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Found this recipe the past weekend in the Sunday paper coupons. Made it last night for my family and my DIL raved about it. I even forgot to put in the rest of the brown sugar until I had the batter on top of the apples. I scooped it back off and added the sugar, but the recipe says to stir "just until moist". Oops. I will definitely be making this again and will follow directions exactly. Enjoy.
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I also found this recipe in the adds, and just had time to make it today. It was really tasty. I didn't have any nutmeg, so I just used a little more cinnamon. I also baked it in a spring form pan to make transfer easier. It might have been a little larger than 9" because the cake was ready after 30 minutes of baking. Overall, the cake turned out well, and I would bake it again
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 3⁄4 cup quick-cooking oats
- 3⁄4 cup warm apple juice (I used apple cider)
- 2 tablespoons oil (recipe calls for Enova Oil)
- 2 large egg whites
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon margarine
- cooking spray
- 1 cup packed brown sugar, divided
- 1 large granny smith apple, peeled and thinly sliced (about 1 1/2 cups)
- 1 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Directions See How It's Made
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Combine oats, apple juice and oil in a small bowl; let stand 10 minutes. Stir in egg whites and vanilla.
- Pour margarine in the bottom of a 9-inch cake pan coated with cooking spray.
- Sprinkle 1/4 cup brown sugar. Arrange apple slices spoke-like on top of brown sugar, working from the center of pan to edge.
- Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.
- Combine 3/4 cup brown sugar, flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg in a large bowl, stir with a whisk. Add oat mixture; stir just until moist. Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake at 350°F for 40 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes. Place a plate upside down on top of cake; invert onto plate. Cut into wedges. Makes 8 servings.

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The rapper cited that he was upset with the way he was treated by Thunder staff at the game. What, no free champagne?
Again I was treated like sh!t by the Thunder arena staff…dam..I hope da Heat beat da dog sh!t out em!!
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McKenna Mendelson Mainline
Joe Mendelson (vocals, harmonica, slide guitar)
Mike McKenna (guitar)
Dennis Gerrard (bass)
Tony Nolasco (drums, vocals)
Mike Harrison (bass; replaced Gerrard in 1968)
Zeke Sheppard (bass, mandolin, harmonica, vocals; 1970 reformation)
James Hartley (bass; 1972 replaced Sheppard)
Mike McKenna (guitar, vocals)
Tony Nolasco (drums, vocals)
Ted Purdy (acoustic guitar, vocals)
Mike Harrison (bass)
Bob Adams (harp)
Having played in famed Toronto acts Luke & The Apostles and then, briefly, The Ugly Duckings, guitarist Mike McKenna took out an advertisement asking other like-minded individuals to form a new blues band. Joe Mendelson answered the ad and this team-up provided the basis of Mendelson Mainline in the summer of 1968.
Former Paupers' bassist Denny Gerrard was the next to join and another advertisement brought in new-comer Tony Nolasco from Sudbury.
The band worked its way around Yorkville with Denny Gerrard soon being replaced by former Grant Smith & The Power bassist Mike Harrison in 1968. With bigger profile concert gigs, the band's vibrant live show was committed to tape in September 1968 -- a session that would later come back to haunt the band.
McKenna Mendelson Mainline relocated to England late that year to pursue a record deal. After being signed to Liberty (United Artists) in the Spring of 1969, they worked the same English club circuit as up and coming bands like Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin. In July of 1969 a single day recording session yielded the first Liberty Records album 'Stink'. They returned to Canada to await the release of the new album.
With their reputation as crowd pleasers on tours in England, Holland, and Australia with such acts as Rod Stewart, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, and The Guess Who preceeding them, Paragon Records in Canada anticipated the band would be the 'next big thing' and rush released the September 1968 sessions to the band's chagrin.
Joe Mendelson quit in September of 1969 and Rick James (of Myna Birds fame) replaced him briefly to finish a run of contracted gigs. Mike McKenna effectively took the wind out of the group's sails by reforming a new version of Luke & The Apostles.
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One more album, 'No Substitute', was produced before the band collapsed.
Mendelson re-named himself Mendelson Joe and has had a prolific independent recording, writing, and painting career as well as being an outspoken political activist. He currently lives in Muskoka, Ontario; Gerrard went through a series of semi-successful Canadian recording acts such as Jericho and the Lisa Hartt Band; Zeke Sheppard joined former members of Rhinoceros under the new banner Blackstone for one album on GRT Records in 1973.
Mike McKenna continued on as a legendary slide guitar player -- including a stint replacing Domenic Troiano in the final days of the original Guess Who line-up. By the '90s he had formed Mike McKenna and Slidewinder with former Mainline bassist Denny Gerrard.
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Jim McBeath wrote:
> Your comments from that post:
> > So what i am thinking:
> > -DHCP on wireless interface. (not possible in m0n0wall(...yet))
> This step I got, and it works fine without PPTP. I'm still
> unclear as to when and how PPTP gets started on my wireless
> connection, and when the DHCP address is supposed to get handed out.
DHCP is of course optional, but if you _only_ allow PPTP traffic in
on your wireless interface, there should be no huge security issues
with serving DHCP on it. right? At least for myself, I have a Windoze
client, and I am lazy, so I dont bother to go changing that ip-address
everytime I get home.
Just to be clear, DHCP and PPTP have no dependensies...
> > -Enable PPTP server in m0n0wall.
> Here's where I need some documentation. (Has anybody started
> on that m0n0wall manual yet?) On the PPTP page in m0n0wall,
> I checked the "Enable PPTP Server" box. What am I supposed
> to enter for the "Server address" and the "Remote address
> range"? Should the Server address be the address of the
> m0n0wall wireless port, a made-up number, or what? Likewise,
> does it matter what the Remote address range is? Does it
> need to match the range of IP addresses handed out by the
> DHCP server, or does it need to be something different? I
Your right, this is not trivial and self-explained.
The server address and the Remote address range should be in the
range of your LAN subnet. eg. let's say you have a C class net like
You could then use 192.168.1.100 as the Server address and
192.168.1.112 as the Remote address range for PPTP.
If you use DHCP on LAN, make sure these addresses are outside
the range of your DHCP scoope!
PPTP would then server 192.168.1.112 to the first PPTP client
connecting, .113 to the next and so on, till' all 16 addresses
are used. m0n0wall has a maximum of 16 concurrent PPTP sessions.
> checked the "Require 128-bit encryption box", but I don't see
> anything (such as on the client side) else about encryption size.
> On the client side, I installed pptp-linux and
> pptp-php-gtk-setup, which gives me a screen with a set of
> tabs that, like FreeS/WAN, don't quite seem to match up
> against the data specified in m0n0wall. For the Server name,
> should this be a name that resolves to the m0n0wall wireless
> port, or a name that resolves to the "Server address"
> specified in m0n0wall (if that is supposed to be different)?
I dont know how the pptp-linux client look like, but i assume
that the server address here should be the ip-address of your
wireless card(or the ip-address of your wan interface if connecting
from Internet).
> In the Routing tab, I think I am supposed to select the "All
> to tunnel" option, but then should I set the Public Network
> Interface to eth1 (which is how my wireless card shows up),
> or ppp0 (which gets added by PPTP)? In the Encryption tab I
> checked "Require MPPE", but I don't see anything that tells
> it I always want to use 128 bits.
try without the "Require 128 bits encryption" on m0n0 first,
and move on from there.
> > -Add some firewall rules on wireless interface:
> > GRE Wireless net * * * - for VPN
> > TCP Wireless net * * 1723 - for VPN
> I assume the above two rules allow a wireless client talking
> PPTP to connect to the PPTP server. Can I still control the
> rules for connections coming through PPTP on the wireless
> interface, or do they necessarily have open access to
> everything once they come out of the PPTP server on m0n0?
Yes, they are for PPTP connection. Only the WAN interface is
"designed" in m0n0wall to deafult accept PPTP requests and
traffic, so we have to manually add these to the wireless interface.
You will still have to add rules for your PPTP interface,
and these apply to all PPTP connections, so no, they don't have
default access to everything once connected.
> > UDP * 68 wi-ip 67 - DHCP
> > UDP wi-ip 67 * 68 - DHCP
> I think your other comments above mean these lines are not needed.
Correct. These are not needed anymore.
> If there are some documents that do a good job of explaining
> this stuff, I would be happy to go off and read them. So far
> I haven't found them.
The features of m0n0wall all rely on well known open source
projects, and the documentation for these are public.
But we really need someone to og ahead and start that doc
project for m0n0wall so all crucial functionality and
limitations for m0n0wall is explained.
The person(s) who wanted to start the doc project has a whole lot
of mails to read trough from the mailinglist. I hope they do,
beacuse what m0n0wall really lacks is some documentation.


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When Gainesville High freshman Michael Byrd got plugged into the starting lineup for Friday's game against West Hall, he knew he didn't want to squander a chance to catch the coaches eyes.
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[Hook: Charlie Wilson]
I know you're tired of loving, of loving
With nobody to love, nobody, nobody (Uh-huh, honey)
[Verse 1: Kanye West]
What you doing in the club on a Thursday?
She say she only here for her girl birthday
They ordered champagne but still look thirsty
Rock Forever 21 but just turned thirty
I know I got a bad reputation
Walking 'round, always mad reputation
Leave a pretty girl sad reputation
Start a Fight Club, Brad reputation
I turnt the nightclub out of the basement
I'll turn the plane 'round, your ass keep complaining
How you gon' be mad on vacation?
Dutty wining 'round all these Jamaicans
Uh, this that prom shit
This that what we do, don't tell your mom shit
This that red cup, all on the lawn shit
Got a fresh cut, straight out the salon, bitch
[Hook: Charlie Wilson]
I know you're tired of loving, of loving
With nobody to love, nobody, nobody (Uh-huh, honey)
[Bridge: Kanye West]
Close your eyes and let the word paint a thousand pictures
One good girl is worth a thousand bitches
[Verse 2: Kanye West]
I wanna fuck you hard on the sink
After that, give you something to drink
Step back, can't get spunk on the mink
I mean damn, what would Jeromey Romey Romey Rome think?
Hey, you remember where we first met?
Okay, I don't remember where we first met
But hey, admitting is the first step
And hey, you know ain't nobody perfect
And I know, with the hoes I got the worst rep
But hey, their backstroke I'm tryna perfect
And hey, ayo, we made it, Thanksgiving
So hey, maybe we can make it to Christmas
She asked me what I wished for on the wishlist
Have you ever asked your bitch for other bitches?
Maybe we could still make it to the church steps
But first, you gon' remember how to forget
After all these long-ass verses
I'm tired, you tired, Jesus wept
[Outro: Charlie Wilson]
I know you're tired of loving, of loving
No hiding your love, no hiding, no hiding
Just grab somebody, no leaving this party
With nobody to love, nobody, nobody
"Bound 1" is what Kanye West's "Bound 2" sounded like before Rick Rubin got his hands on it. Produced by Hudson Mohawke & Tyler, The Creator for your listening pleasure.
A live version of Bound 1 made it's way online some days ago, now here is a studio quality version.


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Mr. Hoban: It was, as my hon. Friend says, a cavity in the Health Secretary's speech, but it causes people in my constituency a problem when they cannot find a dentist to meet their needs. The dentists with whom they are registered say that, because of the economics of dental practice, they can no longer accept NHS patients, so all patients are required to switch to private dental services.
There is little cheer for my constituents in this Budget. The Chancellor is meddling yet again in the tax affairs of small companies, reversing some of the effects of the Budget of just two years ago. Jobs in Titchfield are being moved around the country as if they were a pile of chips being shunted across a roulette table by a croupier. More houses are being imposed on an area that cannot cope with the additional building already going on.
The Chancellor gives the impression that he thinks that the economy is like a machine: pull a lever, flick a switch here and open a valve there, and all will be well. He forgets at his peril that what he is playing with is not some theoretical model of the economy or a machine, but the lives of our constituents. He may welcome the headlines the day after the Budget, but the damage that he causes individuals and their families will last far longer than the glow of those headlines.
Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme) (Lab): I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Fareham (Mr. Hoban), not to defend the Budget, but to proclaim it and the opportunities that if offers the NHS, not least in my constituency and industrial north Staffordshire as a whole.
This is the eighth Budget under a Labour Government, though only the third that I, as a new Member, have had the pleasure of witnessing from these Benches. I remember, years ago, this time of year provoking pain, not pleasureso much so that in the 1980s and early 1990s I used to go out of my way to stay out of the way, to avoid listening to news of tax cuts for the privileged few and yet more public service cuts affecting the neediest. Indeed, under 18 years of Conservative government, there was only one Budget that I can loosely associate with improving the health of the nation, or at least a tiny, precious part of it. That was when Nigel Lawson stuck 10p on the price of a packet of fags and my granddad, Tom King, a 40-plus-a-day man since he served in the trenches, said that he had had enough of those damned Tories, as he put it, and never lit up a cigarette again.
What a difference we have seen in our NHS since 1997, the year that my granddad died. By 200708, spending on health care will be more than double what it was a decade ago. That is an achievement that I wish my granddad had lived to see. Let us be clear what that increased investment really means. It does not just mean massive figures plucked out of the air; it means, by 2008, 80,000 more nurses than in 1997, 25,000 more doctors and the biggest hospital-building programme ever. It means that the NHS is safe in Labour's hands.
What of the Opposition? Have they learned the lessons of 1997 and 2001? They have certainly learned, from my right hon. Friend the Chancellor, to talk the talksticking, they say, to our plans for health for two years. However, when one puts those plans under a microscope, one finds that the reality is different. The shadow Secretary of State for Health, for example, says that he is committed to free access to health services,
Under Labour, the NHS is certainly making progress; otherwise the Conservative party would not want to match our spending. Sadly, though, we have not yet found a cure for forgetfulness or the schizophrenic double-speak afflicting Opposition Front-Bench Members.
Mr. David Wilshire (Spelthorne) (Con): If the hon. Gentleman is so certain that the NHS is safe in his Government's hands, can he tell me why the Government are ordering my local primary care trust to cut spending by £17 million next year?
Paul Farrelly: Clearly, I cannot speak about the financial management of the PCT in the hon. Gentleman's area, but I can speak about the bewilderment that most of the population feels about the Conservatives' fixation with vouchersnow called "passports".
I shall speak about the successes and the continuing challenges in the NHS in north Staffordshirean area with some of the worst and most complex health needs in the country. For decades, one of the biggest issues in our area has been hospital facilities that are housed on different sites in outdated, crumbling Victorian buildings. That is not good for patients or for staff, and it is certainly not good enough for the NHS in the 20th century, let alone the 21st. Patients who needed intensive care sometimes faced journeys of dozens of miles. The press labelled Stoke-on-Trent "the sick city". More than 20,000 people signed petitions crying out for a new hospital to replace the Victorian city general in Stoke-on-Trent and the North Staffordshire royal infirmary on a single site. They did not sign for patients passports, or visas, or vouchers; they signed for a new hospital on their doorstep, because if they or their families or friends were ill, they wanted to be treated as close to home as possible.
If we are to give patients better treatmentto give them that choicewe need to invest in more and modern capacity on their doorstep, which is precisely what Labour is doing in north Staffordshire. Under the Labour Government, work has started on a brand-new £350 million acute hospital on the site of the city general. Gone will be the days when patients were shuttled back and forth on trolleys and in ambulances between the royal infirmary and the wards of the city general. In its place, there will be a super-hospital with a state-of-the-art diagnostic centre, an accident unit, new intermediate care beds and modern wards with the best of facilities for the modern age. That hospital is just one of 114 new hospital developments commissioned since 1997.
Labour's ambitions in north Staffordshire do not stop there. As part of the £350 million project, there will be a brand-new community hospital on the crumbling Haywood and Stanfield sites in north Stoke. Before I entered Parliament in 2001, I chaired the north Staffordshire "Elderly Care for All" campaign, fighting for better elderly care locally. I remember only too vividly visiting experts describing those decaying hospitals as the worst that they had ever seen. Now, finally, after many years of flimsy promises, north Stoke is getting its own brand-new community hospital. In my constituency, Newcastle-under-Lyme, our local community hospital at Bradwell is expanding and developing to offer services such as minor surgery to people in the surrounding areas of Bradwell, Chesterton and Kidsgrove. Such services will complement those offered by acute hospitals and take the pressure off them.
We are not stopping there. We want to invest in primary carein more local health care on the doorstepto make sure that there is less need for people to go into hospital at all. In Newcastle-under-Lyme alone, within the north Staffordshire NHS LIFTlocal improvement finance trustprogramme, work is forging ahead on a brand-new £3 million health centre in Cross Heath, which is among the most deprived 10 per cent. of wards in the country. A brand-new £2 million-plus health centre is planned for Audley, serving the former mining villages in that area. In Clayton, work has started on a £1 million extension of the Kingsbridge health centre, and in the town centre, among other developments, a brand-new GP surgery opened earlier this month. Those are not merely figures plucked out of the air£1 million in the Budget delivered in London here, another £1 million there. They are real achievements, which my constituents notice and which will improve their lives.
With our new primary care trust in Newcastle-under-Lyme, we are getting improvements just where we need them. I am always suspicious of continuous organisation change: often it is change for change's sake, or demoralising to NHS staff. However, in my constituency, I appreciate the closer working relationship with my local PCT than used to be possible with the old, more remote health authority. My local councillors appreciate that too. If the House will indulge me, as the first Labour speaker after several Opposition speakers, I shall name them: they include John and Gill Williams and Sylvia Butler in Cross Heath, and my good friend Eddie Boden, chairman of Staffordshire county council, who lives in Audley. Working with the PCT, they have played major roles in the improvements to primary care achieved as a result of the LIFT programme coming into their areas.
Despite all those advances, not everything in the garden is rosy. More NHS dentists are needed in my locality, as they are across the country. In specialist services, to give just one example, we in Newcastle and north Staffordshire urgently need to tackle the lack of any proper provision for diagnosis and support for people affected by autism or Asperger's syndrome, starting with kids of pre-school age and continuing through to give schoolchildren and adults the support that they need.
Across the board, we need to deliver all those better facilities, and more, because of the desperate health needs of the people of north Staffordshire. For years, the
Under Labour, the investment to tackle health inequalities is being madenowhere more so than in the new medical school at Keele university in Newcastle-under-Lyme, which was given the green light by my right hon. Friend the Member for Barrow and Furness (Mr. Hutton) shortly after he became a Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1999. He is to visit Chesterton in my constituency next month: he will always be welcome there, and I hope that he will find time to open our new town centre practice. Our first medical students are now training at Keele and what has proudly become the University hospital of North Staffordshire. By 2009, Keele medical school will be hosting its full complement of 610 medical students. It is therefore already playing its full part in training extra new doctors for the country as a whole, and local people hope that many will choose to stay in north Staffordshire and help us to overcome our historical difficulties of recruitment.
Labour's investment in north Staffordshire's local NHS, which the Budget continues, is playing a vital role in a much bigger vision of the regeneration of the area as a whole. As well as playing host to a new medical school, Keele university is developing a science park, attracting businesses involved in medical technology and building what is known in the trade as a medical cluster. It is now the home of cutting-edge biotechnology firms such as Biocompositesa company that develops synthetic devices for tissue regeneration. I was delighted to play a small part in its decision to relocate to Keele, rather than go to Florida or elsewhere overseas.
The new hospital and other health and regeneration initiatives such as housing market renewal provide opportunities to exploit and develop construction skills. Our regional development agency, Advantage West Midlands, has just backed a new construction skills centre of excellence in north Staffordshire. In the context of regeneration, we are looking closely at the Chancellor's plans to relocate Government agencies to the regions. Envious eyes are being cast over the National Institute for Clinical Excellence and health and safety bodies.
In our local NHS, we can continue to implement 21st-century health care only with the sort of investment that was confirmed by the Chancellor last week: a 7 per cent.-plus real-terms increase in resources each year to 2008. Patients want that investment. They do not want passports, visas or vouchers; they want investment in our NHSinvestment that makes our NHS safe and that we can only trust a Labour Government to make.
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TOP STORY >> New library is taking shape
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The concrete slab for the new Jacksonville library is done, so is most of the plumbing and the contractor is in the middle of drilling 36 deep holes to regulate heating and cooling.
City Administrator Jay Whisker gave the update to aldermen at the council meeting Thursday night. Public Works Director Jim Oakley gave an update on the recycling park.
Whisker said the contractor has 300 days to complete the $3.7 million library facility on Main Street. Additional days could be added to the contract because of weather.
He said most of the people he talks to want to know when will there be an outline of a building on the site. Thats at least six weeks out. The contractor just got final approval on the design and has ordered the steel, which will take about six weeks to arrive, Whisker explained.
Whisker, who is the former city engineer, was most excited by the hydronics work by the contractor. There will be 36 holes (hundreds of feet deep) drilled on site for the purpose of heating and cooling the building in an environmentally friendly way, he said.
The earth is at a constant temperature of about 55 degrees, Whisker explained, and piping will carry water or air down deep and then bring it back up, so no matter how cold or hot it is to start with itll be earth temperature and then can be heated or cooled further as needed, saving money and energy.
The library is funded by a 1-mill property tax, private donations, $300,000 from the Central Arkansas Library System and about $400,000 from the citys sales tax voted to fund the Splash Zone, the joint-education center and the police and firefighters training facility.
The new library, developed by W.E.R. Architects of Little Rock, will make the facility the centerpiece for the downtown area.
Plans call for the 13,500-square-foot multi-use facility to have a secure outdoor space for outside activities, a large pavilion that can be used by area residents and groups, and a pond and plaza.
Architect David Sargent of W.E.R. predicts the pavilion and plaza area will become popular sites for weddings. He added that the landscape design allows for a mix of sunny and shaded areas, and even a possible interactive nature trail. Inside, the new library will have more computers than the current Nixon Library located just west of the new site, more space for books, and other items, along with a multi-purpose room that can accommodate a large number of children who participate in the librarys weekly story times and summer-reading program.
Oakley told aldermen that the recycling-education park, designed to educate students through the fifth grade on the merits of recycling, is coming along and should be completed by early summer.
The park, located off Marshall Road next to the citys recycling plant, will include a main pavilion circled by 10 educational stations.
Oakley said the pavilion, being built with city money, is almost completed. He also said donations have paid for seven of the 10 educational stations and for timbers needed for the walking trails.
Work on the park is headed up by the Keep Jacksonville Beautiful organization.
In other council business:
Aldermen reappointed Tom Evans, John Herbold and Bart Gray Jr. to the planning commission.
Charles Evans was appointed to the planning commission to fill the unexpired term of Emma Knight who recently resigned.
The mayor reminded the council of the upcoming annexation meetings about Gravel Ridge and asked aldermen to attend.


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0443 Monday, 5 November 2012
Date: November 2, 2012 9:20:01 AM EDT
Subject: Reading Upsy Downs and the Pathologies of Argumentation
Hello, out there, all you (both of you?) continue readers! I do gamely hippity-hop along, Mr Bluebird on my shoulder, cheerfully hoping that laughter will bring its healing sense of reconciling incompatible oxymorons. ("Who you calling an oxymoron, Urkowitz? I'm a textual scholar, see?")? Out of disagreement, after turns in different directions, there may come a return, a reconciliation, a joining of hands, salutations, and departures towards other pleasures.
Whatever. Gerald Downs deploys several fascinating argumentative tactics in his latest contribution to our dialogue. One is really cute. Where the Oxford/Norton text of LEAR ascribes to Peter Blayney the "authority" of its creative speech prefix in the speech in 5.3, "All. Save him, save him" where Q and F have instead "Alb" I pointed out that Blayney's speculative "ALL" just ain't a bibliographical argument, nor has Peter's explanation for his suggestion been published anywhere. So, in a seeming chunk of explanation, Gerald Downs suggests that the Oxford Little Rascals "may have got it from Halio."
I rummaged through my KING LEAR shelf-o'-editions and came up with the longer equally non-bibliographical but quite a bit more detailed explanation offered by Stanley Wells: "HalioQ and Weis retain Q's 'Alb[any]' though Halio F admits that Alb could be a misreading of All, which could also make sense dramatically. Edelman [pp.156-7] pointing out that interference with a battle of chivalry was strictly forbidden, is 'led to agree' with Theobald's suggestion that 'the words are meant to be spoken by' Gonoril since it is logical for her 'emotionally to beseech her soldiers to step in at a moment when Edmund appears to be in danger" (in Wells' single volume Oxford KING LEAR p. 165n). Don't you love these guys? Knock'em down with any huge pile of basic data contradicting their speculations and like bantam roosters they're bounding back up, bloody but unfazed. (Hey, wait just a sec': I do that too!)
We just have to believe now that whoever wrote down the lost or mis-read ALL somehow was REALLY intending to inscribe "Gonoril"? Or wanted to somehow indicate that Shakespeare meant for Gonoril AND a posse of her supporters were to say SAVE HIM SAVE HIM? "Wheeee! All aboard for the net train to Cloud-cuckooland!" (A lot of traffic on that line, getting closer to the Election Day.) But that's how conspiracy theories work, and there are all too many souls locked up in maximum security prisons for us to take such reasoning as an innocuous scholarly foible. (Urk, you said you were hoping for reconciliation? Oops. In the Bronx, we're still fighting the War of the Spanish Succession. Never Forget. Never Forgive. JOKING.)
One last bit. Gerald Downs announces, "Q1 gets lots of speeches [i.e. speech prefixes] wrong, many of which are followed by or mishandled in the derivative F." "Lots" by my count equals "zero." There's one speech prefix in Lear's role that is printed in the middle of a continuing speech, and then there are many that in one text go to one character and in a later text go to a different character. In each case, both versions make sense. But such a coarse judgment as "making sense" is no qualification for accepting an argument, as Marion Trousdale herself attests in her denial of authorial revision in LEAR. (Nice lady, Marion is, but last time we spoke I failed to notice her Aura of Infallibility.)
I have to go about today's business, but if Gerald will please repeat Stone's analyses of the "lots of" speech prefix errors in Q1 (since I can't find 'em, and it would likely help the others equally bewildered in this fog o' argument), we can carry on this mental tai chi exercise.


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Max Payne 3 review: The cover system has ruined a classic hero
Chris Farnell dives sideways into Rockstar's latest offering, Max Payne 3. Even though the slow-motion bullet play of the previous titles is still alive and well, a new story and some questionable mechanics make this an uninspiring third chapter.
Threequels are tough. There are plenty of perfect sequels, some of which build on the original in new and unexpected ways. But afterwards the third film never quite manages to keep that trajectory going. Alien 3, Terminator 3, Die Hard With A Vengeance: all of them are pretty good films in their own right, but because of their heritage they were all doomed to be a letdown. (You should bear this in mind while you're drooling over trailers for The Dark Knight Rises)
Sure, there are plenty of great third episodes in the videogame world, but Max Payne has always seemed more filmic than most shooters.
I've finished playing Max Payne 3 and have decided that if you're thinking about getting Max Payne 3, you probably should. The graphics are pretty, you get to shoot lots of people in the face in the slow motion and there are lots of internal monologues full of needlessly tortured metaphors. It's hitting a lot of the right buttons even if it doesn't bring you any surprises.
Yes, there are some frustrating quick time events, and a couple of irritating (and lengthy) rail-shooter style vehicle sections, because apparently they're obligatory now under international gaming law, but they don't subtract from a lot of very enjoyable jumping through the air in slow motion while machine-gunning someone's kneecaps out from under them.
But while it's enjoyable and worth the money you're paying for it, Max Payne 3 still feels like it's missing something.
Partly it's the plot. The previous two Max Payne games featured stories that were very much about Max Payne, which makes sense on account of the name on the front of the box. The first game was the story of how he avenged his wife and child's deaths. The second game was a tragic love story that ended up with the promise that Max might finally be getting some closure (by the start of Max Payne 3 it's clear that he didn't).
Both games feature byzantine plots and questions that you kept playing to find the answers to. In Max Payne 3 however, Max Payne starts off as a bodyguard and… that's it. His charge is kidnapped, and for two thirds of the game the (lengthy) cut scenes could just as easily be replaced with a waistcoated toadstool telling you that the Princess is in another castle. Things get more interesting in the third act, but even then there's no reason why Max should care about this job any more than any other down-on-his luck alcoholic ex cop.
Which brings us to the other thing lacking in this game. The weirdness and sense of humour from the first two games is gone, presumably along with previous developers Remedy who spearheaded the first two games but are nowhere to be seen on this third instalment. While it used to be that you couldn't walk through a level without overhearing some TV or radio playing a soap opera, the adventures of Baseball Bat Boy (who does get a single hidden cameo) or that bizarre Twin Peaks parody, now that's disappeared.
In the original games these weren't just background colour, the stories in these made up shows were funhouse mirror reflection of Max and what he was going through. Quite frankly, if either of the first games had ended with Max waking up in a hospital bed, Sam Tyler style, it would have made perfect sense as the boundaries between the dream sequences and reality always seemed a bit blurry – even to the extent that Max, at one strange point during the first title, realised that he was in a computer game.
And yes, part of the reason these bits are gone is the new setting, and the new setting's good. A third game set in the dead of night in the rain and the snow would have been a bit much (although there are couple of flashbacks to New Jersey). But the story's set in Brazil. Are you telling me there aren't plenty of ripe opportunities for weirdness on Brazilian television?
All of this is fine if you think plots are there just to get in the way of shooting stuff, but it comes through in the gameplay as well. Particularly, it comes through in the introduction of a cover-mechanic. These days a shooter forcing you to hide behind waist-high walls is such a cliché that game reviewers complaining about it is also a cliché, but in Max Payne it's damaging in a very special way.
You wouldn't give Batman a machine gun in Arkham City and you wouldn't have a James Bond game where it was possible to treat women as autonomous grown-ups. You wouldn't do it because it violates the rules of the character. Likewise, Max Payne is an alcoholic, pill-popping maniac who now has far less than the nothing to lose he had in the first game. Me personally? I'm a wuss who will hide behind a box and wait for the bad guys to get bored and go home, even during a simulated gun fight. But Max Payne should be diving in there face first, guns akimbo, spinning around in mid-air to take down as many people as possible before he hits the ground.
By introducing the cover mechanic, they've completely got rid of my incentive to do that, because unlike Max Payne I don't want to die. For him it means sweet oblivion and an escape from the torment and guilt that's been following him his entire adult life. For me it means I have to replay the level again.


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By Charisse Jones, USA TODAY
American Airlines will now let you board early — for a price.
Paying to move up in line is the latest round in a trend that has airlines charging for everything from checking bags to switching flights to generate revenue.
American's new "Your Choice" fee package allows travelers in the continental U.S. to pay, depending on the length of the flight, from $9 to $19 each way to board right after premium-status passengers. Travelers with young children or who have special needs will still be able to talk to gate agents and pre-board.
The package also lets travelers pay $75 instead of the usual $150 if they need to change plans and, like premium-status fliers, be able to stand by for another flight the day of their trip at no extra cost.
American's offer comes at a time passengers are jockeying for luggage space in overhead bins to avoid paying extra to check their bags and as flights have become more crowded.
The package is available when booking a trip through the airline's website. Later this summer, the early boarding option will be available by itself for purchase at self-service kiosks in U.S. airports and many overseas for $10 each way.
"It's a way for us to present to customers a way they can personalize their flight experience," says Dan Garton, American's executive vice president of marketing. "These are all privileges or opportunities that people didn't have before. You could pay zero and have what you have today, or pay $9, $14, $19 and get this suite of services that were otherwise unavailable to you, so I think customers should see this as an interesting opportunity."
TODAY IN THE SKY: American to offer service from Chicago to both 'Big' and 'Little' apples
Flying has gone from all-inclusive to an à la carte affair, with airlines bolstering their bottom lines by charging for bags, meals and even pillows. U.S. carriers took in more than $2 billion in the first nine months of 2009 from checked-bag fees alone.
Charging for early boarding or packages of perks is among the more recent twists. Southwest, which doesn't pre-assign seats, allows passengers to pay $10 each way to board early. United's Premier Line, starting at $19 each way, offers faster check-in and priority security screening and boarding.
"Any industry cannot survive if you don't find a way to have revenues exceed your costs, so we have embarked on ways to increase revenue," Garton says. He says that in the first quarter of this year, American made $585 million in ancillary revenue, up almost 5% from last year.
When it comes to packages, travelers may want one of the services offered but not all, says Anne Banas, executive editor of SmarterTravel. "You might want priority boarding, but you might not care about the stand-by benefit," she says. Still, it's more palatable for airlines to charge for perks than for services that are essential, Banas says.
"It's not a gouge, it's an extra," she says. "It's not taking away a service people rely on like baggage, food, seat selection. ... At least at this point you still have a choice."
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Princess Royal visits prison staff
Staff at an Oxfordshire prison have received a royal visit from Princess Anne.
The Princess Royal visited Bullingdon Prison near Bicester, as patron of the Butler Trust, a charity which encourages positive care of prisoners.
She toured the segregation unit and meet staff who deal with disturbed convicts.
The Princess also visited the Home Farm Trust at Milton near Abingdon, which provides services for people with a learning disability.
Prison disputes
A group of staff at Bullingdon won the Butler Trust's group award in 2002 for their progressive methods.
However, last week the prison was criticised in a report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons for problems caused by unresolved disputes between staff and management.
The deputy governor, Terrence McLaren, was also recently suspended after being arrested and released on bail in the Operation Ore investigation into child pornography.
Opened in 1993, Bullingdon houses nearly 1,000 male inmates.
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Clue to abdominal muscles in ancient fish
Palaeontologists have made the surprising evolutionary discovery that ancient fish may have had abdominal muscles, previously thought to have only developed in land animals. Researchers mapping the oldest fossilised vertebrate muscles ever seen - in gogo fish thought to be 380 million years old -- worked out the position of the muscles and the orientation of the muscle fibres, in a study published in the journal Science. The fossils, found in Western Australia's Kimberley region, are enclosed in limestone nodules and are known for their exceptional preservation. AFP
50 years since first woman flew into space
Fifty years ago today, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly into space in a scientific feat that was a major propaganda coup for the Soviet Union. Two years after Yuri Gagarin's first manned flight, Tereshkova became a national heroine at 26 when she blasted off in a Vostok-6 spaceship. She remains the only woman to have made a solo space flight. In April 1962, officials selected five candidates for the flight: two engineers, a school teacher, a typist and a factory worker who had made 90 parachute jumps: this was Tereshkova. After seven months of intensive training, they chose Tereshkova. AFP
Cheetahs generate four times the power of Bolt
Cheetahs can generate four times the maximum power output of world-record runner Usain Bolt when they sprint and have a manoeuvrability unmatched by any other animal when hunting prey, according to scientists who tracked the big cats in their natural habitat. "[Cheetahs] are getting lateral accelerations bigger than a motorbike can achieve," said Alan Wilson of the Royal Veterinary College in England. "They're operating at the extreme of athletic performance." His team attached collars, enabled with GPS and accelerometers, to five cheetahs in Botswana and tracked the speed and fancy footwork of 367 runs. They recorded a top speed of 93.3km/h - making cheetahs the fastest land animal - but the average was much lower, about 50.7km/h. Most of the runs were under 72.4km/h. "When you consider a racehorse or greyhound goes at [64.4km/h], that's quite impressive," Wilson said. Guardian


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Microsoft's Redesign Brings Social Search to Bing
Photo of the author, Jennifer Beese by Jennifer Beese on May 10, 2012
Once you have authorized Bing, you can even start asking questions to get recommendations from Facebook friends. Bing will even suggest people who might know about the topic based on their Likes, Facebook profile, and any photos they've shared. You will also have access to relevant information from experts and enthusiasts from other social networks — including Google+ — around the topic you're searching for.
Bing has also introduced an Activity feed in the sidebar so you're able to see posts and queries you and your friends have shared. This activity also shows up in Facebook, so you can comment on it from either platform.
This is certainly a major step for Bing, and will have a huge impact on anyone who regularly uses the search engine. However, it's too early to tell if this will successfully drive traffic, or how it will affect Google's popularity.
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A's-Rangers postponed by rainApr 30, 2009 - 2:12 AM ARLINGTON, Texas(AP) -- A rainout gave the short-handed Oakland Athletics a well-timed night off.
Wednesday's game between Oakland and the Texas Rangers was postponed after a one-hour rain delay and will be made up as part of a doubleheader on May 29.
Earlier Wednesday, the A's placed infielders Nomar Garciaparra and Mark Ellis on the 15-day disabled list with calf problems and were without first baseman Jason Giambi, who was nursing sore hamstrings in both legs.
"Whenever there's an up, there's a down," said A's manager Bob Geren, whose team has lost six of eight. "We're banged up, the day off is nice, but on the other hand we're going to have 28 straight days playing this year, a couple of those."
Geren said left-hander Dallas Braden will start Thursday's series finale as had been scheduled. Left-hander Josh Outman, Wednesday night's scheduled starter, will be pushed back to Sunday against Seattle.
Rangers manager Ron Washington said right-hander Vicente Padilla, Wednesday night's scheduled starter, will move to Thursday.
The Rangers, who have won four of five, wanted to maintain momentum, but Washington was thankful he didn't have his players risk injuries on a wet field.
"There's a day game tomorrow and we didn't want to start after 9 tonight," Washington said. "We didn't want to get anyone hurt."
Garciaparra went on the DL for the 13th time in his major league career. Oakland called up infielder Eric Patterson and right-hander Kevin Cameron from Triple-A Sacramento.
Garciaparra and Ellis came up lame in Tuesday night's 5-4 loss to Texas. Also leaving Tuesday night's game were rookie left-hander Brett Anderson, with a blistered finger, and reliever Santiago Casilla, with a sore ankle.
Geren said Casilla is day-to-day. Anderson's finger could be healed in time for his next start Monday night at home against the Los Angeles Angels.
The day off was beneficial for Giambi, who said he could be back at first base on Thursday.
"I wouldn't have been able to play today," Giambi said. "This definitely helps me out. I've been treating it all day and it's feeling a little better. We'll see tomorrow how it is."
Geren had Eric Chavez penciled into Wednesday night's lineup in place of Giambi. A six-time Gold Glove third baseman, Chavez was set to play first base for the first time since 2001. Chavez had played in only three of the previous 12 games due to a sore right elbow.
Chavez needs a few more days before he will be able to throw from third base, but he can swing the bat, so Geren wanted him back in the lineup.
Oakland has a team batting average of .233 and has eight homers, fewest in the majors.
Notes: The A's were rained out for the second time this season. An April 20 game at the New York Yankees was washed out. ... The Rangers had their first rainout of the season. ... Texas OF Josh Hamilton reported improvement in his sore ribs, but still has pain and will miss a few more games. ... Washington celebrated his 57th birthday. ... Rangers RHP Kris Benson, on the 15-day DL with elbow tendinitis, will throw a bullpen session before Thursday's game. ... Texas (10-10) has a chance to finish over .500 in April for the first time in Washington's three seasons as manager. The Rangers were 10-15 and 10-18 in his first two Aprils.
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London copper rebounded on Thursday, snapping two sessions of losses, after encouraging economic data from top metals consumer China and as European leaders assured investors of a likely bailout for Greece, boosting the euro
China's vast manufacturing sector saw expansion accelerate in November for the first time in 13 months, preliminary results from a factory survey showed, a sign that the pace of economic growth has revived after seven consecutive quarters of slowdown. That followed a solid manufacturing survey in the United States, feeding optimism that global growth may have turned a corner.
"We do see China's economy strengthening to about 8 per cent [GDP growth] next year. That implies a potential pickup in demand for commodities because of the commodity-intensive nature of that growth," said Alexandra Knight, an economist with National Australia Bank in Melbourne. NAB sees copper prices averaging around $7,950 per tonne next year.
"We're probably a bit more bearish than others on copper. We think the advanced economies are still going to take a lot of time get back to where they were before the financial crisis and because you don't have the sort of supply constraints you had a few years ago," Knight added.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange had climbed 0.48 per cent to $US7728.75 a tonne by 701 GMT, reversing losses from the prior session, when it fell more than 1 per cent. Prices saw their steepest one-day rally since September on Monday, buoyed by optimism that US lawmakers would find a fix for the country's looming "fiscal cliff".
Still, prices, which were up 10 per cent on the year in September, have fizzled on slowing global growth and now stand less than 2 per cent higher than the start of 2012. The most-traded February copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange climbed 0.25 per cent to close at 56,040 yuan a tonne.
US manufacturing grew in November at its quickest pace in five months, with a rise in domestic demand hinting that factories could provide a boost to economic growth in the fourth quarter.
In China, the China HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose to a 13-month high of 50.4 in November.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday she saw a chance for a deal to release emergency aid for Greece at a meeting of European finance ministers, but rejected the idea that big bold action could solve Europe's crisis overnight.
The revived hopes of a Greek loan deal saw the euro stage a dramatic turnaround to hit its highest in two weeks against the dollar on Thursday.
Euro zone manufacturing figures will be closely watched on Thursday for signs that slowing growth in the region's periphery has moved to its core. Spain will also start tapping markets to cover its 2013 financing needs, a burden many investors think will eventually force it to seek aid from its euro zone partners.
US markets are closed for Thanksgiving, which Credit Suisse said could dent sentiment towards the end of the week as liquidity thins. "We should start to see more direction next Monday when decisions on Greece will likely get made, while Congressional negotiators reconvene to get the talks back on track," INTL-FC Stone said in a research report.
China's giant power provider and top cable buyer, State Grid Corp, is lobbying hard for approval of a $250-billion upgrade plan that critics say is too costly and could expose the system to blackouts. But the plan would not necessarily fuel copper prices, because State Grid could substitute cheaper aluminium, depending on voltage, a Shanghai trader said.
Cable makers, which account for 40 per cent of China's copper demand, reported a pick-up in tenders offered by State Grid over the summer.


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This article originally appeared in the March 2009 edition of Drum Corps World (Volume 37, Number 12).
This is quite a story. I hope that I can do it justice.
The drum corps part begins in 2005. Carolina Crown played Joy and Call of the Mountain by composer Joseph Curiale. The Troopers played another Curiale piece called Gates of Gold.
DCI had to pay royalties for use of those pieces on our DVDs, CDs and digital downloads.
Fast forward to December 2008 when DCI's Dan Acheson received a letter at the office pertaining to royalty payments. Normally anything having to do with royalties and rights fees is bad news. Those payments account for a huge part of DCI's operating expenses.
The letter was from Joseph Curiale himself and concerned the royalty payment he received from Drum Corps International in 2006. Dan shared the letter with me.
The best way I can tell the story is to share the letter with you. In Joseph Curiale's own words:
In March of 2006, I saw a segment on CNN that touched me deeply and motivated me to take action. It had to do with farmers (in India) committing suicide in large numbers due to their hopelessness and the hardship this caused the widows and children left behind.
I contacted CNN and arranged to pay the debts of one of the widows that touched me most.
Her husband left her with a debt of $1,100 that she said was impossible to pay for two reasons; she only earned 50 cents a day rolling cigarettes from morning until night and because of what I later learned was an interest rate of nearly 450% the corrupt moneylenders charged.
Though I made the commitment to pay her debts on inspiration alone, I did not have the money, since in addition, I knew I would have to fly to India to do this.
A few days later I got a royalty check from DCI for $1,600 and it seemed "heaven sent." I knew that money was to erase the widow's debt and I proceeded to India a month later and paid the moneylenders face to face and freed the widow of her financial burdens.
Soon after, I started a foundation, and with the help of some very kind donors, paid the debts of many widows and set up fixed deposit accounts from which they can draw monthly for food. I also became involved in supporting a girls orphanage and now I am personally raising and educating four orphaned girls . . .
Many times during the past three years I have thought how magical it is that music saves lives in many ways. I am very grateful to DCI for being a part of that magic."
Wow, what an amazing story.
In the words of DCI's Dan Acheson: "All too often we get caught up in our own silliness and forget how far-reaching what we do really is in the world. Perhaps there are thousands of more worthy activities ahead of drum corps that impact the lives of people on the planet.
But, as Joseph Curiale states . . . on his Web site, all too often people are so overwhelmed with all that needs to be done in the world that they do nothing. He chose but a small part that he could play and remained focused. The impact is simply amazing."
Amen. In the TV news business, I often read stories on the air about people's misfortunes and family's tragedies. I also have to report on a lot of inhumanity and violence on a regular basis . . . the kinds of things that make you wonder about the state of human decency.
Then I am regularly amazed and touched by the way our viewers respond to help complete strangers in need. The outpouring, time after time, is amazing and heartwarming. It's been the same in every market that I've worked — Rochester, Miami, Orlando, Wilmington . . .
And that's the balance in the human equation.
Joseph Curiale saw a human tragedy half a world away and took it upon himself to help make it right. The fact that he used our DCI "seed money" to make it happen is the all the more special.
For more information, visit: www.JospehCurialeFoundation.com.


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Convicted Australian drug runner Schapelle Corby will not survive in jail unless an appeal against her 20 year sentence succeeds, her chief defence lawyer says.
An emotional Lily Lubis, who headed Corby's often maligned defence team, fears for her client's life in an Indonesian jail.
Corby has already spent almost eight months behind bars in Bali and has seemingly coped well with the ordeal.
Her hopes for the 27-year-old from Queensland's Gold Coast now depend on an agreement being struck at government level for her to complete her sentence in Australia, or on appeal against the verdict and/or the severity of the sentence.
Corby was sentenced in a Denpasar court to 20 years in jail after being caught smuggling 4.1kg of marijuana into the Indonesian resort island of Bali last year.
"I know for sure she will not survive this sentence," Lubis said.
In contrast, Corby's family and supporters declared her to be capable of coping with anything.
"She is the strongest person I know," said her sister Mercedes.
"If anyone can get through this, it is Schapelle."
Australian acting consul general in Bali Ross Tysoe said he was encouraged by Corby's attitude after visiting her in prison after the sentencing.
"For what she's been through, she's coping extremely well," he said.
Another of Corby's lawyers, Erwin Siregar, defended his team's performance after today's sentencing.
Siregar said that short of producing the person Corby claims planted the drugs on her, there was a little more he could do.
"How can I name the person who put the drugs inside her bag," he said.
"The judge said to me 'if you want your client free, bring the guy'.
"How can I bring the guy.
"It's up to Australia to find him."
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Earlier this evening, I posted pics in the American Pocket Watch forum to help gain background info on a family heirloom that was passed down to me. I got enough good feedback that I decided to do another couple of threads to identify the other two vintage watches I've purchased recently, a Hamilton Baxter and a Benrus of which I don't know the model name.
I purchased this Benrus after purchasing the vintage Hamilton referenced in my other thread:http://mb.nawcc.org/showthread.php?t=71622. The only info I have on it is that it has a 10kt rolled gold case and stainless steel back, but unlike the Hamilton, it has a Swiss movement (its kind of hard to tell from the pics though-pics taken on my Blackberry). After asking around on watchuseek and looking on Google, I am convinced the watch was refinished at some point (especially because of the font used for the word "Benrus"), but for $225, I'm happy with it. There were no identifying marks for a model name or number on it, so any info y'all may have would be very much appreciated.
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Re: Need help identifying vintage Benrus (By: orange fury)
The movement is an ETA 900/925 10 1/2L. I would say that it has a refinished dial, but a good job. It was so common to do this. Lots of watchmakers sold a dial refinish along with a cleaning. I'd bet that at least 25% of these style watches have a refinished dial. Looks great.
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Re: Need help identifying vintage Benrus (By: Dave Haynes)
Any idea what the face and marker materials are? On the hamilton i posted in the other thread that, i knew that the case was 10k rolled gold and the back was stainless steel, but I had no idea until I saw a 1955 Hamilton ad that the face was sterling silver and the markers were 18k gold. This face looks (to me) exactly like the face on the Hamilton, so it made me wonder if it was the same materials. Also, I haven't ever seen another watch like this, would anyone know a model name or number?
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(AP)—There's a new version of the world's most widely used psychiatric manual, and it's already getting lots of criticism.
Some prominent therapists and others complain that the manual turns normal conditions into mental illnesses. They say it will only make the "pop-a-pill" culture worse.
At issue is the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, widely known as the DSM-5. The DSM has long been considered the authoritative source for diagnosing mental problems.
The American Psychiatric Association is releasing the manual this weekend at its annual meeting in San Francisco. Protesters hope to steal the show.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Fruitport Township police seized Kurtis Ray Minch's 87 firearms after he was accused of holding a handgun – it was actually a starting pistol – to his girlfriend's head and pulled the trigger.
All but one of his firearms, a short-barrel shotgun, was legal.
After he pleaded guilty to illegal possession of the shotgun and felonious use of a firearm, he asked that his legal firearms be given to his mother. But Muskegon County prosecutors argued that doing so would violate state law that prohibits felons from possessing, selling or distributing a firearm.
The state Court of Appeals agreed with a Muskegon County Circuit Court judge, who ordered the guns turned over to Minch's mother.
On Thursday, Oct. 25, the state Supreme Court heard oral arguments as 200 area high school students, taking part in a "We the People" curriculum, and local judges and attorneys, watched at Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.
The traveling jurists – based in the Hall of Justice in Lansing – visit others cities periodically as part of "Court Community Connections."
The idea is to give students and others an "inside look" at the appellate process, Chief Justice Robert Young Jr. said.
"A Supreme Court decision in one case can have an impact on people's lives for years to come," he said.
The students came from Comstock Park, East Grand Rapids, East Kentwood, and Potter's House schools.
Sally Marsh, 16, and Tyler Larabel, 17, both East Grand Rapids students, have been studying the U.S. Constitution and working with attorneys as part of their class work.
"It was cool to see what we read about in text books in class," Marsh said.
Larabel said he was interested in arguments over Constitutional issues. In particular, due process was argued throughout the case. He said students had been briefed on the case, which helped students as they heard the legal arguments.
They also knew that hearings in appellate courts differ from trial courts.
Appellate judges pepper attorneys with questions.
Young asked Charles Justian, the chief appellate attorney in Muskegon County, why Minch's mother shouldn't get the guns.
Young said: "The court order says the guns should be delivered to the mother. That's how she gets them."
Justian argued that Minch couldn't legally deliver the guns to his mother because the law prohibits Minch from doing anything with the guns.
Minch's attorney, Kevin Wistrom, said the Muskegon County judge's earlier order should be enough for the guns to be turned over to Minch's mother.
He added that his client's due-process rights would be violated if police kept his guns without forfeiture hearings.
After the judges left, the attorneys answered students' questions.
Justian said: "This is a situation where the Legislature should probably be called on to address it."
The Supreme Court will issue a written opinion as it does in other cases. It will likely take several months, a court spokeswoman said.
Kent County Circuit judges Donald Johnston and Paul Sullivan invited the Supreme Court to Grand Rapids. They said local bar association members prepared students for the oral arguments, and provided background materials.
Published by mlive.com on October 25, 2012
A photo gallery of the events appears here: Students witness Michigan Supreme Court at Ford Museum 10/25/12