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Four years after the Mecca Masjid Blast, Justice Still Denied: Lateef Mohd. Khan
This note comes from LATEEF MOHD. KHAN of the Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, Hyderabad
The Makkah Masjid bomb blast is completely different from all the other blasts of the country because on 18th May 2007, at a time many terrorist attacks took place in the Makkah Masjid. First of all the Hindutva terrorists planted the bombs and targeted the people praying on Friday in the house of Allah i.e. Makkah Masjid, immediately after that, the Hindutva police of Hyderabad through using the firing experts, fired at the praying people and those who were helping the victims. After this, the third terrorist act done by the Police was that they blamed Muslim community itself for the blast through media. Muslims were shocked at this layer by layer terror acts; they never thought that Hyderabad which is considered as the fort of Muslims, the bomb would be blasted at the historical Makkah Masjid. In fact, this act was to attack the fort of Muslims. With this the confidence of Muslims is shaken.On the other side the Muslim representatives became stunned and failed to fulfill their responsibilities at this high time. Instead of making the government accountable, they played defensive role. There was no one to console the families of the people died in the blast and firing. They were treated worse than the animals. Police spread such terrorism that the families of the dead could not even perform the last rites properly. People were prevented from joining the last rites for the deceased. Instead of providing the medical aid and express solidarity with the people escaped from the blast, police started investigating them itself. The first question put to these people was 'why did you come to perform the Friday prayer to this Masjid'. Police personnel did not leave any chance in harassing the families of the victims of police firing either. This way the Hindutva terrorists, by playing such barbarous acts warned the Muslims that they will not be safe anywhere in the country and especially in their own city, we can target you anywhere anytime. The aim of this attack was also to remind the Muslims that they are second class citizens in this country.
If keenly observed the situations and statements, it can be felt that the police provided the logistical support to the Hindutva terrorists. In fact it seems that the police also provided safe passage to these terrorists, this is felt because immediately after the bomb blast, police started firing on the innocent people, registered two cases of the bomb blast, discarded all the evidences and the most heinous act of police is that they blamed the Muslim community for this barbarous act and the reason for this blast given by the police was the sectoral differences(sunnatul jamat and ahle hadees) among the Muslims. All these things were written in the secret report of the police that was presented to the government. With this it is clear that, the role of Hyderabad police is suspicious in the Makkah Masjid bomb blast
Instead of conducting investigation and catching the terrorists, police misguided the people; and also continuously protecting the terrorists. They also tried their best to close the investigation by blaming the Muslims for the blast. The proof of this is the statement of the central Home Minister who said that 'the case of Makkah Masjid bomb blast has turned cold'.because the main accuse of blast i.e shahid bilal is died . This statement was given by him on the briefing of Hyderabad police. This also shows how sincere the state and the central government of India are in investigating the Makkah Masjid blast case.
With the continuous struggle of Civil Liberties Committee, it has exposed the Hindutva terrorists' involvement in the blasts and now the Hyderabad police are under scan. Now it can be said clearly that the Hyderabad police helped the Hindutva terrorists by turning the investigation on wrong path, and by targeting innocent Muslims. This is a part of greater conspiracy against the Muslim community. It also signals that the Hindutva terrorism has reached from Gujarat's Gandhi Nagar to Hyderbad's Gandhi Bhavan. From the political parties to the government agencies and in the Military, the Hindutva terrorism is taken over.
The RSS is responsible in promoting and encouraging the Hindutva terrorism. The RSS pracharaks are themselves the Hindutva terrorists and the merchants of death. Terror activities of Sadhus, Sadhvis, Swamis and Sants belong to the RSS are exposed. The bomb blasts that took place in the country and blamed on the Muslim Community were all planned and carried out by the RSS terrorists. But, even after this, the government's attitude towards these RSS and Hindutva terrorists is very soft. If it had been any Muslim organization instead of RSS, then it would have been banned and the people associated with it would have been killed in the name of encounter. Whereas, here the government's attitude is soft and double standard. Whether the rulers of the country who may be either of Congress or BJP, they play on the tip of RSS and they present the terrorist organization as nationalist and socio-welfare organization. All the government organizations are in the clutches of the RSS. The same double standard of the government is the biggest threat to national security as well as to the Democratic and Secular fabric of India.
If at all we keenly examine the Makkah Masjid bomb blast, it will be clear that this terrorist attack was on the democratic and secular fabric of the country. Today four years are being completed for the Makkah Masjid bomb blast and it is very sad affair that the criminals are still free. The sadhu, sadhvi, sant, swami and army colonel who are caught are small actors. The real captain of the Hindutva terrorist is still free. In fact their organization's i.e. RSS camps are going on large scale all over the country especially at Hyderabad as well. The government is silent on these terror activities of RSS
Civil Liberties committee knows that there are such facts in the Advocate Ravichander report that the congress government will not have any right to rule. It will not have any moral right to be in the ruling position. In this report, facts are mentioned such as to how the Muslim youth were given electric shock, were beaten mercilessly, confined them under illegal detention and labeled with fake cases. In his report Advocate Ravichander himself has written that, 'If you have tears prepare to shed them now', with this one can understand how mercilessly the police might have behaved with the Muslim youth. Even after this the government is neither ready to accept its fault nor presenting the report
Here I want to question all the media houses, as to why they have not come forward to conduct a programme in memory of the victims Makkah Masjid bomb blast and police firing, whereas they have conducted memorial programmes at other places such as Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat. Here we want to remind them that the persons who died at Makkah Masjid are also Human beings, is this attitude towards them because they belonged to Muslim community
It is matter of deep concern and strongly condemnable the attitude of police personnel who are resisting the Muslim community from offering homage to the victims and martyrs of Makkah Masjid bomb blast. Don't Muslims have the right even to pay homage to their brothers who have sacrificed their lives in resisting the Hindutva terrorism and became the victim of police firing? Here I question the double standard of the government who make special arrangements for the programmes at Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat and on the other side resist the people in paying homage to the martyrs by placing the barbed wire and blocking the roads. Here I want to remind the Congress government that Muslims are also Human beings.
on the occasion of four years of the completion of Makkah Masjid bomb blast and subsequent police firing, people of Hyderabad
Demand to the government to present the Bhaskar Rao Commission report in the Assembly.
Demand to the government to present Advocate Ravichander report before the people.
Demand to investigate the Makkah Masjid bomb blast and subsequent police firing seriously.
Government should put a full stop to the Hindutva terrorism and book these terrorists under rule of law.
The Secular parties and Muslim representatives should fulfill their responsibilities, strongly condemn the police attitude for not allowing paying homage to the Martyrs of Makkah Masjid blast.
Lateef Mohd Khan,
General Secretary
Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee
clmci at hotmail dot com


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But HIV/AIDS and health disparities among Blacks continue to be at top of list
D. Kevin McNeir | 11/28/2013, 9 a.m.
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decided to found Empower "U" almost a decade ago. Mills, who serves as the executive director and her staff have since made a positive impact on the lives of men, women and a host of young adults — some who are gay, others who are heterosexual.
Now, after being chosen on November 1st for a highly-competitive $707,000.33 federal grant and subsequently being designated as a qualified health center, Mills and her crew can expand their services beyond HIV/AIDS, which brings them more in line with their original mission statement: "to empower, educate and promote better health care choices for individuals and families infected with, at risk for and/or affected by health disparities, particularly, but not limited to, HIV/AIDS spectrum disease."
"The grant will be rolled out over a 10-year period and we have 120 days to get up and running with the ancillary services that we will now be able to provide," Mills said. "We'll have case management and testing, housing, preventive services and related services for women with HIV, young men who have sex with men, IV drug users, serodiscordant couples and those at high risk of becoming HIV-positive. This is major for us because while I'm not a prophet, my goal when we first opened our doors was to be able to address the health disparities that exist within the Black community in particular and contribute to the shortening of our lives. Blacks are disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS but we also die from illnesses related to diabetes, heart disease and various forms of cancer simply because we don't have preventive care. Some critics may have negative words to say about the Affordable Care Act [ACA], but I guarantee you, in five years there will be nothing but praise."
Dr. Resha Mehta, COO, Empower "U," says access to health care must be taught, requiring a paradigm shift.
"It will be a new mindset for many of the clients that we're seeing now or will see in the future," she said. "And we know it won't happen overnight. It will require us to change people from viewing the emergency room as their primary place of care. Now with the services that we can provide and with health care being affordable and accessible because of the ACA, more minorities will be able to establish a routine for their health care needs. And we'll be able to maintain our client base and track their progress. We won't lose patients to other health care facilities like we did in the past because we couldn't treat them. Of course, sometimes we'll need to partner with other centers, like Jessie Trice as an example, who has an outstanding dental program."


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Gamestop CEO: 'I'm Not a Command-and-Control Type'
How do executives stay organized? What are their management strategies? And what do they do for fun? Executive Suite seeks answers to the behind-the-scenes questions.
Paul Raines
Age: 48
CEO, Gamestop Corp.
CEO since 2010
WSJ: How do you organize your daily schedule, and what does it generally look like?
Mr. Raines: I spend a fair amount of time in stores. As a retail CEO, you must be out there 20% or 30% of the time – some of that unannounced, some of that announced. It's important to get a feel for what consumers see. I go to competitors' stores a lot, too. When I'm in the office, I spend a fair amount of time with investors. That's not necessarily going to change their point of view about your company, but it does help you get feedback. The reminder of my time is spent on strategy, budgeting and all of the internal work that drives the organization.
WSJ: When you visit your stores unannounced, do you go undercover?
Mr. Raines: Unfortunately, where I live in Dallas, all the stores within a 10-mile radius know me very well, and they know my kids, wife and neighbors. But I do a lot of unannounced visits, particularly when we launch a new product. You learn a lot. Some people are shocked I play four hours of video games a week.
WSJ: How do you run meetings?
Mr. Raines: I try to be very informal in meetings. I'm not a command-and-control type person. I like to have an agenda, but I like to keep agendas light. Often, in large organizations, meetings become opportunities for people to show each other how smart they are. That's really not what I'm after.
WSJ: How do you ensure you maintain your company culture?
Mr. Raines: My staff knows I like to "provoke a crisis" every now and then. We provoked a crisis around re-launching our digital platforms and launching our loyalty program. To make that work, you have to have a high level of trust in the teams. A lack of trust slows everything down. My advice to people who are just starting their career, mid-career or late career: Find ways to make those around you successful. That will inspire trust. You will find the organization can move very fast.
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Mr. Raines: In today's world, I see a lot of folks thinking, 'How am I going to get ahead?' What makes people successful is a willingness to make those around you successful, and that relates to personal humility and a willingness to help others look forward. I look for that when I talk to candidates – that kind of confident, but modest, approach to the business. When I hear candidates tell me about relationships with previous employers, I know they're good at building relationships. In this world, with more technology, and less face-to-face contact, relationships are more important than ever.
WSJ: How can you tell all of this during an interview?
Mr. Raines: You can gain a lot from looking at someone's history. You can see how long they stayed in certain positions. I look for people who have reinvented themselves a couple of times. I had a boss who used to say you have to reinvent yourself every 18 months. I've reinvented myself in consulting, logistics and supply chain, manufacturing, retail, IT. It's a fine line in today's world between job hopping and reinventing oneself
WSJ: Are you more hands-on or hands-off as a boss?
Mr. Raines: I've been told I'm more hands-on. I don't think I'm that hands-on. I've been told by my team I get into the details. I'm not sure about that. I used to do payroll at Home Depot, so I want to understand where we're at. I used to be a buyer, so I like to look at that. I've had all kinds of bosses through the years, but the best bosses were people who were actually into the details.
WSJ: What was your first job?
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The Power of The Image
The power of an image always amazes me, especially how it effects so many so differently. Many think you have to be a "pro" to have this power, the power of your photography effecting others. While you might think this is a little bit of a over kill for my point, just take a look at this retrospective The Atlantic is posting. The subject matter in some cases is very intense, but the photographers and their equipment are as simplistic as photography can make it. Yet the impact of their images, they way they hit you, there is no mistaking that. And added to that, it's history. I'm just thinking out loud here, but perhaps there is a whole lot of power in your photographs and you just don't recognize it yet.


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Monticello brawl leads to 4 arrests
MONTICELLO — Four Monticello men were arrested Thursday, including two charged with felony assault and weapons possession, during a large fight at the Shell station in Monticello, village police said.
Eric Yon, 45, was swinging a large PVC pipe at Brian Padin, 21, and Cristian Morales, 20, when officers arrived at the gas station about 5:38 p.m., police said.
Officers used a Taser to subdue Yon when he refused to stop, police said.
The station's security footage showed Yon fighting with Padin, Morales and Rafael Pichardo, 21, before grabbing a pipe from his car and breaking the windshield and denting the body and hood of a car driven by Pichardo, police said.
Pichardo then attempted to hit Yon with his car, but missed, police said. Padin and Morales then got out of the car and began fighting Yon, police said.
Yon was taken to Catskill Regional Medical Center to be treated for injuries to his left eye, left hand and ribs, and a chest laceration caused when he was cut with a razor knife used by Padin, police said.
He was charged with assault, criminal mischief and criminal possession of a weapon, felonies. Padin faces felony assault and weapons possession charges.
Both Morales and Pichardo were charged with misdemeanor assault.


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Sunday, July 26, 2009
When Mark Douglas Ledford came home on Nov. 29, 2007, to find a strange green Honda Accord parked near his house with the windows rolled down and the keys in the ignition, he suspected trouble.
Who had left the car there, and why? What if something strange was going on? Shouldn't the police investigate?
Soon after, those questions got answered. But instead of helping uncover a crime, Ledford and then-girlfriend Asia Ward found themselves arrested and accused of one.
On Wednesday, according to his attorney, Ledford is scheduled to be tried on charges of auto burglary after having become another statistic in an Austin Police Department undercover program. Ward's trial date has not been set.
Ledford, 39, has a job at a real estate firm and no criminal record. He plays in local rock bands and has a tattoo across his chest that reads "To Whom Much is Given, Much is Required."
Ward is a 21-year-old woman with a punk-rock fashion sense and a fixation with classic zombie movies. She also has no criminal record.
So how did she and Ledford find themselves in this fix? According to them, their attorney and police, here's what happened:
'Get on the ground!'
The Honda was parked near the corner of Joe Sayers Avenue and Houston Street in the Brentwood neighborhood in North Austin. Ledford said he knocked on his neighbors' doors trying to find the owner, but no one knew anything about the car.
He figured it had been stolen and left there, so he called the police. According to police records, two officers arrived at 5:27 p.m. but were gone within seven minutes.
"I told them, 'Isn't it strange that someone parked their car there with the windows down and the keys in it?' " Ledford said. "Their answer was, 'It's parked legally. What's the problem?' It seemed suspicious to me, but the police were telling me they don't care."
However, the officers held back a crucial detail: The police had actually left the car there themselves.
The Honda was a so-called bait vehicle, stocked with an alarm, surveillance equipment and a tracking system. Austin police began their bait vehicle program in 1997 and say they have up to nine cars deployed at any one time on city streets. They simply wait for thieves to take the bait, and the GPS tracking units make them easy to find. Because the whole thing is captured on videotape, the evidence can help secure a conviction.
The undercover program produced 70 warrants or arrests in 2008 and 13 this year, according to Sgt. Oliver Tate with the Police Department's auto theft interdiction unit. In the past, Detective John Spillers has been quoted as saying the program has caught suspects as young as 13.
The police did not specify what the arrests were for, how many resulted in convictions or why the number of arrests has declined in 2009. Nor did they provide figures on how much the program costs. However, in 2007 the City Council received an $85,287 one-year grant from the state for bait car equipment.
As the parked Honda remained in front of Ledford's house, he said he and Ward began to imagine various crime scenarios.
"It looked like it was a woman's car," Ward said. "There was a bikini top or something in the back. The key chain had tacky things hanging off it. There was broken glass in the back seat, as if the window had been broken. And, strangely, there was also a pair of men's work boots and some rope. Maybe I've read too many serial killer books, but I thought it was a stripper's car and that maybe she had been murdered and the car had been dumped — maybe with her body in the trunk."
On a Saturday night — three days after the car had been left at the house — Ledford and Ward came home after going out for ice cream and a movie, and decided it was up to them to try to figure out whose car it was.
First, Ledford put on gloves. "I'm thinking, 'This is a crime scene,' and didn't want to leave fingerprints," he said. "I'm thinking, 'I've reported the car to the police, and they did nothing. It's time to get to the bottom of this.' "
They opened the car door and began a search, all of which was captured on the vehicle's video camera mounted in the dashboard. In the video, a copy of which was obtained by the American-Statesman, Ledford uses his cell phone as a flashlight to inspect the car's interior, reporting what he finds to Ward. He takes the keys out of the ignition and tries to open the trunk, which, unknown to him, is full of surveillance equipment.
The lock is jammed, which Ledford said made him even more suspicious, so he gets a screwdriver and tries to open the trunk again, without success. Minutes later, the couple are standing outside the car talking when a flashing light appears and a police officer says, "Get on the ground!"
Ledford and Ward were handcuffed; they waived their right to a lawyer. They told their story to the police investigator at the scene, Spillers. The police eventually let them go. The couple went inside, ate their ice cream and watched a movie. They thought that was the end of it, they said.
Except it wasn't. Sixteen days later, on Ward's birthday, the police came to the house with an affidavit and arrested them on a charge of burglary of a vehicle, a Class A misdemeanor that carries a penalty of up to a year in jail and up to a $4,000 fine. The affidavit, written by Spillers, notes that Ledford was wearing gloves to avoid leaving prints, and both he and his girlfriend "admitted to Mark getting a screwdriver and trying to get in the trunk."
The affidavit does not mention Ledford's previous call to police or that the car was parked near his house. It concludes that Spillers "believes this action constitutes more than mere curiosity or trying to locate the owner's information."
Neither Spillers nor the prosecutor, Assistant County Attorney Vicki Ashley, would comment on the case.
Ledford and Ward say they were offered deferred prosecution, which would waive any penalties as long as they sign a confession and don't commit a crime for a year. But they refuse to confess to an offense they say they didn't commit.
"If they want to charge us with trespassing, then fine, I'm guilty," Ward said. "But we did not burglarize a vehicle."
Not entrapment?
Bait cars are used in police departments across the country, and Austin police say the tactic is not generally considered entrapment because police don't actively encourage people to steal the car — they just provide the temptation. But David Crawford, Ward and Ledford's attorney, said he believes that this case is in a legal gray area because the police did interact with Ledford and Ward.
"If the police had said, 'Don't worry; we're going to keep an eye on this car,' then this would never have happened," Crawford said. "Mark only took action because of what he saw as the complete inaction of the Police Department. He was trying to be a good Samaritan."
Police officials would not discuss the specifics of the case, but Tate, with the auto theft unit, said that officers will often move a car after a resident calls about it. And Tate said there's good reason to sometimes leave the keys in the ignition and the windows rolled down, even if it raises suspicions.
"It's about factors that we are seeing in that area," Tate said. "If cars are being stolen with the keys left in the car, left running, what have you, then we try to stay as close to those factors as possible."
Sgt. Richard Stresing, a police spokesman, said the cars are supposed to be deterrents. Many are supplied by insurance companies, which have a stake in reducing car thefts.
"We are trying to make criminals think twice if they see a car with keys in it or running outside a convenience store," Stresing said. "We want them to start thinking, 'Are there cops watching? Is this a car I should steal?' We would like to see auto thefts down to zero."
Crawford said he wonders whether leaving bait cars on the street with the keys in them could actually be dangerous.
"It's a completely functional car," he said. "They have no idea who could get behind the wheel. This was near a high school, so it could have been a kid. Or a drunk." (McCallum High School is in the neighborhood.)
Tate said he hasn't heard of a police department being held liable for what happens when a bait car is driven away. As far as the police department is concerned, he said, it doesn't matter whether it's a hardened auto thief who takes the bait or an opportunist who does so simply because a vehicle is there for the taking.
"Let me ask you something: If you see a car with the keys in it, would you take it?" Tate said. "There are hundreds of people walking by these cars, and they make the choice to keep walking. The bottom line is this: If you see a car that doesn't belong to you, don't take it."
That's a lesson learned by Luis Espada, the boyfriend of one of Ledford's and Ward's neighbors. Espada,who was 24 at the time and had no criminal record, said the car had been there for days — his girlfriend had also called police about it. Late one night before Ledford and Ward searched the car, Espada said he drove the Honda halfway up the block as a lark, then parked it back where he found it.
According to his arrest affidavit, that brief joy ride left him being charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle, a felony offense. It was later reduced to a Class A misdemeanor, for which he received deferred adjudication and is now serving 18 months of probation.
It cost him $5,000 for a lawyer, Espada said, plus $190 for each month of his probation.
Meanwhile, Ledford and Ward said their arrest has had a huge impact on their lives. Ward said she suspects she's already been turned down for two jobs and a volunteer position because of the criminal charge against her.
Ledford said the experience has made him more cynical, both about law enforcement and his ability to make a difference.
"To hell with being a concerned citizen," Ledford said. "You hear stories of someone getting mugged and no one gets involved. Now I see why."
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Cops deal out of deception and fear, which is why so few citizens truly respect them.
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it depends what you mean by "right"
if the right person is one you can acuse of a manufactured charge and then have them plea bargin down to a lesser charge with a mandatory minimum that keeps money flowing through the private prison systems that lobby to create the mandatory minimums, then yes, they get the "right" guy every time.
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How are the cops stupid, how stupid can you be to go into the vehicle that belongs to someone else. Then when the trunk would not open try to jimmy it open with a screw driver. If the were actually trying to be good samaritans, call the police again, If they did the first time? Demand the officers investigate the car more thoroughly. If they do not ask for a supervisor. If that does not work call the any news outlet. They would love to know about police not doing their jobs. You also have electe More..
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@skysoldier You're a stupid scum-suckin moron.
How you like that?
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He should have stopped when the trunk wouldn't open. That screwdriver is gonna be the thing that gets him in trouble.
Then again, he shouldn't have touched the car. That's what you get for being a good citizen.
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I would love to see the police sued when a neighborhood kid happens to get in the car and crash into a tree.
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So, the car sat there for three days... now how many cops were sitting in the surveillance vehicle eating donuts looking at porn all that time. Great use of time there big boys. real, real nice of you
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So the moral of this story' You see a car like this for a few days in your hood, torch it.
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They should have set the car on fire!
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But if you leave your keys in your car and someone steals it, you can't prosecute them because they claim it was your negligence.
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after a four day procedure of trial and error I am
hoping that you could perhaps help me.
Since nearly one year I run a Redhat 7.0 system on
a compaq contura aero laptop. (486SLC33, 20 MB RAM
10 GB hdd, one 16bit PCMCIA-Slot, kernel
2.2.19ext3) Thanks to the pcmcia-package it works
since then well as web/file/mailserver.
Now I got a identical machine and installed
successfully Redhat 9a on it. Runs nearly the same
speed (slow but OK for its purpose).
But I can't convince pcmcia to run with the kernel
The problem:
All aeros have naturally a defect in their RAM if
this is upgraded to the max of 20MB (which I did,
as you can imagine). The source of this problem is
told to be a strange behaviour of the
pcmcia-controller. Because of this, there is a
32kb part of RAM that must be excluded for linux,
otherwise the system freezes some time after
start. For this purpose people use the BadRAM or
BadMEM-patch provided by the linux-community and
they append badram=0x010b0000,0xffff8000 at start
or in lilo.conf.
Further the pcmcia-cardmanager has to be told to
only use the ram-adresses 0xb0000-0xb7fff which is
done in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts (and all the other
include commands are outcommented).
As I told all this works rock-stable on the RedHat
7 machine since nearly one year.
With RedHat 9 and my 2.4 kernel this dosn't seem
to work any more.
If I start pcmcia, it says "unable to map memory"
and dmesg tells me:
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.2.5
kernel build: 2.4.20-20.9-badram #1 Mon Nov 3
options: [pci] [apm]
Intel ISA/PCI/CardBus PCIC probe:
VLSI 82C146 rev 00 ISA-to-PCMCIA at port 0x3e0
ofs 0x00
host opts [0]: none
ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12,15
status change on irq 15
cs: memory probe 0x0b0000-0x0b7fff: excluding
cs: unable to map card memory!
cs: unable to map card memory!
cs: unable to map card memory!
cs: unable to map card memory!
cs: unable to map card memory!
cs: unable to map card memory!
cs: unable to map card memory!
cs: unable to map card memory!
memory_cs: RequestWindow: Resource in use
If I use the other RAM-addresses in config.opts,
pcmcia starts and detects my 3Com574-NIC but the
system freezes after some time as expected.
I use the newest pcmcia-cs 3.2.5 (I also tried out
3.2.3). Kernel pcmcia is disabled, modules and
network are enabled. I also recompiled the kernel
with enabled kernel-pcmcia and reinstalled
pcmcia-cs - same result.
I then copied the kernel 2.2.19ext3 over from my
other aero, copied a 2.2.19 kernel tree into
/usr/src (unfortunately I am not able to build a
new 2.2 kernel on the redhat 9 system, must have
something to do with the compilers). Then I
reinstalled pcmcia-cs.
The result: PCMCIA is working! on the RedHat 9
system (but only with that specific kernel :-( )
So it must have to do with the 2.4 kernel. As the
only main difference to the 2.4-kernel, the
2.2.19-kernel is compiled without pci-support. I
had no success in compiling the 2.4-kernel without
pci (compilation failed), don't know if this is
important. The aero has of course no pci, it was
manufactured 1994 - with ISA.
If I append all my configuration files this will
get too long. So please look at them: I copied
them to:
There you find:
config.opts /etc/pcmcia/config.opts
dmesg-2.2.19 dmesg after boot with kernel 2.2.19
dmesg-2.4.20-20.9 dmesg after boot with 2.4.20
kernel-config-2.2.19 .config of kernel 2.2.19
kernel-config-2.4.20-20.9 .config of 2.4.20
lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf
rc.d-init.d-pcmcia /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia
rc.d-rc.pcmcia /etc/rc.pcmcia
Same as /etc/rc.pcmcia.N
sysconfig-pcmcia /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
Thank you very much for reading. I hope you have
an idea.


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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police have detained 10 people in connection with the killing of three people, including a German, at a Bible publishing house in the mainly Muslim country, authorities said on Thursday.
Three people were found on Wednesday with their throats slit at the Zirve publishing house in Malatya, a city in the southeast of the country.
The killings, which have shocked Turkey, come after a string of attacks targeting Turkey's small Christian minority.
Malatya Governor Halil Ibrahim Dasoz told reporters that the number of people in custody had risen to 10 and that all were from the same age group. He declined to give further details.
Newspapers said the first five suspects were 19 and 20 years old. Liberal daily Milliyet said they had carried a similar note in their pockets, saying: "we are brothers, we are going to our death". It also reported them as saying in initial questioning that they carried out the killing for the "homeland".
The killings come as political tensions rise between the powerful secular elite, including army generals and judges, and the religious-minded AK Party government, over next month's presidential electinos.
A wave of nationalism has swept the secular but predominantly Sunni Muslim country over the past year.
For many Turkish nationalists, missionaries are seen as enemies of Turkey working to undermine its political and religious institutions. Hardline Islamists have also targeted Christian missionaries in Turkey, which is seeking European Union membership.
A protester lights a candle during a demonstration in Istanbul April 18, 2007, against an attack on a publishing house in Turkey's southeastern province of Malatya.
The government and other officials in Turkey have criticized Christian missionary work while the European Union, which Turkey hopes to join, has called for more freedom for the tiny Christian minority.
"We would like a government campaign to get rid of the myths, such as that missionaries are trying to divide the country, these are the things which feed such acts," said Carlos Madrigal, an evangelical pastor who knew the victims and said they were also evangelical protestants.
"In some ways the situation has improved because we have got legal rights ... but there are parts of society which have become radicalized," Madrigal, whose Istanbul church has police protection since the Dink murder, told Reuters.
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More jail time for repeat offender
More jail time for repeat offender
A repeat offender, previously convicted for possessing and distributing child sex abuse images, has been jailed again – this time for almost three years.
Graeme Murray Purvis, 50, an unemployed truck driver, appeared for sentence in the Dunedin District Court today on nine charges of distributing and 10 of possessing images of children being sexually abused or exploited. Most of them were of girls aged between five and 16 but there were also images of boys. He was sentenced to two years' and 11 months' prison.
Purvis committed these offences while on parole from prison for similar offending. He was caught after an Internal Affairs inspector followed up information from Microsoft and the United States' National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a New Zealander had uploaded an objectionable image on the Internet in July 2012. The inspector recognised Purvis from previous investigations.
In December 2009 Purvis was jailed for three and half years on 22 charges involving the possession, distribution and making of objectionable publications and attempted sexual grooming of a 15-year-old girl. He was released in March 2012 and further offending was detected four months later. His parole conditions at the time included a six-month ban on connecting to the Internet.
In seeking another prison sentence, Internal Affairs told the court there were no mitigating factors. Purvis was a convicted repeat offender; he appeared to have taken the first possible opportunity to reoffend after being released from prison and his guilty plea came just before he was scheduled to stand trial.
Community Safety Manager, Steve O'Brien, said it was the second time Purvis's offending had been detected overseas.
"We are part of an international network of government agencies which swap intelligence about people trafficking in child sex abuse material," Mr O'Brien said. "As Mr Purvis appreciates, we have again demonstrated that we can locate offenders and get the necessary evidence despite their best efforts to conceal offending."


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KIFAS LbNA # 17437
|Rubberband Man
|Placed Date
|Aug 7 2005
|Missoula, MT
|Found By
|Last Found
|Aug 19 2010
|Hike Distance
This next one is called the KIFAS letterbox. This one is rated easy, taking about 30 minutes. The instructions will lead you to one of Missoulas many fishing destinations.
First, you have to decipher the following: Im thinking of a two-syllable Missoula street which runs west to east. The first syllable is something a cowboy wears, and the second syllable is something a cowboy drinks. Whats the name?
Go all the way to the west on this street. Youll find large signs along the way leading you to the fishing destination (if youre at the end of this street, you cant miss the signs). Eventually, the paved road ends, and a dirt road begins. Follow the dirt road for another minute, and then park your vehicle.
You should see a large sign spelling out the acronym KIFAS. To the left of this sign, there is a picnic table. Go to this table.
From there, you should see a trail. Before walking the trail, please read the following first.
This is where things get a little mathematical. The picnic table corner closest to the trail is one endpoint, and if you were to follow the trail along the river (for the most part) all the way to its end, youd find a small pile of white rocks which is another endpoint. I wont tell you how long the trail is, only that it is a reasonably short trail (and flat to boot).
Your job is to determine its approximate midpoint. You can do this in a variety of ways, the two simplest being the following: 1) count your footsteps from one endpoint to the other, divide the number by two, then walk back to the new count (if you dont want to lose your count, place rocks on the side of the trail to mark every 50 or a 100 steps), or 2) time yourself, divide the time by two, then walk back and stop after the allotted time. The former is probably more accurate than the latter, though both will probably do the trick.
During certain parts of the trail, the walkway is less than perfect. Please be careful. Also, youll know youre at the end of the trail because it forms a small peninsula (and youll see the small stack of rocks).
Go back to the midpoint, and youll find a wide opening. You should see a large trail branching off from the main trail, heading away from the river. Follow this path for about twenty yards until you hit a downed tree. Under this tree (but away from the center of the trail), youll find a letterbox!


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Put up against football defenses, an opposing basketball team's star player or the Pacific's finest track-and-field sprinters, few stood much of a chance against Jarrett Mitchell. Put up against the Far East's best cross-country and track distance runners, nobody stood a chance against Amanda Henderson.
Kubasaki's multitalented sophomore and Seoul American's relentless senior distance specialist each helped bring home a Far East Division I title banner to their respective school, and came away with Stars and Stripes Pacific high school year 2011-12 Athlete of the Year honors, as selected by Stripes' staff.
"He's the epitome of a teammate; we're happy to have him," said Mitchell's basketball and track coach, Jon Fick. Kubasaki's D-I football title-game berth, the Dragons' second straight D-I basketball tournament title and Okinawa Activities Council district track title "don't happen without Jarrett."
Battling ankle injuries for most of the school year, Mitchell carried the football 69 times for 758 yards, helping power the Dragons to a 6-2 overall record, their best since winning their only Division I football title in 2005.
Kubasaki ended Kadena's five-year Okinawa Activities Council regular-season title monolith, then reached its second D-I title game by eliminating Seoul American 22-7 in the Oct. 29 semifinal. Two weeks later, the Dragons lost the D-I final 34-6 at Yokota.
On the hardwood, where Mitchell had to wait nearly a month for his ankle to heal enough to let him play, it wasn't so much the numbers he put up – which weren't many – but his executing the defensive role to which Fick assigned him: Stay glued to the opponent's best offensive player the entire game.
Kubasaki thus rolled to a 23-15 overall record, including the Dragons' 55-47 come-from-behind victory in the D-I Tournament final against Okkodo on Feb. 25 at Naval Base Guam.
"He embraced his role," Fick said. "He would have started for any other team and would have been their top one or two player."
In track, Mitchell spent much of his time looking up at Yokota's Preston Brooks and Okinawa Christian International's Rahman Cairnes through the regular season and into the Far East meet at Yokota. He finally caught Cairnes in the OAC district meet's 100-meter final, outrunning Cairnes 10.93 to 11.05 seconds, the second-fastest time in the region all season. He finished fourth in both the 100 and 200 in the Far East meet.
"Track was tough for him," Fick said. "He was goal-oriented; just had some tough kids ahead of him. He caught Rahman at districts; hard work paid off."
Whether at Kubasaki in her freshman year or at Seoul American her last three, hard work epitomized Henderson as he racked up her second straight unbeaten cross-country season and also ran the table during the track season, except for a disqualification in the 800 at the Mike Petty Memorial Meet in April on Okinawa; meet officials ruled she'd stepped off the track during the race.
That served as motivation for Henderson, who won every other 800, 1,500 and 3,000 race she entered, going unbeaten in DODDS Korea and beating the Far East meet times set by her old teammate Siarria Ingram.
Henderson clocked 2 minutes, 25.19 seconds in the 800 (old record 2:32.0) and 11:03.76 in the 3,000, besting the old mark of 11:12.7. In the 1,500, she beat the northwest Pacific record twice, first at Mike Petty, then at Far East, where she ran 4:56.45; Ingram's old Far East mark was 5:02.1.
"She does not know failure. She does not like to lose. She inspires others to reach and exceed their potential," Falcons track coach David R. Abbott said.
Back in the fall, Henderson posted the Pacific's fastest girls cross-country time of the season, 19:32 in the Korean-American Interscholastic Activities Council finals on Oct. 29 at International Christian-Uijongbu. Seoul American won the KAIAC girls and the Far East D-I girls team titles, thanks largely to Henderson repeating as individual Far East champion with a 20:55.5.
"She works so hard, be it in or out of season," cross-country coach Steve Boyd said. "Her work ethic, you wish you could put it in a jar and sell it."
-- COACH OF THE YEAR: Al Garrido of Nile C. Kinnick once more mentored the Red Devils girls volleyball team to its school-best third straight DODDS Japan and Kanto Plain Association of Secondary Schools titles, a 76-2 regular-season mark the last three years, and a school-first runner-up finish in the Far East D-I Tournament at Seoul American, up two notches from last year. His track and field teams, despite numerous migrations of key athletes to other sports, won the Far East D-I boys team title and came in a close second behind American School In Japan for the overall school gold.
-- TEAM OF THE YEAR: ASIJ girls volleyball won its third Far East D-I Tournament title in six years, dropping just one set behind the play of Most Valuable Player Liz Thornton, the third Thornton sister so honored when the Mustangs earn a title. And seven of ASIJ's 10 players return next season, including Thornton and her setter, Baileigh Gibson.
-- PROGRAM OF THE YEAR: Those Mustangs again. Kanto titles in tennis, cross country and boys and girls basketball, the Asia-Pacific Invitational cross-country team title, overall school gold in Far East D-I track, second place in Kanto and Far East D-I girls soccer and arguably the best baseball team in school history.
-- MOST IMPROVED TEAM/BEST NEWCOMERS: E.J. King girls volleyball hadn't come within a whiff of Center Court since placing fourth in the 1999 Far East Division II Tournament, when in transferred the Rock sisters, senior Ashley and junior Katie, each with AAU backgrounds and a wealth of stateside experience. Overnight, Cobras volleyball was transformed into a contender, taking bronze in the D-II Tournament in November at Daegu, South Korea, and DODDS Japan D-II team regular-season honors.
Kubasaki cross country had not come within a whiff of an OAC district or Far East team title in more than a decade, before freshman triathlete Erik Armes joined forces with sophomore Alli Robles and ended that long title drought for the Dragons. Armes took gold in the districts and at Far East as well.
Then, there was Chad Wilder, the Zama American wrestler singled out as "The Next One," a transfer from Florida billed as the logical successor to Michael Spencer as the program's signature athlete. He proved more than up to the task, winning the Far East 141-pound gold and securing Outstanding Wrestler honors.
-- MOST IMPROVED PROGRAM: In a rather crowded field, Kubasaki noses in front, Far East D-I cross-country school champion, football runner-up, second straight boys basketball title and the girls soccer team finally taking that last step up, capturing D-I gold after two runner-up and one bronze finish the previous three years.
-- PLAY/GAME OF THE YEAR: ASIJ at Kinnick on May 11 at Yokosuka Naval Base, perhaps the most exciting game of soccer I've seen in a long time. Mari McDonald scored for the Red Devils in the first 90 seconds. It became an intense defensive battle from there, with Kinnick sweeper Kayla Forsythe and first-year keeper Emily Stith somehow keeping the ball out of the net. On one point-blank chance, ASIJ's Katey Helwick blasted a shot toward the far post left, and Stith made one of her 23 saves by diving full-out right to grab the ball with her hand. Red Devils hung on to win 1-0.
Previous Athletes of the Year
1987 – Kevin Maxwell, senior, Zama American School, Japan. Football, basketball, baseball, track and field. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
1988 – Carol Williams, junior, American School In Japan. Volleyball, soccer, basketball. University of California-Davis, Davis, Calif.
1989 – Elbert Bailey, senior, Kubasaki High School, Okinawa. Football, wrestling. Columbia University, New York. Commissioned into U.S. Air Force.
1990 – James Carson, senior, Yokota High School, Japan. Football, basketball, baseball. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
1991 – Robert Weeks, senior, Kadena High School, Okinawa. Football, basketball, track and field. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. Sumi Pyo, junior, Seoul International School, Seongnam, South Korea. Cross country, soccer, basketball. Wesleyan College, Mass.; Wheaton College, Ill.
1992 – Katherine Greig, sophomore, American School In Japan. Volleyball, swimming, basketball. Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.
1993 – Jamel Smith, senior, Kubasaki High School, Okinawa. Football, wrestling. Willamette College, Salem, Ore.
1994 – Melissa Calkins, senior, Trinity Christian School, Guam. Volleyball, track and field, basketball. Christian Heritage, El Cajon, Calif.; University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam.
1995 – Meleesa Meno, senior, Kubasaki High School, Okinawa. Volleyball, soccer, basketball. University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
1996 – David Page, sophomore, Seoul American High School. Football, basketball, baseball. University of California, Berkeley, Calif.; Hinds Junior College, Jackson, Miss.; Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Works for Ernst & Young. Han Ripley, senior, Seoul American High School. Football, basketball, baseball. Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona Beach, Fla.; University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
1997, 1998 – Julie Stauffer, sophomore-junior, Faith Academy, Manila. Basketball, soccer, baseball, softball. Cedarville College, Ohio.
1999 – Josh Whitney, senior, Kadena High School, Okinawa. Cross country, basketball, soccer. Quinnipiac College, Hamden, Conn. Yuki Basso, senior, Seisen International School, Tokyo. Volleyball, basketball. Boston College, Newton, Mass.
2000 – Justin McCloskey, senior, Matthew C. Perry High School, Japan. Football, basketball, baseball. Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Ore. Olivia Anglade, sophomore, Seoul American High School. Tennis, basketball, soccer, softball.
2001 – Ray Lamb, senior, Seoul American High School. Football, wrestling. New Mexico Military Academy, Roswell, N.M. Kirsten Nelson, senior, Christian Academy In Japan. Volleyball, basketball, track and field. Houghton College, Houghton, N.Y. Teaches and coaches at Taejon Christian International School in South Korea.
2002 – Mike Chamberlain, junior, Yokota High School, Japan. Football, wrestling, soccer. Carroll College, Montana. Olivia Anglade, senior, Seoul American High School. Tennis, basketball, soccer. Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. Lori Shields, senior, Osan American High School, South Korea. Volleyball, basketball, soccer. Florida Tech, Melbourne, Fla. Commissioned into U.S. Army.
2003 – Mike Chamberlain, senior, Yokota High School, Japan. Football, wrestling, soccer. Carroll College, Helena, Montana. Brieanna Carroll, sophomore, Pusan American School, South Korea. Cross country, basketball, soccer. Pepperdine University, Malibu, Calif. Theresa Gittens, junior, Kadena High School, Okinawa. Basketball, soccer, softball. Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Mo.
2004 – Scott Tunis, junior, Seoul American High School. Football, wrestling, soccer. New Mexico Military Academy, Roswell, N.M. Katie LaGrave, Kadena High School, Okinawa. Volleyball, basketball, soccer. Augsburg College, Minneapolis.
2005 – Adam Krievs, senior, Nile C. Kinnick and Matthew C. Perry, Japan. Football, wrestling, soccer. San Bernardino Valley Community College, San Bernardino, Calif. Dianne Abel, junior, Kadena, Okinawa. Cross country, basketball, soccer. Winthrop University, Rock Hill, S.C.; University of West Florida, Pensacola, Fla.
2006 – Carlos Albaladejo, junior, Osan American High School, South Korea. Football, wrestling, soccer. Lynnette Grant, senior, Taegu American School, South Korea. Volleyball, basketball, softball. Jacksonville State University, Alabama (killed in car accident in September 2006).
2007 – David Heitstuman, junior, E.J. King High School, Japan, cross country, wrestling, soccer. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Zori Drew, senior, Kadena High School, Okinawa, volleyball, basketball, softball. Brigham Young University-Hawaii.
2008 – Andrew Quallio, junior, Zama American, Japan, cross country, track and field. Monica Hayes, senior, Kadena, Okinawa, basketball, softball. University of Dubuque (Iowa).
2009 — Andrew Quallio, senior, Zama American, Japan, cross country, track and field. Air Force Academy, Colorado. Celine Baldevia, senior, Osan American, South Korea, volleyball, basketball, soccer.
2010 — Stanley Schrock, senior, Kadena, Okinawa, football, basketball, soccer. Colorado State University-Mesa, Grand Junction, Colo. Liz Gleaves, junior Seoul American, volleyball, basketball, soccer.
2011 – Lotty Smith, senior, Kadena, Okinawa, football, basketball, track and field. Liz Gleaves, senior, Seoul American, volleyball, basketball, soccer. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- The Richmond County Sheriff's Office arrested a husband and wife after finding drugs during a traffic stop.
Steven Gebhart, 31, and Roxann Gebhart, 39, were arrested after deputies say they found illegal drugs inside their car. Investigators then went to search their home on Windsor Spring Road and found more illegal drugs and paraphernalia.
Mrs. Gebhart allegedly had a bag of methadone on her at the time of her arrest and has been charged with felony possession of methadone. Gebhart worked as a nurse through Correct Care Solutions at the Charles B. Webster Detention Center.
Mr. Gebhart is charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of methadone, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, selling of oxycodone, selling of marijuana and four counts selling of methamphetamines. All are felony charges.


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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky came up a game short of repeating as Southeastern Conference regular-season champions.
But the seventh-ranked Wildcats are confident they can win the conference tournament.
Tennessee ended Kentucky's one-year reign as regular season champs, but the Wildcats believe they served notice that they are the tournament favorite with Sunday's victory over the Lady Volunteers. The win clinched second place and a first-round bye in the tournament that began Wednesday in Duluth, Ga. Kentucky (25-4, 13-3) faces the Missouri-Vanderbilt winner on Friday.
Kentucky's victory against Tennessee also marked a return to form as they used their depth, and mixed tough defense with balanced offense, to wear down the Lady Volunteers. Believing that game was more indicative of their ability, players are confident of winning the program's first tournament title since 1982.


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|Annabelle, running around on top of
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On Sunday, the daddy and I decided we finally wanted to hike Guam's highest mountain: Mt. Lam Lam. To avoid the heat of the day, we agreed that we would leave around 8am.
One of the many things that humbles me daily is a knowledge of the working mamas out there (and even the stay-at-home, but get a kid off to school mamas) who somehow manage to get both themselves and their children out the door before 8am on a regular basis. I find it nearly impossible to get Annabelle and myself ready for the day before ten or eleven. The only reasons I felt this morning hike thing would work were: 1) We didn't need to shower because, well, we were going to get all sweaty anyway. 2) We could stop off at my favorite coffee shop on the way for a muffin and a latte, so there was no need to make coffee or breakfast.
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Somehow, we managed to get up, nursed, dressed,
and out the door by sometime around 8:30, and off we went. We stopped at Infusion where I ordered, against my better judgment, a vanilla latte and a banana muffin, and hopped back in the car. While I cut out caffeine entirely from the time I found out I was pregnant until Annabelle was two or three months old, I do enjoy my two cups of caffeinated coffee in the morning now, and I won't apologize for it, even though I know I'd be better off without it. Coffee is delicious. Coffee and gobs of sugar, however, is not the best idea. I should have had plenty of water and opted to forgo the cup of soy+caffeine+sugar-laden-vanilla-flavor. I paid for my poor decision during our hike, and was reminded that it won't be long before Annabelle starts making her own decisions on what to eat and drink, and my own become a model for her.
In another misstep, I decided to give her the cup she was begging for after I finished my syrupy drink, because she was rather upset and ready to be out of her car seat, so I thought it might cheer her up. Only foam was remaining, and that was at the bottom of the cup, so I decided it was fine. Oh, how I underestimate my child. I should have known that she would reach her entire arm down in the cup to devour the foam, and devour it she did. She had a great time doing it, however, so I decided, in the words of Dr. Lawrence Cohen, author of Playful Parenting, to follow the giggles, and I didn't take it away. Note to self: If I do decide to indulge in a latte, just before a hike is not the best time and, just because foam won't spill, doesn't mean Annabelle can't eat it. Lessons learned.
After my humbling coffee experience, we arrived, wiped Annabelle off, and headed up the mountain. Fortunately, the daddy helped me remember her hat and sunscreen, since even having had my coffee, my brain was so fuzzy that I nearly forgot! The views were lovely and we had a great time. Here are a few photos from the hike…


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The 27th annual Marietta College golf outing took place Friday on a cool, cloudy day at the Marietta Country Club.
The outing featured 24 teams of four, an improvement over last year's 22 teams. Taking first place was the team of Steve Davis, Mike Beardmore, Doug Robinson, and Jeff Filkovski. The foursome shot a 53, good for 17 under par.
"It's pretty amazing," Davis said. "We shot a 24 on the back nine. I think overall we had seven birdies and two eagles. It was unbelievable."
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Marietta College head football coach Jeff Filkovski lines up a putt during the 27th annual Marietta College golf outing at the Marietta Country Club Friday.
Davis also produced one of the highlights of the outing, shooting a hole-in-one on hole number 12.
"I hit my wedge, and it landed about 15-feet behind the hole," Davis said. "Then it spun backwards and went in the hole."
Davis said it was the sixth hole-in-one he has shot in his lifetime.
"The guys on our team, we've played all our lives, and we're all members of the Marietta Country Club. We may have had a little home field advantage," Davis joked.
The second place team was the foursome of Cameron Fouss, Ryan Boley, Scott Hollister, and Matt Mallett with a score of 58. The third place team of Jon VanderWal, Chad Spence, Brent Cahill, and Joe Puch also shot a 58, but lost a tie-breaker to the second place team.
Marietta College athletic director Larry Hiser said the outing was a success.
"It's a good fundraiser," Hiser said. "I'm impressed with the number of people. It's great to see people support Marietta athletics."
Several MC coaches, athletes, professors and staff members participated. Along with VanderWal (basketball) and Filkovski (football), other coaches in attendance included Brian Brewer (baseball), Ray Costa (volleyball), Jeanne Arbuckle (softball) Andy Bucheit (basketball), and Steve Rose (soccer).
Although it is a fundraiser, Hiser said a lot of people take it very seriously and are very competitive.
"In Marietta, golf is more competitive than a lot of places I've been," Hiser said. "People have their eye on the prize. A lot of them came to win. It's pretty laid-back in here (the clubhouse) but it gets intense on the course."
Cash prizes were awarded to the top teams, while there were also several hole prizes and a raffle. The outing was run by the Pioneer Club, and all proceeds benefit the Marietta College Athletic Department.
1. Beardmore, Davis, Filkovski, Robinson - 53 (-17)
2. Fouss, Boley, Hollister, Mallett - 58 (-12)
3. VanderWal, Puch, Cahill, Spence - 58 (-12)


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Granita is a frozen ice dessert; not like sorbet, not like ice-cream and certainly not like a slush puppy. It consists of….almost snowflakes, intensely flavoured, made by freezing water, sugar and various flavourings, e.g. coffee, lemon, almond, lime etc, and scraping the forming ice crystals regularly to form fluffy, soft flakes of ice that should look dry and light. It is perfect for dinner parties as you can make it well in advance, once scraped and flaked the granita can just be stored in the fridge until ready and re-fluffed up just before serving. SO easy - would you believe that it only has 2 ingredients in it!! Extremely versatile, granita can be made into almost any flavour – I've had huge success with Mojito flavoured, recipe to follow in the not so distant future, and will be trying out Margarita too very soon! The recipe below is for coffee granita and I think it is absolutely fantastic. Almost a twist on an after dinner coffee, it is intense with espresso flavour and the chocolate cream adds a smooth richness that results in a luxurious, yet light dessert.
I hope you enjoy it as much as me and my family and friends have.
Ingredients (Serves 6):
3 cups strong, good quality coffee
½ cup white sugar – or more or less, to taste. You must use sugar though – it is vital for the forming of the granita crystals.
2 tablespoons coffee liquor (optional – you could also add the zest of an orange, a tablespoon of cocoa powder). Don't add too much – the alcohol can affect the freezing point of the whole granita.
Double cream, 300ml
1 tablespoon icing sugar
Chocolate liquor – or use coffee liquor, brandy, rum, whisky… anything you fancy. If your guests are driving or don't drink, heat the alcohol first in a pan over a medium heat and leave for a few minutes, to evaporate off the alcohol. Do this before adding any booze to the granita too if you need to. Again, flavour the cream with something else if you like, e.g. vanilla, orange zest, almond etc.
1. Mix the coffee and sugar and optional extras in a large metal tray. A roasting dish would be ideal.
2. Place in a freezer, uncovered and leave for half an hour.
3. After half an hour take a fork and scrape any ice crystals forming on the sides. Repeat this, scraping at any ice with a fork until the whole block is frozen and scraped – approximately 5 hours. Don't worry too much if you can't be there the whole time. If the worse happens and it freezes into a giant solid block, you can just scrape it all at once with a fork. It's an effort though so try and scrape it up more regularly. Place back in the freezer for 30 minutes to dry out the flakes. This can be left in the freezer for some time and just fluffed up when required. The granita should be light, fluffy and dry looking.
4. Whip the double cream until it is thick and glossy, but not over-whipped. It should support itself when the bowl is turned over, but still retain some shine. Stir in the icing sugar, add more for taste. Add in a good tablespoon of the liquor. Taste. Add more or less depending on your own preference/the strength of the alcohol. I like a good, punchy cream so I added about 5 tablespoons of my chocolate liquor.
5. Spoon the granita into tumblers, or into the receptacle of your choice. Make a rough quenelle (or just a layman's dollop!) of the cream (by taking a teaspoon of it and passing it from that teaspoon to another, scraping up the inside of the first spoon with the second and repeating this until the cream has three straight lines to it. You should probably watch a youtube of this – it'll be easier to get having seen it and just takes a bit of practice). To be honest just a dollop of it with a spoon is also fine. Place this on top of the granita. Serve!


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A splendid time was had by all at the Tony Robbins Workshop with Eli Wilhide that was held on January 5 at the Cookie Cottage. There were 20 people in attendance.
Eli Wilhide gave us a fantastic presentation on how our mindset prevents us from taking our businesses to the next level. And of course, he told us a bit about the "Unleash The Power Within" event at the Meadowlands at the end of March. There are only three of these in the world every year, and this one is an hour from here!
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April 8, 2014
The MacMurray College softball team was swept on the road today by Culver-Stockton College. Coach Lexy Determan's club was shutout 9-0 in five innings in the first game; and fell 7-1 in the second game.
The Highlanders managed only two hits in the opening game and freshman pitcher Michala Swanger took the loss on the mound. Tiffany Hazelwonder (1-1) and Roni Grgin (1-2) each had singles for MacMurray.
Kendyl Cummins took the loss in the second game, despite allowing only five hits and striking out six Wildcats in six innings. The Highlanders committed four errors in the game.
Breezy Walton went 1-2 and was credited with the only Highlander RBI. Daerial DeGroot went 1-2, and Jenalee Stine, Mackenzie Hocker and Hazelwonder each went 1-3 in the loss.
Culver-Stockton College improved to 13-17 overall, while MacMurray now stands at 3-10 overall.
The Highlanders (0-2 in SLIAC play) will host Greenville College tomorrow afternoon in a SLIAC conference doubleheader at Palmer Field.


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Coca-Cola has now set aside $750,000 to develop water and sanitation projects in five Asian countries. The company announced that it was expanding its partnership with UNHabitat to now go from 'water to well being', which was also the title of a compendium jointly released by Atul Singh, president and CEO, Coca-Cola India and South West Asia and Joan Clos, Under-Secretary General, United Nations Executive Director, UNHabitat, at the 6th World Urban Forum earlier this week.
The partnership benefits a million people in 10 countries across Asia and Africa. The funds, bequeathed by the Coca-Cola Foundation, take the total contribution by the company to over $4 million in the last six years.


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Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer Chapter 10 Summary
- He gets fired from his job as a proofreader on the Fourth of July (there's freedom for you!). That means he has to leave his hotel and head back to the streets, walk around, kill time, and sit on benches.
- Spending a lot of time on café terraces, he meets a lot of new people. But they're all drunks and bores who just want to gab in his ear.
- Carl and Van Norden start to torment him about the possibility of his wife arriving now that he doesn't have a job. (Who needs enemies, right?)
- He has to turn to his Jewish friends—they're the ones you can rely on.
- He gets a job writing pseudonymous articles for a fur merchant. He writes pamphlets for a newly opened brothel and writes a thesis for a "deaf and dumb psychologist" (10.7). He also consents to be photographed in the nude—"with his pants down, and in other ways" (10.8) for what he is assured will be "a strictly private collection" (10.8). He winds up spending a good amount of time with the photographer, who knows the Paris that tourists don't know.
- Through that guy, Miller meets a new group of expatriate artists, including Kruger, a "spiritual-minded" sculptor and painter. The guy sucks as an artist but is always willing—almost eager—to loan Henry a few francs.
- He also meets Mark Swift, a "caustic" Irish painter. This one is torturing his mistress in the hope that she will leave him. He had used up her dowry and could no longer support her, so he had started to "antagonize" her so "that she would choose starvation rather than support his cruelties" (10.13). Wow, these people really are winners.
- Henry hooks up with Fillmore, a young man in the diplomatic service. Miller likes Fillmore because he's always up for a good time. The guy talks too much, but at least he reads good authors, like Anatole France, Joseph Conrad, Byron, and Victor Hugo. (You can forgive anyone who reads good books, apparently.)
- Henry, Fillmore, and his friend Collins start hanging out. Miller is really living it up.
- One day, Henry gets sick—really sick—and the painter Kruger has to take care of him, making him broths and making sure he doesn't croak. It gets sticky, though, because Henry is just this limp body in the middle of Kruger's study and Kruger wants to have an exhibition.
- Henry is just too sick to get out. Kruger is stressing that Henry's going to die and then he'll have a corpse in the middle of his exhibition. (Not good for business.)
- Kruger dresses him and basically kicks him out, telling Henry that it's "for his own good" (10.23). Collins helps him get a hotel room and then entertains him with some strange story about China and syphilis, famine and disease.
- Miller gets better, and, for the first time since his arrival in Paris, Miller takes an adventure beyond the boundaries of Paris.
- He and Fillmore go to Le Havre, a port town in Brittany, to see a sailor and friend of Fillmore named Collins. They all chat about a character from a Proust novel (Baron de Charlus) as they make their way to Jimmie's Bar. Jimmie is some beet-faced man married to a buxom woman with glittering eyes. These two are a real dynamic duo.
- Women are swarming around Henry and his friends. They all think Henry is a rich gentleman even though he doesn't have a "sou" (basically a cent) in his pocket.
- Yvette—that's Jimmie's wife—is a friendly one. She puts together a nice spread for Henry and company. Henry starts chatting up some "lascivious bitch" named Marcelles.
- Everyone is enjoying champagne and food. Marcelles and Henry are doing some dirty business under the table, and toasts are going all around.
- In the midst of all of this merriment, Fillmore realizes he has the clap. Great! Collins has the cure—something called "Vénétienne."
- They all take a stroll. Turns out Collins likes boys and begins to talk about some boy he had fallen in love with.
- They roll into a brothel for a good time. Sure are packing a lot of events into their 48 hours in Le Havre.
- Collins tells Miller and Fillmore that he dreams of returning to his old ranch in Idaho. He's gotta get out of Le Havre because Jimmie's wife has fallen in love with him and is having jealous fits. It's become too much.
- While Miller and Fillmore are sleeping, Yvette has a fit about Collins and busts up the place. She gets wasted and violent, and she and Jimmie have an ugly smack down. "It was high time we were leaving" (10.59).
- They become a little nostalgic about America, but Miller explains that it's best to just have America as an idea: "always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment" (10.59).


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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- The University of Michigan is anxiously awaiting the launch of the first satellite completely built by its students to be sent into space.
The six-and-a-half-pound satellite is about the size of a loaf of bread. But when it launches into space, it will represent a historic moment for the Ann Arbor school.
Assistant aerospace engineering professor James Cutler tells the Detroit Free Press he gets goose bumps when he thinks about Friday evening's launch in Alaska.
The Radio Aurora Explorer satellite is to share a ride on a rocket with six other satellites carrying 16 experiments for the military, NASA and universities.
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Fire destroyed the concert hall in September 2009.
Prosecutors contended James Bowyer set the blaze is hopes of collecting $3 million in insurance money.
They told jurors he was heavily in debt from gambling losses.
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How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph). We used Lowell Bair's translation.
Quote #4
"She's very nice, that wife of the doctor's," [Rodolphe] was saying to himself. "Beautiful teeth, black eyes, dainty feet, and graceful as a Parisian. How the devil did she get here? How did such a clumsy oaf ever get a wife like that?" (II.7.33)
Emma's looks are enough to make Rodolphe think she's out of place married to Charles in a place like Yonville – we see the power of her beauty here.
Quote #5
[Rodolphe] was dressed with that incongruous mixture of casualness and refinement which the common people regard as evidence of an eccentric life, tumultuous passions, artistic aspirations, and always a certain contempt for social convention, which either fascinates or exasperates them. (II.8.25)
Rodolphe's contrived appearance, a combination of wealth, eccentricity, and calculated style, immediately sets him apart from the "common people."
Quote #6
[…] when she saw herself in the mirror she was amazed by the way her face looked. Never before had her eyes been so big, so dark, so deep. She was transfigured by something subtle spread over her whole body. (II.9.57)
Emma's affair with Rodolphe seems to completely possess her body, and somehow transform it.


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well well cashly has cost his double dealing agent 100 grand and a suspension couldn't have happened to a better bloke
Yeah I read the link that EHIMKA posted quite interesting to say the least. The first of its kind, hopefully it will sending out the right kind of warning message they inteded it to. I'm sure it rid the world completely of tapping up but its a perfect start.
Hiyeah i had a quick look as well hopefully this will be the start of a get tough campain.although the bbc panarama program last week was a bit of a damp squib it may well start something off at the old boys club ( sorry i ment FA ( fuc* all) Hmmm)