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Google have sketched a perfect plan to increase the reach of mobile video game play. The Google announced its latest update to the Google play games application by adding the new features for the users. Everyone know that Youtube started an interesting competition with the gaming platform Twitch by starting the new Youtube gaming application and platform exclusive for the gaming lovers online. This made a sensation at that times and many gamers make their choice towards Youtube gaming and left Twitch. Now, the Google, the parent company of Youtube has planned Gaming videos on Android mobiles run which the android users can add the video by recording through their android devices and can publish the video. The new app feature allows the android users to publish the gameplay videos and also allowed to share the video with their friends.
This feature was first accessible in UK and US residents and then it will extend to the countries. The users can be able to choose the game of their choice and can record the gameplay. They can also allow adding some video commentary on their gameplay by using the front cam of the android smart phone. This new feature is the nest step of mobile video development. Here in this new feature, the users will not go live with their gameplay and instead they record the gameplay and can do some edits. After the editing, the users are allowed to upload it onto the Youtube platform via Google Play Games.
The present service support the standard and high definition video resolution formats. In the Google gameplay application, the users can select any type of game and by just tapping the record button; the gameplay video can be recorded. This new step by Google can lead to increase in the consumption of mobile video gaming content on the Youtube platform. This can be an intelligent step to raise the Youtube Gaming consumption by the audience across the globe. The new feature can pit the Twitch with new tension and may raise the competition.


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ROSEMONT, Ill. -- Freshman goalkeeper Taylor Bucklin (Greenwich, Conn./Brookfield) of the University of Michigan women's soccer team was named Big Ten Defensive Player and Co-Freshman of the Week, the conference office announced on Monday (Oct. 14). It is her second career Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honor and first Freshman of the Week honor.
Bucklin played all 90 minutes and tied a career high in helping Michigan secure a 1-0 victory over No. 11 Penn State yesterday (Sunday, Oct. 13) in State College, Pa. It was the Wolverines' first win over Penn State in 11 years and their first-ever victory at Jeffrey Field. Bucklin and the Michigan defense limited Penn State, the conference's No. 1 scoring offense, to just seven shots on goal to earn the shutout.
She has started all 13 matches this year, making 36 saves against allowing only seven goals. Bucklin leads the Big Ten in goals-against average (0.53) and is second in shutouts (five) and third in save percentage (.837). As a team, the Wolverines are best in the conference in goals allowed (eight) and goals-against average (0.60) and last in saves (39).
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is pushing hard to bring Subscription Publishing to the iPad sooner rather than later. Whilst it is still possible that we may not see any regular subscriptions to newspapers until next year, some analysts are thinking that Apple would like to at least lay the groundwork for another stream of media revenue … Read More
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PARIS--Children born to women who took antidepressants during pregnancy are statistically likelier to develop the mental disorder called ADHD, researchers said on Tuesday.
ADHD is a condition blamed for severe and frequent bouts of inattention, hyperactivity or impulsivity, often leading to problems in socializing and education. Children and young adolescents are most frequently diagnosed with it.
But, the researchers stressed, the risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is low in real terms and it may yet be explained by a statistical quirk.
Reporting in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, a team led by Roy Perlis at the Massachusetts General Hospital looked at the medical background of 1,377 children in New England who had been diagnosed with autism and 2,243 who had been diagnosed with ADHD.
These two groups were matched against three times as many healthy counterparts, who had neither of these disorders.
Taking antidepressants during pregnancy was associated with the risk of autism in the offspring, the study found, although this link faded away once a maternal history of severe depression was taken into account.
A similar association emerged between ADHD and antidepressants in pregnancy. However, the risk remained even when the severity of maternal depression was considered.
"This risk, modest in absolute terms, may still be a result of residual confounding," the investigators said, referring to a lingering possibility of statistical error.
And, they warned, any risk "must be balanced against the substantial consequences of untreated maternal depression."
Previous research has found that depression is a major danger for both mother-to-be and her baby, and the risk of a depressive relapse is multiplied fivefold if medication for it is discontinued during pregnancy.
Independent experts were cautious about the study, pointing to a long-running debate about the mix of genetic and environmental causes for ADHD.
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Often I find myself writing a sum formula in MS Excel. It's not difficult, and with Excel's Formula AutoComplete it really is simple to do, but today I have a technique that can improve our efficiency when it comes to this particular formula.
I propose that we try Alt + =.
Yep – that's it…
You go to a cell that's either below or to the right of the data to add and use Alt + =.
Immediately you'll get a formula complete with the cell addresses for the data next / above that location.
Obviously you may still to choose to edit the cell range used but Excel will do its best to give you the most logical location.
Also, it's good to note that this one can still be a time saver even if you don't want the sum of the cells immediately above or to the right of the formula.
Using Alt + = above or to the left of the data provides you with this:
As you can see… without any hassle you've got what you need set up for the sum formula now all you need to do is select the range of cells to be used.
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(Science Daily) Money doesn't buy happiness. Neither does materialism: Research shows that people who place a high value on wealth, status, and stuff are more depressed and anxious and less sociable than those who do not. Now new research shows that materialism is not just a personal problem. It's also environmental. "We found that irrespective of personality, in situations that activate a consumer mindset, people show the same sorts of problematic patterns in wellbeing, including negative affect and social disengagement," says Northwestern University psychologist Galen V. Bodenhausen…
The findings have both social and personal implications, says Bodenhausen. "It's become commonplace to use consumer as a generic term for people," in the news or discussions of taxes, politics, or health care. If we use term such as Americans or citizens instead, he says, "that subtle difference activates different psychological concerns." We can also take personal initiative to reduce the depressive, isolating effects of a materialist mindset by avoiding its stimulants -- most obviously, advertising.
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A while ago, in fact too long ago (but not in a galaxy far, far away), I wrote a blog called Giving Back To The IT Service Management Community where I surmised that IT service management (ITSM) practitioners need help beyond the ITIL books and associated training. They need real-world help; whether this is by way of guidance, quick-start templates to prevent the "reinvention of the wheel," benchmarks, or by other means. And that, while some members of the ITSM community already offer help, what practitioners really need is to be offered targeted and focused help. A response that is practitioner "pull" rather than helper "push."
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Washington Post to Be Sold to Amazon's Jeff Bezos
The late Monday afternoon bombshell hit Washingtonians like a vengeful Washington Star.
The Washington Post, an icon of print journalism and of the nation's capital, is to be sold to one of the internet's first and biggest digital innovators.
The following is the surprise news from the Washington Post's website:
"The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family's stewardship of one of America's leading news organizations after four generations.
"Bezos, whose entrepreneurship has made him one of the world's richest men, will pay $250 million in cash for The Post and affiliated publications to the Washington Post Co., which owns the newspaper and other businesses.
"Seattle-based Amazon will have no role in the purchase; Bezos himself will buy the news organization and become its sole owner when the sale is completed, probably within 60 days. The Post Co. will change to a new, still-undecided name and continue as a publicly traded company without The Post thereafter."
In an interview with his own newspaper, the Washington Post Co.'s chief executive Donald Graham told the paper Aug. 5: "Every member of my family started out with the same emotion—shock—in even thinking about [selling The Post]. But when the idea of a transaction with Jeff Bezos came up, it altered my feelings."
"The Post could have survived under the company's ownership and been profitable for the foreseeable future," Graham told the Post. "But we wanted to do more than survive. I'm not saying this guarantees success but it gives us a much greater chance of success."
The soon-to-be owner Bezos sent a letter to Post employees. It follows in its entirety, as reported at WashingtonPost.com on Aug. 5.
To the employees of The Washington Post: You'll have heard the news, and many of you will greet it with a degree of apprehension. When a single family owns a company for many decades, and when that family acts for all those decades in good faith, in a principled manner, in good times and in rough times, as stewards of important values – when that family has done such a good job – it is only natural to worry about change.
So, let me start with something critical. The values of The Post do not need changing. The paper's duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners. We will continue to follow the truth wherever it leads, and we'll work hard not to make mistakes. When we do, we will own up to them quickly and completely. I won't be leading The Washington Post day-to-day. I am happily living in "the other Washington" where I have a day job that I love. Besides that, The Post already has an excellent leadership team that knows much more about the news business than I do, and I'm extremely grateful to them for agreeing to stay on.
There will of course be change at The Post over the coming years. That's essential and would have happened with or without new ownership. The Internet is transforming almost every element of the news business: shortening news cycles, eroding long-reliable revenue sources, and enabling new kinds of competition, some of which bear little or no news-gathering costs. There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment. Our touchstone will be readers, understanding what they care about – government, local leaders, restaurant openings, scout troops, businesses, charities, governors, sports – and working backwards from there. I'm excited and optimistic about the opportunity for invention.
Journalism plays a critical role in a free society, and The Washington Post -- as the hometown paper of the capital city of the United States -- is especially important. I would highlight two kinds of courage the Grahams have shown as owners that I hope to channel. The first is the courage to say wait, be sure, slow down, get another source. Real people and their reputations, livelihoods and families are at stake. The second is the courage to say follow the story, no matter the cost. While I hope no one ever threatens to put one of my body parts through a wringer, if they do, thanks to Mrs. Graham's example, I'll be ready.
I want to say one last thing that's really not about the paper or this change in ownership. I have had the great pleasure of getting to know Don very well over the last ten plus years. I do not know a finer man. Sincerely, Jeff Bezos
Likewise, a letter to readers of the Washington Post was sent by Post publisher and CEO Katharine Weymouth, who announced the sale:
This is a day that my family and I never expected to come. The Washington Post Company is selling the newspaper it has owned and nurtured for eight decades. In addition to The Washington Post, the company is selling Greater Washington Publishing, the Gazette newspapers, Express, El Tiempo Latino and Robinson Terminal. . . . The board of our parent corporation, including my uncle and company chairman Don Graham, made this decision with a heavy heart but with an absolute conviction that Mr. Bezos' ownership represents a unique and extraordinary opportunity for The Washington Post and for you, our readers.
In Mr. Bezos we have found an owner who will continue the tradition that the Graham family started with the purchase of The Washington Post by Eugene Meyer in 1933. Since then, and most especially over the past four decades, The Washington Post has earned a worldwide reputation for tough, penetrating, insightful, and indispensable journalism. With the investment by Mr. Bezos, that tradition will continue.
Mr. Bezos is widely known, of course, as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. He is a proven entrepreneur who, like the Graham family and this company, takes the long-term view in his investments. While he expects The Post to remain profitable, his focus is on the essential role that our journalism has on dialogue and the flow of information in our society.
Mr. Bezos knows as well as anyone the opportunities that come with revolutionary technology when we understand how to make the most of it. Under his ownership and with his management savvy, we will be able to accelerate the pace and quality of innovation.
Mr. Bezos has asked that I remain as Publisher and CEO of The Post. I am honored to continue in that role. Our mission does not change. Nor do the values that have been at the core of The Post's enduring strength over many decades. Mr. Bezos shares the principles that have guided the Graham family's proud stewardship of this great news organization. . . .


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more engine problems. figured the glowin hot headers out.. (to retarded timing /@ idle!) sweet. drivin the thing the other day (383 stroker) and started running kind crappy @ idle, some black smoke and now seems like th floats are too high. my fuel pressure guage on my holley reads 8 psi now, and i just put in a new aeromotive fuel regulator. you adjust it, and the pressure stays the same... like the regulator blew. its only a week old. something that can cause this? i got a new guage comin to verify that its not just a guage (cheap summit one) i think stroker motors are a pain@! :)
8 psi is too much for a carb. Dial it back to 6 to prevent over-powering the needle and seat.
You think stroker motors are a pain? When you get to my age, you'll realize that life itself is a pain. Everything is stacked against you and the best you can do is to persevere and fix things as they come along in order to make life tolerable. If something does fall into place, it is only by the grace of God and the fact that your stars are lined up at that particular moment.
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Gov. Neil Abercrombie delivers State of the State
HONOLULU — Gov. Neil Abercrombie used his State of the State address Tuesday to push for priorities that included tax relief for elderly residents, a minimum wage increase and state-funded preschool.
The Democratic governor, during his fourth annual speech before lawmakers, also took time to tout the state's recent accomplishments, notably concerning the state budget.
For tax relief aimed at the elderly, he proposed exempting presently taxed income from any source for residents who are 65 years old and older.
Exemptions would be for those with an adjusted gross income of $25,000; heads of households earning up to $35,000; and couples who file jointly earning up to $45,000.
Abercrombie said this plan would give seniors assurances that their retirement income won't be taxed and that it would help as many as 25,000 older people in the state.
"I will be asking the Legislature to look at the way we tax seniors in order to provide more equity and fairness to those on fixed and middle incomes to see that more of their money remains in their pocketbooks," he said. "We need to bring parity to the way we look at and tax retirement income."
House Minority Leader Rep. Aaron Johanson said afterward that tax equity for the elderly was the "meatiest" part of a speech that played it safe.
"There weren't a whole lot of new ideas or policies" put forth in Abercrombie's speech, Johanson said.
Another idea Abercrombie described was a bill he plans to propose to raise the state's minimum wage by $1.50 to at least $8.75 starting in January 2015. It's currently $7.25.
Average weekly earnings have increased 16 percent since 2007, while the minimum wage has remained unchanged, he said. Hawaii's unemployment rate has improved to the fifth lowest in the nation, but minimum wage earners in the state are confronted by the high cost of living on the islands and need more help, Abercrombie said.
"It is a myth that increases to the minimum wage just benefits entry level workers, mostly teenagers," he said. "In Hawaii, 85 percent of minimum wage earners are 21 years old or older."
As expected, Abercrombie continued to stress early childhood education. He said in a state where the average preschool tuition is more than $8,000, there needs to be increased access for the 4-year-olds who will be affected by a change in the kindergarten entry age. He said requests total about $8 million to increase support for families through the Preschool Open Doors program.
"Our plan is targeted, aimed at helping those who otherwise have little or no options," he said. "These initial investments will serve an additional 1,040 children and their families."
An "alarming number" of Hawaii's children enter school without basic skills — "wanting to read, vocabulary acquisition and learning how to behave within a group," he said. In a rare deviation from his scripted remarks, he with a chuckle: "A lesson we could all take to heart ourselves."
It's an election year for Abercrombie, who was sworn into office in December 2010 after 20 years in Congress. As an accomplishment, he highlighted an $844 million general fund surplus and said it represents a turnaround of more than $1 billion since 2010.
Fellow Democrats state Sen. David Ige, the chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, and state Rep. Sylvia Luke, chairwoman of the House Finance Committee, cautioned after the speech that "surplus" is a loose term when there's debt and when it was achieved in part by scaling back Abercrombie's funding requests.
"If we had done everything that the governor requested, we wouldn't be sitting on this carry over balance we see today," Luke said.
Ige is challenging the governor in the upcoming primary election.
Abercrombie also highlighted his establishment of the Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness in 2011 and his appointment by President Barack Obama to serve on a national climate change task force.
Looking ahead, Abercrombie said other priorities include preserving open spaces at Turtle Bay, supporting the Thirty-Meter Telescope, endorsing initiatives to fund invasive species programs and providing housing for the "chronically homeless and those who suffer from a disability."
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Re: Matrix Multiplication (with a twist)
Bruce Colletti wrote:
> For matrix A = {{e,f},{g,h}} and B = {{a,b},{c,d}}, Mathematica returns their product
> A.B = {{ae+cf,be+df},{ag+ch,bg+dh}}
> However, I want to treat multiplication of numeric variables as noncommutative in order to instead obtain the result
> {{ea+fc, eb+fd},{ga+hc,gb+hd}}
> How would this be done in v5.2? Thanks.
> Bruce
One possibility is to use Inner where NonCommutativeMultiply does the
In[13]:= Inner[NonCommutativeMultiply, A, B, Plus]
Out[13]= {{e ** a + f ** c, e ** b + f ** d}, {g ** a + h ** c,
g ** b + h ** d}}
I actually prefer using one of the other typesetting symbols with no
function definition instead, such as CenterDot:
In[14]:= Inner[CenterDot, A, B, Plus]
Out[14]= {{e·a + f·c, e·b + f·d}, {g·a + h·c, g·b + h·d}}
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There is confusion about the distinction of errors and exceptions for a long time, repeated threads in Haskell-Cafe and more and more packages that handle errors and exceptions or something between. Although both terms are related and sometimes hard to distinguish, it is important to do it carefully. This is like the confusion between parallelism and concurrency.
The first problem is that exception seem to me to be the historically younger term. Before there were only errors, independent from whether they are programming or I/O or user errors. In this article we want to use the term exception for expected but irregular situations at runtime and the term error for mistakes in the running program, that can be resolved only by fixing the program.
The history may have led to the identifiers we find today in the Haskell language and standard Haskell modules.
- Exceptions: ,Prelude.catch,Control.Exception.catch,Control.Exception.try,IOErrorControl.Monad.Error
- Errors: ,error,Control.Exception.catchDebug.Trace.trace
Prelude> catch (error "bla") (\msg -> putStrLn $ "catched " ++ show msg) *** Exception: bla Prelude> Control.Exception.catch (error "bla") (\msg -> putStrLn $ "catched " ++ show (msg::Control.Exception.SomeException)) catched bla
that shall help spotting a programming error.A program should work as well when all
are replaced by infinite loops.However infinite loops in general cannot be catched, whereas calls to sugared functions like
Even more confusion was initiated by Java programming language
to use the term "exceptions" for programming errors like the
and introducing the distinction between
checked and unchecked exceptions.
error handling = debugging
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Let me give some examples for explaining the difference between errors and exceptions and why the distinction is important.
First consider a compiler like GHC. If you feed it with a program that contains syntax or type errors it emits a descriptive message of the problem. For GHC these are exceptions. GHC must expect all of these problems and handles them by generating a useful message for the user. However, sometimes you "succeed" to let GHC emit something like "Panic! This should not happen: ... Write a bug report to firstname.lastname@example.com" Then you encountered a bug in GHC. For GHC this is an error. It cannot be handled by GHC itself. The report "didn't expect TyVar in TyCon after unfolding" or so isn't of much help for the user. It's the business of the GHC developers to fix the problem.
Ok, these are possible reactions to user input. Now a more difficult question: How should GHC handle corruptions in the files it has generated itself like the interface (.hi) and object files (.o)? These corruptions can be introduced easily by the user by editing the files in a simple text editor, or by network problems or by exchanging files between operating systems or different GHC versions, or by virus programs. Thus GHC must be prepared for them, which means, it must generate and handle exceptions here, it must tell the user at least that there is some problem with the read file. Next question: Must GHC also be prepared for corrupt memory or damages in the CPU? Good question. I don't think it must be prepared for that.
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Whilst travelling in foreign countries, any number of calamities might befall the unwary wanderer - third-degree sunburn, a virulent case of "Delhi belly", pickpockets - but surely the most calamitous of all must be to lose your passport. Yes folks, when I cock up, I cock up muy, muy grande.
My tale of woe (for that is what this is - not so much a comedy of errors as a tragicomedy of errors) begins at 4am, London time on Saturday. This is what time Betsy and I have to get up in order to make an early train, to make a 7.35am flight from London Gatwick to Madrid, where we will spend several happy sangria-soaked days buying shoes (los zapatos!) and celebrating the 40th birthday of our good friend Fringa and her sister Fringa-twin (plus spouse and various children and a third friend Navigator-Jane - so called for her unerring sense of direction of which I am very much in awe). Despite being tired and not having paid very much attention to my grooming (minimal makeup, hair scraped back into a ponytail), we successfully make the train, catch up with the rest of our party, check in and get on the plane.
EasyJet, with whom we are flying, have their cheapest tickets for folk who are travelling with only carry-on. Because of this they operate a fairly strict "one piece of carry-on only" rule which doesn't even allow for small purses or laptop bags. For this reason, I have to carry my passport, graphic novel, magazine and hoodie in my hands on and off the plane. Well, at least I managed the first part.
Now, you might think if a person dropped their passport on the plane they're disembarking and discover this fact not five minutes later as they approach passport control, that it would be a fairly simple matter to have somebody on aforementioned plane look for it, find it, and get it back to her so that she doesn't have to endure a Kafka-esque nightmare of bureaucracy, dirty hair and bad food, wouldn't you? I know I did. I now know better now. But back to the nightmare.
So, basically I don't have a passport. I can't enter the country without one and EasyJet claim that they can't find it on the plane. The hallways and air-bridge between the plane and the foyer leading to passport control are checked but no dice. Apparently mine is the Harry Houdini of passports and possesses the ability to disappear into thin air, but that's okay because surely someone at my embassy will be able to do something for me? Surely some emergency documentation can be produced so that I can enter Spain? Again, not so much. After many a frantic phone call (and by the way, if you're ever in a similar situation I guarantee you will be dismayed at how many "after hours emergency" numbers go straight to voicemail) it is determined that an emergency passport takes three working days to make. It's a Saturday. I'm pretty much screwed.
An official comes and tells me that I have to go with her. At this point I haven't actually been able to speak to a New Zealand diplomatic official who can tell me what will happen to me. I am reluctant to leave my friends and go alone with Spanish immigration in case I disappear into a bureaucratic black hole and am never heard from again. Also, the one immigration official who speaks English only does so to a fairly basic level and my Spanish is practically non-existent. What will become of me? Fortunately the official in question is okay with me staying where I am for the time being and continuing to play my merry game of phone tag with various consulate and embassy people.
Though I've described this part of the process in a couple of paragraphs, in reality this all took several hours. We arrived in Madrid about 11am but I don't finally submit myself to the care of Spanish Immigration until 2 or 3 in the afternoon, by which time I've had several small and restrained bouts of crying, sent Fringa's teenage daughter Cookie off to the other side of the room because her "this is just like the time I lost $20 at school..." story failed to resonate with me, chewed on my thumbnail quite a lot, and paced the polished marble of the foyer floor quite a bit, and accidentally gone into the men's loos when I meant to go to the ladies'.
Eventually, I come to accept that my current situation is not "fixable". They are going to send me back to London. There will be no sangria. There will be no acquisition of Spanish shoes. As disappointing as that is, I find that I'm okay with it. What I am worried about is what happens when I turn up back at London Gatwick with no passport. The possibility that I'll be sent back to New Zealand from there and be subjected to 24 hours' worth of flying on top of what I've already been through today is a kind of torture I can't begin to contemplate.
Anyway, after being furnished with Navigator-Jane's cellphone sim card (mine doesn't seem to work in Spain) plus a whole page of phone numbers to various agencies and friends, plus some Euros, we make our farewells and I go off with the "policia".
I'm taken upstairs to an office area where I give the policeman (who has a little English) my details. He informs me that I will be sent back to Londres (London) at 7.15 that evening. It's a while to wait but I should be back in London before 10pm so it's not so bad, I suppose. I'm also told that in a couple of hours I'll have an "interview" with a Spanish lawyer, and an English interpreter will be provided for me. I feel quite relieved about that. I've never had a lawyer before but I definitely want one now. And one I can communicate with would be pretty swell.
From there I am taken up a few more floors and two security staff open my bag and go through it item by item. They remove anything electrical (my cellphone, camera, laptop), anything mildly pointy (this includeds pens and badges) and anything liquid (shampoo, facewash, my contact lens kit). My makeup bag is removed wholesale containing such potentially dangerous items as my hairbrush and eyeshadow. All this is put in a plastic bin bag and labelled with my name and left in a secure room. I'm also given a pat-down by the female guard. She gives rather more attention to my boobs than I'm comfortable with but then I'm not really keen on having them touched at all by anyone who isn't a very attractive man who's just bought me dinner so I just pout and bear it. Let's put it this way, things could be a lot worse. I had a frightened moment when I saw them don plastic gloves only to be relieved to see that they were for use when going through my things, not that they're going to be used on me.
Has anyone else seen that Midnight Express movie? I'm having notions at this point. Rather bad ones.
From there I'm taken to a long room set up with some cafe tables and those white plastic chairs that you can get at The Warehouse and I'm given a tray of food. It's fried chicken and chips, plus beans with bacon bits, and some salad. It's okay but the bread roll that comes with it has seen better days, like maybe two days ago, and I think it should potentially join my hairbrush in the "bin-bag of things removed for security reasons". There's also a peach, which I save for later. My tummy by this stage is all bound up in knots but I eat pretty much all of it because I'm not sure when I might get to eat again. I am no longer in control of such things.
There are about eight to 10 other people eating. They're all swarthy and Hispanic looking. I am instantly recalling every movie I have ever seen where some hapless middle-class schmo ends up in the slammer with a bunch of toughs and gets done over. About 2 seconds later I remember that I'm in Spain (though not technically) so actually the church fundraising bake-sale looks "swarthy and Hispanic". I tell myself off for being racist but don't spend too much time punishing myself because, quite frankly, I'm a bit freaked out just now.
Everybody else here speaks Spanish of various kinds. They are from Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador. Nobody speaks English so I can't really talk to anyone. A guy who introduces himself as "Hoonier" (which I twig about five hours later is probably "Junior") asks, by indicating that he is from Brazil, where I am from. I respond with "Nueva Zelanda" but this is met with a lot of blank stares. I panic and randomly mention hobbits, which unsurprisingly doesn't help much, before mentioning Australia. Everybody knows where Australia is. So now I am Australian. Usually being mistaken for an Australian would bug me a lot but in the scheme of how my day is going it really doesn't rate too highly. I have bigger things to worry about.
A twentysomething woman with a nose-ring comes in and calls my name and thankfully she speaks enough English for us to have a conversation. She's a social worker and offers to call the New Zealand embassy for me (though I already have) and gets me a phonecard so I can use the payphones to make some calls. She seems nice and her name is something that sounds like "Nuelia". Afterwards I kill time reading my graphic novel (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) and trying not to think too much about the sticky wicket I've found myself in. At 5pm my name is called again and I go and have my meeting with my lawyer... which doesn't go well.
The lawyer I've been assigned is named Silvia Diaz and she is stunning. Seriously, she's gorgeous. She's got this amazing coffee-coloured skin and green eyes and boobs so amazing I find myself wondering if they might be paid for. Even as I'm wondering this I realise it's totally inappropriate given my situation but in my defence I don't have to worry about listening to what she's saying since it's in Spanish. I need to listen to what the interpreter, who looks like a sandy-haired Janet Frame, says. Despite the interpreter translating everything, I'm not entirely sure what's going on and I sign about five different papers (picking up a new Spanish vocabulary item in the process - "aqui", which means "here" as in sign "aqui, aqui, aqui") before I'm told that because of the bureaucratic processes that need to be followed, I won't be sent back to London until tomorrow at 10. Which means that I need to stay overnight in the immigration holding facility. At which point I allow myself the luxury of some more crying, but just a small amount. I really, really, really don't want to stay in this strange place alone but among people who don't understand me. But apparently there is no way I will be sent back the same day so I'm just going to have to suck it up.
I accept. I acquiesce. I cooperate. Ten years of working in local and central government have taught me that the bureaucratic wheels will turn at the speed at which they will. They will not be sped by me having a tanty. This would be a complete waste of my somewhat depleted energy.
I'm fairly miserable for a bit after that. My guts are giving me some grief and when I look in the mirror on one of my now frequent toilet visits the view is not a pretty one. My minimal makeup has been fully cried off, I have massive black circles under my eyes and my eyes themselves are more bloodshot than I have ever seen them.
Back in "the waiting room from Hell" there's a TV in one corner and I watch for a bit even though everything is in Spanish. I like the ads since I get to hear the dubbed voices they have for TV shows and actors I recognise. The Spanish voice for Julianna Margulies of The Good Wife is very close to what she sounds like. Even though I'm really tired and a bit unhappy, I still manage to be amused by the montage of "Denny Cren!" exclamations during the promo for Boston Legale and in a bizarre turn of events I love the trailer for Cartas a Julieta (Letters to Juliet) because it's accompanied by a pop song that's in English and the sound of words I actually understand is lovely. That song is Love Story by Taylor Swift. Yes, incarceration has made me want to listen to Taylor Swift. Well, if it can make Paris Hilton read the Bible, truly anything is possible... and I am living proof.
I wait until it's late enough that my mum will be awake before I call her to let her know what's going on. It's amazing to talk to another English speaker. Junior, who is at the next payphone, looks at me in a surprised kind of way because up until that point he might reasonably have assumed that I was a near mute. I've spoken very little and been very quiet and withdrawn but suddenly I'm speaking in a very animated way. I also get a hold of my London friend, Sean, who speaks some Spanish, and he offers to vouch for me if I have any problem getting back into England, bless him. Later on I also get a call from an official in Wellington who sounds appalled that I've been there for 13 hours because I dropped my passport on the plane. She actually sounds genuinely concerned...which is nice. I retire to bed but Junior comes to let me know that there's someone speaking English on the "telefono" which presumably means it's for me. I take a call from a New Zealand consulate officer in London who confirms that my passport has been found on the plane and is now with immigration staff at London Gatwick. I will definitely be able to get back into the UK. This is great news, though slightly tempered by the fury that I feel knowing that my passport was on the plane the whole time and that this whole "being banged up at the airport" thing could so easily have been avoided.
But at least once I get up in the morning it won't be long until I'm on a plane and I'll be back in London. It's not home but at least there are people there who know me and don't need me to have a passport to verify my identity. It's the homeward stretch.
Or, at least, that's what I thought. Unfortunately, that wasn't quite the case...
I'll continue with Day two of my experience as an immigration detainee tomorrow. For now, I'm off to bed. Feel free to share any similar experiences you may have had below.
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Oh, my stars. What a horrible experience (says the person who's never had anything worse happen than a random drug swab...almost every time she goes through security; I must look dodgy) - but what an amazing story to have to tell. I wait with baited breath for the next installment.
Oh man, that sucks so much. I'm so sorry you missed out on sangria and shoes... It sounds like you coped a lot better than I would have in that situation! That was my biggest fear when I was travelling, that I'd get stuck somewhere. I don't deal well with situations like that! Looking forward to reading episode two!
God your experience sounds terrible, I really hope your holiday gets better (I used to carry my passport around in a little satchel under my clothes because I was so paranoid about it).
Not nearly as bad but...
I got food poisoning while I was walking in Spain alone, not only did I stagger the last 6k into a town to get to a hotel but I threw up in a lift and couldn't tell anyone because no-one spoke english and my limited Spanish wasn't up to it, I spent a night curled up watching Spanish informercials just for the sound of voices and dreading having to try to get medical treatment(it all worked out ok and I was better the next day thank goodness).
It was the loneliest I've ever felt.
P.S. no-one in Spain ever understood me when I said Nueva Zelanda either until I started lisping the Z (Nueva Thelanda), I even had people thinking I was saying Irelanda.
This is why I still use one of those naff hang around the neck passport holder things. I may look stupid, but the time I did not travel with it, we suddendly could not find them at Changi airport. We did eventually find them - someone handed them in.........
Ohhh Mo you poor thing :( I can only imagine how frustrating and and, well, SH***Y that would be. I don't suppose Chewie turned up with your passport?
Good news that your passport has been found.
You probably don't want to hear this but next time fly with a real airline. We've all seen how poorly Easyjet treat their customers on that terrible TV program.
Moata, your blog entries may be few and far between at the moment, but they're definitely worth waiting for. Till tomorrow, my heartiest commiserations...
Oh Moata! At least they didn't confiscate your sense of humour and put it in a plastic bag too! I have to say i am (touch wood) a trouble-free traveller, but one who wears cargo pants for such occassions when you run out of hands. So perhaps it would be better if i was incarcerated?
@ dragonzflame - Err...that would be 'bated'. 'Baited' makes it sound like you've either have disgusting fish breath or have made it smell amazing so as to hook someone/thing... :/
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French actor Martinez and Oscar winner Berry tied the knot earlier this month in a private wedding ceremony in France. Berry announced her pregnancy in April. The couple says they're having a boy.
Not letting her baby bump keep her inside, Halle Berry enjoyed a date night at Acabar Restaurant in West Hollywood, CA with her hubby Olivier Martinez on Tuesday (July 30).
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CHICAGO -- Nate Parenteau and three friends left Minneapolis around noon on Saturday, making the six-and-a-half-hour drive here for a weekend the longtime buddies had been planning since the July announcement that hockey -- and, specifically, their Golden Gophers -- would be coming to Soldier Field.
They hit the town in Wrigleyville on Saturday night, grabbed brunch Sunday morning and later that afternoon found themselves among the 52,051 heavily-wrapped fans for the Hockey City Classic, in which No. 2 Minnesota fell to No. 18 Wisconsin, 3-2, after No. 12 Notre Dame topped No. 3 Miami (Ohio) 2-1.
"I thought it was especially exciting to look forward to this because the NHL was put off for a while," said one of Parenteau's friends, 24-year-old Sam Guidarelli. "We didn't even think there might be an NHL season, so we thought this was going to be the pinnacle hockey event.
"We were really looking forward to it. This is basically like our spring break trip right now."
From ski pants to winter hats, and especially their school's sweaters, the quartet was outfitted for an environment that could have been mistaken for a ninth Chicago Bears home game had there not been an extra intermission between each contest.
Parking lots outside the stadium were packed with tailgaters. The concession lines were full. Players had NFL warming benches to sit on to keep from freezing in the 30-degree weather. Many wore eyeblack. An ambitious Miami fan even tried to storm the field, to get to the rink, before security guards got the better of him.
"I apologize for the hat," Wisconsin coach Mike Eaves said at his postgame news conference, donning an ivy cap. "I'm still trying to warm up my body heat inside."
But this was Hockey Day in America, a day-long celebration of the sport throughout the United States. And the celebration was not lost on those in the crowd -- even those from enemy territory.
Parenteau and two of his friends were actually roommates at Minnesota-Duluth, but they were all here Sunday to cheer his cousin Jake, a Gophers defenseman. Nate Parenteau wore Jake's No. 6 jersey, drawing attention from other fans on the concourse. He estimated that 30 family members had made the trip from back home for this event.
Kevin Bazooband was the only of the four friends to have attended Minnesota, and he had one of his friends still enrolled at the school buy the $50 student tickets back in the fall.
"I don't even like hockey," Bazooband, 23, cracked. "This is a fun time. I knew this was going to be fun."
The group, which had attended White Bear Lake High together back in Minnesota, had seats in the 200 level but found themselves sitting up in section 434 late as the Gophers trailed 3-0 and the crowd began to thin.
At 61,500 seats, Soldier Field is the smallest NFL stadium. Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick was struck by the intimacy of the venue, saying he did not feel like he was watching the contest "from the moon."
"You don't get a game-day atmosphere like this in hockey," he said. "I think that's one of the great things; the fans for the four schools out here tailgating and having fun with each other, that's an additional element to the atmosphere around college hockey, which I think was really neat about something like this."
Because of sunlight from the west side of the stadium, officials offered all teams a chance to switch sides at the 10-minute mark of the third period, a perk Notre Dame elected to pass up after goaltender Steven Summerhays told coach Jeff Jackson that it would not be an issue.
"I don't think we ever fully adjusted," Fighting Irish junior forward Jeff Costello said of the conditions. "The sun kept moving. But it was tough, especially when you're skating fast and the wind gets in your eyes and your eyes start watering, makes it even harder to see. But once you got going and kind of got used to the shadows and the sun beating down on your face, it was just like playing when you're growing up and making the simple plays to get the job done."
Costello scored what proved to be the game-winner in the first contest, off an Anders Lee miss with 10 minutes left in the third period to make it 2-0.
Freshman forward Mario Lucia had scored the day's first goal less than 13 minutes into the second period. His father, former Notre Dame defenseman and current Minnesota coach Don, would leave the ice in less spectacular fashion hours later but would not let his team's loss sour an otherwise special day.
"It wasn't that cold, the guys had a great time," Don Lucia said. "Last night I had to get them off the ice; they would've probably stayed and practiced a couple hours if they could've. The experience was terrific. Playing in Madison on Friday we talked about, 'Let's keep our focus for the game up front.' The guys did a great job and came out and ultimately didn't win, so that's the disappointing part. But all in all, just a quality experience for the players involved, and I think the fans had a good time. I know the Gopher fans, we had a great group that came down tonight and I think they enjoyed themselves, too.
"That's what to me this game was a little bit about -- an event, to experience something like that. So it was two thumbs up for everything. The organizing committee did a fantastic job and it really felt like an NCAA environment the way it was handled, it was treated since we got here."
There could be a "time and place" for a similar event to take place at Notre Dame Stadium, Swarbrick said in between games, but nothing is imminent.
Asked to give an opening statement moments earlier following the Irish win, Jackson was straight to the point.
"I'll be brief. I know [Wisconsin is] right next to us, so in memory of Bob Johnson, it was a great day for hockey," he said, referencing the legendary former Badgers coach. "So, that's my opening statement."


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AUSTRALIA'S post-Stoner MotoGP hope isn't in plain sight yet, but Adelaide teenager Arthur Sissis started auditioning for the role at Phillip Island yesterday.
In a fitting warm-up act for the Casey Stoner Show, Sissus starred in the Moto3 support race, finishing a fighting third to score his first podium placing in his rookie season on the world championship circuit.
Double world champion Stoner will retire from motorcycle racing after the last race of the MotoGP season in Valencia, Spain, on November 11, so the search for the next Australian two-wheeled star has begun.
At the moment, there aren't many coming up through the ranks - and none who is an obvious successor to Stoner, who followed five-time world champion Mick Doohan and 1987 champion Wayne Gardner.
Sissis, 17, is the most obvious candidate. Sponsor Red Bull is grooming him for success and he is in the first stage of a career path that will take him to MotoGP if he continues to progress.
His third place yesterday, holding off Spain's Alex Rins in a slipstreaming duel to the finish line, was a timely result that primed the Casey-crazy crowd for the afternoon's main event, the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix.
Although he has a two-year contract with the Red Bull KTM team, Sissis's future had been questioned because of his poor qualifying and, until yesterday, lack of a podium finish.
Although he benefited from three front-runners incurring pit lane ride-through penalties for jumping the start, he fought through from seventh on the grid to third in the closing stages, aggressively defending his position over the last of 23 laps.
Sissis, making his Phillip Island debut after cutting his racing teeth in Europe, was overjoyed - and relieved - to score his first podium in Moto3, the new 250cc single-cylinder four-stroke entry level class in motorcycle grand prix competition.
''It feels really good,'' he said. ''I wasn't expecting to do it here. In the last lap, I just tried to block all the doors and I did it.''
At the prospect of being viewed as the next Casey Stoner, Sissis visibly blanched as he addressed the sudden burden of expectation. ''It's going to be hard,'' he said. ''If I keep going, keep progressing, hopefully, I can be like Stoner [a world champion]. If not, I want to get at least get into MotoGP.''
To do that, Sissis will have to spend at least another year in Moto3 and then, if he's good enough to move up the next rung, probably another two seasons in Moto2 before even thinking of graduating to MotoGP.
At least he has secured another year in Moto3, having so far followed the same overseas racing path as Stoner. ''I'm in the same team next year,'' he said. ''I don't think I did the best job I could this year, but I still did enough to keep the ride.''
The other Australian prospect is Jack Miller, a wild-haired 17-year-old from Townsville who is also in his rookie Moto3 season.


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The Topline: Pentagon officials said Thursday they are standing behind President Obama's 2015 defense budget blueprint, despite the House Armed Services Committee batting down many of those proposals.
"We stand firmly behind the president's budget as submitted," said Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren. He added that it was long-standing policy not to comment on legislation that's being drafted.
The Armed Services committee unanimously passed its 2015 defense authorization bill just after midnight, early on Thursday, which if passed into law, would prevent many cuts the Pentagon says are needed.
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Shinseki to testify: It's been a rough week for Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki. After allegations that veterans at a second VA clinic were being placed on secret waiting lists to obscure long wait times, several lawmakers and veterans groups this week called for his resignation.
On Thursday, the House Veterans Affairs Committee announced it was subpoenaing Shinseki to testify before the committee on the allegations, and separately the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee announced a hearing next Thursday where he would testify.
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The Air Force wants to retire the 283-plane fleet to save $3.5 billion over the next five years.
The Republican senators vowed to defend the Warthog fleet when the Senate Armed Services Committee takes up its version of the defense authorization bill later this month.
Afghan visa revamp: A coalition of lawmakers debuted a proposal to allow more Afghan civilians who have served as interpreters and guides to get visas to the United States.
The legislation, endorsed by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen Jeanne ShaheenDems push for more action on power grid cybersecurity Senate overwhelmingly passes Russia sanctions deal Russia sanctions deal clears key Senate hurdle MORE (D-.N.H.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Reps. Earl BlumenauerEarl BlumenauerOvernight Energy: Zinke, Perry take heat over Trump budget House passes nuclear energy tax bill Overnight Finance: Ryan wants tax reform to be permanent | White House expects tax bill ready by September | Defense spending battle delays budget MORE (D-Ore.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) would prolong the 2009 Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) effort for another fiscal year.
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It would also approve an additional 3,000 visas and allow any unused slots from fiscal 2014 to be carried over.
"We have a responsibility to fulfill the obligation to the thousands of civilians who risked their lives to help our country during a time of war," Shaheen said at a joint press conference on the measure.
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