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February 12, 2013
Tallahassee, FL - Governor Rick Scott proclaimed February 11-15 as 2013 Severe Weather Awareness Week in Florida. The Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) will celebrate 2013 Severe Weather Awareness Week with a five-day, seven city tour to recognize each of the seven poster contest winners and raise awareness about emergency preparedness in Florida. The goal of the 2013 Severe Weather Awareness Week campaign is to promote preparedness for all types of hazards to Florida's citizens and communities. "We are excited to bring Severe Weather Awareness Week to each region of the state as we work towards building a culture of preparedness in Florida through our students," said FDEM Director Bryan W. Koon.
This morning, the director presented 5th grader Selina Polk with her prizes for winning the poster contest at Canopy Oaks Elementary School in Tallahassee. Polk's poster will be used to teach students about severe weather.
She won an Ipod Touch, a weather radio, and a certificate.
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Senate Back From Brink
Deal made to confirm presidential nominee and save filibusters
July 17, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate stepped away from the brink of a meltdown on Tuesday, confirming one of President Barack Obama's long-stalled nominees, agreeing to quick action on others and finessing ......
Remember that Dingy Harry and the Democrats in the Senate delayed and up or down vote on more than THIRTY Bush nominees-many for several years.
Harry Reid is a complete douchebag. I only hope that he and Chuck Schumer go jogging near the Capitol and suffer the same fate as the "dog walking" liberal Supreme Court justice.
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Hairy Weed will be lucky to be the Senate MINORITY leader after 2014 election.
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McCain is a moderate Republican who would have been a great President, as his views are meant to deal with problems and is no slave to ideology. Unless the GOP tells right wing fanatics to go lay down we will be doomed to a never ending parade of left wing fanatics who believe the right thing to do is abolish all personal freedoms and let the state manage your life. As bad as the Dem Party is, the GOP offers no answer by allowing the right wing to even speak. On the left we have total gov, on the right we have no government and the vast majority of us live in the middle and pay for all of this. Until Americans stop letting political television shape their lives, we will repeat the folly over and over. Obama is as much a product of the lunatic right as it the goofballs who do not hold him accountable for any of his actions. Wars over yet? Nope, got more. Unemployment over yet? Nope got more. McCain is exactly the type of person we need in the White House, someone who listens.
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"Hairy Weed will be lucky to be the Senate MINORITY leader after 2014 election," dah.
The oracle has spoken. Remember his prognostications for the last election?
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Wonder what happened to the bias article that appeared this morning "Filibusters a Vital Senate Safeguard", which basically tried to convince readers the poor right wing minority needed the filibuster to protect their rights. Horse@#$(! The abuse of the filabuster is to obstruct a legally elected President from doing what he was elected to do.
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WASHINGTON -- Democrats not only got much of what they wanted in Tuesday's deal to move some of President Barack Obama's nominees through the Senate, they also got what they see as an important bonus -- casting Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in an unflattering light.
The unfortunate moment culminated Tuesday morning, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) marched onto the Senate floor not with the leader from Kentucky opposite him to announce a deal to pass the stalled nominees, but with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
McCain was there, according to several sources who spoke about private, behind-the-scenes talks on the condition of anonymity, because he and and several other Republicans grew fed up with their own side's stalling tactics and went around McConnell (R-Ky.) to cut the deal with Reid and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), avoiding a "nuclear option" rules change to pass the nominees.
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"Since 2007, the Senate Historical Office has shown, Democrats have had to end Republican filibusters more than 360 times."
"That's more than ALL the filibusters in Senate history prior to 2007.The bipartisan agreement, reached after days of talks and jockeying for political position, will allow Obama to fill out his second-term team with top administrators overseeing efforts to protect workers, consumers and the environment."
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Filibuster's were never meant to be. Simple majority is the rule of the land.
Since 1992, Democrats 352 and Republicans 591. Neither party gets a pass! The logical reason for the R's having more filibusters is the fact that the D's introduced (since 1992) 1,000's of more pieces of legislation and appointments....
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Ive called BS on McConnell many times. Now the right wing extremists are calling BS on McConnell themselves.
"A meeting of Senate Republicans reportedly took a contentious turn on Wednesday when Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) disagreed with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) characterization of the deal made with Democrats on President Barack Obama's nominations, calling McConnell's claims "********."
According to a Roll Call report, McConnell told his caucus that he believed he could have negotiated a deal more beneficial to his party than the one brokered primarily between Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)."
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"Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) admitted that he and his party were "wrong" to block a vote on Richard Cordray's confirmation to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an act of protest, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Graham and fellow party members filibustered for a full year to express their disapproval of the Dodd–Frank Act, under which the bureau was created.
"Cordray was being filibustered because we don't like the law," Graham told the New York Times.
He continued, "That's not a reason to deny someone their appointment. We were wrong.""
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|Elfis rocks and rolls his way onto Christmas stage
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Even though the other elves thought he was an impersonator, fourth-grader Isaac Strauss sure had the audience convinced as he graced the stage as Elfis during last Thursday night's elementary Christmas program at the HHS auditorium. Complete with a blinged-out guitar made by art teacher Christina Martinez, the program entertained parents, family and friends with "The Elves' Impersonator" play presented by the fourth-graders as well as holiday songs by the kindergartners and second-graders, all under the direction of Marcia Dalton.
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It's never to late...
Okay, I've been absent from this forum for a few months, and I seem to have forgotten to move this map to the finished map section. I believe it's still not too late to do so anyway. Note, if your name is Matrim, this post contains loads of spoilers (for the other forum members: Matrim is one of my players in my D&D game).
This map is part of my own D&D world Amaris. My last map was also, though it isn't mentioned there. This town is actually an unnamed town on my 'Oostangelt and the Forbidden Pass' map, found here.
Fictional history and description (official wall-of-text-warning! Skip to map creation if you don't care about fictional history )
Before proceeding with the description of the town itself, let me start out with its inhabitants. Wind-Gnomes are not a special breed of gnomes, at least not genetically. Physically they are normal gnomes. They earn their name from several cultural and technological elements. Wind-gnomes all share a deep cultural love for the wind, flying and floating. With even the slightest breeze you can see kites all over the town.
The Wind-gnomes love for the sky and wind extends not only to their pastimes but also to their religion (they worship the Gnomish goddess of the wind, Volennia), their architecture (high tower-like housing) and ultimately their economy. In their quest for achieving flight, they finally built the ultimate flying contraption: Gnomic airships. Literally ships strapped to cigar-shaped balloons. Amazingly, the ships are only partially magical. These ships actually are the foundation for the Wind Gnome town of Gnomsulost and it's as of yet unnamed northern sister-town. The towns' economy was based on the airline connecting the human kingdom of Bern to the Dwarven Kingdom of Khaz Dukar.
Gnomsulost was built around a massive rotating hangar. This hangar contains two airships, and is also the mooring place for these ships. A plateau was carved out of the slope of a mountain to form the central part of the town. The town later expanded uphill, where it got it's second wall. The third addition to the town was made by carving out a lower 'cliff' to hold another part of the expanding town.
Gnomes, Dwarves and Elves wall their cities and towns in a different way compared to humans. Human settlements sprawl out, and get walled in later. However due to the much slower population growth of slower ageing races like Gnomes, Dwarves and Elves, these races have the luxury of saving up for a new section of wall (or town expansion) and build it before the first people build their houses. It also allows for more space around houses.
The gnomes usually share the open spaces in the centre of housing blocks among all of the inhabitants. Gnome children play here, and much of the outside social life of gnomes happens in these spaces.
Gnomish houses usually have businesses or storage space on the ground floor. Living and sleeping quarters are as high as possible. Often, a single narrow tower isn't enough for a gnomish family, thus a single house usually consists of several towers, one of which only houses storage space and stairs, as well as bridges to the other parts of the 'complex'. Gnomes build this way to be closer to the sky.
Gnomes build mostly in wood, with bark roofing. Most stonework (including the walls) is Dwarven stonework.
The Gnomes have enjoyed a good economy for generations, however lately (as in, the last one or two decades) their airline is becoming increasingly dangerous with flying Drow Raiding Parties (making use of aerial mounts).
Note: I actually worked out how the airships supposedly work. The propellers are powered by an animated (cog-)wheel, the 'engine' also features a donkey-boost option, also useful should the animated wheel ever stop turning. Alternatively, with no donkeys aboard, manual labour suffices too.
The balloon is actually filled with a magical gas mixture. The gas itself isn't magical, the way it is obtained and stored IS. The gas is pretty similar to Helium, including the funny-voice effect. The balloon actually consists of a bag filled with three balloons, bound by ropes. It's ballast system is made up of heavy rocks strung on a rope, which can be lowered into a bag of holding to lower the weight. It's controlled by an intricate 'fly-by-rope' system. All these functions can be controlled from the main cabin.
Should the ship ever have a favourable wind blowing from the back, it can deploy sails from the side for extra speed, though these seriously reduce manoeuvrability.
If I knew magic, I would SO build me one of these. ^_^
Note: gnomic flying contraptions make use of magic; they won't work well when all magic stops working, but they won't really crash either… At least, they'll crash at a more acceptable (read: slower) speed compared to say a flying carpet...
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Excuse the wall of fictional text, let us proceed with text about the actual creation of the map.
Map creation notes:
The WIP can be found here.
This map was one big learning opportunity. I based a lot of my knowledge on Pasis' mountain tutorial, though it's really regional mapping tutorial. A lot of elements (like basic use of textures) come from this tutorial. I highly recommend it. The cliffs are actually tweaked Pasis mountains cut in half by overlaying half of them with a hard copy of the underlying terrain. I've yet to figure out a way to keep the ground editable though. Once you've made these hard-copies and slapped them over half the mountains, you can no longer edit the ground without having to redo these hard copies, which actually isn't that much work, but it's still sloppy.
For where I got my textures:
The grass, water, ground, cliffs and rocks come from Pasis' tut. The fields are based on a texture made by RobA, the walls, roads, smoke, dirt and housing textures come from Ascension.
The forest texture is my own doing; it's based on a google-earth crop of some Canadian forest made into a tiling texture. The idea to just chop a mountain-design I liked in half to get cliffs is also my own, and more something resulting from frustration about not being able to make decent cliffs. The result is very acceptable. Housing is just elements of squares with several layer effects put onto them. Ascension describes something similar.
The little dots, named in the legend as 'cattle' should actually read 'livestock', Gnomes mainly keep sheep, goats, donkeys and mules as farm animals. While I understand the word 'cattle' is more regularly used for cows. This was a slight translation error on my part. The original map is in Dutch though, and can be seen in the WIP.
The only thing I'm dissatisfied about is the fencing, however, there's not much one can do with a mere one-pixel line, which is already over scale. I've recently seen some very creative hedgerows on other maps though. Overall, I'm very happy about this map though.
It's never to late...
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Ghoraja Juun, my largely stagnated campaign setting.
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Indeed a fine map!


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Abstract: Let be a smooth, complete, geometrically connected curve over a field of characteristic . The geometric Langlands conjecture states that to each irreducible rank local system on one can attach a perverse sheaf on the moduli stack of rank bundles on (irreducible on each connected component), which is a Hecke eigensheaf with respect to . In this paper we derive the geometric Langlands conjecture from a certain vanishing conjecture. Furthermore, using recent results of Lafforgue, we prove this vanishing conjecture, and hence the geometric Langlands conjecture, in the case when the ground field is finite.
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The Duke seldom missed a performance of Jenny's, occupying a box just below that of the Queen, 'like a loyal old watchdog, guarding his mistress,' Chopin remarked. As soon as Jenny appeared on the stage he would rise, bow and ask her ceremoniously how she did. Jenny would bow in her turn, thank him and say she did very well, after which the performance would go on.Fancy an opera production today being halted every time the greatest man in the house wishes to greet the prima donna. Of course we wouldn't allow it, perhaps because we have chosen long since to elevate art to fearfully untouchable status, while ruthlessly diminishing heroes. I suspect we're the duller for it.
Prue obediently tugged away at the crane, with its black hooks, from which hung the iron tea kettle and three-legged pot; then she settled the long spit in the grooves made for it in the tall andirons, and put the dripping pan underneath, for in those days meat was roasted as it should be, not baked in ovens.As the story moves on Mother and Father unexpectedly return, bringing the entire mountain clan with them in two sleighs. The iron-souled and busily cooking young folks had already planned to serve forth at five p.m., which is considered late and "genteel." The various details of the ruined dinner are more or less interchangeable with those of Jo's luncheon in the "Experiments" chapter of Little Women. Tilly put catnip and wormwood in the turkey stuffing, because up in the dim larder those "yarbs" looked so like mint and pennyroyal; and the turkey scorched on one side because the girls forgot to turn the spit. Just as Jo's suburban meal ended in good-natured laughter, "bread and butter, olives and fun," so the Bassett Thanksgiving finishes with a surprising amount of equanimity or even, as Bertie might say, dashed sang-froid. I would have expected hardscrabble farmers to be appalled by the young folks' waste of food, never mind the good intentions. No. Everyone laughs, eats apples and drinks cider, and dances and plays the mysterious parlor games Hunt-the-Slipper and "Come, Philander." Meanwhile we moderns can't help but wonder, in a juvenile sort of way -- how is this family of fifteen, give or take an Aunt or two, also seeing to the needs of the body on a snowy November night? Tough souls.
Meantime Tilly attacked the plum pudding. She felt pretty sure of coming out right, here, for she had seen her mother do it so many times, it looked very easy. So in went suet and fruit; all sorts of spice, to be sure she got the right ones, and brandy instead of wine. [Mem.: note the rich ingredients ready to hand.] But she forgot both sugar and salt, and tied it in the cloth so tightly that it had no room to swell, so it would come out as heavy as lead and as hard as a cannon ball, if the bag did not burst and spoil it all. Happily unconscious of these mistakes, Tilly popped it into the pot, and proudly watched it bobbing about ....
Eating and Drinking-- and runs to about 72,000 words, which I think will make for a respectable thickness in hard copy.
Women and Men
Backyard Travels
Serious Matters
Traveling in the Past
A Handful of Impossible Recipes
Melt butter and/or olive oil in a heavy pan (about 3 Tbsp.)
Sauté leeks (one, light green part only, diced and washed)
Add a diced clove of garlic
Add sliced mushrooms (about a half pound)
Add 1/2 cup cream, and salt
Simmer gently -- then add a half cup or so of the reserved salted pasta water, plus another piece of butter to give the sauce some body
Just before serving, stir in a peeled, seeded tomato so that it just warms
Then stir in a handful of chopped chives and parsley
The book on the purple table today is a collection, Three Plays of Euripides (tr. Paul Roche, 1974). If that great tragedian did not invent zombies in his The Bacchae (pronounced "bocky"), he came very close to it. Frenzied women go out into the mountains and catch and tear apart animals with their bare hands, in worship of Bacchus, the god of wine. They happen also to tear apart a man who spies on their doings; the unspooling of his fate gives us the plot of the play. It is while he is being driven mad by the god offstage, in preparation for his own journey to the mountains, that the chorus sings the lovely lines above.There are always a thousand hopes
For a thousand mortals, and some
Hopes are crowned with success;
Others run into sand.
To me the one who is lucky
Is he who day by day lives happy.
CADMUS: Turn your eyes first, please, to the skies up there.
AGAVE: I am looking. And what am I supposed to see?
CADMUS: Is it still the same -- or do you see some change?
AGAVE: [Dreamily] It is lighter than before ... more luminous ....
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In an opinion piece for Slate, game journo Leigh Alexander ties up the loose ends on the recent controversy surrounding RapeLay, a particularly despicable PC game which migrated from Japan to the retail pages of Amazon.com via a third-party merchant.
After the news broke. Amazon, which almost certainly was unaware of the game in the first place, quickly banished it.
Alexander views RapeLay and its ilk as a largely Japanese problem:
It's an old cliché that the more repressed a society, the more extreme its pornography—but more upsetting than RapeLay is the social environment that birthed it. The premise here is that a wealthy man is out for revenge against the schoolgirl who had him jailed as a chikan, or subway pervert. The epidemic of chikan is an enormous problem in Japan, particularly in major cities…
While the moral outrage from the New York City Council and Web sites… is obviously well-placed, there's little hope that legislation or activism can stem the perversion. Not only is RapeLay rooted in a social illness that's embedded in Japanese society, it's just one game in a niche industry that's more closely related to the porn business than to the video game world.


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(Sports Network) - Kobe Bryant has become the main facilitator recently for
the Los Angeles Lakers and will try to assist his team for a third straight
time Tuesday versus the New Orleans Hornets in the finale of a three-game
Bryant has dished out 14 assists in each of the past two matchups with the
Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder, and posted 21 points in Sunday's 105-96
triumph over high-scoring OKC at Staples Center. The future Hall of Famer, who
scored 14 points in the win over the Jazz, has also pulled down nine rebounds
in consecutive games.
Bryant has handed out 14 or more assists seven times in his storied career.
"I'm trying to evolve and find out what we need as a ball club. I can take a
lot of pressure off of Steve (Nash) to have to play-make all of the time,"
Bryant said postgame. "Instead of me being a finisher, it's really
facilitating, drawing the defense, and making plays. I game plan for it, and
it seems to be working."
Nash had 17 points, Pau Gasol added 16 and Metta World Peace tallied 15 points
and 10 rebounds for the Lakers, who improved to 14-10 at home and received
eight points and 10 boards from Dwight Howard. Howard was in foul trouble most
of the game.
Following Tuesday's meeting with New Orleans, the Lakers will embark on a
seven-game road trip against Phoenix, Minnesota, Detroit, Brooklyn, Boston,
Charlotte and Miami.
On the injury front for the Lakers, guard Steve Blake is probable versus the
Hornets after undergoing abdominal surgery. He hasn't played since Nov. 11.
New Orleans will try to stay consistent when it resumes a five-game road trip
Tuesday in Hollywood.
The Hornets won for the eighth time in 12 tries with Sunday's 91-83 triumph at
Memphis behind Ryan Anderson's seven 3-pointers for a game-best 22 points.
Jason Smith had 16 points in the win.
"We just need to play a complete game. When we do, we play great like we did
tonight," Anderson said. "We didn't have any lulls. We fought and did a great
job tonight. We really stuck to the game plan and played great."
New Orleans is 8-14 away from the Big Easy and will also visit Utah, Denver
and Minnesota on the sojourn.
The Hornets suffered a 103-87 home setback to the Lakers on Dec. 5 this season
and have dropped eight straight, 11 of 12 and 15 of the past 18 meetings
between the Western foes. New Orleans is winless in six straight as the
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Public Enemies Synopsis
In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger (Depp)the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoovers fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public.
No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyonefrom his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard) to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression.
But while the adventures of Dillingers ganglater including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham) and Alvin Karpis (Giovanni Ribisi)thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaws capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger Americas first Public Enemy Number One and sent in Purvis, the dashing Clark Gable of the FBI.
However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of Western ex-lawmen (newly baptized as agents) and orchestrating epic betrayalsfrom the infamous Lady in Red to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nittiwere Purvis, the FBI and their new crew of gunfighters able to close in on Dillinger.
Public Enemies Release Date
In Theaters July 1, 2009
Public Enemies Credits
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Jason Clarke, Rory Cochran, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Lang, John Ortiz, Giovanni Ribisi, David Wenham, John Michael Bolger, Bill Camp, Matt Craven, Emilie De Ravin, Don Frye, Spencer Garrett, Shawn Hatosy, Peter Gerety, Stephen Graham, John Hoogenakker, Branka Katic, Domenick Lombardozzi, David Warshofsky
Written by: Ronan Bennett, Ann Biderman, Michael Mann
Directed by: Michael Mann
Produced by: Michael Mann, Kevin Misher
Length: 143 min
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When TSL in Brazil was looking for new vehicles for their mining operations ten years ago, they decided on Scania's mining trucks, something they have never regretted. Their requirements for uptime, productivity and operating economy were decisive.
- As soon as I got to know the Scania trucks, I realized they were the best ones to work with.
The words are José Donizete de Souza Maia's. He owns Transportes Sarzedo Ltda (TSL) who operate mining transportations in two locations in Brazil.
- The comfort that the vehicles offer the driver and the reduced noise level was what first caught my attention. These features help to protect the value of my company's most precious asset: the people. This is why I soon identified myself with Scania vehicles. Furthermore, the Scania vehicles are robust and economical.
Intense dust and muddy roads
TSL operates in areas with broken ground. This means a great deal of mud in the rainy season and intense dust during dry periods. Dirt tracks, irregular terrain and steep gradients and curves add to the tough conditions.
These conditions make fleet uptime a cornerstone of the business. Vehicles operate round the clock. Donizete de Souza Maia sums up the challenge:
- If a vehicle isn't moving, it's not producing. No profit.
Maxiumum uptime and great fuel economy
Donizete de Souza Maia rates maximum uptime and great fuel economy as the main keys to good profitability. And with Scania Opticruise the company has reached fleet fuel savings of 30%.
- Furthermore, the Scania cab is the best in the mining industry. Comfort, visibility and suspension are excellent and the driver works more comfortably and with higher productivity.
Would he recommend Scania mining trucks to business colleagues?
- Yes! Scania is moving in the right direction and has met the customer's needs efficiently, in addition to offering high quality products. I have purchased this truck brand since 2000 and I often get calls from future Scania customers asking about truck performance in my operation. Scania mining trucks meet operational requirements, mainly taking into account the rough terrain and mobility difficulty. Vehicles have good manoeuvring capability and grip.


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North Central College's Mock Trial Team earned fourth place (among 14 competing teams) at the eighth annual Quincy University Riverside Classic, which was held at the Adams County Courthouse in Quincy, Ill., Oct. 22.
Niyah Banks '15 earned an Outstanding Witness Award and Jennifer Rieger '13 earned an Outstanding Attorney Award. Both students are political science majors. Alexis Ledbetter '12, majoring in theatre and psychology, earned awards for both Outstanding Witness and Outstanding Attorney.


text: By Jan RahnManaging Editor Bringing a loud and clear message to Nebraska, a Nigerian trade team visited farms and elevators the first part of June to encourage wheat growers to meet their request and demand for more hard white wheat in addition to the massive amounts of hard red wheat currently purchased. The country is the largest buyer of hard red winter wheat in the world. Perkins County farmer Dan Hughes and his wife Josie hosted a tour and barbecue on June 4 for a nine-member trade delegation representing Nigeria's largest milling and baking companies, local producers, members of the Nebraska Wheat Board, and elevator representatives. In a casual setting at the Hughes farm south of Brandon, the Nigerian team was adamant that milling and baking companies in their African nation want more white wheat in addition to the hard red wheat primarily grown in the four mid-western states they are targeting, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma. Nigeria has a very rapidly growing population and the people are asking for more and more wheat products such as instant noodles, pasta, bread, rolls, etc. "Don't buy Australian!" Hughes told the team who gathered for refreshments and a question/answer period prior to a barbecue and catered meal which was served in a newly built shop on his property. "They [Nigerians] want more white wheat," said Hughes to area producers and elevator personnel who came from as far away as Hemingford to visit with the trade delegation. Hughes, chairman-elect of the U.S. Wheat Associates board and commissioner of the Nebraska Wheat Board, said the major difficulty in meeting the Nigerian demand is the bottleneck in the first handler, the local elevator, which needs to understand there's a premium to get them to handle hard white wheat because of the stringent requirements in keeping the two varieties separate during storage and shipping. "We need to educate our farmer and elevators to make extra effort in seeing that segregation happens." said Hughes. "That's a piece of the puzzle—elevators need to be willing." A Frenchman Valley Co-op representative said the elevators handle white wheat in four different locations, shipping one-half million bushels of white wheat to ConAgra. Another representative from Farmer's Co-op indicated said his elevator did not have enough volume of the crop to make it worthwhile. U.S. Wheat Associates marketing consultant Muyiwa Talabi who is based in Lagos, Nigeria and was accompanying the team, said he has been coming to the United States for 10 years. Although there is some progress in getting the demand met for hard white wheat, he said he has not been happy with the success over the last two or three years. "My desire has not been fulfilled to the extend I want it to be," said Talabi. The handling from the producers, to the elevators, to the gulf if complicated, he said. "They're looking at the money, not satisfied customers." About the Trade Team The trade team's visit is part of an agreement between the Nebraska Wheat Board (NWB) and U.S. Wheat Associates (USW), a national cooperative of 19 wheat-producing states that focuses on international marketing. Each year USW brings foreign trade delegations to the United States to visit with wheat farmers, see the wheat crop first-hand and visit with grain marketing companies. Trade teams such as the one visiting recently bring together both the beginning and end of the grain chain, allowing Nigerian customers to make a personal connection with U.S. wheat farmers who consistently produce the high quality wheat that the Nigeria's industry wants and needs. USW is the industry's market development organization working in more than 100 countries. Its mission is to "develop, maintain, and expand international markets to enhance the profitability of U.S. wheat producers and their customers." USW activities are made possible through producer check-off dollars managed by 19 state wheat commissions and cost-share funding provided by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service. USW maintains 17 offices strategically located around the world to help wheat buyers, millers, bakers, wheat food processors and government officials understand the quality, value and reliability of all six classes of U.S. wheat.


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(WXIA) -- 2012 was an incredible year, with many milestones and many news stories that affected everyone here in Metro Atlanta, across the nation and around the world.
We have compiled the most viewed stories from 11Alive.com -- the stories that captured your imagination and made you want to know more.
We start our list with the most-viewed story of the year.
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text: Look, it's not just Betty Draper (although seeing January Jones in a fat suit was a bizarre reminder that there will be no end to the indignities her character will suffer on Mad Men). There are plenty of actresses who have worn fat suits at one point for… reasons. Largely that reason is "being in terrible comedies" rather than critically acclaimed AMC shows, but it has been done. See which ones strike you as remotely realistic.


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Quick school boss pick raises questions
Selection of Cindy Marten for San Diego Unified wasn't even on the agenda
Should the school board have had more public involvement in its superintendent selection?
Yes 77% (210)
No 23% (63)
273 total votes.
While the selection of elementary-school Principal Cindy Marten as the next San Diego superintendent has won praise in many quarters, the process leading to her appointment has raised questions about whether the board followed open-meetings laws in making its choice.
All five San Diego Unified School District trustees voted in closed session last Tuesday to offer the job to Marten, a career educator who has served as Central Elementary principal for five years.
Trustees were holding a closed-door meeting with only one thing on the publicly posted agenda — the performance evaluation of Superintendent Bill Kowba.
During that meeting, Kowba informed the board he planned to retire June 30, trustees said. The discussion quickly turned to who might succeed Kowba and the board unanimously chose Marten, 46.
Board members introduced their candidate at a news conference the next night.
"We believe we were in full compliance with the law and we were doing it with the advice of our counsel," said Trustee Richard Barrera, a community organizer who has long advocated for the public to be included in critical decisions. "When it becomes clear that the board unanimously knows who we want to hire, it just wouldn't be honest to go out to the community as if we hadn't made that decision."
Hiring a superintendent is one of the most important decisions a school board can make. The process generally takes weeks or months and includes input from teachers, parents and other stakeholders.
The state's Ralph M. Brown Act requires the public's business to be conducted in public, although there are exemptions for discussions about litigation and personnel matters.
The law requires public boards to announce decisions made in closed session upon reconvening in public. In the case of the Marten pick, the board did not announce its decision until more than 24 hours after that.
U-T Watchdog asked school board President John Lee Evans how deciding to offer the job to Marten — during a closed meeting called for the purpose of evaluating the current superintendent — complies with open-meetings laws.
"That's a legal question and I can't give you a legal answer to that," he said.
As to the decision to announce the decision on Wednesday, Evans said, "We decided that Wednesday would be a good time to make that announcement."
The news conference, technically a meeting of the school board, was not publicly noticed until earlier that day. The Brown Act requires public boards to provide a three-day notice disclosing the topics for their meetings, except in emergencies.
School board members referred legal questions to the district lawyer, Lawrence Schoenke, and Schoenke declined to answer questions.
"As the district's attorney, I cannot comment on closed session matters," he wrote in an email.
Trustee Scott Barnett said the events complied with state requirements.
"There are a lot of armchair lawyers to have opinions and they certainly (are) entitled to those whether they're accurate or not," he wrote. "Legal counsel was asked to come into our closed session last week at one point and legal counsel has been consulted with and given us advice throughout this process."
Marten said she would defer to the board about the process, although she would have supported a full public vetting. She said she is going to hold and attend a series of meetings and events so the public can get to know her before she takes over.
James Gazell, a professor of public administration at San Diego State University, said there may be room in the regulations governing the Brown Act but the San Diego school board did not comply with the intent of the law.


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Neshoba County has decided not to hire a private company to collect garbage.
The Neshoba Democrat reported that the board of supervisors has rejected a private firm's low bid for weekly residential and commercial garbage collection.
County Administrator Benjie Coats says the county doesn't have the money to contract the door-to-door garbage pickup because of the more than 2,000 exemptions from the annual fee for elderly and disabled residents.
In addition, the county has some remaining debt on its garbage trucks.
Neshoba County increased its monthly garbage fee by $2.50 per household in January to address the debt issue.
The board also eliminated exemptions for new retirees and the newly disabled after Dec. 29, 2011.
Coats says the issue may be revisited.
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Bethesda United Methodist
Freddie Craver will be in concert at 7 p.m. Nov. 30 at the church, 2292 Bethesda Road. A love offering will be taken.
Buncombe Baptist
The Rev. Leon Marsh of Union Baptist Church will be the guest speaker at the church, 539 Hairston Road, at 11 a.m. Sunday.
Center UMC
A hot dog dinner and free Welcomaires concert will be at 6 p.m. Sunday.
Fair Grove UMC
The church, 138 Fair Grove Church Road, Thomasville, will host a Hanging of the Greens service at 6 p.m. Dec. 1.
First UMC
The church, 310 S. Main St., will host a Christmas blessing of the animals at 3 p.m. Dec. 8. All animals are invited and welcomed with their humans. All animals must be on leash or in a carrier. Please bring a gift for the Davidson County Animal Shelter, such as small dog/cat collars, wet canned dog and puppy food, wet canned cat food and kitten chow, food for guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, hamsters, birdseed, paper towels, bleach, Dawn dishwashing detergent, fabric softener sheets, Kong toys and extra large Igloo Dog Houses.
Lexington Deliverance Tabernacle
The church, 912 Dixie St., will have Founder's Day Observance on Saturday and Sunday. Hours are 9 a.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday. Guest speaker on Saturday will be the Rev. Coy Medley. He will be joined by singers from LDT-Anointed Ones, Lexington Community Fellowship Choir, The Zionettes and Pastor James Greer and Bless of Greensboro.
Meadowview Presbyterian
The church will have a Thanksgiving service Sunday. Call the church office for details.
The church will present "Agnus Dei, Lamb of God Born to Us" at 7 p.m. Dec. 7 at and at 6 p.m. Dec. 8 with the church choir, worship and praise band, handbell choir, liturgical dancers, orchestra from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and other guest musicians. Admission is free.
New Friendship UCC
Harvest Home Celebration will be at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the church, 307 Turner Road, Holly Grove community. As part of its Thanksgiving outreach service, those in attendance are asked to bring nonperishable food. Donations of food will be given to area food banks to help needy families in the community.
New Life Worship Center
The Inspiration Dance Ministry of the church, 171 Garden Drive, will have a program titled "Dancing for the Lord" at 5 p.m. Saturday. All area dance ministries are invited to participate. For more information, call 224-1353.
Now Faith Family Worship Center
The church, 721 S. Main St., will have a jubilee service at 6 p.m. Sunday. Guest speaker will be Steve Davis, senior pastor of Servant's House Ministries.
Union Chapel AME Zion
The church, 4329 Sowers Road, Linwood, will have its annual Twelve Tribe Rally at 6 p.m. Sunday.
United Baptist
The church, 1007 Eleanor Drive, will celebrate its 19th church anniversary at 3 p.m. Sunday. Guest speaker will be the Rev. John Geter of St. Matthews Baptist Church, Rockwell.
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Make no mistake, I embrace the idea of the impending New Year like everyone else - with excitement and trepidation all at the same time. It's funny how one day on the calendar can make us feel so many different emotions.
Some of us may be sad to pull the last page off the 2012 calendar because just maybe it was a very good year. Others may be glad to boot 2012 into the history books with the hope that we can successfully dodge the upcoming fiscal cliff to the other side of bureaucratic mountain in Washington, D.C.
My brother, Matt, enjoys Jan. 1 as it not only marks the start of another 365 days on the calendar, but it is his birthday as well. Most people whose birthdays are so close to Christmas must feel slighted in the gift department as the funds are usually running thin and the credit cards are still cooling off from the previous month's purchases.
When my husband and I were first married we went out on New Year's Eve with other couples and danced the new year into being. The gals got all gussied up in fancy dresses and we made the guys wear those goofy party hats. That's when local hotels hosted extravagant parties with live - yes, live - bands. We usually picked the location based on the best package deal and music. It also was the era of disco. We thought we were so cool dancing to the Bee Gees hits.
At midnight, hugs and kisses were exchanged and then it was on to eating sauerkraut and pork which was meant to bring good luck in the new year. If we stayed at a hotel, there was no need for a designated driver, only some Alka-Seltzer in the morning.
I guess there are still such celebrations on Dec. 31, but we leave them for the younger set who manage to stay awake lon enough to see the lighted ball drop into New York City's Times Square. Sometimes we manage to stay awake but when your work day starts before sunrise, that's a tough event to witness unless you sneak in a nap during the afternoon.
Plenty of people I know despise New Year's Eve. It can be a sad time for people who find themselves alone or who just don't enjoy the party scene. There's nothing wrong with being alone, but lonely is a whole other ball game.
Tons of famous singers and songwriters have made fortunes on being lonely. Remember Elvis Presley's "Are You Lonesome Tonight" with that deep, sultry voice? How about Bobby Vinton's "Mr. Lonely"? It was a chart-stopper for the bobby soxers. And country music thrives on sad and lonely. Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" actually made fans weep at concerts.
Whether 2013 brings more sad songs or reasons to celebrate, let's do it together. Americans know how to overcome just about anything because we stick together. We just need to get that message across to Congress. Happy New Year!
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NFL.com's Jeff Darlington reports Julio Jones (ankle) "looked just fine" in pre-game warmups Sunday, and a Falcons source confirms Jones "looked good in practice all week."
Broncos.com's Andrew Mason describes the team's quarterback job as a "wide open" competition.
Yahoo's Charles Robinson reports the Jets' contract proposal to free agent Ryan Fitzpatrick is worth $24 million over three years.
Jameis Winston weighed in the "upper 240s" at the Pro Bowl, but has shed 18 pounds in an effort to "avoid the dreaded sophomore slump."
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Seahawks coach Pete Carroll says the "hope" remains that Thomas Rawls (ankle) is ready for Week 1.
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(CNN) - Wedding bells will reportedly ring once again for "Playboy" head Hugh Hefner.
Hefner is expected to marry his fiancée Crystal Harris on New Year's Eve.
This will be the third marriage for the 86-year-old.
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Capital of Scotland and seat of the Scottish Parliament, the beautiful and verdant city of Edinburgh rises on a cluster of volcanic hills. It has two contrasting parts: the medieval Old Town is perched up on a rocky outcrop; the 19C New Town is laid out below. A huge variety of attractions, a host of festivals, most notably the BEdinburgh International Festival, and some excellent museums lure countless visitors from near and far.
Tourist attractions Edinburgh : Things to see and do
National Museum of Scotland
st. Chambers GB - Edinburgh EH1 1JF
Two adjoining buildings make up the National Museum of Scotland. The Royal Museum, housed in a masterpiece of Victorian architecture, exhibits disparate collections: fossils, furniture, decorative arts, stuffed animals etc. The Museum of Scotland, me..
Charlotte Square
sq. Charlotte GB - Edinburgh
Designed by Robert Adam in 1791, this square is delightful for the harmony and elegance of the its façades, especially on the north side. You will be impressed by the detail of the lattices enrich this square. If you would like to immerse yourself in..
Royal Botanic Garden
20A Inverleith Row GB - Edinburgh EH3 5LR
The origins of this garden, a veritable haven but also a research tool, dates back to the late 17C. The rhododendrons are one of the estate's main attractions. You can wander around the winding paths inside the futuristic greenhouses (1967) between t..
Hotels Edinburgh
The Carlton - Edinburgh
19 North Bridge GB - Edinburgh EH1 1SD
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Overlooking The Royal Mile, the grand Carlton Hotel Edinburgh has a stylish cocktail bar and modern brasserie. Lively Princes Street is just 300 metres away and Waverley Rail Station is directly adjacent to the hotel. Free WiFi is available throughou..
Radisson Blu Hotel, Edinburgh
The Royal Mile GB - Edinburgh EH1 1TH
On the historic Royal Mile, Radisson Blu Hotel Edinburgh is a modern hotel which features a spa / fitness centre, stylish bar and luxury bedrooms with free Wi-Fi. Waverley train station is just a 5-minute walk away. Each sleek, contemporary room has..
ibis Edinburgh Centre Royal Mile
6 Hunter Square GB - EDINBURGH EH1 1QW
Ibis Edinburgh Centre Royal Mile is a budget hotel located in central Edinburgh.Book the hotel for its location just off the Royal Mile and within walking distance of the sights and nightlife of Edinburgh.The hotel has 99 modern guest rooms,each with..
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Experience the Highland beauty of the Isle of Skye on a 3-day excursion from Edinburgh. You'll spend two nights on the Isle of Skye, see legendary Loch Ness and ride one of the world's most famous steam trains, the West Highland Line, as seen in the ..
See it all on a grand five-day tour of the Highlands of Scotland by minivan - from the ancient Cairngorms and vibrant Inverness to the romantic beauty of the Isle of Skye and awe-inspiring Glencoe. With a maximum group size of 16 passengers, you are ..
Soak up the spirit of Speyside on a 3-Day small-group whisky tour! Explore Scotland's principle malt whisky producing region, which is noted for its elegant and subtle-tasting whiskies. Highlights Free drinks included Get inside tips from ..
Restaurants Edinburgh
57-61 Blackfriars St GB - EH1 1NB Edinburgh
Hidden behind the castle is this intimate, nature-themed, neighbourhood restaurant, which is well run by its experienced owners. Produce is seasonal and dishes take their influences from around the world; the local game is a must-try.
Galvin Brasserie De Luxe
Princes St GB - EH1 2AB Edinburgh
Accurately described by its name: a simply styled restaurant which looks like a brasserie of old but with the addition of a smart shellfish counter and formal service. There's an appealing daily menu of French classics and a concise, good value set s..
Martin Wishart
54 The Shore GB - EH6 6RA Leith
Elegant modern restaurant with immaculately set tables and attentive, professional service. Three 6 course menus - Tasting, Seafood and Vegetarian - and a concise à la carte. Fine ingredients are used in well-judged, flavourful combinations. Dishes d..
North Bridge Brasserie
20 North Bridge GB - EH3 1TR Edinburgh
3 Royal Terrace GB - EH7 5AB Edinburgh
Stunningly refurbished Georgian townhouse designed by William Playfair. The glass-fronted kitchen is the focal point of the stylish, high-ceilinged dining room. Cooking is skilful, innovative and features quirky combinations; '21212' reflects the num..
23-23A Brougham Pl GB - EH3 9JU Edinburgh
The staff are super-friendly at this extremely popular neighbourhood restaurant, whose name means 'Angel'. Authentic menus feature Thai classics and old family recipes; the seafood dishes are a highlight and presentation is first class. Spices and ot..
Number One
1 Princes St GB - EH2 2EQ Edinburgh
A stylish, long-standing restaurant with a chic cocktail bar, set in the basement of a grand hotel. Richly upholstered banquettes and red lacquered walls give it a plush, luxurious feel. Cooking is modern and intricate and prime Scottish ingredients ..
78 Commercial Quay GB - EH6 6LX Leith
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110 Hanover St. (1st Floor) GB - EH2 1DR Edinburgh
Cosy, slightly bohemian-style eatery on the first floor of a classic Georgian mid-terrace, with two high-ceilinged, shabby chic dining rooms and an appealing bar. Robust, good value comfort food is crafted from local, seasonal produce; dishes such as..


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He who hesitates is saved
Health | September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and a grisly statistic is in the news: Some 32,000 Americans kill themselves in a typical year, about twice the number who die by homicide. Could physical and psychological barriers save lives?
Parent advisory: This article includes descriptions of the results of suicide.
What goes through the minds of suicide perpetrators and victims during their last seconds of thought? Journalist Scott Anderson ended a New York Times article two months ago ("The Urge to End It All," July 6) with a quotation from Kevin Hines, one of 29 people known to have jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge without dying: "I'll tell you what I can't get out of my head. It's watching my hands come off that railing and thinking to myself, 'My God, what have I just done?' Because I know that almost everyone else who's gone off that bridge, they had that exact same thought at that moment."
Anderson estimates that 2,000 men and women have jumped from the Golden Gate and died. California clinical psychiatrist Richard Seiden obtained a police list of 515 would-be jumpers pulled off the bridge, conducted extensive research, and found that only 6 percent of those kept from killing themselves went on to commit suicide. Seiden allowed that some suicides might have been mislabeled as accidents, but that correction only raised the total to 10 percent: "90 percent of them got past it. They were having an acute temporary crisis, they passed through it and, coming out the other side, they got on with their lives."
Seiden said that suicide attempters "get fixated. They decide they're going to jump off a particular spot on a particular bridge, but if they discover the bridge is closed for renovations or the railing is higher than they thought, most of them don't look around for another place to do it. They just retreat." Seiden told of one man on the Golden Gate's eastern promenade who fixated on jumping from the western side but didn't do it because he feared that a car would hit him as he made his way across six lanes of traffic.
Anderson concluded that suicide is an overwhelmingly impulsive act: One study of survivors found that 70 percent think about it for less than an hour before trying it. Anderson reported on the work of David Hemenway, who directs the Injury Control Research Center at the Harvard School of Public Health: Hemenway and his team, focusing on the "how" of suicide, have learned that "if you can somehow remove or complicate a method, you have the potential of saving a tremendous number of lives."
Some officials, therefore, are pushing for barriers on the Golden Gate and other popular suicide sites. Some search for other physical ways to "remove or complicate a method." What's missing from the literature, though, perhaps because it's so politically incorrect, is the usefulness of psychological warfare: Make descriptions of suicide, now airbrushed, once more sickening. Make the character of those who commit suicide, now the subject of sympathy, the object of intense scorn.
We know how this can be done because up to a century ago newspapers readily did it. Although the late 19th century may have been a "Victorian Age" in which "legs" became "limbs" and "breasts" were tucked away as "bosoms," blood and guts reporting dominated suicide coverage. For instance, the Dallas News described relatives finding a "lifeless body still warm seated in a chair with the top of his head blown off, the blood and brains scattered around the room." The Atlanta Constitution described "blood oozing from the gaping wound" after another shooting.
Even newspapers not known for sensationalism were vivid in their treatment of those who leaped from buildings or in front of trains. The New York Tribune reported that one jumper's "brains were scattered over the flagstones," and that another "fell three stories and struck her head foremost, almost smashing her entire skull. She lay there for about 10 minutes before she was seen. By that time an immense quantity of blood had flowed from the body and trickled into the gutter." The New York Times described a man who jumped in front of a subway train: "His head was knocked clean off." The Times said of another suicide, "His throat was cut, there was a foam on his lips, and his eyes stared wildly."
Newspapers also tended to report the physical remains of suicide: A "mangled body," a "crushed and bleeding form," and so on. Would a person thinking of drowning himself think twice after reading that fish had eaten the face of a man who committed suicide in a lake? Would a man thinking of killing himself in a forest rethink his decision when he read of a man hanging himself and not being found for several weeks, by which time "the lower part of the body had evidently been eaten away by animals"?
Statistics-keeping a century ago was not what it is today so we don't know whether such articles saved any lives, but the use of shame to fight suicide has a distinguished lineage. Two millennia ago the Greek historian Plutarch, writing about young women on the island of Miletus, noted that at one point they were hanging themselves in abundance. The perverse craze continued until "on the advice of a man of sense, an ordinance was proposed that the women who hanged themselves should be carried naked through the marketplace to their burial."
The ordinance, Plutarch wrote, "stopped completely the young women from killing themselves. Women who had no deterrent sense of shame when facing the most terrible of all things in the world, death and pain, yet could not abide nor bear the thought of disgrace which would come after death." Journalists a century ago vividly described the physical results of suicide and also connected that act with other disgraceful actions. The Washington Post told of a man committing suicide after kicking his aged mother to death. The New York Tribune explained how a convicted wife murderer hanged himself in jail with a handkerchief.
Reporters connected adultery and suicide. The Chicago Tribune reported that one man took arsenic after learning of his wife's adultery. The New York Times had a man killing himself after his wife found love letters another woman had sent him. The New York Journal wrote of a married woman taking poison and dying in the yard of a lover's residence, and of another who found "HER LOVE FATAL. Frederika was Disappointed and Killed Herself."
Theft also led to suicide: The Dallas Herald noted the cyanide-taking of a bookkeeper arrested for theft, and the Los Angeles Times noted that a man shot himself after stealing $100. "SUICIDE OF A DEFAULTING CASHIER" was a typical headline: "J.P. Hassler, late cashier for the Carlisle Deposit Bank, hanged himself this afternoon. Mr. Hassler was elected cashier in 1863, and held that position until last October, when he was found to be a defaulter. Today, February 28, 1877, the bank officers instituted criminal proceedings against him."
Reporters described the demise of suicidal thieves with particular vividness. One front-page story, "A Thief & A Suicide," showed how a bank robber shot himself and was found with "his face shattered and covered with blood." Another man, who also had a record of wife beating, slit his throat in the courtroom after being convicted of grant larceny. Associates found a bank defrauder "with half of his head blown off."
When some readers said newspapers were being mean, the New York Tribune responded, "It is dangerous, it is inequitable, it is demoralizing for us to regard merely the ruin, appealing as it naturally does to our charity and our pity. It is necessary that we should also take into account the long concatenation of causes which culminated in the tragedy-follies intellectual, moral, and physical." The Tribune noted "vices which are undeniable tokens of selfishness; passions to which the bridle has been given until it cannot be resumed."
The Tribune tried particularly hard to strip suicidal individuals of any hope that their actions would be honored. An editorial in 1883 summed up the era's coverage: "The Tribune would like to say something about the suicide business which, to persons contemplating that manner of egress, may seem harsh and unfeeling. [The suicide] is an ass, a very distinct and unmistakable ass. Is this too harsh? . . . There is no dignity, nor seldom any decency in suicide. It is the best cowardly desertion of the ranks in the presence of the enemy. It is insanity, of course, always. But always, it must be observed, the insanity of the personal vanity: of overwhelming egotism."
That editorial is part of a long literary tradition. Dante, in his Inferno, poetically placed suicides in a dark, pathless wood, where their souls took the shape of thorns in stunted trees. The harpies, with their great wings and feathered bellies, human faces and clawed feet, nested in those stunted trees and tore at the leaves, endlessly repeating the violence the soul had inflicted on itself.
Editorials a century or more ago argued that suicide was wrong theologically because it reflected a lack of belief that God has a purpose for individual human lives. The New York Tribune editorialized in 1877 that "the highest wisdom, therefore, even for a wretch whose life is saturated with sorrow, and for whom apparently there is no future, is to wait. Surely, considering how much we need them, faith and persistence should not be lightly abandoned. The very fact that we are not yet called from the scene of wearisome struggle and disaster, seemingly consummate, should prove to us that Providence has some design in continuing our existence."
Today, with greater concern for the invasion of privacy and awareness of potential lawsuits, few newspapers print causes of death. Almost all omit gory details. But a more fundamental change has occurred also: When secular publications cover suicide, those who do it receive a form of honor. I still have in my files a story concerning the 1983 suicide of Kent Green, age 16. The Louisville Courier-Journal's Sunday magazine put his smiling picture on its front cover, with the caption, "Star athlete, solid student, popular leader. . . ."
The story inside quoted Green's suicide note-"I just didn't have a future"-and noted simply that "one night he put a rifle to his head and pulled the trigger." The writer, instead of showing brains and blood all over the floor, emphasized how much his parents, friends, and teachers admired him. The story's final sentence showed how Kent Green's mother "still keeps the door to Kent's room closed, and for the most part she stays out. But sometimes, when she's home during the day, she will open the door and just look in."
The romanticized story had a tragic aftermath. Terry Ray Cahill, a friend and classmate of Green, read the article five times, said "it wouldn't be a bad way to die," and shot himself fatally in the head, just as Kent Green had. The local school superintendent noted the next day, "I'm very concerned about the fact-whether it's irony or whatever-that this kind of tragedy falls right on the footsteps of this Courier-Journal article."
No one can reasonably state that the Courier-Journal printing of the article caused the Cahill suicide. But I remember this story because the editor later told me that he repented of printing the romanticized account. He said he had spent "a long time" discussing with staff members whether to print the story and what to include in it, only to follow the regular contemporary format: bloodlessness and sympathy.
Is typical coverage helpful? If bridge barriers and other slow-down devices can cut the number of suicides, would accurate and honest media coverage help as well? Fyodor Dostoevsky had his character Kirilov explain that people who might otherwise commit suicide do not kill themselves for two reasons: fear of pain, and fear of the next world. What happens if newspapers do not report pain and do not discuss the religious questions involved in suicide? Might journalistic compassion for those contemplating suicide actually require tough coverage of those who have?


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La Pampa... Tango and Carlos Gardel... Evita Perón... An array of striking images brought together in just one country: Argentina, an ancestral land, a melting pot of different cultures, including those brought by Spanish settlers and large waves of European immigration at the turn of the 20th century.
This giant of South America covers some 2.8 million km2. The Andes, which peak at Mt Aconcagua (6 959m), separate Argentina from Chile to the west; to the northeast, the country shares the fantastic site of Iguazú Falls with Brazil. To the south, Tierra del Fuego stretches towards Antarctica, with mythical Patagonia lying in between, north of the Strait of Magellan: glaciers, including the famous Perito Moreno, formidable mountains such as Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre, which attract the most seasoned mountaineers, and vestiges of Argentina''s indigenous people, including handprints left more than 10 000 years ago in the Cuevo de la Manos.
But Argentina cannot be summed up by a description of its landscapes alone. It has to be experienced, and what better place to start than the capital, European-feeling Buenos Aires, with its whirlwind atmosphere, palpable creative energy, and buzzing night life? A gigantic city that is home to 13 million Porteños... A city that mirrors the country it represents, grandiose and eclectic.
Argentina : Must-see towns and regions
Buenos Aires was founded by Spanish settlers in the 16C and became Argentina's capital in the 19C. Laid out in a mosaic of diverse neighbourhoods, this European-influenced capital bustles with activit...
Bariloche is considered a must for visitors. Judge for yourself. A bustling town in the heart of the splendid Lake District and Nahuel Huapi National Park, not far from the Seven Lakes Road and Cerro ...
Salta the Beautiful is an appealing stopover in the Noroeste, with numerous interesting museums, including the MAAM; fine colonial architecture inherited from the Spanish Golden Age; a dynamic and hos...
San Martín de los Andes, on the shores of Lake Lácar, offers many water sports. A pleasant mountain town on the edge of the Parque Nacional Lanín, it is also a gateway to the famous Cerro Chapelco ski...
Discovering Mendoza, the province's capital, is an undeniable pleasure. It allies lively, pretty squares, a delightful atmosphere, especially in the gigantic Parque General San Martín, and wine tours ...
With its arid mineral landscape, La Puna serves as a backdrop to Iruya, a remote village clinging to the mountainside. Standing more than 2 700m above sea level, beyond a 4 000m-high pass, is the Abra...
Cachi, lying at the foot of the nevado of the same name, does justice to the impressive Valles Calchaquíes in which it nestles. Visit the Museo Archeológico to learn all about the Native American trib...
The little Andean village of Humahuaca, formerly a bustling trade centre, has embraced tourism and is now distinctly animated, especially during February's carnival. Visit the cathedral, Nuestra Señor...


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WITHDRAWALS AND REFUNDSIt is the student's responsibility to withdraw officially from the University or from an individual course in accordance with University regulations. The "Student Records and General Academic Policies" section of this catalog has the necessary instructions. Tuition charges are reduced following withdrawal from all classes in an enrollment period at a rate based on the date the student initiates the withdrawal process in the Office of Academic Records and University Registrar, as reflected in the "Proration of Tuition and Housing Charges" section. Exceptions to the withdrawal initiated date policy include medical withdrawals from all classes and withdrawals from all classes due to involuntary military induction. Proration for medical withdrawal is based on the effective withdrawal date determined by the director of the Russell Student Health Center. Withdrawal due to involuntary military induction (supported by a valid military induction notice) will result in full tuition removal. For dropping an individual course, proration is determined by the date the student initiates the action. Enrollment periods are the fall semester, the spring semester, or the summer term. The summer term includes several different sessions — a three-week interim session and two five-week summer sessions. If a student who has or will complete any course enrollment for the summer term wishes to drop classes for a specific session, this will be considered a drop rather than a withdrawal since the student is still enrolled in the summer term. Students who receive federal financial aid and subsequently withdraw from all classes before completing the enrollment period are subject to full or partial federal aid cancellation and repayment of funds received. See "Impact of Withdrawal on Students Receiving Federal Financial Aid." Students suspended from school for disciplinary reasons have no right to refunds of any tuition paid or to the cancellation of amounts due. A student is responsible for clearing any outstanding balance on his or her account before leaving campus. Refunds upon withdrawal will not be issued for three weeks, to allow time for all necessary adjustments to be made to the student's account. A student is not entitled to a refund or a cancellation of amounts due for residence hall contracts unless he or she is withdrawing from all classes. A student who withdraws during the first week of classes will lose his or her $75.00 deposit. After the first week of classes, refunds of room charges will follow the same policy that applies to tuition. See "Proration of Tuition and Housing Charges." Refunds of housing deposits are issued upon authorization of Residential Life if the student has a clear account balance. Refunds of ROTC deposits are issued upon authorization of the ROTC supply officer if the student has a clear account balance. No refunds will be made to a student who has an outstanding balance on his or her account.