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"I need a drink, Cal. May I?"
You pose the question without lowering your gaze an inch. Cal responds in kind.
"Help yourself. I'll take whatever you're having."
You quickly break the stare, standing and turning toward the liquor trolley. Your body spots the brandy and begins pouring, while your mind runs over everything you've deemed safe to say. Only a few seconds later than what would have sounded normal, you begin.
"Thanks. I've had a long weekend, and a really rough day at work. Monday mornings are the worst. Dozens of little local criminals to be dealt with, and stacks of paperwork for each one. It's hell, I tell you." You take the two glasses and carefully turn back to Cal. As you hand him the glass, you find his eyes again-- the safest place to look, but also the most distracting. Taking your seat across from him, you close your eyes gratefully and give the brandy a moment to relax you.
Cal speaks abruptly, as if he's suddenly given up on waiting for an appropriate time to say this.
"Edward, did you talk to your friend Joe this weekend like you said you would?"
Shock, confusion, and anger do not show themselves on your face. You had the whole weekend to prepare for surprises. You think quickly.
So he knows the name Joe. Either he already knew that Nicolas calls himself Joe, or at some point Friday night he was watching us, and heard the name. It doesn't matter. It just means he wants to talk about Nicolas in code. He wants Radovan to think Joe is a friend of mine who I said I would talk to. I can go with that.
"Well, yes. I did talk to him." Decent timing. You congratulate yourself.
"And?" Cal demands. "Does he know a cure?"
It's safe to talk about the werewolf thing? Really? Wouldn't that imply that I know about his murders? Or maybe he's not wearing the watch, we're not being monitored. Doesn't matter. Follow Cal's lead.
"He... has a hunch."
"Well what is it?!" Cal begs. He is honestly desperate for this information. He looks like he's lost all control, like he has completely forgotten that Gabrielle might walk back into the room any second now, and ask what he's so upset about. For an instant you actually believe that you might have been mistaken, that Cal might have been telling the truth the whole time.
Cal, you realize, is an astoundingly convincing actor.
No wonder I believed him! No wonder Radovan chose him. He's perfect.
"He wouldn't tell me any of the details. He said he wants to see you in person." This response was delayed, but surely Radovan would understand you hesitating to describe werewolf cures. If he's even listening.
"See me in person! You didn't tell him about me, did you? Edward, I told you to be vague! You can't just go around telling people what I am!" Cal stands up, anxious and frustrated, and starts pacing and rubbing his forehead.
It happened so fast. You couldn't help it. The watch was there, on his wrist. He put it right in front of his eyes where you were staring. You're already walking toward the liquor trolley with your empty glass, your back to Cal.
I didn't look at it too long. I probably saw it as a blur when his arm was moving, then immediately stood up and turned around. That wasn't suspicious. I'm safe. It's fine. Back to the conversation...
"I didn't tell him about you, he just figured out why I was asking those questions. It was pretty obvious I knew someone who needed help. Relax Cal, he doesn't know who you are. And he won't, unless you decide to meet him. But you'll have to, if you want any answers."
You finish pouring your second drink, and turn back to see Cal calmer but still worried. He walks closer to you, glaring into your eyes, somehow hinting at a new significance this time.
"Then you do think he's willing to help me? You don't think he'll try to turn me in, or... kill me?"
He means Nicolas. He wants to know if he can trust Nicolas.
You're on the verge of telling him what he wants to hear, when a thought occurs to you.
Cal has to meet Nicolas while he's not wearing the watch. And Nicolas said that Cal might have taken the watch off when he last talked to me, just in case he had to kill me. Maybe we can convince Radovan that this "Joe" person needs to be killed.
"Honestly, Cal... I couldn't tell."


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What is the genre of the Gospel of John and why does it matter? The latter question is easy to answer. It matters because "identification of a work's genre helps us understand its place within the literary history . . . and aids us in its interpretation." A.R. Cross, "Genres of the New Testament," in Dictionary of New Testament Background, eds. Craig Evans and Stanley E. Porter, page 402. When you pick up a contemporary book, you start with the knowledge that what you are reading is a romance, a science text book, a science fiction novel, a biography, or a book of history. That knowledge informs how you understand the text you are reading, such as reading how spaceship's propulsion system works in a scientific textbook or a Star Trek "technical manual". Or a scene of combat found in a historical novel or a biography of a medal of honor winner. Although these accounts may be described in similar ways, one you accept as true and the other you treat as fiction. The distinction comes not necessarily from the account itself, but the broader genre of the work that contains it.
Given the importance of genre in understanding ancient writings, how does one go about determining the genre of an ancient document? I like the approach taken by Christopher Bryan in A Preface to Mark. I blogged on his approach to genre, which focuses on evaluating the dominant cluster of motifs.
Genre involves a cluster of elements. So striking are these elements that we can entirely understand why one might be tempted to regard them as 'rules.' Yet they are not precisely 'rules,' for they need not all be present in one example. The genre of a particular work is established by the presence of enough generic motifs in sufficient force to dominate....
A work of one genre may contain motifs from another. This means that in establishing genre we need to identify the dominant cluster of motifs: just one or two will not do.
A Preface to Mark, page 13.
The reason genre is so helpful in interpreting ancient documents is because they provide us insight into the mind of the author and his audience. Genre "is widely acknowledged as one of the key conventions guiding both the composition and the interpretation of writings. Genre forms a kind of 'contract' or agreement, often unspoken or unwritten, or even unconscious, between the author and a reader, by which the author sets out to write according to a whole set of expectations and conventions, and we agree to read or to interpret the work using the same conventions, giving us an initial idea of what we might expect to find." Richard Burridge, Four Gospels, One Jesus, page 5.
Given the two elements of this contract, the author and the audience, I thought it would be helpful to begin by examining the author's stated intent and the audience's understanding of the Gospel of John. Future posts will examine more discrete, literary aspects of the Gospel of John to help determine genre.
Stated Authorial Intent
This section does not examine the identity of the author of the Gospel of John. Needless to say, if one concludes upon independent examination that this gospel was written by a disciple of Jesus, the likelihood that this disciple then decided to write a novel instead of a historical or biographical account is very low. In any event, regarding the author's expressed intent, he emphasizes to his readers that the events about which he writes are "true." They are not just profitable or useful, but what actually happened. In John 19:35, he writes, "And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe." Similarly, in John 21:24, "This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true." John also stresses the truth of his witness -- through his account of John the Baptist' witness -- in John 10:40-41, "Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. Here he stayed and many people came to him. They said, 'Though John never performed a miraculous sign, all that John said about this man was true.'"
Related to John's emphasis on reporting the truth is his emphasis on the "testimony" he records about Jesus. At least sixteen times John refers to "testimony" regarding Jesus, usually to demonstrate Jesus' high place and true mission. (1:19, 32; 2:25; 3:11, 22, 32; 4:39; 5:31, 32, 34, 36; 8:13, 14, 17; 19:35; 21:24). The Synoptics' references to "testimony" are fewer, and not generally linked directly to their depiction of Jesus. But in John, he relies on the "testimony" of John the Baptist, of the Father, and of Himself, as to His life and significance. Whatever our final assessment of the historical accuracy of the Gospel of John, therefore, the author communicates his intent to write about actual events. This is consistent with biography and historiography, but does not usually correspond to a novelistic intent.
Ancient fiction forms a very different understanding between the author and the audience. Its author does not intend, nor attempt, to pass off his work as "what really happened" and the audience did not receive it as such:
Fiction is not just a matter of the absence of other evidence; it depends rather on the conviction, engendered by the genre, that certain propositions are meant not to refer. Fiction presupposes a contract or collective understanding according to which the habit of reference is curbed or inhibited. It is this contract that discriminates fiction from falsity, which is failed reference.
David Konstan, "The Invention of Fiction," in Ancient Fiction and Early Christian Narrative, eds. Ronald F. Hock, J. Bradley Chance, and Judith Perkins, page 7. In other words, what makes fiction, fiction is not that it is false or fails to correspond with reality, but that neither the author or the audience expects it to be true. "The implicit awareness on the part of writers and readers of the novel's referential independence is what constitutes the genre as fiction." Id. at 15.
It is important to distinguish "verisimilitude" from the perception of historical fact. Verisimilitude is the attempt to make a novel realistic, not to pass it off as a true account. It is best understood as a means to facilitate the willing suspension of disbelief in one's readers by making a story pleasurable to read. Generally, ancient novels did not try to establish verisimilitude by assuring their readers that their stories were historically true or based on eyewitness accounts. Rather, they would do so by including exciting details or what passed as a local flavor of the locations in the account. Historical accuracy was a challenging enough feat for ancient historians and biographers, authors of ancient fiction usually lacked the motivation or ability to ensure it in their novels.
Although the novels written in the era of the gospels do not present themselves as "truth" and historical fact, a few other works of fiction from the ancient world contained such elements. None are comparable to the Gospel of John, however. First, for example, is The Wonders Beyond Thule, which B.P Reardon dates to the mid-second century AD or later. The work is known to us by a few fragments and a summary recorded by Photius, a Christian bishop of the Ninth Century. It a vast, 24-book epic tale of romance, travel and adventure, with exotic locations and peoples. The 'account" of the protagonists is purported to be recorded on clay tablets, buried, and uncovered years later. Notably, the author of The Wonders admits that he was "fabricating wondrous and false things" and Photius, though writing centuries later, clearly understands it as a "work of fiction." The account is then recorded on clay tablets, placed in a box with the writing "Stranger, whoever you are, open this box to learn what will amaze you." The box was hidden away until recovered by "King Alexander of Macedonia."
Another account of a fantastic journey -- this time to the moon, the underworld, and even the belly of a whale al la Pinocchio -- is A True Story, by Lucian. Although the narrative of the protagonist is in the first person, it is -- according to Reardon -- "above all, [] a parody of literary 'liars' like Homer and Herodotus." Collected Greek Novels, page 619. Lucian writes that he has "no true story to relate" and that he is a 'liar" and that his subject is "things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." Id. at 622.
There are also two accounts of the Trojan War that purport to be first hand accounts but are in fact completely fictitious: Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian. Both are accounts of the Trojan War stripped of their supernatural elements but including romance. Both also claim to have been ancient accounts, lost for a centuries, and then later uncovered, much like the account of The Wonders. The account by Dictys was supposedly written in Phoenecian letters on bark tablets, buried, then found by shepherds in a collapsed tomb centuries later. The account of Dares was supposedly found by its translator centuries after it was authored while doing research in a library, who offered it as a counter to the Homeric tradition. Dares is dated to the Sixth Century AD. Dictys's to the Fourth. As with The Wonders, but unlike the Gospel of John, we have long lost accounts fortuitously revealed centuries after their origins. Obviously, the subject matter is strikingly different as well.
All told, the author's stated intent is much more consistent with a genre that presents itself as true accounts, likely historical in nature, such as a biography or historiography. Ancient forms of fiction, such as novels, did not usually emphasize the authenticity of their accounts. The few exceptions discussed above tend to date much later than the Gospel of John and are otherwise easily distinguished.
Reception by the Audience
Having examined the stated intent of the author, what about the other side of the genre equation? How did the early audience perceive the Gospel of John? An examination of its genre is unlikely, but we can see if they treated it as a historical account, as purely metaphor, as an entertaining and profitable novel. Thankfully, we have much earlier information about the reception of the Gospel of John than we do for any novel, which is itself evidence against it being considered fictitious. Based on this information, there is no evidence that the intended audience understood the Gospel of John to be anything other than a historical account of the life and teachings of Jesus.
The earliest possible evidence about the reception of the Gospel of John, is Papias. In the early Second Century AD, Papias expressed his understanding of the gospels of Mark and Matthew. Papias considered them to be factual accounts of the life and history of Jesus, written by people in a position to know the facts. Eusebius, Church History 3.39.15. But what about the Gospel of John? No extant writing explicitly attributes any discussion of the Gospel of John to Papias. However, a number of scholars have concluded that Eusebius, in 3.24.5-13, alludes to Papias' description of the Gospel of John. Charles E. Hill, "What Papias Said about John (and Luke): A New Papian Fragment," Journal of Theological Studies 49.2 (1998): 582-629. If true, then Papias refers to the Gospel of John in the same way he refers to Mark and Matthew, noting "the apostle John, being asked to do it for this reason, gave in his Gospel an account of the period which had been omitted by the earlier evangelists, and of the deeds done by the Saviour during that period; that is, of those which were done before the imprisonment of the Baptist." Id., 3.24.11.
Polycrates was a Christian leader in Ephesus from the mid-to-late second century AD. A letter which he wrote to a leader in the Roman Church is preserved by Eusebius. Church History, 5.24.2-7. Therein, he refers to "John, who was both a witness and a teacher, who reclined upon the bosom of the Lord, and, being a priest, wore the sacerdotal plate." 5.24.2. The reference to reclining is a clear reliance on the Gospel of John, and the reference to John as a "witness" suggests authorship of that Gospel. Indeed, a number of scholars have concluded that the reference to "a witness and a teacher" refer to John's authorship of the Gospel and the Epistles, respectively. In any event, Polycrates treats the passage from John as establishing a historical scene.
Justin Martyr writing in the mid-second century referred to the Gospels as the "memoirs" or "reminiscences" of the apostles. 1 Apology 66.3. See also 1 Apology 67.3. David Aune notes that given Martyr's background as a philosopher his use of the term "reminiscences . . . suggests a connection with Xenophon's Memorabilia . . . a 'biography' of Socrates." Aune, op. cit., page 67. Similarly, writing in the mid-to-late second century, Theophilous of Antioch quotes the Gospel of John, attributes it to John, and refers to it not as fiction, romance, or a novel, but as "holy writings" that "teach us." To Autolyc. 2.22.
Another important piece of evidence is Tatian's Diatessaron. Written around 160-170 AD, the Diatessoron is a biography of Jesus based on all four Gospels. Not only does Tatian use the Gospel of John in his harmony, but he makes it as the basis for the chronology into which the rest of the Gospels are incorporated. A little later, Irenaeus, writing in the late second century, refers to the Gospel of John as an account of Jesus' life. He directly attributes its authorship to one of Jesus' disciples: "John the disciple of the Lord, who leaned back on his breast, published the Gospel while he was resident at Ephesus in Asia." Against Heresies 3.1.2.
I have not found any evidence indicating that the Gospel of John was understood by its audience to be fiction. This does not mean that everyone accepted it as accurate history. For example, a group known as the Alogi, dating from the second century, rejected the Gospel of John and Revelation as having been written by the disciple John. Their rejection, however, was not based on the concerns about the genre of the Gospel of John, but on its doctrines concerning the Holy Spirit. Irenaeus, Adv. Haer., 3.2.9. Believing a document is in error, or is historically inaccurate, however, is not the same as understanding it as a work of fiction. Accordingly, the reception of the Gospel of John by its earlier readers also weighs in favor of understanding it as a form of biography or historiography.
In future posts I will continue to examine the genre of the Gospel of John, focusing on more direct literary elements of the Gospel of John.


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It's saddening that more than 10 million pets are lost every year, and 90 percent of them end up in the shelter, some are left roaming around the streets—homeless, while some are even euthanized because the owners either have no way of finding them or didn't make an effort to find them even through dog tracking.
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The data above only proves that losing a dog is a likely scenario and owners need to be responsible and prepared enough in case unfortunate event like this happens. Thankfully, dog tracking technology is now available. Pet owners can now do dog tracking with microchipping and GPS tracking their pets.
Many pet owners don't think this is a serious problem, which is probably because of their lack of awareness or misinformation about the issue. Having said that, we will provide answers to the most frequently asked questions of pet owners about the proper dog tracking and identification.
GPS vs Microchip for Dogs
We now live in the 21st century where almost everybody is using location tracking apps and identification systems. Most of us are familiar what is GPS navigation for. We have it inbuilt in our smartphones or smart wristwatch, but sometimes, we fail to notice that it's there, that through it, almost all Web-based applications on our phone know our every move. So it's a a little bemusing why many of us have not yet applied the same method when it comes to dog tracking.
Many have the common misconception that the microchip implanted by the vet on your pet's skin is the same GPS microchip in the device used for locating a lost dog. In fact, the two are different. Though both are being used by pet owners to secure their dogs, each has different set of benefits and drawbacks.
A microchip is a very tiny integrated circuit, as small as a grain of rice that are embedded under the skin of the animal. It uses passive radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. It doesn't have battery nor does it transmit signal continuously. It contains all information about the animal such as the unique ID of the chip, breed, description, vaccination schedule, owner's name and contact details, and the vet's contact details—but all of these can only be read by a special scanner. This means that a lost dog implanted with a microchip can only be reunited with its owner if brought to a shelter or to the proper authorities.
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The GPS microchip gives out the dog's exact location through SMS or e-mail alerts. Some modern GPS devices provide additional alert information such as extreme temperatures, health status, etc.
After reading all the information above, you are probably asking which technology is the best for dog tracking, the microchip implantation or the GPS tracking device. If you live in a country that requires microchip implantation on pets, then it's likely that your furry friend is already microchipped. If that's the case, then what's left for you is to decide whether additional layer of security is needed or you're content of what you currently have.
But if your dog has no microchip yet, then it won't harm if you put one on your beloved dog, regardless if you want an external GPS chip for your pet. Though each works differently, both are helpful in keeping your dog safe. A combination of the two is better.
Advantages and Disadvantages
The main advantage of microchip implantation on your pet's skin is the presence of your dog's permanent identification. In the event that your pet is lost and then found, once it is brought to the shelter or animal clinic, the information can be extracted and you will be informed. The problems with the microchips are the following:
- You have no means of knowing where your pet is, you will have to wait for a good Samaritan to call and inform you its location.
- Not all animal shelters are equipped with microchip scanner.
- There is no standardized microchip data encoding. If you travel abroad, there's a chance that your pet's implanted microchip is not readable in other countries.
GPS Tracking Device
GPS pet tracking device like Trackimo is small and lightweight enough to be attached to a dog's collar. It transmits the dog's real-time location information to any smartphone. Using a specific app, the dog's exact location will be displayed on a map along with the direction on how to get there. As long as your pet is wearing the GPS tracking device, you can monitor its location at any given time. You can even prevent losing your dog using the device through its geo-fence feature. This function allows pet owners to set virtual fence on the map and they will be alerted once their dog enters or exits the specified area.
Like microchips, GPS devices also have disadvantages:
- If not fastened securely around the dog's neck, the device may fall off; or if the dog is stolen, it can be removed.
- Battery powered—if the device runs out of battery, you won't be able to track your dog anymore.
- Some GPS devices only work where there is ample network coverage.
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Asymptotic Giant Branch evolution at varying surface C/O ratio: effects of changes in molecular opacitiesP. Marigo
Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova, Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 2, 35122 Padova, Italia
(Received 21 December 2001 / Accepted 27 February 2002)
We investigate the effects of molecular opacities on the evolution of TP-AGB stars that experience the third dredge-up, i.e. with surface abundances of carbon and oxygen varying with time. To this aim, a routine is constructed to derive the molecular concentrations through dissociation equilibrium calculations, and estimate the opacities due to H 2, H 2O, OH, C 2, CN, and CO for any given density, temperature and chemical composition of the gas. Then, synthetic TP-AGB models with dredge-up are calculated by either adopting the newly developed routine, or interpolating between fixed opacity tables for solar chemical composition. The comparison between the two cases shows that the change in the dominant opacity sources, as the C/O ratio grows from below to above unity, crucially affects the evolution of the effective temperature, i.e. causing a notable cooling of the carbon-rich models (with C/O >1). From the comparison with observational data, it turns out that TP-AGB models with variable molecular opacities are able to reproduce the observed range of effective temperatures, mass-loss rates, and wind expansion velocities of C-type giants in the solar neighbourhood, otherwise failed if assuming fixed molecular opacities for solar-scaled mixtures. Finally, we mention other possibly important evolutionary and observational effects that result from the adoption of the variable opacities, such as: i) significant shortening of the C-star phase due to the earlier onset of the super-wind; ii) consequent reduction of the carbon yields; iii) reproduction of the observed range of near-infrared colours of C-stars.
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With a stay at Buddha-Bar Hotel Prague, you'll be centrally located in Prague, steps from Kotva Department Store and House of the Black Madonna. This 5-star hotel is close to Old Town Square and Prague Castle.
Make yourself at home in one of the 38 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and minibars. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, and flat-screen televisions with satellite programming provide entertainment. Private bathrooms with separate bathtubs and showers feature deep soaking bathtubs and rainfall showerheads. Conveniences include phones, as well as laptop-compatible safes and desks.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) With the innate confidence of a born athlete, Ryan Getzlaf (FSY) says he's sure he can handle the extra pressure that comes with being the Anaheim Ducks' captain.
He demonstrated why in the third period of their home opener, with more than a little help from his linemates.
Getzlaf set up Corey Perry's (FSY) tying goal and Bobby Ryan's (FSY) go-ahead score 1:18 apart in the third, and the Ducks finally earned their first victory of the season, 4-3 over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night.
GAME REPORT: Ducks 4, Canucks 3
Getzlaf had a goal and three assists in his home debut wearing the "C," and Jonas Hiller (FSY) made 36 saves while keeping the Ducks close before an impressive third period by their talented top line. Getzlaf, Perry and Ryan — all medal-winning Olympians with $25 million-plus contracts — went scoreless with a collective minus-12 rating while Anaheim lost its first three games by a combined 13-2.
"We know we've got to score and be effective," said Getzlaf, who had the fifth four-point game of his career. "It was time for that. We knew it was just those one or two bounces that we needed our way. When our line is effective, we slow that game down and play with the puck."
Anaheim's Teemu Selanne (FSY) scored his 607th career goal.
Christian Ehrhoff (FSY) scored a tiebreaking power-play goal for Vancouver early in the third period. But after Perry tied it by scoring on an open net, Ryan converted a 3-on-1 break against Roberto Luongo (FSY), who stopped 28 shots.
"When they scored, I thought to myself, 'Something has got to happen now,'" said Ryan, who had a handful of ugly giveaways in the first two periods. "'Something has got to break.' We were gripping our sticks a little bit. I don't think there's any secret there, but we stuck to it."
Daniel Sedin (FSY) had a goal and an assist for the Canucks. Sedin and Raffi Torres (FSY) scored first-period goals 17 seconds apart as Vancouver largely dominated the first two periods of its road opener in a season with Stanley Cup aspirations, but the Canucks left frustrated after letting the Ducks hang around for a win.
"I don't think we played good enough in the third," MVP Henrik Sedin (FSY) said. "We had a lot of chances to score, but they came back and scored twice on turnovers. We should have been up more than one goal. That's how we felt. But we played hard, we had all four lines going and we had a lot of chances."
The Ducks' winless road trip was even uglier in the details: They lost every game by at least three goals while giving up an astonishing 145 shots, most at the beleaguered Hiller.
The Ducks have yielded at least 39 shots in every game this season.
"I don't think we're going to frame that one and say, 'That's how we want to play,'" Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle said. "Your leaders have to be the guys with the letters on their sweaters and the big contracts. They were feeling a lot of pressure from our 0-3 start."
The Ducks came alive shortly after Ryan was sent off for a questionable hooking penalty and Ehrhoff's long shot ricocheted off the shaft of Ducks defenseman Cam Fowler's (FSY) stick. Anaheim tied it 3 minutes later when Getzlaf's pass found Perry unchecked on the edge of Luongo's crease.
"If we're going to be the catalyst for this team, we can't go 0-for-3," Ryan said. "It's a huge monkey off our backs."
Ryan then poked the puck away from Henrik Sedin at mid-ice and got it ahead to Getzlaf and Perry. The captain passed back to Ryan for his first goal of the season, although Vancouver wondered whether Anaheim had too many men on the ice at the time.
"We should have put them away in the second period," Vancouver's Mikael Samuelsson (FSY) said. "We had a couple of really good shifts, and we've got to score on those. But give credit to them. They kept hanging in there, got a couple of breaks and took advantage of them."
Getzlaf scored a power-play goal early in the first period, but the Ducks' first lead of the season lasted exactly 76 seconds before Sedin and Torres scored. After back-to-back penalties gave Anaheim another lengthy two-man advantage in the second period, Selanne scored over Luongo's glove for the 40-year-old Finnish Flash's first point of the season.
Notes: The teenage Fowler drove Getzlaf and Selanne to the rink in a Maybach while wearing a black chauffeur's cap. Hazing aside, Fowler had another strong game in his bid to win a full-time job with the Ducks, who have five more games to decide whether to keep him for the season or send him back to his junior team. ... D Alexander Edler (FSY) had two assists for Vancouver, and Manny Malhotra (FSY) scored his first point for the Canucks.
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text: Posted June 29, 2007 Pelican was pretty good last week or two at night for walleyes, wondering if anyone has been out there the last couple nights? I'm taking a couple friends who want to fish, and the mayflies shut down Big C, so wondering if the same thing has happened on Pelican? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Reading Comprehension Asked in IBPS Clerk VI Prelims Exam 26th Nov 2016 (2nd slot) - Based on Memory:Dear Readers, IBPS Clerk VI Prelims Exam 26th Nov 2016 (2nd slot) has finished, here we have given Memory based Reading Comprehension passage asked in the exam. Candidates those who are all going to write the examination can check this pattern and make use it.
The Frightened Rabbit
One day a rabbit was sleeping under a Coconut tree. In his dream, he was wondering what would happen if the earth came to an end. At that moment, a ripe coconut fell to the ground, making a big sound.
Rabbit frightened that the earth is collapsing and shouted loudly as, the earth is collapsing! the earth is collapsing!. Then the rabbit ran away without looking back to see what made the noise. Other animals heard his cry and then the cries of others, and they also started running away. First the deer asked to rabbit, what happen? rabbit replied, The earth is collapsing!. Next Wild pig asked rabbit replied the same, the earth is collapsing!! Then the Buffalo, Desi Ox, Rhinoceros, Tiger and Elephant asked to the rabbit, rabbit replied the same answer to all the animals, the earth is collapsing! At last a young lion did not run away along with other animals. He stopped to think. Lion said that, "It is not likely that the earth is coming to an end. There must have been some other sound that was misunderstood. I must save the lives of these animals. They are so frightened that they might run into the sea.
Lion stopped all them and asks, Why are you running?
Other animals said that, the earth is collapsing!
Lion asked them that, Who saw it? Animals replied that: The elephant; Elephant: I didn't see it. The tiger did; Tiger: I didn't see it. The rhinoceros did; Rhinoceros: I didn't see it. The ox did; Ox: I didn't see it. The wild pig did; Wild pig: I didn't see it. The deer did; Deer: I didn't see it. The rabbits did. Rabbits [pointing at the one rabbit]: He told us.
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Lion took the frightened rabbit back to tell the other animals, you can return to your homes. There is no danger. This rabbit was only frightened by the sound of a coconut falling to the ground.
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text: SNX15 links clathrin endocytosis to the PtdIns3P early endosome independently of the APPL1 endosome.Chris Danson, Edward Brown, +8 authors Peter J CullenJournal of cell science2013Sorting nexins (SNXs) are key regulators of the endosomal network. In designing an RNAi-mediated loss-of-function screen, we establish that of 30 human SNXs only SNX3, SNX5, SNX9, SNX15 and SNX21 appear to regulate EGF receptor degradative sorting. Suppression of SNX15 results in a delay in receptor degradation arising from a defect in movement of newly… (More)


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Vernon Forrest was one of the fight game's finest, both as a boxer and as a man. Last weekend his life ended face down in an Atlanta street, his back riddled with bullets, his 11-year-old godson standing stunned with a candy bar in his hand which Forrest had just bought him at a garage where he had stopped to put air in the tyres of his Jaguar. Two men appeared and tried to rob him of his wallet. Forrest chased them off, pulling out a gun he carried for self-protection in one of America's most violent cities, and when he turned to walk back to his car the assailants opened fire and shot him dead.
Forrest was 38, a big-hearted guy, a gutsy fighter and former two-weight world champion who had only recently given up the WBC light-middleweight title. He was known for his work with people with disabilities and had set up a charity called Destiny's Child. "A tragedy beyond belief" is how his promoter Gary Shaw described it.
Alas, one of many among fighting men. And the third in a month. On 1 July, Alexis Arguello, one of the game's true superstars, a fighter-turned-politician from Nicaragua, who won and never lost three world titles, was found dead at his home with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. He was 57.
Ten days later, another ex-world champion, the Canadian Arturo Gatti, once described as the world's most exciting fighter, died while on a family holiday in Brazil, His wife was arrested on suspicion of strangling him with a strap from her handbag but on Friday police released her after it had been established that the 33-year-old Gatti hanged himself.
What is it about boxing that it lends itself to such untimely deaths, through accidents, suicide or homicide? Victims like Oscar Bonavena, the Argentinian who battled Muhammad Ali, shot dead at 33 outside a Nevada brothel in 1976; Trevor Berbick, 52, the last man to fight – and beat – Ali, killed with a crowbar in a church courtyard in Jamaica in 2006; and in London two years ago, the former British and ABA heavyweight champion James Oyebola, like Forrest one of the sport's most decent men, killed in a cowardly attack by youths outside the nightclub where he was a bouncer. The 6ft 9in Obeyola, who was 46 and had retired from boxing 11 years previously, had simply asked them to stop smoking. He was shot in the head and died four days later. His murderers have been convicted.
The litany of disaster stretches back to Jack Johnson, the first black world heavyweight champion who died in a car crash in 1946, via Rocky Marciano (plane crash), Randolph Turpin (suicide), Freddie Mills (apparent suicide) and Sonny Liston (unexplained). Ring fatalities, thankfully infrequent, are an occupational hazard but why is it that sport's most brutal business has such a lethal legacy outside the ropes, mostly involving former world champions?
The British promoter Frank Warren is not alone in finding it baffling. "You can't legislate for accidents which happen in all walks of life, but all these deaths are tragic and it does seem a bit above average." Do boxers attract violence because of who they are and what they do? Are they simply in the wrong place at the wrong time? "It's possible, I suppose," says Warren, "but what is worrying is the high number of suicides and I wonder if this is because of depression which may follow the end of their careers when they simply do not know what to do with their lives. Frank Bruno suffered in this way but fortunately he got help."
Mike Tyson has said he feared he would end up in the Hudson River with a bullet in his head one day. He is still with us but the question remains as to why so many like him who have fought for their life in the ring violently lose it out of it.
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Stanley Ketchel: US middleweight, 24, shot in Missouri, 1910.
Battling Siki: Senegal light-heavyweight, 28, shot in New York, 1925.
jack johnson: US heavyweight, 68, car crash in Galveston, Texas, 1946.
Harry Greb: US light-heavyweight, 32, died during routine surgery in Atlantic City, 1926.
Freddie Mills: British light-heavyweight, 46, allegedly suicide (found shot in his car) but rumoured gangland killing in Soho, 1965.
Randolph Turpin: British middleweight, 37, suicide near Llandudno, Wales, 1966.
Jackie Paterson: Scottish flyweight, 46, stabbed in bar brawl in Durban, South Africa, 1966.
Rocky Marciano: US heavyweight, 45, private plane crash, Iowa, 1969.
Sonny Liston: US heavyweight, 42, suspected overdose but widely believed to have been killed by the Mafia in his Las Vegas home, 1970.
Salvador Sanchez: Mexican featherweight, 23, car crash in Mexico, 1982.
Victor Galindez: Argentinian light-heavyweight, 31, stock car racing accident in Argentina, 1989.
Trevor Berbick: Canadian heavyweight, 52, battered to death with crowbar in Jamaica, 2006.
Alexis Arguello: Nicaraguan lightweight, 57, suicide in Managua, 2009.
Arturo Gatti: US light-welterweight, 33, suicide in Brazil, 2009.
Vernon Forrest: US light-middleweight, 37, shot in Atlantic City, 2009.
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Roger's activities as a young man hold no obvious clue to his later career in the Probation Service, but they do reflect on the inquiring, adventurous aspects of his character. Membership of the Parachute Regiment, copper mining in Zambia and travel in Asia, Africa and Australia all played their part in developing his humane values and respect for all life.
After training as a probation officer, and service in Essex, he gained promotion in Leicestershire; his experience in Leicester prison led him and colleagues to establish a family centre for visiting partners and children. Later, he leapt at the chance of a secondment from the Probation Inspectorate to the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. There can have been few research fellows at the university without even a first degree, but all of Roger's writing demonstrates a keen intellect and respect for academic rigour.
In 1991 he became chief probation officer in Powys, and engrossed in the problems of rural crime. From this arose the Powys Challenge Trust, a charity with the aim of reducing crime in mid-Wales, which continues still.
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Sharon Short is the author of the novel My One Square Inch of Alaska (Penguin Plume) in which a pair of siblings escape the strictures of the 1950s industrial Ohio town on the adventure of a lifetime. Opening chapters of this novel earned Sharon an Ohio Arts Council individual artist's grant and a Montgomery County (Ohio) Arts & Cultural District Literary Artist Fellowship.
Based on chapters of her current novel-in-progress, Sharon was named the 2014 John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence at Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio.
Additionally, Sharon's book Sanity Check: A Collection of Columns includes 100 reader-favorites of her weekly humor and lifestyle column that ran in the Dayton Daily News for more than a decade. Sharon has also published two mystery series (Josie Toadfern Stain-Busting Mysteries and Patricia Delaney eGumshoe Mysteries) as well as short stories and essays.
Sharon is the Literary Life columnist for the Dayton Daily News and is the Executive Director of the renowned Antioch Writers' Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She is part of a fiction manuscript consulting group, "The Write Sisters."
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I was online at a site when I received a pop up requesting me to complete a survey and upon completing the survey I was to receive a "gift", ( a watch for just the cost of shipping $7.99). Within a month of receiving the watch I discovered another $95.00 charged to my debit account which I never authorized.
Upon calling the comapny to inquire the reason for the charge I was told this was the charge for the watch. nowhere in the survey was there any mention of being charged another $95.00 or mention of the fact that I would receive another watch every month there after.
I attempted to contact the originating company where the watch was sent from only to find that I could not actually contact anyone to completely resolve this issue. I have concluded that this company is a scam and others need to be made aware of its false claims.
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Bernice is responsible for the marketing of the Ghana bamboo bikes initiative, liaising with fair trade shops, business development, capacity building and training, logistics, and personnel matters. In her capacity as executive director, she ensures that project design and implementation are scientifically informed, and is responsible for research, monitoring, and evaluation mechanisms related to the project.
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H.O.L.A. Hola rescue AKA Moondoggies Rescue, AKA Whiskers, Wiggles & Wags Inc. were all started by Megan Nunez, formerly Megan Choate. She's had a sordid criminal past and has been running this "style" of business since 2007. Moondoggies Rescue and Whiskers, Wiggles & Wags were both registered as Nevada non-profit corporations in 10/11 & 02/12, both registrations have been terminated and in Whiskers, Wiggles & Wags case, due to a bad check.
H.O.L.A. in my experience is a more evolved version of the two previously stated rescues. As time as progressed Megan has become more skilled in her ability to set up shop around the holidays and shut down as soon as all money and animals have been collected. She has several aliases which all originate from the same IP address and utilize the same email account. Her phone number for future contact is (562) 208-5973 a Sprint cellular phone.
In the past with the aforementioned rescues she created the "house of cards" legitimately but now she allegedly figures that nobody was going to do anything about her contracts anyway and just collects the money and hides until the next holiday season.
Prior to moving to Santa Ana, CA she lived in Long Beach,Huntington Beach,Cerritos,Los Alamitos,Huntington Park,Tustin,Ladera Ranch,Downey,Irvine,Corona,Goleta and Cedar City. She was previously married to Dennis Choate and divorced in UT but is now in a loving relationship with Louis Nunez.
I'm certain that all of you have met Megan but she has likely used a fictitious name in each of your meetings yet she'll always show up in a vehicle with a license plate from the state of Utah. Anybody else pick up on that?
H.O.L.A. is now a debunked rescue. It is now to be our job, come the holidays, to make sure she doesn't do this to anyone else. So, monitor craigs list, Petan go and PetF inder and post online ads when you see any resemblance of her wording, advertisements or photos and help whomever should come in contact with her.
Legal proceedings are being filed within the coming days and hopefully she will be in jail or prison by the holidays and maybe finally she will learn the errors of her ways due to the heavy hand of the law.
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(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she is "almost too busy" to continue listening to what is going on in the debt limit meetings at the White House with congressional leaders.
At a Capitol Hill press conference on Thursday Pelosi said, "Day in and day out, the president has respectfully listened, accommodated, engaged in conversation in a very informed way and he is the president of the United States. I know he's busy."
"I myself am almost too busy to continue listening to some of the things that are going on in that room," said Pelosi. "So I know he must be very busy. But he has treated everyone there with great dignity. The only thing I hope he doesn't ask us to do is go to Camp David. That goes beyond the pale. Driving down the street for these meetings is one thing --."
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You notice someone at a window, at odd times of the day, and you realise they have been looking at you, and it does build up a sense of threat and vulnerability.
The first time it happened, OK, someone happens to be glancing out of his window, I would look away. At first he would look away, but he became quite brazen, and only I would look away. On the sixth occasion you realise there is an intensity of gaze, and really it is a form of terrorism. If you haven't experienced it, it probably sounds almost banal - it is difficult to convey the malevolence you can sense.
I felt violated. My peace of mind, my space, my freedom of action were violated. My work as a Russian translator was solitary, and working from home I was easy prey to this kind of thing.
It was my first flat, it was a lovely flat. But it was like I was not allowed to exist there, and I had to start drawing curtains.
I often had the curtains drawn in the daytime, which meant natural light was not coming into the flat, which was completely unnatural.
The summer of 1988 was a disgustingly hot summer, it was sweltering, and I found I was unable to sleep with my window open. And why should any citizen not be allowed to sleep with his or her window open? And that kind of constriction and containment I began bitterly to resent.
And I felt a sort of self-disgust, because fear is in many ways a shameful emotion.
At the same time I thought, why should I be afraid of him? Why isn't he afraid of me? Why does he not keep his curtains drawn? Doesn't it occur to him that I could go into his window?
Suddenly, the fear became rage, and one day I woke up and I literally wanted to kill him. I could visualise myself killing this man, and it was the most wonderful, electrifying feeling I had ever had in my life.
It was such a sweet thought, I would say a liberating fantasy, because women do not think in violent terms - it is not natural for us, we internalise all our rage and aggression, we get depressed and take Valium.
Suddenly, I had confidence and self-belief because I was actually able to imagine doing the unimaginable.
It was like watching a video in my head. I was going into enemy territory, like a commando raid. I would get dressed in my flat in the middle of the night, put on a Balaclava, tool up with a hammer, and then go across the gardens, which were littered with debris, then up his fire escape - he was on the second floor - and ease open his sash window, and climb in.
Then I imagined going into his bedroom where he would be sleeping: relaxed, secure. Suddenly, he wakes up, and the woman he's been watching, the woman he's been tormenting and hounding is standing by his bed with a hammer. I would hit him on the head, killing him.
It's extreme brutality, but abused people become abusers, people who have been violated become violent . . .
And I must admit it was very enjoyable imagining this type of act, it was liberating, like a peasant imagining sticking a pitchfork into the landlord.
It is threatening if a man stares at a woman, uninvited attention is harassment. Men must understand . . . this is an offensive act.
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REFILE-UPDATE 3-Lafarge to sell N.American gypsum unit for $700 mln
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NEW YORK/LONDON June 24 (Reuters) - Lafarge, the world's largest cement maker, has agreed to sell its North American gypsum business to U.S. private equity firm Lone Star for $700 million as part of efforts to refocus and cut debt.
The transaction, which confirms an earlier Reuters story, is expected to close "very soon", Lafarge said on Monday.
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A gunman fired on a parade in honour of Martin Luther King in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, yesterday, killing one man and seriously injuring three children.
While details of the incident remained sketchy, police said last night that they were searching for at least one assailant believed to be an African American man.
The shooting cast a pall over the annual Martin Luther King holiday which was celebrated across the United States yesterday.
Schools, banks and many businesses closed and for the first time the New York stock markets also stayed shuttered for the day.
"There was fighting and someone pulled out a gun and started firing," Charles Armstrong, a police officer, said. The gunman then ran off.
A police spokesman, Don Kelly, said the gunshots sparked "mass pandemonium" in the crowd watching the parade, which began at a city high school and headed for the city centre.
Police have ruled out a racial motive for the shooting as all four victims were said to be black. A 25-year-old man was killed outright, police said. A six-year-old girl was in a critical condition with a gunshot wound in the back.
Listed in serious condition was an 11-year-old girl with gunshot wounds to the legs and hand. A nine-year-old boy suffered a leg wound.
King, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his civil-rights efforts, was shot on 4 April 1968 while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
At the weekend, the city of Memphis launched a three-month schedule of events to mark his life.
President Bill Clinton yesterday helped paint walls in a Washington DC High School to mark the holiday and dispatched many of his Cabinet members to church services and commemorative parades around the country. He also pledged additional government funding for civil-rights enforcement.
The announcements in Memphis on Sunday were marred by a demonstration by 50 members of the Ku Klux Klan who were protesting that Martin Luther King Day was made an official federal holiday by Congress in 1986.
After a slow start, the holiday has increasingly been respected across the country.
Commenting on yesterday's shooting, Eddie Crawford, from the Baton Rouge chapter of the NAACP, the national black- rights association, said: "There has never been an incident like this."
Noting that the parade passed by poor housing in the city, he said: "Any time you have a lot of young people, you're going to have a problem with guns."
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Discussion in 'Off-topic Zone' started by dez_for_prez, Jul 1, 2011.
Is there a way that when i open threads it would open to the last post i have read?
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An article of 5 January ("Police under fire for handling of Moat manhunt") reported that the late PC David Rathband waited nine months for counselling promised by Northumbria Police. We have been asked to make clear that the force maintains that responsibility for the delay largely lay with PC Rathband himself.
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