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Yesterday, I had the good fortune of joining journalist Daniel Tseghay on a panel at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. It came after the screening of a film about a serial plagiarist who worked at the New York Times more than 10 years ago.
Samantha Grant's A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power and Jayson Blair left viewers with the impression that this journalism scandal was the greatest embarrassment in the history of the Gray Lady.
In fact, Tseghay pointed out that Judith Miller's series of articles in the New York Times about Saddam Hussein's supposed stockpile of chemical and biological weapons ranked as a more damaging journalistic excess.
These pieces, which were based on unnamed sources in the Bush administration, helped win over public opinion in advance of the U.S.-led attack on Iraq. It has led to the loss of 188,000 lives, according to Iraqbodycount.org.
Now, back to the movie.
As I watched Blair's various explanations—ranging from bipolar disorder to drug and alcohol addiction to a shortage of time to complete an article about a missing veteran—I came away with the following impressions about him:
• Blair is lazy and manipulative.
• He seems to take a bit of delight in telling his tale about fooling everyone at the New York Times.
• He speaks about himself in the first person to a greater degree than most people. Most of his sentences included the words "I" and "me", yet there was not nearly as much said about his victims.
• Blair expresses remorse with his words, but I didn't feel that there was any real emotion underlying this regret. He spoke in a flat tone of voice throughout, even though his face was often quite expressive.
• After he got caught stealing others' work, he simply moved on.
• He has a quiet charisma, which makes him a compelling guest on television shows. He performs well at public-speaking events, even though he's emotionally shallow.
• Blair likes saying that he entered journalism because he wanted to help people. This phrase came up again and again. It's disarming to well-intentioned people, because when they hear this, they are more likely to think that Blair is like them.
• Blair also says that everyone lies, once again trying to make him seem just like everyone else.
In fact, Blair was a chronic liar who destroyed careers at the New York Times.
For me, one of the early clues in the film that something might be amiss about Blair was his first name. In his high-school yearbook, it was "Jason". By the time he was working as a journalist, it had morphed into "Jayson". There was no explanation for this, but it left me wondering why.
I have a very common name: Charlie Smith. Never once have I considered using anything else in my reporting.
So whenever I see a reporter—as opposed to a film star or even a novelist—adopt a nom de plume, it automatically elevates my suspicion because we're supposed to trade in the truth.
According to the film, Blair was raised in a proper middle-class family and his mom was a teacher. But these parents and at least one sibling never spoke in the film, leaving me wondering why this might be the case. Do they know something about Blair that his former colleagues don't? Is he estranged from his family? That was left unanswered in A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power and Jayson Blair.
As the movie progressed, I started to wish the filmmaker had spent less time talking to other journalists and more time speaking to people with expertise in personality disorders. That's because I suspect that people who've studied this phenomenon would have offered audiences greater insights into Blair's peculiarly calm disposition after he had created so much chaos.
After Blair left the New York Times, he wrote a book called Burning Down My Master's House: My Life at the New York Times. According to the blurb about it on amazon.com, "Blair recounts the details of his struggle with manic depression and its power to confer great advantages that are attractive to those who suffer from the illness at the same time it destroys them."
It's a tidy explanation for his appalling behaviour as a journalist.
I suspect there are many others in this industry who've also suffered from bipolar disorder. And I highly doubt that they dealt with their illness by repeatedly stealing others' work and labelling it as their own.
Keep in mind that police agencies and military organizations have measures in place to prevent pathological liars from being hired. These screening techniques don't always work, but I'm guessing that they do weed out many who are ill-suited for the job.
Perhaps it's time for news organizations and journalism schools to do the same. That's because clearly, something went terribly wrong during the hiring of Jayson Blair. And anything done after the fact won't undo the damage to the newspaper's reputation or the people whose lives he ruined.
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May 5, 2014 at 4:25pm
If Blair does suffer from bipolar disorder, he may be taking prescription drugs such as lithium to balance out the extreme highs and lows of the disease. That might explain why he is so "emotionally shallow." Or perhaps he's just too lazy to emote...
May 11, 2014 at 7:58pm
I certainly do not know the details surrounding Mr. Blair, but it appears he is leaning toward cloaking his 'persona' under the full flavor of narcissicism. I see no real remorse except for the fact he was exposed. Now, he is picking each and every "I'm the victim" apple from the tree releasing yet another personality battling for the spotlight. Quite frankly---after listening and observing Mr. Blair---if one would put a pen in his hand, the ink would spill out all over again. Tragic and disturbing...


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Another major influence in Redfearn's career was Barnsley coach Eric Winstanley, and the two have been reunited at the McCain Stadium - with Winstanley coming in as assistant manager.
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Redfearn previously dipped his toe in the managerial waters with two spells as caretaker-boss at Halifax Town, one of five Yorkshire clubs he has played for.
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Lotus announced on Wednesday that Allison was leaving the team and will be replaced at the post with the promotion of Nick Chester, who has been with the Enstone-based outfit since 2000.
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Frustrated Russian investigators said Friday they may press charges against the country's former defence minister after he refused to answer questions about his alleged role in a huge illegal property scheme.
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I just wanted to share with you that shortly before the age of 19, I came down with a mysterious illness. The symptoms were vague and in the beginning, sometimes the only ones were severe fatigue and post extertional malaise. I had so many lab tests come back normal. I had some doctors tell me I was depressed or anxious despite family members coming to appointments with me and explaining something wasn't right. Luckily, I had just as many doctors who believed me, but just didn't know what was wrong. Hearing I wasn't crazy helped a lot. I also think it helped a lot that my family members believed me and could see a difference in me on "good" days versus "bad" days. It proved to me what I knew; this is not in my head. I am aware anxiety/depression can also make people look awful, but typically it doesn't only make them look awful after they've been active/running errands and not any other time.
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I agree that an elimination diet would be great to start with.
I just can't imagine what you could be missing in this diet that you would get by adding wheat, sugar, and refined oils back in.
I am intolerant to nuts, eggs, dairy and nightshades. So I actually felt worse in many ways when I started paleo until I got those foods out.
Do you have any other symptoms other than fatigue?
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I explained my experience with unexplained fatigue. I also wanted to add that it turns out I am allergic to gluten and dairy and intolerant to soy and egg. I tried elimination diets (just eliminating target food) and could never get anywhere. Now this makes sense -- I was eating so many other foods I am allergic/intolerant to and as a result, constantly experiencing reactions, that the reintroduction of the target food didn't make much of a difference in symptoms. My allergies were not the source of my debilitating symptoms, but for many they are, and I definitely feel better overall when I avoid them.


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Earth Day is supposed to be about leaving a smaller footprint.
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Enjoying the sights and sounds in France, Rosie Huntington Whiteley stepped out at the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday afternoon (May 20).
Rocking a sexy grey dress, the 27-year-old supermodel strutted her stuff past the paparazzi and headed over to a photo shoot for Magnum Ice Cream.
Earlier in the afternoon, Rosie debuted her new clip for the ice cream brand, which she stars in alongside Elyas M'Barek.
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Just be the love, the rest will take care of itself
Think I'll color this man father
I think I'll color him love
— "Color Him Father, " 1969 hit by The Winstons
Father's Day.
Pop Pop.
Pap Pap.
There are no doubt other names and the prospect of even having a title might be daunting to some men – men who find themselves as step-dads, fathers-in-law, new fathers, etc.
To all fathers or fathers-to-be, I say: Lighten up, there is nothing to it.
I can imagination the concerns:
There is that "head of the household" thing.
Fathers and sons raises the potential for conflict.
There is worry about daughters and sons.
Can I sound authoritative; do I have anything to be authoritative about?
Can I change a diaper, help guide him or her through school, pay for college, walk her down the aisle, handle it when he moves away? How will kids affect the marriage?
Here is the deal: Just take it one moment at a time, moments that will fly by like a bullet train, leaving you with flashes from the past flittering around in the brain.
Is there a key to being a good father?
Of course, same as being a good mother. It is love.
How is that love expressed?
Just be there.
Hug or kiss or both.
Voice happy hellos and calm goodbyes.
Give words of encouragement, lots of words of encouragement.
My Dad was not at home much when I was living there for 20 years. I was up and off to school before he got up, and when I got home from school he was off to work at the movie theater, returning usually after midnight when I was asleep.
You might think that would not foster a strong relationship. Yet, I could not have cherished that man more, and in the summers when I could go work with him I was elated. Oddly, I remember the best parts being just riding in the car with him.
Every day I look at a framed photo above the dresser in our bedroom. The picture was made by a beloved friend, Paul, on one Halloween evening when Mary Ellen and I had taken our son Ryan to my parents' home. In the photo, I am clearly listening intently to Dad's every word (he spoke softly) as he sits in his usual living room chair and I beside him.
I wish I could do that again, have that moment back; but he would have to be 106 years old for us to do so now. He died at 83.
And that raises an interesting point.
Fathers (mothers, too) touch us in ways we don't expect and in ways we may not realize until many years have gone by. I suppose there are some so-called adult children that don't even think about it as life rushes by and that is sad.
In my estimation, Father's Day is just another day and if I get to see any of the kids a bit out of their busy schedules it is good.
But love need not be a face-to-face thing. We need not do anything for one another. The ties that bind have nothing to do with schedules or requirements. Fatherhood, motherhood, being a son or daughter is simply a manner of being.
So, as I said, lighten up, there is nothing to "do." Just be the love. The rest will take care of itself.
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FBI Investigating Deadly Boston Marathon Explosions
April 16, 2013 2:33 AM
U.S. federal investigators are working to uncover who was behind a twin bombing Monday at the Boston Marathon that left at least three people dead and more than 140 others injured.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading the multi-agency effort to investigate what a White House official said was "clearly an act of terror."
The FBI said in a statement late Monday it was too early to establish the cause or motivation for the explosions, which happened moments apart within about 100 meters of each other near the finish line.
Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said there was "no specific intelligence" warning of an attack, and authorities said there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
U.S. President Barack Obama said in televised remarks that the United States will find out who was responsible and hold them accountable.
"We still do not know who did this or why. And people shouldn't jump to conclusions before we have all the facts. But, make no mistake, we will get to the bottom of this. And we will find out who did this, we will find out why they did this. Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice."
The blasts took place about four hours into the race, long after the winners had finished, but at the time that the highest number of runners and their supporters are usually around the finish line area. The competition, which had more than 23,000 runners, was halted after the bombs went off.
Television footage showed scenes of confusion, streets littered with debris and blood, paramedics carrying stretchers, and damage to nearby buildings.
Bloody spectators, including some with severed limbs, were carried to the medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners from the race.
The Boston Globe, citing two law enforcement sources, reported that the dead included an eight-year-old boy. A number of victims suffered amputations.
Cities worldwide stepped up security following the explosions.
In Britain, police said they are reviewing security plans for Sunday's London Marathon, the next major international marathon.
New York City officials said police have increased security around landmarks in Manhattan, including near prominent hotels, in response to the blast. Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles also are on a heightened state of alert.
Officials in Boston said an electrical fire that broke out at the John F. Kennedy Library a few kilometers from the marathon's finish line was not related to the bombings.
Shortly after the explosions, the U.S. Secret Service shut down Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House, cordoning off the area with yellow police tape. But the White House is not on lockdown.
President Obama called Boston Mayor Tom Menino and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and told them his administration will provide whatever assistance is necessary in the investigation and response.
Boston is a major metropolis located in the northeastern U.S. The marathon is a significant event the city hosts every year. It attracts runners and spectators from all over the world.
Azeem Khan, a Pakistani-American who was three miles from the race finish at the time of the explosions, told VOA that up until that point it had been a "joyful day." He said in the aftermath, a lot of runners were scrambling to borrow cell phones to contact family members who had been waiting at the finish.
"Running the race, it was such an amazing experience. The joy of the people is what helped me keep going when I was so tired and how everyone was out, the entire state of Massachusetts was out. Little kids -- even if they weren't part of the marathon staff -- little kids hanging around with Dixie cups and people who baked cookies for us, and people were handing out food and telling us to keep going and giving us handshakes as we were running. It was just such a joyful day, and to turn such a joyful day into massacre like this, just can't help you but feel anything but anger."
Khan said as bad as Monday was, he will run another big city marathon. He plans to sign up for the Chicago Marathon in October.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain
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Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur's utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at once satiric, anarchic, and darkly comic.
Critically deemed one of Twain's finest and most caustic works, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is both a delightfully entertaining story and a disturbing analysis of the efficacy of government, the benefits of progress, and the dissolution of social mores. It remains as powerful a work of fiction today as it was upon its first publication in 1889.
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"CAMELOT - Camelot," said I to myself. "I don't seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely."
It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of flowers, and the buzzing of insects, and the twittering of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there was no stir of life, nothing going on. The road was mainly a winding path with hoof-prints in it, and now and then a faint trace of wheels on either side in the grass - wheels that apparently had a tire as broad as one's hand.
Presently a fair slip of a girl, about ten years old, with a cataract of golden hair streaming down over her shoulders, came along. Around her head she wore a hoop of flame-red poppies. It was as sweet an outfit as ever I saw, what there was of it. She walked indolently along, with a mind at rest, its peace reflected in her innocent face. The circus man paid no attention to her; didn't even seem to see her. And she - she was no more startled at his fantastic make-up than if she was used to his like every day of her life. She was going by as indifferently as she might have gone by a couple of cows; but when she happened to notice me, then there was a change! Up went her hands, and she was turned to stone; her mouth dropped open, her eyes stared wide and timorously, she was the picture of astonished curiosity touched with fear. And there she stood gazing, in a sort of stupefied fascination, till we turned a corner of the wood and were lost to her view. That she should be startled at me instead of at the other man, was too many for me; I couldn't make head or tail of it. And that she should seem to consider me a spectacle, and totally overlook her own merits in that respect, was another puzzling thing, and a display of magnanimity, too, that was surprising in one so young. There was food for thought here. I moved along as one in a dream.
As we approached the town, signs of life began to appear. At intervals we passed a wretched cabin, with a thatched roof, and about it small fields and garden patches in an indifferent state of cultivation. There were people, too; brawny men, with long, coarse, uncombed hair that hung down over their faces and made them look like animals. They and the women, as a rule, wore a coarse tow-linen robe that came well below the knee, and a rude sort of sandal, and many wore an iron collar. The small boys and girls were always naked; but nobody seemed to know it. All of these people stared at me, talked about me, ran into the huts and fetched out their families to gape at me; but nobody ever noticed that other fellow, except to make him humble salutation and get no response for their pains.
In the town were some substantial windowless houses of stone scattered among a wilderness of thatched cabins; the streets were mere crooked alleys, and unpaved; troops of dogs and nude children played in the sun and made life and noise; hogs roamed and rooted contentedly about, and one of them lay in a reeking wallow in the middle of the main thoroughfare and suckled her family. Presently there was a distant blare of military music; it came nearer, still nearer, and soon a noble cavalcade wound into view, glorious with plumed helmets and flashing mail and flaunting banners and rich doublets and horse-cloths and gilded spearheads; and through the muck and swine, and naked brats, and joyous dogs, and shabby huts, it took its gallant way, and in its wake we followed. Followed through one winding alley and then another - and climbing, always climbing - till at last we gained the breezy height where the huge castle stood. There was an exchange of bugle blasts; then a parley from the walls, where men-at-arms, in hauberk and morion, marched back and forth with halberd at shoulder under flapping banners with the rude figure of a dragon displayed upon them; and then the great gates were flung open, the drawbridge was lowered, and the head of the cavalcade swept forward under the frowning arches; and we, following, soon found ourselves in a great paved court, with towers and turrets stretching up into the blue air on all the four sides; and all about us the dismount was going on, and much greeting and ceremony, and running to and fro, and a gay display of moving and intermingling colors, and an altogether pleasant stir and noise and confusion.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so. -Wikipedia
Amy Sterling Casil is a 2002 Nebula Award nominee and recipient of other awards and recognition for her short science fiction and fantasy, which has appeared in publications ranging from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction to Zoetrope. She is the author of 28 nonfiction books, over a hundred short stories, three fiction and poetry collections, and three novels. Amy is a founding member and treasurer of Book View Café and former treasurer of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, and teaches writing and composition at Saddleback College. She is the founder of Chameleon Publishing.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a superb book and I highly recommend you check it out, so you may be wondering why I am reviewing this as one star only. This version of the nook book is busted, in the middle of chapter 39 (XXXIX) it cuts to an entirely different book! If this is what Barnes and Nobles is going to let happen to the nook this device will fail horribly.
Too many pages are missing or unreadable to even follow the story.
This is a great book... when it's more than three pages of the book! Seriously, this is seven pages of unreadable BS. Thanks for taking up storage space, ripoff! I'd give it zero if I could.
Entire book consisted of 7 pages, beginning on page 304 of the original book, followed by 305, 384, and then the End.
This version is part of Google's initiative to digitize books. It clearly has been scanned and had OCR (optical character recognition) run to convert to digital text, with NO PROOFING of the scan, leaving numerous incorrect characters - typically several words per page with errors. Very distracting to read.
Would love to read this sometime, but not this way.
There are just too many spelling mistakes in this version. I quit after only 2 pages. Hopefully you can find a better copy than this one.
There are 2 actual pages of almost unreadable words. Whole story is not here.
Plodded through this ebook. Wanted to read it because it was a classic but in finishing it, I've decided I'm not a big fan of social commentaries. Definitely had several humorous moments though and witty one-liners.
How about a refund?
If you are too full of yourself, or consider yourself of nobility, this book will give you an idea of Mark Twain's feeling about people like that. You have to not be too thin-skinned as he only thinly disguises his feelings. But the story is classic and a fun read as long as you recognize what Mark Twain is doing. A lot stretches the imagination, but in some cases that exercise is a good thing. It was not meant to be taken literally, since the premise is not actually possible, but is one man's opinion of what seemed to be wrong with the world. It's dressed in medieval garb, and a fun read. Don't miss this because of what others said - try it for yourself, and persevere through the entire book.
Hopefully this review is tied to the right file - the one with a portrait of Mark Twain.
Too many typos and "strange" symbols.
Not worth the storage space.
I was excited to read this book, but part of the story was cut off!
This book was ok. There were a bunch of typos which made it annoying. Some parts were exciting and others were just plain boring, but what really bothered me though is the way the author critisizes the Church!!! What he says is simply NOT true and the reader should not believe it. -someone who knows what she's talking about
Reads like to days stupid headlines. Twain would laugh American government today, and it's NEVER good to have Twain laughing at you!
Ok, so i havent read the book, but i have found that if one book like this doesnt have eveeything, then you find the exact same one and see which one is correct. Hope thisheelps!


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Approaches for Carbon Budget Analyses of the Siberian Forests
This report carried out by Timo Karjalainen and Jari Liski is a contribution to the analyses of carbon balances of the Siberian forests. The report contains two inter-linked sections. The aim of the first section was to develop a method to assess carbon budget for tree biomass at ecoregional level in Siberia. Tree biomass carbon budgets contain estimates on the initial amounts of carbon in the whole tree biomass, as well as its dynamics. The calculation method developed based on the structure of the Russian forest database at IIASA and available models describing tree growth and biomass allocation in Siberia. Calculated litter production is used as input for separate calculations on the soil organic matter carbon budget (Liski, 1997). Stand level analyses showed that the developed method describes vegetation carbon budget in a plausible manner. The stand level analyses are the platform for regional assessments. There are, however, several matters that should be taken into account in the regional assessments. These relate to stand structure, description of stand replacing disturbances, and availability of data. In the second section, different models describing the dynamics of organic C in forest soils were developed and then compared. The model judged to describe the dynamics of soil C in the most realistic way contains five compartments for different litter and three for soil organic matter (the so called soil C model). Temperature was considered the most important climatic factor that regulates the decomposition in boreal forests. The effective temperature sum with a +5 degree C threshold was chosen to describe the temperature impact on the decomposition. The application of the developed models was tested on the issues of impacts of species, harvesting intervals and harvesting residues left on the site. For a full-scale application of the developed soil carbon models for Siberia and Russia, the special features of permafrost soils and peatlands need to be added to the models.
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Once they were seated, the clerk turned the photo over and asked if Sikowitz recognized this person.
Bob Cratchit, the clerk who is the father of Tiny Tim and who meekly serves Scrooge, is paid fifteen shillings a week.
But at my visa appointment the clerk ripped my document, making it look like I had overstayed my visa.
Judge Hinkle said "the Constitution requires the clerk to issue such licenses."
The clerk was taking down the facts about her: name, address, age, and so on.
And what shall Wat Tyler do that is no clerk, but one itching for war?
I went to the clerk of the court and paid Captain Boomsby's fine.
"Ah, I see," interrupted the hotel proprietor, who also acted as clerk.
He had no taste for farming, and for two years had been a clerk in Captain Fishley's store.
I was awfully interested in seeing how the goat and the clerk got on.
"man ordained in the ministry," c.1200, from Old English cleric and Old French clerc "clergyman, priest; scholar, student," both from Church Latin clericus "a priest," noun use of adjective meaning "priestly, belonging to the clerus" (see cleric).
Modern bureaucratic usage is a reminder of the dark ages when clergy alone could read and write and were employed for that skill by secular authorities. In late Old English the word can mean "king's scribe; keeper of accounts;" by c.1200 clerk took on a secondary sense in Middle English (as the cognate word did in Old French) of "anyone who can read or write." This led to the sense "assistant in a business" (c.1500), originally a keeper of accounts, later, especially in American English, "a retail salesman" (1790). Related: Clerkship.
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The Morning Ledger: Corporate Bond Bonanza
The day ahead. It's weekly jobless claims Thursday. Last week claims fell below 400,000, but this week we may not be so lucky. We'll have to wait for the monthly report tomorrow to see if the unemployment rate falls below 9.2%. Retail chains will also be reporting same-store sales for July throughout the day. ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet will be speaking this morning as Europe trembles again. We'll see if there are any government bond-buying plans afoot. For earnings, we have GM, Kraft, Southwest Airlines, CVS Caremark and AIG.


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May 01, 1997 By Marjorie Richardson, Lydia Kinata and Przemek Klosowski
Mr. Klosowski tells us about his users group and why it is such a success.
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Hi! I had my closed septoplasty/rhinoplasty procedure May 1st and the 2 month mark is coming up soon. However, I still not quite happy with the width of the mid portion of my nose (its wider than before), I'm just really hoping its due to swelling since I do have oily skin (not sure if that affects swelling or not). Do you think its reasonable for me to expect for a huge amount of swelling to go down between 2-4 moths post op? Or am I stuck with this appearance as my final result? Thank you
Will Swelling Go Down a Lot Between 2-4 Months Post Rhinoplasty?
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Nasal Swelling Months After Rhinoplasty is Normal
No worries at 2 or even 4 months post-op. What we see as plastic surgeons is that swelling increases and decreased over the first year or so. You may able to feel the swelling as a "spongy" feel to the area. In general, nasal swelling resolves from top to bottom, so that the tip is the last area to remain swollen. You will see improvement over at least 12 months; most of the improvement is in the first 6-9 months. So, not to worry, and check with your surgeon! Best of luck.
Swelling after Rhinoplasty...
While a lot of the swelling after rhinoplasty subsides in the first two weeks, the swelling will continue to subside gradually over the next year. The skin acts like a shink wrap that gradually tightens over the revised cartilage structure underneath. This occurs over the course of a year. Simply take a picture now and take the same picture again in one year and you will notice a definite difference. Be sure to discuss your concerns with your surgeon. In some cases a steroid injection is needed to help with supratip swelling.
Learn more: http://www.AssociatesinPlasticSurgery.com
Swelling after a rhinoplasty
You are still very early in the post operative period and will need more time before you can judge the result of your rhinoplasty. Give it another 6 months and you will see some significant changes.
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Swelling After Rhinoplasty
While the swelling improves rapidly over the 1st month, about 20% of the swelling persists, and takes up to 12 months to resolve. The improvement is most rapid at the beginning, so you should see a lot of resolution between 2 and 4 months.
Swelling after Rhinoplasty
JD, your swelling will continue to improve with time. It may take a year for you see your final results. You should be sure to discuss your concerns with your rhinoplasty surgeon.
RhinoplAsty swelling.
This will go down relatively quickly but takes 1 year for the tip swelling to be finalized.
Will Swelling Go Down a Lot Between 2-4 Months Post Rhinoplasty?
The swelling will decrease significantly from 2 months to a year or more. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
Learn more: http://www.hughesplasticsurgery.com/Rhinoplasty.php
About swelling
You have to wait, it´s too soon to expect a final result, your nose will improve in the next months, I think that you´ll notice a change in swelling in the first six months, so, don´t get desperate, just follow your doctor´s indications and good luck with your recovery!!
Swelling after rhinoplasty
Your nose will still change a lot over the next six months or so. It is common for the middle third and tip to appear quite a bit wider at this point compared to where it will eventually settle once your nose has completely healed after your rhinoplasty.
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text: Hi Arnau, Jason Well, I guess I should consider myself happy to administer only small clusters. :) Now, how about the [terse] guidance in the Maui Admin Guide for large clusters? http://www.adaptivecomputing.com/resources/docs/maui/a.ilargeclusters.php And the [slightly more verbose] one for Torque: http://www.adaptivecomputing.com/resources/docs/torque/a.flargeclusters.php Would them help with scalability? Cheers, Gus Correa Jason Williams wrote: > I've noticed similar things when my cluster gets loaded too. I find it > annoying that if maui gets behind, and "misses" scheduler iterations, > because it's working on high job turn around, it has to catch up on the > missed iterations. Also, while maui is scheduling things, there is what > appears to be a type of global "lock" or block on all communications to > maui. So if you get very busy, and start missing many iterations, it > can sometimes be over 30 minutes to over an hour before maui starts > responding again. To users, this may look like a deadlock, but really, > when you look at the logs, maui is just going nuts trying to catch up. > > I've been meaning to look at the code to figure out what the heck is > going on, but I haven't had time. > > Basically, that's my long winded way of saying "I have seen this too, > Arnau." And that I don't really have a good way around it aside from > setting limitations as another member suggested. > > -- > Jason Williams > Sr. Systems Administrator > Homewood HPC Cluster > Johns Hopkins University > > On 9/28/2011 10:40 AM, Arnau Bria wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> we've been using torque/maui for a long time. Our initial cluster was >> about 50 nodes and now ~350 with 3k processors. >> >> It has been working fine since last cluster upgrade, when we added >> last 500 processors. Since then, maui client commands hang and we had >> to increase poll interval cause scheduling cycle took too much... Now, >> with a system with 3k running jobs and 3k in queue, we're facing more >> maui issues... >> >> So, we were wondering which are maui limits, if we have reached any of >> them and if anyone who already reached our limits could share his >> experience, on solving them, with us. >> >> we're running maui-3.3-1.x86_64. >> >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> Cheers, >> Arnau >> _______________________________________________ >> mauiusers mailing list >> mauiusers at supercluster.org >> http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers > > _______________________________________________ > mauiusers mailing list > mauiusers at supercluster.org > http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers


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So I finally managed to get my monk to 90 last night, so after a short delay caused by the creation of the new monk class in MoP, I'm now back to having a max level toon of each class.
My total played time to 90 on the monk was an unbelievable 2 days, 10 hours and 35 minutes. Certainly the xp buff from the monk daily quest plays a huge role in that, along with a new piece of heirloom gear.
By way of comparison, the last character that I leveled straight through to max level was my warrior at the beginning of Cataclysm, and at that point, it took a played time of 3 days, 23 hours (and also with full heirlooms, other than the pants, which didn't exist then).
So they've clearly done a lot to further streamline the leveling process.
So the downside of the speed up in the leveling process, is I didn't have to quest anywhere close to all the way through Dread Wastes before hitting 90, so even with the shiny new ilvl 450 staff that you get from the level 90 monk class quest, my ilvl is still sitting at 426 or so. So I'm not ready to jump right into heroics.
I've got a decent amount of JP accumulated though, so I'll see what I can do with that, craft some things on my leatherworker, and then see what 476 stuff is available for a decent price on the auction house, and hopefully that will do the trick.


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Now that the House ethics committee is discussing in private whether the 13 charges against Rep. Charles Rangel have any merit, we are in limbo.
What happens if Rangel is found guilty? What's the punishment?
NPR's Ken Rudin reviews possible penalties on his politics blog. He notes that the last time the House held a public ethics hearing, or trial, Democrat James Traficant was expelled from the House in 2002 after he was convicted on a variety of ethics charges.
Let's remember that Rangel is innocent until proven guilty. Rangel has said he has made some mistakes, but he's not corrupt. Ethics committee staff director Blake Chisam noted in today's hearing that there's enough evidence to decide the case.
Rudin points out other possible punishments besides expulsion. Censure, reprimand or a fine require a simple majority of the House. Expulsion takes a two-thirds vote.
Republican Newt Gingrich, when he was House speaker, was the first in the House's top leadership job to be reprimanded by the House, in 1997. Democrat Earl Hilliard of Alabama was rebuked in 2001 over misuse of campaign money.
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Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
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NASHVILLE, TENN.—The creator of a new Hidden Intelligence Tracking (HIT) technology is seeking crowdfunding under the auspices of helping users capture video proof that they are actually seeing ghosts, or other paranormal activity.
HIT creator Joe DiMare said with their image enhancing technology, anyone can shoot a 30-second video and submit it to have minor changes in light and motion amplified to reveal evidence of the paranormal. DiMare has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $49,999 by August 5 to speed the video rendering process and expand other computer capabilities so that more videos can be processed quicker.
"HIT shows the hidden details in your own videos," said DiMare. "It redefines the paranormal in our everyday lives."
The technology is being targeted at videographers, private detectives, students, educators, and anyone interested in "seeing a greater truth." DiMare said HIT utilizes the same techniques that astronomers use to discover new planets, but the rendering process for one short video requires an entire computer's capabilities for several days. The crowdfunding campaign will help create a rendering cluster so that multiple videos can be rendered simultaneously.
By creating a light- and motion-rendering cluster of computers, DiMare said he will have a "super-computer" ready to render several videos at once.
"I will be able to render multiple videos in one or two hours with the rendering cluster," said DiMare.
Supporters of the campaign will receive discounted rates on 30-second video rendering. For example, supporters who pledge $10 will receive 10 videos rendered, those who pledge $40 will receive 60 videos rendered, and those who pledge $80 will receive 125 videos rendered. All pledge levels come with a "Ghost Guarantee."
"With our Ghost Guarantee, we promise to find a ghost on your video if you follow our instruction video," said DiMare. "Let us help you see what is standing right in front of you."
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Wittenberg's Christmas market has an inimitable setting on the market square, framed by impressive town houses and the church where Luther used to preach, which also has a winged altar by Lucas Cranach the Elder. The historical buildings, bathed in warm light, give out a particular glow. With the festive programme, Advent here is still celebrated in full measure. Discover high quality and fantastic crafts in the city's magnificent Cranach courtyards at the market of beautiful things and the Christmas market.
Christmas market - Opening times
23 Nov - 22 Dec 2016
Daily: 11am - 8pm
Market of beautiful things (Markt der schönen Dinge): 25. - 27.11.2016, Fri 2pm - 8pm, Sun 11am - 7pm
Christmas market in the Cranach courtyards: 03./04.12.2016, Sat 2pm - 7pm, Sun from 11am
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