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Man arrested for aggravated burglary
An Elkins man who allegedly stole another man's wallet and then kicked him in the head remained in jail Friday on a $25,000 cash-only bond.
Robert W. Maxwell, 21, of Route 2 Box 200, was arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated burglary, also known as first-degree robbery, a felony, after he and two other men allegedly attacked the victim, David Leary, and stole his wallet early Tuesday morning.
According to the criminal complaint in the Randolph County Magistrate Clerk's office, at 12:25 a.m. Tuesday, the Randolph County E-911 center advised investigating officer Sgt. S.R. Judy with the Elkins Police Department that a robbery had occurred near 220 Second St. Judy subsequently met Leary at City Hall to obtain a statement from Leary.
Leary told the officer he had been walking on Second Street in front of Central Towers when he was beaten up by Maxwell, whom he knew, and "two unidentified black male subjects," the complaint states.
Leary said one of the black men was dressed in a long coat and blue jeans, while the other had gold teeth and was somewhere between 20 and 24 years old. The victim told Judy he thought the three men were simply coming over to talk with him; instead, one of the black men struck him in the right eye and Maxwell allegedly kicked him in the head, according to the report.
Leary said the impact of the blows knocked him to the ground, at which point the three men kicked him in the ribs several times. Maxwell and the two men then took his wallet, which contained $216, and ran into Central Towers, the complaint states.
"The victim stated he was very disoriented and confused as a result of the attack," Judy wrote. "The victim stated he walked towards his residence and was near Runners Funeral home before he realized he had been robbed."
Judy noted Leary had swelling around the area of his right eye, a large knot on the back of his head and "was also in obvious pain coming from his torso."
Magistrate George M. Riggleman set bond at $25,000 cash only. As of presstime, Maxwell remained in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail.
The penalty for a conviction of aggravated robbery is imprisonment in the state penitentiary for at least 10 years.
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Dermal friction therapy is usually done along one or more of the acupuncture [5] channels, in a direction away from the center of the body, in short brisk strokes until the surface of the skin is well reddened, but not broken.
Practitioners use dermal friction as a way of treating early stage colds and flu, muscle pain [3], headache [6], and fever. It is also frequently used as a home remedy in the treatment of fevers associated with colds and flu, and is especially favored in the treatment of children.
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So, I am used to plugged ducts. With DS1 I got them constantly, and had great methods for relieving them. But I have a stubborn one that I cannot get to go away, and now my nipple is hugely swollen and very painful as well. It feels like there are lumps of stuck milk up inside the nipple, as well as a painful lump on the upper right portion of my breast. I have tried nursing, super hot bath and manual expression, pumping and manual expression (at work today since I cannot bring baby to work to nurse), breast massage and manual expression, and cabbage. I am worried with the swollen nipple that maybe there is more than just a plugged duct going on?
I am a bit limited in my options of stuff to try, and likely cannot get to the doc tomorrow. We are in the midst of a huge wind storm, the town I live in has declared a state of emergency, and we have been without power for almost 24 hours now. And we have been ordered to conserve water, since the water pumping station in town is without power as well, so another hot bath is likely out.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Half of Chinese Do Not Know Chinese
If this is true then the forced Han cultural imperialism has its work cut out for it in multiethnic China.
For more on the new Imperial China read The Geographer's New Map, Part II: China
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- Sun Bin said...
technical your title is not correct.
should be "Half of Chinese Do Not Know mandarin".
case 1: chinese includes all the ethnicity, as defined by china (i guess china is entitle to define itself?), so that includes all Han dialects, Manchurians (not Han and almost a dead language), and other ethnic languages such as korean/mongolian/tibetan
case 2: if you define Chinese as Han. then Chinese still incluse all those dialects such as cantonese, shangahinese, fujianese (aka taiwanese), etc
either case, mandarin chinese does not equal 'chinese'.
2) even the Minister's 47% figure is not quite right. it only refers to mandarin chinese, aka putonghua, the dialect spoken in beijing, as you correctly indicated.
about 70% of the chinese population speak a variation of mandarin, difference small enough for them to communicate with each other (i.e. smaller than portuguess vs spanish). what hte minister refers to is, orthodox mandarin which is taught is school.
- Sun Bin said...
If you look at your two links.
CIA's # contradicts Blij's claim.
Blij's totally ignorant comments make me doubt if he has ever been to China, or even went to the CIA site. e.g. he called HK as "minority area" with "rebellion incidence".
while the 1000s of protests are predominatntly by Han and economic in nature.
I thought any geographer is better than Blij.
- Dan tdaxp said...
Sun Bin is refering to Zhonghua Minzu, the Chinese Nation. As it was developed, it refered to all ethnicities within the border of the late Qing Empire. (Similart to America's focus on nationality by land and not blood). Of course, since that time China lost Mongolia and (for a few hundred days) gainedd Taiwan, so "Chinese Nationalists" may now exclude Mongolia and incorporate China.
I'm not sure what Sun Bin means by "(i guess china is entitle to define itself?." It sounds all nice and politically correct, but what does it actually mean? That ethnicity should be designed by a State and not by enthnologists?
Of course, his entire discussion of ethnicity is a red herring.
The Chinese language is broken into a more-or-less shared writing system and numerous languages. Sort of like if all Romance languages agreed to write in vulgar latin while using their current pronunciations and idioms. "Mandarin" is a dialect of Chinese in the same sense that French is a dialect of Latin.
Catholicgauze is correctly when he notes that most of those under Beijing's rule do not speak that language that Beijing calls "Standard Language," Taipei calls "National Language," and the rest of the world knows as the Chinese language.
- Sun Bin said...
The different Han dialects share a lot mroe than just the chacter set, e.g. grammar, common words, etc....
linguistically all han dialects belong to the same subset.
then it is tibetan language family (which includes burmese).
Mongolian and uighur (tungustic) are another branch, which is different from Sino-tibetan.
From the geographically POV, there are more mongolians living in today's China than in Mongolia, so it is also one of China's ethnicity (if one takes the Zhonghua Minzu defn).
It sounds extremely ignorant if one think cantonese and shanghainese are as different from mandarin (beijing) dialect as tibetan or mongolian is.
Furthermore, the difference between Mandarin and say, the language spoken in Xian and Harbin (which are 2000 miles away), are as different as American englisha nd British english.
So the analogy of Romance languages only works for mabe 30-40% of Han dialects.
- Dan tdaxp said...
Sun Bin,
Interestingly, but 90% irrelevent and 10% dubious.
A discussion on language families is interesting, but what's the point? All Romance languages are part of the Indo-European familiy that also includes Germanic, Slavic, Farsi, and northern Indian languages. This no more prooves that French is a dialect of Latin than your exegesis on the linguistics of East Asia show that Mandarin is a "dialect" of Chinese.
It's an exagerationg to say that Chinese share a character set. Mao's splintering of written Chinese is just one recent example, but even before that regional and class-level differences existed. Still, there is a more-or-less similarity between the various written langauges, as European languages more-or-less share the Latin alpahbet.
Nor am I clear on your discussion on how some Chinese languages are closer to each other than others. Italian and Spanish are closer to each other than Italian and Spanish, and Catalan can be quickly picked up if one knows Occitan, but that is hardly an argument that those languages are dialects of Latin.
There is no reason to be ashamed that there is no "Chinese" language outside Mandarin. For most of China's history, she has been "united" in the since that the Holy Roman Empire was before the Reformation.
- Sun Bin said...
What are you beating at? that Chinese=Mandarin and there is no other dialects?
How much do you know the Chinese languages to be so authorative?
Do you even understand Mandarin, Cantonese, Hoklo/Minnan/Taiwanese?
How do you define dialect? Which linguist has said the above are not Dialects of Han Chinese?
My first comment was to clarify the confusion of Mandarin with the term Chinese. I did not even plan to go into how one defines the term Chinese language. How is that irrelevant and dubious? It is you who gave the whole thing your peculiat political spin.
- Sun Bin said...
Anyway, let's agree that linguistic is also sort of a continuum, like genetic. And let's agree than China's (official) view (on history, etc) are geography (i.e. land) based and backward projected.
Such details do not have to affect the discussion on China's dialects (i.e. as commonly known as dialect in China years before the CCP came into rule, and also in most other countries). i.e. (recap focusing on linguistic)
1) Zonghua Minzu is the "official" view, that includes many ethnic/linguistic groups and even families: sinotibetan, tungus, even some indo-european (there are russians living in Xinjiang and Heilongjiang and it is officially an ethnic minority) -- this is one definition of "Chinese languages"
2) The commonly accepted term Chinese (let's set politics aside, i.e. as it was accepted 100 years ago) includes Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese. We regard these as dialects. (if you want to define dialect differently, that is also okay. But this would be different from what most people think)
3) Therefore, when we heard the term Mandarin Chinese, it refers to the dialect of Beijing, though it is also extremely close (mutually comprehensible) to most of the dialects north of Yangtze River. but Chinese includes many (more distinct) dialects, mostly south of Yangtze.
therefore, i am not really sure what you meant by "there is no "Chinese" language outside Mandarin"
- Dan tdaxp said...
What are you beating at? that Chinese=Mandarin and there is no other dialects?
I'm saying that many of the "dialects" identified by the Chinese government and Chinese nationalists are as much "dialects" as French and Italian are "dialects" of Latin.
Which linguist has said the above are not Dialects of Han Chinese?
Well, here's one.
"The various Chinese languages are often referred to as dialects because they have in common the Chinese writing system. Thus, an educated speaker of any of the language varieties recognizes written Chinese, but may pronounce it in his or her own "dialect." These "dialects," however, are not mutually intelligible. Hence, from a linguistic point of view, they are not considered proper dialects but rather as separate languages (Norman 1988). The term language is used here to refer to the major distinctions within Chinese (for example, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Wu, and Min) and the term dialect to refer to further distinctions (for example, Toishan is a dialect of Cantonese)."


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"For the past eight seasons we have been honored to have Devin Hester as a part of our organization," Chicago Bears general manager Phil Emery said Thursday in a statement. "While Devin has redefined the pinnacle standard of the return position in the NFL, the memories and contributions he has given us cannot be measured by stats or numbers.
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Hester, 31, is the NFL's all-time leader in punt return touchdowns (13) and total kick return touchdowns (18). Including his 108-yard missed field goal return touchdown, Hester's 19 overall return touchdowns are tied with Hall of Famer Deion Sanders for the most in regular-season history. When adding Hester's 92-yard kickoff return touchdown to open Super Bowl XLI, his 20 overall return touchdowns (including the postseason) are an NFL record.
In 123 games played (46 starts) over eight seasons (2006-13), Hester's 3,241 punt return yards are eighth most in NFL history and his 12.3 punt return average ranks fifth. He is the franchise's all-time leader in total return touchdowns, punt return touchdowns, punt return yards, kickoff return yards (5,504), total kick return yards (8,745) and second in all-purpose yards (11,632). Hester's 2,807 receiving yards are 18th most in Bears annals and his 217 receptions are 14th.
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First baseman has another knee surgery
Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Corey Hart will have surgery to repair cartilage damage in his right knee next week and miss the remainder of the season.
He had yet to play this year because of surgery on his left knee in January.
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said Friday that Hart will undergo the surgery sometime next week in Los Angeles, though the date has not been set and he did not have information on the exact nature of the injury.
The 31-year-old Hart averaged 29 home runs over the last three seasons. In nine major-league seasons, all with the Brewers, Hart has hit .276 with 154 homers in 945 games.
Milwaukee also activated rookie right-hander Hiram Burgos from the 15-day disabled list and optioned him to Triple-A Nashville prior to Friday night's game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
He had been out since May 24 with a right shoulder impingement.
Burgos, 25, was 1-2 with a 6.44 ERA in six starts.
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Sony Computer Entertainment on Thursday officially confirmed plans to release its motion controller for PlayStation 3 video game console in Spring 2010 and said that fifteen video games that take advantage of the device would ship in 2010.
The newly announced PS3 motion controller is equipped with two motion sensors, three axes gyroscope and three axes accelerometer that can detect the controller's angle and movement held in the user's hand. Together with the PlayStation Eye camera for PS3, which can accurately track the absolute position of the controller, the controller can detect the natural and intuitive movement of the hand and reflect the precise movement on to the game. The sphere placed on the top of the controller is not only used to track the absolute position but can also give visual feedback to users by changing the colors or the illuminating patterns of the sphere. Furthermore, the new controller is also equipped with a rumble feature, similar to the PlayStation DualShock series controller.
Sony PlayStation 3 motion-sensing controller will be available in Spring '10 with Japanese release window sometimes in March, but the company has not released pricing details. Still, according to Sony, there will be fifteen game titles to take advantage of the new controller next year. In particular, Sony noted Ape Escape, Echochrome 2, Eccentric Slider, Sing and Draw, Champions of Time, Motion Party, The Shoot, Tower, PAIN, Flower, Hustle Kings, High Velocity Bowling and EyePet will take advantage of the new controller in 2010. In addition, at Tokyo Game Show the company demonstrated how Little Big Planet and Resident Evil 5 also work with the motion-sensing controller.
Sony's motion-sensing controller for PS3 will allow the company to better compete against Nintendo Wii console. However, it should be kept in mind that since Sony's controller will not be supplied with PlayStation 3 by default, far not all video games will rely on the new controller.


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What happens when a small-town Montana boy grows up and enlists in the U.S. Air Force? He becomes a Big Brother, of course! Stationed near Belleville, Illinois at Scott Air Force Base, First Lieutenant Cody H. is the Chief Information Officer for the 375th Medical Group. Cody's day job has him checking up on the base's medical information systems to make sure the network is operational. In his free time, though, he hangs out with his eight-year-old Little Brother. "He's awesome," Cody, 30, said.
"Jeremiah is highly intelligent and mature for his age." Since being matched last October, the pair has picked pumpkins, gone to movies, visited the zoo, and watched a St. Louis Blues game at the Scottrade Center. Those trips were fun, but Jeremiah's fondest pastime costs nothing at all. "Going to the library is one of his favorite activities. He's a well-rounded kid who's into books," Cody said. The two love to browse the stacks and read together. Sometimes Jeremiah picks out a movie to take home, usually a National Geographic documentary. "I think I'm learning more from those movies than he is!"
In addition to spending time with Jeremiah each week, Cody volunteered for Big Brothers Big Sisters Operation: All-Star. Volunteers from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Illinois joined the Eastern Missouri agency at Busch Stadium to lay seat cushions for the MLB All-Star Game on July 14. The project challenged volunteers to cover all 46,000 seats before the Tuesday night game, at which President Obama threw the first pitch to promote the United We Serve initiative. Cody even invited his father, Ken to come along. "He's in town for my promotion ceremony," he said. "I'm being promoted to Captain."
Cody knows the importance of positive role models. That's part of why he's a Big Brother. "My father was a great role model and taught me the importance of a good work ethic along with the value of the dollar," he said. "My mother taught me how to care and be compassionate toward others." But it's not just about work. "Being a Big Brother reminds you not to take things so seriously," he said. "You're a kid again."


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The Arts Garage would like to invite you to join them for Dan Miller, who built his reputation touring and recording with Harry Connick Jr., Wynton Marsalis and Maynard Ferguson, working as a jazz trumpet player in NYC since 1991. He brings together a tremendous group of musicians he's worked with through the years including NYC bassist Ben Wolfe (Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., Diana Krall), tenor saxophonist Lew Del Gatto (Saturday Night Live Band 1975-2005), pianist Doug Bickel (Arturo Sandoval), guitarist Dan Heck and drummer Ron Hefner for a hard swinging evening of the music of Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespiie and the critically acclaimed compositions of Ben Wolfe.
Esteemed jazz trumpeter Dan Miller teams up with saxophonist Lew Del Gatto who spent over two decades on the stage of Saturday Night Live as part of the SNL band. The duo's fat, brassy sound is complemented by the dulcet be-bop tones of bassist Ben Wolfe, who has played alongside Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., and Diana Krall.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker has released jobs numbers for the last three months of 2011 that are more positive than previously reported.
The new figures he issued on Wednesday come less than three weeks before voters will decide whether he should stay in office or be replaced with Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.
Walker's administration say the numbers show a gain of more than 23,000 jobs between December 2010, the month before Walker took office, and December 2011.
The more commonly used standard for measuring his progress on job creation based on a survey by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows a loss of 33,900 jobs over that period.
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Not Who You Think It Is
It's been almost two weeks since my last entry, and there just really hasn't been much going on to motivate me to blog. This is a good thing, I suppose, because it means there isn't any controversy in the Phils' camp at the moment, and no injuries to worry about (yet).
So today I was idly browsing through a list of the all-time Phillies roster, and was struck by some of the names that made me do a double-take, thinking to myself "Huh, I didn't know he was a Phillie".
And that's because they weren't, at least not the person I first thought of.
Take, for example, Ethan Allen.
Most of us will probably think of the furniture company. Ethan Allen the furniture company was not founded by anyone named Ethan Allen, though. It was started by two New Yorkers who bought an old furniture factory in Vermont, and named it after an actual Ethan Allen.
That would be Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary War hero, who was from Vermont, and led the Green Mountain Boys in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga.
Ethan Allen the baseball player was not from Vermont, but rather hailed from Ohio. This Ethan Allen was an outfielder for six different major league teams during his 13-year big-league career, including a stint with the Phillies from 1934-36.
Over the course of his Phillies career, he batted .316, and led the league in doubles with 42 in 1934. His time as a Phillie came to an end in 1936, when he was part of a trade with the Cubs that brought future Hall-of-Famer Chuck Klein to the Phillies.
Next up: Buster Brown – shoe maven, bluesman, or ballplayer?
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I love posts like this of old players. I learned something! Thanks Sue! I also rattled my brain what to post about. i am just excited that tomorrow morning we leave to the Ranch to watch our boys in Blue. The weather does not look good to go on the road but God willing, we will arrive safely.
I wonder if Ikea is also hiding a namesake in the baseball world ;o) Great job digging into the past! You should be a detective :O)


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It's that time of year again. Girls everywhere don beautiful gowns, paint their faces and curl their hair. Then their dates present them with lovely corsages and escort them to fancy cars. The whole evening feels like a fairytale… with the exception of the girl who forgot to properly prepare! Don't forget about what goes in your purse or clutch. Most prom-going-princesses don't even think about these little things until they're rushing out the door.
TBD's prom night check list:
lipstick or lip gloss
powder compact (don't forget to touch up unwanted shine before pictures!)
i.d. card
doublestick tape
bobby pins (if your hair is up)
small brush or comb (if your hair is down)
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Up close and personal with the mayor. People went to Pearl City, to Mayor Kirk Caldwell's first town hall stop Thursday night.
"Getting before these communities, hearing what they have to say, they all have these unique concerns and problems," said Caldwell.
"I was born and raised in Pearl City and it's getting crowded, and traffic especially in the Walmart area," said Patricia Milon.
And, neglected roads are a big concern in Pearl City, which the mayor says is a major problem for those island-wide. Caldwell and his team outlined their plan to rebuild 1,500 miles of city road, at a cost of $150,000.
"Our plan is aggressive. I think we are going to try and finish up the rest of the island in five years," said Chris Takashige, director of design and construction.
Jack Legel, who uses the bus, went to hear Caldwell's public transportation agenda first hand.
"A lot of people use the bus to go to work, and to and from work. And a lot use the bus system and I want to know his plans for restoring bus stations," said Legel.
The mayor's plan is to budget $3.5 million more for the next fiscal year to start up six more bus routes.
Thursday's meeting was just the first of six town halls. Next, the mayor heads to Kaimuki High School, to hear from Honolulu residents. The meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m Monday.
Mayor Kirk Caldwell kicks off a series of town hall meetings
Up close and personal with the mayor. People went to Pearl City, to Mayor Kirk Caldwell's first town hall stop Thursday night.
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Hello! I'm new to this board. I'm a mom of 2 children. My daughter is 3 years old and my son is 5 months old. I breastfed my daughter for a year and loved it. I am finding that I am having supply problems. I love nursing so much, but am also not against formula. My son has been getting 1 - 2 bottles a day of formula from caregivers and is doing fine.
My question is this: Is it possible to nurse in the am, work (without pumping), then nurse in the evening? Will my evening supply be effected because I'm not pumping throughout the day? I still want to nurse whenever I am with the baby. My supply is dwindling with pumping and I'm losing my "stash". It's very difficult to continue pumping at work. My concern is that if I go Mon - Fri without pumping for the 10am or 1pm feeding , by Sat my body will think I stopped nursing for that feeding and not supply the milk when I wish to nurse him.
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Home List of Titles A Shapiro delay detection in the binary system hosting the millisecond pulsar PSRJ1910-5959A
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/240052
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- A Shapiro delay detection in the binary system hosting the millisecond pulsar PSRJ1910-5959A
- Author(s)
- Corongiu, A.; Burgay, M.; Possenti, A.; Camilo, F.; D'Amico, N.; Lyne, A. G.; Manchester, R. N.; Sarkissian, J. M.; Bailes, M.; Johnston, S.; Kramer, M.; van Straten, W.
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- PSR J1910-5959A is a binary pulsar with a helium white dwarf (HeWD) companion located about 6 arcmin from the center of the globular cluster NGC 6752. Based on 12 years of observations at the Parkes radio telescope, the relativistic Shapiro delay has been detected in this system. We obtain a companion mass MC = 0.180 ± 0.018 M ☉ (1σ) implying that the pulsar mass lies in the range 1.1 M ☉ ≤ MP ≤ 1.5 M ☉. We compare our results with previous optical determinations of the companion mass and examine prospects for using this new measurement for calibrating the mass-radius relation for HeWDs and for investigating their evolution in a pulsar binary system. Finally, we examine the set of binary systems hosting a millisecond pulsar and a low-mass HeWD for which the mass of both stars has been measured. We confirm that the correlation between the companion mass and the orbital period predicted by Tauris & Savonije reproduces the observed values but find that the predicted MP -PB correlation overestimates the neutron star mass by about 0.5 M ☉ in the orbital period range covered by the observations. Moreover, a few systems do not obey the observed MP -PB correlation. We discuss these results in the framework of the mechanisms that inhibit the accretion of matter by a neutron star during its evolution in a low-mass X-ray binary.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 760, no. 2 (Dec 2012), article no. 100
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences; 0305 Organic Chemistry; 0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)
- Keyword(s)
- Globular clusters; NGC 6752; PSR J1910-5959A; Pulsars
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Publisher URL
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- Copyright © 2012 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. The American Astronomical Society does not allow Swinburne Research Bank to archive either the accepted manuscript or the published version of the article. However you can find an earlier version of the full text here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1167
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Written by Baz Anderson on 25.10.2011 at 14:42
This album is kind of weird... bit of a let-down I guess...
Written by Rulatore on 27.10.2011 at 15:58
Why ? :O I kinda liked the new songs, but I have to admit it, nothing new 'til now
Written by Baz Anderson on 27.10.2011 at 16:02
They've changed their style slightly... I'll have a proper review of it on tomorrow or soon hopefully though anyway.
Written by Kass on 11.11.2011 at 03:40
Good album, but in some moments I felt like listening to Vader(not in a bad way, just sayin).


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Gallup asked people living in the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S. if they feel safe walking alone at night. Based on the percentage of residents who felt safe, take a look at the cities that feel most and least safe.
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Re: Danica To SHR according to Spenser
peanut1439 wrote:At least Tony doesn't say "Tell me what to do & I'll do it"...
Geez a Tony Hater on a Tony paid for site, who'd a thunk it? Ohh, I know, a JJ fan !!!!
It's ok peanut,MJ likes being a 1% er and of course we aren't talking motorcycle clubs either.MJ is entitled to his own opinions,can't argue Tony has had his moments as others.JJ is perfect and long as you don't express your opinions about JJ,everything will be just fine with MJ.Danica is the best female [haven't decided which category yet] so don't express your opinion about her either,unless it suits MJ.


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Khloe Kardashian Hates Being Compared To Her Sisters
Khloe Kardashian is often compared to sisters Kim and Kourtney, and we're not talking comparing IQ's!
The youngest Kardashian sister, 28, says that she understand she's not a teeny little gal, and that being in the public eye can be hurtful but also, kinda weirdly helpful. Khloe tells Cosmo UK:
"I've always known that I'm not Kim and I'm not Kourtney — I've always been OK with that. I probably thought I was prettier before I entered the spotlight because being compared to somebody else every day does sort of beat up your spirit and soul. But it's made me stronger."
The reality star just dropped 20 lbs, but she wants to let everyone know it isn't about comparing herself to others, but about being healthier.
"I want to say I don't care, but of course [the comments] are going to sting," she said. However, "I have to do whatever is good for me … I feel that I'm healthier [now], but I don't think I'm prettier thinner."
Hey, it's gotta be rough being the awkward sister. Still, I kinda dig Khloe. What do you think of her outspokenness on body issues?
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2008: It was a very good year…
Looking back at my camera and all the pictures I have taken, it reminds me of baseball seasons from beginning to end! 2008 was a very good year! Baseball season started a little earlier for us Dodger fans from the volunteering to decorate this
for the Rose Parade. We worked until our fingers were numb filling out little vials of water, then we moved to glue flowers, then to glue peanuts, then we worked with so many flowers to start giving shape to the design of the float.
We got up early to go to the parade and then I did a crazy thing without thinking!. I followed the Dodger float running along side and my friends followed me!. Dodger players and ex-players were seated in the dugout seats made on both sides of the float.
As i was running I waived at the players and yelled "HI GARVEY!" "HI FERNANDO!" "HI NOMAH!" HI PENNY" "HI SAITO-SAN". they looked at me and waived back. I remember a security guard just smiled at me. At one point we could no longer get thru so we stopped. At that point, one of my friends said "OMG! We could have been arrested! I did not know that you could get arrested for doing that! The three of us laughed about it afterwards.
Fast track to Caravan day where I got up very early to go to the stadium to see the equipment truck leave the stadium. The words in the side of the big wheel were "VERO BEACH OR BUST." I noticed boxes of this
The days activities continued to the Panda Inn event where my friends and I already had reservations. The Panda Inn event was out of this world having our boys in Blue act as our waiters. We had James Loney and Pepe Yniguez as our waiters. James became one of my favorites that day! When we started a chant "LET'S GO DODGERS! LET'S GO!!" from our table, Tommy Lasorda came over to our table and gave one of his inspirational speeches. It was a good thing we had already finished eating as spit started flying. WE LOVE YOU TOMMY!
Vero Beach was great as usual. I attended the WIN baseball clinic there. I got to talk to my favorite player Jeff Kent who said he remembered me attending the WIn events at Dodger Stadium. i talked to D. Lowe also. I told him "I might draft you again in my baseball fantasy team." to which he replied "No, don't do that. I am not good with numbers."🙂.
Vero Beach WIN Baseball clinic. See how close fans were to the media area (where you can see clock)?
The exhibition event/game against the Red Sox at the Coliseum was wonderful. I wish I would have had a chance to meet Carl Erskine (Oisk), but the lines were huge. Too bad Sandy Koufax was not in attendance but he did show up for Opening Day! Who would have thought seeing Manny at the Coliseum that he would end up in L.A? During BP at the Coliseum, I yelled to D.Lowe, "D.LOWE! I GOT YOU IN MY BASEBALL FANTASY". To which he yelled back "I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT." Some fans around me were laughing at his response🙂.
What an incredible day Opening Day it was! I'll never forget Duke Snider slowly walking from center field and all the players that kept coming from both bullpens and from the Dodgers dugout. The last person to show up was Sandy Koufax. All thru this event, our venerable Vin Scully was at his booth doing us the honor of introducing each player. Carl Erskine , Sandy Koufax and Don Newcombe threw out the first ball. The catchers were Joe Torre, Tommy Lasorda and one of the bat boys. Kent hit a 2 run HR and Penny got the win against Zito for a score of 5 -0. King of Cali: Do you remember😕
Along with attending games, I attended several events like the WIN Baseball clinic hosted by Jeff Kent. Thank you Jeff for being such a great host these past 4 years! I will miss you😦. Other events were the "Carne Asada with Nomah". This year is going to be hosted by Andre Ethier. There were also events for the 60's, 70's, 80's & 90's with players of each decade attending the event. I missed the 90's event since the WIN baseball clinic was scheduled for the same day.. I talked to players from Wes Parker of the 60's to 80's players like Bobby Welch. Yankee fans might remember Bobby Welch as the rookie that struck out Reggie Jackson in the 1978 World Series.
A roller coaster took us thru some ups and downs. I missed three games during the season but I attended a few road games. I made two trips to San Diego and Arizona, one trip to Anaheim, San Francisco, Colorado and the last one to Pittsburgh that also included a trip to see Yankee Stadium for the first and last time. As I sat at Yankee Stadium, I remembered when I watched the 1981 WS games on TV, in particular when Kenny Landreaux caught the last out and Steve Howe (RIP) jumped up and down.
We won the NL West, we swept the Cubs and then got eliminated by the Phillies. At least we got eliminated by the team that won the World Series.! Yes, like Frank Sinatra says in his song "it was a very good year".
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That is so neat that you got to work on a float for the Rose Bowl Parade! And you've got to love $2 Chuck! It should be a great season Emma! Let's get it started!
Julia,Haha you know about 2 Buck Chuck! I can't believe with everything going up that is still the same price, at least here in Monrovia, CA.
You have wonderful memories, Emma, and the pictures to go with them. I used to live near Vero and I know how important the Dodgers were to that town. Sad for Floridians when they moved to AZ but easier for you to go see them, right?
I met some wonderful people in Vero Beach. They were all sad that they were going to loose the team.
Did you ever run into Sandy Koufax there?
Hey I was in your blog but not in a good way. lol I think you're trying to rub your Dodgers in my face . lol =) Love the blog. Keep up the great work!
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KoC, Me!? No, I would not do that🙂 Hey your Giants and my Dodgers play on Opening day on 4/13 then there is a day off. What's up with that? Oh well, we resume play on Jackie Robinson's day! you know the guy that he rather retire than play for the Giants🙂
Nice entry, that's why I blog. Eventually we'll forget everything and now I can reference a memory should I need to…Careful messing with the K of C…🙂 D
I was having second thoughts about my latest thread but it was nice looking back at 2008. Again, sorry about your camera. Hopefully you had already downloaded the pictures there.
Congrats on being #26 on the leaders list. I'm sure you will be moving up a lot higher than that. You have some great blogs that we love to read. Just hope you don't pass me up by the next leaders list. lol jk
ohhh man I almost forgot to put Go Giants! lol
~ King of Cali
Thanks Julia & King of Cali!
I was at Rubios having fish tacos when I got the alert from both of you! I wont have time to post much today as I leave at 8: p.m. (pct) to Camelback! Yes, we are going back! Kinda of crazy going too many weekends.
I want to post, I want to post, but I am also doing online traffic school, yucko, but I have to do it.
Congrats on your ranking Emma. Yes it was a very good year for you. I'll never forget the story of you running behind the Dodger float at the Rose Parade. Wish I could have seen it.
Jan, somewhere someone has pictures or recorded it. Erik was telling me just recently "Remember when we ran along the Dodger float…" LOL.


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As Laurier prepares to commence the Integrated Planning and Resource Management (IPRM) program during the fall, training and information workshops are being offered to ensure that all members of faculty and staff who would like to engage with IPRM will have a chance to do so.
Attendance at one of these full-day training workshops will be particularly important if you would like to participate in the nominations process for the IPRM teams.
Several workshops have been scheduled and communicated already. In addition to these workshops, we are pleased to announce that two additional dates have been scheduled.
The current workshop options are as follows - exact locations and times will be sent to registrants closer to the date of the respective workshop:
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GW completes Ariz. expansionFebruary 11,2013
GW completes Ariz. expansion
BETHEL GW Plastics, a manufacturer of devices for the medical and health care markets, has completed a 12,000-square-foot clean room at the companys Tucson, Ariz., plant.
The expansion was built to accommodate the relocation of two large contract manufacturing programs.
A program currently in production at GW Plastics Dongguan, China, facility consisting of precision molding, assembly and packaging for a drug delivery device, paved the way for the expansion of the Arizona plant.
The new contract will utilize GW Tucsons advanced injection molding capabilities and its automated assembly and packaging expertise.
The second large medical device program was relocated from Mexico to take advantage of GWs integrated clean room molding, automated assembly and finished packaging capabilities.
GW Tucson is the companys leading plant for medical device contract manufacturing, specializing in automated and semi-automated assembly and device packaging.
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>News and Announcements>RA Logo contest
Needs more cowbell!
• Do some dus...and some CX...and some tandem gravel...and some podiums...
• PRs
• 130#s (or less)
• Stop letting my core go to hell
Jiggle, jiggle, jiggle.
Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. (Heb. 12:1b) Mile by Mile
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I downloaded some free software (costs you your email address) to try and create some semi professional looking designs (at least better than my drawings). I like zoom-zoom's flame idea so I'll play with that awhile too.
Does anyone know the 2 fonts that are used in RunningAHEAD?
Running: Franklin Gothic Heavy Italic
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I've got a fever...
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
I asked Eric the same question and here's the reply:
Running: Franklin Gothic Heavy Italic
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See how they run...
Just a thought - but consider forgetting about the ".com" in your designs - look at the logo at the top of this page (no .com). Think about the Yahoo logo - the MSN logo - the Google logo - the anything logo. ".com" doesn't need to be there. I know there is ".net" and ".whatever" - but I just think you may be more creative if you drop the requirement to include ".com" .... just a thought... I will go back to being a spectator now....
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Home List of Titles Country towns : in the North, overseas priorities inhibit local identity, with ultimate economic and social costs
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- Country towns : in the North, overseas priorities inhibit local identity, with ultimate economic and social costs
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- Newton, Peter W.
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- The changes which have taken place in northern Australia over the past fifteen years in connection with natural resource exploitation and new town development require detailed consideration. The issues include Australia's role in the international economic system; the country's regional development priorities; individual quality-of-life expectations. At present Australia does not appear to be gaining the maximum advantage from its natural resources at national, regional or individual levels. Australia's humid and arid tropics cover about ninety per cent of the landmass and incorporate seven per cent of its population. They have been the arena for exstensive new town development unprecedented in that region's history. This development, primarily associated with the mining industry, has been rapid. Since 1960 at least twenty-five new mining towns and eleven new ports (for the most part company-owned and controlled) have been constructed in remote locations. [Introduction]
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- Royal Australian Planning Institute Journal, Vol. 17, no. 3 (Aug 1979), p. 189-192
- Publication year
- 1979
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Economics; Mining towns; Natural resources; Northern Australia; Regional development; Remote areas; Resource development; Town planning
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- Royal Australian Planning Institute
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When the current Board started our terms in Atlanta we said we should focus on three main areas of focus:
The "Economic Models" is a tough one. We agree; with the sense that we need to move away from general funds money. And it seems that many members have slightly different models and success stories. We want to capitalize on this opportunity to accumulate these successes and share them with others who are looking for answers to their own challenges.
We will in essence set up a virtual library, a place to house these best practices and models. NRPA and our members will become a fantastic resource.
Check out examples from Houston, Los Angeles and Charleston in Parks and Recreation magazine, Fiscal Blues – Park and recreation agencies begin the difficult process of redefining how they serve the public.
Next Steps:
Please take a few minutes to send examples of what you are doing to gain support and funding outside of general funds to email@example.com. These could be partnerships, foundations, creative grants, etc. any models that you have been successful in acquiring. It could also be legislation that you have helped create to benefit parks and recreation.
From my conversations and limited travels, NRPA members are a very creative and resourceful bunch. Send us your stories.
Written by: Robert C. Johnson, NRPA Board Chair
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It may come as a surprise to you that there is no universal method for calculating a home's square footage. Discrepancies occur when including (or omitting) porches and screened-in decks, lower levels, attic spaces and garages. Should the square footage occupied by a staircase be counted once or twice, since it occupies space on both levels?
Then there's the question of where the measurement is taken from. Some homes may only include the space inside the walls. More often, the calculation is based on taking measurements from outside of the exterior wall framing (which adds the square footage represented in the wall thickness.) Further increasing square footage calculations, some homes are measured from outside of exterior finish materials. If the home has brick siding, for example, measuring to the outside of the brick may add 50 or even 100 square feet to the home's overall size. This is one reason homes should not be compared solely on the basis of cost-per-square-foot.
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Design also has a huge bearing on cost. These 2 homes have exactly the same floorplan, and square footage, but the cost to build is very different.
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#23377 - 03/19/01 11:06 AM Re: Th'excluded middle
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beyond a reasonable doubt (99% ish?)
... unless the defendant's black with a Texas public defense lawyer...?
(in which circumstances the righteousness of his case becomes at last sheer wrongeousness of his conviction)
#23378 - 03/19/01 12:31 PM Re: Not Guilty isn't Innocent
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Dear Sparteye, Thank you for that explanation.
It's a concept many reporters and editors never grasp. Makes me grind my teeth in frustration when the terms are used interchangeably. The general public may be forgiven but Editors should know better!
#23379 - 03/19/01 12:52 PM Re: wrongeousness: Nemmine all that
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How's it pronounced? wrong-ghee-us-ness? wron-ghee-us-ness? wron-jee-us-ness? wrong-jee-us-ness? wrong-jus-ness? wron-jus-ness?
The proverbial inquiring minds, etc...
And what does Wronskian mean?
#23380 - 03/19/01 01:52 PM Re: wrongeousness: Nemmine all that
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>how's it pronounced?
well, as it's in all probability a nonce-word (*and a hapax), and since DHL is still dead, I think you can pretty much decide for yourself.
#23381 - 03/19/01 09:18 PM Re:Apposite opposites
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Loc: Utopia, not in literal sense, ...
Earlier today, the discussion focused briefly on creative writing, negating negatives, and apposite opposites. Tennyson's creative writing instructors (if ever he was so blessed) would probably have taught him of rhetorical figures w/ long, forgettable Greek names (including one or more - I once knew some of these- for "apposite opposites" tsuwm?) Whatever its origin, he created a string of apposite opposites that are forever etched in my mind, to wit: speaking, in Idylls of the King, of Lancelot, "his honor rooted in dishonor stood,"
"And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." Rather creative, that. ....
Next point, on "th' Excluded Middle",, later in the Post, concur completely w/ Justice Spartye (well, except for the bit about Spartans going somewhere - "Timeo Danaae, dona ferentis" I fear Greeks bearing basketballs) but she certainly knows her law. The "Not Guilty" = "Innocent" misconception wants correcting. For a start, print her post on the front page of the NY Times (The MICHIGAN Law Review has more prestige, but it doesn't have the circulation). Nicely done - again - Sparteye.
#23382 - 03/20/01 02:09 AM Re:Apposite opposites
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I dnn't ever remember, even from the labyrinthine American court system, a verdict of "innocent" being handed down. Assuming that I'm right, does this mean that the courts, 10 times out of 10, fail to find that the defendant was completely innocent and shouldn't even have been charged?
Here, as far as I'm aware, we only have "guilty" and "not guilty". Whether or not innocent's a legal term I have no idea. Hang on, I'll ask my legally qualified spouse ... no it's not. Usually in NZ courts, if it becomes clear that the defendant couldn't have committed the crime the judge stops the trial and throws the case out. Since most judges appear to value their jobs, they clearly don't do this very often. Usually the trial proceeds to its bitter end, and either "guilty" or "not guilty" is handed down as a verdict. And "not guilty" can mean either "not proven" as in the Scottish system, or "innocent".
So the legalistic definition of "not guilty" is applied equally to those who really are innocent and those who have a better lawyer than the prosecutor but have committed the crime.
Seems to me, then, that the reporters are reasonably justified in using "not guilty" and "innocent" interchangeably if only because there will always be doubt about the exact, non-legal, meaning of "not guilty" when it's applied to a particular defendant in a particular case.
Well, that's my tuppence worth, anyway._________________________
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#23383 - 03/20/01 03:54 AM Not guilty vs innocent
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I have no knowledge of the law, but my lay understanding was that English law has two verdicts, guilty and not guilty. In Scottish law, a form of Roman law, there are three verdicts, guilty, not proven, and innocent. The Romans themselves said either ignoramus 'we do not know' or non liquet 'it is not clear' for the middle term -- I don't know which of those was the correct legal term.
I would have thought that the law of Australia, NZ, 49 US states, and 9 Canadian provinces was English common law: the exceptions being the Roman law of Quebec and Louisiana.
Repeating the disclaimer, this was my purely linguistic and unconfirmed udnerstanding of the difference.
#23384 - 03/20/01 04:01 AM wrongousness
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'Wrongeous' is a misspelling by false analogy with 'righteous' and 'timeous', but the word 'wrongous' exists. It sounds to me like an old term of law, as 'timeous' itself is. Chambers's (the only reference I have to hand) gives the pronunciation as -ng- or -ngg-.
#23385 - 03/20/01 04:08 AM Re: wrongousness
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Wrongous is given with two meanings in the COD:
1. Wrongful
2. (Legal) Unjust, illegal
There is also the adverbial form (wrongously).
But no usage examples given._________________________
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#23386 - 03/20/01 05:05 AM And yet, and yet...
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Dear Sparteye
Thanks for that explanation. But doesn't it seem to support my case? Legally speaking, once a court has returned a verdict of 'not guilty', the defendant is innocent of the crime. The defendant may not have proven, or demonstrated it - that would be a misrepresentation of the facts - but certainly has the right to claim innocence, as evidenced by the criminal court. Or not?
Given which, I find the civil court system a bit bizarre. I can appreciate that the prepondernace of evidence can be taken into account for a civil case like, say, land rights. But how can damages from a criminal case be decided by a civil court without reference to the verdict of the criminal case. OJ Simpson may, for all I know, have committed murder. However the criminal justice system, for all its flaws, determined him not guilty. How, then, could a civil court find him guilty? Surely a claim for damages should only be allowed in the court if there is a criminal verdict of guilt. Anything else seems to me to be an unfair trial by media cum double jeopardy. But then, I've never understood the American penchant for litigation.
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