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BALTIMORE -- The last time Kirby Yates faced Chris Davis, in the fifth inning of Monday's game, the Orioles' struggling slugger took him deep as part of a back-to-back-to-back home run spree. So it was plausible, although still slightly head-scratching, when Rays manager Joe Maddon made the call to intentionally walk Davis in the seventh inning with the infielder 0-for-3 on the night and batting .188 on the season.
With the scored tied at 4 and first base open, Yates issued the two-out free pass -- Davis' first since June 25 -- and shortstop J.J. Hardy made him pay.
"A little bit [surprised]," Hardy said of watching the walk unfold from the on-deck circle. "But I was just thinking about hitting the ball hard. Didn't happen, but it worked. I try not to let emotions get a hold of me and just hit the ball hard."
Backed by yet another outstanding job from the Orioles bullpen -- which didn't allow a run in the four-game series -- Baltimore made Hardy's two-out RBI blooper stand up as the decisive score in a 5-4 series win Thursday night at Oriole Park.
The victory, which saw the Orioles (76-56) take three of four and improve to 11-5 against the Rays this year, increases first-place Baltimore's lead to seven games over the Yankees in the American League East. With right-handed starter Bud Norris battling through six innings, the O's used a combination of Brad Brach, Andrew Miller and Zach Britton -- who picked up his 29th save in 32 chances -- to keep the relief corps' scoreless streak intact.
"Really? Wow," manager Buck Showalter said when alerted about the bullpen's 14 1/3 scoreless innings over the four-game set. "That speaks for itself. Four-game series are so hard to win, especially with some of the pace of the games we've played the last four games. Our bullpen was just solid. Didn't let anything get in the way, just kept making good pitches."
The Orioles, who improved to 26-19 in one run games, twice came back from a deficit and Hardy's glove was just as big as his bat, executing a key double play to end the top of the seventh. They used that momentum to take the lead in the bottom of the frame, with Nelson Cruz starting things off with a two-out double before Yates walked Davis.
"I see the reasoning behind it," Davis said of the intentional walk. "Right-handed pitcher on the mound, right-handed hitter behind me. Had some good swings on a couple of balls earlier in the game. It's happened before. It doesn't matter what your batting average is, if they feel like you can hurt them at any point in the game and they have a chance to walk you, they can do it."
Hardy muscled a ball into right field after that, scoring Cruz to give the Orioles a lead they wouldn't relinquish.
"To take three out of four was big," Hardy said. "I think we are playing pretty good ball. I think after that Cubs series [sweep] we all just kind of forgot about that and moved forward."
Down two runs in the fifth inning, the Orioles used Rays shortstop Yunel Escobar's second miscue to tie the game. With the bases loaded, Davis bounced into a potential double play and Escobar -- after taking the throw at second for the first out -- airmailed a throw into the first-base stands. Both runs were charged to Rays starter Jeremy Hellickson, who loaded the bases and exited in favor of Jeff Beliveau after Cruz's lineout.
"I kind of had a late break, but I beat him to the bag," Beliveau said of the play at first. "I beat him there and as soon as I got to the bag, I looked up and it was about 20 feet over my head. Then I realized I had to get the ball."
Hellickson, who was charged with four runs, three earned, watched the O's tie the game in the first inning on an impressive double-steal. After Steve Pearce's homer put the Orioles on the board, Adam Jones and Cruz both singled and Cruz got caught in a rundown between first and second with Jones breaking for home plate from third. Escobar paused for a moment, then fired home, but Rays catcher Jose Molina dropped the ball, allowing the Orioles to tie it up.
Norris outlasted Hellickson but wasn't particularly crisp, allowing a leadoff double and run on Matt Joyce's sacrifice fly, with Tampa Bay pushing the lead to two on Evan Longoria's homer. The righty, who had 34 pitches in the first, settled in and went on to retire nine of the next 10 before allowing the Rays to score a pair of runs in the fifth.
"Short last couple starts the last couple days, but to get through six was big for us and I just really tried to grind it out," Norris said. "It was just a good baseball game and we got the big hit late, and to pass off the ball to the bullpen late like that with a lead, our chances are pretty good."
Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Facebook and Twitter @britt_ghiroli. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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For myself, and anyone who knows me, a major in Religious Studies is the last thing that would have been expected because I was raised in a household with a very loose religious affiliation. However, in my first year at St. Lawrence, I took Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with Professor Greenwald and by the end of that year I had taken two more of his courses. Since then I have been able to take courses focused on the religions and cultures of locations around the world. Many of these courses I chose to take simply because I was interested in the subject and not necessarily because they credited my major. I have found them all fascinating and still have a few more courses I hope to take before I graduate.
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Wu Tang: Taste The Pain (Works but crashes at the end of every fight)
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NEW ALBUM, Well Dressed Killing Machine! Release date: April 1st, 2009
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Sean Lacefield / Guitar
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Scott Ramsay / Guitar
Jim Dineen / Bass
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A cross, between Saigon Kick and Evanescence, with a dash of undescribable, makes Ellsbeth a unique force to be reckoned with. Lead vocalist Shannon Quamme, has a vocal range that's clear and flawless. The entire band fits together, to give your ears a treat, even live and unmastered. Their Debut CD was officially released to Snocap, April 1, 2009 and it's quickly looking like this album will be a collectors gem.
After many chat sessions with Ellsbeth and their very dedicated, street team and fans, It's easy to say, without a doubt, everyone is passionately dedicated to the musical cause. The fans back their favorite band with unwavering loyalty and Ellsbeth brings a live performance that brings them back for more. Nearly a dozen radio stations began airing Ellsbeths songs Eden and Defy, weeks before the CD's official release date. FM station managers are so impressed, they were releasing un-mastered tracks, direct for airplay!
Some of the most notiable tracks include, My Release-a dark and driven metal tune of epic preportions, Breathe-a somber operatic build-up, to an anthemic vocal harmony and of course, Defy-without a doubt, this could be a huge hit. Defy-is a perfect combination of metal symphony, with a mantra like chorus, that holds your attention. It has a slight 'Saigon Kick' feel, for those who remember that bands unique brand of music.
The Album-Well Dressed Killing Machine, can be streamed through Ellbeths My Space player, for those who want to sample the music.
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Since initially forming in 2005, many members of the band have come and gone, but the self-described "honest" sound the band produces remains the same.
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hi people .. i find super guitarist!!he is only 12 and he play only 14 months the guitar and he shred like herman li .. must see!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbJPIq-4b-4 .. and ozzy is best singer in history
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Summer Fest: A Day of Potato Recipesby Liz Gray in In Season, September 15, 2010
We're teaming up with other food and garden bloggers to host Summer Fest 2010, a season-long garden party. Each week we'll feature favorite garden-to-table recipes and tips to help you enjoy the bounty, whether you're harvesting your own goodies or buying them fresh from the market. To join in, check out awaytogarden.com.
Potatoes definitely weren't my favorite veggie as a kid. Give me a pile of mashed potatoes, and I was just in it for the gravy. I turned my nose up at baked potatoes, and forget about French fries. Now that I'm older (and a little wiser) I see what all the fuss is about: Besides being delicious, versatile and cheap, potatoes are packed with nutrients and fiber. Sure, they're good fried and mashed, but spuds have more to offer. Here's how to eat potatoes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Jamie's take on the classic Spanish tortilla takes me back to my recent trip to Spain — I can taste the smoky Spanish chorizo and crispy potatoes now! Use a waxy potato, like the buttery Yukon gold, for this recipe. Jamie puts an Italian twist on the classic by finishing it in the oven, allowing it to puff up like a souffle, and topping it with a parsley-shallot salad. Or, mix in grated in-season zucchini.
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This chopped take on the hearty French salad has all the classic ingredients — red potatoes, fresh green beans, tuna olives and a mustard vinaigrette. Eat the skin for an extra dose of nutrients.
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Since potatoes have lots of natural starch, you can puree them to add heft to soups typically loaded with cream. Ease into the first days of cooler weather with Ina's perfect between-season soup: Zucchini Vichyssoise. She simmers leeks, potatoes and zucchini in homemade chicken broth, then runs through the food mill for a just-smooth-enough consistency. Garnish with fresh chives.
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Family-Friendly Hannukah Fareby Toby Amidor in Healthy Holidays, December 6, 2012
Hanukkah has always been one of my favorite holidays. Baked goodies, chocolate coins, and 8 days of gifts—what's not to like during this festival of lights? As an RD and mom, I want to teach my kids healthy eating habits even on holidays (no need for fried EVERYTHING) and I also want to watch my own waistline. Here are some healthy, Hanukkah-licious recipes that are perfect for the entire family.
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- Initialization bug fixed in genmesh anim.
- Celtest crashed due to wrong usage of camera.
- Mesh invisibility was not always correctly restored when switching from first to third person.
- Better error reporting in the zone manager and also a bug fix there.
- Bugfix in pctools.properties. The api to fetch properties by ID didn't work.
- Check for collision detection system in zone manager is now improved.
Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.2rc1
Crystal Space
- The new 'lighter2' tool (for lightmapping) is now working properly and can be used for real levels.
- New decal manager. This can be used for dynamic shadows, footsteps, bullet holes, ...
- New improved terrain plugin. The old one is still present for now.
- New tool to generate terrain basemaps.
- New and improved threading API.
- It is now possible to specify named shader expressions and use them later in shaders for special effects.
- New language translator plugin that allows for internationalization.
- Lots of improvements on the python bindings. Including more python language natural bindings.
- The Perl scripting plugin has also been improved.
- Lots of internal changes which are not immediately visible for the user but which will benefit future versions of Crystal Space.
- Important fix in the ODE dynamics plugin. This is a potential compatibility breaker so to enable the old (broken) behaviour back you have to do iODEDynamicsState::EnableOldInertia().
- Warning, AWS and AWS2 have been removed from CS (they are now kept in the CSExtra repository). It is recommended to use CEGUI now.
- Various documentation updates, bug fixes and optimizations. Too much to tell.
- Big refactor in the names of property class. Names are now much more logical. The old names are still supported but will be removed in 1.4.
- Property class factories are now automatically loaded when a property class is needed. No more need to do RegisterPropertyClassFactory().
- Lots of changed to pchover and pcwheeled.
- Several improvements to the XML behaviour layer.
- Improvements to the python scripting layer (similar to what happened in Crystal Space).
- New pcneuralnet property class.
- New pcmeshdeform property class.
- Mouse move improvements in pcmove.actor.standard (old pcactormove).
- Many improvements and additions to the manual.
Version 1.0
Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2
Crystal Space
- Allow installation next to 1.2 release.
- Bugfix in xmlshader and also bugfixes in the reflect and reflectsphere shaders.
- Some smaller bugfixes (manualcolors flag in genmesh, csStringBase::Upcase()/Downcase(), ...)
- Allow installation next to 1.2 release.
Changes between 1.0 and 1.0.1
Crystal Space
- Fixes to allow Crystal Space to be build on Solaris and IRIX.
- A few fixes in genmesh.
- 3DS genmesh loader now works again.
- Compile error fixed for gcc 3.2
- Fix in the ELF reader.
- Configure and build fixes.
- Particle system fixes: initial angular velocity exposed to XML and made sure the rotation mode resets the texcoord vectors.
- Compatibility fixes with Windows SDK 6.0.
- Bullet plugin compiles now.
- A few documentation fixes.
- Dynamic system is now created when not found.
- Lots of compile warnings silenced.
- Fix in celInitializer so that it also looks for vfs.cfg in application dir.
- Fix in actormove related to animation and jumping.
Changes between 1.0rc2 and 1.0
Crystal Space
- Build fixes for Solaris and IRIX.
- 'cubemap' command in walktest has been fixed.
- none
Changes between 1.0rc1 and 1.0rc2
Crystal Space
- Engine crashes related to portals are fixed.
- Fixes in genmeshify to handle libraries better.
- Fixed an issue in OpenGL render to texture.
- Software animation skinning for gmeshanim now works better.
- New documentation on event system.
- A few smaller bugfixes.
- Packaging fixes for celstart.
Changes between 1.0pre2 and 1.0rc1
Crystal Space
- Bugfix in ODE which crashed if there was no collision polygon mesh on the object.
- Fix in 3D sound.
- Bugfix in LoadMountsFromFile().
- Memory corruption fixed in xmlshader.
- Mouse cursor change for win32.
- Shader variables will now correctly find textures based on region settings.
- Terrain collision bug fixed (CD didn't work for terrain that was moved away from 0,0,0).
- Terrain levels using alpha maps (like terraina) didn't work anymore.
- ICE Look and feel for CEGUI 0.5 fixed.
- Texture compression and AFP are now disabled for Intel DRI driver since this caused problems.
- RECT textures are disabled for nVidia cards since they also caused problems.
- Destroying CS environment on linux could cause the environment to become corrupted.
- Collision detection improvements (impossible to get stuck and impossible to go through walls).
- Castle level license from by-nc to by-nc-sa.
- Bugfix in celstart with mangling of directories for PYTHONPATH.
- Installing CEL should now work better because the CEL version of vfs.cfg can be found.
- Other installation fixes (data/library is now installed for example).
Changes between 1.0pre1 and 1.0pre2
Crystal Space
- Several build system changes and fixes (like for Xorg).
- Several python related fixes.
- Perl bindings compile again.
- Bullet plugin fixes (compiles better with more recent versions of Bullet).
- Several fixes to the software renderer so that it now displays the castle level right.
- Fixed a bug with frustvis and dynavis which could cause assertion errors in case of objects with empty bounding boxes.
- Worked around a VC7 compiler bug which could cause serious crashes in shader handling.
- Some changes in gmeshanim to help speed it up.
- New preadvance option in particle system so that you can prefill the particle system with a given number of particles when it first starts.
- Significant change in the sound manager. The sound wrapper class no longer holds streams but instead only the sound data. For backwards compatibility it will still hold streams in case you use the old syntax of specifying a 3D mode together with the sound. However, this will result in deprecation warnings.
- Some other smaller fixes and changes.
- Better error checking and reporting in the XML scripting layer.
- A big memory leak in the XML scripting layer was fixed.
- Change in the zone manager so that CS regions now get a unique name. This may break programs that depend on the old behaviour that a CS region is always called the same as the region from the zone manager. Now the name will be <entityname>_<region>.
- Fix in pcsolid so that removing that property class will also remove the collider.
- Quests in the library are now correctly defined.
- Bug fix in pcproperties in relation to listing the properties it supports.
- Bugfix in iPcQuest->NewQuest(). It would modify the read only hashmap that it got as a parameter.
- Every time an entity is removed with iCelPlLayer->RemoveEntity() the behaviour will be called with the 'destruct' message.
- Fixed pcsoundsource so that it correctly handles 2D versus 3D sounds.
- Fixed a few memory leaks in the quest manager.
- Fixed iCelPlLayer->GetHitEntity() so it no longer has an arbitrary limit of 60 units and it now also supports portals.
- Several other smaller fixes and changes.


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Virtually all of Cycling UK's courses can be delivered privately. All courses have specific requirements in terms of riding and facilities, some being a little more specialist than others ('Skill Instructor', for example). To discuss these, please contact us directly.
How do they work?
Basically, we coordinate with you to deliver your course directly. You receive the same course to same high standard that we deliver across the country as public courses, and your course will undergo the same rigorous reviews, inspections and support to ensure our renowned quality and delivery mechanisms are retained.
A detailed process diagram is available in the 'Private Course Procedure' download at the bottom of this page.
We recommend at least 2-3 months' notice between enquiring about your course and it actually running. This helps ensure you and your colleagues' diaries can be kept free for the agreed date and we can undergo the appropriate checks and preparation to make sure your course fulfils all your needs.
Why set up a Private Course?
Private courses offer several advantages over public courses, where appropriately used:
- It's your course - we work with you to shape the contents, dates and location to suit, around the framework of the qualification;
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10 Songs a Man Should Be Listening to This Week
Jess Walter
The Book of the Year
Before he was a novelist, Jess Walter was a newspaper reporter and coauthor of books on Bernard Kerik, O.J. prosecutor Christopher Darden, and Randy Weaver, the white separatist shot at his home in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. His new novel, which could have been written only by an obsessive observer of men who, like his previous subjects, bow to fate or run screaming away from it, is one of the funniest, most trenchant novels of the year.
Beautiful Ruins (Harper, $26) begins in the early 1960s. A young, virtually unknown American actress gets sent by the studio crisis manager for Cleopatra to a broken-down hotel on the Italian coast after Richard Burton gets her pregnant. The owner of the hotel falls for her, but in the end he leaves her behind, making the choice he's supposed to make (attempting to reunite with the mother of his child) rather than the choice he desires.
Meanwhile, the story flips and backflips through time, place, and form. The hotelier shows up in Hollywood, looking for the actress he abandoned 50 years before. Elsewhere in L.A., the crisis manager, now a plastic-surgery-addicted producer (with "the face of a nine-year-old Filipino girl"), writes a memoir in which he boastfully describes how he had no choice but to exile the actress in order to save Cleopatra. In Sandpoint, Idaho, the actress's now grown son — Burton's bastard — stars in a community-theater production of a play based on his own struggles with fame. The story moves on to Edinburgh, Scotland, and World War II and the Donner Trail, but in unexpected forms: Interspersed with traditional narrative chapters, the book includes a film treatment, the rejected first chapter of the producer's memoir, a lost book manuscript.
The book is a Rubik's Cube of plot and format that Walter miraculously and seamlessly gets in order by the end. And by the end you have two kinds of characters: those who let random acts decide their fate, and those who make their own luck. Beautiful Ruins is a very funny book about a distinctly American relationship to destiny. It's a book about weathering the current of fate. And it's a book that could be written only by a highly attuned spectator of compromised men.
John Lanchester
The name of the central street in John Lanchester's Capital (W. W. Norton, $27) is Pepys Road, which is almost too much of a giveaway. Just as Samuel Pepys's diary offered the definitive guide to the material reality of 17th-century London by describing the quality of a maid's breasts or the value of a round of Parmesan cheese, so Capital describes the £100,000 basement renovations and the ludicrous variety of chocolates available for purchase today.
The novel's plot develops around a series of menacing postcards left in all the houses on Pepys Road with the simple message "We Want What You Have." This premise is really not much more than an excuse for Lanchester to offer intensely observed, fascinating portraits of the residents: a banker whose vast fortune collapses at the first teetering of the city's bonus culture; a dying elderly woman and her graffiti-artist grandson; a 17-year-old Senegalese soccer star and his 50-year-old factotum; and, perhaps most memorably, the Pakistani family who runs the store on the corner. We get minute descriptions of the emotional reality of property and material objects: how toilet paper feels more important when it belongs to a professional athlete, how easy it is to set up your life so that you need a million-pound annual bonus for necessities, and how houses imitate the rich people who inhabit them, becoming "imperious, with needs of their own that they [are] not shy about having serviced."
The book is old-fashioned in its ambitions but swells gently into an epic about an age obsessed with and defined largely by stuff. There simply are not enough great novels about our modern relationship to things and all the ways they intrude in and interrupt our lives; how the obsession with things has hidden costs. Capital is about hungering for stuff that you know is stupid. It's about a hyperconsciousness of status that you know is ridiculously artificial. It's about money and longing. In other words, it's about the way we live now.
—Stephen Marche
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"You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it."
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CONFIDENCE is key to the Swindon Wildcats success according to captain Shane Moore.
The 26-year-old defenceman feels that the Link Centre side have struggled for consistency this term as they look to book their spot in the EPL play-offs.
But since the returns of both Great Britain international Aaron Nell and the experienced Lee Richardson, Moore says that the team are coming together.
"Since Christmas we have been a better team," the former Great Britain Under 20 international said.
"We are team that thrives when we are confident and when we are on form and firing on all cylinders we can beat anybody."
With a daunting trip to second place Manchester Phoenix coming up Sunday, Moore knows that a massive effort is going to be required to ensure that points return to the Link Centre.
And the local lad feels that GB netminder Stevie Lyle is a key part in achieving that success.
"He is crucial to us," Moore said. "He is the best goalminder in the league and he is someone you can rely on.
"He'll make that first save and then us as defenders clear the puck and we push forward.
"I'm a great believer in that you build a side from the back and that is what (coach) Ryan (Aldridge) has done in getting Stevie."
But Cats will need more than their star goalie to see off the team looking to end the regular campaign on top.
Moore said: "I think they have only dropped one point on their own ice this year and that was in over-time.
"It is a really hard game, but if we can be at our best and have everyone firing then we can get the points."
However, before Cats focus can turn to Manchester on Sunday, they welcome second-from-bottom Peterborough Phantoms to the Link Centre.
Swindon are keen to bounce back from last Sunday's 4-1 defeat at Guildford Flames against a side they crushed 7-1 on their own rink in January.
"I don't think we can read too much into that game," Moore said. "We are not expecting to beat them 7-1 again this time.
"They are no pushovers and they will be looking to make amends from that game.
"But from our perspective we just have to focus on getting the win and the points so that we can start can start climbing up the table.
"We know that the top four is guaranteed, but the rest of the teams can finish anywhere between fifth and 10th, so it is up to us to finish as high as we can."


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Statement by Ambassador Dr Peter Wittig in the open Security Council debate on Syria (27 April 2011)
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Mr. President,
· We are grateful to you for having convened this very timely meeting. Let me also thank Under-Secretary-General Pascoe for his briefing.
The information he gave is truly worrying.
· It is urgently necessary that the Council discusses the situation
in Syria: The scale of violence and brutality used for internal repression is deeply disturbing. What is more, the situation has obvious regional and international implications, given Syrias's
critical importance to peace and security in the Middle East -
including being host to a United Nations peacekeeping mission.
· The briefing we heard as well as facts from the ground have shown: The Syrian authorities are using violence against peaceful demonstrators. We are deeply shocked by the death of civilians, killed because they tried to exercise their fundamental rights.
· The systematic use of force by deploying tanks and using live ammunition comes from the Syrian authorities. The demonstrators do not have tanks. They do not arrest people arbitrarily, and they do not curtail journalists in their reporting.
· The continued violence against peaceful protestors is completely unacceptable. It has to stop immediately. All announcement of reforms are undermined by the ongoing violence.
Mr President,
· The reports we receive from Daraa are deeply disturbing. Tanks and artillery have been deployed. There have been many casualties. It is impossible to access the area. We demand access for international observers and that those responsible for the killings be held accountable.
· In this connection we strongly support the Secretary General's call for an independent, transparent and effective investigation into the killings.
· The Syrian authorities must respect human rights, including the right of peaceful assembly, as well as the freedom of opinion and of the press. We also call on the Syrian authorities to respect their obligation of safeguarding the integrity and dignity of all detainees and their right to a fair legal process.
· The Syrian government now has the choice between ending the violence and beginning the radical, tangible and meaningful reforms that are needed or to continue with ever more violent repressions. Choosing the latter would be a very short-sighted approach that would require us to react with appropriate measures. Continue repression is not a solution.
· Germany has so far taken up a number of initiatives, including summoning the Syrian ambassador to Germany on several occasions, we have strongly supported a special session on Syria at the Human rights council, and welcome that it will take place this Friday. Together with our partners, we will consider action at the level of the EU before the end of this week. This might include sanctions.
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Carter's blast offset by Astros' rocky ninth
A's answer slugger's 31st homer with five runs in final frame
HOUSTON -- Astros manager Bo Porter hoped Chris Carter's eighth-inning home run had perhaps breathed some life into his team's scuffling offense. It closed Oakland's lead to one run, and he knew if the Astros could keep the game tight, anything was possible in the bottom of the ninth.
The ninth inning turned out to be nothing short of a disaster for the Astros, who watched the A's score five runs -- four against relief pitcher Tony Sipp, who walked the first four batters he faced -- en route to an 8-2 loss at Minute Maid Park.
"If we could have kept the game right there, an opportunity to come back up in the ninth inning with a one-run deficit is totally different than coming up down by six," Porter said. "The whole object was trying to keep the game right there."
Oakland starter Jeff Samardzija held the Astros to two runs and six hits and struck out 10 batters in eight innings to improve to 2-0 with a 2.78 ERA in three starts against the Astros since coming to the A's in July.
"I tell you what, he had it all working tonight," Porter said. "He was plus and minus-ing his fastball, anywhere from 91 to 96 [mph], and pretty much was in complete command of the game until Carter hit the two-run homer."
Samardzija (6-10) was coming off a rocky outing in which he allowed seven runs and seven hits in 3 2/3 innings against the Mets.
"I felt like it got away from me my last start, so I wanted to come out and really go pitch to pitch and hitter to hitter and not really look at it as a whole and break it down as something I could control, not letting previous things affect the future things," he said.
Samardzija was four outs away from shutting out the Astros when Carter belted a two-run home run to right field on an 0-2 pitch -- his 31st of the season -- to cut the lead to 3-2. Thirteen of Carter's 31 homers have come with two strikes, which is the most by an Astros player since Lance Berkman had 18 in 2006.
"All game he was throwing me fastballs away and I was missing them and I finally hit one on the barrel," Carter said.
Sipp began the ninth by walking four consecutive batters on 23 pitches, forcing in a run when he walked Coco Crisp. Jose Veras replaced him and gave up a two-run double to Josh Donaldson and a two-run single by Derek Norris, though all but one run was charged to Sipp.
"Tony Sipp's been good the whole year," Porter said. "It's one of those things he pretty much lost command, and obviously those guys were patient enough and were able to wait it out and take the walks that were given to them."
The Astros, who heading into the weekend were leading the American League in runs scored since the All-Star break, have fallen on hard times offensively. They're hitting .165 in their last five games, during which they're 1-4.
"It's a funk," Porter said. "I believe in these guys in that clubhouse and I believe we're going to be able to pull out it."
Astros starter Scott Feldman (7-10) delivered his fifth quality start in his past six outings by holding the A's to three runs and seven hits in seven innings in a losing effort. His 15 quality starts this season rank second on the club behind Dallas Keuchel.
Feldman got in trouble when he allowed a leadoff double to Eric Sogard in the third inning. He was caught in a rundown between second and third and tagged out, allowing Alberto Callaspo to sneak into second with a fielder's choice. He scored on a Donaldson double.
In the fourth, Josh Reddick followed a one-out single by Brandon Moss with his 10th homer, a two-run shot to right field that made it 3-0. That's his third homer against the Astros this year.
"For the most part I was making my pitches all night and thought I had pretty good command," Feldman said. "I just really missed my spot bad to Reddick there and he's been seeing the ball pretty well off of me this season. He wasn't going to miss that mistake."
Brian McTaggart is reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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First Look: H&M Swimwear Collection
Look sexy and chic on the beach with fab swimwear (totes affordable) from H&M.
-PJ Gach
There are two things women dread about summer: trying on bathing suits and paying for them. Okay, we can't help you with the trying on thing—trust us, here are BettyConfidential, we are reduced to tears when we have to try on suits, but we can definitely give you great advice on where to find sexy suits for less. To me, the idea of spending over $100 on a scrap of fabric is beyond absurd.
This morning, I checked out the H&M swimwear collection. Everything was on-trend, fun and affordable. Lots of the swimwear is out now, so if you're planning a weekend getaway, head on over there. H&M has a ton ofswim separates for $4.95. The quality is perfect and sizing goes up to 14.
Read Charlize Theron + More Celebs Who Were Fab or Drab at the Correspondents Dinner
The most expensive swimsuit I saw was a bejeweled one piece—if I hadn't known it was H&M, I would have sworn it was Gottex or another pricey brand. Guess what, Betty's it was only $29.95. If you're looking for a monokini, you'll only pay $14.95. Long beach cover-ups are $24.95, rompers go for $12.95, ball caps in summery shades $9.95, summery hats run from $9.95 to $17.95. Sunnies—we need them (a) to look cool and (b) to protect our peepers, run from $5.95 to $9.95. Oh, there's beach bags priced from $14.95 to $29.95 and the obligatory, but oh so cute beach towels in a variety of prints, $9.95. Don't forget the shoes! Whether you're hot for a bright neon shade or a killer print, shoes are only $34.95.
I fell in love with a gold messenger bag and was delighted to find out that it's only $29.95.
In addition to the swimwear that's out now and other pieces that will be coming to H&M stores nationwide soon, H&M showcased their 10th annual H&M Water Aid Collection. The linen based collection for men, women and children contains florals and solids like tangerine and beige. For every item sold in this collection 25 percent goes to WaterAid. It's the leading charity for clean, safe water and sanitation in the world's poorest countries. The above model is wearing a few of the separates that are part of the collection.
The next time someone says "pool," "beach," "surf" or any word that would normally make you cringe, think H&M instead.
PJ Gach is Senior Editor: Style + Beauty at BettyConfidential.


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finished = False
while not finished:
name=raw_input("Please enter your name: ")
print("Hi " + name + "! and welcome to the virtual game of car cricket")
name2=raw_input("Please enter the second players name: ")
if (name2 == name):
print("Players cannot have the same name")
finished = True
print("Hi " + name2 + "! and welcome to the virtual game of car cricket")
after entering the same name it doesn't end the script, it just continues as usual (after printing players cannot have the same name).
all I'm trying to do is have it so if the names are the same the program stops instead of continuing, If anyone can help me it'd be greatly appreciated, cheers heaps.


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Reynaerts wraak
L.E.O. Faes was born in Maastricht. He studied Dutch language and literature in Nijmegen and graduated in 1971. He is a teacher in Dutch language since 1972, working for Het Stedelijk Lyceum in Enschede since 1974. He was a cartoonist with the Twentsche Courant Tubantia between 1985 and 2009. Faes has published several comics with the publishing house Van de Berg in Almere, sometimes in Twente dialect or Frisian language.
These include 'Twents in beeld', 'Hennie 't hoen marathonkampioen?', 'Bram Beer is oet de tied' and 'Finish'. He has also made comics based on Middle Dutch miracle plays and stories like 'Mariken van Nieumeghen' ('Die duivelse Marieke!'), 'Van den vos Reynaerde' ('Reynaerts wraak') and 'Keizer Karel en Elegast'. He won the National Future Prize for his 2000 balloon comic 'Don Quichotte is terug?!'.
He has also made comics for insurace company AMEV ('De leeuw is los!') and assurancy company Fortis ('Fabel-achtig'). Another comic by Faes is 'Beertje Bombazijn', a biting balloon comic about famous Dutch author Willem Frederik Hermans.


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Rationing Seeks To Provide Order [VIDEO]
New Jersey drivers are finding it hard to cope with gas rationing.
Drivers with license plates ending in an even number can buy gas on even-numbered days, and those with plates ending in an odd number on odd-numbered days. Drivers with vanity plates that have no numbers can buy gas on odd-numbered days.
The rationing is in effect in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Monmouth, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union and Warren counties.
At one gas station in Jersey City on Saturday, police kicked out one driver who was trying to hold a spot for someone else.
"If everyone complies with this system, it will ease lines and wait times and create a less stressful situation for everyone involved," Gov. Chris Christie said Saturday, speaking in the parking lot of a church where the Federal Emergency Management Agency set up a center to help people file claims.
At one Jersey City Sunoco station, city police officers waved motorists in and out to expedite the process, and they kicked one driver out of line because that person was trying to hold a spot for someone else.
One officer said a woman claiming to be pregnant tried to cut the gas line, claiming she was about to deliver, and a pillow popped out of her shirt as she walked around.
Jessica Tisdale, of Totowa, waited in her Mercedes SUV for 40 minutes with her even-numbered plate — Saturday was for odds — and a half-tank of gas. She wanted to try to fill up just in case. She didn't quite understand the rationing, which she heard about Friday night.
"Is it the number or the letter?" she asked around 12:10 p.m. "I don't think it's fair. I've been in the line since before noon. I don't think it's fair. There's no clarity."
A police officer saw her plate and ordered her out of line, wagging his finger at her and then pointing her to the passing lane of traffic.
"That's not fair," she said. The officer threw up his hands and shrugged.
Raj Khindri, who works at the station, said the system was working well. "Everything is good. Everyone is compromising," he said. "I have a good relationship with the terminal. That's why I have gas."
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (EDA) has set up a hotline for gas stations to report issues they are having with power and receiving supply. Reports can be sent by email to firstname.lastname@example.com, or by calling 609-858-6900.
The problem isn't a shortage of gasoline. There's plenty in the area. It's sitting tantalizingly close, in the tanks of ships and on shore terminals and even at gasoline stations.
Among the surest signs: Prices for wholesale gasoline in New York Harbor, a major trading hub, have hardly budged. Sellers would love to get rid of their gasoline if they could.
One reason prices haven't spiked is that the storm and its aftermath have canceled countless car trips that would normally have occurred — to and from work and trips out of town. Fewer such trips mean less demand for gasoline. That keeps a lid on prices.
Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service said drivers seem to fear that stations will be out of gas for a week or more. But the problem will be long over, he said, by the time many people would normally need to fill up.
"There are some people who need it, but there are a lot of people who are panicking," Kloza said. "There's plenty of fuel. This will be over in days."


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HUNDREDS of young people from Worcestershire schools will take centre stage at a grand concert to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.
More than 300 teenagers from schools including South Bromsgrove High School will dominate the 600-strong Centenary Chorus during the Armed Man - a Mass for Peace 2014 at London's Royal Albert Hall on September 28.
Their involvement is found on the work of five years worth of projects from Sing UK, the not-for-profit organisation who provide singing opportunities, particularly for young people.
The landmark concert will also feature young singers from Germany, France and Belgium, the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Goldring and the programme will include the Armed Man by Karl Jenkins and Beethoven's Symphony No.5.
Anne Renshaw, Sing UK's operations director, said: "We are bringing together young people from the four principal countries involved in the First World War in a spirit of peace and reconciliation to perform together. It's going to be very special."
The event has the backing of the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who said: "It is truly humbling to see hundreds of young people, whose great-grandparents would have been on opposing sides of the war, coming together for this extraordinary event, which while remembering the lives lost, will also celebrate the spirit of peace and reconciliation in the 21st century."
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WASHINGTON Let's recap: If you like your insurance policy, you can keep it. No, wait. If you liked your policy, it was probably worthless anyway. Scratch that. If your junk policy was canceled and you still want it, you can keep it. Er, get it back.
So now President Obama has apologized for real. On Thursday, he told Americans, "I hear you loud and clear" (Do I hear an echo?) and announced that insurance companies can ignore the law for a year. The several million Americans whose policies were canceled, or were scheduled to be canceled, can keep them or get them back assuming state regulators and insurance companies comply.


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FLORISTS Lisa Fowler and Charlotte Murrant have won a place at May's Chelsea Flower Show.
The pair, who work at Eden Florist, in St James Street, Taunton, qualified through regional heats at Portsmouth last weekend.
They hope to go one better than 2011 and 2012, when they scooped silver medals at Chelsea as they compete for the title of RHS Florist of the Year.
Lisa said: "You don't get much bigger than The Chelsea Flower Show - it's so exciting to have the chance to compete at this show."
The girls had to create and design a floral collar for a guest to wear at the Woodland Trust dinner dance and their entries took hours of painstaking preparation, including embroidering leaves and threading strings of tiny berries.
Charlotte said: "It was a real challenge to design something to be unique and at the level required to win a place at Chelsea."
Their success leaves proud boss Jane Cowling with a dilemma - coping without her main florists for the week of the show.


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NEWPORT BEACH – In a centuries-old and solemn ceremony, a new church was welcomed Saturday.
More than 1,200 parishioners and nearly 60 honored clergy filled the new Our Lady Queen of Angels Church for the rite of dedication, presided over by Bishop Kevin W. Vann.
This day took 24 years of planning and 14 years of fundraising to pay for the $14.9 million church, said Father Kerry Beaulieu, the new church's pastor.
"We really see this as an expression of our faith and as an opportunity to share our faith with more people," Beaulieu said. "We're really grateful to everyone who helped make this possible."
Many parishioners said they have seen the church as it was progressing but experiencing it completed and ready for worship was powerful.
Click here to watch a time-lapse video of the church's construction.
"Walking in for the first time had a big impact," said Susan Strader, who served on the fundraising committee for the church Cornerstone Campaign. "It's very important to us."
"It's a new change but it's very awe-inspiring," said parishioner Victoria Taylor. "It brought tears to my eyes."
Dedicating a new church is a rare experience for an established congregation.
It is poignant and filled with ancient rituals.
The altar and walls of the church are blessed and anointed with Chrism, which is a blessed blend of olive oil and perfume.
Incense, a symbol of Jesus Christ's sacrifice, is burned on the altar and walked through the aisles of the church to bathe parishioners in the sweet scent.
The church is then lighted to signify Christ as the light of the world.
Candles are set aflame and just as the choir's song swells into a crescendo, the lights in the church come on and the congregation claps.
"The rite of dedication is like baptizing a building," Beaulieu said. "It's a once-in-100 years kind of experience for a parish."
The architectural theme of the new church is "faith is a journey toward the light and the light is Christ".
Stained-glass windows representing the seven sacraments of the Catholic faith cast a soft violet light that washes over the cavernous space.
The relics of five saints are housed beneath the white Spanish marble altar, which serves as the focal point of the church.
"It's such a completely different feel," Taylor said. "It's very worldly."
The diocese and congregation first started exploring building a new church after they learned the former 51-year-old building on Mar Vista Drive was not up to earthquake safety standards.
The church could either be retrofitted or a new place of worship could be built.
Parish leaders in 1999 set their sights on St. Mark's Presbyterian Church, adjacent to the former property.
St. Mark's was eventually relocated to an Irvine Company property on MacArthur Boulevard and San Joaquin Hills Road.
The Our Lady project was approved by Newport Beach City Council members in 2004 and construction started in July 2011, according to church officials.
Former Newport Beach Mayor Dennis O'Neil, who converted to Catholicism as planning for the project was under way, was instrumental in helping it move forward.
"It was the parish, the Catholic Diocese, the city and the Irvine Company all working together in good faith to create a marvelous result," O'Neil said. "I'm very pleased with the way it all came together."
The former church will be demolished in February to become a parking lot.
Parishioner Carol Ann Rohr converted to Catholicism a decade ago at the former church building. She said while she will forever be tied to the former church, she welcomes worship in the new space.
"I say goodbye and remember," she said. "I'm excited to follow my faith to a new church. This is going to be a wonderful church. It's very spiritual."


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When Legends Gather #716
Otto Preminger and Sen. Everett Dirksen
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- JonCow said...
Sen. Dippity-Doo
- November 14, 2012 6:15 AM
- mister muleboy said...
Is Dirksen the drunk, American Ian McKellan?
- November 14, 2012 2:35 PM
- John said...
"A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon you're talking about real money."
Today, Everett Dirksen would be considered a socialist in his once-proud Republican Party.
- November 15, 2012 10:50 AM
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It's photos like this that always keep me coming back for more.
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DETROIT - Monday:
4 witnesses testified about falsified invoices, a lavish office renovation and a profit made on the sale of a home purchased with state grant funds from contractor Bobby Ferguson's non-profit group Detroit 3 D.
Chris Boettcher, President of Airtec Corp, testified today that invoices submitted to the state presumably from Airtec were in fact not his company's. He also testified that he never did any work on Meyers St and that he never authorized the statements sent with Airtec's name to the State Budget Office.
Next on the stand was Bob Murray, President of the Contract Design Group, a commercial and residential interior contracting company. Mr. Murray testified that in 2001 he did extensive work for Ferguson Enterprises which included hardwood floors, marble detailing, a spiral staircase and an upper loft in the President office. Initially, the loft area was meant to be a meeting space but due to budget constraints, midway through the project it became a "chilling pad" complete with television screen. The total cost of the renovation was $71,500 with an initial deposit of $37,000.
Murray described meeting Bobby's wife and children in the backyard of their home and about seeing campaign signs that read "Kwame for Mayor" on work vehicles.
"What's a Kwame?" asked Murray. Ferguson explained that he was hoping his life-long friend Kwame Kilpatrick would become mayor so that he could get some business when Kwame got rid of Detroit's blighted homes.
A former resident of Meyers St, Martin Jolly, described to the court how the home next door was falling apart: leaking roof, falling ceilings and weed overgrowth everywhere. He never met the owner of the property but said he recalled a brown skinned person driving a Cadillac come by once. Mr. Jolly ultimately bought the property in July 2005 for $50,000 from Detroit 3D.
Lastly, IRS agent Ron Sauer was called back to testify. Judge Nancy Edmunds explained to the jurors that because of the length of the trial, certain witnesses would be called back for different "chapters" of events. Agent Sauer testified that a check for $42,567.17 made out to Detroit 3D was deposited to the Ferguson Enterprises account at First Independence Bank.
The agent also described how when the $250,000 Arts and Cultural grant for Detroit 3 D came into one of 2 accounts at Merrill Lynch, the first transaction on the account was to wire transfer $100,000 to Carlita Kilpatrick's U.N.I.T.E.
Susan Van Dusen, one of Bobby Ferguson's defense lawyers, deftly cross-examined the witnesses. During her questioning of Murray, she pointed to date inconsistencies on government documents and explained that of the $71,500 bill from his company, Ferguson Enterprises paid $41,898.48. She also got Mr. Jolly to say on the stand that the seller never came looking for him and that it was he who pursued the sale of the home on Meyers St.
Van Dusen made a point of reminding Agent Sauer that as of November 2002, Detroit 3D had severed its ties with the SBO which had never sought to reclaim the grant of $250,000.
Van Dusen asked if, as President of Detroit 3D, did Bobby Ferguson not have the authority to sell the property on Meyers St.
Sauer answered that yes he was able to do it but "I would say it's unusual for a non-profit to withdraw funds and give them to its President."
But said Van Dusen you can't tell us it's illegal for him to do it. No responded Sauer.
Big news of the day was that the sleepy juror was tossed from the jury.
Right at the start of session, Judge Nancy Edmunds announced that juror #4 had been excused because "she had some issues being as attentive as she needed to be." She was replaced by an alternate.
Kelly Bartlett, former legislative liaison for the State Budget Office, testified about a phone call in the spring of 2001 from then-state rep. Kwame Kilpatrick.
Bartlett revealed that he was startled when Kilpatrick began the conversation with a tone of voice suggesting that he was in trouble.
"Kilpatrick said these organizations or these groups are getting nickeled and dimed by you people", said Bartlett. Kilpatrick was referring to Detroit 3D and Vanguard.
Bartlett also told the court of his concerns that Kwame's wife Carlita Kilpatrick was getting money from the grants. He even drafted a letter on the issue for the Attorney General's Office but it was never sent.
Stephen Oshinsky, former systems manager with SkyTel, also testified.
It was all about Emma Bell.
The former Kwame Kilpatrick fund-raiser never actually made it to court but her presence was certainly felt. In his cross-examination of IRS special agent Ron Sauer,Kwame Kilpatrick defense lawyer Jim Thomas did his utmost to discredit the government's co-operating witness, branding her just about everything out there: liar, criminal, snitch, gambler and alcoholic who stuffed money in her bra and mattress.
Bell plead guilty to tax evasion last year. She was sentenced to 18 months in jail but may see that amount reduced.
Earlier in his testimony, Sauer revealed that between 2003 and 2008, Bell received a total of $904,051.19 from four Kilpatrick-related entities including Kilpatrick for Mayor, the Next Vision Foundation, Kilpatrick Inaugural Committee and the Kilpatrick Civic Fund.
The government alleges that Bell kickbacked more than $250,000 to Kwame Kilpatrick, essentially paying him 50% on any amount greater than $5,000.
Bell had initially told investigators that she split anything over $25,000 with Kilpatrick because she didn't want Kwame to appear "petty" in splitting smaller amounts.
Thomas tried to poke holes in Bell's credibility by getting Sauer to admit she hadn't filed tax returns in possibly more than 20 years, kept bank account balances low to avoid triggering suspicion and had a drinking habit.
Oh, and possibly a little gambling problem too.
Greektown Casino records introduced into evidence by the defense indicated that Bell had a particular proclivity for the coin slots. In 2005, Bell gambled $170, 863 in coin slots and lost $15, 924. In 2006, she gambled $569, 868.34 and lost $39,276. In 2007, she gambled $788,950 ultimately losing $56,325 and in 2008, Bell gambled $803,022.29 and lost more than $82,000.
Thomas also dug into Sauer for not obtaining records from other casinos and for the defense's ability to uncover a further $42,000 paid out to Emma Bell in August 2003 that government investigators had failed to find. He also referred back to Sauer's grand jury testimony in 2010 where he told a juror "No, we haven't established a correlation between money Emma Bell received and payments made into Kwame's account."
Lastly, Thomas had Sauer read from one of his memorandums where he stated that "EB stored cashier's checks in her mattress or drawer".
As was widely anticipated, government witness Emma Bell testified in court. Bell told a rapt courtroom how she paid former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick kickbacks in his office from money stuffed in her bra.
Bell was the first cooperating witness to testify in the Kwame Kilpatrick federal corruption trial.
She plead guilty to tax evasion last year and signed a plea agreement with the government. Under sentencing guidelines, Bell is facing 18 to 24 months in prison but the government may opt to reduce that amount by half after her testimony.
Under questioning by U.S. Attorney Michael Bullotta, Bell recounted how she had met Bernard Kilpatrick and Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick and their family in the early 1970s through her involvement with the Shrine of the Black Madonna church.
Bell also revealed that her very first check for a Kilpatrick for Mayor fund-raising event was for $100,000.
Bullotta asked what the former mayor said when she thanked him for the payment.
"He said I was welcome and I'll see you later," said Bell. When pressed to say further by Bullotta, Bell said "He asked if I had something for him." By that, explained the witness, Kilpatrick meant that she should come back with money.
Bell then described how she would take money from a can under her bed which she would proceed to stuff in her bra or pockets.
"Hundreds mostly. Some fifties but mostly hundreds" were used to pad Bell's bra.
She would then visit Kilpatrick at his offices. Behind the closed doors of a side office, they would sit together in a barber chair and Bell would give him the money. On a series of some 18 visits, Bell testified that would typically hand Kwame between $8,000 and $10,000 a visit. From the first payment of $100,000, she said she gave him between $40,000 and $50,000
When asked how much in total she paid Kwame, Bell responded "I don't know the exact amount but I know it was more than $100,000. I know it was more than $200,000."
An incredulous Jim Thomas, Kwame Kilpatrick's defense lawyer, asked "Are you telling the jury you took money out of your bra in the mayor's office?"
"I would take money out of my bra in front of my son," responded Bell calmly. She then proceeded to lift her blouse slightly for Mr. Thomas in demonstration.
Thomas gained momentum in his questioning of the witness, taking her to task for possibly bending the truth to spare herself prison time and ultimately driving Bell to tears.
"There are only 2 people in this room other than God that know what happened. And that's me and Mr. Kilpatrick," said a teary Bell towards the end of her testimony.
Also, another juror, alternate #5, was excused from the jury. Now down to only 4 alternates.
There was a time warp in the courtroom today as jurors heard a younger Kwame Kilpatrick declare that he hadn't used a single penny from the Kilpatrick Civic Fund for his mayoral campaign.
The declaration was made during a mayoral debate between candidates Gil Hill and Kilpatrick which aired on October 28th 2001.
The video was introduced during the testimony of FBI agent Robert Beeckman.
The courtroom watched as a younger, baby-faced Kilpatrick was asked by panelist and Local 4's own Guy Gordon a question on campaign contributions.
"We haven't used one penny, ONE PENNY, of the Civic Fund on this campaign because it's not allowed by law."
The testimony of the next witness, however, revealed this statement may not have been true.
Daniel Gotoff, a survey and polling expert with Lake Partners Research, testified that his company was contracted in the spring of 2001 to conduct exploratory survey research for the Kwame Kilpatrick for Mayor Campaign. And he testified that they were paid for those services with checks from the Kilpatrick Civic Fund.
Three checks from the Kilpatrick Civic Fund to the then Lake Snell Perry & Associates were introduced into evidence by the prosecution. The checks were for $13,158, $8,872 and $14,000. They were all signed by former Kilpatrick Chief of Staff Christine Beatty and Kwame Kilpatrick himself.
Jim Thomas, defense lawyer for Kwame Kilpatrick, argued that under the revised articles of incorporation for the Civic Fund, there was no foul play as long as no specific reference was made to voting for Kilpatrick. Thomas also argued that the research findings exposed city issues which were central to the stipulations addressed in the Civic Fund incorporation agreement and thus ensured a benefit to the community at large.
U.S. Attorney Mark Chutkow swiftly re-directed by asking the witness if any of the survey findings would have been released to the public.
"No that would have been unusual because this type of information is proprietary to the campaign," responded Gotoff.
Earlier in the day, Angela Burris also testified. Burris was a driver for former fund-raiser Emma Bell. She told the court that she drove Bell to the former mayor's offices 10 or 12 times but that she never saw her give him any large amounts of cash. She also said that even though she took Bell to the casinos twice a week, she never had an inkling that she might have a gambling habit.
Court is in recess Monday for Columbus Day. Testimony resumes next Tuesday at 9AM.
Copyright 2012 by ClickOnDetroit.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Since 1977 Tom Nelson has been pouring himself into the lives of others. Through his ministry as a pastor, an author, and as a national conference speaker, he is committed to the biblical teachings of Jesus Christ. He has been a great blessing to Dallas Seminary in sending us students from his church as well as serving on the DTS Board of Incorporate Members.
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