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PHOENIX — State prison officials have no right to read mail sent by inmates to their attorneys, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
In a divided decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected arguments by the state Department of Corrections that they are entitled to read all mail — including legal correspondence — to ensure it does not contain any contraband.
The court said that can be done simply for outgoing mail by scanning the mail before an inmate seals it, and for incoming mail by having a prison guard do the same, in front of the inmate, before handing over the letter.
The judges said security concerns do not require anyone in the prison to actually read the contents to be sure that the matters discussed are truly legal issues.
Monday's ruling is a legal victory for Scott Nordstrom, on death row after two 1996 Tucson robberies that left six people dead.
But Gregory Sisk, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, who handled the 9th Circuit appeal with his law students, said nothing in Monday's ruling affects Nordstrom's death sentence. Instead, he said, it may help Nordstrom work with his own criminal defense lawyer to overturn those convictions.
Sisk said, though, that the ruling is an important victory for prison inmates and their right to freely communicate with their attorneys.
A spokesman for the Department of Corrections said the agency had no comment.
The case involves a policy for prison employees to review letters from inmates to their attorneys. This is done in front of the inmate before he or she is permitted to seal the envelope to be mailed out.
Attorneys for the state argued this policy ensures inmates can send letters to their lawyers — but only after they have been scanned to ensure that the contents are, in fact, legal matters. But Judge Barry Silverman, writing for the majority, said that is both unnecessary and illegal.
Silverman conceded that courts are not always the best place to second-guess how prisons should be run.
"Nonetheless, prison walls do not form a barrier separating prison inmates from then protections of the Constitution," he wrote. And Silverman said courts will intervene when a prison regulation or practice offends a fundamental constitutional guarantee.
In this case, Silverman said, the practice violates an inmate's Sixth Amendment right to legal counsel.
"A criminal defendant's ability to communicate candidly and confidentially with his lawyer is essential to his defense," Silverman wrote. "It is obvious to us that a policy or practice permitting prison officials to not just inspect or scan, but to read an inmate's letters to his counsel his highly likely to inhibit the sort of candid communications that the right to counsel and the attorney-client privilege are meant to protect."


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WSJ latest to spread falsehoods about Abdulmutallab arrest to claim Obama's terrorism policy is "dangerous"
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Accusing President Obama of "dangerous folly," The Wall Street Journal falsely claimed that Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, "told the Senate that by immediately handing [alleged Christmas Day attacker Umar Farouk] Abdulmutallab to the civilian justice system, the government all but slammed the door on its ability to interrogate him thoroughly." In fact, Blair has acknowledged that the FBI gained "important intelligence" from Abdulmutallab.
WSJ falsely claimed Blair said government did not interrogate Abdulmutallab thoroughly
WSJ falsely claimed Blair testified that "the government all but slammed the door on its ability to interrogate him thoroughly." In a January 22 editorial headlined " 'Duh': Another intelligence blunder," the Journal claimed that the "Director of National Intelligence told the Senate that by immediately handing Abdulmutallab to the civilian justice system, the government all but slammed the door on its ability to interrogate him thoroughly. Specifically, the feds failed to avail themselves of a unit called the High-Value Interrogation Group, or HIG, which Mr. Blair says was created 'to make a decision on whether a certain person who's detained should be treated as a case for federal prosecution or for some of the other means.' "
WSJ accused Obama of "dangerous folly." The editorial concluded: "Mr. Blair's testimony was almost instantly disputed by an anonymous Administration official, and he later issued a statement saying his comments had been 'misconstrued.' We think we heard Mr. Blair right the first time, and his departure from script reveals the dangerous folly of the Administration's policy of treating terrorists like common criminals."
Other right-wing media outlets have distorted Blair's testimony to accuse Obama of endangering Americans. As Media Matters for America has documented, right-wing media outlets including the Ace of Spades blog, The Weekly Standard, National Review Online and The Las Vegas Review-Journal have made similar, false assertions about Blair's testimony
Blair, Mueller stated that FBI got intelligence from interrogation
In fact, Blair never claimed Abdulmutallab was not interrogated thoroughly. At no point in his January 20 unclassified testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs did Blair state that Abdulmutallab was not interrogated thoroughly or that he should have been transferred from civilian to military custody. When asked directly by Sen. John McCain if Abdulmutallab should be "tried in civilian court or should it be under military tribunal," Blair stated: "I'm not ready to offer an opinion on that in open session. We can talk about it in closed session, Senator McCain."
Blair subsequently acknowledged FBI received "important intelligence." While the Journal acknowledged that Blair subsequently stated that his testimony had been "misconstrued," it did not mention that Blair also stated that the FBI had received "important intelligence." From Blair's January 20 statement: "The FBI interrogated Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab when they took him into custody. They received important intelligence at that time, drawing on the FBI's expertise in interrogation that will be available in the HIG once it is fully operational."
FBI Director Mueller testified that Abdulmutallab gave information to FBI. From FBI director Robert Mueller's January 20 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee (accessed from the Nexis database):
SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D-RI): Do you not react differently to cases that have a national security and terrorism overtone than to you regular book of criminal business, in terms of making early decisions as to what type of interrogation is appropriate?
MUELLER: Certainly we do. And that's what the agents did in this particular case. There were no Miranda warnings given. They immediately went in, when they had the opportunity to interview him to determine whether -- to gain intelligence, intelligence about whether there's another bomb, whether other coconspirators, where'd he get the bomb, all of that information without the benefit of -- or within the Miranda warnings.
It had to be done very quickly because of the fact that he had been injured, was in a hospital, and the window of opportunity to do this had to be undertaken very quickly.
But the fact remains, as well, later that evening, he was Mirandized and -- and went into the judicial system. I'm not going to opine one way or the other, because I don't think it's my role to -- to necessarily adopt the policy as to where the person goes. It's to other persons at the Department of Justice and elsewhere.
Mueller: Criminal justice system has been "a fountain of intelligence in the years since September 11th." During his Senate Judiciary Committee testimony, Mueller also stated: "[W]e've had a number of cases in which through the process -- the criminal justice process of the United States, individuals have decided to cooperate and provided tremendous intelligence. That is not to say that there may not be other ways of obtaining that intelligence. But, yes, in answer to your question, the criminal justice system has been a -- a fountain of intelligence in the years since September 11th."
High-Value Interrogation Group cited by Blair is not "fully operational," designed for overseas interrogations
Group that Blair said should have been consulted is not "fully operational," not designed for use in the U.S. As Blair acknowledged in the subsequent statement referred to by the Journal, the HIG -- a proposed "specialized interrogation group" designed to "bring together the most effective and experienced interrogators and support personnel from across the Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense and law enforcement" to "interrogate the most dangerous terrorists" -- is not "fully operational." Indeed, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reported: "Abdulmutallab couldn't possibly have been questioned by the HIG because the unit doesn't exist yet. The task force had recommended it be created to handle the questioning of 'high value' Qaeda leaders who might be captured overseas -- a criterion that clearly doesn't apply in Abdulmutallab's case. But the proposal is still being reviewed by the National Security Council, and the actual unit has not yet been created."
HIG reportedly not designed to have jurisdiction over suspects on U.S. soil. In a November 20, 2009, blog post on Fort Hood shooting suspect Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman wrote: "[I]t is unlikely that the HIG would interview Hasan. Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Justice Department's national security division, clarified that the new group is mandated to operate 'overseas only.' " Isikoff further wrote that "since Abdulmutallab was not a Qaeda leader, and was captured in Detroit, not overseas, the HIG wouldn't apply in any case, said the source, who worked closely on the proposal."
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Reporter Passes Out On Live TV [Video]
Aren't you glad you don't live the life of Tracy Wirtz or Dave Baker? Can you imagine having a camera follow you around at your job? Okay, if you are on TV the camera thing isn't unexpected but think of all the gaffes and faux pas you make everyday that the camera and the audience would catch?
For example, here is a reporter in Utah. She is doing a piece on Nordic Skiing. I am guessing she is not that familiar with the sport since she says, "you guys are teaching me" in the piece. If you watch carefully the reporter goes from full on camera to flat on her back in a matter of seconds. To her credit, she comes around very quickly and tells the producer to take it back to the studio. I hope she is okay and that many years from now when she is a network superstar she will look back on this viral moment with a smile.
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Liebherr USA, Co.
The Liebherr Elko, Nevada operation provides sales and service for the mining equipment in the Rocky Mountain and Western USA. The 15,000 square foot facility is located east of Elko off of I-80. This facility also has the capability to rebuild mechanical components for the Liebherr excavators, haul trucks, and dozers. The building sits on a 33 acre parcel and was constructed in 2008 to support the Liebherr mining products in the area.
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- Total area: 33 Acres
- Built-up area: 15,000 ft2


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This information, which Weickum said he merely passed on as a friendly tip and which was interpreted by the reporters as an open threat, was the result of a special conference held recently by the executives of the. German lines at which the Jewish press was discussed at considerable length.
When pressed for specific examples of the alleged untruths with which the Jewish newspapers were being charged, Weickum declared that he or the line's executives "couldn't put their fingers on them at the moment."
Weickum then reminded the reporters that the privilege of boarding the German liners, or any other liners at quarantine, was extended merely as a courtesy, which could be discontinued at the pleasure of the steamship company.
Asked whether that meant that the German lines were planning immediate action to keep Jewish press representatives off their boats, Weickum said that he didn't know. He intimated that he had advised his employers against any such drastic action and that he was merely telling the reporters what he had been told and that they could place any interpretation upon it they chose.
Later, on board the Europa, the representatives of the Jewish press were treated with every courtesy.


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Artist Christopher Schulz's sculptures present the beautiful contours of the natural human figure combined with the presence of an internal mechanical world that is constantly working behind the scenes non-reliant on human interaction. The inner workings of existence that take place as we rotate through society continually going through permutations of being stripped down, taken apart and reassembled.
Like a three-dimensional Dali drawing come to life, the piece Revisal shows us a stunning female figure, perfect in every way, with an insight into the heart cavity as well as the exposed gears adjacent to the hips. It's as if she's being redesigned as we look on.
According to Schulz, "So many mechanical actions mimic how the human body works. I am always interested to see how far we will go in designing things that take the place of us in order to make things easier."
For price and availability please contact the gallery at (760) 346-4243 or toll free at (877) 977-CHFA


text: Has anyone used the services of turfmarketing.com? If so what kind of service did you recieve and how well did their product work for you. I noticed that they are a sponsor on this site and it seems that they have some decent ideas but I haven't noticed anyone mentioning them in any of the many posts about flyers.


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Default https inactivity connection timeout
Below are default inactivity connection time out for A3(1.0) So by defult any tcp connection(http or https) will be timed out in an hour.
The defaults are as follows:
•ICMP—2 seconds
•TCP—3600 seconds (1 hour)
•UDP—120 seconds (2 minutes)
as per http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/app_ntwk_services/data_center_app_services/ace_appliances/vA3_1_0/configuration/security/guide/tcpipnrm.html
Was this change in the A4(2.0) code or is it still the same? I heard a TAC engg say that default inactivity timeout for http and https are now 5 mins that is 300 seconds.


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N.Y. Jets 37, Seattle 14
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Ticker) -- Chad Pennington wanted
the New York Jets to be firing on all cylinders before the
playoffs. They haven't clinched a postseason berth yet, but had
no problems dismantling a first-place team.
Pennington passed for 253 yards and three touchdowns and Curtis
Martin rushed for 134 yards and two scores to lead the Jets to a
37-14 rout of the Seattle Seahawks in a pivotal interconference
The win pushed the Jets (10-4) closer to clinching the first
wild card berth in the AFC.
The loss was the third in four games for the Seahawks (7-7),
who have a one-half game lead over the St. Louis Rams in the
NFC West. St. Louis visits Arizona later Sunday.
The Seahawks had allowed a total of 104 points in their last
three games and could not stop the Jets, who rushed for more
than 200 yards for the fourth time this season. Martin rushed
for 88 yards and both of his scores in the first half, giving
him a club-record 12 rushing touchdowns.
A week after getting intercepted three times in a 17-6 loss at
Pittsburgh, Pennington picked apart Seattle's secondary,
completing 18-of-24 passes. He connected with Santana Moss on
touchdowns of 32 and seven yards and hit Justin McCareins with a
five-yard score.
"For the first time in a long time offensively, we set the tempo
running the ball and passing the ball," Pennington said. "We
were able to get in a rhythm and we just kept it flowing. The
biggest thing we tried to concentrate on was to not let up, to
not even breathe and not let those guys breathe."
Apparently upset with some media criticism earlier in the week,
Pennington made just a few comments to reporters before leaving
without answering any questions. He instead did his talking on
the field.
Moss and backup running back LaMont Jordan also made their
statements during the week, asking to be more involved in an
offense that scored 17 points or less in five of its last six
"One thing about New York if you're going to talk about it you
better back it up," said Jordan, who had 84 yards on 15 carries.
Offensive coordinator Paul Hackett often has been criticized for
conservative play calling, but a trick play helped give the
Jets a 30-14 lead in the third quarter. Jordan took a snap out
of a shotgun formation and raced 33 yards to the Seattle 10,
setting up Pennington's second TD pass to Moss.
Moss and fullback Jerald Sowell each caught five passes and the
Jets rolled up 229 yards on the ground.
"We did some of the same stuff last week but we didn't
capitalize," Moss said. "We didn't wait for things to happen. We
went after them."
Seattle's Matt Hasselbeck hit Jerry Rice and tight end Jerramy
Stevens with touchdown passes in the first half, but the
Seahawks were blanked in the second half.
"I'd like to sugarcoat it, but they took it to us pretty good,"
Seattle coach Mike Holmgren said.
To make matters worse, Hasselbeck was forced to leave the game
in the second half with an elbow injury after completing
22-of-30 passes for 201 yards.
"It's amazing we are in the playoff picture and we are going to
fight just as hard whether we are or aren't," Hasselbeck said.
"It's unfortunate we haven't been playing as good as we would
like. Hopefully, we will catch our stride."
Seattle's last serious threat came late in the third quarter,
when it was stopped on four plays at the New York 3. Shaun
Alexander, who had 77 yards on 19 carries, fumbled near the goal
line on fourth down, keeping the score at 30-14. The fumble was
forced by linebacker Eric Barton, who also intercepted a pass
and was in on 11 tackles.
It was the seventh time this season the Jets have held an
opponent scoreless in the second half.
"We're still trying to get that goose egg (for the game),"
rookie linebacker Jonathan Vilma said. "We make our corrections
and keep coming in the second half."


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Throughout this off-season, the thought had been that QB would probably remain the Cleveland Browns' foremost position of uncertainty. Vet acquisition Trent Dilfer had largely disappointed, seemingly wasting what figured to be his best and last significant opportunity to reclaim the promise his career once held. Rookie Charlie Frye flashed some enticing qualities, but not so many as to elevate himself beyond suspect. Kids need to learn, after all.
And the NFL does not readily make available alternative solutions of superior skill. In other words, a solution was not likely to materialize from outside the organization.
Fast forward a few more months and the position is suddenly even less secure. Dilfer has paved his way out of town, all the way back to his native California, where once he aligned beside a lefty named Todd Marinovich as the state's premier prep passing prospect.
In his place is former Miami Hurricane Ken Dorsey, a guy whose pro resume defines him as a third QB. Essentially, the Browns' QB position is less than it was, as dubious as that had been. In a word, it is now "scary."
Realistically, if Dorsey had magic to dispense, he'd have been the SF starter last autumn. Tim Rattay, a quality career backup, was instead, keeping warm the spot for 2005 #1 overall selection Alex Smith of Utah. Dorsey knew the front office, was more familiar with the personnel, was young enough to warrant a full audition, had the size for the role, was native to the area, had come from a high-profile collegiate program and had established himself as a bonafide winner, going 38-2 for the U. Yet Ken was scarcely above former rodeo rider Cody Pickett.
In brief, Ken Dorsey is not a viable starter in the NFL, not someone upon whom an organization's fortunes should rest were its starter to go down. He'd be wise to learn to hold for placements to perhaps attain some roster insurance.
But the Browns and GM Phil Savage were in an unenviable position with the unhappy Dilfer. Regardless of who was right or wrong between Trent and O-Coor Maurice Carthon, Dilfer had apparently poisoned the working relationship and had the GM over a barrel with the threat of a mid-summer retirement. Dilfer made himself into a situation which required quick resolution. Haste is not the best climate for equitable, enlightened exchange.
The timing of The Dilfer Situation suggested he might have been jockeying to beat Steve McNair to the Ravens' vacancy. Baltimore was the zenith of Dilfer's career, where he contributed to the winning of a Super Bowl championship. Perhaps he could go home again. Perhaps such an arrangement would result in a three-way delivering McNair to the North Coast. Perhaps the Titans would welcome an alternative placement for McNair, inasmuch as they are not an organization fond of the one in Baltimore.
None of that matters now. Dilfer is as near to his Aptos home as he could be as a professional quarterback. McNair's representation has negotiated agreeable terms with the Ravens. All that remains is for the Titans to pull the trigger on the exchange rate and the McNair era ends in Nashville and commences in Crab Cake City.
Unless the Titans can now persuade that Alcorn State product to reconsider his desire to depart and remain to tutor top-pick successor Vince Young---whose friendship McNair dates to when both were developing in Houston, Steve as an Oiler --- the Browns would be prevented access to whom might be their best remaining positional alternative: veteran reserve Billy Volek.
As accomplished a back-up as Volek has been---and he's had a number of outstanding individual performances when McNair's frequent injuries have forced him into the lineup---Billy is evidently not perceived by the Titans as a full-time starter. Were McNair to respond to the role of nurturing mentor for Young, the financial realities at the position might dictate Tennessee's finding a new residence for Volek, who ironically succeeded Dilfer as a Fresno State Bulldog. The combined salaries of McNair and Young would all but preclude Volek's retention and possibly permit Savage to secure in Volek an ideal substitute for Dorsey as Frye's caddie.
That would help convert what is now a serious concern into a comfortable position of strength. Surrounded by an enhanced roster without glaring holes, a Frye-Volek tandem offers assurances for years to come, consistent with the fortification Savage is assembling around his quarterbacks. What is more, whereas Dilfer blanched at the prospect of more bench time in Cleveland, Volek has constructed an admirable career out of occasional appearances.
So, while it is so an uncertainty has been temporarily worsened, it is possible the ultimate response may make it stronger. Much depends on what happens with McNair and the fallout of that decision. There may not be a better identifiable remedy to The Dilfer Situation than the acquisition of Titan Billy Volek.


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Scott Cooper '92 returned to campus for a screening of his Academy Award-winning film Crazy Heart on September 17 as a part of the Family Weekend festivities. While students and their parents were treated to the screening and comments by Mr. Cooper on Friday night, students of Professors Matt Dubroff and David Higginbotham met with him to talk about working in the film industry and developing characters in a screenplay.
Speaking to the crowd before the screening, Cooper said he is regularly asked where he attended film school and questioners are uniformly surprised when he tells them that he attended only Hampden-Sydney College, a liberal arts college for men. He said he learned about character development from his English and rhetoric professors and gave particular credit to economics professor Ken Townsend for teaching him the skills necessary to create a budget and stick to it. The art of film, he added, he learned from watching his favorite movies over and over again in the basement of Eggleston Library.
Crazy Heart is Cooper's writing and directorial debut, though he has been working as an actor for some time. He appeared in the films Gods and Generals, Broken Trail, and the recently released Get Low.
Cooper's next project is directing a remake of the Argentine film Carancho. The story involves an ambulance-chasing lawyer running a lucrative insurance scam who falls afoul of a larger conspiracy and gets emotionally entangled with a troubled emergency room doctor.


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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:04:30 +0100, Robert Depenbrock <robert at bay13 dot de> wrote:
> > I'm a Cisco nut myself, but I'll take a m0n0wall over a PIX any day.
> >
> Why? :)
Rule re-ordering is a huge pain on the PIX, though not nearly as bad
as it used to be before implementing line numbers in ACL's, but still
not as easy as click up or down in m0n0wall (or the new method in
1.2b3, which is even better).
Initial setup of a PIX, while not difficult for those of us that have
done it dozens of times, is still much more work than getting m0n0wall
up and going.
m0n0 to m0n0 IPsec is more stable in my experience than Cisco to
Cisco, though that could be ISP differences as much as the software,
not sure on that.
PIX Device Manager (PDM), the web GUI, is the biggest piece of crap
I've seen. It may have improved recently (I haven't touched it in a
year), but I've reconfigured (from scratch) PIX'es for a couple
clients because they got into PDM and ended up trashing their
configuration to the point that I wasn't sure what had changed to
break it. I'm sure some of them did some things they shouldn't have,
but the only time I ever seriously messed around with PDM (without
changing much of anything), it also completely trashed the config. I
haven't touched PDM since.
PIX actually has some of the same limitations, like this specifically.
http://m0n0.ch/wall/docbook/faq-lannat.html Cisco calls that
limitation a "security feature". Hah, talk about a load of crap.
Maybe I should change that FAQ page to say it's a "security feature"
in m0n0wall. :) I've heard rumors that's going to be fixed in the
upcoming PIX OS 7.
Only major advantage the PIX has is its ALG's, i.e. 'fixup protocol'
stuff. There are other features, but the vast majority of
installations don't use or need them.
Overall, the PIX is a really overpriced box for what you get. Nothing
really spectacular about it. But slap Cisco on something and it's
instantly 3* more expensive than it should be, and trusted
unconditionally in enterprise environments.
All this from the guy that's usually the first to defend Cisco. :)


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Interventional Endoscopy Team
Kenneth Binmoeller, MD
Interventional Endoscopy Program Director (expanded biography)
Medical Training: University of Freiburg, Germany; University of Bern, Switzerland; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon; University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Board Certification: Gastroenterology; Internal Medicine
Special Interests: Interventional Endoscopy, Endoscopic Ultrasonography
Languages: German & French
Yasser M. Bhat, MD
Director, Esophageal Imaging and Therapy
Medical Training: Jefferson Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India; SUNY- Stony Brook in New York; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio; University of Pittsburgh; Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Board Certification: Gastroenterology; Internal Medicine
Special Interests: Digestive diseases research; all aspects of interventional endoscopic surgical & diagnostic options; pancreatic conditions & diseases.
Language: Hindi; Kashmiri
Christopher M. Hamerski, MD
Medical Training: University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center; University of California, Irvine Medical Center; University of California, San Francisco Medical Center and School of Medicine; University of California, Berkeley
Board Certification:Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine
Special Interests:Interventional Endoscopy, Endoscopic Ultrasound, Endoscopic Mucosal Resection, Biliary & Pancreatic Disorders


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Music Box gets Bettie Page
Music Box has picked up US rights to Mark Mori's Bettie Page Reveals All. Separately, Tribeca Film has acquired North American rights to teen drama S#x Acts.
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It is my great pleasure and honor to welcome you all - my dear colleagues - to this global project of advancing and improving the level of dental education and clinical work. We have a lot to achieve and we have had a good start. But, in order to be really successful, a collaboration of prominent colleagues is needed. That is why I am so pleased to welcome you all to the Dental Mammoth family.
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So my impressions of Diablo 3...
It's pretty fun and addictive, despite being a really simple game. My Witch Doctor is level 16, and I've actually found it to be challenging, mostly because the WD is a class that works best with others. If I want to play single player, I have to hire two guys at least. The WD focuses on crowd control, slowing down opponents, and annoying them with pets. I like it so far.
Blizzard always makes great cutscenes and they really could do a movie. However, the voice acting is very bad. It's hammy, generic, and so far hasn't helped me care about the story at all. But I guess that's not the point of a Diablo game.


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18K Gold Rosary Heart and Cross on Basra Pearl Chain
$ 1,550.00
The cross is one of the oldest and most universal of all symbols. It is said to protect against evil and is a source of strength and faith. This recycled 18K gold rosary heart and cross, each set with a small rose cut diamond, are hand beaded on all natural basra pearl chain. The cross measures approximately 3/8" length and 1/4" in width, and the heart measures 3/8" diameter. The chain is available in 16", 18" or 22" in with an easy lock closure.


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For Magicka:
"....highly enjoyable and must for any who counts themselves geeks and nerds. The cultural references and the tongue in cheek manner of design will put a smile on the most staunch face. The ability to play with friends greatly enriches the experience and the amount of combinations are indeed impressive. It is also ideally suited for those who like instantaneous battle with little time or inclination to optimise your heroes – the playing field is very even."
For Magicka: Vietnam DLC:
"...it is something that is enjoyable in its own right – the concept is sound, the game mechanic is still excellent and the humour is offbeat."


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April job gains beat forecasts,but jobless rate rises to 9%
Employers added 244,000 jobs in April, powered by the largest private-sector job growth in five years, as retailers, professional and business services, health care, and leisure and hospitality firms all posted significant payroll increases, the Labor Department reported Friday.
The nation's unemployment rate, which is calculated from a different survey, rose to 9% from 8.8% in March because the number of Americans employed fell by 190,000, according to that sampling.
Many economists, however, discounted the rise in the unemployment rate, noting that it is calculated from a survey of households whose results are more volatile than the broader survey of businesses that is used to measure payroll gains and losses. And the household survey generally has been showing improving figures in recent months, with unemployment falling from 9.8% in November.
The 244,000 increase in the payroll survey soundly beat economists' estimates of 185,000 and marks the biggest monthly jump since March 2006, excluding large gains last year that were inflated by the hiring of temporary workers for the census. Private payroll gains of 268,000 in April also exceeded estimates of 200,000.
INTERACTIVE: Where the jobs are
MORE: April employment situation
Another positive indicator: Employment gains for February were revised up to 235,000 from 194,000, and the March increase was revised to 221,000 from 216,000.
Economists say April's healthy jump confirms the trend toward a strengthening job market, with monthly private-sectorgains averaging 253,000 the past three months.
"These numbers unambiguously confirm the labor market has picked up decisively," says Jim O'Sullivan, chief economist of MF Global.
Like many economists, O'Sullivan expects the economy to add an average of 200,000 jobs a month this year, up from about 85,000 in 2010.
The run-up in oil prices and some recent disappointing economic reports have raised concerns that job gains could slow by mid-year, at least temporarily, as both consumers and businesses rein in spending. First-time claims for unemployment insurance rose last week, and a measure of service-industry activity fell sharply this week.
"There are some questions being raised," O'Sullivan says.
Indeed, the total number of temporary workers fell by 2,300 after rising consistently since late 2009. That could signal "smaller payroll gains in the next couple of months in response to the rise in oil prices," says Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist of High Frequency Economics. Changes, up or down, in the number of temporary employees typically augers broader trends for permanent workers.
Shepherdson expects the dip to be temporary, noting employers will adjust to the higher prices and in addition, oil prices recently have been slipping.
Other signs point to continued strong hiring. Productivity growth in the first quarter slowed to 1.6%, compared with an average increase of 3.9% last year, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
"Businesses can't simply meet growing demand by working their workers longer," says Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisors.
In April, the average work week was unchanged at 34.3 hours. Increasing hours often heralds stronger hiring. Average hourly wages rose three cents to $22.95. Pay is up 1.9% vs. a year ago.
The number of Americans out of work six months or longer fell by 283,000 to 5.8 million. That group of long-term unemployed Americans makes up about 43% of all the jobless.
But a broader measure of unemployment that includes those working part-time who wanted full-time work and discouraged workers who stopped looking — rose to 15.9% of the labor force from 15.7%.
Retailers led all industries, adding 57,000 jobs last month. Professional and business services added 51,000; education and health added 49,000; and leisure and hospitality added 46,000. Even the struggling construction industry added 5,000 workers.
But budget-strapped state and local governments continue to shed workers, slicing 23,000 from payrolls.
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A detailed illustration of various structural connections used in building design.
photo courtesy Shahin Vassigh
Screen capture of the beam module showing beam behavior under loads.
photo courtesy Shahin Vassigh
Screen captures of (above) the impact of wind loads on various building forms and (below) a visual description of the effect of torsion on structural elements.
photo courtesy Shahin Vassigh
Consecutive animation frames showing the attachment of a steel column to a concrete base.
photo courtesy Shahin Vassigh
By Scott Thomas
Since the time of Plato, great teachers have wrestled with the question: How can I get my students to really understand this concept?
If only Plato had had a bank of computers loaded with Macromedia Director, 3D Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Pentium III chips, dual processors, high-end video cards, and more zippy animations and sound effects than you can shake a mouse at.
Then Plato could have taught philosophy the way Shahin Vassigh, assistant professor in UB's School of Architecture and Planning, is teaching "structures," the math-intensive technical part of the architecture curriculum that every would-be I.M. Pei suffers through.
For four years now, Vassigh has been developing a multimedia teaching program to impart the basics of how columns, trusses, beams and other structural elements workhow they respond to stresses, how they're secured, how they bear loads. The program, which runs on any computer, supplements classroom lectures and replaces traditional structures textbooks, with their bland line drawings, force arrows (simple arrows that graphically represent a force being applied to a structure) and endless mathematical equations.
"My idea was to remove abstraction from the model," says Vassigh, who holds UB degrees in architecture, urban planning and civil engineering. "In most books [on structures], you see arrows and you don't knowwhat are these arrows? It's hard to connect them up with real things. These are all abstract concepts. That was my dissatisfaction with my own training."
But boot up the Integrated Structures Instructional Package (ISIP), as the experiment is formally known, and you'll enter a world where bridges and buildings come alive. Looking at the triangular trusses that make up a certain kind of bridge, for example, the user can click a button and see a simulation of wind as it exerts force on the bridgeand see, in a stylized animation, how the structure actually bends slightly, changing color as it does so. Another click, and the animation changes instantly to the schematic of the elementary physics that it represents. Open a window, and the user can zoom in on a section of the structure, or rotate it to inspect it from different angles. A narrator reads the text of this electronic textbook; the words also appear on screen.
The program is not without a sense of fun. A section on equilibrium, for example, comes with an animation of a unicyclist teetering on a circus high wire; a seesaw animation teaches the basics of levers and offsetting forces.
"Often an architect will work with an engineer, but they have to develop a language so they can talk to that engineer. Architects tend to do difficult things. We are hoping we can educate them so they can have that conversation intelligently. The architects who are really successful are the ones who are bridging the art and the technology."
Vassigh's project, whose early stages were funded through small "seed grants" from the university, recently was awarded a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education. That money frees her somewhat from her teaching load to devote more time to the project, and enables her to collaborate with two other UB faculty members (Andrei Reinhorn from the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering and Gary Scott Danford from the School of Architecture and Planning). Danford is responsible for testing and evaluating the project. Spring 2002 has been a "control group" semester, in which the structures course is being taught with only traditional textbooks; next spring, Vassigh will teach this same course using the full version of the ISIP program, in order to gauge whether students learn the material better with multimedia help. The program will be tested at the University of Oregon in fall 2002.
"Most of the stuff in the textbooks is really diagrammatic, really vague, really general, and it's hard to understand with a conventional diagram how these structural systems work," says Michael Richards, who did research for the ISIP project and, as a teaching assistant to Vassigh, saw it in action in the classroom. "With these animations, you can actually get inside a beam, for example, and see which way the forces are pulling. It's pretty interesting.
"It kind of modernizes the whole classroom and brings it to a level that some of the younger generations can relate to. I see a lot of the younger students interested in computers and animations," Richards continues. "I think, if they can see this in a learning atmosphere, it can spark their interest in the course and hopefully improve their performance."
Indeed, Vassigh notes, structures students taking the course without multimedia and struggling with a particular concept have suggested, "Why not just use an animation to show this?" "They're thinking in those terms anyway," she says. "Our students already get training in these programs; a lot of multimedia is required. They know [multimedia teaching] is possible."
Another TA, architecture graduate student Laurie Baker, says the way the program deals with the mathematics of structures is especially useful. "Nobody likes to read math," she says. "There are people who like the theory of architecture, and there are people who like the engineering. You really have to know both. Some people can do the math, but some people need the animation to really understand it."
Architecture graduate student John Sisting has devoted countless hours to the ISIP project since his senior undergraduate year. He produces the animations, using the modeling program 3D Studio; Macromedia Director makes possible the interactivity that allows the user to jump back and forth through the various diagrams, animations, text and so forth. It's no easy task; the details have a way of multiplying. "We keep saying we're about 75 percent done," Sisting says wryly.
Vassigh expects to complete the multimedia project this summer. Once testing is complete, the hope is that the program will be picked up by an educational publisher for wider distribution. In the meantime, there's talk of a website that will demonstrate some features of the program, and a printed tutorial and faculty guide.
"I think the possibilities are amazing," Vassigh says, "and I'm surprised more educators aren't doing this."
The ISIP project, while particularly ambitious, isn't unique in higher education these days, as educators learn how they can make technology work to good advantage. Carole Ann Fabian, arts and humanities librarian who manages the architecture and art history collections, and previously served as educational technology librarian, sees professors and publishers experimenting with a broad range of tech-savvy options.
Textbook publishers, for example, are packaging their books with CD-ROMs or pointing students to special websites with, for example, tutorial tests for reviewing the material, or packages of maps or supplementary reading. Many faculty members, she says, put up their own websites that offer everything from the course syllabus to digital audio of classroom lectures, from research guides to "pointers" toward library resources that deepen the students' experiences of the subject.
"The more interactive you can make those activities, the more beneficial they are to students," Fabian says. "The technology offers us a whole range of choices for how we can change our teaching in a way that might improve student learning.
"The kids love it. But the big question is, is this making any difference? It's a huge effort to produce these pieces of educational technology. What really makes sense about Professor Vassigh's book is that it offers a new way of teaching the material that was heretofore unavailable and not observable. I think the injection of multimedia into the understanding of structures is a critical link that could not have been delivered in another medium."
Says Vassigh, "I used to have a lot of students almost falling asleep. This keeps them up! I'm hoping the program will create an interest level in the subjectand if they understand structures better, it will make them better architects."
Scott Thomas is copyediting coordinator of the Buffalo News.


text: Arthur Koziol wrote: > Kris, > > Installed 7.0.2 from scratch today and installed the updated PBIs > afterwards. I noticed that the OpenOffice icon on Start > Office > > OpenOffice-EN > OpenOffice has a subtitle that reads "soffice". > Either I'm seeing things or originally with 7.0.1 & the PBI update to > OO3 it did say OpenOffice in the icon subtitle. KDE 4.1.3 flies by > the way. Seems like the fixes and tweaks they are doing are working. > OO3 opens like greased lightning now. Amazing. All else seems aces. > > Arthur > > _______________________________________________ > Testing mailing list > Testing at lists.pcbsd.org > http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/testing > > !DSPAM:1,49413cbc413561372119848! > > The "soffice" part isn't a typo, thats just KDE4 showing you the actual command which will be run for that specific icon, in this case it really does run "soffice" :) Glad to hear its working well for you! -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software http://www.pcbsd.com


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This year, moviegoers were offered not one, but two different versions of the classic Snow White tale. The first, Mirror Mirror was a forgettable comedy that managed to exceed my extremely low expectations, even if only slightly. But it was the second movie that I had really been looking forward to. The trailers for Snow White and the Huntsman promised a much darker film with a story that adhered more closely to the original German fairy tale.
Unfortunately, this story (er, review) doesn't have a happy ending.
Snow White and the Huntsman is indeed a darker, more adult version of the fable than I've seen since Snow White: A Tale of Terror, which starred Sigourney Weaver in 1997. What is frustrating about the former is that on it's journey down the path to the dark side, it gets halfway there and decides to stop for a nap.
Snow White and the Huntsman gets off to a promising enough start. After the good queen dies in childbirth, the king is overcome with grief. The beautiful Ravenna (Charlize Theron) visits the kingdom, woos the king, and befriends the young princess. Shortly thereafter, the king succumbs to Ravenna's advances and marries her. The very night Ravenna becomes queen, she murders the king in their wedding bed and imprisons the young Snow White.
So far, so good.
Fast forward fifteen years later – Ravenna has ravaged the kingdom with oppression and darkness, and the young Snow White is now… Kristen Stewart. [Sigh]
Yes, I am not a fan of Kristen Stewart. Based on what I'd seen in the trailer, I had hoped she might have improved since her last Twilight flick. She hasn't. Stewart is an actress capable of many emotions: fear, anger, sadness, determination. Unfortunately she expresses each of these in exactly the same way – as if she's passing a kidney stone. Nevertheless, things zip along well enough in the first third of the movie that I was able to ignore her.
But once she escapes the queen, things start slowing down and then it's Kristen Stewart's big ol' sourpuss up on the screen for the next hour. Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman should have provided some relief. Unfortunately, when his character isn't too busy getting his ass kicked, he's just plain boring. Worse yet, the Huntsman is just a little too close in looks and manner to Hemsworth's much more awesome Thor – so much so that every time he started doing battle with the bad guys, I totally expected a giant magic hammer to show up.
The seven dwarfs also don't improve things much, and in fact it's about the point at which the dwarfs are introduced that the pace begins slowing to a crawl. The boredom is occasionally and welcomely interrupted by Queen Ravenna's descent into madness and desperation, as Charlize Theron offers the one standout performance in the film. The only problem is that the further along she gets, the more outrageous her performance becomes. By the time the last third of the movie rolls around, Theron is practically spitting out her lines in an over-the-top rage that reminded me of really bad Shakespeare. (Fortunately, I kinda like really bad Shakespeare.)
The digital creature effects are another bright spot in Snow White and the Huntsman which features a magnificent giant troll worthy of Pan's Labyrinth. Also, the infamous talking mirror (my second favorite character in the film) is beautiful as it cascades like a waterfall of liquid metal before taking on the form of an ominous cloaked figure. But perhaps the coolest effect, though not particularly original, is Ravenna's transformation into a flight of ravens. After one such transformation, the evil queen returns to the castle, weakened by battle with barely the energy to reconstitute her human form, and drags herself through a tar-like puddle of goo and twitching, dying crows. Which is an apt metaphor for the second half of the movie.
Snow White and the Huntsman tries but never quite recovers from the slow pacing in the middle, and the anticlimactic ending doesn't do anything to turn it around. My high expectations probably set me up for disappointment, but I really hoped for better.
Rating: 2.5/5
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Connect manually. WICID is a pos.
I've installed BT4R2 in a VirtualBox (Version 4.0.4 - Host is a WinXP).
From inside the VM my ALFA AWUS036H USB adapter works fine when it is in monitor mode (AIRBASE, AIRODUMP, etc. all run with no problems).
Instead when I try to connect to my AP (managed mode) I have the following issue:
in WICD I see my AP (and all others in range) with no problems, BUT when I try to connect to it I always receive error: "CONNECTION FAILED - BAD PASSWORD".
Of course the wpa key I have set in the properties is the right one.
I'm using BT4R2 default drivers.
Any ideas?
Connect manually. WICID is a pos.
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Kaitie enters her sixth year with the Cannondale p/b Cyclocrossworld.com program on the heels of a fantastic 2016 campaign. The aggressive racer from Racine, Wisconsin took the third podium position at last year's nationals and a fifth place at the World Cup in Lignieres-en-berry, France. Based in Colorado, Antonneau has her eyes on further World Cup success and the top steps of the U.S. National Championships podium for the 2016-2017 season.


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So this is it. The final show of 2012. The final show of The King Of Limbs tour. The final Radiohead show for who knows how long. Radiohead are currently on stage at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia following a support set by Connan Mockasin. Keep checking here or our Twitter account for live updates.
01 Lotus Flower
02 Bloom
03 There There
04 The Daily Mail
05 Myxomatosis
06 The Gloaming
07 Separator
08 Kid A
09 How To Disappear Completely
10 Nude
11 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
12 Ful Stop
13 You And Whose Army?
14 Paranoid Android
15 Feral
16 Bodysnatchers
17 Exit Music (For A Film)
18 These Are My Twisted Words
19 Pyramid Song
20 Planet Telex
21 Idioteque
22 Give Up The Ghost
23 Reckoner
24 True Love Waits/Everything In Its Right Place
So the tour ends with Everything In Its Right Place. Hope you all enjoyed following the tour along (if you did). We really had fun trailing the band around this year, even if it was mostly in a digital manner.
We'll have updated FINAL tour stats soon.


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When the whole family wants to snowshoe together, the kids need a performance snowshoe just as much as the adults do. The Tubbs Flex Jr. Snowshoes for Girls is designed for kids approximately 6 to 10 years old and brings advanced flex design to kids snowshoes. The simple quick lock binding, with its easy stretch heel strap, lets kids take control.
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Can't really tell you how they function as these are a gift for my two granddaughters new winter. They appear to be very good quality and not just 'kiddie toy stomper' type shoes, so I'm hoping they will serve my grandgirls well as they grow - they are 2 and 4 right now. Never to young to get them enjoying winter activities!


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Perhaps it has something to do with my love of anime, but I am head over heels for this "Dreamland" collection by blik. Now if I could just convince myself to finally strip the wallpaper from my bedroom walls . . .Tags: Graphic Design, air, Blik, Dreamland, wall graphicsAdded 7 Years Ago from Blik Surface Graphics
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FOCAL INTL. AWARDS finalist: TOKYO TRIAL - Judging Japan (57')
in the category "Best Use of Footage in a History Production".
(London, 25/05/17).
Broadcast on ARTE: 8 August 2017
Aquarius, Rescue in Deadly Waters (52')
Monte Carlo Television Festival 2017:
ICRC Press Prize (Intl. Red Cross)
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NGO "SOS MEDITERRANEE" received French-German Media Prize for its humanitarian commitment
Coming soon: A DAY IN ITALY (90')
New film in the collection "A Day in Europe", available end June 2017!
Italy, History Seen From Above (5 x 26')
Series that accompanies the feature "A Day in Italy".
Eps. 1 "Roman Civil Engineering" now online in English!
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New investigative documentary by Marie-Monique Robin, available end May 2017.
Just completed: Vanishing Homeland in the Bayou (52')
The island of Jean-Charles in the state of Louisiana (U.S.A.) is about to vanish due to rising water levels...
Althusser, An Intellectual Adventure (55')
Rare film on Louis Althusser's life
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Why We Created This Website
This website was created in conjunction with Taking it to the Streets: How to Give Psychology Away and Become a Local Media Hero, a workshop offered at the 30th annual NITOP (National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology) conference on January 3, 2008 in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida. We created the workshop because we believe that psychologists and other scientists should share what they know with the public, instead of complaining about the misinterpretation of science by media personalities. We hope the information on this website will help you succeed in that endeavor. We encourage you to experiment with some of the new media. Be daring, and have fun!
If you discover resources that you believe would be useful to others, please contact William S. Altman (email@example.com) so we can update this site.


text: ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Squash Federation is in deep slump, as all the other Asian nations had well prepared their players for the important events. PSF is playing mind games, instead of starting the training camp for the players at least two-months back, federation is still thinking about whether to start camp or not and where, secretary and other staff is busy in preparing data for SVP Air Vice Marshal Syed Razi Nawab, who would depart to UK along with Qmar Zaman to participate in meeting with PSA CEO.Federation had earlier decided to start training camp for the players in early December. Then it was announced the camp would finally start from 14th of this month and that too at the out of fashion Hashim Ali Khan courts of Peshawar but despite giving date one after another, federation yet to announce the camp. Number of players while talking to this correspondent had shown their reservations about participating in the camp if the federation decides to start the camp in Peshawar, but just to save few bucks federation is insisting on starting the camp in Peshawar.When this correspondent finally managed to meet PSF secretary Group Captian Amir Nawaz, he said: "We are busy in collecting details for Air Marshal Razi Nawab's proposed meeting with PSA CEO." It is quite interesting the meeting would be not more than hardly 30 minutes or so and federation is spending huge national kitty on that meeting but on the other hand, important mega events such as Asian Team championship, Junior World Cup, Commonwealth Games and other prestigious events are round the corner but federation didn't have time and money for those high-profile events.Interestingly, head coach Jamshed Gul is posted in Peshawar for the last one-month or so for starting training camp and is still waiting the camp to get started. Federation had already wasted too much precious time on thinking and taking permission from the top brass. Who would be responsible if Pakistan doesn't manage to defend their Asian Senior Team event title? All the other Asian teams had started training soon after the Asian Senior Individual Squash Championship held way back in May last year in Islamabad and now they had almost capped their training camps. Another interesting thing to note here is the national rankings issued by the PSF. After going through the list it was clearly witnessed there were too many flaws in the ranking system adopted by the federation. Nasir is now number 1 ranked player of the country, followed by Farhan Zaman in the second, Amir Atlas in third, Danish in fourth but the most notable absentee in the top list is the name of former national champion and world number 14 Farhan Mehboob's name, who was according to PSF. is sitting at number 7. A great joke with a player of Farhan's caliber, who had just win CNS International held in Karachi. Tayyab Aslam, who had not won a single PSA event somehow managed to leap frog seasoned Farhan Mehboob. Inside sources in the federation had confirmed to this correspondent that persons sitting in the federation don't even now the ABC of ranking system. The matter of the fact is this issue of grave importance was handed over to a person who doesn't know the meaning of squash, rather than preparing rankings.PSF had made lot of tall claims regarding taking back Pakistan squash back to old glory days. But in reality they had done nothing significant for the past many months. All the recent glories of Pakistani players in the PSA events attribute to exceptional coaching of Jamshed Gul and it had nothing to do with the federation. They are just reaping the benefits and terming all the recent success due to their efforts, which is not more than a day dreaming. If things continue in same fashion there is every possibility that Pakistan squash would only be remembered in history books. PSF president Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt is the only ray of hope for the players and his timely action could safe Pakistan squash.


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Chalphy (シアルフィ Siarufi) is one of the six duchy of the Kingdom of Grannvale in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and Fire Emblem: Thracia 776. It was founded by Baldur, the Holy Knight, and ruled by Duke Byron during the present and Sigurd in his absence. The Holy Sword Tyrfing is passed down the Chalphy family. Their knights squadron is known as Gruenen Ritter (German for "Green Knight") and it was led by Byron.
In the game, Byron is seen to wield the Tyrfing in its broken state, and both the playable characters Sigurd and Seliph wield it in the first and second generation respectively.
At the end of the second generation, if Sigurd and Seliph's relative and retainer Oifey makes it to the end, he will become the Duke of Chalphy while Seliph ascends to the throne of Grannvale
Notable citizens of ChalphyEdit
- Sigurd - Son of Duke Byron, the protagonist of the first generation
- Byron - Duke of Chalphy during the first generation
- Oifey - Noble of Chalphy and Sigurd's advisor during the first generation
- Ethlyn - Sister of Sigurd, married to Prince Quan of Leonster
- Naoise - Knight of Chalphy
- Alec - Knight of Chalphy
- Arden - Knight of Chalphy
- Seliph - Son of Sigurd and Deirdre, the protagonist of the second generation
Chalphy is a corruption of Thiafli, a servant of Thor in Norse mythology.