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Sometimes irreverent and funny, sometimes intense and moving, Boston Legal prides itself on being at the forefront of issue-oriented television, often addressing issues that are underreported by the media. Fast-paced and wildly comedic, the series confronts social and moral issues, while its characters continually stretch the boundaries of the law.
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Even if you weren't in the practice of watching ABC's 'The Practice,' you might find its spinoff, 'Boston Legal,' habit-forming. [3 Oct 2004]Boston Herald Full Review
No pair of actors on any other show, new or old, on any network is as pleasurable to behold as these two. [1 Oct 2004]New York Post Full Review
As was "Ally," "Legal" is rated "Q" for quirky. Wacky characters abound, clients look askance at the goings-on, usually with good reason. One lawyer appears in coat, tie, shirt, and nothing else. [2 Oct 2004]San Diego Union-Tribune Full Review
It's all charming, with the crackle of Kelley at his best. [1 Oct 2004]New York Daily News Full Review
[James Spader's] raffishly amoral Shore is the most enjoyable thing to happen to courtroom drama in years. [1 Oct 2004]Detroit Free Press Full Review
Shatner has never been funnier - on purpose or inadvertently. [1 Oct 2004]Newsday Full Review
Boston Legal represents a vast improvement over the final season of The Practice. [1 Oct 2004]Orlando Sentinel Full Review
Whatever one thought of Practice last season, Boston Legal is a separate show -- and it should be viewed with a clean slate. Taken on its own purposely outrageous terms, Boston succeeds as a decent legal comedy led by two broadly amusing characters. [1 Oct 2004]USA Today Full Review
It may be a case of going too far but in such a crazy-daisy way that it can't help but be entertaining. [2 Oct 2004]Washington Post Full Review
The cases on "Boston Legal" will inevitably become ridiculous; that's the trend in Kelley's shows, as he pushes the envelope beyond reason. But the show's regular cast has great promise. [2 Oct 2004]Boston Globe Full Review
Oddly entertaining. ... If you're a fan of Spader's ability to make creepy characters watchable, if not likable, then this solid hour is worth your time. [2 Oct 2004]Chicago Tribune Full Review
Shatner has a ball playing a paragon of inappropriate behavior and lends the egocentric character a surprising touch of poignancy in his rare moments of introspection. But it's going to be tricky finding the right balance between Shore and Crane while allowing each to stay in touch with his inner devil.People Weekly Full Review
There is no mistaking "Boston Legal" for anything other than a Kelley office drama. The show and its characters have all the trademark tics that have become his calling card: Quirky cases, outrageous characters, legal arguments as sermons on the mount. Everything is just a little bit heightened, at least when it's not completely over the top; caricatures too often sub for characters. [1 Oct 2004]Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Full Review
Provocative, hammy, absurd, and irresistible—so far. ... [But] Boston Legal would do well to limit the narrative hocus-pocus and concentrate on its strength—the chemistry between the two fine main actors.Slate Full Review
The comedy offsets (and benefits from) both Spader's innate creepiness and Shatner's innate hamminess, and it is where producer David E. Kelley's own talents lie.Los Angeles Times Full Review
If [James Spader's] Shore seems a bit off, the show's tone is even more so. ... Despite these weaknesses, there's hope.Entertainment Weekly Full Review
"Boston Legal" suffers from the pervasive feeling of been here, seen this. The show's closer to "Ally McBeal" than "The Practice," which provided the Petri dish to nurture and grow it. Kelley's fertile mind still disgorges occasional gems, but for the most part here, he's delivered more rhinestones than diamonds. [1 Oct 2004]Variety Full Review
Its first cases ... play out cheaply as setups for one-liners, only a few of which land squarely. [3 Oct 2004]Dallas Morning News Full Review
Unfortunately, too much of the show is taken up by the usual Kelley stupidity. [1 Oct 2004]Newark Star-Ledger Full Review
It's disappointing because there was genuine promise here. Spader and Shatner each won Emmys for their work on "The Practice" last season. They're great together as soulless soulmates, partners in slime. ... Unfortunately, they take a back seat to over-the-top stories that -- like hearing "Tomorrow" from the musical "Annie" over and over -- begin to grate in short order. [1 Oct 2004]Chicago Sun-Times Full Review
This series is a window into Mr. Kelley's soul that is best left closed; the writer who was so nuanced at creating balanced and original women on serious dramas like "The Practice," "Chicago Hope" and "Picket Fences" has far more bizarre, prurient tastes when it comes to women's comedy.The New York Times Full Review
The most unfortunate victims of Kelley's sad attempt at recapturing the funky fun of his past and mixing in what gravitas he can scrounge up are two otherwise fine characters, Spader's impishly amoral Alan Shore and Shatner's extroverted nut case Denny Crane. [2 Oct 2004]Seattle Post-Intelligencer Full Review
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Margie Mae Fleming, age 85 of Kinmundy, IL, passed away on Saturday, January 7, 2017, at her home in Kinmundy.
Margie was born Sunday, August 30, 1931 in Pike County, KY where coal is the main industry and where the Hatfield's and McCoy's fueded in the Hills.
She was the daughter of Creed Tackett and Virgie Tackett. She married Clarence Foster "Babe" on March 9, 1973 and he preceded her in death on March 26, 2016. She married Robert Fleming "Bob" on July 5, 1973 and he preceded her in death on November 8, 2010.
Aunt Margie was never blessed with children of her own but helped mentor and mother many nieces and nephews. She was small but fiesty. With the help of her faithful caregiver she was able to stay in her home until the Lord took her to be with Him. Thank you to Darlene Long and Misty Feather for your loving care.
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- Space Case is a Decepticon from the Dark of the Moon portion of the live-action film series continuity family.
Space Case is fast. Really, really fast. His speed is the only reason he hasn't been blown out of the sky, because his malfunctioning mind is only slightly more complex than an average rock. He believes his survival is due to the glyphs etched on his armor, but really it's just hard to hit a target as quick as him.
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No one likes to waste money, least of all on a vacation. Nothing kills the buzz of a dream trip faster than standing on line for that top tourist attraction, handing over your hard-earned cash, and discovering that it was all a bunch of hyped holiday hooey.
To save you money and time, we've compiled a list of 20 sights that are, in fact, worth every dollar. Some are on the expensive side, such as the $50 ticket to the country's best aquarium. Some aren't that pricey at all. (Guess where you can take any streetcar you desire for only $1.25?) And how much would you pay for an underground cave that doubles as a bluegrass concert hall? How does $45 sound?
In addition to these worth-it wonders, we've added a few that you might call meh. They're the kind of places you should avoid, either because they cost too much for what you get or they just cost too much, period. You might well disagree—and if you do, please tell us why. Even better, send us a postcard. Just remember to have fun wherever you roam.
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Novosco is a leading provider of Cloud Technologies, Managed Services and Consulting. We specialise in helping organisations utilise the unique aspects of emerging technologies to solve business challenges in new and dynamic ways. We operate under managed service or strategic partnership contracts with our major clients.
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Ravello's ESXi labs in particular is used by the Managed Service Platforms division.
In order to support our growth and deliver a consistent managed service quality across our client base we have standardized "checks" we run on environments at differing intervals.
This gives us a pro-active element and an ability to see problems before they emerge, or indeed catch them and detail for remediation.
There is only so much we can deliver reliably with manual effort, as such, to allow our MSP division to scale clients without needing to scale team size unnecessarily we turned, as any company would, to automation and scripting.
We have some very valuable and specialised checks that we have automated, that would either take an individual a considerable amount of time and effort to produce, be prone to error due to complex calculations needed or just not be feasible to monitor at the frequency we require.
So scripting was a must, what about testing?
That's where Ravello's labs come in (in particular ESXi virtualisation) this allowed us to, at scale, test scripts to a level that are just not feasible within a physical lab, or indeed with the same repeatability and consistency of environment.
I'll take one instance as an example, I was asked to produce a script that would automate the testing of host level operations. Obviously at some point, you're going to have to modify the environment.
So, environment modification, that's completely automated… Sounds like a recipe for disaster, right?
Sure, but if you test it thoroughly with enough configs and hone your permissions down, you minimise risk, and that's what we use Ravello for:
Testing scripts that could cause collateral damage before putting them anywhere near production.
Ravello allows us to spin up and down environments that are similar, if not identical to customer's or test cases that we think may break our automation.
Their Blueprint feature makes it super-easy to spin up and destroy these to test whether a new feature in the code will break under certain environmental conditions.
We are building up a library of VM profiles (different ESXi builds or vCenters) and blueprints that simulate these environments and allow us to deploy for very reasonable cost and minimal effort the same conditions these scripts will see in the wild.
And the icing on the cake?
We don't break our own lab or customer infrastructure, win-win.
Repeatable, robust and shareable
Obviously when you create a lab of any kind it takes a time investment, so if you are able to have that environment and spin it up many times, for the same initial time investment isn't it a no-brainer?
Yep, and that's just what we were able to achieve with Ravello's blueprint feature, I created a single blueprint with a common environment (4x hosts, 1x vCenter and shared storage):
Pretty standard, nothing extravagant, but something we see quite often. I was able to spin this up in a few hours (that includes time to create an ESXi template, a vCenter install and shared storage with a NexentaStor CE VM), that's not bad considering most of those components are now reusable in other blueprints.
Obviously i'm not the only one that works in the division, so this was shared amongst all the other engineers and now regardless of who it is, if we are collaborating on a development effort, we all now have consistent test conditions that were otherwise impossible to reproduce.
Have we found a new factor that may affect how the script works?
Run the blueprint, make the environmental change, spin it down, create a new blueprint and there we are – consistent environments for all members with this new variable. Perfect.
Overall we've been very happy with Ravello, it fits our need perfectly and I can see it (with the API support) becoming a CI tool for us to have tests run automatically on different environments on milestones, we have a way to go yet, but Ravello have been more than helpful and don't foresee this being a problem!
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PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania women's soccer team scored twice in the first half, then weathered a strong Lafayette second half to knock off the previously unbeaten Leopards, 2-1, Friday night at Rhodes Field.
Penn (2-1-0) got on the board in the 22nd minute when Olivia Blaber headed home a cross from freshman Emily Sands, tucking it just under the crossbar to the left of Lafayette goalkeeper Danielle Sedillo.
Almost exactly 10 minutes later, Riann Winget doubled the advantage. Sasha Stephens crossed a ball from the left end line, and the senior one-timed a volley from the top of the box that seemed to surprise Sedillo when it slid inside the right post.
Lafayette (3-1-2) pressed the action a bit more in the second half, and was rewarded in the 65th minute when Alex Stanford finished off a nicely played corner kick. Kaelin King and Elizabeth Scoda were credited with assists on the play.
The Leopards then pushed for the equalizer, but Penn kept it together in the back for the victory. Kitty Qu went the entire way in goal for the Quakers and had two stops, including one at point-blank range. Overall, Penn outshot Lafayette 16-5.
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Nintendo's new Miiverse social network likely aims to build excitement for the upcoming console Wii U
Nintendo has announced the upcoming launch of its own social network called Miiverse ahead of the Japanese company's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) presentation in Los Angeles this week.
The Miiverse network is Nintendo's own social network that allows users to interact with their friends and other players. Users can see what others are playing, share game content, use the Wii camera for video conferencing, and use the controller to update picture/text messages on the network.
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Nintendo's new Miiverse social network likely aims to build excitement for the upcoming console, but some are skeptical about how successful Miiverse will be. While Nintendo says that the social network will eventually be capable of access through the 3DS, smartphones and PCs, its lack of connection with Facebook or Twitter will leave it behind in the social networking race.
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On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Paul Hammant <email@example.com> wrote: > I have taken a look. Basic classpath ala SQLExec or XSLTProcessor > is quite easy, but I think that it won't work for BSF hosted scripts > as execution is leaving ant and going into BSF. As that is in Ant's > basic lassloader, it will not be able to find anything in a sub > classloader. Sounds like a similar problem we have in <junit>, either you put all stuff required to run the tests (i.e. junit.jar and the task) into the system classloader, or nothing at all) - the difference here is that Ant is responsible for loading the test classes, so it can take advantage of a classloader of its own. In the <script> case, you'll have to make sure that you load the task itself, BSF and the language specific parser via the same classloader and also load all utility classes your scripts need via this one, right? Do you know whether BSF supports context classloaders? > We need some forking thing like javac & java Would probably work, yes. > .. OR .. bsf.jar is not added to the general classpath by lcp.bat > and is implicitly added in "Path createClasspath() {}". I'd rather put some extensive comments in the documentation that explain how to set up an envirionment like this, than to modify the wrapper scripts to deal with bsf.jar in a separate way. Stefan
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…one of them standing forlorn in the high-grass after a multi-hour downpour. And I thought that that would be the end of it. The jabberwockey's claws would catch, its jaws would bite! But their story went on.
We arrived to hear news that they'd not only survived, but were sitting on a high branch not far away. We ventured into the woods.
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Afterwards, my best efforts to the contrary, I was unable to convince my niece to join me in adventurating. My cousins, however, were willing, so we took off to map a new trail in the area.
|Adventurating degenerated into puddle hopping as we discovered that the previous night's showers had flooded out the trail in a number of places. Occasional detours into the brush were necessitated. Once, the GPS disappeared and we had to go back searching.
But in the end, we got the map, made it out of the woods, and back before it started to pour again. But this has led to plans for another expedition. There's a large beaver dam in the area, and I think the trail crosses around the far side of the lake they've construcuted, but I need the traces to prove it. And it was time to eat…
…and watch fireworks. Every year they launch these from one of the islands and the whole lake's 51 miles of inhabited lake shore turns out to watch. We bob about - an armada of tiny boats - and then dissolve into chaos following the show. There's also a small element of danger to this: you can see the fireworks hitting the water.
|The water's over forty feet there, so we don't anchor - this means the occasional jumpstart of the motor when we risk colliding with another boat. And, of course, the fourth always requires sparklers.
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|The next day, I made a swift return to Minneapolis, just in time to catch an acquintaince at the airport before she departed to Seattle… presumably forever.
So I got to thinking about probability. Oft modeled as a bell-curve, life is, I think, bigger than this. Probability is more distributed than we think, and perhaps it sums to something greater than unity.
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And then there was the World Cup final between Spain and Germany. Beth and I joined Tad for lunch at the Weinery beforehand and then waded into the chaos of the Nomad World Pub's festival. The crowd was ridiculous…
|…and clearly pro-Spain. Tad and Alina appeared out of the crowd at various points, as did various inebriated men interested in Beth.
|Luckily for her, these would get distracted throwing their beverages at anyone blocking the screens. I left before the match ended, but Spain defeated Germany… again.
|Martha and I met up for lunch and afterwards went in search of the oldest tree in Minneapolis. And we found it just in time: it was dying and slated for removal. To commemorate its awesomeness, a troop of Morris dancers was gathered 'round. They had spare hankies and we joined in their dancing.
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AMERICANS, it has been learned, are willing to buy underwear at airports. Also shoes, golf shirts, cosmetics, Caesar salad and stuffed animals. Especially stuffed animals.
One result of this discovery is a transformation of major American airports to increase the amount of retail space they contain and to make them more shopper-friendly. Airports, the last bastions of confident functionalism, are being remade as consumer bazaars, near cousins of the shopping mall. The proud drabness with which airports once sought to reassure passengers that everything was under control is giving way to the bright, attention-grabbing, brash brand imagery of some of the world's leading retailers.
In creating midways to the runway, retail developers rarely change airport structures, but by giving them color and some of the bustle and clutter of a marketplace, they are changing how airports feel. And because airport stores are highly lucrative, new airports are increasingly being designed with large commercial spaces at their heart. All three of New York's airports are undergoing or planning major makeovers that will increase the amount of space given over to food and retailing, and many other airports in this country have carried out or are planning similar projects.
At the vanguard of this movement is the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, where the trend first took hold in 1992. The airport with the largest, most visible retail presence, it is a place where architects and retail managers come to learn the new rules of airport design.
For arriving passengers, the airport looks like most others. It appears to be an endless, low-lying building of concrete and glass, its walls bristling with prefabricated jetways. ''Welcome to Pittsburgh'' reads a perfunctory greeting, stenciled on a beam above the ramp as you leave the airplane.Continue reading the main story
But when you get into the concourse itself, you can see who is really happy you've arrived. Hanging from the skylighted ceiling above the moving walkways are brightly colored, four-and-a-half-foot-tall shopping bags bearing the logos of Victoria's Secret, Clinique, the Gap and other airport merchants. They have the look of pop sculptures, and they probably make more of an impression than the Calder mobile that hangs at the center of the terminal.
These suspended shopping bags upstage the pleasant-enough architecture of the terminal, an X-shaped building with shallow, barrel-vaulted ceilings. Similarly, at the center of the terminal, where the shops are clustered, the commercial design outdoes the architecture. Precast concrete doesn't have a chance when competing with the cherry-veneer art nouveau shopfront of Godiva Chocolatier or with the bordello look of the gilt and fuchsia Victoria's Secret.
''The days of building an airport as a secular cathedral are over,'' says Robert Weinberg, chairman of MarketPlace Development Corporation of Boston, which is planning a retail makeover at La Guardia Airport. In fact, only a handful of recent American airports have shown any architectural ambition at all. They have chosen instead to project an image of efficiency and quiet competence. Airport architecture has usually been about speed and movement, even though the airport experience is mostly about waiting and milling around. The in-your-face sophistication of retail design challenges the blandly competent look of the typical airport.
Retail developers are less concerned with the drama of airport architecture than they are with the quality of what they call ''the airport experience.'' This translates into impeccable cleanliness, a calm, pleasant atmosphere that allows passengers to relax, and, most of all, a variety of high-quality, mostly national-brand retailers and restaurants, whose prices are the same as in their outlets outside the airport.
''Passengers are going to expect quality retail in an airport, and airports don't have any choice but to provide it,'' said Mark Knight, president of B.A.A. Pittsburgh, which manages the retailing at the airport. It is a subsidiary of the company that owns London's airports and is planning a retail makeover of terminals A and B at Newark International.
Newark is only in the early stages of design, says Mr. Knight, who is supervising it for B.A.A., but the company's goal is to get rid of what he terms the airport's institutional look. ''Today you have the feeling of straight corridors leading to airplanes, with shops in glass boxes on the sides,'' he said. ''We will try to introduce variety, stagger the shopfronts and let retailers project themselves more into the space.''
The company is also planning a sprawling new terminal at London's Heathrow; it would be built around a retail center nearly as large as a regional shopping mall.
THE new airport design, much to the consternation of traditionalists, tends to contradict their longstanding goal of getting passengers from curbside to airplane as efficiently as possible. One new rule is that passengers must be forced to walk past the shops and restaurants. ''Retailers want to create turbulence, to divert people from their paths,'' says Dan Peter Kopple, a Philadelphia architect who has worked on several airports.
Another rule is that retailers have to be allowed to use the graphics and imagery on posters and signs that they use elsewhere, tactics that are anathema to airport designers and administrators who have historically exercised tight control over what passengers see, on the theory that too much visual information is confusing.
In Pittsburgh, even where there are no shops, there are retail reminders, like those suspended shopping bags. Everywhere, posters remind passengers that they can buy food to take on the plane or use their time to do some shopping.
The biggest reason frequent flyers are becoming frequent buyers is that flying has become more time-consuming and less pleasant. Airlines have cut back food service on many flights to pretzels or less, creating a market starved for good, reasonably priced food. Hub-and-spoke airline routes mean more food-free flights and long stopovers. Security concerns have led airlines and airports to recommend that passengers show up earlier than they did before, thus increasing the time they could spend on shopping.
''Really serious security worries that make people edgy, or long delays that make them grumpy, don't encourage people to spend,'' says Mr. Knight. But, he acknowledges, ''People are spending more time in airports, and we can offset some of the negative parts of flying.''
Cesar Pelli, an architect who designed the renovation of Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, says he likes to shop in airports. ''When I have to wait for a long time, I find it easier to shop than anything else,'' he said. But he sees danger when retailing is allowed to dominate the planning of an airport. ''When the main goal is to maximize revenues from retailing, that can conflict with designing a good airport,'' he said.
Mr. Pelli's airport is in many ways the opposite of Pittsburgh's because it places civic expression first and retailing, at best, second. Among airport retailers, Washington National has become a prime negative example because most of its retail shops are clustered away from the busiest passenger thoroughfares. And the airport's configuration requires that this area be outside the security checkpoint, so passengers who find they have the time to browse are deterred from going back.
''I think Washington National is a fantastic building, but as retail it doesn't work,'' said Mr. Knight. ''I don't see any reason why you can't have both. But airport administrators and architects will have to take retailing as seriously as they do the rest.''
Retailing has long been an important component of airports that cater to international traffic because of duty-free business. In American airports with primarily domestic traffic, the situation was the opposite. Food was often overpriced and poor, and retailing consisted mostly of magazines and souvenirs. The first attempt to change this came about a decade ago in Portland, Ore., where a strong effort was made to provide good food and products to serve as a showcase for the region.
Still, when B.A.A. came into Pittsburgh seven years ago, Mr. Knight said, the question of whether retailing could work in domestic airports was still open. The company, which had been created in Britain in 1987 as part of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's privatization campaign, had already successfully expanded the retailing at Heathrow and other airports it owns, and it was looking outside Britain for more sources of revenue.
Pittsburgh's new airport terminal was a good place to start because it was designed to have a substantial amount of retail space right at the crossroads of its four concourses. About 70 percent of the passengers in Pittsburgh are changing planes at the U.S. Airways hub, so there are many people in transit who are looking for something to do. By abandoning airport retailers' traditional practice of gouging their captive audience and, instead, charging the same as at nearby malls, Pittsburgh airport became a reasonable shopping alternative. Parents buy ''guilt gifts,'' like stuffed bears and bunnies; flight attendants patronize Victoria's Secret, and everybody eats or grabs food to take aloft.
Eleven percent of passengers surveyed at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport said they chose to change planes there because they liked the airport's facilities, primarily the stores and restaurants, according to Mr. Knight.
The 21 million passengers who use the Pittsburgh airport each year spend an average $8.35 per person, about $3 more than the national average at airports. For Pittsburgh, this is money falling out of the sky. And if travelers' preference for the airport draws more flights, revenues from landing fees -- the chief source of income for all airports -- also increase substantially.
For retail developers and tenants, the economics of airport retailing are extremely attractive. Mr. Knight said that Pittsburgh tenants' sales averaged about $1,000 a square foot of space each year. In a regional shopping center, revenue averages about $250 a square foot, he said. It costs more to do business in an airport, but exposure to such a large, affluent audience makes it worthwhile. ''Airports are very predictable places to do business,'' said Mr. Knight. ''We know exactly when people are coming, so you can plan your staff schedule. We know that the audience has above-average income, with a median age of about 42.''
Still, while retailing is changing the way airports look and feel, it is unlikely to amount to more than 10 percent of an airport's square footage, and thus it remains only one aspect of the challenge of airport architecture. ''An airport might look something like a mall,'' Mr. Pelli said, ''but it will never be a mall.''Continue reading the main story


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Articulatory Tradeoffs Reduce Acoustic Variability During American English /r/ Production
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Acoustic and articulatory recordings reveal that speakers utilize systematic articulatory tradeoffs to maintain acoustic stability when producing the phoneme /r/. Distinct articulator configurations used to produce /r/ in various phonetic contexts show systematic tradeoffs between the cross-sectional areas of different vocal tract sections. Analysis of acoustic and articulatory variabilities reveals that these tradeoffs act to reduce acoustic variability, thus allowing large contextual variations in vocal tract shape; these contextual variations in turn apparently reduce the amount of articulatory movement required. These findings contrast with the widely held view that speaking involves a canonical vocal tract shape target for each phoneme.


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Timely, fully funded, and widely available palliative care could save Canada's health care system between $7,000 and $8,000 per patient, says a new paper from the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians.
"The savings in direct health-care system costs are consistently reported to be around 30 per cent," said the report, which summarizes recent peer-reviewed literature on palliative care economics.
"Palliative Care: A Vital Service With Clear Economic, Health and Social Benefits" has come out just three weeks after a paper in the Canadian Medical Association Journal claimed assisted suicide could reduce costs to public health care by between $34.7 million and $138.8 million annually.
The Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians hopes its paper will spur action in Ottawa.
"We know, financially, health care is terribly expensive in Canada," said society president Dr. David Henderson. "We thought it was really important to show that not only can better care be provided, but it can be done in a very cost-effective way."
Henderson said that savings from universal access to fully funded palliative care probably stack up against any savings that might come from assisted suicide.
The report says savings would come from, among other things, reducing hospital stays, moving patients from hospital to home or hospice care, and reducing unnecessary diagnostic testing.
"You're talking about a lot longer period of time for those savings to occur," said Henderson. "Even people who would choose MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying), generally they're going to choose it pretty far down the line."
The study points out that "U.S. Medicare data shows that a quarter of total health care costs are spent in the last year of life, with about 40 per cent — or 10 per cent of the total Medicare budget — spent in the last four weeks."
Given the cost of the legally mandated assessment by two physicians before euthanizing any patient, and the few doctors willing to offer the service, assisted suicide costs could be significant.
The fact that palliative care could save money is already known, said Sarnia-Lambton Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu, who sponsored a private member's bill calling for a national framework and national standards for palliative care.
Gladu's Bill 277 has passed first and second reading in Parliament with the unanimous support of the House. It is due for committee study in March. Gladu believes the bill will pass this year.
Timmins-James Bay NDP MP Charlie Angus supports Gladu's bill, but worries the government won't keep its promise to spend $3 billion on home and palliative care.
"What concerns me is it (Bill 277) will see all-party support and then the government will continue to take no action," Angus said. "The issue of palliative care seems to have completely dropped off the map."
Angus wants to see money spent on palliative care in areas where it actually delivers health care outside of provincial systems — the armed forces, veterans, and First Nations.
"I can tell you, in the First Nations communities the services are almost non-existent," he said.
The economic argument in favour of more and better palliative care should be persuasive to all politicians, according to Angus.
"Canadians deserve top-quality health care, especially at end of life. And there is a real simple economic argument to make for why that's a smart investment."
"It should be a no-brainer to make these investments and move forward," said Henderson.


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Equally at home on stage, Dave has performed in several national tours, including 'Twelfth Night' (playing Sir Andrew Aguecheek/Sebastian) and 'The Wizard of Oz': "By far the favourite of the audience was the extremely funny and energetic Dave Cutler as Scarecrow". Other previous roles have included Renfield (Dracula), Phil (Handbag) and Dumaine (Love's Labour's Lost).
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You are an unquestionable go-getter. You go. You achieve. As one of Alcon's front-line sales personnel, You. Generate. Profit. Because you're less a gatherer and more a hunter, your high level of drive and self-motivation creates success from the opportunities all around you. From your expertise with Alcon products, your ability to influence others, and your hard work, you don't merely watch the growth charts, you make the numbers climb. You have an empathy that enables you to align with customers and build rapport. You see through the tangle to identify how Alcon's premier line of products and services match up with doctor's and patient's needs. You leverage the data to strategize the most effective approach to every meeting. At the end of the day, eye-care practitioners don't feel that you convinced them to change their minds; instead they just realize the benefits of making Alcon their first choice. Whether it is networking at a convention, planning a product launch with key clients, or following up to resolve customer concerns, you make sales look easy. Teamed up with Alcon's top-tier products and services, it IS easy. It's what you do. So come share our vision of eye-care excellence.
•Builds and executes business plans to meet sales goals for assigned territory.
•Drives territory sales performance, market share, and optimal resource utilization.
•Develop effective professional business relationships with customers that support delivery of business results across a range of therapeutic areas.
•Differentiates Alcon as a leader in therapeutic areas targeted.
•Executes business plans and drives achievement of sales targets for assigned territory, customers, or therapeutic area.
•Develops and applies understanding of customer organizations and networks and of diverse influences that affect customer decisions (e.g. peer relationships).
•Executes call plans for customers, including medical experts from customer or academic communities; calls on the right person to deliver the right message with the right frequency.
•Adapts and optimizes approach and communications style during sales calls, responding appropriately to customer needs.
•Makes effective use of available technologies and channels to support sales calls.
•Ensure that Alcon products and supporting services are broadly understood and available to more patients and customers.
•Deploys and uses approved Marketing and Sales promotional materials and programs; runs direct promotion programs and facilitates pull-through activities.
•Uses expert knowledge of Alcon products and of a range of therapy areas to build professional customer relationships and to support sound clinical discussions.
•Uses detailed knowledge of competitor products' features and benefits during sales calls to improve sales of Alcon products.
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•Works effectively with other Alcon and Novartis stakeholders and with resources in Sales and across other functions (e.g., KAM, Marketing, etc.) to achieve sales targets.
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Bits and Bolts is a new Club Penguin game released on March 29, 2011 and it is available to play at the new Dance Lounge along with Thin Ice and Astro Barrier. It is a puzzle video game and you have to collect bot parts in order to advance to the next level. In order to play the new Club Penguin mini-game:
1. Login on Club Penguin, go to the Town and enter the Dance Club.
2. Go upstairs, enter the new Dance Lounge. The whole style and desing has changed in better in my opinion. Dance Lounge is now a place to stay. The room also has a "Hit the target" game where you can wear red or blue and help your team hit more targets.
3. Now waddle to the yellow and blue arcade in the left part of the screens in order to play the new game, Bits and Bolts.
4. Click "Yes" and wait until the game loads and now you can select between starting the game or taking a look at the instructions. The game was made by Snowball Soft in 2011. There were two games made this month which is amazing.
5. We should take a look at the instructions first to see the goal of this game. Click "Instructions".
6. These are the instructions:
- Click and combine the bolts to match the target number.
- Match the correct multiples of bolts to build a piece of robot.
- Use the blast ball to help clear the screen.
- Some robots require special numbers of bolts. Watch for even, odd and prime bots.
7. Now we are ready to play. Click the "Play Now" button to start.
8. Using the things you learned while reading the instructions the game should be easy for you. Have fun playing the newest Club Penguin game, Bits and Bolts.
The game seems to be good and I think you can have a good time playing it. We are waiting for Bits and Bolts stamps now.
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Senator Bernie Sanders put a hold on President Barack Obama's nominee to take over the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday, joining with two other senators who have also objected to Dr. Robert M. Califf's nomination, citing his ties to corporate drug manufacturers.
"Dr. Califf's extensive ties to the pharmaceutical industry give me no reason to believe that he would make the FDA work for ordinary Americans, rather than just the CEOs of pharmaceutical companies," Sanders said in a statement on Tuesday. "We need someone who will work to substantially lower drug prices, implement rules to safely import brand-name drugs from Canada and hold companies accountable who defraud our government."
As a researcher at Duke University, Califf took millions in funding and "consultation fees" from pharmaceutical giants like Eli Lilly, Merck, and Novartis. The New York Times once described him as the "ultimate industry insider."
Sanders joins Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in halting Califf's nomination. Markey, who intervened late last week, said he would continue the blockade until the FDA changes its approval process for opioid painkillers, citing the agency's decision to use OxyContin to treat children as young as 11.
Recent measures to combat rising heroin use in U.S. suburbs and rural areas have highlighted the link between prescription medication and drug addiction.
On Tuesday, Sanders also cautioned that the trend of over-prescribing drugs has come in tandem with the price gouging of life-saving medications for millions.
"I share Sen. Markey's concerns that the FDA must change the way it approaches addiction. Too many Americans are dying from what has become an opioid epidemic," Sanders said.
Califf became deputy commissioner at the FDA in 2015. In October, Sanders said he was against his nomination, stating, "At a time when millions of Americans cannot afford to purchase the prescription drugs they need, we need a new leader at the FDA who is prepared to stand up to the pharmaceutical companies and work to substantially lower drug prices. Unfortunately, I have come to the conclusion that Dr. Califf is not that person."
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Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, has decried the over one week power outage being experienced in the state, saying that the development was no longer acceptable to his administration.
The governor, therefore, demanded for immediate power restoration in the state by Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC).
Sani Bello spoke at the weekend when he commissioned a multi-million dollar integrated rice milling plant in Bida, in Bida Local Government Area of the state.
In a statement issued on Monday by his Chief Press Secretary, Jibrin Baba Ndace, the governor lamented that most cities, towns and villages in the state had been without power supply for weeks and cautioned AEDC not take the patience and level-headedness of the people of the state for granted.
He said: "Niger State alone contributes about 1,500 MW of power to the national grid but we are the worst hit state in terms of power supply. During the raining season, we suffer a lot of flooding. Our people living in the riverine areas suffer every year. This year alone over 100 communities were submerged and yet we don't have light.
"Minna, the state capital and many towns in the state have been without light for over a week. This is not acceptable. I have discussed with the President and the Vice President. I have complained to the Minister of Power and people who care to listen and I don't want to continue to complain.
"We know our rights. Whoever is in charge, whoever is responsible, I have one message: reverse the situation. We have been patient enough to be this peaceful. We have complained and we have written a series of letters. Let the distribution company reverse the situation now.
"We are patient people, we are law-abiding citizens. Our patience, tolerance and obedience should and must not be interpreted as weakness," the governor warned.
The governor said despite the epileptic power supply to the state, government has invested so much in buying transformers, a responsibility that rest squarely on the distribution company and the state still suffer blackout.
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The ability to age slower than normal members of your species, though not to the enhanced level. Sub-power of Peak Human Condition. Weaker version of Decelerated Aging.
Also Called
- Peak Human Extended Lifespan
- Peak Human Vitality
Individuals with this ability are at the peak of human conditioning. For this very reason, they age slower than normal members of their species due to having extremely healthy cells, without to the enhanced level. In addition, this power would activate when the user is in his/her young-adult years and they'd look twenty-years to even a hundred times younger. In Captain America's state, even though he was frozen in the ice for nearly seventy-years, Steve still had the vitality and appearance of a man in his physical prime.
If one were to "super-charge" this ability, then the user would achieve the superhuman version of this ability (the user could gain immortality if the augmentation is powerful enough). Finally, the user could live up to 150-200 years since this power is at peak-human level.
- Enemies who can control the physical age or biological cells of others; therefore, becoming highly dangerous if the Peak-Human victim is originally elderly.
- When users become elderly, this ability will automatically deactivate.
Known Users
- Bulma Briefs (Dragon Ball)
- Krillin (Dragon Ball)
- Black Widow (Marvel Comics)
- Steve Rogers (Marvel Comics); via Super Soldier Serum
- Nick Fury (Marvel Comics); via Infinity Formula
- Elijah Bradley/Patriot (Marvel Comics); via Super Soldier Serum
- Uzumaki Clan (Naruto)
- Senju Clan (Naruto)
- Vasco Strada (Highschool DxD)
- Stick (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Crimson Commando (Marvel Comics)
- Mikumo Kushinada (Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple)
- Master Fu (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir)
- The Ancient One (Marvel Comics)
- Wolfgang von Strucker (Marvel Comics); via Deathspore Virus
- Helmut Zemo (Marvel Comics); via Compound X Serum
- Heinrich Zemo (Marvel Comics); via Compound X Serum
- John Aman/The Prince of Orphans (Marvel Comics)
- Isaiah Bradley (Marvel Comics); via Super Soldier Serum
- Fat Cobra (Marvel Comics)
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2017 Cache Valley Cowboy Rendezvous
A reunion of Cowboy Poets, Western Music & Artisans
Welcomes Headliners:
Ned LeDoux, Don Edwards & Waddie Mitchell
March 3-5, 2017
Mountain Crest High School * 255 South 800 East * – Hyrum, Utah
for 3 stages continuous
Western Music, Cowboy Poetry, Trading Post
Vendors,Dutch Oven Dinners, Kid's Corral,
Adult & Kids Poetry Contest etc.
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Saturday Headliner Concerts:
Don Edwards & Waddie Mitchell
"The Bard & the Balladeer"
Saturday, March 4, 2017 2:00 pm
Premium Tickets: $50 w/ Meet & Greet -Don Edwards & Waddie Mitchell @12noon-1 pm (Rows A-C)
VIP seating $25 (Rows D – L) Adults: $15
Senior (62+yrs.), Child (3 yrs. & up) & Student ( with valid ID)
Ned LeDoux
with Trinity Seely & Sam DeLeeuw
Saturday, March 4, 2017 7:00 pm
Premium Tickets: $50 w/ Meet & Greet –Ned LeDoux @5-6 pm (Rows A-C)
VIP Seating $20 (Rows D –L) $10 All other seats
Don Edwards "America's Cowboy Balladeer" Grammy nominated songster Don Edwards continues to build a legacy that enriches our vision of the American West. In tales of the day-to-day lives and emotions of those who have lived it, his ballads paint a sweeping landscape of both mind and heart, bringing to life the sights, sounds and feelings of this most American contribution to culture and art. Bobby Weaver of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, summed up Edwards' importance as "… the best purveyor of cowboy music in America today." Read More & Video
Waddie Mitchell "Buckaroo Poet" From his earliest days on the remote Nevada ranches where his father worked, Waddie was immersed in the cowboy way of entertaining, the art of spinnin' tales in rhyme and meter that came to be called cowboy poetry, a Western tradition that is as rich as the lifestyle that gave birth to it. Within his stories, told in a voice that is timeless and familiar, are the common bonds we all share, moments both grand and commonplace, the humorous and the tragic, the life and death struggles and triumphs that we each recognize. And yet, Waddie presents his material with personal insights and the lessons learned during his life spent as a buckaroo. Read More & Video
Ned LeDoux In country music, a last name like LeDoux casts a big, storied and bittersweet shadow, but it's one Ned LeDoux doesn't mind standing in one bit. When his dad passed away in 2005 from cancer, Ned continued to tour with his father's band to keep the musical spirit of Chris LeDoux alive. The timing couldn't be more right for Ned to pick up a guitar and belt out "Western Skies;" it has been over 10 years since Chris LeDoux passed and he believes people want to hear something new. You're guaranteed to hear "This Cowboy's Hat"–the song most requested by his fans and a request Ned is honored to oblige. His personal favorite song is "You Can't Tell Me We Ain't Got It All", the first original song Ned co-wrote with his dad and seems to pick up right where Chris left off. Read More & Video
Trinity Seely's life has taken her to many different places. Ranging from the Chilcotin of British Columbia, where she grew up. To Cascade, Montana where she, her husband and kids live on a working cattle ranch. Trinity's personal look into the life of a ranch wife gives her a deep perspective and appreciation into a lifestyle that some say is a bygone era. She was named one of True West's favorite western artist for 2012, and was nominated for the 2012 & 2013 Western Music Association Crescendo Award & 2014 song of the year in 2014 with her song "Cowboy Hat." She was named female western singer and western album of the year with the Academy of Western Artists in 2012. Read More & Video
Sam DeLeeuw knows what she's talking about, make no mistake! Twenty-plus years a rancher's wife; she's herded horses, cows, sheep, and two rodeo queens. In college, she was the only girl in the ag-curriculum and was a popular date because she'd help with the branding. Her honors and awards are too numerous to mention, but include four time "Female Poet of the Year" (2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015) from the Western Music Association, and "Humorist of the Year" from the Academy of Western Artists. Read More & Video
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High Pressure Hydrogen Supply for Increased Fuel Cell Efficiency
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AbstractFuel cells are being considered by the Army for future individual soldier power supplies. These power units are to be lightweight, compact and suitable for use on the battlefield. A compact, lightweight, safe source of pure hydrogen (and possibly oxygen) is urgently needed. The proposed report will examine a series of high pressure hydrogen and liquid hydrogen storage systems suitable for an individual soldier's power supply. Incorporation of high pressure H2 storage into the power system is felt to simultaneously simplify the system while reducing the size/weight of the fuel cell and boosting system efficiency. An air compression system operated by the expansion of high pressure gases will be conceptually designed to allow "supercharging" of the fuel cell stack. Fuel cell power systems which carry an oxidant supply in addition to a hydrogen supply will also be examined as a possible means of boosting fuel cell efficiency and reducing combined fuel cell/storage system weight and cost.
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Pets as Food Instagram Contest: We Have a Winner!
I giggle every time I see it.
Instagram user @sphynxkitty
For Halloween this year, we asked you to dress up your pets as food, and you delivered. Several entrants had very cute dogs (and I think a couple of other creatures in there somewhere) dressed up very adorably, but didn't make the cut because they didn't fit the theme.
See also: Brad and Kat Moore of Short Leash Hot Dogs on Their First Day in the Truck and Where They See Themselves in Five Years
While there were lots of great costumes, the one I loved best is Sphynxkitty's Chihuahua dressed up as a taco. Tacos were a popular theme among the small dogs in the contest; Sphynxkitty's Chihuahua had a worried expression (just as Chihuahuas always do) that was perfect, and the juxtaposition of Mexican dog and Mexican food was brilliant.
So congratulations, Sphynxkitty! We'll be getting in touch with you to make some Guilty Pleasures dinner plans soon.
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Definition Edit
Dial-a-porn refers to telephone conversations, whether indecent or obscene, recorded or live, that are offered on a commercial basis by information providers often located in foreign countries.
Federal regulation Edit
The federal law concerning dial-a-porn is section 223(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.[1] Prior to April 1988, it banned both obscene and indecent dial-a-porn in interstate commerce and foreign communications, but only if it involved persons under eighteen. Although pornography that is indecent but not obscene is protected by the First Amendment, restricting minors' access to pornography, even to non-obscene pornography, generally presents no constitutional problems, as minors do not have the same rights as adults under the First Amendment.
Therefore, the pre-April 1988 version of section 223(b) apparently was constitutional. In April 1988, however, P.L. 100-297, §6101, amended section 223(b) to ban obscene and indecent dial-a-porn in interstate and foreign communications, whether involving adults or children. In June 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court declared section 223(b) unconstitutional insofar as it applies to indecent messages that are not obscene.[2] The Court noted "that while the Government has a legitimate interest in protecting children from exposure to indecent dial-a-porn messages, §223(b) was not sufficiently narrowly drawn to serve that purpose and thus violated the First Amendment."[3] "[C]redit card, access code, and scrambling rules . . . [would have] represented a 'feasible and effective' way to serve the Government's compelling interest in protecting children."[4] The government argued that these methods "would not be effective enough," but the Court found "no evidence in the record . . . to that effect. . . ."[5] The Court concluded:
|Because the statute's denial of adult access to telephone messages which are indecent but not obscene far exceeds that which is necessary to limit the access of minors to such messages, we hold that the ban does not survive constitutional scrutiny.[6]
The upshot of Sable was that Congress's 1988 extension to adults of the ban on dial-a-porn that is indecent but not obscene resulted in federal law's not banning such dial-a-porn at all, even if used by minors. Section 223(b) after the decision banned dial-a-porn only if it was obscene. Therefore, in 1989, Congress enacted Pub. L. No. 101-166, known as the "Helms Amendment," which amended section 223(b) to ban indecent dial-a-porn, if used by persons under 18. Under the 1988 law, section 223(b) applied "in the District of Columbia or in interstate or foreign communications"; under the Helms Amendment, it applies to all calls "within the United States."
The Helms Amendment also added section 223(c), which prohibits telephone companies, "to the extent technically feasible," from providing access to any dial-a-porn "from the telephone of any subscriber who has not previously requested [it] in writing. . . ." In order to enable telephone companies to comply with this provision, Federal Communications Commission regulations require dial-a-porn providers to give written notice to the telephone company that they are providing indecent communications.[7]
The Helms Amendment was challenged as unconstitutional, but a federal court of appeals upheld it, and the Supreme Court declined to review the case.[8] The court of appeals found that the word "indecent" as used in the statute was not void for vagueness,[9] that the statute was the least restrictive means to achieve a compelling governmental interest, and that the requirement that the dial-a-porn provider inform the telephone company that its message was indecent did not constitute prior restraint.
References Edit
- ↑ 47 U.S.C. § 223(b).
- ↑ Sable Commns. of Cal., Inc. v. Federal Comms. Comm'n, 492 U.S. 115 (1989) (full-text).
- ↑ Id. at 126.
- ↑ Id. at 128.
- ↑ Id.
- ↑ Id. at 131.
- ↑ 47 C.F.R. §64.201. Section 223(b) provides that a person found guilty of knowingly communicating obscene dial-a-porn "shall be fined in accordance with title 18 of the United States Code, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." Title 18, §3571, provides for fines of up to $250,000 for individuals and up to $500,000 for organizations. A person found guilty of knowingly communicating indecent dial-a-porn "shall be fined not more than $50,000 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both." Section 223(b) also provides for additional fines.
- ↑ Dial Infor. Servs. Corp. v. Thornburgh, 938 F.2d 1535 (2d Cir. 1991) (full-text), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 1072 (1992).
- ↑ The court noted that the word has been "defined clearly" by the Federal Communications Commission, in the dial-a-porn context, "as the description or depiction of sexual or excretory activities or organs in a patently offensive manner as measured by contemporary community standards for the telephone medium." 938 F.2d at 1540.


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David Platt's revenge ended in a horrifying ordeal for one character in Coronation Street as she was engulfed in a fireball.Cafe worker Anna Windass – played by actress Debbie Rush – was left screaming as her legs burned in terrifying scenes which aired before the watershed. The awful incident came just hours after a deliriously happy Anna agreed to move in with boyfriend Kevin and take their relationship to the next level.
But all that was undone by David Platt's revenge murder fantasy as he covered himself and his car in petrol to stop his family from stopping him. But in an awful twist, David's daughter Lily slipped out of Fiz's care and went wandering into the street just as David drove off. As he careered down the cobbles, lighter still in hand, his speed picked up and he spotted Lily too late to stop.
Desperately swerving to avoid his daughter, David flipped the car, and with Gary Windass running into the road to try to save Lily, he hit both of them and became trapped under the car. It took the collective effort of all the street's residents to lift the car so Anna could reach in and drag Lily and Gary to safety. David looked on in horror at the destruction he'd caused but it had yet to end.After she managed to get Gary out just in time, the car exploded and Anna was knocked over. But as she got up, a fireball erupted and flew at her, engulfing her in flames. The cobbles favourite stood with her legs on fire screaming as the others tried to put the flames out and save her. Later, an unconscious Anna was rushed to hospital and the Platts closed ranks in order to protect David from the consequences.