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I finally made it back to Paris since my last visit many years ago. It wasn't long before I realized that this city is every bit as impressive and romantic as it's made out to be. I spent only a weekend but managed to see everything on my list.


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"We have to nominate a Democrat," said Janie Benson, chairwoman of the Haywood Democratic Executive Committee, citing state party rules.
The job of picking a replacement for retiring Sheriff Bobby Suttles falls to the local Democratic Party since Suttles is himself a Democrat. Suttles had two years to go in his term.
In his application, Wilke had urged Democratic Party leaders to consider his qualifications and not his party affiliation, and was disappointed he was ruled out.
"The process, quite obviously, is not open and democratic," Wilke said in a statement.
In his comment, Wilke announced his plans to run for Haywood County sheriff in 2014. Wilke ran unsuccessfully for sheriff in 2010. Suttles defeated him by 7 percent.
"Our campaign for the Sheriff's Office starts now, and I am confident that I will be elected in 2014," Wilke said. As sheriff, my first order of business is to take the politics out of the Office so we can get down to the business of keeping our communities safe and prosperous."
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Senate likes bill to curb sale of stolen metalsBy JOSH OGORMAN
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | May 03,2014MONTPELIER In an effort to stem crime that supports opiate addiction, the Senate gave preliminary approval Friday to a bill that would regulate the purchase and sale of precious metals.
By a near-unanimous voice vote, senators backed S.308, which calls for the certification of dealers who buy gold, platinum and other precious metals and closes a loophole that allows fly-by-night dealers to set up shop in the state for a weekend.
Its an attempt to stop the secondary trade in stolen precious metals thats used to fund, in part, opiate addiction, said Sen. Philip Baruth, D-Burlington. Someone who is addicted to opiates develops an extremely expensive habit and, in order to feed this habit, often turns to illegal means, either fake prescriptions or doctor shopping or, in worse scenarios, criminal activity to come up with the money that they need.
In recent years, residents in rural areas Addison County in particular have experienced a rash of burglaries in which the thieves target items that can be easily sold for cash, including jewelry and collectible coins.
The bill calls for the certification of precious metals dealers by the states Department of Public Safety, which has one year from July 1 to create a plan to institute the certification process. Each dealer defined as someone engaged in the business of buying or selling precious metals who does more than $2,500 in such business during a 12-month period would receive a unique identification number.
Dealers would have to become certified at a cost of $200 every two years and would undergo criminal background checks. Felony convictions for drug possession, embezzlement, fraud, larceny or an act of violence would disqualify a dealer from receiving certification.
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Second, the bill establishes record-keeping protocols for dealers. A seller would be required to present photo identification. The dealer, in turn, would be required to take a digital photo of the item being sold and keep a written log with a description of the item including any engravings or other unique characteristics the price paid and the name, address and phone number of the seller.
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An internal Madison Police Department investigation of a Madison police officer involved in the shooting death of Paul Heenan found the officer to be in compliance with police department policies and training.
The ruling was announced during a news conference with Madison Police Chief Noble Wray Wednesday.
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Officer Stephen Heimsness will be assigned back to a patrol, but Wray said where and when that happens has not been determined.
In the report, Wray stated that it's undisputed that Heenan, 30, didn't comply with Heimsness' commands and became physically engaged with officer Heimsness in the Nov. 9 incident in the 500 block of Baldwin Street.
Wray's report stated that Heimness saw two men in a struggle as he was responding to a report of a burglary in the area. The officer drew his gun and gave loud verbal commands.
He said Heenan didn't follow Heimsness' commands and Heenan moved quickly toward the officer. The report stated officer Heimness had the impression Heenan was attempting to grab his handgun.
"Officer Heimsness believed he was in imminent danger of being disarmed and that his life was in imminent danger," according to the report.
Heimsness fired three shots after getting distance between him and Heenan and struck Heenan with all three shots, according to the report.
Fifteen seconds passed between when Heimsness saw the struggle between the homeowner and when shots were fired, according to the investigation.
A video was played during the news conference showing a neighbor, Kevin O'Malley, explaining to officers the details of how the shooting occurred.
O'Malley said Heimness, after deadly shots fired, looked to other police officer and said, "He went for my gun."
O'Malley indicated to Heimsness that Heenan was a neighbor before the shooting, but officer Heimsness didn't hear O'Malley, according to Wray.
"Officer [Heimsness] may not have identified himself, but gave quick commands, which enforces the fluidity and speed of situation," said Wray.
The report stated, "Confronting potential burglary suspects is a high-risk and dangerous activity for police officers; officers are trained to address such suspects at gunpoint."
Officers tried to address questions about the incident. Officer Kimba Tieu told reporters the transition from an officer using a Taser to a firearm in the event of deadly force situation may prove to be too long if the subject produces a weapon.
He and Sgt. Jason Freedman performed a demonstration showing how long an officer has to react in a deadly force situation.
Sgt. Freedman addressed the question of why three shots were fired by explaining that officers are trained to shoot until the threat is stopped.
He also said there's a gap between when the officer sees that there's no longer a threat and when the officer can make the decision to stop shooting.
"We can't train for every eventuality. So there has to be a degree of discretion we leave to the officers," said officer Tieu.
"I deeply regret the tragic circumstances leading to the death of Paul Heenan," Wray said.
Dane County prosecutors cleared Heimsness any criminal wrongdoing in connection with Heenan's shooting.
In his ruling on the case, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said a homeowner awoke to find his neighbor, Heenan, in his house.


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Originally Posted by mabanae
short and not exciting
maybe anime of this episode will be much better
and we know they cant stop juubi with this :D .
of course it will be better it will take up 5 seconds in the anime
I don't understand why Madara just doesn't fire endless jutsu at them. He can't get tired and he has unlimited chakra - them standing there doesn't make ANY sense at all. The Ten-Tails could have just fired a bunch of laz0rs at random and the Alliance would have been powerless to do anything about it.
Nothing makes sense anymore.
The worst chapter yet, 1/5. Could Kishi make up for this one next week? Highly Doubt it.
Originally Posted by Uchiha Usman
Meh, 3/5 from me...
Things i liked
- all the villages using their special techniques collectively
- madara being impressed
- obito feeling threatened, and saying " lets let the juubi crush them"
- i really, really want to see the final form of the juubi , please be prettier and more mean looking than the current one aha ( sorta reminds me of frieza in a way"
Things i disliked
- too short
- why would the juubi just sit there and allow people to keep attacking it whilst in previous chapter when anyone / anything got near it , it flicked it away o.O
-it was rather boring besides the combination jutsu performed by the alliance
either it was standing there like a troll and will break the jutsu in a sec
or it was evolving to his final form and was standby :D .
Originally Posted by OrochimaruFan
Only thing we can predict about 613 is that it can't be worse than 612.
Lmao agreed, but you never know it could knowing Kishi
average chapter. cool combination by the shinobi alliance though, and nice to see the sarutobi clan cropping up
with 8,9 and 10 tails powering up expect a blast-full future episode(s)
but i think juubi will create a bit more or a lot more havoc
aand obito's change of heart is drawing nearer....
wonder when sasuke will join the battle
haha ... I liked them blocking the eyes... :p ... i just have one question where does sarubati(howtf u spell it ) clan comes back
Bbbboooooooooooooorrrrrrriiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnngggg gggg boring
I think you summed it up perfectly! If i was Madara i would summon a dozen meteors and then space travel a little bit with Obito and his kamui ! But instead we spend an entire chapter on uninteresting jutsus and to see at the last page madara saying its pointless !!! Nice , thats why bleach manga sucked always !
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Originally Posted by PrimeOfTheSixPaths
Meh.... 2/5.
It was cool seeing the villages work together, and Shikamaru's Dad's skills.
I wanted to see some Oro and Sasuke.
That in anime would be like 2 minutes, which is about how long it took me to read it.
I wanna see the Perfect Form of the Jyuubi, as well as some Taijutsu users fight Madara. Guy and Rock Lee teaming up maybe?!?!?!
I hope next chapter makes up, maybe some fighting only to see its useless vs Madara and Obito, then The Perfect Form is completed. Then it pops to Oro and Sasuke or The Kage situation :D
the juubi reaches its perfect form when they will capture naruto .... hopefully it happens soon
It was fair, a balanced chapter. By next week people will appreciate the forshadowing in this chapter, mark my words. Re-read the chapter without looking for all the action and kishi's pitfalls. Observe the forshadowing and you will know how intense this manga is about to get!
If Jubi's getting his final form then I guess while everyone was fighting him he just absorbed androids. Man what a chapter, at first i thought it was bad but finally i noticed it was horrible
Originally Posted by Ghost of Uchiha
haha ... I liked them blocking the eyes... :p ... i just have one question where does sarubati(howtf u spell it ) clan comes back
i dont get it why people asking this question
konoha has many clans , and sarutobi clan is one of them (ino's clan , hyuga clan , cockroach guys's clan :D and so on )
and seems they have specialized in fire jutsus .
Last edited by mabanae; 12-05-2012 at 10:11 AM.
this chapter is bullshit...
Fell asleep reading that chapter.
Maybe I know how to discriminate between the striking and boring things in the chapter. For me personally the good outweighs the bad. I wouldn't say its a wonderfully epic chapter but I've always given chapters 5, save for the chapter 590 because I wanted madara to actually get to use perfect susanoo.
Originally Posted by Lilvic92
And of course people are still giving this shit chapter a 5...fckin idiots.
The ironic thing is that if the last page had a small frame of Sasukes back the fanboys would rate this chapter 10/5. Just because you want to see him, but didn't doesn't mean that this, and every other chapter until he is shown is trash. I'm almost 100% positive that the people that are rating this 1 are also the people that said last week that the 'fodder alliance' will be completely useless against Madara and the Juubi (lol at you).
Really disappointed. . . . . kishi is just trolling increasing length of manga to make more money
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Omar Khadr is seen at left in an undated family handout photo and in the most recent artist rendering from a courtroom.
A one-time teen al-Qaida fighter who was also Guantanamo Bay's youngest prisoner and last Westerner has been transferred to his native Canada on Saturday, the Canadian government confirmed.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Omar Khadr, 26, was flown from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Saturday on a U.S. government plane and transferred to Millhaven maximum-security prison in Bath, Ontario.
Khadr's case has been controversial both in Canada and abroad given his age when he was captured, the nature of his detention and hearing, and the reluctance of Canadian officials to accept his return.
"I am satisfied the Correctional Service of Canada can administer Omar Khadr's sentence in a manner which recognizes the serious nature of the crimes that he has committed and ensure the safety of Canadians is protected during incarceration," Toews said.
A U.S. war crimes tribunal in 2010 sentenced Khadr to 40 years in prison, although he was expected to serve just a few more years under a deal that included his admission he was an al-Qaida conspirator who murdered a U.S. soldier.
Khadr was 15 when he was captured in 2002 in Afghanistan, and has spent a decade at Guantanamo, the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
Khadr admitted planting 10 roadside bombs in Afghanistan as part of an al-Qaida cell and throwing a grenade that killed an American special forces medic, Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer of Albuquerque, N.M.
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Khadr was the first person since World War II to be prosecuted in a war crimes tribunal for acts committed as a juvenile. He was the youngest prisoner still at Guantanamo, but younger boys were previously held there.
Khadr, born in Toronto, was taken to Afghanistan by his father, Ahmed Said Khadr, himself a senior al-Qaida member and confidant of Osama Bin Laden.
Bin Laden apprenticed the boy to a group of bomb makers who opened fire when U.S. troops came to their compound. Khadr was captured in the firefight, during which he was blinded in one eye and shot twice in the back.
In a written statement, Toews said Canada received Khadr's application for transfer from the United States on April 13. He said U.S. officials assured Canada it would receive a videocopy of an interview with Khadr, but it, along with other videos of interviews and unedited reports, was not sent until this month.
Former Canadian Ambassador Gar Pardy, however, said Canada's Conservative government -- which cultivates an image of being tough on crime -- dragged out the transfer.
"I think the government was mainly very mean-spirited in how it handled the case," Pardy said to CTV News.
Toews said he continues to be concerned that Khadr "idealizes" his father and denies Ahmed Khadr's association with al-Qaida. The Canadian public safety minister said he is also troubled by how "radicalized" Khadr has become from his time in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Guantanamo Bay.
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"From the age of 15 to 26, he has been in some kind of jail, incarcerated. He has had no normal adolescent development at all," CBC's Susan Ormiston told CBC News.
Khadr's defense team and human rights groups had argued he was a "child soldier" who should have been sent home long ago for rehabilitation and challenged the notion that a battlefield killing amounted to a war crime.
Khadr was prohibited under the deal from calling witnesses at his sentencing hearing that would support defense claims that he was a "child soldier," forced into fighting the U.S. by a radical father who was an associate of bin Laden.
Khadr's sentence will expire on Oct. 30, 2018.
The U.S. Department of Defense also confirmed Saturday that it transferred Khadr to Canada, leaving 166 detainees at Guantanamo.
In the 2008 presidential election campaign, President Barack Obama promised to close the Guantanamo prison during his term, but that pledge has gone unfulfilled amid security concerns and opposition from Congress, which enacted laws making it more difficult to transfer prisoners from Guantanamo.
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Mexico's Casas Grandes culture, which flourished during 1100-1450 A.D, specialized in making coiled pots that were sculpted, fired, and painted in a elaborate process that artists today refer to as La Lucha, or "the Struggle."
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It's been a recurring theme on this blog to discuss and dissect the infiltration of quackademic medicine into our medical schools. Whether it be called "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM) or "integrative medicine" (IM), its infiltration into various academic medical centers has been one of the more alarming developments I've noted over the last several years. The reason is that "integrative" medicine is all too often in reality nothing more than "integrating" pseudoscience with science, quackery with medicine. The most popular modalities that medical schools and academic medicine centers can't seem to resist are acupuncture and various forms of "energy" healing, such as reiki and therapeutic touch. Unfortunately, when you "integrate" something like reiki or therapeutic touch (TT), which basically assert that there is mystical, magical energy source (called the "universal source" by reiki practitioners, for example) that practitioners can tap into and channel into patients for healing effect, you are in essence integrating a prescientific understanding of the world with science, religious faith healing (which, let's face it, is all that reiki is), and magic with reality.
Why would medical institutions ostensibly based on science do that?
I don't know, but I know it's happening. There are many forces that conspire to insert sectarian versions of medicine into bastions of scientific medicine. These include cultural relativism leading to a reluctance to call quackery quackery; financial forces such as the Bravewell Collaborative, which funds a number of IM programs at academic centers; the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM); and a variety of other factors. It's been a depressing slide, and periodically I wonder just how much more pseudoscience can be "integrated" into medical schools and academic medical centers or how much further medical schools can go in pandering to nonsense. I'm not wondering anymore, at least for now, not after learning about a cooperative agreement between Georgetown University and the National University of Health Sciences:
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Just wondering how much solids my DS should be getting. He's 8.5 months old. The pedritician today @ his 9 month check-up said he should have two meals a day of baby food. And also that I shoul'dve started solids at 4-6 months. (I do BLS...but I might try a combo & offer some home-made purees because it freaks my DH out that he's going to take a huge bite & choke).
Just wondering what some of you wonderful moms are doing as far as frequency of solids for your LO's?
What I've been told @ the LLL mtgs I attend is that before the age of 12 months solids are more for fun, exploring new tastes & textures, & developing motor skills.
The Dr also told me that breastmilk is not enough for him & that he needs iron. (She said, its not just me saying this, other doctors will tell u the same). In my research/tons of reading I do, I've always read that up to 12 months, breastmilk should be main source of nutrition. She made it sound like solids are so important & nutritional for him right now. I've always thought, breastmilk is the priority, then solids...before 12 months.
Do I really need to worry about how much iron he's getting in his solids right now?
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Oh, my aching feet! If ever I wondered whether I had missed my calling to work in food service, the answer is now crystal clear. A few months ago, I accepted an invitation to represent The River Reporter and take part in the 5th annual Sullivan County Boys and Girls Club Celebrity Dinner (www.bgorange.org) held this past weekend in Callicoon, NY (www.villaroma.com).
The event was an opportunity to raise funds for the organization and to provide those donating an evening of great food served by local celebrities, along with a fantastic show that amuses and entertains. This year's theme, "Music from Your Youth," allowed more than 40 well known Sullivan County residents to strut their stuff in outlandish costumes. Divided into teams, these celebs waited on tables to compete for "bragging rights" as the ultimate Tip Challenge winners, top honors ($5,732) going to first timers, Team Bethel Woods, for their Woodstock Hippies photo booth and regalia.
Truth be told, I was asked to be on a variety of teams. I'm guessing that it was not me but Dharma (the wonder dog) that was desirable as a member, but ultimately I decided to align myself (and her) with Team Italian Stallions, led by Thunder 102's Paul Ciliberto and Michelle Semerano along with Town of Thompson Supervisor Tony Cellini, Sullivan County Partnership's Allan Scott (www.scpartnership.com) and newly appointed Partnership VP Michele Klugman-Resnick as we donned wigs, costumes and makeup to perform as "Legends in Concert." Cellini and Ciliberto's "Blues Brothers" routine was a smash, in addition to the Partnership duo's Ike and Tina Turner and Semerano's Liza Minnelli. I was elected to impersonate Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and did my best to keep up with the rest of the pack, but of course, Dharma stole what little thunder I might have had.
Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther again was in demand, but her team of hippies had some stiff competition from the Bethel Woods "stoners," not to mention the fierce contest and incredible performances from Team KISS, Team ABBA, Team Roscoe (and their bagpipers), The Beatles, the B-52's, Kenny G, and Simon and Garfunkel. Oh, the list goes on. I thought my crew was joking when informing me that we, the "entertainers" would be serving (and busing) the four-course meal, but they were quite serious, and as a result, three days later my dogs are still barkin.'


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I have been thinking a lot lately about the "war on Christmas" narrative that stems from the changes taking place in our culture. I'm moving towards the conclusion that the controversy is less illustrative of a declaration against something than it is a surrender to emptiness. And it's not the Christians I'm worried about. Each year I, like you, get a plethora of commercial greetings … MORE »
This week saw the demise of thousands of people around the world. The rough statistics, as I understand them, are that there are approximately 8.37 deaths per thousand people per year. That means that taking a very conservative world population of 6 billion, there are about 138,000 deaths per day. And while each of those deaths mean that scores of people around the world are … MORE »
He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief He gave his back to the smiters, and his cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: He hid not his face from shame and spitting. My wife and I recently attended the Calgary Philharmonic's presentation of Handel's Messiah. It was probably the twentieth or so time that we have … MORE »
Seeing the incoherence of the Occupy movement, some recommended that the Occupiers each pick a particular, pointed concern (banking reform, sexual trafficking, environmental protection, native land rights) and join, or start, a focused organization that might actually make a difference. But the Occupiers wouldn't seem to settle for such incremental particular changes. Now, as the chaotic movement begins to hibernate or fade away, perhaps it's … MORE »
The fourth candle in the Advent wreath stands for love. I've thought a lot about love this past year (sometimes here on the blog). Just last week, I was talking with coworkers about a piece that appeared in the New York Times: The Generous Marriage. You've probably read it by now, but if not, the idea is simple: researchers find that generosity ("the virtue of … MORE »
When asked what he thought about current philosophy curricula in higher education, the late Richard Rorty once said he would much rather have his students learn a new language than take symbolic logic. That has always struck a chord with me. I dropped out of symbolic logic after only the second class. I've thought a lot about language this year. I heard Marilyn McIntyre speak … MORE »
Brian Lee Crowley's piece in yesterday's Financial Post is the most provocative piece I have read in some time. It not only contains one of the most open challenges to Canadian sovereignty I've read, but it is written at a time when Europe—a continent which reflects most closely the policy proposal he offers in the article—is in the midst of a 26-alarm economic and political … MORE »
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Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's edict ordering Muslim women to remove their veils while taking Canada's citizenship oath seems eminently reasonable. The problem is, the response from Muslim women outraged by the edict seems just as reasonable. Kenney went public Monday with an order that during the few minutes at ceremonies where new Canadians become citizens of Canada, veils are verboten (as is, presumably, any facial … MORE »
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At a Salvation Army store in Staten Island, 41-year-old Janice Kennedy was overwhelmed after receiving $400.
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The roll-out of the new Volvo FH series outside Europe has started. The first stop is Brisbane, Australia. Volvo Trucks' ambition is to further strengthen the brand's already strong market position in the country. Due to the exceptionally tough operating conditions in Australia, this launch also sends a clear message about just how high the new trucks' quality standards really are.
The reveal of the new Volvo FH series took place in downtown Brisbane, where hundreds of employees took part in the festivities. They had a reason to celebrate. Since 2009, Volvo Trucks' market share has grown from 9.5 per cent to 12.9 per cent, according to Arne Knaben, President of Volvo Group Australia.
"This makes us the second largest heavy-duty brand in a highly competitive market where 17 different truck brands from all over the world are present. With the new Volvo FH we are convinced that we can even further strengthen our position on the market."
The new Volvo FH series is perfectly suited for the extreme environment in Australia, where long distances are driven in hot weather, with very heavy loads and high speed limits. Due to the long transport distances, the typical Australian long-haul driver spends an average of five nights per week in the truck, which of course puts immense demands on the working and resting environment in the cab.
"The new Volvo FH for the Australian market answers a lot of questions for us," says Gary Bone, Vice President of Volvo Trucks Australia. "We now have the bigger interior cab space, we have more storage room which is fantastic and it's obviously the safest Volvo ever built, which is also a massive demand for the distances that our customers travel."
One of Volvo Trucks' biggest competitive advantages in Australia is the fact that the company has its own manufacturing facility in Wacol, just outside Brisbane. This makes it possible to tailor the trucks more quickly to meet customers' specific needs.
"Our local engineers and designers also made a lot of adaptations on the new Volvo FH for the Australian market, which of course gave us the opportunity to meet a lot of customer requests. A few examples are the added fuel and AdBlue capacity, the new wild bar and a pull-out solution for the bed which adds an extra 30 cm," states Gary Bone.
The very harsh driving conditions in Australia, with 60 per cent of the roads classified as rough by Volvo Trucks' own standards, also make it a first-rate proving ground for testing new products. Therefore, Volvo Trucks Australia has been part of the new Volvo FH testing programme from the very start and the test trucks have the highest driven mileage in the world.
"For me it's obvious: a truck that is not only ready for the demanding Australian market but also expected to compete and win in this market has to be a very durable and high-quality truck. That assurance should mean a lot globally too," concludes Arne Knaben.
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- We report and analyze experimental observation of the formation of a narrow, well collimated laser beam at optical frequency behind the woodpile photonic crystal fabricated using a femtosecond laser multi-photon polymerization technique. We show that the collimation depends on the input laser beam focusing conditions. We discuss the experimental results and give theoretical interpretation.
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#4121 - 09/18/00 11:27 AM Re: time
Carpal Tunnel
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Loc: this too shall pass
more likely a digital chronometer
#4122 - 09/19/00 02:01 AM Re: time
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Posts: 1027
Loc: Switzerland
>time will resume its daily course around your watch..<
Very recently I discussed about the timeless subject of time with a physicist colleague, and he thought that this cyclic (or periodic) aspect was part of the very definition of time. But I objected that there are the various phenomena of monotonous decay (aging, radioactivity..) which also unambiguously mark the arrow of time.
#4123 - 09/19/00 06:58 AM Re: time
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Loc: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
With the introduction of digital watches, I sometimes wonder if 'clockwise' is about to become a 'lost word'.
My wristwatch (with dial) was a Christmas present from my wife in 1962 and still works perfectly -- no batteries, no winding, no obsolescence!
#4124 - 09/19/00 07:46 AM Re: time
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My wristwatch (with dial) was a Christmas present from my wife in 1962 and still works perfectly -- no batteries, no winding, no obsolescence!
Hope I'm not being too archaic; am by your leave, complimenting your wife.
#4125 - 09/20/00 05:17 AM Re: time
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Posts: 444
Loc: Sydney Australia
>I sometimes wonder if 'clockwise' is about to become a 'lost word'<
Let's join forces to keep 'clockwise' in existence, but replace 'anticlockwise' with the much more wonderful (and possibly more venerable - WAY too lazy to go and look it up!) 'widdershins'!
#4126 - 09/20/00 10:54 AM Re: time
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Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
I've never heard that! We say counterclockwise!
And 'widdershins'??
Gosh, Bridget, that sounds like you live in
Australia or something!
#4127 - 09/21/00 04:41 AM Re: widdershins
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Posts: 460
Loc: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
My friend Brewer tells that
witches and warlocks were supposed to approach the Devil withershins [or widdershins, from OE wither=against]. The opposite of withershins is 'deasil' meaning righthandwise or sunwise [from Gaelic].
#4128 - 09/21/00 11:57 AM Re: tenses
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Posts: 2204
Is a true adjective a word that cannot be used as a verb? A "red" apple; a "blue" sky. Are true adjectives words that cannot be used as verbs?
In my younger days, the weekly wash was "blued;" i.e., blue powder was put into the water to make the laundry look whiter when it emerged. I think some modern washing powders use a similar technique.
Also, when all of your money had been spent, particularly on riotous living, one was said to have "blued" it. Not sure of the etymology of that one, though. Perhaps a corruption of "blown", as in "blown away"
And the verbal noun is the gerund, the verbal adjective the gerundive, I believe. (I gleaned that from either Fowler or Partridge, almost certainly, says he, religiously acknowledging his sources
#4129 - 09/22/00 03:36 PM Re: widdershins
Registered: 06/27/00
Posts: 444
Loc: Sydney Australia
>witches and warlocks were supposed to approach the Devil withershins [or widdershins, from OE wither=against]. <
It is also quite unacceptable to go round a Tibetan Buddhist temple or religious site withershins. (I'll take either spelling!)
paulb, thank you for introducing me to deasil! WIthout the explanation I would have thought this something not particularly attractive - strong association with weasel - but how wrong I would have been. What a great word.
#4130 - 09/26/00 01:27 PM Re: widdershins
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I got taken to a site at anna's suggestion in another string, which for anyone who didn't LIU, also contained the following joke more relevant to this topic:
A businessman arriving in Boston for a convention found that his first evening was free, and he decided to go find a good seafood restaurant that served Scrod, a Massachussetts specialty. Getting into a taxi, he asked the cab driver, "Do you know where I can get Scrod around here?" "Sure," said the cabdriver. "I know a few places... but I can tell you it's not often I hear someone use the third-person pluperfect indicative anymore!"
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According to the Independent, the woman chose the narrow path between two buildings in China's Anhui province as a shortcut on her way home recently, then became lodged and unable to move.
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Passersby eventually alerted authorities the next morning.
Once firefighters arrived, she was rescued in about an hour after crews gingerly cut her out of the drywall.
Amazingly, the woman suffered no major injuries, according to Shanghaiist.
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The county Tourism Development Board hired a branding firm out of Virginia for $50,000 to guide them on the path to making Jackson a branded county. The company, BCF, with their own slogan "Boom Your Brand," presented six options last week to tourism board members who then whittled that number down to three. Eventually one will be chosen, but it won't be easy if last week's meeting was any indication.
While there was a semblance of consensus, opinions were largely split over what two- to four-word phrase best conveys what the county is about.
At one point, tourism board chairman Clifford Meads spoke of his fondness for one of the slogans, "Base Camp for Life," but expressed his puzzlement with another one that made the final selection, "Play On." Those two along with "Up to Good" rounded out the top three.
"I can see how 'Base Camp for Life' would be a very good and effective brand," said Meads, who is also the general manager of the High Hampton Inn and Country Club in Cashiers. "But I can't figure out how 'Play on' would be a brand."
"Base Camp for Life" was also recommended by Art Webb, the president and CEO of BCF. It makes Jackson County out to be the place from where you begin your journey for life, and hopefully come back during the years, Webb said. He admitted that the tagline wasn't his or his advertising agents' words. It was actually a recommendation they heard during one of the many interviews the company conducted with tourists who frequent the area. Nonetheless, it stuck.
Webb's other recommendation was "Up to Good," which plays on the wholesomeness and elevation gain tourists may seek out when coming to the mountains.
"'Base Camp for Life' is the idea to beat and honestly, my folks didn't come up with it," Webb said.
But others weren't so hot about vacationing at a base camp and the militaristic or primitive connotations it might send to potential visitors.
Merrily Teasley, owner of the Balsam Mountain Inn, thought it sounded "too army," yet liked the notion of "Play On."
And, considering a majority of vacations are planned by women, Teasley thought it was best to avoid a brand they might confuse with scaling Mount Everest.
"They're coming to stay a night at my inn — not go backpacking," Teasley said. "It has to grab (the woman's) attention first, or it will never get discussed."
However, Robert Williams, owner of the Dillsboro Chocolate Factory, said that's not necessarily true in his household. He said the idea of a base camp resonates with him, which in turn means it may resonate with his wife if some sort of deal is struck that meets his need to choose a destination based on the activities there and her desire to have a nice place to stay.
"I know how my own household works," Williams said. "If I accommodate my wife's needs in terms of lodging, she's happy," leaving him to go out and play.
The urge to "Play on" had several followers in the group, including Julie Spiro, the executive director of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. She said the slogan was versatile and could be used to describe all sorts of activities in the area — from romping in the stream to playing golf to listening to live banjo music to playing slots at the casino in Cherokee.
"I loved 'Play On,'" Spiro said. "'Play On' I think works from kids to older adults, there's all kind of things to do."
Her sentiments were backed by Vince Williams, a 22-year-old Western Carolina University student with an internship with the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce, which caught the ear of Webb.
Webb said that phrase does have a youthfulness to it that works for old people who come to Jackson County to feel young and young people who go to Jackson to play. He added that it'd be wise for the group to listen to the opinion of youngest person in the room because making inroads with his demographic will ensure a customer base for years to come.
"'Play on' has a little bit of a feeling of 'rock on, man.' It has a young vibrancy and hipness to it." Webb said. "Play on and on, and don't ever stop."
But with so many slogans, taglines and brands being deployed by the numerous vacation destinations in Western North Carolina, there is bound to be some overlap.
A similar phrase "Base Camp in the Smokies" has been used by Bryson City in promotional material; a billboard for Cherokee uses "play" as its message to passersby; and a variation of "Eastern Mountain Time" was previously used by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and thus did not make the final round. Neither did "Calm. Cool. Collected." Or "Be Your Mountain Self," also on the list presented to the tourism board.
Meads questioned if "Calm. Cool. Connected" might send the wrong message as well, overlapping words with a very different genre of marketing.
"Would the word 'connected' get confused with iPods?" he said.
Yet, Webb said even if there is overlap in the actual words, the delivery of the message is important in bringing it to life and making it distinct.
The three selections will be developed into mock advertisements and fleshed out more thoroughly for a follow-up meeting of the tourism board at noon Wednesday (May 22) where a finalist will be zeroed in on. County commissioners are expected to attend as well.
The $50,000 contract with BCF only covers the price for developing the county's brand and creating a concept video. The board did not solicit presentations from other agencies before awarding the contract. However, Webb is already offering to continue to work with the tourism board through the marketing stage after a brand is selected. That stage would include developing actual print and television advertisement campaign and deciding how and where to deploy the ads.
"We're giving birth to a child and we want to be the guys that help bring this child, to life," Webb said.
What they suggested
The Jackson County Tourism Development Board mulled over possible slogans for a tourism marketing brand last week. A final choice will be made this week.
• Up to Good
• Base Camp for Life
• Play On
• Eastern Mountain Time
• Calm. Cool. Connected.
• Be your Mountain Self
What you suggested
The Smoky Mountain News asked its readers for a few branding suggestions for Jackson County. Here's their submissions.
• Our Good Nature Shows!
• A Tapestry of Adventures
• We are the Mountains
• A Place for You


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|So, you're Elvis, right?
Normally I'd have held onto this until tomorrow, but as I think this is enough of a secret that it could do with an early reveal, we'll do it now.
This is where I logged P out earlier, one of the spawn spots for Another Man's Treasure (the Tablet of Ren Yun) I don't need to spawn camp these things (as yet) so this has become part of my daily fly-by routine: as I do so I'll notice an elite mob circling the peak. This is a Wild Onyx Serpent, is L90 and (until 5.1) didn't drop anything of note. This has changed however, and if you see it it is well worth taking the time to pull it down, kill it and loot the Serpent's Cache that you'll receive.
|Giant loot sparklies ftw!
This cache is pretty much identical to the Small Bag of Goods you can occasionally pick up from the Pandarian Champions: 20 or so gold, and a selection of raw materials (in my case 19 Ghost Iron Ore and a Golden Lotus) As this is a fairly straightforward fight (or at least it was for my hunter) the problem then comes where on earth on the mountain you can pull him. Fortunately, there is a spot.
|The co-ordinates you require are 85.09, 65.44
From this small outcrop I can target with a ranged attack and bring the Dragon down. After that, apply light dps until he's dead. You can't skin him either (boo!) and assuming you have no issues killing sky dragons for the porpoise of grabbing a bit of free loot, the job is (as they say) a good 'un.
I'm not sure as to the spawn timer, but I've been able to down him every time I've come to the Peak to do my fly-by...


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1. How bad is the pain?
2. Do you feel the rod?
3. Can you move?
4. Does the hump on your back go away?
5. Do you grow taller...i'm 6'0 so i'm wondering how tall i could grow with 47 degrees thoracic scoliosis.
6. How long would it take before i drive>
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So my theory is this.
Run the bottom on the warm up lap & Lap one, but go high in three & four on lap one so you get that momentum coming to the line for lap 2. Used the best of both methods. So you are going as fast as you can when you hit the line on lap two then of course hug the bottom on lap two.
Watched Ryan & he had the pole all the way towards the end of the back stretch & then the car faded to 3rd. He went as high as he could on the warm up lap & lap one. Cant help but to think what might have happened if he got through the warm up & lap one faster but still had that speed coming to the line for lap 2. With the difference of a pole or not, measured by thousandths of a second. I just cant help but wonder if the heat slowed him down just that little bit (same for Tony for that matter)
Anyhow that is my new theory on qualifying for a plate race. What do you think?


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However, we have also had those who insist on belittling and insulting the integrity of believers in general and usually specific members of this forum. Those folks won't last long.
Even believers who have to assert their "superior" knowledge of the subject as if it is the only way to look at things will find not-so-much welcome here. Its OK to be a KIA here as long as you are respectful about it.
The key to getting along here is to state your position in a way that doesn't project a personal attack, then do not be offended if and when it isn't understood, or is ignored.
So I guess the Scientific Establishment has worse problems than we do. Nearly all of the respected vocations have difficulty with the Ancient Astronaut Theory (as expected), but they also have difficulty with other researchers in their own fields and apparently treat them with the same amount of derision that they heap on AAT. Here is a recent example:
Enter the world of ancient Egyptian DNA and you are asked to choose between two alternate realities: one in which DNA analysis is routine, and the other in which it is impossible. "The ancient-DNA field is split absolutely in half," says Tom Gilbert, who heads two research groups at the Center for GeoGenetics in Copenhagen, one of the world's foremost ancient-DNA labs.
"I don't understand people's harshness. This is pioneering work."
Unable to resolve their differences, the two sides publish in different journals, attend different conferences and refer to each other as 'believers' and 'sceptics' — when, that is, they're not simply ignoring each other. The Tutankhamun study reignited long-standing tensions between the two camps, with sceptics claiming that in this study, as in most others, the results can be explained by contamination. Next-generation sequencing techniques, however, may soon be able to resolve the split once and for all by making it easier to sequence ancient, degraded DNA. But for now, Zink says, "It's like a religious thing. If our papers are reviewed by one of the other groups, you get revisions like 'I don't believe it's possible'. It's hard to argue with that."
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110427/ ... 2404a.html (for the whole article)
Now I am not claiming that we as interested followers of AAT are in any way "Researchers", or are on any kind of par with the scientists that are studying Egyptian DNA or finding Extrasolar Planets or curing Cancer. But maybe if more established researchers are having the same kinds of problems "getting along" then maybe we all should just "chill out" about the whole thing. The AAT is pioneering work too.
I have always suggested that we should always try never to offend nor get defensive about others assertions when we post here, because this trait in humans is what keeps us from progressing.
That is why I have asked the moderators to be fairly strict about fairplay here. You as a forum member may have a great point, maybe even a burning skepticism, but if you cannot make it nicely and respectfully, then it might be better if you keep it to yourself, or you may be warned publicly or banned from posting on the board.
Also, If you need to whine a little, thats OK. Just if it gets out of hand, expect cheese as a response...we're not children.
Since I am here discussing this, please let me also point out that this forum is provided for Legendary Times A.A.S.R.A. Members to discuss AAT topics. Off-topic threads should be kept to the off-topic sections of the board provided and those forum members that are not subscribers of Legendary Times, should seriously consider subscribing; because that support is what provides this forum in the first place.
This post is not intended to change or add rules. I hope to make the point that we all have something to say here and the only censoring done here is not of ideas, but of attitudes.
I also want to publicly thank our moderators. They have all done pretty good trying to follow my cryptic suggestions.
Lets all keep trying to "Crack the Code".
-Jeff Sheets
LT Forum Admin


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I was thankful that I have been doing as much walking as I have here, at home.
I had to be thankful that I had joined a gym and been working out. I was thankful that I was in better shape to handle the physical exertion and not incapacitated by it.
I was thankful that I was determined not to let annoyances get in my way of seeing myself through whatever happened. I was thankful, too, that I could find humor even in my trying times.
I am thankful that I am open to new and different and not closed off by something just because I have no knowledge of it.
In all of that thankfulness, though, I am not reckless, but cautious. Even as I looked around for someone to blame ("Whose idea was this trip anyway?") when things were a little unnerving "all by my lone," I could shake off the fear and move ahead. I guess that is where people get the strange idea that I am a strong person.
In all truth, I am timid and shy, not that I will tell anyone that. (Stop laughing, it's true!) And I may take a while to do what I have said I will do, but I do get a "round tuit" eventually.
I have to plot and plan and work a certain order to my madness to see things come to fruition. I may dismiss some things even if I have a vision because of the enormity of the task and I know I do not have the ability or capability to see it through.
All of this is part and parcel of daily living. Along the way, we pick up needed skills, friendships and knowledge to help us and to help others. Regardless of whether we want to, we impact the lives of those whose paths we cross.
In the national park along the shoreline, a truck pulled up and parked. I watched as the couple got out, ran to the path, took a "selfie" against the backdrop of the water behind them, fostering a quick, happy smile, and then returning to their truck. On the lower part of their vehicle's door was a scripture reference. I smiled and said, "I'm going to have to go back and look that up."
I knew it was a familiar one and I should know it, but I couldn't bring it to mind and I wondered which verse had so impacted his life that he had it on his truck. He and his companion stated in unison, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." (Philippians 4:13)
Oh! How could I have not known that?
I was thankful for that gentle reminder as I enjoyed what His hand had made for us. And therein lies the basis for my ability to keep on going no matter the circumstances. My strength and my hope lie in Him.


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