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HRW: Hundreds of Afghan children killed in US attacks
HRW: Hundreds of Afghan children killed in US attacks
KABUL (PAN): A UN committee of experts was "alarmed" at reports of the deaths of hundreds of children from US attacks and air strikes in Afghanistan since the committee last reviewed US practices in 2008, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child released a report and recommendations to the US government on Wednesday, raising a number of concerns regarding US practices during armed conflict that were harmful to children, the rights organisation said.
"The US can and should do more to protect children affected by armed conflict," said Jo Becker, children's rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. "The US should take decisive action on the child rights committee's common-sense recommendations."
On January 16, the 18-member, Geneva-based UN committee conducted a formal review of US compliance with an international treaty, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict.
The protocol was ratified by the US in 2002, barring governments from forcibly recruiting children under 18 and from using them in direct hostilities. It also requires countries to take steps to prevent the use of child soldiers and to rehabilitate and assist children who have been involved in armed conflict. The committee's report and recommendations regarding US compliance with the protocol were adopted on January 28.
"The US has taken some important steps by ending its deployment of 17-year-old soldiers in armed conflict, and by passing groundbreaking laws that allow the US to prosecute those who recruit children and that prohibit military aid to governments using child soldiers," Becker said. "However, the committee has identified significant gaps in US practice that put children at risk and should be addressed."
US forces have detained hundreds of children in Afghanistan, holding many of them for over a year with inadequate access to legal assistance, education, or rehabilitation services. Children under 18 have been detained with adults, contrary to international standards. Although most of these children have been transferred to Afghan custody, Human Rights Watch expressed concern that such children may be subject to torture. UN reports have documented torture of numerous children by Afghan security forces.
The committee urged the US to separate detained children from adults, to grant the UN children's fund, UNICEF, and other humanitarian agencies access to detained children, to provide detained children with legal assistance and juvenile justice procedures, to investigate cases of torture or ill-treatment, and to provide education and rehabilitation assistance for detained children.
In 2008, the US adopted a groundbreaking law, the Child Soldiers Prevention Act, which prohibits several categories of US military assistance to governments using child soldiers. However, President Barack Obama has invoked the law's presidential waiver to allow continued military aid to governments using child soldiers including Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, South Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen. The committee urged a full prohibition on military assistance to such countries and encouraged the US to consider amending the Child Soldiers Prevention Act to remove the presidential waiver provision.
Former child soldiers, including those who have been forcibly recruited into armed groups, face hurdles to asylum or refugee protection in the US. The US considers nearly all non-state armed forces to be "terrorist organizations" for purposes of immigration law, and people who fought with such groups are considered ineligible for asylum. The committee urged the US to adopt a discretionary exemption from the "terrorist activity" bar to allow former child soldiers to be considered on a case-by-case basis for asylum or refugee protection.
"The Child Soldiers Prevention Act can put real pressure on governments to stop using child soldiers," Becker said. "Obama needs to give fewer waivers to countries abusing their children this way."
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Attensity Introduces Analyze 6.3 with Enhanced Customer Analytics Capabilities
Automated, context-sensitive tool helps enterprises make the unknown known and track emerging themes as they surface
Feb 25, 2014, 07:00 ET from Attensity Group
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Attensity, the leading provider of integrated, real-time solutions that blend multi-channel Voice of the Customer (VoC) analytics and social engagement for enterprise listening needs, today announced the release of Analyze 6.3. With business-oriented added features and enhancements, Attensity's global clientele will benefit from automated discovery of the unknown, deeper customer insights and visibility into trending themes to increase brand equity.
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In today's data-driven world, enterprise organizations struggle to keep pace with the volume of customer data available from both internal and external sources. Various customer analytics and engagement solutions have emerged to address these challenges and help organizations tighten their grip on their brand's reputation. All previous solutions have required a complex series of steps including data collection, re-extraction of data based on rule changes, analysis, informed action and results tracking. This process is manual, time consuming and largely ineffective.
As technology continues to evolve, it is critical organizations widen the scope of their data collection, interpret customer feedback in the context of other data, correlate relationships between customer experience and business outcomes, and better drive corrective actions. Attensity today introduced Analyze 6.3 to address these business needs and analyze the voice of the customer to reduce customer churn, capitalize on word of mouth and share of wallet while increasing revenue. Enterprise customers now have access to one of the most powerful text analytics engines with real-time access to over 150 million blogs and forums, Facebook, and Twitter.
Key Features:
- Real-time Discovery/What's Trending
- Multi-dimensional visualization that immediately identifies performance outliers in the business that can impact the brand both positively and negatively to:
- Identify potential issues before they go viral
- Aid with timely development of marketing and customer engagement programs
- Guide analysts with the focus of their analysis
- Calendar, event-based visual trending
- Multi-lingual theme and sentiment analysis
Attensity 6.3 is powered by the Attensity Semantic Annotation Server (ASAS) and patented natural language processing (NLP) technology. Attensity's unique ASAS platform provides unmatched deep sentiment analysis, entity identification, statistical assignment and exhaustive extraction, enabling organizations to define relationships between people, places and things without using pre-defined keywords or queries. It's this proprietary technology that allows Attensity to make the unknown known.
"Our goal at Attensity is to provide our customers with brand insights that can immediately inform key business decisions," said Attensity CEO, Howard Lau. "Today's introduction of Analyze 6.3 is a step toward enabling real-time discovery trending, early identification of outliers and increased brand visibility for our customers. We're now one step closer to becoming the corporate radar solution that identifies business opportunities, intercepts customer concerns and facilitates person-centric engagement."
Attensity Analyze is an advanced customer analytics application that helps organizations manage several brands and identifies trends to find out how each market is changing and what truly makes different customers happy and loyal. It provides recommendations and leads marketers and business users in the right direction when their industry is moving so fast and the market is changing on a weekly basis. Attensity shows how and why these changes are occurring by identifying price wars, issues and chatter about a competitor. Analyze 6.3 accesses data quickly, surfaces emerging market data, and makes the unknown known by harnessing the power of social networks, online communities, surveys, chat, email, review sites and blogs relevant to enterprises today.
For more information, visit www.attensity.com and follow the company at blog.attensity.com, on Twitter @Attensity, and on facebook.com/Attensity.
About Attensity
Attensity is the leading provider of integrated, real-time solutions that blend multi-channel Voice of the Customer (VoC) analytics and social engagement for enterprise listening needs. Attensity's technology is designed to contextualize, organize, and surface customer-centric data from deep analysis of social and non-social channels. By deploying highly sophisticated, patented natural language processing (NLP) methods, Attensity provides reliable sentiment and insights, allowing companies to better understand and respond to the needs of their customers. Top brands use Attensity's competitive analysis, crisis management, and product launch solutions among others across customer service, PR, marketing, IT, market research and competitive intelligence. Attensity's milestones in collecting and analyzing customer information comes from the culmination of decades of research in the areas of search, 9 patents in natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, artificial intelligence, and semantics. Attensity's mission is to empower companies and organizations with timely and relevant insights they can act upon.
From its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, Belgium, Germany and the U.K., Attensity customers include some of world's most valuable brands, including, AT&T, Yahoo, eBay, ASDA, Verizon Wireless, Deutsche Telekom, Lloyds Banking Group, Rogers, Whirlpool and Nokia.
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All uninjured survivors will be directed to the centre where details are collected and forwarded to a casualty bureau. This ensures a record of everybody involved is kept, so that if a member of public is enquiring to find out if a relative is involved, they will be able to find out as soon as possible without having to wait for information.
An incident is regarded as a crime scene, therefore survivors are witnesses.
In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, survivors are protected from questioning from the police, however they may contacted afterwards for further enquiries.
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News, Vision & Voice for the Advisory Community
Not all Republicans were thrilled with the plan that would make FINRA king
June 8, 2012 — 3:51 AM UTC by Pat Burns Guest Columnist
The House Financial Services Committee met for a congressional hearing on Wednesday to determine the merits of the Investment Adviser Oversight Act of 2012. The bill, proposed by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-Ala) and Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), would form a new, self-regulatory organization (SRO) for investment advisers, possibly FINRA.
Of the six witnesses called, four supported the bill: Dale Brown, President and CEO of the Financial Services Group, Thomas Currey, former president of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, Chet Helck, COO of Raymond James Financial Inc., and Richard Ketchum, Chairman and CEO of FINRA.
Opposing the bill were John Morgan, the Securities Commissioner of Texas, and David Tittsworth, EVP of the Investment Adviser Association. Morgan claimed that the bill would force state registered advisers to join FINRA, even though, as he stated adamantly, "the states are doing their job."
Tittsworth grilled
Though the number of witnesses supporting the bill was double those against it, Mr. Tittsworth took on the lion's share of the questions, and said in his opening statement that "the substantial drawbacks to an SRO significantly outweigh any potential benefits. These drawbacks include minimal transparency and accountability, insufficient oversight by the SEC and Congress, conflicts of interest, excessive costs, and the lack of meaningful due process protections and cost-benefit analysis restraints."
Attending the hearings were Representatives from both sides of the political spectrum. Notably questioning the bill were Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who expressed reservations over the number of exemptions included, and Maxine Waters (D-CA), who said that she was putting together her own legislation that would center around user-fees.
Republican objections
And while it seemed that the only Democrat supporting the bill was Congresswoman McCarthy, the Republican attendees were less unified. Congressman Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) asked "When are we going to start holding the regulators accountable… rather than creating new regulations and new regulators?" Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) also questioned the bill's lack of a requirement for a cost-benefit analysis.
Mr. Ketchum disagreed with their objections, saying in his testimony that the bill "represents a direct, bipartisan response to the SEC's study and recommendations, and is an important and thoughtful effort to help fill the gap in the protection of investment advisory clients. Specifically, the legislation addresses the current lack of Commission resources and allows self-regulatory organizations … to assist government regulators in providing closer and more regular oversight of investment advisers."
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Nuggets Head to LA
The Denver Nuggets have been getting off to good starts during their six-game winning streak. They have a good chance of extending the run Wednesday night when they visit the injury-plagued Los Angeles Clippers.
Oddsmakers from Bodog have made Denver -6 point spread favorites (NBA Odds) for todays game, the over/under has been set at 206 total points (Matchup). Our public betting information shows that 95% of bets for this game have been placed on Denver –6 (View NBA Bet Percentages).
Denver (8-3) capped a perfect four-game homestand with a fourth consecutive blowout, 112-91 over Chicago on Tuesday. The Nuggets won the four games by an average of 23.0 points, with an average halftime lead of 16.5 points.
Another big opening half ended with Denver holding a 72-53 advantage over Chicago on Tuesday, marking the highest first-half scoring output for the Nuggets this season. Allen Iverson scored 20 of his 22 points in the first half while Carmelo Anthony had 18 of his game-high 26 before the break.
The Nuggets have held three straight opponents to 40 percent shooting or worse after the Bulls managed to shoot exactly that percentage.
"We're playing defense like we haven't in the past, and it's showing," Nuggets forward Kenyon Martin said. "We've got two of the best scorers in the league, so we know our offense will take care of itself. Defensively, when we bring that focus every night, we're tough to beat."
The lopsided result allowed Denver coach George Karl to rest his stars a bit to get ready for Wednesday's game. Iverson logged a team-high 35 minutes - the only Nuggets player to see more than 30 minutes of action.
"We're playing really well, and we just want to keep it up," Anthony said. "Take what we did here at home and take it on the road."
While 10 Nuggets played at least 13 minutes on Tuesday, that's a luxury Los Angeles (5-4) simply cannot afford. The Clippers haven't had Elton Brand or Shaun Livingston all season, and are now even more short-handed with Corey Maggette (right hamstring strain) and top draft pick Al Thornton (sprained right ankle) sidelined.
Those absences were evident in a second straight lopsided loss, 92-73 to Chicago on Saturday. The Clippers scored their fewest points in a game all season and shot 39.4 percent - the third time in five games they have failed to reach the 40-percent mark from the floor.
"We're upset by the loss," forward Ruben Patterson said. "We've got a lot of injuries, a lot of guys hurt. It's hard out there. I've still got my dislocated finger, so it's still hard for me to get going because I can't control the ball and do my thing. It's frustrating, but we've got to keep on playing."
The best option over the last five games has been center Chris Kaman, who is averaging 20.2 points in that span. When Kaman doesn't get the ball, however, the Clippers are struggling to run their offense.
"Our offense was very stagnant," forward Tim Thomas said after Saturday's loss. "We were doing a lot of one-on-one. With a team like that, you can't go into one-on-one situations because they're going to stick to the ball pretty well. That was the difference."
Denver went 2-1 against Los Angeles last season. The teams have met only once since Iverson joined the Nuggets, and he scored 34 points to lead the way in a 96-93 win on April 7.
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I've been lurking here for almost 2+ years, finally made something any comments and criticism appreciated!
Summer is here! time to go shopping!
went to Bebe, LOTS OF GREAT DRESSES! i bought one and it was over 100 dollars, then i had my eyes on another.... which led me thinking:
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Goodwill Federal Way Washington was having a sale... $4.99 womens dresses!
i bought this huge dress, just regular tank top-like dress, but it was very long.
i cut and resewed and resized it into a halter with a cowl neck, and put a deep back for it, and since it was too short, i added a thick band to the bottom
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" Genre: Fiction / Author: Daniel Davies / Paperback / 192 Pages / Book is published 2009-05-07 by Serpent's Tail "
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This review used to contain several instance of so called 'language'. Now the sample quoted from the book has been asterisked out, and the other instances mostly replaced by less offensive (albeit still crude) expressions. The original can be still read at www.thebookbag.co.uk and the version with just an asterisked word at Helium.
It concerns novel openly dealing with not entirely conventional sexual behaviours. Please refrain from reading if this offends. Please also note that the novel herein reviewed contains much more of "language" and none of it asterisked.
Jeremy Shepherd, an editor of a glossy London men's magazine, undergoes an existential crisis which makes him realise his work is meaningless and his lifestyle overloaded with the unnecessary trappings of urban affluence. In six weeks he resigns from his job, sells his flat and moves to back to the never-named provincial English town he came from, to live with his parents and work in the Civil Service in a junior office role.
He decides to redesign his life in accordance with Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and all the lower needs satisfied, he concentrates on the self-fulfilment goals. For Jeremy, self-fulfilment is about sex, and sex is abundantly forthcoming in the shadowy 'circuit' of dogging enthusiasts who use the Internet to arrange meets with like-minded people to have casual sex with (largely anonymous) strangers in car parks. "The Shep" becomes Jeremy's 'scene' nickname and soon he settles in a satisfactory existence whose rhythm is dictated by the pursuit of pure sexual satisfaction.
But the CCTV cameras are an ever present danger and when one of the meets is disturbed by the police, one of the 'circuit' acquaintances is attacked by vigilante yobs and another (a minor celebrity) blackmailed, Jeremy's perfect life starts falling to pieces.
The Shep is articulate, educated, content and unbearably conceited. His stripping down of his life to the bare minimum has not made him any less so: as a savagely satirical portrait of an utter tosser, The Isle of Dogs succeeds rather well.
And a tosser he is: Jeremy's pleasures are essentially - in a literal as well as figurative sense - masturbatory. Despite the philosophical significance The Shep attributes to the encounters, dogging is neither socially nor existentially subversive.
As much as a novel of contemptible conceit, The Isle of Dogs is a - somewhat cautionary - tale of watching and being watched. Most if not all of the characters are either voyeurs or exhibitionists or both. I am tempted to read this as a mockery of psychological ego-centrism of our times, where navel gazing became a major leisure pursuit and countless people publicly document their lives in the most mundane detail, be it on blogs or Twitter, YouTube or YouPorn.
The action unfolds in and around an unflatteringly depicted provincial English town where there is nothing much to do but "shop, drink, fight and f**k". This has a ring of truth to it too, although the social critic in Davies is perhaps trying to cram too much into too little a space.
We have the idealist artifice of pornography contrasted with the democracy of the meets; multi-ethnic society; vacuous celebrity, tabloid sensationalism; pervert-hunting reminiscent of anti-paedophile moral panics and a huge dose of thuggish violence meted out by racist yobs. All of this in addition to the recurring motif of the cameras: CCTV ones, from which the dogging scene participants understandably shy away and the hand held variety, used to document the sessions.
For many readers, though, The Isle of Dogs will be less about social commentary and more about an insight into the dogging 'scene'. The technical details including the codes of communication are convincing (although I find it hard to believe that lone women never, ever turn up at any of the meets). The sex scenes are graphic and on their own wouldn't be out of place in erotica/porn, but - strangely - they didn't feel gratuitous in the larger scheme of the narrative.
The Isle of Dogs abounds with literary references, both ironic and serious. Houellebecq and Ballard have both been mentioned in the reviews quoted by the back cover blurb, and Davies himself perhaps courted such references directly by having his character read a Houellebecq novel. The clinically detached manner of the delivery, the alienation of the main character and the (occasional) cold poetry of the urban dereliction is remindful of Ballard (as is, on a simple level, the whole 'sex in cars' scenario).
A scant two hundred pages long, The Isle of Dogs is mostly a first-person narrative of Jeremy's, but is framed by an authorial introduction and an epilogue which make it contrived and slightly clunky.
Such a construction was necessary to allow The Isle of Dogs to end as it does: with two words that deliver the punchline, a clever and a very funny one if perhaps unnecessary. Somehow, that punchline changed the balance of the novel for me: I lost all the meaning of Jeremy's narration (however unreliable it might have been) and was left pondering the connection between what was revealed and what happened to The Shep. I still have not worked out the "why?". If any readers have their theories, please do tell me.
Cautiously recommended (unless you can't stand the sex scenes) but probably better borrowed than bought.
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Discovery of Context-Specific Ranking Functions for Effective Information Retrieval Using Genetic Programming
Issue No. 04 - April (2004 vol. 16)
pp: 523-527

Abstract—The Internet and corporate Intranets have brought a lot of information. People usually resort to search engines to find required information. However, these systems tend to use only one fixed ranking strategy regardless of the contexts. This poses serious performance problems when characteristics of different users, queries, and text collections are taken into account. In this paper, we argue that the ranking strategy should be context specific and we propose a new systematic method that can automatically generate ranking strategies for different contexts based on <it>Genetic Programming</it> (GP). The new method was tested on TREC data and the results are very promising.

Intelligent information retrieval, personalization, search engine, term weighting, ranking function, text mining, genetic programming, contextual information retrieval, information routing, information retrieval.
Praveen Pathak, Weiguo Fan, Michael D. Gordon, "Discovery of Context-Specific Ranking Functions for Effective Information Retrieval Using Genetic Programming", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, vol. 16, no. , pp. 523-527, April 2004, doi:10.1109/TKDE.2004.1269663


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It took more than a week to come to fruition but A.J. Burnett finally is a Pittsburgh Pirate. Unofficially.
The Pirates agreed Friday to send two prospects to the New York Yankees for the mercurial right-handed pitcher, ESPN.com reported.
The teams were waiting for the commissioner's office to grant approval Friday, because of the significant cash involved, sources said.
The Pirates will pay $13.1 million of the remaining $31.1 million on Burnett's contract, which has two seasons to run. The Yankees will take on the rest -- requiring MLB's OK.
The Yankees will get right-handed reliever Diego Moreno and outfielder Exicardo Cayones, sources said.
Moreno, 25, had a 2-4 record with 3.63 earned-run average a single-A and double-A last season. Cayones, 20, hit .228 with no homers and 12 RBI at rookie ball and single-A.
Previously, the Yankees had hoped to get designated hitter Bobby Abreu from the Los Angeles Angels for Burnett, but the 35-year-old pitcher invoked his no-trade clause.
Burnett has a career record of 121-111 with a 4.10 ERA.
Tim Wakefield won his 200th game last Sept. 13 at Fenway Park.
That, it seems, will be the final victory of the knuckleball pitcher's career.
An emotional Wakefield, 45, announced his retirement Friday from the Boston Red Sox, shutting down plans of pitching one more season.
The right-hander spent 17 of his 19 seasons with Boston, but the Sox felt they didn't have a spot for him in the 2012 rotation.
"I just want to get through this day," he said in making the announcement in Fort Myers, Fla. I haven't slept all week."
Wakefield had a career record of 200-180 and a 4.41 ERA. Last season he struggled down the stretch, finishing 7-8 with a 5.12 ERA.
After giving up the series-losing home run to the New York Yankees' Aaron Boone in the 2003 ALCS, Wakefield went 12-10 with a 4.87 ERA in 2004, as the Red Sox finally won a World Series.
In 2007 when the Red Sox won the Series again, he went 17-12 with a 4.76 ERA.
Wakefield's retirement leaves the New York Mets' R.A. Dickey as the only active knuckleballer in the majors.
Retired pitcher Curt Schilling says Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens should not be elected to the Hall of Fame because they have been tied to performance-enhancing drugs.
"I think you get rid of (their records)," Schilling said on Conan O'Brien's late-night talk show.
"It's a slippery slope ... if you cheated, you're done. It's not to say there's a purity about the Hall of Fame because there are some really bad people (in it), there are some really bad people in all the Hall of Fames. But if character and morals and ethics don't matter, then I'm not sure what it stands for."
Next year, Schilling will appear on the Hall of Fame ballot for the first time.
Johan Santana, who hasn't thrown in the majors since 2010, tossed a 25-pitch bullpen session Friday and indicated he was set to open the season with the New York Mets.
"I finally had a chance to get on the mound and throw to a catcher ... and I felt really good," Santana said at the Mets training camp site in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
"For me, it's about time to get on the mound and start throwing. And I was able to throw all of my pitches, and it felt good after that."
Santana had shoulder surgery in September 2010, then had setbacks after making two minor-league rehab stints in 2011.
"I'm not afraid of anything," Santana said. "I'm actually excited about being out on the mound and being able to start competing."
The Oakland A's are close to completing a trade for Texas Rangers reliever Koji Uehara, a source told MercuryNews.com Friday. Uehara was 1-2 with a 4.00 ERA in 22 appearances in 2011 for the Rangers, who acquired him in a mid-season trade with the Baltimore Orioles ... The Yankees have reached agreement with left-handed hitters Raul Ibanez and Eric Chavez, CBS Sports reported. Ibanez is expected to be the designated hitter against right-handers.


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Two teens have been arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after a 15-year-old girl was slashed in the stomach with a box cutter during a fight after a beach party in Aptos.
The fight occurred as people were leaving a party at Seacliff State Beach around 2 a.m. Saturday, Santa Cruz County sheriff's Deputy April Skalland said.
The victim got into a fight with an 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl, and didn't notice right away that she had been cut, Skalland said.
"She didn't realize it until she was walking home and saw the blood," Skalland said.
At first the victim was hesitant to report her injury since there had been drinking at the party, Skalland said.
She eventually did report it after arriving home, and an ambulance crew arrived and gave her initial medical treatment, according to Skalland.
The girl agreed to go to the hospital the next day to have her wound examined.
Sheriff's deputies were able to locate the two suspects and took them into custody.
The 18-year-old, identified as Bailey Agnello, of Watsonville, was booked into jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism and giving false information to a police officer, Skalland said.
Skalland said Agnello faces the vandalism charge because she allegedly slashed a car's tires with the box cutter.
The 17-year-old girl was booked into Juvenile Hall on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Skalland said she does not know what the fight was about but that the victim and the suspects were acquainted with each other.
"It sounds like there was a lot of alcohol involved in this," she said.


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With an elegant spectrum of glimmering silver-grey tones Fibonacci Stone's Lustre Terrazzo Tile Collection is a striking example of the company's commitment to innovation and continuous product evolution.
Lustre is a fitting description for this distinctive tile collection. Fibonacci's in-house team has developed a unique blend of aggregates that bring a subtle, luxurious glow to the tile's colour spectrum. Lustre's warm grey cement base complements a wide range of environments and its gentle sheen provides the perfect solution to the market's need for flooring designs with a difference.
Lustre's appeal goes beyond its exceptional looks. It also has the strong, hardwearing properties that make Fibonacci tiles so highly regarded within the Australian design and construction industry. Lustre's robust, slip-resistant properties, combined with its distinctive design, make it the finest choice for residential and commercial projects where a durable, luxurious and natural stone flooring solution is required.
Fibonacci Stone's passion for innovation is matched by its commitment to the environment. It is the only terrazzo tile supplier to achieve a 100 per cent Green Star rating. The high quality of its terrazzo tiles also means they require minimal ongoing maintenance and have a lifespan of more than 30 years.
Fibonacci Stone's Lustre collection combines elegant form with outstanding function and is a glowing addition to the company's range of exceptional terrazzo tiles.
Fibonacci Stone terrazzo tiles offer extreme durability, environmental sustainability, ease of maintenance, high level of stock on hand coupled with the ability to offer custom colours and tile sizes for specialist projects.Learn more


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Spain completed a 4-1 opening-round Davis Cup victory over host Belgium by splitting a pair of dead rubbers Sunday in Charleroi.
The powerful Spaniards, who clinched the best-of-five tie here on Saturday with a doubles victory by Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco, got a singles win from the great Rafael Nadal and a loss from Lopez on Day 3. Nadal leveled diminutive Belgian Olivier Rochus 6-4, 6-2 for a 4-0 Spanish advantage and Lopez gave way to Belgian Steve Darcis 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-3) in the weekend finale.
On Friday in Charleroi, the Spaniards got singles wins from the world No. 1 Nadal and ninth-ranked Verdasco, who filled in for an inured David Ferrer on Day 1. The reigning U.S. Open, Wimbledon and French Open champion Nadal, who had been sidelined with a leg injury, played his first tennis since January this week, after losing to Ferrer in the Australian Open quarters.
Spain, which has won four Davis Cup titles since 2000, will travel to the United States for a Davis Cup quarterfinal showdown in July.
The Spaniards are 3-1 all-time against Belgium in Davis Cup play. Captained by former French Open champ Albert Costa, they last won the coveted team title in 2009.


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Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Texas
Birth Certificate and Adoption
How can I fix a major problem that has caused me a lot of hassle and struggle in trying to locate my adoption papers that apparently a lawyer that my grandparents hired to arrange the adoption but to this day the courthouse tells me that there was never such papers drawn or filed. I cannot get a copy of my original birth certificate because the courthouse also tells me that it does not exist. I have already gone in bizarre circles trying to find this very important information and have not gotten anywhere, what am I suppose to do or who should be responsible for this mess if it is seriously affecting my future and my kids future. I cannot seem to get in college or get family assistance for that matter.
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Re: Birth Certificate and Adoption
Either you were adopted or you weren't. In any event, your birth certificate had to be recorded somewhere.
If you have a SS Number, you should be able to find out where, because the numbers are coded.
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©1997 Redwall Abbey Co Ltd; (P)2007 Recorded Books
"The medieval world of Redwall Abbey - where gallant mouse warriors triumph over evil invaders - has truly become the stuff of legend." (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
"Extremely well produced story"
This is more audio drama than just reading of a book. Multiple actors and voices led even more interest to an already well written story. Although a "kids book", our whole family (including teenage boys) enjoyed this as we traveled.
"Amazing story and an amazing series!"
This is an amazing story that is part of this wonderful series. What a treat it is to hear the story told by the author himself. This series is a treasure trove of wonderful adventure, fantasy and fun. I would recommend it for young and old alike!
"My personal favorite of the series"
Not everyone seems to think so, but this one is my favorite for the whole Redwall series. It covers a more serious theme than usual, keeps a lot of humor around it, and has some very heroic moments by different characters.
"Another Fun Episode in the Redwall Series"
The Long Patrol was a fun story to listen to. It has a cast reading the various speaking roles as well as being narrated by the author. It was one of the better books I have listened to recently.
For long-time Redwall fans, this story involved characters from all areas of Mossflower: Hares, otters, shrews, Badgers, and Redwallers. It was a story of coming of age for the main character. It had adventure, celebrations, and the bad guys were really bad but buffoonish. It was later than Redwall in Redwall's timeline, but it had some aspects that went back to the Mossflower story, which was fun because it recalled that book for me.
This is about the 7th Brian Jacque's performance I have listened to. They are all good, and this one was as well.
The Long Patrol: A Coming of Age for a Young Hare
The Redwall books are clever. They are written in a style that is reminiscent of Tolkien, with virtuous heroes, clumsy villains, poems and songs.
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As always, a fantastic delight to read or listen to. The redwall series does a wonderful job of captivating your heart and delivering a powerful story of the lives of the redwall creatures and their adventures.
"love this series been a fan sense middle school 03"
listening to my favorite book was great I was able to work and escape in head and wolrd at the same also played my game and listened was a great app love it.
I loved every moment of this book, the hares are my favorites and I love their accents
Absolutely loved it. Redwall is my favorite series ever. Rest in Peace Brian Jacques. You are forever in my heart.
"Amazing as always."
One of my top 3 in the series. It covers the adventures of the Long Patrol Hares. Excellent narration, story and action sequences. Highly recommended.
"The best there is! REDWAAAALLLL!!"
This is my FAVORITE of all the Redwall novels and with a full cast and narrated by the author (Brian Jacques) himself, it just doesn't get any better than this! I've listened to the recording four times now and it's like visiting with old friends every time. So come along, sit by the fire in cavern hole and listen to tales of warriors and villians, feasts and friends. The gate is always open to you good and gentle creatures at Redwall Abbey.
I have read and followed the Redwall series since I was young. Each book brings you new characters, and old ones too. By reading the series you become part of the characters lives and understand the history behind the magnificent Abbey of Redwall.
The Long Patrol brings you to the life of young Tam. His journey into the famous Long Patrol. New life. New love. Death of friends and Birth of new ones.
As with all books in the Redwall series there are stories to learn for readers both young and old. How to act among friends and how are be amongst enemies.
Listen to the book, you will be hooked. Even better you will not get bored of the stories and will be able to listen to them over and over again.
"One of the best of the Redwall series"
We have listened to many of the Redwall series. This is one of our favourites, lots of irrepressible hares up to bold, fun adventures. It also gives great explanations of the basis of other story lines in other books, such as how Cregor got to Redwall. A great listen
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A gripping story that is both hilarious and tense in turns. There?s plenty of action to keep you hooked from start to finish, and several sub plots to make sure that no matter what you?re never board. A delightful addition to the Chronicles of Redwall.
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Here's a mere sample of the glorious insanity of HERBIE comics. Herbie was the creation of ACG editor Richard E. Hughes, writing under the pseudonym Shane O'Shea, and first appeared in Forbidden Worlds #73, December 1958. The plump lump went on to star in his own series and eventually took on a costumed identity, the Fat Fury. Costume or no, Herbie was one of the most omni-powered beings in comics history, meeting any and all challenges with an unflappable, deadpan cool and his bottomless arsenal of specialty lollipops. The stories were whimsical, madcap, and unabashedly silly, and this one is no exception. From giant menacing flowers, to strap-on bee butts, to tiny micro-world duplicates, this comic has more crazy ideas than a Grant Morrison clone farm, and all in nine pages. And yes, Professor Flipdome is a dangerous lunatic. And yes, Herbie's father was always that much of a prick. This story is from a Dark Horse Comics reprint in 1992, which also contained a new Herbie story by John Byrne. I was sorely tempted to reprint that, but this one is more the "real deal". Maybe another time, then. Herbie comics aren't currently available in reprints, but they should be - until that wonderful day, enjoy "Professor Flipdome's Screwy Machine":
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Inbox: Will this be Pettitte's final season?
Inbox: Will this be Pettitte's final season?
Do you believe that after 2010 Andy Pettitte will retire? And if he does, do you think the Yankees will put both Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain back in the rotation?
-- Sohug U., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Good question. Since Pettitte keeps talking about retirement pretty much every year on schedule, mentioning how he goes home every year and has to talk things over with his wife and children, I wondered whether the World Series victory would give him the perfect exit opportunity.
But his words after Game 6 didn't really give that indication, certainly not the way he sounded when he cleaned out his locker at the old Yankee Stadium for the final time in 2008, after the Yankees were doomed to miss the playoffs and Pettitte had taxed his ailing body to try to give them some hope.
Sure enough, there was much less hemming and hawing this year. Pettitte and the Yankees hammered home their deal earlier this year, initiating contact right around Thanksgiving. And the lefty gave a pretty good explanation as to why he's coming back for 2010.
"For me, I couldn't have written a script any better than last year ended," Pettitte said. "What else is there to do? Why would you even continue to play? But I want to make sure I'm done. I want to make sure I fully exhaust myself, and I don't want to regret not playing. I want to come back and help this organization win another one."
So maybe a lot of it depends on how Pettitte performs this year. If he's pain-free and wins another 14 games, can he really do the Mike Mussina thing and walk away when there's more pitching in the tank? Most guys can't.
To answer the second part of your question, the Yankees do project Chamberlain and Hughes as starters, and I believe they would consider having both in the rotation this year if necessary.
Javier Vazquez didn't do well in the Bronx in 2004. I know he is a great strikeout guy, which is key in the new Yankee Stadium. But how do you think he will do the second time around?
-- Art D., Port Chester, N.Y.
If he can stay healthy, it seems like a good gamble. The Yankees are looking at one of the more reliable pitchers in baseball over the past few years, a guy who misses bats, eats innings and keeps hits down -- and that's going to be their fourth starter. Vazquez has revealed that a lot of his problems in that poor second half of 2004 were due to injury, and he sounds enthusiastic to be back in New York. As he said in December, "Everybody that knows me knows that I didn't want to leave." Now that he gets a second chance, we'll see what he does with it.
Chien Ming-Wang is still a free agent, and from what I know, he has a number of suitors. I believe he will not be ready for the start of the season, but are the Yankees still considering bringing him back, or have they decided to cut the ties entirely?
-- Bennett P., Woodmere, N.Y.
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There was some talk that the Yankees would like the opportunity to match any offer from another club before Wang accepts a deal, but obviously that is not guaranteed. When Wang was non-tendered in December, general manager Brian Cashman said the club was "still hopeful that our relationship can continue" -- something he wouldn't say if there wasn't any interest.
There isn't any firm timetable on when Wang will be ready to pitch in the big leagues again, though his agent has mentioned May. If we've learned anything from this offseason, any contract to Wang would have to fit into the Yankees' budget constraints. They weren't willing to take the chance of paying at least $4 million, and probably more, in arbitration.
I remember hearing two particular stats about Robinson Cano -- he didn't hit particularly well with runners in scoring position last season, but he also had a tremendously high average when he led off an inning. I know he's not the swiftest baserunner around, but is there any chance of seeing him hit at the top of the lineup?
-- Kevin D., Eldersburg, Md.
I can remember Joe Torre crossing his legs in the dugout at the old Stadium, sipping his green tea and remarking how Cano could one day be near the top of the Yankees lineup, likening him to a young Rod Carew. It seems like the Yankees have been projecting Cano in that mold for years, and their willingness to go ahead and buy early on his $30 million contract reflects that.
I don't know if he's an ideal fit as a leadoff hitter (though Torre actually did try him there twice in 2007), but it definitely makes sense to consider moving him up in the lineup. I would be curious to see how he would respond to hitting fifth this year.
Will Francisco Cervelli get a real chance to prove he can back up Jorge Posada on a regular basis, or will the Yankees take their chances with Jesus Montero sooner than later?
-- Tyler M., Brooklyn, N.Y.
As of right now, the plan is to get to Opening Day with Posada and Cervelli on the Major League roster and Montero opening the season at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. That arrangement could change during Spring Training, but it probably would only because of injury.
From talking to everyone who has been around Montero, it seems like a matter of when -- and not if -- he gets to the big leagues. Of course, the Yankees will try to give him as much development time as possible, but if his bat blows the doors open for him, why fight it?
If it ain't broke, why fix it? I understand the Yankees are trying to save money, but they finally had the perfect combination to win the World Series. Why would they really want to get rid of the great mix they had? I just don't understand. Please explain.
-- Betz V., Hackensack, N.J.
Something that needs to be addressed based on a lot of the other e-mail messages we've been getting -- the Yankees will still have the highest payroll in the game in 2010, so it's not like they're suddenly transforming into a bargain-basement operation. It just so happens that there has been a little more reshuffling of the deck than many anticipated this offseason.
To get back to your question, in retrospect, we should have had a clue during the World Series, when Cashman said the clock essentially stopped on Oct. 3 -- no matter what players did in the postseason, the club couldn't allow sentimentality to influence its decisions. If you based everything on October and November, the Yankees might have had to open the bank accounts for Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui.
Instead, the roster sure has changed a lot, but the Yankees insist that the changes will help them regroup and put winning teams on the field in 2010 and beyond. I agree that New York has the makings of one here, though so much can happen during the season that I'm not about to predict a repeat.
Damon said he could see himself with the Yankees via a trade or signing with them after the 2010 season. Are either likely to happen?
-- Mark F., Morristown, N.Y.
I never say never anymore -- at least, not since A-Rod opted out in 2007, Hank Steinbrenner said goodbye and then we saw the mother of all 180s. Anyway, Damon is interested in playing for the the team. Damon said recently that he told Scott Boras to get a two-year, $22 million deal, but the Yankees never came close.
Maybe the picture changes next winter, but first Damon needs to worry about finding his employer for 2010. Someone brought this point up -- wouldn't it be fascinating if the Red Sox and Yankees both needed an outfielder in July and they wound up fighting each other for Damon?
What are the Yanks going to do when Nick Johnson is out for the year come Spring Training? Curtis Granderson and Randy Winn have horrible numbers against lefties. They should have signed Damon and not Johnson or Winn. Agree?
-- John P., Wallingford, Conn.
You sound pretty sure about that Johnson injury. Would you mind sending along next week's Powerball numbers while you're at it? In any event, I agree that Damon was a perfect fit for the Yankees in a lot of ways, and it's a shame for both parties that they wanted each other and still couldn't get it done.
That said, I see the logic in the Johnson move, and the hope is that more time as a designated hitter will help keep him in the lineup, despite whatever might come his way. There were a lot of games in 2008 and '09 where Matsui could not possibly have limped out to left field, but the DH kept him alive and productive for them.
Kevin Long has said that he plans to work on the left-handed hitting situation, which is something they really do need to attack with Granderson. As for Winn, he's heading into camp only as a fourth outfielder and insurance if Brett Gardner can't step up.
At the beginning of the 2009 season, when homers were flying out of Yankee Stadium, we kept hearing that no changes would be made to the new Stadium until the offseason. Have there been any renovations or should we prepare to see another home run derby?
-- Jamie R., Willingboro, N.J.
At last check, the Yankees had not made any alterations to the playing field or anything structural that would affect home runs or the outcome of games. It should be interesting to see the second season of the Stadium, and if that was a prolonged fluke or weather-related, because the home runs did tail off in the second half. At the time, the Yankees were stressing that larger sample sizes were needed to get a true picture of what was happening, and they're about to get them.
What is the story with Humberto Sanchez's path to being on the Yankees big league roster? I know he has had some injury issues since coming over in the Gary Sheffield trade, but is there any recent news on his status as a Yankees reliever?
-- Chad R., Guilderland, N.Y.
It seems like a long time since he ran out of the bullpen at the old Stadium, doesn't it? As you mentioned, injuries have been part of the problem for Sanchez. He pitched mostly at Class A Tampa and Double-A Trenton last year, a season that saw him removed from the 40-man roster. He's still in the farm system, so you would like to say that he could get another chance. Now that he's most likely only a reliever, the keys will be focusing on his conditioning and making sure his fastball velocity can be more consistent.
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Brussels (AFP) April 8, 2008
Soaring prices of basic foodstuffs could cause a "humanitarian tsunami" in Africa, EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel warned on Tuesday.
"A world food crisis is emerging, less visible than the oil (price) crisis, but with the potential effect of real economic and humanitarian tsunami in Africa," Michel said in a statement after a meeting with African Union Commission chief Jean Ping.
Ping said the soaring prices represented a "major challenge" and called on the international community to invest in the farming sector, notably in Africa, the European Commission said in a statement.
Michel said the EU's executive arm planned, in the short term, to boost its emergency food aid and push for more international mobilisation to help tackle the problem of food security in Africa.
Funding earmarked for agriculture and rural development in the poorest nations from the European Development Funds will be boosted from 650 million euros (one million dollars) presently to 1.2 billion, he said.
Since African households spend a relatively high proportion of their earnings on food, higher food prices hit them particularly hard.
The rise in prices of food staples such as rice, wheat flour and maize are also forcing African governments to take emergency measures which are affecting their budgets.
The rise in international food prices "poses significant threats to Africa's growth, peace and security," African finance ministers warned in a statement at the end of a meeting in Addis Ababa last week to discuss the crisis.
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Hi Parents,
Good day. Wanted to know more about the avacado and their benefits. Have a few questions:
1. Can this be given for a 2.3 year old or is it for the toddlers.
2. Heard that avacado is a cold fruit, so can this be given in the early mornings as a morning milk shake.
3. pls suggest some yumm recipes using avacados.
Dear Parents,
Some enlightenment pls......
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Avocados have more nutrition than any other fruit. Avocados are especially high in protein, fiber, niacin, thiamin, riboflavin, folic acid, and zinc. Avocados get the share of their calories from fat, and while these are the heart-healthy monounsaturated fats with no cholesterol. The high calorie content of avocados makes them a good food for growing children.Another healthy fat that avocados contain are Omega 3 fatty acids. Because avocados are so nutrient dense, they are included in top ten fruits list.
The top ten ranking of fruits is based upon their content of these nutrients: vitamin C, fiber, carotenoids, calcium, and folic acid.
Avacado Dosa
3 cups rice
1 cup urad daal
1 big avacado
Soak rice and daal for around 4-5hrs. Grind them to a smooth paste, add salt and leave them overnight.
Discard the skin and seed of avacado. Grind the pulp to a smooth paste and add it to the batter. Mix well. Make thin dosas.
While serving, sprinkle some lemon juice on them and eat with honey. They can also be eaten with chutney.
WOW, 7575, I never imagined there wud be dosa made out of avacado!!. Can avacado milkshake be given in mornings as morning juice.
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DETROIT - A physician assistant at Detroit Medical Center's Cardiovascular Institute, along with his wife, also a PA, helped save a life last Sunday after a man collapsed during a charity walk at Kensington Park.
The man, who is in his late 70s, had only minutes to live after suffering a cardiac arrest. Slobodan Djordjevic, his wife, Jamie, and about 13 of their family members were finishing up the walk nearby when they spotted the man looking ill.
Jamie Djordjevic got to him just as he collapsed into a tree and began CPR, immediately calling for her husband to help. The two had to perform "aggressive" CPR for about 20 minutes, until an ambulance came, the couple said. "It was very scary; the time was moving slowly, it felt like an eternity," Slobodan Djordjevic said. "We had to do our best, because this was the only chance he had. The ambulance came and put the paddles on him and shocked him out of the lethal rhythm, and got a pulse."
The man was taken to Providence Park, the closest hospital.
Jamie Djordjevic works at Providence Southgate.
The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital setting is less than 10 percent. "We saved him. He would have died," said Slobodan Djordjevic, 41, and a PA at CVI for four years. "It just shows you the value of CPR."
He said he and his wife have kept in touch with the family and have been asked to visit the patient in the next few days.
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Nestled at the favoured south-west end of the Seabank Estate this stunning home boasts relaxed coastal style, and exacting craftsmanship. Showcasing a spacious 3-bedroom floorplan full of quality fixtures, it's designed for private indoor-outdoor living and zoned for family lifestyle. Walk to school, the river and the Hitchcock shopping and dining precinct. Love your new Barwon Heads life!
-Beachy white and timber tones indoors and out
-Spacious high ceilings and wide banks of glazing nestled by seaside gardens
-Expansive OP living at the rear connects with a protected, private internal courtyard
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-Kitchen with suite of Blanco appliances designed for family catering and entertaining
-75cm electric wall oven, 90cm gas cooktop, matching rangehood, 2-draw dishwasher
-Excellent storage in sleek white cabinetry featuring lots of easy-access drawers
-A powder room and the family-sized laundry are conveniently close to the kitchen
-The mix of Caesarstone and plywood adds to the coastal appeal
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