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Explore the best of Sicilian culture, both ancient and modern, with a bit of sightseeing and magical days on the beach. From the classical mishmash of architecture in Palermo to the traditional Sicilian dishes served up in Catania and the stunning beaches that hug the coast, Sicily holidays satiate all palates.
For active holidays to Sicily with plenty of sightseeing, make sure to drop by Palermo, Sicily's lively capital city. After a long day, spend the evening sampling some of Italy's finest dishes, including the thin pizza-like sfincione and delicious seafood. Afterwards, burn those calories away with a night of dancing; Palermo and Catania are two of the best hotspots for an evening out in stunning Sicily.
Rest your head on soft pillows and fall asleep to the subtle sound of the sea in a beachside hotel in a small town minutes away from Taormina, or choose from a number of luxury hotels across the island in the large cities like Syracuse and Messina.
Sicily also provides a great educational experience. The active Mount Etna, close to the city of Messina, is Europe's tallest and certainly deserves a visit. For the ancient Greeks that colonised Sicily, this mountain was believed to be the home of Vulcan, the God of Fire, and the one-eyed Cyclops!
With such a stunning landscape to enjoy on Sicily holidays, it's easy to see where so many artists have received their inspiration; take a trip to a museum or art gallery to see the island's highlights. Museo Archeologico di Taormina, built on the site of ancient Roman baths, offers an exciting day of discovery. Afterwards, enjoy a taste of Sicily's local gelato or head over to one of the many pizzerias for a bite.
The Teatro Massimo, Italy's largest opera house, is a must-see in Palermo; time it right and catch one of its magnificent performances. Also, don't miss the intriguing underground Catacombs of the Capuchins; over 6,000 corpses have been mummified here, making for an interesting day out.
Situated in the town of Taormina you can find the beautiful ancient Greek theatre, Piazza Amerina. Dating back to seventh century BC, this site continues to stage dramatic productions and concerts. Another ancient architectural site that should not be missed is the Valley of Temples, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where there are several archaic and restored temples to be admired on holidays in Sicily.
Giardini Naxos is a coastal town well-known for its excellent beaches, Mondello Lido is the preferred beach of the residents of Palermo, Mortelle is home to some of the islands best beaches, Spiaggia Sabbie Nere is a gorgeous black volcanic sand beach and Lido Mazzarò is one of the islands most beautiful and unspoilt beaches.
Sicily is an island that is made up of beautiful beaches. The white sands and clear blue waters of the island's beaches are the ideal place to soak up the Mediterranean sunshine and relax. The island is known for its excellent food, and it is famed for its exceptionally high quality seafood, you absolutely must try some of the local delicacies at a traditional seafood restaurant on your holiday to Sicily, you won't be disappointed.
The island of Sicily is surrounded by the clear blue, calm waters of the Mediterranean that are perfect for water sports of all kinds. Along many of the larger beaches that are more popular with tourists there is a wide range of water sports and water activities available such as canoeing, kayaking, windsurfing and water skiing.
If you have decided on a beach holiday in Sicily and would prefer to be as close to the beach as possible then don't worry as a large number of the hotels on the island are located on or within easy walking distance of the beach. Many of the larger hotels even have their own stretch of private beach.
Sicily holidays offer plenty of beautiful beaches that are perfect for soaking up the gorgeous Mediterranean sun as well as swimming in the clear blue waters. The cities of the island are home to a number of tranquil parks that provide some welcome shade and relaxation from the midday sun. Sicily has the largest number of vineyards and wineries in all of Italy and many of them run tours and wine tasting courses.
Holidays in Sicily offer a large number of shops especially in its cities and major towns, whether you are looking to pick up a bargain or a pair of designer shoes. Horse riding is a really romantic way to explore and discover the beautiful landscape of the island; it's great fun even if you've never ridden a horse before.
Holidays in Sicily iare well known for its excellent local cuisine; the food is very similar to Italian food and they share many of the same dishes, plenty of which revolve around fresh fish and seafood. The island has a handful of theatres in the towns and cities which followed by dinner and drinks can make for a romantic evening.
Sicily is a wonderfully romantic island, lapped by the gorgeous blue Mediterranean, a great place for a romantic getaway. The island has no shortage of romantic hotels in fantastic locations, such as five star luxury hotels in the centre of bustling Palermo or small tranquil boutique hotels along the coast overlooking the sea.
Catania is an important city in the eastern coast of the island, Palermo is the island's exciting and ancient capital, Taormina is a popular town on the island home to some spectacular ruins, Aeolian Islands are the legendary home of the ancient wind god situated just off the coast of the main island, Agrigento is an ancient city in the south of the island known for its temples and ruins.
Hiking is an extremely popular activity on the island; the rugged landscape is crisscrossed by hundreds of hiking trails which provide excellent views of the surrounding areas. Boat trips are a great way to explore and discover the beautiful island of Sicily; there are plenty of tour operators to be found in the coastal towns and harbours. The natural sea caves are one of the real natural treasures of the island and are a real must.
If you can you should try and catch a traditional musical performance by some of the locals, it helps give visitors a real feel for the culture and atmosphere of the island. Look out for regular performances from local musicians in the bars or restaurants as well as larger music venues such a concert halls.
The island has been inhabited for thousands of years and as such has an array of historic castles that are open to the public. There are also plenty of churches dotted around the island in both the cities and the countryside. Temples are another key feature of the island as it was once home to the Greeks and the Romans.
Mount Etna is the volcano that dominates the island of Sicily; there are tours that run up the mountain to the summit. Sicily is home to a number of interesting museums many of which have interactive exhibits aimed at children. Sicily has a large amount of beautiful landscape much of which is preserved in Nature Reserves which are open to the public.
An excellent way to discover and explore the spectacular countryside of the island of Sicily is on foot and there are a number of excellent trails that crisscross the island.
Golf is a popular sport on the island and there are a handful of golf courses with well-kept fairways and immaculate greens suitable for all abilities.
Sicily is home to some of the best food in the world and the island has a huge number of restaurants. Fish and seafood play a key role in the cuisine of the island, which is also known for its sweets and pastries. There are a number of theatres in Sicily making it easy to catch a show, which is a great way to spend an evening.
There is no shortage of hotels in Sicily. The island is slowly developing into a modern tourist destination and there is a wide range of hotel to choose from whether you want five star luxuries or a traditional family-run establishment the island has plenty to suit all tastes and budgets.


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There but for the grace of God
How many of us here in St. Johns County remember our anger and frustration last year as we weathered the series of tropical storms? And how many of us feel a little silly about that now, after watching the real horror heaped upon the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama? We had distress. They have destruction and death. We want to thank all our own citizens who are now lending a hand -- in so many different ways -- to the relief efforts in the Gulf States. We believe the worst is yet to come and hope that continues to bring out the best of all our people. We are seeing the very worst of our people in the looters and rapists. We must show that the American spirit is so much greater than that, that the good of America will crush the bad, and restore the safeguards of our Republic to those afflicted by this disaster.
Happy Birthday, St. Augustine
While it's hard to focus on celebrations in this time of national disaster, we'd like to remind everyone that St. Augustine is celebrating her 440th birthday today. If the price of gas has got you staying close to home this Labor Day weekend, please join in the party. The day begins with a recreation of the landing of Menendez at the Mission Nombre de Dios and a solemn Mass at 9:30 a.m. The city will host a free concert in the downtown plaza at 5:30 with live music provided by the Mid-Life Crisis Band, and a cutting of a community birthday cake. As always bring a blanket or lawn chairs. Then at 7 p.m. experience an 18th Century reenactment of the Changing of the Guard as you join a procession of Spanish soldiers through the town with drums and fife and torchlight.
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If you are traveling this weekend, be careful. In 2004, 23 people were killed on Florida's highways. And a Web site we just came across might make your hunt for the best prices on gas a little easier. Go to www.gasbuddy.com . It keeps a fairly fresh listing of the best and worst gas prices in major cities across the nation.
Alligator alert
The Florida Department of Fish and wildlife is advising hikers, hunters, anglers and golfers to take special precautions and keep alert for alligators in the First Coast area. Persons are advised to wear noise-producing devices such as little bells on their clothing to alert, but not startle, the gators. It is also advisable to carry pepper spray in case of an encounter. Finally it is also a good idea to be alert for fresh or recent signs of alligator activity. People should recognize the difference between small, young alligator and large, adult alligator droppings. Young alligator droppings are typically smaller and contain fish bones and possibly bird feathers. Adult alligator droppings are large, often have little bells in them and smell like pepper spray.
Puckett leaves the Alligator Farm
Speaking of alligators, we'd like to say so long to a good friend and fixture at our own St. Augustine Alligator Farm, Bill Puckett. The general director retires today. He's been associated with the gator farm since 1978. The attraction has evolved over the past two decades into a first-class learning park with an emphasis on environmental sensitivity rather than reptilian sensationalism. Puckett's leadership has been a big part of that improvement. Enjoy your retirement, Bill.
Late night zingers
A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in "Wizard of Oz" has been stolen. The culprit is considered to be armed and fabulous. And, finally, congratulations to the Hawaiian Little League team for winning the Little League World series. They won a thriller yesterday over the Kansas City Royals.
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The "State of Tomorrow" series, directed by former UNT student Mat Hames, explores how academic leaders at public universities are seeking solutions to the challenges facing Texans today.
"People understand a university's private benefit -- that it can help you, or your children, earn more money by having a degree," said Hames, an award-winning independent filmmaker. "But they don't see how higher education affects their lives in a larger sense -- how vast its reach is, how it touches every aspect of our lives. So many things we take for granted are created in an academic environment. The hope is that this show will open people's eyes about how public higher education is solving problems that affect everyone."
The series of half-hour episodes will air at 11 p.m. Mondays starting April 2 on KERA. If you live outside of the Dallas - Ft. Worth region, check the State of Tomorrow web site to find stations and showtimes for your area. Three episodes featuring UNT will air in May and June on the following dates:
May 14, 2007 - 11 p.m. -- Episode 7: "Skeletons in the Closet"featuring Dr. Harrell Gill-King, director of the UNT Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology and Human Identification, and Dr. Art Eisenberg of the UNT Health Science Center. With one of the most advanced forensic labs in the state, UNT has the tools to identify human remains to help solve crimes. Gill-King, who has worked closely with Eisenberg to solve murder cases through the use of forensic evidence, will talk about specific murder cases that have been solved and how universities will make an impact in the future of forensic science.
May 28, 2007 - 11 p.m. -- Episode 9: "The Economist"featuring Dr. Bernard Weinstein, professor of applied economics and director of the Institute of Applied Economics and director of the University Center for Economic Development and Research. Weinstein, an expert on economic development and public policy, will offer his perspectives on the future course of the Texas economy and the challenges of upgrading the education and skills of the Texas workforce.
June 04, 2007 - 11 p.m. -- Episode 10: "Passion for Jazz"featuring the UNT Jazz Studies Division. Considered controversial at the time of its founding in 1947, the jazz studies program has grown into one of the most renowned in the nation. Former students include singer Norah Jones and musicians who have gone on to play for the Tonight Show band, the Saturday Night Live band and Stan Kenton's band. The episode follows Evan Weiss, one of the youngest trumpet players in the university's Grammy-nominated One O'Clock Lab Band, directed by Neil Slater, as Weiss prepares to perform at a concert with guest artist Wayne Bergeron, an acclaimed trumpeter.
In addition to the work at UNT, the series features faculty members from the Texas A&M University System, Texas State University System, Texas Tech University System, University of Houston System and the University of Texas System.
Hames, director of the series, is co-founder and president of Alpheus Media Inc., a documentary production company. Alpheus Media co-produced the series with the University of Texas Foundation, in a partnership with KLRU-TV, Austin PBS, and private sponsors, including AT&T Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp. and IBC Bank.
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The 100-year-old message found by a fisherman is considered to be the world's oldest message in a bottle. About 100 years ago, in 1913, 20-year-old Richard Platz wrote a note on a postcard , threw two stamps along with it into a brown beer bottle, closed it, and tossed it into the sea, reported The Local on April 8. More than 100 years later, Platz's words brought tears into his granddaughter's eyes. She had never known much about her grandfather until his message in a bottle.
Richard Platz was the son of a baker. In 1913, he was on a nature hike with a nature appreciation group along the Baltic Sea in northern Germany when he wrote his message. His postcard was dated May 17, 1913, and the message asked that whoever would find it, would put the two stamps on it – and please return it to his home address in Berlin.
More than 100 years later, Richard Platz's message in the old beer bottle was found by 65-year-old fisherman Konrad Fischer last month in Kiel, which is in northern Germany and not too far from where Platz had tossed it into the ocean. After finding the beer bottle, the fisherman gave his amazing find to the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg.
In regard to being able to read the 100-year-old message in the bottle, fisherman Fischer said in an interview that he wasn't able to decipher the writing because it was written in old German letters and that many of them were faded because of the longtime exposure to the sunlight and the dampness. However, he was able to read the year 1913, and he knew the bottle was authentic because it had a picture of an old German brewery on it. Fischer said that he used a wire to get the rolled-up postcard out of the bottle.
Holger von Neuhoff from the International Maritime Museum described the beer bottle to be in the utmost perfect condition. Despite the passing of time and the dampness, many of the words on the postcard were still legible. "This is certainly the first time such an old message in a bottle was found, particularly with the bottle intact," he said. So far, Guinness World Records identified the oldest message in a bottle dating back to 1914. It had spent nearly 98 years at sea before being fished from the water.
Instead of returning the 100-year-old message to Platz's address in Berlin, researchers tracked down his 62-year-old granddaughter Angela Erdmann in Berlin. According to a report by the German newspaper Sueddeutsche, when someone knocked on Erdman's door, she first thought it was a salesman. When she found out that it was a family researcher who had tracked her down, she could hardly believe that her grandfather had written a message in a bottle more than 100 years ago. Her grandfather Richard had died before she was born, and she never knew much about him.
After seeing the 100-year-old message and reading her grandfather's words, Erdman conducted her own family research and was able to find old diaries and letters from her grandfather Richard Platz who was her mother's father and who had died in 1946 at the age of 54. While reading the diaries and letters, which had been prompted by his message in the bottle, Platz's granddaughter said that "tears rolled down my cheeks."
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Itadaki, Boston's only Izakaya restaurant , introduces new menus from Chef Kaoru "Fuji" Fujishiro as it reopens after a major floor to ceiling renovation. Owners Lena Kikuchi and Yujin Kawakami-Hess present an upscale Japanese gastro pub feel with a large selection of Shochu and Sake in the updated restaurant with an outdoor patio on Newbury St. and sophisticated upstairs dining room.
Kikuchi describes it as "a sake place where you can sit and hang out and also enjoy great sharing plates with family and friends. We wanted to create the best Izakaya restaurant in Boston with a very 'cool' vibe." Guests are invited to take part in an adventure, exploring another culture, in addition to an exciting food and drink experience.
Chef Fujishiro creates small plates and also more traditional Japanese cuisine, emphasizing seasonal foods, freshness and high quality ingredients, along with presentation.
Choose from sushi (Nigri, Sashimi, Sushi Rolls and Hand Rolls, salads, soups (from Miso to Itadaki clam chowder), small plates, sushi pizza (an Itadaki invention consisting of fried rice cake topped with sashimi fish and other toppings), and four choices of ramen with various toppings. Prices range from $6 to $15, with some sushi entrees in the $30s to $40s.
Lunch options range from Bento sushi boxes ($16.75), to regular Bento boxes $14.25, Donburi rice bowls ($16.25) and Japanese sandwiches ($12.75).
Brunch offerings include American items with a Japanese twist - think Fuji's Old Fashioned French Toast and Chef's Sweet Crepes of the Day with fresh fruit and choice of Nutella or Japanese Sweet Red Bean (both $11.50). You can also have make your own omelets, two eggs with sausage or bacon and home fries, fresh fruit and toast for $10 and $13 respectively. There's plenty more to choose from - sushi and hand rolls, sandwiches and more, so come and explore!
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"A once-verdant landscape is no more than a barren desert. And thus the scene is set. The plot twists its way through more than 80 hours of gameplay from that point, never overbearing but always gnawing at your consciousness from behind the scenes. As interesting as the sequence of events that gradually unfolds is, though, this game isnt about plot. Its about old-school, punch you in the face and laugh when you cry role-playing."
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In its endless quest to wring value from users' personal data, Google is branching out into health records. The Internet search giant has just announced a pilot project that would allow users to combine all their personal health records (PHRs) -- information about prescriptions, allergies, injuries, health history etc -- into a single new service that would be as accessible as a Gmail account.
The convenience factor is clear -- the new service would make it easier for people who may have multiple health providers to make sure their doctors all have the same information. And for people who seek medical attention while traveling, the ability to bypass their HMO's byzantine bureaucracy in order to have a prescription filled might be welcome.
According to a document obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation through the Freedom of Information Act, an "apparent miscommunication" resulted in unauthorized FBI access to an entire domain's email, rather than the single email account the Bureau had permission to monitor. As Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times reports:
A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court as part of a national security investigation, according to an internal report of the 2006 episode.
We've long been concerned about the human rights risks of printer tracking dots for anyone who publishes printed works with modern technology. Tracking dots are the secret marks that many popular color laser printers and photocopiers scatter across every document they touch. The marks, almost invisible to the eye, uniquely identify the printer that produced the document, and, as EFF uncovered, can even automatically encode the time and date it was created.
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"Spies' Battleground Turns Virtual," proclaims a headline in Wednesday's Washington Post. The headline alone would raise concerns — after decades of electronic surveillance, what exactly is it about US spies' work that has suddenly turned virtual? But this turns out to be only the first of the many falsehoods, baseless assertions and lame misperceptions that comprise the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's new fearmongering paper on the dangers of unmonitored civillian communication.
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World War II prevented Virgil Trucks from winning 200 major league games. He missed two full seasons to the service, which probably cost Trucks 20-30 victories. Despite this, the righty had a solid big league career with 177 wins. He could outright dominate hitters at times. Over the course of his playing days, Trucks won 20 games, led the league in strikeouts and shutouts, and threw two no-hitters in the same season.
Detroit signed Trucks in 1938, but he did not appear on the big club until 1941. He spent four years in the minors, set strikeout records, and tossed four no-hitters. The Tigers recalled Trucks for one game in 1941. The rookie pitched two innings, allowed two runs, and struck out three.
Despite a shaky debut, Trucks made the major league team for good in 1942. He went 14-8 with a 2.74 ERA in 1942. The next year, he topped 200 innings, went 16-10, and completed 10 games. The Tigers did not contend in those years since they lost their big gun Hank Greenberg to the war and the pitching staff was developing. The team just missed the World Series in 1944 without Trucks. He served two years in World War II before returning at the end of the 1945 season.
Trucks made one regular season start in 1945 to warm up for the World Series. The leagues waved roster requirements for players returning from the war. As a result, Trucks did not need to be on the big league roster on September 1 to participate. He allowed an earned run in 5.1 innings in September. He started two contests in the Fall Classic against the Cubs. Trucks went 1-0, with one complete game, 3.38 ERA, 14 hits, 5 walks, and 7 strikeouts in 13.1 innings. The right hander was rusty, but effective in the Tiger world championship run.
Fans and players dubbed the 1945 world champion "Fire" Trucks for his blazing fastball. Over the next four years, he won 14, 10, 14, and 19 games. His strikeout totals appear miniscule by modern standards, but impressed for the era. Over this period, Trucks punched out 161, 108, 123, and 153 batters. He led the league in strikeouts (153) and shutouts (6) in 1949. Overall, Trucks finished 1949 with a 19-11 mark, 2.81 ERA, 17 complete games, four saves, and 275 innings in his first All Star season.
The shine dimmed after 1949. Injuries limited Trucks to seven games in 1950. In 1951, he served as a swingman finishing 13-8 in 18 game starts. The next year was just weird. Trucks went 5-19 with a 3.97 ERA in 197 innings. However, he threw three shutouts, including two 1-0 no-hitters. Fire Trucks bested the Senators on May 15 and then the Yankees on August 25.
The 5-19 record scared Detroit into trading Trucks to the Browns in December. The Browns shipped the pitcher to the White Sox after 16 appearances in 1953. Trucks ended up having his finest campaign. He won 20 games and finished fifth in the MVP vote. The Sox star won 19 and 13 games over the next two years and made his second All Star team in 1954.
The White Sox decided Trucks was at the end and returned him to Detroit in November 1955. The former dominant starter appeared in 22 games, went 6-5, posted a 3.83 ERA, and looked about finished in 1956. The Tigers sent him to the A's in the offseason.Trucks pitched for the A's and Yankees before hanging up the spikes after the 1958 season.
Virgil Trucks won 177 games in the major leagues. For the Tigers, Trucks went 114-96 with a 3.50 ERA, 1800.2 innings, 1618 hits, 1.305 WHIP, and 1046 strikeouts. He also lost two years to World War II service. His fastball intimidated hitters for its speed and lack of control. However, his efforts helped Detroit win the 1945 World Series, throw two no-hitters in a bizarre 1952 season, and become a preeminent strikeout pitcher.


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Matt Weisfeld is a college professor, software developer, and author based in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to teaching college full time, he spent 20 years in the information technology industry as a software developer, entrepreneur, and adjunct professor. Weisfeld holds an MS in computer science and an MBA. Besides the first three editions of The Object-Oriented Thought Process, he has authored two other software development books and published many articles in magazines and journals, such as developer.com, Dr. Dobb's Journal, The C/C++ Users Journal, Software Development Magazine, Java Report, and the international journal Project Management.
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1. Introduction to Object-Oriented Concepts
2. How to Think in Terms of Objects
3. Advanced Object-Oriented Concepts
4. The Anatomy of a Class
5. Mastering Inheritance and Composition
6. Frameworks and Reuse: Designing with Interfaces and Abstract Classes
7. Building Objects and Object-Oriented Design
8. Object-Oriented and Object Based Languages
9. Objects and Portable Data: XML, SOAP, and JSON
10. Persistent Objects: Serialization, Marshalling and Relational Databases
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My husband and I had planned on shopping that night, for fun stuff I really looked forward to buying—new bedroom furniture, or new tile for the bathroom, or new landscaping. But for the life of me, I cannot remember what we were looking for because I have a mental block about reliving that night, a mental block whose name is Angus.
Angus is our son. At that point, he was attending an all-boy, testosterone-laden, Jesuit-run high school. Our reason for sending him there instead of to a larger, coed school was that we wanted him to focus on getting an education, not on getting a date. And so far, that's exactly how it had worked out.
Until the night my husband and I had planned our shopping spree. Angus needed a ride to a friend's house—a new friend, whom we had never met. The nameless friend whose calls made my son disappear into his room, shut the door and drain his phone's battery.
The friend's house was in one of those subdivisions with the kind of name that suggests what used to be—Rolling Meadows, Fox Crossing, Standing Tall Oaks—before the earth movers and graders churned the wilderness into nice sloping lawns that drained away from the four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath McMansions. We arrived to find the new friend, a waifish, Winona Ryder type (Heathers vintage), waiting at the front door in her short skirt and tiny T-shirt that stretched a tie-dyed peace sign across her chest. Oh, please! Honey, I had that same shirt back in 1972!
My son had a look on his face that I had seen before, but only when he was experiencing a chocolate birthday cake with six candles on it, or a fever of 103°, or a ginormous box underneath the Christmas tree with a tag that read TO ANGUS FROM SANTA.
He jumped out of the car and then. . . gave her a hug! Not the awkward, lots-of-air-between-us hug that he usually gave me. Nope. This was a full--contact, lingering hug. With back rubbing. That's when I heard that high-pitched white noise in my ears. I was having either a panic attack or a stroke. As we drove away through the winding streets and I was certain that we were out of visual range, I began to cry—a real honest-to-God, shoulder-shaking, snot-producing wail. Because that tart, that vixen, that tiny temptress who had opened the front door? She had replaced me!
She wasn't the first girl my son had known. (And just how well did he know her, anyway?) There was, for example, the big group of seven or eight girls who came over whenever Angus's guy posse was in residence. They draped themselves over the furniture like melting timepieces in a Dalí painting and helped balance out the boy-stink with their heady mixture of perfumes.
They went to the all-girl, so-called sister school to my son's all-guy institution. My daughter had gone there, too, so I knew these girls. I mean, I knew their type—driven, take-no-prisoners kinds of girls who had it together and weren't going to settle for anything less than an Ivy League college or a hoity-toity liberal arts school and husbands or boyfriends who were their equals. Those were the girls I had envisioned my son dating. In fact, I had already picked one out. She was the one—Zoey? Chloe? Someone-oey—who worked as a camp counselor in the summer; the one with the red hair; the one who, I was certain, would bless me with a crop of redheaded grandchildren, who backpacked in Alaska, who knew how to set a fracture with a tree limb. Not this . . . person whose name I didn't even know.
I didn't get it. Even worse, according to my son, her parents had a problem with her coming over to our house.
Were they worried that he would somehow violate their daughter? That while she was in our home, I'd be too busy in my crystal meth lab or passed out on the sofa after a night of heavy partying to keep an eye on the two of them while they fornicated in my son's room? No, no, no, it wasn't that, Angus said. It was the neighborhood.


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Samsung Galaxy S2 and Galaxy Tab 2 revealed in Samsung's MWC schedule
In case you were craving for more evidence that Samsung would announce the Galaxy S2 and a new Galaxy Tab at MWC 2011 next month, here it is:
A leaked Samsung MWC schedule confirms that the company will present the Galaxy S2 and the Galaxy Tab 2 on February 13.
As reported several times before, the Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone should come with a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED Plus display, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a dual-core processor, 8MP camera, and full HD (1080p) video recording.
We don't know much about the Galaxy Tab 2, but I expect the tablet to have about the same size as the first Galaxy Tab – of course, its features should be enhanced, too (maybe with a dual-core processor, among others).
We'll be in Barcelona next month to witness the unveiling of these two new Samsung Android devices, so stick around for some live coverage.
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Jenkins, Taylor honored in wall dedication speech
When Adams County Superior Court Judge Patrick Miller gave the Memorial Day speech in front of the Peace Monument at the Adams County Courthouse on Monday, he quickly remembered the county's two latest soldiers killed in action.
Miller, who was giving a speech dedicating the Veterans Wall of Honor, stated, "Two of these bricks are set in remembrance of Staff Sergeant Phillip Jenkins of Decatur and Specialist Nick Taylor of Berne, our two most recent Adams County soldiers killed in action.
"Here in the shadows of our courthouse, we dedicate this Veterans Wall of Honor which so aptly joins our Peace Monument," said Miller. "If you take the time to look at the Veterans Wall, there are bricks engraved with the names of veterans from the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, Desert Storm, Afghanistan and Iraq."
A large crowd of Adams County residents filled the courthouse lawn and most of the street between the courthouse, Post Office and Superior Court building under deep blue Memorial Day skies. Members of the Decatur Fire Department had made a ladder truck available to hoist an American flag over the scene as it slowly waved in the gentle warm breeze.
"One of the first soldiers killed in action from Adams County was 1st Lt. James Christen in WWII over Sicily," said Miller. "Also on the wall is Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. Rodney Davis, who served with Commissioner Doug Bauman."
Miller encouraged those present to take plenty of time to talk about heroism and sacrifice and to read about heroism in history books.
"We are humbled by the tremendous courage shown by our brave sailors, soldiers, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen throughout history. There is no doubt that our veterans have paved the way for our military's reputation as the finest fighting force in the world," observed Miller.
Miller quoted President Abraham Lincoln in stating, "care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan."
He also quoted President John Kennedy, "A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors and the men it remembers."
Miller reminded those present that there were 3,000 flags decorating the graves of Adams County veterans on Monday.
"If you would look into their lives, whether privates or generals, you would see practiced the same values: loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage," Miller said.
Special recognition was made by placing wreaths representing veterans who fought all battles that touched the lives of Adams County people.
Vocalist Ryan Hirschy led the crowd in singing, "My Country Tis of Thee," and then he presented a special solo, "Proud to be American."
Following the service, Bauman said, "This was just tremendous. I don't think that I've ever been to a Memorial Day celebration or a Veteran's Day celebration that has touched me more.
"The large crowd is a tribute to how much the people of this county appreciate our veterans," added Bauman.
"This is a very special day for our county," commented Berne Mayor Bill McKean, who like Bauman, is a Vietnam veteran. "People worked hard to get this turnout. This is a fantastic tribute to the veterans of our county. Anytime that veterans are honored like this, it's a very special day."
Decatur Mayor John Schultz referred to the event as a wonderful Memorial Day that brought back lots of memories from the times that he, too, served in Vietnam.
"Ironically, Bill McKean and I served in the same infantry outfit for four months together, but we didn't know that until we discovered it in a conversation last year," said Schultz. "I can't thank the crowd enough for its support of our veterans today. It is well-deserved."
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This twin guest room is in a centrally located apartment in idyllic location close to the lakes between Østerbro and Nørrebro.
On the first floor there are two bedrooms, this one has two twin beds and the other room has double bed (see my other listings). This quiet and cozy room has two comfortable twin beds, a wardrobe, a cupboard with a TV, two wicker chairs and a coffee table.
The room is bright and spacious and you can always count on a fresh bouquet of flowers on the table and you also have a nice view of the street and Copenhagen everyday life. There is a small kitchen for cooking and a fridge and freezer (Tea-kitchen and coffee maker are provided). The bathroom is right next to the room on the same floor.
The flat is at walking distance from the city center with shopping and food shops. Although for being so central it is a quiet and friendly street with very little traffic. The four lakes in the city are located only 10 minutes' walk from the main square of the city "The city hall square".
This location provides a great opportunity to experience this piece of green city on foot. The States Museum of Art is also within walking distance and is definitely worth a visit. Bus 14 to Nørreport Station and the bus 14 and 40 to Central Station.
Grocery stores are located within 20 meters of this rental flat. This flat is a good place to go on family holiday, since it is possible to borrow a children's cot.
Make yourself at home!
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Ulla keeps her smile for you. She is a very busy teacher, but she is there to help you. Just the bathroom needs more maintenance to look cleaner.
Ulla is a very friendly and helpful host.Her house is situated in a nice and calmly street with a very good bakery at the corner. Most points of interest were reachable by feet or bike. The way to the airport is short and directly. Several parks and lakes nearby. Room and kitchen are a little bit small but cosy and everything is available what probably could be needed.
In case we want to visit Cph once more we try to get a room again in Ulla's house.
Top location in plush and quiet residential street with a bakery around the corner. Bicycle parking in the garden.
Top-Lage in niedlicher und ruhiger Wohnstrasse mit Bäcker um die Ecke. Fahrrad Stellplatz im Garten.
Highly recommended! Great neighborhood, walking distance to the city center and very nice and easy landlady!
Sehr empfehlenswert! Tolle Gegend, fußläufig in die City und sehr nette und unkomplizierte Vermieterin!
Ulla met us and gave us a very warm welcome. She was cheery and helpful. The room was great. There were quite a few of us with her, but all was well. We would stay there again - particularly with friends. It was perfectly located.
A nice room in a quiet street with a friendly and helpful lady. Recommended Magdalena & Nico (Amsterdam)
Een mooie kamer in een rustige straat met een vriendelijke en behulpzame dame.
Magdalena & Nico (Amsterdam)
Copenhagen is certainly a beautiful city and the location of Ulla's house is fantastic. Everything is within walking distance or take the bus. The room which we liked. Everything was comfortable and clean.
Kopenhagen ist sicherlich eine sehenswerte Stadt und die Lage von Ulla's Haus ist phantastisch. Man kann alles fußläufig erreichen oder den Bus nehmen. Das Zimmer hat uns gut gefallen. Alles war gemütlich und sauber.
Ulla it was very cozy. Small candles were everywhere and everything was painted light. The room is small but great for two friends, because there are two beds. The small kitchen was also super convenient! Great address! Diana and Kirsten
Bei Ulla war es sehr gemütlich. Kleine Kerzen waren überall und alles war hell gestrichen. Das Zimmer ist klein aber super für zwei Freundinnen, da es zwei Betten gibt. Die kleine Küche war auch zweckmäßig super! Tolle Adresse!
Diana und Kirsten
The geographical location of the accommodation is great and besides that, we were well pleased with the situation. The hostess is very friendly and helpful. Would definitely book there again.
Die örtliche Lage der Unterkunft ist super und auch sonst waren wir mit den Gegebenheiten gut zufrieden. Die Gastgeberin ist sehr freundlich und hilfsbereit. Würden dort durchaus wieder buchen.
A clean room and bathroom small house in a great base in the city. Within walking distance of "Den Lille Havfrue '(Little Mermaid) and other attractions. At the corner of the street a super bakery and restaurants and shops in a nearby street. Friendly hostess. Highly recommended!
Een nette kamer en badkamer in klein huisje op een geweldige uitvalsbasis in de stad. Op loopafstand van 'den lille havfrue' (kleine zeemeermin) en andere bezienswaardigheden. Op de hoek van de straat een superbakker en restaurantjes en winkeltjes in een nabije straat. Vriendelijke gastvrouw. Echt een aanrader!
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The Millennials: Generation Enlightened or Generation Lazy?
"We are not motivated by money. At least not as much as our parents were. The currency we are most interested in is lifestyle. Some of us are brilliant and hard working, but you have to dangle the right carrot in front of us."
– New York lawyer and Member of Generation Y, Adrian Dayton
"Generation Y is entitled, lazy, selfish, tech savvy, and incompetent."
– New York lawyer and not-Member of Generation Y, Scott Greenfield
We're tempted to end this post right here; just with these two provocative, self-assured and overall awesome quotes. But, for the sake of discussion, let's flesh it all out a bit.
A Chicago conference for in-house lawyers earlier this month — called the InsideCounsel SuperConference — featured a panel discussion on the issue of the so-called Millennials — or Gen Y-ers — folks born between the early 1980s and 2000. The eldest of this demographic have been entering the legal workforce for a couple years now, to decidedly mixed reviews. The pros seem to be that they're bright, well-educated, aware, and know their way around things like Twitter. The perceived cons: they're privileged, coddled, and carry egos unjustified by their yet unimpressive accomplishments.
The panel discussion was pitched thusly:
Dealing With Gen-Y @ Work
They don't play by the same set of workplace rules as their boomer parents did. Their sense of entitlement and refusal to follow corporate dictates blindly – not to mention a couple of tattoos or piercings, – make them very different than their colleagues. The flip side is they bring a tremendous energy to their work and are more tuned-in to the world around them than the previous generation was. How do you deal with this new breed, and create an environment in which they can thrive?
In any event, the panel was reportedly lively — a shorthanded version of how it all went down is captured here, by Dayton. Our favorite reported quotes come from Greenfield, the author of the consistently good Simple Justice blog, who cast off this gem: "Generation Y uses this term life-balance as an excuse for their incompetence."
A voice on the other side came from Anthony Zana, an in-house lawyer at Intergraph Corp.: "I've seen too many successful partners on their 3rd and 4th marriage- and I did not want that to be me. . . . Even the ABA reports that depression, suicide, divorce, and alcoholism rates are higher for attorneys that work those types of hours." (Sounds like Zana's a bit older than your average Gen Y-er, but he gets across that side of the debate.)
As much fun as we're prone to have with this, the debate really crystallizes around a few serious questions: Despite all the talk of work/life balance, can the practice of law lend itself to balance? If so, might Gen Y-ers be able to forge some change in the way it's practiced — and in lawyers' happiness quotient? If not, who's going to fill the ranks at the top of the law-firm pyramid? In other words, who's going to be the next John Quinn — who got ripped by some readers in this blog post?
LBers, who's right?


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Barnsley singer and guitarist, Dave Burland will be appearing at the event on September 28 at Barnsley Trades Club, Racecommon Road, along with other folk club acts.
The upper bar will be open from noon for singers and musicians and the evening concert starts in the concert room at 8pm.
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March 6, 2011
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Sophomore right-handed pitcher Tucker Hawley threw a complete-game shutout, racking up a career-high nine strikeouts, to lead the Alabama baseball team to 9-0 victory and a series sweep of the Northwestern State Demons on Sunday at Sewell-Thomas Stadium.
Hawley (2-1) threw 76 strikes on 102 pitches without allowing a single runner to reach second base all day. The three hits allowed tied Hawley's career-low, as he became the first Alabama pitcher to throw a complete-game shutout in nearly three years.
"Tucker Hawley was just outstanding today," UA head coach Mitch Gaspard said. "I told the team that sometimes it takes one guy to get out there and get us going. I think Nathan Kilcrease did that for us with a great start last night and Tucker took the lead from Nathan and went out and was really dominant with all three pitches today. He located down in the strike zone, had a ton of first-pitch strikes, and a lot of first-pitch outs which allowed us to keep him in the ballgame. Typically, this early you don't see a guy go for a complete game, but we had him on a 100-pitch count and he closed it out with 102."
Senior second baseman Jon Kelton led the Tide hitting barrage with a 3-for-4, one run and two RBI performance. Freshman left fielder Austen Smith finished the day 2-for-3 with three RBI, while sophomore third baseman Brett Booth was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and one RBI. Junior shortstop Jared Reaves was 2-for-2 with a run scored and reached base five times on Sunday, ending the series with a .571 (4-for-7) average with five walks and two RBI.
The Crimson Tide (7-4) totaled a season-high 12 hits and equaled its second-highest run total of the year in winning its third consecutive game. Northwestern State (4-8) starting pitcher Matt Lackie (0-1) took the loss, lasting just 1.2 innings, allowing four runs on two hits with three walks and two hit batters.
"I thought on the offensive end we found some rhythm with a lineup that worked," Gaspard said. "I thought Kelton, a guy from last year with a lot of experience, came back around today and had a big day. Hopefully that will get him going. Overall, it was a good weekend for us, we needed to bounce back after losing four, and a lot of times it's tough to get it back going again. The last couple of games we did enough to get the win, and I thought we were pretty solid out there today."
Kelton got the scoring started in the second inning, doubling off the wall in right-center field to plate Booth to put the Tide up 1-0. Junior center fielder Taylor Dugas followed with a sacrifice fly to bring home sophomore right fielder Andrew Miller to increase the Alabama advantage to 2-0. After a Northwestern State pitching change, Reaves walked to load the bases for Smith who followed with a hard single up the middle, scoring Kelton and senior catcher Brock Bennett to put the Tide up 4-0.
Alabama scored another run in the third before adding a pair in the fourth to make the score 7-0. The Crimson Tide added two more in the seventh on two-RBI single by Dugas to cap the scoring on the day.
Alabama returns to Sewell-Thomas Stadium on Tuesday to take on the Troy Trojans. First pitch is scheduled for 6:05 p.m.


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Canter v. American & Ocean Ins. Co. of New York
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Canter v. American & Ocean Ins. Co. of New York, 27 U.S. 2 Pet. 554 554 (1829)
Canter v. American & Ocean Insurance Company of New York
27 U.S. (2 Pet.) 554
A motion to dismiss a suit for want of jurisdiction applies solely to cases where this Court has not jurisdiction of the cause, and not where the circuit court has exceeded its proper jurisdiction in the particular case.
This case was heard and decided upon the preliminary question which it involved in January term, 1828. See 26 U. S. 1 Pet. 511. On the hearing, the supreme court decided in favor of the claimant, and decreed restitution of the cotton, which was the subject of controversy. By the mandate directed to the circuit court it was ordered "That such execution and proceedings be had as, according to right and justice and according to the laws of the United States, ought to be had." The mandate being filed in the circuit court, it was ordered that the same be recorded,
"that the case be put on the docket, and it be referred to the officer of this Court to examine into the damages sustained by the claimant, David Canter, in consequence of the proceedings of the libellants, and report thereon at as early a day as possible to the court."
Upon this order of court being made, Mr. Canter filed a statement of his claim and the case went before the register.
The counsel for the defendants filed with the register the following protest:
"And now, on this sixteenth day of July, 1828, the said libellants, by Petegru and Cruger, their proctors, object to the order of reference made by the Honorable the Circuit Court of the United States for the Sixth Circuit, to ascertain the damages alleged to have been sustained by the respondent in this case, and they article and protest against all acts and proceedings under the same for these reasons, to-wit: 1st, that the mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States gives no authority or instructions to the circuit court, to inquire into damages; 2d, that the decrees of the district,
circuit, and supreme courts do not award damages to the respondent; 3d, that the libellants are not in any manner liable for damages; 4th, that at all events the inquiry as to damages cannot extend beyond the amount of libellants' stipulations, by which alone they are before the court."
"PETEGRU & CRUGER, Proctors for Libellant"
These objections were disallowed, and the register proceeded to take evidence subject to the protest, and to examine into the claim of damages, and afterwards made a report upon the claim to the circuit court.
The circuit court having by their decree disallowed the claims of the appellant to damages, with the exception of a small amount, an appeal was entered to this Court.
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Bucknell's Doug Shribman
July 9, 2012
Jeff Shribman can be forgiven for wondering where he went wrong.
He sent his son Doug, now 23, to the prestigious Belmont Hill School and later watched him graduate from Bucknell University with a degree in political science and history. Even in the midst of a tough economy, it should have given him the wherewithal to find a respectable job.
Instead, when Jeff goes to Saturday's Red Sox game to cheer the team he's loved since childhood, he will do so knowing that son Doug has been working feverishly to undo his hopes and to guide the minions of the "evil empire" in their quest to trample the dreams of Sox fans.
In other words, Marblehead native Doug Shribman works for the Yankees.
It's hard to blame him for taking what sounds like the ideal job. He used his degree and a background that included four years playing first base at Bucknell to win a spot as a baseball operations intern. Thus, he labors alongside about a dozen fellow diamond engineers teasing out the endless numbers that tell Yankees manager Joe Girardi that, for example, a suddenly improved opposing pitcher is throwing 10 percent more fastballs.
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The many voices of US foreign policy
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - If foreign leaders and diplomats appear increasingly confused about where United States foreign policy is being made, they are not alone.
From Qalqiya on the West Bank to Karbala in Iraq to North Korea, contending forces within both the administration of President George W Bush and his Republican Party are duking it out for control, and the White House seems more and more unable to impose discipline.
While the neo-conservatives and right-wing hawks in the offices of Vice President Dick Cheney and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, who led the drive to war in Iraq, have been put on the defensive as the costs in blood and treasure of the post-war occupation mount, they have by no means retreated from the battle.
And while Secretary of State Colin Powell has worked quietly to extend his power, particularly over the Israeli-Palestinian roadmap and dialogue with Pyongyang, right-wing elements in Congress appear determined to thwart him, even if the Pentagon's voice on the two issues has been somewhat diminished.
To succeed, Powell needs a strong ally within the White House, and, as noted by the Financial Times last week, the newly perceived weakness of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her staff is making it very difficult for the secretary to gain traction there.
Instead, Powell is relying increasingly on his friends in Congress, particularly Democrats and moderate Republicans - such as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Lugar, and Senator Chuck Hagel - to both press his positions and to keep the Pentagon on its heels, a task they performed admirably in a remarkably confrontational hearing on Iraq that featured a defensive, if defiant, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.
Indeed, as both lawmakers and Bush left the capital for the August recess, the overriding impression is one of a diffusion of power that the president might find difficult to recover when official Washington reconvenes in September for what is shaping up as a very difficult autumn.
Congress has scheduled a battery of hearings on whether, how, and why the administration exaggerated the threat to the country allegedly posed by Iraq in the run-up to the war, and how and why it so completely failed to anticipate and plan for the post-war debacle.
Unless the military has captured Saddam Hussein and resistance to the US occupation has been substantially reduced by then, those hearings could spell major trouble for the administration.
Bush's handlers appear to have sensed that he has lost authority over the past few weeks, despite last week's killings of Saddam's two sons, a development that appears to have at least temporarily halted a steep slide in Bush's popular support. They hastily scheduled a rare press conference Wednesday, at which he gave a particularly cocky and confident performance.
But Bush's demeanor came across as mostly empty bluster, including his assumption of responsibility for his controversial State of the Union Address reference to flawed intelligence about Iraq's alleged effort to gain uranium yellowcake from Africa. The appearance became instant fodder for laughs on late-night television talk shows.
But adding to the growing sense of a vacuum at the White House has been Rice's sharply diminishing public stature as a competent arbiter of policy. Her case was probably not helped by Bush's effusive - if irrelevant - endorsement of her as "an honest, fabulous person" at his press conference.
Her initial attempts to blame the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the president's reference to the African yellowcake have clearly backfired, and her tardy admission that she had not read key intelligence documents on Iraq has exposed to the broader public one of Washington's least-talked-about secrets: she lacks the expertise and authority to impose discipline on warring parts of the sprawling national security bureaucracy.
That shortfall has been evident for a long time, but became particularly pronounced last year when Cheney assailed United Nations' weapons inspectors just as Powell had persuaded Bush to request new inspections.
Her passivity also encouraged Rumsfeld to speak out on a range of foreign policy issues - such as "the so-called occupied territories" and "Old Europe" - that both made Powell's efforts to rally international support behind Washington much more difficult and needlessly alienated key allies.
The fact that Rice - whose job it is to coordinate different agency perspectives into a coherent national security policy - could or would not impose discipline on the Pentagon contributed to the perception abroad this year that the State Department had been seriously marginalized and its opinions could not be taken as seriously as those of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz or Rice herself.
That impression changed partially just after the Iraq war, when Rice, whose proximity to the presidential ear is still regarded as without peer, was named by Bush as the person responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Israeli-Palestinian roadmap, which calls for the creation of a Palestinian state by 2005.
With the Pentagon pre-occupied with post-war Iraq, analysts saw that a Powell-Rice alliance on the roadmap could redress the balance of power within the administration in the State Department's favor, not just with respect to the Middle East, but on other key issues like North Korea and Iraq.
While generally hawkish, Rice, whose academic expertise is the Soviet military, is regarded as more pragmatic and less ideological than the unilateralists around Rumsfeld and Cheney. But her public exposure as a lightweight, combined with Bush's babble, has set back the hopes of those who thought Powell might regain more control over policy. The result is the spectacle of an uncoordinated scramble for power, with Cheney and the Pentagon - backed by Congressional right-wingers - still pushing their agenda, at the same time that Powell and key Democrats and moderate Republicans try to push back, with Bush, Rice and the White House somewhere out in right field.
The jockeying was clear all week long. While Powell and the senators all but pleaded for a new UN Security Council resolution that would permit more countries to contribute troops and financial assistance to Iraq, Wolfowitz rejected any arrangement that would diminish US control over the occupation.
Similarly, as Powell and his Congressional supporters called for the administration to swiftly engage North Korea, John Bolton, the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security who was forced on Powell by Rumsfeld and Cheney, delivered a ferocious address in Seoul in which he repeatedly and personally attacked Kim Jong-il, suggesting to some experts that he was deliberately trying to sabotage a new round of talks.
Meanwhile, in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon - a favorite of the hawks - Bush declined to criticize Israel's construction of a security fence in the occupied territories as he had done just the week before.
And while Sharon was toasted at the White House, the powerful Republican Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, Tom DeLay, assured his right-wing hosts in Jerusalem of his reservations about the road map and that he "can't imagine in the very near future that a Palestinian state could ever happen".
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Florida State's Bowden to retire after bowl game
Published: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 2:15 p.m.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State coach Bobby Bowden will end his 44-year coaching career after the Seminoles play in a bowl game.
Bowden will retire as the second winningest coach in major-college football behind Penn State's Joe Paterno. The 80-year-old Bowden has won 388 games in his career at Samford, West Virginia and Florida State, where he spent the last 34 seasons.
"We've got one more game and I look forward to enjoying these next few weeks as the head football coach," Bowden said Tuesday in a statement released by the school.
Bowden won two national titles with Florida State, in 1993 and 1999. Among his top achievements was a string of 14 straight seasons ending in 2000 when the Seminoles won at least 10 games and finished ranked in the top five of the AP poll.
Florida State was 152-19-1, an .864 winning percentage, during that span.
"He set records of achievement on the field that will probably never be equaled," university president T.K. Wetherell said. "Bobby Bowden in many ways became the face of Florida State. It was his sterling personality and character that personified this university."
FSU officials announced after the 2007 season that offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher would succeed Bowden.
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Associate professor of dance and theatre
Directing a musical production
Hayes was recognized by the Kurt Weill Foundation as directing the best production of Weill's musical Happy End. The production has run each summer for several years in the Czech Republic.
Associate professor of music
Studying children's musical
Henry studies musical aptitude and the need to begin musical familiarity with children from birth. He founded and directs UNT's early childhood music program, which is designed to nurture the musical aptitudes of children from birth to 5 years old.
Associate professor of economics
Researching economics of sports
Jewell's most recent study estimated the monetary worth of NCAA Division I women basketball players to their universities by examining gate revenues and university revenues from televised games. He previously studied the monetary value of collegiate men basketball players.
Professor of political science
Studying barriers to world peace
The Johnie Christian Family Peace Professor and director of UNT's peace studies program in the Department of Political Science, Mason researches land reform, East Asian politics and the causes of civil wars, particularly in Third World nations.
Associate professor of library and information sciences
Improving distributed information access
Moen, interim director of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge, is testing and creating better methods for searching multiple databases using the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol.
Assistant professor of geography
Discovering shifts in ancient hunter economy
A zooarchaeologist, Nagaoka studies animal bones to determine how humans used animals for food and artifacts in the past. She discovered how the first people in New Zealand harvested large animals to extinction and later sought alternative sources of food.
Associate professor of physics
Studying quantum dots
Neogi explores light-emitting semiconductor materials a few nanometers in size. He uses ultra-short laser light pulses to take snapshots of these quantum dots for optoelectronic and biotechnological applications, such as light-emitting devices for traffic lights, bio-sensors and cancer detection.
Assistant professor of chemistry
Shining a light on technology
A 2004 National Science Foundation Career Award winner, Omary studies phosphorescent compounds for use in light-emitting devices, solar cells, sensors and optical telecommunication. The projects are also significant in fundamental inorganic chemistry and spectroscopy.
Assistant professor of biology
Fighting diseases with genetic engineering
Padilla uses genetic model organisms to investigate how oxygen deprivation and genetic coding affect cell growth and organism development. Her research is bringing science closer to destroying cancerous tumor cells and rescuing tissue damaged by oxygen deprivation.
Professor of teacher education and administration
Addressing a bilingual teacher shortage
As director of the bilingual/English-as-a-second-language teacher education grant program, Rodriguez develops programs, grants and scholarships to educate qualified bilingual teachers and English-as-a-second-language teachers to match the rapid growth of Texas' Hispanic population.
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Studying methods to improve Internet security
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June 22, 2013
Two years ago today, the emergency sirens in Minot sounded, and residents fled homes and businesses in the valley as the Souris River overwhelmed the city's defenses and inundated parts of the city....
I remember a homeowner looking up as a bunch of people were carrying things out and hauling them to storage. He said, "Who is everyone?" So we stopped a minute and everyone introduced themselves, turned out there were only a couple people there who knew him. Of course everyone he knew were also hauling just not at his house. It was all kind of unreal.
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On this second anniversary of our flood notice the Calgary Alberta flood occurring. It appears much worse than ours at least in numbers, 75,000 evacuated, and apparently from the same cause, heavy rains. Sorry FIMA haters I'm of the "natural causes" camp when it comes to the cause of our flood. I blame god. Ironical though the dates.
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Bruce rushed o this car in the parking lot, keeping his eyes and ears alert for anything but he was lucky to get all the way there without being seen by anyone. He grabbed his bag and rushed to the gym to put it on, wondering if he was not exaggerating a bit by changing into his alter ego. After all, it could have been a simple practical joke.
Inside, Ivy had backed away until she reached the tables but when the figure came out of the smoke it turned out to be Wayde.
"You look pretty, Pammy doll," he said with a wide toothy grin.
"You look like something that crawled out of a sewer. Is this your doing?" she asked waving at the smoke.
"Where's Wayne?"
"He had to leave early, what do you want, you overgrown brute?"
"Payback, but I'll settle for a dance instead," he answered walking closer until a tray of food smashed against his head.
Turning around he saw the short, skinny Edward who was shaking like a leaf but had a furious look on his face. Wayde looked at him stunned for a moment then smiled, revealing his large cone shaped teeth.
"You really picked the wrong time to act brave, shrimp," he said making his knuckles snap.
"Leave him alone," a hoarse voice demanded and a moment later a shadow dropped in front of Wayde.
"Oh, I've been waitin' for you," the large boy said and swung his arm at him.
Bruce easily evaded him then tripped him, making him run face first into the refreshment tables.
"Leave," he said and Pamela and Edward understood he meant them.
Most of the people had left when the smoke first started filling the room, by the time Pamela and Eduard left, Bruce and Wayde were the only ones left. The latter stood up after crashing in the tables and wiped his face off with his sleeve then turned to face his enemy.
"I'm gonna rip your wings of, Batboy," he said and charged.
Bruce waited till the last moment then jumped several feet in the air and let Wayde keep going. When he landed he reached in one of the pockets on his belt and took out a small pellet he threw at Wayde as he charged at him again. The pellet exploded in a cloud of smoke and made him stop choking. As he opened his eyes to see what was going on, he only caught a glimpse of a black clad fist before it hit him straight in the face, knocking him back a few feet but not off the ground. He blindly waved his arm and Bruce wrapped one end of a robe to the wrist then rushed behind him and grabbed his other wrist. Unlike last time, Wayde grabbed the rope and threw his arms forward, tossing Bruce over his head. He only managed to turn midair and land safely on his feet.
"Ain't gonna be like last time," Wayde said grinning.
"Clearly," Bruce replied and took an old fashion slingshot out of one of the pockets, placed three pellets inside and started spinning it.
"You think that'll stop me?" Wayde said amused and prepared to attack, his mouth wide open and his teeth bared.
The reptilian teenager attacked him again, dodging the pellets when they were released but without realising it, it had been a distraction as Bruce had tossed a creampuff at his feet so when he dodged, he stepped right in it and slipped. He crashed in the wall but before he could get back up, Bruce put him to sleep with a miniature tranquilizer gun then tied him up.
"So much for you then," Bruce said pleased.
"Wow..." a voice exclaimed, almost making him jump but he recognised it. "You were amazing," Barbara added.
"I could not let him run rampage," he replied, doing his best to hide his best.
"Who are you?" she asked moving closer.
"No, the real you, the one under the mask," she insisted.
"I am the one the mask shows," he said then ducked into the shadows and rushed out.
Though he had not been injured in the battle, jumping around like that had forced his ribs. He was rushing to his car when he saw someone already there so he ducked behind a tree. It was Pamela, she was probably worried about him but he had to get her out of there. He stood there thoughtful for a few moments then grabbed his cell phone, in a few moments her phone rang.
"Pam? It's Bruce."
"Bruce! Oh God, are you alright?!" she asked in a panicky voice.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry I bailed on you but my ribs started to hurt so I called Alfred to pick me up."
"Oh, thank goodness..." she said and breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm so glad you got out of here when you did."
"Why? What happened? Did Jay spike the punch?"
"I'll tell you about it later... what about your car?"
"I'll pick it up on Monday."
"Bruce, you're too naive sometimes. You can't leave it here overnight, not a silver Cadillac. It won't last the night, never mind the weekend."
"Oh, right... then..."
"I can take it home, since you owe me a ride," she said leaning against the car door. "And I'll pick you up on Monday. Don't worry about starting it, when you hang around Jay and Harley, you pick up a few things."
"That's for sure... Thanks, Pam. See you Monday."
After hanging up the phone she got in the car and hotwired it then drove off, leaving him stuck at the school with aching ribs. He had no choice but to walk home through alleys, since he had left his clothes in the trunk of his car.
Three blocks later he was having trouble breathing and had to stop and lean against a wall. Just then, a police car drove by and the driver noticed him and pulled over. Answering difficult questions was the last thing he needed, and by then word of what happened at school might have reached the police as well. He ran off but the policemen saw him before he turned the corner and ran after him. For two blocks he managed to stay ahead and reached a tall fence he jumped over using his grappling hook but fell to his knees upon landing. The police still behind him he kept going and was almost run over when crossing the street by a girl on a motorcycle.
"Whoa! Where'd you come from?" she said taking her helmet off, revealing raven black hair and blue eyes.
"Stop right there!" one of the policemen yelled as they reached the fence.
The girl looked over his shoulder then put her helmet back on. "Get on!" she told him.
Though reluctant to get on a motorcycle with someone he did not know in his condition, because of his condition he did not have a choice and got on behind her, wrapping her arms around her waist. The girl drove off in a hurry, making his ribs ache but at least the police would not get her licence plate. With his directions she took him several blocks away when they finally stopped and Bruce got off.
"You alright, Shadow Man?" she asked.
"I'm fine, thank you," he replied then turned to leave.
"Don't I get a name at least?" she said slightly annoyed.
He paused for a moment then turned to look at her and said: "Batman."
"Cool name. I'm Selina. See you around, Batsie," she said and winked then drove off.
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Finally, you added Selina!
don't worry, ms kyle will have the same impact she had in the animated series... soon as i get back to writing
What the heck were is the next ones
I fragging LOVE this!!! Cannot wait for the next chapter
well there should be at least 3 more chapters up
great love it! but r u going to wirte more??? i hope so!
great! love it! but r u going to write more?
omg make more i luv selina!
if i could get out of this slump i would... glad you like it so far
I have been waiting for cat to show up. Great story, keep the great work going.
^^ i have finished reading the series so far i love it. needs more scarecrow (johnny). but its one of the best things ive read on this website plz write more
thanks. but johnny will get his air time eventually
Cool, any chance for more?
Awesome! Just one question. When bruce picks up the phone, he says hello to barbara but says bye to pam? Great work Btw
oops... my bad, he says hello to pam. thanks
Yay!!!! Cat woman at last!!!!!!


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Springfit gymnasts display progress
6:49pm Friday 19th December 2008 in
Springfit club, the Horley branch of the Saturn V Association of gymnastic and trampoline clubs, held class displays for friends and parents of class members at Oakwood Sports Centre, Horley.
The displays are arranged twice a year to showcase gymnasts' progress and perform entertaining routines to music. New skills that children are learning in their classes were highlighted with individual performances and group routines.
Each and every child was recognised for their excellent progress made in just six months, and coaches rewarded one member of each class with a progress medal, to the child they considered to have shown the most effort and enthusiasm for gymnastics. The class displays are a great way of helping the gymnasts get used to performing for a crowd, and provides the parents in attendance with a great deal of pride.
Pictured here are all the progress medal winners for this month at Springfit: Hollie Knight, 10, Lucy Parker, 7, Zoe Briscoe, 15, Adam Herwig, 11, and Emily Charman, 12.