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SHANGHAI, April 13 (Reuters) - Chinese stocks jumped to fresh seven-year highs on Monday, after surprisingly bad export data reinforced expectations the government will unveil fresh stimulus moves to aid the economy.
Data released on Monday showed China's exports contracted 15 percent in March from a year earlier, a stunning drop that strengthens belief the government will soon act to boost growth.
"We continue to expect more monetary easing for a variety of reasons, and the trade data offers further support for this," Oliver Barron, analyst at China-focused investment bank NSBO said in a note to clients.
NSBO expects another cut in banks' required reserve ratios this month and an additional interest rate cut this month or next.
The CSI300 index of the largest listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen rose 1.8 percent, to 4,421.07, while the Shanghai Composite Index gained 2.2 percent, to 4,121.71 points.
China's CSI300 banking index jumped over 3 percent, led by a 10 percent rise for China Merchants Bank Co Ltd, after the lender announced fundraising and stock incentive plans that analysts say point to broader ownership reforms in the banking sector.
Smaller brokerages such as Western Securities Co Ltd and Sinolink Securities Co rose but their bigger rivals including Haitong Securities and Everbright Securities fell after China allowed mainland investors to open multiple A-share accounts. Analysts say the move would help nimble and tech-savvy brokerages steal clients from bigger ones. (Reporting by Samuel Shen and Pete Sweeney; Editing by Richard Borsuk)


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Theatre is More Beautiful than War: German Stage Directing in the Late Twentieth Century
(University of Iowa Press, 2009)
During the late twentieth century, no country in the world produced as many major theatre directors nor esteemed them as highly as did Germany. Offering the most extensive and informative survey of contemporary German theatre available in English, Theatre Is More Beautiful than War covers three generations of ten of the country's leading stage directors, including Andrea Breth, Frank Castorf, Christoph Marthaler, Thomas Ostermeier, Claus Peymann, Stefan Pucher, Peter Stein, Michael Thalheimer, Anna Viebrock, and Peter Zadek, each of whom helped shape the twentieth-century German stage. Noted theatre historian Marvin Carlson draws on his years of regular visits to the Theatertreffen in Berlin and his observations of a variety of German theatrical productions to offer a provocative, well-illustrated study of the most productive and innovative theatre tradition in Europe. Marvin Carlson holds the Sidney E. Cohn Chair in Theatre Studies and is a distinguished professor of theatre and comparative literature at the Graduate Center.
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In brief: Tough Mudder, Rustic Road, library donations sought
TOWN OF ST. JOSEPH & TOWN OF WARREN: Tough Mudder race facing obstacles
At its April meeting, the Town of St. Joseph Plan Commission compiled a list of questions it feels should be answered at the Town Board and county levels before the Tough Mudder obstacle race event is approved for July 19 and 20 at Game Unlimited Hunting Club, 871 County Road E.
Plan Commission Chairperson Carolyn Barrette said they have concerns about the location and number of restrooms, how the grading and course construction will affect the hunting club's wetlands, how the land will be returned to its natural form after the event, the operations plan for the event, traffic and the location of the event headquarters, which Barrette said looks to be in the Town of Warren. Barrette also said part of the course, according to a preliminary map, may be in the Town of Hudson.
The St. Joseph Town Board will discuss the Plan Commission's questions at its April 10 board meeting at 6 p.m.
At its April 7 meeting, the Town of Warren Planning Commission reviewed an application submitted by Tough Mudder and the town's special exception permit policy to see if the event would meet town requirements.
According to Clerk/Treasurer Deina Shirmer, the Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of the business proposal application submitted by Tough Mudder representatives to the Town Board. The board will discuss and vote on the application at the Warren Town Board meeting at 7 p.m. on April 21 at the Warren Town Hall.
The event, should it be approved at town and county levels, is expected to bring thousands of spectators and participants to the towns of Warren and St. Joseph. The previous two years the event was held at the Somerset Amphitheater.
TOWN OF RICHMOND: Rustic Road designation
At the March 13 Richmond Town Board meeting, a resolution was passed allowing Town Chair Gary Knutson to pursue a Rustic Road designation for 140th Avenue (between County Road A and 120th Street) in the town of Richmond.
The segment of road up for consideration is 2.1 miles long and is known among locals as the "rabbit road," Knutson said. It runs along Ten Mile Creek, wetland and agricultural areas.
"There are three towns of Richmond in Wisconsin," Knutson said. "Having this Rustic Road would differentiate us and make us unique, and maybe give people something to talk about."
The Rustic Roads Board, a division of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, meets twice a year. Knutson plans to have the application finished in time for the Rustic Roads Board's consideration at its fall meeting.
The Wisconsin Legislature established the Rustic Roads program in 1973 to help citizens and local units of government preserve what remains of Wisconsin's scenic, lightly traveled country roads. There are four Rustic Roads in St. Croix County: two south of Glenwood City; Trout Brook Road between County Road A and River Road in the town of Hudson; and portions of 230th Avenue, Marine Road, County Line Avenue and Polk/St. Croix Road through the town of Somerset in St. Croix County and the town of Farmington in Polk County.
ST. CROIX COUNTY: Recycling newsletter
The 22nd edition of Your Wasteline, St. Croix County's annual recycling newsletter, will soon be mailed to all homes in the county. According to Jon Tulman, county recycling specialist, the newsletter is expected to be delivered to the post office on Friday, April 18.
In addition to the schedule of special event recycling for 2014, the major articles featured in this year's edition include the topics of paint disposal, glass recycling, and mattress recycling. There is also a table of municipal recycling information, and a list of municipal clean-up days.
Anyone with questions regarding the newsletter is asked to contact Tulman at 715-531-1907 or by email to email@example.com.
CITY OF NEW RICHMOND: Spring cleaning donations wanted
The Friday Memorial Library wants individuals to keep the library in mind during spring cleaning this season as a place to bring donations.
The library will gladly accept hardcover and paperback books, CDs, DVDs, videogames and audio books in good and working condition. The children's department is also collecting LEGO building blocks and Altoid tins for upcoming events.
Items that do not fit into the library collection will be sold in the Friends of the Library Book Sale held in June. All proceeds are used to support the library.
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The Women's History Museum of California has closed its space in Golden Hill and is moving to new galleries in NTC in Point Loma.
"If somebody comes to the door, we'll let them in," said director Ashley Gardner. "But we're packing up and getting ready for the move, which is going to be great for us."
The museum expects to reopen Sept. 7 in its new facility, which is essentially a decommissioned Navy barracks that is being renovated into studios. It marks the next phase in NTC at Liberty Station's establishment of a diverse, thriving arts and culture district at the former Naval Training Center.
Only one of only five women's museums in the country, the organization was founded in 1983 by Mary Maschal as the Women's History Reclamation Project, and later, the Women's Museum and Education Center. It has a collection of thousands of banners, posters, historic documents, books and art works.
The organization co-sponsors the Women's Hall of Fame and collaborates with the women's studies department at SDSU, the women's center at UC San Diego, and the county's Commission on the Status of Women.
The museum has been considering a move since being approached by the NTC Foundation in 2008 — two years after several dance companies became the anchor tenants at "Dance Place" at NTC. Now, at least five remodeled buildings, with more on the way, house arts organizations ranging from the San Diego Watercolor Society to ARTS — A Reason to Survive.
The Women's History Museum signed a lease in April for a remodeled space at 2730 Historic Decatur Road, which will include a museum store featuring items created by women.
The museum is hopeful the new, expanded space will offer "a more accessible facility for the museum in a location that would better support diverse programming and events."
The museum will have a "soft opening" on Sept. 7 to coincide with NTC's "Friday Night Liberty," which offers a monthly showcase of NTC's resident organizations. Gardner is working to get Gloria Steinem to come and officially dedicate the space in early October, with a Gala opening planned for late October, when the museum's new exhibitions should be completed.
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Analyst: Shin-Soo Choo a top candidate to regress in 2014 for kind of a strange reason
Expecting another .285/.423/.462 slash line from Shin-Soo Choo in 2014? Don't says Ronit Shah of Baseball Prospectus. He listed Choo as his regression candidate for 2014.
"Before Rangers fans chuck rocks into my window, just hear me out," Shah wrote. "Choo could very well turn in yet another 20/20 season, something he's done with regularity when healthy. But I just cannot see him defeating Grandfather Regression when it comes to his slash line."
The possible reason he'll progress? Choo was hit an unusually high amount of times last year, nearly double his normal rate. Shah believes Choo's hit-by-pitch rate will regress, which will drop his on-base percentage.


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ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG): Scrat's pursuit of an infernal acorn has world-changing consequences for Manny, Diego and Sid. Exchange, Aiken, Monetta
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (R): The 16th president battles the undead.Exchange, Evans (ends 7/12), Aiken (ends 7/12)
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DARK SHADOWS (PG-13): Barnabas Collins finds his once-grand estate in ruins. Masters
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KATY PERRY: PART OF ME (PG): Katy Perry is followed during her yearlong California Dreams tour. Exchange, Evans, Aiken
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MAGIC MIKE (R): A male stripper instructs a newcomer. Exchange, Evans, Aiken, Monetta
MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS (PG-13): Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow team up when an enemy threatens global security. Exchange, Evans
MEN IN BLACK 3 (PG-13): Agent J travels in time to the 1960s to stop an alien. Monetta
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PROMETHEUS (R): A clue to mankind's origins leads a team of explorers to deep space. Exchange
SAVAGES (R): Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend. Exchange, Evans
SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN (PG-13): The Huntsman ordered to kill Snow White becomes her protector and mentor. Exchange (ends 7/12), Evans
TED (R): A grown man has a live teddy bear (voiced by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane) as a constant companion. Exchange, Evans, Aiken, Monetta
THINK LIKE A MAN (PG-13): Adaptation of Steve Harvey's book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Masters
TO ROME WITH LOVE (R): Four tales unfold in Rome. With Alec Baldwin, Woody Allen and Roberto Benigni. Exchange (ends 7/12)
TYLER PERRY'S MADEA'S WITNESS PROTECTION (PG-13): Madea takes in family members who are in the Witness Protection Program. Exchange, Evans, Aiken
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING (PG-13): Impending parenthood turns the lives of five couples upside-down. Masters


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Gilbert Early Wilkins Sr., 83, of Highway 72, died January 6, 2001.
A native of Madison County, he was a son of the late Early Victor and Jeannie Howington Wilkins. He was retired Clerk of Hull and had been employed with Hanna Manufacturing. He was a member of Hull Baptist Church.
Funeral services will be held Monday, January 8, 2001, at 11:00 a.m. at the chapel of Lord & Stephens Funeral Home, East. Rev. Henry Bennett will officiate. Interment will be in Coile Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Joyce Bennett Wilkins; sons, Gilbert Early Wilkins Jr. of Winterville, and William Marvin Wilkins of Gainesville; three grandchildren, Jeffrey Earl Wilkins, Justin Earl Wilkins and Jennifer Lynn Wilkins, all of Hull; and four step-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends Sunday from 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Lord & Stephens Funeral Home, East, is in charge of arrangements.
Athens Daily News/Banner-Herald, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2001
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When: Sat., April 27, 4-11 p.m. 2013
The fifth installment of this local arts festival will feature painters, musicians, dancers, comedians, sculptors and fashion designers performing and showcasing their art. Artists and vendors will sell their work and there will be food from local food trucks and craft beer available for sale.
Price: $15/advance, $20/door, $15/students


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Oscar Pistorius in concert 'attack'
MURDER suspect Pistorius was last night accused of drunkenly assaulting two women at a rock concert.
We were practically shoved off our feet by Oscar
An outraged music fan claimed the Paralympian pushed her and a friend and then branded them "lesbians" when they complained.
The woman said she was shocked at his "disgusting" behaviour at the Kings of Leon gig, in Johannesburg in 2011.
In a blog post, she said: "I had the opportunity of finding out how unheroic Oscar can be when he has had too much to drink.
"I was at the Kings of Leon concert with my fiancé, my best friend and her husband.
My first glimpse of Oscar was seeing him all but fall into a group of people and he had to be helped up by one of his equally drunk friends.
"My friend Marilyn and I were rocking away when we were practically shoved off our feet by Oscar.
"When Marilyn told Oscar that his behaviour was rude and unacceptable, she was met with a flurry of verbal abuse.
"This included being labelled "f***king lesbians" and a significant amount more."
The fan warned readers that the "golden boy" of South Africa wasn't as big a "hero" as people made out.
She added: "The most serious indictment against him from my perspective was why he felt the need to be abusive to women.
"I am afraid that this 'golden boy' has not only tarnished his image as far as we are concerned.
"He offered us conclusive evidence there is just a very thin veneer of gold paint that covers him."


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Geography of Antarctica
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|Ranked 2nd (unofficially)
|• Total
|14,000,000 km2 (5,400,000 sq mi)
|• Land
|• Water
|17,968 km (11,165 mi)
|No land boundaries
|Highest point
|Vinson Massif, 4,897 m (16,066 ft)
|Lowest point
|Bentley Subglacial Trench, −2,555 m (−8,382.5 ft)
|Longest river
|Onyx River, 25 km
|Largest lake
|Lake Vostok, 26,000 sq m (est.)
|subantarctic to antarctic
|ice and barren rock
|Natural Resources
|krill, fin fish, crab
|Natural Hazards
|high winds, blizzards, cyclonic storms, volcanism
|Environmental Issues
|depleting ozone layer, rising sea level
The geography of Antarctica is dominated by its south polar location and, thus, by ice. The Antarctic continent, located in the Earth's southern hemisphere, is centered asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle. It is washed by the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean or, depending on definition, the southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. It has an area of more than 14 million km².
Some 98% of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, the world's largest ice sheet and also its largest reservoir of fresh water. Averaging at least 1.6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2.5 km below sea level; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur (e.g., Lake Vostok). Ice shelves and rises populate the ice sheet on the periphery.
Physically, Antarctica is divided in two by Transantarctic Mountains close to the neck between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea. Western Antarctica and Eastern Antarctica correspond roughly to the eastern and western hemispheres relative to the Greenwich meridian. This usage has been regarded as Eurocentric by some, and the alternative terms Lesser Antarctica and Greater Antarctica (respectively) are sometimes preferred.
Lesser Antarctica is covered by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. There has been some concern about this ice sheet, because there is a small chance that it will collapse. If it does, ocean levels would rise by a few metres in a very short period of time.
There are four volcanoes on the mainland of Antarctica that are considered to be active on the basis of observed fumarolic activity or "recent" tephra deposits: Mount Melbourne (2,730 m) (74°21'S., 164°42'E.), a stratovolcano; Mount Berlin (3,500 m) (76°03'S., 135°52'W.), a stratovolcano; Mount Kauffman (2,365 m) (75°37'S., 132°25'W.), a stratovolcano; and Mount Hampton (3,325 m) (76°29'S., 125°48'W.), a volcanic caldera.
Several volcanoes on offshore islands have records of historic activity. Mount Erebus (3,795 m), a stratovolcano on Ross Island with 10 known eruptions and 1 suspected eruption. On the opposite side of the continent, Deception Island (62°57'S., 60°38'W.), a volcanic caldera with 10 known and 4 suspected eruptions, have been the most active. Buckle Island in the Balleny Islands (66°50'S., 163°12'E.), Penguin Island (62°06'S., 57°54'W.), Paulet Island (63°35'S., 55°47'W.), and Lindenberg Island (64°55'S., 59°40'W.) are also considered to be active. In 2017, the researchers of Edinburgh University discovered 91 underwater volcanoes under West Antarctica.[1][2]
West Antarctica[edit]
West Antarctica is the smaller part of the continent, divided into:
- Antarctic Peninsula with
- Queen Elizabeth Land
- Ellsworth Land
- Marie Byrd Land with
- King Edward VII Land with
Ice shelves[edit]
Larger ice shelves are:
- Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
- Larsen Ice Shelf
- Abbot Ice Shelf
- Getz Ice Shelf
- Sulzberger Ice Shelf
- Ross Ice Shelf
For all ice shelves see List of Antarctic ice shelves.
For a list of all Antarctic islands see List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.
East Antarctica[edit]
East Antarctica is the larger part of the continent, both the South Magnetic Pole and geographic South Pole are situated here. Divided into:
- Coats Land
- Queen Maud Land with
- Enderby Land
- Kemp Land
- Mac. Robertson Land
- Princess Elizabeth Land
- Wilhelm II Land
- Queen Mary Land
- Wilkes Land
- Adélie Land
- George V Land
- Oates Land
- Victoria Land
- Bellingshausen Sea
- D'Urville Sea
- Davis Sea
- King Haakon VII Sea
- Mawson Sea
- Ross Sea
- Scotia Sea
- Weddell Sea
Ice shelves[edit]
Larger ice shelves are:
- Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf
- Ekstrom Ice Shelf
- Amery Ice Shelf
- West Ice Shelf
- Shackleton Ice Shelf
- Voyeykov Ice Shelf
For all ice shelves see List of Antarctic ice shelves.
For a list of all Antarctic islands see List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands.
Research stations[edit]
Territorial landclaims[edit]
Seven nations have made official Territorial claims in Antarctica.
Dependences and territories[edit]
- Bouvet Island
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- Heard and McDonald Islands
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Peter I Island
See also[edit]
- ^ McKie, Robin (2017-08-12). "Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- ^ "Student's idea leads to Antarctic volcano discovery". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
- Ivanov, L. General Geography and History of Livingston Island. In: Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28. ISBN 978-954-07-3939-7
External links[edit]
- Political Claims Map
- USGS TerraWeb: Satellite Image Map of Antarctica
- United States Antarctic Resource Center (USARC)
- Antarctic Digital Database (Topographic data for Antarctica, including web map browser)
- Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA; USGS web pages)
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Subject: [ARIZARD] Orpha Hailey Cleveland died
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:13:36 -0800 (PST)
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Orpha Hailey Cleveland b. abt 1917 died 20 Dec 2009 Memphis, TN
Graveside services: 10 AM Tuesday, Wiseman Cem. Wiseman, AR
Spouse: Elton 'Cleve' Cleveland (died abt 20 y ago)
Child: Thomas Cleveland (adopted) – (Thomas has children)
Step child: Betty Cleveland Jordan (and one more, can't recall her name)
Father: Mordichiah Allen 'Maud' Hailey
GP: Adam Mordicah Hailey m. Florence Cochran
Mother: Margaret Elizabeth Bookout
GP: Charles 'Henry' Bookout m. Parthinia Margarette 'Phenny' Hatman
Jefferson James 'Jeff' Hailey m. 'Nova May' Gwendolyn Haynes
Allen Henry 'Hosea' Hailey m. Anna Lee Rogers
Eschol Ray Hailey m. Elizabeth Rebecca Perkins
Elmer F. 'Hamm' Hailey
Nova May Hailey – think this is sister-in-law, listed twice
Vada M. Hailey m. J. D. Ferrell
Unknown Female Hailey – died age 14
'Aunt Orpha' was cousin of my dad. Taught school either at Day or Wiseman (maybe both) and retired from teaching in Summerville, TN. My mom and Orpha left Wiseman during WW II to work at airplane factory in Memphis, TN and were roomates then and even shared a house after they married when war was over.
Think I have Jeff's wife mixed as sister too. As well as family, I knew most of these folks as a child. Mom is 88 yo now and says this is right (but am beginning to question her recall at times, so 2nd opinion would be welcome).
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NEWBORN babies are snuggled up against the cold thanks to a group of knitters.
Billericay Pilgrims Townswomen's Guild delivered hundreds of hand-knitted blankets, hats, jackets, mittens and teddies to Basildon Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.
Willow Rose Finch, with parents Natalie and Luke, from Fobbing, was presented with a pink teddy by Stephanie Thompson, the guild's handicraft co-ordinator.
Stephanie said: "We do a lot of work for charity, and were keen to do something for the hospital because most of us came here to have our babies.'' Senior Sister Wendy Rogers said: "We are very grateful to the guild for these beautiful blankets and clothes.
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Subject: Querie!
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:14:32 -0000
Hi List
I wonder if somebody can help me with the following I know it is a Glamorgan Querie.
I recieved a birth cert today for an Edith George born 14th April 1883 Parents James and Elizabeth George nee Peek
address "Caebanol" Swansea Lower Glam. in the 1881 census she was born in Pyle Glam and in 1891 census in Neath, I have been through the 1841/51/61 census for Glamorgan under every spelling I can think of and cannot find her anywhere, I dont have the 1871 which by then she would have been married to James, I hope someone has a brainier thinking cap than me and can come up with an answer, Thankyou!!!!
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HOUSTON -- When NBA commissioner David Stern retires, he could easily get a job with the Toronto Welcome Wagon.
Or perhaps former Raptors general manager Glen Grunwald will give the commish a gig with the Toronto Board of Trade.
In any event, Stern spoke out in his firm belief yesterday that the Raptors organization is in Canada to stay, despite the club's three-year playoff drought and the team's falling attendance.
The Raptors are averaging 16,559 fans per game this season, 18th in the NBA, down two spots from last year, when the club was 16th, averaging 17,155.
The drop has been consistent. In 2003-04, the Raptors were eighth in the league in attendance (18,307) and averaged 18,963 the season before that.
During the 2001-02 campaign, the Raptors drew 19,760 per game, second overall in the NBA, selling out 40 of 41 home games.
This season, despite two visits by New Jersey Nets' Vince Carter and Philadelphia 76ers' Allen Iverson, and one by Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant, the Raps have failed to sell out a game.
Those numbers have hoops heads in Toronto worried that, if the trend continues, the NBA will not be long for Toronto.
In 2001, the Vancouver Grizzlies of the NBA left town for Memphis.
But Stern was adamant during a media conference yesterday at the Toyota Center, site of tonight's all-star game, that the Raps are standing on firm ground.
"Toronto is absolutely secure in our league," he said.
"I'm used to going into Toronto and people would say the sky is falling, when it wasn't, because I think there's sort of an under-appreciation in Canada and for what a great city Toronto is, and what a great sports city it is.
"The team (itself) isn't doing so well," Stern added. "I'm familiar with that, I live in New York.
"But it will get better, it always does."
Stern called Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd. a "quintessential organization for the future," adding that the Canadian dollar is stronger than when the NBA expanded into Toronto in 1995.
"I've got no concerns whatsoever," Stern said.
Victoria's Steve Nash, the NBA's reigning MVP, spoke out yesterday in defence of countryman, Wayne Gretzky, who had been embroiled in a gambling controversy.
"To me, it's not much of a story as far as Wayne's concerned," Nash said. "I think it's a moot story. Who hasn't placed a bet with their buddies? It's not that big a deal as far as I'm concerned."
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DEIDRE Coone and daughters Jodie Thompson and Amanda Mahncke have completed an emotional, physical and spiritual journey many years in the making.
The trio is on the return leg of a journey that involved riding a vintage motor bike the 3975 kilometre distance from Adelaide to Darwin in honour of their husband and father.
Jodie said it was exciting riding into the Qantas Hangar at Darwin on August 24, with the satisfaction of knowing they had completed the ride and fulfilled their dad's dream
"I was a complete and utter nervous wreck, coming into town with no brakes and no gears I didn't feel like I could competently go through the traffic," she said.
Overcoming the obvious challenges Jodie said the moment of completion left them with a big sense of achievement.
"We all lost it, we all just started balling, but through the sad tears were the happy tears, the realisation that we had actually done it, we had made it," she said.
Jodie said they are grateful for the support of people far and wide who without them, turning the Rover dream into a reality wouldn't have been possible.
"There is no way it could have been done with just three of us having a crack, it is far too big for all of that," she said.
"Just thank you to everybody, to the people that have donated and followed us on Facebook. Without your continuous support this wouldn't have been possible."
Jodie and Amanda took it in turns to ride the Rover, with friends Daniel, Colin and Katrina Sargent each riding a bike and Deidre joining the rest of the team of 15 driving the bus.
The shortest day was the first at just 164 km, the longest a tiring 276 km. Jodie said once the team arrived in Coober Pedy it was 'easy riding'.
"Leaving South Australia and heading to the centre it was really red, really straight, it felt never ending at some stages," she said.
The group overcame the negatives by turning to the positives.
"We had a few mechanical break downs, so there was a few times we pulled out the spare motorbike, the one dad rode to Sydney," she said.
"It was pretty awesome to know that it was no longer sitting in the trailer and had become an important part of the trip."
The family decided to raise funds for East Grampians Health Service through the Victoria Police Blue Ribbon Foundation Ararat Branch along the way and Jodie is hopeful after having already raised $9,000 they'll reach $10,000.
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Another new rice yield record? Let's move beyond it
25 February
Nine years ago, I published one of the first papers that tried to provide a critical analysis of the biological principles underlying the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and its potential to improve rice production.
My curiosity at that time was aroused by some huge rice yields that had been reported in the SRI literature, with some farmers in Madagascar apparently having harvested rice crops with a grain yield of 15.0 to 23.4 t/ha. Naturally, I wondered whether that might actually be possible, and, if so, what one might be able to learn from that. My analysis concluded that it didn't seem to be possible under the given circumstances. A common response to that article was to since then label me as one of the "opponents" of SRI. Nothing could be further from the truth. I believe in evidence-based science for finding the right, sustainable development solutions and I also believe that good agronomy is going to be a key for sustainable rice production, in terms of yield, profitability, resource efficiency, and ecological resilience. I am a curiosity-driven person and I have no vested interest in favoring one opinion (or technology) over another. I don't get paid for that.
About 250 scientific articles on SRI have been published between 2004 and now, engaging numerous researchers and development workers on both sides of the debate. I have followed this with a lot of interest, building up my own collection of publications and reports and making my own field observations. From what I have read and seen with my own eyes, I cannot say that I have been able to unearth much new to me, but I recognize that many more farmers have tried SRI and that it has become a movement with many supporters. On the other hand, an increasing number of published studies have also questioned whether there is much new to it in terms of the management principles and practices proposed as well as in terms of its field performance. Even more has been talked and written about SRI in the press, on the Web, in social media, and in many meetings worldwide. Interestingly, some of that overall discussion has even entered the spheres of sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. It has also become a popular topic in the development community and among donors and politicians because everyone is keen to find solutions to the complex problems and constraints faced by smallholder farmers worldwide.
Naturally, I was intrigued when reading John Vidal's article, published on February 16 in The Guardian, about another new world rice yield record: 22.4 t/ha achieved by Mr. Sumant Kumar, a farmer in Darveshpura, Bihar, India. Whenever such a new record is announced, it triggers a cascade of subsequent media stories and opinion pieces that largely repeat the same content without verifying the facts or without adding new information to the discussion. Judge for yourself by reading, for example, the articles written by Tom Laskawy or Beth Hoffman. Such stories also spawn numerous Internet discussion threads in which details are further dissected or opinions are fortified. Here is just one example: Many of the people writing about this particular subject have not seen that record crop in the field and they may also not be very experienced in growing crops or doing research on them. I don't blame them for that because we all have different professions, but I would like to ask for more fact checking and a little bit more caution when writing about areas that are outside a person's area of knowledge and expertise.
I also cannot claim to have seen the record crops of Mr. Sumant Kumar and his fellow farmers in Darveshpura with my own eyes, but I have seen many rice crops throughout the world, including in the highest-yielding growing areas. I have also grown a few crops on my own and I have done a lot of my own research in farmers' fields all over the world, with varying success. Here are a few observations on the recent story from Bihar:
- The precedent for Mr. Vidal's Guardian article was an article published in the Indian magazine Agriculture Today in June 2012, by three people who promoted SRI in that particular district in Bihar. This article describes in detail how this particular rice crop was grown in 2011. There are some striking inconsistencies between that article and the picture painted in The Guardian article.
- Mr. Vidal quotes a farmer as one growing 15 hectares of rice and vegetables, whereas in Agriculture Today the farmers are said to have landholdings of 2 to 2.8 ha. Whatever it is, these are hardly small farmers in Bihar, where a more common landholding size is 0.5 ha or less.
- The Guardian article suggests that Mr. Kumar and other farmers achieved something beyond what can be achieved by scientists and GMO companies, and that they used only farmyard manure and no herbicides. The much more detailed article in Agriculture Today shows almost the opposite. No GM rice is grown anywhere yet. However, all five record farmers grew commercial rice hybrids from Bayer or Syngenta; their seed was fungicide-treated (carbendazim); they used intensive tillage (two deep plowings plus two puddling operations); they applied green manure, farmyard manure, mineral fertilizer (N, P, K), and other nutrient input products (poultry manure, vermicompost, phosphorus-solubilizing bacteria, micronutrient foliar spray of zinc sulfate); and some also used herbicide (2,4-D) for additional weed control. These are in fact very intensive input management practices, perhaps not something that many poor, small farmers could afford.
- How can one "verify" the yield of a crop after it had been harvested?
- How is it possible that all of a sudden other farmers in the same village or in a neighboring village were also able to break the world record for potato and the Indian yield record for wheat?
- I was quoted with a personal statement in The Guardian article (and re-quoted subsequently by many other outlets). Interestingly, I have never spoken with Mr. Vidal. Instead, the words ascribed to me in his article appear to have been extracted from a phone interview I gave to World Bank staff in 2008, which you can find here. You will notice that I spoke at great length about SRI (for about 10 minutes), explaining a lot more than what was quoted by Mr. Vidal and others. Journalistic standards should be followed. It would have been nice to see at least a reference to the full interview or to talk with me in person.
Let me now turn to the question of whether known thermodynamic and biological laws could actually explain the stated yield record of 22.4 t/ha paddy. Those who wish can read in more detail what needs to be considered when trying to understand such a number.
What are the upper limits to yield?
In the Agriculture Today article, we learn that the fresh yield was 22.4 t/ha paddy, which, after drying, amounted to 20.16 t grain/ha. The drying probably resulted in a residual moisture content of 12–14%. We also know that any modern rice variety or hybrid will have a harvest index (ratio of grain weight to total biomass weight) of 45–55%. So, roughly speaking, that record crop must have produced about 40 tons of dry biomass per hectare during a life span of 154 days from sowing in the nursery to harvest.
I explained in my paper in 2004 that, even by applying the most favorable assumptions about the amount of available sunshine (photosynthetically active radiation) and its conversion into biomass and grain yield, the maximum rice yield possible by using the C3 photosynthesis mechanism is about 18 t/ha in a cooler environment with 150–160 days' growth duration and high solar radiation. We may think that since then some new plant types may have been developed in certain countries (e.g., super hybrids in China) that could increase that theoretical potential further, to perhaps 19 t/ha. However, that is not what the farmers in Bihar grew and their climate doesn't match that of a cooler, high-radiation environment either.
In Bihar, the rice crop was planted in early July, at the start of the monsoon season. In the rice-growing season, daily solar radiation is usually in the 15–20 MJ/m2/day range and minimum temperatures (during the night) rarely drop below 20–23 °C. I have no reason to believe that this would have been any different in the SRI fields in Darveshpura. Based on what we know about the climate and the maximum photosynthetic efficiency of a C3 rice crop, the maximum yield one could obtain at such a site and with perfect management is probably in the 10–12 t/ha range for an excellent hybrid such as the one grown by these farmers. To get anywhere near the dry matter production and grain yields reported, one would need to have a rice crop equipped with a different photosynthesis engine, such as the one in so-called C4-photosynthesis crops (e.g., maize or sugarcane). We're working on that for rice, but it doesn't exist yet. Those who wish to gain a more detailed understanding of the thermodynamic and biological limits of crop yield should read Jeff Amthor's excellent paper on that.
Could the amount of nutrients available explain such a high yield?
We must also ask the question of whether the amounts of nutrient available could actually support such a high rice yield. We know that plant organs have a certain biochemical composition and that this is not something that would be hugely different under SRI management. Thousands of data sets collected for rice show that, on average, for each ton of grain yield produced, the crop needs to take up 15–20 kg nitrogen, 2.5–3.0 kg phosphorus, and 15–20 kg potassium. Assuming averages of each and multiplying those by the reported yield of 20.16 t after drying results in a total crop nutrient uptake of about 350 kg N, 60 kg P, and 350 kg K per hectare. It could have been somewhat less or more. The point here is that these are indeed very large nutrient amounts that must have come from somewhere.
Based on the description given in the Agriculture Today paper, I estimated rough total nutrient inputs of about 55 kg N, 20 kg P, and 20 kg K from the mineral fertilizer applied. Not all of that ends up in the plant, of course. Assuming very high uptake efficiencies of these nutrients, these mineral fertilizer sources could account for about 35 kg N (approx. 10% of total plant uptake), 10 kg P (approx. 15%), and 15 kg K (less than 5%). Where did the rest come from? Using optimistic assumptions about the nutrient content in organic materials and their conversion into actual uptake by the rice crop grown, the Sesbania green manure, 6 tons farmyard manure, 400 kg poultry manure, 100 kg vermicompost, and 40 kg P-solubilizing bacteria compounds applied to the record field (on a 1 ha basis) may have altogether accounted for another 75 kg N, 15 kg P, and 35 kg K of the total crop nutrient uptake.
That leaves at least 220 kg N, 35 kg P, and 295 kg K unaccounted for, which must have come from the soil and a few other indigenous sources such as rainfall and irrigation water. Particularly for nitrogen, that exceeds by far what a normal rice soil could supply. In fact, such a champion soil would actually produce more than 10–12 t/ha grain without any of the external inputs applied by the farmers, which is something one could of course test easily. But, even if the yield as reported were true, growing a crop with such high net nutrient extraction would actually be a very unsustainable solution because soon we would exhaust that soil.
In summary, given what we know about the upper limits of nutrient supply from soils in that region, I conclude again that the actual yield may have been in the 10–12 t/ha range at best. Japanese researchers studying SRI fields in Madagascar have shown a clear linear relationship between nutrient supply (enhanced by deep plowing as also done in Bihar) and rice yield, irrespective of other SRI management practices, but also not exceeding yields of about 10 t/ha.
I'm sure Mr. Sumant Kumar and the other young farmers in Darveshpura grew an excellent crop and for that they must be congratulated. Based on my analysis of the climatic-genetic yield potential and of the amounts of nutrients available, I conclude that the yield may have been more like 10–12 t/ha. Even that would be a tremendous achievement in a state where the average rice yield is little more than 2 t/ha. We should, however, move beyond unproductive discussions of record yield. The apparent attraction of SRI and similar agroecological movements is that they seem to suggest that large yield increases could be achieved by the poorest farmers of the world just by paying a little more attention to managing their fields: no need for biotech, no need for chemical inputs, no need for big machines, no dependence on multinational companies, etc. Indirectly, that seems to imply that somehow dozens of millions of rice farmers must have been negligent of their fields for decades. Sorry, but I simply cannot believe that because these farmers depend on their land for making a living.
Why haven't more rice farmers all over the world adopted SRI if it is indeed that easy to raise yields to unprecedented levels? SRI has been promoted for about 30 years now and its supporters estimate that some 4 to 5 million farmers in perhaps about 50 countries around the world use it in whole or in part, and that it has led to large yield increases. I have not seen any broad-scale, independently conducted adoption and impact study to verify these numbers. Moreover, we must also keep in mind that there are probably about 200 million small rice farmers in the world (nobody knows the exact number). Many of them have been using agronomic practices for a long time that are not unlike some of the things being stated as unique to SRI, but they choose carefully what they adopt to meet the requirements of their particular cropping and socioeconomic environment.
Our role is to provide these farmers with good choices, and trust that they will select the management practices that suit them best. We need to provide evidence-based solutions that are backed up by good research. We should not be dogmatic or have ideological reasons to promote certain technologies or even whole "packages" or "philosophies." I think record competitions are not helping anyone. What we really need is good agronomy in every field in the world because that alone would take us a long way toward meeting the future goals for sustainable agriculture and food systems. Political support should focus on creating an effective public-private environment for enabling good agricultural practices. We need both sectors playing an active role in that.
What do we mean by "good agronomy"? Basically, this is all about science-based agronomic principles that are actionable, that is, that can be easily communicated, adapted, and implemented locally, such as the following:
- Choose the right, profitable, and sustainable crop rotation.
- Choose quality seed of a well-adapted variety or hybrid that meets market demand.
- Plant at the right time and population density to maximize attainable yield by capturing light, water, and nutrients.
- Maximize the capture and efficient use of available water (soil, rain, irrigation).
- Use integrated soil and nutrient management, including conservation agriculture, balanced and more efficient use of fertilizers, and the use of any available organic sources.
- Use integrated pest management, including the use of functional biodiversity, biological control, and the judicious use of pesticides.
- Harvest at the right time.
- Optimize recycling and the use of biomass and agricultural by-products.
The debate is ongoing on setting the goals and directions for the post-2015 global development agenda. "The world's agriculture and food systems must become more productive, more resource-efficient, more resilient, and less wasteful. Farming must become more attractive and profitable for all who are involved in the different value chains, but particularly also for the hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers and small to medium-size entrepreneurs in the developing world. There are multiple technology choices and paths for improving the productivity and economic and environmental performance of agriculture. We need to move away from ideological or emotional battles over whether it is right or wrong to eat meat or whether agriculture should be 'conventional,' 'GM,' or 'organic.' All of those will be needed. We need to concentrate our efforts on actionable solutions that are science-based and tailored to the local situations and needs. Addressing the new Triple Green Revolution challenge requires the systematic application of science-based, agroecological principles to enable an agroecological intensification for more precise farming on small and large farms anywhere in the world."
These are some of the statements you can find in a recently published background paper of the Thematic Group on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). Help us find the right solutions and walk the talk.
I'll be happy to go to Darveshpura in November to see for myself and help in harvesting the next crop. If I can be part of harvesting a rice crop with a 20 t/ha yield, I'll be the first to write about this important discovery because it means that we'll have to re-write the biological science textbooks. Nothing could be more exciting than that, but let's not get sidetracked by that thought yet.


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Five Insane Fan Art Fetishes
If you've spent more than five seconds on the Internet you're well aware of the existence of all sorts of crazy fan art. Most infamous is the porn: Search the name of your favorite fictional character on Google Images, and we guarantee you'll get at least one sexual result. Now, we can all appreciate the artistic value of Minnie Mouse performing oral sex on Donald Duck, but that's just the beginning. Not only just content to destroy our childhood memories with mere hardcore sex, but it seems the fan art world has embraced a number of fetishes that, despite a lack of nudity, are somehow much, much more horrifying.
5) Pregnancy
The amount of fan art dedicated to sex is endless, but rare is the artist that addresses the serious consequences of the unrestrained passion that two cartoon characters can show for each other. Sure, it may look like all fun and games when, for example, Mario and Princess Peach celebrate another defeat of Bowser by getting down and dirty, but have you ever paused and wondered what would come next? Of course not, because the idea is fucking disturbing. Luckily, the Internet is here to imagine what you dare not.
Either the artist of the above picture has no idea what pregnancy looks like, or Princess Peach is about to give birth to an exercise ball. And if you think that's bad, keep in mind that characters don't even need to be old enough to get pregnant to be depicted as such…
In fact, they don't even need to be the right gender or species, as this drawing of a pregnant Sonic the Hedgehog shows us.
The miracle of life stands absolutely no chance against the perversion of the Internet. Let's just be thankful no artists show the actual birt—
4) Fat
Have you ever watched a Disney movie and thought to yourself, "Gee, this princess is nice and all, but she would be a lot more attractive if she was morbidly obese"? No? Congratulations, you're a normal person. Prepare to be grossed out by the following picture!
Most of us will look at that drawing and wonder what the point is, but a select few will be disappointed that Jasmine isn't even fatter. Then they create something like this:
We realize that some people find larger women attractive, and that's fine. But Tifa isn't just a little chubby; she's clearly in serious pain. Worst of all, the artist thought this came out "a bit too realistic,"; God only knows how horrifying the picture he originally envisioned was.
Just in case that still isn't ridiculous enough for you, here's a drawing of another character from Final Fantasy VII, Aeris, presumably depicting her after she ate the rest of the cast.
And of course, like any fetish, it's not just limited to people; here's Bambi as an overweight fawn.
Can you imagine how depressing all the Disney classics would be if their characters looked like this? Nothing ruins a musical number quicker than a heart attack.
3) Muscles
In a reverse of the fat fetish, there are artists who like to draw characters that are insanely muscular. We don't mean they've been lifting a lot of weights; these are pictures of people that have been on a steady diet of steroids since birth. And by this point, it should go without saying that the characters who get this makeover are the ones who look the weirdest with it. As proof, here's Amy Rose, a Sonic the Hedgehog character, ready to kick some ass:
And have you ever wondered what Marge and Lisa Simpson would look like if they could beat the shit out of you?
Finally, since we've already ruined two Disney movies for you, we might as well go for a third:
We're pretty sure Tinker Bell was already the toughest Peter Pan character to begin with, so we're not really sure what this was supposed to accomplish.
2) Furry
Furries, as you're probably well aware, are people who are really, really into anthropomorphized animals. But what you may not know is that they don't just limit themselves to their own creations; pretty much every fictional character has had at least one furry makeover. For example, here are two classic Batman villains who have been given the furry treatment, and then likely used as a masturbation aid:
OK, so they're now the least intimidating villains ever, but we guess they could give you fleas or something. Don't despair though; the Caped Crusader is here to save the day!
You know what? It may look ridiculous, but we'd take, uh, whatever that is, over George Clooney's portrayal of The Dark Knight.
1) Female Everything
If you read Gunaxin then you no doubt agree with our opinion on breasts: they're pretty great. But there are some places where they just don't belong. Some of you may say that's blasphemy, and to that we reply with this picture of Pikachu about to bone some dude.
That drawing is a classic example of a fan art fetish that involves turning every male and nonsexual character into a woman. We don't just mean making them look like girls as a light-hearted joke (there are tons of pictures like that, but they're clearly just for fun); we mean there are people who try their best to make, say, Woody and Buzz Lightyear look seductive.
And of course, there's no reason this fetish can't be combined with any of the others on our list. This drawing of Harry Potter as a catgirl serves as an appropriately horrifying example.
Just what is it that makes people explore these insane fetishes? Some of them are clearly very talented artists, so why do they use their skills to give Luke Skywalker a coat of fur, an extra 300 pounds and a bun in the oven? After extensive research into the subject, we can safely say that we have absolutely no Goddamn idea. Here's a picture of Master Chief with tits.
That'll do.


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Former Playboy model goes on the run after conviction for mafia mobster assassination plot
A former Playboy model has gone on the run in the Balkans after she was sentenced to jail for setting up a honey trap in a plot to kill a notorious mafia gangster.
An Interpol arrest warrant has been issued for Slobodanka Tosic, who posed on the cover of Playboy in 2008.
The model (30) was convicted earlier this year of arranging to meet a mafia boss, Djordje Zdrale, for a date and then betraying him to his rival Darko Elez, who then attempted to have him killed.
Zdrale was wounded in the assassination attempt in 2006 but he managed to escape with his life. The model was charged as an accomplice to the plot.
A court handed down a two-and-a-half year jail sentence in March and an appeal was ruled out in July.
According to court documents, Bosnian prosecutors said the former model had links to "one of the largest groups of organised crime".
Slobodanka Tosic failed to show up to serve her sentence and is now the subject of an international manhunt.
She was arrested in Croatia last year and was extradited back to Bosnia on an international arrest warrant.
However, she failed to report to the authorities after she was convicted.
Zdrale, who is serving a 20 year sentence for the murder of a police officer, but was brought from his prison cell to testify against Miss Tosic.
Miss Tosic is well known for her modelling career in her homeland and has appeared on the Bosnian version of Survivor.
She was also crowned Miss Bosnia at the age of 19.
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1996 Tadano 50 Tonne Truck Mounted Crane Hire
- Title
- 1996 Tadano 50 Tonne Truck Mounted Crane
- Make
- Tadano
- Model
- Year of Manufacture
- 1996
- Condition
- Excellent
- Weight Capacity
- 50 Tonne
- Number in Fleet
- 1
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- Website
- http://www.gwcranehire.com.au/index.htm


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In the stirring language of the imperfect but noble beast that is the Canadian justice system, Richard Kachkar put himself upon his country.
It's a phrase from jury selection, where an accused person is told to look at each of the faces of the people chosen as his judges and they at him.
The jurors are every accused's country.
Wednesday, Mr. Kachkar's found him not criminally responsible in the Jan. 12, 2011, death of Toronto Police Sergeant Ryan Russell because of the psychosis he suffered at the time.
While sometimes perceived as the equivalent of "getting away" with a crime, a finding of NCR means nothing of the sort and only rarely has that sort of effect.
Mr. Kachkar was not released, but remanded in custody until he appears before the Ontario Review Board, an independent tribunal appointed like others across Canada by each province, made up of psychiatrists, lawyers, judges and, the eternal saving grace, lay people.
The board will determine where he is hospitalized, and treated, and in annual reviews measure his progress.
It was a brave decision, if only because Sgt. Russell was a serving officer — indeed, a rising star — killed in the line of duty, and citizens are rightly grateful for all those who rush to danger in the service of others.
Early that January morning, Mr. Kachkar, who is now 46, had stolen a huge truck-cum-snow plow and gone on a rampage of property destruction and citizen intimidation in the central part of the city.
In the freezing, snowy pre-dawn, he wore no jacket and was barefoot.
Only because of the hour — the streets were still largely deserted as Mr. Kachkar, on a one-man demolition derby, sideswiped parked taxis and yelled bizarre and threatening things at the few folks he saw — no one had been hurt.
But the city was about to get busy, and Sgt. Russell would have known that when he got into his squad car to respond to the flurry of 911 calls coming in.
With his emergency lights flashing, he caught up to Mr. Kachkar, who did a U-turn and headed right at him.
The 35-year-old officer began to reverse.
Mr. Kachkar slowed down, almost to a stop, and opened the driver's door.
He had done that several times already that morning, the better to yell at passersby, but to a police officer, it must have appeared awfully like the universal gesture of, "I give up."
Sgt. Russell got out of his car, Mr. Kachkar slammed shut his door, and drove the 5,050-kg truck straight at the young officer.
Sgt. Russell began firing his gun as the vehicle bore down on him, but the blade of the plow knocked his legs out from under him, then fatally clipped his head.
He died shortly after at St. Michael's Hospital, leaving behind his wife Christine, their baby son Nolan, then two years and 24 days old, and doting parents.
Sgt. Russell had conducted himself precisely as even the most critical citizen might want, especially with someone reportedly behaving as a crazy man: He had tried to avoid a confrontation, responded to what he thought was a sign Mr. Kachkar was giving up, and resorted to his weapon only when his life was in danger.
So while the jury's decision was founded firmly on the evidence – no fewer than three top forensic psychiatrists, including the one hired by the Crown, testified that Mr. Kachkar was in the throes of a real psychosis at the time and should not be held criminally responsible – it was also unsettling for police and profoundly disappointing for Sgt. Russells family.
His widow, Christine, slumped in her seat as the jury forewoman delivered the verdict; it was the human equivalent of a balloon suddenly deflating.
After Ontario Superior Court Judge Ian MacDonnell thanked the jurors for their service and they filed out of the courtroom, Ms. Russell didn't get to her feet as is the custom and as others did.
If it was a protest, and not a function of unsteadiness, it was a quiet one.
Later, she joined Sgt. Russell's father, Glenn, in reading a victim impact statement, she on behalf of her young son, who has now lived longer without his beloved father than he did with him.
Because Mr. Kachkar's formal "disposition hearing," as it's called, will be held at the review board within the next 45 days, allowing the impact statements to be delivered here was a kindness of the judge, and defence lawyer Bob Richardson.
The impact statements lived up their name: They were powerful and wrenching.
Mr. Russell, a retired Toronto officer himself, spoke of the last Christmas Eve dinner the family had with his only son. He looked about, he said, at all the people he loved, and thought to himself, "It doesn't get any better than this."
Nineteen days later, Ryan was dead.
Tracey Russell, Sgt. Russell's big sister by 18 months, remembered the boy she spoke for before he could talk (perhaps for that reason, when he began speaking, it was in near-complete sentences).
After a false start, during which Christine Russell held out the little family's last formal picture and said fiercely, looking directly at Mr. Kachkar, "Richard, I'd like you to look at that" before the judge stopped her and called a brief recess, the widow spoke on behalf of her son.
Nolan and his daddy were close; the young officer was a modern, hands-on father who dearly loved his little boy. She explained, she said, as delicately as she could, to the wee boy that his daddy had gone to heaven, but he was so young, that after the funeral, "He asked, 'Where's daddy?'"
Only after about nine months, she said, did Nolan really begin to grasp what had happened. Face in his pillow, he sobbed for his daddy and wailed the terrible fear common to all who have lost someone they love, "I don't see him any more."
The verdict will have one harsh effect upon Sgt. Russell's family: To give voice to their young man, several of them, including Christine, will attend Mr. Kachkar's yearly reviews. Put another way, just as a tender scab may be forming over the rawness of their hurt, the wound will be ripped open.
But the verdict doesn't diminish the size of their loss, or Toronto's. It never does. Whatever they are, verdicts have so little to do with grief. Justice is a dish always served, without fail, with a huge side of tears.


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September 8, 2010 BY John Kim
Classic never fails and pretty much anything out of the Converse camp fits the bill. Here's a look at four new colorways of the Converse Poorman Weapon – three highs and one low – in canvas uppers. The Poorman Weapon takes cues from the original Chuck Taylor as well as the Weapon 86 basketball shoe, so Converse has been slapping on vulc soles on basketball kicks long before Nike started dabbling in that this decade. All four new drops are available now on the Converse online store so continue reading for a look at the colorways.
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Trailer brake setting
Just wondering what number you are using for your ITBC setting . I am towing a new TT , weight about 5500 lbs when camping. After a little testing last spring , I set the ITBC at "7" out of 10. Would this be about normal ?
2011 FX4 Screw.
Yup. My 5th is around 8-8.5. Enclosed trailer around 6.5ish. Get the best braking without locking the trailer tires.
You should really undergo the proper setting procedure to arrive at the right number. Pull your loaded trailer on a flat surface at approximately 25mph and grab the manual brake override on the TBC moving it all the way to full power (without engaging the tow vehicle brakes). If the trailer tires lock up lower the number, if they don't raise the number. Ideally you want just enough power where you're just below tire lock-up at full brake.
One thing sweet with the touch based platform with the trailer app (or whatever it's called) is that you can go in and save those settings on a per-trailer basis, then just recall them once that trailer is connected again. Works well if you have multiple trailers or load settings (aka loaded car-hauler vs empty).
That's basically what I did to set the ITBC. I was curious what setting other drivers were arriving at.
Thanks for the replies!
I have to look to see if I'm doing something wrong. Because it seems that it doesn't save the brake settings for my different trailers. Glad you mentioned that.
I've got my built-in brake controller cranked up all the way.
Not sure why but have never got the trailer tires to lock up. Definitely drags truck+trailer to a quick stop though so they're working.
Because the trailer is 7500# ?
4.5/5 gain with #6000+ loaded
Think a lot depends upon the trailer brakes, make/brand, how tight they are adjusted, tires, and so on. It can't just be trailer weight.
I'll be adjusting the brakes this spring and re-test the controller. Maybe I can lock them up then.
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Sturge: A Memoir - Book Signing and Talk by Sandy Phippen
Sandy Phippen reads from and signs copies of Sturge: A Memoir, a recent publication he edited about the life and times of Sturgis Haskins, the Maine State sailing champ who taught Norman Mailer how to sail and who helped start the Wilde-Stein Club at the University of Maine.
As William David Barry of the MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM has written: "This is the complex story of a self-aware young man who chose to revel in a difficult era... an affecting, upbeat recollection of a Mainer who lived life to the fullest, becoming the rare native who ran with the summer crowd and valued his own beginnings, became proudly and actively gay, fought for civil rights...and left a legacy of manuscript collections to our finest institutions.
This is a key LGBT volume; it is equally an important mainstream biography. Illustrated with 150 photos. Copies may be purchased at the event.
SANFORD PHIPPEN, editor, was born in White Plains, NY and raised in Hancock, Maine where he was educated in the local schools, graduating from Sumner Memorial High School in 1960. He earned his B.A. in English from the University of Maine and his M.A. in English Education from Syracuse University. An English teacher for 50 years at both the high school and college levels, he has received the Distinguished Teacher Award from Bowdoin College and Teacher of the Year from Orono High School. He was also a finalist in the Maine Teacher of the Year program in 2004.
As a writer he has published one novel, KITCHEN BOY, and two books of short stories: THE POLICE KNOW EVERYTHING and PEOPLE TRYING TO BE GOOD. He is also the editor of THE BEST MAINE STORIES and HIGH CLOUDS SOARING, STORMS DRIVING LOW: THE LETTERS OF RUTH MOORE, as well as THE SUN NEVER SETS ON HANCOCK POINT. He has written two collections of essays and criticism: CHEAP GOSSIP and THE MESSIAH IN THE MEMORIAL GYM. He has had three plays produced, and has written for THE NEW YORK TIMES, MAINE TIMES, DOWN EAST, ELLSWORTH AMERICAN, BANGOR DAIILY NEWS, MAINE LIFE, PUCKERBRUSH REVIEW and other periodicals. His book KITCHEN BOY was chosen by the Baxter Bibliophile Society in 2000 as one of the "100 Distinguished Books that Reveal the History of the State and the Life of its People" for its MIRROR OF MAINE book and exhibit. He was the host of the MAINE PBS series A GOOD READ, and in 1997 he was nominated for an Emmy Award. In 1987 he produced the film A CENTURY OF SUMMERS about Hancock; and in 2001 he was chosen "Citizen of the Year" by his hometown. He served on the Maine Humanities Council (l984-1990) and the Maine Arts Commission (l990-l994). He was editor of the PUCKERBRUSH REVIEW (2006-2013) and in 2003 he received from the University of Maine "The Stillwater Presidential Award for Achievement" along with U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe.
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SUNDERLAND College staff used pedal power to raise money in memory of their colleague.
The 22 men and women, from the sport and public services departments at Bede Campus, decided to take part in the Wayne's Worlds Bike Ride in memory of Wayne Hedley.
Wayne, a former sport lecturer, was 33 when he lost his battle with cancer in February this year.
Graham Mytton, head of sport and tourism at the college, arranged the sponsored bike ride which saw staff raise £2,040 for Macmillan Cancer Support by completing a 90-mile challenge based on Wayne's life in the North East.
Starting at Bede College in Sunderland, staff rode 17 miles to Gosforth, where Wayne lived with his fiance, then a further 40 miles to Darlington and 11 miles to Sedgefield, where they were given the chance to meet Wayne's mum and stepdad, before returning to the college on the final 22-mile leg.
Graham said: "Wayne was a much-loved member of staff and we wanted to do something to raise funds for a charity that really supported him throughout his illness.
"Given Wayne's love of sport, it seemed fitting to do a charity bike ride and we wanted to give it more of a personal touch by visiting places he had lived and worked throughout the North East – I'm sure Wayne would have been there in spirit."
Many of the students also pitched in, including raising money with a swear box.
To make a donation to Wayne's World Bike Ride, visit www.justgiving.com/rideforwayne.


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Photographer's Note
I saw many women who were involved in the construction industry when i visited Addis recently. This womans task was to clean the entrance to a new office building but many were also involved with more heavy duties like bricklaying and concrete work.
cropped image, sharpen after resize.
It is also nice to be back to TE after a long break:)
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mauro61 (52889) 2012-07-22 11:38
ciao Boa,
un piacere rivederti con immagini sempre interessanti e mai banali.
Ottimo il taglio a mostrare la difficoltà del vivere quotidiano in molte parti della Terra.
worldcitizen (10182) 2012-07-22 12:09
Hello Boa,
I can imagine that this woman is looking at the muddy mess and thinking to herself: "where do I begin?" But I guess from your title she has already done her cleaning. I like her position in the frame, and the natural colors. The green bristles on the broom and salmon-colored bucket really jump out against all of the browns.
holmertz (64616) 2012-07-22 13:18
Hej Boa,
I wouldn't call this beautiful, but you found a number of astonishingly well matching colours. The grey and brown muddy tones, including more or less those of the woman's clothes, are only broken by her bucket and broom. This was a fine observation of a not so great daily life. I wonder what that new office building will look like in a few years if the immediate surroundings looked like this. I have seen a lot of modern buildings in India crumbling after just two or three years because of poor maintenance and worthless infrastructure.
And nice to see you too again!
Fis2 (115069) 2012-07-22 13:24
Witaj Boa!
Interesting scene.
I like frame, colors and composition.
Good reportorial photo.
Nice evening
danos (105276) 2012-07-22 13:24
Hello Boa,
so well to be back in the site after your long absence with a photo from a poor country of Africa,Ethiopia.
A good reportage shot with the women to works so hard according your note.This one has a rather more easy work to does.
Have a good week,Danos
CanmoreKevin (2111) 2012-07-22 18:03
Very nice capture. I can feel the exhaustion. Nicely composed with the woman off to one side balancing that vast amount of mud.
annjackman (21903) 2012-07-22 23:15
Hello Boa,
Really good to see you back on TE. A super first post from Ethiopia with an effective compostion. I like the way that the woman's brightly coloured bucket and brush stand out against the muddy BG. A very good of daily life image - I am looking forward to viewing more of your pictures.
Kind Regards, Ann
Graal (103038) 2012-07-23 0:06
Hi Boa,
amazing scene, portrait and reportage about the daily life - in one. Good note and photowork.
Have a nice day.
saxo042 (37974) 2012-07-23 0:52
Hej Boa,
The girl is well colour coordinated with the brown-grey background but the bucket and the broom provide some striking eye-catchers.
rbassin (25271) 2012-07-23 12:30
bonsoir Boa
Une scène de vie intéressante, position de la femme, couleur et reflet de la flaque d'eau.
Bonne soirée
abmdsudi (63605) 2012-07-25 9:29
Hi Boa
This is good social doc shot that is common in the third world, it's all about survival and at the heart of every human being is the desire to survive, to live without hunger yet every day millions cannot fulfil their most basic needs, let alone attain their dreams. This is just fractions of normal folk whose daily struggles seldom capture world attention and this records the lives of poor people and poverty in rural settings around the world. Indeed picture worths thousand words. Great shot my friend :))
Warm regards
Cricri (133272) 2012-07-25 10:17
Hi Boa
Un pays toucher par la pauvreté et la faim, je pense qu'il faut avoir le coeur bien accrocher pour ne pas craquer de voir tant de misère, bien a toi de nous en faire découvrir en photo, belles harmonie de couleurs dans cette scéne de la dame avec une note intéressante
Belle soirée
UlfE (14641) 2012-07-26 13:35
Hej Boa,
En fin och påpassligt tagen vardagsbilden. Kanske skulle du kompostionsmässigt ha kunnat tagit en något bättre bild, men jag tycker du gör helt rätt som visar den trista byggarbetsplatsmiljön som du nämner i noten. Den rosa hinken och gröna borsten är färgklickar som ökar bildens attraktionskraft. Tack för titten och ha en bra kväll!
Nicou (160033) 2012-07-28 20:22
quelle scène et iamge quelle vue de cette dame avec son balais et son bidon devant la route et toute l'eau image touchante suepr beocmpo.
Bravo et amitié
baddori (20161) 2012-07-28 23:51
Photos sweet and melancholy.
The context of your gallery that highlights the high tones and contrasts vital to the limit.
Expressive power of feelings or social distress, out of context
Silvio1953 (162272) 2012-07-31 1:05
Ciao Boa, lovely daily life composition with woman at difficult work, excellent clarity, splendid light and colors, very well done, my friend, ciao Silvio
fritzi007 (13552) 2012-10-20 4:34
Hello Boa,
Women really are more diligent than men, mostly!
Your photo is perfect, congratulations!
Wish you a nice weekend
ikeharel (85022) 2016-02-01 3:08
Hello Boa,
A great example of women labor in the third-world, and a great capture, photography wise.
Green broom and red backet stand fabulous contrast to the mostly brown scene.
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- Copyright: Boa Kristiansson (boa) (7715)
- Genre: People
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2012-06-27
- Categories: Daily Life
- Camera: Nikon D7000, Nikon AF-S 70-200/2.8 G IF-ED VR
- Exposure: f/4, 1/250 seconds
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- Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
- Date Submitted: 2012-07-22 11:35
- To holmertz: Tack (1)
by boa, last updated 2012-07-22 02:18
- To UlfE: Hej Ulf (1)
by boa, last updated 2012-07-27 12:25


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Keekaroo Cafe Booster
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I bought a booster seat for my son when we were visiting relatives and I had limited options at the local store. If I had my druthers, I would have have opted for Keekaroo's booster seat. Cushy, yet impermeable to liquid, it comes in a bunch of fun colors, has an optional safety harness and is even made in the US.