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3.4.1.Irving has been one of the main speakers and agitators for the RWE DVU, from the early 1980s until he was banned from entering Germany in 1993. The DVU is itself a party that propagates hatred against foreigners, anti-Semitism, revisionism, incites violence, and has a record of repeatedly co-operating with the NPD and sometimes even with the RWE militia groups.
3.4.2.Not only was Irving, apart from Frey himself, one of the principal speakers at the DVU's annual meetings and rallies, but he also co-operated systematically with the DVU. Both the OPC and the social sciences consider the DVU to be RWE and subsequently view Irving's activities for them in the same category. Irving at no time distanced himself from any of these central DVU positions. On the contrary it would appear that the DVU felt itself obliged to distance itself from Irving as his position on the Holocaust and his new-found allies in Germany were even more extremist. This not for a lack of political empathy, but out of a necessity for the DVU to maintain its democratic clothing.
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PABLO, MONTANA 59855 ISSN: 0528-8592 NEWSPAPER OF THE SAUSH, PEND d'OREILLE AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION, WESTERN MONTANA VOLUME 11 NUMBER 12 NEW MOON OF AUTUMN NOVEMBER 1, 1982 Women suggest income ideas PABLO — Two Tribal member women recently presented the Tribes with two apparently sound money-making ideas. M. Eloise Anderson, Ronan, proposed a calf-feeder operation that could yield over $300,000 a year to the Tribes, E.W. Morigeau claims. Anita Dupuis, Poison, representing Salish Kootenai College, related a plan for selling Christmas trees to specially selected markets in the South. Not strictly to produce income for the Tribes, the plan could conceivably finance SKC's operations in the future. Responding to an advertisement for a Tribal ranch manager Eloise (Bell) Anderson proposed a calf-feeder business (where Portland, here we come The Secretary of the Interior Department "has signed off on our move to the Portland Area [BIA] office", Chairman Tom Pablo learned October 22. Dr. Al Spang, Flathead Agency superintendent, in the formal written announcement to Pablo explained that "it will be a few months before we are fully and actually" under Portland's jurisdiction. There are "interim steps... to be taken", including the publication of a notice in the Federal Register. In the meantime, "we will continue to relate to Billings", Spang noted (Billings, by the way, hasn't "moved to Aberdeen" as bally-hooed by the Interior Department many months ago. The powers-that-be are still studying its cost-worthiness, apparently.) calves are bought in the fall, fattened during the winter, then sold in the spring) because cow-calf operations are marginal enterprises at best, she said in her written presentation. Like the Barber plan last month, though, the Anderson plan failed to gain Tribal Council support. The Tribal governing body voted to accept the concept instead, deciding to solicit other feeder plans. (See page 5.) Lack of support for the Anderson plan was based on three points: first, the FY-83 Tribal budget had no provision for agricultural development; second, some felt other Tribal members should be given the chance to make a similar proposal; and third, at least one councilman felt all ten councilmen should be required to decide on the investment of land and money. Only seven were in attendance that day. Didn't everyone get that chance already - the chance to answer the ranch manager advertisement, you ask? Yes, but since it was presumed the Tribes wanted a cow-calf enterprise, no one, except Anderson, addressed the idea of wintering calves for resale. Council consensus following the Anderson presentation was that interested Tribal members should be allowed to follow up on the new idea Tribal land use now includes leasing parcels to local farmers and ranchers. Leasing returns about $5,500 a year to the Tribes, councilman E.W. Morigeau noted, adding that at this rate, it would take well over 200 years to catch up with the amount of money spent to date on land acquisition. A successful feeder ranch could recoup that investment a good deal faster, he said (Continued on page 3)
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The GreenSTEP model was developed by the Oregon Department of Transportation to estimate and forecast the effects of policies and other influences (e.g. gas prices) on the amount of vehicle travel, the types of vehicles and fuels used, energy consumption for vehicle travel, and resulting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The name, GreenSTEP, is an acronym which stands for Greenhouse gas Strategic Transportation Energy Planning. The full name of the model helps to describe the model's origin and function. Greenhouse Gas The origins of GreenSTEP's development and its main applications have been for the purpose of estimating and forecasting greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. Strategic GreenSTEP was designed to support strategic planning efforts which require the consideration of many possible scenarios and contingencies. It combines higher level analysis with an ability to compute the effects of a large variety of factors that influence vehicle ownership, use, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. It runs rapidly so that many scenarios and contingencies can be analyzed in a reasonable amount of time. Transportation The initial focus of GreenSTEP was on household travel using light duty vehicles. This focus reflected a statutory emphasis on reducing emissions from this portion of the transportation sector. GreenSTEP's capabilities are being expanded over time to address household travel more completely and to address more portions of the transportation sector. For example, although walking does not produce any greenhouse gas emissions, a walk model was added because the amount of walking is an important indicator of the health effects of a transportation and land use scenario. Work is also underway to incorporate air travel into the household emissions estimates. Energy In addition to computing greenhouse gas emissions, the GreenSTEP model calculates the amount of fuel and electricity consumed for the transportation modes that it models. This enables GreenSTEP to be used to assess potential consequences for fuel consumption, electricity consumption, household fuel expenditures, gas tax receipts, and related effects. Planning GreenSTEP is a planning model that can be applied at the statewide level or metropolitan level. It is being used to provide analytical support for a number of planning purposes such as the development of Oregon's Statewide Transportation Strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the Climate Smart Communities Scenarios project for the Portland metropolitan area, the Oregon Governor's Ten Year Energy Action Plan, and the assessment of the future effects of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicles on fuel tax receipts. GreenSTEP can be applied at different geographic scales. When the model is applied at the statewide scale, the geographic area is subdivided into counties and population is apportioned to the urbanized, other urban, and rural portions of each county. Similarly, when the model is applied at a metropolitan scale, the geographic area is subdivided into districts and population is apportioned to the urbanized, other urban, and rural portions of the district. However, metropolitan applications may be limited only to the urbanized portions of the metropolitan area. GreenSTEP can be scaled to different geographies because the model does its calculations at the household level. Individual households are simulated with regard to their characteristics. GreenSTEP then simulates vehicle ownership and use, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions for each household given the household's characteristics and other relevant factors such as fuel prices, land use, transportation services, and the penetration of advanced vehicles in the market. The household level model results and other GreenSTEP calculations can be used to calculate a wide variety of travel, energy, greenhouse gas, economic, and health measures. Examples can be seen in the Statewide Transportation Strategy technical appendices. The large number of model outputs and capabilities for evaluating many scenarios can pose a challenge for making sense out of massive amounts of data. Data visualization methods are being developed to help with this task. GreenSTEP Scenario Viewer is an example. The GreenSTEP model was reviewed extensively by state, national and international travel and emissions modeling experts in multiple venues. Evaluation at the national level lead to the Federal Highway Administration adopting GreenSTEP as the basis for their EERPAT model. In 2010, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) awarded ODOT staff its Presidents Award for Planning for the development of the GreenSTEP model. Following is documentation for the GreenSTEP model:
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Just east of downtown Napa, the small area of Coombsville was recently designated as Napa Valley's 16th subregional AVA. Each of Napa's subregions is distinct, showcasing a unique climate and combination of soils, perfectly reflected in the wines. At the same time, Napa's patchwork of AVAs provides a window into the valley's diversity, belying the misconception that the region is homogenous.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Napa Valley's first subregional AVAs. The first to be designated entirely within Napa Valley was Howell Mountain. With its unique attributes, it it's no surprise that the mountain was the first to be distinguished from other appellations. Altitude is what makes Howell Mountain so distinctive – grapes must be grown above 1400 feet in elevation to be eligible for its AVA status. This altitude lies above the morning fog layer that covers the valley floor, allowing for more sunshine during the day. This also allows for cooler average temperatures, often up to ten degrees lower than down the slopes, which preserves vital acidity. (more…)


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When an email closes with a line of "Make Shift Happen," you just know Hey, Spike!'s interest is piqued.
The shift-maker in question is Tanya Lelo, a life coach who helps make changes in other people's lives.
Armed with a degree in parks and recreation from Penn State University and a career spanning over 30 years as an environmental interpreter, park ranger, environmental education trainer and in some aspect of the environmental regulatory field, Tanya moved from Back East to Out West in 2009, first on the Front Range, and two years ago, it was up to Summit County.
"I had fallen in love with Frisco and Summit County before I even moved to Colorado, so I knew I'd eventually end up here," she says. "I love the outdoors, the peace and quiet of the mountains and just the majestic beauty of the Rockies. I'm also a avid fly fisherman."
"Since I was a kid, I've always dreamed of living in Colorado. When I decided to revamp my life, I figured that it was time to make the move and start my next chapter out here," adds Tanya.
The name of her life coaching business is River of Opportunities.
"That really spoke to me, not just because of my love of nature and the outdoors, and, of course, my love of fly fishing, but also because of one of my favorite quotes. It really embodies what life coaching is about and what it can do to help anyone move forward in their lives - if they so choose," she remarks.
In support of her thinking, Tanya offers this Heraclitus quote: "No man steps into the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
That resulted in her business tagline is: "Own your choices, own your life."
So, what makes a person want to become a life coach?" Spike asks of the Keystone resident, to which Tanya responds:
"I realized I wasn't happy with my life and things had gotten pretty unpleasant for me in many areas of my life. I didn't care for my personal relationships, my job, my co-workers, and lots of other things. Of course, once I realized that the common denominator was me, I decided to find someone to help me get a new perspective and turn my life around for the better. I found a life coach with whom I started working and realized I was ready for many new changes in my life. While working with her, I then realized that I wanted to become a certified life coach and start working with others who were trying to refocus their lives, just as I had. I have a significant background teaching and presenting workshops, so it seemed like a great fit, to become a life coach and teach self-development workshops and seminars, too.
"I've coached over 200 other people who have had significant 'shifts' in their perspectives in life, which have had positive outcomes for many of them," she says. "Many became much more open to changes, and began looking at events in life as things that happen 'for' them as opposed to things that happened 'to' them. It's a matter of seeing opportunities and possibilities and learning to embrace the anabolic (positive) energy and release the catabolic (negative) energy.
"Catabolic energy is what prevents most people from moving forward, due to their ideas about not being good enough, fear of failure, or just not knowing what their true core values are and how to find out what they really desire in life," Tanya explains. "The latter is very significant for many people to really find out why they are so angry, depressed or just feel as though they are always struggling."
Tanya recalls having a client who was really struggling at an insignificant job he "thought" he should have, just to get a paycheck and support his family. A world-renowned artist, according to Tanya, the subject initially let fear keep him from pursuing his passion, since it wasn't a guaranteed income.
"Once he discovered and fully embraced what he truly desired in life, he let go of the fear that prevented him from going after his dream and allowed himself to see all the possibilities that were before him, he has exploded into the art world," she notes. "He quit his day job. He also told me that following our coaching sessions; he doubled his income, and the following year it has already tripled. Nothing is holding him back anymore - what a great success story."
Also, Tanya is an ordained minister and performs weddings, commitment ceremonies and vow renewals, with her other business, Mountain Heart Ceremonies.
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Miles F. Porter IV, nicknamed "Spike," a Coloradan since 1949, is an Army veteran, former Climax miner, graduate of Adams State College, and a local since 1982. An award-winning investigative reporter, he and wife Mary E. Staby owned newspapers here for 20 years. Email your social-biz info to email@example.com.


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VAIL - Ski & Snowboard Club Vail is a big deal in the Vail Valley. Its athletes include current and future Olympians, and many parents have made huge sacrifices to bring their children to Vail for the program.Since the club's annual Ski Swap is one of its main fundraisers each year, it's no wonder the event - now in its 43rd year - takes up all of Dobson Ice Arena for three days every October. Tons of ski and snowboard gear, both new and used, fill the aisles and bleachers for this annual event that also symbolizes the beginning of the ski season.Ski season doesn't actually begin in Vail for about three weeks, but Ski Club Vail athletes should be able to begin skiing at Golden Peak sooner than that. They, along with professional ski teams from around the world - including the U.S. Ski Team - have access to the slopes in early November thanks to a state-of-the-art snowmaking system put in place a few years ago. Some of the money raised at the annual Ski Swap helped make that new snowmaking system happen, too.Euginnia Manseau, who manages the Ski Swap, calls the event one of the club's most important fundraisers. She said the swap had some of the best deals ever this year, but she wished more people would have turned out to take advantage of the deals. Around 11 a.m. Saturday, a steady stream of customers came browsing through the hundreds of items on sale at the swap, but Manseau and other volunteers said the turnout seemed light compared to previous years. Manseau said it seemed like many retail stores in town were also offering good deals and sales, which may or may not have impacted the swap, she said."Sales are definitely down," Manseau said. "But there's been a steady pace throughout the day today."Some shoppers didn't hold back, though, like Boet Vandenberg, 9, and his father, Marcel, and grandfather Theo. The trio approached the checkout line with a basket overflowing with new gear. The Vandenbergs are from the Netherlands and now live in Denver, and Boet is a member of Ski Club Vail. Marcel Vandenberg said the family did very minimal skiing while living in the flatlands of the Netherlands, but they have become quite loyal to the sport since moving to Denver. They were thrilled to find such a huge selection at the Ski Swap in preparation for the season.Lauri O'Brien and her son, Weston Roach, 4, were also perusing the aisles looking for anything and everything to prepare Weston for the ski season. O'Brien said she found gloves, skis, boots, poles and more at the swap on Saturday.O'Brien said it felt good to support the local club, too, while shopping for gear her son needs this winter. That's a point Manseau likes to hear because she knows Ski & Snowboard Club Vail is not just an elitist club for wealthy children and teenagers. There are plenty of people in the program who absolutely need help covering the costs of competing throughout the winter, she said. The Ski Swap proceeds help reduce the costs for athletes, making the club more affordable and accessible for all families, she said. And with more than 500 athletes and 116 employees, that's no small undertaking.Assistant Managing Editor Lauren Glendenning can be reached at 970-748-2983 or email@example.com.
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Southwest Florida real estate companies dominated a list of the largest in the Tampa Bay area and beyond.
Sarasota-based brokerage Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate was tops, with $3.26 billion in volume for 2012.
Michael Saunders & Co. was No. 2, with $2 billion in regional sales on the list prepared by the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
The third big player in the region also made the list, at No. 7: Premier Sotheby's International Realty.
The Tampa Bay Business Journal said Premier Sotheby's had the highest average home value for 2012 sales at $482,100.
The Herald-Tribune reported back in January that sales for the big brokerages had bounced back.
Saunders' total was the highest since 2005's $3 billion -- near the zenith of the region's residential boom. The company sold 6,012 units -- all but 386 of them residential -- to set a new in-house record in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties. That figure was 25 percent higher than in 2011.
Premier Sotheby's topped $2.3 billion in sales, a 35 percent gain over 2011. Unit sales totaled 3,052, a 34 percent jump over the year, though Premier Sotheby's market area also includes properties in Naples, Tampa and St. Petersburg.
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Alex Heuer joined St. Louis Public Radio in 2012 and is a producer of St. Louis on the Air and Cityscape. Alex grew up in the St. Louis area. He began his public radio career as a student reporter at Tri States Public Radio in Macomb, Illinois and spent nearly five years as a reporter and producer at Iowa Public Radio.
Alex graduated summa cum laude from Western Illinois University. He has won local and national awards for reporting and producing and his stories have been featured nationally on Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Alex enjoys running, hiking, sailing, craft beer, locally-owned restaurants, and the St. Louis Cardinals.


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Hello, I have problems connecting the Playstation Media Server with our PS3 which I would like to use as a streaming client for TV.
I only get an error report that no PS3 was found in the network.
I already read all available German FAQ which I found and some English ones to but those did not solve my problem at all.
Our Network Configuration is ass following:
The graphics were created using cisco paced tracer so the second line under each icon in the picture is the correct label
My PC:
Cpu: i7 920 @ 3.4ghz
Ram: 18Gb DDR3-1600
Mobo: Biostar TPower-X58 [Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) 1Gbit]
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
3Com SuperStack 3 Switch 4400 SE:
Model number: 3COM 3C17206
Ports: 24
Max. speed: 100Mbit
D-Link DI-524 Wireless Broadband Router:
Model number: DI-524
Max. speed LAN: 100Mbit
Max speed WLAN: 54Mbit
Motorola Surfboard SB5101:
Model number: SB5101
Max. speed LAN: 100Mbit
Things I tried so far:
Troubleshooting advice from the FAQ provided inside the PSM
enable port 5001 on the DI-524 using the provided D-Link configuration software
PS3 update to the latest firmware
Connecting the PS3 via LAN cable to the switch -> automatic gathering of IP-Adress failed -> setting manual valid IP-Adress, Subnet-Mask, Standard-gateway and DHCP-Server -> no connection to WAN only LAN but still no PSM in the PS3 menu
Debug log file:
I really do not know any more, so hopefully somebody could assist me with my problem and help me to find an appropriate solution.


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The crow was found at the home of Deborah Loyd last week. She found it in her front yard Tuesday. After seeing a story about the West Nile on WTOK, she called the station.
"I was concerned, especially since it's killed several people, so I called," said Loyd.
NewsCenter 11's Garrett Sheehan picked the bird up, bagged it, and took it to the Health Department. After being taken to Jackson, it tested positive for West Nile.
"If we had just a little bit of good sense, we'd have known it was here," said Dr. Margaret Morrison of the State Department of Health. "It's been all around us."
Health officials say crows and blue jays die quickest from the virus, before they're able to travel far. That's why one of those two birds found dead means the virus is near. If you find one, the Health Department will not pick it up.
Morrison says the department doesn't have enough manpower to do that. If you find one, you should pick it up with gloves, and double bag it in a plastic bag and take it to your local Health Department.
Meridian-Lauderdale Animal Control says it will pick up a bird if you find one. All you have to do is call them during regular business hours. But health officials say you shouldn't be worried about catching the virus from a bird. It is only transmitted after mosquitoes bite those birds, and then bite humans. That means you should eliminate standing water in your home, and spray you and your children with mosquito repellant containing DEET before going outside.
There is no vaccine for West Nile, so the best way to prevent the virus is to keep mosquitoes from breeding.
"The mosquito you breed in your yard will be the one that ends up biting you," Morrison said.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first trial of the drug interaction tp see if it can lessen the symptoms and duration of the West Nile Virus in people. The virus can cause flu-like symptoms and even kill in some cases. 12 people have died from it so far, including three in Mississippi. Four people have been infected with West Nile in Alabama.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
wtok.com: Extended Web Coverage
West Nile virus Facts
How is the West Nile virus Spread?
Symptoms of the Virus
Protecting Yourself
Mosquito Protection Tips
Sources: www.lambtonhealth.on.ca/environmental/mosquito.asp and www.vdh.state.va.us contributed to this report


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On your customized, guided tour of Belize, enter into a world of steamy rainforests, ancient Maya legends, tiny atoll islands surrounded by exquisite coral reefs and one of the most eco-friendly countries on the planet. With your private guide and driver, behold mystical Maya sites such as Caracol, a once-powerful city. Look upwards to the towering stone pyramid ..., examine Maya hieroglyphics and enjoy a picnic in lush surroundings. At the Hol Chan Marine Reserve, swim in an aqua-colored sea, part of the world's second longest barrier reef. Snorkel amongst nurse sharks and southern stingrays, or dive into deeper water at the remote Great Blue Hole to encounter sponges, barracuda, angelfish, and perhaps sharks. Ride a golf cart along the sandy streets of laid-back San Pedro, catch one of the 40 kinds of grouper, hike through a forest reserve to spot evidence of the elusive jaguar or simply watch the sun set over a beach covered with swaying palms. Whatever your delights, let our knowledgeable experts craft your tailor-made Belize tour—your way, your pace.Show More
American and Canadian citizens must have a passport that is valid for at least 6 months beyond the intended return date in order to enter and depart Belize.Tourists must also provide proof of return or onward travel. Each traveler is responsible for ensuring that his/her passport is up to date. Citizens of other nationalities should check with respective authorities before departure. Please ensure that the name on your passport matches all travel documents we have issued. If this is not the case, please contact us immediately.
Please make a photocopy of your passport's identification page and keep it separate from the original. It's also a good idea to leave a digital copy with someone at home. This may speed the replacement process should you lose your passport.
American and Canadian citizens traveling on regular passports for business or tourist purposes do not need a visa for a stay of up to 90 days. Please note that if you are staying longer than 90 days, obtaining a visa is your responsibility. These requirements change often and therefore it is recommended that you check with the Embassy of Belize for the most up- to-date information.
Medical insurance and cancellation insurance is highly recommendedand it can safeguard against the expenses associated with in-country medical emergencies as well as lost or delayed baggage and emergency cancelation or interruption of your trip. Please ensure your policy will provide you with upfront medical coverage so that you are not responsible for a hefty medical bill.
Some vaccines require more than one dose or a major length of time to be effective. For that reason, it is recommended to see your doctor or health provider at least 6 to 8 weeks before your trip. Please bring vaccination certificates with you in your carry-on luggage as you may need to present them on arrival.
Currently Required Vaccinations: Currently there are no required vaccinations, but it is suggested that you consider getting vaccinated against Hepatitis A & B, Typhoid, and Rabies. Malaria may also be a risk in some parts of the country, although the islands which are frequented by tourists are Malaria free.
If there are any medical items essential to your health, such as prescription drugs or corrective eye wear, bring duplicates and divide them between your checked bags and hand luggage. While non-prescription drugs such as aspirin are generally available, it is difficult to replace prescription items.
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Electricity: Electricity in Belize is supplied at 110 volts AC, 60HZ. American-style two-pin plugs are standard.
Phone: Coverage is good throughout most of the country. Check with your mobile telephone company that roaming agreements exist for travelers to Belize. You can also buy a local SIM card and insert it in your phone.
Internet: Service is widely available in main cities and most towns. Wireless access is available in most urban areas, airports, hotels and shopping centres.
The currency in Belize is the Belizean Dollar. Belize dollars come in denominations of BZ$100, 50, 20, 10, 5 and 2. Coins are in denominations of BZ$1 and 50, 25, 10, 5 and 1 cents. Major credit and debit cards are accepted in most businesses, with ATMs available across the country. It is recommended that you contact your credit card company to advise them when and where you will be traveling to avoid what may be picked up as suspicious activity by your credit card provider. Travelers Checks, especially American Express, Visa and Thomas Cook, are also accepted and can be cashed at banks. However, banks may charge a hefty exchange fee. The official exchange rate is published daily in the newspapers.
Capital: Belmopan
Language: English
Currency: Belizean Dollar (BZD)
Religion: 50% of the population is Roman Catholic
Time Zone: UTC-6
Electricity: 110V/60Hz
Telephone: Country code for calling you from outside Belize is +501
Calling North America: Dial 011 + area code and your 7-digit number
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- I feel a few gentle taps on the top of my head, and look up to see a man looking down at me.
- The redhead was more composed, sitting cross-legged in a way that only just allowed the kilt to cover the tops of her thighs, hands in her lap to prevent me getting a better view.
- He tugged his hat down, covering the tops of his ears and his eyebrows.
- Be sure to pinch back the flowering tops of basil plants to keep them from going to seed too early in the season.
- Marijuana or marihuana is a drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant (cannabis sativa).
- When the tops of the carrots grow thicker, thin them to about two to three inches apart.
- Not only did I detest the smell, the skin that formed on the top of the milk almost made me physically sick.
- Use a large spoon or dipper to take the cream from the top of the milk.
- For my brother and me there was no greater treat than the top of the milk on our breakfast porridge.
- They were both wearing short skirts and halter tops.
- Every body shape imaginable was squeezed into super short skirts and super tight tops with plunging necklines.
- Jersey makes a big comeback this season in tops, skirts and trousers.
- Beer bottle tops will do nicely, if you can't bring yourself to use your Royal College cuff links or the earrings you bought on your most recent trip to Monte Carlo.
- Stopper corks with plastic tops are used for some wines, particularly fortified wines and some sweet wines, a single bottle of which may be consumed over an extended period.
- He opened his own can with a hiss of escaping gas as Crystal removed the top of her water bottle.
- Above is another fifty feet of climbing, as the shrouds (ropes) which are attached to the top narrow down to the point where there is no longer room for your foot unless you turn it sideways.
- This triumph leaves them in a comfortable position at the top of the table.
- It's a school in an area of boarded-up houses and it doesn't rank at the top of national league tables.
- The prospect of mass tourism ranks at the top of her list of nightmares.
- The Officer shouted at the top of his voice: 'One.Two.Three.'
- I surf every day and need to be at the top of my fitness to face the challenge of big waves.
- Results from Vodafone's mobile phone recycling scheme show that Sligo and Cork are tops when it comes to mobile phone recycling.
- Cork Harlequins are rated tops in the country for they have a sweet balance of skill and power in their team.
- You're already in top, on the highway doing 70, and the engine sounds as if it needs another gear, so you try to change up but you're already in top!
- Be brave and you'll be able to come to a stop in top, dipping the clutch just before stopping.
- It shows you how to use the bass, mid and top when mixing.
- I looked up towards the top of the road and saw a silver Mercedes haring down.
- Even worse, because it is a wide pavement they will use this and drive straight up to the top of the road irrespective of pedestrians.
- Apparently someone out there beyond the top of Morningside Road wants to demutualise the whole thing.
- For some players that can manage a fast swing speed, put top on the ball, and have it land in, they may not be overhitting.
- Flat returns were a little harder for me with all the power, but if I put a little extra 'top' on the ball it felt fine.
- She started off with wool tops in sliver form.
- Dyed merino tops are perfect for hand spinning and felting projects.
- Wensleydale top is the ultimate in luxurious spinning fibres.
- Physicists had known that the top must exist since 1977, when its partner, the bottom, was discovered. But the top proved exasperatingly hard to find.
- Early release is being re-examined by the Executive as a top priority.
- The county's ambulance service has been ranked among the top performers in the speed of its response to patients.
- Those in top positions tend to fear that statements made on television on the spur of the moment may land them in the dock.
- Although the map shows that a bomb also fell towards the top end of Stapley Road, the map indicates that it was not near a corner or junction.
- At the top end of the car park you will find our designated parking area.
verb (tops, topping, topped)[with object]
- Quarterly figures, published yesterday, show that for the first time, discrimination claims on race grounds topped the number of gender discrimination claims.
- In the third quarter, the number of unemployed topped the record level of 1991, when huge numbers of immigrants from the former Soviet Union came to Israel.
- With the way the economy is going now, we hope to top those numbers but that remains to be seen.
- Recent mainstream media polls show issues such as health and rural matters topping the list of public concerns about the performance of the government.
- Quitting smoking tops the wish list for New Year resolutions and Swindon Primary Care Trust is working hard to help people turn their smoke-free dreams into a reality.
- He was elected an alderman of Limerick City Council in the 1999 local elections when he topped the poll with over 900 votes in Ward 3.
- Cyril was a tall man, easily topping Johen's height by a head or more, and he had passed that height on to his son Martin.
- There are some examples of child actors who manage to stay in movies as adults, sometimes even topping their early achievements.
- Jim of Automotive News narrowly topped Anthony Rowley of the Singapore Business Times in a close race.
- The question of how Rafa Benitez can ever top this achievement can be left for another day.
- While Ignatov topped the show, perhaps Airjazz stole it.
- Sting, who is to receive an honour for his outstanding contribution to music, will top the show, which is to be presented by a male-female double-act for the first time since 1990.
- Veteran rockers Queen, along with Razorlight and Simple Minds, will top the entertainment line-up.
- Tomorrow, that brick wall might be topped with razor wire, and those privacy screens might all be made illegal in the name of National Security.
- Some changes are small: in some schools, pizza is now topped with low-fat cheese and French fries are baked, not fried.
- Down the driveway, high electronic gates protect the building and the pale grey walls are topped with rolled razor wire.
- His snowy white shirt was topped by a burgundy waistcoat which, amazingly enough, matched her gown almost perfectly, and he wore a black cravat around his neck.
- Elegantly styled trousers are topped by a sporty leather jacket.
- Croatian men wear white shirts topped with a colored vest or jacket.
- I had my first jobs when I was in kindergarten picking apples, topping onions and catching cabbage butterflies.
- Wash and top the radishes.
- Wash and top the strawberries, then blend until smooth.
- We topped a hill, and another, until we were on a steep north-facing slope that dropped off to the Yellowstone River.
- I was still winning as we topped the hill and headed down.
- We were doing about 45 miles per hour when we topped that hill and saw a 2-ton truck 30 feet in front of us.
- Al will play a detective who accidentally tops his partner during a murder investigation and is then blackmailed by the killer.
- 'I don't know how to say this, other than I think she topped him,' says a doctor.
- The killer gets away and Dormer lets the assumption stand that the brutal murderer also topped his partner.
- But when I play even a friendly match with someone else, I end up topping the ball and slicing terribly.
- The first thing I noted about Chris was his tendency to top the ball.
- If you're topping or slicing the ball, the problem could be your knees.
adverb(tops) informal
- These are simple enough to prepare in 25 minutes tops, giving busy cooks a welcome break from the kitchen.
- I slept for maybe three hours tops.
be at the top of one's game informal
- Be performing as well as one can: this film is the work of a director at the top of his gameMore example sentences
- On the acting front, we have three top actors working at the top of their game.
- Barnes has created a collection of acute observations which shows him to be at the top of his game.
- All in all a very satisfying live recording of a band at the top of their game.
from top to bottom
- Completely; thoroughly: we searched the place from top to bottomMore example sentences
thoroughly, fully, to the fullest extent, extensively, completely, comprehensively, rigorously, exhaustively, scrupulously, meticulously, conscientiously, minutely, in close detail
- She cooks the family meal, cleans the house from top to bottom and completes her homework the day she receives it.
- The police cordoned off the area, declared a curfew, and searched the place from top to bottom.
- He now says he wants to review the Department from top to bottom and propose a complete overhaul.
from top to toe
- All over: she seemed to glow from top to toeMore example sentences
- In fact, feet are just one of the problem areas we'll be looking at in detail, providing help and advice with a health and beauty regime that will work for you, from top to toe.
- You leave feeling as if every part of your body has been pampered - you're invigorated from top to toe.
- So, kitted out from top to toe in newly acquired and neatly pressed blue linen, I listened to her praise western civilization and the red-brick building that housed its published works.
from the top
- informal From the beginning: they rehearsed Act One from the topMore example sentences
- Would you like to start again from the top?
- The audience was right with us from the top.
- Let's take it again from the top.
get on top of
- Be too much for (someone) to bear or cope with: things had got on top of meMore example sentences
- For almost nine years Jim lashed out at his wife, Sally, whenever things got on top of him.
- She got over it but during the last three years since then she had other physical illnesses and that seems to have got on top of her and affected her mentally.
- At the end, frustration with my game was getting on top of me.
off the top of one's head
- see head.
on top
- At one stage the girls jumped back into the water and actually dragged the boat for 50 yards to rocks with me on top.
- There are fewer and fewer trees up here, none on top, nothing but rock, and that makes it more attractive to lightning.
- In the middle there was a tall and slender rock with something black on top.
- The man has short dark hair which is thinning on top and wore a dark jacket which is possibly imitation leather.
- He was a tall man, with light brown hair that was thinning on top.
- Female-pattern baldness usually becomes noticeable after the menopause; the hair on top tends to thin first.
- All those fabulous summer tank tops you own are good through November with a simple cardigan on top.
- I had a thin thermal underneath with this jacket on top.
- He can't decide where he stands on the war because he's not really sure which position will put him on top.
- White men still come out on top, with London dominating the awards.
- But even if that had happened, the polls suggest that it is unlikely that the anti-war position would have come out on top.
- If you are in a company pension scheme you can supplement this by making AVCs (Additional Voluntary Contributions) on top.
- The Law Society is currently dealing with a raft of complaints about solicitors who charged miners an additional fee on top.
- Charities cannot afford these extra costs on top.
on top of
- It can be laid on top of most surfaces, and is available in a range of colours and decorative finishes.
- Do not use a grill on top of or underneath any surface that will burn, such as a porch or carport.
- They advise matches in the kitchen not to be left on top of kitchen surfaces, but to be kept in a cupboard and for parents to regularly check their child's bedroom for matches.
- I'm wearing Rebecca's cardigan again, and on top of that one of my red favorites.
- I went to put a fleece on, on top of my sweatshirt, and thought that perhaps the weather had got chilly again despite having been sunny for most of the day.
- Labour insists it has got on top of these problems.
- It's a new challenge, and it's something you can never really get on top of.
- Once I'd got on top of this job, the other priorities all seemed to slot into place.
- Those additional wage costs are on top of higher prices for oil, steel, copper, plastics, etc.
- He advised that this was an additional charge on top of the normal council rates.
- And you may be charged an additional fee on top of the room rates.
- Like most families, they wanted enough space so they wouldn't feel they were living on top of each other.
- But invite anybody else to stay over, and you will be living on top of each other.
- We city dwellers basically live on top of each other, so interactions sometimes get tense, especially when our kids may be threatened.
on top of the world
- informal Happy and elated: he was interested in her and she felt on top of the worldMore example sentences
- For a short time, he felt on top of the world.
- He said he was on top of the world after clinching the World Superbike Championship days after the birth of his first child.
- Not that I want to lie and pretend I'm on top of the world, but if I could just wait a little longer perhaps I'll find something positive to write.
top and tail
- We already know that if we want to eat a carrot safely, we need to generously peel, top and tail it first to remove organophosphate pesticides.
- As soon as the beetroot is cool enough to handle, top and tail it and remove the skin.
- However, as he explains: a favourite way to cook young ones is to top and tail the pod, trim off the stringy edges and slice the pod very thin with the beans still in it.
- Before the umbilical cord stump drops off, you can just top and tail your baby, using a bowl of warm water, baby lotion and a soft cloth or cotton wool.
- If your baby doesn't like baths, 'top and tail' her on alternate days - use cotton wool and warm water for eyes and face, and a washcloth for hands and bottom.
top dollar
- informal A very high price: I pay top dollar for my materialsMore example sentences
- Local businesses who didn't want to pay top dollar for design firms would hold 'logo design contests' for my dad's students.
- It's powerful corporations that pay top dollar for receptive ears in Washington.
- If you really want to ski this winter and you don't want to pay top dollar, look for those quiet times.
top of the morning
- Irish Used as a friendly morning greeting: top of the morning to you, InspectorMore example sentences
- The top of the morning to you.
- This guy walked by me and actually said: 'top of the morning to you'.
the top of the tree
- The highest level of a profession or career.Example sentences
- I got to the top of the tree as a marketing professional with United Distillers, but I always wanted to broaden my skills.
- If you do eventually want to get to the top of the tree, then do it the hard way and make sure that you learn all aspects of the business.
- These days he is not at the top of the tree, but he still enjoys playing and his ambition is to win a tournament in this decade so that he will have won titles in each of four successive decades.
top ten (or twenty etc.)
- The first ten (or twenty etc.) records in the pop music charts.Example sentences
- Christine is one of the few female writers to have charted two hit records in the same top ten.
- Their single 'With You' Is currently riding high in the charts, in the top twenty for the second week and now at no 16 from last week's no 15.
- Any album that has 'Bohemian Rhapsody' on it has got to make the top ten.
to top it all
- As a culminating, typically unpleasant, event or action in a series: her father had a fatal heart attack and to top it all her mother disowned herMore example sentences
- This year has been a difficult year for my family and me, but to top it all, now I am in quarantine for SARS - I cannot believe it!
- And, to top it all, the indifference shown by the government is appalling.
- And to top it all, a moratorium on debt repayments will only postpone the inevitable into the future.
up top
- see up.
Phrasal verbs
top something off
- The celebrations of the day will be topped off with an open air dance to the music of The Conquerors, from 12-2 a.m.
- It's been a dream year and this just tops it off.
- We topped the day off by going to see 'Minority Report' at Greenwich Cinema.
- Make sure the station's generator is functioning (hopefully there is one!) and make sure the fuel tank is topped off.
- Prior to the storms, all the generators had been tested at full load and all of their tanks had been topped off.
- And when you do decide to go all the way with a full tank of gas, don't bother topping it off because filling past the first 'click' will create sloshing and allow the gas you tried to squeeze in to spill over and out.
top out
- Reach an upper limit: collectors whose budgets tend to top out at about $50,000More example sentences
- It starts at $20,395, and tops out at $24,590.
- It tops out at approximately 100 kilometres per hour and a fully charged battery will only take you 80 km.
- The price range starts at just under £18,000 and tops out at not much more than £21,000.
top something out
- Put the highest structural feature on a building, typically as a ceremony to mark the building's completion: most of the staff turned out to watch the reactor being topped out (as noun topping out) Councillor Smith performed the topping out ceremonyMore example sentences
- Despite price tags that ran into the multimillions of dollars for a penthouse with views of the Santa Monica mountains, the downtown Los Angeles skyline, and the Pacific Ocean, all units were sold before the structure was topped out.
- The building's topping out ceremony was carried out on Friday by Noel Ahern TD, Minister of State at the Department of the Environment & Local Government.
- Building work on the New Farleigh hospice site in Broomfield reached new heights this week, with a topping out ceremony to complete the roof.
top someone up
- informal Refill a partly full glass or cup for someone: can I top you up, Mr Willoughby?More example sentences
- Allow me to top you up my dear.
- Let me top you up.
- Can I top you up?
top something up chiefly British
- Add to a number or amount to bring it up to a certain level: a 0.5 per cent bonus is offered to top up savings ratesMore example sentences
- But the government only tops it up to that level if you are on a full state pension.
- The maximum contribution each year is £3,600, which means that you pay £2,808 and the Inland Revenue tops it up by the standard tax rate of 22%.
- Mr Warren said Carter then proceeded to help herself to the building society money, topping it up from the bank account when it ran low.
- 5.1Fill up a glass or other partly full container: he topped up our glasses and filled his ownMore example sentences
supplement, add to, augment
- He swallowed half of it immediately; sighing as it warmed his stomach, before topping the glass back up again and slowly putting the bottle away.
- With every handshake my glass was topped up with a nip of whisky and by 1am I was feeling rather wobbly.
- Neil Hinton, defending, said during the evening her glass had been topped up several times.
- 5.2Add credit to a pay-as-you-go mobile phone account.
Late Old English topp (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch top 'summit, crest'.
Found in Old English, a child's toy, related to tip; came from Old Norse in Middle English. The expression to go over the top originated in the First World War, when it described troops in the trenches charging over the parapets to attack the enemy. It gradually developed the meaning 'to do something to an excessive or exaggerated degree', possibly in reference to the huge numbers of soldiers who died in the conflict. Soon people were shortening it to simply over the top, and since the early 1980s it has been reduced even further to the abbreviation OTT, particularly when referring to acting. See also sleep
Words that rhyme with topatop, bop, chop, clop, cop, crop, dop, drop, Dunlop, estop, flop, fop, glop, hop, intercrop, knop, kop, lop, mop, op, plop, pop, prop, screw-top, shop, slop, sop, stop, strop, swap, tiptop, underprop, whop
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- Boys play marbles, spin tops, fly kites, and play such games as kabaddi (team wrestling).
- We liked hurling tops and see them spin, jump and hiss.
- Atoms have spin; replace the tops with atoms and now you're imagining a basic quantum computer!
Late Old English, of unknown origin.
Found in Old English, a child's toy, related to tip; came from Old Norse in Middle English. The expression to go over the top originated in the First World War, when it described troops in the trenches charging over the parapets to attack the enemy. It gradually developed the meaning 'to do something to an excessive or exaggerated degree', possibly in reference to the huge numbers of soldiers who died in the conflict. Soon people were shortening it to simply over the top, and since the early 1980s it has been reduced even further to the abbreviation OTT, particularly when referring to acting. See also sleep
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Entry from US English dictionary
plural noun
- We'd have waited until Sunday and recorded the songs off The Top 40 if it had been us.
- Like the shift from network radio to the rise of independent stations, Top 40 happened quickly, between 1955 and '57.
- … The Internet means exposure, and these days, unless you're in the Top 40, you're not getting on the radio.
- The Top 40 countdown is at about number six when I flick over, so I get to see what's at top of the charts (which I have given up following for the last year or two).
- We're moving closer to No.1 in our preseason Top 40 countdown.
- When she's not in the perfume factory, club hopping or filming her reality series 'The Simple Life,' Hilton has also recently recorded an album and her first single is already a hit on Top 40 radio stations.
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Definition of repudiate in English:
verb[with object]
1Refuse to accept or be associated with: she has repudiated policies associated with previous party leaders
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- Rejecting a constricting southern ethos, Florence flees to Harlem and marries Frank, a hard-drinking blues singer; subsequently, she repudiates him for rejecting her middle-class American values.
- He continued to argue against the King's divorce and the split with Rome, and in 1534 was arrested after refusing to swear an Oath of Succession repudiating the Pope and accepting the annulment of the marriage to Catherine.
- It's believed that the insurance companies sought to repudiate their policies partly on the basis that the Department had failed to disclose details of penalties imposed prior to 1992.
reject, renounce, abandon, give up, turn one's back on, disown, cast off, lay aside
formal forswear, abjure
literary forsake
1.1Deny the truth or validity of: the minister repudiated allegations of human rights abuses
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- Carteret's wife Olivia, for her part, is determined to repudiate the legal and moral claims of her mulatto half-sister - Janet Miller - on their father's estate.
deny, contradict, controvert, rebut, dispute, dismiss, brush aside
formal gainsay
1.2chiefly Law Refuse to fulfill or discharge (an agreement, obligation, or debt): breach of a condition gives the other party the right to repudiate a contract
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- This leads to the possibility of the US repudiating its existing debt obligations to external creditors.
- I would advocate going on to repudiate the entire debt outright, and let the chips fall where they may.
- When things went poorly for the Spanish, they just repudiated their debts and started over.
cancel, revoke, rescind, reverse, overrule, overturn, invalidate, nullify;
disregard, flout, renege on;
Law disaffirm
formal abrogate
1.3(Especially in the past or in non-Christian religions) divorce (one's wife).
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- Only the husband may repudiate his spouse, although the wife may provoke him to make that decision.
- As caput mansi or head of the household, the husband of the mother of the twin boys, should he choose to repudiate his wife, would be following a convention deemed appropriate to protect the social order with respect to unfaithful wives.
- The building reminded them of a past that belonged to them and their ancestors, a past they did not wish to repudiate.
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- The effect of a repudiation upon the repudiator's right to arbitration is contingent on the character of the alleged repudiation and the reasons offered in justification.
- A determination on the issue of repudiation will often entail an examination of the repudiator's manifest intent to preserve a pre-existing contractual right to arbitrate as an alternative to contractual repudiation.
Late Middle English (originally an adjective in the sense 'divorced'): from Latin repudiatus 'divorced, cast off', from repudium 'divorce'.
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New York has a decreasing number of Oct 22 2007
New York has a decreasing number of Jewish delis, but the reopened Second Avenue Deli will be among them.
Federman said that his clientele has gone from "95 percent Jewish to 50-50" and that changing with the times is part of business. (He now sells three varieties of tofu "cream cheese.") "I think Second Avenue Deli, Katz's, us, we're all making our little sphere of the world a better place," he said. "Doctors and lawyers basically live off other people's misery. Part of the perk of working here is people coming in and being so happy."
The deli's general manager recalled his favorite customers at the old location:
But my favorite was when we had five nuns eating matzoh balls served by a Lebanese waiter -- in a kosher deli. That's New York.
See also a writeup of a panel on Jewish Cuisine and the Evolution of the Jewish Deli on Serious Eats.


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If you're one of those who occasionally go slumming in the right-wing blogosphere just for the laughs, you'll likely see lots of snarky stuff today about President Obama shaking hands with Cuban President Raul Castro at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
No, the disgraceful gesture at issue is not shown in the photo above. Rather, that's Ronald Reagan joyously glad-handing Mikhail Gorbachev, who wasn't exactly a Boy Scout.
For lots more photos of American presidents shaking hands with world leaders of dubious repute, check HERE.
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A warrant for the arrest of San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks on charges he assaulted a teammate has been put on hold amid a debate in the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office over whether Brooks should be charged with a felony or a misdemeanor -- or not at all.
The controversy stems from a June 8 incident in which Brooks allegedly struck 49ers nose tackle Lamar Divens three times in the head with a beer bottle and then punched him in the face during an argument over car keys outside Brooks' house in San Jose. The alleged attack left Divens bloodied and requiring three stitches, according to court documents.
At the time, Divens said he wanted to press charges, but he has since changed his mind, according to the warrant application. The alleged attack was also witnessed by two other unidentified team members, one of whom gave a recorded statement to police.
The decision by District Attorney Jeff Rosen over whether to pursue the case as line prosecutors desire could have a major impact on Brooks' career and team, which is set to move to Santa Clara next year. Brooks, now 29, signed a six-year contract extension last year worth $44.5 million, with $17.5 million guaranteed. This season, he helped clinch the NFC Championship by knocking down a key third-down pass to thwart an Atlanta Falcons' drive in the 49ers' 28-24 win Jan. 20.
Rosen declined to comment. Brooks could not be reached for comment. The 49ers declined to comment.
In 2008, when Brooks was playing for the Cincinnati Bengals, he was accused of punching a woman in the face and accepted mediation on the charges, according to media reports. Brooks is 6-feet-4 and weighs about 260 pounds.
Also, at the end of the 2005 season, he was dismissed from the University of Virginia football team because of an unspecified "off the field" incident, according to the university. In 2003, he was charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession. Those charges were dismissed after he completed the requirements of his probation.
Buoyed by the taped eyewitness statement -- and by Brooks' prior record -- prosecutors who routinely handle battery and assault cases submitted an application Thursday to Judge Sharon Chatman seeking an arrest warrant on a felony assault with great bodily injury charge. It carries a maximum sentence of four years behind bars.
A day later, after the judge signed the warrant, higher ranking officials in the DA's office took the rare step of intervening and notified the court at 4:30 p.m. Friday to hold it, a court spokesman said. Sources said some members of Rosen's administration view the case as a wobbler -- meaning it could be pursued as a misdemeanor instead of a felony -- and others want to drop it entirely.
The hesitation is unusual. The Santa Clara County DA's office is widely known in the Bay Area for being the toughest of all nine area offices on crime.
According to the application for Brooks' arrest, the incident unfolded after Brooks, Divens and other 49er players spent the evening of June 7 at different players' houses. Eventually they decided to go to downtown San Jose and keep drinking.
The unidentified witness said Brooks was too intoxicated to drive home, so Divens drove. When they got to Brooks' house about 2 a.m. on June 8, Brooks asked for his keys. Divens pretended to chuck them onto the grass and then started to hand them to him.
Brooks then allegedly clocked Divens in the head with a beer bottle. Brooks allegedly began cursing and then struck him in the head again. Brooks allegedly asked Divens, "Do I need to get my (expletive deleted) gun?" and struck him again. Prosecutors also allege in the warrant that Brooks punched Divens.
Police took a report but did not make any arrests. According to the court documents, a San Jose police sergeant called Divens three days after the incident asking if he still wanted to press charges.
Divens said he and Brooks were in touch and nearing a resolution. Two days later, Divens phoned the officer and told him he wanted to "drop it."
"He said this would be bad for both of their careers and that he just wanted to keep playing and that they had resolved it," according to the documents.
The officer told him the case would be referred to the DA's office for review.
Contact Tracey Kaplan at 408-278-3482 and follow her at Twitter.com/tkaplanreport.


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Furniss wrote:I went with the limited edition silverback from gorilla boy...great design and made well!
I have the LE Silverback. Great bag. More storage than I thought. I have a Chimp as my casual bag but the Silverback has a lot more room. I've had the Chimp for 3-4 year with no issues. Chris makes great bags.


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Jonathan Bernstein SAYS the GOP has painted itself into a corner on the issue of health-care reform:
We�re hearing more and more rumblings from top Republicans that the GOP�s current position on Obamacare is untenable � that the party can�t continue to call for the destruction of Obamacare forever without offering any alternative. The push from the right for a shutdown has only drawn that into sharper relief, and so we�re finally hearing that Republicans � finally! � will make good on their promise, now 30 months overdue, to come up with the �replace� part of repeal-and-replace.
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I've played around a little bit with doing a video walkthrough for West Lake. If successful I would probably do it for the remaining QC courses as well. I envision a quick "fly through" of each hole, as well as the trails in between holes and the beautiful views of the lake.
I'm looking for any additional ideas before I dive too far into this. Like should I end the each hole with a putt that goes in the chains? Crash the camera into the chains? Include a section that shows the brutality of the schule? Talk Eng into narrating the video? Show actual throws on the hole? Include a camera shot that starts at 'level' and then pans to the basket so you can tell how much uphill/downhill it is?
I'm not an expert with video production and I'm not very creative, but I have the capabilities and desire to do it. ANY and ALL ideas and tips are welcomed and appreciated. After this weekend I'll upload a few clips to help generate feedback. Thanks for any help,


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NEW: Fla. high school offers criminal justice diploma
Published: Monday, November 4, 2013 at 10:14 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 4, 2013 at 10:14 a.m.
WEST PALM BEACH - The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is teaming up with Santaluces High School to offer a four-year criminal justice program.
The academy had its first promotional ceremony at the high school in Lantana on Monday morning. Officials say five cadets were promoted to the rank of sergeant. The school's principal, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and Chief Lawrence Leon of the county school district's security department attended the ceremony.
Officials say the program is open to students interested in law enforcement, corrections and the court system. In addition to their high school diplomas, students who complete the program also will earn criminal justice and community service officer diplomas. They also will earn nine college credits, acceptable at any Florida public university.
The program is given during regular school hours.
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This is an excerpt from reporter Scott Johnson's blog, which focuses on the effects of violence and trauma on the community.
Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer who last summer slaughtered 77 people in cold blood, many of them children, was convicted last Thursday and sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum penalty according to Norwegian law. The verdict also allows for Norwegian authorities to keep Breivik in something called "protective custody" for as long as he remains a threat to society, which one assumes will be the rest of his life.
The press accounts of his trial make for interesting reading. Breivik was pleased with the verdict -- he had not wanted to be found "insane" by the court. Such a verdict would have, in his view, invalidated his political crusade against Islam, which he claims lay at the root of his killing spree, the worst in Norway's history.
What I found interesting was that no one seemed to be discussing the possibility that Breivik is a psychopath. Prosecutors brought forth a psychologist who presented the court with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. The court dismissed this notion out of hand, saying that Breivik's ideas about being at war with Islam were not delusional, but simply "a fanatic and right-wing extremist view of the world."
Breivik's defense attorneys, meanwhile, argued that their client was "narcissistic" and "dissocial" -- clinical terms that fall well within the range of conduct disorders, but fall short of the very specific diagnosis of psychopathic. Robert Hare, in his landmark work on Psychopathy, called "Without Conscience," writes that "Psychopathic killers, however, are not mad, according to accepted legal and psychiatric standards. Their acts result not from a deranged mind but from a cold, calculating rationality combined with a chilling inability to treat others as thinking, feeling human beings. Such morally incomprehensible behavior, exhibited by a seemingly normal person, leaves us feeling bewildered and helpless."
Hare is the world's foremost authority on psychopathy and has spent decades working with these predators, inside prison and out. He also developed what's called the "psychopathy checklist," which is used by mental health practitioners in prisons and hospitals around the world to determine where people like Breivik fit in.
Our societies are filled with psychopaths, Hare says. They come in all forms -- politicians, business people, law enforcement officers, artists, doctors and lawyers. There are probably 2 million or so psychopaths in North America, Hare believes. Their qualities? Glibness, a lack of conscience, calculating minds, a lack of empathy, selfishness and an extreme tendency to see other people as objects to be used, squashed, manipulated and destroyed. The most violent among this group of people sometimes go on to become serial murderers. Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez, also known as the "Night Stalker," and John Gacy are among some of the more well-known of them. In his book, "Columbine," Dave Cullen presents a compelling case that Eric Harris, the older of the two high school killers, was a text book psychopath who manipulated the depressive and pliable Dylan Klebold into going along with his murderous plans.
Breivik, it seems to me, fits into this category of psychopathic killers. The similarities to Columbine's Harris, for instance, are intriguing. Harris, like Breivik, also authored a rambling "manifesto" in which all manner of people came in for criticism. Harris justified his psychopathic desire -- some might say need -- to kill by inventing and concocting an entire worldview in which innocent people were turned into victimizers, haters, unworthy of anything good -- people who deserved death and nothing more. Breivik's mental gymnastics led to the same conclusions. The young children at summer camp were guilty simply by their association with a political worldview Breivik managed to elevate to epic heights, and in which he vested more power than any political movement in a democratic country could ever possibly contain. These children, then, needed to be eliminated. One chilling detail from the press accounts revealed that Breivik often stood face-to-face with his terrified victims, looking them in the face as he reloaded his weapons and then set about killing them. What could possibly be more psychopathic than that?
I agree with the court's ruling that Breivik was sane -- the psychiatrists and other experts who specialize in psychopathy routinely point out that these people are not insane the way we typically think of insane -- hearing voices, seeing things that aren't there, having delusional thought patterns about worlds that don't exist and so forth. No, psychopaths simply don't act like other human beings because, in a very real sense, they lack the very qualities that make one human -- empathy, a capacity to love, a need to understand other human beings, a desire and an ability to connect to the world.
As his verdict was read, Breivik announced he had an apology to make. A plea to the victim's families, perhaps? No, nothing of the kind. Breivik stood up and announced he was sorry -- sorry he had not been able to kill more people. His apology, he said, was directed at the vast network of militant nationalists who support his cause. This was probably a lie. In all likelihood, this plea was directed at the only people who could really and truly understand, or possibly replicate, what Breivik did -- other psychopaths.
Contact Scott Johnson at 510-208-6429 or email@example.com.


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About the Book
"It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22." —The Financial Times<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
"It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what we learn about the candidates themselves: their frailties, egos and almost super-human stamina." —The Financial Times
"I can't put down this book!" —Stephen Colbert
Game Change is the New York Times bestselling story of the 2008 presidential election, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the best political reporters in the country. In the spirit of Richard Ben Cramer's What It Takes and Theodore H. White's The Making of the President 1960, this classic campaign trail book tells the defining story of a new era in American politics, going deeper behind the scenes of the Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin campaigns than any other account of the historic 2008 election.
In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton—and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama's partner and America's face to the world. The mercurial performance of John McCain and the mesmerizing emergence of Sarah Palin. But despite the wall-to-wall media coverage of this spellbinding drama, remarkably little of the real story behind the headlines had been told—until now.
In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns. Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel.
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"A smoking new book. . . . The real revelation in Game Change: Campaigns turn our politicians into lunatics." — Tina Brown, The Daily Beast
"Heilemann and Halperin have conducted hundreds of interviews to provide the inside story of the 2008 campaign. . . . It vividly shows how character flaws large and small caused Obama's opponents to self-destruct." — Jacob Heilbrunn, The New York Times Book Review
"A thoroughly researched, well-paced and occasionally very amusing read. . . . The result is something that conveys the feel, or perhaps more accurately the smell, of one of recent history's most thrilling elections, and it does so better than any of the other books already on the market." — The Economist
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"Compulsively readable. Once begun, you can't put it down. . . . Deeply and knowledgeably reported and presented with all the cool sophistication one would expect from two accomplished political reporters." — Tim Rutten, The Los Angeles Times
"Riveting, definitive. . . . A great campaign book. . . . Halperin and Heilemann got insiders to cough up astonishing artifacts, including emails and recordings. . . . Game Change is really interesting, and puts you deep in the middle of it." — Kurt Andersen, Very Short List
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"The authors of Game Change succeed in creating a plausible account of the emotional tumult of the 2008 campaign as it might have been—perhaps even was—experienced by the candidates, their spouses, and their staffs." — Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
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OAKLAND -- One of the biggest names in policing is coming to Oakland to help turn around a department he said last year was trapped in "a perfect storm of bad."
William Bratton, who has headed both the New York City and Los Angeles police departments, is being brought in as a consultant to focus on reducing violent crime, city leaders announced Thursday.
"Bratton will help us build on the smart police strategies Chief (Howard) Jordan has already put in place," Mayor Jean Quan said.
Bratton will be advising a department with an increasingly Byzantine management structure that faces enormous pressure from both an angry citizenry fed up with soaring crime rates and a federal judge frustrated with the slow pace court-ordered reforms.
Bratton's role will be separate from that of the soon-to-be named police compliance director, who will have sweeping powers over the department to complete the reform program the city agreed to a decade ago.
Jordan said that Bratton will meet with officers, city officials and community members and "do whatever he needs to do to get a feel for Oakland."
Bratton, who will be paid about $125,000, was not available to reporters.
His crime reduction plan will include a review of the city's crime-tracking technology and recommendations for building trust with residents, the chief added.
Both Jordan and Mayor Jean Quan said that Oakland's crime wave this year was unacceptable. They laid out initiatives for 2013 including reinstituting neighborhood-based policing districts beginning February in East Oakland.
As of last month, burglaries were up 43 percent and robberies were up 24 percent compared to the previous year. Arrests for drug and weapons violations both were down about 25 percent over the same period. The city already has tallied 127 homicides -- 17 more than last year.
During his seven years in Los Angeles from 2002 to 2009, Bratton oversaw a 45 percent drop in major crimes and a 41 percent drop in homicides. His tenure in New York City from 1994-96 also coincided with double-digit crime drops.
Council President Larry Reid said Bratton "brings a whole different level of expertise that is sorely needed in our police department."
But Bratton himself has acknowledged that Oakland presents a unique set of challenges.
In a Wall Street Journal interview last year he said he didn't "see anything positive at all happening" in the city.
"It's a perfect storm of bad: too much oversight, not enough support from city leaders, too few officers," he said.
Oakland is down to just 616 officers -- roughly one cop per 660 residents. When Bratton left Los Angeles, the department had roughly one officer per 400 residents.
Bratton has gained a reputation for turning around troubled departments by aggressively pursuing quality of life crimes and meticulously tracking crime data.
He pioneered the CompStat crime tracking system that Oakland recently adopted. Bratton also has defended allowing police officers to "stop and frisk" suspects they believe were involved in a crime -- a tactic that has not been embraced in Oakland.
In Los Angeles, Bratton won accolades for improving relations with minority communities and implementing court-ordered reforms similar to those Oakland police still haven't fully satisfied in the aftermath of the Riders' police brutality scandal.
Oakland's failure to complete those reforms has left it with an increasingly complex police hierarchy. While Jordan answers to top city leaders, the incoming compliance director will also have authority over Jordan but report directly to a federal judge.
Jordan didn't expect Bratton to have contact with the compliance director, who will focus on making sure the department better polices itself.
Frank Zimring, a Berkeley Law School professor who studied Bratton's tenure in New York, said he can help bring organizational know-how to Oakland but needs to be involved in all aspects of the department and have the ear of all the key players.
"There is absolutely no way of separating police crime issues from police management issues," he said. "He should have a portfolio as wide as the issues now confronting Oakland policing."
Bratton last month stepped down as head of Kroll, a private investigation and risk mitigation firm.
In Oakland, he is teaming up with police consultant Robert Wasserman, who already had a $100,000 contract to access the department and review violence and crime prevention strategies.
Quan will be asking the City Council next month to approve an additional $250,000 to Wasserman's firm, Strategic Policy Partnership, LLC, for both short-term and long-term crime reduction studies undertaken by Bratton.
The funds would not come out of the police department budget, and the contract would not have a specific end date, officials said.
Oakland already has spent nearly $1 million this year on police consultants, mostly to clear a backlog of internal affairs investigations.
Jim Chanin, one of two attorneys who represented plaintiffs in the Riders case, said the city has a poor track record of listening to police consultants. "The issue isn't Bratton," he said. "The issue is the sheer number of consultants they've hired and the city's finances."
In addition to bringing in Bratton, the city is moving forward with hiring more civilians to relieve officers from menial tasks and contracting with Alameda County to beef up patrols. With more staffing, Jordan said police would divide the city into five police districts, with top commanders being held more accountable for the sections they control.
Contact Matthew Artz at 510-208-6435.