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Manny Machado's 5-game suspension upheld
BALTIMORE, Md. - Major League Baseball decided today to uphold a 5-game suspension of Orioles third baseman Manny Machado.
RELATED: Baltimore Orioles' Manny Machado awaits verdict after suspension hearing
The Baltimore Orioles announced the verdict on Twitter June 30. Machado is set to begin the suspension the same night.
Earlier this month Machado appealed the suspension, which was implemented after Machado intentionally threw his bat on the field during a June 8 game against Oakland.


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The BEAST explores CEO punishment options
Frustrated with the sluggish official response to the latest corporate scandals, the BEAST decided to call John Swain, a history instructor at the Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University, to seek out more satisfying corporate policy options:
Swain: You want to do what?
BEAST: Basically, what we're trying to do… you've been following this whole mess with the various imploding corporations–Tyco, WorldCom, Rite-Aid…
Swain: Rite-Aid, too?
BEAST: Yeah. They inflate profits by $1.4 billion. Excuse me, $1.6 billion.
Swain: Huh. I didn't know.
BEAST: Anyway, given that most of the CEOs who are responsible for all of this are probably never going to go to jail, we were wondering if you could help us speculate as to what the punitive options might have been for people like this in, say, 15th-century Portugal, or England.
Swain: Huh. That would probably have depended on who they were back then.
BEAST: Let's just say we threw someone like former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers back in time, suit and all, and he was to lay something like what he did on everyone there.
Swain: Are we talking England?
BEAST: Sure, let's say England.
Swain: Well, in 15th century England, you had a very busy time. I mean, you're fighting the French, you've got the War of the Roses…basically a nobleman, a gentleman, if he were to go really off the deep end there, if he's caught, the most serious thing he's probably going to face is a heavy fine from the Crown. Remember, the important thing back then is that the Crown needed money to fight all of these wars.
BEAST: Okay, right, but let's say the King just…let's just say he really, really wanted to punish this person, for personal reasons… what options would he have open to him then?
Swain: Well, if he really wanted to get the guy, for personal reasons, what he'd probably do is accuse him of heresy, and, you know… well, he could be burned at the stake.
BEAST: Was burning at the stake peculiar to England?
Swain: No, it was pretty popular everywhere. Sort of a universal thing.
BEAST: If a person like Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski were to be accused of heresy and burned at the stake, how would they do it? Would they leave his tie on?
Swain: I'm not sure. I'd have to look into that.
BEAST: What about other techniques? There are some famous ones: the Iron Maiden, the rack…
Swain: Actually, the Iron Maiden was more of a modern device. It wasn't really used in medieval times.
BEAST: Interesting.
Swain: Yeah, you'd think it was a medieval thing, but unfortunately, it actually came later, in a more advanced period of history. Actually, from where you're coming from, maybe that's fortunate, not unfortunate.
BEAST: Maybe. What about the rack?
Swain: Well, you had the rack, you had thumbscrews, you had hanging by the thumbs… but these were devices that were mainly used to extract confessions. So if you're looking to get them to confess, that would have been one way.
BEAST: Okay.
Swain: (brightening) But you know, now that I think about it, there was one very popular method of punishment, one you don't hear a lot about, but was nonetheless very widespread, and that was crushing a person under a large stone.
BEAST: A large stone?
Swain: Yes. They actually used that one in Salem, it was a very common thing for witch trials and things of that sort. I'm sure it would work for CEOs, though.
BEAST: So what did that entail? You take your CEO, push his lawyers away, and put him on the ground, and you get four or five guys to lift up a big rock and drop it on him?
Swain: Oh, no, we're talking about a much bigger stone than that. I'm saying you'd take your guy and chain him to a slab or a table, and then the stone would be hoisted by chains using a huge pulley, and you'd have a lot of men pulling it, and then there would be people to guide it over the person, and at the given moment, they'd just drop it.
BEAST: And he'd die?
Swain: Oh, God, yes. Totally.
BEAST: Do you think a large stone would be an effective deterrent to corporate malfeasance?
Swain: (after a long pause, sadly) No, probably not. Greed is a powerful motivator. Remember, you're only punishing the people who get caught, and a characteristic of these people is that they don't think they're going to get caught.
BEAST: I see.
Swain: Well, that's just an opinion.
BEAST: Are you enjoying your summer vacation?
Swain: Oh, yes, very much.
BEAST: That's great. Well, thank you.
Swain: Thank you.

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Links"Un élément, une classe"
Fourth-year pupils of middle schools will discover the history, contents and organisation of the periodic table
Daily tool of chemists, the periodic table or classification of elements gathers all the chemical elements. Fourth-year pupils of middle schools of the Academy of Toulouse (Regional education authority) will discover its history, its contents and its organisation by an interdisciplinary work (sciences, fine arts, history, geography, French, languages, technology). Their work will become a reality by i) the creation of a giant periodic table which will be exposed and ii) the edition of a collection of presentation of the elements which will be given to middle schools' libraries. This educational project is certified by the Vice-chancellorship of the Academy of Toulouse.
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TCL > December 2013 Issue > The Special Policeman's Dungeon: False Imprisonment at Union Station
About the Author
Denver's central train depot, known as Union Station or Union Depot, opened in the summer of 1881. The grand edifice was finished in the Italian Romanesque style and featured a 180-foot clock tower illuminated with electric lights. At 503 feet long and 65 feet wide, it was said to be the largest structure in the Western United States.1
In November 1883, the Union Depot hosted a Thanksgiving feast in the building's upscale dining hall. The menu for that evening's meal fit the elegant surroundings. The embossed bill of fare offered a feast of the choicest meats. Diners could enjoy boiled Mackinaw trout, shoulder of mutton, corned beef and cabbage, sugar cured ham, beef sirloin with horseradish, beef ribs with browned potatoes, mountain pheasant with currant jelly, elk loin with apple butter, wild goose with dressing, and tame turkey with cranberry sauce. If a diner remained hungry after all that, there were plenty of other satisfying items on the menu, including oyster patties, Boston cream puffs, lamb croquettes, various vegetable dishes, and an assortment of pies, pudding, nuts, raisins, oranges, and cheese.2
Those enjoying the fine dining at the Depot that evening were probably unaware of the very different atmosphere one floor below them. In the station's basement was a small, dark, windowless holding cell, later described as the "dungeon under the depot."3 Within weeks of the Thanksgiving feast, one man's incarceration there—and subsequent relocation to the fetid Denver City Jail—would lead to his successful damage suit for false imprisonment, and an appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court.
Hacks and Busses, Hustle and Bustle
Union Depot was a busy place in 1883. The station had been constructed to handle traffic from four railroad lines: the Union Pacific; the Denver & Rio Grande Western; the Denver, South Park & Pacific; and the Colorado Central. By 1883, the Denver, South Park & Pacific alone had twenty-eight passenger coaches and ran four trains a day on its Leadville/Gunnison line.4
Passengers who arrived in Denver at all hours of the day and night often needed transportation from the station to their ultimate destination in the city. Two occupations soon emerged to fulfill this need: the transfer agent and the hackman. The transfer agents sold transfer tickets to passengers, entitling them to transportation once they reached the station. The hackmen were the equivalent of today's taxicab drivers, and were available for hire once passengers arrived at the station.
As time went by, transfer agents and hackmen found themselves at odds with one another. A major source of contention between the two groups involved licensing. The City of Denver had attempted to license the solicitation of railroad passengers at the station by drivers of "hacks" (cabs) and busses. "[T]here was an ordinance prohibiting persons from soliciting the carriage of passengers in hacks and busses, unless the solicitor was possessed of a license issued by the city."5
It was unclear, however, to what extent this licensing ordinance applied to the transfer agents. Transfer agents did not solicit passengers at the station. Instead, they rode the train with the passengers and sold them transfers on the train before it arrived. Once the train reached Denver, the transfer agents would show the transfer holders to their company's hack or bus. This angered the regular hack drivers, who contended that their competitors were engaging in a form of solicitation without a license. The transfer agents, of course, could respond that they did not actually solicit anyone at the Depot; therefore, they were not subject to the licensing requirement.
Enter Special Depot Policeman E.H. Rust
In the midst of this controversy, the hack drivers found a friend in E.H. Rust, the Depot's special policeman. If others thought the licensing ordinance ambiguous, Rust did not. He was ready, willing, and able to arrest transfer agents who "solicited" passengers without a solicitation license.
Rust was a product of Denver's highly politicized police force. It had taken Denver nearly fifteen years from the city's founding to organize a proper police department. Between 1859 and 1874, when Denver finally developed a stable structure with a police chief and twelve officers, the city became involved in a confusing competition of hierarchy between the offices of police chief and marshal, followed by abolition of the marshal and police chief positions, the resignation of marshals, and even periods of vigilante justice.6
The police department structure of 1874 was not perfect. Under the new arrangement, the mayor and city council controlled the appointment of officers. This made the job of police officer a patronage job, subject to all the political pressure and corruption of such positions.
E. H. Rust was appointed to the force in January 1882, after approval by the mayor and city council. At the time of his appointment, he was the only candidate who did not receive a single negative vote from any councilman.7 This suggests he was either well liked, or well connected.
Approximately a year later, in April 1883, Rust left the general police force when the mayor appointed him a "special policeman" at the train station.8 Rust's status as special policeman was an unusual one. He was no longer paid by the Denver Police Department, nor did he regularly take orders from those in charge of the Denver Police. Instead, the Depot itself paid his salary and supervised his work. He did, however, wear a Denver Police officer's uniform and occasionally received orders from Denver's chief of police. He had the power to arrest people, and he "turned over whomsoever he might arrest to the general police of the city, who afterwards confined them, if need be, in the city jail."9
The Arrest
After his appointment as special policeman, Rust began arresting transfer agents who did not have a solicitation license. One such arrest, reported in the Rocky Mountain News, occurred in July 1883, only three months after Rust's appointment.10
The arrest of Frank W. Smith happened six months later, in December 1883. Smith was a transfer agent who worked for Maars and Middleton, a company of "baggage and transfer men."11 On the day in question, he met the incoming train at Petersburg, a small town to the south of Denver.12 On board the train, he sold a transfer ticket to a "Miss Warren, of Colorado Springs."13
When the train arrived at the Depot in Denver, Miss Warren and a man who accompanied her and carried her baggage headed for the line of carriages outside the station. Smith held up a finger to signal them. They followed him to the Maars and Middleton carriage. Miss Warren and the baggage carrier entered the carriage and were driven away in it.
"The[se] circumstances occasioned a good deal of disturbance among the hackmen."14 Rust, who witnessed the resulting commotion, responded by arresting Smith. He abruptly escorted Smith to the Depot basement, so abruptly in fact that Smith did not have time to turn over the checks he had collected on the train to his co-employees. Smith would later complain that in effectuating the arrest and his subsequent incarceration, Rust "with violence pulled and dragged him about" and "thrust him into a jail or dungeon underneath the depot."15
The Dungeon
The "dungeon" underneath the Depot, where Smith was held, was a grim place. The Colorado Supreme Court described it as follows:
When the depot was built, a cell had been constructed in the basement about 8 by 10 feet in size. It had no outer window, and was entered from the engine-room, in which there was a small gas-jet. This furnished the only light, and it reached the cell through a small hole in the door.16
The darkened cell was empty, except for a few old blankets. Rust left Smith in it, alone. The only indication Smith had of how long his confinement might last came at the changing of the guard, when Rust told his replacement to turn Smith over to the regular city policeman when he came around.
Fortunately for Smith, Officer Price of the Denver Police Department soon arrived. Smith was only confined in the Depot's holding cell for about an hour. Unfortunately for Smith, Officer Price took him to the Denver City Jail.
"The Way of the Transgressor is Hard"
In November 1881, not long after Union Depot opened to the public, the Denver City Building Inspector had condemned the Denver City Jail building.17 The jail had remained open in the succeeding years, however, faute de mieux. The city jail was located in a former meat market on 13th Street between Larimer and Holladay (now Market) Streets.18 It was known for its "[m]any escapes, rats, and a constant foul odor from the drunks in the bullpen."19 The jail was full of vermin and the air inside was suffocating.20 Goats were known to wander the premises.21 Women were housed in close proximity to men who yelled salacious remarks at them, and "respectable" women charged with crimes were put in a cell with common prostitutes.22 The jail's motto was inscribed on the wall of the jailer's office: "The Way of the Transgressor is Hard"23—and was true to its words.
It was into this gloomy and chaotic environment that Officer Price transported Transfer Agent Smith. Price locked Smith in the jail's bullpen,
an unfurnished cell, about 6 feet wide and 15 feet long, with a row of cells on either side. The other occupants were [N]egroes and drunken men, and the place was dirty and noisome.24
Smith stayed there until midnight, when he was released on bail.
Subsequent Proceedings, Criminal and Civil
The next morning, Rust filed a criminal complaint with a police magistrate, charging Smith with soliciting passengers for carriage travel without a license. The case went to trial, and Smith was acquitted.
On January 3, 1884, Smith filed a civil suit in Superior Court against the Union Depot and Railroad Company. His complaint charged that the Depot's officers had
assaulted [him], and with violence pulled and dragged him about, forced him in the depot and thrust him into a jail or dungeon under the depot, and afterwards, on the same day, pulled and dragged him with violence, and delivered him to a police officer who caused him to go along the public streets to jail, and there imprisoned him with common vagrants, drunkards and felons, for a space of more than three hours, all without any reasonable or probable cause, whereby [he] was not only greatly hurt, bruised and wounded, but was exposed to public disgrace and injured in his credit and circumstances and other wrongs to the damage of $20,000.25
Smith's case was tried three times. The first jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict. The second jury awarded him $5,000, but the Superior Court deemed it excessive and ordered a new trial. After the third and final trial, the jury awarded Smith $3,000 in damages. The Depot appealed.
Supreme Court Proceedings
The Supreme Court appointed a panel of three commissioners to decide the issues on appeal. The first issue before the commissioners was whether Rust was in fact a duly constituted officer of the Denver Police Department. If not, he lacked authority to arrest Smith. The jury had found against Rust on this issue, and the commission found the jury's verdict conclusive on the point. Simply put, the mayor had lacked authority to appoint Rust a special policeman in the first place.
The commission noted that under the 1883 charter for the city of Denver
at the time the mayor issued the commission to Mr. Rust he had no power to appoint a special policeman, except under certain emergencies, and for certain designated purposes, and for a certain period of time.26
Although Rust's apparent authority as a policeman under the mayor's commission might be binding in certain contexts (which the commission did not enumerate), the courts had the authority to determine for purposes of an improper arrest claim whether he had in fact been acting as a policeman, or merely as a private citizen. Rust was in fact not a duly constituted policeman; he was merely an agent of the Depot. As such, he lacked authority to arrest Smith.
The commission also considered whether the amount of the jury's verdict was excessive, and determined that it was not. The commissioners reasoned that "[i]t was a most unwarrantable interference with the personal liberty of a citizen, under circumstances indicating an oppressive use even of a supposed authority."27 The commission therefore recommended that the jury's verdict be confirmed.
The Supreme Court, per curiam, affirmed the commissioners' recommendation.28 It noted that although the damages were unusually large for such a case, two juries had previously awarded at least $3,000 for Smith's injuries, and the district court had refused to disturb the second verdict. Any excess in the verdict was not so gross, nor the damages so enormous, that an appellate court should interfere with the jury's discretion.29
Much of the original Union Depot was destroyed in an electrical fire in 1894. The central portion of the Depot was quickly rebuilt. Of the original 1881 station, only the refurbished north and south wings remain today. The central portion dates from the 1894 renovation. The station was refurbished again in 1914 and subsequently has been improved or refurbished. Union Station is currently undergoing redevelopment and will reopen in spring 2014. Its re-emergence as a 21st century multimodal transportation hub, though conjuring concerns of its own, may put to rest any lingering ghosts left behind from the days of the dark basement dungeon.
1. See Denver Union Station Historical Structure Assessment and Preservation Plan 10 (Slaterpaull Architects, 2010).
2. See copy of menu reproduced at digital.library.unlv.edu/objects/menus/3414.
3. "A Jugged Jehu," Rocky Mountain News 3 (Jan. 4, 1884). A "jehu" is an archaic term for a cab driver. It comes from the story of Jehu in the Old Testament, who rode his chariot to the city of Jezreel. See 2 Kings 9:16.
4. See Time Schedule No. 4 (Nov. 11, 1883), reproduced at www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/CandS/dsp-passenger/dsp_fleetinfo2.htm Also that year, on November 18, 1883, railroads in the United States and Canada adopted five standardized time zones, bringing a new consistency to railroad timetables. One of the longitudes on which the new time zone system was based was located roughly along an axis point running through Denver.
5. Union Depot & RR Co. v. Smith, 27 P. 329, 330 (Colo. 1891).
6. Almond, ed., The Denver Police Department: A Pictoral Review and History 1859–1985 at 21-27 (Denver Police Dep't, 1985).
7. "The Mayor Names a Number of New Policemen," Rocky Mountain News 8 (Jan. 6, 1882).
8. Smith, 27 P. at 330.
9. Id.
10. "A License Question," Rocky Mountain News 1 (July 17, 1883).
11. Smith, 27 P. at 330.
12. Id. Petersburg later changed its name to Sheridan. It is a small community located southwest of Denver in Arapahoe County, and is today served by an RTD light rail line. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheridan,_Colorado.
13. Smith, 27 P. at 330.
14. Id.
15. "A Jugged Jehu," supra note 3.
16. Smith, 27 P. at 330.
17. Ortiz, Denver Behind Bars: The History of the Denver Sheriff Department and Denver's Jail System 1858–1956 at 107 (Advance Press, 2004).
18. Denver Police Department History Yearbook 2003 at 20 (M.I. Publishing, 2002).
19. Id.
20. Ortiz, supra note 17 at 107.
21. Denver Police Department History Yearbook 2003, supra note 18 at 20.
22. Ortiz, supra note 17 at 108.
23. Id. at 112.
24. Smith, 27 P. at 330.
25. "A Jugged Jehu," supra note 3.
26. Smith, 27 P. at 332.
27. Id. at 333.
28. One of the commissioners, Commissioner Reed, dissented from the recommendation that the jury's verdict be confirmed.
29. Smith, 27 P. at 333.


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Insects on the menu?; a 'Space Oddity'; back from the dead; and, a four-year-old mayor…
• Insects already form part of the diet of an estimated two billion people but they may well be on even more menus in the future as experts look to alternative means of feeding people. The Food and Agriculture Organisation says that insects (and there are about a million known species) could provide a "readily available source of nutritious and protein-rich food". To whet your appetite, the most consumed insects at present include beetles, caterpillars, bees, wasps and ants, and grasshoppers, locusts and crickets. But there are many issues that need to be dealt with first - including legal hurdles against eating insects in many countries. For more, see www.fao.org.
• A Canadian astronaut has created the first music video recorded in space, singing the David Bowie song, Space Oddity, while free floating inside the International Space Station. Chris Hadfield made the video, which has gone viral, a few days before he returned to earth after his six month stint in space. The astronaut did alter some of Bowie's lyrics to better suit his circumstances.
• A Zimbabwean man surprised mourners when he reportedly came back to life. One of those at his funeral noticed one of the man's legs twitching and called an ambulance. The man, who had suffered from long illness before his funeral, has no recollection of the event.
• A four-year-old boy has reportedly been elected mayor of a town in Minnesota in the US. Dorset's mayor is apparently chosen through the process of drawing a name out of a hat and this year it was Mayor Robert 'Bobbie' Tufts turn. The good news is that Mayor Tufts apparently does like talking to the townspeople.
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HBHD Does Dallas
OK, Game Day is upon us.
A veritable feast of information available.
HBHD checks out a slab of meat at The Butcher Shop restaurant that might have had blood coursing through it less than 24 hours ago…
Rather than link them all individually, just go here to the SunSentinel FAU page, where you'll find out why this is a Must Win game, a scouting report on Mean Green and more.
And the Denton Record-Chronicle has plenty of stuff.
Seems like a while since the Burrowing Birds have been on the road.
Found ourselves holed up at the Marriott in Las Colinas, one of those Disney-like burbs around Dallas. It looks to me like a bunch of newly constructed office buildings and hotels, but I guess people must live around here.
It is close enough for an easy drive into the Big D, and that is where we went last night.
The historic West End to be specific.
Turns out there is another big game in this area today. Red River Clash or something like that. They scheduled it early today so it wouldn't conflict with the prime time game of FAU vs. North Texas.
And the West End is where the two opposing sides mingled, amidst a population of police that even dwarfed the legions that turn out to harass tailgaters at Lockhart.
And those cops were ready. Some already in riot gear, and all had at least a dozen plastic handcuffs on their belts, ready to quell the angry mobs.
But the mobs, at least pre-midnight, were not to unruly. A group of Texas fans would march down the street chanting, and they would be met with either cheers or jeers, then an Oklahama group would do the same.
The back of this shirt said something like: Just put them in a bowl and beat them for 60 minutes, and gave the scores of recent bowls that the Sooners have lost in.
Fun stuff to watch. With an 11 a.m. Central kickoff, my guess is most folks just party to dawn, then head over the the State Fair, and then wander across the street to the Cotton Bowl.
OK, I am dating myself, but there was a significant event that took place in Dallas in 1963. Those of us alive at the time and old enough to retain memories suredly know where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news Presdient John F. Kennedy had been shot.
For those not old enough, you can read all about it here.
Turns out the grassy knoll and all that is right around the corner from West End.
It is a tourist spot, and you can look up to the sixth floor window where the fatal shots were fired, and on the road are a white X marking the spot where they first shot hit, and then a second X that marks the spot of the second, fatal shot.
OK, we look at the second X, and I always have HBHD with me, and cameras, and, well, guys out on the town looking for things to do, you know what had to happen next.
HBHD is always up for an adventure…
The highway is still active, so you have to pick your spots carefully when your goal is to run out, put a little bobble head doll on the X, and get a photo of it before getting run over.
And that was the voice of FAU sports information director Katrina McCormack who handled video duties. (Note to Howard – she did so under duress. D'Angelo had the rental car and we threatened not to take her back to the hotel if she didn't cooperate, so don't blame her).
And, note to young, impressionable readers: We were sober at this point of the night, so it was cool to try it.
But we were not done. There were the conspiracy theories to deal with. America just wouldn't be America without conspiracy theories. Think 'Birthers' on steroids when you consider the Kennedy Assassination Conspiracies. Check them all out there…
So HBHD posed at the picket fence, on the side of the Grassy Knoll.
And then there is the sign affixed to the building where the shots "Allegedly" came from (see where the guy is pointing, the underlined word.
Well, he was pointing to the words "from a sixth floor window," apparently believing that since the sign wasn't specific about which window, then it might not have happened at all.
And not to get all creepy or political, this was a flier distributed around Dallas the day before the assassination. Familiar?
Maybe it was because of all this heaviness, HBHD did not go on a Cleavage Hunt. He was kind of bushed after the Kennedy stuff, so we watched the Sooners and Horns fans walk up and down the street for a while, then it was back to Las Colinas and bed, well before midnight.
Woke fresh and ready and now have to kill about 12 hours before kickoff.


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Bekko tombo (Libellula angelina)
|Libellula (1)
Classified as Critically Endangered (CR) on the IUCN Red List 2006 (1).
The bekko tombo is a stunning golden to rusty-brown dragonfly (2) adorned with a dark stripe down the centre of the abdomen and a distinctive pattern of dark markings on its wings. Like other members of the Libellulidae family, this dragonfly has a relatively short, broad abdomen, and its body is distinctly shorter than its wingspan (3).
The bekko tombo occurs in China (central and north), Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and offshore islands) and Korea (1).
Found in old, stable ponds in lowland hill areas, with vegetation such as reeds emerging from the water, although an area of clear, open water is also required (1) (2). Larvae usually crawl around in the bottom sediments (2).
Dragonflies (Odonata) start their life as aquatic larvae or nymphs, passing through a series of developmental stages or 'stadia', and undergoing several moults as they grow. Before the final moult (emergence), metamorphosis occurs in which the larvae transform into the adult form (4). The bekko tombo has a larval period of a year, with eggs hatching from May to June, and adults emerging the following spring (2). After emergence, adults undergo a pre-reproductive phase known as the maturation period, which is when individuals normally develop their full adult colour. Odonata usually feed on flying insects and are generalised, opportunistic feeders, often congregating around abundant prey sources such as swarms of termites or near beehives (4).
There is often fierce competition between males for access to reproductive females, and females typically begin to lay eggs in water immediately after copulation, often guarded by their mate. However, females of some species can store live sperm in their body for a number of days (4).
Once relatively abundant, bekko tombo populations have undergone drastic declines in recent decades as a result of habitat destruction and degradation and introduced predators. Ponds have been filled to allow urban expansion, or in some urban areas, ponds have been made into artificial ponds with concrete banks, which may be unsuitable for this species. Likewise, grassy fields, which females and immature males rely upon for refuges, have greatly diminished in recent years (1). Introduced alien species, such as Procambarus clarkii (Crustacea), Micropterus salmoides (carnivorous fish), and Myocastor coypus (a large, semi-aquatic rodent), have also contributed to the dragonfly's demise either through direct predation, or through feeding on the water plants that sustain this native species (1) (5). Sadly, the pattern of decline is only expected to continue (1).
Considered a national natural treasure in Japan (5), the bekko tombo became protected by the Japanese Ministry of Environment in 1993, and collection is prohibited by law (1). Nevertheless, this does little to protect the dragonfly's disappearing habitat (1). Thus, some NGOs have begun to conserve this insect and its habitat at specific pond sites, for example at Okegaya, Imuta, Misumi and Noyori-shin ponds (1) (6). At Misumi Pond, the Oita Dragonfly Society is feeding and breeding the larvae of bekko tombo to help restore the diminished population, with 149 larvae successfully hatching in spring 2005 in tanks installed in the pond. The Oita Dragonfly Society is also observing the mating and egg-laying behaviour of females, with the hope that the information gained will help them in their breeding scheme (6). Thus, despite an ongoing decline, national pride in this native dragonfly provides an element of hope for its future, in Japan at least, through inspiring concerted conservation efforts by dedicated individuals and organisations such as the Oita Dragonfly Society.
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- Metamorphosis: an abrupt physical change from the larval to the adult form.
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Even price-conscious Walmart is suffering in this economy.
The retail giant will lay off 300 employees at its Bentonville, Arkansas headquarters to cut costs. Employees were told yesterday that the lay offs are coming.
This comes on the heels of Walmart's announcement that it's closing 10 Sam's Club locations at a cost of 11,000 jobs.
Competitor Costco just announced that its January comparable same-store sales rose 8%.
Guess we know who's winning the battle of the bulk retailers, at least for now.


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Are 14mm tips used only for the break or are they good to play with too? Has anybody ever used one on a playing cue ?
That's geting up there in size. I'm sure someone has played with a tip that size but rare. Some play at 13.5mm. I play with a 13 1/4mm. It would take some getting use to.
Heubeler's SP uses 14mm if I'm not mistaken, and it plays really well. I'll have to mic it when I get home to verify that it is actually 14mm, but that's always been my understanding...sid~~~owned three over my time
#### leonard
I had a Willie Hoppe cue that Pete Balner[Palmer Cues]made me two 14 mil shafts for. There was no deflection in that war club. Everybody who tried the cue wanted to buy it. I sold it to Ray Guillbault of Conn when Pete made me my imitation Balabushka.####
I've seen a couple of players play with a 14mm cue. Pretty good shots too. They looked like they were shooting with a broomstick.
A guy that used to come into my poolroom, who I know you knew, Danny Gartner, played with what seemed bigger then a 14. A lot of players back then played with 13 1/2. For what it is worth, I remember Lassiter saying he thought players played with shafts that were too fat. He said he thought they were OK for games where you just push balls around like straight pool and one pocket. But you needed a smaller shaft to play 9-ball. He played with about a 12 1/2 as did Mosconi. I think Jose Parica plays with a fat shaft also.
I've got a 14mm on my break cue (Bob Frey). It hits like a ton, too.
But IMO, you'd have to have some pretty long fingers to be able to hold that 14mm and not everybody does.
I've played with a 14 mm tip. To be honest with you, I really didn't notice that much difference. I made it as an experiment, as a coach that I respect claimed that it would help students to hit "centerball" more easily, and that it was "more forgiving".
I didn't really find that to be true.
Now a very large tip might make it a bit easier to FIND centerball. When you place the tip up next to the cueball, there is less distance from the edge of the ball to the outer edge of each side of the tip. So it might be a bit easier to judge if it is in the middle or not.
Contrast that to a tip that came down to a virtual pin-point. The tip wouldn't be any help in finding the center of the ball. You would have to judge the center for yourself with your eyes, and then aim the tip at that "point".
On the other hand, any time you wanted to hit a specific point on the cueball (anywhere) a smaller tip will be more accurate.
As for more "forgiving", I didn't really find this either.
What I found was that the amount of accidental spin produced when striking a cueball off-center is determined only by the shaft centerline offset, and the tip curvature. If the tip curvature is a nickel, then it doesn't matter what diameter the tip actually is. If the shaft is displaced 2mm to the right of center, then a nickel curvature tip will contact the cueball at the exact same place regardless if the tip diameter is 10 mm or 14 mm.
But what I did find was that there was a definite tendancy to stay towards the center of the ball with the bigger tip. That appears to be because the bigger tip always looks like it is farther from center than it really is. So you never seem to hit as much spin as you intended.
This might be considered more forgiving for beginners I guess. But I prefer to get the spin that I wanted.
Personally, I use a 12.0 mm tip with a dime curvature.
To sum up:
I don't see any advantage to using a 14mm tip for a playing cue. But it can and has been done.
Mosconi played with a l2.50 mm tip, I play with l2.75, and the majority of cues sold today are l3.00 mm. l4 is too big, don't go there, this is a mistake. Fast Larry
I play with a 13mm and find that to be about right for me. I feel that 14mm makes it too hard to get up under the ball on draw work. With the 13mm my tip touches the cloth (almost) so the 14mm was actually rubbing the felt.
A few simple calculations assuming starting with a nickel curvature will show that you are not quite correct with your analysis. A 13mm tip will come nowhere near the cloth when the tip is set for maximum draw. In fact, even a 14mm tip will not touch the cloth!
To touch the cloth when the tip is set for maxiumum draw, you would need a tip with over a 15 mm diameter! Or, you would need a very flat tip.
I found that I could get excellent draw with a 14mm tip. No different than I could with a 13mm or my 12 mm tip.
That's not really the issue.
The real issue is that the big tip is just less precise when trying to strike a specific spot on the cueball.
That's why you see Snooker players and 3 cushion players use smaller tips. They want precise tip placement.
The only reason that pool players use such big tips (when compared to the above mentioned other cue sports) is the insistance on the "Pro" taper.
The other two cue sports use a conical taper to maintain shaft stiffness with a smaller tip diameter.
But due to tradition and the insistance on the closed bridge, pool players seem to be stuck with the long cylindrical shaft.
And it is this type of shaft "taper" that really sets the tip diameter, not any other form of playability or functional issue I'm afraid.
Personally, I see no advantage to a large tip.
But that's my opinion.
-12.0 mm tip user....
To Tony M, everything you are doing, I am doing something different. Hell who knows, you may be right, I may be wrong. You might try some different things, maybe some of them will work. It can't hurt to experiment around.
The tip is the most important thing on your cue, and the thing most know the least about. 5 gets you 8 you are now playing with an Elk Master, put on a Triangle. Alter the nickle shape to a dime, you will get more action on the ball. The smaller tip draws better that the larger one.
Snooker uses a 10 mm tip becuase they use a very small ball, 2 l/6". What is weird is there is this Korean thing in billiards where a lot of these guys are using the same thing with the 65mm billiard ball. Europeans tend to use larger more standard tips. The smaller tip, will fall apart faster than the larger one.
For years I used ll.50, then went to l2, now I float around l2& l/4 to l2.5. I use a special shaft I designed, it gets fat quick, and it opens up my closed loop bridge, so what, the ball is gone, why should I sacrifice performance with a pencil thin shaft, when I can have real spine & power, and just let my index finger open on the follow through stroke.
Billiard players dont have any problems with this, only pool players do, it's a education thing.
Best Wishes, Fast Larry
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Release Date: March 9, 2012
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Andrew Stanton
Screenwriter: Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews, Michael Chabon
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Multi-award winning writer and director ANDREW STANTON (Director/Co-Screenplay by) made his directorial debut with "Finding Nemo," an original story that he also co-wrote. The film garnered him two Academy Award® nominations (Best Original Screenplay and Best Animated Film), winning the Oscar® for Best Animated Feature Film of 2003—the first such honor ever received by Pixar Animation Studios for a full-length feature.
In 2009, Stanton was honored with the Academy Award® for Best Animated Film for "WALL•E," and was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay for the film. "WALL•E" became the most critically acclaimed motion picture of the year, sweeping all the major film awards.
In addition to his work as a writer/director, Stanton has been a major creative force at Pixar Animation Studios since 1990, when he became the second animator and ninth employee to join the company's elite group of filmmaking pioneers. As Vice President, Creative, he currently oversees all feature and shorts development for the studio.
Stanton was one of the four screenwriters to receive an Oscar® nomination in 1996 for
his contribution to "Toy Story" and went on to receive credit as a screenwriter on numerous subsequent Pixar films: "A Bug's Life," "Toy Story 2," "Monsters, Inc." and "Finding Nemo." Additionally, he served as co-director on "A Bug's Life," and was the executive producer of "Up," "Monsters, Inc." and the 2006 Academy Award®–winning, "Ratatouille."
A native of Rockport, Massachusetts, Stanton earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Character Animation from California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts). In the 1980s, he launched his professional career in Los Angeles animating for Bill Kroyer's Kroyer Films studio, and writing for Ralph Bakshi's production of "Mighty Mouse, The New Adventures" (1987).
JIM MORRIS (Producer) has worked as a producer and production executive in the motion picture industry for many years. Having most recently produced Pixar's film "WALL-E," he now serves as Pixar's General Manager/EVP production, and is the production executive on all Pixar's films, including "Up," "Toy Story 3," "Cars 2," and "Brave."
Prior to Pixar, Morris worked for Lucasfilm, and it's divisions, for seventeen years; he served as President of Lucas Digital Ltd. for eleven years where he was responsible for Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), Lucasfilm Animation and Skywalker Sound. Concurrently, Morris served as ILM's General Manager, where he supervised a staff of more than 1400 artists and technicians, and guided the largest visual effects facility in the entertainment industry. Under Morris' leadership, ILM created the groundbreaking, Academy Award®–winning visual effects seen in "Jurassic Park," "Death Becomes Her," "Forrest Gump" and over 150 other films.
Morris first joined ILM in 1987 as a producer of visual effects for films and commercials, including "The Abyss" effects for Jim Cameron, which also earned an Academy Award® for Best Achievement in Visual Effects, and "Always" for Steven Spielberg. Morris went on to serve as ILM's Executive in Charge of Production. Amongst the dozens of film projects completed under his supervision are "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," which won an Oscar® for Best Achievement in Visual Effects, "Hook," "Star Trek VI," "The Rocketeer," "Backdraft," and "Die Hard 2."
Before joining ILM, Morris was Executive Producer at Arnold & Associates, where he produced national commercials for clients such as Atari and Chevron. He was Executive Producer at One Pass Video, where he headed the commercial production department. He also worked in the production departments at J. Walter Thompson and Foote, Cone and Belding in San Francisco. Earlier, Morris was a producer-director for PBS, creating documentaries and educational programs for the network. He launched his career as a cameraman and editor at the NBC affiliate in Syracuse, New York.
Jim Morris earned a B.S degree in film, from the Newhouse School, Syracuse University, and holds a M.S. in television and radio from the same institution. He has served as president of the San Francisco Film Commission, and was the founding chair of the Visual Effects Society (VES).
COLIN WILSON (Producer) was born and raised in North London and got his start in the film industry at an early age as an apprentice film editor on "Superman." After a distinguished period as an Associate Film Editor working on features such as"Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Empire of the Sun" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," Wilson made the move into film production. He has been producing films for 14 years and has headed-up both critically acclaimed pieces and cutting edge VFX blockbusters. Credits include "Casper," "Jurassic Park: Lost World," "Amistad," "Troy," "War of the Worlds," "Munich" and, most recently, "Avatar."
LINDSEY COLLINS (Producer) joined Pixar Animation Studios in May 1997 and has worked in various capacities on a number of Pixar's feature films to date including "A Bug's Life," "Toy Story 2," the Academy Award®–winning "Finding Nemo" (directed by Andrew Stanton) and "Rataouille." Collins also provided the voice of the character Mia in Pixar's 2006 release, "Cars."
"John Carter" reunites Collins with producer Jim Morris and director Andrew Stanton after she co-produced their 2008 Golden Globe® and Oscar®-winning animation feature, "WALL-E."
Prior to joining Pixar, she worked at Disney Feature Animation for three years managing the creative teams on "Pocahontas," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," and "Hercules."
MARK ANDREWS (Co-screenplay by) earned his BFA in Film from the California Institute of the Arts in 1993. He went on to attend Disney's summer internship program under such mentors as Glen Kean, Ed Gombert, and Steve Huston. After completing the Disney program, he began his career in the animation industry working freelance (in development) for Chuck Jones Film Productions and in television (he storyboarded five episodes of "The New Adventures of Jonny Quest").
Andrews moved into feature animation storyboarding on "Quest for Camelot," the first animated venture from Warner Brothers, followed by the critically acclaimed "Iron Giant," for which he received an ANNIE award for outstanding individual achievement in storyboarding.
Soon after, Andrews became head of story on "Osmosis Jones." He then moved toward
live-action storyboarding, working on the box-office blockbuster "Spiderman." He returned to animation, teaming with Pixar Animation Studios' Brad Bird, as head of story on "The Incredibles."
During this time Andrews kept busy working as a freelancer in animation for television doing boards on "Samurai Jack" and "Star Wars: Clone Wars," for which he earned an Emmy®. Andrews received an Oscar® nomination for his animated short film "One Man Band," which opened for "Cars" worldwide. He and Bird teamed again as head of story for "Ratatouille," after which Andrews began developing his own feature film ideas at Pixar.
Andrews lives in Oakland with his wife, four kids, three dogs and a cat. In his copious amounts of free time, he works on his comic books and practices various forms of sword fighting.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author MICHAEL CHABON (Co-screenplay by) has been writing what the LA Times calls "pitch perfect fiction" for the past twenty years. Chabon's first novel, "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" (1988), was originally written for his master's thesis at U.C. Irvine and became a New York Times bestseller. "Wonder Boys" (1995) followed and was made into the critically acclaimed film featuring actors Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire.
Chabon won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 with "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay"; it also gained him the American Library Association's honor as one of the Notable Books of 2000, the New York Society Library Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal. In 2004, Chabon wrote "The Final Solution," winning him the 2005 National Jewish Book Award and the 2003 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review. In 2008, his New York Times bestseller "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" won the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Most recently, he released a collection of essays entitled "Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son," which the New York Times deemed "wondrous, wise, and beautiful."
Born in South Africa, DAN MINDEL, ASC, BSC (Director of Photography) studied in Australia and the UK before exploding in to the commercial world under tutelage of Tony and Ridley Scott. He worked as a loader and shot unit on such films as "Thelma and Louise" and "Crimson Tide" before earning his first sole credit on the action thriller "Enemy of the State," starring Will Smith. Mindel's partnership with Tony continued on "Spy Game" and "Domino," which allowed him the creativity to service the director and story while further expanding his filmmaking palette in photographic experimentation. Their inclusion of period hand crank cameras, cross process reversal stock and HD cameras—all in nearly impossible places to light—helped create a unique, kinetic look by incorporating equipment from both the past and present.
Mindel's international prowess and proficiency with ever-changing technological advances won him the job on the Tom Cruise top-liner "Mission: Impossible III." Most recently, he lensed Paramount's "Star Trek," his second collaboration with director J.J. Abrams, the co-creator and producer of ABC's serial hit, "Lost."
Other notable credits include the Jackie Chan starrer "Shanghai Noon," "Stuck on You," directed by the Farrelly Brothers, and Iain Softley's "The Skeleton Key."
Multi-award winning NATHAN CROWLEY (Production Designer) has been honored several times for his collaborations with director Christopher Nolan. He earned an Academy Award® nomination for his design work on the period drama "The Prestige," and previously received a BAFTA Award nomination for "Batman Begins." In addition, Crowley garnered Art Directors Guild Award nominations for both films. He first teamed with Nolan on the director's crime thriller "Insomnia," starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank.
Crowley's other film credits include the romantic drama "The Lake House," biopic "Veronica Guerin" directed by Joel Schumacher, the war drama "Behind Enemy Lines," and Barry Levinson's Ireland-set comedy "An Everlasting Peace."
He previously served as an art director on such films as "Mission: Impossible II," directed by John Woo, "Assassins" by Richard Donner, "The Devil's Own," directed by Alan J. Pakula, and Mel Gibson's "Braveheart."
In addition to his film work, Crowley was the production designer on the BBC television series "The Ambassador."
Mexican born, MAYES C. RUBEO (Costume Designer) is one of the most diverse and creative talents working in costume design today.
The daughter of Silvio Castillero, a photojournalist, and Esperanza Botello, a homemaker and mother of twelve, Mayes had a unique upbringing but one that gave her a solid grounding to realize her ambitions in life.
Having completed her studies in costume design at the Los Angeles Trade Tech, earning an Associate Arts Degree from UCLA, she later studied History of Art at the Institute Statale d'Arte in Italy. In the early days of her career, Rubeo credits Enrico Sabbatini as her primary mentor. She also worked as an assistant costume designer and costume supervisor for designers such as Shay Cunliffe, Erica Phillips and Ellen Mirojnick.
Although Rubeo boasts collaborations with main stream directors, such as Oliver Stone ("Born on the of July") and Paul Verhoven ("Total Recall"), it was working with independent filmmakers John Sayles and Maggie Renzi ("Men with Guns," "Sunshine State" and "Casa De Los Babys") that really inspired Mayes as she learned invaluable lessons in the art of making quality movies on a shoestring budget.
In 2002, Rubeo garnered a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination for the TV movie "Fidel," starring Gael Garcia Bernal. The film covered fashion decades from the '30s to the '90s, exhibiting costuming styles from soldiers at war, to high society galas and Mambo dancing in Havana nightclubs.
Most recently, she has worked on features with major directors Mel Gibson ("Apocalypto"), James Cameron ("Avatar," for which she was recently nominated for another CDG Award) and James Wong ("Dragonball").
EAMONN BUTLER (Animation Supervisor) spent 10 years at Walt Disney Feature Animation, where he worked on a number of productions, including "Fantasia 2000," "Dinosaur" and "Reign of Fire."
In 2006 Butler joined Double Negative, a British full-service visual effects/computer animation company located in London and worked as animation supervisor on "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" and "10,000 BC." In 2008 Butler became head of the animation department at Double Negative.
Over the past 12 months, Butler has worked with his team on many projects, including "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," "Paul," "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," "The Wolf Man," "Kick-Ass," "Sherlock Holmes," "The Green Zone," "Angels & Demons," "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince," "The Boat that Rocked" and "Fast & Furious." They are currently in production on "John Carter," "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" and "Attack the Block."
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THE Columbus Icemen have won four state championships and finished runner-up four times, including the past two seasons.
But success didn't come overnight for the local high school hockey program, whose roots date back to the 1974-75 season. The Icemen won their first state title two years later.
"It takes the commitment of not just the parents and kids but the entire sport staff," Icemen coach Rich Gordon said. "It's the team manager and the people at the rink. And it's the community, too. With- out the support of the community, it would be an uphill battle, but luckily, the community gives us a lot of support."
Gordon, who is director of new business development at Cummins, has been head coach for six years. He led the Icemen to a state title in 2008 and runner-up finishes in 2011 and 2012.
He said building a successful program takes commitment from players at an early age.
"Not always, but for the most part, you have to start early with mites at age 5 and working your way up," Gordon said. "It's countless hours. We practice late at night, so the kids have to balance school, academics and sports. They have to maintain grades. It's just a huge commitment and speaks volumes to their ability to manage their time correctly."
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Most of the Icemen's games are on weekends. They practice from 9:05 to 10:35 p.m. Tuesdays and 8:20 to 9:50 p.m. Thursdays at Hamilton Center Ice Arena.
"Hockey practices are late, so usually you just go home and get everything done before," junior goalie Braden Phelps said. "You try to get things done early so you don't have to save it for the last minute or have the chance of not getting it done."
The Icemen, who started practicing in August and will play through the state tournament in March, are members of the Hoosier High School Hockey Association. Most of the teams are from Indianapolis and its northern suburbs. They also travel to northern Indiana and out of state for games.
"The weekend travel is a little tough," junior forward Tanner Bennett said. "I actually don't mind the late practices because it allows me to go home and do my homework before I go to practice."
Most of the Icemen's 22 players come from Columbus North and Columbus East. The team has one player each from from Jennings County, South Decatur, Triton Central and Shelbyville.
This year, the Icemen are 18-5-3 and are ranked No. 3 in the state behind Culver Military Academy and Carmel.
"We've had a lot of significant injuries, but in light of that, I think it's gone really well," Gordon said. "I don't think we've hit our stride yet. We have a lot of potential for the second half of the year."
Bennett leads the Icemen with 27 goals and 28 assists. Senior forward Seth Burton has 17 goals and nine assists, junior forward Andrew Schwartz has 13 goals and 26 assists, and junior forward Drew Yeley has 12 goals and seven assists.
Phelps is 14-5-1 with five shutouts and a 1.93 goals-against average. Freshman Luke Fry is 4-0-2 with a shutout and a 2.77 goals against average.
Top defensemen are juniors Kody Wagner, Cameron Wiederhoeft and Camron Gregg.
"We're still pretty young, so we're still learning," Bennett said. "The majority of our players are juniors, and we have a mixture of young players that we're trying to incorporate in there. We haven't been perfect by any means, but it's going pretty good so far. We've overcome a lot of obstacles with all the injuries."
Culver has beaten the Icemen in the past two state championship games and is widely regarded as one of the top teams in the nation.
"We lost some good players," Gordon said. "But we're a good, quality team. I've said all along we have the potential to get back to the finals. We just have to go out and execute."


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NPR's 'Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me' to debut on TV
Thursday, November 17, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) — NPR's "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me" is coming to TV for the first time.
The comedic radio quiz show will debut on BBC America with a year-in-review special Dec. 23. Host Peter Sagal, scorekeeper Carl Kasell and a panel including Paula Poundstone and Alonzo Bodden will discuss 2011's biggest events.
When "Wait Wait" would ever make the leap to television has long been a point of conjecture. Now in its 14th season, the show draws 3.2 million listeners weekly on 595 NPR member public radio stations.
BBC Worldwide Americas General Manager Perry Simon calls the TV debut "long overdue."
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DMGT agrees to sell Northcliffe to Local World,
creating a new force in regional media
* DMGT to receive £52.5m cash and shares amounting to a 38.7% stake in new
media group
* The Iliffe Family, Trinity Mirror and financial investors take remaining
* New group to comprise more than 107 newspapers and 60 local content
* David Montgomery and Steve Auckland to lead new venture
21 November 2012, London: Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT.L) today
announced that it has reached agreement to sell Northcliffe Media, its regional
newspaper business, to Local World, a newly-formed media group that will
combine the Northcliffe titles with those of Iliffe News & Media Limited. DMGT
will receive consideration of £52.5m in cash and a 38.7% shareholding in Local
World, which will allow DMGT to benefit from the potential upside from the
evolution of the regional newspaper industry. Local World will have an
enterprise value of c.£100m at completion.
The Iliffe family, owners of Yattendon Group, will sell Iliffe News & Media to
Local World in exchange for a 21.3% shareholding in the new business. Trinity
Mirror will acquire a 20% shareholding in Local World and the remaining Local
World shares will be purchased by other investors including Artefact Group, an
Investment Fund associated with Lord Ashcroft, and Odey Asset Management.
Local World will become one of the UK's leading regional newspaper publishers,
online content providers and local advertising platforms, with more than 107
print titles and 60 websites. DMGT will contribute more than 80 titles to the
new venture, with another 36 coming from Iliffe News & Media.
Steve Auckland, currently Chief Executive of Northcliffe, will become CEO of
Local World. Rachel Addison, Group Finance Director of Northcliffe, will assume
the same role at the new company alongside a board of directors drawn from the
main shareholders. The company will be chaired by David Montgomery.
Auckland said: "Local World will be a comprehensive local content provider,
offering the best and most trusted source of news, views and advertising in
print, online and mobile, to its local audiences in the UK. The new company
will be well-resourced, entrepreneurial, and able to respond quickly to the
differing requirements of local communities."
Local World, with a combined weekly newspaper audience of 6 million readers and
7 million online users, aims to revitalise local media by offering fully
integrated print and digital media services that focus on relevant content,
advertising and local services across the UK.
Local World will comprise:
* 63 local portal websites;
* 16 daily titles;
* 36 paid weekly titles
* 40 free weekly titles; and
* two Metro franchises and a number of niche products including magazines.
The enlarged regional media company is expected to employ more than 2,800
people, with pro forma combined operating profits of £21 million on revenues of
£273 million for the year to 30 September 2011.
Local World has committed to investments in innovative information technology
systems to help advertisers target digital audiences. It is developing a
portfolio of commercial products for small and medium sized advertisers and
plans intensive training for editorial and commercial staff to develop digital
services for local users.
Martin Morgan, Chief Executive of DMGT, said: "This is good news for DMGT, for
all who work at Northcliffe and for the future of local news media. With this
move we receive cash from the sale and also retain a stake in a business with
excellent prospects. Local World has talented people and a clear vision for the
future of local media. I think the media industry has been waiting for this
logical next step for regional newspapers."
Transaction highlights
* Northcliffe Media comprises the regional newspaper and digital media
business within the DMGT group, operating from 23 publishing centres across
the UK;
* On completion, DMGT will receive £52.5m in cash and shares in Local World
equal to 38.7% of the equity, which will allow DMGT to benefit from the
potential upside from the evolution of the regional newspaper industry;
* Local World will have an enterprise value of c.£100m at completion;
* For the financial year ended 30 September 2011, Northcliffe Media had gross
assets of £32m and made an operating profit of £17m;
* Part of the cash consideration will be contributed to DMGT group pension
funds, with the remainder being used for acquisitions in line with DMGT's
acquisition strategy;
* The DMGT group will provide services to Local World on a transitional basis
for a limited period to facilitate a smooth transition of the business;
* Northcliffe Media will be consulting with its employees who are affected by
the disposal and the transaction is expected to complete around the end of
the year after the necessary consultation procedures have taken place.
DMGT will issue further information about current trading when it issues
preliminary earnings for the financial year ending 30 September 2012 on 22
November 2012.
Further details on the Local World can be found at www.local-world.co.uk.
Lazard & Co., Limited is acting as sole financial adviser to DMGT in relation
to the transaction.
For further information
For analyst and institutional enquiries:
Stephen Daintith, Finance Director, DMGT +44 20 3615 2902
Adam Webster, Head of Management Information
and Investor Relations, DMGT +44 20 3615 2903
For media enquiries:
Kim Fletcher / Will Carnwath, Brunswick Group LLP +44 20 7404 5959
Local World +44 20 7400 1450
For analyst and institutional enquiries:
David Montgomery
Steve Auckland
Karen Wall
For media enquiries:
Elly Williamson, M:Communications +44 20 7920 2339
Notes to Editors
DMGT will have two Directors on the Board of Local World. They will be:
* Kevin Beatty, Chief Executive Officer, A&N Media
* Adrian Perry, Deputy Finance Director, DMGT Plc
About DMGT:
DMGT is an international group quoted on the London Stock Exchange with a
portfolio of market-leading digital, information, media and events businesses.
Group revenues are split broadly equally across the B2B and Consumer
The B2B business comprises:
* Risk Management Solutions
* dmg::information
* dmg::events
* Euromoney Institutional Investor
The Consumer business, known as A&N Media, comprises:
* The Daily Mail, The Mail On Sunday and MailOnline
* Metro
* Evenbase (Jobsite & Jobrapido)
* Zoopla Property Group (Zoopla & Prime Location)
DMGT seeks out innovative solutions to customers' demands for information and
supports a diverse group of high quality, entrepreneurial, media and
information assets.
DMGT's ambition is to provide the highest quality content and services, across
the most attractive growth markets in innovative, responsible and sustainable
ways, building on its track record of earnings and dividend growth.
About Yattendon Group
Iliffe News & Media (INML), is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yattendon Group
Plc, a private company owned by the Iliffe family. The Group is made up of four
principal operating businesses covering a range of sectors including local
media, agriculture, property and marine leisure. It has operations in the UK,
Europe and Canada.
Important notice
Lazard & Co., Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom
by the Financial Services Authority, is acting exclusively for DMGT and no one
else in connection with the sale of Northcliffe by DMGT and will not be
responsible to any other person for providing the protections afforded to
clients of Lazard & Co., Limited or for providing advice in relation to the
sale of Northcliffe by DMGT or the other matters described in this
announcement. Neither Lazard & Co., Limited nor any of its affiliates owes or
accepts any duty, liability or responsibility whatsoever (whether direct or
indirect, whether in contract, in tort, under statute or otherwise) to any
person who is not a client of Lazard & Co., Limited in connection with any
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Yesterday it was Bartok, 6 string quartets.
Right now it's Patsy Cline, a greatest hits compilation.
Yesterday it was Bartok, 6 string quartets.
Right now it's Patsy Cline, a greatest hits compilation.
Religion is a good thing for good people and a bad thing for bad people. --H. Richard Niebuhr
You, guy from Dixon are sure one eclectic motha!Originally Posted by RegularGuy
PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her again
MTV Unplugged in New York ~ Nirvana
Slipknot- Before I forget.
Pinkerton ~ Weezer
I have one heck of a widespread taste for music, but I tend to like metal, electronica, and hip-hop best....basically anyhting that can keep me awake...
Right now: Ozzy Osbourne, Goodbye to Romance (yeah...I know ozzy and romance are two words that should never colldie, great song though)
Lacuna Coil
Iron Maiden
Grieg (yes, even a metalhead can sit down to a nice listening to his Peer Gynt suite )
Iron Butterfly
Jimmy Hendrix
Blind Guardian
(now for the non-metal, rock or Grieg stuff )
Nine Inch Nails
Frontline Assembly
DJ Shadow
Paul Oakenfold
John Lee Hooker
Chemical Brothers
Frank Zappa (what the heck category of music does this even fall udner...it's too freaking weird to be anything...)
Howling Wolf
Currently listening to the 1955 recording of Allen Ginsberg doing Howl
Originally Posted by KonaRider24
I like the new one, didn't care for the last one all that much, but I'm pleasantly surprised by the new one - more "melodic" is the only way I can think describe it, and they seem to have put more into writing than just going for shock value, ie: actual words instead of just swearing :-) - was listening to that, Motogrator and Avenged 7 Fold at the weekend
New Beasties. MCA sounds like he's been living pretty hard...especially for a Buddhist. He's sounding more and more like a hip-hop Tom Waits.
Which one(s)?Originally Posted by catatonic
All the angry fecking music I can get my hands on. I'm pissed off. I need something to do.
hello to every bicycle and music lover out there. the post dates from this topic are all circa 2003. at least i think. i'm a neophite "newbie". anyway i love all forms of electronic music. current favorites are japanese emusic. fantastic plastic machine, pizzacato five, riuichi sakamoto, kenso and isao tomita (fusion and classical respectfully). i also enjoy the older stuff too. from 1960 onward.
yes of course foetus. clint ruin i believe. have much of that along with spk and throbbing gristle among others. listen back to that from time to time. it's electronic to me, very violent and militaristic. but i guess i've mellowed out a bit now. missed the foetus show at first ave years back. regrets.Originally Posted by jim-bob
Just back from the Shins show. Great time, amazing but brief set, live perfection.
Currently listening to a bunch of odds and ends of live and b side Elliot Smith.
Badmotorfinger ~ Soundgarden
Probably my favorite Soundgarden album overall
yea, saw them on that tour. they opened with "searching with my good eye closed," and what a slow oozy groove it was!Originally Posted by Fugazi Dave
A Soap Bubble and Inertia ~ The Gandharvas
Wow, FD, you are making me feel old. Never even heard of them.Originally Posted by Fugazi Dave
GusGus: GusGus: Live @ Sirkus, Reykjavik, Iceland
Heh...don't feel bad. They're an obscure and rather esoteric Canadian band. That album came out in 1995.
Just finished Psyence Fiction by U.N.K.L.E.
Now listening to Strictly Turntablized by DJ Krush
The Sleepy Jackson - Lovers. Current track is Vampire Racecourse. Kind of appropriate for the ride I just did.
"I am never going to flirt with idleness again" - Roy Keane
"We invite everyone to question the entire culture we take for granted." - Manic Street Preachers.
My blog.
My bike tours. Japan tour page under construction.
The Eternals ~ Rawar Style
"" "" ~ Out of Proportion e.p.
Sold for a Smile ~ The Gandharvas
BTW - the Gandharvas have what I believe to be the cover of Time After Time. Anyone interested should try to download it or hit me up on AIM.
Whoa. Gandharvas! Haven't heard (or thought of) that band in ages. Where'd you find that one?Originally Posted by Fugazi Dave
And, yes, they did do a good cover of Time After Time... but not the best. A fella called Paul (thanked in the Gandharvas' liner notes, if I recall correctly) did a top-notchier version.
I'm listening to the Flaming Lips. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.
George Gershwin- Rhapsody in Blue
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Feeling Sluggish
From a continuing series on revolting creatures.
Inseminated slugs don't lay their clusters of fertilized eggs right away; they store the sperm for later, delaying fertilization until the conditions are propitious for hatching offspring. When times get really tough, some species of slugs can fertilize themselves.
The slugs' versatile reproductive system makes them very hard to control. Most of the slugs that cause farmers and gardeners misery are from Europe; they came in on imported plants. The invaders you're most likely to see in Northern states, especially the cool damp Pacific Northwest, are Limax maximus, the big spotted slug of the dangling sex act; Arion subfuscus, a small brown or yellow spotted creature; and Agriolimax agrestis, the half-inch-long gray slug. Southerners will likely see slugs from South America.
The voracious Europeans and Latin Americans are outcompeting the natives. Like many invasive animals and plants, they adjust with ease to man-made environments like gardens, greenhouses, and fields of crops. Our native banana slug would be happy to stay in the forest chewing on lichen and mushrooms.
Here's an idea for limiting slug populations: sauté them. In a world of less food-producing land and more people, more of us could wind up swallowing our repulsion and consuming slugs. (Like their distant relatives the clams, slugs are rich in vitamin B-12.) Dried snails and slugs, hardened into a sort of gastropod jerky, are already being fed to farmed fish; sea slugs have long been on human menus in China. In Eastern Europe the Limax is prepared much like the French escargot: a vinegar rinse to remove the slime, followed by garlic sauce. (The banana slug isn't one for the table, despite its name. A creature that big, slow, and yellow had better be distasteful if it wants to survive.)
What slugs themselves consume ends up helping us. Along with beetles, earthworms, centipedes, and others, they're part of the great army of decomposers—breaking down plant material, fungi, lichen, and corpses and turning it all back into soil. (Not all slugs participate. Some, including the blind, white ghost slug, suck live earthworms into their grinding teeth. And some, sad to say, eat other slugs.)
Neuroscientists make special use of the slimy creatures, as experimental animals; elements of their simple nervous systems can be seen without a microscope. But is usefulness the point? A slug, like our more obviously attractive fellow creatures, is its own excuse for being. Researcher Alan Gelperin, who has spent decades studying slugs' memory and learning abilities, gives the creatures credit for weighing evidence and making decisions. Using primarily their sense of smell, they manage to answer some of the same questions that concern us primates: what to eat that's nutritious, whom to mate with, and how to avoid an untimely death. Gelperin urges, "Before you step on a slug, or sprinkle the poison, pause and consider the creature's marvelous complexity and place in the scheme of things."
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Okay so Alteil LOVES selling cards, but hates selling files that you can fight in folrart with. We get all these strange sale promotions like "Slot Packs!" or "Rarity up lotto!!"
Let's say you get some of these sweet lotto packs with GUARANTEED 3 STARS
Okay so you just blew 1000 gran... What do you get?
- Falkow Pike
- Soul Return
- Disjunction
- Aegis
- Elaice
- Sacrifice
Hmm... What can you possibly do with these cards? Look at them?
Anyway, other games have nice systems. Like in League of Legends I can pay like $10 to basically play like any character I want in the game. Seems fair. Here in Alteil... how much do decent files cost?
I mean for the privilege of playing a file like Monsters, or Martial Artists, or Magic Dolls... You have to pay like what? At least $50?
So I have a few questions...
1) What should be the goal of a "sale"? Is it A) To give you random cards, or B) To give you files you can play with?
2) How much is a reasonable price to charge to play a file? Personally, I'd say you could charge people like $20 to get basic files like WK, Monsters, Undead etc. And then up the scale up to like $50-200 or maybe a little more for the high class top meta files. Doesn't this sound reasonable?
I just don't understand why the sales they give, and the starter files and "sales" they have all discourage people from actually playing the game.


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Your holiday to Anassa could have quite an unexpected turn – instead of returning home needing to go on a diet, you could bring back sports trophies and a muscle ache to be proud of.
This is exactly what a group of sport–loving journalists from the UK and Russia did on their recent trip to Cyprus. The 'Active Training Camp' programme set to be launched this Autumn, was tried and tested and proved to be the perfect option for who want to keep active on holiday.
Daily cycle rides across the beautiful countryside, exploring unusual routes, stretching as far as Akamas National Park, left all competitors with a variety of emotions; exhaustion, thrill, and satisfaction.
After the morning ride, bicycles were traded for swimwear and the journalists practised various swimming techniques in the sea under the watchful eye of fitness trainer, Nicolaou.
Last but not least came the seven kilometre run through the Akamas National Park and most journalists completed this in under an hour.
It must be said that all of the hard work and training was well incentivised by Anassa's signature spa treatments offered at the end of the day. This helped guests reach total relaxation but also revitalised their bodies and minds in preparation for what the next day had in store.
By the third and final day of the programme and after plenty of physical activity and nutritional Mediterranean dishes, the journalists totally understood why their trainer, would not trade his job for anything…
Do you have any fitness related issues that you would like professional advice on, or maybe you have some questions that you would like answered? Share them with us here and the top five questions will be included in a blog post next month with answers provided by fitness trainer, Nicolaou.
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