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This was my second attempt at fonts, much more successful than the first I believe. It was somewhat inspired by Machiavelli's The Prince, which i just finished reading this morning.
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Leading British businesses face a legal minefield because the Government has failed to spell out properly how reforms to the official retirement age will be introduced in just four-and-a-half months' time, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) warned today.
The employers' group said that plans to abolish the default retirement age – which allows companies to require their staff to retire at a set age, typically 65 – were being phased in from April onwards despite the Government's failure to publish details of how the new rules would work. The CBI warned that employers had not been given sufficient time to prepare for the new regime and called for a year's delay.
The demand will provoke hostility amongst trade unions and groups representing older people, which have campaigned for years for a change in the law, which currently gives legal backing to companies that compulsorily retire staff. However, the CBI said that while it did not necessarily oppose the abolition of the default retirement age, it was concerned that no detail had been given. Ministers have indicated that there will be circumstances in which certain employers might still be able to insist that staff retire, but has not spelt out the specifics.
The employers' group also argued that there was no need to rush through the introduction of the new rules, because workers are already entitled to ask to work on into old age at companies' discretion and that 80 per cent of such requests are granted. Around 740,000 people over the age of 65 are still employed in Britain, around 8 per cent of the workforce.
"The ageing population and the shortfall in pension savings make it inevitable that people will want to continue working for longer – employers understand this, and businesses value the skills, experience and loyalty that older workers bring," said John Cridland, deputy director-general of the CBI, who becomes director-general in 2011.
"In the majority of cases this will not be an issue, but in a minority it will be a serious problem for all concerned. However, in certain jobs, especially physically demanding ones, working beyond 65 is not going to be possible for everyone. The default retirement age has helped staff think about when it is right to retire, and has also enabled employers to plan more confidently for the future."
Mr Cridland said that the Government could not proceed with scrapping a default retirement age with uncertainties unresolved.
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text: Chapter 14: Models and Theories of Speech Production and Perception Perry C. Hanavan, Au.D. Theory A proposed description, explanation, or model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. Model A model is a conceptual representation of some phenomenon Speech Perception • Puzzles and Speech Perception by Hawkins Speech Production • Serial-Order Issue – Order of phonemes determines how the word will be perceived or recognized k a t tak • Degrees of Freedom – Muscle movement for each sound can vary, yet understanding of sound occurs • Context-Sensitivity Problem – The context in which a sound is made can have significant implication on meaning Theories of Speech Production • • • • • Target Feedback and Feedforward Dynamic Systems Connectionist Target Models • "process in which a speaker attempts to attain a sequence of targets corresponding to the speech sounds he is attempting to produce." – (Borden et al., 1994) Target Models • Spatial? – Internal map of the vocal tract in the CNS – Coarticulation • varient –movements of the articulator for a specific phoneme must change depending on starting point – ki – ku – Feedback information to brain to regulate fine movements and correct errors Target Models • Acoustic-auditory? – Goal is acoustic output (targets) • Articulatory movements used to achieve goal – Variations in articulatory movements used when: » Adjacent phonemes vary » Speaker rate varies » Stress variations in utterance Target Models • Perkell, Matthies, & Svirsky (1995) framework – Ultimate goal: • Articulatory movements result in understandable acoustic events (speech) Feedback • Feedback was introduced The Basics of Cybernetics", and is especially important to speech production theory. • Gracco and Abbs (1987) are among many to point out that continuous speech involves continuous feedback, that is to say, that the continuous execution of a motor program requires an equally continuous stream of sensory information from muscle and cutaneous senses throughout the respiratory, laryngeal, and orofacial regions. Feedback • Levelt (1989) types of feedback ..... • Am I saying what I meant to say? • Is this the way I meant to say it? • Is what I am saying socially appropriate? • Am I selecting the right words? • Am I using the right syntax and morphology? • Am I making any phonological errors? • Is my articulation at the right speed and pitch? Feedback •Successful speech production is a constant battle against error, and those errors can pop up anywhere. –The phrases we then use to interrupt and correct ourselves (phrases such as "sorry", "I mean", "let me put that another way", etc.) are known generically as "editing expressions" (Hockett, 1967). Levelt (1989) summarised the issue thus ..... Feedback • "The major feature of editor theories [of monitoring] is that production results are fed back through a device that is external to the production system. –Such a device is called an editor or a monitor. –This device can be distributed in the sense that it can check inbetween results at different levels of processing. –The editor may, for instance, monitor the construction of the preverbal message, the appropriateness of lexical access, the well-formedness of syntax, or the flawlessness of phonologicalform access. –There is, so to speak, a watchful little homonculus connected to each processor." (Levelt, 1989, pp467-468; italics original; bold emphasis added) Feedback • Lee interpreted these findings as evidence of a multiple loop control hierarchy, with four levels of feedback, as follows: – The "Thought Loop": The top control level releases individual thoughts for action, and then monitors that action for successful progress and completion. The highest level feedback loop then monitors the output for what would nowadays be termed its pragmatic appropriacy – The "Word Loop": The second highest loop monitors speech production for word selection accuracy. – The "Voice Loop": The third highest loop monitors speech production at whole-syllable level for morphological accuracy. – The Articulating Loop": Finally, the lowest loop monitors speech production checking that the right phonemes have been used within each syllable. Feedforward • Feedback is used to detect and correct errors in speech output • Feedforward signals are used to make articulatory adjustment online Dynamic Systems Models • Speech as a dynamic pattern of trajectories through articulatory – Groups of muscles link up together to perform a particular task • The lip and jaw muscles function as a coordinative unit in bilabial closure Connectionist Models • Parallel-distributed processing models • Spreading activation models – Non-hierachial models Speech Perception Issues • • • • • Linearity Segmentation Speaker Normalization Basic Unit of Perception Specialization of speech perception Categories of Speech Perception Theories • Active vs. Passive • Bottom-up vs. Top-down • Autonomous vs. Interactive Theories of Speech Perception • • • • • • • • Motor Acoustic Invariance Direct Realism TRACE Cohort Fuzzy Logical Logogen Native Language Magnet Speech Perception Issues • • • • • Linearity Segmentation Speaker normalization Basic unit of perception Specialization of speech perception Linearity & Segmentation • Linearity Principle: – A specific sound in a word corresponds to specific phoneme • Segmentation – the ability to break the spoken language signal into the parts that make up words • Thus, these two principles suggest speech perception is based on a linear correspondence between the acoustic signal and the phoneme units • Although we perceive speech as a series of separate and distinct phonemes and words, the acoustic boundaries between phonemes is blurred – eg. /ki/ vs. /ku/ (speech is not invariant) Speaker Normalization • How are listeners able to recognize speech sounds and words despite wide variations in speaker production? – Speaker variations – Gender differences – Age differences • Normalization is the ability to perceive words spoken by different speakers, at different rates, and in different phonetic contexts as the same. Basic Unit of Perception • What is the basic unit of speech perceptions? – – – – – Acoustic-phoneme features Allophones Phonemes Syllables Words • Listening in noise (focus on smaller units) • Young children focus on syllables and formant transitions Specialization of Speech Perception • Is speech perception a specialized function/process in humans – However, animals have been able to demonstrate categorical perception Specialization of Speech Perception • Perceptual magnet effect not demonstrated in animals (e.g., whereby `good' variants in F1/F2 coordinate space are poorly discriminated from typical vowel prototypes) (A) Formant frequencies of vowels surrounding an American/i/prototype (red) and a Swedish/y/prototype (blue). (B) Results of tests on American and Swedish infants indicating an effect of linguistic experience. Infants showed greater generalization when tested with the native-language prototype. PME, Perceptual magnet effect. [American Association for the Advancement of Science] Categories of Speech Perception Theories • Active vs. Passive • Bottom up Top Down • Autonomous vs. Interactive Active vs. Passive • Active theories suggests that speech perception and production are closely related – Listener knowledge of how sounds are produced facilitates recognition of sounds • Passive theories emphasizes the sensory aspects of speech perception – Listeners utilize internal filtering mechanisms – Knowledge of vocal tract characteristics plays a minor role, for example when listening in noise conditions Bottom up Top Down • Top-down processing works with knowledge a listener has about a language, context, experience, etc. – Listeners use stored information about language and the world to make sense of the speech • Bottom-up processing works in the absence of a knowledge base providing top-down information – listeners receive auditory information, convert it into a neural signal and process the phonetic feature information Autonomous vs. Interactive • Autonomous theories posit feed-forward processing with lexical influence restricted to post-perceptual decision processes (uni-directional) • Interactive theories posit information and knowledge from many sources available to the listener a re involved at any or all stages of the processing of the signal (bidirectional) Speech Perception Theories • • • • • • • • Motor Theory Acoustic Invariance Theory Direct Realism Trace Model Logogen Theory Cohort Theory Fuzzy Logic Model of Perception Native Language Magnet Theory Question This theory postulates speech is perceived by reference to how it is produced: A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. Motor Theory Acoustic Invariance Theory Direct Realism Trace Model Logogen Theory Cohort Theory Fuzzy Logic Model of Perception Native Language Magnet Theory Senteo Question T o set the properties right click and select Senteo Question Object->Properties... Motor Theory • Postulates speech is perceived by reference to how it is produced – when perceiving speech, listeners access their own knowledge of how phonemes are articulated – Articulatory gestures (such as rounding or pressing the lips together) are units of perception that directly provide the listener with phonetic information Liberman, Cooper, Shankweiler, & StuddertKennedy, 1967 Motor Theory Three main claims: (1) speech processing is special, (2) perceiving speech is perceiving gestures, and (3) the motor system is recruited for perceiving speech. Today, the theory is more closely connected with research and theorizing in the broad context of cognitive science than with research and theorizing in the field of speech. Question The acoustic properties of the landmarks constitute the basis for establishing the distinctive features: A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. Motor Theory Acoustic Invariance Theory Direct Realism Trace Model Logogen Theory Cohort Theory Fuzzy Logic Model of Perception Native Language Magnet Theory Acoustic Invariance Theory • Listeners inspect the incoming signal for the socalled acoustic landmarks which are particular events in the spectrum carrying information about gestures which produced them. • Gestures are limited by the capacities of humans' articulators and listeners are sensitive to their auditory correlates, the lack of invariance simply does not exist in this model. • The acoustic properties of the landmarks constitute the basis for establishing the distinctive features. • Bundles of the distinctive features uniquely specify phonetic segments (phonemes, syllables, words). Stevens, K.N. (2002). "Toward a model of lexical access based on acoustic landmarks and distinctive features" (PDF). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 111 (4): 1872–1891. Acoustic Invariance Theory Two principal claims: 1.There are invariant acoustic patterns in the speech signal which correspond to phonetic features and which remain invariant across speakers phonetic contexts, and languages. 2.That human perceivers use these properties (invariant acoustic patterns) to provide the phonetic framework for natural language and to process the sounds of speech in ongoing perception Question Hypothesizes that perception allows listeners to have direct awareness of the world because it involves direct recovery of the distal source of the event that is perceived. A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. Motor Theory Acoustic Invariance Theory Direct Realism Trace Model Logogen Theory Cohort Theory Fuzzy Logic Model of Perception Native Language Magnet Theory Senteo Question T o set the properties right click and select Senteo Question Object->Properties... Direct Realism • Hypothesizes that perception allows listeners to have direct awareness of the world because it involves direct recovery of the distal source of the event that is perceived. • Asserts that the objects of perception are actual vocal tract movements, or gestures, and not abstract phonemes or (as in the Motor Theory) events that are causally antecedent to these movements, i.e. intended gestures. • Listeners perceive gestures not by means of a specialized decoder (as in the motor theory) but because information in the acoustic signal specifies the gestures that form it. • Suggests that the actual articulatory gestures that produce different speech sounds are themselves the units of speech perception. Fowler, C. A. (1986). "An event approach to the study of speech perception from a direct-realist perspective". Journal of Phonetics14: 3–28. Direct Realism • In essence, the object of our perceptions (ie., a sound, words, etc.), known as a 'percept', is the distal (causal) stimulus, not the proximal (sensory) stimulus • If listening to a question, you don't necessarily explicitly perceive the rise in the Fo of the auditory signal; instead, you perceive that a question has been asked • Claims there is a strong, top-down effect on perception • Supports a connectionist view of cognition TRACE Model • Assumes there is a cognitive unit for each feature (for example, nasality) at the feature level, for each phoneme at the phoneme level, and for each word at the word level. • At any given time, all of these units are activated to a greater or lesser extent, as opposed to all or none. • When units are activated above a certain threshold, they may influence other units at the same or different levels. – These effects may be either excitatory or inhibitory; that is, they may increase or decrease the activation of other units. • The entire network of units is referred to as the trace, because "the pattern of activation left by a spoken input is a trace of the analysis of the input at each of the three processing levels" • The network is active and changes with subsequent input. McClelland, J.L., & Elman, J.L. (1986). The TRACE model of speech perception. Cognitive Psychology, 18, 1-86 TRACE Model • For example, a listener hears the beginning of bald, and the words bald, ball, bad, bill become active in memory. Then, soon after, only bald and ball remain in competition (bad, bill have been eliminated because the vowel sound doesn't match the input). – Soon after, bald is recognized. • TRACE simulates this process by representing the temporal dimension of speech, allowing words in the lexicon to vary in activation strength, and by having words compete during processing. – Figure 1 shows a line graph of word activation in a simple TRACE simulation. TRACE Model Neural net model – Aims to identify single words – Account for categorical perception, Ganong effect and other traditional phonetic findings that were considered important in 1970s1980s – Connectionist model of speech perception (McClelland and Elman, 1986) Logogen Theory • Model designed to explain word recognition using a new type of unit known as a "logogen" • A critical element, lexicons, or specialized aspects of memory that include semantic and phonemic information about each item that is contained in memory. • A given lexicon consists of many smaller, abstract items known as logogens. • Logogens contain a variety of properties about given word such as their appearance, sound, and meaning. • Logogens do not store words within themselves, they store information that is specifically necessary for retrieval of whatever word is being searched for. Morton, J. (1969). Interaction of information in word recognition. Psychological Review, 76, 165-178 Logogen Theory • A given logogen will become activated by stimuli or contextual information (words) consistent with the properties of that specific logogen and when the logogen's activation level rises to or above its threshold level, the pronunciation of the given word is sent to output system. • Certain stimuli can affect the activation levels of more than one word at a time, usually involving words similar to one another. • When this occurs, whichever words' activation levels reaches the threshold level, it is that word sent to the output system with the listener remaining unaware of any partially excited logogens. Cohort Theory • Designed specifically to account for auditory word recognition. • Breaks word down. • Model posits that when a word is heard, all words beginning with first sound of target word are activated. • This set of words is considered the Cohort. • Once first cohort has been activated, other information, or sounds in word narrow down choices. • Listener recognizes word when left with a single choice; considered "recognition point." Marslen-Wilson, W. (1987). "Functional parallelism in spoken word recognition." Cognition, 25, 71-102. Cohort Model • Designed specifically to account for auditory word recognition • Works by breaking a word down when a word is heard--all words that begin with the first sound of the target word are activated – This set of words is considered the "first" cohort • Once the first cohort activated, other sounds in the word narrow down the choices. • Listener recognizes the word when left with a single choice – this is considered the "recognition point". Cohort Theory Fuzzy Logic Model of Perception • Proposes that people remember speech sounds in a probabilistic, or graded, way. • Suggests people remember descriptions of the perceptual units of language, called prototypes. • Within each prototype various features may combine. • Features are not binary (true or false) -- there is a fuzzy value corresponding to how likely it is that a sound belongs to a particular speech category. Massaro D. The logic of the fuzzy logical model of perception Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1989), 12: 778-794 Cambridge University Press Fuzzy Logic Model of Perception • When perceiving a speech signal, decision about what is actually heard is based on the relative goodness of the match between the stimulus information and values of particular prototypes. • The final decision is based on multiple features or sources of information, even visual information (this explains the McGurk effect). • Computer models of the fuzzy logical theory demonstrate that the theory's predictions of how speech sounds are categorized correspond to the behavior of human listeners • iBaldi Massaro D. The logic of the fuzzy logical model of perception Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1989), 12: 778-794 Cambridge University Press Native Language Magnet Theory • According to Kuhl's (1994) Native Language Magnet (NLM) theory the phonetic perceptual space is organized in terms of prototypes. • Prototypes are defined as particularly good category exemplars that function as perceptual references for linguistic phonetic units (mental representations or perceptual maps of the speech). • Prototypes function as "perceptual-magnets" and exert an attracting force on neighboring auditory representations which tend to be assimilated by (attracted towards) the prototype that conforms to phonetic categories in the language that is heard • Thus, the perceptual space appears to be warped in the neighborhood of a prototype because a prototype attracts exemplars that fall within its zone of influence. Patricia K Kuhl, Barbara T Conboy, Sharon Coffey-Corina, Denise Padden, Maritza Rivera-Gaxiola, and Tobey Nelson Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) Phil Trans R Soc B 2008 363: 979-1000. Native Language Magnet Theory Data show infants perceptually "map" critical aspects of ambient language in the first year of life before they can speak. Statistical properties of speech are picked up through exposure to ambient language. Linguistic experience alters infants' perception of speech, warping perception in the service of language. Infants are neither the tabula rasas Skinner described nor innate grammarians Chomsky envisioned. Infants have inherent perceptual biases that segment phonetic units without providing innate descriptions of them. Patricia K Kuhl, Barbara T Conboy, Sharon Coffey-Corina, Denise Padden, Maritza Rivera-Gaxiola, and Tobey Nelson Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) Phil Trans R Soc B 2008 363: 979-1000. Native Language Magnet Theory Infants use inherent learning strategies that were not expected, ones thought to be too complex and difficult for infants to use. Adults addressing infants unconsciously modify speech in ways that assist the brain mapping of language. In combination, these factors provide a powerful discovery procedure for language. Patricia K Kuhl, Barbara T Conboy, Sharon Coffey-Corina, Denise Padden, Maritza Rivera-Gaxiola, and Tobey Nelson Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) Phil Trans R Soc B 2008 363: 979-1000. Native Language Magnet Theory Six tenets of a new view of language acquisition are offered: (i) infants' initially parse the basic units of speech allowing them to acquire higher-order units created by their combinations; (ii) the developmental process is not a selectionist one in which innately specified options are selected on the basis of experience; (iii) Perceptual learning process, unrelated to Skinnerian learning, commences with exposure to language, during which infants detect patterns, exploit statistical properties, and are perceptually altered by that experience; (iv) Vocal imitation links speech perception and production early, and auditory, visual, and motor information are coregistered for speech categories (v) adults addressing infants unconsciously alter speech to match infants' learning strategies, and this is instrumental in supporting infants' initial mapping of speech; and (vi) Critical period for language is influenced not only by time, but by the neural commitment that results from experience. Patricia K Kuhl, Barbara T Conboy, Sharon Coffey-Corina, Denise Padden, Maritza Rivera-Gaxiola, and Tobey Nelson Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) Phil Trans R Soc B 2008 363: 979-1000.


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Boxing News
DiBella signs Marcus Johnson!
DiBella Entertainment has inked a deal with undefeated super middleweight Marcus "Too Much" Johnson (16-0, 13 KOs). Johnson will be co-promoted by DBE and Antonio Leonard Productions, and managed by James Prince. "Being with Lou DiBella is going to help dramatically," said Johnson. "He's going to push to get my name out there and get me recognized. He will get me a title shot."


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Me Too
E. Honey had already answered Thor's question and this sounded pretty neat.
"Me too." I said cause if this was an adventure there was no way I was going to be left out of it. I pulled out a candy bar and bit into it. Nothing like chocolate to get you going.


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Hugh O'Flaherty grew up in southwest Ireland, a bastion of the independence movement of the 1920s.
His anti-British sentiment never waned.
Yet when he became an official at the Vatican, he help hide thousands of British soldiers who had escaped from the Nazis.
"O'Flaherty became the most wanted man in Rome, as the Nazis tried in vain to capture him," wrote J.P. Gallagher in "The Scarlet and the Black: The True Story of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, Hero of the Vatican Underground." "He saved more lives of Allied soldiers than any other single person in World War II."
O'Flaherty (1898-1963) was born in the Irish town of Lisrobin, and soon thereafter the family moved to Killarney, where his father worked as a steward on a golf course. That made Hugh a lifelong golf enthusiast.
He entered Mungret College, a Jesuit school, at age 20 to train for missionary work. But the war with Britain flared two years later, and the killing of Irishmen by British auxiliary forces made O'Flaherty bitter.
The next year, he went to Rome to earn a bachelor's degree in theology — and he completed it in a year, to the amazement of his superiors.
Church Rise
He was appointed vice rector at the college in 1926, a high position for someone who had just been ordained a priest. He would remain in Rome or on Vatican missions most of his life. Over the next two years he kept up the achievements, earning triple doctorates in philosophy, ministry and church law.
In 1934, with the new title of monsignor as part of the Vatican staff, he accompanied a church diplomat to Egypt as his secretary. When the the official died, O'Flaherty had to assume many of his duties.
He was then assigned to oversee famine relief in Haiti and settle its boundary dispute with the Dominican Republic. Playing golf with American officials helped him get some political help on the problem.
Impressed, the Vatican sent him in 1936 to Czechoslovakia, where he was a diplomat until the Nazi occupation two years later.
Returning to the Vatican, he became a staff member in the Roman Catholic Church's Holy Office. Its responsibilities covered media relations, major doctrine, the church's supreme court and investigation of claims of miracles, making it "the most secretive and most powerful arm of the church, where he would remain for a quarter-century," wrote Gallagher.
As part of his community relations, O'Flaherty attended parties of rich Romans, becoming a popular teller of jokes and stories while building a network that would be crucial when the Nazis arrived.
O'Flaherty's lesson is that the most effective representatives are those who talk about more than their mission.
In March 1939, Pope Pius XII assumed office and in the following months used Vatican diplomats to try to avert war. Then Italy declared war on France in June 1940, and the pope sought to protect the worldwide church by making the Vatican neutral.
As prisoner-of-war camps swelled with tens of thousands of Allied prisoners in northern Italy by 1941, O'Flaherty was sent to gather information on British soldiers to send to their families.
With the Allies invading North Africa in November 1942, he soon was providing the same service for families of Italian POWs.
By September 1943, Italy had switched sides, and German troops fiercely fought the Allied advance.
Up to then, 74,000 British POWs were in Italian camps in the north. Once Italy ended its link to the Axis, the guards let many of the Brits escape, but some were recaptured by German troops.
Other freed soldiers made their way to Rome, hoping for help from the church, neutral embassies or sympathetic Italians, or to find a way to rejoin Allied forces.
A first group of 14 Brits made it to O'Flaherty. He placed the men in a police barracks, but when the cops fled the Nazi occupation of Rome, 13 of the soldiers were recaptured.
Word spread that O'Flaherty was an escape hatch, sending ex-POWs to friends and their friends, then working with British and Swiss diplomats housed in the Vatican to locate other homes and apartments.
Some soldiers joined his rapidly growing organization, lining up food and clothing and moving people as intelligence indicated an imminent raid.
O'Flaherty's lesson is that people will follow you in taking bold action if you have a big idea.
With a 6-foot-2, 200-pound frame, he was easy to spot reading a book on the steps of St. Peter's Square in his scarlet and red outfit.
The pope told him that officially he was looking the other way while encouraging other Vatican staff to provide sanctuary for Allied soldiers and Jewish civilians.
Looking The Part
O'Flaherty used disguises to sneak out of the inviolate Vatican territory, which was surrounded by SS troops. He roamed Rome appearing as someone delivering coal by horse-drawn cart — and even got around in a nun's habit.
One time he dressed up as a Nazi officer to enter a jail to administer last rites to a priest who had helped him and was dying from torture.
The German commander, Lt. Col. Herbert Kappler, was frustrated by the wily priest, calling him "the most dangerous man in Rome," but his complaints to the pope were ignored. Kappler tried to lure O'Flaherty into traps to supposedly meet British soldiers needing help. Once, the Gestapo almost assassinated O'Flaherty inside St. Peter's, but an informer tipped off the Vatican's Swiss Guards, who disarmed the two men and turned them over to the resistance.
As the Allies advanced on Rome, the Germans retreated. On June 3, 1944, the sound of British bagpipes filled the streets, and thousands poured into St. Peter's Square to celebrate liberation. Nearly 4,000 Allied soldiers (mostly British) who had been hidden by O'Flaherty were released, according to Stephen Walker in "Hide & Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command."
Rescuing Jews
O'Flaherty and other church officials were also effective in protecting Jews. Out of the 9,700 living in Rome when the Nazis occupied it, 8,500 avoided going to death camps, according to Gordon Thomas in "The Pope's Jews: The Vatican's Secret Plan to Save Jews From the Nazis."
About 4,800 other Jews lived under protection in the Vatican, churches, monasteries, convents and religious colleges, while O'Flaherty and others hid 3,700 in homes and apartments.
"The Nazis had painted a line across the entrance to the Vatican, and the pope told Father O'Flaherty that he could not protect him if he crossed that line," Jeff Mirus, CatholicCulture.org 's president, told IBD. "With considerable courage, vision and creativity, he crossed it anyway to serve those in need. In the same way, our culture places barriers in the way of businesses which want their mission to be of true service to others.
"Leaders have to press beyond conventional wisdom to find purposes and methods that assume 'responsibility for all the other stakeholders who contribute to the life of the business,' as Pope Benedict XVI put it in 2009."
After World War II ended in 1945, O'Flaherty was happy to get out to the golf course again. Soon he flew to South Africa to help thousands of Italian prisoners of war held there. Then he visited Jerusalem to make arrangements for many of the Jews he had saved to be transferred there.
O'Flaherty was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire and the U.S. Medal of Freedom. Italy granted him a lifetime pension, which he refused.
Kappler was captured and sentenced to life in prison in Rome. The only visitor he received was O'Flaherty, who saw him regularly.
The SS leader had taunted the priest for the naivete of the ethic of "love thy enemy," but their jailhouse discussions led Kappler to re-examine his beliefs. In 1959, O'Flaherty baptized him as a Catholic.
In 1960 the priest suffered a stroke and returned to Ireland, where he died three years later at 65.
In 1983, Gregory Peck starred as O'Flaherty in a movie based on Gallagher's "The Scarlet and the Black."


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Forever and EverMature
A story made by using songs from the band He Is We. The title is a song as well.
Each chapter will have its corresponding song posted at the beginning so that you can hear the song while reading the chapter.
Prologue: Happily Ever After
We all have a story to tell people. Something about our past or our experiences. I'd like to tell you a story, it's been on my mind for awhile. It's about a boy and a girl taking on the world one kiss at a time. Taking on the world cause, well, they wanna get caught. It's a story of adolescence and all it's glory up until they grew up. The funny thing about it, wouldn't really be a story without it, but the story is mine.


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Unique Modern Design Touch Button for Wired Doorbells Model TB1040-AI
If there was ever an opportunity for a doorbell button to be the talk of the town, this is it. Technically speaking, these are not even doorbell buttons, they are "touch buttons." That's because they don't really have a center button you would press on a traditional doorbell button. A simple touch, even with gloves on, actives this doorbell button. They are calibrated to work with the human touch to eliminate false triggers.
As if that weren't enough, Craftmade didn't stop there. These intelligent designed wired doorbell buttons have feedback. When the doorbell ring is activated, the illumination by LED turns on and off to provide positive feedback that the doorbell actually has been rung.
The doorbells are illuminated by an LED that comes with a lifetime warranty. They will never burn out and always stay cool to the touch. Constructed of die-cast metal with an interior insulating gasket, these push buttons will last for years.
These doorbell buttons also have a mounting technique that hides the mounting hardware to provide a clean look.
- Two finish options are available:
- TB1040-AI Aged Iron
- TB1040-BN Brushed Nickel
- "Touch Technology" means doorbell button is activated by the touch of finger, even with gloves on
- Touch sense technology provides visual indicator when doorbell rings
- Surface mounted
- Requires 16V wired doorbell transformer
- Illuminated by LED
- LED has lifetime warranty
- Touch button case is die-cut and features an insulated gasket for durability
- One year manufacturer's warranty
- Manufactured by Craftmade
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Product Reviewed: Unique Modern Design Touch Button for Wired Doorbells
score average: 5 out of 5 , 1 review(s).
(Cleveland, OH)
This thing really works with just a gentle touch! And it actually has 4 bright LEDs inside that blink off momentarily when touched. Plus, I can even read a book by its outdoor lighting (think safety here). Interestingly, it has a very low power consumption according to my milliwatt meter readings (like pennies per month). All I had to do was wire it in place of my old burned-out doorbell button with the same two wires. It was 1-2-3... that easy!


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By Mike Snider, USA TODAY
These days, entertainment consumers find themselves in a Minority Report world, constantly catered and marketed to by media giants striving to make their content available anywhere at any time — for a price.
That continuing evolution has resulted in some content hookups that, until recently, would have seemed impractical:
•Graphics-rich video games such as Madden NFL, formerly available only on special video game consoles or computers, kicking off on smart phones.
•Subscription cable-style programming such as Major League Baseball's MLB.TV on the PlayStation 3 over Sony's PlayStation Network.
•Electronic books, including tomes such as Crime & Punishment, on handheld video game systems.
What in the name of á la carte programming is going on?
"I feel like it's becoming 'everything, everywhere,' " says Geoff Keighley, host and executive producer of GameTrailers TV on Spike. "All the players are jockeying to get exclusive content to differentiate" their devices and systems.
When this year's model of Madden NFL 11 landed last month, iterations for video game systems such as the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii got all the attention. But the game also launched on Apple's iPhone and iPad at the same time — and was the top-grossing app the day it launched. (A version for Android phones is in the works, too.)
EA Sports developers' new ease-of-play GameFlow feature, in which appropriate plays were called based on each particular NFL team's real-life strategies, appears on the Apple versions, too, and make playing the game a snap, so to speak. You can opt to let the GameFlow feature choose plays from the playbook, or you can choose a new play at the line of scrimmage. You can also view the entire playbook on every play.
A virtual joystick lets you control the quarterback, running back, receiver and defensive players. Tap the screen and a play begins. On a pass play, tap again to choose a receiver. More skillful players can help catch and outmaneuver defenders.
While the portable versions' animations in no way rival the high-definition graphics found on the PS3 and Xbox 360, they are impressive. Playing the iPhone version of the game at a brewpub recently, I caught one of the waiters looking over my shoulder. "Is that Madden? That is cool."
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Video game companies have other ways of using sports to make their offerings stand out. Earlier this year, Sony added the availability of MLB.TV on its free PlayStation Network, so transplants and non-cable subscribers can watch teams such as the New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves.
PS3 owners are still required to pay the $100 annual subscription to view all out-of-market games, but the service can be accessed on the Web, too. This type of service — invaluable with the playoff stretch coming — has long been available over cable and satellite TV systems. But it's a feature that certainly holds appeal to those who make their PS3 a home theater hub.
Since then, Sony launched a subscription tier to the network with its new PlayStation Plus service ($50 annually) that gives subscribers access to free game downloads, plus Hulu Plus's full catalog of current and past season TV episodes (you must also pay Hulu the $10 monthly Hulu Plus charge). Other Hulu Plus devices include the iPad, iPhone and Samsung TVs.
Microsoft's Xbox Live gets Hulu Plus next year. But by early November, Gold-level subscribers get their own exclusive: ESPN. The service will provide 3,500 live broadcasts of college football and basketball, as well as Major League Baseball, NBA and other sports. Also available, a library of on-demand content. (Of course, Microsoft has increased the price of the required Gold membership by $10 to $60 annually.)
When Xbox Live added Netflix streaming two years ago, "it was a big win for Xbox," Keighley says. "Now it's on PlayStation, iPhone, iPad, Wii. … Ubiquity is an important part of what happens going forward."
Turning the e-page
Also making headway are electronic books. I've followed the e-book hype but have yet to weigh in with my wallet. A few weeks back, I finished reading the first two Stieg Larsson books and tried to buy the latest The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest for the iPad. It wasn't available, so I read the hardback version my wife had just finished.
But after speed-reading through Hornet's Nest, I found myself book-less. I remembered a book program, 100 Classic Books ($19.95) that had been released for the Nintendo DS handheld game systems. I rummaged around and found it and decided to see if that was a worthy e-book consideration.
With full-length classics written by famous authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare and Arthur Conan Doyle, 100 Classic Books "transforms your Nintendo DS system into a portable library," says Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway.
I had never read Crime & Punishment, so I chose that Dostoevsky work. (It also includes his The Brothers Karamazov.) Over two weeks, I made my way through the 400-plus-paged book, reading on the newer DSi XL handheld, with twin 4.2-inch screens nearly one inch larger across than the DSi — and nearly twice as big as the DS Lite. (The prices on the DSi XL and DSi drop Sept. 12 from $190 and $170 to $170 and $150, respectively. DS Lite systems run $130.)
Along the way, I noticed a few misspellings and some mixed-up quotation marks. Overall, however, the program offered a suitable if no-frills reading experience. I never had an eye-strain issue; you could bookmark multiple pages. What it did lack was the ability to search within a book, which might have come in handy with the complicated Russian names. Also, there were no drawings or photos to accompany the text, as some e-readers and the iPad offer.
Still, if someone plays video games and already owns the DS system, 100 Classic Books is an economical entry into the world of e-books. (You also can download 10 additional books, including Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, for free.)
Those who wait to buy a dedicated e-book reader will surely be rewarded with lower prices, says Dmitry Molchanov of The Yankee Group. As prices reach the sweet spot of $150, sales will reach 19.2 million by 2013, the firm predicts, with revenues nearly doubling from $1.3 billion in 2010 to $2.5 billion by 2013.
"Consumers are still not familiar with eBooks, and are particularly turned off by the continuing standards war between Amazon and everyone else," Molchanov says. "The more time consumers spend consuming digital media across different devices, the faster digital eBooks will replace physical books.Handheld game systems and smartphones are just part of that trend."
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Call it the fog of war or call it the special relationship, it still comes as a bit of a surprise to discover that the QE2, the now venerable flagship of the Cunard line, relishes her role as a great transatlantic liner less than that of doughty warrior in the ceaseless battle against the forces of darkness.
The chance to join the vessel at Southampton Dock spoke less of the imminent pleasures of escapism on the high seas than of the old queen's historic duty to stand shoulder to shoulder with our American allies.
'The QE2 will proceed to New York offering moral support to its citizens at this time of horror and grief,' ran the communications director's letter. 'QE2 has long been established as part of New York's famous cityscape and we at Cunard want to say to the world that it's business as usual.'
Subsequent conversations on this theme elicited assertions of a proud record of service by Cunard in both the Crimean and Boer wars, World Wars I and II, and the Falklands, when the liner's gleaming white superstructure was painted over in battleship grey.
So forget deck quoits, cocktails on the quarter deck and invitations to the captain's table. Step on board the QE2 in the aftermath of the Twin Towers horror and you are enlisting in the civilised world's war against Islamic fundamentalism, and joining a volunteer army of god-fearing, English-speaking, bridge-playing veterans, a Dad's Army of doddery doctors, senescent solicitors, geriatric taxi drivers and antiquated accountants.
The average age of the QE2's transatlantic clientele must be 70 if it's a day. A quick look round the departure shed in Southampton and you see that this army of retirees has come accoutred for battle. Well-drilled packs of De La Rue, carefully labelled cases of Travel Scrabble, boxes of Pictionary, lethal hardback copies of Sidney Sheldon and Joanna Trollope. Cunard's rapid-reaction force will be taking no chances.
Many of the combatants on this crossing have seen action before. They have cruised in the Caribbean, braved the Pacific, docked in Sydney, berthed in Cape Town, and downed pink gins in the surviving pink bits of the world's map. They have flown the flag in hostile waters, and navigated the Panama and Suez canals. 'Can't say that I'd really want to get much closer to Egypt than that,' said one blue-blazered old cove.
But are they down-hearted? Perish the thought that the crisis in America should persuade them to cancel the trip. '"Go!" said my daughter,' confided one lady from Bedfordshire. '"If you cancel your booking, they've won."' No one wants to admit they're afraid to fly, but there's a lot of quiet satisfaction in the security of the ocean. 'But don't forget,' says the Cunard man menacingly, 'that the QE2 is an internationally recognised terrorist target.'
And so we set off. Down the Solent in the late afternoon sunshine amid a flotilla of pleasure boats, past the Needles with the wind quickening from the Channel, past the lights of the Lizard, and out into the encircling darkness of the Atlantic. Here, several old salts squaring up to the breeze on the prow referred darkly to the miseries of convoy duty and the U-boat menace, though it was not exactly clear to what extent they'd had personal experience of this.
On board, the intrinsic hierarchy of the ship is also quasi-military: paupers and crew in the bowels of the ship; posher passengers in staterooms on First and Second decks; B-list celebrities in penthouse-style suites on the Sun, Boat and Upper decks. Presiding over this little universe, powered by enough electricity to keep a medium-sized city in tea and crumpets, is Captain Warwick on the bridge, the living embodiment of the Almighty with the splendid white beard and the fathomless gaze of the lifelong seaman. One of the guests did rather ungenerously compare him to 'Captain Birdseye', but his authority on the QE2 is so universal he actu ally has the power to conduct civil marriages, and will shortly do just this for his daughter.
If the class system remains intact on the QE2, the routine is timeless too. At sea, the days are long, and start with the dawn breaking over the oily grey swell of the Atlantic. Your real sailor takes a saltwater swim at this hour, then strides about the deck a bit, working up an appetite for breakfast. After that, it's time for a rendezvous with 'Cassandra' for a walk-a-thon from the aft boat deck. If Cassandra doesn't do it for you, there's a 'Tummy Tightener with Nick' at the fitness centre.
Meanwhile, in the Chart Room, Father Gamble is holding his 'chaplain's hour', an informal chat of an ecumenical flavour designed, perhaps, to reconcile the older clientele with their imminent encounter with their maker (on a world cruise, as many as a dozen passengers will find themselves being stored in the on-board morgue, with the suggestion that quite a few of these were rather hoping to end their days thus on the high seas).
By mid-morning, the exercise portion of the day is done, and the self-improvement part is in full swing. There are lectures about antique furniture, lectures about the internet, a 'Cunard heritage trail' ramble through some on-board memorabilia.
Others, less troubled by the need for self-improvement, will play Scrabble, backgammon and even chess. There's a more or less continuous ballroom dancing lesson going on amidships, in which 'gentleman hosts' discreetly partner those spinsters and widows who are travelling alone. Peter is one of these 'hosts', a wiry fiftysomething with perspiration bedewing his upper brow.
'I'm knackered,' he says, sinking down for a few moments' rest. 'The women on these crossings are at it all day.' For instance? 'You name it,' he says, with a sigh, 'Foxtrot, tango, reels, waltzes. There's no stopping them.'
Even if you haven't been stepping lively on the dance-floor, it's never too soon for a pre-prandial snort, and then lunch in the Lido restaurant or the Britannia or Queens Grill. Then a turn or two about the deck (five circuits of the boat deck makes a mile), and at 4pm, afternoon tea is served. Whist and bridge follows. A few gnarled recidivists immerse themselves in 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzles before preparing to change for dinner. Then another cocktail, possibly preceded by an invitation to the captain's quarters for a flute or two of champagne, before the welcome stampede for the dining room. At dinner, the dress code is dark suits or dinner jackets (for men) and evening dresses (for women), a nightly exhibition that takes out of mothballs some of the most astonishing evening wear seen outside the V&A: shiny shoes, cummerbunds, medals (for the men) and stoles, tiaras, stilettos (for the women). After din ner, the cabaret artist Michael Law performs Noël Coward songs. There is also the 'killer soprano' Rosie Ashe, accompanied by Paul Smith. Much later, Cunard might show a recent film (Moulin Rouge, for instance, or Sexy Beast).
It's a restful routine and confirms the QE2's status as a slightly dowdy floating hotel, a hotel from a slightly shabby Victorian resort town whose traditions have been overtaken by newer fashions, an odd mixture of Butlins and the Ritz. So, just as the QE2 shows no evidence of the hotel-design revolution of the last 20 years, it also makes no concession to the competition offered by a floating shopping mall like the infamous Galaxy, the kind of cruise liner whose most favoured cabins face not outwards (for the view) but inwards (for vistas of duty-free shopping).
The obvious attraction to crossing the Atlantic on the Queen is to see the 'new found land' taking shape in the grey dawn as the great vessel inches its way, with sonorous blasts of its hooter, past the Statue of Liberty. Those who've done this say that the two hours of the entry to the Hudson is one of the great seagoing experiences...
It was not to be. Two days into our crossing, Cunard confirmed what many had feared. Discretion would be the better part of valour and the ship would dock in Boston. Pier 94, the QE2's traditional berth in Man hattan, had been transformed into a temporary morgue by the city authorities, and anyway they were taking no chances. If Osama Bin Laden had plans to fly a British Airways 747 into the world's premier liner, he was not going to get his chance on this crossing.
Not that it would do him much good. The QE2 is now, like her passengers, in the evening of her days, but Cunard has every intention of replacing her with something even bigger, and unquestionably better - a future Queen Mary 2. This vessel will recall the palmy days when celebrities of all sorts - politicians, film stars, writers - crossed the Atlantic by sea. Today, that six-day crossing seems a trifle Old World, but if flying continues to seem hazardous to the business traveller, it's not difficult to envisage the cooler breed of business class executives opting for Cunard, and conducting their business on the high seas once more.
Cruise facts
Cunard Cruise Line (0800 052 3840) offers six-day trips on the QE2 from Southampton to New York for £1,419 per person in April rising to £1,639 in August 2002. Packages include all meals, on-board accommodation based on two people sharing a standard cabin and flight back from the US. Prices apply to bookings made before 30 November.


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Jason McCormick, blind since a childhood accident, come to Chilleen Academy with his guide dog Erroll. But Erroll is behaving strangely, and Jason fears that he has been possessed by an evil spirit that Jason and his friend Cissy accidentally unleashed while in Shadow Village. In a terrifying showdown, Jason must battle the evil spirit.
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|Title: Phantom Valley: The Dark
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A university research project about 'photography & perspective' and 'individual perceptions of mass produced objects.' Based on photos of MacBooks from individuals around the globe.
We are living in a world where design is no longer made for the individual. Identical products are mass produced, and instead of objects being made to fit people, people are made (forced) to fit the products available. What will always be unique however, is the way an individual interacts with the product, which is completely shaped by the user. It reflects their intentions, working habits and personality.
Photography is a medium of communication. The question we are asking is who shapes the photograph, is it the subject or the photographer? And is the quality of a photograph, is it due to the camera or the competency of the photographer?
Bringing these two ideas together, what happens when you ask hundreds of people, from different countries and cultures to photograph the same object? An object which is a mass produced 'design' object and a big part of the work of design students globally , how is this shaped by the user/viewer/photographer? Images have been collected from design students and other people from all around the world, and are asking them to take the photo with an intention in mind.
To contribute and be part of this project is simple, take a photograph of your MacBook computer, in any way that you like (in high resolution) and send it through to email@example.com
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Supervised by Prof. Dr. Uta Brandes and Prof Dr. Michael Erlhoff.
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Sporting a blue suit, Siddaramaiah, who otherwise wears white dhoti and shirt or kurta, boarded the flight last night on his maiden foreign trip after becoming Chief Minister in May. He was seen off by Ministers K J George, T B Jayachandra, H C Mahadevappa and H Anjaneya among others.
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Thousands swim from pier to pub
About 4,000 people have taken part in the world's largest ocean swim on Victoria's Surf Coast.
The 1.2 kilometre Lorne Pier to Pub swim started out 26 years ago as a challenge between mates.
This year, Jan Juc swimmer Scott Prosser took out the title.
"I haven't seen the time yet, I'm just happy with the win," he said.
Prosser narrowly defeated fellow Jan Juc swimmer, 14-year-old Sam Sheppard, in a sprint to the finish line.
"I didn't have any energy left because I just did the juniors," Sheppard said.
"Even if probably I hadn't done the juniors, Scott still probably would have beaten me anyway. "
Anglesea-based iron woman Naantali Marshall won the women's elite event for the sixth time.
"I just never ever think that I'm able to win again, so I just can't believe that I did it," she said.
The race is now so popular the Lorne Surf Lifesaving Club has been forced to limit the number of entrants.
Bracks competes
Victorian Premier Steve Bracks continued his tradition of competing with two of his ministers.
"This is my fourteenth swim in 16 years, so I've missed a couple here and there but I'll be back," he said.
"It's a great swim, it's probably the best swim of the circuits."
Acting Premier John Thwaites, who swam with Mr Bracks, says this year the conditions were perfect.
"It was much better this year," he said.
"It seemed to be warmer the water was clearer and I didn't get kicked in the head as much.
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President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has attended a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State in the Belarusian capital Minsk, SIA reports quoting the AzerTac.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko welcomed President Ilham Aliyev at the Independence Palace. The heads of state posed for photographs.
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