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Our fourth edition of 'Green Runs Deep' features Mr Tom Westerholm, a writer for both MassLive.com, and Celtics Hub. Tom is easily one of the most likeable Celtics fans that I follow on Twitter. Not only is Tom a fantastic writer, he has a sharp sense of humour, and isn't afraid to use it.
Please tell us a little about yourself.
"Hey all, my name is Tom Westerholm. I'm 25, and I live in Springfield, Massachusetts, where I work for MassLive.com doing high school sports coverage. Most of my life is dedicated to writing about or playing basketball. Most of the rest of it is spent hanging out with my wife and my dog Bear."
How did you first become a fan of the Boston Celtics?
"I'm originally from Orange City, Iowa (which is halfway across the country from the Celtics, for you Australians), but my dad was originally from New England, and he grew up watching Russell, Havlicek and eventually Bird. He passed on his Celtics fandom to me, and after a few years, the NBA and I became pretty exclusive. Sure, I still hang out with soccer and baseball from time to time, but we're pretty clear about the parameters of our relationship.
I recently moved to Massachusetts, about an hour and a half from Boston, and I drive up to Celtics games whenever I can steal a day off from work that coincides with a home game."
When did you first see the Celtics play? When did you manage to see your first live Celtics game??
"I honestly have no idea what my first Celtics game on television was, but I first saw them live in Minnesota. My dad and I used to drive four hours to see teams play the Wolves, since they were the nearest franchise to Iowa. We saw Boston first in 2009, and I remember being completely star-struck walking down as far as security would let me go and watching Paul Pierce warm up with some lackadaisical free throws and jumpers. I mean, it was Paul freaking Pierce.
Last season, I covered my first regular season Celtics game with media credentials, and I was strangely a little disappointed that I didn't have a similar reaction. By that point, I had covered the NBA and Summer League a couple of times, so it was a little more normal to see NBA players up close. But Rajon Rondo walked right past me, and it didn't even really occur to me to be star-struck.
I guess the first time is always the best time."
Who is your favorite Celtics player? Past? And present? And what do they/have they meant to you as a person, and as a Celtics fan?
"Paul Pierce will forever be my favorite Celtic. When you are in your late teens and teams mean just a little bit too much to you, those generally seem to be the players who stick with you the longest. When Pierce — a guy who spent his entire career (or at least, his entire career that mattered) with the team — won a championship, I was 18. Paul Pierce was EVERYTHING.
I don't think Rajon Rondo will ever reach that level for me, mostly because I'm a little older and a little more measured (I like to think), but I do enjoy him thoroughly. I like that he's a little off, a little strange, and that his strangeness feeds into why he's so effective on the court. He's unconventionally talented, and that makes him fascinating to me."
Australia has a tight-knit Celtics 'family', as do so many other countries, yet obviously, the greatest Boston Celtics community is in the great city of Boston itself. Can you tell us about how these Celtics communities, whether globally, or in Boston, make you feel a part of such a large, and loving sisterhood/brotherhood?
"Honestly, for my part, I see the community most on Twitter, and I suspect most of those reading this feel the same way. Few people enjoy watching hoops as much as basketball Twitter, and it's fun to sit down every night with a game and know that people all over the country and all over the globe are watching the same thing, making dumb jokes, bad Photoshop's, and everything else that basketball Twitter is known for.
As far as the Celtics community specifically on Twitter, I would say it's as strong — if not stronger — than most of the other ones. There are so many Celtics blogs and writers, and that's a great thing. There are a million different opinions to be had, so if you think something, someone else probably disagrees with you and will challenge you on it. I enjoy that a lot. I also enjoy the various ways people have been coping with the past two years. We're all in this together."
Can you tell us about your experiences writing for Celtics Hub, and MassLive? What has been your reaction over the years to its success?
"Both places have been great. Celtics Hub is a lot of fun, and working under Brian Robb has been everything I could have asked for and more. I've gotten to cover the team in person, the Orlando Summer League, and a whole bunch of other stuff no other outlet ever offered me before Celtics Hub."
MassLive is great as well. I moved to Massachusetts to work for them, and I generally cover high school sports, although they let me fill in for Jay King on Celtics stuff whenever he needs a break. I'm essentially Phil Pressey to Jay's Rajon Rondo.
I also cover the Basketball Hall of Fame for MassLive, which is located where I live in Springfield. I got to do one-on-one interviews with Alonzo Mourning, Tommy Heinsohn and others this summer. It's a ton of fun and — once again — incredibly rewarding, but it's also my 9-to-5, which means I have to be all professional and stuff."
Overall, both places are amazing, and I definitely couldn't ask for anything more."
Last season saw the return of a less than 100% Rajon Rondo, a revolving door of players, and a 25 win-57 loss season. How do you see the 2014/15 season treating the Celtics over 82 games?
"I think we are in for another long one. Boston is definitely better as an offensive unit, and we are seeing a lot of fun cohesion, especially in the front line. But the defense is so, so bad. Asking the offense to come up with 112+ points per night doesn't really sound like a sustainable way to get wins, and the defense is more than happy to pass out 115-120 point games regularly."
We make a trade to potentially step forward as playoff contenders. What position do we trade for? Who would be your ideal candidate? And who and what would you give up for it?
"This is a pretty easy answer — the Celtics desperately need a defensive-minded big man. The ideal candidate, of course, is Marc Gasol. As a passer who can work out of the high post but can also bang around the basket, he replaces everything the Celtics will lose by taking either Sully or Olynyk out of the starting lineup, and he would also bring an absurd amount of defense to the table. He's perfection at the center position.
Unfortunately, there's realistically no way the Celtics can convince Gasol to come to Boston unless they somehow find a way to put a second good player next to Rondo (and even then, it's still incredibly unlikely — why would he leave Memphis?). So my ideal candidate is any non-point guard who would make my Marc Gasol pipe dream seem a little closer to a reality. Who I would give up would depend on whom I might be getting back. Everything is available, within reason (so no, Houston, I'm not trading you Rondo for Clint Capela and the 25th pick in the 2015 draft)."
If you weren't an NBA writer, what would you be?
"I toured for years in a hardcore band, so I might be doing that still. I honestly don't know. My time is split doing one of four things — working (which means any kind of writing), working out/playing basketball, walking my dog or hanging out with my wife. Maybe I'd just be a hunter/gatherer who shows up to the local LA Fitness to hoop every day around noon."
Favorite non-Celtic player, current and past? And why?
"Another easy one for me: Steph Curry. I'm a 3-point shooter when I play basketball, so Steph Curry is every one of my daydreams realized. Not only can he shoot the ball better than anyone in the history of the game, he's so crafty with his handle and his vision. If I could be any player, it would definitely be Curry.
I would also like to note that Gerald Green is a closer second than you would think. I like dunks, and I like players who just drip confidence and are prone to exploding into flames, so I absolutely love Gerald Green."
Can you share your thoughts on our Boston Celtics community down here in Australia? Do you see a lot of the Celtic Pride in our many members? Any plans to visit us one day? You'll be welcomed with open arms by all.
"Oh man. I have never had an unpleasant interaction with an Australian Celtics fan on Twitter. You guys are intensely loyal: Somehow despite the time difference, there always seems to be a strong faction watching and live-tweeting every game on whatever blurry live-stream you follow. I'm so spoiled with CSNNE and League Pass that I whine and complain when something goes out and I have to hit refresh, while you all are trying to sort out which green-and-white shaped blur is Jeff Green and which is Rondo. The Australian Celtics community is the actual best.
Real talk, my wife and I are saving money to take an overseas vacation, and we haven't decided on the location yet. I suspect you could sell us on Australia pretty easily."
We're all looking forward to it, Tom.
Celtics Down Under immensely thanks Tom Westerholm for taking part in 'Green Runs Deep'.
You can check out Tom on Twitter at: @Tom_NBA.
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Jun.15 - A former F1 engineer suspects Honda is lagging behind in the area of simulation.
This week, amid intense rumours of a looming split with McLaren, Honda chief Yusuke Hawegawa admitted the engine maker is having trouble with correlation between its test benches and the track.
"It may be that they have invested a lot but unwisely, or invested too little by underestimating the importance in this area," former F1 engineer Toni Cuquerella, now a pundit for Spanish TV Movistar, is quoted by El Confidencial newspaper.
He said Honda will be no newcomer to test stands and dynamometers, but may not be well enough equipped for the specific demands of F1.
"In F1 there is almost no private testing so the trend is to have increasingly sophisticated test stands.
"When you test your engine, it also depends on the coupling to the gearbox and also the chassis - how it flexes, how it vibrates," Cuquerella added.
"I have no idea what level Honda are at, but I dare say they are not the leaders in this technology."
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The number of data centers have been continuously increasing since 2009, yet this is all about to change. Experts predict that after peaking at roughly 8.6 million data centers in 2017, the number of data centers will begin to decline. The driving factor of this decline is the migration from smaller, in-house IT centers to data centers operated by larger service providers. Although the number of data centers will decrease, the data center space itself will not, because data center capacity will continue to grow.
Due to the shift to larger service providers, the role of the corporate data center will change as well. In the past, corporate data centers solely supported operations. Today, they have a variety of functions, including: testing new business models; developing and improving new products and retaining lasting relationships with customers. Because a data center must now be able to support a variety of functions, its infrastructure must have the ability to continuously change. This is much harder to accomplish for smaller data centers, which is why you will see these smaller data centers disappear in the coming years. Today's data centers need to be flexible, dependable and easily scalable.
The shift to larger data centers provides organizations with the infrastructure needed to adapt to a variety of different needs. It is predicted that over the course of the next five years, most organizations will stop managing their own data centers. This will result in the steady decline of in-house data centers, and lead to a higher demand for larger service providers. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), by 2018, 'mega data centers' will account for 72.6 percent of all service provider data center construction projects.


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David is a Member of The Magic Circle and a leading commercial arbitrator, mediator and barrister.
His advocacy and legal skills led him to being appointed as Queen's Counsel (QC) in 2006, and he is recognised as a leading figure in the world of dispute resolution. Developing communication skills has always been an integral part of his work. He has trained lawyers to become effective advocates and now trains groups and individuals on presentation and communication techniques, as well as communicating in situations of conflict.
David was elected into The Magic Circle in his teens and has performed and taught magic at corporate and private events around the world as well as on television. His lifelong interest in using magic performance skills in other contexts, and as a way of empowering individuals by increasing their confidence, is what led him to be one of our founding Board of Directors.
A life scientist by training, Mike has spent much of his career working with technology entrepreneurs to set up companies, raise finance and build high performance companies.
In his current role at Guy's and St Thomas' Charity Mike is responsible for new venture creation. He also manages a venture investment fund which is dedicated to investing in innovative technologies coming out of NHS hospitals across South East London.
Before joining the Charity, Mike was Managing Director of EKB Technology Ltd (a spinout company from the University of Oxford) and non-executive Chairman of Oxford-based Green Biologics Ltd, a biobutanol-based biofuels company.
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Yesterday my Beard and I were busy on a date night, which obviously took precedence over blogging, so I will share my "Thankful November" post from yesterday and today:
Sometimes I get frustrated that I do not get nice new things. It seems every time I turn around someone is getting some new boots, a new coffee maker, a new car, a new house; you name it. And we have old things. Boots from Goodwill, an old Keurig (with a cracked, then repaired reservoir), one 2008 car and one 1997 car with 300,000+ miles, and a house built in the mid 1970's. Nothing we own is really new.
Well, except our girls, but we don't own them. And they're getting pretty old anyway. 😉
But as I was working on pureeing my giant pumpkin yesterday (which is almost done) I realized I have been using a 25+ year old food processor. I use the exact food processor my mom used to puree my baby food. How cool is that?
But that's not my only hand me down kitchen tool. I also have:
a 30+ year old Foley Mill from my husband's grandma
a 40+ year old hand mixer from my aunt
and some 20+ year old pots and pans from my dad.
All of these kitchen tools tell a story. They are tools used to feed families for years (or at least symbolically). They are a small part of the food history of our family. And so, although our kitchen tools may not be brand new, they are mine, and most of them used to be someone else's. But they certainly all work.
For today, I am thankful for the ability to nurse my babies. The last week has been tough with Clara. She still isn't one to "sleep through the night", and she is nearing her first birthday very quickly. She likes a midnight snack sometimes, or she gets hungry very early in the morning. It has been difficult to get enough sleep, and so I had tricked myself into thinking she would sleep better if I wasn't offering her breastmilk.
That may be true.
I have to stop and remember that not all women can breastfeed their babies, especially for as long as I have. And although it is taxing on my time, on my body, and on my emotions, nursing has been a wonderful experience for me with both girls. It forms a bond that I don't think anything else could foster between mother and child. And so, even though I had tossed around the idea of weaning Clara early in the interest of sleep, I think I'll hang in there just a little while longer.
After all, she and I are both reaping loads of benefits from this nursing relationship.


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More changes loom for NZ Post
Letter volumes are slumping fast as more businesses turn to email and NZ Post wants to cut many more jobs and eventually drop deliveries to just three days a week to stop the rot.
Customers are also likely to see many more self-service kiosks to post letters and parcels and pay bills in NZ Post outlets, as they are rolled out around the country in coming months. That would also mean fewer staff in NZ Post branches in the next year, NZ Post said, though it gave no numbers on any potential job losses.
New Zealand Post yesterday reported after-tax profit slumped nearly 30 per cent for the year ended June to $121 million, as the business continued to suffer a decline in people sending letters and parcels by mail.
NZ Post wrote down the value of its postal assets by $30.6 million in the financial year, including mail processing facilities that are being decommissioned. Restructuring costs from job cuts took another $23m bite out of the business.
In June NZ Post announced 500 job cuts, but the creation of another 320 positions in other centres, leaving a net loss of about 180 people, with Wellington badly hit.
NZ Post core postal business suffered a $30 million drop in revenues in the June year, as more businesses like banks and power companies moved to email to their customers, the company revealed yesterday.
NZ Post said there were 63 million fewer items delivered through the network than the year before. Volumes were down 7.5 per cent, compared with a 6.7 per cent fall last year.
The postal business faced "significant challenges" and while NZ Post had already announced plans to lay off hundreds of staff from mail centres earlier this year, there was "more to be done" according to NZ Post chief executive Brian Roche. Just what depended on the Government's pending decision on NZ Post's "deed of understanding".
NZ Post would like to see mail deliveries slashed from six days a week to three days, which would have a big impact on jobs.The business had to make a profit and NZ Post was not looking for a government subsidy for the postal business.
"We will eventually get to three days a week but the timing of that is very unclear. It is determined very much on how the market wants to use mail," Roche said.
At three delivery days a week, NZ Post could hold the postal network for a "number of years", but it was hard to predict, he said.
"Both the store network and the delivery network are going to have to be modernised and revolutionised if we are going to maintain a sustainable business," Roche said yesterday.
There are at present between 4500 and 5000 people working in the postal business, out of a total of more than 10,000 in the wider NZ Post group, which also includes Kiwibank and a courier business.
EPMU union postal industry organiser Joe Gallagher said NZ Post had returned a "fairly good profit" of $121 million, so there was no need to make further drastic cuts to staff by going to three-day-a-week deliveries and bringing in more self-service kiosks.
"NZ Post is a vital public service that millions of Kiwis rely on," Gallagher said.
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Italy postpones hotly-contested immigrant citizenship law
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Ms Marine Le Pen has put on a courageous face following her crushing defeat to Mr Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election, pledging to overhaul her far-right party and turn it into the main opposition to France's new centrist leader.
According to the French Interior Ministry, Le Pen lost to independent Emmanuel Macron on Sunday with 33.9 percent of the votes against his 66.1 percent.
"I am happy with the result of Emmanuel Macron being elected president, which constitutes a veritable relief for all our nation and for the Jewish community of France", Joel Mergui, the president of the Consistoire, wrote Sunday evening in a statement by his group, which is responsible for providing religious services to Jews.
Macron handily defeated far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen in Sunday's presidential runoff, and now must pull together a majority of lawmakers for his year-old political movement to run in the mid-June legislative election.
"I will be candidate for the presidential majority and I wish to join the list (of candidates) of his movement", Valls, a Socialist, told RTL radio.
Macron, 39, founded his centrist En Marche (On The Move) movement of mostly political neophytes just a year ago on a promise to inject new blood into France's discredited political class. He clinched 18 percent of the vote in the 2002 presidential elections - the first time that National Front made it to the final round. But a high number of blank or spoiled votes and unusually low turnout are signs of an electorate dissatisfied with its choices.
France's Macron lays groundwork for transition to presidency
Le Pen responded to defeat by vowing she would lead her anti-immigration National Front (FN) strongly into the legislative elections.
Hollande's term as president expires May 14 midnight.
On Monday, though, Hollande gripped Macron's arm before the two men walked side by side and then announced the transfer of power would take place on Sunday, a week after the election. Sylvie Goulard, a French deputy to the European Parliament, said Macron would make Berlin his first official visit, with perhaps a stop to see French troops stationed overseas as well.
The anti-European Union, anti-immigration party will now focus on next month's parliamentary elections, although Ms Le Pen recognised that the party needs far-reaching change.
In Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May said Macron's win makes it even more important for British voters to back her Conservatives in the early election she called for June 8, to strengthen Britain's hand in its divorce proceedings with the EU.


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I sit on the bed that I slept in as a child when I came to visit my grandparents. Maw Maw is fast asleep in her bedroom and I'm staring with a drunken focus at the wall, thinking about the dog. Charlie.
Charlie is a wire-haired fox terrier and in his prime was a rambunctious, feisty, lovable little dog. Only Charlie was born crippled, his hind leg deformed. Dad and Maw Maw doubted he would live. There wasn't just the botched-up leg. He was a runt, one of those undersized puppies which tend to get kicked out of the feeding frenzy and are left to die. So Dad supplemented his mother's milk with formula from a baby bottle. Did that for the few weeks it took for Charlie to get some density in those fragile bones, and soon he was running around with the rest of them, albeit with a funny little gait. Dad was like that, taking over when others don't.
Dad usually sold most of the pups from his litters, always getting top dollar because of the dogs' great bloodlines. He had usually kept one or two but he knew this would probably be the last litter so there was no sense in keeping any. Customers came and went, flocking to pick out their favorites. Then somebody came in and bought the last two healthy males, and so there was only Charlie. The puppy nobody wanted.
By then Dad and Maw Maw had taken a liking to the crippled dog, so they decided to keep him. Not that there was much choice in the matter.
As a kid, I played with Charlie when I was here, which was a lot. But even later when I stopped in from college, I always said hello to Charlie, and he always came running, his crooked leg ill-timed with the other three, causing that funny bounce of his hip to compensate. He jumped up to me as best he could, often coming down not on his feet but on his side, and still bouncing back up to do it over again. Like most dogs, Charlie was full of love, but I think unlike most dogs, he was given a double helping of it, in thanks for the family who took him in.
I sit on the bed in the middle of the night, drunk, as I am most nights after Dad's funeral. Charlie. Dog wouldn't give up living as a puppy and still won't at thirteen. Lying on his side, blind, every now and then getting up and staggering over to his water bowl. He doesn't eat much at all. Can't hold it down, I guess. But he won't let go. Charlie will lie there as long as it takes, hanging on to his last few moments of life.
Now here's the thing. Charlie's been out there for ten days, ten days and no telling how much longer he'll endure just for the sake of breathing in and out, just to hang on to the world a little longer. To see me coming to refill his water bowl and pet him on the head. And that's why he lives, for me.
Now here I am these last ten days, going out to Charlie's bed, feeding him what little food he can eat. All soft stuff, no dry food. And water. Keeping him alive out in the workshop on that shag carpet bed of his. He's not able to do anything, all day and all night, but think about living. Think about me. Just live. That's all.
Only a little whiskey left now. I rise, almost falling, hitting my knee on the edge of the rickety television stand. Everything's foggy, just off to both sides. I see good straight ahead. Singular. I draw back the curtain, look into the dark rain outside and at the workshop. Lightening comes down, illuminating the shop and pens lined up in front, each with an entrance to the shop where the dogs can get out of the rain. Except Charlie's the only one out there.
Shop's got a heater but I wonder if he's warm enough. Bring him inside for the night? Make him more comfortable maybe. But Charlie ain't gonna be comfortable ever again. He won't give up. I don't want him to suffer any more. I'm tired of suffering.
"Fuck this!"
I turn around quickly. Too quickly. The world is spinning. I pause, wait for my vision to catch up. I grope through the kitchen, bump into the table, open the backdoor and the cold, wet air blasts my face. I have a t-shirt and jeans on, barefoot.
The blast clears my head and vision enough for me to make it down the stairs. The rain comes down in biting pellets, hitting the top of my head, my shoulders, running down my chest. It's dark out, everything's blurry, everything's in shadows. Gotta go on memory, on feel. My bare feet shuffle on the concrete patio, past the table where me and Dad used to fillet fish together. I see the gate and feel for the latch.
It's dark and smells musky. Cold in here despite the little propane heater in the corner. My clouded vision picks out the semblance of kennels inside, tools lined up on the opposite wall, and the big crack in the concrete floor. I use it as a guide, stepping on it, feeling the cool, uneven floor.
Through the musky smells of the old, damp shop, rotted wood and rusty tools, I smell Charlie's old, sick dog smell. His breathing is muted, barely a light sigh as I stand by the chain link gate. I bend down and lose my balance, falling forward and crashing the top of my head into the cold metal. I fall on my side in agony, writhing on the damp concrete. The blood trickles down my face, whiskey making the pain into a comfortable, hazy throb.
I pull myself up from the concrete and sit in front of Charlie. He doesn't move, just contemplates me with his cloudy left eye.
"Hey, boy, how you doing?"
He lifts his head and then slowly brings it down again. His ear is cocked and listening.
"Me leaving you out here like this. It's my fault, Charlie. You don't know no better."
I edge up to the gate, leaning in. The damp smell of his coat wafts up from his bed. I feel his stare. My hand nudges the latch loose, Charlie's ear shifts. The gate swings out.
"C'mon old boy."
I feel around his body, pick him up and bring him out. I sit down against the metal toolbox behind me and cradle him in my lap.
"You've been a good dog, Charlie. You did real good, boy."
His body is limp against my thighs, the rough, wiry hair brushing the wet denim of my pants. The world is spinning in a sweeping series of darks and grays as the incessant rain patters against the sheet metal roof. My desperate, drifting mind reaches out, wanting something far-off and unreachable. I give up and return to him. A gun will wake the neighbors. A knife is too messy. This is the only way.
"I'm sorry, old boy."
I grip the back of his head with one hand, his nose with the other, and twist violently.
A brief whimper.
A dull crack.
I look down at his motionless body and begin to cry. I carefully place him back in his bed. I stroke the old matted fur and then close the door.
Gripping the corner of the kennel, I pull myself up and stumble outside to the rains.
I wake up in a stupor, my head exploding from the dull ache that hits at once, subsides, then returns. There's the blurry image of Maw Maw peeking at me from the door of my room.
"It's Charlie," she says.
I force my eyes to focus and see the gaunt expression on her face.
"He's gone?" I ask.
"No. He's just lying there like he usually does, but he's whimpering and can't even move now. I think he's getting ready to die." Maw Maw narrows her eyes. "Say, what happened to your head? Looks like there's blood on it."
My heart recoils in horror. I didn't kill him. He lived. Oh Jesus, he lived.
"Um. Bumped it on the desk last night looking for something. I'll go out and check on Charlie."
Maw Maw shakes her head.
"I just hate seeing the poor thing suffer. I know how much you and Dad loved him." She closes the door.
I fight against the urge to vomit and stand up, the blunt pain in my head causing me to suck in my breath. I force myself to walk to the kennel.
I sit by his limp figure, listening to his low moans and wanting to absorb his pain. I sit until my back aches, until my legs cramp, never moving, never leaving. Maw Maw peers in every couple of hours and asks, "Is he gone?" and I reply "Not yet." The rains have ceased leaving the fresh fragrance of light dew on the grass. I hope Charlie can smell the grass. I hope he can feel the newness of the world. I hope in his mind he's playing out there now, romping about with his awkward gait as I throw him a ball.
The wind picks up and brings the sweet freshness of life into the darkness. I look down at my friend and see that he is not breathing.
"Good boy."
Photo Credit: allyaubry on Flickr
About the author: Mike Hancock is a former hunting guide and commercial fisherman. He spent seven years guiding elk, deer, and bear hunters in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and New Mexico. Prior to that he was a deckhand for two seasons aboard a factory trawler in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Now living in Dallas, Texas, he is a high school English teacher and freelance writer. He holds a B.A. in English Literature and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University.
"Charlie" is an excerpt from his forthcoming novel, "Fallen". This is a story of fathers and sons and of emotional bonds that transcend culture and time. Set in the looming mountains of Northwest Montana in 1870 and 1997, the novel chronicles the lives of Grey Bear, a distraught Piegan warrior in the aftermath of the Marias Massacre, and Calvin, a tortured young hunting guide, as they endure hardships and abuse, both seeking redemption in an untamed wilderness.


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Although the ScriptHook service was intended for use in automated testing of the ThereClient, it can be used by other applications in many ways. A ScriptHook service request looks like this:
This service allows you to manipulate a tree of nodes by specifying the node's path and an operation to perform. Paths are similar to Unix file names in that they have multiple components separated by "/" characters, and the root of the tree is referred to as a path containing a single "/" character.
Each node has three elements:
Wait operation on such a node, it will never terminate.
Value or
Method. Value nodes and method nodes are the leaves of the tree, while container nodes make up the body of the tree.
The operation used for the service can be one of the following:
Browse can be used to get an HTML view of the node.
Get provides an XML view of the node.
Wait (with an additional
&Version=ver parameter) allows you to perform a
Get but will not return until the version of the node is different from the provided ver parameter.
Invoke (with an additional
&Args=args parameter) allows a method node to be invoked.
Set (with an additional
&Value=v parameter) allows a value node to be set.
If you perform a
Get or
Wait operation on a value node, you will see something like this:
http://localhost:9999/ScriptHook/Get?Path=/thobs/196772622/edprops/forcefield/value <Answer> <Result>1</Result> <Node> <Version>1</Version> <Type>Value</Type> <Value>0</Value> </Node> </Answer>
If you perform a
Get or
Wait operation on a container node, you will see something like this:
http://localhost:9999/ScriptHook/Get?Path=/thobs/196772622 <Answer> <Result>1</Result> <Node> <Version>4</Version> <Type>Container</Type> <Children> <Child> <Name>edprops</Name> <Type>Container</Type> </Child> <Child> <Name>state</Name> <Type>Value</Type> </Child> <Child> <Name>presence0</Name> <Type>Container</Type> </Child> <Child> <Name>clide</Name> <Type>Value</Type> </Child> </Children> </Node> </Answer>
You can see from this example that the children of a container node may have a mixture of node types.
An attempt to access a non-existent node will result in something like the following:
http://localhost:9999/ScriptHook/Get?Path=/thobs/196772622/edprops/forcefield/valxx <Answer> <Result>0</Result> <ErrorCode>4400001</ErrorCode> <ErrorDetails>No node exists at path '/thobs/196772622/edprops/forcefield/valxx'</ErrorDetails> </Answer>
The root of the ScriptHook hierarchy is the path "/", which is a container node providing the following main branches:
/acc allows you to make your avatar speak text, or perform an emote.
/client gives access to system messages and GUI windows. In addition, you can simulate mouse button clicks and key presses.
/mainMenu provides access to the main ThereClient menu system. It is only present when the main menu is on the screen, so cannot be used while in ActionMode?.
/pilotPobs presents access to different classes of pob owned by the avatar.
/thobs contains a sub-tree for the thob associated with each visible dob.
/acc ScriptHooks
/acc ScriptHook sub-tree provides access to Avatar Centric Chat through a single method
/acc/addChatText. You can invoke this with additional arguments to have your avatar "speak" the text. This functionality includes the ability to perform emotes. For example, performing a GET on the following URL makes your avatar jump for joy:
Note that the nested "=" character in the
Args argument is encoded as
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Since this isn't the Tales of Stirla (alas), I wonder what happened to Mhysra, Lyrai and co after they flew into the Stormwash…
Storm Wrath
11th Blizzard
MHYSRA WOKE ALONE. She knew it without opening her eyes. The ground beneath her was hard, damp and cold – unpleasant – and all around was silence. Frowning, she lifted her head and squinted at the glare of white surrounding her, then prodded the hard rock she was lying on. No wonder she ached, she thought, rubbing her fingers over the damp surface. Mist crept and curled around her and she struggled to figure out where she was and what had happened. Had they left Misthome already? Were mists like these usual during a Havian winter? Had the lieutenants completely lost their minds?
Growling in frustration, she gripped her head and squeezed her eyes shut, wracking her brain to remember. "Cumulo." She remembered being with him. Where were they going? She tapped her clenched fist against her forehead, thinking hard. The last thing she could recall was flying in the gloomy dawn with Lieutenant Lyrai —
"And Dhori!" she told the mists triumphantly. They swayed around her, whispering softly.
Ignoring them, she pressed her hands to her temples and pummelled her memory some more. "Cumulo, Lyrai, Dhori," she murmured. "Flying south." To where? Where had they been going so early? Had they been infected by some strain of madness? After all, the only thing directly south of Misthome was…
"Maegla," she whispered, a flood of images playing behind her clenched eyes. Now she remembered. They'd flown into the Stormwash.
The chaos had been enough to stop her heart, ripping her from Cumulo's back and tossing them both through the air like dolls. The winds had battered her from all directions until she no longer knew whether she was flying or falling. Lightning had struck close enough to burn, while thunder shook her to her bones. She'd been torn apart, scattered wide, then thrown back together all in the space of a heartbeat. Now she was awake and alone, somewhere in the cold, whispering mists.
"Maegla," she repeated, then cautiously pushed to her feet, patting her body in search of the injuries that simply weren't there. It was miraculous, unless… "Am I dead?"
"HURRICANE! DHORI! MHYSRA!" Lyrai cupped his hands around his mouth, shouting over the pounding rain. Each drop was a whipping sting against his exposed skin, bruising even through his clothes. Shaking his head to clear his eyes, he looked around the rain-drenched emptiness. "Corin! Jaymes!"
Only the rain answered, but he stumbled across the pitted ground anyway. He might have been blown off course, but he was a lieutenant and refused to lose his students. Or his miryhl. "Hurricane!"
Over the hammering of the storm, a distant call reached his ears. Spinning towards it, Lyrai lost his footing on the loose stones. Catching himself with one hand, he took a deep breath and yelled, "Hurricane!"
The sound came again, a faint cry, so he stumbled in search of it. Even when the stones slid away and threw him to his knees he kept going. Not even the thundering rain could stop him now. He was a lieutenant, and he refused to remain alone.
Until the ground vanished and night leapt up to embrace him.
"JAYMES?" CORIN WHISPERED, turning in the darkness that clung to her like a cloak, searching for the distant, elusive voice she'd heard. Rocks were firm under her hands, but she couldn't see them. A gentle rain whispered over the rough ground, but it was the only sound apart from her breathing. "Wisp?"
Nothing, only the rain. She was alone.
"Anybody?" she called, raising her voice. "Is there anybody there?"
The darkness rippled, then the wind hit her with enough force to throw her backwards. No rocks rushed up to meet her and she fell screaming into the abyss.
THE WIND HOWLED in Jaymes' face as he struggled to walk. Behind lay empty mists, ahead were rocks and cliffs. There wasn't much to choose between the two, but forward always seemed more attractive than going back. So he pushed into the face of the wind, defying the storm that tried to hold him down. With every step his legs grew heavier, his body wearier, his clothing wetter, but he would not give in.
"I won't," he growled. "You can't stop me."
Lightning spat above his head, striking sparks in his hair and dancing shocks across his skin. But not even the heavy snarl of the thunder, pushing him down like a giant hand, could make him stop. Balling his fists, he turned side on to the roaring winds and sidled along the cliff face, until the storm twisted and spun him about, trying to confuse him into losing his bearings.
"I won't," he vowed, and the thunder growled. Winds shoved his shoulders, but he held his ground and leant into the gusts. "You can't stop me!"
Lightning sparked, heat flashed and burning filled his mouth and nose, before the force of the strike lifted him clean off his feet, throwing him away from the cliff into the maw of the storm.
LYRAI LANDED WITH a grunt. The ground gave oddly under his weight, grasping and cushioning him, rather than breaking every bone in his body. It still knocked the wind out of him and he lay breathless, waiting for the world to become clear again.
White mist crept into the hollow his landing had made, curling around an ankle and brushing against his face. With it came a soft, gentle rain and he shifted onto his side to catch the drops in his mouth. It was warm and metallic, but welcome. After the downpour, this was sweet and his throat felt parched as if he'd been screaming for days. He might have, he couldn't remember.
All he remembered was that he wasn't supposed to be alone – and yet he was. In a hollow canyon, between two steep cliffs. Nothing but him, the mist, the rain and the rocks. The rain fell harder, tapping his face and chest like little drumming fingers. It was starting to hurt, so he gathered his weary strength and rolled onto his knees. Lightning flickered and the rain fell harder. Thunder growled like a grumpy bear, but he welcomed the noise. He didn't feel so alone that way.
A distant scream brought his head up, and he twisted.
"Mhysra?" he murmured, remembering why he was there, who he'd been looking for. "Corin?"
Where he had gone.
The storm exploded overhead.
"MUST FIND CUE, must find Cue, must find Cue." Mhysra shuffled through the featureless mists, refusing to think about being dead. There were many stories about what a person could expect once they passed through Typhaestus' hands, but she'd never paid much attention. She was seventeen years old, by the gods, she wasn't supposed to think about the afterlife yet. Although as a Rift-Rider-in-training she probably should have listened a time or two.
"Bit bloody late now," she grumbled, not happy that even her thoughts were babbling. The mist unnerved her, hanging around in a whispering curtain. Surely the whispering wasn't normal. Then again, she wasn't sure any of this was normal. She remembering falling from Cumulo and screaming, on and on, but she didn't remember hitting the ground. Such a fall would have broken something, if not killed her outright…
"I'm not dead," she said firmly, shaking her head against the insidious thoughts that were as crafty at creeping as the surrounding mists. "I have to find Cue first."
Although if she really were dead, it was likely Cumulo would have followed her into the hereafter, so he would be close by anyway.
"Stop it!" she snapped, scowling at the mists. "I am not macabre. I do not think morbid thoughts. Stop putting them there. Go whisper at someone else."
A bolt of lightning ripped open the sky and something heavy knocked her to the ground.
THE FALLER NO longer screamed. Lyrai sprinted as fast as the broken ground would allow, blinking furiously every time the brilliant lightning threatened to blind him. He didn't bother shouting, saving his breath for the run, as the incessant thunder drowned out everything but the pounding rain.
Lightning struck the walls of the canyon, rattling the loose stones and sending them raining down. Ducking between them, he was almost knocked off his feet as the oppressive thunder rolled. Though it felt like hot hands had a hold of his lungs and were squeezing inwards, he didn't let it slow him. The faller was still going, the scraps of her cloak fluttering around her limp body. He wasn't going to make it, no matter how fast he ran. He was never going to catch her.
Thunder and lightning shattered the sky – and she hit the ground.
The storm held its breath as Lyrai stumbled, righted himself, stumbled again and fell to his knees. Everything waited as he crawled the last few feet towards his student, despairing at what he would find.
"Corin," he whispered, recognising her small frame and dark hair as rain tapped gently on her outstretched hand. "Corin."
Lightning flickered, her fingers twitched and she turned a whole, uninjured face towards him. "Sir? What's going on?"
Thunder chuckled overhead.
~ Next Chapter ~
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Baku. 21 April. REPORT.AZ/ Russian gas pipeline construction project "Turkish Stream" under the Black Sea, via Turkey to Greece should fully comply with EU standards.
Report informs citing the Tass it was said by the spokesperson for the deputy head of the European Commission for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič Anna-Kaisa Itkonen.
'We are ready to give a technical assessment of the project, but only when we can see details. With regard to this project, as well as to the "South Stream", we can say that all gas transmission projects in the EU must fully comply with EU standards', said the spokeperson.


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David McDaid's goal during Friday night's F.A.I. Cup tie in the Belfield Bowl could yet turn out to be the most important strikes of Derry City's season!
Injuries have blighted most of the club's season so far, therefore this victory will prove to be a much needed morale boost for players and fans alike.
Equally, if Derry managed to get a decent draw in the quarter-finals and go on to enjoy a good cup run, then financially it would be a God send.
Manager, Declan Devine's otherwise good mood will have been slightly spoiled by the late sending-off of centre back, and team talisman, Stewart Greacen.
Some folks think I'm too pessimistic about the future of League of Ireland football but Friday night's facts speak for themselves.
Even Shamrock Rovers only pulled in a crowd of just over 1,000 while spectators at our game with UCD numbered only several hundred.
Shelbourne drew less than 500 spectators to their derby tie while Bohemians managed just over 700 fans.
Sobering statistics and food for thought for those mindless cheerleaders, especially among the media whose constant "everything's okay" mantra will eventually do untold damage to the local game.


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A charity watchdog says the penalties leveled against "Three Cups of Tea" author Greg Mortenson for mismanaging and financially benefiting from his Central Asia Institute underscores the need for stronger regulation of charitable organizations.
Daniel Borochoff of the American Institute of Philanthropy said the problems found at the Bozeman-based Central Asia Institute are more prevalent in the charity world than most people think and that the regulatory structure is broken.
"It's a Wild West atmosphere and it's not just Montana. Donors beware. Be really careful," Borochoff said.
The yearlong investigation by the Montana attorney general into the organization Mortenson co-founded in 1996 was prompted by allegations of financial misdeeds made in published reports by "60 Minutes" and author Jon Krakauer in 2011.
The probe resulted in a settlement that requires the author to repay $1 million and makes fundamental changes to the institute's structure.
The investigation, observers say, is an example of the kinds of successful investigations that states carry out all the time, but don't receive the same level of publicity. But, they agree, state regulators have limitations.
Among those are jurisdictional borders, shrinking budgets, small staffs, a lag in technology and often inadequate reporting requirements, said Cindy Lott, who directs the Charities Regulation and Oversight Project of the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School.
It's important to build the resources of the state regulators because individual donors don't have the legal standing to sue a charity, Lott said.
"They don't get to sue to find out what happens to their $25 or get it back," she said. "The A.G., that is who gets to stand in the shoes of the intended beneficiary to make sure the money goes where it is supposed to go."
The investigation into the Central Asia Institute concluded that CAI bought and promoted Mortenson's books and spent $2 million flying him on charter jets, without the organization receiving royalties or any other direct benefits.
Under Mortenson's leadership, unknown sums of money were wired overseas without receipts or supporting documentation and that he charged CAI credit cards for tens of thousands of dollars' worth of personal items, the report said.
In addition to the $1 million repayment, the settlement agreement changes the structure of the institute, such as expanding the board of directors and keeping Mortenson out of a position of financial oversight.
Attorney General Steve Bullock said he believes the investigation is the most extensive probe into a charity that his office has conducted.
Bullock said he is confident the settlement will take care of the biggest red flags identified at CAI, but he acknowledged there are limitations in dealing with an organization that conducts much of its work building schools and promoting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Borochoff was less enthusiastic about the deal, saying it didn't go far enough in punishing Mortenson and could encourage bad behavior.
"I am concerned about the precedent that this sets, that other charity leaders will go out there and take resources from the charity that they work for and then get some sort of agreement to pay it back," Borochoff said.
Another likely result is that donors will be more cautious with their money, he said.
"It's good in the sense that it will lead to healthy skepticism, it's bad in that it will lead to some people being so distrustful and turned off that they won't want to support charities," he said.
Only a dozen states have bureaus dedicated to regulating charities, while the rest are dealing with staffing shortages typical of Montana: A prosecutor in the Office of Consumer Protection deals with a range of cases along with charities, and another person spends part of her time reading tax forms.
The lack of resources is likely to be a continuing problem for state regulators. But electronic filing, software development, information sharing and training can go a long way toward helping them better oversee charities, Lott said.
Montana is among a handful of states that have no significant reporting requirements and don't maintain a registry of charitable organizations for the public to decide what is and what isn't a legitimate charity.
That lack of reporting means there could be charities operating in Montana without the attorney general's knowledge, said John Doran, Bullock's spokesman.
Legislation that would have created a charity registry in Montana that donors could use failed in 2009 and 2007. Bullock said his office would still have to rely on whistleblowers, but a registry would help.
"I think having a charitable registry is good government," Bullock said. "It's something I think we should continue to look at as we go forward."


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Hillary Clinton Email Hacker Says It Was "Easy"
Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel, infamously known as "Guccifer" has, in an interview with Fox News from a Virginia jail, claimed that he breached Hillary Clinton's "completely unsecured" private email server, repeatedly and easily.
42-year old Lehel, best known for his hacking prowess that compromised targets such as former US President George Bush and several celebrities including Steve Martin and Leonardo di Caprio, allegedly, has revealed details of his breach of Hillary Clinton's email account.
Speaking to Fox News who queried him if it was easy or hard to gain access to Hillary Clinton's email account, Guccifer stated:
For me, it was easy…easy for me, for everybody.
The hacker revealed that the process of the breach began when he correctly guessed Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal's AOL account security question in early 2013, before gaining access to Clinton's private server.
He stated that he had accessed Clinton's server "twice" although he deemed it was uninteresting to him at the time.
I was not paying attention. For me, it was not like the Hillary Clinton server, it was like an email server she and others were using with political voting stuff.
Although there isn't much to go by with how he gained access to Hillary Clinton's emails, he claimed that he sought the originating IP of the email. "The email header is the originating IP usually," Lazard explained before adding that he then scanned and checked the IP with an IP scanner.
He also mentioned programs like netscan, Netmap, Angry IP and Wireshark as tools in which he checked to see if the targeted servers and ports were "alive" and open.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton's campaign issued a statement refuting Guccifer's claims which read:
There is absolutely no basis to believe the claims made by this criminal from his prison cell. In addition to the fact he offers no proof to support his claims, his descriptions of Secretary Clinton's server are inaccurate. It is unfathomable that we would have gained access to her emails and not leaked them the way he did to his other victims.
Hillary Clinton's secret email was revealed as [email protected], her personal email during her tenure as the Secretary of State.
Guccifer was recently extradited to the United States and faces charges of unauthorized access to a protected computer, cyberstalking, aggravated identify theft, wire fraud and obstruction of justice by the US Department of Justice.
Fox News added that it could not independently verify Guccifer's claims.
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AUTHOR Dennis Freeland
Posted on 5:59 am May 11, 2016.
"Guccifer never hacked my server"
Then she needs to explain how RT obtained 20,000 of her emails, and published all the Benghazi related emails, all marked with "G" for Guccifer , publishing them over two years before she handed them over to the DOJ & State Department. Comparison with the State Department published emails shows them to be correct – actual emails either to or from HRC.
Her alternative options are :
a) He made a lucky guess on who sent what emails when and to whom, and the entire content of the emails verbatim !!
b) It wasn't him – it was someone else – who then marked them as if they had come from him. But that still leaves her as having been hacked. That sounds like the "I didnt have sex with that woman" defense.
c) She deliberately leaked her emails as an act of positive espionage.
Regardless of which option turns out to be true, it is hardly the outcome one would want attributed to a Presidential candidate.
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Bangalore: Growth in advances by Indian banks was better than last year, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy governor V. Leeladhar said on Tuesday when asked whether high interest rates were hurting loan growth.
Good progress: RBI deputy governor V. Leeladhar. Bank data show loans by Indian banks as on 1 August were 25.8% higher than a year earlier. Photograph: Hemant Mishra / Mint
The credit growth has so far been healthy though retail lending has slightly slowed down, he said, adding farm loans were expected to pick up. "The growth of advances are far better than what it was last year. Something like 26% against 20%, which we have been projecting," he said.
RBI raised its key lending rate to a seven-year high of 9% in July to rein in double-digit inflation. Higher rates may slow down credit growth, though that could not yet be determined, he said. Loans by Indian banks as on 1 August were 25.8% higher than a year earlier, RBI data showed.
Asked whether banking sector reforms to allow foreign competitors to buy local banks were on track to be unveiled next year, Leeladhar said it all depends on the review. "I can't foresee what will be the findings of the review," he said.
Meanwhile, State Bank of India chief O.P. Bhatt said the bank's plans to merge with its seven associates would depend on how the merger proceedings with the State Bank of Saurashtra go. "We will wait and see how the merger proceeds. We will take it from there," Bhatt said.
Deepti Chaudhary contributed to this story.


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The finishing touches are being added to the 25th-year banners and signs for tomorrow's Kepler Challenge mountain race.
Ray Willett, of Te Anau, has run in all but one of the events and has volunteered his time painting banners for the race for the past 25 years.
The 60-kilometre event around the Kepler Track was the brainchild of three Fiordland teachers and was first raced in 1988.
This year's Kepler Challenge gets under way from the Lake Te Anau control gates from 6am on race day, with the 26km Luxmore Grunt starting at 8am.
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1998 Obverse Distorted.
Hey guys this is my first post, I have a coin that I cant seem to find a match anywhere else. The obverse of this coin is distorted while the reverse seems typical 1998 D?
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i would need to some pics of the "RAW" coin, out of the 'FLIP',........
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch industrial paints and chemicals company AkzoNobel on Monday rejected a third unsolicited takeover bid from American rival PPG Industries, worth $28.8 billion, saying it was not in the interests of shareholders.
"The PPG proposal undervalues AkzoNobel, contains significant risks and uncertainties, makes no substantive commitments to stakeholders and demonstrates a lack of cultural understanding," AkzoNobel CEO Ton Buchner said in a statement.
AkzoNobel said that its own plan, announced last month, to spin off its Specialty Chemicals unit within 12 months to boost growth "offers a superior route to growth and long-term value creation and is in the best interests of shareholders and all other stakeholders."
AkzoNobel announced the shakeup after rejecting two earlier PPG bids, saying they undervalued the company.
Last month, PPG Industries upped the ante again with a third bid for AkzoNobel; a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $28.8 billion.
AkzoNobel said it rejected the latest offer after "considerable in-depth analysis" including talks with PPG's CEO, Michael McGarry.
PPG said in a statement posted on its website that it was disappointed by the latest rejection and added that the talks, held on Saturday in Rotterdam, lasted less than 90 minutes.
PPG said that Buchner and AkzoNobel's supervisory board chairman Antony Burgmans opened the meeting by saying "that they did not have the intent nor the authority to negotiate" and refused to discuss AkzoNobel's restructuring plan.
PPG said it believes that its bid "is vastly superior in shareholder value creation and provides more certainty to employees and pensioners than AkzoNobel's recently announced new standalone plan."
AkzoNobel's share price was down 2.4 percent at 77.50 euros ($84.82) late Monday morning compared to its previous close, but had edged up by 0.6 percent since the Amsterdam stock exchange opened.
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Facebook has yet again triggered a debate by taking down the screenshot that was posted by a Bangalore based fitness trainer Kavitha Ravindaran on her FB page. The screenshot was of lewd messages from a guy who was harassing her by sending here inappropriate messages in her inbox.
Kavitha, who was shocked to see Facebook's bizzare move, posted another status where she appeared to be disappointed. "I have to appreciate FACEBOOK. Those pics have been taken down. Our society/media is such that it only protects the perpetrators and then we ask, why is rape on rise in India. They reviewed the content and said it doesn't violate any regulation. So as per FACEBOOK, its ok for a man to ask any woman to show her 'pussy' and text filth. What more is to say? Even if you choose to fight back, you are made to face the dead end. True story," Kavitha posted on her FB page.
Earlier, another FB user, Prerna Pratham Singh's post had created quite a stir in the media as she too had taken a bold step by posting the screenshot of her harasser. Her screenshot was also taken down by Facebook on the grounds of 'Nudity Content'.
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