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Mysteries Set in the 18th Century
Historical Mysteries
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There are a few mysteries set in the 18thC that I know of...
Bruce Alexander's Sir John Fielding mysteries.
Deryn Lake's John Rawlings Mysteries (which feature Fielding).
Diana Gabaldon's Lord John series.
David Liss's Conspiracy of Paper
Beverle Graves Myers's Tito Amato series (Baroque--Italy)
Hannah March's Georgians.
I happen to love this period... Do any of you know of more books?
What authors do you can recommend? Which books?
Have you read any of those that I've mentioned? Did you like them?
Oh, and some have been mentioning books set in the Regency and in the 17thC below...
Those are OK for this discussion, too! (I love Kate Ross's books, also C. S. Harris's, and Georgette Heyer--although I much prefer her romances!). There IS another discussion for REGENCY MYSTERIES, however...
Kate Ross wrote four mysteries that were quite good including Cut to the Quick set in the 18th century.
Robert Lee Hall has a series featuring Ben Franklin in London just before the Revolution
John Dickson Carr wrote a number of historical mysteries that are worth reading, some of them set in the 18th century. The Demoniacs comes to mind; so does The Devil in Velvet, though I think that one is set in the previous century (lots of swordplay in the latter book, as I recall).
I love 18th c. historical mysteries--there's a very decent series out by C.S. Harris featuring a cranky aristocrat named Sebastian St. Cyr. Three so far, the first one being "What Angels Fear", which, at least a couple weeks ago, was available floating around the front section of Barnes and Noble where they keep the older hardcovers that are leftover. They're not exactly awe-inspiring, but certainly a lot of fun. Conspiracies and whores and all the high life and low life(s) you could want.
Another is "The Grenadillo Box" by Janet Gleeson. I liked this one. The main character is a poor craftsman who works for the famous English furniture maker Chippendale, and so he is of course always in and out of some big house working on this item or that. I liked the characters a lot, and Gleeson did a good job of establishing the different worlds (furniture making, homes for illegitimate children, warehouses where huge amounts of exotic imports are kept). Good work on descriptive stuff, and the characters are interesting as well. Murky motives, what? Gleeson has written a very similar tale entitled "The Serpent in the Garden" which focuses on a Joshua Reynolds-esque painter as the investigator, but I have yet to read it.
Stephanie Barron has written an amusing series in which Jane Austen solves mysteries under various sundry circumstances. I'm not familiar with Austen's letters, but Barron does a fair job of replicating Austen's mild, ironic tone. Plus, it never feels improbable, unlike a lot of historical mysteries in which Mother Hubbard or Abraham Lincoln or Gandhi suddenly turns a hand to solving crime.
Georgette Heyer: if you like 18th to early 19th century historical novels (taking place in England and, to some extent, France,) then you simply have to read her. She's the link between the classic work of Jane Austen and the Harlequin romances of today. She writes two types of mystery. The first type takes place in the 1920's and is the classic country house/Agatha Christie sort of work, though Heyer is much better at characterization and dialogue. The second sort are technically Georgian and Regency Romances, but are in fact concerned with a mystery. These are often comic and some of my favorite books, period. These Old Shades, The Talisman Ring, The Quiet Gentleman, and The Reluctant Widow are my favorites. These Old Shades deals with kidnapping and secret identity and has a strong swashbuckling element and a wonderfully cynical hero. The Talisman Ring concerns the smuggler-heir to a fortune. He becomes trapped with an injury at a local inn while trying to recover a stolen family heirloom. Funny, cheerful, cozy, great cast. The Quiet Gentleman concerns a young man who was expected to be killed fighting in the Napoleonic Wars. He wasn't, and as he takes possession of his estate, someone seems determined to finish the job. The Reluctant Widow involves a woman who (it's complicated) takes possession of her late husband's wreck of an estate...only it seems someone else is poking around for one reason or another. Dum-dum-DUM.
My, I sound like a blurb writer! Hope you find something good somewhere in this list.
There's a number of mysteries that take place in the 1700's in colonial or revolutionary America:
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Murder by Karen Swee, an author who recently died so, unfortunately, this is the first and last of her books. It's set in New Jersey just before the Revolution.
Cork of the Colonies by S. S. Rafferty, contains 13 crimes in 13 colonies and sounds like it'll be fun--it's sitting here ready to be read.
Maan Meyers' Tonneman Family series has one book, Kingsbridge Plot, set in 1775. I've read the first in the series, Dutchman, set in 1664 New Amsterdam and really enjoyed it. Margaret Lawrence has a series set in 1786 Maine featuring Hannah Trevor, midwife. I haven't read any of these yet.
I read A Spectacle of Corruption, the follow-up to David Liss's A Conspiracy of Paper, and thought it absolutely excellent - I'll be reading the first in the series as soon as I can get my hands on it.
I enjoy the series by the authors Bruce Alexander, Lake,Liss as well. I like Edward Marston's Redmayne series but that is the 17th century - to me, it has the same 'feel' to it as these other authors' books.
Also, here is a directory link of one of my favorite sites which gives some ideas, although this LT group is more informative with personal opinions and experiences.
I am reading a book from a British imprint of historical mysteries called Creme de la Crime and in the back is a pitch for Broken Harmony by Roz Southey set in 1730's Newcastle on Tyne with a musician protagonist.
Oh, you have reminded me about another "Creme de la Crime" book I read a while back...
The Crimson Cavalier by Mary Andrea Clarke-- murder mystery, woman sleuth, highwaymen. It was a bit fantastical, but still fun.
I'll check into the Roz Southey books... although the review I read didn't make it sound too promising... (not very sympathetic mc, murder doesn't happen into well into book, supernatural element distracting--but period detail good!)
Well... I read Broken Harmony by Roz Southey. It was rather odd... For one thing, they seem to be in an Alternate Universe where everyone can see and talk with ghosts, although that's something not mentioned at all in any of the blurbs or reviews. Then... murder doesn't happen until more than half-way through the book. The MC was OK, but not terribly sympathetic and I couldn't quite figure out his motivations most of the time. Overall, it was quite a weird, quirky read... and I'm not interested enough to read more in the series.
Just finished all of the C.S. Harris books to date. Enjoyable like candy, very quick reads.
I just found the Westerman and Crowther series by Imogen Robertson. I've read the first two and really enjoyed them! I suggest reading in order - Instruments of Darkness - Imogen Robertson is the first.
Just finished My Name is Resolute by Nancy E. Turner. Very good book about a young girl taken by pirates who ultimately lives out her life in Lexington MA through the Revolutionary War period.
I"m a fan of all the authors you listed here. At the risk of being pushy, I have to mention my own series. The Blue Satan mystery series is set in the early part of the century, during the reign of George I. I think mine's the only one set in that time. There are 5 published to date, with another coming in about a year.
Kate Ross was wonderful. It was a great loss when she died. If you have not read her books, I highly recommend them.
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I've also got the dreaded 'No coding data retrieved' error on my '04 M3 (6MT) when trying to connect to the IKE module.
Was anyone able to figure this out apart from luthers and Terraphantm?
If not, there are a few options I would like to have investigated by someone who's familiar with NCSExpert and PA Soft and has an E46 325 or 330 using PA Soft version 220.127.116.11.
My thinking is this, that PA Soft isn't doing anything that NCS Expert can't; thus, if someone could read the NCS Expert config out, save it, then make a change with PA Soft, then read out the NCS Expert config again and run a diff against it, it wouldn't be an issue whatsoever.
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James Arthur Porter — 11 a.m., Hurst Funeral Home, Greenville.
Jeremiah James Raymor — 11 a.m., Brigham Funeral Chapel, Edmore.
James Arthur Porter, 83
GREENVILLE — James Arthur Porter, 83, died Sunday. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Hurst Funeral Home, Greenville, with visitation from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday prior to the funeral.
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The question of whether or not the wild horse belongs in the West has been affirmed on legal grounds. Supreme Court rulings in the late 1960s stated that, by virtue of their long history in the West, wild horses belong here. The 1971 act is based on the same idea.
"I certainly think wild horses belong in the West," says UM professor Flores. "I think we've determined that wild species have an innate right to exist and they don't have to really serve some human function."
The long-term history of wild horses from which those laws are based has also been put to rest. Local filmmakers Doug Hawes-Davis and Drury Gunn Carr, for instance, made the argument in their 2001 documentary, El Caballo: The Wild Horses of North America, which explores the genetic history of wild horses. According to scientific evidence, horses lived in North America millions of years ago during which time they spread to other parts of the world via the Bering Land Bridge. They went extinct in North America around 9,000 years ago, and it wasn't until the conquistadors re-introduced them that they became the wild horses they are today: different, but not a different species, genetically speaking.
In fact, says Flores, that's why their populations explode and become management problems. The horses are resilient in this landscape.
"An animal that has 56 million years of evolutionary history here is going to do extremely well without some sort of regulatory mechanism," he says, "and the regulatory mechanism was always predators."
But legal "belonging" doesn't answer the question of how to manage populations, especially when the nation's individual perspectives on the wild horse spans the spectrum from seeing them as utterly useless pests to being one of the West's greatest treasures. Proper management of wild horses, depending on who you talk to, can include sending "excess" horses to slaughter even if they're healthy or, on the other hand, it can mean that horses should only be removed from herds if they go to a good home.
In 2004, Montana's then-Sen. Conrad Burns added a rider to the federal appropriations bill that allowed slaughterhouses to kill wild horses culled from BLM herds for overseas consumption. Public outcry led to an amendment stating wild horses couldn't be resold from adoption to slaughter. But the BLM admitted they couldn't enforce such an amendment since following the trail of individual horses after adoption isn't easy.
Earlier this year, a similar loophole emerged when the Montana Legislature passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Ed Butcher, R-Winifred, that encourages the construction of horse slaughter plants in the state. Before the bill went into effect Oct. 1, Butcher said he'd been courting Chinese investors to build plants in Montana to supply overseas horsemeat markets. Once again, BLM would be unable to track whether auctioned wild horses ended up at the facilities.
But a solution may be in the works. After the BLM stated last year that it was considering killing a large number of horses from the rangeland, some politicians took action. The Restore Our American Mustangs Act (ROAM) passed the House on July 17, and is now in committee in the Senate. The bill seeks to prohibit the killing of healthy horses, as well as remove "outdated" limits on the areas where horses can roam freely, strengthen the BLM adoption program, allow more public involvement in wild horse management and facilitate the creation of sanctuaries for populations on public lands—sanctuaries like Wild Horse Island.
In the meantime, Wild Horse Island stands as an exception to the ongoing wild horse debate. In a few months, FWP plans to release four more horses in the state park. Dave Landstrom, regional parks manager for Flathead Lake, says the agency is looking at receiving horses descending from the Pryor Mountain herd that now live adjacent to First People's Buffalo Jump State Park near Great Falls. Landstrom says FWP had considered buying horses at the recent Wyoming auction, but the Buffalo Jump horses would be free and require a shorter transport. He's eager to get them on the island soon.
"From a historic standpoint it's kind of exciting to see them there," he says. "The setting is really dramatic. What I've noticed in the past when we've had four or five horses there at a time is they tend to become a little more active. You're more likely to see those scenes that you envision when you hear the name Wild Horse Island. Occasionally, on a chilly morning, you'll see them running across the plain together."
I never saw the island's last wild horse. As Bennetts and I left the shore I still found myself scouring the line of trees and grassy clearings for a shape or a sign. Nothing. It didn't seem fair. And yet, when I considered all of the island's features—the shadows and crannies and layers of hills—the horse's elusiveness made perfect sense. Needle in a haystack, indeed.
The same goes for long-term management of wild horses in the West. Come November, if all goes according to plan, Wild Horse Island's last horse will have much-needed company, and the park will succeed in providing some small relief to a larger problem. But a permanent solution may be as hard to find as that last wild horse.
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Re: Solving Diophantine Equations
As far as I can see, the problem is because you are generating a large
table of Null values since the If statement returns Null when the
result is false. I ran your expression with a much smaller range of n
test = Table[
If[(x^3 - 1)/(x -
1) == (y^n - 1)/(y - 1) && x â? y, {{x, y,
n},}], {x, 2, 1000}, {y, 2, 1000}, {n, 1, 10, 2}];
Then lets have a look how much memory this expression takes up:
ByteCount[test] /(1024.*1024)
gives 41.9084 mega-bytes and there is where your problem lies since
your expression will be 100 times bigger than mine giving over 4gb.
I spent a while trying to think of a nice and elegant way of solving
your problem but as you may be able to tell if you look at some of my
past questions on this group I am not yet particularly good at coming
up with elegant solutions. The following Just Works (tm)
sols = {};
If[(x^3 - 1)/(
x - 1) == (y^n - 1)/(y - 1) && x â? y, AppendTo[sols, {x, y, n}]];
, {x, 2, 1000}
, {y, 2, 1000}
, {n, 1, 1001, 2}
AppendTo is Highly inefficient but in this case the resulting list is
very small so it doesn't make a blind bit of difference. I ran this
for a couple of hours and got the following solutions before getting
{5, 2, 5}
{90, 2, 13}
If memory serves then n was around 350 when I terminated the
calculation. I am sure someone else on this group will come up with a
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I am collecting all NFL replica mini helmets, what i got from this purchase was micro mini helmets. These are smaller version of the ones i have been buying. The description was not correct the word micro was not in the listing. Returned both helmets hope there is no issue with the return.
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Katy Perry Releases New Poster for "Part of Me" 3D Movie!
If you weren't already excited for the release of Katy Perry's new 3D film "Part of Me," you will be now.
The 27-year-old star released a new poster for the flick this afternoon and the bright, colorful print gives audiences a taste of what's to come.
In the documentary, the "Teenage Dream" singer reveals a personal and in-depth look at her life while on her California Dreams Tour.
"I think sometimes people think that we're perfect, and we know we're not perfect, at all," Perry recently said while opening up to Ellen DeGeneres regarding her personal life. "I think it's important [to] start breaking down the idea that, to achieve your dream, you always have to be perfect, or flawless or live in some kind of fantasy world."
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Last time, which was my first time, I was rejected when trying to submit a design of mine.
To save myself from a lot of preparation work, I'd like to ask you what you think of this design and if it would make a chance to get accepted. Here it is:
Thanks for all feedback!
I like it.
I like it too, but I have one tiny suggestion.
Can you see the problem?
Ik vind 't netjes!
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Oh damn, I see the bug. ^^, I used the wrong width for my underwater scene, which makes a horizontal bar appear at the bottom.
However, I cannot find the misplaced gradient that kuimu shows in his screenshot. At 1680×1050 it looks good (/the same) in Firefox, IE7 /8, Chrome, Safari and Opera. Could it be possible that this bug only appears on a mac? Would be weird wouldn't it?
I have fixed a few things; http://www.illuminati-media.nl
- The background is now really a background and not causing a horizontal scrollbar anymore
- Created a dynamic portfolio
- Edited the contact page so it has a nice contact form that fits the template
Things I still need to do:
- Make up a good homepage
- Design a better submenu for the pages "diensten" and "aanpak"
Please let me know if you have any suggestions!
i wonder what david icke has to say about that name
http://www.illuminati-media.nli wonder what david icke has to say about that name
Who's he?
Illuminati-media.nl is the domain I use for testing purposes only. My website can be found at http://www.bramjetten.nl .


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"The mercy of the Lord I will sing forever, before all the people I will sing it.� For it is God's greatest attribute and for us an unending miracle...O Sinner, you must not doubt or despair, but trust in mercy, for you also can become holy." (Diary)
If the object of this blog is to learn from the wisdom of the Saints, then St. Maria Faustina's words are the path to holiness.� "Trust in mercy", she tells us, in order to become holy.
When we depend upon ourselves we know that, try as we might, we sin.� Jesus tells us our anger can be sinful: "You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.'� But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing' is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell."� (Matthew 5:21-22); and even our thoughts:� "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."� (Matthew 5:27-28)
But St. Maria Faustina trusted in a merciful God, who, in turn, calls us to be merciful to others:� "For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment"� (James 2:13).�� What beautiful words!� If we are merciful, then�mercy triumphs over judgment!� Surely that is what we all need to hear.
Is there someone in your life who needs your mercy?� Who needs forgiveness and understanding, even if it is undeserved?� This is what God calls us to, and this is the sure path to holiness.
St. Maria Faustina, pray for us!
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So, I just received some bad medical news, and I am not sure how to deal with it? I have been told I have a disease and don't understand how it may affect me. So I have been given the following advice:
1. Be prepared for potential bad news. If you have not already received the bad medical news, but suspect you will (e.g. your doctors calls you to schedule an appointment to go over some test results that you think will be bad news), try to prepare for it emotionally. Anticipate the worst news possible, so you would not be shell-shocked upon actually receiving bad news. Bring a family member or close friend with you to the appointment: this will not only help provide you support at the moment when you need it most, but will also help clarify the bad news and write things down, as you could become shocked upon getting the bad medical news and not be able to ask appropriate questions or comprehend any explanations that follow.
2. Clarify what exactly the bad medical news is and how it will affect you. This may take time and often even more than one meeting to accomplish, as shock and denial is frequently the first emotional response to very bad news. Most people, upon receiving the bad news, become flooded with emotions, making it difficult to comprehend any discussion that follows. If that is the case, it is often helpful to ask the doctor to give you written materials about the condition and its treatment so you can go home and read more about it later in a better state of mind.
3. Find out all about your condition from reliable sources. Search for your condition on the internet, find books in the library, read journals and articles that discuss this condition. Humans tend to fear the unknown. The more you know about the condition, the more comfortable you will be and be prepared to deal with its ramifications. Try to keep in mind that the information posted on the internet cause even more fear, you might want to avoid the internet and talk to a local support group. They can recommend which sites for good information and which sites to avoid.
4. Try to stay calm. Excessive worry will not help. Don't overreact to bad medical news. Understand that one cannot change what has already happened, but only how one responds to it. Try to keep your cool to focus on its solutions.
5. Get as much support as you can, immediately. Don't say I'll try to deal with it myself, and if I need help I'll get it later. Later may be too late. Tell it immediately to all your loved ones and friends who will listen to you. They may be able to offer you helpful insights on how to deal with condition. And the process of opening up to others is emotionally healing by itself.
6. Be aware of the common Kübler-Ross grief stages to receiving bad news: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Grieving, Acceptance. Most people go through these stages, though not necessarily in this order, and often may experience more than one stage at a time. Seek professional help (e.g. counseling, psychiatrist) if necessary.
7. Don't dwell too much on the bad medical news. Exercise, spend time with others, do fun things, and think happy thoughts. Smile. Meditate. Pray (if you are religious). Try to develop and maintain a positive attitude always, and not let bad medical news prevent you from living your normal life and carrying out your daily duties.
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FLORENCE, S.C. – Francis Marion University will hold the first Pee Dee Fiction Festival, Nov. 9-11.
The three-day festival will celebrate the book. All scheduled events will be held in the Cauthen Educational Media Center's Lowrimore Auditorium on the FMU campus. Admission is free and open to the public, and registration is required by Nov. 7. To register, call the FMU Department of English, Modern Languages and Philosophy at 843-661-1371.
The event will feature authors Andre Dubus III, Ellen Gilchrist, and Dinah Johnson, as well as panel discussions, readings, and book signings. Many fiction topics will be covered, including screenwriting, Christian fiction, "front porch stories," and regionalism. Two screenings of the film "House of Sand and Fog," based on Dubus's book of the same name, will also be shown.
The festival is being organized by FMU English professors Ed Eleazer and Lynn Kostoff. Several other FMU English faculty will participate in the events as well.
Dubus is the author of a collection of short fiction, "The Cage Keeper and Other Stories," and the novels "Bluesman," and "House of Sand and Fog." He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for fiction, the Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the Prix De Rome Fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters. The basis of a major motion picture (starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly) and published in 25 countries, "House of Sand and Fog" was a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Booksense Book of the Year, and was an Oprah Book Club Selection and No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
Dubus has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and has taught writing at Harvard University, Tufts University, the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and Emerson College. He is married to performer Fontaine Dollas Dubus. They live in Massachusetts with their three children.
Gilchrist's first book was a book of poetry, "The Land Surveyor's Daughter" (1979). She followed it up with "Riding Out the Tropical Depression: Selected Poems, 1975-1985" (1986). But it was as a fiction writer that she has garnered the most attention. She attracted critical and popular accolades from the publication of her book of short fiction, "In the Land of Dreamy Dreams," in 1981.
Gilchrist published her first novel, "The Annunciation," in 1983, and the following year, a second collection of stories, "Victory Over Japan," which won the 1984 American Book Award for fiction. Gilchrist has continued to publish fiction, alternating between short story collections and novels. In 2000, she published "Collected Stories," which features 34 stories from seven different collections spanning her career.
A native of Mississippi, Gilchrist graduated from Millsaps College and did postgraduate study at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Johnson, a native of Charleston, graduated from Spring Valley High School in Columbia. She also graduated from Princeton University, and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University. She teaches at the University of South Carolina.
Johnson's primary research interest is African-American children's literature. She edited, along with Catherine Lewis, a special issue of "African American Review" (1998) devoted to black children's literature. She also wrote about Chinese American writer Laurence Yep in "Presenting Laurence Yep" (1995). Her current project with St. Martin's press is a collection of interview-essays with writers, illustrators, editors, publishers and others whose oral narratives are important in fully reconstructing a history of black children's literature.
She has begun a career as a writer of children's books. Her first book, "All Around Town" (1998) consists of a narrative accompanying the photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts, a South Carolina photographer in the early part of the 20th century. Her second book, "Sunday Week" (2000), takes the reader through the week's activities in the black community, culminating in Sunday services at Lovely Hill Baptist Church in Holly Hill. Her most recent books are "Quinnie Blue" (2000) and "Sitting Pretty: A Celebration of Black Dolls" (2000).
For more information about the Pee Dee Fiction Festival, visit the festival's website at http://alpha1.fmarion.edu/~pdfiction/


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2009: Finished third in the 400 meters and anchored the second-place 4x400 relay at the All-Ohio Indoor Championships.
2008: Ran legs on the BIG EAST Champion 4x100 relay team and fifth-place 4x400 relay squad ... ran on the 4x400 meter relay team and finished eighth in the 400 meters (49.95) at the All-Ohio Championships.
High School: Specialized in sprinting events running the 100, 200, and 400 ... owned PR's of 11.0 in the 100, 22.7 in the 200, and 50.38 in the 400.
Personal: Born Feb. 12, 1988 ... son of Sam and Janet VanCura.
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* Eight of the 10 main index sectors advance
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TORONTO, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index climbed on Tuesday as shares of banks and insurers rose on optimism over strong U.S. profit reports as the fourth-quarter earnings season got underway.
Alcoa Inc reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday as the aluminum maker benefited from automotive demand, stronger selling prices and lower energy costs.
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I had my VBAC and rainbow baby...I can't believe I did it!
So, the kids were gone and Mike and I went off to go to my aunt's memorial service who passed away the weekend before on her 53rd birthday. I was having contractions throughout the day that were about 7-10 minutes apart and Mike and I decided I was just on my feet too much, wasn't drinking enough, and needed to get hydrated and home relaxing. We left around 2pm and decided it would be a good idea to stop at the new house and see the hardwoods and carpets and see if there was anything else we needed them to work on/fix before we close. Still contracting and feeling really tired so I took a nap in the car. We came home that night and just vegged out, ate subs, and did some laundry and watched TV.
Went to bed that night around 11pm...conked out...and woke up at 1am to pee. Soaked...I called Mike from the bathroom to see if he could get me some pads because I was just kind of gushing fluid and didn't want to track it all over the house. He was a bit groggy and out of it...but then we were both excited! Sadly, I was too excited to sleep and that is just what I should have done....so I got up and did some reading on water breaking and what it meant, edited and blogged a baby shoot, and generally just checked things off my to-do list.
I went back to bed that morning, contractions were getting a little bit closer together but I was able to sleep for a few hours. We got up that morning and decided what better way to get contractions going that to clean the house. We organized the kids rooms, the kitchen, did a ton of laundry. Contractions still happening, but nothing I couldn't handle...and I was determined to get them closer together. Everything I read about spontaneous rupture of membranes suggested that labor would start on its own within 48 hours and I knew I didn't want to be on the hospital's time clock...they usually give you about 24 hours and then want the baby out. So...mission get contractions happening was in full force. We walked, I bounced on the exercise ball, we walked some more, we watched season 8 of 24 for a while while bouncing on the ball...all day I kept poking the baby to make him wiggle and checked in with the doppler just to make sure all was well in there and it always was.
We ordered Papa Ginos (same thing we did the night before we had Emmie and Chase) and I was starving. We went out and took some last belly pictures and then went on a walk that was a little over a mile long. Contractions got a bit more intense and I was leaning on Mike to get through them and they were about 3-5 minutes apart. I laugh at myself now thinking that those contractions were intense...little did I know what I was in store for!
So when we got back I called my OB's office and got a doctor who I wasn't too fond of on call...she told me to come in since my water was ruptured and this was our third. I didn't ever let the hospital know how long it had been broken since they would be monitoring me for infection anyway. As far as they knew has just happened a little while before we came in. So...
We check into the hospital, get settled in a room, meet our nurse, answer a million questions, and get checked...2cm and 80% effaced...ugh! That seemed like nothing, but I was pretty sure I would have a baby by the morning. Mike was putting a lot of counter pressure on my back with each contraction, leaning over the bed was great....but I was excited to get into the tub. I was there from about 1am - 2am and it was hot...I felt sweaty and I felt bad because Mike was so tired and falling asleep on the edge of the tub so I hopped out, dried off, went back to the room and labored some more. Mike pulled out his chair to get some rest. Something happened and things felt a bit more intense around 3am...at 3:30 I decided it was getting really intense and wanted to see how much progress we had made. The nurse checked and get this...3cm and the same effacement. I was really discouraged, to say the least, and really tired, and feeling like I just needed a break but I knew I hated narcotics when I was pregnant with Emmie and I opted for getting an epidural...I figured they could always use some pitocin to get things going again like I had with Emmie's birth and I was exhausted with shaking legs and no power to go on.
The nurse came back with anethesia probably and hour and a half later, around 5am at this point...and I remember thinking, this is the last contractions I have to feel...maybe ever if this is our last baby. And I closed my eyes and slept for 3 hours.
At 8am an OB on call came in, she was with my practice but not my midwife and not the other OB I had met. She was discouraged with my lack of progress and the fact that I had the epidural and said that because I was a VBAC I couldn't have pitocin to get things going and she just "didn't know what to do with me." She figured she'd probably just have to section me but I felt like it had been so long, that I had come so far, that a c-section was the last thing I wanted. If I wanted to do that I could have just scheduled it and NOT had labor. So I sat in my room wondering what I could do now...unable to move and get things contracting on their own and unable to get pitocin I felt a bit defeated. But then I looked at Mike and said, "Why can't they just turn the epidural off?" So I called my nurse and asked her to get the OB back and told her my plan...she was a bit skeptical but said I could definitely try it.
A little while later my nurse came back with a different anethesia doc and he thought I was crazy. "You want me to do what?" So I explained to him that I was a VBAC, that I couldn't have pitocin, and that the epidural had slowed things down so much that I was surely going to wind up with a c-section if I didn't turn it off. So he kind of in a huff flipped it off and then lectured my nurse that I couldn't get out of bed, that my legs weren't going to work for at least 5 hours, and that I was not to try and move without the OK from them that I had full feeling back. It was about 20 minutes later that I could sit up again, that I could move my feet....and that I could get enough pressure on my cervix to get contractions to start again. Around this time my babysitter from growing up came in...she was working until 7pm and wanted to know if I wanted to ask for her to be my nurse...I jumped at the opportunity and she asked my nurse if they could switch. This is the best thing that could have happened through it all...she was bound and determined to help me get my vbac and she had the confidence that my body could do this.
She came in every half hour to get my to move/rotate to get pressure on different parts of the cervix and get it to open up. I started feeling contractions again but still had one kind of dead leg. I pushed through to noon when the OB came back to check on me. She was not understanding or gentle or really great to talk to since she was sure I was just to be sectioned anyway...but I did my best to ignore her. She was oh so helpful and did a cervix check in the middle of a contractions...with her tiny hands. Everyone is always SO discouraged with how high my cervix is, but it is always up there...now at least I know it doesn't indicate progress for me at all. So...at this point I was 5cm (ugh!!) and she did some moving around in there to "help things going" and I almost crawled up the table and/or reached down to punch her. She never explained what or why she was doing any of what she was doing...things were getting hard at this point again and her fiddling around in there made it that much worse.
So she left and onward I went...I got into a good hypnobabies trance and got a little rest and stayed in my head for the next three hours. Every once in a while I would slip out of it and cry that it was too much, that i couldn't do it...that I just wanted them to turn the epi back on and section me already...but the OB was back in her office and that seemed like no longer and option. I started to feel a bit like I needed to poop so the nurse wanted the OB to check and see how far we had come. Now it was around 3pm.
She came down and we did the check. STILL 5cm, but she was happy to say that the head had come down a bit...she liked that we had progress and she wanted to keep going...I hated that I was still a 5 and I wanted to give up! I cried, I was DONE DONE DONE. She gave me three options...turn on the epidural and see if labor would keep going and I would be ready to push when she got out at 5 or have a section at 5....or I could try to get a little bit of rest with a narcotic. At this point I was really really missing Emmie and Chase and didn't want a c-section but felt overwhelmed with lack of progress. I told her I didn't care....someone decided for me that a narcotic might help me to calm down a bit. They asked if I wanted a shot or in my IV...I opted for IV and then they brought in a shot for the butt...at that point that was the least of my worries. They told me that they don't usually give this drug too close to birth because it can make the baby a little wonky....but they felt delivery was kind of far off. Hours.
I layed there still hurting and wondered aloud when it was going to work, when I was going to feel better...they said 10 minutes, but one contraction later my body did something crazy....it started to push. The whole labor I continued on with the thought that I was excited for the pushing stage when the pain part would go away....and my body had finally done it. It was funny because then all of a sudden everyone wanted me to pant the pushing away...and I could make the panting noise but felt like I was cheating because my body was still pushing. It was 3:30. They called the OB back down and she came in and wanted to know my plan...um....TO PUSH!!!! She thought maybe I wanted an epidural or something...she was wrong. My nurse said, "Can you check her?" So another AWFUL check where my cervix was still high...but 10cm!! It was gone! The OB was there for two more contractions and saw the head come way down...and got dressed. It was around 4pm...just an hour after the narcotics...and I think I only pushed about 5 times before I felt the most intense burning I have ever felt in my life...I was sure that I was going to tear and never be the same again...that there was just going to be a black hole where before I had a vagina...but push on I did.
The next push they told me to reach down and feel his head...they were all telling me about how much hair he had....and then one more push and everyone was telling me to open my eyes. I think they had been closed since about noon. There was a bright light and everything looked crazy....my OB had a scared look on her face and was pulling with all her might. Then he came out! They layed him on my chest and he looked like he was in shock. Mike burst into tears...it had been such a long long journey and getting to the end was so surreal. I kept asking if he was ok, if he was alive, why he wasn't crying....and they whipped him over to the changing table where he let out some funny little cries and they told me that he had been born so close to getting the meds that he was a little bit out of it. Apgars were thrown out there, 8 and 9, and I knew he was ok....they cleaned him up, gave him some O2 and and brought him to me minutes later. He just started at me...letting out some tiny cries. He had blue blue hands and feet...but seemed to be doing ok. They got him skin to skin and he started to perk up a bit. I instantly felt like I could handle anything...that the last 50 hours weren't the longest of my life...he was just so cute. Tons of black hair, and the cutest little face. My placenta came out and I had forgotten all about the crater I was fearing would be between my legs when the OB said, "You don't need any stitches...everything looks good!" I couldn't believe it! Mike was in a bit of shock and I couldn't stop thanking my nurse...she was the one who calmed me, who helped Mike to find the words to calm me, she was the one who had enough faith in my body to help me push through the hardest parts....and I was sure if she hadn't been there I would have been in the recovery unit getting over a c-section.
She helped me wash up and she brought Mike and the baby to get cleaned up...she knew that I really wanted to see Emmie and Chase and that if we were going to do that we had to be fast. Visiting hours were only until 8pm and she wanted to get us up to Post Partum by 7pm to spend some time with them. She wheeled me into my room at 7pm on the dot and Emmie and Chase came soon after. Mike finally came back with a very clean and yummy smelling Sawyer and the introductions began.
I cannot tell you how in love I am with this little boy...he is amazing...and every second of labor, as long as it was, was worth it after seeing his face and holding him in my arms.
Sawyer Raymond
Born 7/11/11 at 4:22pm
8lbs. 7.5oz. 21 inches
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What an amazing story! Congratulations on sticking to your plan (through 50h of labour?! REALLY? You are a superhero!!!) and getting a VBAC and not a section. :D And horray for nurses - I know with DD's hospital birth it was THEM who were so much help, and not the OB who showed up for an irritating little cameo right at the end. You guys are amazing. :D
Can't wait for pictures!
Yay! So happy for you! Have a wonderful babymoon!
Amazing story! Glad everything worked out so well (well minus 50 hrs of labor) & that you got your VBAC.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."- Albert Einstein
Congrats! So happy you got the VBAC you wanted! Enjoy your sweet new babe!
I'm Cait - married to my best friend Mike and Mama to Theo (7/30/11)
You are a superhero! Congrats!!
Lisa, Mama to two 2-26-09 and 6-15-11
"Hey baby, do you like trains?"
Great job Mama!!
So happy for you and your family! Enjoy sweet Sawyer!
Wow - 50 hours! So happy for you - sounds like a crazy incredible experience. Now get some rest!!!
Hooray! Congrats on your VBAC, and I love the name!
Wow, good for you, 50hrs is incredible. My hat goes off to you.
Congratulatiions!! Welcome to the world, little Sawyer!
Congratulations!!! What an amazing birth story! I just love his name too.
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Wow, you are a trooper! Congratulations and enjoy your babe!
Congrats! You are so strong to stick with your plan even when things took such a long time:) Have a wonderful babymoon.
What an awesome birth story and a VBAC to boot!!!
you did it! Congrats on a successful VBAC, you are a goddess
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Summer's coming fast, and there's no better time to jump behind the wheel and head for your favorite beach or lake. The season has always been associated with hitting the open road, rolling the windows down, and having a great time with friends and family. Having the perfect summer vehicle can serve to enhance every outing, and thanks to the editorial team over at AOL Autos, we have a solid list of excellent choices.
The editors from AOL Autos and Autoblog were asked about their favorite summer vehicles, and they managed to come up with a fun, sporty, and diverse list. Convertibles are strongly represented, as are a couple of wild cards, and one very out-of-the-box answer. The only criteria the editors had to stick to? The vehicle they chose had to be currently available in North America.
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Inconvenient euthanasia, embattled shelters, and one especially tragic case to consider
Last Sunday I received a vituperative message lambasting my area's municipal animal services division for euthanizing healthy pets. The message sender alleged that many pets never got a chance to receive a health and temperament test before they were summarily executed.
Why? Because their owners had surrendered them due to poor health and were asked to sign legally binding documents effectively mandating their euthanasia.
Here's the first half of the letter:
Miami-Dade County Animal Services (MDAS) routinely kills all dogs and cats only because their owners sign euthanasia request forms. Animal Services doesn't require veterinarians to examine these animals, so there is no way for anyone to really know if the animals being killed are healthy, incurably ill, or aren't in any pain at all. Recently, Roxy, a starved dog who gave her all to nurse her puppies, was killed after her owner signed a euthanasia request. She could have been sent to a rescue group or adopted by an individual. Although adoption rates have increased at the shelter, they could be even higher if animals with euthanasia requests who were healthy or had treatable conditions were given a chance to be rescued or adopted.
When the animals have no euthanasia requests, Animal Services' rules require that sick and injured strays and animals surrendered by their owners be given "treatment plans." These animals must be examined by a veterinarian and may be given immediate treatment. They can be sent to rescues for medical fostering. In contrast, Animal Services regularly kills dog and cat surrenders with euthanasia requests who may be adoptable.
The letter goes on to explain that MDAS is working on changing its euthanasia request forms so that the department reserves the right NOT to euthanize animals that can be treated and potentially adopted.
But at the crux of this issue is not so much the intake form for animals whose euthanasia is requested. What I've gleaned from requesting more information from Dr. Sara Pizano (Director at MDAS), and after querying some additional interested parties, is that this issue arose more over differences in philosophy with respect to animal suffering than with any flak over specific policies and procedures.
Because when twenty healthy animals enter and one flat pet follows, who is to say whether a shelter that kills healthy pets every day should expend the community's resources preferentially on the ill?
More questions:
When is an animal so ill or moribund that its condition merits euthanasia? How sick was Roxy, really? Could she have been saved? Do we have a moral obligation to commit shelter resources to each and every ailing animal as long as an adopter or rescue facility is willing to accept responsibility? Where does the shelter pull the trigger (forgive the mental imagery) given the stickiness of a complex, dying-animal intake relative to the typically tricky third party commitment process?
By some accounts this dog was at death's door — not the simply over-nursed specimen the message describes. And if this extreme, near-death circumstance was indeed the case, what would YOU have done?
Could my municipal shelter be doing things better? Absolutely. Dr. Pizano freely admits to the fact that it has a long way to go. This admission comes in spite of an unprecedented uptick in adoption rates since the beginning of her tenure.
And sure, I'll be the first to admit that I've been way critical of MDAS's leadership at times (reference its support for the pit bull ban and its public euthanasia of one healthy pup). But could I do a better job? I wouldn't last a week. Not if I truly felt I was working at my most frenetic fever pitch and knew that my detractors (and there would be many, to be sure) were out for blood.
But make no mistake, I'm no blanket euthanasia apologist. Consider the case of Target the war veteran. It was reported that he was "mistakenly" euthanized last week after he'd escaped his yard and ended up at the municipal shelter, where procedures were not followed and the wrong dog got the drugs.
Shockingly sad. And not so much a cautionary tale about keeping your dogs secure as one that underscores how shelters will continue to euthanize healthy animals until we adopt broad policy changes and commit to no-kill solutions.
Whether we're talking about the Roxys or the Targets of the world, shelters will continue to come under fire. But it seems to me that in some cases shelters deserve more of a pass. Though I will grant that intelligent people may disagree. What's your take?
Dr. Patty Khuly
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2012 Outdoors: Recognized with a selection to the MAAC All-Academic Team.
2011-12 Indoors: Recorded a time of 9:27.97 in the 3000 meters at the Manhattan College Opener on Dec. 1…Also ran the 3000 at the Brother Jasper Invitational on Dec. 9, notching a 9:28.58 clocking.
2011 Cross Country: Named to the MAAC All-Academic Team for the third successive year…Opened the season with a 20th-place finish at the Army Open (Sept. 2), completing the 5000-meter course in 16:30.40…Finished 45th overall at the Metropolitan Championships (Oct. 7), recording a time of 27:26 over 8000 meters…Posted an 8000-meter time of 27:39.00 at the MAAC Championships (Oct. 28)…Ran five miles in 27:39.00 at the IC4A Championships on Nov. 19.
2011 Outdoors: Selected to the MAAC All-Academic Team.
2010-11 Indoors: Earned a place on the MAAC All-Academic Team…Secured 18th place in the 3000 meters with a time of 9:12.46 at the Metropolitan Indoor Championships on Jan. 28…Clocked 4:36.35 in the mile at the Giegengack Invitational on Feb. 4…Finished ninth in the 3000 at the MAAC Indoor Championships (Feb. 18), posting a season-best time of 9:00.03.
2010 Cross Country: Named to the MAAC All-Academic Team…Opened the season with a top 10 finish at the Stony Brook Invitational (Sept. 4), placing ninth in 21:11.20…Took 16th at the Fr. Victor Leeber Invitational on Sept. 25, completing the 8000-meter course in 27:49.38…Ran top 8000-meter time of the season (26:42.90) at the MAAC Championships on Oct. 29, good enough for 51st place.
2010 Outdoors: Selected to the MAAC All-Academic Team…Clocked a time of 16:32.59 in the 5000 meters at the Monmouth Season Opener (March 26)…Finished 15th in the 5000 (16:57.48) at the MAAC Championships (May 2).
2009-10 Indoors: Earned a place on the MAAC All-Academic Team…Finished 17th in the 3000 meters (9:21.92) at the Metropolitan Indoor Championships (Jan. 29)…Ran a season-best 9:12.22 to place 11th in the 3000 at the MAAC Championships (Feb. 19).
2009 Cross Country: Named to the MAAC All-Academic Team…Finished 20th at the season-opening Stony Brook Invitational (Sept. 5), completing the 6200-meter course in 21:57.70…Cracked the 27-minute barrier at the Paul Short Run (Oct. 2), finishing in 26:47.00…Placed 63rd at the MAAC Championships (Oct. 30), posting a time of 28:46.70.
2008-09 Indoors: Finished sixth in the 3000 meters (8:58.47) at the Yale Season Opener (Dec. 6)…Ran a time of 9:12.52 in the 3000 at the MAAC Championships (Feb. 20), good enough for 12th place.
2008 Cross Country: Ran a time of 9:52.4 over 3000 meters in the season-opening dual meet against Iona (Sept. 5)…Helped the Jaspers to a fifth-place finish at the Metropolitan Championships (Oct. 10), finishing in a time of 28:36.1…Posted a season-best time of 26:43.29 at the MAAC Championships (Nov. 1).
Before Manhattan: Helped Smithtown High School win three Suffolk County championships…Earned the cross country team's Bob Pratt Award…Also a member of the wrestling team, making the league finals three times and winning the league championship as a senior.
Personal: Son of Thomas and Susan…Has three brothers: Daniel, Robert and Jack, and one sister: Kelly…Majoring in finance…Born on April 5, 1990.
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We might have to wait until morning for confirmation, but Mark Gaughan of the Buffalo News is ready to call a winner in the Browns' search for a head coach. Gaughan says it will be Bills defensive coordinator Mike Pettine. Gaughan tweeted Tuesday night that Pettine "is going to get the Browns job. A deal is close." Pettine interviewed for the position for a second time on Tuesday.
Pettine has been involved in the NFL since 2002 and has been a defensive coordinator since 2009, first with the Jets before joining the Bills in the same capacity this season.
Fantasy Analysis:
For what it's worth, the last three defenses coordinated by Pettine finished in the top ten in yards allowed. But each of those teams finished 20th in points allowed. The Bills ranked second in the league this year in sacks and interceptions.
If this report is true, the Browns are the last of the seven teams with openings to find their head coach, and it's been that way for about a week. Josh McDaniels, Todd Bowles, and Adam Gase all said "no" to the Browns. They would have to wait a couple of weeks to have more contact with either of the Seahawks' coordinators, so they probably figured they couldn't waste time any longer. Pettine is an aggressive defensive coordinator, but it might be too soon for him to be given the keys to a franchise. It feels like the Browns settled after striking out on the coaches they really wanted. That's what happens when you ax a head coach after only one year on the job and let your coordinators walk without putting up a fight to retain them. I don't think Browns fans will be happy with this hire, but they aren't pleased with the entire organization right now, so it's a perfect fit.
For fantasy purposes, whom Pettine hires to be his offensive coordinator will have a major impact.


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Opt Subject: PRI 193 ... UAX 29
Forwarding a comment from our Thai expert: Nattapong Sirilappanich (email id: email@example.com) ... My inputs are: 1. Keep all grapheme properties for Thai characters. This is my input for section 3 question: [Editorial Note: The text has been modified to not favor extended grapheme clusters, given that legacy grapheme clusters are preferred for Thai, Lao, and Tai Viet characters. An alternative approach would be to remove the characters (U+0E30, U+0E32, U+0E33, U+0E40-U+0E45, U+0EB0, U+0EB2, U+0EB3, U+0EC0-U+0EC4, U+AAB5, U+AAB6, U+AAB9, U+AABB, U+AABC) from Extend and Spacing_Mark. Feedback on this issue would be appreciated.] 2. To prevent confusion, let's make it clear. Thai language use legacy grapheme for cursor movement and editing behavior. Thai language also use extended grapheme for rendering purpose. So this line in section 3 should be updated: However, for Southeast Asian scripts such as Thai and Lao, the legacy grapheme clusters are generally preferred
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A minor editorial comment: 8. Hangul Syllable Boundary Determination
(http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/tr29-18.html#Hangul_Syllable_Boundary_Determination): Under subtitle "Transforming into Standard Korean Syllables", in the line [^L] V → [^L] Lf V the f is neither subscripted nor italicized as it should be.
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I'd like to renew an old feedback I made about word breaks with hiragana and voiced marks in an UAX#29 PRI in... 2007. Because absoluetly nobody seems to have replied to this feedback, and visibly some characters that are used in both hiragana and katakana are not treated consistently as they should (for example with differences between normal and halfwidth variants). See http://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2007-m08/0091.html Quoting the message: This UAX treats KATAKANA specially, to avoid breaking between two Katakana letters, but still break between hiragana. However, this is probably not true for every thing, notably in the sequence of an Hiragana letter and a voiced/semi voiced mark: U+309B (゛) KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK U+309C (゜) KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK and possibly other characters currently listed in the Katakana value in table 3: U+3031 (〱) VERTICAL KANA REPEAT MARK U+3032 (〲) VERTICAL KANA REPEAT WITH VOICED SOUND MARK U+3033 (〳) VERTICAL KANA REPEAT MARK UPPER HALF U+3034 (〴) VERTICAL KANA REPEAT WITH VOICED SOUND MARK UPPER HALF U+3035 (〵) VERTICAL KANA REPEAT MARK LOWER HALF U+30A0 (゠) KATAKANA-HIRAGANA DOUBLE HYPHEN U+30FC (ー) KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK U+FF70 (ー) HALFWIDTH KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK U+FF9E (゙) HALFWIDTH KATAKANA VOICED SOUND MARK U+FF9F (゚) HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK Do really word break occur between Hiragana letters and these marks coded after them (note that Hiragana letters are excluded from "Aletter" in table 3) ? If not, then (1) the list of characters above should better be listed under a separate value (say "ExtendKana"), and removed from Katakana in table 3. (2) a new value "Hiragana" should be created for Hiragana letters in table 3, like this: Katakana script="KATAKANA" (rewritten first row in table 3) Hiragana script="HIRAGANA" (new inserted row in table 3) ExtendKana (the list of characters above) (new row in table 3) (3) the existing rule WB13 (Katakana × Katakana) should be rewritten equivalently as: WB13. (Katakana | ExtendKana) × (Katakana | ExtendKana) (4) the following subrules WB13a and WB13b rewritten equivalently as: WB13a. (ALetter | Numeric | Katakana | ExtendKana | ExtendNumLet) × ExtendNumLet WB13b. ExtendNumLet × (ALetter | Numeric | Katakana | ExtendKana) (5) Another subrule should be added: WB13c. (Hiragana | ExtendKana) × ExtendKana No other change is needed, because word break will still occur either between two Hiragana letters, or after an ExtendKana and before a Hiragana letter, in the next rule: WB14. Any ÷ Any Or am I missing something?
Date/Time: Thu Nov 10 03:26:08 CST 2011
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Name: Philippe Verdy
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Opt Subject: UAX#29: property values used in [Charts29]
The UAX#29 makes an informative reference to a sample table-based implementation shown in [Charts29]: http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/ucd/auxiliary/WordBreakTest.html However this HTML page still contains row and column headers containing old non-standard property values that do not match the Word-Break property values enumerated and described in UAX#29 and assigned to characters in the normative datafile [Data29]. Why are those "_FE" suffixes" added to a couple of property values in the chart table and in all tooltips appearing when hovering characters in the sample strings ? It seems that this [Charts29] page has never been updated since long, and this is also visible in the numeric mapping of rules names (which is also used in the test data file), which: - forgets to assign the number 3.2 to the rule named WB3b (insert a word break before an explicit line break, "÷ (Newline | CR | LF)") ; - still incorrectly defines the rule named WB4 and numbered 4.0 as the outdated contextual rule "[^ Newline CR LF ] × [Format Extend]", instead of the current rewriting rule "X (Extend | Format)* → X". - gives the wrong definition for the last contextual rule, named WB14 and numbered 999.0, displaying "÷ Any", instead of "Any ÷ Any" ;


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Sautéed Arugula and Spinach with Paneer and Roasted Cashews is a sample recipe from Vij's restaurant in Vancouver.
Serves 6
Preheat the oven or toaster oven to 375 degrees F. Spread cashews on a baking tray and bake for 3 minutes. Gently stir cashews to roast them evenly. Return to the oven for another 3 minutes, or until golden brown. Watch carefully because cashews can burn quickly. Remove from the oven and cool for at least 30 minutes.
Cut the tougher, bottom stems (about 1-1/2 inches) off the spinach. If you don't like to eat the stems, cut off all of them but add more spinach leaves to compensate. If the rapini leaves are flowering on top, cut off the flowers. Cut off the bottom stems of the rapini. If you don't eat any of the rapini stems, cut off as much as you want, but again compensate with extra rapini leaves. Combine spinach and arugula (or rapini) in a large bowl.
Heat oil in a large frying pan on medium-high heat for 1 minute. Add cumin seeds, stir and allow to sizzle for 30 to 45 seconds. Add tomatoes, mustard seeds, turmeric, salt and cayenne. Stir and reduce the heat to low, then cover and cook for 5 minutes. Remove the lid and stir. The top of the masala should glisten with oil. If not, cook uncovered for another 1 to 2 minutes to make sure the spices are cooked through.
Stir in water and increase the heat to medium. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and cook at a low boil for 5 to 8 minutes. Add coconut milk, increase the heat to medium and continue cooking until the curry starts to boil. Add greens and cook them for 2 minutes, stirring regularly.
To Serve
Place 2 slices of paneer in each of six large bowls. Pour the curry and green leaves over the paneer. Top the greens with 6 to 7 roasted cashews per bowl.
Pair with a refreshing Grüner Veltliner.
Elegant and Inspired Indian Cuisine
by Vikram Vij and Meeru Dhalwala
Douglas & McIntyre
$29.95/trade paperback with flaps
Full-color photographs throughout
Recipe reprinted by permission.
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text: Have noticed the steering has become a bit vague. can turn the will a couple of cm before it moves in either direction. Would this be the steering rack or something like ball joints. Rear tyre was a bit low which didnt help. Just after some ideas what to look for and where to look.


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That looks like a very nice early example of a second series Colt Challenger. The serial number dates to 1950, which is the first year of production. I believe production started in May 1950. From your pictures (I can't enlarge them) it looks like it has Coltswood plastic wood grained stocks that were only used for the first couple of years of second series Woodsman production, and would be correct for that 1950 Challenger (Don't quote me on that). From my experience I've found that 4 1/2" barrel examples are less common than it's 6" brother. The icing on the cake would be that it comes with the original box and contents. At $500, I think it's in the ball park, and I would buy it at that price as long as the other side of the pistol looks as good. I hope Mr Rayburn comes along and comments as he is the real expert. Looks good to me if you are looking for opinions!


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YOU ARE walking past a shop you've been to in the past. Your mobile phone beeps and you find a text message offering you a discount if you buy something in the next 15 minutes.
Is it a great offer or an intrusion? Are you happy that the phone company and the retailer know enough about you to create personalised marketing? Or do you find it creepy that you can't walk down the street in peace?
Advances in technology are creating dilemmas for large traditional companies that are already familiar, to the giants of internet commerce. Vast quantities of data offer apparently boundless opportunities. But they come at a cost and companies chasing them run new risks.
Once there were marketing surveys. Companies sent researchers out with clipboards and the information they collected from consumers was analysed using a mixture of maths and intuition. About 20 years ago, increases in computing power allowed marketers to begin looking for useful patterns much faster in much larger batches of research, known as data mining.
Now we are in the era of big data, where new and old sources offer information in mind-boggling amounts. The promise is that machines will find valuable trends in consumer behaviour that humans haven't thought to look for.
Every time we make a phone call, click on a website, send an email or swipe a card, we are creating a record that can be stored and later analysed by computers. New software slices and dices unstructured information shared on the internet. Offline movements - of people, of cargo, of weather patterns, of anything measurable by a mechanical sensor - can be captured and scoured for patterns.
The first companies to take advantage of these opportunities were born in the internet era. Google offers website owners an analysis of traffic on their site, such as whether new content is popular, whether a promotion is driving traffic, and the effect of tweets and blog posts.
Facebook has a similar service tracking use of an advertiser's page, which shows the number of users who like and comment on their page and how many stories about their brand are being created and shared.
Pure online retailers such as Amazon tailor their marketing to consumers based on details left on Amazon's website of how those customers have behaved in the past.
Now large companies in traditional industries are learning the benefits and pitfalls of knowing things about their customers that marketing executives of the late 20th century could have only imagined. Every day, National Australia Bank records details of 2 million electronic transactions. The information, stripped of material that would identify individual customers, is passed to a joint venture the bank set up four years ago with a Sydney data analytics company, Quantium.
Quantium's analysts interpret the information for NAB and NAB's business customers. Joint venture Market Blueprint is also a business in its own right. Third parties can purchase the data for their own market research.
Quantium director Tony Davis says every electronic transaction that appears on a credit card statement or bank statement is captured. ''Once you can understand how broad customer types are behaving, different businesses are able to measure their own performance against the broader market,'' he says.
''The huge volume of transactions we all make through technology, not always online, not always through social networks, means that the forms of data get magnified and the insights that can be identified from that have just exploded on the back of the digital revolution.''
Those that can exploit the opportunity at the lowest cost are companies that already collect data from their own customers. The giants of clicks and swipes - banks, telecommunications companies and retailers - are at the forefront, says Graham Kittle, a partner in IBM's business analytics and optimisation division.
''The opportunity for the banks and telcos and retailers is enormous because of the strength of their brands,'' Kittle says. ''Big data is a richer opportunity at the big end of town, with large corporations having more of it.''
For all companies, the cost of storing data is plummeting. Kittle says that 15 years ago a company would have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to store the amount of data that today can be held on a $69 disc.
Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim says there are commercial risks - chiefly the threat of identity theft and fraud - for companies that are ''looking at their customer databases as being a new asset''. He says ''significant data breaches'' he has investigated in the past year include the hacking of Sony PlayStation's worldwide customer base, which he concluded did not breach Australian law, and his finding last month that Telstra breached the Privacy Act in December last year when account details of 734,000 customers were accessible online. Telstra declined an interview, but said via email that ''the incident resulting in some of our customers' bundles information being accessible online last year is not related to big data or data mining''.
The company had identified ''a number of areas where our technology, processes and training have to be improved'' and had ''taken actions to improve all of these areas and will continue to do so''. It was reported last week that Telstra chief David Thodey had sent an email to staff following a recent second episode, saying ''customer privacy is not negotiable''.
The email followed publicity about Telstra sending internet addresses visited by its smartphone customers to one of its commercial partners in the US that is developing a product to filter internet access by children using smartphones.
Pilgrim says an associated risk for companies is that the vast databases they amass ''become like a honeypot to people who have malicious intent''. ''It sometimes puts an organisation at risk from having too much information.''
As the commercial exploitation of data increases, the benefit to companies will depend on what customers perceive they are receiving in return. Large retailers are offering a more explicit tradeoff to shoppers via loyalty programs. Coles, which recently revamped its flybuys scheme, offers scheme members discounts on groceries and points that can be redeemed for flights, petrol and goods.
The general manager of strategy for Coles, Richard Wormald, says the company is not interested in the shopping habits of individuals and aggregates its data into groups.
''Any group of less than 5000 individuals is really too hard,'' he says. ''It's beyond our capability to understand their behaviour because the group is not statistically significant and we can't leverage our buying scale to offer value to such a small group.''
While Coles analyses purchasing behaviour in large groups, it collects individual information for two reasons: to obtain ''life stage'' data that can't be picked up by analysing sales, and the other is to get customers' names and email addresses. ''People respond better to personalised offers,'' Wormald says.
Coles also uses the data to work out where to put a new store, how big it should be and how it should be laid out.
He says the costs of maintaining the database can be covered by the revenue raised from selling points.
When Coles revamped the flybuys scheme earlier this year, it introduced partners including Telstra, AGL, Webjet and GE, which buy points from Coles to pass on to their own customers.
Quantium's Davis says the commercial use of big data will not be confined to tracking online behaviour. He offers the example of a car insurer installing technology to record driver behaviour that is used to determine premiums.
But such uses will not compare with ''the enormous wave'' of information from the way we interact through the internet, particularly social networks.


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How To Get Rid Of Fat Right Above The Waist
I don't know if im a pear shape anymore, i gain and loose weight constantly now i look like fat ruler shape. How can I get rid of fat from my waist?
Exercise: And healthy diet or liposuction are your only options. Surgical liposuction is really the only way to permanently remove fat and sculpt a figure. ...Read more
How can I get rid of fat around my waist, upper abdomen, back and below the nape of my neck.
See Dr., and then...: Helpful weight loss diets have natural foods that take time to chew but contain few calories. Examples include carrots, celery, and iceberg lettuce (little/no salad dressing). When shopping for fruits, buy small ones no bigger than a tennis ball, because fruits have sugar. Drinks without calories include water and green tea. A calorie is a calorie, but surely avoid sugar & simple starch calories. ...Read more
How do I get rid of the fat around my waist?
Overall weight loss: With natural weight loss (by eating fewer calories and exercising more to use up stored fat), one loses fat from all body parts. It is hard to just lose the waist or the "love handles". Doing exercises to strengthen and build up the abdominal muscles can hold the tummy in better, which will improve the appearance of the tummy. Avoid sugar and avoid simple starches. ...Read more
I have excess fat deposite on my waist line. I am working out in gym regularly. But still its same. Prescribe me how could i get rid of this faster.
Fructose sugar: Avoid high fructose corn syrup and any form of fructose sugar except in the form of whole fruits. Fructose is converted in fat during metabolism not glucose. Glucose is the for of sugar that the body uses now. Fat is used as emergency energy supply. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
How can I get rid of the bulge of fat around my whole waist that hangs over my jeans?
Bulging Waist: If you want to lose weight in your waist then you need to attack it from several points. First cut down on your carbs. Second, eat 5 meals a day. I recommend isopure protein supplement between meals. It tastes good and you can get it with no carbs. Third, you need to do aerobic exercises 5 days a week: elliptical, running, biking. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
How can I get rid of this pain in the back left upper region of waist?
Core Exercises: Typically core strengthening exercises are the best to help relieve pressure and forces in the spine. I would try and google some or look them up on youtube to see descriptions. If you can do them yourself, wonderful otherwise ask your doctor to get a referral to a good physical therapist for further assistance. ...Read more
I'm having pain at my lower back region on my waist line, please wht medication can I use to get rid of the pain, and make my waist strong?
Back pain among: Younger individuals is usually from muscle strain. You're taking tylenol (acetaminophen) already and if it doesn't help, try nsaids (motrin , aleve). See your dr for reassurance. ...Read more
Hi there doctors, this is for my girlfriend, she is 16 and has stretch marks around her waist she wants to get rid of, any advice? Had em for a while.
Retin A, (tretinoin) laser: Stretch marks in teenagers is very common. It can be treated with tretinoin cream, which you can get from a doctor, or with lasers. ...Read more
My husband has tags all over his waist and other places. My question is how do you get rid of them? This is not a dentist problem! there are tag and he cover in them pretty good.
It : It sounds like you might be referring to skin tags in areas where there is friction against his skin. There are several different simple procedures that his dermatologist can use to remove them. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
How can I get rid of stretch marks? I have them on my butt, my waist, inner thigh, and my calves
You can't: Stretch marks are formed when there is an injury to the dermis. There are many products out there claiming to get rid of them. None have been proven to work. So don't waste your money. In certain areas of the body like the belly or the inner thighs they can be cut out with a tummy tuck or a thigh lift. Consult a plastic surgeon to see if you are an appropriate candidate. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
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