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Get dirty, have fun and grow more food with great gardening tips from real-life gardeners.
By Hannah Kincaid
root systems, botanical illustrations, vegetable crops, vegetable roots, John E Weaver
If you're as much of a plant nerd as we are, prepare to get absorbed. John E. Weaver, an American botanist, prairie ecologist and Professor at the University of Nebraska, completed a massive project in the year of 1927. With the help of his team of assistants, Weaver meticulously illustrated the root development of 34 popular vegetable crops (see the illustration of mature onion roots, right). In the massive undertaking that was partly botanical and partly archeological, Weaver and his team dug trenches approximately 5 feet deep to study the plant's root systems from the side. The five-foot-deep trench created a big enough expanse onto which the scientists could slowly chisel with hand picks and ice picks to uncover and carefully examine the vegetable's complicated root systems.
This painstaking work required much patience and expertise. The plants were studied and illustrated at multiple stages of growth in order to best represent general, long-term root habits. Every plant studied was grown in sets of at least three. This was done so that an excavation performed at two weeks of growth would not affect the results of an excavation performed after six weeks or two months. Every set of fragile roots was left undisturbed until it was time to dig.
Drawings of the root systems were made in the field on a large drawing sheet with pencil, and then later retraced with ink. Although the drawings were made on a large scale, the rootlets were often so abundant that it was still impossible to show every detail. In every case, the drawings were made to illustrate the average condition of the roots, rather than the extreme. Accompanying the illustrations are fastidious field notes regarding plant spacing, soil health, crop growth and more.
Weaver's findings were published in Root Development of Vegetable Crops (1927), the sister publication to Root Development of Field Crops (1926). In 1929 Weaver partnered with ecological pioneer Henry Chandler Cowles to publish the first American ecology textbook.
The following illustrations are all documented on 1-by-1-foot grid lines.
Asparagus roots, 6 years
Bean roots, 1 month
Bean roots, 2 month
Bean roots, surface view, 6 inches
Beet roots, 6 weeks
Beet roots, 10 weeks
Beet roots, 3.5 months
Cabbage roots, 55 days after transplanting
Cabbage roots, 75 days after transplanting
Carrot roots, 47 days
Carrot roots, 77 days
Carrot roots, mature
Cauliflower roots, 3 weeks after transplanting
Cauliflower roots, 8 weeks after transplanting
Cucumber roots, 4 weeks
Cucumber roots, 6 weeks
Cucumber roots, surface view
Eggplant roots, 7 weeks
Lettuce roots, 3 week soil comparison. The roots on the right were grown in compact soil, the roots on the left were grown in loose soil. Avoid planting seedlings in compact soil by following the tips in this article, Care and Cultivation of Permanent Garden Beds.
Lettuce roots, 2 months
Onion seedlings of the same age. The one on the right was grown in compact soil, the one on the left in loose soil. Avoid planting seedlings in compact soil by following the tips in this article, Care and Cultivation of Permanent Garden Beds.
Onion roots, 8 weeks.
Onion roots, 3.5 months
Onion roots, mature
Pea roots, 6 weeks
Pea roots, mature
Pepper roots, 24 days after transplanting
Pepper roots, 6 weeks
Pepper roots, nearly mature
Radish roots, 5 weeks
Radish roots, 2 months
Spinach roots, 6 weeks
Spinach roots, 10 weeks
Sweet corn roots, 16 days
Sweet corn roots, 8 weeks
Mature sweet corn roots, view from above
Sweet potato roots, 23 days after transplanting a root cutting.
Sweet potato roots, 53 days
John E. Weaver and his team of assistants dug trenches approximately 5 feet deep to study the root systems of popular vegetable varieties.
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|Work Title
|Violin Sonata in B minor
|Alternative Title
|Paine, John Knowles
|Opus/Catalogue Number
|B minor
|3 movements
|First Publication
|1991 - Madison: A-R Editions
|Composer Time Period
|Piece Style
|Violin & piano
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The piano score is in Paine's hand, the original of which is at Harvard. It is not in a final state, and the reader is advised to consult the AR Editions printed edition for the 1905 revision. The Autograph is presented here with small adjustments of placement of page numbers, etc. to allow it to be enlarged by 111% in letter size. No content changes were made. As for my hand-copied violin part, it is copied from the Paine piano autograph, not from a free-standing violin autograph part [which may not exist]. According to "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States/1 January 2012" by Peter B. Hirtle, since the work is unpublished and the author died before 1942, the work is in pd in the U.S. at the least.
- The work is actually published. Under the standard legal doctrine of publication, all extant versions of a work are published at the same time of first publication (of any version, even an arrangement). The above assertion that the work is public domain in the USA due to it being an early version fails to account for this. Carolus

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A fever for the flavor of a...tonic?By: Jeff Cioletti |
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At some point when the world was busy talking about the global whiskey resurgence, gin managed to sneak in a renaissance of its own. The epicenter of the modern gin explosion is in the country that put the spirit on the map in the first place: the United Kingdom (one could argue that the credit belongs mostly to the Netherlands because gin is an evolution of the Dutch juniper-flavored spirit, jenever, but that British adaptation of that product is what we traditionally think of as "gin"). Small gin distilleries have sprouted up all over the U.K., in the U.K.; in 2015, a record-breaking 49 new distilleries opened in the country, The Guardian reported. Sales, on and off premise topped £900 million (US$1.3 billion) last year and there's no better place to witness the gin frenzy in action than in the capital. Throughout most of the nineteenth and into the early twentieth century, gin production was booming throughout London.
But consumer tastes changed and by the 1950s, all but one distillery—Beefeater, today owned by Pernod Ricard—had left the city; some sought less cost-prohibitive real estate, others simply shuttered. Beefeater remained the only one until 2009 when Sipsmith Distillery official opened its doors. Now there are close to a dozen gin distilleries in London. There have been so many beneficiaries of the British gin boom—from the distilleries themselves to classic English pubs that have been able to reinvent themselves as major gin destinations. But it became clear to me in February when I attended Gin Festival London and embarked on a subsequent gin-centric pub crawl that the biggest winner was neither a gin brand nor a bar or off-premise retailer that sells it. I would argue that it's tonic water and one brand in particular: Fever-Tree.
It's funny because Fever-Tree, the trendy brand packaged in premium glass bottles, has been on my radar for some time. In the weeks prior to either the Fancy Food Show or the National Restaurant Association Show, I would, like clockwork, receive press releases showcasing the brand as part of a British imports pavilion. Fever-Tree boasts several tonic varieties, from an original, unflavored offering, to an elderflower tonic. And all mix remarkably well with gin.
Not only did Fever-Tree's sponsorship of Gin Festival make its products and signage ubiquitous at events, but its presence in pubs with vast gin lists has made it something of a mark of quality. It's listed by name on many bar menus; you're not ordering a gin and tonic, you're ordering a gin and Fever-Tree. The premium packaging also makes it more of an attractive component of a mixologist's tool chest, as well as in one-s home bar—much better than the generic yellow-labeled PET bottles we're all used to.
The craft cocktail movement has spurred plenty of innovation in the natural, artisanal mixer space (there certainly was no shortage of them at the most recent edition of the aforementioned Fancy Food Show). But sometimes, as in a brand like Fever-Tree, real innovation lies in tried-and-true simplicity.
Jeff Cioletti is editor at large of Beverage World and author of the book, The Year of Drinking Adventurously, now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and independent book stores across the U.S.


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Holiday lights bring joy to the season throughout the WXII viewing area. Unfortunately, they can also bring hazards.
Each year, according to the U.S. Fire Administration, hundreds of homes are damaged by fires that involve Christmas trees and holiday lights. More than $25 million in damage occurs in these preventable accidents.
The hectic nature of the season is partly to blame, as people are trying to accomplish many tasks at once. But safety when decorating your home shouldn't be taken for granted.
If you've already installed your holiday lights for this year, double check for damaged sockets and loose connections. Make sure your Christmas tree isn't close to a heat source, and don't leave your lights and burning candles unattended.
Then, after the holidays, make sure to properly dispose of your tree.
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Massive potholes delayed an anxious family's urgent dash to hospital with a seriously ill baby when the horrific road conditions in Carlanstown caused a tire to blow out.
The Purfield family of Drakerath, Carlanstown are terrified that their little boy, Charlie, who had a serious heart operation last May, might not get help in time if he needs it.
Ray Purfield says the road outside his house is like a minefield.
"Some of the holes are half way up my shins when I am standing in them," he said.
"Charlie still has up and downs and we often have to drop everything and rush to Crumlin at any hour of the day.
"It came to a head recently when at 2:30 in the morning. Charlie took bad and we were advised to head to Crumlin. As you can imagine, these things happen in a rush and while heading through our minefield I got a blow out and had to swap cars.
"Now, thank God, everything was fine in the end, but what if those few minutes make a difference in getting to hospital in time? If an ambulance is needed how would they get here in time?" he asked.
Purfield said that cars need to be crawling along the road, which runs in a horseshoe off the N52 near Staholmog, in order to avoid the potholes, and it is difficult to see them at night.
"I am afraid of my life that something will happen and that we will not be able to get out," he said.
"When a child is sick you don't want to have to spend 10 minutes traveling just 100 meters. We live less than half a mile from the main road, but it literally takes us more than 10 minutes to get to it."
A spokesperson for Meath County Council said they are aware of the problems on the lane, which is on a prioritization list for road restoration works in 2014.
"However, the council will endeavor to carry out some interim repairs to facilitate access," she said.
- Meath Chronicle
Thief Scared Of Mother
A teenager who stole his mother's car in the middle of the night and crashed into two vehicles said, "My mother is going to kill me, I've wrecked the car" before fleeing the scene.
The 17-year-old was before Kilmallock Court charged with the unauthorized taking of a vehicle and two counts of criminal damage. A guilty plea was entered to all counts.
Sergeant Michelle Leahy said Gardai (police) responded to a call of a hit and run at Kylefea, Croom in the early hours of Friday morning, October 11.
"Gardai attended the scene and met one of the car's owners. They said a silver Volkswagen had hit off both of the cars, drove off and was abandoned.
"Gardai checked the vehicle and went to the house of the owner," said Leahy.
Another witness told Gardai they had seen two young males in dark clothes leaving the car and heard one saying, "My mother is going to kill me, I've wrecked the car."
Gardai called to the home of the teen's mother, who did know not the car had been taken. They checked his bedroom which was empty.
"Gardai heard a noise and the defendant came in to the house. He was very defensive about his actions," said Leahy.
The young male's solicitor, Denis Linehan, said on the night in question his client couldn't sleep.
"He located his mother's car keys on a seat and decided to go for a drive. He was driving very fast, hit two cars and abandoned his mother's car.
"He was defensive and didn't make a proper admission for another few hours," said Linehan.
The court heard that in terms of compensation for the damage caused in the crash the mother's insurance or the injured parties insurance will cover it. Without wishing to sound "elitist," Linehan said the teenager comes from an excellent background and family.
"He is causing great grief and it is having a devastating effect on the overall family. He is creating mayhem," said Linehan.
The court heard that he dropped out of school after the Junior Cert and now spends his days at home.
Linehan said his Junior Cert results showed the 17-year-old had "some talent" and "should be in some form of education."
The teen was convicted by Judge Larkin who ordered a report from the probation and welfare services. She said her views on sentencing will be colored by how he goes about becoming a responsible functioning adult.
"He has to be of good behavior and sober habits," said Larkin, who added that he now had "two choices."
"This is either a stepping stone to a life in jail or to living a life," concluded the judge.
- Limerick Leader
Toilet Trawler
A 57-year-old man who was caught with his trousers down while engaging in a sexual act in a public toilet in Enniskillen has been ordered to serve a two-year probation order.
Thomas James Loughran was caught by a number of police officers in the Head Street public toilets on August 24 following a complaint by a member of the public.


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My sister's boyfriend is Brazilian, and I was fortunate enough to meet his lovely parents this weekend. The timing was perfect for this country's cuisine. They recommended I make "feijoada" a robust meat and black bean stew. His mom even texted me tips while I spent my Sunday cooking this time consuming dish (while watching the final match of the World Cup taking place in Brazil). Let me tell you, it was completely worth all the work! Plus, even the true Brazilian loved it; although, he said it needed more beans so I have adjusted the recipe accordingly.
Named for feijão, the Portuguese word for beans, this rich dish incorporates an assortment of beans and pork meat, cooked low and slow until so tender it melts in your mouth. I used bacon, pork shoulder, pork loins, and chorizo but you can mix it up and try any cut of meat that stands up well to slow cooking. Additionally, please try and purchase high quality, sustainably sourced meats. It will make this delicious stew ever so much better!
For the meat and bean stew:
- 2 pounds dried black beans, soaked overnight (and save the water!)
- 8 slices bacon
- 1 pound boneless pork shoulder, bone in is fine
- ½ pound pork chops (smoked if you can find them)
- ½ pound chorizo sausage
- 8 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 bay leaves
For the rice:
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 8 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 cups brown jasmine rice
- 2 bay leaves
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
For the collards:
- 20 collard green leaves
- 6 garlic cloves
- 1 red onion
- 1 bell pepper
- 3 slices bacon, diced
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
For the salsa vinaigrette:
- 2 plum tomatoes
- 1 onion
- 2 limes
- 1 bunch fresh parsley
- ⅓ cup red wine vinegar
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Optional toppings:
- Orange slices
- Farofa, a common Brazilian topping that I would describe as similar to bread crumbs. We had leftover true Farofa from a meal on Saturday so I did not make any, however, it is commonly used for this dish. There are many recipes available online, I recommend using the true arinha de mandioca which is a much courser and less starchy manioc flour than regular tapioca flour which many recipes recommend.
- Soak the beans overnight for best results. You can also do a quick soak if in a hurry by booing them. Save the water you soak them in which will be used in the stew.
- Chop all the meat for the beans into similar sized pieces, about 2 inches each.
- Heat a large pot or dutch oven over medium-high heat, and cook the bacon for about 5 to 10 minutes. Add the rest of the meat and let brown for about 8 to 10 minutes. Add the minced garlic, bay leaves, beans and the reserved water from the beans and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 2 to 3 hours or until the stew is thick and the meat falls off the bone (if you used any bones). Before serving, remove any bones and the bay leaves.
- While the stew is cooking, make the rice. In a large pot, sauté the garlic in the oil. Add the rice, bay leaves, salt, pepper, and 4 cups water. Bring to a boil, lower heat to medium-low; cook, covered, until rice is tender, about 20 minutes. Remove the bay leaves before serving.
- Prep the ingredients for the collard greens. De-stem the collard greens by slicing around them as shown in the picture above. Then roll the leaves in a bundle and slice thinly. Slice the onion and red pepper thinly as well. Mince the garlic and chop the bacon into pieces.
- In a skillet over medium-high heat, cook the chopped bacon. Add the collards, pepper, onion, garlic, and a spoonful of liquid from the bean and meat stew. Cook until the collards are wilted, about 5 to 10 minutes.
- Finally, make the vinaigrette. Finely dice the tomato, pepper, onion, and parsley and put into a large bowl. Add the juice of 2 limes, vinegar and season with salt and pepper.
- To serve the feijoada, layer the rice with the collards and bean and meat stew. Top with the vinaigrette, oranges, and farofa.


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Acceptance criteria: Permission of the DUGS from both participating departments. 2.0 GPA; 2.5 GPA in LIN 205 and 207.
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Particle Accelerator is an event dedicated to the memory of the Legendary Jack Young, Jr. Proceeds will be donated to United Services (www.UnitedServicesCT.org), a non-profit center providing extensive behavioural health and social services for Northeastern CT.
is the website for the event and it is there that you can donate money if for some reason you can't make the show. But you SHOULD make the show.
It's an all-day event that starts and noon and goes until about midnight. Late afternoon is when my band will play, and right after that is the SFR block (BeeDeezy and Pro, I believe in that order). If you get there around 2:00 you won't miss a thing and catch some cool acoustic music, too.
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As some of my closer friends my know, a friend of mine committed suicide a few months back. He was having some troubles with various issues, and had tried to check himself into a mental health facility - but was turned away because he had no health insurance.
We can't do anything about having lost a very talented and genuine young man - but what we CAN do is try to keep this from happening again by doing our best to make some money available to those who need it. All the proceeds from this show are going to an organization that provides grants for mental health care in the event someone cannot pay for the care that they need.
Jack was a fan of my hip hop but didn't get the opportunity to experience my other ventures - so as a tribute to his memory, I will be performing a brief hip hop set in ADDITION to the Rectangle Club performance. I haven't done a hip hop show in...maybe 3 or 4 years at this point...and I hope that it compels a few more people to come out and help us raise money for the cause.
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NCAA Preview: Which Minnesota team will show up?
Many are picking the No. 11 seed Gophers to knock off No. 6 UCLA in the first round of their South Region clash. Yes, Minnesota is in a funk, losing three in a row and seven of 10. But this still is a talented, athletic and physical team that's capable of big things with players like Andre Hollins, Austin Hollins, Rodney Williams and Trevor Mbakwe, among others.


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The Lux TX9000TS is a lower cost programmable thermostat offering. This thermostat has many specs in common with the more expensive TX9000RF. Both thermostats allow you to program seven days at a time, each day different, with four periods throughout each day where you can pre-program different temperatures.
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Like the TX9000RF, the TX9000TS is Energy Star approved, and comes with a pre-programmed heating and cooling schedule that Lux promotes as saving you money and lowering your carbon footprint, should you choose to use it. However, the TX9000RF's schedule is promoted as saving you up to $500 on energy costs, whereas the TX9000TS's heating schedule is only promoted as saving you up to $180. The main difference between the two thermostats is the fact that the TX9000RF has a remote control and Speed Dial for quick programming of the thermostat, and the TX9000TS has a backlit touchscreen display and no Speed Dial. The Lux TX9000TS also has a touchscreen lockout code, so that you can stop unwanted tamperers from changing the temperature.
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UNITY, N.H. (AP) — Counselors are available at a New Hampshire school to help those mourning the deaths of three teenagers killed in a crash in Unity.
Two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old died Sunday afternoon when their car went off the road, struck a tree and split in two pieces. Another 17-year-old was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
The Eagle Times of (http://bit.ly/1oD0cCR ) reports that one of the teens killed, 18-year-old Brittany Bailey, graduated from Stevens High School in Claremont earlier this year. Superintendent Middleton McGoodwin says counselors from the school district and West Central Behavioral Health will be at the Sugar River Valley Regional Technical Center on Monday.
The 17-year-olds have not been identified. Authorities say speed was a factor in the crash.
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Red Dress Show: Wonder Woman Lynda Carter Kicks Off NY Fashion Week
Lynda Carter showed New York fashion-followers Friday morning why she's still — and likely always will be — an inspiring Wonder Woman figure.
To a chorus of hoots and hollers, the 57-year-old actress glided onto the runway wearing Carolina Herrera at the Heart Truth Red Dress Collection fashion show, sensually swerving her hips while mouthing the words to "When You're Good to Mama" from the musical "Chicago." The playful performance was a daring and refreshing break from the measured walking you'll see on most fashion runways.
Indeed, the entire show, which officially kicked off New York's fashion week, offered an uplifting beginning to eight days of runway events and fashion presentations in which designers' Fall 2009 collections will be unveiled. The event, which is staged each season to raise awareness for women's heart disease, this year featured dresses in all shades of red from contemporary labels such as Cushnie et Ochs and Tracy Reese and big names like Vera Wang and Michael Kors.
Instead of models, celebrities walked the runway. Ms. Carter aside, Cicely Tyson (in a regal ballgown by b.michael that featured voluminous balloon sleeves) and Valerie Bertinelli (in a strapless Christian Siriano gown) probably tied for the loudest audience applause. Although, Olympian Nastia Liukin bopping down the runway (in a Max Azria minidress) to the Pointer Sisters' "Jump" was a clear crowd favorite as well.
"This is just a great way to start the week," said designer Pamella Roland, who doesn't usually attend fashion week shows because she's so busy sewing up her collection. Ms. Roland, who participated in the Red Dress show for the first time this season, said she came out to check out the strapless gown she created for Daisy Fuentes to wear in the show. (Carmen Marc Valvo, who designed a dress featuring straps studded with red baubles for Katie Couric, was also prominent in the front row.) Ms. Roland's dress and Ms. Carter's Carolina Herrera gown are among the nine dresses that are being auctioned off to raise money for the Heart Truth campaign.
For Ms. Roland, the Red Dress show also gave her a chance to offer an early preview of her collection, which she's showing on Tuesday. The designer, who was snapped by photographers covering the event, wore a navy blue pinstriped jacket dotted with Swarovski crystals at the hip that she said she's planning to show on Tuesday. Her upcoming collection, which she said is inspired by Faberge eggs and gilded Russian looks, will feature more daywear and fewer eveningwear pieces than usual, noted Kenneth Marks, Ms. Roland's director of sales and marketing. "A lot of the ladies that shop with us don't want to be seen shopping for evening gowns in this economy," he said. "They're going back into their closet and pulling things out."


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Possible NDP Win in British Columbia Poses Further Obstacle to Pipeline Projects
By Paul Vieira
British Columbia voters head to the polls Tuesday and all signs point to the left-leaning New Democratic Party capturing power—a development that would pose a big obstacle to pipeline projects that aim to ship Alberta heavy crude to B.C.'s Pacific ports.
A victory for the NDP in Canada's westernmost province would mean an end to the British Columbia Liberal Party's 12-year reign, first under Gordon Campbell and more recently under Premier Christy Clark. It could also further complicate efforts by oil producers in neighboring Alberta to move that province's heavy crude to new markets in Asia.
The NDP, led by Adrian Dix, has said it "firmly opposes" Enbridge planned Northern Gateway pipeline. "It puts our environment and the economy in northern British Columbia at risk. It's simply not in the province's interests," the party's official policy platform says.
Following Washington's initial rejection of TransCanada Keystone XL, Canada's Conservative government made an aggressive push in support of Northern Gateway and the need to sell energy products to Asia. But the project has run into stiff opposition from aboriginals and environmentalists in British Columbia, and polling has consistently indicated a majority of residents oppose the project. Federal Conservative legislators have said in private they believe the project's future is very much in doubt.
Northern Gateway isn't the only pipeline in the NDP's crosshairs. During the election campaign, Mr. Dix also cast serious doubt on the future of Kinder Morgan planned expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline, from near Edmonton to Vancouver, British Columbia's largest city. The NDP, in its policy platform, said the port in Vancouver should not be "converted into a major oil export facility."
A spokesman for Enbridge said the Calgary-based company wants to work "with any B.C. government" to ensure any proposed project represents a "responsible" development of natural resources, and benefits all of the province's 4.4 million residents. Meanwhile, the president of Kinder Morgan's Canadian unit, Ian Anderson, said in a statement the company is confident it can satisfy concerns about its proposed project, "regardless of which party wins the B.C. election."
The two pipeline projects require federal regulatory approval, from the National Energy Board, before they can proceed, and a decision on Northern Gateway is expected before the end of 2013. However, the province of British Columbia can impede the project's development. The current Liberal premier, Ms. Clark, said last year the province wouldn't issue permits required for Northern Gateway's construction unless a series of conditions were met — such as financial compensation from its provincial neighbor, Alberta, where the heavy crude originates.
A lack of pipeline infrastructure, combined with an increase boost in U.S. oil production, has created a glut of western Canadian crude, and weighed on the price fetched by Canadian petroleum products on international markets. The discount on Alberta heavy crude versus West Texas Intermediate widened to as high as $32.84 a barrel in January, but recent data compiled by Bank of Nova Scotia economists suggest the gap has since narrowed, to roughly $23 as of April.
Amid opposition in British Columbia, pipeline companies — led by TransCanada — are now eyeing projects that would move Alberta crude in the other direction, towards refining markets in eastern Canada.
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In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 photo, Syrian girls who fled their homes with their families peek out of their makeshift school at a camp for displaced Syrians in the village of Atmeh, Syria. This tent camp sheltering some of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians uprooted by the country's brutal civil war has lost the race against winter: the ground under white tents is soaked in mud, rain water seeps into thin mattresses and volunteer doctors routinely run out of medicine for coughing, runny-nosed children. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)


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|The statistical strength of experiments to reject local realism with photon pairs and inefficient detectors
|March 18, 2010
|Because of the fundamental importance of Bell's theorem, a loophole-free demonstration of a violation of local realism is highly desirable. Here, we study violations of local realism involving photon pairs. We quantify the experimental evidence against local realism by using measures of statistical strength related to the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, as suggested by W. van Dam, P. Grunwald and R. Gill [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory. 51, 2812 (2005)]. Specifically, we analyze a test of local realism (LR) with an entangled state created from two independent polarized photons passing through a polarizing beam splitter. We study the detection efficiency required to achieve a specified statistical strength for the rejection of local realism depending on whether photon counters or detectors are used. Based on our results, we find that a test of LR free of the detection loophole requires photon counters with efficiency at least ~ 89.71 %, or photon detectors with efficiency at least ~ 91.11 %. For higher efficiencies we obtain and display the relationship between statistical strength and efficiency for optimized experimental configurations involving either the above source or an ideal source of unbalanced Bell states, which is known to allow for efficiencies as low as 2/3.
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The Cauley Conversation, Part 2: After The Fall
We offer now the second installment of our interview with Gene Cauley, the Arkansas lawyer who pleaded guilty yesterday to two felonies for misusing clients' settlement money. Click here for Part I.
The case at issue which got Cauley in trouble was a securities class action against Bisys Group that Cauley and his plaintiffs co-counsel settled in 2006 for $65.8 million.
The plaintiffs' lawyers in Bisys, Cauley says, earned about $20 million. Cauley was the sole signatory of an account created to hold the clients' portion of settlement, about $45 million. He says he distributed $36 million of that amount to his clients.
But problems cropped up in 2007. Cauley says he ran into cash-flow problems with some of his business ventures. (He has a number of business interests, including car washes, real estate, and an oil & gas firm.) Unable to get a bank loan, Cauley says, he used some of the remaining $9 million in settlement money to pay his business expenses and invested the remainder of the settlement. He says he believed that he would be able to recoup the money in time to pay it to clients in April, when it came due.
Rather than swallowing his pride and admitting he had cash-flow problems, he says, "I took a shortcut."
Asked whether he had ever committed a similar offense in other cases, Cauley says he could not comment. But, he offered, "I have communicated to the U.S. Attorney (in New York) everything I have ever done but pilfering candy bars."
The last few months have been "as bad as you can imagine," says Cauley, who has three children. He says he has come to terms with the fact that he is likely to go to prison. "I've been low before and each time I've come out of it. I'll try to do that in again, likely in another field."


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A Mid-Missouri man pleaded guilty Monday after a baby was found dead in Holts Summit last June. Bryan Sartor could get 21 years in prison for his part in the death of 9-month-old Kyson Weathers. The boy was found blue and unresponsive. Police say Sartor and his girlfriend Megan Ayers admitted to using meth and checking on the baby 11 hours after putting him to bed. Ayers already pleaded guilty in December to the same charges - two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of possessing meth. Ayers was sentenced to five years, but could be released on probation after serving 120 days, pending approval from a judge.
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Definition of chrisom in English:
A white robe put on a child at baptism.
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- If the child died within a month of baptism, the chrisom-cloth was used as a burial shroud.
- Chrisomer literally means an infant buried in its baptism robe (chrisom).
- This white vesture was worn for a month after the child's birth, and if it died before the expiration of that time, it had the chrisom for its shroud.
Middle English: alteration of chrism, representing a popular pronunciation with two syllables.
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I open my mother's bedroom door.
"Good morning, Mom," I chirp, as I part the drapes. The chirp is a feeble bluff. I already know it isn't going to be a good morning. I know she had a rough night. She was coughing like a '57 Mercury on a steady diet of low-test.
At about midnight, I had to give her medicine. It was either that, or drive her to the Al's Gas & Garage.
I retreated to the living room with John Steinbeck. I sat in the recliner until dawn, in a sleeve of yellow light… listening. I keep an eye on her with my ears.
Even with the drapes pulled, this cold Sunday morning in early March offers more gloom than light. I put my hand to her forehead, a slight fever. She is wan, and looks tired. Still, she tries to greet me with a smile of recognition. Recognition would have meant a lot to me. But she coughs instead. I'm not insulted. She's ill.
I leave her in bed and, as per our practiced morning routine, I tell her I'll be right back to help her bathe. Another bluff. I call for an ambulance instead.
Mom will turn 87-years-old in a few weeks. She and I both suffer from Alzheimer's. That is the way with this disease. Nobody is allowed to suffer alone.
Mom has also succumbed to many of the other physical insults that get blithely piled on the hapless, helpless folks who have the effrontery to live beyond their ability to care for themselves. For the most part, though, I can handle all that crap. I have been handling it on a daily basis for nearly five years.
But today is one of those different days. Today, she needs an ambulance. Again.
The neighbors are getting used to seeing the ambulance in my driveway. Maybe they think it lives here. This is the fourth ambulance sighting in the last seven months.
Mom has become prone to UTIs—Urinary Tract Infections. Nasty buggers, and very high on my list of DEIs—Dreaded Elderly Insults. UTIs rob Mom of her balance, produce fevers, and scramble her eggs even more than usual. What's more, they're not good for her. Though I can recognize these insults, I cannot handle them all. Sometimes a son isn't enough. Sometimes the sun and the moon aren't enough. Sometimes she needs professional care.
"A few days on IV antibiotics will do it," the doctors always assure me. And, of course, I am always thoroughly assured. Has anybody seen the turnip truck I just fell off of?
So, every time I bring her back home, she's as good as new. Until I have to call the ambulance again. Have you ever seen Ground Hog Day?
The doctors and nurses tell me there is no way to prevent Mom's UTIs.
"She's incontinent," they explain.
Incontinence: Dreaded Elderly Insult Number One. And, sometimes, Number Two, too.
The lead EMT has been to my house before, and recognizes me as soon as I open the front door.
"Fever?" he says, as he and his buddy wrestle the gurney round the narrow, cluttered spaces.
"Just 99.1," I answer. "But she's weak. Disoriented. No vomiting, though. She's alert and breathing easily. But she does have a pretty ragged cough."
He grins and nods at my practiced report.
Hell, I know the routine. I even have all of her insurance cards ready.
"Probably another UTI," he suggests. "But the cough could be something else."
I like this guy. His says what he thinks. Doctors be damned. Of course he says what I already know. Maybe that's why I like him.
"That's my guess, too. UTI. But the cough is unusual. Maybe something she picked up at daycare?"
He shrugs. "All women your mother's age are pretty susceptible…to everything."
He doesn't have to say it, I know what he's thinking, 'Dreaded Elderly Insults.' I can tell that he is insulted, too. Now I know why I like him.
He takes Mom's temperature. "101.4."
He has trumped me. "But I just took it ten minutes ago… it was only…"
"It's good that you called. These things can get out of hand pretty quick."
It's good that I called. I'm proud of myself. I'm getting good at this. Mom is in good hands. So why is she so sick? And why do I want to throw up?
Mom is confused by the strange men in her bedroom, and shoots me an accusing look. She even sticks her tongue out. It's okay, I'm used to it. I chalk it up. Alzheimer's insult.
Even though she doesn't know what's going on, she's quite cordial and cooperative with the EMTs. I've learned that the Alzheimer's Imp reserves her insults only for the primary caregiver. After all, Mom still loves my brother. She hasn't seen him since Christmas. And she doesn't even remember Christmas. But she remembers me. Sometimes I think she wishes she could forget. How's that for Alzheimer's irony?
Just before they slide my mother, like a loaf of bread dough, into the ambulance-oven, I assure her that I'll gather up her essentials, and meet her at the Emergency Room.
"Bring the cake," she says.
"Bring the cake."
"Oh, okay." I have no idea.
I am right on the money with my UTI diagnosis. But I come up craps on the pneumonia and the heart attack.
Heart attack? Where the hell was I?
As a child uber-klutz, I spent more than my fair share of time bleeding and moaning in '50's and '60's Emergency Rooms. And I can attest that things have gotten better. I'm not the one bleeding anymore.
By the time I get past the armed guard (my mother is safe, now), and into the ER, Mom is in a comfortable bed, in a cozy, private nook, and some sort of chicken soup is being pumped into her veins. I hold her hand.
"Oh, Don, what are you doing here?" Don is my absentee brother. Mom can be such a kidder.
Mom seems totally comfortable, and settles in for a nap. I squirm in a hard chair. I pretend to read James Lee Burke's Two For Texas, but I'm really more fascinated by the clock.
Two hours and fourteen minutes later a very harried doctor introduces himself. He is Indian, and his name includes several vowels I have never heard before. He sees the look on my face and smiles with less humor than an anvil.
"Just call me Dr. Almi."
My plan had been to just stick with Doctor, but, hell, this is an emergency. I can, and will adjust.
"Your mother is a very sick woman." And this from a guy who hardly knows her. "She has had a coronary event, or heart attack. She also has pneumonia, and a UTI. We will have to admit her."
He looks at me sharply. "She is a very sick woman."
I guess sarcasm isn't his specialty. I guess he doesn't watch House.
It turns out that Mom has a hole in one of her heart valves. And it's getting bigger. Surgery is out of the question. She would probably die on the operating table. Wouldn't want that. I have a perfectly good TV table. She takes most of her meals there. As good a place as any to keel over, right? Mom, get your face out of the spaghetti!
Six hours and seventeen minutes and thirty-two seconds later, they finally find a bed for Mom. I have already finished Two For Texas. Can anybody tell me what the hell it's about?
After six days in a hospital bed with nothing to do but watch Cream of Chicken drip into her arm, Mom is in no shape to come home. She's weak and disoriented. Naturally, the hospital boots her out.
The doctors and the Social Services Director recommend I send her for a couple of weeks of nursing care.
"But, she's already in a hospital," I observe. "This place is crawling with nurses."
The doctors appear to be confused.
"We were thinking a rehab facility," says the SS Director. Funny, I hadn't noticed her German accent before.
"Rehab? From what, you've got her hooked on Chicken Noodle?"
The doctors all get busy consulting their charts.
"Herr Hill, your mother vill need a lot of care for a few veeks."
I almost heil. "Ja, then, let's get her the hell out of the hospital."


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SINGAPORE—On June 18 at the CommunicAsia conference in Singapore, European satellite bandwidth technology provider Newtec will join with MEASAT to send 4K Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV) video via satellite using the new DVB-S2X (or extension to DVB-S2) transmission scheme.
Both companies are calling this test the first ever contribution of 4K UHDTV video distributed using the new DVB-S2X transmission scheme. Boasting improved spectral efficiency the new DVB standard, promises to give the satellite industry more breathing space to increase profitability and allow for business growth throughout all applications, from high speed IP to broadcast to VSAT. That's according to a white paper written by Koen Willems, Market Director for Government and IP Trunking at Newtec.
When it was approved in March Peter Siebert, DVB's Executive Director, said, "The satellite industry has been anxiously awaiting this standardization, which will help it to improve profitability, interoperability and achieve further growth."
During the demonstration at CommunicAsia, the UHDTV feed will be uplinked via MEASAT's teleport in Cyberjaya, Kuala Lumpur, and delivered live via MEASAT-3 satellite in C-Band, using Newtec's new DVB-S2X modulation equipment (including Newtec's M6100 Broadcast Satellite Modulators and demodulators). Ericsson is providing video processing technology at both ends of the closed link.
With U.S. offices in Stamford, Conn., Newtec's products and technologies can be applied in a wide range of single and multiservice applications from DTH broadcasting, video contribution and distribution and disaster recovery and backbones for cellular backhauling, to small and medium enterprises, SCADA networks, manned and unmanned aircrafts.
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Queeny Park Queens Rule! - Eleanor of Aquitaine LbNA # 22204
|Fairy Princess Fiona
|Placed Date
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|St. Louis
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The "Queeny Park Queens Rule!" Series -
Eleanor of Aquitaine.
This is the fifth in the series.
NOTICE: The Queens have returned from their winter's excursion at long last!
They are ready to receive visitors once again!
This series features a set of historic Queens.
I selected "Queens" as the theme, because, obviously, the very name of
the park just begged for that (even if Queeny is simply the
last name of the man that originally owned the land there)!
Anyway, Some of the Queens that I chose to honor may be familiar to
some of you; others may be unfamiliar to most.
That is because, in selecting the queens, I attempted
to satisfy a number of things.
First, I wanted the queens to be true rulers. That is, not only were
these women titular queens, they also had
power and responsibility of rulership during at least some
part of their tenure.
Second, I wanted to select a variety of queens from relatively recent history,
as well as some from distant to ancient times.
Third, I wanted these queens to be considered rather more
"historic" than "mythological."
Fourth, I wanted to try and repesent queens from various
continents and cultures.
This final criterion was particularly difficult to satisfy, since
our western culture offers us far more historical material to work with
in some areas, and very little in others.
In any case, these are all fabulous women who had fascinating
lives, and I hope you enjoy learning a bit about each of them!
How this works:
I have planted 7 Queen letterboxes, plus one final box.
Each of the 7 Queen boxes will stand on its own, so you can track down any one of them,
in any order, and stamp in for as many or as few of them as you choose.
However, this is also a series. So, for those of you that wish to collect
all 7, you have a further reward you can attain. I have also planted
a final letterbox, which may be viewed as the "crowning glory"
(um... pun intended ;-) of the series.
The final letterbox requires that you find all the others first, and once you
do that, the full instructions for the final one will become available to you.
Featured Queen V - Eleanor of Aquitaine
This Queen lived during 1122 - 1204 AD.
Eleanor was born in France in 1122 AD, and was heiress to Poitou, Aquitaine and Gascony
(nearly 1/3 of France) by the age of eight.
At age 15 she was married to Louis the Fat, whose father died within a week of the
wedding. Thus Louis and Eleanor became King and Queen of France at ages 16 and 15.
As Queen of France, she changed the culture of court by bringing in courtiers, troubadours,
and minstrels. She was a great patron of the arts, and loved poetry and romance.
She accompanied her husband Louis on a crusade, leading 300 women who joined their husbands for the cause.
After this crusade, which was not only unsuccessful but stressful for her marriage,
she and Louis divourced in 1152. That same year she remarried.
Her new husband was Henry, the son of the King of England. Henry became King Henry II
after two years, making Eleanor the Queen of England.
As Queen of England, she again patronized the arts and promoted a culture of music and
poetry that had a lasting impact long after her death. She established the "Courts of
Love" which instituted and popularized the ideals of romance and chivalry that we now
so particularly associate with the Middle Ages. These ideals are the foundation of
works such as "King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table."
Eleanor had 8 children in this marriage, her favorite of which was Richard the Lion-Hearted.
Acting on her ambition to extend her realm, she supported her sons in rebelling
against their father. This rebellion was squashed and landed her in prison for
15 years until her husband's death. Her son Richard became king, but Eleanor
ruled the kingdom with vice-regal powers during Richard's absence when he joined the crusades.
Richard was eventually captured and Eleanor raised the ransom to free him, personally
delivering it and escorting him home.
She lived longer than 80 years. For nearly all her life, and until the last two years
before her death, she involved herself in diplomatic campaigns and political intrigues.
Powerful, ambitious, and exquistely cultured, her life epitomizes courtly life of
the Middle Ages.
Park in the Queeny Park parking lot that is accessed via Mason Road, and is
closest to the Dog Museum. Make your way toward the Dog Museum. Find the main
path that runs behind the Dog Museum and follow it north.
You will pass by some park buildings on your right and eventually get to where
the cars can drive into the park area. You have the option to turn right (which goes
out to Mason), or go left-ish, or go straight. You want to go straight.
Keep on this path, following it as it goes along parallel to the road, until you come
to a sign on the left that lists the trees along the trails. After reading the sign,
keep going on the path. Notice that the path begins to veer left-ish
away from the road and takes you deeper into the woods.
At the point that it begins to veer like that, count about 80 steps.
At about 80 steps you will notice a long fallen log on the right.
Go to the far end of the fallen log (farthest end away from Mason Road) and
look for the letterbox under it, covered by some pieces of wood.
Watch for people and be discreet! This park can be amazingly busy!
NOTICE how the box is hidden so that you can re-hide it
very well, and leave no parts of it visible from any angle.
Bring your own ink or ink pad, and of course paper or a logbook to stamp into,
as well as a pen to log your name, date and where you are from.
This stamp measures 3.25 X 3.5 inches, so you make sure your paper
or logbook is big enough for this.
You may enjoy using magenta, tourquoise, and gold or yellow for this stamp.
Finally, Please be discrete when uncovering and re-hiding this letterbox, if you happen
to visit the site during one of its more crowded times.


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Morning Briefing: Polish Prime Minister to Outline Economic Plan
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- 0930/0730 Polish PM policy speech in parliament
- N/A Czech Sept grain harvest estimate
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk is set to make a long-awaited speech to the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, outlining his government's plans to breathe new life into a flagging economy.
Mr. Tusk is under strong pressure to show leadership as the country's economy is losing steam, while the conservative opposition is gaining ground in opinion polls.
The prime minister will likely try to reassure the nation that his team is better qualified than his rivals to lead Poland through the difficult economic times and will emphasize the need to keep a firm lid on the public deficit.
Poland is the only country in the European Union that hasn't fallen into recession since the global economic crisis took hold in 2008.
POLAND: One year into his second term in office, Poland's centrist Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called a confidence vote for Friday to confirm his coalition's mandate as it tackles a slowing economy amid a surge in popularity for the opposition. Mr. Tusk said Thursday he was "convinced the confidence vote will confirm the mandate that we received from voters" in last October's general election.
POLAND: Polish ruling Civic Platform party's lead over rival conservatives narrowed, pollster CBOS said less than a week after another poll showed the conservatives in first place for the first time in years. The ruling party would win 28% of the vote if parliamentary elections were held in the first week of October, CBOS said Thursday. Support for Civic Platform, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, had fallen three percentage points since September and eight since August.
CZECH REPUBLIC: The Czech central bank can still lower interest rates and at any moment is able to intervene on the market to weaken the koruna and in turn help exporters, the bank's governor said in an interview on the bank's website Thursday. "We have another quarter-basis point to go lower," Miroslav Singer said.
HUNGARY: Hungary is not opposed to joining the euro in principle, but believes it would not be beneficial to do so at the moment, the country's prime minister, Viktor Orban, said here on Thursday.
ROMANIA: Makita (6586) will boost the capacity of its Romanian factory by 150% to 500,000 power tools a month as the company seeks to reduce its reliance on China and diversify production.
Marcin Sobczyk in Warsaw contributed to this article.
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The patent battle continues, once again Apple is sued by one of its competitors for alleged patent infringement. So far nothing new, but this time it's the mobile phone division of Motorola, which was recently acquired by Google. Could this be the first sign of a patent war between Google and Apple?
The website FOSS patents reports that Motorola has to be authorized by Google, all new complaints that regard to infringement of intellectual property have to be agreed by both parties. Motorola Mobility has been given the green light from Google to start an injunction against Apple's iPhone 4S and iCloud. Google and Motorola claim that Apple is infringing on patents that are based on online synchronization and online storage. Motorola hoped that this new case could be added to the lawsuit that was started in late 2010, but the judge ruled that the other case already progressed to far.
In addition to the case in 2010, Motorola claims that Apple is infringing on six patents. Motorola will proceed with the case in the District Court of Mannheim. The action is the European equivalent of the patent, which describes how the synchronization of data and settings is being progressed between multiple devices.
The question remains whether this is a confrontation between Apple and Google, or between Apple and Motorola, it is interesting to see that Google is willing to take on Apple in court. With the acquisition of Motorola, Google hopes to receive a number of patents that could be used in other lawsuits that were started by Apple against Android manufacturers.


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This historical profile of St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria (1502–1539), founder of the Clerics Regular of St. Paul (Barnabites) and of the Angelic Sisters of St. Paul (Angelics), is being published to commemorate the fifth centennial of his birth. This holy man, zealous for God and for souls, dedicated his life to the renewal of his society, which was descending into paganism. He lived in the first half of the sixteenth century and died at thirty-six years of age.
Although Anthony Mary lived hundreds of years ago, his life is thoroughly relevant to the Christians of our day—for his message is rooted in the unchanging Gospel, is permeated with the supreme science of Jesus Christ (as the Church prays in the liturgy), and is animated and guided by the Pauline "foolishness of the Cross."
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June 1, 2005: Computer game enthusiasts, here is juice from Sony! Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. has announced six new software games to be available exclusively for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment/gaming system and the PlayStation® Portable entertainment system. For PlayStation 2, game titles include Shadow of the Colossus™, Genji: Dawn of the Samurai™ and Neopets: The Darkest Faerie™ . For PlayStation Portable, three titles include MediEvil® Resurrection™, The Con™ and Neopets: Petpet Adventures™ - The Wand of Wishing™. These upcoming computer game releases target diverse age groups covering action-adventure to combat genres. The games will be available for sale beginning August 2005.
"As we enter the holiday season for 2005, we are committed to offer a wide variety of content for both PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable that is both broad-appealing and cutting edge for the casual to most savvy gamer," said Sharon Shapiro, senior director, promotions and sports marketing, Sony Computer Entertainment America.
Description for each PlayStation 2 title listed below:
Developed and created by Sony Computer Entertainment America, Santa Monica, and Neopets Inc., Neopets: The Darkest Faerie™ is an action-adventure game that extends the online entertainment of Neopets.com and provides a fully interactive offline experience. In Neopets: The Darkest Faerie , players enter the land of Neopia for the first time in 3D and journey with Neopian characters on an adventure to rid the world from the evil Darkest Faerie. Together they will travel through new lands, meet strange inhabitants and discover a mystery unseen by Neopian eyes.
With over 30 million gamers, Neopets.com is the fastest growing youth community in the world. Neopets.com is consistently ranked among the top 10 stickiest sites on the Internet, generating more than seven billion page views worldwide per month.
Developed in conjunction with Game Republic and Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, Genji: Dawn of the Samurai TM is an intense 3D action-adventure game. Inspired by the 11 th century Japanese literary masterpiece, Tale of Genji, Genji: Dawn of the Samurai provides a dramatic samurai plot fused with fantastical Japanese mythology. This historic samurai tale is set against the beautiful and elegant environments of feudal Japan, and delivers a story of two noble warriors engaged in a crusade against mythical forces controlling Japan. In addition, Genji: Dawn of the Samurai features authentic swordplay choreographed by Japan's leading sword fight composer, and production directed by acclaimed industry veterans.
Developed in conjunction with the developers of the critically acclaimed ICO ™ that released in 2001 exclusively for the PlayStation 2 system, comes an epic adventure Shadow of the Colossus. In Shadow of the Colossus , players take the role of a young man seeking the truth of an ancient tale of power hidden in a mystical land. Shadow of the Colossus is a majestic journey to seek out and destroy gigantic mythical beasts. With a trusty horse at your side, players explore the spacious lands and unearth each Colossi. The uneasy task of defeating a Colossus relies on intelligent puzzle solving and action oriented gameplay. Armed with strong wits, a mystical sword and a sturdy bow, players use cunning and strategy to topple each behemoth.
Description for each PlayStation Portable software title listed below:
Developed in conjunction with Cambridge Studios, MediEvil® Resurrection puts players in the role of Sir Daniel Fortesque to embark on a gothic journey of redemption to defeat the evil sorcerer Zarok. Inspired by the myths, characters, and environments of the popular PS one™ franchise, MediEvil Resurrection provides players with an enchanting storyline filled with numerous levels and gameplay locations, supported with various characters, enemies, weapons, and mini-games that take place in the realm of Gallowmere. In addition, using Wi-Fi gameplay via Ad Hoc mode, players can compete head-to-head in various arcade-style mini games.
Developed by Sony Computer Entertainment America's Santa Monica Studios and Think & Feel, The Con is an innovative 3D fighting game based on an underworld where illegal fighting tournaments exist and high-stakes gambling takes center stage. During gameplay, players can create, customize andtrain their fighter to fight solo or in a team of three. In Story Mode, players can made a bet, pump up the odds and con everyone for the big payoff. In addition, utilizing Ad Hoc mode that enables wireless gaming, The Con allows players to compete in various head-to-head fighting matches. Throughout gameplay, players can learn re-programmable fighting combinations based on five different brawling disciplines - Boxing, Wrestling, Kick Boxing, Tae Kwon Do and Jeet Kune Do.
3. Neopets: Petpet Adventures ™ - The Wand of Wishing™, available November 2005:
Developed and created by Sony Computer Entertainment America, Santa Monica, and Neopets Inc., Neopets: Petpet Adventures ™ - The Wand of Wishing™ is an action RPG game that brings the hidden world of the petpets to life in 3D for the first time. Players can choose from a variety of popular petpet characters to play and, utilizing the wireless Ad-Hoc mode, they will also be able to compete head-to-head in the Battledome and buy, sell and trade special items in the search to recover the fabled wand of wishing.
Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. markets the PlayStation family of products and develops, publishes, markets and distributes software for the PS one game console, the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and the PlayStation Portable entertainment system for the North American market. Based in Foster City, Calif. Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. serves as headquarters for all North American operations and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
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NEW DELHI: Bhartiya Mahila Bank, the first nationalised bank for women expected to be operational from November, intends to recruit 115 officers initially.
The bank has invited applications through online mode from female candidates for 115 posts. Candidates may apply online till September 30.
Female applicants must be graduate in any faculty from any reputed and recognised university with good knowledge of basics of computer, says an advertisement by the bank.


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DHAKA / GENEVA (30 May 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Rashida Manjoo, today urged the Government of Bangladesh to address the challenges faced by women who are victims of violence in accessing justice and seeking redress.
"The absence of effective implementation of existing laws, the lack of responsive justice systems, and impunity for acts of violence, was the rule rather than the exception in cases of violence against women," the human rights expert said at the end of her first official visit to the country, from 19 to 29 May.
Ms. Manjoo noted that the most pervasive form of violence against women in Bangladesh is domestic violence, with a high percentage of married women reported having experienced violence at the hands of a spouse and/or in-laws. Other manifestations include different forms of sexual violence including rape and eve-teasing; discrimination and violence based on ethnicity, religion, caste, indigenous status, disability, or work; dowry-related violence; sexual harassment; forced and/or early marriages; acid attacks; psychological violence in custodial settings; and economic exploitation and cross-border trafficking.
The Special Rapporteur acknowledged the efforts made towards empowering women in Bangladesh, but expressed her concerns at the strong persistence of patriarchal attitudes towards women as well as stereotypical views regarding what their roles and responsibilities should be. "Such attitudes and behaviour have the effect of perpetuating discrimination against women and girls, and contribute to the continuation of violence against them," she said.
Ms. Manjoo also commended the steps taken by the Government towards legislative, policy and programmatic measures to address the development needs of women generally, and violence against women specifically. Despite some positive developments, discrimination and violence against women continues in law and practice and is manifested in various ways.
Ms. Manjoo also referred to the situation of tribal/indigenous peoples and minorities and the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination experienced in numerous areas of life by these women.
In her conclusion, she stressed the need for women's empowerment to be coupled with social transformation to address the systemic and structural causes of inequality and discrimination, and also for urgent attention to the accountability deficit as regards cases of violence against women. During her ten-day visit, the Independent Expert met with government authorities and representatives of the civil society in Dhaka, Chittagong, Rangamati, Khulna and Jessore.
The Special Rapporteur's comprehensive findings will be discussed in the report to be presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in June 2014.
Ms. Rashida Manjoo (South Africa) was appointed Special Rapporteur on Violence against women, its causes and consequences in June 2009 by the UN Human Rights Council. As Special Rapporteur, she is independent from any government or organization and serves in her individual capacity. Ms. Manjoo also holds a part-time position as a Professor in the Department of Public Law of the University of Cape Town. Learn more, visit: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/women/rapporteur/index.htm
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Good Samaritans & the Law: Cali Court Establishes Liability for Rescuers
Suppose you pass a man on the sidewalk who's in the grips of a heart attack. With his last bit of energy he's able to punch 911 into his cell phone and merely needs you to hit the 'send' button. Can you be held liable for refusing?
In first-year torts classes, many American law students are surprised to learn that, in this country, there's no duty to rescue. But consider a corollary: Can you be held liable for a botched rescue attempt that leaves the person in worse shape? Or as torts profs may pose the question, what's the duty of care for rescuers?
Consider yesterday's ruling by the California Supreme Court. In a divided opinion, the court ruled that Lisa Torti — a young woman who in good faith pulled a co-worker from a crashed vehicle after a night of Halloween revelry in 2004 — isn't immune from civil liability because the care she rendered wasn't medical. Torti, according to the L.A. Times, allegedly worsened the injuries suffered by Alexandra Van Horn by yanking her "like a rag doll" from the wrecked car on Topanga Canyon Boulevard. Van Horn was rendered a paraplegic in the accident.
In 1980, the California legislature enacted the Health and Safety Code, which provides that "no person who in good faith, and not for compensation, renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency shall be liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or omission." But Justice Carlos R. Moreno, writing for the majority, ruled that lawmakers intended to shield "only those persons who in good faith render emergency medical care at the scene of a medical emergency." Here's the opinion.
In dissent, three of the seven justices said that by making a distinction between medical care and emergency response, the court was placing "an arbitrary and unreasonable limitation" on protections for those trying to help. The dissenters argued that the aim of the legislation was clearly "to encourage persons not to pass by those in need of emergency help, but to show compassion and render the necessary aid."
Michael Shapiro, a professor of con law and bioethics law at USC, told the LAT that the majority was correct in interpreting that the legislature meant to shield doctors and other healthcare professionals from being sued for injuries they cause despite acting with "reasonable care," as the law requires. Shapiro said the court's message was that emergency care "should be left to medical professionals."


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So I was doing some cleaning. I have an old xbox (not a 360) with 2 controllers, dvd remote and 4 or 5 games..how much should I put it on craigslist for? Or should I just drop it off at Goodwill or something? Thoughts?
The games are Battlefront 2, Halo 2, Dungeons and Dragons, Mech something (assault maybe) and at least one other that is escaping me at the moment.


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Memorial Bridge to close two weeks for joint work
May 9, 2013
PARKERSBURG — Memorial Bridge will close for two weeks beginning May 20 to allow workers to make repairs on the structure. The bridge is scheduled to reopen June 3....
If you think that bridge is bad travel down to Ripley and see the repair work going on there. I dont know what the intentions are in the long term. But the cutting out of cracks in the road and repaving it is making the road in most cases rougher than it was. Its like a whole series of dips now in the road.
And yes the Memorial Bridge needs to be smoothed out. The Belpre side expansion joint is really bad to run over.
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Maybe they will get the Marines to fire some artillery at that bridge to smooth it out a little bit
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New name for the bridge.. Old Thump-Thump.
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Prior to Bratz v. Barbie Litigation, Designer Scrambled Hard Drive
In the Bratz-Barbie throwdown in Riverside, defendant-MGA's case hit a snag yesterday when it was revealed that the designer of the Bratz doll used a program called "Evidence Eliminator" to scramble his hard drive days before its data were to be copied for the lawsuit.
According to Nicholas Casey's WSJ story, when trial resumed yesterday morning, lawyers revealed that Carter Bryant, the Bratz designer, had used the program to rename about 9,400 files.
Mattel, represented by Quinn Emanuel's John Quinn, accuses MGA of essentially stealing the idea for Bratz dolls, and is trying to seize ownership of the Bratz line. Mattel says Bryant, the designer who sold the Bratz idea to MGA, dreamed up the doll while at Mattel. MGA says Bryant conceived Bratz between two stints at Mattel. MGA, rep'd by Skadden's Tom Nolan, denies wrongdoing, and accuses Mattel in a separate suit of copying Bratz.
Bryant's actions, writes the WSJ, could damage MGA's defense, which hinges on the credibility of Bryant's claim that he created the doll before returning to Mattel. "Who goes out and buys a program called 'Evidence Eliminator'?" asked District Judge Stephen G. Larson, who called Bryant's actions "really powerful impeachment evidence." The judge ruled to allow the event to be introduced to the jury, though Mattel hadn't done so by the end of Tuesday's proceedings.
Lawyers for MGA said the action wasn't meant to destroy potential evidence. Bryant, said MGA, sought to get rid of certain Internet pop-up ads, some of them of a sexually explicit nature,


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PA Town Introduces First Electric Squad Car
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A converted 2000 Chevrolet Impala in Connellsville, PA has become the first electric squad car in the U.S. Pretty practical, since the car always returns to the same place at the end of a shift, where it can be recharged in two hours from a 240V outlet.
It can stay operational for the length of an eight-hour shift--a shift which will only cost the police 35 cents in electricity. There's some major money-saving potential there.
The only issue is that it can't be used in heavy rain, as that could wreck the electrical circuits.
The vehicle is at the start of a two-year trial; if it works, expect to see more of these cars around. And also: it's quiet, so it gets an A+ for stealth capabilities.
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Benefits of Soapstone
Aside from the ageless natural beauty and tactile quality of the stone, it is very practical. Soapstone is very comfortable in a hard working kitchen since it is non-porous and will not stain. No bacteria will be able to penetrate the stone's surface. Soapstone has excellent thermal qualities making it virtually heat proof. Setting extremely hot or cold pans on soapstone is never a problem. In the June 2006 issue of Money Magazine seven surfaces were field tested for countertop durability. Soapstone won the challenge. Soapstone is a natural material for sinks. As soapstone sinks age the better they look. Soapstone sinks can be built to most any size and style. Fireplaces and hearths work well in soapstone. A fireplace lined in soapstone is estimated to be many times more efficient. Using soapstone on Fireplace hearths and surround adds an old-world charm to any living area.


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According to a posting on the GUNS N' ROSES fan site Here Today… Gone To Hell!, GUNS N' ROSES tech Dan Druff's bike was stolen in front of club Tee Gee in Atwater Village, California on Saturday, January 19 at around 12:30 a.m. It is a 1950 custom Triumph, chrome frame, all custom parts.Check out a photo of the bike at this location. If you have any information regarding this, e-mail Dan at [email protected] (reward offered if the bike is found). Although the current GUNS N' ROSES toured last year and singer Axl Rose said that the group's new album, "Chinese Democracy", would come out in 2007, speculation persists that the record will never be released.
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