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I WAS very interested to read the letter from Richard Timney regarding the issue of ID Cards.
One would imagine that this is a concerned citizen with no particular axe to grind except for his worries about security in this country of ours. Indeed, he is very well informed about the timing of the first issue of these cards – well done!
Except that he certainly should be, he is the husband of our very own MP; yes, the Home Secretary herself – Jacqui Smith.
This is the gentleman who answers for (and defends) his wife to anyone who has the temerity to send e-mails questioning any issues his wife is challenged on. I was naive enough to believe I might get a reply from my own MP, but ended up with endless replies from her husband – someone not elected by you or me.
If you don't believe me, try asking your MP about an issue you are concerned about.
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UPDATE: The Bears have acknowledged a New York Post report that Marshall hit a woman at a New York nightclub at around 4 a.m. ET Sunday, an incident Marshall's camp denies.
Said Chicago GM Phil Emery in a statement released Wednesday morning: "Both the Bears and Dolphins were aware of what occurred over the weekend. We decided to move forward with the trade. We have high expectations for Brandon as a Bear."
The Chicago Bears fired the first major volley of the free agent period ... and they didn't even sign a player.
The Monsters acquired WR Brandon Marshall from the Dolphins.
The move reunites Marshall with Bears QB Jay Cutler and former Broncos assistant Jeremy Bates; the duo played together in Denver from 2006-2008.
It gives Chicago the receiving threat Cutler has lacked since he came to the Windy City in 2009. His familiarity with the wideout should help given Marshall's infamous volatility (he suffers from borderline personality disorder).
Marshall's agent, Kennard McGuire, was not shocked by the development. McGuire tells USA TODAY's Jarrett Bell that he had been discussing the possibility of moving Marshall "for a while" with Dolphins GM Jeff Ireland.
"This is something that has been discussed," McGuire said. "We're thankful for the opportunity. Brandon started his career with Jay Cutler. He's happy to be reunited with Cutler and Jeremy Bates."
McGuire would not reveal exactly how long he talked with Ireland about dealing Marshall, nor did he indicate if there were off-the-field issues that contributed to a desire for Marshall to leave Miami.
Marshall came at the cost of third-round picks, per FOXSports' Jay Glazer, though neither the Bears nor Dolphins announced the compensation.
Per NFL Network's Jason LaCanfora, the move reduces the Bears' available salary cap space from $23.5 million to $14.2 million with Marshall counting $9.3 million toward the cap in 2012.
A former and future teammate reacted immediately to the news.
Bears RB Matt Forte tweeted:
@BMarshall19 bout time bro...welcome home lol
Dolphins RB Reggie Bush tweeted:
Hate to see my boy B Marshall go. That's the league for you, one day your hear next day your gone. Chicago is getting one hell of a player!
Marshall, a three-time Pro Bowler, has exceeded 1,000 receiving yards the past five seasons and posted 81 grabs for 1,214 yards and six TDs in 2011. He was acquired by the Dolphins in 2010 for two second-round picks and later signed a four-year contract worth approximately $48 million.
Conversely, Marshall's departure from South Beach would seem to be a major blow to any hopes the Dolphins had of luring free agent QB Peyton Manning, who met with new Miami HC Joe Philbin in Indianapolis on Monday.
However NFL Network's Jeff Darlington, a former Dolphins beat writer, says the team doesn't consider itself out of the race for the four-time MVP and that parting with Marshall could even be a precursor to signing Manning and other players.
"That had nothing to do with it," McGuire said of any linkage between Marshall and Manning.
Contributing: Jarrett Bell
Nate Davis is a reporter, blogger and editor who's been at USA TODAY since 2000. He has covered the NFL since 2005. No, he did not play quarterback for Ball State. Davis' succession of our esteemed colleague Sean Leahy at The Huddle is considered a Brady-for-Bledsoe swap by most "insiders."More about Nate

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Third key member of Bali Nine identified
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Indonesian police say they have identified a third key member of the Bali Nine, accusing him of recruiting two Brisbane teenagers as "mules".
New information indicated Sydney man Tach Duc Thanh Nguyen, 27, played a major role in the foiled heroin smuggling attempt, they allege.
He allegedly signed on accused couriers Scott Rush and Michael Czugaj in Brisbane and introduced them to the gang's ringleader at a five-star hotel in Kuta.
Rush has told police that Nguyen offered him and Czugaj, both of whom had never previously travelled outside Australia, an all-expenses paid trip to Bali, lawyer Robert Khuana said.
It was not until after they arrived on April 8 that they met alleged ringleader, Sydney martial arts expert Myuran Sukumaran, 24, and the alleged coordinator of the operation, Andrew Chan, 21.
"In Bali, Nguyen introduced my client to Sukumaran and Chan at the Hard Rock Hotel," Khuana told AAP.
"Sukumaran and Chan said he had to carry the package to Australia or his family would be killed.
"He did not know it would be heroin.
"It was sealed with heavy tape and he was told to close his eyes when Sukumaran and Chan strapped it to him just before he got in the taxi to go to the airport."
Czugaj and Rush were caught along with two other alleged mules at Bali airport last month.
Between them, the four allegedly had 8.3kg of heroin taped to their bodies.
Chan was caught on board a Sydney-bound plane with no drugs.
Sukumaran, Nguyen and two others were caught at Melasti Hotel in Kuta with another 300g of heroin and other narcotics paraphernalia in two suitcases.
Police are holding all nine under narcotics laws carrying a maximum penalty of death by firing squad.
The so-called airport four have been cooperating with investigators.
Police are now turning their attention to Chan and the hotel four, who have so far been tight-lipped about the heroin's origin and destination, and who owned the evidence confiscated at the hotel.
That evidence, along with two other suitcases seized on Friday night during a raid on a hotel opposite the Melasti, was today sent to a forensics laboratory for testing.
Police have not yet explained why the two suitcases - thought to contain heroin - were not found earlier.
It is understood they belonged to Nguyen, who has been isolated from his co-accused.
Rifan Mohammad, for Chan and the hotel four including Nguyen, said there was no proof the bags belonged to any of his clients.
Police have previously alleged Nguyen financed the operation.
He is the third of the nine to be moved from Bali police headquarters to a separate police facility.
Chan, who allegedly issued the threats to the four mules, was moved within days of the nine being arrested. Sukumaran was shifted to a marine police station amid allegations he was giving the orders.
Meanwhile some of the accused mules have received more visits from their families.
Martin Stephens, 29, of Wollongong, was close to tears as he hugged and kissed his parents through the cell bars in the visiting area.
They took him Vegemite, toilet paper, a pillow and other small comforts as he struggles to adapt to the harsh conditions of the jail.
Renae Lawrence's father Bob Lawrence flew back to Australia last night, citing a lack of money, but her mother remains in Bali.
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About Recent Work
"For some time now it has seemed to me that the two questions we should ask of any strong landscape are these: Firstly, what do I know when I am in this place that I can know nowhere else? And then, vainly, what does this place know of me that I cannot know of myself?" -Robert MacFarlane
My recent work has been an exploration of landscape and the figure. The practice of figure drawing is a practice of encounter – with the human body, with materials, with the creative process and with myself. It is an exquisite alchemy of investigation and mark-making. Photographing a landscape is also a practice of encounter – with the natural world (of which I am a part), the elements, light, the contours of the earth and technology. Integrating the figure with the panoramic landscape raises questions of dislocation and belonging, scale, proportion and the relationship of the body in space.
About Photograms
This work reconciles the technology and the mediated experience of making a photograph with the tactility and the immediacy of making a drawing. First, in the darkroom, I expose the paper multiple times, as a photogram, without the use of a negative or a camera. Then, back in the studio, I scratch with a sharp tool or sandpaper directly into the emulsion of the paper. This body of work explores the color potential of chromogenic photo paper, serendipity in a completely dark room and mark-making on an unforgiving surface. Each piece is unique and expands the notion of what a photograph can be-not simply a reproduction of something that already exists but an object in and of itself, something completely new.
About Baseball
The Colorado Silver Bullets were a professional women's baseball team, sponsored by the Coors Brewing Company, that traveled the country playing men's all-star amateur and semi-pro teams between 1994 and 1997. The coaches were all former Major Leaguers, including manager Phil Niekro, a Hall of Fame pitcher. Most of the players were top college softball players. Many had played some baseball, but most had been excluded from playing past the age of 12.
The Silver Bullets broke a lot of new ground and have been recognized by Cooperstown. In 1996, four players hit homeruns and Pam Davis pitched a scoreless inning of relief against the Australian men's Olympic's team in a guest appearance with the AA Jacksonville Suns. In 1997, three players hit over .300 and the team dramatically won their final game to finish with a record of 23-22, chalking up their first winning season.
Although the Colorado Silver Bullets lost their sponsorship at the end of their 1997 season, they were a catalyst and a point of convergence for young girls and women who dreamed of playing baseball. Today there exist a number of women's amateur baseball leagues across the country and USA Baseball fields a national women's team that plays other women's teams at an international level. And in Rhode Island, the Pawtucket Slaterettes have been giving girls a chance to learn and play hardball against other girls since 1973.
I photographed numerous games on the East Coast and two spring training camps over the course of four years so if you don't see what you're looking for, please get in touch.
Laura Wulf has shown her work in the Boston area at Gallery@Green Street, the Barbara Krakow Gallery, the DeCordova Museum, Gallery Kayafas, the Hallway Gallery, the Griffin Museum and13Forest in Arlington. She has also shown at the Foley Gallery in New York City. She is currently showing with AMP in Provincetown.


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Men's Tennis Announces 2014-15 Schedule
LEXINGTON, Ky. - The University of Kentucky men's tennis team, under the direction of third-year head coach Cedric Kauffmann has announced its 2014-15 schedule, which includes 20 scheduled matches in the regular season for the spring of 2015.
Kentucky's slate of matches includes seven matches against teams that made up the 2014 NCAA Sweet 16 and two teams that made the Elite Eight a season ago. The Wildcats schedule also features matches against 13 Southeastern Conference opponents, in which 11 of them made the 2014 NCAA Tournament, the most of any conference in the country for the third year running.
Thursday, Jan. 15 will be the season's opening matches for UK, as the Wildcats will host a doubleheader against Dayton (Noon ET) and Eastern Kentucky (5 p.m. ET) to open the season. After a day off, the Wildcats will then face back-to-back teams out of the Atlantic Coast Conference in the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (Jan. 17, 1 p.m. ET) and the Duke Blue Devils (Jan. 19, 1 p.m. ET).
Kentucky's six-match homestand to begin the season will conclude on Jan. 23 and 24 as the Hilary J. Boone Varsity Tennis Center will host the 2015 Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Kick-Off Weekend. UK will be the top-seeded team in the Lexington Regional, and will host second seeded Vanderbilt, third seeded South Florida and fourth seeded Penn State. The winner of the Lexington Regional will go on to play in the 2015 ITA National Indoor Championships in Chicago, Ill., and to be hosted by the University of Illinois.
UK will then play six scheduled road matches in a row away from Lexington, and additionally the possibility of ITA National Indoors adding in three matches. Kentucky will play at Ohio State (Jan. 29, 5 p.m.), and at Illinois (Feb. 6, 6 p.m.) before making the trip to Chicago for ITA National Indoors.
The later end of the road trip features Kentucky's final two non-conference matches, as UK travels to Birmingham, Ala., to face both Samford and Lipscomb on Feb. 22 at 10 a.m. ET and 2 p.m. ET.
After the final two non-conference matches, SEC play will kick into gear the following weekend as UK travels to 2014 SEC Tournament Champions, Texas A&M, on Feb. 27 (7 p.m.) and then LSU on March 1 at 2 p.m. ET.
The Tennessee Volunteers will make the trip to Lexington for a stand-alone weekend, as UK returns home on March 8 for a 1 p.m. ET match at the Boone Tennis Center.
UK then hits the road again for a Thursday match against South Carolina (March 12, 3 p.m.) and then returns home on March 15, for a showdown between the last two SEC champions, against Georgia (March 15, 1 p.m.)
The season's second stand-alone weekend will feature a road trip to Nashville, Tenn., as the Wildcats will face the Vanderbilt Commodores to mark the halfway point of the conference season on March 21.
Mississippi State (March 27, 5 p.m.) and Alabama (March 29, 1 p.m. ) will make the trip to Lexington as the Wildcats return home for a weekend before heading out west to play Arkansas (April 2, 3 p.m.) and Ole Miss (April 5, 2 p.m.) to round out the away portion of the 2015 schedule.
Kentucky's regular season will then conclude on April 10 and 12 for a Friday/Sunday weekend against Florida and Auburn, respectfully.
The 2015 SEC Tennis Championship will be April 15-19 and will be hosted by the Texas A&M Aggies in College Station, Texas.For continuing coverage of UK men's tennis, log on to UKathletics.com.


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This article was published 31/12/2013 (1300 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A Brandon man is wanted by the RCMP in connection with a highway crash this past summer that killed two people.
Shawn Bradley Dreveski, 34, faces two counts of dangerous driving causing death, after the July 12 crash.
Dreveski was apparently behind the wheel of a delivery van that was trying to cross the Trans-Canada Highway just west of Brandon, at the intersection with Highway 270, that afternoon.
As the van tried to cross, it was hit by a westbound motorcycle, killing the motorcyclist, a 26-year-old Selkirk man. His passenger, a 25-year-old Winnipeg woman, was taken to hospital with serious injuries, and later died. Dreveski was also apparently injured in the crash.
The victims received almost immediate help from two nurses and a medic who happened upon the scene a couple of minutes after the collision.
Dreveski is believed to live in Brandon, and police have a warrant for his arrest.
Anyone with information about Dreveski's whereabouts are asked to contact the Blue HIlls RCMP's Souris office at 204-483-2854, or to anonymously contact Crime Stoppers.


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Illogic blesses the HHK audience once again with a new single from his new music monday project called "I Wanna See". Last week we posted a track from Illogic titled "She Didn't Write" which was produced by Aaron Evans, who has also produced the new single "I Wanna See". Illogic has also confirmed I Wanna See will be featured on the forthcoming "Dove Ink Sessions" and as soon as we have an official track listing and release date you'll be the first to know. Make sure you check out "She Didn't Write" on the link listed above, and you can listen to Illogic – I Wanna See on the soundcloud player below.
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I am an unlikely person to share with you a delicious recipe for cooking octopus. You see—in case you missed an important detail about my culinary upbringing—I grew up in a Kosher home!
My father is Jewish, and needless to say, his personality truly reflects his heritage and upbringing. A surgeon, my father Leonardo is strong, opinionated, heavy at times, and always Kosher. For me, as a kid growing up in Tuscany of all places, keeping kosher was kind of a problem: "What, no Prosciutto Sandwich allowed? Ever?"


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Alaska Business Week, the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce high school summer leadership program, will be held on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus this year from July 27 through Aug. 2.
The weeklong summer program is designed to give students hands-on experience in running a company, while honing their leadership skills and meeting students from all over the state.
Student teams are paired with business executives, who act as advisors for the teams' companies. Students participate in nine presentations by Alaska business leaders and explore subjects like leadership, ethics, marketing, entrepreneurship and future jobs in Alaska.
The Alaska Business Week program is in its fifth year in Alaska and is presented in partnership with the UAF School of Management. It is based on the long-running Washington Business Week program.
Two college credits are available for successful completion of the program. Tuition is $475 and covers room, board, tuition, fees and program materials. Some students may be eligible to receive free transportation. The deadline for applications is May 30. The program is open to all high school students finishing ninth through 12th grades.
To apply, visit www.alaskachamber.com/ABW
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Target: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal
Goal: Reverse decision not to protect dogs riding in the beds of pickup trucks
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has vetoed a bill that would have made it illegal for an unrestrained animal to ride in the back of a pickup truck on interstates and highways. His reason for the decision was that he didn't feel it was necessary to explicitly state this within the state's animal welfare legislation. Animals deserve the same protection when riding in a vehicle as humans and this decision needs to be reversed immediately.
"Animal cruelty is explicitly prohibited by current law, and I trust that our citizens can care for their pets without the nanny state intervening to dictate how a dog is secured in the bed of a pickup truck," Jindal said in response to the bill. Jindal's statement, however, denies the very reason that animal cruelty laws exist at all, which is that millions of pet owners do not know how to properly care for their pets. These issues must be stated explicitly within legislation, otherwise people will continue to commit cruel acts. Dozens of states have already passed legislation making it illegal to leave an animal in a car for more than a specific amount of time or to tether dogs to trees and other objects. This is because these things happen and how often animals are harmed or die because of them.
The fact of the matter is that animals shouldn't be transported in the back of a truck at all, even if they are restrained or in a crate. They have absolutely no protection and they deserve just as much protection as the human passengers. Louisiana Representative Tom Willmott sponsored the bill because of safety concerns for both the animals and other motorists. "If a dog falls out of a truck in front of you, it creates an emergency situation," Willmott said during the hearing. Willmott's proposal required all dogs riding in the back of a pickup truck on highways or interstates to be in a secure, well-ventilated container that allows the dog to breathe. The dog should also be able to sit, stand, and turn around comfortably.
Not only was the measure backed by the Humane Society of Louisiana, it also passed by significant margin within the Louisiana Legislature. The bill was ultimately vetoed because of outcries from representatives in rural areas where hunters and farmers regularly transport animals in the backs of trucks. Despite Jindal's position, this does not and should not preclude anyone from the responsibility of properly caring for his or her pet. Please sign the petition below and demand that Governor Jindal reverse his decision and properly protect pets in Louisiana.
Dear Governor Jindal,
You recently vetoed a bill proposed by Representative Tom Willmott, which sought to make it illegal for animals to ride in the back of a pickup truck unsecured. Your reason for vetoing the bill was that you feel it is unnecessary state this specifically within the state's animal welfare legislation and that we should trust people to know how to properly take care of their pets. If this were the case, there would be no animal welfare laws at all. Dogfighting, tattooing, piercing, leaving pets in cars too long, tethering animals to objects and leaving them, and abuse in general have all been specifically added to animal welfare legislation across the United States because these are things that happen far too often.
It is appalling that this bill was vetoed. It should be illegal for dogs to ride in the backs of pickup trucks, secured or not. They deserve the same protection as any human passenger. Please reverse your decision and protect both dogs and other motorists from harm.
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Comment on 2011 "Year of the PS3" by E.L.S.:
question: who made this chart? and why isn't Armored Core 5 listed AT ALL!?
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TOP STORY > >County will pick site for its new jail
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Where to put the new Lonoke County jail answering that question is the next challenge facing the Lonoke County Quorum Court, now that voters have agreed to a dedicated one-year, countywide penny sales tax to pay for it.
Voters on May 20 approved the tax, although only by a margin of 438 votesor 6 percent of the votes cast.
The new jail is expected to hold 140 inmates to replace the existing 70-inmate jail, which is generally considered overcrowded, dark, dank and dangerous for both prisoners and jailers alike.
As for locating the jail, I guarantee Ill lose some friends on this controversial thing, said County Judge Charlie Troutman.
By statute, the county judge is in charge of county buildings and this county judge has a history of making decisions and plunging ahead, as evidenced by the renovation of a county courthouse annex across the street from the court house and the rental and remodeling of a new courtroom when Gov. Mike Beebe approved a third circuit division in Lonoke County that began last July.
But on the jail issue, Im going to try to pass the buck on that to get a little guidance from the quorum court, he said Thursday. He said the county had tried, unsuccessfully so far, to buy the land north of the existing jail. If the jail were built on that same block, parking would continue to be a problem and some city residents would be unhappy, he said.
Some folks would like the jail to be more centrally located in the county, but Troutman said that prisoners must be tried in Lonoke County court, and for logistical reasons, the jail should be nearby, he said.
Troutman said he suspected the new jail would be built within Lonoke city limits.
The judge said he hopes to build the jail next year, perhaps with the help of inmate labor. Lonoke County will begin collecting its dedicated jail sales taxan estimated $5.5 million to $6 million Oct. 1 this year through Sept. 30, 2009, Troutman said.
The first proceeds will come to the county through the state near the end of December.
The jail is modeled on the Dallas County Jail, built a few years ago using correction department inmate labor, and the jail tax was sold to voters with the idea that inmates would do much or most of the construction.
The county, however, has no guarantee of that labor or its availability. Troutman said neither he nor JP Larry Odom, who promoted the plan, had conferred with the correction department about the availability of such help.
The correction departments Act 309 program makes available to cities and counties trustee-type inmates approaching their prison release dates.
We do have inmate construction crews that do our construction, a limited number, correction department spokesman Dina Tyler said Thursday.
Were pretty much using everyone we got building a special needs unit at Malvern, she added. This is something that would take discussions with the department. Right now, its just an idea.
She said the Dallas County sheriff had negotiated with the department and used the Act 309 inmates to build the jail.
The city of Lonoke lost its Act 309 program over misuse of inmate labor by former Police Chief Jay Campbell and former Mayor Thomas Privett, but Lonoke Countys Act 309 program continues in good standing.


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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - The governor of Kandahar provincedemanded more security Sunday after 12 coordinated explosions in Afghanistan's largest southern city killed dozens of people in theTaliban heartland.
The attacks around Kandahar city Saturday night included two car bombs, six suicide attackers on motorbikes and bicycles plus four homemade bombs, Gov. Tooryalai Wesa said. At least 33 people died, including 10 women and children attending a wedding celebration in a hall next to a police station that was targeted.
Kandahar province is considered the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban insurgency and is widely believed to be the next target of NATO and Afghan forces following a major push to take another militant stronghold in next-door Helmand province.
Among the targets of Saturday night's explosions were a newly fortified prison and police headquarters. Wesa said at least six police officers were among the dead.
Another roadside bomb Sunday morning targeted a car carrying Pakistani construction workers south of the city in the district of Dand, Wesa said. Four of the Pakistani workers and their Afghan driver were wounded.
Wesa told reporters Sunday he had asked the central government in Kabul for more Afghan troops to be sent to protect the city in the run-up to the expected offensive. He also that he also wants to coordinate with NATO forces to improve security.
The attacks mirrored a 2008 suicide bombing at the Kandahar prison gates that freed hundreds of prisoners, many of them suspected insurgents. No inmates escaped this time — the prison gates were reinforced with cement block.
The prison was the main target, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half brother said. Ahmed Wali Karzai, a member of the Kandahar provincial council, said two of the explosions occurred near his home, which was not damaged.
Wali Karzai told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that Canadian troops had reinforced the prison with cement block after the 2008 suicide attack.
"They wanted to keep people busy in the city and break the prison, but the Canadians last time did a good job," Wali Karzai said. "They did a lot of reconstruction so they couldn't break the prison this time."
Kandahar has a population of 800,000 and is the provincial capital of Kandahar province, the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban movement.
U.S., NATO and Afghan forces are planning an offensive in Kandahar province later this year, a follow-up to an ongoing military operation in neighboring Helmand province. Thousands of troops worked for three weeks to seize control of the district of Marjah from the Taliban.
The Marjah offensive is the first test of top Afghanistan commander, U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal's strategy to rout insurgents from areas, set up new governance and rush in development aid in hopes of winning the loyalty of the residents.
Wali Karzai said local intelligence officials were tipped to the attacks in Kandahar.
"I knew a month ago that this might happen," he said. "There were rumors around."
Gannon reported from Islamabad. Associated Press Writer Rahim Faiez in Kabul also contributed to this report.
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Empty Bowls Raises Record-breaking $35,233 For Local Food Bank
April 5, 2010
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Springfield, Ohio – After the Wittenberg University and Springfield communities came together for the 16th annual Empty Bowls fundraising event on March 25, Associate Professor of Art and manager of Wittenberg's Empty Bowls project Scott Dooley announced that an unprecedented $35,233 was raised to aid those in the community who are experiencing difficult times.
Dooley thanked Wittenberg's Dining Services, Sodexo and its team, Events Coordinator for Catholic Social Charities Anna Plataniotis and her committee members, Lisa Boitse, Lori Burcham, Kary Iddings, Kathy Kridler, Holly Lahman, Terese Larson, Lee Ann Lopez, Stephanie McCuiston, Mary Alice Neely, Mindy O' Donnell, Melissa Patsiavos, Tiffany Rihm, Bridget Risner and Brenna Theiss, who helped solicit event sponsors from the community.
Student coordinator Lauren Luecke, class of 2010 from Mahtomedi, Minn., organized throwing days and lined up volunteers for the event.
"Her level of organization made the lead up to the event smooth and seamless," Dooley said. "She helped us set and achieve the goal of making 1,000 bowls."
A total of 1,037 bowls were made this year. They were all sold by 6:30 p.m. that night.
Ninety percent of the bowls were made outside of traditional classroom time and on Saturdays by Wittenberg students and members of the community, including students from Project Jericho who participated in an Empty Bowls module last fall.
Major event sponsors included Sodexo, The Greek Orthodox Church-Ladies Philoptochos, Villa Springfield and Rehab Center, Remington Steel, Madison Avenue Pharmacy, Rob Baker and Mary Jo Groves. V.I.P. sponsors include Speedway SuperAmerica LLC, Springfield Clark CTC Culinary Arts Program, Dr. Dana and Judy King, Kova of Ohio, Home City Federal Savings Bank, A.G. Samuelson, Inc., Clark-Champaign Chapter of Women's Council of Realtors and Community Mercy Health Partners.
Additional support and supplies were donated by Flashions, Heidelberg Distributers, O'Charley's, Texas Road House, Linardos Villa, Seasons Bistro and Grille, 800 Paint Place, Howard's Foods-Save-A-Lot, Donatos, Dole, GFS, Economy Linens, Springfield Clark CTC Culinary Arts Program, Tecumseh High School, CLS Graphics, Brain Lumber and Bob Evans, located on Leffel Lane.
"We increased our total by more than $7,000 from 2009," Dooley said. "I am continually amazed by Wittenberg and the Springfield community. During the challenging economic downturn of the last two years there have been many foundations and organizations that have been forced to cut funding. But we have been able increase our totals by over $14,000 during this two-year period. (This is) truly inspirational."
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The 35-page document, titled "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America," marks the end to the deterrent military strategy that dominated the Cold War and officially shifts the country to a pre-emptive policy that Bush first outlined at West Point in June.
"Given the goals of rogue states and terrorists, the United States can no longer solely rely on a reactive posture as we have in the past. ... We cannot let our enemies strike first," Bush wrote in the document submitted to Congress as required annually by law.
"As a matter of common sense and self-defense, America will act against such emerging threats before they are fully formed," he added.
At a time when Bush is struggling to convince Russia, France and other wary United Nations members to support an offensive against Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Bush's doctrine included an unequivocal statement of America's right to act on its own:
"While the United States will constantly strive to enlist the support of the international community, we will not hesitate to act alone, if necessary, to exercise our right of self-defense by acting pre-emptively against such terrorists to prevent them from doing harm against our people and our country."
The report, Bush's first since becoming president, essentially summarizes his strategy as it evolved after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and as it now underpins his campaign against Saddam.
Longer-term, Bush's doctrine asserts U.S. global military superiority. "Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing or equaling the power of the United States," he wrote.
At the White House, administration officials were keen to bat down suggestions that the doctrine reinforces overseas opinions that Bush has pursued a superpower's foreign policy of go-it-alone arrogance.
A senior official briefing reporters on the doctrine said the United States would have no problem with Europe or any freedom-loving ally building up its military might. And White House press secretary Ari Fleischer emphasized a principled side to U.S. foreign policy, noting that the Bush strategy also pledges to promote democracy and economic openness and to champion human dignity worldwide.
"What the world has seen in the 20th century is a benevolent America that uses its strength for good around the world," Fleischer said.


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Phase II Study of Florbetaben (BAY94-9172) PET Imaging for Detection/Exclusion of Cerebral β-amyloid.
This study has been completed.
Piramal Imaging SA
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First received: June 24, 2009
Last updated: January 29, 2014
Last verified: January 2014
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|June 2009
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|January 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Sensitivity of the Independent Visual Assessment of Detecting Cerebral Amyloid-beta in Individuals With Down Syndrome and Specificity in Subjects Without Down Syndrome [ Time Frame: 100-120 min ]
The primary variables are sensitivity (percentage of DS subjects positive for cerebral beta-amyloid) and specificity (percentage of healthy volunteers negative for cerebral beta-amyloid) of brain uptake of florbetaben based on the majority read of the visual assessment by three independent blinded readers of PET images obtained 100 to 120 minutes post-injection of florbetaben.
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Sensitivity and specificity of the independent visual assessment of detecting cerebral amyloid-beta [ Time Frame: One scanning period after injection ]
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|Phase II Study of Florbetaben (BAY94-9172) PET Imaging for Detection/Exclusion of Cerebral β-amyloid.
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|An Open-Label, Non-Randomized Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of BAY94-9172 (ZK 6013443) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for Detection of Cerebral ß-Amyloid in Individuals With Down Syndrome Compared to Individuals Without Down Syndrome
|Brief Summary
|To determine the sensitivity of the visual assessment of BAY94-9172 PET images in detecting cerebral β-amyloid in individuals with Down Syndrome (DS) and specificity in individuals without DS. Given that individuals with Down Syndrome develop β-amyloid pathology over the age of 40, the clinical diagnosis of Down Syndrome will serve as the standard of truth.
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By Ed JONES
Paju, South Korea (AFP) Feb 11, 2016
South Korean companies readied Thursday to pull out of a jointly run industrial zone in North Korea after Seoul shut it down to punish Kim Jong-Un's regime for its recent nuclear test and rocket launch.
Hundreds of vehicles, including scores of empty flat-bed trucks, began queueing before dawn at the border to cross to the Kaesong complex and begin bringing out staff and equipment.
Wednesday's announcement to close Kaesong took many by surprise, given that South Korea had always allowed the industrial park, which lies 10 kilometres (six miles) over the border, to remain open despite serious provocations in the past.
Defending what it called an "unavoidable" decision, Seoul said North Korea had been using the hundreds of millions of dollars in hard-currency cash that it earned from Kaesong to fund its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes.
At a time when the international community is struggling to agree on how to punish the North for last month's nuclear test and Sunday's long-range rocket launch, "there is a need for Korea... to show leadership", the government said in a statement.
For the owners of the 124 South Korean companies operating factories in the estate, the move would appear to sound the death knell for what had become an increasingly vulnerable project in recent years, as both sides sought to leverage its symbolic and economic importance.
- Owners' anger -
While discussion of Kaesong has often focused on its financial importance to the cash-strapped North, it has also been a lucrative concern for many of the companies involved.
As well as cheap, Korean-language labour, they received preferential loans and tax breaks from the South Korean government, which effectively underwrote their investment.
An association representing the owners slammed the shutdown order as "utterly incomprehensible" and complained they had not been given enough advance warning to sort out their affairs.
"It's as if we're just being ordered to jump off a cliff to our deaths," said association head Jeong Gi-Seob.
Seoul has called on Pyongyang to ensure the "safe return of our citizens" amid concerns that the North Korean authorities might refuse to let everyone leave.
In September 2014, Pyongyang had drafted a new operational regulation -- rejected by Seoul -- that would have allowed the North to detain South Korean businessmen in Kaesong in the event of an unresolved business dispute.
There has so far been no official reaction from Pyongyang to the shutdown.
Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel said Seoul's announcement was a "compelling indicator of the seriousness with which they regard the provocative steps" taken by North Korea.
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"More steps are needed to convince the (North Korean) leadership that it is not going to be possible to have access to the international economic system let alone economic or financial aid as long as North Korea continues to pursue nuclear and missile programmes," Russel said.
The US Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to tighten the economic screws on North Korea, adopting measures that would slap sanctions on any person or entity who imports goods, technology or training related to weapons of mass destruction, or engages in human rights abuses.
Japan also unveiled fresh unilateral sanctions, including prohibiting North Korean ships from entering Japanese ports and a total entry ban on North Korean nationals into Japan.
Born out of the "sunshine" reconciliation policy of the late 1990s, Kaesong opened in 2004 and proved remarkably resilient, riding out repeated crises that ended every other facet of inter-Korean cooperation.
Even in 2010, when the South accused the North of sinking one of its warships and imposed punitive sanctions, the Kaesong factories remained open.
The only exception was in 2013 during a period of heightened cross-border tensions when Pyongyang effectively shut down the zone for five months by withdrawing its 53,000 workers.
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Anishinaabe "Distinct Society"
When Built: 1991
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It is a tribute to the Ojibwa, Assiniboine and Cree of Manitoba.
It took approximately three months to construct.
Peter Toth, a Hungarian Native, has a mission "to create at least one monument in each of the fifty states, the provinces of Canada and the states of Mexico." All of the monuments are sculptures of Native Americans and are part of a series of Whispering Giants that he has been sculpting since 1971.
Peter created the Nibiising monument in North Bay, Ontario.
Plaque on the monument reads:
"Here stands a tribute to the aboriginal people of Manitoba. What was once a 6 foot thick, 30 foot cedar log from Campbell River, British Columbia now stands as a symbol of brotherhood in Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba.
This creation, by wood carver, Peter "Wolf" Toth, began on Canada Day, July 1, 1991 and was ceremoniously unveiled on September 1, 1991.
This is the 67th carving in a long trail of Whispering Giants that started in 1970 and now reaches throughout most of North America.
In creator Peter "Wolf" Toth's Words, "My monuments are made to remind people of the contributions of the Indians of this country - statues to honor the plight of the native peoples of North America"
The Town of Winnipeg Beach and the Province of Manitoba Parks Branch have co-operated to locate this magnificant woodcarving for all to see. May it become a symbol of brotherhood and unity for all who pass this way."
Information Source: Town of Winnipeg Beach plaque, and Roberston, Bud "Jurassic Prairie" Winnipeg Free Press August 30, 1994
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Lahore: Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has said he was not consulted over his captaincy role for the Pentangular Cup, and therefore, still unsure about taking up the assignment.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has made it clear to Shoaib that his future in the national team depends on his participation in the Pentangular Cup, which begins on Feb 10.
According to Dawn, the national selectors want to use the pacer"s participation in the tournament to assess his match-fitness.
Shoaib has said that he will decide in a day or two about it, but expressed his unhappiness over the treatment being meted out to him by the PCB.
The PCB recently announced one-year central contracts - Jan 1 to Dec 31, 2008 - but did not include Shoaib in any of the four categories, citing reasons pertaining to pacer"s match-fitness for the move. However, under special category PCB has offered Shoaib Rs 75,000 per month but the Rawalpindi Express has not shown any interest in the package so far.
The PCB has been favourably disposed towards unfit fast bowler Mohammad Asif, but not so in the case of leg-spinner Danish Kaneria, who has expressed concern over his relegation to 'C" category in the contracts despite his consistent availability for the team.
Shoaib, apparently, is also unhappy over his exclusion from the recently-concluded Zimbabwe series for which he had declared his availability well before time. Reports are also doing rounds of Shoaib seriously considering an offer from the breakaway Indian Cricket League (ICL).


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1. Re: Disk crash, need recovery strategy help.Nichelle Jan 21, 2010 9:43 PM (in response to 748310)Maybe I am missing something here but why wouldn't you load your A7.3 objects from teh backup tape as well?
2. Re: Disk crash, need recovery strategy help.748310 Jan 21, 2010 9:47 PM (in response to Nichelle)It was a "perfect storm" scenario. The tape drive had to be replaced too. After it ate that particular restore tape.
3. Re: Disk crash, need recovery strategy help.Nichelle Jan 21, 2010 9:57 PM (in response to 748310)Yuk. I would suggest contact Oracle support for guidance on loading JDE from scratch. There may be lic issues if you are loading onto a new machine.
4. Re: Disk crash, need recovery strategy help.john dickey, mccarthy Jan 22, 2010 10:54 PM (in response to 748310)Well, it may be that I am not correctly understanding your disaster situation. I am assuming that you have the same IBM CPU and same IBM hardware serial number. It sounds like you had to replace a disk drive and a tape drive, but not the actual CPU itself. Now it does sound like your operating system backup was eaten up by the tape drive and lost, and thus you are saying you had to reinstall the IBM operating system? Would you not have a slightly older backup tape that you could recover from? Even if you did not and had to reinstall the operating system, JDE World is fairly independent of the OS/400 itself (other than needing to run on it). So I am thinking that you do NOT need to reinstall JD Edwards. You should be able to restore the JD Edwards libraries, though you would need to have the QGPL library as part of that restore process, and run okay.1 person found this helpful
If my assumptions are wrong, then what I said may not apply. Certainly if you restore onto a new CPU, with a different serial number, you will have to contact JDE support to get a new license key. When doing a hot site test, I restore the operating system, and then restore all the user libaries, get new license keys, and I am up and running. Note that in a hot site test I did not have to do a reinstall of JDE. But certainly the difference maybe that in a hot site test, I am restoring the operating system from backup tape (so not reinstalling OS/400). So I have not personally been involved in the exact situation that you may be facing (I doubt many folks have such experience).
You probably want to be in touch with JDE support and look to them for guidance on what to do, giving them your exact restore situation that you are facing.
Hope this helps a little bit. Bit surprised that these days a disk failure would cause a system crash (have not seen that since the 1980s) - most systems have disk mirroring or RAID of some kind now. So the system can still run while waiting for the disk drive to be replaced (perfomance may suffer, but better that than losing the whole system).
Good luck.
John Dickey
5. Re: Disk crash, need recovery strategy help.748310 Jan 25, 2010 3:35 PM (in response to john dickey, mccarthy)Thanks for your response John. In answer to one of your questions the machine was mirrored and had raid/ parity protected. That works fine as long as you only lose a single disk drive. Our problem came when the the IBM tech changed the failed drive. The system got to 31% storage restored and stopped. The IBM tech a second drive failed because it was missing from the disk configuration display. Instead of explaining to "we the customer" what he planned to do he took it upon himself to format all of our disk drives. His logic was that the second drive had stopped spinning so it must have failed. With a two drive failure raid protection is worthless. Now me being one who works on PC's when a drive doesn't boot once I don't concern it dead. I would have tried a few more attempts but that's water under the bridge. Hense my statement "a perfect storm". Oh yeah I don't know if I mentioned the second two disk crash mid week last week. Same two disk failure only this time a different tech and he recovered everything we had restored so that we didn't have to go back to square one again. Makes me think with the right IBM tech from the start we wouldn't be going through this now.
You may have touched on something when you mentioned the QGPL library. Is there any way you could list the contents of QGPL so that I can see if I am missing something? Again thanks for your help.
6. Re: Disk crash, need recovery strategy help.john dickey, mccarthy Jan 25, 2010 4:54 PM (in response to 748310)Yep, a mutiple disk drive failure will cause problems even when RAID is being used, no doubt about that. But it is unusual to have a multi-disk drive failure. This is the first time I have seen someone run into that kind of situation. We have had instances where a single drive has failed, but just a single drive. What a lot of companies do now is buy a second CPU (IBM used to have a special deal on buying a DR CPU, but don't know if it still exists - you would have to ask the IBM sales rep about that) and locate it in a second location, and then mirror the primary production machine to that DR machine. In case of a failure, the second machine would take over. You can also use this switchover ability to do maintenance on the primary machine (say operating system upgrade) while still keeping the system available for users. Given your experience, your management might be receptive to spending some money to do something like that.
QGPL library is unique to each installation. Normally there are not a lot of objects in that library. Usually output queues and job descriptions and sometimes device descriptions. Maybe job queues. JDE might have some licensing related objects in there. QGPL does get saved as part of the SAVSYS command, but we also save it as part of our user data save. But you cannot look at someone else's QGPL and be sure that you can spot something that you may or may not be missing.
John Dickey


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eTwinning and Social Media, the learning event that Bart and I are running is in the full swing and tomorrow we're organizing a Twitterathon - a 3-hour Twitter chat for educators. We're going to discuss three educational topics chosen by teachers from the learning event and beyond. We invite you to join us for the Etwion and vote for the topics. The poll will be open till midnight, March 6. The Twitterathon will take place on March 6, from 7-10 pm CET. (check your time zone here.)
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: On-the-Set Pics
As reported yesterday, the cast of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows descended on Freshwater West beach in Wales this week to film scenes relating to the Shell Cottage.
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Whether it was a new head coach, a wide array of new teammates or a forced, altered approach to his game, 2010-11 was a season filled with adjustments for Chris Paul. While lacking some of the explosiveness hed shown in previous seasons, it was more difficult for the four-time All-Star to consistently take over games. One of the biggest arguments among fans all season was whether Paul was being aggressive enough on the offensive end. For the first time in his six-year career, he had several low-single-digit scoring games, including a 0-point outing at Memphis on April 10.
During the second half of the regular season, when Monty Williams was asked if the Hornets needed Paul to score or distribute more, he answered both, a response that helped illustrate how much the team required of their best player. Chris knows how to manage a game, Williams said. The problem is, if you at some (teammates) numbers on the team, their production has dropped off (from early in the season). When there are drops, its tough for Chris to manage, OK, should I be aggressive now, or do I need to get those guys more involved?
Chris can score 20 or 25 points every night if he wanted, Williams continued. But being the point guard that he is, he tries to get everyone involved. There are times when I tell him in the middle of a game to be more aggressive. And he knows before I tell him, what Im going to say. He knows when to pick and choose when to be aggressive, but the bottom line is our team has to be productive.
The following are additional noteworthy quotes related to Pauls 2010-11 season, which concluded with him authoring two historic individual performances against the Lakers:
On the city of New Orleans:
It's not about what I've done for this team. I think it's the town; look at what this team has done for me. This city has definitely embraced me and lifted me up, and I'm truly grateful for it. I'm one of those people that's always been a family person. Since I stepped foot in New Orleans I felt like this was my extended family.
On his in-between game:
My teardrop floater in the lane is something Ive been doing pretty much my whole life. Unfortunately Ive always been pretty short, so when I get into the lane, I shoot it to where the guy has to jump to the top of the square (to block it). I think its kind of deflating for a big man. When they get that running start, they just know they can block that shot. They jump as high as they can and that ball just goes right over their fingertips. Thats when you know you really shot a nice one.
On Pauls shooting and decision-making on offense:
The one thing he doesnt get credit for is his three-point shooting. Last year, before he hurt his ankle, he was shooting 67 percent, I think. When a guy can shoot a three, and get in the paint and shoot that teardrop, it just aggravates the defense. I can see it on the opposing centers faces, when they go to block that shot. They can jump as high as they can, but sometimes they have no shot at (blocking) it. Or they foul him. His touch is off the chart, because he knows how to put English on it or just put it through the net. Its a tough shot to defend. I know Id foul him before he got into that shot. If youre thinking, instead of what you do naturally, youre not playing good defense. Players like Chris make you think on the floor. If youre thinking against him, youre going to get burned.
On interacting with Paul this summer:
Im not going to talk to him as much as I did last summer. I think I need to give him a break. I think hes probably tired of hearing from me. Im always on Chris about certain things and it can wear you out. It can wear the relationship out. Im going to back off of him for a while. Well talk later this summer about improvements we need to make in our offense and our defense and things that I think he can do to become more efficient. Itll be the same conversation we have all the time. One thing I dont want to do is be a coach 24/7. There comes a time when I have to back off of that and Im looking forward to getting to know some of our guys off the court. Whether its taking those guys fishing or out to eat or something along those lines I think its important.