text: Wellington - Wales coach Warren Gatland has promised they will field their strongest possible side to face champions South Africa in their opening Rugby World Cup pool match in Wellington on September 11.Wales are in a Pool D also featuring Fiji, who knocked them out at the group stage in France four years ago, and a Samoa side who recently beat highly-fancied Australia.But New Zealander Gatland insisted there was no way his adopted country would keep their powder dry against the Springboks in order to concentrate on the threat posed by the Pacific Island nations.And he said Wales were looking forward to playing South Africa first, despite the Springboks well-known qualities.They are very good at what they do," Gatland said at Wales's hotel on Saturday. "They put the ball up in the air and use power runners. We pretty well know what we are going to get."They'll play to their strengths and that's what they are good at doing. They are certainly a hard side to beat. But playing them first up in this competition is a great opportunity for us."Wales go into the match on the back of warm-up wins against England, runners-up to South Africa four years ago, and Argentina, third in 2007.But Wales have beaten South Africa just once in their history and have lost their last 12 matches against the Springboks. Gatland said: "It's been a great couple of months having the players together as a squad and we are pretty happy with the way the August games went. We are really in pretty good shape."The last three times we have played them (South Africa) there's been very little in the scores. We have scored them seven tries to six. Now we've just got to get over the final hurdle and get that win."The former Ireland coach added: "We can match their forwards. We are going to put out the strongest side we can. I don't think that in the last few times we've played them we have been far away from them as a team."It's one game at a time for us and we have got a squad capable of winning these games," Gatland said."If we can get out of the group stage then we are in good shape for the quarters and even the semis."


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Peninsula residents are upset about a proposal to charge commuters $6 each weekday to enter and exit San Francisco to the south, calling the plan "a slap in the face," "a crazy idea" and "ridiculous."
Already dealing with some of the nation's highest gas prices and, in some cases, hefty parking fees, drivers crossing the San Mateo County-San Francisco border would pay rush hour tolls to fund local transportation upgrades and, in theory, reduce traffic jams, under a proposal by San Francisco officials.
Officials said they would spend $60 million to $100 million to set up the electronic system, coupled with local transit improvements, starting in 2015. It would be the first local "congestion pricing" system in the country and could begin as a 6-to-12-month pilot program that, if successful, could become permanent.
Under the plan, drivers leaving or entering San Francisco at the southern border would pay $3 from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m. and another $3 from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. on weekdays, with a daily cap of $6. Commuters would pay up to $130 per month, or $1,500 in a year, if the tolls last that long.
"That would cover all my utility bills. It would be a new bill that I cannot afford," said Loraine Lee, 28, who lives in Daly City two blocks from the San Francisco border and commutes to a property management company on Treasure Island. She said because of the hours of her job and lack of transit options, she'd have no choice but to pay the toll. "I think this whole toll is ridiculous."
And non-commuters like Daly City's Annie Lyn and Mary Tevis, who travel to San Francisco daily for shopping and other trips, would have to change their lifestyles to avoid the toll times.
Daly City Councilman David Canepa said he thought the worst part of the plan was that it was being done "under the guise of trying to get people to take public transportation."
"It's absolutely nonsensical," said Canepa, who also called the plan terrible, atrocious and egregious. "It's a slap in all of our faces. They're trying to make San Mateo County residents pay a tax because over the years they haven't made proper investments in their infrastructure."
Locals also wondered why San Francisco would be getting all the money even though the border is shared by both counties, and what would stop other cities from copying them.
"We could do the same thing; it'd be a nightmare," warned Assemblyman Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, of a toll at the same border to fund Peninsula projects, or tolls at each of the borders of all the local cities. "It sounds like another crazy idea. Where do you stop nickel and diming people? You should be able to travel from city to city without paying a toll."
Taxis and emergency vehicles would be exempt while some other drivers, such as low-income residents or those that already crossed a toll bridge that day, could receive discounts. Tolls would be collected electronically, via Fastrak and cameras, for those crossing the border on highways and major arterial streets. There are also dozens of local residential streets that cross the border, although there are no plans to charge tolls there.
The San Francisco County Transportation Authority said the pilot program could take place either at the southern border or in the northeast part of the city.
Tilly Chang, a deputy director at the agency, argued the toll would decrease traffic because people would alter their commute times and take transit to save money. The authority predicts traffic at the city's southern border would drop 20 percent during commute times after tolling.
"The cost of anything needs to be taken in context," Chang said. "It's not free right now. People are paying in time and having to pad their trip."
Nearly half a million drivers cross from San Mateo County into San Francisco each day on one of five highways, Caltrans data shows. By contrast, only about 20,000 people ride BART between the Peninsula and San Francisco each weekday, and another 10,000 take Caltrain, according to those agencies' records.
Chang said the toll would generate $60 million to $80 million in profits each year and would be spread out on projects to improve roads, transit, and bicycle and pedestrian networks.
The authority's board could approve further study at its meeting next month and the city's supervisors would need to endorse the finished plan. The state would also have to pass legislation allowing it, and it's even possible voters would need to approve the charges.
Another hurdle is the upfront cost, although the federal government previously offered New York City $350 million in hopes of persuading that city to launch the nation's first congestion tolling program. That plan died. Similar tolls are used abroad in Stockholm, London and Rome.
Mike Rosenberg covers San Mateo, Burlingame, Belmont and transportation. Contact him at 650-348-4324.

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Senior Ally Rohrer and junior Maddy Sury will have plenty of Wildcat company when they compete at the state track meet at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus Friday and Saturday.
Last year, Waterford's dynamic duo were the school's only state qualifiers. This weekend, they will be joined by 'Cat teammates' Maggie Kroll, Lydia Beardsley, Brianna Lewis, and Cierra Jarvis, and of course coaches' Scott Miller and Steve Littler.
Lewis and Jarvis, both freshmen, are state alternates.
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JORDAN HOLLAND The Marietta Times
Waterford junior Maddy Sury competes in the 800 in a track and field meet this spring. This weekend, she will be seeking medals in the 800, long jump, and 4x2 relay at the state meet in Columbus.
Ally Rohrer
"I'm really going to like being with the team this year," said Sury, who will be competing in the long jump and 800 and on the 4 by 200 meter relay team. "And, yes, I'm going to be very busy this weekend."
So will Rohrer, who will be running the 100 meter hurdles and anchoring the 4 by 2. Also on the relay team will be Kroll and Beardsley.
Also competing in Division III at Jesse O will be Belpre's Cray Sistrunk in the 1600. The Golden Eagles also qualified their 4 by 100 team of Sam Petty, Matt Colvin, Matt Lopreste and Devin Daniell.
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State track & field meet schedule
(local thinclads)
9:30 a.m., high jump D2): Baylee Garrett (Morgan)
10 a.m.,100 meter hurdles (D3): Ally Rohrer (Waterford)
10:10 a.m., 110 hurdles (D3): Caleb Moore (Shenandoah)
10:30 a.m., 4x200 relay (D3): Waterford (Maggie Kroll, Maddy Sury, Lydia Beardsley, Rohrer)
10:55 a.m., 4x100 relay (D3): Belpre (Sam Petty, Matt Colvin, Matt Lopreste and Devin Daniell)
11:20 a.m., 300 meter hurdles (D3): Natalie Hart (Fort Frye)
1 p.m., long jump (D3): Sury (Waterford)
1:45 p.m., 4x800 relay (D2): Warren (Matthew Neehouse, Colton Cantley, Sam Goodman, and Brent Ash)
9 a.m., pole vault (D2): Raelyn Gardner (Warren)
10:05 a.m., 1600 meter run (D3): Cray Sistrunk (Belpre)
10:55 a.m., 800 meter run (D3): Sury (Waterford)
11:25 a.m., 3200 meter run (D3): Jenna Furr (Caldwell)
Caldwell senior Jenna Furr will be back at state in the 3200, while Fort Frye's Natalie Hart will be running the 300 hurdles. Shenandoah's Caleb Moore will be entered in the 110 hurdles.
In Division II, Warren's Raelyn Gardner will be seeking a repeat as an all-stater in the pole vault.
The Warrior 4 by 800 meter relay team of Matthew Neehouse, Colton Cantley, Sam Goodman, and Brent Ash will also be competing at Jesse O.
Today, the state qualifiers will be going through a walk-through at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
In 2013, Rohrer finished third (15.45 seconds) overall in the 100 hurdles and sixth (46.29) in the 300 hurdles, while Sury was eighth (2:18.80) in the 800 to earn all-state status.
"I usually like to go out fast in the 800, and lead the pack around the first lap," Sury said. "But this year, I might pace myself, and go with a 200-meter kick at the end."
Sury nearly collected two medals, but finished ninth in the LJ in 16 feet, 10.25 inches.
To achieve all-state in Ohio, a thinclad needs to place in the top eight in each event.
"I've improved about a foot in the long jump," Sury said. "It's really come together better."
Rohrer was also a state qualifier in the 200 dash, but finished 16th in 27.16.
"I really didn't have much competition in the regional (hurdles)," she said. "But I expect it to be definitely tougher at state."
Said Miller, "No doubt about that (tougher competition), But all these (Waterford) girls can medal. They just have to run well."
Added Sury, "I had a good feeling before the regional, and I hope we can do it again."
At the regional at Fairfield Union, Sury was runner-up in the LJ in 16-8.75 and third in the 800 in 2:18.42. In the 4 by 2, she ran the second leg and helped her team finish second in a school-record time of 1:47.52. Kroll was the leadoff leg, and Beardsley, the third leg.
Rohrer was the anchor on that relay, and also took first in the 100 hurdles in 15.62.
"We're going to miss Ally when this (state) is over," Miller said. She's been a lot of fun to coach and watch."


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PESHAWAR: Gunmen in restive northwest Pakistan on Monday attacked container trucks carrying supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan, killing a driver, officials said.
The violence took place around 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Peshawar, the main city of the northwest, according to security officials.
Ali Sher, a local administration official, confirmed the incident.
"Three trucks were attacked at three different locations in Jamrud tehsil district of Khyber agency killing one driver and setting his truck ablaze" he told AFP.
"Two other drivers have been injured."
Trucks travelling through Pakistan to supply US-led forces have frequently been attacked during NATO's 13-year intervention in Afghanistan.
The coalition is winding down operations in Afghanistan with its 51,000 combat troops due to pull out by the end of this year.
Late last year the United States suspended shipments of equipment out of Afghanistan through a key Pakistani route for a time.
The move came after the political party of former cricketer Imran Khan began forcibly searching trucks in an effort to halt NATO supplies in protest against US drone strikes in Pakistan. (AFP)


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How did Great Slaughter get its name? What does Giggleswick or Great
Snoring mean?
And why did the original inhabitants of your town or village name the place in the way that they did?
Was it something to do with the people there? Or was it because of the flora, fauna, or geography?
The material on this site is adapted from the author's
(1991-2006) A Popular Guide to Norfolk Place-Names, Guist Bottom: The Larks Press
(1997) A Popular Guide to Suffolk Place-Names, Guist Bottom: The Larks Press
These books are available directly from The Larks Press, or from Amazon.
|All rights reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced without the prior permission of the publisher. © James Rye 1997-2006
Discovering Place-Names
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Folk Information
Many place names are derived from the person or group of people who first settled in the area. For example, Sweden literally means 'the Swedes'. A less obvious example is Wales. This came from an Old English word wealas which meant 'foreigners'. To the early Anglo-Saxon invaders, Wales became the place of the foreigners after the invaders had driven many of the original Celtic inhabitants westward. Wessex was the area where the West Saxons lived, Sussex where the South Saxons lived, Norfolk where the Northern People lived and the Southern People inhabited Suffolk.
The names of some of the towns and villages of Norfolk and Suffolk are a memorial to the people who travelled from the Continent, some as early as the fifth century, to cut the forests and attempt to make a living out of the land. The earliest of these place names usually end in ing which is derived from the Old English ingas and originally meant 'dependants or relatives' of a certain man.
|*Gyxen + ingas
|The settlement belonging to *Gyxen's people
|Gyssa + ingas
|The settlement belonging to Gyssa's people
(An * before a name indicates a hypothetical form.)
Sometimes the place names end in ingham or ington . This is because ham or tun meaning 'homestead' and 'farmstead' respectively (see below) have been combined with ingas . The result is ingaham or ingatun meaning 'the homestead/farmstead of the people of ...'
|Deorsige + ingas + ham
|Homestead belonging to Deorsige's people
|Cydda + ingas + tun
|Farmstead belonging to Cydda's people
Schram (1961) has pointed out that there are a remarkable number of identities
or close similarities between the early Anglian place names of Norfolk and
Both counties have Barningham, Barsham, Brettenham, Elmham, Fakenham, Helmingham, Ingham, Needham, Rougham, Shimpling, Thornham, Tuddenham, and Walsham. Identical though with slight modern variations are Ludham (Nf) and Loudham (Sf), Shotesham (Nf) and Shottisham (Sf), Saham (Nf) and Soham (Sf); and there are a number of others where the first element, usually a personal name, can be closely paralleled in the two counties: such are Dalling (Nf) and Dallinghoo (Sf), Framingham (Nf) and Framsden, Framlingham (Sf), Hevingham (Nf) and Heveningham (Sf), Harling (Nf) and Herringfleet (Sf: Herlingaflet DB). It cannot be mere coincidence that the similarities and identities are almost entirely among the three types -ing, -ham, and -ingham; these may be regarded as constituting a clear proof that the two counties, making up the Kingdom of East Anglia, formed a distinct linguistic as well as an ethnic unit from the earliest centuries of the Anglo-Saxon period.
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Habitation Information
Many place names contain element meaning something like 'farm, homestead, enclosure'. As the settlements grew in size the same elements came to mean something like 'village' and later on even 'town'. Ham first meant 'homestead'. Tun first meant 'enclosure' or even 'fence'. Later it came to mean 'enclosure round a homestead, a farm' and then 'village'. By meant 'homestead' or 'farmstead' then 'village'. thorp(e) usually meant a secondary or outlying farm attached to some other settlement. These words meaning 'some form of habitation' were combined with a variety of other elements to give more precise information about a place.
|Koli + by
|Koli's farmstead
|vestr + thorp
|Westerly outlying farmstead
|stan + tun
|Stony farmstead
|Gysela + ham
|Gysela's homestead
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Nature Information
Some place names give information about the natural features of the area. We find references to a range of flora. There were alder trees, ash trees, aspens, barley fields, beans, bent-grass, box-trees, beech, quite a lot of broom, pollarded and natural oak trees, corn fields, elms, hawthorns, oat fields, cress, leeks, flax, orach (goosefoot family), nettles, pears, garlic, reed beds, rye, brushwood, thorn trees, willows, and crosswort. The fauna is equally diverse. There are horses (in Norfolk, but noticeably absent from Suffolk) gadflies, wild cats, swans, woodpeckers, trought, frogs, geese, goats, stags, hawks, wild birds, martens, owls, pigeons, gnats, bullocks and oxen, pigs, wether sheep (castrated rams), wolves, cuckoos, and possibly mules. There are also numerous references to streams, fords, landing-places, mounds, hills, valleys, ridges, meadows, woods, clearings, marshes, and islands.
Much of the original fauna has long since vanished. The farming practices have changed. The woods have been cleared. The marshes have been drained, making the islands disappear, and the streams may have dried up or changed course. Only a few hills retain an obvious link with the past for the modern visitor. The natural world of the Counties that we drive through today would not be recognisable to the Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavian settlers. However, the place names they have left us are a kind of time-capsule which reveals secrets of what the traveller would have seen between a thousand and fifteen hundred years ago.
|uf + denu
|Owls' valley
|crawe + mere
|Crows' pond
|brom + ford
|Broom ford
|thorn + dun
|Thorn-tree hill
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A Variety of Language Sources
British place names contain elements that can be traced back to the languages spoken by at least five quite distinct groups of people. Some of us may have been misled by the victory in World War II into thinking that Britain has never been 'slaved'. However, the truth is very different from what we may want to think. The Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish are well aware that they have often been invaded by the English (amongst others). And a brief excursion into English history will reveal that the country has been invaded by the Celts, the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Scandinavians, and the French. All of these groups contributed words which make up the place names we have today.
The Celts
The Celts were one of the many tribes living in Europe in the years before Christ. About 400 BC they began to leave Central Europe, possibly because of harassment from other tribes. The Celts from Northern France and the Netherlands crossed the Channel and settled in England. They were known as the Brythons (Britons). Later, about 350 BC, Celts from Southern France settled in Ireland. They spoke Goidelic (Gaelic).
The Celts left behind names that are found most abundantly in the North and West (especially Wales and Cornwall). They also gave names to many rivers. Celtic names are often found in isolated spots which suggest that more remote groups remained Celtic-speaking long after other groups had accepted that language of the Anglo-Saxons.
Celtic elements include:
aber - mouth of a river
coombe - a deep valley
glen - a narrow valley
pen - a hill tor a hill
There are very few names in Suffolk which contain Celtic elements. Most of the Celts probably fled the area when the Anglo-Saxon invaders arrived along the Eastern coast. Despite the survival of their Anglo-Saxon names Walpole and Walton were originally Celtic settlements and the first element of Dunwich is possibly linked to the Celtic word for 'deep', meaning something like 'port with deep water'. The River Ouse gets its name from the Celtic word for water, and Lynn from the Celtic word for lake.
The Romans
After 300 years of calling the British Isles their own, the Celts were conquered by the Romans. Between 43 AD and 410, England was the north-west corner of the vast Roman Empire. Although the Romans occupied the country for over three centuries, they only left behind approximately 300 place names. This strongly suggests that the Roman administrators tended to use existing Celtic names.
The main Latin elements in place names are:
castra (-chester, -caster) a Roman town, fort
colonia (-coln) a settlement
porta (-port) a gate
portus (-port) a harbour
strata (Strat-, -street) a Roman Road
As with the Celtic elements, there are very few names that contain Latin elements. Caister is derived from the Latin castra (camp) and this forms the second element of Brancaster. A few names contain the much later designations of Magna (Greater) and Parva (Smaller).
The Anglo-Saxons
The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes began to invade the British Isles in 449 AD. They came from Denmark and the coast of Germany and Holland. The Anglo-Saxons named their new country Engaland (the land of the Angles) and their language was called Englisc (what modern scholars refer to as 'Anglo-Saxon' or 'Old English'.
Most place names in Norfolk and Suffolk were originally given by the Anglo-Saxons. The Old English words that they used in the place names are far too numerous to list here (see references to A.H.Smith in the suggestions for further reading). I have given a few of the common Old English place-name elements below:
burna (-borne) a brook, stream
dun - a hill
eg (-ey) an island
halh - a nook, corner of land
ham - a homestead
hamm - an enclosure, water-meadow
ingas (-ing) the people of ...
leah (-ley) a clearing
stede - a place, site of a building
tun - an enclosure, farmstead
well - a well, spring
worth - an enclosure, homestead
Cantley, Downham, Elmswell, and Wortham are good examples of Old English place names.
|Canta + leah
|Canta's clearing
|dun + ham
|Hill village
|elm + wella
|Elm-trees' spring
|worth + ham
|Homestead with enclosure
The Scandinavians
From 789 AD onwards, the Vikings from Denmark and Norway raided most parts of the British Isles. After much savage fighting they eventually settled down to live alongside the Anglo-Saxons. Modern Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk and Suffolk became subject to Danish rule. The Scandinavian language, 'Old Norse', had the same Germanic roots as Old English so, over the years, the two languages mixed quite well.
There are more Scandinavian names in Norfolk than in Suffolk, reflecting the fact that the early Viking invaders sailed up the River Yare and eventually made some settlements nearby.
Some of the common Scandinavian place-name elements are listed below, although, as with the Old English elements, the Old Norse list does not claim to be anywhere near comprehensive (see references to A.H.Smith in the suggestions for further reading).
by a farm, then a village
dalr - a dale, valley
gathr - a yard
gil - a ravine
holmr (-holm) flat ground by a river
lundr - a grove
thorpe - a secondary settlement, farm
thveit (-thwaite) a meadow
toft - a site of a house and outbuildings, a plot of land
|Tidhe + by
|Tidhe's farmstead
|Barni, or Bjarni + by
|Barni's farmstead
|Hlothver + toft
|Hlothver's plot of land
The Norman French
The Normans invaded in 1066 AD, with the result that the language of the English Parliament was French for the next 300 years. However, like the Romans before them, they left a very small legacy of place names. This is because most of the settlements would have been well established by the time of their invasion. Their presence can occasionally be glimpsed in modern distortions of the names of foreign lords who may have owned land on both sides of the Channel. Thirteenth and fourteenth century lords owned the manors and gave their names to the places at Ashbocking, Carlton Colville, Stonham Aspall, Stowlangtoft, Saham Toney and Thorpe Morieux. Boulge comes from an Old French word meaning 'uncultivated ground'.
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Proceed with Care
Although driving through lanes trying to guess the meaning of the names on the sign-posts can be very entertaining (if the children are old enough, it is more fun than playing I-Spy) it is not always too productive. Even if you know that ham is probably derived from the Old English word meaning 'homestead', you wouldn't necessarily be able to say for certain that Langham, for example, meant 'something plus homestead'. This is because the Old English hamm (water meadow or enclosure) also comes out as 'ham' in modern place names. Only by looking at early forms can you distinguish between the two, and even then it is not always possible. In this particular case, Langham could mean either 'long river meadow/enclosure' or 'long homestead'.
Until the early spelling of the name is known (and by 'early' I mean at least the twelfth century or before), it is not possible to see which Celtic, Latin, Old English, Old Norse, or even Old French elements might form the name. Place-name scholars have to hunt through a variety of historical documents in order to record early spellings. The most famous of these sources is the Domesday Book.
Let me illustrate the importance of knowing the early spellings of a place. Superficially Hunston in Suffolk and Hunston in West Sussex and Hunstanton in Norfolk (often pronounced 'Hunston' by locals) appear to be very similar. However, their Domesday spellings reveal important differences.
|Hunston (Sf)
|*huntere + tun
|Hunter's farmstead
|Hunston (W.Sus)
|Huna + stan
|Huna's boundary stone
|Hunstanton (Nf)
|Hunstan + tun
|Hunstan's farmstead
Similarly, you may be forgiven for thinking that Stanningfield contained
some reference to 'the people of ...' (ing) and that Troston doesn't. Again,
their early spellings reveal something very different.
|stan(en) + feld
|Stony open ground
|*Trosta + ingatun
|Farmstead of *Trosta's people
However, knowing that you may sometimes be wrong and that you will need to check when you get home, shouldn't stop you having a guess. You should soon begin to get a feel for the way the names can be broken into two or three elements.
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James Rye was born in King's Lynn in 1953. He has studied at the Universities of East Anglia and Nottingham and has held a number of posts in Secondary Schools and Colleges. He taught Humanities at the College of West Anglia and for the Open University, and was an Honorary Lecturer at Anglia Polytechnic University teaching a course on the History of the English Language.
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|Hill (OE hyll) infested with ants (OE æmette).
|Beornmund's (OE male personal name) island/dry ground in marsh (OE eg).
|Crooked Hill (Cornish camm + bronn).
|Farmstead (OE tun) in the valley (OE cumb) owned by the de Auno or Dauno family in the manor in the C12th.
|Efe's (OE male personal name) farmstead (OE tun).
|Taken from the River Hayle. A Celtic name meaning salt river/estuary.
|The farmstead (OE tun) belonging to Cydda's (OE male personal name) people/followers (OE ingas).
|Farmstead (OE tun) on the River Lea (Celtic River Name - meaning uncertain).
|Dry (Old Irish 'tirim') hill (Irish 'cnoc').
|Asgautr's (ON male personal name) outlying settlement (ON thorp).
|The first element (OE putta) is either used as an OE male personal name or literally refers to hawks. The second element is either homestead (OE ham) or enclosure (OE hamm).
|Promontory (Cornish ros) land (OE land).
|Meadow (OE mæd/mædwe) for sheep (OE sceap).
|Farmstead (OE tun) belonging to *Tira's (hypothetical form of OE male personal name) people (OE ingas).
|*Walbert's (hypothetical form of OE personal name) dairy farm (OE wic). Although Walbert is uncertain in OE it is similar to the Old German names Waldiberht and Walhbert.
|A nook (OE halh) comprising a yoke or measure of land (OE geoc).
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by niqkita
September 17th, 2006
Dreamiest socks EVER!
Super Dreamy Stockings
Super soft, mine have gotten even softer with each wash
Gorgeous colors, I found the browns to be the hardest to resist
The stretch is excellent, each & every one of at Sock Dreams were able to pull them up past our knees, comfortably and with a minimum of thigh squeeze. And they actually stayed up pretty well on me, one leg would slip a few inches from time to time, I pulled them back up and kept on going. I've been washing them in cold water and drying on low because I want them to last as long as possible. They lost a few inches in length after the first washing, but the width didn't change at all.
I absolutely LOVE these!!!
And, since we can no longer get Super Marled socks made we are just doing these as thigh highs. If there is enough yarn we will add OTKs later.
10 soxy thoughts:
My Classics just came! I can't wait to wear them with yellow and dark red, my two favorite colors (other than lime green, I have lots of lime green socks too).
September 22nd, 2006 at 4:04 pm
wow a sock that I don't need… I guess there is a first time for everything, they sound full of comfyness but clash with all my clothes and my skin tone lol
September 19th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Dev, you can do a search for *warm* in the drop down menu on the sock page. I can attest to the warmth of the angoras, cashmeres & especially the great whites/super longs. them babies cook! If those are too pricey, look at the wool socks: Owoolies & slouch socks. Eva loves the wool socks. She lives in Sweden, and you know it gets cold there!
September 19th, 2006 at 8:39 am
got the khaki which is wwwine and are these ever LOOOOOOOOOONG! sweeeet! XO
September 18th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
Are they warm? I want to find the absolute warmest pair of thigh-highs possible! It's going to get cold soon.
September 19th, 2006 at 7:58 am
I think i said this on the last post but OMG the bark are GORGEOUS. I love the khaki too. I wear alot of browns so I'm definetly going to have to pick up some of those soon!
September 17th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Okay, when I first saw these socks, the classics were my favorite. But now, after your post, I am in love with khaki! *Swoon*
September 17th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
I ordered the Classics, along with the little fingerless fishnet gloves with ribbons. I'm glad that my college is right by the beach; it's colder here and therefore better for socks 🙂
September 17th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
What is the name of this coloring-style, with the multiple colors all mixed in like this? I had an old pair of toe socks like this, and I'm dying to know what to look up to find another pair somewhere.
Hi George! Our O Dreamies and Super Dreamies are a little bit Marled, a little bit Space-Dye. Currently we don't have any marled or space-dye with toes, but we do have a lot of cool socks in our Toe Socks section if you want to check them out!


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If you have heard Stan make a presentation, or seen some of his ads, you know that his marketing approach is sooo different than the traditional real estate marketer. Stan is known for his simple, but profound approach to putting some showmanship into the marketing of a home.
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My husband of one year isn't interested in sex and hasn't been for a while. He used to say it was stress from school, then stress from work, then that he was too tired. Now he doesn't even try to make an excuse. He won't talk about it, so I don't know what's wrong. All I do know is that he is not having dysfunction issues and he is not unfaithful. What else could it be? He tells me it isn't my fault and I shouldn't worry or bother him about it, but this quite obviously affects me too. I'm a young newlywed with a healthy sexual appetite and I feel so frustrated.READ MORE
Newlywed husband won't have sex with me and won't talk about the problem. What should I do?
This question has not been answered by one of our experts yet.
I don't have an answer for you but I wanted you to know that you are definitely NOT alone! My husband and I have only been married 7 months and his sex drive has slowed way down. I was a virgin before we were married so I've been looking forward to having sex for a LONG time. It was well worth the wait but I'm a little disillusioned with my reality right now. If that makes any sense. I think the first lady that answered your question has some good advice. I definitely think it's going to help me. Right now all I know to do is pray, pray, pray. :) READ MORE
I'm with you. My husband and I have been married for less than 3 months and even though we waited until the wedding night (as a couple... he had a somewhat damaging sexual relationship back in high school) and he had kept talking to me about his concern that I might not have much of a sex drive (admittedly, I talked openly with him about my apprehensions, which is fine)-- but the man is just not that interested.
I was confused on our honeymoon because I was always initiating. Even now, I am the initiater (which, believe me, I never thought would be the case!).
I have only become sexually active after our wedding and since then I have never had an orgasm, so I wonder if my inability to get there (and he has tried the usual suspects) makes him less interested. It must, right? I mean, I understand that.
I've never told him, but I almost feel like I've never had sex, since it's never done anything for me physically.
It's sad, and frustrating.
Are there any other options, or should we go to counseling before we get stuck in a bad habit?
Thanks!READ MORE
I m also newly married with same problem. I got married 5 months back and still studying so stays in hostel. but i made it a point to go home on weekends so that i could develop bond with my husband and his sexual needs are fulfilled.here i also want to tell that i am not unattractive in any way and we talked over phone for 6 months when marriage was fixed by parents but he didnt come ever to see me before marriage. I thought he is conservative types. So that was not a big issue 4 me. I was a virgin before we got married without any experience. Whenever i went to my husband, he would masturbate in front of me and i watched and thought this is all sex is because my husband told me that this normal and he is able to masturbate and ejaculate because i was sitting and watching .This went on for 5 months till i talked to one of my female friend and she said its not normal and my husband is either a gay or is impotent. When i tried to talk to him abt this, he became furious and defensive and involved his family and told me now the issue will be discussed in front of my parents only. My innocence was the biggest mistake. He says he doent want to break up with me.But for the 5 months he prepared me mentally that sex is nothing and we should have emotional bond in the relation and thats all that matters. i dont remember even last time when we had sex may be 3-4 months back. I still feel i m a virgin. Here i also want to tell that i am working also and getting huge salary package. may be the reason he doesnt want to break up. I even requested him to see a doctor so that we can lead a normal life but he says we dont need a doctor and is reluctant. Kindly suggest what to doREAD MORE
Hi. I'm in the same boat too. I've been married 10 months and I am so tired of being the initiator. I've let him know plainly what I want, but he just doesn't do it. On top of all this, because I am in my early forties & want to get pregnant (he wants it too), it is all the more confusing & not understandable. When the days come that he needs to perform, the excuses come. I've just been crying all day. I need to do more praying.
I also waited to be sexually active until marriage & was so looking forward to it. I don't ever feel it that much either, but I am still happy to do it. I think it will come with time. As the other girl who responded to you think, I also think that that probably bothers him. But this much?!
With my guy, I think another part of the problem is that he is not yet settled into his career & his focus is very much on that. I respect him for that; his intentions are good. However, he needs to learn to balance things in life better.
Anybody have any suggestions?????READ MORE
Sometimes when a guy is under serious amounts of stress, he has trouble performing. Have the two of you had any problems with either of you not being "fulfilled" while making love? If he has and it happened more then once, chances are that emotionally he is beating himself up, which only makes it worse. My exhusband go so bad at this that we once went 6 months with no sex. Until he started talking about it and I understood what was going on, only then did it get better. When he wasnt talking about it and we attempted sex, I would get frustrated and upset because I felt like it was me, while only made it ten times worse. Once he talked and I understood that he was under so much pressure and it was affecting his performance, things did improve and we got our sex life back. (The divorce had nothing to do with this issue, let me reassure you, he went through a mid life crisis and decided marriage wasnt for him) We did little things like, dates, making out, seducing without the act of sex, and worked on being intimate without having sex. These things really seemed to help. But until you can get him to talk, nothing is going to change. And if he is cheating on you, you know, every woman has that gut instinct. So if you dont think its that, then get him talking. Do you have a lot of bills or did you buy a house recently? All these things are stress to him, whether they are to you or not. Good luck and I hope this helped! (Sorry so long)READ MORE
Hi there...allot of people struggle with sexual problems its normal in allot of peoples lives...there are many reasons why your husband might not want sex or has lost his desire for sex it could be he has a impotence problem or his testosterone levels are low or he could be under allot of stress and that in allot of ways does take your mind off of sex...as you are is wife he is suppose to talk to you about sex because one of the reasons people get married is for the purpose of sex and sex is important in marraige...if you talk to your husband and he wont address the issue then he is trying to hide something because there are allot of things that you can use to build a strong sex drive such as viagra or testosterone pills because testosterone is the male hormone that is responsible for the sex drive in men working out and lifting weights also helps to boost the male sex drive...its hard for a relationship to last with out sex because if you want sex and he don't then you will have the urge to get it else were which you dont want to do so talk to your husband and ask him to be honest with you about why he don't want sex and if he don't answer you well you will have to take the next step or ask your doctor to help you by talking to him... READ MORE
i would recommend roleplaying for this it might help..try sexy outfits and or act like strangers meeting in a new place such as going to a restaurant and act like hes a charming stranger, or just simply touch yourself while your next to him in bed... if all else fails i would just say buy that shower massager youve always wanted till he comes out of it :)READ MORE
I have been married for 9 years the first year (newlywed year) I think we acutally had sex 5 times during the year. Since that I have been in a sexless marriage, sad thing is I don't understand it either. When I would address it with him, this is what I heard..now his excuses started with 1 and continued with different excuses each time.
1.my boobs were to little, maybe if my boobs were bigger
2.I was too skinny, maybe if I gained weigh
3.I am always the initiator, stopped being the intiator
4.My shorts/dresses are too short, dressed different for him
5.He is tired from work, left him alone
6.Slept in another bedroom, satisfied myself
8.No intimacy, peck kissed on the lips, became peck kisses on top of my head
7.Last excuse he gave was its becasue I was married before and everytime he touches me he thinks about it.....my approach ....DIVORCE
I still do not know what his problem was, but I do know he made me question myself "what is wrong with me", but then I stopped that kind of thinking because there is nothing wrong with me....he emotionally check out of our marriage. He is 56 and I am 49 and the way I see it is, You only have one Life, one time around, don't waste it! I may end up never having sex again,I hope I can find someone. I hate that 9 years of my life were wasted years and now I am 9 years older, but that is ok I just want to be loved and desired by someone who can.READ MORE
I too suffer from an intimate free relationship, and have been engaged for over 4 years because I can't take the plunge with someone who doesn't find me attractive in that way. We have gone through counseling apart as well as together, and he never really said what the reason he is not interested in it. He is adamant that he wants it to work out and it always pulls on my heart strings. I too went through ( and still struggling with ) "what is wrong with me?"
We had a decent sex life our 1st 2 years together, then it went down hill and right when I was ready to make the break, he proposed, I was 34. Having never been married I felt the social pressure to accept.
I have found that the lack of intimacy is not just confined to the bedroom, he lacks an element of intimacy in emotional issues as well, and the two seem to go hand in hand.
He is a great guy in so many other areas, and we do get along well, but more as roommates. I guess I don't have any advice for anyone, I just feel for all your frustration and hope that it all works out for the best with continued working towards a solution! Best of luck, you all deserve to have your needs met... including me!READ MORE
I'm in the same boat as the rest of you. My husband and I dated for 4 years prior to our marriage 1 week ago and never had sex. I tried several times, but he was never interested. And now, here we are 1 week into the marriage and we had no sex or intimacy on the honeymoon. But, he did finally open up to me about some things! See, I always thought that he didn't find me attractive or that he was gay, even though he was always capable of getting an erection for me, but refused to use it. He admitted to me that he has sexual thoughts about me all the time and that he secretely masturbates on an almost daily basis. But he doesn't know why he is unable to actually have sex with me.
I don' t know what to do either. He's been to the doctor and his T level is fine. the DR did give him viagra to try (and he's only 26) and the viagra did not help. Sure he got an erection, but then wouldn't let me play with it. He has no history of bad relationships or abuse. We don't have a good sex therapist in the area and while he admits that he wants to change, neither of us know where to go from here.
What's worse, every time I try to have sex with him now, it erupts into a violent argument and we've only been married for 1 week!READ MORE
m also facing the same problem. Its been 7 months of my marriage and me and my husband did not have sex yet. I have talked to him about this and wat he say's is that he loves me a lot and affraid of loosing me but he don't feel like having sex with me. he say's he felt sometime doing it but after sometime he dont feel like. please tell wat can i do.. m very depressed and week.. dont know wat to do.. please suggest me something.READ MORE
The same thing happened to me. I've been married 4 mths. At first in our relationship we used to make love All the time... Then it stopped... He was trying to get back with his ex-wife behind my back.. READ MORE


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On May 28, 1:13*am, marcusb
> I am just starting the imaging of my 1982 or thereabouts English
> WordPlex 80-3 system and other diskettes.
> According to Imagedisk (from Dave Dunfield) the format is 256 bytes
> per sector and 35 tracks per 5.25 " diskette.
> Can anyone confirm this. *I would hate to do the imaging in the wrong
> format!
> Eventually all the diskette images will be posted up to
> http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/wordplex/index.html
> I would be interested to hear if anybody has any documentation on the
> WordPlex 80-3 80-4 WPX, google shows up nothing :-( *Some obvious
> questions therefore:
> a) Documentation on original systems
> b) Ways to read the original diskette content on (say) a DOS or
> Windows system
> c) Any Wordplex simulators out there
> d) I think Norsk Data bought Wordplex, what happened to their systems
if sufficient documentation can be found, then a SIMH simulation can
be written. Assuming the disk controller is i8272 or WD179x-based,
then only the "glue logic" would need to be written.
What does it use for a console? A serial terminal or a video card and


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There's an effort under way at the Iowa Capitol to expand the state's 5-cent bottle and can redemption program.
If approved, millions of Iowa's noncarbonated beverage containers for drinks such as water, iced tea and sports drinks would be included in the 33-year-old bottle redemption program championed by Gov. Terry Branstad during some of his first years as a politician.
A Senate subcommittee will take the matter up this morning.
And while there have been multiple attempts in the past three decades to expand and even kill the bottle program, advocates for expansion say this just might be their year.
"Here's the thing, at the end of the day I don't think that the bottle bill has ever seen the grassroots movement that is has right now," said Blake Waggoner of the BrownWinick law firm in Des Moines that is helping to lobby for the expansion. "This is about jobs and about the environment."
About 20 groups including Iowa Recycling Association and the League of Women Voters of Iowa are behind the bill. Supporters, citing a recent study from Iowa State University economics professor Dermot Hays, say the expansion would lead to Iowa recycling an additional 506 million more bottles and cans each year and create an additional 336 jobs.
But groups such as the Iowa Retail Federation and the Iowa Association of Business and Industry are against the proposal.
Scott Havens, a former chairman of the Iowa Grocery Industry Association and the owner of Scott's Foods in Norwalk, likened the issue to a "diaper deposit," noting such things as roaches and unsanitary liquids being dragged into grocery stores for refunds.
Havens contends that Iowa should push for curbside recycling to take care of all bottles. Expanding would be an additional headache by bottlers, he said.
"The cost far outweighs the benefit," Havens said. "It would be a logistical nightmare. I would much rather see people take responsibility and put them in the green bins or neighborhood recycling bins."
Senate Study Bill 3188 would expend the containers collected and also double the 1-cent handlers fee paid to businesses or centers that collect the cans. That money is paid from the deposits of containers that go unreturned.
Sen. Hurbert Houser, R-Carson and member of the three-person Senate Appropriations subcommittee who will review the bill Tuesday, said he is keeping an open mind about the issue.
Houser, who has been in the legislature for two decades, has been involved in at least two other previous legislative attempts to tweak the bottle bill. Each time the issue has died as both sides clash, he noted.
"At this point I'm open to look at solutions," Houser said.
A poll taken in November by Selzer & Company, the same company that conducts polls for the Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll, found that 84 percent of Iowans have a favorable view of the bottle bill and that 44 percent – a plurality – support expanding the number of containers included in the effort.
A similar bill in the House, House Study Bill 652, did not make it through a committee process in time for a legislative deadline last month. The Senate version is currently alive since it is moving through the Appropriations Committee, which has different legislative deadlines.
Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City who will lead discussions on the bill tomorrow, said the subcommittee is an effort to see if the legislature can make a breakthrough on the issue.
"I think there's a lot of support to do an improvement but whether or not we'll be able to find agreement on the proposed legislation remains to be seen," Bolkcom said.
How it started
Iowa's 5-cent bottle and can redemption program began in 1978. Gov. Terry Branstad was one of the main advocates for the proposal while he was in the Legislature.
How it works
Iowa's bottle deposit law covers all carbonated and alcoholic beverages. Consumers pay a 5-cent deposit when purchasing each beverage container and receive a 5-cent refund when returning the container to a store or redemption center. An estimated 86 percent of beverage containers included in the bottle bill, or 1.65 billion, are redeemed annually in Iowa. The state recycles about 26 percent of those not included in the deposit program.
Source: Iowa Department of Natural Resources
A Senate Appropriations subcommittee will review Senate Study Bill 3188 at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday in room 22 of the Capitol.
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Metal Rules! magazine has released their 15th issue. This issue features interviews with Chris Jericho (WWE, FOZZY), "Half Baked" and "Saturday Night Live"'s Jim Breuer, RATT, SAXON, JETHRO TULL, GOD FORBID, FALL SILENT, W.A.S.P., Paul Di'Anno (IRON MAIDEN), THY DISEASE, FIREHOUSE, DOKKEN, ROTTEN SOUND, WARRANT, 100 music reviews and, believe it or not, a back cover by Ben Affleck (Yeah, the one that's fucking J-Lo)! All this and the usual insanity, stupidity, giggles and photos of Jeff. E-mail [email protected] for a store near you or order it directly at www.metalrulesmagazine.com or send $5 the old fashioned way to: Metal Rules!, 2116 Sandra Road, Voorhees, NJ 08043 USA. You can also join the Metal Rules! Yahoo group at this location.
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You may think bullying has changed, but it really hasn't. It reaches the newer generations by more advanced methods, like Facebook, school websites, etc. I really felt for that Princeton student, who hadn't come out yet, and could not face others thinking about what he did in bed. I get it.
But really, only the technology has changed. It still boils down to one bully, surrounded by lemmings, because for the most part, when action is taken against the bully, their cohorts suffer, too.
The answer, though, is not putting restrictions on the bullies. Deny it all you want, but American culture reveals bullies, and culture before ours. It is if very much like LBJ "whippiing it out," and proudly shouting, "You think Ho Chi Min's got this?"
What makes a good stock analyst or broker? How about hockey players? Or, for that matter, doctors and lawyers. the latter succeeds through arrogance, as well as hiding resource materials from the library, etc. There's a fine line between arrogance and bullying.
In general in America, who "wins?" Many times bullies do.
So please, you can waste your time with a PTA meeting, or your local Board of Education, and if you get some kind of punishment for bullies, well, BULLY FOR YOU.
But don't tell yourself you are truly protecting your children, They are going to meet bullies at work, in the street, girlfriends, boyfriends, their husbands and wives. It is a fact of life, and without being totally aware of it, WE CONDONE IT. WHOEVER HAS THE MOST TOYS WINS? Do you look up to the "Masters of the Universe?" Seriously. You are in denial and blind if you think American culture doesn't revere bullies. In fact, there's only one type of person we look up to other than the bully:


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The Fallout Guys: See Smurfs or CBIRFs?
A 145-strong contingent of U.S. Marines trained to respond to unconventional warfare has arrived in Japan to support efforts to contain the spread of radiation from a damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima.
Based out of the Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center in Maryland, the Marine unit is known by its acronym CBIRF (pronounced "see-berf"), which stands for Chemical, Biological (and Nuclear) Initial Response Force. The team was set up in 1995 as a direct consequence of a gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. "In that sense, we're really going back to where it all started," said Maj. Mike Johnson, strategic commander of the visiting CBIRF team.
The CBIRF unit and its Japanese Self Defense Force counterpart, the Central Readiness Force, conducted a demonstration on Saturday of their radiological rescue and decontamination procedures for the media at Yokota Air Force Base outside of Tokyo. Japanese CRF team members wearing bright white protective jumpsuits and full-face gas masks hosed down military transport vehicles in a mock decontamination exercise, while U.S. CBIRF troops in black "Level C" body suits and colored helmets used a chainsaw to cut open a flipped-over car and "rescue" a crash test dummy.
The CBIRFs' bodysuits protect against radioactive alpha and beta particles from nuclear fallout, but are not lead-lined and therefore don't stop deadly gamma rays. That's because the CBIRF aren't trained to survive nuclear warhead blasts or march into highly radioactive reactor cores.
"We're a life saving operation," said Capt. Jared Klusmann, the CBIRF unit's tactical commander. "We don't collect dead bodies. If there's a Chernobyl-style accident, it would be years before it's safe for anybody to enter the plant" in Fukushima.
One innovation the CBIRFs shared with their Japanese counterparts is the use of colored helmets to help distinguish various roles in a "hot zone" contaminated with radiation. White helmets designate supervisors, red helmets are used to signify search-and-rescue teams, yellow are for decontaminators, and green for identification and detection specialists. Blue helmets are used for medical personnel.
The Japanese CRF is now considering adopting the use of multi-hued helmets to help troops in the field, said Maj. Akira Yanagisawa of the Ground SDF's CRF. "Gas masks reduce visibility, but those helmets really stand out," he said.
While in Japan the Marine unit keeps the name CBIRF, but if deployed domestically in the U.S. they would be attached to various other civilian and military units. As a result, the CBIRFs would then become known as CMRFs (pronounced "see-smurfs"), which stands for CBIRF Consequence Management Response Force. "It's the rarely used acronym within an acronym," said Lt. James Area, a U.S. Navy officer who serves as the CBIRF team medical specialist.
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OAKLAND -- Graffiti threats were scribbled across three BART workers' lockers.
When African-American workers came to work late June, they found the racist death threats, the latest incident in an ongoing pattern of racial discrimination and harassment after a lawsuit was filed late last year.
A group of African-American track maintenance workers say that BART has forced them to return to work without concluding its investigation.
Jody LeWitter, the attorney representing the seven workers, said that BART has been slow to respond.
"It's a month later. We don't really know what's going on," she said. "These guys are back at work looking back over their shoulders. To me that's too long."
In the employees' written protest to return to work, they described the continuing pattern over the course of years of racist harassment and discrimination in promotions and working conditions, including graffiti that was ordered to be wiped off without investigation.
Rudolph Johnson, 26, is one of the workers who found the threat on his locker.
"I was intimidated. I was distraught. It felt like BART didn't have my back," he said. "I felt threatened for my life."
Johnson said that for the past two years, he has endured racial, physical and sexual harassment. He said he has been punched and thrown in a garbage can. After immediately reporting the incidents to his supervisors, Johnson said "nothing" was done.
The lawsuit, filed in December, states: "To date, BART has failed to take effective corrective action to address the racially, discriminatory, harassing, and/or retaliatory conduct experienced by the plaintiffs."
BART dismissed the prior incidents as "horseplay" but is addressing the most recent, LeWitter said.
"For the first few incidents nobody has really tried," she said. "I'm not saying they're not trying now, but they tolerated it for too long, which just emboldens people who are racist to engage in this kind of conduct."
In a statement Thursday, General Manager Grace Crunican said BART is taking the latest racist graffiti seriously.
The night of the incident more than a month ago, BART began an internal investigation and are treating the incident as a hate crime, Crunican said.
The transit agency wrote that it has hired two independent investigators -- one to look into the locker incident and another to assess the overall morale and relationships among workers in the tracks department.
LeWitter said she questions the qualifications of the two investigators.
"(The workers) are relying on BART to step up to the plate and take some action," she said.


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Future Music Festival's inaugural adventure into Asia was announced last month to an overwhelming response, with speculation on the show's exact location taking social media by storm. Livescape and Future Entertainment are proud to reveal that the first edition of Future Music Festival Asia will be taking place in the Sepang International Circuit Kuala Lumpur, on the 17th of March 2012.
The premiere of the award-winning festival in Kuala Lumpur marks the start of a strong relationship between Malaysian entertainment mogul Livescape and Future Entertainment, one of Australia's most innovative music companies. The debut of the Future Music Festival brand in Malaysia also represents a milestone in the evolution of the country's already burgeoning entertainment industry.
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The line up of this 12 Hour music festival was just released yesterday. And the big names are : The Chemical Brothers, Tinie Tempah, Chase & Status, The Wombats and Pendulum.
Also others such as Cosmic Gate, Sneaky Sound System, Grandmaster Flash, Eddie Halliwell, Super 8 & Tab, Pet Conspiracy, Shinichi Osawa, as well as our very own Kyoto Protocol, Goldfish + Blink, Twilight Action Girl, Phil K Lee + Ian Ross and many more.
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Millions of young Americans recently began their senior year of high school. If your kid is among them, he or she is probably busy juggling homework, extracurricular activities and maybe a part-time job - all while trying to savor the last official year of childhood and simultaneously prepare for impending adulthood.
You, on the other hand, are likely just wondering how the heck you're going to pay for college.
College may be a year away, but scholarship and loan application deadlines are just around the corner. As you'll soon learn, there are tons of decisions to make and documents to fill out. Plus, some states award aid on a first-come, first-served basis, meaning funds for your child's dream school could be exhausted by the time you get your paperwork together.
If that doesn't make you want to get the jump on financial aid, I don't know what will.
Your first step is to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form, which is required by virtually all colleges, universities and career schools for federal student aid, as well as for most aid from states and individual colleges.
It's easiest to file an FAFSA online at www.fafsa.ed.gov. You can also get a hard copy from your child's school or by calling 1-800-4-FED-AID. The FAFSA filing deadline for federal loans isn't until June 30, 2014, but many state and individual school deadlines fall months earlier.
Many types of student aid are available to help cover costs at four-year colleges and universities, community colleges, and trade, career or technical schools, including:
* Hundreds of thousands of free scholarships and fellowships are awarded each year. Visit www.finaid.org/scholarships for helpful tips.
* Federal Pell Grants are needs-based grants given to low-income students to pursue post-secondary education. The maximum annual Pell Grant amount is $5,500; but students can receive Pell Grants for no more than 12 semesters. They need not be repaid.
* Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants for up to $4,000 a year are awarded to undergraduates demonstrating exceptional financial need.
* Federal Work-Study provides part-time jobs for undergraduate and graduate students with financial need, allowing them to earn money to help pay education expenses.
* Low-interest Federal Perkins Loans are for students who demonstrate exceptional financial need. They are "subsidized," meaning the government pays yearly interest while students are enrolled. They have no origination or default fees.
* Direct Stafford Loans are low-interest federal government loans with no origination fee and come in two varieties: needs-based "Subsidized" loans for undergraduate students where the government pays the yearly interest while students are enrolled; and "Unsubsidized," for undergraduate and graduate students of any income level, where students are responsible for interest that accrues while enrolled.
* Private Education Loans are offered by lenders to students and parents to supplement government loans. They aren't government-guaranteed or subsidized and typically carry higher interest rates, although you can borrow greater amounts. Details and rates vary widely.
* Some colleges sponsor their own loans to students and parents. Interest rates may be lower than federal loans. Check each college's aid materials to see if they're available.
* PLUS loans are federal loans that graduate or professional-degree students and parents of dependent undergraduate students can use to pay for education expenses. They are made through participating schools at a fixed interest rate. There is an origination fee.
Visit the Federal Student Aid site (studentaid.ed.gov ) and www.FinAid.org for complete explanations of the different types of grants/loans, calculators and many other tools.
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Nick did a brilliant job on Sir Patrick Moore's obituary, but we just didn't know how much of a Libertarian and anti Statist the great man was did we? My hat is truly doffed to you Sir Patrick, wherever you are.
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[...] there weren't great British. Posted on December 29, 2012 3:55 pm by razorbacker From Counting Cats I learn of a gentleman called Sir Patrick Moore, who seems to have written a fascinating work [...]
He didn't bear fools graciously and was never afraid to speak his mind. He would have made an excellent blogger.
"The revenue offices never stop complaining that their staff are overworked and their departments underfunded. Unless something is done to alleviate the crisis, they insist, the entire tax system could break down.
This is your goal. Never cease to dream."
Precisely. The few times I have spoken to UK Gov have been occasions when I wanted to eat my teeth. Once to the Home Orifice about a student visa for my then girlf. That was hilarious when they finally answered the phone. And then my wife attempted to clarify he meaning of "voluntary" NI contributions. Well, you have to pay 'em. The discussion hinged on the meaning of "voluntary" which NICO defines very differently from the OED. Or Websters. Or common sense. Utter fucktoons the bally lot of 'em.
I temped at the Tax Office for a month once, back in the 70′s. Me and this other kid got sent along by the Labour Exchange. They were without doubt the laziest, most venal unutterable shower of Civil Servants I have ever worked with.
After two days of sitting around waiting for the Tea Trolley with the buns and sarnies to roll up at 11am and 4pm and reading newspapers (well this is what the rest of the staff were doing all day) they finally found us something to do. Weed some files and move them from one side of a storeroom to another. That was the Wednesday morning; we came back in the afternoon and said… right done that, what next? To be greeted with… oh fuck! we thought that would take the rest of the month…erm, give us a minute to think. A minute? they could have taken all day and not come up with one, and they didn't. I have never been more bored and disgusted in my life. The only time I saw any real work being done was after five pm when overtime kicked in. Absolute experts at milking the system was that lot. The other kid I was sent along with though, joined them permanentely. He felt he had found his Spiritual home!
Reminds me of my time in the Civil Service RAB – different department, but much the same (bar the newspapers).
Now I will shock and disgust everyone.
I wish I had never left.
Everything I have done since has been far worse paid and much more unpleasant.
"But you save the taxpayer….."
I saved the taxpayer NOTHING by leaving – remember my post would have been instantly filled.
By the way…..
I think I was the last generation to sit the old Civil Service examination – which I passed.
Which means when I mess up my English (or whatever) – I am just being disgustingly lazy.
I can do these things.


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Two carved wooden images, called ki'i , overlook Keone'ele Cove in Hawaii's Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park. These statues and dozens of others stand sentry over the Hale o Keawe temple, a sacred place where the bones of 23 Hawaiian chiefs once rested.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Insider's Hawaii," November/December 2002, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
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