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After the evidence is presented at trial, the judge or jury deliberates and reaches a verdict. The verdict may be guilty, not guilty or guilty of a lesser crime. If the jury is unable to reach a verdict, the judge will declare a mistrial and the prosecutor will have to determine if they will re-try the case. If the defendant is found not guilty, the case is over and he/she will be immediately released on that case.
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After I walked away I had two thought processes that went back in forth until the next morning.
Proceso número uno:
Why in the actual fuck did I do that? I always have to ruin everything!
Well not everything because I've never actually messed anything up in my life...
i.e. poster child for a pureblood family
Proceso número dos:
Who in the hell does he think he is?
Just because your father saved the wizarding world 20 years ago doesn't mean you can push around people! Especially since Harry Potter is literally supposed to be the kindest person on the planet and if Ron Weasley can manage not to punch Draco Malfoy, I think the Wotter&Co Clan can not antagonize the child of a forced-former death eater.
Not to mention James and his family do not have one legitimate reason to pick on Scorpius. Scorpius has never, not once retaliated.
I tossed and turned the whole night just replaying the scene in my head. To just see if I missed anything, anything at all, but there was nothing different.
James' face, Fred's attitude and how horrible Scorpius looked when they had taunted him.
I sat up straight, pushing my very wild bed head out of my face. I was right, right? Why the hell am I tossing and turning when the Wotters&Co clan have some explaining to do.
And I know Scorpius better than I know the Wotters!
Though I never actually had any sort of relationship with Scorpius, we had sat together at parties!
Have you ever been to a pureblood party?
All they do is chat about their jobs and how they make so much money, then they laugh at the failures in wizarding society.
Translating to a child's worst nightmare. Meaning all the little pureblooded children snuck away from the parties and talked about their dreams of going Hogwarts.
Anyways, I could consider Scorpius a little bit more than an acquaintance and they had no right to jeer at Scorpius for his father's faults, faults his father corrected in time.
I mean, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy actually acknowledge one another now. They nod at each other and occasionally they can be seen saying hello. Not to mention what I said about Ron Weasley before.
And thats 20 years in the making guys.
By the time their 100, they might even be friends.
Who knows right...
I got ready as I had this little chat with myself, which is totally and completely normal.
Brushed my teeth and hair, check.
Wearing all the necessary clothes, check.
My school bag containing my notebooks, pens (I hate quills), Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott, check.
And roommates still sleeping, check.
I managed to slip out of dorm, up the stairs and out of the Hufflepuff dormitories without being seen or heard, that is until I was about 20 paces from the Great Hall when I was run into, my bag spilling everywhere.
Fucking great.
I crawled all over the floor reaching and stretching, so I didn't have to move (mostly because I'm lazy. Hey it's 7:30 in the morning).
"Look at what you did Rose." Wait, I know that voice "We come to talk to her and you manage to jump her and empty her bag right in front of the Great Hall."
Molly Weasley, everybody.
Hold the applause until the end, thank you.
"Oh, It's alright." I smiled.
Actually it's not.
But, eh, gotta live up to the Hufflepuff code.
I'm not joking, there is a code.
"No, it's not. I'm sorry Arielle. I just really wanted to talk to you." Rose sighed momentarily, but soon recovered with a bright smile, handing me the brick (if you don't get that reference, I'm going to hit you with a brick).
Ahhh, I love that book.
"What did you really want to talk to me about?" I questioned, placing the novel against my chest, under my crossed arms to protect the book, rather than myself.
Yes, I value my books more than my life.
Sad isn't it?
"We wanted to thank you for sticking up for Scorpius yesterday." said Rose, lowering her head a little.
Molly, obviously still angry at Rose, continued with a bite, "and, we wanted to thank you for putting our family in place. They all think that they have a right to be higher in stature than someone like Scorpius. It's completely mental."
"Also we were wondering if we could sit next to you at breakfast because we, kind of," "Sort of," continued Molly "Blew up on our family when you left." finished Rose.
"Kind of?" I questioned, raising an eyebrow.
"Have you ever heard of the Weasley temper?" I nodded "Well it kind of escalated into an explosion of monstrous proportions."
"Monstrous proportions? Perfect." I smiled, crossing my arms. "C'mon you can sit with me at the Hufflepuff table. We can sit directly across from where your family sits so they can stare at you the whole time in anger."
"I really like this girl." said Rose
"Me too." added Molly as she and Rose linked arms with me as we walked into the Great Hall.
PS. IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW ALREADY, 'Proceso número uno' MEANS PROCESS NUMBER 1 AND 'Proceso número dos' MEANS PROCESS NUMBER TWO
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Share the Road.
These people are "cyclists" but you'd think they were drivers that are posing. I think they are actually serious.
Share the Road.
These people are "cyclists" but you'd think they were drivers that are posing. I think they are actually serious.
"It hurts so good..."
those people aren't advocates. i didn't watch any of their videos. i bet it is just a snappy name.
i get 'share the road' yelled at me out of car windows, and also 'same roads, same rules' from jackstraps in cars a lot.
sometimes from people with bike racks on their cars, self identifying as 'bikers'.
like "I"m a bicyclist too, and it's 'same roads, same rules.'" i got that about a month ago downtown from some asshat when he buzzed me up to a light because of some transgression or infraction on my part. i guess he was a bicyclist even though he was driving at the time (remind you of anyone, helmet head?)....i was inspired to harass him for about 8 more blocks of city traffic, out my way mind you, because I'm a bicyclist too, and an angry one when i get buzzed by smartasses in cars.
bikers that yell 'share the road' out their car windows usually just look like gashuffing, angry drivers yelling at the actual bicyclist.
"Evidence, anecdote and methodology all support planning for roadway bike traffic."
to some people or most people bicycles aren't regarded as actuall utility vehicles more as something like skiis that get strapped to the top of the auto for the weekend
The Ferrari ('05 Bianchi Forza) had a flat (Stupid Glass) the Japanese wagon ('77 Nishiki with Arkel Utility Basket) was in the body shop (On my bench being repainted...repent ye rust)
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Their Hug the line PSA #4 really bugs me.
I love all the Cindy Sheehan wannabes in the Napa Valley vid.
It shouldn't be surprising, what with all those cyclists out riding around as if they are invisible. It's the typical "Stay out of the way and you'll survive" message. My favorite part is where the guy says that even if a car is only going 25-30mph that it's really hard to stop if the driver comes up on a cyclist around a turn. Some people really don't have a clue.Originally Posted by The Human Car
What if they come upon a streetsweeper, or a cruiser pulled over, or a schoolbus at a stop, or a farm tractor, or, or, or....guy says that even if a car is only going 25-30mph that it's really hard to stop if the driver comes up on a cyclist
What a flippin idiot.
"I'm a bike rider myself, and I try to stay on the white line or to the right of it as much as I possibly can. Sometimes rocks and things get in the way...."
Man-o-man... George is a noob.
Well "Hug the Line" sucked, but the one about avoiding doors and the one about not running lights and signs was OK. The first one about avoiding right hooks was fair.
The avoiding doors one had a good point but their demonstration of taking the lane needs work. The cyclist signals for a very short time and then swerves in front of a same direction car with barely enough time to avoid rear ending the parked car. If he had chosen a centerish position to begin with, that merge would have been completely unnecessary
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Looks like it is just a site to highlight bicycle crashes, probably in a humorous way. Notice that they have the Bush crash video there as well.
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"If youre new enough [to racing] that you would ask such question, then i would hazard a guess that if you just made up a workout that sounded hard to do, and did it, youd probably get faster." --the tiniest sprinter
The "PSA's" struck me as "how motorists think bicyclists should ride."
"Hug the line" went out in the 70's. Look carefully at the "don't pass on the right" video. The cyclist is maintaining a straight course and a consistent speed. The motorist passes him, then quickly turns in front of him. The voice-over has the slant that it's "really" the cyclist's fault -- there's no way the driver could have seen him. Come on -- you just passed the guy ten seconds ago. Did he magically disappear?
The fault of the cyclist here is not that he is passing on the right -- it's that he's "hugging the line" like he was taught in the other PSA.
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Whenever I hear someone starting off like that I cringe as something not cool is almost certainly emanate. If you are giving good advice you don't need to start like that.Originally Posted by George
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Just look at his "One of Those Times" video. He can not even hold a line on the MUP. And would you trust someone on a Tri-bike with their saddle set that low.
The only video that I though was OK, for general viewing, was PSA5 the Road 1 Class Video. All the others showed poor riding or blamed the cyclist for all evils on the road. Too bad that it does not appear that the web site creator has not taken (on learned from) the Road 1 Class.
Thankfully, the web site looks like it is more for fun rather than trying to really teach cycling.
The "Hug the line" one was the worst. When I ride, at my normal cruising speed, my rule of thumb is one arm length from the right edge of the rideable portion of the road. Sometimes that's on the line, sometimes it's over the line, sometimes it's well within the line. I ignore the line.
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What advantage does "hugging the space 1.5ft/0.5m from the edge of the road" (does that aptly describe your style?) have over "hugging the line?"Originally Posted by john bono
Some dickhead yelled at me the other day to "hug the gutter." I caught him at a stoplight and asked what he meant. He was having a hard time speaking and smoking his cigarette at the same time but mumbled something about squeezing to the right so he can squeeze on by. I politely informed him that it is illegal to pass bicycles without adequate clearance in this state, and dangerous for me to 'hug the gutter' too closely because of parked cars and all that. I'm not sure it made a difference. But it makes me happy that I have bicycle advocacy groups here that pass legislation for bicycle and pedestrian safety.
Not 1.5 feet, more like 3 feet. The line on the road around here can be anywhere from a 8 inches to 4 feet from the edge of useable pavement. And it isn't a hard and fast rule either. If I'm going near the speed limit or above, I'll take the full lane. If I'm coming to an intersection, I'll take the lane. Hugging the line around here is a bad idea because there won't be enough space on the right to react to road hazards.
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That Golden gate bridge one tripped me right out.
There's no way I could ride a bike across a bridge if it was doing that.
So what makes the edge of the road a better arbitrary point of reference than the fog line? With a wide variance in road width that would mean you'd be sometimes in the way, sometimes barely in the way, and sometimes out of the way. That doesn't seem much better than trying to "hug the line" where sometimes you'll be barely in the way and sometimes out of the way. Do you count driveways and other minor entrances to the road as intersections?Originally Posted by john bono
Because there is a wide variance as to where the line is in regard to the actual road. There are sections where the line is about 6" from the edge of the road, and that 6" is loaded with debris and broken pavement. If there was a pothole or other obstruction to my left, and I hugged the line, I'd be forced off the road. As for intersections, it is pretty obvious. A stop sign, a stop light, that's an intersection. When I approach those things, I tend to take the lane, or slide in behind waiting traffic(again, taking the lane in the process).Originally Posted by joejack951
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Looking for HOUGHs in Lancashire
My ggg grandfather Richard Hough was born in Chorley c. 1798 and died in the Bolton workhouse in 1882. He was a brewer by trade and entered the workhouse in 1879 due to destitution.
There is some debate as to who his parents are and some researchers make links to a Dutch line. The problem is the HOUGH name is quite common in Lancashire and there seem to be several different branches.
According to < familysearch > Richard Hough was Baptised: 10 June 1798 at Eccleston, Lancs, England.
His parents were William Hough and Margaret.
It seems possible they were married: 25 June 1797 at Ormskirk, Lancs.
(Ormskirk is approx 10 miles from Eccleston.)
The Margaret of that marriage had the maiden name Tyrer.
It seems possible Richard had these siblings:
Robert Bap: 30 MAR 1800 Eccleston By Chorley, Lancashire, England.
Mary - Bap: 30 MAR 1800 Eccleston By Chorley, Lancashire, England
Thomas Bap: 28 Aug 1802 Eccleston By Chorley, Lancs, England.
You would of course want to verify these details by looking at transcripts of the parish registers.
You might get information about how to access these from the Lancs. pages of Genuki:
or at the Lancs. page of rootschat:
Good luck......
Hello, nice to hear from you and thanks for the info. The other possibility on IGI is William & Mary also in Chorley in November 1800. When time permits I will certainly be checking the registers to verify the info.
Best wishes
It might be that is a second marriage, after what may be twins or a double baptism of siblings.
Unusual but not unknown to postpone a baptism in case of infant death.
Very exciting, please do let me know what you find.
Hadn't thought about a second marriage - very clever!
Will certainly keep you updated.
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From an introduction to a reading by Joe McElroy at the MFA Program Poets and Writers Reading Series at Temple University in November 2012.
Joe McElroy is a longtime friend of the Temple Graduate Creative Writing program—going back to the 90s. He has been writer-in-residence twice and he has used this venue, the Poets and Writers Series, to debut new work many times. He is our familiar. So it is easy to forget that Joe McElroy is also one of the great fiction writers of our time, about whom one can claim, without exaggeration, that he has changed the form. He is changing the form of fiction. This lends a special excitement to the moment of his reading tonight.
In 10 novels and shorter fictions, Joe McElroy has primed readers' expectations that they will always know themselves on the last page in a way that was unimaginable on the first. Joe's books, from the earliest, A Smuggler's Bible, to the more recent, Actress in the House are nothing if not feats of discovery: or perhaps it is best to say that in McElroy's fictions every word pushes us to the threshold of a new rapport with the world. The marvelous variety of Joe's fictive inventions attune us to uses for language that, in a sense, we haven't yet imagined a life for. He tests our resilience for new experience.
No doubt examples are in order. Well, I think of the way that consciousness travels from character to character in Joe's magnum opus Women and Men. It makes us think that the concept of character itself may not be enough to express what it means to be human. Or I think of that disembodied brain in Joe's fabulous quasi-science fiction novel, Plus. In the brain's decaying orbit of the earth, hurtling toward its own destruction, it gathers its memories around it with a verbal density that feels like a body gathering inertia. Reading in the arc of its fall we can't escape the thought that our own mental fate might be to become ever more fascinated strangers to our physical existence. Plus is an out of body—inner being experience, all at once. In Actress in the House, an act of staged violence in a theatrical performance stages our own coming to blows with the force of syntax in McElroy's prose. McElroy deploys the sentence in a way that refuses vicarious passage into a scene of action. We are the actors in the scene of the sentence. In McElroy's fiction each word doesn't so much fit the sentence as it makes the sentence fit a world whose dimensions we are still learning to compass.
The hallmark of this fiction is its inducement for us to become speculative about our experience without losing the immediacy of the most viscerally "felt" moments of life. It is the stuff of experimental practice with the understanding that experimentation is no different in the humanities than in the sciences. Its value is its usefulness to us. McElroy's books are indeed useful experiments. As McElroy says in one of his marvelously self-reflective essays: "being exposed to a work of art adds to a person in a way that can't be separated from usefulness" ("Personal"). Well, personal usefulness portends a future. For my money this is what McElroy's fiction is all about, the future of fiction. So when we speak of McElroy changing the form of the work of art, the form of fiction, we can take the liberty of thinking that this has something to do with us. I don't know what greater hopefulness a writer can bestow upon his readers.
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Demonstrators who oppose a form of shale gas exploration are planning to march to the building where North Carolina lawmakers may soon decide whether to allow the procedure in the state.
Members of environmental groups planned to gather Saturday in a Raleigh park and march to the Legislative Building.
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The state environment department says fracking can be conducted safely if lawmakers adopt the right precautions. Opponents argue the threat of tainted groundwater isn't worth the risk.
Croatan Earth First, the Cumnock Preservation Association, and the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League are participating in the march.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- Another soldier is being punished for his role in the suicide of an Army private, who authorities say killed himself because he was hazed over his Chinese ancestry.
The Fayetteville Observer reported that Spc. Thomas Curtis pleaded guilty Monday to hazing, assault and other charges in the suicide of Pvt. Danny Chen of New York last fall in Afghanistan.
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Southmoor Anti-Bullying Policy
CEOP works with child protection partners across the UK and overseas to identify the main threats to children and coordinates activity against these threats to bring offenders to account. They protect children from harm online and offline, directly through NCA led operations and in partnership with local and international agencies.
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- TELL someone you can trust! A problem becomes smaller if it is shared.
- WALK away if you can. It's still hard to bully someone who won't stand still.
- STAY with a crowd. Try not to be on your own at the times you don't feel safe.
- KNOW and AVOID the "danger" areas.
- KEEP a record of what is happening.
- DON'T be embarrassed to ask for help. We all need it sometimes.
- TRY to support other victims.
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- TALK to your child on a regular basis, so any problem is easier to share.
- LISTEN to what they say - and believe it.
- ENCOURAGE your child to feel good about themselves realising that we are all different and equally important.
- THINK back to your own childhood. How did YOU feel?
- IF you believe your child is being bullied or is a bully, talk to other adults at home or school and explore the options. Don't stay silent.
- IF your child is a victim assure them that it's not their fault, and that you ARE going to do something to help.
- BE realistic in your expectation if the school have agreed to sort it out. Ongoing problems may take time to resolve.
- TRY to be assertive with the school, not aggressive. Without a good working relationship between parents and the school the situation could deteriorate, which won't help you or them.
- ALWAYS remember that children can't solve bullying alone. They NEED support.
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- Any pupils involved should complete a standard Pupil Incident Form.
- Where necessary the member of staff involved should also complete a Serious Incident Form.
- All completed forms go to the House Leader of the alleged bully.
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- All pupils involved should be interviewed by the appropriate House Leader's.
- At this stage House Leader's will contact parents of any pupils where deemed appropriate.
- A letter of apology should be written to the victim if House Leader deems it appropriate.
- The incident will be logged in the school Bullying Incident Record.
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- Anti-bullying panel consists of House Leader, Senior Assistant Principal, Director of Houses, and a governor when possible.
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- Attend twilight sessions in addition to normal school hours.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Donald Brown ran for two touchdowns, Andrew Luck added another and the Indianapolis Colts rallied yet again, this time beating the Tennessee Titans 30-27 on Thursday night after trailing 14-0 in the first quarter.
Adam Vinatieri kicked three field goals, including a 50-yarder, and Coby Fleener had a career-high eight catches for 107 yards to help the Colts (7-3) bounce back quite nicely from a 38-8 home loss to St. Louis. They have yet to lose back-to-back games under coach Chuck Pagano and are 8-0 coming off a loss.
The Titans (4-6) lost their second straight and fifth in six games.
Chris Johnson ran for two touchdowns and 70 yards in the first quarter, but had only 16 yards after that. The Titans pulled to 30-27 on Ryan Fitzpatrick's scoring pass to Delanie Walker with 1:54 left, but couldn't recover the onside kick for a second straight game.
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In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology. On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites ...
As far as political positioning goes, his strategy seems to be to appear as a sort of ideological Universalist, one who spends a great deal of rhetorical energy showing that he recognizes the validity of all points of view, and conversely emphasizes that when he does take hard positions on issues, he often does so reluctantly. He is a black man from Chicago who gets away with praising Ronald Reagan, which is not an easy task. His political ideal is basically a rehash of the Blair-Clinton "third way" deal, an amalgam of Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton and the New Deal; he is aiming for the middle of the middle of the middle.
In short, Obama is a creature perfectly in tune with the awesome corporate strivings of Hollywood, Madison avenue and the Beltway -- he tries, and often succeeds, at selling a politics of seeking out the very center of where we already are, to the very couch where we've been sitting all this time, as an exciting, revolutionary journey into the unknown. And while most of what he says and writes is basically some version of the same old tired clichés about family and faith and hope and optimism and "working together" and "getting involved," he adds to those clichés real literary flair, wordsmithing far beyond the range of most politicians. Take this bit about his kids in his book:
... I sat at the dinner table, watching Malia and Sasha as they laughed and bickered and resisted their string beans before their mother chased them up the stairs and to their baths. Alone in the kitchen washing the dishes, I imagined my two girls growing up, and I felt the ache that every parent must feel at one time or another, that desire to snatch up each moment of your child's presence and never let go -- to preserve every gesture, to lock in for all eternity the sight of their curls or the feel of their fingers clasped around yours.
Here's the thing about Obama, the reason they call him a "natural" and a "rare talent." When Hillary Clinton spouts a cliché, it's four words long, she's reading it off a teleprompter, and it hits the ear like the fat part of a wooden oar. Even when Hillary announced she was running for president, she sounded like she was ordering coffee. Obama on the other hand can close his eyes and the clichés just pour out of his mouth in huge polysyllabic paragraphs, like Rachmaninoff improvisations. In this sense he's exactly like Bill Clinton, who had the same gift. He is exactly what is meant by the term bullshit artist.
My usual instinct when presented with this type of Zelig-esque, Eddie Haskell, non-stick personality is to violently reject it. But over the course of the last few weeks I've found myself increasingly amused by the Obama phenomenon. For one thing, he clearly pisses off Hillary to no end. Same with Biden and all of those other windbag jerk-off assholes in that revolting "national security Democrats" clan in the Senate. There is something subtly racist (in Biden's case, not so subtle) in the way these more entrenched Democrats are riding Obama's lack of credentials and acting like the '08 nomination is their birthright, like he hasn't "waited his turn" or something, paid his dues. As if any of these clowns would wait ten seconds to declare for the White House if they had the same odds that Obama has now.
I have no idea who Obama really is, but he is against the war now (and at least never voted for it) and he seems to infuriate the right people. He has people bitching now that he's not black enough, and there are obviously going to be plenty of people for whom he's too black. And both of those groups of people, frankly, deserve whatever's coming to them. So for the time being I'm going to enjoy his rise to the top, the same way I enjoyed reading The Red and The Black -- like another great phony, Julien Sorel, Obama is a perfect mirror of the society he was born to conquer, and his journey upward throws everyone he passes into stark, humorous relief. Whether I'll vote for him is another story. But he's certainly helping make it clear who shouldn't get my vote.
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Ah, the opening 'Homicidal Retribution'. Fuckin great song. I'm a big fan of all of DF's albums. Always brutal, always have great lyrics, and their breakdowns make all these deathcore bands today seem like pussies. I also love the vocal tradeoffs of John Gallagher and Sean Beasley (and Jason in the early days). Neither do anything out of this world spectacular, but the differences play off each other way, and keep things fresh. I know there are several death metal bands who do this, and I think it' a pretty cool thing.
This album is one of my favorites to listen to at the gym. Interesting all the way through, never gets stale, and it always fires me up. I think this album has some of the more catchy rythyms of DF's impressive catalogue. The intro to Homicidal Retribution is a perfect example of this. What makes it stick w/ me so much is it's ability to be groovy, technical, and fast without having any nerd to it. The 3rd track, 'Raping The System' is one of my favorites. A 6+ minute number that begins w/ some awesome double bass and a slowish, groovy guitar rythym. The "slowness" doesn't last long, it get's pretty darn brutal around 45 seconds. Track 5, 'Unadulterated Hatred' is another strong number. I get frusterated when John Gallagher is rarely mentioned among people's favorite death metal vocalists. His gutteral growls are some of my favorite, and he's a hell of a guitar player.
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I bought the extended choke for my Benelli Nova three years ago and I am still impressed with the performance. After close to 7 cases of goose loads shot through it, I have not had any problem with swelling or splitting. Since switching to this choke, I noticed the birds fold up and auger in faster than they do with the factory chokes. I am impressed enough, I ordered one for my wife's bird gun.Jared of Idaho Falls, ID - November, 23 2010:
I purchased a Patternmaster Long Range for my Benelli Nova, then upgrade to a Super Nova. I shot this choke for 1 year with great results...BUT after owning this choke for 13 months the bottom of the tube became swollen. I barely got it out of my shotgun! I promptly called Patternmaster, who were very aware of this problem as it is relatively common - THEY SAID THAT! I was transferred to another department to get the replacement process going. They informed me that my warranty had expired one month ago. 12 month warranty and they wouldn't do ANYTHING for me since I owned it 13 months. Next they said my warranty had been voided by selling the original firearm I purchased it for (sold the Nova bought a Super Nova). NEXT they said the warranty was also voided because I had shot ammo through it with velocities greater than 1550 fps. They informed me that all these things voided the warranty and I was simply going to have to buy another choke tube at full retail. I expect far greater from a company who sells a $90 choke! They also said any choke tubes that are simply shot out (?) wouldn't be warrantied either. It's their discretion if your tube is simply "shot out" and therefore doesn't qualify for their horrible warranty. What a joke! I will never again buy a Patternmaster, nor will I ever recommend them to anyone. The fact that they were well aware of the swelling problem and yet did nothing to fix it or warranty it is insult to injury. DO NOT BUY!!!
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According to the Star Trek: Star Charts (pgs. 13, 81), the J-25 system was located in unexplored space in the Beta Quadrant. This system, also known as FGC-J25, was a single star system. Primary was a Class A star with a magnitude of +5, which was the same brightness as Sol.
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for a few months I have been having bone pain in my femur that has gotton worse and worse. When I first noticed it I thought nothing of it as it was only a mild throbbing. Now about 4 months later I get the pain every day and it is far worse. Not I get the bone pain from my hip to my knee (but still mostly in the femur)
The pain is worse at night and when I am resting. Its getting so bad that I cant stand it.
I havn't done anything to injure myself either.
Around the hip area feels tender to touch like there is a bruise/ although there is none. I also walk with a limp although I have no idea how I got it.
I am a female teenager and am of average height and weight.
I have quite a long medical history of gastric reflux/ appendicitis/ abominal pains/ fecal loading. although I doubt any of these is causing my pain.
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Poor Aleiah Brandon.
Last month, the San Diego State freshman is tossed into the game with two minutes left and her team leading UNLV by 18 points. Aztecs women's basketball coach Beth Burns issues firm instructions that no player take a shot early on in the possession. But a few seconds into SDSU's next trip down the court, Brandon receives a pass from point guard Chelsea Hopkins and suddenly Burns is yelling "shoot it!"
Freshman hazing? Nah, Hopkins was just an assist shy of a triple-double.
In other words — business as usual.
Hopkins got her triple-double that night and now leads the nation with three of them. The feats have come against SMU, UNLV and Nevada, and if Chelsea would have managed one more assist vs. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in December, she'd have a fourth.
Think what you will about women's basketball — that it's slower or stagnant or forever stuck below the rim. But spend two halves watching Hopkins play, and yawns wouldn't dare try to escape your mouth.
This season, the senior is averaging 13.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and 6.7 assists per game. Her assist mark is good for seventh in the country, and at 5-feet-8 — making her the second-shortest player on the team — she leads the Aztecs in boards.
Type a superlative into thesaurus.com and most would aptly describe Chelsea's game. Her coach, however, tends to favor one particular adjective.
"She's special," said Burns, repeating the word throughout a Hopkins-centered interview last week. "She does the things you can't teach. A good player can do things, but a great player can make everybody else do things. That's what Chelsea does."
So what's Hopkins' secret? What gives the Las Vegas native that Sin City-like panache?
Is it the shoes? Nah, can't be those. Chelsea wears a different pair every game — from Jordans to Penny Hardaways to any other swooshified sneaker.
Is it the knees? No, it definitely can't be those. Hopkins has torn her meniscus three times.
The first two came during her time at Duke, where she played 46 games as a freshman and sophomore but spent the rest of the time hobbled by injury. In high school, Chelsea's nickname was "C-Hop," a nod to her jumping ability that allowed her to grab the rim. But in addition to hindering her lateral movement, multiple surgeries have made C-Hop's vertical leap, well, C-Drop.
Is it the brains? Hey, now we're talking.
We can start with the book smarts — the 4.7 GPA that earned Hopkins salutatorian honors at Mojave High School, the bachelors in public administration that she has already received and the MBA she's pursuing. But there are also the court smarts that have been planted, fertilized and watered within her since she was a toddler.
Remember Hayden Panettiere's character from "Remember the Titans"? The assistant coach's 9-year-old daughter who knew more about football than most of the players? Well, that may have been based off Hopkins.
Chelsea's father, Tony Hopkins, is the first black basketball coach to win a high school state championship in Nevada. And he used to sit Chelsea next to him for every game while turning to her for substitution advice.
But it was the counsel that he passed on to her that shaped her into the hoopster she is today; that when you take the floor, you're not playing a position — you're playing a game.
"My dad always told me that while my position may be point guard, that doesn't mean that you're only limited to running the team and passing," said Hopkins, who models her game after Rajon Rondo and said she'd like to be a general manager for a pro basketball team one day. "Ever since high school, I've loved to rebound the ball."
That's the approach that has earned Hopkins six Mountain West Player of the Week awards, put her on the Wade Trophy watch list, and has the first-place Aztecs at 20-5 overall and 11-1 in conference play heading into Saturday's game against Nevada. It's also a mentality that prompted teammates to unanimously vote her captain after she transferred from Duke.
But when it comes to accolades, Hopkins tends to deflect the praise — crediting her fellow Aztecs for the bulk of her success. No surprise there. Hopkins tends to hook her teammates up.


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Saturday, December 18, 2010
What must Missouri be doing by the year 2020 — now just over nine years away — to have an educated citizenry?
That was Senate President Pro Tem Charlie Shields' challenge nearly two years ago. On Friday, the six-member committee he named said the state should have three main goals for education.
"We want to make sure that our kindergartners will enter school with the essential skills that they need to be successful when they go to school," said Sen. David Pearce, R-Warrensburg. He chaired the Senate's Missouri Educated Citizenry 2020 Committee.
"Obviously, the sooner that we can address the needs and problems of our young people, the better off they will be to start, and throughout their whole educational career."
That includes offering voluntary pre-kindergarten classes.
Brent Ghan, Missouri School Boards Association spokesman, said: "We're especially pleased to see the emphasis on early childhood education in the report. It is a key to improving educational achievement in our state."
Committee members want 75 percent of Missouri students to "demonstrate a proficiency on the state standardized achievement measures, currently the MAP tests — and we're not there," Pearce said "Right now, we're in the lower- to mid-50s in communication arts and social studies."
Pearce said the committee also thinks it's important that Missouri students "perform at comparable levels to the highest-performing industrialized countries."
That's because we "compete internationally and need to have Missouri try to be an international leader in things," he said.
To reach those benchmarks, Pearce said: "We think that our students in the state of Missouri should have access to fully accredited schools."
Sen. Joe Keaveny, D-St. Louis, served on the panel and represents one of Missouri's most-troubled public school districts.
"Each district has its own challenges," he said. "My district is very, very diverse socially and economically.
"So, we have to figure out different plans for different districts — even different areas of different districts — to achieve those results."
Missouri needs to improve its use of technology as an education tool at all education levels.
And the state needs to make sure that "we have high academic standards at our schools (and) we need to expand opportunities for charter school sponsorships," Pearce said. "We need to look at the traditional school day and the traditional school calendar."
Some students in other countries spend more time in school each day and/or have a longer school year than most U.S. schools.
In an effort to improve the quality of classroom teachers, the committee recommended both performance-based and market-driven teacher compensation plans.
"We need to reward those teachers who are doing a great job," Pearce said. "Yet those who are not performing up to standards, we need to make sure that they're in a place where they're not having a detrimental effect on education."
Keaveny noted Colorado's system compares a classroom's progress within each year to gauge a teacher's performance.
"It's almost as objective as it can be," he said. "So, everybody buys into the program."
How Missouri pays for education — the combination of state and local tax support at the elementary and secondary level, and state support plus grants and tuition in higher education — long has been confusing for many people.
The committee recommended requiring all new lawmakers to attend a seminar on the "foundation" formula used to distribute state aid to the K-12 public schools.
And the committee said there should be more collaboration among schools at all grade levels — including another attempt to combine the current two state education departments — Higher Education and Elementary and Secondary — into one.
"We think this is a good thing," Pearce said. "Not only will it save money for the state of Missouri, but it gets those groups focused and working together on a full-time basis."
When voters approved state reorganization in 1972, they authorized splitting the then-single education department into two, because they have different missions and interests.
Pearce said Friday: "Just because a decision was made 30 years ago doesn't mean we can't re-address it and make some changes."
The committee hopes lawmakers will debate the report and seek changes over the next few years.
"This isn't a short-term goal," Keaveny said. "This is a blueprint of where we want to end up.
"It's going to take a number of years to get there."
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