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I've had a number of spokes break in my front wheel over the last couple of months. Is there anything this could be down to? The previous spokes have been replaced at the LBS, but after a few weeks another spoke will break. Is it time for a new wheel build replacing all the spokes or could it be down to something simpler?
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Numerous Spoke Breakage, Why?
stock wheel on a stock bike , all breaking in a similar point on the spoke ?
cheap spokes be my guess, either that or shite build
Alloy nipples?
I've heard some Spesh wheels are prone to breaking nipples as well, got a friend who's had a complete set of wheels replaced under warranty and has now the replacements rebuilt using brass nipples as still suffering breakages. (under warranty too!)
Not stock wheels, mavic rims on hope hubs with DT swiss spokes 36 hole too!
How strange! Could be a bad batch of spokes,or poor wheel building.
Perhaps having 1 broken spoke has weakened the others?
spokes not aligned during the build so the elbow angle is just right? where are they breaking?
Too much tension when rebuilt?
Are they the fancy flat "aero" DT spokes? They are bloody **** for anything more extreme than riding across a nice flat field. Even with a good build they will eventually go ping in my experience.
i've had sapim cx-rays for years with out one breaking!
complete wheel rebuild I'd say
Too many pies?
My lbs rebuilt the rear on my hybrid because they kept going ping. There a bit like pringles - once they pop they wont stop!
Rebuilt with DT Swiss spokes and problem fixed. Still too many pies though
Poorly built wheel. The most likely cause is not enough tension in the spokes and/or the wheel not having been properly stress relieved during the building process. Time to find an lbs which knows how to build wheels. A well built wheel with quality spokes will not break spokes unless they are subjected to some external damage.
In cases ilke this a rebuild is generally the only way to be sure.
Sounds like an issue with the build but I wouldn't go any further than that in diagnosis.
I've had the problem with Marin's in the past they seem to use very light-weight spokes that only last around a year with my riding style. Once one or two spokes have gone (usually at the elbow) I re-build the wheel using DT Competition's, problem sorted.
No-one's answered the OP's question yet. Once you've broken one spoke, the tension immediately transfers around the rim into the adjacent and opposite spokes, and tension will be lost on the horizontally "perpendicular" spokes.
So when the broken spoke is replaced, it's important to re-set the tension on ALL the other spokes in the wheel - and then re-true it. Otherwise some spokes will end up too tight, and some too loose, and they'll keep breaking.
Sheldon Brown's got some great stuff online if you want to learn how!
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Poorly built wheel. The most likely cause is not enough tension in the spokes and/or the wheel not having been properly stress relieved during the building process. Time to find an lbs which knows how to build wheels. A well built wheel with quality spokes will not break spokes unless they are subjected to some external damage.
This is spot on and is almost certainly the cause.
Loose spokes flex at the elbow and fatigue then break very fast. Your wheel was almost certainly built loose and the spokes are all starting to break through fatigue. There's nothing that you can do to stop it other than have them all replaced as even the ones that haven't broken yet will have been damaged and you'll continue to break them as you ride the wheel.
Suggestions that it's anything to do with spokes too tight, alloy nipples, etc are incorrect. I build a lot of wheels and all of them are built very tight and I regularly use alloy nipples. Spokes built properly into a wheel last almost indefinitely (I have wheels with 10 year old spokes that have been on 5+ hubs and similar if not more rims with no breakages).
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A Gastonia man tried to steal a police car while officers were responding to an incident outside a local strip club early Wednesday, according to police.
When a Gastonia man entered a police car at a Gastonia strip club early Wednesday, he talked on the police radio explaining he was �just trying to have a good time,� according to police.
Jason Eric Tate, 39, of 4700 Can Do Court, is accused of climbing into a 2002 Ford Crown Victoria patrol car operated by the Gastonia Police Department and trying to steal it. He then reportedly got on the police radio and carried on a conversation with a dispatcher.
The incident happened around 3 a.m. as officers responded to a call about someone breaking into a car at Leather and Lace, 512 W. Main Ave., Gastonia.
The police report on Tate�s charges is incomplete. He reportedly resisted Officer C.E. Nelson, got in a patrol car and �began playing on (the) radio and would not exit the vehicle when instructed to do so,� according to arrest warrants.
Tate asked, �Are any emergencies going on?� over the police radio. Then a dispatcher said a few words. Tate responded, �Are any emergencies going? This is car 717775, uh, just trying to have a good time.�
Apparently unaware that the police cruiser had been taken over by Tate, the dispatcher asked him to repeat the number.
�The unit number? The unit number is let�s have an [expletive] good time,� Tate responded on the radio. �Is everything going good tonight?�
The radio traffic ceased moments later.
He was booked into the Gaston County Jail at 3:58 a.m. and charged with resisting an officer, breaking into a vehicle, attempted vehicle larceny and interfering with emergency communication.
Tate was jailed under a $10,000 secured bond. In February, he was booked into the Gaston County Jail and charged with injury to personal property, second-degree trespassing and public disturbance.


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DAMASCUS, Syria, July 28 (UPI) -- Thousands of Syrians have reportedly "disappeared" since the anti-regime protests began in March, the Avaaz campaign group says.
The group said it has contacted the families of some 2,918 people detained by security forces and compiled a list of names, the Lebanese Web site Yalibnan.com reported Thursday.
"It's shocking -- one person per hour is being disappeared. This is the face of the regime," Ricken Patel, executive director of Avaaz, told the Web site.
Nadim Houry, a Syrian researcher for Human Rights Watch, said incommunicado detention in the country is "widespread," the Web site reported.
Activists said Wednesday tanks and troops were deployed in areas around Damascus, scores were arrested and 11 killed, the Web site said.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson are teaming up for the first time since Lost in Translation, this time as voice actors in Disney's live action Jungle Book.
Walt Disney Pictures announced Murray will join the cast of the film as the voice of lovable bear Baloo.
It was announced earlier this year Johansson would voice the snake, Kaa. Ben Kingsley was cast as the panther Bagheera, Idris Elba as the tiger Shere Khan and Lupita Nyong'o as mother wolf Raksha.
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"I have ties obviously to both clubs," Sutton, 35, told the Toronto Sun during pre-match training inside Olympic Stadium Friday.


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It's a tricky business, publishing a newspaper in a country ruled by a military junta. But Australian Ross Dunkley thrives on taking calculated risks, writes Paul MyersIF ROSS DUNKLEY WORRIES ABOUT BEING DEPorted from Myanmar and the military junta closing down his flourishing newspaper business, he doesn't show or admit it. Eleven years in the country has taught the single-minded Australian not to try to second-guess the generals, to press openly and unapologetically for what he wants and, most importantly, to always appear in control.
So far, against the odds, it has worked. Only twice has The Myanmar Times, which Dunkley launched in 1999, been suspended from publication – for a week on both occasions. Not even the uprising by Buddhist monks in 2007, when gunfire crackled for days outside his office as the military brutally quashed dissent, stopped his presses or dented his resolve. "There have always been veiled background threats against me and the paper, but my only defence is to fight for what's best for the business and the country," he says. "Even in Myanmar, the wise heads usually prevail."
Idealistic? Risky? Provocative? Undoubtedly, yes.
But when you have pushed the boundaries as much as Dunkley has, and weaved through the maze of Myanmar's media regulations for more than a decade, self-belief and a take-charge approach can be convincing.
Now, with Myanmar's first election in 20 years approaching, the likeable, some say brash, ideas-adozen publisher is upping the ante. He wants to convert his weekly newspaper into a daily.
As with everything in Myanmar – formerly known as Burma – the decision ultimately lies with the junta. But to Dunkley, it is just another episode in the cat-and-mouse game he has played since he arrived in the country as a newspaperman seeking to exploit a big opportunity. It's a high-stakes game that has spawned a multi-million dollar company but cost the freedom of his joint-venture business partner, Sonny Swe, who was jailed in 2004 for 14 years on trumped-up charges. Sonny and his father – a former general, who was sentenced to 152 years for treason both remain in jail.
Dunkley's ambition is a free press in Myanmar that can publish what it wishes, and when it wishes.
Not even a potentially explosive election campaign can stop or deter him. With the world watching as eligible voters of Myanmar's 50 million citizens prepare for the poll, Dunkley sees a perfect storm. How can the generals, keen to show they're taking Myanmar towards democracy, deny his plans to make The Myanmar Times (which is published in Burmese as well as English) a daily when a "free press" has been promised? Not easily, he reasons. Even if approval isn't given before the election, he expects it soon after. "Theoretically, straight after the election we could say we're going daily," he taunts, then admits he'll wait for "the right signals".
Australia's ambassador to Myanmar in 2002 to 2003, Trevor Wilson, doesn't discount the possibility of Dunkley achieving his goal before the election.
Now a research fellow at the Australian National University, Wilson sees a growing trend towards press freedom in Myanmar, particularly in Burmese-language publications, but says there is "no prospect" of censorship being axed. "Not being allowed to publish daily may be more about the censors fearing the amount of work [in reviewing content] than anything else," Wilson suggests.
While he believes The Myanmar Times has been used at times to peddle propaganda, Wilson acknowledges it has performed "a useful function" in distributing information, and says Dunkley deserves credit for "sticking to his guns". Even so, he says intelligent Burmese can easily pick junta-friendly articles.
But The Irrawaddy, an influential news magazine that is produced in Thailand by Burmese exiles, has long been critical of Dunkley and his newspaper. It often accuses Dunkley of being too close to the junta, publishing pro-junta propaganda, and being more interested in making money than journalism.
Such allegations only make Dunkley strive harder for an independent media. "It's naive and stupid to say we're in the junta's pocket," he retorts. "We don't make the rules. We are the only foreign joint-venture media company in Myanmar. I was the first foreign publisher here and have been told [by the government] I'll be the last. I know the generals see me as a necessary evil. We are subject to the same rules as every other publisher and have been closed down on two occasions. We push the boundaries every week and take our chances when we can get them."
Testing the boundaries
TAKING CHANCES COULD WELL BE Dunkley's mantra. He took one during the FIFA World Cup, publishing (with approval) an uncensored sports daily during the tournament. He believes this was a giant step towards the two editions of The Myanmar Times going daily.
When that happens, he says Myanmar Consolidated Media, which he and WA mining magnates Harold and Bill Clough own, along with a junta-installed 51 per cent Burmese partner, will capitalise on a decade of hard yakka.
But first comes the election, expected on October 10 (the date, 10.10.10, is considered auspicious by Myanmar's supersitious generals), in which 440 elected representatives – 25 per cent from the military and others from 42 registered political parties, including military officials who have "stepped down" from their posts to contest the poll as civilians – will take their place in a new parliament in the off limits-to-foreigners, purpose-built capital of Naypyidaw. It will be the first parliamentary gathering of elected lawmakers in the country for 48 years.
Not that much of what Dunkley's 60 editorial staff in Yangon, Mandalay and Naypyidaw write about the election will see the light of day.
Everyone knows too well what happened in 1990 when Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won the election by a landslide:
the junta prevented her from taking office and the parliament never sat. Trevor Wilson, for one, has no doubt that a pro-democracy outcome won't be permitted this time either.
It is equally safe to predict that, just as has occurred in every issue of The Myanmar Times since 1999, the censor (the Press Scrutiny and Regulation Board or PSB) will ensure that only information favourable to the junta goes to print in the lead-up to the election.
It's a common ploy, but a practice that fools no one. The government's own daily newspaper, the oddly-named New Light of Myanmar (called the "Dim Light of Myanmar" by Dunkley's staff ) runs Stalinist-style propaganda ranging from the trivial to the absurd. A general departing for overseas, a tree-planting ceremony or an obscure meeting with regional officials, always featuring photos of high-ranking generals, is typical frontpage fare.
Conversely, stories perceived to convey the wrong messages are removed by the censors before The Mynanmar Times (and other papers) are printed. Page proofs, submitted twice weekly to the PSB, often return with stories completely crossed out, paragraphs removed and headings changed. Sometimes it takes three or four attempts to get the censor's nod. In June, a story about a rat plague was so heavily cut as to be useless, presumably because it portrayed Myanmar as a health risk.
During the 2007 monks' uprising, the junta allowed a muted approach: no photos, stories about the military taking control and veiled vilification of the protagonists. Even now, with the junta well in control, English-language editor Tom Kean says up to a quarter of submitted content is removed; his Burmese-language counterpart, Zaw Myint, estimates 10 to 20 per cent is removed. Both take it in their stride, although Kean – a young Australian on his first posting admits to being frustrated.
"Nobody stops us writing what we believe is right, but often we just can't publish it," he complains.
Two years ago, after an unapproved story was published about satellite TV charges being savagely increased, the junta ordered the removal of a Burmese-language editor and two reporters, and closed the paper for a week. Dunkley counters that the editor wasn't fired as a result of this pressure, but "because we felt she wasn't very good".
The trappings of power
SEATED IN HIS LARGE OFFICE IN A TASTEFULLYrefurbished warehouse in Yangon, the former capital, Dunkley projects himself as a man who relishes power. Paintings by Myanmar modernist artist Myo Khin and one of the beach at Margaret River by his friend, Bay Rigby, adorn the raw brick walls. Dunkley smokes, as do many of his staff who come in to discuss issues. The office is as presentable, if not better, than any mediumsize newspaper anywhere in the world and Dunkley, dressed in a trademark suit with white shirt and tie, with his beloved Goss Community printing press ticking away on the ground floor below, is the undisputed king. Separated from his Australian wife, who lives in Perth, his sprawling rented home with tennis court and pool is in one of Yangon's best areas. Like his newspaper employees, his house staff are constantly attentive.
But rather than wanting to be lord of the manor, Dunkley prides himself more in having trained 100-plus Burmeselanguage journalists in the past decade – "building capacity" he calls it and providing job opportunities in a tough economic environment. Even though local journalists earn only $US1000 a month net, or thereabouts, and foreigners $US1500-2000, there is no shortage of takers, including experienced reporters.
Dunkley's personal political views appear to be conservative liberal. He, like other foreigners in Yangon, admits to having reservations about Aung San Suu Kyi's judgement and tactics. The former political leader, whose father was a hero in Burma for bringing about the country's independence from Britain, has been under house arrest for 14 of the past 20 years.
Dunkley acknowledges the paper doesn't write stories about her. "There's no point. They would never be published," he contends. "By refusing to register the NLD [National League for Democracy] for the election, she dealt herself out of the game. You have to be on the field to score a goal. It's no use being on the sidelines and complaining. I think she has been very badly advised."
Equally, Dunkley doesn't hide his distaste for the junta and openly criticises his joint venture partners, Dr Tin Tun Oo and his wife, who were handed Sonny Swe's shares at a discounted price. "We have a working relationship," he says of his 51 per cent partner.
"But I care more about the business and the country than he does. It's ironic that I'm the one trying to open things up and make them happen."
Dunkley is not afraid of being outspoken.
He and others recount a speech at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Bangkok in 2002, which turned into a withering tirade against Myanmar's rulers. As usual, he dodged the bullet. "I had a prepared speech, different to the one I gave," he recalls. When required to explain, he claimed to have been misquoted.
Now he says all military generals and senior civil servants have been instructed to read his newspaper. "We're making a difference," he chortles. "Even [United Nations secretary-general] Ban Ki-moon congratulated me on what we're doing when he came to Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis."
Dunkley believes it's what happens after the election that now matters most. Ever the optimist, he reckons there's a good chance censorship will be axed after the election and that the country's 2100 political prisoners, including Sonny Swe and Aung San Suu Kyi, who is due to be released in November anyway, will be freed.
The long route to Myanmar
DUNKLEY MADE HIS MARK IN JOURNALISM BY winning a Walkley Award in 1982 for his reporting in the Victorian rural weekly Stock & Land of the waterfront dispute between unions and farmers. He later transferred with Rural Press to his home state of Western Australia to edit Western Farmer, leaving in 1987 to team up with a mercurial character, Barry Millett, as the coowner of specialist publisher Farm Gate Press.
But when Millett's depression ultimately caused his departure (and later suicide), Dunkley was left holding the bag and the company later went into receivership.
In 1991 Dunkley left Australia to join two fellow countrymen, Chris Dawe and Alex McKinnon, in their fledgling Vietnam Investment Review, arriving in Hanoi as the weekly was about to print its fourth issue. He and the two Saigonbased founding partners sold the English/ Vietnamese-language title to Australian Consolidated Press in 1994 when James Packer sought a media beachhead in Vietnam.
The trio fulfilled three-year management contracts after the ACP sale and went separate ways. But armed with the valuable experience of Vietnam, Dunkley saw an opportunity in Myanmar, travelling there frequently before finally securing a deal with Sonny Swe to establish the country's second Englishlanguage newspaper. It has been a no-contest. His rival English-language title, the daily New Light of Myanmar, launched as the Working People's Daily in 1914, was nationalised in 1969 and is a shadow of its competitor; the Burmese-language edition of The Myanmar Times, however, faces much stiffer competition, competing against numerous Burmese-language titles every week.
Two years ago, Dunkley turned his sights to Cambodia, another frontier publishing environment that was home to the English-language fortnightly The Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia Daily and French-language daily Cambodge Soir, plus a bevy of local language titles.
Post founder Michael Hayes, an American who launched the paper in 1991 and was losing money, had long been seeking a buyer. Dunkley and the Cloughs swooped, eight months later turning the paper – once described by an American columnist as "the greatest little paper on earth" – into a weekday daily with English and Cambodian editions; they installed printing presses and increased the staff ten-fold to more than 250. The attraction was obvious: full ownership of a media business without needing a local partner. But whereas Myanmar Consolidated Media is profitable and operates smoothly, Post Media Company's short life has been complex, with reputed losses of $US600,000 a year and staff rumblings. In June, it caused Dunkley to bring in former editor-in-chief of The Australian and former chief operating officer of The Bangkok Post, David Armstrong, as chairman.
Armstrong, who is not formally involved in Myanmar, but will be an advisor, brings vast newspaper experience in Australia and Asia as well as legitimacy that may help an eventual listing on the Phnom Penh Stock Exchange, due to open later this year. Or, more likely, a strategic media partner in Australia or Asia to help the company expand, possibly into television as well as more print.
Armstrong is effusive in his praise of Dunkley
"He has so much energy and the ideas keep tumbling out." Armstrong describes The Phnom Penh Post as "solid but bland" and under new editor-in-chief Bernie Leo, a former Fairfax chief sub-editor who came from the Shanghai Daily, wants the paper to ramp up hard reporting and to more effectively tackle business, metro news and local issues.
With the Cambodian parliament midway through its current five-tear term, Armstrong is urging the Post to report politics fairly and "straight down the middle". And despite the paper's current financial malaise, he says: "I suspect it won't be so tough to be successful financially and report honestly."
Siem Reap bureau chief Peter Olszewski, a former editor of People and freelance writer for The Bulletin and other titles, believes Dunkley's experience in Vietnam has helped him prosper in Myanmar and will work to his benefit in Cambodia.
"Ross is like a bull in a china shop, but he doesn't break any china," he explains. "He has an extraordinary ability to deal with suspect governments and difficult people. If anyone had said they were going to open a Western-style newspaper in Burma [in the late 1990s] they would have been regarded as nuts. But Ross did, and it has succeeded and survived."
One dissident, however, is the outgoing editorin-chief at The Phnom Penh Post, Seth Meixner, a 37-year-old American who Dunkley hired from the local bureau of news agency Agence France Presse. Riled at being replaced by Leo, even though he was planning to return to the US at the end of the year, Meixner says the paper has begun pandering to advertisers and has slashed its word-count on big stories. "I'm worried about its journalism," he says. "If we took more care of the core product [instead of producing supplements and advertising features] and made the paper as good as possible, the numbers would look after themselves."
Although dismissive of the criticism, Dunkley is unapologetically pushing his newspapers down a more commercial path. In Myanmar, he has launched an A4 young female magazine, titled Now, published in Burmese.
There's also Crime Journal, a weekly tabloid newspaper, also published in Burmese, that incorporates Wheels, an auto insert. All have been highy successful cash cows that are certain to be replicated and expanded in Myanmar and elsewhere.
The next two years will be critical for Dunkley's Cambodia experiment and future expansion. One potential cloud is the future media intentions of 41-yearold Cambodian-Australian, Kith Meng, who as a youngster fled to Australia with his sister after their parents died under Pol Pot's brutal purge of the 1970s.
A graduate of the University of Canberra, he returned to Cambodia to resurrect the family business, Royal Cambodia Company, and in the 1990s made a fortune supplying United Nations relief agencies. Now chairman of the Royal Group, ANZ Bank's business partner in Cambodia, he is an aggressive commercial operator and a major contributor to Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party, as well as being chairman and part-owner of MobiTel, Cambodia's biggest mobile phone company.
Dunkley enjoys a cordial relationship with Meng, but worries he could turn into a competitor, possibly as a future owner of a ramped-up Cambodia Daily or of other media formats.
Will Kith Meng and Dunkley team up or fight it out? As if he doesn't have enough on his plate, the irrepressible Dunkley will have to find a way to tiptoe around that minefield, too.
Just as he has shown in Myanmar – a much tougher business environment than in Cambodia – the publisher's own unfailing self-belief will be the driving force behind his expanding empire.


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LOS ANGELES — David Beckham plans to play out the final year of his contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2011 while continuing to hope he'll play for England again.
Beckham said in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday that he doesn't know what will happen after his contract expires next year.
"I want to play as long as my legs can take me," he said. "I know it sounds a cliche, but I love playing soccer, I love playing the game, it's my passion. When I stop enjoying it then I'll know I need to stop."
Beckham has a five-year contract with Major League Soccer worth $32.5 million. He could buy out the final year and leave next month when the playoffs end.
"I'm definitely going to be here for the rest of my contract," he said. "My sons go to school here, we're all happy living here, so I can't see us moving."
The former England captain would hurry home, though, if England coach Fabio Capello called on him to play for his country again. Beckham is England's most experienced active player with 115 international appearances.
"I'd love to continue to play. Whether I do or not, that is obviously down to the manager and obviously down to myself to perform," he said.
Beckham won't go on loan to a European team like he did with AC Milan the last two years to keep fit during the MLS offseason, which could dash his hopes of playing for England again.
The Galaxy won't allow another loan after his Achilles' tendon injury kept him out for most of this season.
"I would love to say that I'd be able to, but with the injury that I've had you have to give it a certain amount of rest," Beckham said.
Capello has suggested he wants to rejuvenate the England team with younger players and will only consider Beckham for a farewell match in an exhibition. This month, he dismissed the suggestion that Beckham has played himself into contention.
Asked if Capello has fairly considered him, Beckham said, "He's a fair man. He gives everyone a chance."
The 35-year-old superstar says he is "80 to 85 percent" fit after tearing his left Achilles' tendon while on loan in March. He was sidelined for six months and missed the World Cup in South Africa.
"It's obviously difficult to come back from," he said. "I've been playing just over a month now and the fitness level is almost there."
The Galaxy open the playoffs next Sunday at Seattle. Beckham scored the tying goal in the team's 2-1 weekend victory over FC Dallas to help them finish with the league's best record of 18-7-5.
Last year, the Galaxy lost on penalty kicks to Real Salt Lake in the MLS Cup final.
"I wouldn't say we're favorites," he said. "I believe we've got the right team, we've got the right manager, so everything sets up right. It's just about us performing on the field."
The severity of his injury has kept Beckham from thinking too far into the future, especially when it comes to making the rosters for Euro 2012 or the World Cup in 2014.
"At the moment, I'm just taking each game as it comes," he said.
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His latest injury is one of many that have knocked Beckham out since he arrived to unbelievable hype four years ago, stating his goal was to raise soccer's profile in the United States.
"We wanted to grow the league, which we have," he said, citing new MLS franchises, new soccer-specific stadiums and international players who've followed him stateside as proof of the growth.
"I always said it wasn't going to take a year or two. It's going to take five, 10 years to be able to get up to a level which could compete with the European leagues. So far, so good."


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ABOUT now they will be trimming the last few blades of grass with manicure scissors, polishing the champagne flutes and taking delivery of those precious strawberries (surely, by the price of them, studded with diamonds).
And somewhere near Wimbledon, the reigning men's singles champion will be getting ready to play another game of mixed double identities, a sporting endeavour in which he is sometimes wholly British (usually, if not exclusively, when he is winning) and other times belongs lock, stock and lack of a double-barrel name, to Scotland.
Andy Murray must be as weary of the mixed double identities game as he once was of being asked if he was ever going to win a Grand Slam. He has long passed that particular milestone in his career, but the debate about dual identity still thunders on behind him.
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This year, given a certain vote in September, that debate will have an added significance. While Scotland has been living with the referendum for so long we can now debate the likes of currency union and EU membership in our sleep, England is only now waking up to the fact that this "thing", this thing that was once item eight on the UK news and has now made it all the way to the giddy heights of, oh, item four, is really happening.
Seeing Murray play, and hearing him speak, will be another, sharper reminder of the differences within the Union, and what those contrasts might lead to in September.
Whether he wins or not, England is not about to lose Murray himself. Though a proud Scot with family and now a business in Scotland, Murray, by dint of his vast wealth and profession, could be considered one of the stateless super-rich, folk who cross the globe the way ordinary bods cross the floor to the shower in the morning. It is the rest of us who could be out of the Union door after September.
Thus far, the polls say that England, given a choice, would rather we stayed. Which is all very nice. But if we are to be Scottish and blunt about this for a moment, do we give a punnet of strawberries what the neighbours think?
John Major would like to think we do, hence his visit to Scotland this week to make the case for the Union. Mr Major has form in this area. In 1992 he famously urged his fellow countrymen to "wake up" to the dangers of devolution before it was too late.
One could be churlish here and ask him, to borrow a phrase from Sarah Palin, "How's that hopey-changey 'let's make sure devolution never happens' thing working out for ya?" But we are all friends and neighbours here, so let us move on to the new matters Mr Major wanted to address.
He was dismayed, for instance, at the timing of the vote to coincide with the 700th anniversary of Bannockburn. This, he said, was "presumably to maximise the opportunity for any anti-English sentiment that may exist".
If that was the plan, however, it looks like being a copper-bottomed, period-costumed failure. When contemplating ticket sales for Bannockburn Live, the special event on June 28 to 29 to mark the battle, the words "tickets" and "hot cakes" do not come to mind. The duration of the bash has already been cut from three days to two, and the ticket tally cut from 45,000 to 20,000. There might of course have been a last-minute rush for briefs, but at this rate it will be one man and a rather embarrassed dug attending. Any anti-English sentiment that may exist, to use Mr Major's words, is clearly not bursting to run free in Stirling in June.
A good reason for that, other than the fact that the prospect of watching a battle re-enactment and touring a clan village has "haud me back" written all over it, is that anti-English sentiment does not exist to the extent some would have you believe, and that where there are feelings on this matter, they are far more complex and subtle than is usually acknowledged.
It is possible, as pro-Union Scottish politicians are ever keen to stress, to be "for" Scotland without being anti the rest of the UK.
Within the two extremes of black and white - being totally for or against England - there are an endless number of shades of grey. Not those kinds of shades of grey, but sometimes, yes, there is a fair bit of masochism involved when Scots take the time to consider how they feel, truly feel, about England, and the extent to which that will influence their vote come September.
When considering why the independence debate stirs such feeling in Scotland, it is not because we are all political anoraks at heart, never happier than when debating devo-max versus devo versus independence, or that we jump at any chance to start a fight in an empty hoose. When people do become het up it is because which way one votes is such an intensely personal decision. It says so much about where one is in life, where one comes from, and where one hopes to be going.
To express a firm Yes or No is to ask to be judged on that past, those choices. It comes as no surprise that many are reluctant to show their hand.
Feelings about England make up but a strand in the DNA of today's Scottish voters, and even then the term is used amorphously. For "England" in a negative sense read "Westminster", "London", "Thatcher legacy", "Tory rule" or any combination thereof.
Do English folk surveyed about Scottish independence know or care about this complexity? Or are they, as is far more likely, deriving their feelings about Scotland from a fantastic holiday they once had here, or their Scottish friends and relatives? Of such cloudy, indistinct, notions are national identities made.
There is one thing we can say for certain, though. Just as England cares, to some extent, what happens to Scotland, so the feeling goes both ways.
There are Scots who will think twice about voting for independence if it condemns those south of the border to perennial Tory rule. And there are those who, as JK Rowling wrote in her blog post last week, see voting Yes as a chance to take a pop at the current Westminster Government. And sure, there will be a few whose feelings cannot be explained as anything other than prejudice, though their numbers are surely dwindling.
Here is one pledge we can make to the neighbours: whatever happens in September, this apparently simple Yes/No decision process has been long, difficult, and complex, a five-set game for sure. No wonder Andy Murray prefers to stick to tennis.


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A 10-foot WWII bomb discovered in the Rhine is set to be detonated on Sunday, causing about 45,000 citizens of Koblenz to evacuate the German city, BBC reported.
The bomb, which was dropped by the RAF during the Second World War, was revealed after the water levels of the Rhine fell to an all-time low due to a November dry spell. The evacuation is the largest in Germany's post-war history, and includes seven nursing homes, two hospitals and a prison. Almost half of Koblenz's population (around 120,000 people) is being evacuated to a safe zone a mile away from the bomb, which is capable of destroying an entire city block, The Daily Mail reported.
The area has been blocked off by hundreds of sandbags, and the remainder of the water will be pumped out Sunday morning. It is expected to take several hours to make the bomb safe.
The low water levels have already revealed four other unexploded bombs. An aerial bomb was found a few kilometers down river in Neuwie, which required around 1,000 people to evacuate, The Daily Mail reported. A smaller US bomb that was discovered is also expected to be detonated on Sunday, BBC reported.
Residents have been notified of the evacuation by flier, and have been encouraged to close their businesses and homes and pull shutters down if possible. Officials will also be going door-to-door on Sunday to assure that everyone is out of harm's way.
Koblenz was a center for German operations during World War II, and was hit repeatedly by air raids carried out by RAF and U.S. bombers, The Daily Mail reported.
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I am playing catch up here again today . . . the summer is just getting away with me and I've not had as much painting time as I would have liked. This is one of my latest Christmas Card creations . . . love the feel of it . . . and the colours . . .
And then I did this one . . . a birdhouse in the winter snow . . . you can see that I am very much in Christmas mode I think . . .
This one's not finished yet . . . I still have to decide what I'm going to put in the centre . . . a letter of some sort I am sure.
And then something a little different yet again . . . this one quite late summery! I had her at first on watercolour paper and had watercoloured in the background, but then . . . I wasn't happy with it, so I got out my trusty scissors and carefully cut her out and her butterfly kite as well . . . and then mounted her onto some scrapbook paper. I think I like it better.
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Folks seem to get all warm and fuzzy around the holidays and start promising puppies, kittens and all things warm and cuddly (see the Obama dog promise). If you are indeed seeking a canine companion for you or yours take some tips from a pooch in the know.
Some sage advice if you're seriously think about the responsibility of owning and caring for another creature. Are you really home enough? Do you have the time to properly walk, train and interact with a hound? Are the members of your family 'creature' friendly? Some tips:
- Don't rush out and buy the 'pertiest' purebred you can find. Temperament trumps looks when you're in the market for a dog or puppy. Do your homework. A mutt is often a better choice than a cranky, high strung show dog.
- Avoid impulse buys from that puppy mill at the mall. As cute as that Corgi may look in the store window that little fur ball can have some serious genetic, medical and psychological problems.
- Consider a rescue dog or a dog from an animal shelter so you can bask in the good karma of saving a dog's life. Be prepared to perform a little doggie rehab to help the pooch over any trauma he may have endured before reaching your happy home.
- Don't be afraid to adopt an older dog who may be kid-friendly and possessing some skills and training. House breaking a pup can be a bitch.
Hope these tips are helpful. I speak from experience. My two siblings and I are all rescue dogs and we get along just fine with our extended family of 5, 2-legged creatures.


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Just a heads up to travelers booking rewards travel through Capital One Rewards / Travelocity.
After booking a trip to Scotland back In February we received no confirmation e-mail. According to the company 90%+ of e-mails sent to g-mail accounts are caught is the spam filter.
This failing led to a series of disastrous events for our family, with us being stranded in Scotland with 4 children (2 with special needs) and neither Capital One Rewards or British Airways willing to help with the error.
In the subsequent days of complaints to Capital One rewards, we have been told that there are 3 checkpoints to confirm dates/times at point of booking, so I am not sure how such an error could occur.
Having said that, a Capital One Rewards rep also told us that we had "a better chance of winning the lottery than them being wrong".......yup that really made us feel better about a bad situation.
I would advise using caution with Capital One Rewards - and do not be surprised to receive very poor customer service if an error is made.
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So sorry you had that happen to you and your family.
That is why I no longer use my card as a "rewards" card. I just use it for cash back and then have the actual cash to pay for my travel.
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It was up to you to check your spam folder for the confirmation email. I don't see how Capital One is responsible.
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Sad but I agree with sparkchaser, if you are expecting a repy and don't get it then surely the first thing you would do is check your spam folder.
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And if you didn't find it in the spam folder surely you would contact the relevant company. Why on earth would you leave on a trip without confirmations in hand???
Had you checked to see whether the relevant points had been deducted from your account?
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You haven't provided enough info/detail for anyone to really have an opinion on what you are saying. You say, they say is a tie game. It sounds like what happened is your return flight reservation was not confirmed.
Spark and crell, I once bought some travel insurance online using a credit card and got a 'transaction approved' message followed by a policy number and policy details to print out.
On my return from that trip I found a letter awaiting me that said the credit card transaction had not gone through, the insurance provider had sent me an e-mail saying I was not covered and to contact them to arrange payment and re-instate the coverage. Having had no response to their e-mail they sent out a letter as required by law. (I don't check e-mail when I am travelling.)
So the entire time we were on that trip we had no insurance according to them. Fortunately, we didn't need to make a claim and so there was no real issue. All it meant was we didn't pay for insurance. Their loss, not mine.
So even when you have a confirmation and a reference number (or policy number in the case I'm talking about) the 'system' may deny everything. LOL
The funny thing is the credit card provider and the insurance provider are the same company. In other words, the insurance department of company X (I see no need to name names) said, 'ok, the credit card transaction went through, no problem, here's your polic number.' Then later sent an e-mail saying, 'oh, OUR credit card department hasn't paid us, you're not insured, please try again because our left hand and right hand don't talk to each other.'
I do agree with you both that it is the customer's responsibility to make sure they get a confirmation number. But even if they do, the system can still mess up.
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Not sure what part of the world you are from improviser, but in the UK at least ( still the worlds largest insurance centre) once a policy is issued that is it, you are covered. Even if the events happened as you described, the credit card company would be jointlyand severally liable for any losses incurred through he insurance company's negligence under the various consumer credit legislations. Although I do accept that claiming under such circumstances would prove problematic and a complete PITA and, indeed if one is stuck up the Amazon without the proverbial paddle!
Two things I always do before travel is to double check air tickets and travel insurance. The latter is always arrange at he time of booking he former as if anything happens prior to travel, e.g. Illness, bereavement, volcanic eruptions etc.., I would be covered. Leaving insurance until the very last minute sort of reduces its effectiveness somewhat.
anyway, this is somewhat off the point. I cannot imagine travelling as the OP appeared to do so, without making sure I had confirmed flights. Thankfully, I do not travel with small children, but if I did I would check and double check my arrangements.
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"So the entire time we were on that trip we had no insurance according to them. Fortunately, we didn't need to make a claim and so there was no real issue. All it meant was we didn't pay for insurance. Their loss, not mine."
The country was Canada cresllston. Note I wrote, 'according to them'. I am well aware of what would have happened if we had had to make a claim. I would have pursued it and I believe would have won a case eventually. As you say a PITA.
My point is, I did not leave without confirmation. Whether off a flight or insurance really doesn't matter. It could have been either.
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"After booking a trip to Scotland back In February we received no confirmation e-mail. According to the company 90%+ of e-mails sent to g-mail accounts are caught is the spam filter.
This failing led to a series of disastrous events for our family, with us being stranded in Scotland with 4 children (2 with special needs) and neither Capital One Rewards or British Airways willing to help with the error."
What "failing"?
That you did not check for a confirmation e-mail?
That the spam filter could have caught the confirmation e-mail, but you didn't look for it? The credit card company and the airlines wouldn't fix it for you, because you didn't take good care in planning your trip?
I'm sorry this happened to your family, but it was your fault. No one else's.
For any trip, bring printed copies of all confirmations, in addition to having them stored on e-mail. Simple solution.
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Liked it a looot, the art work ,the plot line. This flash talks about the people who stole orgns to sell them in other countryes, and theri victims (I guess), or is only a ranmdo flash... I dont know, 5/5 10 /10
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I Love, I Love! So perfectly morbid... Ahhh. ^_^
Good choice of music too.
Thank you! I've found out over the past couple of months that classical is the best music for me to work with.
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very interesting. i like the artwork and the story it gives. kinda reminded me a little of the new movie coming out about the organ harvesters. 10/10.
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Dallas Wiens, the 25-year-old father who sustained severe burns when his head touched a high voltage wire, received his long-awaited face transplant last week.
Wiens was the first in the country to receive a full-face transplant, a surgery that required more than 30 physicians, nurses and anesthesiologists over 15 hours to replace his nose, lips, skin, muscles and nerves.
"He will not look like himself, but he will also not look like the donor, there is a component of soft tissues and also the bone that is Dallas' own, so the tissues are really molded on a new person, and in this case the way Dallas will look will not resemble either what he used to be or the donor," said Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, plastic surgeon and director of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Burn Center.


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Why jazz + France = such sweet music
If you're finding the UK festival scene a bit twee, head to France and taste a very different kind of musical festival
Stratospherically expensive Wellingtons, hair straighteners and celebrity chefs: it could only be the British festival season. As the annual smorgasbord of al fresco musical events hits its sun baked stride, it's being analysed, accessorised and commercialised like never before.
You can shell out for capsule collections based on celebrity festival looks, splurge on this year's welly of choice – a line I never imagined it would be possible to write – a £250 Hunter Jimmy Choo with faux croc design, and dress your kids in special festival fashions, apparently the summer's most surprising retail trend.
Glamping – buzzwords rarely become so depressing so quickly – is already part of the landscape with 'fairies' pitching tents in secured fields with exclusive use showers and loos.


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VIENNA, June 20 (UPI) -- Negotiators in Vienna, respecting their July 20 deadline, began composing the text of an agreement on Iran's nuclear program, despite admissions they are far apart on key issues.
The deal is designed to limit Iran's nuclear capability from manufacturing nuclear weapons. In return, the P5+1 -- the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council consisting of the U.S., the U.K., France, Russia, and China, plus Germany -- would remove economic sanctions on Iran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, said progress in negotiations has been made because "we have started putting everything on paper ... in rather black-and white form." Still, he jokes, the text of the agreement thus far has "more parentheses than words."
At issue are technical matters, such as the number of uranium centrifuges Iran would be allowed to keep. It is presumed each country will make its best offer closer to the deadline, a common negotiating ploy in diplomacy.
A unnamed U.S. official at the talks suggested an extended deadline may be needed, if the two sides can resolve the most pressing problems in the agreement, saying, "If we get close and need a few more days, I don't think anybody will mind."
The official added there was some talk about the military offensive in Iraq and its impact on Iranian and U.S. positions at the talks, but said it was casual and not fundamental to the nuclear agreement.
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MOR Music is organising York Guitar Weekend, a two-day charity event that will take place at several locations across the city on October 15th and 16th.
The store's Lynne and Phil O' Dea have so far confirmed an in-store acoustic set and meet and greet with musician Francis Dunnery and Jamie Humphries will demonstrate Musicman basses and talk to visitors about Lick Library.
The Fibbers venue will host a 12-hour gig marathon, which will involve some of the best bands the city has to offer and on October 16th, the York Guitar Fair will also be held at Fibbers.
All funds raised over the weekend will go to six local charities: Snappy, Yorkshire Air Ambulance, St Leonards Jospice, The Blue Cross, York Against Cancer and The William Rhodes Appeal.
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Another feature will be the York Guitar Weekend Charity Treasure Hunt. Participants will be required to find the six hidden guitars spread around the city and return to MOR Music with a completed form to be in with the chance of winning a guitar. The six guitars used in the hunt will also be donated to the six charities after the event.
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The IT angle obsessionists among you are not going to like this one bit, but we're delighted to announce that El Reg's Iberian Bureau today welcomed a new member to the Vulture Central fold, in the form of a small but perfectly-formed donkey foal, or buche, as they're known in these parts. The lad in question is being well …
that is all.
For those in need of the IT angle, I commend Leslie Lamport's excellent article on Buridan's Ass:
when you have interests outside of IT. Helps keep things in perspective, I think. Too much staring at computer screens is a Bad Thing (tm).
Bobby Zamoran?
Isn't that insulting to a perfectly good donkey?
I will not bother with all the obvious jokes since I am sure the rest of the newsroom has tried them out already.
Before I read the story, I thought it was going to be about the two Hilton sisters...
There's not another one, surely?
His face and eyes are not entirely unlike those of the Reg vulture mascot.
just make the nickname ADSL (or the proper name Adslladin), with the DS silent. i am certin some of the resident GNs about can find a suitable linguistic convention to ratify the move and you're all sorted...
alternatively, you could just call the Burro ASP, Applet or even Avatar...
one pretty ass.
There's an Iberian branch? It has a donkey? Why is this info not in the Reg info/contacts page?
Sod the IT angle.
If you followed the PARIS trials you'd already know that there's an Iberian branch...
He is going to be a competition prize, right? :)
remember those camel balls tbey used to give for COTW? Well....
So, in another four years, will you be giving us eDonkey?
I'm going. Stop throwing things.
I remember seeing a poster, telling me that this Xmas I can see Jim Davidson in Aladdin.
I want to cuddle it right now. Can I have one?
that I've never said that before about a reg hack.
Just because you work for a technology website, there was no need to name your donkey after a chipset.
More like this please. A break from the deadly serious is quite an excellent thing. Congrats Lester!
Ask your butler to put some straw on that barn's floor, it doesn't look too homy on the pics...
and environmentally dispose of all those Apple / Microsoft / Another hardware or software suppliers press releases
Paris? Another Nice Ass......
All the years I've been breeding animals, having a baby or babies on the ground never gets old. Next up on my personal growth listie: My daughter is late in her third trimester. I'm quite looking forward to being a grandfather.
The mother is called "Susi"? That is Finnish for "wolf".
Congratulations. Lovely stuff.
Epic FOAL, you might say.
I would have thought the IT angle was obvious - the owner works for the best IT news site on the web :D
When's it first test flight then?
Oh look, another 'donkey parasailing' joke. Whee.
Every day I'm here my sense of humour takes another blow. In another six months I may have lost the ability to smile. Doctors will be baffled. I will direct them to this site. They will nod gravely.
"...may have lost the ability to smile" That would be a great pity. But hey, that's exactly the turn my life took. No reason to grieve though, loads of sarcasm keeps me alive. Just try it, works wonders. And your smile will return too, even if it's as an evil grin only.
Well, "Nice ass" just doesn't cut it anywhere near the same as "Nice beaver"
Why the long face?
He's a widdle cutie. And his mum looks just like Sarah Jessica Parker.
Seriously, way cute - no crass jokes. Crap day at work, this has put a smile on my face. Cheers!
I do hope we get regular pictorial updates as the little mugwump grows into 'dem ears of his?
The baby still looks a little confused in the later pictures, but it's still pretty cool. Thanks for the article.


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I'm always happy to provide some fun for you. :))
These golfballs were great fun to put together :) (39:04)
I hope you will have some fun Whatnauts, thanks for dropping by. :))
Thanks, Esternke, I hope that after a good start :)), you will spend a marvellous weekend, doing all the things you like to do. :))
Hi Debs, I'm happy you liked the golf balls, honey, textures and all :))), this weekend there is not too much work waiting for me, I have the best intentions to spend a very relaxing and "puzzling" weekend. :)))
I hope you will have the same. :))
I had a sneak peek at the pieces. Love the texture. Have a wonderful weekend. I've bookmarked this for tomorrow....
A very good way....:P :)
Hi Dagmar, thank you for such a colourful puzzle. I loved the textures ~ like honeycomb golf balls, lol :)
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In certain situations, it makes more sense to seek an annulment versus a divorce.An annulment action in New York State is lawsuit filed in court seeking to dissolve a marriage on the ground that the marriage is voidable by court order based on certain grounds.
What is the effect of an annulment?The main effect is that the parties may consider themselves to have not been married. In other words, they can truthfully say, "I was never married". There can still be custody and child support orders if there are minor children born during the marriage. There will not be an order of support. In addition, the Court can makes orders to distribute property.
What is the difference between annulment and divorce?
- An order of annulment means that one party has established that the marriage is not legally valid. A divorce, on the other hand, ends a legally valid marriage.
- As mentioned above, the Court cannot order spousal support if the marriage is annulled. No marriage equals no spousal support.
- The grounds for annulments are more difficult to establish than grounds for divorce. The process can be costlier and lengthier, but often it is worth it.
What are the grounds for annulment?There are five grounds upon which a party to a marriage may seek to have the marriage annulled:
- Under age of consent—If either or both parties to a marriage are under 18, that party, one of his or her parents or guardian (or any other person the court allows) may seek to have the marriage annulled. The right to seek annulment on this ground ceases once the spouse at issue has turned 18. Annulment on this ground is granted at the discretion of the court considering all the circumstances of the marriage.
- Mental incapacity—If a party to a marriage is mentally ill or otherwise mentally incapacitated and was unable to give informed consent to the marriage, any relative with an interest in seeing the marriage annulled may do so while either spouse is alive.
- Marriage Not Consummated—An action for annulment may be brought by either party before five years have elapsed from the date of marriage if one party has a continuing physical incapacity that causes that person to be unable to have sexual intercourse. The action may be brought by the non-impaired person, or even the impaired person, so long as that person did not know of his or her incapacity at the time of the marriage.
- Force, duress, or fraud—An action for annulment may be brought by a party to a marriage who alleges that his or her consent to the marriage was obtained by force, duress, or fraud. Examples of fraudulent marriages include:
- Marrying to obtain immigration status (green card);
- Claiming to be pregnant to entice someone to marry;
- Claiming you want to have children when you really don't.
- Incurable mental illness for a period of five years or more—An action for annulment may be brought by either party to a marriage or anyone acting on his or her behalf where one party to the marriage has become incurably mentally ill, and the illness has persisted for five years or more.


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Had a final revision of Shenhua's outfit for Fanime 2008. I took almost everything apart and sewn it back together. Lots of editing to the first two versions I did. I made it "accurate" in a way I got a little uncomfortable. But it was good I was with a group~ (The cosplay was based on the manga artwork cover and the figure mostly.)
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Leadership starts with the prime minister, former Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney asserts in an interview in
Corporate Knightsmagazine that was made public Sunday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Acid Rain Accord in 1991.
"If the prime minister is not driving the file then nothing is going to happen," Mr. Mulroney told Green party leader Elizabeth May, in an interview that was recorded two months ago. Ms. May was a senior federal policy adviser and the executive director of the Sierra Club during the negotiations that led to the acid rain accord.
In the interview, Mr. Mulroney talked about the importance of leadership and asserted that if the federal government he led wanted to get things done, on acid rain or apartheid in South Africa, the whole of government had to know the prime minister believed in the project and wanted to see it done.
"Look, the fact of the matter is that in any government that I'm aware of, either in the United States or Canada or anywhere else for that matter, if you want something resolved, that has complex jurisdictional dimensions to it, has an international challenge without the resolution of which there can be no ultimate solution to the problem, you have all those elements together, there's one way, and one way alone that this matter gets resolved, it has to be driven by the prime minister himself," Mr. Mulroney told Ms. May.
Ms. May asked Mr. Mulroney to comment on the different atmosphere politically around the climate change issue today as opposed to the acid rain issue in the early 1990s.
"All I can really say is that that was then, and now is now," Mr. Mulroney said. "I was the prime minister then, and someone else is the prime minister today."
Mr. Mulroney said he could only talk about his own experience as leader, and pointed as another example to the issue of the effort to end apartheid in South Africa.
"I won't belabour the point, but I articulated a position on behalf of my government, and said this is where we are going. This is where Canada is going to go, as long as I'm prime minister. And I took the necessary measures to ensure that the outcome would be the one we wanted.
"But most of all, it needs to be a top priority with the prime minister himself. That's important because he has to believe in it, obviously, but also that's the manner in which you galvanize the system. If the system understands that this is the prime minister's priority, if he wants to see it happen, and if you're an assistant deputy minister, or a director, or a senior advisor … you understand that the message has come down loud and clear," Mr. Mulroney said..
That message, Mr. Mulroney said is: " 'We better be on our game 100%, because the boss is going to be here, and he's going to want to know what the hell's going on and how come we haven't made the progress that he set out for us.' "
Mr. Mulroney said success wasn't guaranteed if the prime minister drove the file but it was "possible" that if his enthusiasm for a file was understood that big things could happen.
Ms. May is running in the British Columbia riding of Saanich–Gulf Islands, which is currently represented by Conservative incumbent Gary Lunn, the minister of sport, who is attempting to win his sixth mandate. The Greens came in a distant third in the 2008 election.
Mr. Mulroney reminded Ms. May he told her she should have run out West in the last election and told her he expected her to do "very well."
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Skillet is an award-winning Christian rock band. They will be in concert in Tyler, along with other Christian artists, Third Day, Mandisa, Brandon Heath, Peter Furler and We As Human, on March 14. Visit www.oilpalace.com for more details on the concert. The Tyler Morning Telegraph interviewed Skillet's lead singer, John Cooper, for this Q&A.
How did you get the name Skillet?
When we originally got together, we were from different bands from my church, and my pastor said 'Hey, you should get with that guy, then you could call it "Skillet"; it will be like cooking with all these different ingredients, throw it all in a big skillet."
Would you say the essence of the band is the same, even with having different band members over the years?
I think due to the fact that my wife, Korey — she's been in the band since '98, almost from the beginning—it's kind of our baby. We write the music, we produce a lot of the music, we're kind of the voice of Skillet.
Because of that, we've been able to transition a lot of different members in and out. And the reason we don't maybe suffer a whole lot is those members weren't maybe the principle songwriters and it's not like all of a sudden you lost your songwriter, that's what's really difficult.
Yet, it is hard, especially because you grow close relationships and you get used to playing with someone, and it takes a lot of work — finding the right person is extremely difficult — but we've really been able to find people we believe in, and the group we have now has been with us over two years — our guitar player has been with us two years, our drummer has been with us six or seven —so all that being said we've got a really great team that I hope stays together for a long time.
You don't just do Christian music, you do some mainstream now as well. How do you feel about that transition?
Skillet always wanted to do mainstream music and Christian music. We never wanted to just be a Christian band. I did not realize that there was such a disparity between the two. I didn't realize that when you (start in the) Christian music industry that it was going to make it extremely difficult to break into the mainstream world.
Why does it make it difficult?
Because the mainstream world doesn't really view Christian music as viable or credible. I liken it to if all of a sudden the Jonas Brothers wanted to be a hard-rock band. Fans of metal would be like "No, those guys are a boy band."
They would have a hard time believing in them as a legitimate rock act. So, because of that, it's a little hard to break that mold of people's ideas. I didn't realize that would be the case. I think that's the reason not a lot of Christian bands do cross over; it's not for lack of wanting to, it's a lack of possibilities. We were lucky enough to get signed by Atlantic records in 2003 and believe me, it was a lot of work. It still took us five or six years to have a radio hit in the mainstream world. A lot of that was due to people's thinking we weren't legitimate. It's been a hard way to go, but it finally happened and I'm really proud of it. I love where I came from, I love Christian music and I believe in it. Of course I believe in the message, but I believe in the industry as well. I think we are able to help change some people's ideas of what the Christian music industry is like; that it is credible, it is viable, and there's a bunch of extremely talented people in the industry.


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Posted by Smokey Stover on June 06, 2004
In Reply to: Crosscat (a difficult one) posted by Malone on June 05, 2004
: I found it in j joyce`s ulysses (episode 13 nausicaa, page 475, Penguin edition 1992) it refers to a girl called Edy Boarman and all descriptions take place inside Gerty Macdowell's mind acting out as narrator through her inner monologue; given JJ's 'homeric approach' to compound names, I thought it may be
: a) compound of 'cross + cat'
: b) a sort of feline version of a 'mongrel' or
: c) taken from the childhood oath I mentioned above.
: I've looked in all dictionaries and could not find a single entry for 'crosscat' and in google there is only an entry for a flying centre.
: Just to give you an idea of how she is protrayed here are some short sentences about Edy, a young female friend of Gerty:
: 1) and Father Conroy handed him his hat to put on and crosscat Edy asked wasn't she coming but Jacky Caffrey called out:
: 2)- Edy said none too amiably with an arch glance from her shortsighted eyes.
: 3)- (Edy) she was black out at daggers drawn with Gerty (the girl chums had of course their little tiffs from time to time like the rest of mortals)
: 4)- squinty Edy
: 5)- Edy Boardman prided herself that she was very
: petite but she never had a foot like Gerty MacDowell, a five, and never would ash, oak or elm.
: 6)- and Edy, little spitfire, because she would betwentytwo in November.
: 7)- Edy got as cross as two sticks
: 8)- when Edy asked her was she heartbroken about her best boy throwing her over.
: 9)- O yes, it cut deep because Edy had her own quiet way of saying things like that she knew would wound like the confounded little cat she was
: 10)- Miss puny little Edy's countenance fell to no slight extent
: thanks
Is the cat, or Edy, cross, is she cross-eyed, is she a crossbreed? Is there a cat? Interesting problem. Imagine, then, the difficulties of the team of CHinese scholars working on a translation into Chinese of Finnegan's Wake. I'm not sure how far along they are; perhaps finished? Or more likely not. An interim report from them pointed to an especial difficulty trying to deal with Joyce's endless puns, which are often incomprehensible even to native speakers of English. SS


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AMSTERDAM (September 14, 2015) – Scenarist, LLC, the developer of Hollywood- standard professional Blu-ray Disc authoring systems, and DTS, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTSI), a leader in high-definition audio enhancement technologies and solutions, today announced an eight-city global seminar tour to promote and educate the production community on the benefits of Ultra HD Blu-ray. The tour will provide key information, demonstrations and a venue for UHD workflows to major motion picture studios, independent content holders, professional authoring facilities, and audio engineers engaged in the creation of immersive audio mixing.
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Shell Scott's mental contemplation was rudely interrupted when his office door was suddenly opened and an unpleasant little man walked in with a .45 caliber automatic pointed right at Shell's midsection. Unknown to Shell Scott, some guy named Sader wanted Shell eliminated permanently. Why, is the question? Shell had never heard of Sader. His answer came in the form of a red-headed bombshell in high heels who distracted the hood long enough for Shell to connect hard on the guy's chin. But before he could get the answers he needed, the red-head disappeared.
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Richard Prather, yes. Maynard Villers? Absolutely not. One of the many excellent themes that run through Shell Scott stories are the speed with which they move. The narration by Maynard Villers obliterates this. His pauses between sentences are maddening -- they serve no purpose whatsoever. I've not heard any other books narrated by him, but his delivery is strictly amateur-ville.
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