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A friend asked me, "Do you have any tips for how we can ease our son off his pacifier?"
These parents have tried the cold turkey approach but it hasn't worked. There's only so much crying she and her hubby can take before they just throw their hands up in defeat.
Giving up a soother can be as tough for some children as giving up caffeine or nicotine is for an adult.
Children, however, aren't dealing with physical withdrawal symptoms. It's not like your child can get physically "hooked" on a soother -- but, then again, they don't have the same repertoire of coping strategies as most adults.
This means that they are unable to psychologically prepare themselves for "soother cold turkey" by taking part in toddler yoga or toddler kick-boxing (whichever may be best suited to their temperament).
All your child knows is that his or her world has been rocked in a major way.
If you look at it from the child's perspective, you'll see that taking away the pacifier when he or she is still relying on it for comfort is like taking away the wee one's teddy bear or worse (think left arm).
You'll find that kids cope a whole lot better when the transition to life in a soother-free world is more gradual. Hey parents - here's an added bonus, the transition will be a lot easier on you, too.
Consider offering your child a different bedtime buddy, like a teddy bear or other comfort object as a substitute for the soother at naptime and bedtime.
Since naptime and bedtime is the time when young children tend to be most reliant on their comfort devices, if you can help your child reduce and kick the habit during these challenging times of day, you'll be well on your way to weakening the strong association that's been created between sleep time (or nap-time) and the comfort mechanism.
A quick tip is to start limiting the use of the soother at other times of the day. This means that you will need to teach your child other techniques for comforting him or herself when upset.
This requires a great deal of patience from you during the early days because your child might initially cry a great deal in order to try to convince you to hand over the soother. So make sure it's a good time to take the plunge when it comes to pacifier training (e.g., don't tackle it the week you're moving to a new house, visiting out-of-town relatives, and/or due to give birth).
How have you won the battle?
Ann Douglas is the author of numerous books about pregnancy and parenting including the bestselling "The Mother of All Pregnancy Books." She regularly contributes to a number of print and online publications, is frequently quoted in the media on a range of parenting-related topics, and has appeared as a guest on a number of television and radio shows. Ann and her husband Neil live in Peterborough, Ontario. with the youngest of their four children. Learn more at her site, having-a-baby.com.
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BRACEVILLE - Trumbull County sheriff's detectives were holding a 35-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman in connection with a double stabbing-robbery early Thursday at a mobile home park.
The pair barged in on two men playing video games at 136 Westgate Drive in Arhaven Estates shortly before 1 a.m., according to deputy reports.
Pleading not guilty later Thursday in Newton Falls Municipal Court were Todd Michael Smith, 35, 144 Westgate Drive, who was charged with felonious assault and aggravated robbery, and Gina Carmalita Little, 18, of the same address, who was charged with complicity to the two charges.
Both were being held Thursday in lieu of $100,000 bond each in Trumbull County Jail pending appearances at preliminary hearings March 21.
Injured in the attack were Jamie L. Stein, 33, who remained in St. Joseph Health Center on Thursday with several stab wounds, and Tim Wagner, 31, 136 Westgate, who was treated at Trumbull Memorial Hospital before being released.
Stein was identified in reports as a neighbor of Wagner's, who lives in the mobile home with a brother, Albert, 35, who was not injured in the attack.
Reports state that Smith and Little live at 144 Westgate with another woman identified as Smith's girlfriend. Deputies said that Smith and Little planned to rob the brothers.
After forcing their way into the Wagner residence, Smith, also known as ''JR,'' stabbed both men after demanding money, according to deputy reports.
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in alot of the vlogs you will hear Jesse say at the beginning "whats up dope fresh nation" (DFN)
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then you get a screen where you can choose to launch the satnav, WinCE, update, ... at the right bottom, there is a button "enable/disable menu" . if you set it to enable menu, everytime the unit is powered on you will come to this screen.
I am running this unit now with IGO8 and it works great.
- just empty the "flashdrive". if it's not visible, go to "control panel", "storage manager", select "IDE hard disk", on the right panel, select "properties" and then select "mount". and close all windows.
- copy the IGO map to the flashdrive and rename it "Alpine"
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Today = the eighth issue of SCOUTS SHOUTS, where I blog about my favourite song of the week, my album of the week, film of the week…you get the idea. Be sure to check back every Thursday to see what's hot that week.
Album of the week
I've been bumping R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece this week. There are too many JOINTS on it including of course, DROP IT LIKE IT'S HOT, LET'S GET BLOWN, PASS IT PASS IT and SIGNS (ft Charlie Wilson and JT).
Song of the week
Such a beautiful song from a wonderfully FANTASTIC film.
Read my review of the film HERE
Crush of the week
Janet Jackson
I saw her in concert last weekend and she hasn't aged a bit. She looked radiant.
And damn she can DANCE just as good as she used to. The photos below are from Harper's Bazaar.
Film of the week
I finally watched INSIDE JOB, a documentary film about the financial crisis of 2007–2010 directed by Charles H. Ferguson, and boy oh boy was it a great watch. I was literally gripped from start to finish. Kudos to Matt Damon for narrating the film which is frighteningly clear on its stance against deregulation. Bold move. It is (and I quote), 'a complex story told exceedingly well'. The film won Best Documentary Feature at this year's Academy Awards and deservedly so.
Female model of the week
She needs no introduction.
Ms Naomi Campbell
First two photos below are from Love Magazine's S/S 2010 issue, snapped by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. The next two are from Vogue Russia and shot by Tom Munro.
Male model of the week
Garrett Neff
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Photographed by Mario Testino
Styling by Andrew Richardson
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Outtakes from Harper's Bazaar Australia, January/February 2011.
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He's more visible every game than Zetterberg has been. Hasn't taken him long to dominate since coming back from injury either. It's like he never left.
I guess Zetterberg must be doing something in the lockerroom better than Datsyuk is, because he's been all but named as the future captain. I don't think it should be an open and shut case. Maybe they could be co-captains or alternate. I normally don't like that, but in this case it would be fine. They are the Euro twins after all.
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WIMBLEDON, England - Absolutely perfect - 24 points played, 24 points won.
Can't be any better than wild-card entry Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazahstan was at the beginning of her third-round match at Wimbledon on Saturday, winning every single point in the 15-minute first set of what became a 6-0, 6-4 victory over French Open runner-up Sara Errani of Italy. It's the only "golden set" for a woman in the 44 years of professional tennis.
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SHOULD central banks be proactive, or reactive to evidence of slowing growth? Depending on what you believe, you'll get an answer as to what the Reserve Bank should do later this month when its monetary policy committee meets for the 89th time since the formal decision-making process began.
It's either they cut now in light of a sluggish domestic economy or wait for a possible pick-up, globally and domestically in the second half of the year (hopefully when inflation has reached its peak).
Thursday's economic data showed evidence of a sluggish manufacturing and mining sector, which is going to make the next meeting of the policy committee much more interesting.
In March, manufacturing production fell 2.5% month on month, compared with a revised decrease of 3.6% the previous month. It was well below market expectations that it would remain flat. After two months of recovery, mining output fell 3.5% year on year.
European struggles to emerge from a recession, weakness in domestic exports, work stoppages and disruptions to various mining operations and the slowdown in consumer activity are the main factors behind the sluggish growth.
In the absence of government intervention to boost the economy — we are still waiting for infrastructure spend to start — markets and economists have taken a keen interest in just what the central bank will do at its next meeting.
And there's quite a huge difference in opinion.
Judging from bond movements over the past couple of days (bond yields have plunged to a record low) and the local forward rate agreement market — where parties enter into contracts that determine future interest rates — there's growing belief in the markets we may see a second rate cut in ten months.
On the other hand, economists are expecting the Gill Marcus-led bank to keep rates on hold. Of 20 economists surveyed by a Reuters' poll, all 20 expect this.
Last week I was of the view that the Reserve Bank may as well cut the repo rate by 50 basis points to boost confidence levels — taking similar action as the European Central Bank, even though our inflationary environments could not be more different.
Now I know that a cut wouldn't necessarily boost South Africa's growth overnight, because at 5% our borrowing costs are already at multi-decade lows. For me, a cut is not a solution to the growth question, but rather a boost to morale.
Stanlib chief economist Kevin Lings says the impediments to higher economic growth are largely unrelated to interest rates and, ideally, it is these impediments which should be urgently addressed.
I guess the first step along this path is to reach agreement on a plan and at this stage I'll take any economic plan made by the government, business and unions. That's going to take some time, but while we wait for the stars to be perfectly aligned, the economy needs an injection of confidence to halt the steady decline. Economic and political headlines this year are really hammering confidence. And we can't afford a crisis of confidence, that's what has Europe stuck in a recession. The only concern is inflation and the credibility of the Reserve Bank if it does not act prudently by keeping rates unchanged. March inflation came in unchanged at 5.9%, which was just below the bank's upper limit of 6%.
April inflation data will be one of the most awaited pieces of information later this month. It's been a month where the rand — the biggest upside risk to the number — has strengthened 2.9% against the US dollar. Commodity prices, including international oil, have also been softer because of growth concerns combined with oversupply.
THIS is my last daily column for Business Day. It's been close to two years of trying every day to write something that would, hopefully, be of interest to readers — very often for people who are better informed than me.
Some columns have written themselves and others have made me grateful that this was a daily effort and what I had written would be gone the next day.
Overall, it's been the best and most daunting thing I have had to do as journalist, finding my voice.
I'll continue writing a weekly column until I take up my position at the Financial Mail as deputy editor at the beginning of June. For now the daily labour is over.
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The U.S. Women's Amateur next month at the Country Club of Charleston will have its youngest-ever qualifier competing.
Lucy Li of Redwood Shores, Calif., will be 10 years, 10 months and 4 days old when the tournament begins on Aug. 5. The previous youngest player was Latanna Stone, who played in the 2012 Women's Amateur at the age of 10 years, 11 months and 2 days.
Li was fifth and earned one of eight available spots in a qualifying tournament held Thursday at Sequoyah Country Club in Oakland, Calif., shooting 75.
Earlier this summer, Li reached the first round of match play in the Women's Amateur Public Links and became the youngest player to make the cut at that event. Li is a student of the Jim McLean Golf School in Florida.
McKenzie Talbert of North Augusta, who won the 2010 Beth Daniel Junior Azalea played at the Country Club of Charleston, also has qualified for the Women's Amateur, earning one of nine spots in Dalton, Ga. Also qualifying at that spot were Katy Funk of Spartanburg and Lauren Stephenson of Lexington. Talbert and McKenzie have both signed to play at Clemson which has added women's golf for the 2013-14 school year while Funk will play at Wofford.
Miler tops in Interclub
The Miler team from Summerville Country Club finished with -2 points to win the Charleston Area Men's Interclub Golf Association tournament at Crowfield Golf and Country Club.
Wescott was second at -5 and Charleston Municipal third with -6.
Rich Lindgren of Coosaw Creek was the top individual with 13 points. David Suggs, also of Coosaw Creek, had 9 points and Victor Quinones of Crowfield was third with 6 points.
Coosaw Creek leads the yearly standings with 78 points, followed by: Pine Forest, 72; Miler, 66.5; Wescott, 66.5, Charleston National, 64.5; Crowfield, 61; Shadowmoss, 58.5; Dunes West, 52.5; Legend Oaks, 50; Charleston Municipal, 47.5; RiverTowne, 47; Berkeley, 44.5; and Stono Ferry, 35.5.
Roy Meyers Junior Open rescheduled
The Roy Meyers Junior Open golf tournament at Summerville Country Club was rescheduled for Friday because of inclement weather. Age groups are 10-under, 11-12, 13-15 and 16-18.
Entries are still being accepted for the tournament. Call (843) 873-2210 ext. 1 to register.
Wilson second in Grant Bennett
Jamie Wilson of Mount Pleasant shot 68-73—141 and finished second to Trevor Phillips of Inman (137) in the boys 15-18 age group of the South Carolina Junior Golf Association Grant Bennett Florence Junior Invitational played at Florence Country Club.
Drayton Stewart of Charleston was second in the boys 11-12 age group with a score of 155, while Davis Yearout of Mount Pleasant finished fourth (189) and Cole Warner of Summerville finished fifth (198). Graham Corbin of Inman was the winner at 148.
Zach Adams of Seabrook Island finished first in the boys 10-under age group, shooting 41-39—80. Ethan Warner of Summerville was fifth (107).
Hurricane Junior Golf
Kyle Spencer of Mount Pleasant finished in a tie for second in boys 11-14 age group of the Hurricane Junior Golf Tour Summer Classic played in Orlando, Fla., shooting 75-75-150. Ray Navis of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., won with a score of 144.
July 27-28: Hurricane Junior Golf Tour Charleston Open, Patriots Point Links, open to golfers ages 11-18, registration deadline July 17, visit hjgt.org or call (904) 379-2697.
Aug. 10: Sixth annual Trip Page Classic to benefit Citadel Foundation's Trip Page Endowment Scholarship Fund, Harbor Course-Wild Dunes Resort, $125 per player or $500 per foursome, visit trippageclassic.com.
Aug. 17: Seventh annual Tommy Cuthbert Charity Classic golf tournament, Osprey Point-Kiawah Island Golf Resort, $500 per team, contact Tiffany Pickard at (843) 266-4634 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sept. 28: St. John's High School Islander Golf Tournament, Oak Point-Kiawah Island Golf Resort, $85 per player, contact Tiffany Magwood at (843) 559-6400 ext. 6218.
Sept. 28: Parents and Guardians Association of the Coastal Center golf tournament, Wescott Golf Club, $75 per player or $300 per foursome, contact Richard Johnson at (843) 312-4222 or email email@example.com.
Oct. 7: Charleston Symphony Orchestra League Swing for the Symphony golf tournament, River Course-Kiawah Island Club, $400 per player or $1,600 per foursome, visit csonlinc.org or call (843) 768-9289.
Oct. 18: Seventh annual Kevin Higgins Golf Classic, Summerville Country Club, contact Connie Tuza at (843) 452-9801 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Patti Bruno, Links Course-Wild Dunes Resort, No. 12, 118 yards, 7-wood. Witness: Roger Greaker.
Jeff Fuquay, Shadowmoss Plantation Golf Club, No. 4, 125 yards, pitching wedge. Witnesses: Keith Hess, Marty Carsner, Joe Bennett.
Rhett Runey, Shadowmoss Plantation Golf Club, No. 4, 117 yards, pitching wedge. Witness: Rick Kellett, Ralph Woodward, Joe DelCollo.
Billy Byrd, Oak Forest-Wescott Golf Club, No. 3, 123 yards, 9-iron. Witnesses: Randy Russell, Hugh Laughlin, Vaughn Lochner.
Bob Sullivan, Legend Oaks Golf Club, No. 8, 138 yards. Witnesses: Rick Minassian, Carl Merchant, Bill Hausler.
A hole-in-one should be reported by the golf course. Contact Tommy Braswell at (843) 937-5591, fax (843) 937-5579 or email email@example.com.


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The Anubis Gatesby Tim Powers
Ace Books is proud to present this classic novel of time travel in a beautiful new trade edition. It took the fantasy world by storm a decade ago, and now fans can savor this Philip K. Dick Award-winner for the first time all over again. Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have assembled such an insane cast of characters: an ancient Egyptian sorcerer, a modern millionaire, a body-switching werewolf, a hideously deformed clown, a young woman disguised as a boy, a brainwashed Lord Byron, and finally, our hero, Professor Brendan Doyle.
Declareby Tim Powers
As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmarethat has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian desert, from post-war Berlin to the streets of Cold War Moscow, Hale's desperate quest draws him into international politics and gritty espionage tradecraft -- and inexorably drives Hale, the fiery and beautiful Communist agent Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga, and Kim Philby, mysterious traitor to the British cause, to a deadly confrontation on the high glaciers of Mount Ararat, in the very shadow of the fabulous and perilous Ark.
Dinner at Deviant's Palaceby Tim Powers
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award: In a nuclear-ravaged California, a humble musician sets out on a dangerous quest to rescue his lost love from the clutches of a soul-devouring religious cultIn the twenty-second century, the City of Angels is a tragic shell of its former self, having long ago been ruined and reshaped by nuclear disaster. Before he was in a band in Ellay, Gregorio Rivas was a redeemer, rescuing lost souls trapped in the Jaybirds cult of the powerful maniac Norton Jaybush. Rivas had hoped those days were behind him, but a desperate entreaty from a powerful official is pulling him back into the game. The rewards will be plentiful if he can wrest Urania, the official's daughter and Gregorio's first love, from Jaybush's sinister clutches. To do so, the redeemer reborn must face blood-sucking hemogoblins and other monstrosities on his way to discovering the ultimate secrets of this neo-Californian civilization. One of the most ingeniously imaginative writers of our time, Tim Powers dazzles in an early work that displays his unique creative genius. Alive with wit, intelligence, and wild invention, Dinner at Deviant's Palace is a mad adventure across a dystopian future as only Tim Powers could have imagined it. This ebook features an original introduction by the author.
The Drawing of the Darkby Tim Powers
Brian Duffy, aging soldier of fortune, had been hired in Venice by a strange old man who called himself Aurelianus Ambrosius. He was supposed to go to Vienna and act as bouncer at an inn where the fabulous Herzwesten beer was brewed. That was clear enough.But why was he guided and guarded on the trip by creatures from the ancient legends? Why should he be attacked by ifrits and saved by mythical dwarfs? What was so important about the Herzwesten beer to the Fisher King -- whoever he was? Why was Duffy plagued by visions of a sword and an arm rising from a lake? And what had a bunch of drunken, ancient Vikings to do with it all?Then there was no time for speculation as Vienna was besieged by the Turkish armies of Suleiman. Duffy found himself drawn into a war of desperation and magic. It was up to him to preserve the West until the drawing of the Dark.From the Paperback edition.
Earthquake Weatherby Tim Powers
In the final book of the Fault Lines Trilogy, the race is on to resurrect the murdered Fisher King of the American West and save the life of his successor from supernatural enemies Scott Crane, the Fisher King of the American West, is dead, killed by a possessed Janis Cordelia Plumtree. Crane's lifeless but uncorrupted body now lies in state at the Solville apartment complex, protected from spirits and dark magic by powerful charms and watched over by Pete and Angelica Sullivan. The Sullivans' adopted son, Koot Hoomie, is Crane's most likely successor. But Koot is only thirteen years old, and unprepared to assume the magical role for which he is destined. The most advantageous path would be to revive the dead king, but that will require the cooperation of the young woman who killed him, and the aid of a newly widowed winemaker touched by the god Dionysus. And with the evil supernatural opposition massing powerfully all around them, continued death seems far more likely than Crane's resurrection.Earthquake Weather concludes the astonishing Fault Lines Trilogy, which also includes Expiration Date and Last Call.
Expiration Dateby Tim Powers
Powers leads us through the very mean and dark streets of an almost contemporary Los Angeles to a spectacular showdown on the Queen Mary.
Expiration Dateby Tim Powers
In the second book of the Fault Lines Trilogy, Tim Powers dazzles with a dark and extraordinary urban fantasy set in an otherworldly LA, as a young boy finds himself targeted by malevolent ghost hunters There is a Los Angeles that few people can see, a shadowed metropolis of ghosts, ghost hunters, and ghost junkies who crave the addictive rush of inhaled spirits. When eleven-year-old Koot Hoomie Parganas decides to flee the constrictive grasp of his New Age parents, he inadvertently steps into this world. Escaping with his parents' most prized possession, Koot is soon the object of the most intense supernatural manhunt in history. On an ordinary day, Los Angeles can be treacherous; this "other" LA could prove downright fatal for an unsuspecting youngster who's suddenly the target of every hungry ghost hunter prowling the City of Angels. But Koot will not be taken easily. And though not everyone racing to Koot's side means him harm, they are greatly outnumbered by malevolent forces driven by a terrible, undeniable need.Expiration Date is the second book in the Fault Lines Trilogy, which begins with Last Call and concludes with Earthquake Weather. At once exhilarating and terrifying, this book is a bravura display of the brilliant, bold invention that has moved bestselling author Peter Straub to declare World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick award-winner Tim Powers "one of my absolute favorite writers."
Hide Me Among the Gravesby Tim Powers
London, winter of 1862, Adelaide McKee, a former prostitute, arrives on the doorstep of veterinarian John Crawford, a man she met once seven years earlier. Their brief meeting produced a child who, until now, had been presumed dead. McKee has learned that the girl lives-but that her life and soul are in mortal peril from a vampiric ghost. But this is no ordinary spirit; the bloodthirsty wraith is none other than John Polidori, the onetime physician to the mad, bad, and dangerous Romantic poet Lord Byron. Both McKee and Crawford have mysterious histories with creatures like Polidori, and their child is a prize the malevolent spirit covets dearly. Polidori is also the late uncle and supernatural muse to the poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. When she was just fourteen years old, Christina unwittingly brought Polidori's curse upon her family. But the curse bestowed unexpected blessings as well, inspiring Christina's poetry and Gabriel's paintings. But when Polidori resurrects Dante's dead wife-turning her into a horrifying vampire-and threatens other family members, Christina and Dante agree that they must destroy their monstrous uncle and break the spell, even if it means the end of their creative powers. Determined to save their daughter, McKee and Crawford join forces with the Rossettis, and soon these wildly mismatched allies are plunged into a supernatural London underworld whose existence goes beyond their wildest imaginings. Ultimately, each of these disparate individuals-the sensitive poet, the tortured painter, the straitlaced animal doctor, the reformed prostitute, and even their Artful Dodger-like young daughter-must choose between the banality and constraints of human life and the unholy immortality that Polidori offers. Sweeping from the mansions of London's high society to its grimy slums, the elegant salons of the West End to the pre-Roman catacombs beneath St. Paul's Cathedral, Hide Me Among the Graves blends the historical and the supernatural in a dazzling, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride-a modern horror story with a Victorian twist.
Last Callby Tim Powers
Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers. Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, Last Call tells the story of a one-eyed professional gambler who discovers that he was not the big winner in a long-ago poker game . . . and now must play for the highest stakes ever as he searches for a way to win back his soul.
Medusa's Webby Tim Powers
A phantasmagoric, thrilling, mind-bending tale of speculative fiction in which one man must uncover occult secrets of 1920s Hollywood to save his familyIn the wake of their Aunt Amity's suicide, Scott and Madeline Madden are summoned to Caveat, the eerie, decaying mansion in the Hollywood hills in which they were raised. But their decadent and reclusive cousins, the malicious wheelchair-bound Claimayne and beautiful, bitter Ariel, do not welcome Scott and Madeline's return to the childhood home they all once shared. While Scott desperately wants to go back to their south-of-Sunset lives, he cannot pry his sister away from this haunted "House of Usher in the Hollywood Hills" that is a conduit for the supernatural.Decorated by bits salvaged from old hotels and movie sets, Caveat hides a dark family secret that stretches back to the golden days of Rudolph Valentino and the silent film era. A collection of hypnotic eight-limbed abstract images inked on paper allows the Maddens to briefly fragment and flatten time--to transport themselves into the past and future in visions that are puzzling, terrifying, and mesmerizing. Though their cousins know little about these ancient "spiders" that provoke unpredictable temporal dislocations, Ariel and Claimayne have been using them for years--an addiction that has brought Claimayne to the brink of solipsistic destruction.As Madeline falls more completely under Caveat's spell, Scott discovers that to protect her, he must use the dangerous spiders himself. But will he unravel the mystery of the Madden family's history and finally free them from the past . . . or be pulled deeper, perhaps permanently, into the deadly web?Blending real-life historical and fictional characters with the otherworldly, Medusa's Web is a vivid, chilling, fast-paced read that once again demonstrates multiple-award-winning novelist Tim Powers's imaginative brilliance.Critics Hail Tim Powers"A writer of extraordinary imaginative powers."--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"[A] fine example of the work of a much-beloved author, and a spooky ride through Victorian London to boot. . . . Powers's work engages with something prerational that is buried deep, deep in our brains, and that won't be bullied into submission by mere reason."--boingboing.com on Hide Me Among the Graves"A fascinating exploration of the fine line between inspiration and insanity, this horror/historical fiction/adrenaline blend will make your flesh creep and your heart pound."--Library Journal on Hide Me Among the Graves"A genre-bending thriller . . . endlessly inventive . . . [with] imaginative leaps and relentless pacing."--New York Times Book Review on Three Days to Never"Brio, bravado and a salutary measure of lunacy. . . . A postmodern work par excellence."--Washington Post Book World on Three Days to Never"Dazzling . . . a tour de force, a brilliant blend of John le Carré spy fiction with the otherworldly."--Dean Koontz on Declare"Powers orchestrates reality and fantasy so artfully that the reader is not allowed a moment's doubt throughout this tall tale."--The New Yorker on Declare
On Stranger Tidesby Tim Powers
Aboard the Vociferous Carmichael puppeteer John Chandagnac is sailing toward Jamaica to claim his stolen birthright from an unscrupulous uncle when the vessel is captured . . . by pirates! Offered a choice by Captain Phil Davies to join their seafaring band or die, Chandagnac assumes the name John Shandy and a new life as a brigand. But more than swashbuckling sea battles and fabulous plunder await the novice buccaneer on the roiling Caribbean waters-for treachery and powerful vodun sorcery are coins of the realm in this dark new world. And for the love of beautiful, magically imperiled Beth Hurwood, Shandy will set sail on even stranger tides, following the savage, ghost-infested pirate king Blackbeard and a motley crew of the living and the dead to the cursed nightmare banks of the fabled Fountain of Youth.
The Skies Discrowned and An Epitaph in Rustby Tim Powers
A special two-in-one edition by World Fantasy and Philip K. Dick award-winner Tim Powers, featuring The Skies Discrowned, about an oppressed universe in the violent throes of political revolt, and An Epitaph in Rust, which carries the reader to a future California rife with dark conspiracies and Shakespearean-caliber plotsAt the start of his celebrated career--before his widespread acclamation as one of the most original contemporary fantasists in America--Tim Powers published a pair of exciting science fiction adventures. Long considered lost classics, these two novels were early indications that a true master had arrived on the science fiction/fantasy scene.In The Skies Discrowned, a young artist and swordsman becomes a political criminal, marked for death after witnessing an assassination. Francisco Rovzar's strange odyssey through his planet's lawless underworld and his transformation from naïve young boy to hardened freedom fighter is an intriguing adventure with action on every page. An Epitaph in Rust unfolds in a grim future Los Angeles, following a young man who escapes a bleak life of servitude in a monastery. Hunted for a seemingly insignificant transgression in a city driven mad by the mayor's explosive destruction and the subsequent murderous rampage of the android police, young Thomas finds refuge with a troupe of actors who have more than Shakespeare on their minds.
The Stress of Her Regardby Tim Powers
When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom. Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey that crisscrosses Europe, Crawford desperately seeks his freedom from this vengeful lover who haunts his dreams and will not rest until she destroys all that he cherishes. Told in the guise of a secret history, this long-awaited tale of passion and terror is finally back in print after more than 20 years.
Three Days to Neverby Tim Powers
Albert Einstein's groundbreaking scientific discoveries made possible the creation of the most terrible weapon the world had ever known. But he made another discovery that he chose to reveal to no one--to keep from human hands a power that dwarfed the atomic bomb. When twelve-year-old Daphne Marrity takes a videotape labeled Pee-wee's Big Adventure from her recently deceased grandmother's house, neither she nor her college-professor father, Frank, realize what they now have in their possession. In an instant they are thrust into the center of a world-altering conspiracy, drawing the dangerous attentions of both the Israeli Secret Service and an ancient European cabal of occultists. Now father and daughter have three days to learn the rules of a terrifying magical chess game in order to escape a fate more profound than death--because the Marritys hold the key to the ultimate destruction of not only what's to come . . . but what already has been.
What If Our World is Their Heaven: The Final Conversations of Philip K. Dickby Tim Powers Doris Elaine Sauter Gwen Lee
In the field of science fiction, the work of Philip K Dick is unparalleled. His novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? became the classic science-fiction film Blade Runner. His short story, "The Minority Report," was recently adapted for the screen by Stephen Spielberg and stars Tom Cruise. Dick's appeal and influence has reached the world over, creating the standard for the literary science fiction novel.<P><P> In November of 1982, six months before the author's death, journalist Gwen Lee recorded the first of several in-depth discussions with Philip K. Dick that continued over the course over the next three months. These extraordinary interviews are filled with the wit and aplomb characteristic of Dick's writing, helping make What If Our World Is Their Heaven? not only an engaging read, but a unique and compelling historical document. It will be a must read for anyone interested in the field of science fiction.
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LANDOVER, Md. - The bloviating over Chip Kelly's Machine Gun offense will be, for the moment, inevitably incomplete.
After a mind-blowing performance outside of D.C., the real virtues and problems of his breathless scheme cannot be known for weeks, if not months; maybe years. Fair assessment requires even more polished execution by even more appropriate personnel, and that might be a season or two away; or, for Kelly, it might even be a job or two away. The blitz occasionally seemed to work.
Similarly, Bill Davis' hypothetically effective defensive theories remain effective in theory alone; again, for similar reasons, concerning personnel and repetition. Washington looked overmatched last night, but let Davis beat a team with a quarterback who took a preseason snap, then judge. Robert Griffin III couldn't pitch it accurately last night, much less pass it.


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Just take it from 56-year-old Kate Strosser, who is suffering from stage IV breast cancer. This is the second time that Strosser, sister-in-law of Her Times editor Pam Parker, has lost her hair. The first time she went bald from chemotherapy treatments, she opted to wear scarves and wigs to cover up. This time Strosser said, "To hell with it!" She decided to get a henna tattoo on her head.
The idea started as a simple conversation with other breast cancer sisters. Strosser doesn't have any tattoos, so she thought it would be fun to get one.
A henna tattoo is a temporary image on the skin that resembles a tattoo. These types of tattoos can be drawn, painted or airbrushed, as a form of body painting, but most of the time these tattoos are transferred to the skin. The materials for the tattoo are all natural from the henna plant, and essential oils are used.
Strosser's best friend, Lynne Ricart, and I went to Sacred Piercing at 253 W. Eighth St. for the tattoo. Strosser picked out a few designs for henna artist Ashley Bagci, who freehanded an intricate floral design. Bagci typically does henna tattoos on arms, legs, hands and feet. When faced with a challenge of a scalp, she said, "I think it's awesome that she would do this!"
Bagci used something that looked similar to a pastry bag to pipe the henna design onto Strosser's head. It took about 40 minutes, and the end result was strikingly beautiful.
A henna tattoo takes two to four hours to dry. Once dry, the extra henna paste can be scraped off the skin. Then oil needs to be applied to the area for the next 48 hours. This helps set the stain into your skin, Bagci said."
Strosser had a smile on her face from beginning to end during the application process.
Two weeks after the tattoo was finished, Strosser was still smiling and collecting compliments everywhere from the YMCA to shops. "I had a 30-something, athletic-looking male approach me in Wegmans today, and he said he liked my tattoo," she said. "I might have to keep this up. It doesn't hurt to get some attention from a cute younger guy."
The tattoo lasts one to two weeks.


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Is it possible to build a voice lab without actual [zocor alternative viagra] hardware? The answer is yes and no. You can build a very good lab using GNS3 and VMWare but it is not possible to build a complete lab. The underlying emulation engine for GNS3 (dynamips) does not support digital signal processors (dsps) or voice cards.
Over the next few months, I will show you how to build a very good lab without any hardware. If you want a more complete lab, you will need to obtain at least one router with dsps and voice cards. I have a 2611XM router with DSPs, a vic-2fxs card, a vic-2fxo card and an ATA-186.
Disclaimer and Due Credit:
This tutorial series is heavily based on by Jayanm of Chicago, IL. Jaynam has obtained the following Cisco Certifications: CCIE (Voice) - CCVP - CCSP - CCNA - CQS (PIX, VPN, IDS) - VMWare Certified Professional.
I really appreciate the ground breaking research by Jaynam.
Updates and Videos in the series:
I will include future videos in this section as they are created. It is a good idea to bookmark this particular post or if you would like to keep up on all future tutorials.
I am using a fairly basic pc with a 3Ghz hyperthreading CPU and 2GB Ram. By today's standards, it is nothing special.
Update 1/19/09: I have added Dell 750 server with 4GB RAM for virtual servers at the Headquarters location.
Optional Hardware
As I mentioned before, I have a 2611XM router with a couple voice cards and some dsps. Zocor alternative viagra this is not manditory but i will include this hardware with the lab series for those that would like to purchase the hardware to follow along.
Emulated Hardware
I will be emulating 3725 routers because they will be seen on the CCIE lab. Although the 3725s call for 256 MB requirements zocor alternative viagra, I have found that they only actually use ~192MB ram on my PC.
Jaynam and others have opted to use 2691's. You may find this works better for you also.
I have chosen zocor alternative viagra to use Ubuntu Linux for my host operating system due to better performance over XP, stability, availability, ease of use and price.
Host OS: Ubuntu 8. 0. 4
PC Emulation: VMWare Server v1. 0. 6 or 2. x
Router Emulation: GNS3 v0. 5 / v0. 6
IOS: c3725-adventerprisek9_ivs-mz. 124-15. T6. bin
What is possible without hardware?
It is possible to test lots of different Cisco VOIP Technologies. Here is a short list. I am sure I will make mistakes with this list or leave things out. Feel free to email me or make a comment to help me get a more complete list.
Call Manager Features
- Call Routing - Partitions, CSS, Time of Day routing, Route Groups, Route Lists, Route patterns, Translation Patterns, Line Groups, Hunt Lists, Hunt Pilots, 4 digit dialing
- Media Resources - Software Based Media Resources only - Music on Hold, Software Conference Bridge
- IP Phone registration and dialing
- Redundancy - SRST, AAR
- Call Admission Control - Locations based and Gatekeeper
- Unity Integration
- Extension Mobility
- Attendant Console
SIP Trunking
offers free SIP trunks for voice labs.
IOS Features
- Call manager Express
- Gatekeeper
- Digit manipulation
- Auto Attendant
- TCL Scripts
- Voicemail Integration from CME to Unity
- Frame Relay
- Class of Restriction (COR)
What is not possible without hardware?
- Xcoder registration and testing
- Hardware based conference bridges
- Router based MOH
- voice port configuration
- t. 37 fax store and forward
- Fax relay
- Anything related to hardware not emulated, VG248, ATA, CAT6500, Catalyst 3550 switch.


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WAILUKU - Maui's sunken history, including the wrecks of World War II-era planes and landing craft, will be explored in a presentation Thursday.
University of Hawaii students learning underwater archaeology have spent the past two weeks diving, surveying and drawing the sites off South Maui, several of which have not been closely studied before. Their work could be used to monitor the condition of the sites, and to help local divers learn more about the wrecks and understand why they need to be preserved, said Hans VanTilburg, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maritime archaeologist who has been leading the project.
"These are great sites, and I'm glad Maui has these kinds of historical resources," he said. "You guys are lucky."
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Students from the University of Hawaii's Marine Option Program sketch and record information about a shipwreck site off South Maui. Working under maritime archaeologists, the students learn field techniques while also documenting World War II-era wrecks from Maalaea to Wailea. A presentation on the work will be offered at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary in Kihei.
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VanTilburg will give a lecture on "History Below the Waves" at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, located at 726 S. Kihei Road. He will present the results of the students' work as well as photos of the project and sites.
Through the project, NOAA and UH staff, along with six students from the UH Marine Option Program, have dived to wrecks off South Maui that date to the 1940s. While all of the wrecks are previously known sites, "they haven't really been drawn in detail before," VanTilburg said.
The drawings and surveys of the sites will be used to establish a "baseline," documenting how the sites' condition changes over time, and how they deteriorate either due to natural causes or human looting.
"The maps they're doing are a record of the site, a snapshot," he said.
The students, including two from University of Hawaii Maui College, one from the Big Island and three from Oahu, are studying maritime archaeology field techniques. Before getting to work on the historic sites, they went to a sunken sailboat off Maalaea to practice their underwater drawing skills, VanTilburg said.
"The rest of the sites are all World War II era," he said.
They include two sunken aircraft, a Hellcat and a Helldiver, and two amphibious landing craft.
Because of Hawaii's role as a training site for the U.S. military during World War II, the islands' have a wealth of sunken ships, landing craft and planes, many of which have still not been discovered, VanTilburg said.
"There were a lot of planes lost in Hawaiian waters, and only a handful are known so far," he said.
The landing craft, which had tracks like tanks, could transport troops from ships onto land, and then drive up onto the beach and farther inland. A number of the landing craft now rest off South Maui, where they sank during training exercises more than 70 years ago, he said.
"This was a combat landing area, and they would invade the beaches over and over again," he said.
The wreck sites have historical significance, not just because of the way the war and military presence shaped Hawaii's history, but because the techniques soldiers practiced here, including amphibious landing and naval aviation, were critical to the outcome of the war and forever changed how the modern military would operate.
"Both of those were really practiced here in Hawaii, and that's why there's so many of these resources around," he said.
The surveys by students off Maui are part of a larger inventory of maritime heritage resources being done by NOAA, he noted. Here, the research could be used by the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary to determine how the protection of historical underwater sites should be incorporated into the sanctuary's management plan, he said.
But while the sites may already be known to local divers, VanTilburg said his group would not be distributing information about their exact locations.
"There's always a question of how accessible these sites should be," he said.
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Kids TodayKelly Wickham
I have something to say about kids today. Obviously, so do lots of other people. It's the nature of the beast in my job. Either I hear from teachers or parents or community members who have nothing nice to say about "kids today" and the things they don't have going for them or I hear how scared people are for our future.
Quite frankly, I'm as concerned for the generic "future" as the next person but there's not a whole hell of a lot of great things going on in the world. I know, that sounded very pessimistic and I'm not that person. What I need, in the midst of working-school-family life-school-basketball games-school is to just be still and count my blessings. First and foremost, I work at a top notch school with some incredibly talented and hard-working teachers. This year we won a National Blue Ribbon from the State Department of Education and that's about as high as you can get. Secondly, we have a great beautification project going on the street in front of us from a grant and, while the construction was a nightmare traffic-wise, it's almost finished and looking fabulous. Finally, we just received our fourth Apple Distinguished School commendation. So, we're sitting pretty in a lot of ways.
But I don't work in your typical school. I work at a magnet school for technology where the focus of using innovative solutions is embedded into our curriculum by using technology every day. Whether it's by using what we call "the clickers" to take a quiz electronically (everyone has a hand held device and the teacher asks a question but gets the answers when students "click" either A,B,C, or D) or creating an iMovie to discuss the depletion of natural resources of our earth, our students are doing some really amazing projects created and perfected each year by teachers.
We use a lottery system for admission into the school that has a very long waiting list. We don't discriminate on the basis of previous test scores or special education needs. If you want to get a spot at my school you must apply. I say this because I constantly tell people that we don't get to choose who comes to school here. We don't just serve a gifted population or a gender-specific program. If you get in, we take you and if you come with low achievement and assessment scores we figure out what supports and interventions you need and go from there.
Many schools do this. My school isn't "special" because of that. It's what educators do.
So, when I hear that kids aren't smart enough or innovative enough or that they are, god forbid, "lazy" (one of the WORST words in the vocabulary of the education system) I have to argue that point. This year, we have some crackerjack little 6th graders who have come to us from the 24 elementary schools in our district. Not only are they hard workers, they are compassionate and come from families that want to be involved in their education. But it's the kids who are most impressive.
The first month of school a student (and later, his mom) contacted me about getting an astronomy club started after school. They wanted to partner with one of the universities here and had a clear plan about it. After getting approval, those kids started this week by staying after school for another hour and a half to learn about the universe and planets and constellations. They did this because one kid, an 11-year old, had an idea and ran with it.
Not long after that, another student, this time a girl, brought me a written proposal for a book club for girls. She is aiming it at girls because, in her words, "girls are more honest when it's just us and I don't want the boys stopping us from having our own thoughts about things". This young lady blew me away. Her proposal called for a set of 10 books for each of the 10 titles and said she hoped everyone would be able to buy them on their own. I convinced her that this is a tough economy for families and we might consider asking for outside help in the form of donations.
Then came the drama club proposal. A fashion club/sewing club proposal. All the 6th graders are talking about things in which they're interested but there's no outlet for them.
To which I say to the naysayers: kids today are more awesome than you can possibly imagine. They are more innovative in the short span of this current school year than I believed they could be. They want guidance and support and a safe place to learn skills and grow at their own pace.
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This year we are having two Labor Day celebrations! Sunday afternoon/evening we are having a big cookout/potluck with our neighbors in our cul-de-sac. Then on Monday we are going to a friend's house for a late lunch cookout! But just as much as I am excited about two Labor Day celebrations, I am just as excited to have time to relax and recoup!
Within the past two weeks, we have attended multiple volleyball games (my husband is one of the coaches), went on a blogger's weekend to Galveston, my husband performed our neighbors wedding, I began working with BOTH boys in the mornings on preschool curriculum, working part-time at the school, and trying to fit this crazy blogging life into all that mix; Yikes! Oh I almost forgot dealing with pregnancy 'stuff'… mostly just afternoon exhaustion now.
This Summer you may have seen that I have been posting a little less than normal, and that was because I intentionally made the decision that I will not put my blog above people. It's so easy to do. So instead of coming in early from playing outside to write tomorrow's post, I played outside longer. Instead of doing 'link ups' every morning when I woke up, I ate breakfast WITH my kids. It's been a great Summer, and because our family has been available to God, we have experienced some amazing relationships with neighbors this Summer that we might have missed out on if we had stuck to a tight routine.
So in the celebration of a great Summer, we can't wait to spend even more time with our new friends and neighbors this Sunday. I will be preparing a 'Kid Friendly Hot Dog Bar' and everyone else will be bringing even more deliciousness to the party! I can't wait!
One of the biggest concerns parents have about their little ones eating hot dogs is the concern about choking. I used to find myself cutting our boys hot dogs into bite-sized pieces to prevent choking until my mom reminded me recently of how she used to cut my hot dogs when I was younger.
My mom always butterflied my hot dogs before grilling/cooking them; genius right!? A simple butterfly cut down the center can prevent all the little ones from choking at your party and their parents from having to spend time cutting their hot dogs into little pieces! A truly kid-friendly gesture for all hostess'!
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2. Spray grill/griddle with non-stick cooking spray. Place the hot dog face dog on the grill. Cook until the hot dog is completely cooked through and grill lines appear.
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Pinoy chef faces UAE court for murder and robbery try
A 33-year-old Filipino chef went on trial in the United Arab Emirates Sunday for allegedly trying to kill a colleague and steal some Dh120,000 (P1.429 million or US$ 33,000) last February from the restaurant where they both worked.
The UAE-based news site Khaleej Times reported Monday that the Filipino chef, whose name was withheld, was tried on Sunday in the Court of First Instance on charges of attempted murder and robbery.
Court records show that the Filipino hit his Pakistani co-worker several times with a hammer and tried to flee the country last Feb. 13.
Investigation showed that Dubai police learned of the incident when they received information about a man bleeding severely in the parking lot of the Mall of Emirates.
Criminal Investigation officers learned that a worker at the restaurant collected his passport and was about to go back to his home country of the Philippines.
He was named as a suspect and we issued a circular to all exits to stop him from leaving the country," an Emirati lieutenant said during the investigation.
Abu Dhabi Police arrested the Filipino at Abu Dhabi International Airport the following day and handed him over to the Dubai Police.
He was allegedly found to have money and golden ornaments hidden in his shoe.
During interrogation, he allegedly admitted that he planned the assault, knowing that the victim was assigned to take the restaurant revenues to their main office.
Police said the Filipino chef picked up a hammer from a construction site and asked for a lift to his place in Al Quoz from the victim, who was driving a bus. Inside the vehicle, he allegedly attacked the victim with the hammer and took the money bag.
He was arrested as he was about to board a flight to the Philippines at the Abu Dhabi airport, police said. - JMA, GMANews.TV
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FLINT, MI -- Imagine you are a nurse in a major hospital.
Now imagine a patient needs blood drawn. The needles are in the supply closet, roughly 50 steps away from your patient's room. You open the needle from its sterile packaging and see it's the wrong type -- it was placed on the wrong shelf. Nothing to do but throw out that needle, walk 50 more steps to the supply closet for the correct one, walk 50 steps back.
One wasted needle, 100 wasted steps, roughly 90 wasted seconds.
No big deal, right?
But multiply that wasted time and money by hundreds of nurses working around the clock. Add it up over several months. The costs climb into the thousands, those 90 seconds wasted turn into hundreds of hours. Expenses rise, staffing is cut, the strain on the federal government's Medicare obligations grow.
All because of a bad labeling system in a supply closet.
Fishing out and eliminating problems like this is the goal of a new venture launched by two engineering students at Kettering University. A practice called "lean manufacturing" -- often simply referred to as "Lean" -- has been gaining a foothold in manufacturing sectors for the last few decades.
With GlobalLean, Sean Rusiecki and Chad Champine hope to drive forward the growing trend of lean principles in healthcare institutions. As a consulting firm, the two are expecting soon to finalize an agreement with their first big client, a network of senior care facilities in South Carolina.
It should make for an interesting way to finish their last year of college.
"We eliminate all the points of error for your care," said Rusiecki, the company's 21-year-old CEO. "Say you're laying there and you need your blood drawn, there could be ten steps before a nurse gets in there with a needle."
It's about improving cost as well as care, he said.
"We're not just looking at improving the financial bottom line," he added.
The two started the business in February and in March landed $3,500 in seed funding from the Kettering Entrepreneur Society, a business incubator for student-run startups.
Applying lean principals to health care offers different challenges, the two said. Ones they're still learning. Both are majoring in industrial engineering.
"We come from such a heavy manufacturing background where everything's a product," said 23-year-old Champine, whose title is chief consulting officer, or CCO.
But health care is about serving patients -- and keeping up with growing federal demand for lower costs -- areas ripe for implementing lean principals, the students said.
"There's so much opportunity to be an external source to help these hospitals run as efficiently as possible," said Rusiecki.
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Defreese was charged by borough police with simple assault and false imprisonment following the first incident on March 4 at the residence against his girlfriend, Francine M. Bell, according to documents filed at District Judge Brian Edgcomb's office.
Police said he hit Bell on the left side of her face, throwing her to the floor, and choked her after the two argued about him watching TV all day. Police found him hiding in the bedroom and he was issued a summons to appear for those charges on April 11.
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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah -- English teacher Kevin Leatherbarrow holds a license to carry a concealed weapon and doesn't see anything wrong with arming teachers in the aftermath of the deadly Connecticut school shooting.
"We're sitting ducks," said Leatherbarrow, who works at a Utah charter school. "You don't have a chance in hell. You're dead -- no ifs, ands or buts."
Gun-rights advocates in Utah agree and were offering six hours of training Thursday in handling concealed weapons for 200 Utah teachers in the latest effort to arm teachers to confront school assailants.
In Ohio, a firearms group said it was launching a test program in tactical firearms training for 24 teachers. The Arizona attorney general is proposing a change to state law to allow an educator in each school to carry a gun.
The moves come after the National Rifle Association proposed placing an armed officer at each of the nation's schools after a gunman on Dec. 14 killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
There are already police officers in some of the nation's schools. Parents and educators, however, have questioned how safe the NRA proposal would keep kids, whether it would be economically feasible and how it would alter student life.
At the Utah class, teachers offered their fingerprints for a permit as an instructor in the "psychology of mass violence" kicked off the gun class.
"I just bought a bra holster," said Jessica Fiveash, a 32-year-old Utah teacher and wife of a retired Army sergeant who grew up shooting and said she had no hesitation packing a gun at school.
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Mr. Liteky had received the Medal of Honor as an Army chaplain in Vietnam for having put his life on the line to save 20 wounded GIs.
Now this brave man is again making a statement with his life by not eating until our government realizes we are in another Vietnam, with our military aid to the Nicaraguan contras. He has been joined in his fast by three other veterans.


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In the UK, as in almost all of rest of the European Union, we have both an income tax, and a consumption tax – in the form of VAT. Like most taxes over in the UK, they are levied by central government and are used to fund both central and local government functions and services.
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Notre Dame Announces $400M Stadium Expansion
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) ? The University of Notre Dame plans to move ahead with a $400 million project to add up to 4,000 premium seats to its football stadium and buildings on three sides.
The buildings will house a student center on the west side, the anthropology and psychology departments and a digital media center on the east side, and music and sacred music departments on the south side. The Rev. John Jenkins, the university's president, calls it "the most ambitious building project in the 172-year history of Notre Dame."
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Efforts in Cairo to reach a cease-fire agreement apparently failed as Israel's Netanyahu government announced the beginning of a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
The Guardian gave a summary as of 5 p.m. Eastern U.S. time:
• Rocket fire from Gaza and air strikes from Israel resumed after the five-hour truce. Rocket sirens in Israel sounded within minutes of the end of the truce. The first Israeli air strike occurred within an hour.
• Israeli president, Shimon Peres, has issued a qualified apology for the death of four Palestinians boys killed in an Israeli raid on a beach. He said the attack was an accident but appeared to blame Palestinians for not heeding warnings issued by the Israeli air force.
• Israel's military said it has repelled an attack by 13 Palestinian gunmen who tunnelled in from Gaza near an Israeli community. At least one of the gunmen was killed after Israeli aircraft bombed the group, it said.
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Also on Thursday, "Democracy Now!" reported the killing of four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach by an Israeli gunboat on Wednesday:
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