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It may be too early to know how George W Bush's state visit to London, the first ever by a US President, will playback in Peoria. But it seems that part of the America media, focusing on sporadic anti-American demonstrations in London, has decided to present it as a symbol of "global anger against the United States."
What has happened in London in the past few days, however, is more complex.
To be sure, London has witnessed a series of demonstrations in the past week or so. None, however, attracted more than a few hundred people, although the "final bouquet", fired at Trafalgar Square yesterday, brought together some 100,000 people according to the organisers.
Nevertheless, these demonstrations have been used as the basis for a variety of strange claims and arguments.
One claim is that the United States is now "extremely unpopular" even in Britain, its oldest and most steadfast ally.
That, however, is not what the latest polls show. One poll, conducted for the liberal-left daily The Guardian on the eve of Bush's visit, reveals a different picture. It shows that 62 per cent of the Brits regard the US as "generally speaking a force for good, not evil, in the world." Only 15 per cent agree with the suggestion that the US is an "evil empire".
The same poll shows that opposition to the war against terrorism has fallen by12 per cent since September. Today a majority of British voters, 51 per cent, believe that the war is justified.
Even the claim that Bush is "hated by a majority of the Brits" is proved false. The American leader is welcomed by 43 per cent of those polled as opposed to 36 per cent who say they would rather he had stayed home.
The polls results are backed by direct observation and anecdotal evidence. Anyone who toured the streets of London around Buckingham Palace, where the Bush couple were staying, could easily see that the anti-Americans were not the only ones in evidence.
As for the British media, the Bush visit reflected the traditional left-right divides.
The centrist and right-leaning papers welcomed Bush and ran editorials and columns endorsing the aims of the war on terrorism.
The left-leaning papers used the visit as a fresh occasion to denounce intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq. But even then the left-leaning segments of the British media manifested some unease.
There are two reasons fort this.
The first is that the anti-American demonstrations of recent days in London represent a bizarre alliance between the remnants of Marxist-Leninist left and militant Islamist groups. Many soft-left Brits are still uncomfortable with the idea of an alliance with reactionary Islamists who oppress women, massacre religious and other minorities, and bring God into the people's bedrooms.
The second reason for unease on the part of the soft-left is that it is hard to build a case for the return of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein to power. The playwright Harold Pinter, still bitter about the demise of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, has described Bush and Blair as " two war criminals" who "drink blood" at their tea-party. But how many are likely to take him seriously?
The placards claiming that Bush and Blair are "burning babies in Baghdad" are unlikely to do any better.
The anti-US demonstrations of the past few days in London are unlikely to have a lasting impact on Anglo-American relations.
Once the dust has settled Bush's visit may well be remembered for two things only.
The first is the speech Bush made at Whitehall in which he repeated his earlier linkage between US national security and the spread of democracy in the Middle East with greater clarity. It is interesting that much of the British media decided to treat it as nothing more than a clever speech to impress an audience of foreign policy buffs.
And yet the idea that the democratic nations cannot be safe for as long as there are tyrannies that sponsor and shelter terrorism is beginning to attract the attention of the average British voter. The slogan "war against terrorism" told only half the story. Bush's idea of putting the spread of democracy top of the agenda, tells the other half. Now the average British voter knows that he is not asked to fight only "against" something but also " for " something. This is a position that the traditional anti-American forces of the totalitarian left, and their new Islamist allies, would find increasingly hard to challenge.
The second thing that the Bush visit is likely to be remembered for is that it helped draw a clear distinction between two visions of the world.
One vision belongs to those who blame the Western democracies for all the ills of mankind and hate the United States for a variety of reasons. These are people who never protested when Saddam Hussein was filling all those mass graves in Iraq or when the Taliban were massacring the Hazara in Bamiyan. You will never see them demanding the release of political prisoners in Cuba itself but find them crying their hearts out for the Al Qaeda operatives held in Guntanamo Bay.
Another vision is defended by those who believe that fighting against tyranny ad terror is the fundamental political duty of all human beings, and that the most noble principles are ultimately meaningless unless defended by force if and when necessary.
The Marxist-Islamist alliance may well have done all of us a service this week in London. It has put the fight between open societies and their enemies into focus.
Amir Taheri is an Iranian author of 10 books on the Middle East and Islam. He's reachable through www.benadorassociates.com.


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Chemists, oceanographers, and geologists in the Coastal and Marine Program are presently conducting studies to determine the distribution, transport and fate of contaminated sediments in impacted estuaries around the nation. The work is conducted in collaboration with colleagues in academia, state and other federal agencies, and each regional study is tailored to meet the scientific and management needs of the region. Programs in the Gulf of Maine, Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bays, Long Island Sound, New York Bight, the 106-Mile Dump Site off New Jersey, Florida Bay, Lake Pontchartrain, the Farralon Islands, Honolulu Harbor, and Puget Sound are at various stages of maturity (see examples below). Additional regions are under study by staff from other field centers or are planned for the future.
Environmental managers in many of these regions frequently need to know the contaminant levels and sediment volumes in areas to be dredged or remediated, how long it will take for contaminated sediments to be isolated by burial with cleaner sediment as waters are cleaned, whether sediments left in place will clean themselves, whether material migrates or accumulates preferentially in certain locations, where best to locate monitoring sites, and what kind of risk the presence of contaminants in sediment may pose to human health, fisheries, ecosystem sustainability, or recreational use of an area. Our studies of the distribution, fate and transport of contaminants in coastal sediments has allowed us to help answer many of these questions. For others, such as issues of toxicity and characterization of sources of contaminants to the marine system, the Marine and Coastal Program can benefit from increased collaboration with specialists in complimentary fields.
These tools have been used to study pollutant transport and fate in a number of studies. Results from the Boston Harbor/ Massachusetts Bays Study, the Gulf of Maine Contaminated- Sediment Database Project, the Long Island Sound Environmental Study, and the investigation of Pollutant Transport in the Hudson Shelf Valley will be given as examples.
Despite the general decrease in metal concentrations in Boston Harbor surface sediments, contaminant levels are still of concern. The highest concentrations in the surface sediments are in the Inner Harbor; values decrease in the Outer Harbor and in Massachusetts Bay. The concentrations of Ag and Hg (two characteristic contaminants) measured at some outer harbor stations in 1993 were still above the level associated with frequent adverse effects to marine organisms and concentrations of additional metals were in the range considered to occasionally induce adverse biological effects. USGS measurements have also helped define the scale and impact of natural variability in measurements of contaminants; which is helping managers identify anthropogenic impacts and better assess the need for remediation.
The highest metal concentrations in surface sediments occur where high sediment accumulation rates coincide with a nearby source. Boston Harbor is a source of contaminated sediment to Massachusetts Bay and offshore areas; the halo effect that is seen around all urban areas that we have studied is typified by elevated metal concentrations in surface sediments where both Boston and Salem Harbors enter the Bay. A layer of sediment (30-160 cm in thickness) that has metal concentrations nearly an order of magnitude above background values is present in depositional areas throughout the region. In erosional or non-depositional areas, patchy contaminant concentrations reflect natural variability in the sedimentary substrate. The distribution of Ag and Clostridium perfringens in sediment cores suggests that Cape Cod Bay, 50 km southeast of the harbor mouth, is a long-term sink for fine-grained sediment and sewage-derived contaminants. Sediments are resuspended and carried by currents southwest to Cape Cod Bay, where they are deposited and protected by the tip of Cape Cod from strom waves that casue subsequent resuspension.
Our database of existing data on chemical contaminant concentrations in sediment for the Gulf of Maine region has been compiled with the collaboration and cooperation of many scientists, agencies, and institutions. The database contains data on chemical constituents and sample identification from published and gray literature sources plus comments about the "quality" and degree of certainty of the data. Its usefulness relies on: collaborative effort among data generators and data users, "user-friendlly" computer tools, documentation that meets the needs of a variety of users, graphics and search capabilities for active use as a scientific tool, and 5) the ability to grow and evolve. Over 6200 sediment samples are documented.
The concentrations of metal and organic contaminants are being used to create maps and interpretations of contaminant distributions in the region. Sample density is not uniform in the Gulf of Maine: samples are concentrated in urban, coastal locations and targeted study areas, such as U.S.-EPA designated National Estuaries. Concentrations of metal contaminants in surface sediments range from background values to anthropogenically enhanced values that are up to three orders of magnitude above natural concentrations. The highest contaminant values in surface sediments are located near urban areas, with decreasing values seaward. The patchy distribution of contaminant concentrations for bulk sediments at many spatial scales in the Gulf of Maine reflects patchiness in both contaminant sources and sedimentary regimes. The database and related sedimentary -environment maps provide a growing body of data that is being be used for scientific and management purposes, such as locating monitoring sites for EPA.
Sediment cores were collected for geochemical analysis in 1996 at 55 stations along N-S transects; grab samples provided additional coverage. Core and surface samples are being analyzed for magnetic susceptibility, density, texture and concentrations of Clostridium perfringens , major elements, and contaminants (e.g. Ag, Pb, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg, and selected organics). Eventually, radiochemical dates will allow historical horizons to be identified so that contaminant accumulation rates and mobility can be determined.
LIS sediments are generally muddy in the west with a transition to coarser textures in the east; elevated contaminant concentrations follow the pattern of being present in muddier sediments. Sediment accumulation rates in some nearshore areas are enhanced by anthropogenic activity. Since C. perfringens is a bacteria present in the intestinal tract of mammals, its spores are an excellent tracer of past and present sewage input into an ecosystem. C. perfringens profiles in cores indicate that values up to 1000 times greater than background occur to sediment depths of 30 cm at many relatively muddy sites offshore of urban centers. Cores located in coarser sediments under areas that have strong bottom currents have nearly constant contaminant values over this depth interval, suggesting that heavy sediment reworking and winnowing occurs. Sewage is often a major source of other contaminants in coastal waters so the C. perfringens measurements provide a valuable screening tool for the magnitude and distribution of other contaminants.
Contaminant concentrations measured in LIS sediments indicate widespread and long-term addition of anthropogenic components to this sedimentary system. Values in surface sediments are well above background everywhere in the sound except the easternmost sands and gravels and down-core profiles indicate that the highest concentrations often occur near the surface. These findings indicate that local management strategies will impact the overall quality of LIS and that efforts to reduce contaminant sources are not yet resulting in decreased loading to the sediments.
Concentrations of contaminants (e.g., metals such as Ag, Cu and Zn, C. perfringens spores, and organic carbon) and physical properties (magnetic susceptibility, density, grain size, color, odor) measured in cores and surface-grab samples taken in 1993- 1996 indicate that a sewage signal is present in Hudson Shelf Valley (HSV) surface sediments nearly 100 km from the dumpsite. Measurements in cores show that a lens of sludge-derived sediment was deposited in the upper 25 km of the HSV and is now buried in some places under a thin layer of cleaner sediment. The spatial and depth extent of this lens of anthropogenic sediment were mapped using sub-bottom profiler data; it contains a minimum of 6 cubic km of sediment having metal concentrations sufficiently high to cause toxic effects in test organisms.
Sedimentation rates in the uppermost portion of the shelf valley are extremely high, up to 2 cm/yr, apparently due to winnowing of fine-grained material from the shallower (and sandy) surrounding shelf and deposition of the fines in the deepening valley. Mixed layer depths extend into the "sludge" lens and allow this material to remain accessible to benthic organisms and available for remobilization despite cessation of dumping.
Metal concentrations measured over time and "downstream" confirm that sediment is actively migrating down the HSV. Sediment profiles of metals and textural laminations suggest that episodic resuspension occurs during storm events and allows the HSV to be a conduit for movement of modern fine-grained sediment and urban wastes to the deep ocean. The deposition of sewage material, and its accompanying contaminants, in the NY Bight occurs on a much larger scale than near smaller urban centers. However, identification of the relative importance of various transport and remobilization processes for contaminants here can help guide studies and regulation elsewhere.
ten Brink, Marilyn Buchholtz, U.S. G.S., Woods Hole,
For the last 5 years, Dr. ten Brink has been a geochemist in the Coastal and Marine Program of the Geological Division. Her work in the marine system has focused on mobility of radioisotopic tracers across the sediment water interface, processes related to formation and diagenesis of marine cherts, and the fate and transport of pollutants in coastal waters and sediments. Other work addressed transport of radioactive wastes in tuffaceous rock. Her expertise on trace elements and contaminant transport processes, sediment-water interactions, and interdisciplinary studies of natural systems has developed during 20 years of stiving to understand the exchange processes for these compounds between solid, colloid, aqueous and biological phases; diagenesis at the sediment/water interface in marine and lacustrine environments; and integration of water and sediment dynamics with geochemical processes.

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Instead of flying, Chicago food additive specialist Clark "Sparky" Griswold (Chevy Chase) loads his wife Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo), son Rusty (Anthony Michael Hall), and daughter Audrey (Dana Barron) into their new metallic pea green Wagon Queen Family Truckster and heads for Walley World in Los Angeles, California. Clark has the route all mapped out, a list of interesting sites to see along the way, and good intentions for a funfilled family vacation. Unfortunately, in the Griswold world, things don't always (in fact, never) go as planned.
Vacation is based on a short story, "Vacation '58", by American screenwriter John Hughes that appeared in National Lampoon Magazine. Hughes supposedly based it on a fictionalized account of his own family's ill-fated trip to Disneyland when Hughes was a boy. Due to the success of the movie, it was followed by National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Vegas Vacation (1997), and the 14-minute video short Hotel Hell Vacation (2010). A sixth Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (2003) aired on NBC but only features Randy Quaid as Cousin Eddie.
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From: "Allan Raymond" <>
Subject: FreeBMD Newsletter - March 2013
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:02:56 -0000
You may possible receive two copies of this Newsletter, please delete the Newsletter which doesn't show correct formatting of the tables?
This monthly Newsletter is mainly for Coordinators but can be freely forwarded to their transcribers if thought appropriate.
The previous FreeBMD Newsletter - February 2013 can be found at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FREEBMD-SYNDICATES/2013-02/1361839917 .
Please feel free to send me your comments and in particular if you would like me to include other items in future Newsletters?
2.1 Mocavo
FreeBMD have agreed a partnership with Mocavo which enables the latter's search engine capability to include FreeBMD records in its search results. To see the results of any FreeBMD records found using the Mocavo search engine researchers will be pointed to the FreeBMD search result page similar to if you searched FreeBMD direct.
Use of Mocavo will be free and it should be understood that they are providing a search engine capability to our records. FreeBMD retain full control of records transcribed by our volunteers.
If you require further information about Mocavo, please visit their Home Page at: http://www.mocavo.com/ .
For further details about the FreeBMD partnership with Mocavo please visit their Bog at: http://blog.mocavo.com/ and type FreeBMD in the search box.
Just my own personal opinion at the moment I find using the FreeBMD search facility somewhat easier than using Mocavo to locate the same records on FreeBMD, however Mocavo comes into its own when searching for information over a wide field of genealogy databases.
2.2 WinBMD
WinBMD is available for download at: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/addons/ .
The latest version of WinBMD is at least 7.4.0.
2.3 MacBMD
I'm sorry I can't give an update on the current position regarding a replacement for the current version of MacBMD.
We are still waiting further information from Peter to enable the new version to be made available via the FreeBMD site.
I received the following feedback from one of our Coordinator colleagues to my February 2013 Newsletter and I thought it would be useful to share with other Coordinators to see if they are experiencing the same concerns?
"Whilst I do have the Recruiting Box ticked, and have had so for a while now, I have noticed particularly over the last year or so, the number of people enquiring has been dropping for some time. In the last two months, I am sure I have had only the three messages from people looking to transcribe, and nothing came out of any of them.
Going back to the last year, I did have twenty one people sign up, and get at least one page transcribed, and uploaded. However, almost half of these have already stopped transcribing, and it will not surprise me if several more of them go before this year is out.
Onto existing transcribers, I still do have a few active transcribers, but the number I have is at an all time low (currently 56), and people seem to be leaving faster than what I have in new ones joining up. The previous time I would have seen the number of active transcribers this low will go back to the time I first became a co-ordinator. For a number of these who have been around for a while, I have noticed that the amount of transcribing done is gradually dropping.
Do not know what things are like with other syndicates, but the above are the things that I have noticed with my one over recent times"
Any thoughts from other Coordinators?
4. CHECKING PROCESSES WITHIN FreeBMD
There are a number of checking processes in FreeBMD some of which are shown on our Transcribers' Page at: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/vindex.shtml.
4.1 Suspect Files
The latest "Suspect Files" report at http://www.freebmd.org.uk/SuspectFiles.html dated 20/03/2013 included 17 suspect files (a small increase from the 16 listed in the February 2013 Newsletter).
However 10 of the files have been cleared since the report was run which leaves a balance of 7 files to be resolved.
Broken down into the following possible problems
Row Labels Count of Problem
Unexpected number of entries, 4
Possible alternative name (alias/or) at lines 3
Grand Total 7
spread amongst these Syndicates:
Row Labels Count of Syndicate(s)
The NWL Syndicate 2
Red Rose 1
Richard Oliver 1
Free Loaders 1
Chris M's Syndicate 1
Grand Total 7
And my famous last words, collectively we should be able to reduce this number to close to zero by the time of the April 2013 Newsletter (will be sent out around about 22 April).
If any Coordinator thinks any of their file(s) are listed in the Suspect Report in error and they believe the file(s) are a correct transcription and/or compliant with FreeBMD rules please email the ADDRESS given at the top of the Suspect Files Report.
4.2 UCF Usage Statistics
Another of our quality checking processes is "UCF Usage Statistics" report at: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/UCFusage.html.
This list those files which for a number of reasons have high UCF content (which was arbitrarily set at 10% some three years or so ago when we first introduced the report). The % figure relates to the number of UCF characters in the file when compared to the total number of characters.
Details of any files which legitimately can be superseded by another file should be sent to Barrie at the email address shown in
The latest "UCF Usage Statistics" report at: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/UCFusage.html dated 23/03/2013 included 770 files (an identical figure to the 770 on 23/02/2013 ) spread amongst these 19 Syndicates.
Row Labels Count of Syndicate
Beautiful BC (Canada) 255
ScribeScan 131
Free Loaders 108
John Slann 91
Judith Parker 62
The Recordsmiths 44
The Hundred Acre Group 30
Brian's Scan Syndicate 15
Gandalf UK 9
The NWL Syndicate 4
Ian Brooke 3
Chris M's Syndicate 2
Web Scan 2
David Lyons 1
Brunette Syndicate 1
The MacPack 1
The Daly Family 1
Grand Total 770
In a lot of instances the files have high UCF's due to the poor scans which were available at the time of transcription. In the vast majority of instances we now have alternative and better quality scans which should help to improve the quality of the files.
Please visit the appropriate scan pages at:
to check if alternative scans are now available.
I am aware that some of the available scans are not of sufficient quality to be able to improve the transcription of some of the files showing in the UCF report.
4.3 #COMMENT and #THEORY Suspect Error Report
On 16 March 2012 Barrie Archer mentioned on the Syndicates List the introduction of a new report which lists those files which possibly may have #COMMENT and #THEORY errors.
The report is at: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/SuspectFilesComments.html and at present is updated on an almost daily basis.
Please also see Barrie's posting on the Syndicates List at:
If a file is listed in the report and it believed to be a correct transcription and/or compliant with FreeBMD rules please mail the address shown at the top of
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/SuspectFilesComments.html .
In particular, it is important that Coordinators take on board the suggestion by Barrie about reporting quarters which appear not have any aliases of the form "X or Y" but all the aliases have been "expanded" on two lines (as FreeBMD does).
Please see http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/FREEBMD-SYNDICATES/2012-11/1352450592 for details.
The report at: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/SuspectFilesComments.html dated 26/03/2013 included 11383 files (this is a decrease of 1078 from the figure of 12461 on 23/02/2013 ) .
The 11383 files are broken down into following possible problems
Row Labels Count of Problem
Possible missing comment for alias 8051
Possible missing alias entry 1123
Suspect format for comment/theory 652
Wrong event for alias 489
Alias comment on only one entry 471
COMMENT or THEORY at start of page 369
Comment refers to another entry 168
Unexpected number of entries 27
Comment appears to have (N) incorrectly 19
Possible invalid alias 9
Possible alternative name (alias/or) 5
Grand Total 11383
spread amongst these Syndicates:
Row Labels Count of Syndicate(s)
Pat Savage 2390
Free Loaders 2215
The Recordsmiths 1343
The Aussie Scribe Tribe 787
Ted Southcombe 604
John Pingram 591
bmj2004 589
Barry Dinnage 337
Web Scan 325
Brian's Scan Syndicate 292
Gandalf UK 196
All Scan 166
The NWL Syndicate 149
The Fellwanderers 144
Jeff Coleman Syndicate 115
Yorkscan 97
Yorkshire Volunteers 92
Nova Scotia 92
The MacPack 89
Beautiful BC (Canada) 82
Orphan Syndicate 63
Ian Brooke 49
LifeScribes 47
John Slann 44
Judith Parker 43
Richard Oliver 43
ScribeScan 29
Brunette Syndicate 25
David Lyons 22
Peter Sheardown 16
Scan2 11
Rosemary Davis (Canada) 8
Chris M's Syndicate 7
Red Rose 6
Western Oz Synd 4
The Hundred Acre Group 3
Christine's Crew 2
John Pain 2
Julie Lehmann, Australia, downunder! 1
1837Births 1
Debz Syndicate, N.Z 1
MortalSyn 1
1900 Births 1
Grand Total 11383
I do appreciate it is a massive task for some of the Syndicate Coordinators to sort out the files as I know full well from personal experience since some of the syndicates shown in the list are under my control.
As part of each syndicates quality control they should be advising their volunteers of the correct way to deal with #COMMENT or #THEORY especially where the problem relates to entries in the index which have alternative names etc.
5.1 Number of Records in Database
Please see http://www.freebmd.org.uk/vol_faq.html#13k for an explanation on the difference between total, distinct and unique records.
The number of records in the database on 23 March 2013 (the last database update) was:
Total No of Records = 287,271,583
No of Distinct Records = 227,309,107
No of Unique Records = 224,770,379
which represents the following increases in records since the previous reported update on 23 February 2013
Total Records = 1,348,528 (equates to 48,162 records per day which is an encouraging 10.8% increase from the 43,466 records per day achieved for the update run on 23 February 2013 )
Distinct Records = 1,028,926
Unique Records = 1,015,981
It may be of interest to note using the approach mentioned in http://www.freebmd.org.uk/vol_faq.html#13k that as at 23 March 2013 we had double keyed 62,501,204 records (= Total minus Unique) of which 2,538,728 records (= Distinct minus Unique) are mismatched. In due course we will have to start looking at these mismatches to further improve the quality of our database.
5.2 Transcriber Contributions
On 23 March 2013 (date of last database update) there were 11,858 volunteers registered on FreeBMD of these volunteers 68 have not uploaded one single record since they joined FreeBMD.
826 transcribers (which is down from the 1059 on 23 February 2013 ) uploaded 20 or more records to the database between 23 February 2013 and 23 March 2013 helping to increase the database by 1,348,528 records between these same two dates.
5.3 Syndicates and New Volunteers
Of the 65 Syndicates registered on FreeBMD 30 of these are still active whilst most of the non active Syndicates ceased activity many years ago.
The ceased Syndicates are nominally under my control and any outstanding allocations given to these Syndicates were completed using a team of transcribers from the ceased Syndicates or seconded from the active Syndicates.
The number of Syndicates accepting new volunteers fluctuates on a daily basis and there were 14 Syndicates on 28 March 2013 who had opened their doors to new volunteers.
Between the two updates on 23 February 2013 and 28 March 2013 , 19 new volunteers joined FreeBMD spread amongst 9 different Syndicates.
It may be of interest to note that during the last twelve months 29 March 2012 to 28 March 2013 , 248 new volunteers joined FreeBMD spread amongst 20 different Syndicates. However this does signify that about 8 Syndicates who I consider to be quite active in transcribing have not taken on any new volunteers during the last twelve months
At the present time all events and years have been allocated up to and including year 1969.
Some Syndicates are keen to transcribe handwritten scans and any new allocations for this type of work will mean double keying. However this option is quickly drying up as we running out of available quarters to allocate.
I closely monitor the Progress Charts at: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/progress.shtml and liaise with Coordinators where there appears to be no activity between database updates in completion of particular allocations.
At present I am liaising with nine different Coordinators regarding outstanding pages although some requests are as recent as yesterday/today.
The situation on my requests as of today is below.
Year/Quarter/Event Syndicate Request Sent No of days Request Outstanding
1952/March/Marriages ScribeScan 18/05/2012 315
1855/June/Marriages Brunette Syndicate 03/09/2012 207
1940/March/Births The MacPack 25/02/2013 32
1943/June/Births John Pingram 25/02/2013 32
1924/September/Marriages ID4 28/02/2013 29
1944/June/Marriages Brian's Scan Syndicate 04/03/2013 25
1959/June/Births Gandalf UK 21/03/2013 8
1844/December/Deaths Free Loaders 24/03/2013 5
1897/December/Marriages Web Scan 24/03/2013 5
1945/March/Births Free Loaders 25/03/2013 4
1853/December/Deaths John Pingram 28/03/2013 1
It may be worthwhile having a couple of dedicated fast but accurate transcribers within the Syndicate to complete these odd page requests from me, this will reduce the amount of time involved in me having to revisit several times the progress of my earlier requests.
One Coordinator has agreed I can arrange to complete outstanding transcription of index pages in allocations given to the Syndicate. These are allocations in which the Syndicate is no longer actively working on. The process is quite straightforward, I advise the Coordinator there are outstanding pages in a particular event/quarter and the Coordinator either gives or declines my offer to arrange transcription of the outstanding pages. I then arrange for a transcriber under my control to complete the outstanding pages and advise the Coordinator when they have been been completed.
Allan Raymond
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First finished version of Clipperton Island article. It's an obscure topic obviously but hopefully I've made it somewhat funny anyway. StupidBunny 20:50, June 25, 2011 (UTC)
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! STUPID BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNY!!!!!!!!!!! --ShabiDOO 19:48, July 7, 2011 (UTC)
|How are you stupidbunny? Ive pee reviewed an article of yours before, youve been featured and Im pretty sure you are a no nonsense guy. So, Ill give it to you straight. I like the article but it needs big time work. I only review stuff I like/think is worth reviewing/can give suggestions for...so dont take the direct stuff bad. I know for sure this article can be better and your good sense of humour and irony and turn this into something easily featur-able.
I like the article during moments and I definitely laughed a few times...there were LOL moments...though the humour is a little all over the place at times and kind of runs out of steam halfway through. I also found the article started of as a wikipedia parody and then turned into a "hey look how stupid this place is" and them became a slightly strange melt down in the style of a "animals over run the place and the Island is just garbage and who gives a shit about it". Im not sure those three styles mix at all. The humour is lost in these style changes and lack of direction. Well, here is a run down of how I saw the humour section by section.
Intro: One of these three things...funny. Separate the two ideas of that sentence though, for instance: Clipperton Island has at least one of these three things. It is the smallest tiny isolated uninhabitable spit of land with nothing on it in the world that still has citizens.
The french occupation part is cute though undeveloped. Light house part can be funny though could use rewriting. I didnt really find the last sentence funny. Geography and Climate: First sentence good and funny. The rest of the paragraph, also good and funny. GOOD AND FUNNY PARAGRAPH STUPID BUNNY!! The second paragraph is funny, though the last little bit about raindrops, is a little cheesy. History: "fuck theres nothing here" is a little expected. I think you can come up with something a little more creative. Sorry, I cant think of any suggestions. The next part is kind of cute. The rest of the section is kind of funny, it reminds me a lot of the book "Cats Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut as with the rest of the article. Read that book if you haven't. You'll like it very much based on your writing.
Mexican Colonisation:This section is much like the anterior ones, they are funny in the sense that you are repeating how useless the place is and that no country really cares about it and people suffer living there. While each idea in itself is funny, there seems to be a missing progression which I dont think would be so difficult to construct. For instance...you could show that the Mexicans cared at first, then had problems, then failed to care, then aggressively wanted the island destroyed and then wanted to pay the french to obliterate it. While this might not be the best example of how to do it, at least there is a story line or idea that follows throughout the section. Otherwise, you just have a bunch of funny ideas and ironic/sarcastic historical moments, though without any structure (i.e. I could switch around all the sentences and it really wouldnt change anything in the section). If you added some idea/progression then the humour would go from cute to funny. A great idea would make it LOL.
Economy: Same as the last paragraph...though very short. This adds nothing to the article. Its cute...but needs serious expansion to be justified and to NOT be cut.
French Administration: Again, just like the three anterior paragraphs, while its ironically cute and cutely ironic, its not particularly funny and again is a secession of sentences explaining how stupid the island is and why no one cares about it. And the comments about the French dictator and about Sarkozy are confusing.
Illegal Immigration: Sorry but at this point the article totally degrades into a random and bizarre secession of strange, and not so funny events, that also contradict the tone and story line of the anterior sections.
In popular culture: Cute. Not funny though. Strange way to end the article
|In the humour section I touched on the structure/concept of the various sections in your article. As you probably guessed, I found myself unable to guess what it is you are trying to do/convey/say in this article. This doesnt mean that you dont have good ideas, funny moments and in general something written which could be transformed rather effortlessly into an article with a clear structure/idea/concept, its just that I don't see it there now. From what I have read so far...this is what I get: "The island is a stupid place, with lame people, fought over by horrible people who gave up on the place, and its still stupid." Theres nothing wrong about that idea, its just, thats not a concept. I could replace that Island with any other Island in the world and the article would make as much sense. I could jumble everything around in the article and nothing would really change. Why is this stupid place worth reading about? What about it is so extra stupid and lame that not only do I care to read about it, but I will also find funny, more funny than all the other articles here about things that are also stupid and lame. The French and Mexicans are always lame, how are they particular extra lame in the case of dealing with this island?
Possible ideas: 1. An easy, though not amazing concept, would be to add some sort of mystique to the Island. It is a special place with a soul of its own that caters to no one. The Island has always been meant to be its own place, no one who arrives will ever change anything, no matter their intent, and it will always be that way (not too different yet to what you wrote), except that it also seems to draw people there and make them want to conquer it (think of it like some wild guy that a woman always wants to change and is attracted to him, even though nothing she will ever do will change him). Make the two things apparent and run that though the article. Thats one idea.
2. Give SOME reason why people want to be on the island, but make it hard to guess and difficult to obtain. There has to be a reason why people want to be on the Island even thought its awful. Perhaps people are too stupid to ever find it or figure it out. But make us guess what it is. Make it draw the reader deeper into the article even if you never say what it is.
3. Make the history of the Island mirror the history of something else. Think...the colonisation, revolution and independence of the United states. Except...that this island is the total opposite and that no one really cares about it and it is the outside forces that make that happen. Make the people resist every moment until the end (i.e. the natives are BEGGING for colonisation). The natives LOVE to submit. The colonialists LOVE paying taxes. They dont want a revolution but are forced into it. They do not want to unite as colonies into one nation. They RESIST an independent economy. They welcome any force that will remove them of an independent nationhood. (though...make it very clear that this is mirroring the history of the united states without explicitly saying, hey...im writing an article here that is mirroring the history of the united states.
There is no reason why you cannot incorporate these three sections while having to chop out much of what youve written (especially the first sections). In any case, do consider doing away with the whole plague of animals and garbage stuff. It goes beyond absurd and doesn't add anything to the article.
Different review:
Another way I thought of approaching the review of this article was how you mix three styles. On one hand you begin with a fairly good and funny encyclopedic style...but then turn it into a narrative, the weird and stupid story of stupid people on a stupid Island which finally becomes a garbage trashing fest of the place with animals. If you aren't interested in adding a theme/idea/concept such as those suggested above...then consider keeping the article STRICTLY as an encyclopedias style article. That would mean rewriting the whole second half in the style of the first keeping the witty comments about the island. Though you would have to make the article as any geographical article of wikipedia follows: Intro, History, Politics, Economy, Transportation/Communication, Culture, Legal System/Education, Demographics etc...
I seriously suggest doing one or the other (i.e. adding an idea/concept or making it a straight wikipedia like article without digressing too much into the absurd or the "this is just a stupid place with garbage people").
|Prose and formatting:
|Apart from that mentioned above, such as the lack of structure and the sentences all over the place (though again the first half is not badly written at all and a couple sections are great) theres not much more to say about the prose, I didnt see any real mistakes, and some are really well written and funny.
|Sorry, I really dont see any of these images as working well in the article. Unless you decide to go with the encyclopedic style in which case the first image is okay. I find the pirate a little cheesy and the rest of the images kind of bland. The images you choose (if you add new images or change the ones you have) will depend on how you plan to construct your article, though I do find the captions cute and consistent in your ironic style.
|Ten points for encouragement.
|Final Score:
|So...again dont take any of this the wrong way. I am not trashing your article at all. I am just saying that your funny ideas (and a couple really well written sections) need cohesion, structure, a narrative or any consistency and the over the top absurdity at the end should probably go. I know for a fact that once you get some extra idea into the article, that your great sense of irony and humour will come out stronger and that this article will be funny and well worth reading! Let me know if you don't understand anything here, or need some suggestions or ideas or want to rape me with a dried cannelloni noodle. --ShabiDOO 02:57, July 9, 2011 (UTC)
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Some weeks I stare at the newsstand in despair, struggling to care about anything on offer. Other weeks I'm paralysed with indecision because everything looks sooooo good. This week is a soooooo good week. And I'd have spent longer agonising about which magazine to buy, but I'm worried the local newsagent is going to ban me for loitering (and furtively taking photos of his merchandise). So I made a snap decision and spent the 15-minute walk home consumed by buyer's regret. I panicked that I'd purchased the wrong magazine and that I'd have to go back and get another one and then pffft there's $10 gone.
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WHO magazine has one of those damn Kardashians on the cover again. She's lost weight, I think. Now I know the editor, Nicky Briger, was waxing lyrical in the Sunday papers about how well the Kardashians sell, but I'm over them. Ever since Famous magazine tricked me with a Kim Kardashian plastic surgery cover, I've declared myself a Kardashian-free zone.
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TV Week has a corker cover. Downton Abbey, plus stalkers, family rifts and lost love for The Voice stars. But I just couldn't come at the "Marriage & Death" main coverline, it felt too brutal for 6.30am on a Monday morning. Perhaps I'll feel stronger later in the week.
NW looks fabulous on the stands. Lots of sparkling water and tanned skin – mighty appealing in the middle of a Sydney winter. It seems Miley Cyrus has been caught cavorting with a bloke in a Miami swimming pool and NW is wondering if the engagement is at risk. Yah-huh. From the very moment Liam slipped the ring on that flibbertigibbet's finger.
But it was the grand dames – New Idea and Woman's Day - that fought the final battle for my $4. Both are really on their game at the moment. And I'm loving what their renewed competitive spirit is delivering to readers.
Woman's Day looks gorgeous, all light and lovely. I'm struggling a teensy bit to care about Princess Mary popping out a fifth baby. But she looks pretty and all the other cover stories are winners. My special favourite is the Sylvania Waters 20th anniversary special – oh my gawd, can you believe it's been that long? I'm also intrigued by INXS' Michael Hutchence daughter Tiger Lily being the spitting image of her late dad. And 25 soup recipes is pretty damn enticing – in fact, I'd have been tempted to put it in a more prominent position on the cover.
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Also, there's a 50 Shades of Grey "new book extract". People have been in my ear about 50 Shades of Grey for ages. But I just can't bring myself to read something that sounds so truly awful (even if it would make me all tingly downstairs). An extract will do just nicely for making me sound knowledgeable in the playground. And I'm fascinated by Christine Anu dropping 5 dress sizes, but I'm simultaneously concerned about her diet including three eggs a day. Can't be healthy, can it? I was also intrigued by the Revenge lovers, wondering who was avenging who with sex, until I belatedly realised they were talking about the stars of a TV series. Ah well, the pics are nice and pervy anyway.
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Narendra Modi's keynote at Shree Ram College of Commerce yesterday was carried live, in its entirety, by most news channels. That's the story of news television; the medium will always focus on the most notable live story.
With newspapers, which in their physical form, have a once a day refresh, there is no such compunction. They have the luxury to look at a bank of stories which they analyse and arrive at the list of front page stories and the relative weightage given to each story.
How do newspapers view Narendra Modi's speech? How important was it to them?
This morning, barring a few newspapers, it was the lead story on the front page.
There were some notable exceptions. The Hindu, for example, didn't mention Modi on the front page. If you wondered why, as CNN-IBN editor did, this is what The Hindu's editor Siddharth Vardarajan (@svaradarajan) said in response on twitter "We refuse to be part of the herd. Every story on our p1 was far more newsworthy than a speech by a CM to a Delhi college."
Which were the front page stories that The Hindu felt were more important than Modi's speech? The lead story was Chidambaram's comment on the army and AFSPA, the second was a story on the Sebi-Sahara imbroglio and the third focused on the violence in a dalit hostel in Patna which was ignored by Patna University officials.
Mid-Day was another paper which ignored Modi. Not just on the front page, but completely. "Publishing a Narendra Modi news item - especially Wednesday's speech in New Delhi - on Page 1 is based upon two assumptions: one, that Mr Modi will be the Prime Ministerial candidate for the NDA; and two, that he will indeed become PM after the next general election. Both are, well, assumptions," Sachin Kalbag, editor, Mid-Day, said to Firstpost.
"We did not have Mr Modi on Page 1 because chief ministers make speeches all the time. It is part of their job. I don't remember taking a Maharashtra CM's speech ever on our Page 1, even though we are a city newspaper and our state CM's speech may be considered far more relevant to our readers. For that matter, we rarely take a CM's speech even on the inside pages. Our news approach to speeches is that unless there is a policy announcement in them that affects lakhs of our readers, or they represent landmark events, we don't analyse them. This is true for the PM, the state CM, Mr Modi, or anybody else," Kalbag added.
So Varadarajan might have carried it on the front page – if there were no more newsworthy stories. Kalbag would not have in any circumstances.
So how did the other newspapers see it? Take a look. The surprise is Times of India, especially the Ahmedabad edition.
Published Date: Feb 07, 2013 04:44 pm | Updated Date: Feb 07, 2013 04:44 pm
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Win.Privacy is a small tool designed to block some the information collecting Windows services. Win.Privacy's user interface is minimalistic making it very simple for anyone to use. All that you need to do is click the Fix Privacy Issues button, and it goes ahead and blocks the windows services. Once that action has completed, you can click the Open Hosts File button to see what Win.Privacy has altered. Now this isn't going to make you 100% secure from Microsoft viewing some of your personal information, but it does provide you with an added amount of protection.
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This exhibit demonstrates the motor effect. When an electrical current passes through a magnetic field there is a force on the charges that make up the current. If those charges happen to be trapped in a wire, there is a force on the wire. In this exhibit the visitor touches a wire to a copper disk which sits between the poles of a large magnet. The current (electrons) flows from the edge of the disk to the center of the disk. If contact with the disk is made such that current flows through the magnetic field, the disk starts to spin.
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Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins endured a frustrating start to his Tour of Oman challenge on Monday as he finished last on the stage, more than a minute behind German winner Marcel Kittel.
Former Tour De France champions Australian Cadel Evans and Alberto Contador of Spain, as well as Belgian world champion Philippe Gilbert, arrived in the peloton, gaining a useful early advantage over Olympic time-trial champion Wiggins.
The colourful British rider was delayed by a pile-up in the last few kilometres of the 162-kilometre stage and finished one minute 30 seconds adrift of the leaders.
Kittel, who rides for Argos Shimano, held off the challenge of Italian David Apollonio (AG2R) and French champion Nacer Bouhanni (FDJ) following the ride from Al Musannah to Sultan Qaboos University, east of Muscat.
Wiggins admitted that he came into the race short of form, but he now faces an even tougher challenge to catch Contador and Evans in the six-stage race that ends on Saturday at Matra Corniche.
The stage had been marked by a long escape which was led by Dutch rider Bobbie Traksel who was in the company of KoheiUchima, a member of the Japanese team and the only national formation in the race.
The two men made their break after just a kilometre before Traksel was reeled in by the peloton with 32 kilometres to go and Uchima survived another 16 kilometres before he too was swept up by the charging pack.
Kittel, 24, meanwhile became the first rider to win three stages on the race after taking two last year, adding to what was arguably his finest moment when he won the seventh stage on the 2011 Tour of Spain.
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY – Turkey has detained a Japanese citizen in the south of the country on suspicion of seeking to cross the border into Syria to join the Islamic State group, the Dogan news agency said Wednesday.
The young man, 24, named as M.M., was detained late on Tuesday in the Nizip district of the southern city of Gaziantep, close to the Syrian border.
According to Dogan, he had admitted to wanting to travel to Syria after getting to know an unnamed contact by telephone and then agreeing to cross the frontier.
He will be deported from Turkey back to Japan once the investigation is complete, the agency added.
It said he was detained during a routine check by the Turkish gendarmerie while being driven toward the border settlement of Karkamis.
The official Anatolia news agency said police had confirmed his contacts with extremists by examining messages on his mobile phone.
Long accused of not doing enough to police its border with Syria, Turkey has in the last months tightened controls, detaining dozens of foreign jihadis.
The arrest of a Japanese citizen is hugely unusual, as most of those detained seeking to cross the border come from countries with large Muslim populations.
Images published by Dogan showed the bespectacled young man kneeling in the middle of the road with his hands above his head, guarded by an armed soldier.
Turkish officials said security forces on Tuesday arrested 10 suspected Islamic State group members at the Syrian border in the Gaziantep region, including a would-be suicide bomber. Their nationalities were not disclosed.
Turkey is on high security alert after three Israelis and an Iranian were killed when a suicide bomber suspected to be affiliated with IS blew himself up on Istanbul's most famous shopping street on Saturday.
A radical offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) meanwhile claimed a bombing in Ankara earlier this month that left 36 dead.


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Kelly Osbourne, Engaged?
Kelly Osbourne is such a copycat.
Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson confirm their relationship and announce wedding plans, and all of a sudden Kelly's starting rumors that she's engaged to her own Sam Ronson clone, Luke Worrall.
The Daily Mail reports that the budding autobiographer has been running around with an engagement ring on, flaunting it for photographers as she hit restaurant Nobu and nightclub Bungalow 8 in London last night.
According to the paper, the couple "couldn't keep their hand off of each other."
No word on if the couple plans to get married soon, but Kelly shouldn't rush into anything. She seems to have a bit of trouble when she tries to hurry things along.


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Computes prescribed and flux boundary conditions for the transport equation (166). The formal parameter bc determines whether Dirchlet or Neumann-type boundary conditions are computed. Depending on the physical properties of the boundary-layer, the parameter type relates either to a visous, a logarithmic, or an injection-type boundary-layer. In the latter case, the flux of TKE caused by breaking surface waves has to be specified. Presently, there is only one possibility to do so implemented in GOTM. It is described in section 4.7.47. All parameters that determine the boundary layer have to be set in gotmturb.nml.
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Long has been the wait for a Star Wars experience which fully incorporates those two most coveted of Jedi activities: using the force and swooshing a lightsaber. Before we begin then, I have to state that, alas, this isn't the game that puts a 100% gesture accurate lightsaber in your hands (or even not in your hands, this being a Kinect game and all).
You will do a huge amount of arm swinging – in mimicry of the world's most famous fictional blade – yes, but never will that swinging be represented on screen in anything but the most arbitrary way. It's a disappointment that Kinect Star Wars never really recovers from, not least because it demands precision from the player but then fails to feedback such accuracy in gameplay terms.
At times it feels as if a more precise control method was thrown out at the last minute of its development time, only for the standard (and let's be honest, disappointing) Kinect gestures to take its place, so subtle are some of the encounters you'll take part in.
Take an action sequence mid-way through the game's 'Jedi Destiny' campaign. Your vanilla padawan has infiltrated a Star Destroyer – if that's not the technical term for the largest of starships in the Attack of the Clones period of the Star Wars timeline then please forgive my ignorance – in a bid to breakout numerous captured Jedi.
After fighting wave after wave of identikit droids and reptilian bounty hunters you'll eventually come to a sequence onboard an elevator where, quelle surprise, yet another wave of droids appears – though this one containing more of those capable of engaging in duels than seen so far.
This is the first time where the absence of any precision in control of your lightsaber is felt, and, as ten or more foes engage you in turn, progress becomes more down to pure luck than the light side of the force. That most enemies can deflect your attacks by purely standing still and holding out their weapon doesn't help, nor does the fact my kicks and jumps are often missed by the Kinect sensor – or at least not tracked dependably enough for such moves to be relied upon.
Instead of the expected glorious whirlwind of Jedi powers and saber swooshes I'm left with an aching arm, a heightened sense of exasperation and the overwhelming feeling that Star Wars fans have been left short-changed by what might well have been not just a celebration of an ailing franchise, but the introduction of a killer app into Kinect's software library.
Outside of the lightsaber there's the opportunity to dodge, leap, duck and even throw weaker enemies around like rag dolls through use of the force push attack linked to the player's non-saber arm. Kinect has trouble tracking almost all of these moves however (at least in my living room) while throwing enemies feels random due to the lack of any aiming reticule. Worse still is the force dash triggered by leaning forward with arms stretched behind you, to say that successful use of this is random would be putting it mildly.
It's not that Kinect Star Wars is a complete mess, indeed the figure-of-eight saber move which deflects laser bolts is fun to use, while the classic score, colourful visuals and huge battles depicted provide a spectacle that's sure to pull fans in – at least until the next control glitch shatters the illusion.
Inclusion of a two-player split screen option for the main campaign is a welcome feature, as is the variation of play which sees the player taking aim at fighters from the gun turret of a ship, racing through the forests of the wookie home world on a speedster and engaging fellow force users in duels – which nicely channels the age-old Star Wars arcade cabinet of yesteryear.
In what some might take as an admittance on the part of LucasArts and Microsoft that what they've delivered falls short of what fans expected, various additional modes of play are available beyond the short campaign. Pod racing seems a natural fit but falls, once again, to the vagaries of Kinect's clumsy 'no hands' controls which rarely respond in a fashion subtle enough to justify the tracks' tight and unforgiving corners.
Another mode which channels the old city-destroying classic Rampage, sees the player bashing through various iconic Star Wars locations as a fearsome Rancor monster. While diverting enough at first, the mode soon wears thin after you've cared to swing your arms left and right for yet another contrived reason. Finally, a dance mode with more than a passing resemblance to Dance Central, is on hand to entertain those in mood for a boogie, complete with Cantina-style takes on real life numbers.
As a whole however Kinect Star Wars presents an experience which feels diminished, certainly falling short of the experience we were promised via the hype created for both game and even the Kinect itself. With George Lucas himself seemingly at pains to hold the franchise back in his stubborn belief that it's chief audience is for kids, perhaps the final product here should come as no surprise.
Your kids will no doubt love it, the thing is, Star Wars has two lots of kids wanting to play it, and those on the bigger side would be in their rights to demand more from a full price title which also requires an expensive peripheral to play. It seems all eyes now turn to Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor in the wait for the first great core Kinect game.
Format: Xbox 360 Kinect
Price: £39.99
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WALNUT Tree's players hit the tons as Becky Thompson (2 x 100), Sandra Winters, Babs Harrison and captain Diane Moreland (121, 100) gave them the upper hand and a 4-0 lead at Tramways in York John Smith's Ladies Darts League division one.
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Carole Layne, and Jan Wilberham snatched victory to go back into second place as Lions suffered at the hand of leaders Cueball 'B'.
Lynn Thompson and Muriel Britton were the only Lions to roar as top-scoring from Cueball's captain Tracey Farmeary (121, 119) and vice captain Bev Harton (140) helped to secure a 7-2 victory as Lions' finishing let them down.
Linda Welch won the opening leg for Cueball 'A', but Magnet captain Tracey Watkinson kick-started a match-winning five-game run. Sandra Bruce sealed victory before the club side added to their tally.
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Claire Murphy and Marj Pearson signalled Burnholme's intentions at Flag, who replied through the two Janes of Flynn and Dobson, and Carole Salkeld.
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Clifton raced into a 4-1 advantage entering the pairs against visitors Acomb 'A', for whom Rose Gray starred.
Both Severus teams were gifted their points as Burton and Acomb 'B' could not field teams.
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How it works: The project will use "violence interrupters" from the community organization -- Impact One -- to help stymie more bloodshed following an incident. Then, UNMC researchers will investigate risk factors that led the to violence and develop strategies to lessen the chances of future outbursts. Other cities have found similar approaches helped reduce gun violence.
Support: The $100,000 project is supported through a partnership between the Violence Reduction Fund, UNMC's College of Public Health, The Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University Medical Center. The fund was established in 2010 by Omaha state Sens. Brad Ashford and Brenda Council along with civic leader Jane Rogers.
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