathematics at grade B. For UK-based students, a grade C or equivalent in a foreign language (other than Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew or Latin) is required. UCL provides opportunities to meet the foreign language requirement following enrolment, further details at: www.ucl.ac.uk/ug-reqs
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The English language level for this programme is: Good
A variety of English language programmes are offered at the UCL Centre for Languages & International Education.
Degree benefits
- UCL is one of Europe's largest academic centres for research in biochemistry, with two major research units, the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Biochemical Engineering and Molecular Cell Biology, based here.
- Our strong links with the bioscience community in London (such as the UCL Cancer Institute, Cancer Research UK, and the Royal Veterinary College) enhance the range of final-year projects available.
- You will have the opportunity to take a one-year placement in industry; working in a suitable industrial or research laboratory before your final year of study.
- Our excellent resources include a computer graphics facility, fermenters for plant or animal cell culture and equipment for biomolecular structure analysis.
Degree structure
In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual courses, normally valued at 0.5 or 1.0 credits, adding up to a total of 4.0 credits for the year. Courses are assessed in the academic year in which they are taken. The balance of compulsory and optional courses varies from programme to programme and year to year. A 1.0 credit is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
In the first year of the programme you will take compulsory core courses that are similar to those taken in the first year of other biological science programmes. In year two, you take a number of compulsory courses, but with some optional flexibility, which increases in year three.
You may also choose to transfer to the Molecular Biology BSc (available only when you have completed your first year) which deals specifically with the way genetic information is stored in nucleic acids and with the controlled expression of this information.
You may elect to spend an additional year, after year two, gaining invaluable experience in an industrial or research laboratory. Your project report from this year will count towards your degree. The final year of your degree will focus principally on an individual research project.
Year One
Compulsory courses
Cell and Molecular Biology
Chemistry for Biologists
Introduction to Genetics
Introduction to Microbiology
Principles and Practice of Experimental Biochemistry
Optional courses
All first year courses are compulsory.
Year Two
Compulsory courses
Biomolecular Structure and Function
Metabolism and its Regulation
Molecular Biology
Physical Chemistry for Life Science Students
Either The Principles of Cellular Control or The Chemistry of Biologically Important Molecules
Optional courses
You will select 0.5 credits from a wide range of courses.
Final Year
Compulsory courses
Either a Research Project (1.5 credits) or a Literature Review (1.0 credits)
Optional courses
You will select courses from a wide range of options, to the value of either 2.5 or 3.0 credits depending on the compulsory course chosen.
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Biochemistry is a practical science and you can expect to spend much of your time either in wet laboratories, where you will handle chemicals and biological materials, or in dry laboratories, where computer simulations and exercises are carried out.
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Challenges filed on petition rulings in primary races
By Ernest Luning
Six candidates successfully petitioned onto the August primary ballot, and seven fell short, according to rulings issued last Friday by the Colorado Department of State. But two of those rulings were almost immediately hit by legal challenges.
One lawsuit filed this week in Denver District Court charges Secretary of State Bernie Buescher with throwing out too many of the signatures submitted by House District 4 candidate Jennifer Coken, a Democrat, who contends her name should appear on the primary ballot for the legislative seat in Denver. The other, filed by a Grand Junction conservative activist, asks a judge to keep Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton off the ballot, claiming her signature gatherers didn't meet legal requirements.
Buescher's office said the following candidates made the ballot: Norton; Steve Barton, a Republican running in the 1st Congressional District; Walker Stapleton, a Republican candidate for state treasurer; state Rep. Joel Judd, a Democrat running in Senate District 34; Amber Tafoya, a Democrat seeking the House District 4 nod; Mark Mehringer, a Democrat in House District 7; and David Casiano, a Republican in House District 44.
Candidates whose signatures didn't add up included Coken; Joe Gschwendtner, Republican gubernatorial hopeful; Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert, seeking a berth in the Senate District 16 Republican primary; Renee Blanchard, a Democrat running in Senate District 33; Blake Harrison, a Democrat after the House District 7 nomination; and Raymond Eugene Keyawa, a Republican who wanted to run in House District 59.
Statewide candidates needed 10,500 signatures from members of their own party — 1,500 from each of the state's seven congressional district — and congressional candidates had to come up with 1,000 signatures. The signature requirement for legislative candidates is 30 percent of the votes cast in the same primary race in the last election or 1,000, whichever is less.
State law sets a five-day challenge period after the secretary of state's office certifies petitions. But there's a brief window for a judge to decide whether to reverse Buescher's verdict, as county clerks across the state are waiting for a go-ahead to order ballots printed for the August 10 primary.
Since the majority of Colorado counties are conducting mail-only primary elections this year, judges have even less time to consider complaints because mail ballots must be in clerks' hands by July 9. The first day ballots can go into the mail is July 19.
"After reviewing all the signatures that were thrown out, we decided we had a legitimate challenge," said Lynea Hansen, spokeswoman for Coken, a House District 4 Democrat. At issue, in part, is an obscure corner of state law that determines how signatures are counted when a voter signs more than one petition for the same office.
Coken's campaign had the chance last Friday to examine the secretary of state's decisions on individual signatures. Out of roughly 1,400 signatures submitted — with 849 required to make the ballot — the secretary of state found only 749 were valid.
Hansen said the campaign was challenging the secretary of state's rejection of 111 signatures — 17 because House District 4 rival Tafoya had the same names on her petitions but turned them in earlier, and 94 because the Coken campaign contends the secretary of state simply made mistakes in its review.
"Most of the signatures they threw out for various reasons but they were wrong to throw them out," Hansen said. "Sometimes they said, 'We can't find the voter in the voter file,' but we found them just fine — any of those random little things they just made an error on."
The Coken campaign said it was concerned the secretary of state's office was "overwhelmed" by the large number of signatures submitted this year and "made a substantial number of errors regarding validation of signatures."
But even if a judge agrees the secretary of state's office goofed 94 times, Coken still can't make the ballot without an unprecedented ruling in her favor on a legal requirement that forbids a voter from signing more than one petition for the same office.
Tafoya submitted her petitions nearly a week before Coken turned in hers, allowing names that appear on both petitions to count toward Tafoya's total but not toward Coken's. That's according to a secretary of state rule on duplicate signatures, which says it doesn't matter whose petition was signed first, just whose gets filed first.
"If we turned in the same signature, they threw ours out, even if (the voter) signed our petition first," Hansen said. She said the campaign had found 17 cases where voters signed Coken's sheet before also signing Tafoya's.
When voters sign a candidate petition, they are attesting they'll vote for that candidate in the primary election — and since a voter can only cast a single vote, the law only allows a single nominating signature to count.
But the question raised by the Coken campaign — whether affixing a signature sets the voter's intention in motion, or whether that relies on which campaign finishes its petition drive first — is uncharted legal territory in Colorado.
"This question has never been ruled on in (state) court before," Hansen said, according to the campaign's legal counsel. She noted that lawyers cite conflicting provisions in state law that point both directions on the question.
"Jennifer believes she belongs on the ballot and believes the voters have spoken, so we're asking the court to reinstate her on the ballot," Hansen said. The campaign has asked the court to rule immediately.
Democrat Dan Pabon is also on the House District 4 primary ballot. Delegates nominated him at the district assembly in April.
Litigation filed Monday challenges a secretary of state ruling from the other direction. Grand Junction Republican and sometimes candidate Tom Bjorklund asks the court to invalidate Norton's petition, claiming the signatures were gathered illegally. The lawsuit — which repeatedly misspells Buescher's name "Beuscher" and appears to include several typos — claims Norton's notaries acted improperly, her signature gatherers didn't meet legal residency, voter registration and citizenship requirements, and some signatures shouldn't have passed review.
Reached by phone, the attorney who filed the lawsuit told The Colorado Statesman he didn't want to talk about it.
"I'm not in a position to comment on that at this point in time," said Greenwood Village-based attorney Adam Kehrli, who represents Bjorklund in the case.
Bjorklund tried to make the Mesa County Republican primary ballot for county treasurer in April but fell four votes short at the county assembly. His wife, Shari, lost an election in House District 55 to Buescher in 2004.
A Norton spokeswoman dismissed the lawsuit Wednesday afternoon even though she said she had only just learned of its existence in a phone call from The Statesman.
"We had a tremendous signature gathering effort. We turned in well over 30,000 signatures, which is triple what is required," Cinamon Watson said. "And we're confident we followed the letter of the law gathering those signatures."
Norton turned in roughly 34,000 signatures and the secretary of state's office said 20,133 were OK — roughly twice the total 10,500 needed to make the ballot. Norton's campaign said about two-thirds of her signatures were harvested by paid petition gatherers and the rest resulted from campaign volunteers.
"We tell the counties these are the candidates who are being challenged," secretary of state spokesman Rich Coolidge said. "The counties will hold off as long as they can, but obviously, at some point, they have to go to print to get the mail ballots out."
He declined to comment specifically on the two lawsuits other than to say it will be up to a judge to decide. And that could happen quickly. "We have all the evidence ready to go," he said.
"As of right now, pending the judge's decision," Coolidge said, "Jennifer Coken will not appear on those ballots in Denver. On the flip side, as far as Jane Norton, she'll remain on the ballot unless a judge tells us otherwise."


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The Afghan War Diary (AWD for short) consists of messages from several important US military communications systems. The messaging systems have changed over time; as such reporting standards and message format have changed as well. This reading guide tries to provide some helpful hints on interpretation and understanding of the messages contained in the AWD.
Most of the messages follow a pre-set structure that is designed to make automated processing of the contents easier. It is best to think of the messages in the terms of an overall collective logbook of the Afghan war. The AWD contains the relevant events, occurrences and intelligence experiences of the military, shared among many recipients. The basic idea is that all the messages taken together should provide a full picture of a days important events, intelligence, warnings, and other statistics. Each unit, outpost, convoy, or other military action generates report about relevant daily events. The range of topics is rather wide: Improvised Explosives Devices encountered, offensive operations, taking enemy fire, engagement with possible hostile forces, talking with village elders, numbers of wounded, dead, and detained, kidnappings, broader intelligence information and explicit threat warnings from intercepted radio communications, local informers or the afghan police. It also includes day to day complaints about lack of equipment and supplies.
The description of events in the messages is often rather short and terse. To grasp the reporting style, it is helpful to understand the conditions under which the messages are composed and sent. Often they come from field units who have been under fire or under other stressful conditions all day and see the report-writing as nasty paperwork, that needs to be completed with little apparent benefit to expect. So the reporting is kept to the necessary minimum, with as little type-work as possible. The field units also need to expect questions from higher up or disciplinary measures for events recorded in the messages, so they will tend to gloss over violations of rules of engagement and other problematic behavior; the reports are often detailed when discussing actions or interactions by enemy forces. Once it is in the AWD messages, it is officially part of the record - it is subject to analysis and scrutiny. The truthfulness and completeness especially of descriptions of events must always be carefully considered. Circumstances that completely change the meaning of an reported event may have been omitted.
The reports need to answer the critical questions: Who, When, Where, What, With whom, by what Means and Why. The AWD messages are not addressed to individuals but to groups of recipients that are fulfilling certain functions, such as duty officers in a certain region. The systems where the messages originate perform distribution based on criteria like region, classification level and other information. The goal of distribution is to provide those with access and the need to know, all of the information that relevant to their duties. In practice, this seems to be working imperfectly. The messages contain geo-location information in the forms of latitude-longitude, military grid coordinates and region.
The messages contain a large number of abbreviations that are essential to understanding its contents. When browsing through the messages, underlined abbreviations pop up an little explanation, when the mouse is hovering over it. The meanings and use of some shorthands have changed over time, others are sometimes ambiguous or have several meanings that are used depending on context, region or reporting unit. If you discover the meaning of a so far unresolved acronym or abbreviations, or if you have corrections, please submit them to email@example.com.
An especially helpful reference to names of military units and task-forces and their respective responsibilities can be found at http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/enduring-freedom.htm
The site also contains a list of bases, airfields http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/afghanistan.htm Location names are also often shortened to three-character acronyms.
Messages may contain date and time information. Dates are mostly presented in either US numeric form (Year-Month-Day, e.g. 2009-09-04) or various Euro-style shorthands (Day-Month-Year, e.g. 2 Jan 04 or 02-Jan-04 or 2jan04 etc.).
Times are frequently noted with a time-zone identifier behind the time, e.g. "09:32Z". Most common are Z (Zulu Time, aka. UTC time zone), D (Delta Time, aka. UTC + 4 hours) and B (Bravo Time, aka UTC + 2 hours). A full list off time zones can be found here: http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/military/
Other times are noted without any time zone identifier at all. The Afghanistan time zone is AFT (UTC + 4:30), which may complicate things further if you are looking up messages based on local time.
Finding messages relating to known events may be complicated by date and time zone shifting; if the event is in the night or early morning, it may cause a report to appear to be be misfiled. It is advisable to always look through messages before and on the proceeding day for any event.
David Leigh, the Guardian's investigations editor, explains the online tools they have created to help you understand the secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/video/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-war-logs-video-tutorial
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|2008-06-02 04:04
|Friendly Action
|Cache Found/Cleared
|Host nation
|Killed in action
|Wounded in action
EOD Team 1 was present on scene in the market responding to weapons cache calls at the time the incident occurred. Marines from 1st plt found weapons cache within tailor shop. Items found within the shop were 3 x RPG HEAT rockets, 1 x PKM machine gun and a bag of unknown substance. The bag had been placed outside the shop as EOD moved in to collect cache. EOD team leader entered shop and removed 3 x RPG rockets from within the shop and placed them outside the shop. EOD team leader then began to examine contents of bag to examine substance within bag. The bag contained green, organic like substance, with what appeared to be purple seeds within. The substance had an odor resembling dried out lawn mulch. 1st team member assessed substance as well and determined that it appeared to be chicken or bird feed. Upon collecting items ordnance items, Team leader squatted down to collect the RPG rockets when Marine from 1st plt. Picked up a handful of the substance and poured it out of his hand while standing. The substance ignited immediately. Team leader was pushed from the heat. Marine handling substance was consumed by flames from the bag and was standing while trying to put himself out. 2 EOD members immediately rushed him and put him on the ground and started putting out flames. The bag of substance flared up again and EOD team member, robot operator, shielded Marine from the heat with his own body. After flames died down in a matter of approx. 4 to 5 seconds, team member rose to find the back of his left leg in flames and began to put himself out. At that time, EOD team corpsman was called forward to treat injured Marines, as well as on scene unit corpsman. EOD team leader then saw the RPG rockets were on fire and directed everyone away from the scene. All personnel and injured moved back away from scene and team leader put the rockets out. Injured were then medevaced and team leader moved back into scene to determine how and/or why substance ignited. The location where bag had been had black tar appearing substance on floor and no signs or remains of any booby traps or IED. The RPK was removed from within the shop. Search of the inside yielded no new findings, small items were still on fire within the shop; one sewing machine and chair. Items were put out with bottled water. RPG rockets were assessed and determined unfit for movement. 6 x 40mm grenades were found on scene where injured Marine had fallen, these were damaged by the fire as well. Pictures were not taken due to the injured team members camera was not located at the time. Hazardous items were then collected and blown in place with RPG rockets.
Report key: 1491C837-099E-9E19-7A6374C53A6A49A0
Tracking number: 20080602044541RPQ1519936402
Attack on: FRIEND
Complex atack:
Reporting unit: TF Paladin J3 QAQC
Unit name: Marines
Type of unit: CF
Originator group: J3 ORSA
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Did the Chargers get stronger at wide receiver despite losing Vincent Jackson?
But they sure are deeper.
For the second time in three days, the team agreed to terms with a veteran wide receiver entering his prime, making a three-year, $13.5 million pact — of which $6 million is guaranteed — with Broncos free agent Eddie Royal.
Royal, 25, and newly signed Robert Meachem, 27, give the Chargers a potent four-deep combo at wide receiver. They pair with long-standing deep threat Malcom Floyd and emerging second-year veteran Vincent Brown, both already on the roster.
Of course, it's still early.
Not all roster holes will fill a few days into free agency, and that was clear Thursday when Chargers free agent Steve Gregory reached a three-year contract with New England.
Royal projects as the Chargers' No. 4 wide receiver and punt returner.
On offense, he is a proven playmaker underneath with breakaway speed. He'll look to rebound from a rough 2011, slowed by groin and toe injuries before suffering a concussion on Dec. 4.
In 2010, Royal caught 59 passes for 627 yards and three touchdowns. He ranked third among wide receivers with an average of 6.9 yards after the catch. His best season came in 2008 when he totaled 91 receptions, 980 yards and five scores as a rookie.
Royal has averaged 11.9 yards per punt return since entering the league, third in the NFL over that span.
When evaluating the Chargers' 2012 wide receivers, quarterback Philip Rivers said earlier this week that one aspect gets overlooked.
"Vincent Brown is going to be a big part of this thing, too," Rivers said. "He's not so much in the news right now because he's already here. That's what's so funny. You always get excited about the new guys you sign. But we've got guys who are here who are going to be good, too.
"I think Vincent Brown, with an offseason, unlike last year, is going to be big. ... We're going to have a good group out there at wide receiver."
As for safety, maybe in time.
Gregory, a reserve strong safety for six seasons, is expected to start for the Patriots at free safety, a league source said.
San Diego hoped to return the veteran to his usual role — backup safety and special teamer — but after biding his time with 31 starts the past four seasons, Gregory wanted more.
The departure compounds a need at the position.
Already, the Chargers were looking to add a starting strong safety, most likely through the draft. Now they could be shopping for his backup, too.
Gregory started a career-high 13 games last year in place of Bob Sanders, who was lost to a season-ending knee injury in Week 2. Paul Oliver also logged a start.
Sanders and Oliver are both unrestricted free agents, leaving Darrell Stuckey, a fourth-round draft pick in 2010 and special teams ace, atop the depth chart.
A camp injury set Stuckey back in his rookie season, and last year's lockout further robbed him of developmental time.
With a full offseason ahead, Stuckey could work his way into a defensive role. He saw just 11 defensive snaps in 2011.
Eric Weddle, Nick Polk and DeAndre McDaniel are the team's other safeties.
As of late Thursday evening, the Chargers were in the critical stages of negotiations with free agent running back Mike Tolbert. If a deal does not develop, Chiefs running back Jackie Battle is expected to sign as Ryan Mathews' backup.


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Leptin mRNA and protein levels. Panel A: Serum leptin levels. Panel B: Adipose tissue leptin mRNA levels measured by StellARray. Panel C: Adipose tissue leptin mRNA levels measured by qRT-PCR. The data in this Fig is the relative mRNA change in selected genes in the adipose tissue of CR, LF, and HF mice consuming water or 20% alcohol relative to LF mice consuming water. If the ratio is higher than 1, the mRNA content for that gene was amplified; if the ratio is below 1, the mRNA content decreased. The ratio for the LF mice consuming water is 1 because the mRNA level for that gene was the control group.
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MASHPEE — Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown walked into the Willowbend Country Club on Thursday to weigh in on Washington, reflect on the special election and sign copies of his autobiography.
But for anyone wanting to hear about any comeback to politics, Brown wasn't biting, telling the crowd that he remains unsure about his future plans. But by no means does he believe his political career is finished.
"I don't know what's next," Brown said, addressing supporters who paid $50 apiece to hear him speak. "I don't think I'm done, I've said that before. Nothing's off the table, but nothing's really on the table right now."
In the question-and-answer session, George Regan, a Willowbend resident and CEO of Regan Communications, asked Brown what would keep him from running for governor.
"There will be time to discuss the governor's race," he answered, after criticizing the administration of Gov. Deval Patrick.
Brown, considered a possible GOP candidate for either the gubernatorial or Senate election next year, said after his hour-long speech that he would relax this summer before making his intentions known in the fall. "It's the first time in 15 years I've had the summer off," he said.
Before making a decision, Brown said he would meet with Charlie Baker, the former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, who lost to Patrick in 2010. Baker is eyed as a potential Republican contender in 2014.
"Charlie's a great guy. We have a very positive relationship," Brown said. "We'll get together and work things out.
"As you're running for political office, you know when it's time, you know when it's right."
Brown also did not rule out running against Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, where he has a residence.
In his remarks, Brown acknowledged the uphill battle Republicans face in the traditionally blue Bay State, which voted him out of office last year after handing him a victory in the 2010 special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. And in last month's special election, Brown said GOP newcomer Gabriel Gomez might have achieved similar success if not for dismal turnout.
"I still think we can win. I think we blew an amazing opportunity in the last election," Brown said. "A lot of people stayed at home. They said, 'Well he's not a real Republican.' Well, he's a real Navy SEAL. He's a real father. He's a real businessperson who's self-made.
"What the heck is a 'real Republican?' Is there a litmus test?" he asked. "Did I miss that class?"
While mum about his plans, Brown seemed to yearn for a return to the political stage. He regrets that he is no longer serving in the Senate to prevent it from rolling back parts of a law that prohibits members of Congress, the executive branch and their staffs from trading on nonpublic information.
But he also voiced frustration with partisan gridlock and with his own party, citing the scorn he drew from GOP leaders who accused him of letting Republicans down by voting for President Barack Obama's jobs bill in 2010.
Asked later about factors he would weigh in deciding to run for office next year, he said, "We have to figure out in our own party whether we can support people even if we don't agree all the time."
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Hey there Lane, that is really good to hear about your bin!! I am finally going back to school and have been working on a mid scale wormbin for Western's Outback Garden. It will be about 4 by 8 feet and actually role over a hot compost pile to use it heat to keep the worms warm through the winter. I am excited and will take pictures. Hope your doing well!!! peace
Hi Lane, Sure
The pictures I have are available for inspirational use,
I am out of town until late January. we can meet up and exchange them then.
I will contact you when I get in town or call me at 360-393-5135
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Is it not something to do with the bluetooth? ie whether you have it or not?
Mine has 3 lines and I'm not sure where it was built, couldn't see it on the etis site
I think that changes the size of your centre console screen, but you might be onto something there as no matter how I look at it, the centre console screen is a bit bigger than the 3 lines it states in the brochure.
Apparently the Trip computer is part of a pack (I think it's the bluetooth one) and isn't available on the studio, does anyone have a studio model who can tell us what you have?
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|Residual postmyocardial infarction ventricular septal defect repair through right atrium with right thoracotomy on beating heart technique.
MedLine Citation:
|PMID: 18928499 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|BACKGROUND AND AIM: The incidence of residual opening after repair of postmyocardial infarction ventricular septal defect (VSD) was reported to be 10% to 25%. Redo surgery with remedial sternotomy is more complex than primary surgery and is consequently associated with higher mortality and morbidity due to the myocardial and patent coronary grafts injury during pericardial dissection. METHODS: A 59-year-old female patient had coronary artery bypass grafting and closure of post myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect with patch 10 months earlier in a different cardiac center. She was admitted to the hospital for severe congestive heart failure. RESULTS: She was operated because of the residual opening after repair of post myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect. Post myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect closure was performed through the right atrium by on-pump beating heart technique via the right thoracotomy. CONCLUSIONS: Closure of post myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect with this technique offers an alternative and safe approach to repair of the residual VSD when the coronary bypass grafts are patent.
|Ferit Cicekcioglu; Ufuk Tutun; Ali Ihsan Parlar; Kerem Yay; Yesim Guray; Salih Fehmi Katircioglu
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|Type: Case Reports; Journal Article
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|Title: Journal of cardiac surgery Volume: 23 ISSN: 1540-8191 ISO Abbreviation: J Card Surg Publication Date: 2008 Sep-Oct
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|Created Date: 2008-10-20 Completed Date: 2009-03-03 Revised Date: -
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|Nlm Unique ID: 8908809 Medline TA: J Card Surg Country: United States
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|Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
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Heart Atria / surgery, ultrasonography
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / etiology, surgery*, ultrasonography
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Born: August 19, 1936
Died: February 05, 2011
Macomb-Alice A. Kutcher, 74 of Macomb, passed away at 3:50 PM Saturday February 5, 2011 at the Elms Nursing Home in Macomb.
She was born August 19, 1936 in Keokuk, Iowa to Robert W. and Helena R. Williams Jobe; she married Harry D. Kutcher on January 26, 1957 in Carthage, Illinois. He survives.
Also surviving are 1 son; Harry Deon Kutcher of Peoria, Illinois; 3 daughters; Diana Elaine Kutcher, Lorelei Gail Kutcher, Roberta Christine Kutcher all of Macomb, Illinois; 2 brothers; John Jobe of Maple Valley, Washington, Jim Jobe of West Burlington, Iowa; 3 sisters; Sandra Mullins of Hannibal, Missouri, Barbara Cunningham and Katherine Jobe both of Macomb, Illinois.
She was preceded in death by her parents, 1 brother Steven Jobe and 1 sister Maxine Rowe
She was an Administrative Assistant at Western Illinois University for 15 years.
Services will be at 1:30 PM Wednesday February 9, 2011 at the Dodsworth-Piper-Wallen Funeral Home. Rev. Ron Green will officiate. Friends may call at the funeral home on Tuesday from 2PM-6PM. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery in Macomb. Memorial Contributions may be made to the Alzheimer Foundation.


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Head Chef Gavin Hughes has been with the Byron at Byron since it's opening, having moved to the area in 2003. Gavin's impressive background includes Chef positions at Aqua Luna, The Bathers Pavilion and Aqua Dining in Sydney. Prior to moving to Australia, Gavin trained and then worked in his homeland of Scotland in the country's finest restaurants. These include the Michelin starred and AA awarded Inverlochy Castle Hotel, 1 Devonshire Gardens and The Airds Hotel.
"Our menu showcases the freshest local ingredients and is lovingly planned and prepared," says Gavin. "The food is of a light Mediterranean style and based around the best of what's available locally at the farmers markets. We use Bangalow Sweet Pork, Alstonville Chicken, Yamba Prawns, Hervey Bay Sea Scallops … the fish we get is second to none."
Gavin Hughes' reputation continues to grow with two new accolades to add to his name. Last month he was made honorary member of the Byron Bay Farmers Market and can be seen there every Thursday sharing the experience with resort guests while sourcing ingredients. At the Sample Food Festival, he was awarded the Golden Fork for the best $10 plate, after impressing judges; Simon Thomsen, Ben O'Donoghue, Alex Herbert and Belinda Jeffery with his unique Balinese pork curry and radish.
Scottish born Gavin Hughes is Head Chef at The Byron at Byron Resort and Spa, a position he has held since the resort opened seven years ago. Gavin has always been a true advocate of all things local, ensuring The Restaurant adopts a paddock-to-plate philosophy and uses regional producers wherever possible.
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Elizabeth L. Rambo
"Queen C" in Boys' Town: Killing the Angel in Angel's House
You, Sweet, his Mistress, Wife, and Muse,
Were you for mortal woman meant?
Your praises give a hundred clues
To mythological intent! (Coventry Patmore, "The Angel in the House")
[1] Cordelia Chase begins her fictional life in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the world of girl power. In Sunnydale, Cordelia's vanity license plate read, "QUEEN C," and she was—"Cordy, you reign," gushes Harmony ("The Wish" B3009). Although Cordelia's character initially appears as a leader of the popular cliques that exclude Buffy, Xander, and Willow, nevertheless, she fits well with Buffy's avowed feminist agenda: her bitchiness and her general self-involvement contribute a valuable antithesis to the self-sacrificing heroics of the Scooby gang: Cordelia is not a people pleaser. Things change, however, when Cordelia joins the cast of Angel, a show with a male hero and a largely male regular cast. Within a very short time, Cordelia's role on Angel falls into an ancient pattern. In the early 20th century, Coventry Patmore's elaborate nineteenth-century poem on courtship and marriage, "The Angel in the House," would give Virginia Woolf the model of exactly what she could not be, if she were going to succeed in her chosen profession: "I will describe her as shortly as I can," wrote Woolf in "Professions for Women": "She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. She excelled in the difficult arts of family life. She sacrificed herself daily. . . . Above all—I need not say it—she was pure" (2215). Despite a good deal of lip-service identifying Cordy as a "champion," particularly in Angel season 3, and as an essential member of the team, in Angel's town the independent "queen" Cordelia is progressively reduced to a conventionally supportive woman, the angel in the Angel's house. Naturally, she must be killed, but not before she has sacrificed herself completely, and not for the same reasons Virginia Woolf found she had to kill her own inner "angel."
[2] In Sunnydale, Cordelia is first presented as "a superficial rich girl . . . with a high-school following of popular girls called the 'Cordettes'" (Harrison 125). "Queen C" ("The Wish" B3009) is the equivalent of the teenage "Queen Bees" described in Rosalind Wiseman's Queen Bees and Wannabees and popularized in the film Mean Girls. Thus, in season one, Cordelia is initially a realistic representation of the "monstrous" forces of high school hell that Buffy, Willow, and Xander must contend with—snobbery, cliques, exclusion. By the end of season one, however, Cordelia begins to gain some ability to identify with the suffering of others through experiencing her own very personal trauma—a threat to her vanity regarding her personal appearance by invisible girl Marcy ("Out of Sight, Out of Mind" B1011). Confronted with another's suffering in a setting without consumable distractions or fawning fans, Cordy confesses to Buffy, "Hey! You think I'm never lonely because I'm so cute and popular? I can be surrounded by people and be completely alone. It's not like any of them really know me. I don't even know if they like me half the time. People just want to be in a popular zone. Sometimes when I talk, everyone's so busy agreeing with me, they don't hear a word I say." Cordelia later thanks the Scoobies, but when her popular friends see her with "those losers," she quickly retreats again from the "social leper colony" ("Out of Sight" B1011).
[3] After being saved repeatedly by Buffy, Xander, and Willow in Buffy seasons 2 and 3, and falling into a reluctant yet passionate relationship with Xander, Cordelia eventually rejects the "Cordettes" as "sheep" ("Bewitched" B2016) and effectively allies herself with Buffy. She remains "homerically insensitive" ("Killed by Death" B2018), but she is willing to use her powers of beauty and seduction for good, distracting a hospital security guard ("Killed" B2018), for example, or wearing "something trashy—er" to act as Xander's girlfriend while he borrows a rocket launcher for Buffy to use against the Judge ("Innocence" B2014).
[4] Nevertheless, Cordelia's self-centeredness remains essential to her character. When Buffy is infected with a demonic ability to read minds in season 3's "Earshot" (B3018), Cordelia's thoughts are exactly the same as her spoken words:
CORDELIA: (V.O.) I don't see what this has to do with me.
CORDELIA: I don't see what this has to do with me.
. . .
CORDELIA: (V.O.) Whatever. I wonder when I can go.
CORDELIA: Whatever. Can I go?
She is completely untroubled by the angst-producing or existential concerns of the other characters which begin to overwhelm the suddenly psychic Buffy; in this case, argues Jennifer Crusie, Cordelia's "lack of depth becomes a strength" (189). Similarly, and perhaps ironically foreshadowing this theme, when everyone else in town is transformed by enchanted costumes in Halloween (B2006), Cordelia wears a cat costume that reflects her personality—slinky and predatory—rather than a fantasy or desire, the "come as you aren't" aspect Buffy says is the essence of Halloween. Thus, although her costume does not transform her because it wasn't rented from Ethan Rayne's shop, it also doesn't have the metaphorical import carried by the other characters' costumes: Willow's sexiness shrouded by the ghost, Buffy's power disguised by the helpless 18th century damsel, Xander's anxious adolescent masculinity masked by super-competent GI Joe.
[5] Cordelia's unshakable conviction that she exists to be adored is also her vulnerability. Thus, her discovery of Xander and Willow's betrayal in "Lover's Walk" (B3008) is, for Cordy, emotionally apocalyptic, leading to her own death in the alternate universe of her revenge in "The Wish," the very next episode (B3009). Two factors reconcile her with the Scoobies: first, the attractive prospect of "Pierce Brosnan-y" new Watcher Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, who is virtually struck speechless by her charms, despite Faith's succinct warning: "First word: jail; second word: bait" ("Consequences" B3015); and ultimately, Xander's kindest conciliatory gesture—his redemption of her layaway prom dress ("The Prom" B3020). Cordelia and Wesley soon learn that they have no physical chemistry at all, but Queen C's place among those who fight evil is secure as she finally stakes a vampire in the graduation-day battle of the Mayor's ascension ("Graduation Day 2" B3022). That Cordette Harmony's "You reign," is spoken in the alternate universe of "The Wish" does not make it less valid. As Crusie notes, "Cordy's solipsism . . . comes coupled with a keen intelligence and a fixity of purpose that makes her almost invincible" (188). She earned excellent SAT scores, even if her father's tax evasion meant she won't be able to attend any of the good colleges that accepted her applications; Cordelia's status as arbiter of taste and fashion never changes in her own mind, and through the end of Buffy season three, she still holds a significant role as an active member the Scooby gang.
[6] When Cordelia joins the spin-off Angel, her character in season one is initially very much the same as in Sunnydale—self-centered, snarky, concerned with fashion and celebrity. In five years (or TV seasons) in Angel's Los Angeles, her character goes through a failed acting career, no less than three impregnations by demonic powers ("Expecting" A1012; "Epiphany" A2016; most of season four), involuntarily receives the gift of prophetic visions that nearly destroy her mind and body ("Parting Gifts" A1010, "That Vision Thing" A3002), and accepts yet another gift of becoming partly demonic in order to endure the visionary side-effects ("Birthday" A3011). Cordelia then becomes a higher being in a glowy fog where she apparently has almost nothing to do ("Tomorrow" A3022; "Deep Down" A4001), and is overtaken or perhaps, subsumed by the godlike Jasmine, to whom she eventually gives birth, leaving her body comatose, unseen, through the first half of Angel season five, until she awakens to give Angel some much needed advice and encouragement. Then, we learn, her appearance has been an angelic visitation—Cordelia is dead ("You're Welcome" A5012). Scholars and scholar-fans have offered several possible explanations for the character's narrative arc.
[7] Phil Colvin and others[1] have noted the identification of Los Angeles with Angel, a definitively male space as opposed to Sunnydale, identified with Buffy. Even in the first episode of season one, significantly entitled, "City of...," Angel's conduit to the "Powers That Be," Doyle, approves Cordy's addition to the team, not because of her talents or skills, but because, "She'll provide a connection to the world. She's got a very—humanizing influence." In other words, because she possesses traits traditionally coded feminine, she balances Angel's stoic, masculine character. Janice Harrison argues in "Gender Politics in Angel," that because the "corporate structure" of Angel Investigations is "circular," with an "androgynous management style," Cordelia "grows into a compassionate, capable woman" (125). However, there is no Angel Investigations without Angel, who increasingly is referred to as the champion. If the intended paradigm for Buffy is one of female empowerment, the paradigms of Angel seem heavily informed by superhero narratives, film noir (Abbott "Kicking," Stoy) and Richard Slotkin's regeneration through violence view of the American frontier, extrapolated more recently by Jewett and Lawrence in The Myth of the American Superhero. Women's places in these genres are primarily supporters or temptresses, though there are certainly exceptions. Because the frameworks of Angel are these types of "male imaginaries," it seems difficult to make a case for Angel as a feminist series, and I have not tried to do so. Nevertheless, as Crusie comments in her analysis, throughout season one, Cordelia's character continues to be portrayed as essentially motivated by "enlightened practicality . . . the perfect balance of self-centeredness and responsibility" (192).
[8] However, considering the strong and unconventional female characters in Whedon's other series (e.g., Buffy, Willow, Zoe, River), it seems a little surprising and perhaps disappointing that the Angel writers could not think of anything for a smart woman with keen fashion sense and a head for finance to do as the seasons progressed except fall in love, get herself knocked up—twice, before they hit the jackpot with the devastating Jasmine—and progressively manifest such a super-human mix of maternal and erotic compassion that she would become a supernatural being—the angel in Angel's house. The origins and influence of Coventry Patmore's metaphorical feminine inspiration are traced by Elaine Hartnell her article in Victorian Poetry, "'Nothing but sweet and womanly': A Hagiography of Patmore's Angel." According to Hartnell, Patmore's "angel" depends on a worldview which insists on "the existence of two separate spheres—the public or worldly sphere which is the province of men and the domestic or private sphere of the home which is presided over, and legislated for, by women" (458). As Angel season 3 progresses, Cordelia relinquishes her delusions—or ambitions—of an acting career in the public sphere outside the domestic or private sphere of the home or family space—as the Hyperion Hotel is coded—while at the same time she is also less frequently shown actively managing Angel Investigations. Instead she is shown mothering baby Connor, comforting, inspiring, and advising. Women in "The Angel in the House" "keep the [man] entertained, look after his domestic comfort, minister to his ego, and point him toward heaven" (Hartnell 461), just as Cordy makes waffles for Angel after he forces Wolfram and Hart to lift the torturing physical side-effects of her visions ("That Vision Thing" A3002). Or consider this almost unbearably cute domestic scene:
(Cordelia and Angel are falling asleep lying on top of Angel's bed with Connor in between them, feeding from a bottle.)
CORDELIA: (singing) Go to sleep, my baby peep... (to Angel) I'm just saying a boat.
ANGEL: No. College fund.
CORDELIA: Yes. College fund - and pay our bills - and put a down payment on a boat.
ANGEL: We're not getting a boat.
CORDELIA: Hmm, they're fun.
ANGEL: They're expensive. And when would I go on this boat, hmm?
CORDELIA: Moonlight sails. - Okay. - College fund - pay our bills - and rent a ski condo in Aspen.
ANGEL: Ski condo?
CORDELIA: There's got to be some fun in our lives.
ANGEL: Hmm - I like a ski condo.
CORDELIA: Sure. Snow. Trees. Chipmunk robots on ice...
ANGEL: Chipmunk robots... - on ice... ("Provider" (A3012)
[9] Of course, we might ask, what about Virginia Woolf's comment that in "above all—I need not say it—[the angel] was pure"? Cordelia, the material girl who can be won back to Angel's side with gifts of new clothes ("Disharmony" A2017) and forfeits her escape from Castle Pylea because she insists on taking armfuls of booty ("Through the Looking Glass" A2021)? Cordelia, the woman who disappears for a three-week sexcapade with the Groosalugg, the handsome champion from demon dimension Pylea (Angel 3014-3017)? But let us consider another perspective on purity, and the placement of these incidents in the series narrative arc. The first two are from season two, and are quite consistent with Sunnydale or Angel season 1 Cordelia. The Cordelia/Groo affair is from season three. In this season, the writers begin building up the possibility of an Angel/Cordelia romance, although Angel, as has been established of old, can never achieve perfect happiness because he will lose his soul. This makes romance, and sex, risky, though not impossible.[2]In addition, Cordelia's prescient visions are transmitted from one being to another by means of a kiss or other intimate contact—including sex or "comshuk"—so she can only make love with Groo after they obtain "a paranormal prophylactic" ("Couplet" A3014), thus, maintaining a kind of purity.
[10] The Angel/Cordelia romance, complicated by the return of troubled teen Connor from the Quortoth hell-dimension, seems to have either led the writers to make implied domestic angel Cordelia explicit, or else, as Jennifer Crusie bluntly states, "the [Mutant Enemy] writers evidently lost their minds" (193). The process follows: First, Cordelia is once again placed in the damsel in distress role in "Birthday," as the staggering pain of the visions put her in a coma. Demon Skip—already shown to be unreliable in a previous encounter with Angel—guides her to an alternate vision of her life without Angel, a life she willingly sacrifices, "noble and heroic," in order to take on the burden of the visions again by allowing herself to be made partly demonic, whatever the consequences may be, rather than allow Angel to suffer. This is Cordelia as the "intensely sympathetic . . . utterly unselfish" angel in the Angel's house.
[11] Cordelia's demonization has no results one would conventionally recognize as demonic. "No horns. . . . No tail," nor any other outward physical changes. Instead, she manifests abilities more conventionally associated with angels: she involuntarily floats (flies?) when experiencing a vision ("Birthday" A3011), glows with a blinding light that (apparently) purges evil intent but leaves everything else unharmed ("The Price" A3019, "Benediction" (A3022).
[12] Finally, on her way to exchange love declarations with Angel, Cordelia, dressed in a flowing white gown, is highjacked by Skip (whose motives still remain unclear) and informed that she's being promoted:
SKIP: You're a great warrior, Cordelia. The battle that we're all a part of is fought on many different planes and dimensions. You've outgrown this one. You've become - a higher being.
CORDELIA: Me?
SKIP: You. You took on the visions, and even when you could have traded them in for a happy, normal life, even when they were killing you, you wouldn't let them go. The big test came when the Powers made you part demon. They bet the farm on you. Power corrupts. And they gave you a lot of power.
CORDELIA: The glowy thing.
SKIP: Which you used well - to fight evil, and heal Connor.
CORDELIA: And only that one time as a night light.—Bad dreams.—Skip, I don't understand.
SKIP: I think you do.
CORDELIA: It's ridiculous. - I'm just a somewhat normal girl—who—has visions, glows, and occasionally blows things up with her crazy new power. (Skip looks at her) I'm a higher being.
SKIP: Yes. . . . There is work to be done in the higher realms. ("Tomorrow" A3022)
For the most part, this is vintage Cordelia—Skip flatters her vanity and she falls for it. In fact there is nothing at all to do in the higher realms, and Cordy is so bored in the first two episodes of season four ("Deep Down" A4001) as she watches her friends from above that she begs, "What are you? Deficient? Get me out of here!" ("Ground State" A4002). Yet the response of the other characters, particularly Angel, seems to suggest that Cordelia's elevation is, to some extent, intended to be taken seriously.
ANGEL: . . . it doesn't surprise me. In some small way, maybe it even makes it easier, knowing the good she's doing up there. Even if I can't see her or talk to her, it's like . . . she's still on my side. All those months, under the water, I kept thinking to myself I gotta get home... to Cordelia. I get back and I find out that she's gone. I keep thinking, I gotta get Cordy back home. Finally I find her, and I realize she already is home. Where she belongs. ("Ground State" A4002)
[13] They are mistaken. Angelic Cordelia has served her purpose as inspiration, guide, and comfort, so she is returned to earth with amnesia ("Slouching" A4004). Now the "angel" is first metaphorically murdered by transforming Cordelia into a "monstrous mother," as described by Jes Battis in "Demonic Maternities, Complex Motherhoods" and by Matt Hills and Rebecca Williams in "Angel's Monstrous Mothers and Vampires with Souls: Investigating the Abject in 'Television Horror'." Hills and Williams' description of the birth of Jasmine is worth noting here, however, as it also fits with the angelic purity trope:
Although Cordelia is repeatedly figured as a monstrous womb, on the one occasion where she brings her offspring to term ("Inside Out"), any possible imagery of bloodied and viscous abjection is entirely removed from the episode's visual representation of birthing. Instead the climactic birth scene depicts cosmic radiance and a "star-child" type of SFX, as Jasmine appears haloed by bright, white, supernatural light. (207)
Giving birth to Jasmine sends Cordelia into yet another coma, a more explicit figurative death. She remains unseen throughout most of season five, returning once again in episode twelve, "You're Welcome."[3] Now all traces of monster Cordy are gone; snippy yet compassionate Cordelia is back, once more with inspiration, to recall Angel to his mission: "The Powers That Be owed me one, and I didn't waste it. I got my guy back on track." She also passes one important vision to Angel with her parting kiss. And then, really, finally, she "softly and suddenly vanishes away"[4] and Cordelia, the angel in Angel's house, is dead. Why? Narratively, because her work is done, of course. But also, evidently, the writers could think of nothing else for her to do. Now and then Cordy would be given a sword or a stake, but in the end, she had become princess, beloved, mother—angel. Self-sacrifice is the angel's middle name—even unto death.
[14] Male characters in Angel certainly have their nurturing and self-sacrificing aspects: Angel goes ga-ga over baby Connor ("Dad" A3010), Wesley sits with dying Fred and reads her favorite book ("A Hole in the World" A5015), etc., but these actions or qualities do not become their primary characteristics or raisons d'etre, and if a male character dies—as Wesley does—it is in active combat, not as a victim of overwhelming forces. Gunn subjects himself to (apparently) eternal torment in the Wolfram and Hart suburban hell primarily to atone for his own transgression in releasing Illyria, not so much for the secondary result of releasing Lindsey.
[15] Of course, an analysis of one character throughout five seasons of a complex television series must inevitably be only a part of a much longer conversation. Cordelia the self-sacrificing angel is only one example of difficulties faced by female characters in the series: Winifred "Fred" Burkle, seemingly a more obviously frail feminine flower, is robust enough to ultimately survive her own death (which she fights all the way) but is weirdly transmuted into the androgynous Illyria. Lilah Morgan, after relentlessly climbing to the top of her division of Wolfram & Hart, literally over her supervisor's dead body ("Deep Down" A4001), is killed by possessed-Cordy, then revived as another paradoxical savior figure, as Jennifer Stoy notes:
Lilah (who is not-so-coincidentally dressed in white) [is discovered] in the courtyard of the Hyperion Hotel. This is after her side wound in 'Habeas Corpses' is revealed to be stigmatic in 'Calvary' (4:12), when she admits to Wesley 'I can't make it stop' as her bloodied hands fall outward from her stomach. Of course one also notes that the death in the provocatively named 'Calvary' is not Angel, Connor, nor any of the potential saviors; it's Lilah who dies . . . (170-71)
although she does not actually provide salvation—thus, the paradox. Another
paradoxical self-sacrificing "angel" is Darla, the vampire mother of Connor, who
stakes herself in order that her son may be born, and who later appears as a
vision in white, urging him to follow his heart because, "I feel the good in you
and no matter how much you're beaten or twisted or lied to, it's still there in
your heart. I know it, and deep down, you know it, too" ("Inside Out" A4017)—an
ultimately ineffective plea. Killing them does not seem to strengthen them[5]—unlike
Buffy's deaths and resurrections ("Prophecy Girl" B1012, "The Gift" B5022, and
all of season 6). It is also unlike Virginia Woolf's metaphorical murder of her
mental "angel in the house," which would enable her to become the writer she
knew she could be, wanted to be. Although the angelic Cordelia who makes her
final appearance in "You're Welcome" is stronger and more effective in
almost every way than before, she is also only present and active for one day.
And ultimately, all these female or feminine angels, effective or ineffective,
appear to minister to Angel, in Angel's house, Angel's town—but then, it's
Angel's show.
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[1] Fitzpatrick, "Monsters and Mean Streets;" Jacob, "Los Angelus: The City of Angel;" Sayer, "'It Wasn't Our World Anymore. They Made it Theirs': Reading Space and Place."
[2] In season 5, Angel will finally meet a nice, uncomplicated werewolf girl, Nina, and enjoy one night of romance without losing his soul before sending her away to escape the "Circle of the Black Thorn" apocalypse (5021).
[3] Significantly, "You're Welcome" was also Angel's 100th episode and the series' cancellation had not yet been announced (Ritchie).
[4] Yes, that is a quote from "The Hunting of the Snark," by Lewis Carroll. Draw your own conclusions.
[5] Except perhaps in the problematic case of Fred/Illyria. Jes Battis' commentary on Fred/Illyria in Blood Relations (124-32) is excellent.