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Bikini Birthday! Audrina Patridge & Boyfriend Celebrate In Cabo, See Her Sexiest Swimsuits! (PHOTOS)
Audrina Patridge is never too old for Spring Break!She might have turned 27 on Wednesday, but
The Hills star hit up the beaches of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with her adorable boyfriend Corey Bohan by her side along with her parents, Mark and Lynn, her little sister Samantha and her boyfriend Chris.
Slipping into a white bikini, Audrina flaunted her famous curves as she laughed and lounged at the ME Cabo Hotel and their Nikki Beach Club.
While getting some R&R, Audrina took the time to show some gratitude to her Twitter followers, writing:
"Thank you for all the birthday wishes!!!!:) xoxoxo <3″
— Audrina Patridge (@AudrinaPatridge) May 9, 2012
This latest teeny white bikini is just one of many sexy swimsuits Audrina has donned. Click the pics to see her best bikini styles.


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But a well-arranged, impressive, attractive sermon is not always the fruit of solid knowledge and clear conviction.
I also should be joyful, for all in my house is peaceful and well-arranged.
The ocean has false stages below, like a well-arranged theatre.
Pursue this well-arranged course, finish it up, and that all at our expense.
It was well-built, well-arranged, and had many conveniences I did not expect to find in a backwoods dwelling.
There is also a well-arranged collection of extracts for elocution.
It is large and well laid out, with a very pretty lake, which winds among the well-arranged groups of forest trees.
This is the essential condition of every well-arranged line of battle.
In the next room we enter the region of printed books, and find a well-arranged and delightful collection.
But even he was startled into momentary oblivion of his well-arranged point.
late 14c., "draw up a line of battle," from Old French arengier (12c.), from a- "to" (see ad-) + rangier "set in a row" (Modern French ranger), from rang "rank," from Frankish *hring (see rank (n.)).
A rare word until the meaning generalized to "to place things in order" c.1780-1800. Musical sense of "adapt for other instruments or voices" is from 1808. Related: Arranged; arranging. Arranged marriage attested from 1854.


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As I mentioned in an earlier post I have begun working on the man cave. We recently did a couch swap with the Fashionista.
You may remember the couch that was in this room. Not exactly "gamer" friendly. But the Fashionista has loved it since the day I dragged it home from the thrift store.
Believe it or not I WILLINGLY swapped it for this tired, worn out Ikea Ektorp sleeper sofa.
Now a new white Ektorp slipcover will run you $49. Not bad. Except that on any given day there are 3-4 boys in this room. White + boys = a mess. The red slipcover Ikea offers is $149.00. A bit more than I wanted to spend. So I decided to try a little experiment to rid myself of the rust.
I bleached the covers. Twice. They turned out a shade that I haven't seen since my kids were in diapers. Ewwww. Exactly.
With nothing to lose I decided to try and dye the slipcovers using the same technique I shared in a previous post about dyeing Ikea sliopcovers. I used two bottles of liquid "cheery red" RIT dye for the seat cushions, two more for the back cushions and the last load required a final two bottles for the couch base. Luckily I was able to use some 50% off coupons Michaels was offering so the total cost for the dye was $12.00
Red, she said.
I then topped it with a navy and cream stripped blanket I purchased at HomeGoods. The navy and red pillows are Ralph Lauren gems I scored on major clearance last year. (Like $5 each!) My good friend Jill of Sew A Fine Seam made the Union Flag pillow in front.
Ok, let's look at where we were…
…and now. Let's revel in the red goodness.
Next week~ spending two full days looking for a man approved end table and how the paper plane gallery wall almost sent me sky high.


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A theme song for the moe sake brand "Iketenai Ko" (something like 'Not So Hot Girl,' in a mood rather than appearance sense) was released earlier this month by composer RitsMatt, with illustrations by teruchan, and vocals from none other than Hatsune Miku.
The initial label featured a sad version of the mascot girl, feeling the effects of the earthquake in March, however, as the sake has been selling, she has perked up and even gotten into a festival-going mood.
The sake is available for 1850 yen (about US $24) per 500ml bottle from Oomura Sake Shop in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, but remember you still need to be old enough to drink it—that's 20 years, in Japan.
The song lyrics read something like this in English:
Don't call me a loner, or I'll get sad
I don't want to be called dark—I'm only sulking
I'll spend the day again with my bunny Ichigou
I'll tweet again today from my big brother's computer
I like to look at the sea, but I hate big waves
My bunny Ichigou came back, but I wonder he removed the stains and got cleaned up
I wonder where my other slipper went
When it gets to be midnight, I get sleepy
"desu wa" is something only adults say
I'll make my evening tweets more cheerful
I'll respond to greetings
I'm not a bot!!
Let's be friends from now on!
I like to talk, but I don't like dirty talk
Thanks to the net, I made a few friends
So I guess I'm kinda cheered up by that?
Do you maybe understand how I feel, a little bit?
When it gets to be midnight, I get sleepy
"desu wa" is something only adults say
My mini skirt is light and fluffy
My blue pig-tailed hair
I'm that girl who's not doing so well
Let's be friends from now on
run run run run run run
ra ra ra ra ra
run run run run ra ra
Is it going ok?
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Surprisingly, those few ppl that I talked to, some created mickey mouse id to chat with. Kinda one man has different faces. Also, group of guys who know each others. I aware and would love to know why did they approach me this way? Why I know all these? Because I know myself, how many ppl i talk to, what topics in discussions, what I like and also my personalty well. Certain groups of personality can make smooth conversation and so on...and from the conversation itself tells me some clues. In some cases I was asked " what kind of guy do I like?" Probably trying many rounds of different id. I know what kind but there is no obligation to tell all. Prefer to meet genuine one. No need to pretend to be sombody, it wont last, do u agree?
In whatever reason, I deside to go for" inactive status ". I have no heart n enthusiasm to go on this way anymore. It is hard to put trust on table. Once trust is hardly create, it might wasting both parties'time. I prefer real life meeting, old fashioned way;)
To those who chat with me since day one whether talk to now or not, people who spend time viewing my profile."Thank you" for being around, patient, and kind. Im not good in this area. Well, I believe, if we mean for each other, we will meet again in whichever way. Its destiny. If nt, then accept it.
No reply to any mail received, sorry. But hey! Good luck with your search, then;)
Knowledge is not enough if not being a street smart:) Sorry, to be bold.
I don't read novel, sorry.
Comedy, romance, action, sci-fi, no horror, please.
As I'm on the move, hardly follow any show nowaday.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Era, Enya, Sarah Brightman, Maksim Mrvika, Chopin, Yanni, Il Divo, Patrizio Buanne, Chris DeBurgh.
Nat King Cole, The Marvelettes, Brenda Lee, Frankie Valli & the 4 seasons, Chubby Checker, The Tokens, Elvis Presley, The Drifters, Little Peggy March, Lesley Gore, Ben King, Creedence.
Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, Maroon 5.
Rammstein, Pink, Madonna, Evanescence, Breaking Benjamin, Nickelback, on and on
Love seafood & international cuisines :) I love to try new things;)
These are receiving channels. A bit religious, yet I have less confident when any of them is unable to function properly.
ok, then..1 secret : I always think, quality reltionship is hard to create and maintain:) Kinda big challenge that I refuse to take up this task. Yet cant run away with it forever...so face it.


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The four-star safety out of Mississippi has one special connection to Georgia. His father was coached by Georgia offensive line coach Will Friend.
"It is cool that my dad and Coach Friend know each other," Hampton said. "I just want to see as many of the options I have as possible. I have interest in Georgia, and I know they like me a lot. I spent a lot of time with the coaches and Coach Richt really talked me for a while. It was good to speak with him, and I know Georgia is big on me."
The Bulldogs have snagged four commitments over the weekend and have surged to the #2 spot in Fox Sports NEXT's recruiting rankings. But Hampton said he isn't sure if he will take in another trip to Georgia.
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Wandering the streets of his
home city was something that now made Richie feel the difference
in himself. This place almost felt alien to him. Everywhere else
he could ignore the sensitivity of his hearing to the traffic,
and the fact that he noticed everybody and everything just in
case the information could be useful in the near future. Yet here
he remembered how it had been. This was the neighbourhood of his
youth; the other side of a divide that he could never re-cross.
It was an innocence lost forever, and the one place on earth where
he could never belong again because it held too many memories.
It wasn't that he could ever
really see himself wanting to come back to a place that had only
ever meant trouble. It was just that it underlined how much he
had changed, and sometimes that bothered him. This part of the
city brought back memories of a time when life had been about
just moving from one day to the next. There had been no big picture
and no pressure to remember that there was always the possibility
that someone would be waiting round the next corner, wanting his
head. Usually he let these cares fall to the back of his mind,
but here they floated to the surface unbidden everytime he noticed
something new. Something that once upon a time would never have
impinged upon his consciousness. No matter how many times he tried
to tell himself that he was better off now than he had ever been,
or that by now he should be used to his Immortality, the old haunts
brought it all back. It made him wonder if the Highlands of Scotland
did the same to MacLeod or whether, with time, Immortals forgot
what it was like to have been prey to natures little pit falls.
He usually made it a rule to stay away from where he may meet
someone from his past. That way he could continue his new life
without the hang ups of his old one, but today he had decided
that he honestly wanted to look up an old friend.
He had stayed away from these
particular roads and alleys before and the old place had changed
a little. Some shops had moved owners and others actually looked
better than he remembered them, but mostly it was the same. He
had already checked on the person he wanted to see and he knew
that she still worked in the homeless shelter just down the street.
That she was running it now, rather than acting as a help, did
not come as much of a surprise. If there was one thing that Angie
was not, it was a follower. She was one woman who was born to
lead, and given a few years it wouldn't be a homeless shelter
she had under her control. Not of course that Richie would ever
tell his old friend any of this. Angie always did much better
without anyone pointing out just what potential they saw in her.
Richie wanted to catch up on old times, and that would hopefully
be the topic of conversation.
The building had a fresh coat
of paint, so fresh in fact that Richie could still smell the fumes
in the air even though it appeared totally dry. He stood there
a while with his hands pushed deep into the pockets of his brown
leather jacket, just looking. It wasn't just his physical vulnerability
which had altered over time it was his outward appearance as well,
he was most definitely not the scruffy street punk he had been.
Richie Ryan was not a picture of opulence either, but his shirt
was pressed, his boots were clean and there were no holes in his
black jeans: quite a difference from how he had been most of the
time he had been here.
Finally, with a deep breath he
reached out and took the handle of the blue door opening it to
reveal the sound of people talking. The light was dimmer inside
filtering in through the two remaining windows which were not
boarded up, and the place smelled equally of cooking food and
disinfectant. A few of the residents looked up as Richie walked
towards the counter but otherwise he was ignored, a common reaction
in this part of the world. It was not good to notice things that
weren't your business when seeing something could land you in
"You from the Welfare people
or something?" the burley man behind the serving counter
asked in a somewhat hostile manner.
"Actually I came to see
Angie," the young Immortal replied with a smile of peaceful
truce, the closest that anyone came to friendship in this neighbourhood
until they knew your family history for three generations.
The worker eyed him suspiciously
for a few seconds more, the pen with which he had been writing
wavering in the air. Then shrugged noncommittally, "She's
outback," he said, "wait here and I'll go get her."
"Thank you," was the
genuine reply.
The individual disappeared with
only one glance over his shoulder, but it was obvious that he
was in no hurry, so Richie took the time to survey the shelter.
This place was no simple soup kitchen, it was more of a halfway
house, and most of those sitting around in the almost descent
chairs were young people with the look of loss in their eyes.
Most of them appeared to have been there a while and it conjured
a picture of Ange with all the lost souls of the world around
her. It made the young Immortal smile.
"You wanted to see me,"
a voice said from behind him, just after he heard the door open.
The tone was nearly as suspicious as that of the one it replaced.
Richie turned slowly, a broad
smile on his face and took in the view of his old friend. He was
not the only one to have changed, and Angie looked for all the
world like a real business woman with her own premises. Gone was
the leather jacket and the henna died hair, and in their place
were a trouser suit and a neatly trimmed bob.
"Hi, Ange," he greeted
cheerfully, "how's life?"
It took a moment for the young
woman to realise who she was seeing, and then her face broke into
a huge grin. Recognition had taken some time, but the two had
seen a lot of life together, and even though it had been a long
time, Richard Ryan was unmistakable.
"Richie," she said
jovially, "you grew up."
The young Immortal looked down
at himself quizzically, her comment made him glad that even if
he was ageless, he wasn't going to look eighteen all his life.
"I suppose I did,"
he replied with an enigmatic smile. "You turned out quite
well yourself."
That brought a laugh from the
ex-biker groupie, and before she replied, much to the surprise
of those in the room, she threw her arms around the man who to
everybody else was a complete stranger. Angie wasn't known for
her tactile exhibits of emotion, well not at work anyway, and
the fact that she enfolded in an embrace someone nobody had laid
eyes on before, brought a few looks.
"It's good to see you,"
she said sincerely totally unaware of the interest she was gaining,
"it's been too long."
"That's what I thought,"
he replied as the two broke apart and just looked each other up
and down for a moment. "You're looking ravishingly businesslike
Angie smiled at the compliment
and put her head on one side to read the embossing on the button
of his jacket cuff.
"A labelled brand no less,"
she observed in reply, "have we gone into bank robbery now?"
"No," he responded
quickly with laughter in his voice, "but when one has lived
in Paris one must maintain a certain standard."
For that she hit him, now that
was a reaction the residents were used to and most lost interest.
He looked at her with mock shock on his face, and then his expression
broke into a broad grin.
"Maybe you haven't changed
that much after all," he said buoyantly as the suspicious
man returned to his position behind the counter.
Angie turned to the burly individual
and patted him on the arm.
"Steve, this is Richie Ryan,"
she introduced warmly, "a friend from the bad old days when
I used to work in the kitchen. Richie this is Steve, the strong
arm of this operation."
"Nice to meet you,"
the young Immortal said genuinely, and at last the suspicion was
gone from the other's eyes.
"Any friend of Ange,"
Steve returned calmly and the two men shook hands in a respectful,
if not chummy way.
Even if Angie didn't see it,
the older man recognised an individual who could handle himself.
It was one of the reasons he had suspected trouble in the first
place, but now he was happy to leave this situation in his boss'
"Let's go to my office,"
the young woman said brightly, "and then we can catch up
over a cup of something."
"You have an office? "
Richie returned cheerfully, and as she tucked her hand round his
arm he noticed the sapphire ring on her fourth finger.
He found to his great relief
that the conclusion he drew from this was not even remotely tinged
with jealousy, as it could have been at one time. Instead, the
new information filled him with ecstatic happiness for his old
friend. He kept his silence until the door closed, and then he
expressed his reaction.
"Congratulations, Mademoiselle,"
he said brightly and took an offered seat, "who's the lucky
That brought a slight look of
surprise to his friend's face, she hadn't expected him to notice.
As she glanced at the ring there was no hiding the look of deep
love in her eyes.
"Well I was thinking of
living my life as a nun after you upped and left," she said
sarcastically and walked over to where the beverages waited on
a stand, "but then I changed my mind and threw myself at
this rich doctor type."
Richie laughed, Angie wasn't
the sort to throw herself at anyone.
"More like you threw him
at your feet," he shot back light-heartedly, "you forget,
Ange, I've known you a long time."
She passed him a mug of steaming
liquid, and then drew her chair out from behind the desk and sat
"Well maybe a bit of both,"
she agreed contentedly and took a sip of her drink.
"Go on then," was the
continuation from her friend, he had never been the patient type,
"give the details."
A bright smile lit up her face
at his insistence and she paused, making him wait that little
bit longer.
"Okay," she said finally,
"his name's John, and at the moment he's only a poor resident,
but soon he's going to be a rich neuro-surgeon, which means I
will be able to buy a car that does not have 70,00 miles on the
Richie winced at the reference,
Ange obviously had a long memory and was never going to let him
forget his short stint as a used car salesman.
"We've been engaged for
two months and the wedding's set for June," she continued
cheerfully, "and if you stick around that long I'll add you
to the guest list. We met when I broke my finger lifting some
boxes out back and had to go to the hospital. You could say it
was love at first sight. We went on a few dates and then he invited
me home to meet his parents. You should see where they live, you
could build a multi-storey in their garden. Well much to my surprise
I hit it off with his mother straight away. I must admit I'd been
expecting the third degree for me, a lowly street brat, having
had the cheek to waylay the son of such a wealthy family, but
nothing of the kind. Jennifer is a lovely woman who, believe it
or not, had a passion for motorbikes when she was a girl. "
She grinned at him broadly.
"My life has fallen into
place," she confirmed happily. "But how about you, my
old friend, how is life with you? I can see that you have no problem
on the money front, but what have you been up to since we last
"You wouldn't believe half
of it," he told her jovially, "and the rest is not particularly
interesting. I'm still hanging out with MacLeod some of the time,
and I've been moving around. Paris is nice, Mac has a dojo which
is nice too. I took up racing for a while, now, who knows."
After taking a sip of her drink
and looking Richie up and down once more, Angie decided it was
worth pushing him. In the past no one ever squeezed out of this
young man any more than he wanted to give, but she was pretty
sure that this time he wanted to talk.
"So how is MacLeod these
days," she asked lightly, "and for that matter how's
A pang of grief hit Richie at
that question, something he hadn't expected, and he hid it by
taking a long swig of the drink in his hand. The heated liquid
burned, but not as much as being reminded of a lost friend. Tessa
had died quite some time ago, and there had been the incident
with Lisa since, but the direct question from someone who didn't
know still cut deeply.
"Mac's fine," he responded
eventually, having fought down the emotion, "the antiques
business is flourishing and life's going great. Tessa isn't with
us anymore, she was killed by a mugger, Duncan's over it now."
"Oh god, Richie, I'm sorry,"
Ange said almost instantly, "I really blundered in there."
A half sad smile played across
the young Immortal's lips, but it was gone in an instant.
"Forget it," he responded
quickly, "it's long past. Tessa's gone and not even Mac can
bring her back, the topic was bound to come up sometime. Let's
concentrate on the living shall we."
He raised his mug in informal
salute to the past and the future and that closed the topic of
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Up front....good cruise on the Freedom: Carnival Freedom Cruise Review by graphicguy
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Up front....good cruise on the Freedom
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Cruising with family changes the dynamics somewhat given that you aren't looking for the romantic side of a cruise experience.
My older and younger sisters went. My older sister's husband joined us. My younger sister's son did also. Plus, I took my son along as a graduation (from college) present. 3 Suites in all....older sister/husband in one....younger sister/her son in another, and me/my son/my nephew in one.
This was not my first Carnival Cruise. I had previously been on the Conquest. The Freedom is a beautiful ship, very similar to the Conquest. Like all other cruise lines, some like the layout and style of ships, some don't. Personally, neither the architecture, nor the colors and layout of ships influence me one way or the other.
We were sailing on 12/26 out of FLL. I had some reservations More about getting in a day earlier (Christmas Day). But, since I would have been celebrating Christmas with my son, regardless of where we physically were, we decided to come in on Christmas Day. It was kind of a change of pace. We left snowy and cold OH (which really looked and felt quite "Christmassey") for the warmer (although not hot) weather of Ft. Lauderdale. We had a nice dinner outside at an water inlet restaurant near our hotel. Nice being on the water, weird that we were doing so on Christmas Day. Anyway, we exchanged gifts at the restaurant and generally enjoyed being together (which is altogether too infrequent these days).
Got to bed early. Woke up on the 26th. Although we knew that we would not be able to board until about 11:00 a.m. at the earliest, we both got a couple of "venti-lattes" and got a cab to the pier at 10:30 a.m. Got to the pier by 11:00 a.m. Turned our luggage over to the porter. Slid him a 5 spot and instructed him to be "nice" to our luggage. Don't know if that mattered or not.
Lots of people waiting to go through security and get the "sign and sail" cards. But, having a suite (I had forgotten we had done this), we were allowed VIP boarding. After about 15 minutes of chowing on the provided cookies and juice. There was one other (large family) in front of us. They went first. But, they were waiting for others in their party to arrive so they could all check in together. They waved us ahead. % minutes we were headed down the hall to board, the FIRST PASSENGERS ON. Kind of strange being the very first passengers to board...we went anywhere, didn't have to wait on elevators, first in the buffet (for lunch), first in the gym without anyone else there, etc. That changed quickly, though.
FOOD...This is one of Carnival's strong suits. Whether in the buffet, or the MDR, the food ranges from good, to excellent. If you can't find something you like, then the problem rests with you, not the cruise line. In the MDR, the lines seemed shorter than the last cruise I took (RCCL Liberty of the Seas). Never had a problem finding a table, nor finding something I liked. My son and nephews seemed to be eating whole pizzas as morning, afternoon, and late evening snacks between meals. They loved it. I personally liked having room service for breakfast every day. That included hot water (for my Starbucks packets), a bagel, milk and cereal.
CABIN....nice to embark early with VIPs. But, in all reality, I would have been just as happy in a regular balcony cabin. Cabins are clean, comfortable and totally enjoyable. That's all I ask.
ENTERTAINMENT....Late comedian was funny (R). Early comedian (G or PG), not so much. Ended up going to see the Beatles show. Ummmmmm....having been to see LOVE in Vegas with Cirque this past July, I guess I expected way too much. I wouldn't say I was disappointed. Just that I would have been just as happy in the piano bar as I was at the show. The show reminded me more of a community theater production than it did a big city (or even medium city) production. CASINO....won $1,200 playing blackjack. I was happy!
We planned our own excursions so they had no relevance to CCL. I would plan my own again, but with the caveat there's no recourse (with the cruise line) if you're unhappy.
GYM...one of my rules while cruising....eat what you want, exercise every day. I did. The gym has all the latest amenities. In short, I liked it. If there was one thing I could have complained about, it was trying to find a stationery bike or a treadmill between 8 a.m. and noon. Go earlier, or later, no problems.
SPA...if you've been to one spa, you've been to all of them. Spa services (massage in particular) was good. It's overpriced, if you go on sea days. Best to go on a port day, early so you can still go to port. It's cheaper that way. Just say "no" to all the overpriced "elixirs" they try to sell you after the massage. My sister had the seaweed wrap, which is supposed to melt inches off you you. She said "didn't work". I know she actually made a point of voicing her dissatisfaction to the spa manager. My sister is far from overweight. They said it worked better with people who were overweight. No matter, they gave her a credit for I think 25% off the bill.
Was on board New Year's Eve. What a blast. I don't think my head hit the pillow until the sun came up on January 1 (at which time I had to pack to get my luggage off the ship, which we did ourselves). No matter where I went, there was a party...either in the Atrium, outside by the big screen, in the piano bar, in the casino....everybody was partying and having fun. Probably the best New Year's Eve I've ever had.
Great cruise. Carnival does a fantastic job. However, I don't wait for the fun to come to me. I go out and seek it on my own. I've never been disappointed. Less
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The cost of the work has gone up an average of 7.2 per cent compared to the same work done in 2013.
The cost increases were presented in a verbal report to the civic finance committee.
City council went on a spending spree this year to deal with a billion-dollar infrastructure deficit – boosting its spending on regional and local streets to a combined $84.2 million, a 173 per cent increase from the $30.9 million spent in 2012.
As of the end of March, the city had issued contracts for $30-million worth of road work but staff said that money isn't going as far as it did the year before.
Officials blamed the increase in construction costs as a result of the extra work being ordered by the city and the provincial government.
Lester Deane, manager of engineering, said the city finds itself competing against itself and the province, which is driving up costs three times the rate inflation.
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The U.S. Army awarded a contract to General Dynamics C4 Systems for 10 vehicle-mounted Tactical Ground Station (TGS) Lot D systems with an option for 11 additional systems.
The TGS system is part of the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A), the Army's primary deployed system for posting, processing and distributing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information in real time to intelligence analysts and commanders.
The order is valued at $31.5 million with all options exercised. The first of the new TGS systems is scheduled for delivery during the third quarter of 2013.
DCGS-A provides Army analysts with access to more than 600 data sources and allows rapid collaboration through shared data access. The General Dynamics-built TGS-Lot D systems allow analysts to comb through millions of classified and unclassified records within minutes, providing commanders with status updates on persons of interest and imminent threats such as improvised explosive devices.
The system is interoperable with other U.S. military, NATO and coalition ground systems, connecting intelligence analysts with information from national agencies, combatant commands, military intelligence brigades and tactical Army units.
"The TGS system finds the needle in the haystack and gives commanders an unprecedented ability to make informed decisions faster," said Chris Marzilli, president of General Dynamics C4 Systems.
TGS systems have been widely deployed to forward operating bases worldwide, providing U.S. military and coalition soldiers with critical force protection intelligence that saves lives at the tactical edge.
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A full field of 14 horses, including the Gary and Mary West entry of Mongoose and Ubiquity, was drawn Wednesday for Saturday's $500,000 Donn Handicap (gr. I) at Gulfstream Park. Red Bullet, who will be ridden by Jerry Bailey, was installed the 3-1 morning-line favorite. The 1 1/18-mile race, to be run for the 44th time, is the track's most important race for older horses.In his last start, Red Bullet, a 5-year-old Frank Stronach homebred, finished second to Sir Bear in the Holy Bull Stakes (gr. III) while making his first start at two turns since winning the 2000 Preakness (gr. I). "He didn't change leads (in the Holy Bull) and that might have been the reason," trainer Joe Orseno said of the loss. "He should definitely improve in the Donn."Laura and Eugene Melnyk's Graeme Hall, thrice a grade II winner, will be looking for his first grade 1 victory on Saturday. A rollicking winner of last October's Stuyvesant Handicap (gr. III) in his last try at the distance, the 5-year-old son of Dehere is the 4-1 second-choice for the Donn."He has enough speed to put himself in position but I expect he will probably be close to the lead without being right on it," said trainer Todd Pletcher. Of drawing the 10 post position, Pletcher said, "It's good enough, but in a perfect world we would have been further inside."The widest post was drawn by last year's Oaklawn Park Handicap (gr. I) winner Traditionally, who will carry Pat Day. While clearly not relishing the draw, trainer Shug McGaughey was more concerned with a track surface that has been especially deep and tiring over the past weeks. "It looks like it may be getting a little better," he said. Best of the Rest, an oft-injured 7-year-old that trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. calls "The most talented horse I've ever trained," was made 6-1 to capture his first graded stakes win in the Donn. Though Eibar Coa was named to ride, the jockey faces a possible 30-day suspension.Duckhorn and Kiss A Native were both listed at 8-1 by track handicapper Chuck Streva, while 2000 Florida Derby (gr. I) winner Hal's Hope, named after his breeder, trainer and owner, the 90-year-old Harold Rose, is 10-1. Levity was introduced to the draw festivities with a David Letterman-style top ten list, with Rose proclaiming on video that the number one reason to watch the Donn is, "Because Hal's Hope is going to kick your butt."The Donn was introduced in 1959 by track founder James Donn, Sr. and has been won throughout the years by Forego, Cigar, and Skip Away. Current Gulfstream Park chairman Doug Donn, the grandson of the founder, presided over the draw.
Field for the Donn Handicap:1--Pleasant Divorce, 112, Ramon Dominquez, 20-1
2--(a) Mongoose, 113, Edgar Prado, 12-1
3--Keats, 111, Chavez, 15-1
4--Free of Love, 113, Renee Douglas, 15-1
5--Best of the Rest, 115, Eibar Coa, 6-1
6--(a) Ubiquity, Craig Perret, 113, 12-1
7--Hal's Hope., 113, Roger Velez, 10-1
8--Duckhorn, 113, Mark Guidry 8-1
9--Red Bullet, 117, Jerry Bailey, 3-1
10--Graeme Hall, 118, John Velazquez, 4-1
11-Watch Your Pennies, 110, Gary Bain, 30-1
12-Rize, 112, Jose Santos, 20-1
13--Kiss a Native, 114, Cornelio Velasquez, 801
14-Traditionally, 112, Day, 12-1
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|Nick Boynton
Boynton with the Blackhawks in 2010
|January 14, 1979
Nobleton, ON, CAN
|6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
|218 lb (99 kg; 15 st 8 lb)
|Played for
|Boston Bruins
Nottingham Panthers (EIHL)
Phoenix Coyotes
Florida Panthers
Anaheim Ducks
Chicago Blackhawks
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|9th overall, 1997
Washington Capitals
21st overall, 1999
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Nick Boynton (born January 14, 1979 in Nobleton, Ontario) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey defenceman. He played a career total of 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Boston Bruins, Phoenix Coyotes, Florida Panthers, Anaheim Ducks, Chicago Blackhawks, and the Philadelphia Flyers. He also played 9 regular seasons games with the Nottingham Panthers of the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL).
Boynton was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 1997 but it has not affected his ability to play hockey.[1] He retired from playing professional ice hockey in 2011.[2]
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Respondent. Cantor at Beth Shalom Synagogue.
[T1S1] Respondent choral conductor, survivor from Schindler's List; describes 10th Annual International Elie Wiesel Holocaust Award Remembrance Dinner on November 20, 1994, which honored Steven Spielberg, survivors from Schindler's List; Elie Wiesel presented Spielberg with 2 sculptures, brass bust of Schindler, sculpture of broken violin; Spielberg spoke about his Jewishness. Respondent talks about how making "Schindler's List" brought Spielberg back to his Jewish heritage. Respondent describes in detail reunions with survivors when movie came out in 1992. Respondent explains he was youngest one in camp; father was in camp too. Respondent talks about Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) dinner in 1994 that honored Emilie Schindler; she spoke no English so Respondent translated for her. Respondent comments on what Emilie looked, acted like when he was in camp; offers impressions of what she was like at ZOA dinner. Respondent explains he had no contact with survivors except for father, stepmother, until movie was made. Respondent talks about book Schindler's List by Keneally; influence of Leopold Page on Keneally; Page's life; Respondent and Page's appearance on "Larry King Live". Respondent discusses his love of music, started at age 7, did not sing in camp because all he could think about was food. Respondent states movie is what made him go public with his survivorship; movie was destined to come out so people could understand what happened in Holocaust. Respondent mentions there were other men like Schindler. Respondent explains why he will not see "Schindler's List"; other movies could not supersede impact of Spielberg. Respondent recalls having feeling Schindler was savior even when he was in camp. Respondent reflects on life in camp, mental, physical exhaustion; mentions Schindler's Legacy by Eleanor Brecher, book details camp's liberation; mentions camps liberation on tape as well. Respondent starts talking about how movie has changed his life.
[T1S2] Respondent continues describing how movie made him face memories he was trying to forget. Respondent describes radio, TV, interviews; favorite interviewer Lynn Cullen, WTAE; Cullen responsible for "Larry King Live interview". Respondent describes strain of publicity; wants to have time for music, wife, children, Russian. Respondent talks about creating music, newest work Modim Anachnu Lach. Respondent discusses his work with Russians, educating them in Judaism, introducing them to synagogue. Respondent mentions he speaks 7 languages; how he learned Italian, English. Respondent describes his work as classical cantor; why became cantor. Respondent talks about education at Julliard. Respondent tells why he came to America in 1957 from Israel. Respondent mentions influence of choral conductor, Abraham Kaplan. Respondent continues talking about musical education at Julliard; Itzhak Perlman, violinist, was classmate. Respondent offers opinions on Perlman; Respondent's philosophy on performing. Respondent explains his survivorship, destiny to be survivor; why he left New York City to go to Pittsburgh in 1965. Respondent talks about religious beliefs, traditional, conservative. Respondent discusses how some lost, questioned religion after Holocaust; hopes for future, Israel; sees real peace, strengthened spiritual Jewish community, personal hopes. Respondent describes his vocal practice; continues talking about his music. Respondent talks about how to strengthen Jewish community.
[T2S3] Respondent continues talking about Jewish community; doesn't like how it's changing. Respondent ends interview with prayer.
Cantors (Judaism); Holocaust survivors; Israel; Music; Schindler,Emilie; Schindler's List; Spielberg, Steven, 1946-; Synagogues
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I'm having a breast reduction in a month and am slightly worried about keloids - I haven't gotten any before, but I also haven't had surgery before. There's no history of keloids in my family. I do have super sensitive skin though and had some small scarring when my ears were pierced (the scars went away in a year though). I've gotten a very small tattoo in my bra area and it healed fine - could this mean there's a smaller chance I'll keloid/get hypertrophic scarring from a breast reduction?
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Scarring after Breast Reduction
If you have not "Keloided" by now, you should not do so. A Keloid is a problem that occurs in certain people with a genetic tendency to do so. With what you have had, you should have done so if you were going to. A hypertrophic scar, on the other hand, can happen to anyone. It is most frequent when fast absorbing sutures are used below the skin and skin sutures are removed soon after surgery. When more permanent sutures that maintain their integrity for a number of months are used below the skin as the only sutures used, the risk of hypertrophic scarring decreases to negligible. In breast reduction, I also remove the surface of the skin leaving the thicker dermis as reinforcement to support the scar and further reduce the risk of a bad scar. Ask your surgeon what he/she does to reduce the chance you will have an unattractive scar after the procedure and look at pictures of the postoperative results.
Keloids/Hypertrophic Scarring from Breast Reduction
It is often difficult to determine preoperatively who will have keloid or hypertrophic scars following breast reduction. Keloid scars and hypertrophic scars are two different issues. Keloid scars are the result of an abnormal scar response in which the scar expands outside of the area of injury.and then does not regress spontaneously. Keloids will tend to recur after excision. Hypertrophic scars are red and raised, but do not expand outside of the area of injury.
The occurence of a keloid scar has a genetic component - people who have family members with keloid scars have an increased chance of healing with a keloid scar. In my experience some patients will form keloid scars in some area of their bodies, but not others. In some patients closing a surgical wound with meticulous technique will still result in a keloid scar.
Hypertrophic scars are not thought to have a genetic component and are likely to improve with excision and reclosure. Proper surgical technique with a tension free closure minimizes the risk of hypertrophic scar.
Keloidal or hypertrophic scarring
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Keloiding after breast reduction
Most people over the age of 20 know whether or not they are prone to keloids. Regardless of having prior surgery, people who keloid can form these tumors from a fall, cut, peircing, or tattoo. So it is in your favor that this has not happened to you. I would discuss your concerns with your plastic surgeon but in most cases the breasts heal very nicely. I hope this helps you.
Kindest regards,
Neil J. Zemmel
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Hypertrophic or Keloid Scarring Breast Reduction
History is very important regarding chances of keloid scarring but is not the only factor. Anyone may form hypertrophic or keloid scarring. The goal is to minimize the risk. That involves patient selection, good surgical technique and good post operative care. Discuss this with your surgeon.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Norma Hodgkins celebrated her 70th graduation anniversary from Grace Hospital School of Nursing. Hodgkins graduated in the class of 1943. Hodgkins is pictured with Jon Einarson, executive director of the Grace Hospital Foundation.


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Wherever you look, you come face-to-face with the Other.
Other race, other religion, other sex, other age, other individual… you name it.
Reactions to the Other are complex and often self-contradictory: they run the gamut from instinctive loathing to fascinated attraction. The same person may be viciously hostile to, say, Indian immigrants, yet long to visit the Taj Mahal. (Excellent examples of this paradox are found in Edward Said's book Orientalism.)
To deal with the Other, we can say that the best and most mature approach is empathy – fellow-feeling – as the common trope has it, putting yourself in another's shoes. But there are far more common strategies: you can demonise the Other, as Hitler did to the Jews; you can ridicule him, categorise him, patronise him: in short, re-define him.
This range of responses is fully on display in Tintin ; perhaps more so than in any other popular entertainment of a like longevity. It's telling, for instance, that (apart from the Bird brothers in The secret of the Unicorn), every single villain in the 23 albums is a foreigner.
To understand this, we can look at Tintin author Hergé's life and career, and chart his evolution from rampant xenophobia to the empathy that emerges in his late works.
Georges Rémi—Hergé – was born in 1907 to a lower-middle class couple in Brussels, Belgium. He himself characterised his childhood as being 'gray', by which we may understand conventional and boring. He was a fervent Catholic.
Belgium harbors a culture that could pass for a caricature of normalcy and respectability, though not without its dark side. Hergé was comfortable in the most banal backwaters of this culture, never questioning its prejudices (something he looked back on, late in life, with a sort of rueful self-contempt.) He attended a Catholic school, and upon graduating age 18 went to work for a Catholic newspaper, Le Vingtième Siècle.
The brand of Catholicism that embraced him was deeply reactionary, royalist, violently anti-Communist, strongly anti-Capitalist (Moscow and Wall Street being seen as two sides of the same Judeo-Masonic coin ), unthinkingly imperialist. Hey, the Belgian Empire allowed the missionaries to convert all those benighted pagan Blacks.
The Vingtième was edited my a man who would have an immense and lifelong influence on Hergé, Father Norbert Wallez: an enemy of democracy which was seen as hopelessly corrupted by foreigners, Jews and Freemasons, an admirer of Mussolini.
Wallez tasked young Hergé with creating a children's supplement for the paper, called Le Petit Vingtième. And it was here that Tintin was born.
The first adventure was Tintin au pays des Soviets, a rollicking anti-Communist screed:
Next was the currently notorious Tintin au Congo.
When we think about the European colonial empires we remember those of Britain, France and Spain; in fact, even Denmark and Portugal had their colonies.
Little Belgium was dwarfed by its holdings in the Congo. It was infamous for the reign of atrocity inflicted on the Congolese by king Leopold II. You'd not think so reading young Hergé's version: his Congo is a little paradise of merry, foolish darkies who love their benevolent Belgian overlords. (In 1946, though, Hergé had to tone down the imperialistic slant in his revision.)
Then came Tintin in America, trotting out more stereotypes: a land of gangsters, greed-crazed businessmen, and tomahawk-toting Indians. (The latter, however, receive sympathy for their ill-treatment at the hands of despoiling Whites.)
Then Cigars of the Pharoah, whizzing through Egypt and India (fakirs, snake-charmers, etc.)
"In reality" said Hergé, "my early works are books by a young Belgian filled with the prejudices and ideas of a Catholic […] they are not very intelligent, I know, and they do me no honor."
Herge at work
But the next book would show the beginning of Hergé's move away from mediocre stereotypes.
He had announced the next Tintin adventure would take place in China. A monk with knowledge of the country sent him a young Chinese art student: Chang Chong-Chen.
Chang had a profound influence on Hergé.
Here, for the first time in his life, the cartoonist met the Other he depicted, face-to-face. Chang exhorted Hergé to abandon his clichéd ideas of Chinese people and culture, to research seriously his subject. In return, Hergé put Chang into the strip:
Here, remarkable for its time and context, Tintin and Chang share a good laugh over the stereotypes Europeans bear about the Chinese – stereotypes that would have been typical of Hergé, had Chang not come along:
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This Shanghai street scene shows a new feel for realism:
…but Hergè is not quite able to shake off the snares of cheap exoticism and cliché:
Hergé also seems, at this time, to be moving towards the political center, alarmed by Fascism and Nazism and Belgium's own Rexism. Le Sceptre d'Ottokar depicts an idyllic Ruritanian-type kingdom threatened by a demagogue named Müsstler (Mussolini + Hitler).
But Belgium plunged into the cataclysm of World War II and German occupation, Le Vingtième Siècle disappeared, and Hergé began running Tintin in the 'stolen' collaborationist newspaper Le Soir. A move that would haunt him all his life.
The first Tintin adventure under the occupation was L'Ile Mystérieuse. This is the work that would dog Hergé with accusations of anti-Semitism, and small wonder:
« You heard that, Isaac ? The end of the world !…What if it's true?"
"Heh! Heh! It vould be good for business, Salomon! I owe 50 000 francs to my zuppliers… zis vay I von't haff to pay…
That panel appeared only in Le Soir, and was excised from the 1942 album…for reasons of pacing, not of taste. (This was while the Jews of Belgium were being rounded up and sent to the camps by the thousand.)
The plot concerns the race to get to an asteroid that has crashed into the Arctic. On one side is a European expedition, with Tintin & co along for the ride; on the other is the villainous American expedition, with no thought for anything but profit. It is bankrolled by a New York banker named Blumenstein. After the war, he was renamed Bohlwinkel and America became 'Sao Rico':
At left, the original, at right the postwar version
Top, nasty Yanks, bottom, nasty Sao Ricans
In 1969, Hergé would write:
"… you are a little too severe with me for this Blumenstein from the year 1940. I admit that I was wrong, but (and I hope that you will believe me) I was far from imagining that the Jewish stories that people told (and still tell today, like stories about people from Marseille, or the Scots […] would lead to such horrors."
There's more than a little cluelessness on display here, after Auschwitz. Hergé would always protest that "he didn't know", but was lucid enough to add:
"Perhaps I didn't want to know".
After the liberation of Belgium, Hergé was roundly reviled for propping up a collaborationist paper, and he was lucky to escape with his neck; as it was, he was banned for two years from any work in the press. It was this enforced idleness, and, no doubt, the need to put distance between him and his ultra-conservative views, that set him on the integral redaction of his albums – shovelling the dirt under the carpet, in the process.
Next: Approaching redemption.
All Tintin art copyright Studios Hergé/Moulinsart
The entire Tintin in Otherland is here.


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1. Petitioners in the majority of the original petitions are candidates included in the ranked list prepared by the Public Service Commission for appointment to the post of Reserve Conductors under the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation. Petitioners in some of the cases are working as conductors on provisional basis on daily rated wages and they seek regularisation in the service under the Corporation. Since the issues raised in these original petitions are common, we consider it advantageous to dispose of all these petitions by this common judgment. Learned counsel appearing on either side agreed to this course of action as well.
2. Certain facts are admitted. They are - the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation is one constituted under the provisions of the Road Transport Corporations Act, 1950. As per Section 34 of that Act, Government have got the power to give general instructions to the Corporation, including directions relating to recruitment, conditions of service etc. of its employees. Such direction if given by the Government are binding on the Corporation. Kerala Legislature enacted the Kerala Public Service Commission (Additional Functions as Respects the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation) Act, 1970. That Act came into force with effect from February 9, 1970 when it was published in the Kerala Gazette after the Governor's assent. Thereafter, all the posts under the Corporation except that of Chief Executive Officer or General Manager and the Chief Accounts Officer came within the purview of the Public Service Commission. In other words, vacancies in all categories of posts under the Corporation other than that of Chief Executive Officer or General Manager and the Chief Accounts Officer have to be filled up by candidates selected by the Public Service Commission. In 1989, Corporation requested the Public Service Commission to prepare a ranked list of candidates for appointment to the post of Reserve conductors, number of vacancies being not ascertained. Pursuant to this request, Public Service Commission issued notification dated May 19, 1989, published in Gazette dated June 6, 1989. 2,64,844 candidates applied for the post. After a due process of selection, Public Service Commission published a ranked list, which came into force on May 18, 1992. The main list consisted of 3299 candidates and the supplementary list contained names of 1634 candidates. Ordinarily the life of a list published by the Public Service Commission is three years from the date of notification. If none from the list is advised from the list during the said period of three years, the list will continue to have validity for one more year. Since no one from the ranked list published by the Public Service Commission was advised or appointed by the Corporation during the ordinary term of three years, the list still continues to be in force for a further period of one year or till one candidate is advised from the list, whichever is earlier. It is the admitted case of parties that till date no candidate has been advised by the Public Service Commission from the list on the requisition made by the Corporation.
3. In the instant case, no such direction as contemplated by Section 34 of the Road Transport Corporations Act, 1950 has been issued by the Government to the Corporation except those contained in letter No. 2976/Al/85/Tr-D dated June 24, 1995, G.O. (MS)157/86/PW & T dated December 6, 1986 and letter No. 53640/L2/91/ PW & T dated January 3, 1992. Reference was also made to letter No. 11059/L3/92/PW & T dated March 11, 1992. The first letter, stated to be a direction under Section 34 of the Road Transport Corporations Act, provides that no further recruitment of provisional or regular hands will be made except to the extent necessary to fill up Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe vacancies and that the bus staff ratio should be progressively reduced to 9 and finally to 7.5 before the end of the 7th plan period. The other provisions mentioned therein are not relevant for the case on hand. In the second letter dated December 6, 1986, it was provided that recruitment will continue to be frozen until the situation is reviewed after two years and that no more Public Service Commission hands will be entertained except to the extent covered by the said orders, Letter dated January 3, 1992 relates to the workers in the mechanical division and it has nothing to do with the appointment of conductors. The last letter referred to, namely the one dated March 11, 1992, stated that no post vacant in the Corporation is to be filled up including drivers and conductors except ten women Conductors, who have to be recruited as per the Legislative Assembly assurance.
4. On the basis of the above-mentioned four letters, sent by the Government purporting to be under Section 34 of the Road Transport Corporations Act, it was argued by the learned counsel representing the Corporation that corporation is not in a position to appoint any candidate selected by the Public Service Commission to the post of Reserve Conductor. The issue that arises for consideration in the original petitions filed at the instance of the candidates included in the ranked list is whether the said stand taken by the Corporation is sustainable or not.
5. Learned counsel representing the petitioners expressed an apprehension that in order to defeat the claims of the persons included in the list, the Corporation may report one vacancy before May 17, 1996 and get one candidate advised against that vacancy and thereby get the entire list expired. To avert that, especially taking into consideration the previous conduct of the Corporation, we specifically direct that the list, which was published on May 18, 1992, will continue to be in force for the whole period of four years, i.e. upto May 17, 1996, before which date we direct the Corporation to report all the existing vacancies in the cadre of conductors to the Public Service Commission. This direction, though would appear to be extraordinary, is issued only to see that the Corporation, which was trying to bypass the Public Service Commission, should not be allowed to resort to such a course of action. This we are doing it on the peculiar facts and circumstances of this case.
6. Learned counsel representing the Corporation stated that the Corporation was bent upon reducing the bus staff ratio from 1:11.5 to 1:7.5. Earlier, for each bus owned by the Corporation, there were 11.5 members in the staff. That ratio was causing loss to the Corporation. So, the Corporation wanted to reduce the ratio to 1:7.5. By reducing this ratio, we feel that the number of drivers and conductors required for the bus cannot be substantially reduced because without a driver and a conductor no schedule can be operated. For working the schedule, each bus must have a driver and conductor. So, the reduction in the staff ratio will not materially go to reduce the number of drivers and conductors. The reduction in the number of drivers and conductors will be minimal, compared to the other staff.
7. It is the stand taken by the Corporation that from 1989 no conductor has been appointed on regular basis through Public Service Commission. It is admitted that the Corporation have engaged "provisional" conductors and "empanelled" conductors. It has also come out that these provisional conductors and empanelled conductors had more than 240 days of work in a calender year. If these provisional conductors and empanelled conductors could get 240 days of work in a calendar year, it must be taken that there exists regular vacancy. It is also the case of the Corporation that these empanelled conductors and provisional conductors continued under the Corporation for more than three years. The Supreme Court in State of Haryana v. Piara Singh, (1993-II-LLJ-937), took the view that if a casual labourer is continued for a fairly long period say two or three years - a presumption may arise as to the existence of a regular need for his service. The said observation applies on all fours to the facts on hand. When it is conceded that the provisional conductors and empanelled conductors were being engaged by the Corporation for more than 240 days during a calendar year and that too, for more number of calendar years, it can safely be concluded that there exists regular vacancy of conductors under the Corporation.
8. Against the regular vacancies of conductors that exist in the Corporation, no regular appointment has been made through Public Service Commission. The Corporation was resorting to ad hoc appointments by engaging empanelled conductors or by allowing the provisional conductors to continue in service. This practice resorted to by the Corporation in allowing the empanelled conductors and provisional conductors to continue in service is against the statutory provisions governing the service under the Corporation. This practice is being resorted to by the Corporation when it is seen that a proper list of selected candidates, selected by the Public Service Commission, is available. Can such a practice be allowed to be continued by the Corporation?
9. A learned Single Judge of this Court on October 14, 1992 issued the following direction:-
"The Corporation is directed to prepare the panel as per Ext.P6 (authorisation to empanel persons as conductors) by including sufficient number of hands from among those included in the rank list prepared by the Public Service Commission and to accord them priority in the matter of provisional appointment as conductors in the second respondent Corporation".
Purporting to be in compliance with the said direction, the Corporation issued notices to 500 persons included in the list. How they happened to restrict the number to 500 is not made clear. It is the Corporation's case that from among the 500 persons so notified, only 200 and odd turned up. They were empanelled. When it was found that the Corporation was not giving effect to the spirit of the order dated October 14, 1992, a learned Single Judge of this Court on June 24,2 1993 directed the Corporation not to employ any person as Reserve Conductor unless such person has been selected by the Public Service Commission and his name finds a place in the ranked list submitted as early as on May 18, 1992. This direction has not been complied with by the Corporation. This direction is sought to be got over by virtue of the order passed by another learned Single Judge of this Court in C.M.P.25271/93 in C.M.P.21687/93 in O.P.9757/92. That order, dated October 12, 1993, allowed the Corporation to appoint any person in accordance with order Exhibit P6 (authorisation to empanel persons as conductors) as conductors on casual or badli basis. That was only to tide over a situation created when there was a general strike of the staff under the Corporation. That strike lasted for about fifteen days. Even after the strike was over, the Corporation, taking shelter under the order dated October 12, 1993, continued its practice of empanelling persons as conductors and appointing provisional hands. This method resorted to by the Corporation, to say the least, was an attempt to over-reach the orders passed by this Court on earlier occasions. The. Corporation, being a public authority, should not nave resorted to such a course.
10. A question as to whether candidates who were included in a ranked list prepared by the Public Service Commission which expired, was to be operated on for filling up temporary vacancies came up for consideration in State of Haryana v. M.P.Sharma, AIR 1994 SC 1804. Their Lordships took the view that if the appointing authority chooses to make appointments on ad hoc basis, then certainly the candidates in the waiting list, though it lapsed, must be considered for appointment de hors the Rules. Their Lordships also said that the said appointment may not confer any right to the appointees for future recruitment. If that be the law that is to apply, we find no justification on the part of the Corporation in engaging the provisional hands and empanelled hands to work as conductors when a proper ranked list published by the Public Service Commission is in force.
11. Public Service Commission was directed to prepare a ranked list for appointment to the post of Reserve Conductors. Notification was issued and a due process of selection was held by the Commission. Thereupon, a list was published on May 18, 1992. When that list was in force, the Corporation took it to its head not to appoint anyone from the ranked list, but to resort to the back door method of engaging provisional hands and empanelled hands. Resort to such a course has been condemned by the Supreme Court in many a number of cases. Reference may be made to J & K Public Service Commission v. Narinder Mohan, (1994-I-LLJ-780). Their Lordships took the view that even though the executive power is co-extensive with the legislative power of the State, the State can create civil posts and fill them up in consonance with the provisions contained in Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution only. According to Their Lordships, it is settled law that once statutory Rules have been made, appointments shall be only in accordance with the rules. After having made the rules by enacting the Kerala Public Service Commission (Additional Functions as Respects the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation) Act, 1970, the Corporation should not have resorted to the ad hoc appointments. To tide over unforeseen exigencies, they could have resorted to such provisional appointments. But, that power cannot be used to defeat the statutory provision and to make the ad hoc appointments the rule. In the decision referred to, their Lordships went on to state that ad hoc employees should be replaced as expeditiously as possible by direct recruits. The ad hoc appointees cannot be clothed with the right to get regularisation in the post. Their Lordships observed: -
"Back door ad hoc appointments at the behest of power source or otherwise and recruitment according to rules are mutually antagonistic and strange bed partners. They cannot co-exist in the same sheath. The former is in negation of fair play. The latter are the products of order and regularity".
From the practice adopted by the Corporation, we are of the view that the above observation made by the Supreme Court is apposite and the Corporation should not have resorted to such a course of action.
12. Establishment of independent body, like Public Service Commission, for selection to the posts under the Corporation was to avoid arbitrariness and nepotism in the matter of appointment. Corporation should not have resorted to appoint any person as conductor whose name does not appear in the list prepared by the Public Service Commission. In the decision referred to earlier (1994-I-LLJ-780), Their Lordships observed at page 786:-
"When the Rules prescribe direct recruitment, every eligible candidate is entitled to be considered and recruitment by open advertisement which is one of the well accepted modes of recruitment. Inviting applications for recruitment to fill in notified vacancies is consistent with the right to apply for by qualified and eligible persons and consideration of their claim to an office or post under the State is a guaranteed right given under Articles 4 14 and 16 of the Constitution".
Their Lordships further observed that all efforts should be made to replace the ad hoc or temporary employees by regularly selected employees as early as possible. Appointment of regularly selected candidates, it was observed, cannot be withheld or kept in abeyance for the sake of ad hoc or temporary employee. An ad hoc or temporary employee should not be re-placed by another temporary or ad hoc employee. He must be replaced only by a regularly selected employee. The ad hoc appointment should not be a device to circumvent the rule of reservation. Kerala State Road Transport Corporation has no case that while making appointments of temporary conductors or empanelled conductors any principle of reservation was followed by them. Their appointments, on the materials now placed before Court, were resorted to in flagrant violation of the principles contained in Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution. No rhyme or reason is discernible to support the action resorted to by the Corporation.
13. In view of what has been stated above, we are clear in our mind that the practice adopted by the Corporation in engaging provisional conductors and empanelled conductors in the service was arbitrary and in violation of all canons of service rules. The Corporation is, therefore, directed to report the existing vacancies of conductors to the Public Service Commission within two weeks from today. On getting the vacancies so reported, Public Service Commission must advice candidates from the list that was published on May 18, 1992, in accordance with Rules 14 to 17 of Kerala State and Subordinate Services Rules to the Corporation within one month from the date of receipt of the letter from the Corporation. As and when the candidates report for duty on the advice of the Public Service Commission, the ad hoc appointees, namely the provisional employees and empanelled employees, must be sent out of employment. After reporting the vacancies as directed above, we direct the Corporation not to have any empanelled conductor or provisional conductor in its service while persons included in the ranked list are being kept out. If the candidates included in the ranked list are not adjusted against the regular vacancies or substantive vacancies and they are being engaged in the place of the provisional conductors or empanelled conductors, such candidates, who are so engaged, will not be having the right of regularisation by the mere fact that they are so engaged because of the fact that once they were included in the ranked list and were provisionally engaged. The orders relating to empanelment will stand quashed in view of the specific direction given above. If after exhausting the candidates included in the ranked list published by the Public Service Commission there still remain any vacancies, to those vacancies the Corporation will be at liberty to appoint temporary hands as per the provisions contained in Rule 9 of Kerala State and Subordinate Services Rules. The provisions contained in the KS & SSR are applicable to the service under the Corporation.
14. Another question that arises for consideration is whether the provisional employees are having any right for regularisation in the service of the Corporation. Identical question came up before this Court in C.Sadasivan Pilial v. State, 1992 (1) KLJ 529. The Bench observed:-
"In our view, the petitioners cannot seek a writ of mandamus from this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India directing the Corporation to regularise the services 2 of the petitioners, without reference to the Public Service Commission. The contention that there are sufficient number of posts, which could accommodate not only candidates advised by the Public Service Commission, but also petitioners, cannot be accepted inasmuch as the only mode of regular recruitment is through the Public Service Commission. If the contention of the petitioners is to be accepted, it will result in the denial of appointment to several other eligible candidates who are below the maximum age for recruitment, and who will pass the relevant test to be conducted by the Public Service Commission. In the statutory rules, there is a particular mode for recruitment of conductors on a regular basis. It will not be permissible for this Court to by- pass the said procedure, and direct the Corporation to regularise the services of the petitioners".
We are in respectful agreement with the said observation. Identical view has been expressed by the Supreme Court in many a number of cases. In Surendra Kumar Gyani v. State of Rajasthan (1993-II-LLJ-903), the Supreme Court has categorically taken the view that services of the provisional employees are to be terminated on the availability of properly recruited persons. Availability of properly recruited persons, in this case, is beyond doubt. The ranked list of successful candidates published by the Public Service Commission is still in force. So there are persons chosen by the Public Service Commission for being recruited to the post of conductor on regular basis. When such candidates are available, the provisional employees and empanelled conductors have to vacate their posts for giving room to accommodate regular hands, in Dr. M.A. Haque v. Union of India, (1993-1-LLJ-1139)(SC), Their Lordships observed at page 1143:-
"We are also conscious of the fact that candidates in service have a disadvantage as against the fresh candidates in the tests particularly when they face the tests after a long lapse of time. As against this, however, we cannot lose sight of the fact that the recruitment rules made under Article 309 of the Constitution have to be followed strictly and not in breach. If a disregard of the rules and the bypassing of the Public Service Commissions are permitted, it will open a backdoor for illegal recruitment without limit. In fact this Court has, of late, been witnessing a constant violation of the recruitment rules and a scant respect for the constitutional provisions requiring recruitment to the services through the Public Service Commission. It appears that since this Court has in some cases permitted regularisation of the irregularly recruited employees, some Governments and authorities have been increasingly resorting to irregular recruitments. The result has been that the recruitment rules and the Public Service Commissions have been kept in cold storage and candidates dictated by various considerations are being recruited as a matter of course".
According to us, these observations made by Their Lordships apply to the procedure resorted to by the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (vide Asha Kaul v. State of J & K 1993 2 SCC 573). The following observation made by the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in Shankarsan Dash v. Union of India, (1992-II-LLJ-18) at page 20:-
"Unless the relevant recruitment rules so indicate, the State is under no legal duty to fill up all or any of the vacancies. However, it does not mean that the State has the licence of acting in an arbitrary manner. The decision not to fill up the vacancies has to be taken bonafide for appropriate reasons. And if the vacancies or any of them are filled up, the State is bound to respect the comparative merit of the candidates, as reflected at the recruitment test, and no discrimination can be permitted" has been followed in the subsequent decisions, like Asha Kaul v. State of J & K., (Supra).
15. In the above circumstances, Corporation should do well in getting the candidates included in the ranked list advised by the Public Service Commission appointed as Reserve Conductors. Learned counsel representing the Corporation voiced an apprehension that the conductors so appointed through Public Service Commission may swindle the money collected by them as conductors and so they must be asked to furnish security, as is being received from the empanelled conductors. We have not been told about any rule of law which requires a candidate advised by the Public Service Commission to furnish security for the post. But, to obviate the apprehension, we direct the candidates advised by the Public Service Commission to furnish Fidelity Guarantee Insurance for Rs. 3,000/- (Rupees three thousand only) or third party security. Original Petitions are disposed of as indicated hereinbefore and we close our judgment by quoting the following observations made by the Supreme Court in A.K.Bhatnagar v. Union of India, 1991 1 SCC 545:-
"On more than one occasion this Court has indicated to the Union and the State Governments that once they frame rules, their action in respect of matters covered by rules should be regulated by the rules. The rules framed in exercise of powers conferred under the proviso to Article 309 of the Constitution are solemn rules having binding effect. Acting in a manner contrary to the rules does not (sic.) create problem and dislocation. Very often Government themselves get trapped on account of their own mistakes or actions in excess of what is provided in the rules. We take serious view of these lapses and hope and trust that the Government both at the Centre and in the States would take note of this position and refrain from acting in a manner not contemplated by their own rules".
We also hope that the Corporation will act within the powers conferred on them by Rules and Act in a legal and proper manner. All petitions filed by provisional or empanelled conductors working under the Corporation for continuance as such and for regularisation in service under the Corporation are dismissed. Petitions filed by candidates who have been included in the ranked list published by the Public Service Commission are disposed of in the manner indicated earlier in this judgment. Taking into consideration the entire facts and circumstances of this case, we direct the parties to suffer their costs in these proceedings.


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Respect for Sunseri never wavered
Center Ryan Turnley treated the question with polite defiance when asked if the Pitt players' respect for quarterback Tino Sunseri is starting to grow.
"It's not that it's growing," said Turnley, a fifth-year senior. "He already has it. We've had respect for Tino since he has been (starting). We know what he is capable of."
Sunseri, a three-year starter, didn't have an exceptional game Friday in the Carrier Dome when Pitt scored only one touchdown in a 14-13 Big East loss to Syracuse. But he showed toughness and the desire to be a leader after an 11-yard run on third down in the second quarter when he took a knee to the back from linebacker Cameron Lynch and was having trouble breathing.
"The guy made a play," Sunseri said. "He put his knee right in the center of my back. It kind of took the breath out of me. The trainers did a good job of helping me recover."
Sunseri was down for several minutes before suddenly jumping to his feet and sprinting off the field.
"I wanted to make sure the offense knew I was OK," he said. "I wanted them to see my reaction."
Sunseri returned for the next series and led Pitt on a two-minute drill that resulted in a field goal at the end of the half.
Big numbers don't count
Sunseri completed 75 percent of his passes and threw for 319 yards — his second game in a row of more than 300 — but he came up short when the game hung in the balance.
His failure to know where he was on the field led to a 15-yard intentional grounding penalty that helped move Pitt out of field-goal range. Sunseri was sacked for a 9-yard loss on the next play.
Sunseri didn't like the official's grounding call, but he didn't whine about it.
"I knew the receiver was in the vicinity (of the throw)," he said. "I thought I was on the edge of the tackle box. You have to respect the official's call and you have to be able to play on from that."
On the sack, no one anticipated defensive back Brandon Reddish blitzing from the corner and Sunseri never turned his head to look at him.
"It's something you have to be able to recognize," Sunseri said. "But it's my job to right the ship on that."
A little history
Devin Street had a career-high 10 receptions, but he was not impressed.
"I think we did a good job (in the passing game), not a great job," he said. "We didn't get the job done."
Street, a redshirt junior, became the 18th Pitt player with 100 catches (106, tying him for 15th place with Bob Longo). Senior Mike Shanahan had four catches and moved into a tie for 10th place with Oderick Turner (122).
Running back Ray Graham had his least productive game of the season, rushing for 57 yards. But he moved past Pro Football Hall of Famer Curtis Martin and into eighth place on the all-time list with 2,648 yards.
Palko next
Sunseri has thrown for 1,463 yards in five games and needs 1,579 in the next seven (or eight if Pitt goes to a bowl game) to move into third place past Tyler Palko on the school's all-time list. Sunseri has 6,765 after starting the past 31 games in a row.
Williams steps up
Cornerback K'Waun Williams left the game with a leg injury, but his second-quarter interception in the end zone was Pitt's fifth of the season.
Pitt played much of the game with five defensive backs in an attempt to counter what had been a productive Syracuse passing game. Andrew Taglianetti started as the nickel back, along with cornerbacks Lafayette Pitts and Williams, who was later replaced by Cullen Christian, and safeties Jarred Holley and Jason Hendricks. Syracuse quarterback Ryan Nassib threw for only 185 yards and no touchdowns after amassing 482, 322, 335 and 228 and a total of 10 scores in the first four games.
More mistakes
Pitt committed six penalties for a loss of 35 yards, bringing the five-game total to 36 infractions for 314 yards, compared to the opponents' 24 for 202.
"We are pretty much facing two opponents," Williams said. "We just have to stop beating ourselves."
Todd Thomas didn't start at linebacker, but he played for the first time this season and recorded one tackle. … Defensive linemen Aaron Donald and Tyrone Ezell recorded sacks, but Syracuse defensive end Brandon Sharpe had four. … Pitt has allowed 11 sacks in its two Big East games, two in the other three.
Jerry DiPaola is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can reached at email@example.com or 412-320-7997.


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