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For Gold Coast, this match represented the win they just had to have. Four losses in a row over the past month had them heading in the wrong direction on the ladder. They were fast losing contact with the top eight. They were at home against Wests Tigers, a team that appears to have lost all resolve and motivation.
Gee, if they didn't win this one; well … actually, they couldn't even allow themselves to contemplate such a result. They just had to win. I don't think losing ever entered their heads. And win they did.
It wasn't perfect; and it certainly wasn't pretty. But the final scoreline of 36-6 was a fair reflection of their commitment and desire compared to their dispirited opponents.
Any time you can keep a Wests Tigers team to one try in 80 minutes of football, and that lone try comes from a kick, you know you have done a great day's work.
Yes, the Titans won this match with their attitude in defence. I say ''attitude'' because not all their defensive execution was clinical. They looked very ragged at times and the Tigers did threaten to score on a number of occasions throughout the afternoon. However, it was the desperation and never-give-up nature of their defence that most impressed. The Titans were breached and often outnumbered, but they found a way to scramble back and save the try with last ditch heroics.
This attitude was best demonstrated in the final minute of play. Leading by 30 points and attacking the Tigers' line, a wayward pass was intercepted by Tigers centre Chris Lawrence and he headed off in the opposite direction for a try. You could probably excuse the Titans for not chasing given the result was already in their hands.
However, the Titans chased. Not just one defender either. Every man who could still draw breath headed off in pursuit. They caught him and maintained their winning margin.
It was brilliant stuff. It's moments like this that give you a window into the soul of these Gold Coast players. They are missing key players and were down on confidence entering the contest. But they grit their teeth and got the job done. A coach can be proud of such resolve.
It shows the team is still training hard during the week and that they care about their results. They are tackling the challenge head-on.
That's the only way to get yourself out of a tough situation. You have to get tough with it. Gold Coast did this yesterday. Valuing the basics of run hard, tackle hard and never give up on a play, is a proven formula for the struggling team.
Mind you, there were some nice passages of attacking football from the home side as well. Experienced lock forward Greg Bird showed his skills in laying on a neat try for fullback David Mead with a beautifully timed short pass. The lesson immediately rubbed off on Bird's young teammate Aidan Sezer who mirrored the play on the other side of the field to give big centre Brad Takairangi a free run to the in-goal. I've always said that kids learn more off the senior players than they do from their coaches. This was a perfect example. Sezer is a player of the future. Bird will help him get there.
The Tigers? Well, they have been one of my favourite teams over the past decade. I especially love watching them play on a sunny Sunday afternoon when the dry conditions allow them the chance to express themselves with the football.
There were glimpses of talent on display yesterday as they sent the ball spiralling across the field from side to side. However, it wasn't convincing. The younger players in this team are not getting the same lessons in toughness and discipline from their senior players the young Titans players are enjoying.
No, I'm sad to say, this was a dismal performance. Even allowing for the injury toll and the youth of the team, I didn't feel an application to the toughness of the game from the Tigers. Maybe I'm judging them too harshly. Just the same I wouldn't be surprised if to a man the Tigers boys admitted they could've done better. You get the feeling their minds are on an end-of-season rest, or for many, a departure to new surroundings.
It's a tough time. Pride in personal performance is their only motivation now. We wait to see if that means something to these players.
Full marks to the home side though. They needed the win. They fought for it. They achieved it. They deserved it.
For now, the Titans are still alive in the finals race.


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Some local media also attributed claims of responsibility to Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis.
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The unmerited are to be attributed to the indistinctness of my rapid penmanship.
To it may also be attributed their selfishness and ingratitude.
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Some, and those eye-witnesses, have attributed them to genuine panic.
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MIAMI - The protruding bones and scraggy postures of the distressed women portrayed in Lizette Avineri's paintings reveals her true self as an artist.
The 17-year-old painter from Lake Worth uses her struggles of having to wear a back brace to correct her scoliosis and surgeries to remove a fibroid tumor from her breast to tell stories through her art.
"I focus on my spine, breasts and the very honesty of my feminine loveliness in a gruesome, bloody, yet beautiful, manner," she said. "The hardship I have gone through has created my true beauty."
And her struggles finally paid off when she was chosen by a panel of professional judges to join an all-expense paid trip to Miami for the recent youngARTS Week, where high school seniors took part in seven days of workshops, performances and competitions.
Avineri's was one of 141 finalists picked by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts from 7,300 students who applied. The nine disciplines consisted of dance, film and video, jazz, music, photography, theater, visual arts, voice and writing.
"We're looking for the quality in the students' art that makes them stand out and shows their own personal style," foundation President William H. Banchs said. "We're searching for students with potential to make it in the future and on a national level. This program is here to tell them that they do have something special."
Chakaia Booker, a sculptor from New York and one of the master teachers, said the gathering is important because the young artists can be themselves and show their true potential.
"Where else can these artists go where they can showcase their talent and hard work and see what other students have offered in their own art?" said Booker, whose sculptures of worn tires have brought her significant acclaim.
Avineri, who's in the competition's Visual Arts category, hoped her work would make her one of the top winners to help pay her college tuition, but she also wanted to learn as much as possible.
"I can make clothes, paint, print making, and draw, but I want to introduce myself to the art of sculpturing."
Avineri said that the 3-D aspect of sculptures by other artists has inspired her to do some of her own.
"It's kind of like a taste of actually building things, as supposed to imagining something in my head and drawing it on paper," she said.
But her first passion is clearly demonstrated in her self-portraits, which are influenced by the works of the late Austrian painter Egon Schiele. She learned about him when she found a book about the author in her father's closet.
"His female bodies and the way he emphasizes each little bone or curve make me think about my body and its many bones and structure," Avineri said.
The teenagers competed for over $500,000 in prize money, with awards beginning at $1,000. The students who win $10,000 as gold Award winners and $5,000 as silver winners will be eligible to perform or have their work exhibited in New York City in April.
Some will also be eligible for selection as a United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
Tyler Lau, an 18-year-old photographer from Lawrence, Kansas, said he still feels uneasy about considering himself an artist.
"Anyone can call themselves an artist," he said. "Just because a person does one painting, a drawing or a photograph, doesn't make you an artist."
His only training has been from following his father, a photographer who's finishing up his second book of work. They have taken summer trips to China, Canada and Italy, capturing the daily lives of "habitants" through their lenses.
"I find myself asking what is my purpose. My standards are so complex and so high that it makes it harder for me to achieve what I am looking for. Hopefully, this competition will change why I feel uncertain that I am an artist," Lau said.
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Spectator Magazine - October 20, 1995
(c) David Steinberg
Women Who Put Sex Before Marriage; Animation Joculation
The Woman Who Leaves for Sex
I have argued many times in this column that the suppression of sexual energy is one of the most conservative of social forces, that advocating support for diversely fulfilling sexual expression -- particularly sexual fulfillment for women -- is very much a radical challenge to the existing social order. If there is any doubt about the way that sexual suppression of women is a fundamental tool for the preservation of the traditional family and traditional gender roles, take a look at what happens to those women who dare to affirm their right to sexual fulfillment, the women who say that meaningful sex is important enough to them that they are ready to reorganize their lives, even to the point of overturning secure stable existence and family, even to the point of disrupting their lives and the lives of the people around them.
From the deep dark ages (not all that long ago, actually) when women
weren't even supposed to enjoy sex inside the boundaries of monogamous marriage, we have come to the point where women get to enjoy sex with their husbands without being considered suspiciously wayward souls. Married women who have discrete, secret affairs are still regarded with more disdain than their similarly-inclined husbands, but as it becomes public knowledge that more and more married women are having sexual affairs, it becomes increasingly difficult to demonize these women as examples of unbridled, undisciplined, unfeminine lust. Women now talk to each other about their affairs almost as casually as men tell each other about theirs, and there is a common understanding, at least in some circles, that an occasional affair here and there is a reasonable sort of sexual outlet for a woman who finds herself locked in a marriage that is sexually unfulfilling. There is even a school of thought, embodied by Dalma Heyn in her book The Erotic Silence of the American Wife, that recommends discrete affairs to married women as a means of preserving and bolstering their marriages, kind of a sexual safety valve that allows women to satisfy their sexual needs, in order to lessen bitterness and resentment at home without blowing the marriage to pieces.
On the other hand, for a woman to give her sexuality such primal import that she is willing to overthrow her marriage in order to make room for more sexual satisfaction than intermittent secret liaisons allow, well that's another story again. And the woman who is ready to put sex before marriage and who is not afraid to let others know precisely what she is doing (rather than hiding behind any number of more socially acceptable reasons for divorce) becomes the subject of a degree of social condemnation that reveals how close to the core of social stability this simple act of sexual honesty cuts.
These lessons were brought home to me several years ago when Helen, my partner, went through precisely this process of rediscovering her sexuality -- rediscovering that meaningful sexual existence was an emotional necessity for her, not just a luxury to be indulged when and if the rest of her life could be arranged to make room for it. Finding herself in a pleasant, comfortable, loving, financially secure, but sexually uninteresting marriage of almost twenty years, she chose to leave that relationship in favor of instability, uncertainty, and financial insecurity. She did so largely because leaving gave her the opportunity to rediscover and develop the strength and power of the sexual feelings she had reveled in as a younger woman, before she put much of her sexual drive aside in the name of marriage, family, and a somewhat unconventional version of the American dream. In the flush of sexual reawakening, she let it be known among the decidedly conventional, middle-class friends and acquaintances she shared with her soon-to-be-ex-husband, that the opportunity to be more openly and elaborately a fully sexual person was a major motivation for her midlife upheaval.
While she knew that she would provoke a certain degree of upset in her social circle, she was totally unprepared for the strength of the feelings she stirred up in just about everyone around her, simply by breaking the fundamental social rule that a woman simply does not put her sexual needs ahead of her needs for family and security.
Hindsight, of course, comes easy in situations like this, yet in retrospect it's really not so surprising that Helen became the focal point for the buried sexual fears of her entire community of friends. When even one woman deserts her stable placid existence for a more adventurous, more sexual life, the myth that marital boredom and sexual decline are the inevitable price a woman pays for being a responsible adult is shattered for all.
As soon as one woman dares to seek and apparently find a workable, if difficult, sex-affirming way of life, the women around her are forced to ask themselves more seriously than they may wish whether they are happy not only with their lives in general, but also with their sexual lives in particular. If they are not, they must question further whether they really want to accept sexual dissatisfaction for the rest of their lives, and if so, why.
Once the sex-doesn't-really matter-that-much monolith is broken, the inertia of blind acceptance and resignation is broken as well. New and disturbing sexual possibilities demand consideration which of course makes people very nervous. "Sexual happiness is simply not available to the loving wife and mother" becomes an inadequate answer to the subversive little voice that keeps asking, "Why don't you go for what you really want, sexually as well as in other ways." A disconcerting soup is being stirred, and not surprisingly one consequence is supreme hostility for the troublemaker in the group, the one whose choices puts others eye-to-eye with difficult feelings.
What Helen found was that the great majority of the women in her circle of friends turned against her with a vehemence that made clear how little they wanted to be reminded of the sexual possibilities they had given up in return for the predictability and security of monogamous marriage. It wasn't simply a matter of people simply saying, "Why is she doing that? I wouldn't want to do that for anything in the world." It was a matter of group condemnation and punishment -- punishment of the woman who dared utter the secret feeling shared by so many of her peers, the woman who dared say that the empress wanted to be wearing no clothes. Helen had broken the sacred mold of female sexual propriety and had thus become a palpable threat to every woman around her.
Fortunately, Helen also discovered that a smaller group of her women friends were enthusiastically (if privately) supportive of her sexual determination and courage. These were the women who were able to admit that there were major deficiencies in their own relationships, particularly with regard to their unfulfilled sexual desires.
It is an old saw men tend to divide mother from whore, and then marry against the grain of their sexual attractions in favor of a partnership based on predictability and safety. But women perform a parallel division, separating man-as-adventure from man-as-security, and pair with the safe men, even when it means giving up an ongoing life of sexual growth and passion. Not uncommonly, women choose sexually placid partners as a way of suppressing sexual urges that they are afraid will get them into emotional hot water, or that have gotten them into difficult places already. A decade or two later, the men these women consider husband material -- devoted, financially successful, safe, family men -- often turn out to be depressingly dull, emotionally and sexually. The sexual heat that once seemed so important to cool reasserts itself as a mix of fond memory and new possibility. Helen was surprised to find herself suddenly privy to the whispered sexual yearnings of many women friends who confided to her their own longstanding sexual frustrations, their secret affairs, their thoughts of leaving flat marriages for lives that they hoped would be more adventurous, more fulfilling, more sexually passionate.
The middle-aged women of the 90's are, after all, the same women who were young and single during the 70's, when sexual openness and exploration was nothing short of a pan-cultural explosion. Many of today's innocuously well-behaved, devoted wives and mothers have fond memories of unfettered sexual exploration, even though they later filed those impulses away under the heading of "something I did when I was young and had the room to be irresponsible."
For these women, Helen was a welcome provocation, a role model even, someone they in many ways dared themselves to embrace and emulate. They related to her as a sister seeker, an encouraging renegade, and watched carefully to see if she could actually recreate her life so radically and thrive. Of course, more of these women fantasized about their own changes than actually chose radical change, but the complacency of habitual, unquestioned, unfulfilled existence had been challenged for all.
This is why the woman who proclaims to herself that she is unwilling to go through the rest of her life without ongoing, meaningful, satisfying sex is by definition a threat to the established social order. This is why the woman who assigns this level of importance to her sexuality publicly -- the woman who, unwilling to pursue sexual satisfaction in secret, puts her sexual cards on the table for all to see without shame or apology -- is not only a sexual rebel, but also a sexual revolutionary: someone whose activity breeds desire for change in the people around her.
Challenging the primacy of marriage and family in this way has many of the same effects and consequences (albeit not as severe) as other, more widely discussed challenges to conventional sexual assumptions, such as being into s/m, cross-dressing, or coming out gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Assaults on sexual complacency take place at all levels of society -- in the heart of the beast as well as at the outer edges. With apologies to Gertrude Stein, a slut is a slut is a slut -- is any woman who refuses to allow herself to be controlled by a culture that stands ready to condemn and punish her for claiming her full, uppity, unrepentant right to her own sexuality on her own terms.
Disney Mischief
It started out as another of those roll-your-eyes newspaper stories. In the back pages of the Chronicle's Datebook section a couple of Sundays ago, there was a story about a group of Christians who were appalled at what they claimed were sinister immoral messages to children tucked away in Disney Studio's recent smash children's film, The Lion King. "Rightist Group Attacks Lion King" read the headline -- enough to give me a chuckle and get me to check out what the crazies were up to now.
It turns out that there's a Christian watchdog group called the American Life League that has been going over all the recent Disney films with a fine tooth comb, ever since the Disney Studio released the film Priest. Priest, as you may remember, is the quite moving story of a young, intensely devout, Catholic priest who happens to have a closet life in the gay leather scene. Throughout the film he wrestles with the contradiction between his impossibly high moral standards for those in the priesthood (he is aghast that the lively older priest he works with is having a rollicking affair with the parish housekeeper), and his irrepressible desire for men. It's very much a film worth seeing.
The American Life League, however, takes Priest to be nothing less than "an attack on the Roman Catholic Church and the priesthood and God," according to ALL spokesperson Tracey Casale, who explains further that the League's concern for the good name of the Catholic Church stems from the fact that "the Catholic Church is the largest voice for unborn babies in the world." You guessed it, we're back to the abortion issue one more time.
Well, after the release of Priest, the League instructed its 300,000 members to scrutinize any and all Disney products to see what additional evidence they could find of Disney-sponsored moral decay and degradation. (Think of poor old Walt, turning over and over in his grave!) After god knows how many millions of hours of investigation, they claim to have found three moral outrages tucked into recent Disney children's releases. They claim, first of all, that in The Lion King, when Simba the lion at one point falls to the ground, the dust he kicks up spells out S-E-X. Furthermore they say that in The Little Mermaid, when the minister is in the process of marrying the bride and groom, he gets an erection. And finally, they say, there is one scene in Aladdin, in which a background voice whispers insidiously, "Good teenagers take off your clothes."
Right, I laughed to myself, and when you play the old Beatles record backwards it tells you that Paul is dead. I cut out the article and gave it to Helen's 15-year-old son Jesse, who loves to make fun of the paranoid excesses of the Christian right. When he read the piece, Jesse was not only hysterical laughing but anxious to check out the supposed offenses for himself. Since we happen to have all three of the morally suspect animation classics (please don't arrest me, officer...), we whipped out the videos to see what the American Life League could possibly be talking about.
Well, guess what? The S-E-X smoke puffs are pretty bogus -- overly imaginative interpretations of rather amorphous dust clouds that rise and disappear into the sky. But the priest's erection is undeniably present, if anyone cares. (It rises and falls in a fraction of a second under the minister's white robe). And if you listen really really carefully you can catch the "good teenagers take off your clothes" audio riff as well, though nobody would ever notice it in a million years if it weren't for the trumpet-sounding of the good keepers of childhood purity in Stafford, Virginia. Jesse and his 9-year-old brother, Daniel, were beside themselves with laughter, and I'm sure lost no time in passing the naughty information delightedly to their friends.
Looks like somebody's been having fun at the Disney animation lab. Adolescent maybe, but harmless enough. I mean, no sweet innocent child is going to notice (let alone be bothered by) the minister's momentary erection. No teenager is going to be goaded into flashing by the subliminal whisper. No psyche is going to be damaged. No insidious salacious energy is going to be absorbed by young Disney enthusiasts. Not from these minuscule celluloid pranks, not even from the more widely known and circulated giggle among kids in the know that one of the castle turrets on the Little Mermaid box cover is shaped somewhat like the head of a penis.
But in the Satan-fearing 90's, serious politics actually hinge on these most ridiculous of exaggerated concerns. The frenetic anti-abortion mission of the American Life League is actually gaining credibility among people who watch the priest's little penis bob up and down over and over again while they cluck their tongues at the decline of the entire country's sexual morals. The League has organized a very real boycott and letter-writing campaign against Disney Productions, which will at the very least make that studio a bit more cautious the next time it considers releasing a film like Priest that addresses the real human foibles of the religiously ordained. Will any Senate and House votes on the Communications Decency Act be swayed by the little bulge in an animated minister's pants? Will another doctor at an abortion clinic take a bullet from some deranged lunatic who takes these little quirks to mean that he is called by somebody's Lord to defend to the death the decency and honor of America's women and children? Unfortunately, nobody knows for sure.
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To aid in this conversation, I used a port tool to test
incoming/outgoing ports on m0n0wall PC image version 1.21
Since I can only manually test one port at a time for data input/output,
I only did ports 500 UDP to 505 UDP and TCP for giggles.
My test showed that m0n0wall doesn't pass UDP packets on Port 500 as
this person has stated, but it worked fine on ports 501, 502, 503, etc.
My test did find that TCP packets would pass port 500 just fine. I even
tried port remapping, like m0n0wall port 500 to 501 just to see if it
was the direct 500:500 that was having the problem and still packets are
dropped. I checked the firewall log of m0n0wall to see if maybe those
packets would show up there, nothing found.
I know that by default on a windows machine, you can't listen for port
500 UDP because it's being used by the lsass.exe server process, but my
test on both a windows workstation (with a killed lsass.exe process) and
linux workstation show that m0n0wall will not pass port 500 UDP using
simple NAT rules and pass rules for the firewall. I haven't tried
assigning a machine an external WAN address and doing the same test for
sanity reasons. Maybe someone can shed some light on why m0n0wall would
discard packets coming inbound on port 500 UDP?
Polus, Tomasz wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Buechler [mailto:cbuechler at gmail dot com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:15 AM
>> Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
>> Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] FW: m0n0wall blocks incoming UDP 500
>> On 3/14/06, Polus, Tomasz <tomek at polvision dot com dot pl> wrote:
>>> Come on guys, I don't believe m0n0wall working as a NAT
>> gateway cannot
>>> pass returning UDP 500 packets....
>> Of course it can. That's not the problem. The problem is
>> most likely that you don't have NAT-T enabled on the Linksys
>> you're connecting to.
> Nope. As I stated before, Linux NAT works great in this configuration.
> After switching from Linux to m0n0wall - connection cannot be
> established.
> Me --- Linux NAT --- INTERNET --- Linksys VPN router = YES
> Me --- m0n0wall NAT --- INTERNET --- Linksys VPN router = NO
>> The process of NAT breaks IPsec unless the terminating
>> device supports and has NAT-T enabled. Previously, you may
>> have had ESP forwarded to your machine, but ipfilter doesn't
>> support anything but TCP and UDP on non-1:1 forwards.
> In other words.... Linux can do it, but FreeBSD cannot? Very
> interesting....


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Re: st: Wanted: simulated data with cluster structure
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Re: st: Wanted: simulated data with cluster structure
Thu, 12 May 2011 09:46:39 +0200
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Bert Jung <email@example.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the heads-up Austin. I wonder if it would be useful to
> post (here or elsewhere) simulation code for various standardized
> situations? Apart from my own need, I understand from colleagues that
> there is both demand and confusion on these matters.
It is hard to determine what "standard situations" are, they tend to
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critically important and what potential problems can be safely
Having said that, a list of tricks can be useful. A list covering the
basics (e.g. I did not get to clustering) can be found in this talk
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bert hubert <ahu@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:29:12PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > Hi, > > > > both manual keying and automatic keying with racoon (pre-shared secret) > > are working fine. No need to patch or modify anything. > > I tried only ipv4. > > By the way, regarding ipsec-tools 0.1, are you sure you want to fork the > projects involved? I spoke to the KAME people and unfortunately, at least for now, there is no other choice but to fork. Perhaps down the road we can merge, but as of last week they don't want to host a linux package. They are willing to take some of our patches, but that doesn't help with a build system. > By the way, you did not mention it here but ipsec-tools is available on > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipsec-tools , I also link them from > http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.ipsec.html I didn't? Perhaps I said ipsec-tool.sourceforge.net which has a link to sourceforge.net/projects/ipsec-tools and is much shorter to type. ;) > Regards, > > bert -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord@xxxxxxx PGP key available
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text: Created on: 19th Jul, 2014 01:41 PMHome >>Sale >> New Cairo City/ Katameya >> Mountain View Hyde Park >> #1449Mountain View Resale I Villa Majestic Lake View, I Villa A Garden for Sale 5 Years Facility PaymentNot what you are looking for; CLICK FOR SIMILAR LISTINGS! Property Type Apartment, Duplex+Garden الموقعMountain View Hyde Parkالعقار المعروضSaleعدد غرف النوم 3عدد الحمامات 3مساحة الأرض278mالمنظرMajestic Lakeوضع الوحدةNew Developmentتاريخ الإنتهاءWinter 2017حالة التسليمCore& Shellالسعر1790000دفعة الحجز772000عدد الأقساط21قيمة الأقساط55000الدفع كلquarterSoldYesImages سهولة الوصول والمرافقlocated in road 90, Mountain View Hyde Park is overlooking to the most exclusive and the largest private landscaped park in New Cairo, and is five minutes away from the American University in New Cairo Campus. Mountain View Hyde Park is situated within a walking distance from the largest medical, commercial, educational, and sports centers in New Cairo Areaالمزيد من التفاصيلIf given a choice to live in a crowded, noisy street or near a peaceful, green park, you would instantly pick the second. And you would be right. After all, who would not want to live near a lush, pleasant Park? There are innumerable advantages of living near a park;however, living next to a park is not like living inside the park. You are still living in the City exposed to all the stress and pollution of urban living. At Mountain View Hyde Park, we had a dream… a dream that we can live in absolute Green… yet with Facilities still in reach. Mountain View Hyde Park was designed with one vital aim in mind – to give residents for the first time in Egypt the opportunity to live within a park, surrounded by greenery and nature.Mountain View Hyde Park New Cairo Community, If you decide to become part of the Mountain View community, you can enjoy the mental, physical and social well being that one associates with being constantly surrounded by wide-open, green spaces. Because, unlike other gated communities, at Mountain View Hyde Park your home will be in the middle of lush landscapes, so that you truly live inside a park, not next to one. Can you imagine your home being in a park? Mountain View Hyde Park offers you the dream of living within absolute green, with all modern facilities conveniently within reach. Resale I Villa A Garden Middle for Sale Mountain View Hyde Park phase 6 with direct Majestic Lake View. I Villa Surface Area 278m+ 65m Garden. I Villa Features: 3 bedrooms+ 3bathrooms+ Kitchen+ Spacious reception+ Living room. Price: Original Price: 1690000 EGP+ 100000 EGP ( Over ). Down Payment: 770000 EGP. the rest over 5 Years& 3 months.العملةEGPمواصفات عامةServicedSwimming PoolMaster BedroomMaid's roomPrivate GardenPrivate EntranceParkinggated CommunitySecurity AvailableWater FeaturesClubhouse membership includedUnder Constructionالخريطة Report this Item Your Email Comment Email to: Your Name: Your Email: Subject: Send Email ItemPrint Item Consultant DetailsAhmed firstname.lastname@example.com 01066724180 Inner Enquiry Now Invalid Input Refresh Invalid Input Reviews Post a Review Rating: 1 2 3 4 5 Title: Comment: No Reveiw Found.


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Together, the 'Truman Show' stars brought two ladies to The Lion eaterie in Manhattan reportedly for a double date.
Jim Carrey has wasted no time in charming the ladies since his split from Jenny McCarthy - the funnyman was reportedly spotted flirting with a mystery woman at a restaurant in New York. The "Mask" actor headed to The Lion eaterie in Manhattan with his "The Truman Show" co-star Noah Emmerich, a woman believed to be Emmerich's girlfriend, and a young Brazilian.
New York Post gossip column Page Six reported that Carrey spent the double-date last week "openly flirting" with the woman, drawing stares from other diners. A source tells the publication, "Carrey was openly flirting with the hottie all night, and everyone at the restaurant was talking about it. After dinner, they kept the date going at the bar."
Carrey split from former model McCarthy in April after five years together.


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KSDK has made an interesting hire. The the station has hired Marv Danielski in the newly created position of vice president and station manager. The station says that Lynn Beall will continue as KSDK general manager. Danielski was working as a consultant at Frank Magid before joining KSDK. What makes it interesting was Danielski, in his role as a consultant, had been working with KMOV (KSDK's competitor) on news strategy for quite some time. In fact, he helped lead the latest news strategy meetings KSDK had before the November ratings book. So in other words, this guy has the KMOV playbook and is now working across the street at KSDK. It doesn't seem fair for a guy like this, that has been in many of the planning meetings at one station, to get hired by a competitor. This is something that could have stations rethinking their use of outside consultants. And if you ask us, Magid owes KMOV a refund. Consultants should have language plans in their people's contracts that stops stuff like this from happening. Danielski's other claim to fame….jingle writing.
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If Marv Danielski can do something about the giggling ladies at KSDK, all the better.
Some nights you have giggling ladies doing weather and sports and anchoring, all at the same time.
Goodness, they have such a good time.
One look and I switch to the somber Tom O'Neil and professional Mandy Murphey over at Channel 2. I want to keep up on the shootings before Mayor Slay tells us again crime is down in St. Louis.
Fast Forward to February 2nd, 2014. Breaking News: After only eight weeks on the job, Gannett has fired Marv Danielski for wanting to hire Larry Conners as KSDK anchor. Danielski will be replaced by Gefilte Fischer, former Dean of Recess at the Collinsville Acadamy of Wig Design. Fisher's husband is prominent criminal defense attorney Manny Chevits. Rich Crackel of the St. Louis Post Dispatch interviewed Fischer and asked her if she was really qualified for the job. She shot back that she is more qualified than Lynn Beagle and Mike Shitley combined. After all, she said, being a former Dean of Recess will give her a greater insight on dealing with all the snotnosed wannabe child-anchors Beagle surrounds herself with. Crackel asked her if she would fire all incompetent personnel at KSDK. She said she could not do that. If she did KSKD would go off the air. Crackel told her she should consider working for the Post Dispatch since its Chairman Mary Junk is so incompetent she makes Lynn Beagle appear to be a member of Mensa. Fisher declined Crackel's offer by saying she would never work for a newspaper stupid enough to put Dingbat Dufus Debbie Peterson on its Editorial Board. Crackel blushed, stopped the interview, and went to the Missouri Bar and Grill to get drunk with Bill McClellan. Ah, some things never change!
How interesting that Lynn Beall will now have nipping at her heels a guy from Frank Magid….the "sweaty palms" market testers who were the bane of pretty-boy Patrick Emory's (St. Louis's own Ron Burgundy; don't act like you're not impressed) existence three decades ago when he anchored at KSDK, one of his three St. Louis anchor stints.
I bet Kitty wishes that Patrick Emory would stick a gourd up her…!!
Kitty's essay was straight on right, and said with flair and humor mixed in with the way it is. And I remember Emory's departure from his station, and on-air it was Dave Murray that gave him the huge genital shaped gourd, and Emory asked "What shall I do with this, and where shall I put it…?" Murray replied "Put it anywhere you think it will fit, or anywhere you like." I rolled on the floor for 10 minutes. The facial expressions were "DYNE-O-MYTE." I believe Patrick-Boy after leaving CNN went into early retirement. I don't care enough to Google him.
Remember, Jean Valjean, that Emory was a lush who kept a bottle of scotch at his anchor desk and was involved in a dog and cat fight with Karen Foss. That would make anyone take to the bottle!
Emory, when he was here locally, lived in Colonial Hills…a private Lane with large homes…he also suffered frequent panic attacks as the police/fire were called…at one point his ranting and erratic behavior made the Gossip news and thus began his eventual change of employers, so to speak.


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The scaphoid bone is one of eight small bones in the wrist, called carpal bones. These bones allow complex, yet delicate movements of the hand and wrist. The carpal bones fit between the bone of the forearm and hand. The scaphoid sits below the thumb, and is shaped like a kidney bean.

Blood Flow to the Scaphoid

The interesting thing about the scaphoid bone is that is has a retrograde blood supply. This means that the blood flow comes from a small vessel that enters the most distant part of the bone and flows back through the bone to give nutrition to the cells of the bone.

This unusual flow of blood in the scaphoid presents a problem when you sustain a scaphoid fracture. Because of the tenuous blood supply, a scaphoid fracture can sever this blood flow and stop the delivery of necessary oxygen and nutrients to the bone cells. When this occurs, healing can be slow, and the scaphoid fracture may not heal at all.

Signs of Scaphoid Fracture

The signs of a scaphoid fracture include:

pain on the thumb side of the wrist

swelling and bruising at the base of the thumb

difficulty gripping objects

Many patients are diagnosed with a wrist sprain, when in actuality they have a broken scaphoid bone. The diagnosis is difficult because x-rays taken right after the injury may show no abnormality if the bone is not out of position. A scaphoid fracture that is not displaced may only show up on x-ray after healing has begun, which can be one to two weeks after the injury. Because of this, it is not uncommon to treat a wrist injury with immobilization (as though it were a scaphoid fracture) for a week or two and then repeat x-rays to see if the bone is broken. An MRI can also be used to diagnose this injury, without having to wait to repeat an x-ray.

Nonunion of Scaphoid Fractures

When a scaphoid fracture heals slowly (delayed union), or does not heal at all (nonunion), the injury may remain painful, and in the long run, arthritis of the wrist will likely occur. The risk of developing a nonunion of the scaphoid depends most importantly on the location of the fracture in the bone. Other factors that can contribute to non-union are smoking, certain medications, and infection.

Scaphoid Fracture Treatment

There are two general approaches for treatment of a scaphoid fracture: cast immobilization or surgical stabilization.

As long as the scaphoid fracture is not displaced (out of position), cast immobilization is a very reasonable treatment. The cast must extend over your thumb to limit the mobility of your thumb. How high up to extend the cast (above or below elbow) depends on physician preference. Your doctor will continue to monitor the wrist both by examination and x-ray assessment to ensure there is healing of the bone. Healing of a scaphoid fracture often takes 10 to 12 weeks.

If the scaphoid fracture is displaced, the risk of nonunion is higher, and your doctor will recommend surgery to reposition the bones, and hold them solidly in proper alignment. The surgery typically involves using a single screw to hold the bone together in the proper position.

There is some controversy about using surgery as an initial treatment of a fracture that is not out of position. The advantage is that there is less of a risk of nonunion and the time for immobilization can be dramatically reduced. The disadvantage is that surgery always has risks, and while the complication rate of scaphoid fracture surgery is small, there is a possibility of complications including infection, and injury to cartilage or tendons around the scaphoid. Many athletes or manual laborers choose to have surgery to allow a faster recovery.

When nonunion of a fracture develops, surgery is generally recommended to stimulate the bone to heal. A bone graft is often used to promote healing at the fracture site. These injuries can be complex, and require lengthy treatment in order to get the bone to heal. Without proper treatment, wrist arthritis is likely to develop later in life.

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Ring D, et al. "Acute Fractures of the Scaphoid" J Am Acad Orthop Surg July/August 2000; 8:225-231.


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Oklahoma City's Archbishop Emeritus Eusebius Beltran was a gift to our state when he led us.
He was always willing to take the hard step up to the plate to defend the human person from the ravages of discrimination and hate.
About 10 years ago, Oklahoma passed an outrageous law aimed at Hispanics. This law made it a crime to help people, even when they were in dire situations, who had entered this country illegally. It was so draconian that it cut right across the mission of every Christian to serve and love the "least of these." It was, in truth and in fact, a Jim Crow law for Hispanics.
I actually debated this point when I spoke against this law. I dug out the vote on the original Jim Crow law that Oklahoma had passed not long after statehood.
Do you want your name on a list like this, I asked my fellow legislators, pointing to the votes. It did no good. The state Republicans had whipped the public into a mindless and vicious anti-Hispanic hatred in order to win elections, and even legislators who saw that this law was a crime against God voted for it for fear of losing their next election.
My own district, which was a mix of all sorts of people — a true "rainbow" district of skin colors — was in a welter over it. Later, when the pro abortion people tried to defeat me in an election, they made an attempt to use that stand against this law to defeat me.
I had to take another stand, this time in my district, and tell the people there that I would not vote for something like this, and that if they wanted a racist who attacked people for political gain, then they should not vote for me. I won that election by a huge margin, with the full support of every racial group in the district.
What that meant — and continues to mean — to me is that the people of District 89 are far better people than you will find in much of the rest of our good state. They are some of the best people you will find anywhere.
Archbishop Beltran did not have the luxury of speaking to and for the Catholics of a small part of Oklahoma, like my House district. He wasn't dealing with people who had known him all his life. He had to deal with the irascible and diverse Catholic population of his archdiocese. Many of the Catholics were just as thoroughly whipped up into anti-Hispanic hatred as the rest of the state.
So, when their Archbishop came out against this law with the full force of his prophetic and moral voice as their religious leader, they were irate with him for doing so. He did not let that stop him at all. The Catholic Church in Oklahoma stood tall against this dastardly legislation, just as it had stood for life and human dignity in an absolutely reliable way for years.
The Church was not able to stop passage of the law, but the Church, by taking this stand, raised the issue of the moral responsibility of lawmakers in an arena which was operating by a faux morality that justified harming other people. The Catholic Church was alone in taking a stand against this law. Others joined later, but in the beginning, the only voice against it was the Catholic Church.
The priests who were on the priest council here in Oklahoma all signed a declaration saying that they would not obey this unjust law. The statement declared that they would minister to everyone, regardless of ethnicity or legal status, even if doing so meant that they would go to jail.
These men made me proud to be Catholic. More than that, they made me feel that the Church was a refuge for those who were without other refuge, that Christ really did animate what they were doing as His priests. They sent the message with that statement that the Church was for real.
That taught me a simple lesson that I've seen enacted again and again around the world. When people are totally abandoned by everyone; when they become the object of such universal hatred that anyone who stands up for them is taking a big risk, the Church is their refuge.
That is what happened to black people during the long dark night of segregation. The black churches not only created community, they ennobled a people. Their message of Christ saved black Americans from falling absolutely into the pit of rageful despair which would have destroyed them in an absolute way that Jim Crow could not.
Archbishop Beltran was a young priest in Atlanta at the time of the Civil Rights Movement. He knew Martin Luther King, Jr. Father Beltran did in that time what Archbishop Betran did later. He stood with the weak and the hated against the powerful haters who wanted to destroy them. Archbishop Beltran marched with Martin Luther King when it was a dangerous thing to do. He marched with his bishop's permission, but with the understanding that if he was arrested, his bishop would not try to get him out of jail.
This was a time when jail was a witness to truth. Father Beltran marched with the understanding that he might have to be just such a witness.
Among the many wonderful things that Archbishop Beltran did, he wrote a pastoral letter about violence against women. I treasure this deeply. The Church needs to use its moral and prophetic voice to speak out more decisively against violence against women. It could make such a difference if it did.
The Sooner Catholic recently published an article, discussing Archbishop Emeritus Beltran's experiences in the Civil Rights movement. Here is a brief excerpt.
From the Sooner Catholic:
On a steamy Georgia morning in March 1965, Father Eusebius Beltran and three of his brother priests piled into the four-door sedan they borrowed from the Archdiocese of Atlanta and headed south toward Selma, Ala.
It had been two days since they'd heard news of a police shooting and beatings during a protest march in Selma that would later become known as "Bloody Sunday."
The men were not strangers to marches during the Civil Rights Movement, having marched many times through the streets of Atlanta to protest discrimination by schools, restaurants, bus stations and other public venues. But, they hadn't marched in a protest like this. The Selma marches became a national spark to protest the ongoing exclusion of African-American voters from the electoral process and from the discrimination they faced.
At the urging of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who they'd spoken with often at his father's Baptist church, the Catholic priests sought approval from Archbishop Hallinan for the road trip to Selma and use of the archdiocese's car.
"He told me that he wanted to see the boys, the priests, who were going with me before we left," said Archbishop Beltran, who is now Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.
"The four of us went to see Archbishop Hallinan in the hospital and that's when he asked us 'Do you guys know what you're doing? Do you realize you're breaking the law? Do you know that you could go to jail? And, that if you go to jail, I want to let you know I will not bail you out because part of standing for the truth is you take the punishment, and that's part of the punishment.' We said we all knew that, and he said 'OK, God bless you.'"
After a nervous 4-hour drive to Selma, the priests each claimed a mattress on the floor of a hallway at the Catholic church and headed to join the crowds at a pre-march pep rally.
"The whole thing was well-organized and there was always a spokesman up there who was giving directions, reminding people no violence and to be ready to take a beating. It was scary in a way, but when you're young, you don't think about it. And, it had to be done too. It was part of the movement at that time. Selma brought together everything we were working toward."
The next day, the march began in the same way it had two days earlier. Dr. King led the way across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where the group of more than 2,500 marchers were met by state troopers. Since a judge had issued a court order prohibiting the marchers from continuing to Montgomery, Ala., they turned around and marched back to the church without incident. (Later that evening, three white pastors were attacked by members of the Klu Klux Klan, killing one Universalist pastor after the public hospital refused treatment.)
Following the second march, which became known as "Turnaround Tuesday," Father Beltran and his crew returned to Atlanta where they continued their meetings and marches for several years – including a march to protest a segregated chicken restaurant owned by Lester Maddox, who later became Georgia's governor.


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Los Angeles police are seeking information from the public to help find University of Redlands alumna Kimberly Blum, 44, of Los Angeles, who has been missing since June 5.
Blum was last heard from in the 1000 block of Newhome Avenue in Sunland around 4 p.m., according to Los Angeles police officials.
Blum is described as a white female with brown hair, blue eyes. She is about 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs around 144 pounds. She was last seen wearing a black tank top and wears prescription glasses.
Lisa Beguelin, formerly of Redlands, graduated from UofR with Blum in 1991.
They became friends while participating in the University choir, Beguelin said.
Blum studied American government and international studies at University of Redlands. She studied political science at the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies in Redlands.
Begulein said she last spoke with Blum in February when Blum sent her a Facebook message about a logo she had posted on her profile.
Begulein describes Blum as a really laid back and a "very sweet, kind, funny, easy going person and sarcastic in a really funny, witty sort of way, but just all around a good person."
Blum left her job as a senior department assistant at the California Institute of Technology last month, according to her Facebook profile.
She is the owner of The Garage Fairy in Sunland, where she currently resides, according to her profile.
She lists her hometown as Framingham, Mass.
Anyone who has seen or has any information regarding Blum's whereabouts may contact Missing Persons Unit Det. C. Carlton at 213-996-1800.
During non-business hours or on weekends, calls should be directed to 1-877-LAPD-24-7 (877-527-3247). Anyone wishing to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477).
Tipsters may also contact Crime Stoppers by texting to phone number 274637 (C-R-I-M-E-S on most keypads) with a cell phone. All text messages should begin with the letters "LAPD." Tipsters may also go to LAPDOnline.org, click on "webtips" and follow the prompts.


text: Part of the greater Akron area, Macedonia and Twinsburg are mainly bedroom communities. Twinsburg, while unincorporated, does have a yearly festival that gives it a claim to fame: the yearly twins festival. Started in 1976, it draws up to 3,000 sets of twins each year, from all over the world.Hide


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As much as I dislike this house there is no doubt that it used to be beautiful. I spend a lot of time looking at crumbly old buildings to seek beauty in decay without realizing I live in such a place, though in my eyes it's more depressing than delightful because it's what I see day in, day out. There is no more mystery. I know the exact spots where the floor creaks and the metal cutwork awnings have all but rusted away. The carved wooden arches are covered with cobwebs and the ceiling is bound to give in soon. If only we took care of the house more I might not be so adamant about leaving it despite its condition.
You know, there's absolutely no reason to talk about our dilapidated house in relation to fashion but hey. Now you know why I hate heavy, dark wood so much. I grew up constricted by it.


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All Items : Books and Publications : Children's : Pre 1950 item #717277 (stock #M2902)
Extra nice childrenŌĆÖs book ŌĆō ŌĆ£The Little Book of ColorsŌĆØ by Helen Dean Fish and Catharine Smith! It has copyright date of 1944, J.B. Lippincott Company, and is a First Edition. The first page states ŌĆ£THIS BOOK IS DESIGNED TO HELP VERY LITTLE CHILDREN LEARN THE SIX RAINBOW COLORSŌĆØ. The only ŌĆ£useŌĆØ evidence is some coloring on the pages that are supposed to be colored (things that are red, things that are green, etc). Neat book!
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I purchased this little booklet several years ago at an estate sale. It's an advertising booklet for Old Reliable Coffee and it has amusing and charming little verses on each page that extol the virtues of cleanliness for good health. There are 10 pages with verses, 2 pages ŌĆ£Coffee as it GrowsŌĆØ and the back page is about Old Reliable Coffee. Booklet is in very good condition with some storage/use evidence on cover. This is a neat collectible and advertising item!
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This listing has a 1950ŌĆÖs edition of ŌĆ£Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage PatchŌĆØ! Book was written by Alice Hegan Rice, illustrated by Everett Shinn, and published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York. It is in very good condition with age yellowing of pages and prior owner wrote his name on cover page.


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The swashbuckling efforts of two Brooklyn born and bred siblings recently netted each a silver medal at the Beijing Olympics.
Three-time Olympian Keeth Smart, snared his medal as part of the men's saber competition while his sister, Erinn Smart took home her silver medal in the women's foil competition.
Making the accomplishment even more extraordinary was that prior to the Olympics, Keeth, formerly the #1 ranked fencer in the world, nearly lost his life battling ITP – a rare form of leukemia which he contracted while in Algiers at a world cup competition.
Though given a limited time to live, he miraculously recov ered from his ailment to compete in the Olympics.
"It was quite an unbelievable accomplishment," said Keeth, who still has a residence in Ditmas Park and is going for an MBA at Columbia University.
Keeth explained that the two took up fencing as pre-teens after their father saw an article on fencing concerning the Peter Westbrook Foundation, a New York City-based fencing academy for inner-city youth.
"In Brooklyn everybody played basketball and I was not that good, and he definitely made the wise decision to encourage us to do fencing," said Keeth.
"Once we took it up we both fell in love with the sport and kept pushing to go to different tournaments and practices," he added.
The Smarts grew up in Flatbush with their now deceased parents and attended Brooklyn Tech before attending college.
In a previous Courier-Life story, Erinn, 28, explained that fencing is not like Zorro at all.
Erinn explained that in her weapon event, points and the match are garnered with "hits' of the target including the back, torso, shoulders and rest of the upper body with the exception of the arms and head.
In Keeth's saber competition the match is judged through slashing hits of the upper body.
As for Keeth's Olympic experiences, he refused to say which of the three he participated in – Sydney, Athens or Beijing – were his favorite.
"Every Olympics is special in its own right, but the Beijing training facility was state of the art. They [China] spared no expense with any facilities or the Olympic village," said Keeth, adding that he and his sister also visited the Great Wall of China, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven.
Keeth also heaped praise on the United States Olympic Committee, saying they treated the athletes better at this recent Olympics than the two previous Olympics in which he participated.
"This was the best treatment by the U.S. Olympic Committee. They did a great job this Olympic games. They coddled us and we received countless medical treatment whenever we wanted," said Keeth.
Keeth said the entire U.S. Olympic squad was also very close and he got to know everyone including Michael Phelps, who won eight gold medals in swimming and basketball star Kobe Bryant.
Michael Phelps was very quiet and Kobe is a super nice guy, very personable and approachable, said Keeth.
Keeth said that with the Olympics over, he has been busy at Colombia and sees him and his sister hanging up their swords.
"We're both probably going to stop now after winning a silver medal," he said.
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The RCMP have placed an officer on leave and put his dog in a kennel after the dog bit a 16-year-old boy in the face during a weekend arrest in Surrey.
The teen was tracked by a police dog after allegedly fleeing the scene of a breaking and entering at a north Surrey gas station at around 2 a.m. Saturday. New Westminster police have been asked to investigate the incident.
The Lower Mainland District RCMP said they requested an independent review of the incident because of the extent of injuries suffered by the youth. The officer involved has been placed on administrative leave and the dog will remain in a kennel while the investigation takes place, said Chief Superintendent Janice Armstrong.
Of 783 incidents in which police dogs in the Lower Mainland tracked an individual last year, contact was made in 82 cases, said Supt. Armstrong. The dogs are trained to bite the arms of a suspect and to release on command, she said.
The parents of the 16-year-old youth acknowledge their son used "stupid judgment" but are upset about his injuries and are demanding answers for the way he was arrested.
Pictures taken by the teen's mother at hospital show a young face covered with blood, deeply exposed wounds on his nose and cheek and his eyes half shut. The youth suffered bites to his face and arms, as well as a broken nose, his mother said.
"When I first saw it I was like 'Oh my god,' I started crying 'my poor son,'" said the teen's mother. "I could see into his nasal cavity."
The teen's parents said they have hired a lawyer for his criminal charge of breaking and entering and possession of stolen property. They said they will also seek compensation for their son's injuries.
The teen's parents said investigators from the New Westminster police came to their house Tuesday to take photos of the youth's injuries.
"I feel sorry for everybody, you know. It's not just my son," the boy's father said. "I feel sorry for everyone, the whole incident."Report Typo/Error
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Actor Lawrence Talbot (del Toro) returns to the stately home where he grew up after the death of his brother. His brothers fiancée, Gwen (Blunt) and father (Hopkins) await him there and something rather furrier and more dangerous besides.
It was March 2006 when Universal announced a remake of the classic Lon Chaney-starring Wolfman. And here, almost four years later, is the result. Through a pre-production change of director, reshoots and delays so long that even James Cameron's long-postponed Avatar preceded it, this strain of lycranthropy has persevered. Still, it's doubtful whether this bears any resemblance to the script that went into production. The unfortunate Lawrence Talbot's transformation into a wolfman isn't the only mutation afflicting this film.
The problem is tone. It's clear, in cinematographer Shelly Johnson's atmospheric visuals and Benicio del Toro's subdued performance, that this film was once a restrained horror, almost a straight family drama that happened to have a werewolf in it. It's also clear that someone, at some point, decided to splatter buckets of gore – and more than a few stray limbs – over that film in the hope of bringing in teenage gorno aficionados. While the frayed plot strands have been neatly knotted together to ensure that it still makes sense – by no means a given in films as delayed as this – there's nevertheless a jarring shift at each change of gear.
So we have a few good action set-pieces – the attack on a gypsy camp, a transformation and chase through the streets of London – alongside some creepier mist-draped moments in the woods, and valiant attempts at squeezing character development in among it all. The pieces largely work, but they never work together – rather like the wolfman's transformation. While the film's commitment to the man-in-suit model of special effects is in keeping with the filmmakers' obvious love of the original, with werewolf supremo Rick Baker delivering an impressively mobile result, the mixture of CG transformation scenes and the furry prosthetics that result never rings true.
The cast are better, but their performances show the effects of the chopping and changing. Anthony Hopkins' eccentric and sinister Lord Talbot would have offered welcome colour to a more restrained film, but here is too broad to fit next to the tortured pairing of del Toro's Lawrence and Emily Blunt's grieving Gwen, while at the same time overshadowed by the violent mayhem around him. It's left to Hugo Weaving's Inspector Abeline to hit the right note between cynicism, fear and adventure – but he appears too little to hold the film on course.
An uneven tone and the feeling of too many cooks mars the finished product, but there are moments of beauty and real terror.


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The Cottagers chief has been forced to soldier on without two of his key players this season as influential striker, Zamora, has not played since breaking his leg against Wolves in September, while defender, Senderos, has not played a game for the club due to an Achilles tendon injury.
However Hughes has now revealed that Zamora, whose form was the key to helping Fulham reach last season's Europa League final, and Senderos, who joined from Arsenal last summer, are now potentially just weeks away from playing.
"Bobby is looking good and Philippe is out with his boots on which he has not been able to do," said Hughes.
"There are still a number of weeks before they will be back for selection, but they are on track."


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Rachelle Gaudet
Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
tel: (617) 495-5616; fax: (617) 496-9684
Research Interests
The TRP channel family is quite diverse. We focus on the TRP channels that respond to temperature, including the vanilloid receptor (TRPV1) responding to heat and chili peppers, the cold and menthol receptor (TRPM8), and TRPA1, a noxious cold and pungent compound sensor in humans. Capsaicin, the pungent substance in hot chili peppers, mimics the effects of heat on TRPV1. Therefore, using capsaicin or other activators, as well as inhibitors like capsazepine, structural studies of different closed and open states of the channel are possible. Our overall goal is to elucidate the gating mechanism of TRP channels by temperature and understand modulatory interactions of proteins and small molecules with TRP channels.
Cadherins and protocadherins are important in cellular adhesion and signaling processes. We are interested in the sequence and structural diversity of this large protein family. We have determined structures of cadherin-23 and protocadherin-15, which are important in hearing. We are also working on other protocadherins involved in the development of the nervous system.
In our project on ABC transporters, we are interested in the role of sequence and structural asymmetry in the function of these dimeric proteins. Our main model transporter, TAP, is a heterodimer of two membrane-spanning proteins, TAP1 and TAP2, and transports peptides generated by the proteasome in the cytosol into the endoplasmic reticulum for loading onto MHC class I molecules. Loaded class I molecules then travel to the cell surface and present the peptides to T cells, an immune system mechanism to recognize and eliminate deregulated or tumorigenic cells, virally-infected cells and foreign cells (e.g. graft rejection).
Whereas ABC transporters use ATP to power substrate transport, NRAMPs use a proton gradient to allow divalent metal uptake. NRAMPs are crucial to iron and manganese uptake and homeostasis, and are important in the immune response to intracellular pathogens. We aim to determine the structure of a bacterial NRAMP homolog to understand how divalent metals are transported.
Selected Publications:
E. Procko, M.L. O'Mara, W.F. Bennett, D.P. Tieleman and R. Gaudet (2009) The mechanism of ABC transporters: general lessons from structural and functional studies of an antigenic peptide transporter. FASEB Journal, 23: 1287-302.
M. Sotomayor, W.A. Weihofen, R. Gaudet and D.P. Corey (2010) Structural Determinants of Cadherin-23 Function in Hearing and Deafness. Neuron, 66: 85-100.
S.Y. Lau, E. Procko and R. Gaudet (2012) Distinct properties of Ca2+-calmodulin binding to N- and C-terminal regulatory regions of the TRPV1 channel. Journal of General Physiology (in press).
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Students first enrolled in Grade 9 in the 2008-2009 school year and beyond are required to show that they are able to read and comprehend text in order to graduate.
Students fulfill this graduation requirement by earning at, or above, a specific score (the achievement standard) on one of the approved assessments.
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ODE has developed 30 Work Sample prompts in each Essential Skill area, and these are available within the Willamette Education Service District's ORSkills online system. Ten of these prompts are available without restrictions. The other 20 prompts have the following restrictions.
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QB Peyton Manning, still trying to get healthy after missing the 2011 season because of neck surgery, described the Colts' facilities as "not a real good environment" right now and said he has "no concept" if he will be with the team following season.
In a scoop interview, the quarterback said owner Jim Irsay will make the last call as to whether the team picks up his $28 million bonus in early March or comes to a decision to cut him loose. Football lines
He said the firing of Jim Caldwell and resulting upheaval of the staff has influenced him as he attempts to come back to the field next season.
"I'm not in an exceedingly good place for healing, let's assume that," he revealed. "It's not real good surroundings down there at this time, to say the least. Everyone's walking around on eggshells. I don't recognize our building right now. There's such complete and total change."
Manning claimed he met with new GM Ryan Grigson last week and was told that Irsay would resolve whether the quarterback will stay with the Indianapolis Colt. Football betting lines
Manning claimed a meeting with Irsay "is going to occur at some specific point, but we haven't had that talk yet as we really do not need to have that conversation yet."
He reiterated that he wants to remain with the Colts but realizes it's not his call solely to make. He also made it clear that he is not contemplating abandonment right now.
"I don't want to get into a kind of fan campaign with the owner, but I think it's well documented that I want to play in the same place my whole career," Manning claimed. "It's been a privilege to play here. I like the fans, the town, the metamorphosis of the fans, how our place has become the hardest stadium to play in, the incontrovertible fact our fans wear more jerseys to games than anybody else. It's been fun to take part in that.
"But I understand how it works. I understand tough calls have to be made. There's personal and there's business and here's where we need to separate the 2. I've seen other players leave places which was personal. I've invested too much into this city for that to happen. We live here, we've given a lot of time and money to the community and our church, and that's never going to change. Nothing changes that.
"Whatever it is happens. I can't give you a prophecy because Jim and I'm going to sit down at some particular point and he will get an understanding of where i am and I will get a feeling of what direction he would like to go. Now, I have no idea."
Manning, who announces he's at the team's training facility daily for his rehab process, has had a front-row seat for the team's turnover.
"I guess it's the unvarnished reality of the football world, just not something I have had to address very often. But I'm in there every day, so I have to sit there and see it. Everybody's being rated and I'm not really any different. It's not the best environment," he claimed.
"I just wish to pay tribute to all those men. It's unlucky because so many of them have been such a big part of so many enormous wins here, and this is so unexpected. Their keys failed to work the following day. There's no other way to do it? I do not know. That's difficult to see, all of these folks leaving.
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Fantastic building and good place to "overnight" - interesting small town
We refused the first bedroom offered to us because of a lack of lamps, 3 small lamps with one not fonctioning, with very few pieces of furniture. The second bedroom was perfect.
Very impressive building.Liked the fact they had secure parking . Good restaurants locally,a bit expensive for Spain, though well worth the price.
The feeling of being somewhere really special and the situation of the hotel in the old town.
I enjoyed the spaciousness of the accommodation and the sheer comfort. The wireless network worked well. I think that for the price one might have expected spa facilities.
Excellent value for money. None
Every thing, The room was beautiful, our dinner was fantastic and the breakfast was wonderful. This hotel is expensive but worth every penny, if you want to give yourself a treat this is the place to stay. Nothing, except I can't afford to stay there again soon.
Parador lerma was an amazing palace, rooms were very spacious and comfortable. Town of lerma itself was very small
The beautiful building and wonderful position. A charming little town with a lot of history. Did not find the staff too friendly. On leaving we were not really acknowledged....a pleasant goodbye would have been appreciated!
The hotel and the village of Lerma were something like a dream from the past.
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Most outstanding was the staff's friendliness and their attentive service. I've stayed in at least a dozen spanish hotels and have been to numerous bars and restaurants. This one beats them all in that respect. Personally I don't like the rococo style, but I'm not going to argue about taste. I rated the location as good, because I was traveling and needed a place to stay the night. The hotel is located a few km's from Burgos, which makes it very convenient for a stop-over. Definitely money well spent.
The room was beautifully decorated and waiting staff in the restaurant were very friendly and helpful. The solid wooden floors made the hotel noisy, with the clatter of footsteps along corridors and in bedrooms. I'd recommend earplugs if you're a light sleeper.
very comfortable bedroom no english programme on tv. very expensive meals in the evening
An ideal location for a stopover. Easy to locate, no need to tour the traffic ridden streets of a large town. Different and delightful.
It was easy to find and, an ideal stopover for the Santander to UK ferry service. This could be a good promotional point, for the english language newspapers thatare published on the Costa Blanca! I wasn't too sure about what constituted breakfast, which we had pre booked!
The hotel was excellent, the staff friendly and helpful. I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone. Really good value for money
Reasonable overnight stop close to main routes through Spain to Portugal and France The television switched on in the restuarant during evening meal did not lead to full enjoyment of the meal or relaxation after a long day on the road travelling.
Very warm welcome, fantastic countryside. Breakfast is served rather late, from 9.00 am.
Extremely comfortable, 'quaint' type hotel a short walk from the medival village of Covarrubias. Excellent base for walking the surrounding countryside None
carmen, the owner was charming, helpful and most welcoming.we had a lovely room with a view.
A very comfortable family run hotel in a very picturesque village. The surrounding countryside was beautiful in autumn.
The friendliness of the staff and the fact every room has its own terrace. The directions to the hotel were poor and the hotel is therefore very difficult to find. Breakfast is served rather late.
The hotels was in a quiet situation and the surrounding cherry blossom was in flower at the time of our stay.
Loved everything about it, the hotel has what in Spanish is called "ambiente", a lovely atmosphere, feels "homey" and has the nicest, friendliest hosts anyone could wish for. There was nothing we did not like.
Really nice traditional hotel good clean rooms , fantastic location in a really nice historic village , cobbled streets timber framed houses. Good walking for the dog along riverbank. No secure parking , had to park car @150 metres away on outskirts of village . There are no cars allowed in the village.Breakfast was basic , very little choice
We found that this hotel was in a beautiful historic setting with a quiet relaxing ambience, which made you feel like you had gone back in time.
Hotel and surroundings are marvels. Exellent kitchen.
This was a really nice hotel in the centre of a lovely old Spanish town. The evening meal was delicious, breakfast was basic but ok. Thoroughly recommended and great value for money.


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Judith P.wrote a review of KEEN Harvest MJ Shoe - Women's on July 15, 2012
Love the shoes
I have the Keen Harvest MJ shoes in most of the colors available and just ordered two more pair. They are so cute and the Polka Dot is my new favorite. I wear an 8.5 and have a high instep - the 8.5 is a perfect fit.


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Money talks. But it never confesses. Ruth earns more as a hostess in a Tokyo nightclub than she's ever made in her life. Rule number one: never give a customer your phone number. The day Ruth breaks that rule, she stumbles into the middle of a dangerous new money game, with only one thing to rely on… her Catholic faith.
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The sale of HJ Heinz Co to Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital is big in many ways – the headline price of $US23 billion, for one. But one notable fact is that most of the banks putting the deal together aren't bulge-bracket firms.
Most of the work in putting the deal together was done by independent advisory shops, with Lazard as lead adviser to Berkshire and 3G and Centerview Partners Holdings as one of the main bankers to Heinz. Another, Moelis & Company, worked for a transaction committee of Heinz's board.
Bigger banks were involved in the deal as well, but people briefed on the matter said that those banks played supporting roles in the transaction. Bank of America Merrill Lynch was Heinz's other financial adviser, and JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo & Co provided debt financing and some advice to Berkshire and 3G.
Indeed, the two perennial leaders in the race for top mergers adviser, The Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley, are nowhere to be seen in the transaction.
The deal could yield a feast of fees. Heinz's banks may be paid between $48 million and $60 million, while the buyers' advisers could earn between $25 million and $37 million, according to estimates from Thomson Reuters and Freeman Consulting Services. (Those numbers exclude any fees from arranging debt financing.)
Lazard, and in particular its global head of investment banking, Antonio Weiss, has long been an adviser to 3G, having helped arrange deals like the investment firm's purchase of Burger King. Mr Weiss has also been the longtime banker to InBev, the product of deals engineered by a 3G backer, Jorge Paulo Lemann, that culminated in the 2008 merger of InBev and Anheuser Busch.
(Earlier on Thursday, Anheuser-Busch InBev announced a significant revision of its deal to buy Grupo Modelo of Mexico, in an effort to head off a battle with the Justice Department on antitrust grounds.)
Centerview Partners has been especially busy over the past several months, having advised on transactions like Clearwire's proposed sale to Sprint Nextel and Alliance Boots $US6.7 billion deal with Walgreen.
And Moelis & Company was an adviser to NYSE Euronext in its planned sale to the IntercontinentalExchange, as well as to the creditors committee of American Airlines as part of the company's merger with US Airways.
Independent investment banks have long boasted that their business model – providing only advice, without trying to sell clients a plethora of other products – has its benefits, including fewer conflicts of interest.
That isn't to say that full-service banks have been struggling of late. For example, JPMorgan has had leading roles in the other deals worth more than $US15 billion announced over the past two weeks, including the takeover bids for Dell and Virgin Media, as well as the sale of General Electrics remaining interests in NBC Universal.
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Democrat Jeanne Shaheen is desperate. After failed attempts to blame Republicans for the defeat of her "most defining piece of legislation," Jeanne Shaheen now admits that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid killed her energy legislation.
The Hill reports: "But even some Democrats have chafed under Reid's refusal to allow votes on GOP-sponsored amendments, which derailed an energy efficiency bill last week and a package of temporary tax cuts this week. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who faces a competitive race, said Reid should have allowed amendments to the energy bill she sponsored with Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio). "I think it's very disappointing," she said of the floor fight that swallowed her bill. "I think we should vote on amendments. I think that's part of why we're here. When asked if Reid has been overly strict in limiting amendments, Shaheen said, "I think we should allow amendments."
While Jeanne Shaheen is quick to point fingers, she conveniently leaves out the fact that she also backed Reid's efforts to block Keystone amendments. Jeanne Shaheen is trying to have it both ways: telling Granite Staters that she is fighting for them, when the reality is that she helped Reid to destroy her own legislation.
"Jeanne Shaheen has admitted what everyone else knew last week, which is that her energy legislation failed because Harry Reid refuses to allow a vote on the Keystone Pipeline. Even worse, Shaheen joined Harry Reid and Senate Democrats to block common-sense amendments on Keystone, which the majority of Granite Staters support. The Senate is a dysfunctional mess, thanks to the antics of Harry Reid and Jeanne Shaheen. Granite Staters deserve better than empty rhetoric and juvenile blame games." NRSC Press Secretary Brook Hougesen


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The British economy shrank more than previously estimated in the fourth quarter of 2011 as services companies from airlines to banks cut output and firms scaled back investment amid concerns about the euro zone debt crisis.
Gross domestic product fell 0.3 per cent from the third quarter, compared with a previously estimated 0.2 per cent drop, the statistics agency said yesterday. A separate report showed the current-account deficit narrowed to £8.5 billion ($12.9 billion) in the period.
Recent figures suggest the economy returned to growth in the first quarter, with Chancellor of the Exchequer
Mr Osborne used his March 21 budget to spur businesses to invest and hire by cutting taxes for companies and high earners.
"Things are going to pick up in the first quarter," Societe Generale economist and former Bank of England official Brian Hilliard said. "The key aspect of GDP this year is going to be its immense volatility."
Services fell 0.1 per cent in the fourth quarter, with declines in all sectors except government services. Investec, the owner of a bank and money manager in South Africa and Britain, said this month that earnings would drop because of volatile markets and sluggish activity in the lender's fiscal second half, missing estimates.
Manufacturing fell 0.7 per cent and total industrial production declined 1.3 per cent. Construction dropped 0.2 per cent, less than half the pace first thought.
With the government constrained by its pledge to rid Britain of the bulk of its budget deficit by 2017, Prime Minister
The economy received a boost from net trade in the fourth quarter. Business investment fell 3.3 per cent, less than the 5.6 per cent fall previously estimated. With prospects in the US and the euro region brightening, Mr Osborne last week sought to persuade companies to spend rather than hoard their surplus cash by cutting the tax rates on corporate profits and high personal incomes.
Consumer spending rose 0.4 per cent in the fourth quarter, though this was less than the 0.5 per cent previously estimated. Real household disposable income fell 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter, the second successive quarterly decline.
The Australian Financial Review