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Thread: Gwendolen & Sibyl: Dueling Names
April 16th, 2013 10:33 PM #1
Gwendolen & Sibyl: Dueling Names
Hello, Berries!
Well, I am down to a lonely two girls names, Gwendolen and Sibyl.
I adore these two names, and I am happy to have these after the husband's slash and burn job on my list.
I am playing around with the pairings for middle names... here is my list:
(This list consists 2 personal favorites, one husband's pick never-going-to-use-as-a-first-name name, and 2 family tree gems.)
So! What combinations do you like?
Also, do you have any suggestions that seem to fit? I am sure we all feel like we have seen it all! We plan on not repeating first initials in the family, so no M, L, V, or K names, however it is open season on middle names. Last name begins with an E for monogram worriers.
My current girls' names are below. I would like to point out that Kirsten is a family name, and I would say overall may not fit into my 'style' per say. (However, it is funny how absolutely in love with the name I am now, the perfect name for my quiet firecracker, but that is another post entirely...)
So, lay it on me!Momma to
& Morris
....with a lil sprout on the way in 2017
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With Gwendolen, my favorites are Athena and Louisa. With Sibyl, I also like Athena, as well as Genevieve - I would avoid the two L names here, since the ending L of Sibyl kind of smushes into it.
Some more ideas:
Gwendolen Bettina
Gwendolen Cecile
Gwendolen Eve
Sibyl Constance
Sibyl Marguerite
Sibyl Odette
Best of luck!
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Austerity Our Troops: Pentagon cuts cooked breakfast for some troops in Afghanistan as part of drawdown
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The US Army has ceased serving cooked breakfasts to some soldiers stationed in Afghanistan as part of its drawdown, a decision that prompted troops to write home asking families and friends for care packages with cereal, breakfast bars and other foods. The Army told the Washington Guardian the recent cutbacks began New Years and affect approximately 2,700 soldiers deployed in more remote areas of Afghanistan.
The reduction of hot meals and midnight meals is not related to the US budget crisis. They said, instead, its an effort to begin closing down US operations. The affected soldiers will be given MRES – known as "Meals Rejected By Ethiopians" – as substitutes for hot meals. "As a part of the responsible draw down of operational forces serving in Afghanistan, my staff examined ways to reduce our footprint and set the conditions for the reduction of forces," explained Col. Joe Wawro, an infantry commander for the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat team.


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Mailbag: Options for third base?
Mailbag: Options for third base?
Are the Phillies pursuing third baseman Morgan Ensberg? This would be an upgrade and add a former 35-homer bat to the lineup. He shouldn't cost too much, should he?
-- Russ R., Springfield, Pa. The key word in that sentence is former. Ensberg's big season came in 2005, when he compiled a .283 average with 35 home runs. His offensive production has declined recently, as he batted .233 over the past two seasons. I, too, see the potential upside, but the Phillies have indicated that they're not interested. While we're on the subject of third basemen, here are a few other names that have come up in e-mails:
-- Russ R., Springfield, Pa. The key word in that sentence is former. Ensberg's big season came in 2005, when he compiled a .283 average with 35 home runs. His offensive production has declined recently, as he batted .233 over the past two seasons. I, too, see the potential upside, but the Phillies have indicated that they're not interested. While we're on the subject of third basemen, here are a few other names that have come up in e-mails:
Pedro Feliz: Still blinking on the radar, though the Phillies will keep their distance as long as he continues to seek three years and $20 million.Dallas McPherson: A 2001 second-round pick by the Angels and former top prospect, McPherson missed the 2007 season after having surgery to remove a herniated disc in his lower back. Back pain also cost him time in the previous two seasons. The left-handed batter is an intriguing name from among the non-tenders, but he's much too risky to be a realistic option. The Phillies aren't likely to take a chance on him. Brandon Inge: He continued to come up, so I'll repeat that Inge's contract -- $19.1 million over the next three seasons -- is a problem, and the Phillies don't see him as a significant upgrade. Garrett Atkins: Colorado isn't shopping him, and the cost would be significant, despite the presence of prospect Ian Stewart. Do the Phillies have any interest in Mark Prior? He seems like the classic case of a low-risk, high-reward guy.
-- Mark D., Trenton, N.J. The Phillies aren't interested in Prior. Kris Benson is a more likely possibility. If the Phillies don't sign someone to replace Aaron Rowand, would Jimmy Rollins be considered for the No. 5 spot in the lineup?
-- Joe M., Austin, Texas No. Manager Charlie Manuel loves batting Rollins at leadoff, and that's where he should hit. Pat Burrell will likely return to the No. 5 spot. The Phillies will replace Rowand's bat with someone else. They won't go into the season with Burrell, Shane Victorino, Jayson Werth and Chris Snelling. Whoever they sign to replace Rowand would also be a candidate to hit fifth.
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Could you give me some information on a new ballplayer, Val Pascucci, due to sign soon?
-- Robert F., LaHabra, Calif.
-- David F., York, Pa. He's not. Even if he was, the Phillies are in no position to deal Burrell, who represents their main source of right-handed power. Philadelphia, as you've read, is trying to add an outfielder, so trading its left fielder makes less sense now. Are the Marlins interested in Wes Helms? What are the chances of the two teams making a deal and what would the Phillies get in return?
-- Tyler D., Allentown, Pa. Helms was discussed in the wake of Florida's trade of star third baseman Miguel Cabrera to Detroit. The Phillies wouldn't receive much in return, and would only make such a deal after they've upgraded the position. Why didn't the Phillies make an offer to Hiroki Kuroda? A $30 million, three-year deal isn't out of their price range.
-- Bob L., Hoboken, N.J. The Phillies bowed out of the Kuroda bidding at the Winter Meetings after speaking with his agent. They made an offer comparable to the Dodgers, so other factors likely played into the pitcher's decision, likely a desire to pitch on the West Coast and be closer to Japan, and perhaps a friendship with Dodgers closer Takashi Saito. The Mariners also missed out, despite making what was believed to be a four-year offer, and having a Japanese catcher in Kenji Johjima. The Phillies learned with Mike Lowell and Tadahito Iguchi that a more lucrative offer isn't always the only consideration. Is there any chance of getting Mike Costanzo back, now that he's been traded from the Astros to the Orioles?
-- Linda G., Reading, Pa. There's always a chance. Costanzo has had an interesting winter, getting dealt twice. At least he'll be closer to home should he make it with Baltimore. While I'm sure the Phillies fan in him would love to return as soon as possible, his preference is probably the road that gets him to the Majors the quickest. I'm not saying that wouldn't have been Philadelphia, just that the chance to play on a Major League club always trumps geographical desires.
Ken Mandel 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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There was something extremely heartening about seeing all the kids lining up for Harry Potter. After hearing for so long how Pokémon and ADHD were destroying the ability and desire of the under-12 set to appreciate the mental exercise of a good book, we finally heard from the children, who retorted resoundingly, No, you just have to give us something worth paying attention to.
I scooped up my copy first night, figuring that 734 pages of Potter would be a good counterbalance to the latest news on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and numbers (a.k.a. ICANN), those folks theoretically running the Net. Both readings describe strange folk with mysterious powers and a seeming inability to understand how the average Muggle er, Internet user functions.
The ICANN board doesnt act so much like the amusing witches and wizards of Potters Hogwarts magic academy, however, as like Lords of the Internet. A lot of people think ICANN is a bad idea, or at least badly implemented working not for the good of the rank-and-file user but for big-business interests, which, by pouring money into ICANN, can buy the kind of Internet thats really good at enhancing sales and marketing, and really bad at enhancing freedom and democracy.
Unfortunately, a lot of people (including me) try to tune out ICANN as much as possible, because much of the important stuff ICANN does is obscured by great wafting clouds of bureaucracy emanating from the meetings. Thats how democracy gets killed, you know: Toxic gas clouds of bureaucracy obscure whats really going on. A whiff of that stuff and most of us dont care about anything other than getting some fresh air.
The leaders of ICANN are pretty cynical about Internet democracy. And you know what? Theyre right. Ten, even five, years ago, folks online were pretty passionate about the growth and development of the Net. Today, most of those folks treat the Nets development as something that happens separate from them something that comes in through the phone line and just is. Where do domain names come from? Why are there .com domains but not .activist domains? Why ask why? says the average user. (That is in fact one of the things ICANN decided at this months Tokyo meeting theyll give us some new domains, only they wont say what or how many.)
Okay, so were not a democracy anymore. Neither is America, whatever you heard on the Fourth of July. True democracies one person, one vote are hard with a group of any size, because some people are more susceptible to the effects of those wafting gas clouds, and because putting every blessed issue to every blessed person for a vote is a damned slow way of doing business.
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Instead, America is a representative democracy, in which we periodically vote for people to represent our interests in the halls of power. The Internet is also on the verge of becoming a representative democracy, and you (yes, you) are a citizen eligible, if youre over 16 and have both an e-mail and a postal address, to vote on five at-large memberships on the ICANN board.
Just like that! No shots were fired, no T1 lines dumped into Boston Harbor, but still, it happened: The Internet, which has for so long claimed to be practically a separate nation, is actually operating like one.
Problem is, ICANN is running these elections. ICANN, as I said, is a terribly problematic entity subservient to big business and to various governments. I said ICANN is operating like a democracy in opening these five spots for voting. However, the nominating process is not open for your input. There are only five spots, not a majority of the 19-member board, and nine of those 19 spots are reserved for business interests. And some observers including some close to the ICANN board, as the papers say when a board member says something but wont go on the record with it think that the Net population isnt capable of discerning whats important in such elections, and that elected positions are quite probably wasted on us sheeplike rank and file.
Assert your right to be considered smarter than a sheep. First, get yourself registered to vote at www.cdt.org/action/icann you have until the end of July, but hurry; I registered at the beginning of the month and Im still waiting for the snail-mail portion of my reg form to turn up. Next, spend 15 minutes come on, less time than I spent writing this column! catching up on the issues. The Internet Democracy Project has some good information, as does ICANNwatch. Its never been easier to be at the forefront of a democratic revolution and you wont have to fight traffic (or Harrys nemesis, Voldemort) to do it, either.


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Happy Birthday Nat
Monday 15 November 2010
Today is my oldest son Nat's 21st birthday. I'm very proud of him. Although he is not the 21-year-old I had imagined, he is a fine young man, doing the most with what he has.
Susan and Nat went to Disneyworld a few weeks ago as part of celebrating his birthday, so she made him a roller coaster cake:
I actually had nothing to do with this cake, I napped through the entire construction. But I think it's one of our best: the yodels are perfect as cars, and the Lego people fit perfectly. The hill is a bundt cake, filled with blue M+M's to make it Splash Mountain. Don't look too closely, though, you'll see that the two trains of cars are actually headed in opposite directions, and therefore will collide shortly!
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Americana / Bluegrass / Northern RockOne chilly evening, early in the fall of 2010, Adam Brockway, Dave Wright, Carl Anderson, Luke Anderson and Zack Infante gathered by a woodstove in a barn on the outskirts of Greenwich, NY. With a snare, a kick, and an old beat up high hat, Carl began teaching himself how to play the drums while Adam and Zack played along on guitars, Luke on banjo and Dave on bass. Vocal melodies and harmonies were flowing like the beer from their cans and within a few hours, the group had written 2 songs front to back and it was obvious, at least to the brand new quintet, that they had immediately put together a sound that was just as unique as it was traditional.Week by week, song by song, the band quickly collaborated a full set-list of original music, recorded an album in a bedroom with two sm-58′s and on Jan. 27th, 2011 released their debut album Greatest Hits Vol. 1. Eastbound Jesus continued to grow musically, as well as with members picking up Dylan Robinson on lead guitar, as Zack Infante took over on lap steel guitar. Writing music and picking up fans throughout the spring the band won the Saratoga Performing Arts Battle Of The Bands in June of 2011.Eastbound Jesus continues to grow musically and went into the studio in late November to record their album Holy Smokes due out in the winter of 2012. The album represents a year as a band and the completely unique and exciting sound the members have all worked to develop, which promises to be an album for the ages!Band Website: www.eastboundjesus.com
Born in the hills of Southern Vermont, Flabberghaster continues to defy genre through their eclectic songwriting, high-energy live performances, and broad spectrum of influences. The classic meets modern approach Flabberghaster takes in their music has brought together a multi-generational, diverse and loyal following.


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"Motown Philly Back Again"…Boyz II Men is back for their 20th anniversary…so can you guess what their latest album will be named????
You probably guessed it….It's called 'Twenty"
It's a double CD project with 10 brand new songs plus 10 updated versions of classic Boyz II Men songs. So when can you look forward to it coming out….this fall!


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Mail theft is on the rise in Southern California and Thursday's arrest of five people in Temecula may have stopped a string of local thefts, authorities said.
Four men and a woman were arrested at a Temecula apartment Thursday after police received reports of mail being stolen from various areas in and around Temecula. People who saw mail being stolen by a trio of men gave police the license plate number of the suspects' car, which officers traced to the Temecula Garden apartments.
Officers obtained and served a search warrant at the apartment and found more than 100 pieces of allegedly stolen mail, 15 to 20 possibly stolen credit cards and 2 grams of methamphetamine, said Temecula police Sgt. Bill DeLuna.
Dave Fast, a U.S. Postal Inspector based in San Diego County, said Thursday that it's somewhat unusual for this much stolen mail to be found so quickly. He credits the calls police received from concerned residents.
One of the reasons mail theft cases are often difficult to solve is because there usually is a long delay before authorities know about it.
"Typically, the theft may have happened a month or two before the victim even knows about it," Fast said. "By then, the damage has been done and the trail (for investigative leads) is cold."
Victims of mail theft usually don't know they are victims until they find out that a check they mailed to pay a bill never arrived or their credit card company alerts them to a fraud, authorities say.
Another problem for authorities is not receiving calls in the first place, Fast said. "We figure we only hear about maybe a third of the actual incidents that happen," he said.
"We aren't getting the complaints from people when it happens. We are asking people to please report it," Fast said.
Anyone who believes they may be the victim of mail theft can call postal inspectors at (909) 387-8730.
Mail is often stolen by thieves who try to fraudulently use credit cards for purchases, to obtain credit information for possible identity theft or they may "wash" a personal or business check. Chemicals are used to "wash" the ink on the check, which can allow the thief to alter amounts and the name of the person the check is made payable to.
Fast said inspectors have become quite concerned recently with a dramatic increase in thefts from "cluster boxes," the groups of mailboxes typically found at apartment complexes and many residential communities.
Last year, thefts from those types of mailboxes in Southern California increased from 165 to 349, Fast said.
"We are soon starting a program that will better secure those boxes and add new locks to them," he said. He expects that the program will be under way locally by about August.
Postal inspectors give the following tips to help people protect themselves from mail theft:
- Never leave mail out for your letter carrier to pick up. The raised red flag is an invitation to thieves to steal your mail.
- If going on vacation, fill out a vacation hold form at the post office requesting your mail be held at the post office until you return.
- If you work during the day, have a trusted friend remove the mail from your mailbox.
- If depositing your outgoing mail into the blue collection boxes at the post office, do so as closely as possible to the time the mail is to be collected. Better yet, deposit your mail in the boxes inside the post office.
- If you have not received an important piece of mail as expected, contact the person or company that mailed it to verify that it was mailed. If it was mailed to you more than a week earlier, contact the post office to put a tracer on it.
- If your bank notifies you that you are overdrawn and you know you are not, your checks may have been stolen and used fraudulently. That could be through blank checks you requested or the theft of checks you sent to pay bills. Contact postal inspectors and file a mail theft report.
- Consider starting a Neighborhood Watch program if there is not one in your neighborhood. If you or your neighbors see anything suspicious involving mailboxes, contact your local authorities immediately.
- When able, keep your eyes on your mail carrier's truck. Thieves often break into these trucks while the carrier is delivering the mail on foot.
- Make sure you can see your mailbox, keeping shrubbery trimmed.
- If you see anything suspicious, write down suspect descriptions and vehicle license numbers and give them to police. Never try to stop the thieves yourself.
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Tyler EMERITUS (5)...NeroCorleone80 (3.5)A return to form....sonictheplumber (4.5)Even though I did not deem it worthy of full marks, I do deem it as a classic of metal, an...RisingStargazer (5)...
Vilen1025 (5)A powerful masterpiece that truly catches the Black Sabbath aura....
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffI intended to do this sometime later this week, but too many ideas popped up, so here 'tis already. Mob Rules will obviously follow.
Album Rating: 4.0great review for a great album
the work Black Sabbath created in the 70's fronted by the Prince of Darkness has never been topped in terms of ... influence
more influential than Death? whoa
album rules
Album Rating: 4.0Brilliant album, I like the 1st half of the album better than I like the 2nd half.
^do you like iron maiden
Album Rating: 4.0Ofcourse I do, best band on the planet - period. I'm actually a fanatic.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Ofcourse I do, best band on the planet - period.
Album Rating: 4.0Yes Nagarok, Hallowed Be Thy Name is arguably their greatest song ever.
Prowler, Charlotte the Harlotte...
Album Rating: 4.0"Hallowed Be Thy Name is arguably their greatest song ever"
arguably? which would be greater then?
Prowler, Charlotte the Harlotte..
Album Rating: 4.0Alot of people would consider Rime of the Ancient Mariner or even Paschendale as their greatest ever song.
Album Rating: 4.0what about "Iron Maiden"
wat about it
Album Rating: 5.0Oh, wasn't expecting this until tomorrow at the earliest but all the better for it, good review as always, this stands as my joint favourite Sabbath album with Paranoid.
Album Rating: 4.0Yes and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son also.
Run to the Hills
The Trooper
Aces High
2 Minutes to Midnight
The Wicker Man
The Clairvoy...
HOLY SHIT IRON MAIDEN RULES /m/
A Nag discography continues, all is good in the world
Great review mate, as usual.
what about the maiden song "rime of the ancient mariner"? i read that in school a week ago, and it was an epic poem. song is pretty dang perfect as well
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Lance Announces Major Progress Towards Solution to "Doc Fix"
WASHINGTON, D.C. -Congressman Leonard Lance (NJ 07) today announced the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee has advanced a bipartisan solution to Medicare's doctor payment system.
"Today we are one step closer to a permanent solution that will strengthen the Medicare system and ensure physicians continue to provide high quality care to our senior citizens," said Lance, a member of the Health Subcommittee that advanced the legislation. "I thank the committee's leadership including Chairman Upton and Chairman Pitts for working in a bipartisan capacity on this important issue."
The Energy and Commerce-drafted measure would repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) and replace it with a new fee-for-service system designed so that providers develop better quality measures to provide efficient care.
The Seventh District lawmaker has hosted a number of roundtables, constituent discussions and town hall meetings where doctors, providers and patients have expressed their ideas on how best to address the so-called "doc fix" issue. "I am pleased to be part of this bipartisan effort to reform and modernize the Medicare physician payment system," Lance concluded.


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Yuk Hee Chan
Yuk Hee Chan received his B.S. degree with honors in electronics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1987, and his Ph.D. degree in signal processing from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1992. Between 1987 and 1989, he worked as an R&D engineer at Elec & Eltek Group, Hong Kong. He joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1992 and is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic & Information Engineering. Dr. Chan has published over 130 research papers in various international journals and conferences. His research interests include image and video compression, image restoration, demosaicing, halftoning, and fast computational algorithms in DSP. He obtained the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship in 1991 and 1992.
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Bills notebook: Spiller will return kickoffs
Buffalo Bills coach Doug Marrone doesn't subscribe to the notion that using one of his team's best offensive playmakers to return kicks presents a greater risk of injury.
That's why running back C.J. Spiller will get the first crack at the job Sunday in the season opener against the Chicago Bears.
"What's the risk? I look at it as how many guys have been injured returning the football compared to how many guys have been injured with the ball being handed off to them. I don't look at it as a risk as maybe some people would," Marrone said. "I can understand how maybe some people could see that because of the distance and the way some people are running down the field. … Again, I don't look at it that way. As much as we can get our playmakers out there whether it be punt returns or kick return … whichever way we have to do it, we have to make sure we explore that."
Marrone said he thinks Spiller can be a "20-touch" player. The coach was seemingly including returns in that number.
"I haven't done it in a while, but I did it in the preseason. It felt good to get back out there," Spiller said Thursday. "The biggest thing is to have ball security and to give the offense the best field possession if I have the opportunity. … I've done it before, so it's nothing new to me. It's just like second nature, really."
Spiller has returned 50 kicks in his Bills career for 1,157 yards and one touchdown – a 95-yard return against New England in his rookie season of 2010. He hasn't returned a kick since the 2011 season, but he's not worried about rust.
"I've done it my whole career, so it's not like stepping into something that's brand new," he said. "I feel comfortable feeling the ball, protecting it and trying to give us the best field position as possible."
Like his coach, Spiller isn't also worried bout the added risk of injury or exhaustion that comes with playing special teams.
"Not at all," he said. "I do a great job of taking care of my body, getting in the cold tub and getting massages. I'm not really worried about wear and tear at all. I'm young. I've got a long while before I'll have wear and tear."
Running back Anthony Dixon and linebacker Brandon Spikes were both added to the Bills' injury report Thursday. Dixon (hamstring) and Spikes (knee) both were hurt during practice, and participated on a limited basis.
"You always have to be concerned when that happens and they can't finish," Marrone said, speaking specifically of Dixon. "So yes, that's a concern."
Spikes left early in practice during positional drills, but returned after going through tests with head trainer Bud Carpenter on the sidelines.
Tight end Lee Smith (toe) did not practice. It would be a surprise if he played Sunday. Receiver Sammy Watkins (ribs) and cornerback Stephon Gilmore (groin) practiced fully.
Bears quarterback David Fales missed practice Thursday with a shoulder injury, while fullback Tony Fiammetta was limited for a second straight day with a hamstring injury.
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Hermis Iatrou
Hermis Iatrou was born on March 28, 1968, in Athens, Greece. He received the B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Athens (1985–1989) and the Ph.D. degree in polymer science from the same university under the supervision of Professor Nikos Hadjichristidis (1989–1993). Iatrou received the Postdoctoral degree in neutron scattering of labeled polymers in the Institute of Nuclear Radiation in Juelich in Germany under the supervision of Professor Dieter Richter (1994-1995). In 2002–2009, he was an Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Since 2009, he has been an Associate Professor at the Chemistry Department, University of Athens. In 2010, Iatrou was the Director of the Graduate Project of the Chemistry Department of the University of Athens, entitled "Polymer Science and Its Applications." Since 2011, he has been the Head of Section II of the Chemistry Department at the same university. His research interests are synthesis of poly(methylmethacrylate-co-methacrylic acid) copolymers (radical polymerization); synthesis, characterization, and hydrodynamic and morphological properties of model miktoarm star co-, ter-, and quaterpolymers of the A2B, ABC, A2B2, ABCD, and (A)3B(A)3 type (anionic polymerization); synthesis of regular multiarm and asymmetric stars (anionic polymerization); neutron scattering experiments of partially labeled copolymers; correction, evaluation, and fitting the data of the neutron scattering experiments; synthesis of highly pure N-carboxy anhydrides of α-amino acids; ring opening polymerization of N-carboxy anhydrides of α-amino acids; synthesis, characterization, and bioapplications of well-defined polypeptides; drug and gene delivery using polypeptide chimeras; synthesis of multifunctional amphiphilic chimeras that will encapsulate drugs and genes and will bypass the intra- and extracellular barriers to deliver them efficiently and targeted to cancer cells. Iatrou was also a Visiting Scientist at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Ottawa, Canada, in October 1992, under the supervision of Dr. Jacques Roovers.
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Christians here say Abbas, who is Muslim, is a peace-driven man who has always enjoyed good relations with the Christian community.
"Abbas is a very moderate
man who is committed to pursuing the peace process," said Father Shawki Baterian, chancellor of
the Latin Patriarchate in
Baterian was a member of the delegation of Christian leaders
who paid Abbas a courtesy call on Jan. 3. The
attendees included Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah and
representatives of the bishops' conferences of the
During the meeting, the leaders urged Abbas "to do what is necessary" to stop the cycle of Palestinian-Israeli violence, Father Baterian said.
"We really have hope that Mr. Abbas will work hard to reorganize the Palestinian Authority and put an end to chaos. He is trying to unify all the political parties in Palestinian society," Father Baterian said.
Father Raed Abusahlia, the parish priest of Taybeh,
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"He is very open-minded and has respect for
Palestinian Christians because they are citizens and part of this country," he
said. "He knows the importance of having Christians in the
Like other local Christians, Father Abusahlia, a former chancellor of the Latin Patriarchate, expressed hope that Abbas will follow in the path of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat — at least from the perspective of relations with the churches.
"This should not be out of sympathy for the Palestinian Christian minority, but something based on the Palestinian constitution. Mr. Abbas is aware of our views," Father Abusahlia said.
Church officials said they had no reason to doubt that Abbas would honor the 2000 agreement between the Holy See and the Palestinian Authority that ensures freedom of worship to Church faithful, equality to Palestinian Catholics and protection over Church properties.
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Pizzaballa, custos of the
Referring both to the Israeli and Palestinian governments, Father Pizzaballa said, "Our first concern is always free access to all holy places. I see that Abbas's attitude is positive and that he wants to have good relations with Christians. He seems to understand that Christians are an important resource for the Palestinian people."
In a week in which Palestinian militants killed several Israeli civilians and Israeli troops retaliated, killing Palestinian militants and civilians, Father Pizzaballa acknowledged that "there are groups that want to stop the peace process through violence. We can't let them decide policy for us. Mahmoud Abbas's first concern must be to stop the violence."
Bishop Munib Younan, who heads the
"I hope
Although Younan did not
specify which measures
While officials from the various Palestinian-based churches want peace above all else, they also expect Abbas to improve life for the Palestinian people — Christian and Muslim — through a serious of internal reforms that Yasser Arafat failed to implement. Under Arafat, the Palestinian Authority was rife with corruption.
"He needs to address the inner problems," Younan said. "We believe there must be independence for the three authorities: legislative, executive and judicial. We want a modern democratic society that respects freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom of the press. We Christian churches are demanding a democracy."
Younan warned that unless Abbas succeeds on both the peace and domestic fronts, the number of Holy Land Christians will continue to wane. Holy Land Christians comprise only 2% of the local population, and the number decreases every month.
"We have this terrible problem of emigration, which won't stop until the conflict is solved," Younan acknowledged. "Emigration won't stop until there is a two-state solution in which Palestinians feel they have the same chances of happiness as anybody else in the world."
Younan said the current situation is almost untenable for Palestinian
Christians, due to
"Our young people leave to study, to find better work."
Referring to the security barrier
Living in the Palestinian territories, Younan concluded, is "like being in a big prison."
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U.S. to let Americans visit Cuban relatives
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration intends to allow Americans to visit relatives in Cuba and send money back to their families on the communist island nation, senior U.S. officials said yesterday.
President Barack Obama plans to announce the policy change before the Summit of the Americas from April 17 to 19 in Trinidad and Tobago, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not been made.
Although some restrictions have been eased temporarily in legislation Obama signed last month, lifting the bans would meet a pledge he made during the presidential campaign and could signal a new openness with Cuba. Officials said there is no plan to lift the decades-old embargo on the island.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Mount Redoubt volcano in Alaska has had another large eruption after being relatively quiet for nearly a week.
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Mormon church appoints new apostle
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The football player accused of fondling a waitress at the W Hotel has been offered plea bargain, according to court documents -- but he's defending his innocence.
In an April 26 letter from the U.S. Attorney's office in D.C., prosecutors offered to dismiss the misdemeanor sexual abuse charge against Albert Haynesworth if he agreed to plead guilty to one count of simple assault.
It's important to note, the U.S. Attorney's office typically offers plea deals for misdemeanor cases so Haynesworth is not getting special treatment.
Speaking with NBC Washington on Wednesday, Haynesworth's lawyer, A. Scott Bolden, said that the government's offer was "not much of a deal." Bolden said that he and Haynesworth looked forward to a day in court.
"All of the very inflated and beefed-up facts that the W employees have put together, to make fit nicely with the government case, the government has to prove those allegations now," Bolden said.
However, the deal will stay on the table until May 17, according to documents.
The documents also include a review of the government's case, which includes some new details about the February evening in question.
According to the papers, Haynesworth was at the W Hotel's rooftop lounge for a birthday party. His accuser is a full-time college student who was working as a waitress in the VIP area.
At the end of the evening, while the waitress was clearing tables, Haynesworth was very insistent on paying his bill, she later said. Although her hands were full, according to the documents, the football player kept pushing his debit card toward her, tapping her on the arms and shoulders with it.
The waitress said that's when Haynesworth pushed the credit card down the front of her shirt, in between her bra and her skin. The victim said that Haynesworth then slid his hand down the front of her shirt, moving his fingers around her breast. The waitress said that she told him to stop, and then walked away, with the debit card still stuck in her shirt.
Another staff member at the hotel said she witnessed the incident. According to the witness, the waitress had initially nodded to Haynesworth, signaling to him that it was OK to place the debit card in her shirt. But the witness said, according to the document, that the voice of the waitress became more tense and stern as she asked the football player to take his hand away from her chest.
Haynesworth's initial bill for the evening was $825.53. When the waitress ran his card, it was declined. The waitress then handed the debit card and bill over to a coworker, and had no further contact with Haynesworth.
Haynesworth gave the other waitress another debit card, haggled over a $13 drink, and eventually paid $811.23 for his evening's entertainment.
After he paid, a manager from the hotel approached Haynesworth and confronted him about the incident. When asked if he remembered having contact with the waitress, the football player said to the manager, "I didn't touch her."
According to the document, the player allegedly said that the waitress was "a little black girl," and that he "doesn't even like black girls."
Albert Haynesworth came to play football for the Washington Redskins for the 2009 NFL season. During his time in Washington, the player frequently feuded with the coaching staff. His discipline problems caused Coach Mike Shanahan to bench him for the second half of the 2010 season.
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Can Ankylosing Spondylitis or other Spondyloarthropy Disease = debilitating fatigue?
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Hi JennyBYC, thanks for the info!
The rheumy I went to told me she didn't need to see me again...which was confusing b/c I was pretty ready for some help in diagnosing what has been causing joint pain and neck pain, along with burning extremities, numbish type pain, tingling hands & feet, insomnia, ringing ears, several heart symptoms, iritis, fog vision, recurring bladder infections, trouble thinking of simple words, oh and sometimes I can pick up a book and a finger will hurt as if there's an extra little piece of bone under my skin and it actually makes a cracking sound...soles of feet can have the same feeling...etc. I though of the joint pain as another clue to my puzzle...and who better to help but a rheumatologist...apparently it is a more vague symptom than I thought.
Also, I felt like maybe whatever I have is taking years to develop enough to be more obvious...so, the "I don't need to see you back" was unexpected. I also kind of expected them to do another MRI, since they had a baseline from years ago and now I was having new symptoms.
I don't have the same type of fatigue that you describe....I do not ever feel sleepy (which is another strange symptom...I haven't felt sleepy or felt myself falling asleep for years, since this illness began!). It is more of a feeling like, I just spent 20 hours in labor, and now it's 3 am, and I have the flu (minus the other symptoms), type of exhaustion...a very sick, unhealthy feeling. It sounds like an exaggeration, but, sadly it's not. Does this brand of fatigue sound like it belongs in the world of arthritis type problems? How about my additional symptoms?
at one point in 08' my rheumatoid factor 59.7....but I don't know if that is anything....nothing ever came of it.
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As the release date for Rampant Games eagerly awaited Old School RPG 'Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh Daon' grows ever more imminent, the studio has just released its first trailer/teaser. You can find it Here. There's a strong possibility that the game WILL be released this month, so this should certainly whet your appetite for more.
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Two or three nights a week, "Ruth" woke up with her six year old daughter, "Lisa," standing over her holding a steak knife in each hand. Lisa broke her bedroom window a dozen times and punched holes in the wall. She stole the glass plates from picture frames, broke them into shards and hid the pieces in her bedroom. Whenever her mother told her no or made her mad, Lisa sliced her wrists.
Ruth adopted Lisa and her two older sisters when Lisa was 16 months old. A psychiatric nurse for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Ruth took Lisa to several psychologists and psychiatrists, who misdiagnosed her as being bipolar and schizophrenic and having attention deficit disorder. Lisa had several stays in county psychiatric hospitals before being diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder. "We didn't know how to help her," Ruth says.
Lisa was a teenager when she began therapy with attachment therapist Beth Powell. But by then, Ruth had had four heart attacks from the stress of her daughters doing drugs and running away from home and wasn't in physical shape to be a co-therapist.
"We couldn't do anything," Powell says. "She was too far gone."
Ruth's husband left her after 17 years of marriage. He lost his job and was dealing with his own depression and said he couldn't handle their adopted daughters anymore. Ruth met another man who included Lisa on dinner dates, movies and trips to the mall -- until Lisa told a CPS caseworker that he had molested her.
"That was the end of him and me," Ruth says. "Lisa's happiest when those around her are miserable."
She says Lisa later admitted that she had lied because she was jealous that he was taking her mother's attention away.
"She still makes up stories, makes up lies," Ruth says. "When she turned 18, she told me what I could do with myself."
In January, 19-year-old Lisa gave birth to a daughter. CPS took custody of the baby four days after it was born. Lisa's older sister wanted to adopt her niece, but Lisa put the baby up for adoption and relinquished her parental rights without telling her family members.
Ruth had hoped that her grandchildren wouldn't be in foster care and adopted homes like her daughters. "I wanted to prevent the cycle from coming around full circle," Ruth says.
"Sarah" broke into her mother's craft-supply cabinet and sliced drawings into her skin until her hand dripped blood. She purposely falls off her bike and skins her knee or slices her lip to get attention. When she needed stitches, she didn't cry. "She laid there and smiled when they put her skin together," says her adoptive mother, "Kathy." "It's really spooky, unnerving to realize how she can separate herself from pain."
Kathy says her seven-year-old adopted daughter is an adorable, charming, manipulative, defiant girl who doesn't trust or love her. Sarah won't hug her mother unless Kathy is sitting down, because her arms have to be on top.
"She wants to control and manipulate me," Kathy says. "The more love I show her, she gets worse. She's convinced that we'll get rid of her, just like everybody else has."
Homeless, Sarah's biological mother abandoned her three-year-old daughter at a train station. Kathy and her husband adopted Sarah two years ago. They already had two biological sons and an adopted Russian daughter who wanted a big sister.
Sarah once tried to leap out of a car going 70 miles an hour. Another time, Kathy had to tackle Sarah to keep her from running into the highway. Sarah refused to use toilet paper, then refused to use the bathroom at all, preferring to wet her pants.
Sarah steals Hot Wheels cars and Game Boy cartridges from her brothers and hair barrettes from her sister. She nabs teachers' pencils and crayons and hides them in her purse, beneath her bed or under her pillow.
Her temper tantrums used to happen once a week, now they're every day, sometimes several times a day. "Tantrums like a two-year-old would throw, only in a seven-year-old body," Kathy says. "She can throw a fit and kick and scream nonstop for two hours When she's kicking and screaming, I have to look at her with loving eyes. When she's wetting her pants, I have to look at her with loving eyes and not get angry. That's what's hard."
Lodema Miller and her husband, Continental Airlines pilot Jim Moore, adopted eight children with attachment issues. Six of them, Miller says, had full-blown reactive attachment disorder. One child threw a knife at her across the kitchen table and the butt hit Miller and gave her a black eye. The kids drowned a kitten in the pool, stabbed a hamster to death with a sharp stick and killed a frog when they spray-painted it to try to change its color.
"We didn't realize when we adopted them it was going to be so difficult," says Miller, who lives in Plum, about 50 miles east of Austin.
She took therapeutic parenting classes and learned about attachment and holding therapy. "I'm well aware of how dangerous it is and that some people think it's totally wrong and think it's child abuse," Miller says. "But I think it's very hopeful for these children. It's the only hope they have. Other methods do not work."
Her prime example of holding therapy's benefits is the two-year-old she held for six hours a day for several months. "Everyone in the family had teeth marks until we got her tamed down," Miller says. "She didn't like the holding, she didn't want to get close to me, but I was pretty persistent -- and I was a lot bigger than her. Sometimes she would scream for an hour or two or three. And I would hold her until she calmed down."
Last year the children told a CPS caseworker that Miller and her husband were neglecting them, getting drunk, having orgies and molesting the children. "These children are not at all committed to the truth," Miller says.
CPS took custody of all eight children. The youngest two girls were gone nine days, three of the boys were away from home for two months, and a boy and a girl were out of the house for three and a half months. The last child just returned a few weeks ago after a year-and-a-half-long absence. "He's gonna be a fine young man," Miller says. "They're all lovely children now."
Three-year-old Ja-Juan Schreck hit, pinched, punched, bit and kicked other children until they cried. He didn't have the strength to hurt them, but he wanted to. He ignored his parents and refused to use the bathroom. Ja-Juan wouldn't let anyone touch him and never smiled. When he enrolled in the Head Start program in Eagle Lake last year, an aide was hired to follow him around all day to keep him from hurting other kids. He couldn't go two minutes without throwing a temper tantrum.
His mother was a crack addict, so the first four months of his life, Ja-Juan went through withdrawal. He screamed and wouldn't let his adoptive mother, Katherine Milton, touch him. Wriggling on Milton's lap, Ja-Juan wears a blue Power Rangers T-shirt and snaps his fingers, talking about how much he loves scary Stephen King movies, blood, guts and gore. Since April, attachment therapist Beth Powell has been working on improving Ja-Juan's cause-and-effect thinking, and focusing on school- appropriate behavior and talking in an indoor voice.
He turns to a stranger in the room and says he wants to punch her nose and make it bleed. "Previously he would have acted it out," Powell says. "Now he's just talking about it."
"When I get older, I can have a gun," he says.
"What are you going to do with a gun?" Powell asks.
"Shoot a bird."
"What are you going to do with the bird?"
"Cook it," he says.
Every evening Cheryl Hayword and her husband pray for God to heal their foster son's heart. "The devil's my only hope," the nine-year-old says and walks out of the room.
James (not his real name) has lived with the Haywords for three months. In that time he has "inappropriately touched" his foster father, his foster sister and the family dog. James pulled down his swim trunks at the subdivision's pool, and tried to kiss, bite and grope his foster sister's friend.
He screams and throws tantrums in restaurants, gets into fights on the school bus and steals toy cars from garage sales. "It's like having a two-year-old you can't put in the playpen," Hayword says.
When he was two years old, James was removed from his alcoholic, drug-using parents' home and sent to live with his aunt and uncle for two years, then bounced around to foster families.
He's afraid of the dark and won't go outdoors after dusk. He refused to laugh or cry around his foster parents. When the family vacationed in Louisiana, he was afraid the house would be gone when they returned.
Attachment therapist Nancy Hernandez says that when James misbehaves, Hayword should "stop, drop and cuddle."
But Children's Protective Services requires foster parents to take a four-hour training session before they're allowed to restrain a child who is throwing a tantrum. "You wouldn't ever pin them down," says CPS spokesperson Judy Hay. A caseworker has to grant special permission for parents to learn how to do a basket hold, to wrap their arms and legs around the child to keep him from hurting himself.
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Although foster parents are encouraged to hug and cuddle kids, they aren't allowed to do holding therapy, Hay says. "Foster parents are not licensed therapists."
James refused to drink from a bottle as Hernandez suggested, and when Hayword first tried to hold James, he would bite, pinch, spit and dig his fingernails into her skin. "We held him anyway," Hayword says. "But he's getting bigger."
On a Tuesday afternoon he sits on his mother's lap pointing out fresh mosquito bites dotting his legs. He lays his head down and snuggles. "See, Miss Nancy? This is the real boy," Hayword says.
Hayword rocks back and forth. Hernandez packs up her bag, waves good-bye and walks out the front door. "That's the therapy," Hernandez says.


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Croatian pianist-composer Dejan Lazić will doubtless add to his reputation for erratic brilliance with this recording of Beethoven's Fourth Concerto. Recorded live in Sydney in 2009, it uses more or less the standard score, though Lazić throws us off balance on occasion by adopting some of the more extreme dynamic and tempo markings from an arrangement Beethoven made for piano and string quintet after the work's premiere. Gesturing in the direction of current preferences for scaling the piece down, meanwhile, he uses smallish accompanying forces, but then confounds expectations by delivering it on a massive scale, as if it were a mid-19th-century virtuoso work. The cadenzas, Lazić's own, are more Liszt than Beethoven, and sound fussy. The slow movement, however, is tremendous in its drama and exaltation. Recorded in a studio in Holland, meanwhile, the two sonatas are more straightforward. Op 110 is formally so transgressive that Lazić can't really fiddle with it and consequently plays it straight, and with great nobility. His Moonlight Sonata is clean, austere and breathtakingly beautiful.
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WHY is it that weather, usually considered such a boring topic, suddenly becomes 'exciting' when it turns into a natural disaster?
You couldn't switch on the telly last week without seeing Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the east coat of America.
Everywhere you looked there was another TV reporter being blown left then right across a pier while being soaked to the skin and completely unable to speak.
And even if they could no viewer could hear what they were saying. It's a hurricane you idiots - you can't talk over the top of one.
I suppose it's another of the problems with all day news channels and 'breaking' news (why is it often still 'breaking' a couple of hours later?)
The only bit I did enjoy was a brave/clinically insane fellow who insisted on going for his daily dip in the Atlantic despite the storm barrelling towards him.
It's crazy enough that he considers it acceptable to jump in the ocean in late October in normal weather, but last week he should probably have been sectioned on the spot.
It was also amazing that people in New York were still ordering pizzas for delivery as the storm arrived. Apparently the last vehicles on the roads of Manhattan were food delivery vans.
Seriously, I know there are a lot of Americans out there who really like their food but this is taking things a bit far.
I can understand the sentiment though. I've known some rough weather from my time at sea and the only way to deal with it is to hunker down with some good grub and grog.
It's a bit like the scenes onboard ship near the end of Jaws where they get drunk, swap stories and sing a few ditties. Ah, that's the life...
You won't be surprised to hear it's one of the Captain's favourite films. Quint the old shark hunter - now there's a role model for all of us.


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In the most urban areas of Athens, one is unlikely to find a plant that once predominated along creeks. Soil disturbance and invasive plants have made yellowroot's original home inhospitable. If you find a shaded or semi-shaded stream that isn't covered in invasive plants - such as on the Orange Trail at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, or on private lands - you'll likely see yellowroot performing its ecological, streamside vegetation function of maintaining the integrity of a streambank, preventing erosion.
Yellowroot (Xanthorhiza simplicissima) is an Eastern North American, native perennial shrub growing in thick mats with its long, thin root horizontally holding fast to the soil on the edge of the streambank.
There is very little demarcation of where the root ends and the stem begins. Grayish, bark-covered stems stand between 1 and 3 feet tall, bare of foliage until a spray of attractive, bright green leaves erupt at the top.
The foliage consists of deeply serrated, pinnately or bipinnately compound leaves, meaning several leaflets grow on one leaf stalk, or leaflets grow on smaller stems within a larger pinnately compound leaf.
In April and May, yellowroot's inconspicuous yet charming clusters of brownish-purple flowers bloom, often dangling from under the leaves. As they become fruits, the clusters turn greenish-yellow.
Among the Appalachian and Piedmont area of the South, yellowroot is held in high esteem as a premier tonic herb for healing stomach complaints, such as ulcers and canker sores.
Old-timey herbalist Tommie Bass provided yellowroot to many people for stomach ulcers with positive results. According to herbalist Darryl Patton's book with Tommie Bass, the FDA instructed Bass to stop claiming yellowroot would cure stomach ulcers.
A mechanism behind yellowroot's success with ulcers is due to an antibacterial, bitter alkaloid constituent called berberine that also is found in other herbs of the Ranunculaceae family - goldenseal and coptis root. Research confirming a bacterial component to ulcers, from the Heliobacter pylori, gave insight into how yellowroot has traditionally healed ulcers for hundreds of years.
Other medicinal uses for yellowroot include cleansing the liver and gallbladder. Herbal medicines of a yellow nature often are used for liver complaints, which is either coincidental or an illustration of the Doctrine of Signatures, which is a theory that plants have features indicating what their use is for humans, at work. The yellow color is associated with jaundice.
Catawba Indians used yellowroot for jaundice, stomach complaints and as a cold remedy, and Cherokee would drink its tea as a tonic for the blood and nerves, or just simply chew to the bitter stem for mouth sores.
Around Georgia, rural roadside stands, country stores and the DeKalb Farmer's Market are the only places where I have found harvested yellowroot available.
In these markets, yellowroot comes either pre-brewed as a yellow tea, or as a bundle of 1-inch twigs that can be boiled in water at home.
To make a tea from the roots, boil a cup of roots in 24 ounces of water for 20 minutes. Strain and either drink a cup of tea, or gargle with it.
Alcohol extract tinctures are also very effective.
• Holli Richey has a master's degree in herbal medicine, and lives in Athens. For more information, visit her blog at hollirichey.com or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Accused is the other film for which Jodie Foster won an Oscar. Little regarded now, this courtroom drama is from the Stanley Kramer school of Concerned Filmmaking, with a distinctly feminist, perhaps even man hating, bent. Foster earned the Oscar because she yells a lot, says the F word with profound vehemence, and dressed "down" for the role with heavy make-up, denim suits, and mall shoes (and she was up against Glenn Close, Melanie Griffith [!], Meryl Streep, and Sigourney Weaver, as powerpacked a host of competitors as the Awards had seen in a long time).
Staring Foster as Sarah Tobias, a New England waitress raped in one of those bizarre circumstances that force the culture to reflect on what it has become, The Accused mostly hinges on a legal trick. The movie's Tobias is a smoking, drinking, lower class girl with relatively loose, or at least hedonistic, morals, who would make a poor witness before a jury that might view her as getting what she deserved. Though her three rapists go to jail for "non-sexual" offenses, the film's assistant D.A., Kathryn Murphy (Kelly McGillis) feels a measure of guilt over the plea bargain and comes up with a thin, risky legal solution to Tobias's need for further justice: Murphy charges the on-lookers, men who cheered on the rapists in the back gaming room of the vast working man's bar where the rape occurred, with incitement. The trial for incitement gives Tobias renewed hope. Another trick of the movie is that the actual attack is not dramatized until the very end of the movie.
Sorry, but this isn't Anatomy of a Murder. That's a trial movie about a rape, and a murder, too, but in which every moment is believable. Attempts at plausibility and realism in The Accused quickly fall by the wayside. In the screenplay credited to Tom Topor, courtroom clichés soon start to dominate, from the skeptical colleagues who show up significantly during the closing arguments to show their support, to the waffling witness who ends up saving the day. The casting is uneven. Foster is not always convincing; and while the always dependable Leo Rossi brings a malignant masculinity to his part as one of the prodding bystanders, McGillis is sympathetic but unconvincing as a sole, abandoned prosecutor. The closing speeches are dull.
Director Jonathan Kaplan has veered over the years between exploitation films (he is a Corman grad) and socially important films, ranging from the very good Over the Edge to the recent Brokedown Palace. His hand excels with the action of the actual rape scene itself, but the film is uncertain when the women are bonding (Tobias seems to have an interest in astrology for the sole purpose of being touched when the skeptical lawyer finally shows an interest in the astrological chart Tobias has drawn up for her). For this and other reasons, The Accused is more an Oscar footnote than a fully realized film.
The DVD
VIDEO: The Accused was released in 1988, and Paramount did a bare bones laser disc in 1989. This is probably not the same transfer, as the image (1.85:1) is enhanced for widescreen televisions. Still, it is a somewhat dark, grainy looking transfer, perhaps intentionally so given the "lower class" milieu. Cinematographer Ralf D. Bode, who has done a lot of Sissy Spacek movies, lights the courtroom interiors flatly like a TV show. It could be said diplomatically that the visuals do not get in the way of the story.
SOUND: Sound options are the basic Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, which comes into play most in court room echoes and in the violent bar scene. There is also Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, which is good, and a French 2.0 Surround option. Brad Fiedel did the original music, and there are numerous pop tunes on the track as well.
MENUS: A static, silent menu offers 14 chapter scene selection for this 110 minute film.
PACKAGING: The Accused comes in a keep case with a reprint version of the original poster on the cover, reprinted on the disc's label, and also on a one page insert that also gives the chapter list
EXTRAS: One wonders if the lack of extras on this disc has anything to do with the weird rumors swirling around the stars during the time of the film's release. Given that the film is based on a real case, supplements could have been extensive: contemporaneous news stories, new interviews with some of the case's real participants; print news stories, various "where are they now" lists, and so on. The opportunity for unusual commentary tracks exists for this film as for few others, such as getting the real Tobias and her D.A. to chat along with the movie. In any case, Paramount has issued a supplements free disc with only scene selection, the trailer, and sound and subtitle options.
Final Thoughts: The Accused is a well-meaning docu-drama that isn't as powerful as the material suggests it could have been. Zero extras make this a less appealing item for collectors.


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You are 13 weeks pregnant!
This week many women notice that morning sickness tends to subside (yipee!) and instead of feeling quite so exhausted you may begin to get your normal energy levels back and actually start enjoying being pregnant.
If you're still feeling tired and nauseous, read our feature on coping with early pregnancy. Remember, this stage doesn't last for long (although it can seem like forever) so make the most of any pampering you are getting from your partner! This week your baby will measure around 7-8cm long and is busy sucking (practising those reflexes for breastfeeding), swallowing and wriggling about.
She is also starting to look even more human as her head and neck move up and become straighter and she looks less like a little prawn.
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After exhausting the Mermaid tea, I needed something else to drink after lunch. Decided that something iced was in order, so I poked around in the drawer and pulled out this sample.
I'd swear I'd logged it before, but it didn't even show as being in my cupboard. Snort
The leaves definitely smell peachy & sweet. Once brewed it's mild. Doesn't kick you in the face, or anything. It's not something that I am really glad to drink with each sip, but it's inoffensive for a day at the office.


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Hightower praised
To the editor:
I'm delighted to see you run a column by Jim Hightower. He may be the best political commentator we have. His opinions are solidly based in facts, he tells his readers how to do their own research or participate in the process, he has a clear vision, and perhaps most importantly, he's funny as heck. He sees through the spin, the lies, and the camouflage. He names names, regardless of political affiliation, and doesn't suffer fools gladly. He entertains while teaching and doesn't ask you to take things on faith.
Please run as much Jim Hightower as you can squeeze in. And if you have to delete an occasional column by prejudiced party hacks to make room, so be it.
Eric Jung
Bear Valley
Reaganomics dead
To the editor:
We should all be able to agree now: Reaganomics, otherwise known as laissez faire capitalism, is officially failed and dead.
When even Alan Greenspan proclaims the likely need for bank nationalization, you know you can stick a fork in libertarianism. It's done.
Let's move on towards the wisdom of socially responsive democracy. Replace your Republican obstructionist with a representative capable of seeing the need for and working cooperatively to bring about positive change.
Robert Wetzel
Blanket assumptions
To the editor:
Here's another piece of information regarding PERS. A previous letter argued that ultimately salaries and employee/employer retirement contributions all come out of taxpayer money. I would remind everyone that people who pay into PERS also pay taxes, so it can be argued that people paying into PERS pay for a portion of their own salaries.
Are people who pay into PERS fortunate? Absolutely, as it's nice to have any kind of retirement fund! However, what you receive from PERS is directly related to your salary, age and years of service. Not all union jobs pay handsomely as most people assume. Consequently, there are many people collecting retirement checks from PERS that are comparable to earning minimum wage. I know several people who retired with a PERS retirement and have gone back to work to make ends meet. So please, don't make sweeping, blanket assumptions and present them as fact when they're not.
Nancy Bull
Ducking responsibility
To the editor:
Congressmen George Radanovich, R-Mariposa, and Dan Lungren, R-Gold Run, have been a big part of the problem that created this disaster and now they duck responsibility when it comes to cleaning up the mess they helped make.
This is a Republican-built economy we're dealing with after eight years of the worst administration in our history. Both of these members backed almost every move Bush made, and now have forgotten his name. As taxpayers we have a choice - don't vote for any incumbents, they created this situation by their failure to see it coming.
William Bergmann


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All the used shoes on the shelves, and there are hundreds of pairs, are returns from catalog sales. The fit wasn't right or the arch didn't suit the mail-order buyers, so they exercised their right to return. From Nike and Adidas to Saucony, Asics, and New Balance -- all look and smell new. Most of the staff members are runners. You can try your prospective purchase on their in-store treadmill, or to take a test run around the block. The discount on used shoes is usually about 20 to 30 percent. On a recent visit the New Balance 804 trail shoes were available for $79 new and $60 used. New Balance 904s were $99 new and $79 used. Popular Saucony and Asics road shoes, their best around $100, could be found used for as low $69 to $75.
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Andrew Lincoln married Gael Anderson on June 10th 2006. Who is his famous rock star father-in-law?
None other than Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson.
In the 2004 film adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel Enduring Love, Andrew performed along side his Love Actually co-star Bill Nighy.
Andrew narrated the documentary No Waste LIke Home in 2005. The show dealt with how to make peoples' homes more environmentally friendly.
In 2004, Empire Magazine nominated Andrew for a Best Newcomer award for his performance as Mark in Richard Curtisis' film Love Actually.
In 1999, Andrew narrated the documentary Mersey Blues
In 2000, Andrew played Maxie King in the film Gangster No.1, a tale about an East End gangster.
Andrew was the best man at This Life co-star Jack Davenport's wedding.
Andrew's father is a civil engineer and his mother is a nurse.
In 2004 Andrew narrated the documentary The Search For Speed, about Ella MacArthur the youngest person and fastest woman to sail solo around the world.
Andrew attended the filming of ITV's An Audience with Elton John in 1997.
Andrew is a supporter of Shelter, the British charity for the homeless.
Andrew's mother is South African. However, she left the country to escape its racist apartheid policies.
Andrew starred in the 2003 BBC adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic, The Man of Law's Tale
In 2004, Andrew narrated Being Positive, a two part documentary on AIDS.
Andrew directs as well as acts. In 2004, he was nominated for a BAFTA award in the category of Best New Director for two episodes of the Channel Four hit show Teachers.
In 1997, Andrew played the character of Walter in a television adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic novel The Woman In White.
Andrew plays Jamie in the 2006 film Scenes of a Sexual Nature opposite Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge and Star Wars.)
Andrew's first television appearance was in 1994 when he guest starred in an episode of the Channel Four newsroom comedy Drop The Dead Donkey.
Referring to his voluntary work in Ghana:
Andrew:It was an amazing trip, it changed my life. It was beautiful, really extraordinary.
In 2001, Andrew went to Ghana for a month with Voluntary Services Overseas to experience how volunteers and development agencies work first hand.
Andrew is a supporter of the international NGO, Voluntary Services Overseas.


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On the official page here, the tooltip for the play any race in any alliance is "your character can join any alliance, no matter which race that you choose".
And yes, lame is the proper term for it. Especially when so many people requested it since faction racial lock was announced. Now they are monetizing it.
I can already see the "use any class skill lines on any character" unlock in the cash shop…


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"I believe we might be trying a bit too hard. Sometimes, when you know how good you are, and you know what you're capable of, you can be really intolerant of your own mistakes."
"If the best players aren't going to be playing, obviously that has the potential to become a problem."
"You have to find out everything you possibly can about what their intentions are so you can be prepared."
"The best way to evaluate a player is to watch her play on a rainy, cold day. You can see whether she has all the shots and how she handles herself."
"We were able to take a boat ride to her favorite place, and being able to tell her about that made her very happy. She was in good spirits when we got there, but by Friday she was in pretty bad shape."
"She was very good as a freshman, and then the latter part of her career her golf took a turn for the worse. But she told me that when she graduated that she wouldn't have changed a thing because it helped her develop into the person that she was."
"People meant a lot to her. She always wanted to touch people. Maria was just full of life. She had a lot of heart."
"Maria was full of life. I always used to tell her she was very high impact. She brought a lot of life to every situation."
"In today's environment, it's important to get accurate information to parents as quickly as possible. Instant Alert gives us a reliable and efficient way to reach parents with the information they need about the safety of their children."


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The family of Alexandria police Office Peter Laboy, who was shot in the head Feb. 27, shared what Laboy remembers about the incident.
Laboy is walking and talking and even joking about his situation less than two months after doctors said he was lucky to be alive, according to his father-in-law, Jack Bernardo. He's also looking forward to leaving the hospital.
Bernardo called Laboy's recovery a miracle.
"If you'd see him, you'd stand there and be flabbergasted by what he can do," Bernardo said of Laboy's recovery.
Just like Laboy isn't giving up, neither is his wife, Suzanne.
"She's great," Bernardo said. "She takes it a day at a time. She gets up in the morning, gets her shower, gets her head right and goes and supports her husband. She's tough."
Part of the healing process is remembering.
Laboy remembers all of his friends and family, but his memory of the day he was shot isn't as good.
"He remembers getting a call to check something out, and that's it," Bernardo said. "That's the last thing he remembers."
On behalf of the family, Bernardo wanted to thank the community, which has been very supportive.
"When he gets to a point, he will be out there seeking people out and personally walk up and shake their hand," Bernardo said. "I know that's his goal."
Those wishing to help the Laboy family can drop off a donation at the Alexandria Police Department (3600 Wheeler Ave.) or send a donation to:
Alexandria Police Association c/o Peter Laboy
P.O. Box 1228
Alexandria, VA 22313
The family also requests that those who want to donate blood on behalf of Laboy call the Washington Hospital Center blood donor service at 866-49-DONOR.


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Time's up.
On Wednesday, Chargers rookie guard Johnnie Troutman and tackle Brandyn Dombrowski were moved from the physically unable to perform list (PUP) to season-ending injured reserve. The move was expected.
As PUP members, both were allowed a three-week practice window, at the end of which the team was required either to activate them onto the 53-man roster or declare them out for the season.
After missing so much time, the offensive linemen were still considered a ways away from being ready to contribute.
Dombrowski had foot surgery in the summer to remove a cyst. Troutman, a fifth-round draft pick out of Penn State, was coming off April pectoral surgery.
Troutman was further along physically.
"It is what it is," Troutman said. "Next year."


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The Lighter Side of Capote, and the Ladies He Lunched With
By GINIA BELLAFANTE
Published: October 14, 2006
There is a moment deep into ''Infamous,'' the new movie about Truman Capote, when Capote is walking in a park in Brooklyn with his friend Harper Lee. Capote (here played by Toby Jones) opens a letter from Perry Smith, one of the two murderers he has been interviewing for what will become ''In Cold Blood,'' and begins to read it aloud. Smith writes that he has lost interest in revealing any more of himself. He has made a foray into Capote's literary output and found it lacking in sufficient softness of temperament and tone.
''Imagine,'' Capote says to Lee, ''being told your work lacks kindness from a four-time killer.''
Douglas McGrath, who wrote and directed ''Infamous,'' calls the exchange the film's final moment of levity. ''It is really the last joke,'' he said, speaking recently by phone from his Midtown Manhattan office. ''And from there on in it's pretty much grimsville.''
What distinguishes ''Infamous'' from last year's ''Capote,'' the film with which it is inevitably being compared, is its sustained frothiness of tone. That is a quality rooted in Capote's legendary social energy, concentrated as it was in the giddy company of Diana Vreeland, Babe Paley, Slim Keith and Marella Agnelli, a woman who apparently thought nothing of arriving at an intimate dinner wearing the sort of high-collared costume that would not be out of place at a Renaissance fair.
Until the arrival of Smith's letter, Mr. McGrath grounds his film in the light, lingering lunch that defined much of Capote's Manhattan life, the ceaseless banquet of tattle and whisper to which the midcentury's most luminous plutocrats always seemed to come hungry.
''The swans were such an important part of his life, it seemed wrong not to include them,'' Mr. McGrath explained, referring to Capote's inner circle of lady friends. ''They offer a peek into a lifestyle that has all but vanished from New York, an excuse for lots of great music and witty dialogue. And once you realize that Capote's mother killed herself because she was excluded from that world, you understand that those scenes with these women have a deep emotional meaning for him.''
''Infamous'' is based on ''Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career,'' an oral history compiled by George Plimpton and published in 1997, which provided Mr. McGrath with a link between Capote's literary and social talents and the degeneracy apparent in his late-in-life appearances (including at least one spot on ''The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour'').
Mr. McGrath's interest in Capote was ignited about 25 years ago, when he saw the author on ''The Dick Cavett Show.'' Capote was introduced as a master stylist and a literary giant. ''He was sweating,'' Mr. McGrath, who was then a writer for ''Saturday Night Live,'' recalled. ''No one perspires on TV. Athletes and Richard Nixon perspire, but no one else. I couldn't reconcile the person introduced with the man I saw on TV. He didn't seem like a master of anything on the Cavett show.''
After the Plimpton book came out, Mr. McGrath began trying to acquire the rights to it. He eventually succeeded, but made the film ''Nicholas Nickleby'' first, before returning to Capote in 2003. That is when Mr. McGrath discovered that an actor named Dan Futterman had also been intrigued enough by Capote's ''In Cold Blood'' period to write a screenplay about it. Both films went into production in 2004, but Warner Independent held Mr. McGrath's for a year to allow for breathing room between the two.
''I'm hoping that there'll be an afterlife, so things will be explained to me,'' Mr. McGrath said, addressing the question of why he hadn't proceeded more quickly with his project. ''But I don't think I could have done it if I hadn't done Dickens. He so brilliantly joins the comic and the tragic. You get to see how artfully everything works. One of the things I learned is how much funnier the funny stuff is when held up against the dark, and how much darker the dark stuff.''
Mr. McGrath establishes Capote as someone who understood confidences as commodities long before ''In Cold Blood'' or ''Answered Prayers,'' the unfinished roman ?lef that famously severed his ties to East Side society. He can't sip a martini without enthusiastically divulging Mrs. Paley's marital secrets to Mrs. Keith, played here by Hope Davis as the friend shrewd enough not to trade her own intimacies in return.
Mrs. Keith's autobiography, ''Slim: Memories of a Rich and Imperfect Life,'' provided the guidepost for the film's depiction of her, Mr. McGrath said. In her book Mrs. Keith, born Nancy Gross, writes honestly of her calculating impulses. ''In my day,'' she says, ''being different meant not having your hair done in a pompadour and adorning it with a snood, or not trying to hide your intelligence behind a sea of frills. I somehow knew there was a glut in that market. I opted for a scrubbed-clean, polished look.''
Despite the ubiquity of photographs of Mrs. Keith and her set, little or no film clips exist of Capote's women, which proved a challenge for Mr. McGrath and his actresses. ''It was obviously not like today, when anyone would trample over their mother to get on TV,'' he said.
Sigourney Weaver, who plays Mrs. Paley in the film, at one point corralling her friends to dance the twist in Mrs. Vreeland's living room, said: ''There was no footage of Babe. But I knew some of those ladies, so I knew a bit about the voice and carriage. And I knew, or I think, that they enjoyed society in the true sense of the word -- the pleasure taken in the company of others.''
Ms. Weaver said she had called Mrs. Paley's daughter Amanda Burden to learn more about her. She discovered that Mrs. Paley's teeth embarrassed her. Mr. McGrath noted: ''When she laughed, she would cover her mouth like a geisha. To the audience it's just a gesture, but to an actor something like that makes such a big difference.''
The film, despite its meticulous depiction of early-1960's Manhattan society, may be misleading on at least one significant matter: real estate.
''A woman came up to me at one of the press conferences,'' Ms. Weaver remarked, ''and she said, 'You know, I was in Diana Vreeland's apartment once, and it was a lot smaller than that.' ''
Photo: Toby Jones as Truman Capote and Sigourney Weaver as Babe Paley in Douglas McGrath's ''Infamous,'' one of two recent films about Capote. (Photo by Warner Brothers/Photofest)(pg. B7); From left, Juliet Stevenson as Diana Vreeland, Toby Jones as Truman Capote and Hope Davis as Slim Keith in the new movie ''Infamous.'' (Photo by Deana Newcomb/Warner Independent Pictures)(pg. B12)