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The Sports Xchange
Sean Farrell, The Sports Xchange
Canadiens 4, Devils 3 (OT)
MONTREAL -- Andrei Markov scored 4:22 into overtime to give the Montreal Canadiens a 4-3 win over the New Jersey Devils on Sunday night.
The Sports Xchange
Sean Farrell, The Sports Xchange
Canadiens 4, Devils 3 (OT)
MONTREAL -- Andrei Markov scored 4:22 into overtime to give the Montreal Canadiens a 4-3 win over the New Jersey Devils on Sunday night.
Markov got his fourth goal of the season with 37.8 seconds remaining after Devils defenseman Andy Greene was penalized for holding.
Greene was sent off with 58.1 seconds left in the extra period when he hauled Erik Cole down as the Montreal forward cut to the net.
Montreal rookie Alex Galchenyuk set up Brandon Prust's goal for his second assist of the game early in the third period. Prust deflected Galchenyuk's pass beyond Martin Brodeur two minutes into the third to put Montreal up 3-1.
Travis Moen and rookie Brendan Gallagher scored in the first to give the Canadiens an early 2-0 lead.
Carey Price made 22 saves for Montreal, which won its third in a row since losing its season opener to Toronto on Jan. 19.
Dainius Zubrus drew New Jersey even at 3 with his first goal of the season 13:02 into the third.
Patrik Elias got his 900th career point with his second assist of the game on Zubrus' tying goal.
Elias, who had three points, scored for a second straight game in the second to draw New Jersey within 2-1. The Devils' all-time scoring leader also assisted on David Clarkson's 5-on-3 goal 5:23 into the third, which cut Montreal's lead to 3-2.
Clarkson also had a goal and two assists, and Brodeur stopped 28 shots for the Devils, who won their first three games of the season, including a 3-2 overtime win over Washington on Friday.
New Jersey's Ilya Kovalchuk put a shot off the right post on a 3-on-1 early in overtime.
The Canadiens blew leads of 2-0 and 3-1.
White opened the scoring at 2:25 of the first period with his first goal since Apr. 9, 2011. The Canadiens right winger had gone 23 games without scoring when he put a backhand into a wide open net after Travis Moen redirected Alexei Emelin's point shot.
Gallagher scored his first NHL goal 13:35 in on a centering pass by Galchenyuk. Gallagher got his first point in his Canadiens debut with an assist on 18-year-old Galchenyuk's first NHL goal in a 4-1 win over Florida on Tuesday.
Galchenyuk, who was chosen third overall by Montreal in the June 2012 draft, has three points in four games.
Elias deflected Mark Fayne's point shot past Carey Price for his second goal of the season 3:26 into the second to draw New Jersey within 2-1.
The Devils made the most of their two-man advantage when Prust and Galchenyuk were both called for high-sticking at 4:32 of the third.
Travis Zajac put a shot off the left post on a 2-on-1 with Kovalchuk 40 seconds in.
Price stopped Kovalchuk on a breakaway late in the second.
Montreal's Rene Bourque shot wide on a partial break with just over one minute left in regulation.
NOTES: Brodeur is five games shy of becoming the first NHL goalie to play 1,200 games. ... Devils LW Stefan Matteau had 18 goals and 10 assists for 28 points in 30 games earlier this season with the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada, his major junior team based just north of Montreal. Matteau, the son of former NHLer Stephane Matteau, was chosen 29th overall by New Jersey in the first round of the June 1012 draft. ... A video review of Elias' goal confirmed that he made contact with the puck below the level of the crossbar. ... Devils RW Cam Janssen returned to the lineup. Krys Barch did not dress after making his season debut in place of Janssen on Friday. ... Canadiens LW Max Pacioretty had an emergency appendectomy Saturday night. He will be out three to four weeks. ... Tomas Kaberle did not dress for Montreal. The veteran defenseman was hit in the face by a puck during practice Saturday.


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Rice letter addresses his motivations to be sheriff again
Everett Rice, the former Pinellas sheriff and lawmaker seeking to win the office back in 2012, has issued an open letter. One interesting subtext addresses questions about his ambitions to want to come back (he ran for the House instead of re-election as sheriff in 2004).
Read it below:
"Dear Friends,
"When I last served as your Pinellas County Sheriff my record of professional leadership was undisputed. Every year that I served as your Sheriff I moved the office forward and presented balanced budgets to the County Commission. I changed the office's prior reputation for brutality, corruption and incompetence. I modernized the agency with new technology and I merged six police agencies into the Sheriff's offfice thereby saving tens of millions of dollars in local taxes. My list of other accomplishments is long, and my reputation for such is well known.
"This past spring former Sheriff Jim Coats admitted publicly that he had a plan to quit the job someday and get his chief deputy appointed Sheriff by Governor Rick Scott without and election. Because of Coats' comments and ensuing uncertainty of leadership at the Sheriff's office many people urged me to return. In May I decided to seek election to return to the office.
"Previously I challenged a local ballot initiative that limited the terms of all Pinellas County elected officials to a limit of two four-year terms. I instigated a lawsuit to stop this attempt to limit the terms of the Sheriff because it was in derogation of the independent constitutional office of Sheriff in Pinellas County. While I maintained opposition to the county term limits law, I promised to not seek reelection after two more terms. In keeping that promise, I did not run again in 2004, altough the term limits law was struck down in 2002 by the Florida Supreme Court. I had predicted this and I could have easily won reelection. Because of my efforts, today there are no term limits for any Pinellas County elected official.
"I fought at great political peril to keep the office of Sheriff independent and answerable only to the people. I have always been and will continue to be accessible to the citizens of Pinellas County. I welcome your inquiries and concerns and will address them as best I can.
"I will be returning to an office where morale is down, demand is high and the budget has been cut repeatedly. I think my previous record as Pinellas County Sheriff proves that I can make better use of limited resources while improving morale and meeting the needs of Pinellas County tax payers.
"Since beginning this campaign hundreds of citizens have donated to my campaign and thousands have signed my petition to be placed on the ballot. My campaign is endorsed by State Attorney Pam Bondi, State Senator Dennis Jones and numerous other public figures. I am very grateful for this outpouring of support for me to return as your Sheriff.
"I would be honored to add you to the list of my finacial supporters and Thank You in advance for your support."
Everett Rice


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I love the water, especially salt water. Paddling in, motoring and sailing on, beachcombing, sitting by the water's edge all comfort and relax me. I'm a great little backseat motorcycle rider; find it exhilarating. Really enjoy live music, especially rock, blues, folk. Outdoor concerts are the ultimate! Food is a big thing with me...absolutely not just for survival. Family tradition. Sharing a home-cooked meal or eating out, whether it be a neighborhood hole-in-the-wall or a 4-star, with a bottle of wine, some witty, provocative, funny conversation and someone special is truly one of my most favorite things to do.
I consider myself down-to-earth, sweet with a sassy side (can be slightly irreverent), liberal, and loyal...at times, to a fault. I love to laugh. Do you laugh out loud several times a day? It's a great connection.
I would love to share some travel. Still working, so my vacation time is precious, however, a travel buddy is welcome. Even road trips over a long weekend can be the best times ever. A guy that wants to try some new adventures is most welcome! If you bring a boat or motorcycle along, that's a bonus; absolutely not a requirement.
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How might the effectiveness of federal housing and homelessness spending be better measured?
In 2014 Homelessness Australia carried out qualitative research among its member organisations to elicit information that could inform the Australian Government and the Department of Social Services (DSS) on ways in which the effectiveness of its homelessness and housing spending could be better measured.
This paper considers accountability mechanisms in existing Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreements on affordable housing and homelessness. It makes recommendations for improving those mechanisms' ability to deliver better outcomes for people who are experiencing homelessness (including those living in severely crowded housing) and for those at risk of homelessness.
Since the present measures of the effectiveness of that spending are contained in COAG's National Agreement on Affordable Housing (NAHA) and National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness, the paper is structures around those instruments.
The paper makes thirteen recommendations that focus on four areas; clarifying objectives, outcomes and indicators; transparency and stakeholder engagement; results-driven accountability - directing funding towards the achievement of outcomes, objectives and indicators; and data collection, collation and analysis.
Clarifying objectives, outcomes and indicators
Recommendation 1:
That the NAHA objective be reframed as follows:
Every resident in Australia has access to affordable, safe and sustainable housing that contributes to social and economic participation.
Recommendation 2:
That outcomes be specified for different targeted entities:
a) system/ structurally
b) government agencies
c) programs
d) services
e) population (eg everyone being housed).
Recommendation 3:
That the NAHA outcomes be amended by replacing those in cl 7(b), (c) and (d) with the following:
People are able to purchase or rent housing of a reasonable standard that meets their needs for safe shelter and access to services and labour markets;
Supply of well located affordable or social housing meets demand from people who need to occupy that housing - by amending the outcome in cl (e) so that it reads:
all people entitled to reside permanently in Australia – including Indigenous people, children, young people, women, older people and single people – have the same housing opportunities, and other residents are not denied them without good reason.
Transparency and stakeholder engagement
Recommendation 4:
That governments consult with the homelessness sector about the proposed content of any intergovernmental agreements, partnerships or other instruments that permit or involve changes in homelessness policy, service delivery or funding, within timeframes that allow services (and, where relevant, their clients) to understand and prepare for those changes.
Recommendation 5:
That all COAG agreements, partnerships and associated instruments, including state implementation or project plans and reports required under them, be published
immediately after they are entered into or take effect (whichever is applicable).
Recommendation 6:
That COAG agreements relating to housing or homelessness require that states and territories indicate in their Budget documents what elements of proposed housing and homelessness expenditure will be funded by:
(a) monies obtained from the Commonwealth through an SPP or a NPA alone;
(b) state or territory general revenue alone;
(c) both Commonwealth SPP/NPA funds and state or territory general revenue, and the extent of each government's contribution; and that, where state or territ
ory funding is involved,
(d) the extent to which the expenditure is funded by stock transfers, 'asset recycling' or redirection of program funds from other areas of housing or homelessness.
Results-driven accountability - directing funding towards the achievement of outcomes, objectives and indicators
Recommendation 7:
That future indexation of the NAHA SPP is tied to states and territories undertaking full housing needs assessments, based on their present and likely future populations.
Recommendation 8:
That the Commonwealth (consider) offer(ing) additional incentive payments to expedite state and territory development or planning changes that will improve supply of well-located, low-cost housing, particularly housing that is suitable for single and older people.
Recommendation 9:
That the Commonwealth consider offering additional incentive payments to encourage adequate growth and distribution in social housing stock over defined periods of time, in each jurisdiction, to keep pace with population increases.
Recommendation 10:
That the Commonwealth consider re-allocating a proportion of the NAHA SPP to community housing providers for capital works via a competitive tender process that focuses on increased housing supply.
Data collection, collation and analysis
Recommendation 11:
That governments accept the importance of:
- regular 'SHIP' training for SHS staff that emphasises the importance of the SHSC data set for the sector and its clients (eg as a vehicle for illustrating need, demonstrating where service delivery is effective and identifying gaps to be filled or possible areas of resource reallocation); and
- allocating additional resources to ensure that agencies that would otherwise find it difficult to participate in 'SHIP' can do so.
Recommendation 12:
That consideration be given to altering SHSC questions to take account of the fact that service system entry points may provide different services from other homelessness agencies.
Recommendation 13:
That consideration be given to matching SHSC data with that from other collections (eg NDRAHA) in order to ascertain how homelessness service delivery intersects with other services to achieve outcomes such as sustainment of social housing tenure.


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Hi Everyone,
Training is now finished for all age groups between P1 –U16's until Saturday the 11th of January. The 1XV have training sessions this Tuesday & Thursday at the club from 7pm, Thursdays session will be the last before the Christmas break returning on Tuesday the 7th of January. The 1XV's fixture this weekend against Carrick has also been cancelled due to Carrick not having playing facilities available, this game will be rescheduled for later on in the season.
It's hard to believe that Christmas and all the festivities that come with it are upon us, one of those festivities and now a long standing Strathaven RFC tradition is the Under 25's vs Over 25's game that will take place on Saturday the 28th of December kicking off at 1pm, the meet time for all players is 11:45pm. If you are over 16 and fancy a game over Christmas then please feel free to pop up and join in, it's a full contact game of rugby but light hearted and fun for everyone playing as well as spectating. We welcome all players and coaches over 16 to come and join us on the 28th of December for this time honoured Strathaven RFC tradition.
The overs vs unders game started off as a match to keep the players going over the winter months during the rugby seasons break however, it has progressed into an annual rivalry and drinking session matched by none (other than maybe the stag dinner!). The match is typically played by the 1XV shored up with lots of special guest appearances from players returning from other clubs, retirement, minis/ midis coaches and the occasional 1XV supported donning the gold and blue checks for the first time. It's a fun game to play in or to support with a refreshment in hand, there's always a great atmosphere around the club on the day and we hope you'll be there to join the fun in between Christmas and New Year on Saturday the 28th whether it's in a playing or supporting role.
The overs have it all to play for this year with the unders winning last year's game and now defending the coveted Stevie Alder Memorial Trophy. What side will you choose to support this year, the young wiper snappers compiled of our current 1XV players and returning U25 players or our seasoned veterans featuring our over 25's from the 1XV shored up with some returning faces and guest appearances?
Have a great festive period & much needed break from work and make sure you come along on the 28th for what is set to be a great day out for all, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year when it comes from all at Strathaven RFC!


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Mariah Carey & Monroe Make for an Adorable Tribeca Twosome
October 22, 2012 by The Gossip Chic
Filed under Celebrities
Out for a fun mommy-daughter day, Mariah Carey carried little Monroe to an awaiting car in New York City on Monday (October 22).
The "Butterfly" songstress looked classy in an all-black ensemble, as she toted around her one-and-a-half-year-old mini-me, while spending time in the Tribeca neighborhood.
Although Mariah's twins are still young, it looks like they have inherited their dad, Nick Cannon's, love for sweets.
In a recent interview with Us Weekly magazine, Cannon talked about his and Carey's "candy room" in their Los Angeles home, and explained that the young ones love it as well, saying, "They go crazy for lollipops!"
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September 26, 2013
By a vote of 405-0, the U.S. House passed a bill Thursday requiring any Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration action on sleep apnea to go through the usual rulemaking process rather than simply issuing guidance.
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Who says government is slow and unresponsive? A week ago two Representatives introduced a bill that that would compel the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to write a regulation covering sleep disorders, including sleep apnea, rather than issue a guidance. Now there has been some movement.
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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee scheduled a Thursday vote on a bill that would compel the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to write a regulation covering sleep disorders rather than issue a guidance.
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Ok - feeling like a bit of a tool here. I have a USB keyboard that works in BIOS, works on the 'selection screen' (you know, the one with VESA, single user mode, etc).

If I boot non-ACPI, the keyboard works fine, but I don't have a boot volume anymore (so that doesn't help too much). But not if PC-BSD boots normally. If I plug in a PS2 keyboard, it works fine.

I did verify that USB mode for the keyboard is enabled in BIOS, and the USB stuff is loading in the bootup screen.

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Eitr is a mythical substance in Norse mythology. This liquid substance is the origin of all living things: the first giant Ymir was conceived from eitr. The substance is supposed to be very poisonous and is also produced by Jörmungandr (the Midgard serpent) and other serpents.
The word eitr exists in most North Germanic languages (all derived from the Old Norse language) in Icelandic/Faroese eitur, in Danish edder, in Swedish etter. Cognates also exist in Dutch etter (pus), in German Eiter (pus), in Old Saxon ĕttar, in Old English ăttor. The word is broadly translated: poisonous, evil, bad, angry, sinister etc.[1]
The word is used in common Scandinavian folklore as a synonym for snake poison.[2]
In Vafþrúðnismál Odin asks the Giant Vafþrúðnir about the origin of Ymir. Vafþrúðnir answers:
- Ór Élivagom
- stukko eitrdropar,
- svá óx, unz varð ór iötunn;
- þar órar ættir
- kómu allar saman,
- því er þat æ allt til atalt.
Rough translation:
- From Éliwaves
- Eitrdrops splashed
- that grew into a giant
- who begat all families
- from which all [giants] come
- that is why we are easily angered
The last line of the stanza in Vafþrúðnismál where Vafþrúðnir says "that is why we are easily angered", is a word-play with the meaning of the word eitr, as it also means anger/angry (similar to "poison a relationship").[1]
Popular culture[edit]
In Tomb Raider: Underworld, which features a storyline heavily influenced by Norse Mythology, eitr plays an important part of the plot.
- ^ a b Svenska Akademiens Ordbok, entry for Etter [1]


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Author: Keats, John
Title: To Homer
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1816 TO HOMER by John Keats Standing aloof in giant ignorance, Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades, As one who sits ashore and longs perchance To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas. So thou wast blind!- but then the veil was rent, For Jove uncurtain'd Heaven to let thee live, And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent, And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive; Aye, on the shores of darkness there is light, And precipices show untrodden green; There is a budding morrow in midnight; There is a triple sight in blindness keen; Such seeing hadst thou as it once befel To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell. THE END .


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Good afternoon, my name is Larry Klayman. I am the Chief Counsel of Judicial Watch, a not-for-profit organization with offices in Washington, DC, the West Coast and around the country. I represent U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Jack Daly, who is the Plaintiff in this case and is seated at our counsel table. Next to him are Michael Hurley, a senior attorney with Judicial Watch. Paul Orfanedes, also a senior attorney with Judicial Watch, is also present, along with Richard Bersin, our local counsel here in Seattle.
Commander Daly has brought this lawsuit to recover damages from the Defendants for laser-induced eye injuries that he sustained when the crew of a Russian vessel known as the Kapitan Man fired a laser at him as he was conducting a photo-surveillance mission against the Kapitan Man. Incredibly, this attack by the Russians occurred in U.S. waters and in American territory. The Defendants are the Far Eastern Shipping Company, known by the acronym FESCO. FESCO is a Russian company headquartered in Vladivostok, Russia and owned in part by the Russian government. The other two defendants are companies wholly owned by FESCO – FESCO Agencies N.A., Inc. and FESCO Intermodal, Inc. Commander Daly sued these Russian-owned companies because they were the owners and operators of the Kapitan Man when the laser attack occurred.
At this point in the trial, I have the opportunity to tell you what this case is all about. The purpose of an opening statement is to give you a preview of the evidence that will be presented in our case. It's like a preview of a movie. While there are technical aspects of the case, the facts are really quite simple. Like every story, they easily fit together like the pieces of a simple puzzle and make sense in the total context of what happened to Commander Daly.
This case is about a dedicated, highly decorated U.S. Navy intelligence officer who was seriously injured during a photo-reconnaissance mission against a suspected Russian spy vessel known as the Kapitan Man. He was injured when the crew of the Russian ship fired a laser at him in the Puget Sound, Washington. That Navy intelligence officer is Commander Jack Daly, a husband and father of three children. Commander Daly, who was severely injured by this Russian attack on U.S. territory, is here today seeking the justice he is entitled to – money damages for the physical injury and emotional pain and suffering from the Russian companies that owned and operated the Kapitan Man whose crew injured him by firing a laser at him in American waters.
The story of this unprovoked laser attack by the Russians will unfold as each witness testifies. Some witnesses will testify in person here in court, while others have given videotaped pretrial testimony that will be presented to you by video on the television screen.
Now, let me tell you what we will prove in our case.
This unfortunate story begins on Friday, April 4, 1997 in Victoria, British Columbia, about 2 hours north of Seattle. Based on his considerable experience and expertise in U.S. counter-espionage, Commander Daly was the Office of Naval Intelligence's Foreign Intelligence Liaison Officer attached to the Maritime Forces Pacific Command, a combined command staffed by U.S. and Canadian military personnel located in Esquimalt. Commander Daly was hand picked by the Director of Naval Intelligence – Admiral Michael Cramer –for this very critical and choice assignment in Victoria. On April 4, 1997, Commander Daly participated in an official U.S. Navy photo-surveillance mission against the Kapitan Man, which was owned and operated by the Russian Defendants. The Kapitan Man was suspected of monitoring the movements of U.S. nuclear-powered, ballistic missile submarines and U.S. aircraft carriers for Russian intelligence. Under the cover of passing itself off as a commercial vessel, routine intelligence collection by Commander Daly in his job as a Navy intelligence officer had revealed that, over the years, the FESCO-owned Kapitan Man had made course deviations, as well as departure time and arrival time deviations, to coincide with the movements of U.S. nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines.
On the April 4 surveillance mission, Commander Daly was a passenger in a Canadian CH-124 "Sea King" helicopter piloted by Captain Patrick Barnes of the Canadian Air Force. Both Commander Daly and Captain Barnes were on the right side of the helicopter, wearing similar conspicuous light blue flight suits, while the rest of the aircrew was on the left side. On April 4, at approximately 12 noon, the Russian Kapitan Man was in U.S. territorial waters, approximately five nautical miles north of Port Angeles, Washington, and was proceeding in an easterly direction in the inbound lane of the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Port of Tacoma. Not coincidentally, the USS Ohio, a U.S. nuclear-powered, ballistic missile submarine, had left the Bangor, Washington submarine base and heading out to sea through the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the same vicinity as the Kapitan Man. The Strait of Juan de Fuca is a narrow bottleneck between Vancouver Island and Washington State. The Russian ship obviously timed its arrival so that it passed within only 1,000 yards of the USS Ohio, as the surfaced submarine proceeded out to sea in a westerly direction in the outbound lane of the Strait.
The purpose of Commander Daly's routine surveillance mission was to collect intelligence concerning the movements and intentions of Russian vessels in U.S. waters. This mission was directed against this Russian "Special Interest Vessel" named the Kapitan Man. During the surveillance mission, Commander Daly used a 35mm Nikon digital camera with the Kodak DCS-420 digital system to take photographic images of the Kapitan Man. In addition to the built-in, internal infra-red filter in the camera, Commander Daly also used an optional feature called a Hot Mirror filter. The purpose of these filters was to attenuate or lessen the impact of infra-red rays. Commander Daly was seated on the same side of the helicopter – the right side -- behind the pilot, Captain Barnes.
As shown in this pictorial exhibit, the Canadian helicopter took off from Pat Bay and proceeded over land to the Strait of Juan de Fuca . As soon as the helicopter went "feet wet" – the naval term for flying over water – Commander Daly opened the side cargo door of the helicopter so that he could take photographs of the Kapitan Man. The time was approximately 12:40 PM and the mission against the Russian ship Kapitan Man was under way.
As expected, the Russian ship was proceeding to the Port of Tacoma in the inbound lane of the Strait at the very same time that the USS Ohio was exiting the Strait in the outbound lane. Commander Daly took images of the surfaced submarine in the Strait just after it had passed the Russian ship. If Commander Daly and his helicopter had arrived just a few minutes sooner, he could have photographed both the U.S. nuclear ballistic submarine and the suspected Russian spy vessel in the same picture. Establishing the proximity of the Kapitan Man to the submarine was a significant item of intelligence collection by itself.
The helicopter then proceeded to circle the Russian ship in clockwise oval flight path. Commander Daly took images of the extensive and very unusual antenna array on this supposedly commercial vessel. He also took images of the Russian ship from many other vantage points, including the port side and the starboard side of the vessel. In nautical terms, the port side is the left side and the starboard side is the right side.
Because it was a bright, clear, sunny day, Commander Daly noticed many -- what he thought at the time were -- solar glints or reflections of the very bright sun off the metal surfaces of the Russian ship and the surrounding water. One such flash of brilliant light even made him turn away and rub his eyes. At that time, he did not suspect that he had been hit by a laser flash – he mistakenly thought that he had only been momentarily blinded by the bright sun, just as we all have at sometime in our life.
When he returned from the surveillance mission, Commander Daly handed the camera to Chief Petty Officer Scott Tabor, a U.S. Navy imagery analyst, who, like Commander Daly, also had been hand picked by the Director of Naval Intelligence for this critical assignment here in the Pacific Northwest. Chief Tabor downloaded the images from the digital camera to his computer and examined them. One of the images – Image 16 on the camera -- showed a brilliant and intense red flash emanating from the area of the port side navigational light of the Kapitan Man. SHOW THE JURY THE BLOWUP OF IMAGE 16. The red flash had a white center and a halo around it. Another image – image 21 on the camera -- showed the Kapitan Man's starboard side running light, which upon close inspection by Tabor appeared to be turned OFF.
Based on his examination and analysis of these images and the other images of the Russian ship, Chief Tabor approached Commander Daly and observed him rubbing his eyes. Chief Tabor asked Commander Daly if he was experiencing any eye irritation or headaches. Commander Daly responded that his eyes felt gritty and that he had a headache. Chief Tabor then showed Commander Daly image 16 -- the image of the red flash -- and told CDR Daly that this could possibly be the image of a laser beam. CDR Daly initially was skeptical but nevertheless advised the helicopter squadron's operations officer of Tabor's assessment.
As he proceeded home on the same evening, CDR Daly first began to experience symptoms associated with a laser-induced eye injury. In addition to irritation and pain predominantly in his right eye, CDR Daly now was experiencing photophobia or extreme sensitivity to the on-coming headlights of cars – something he had never experienced before. He sought immediate local medical assistance that evening.
On Saturday morning, CDR Daly awoke with a pool of blood in his right eye and further eye irritation and pain. On the same morning, Captain Barnes (the helicopter pilot) also awoke with blood in his eye, eye irritation and pain. That the same injury occurred in place and time to both Commander Daly and Captain Barnes was obviously no coincidence!
On Sunday morning, April 6, 1997, CDR Daly notified his Canadian supervisors. After being briefed by his Operations Office, MARPAC Commander, Rear Admiral Russell Moore directed that the highest levels in the U.S. and Canadian governments, including The White House and the State Department, be immediately notified.
Our evidence will also show that on Monday, April 7, CDR Daly, Captain Barnes, and the other Canadian aircrew members were flown by the U.S. military to the U.S. Army Medical Research Detachment ("USAMRD") in San Antonio, Texas. Again, not coincidentally, this facility is the center of U.S. expertise in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of laser-induced eye injuries. Obviously, then, both the American and Canadian governments believed that their counter-intelligence servicemen had been attacked in U.S. waters with a laser by the Russians. Commander Daly was thoroughly examined by Dr. David Scales, an Air Force ophthalmologist and retinologist who was highly experienced in diagnosing laser-induced eye injuries. Many other ancillary areas of expertise at this facility also were used to assist Dr. Scales in the diagnosis of CDR Daly's injuries, including institutional expertise in vision effects, laser bio-effects, laser psychophysiology, laser physics, and laser intelligence.
CDR Daly complained of right eye pain, headaches, loss of vision and extreme sensitivity to light – symptoms that he had never previously experienced and that he began to experience shortly after the surveillance mission. Based on these tests and examinations, Dr. Scales, one of the foremost experts in laser eye injuries in the world, found 5 small, threshold level lesions on the retina of CDR Daly's right eye that were evidence of laser exposure.
On April 14, based on these tests and examinations, the U. S. Army Medical Research Detachment concluded that there was a HIGH PROBABILITY that CDR Daly had suffered MULTIPLE LASER EXPOSURES to the retina of his right eye. The experts also concluded that the retinal lesions on CDR Daly's right eye were PROBABLY caused by a REPETITIVE PULSED laser, most likely a Neodymium:YAG laser. This diagnosis was subsequently reconfirmed by Dr. Scales and the other experts at the U.S. Army Medical Research Detachment who examined CDR Daly on follow-up visits in May 1997, August 1997, June 1998, December 1998. As Dr. Scales' examinations occurred just after Commander Daly's encounter with the Russian ship – the Kapitan Man – it is a very reliable and strong diagnosis.
In late 1998, the Director of the U.S. Army Medical Research Detachment referred CDR Daly to Dr. Howard Cohen, an ophthlmalogist specializing in laser eye injuries. Dr. Cohen had previously helped found the U.S. Army Medical Research Detachment's laser trauma center in the early 1990's in San Francisco. Dr. Cohen examined CDR Daly and found 6 to 7 threshold lesions on the retina of CDR Daly's right eye and 2 threshold lesions on the retina of his left eye. These lesions are permanent and, in Dr. Cohen's independent opinion, are characteristic of laser scars. He found that the history and clinical findings supported a laser injury, consistent with renowned expert Dr. Scales' early diagnosis.
Thus, as we will show, the nature and cause of CDR Daly's eye injuries is exposure to a laser on April 4, 1997 during the surveillance mission of the Russian ship Kapitan Man.
Not insignificantly, our evidence also will show that Captain Barnes suffered a laser exposure injury too. On subsequent visits to the U.S. Army Medical Research Detachment, Dr. Scales concluded that Barnes likely had suffered laser exposure too because his symptoms were similar to CDR Daly's symptoms, he had been seated on the right side of the helicopter as had CDR Daly and he had looked repeatedly toward the Kapitan Man to monitor the helicopter's distance from the vessel as it pursued a clockwise flight path around the ship. Unlike Commander Daly, during the surveillance mission, Captain Barnes had worn his protective aviator visor, which may have lessened the impact of the laser exposure. Like CDR Daly, Captain Barnes had never previously experienced any of these symptoms. Furthermore, as an aviator whose career depended upon his eyesight, Captain Barnes had passed rigorous flight physicals to keep his license to fly. It was unlikely that he would complain about his eye pain after the surveillance mission unless that pain had been real and severe. To have an eye injury would put an end to Captain Barnes' career as a pilot. Indeed, this is was later happened.
Importantly, the evidence will also show that Canadian authorities believed Captain Barnes was attacked by a laser – and he received early retirement and a medically-based pension as a result. The U.S. and Canadian governments also began to provide new, more laser resistant visors to its pilots after the attack. However, for reasons of diplomacy and so-called good relations between the United States, Canada, and Russia, each country sought to downplay public discussion of the Russian attack.
We will prove that CDR Daly has at least 5 small, threshold level laser-induced lesions on the retina of his right eye and 2 threshold level laser-induced lesions on the retina of his left eye, all of which were caused by the Russians' laser attack. As a result of the laser exposure, CDR Daly continues to experience chronic eye pain and periodically has surges of pain in his eyes, sometimes so intense it is as if a needle were being elbowed in his eye. He continues to experience headaches and he sees spots in his vision, which the medical doctors specifically found were consistent with laser injury. He can no longer drive at night because he has photophobia or extreme sensitivity to light, such as on-coming car headlights at night. He also has suffered post-traumatic stress syndrome.
In short, Commander Daly has experienced and continues to experience both severe physical and emotional injury from the Russian laser attack on American territory.
Because of his eye pain, he is often in so much pain that he must miss work and stay in a dark room. He has a real and reasonable fear that he could lose his eyesight. He will be unable to obtain health insurance from any future employer covering his eye problems. Finally, his employability has been seriously and adversely affected because of the amount of time that he requires to be away from work because of sometimes almost unbearable eye pain. To date, there is no known treatment available to alleviate his pain.
There were 2 other vessels in the immediate vicinity of the Kapitan Man during the surveillance mission – the USS Ohio, the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine that was exiting the Strait – and a U.S. commercial vessel named the President Jackson. We will prove that neither the USS Ohio nor the President Jackson vessel had any optical systems – including laser devices -- in operation on that day, nor did they have any conceivable reason to fire a laser at CDR Daly or the Canadian helicopter conducting the surveillance mission.
So, our evidence will narrow the laser source to the very subject of the April 4 surveillance mission – this Special Interest Vessel owned and operated by the Russians -- the Kapitan Man. We will show you images of the Russian ship taken by CDR Daly during the surveillance mission.
Importantly, you will see from those images that the Kapitan Man's starboard side navigational light was turned OFF. This is significant because Coast Guard LCDR Tolbert, who was a member of the boarding team that searched the Kapitan Man, will testify that ONE SWITCH controlled BOTH the Kapitan Man's port side (left side) and starboard side (right side) running lights and that the remaining running lights on the bow and stern of the vessel were controlled by another, DIFFERENT switch. We will show you that the port side running light could not be turned ON when the starboard side navigational light was turned OFF.
The configuration of the Port Side running light is important. We will show you pictures of the strange or unusual configuration of the navigational lights of the Russian ship on April 4, 1997. Importantly, the navigational lights on the port side and the starboard side of the Russian ship were identical in configuration except for the color of the lens or globe. The port side lens is red so that the light emitted appears red in color and the starboard side lens is green so that the light emitted from the right side appears green in color. The navigational lights are housed in a black-colored recessed niche just under the front bridge windows of the ship. There are two light structures on each side, one stacked on top of the other. The bottom light is fixed to the floor of the recessed niche area, while the top light is mounted on an assembly affixed to the outside of an access door which is hinged on one side and can be opened from inside the bridge by pulling the door toward you, just as you would open a closet door. The bridge of the ship is where the ship's navigator drives the vessel. When the access door is closed the top light is positioned just above the bottom light. When the access door is opened from inside the bridge, the top light can easily be repaired or maintenance can be performed, and, importantly, quickly removed and replaced.
Our evidence regarding miniature lasers, small enough to fit within the port side running light, is important to you because of the unfortunate fact that on April 7 the Kapitan Man and the Russian Consulate were given at least 11 hours advance notice that the Russian ship would be searched to determine if a laser could be found aboard the ship. The Russians obviously had a motive to remove the laser. Not surprisingly, they obviously did not wait for the search party to come and find the laser and, therefore, no laser was found. We will also show that the search party was not properly trained to find a laser, that the effort was "hit or miss," looked primarily at things in plain sight and there was no reasonable expectation that a compact laser could be found in 2 to 4 hours on this huge ship by a boarding team looking for a large, bulky laser, not a compact one.
Here is how the Russians were negligently and carelessly "tipped-off" to remove the laser before the American search party arrived. On Sunday April 6, after Commander Daly had advised his superiors at MARPAC and after Canadian Admiral Moore had directed that the highest levels in the U.S. and Canadian governments be notified, the U.S. Coast Guard Commander for the Thirteenth District in Seattle, Rear Admiral John Spade, had discussions with higher authorities in Washington, D.C. about the suspected Russian laser attack on Commander Daly and the Canadian helicopter during the photo-surveillance mission of the Russian ship. Admiral Spade immediately called Captain Myles Boothe, the Coast Guard Captain of the Port of Tacoma to brief him on what Boothe called a "national security" issue. Based on Admiral Spade's high level discussions of this "national security issue" with Washington, D.C., it was decided on Sunday evening, April 6, that the U.S. Coast Guard would conduct a search of the Russian ship to determine if there was a laser aboard.
On Monday, April 7, 1997, the Russian ship was prevented from departing the Port of Tacoma at its scheduled departure time of 6 A.M. So, the Russians had knowledge of the impending search at least as early as 6 A.M. on April 7 – more than 10 hours in advance of the search. At approximately 9 A.M. on Monday, April 7, Captain Boothe of the U.S. Coast Guard issued a written order detaining the Russian ship. It was Coast Guard Standard Operating Procedure to immediately fax a copy of inspection orders to the local agent of the ship, in this case the defendant Russian –owned FESCO Agencies here in Seattle.
As astonishing as it may seem, we will prove that even though the Russian owned Kapitan Man was detained in port to be searched for a dangerous weapon that was suspected to have been used to attack a Navy officer in the line of duty in American waters, and even though this was considered by Captain Boothe to be a "national security" issue, neither the U.S. Coast Guard nor any other authority imposed any surveillance on the Russian ship on Monday April 7 or at any other time during that weekend to ensure that the crew did not dispose of or remove a laser device from the ship before the search could be conducted.
After detaining the Russian ship, Captain Boothe assembled a boarding team to conduct the inspection of the vessel. The boarding team was composed of personnel from the U.S. Coast Guard, Port Security, the Navy and the FBI. However, the evidence will show that none of the boarding party members had any education, training or experience in the identification or use of lasers. Some boarding team members were told to look for a large, bulky laser device with big cables and a large power source, notwithstanding that laser range finders capable of causing eye damage can be smaller than a pack of cigarettes. None of the boarding team members had any experience conducting a criminal investigative search of a vessel as large as the Kapitan Man. As the U.S. Coast Guard personnel testified, the search was really just a routine safety inspection, which is all that the boarding team members were trained to do.
The boarding of the vessel took place at approximately 5:30 P.M. on April 7 – incredibly, approximately 11 ½ hours after the ship had been detained -- and the entire search of this huge vessel lasted only 2-4 hours. Captain Boothe observed in the oral testimony, which we obtained from him prior to this trial, that it would take 2 to 3 days to conduct a thorough inspection. Because this was a "national security" issue, certain boarding team members were armed with weapons for security reasons. One boarding team member described parts of the search as being "hit or miss" and all the boarding team members that previously testified recounted looking for things in plain sight but not thoroughly looking in every box, cabinet or drawer in every space on the vessel. The boarding team never gained access to the ship's library, never searched the numerous, large cargo containers on the vessel, never searched in the motor vehicles that were part of the ship's cargo, and never looked in the cabinets and drawers of the crew quarters, let alone searching all of the crew quarters.
A Navy photographer who was a boarding team member took photographs of the Russian ship during the search. One of these photographs – SHOW BLOWUP OF PHOTO -- showed the starboard side running light, which, as you can see, was mounted on an assembly affixed to the outside of an access door on the right side of the bridge of the ship. Testimony by the Russian ship's captain indicates that the port side running light and the starboard side running light were identical except for the color of the lens or globe. POINT TO THE LENS.
Two boarding team members who examined the port side navigational light area of the Kapitan Man, however, did not recall seeing any running light mounted on an assembly affixed to the outside of the access door on the left side in the bridge area. We will show that because these boarding team members were not familiar with the Russian ship's running light configuration – which Coast Guard Captain Boothe called a "strange configuration" -- they had no way of knowing that the absence of a running light attached to the outside of the port side access door was "unusual" or that the light had been removed. Indeed, the boarding team members who inspected this port side running light area testified that they thought nothing had been removed.
The evidence will show:
n because the Russians had advance notice of the search,
n because the boarding party members lacked education, training or experience with lasers,
n because the boarding team was unfamiliar with the running light configuration on the Russian ship,
n because the search was conducted in 2-4 hours in stead of 2-3 days, and
n because many areas of the Russian ship were not searched,
the boarding party, which was hardly a skilled military operation, did not find any laser device. But the evidence will clearly establish that the Russian crew of the Kapitan Man had more than ample time to remove or conceal a laser before inspection began. The laser attack occurred on April 4 and the search did not take place until April 7 at 5:30 P.M., three and a half days later.
The facts of this case thus fit simply and logically together, like the pieces of a simple puzzle. Unfortunately for Commander Daly, the facts prove that he was the victim of a hostile laser attack by a foreign power – Russia – against an American serviceman in the line of duty in U.S. territory. While for diplomatic reasons the U.S. and Canadian authorities have been reluctant to discuss this attack on their servicemen – as relations with Russia are perceived to be important – the regrettable result is that Commander Daly has been severely injured, both physically and emotionally. This damage continues each and every day, for the rest of Commander Daly's life. The Russians must pay large damages to compensate Commander Daly for his injury, pain and suffering. This is only fair. Under our system of justice, no one is above the law – not even the Russians!


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- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1 large romaine lettuce heart, cut into bite-size pieces
- 1 small seedless cucumber, thinly sliced
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Preheat the oven to 350°. On a baking sheet, toss the bread cubes with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and toast for about 10 minutes, stirring once, until golden. Let the croutons cool.
In a large bowl, whisk the mustard with the balsamic vinegar. Gradually whisk in the remaining 3 tablespoons of olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Add the romaine, cucumber and croutons, toss well and serve.
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Go into bold new territory with television's favorite squad of detectives! Set in the Los Angeles Police Department, Major Crimes picks up where successful series The Closer leaves off, centering on what it takes to secure an airtight conviction, and exploring how the police and prosecutors work together to build a solid case that results in a suspect confessing, signing a plea agreement or being found guilty in a court of law. With Academy Award® and Emmy® nominee Mary McDonnell as Captain Sharon Raydor, the series also stars The Closer's G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz and Phillip P. Keene, along with Kearran Giovanni and Graham Patrick Martin, with The Closer veterans Jon Tenney and Robert Gossett also appearing. With the same stellar producing team in place, Major Crimes delivers the same high caliber of action and drama as the hit series it follows.
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|Growing pains within Major Crimes become apparent as the division works to obtain justice in a brutal homicide that turns out to be more complicated than expected. Raydor struggles to gain the respect of her colleagues while also trying to supervise Rusty 24/7. The changes within the department may become more than Provenza can accept.
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Great show, I'm in!
Well we're off to a go start! Yes I'll miss Brenda, Gabriel, and Pope but to be fair we must all give Major Crimes a shot.
If you didn't see the series finale of The Closer, I would recommend it highly. My girl Brenda went out like the champion she is and it's been awhile since I've seen a good ole street fight.
After the last few weeks she's had I can certainly relate. Sometimes you just get to a point where you can't take anymore and she was there. With her new job in the DA office, they left the door open for her to have a few returns to major crimes plus with Fritz there then you know she will have to pop up every now and then maybe thru a phone call with him.
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I will be watching Major Crimes
While I will miss Brenda Lee Johnson, I am so happy that Flynn and Provenza will still be around. Matter of fact, I hope all the others remain with the show too. I like my "cops and robbers" shows but I require at least a touch of humor in my shows and this one usually comes through for me.
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Yes, I bought the season pass because I love "The Closer." But I am far from disappointed by the first episode of "Major Crimes." To compare Mary McDonnell's new role as head of the division with Kyra's well formed and seasoned Chief is hardly fair. I remember that Brenda Lee had to earn the respect of the team, and that is exactly what Raydor has to do. McDonnell is a fine actress and has the ability to fulfill this role. I am very happy this great crew is continuing. The four stars is for the first episode, and as the season progresses, I hope to add another star.
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American election campaigns are often about fantasies such as funding the entire US government with former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's 9 per cent tax. Or Texas Governor Rick Perry's fear that Christianity is under siege.
Another fantasy is Texas Congressman Ron Paul's plan that America should retreat to its own territory and preserve the peace by allowing nations to act in their own rational self-interest. That might work if every nation felt confident and secure.
We're living in a world, though, where grievances based in religion and nationalism are thriving. Iran threatens to disrupt the world's oil supply to retaliate against economic sanctions. Iraq's Shiite-dominated government had barely waved the last American troops goodbye before it began consolidating power against the Sunni minority. Even an economic giant like China insists it be respected and that its petty obsessions such as Taiwan's sovereignty be taken seriously. Then there are the loose nuclear canons such as North Korea. Clearly, we're not inhabiting a planet governed by enlightened self-interest.
The American budget would benefit enormously if defence spending could be slashed but it would be the triumph of hope over experience to think, like Tom Switzer, that Ron Paul will spark that movement. As Yale historian Paul Kennedy documented in his book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, no empire in history has ever gently or successfully managed its own decline. Shifting economic circumstances have forced decline upon them – the Spanish, the Dutch, the French and the British.
Of course, the war weariness journalist Julia Baird found in Iowa is real. Ten years of inconclusive and expensive war will do that. But battle fatigue, especially among war veterans, does not translate into a complete reversal in American policy.
The US economy has suffered various crises since World War II and some less than conclusive war efforts but not one of them has changed the central idea of American defence: military strength preserves peace. The US has insisted since the end of World War II that it would never be forced to appease its enemies as British prime minister Neville Chamberlain had to do in Munich in 1938.
Fear of appeasement encapsulates America's debates over foreign policy in the past 60 or 70 years. Containment of communism became the consensus policy and the parties argued about how it was executed. Democrat President John Kennedy criticised his Repblican predecessor Dwight Eisenhower for allowing insurgents to triumph in south-east Asia. The remedy: building up the full range of American power from anti-insurgent troops – the Green Berets to revamping the bomber force and nuclear weapons. Kennedy's policy was apparently vindicated when the Soviets backed down during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Subsequent Republican administrations used the same playbook. The secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, built up enormous nuclear superiority and multiple systems to deliver them: bombers, submarines and missiles so that the Soviets would never think of striking first. Republican president Ronald Reagan belittled his Democrat predecessor Jimmy Carter and boosted the military – he wanted a 600-ship navy. The plans for a nuclear missile shield, the so-called Star Wars, promised the ultimate strength of neutralising any Soviet threat. Despite unprecedented budget deficits, Reagan has been cemented in American mythology as the man who won the Cold War through military strength.
After 9/11, the Republican George W. Bush administration reverted to type and insisted that Islamic terrorism could only be met with military strength. Vice-president Dick Cheney and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld thought they could reduce ground forces but rely on superior technology. That proved a false hope but the conviction that the US must remain the dominant force has never changed.
And Democrat President Barack Obama has embraced a similar policy in his recent Defence Strategic Guidance manifesto. Boots on the ground cost serious money but planes, smart weapons and intelligence satellites will win the day. If it had a slogan, it would be "Peace through high tech". Troops and equipment will finally be reduced in Europe more than 20 years after the threat of Soviet invasion ended. The recent deployment of US marines to Darwin is a show of strength to make sure China knows that the US is not withdrawing from Asia.
As recently as Monday night, Ron Paul was shunned by most of the Republican Party when he suggested that the US should not have killed Osama bin Laden. The likely nominee, Mitt Romney, stuck with the script that has governed America's defence posture since the 1950s. He derided Obama for not maintaining America's strength. To ringing applause, he announced "The right way . . . is to have a military so strong that no one would ever think of testing it. That's the kind of military we have to have, and we have to pursue our interests around the world". And Romney was attacking a president who ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden and has used unmanned Predator aircraft to kill more than 2200 Islamic radicals and their families and associates.
None of this sounds like the US will be relying on anything but military superiority anytime soon.
Ian Mylchreest is an Australian journalist living in Las Vegas.
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