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NFL football star Tom Brady - who is married to Gisele Bundchen - was involved in a car accident in Boston this morning (09.09.10).
Tom Brady was involved in a car accident this morning (09.09.10).
The NFL football player - who is married to Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen - was driving to the offices of Boston radio station WEEI for his weekly appearance when the accident took place.
According to reports, Tom's Bentley car hit a traffic light and a red mini-van at around 6.30am on the corner of Commonwealth and Gloucester.
Although the 33-year-old sportsman was left "shaken" by the incident he was able to exit his vehicle unaided and refused to be taken to hospital.
However, a hydraulic cutting device known as the 'Jaws of Life' was employed at the scene of the incident and is believed to have been used to remove a Passenger travelling in the van.
Tom's wife Gisele is currently in New York for Fashion Week but is expected to miss an appearance at Fashion's Night Out tonight so she can travel back to Boston to see her spouse.
The quarterback - who has a nine-month-old son Benjamin with the catwalk beauty - is due to play his first game of the new NFL season this Sunday (12.09.10) when his team the New England Patriots take on the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Jesus and Jews have not always got along well together in Christian scholarship but today (and for some decades now, especially since Geza Vermes published Jesus the Jew) they have been rollicking along just fine. So close are they that some scholars have been known to censure anyone who attributes to Jesus Hellenistic tropes of "latent anti-semitism".
Scholars like April DeConick and Louis Painchaud have suggested that the modern tend to find some good in Judas is an outgrowth of a powerful cultural need to absolve our collective guilt over the treatment of the Jews in the wake of World War 2 and the Holocaust and the widespread anti-Semitism preceding those years. Both scholars argue that the National Geographic presentation of the Gospel of Judas portrayed Judas as a hero as a result of wishful and tendentious translations the text. Both argue that in fact the Gospel of Judas by no means presents him as a would-be saint.
But back to Jesus. Of course Jesus was a Jew. But traditionally many Christians have been taught to think of him as opposing what was essential Judaism of his day, that is, the self-righteous, legalistic and judgmental Pharisees. That concept has probably historically fed in to waves of antisemitism throughout history.
Now I fully agree that that traditional perception of Judaism is a misplaced caricature, the product of hostile Christian invention. That that simplistic notion has been replaced by more nuanced reality in the scholarly literature is a good thing.
But does the emphasis on the Jewishness of Jesus also indicate that Christian scholars are working outside the zone of their natural Christian biases? By no longer claiming Jesus "for themselves" and by implication as having no part with Judaism, are Christian scholars necessarily working towards a more neutral scholarly venture?
I think not. The reason is a new book I came across, What every Christian needs to know about the Jewishness of Jesus : a new way of seeing the most influential rabbi in history by Rabbi Evan Moffic.
Notice this passage from the Foreword to the book by Kent Dobson, Teaching Pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church:
And discovering a Jewish Jesus is not just an academic exercise; it has widespread implications for the health of Christianity. In some sense, we cannot claim Jesus as our own anymore. He was Jewish, we need to hear him in his own Jewish context, and we need to hear from Jewish voices about how they read this rabbi from Galilee.
Personally, I learned more from my Jewish brothers and sisters about Jesus and his world than I ever learned in church. . . .
I believe we are better people of faith when we bring our experience into a real conversation with those from other faith perspectives and convictions. The Jewish-Christian dialogue is not a politically correct game. We are conversing about meaning and truth, beauty and love, family and forgiveness, and the mystery of God. What could be better! . . .
Jewish perspectives on Jesus clarify, strengthen, and take further some Christian convictions about his mission, teaching, and life. . . .
This new era of Jewish-Christian dialogue is just dawning. In some sense, it's still very fragile. It started in academia and now is spilling out into the Synagogue and the Church.
Moffic, Rabbi Evan (2016-02-02). What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Jewishness of Jesus: A New Way of Seeing the Most Influential Rabbi in History (Kindle Locations 62-83). Abingdon Press. Kindle Edition.

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Back in September we learned that Absolute Noodle would be coming to the former Quiznos space at 772 5th Street, NW. I spoke with some of the workers on Saturday and it looks like they'll be opening up in 2-3 more weeks. They've also applied for a liquor license that says:
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Online job postings have fundamentally changed how people search for a job. Hiring managers increasingly rely on referrals to avoid reviewing hundreds of resumes per posting. However, job seekers crave the perceived efficiency that an online jobsite offers, pouring countless hours into an inherently ineffective approach.
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text: Dr Dipak Kotecha Institute of Cardiovascular SciencesNIHR Clinical Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine Contact details Telephone+44 (0) 7974 email@example.com AddressInstitute of Cardiovascular SciencesCollege of Medical and Dental SciencesUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK Dipak is a Clinician Scientist in Cardiovascular Medicine across the clinical sites attached to the University of Birmingham. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Monash Centre of Cardiovascular Research & Education in Therapeutics, Monash University, Melbourne. He is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in cardiac imaging, and is accredited in transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography (British Society of Echocardiography), and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (EuroCMR Level 3). Dipak was recently awarded a prestigious National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Fellowship. This funding will allow him to expand his internationally-recognised research on patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation. The Fellowship funds a new randomised controlled trial with the aim of improving quality of life and heart function in patients with atrial fibrillation and breathlessness (the RATE-AF trial: RAte control Therapy Evaluation in Atrial Fibrillation). Among other projects, Dipak is also the lead for the Beta-blockers in Heart Failure Collaborative Group and has published in leading journals such as the Lancet and BMJ (see below). He regularly presents at major international conferences, works with the European Society of Cardiology, and is focused on developing robust statistical evaluations and clinical trials. Qualifications Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery; MBChB 2000: University of Bristol Member of the Royal College of Physicians (London); MRCP 2004 Doctor of Philosophy; PhD 2010: National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology; FESC 2015 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy; FHEA 2015 Biography Dipak studied Medicine at the University of Bristol and trained as a junior doctor in the south-west of England. After gaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2004 he departed for Australia to gain further clinical and academic experience. He worked as a Cardiology Registrar in Melbourne for 2 years before starting his PhD studies. Registered at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, the PhD was an international collaborative project with the Royal Brompton Hospital in London (Prof Marcus Flather) and Monash University in Melbourne (Prof Henry Krum). After completing his PhD, Dipak re-joined the NHS in 2009 and was a clinical trainee in Oxford, specialising in cardiac imaging. During this time he continued his academic work, leading to his appointment as a Clinical Lecturer here in Birmingham, and subsequently appointment as a Clinician Scientist and Consultant Cardiologist at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust and Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. Dipak was awarded Fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) for his work in the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease, and Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy for his teaching. In 2016, he commenced his NIHR Career Development Fellowship designed to improve patient wellbeing in those needing rate control for atrial fibrillation Teaching MD / PhD students and research fellows Clinical teaching International lectures on heart failure, atrial fibrillation and statistical methods Postgraduate supervision Supervision of MD / PhD students. Supervision of research fellows. Applications welcome. Research Lead: RAte control Therapy Evaluation in Atrial Fibrillation (RATE-AF) trial. NIHR-funded randomised trial of rate-control in older patients with permanent atrial fibrillation, assessing the impact of therapy on quality of life and cardiac function. Other research includes analysis of pharmacotherapy; systemic reviews of validity and reproducibility of echocardiography and patient-reported outcomes in atrial fibrillation; secondary analyses of trial and general practice datasets; and Medical Research Council co-funded PhD studentship investigating cellular and translational mechanisms of rate control atrial fibrillation. Co-ordinator and Steering Committee Lead: Beta Blockers in Heart Failure Collaborative Group (BB-meta-HF). A global collaboration of lead investigators and pharmaceutical companies involved in the major trials of beta-blockers in heart failure to undertake a meta-analysis of individual patient data (n=18630). Hotline presentations at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Barcelona 2014 (patients with concomitant atrial fibrillation) and London 2015 (analysis of age and gender), with publications in the Lancet and BMJ. Principal Investigator: Alternative Risk Markers in Coronary Artery Disease (ARM-CAD) Study. Multi-centre research study to assess vascular dysfunction and angiographic coronary artery disease in high-risk populations (n=700). PhD awarded 2010: "Evaluation of Pulse Wave Analysis to Assess Coronary Artery Disease". Principal Investigator and co-creator of the Cardiovascular Longitudinal Evaluation & Assessment of Risk (CLEAR) Database. Cross-research database to incorporate current and future investigator-driven studies, improve data collection, standardise cardiovascular risk information and enhance recruitment into research projects. Commenced recruitment 2007 (currently n=4500). Other activities 2016 Faculty member, Europe AF 2016, London (Nov) 2016 Faculty member, British Society of Echo Annual Conference, London (Nov) 2016 Faculty member, AF Heart Team, Switzerland (Sept) 2016 Faculty member, European Society of Cardiology Congress, Rome (Aug) 2016 Guest Lecture, MSc in Health Economics (ESC/LSE), London (June) 2016 Faculty member, EuroCVP Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, Tel Aviv 2016 Faculty member, Heart Failure 2016, Florence 2016 Faculty member, Navigating the Maze Summit, Barcelona 2016 Award: One of the most popular articles published in the European Heart Journal in 2015 (downloaded 5320 times in the first two months of publication) 2015 All Party Parliamentary Group on Atrial Fibrillation, Houses of Parliament, London 2015 Faculty member, European Society of Cardiology Congress, London 2015 Faculty member, Physicians' Academy for Cardiovascular Education (PACE) Foundation Heart Failure Summit, Barcelona 2015 Faculty member, British Cardiovascular Society Annual Conference, Manchester 2015 Faculty member, Heart Failure 2015 Congress, Seville 2015-6 TEAM in AF European Mentoring Programme for future leaders in atrial fibrillation 2015 Faculty member, European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery Course, Windsor 2015 Consensus Statements on Atrial Fibrillation; EHRA/AFNET 5th Consensus Conference 2014-6 Guideline Task Force for Atrial Fibrillation; European Society of Cardiology 2013-15 National Institute for Health Research Leadership Programme; Ashridge Business School 2013 Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice; University of Birmingham Publications Kotecha D, Manzano L, Packer M, Rosano G, Collins P, Krum H, Holmes J, Altman DG, Wikstrand J, Coats AJS, Cleland JGF, von Lueder TG, Rigby A, Shibata MC, Andersson B, Kirchhof P, Wedel H, Lip GYH and Flather MD. Age and gender differences in treatment efficacy and tolerability: The Beta-blockers in Heart Failure Collaborative Group. BMJ. 2016;353:i1855. PMID: 27098105. Kotecha D*. Conflicting and unresolved issue of the prognostic value of atrial fibrillation for chronic heart failure patients (Letter). Int J Cardiol. In press. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.03.107. PMID: 27087520. Ziff OJ and Kotecha D. Digoxin: the good and the bad. Trends Cardiovasc Med. In press; DOI: 10.1016/j.tcm.2016.03.011. Hopper I, Kotecha D, Lee Chin K, Mentz RJ, von Lueder TG*. Comorbidities in heart failure: Are there gender differences? Curr Heart Fail Rep. 2016;13:1-12. PMID: 26829930. Kotecha D, Chudasama R, Lane DA, Kirchhof P and Lip GYH. Atrial fibrillation and heart failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical outcomes in reduced versus preserved ejection fraction. Int J Cardiol. 2016;203:660-6. PMID: 26580351. Kirchhof P*, Breithardt G, Kotecha D and Camm AJ. A roadmap to improve the quality of atrial fibrillation management: Proceedings from the 5th AFNET/EHRA consensus conference. Europace. DOI: 10.1093/europace/euv304. PMID: 26481149. Kotecha D and Piccini JP. Atrial fibrillation in heart failure: what should we do? Eur Heart J. 2015;10.1093/eurheartj/ehv513 Ziff OJ, Lane DA, Samra M, Griffith M, Kirchhof P, Lip GY, Steeds RP, Townend J and Kotecha D. Safety and efficacy of digoxin: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational and controlled trial data. BMJ. 2015;351:h4451 Senoo K, Lip GYH*, Lane DA, Büller HR, Kotecha D. Residual Risk of Stroke and Death in Anticoagulated Patients According to the Type of Atrial Fibrillation: AMADEUS Trial. Stroke. 2015;46:2523-8. PMID: 26205373. Kotecha D* and von Leuder TG. Qualifying the use of common cardiovascular drugs in cardiology: Time to think again about beta-blockers? Circ J. 2015;79:517-518. PMID: 25746532.


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Custom Visualizations? - Printable Version
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Custom Visualizations? - Choix - 2009-03-31
I am wondering if (and how) it is possible to add your own Visualizations for when music is playing.
I remember a few years ago I used to use one called Corona in WMP it is the best Visualization I have ever found and would love to try and get it working in XBMC if that is at all possible.
Corona site: http://www.btinternet.com/~richard.asbury/corona/
Any help would be appreciated.
- spiff - 2009-03-31
you do code to use them with our api. note that they need to use opengl
- Choix - 2009-03-31
Well I wouldn't know the 1st thing about doing that but I might look into it when I have some more free time.
Anyway advice on what I would need to learn?
- Death-Axe - 2009-04-01
Be cool if all the xbox ones where put in the pc version, like milk drop etc...
- WiSo - 2009-04-02
Xbox = DirectX, Linux port = OpenGL
so unlikely but patches are welcome
- mindweaver - 2009-04-02
Death-Axe Wrote:Be cool if all the xbox ones where put in the pc version, like milk drop etc...
Windows version has Milk Drop. It is called ProjectM
- spiff - 2009-04-02
programming is all it takes. opengl and basic understanding of how to build a .dll
- Death-Axe - 2009-04-02
ProjectM? link me bro


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Pulse Ensemble Theatre will present The Tempest in Riverbank State Park in August as its third annual free summer Shakespeare production.
The multi-ethnic, open-air performance will continue the company's tradition of updating the visual aspects of Shakespeare's plays while sticking to the original language.
"The goal is to excite and entertain a non-theatre going audience, and inspire them with the limitless possibilities of live theatre," said Alexa Kelly, the company's artistic director since 1989.
Set on a mountainous island near North Africa, this version of The Tempest has been inspired by the popular television drama Lost, featuring Secret Service escorts, travel by yacht, and music from The Bulgarian women's choir and African drummers.
Last summer's production, Romeo and Juliet, was loosely based on Law & Order and featured Juliet dancing to music from the modern pop group The Black Eyed Peas.
George Tynan Crowley, who will play the magician Prospero, has appeared in 22 Shakespeare productions, including both Ferdinand and Trinculo in previous versions of The Tempest.
The Tempest will run Aug. 2-26 in Riverbank State Park, 138th Street & Riverside Drive. All performances are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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Miranda — Lauren Davis
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Antonio — Kevin Hauver
Ferdinand — Brian Cade
Sebastian — Enrico Spada
Gonzalo — Richard Vernon
Adrien — Kate MacCluggage
Captain of the ship — Sheldon Shaw
Master of the ship — Manabu Ueyama
Trinculo — Udi Razzin
Stefano — Joseph Raik
Iris — Kate MacCluggage
Ceres — Ryman Sneed
Juno — Renee Threatte
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Betty White Talks Animals, Her Sex Life on 'The Daily Show' [VIDEO]
Everyone loves Betty White, and that was very evident Tuesday night when she appeared on 'The Daily Show.'
The 'Hot in Cleveland' star was there to talk about her new book about zoo animals, but of course the subject turned to her sex life.
Ready for Another Kardashian? Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick Expecting Baby No. 2
If you've had enough of all the Kim Kardashian-Kris Humphries, 72-day wedding and divorce drama, here's some happy news: her older sister Kourtney is expecting her second baby. Of course, this is only happy news if you "like" (and we use the term loosely) the Kardashians.
Conan O'Brien Gets Turned Into a Muppet on 'Sesame Street' [VIDEO]
Many celebrities have been seen with Muppets lately. Besides the new 'Muppets' movie, Jimmy Kimmel talked to Abby Cadabby about siblings and many Muppets showed up on 'SNL.' Now we have Conan O'Brien visiting 'Sesame Street.'
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Betty White is probably the best 'Password' player in the history of the game, having guested on the classic game show her late husband Allen Ludden hosted for so many years.
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What could make the classic holiday special 'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' even better? Take out the audio and replace it with audio from a recent GOP debate!
That's what Jimmy Kimmel did last night in the latest 'Kimmel Kartoon.'
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This is going to be a shock to all of you fans who believe in the power of a relationship forged on a reality show, but 'Bachelorette' Ali Fedotowsky has ended her relationship with Roberto Martinez.
Who Would Take Relationship Advice from Ashton Kutcher? Answer, Men's Health
File this in the "bad timing" section — 'Two and a Half Men' star Ashton Kutcher gives relationship advice in the new issue of Men's Health, which hit newsstands this weekend.
Talk about bad timing. Kutcher's wife, actress Demi Moore, recently announced she's divorcing him. Reasons why are unconfirmed at this point, but there are many rumors going around that Kutcher cheated on Moore with more than one woman.
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HBO's 'Game of Thrones' is one of those shows where fans just can't wait until the next season starts.
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text: Owen and Into It. Over It. are the respective solo projects of prominent Chicago-based songwriters Mike Kinsella and Evan Weiss - two musicians who are equally at ease performing on their own as they are sharing the stage in bands such as Capn Jazz, American Football and Owls (for Kinsella), and The Progress, Stay Ahead of the Weather, and Pet Symmetry (for Weiss). *Polyvinyl


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Because of budget constraints, the Richmond County School System will alter an 11-year-old agreement with Jessye Norman School of the Arts and no longer bus students home from the after-school program.
The change is a compromise made after the district informed the school in May that it could no longer transport students from their zone schools to the arts building on Telfair Street or take them home when the program ends at 6 p.m., as had been done since the program's inception.
There were 81 students enrolled in the program last year; about 50 were being transported by the school system from Langford Middle, C.T. Walker Traditional Magnet, A.R. Johnson Health Science and Engineering Magnet, John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet and Hornsby K-8 schools, according to Jessye Norman board of directors member Linda Scales.
Scales said the school will have to ask parents to pick up their students or find carpools at the end of the day, but the compromise is better than leaving students without a method of getting to the school at all.
"It will be hard, but we'll try," Scales said. "We appreciate the support, because it could have been more difficult."
The Richmond County Board of Education approved the compromise 7-2 Tuesday, with Barbara Pulliam and Patsy Scott in dissent and Marian Barnes absent.
The school offers free visual arts, dance, music and drama education to mostly low-income students, along with tutoring and homework assistance in its after-school program.
Transportation Director Jimmie Wiley said his department has designed routes so drivers can efficiently drop students at Jessye Norman while they are running the normal routes from the five schools to surrounding neighborhoods. The cost over the years has come in driving the roughly 50 students from Jessye Norman to their homes.
During this budget year, when all schools had to cut 7 percent of their costs, the transportation
department also had to slice $300,000 from its operations.
Because Wiley said there is almost no cost for drivers to make pit stops at Jessye Norman along their normal afternoon routes, board member Alex Howard said it only makes sense to at least continue that aspect.
"We have a group of people trying to involve our students in something good, a free program that does not cost the school system any money," Howard said. "It's benefited our students, and I think it's something we need to do."
Scales said that in the program's history, no students have dropped out of school, many have gone on to college and all perform ahead of their peers on standardized tests in every subject.
"It goes along with the evidence that children involved in the arts do better academically," Scales said. "They're more focused and disciplined."
Pulliam said she could not support the busing of arts students after the board this year declined to begin providing transportation for alternative program students from their homes to the campus on Walton Way.
"We have to transport all our kids," she said. "I can't just say because a kid is at risk or doing something wrong that he has to walk and the ones doing good can ride. My view is if we can't do it for the kids at risk and need a ride, I can't vote for any of them."


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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A remorseless Timothy McVeigh calls the children killed in the Oklahoma City bombing ''collateral damage,'' regretting only that their deaths detracted from his bid to avenge Waco and Ruby Ridge, according to a new book.
Details in the book mark the first time McVeigh has publicly and explicitly admitted to the crime and given his reasons for the attack.
''I understand what they felt in Oklahoma City. I have no sympathy for them,'' McVeigh told the authors of ''American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing.'' He had no control over the book's content.
McVeigh told Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, reporters for The Buffalo News, he did not know there was a day care center inside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the authors said on today's broadcast of ''PrimeTime Thursday.''
''I recognized beforehand that someone might be ... bringing their kid to work,'' McVeigh said, according to the ABC broadcast. ''However, if I had known there was an entire day care center, it might have given me pause to switch targets. That's a large amount of collateral damage.''
Michel said McVeigh's only regret was that the children's deaths proved to be a public relations nightmare that undercut his cause.
CNN on Wednesday quoted Danny Defenbaugh, the FBI's lead investigator in the case, saying he had no doubt McVeigh knew before the bombing that children would be among his victims.
''No matter what and how you go by that building, if you look at the building, you're going to see all the little cut-out hands, all the little apples and flowers showing that there's a kindergarten there -- that there are children in that building,'' Defenbaugh said.
Defenbaugh also said that within days of the Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI found evidence that McVeigh had considered other attacks in Denver and Omaha, CNN reported.
The April 19, 1995, bombing killed 168 people, 19 of them children. McVeigh, 32, is scheduled to be executed May 16.
McVeigh told the authors he was disappointed when part of the building remained standing after his 7,000-pound bomb went off. ''Damn, I didn't knock the building down. I didn't take it down,'' he said.
He said he was the sole architect of the plan, resorting to threats against Terry Nichols' family when his Army buddy hesitated before helping to load the explosives into the rental truck.
In 75 hours of prison interviews with the Buffalo reporters beginning in May 1999, McVeigh, who was raised in Pendleton, outside Buffalo, got choked up while talking about killing a gopher in a field, but never expressed remorse for the bombing.
However, he had been brought to tears two years earlier while watching the disaster at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. He was in the living room of Nichols' Michigan home when the compound burned to the ground during an assault by federal agents, killing about 80 members of the cult.
The model soldier had left the Army disillusioned, unable to live with the thought that he was an ally of ''the biggest bully in the world, the U.S. government,'' according to Herbeck. Then when Congress banned certain assault weapons, ''I snapped,'' McVeigh said.
Before deciding to bomb the Murrah building, McVeigh considered a number of different possibilities, including assassinating elected officials, Michel said.
The federal building, McVeigh decided, had everything he wanted: federal agents and glass in the front, making it vulnerable and giving TV cameras a good shot.
The morning of the bombing, like a soldier, he had cold spaghetti for breakfast. ''Meals ready to eat ... are meant for high intensity. I knew I was going through a firestorm and I would need the energy,'' the Gulf War veteran said.
McVeigh, two blocks away when the bomb exploded, was lifted off the ground by the force of the blast. As he fled, he called to mind the song ''Dirty for Dirty'' by the group Bad Company. ''What the U.S. government did at Waco and Ruby Ridge was dirty. And I gave dirty back to them at Oklahoma City,'' he said.
In 1992 at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, the wife and son of white separatist Randy Weaver were killed by federal agents during a standoff.
McVeigh told the authors he knew he would get caught and even anticipated execution as a form of ''state-assisted suicide.'' Yet he worried initially about snipers as he was being charged.
''He was ready to die but not at that moment -- he wanted to make sure that his full message got out first,'' Herbeck said.
The authors also talk of McVeigh's regrets over not having a family, saying he has thought about smuggling sperm out of prison. Overall, he has found prison bearable. ''I lay in bed all day and watch cable television. ... I don't pay the electrical bill or the cable bill,'' he said.
McVeigh dismisses those who believe foreign terrorists or domestic militias helped him with the bombing. ''The truth is, I blew up the Murrah building,'' he said, ''and isn't it kind of scary that one man could reap this kind of hell?''
This article published in the Athens Daily News on Thursday, March 29, 2001.
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Just before noon on Monday, eighth-grade science teacher Janice Bayles pointed at a redheaded boy seemed to struggle down the bleachers during an assembly in the Cortez Middle School gym.
She signaled again.
Soon, two eighth-graders sat on the second row. For Bayles, it was a "teachable moment."
"Our students are all aware of the expectations and appropriate behavior in an assembly, and sometimes they need a reminder," Bayles explained. "If we as a staff did not take time to correct, then we could expect disrespect, untimely outbursts and a chaotic gathering of children."
Bayles said students were the driving force and motivation behind all that happens at the school, and during most of the assembly, any observer could have heard a pin drop.
The assembly was part of a daylong effort by Colorado State University directors, department chairs and counselors who converged in Cortez Monday evening to help high school and middle school students realize their dream of continuing their education.
Before at least 150 students and parents, Bayles' diligence and focus on her students was recognized by CSU officials as she was tapped with an Exceptional Educator Award. A mile-marker distinction from the university's Alliance Partners program, Bayles humbly declined to comment publicly.
"The award was the loveliest of surprises and completely unexpected," she said later. "I was overwhelmed with gratitude, and the kind words shared most certainly touched my heart."
Bestowing the recognition, Patricia Vigil, CSU's director of university partnerships and student success, described Bayles as a relentless advocate for students, adding that she has persuasive relationships with CSU.
The Montezuma-Cortez High School is one of 10 CSU Alliance Partners high schools in the state, and Cortez Middle School is one of 10 CSU Alliance Partner feeder schools. The partnership aims to prepare qualified students for CSU.
"Preparing for college can seem overwhelming," said Robin Brown, CSU's vice president of enrollment and access.
Hometown hero
To help eliminate obstacles, CSU aimed to show students and their families Monday that attending college is achievable. Cortez native Shannon Archibeque-Engel tried to drive that message home.
The first director of undergraduate programs at CSU's department of animal sciences, Archibeque-Engel told a standing-room only crowd in the Cortez Middle School commons area Monday evening that she had the same roots as many of them – farming and ranching in Montezuma County.
"It's good to be home," she said.
Archibeque-Engle encouraged students to never forget where they are from, adding that she gained valuable lessons cutting hay and building fences. She also told students to be their own chief executive officer, and to surround themselves with a positive management team.
"Invest in yourself and make it a habit," Archibeque-Engel said. "You have to invest in yourself, because no one else will."
Inspiring those in attendance to realize that dreams can come true, Archibeque-Engel praised beloved Montezuma-Cortez school educator Dave Umbarger, her advanced-placement biology teacher, as a mentor in her life. He encouraged her at age 17 to apply for a CSU science motivation program.
"Mr. Umbarger changed my life," she said.
The six-week program, which included washing glassware in a chemistry lab, paid off. In addition to escaping the family hay fields that summer, she earned close to $3,000, and came to realize that college wasn't so scary and that she too could become a scientist.
"You have to keep good grades and take the hard classes," she warned. "No one is going to walk up and give you a full scholarship for free."
To repay her support team, Archibeque-Engel extended her hand.
"When you get to CSU, and you have trouble, come see me," she said. "I will help you."
Archibeque-Engle is completing her doctoral degree at CSU. Her dissertation focuses on the intersection of Latinos, agriculture and higher education. She said students armed with a bachelor's degree, on average, would earn a million dollars more in their lifetime.
Message to students
In addition to the local site visit by CSU, some 150 Cortez Middle School eighth-graders will visit the Fort Collins campus this month on a four-day educational tour.
"The first emphasis is for students to graduate high school," said Cortez Middle School Principal Jamie Haukeness, "and whether it's trade school, community college or a four-year university, to start thinking about what they want to do in the future."
To help, CSU representative Dan Banuelos led a career assessment exercise Monday morning at the middle school. His objective was to relay to students that they should base their future career choice on their own self-interests by matching their personalities with their passions. For example, he said students who self-identified as social could likely thrive in a profession that sought to help others, or for those who considered themselves to be conventional and organized could serve in management.
During a team-building exercise that Bayless helped to oversee, CSU representative Angel Ruiz reminded students that their high school grade point average would be the top indicator for their success in college. He challenged them to build an academic foundation upon reaching the ninth grade.
"You get a clean slate in high school," Ruiz said. "This will be one of only a few opportunities in your life that you get a clean slate."
"Take an active role in your education," he added. "Don't stand on the sideline and let it pass you by."
Message to parents
For students who might be the first generation of their family to attend college, Archibeque-Engel asked parents to believe in and encourage their children – investing in their academic pursuits could benefit the world.
"Don't let finances stand in the way of going to college," she said. "There is a way if you want to go."
Parents were informed Monday that CSU offers students who graduate from an Alliance Partner school, like the Montezuma-Cortez High School, an automatic $2,500 annual scholarship for four consecutive years. Merit scholarships and financial aid are also available.
"We don't want students to waste their talent," Brown said. "This community, our country and the world need you."


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The Budget brought down by the Federal Government last night introduced changes to the superannuation regime dealing with concessional contributions, the government co-contribution, and the minimum payment amounts for account-based pensions. Most of these measures were the subject of strategic leaks over the past week or so, and speculation regarding other more sweeping changes has proved to be unfounded. The Henry Tax Review may of course still result in more substantial changes to the superannuation system.
The concessional contributions cap is to be halved from 1 July 2009.
This limit applies to the amount of concessional contributions (sometimes known as 'before tax contributions') which can be made by or in respect of individuals before excess concessional contributions tax is incurred.
Under the current limits, people under 50 may have up to $50,000 (indexed) in concessional contributions per annum made by or in respect of them, and people aged 50 and over may have up to $100,000 per annum (until the 2011-2012 year). Although it was thought prior to the Budget that this reduction would apply only to 'salary sacrifice' contributions, it seems that the revised limit will apply to both the employed and the self employed.
The new limits are $25,000 (indexed) and $50,000 respectively.
The imposition of excess concessional contributions tax remains unchanged, at a rate of 31.5%. Added to the 15% tax paid by the superannuation fund on the contributions, this brings the total tax applicable to the excess contributions to the top marginal rate.
Non-concessional contribution limits for the 2009-2010 year remained unchanged, at $150,000 per annum (or $450,000 over three years) and will now be calculated as six times the indexed concessional contributions cap.
While the measures of course affect only higher income individuals, the government has indicated that it expects to save around $2.75 billion over four years.
Cut backs have also been announced to the government co-contribution scheme. Under the scheme, people earning less than $60,342 (an amount that is indexed each year to reflect changes in average wages) who make personal superannuation contributions receive a government contribution of $1.50 for every $1 contributed, up to a maximum of $1,500 per year.
The government co-contribution matching rate is to reduce from $1.50 to $1 for each $1 contributed in the years 2009-2010, 2010 -2011 and 2011-2012, with a maximum co-contribution of $1,000. The matching rate will increase to $1.25 for each $1 contributed in 2012-2013 and 2013- 2014, with a maximum co-contribution of $1,250. From the 2014-2015 year, the matching rate will return to $1.50 per $1, with a maximum co-contribution of $1,500.
These measures are expected to save the government around $1.4 billion over the next four years.
The minimum payment requirements applicable to superannuation pensions were halved for the 2008-2009 year, pursuant to new regulations made on 13 March this year.
The Budget extends this relief for the 2009-2010 year. A minimum payment must be made from an account based pension at least annually to ensure that retirees draw down on their superannuation savings over the course of their retirement. Minimum payments are determined by age, varying between 4% and 14% of the pension account balance at 1 July each year.
The government's decision to halve the minimum payment amount is aimed at assisting pension account balances recover from capital losses associated with the global recession. This measure also reduces the need for account-based pension holders to sell assets at a loss in order to meet the minimum payment requirement.
The reduction in the minimum payment amounts applies to account-based, allocated and market-linked (term allocated) pensions.
From 1 July 2010, the government will require superannuation funds to transfer lost accounts which have balances less than $200, or which have been inactive for five years and for which there are insufficient records to identify the owner, to unclaimed monies.
Owners may claim their money from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) at any time.
The Budget includes the announcement of a paid parental leave scheme from 1 January 2011, which will provide primary carers with up to 18 weeks of leave at the Federal Minimum Wage. The ATO considers that salary paid to individuals while on parental leave constitutes ordinary time earnings for superannuation guarantee purposes. However, the government has announced that it will clarify that superannuation guarantee contributions are not to apply to voluntary paid parental leave payments. This position is to be reviewed when the paid parental leave scheme is reviewed in 2013.
The government has decided not to proceed with the changes it proposed in the 2008-2009 Budget to include gross tax-free superannuation pension income in the adjusted taxable income test for the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card. The government will however proceed with the inclusion of income that is salary sacrificed to superannuation, and this will take effect from 1 July 2009.
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Monday, June 9, 2008 | 2 a.m.
Banks and other mortgage lenders are turning out to be lousy neighbors. Foreclosed homes featuring brown lawns and fetid swimming pools litter the Las Vegas Valley because the lenders that hold title have failed to keep the properties up.
The epidemic is especially acute in neighborhoods regulated by homeowners associations, whose rules require property owners to maintain their properties. Enforcement of those rules is another matter, however.
"There are homes out there with grasses that are burnt," Sonia Selahi says as she surveys her largely unoccupied Southern Highlands neighborhood from an unusually wide driveway. Her HOA ordered her to broaden it. "The HOA notices us for stupid things," she complains.
The problems often start before the foreclosure is finalized. The HOA is the first entity homeowners stop paying when they can no longer afford to pay bills, says Mike Krien, president of the National REO Brokers Association and a Las Vegas Valley resident.
Then the lending companies that collect foreclosed properties are, at least initially, often unable or reluctant to maintain them, analysts say. The foreclosure process can take up to four months, creating a lengthy gap in ownership and weeks of finger-pointing.
"There could be six months of fees ... until the property is actually ours," Krien says.
Also, some homeowners associations have struggled to hold delinquent owners accountable, while other HOAs have had to deal with corporate banks at first — sometimes based abroad — and not with their local representatives. So the payment process drags to a bureaucratic crawl, often from the corporate bank to a local syndicate to a broker, then finally back to the HOA.
Hundreds of hazardous green pools and browning lawns are left in the wake of that process.
Residents of Southern Highlands had no trouble guessing which homes would slip into foreclosure.
"When the foreclosure notice went up, it was no mystery," says resident Felicia Patin, 37. "We had seen it coming."
Often properties that have weed-filled, decaying lawns when the homes are occupied tumble into foreclosure. Then the property becomes even more neglected.
The foreclosed home at 3128 Blossom Glen Drive in Henderson is a case in point. The side door to the garage isn't just unlocked, it's wide open. Paint and other potentially dangerous materials in there are apparently free for the taking. Inside the house, the floors appear stripped, possibly to the foundation.
Squatters had inhabited this home and other vacant properties nearby, neighbors said.
The major health hazard was in the back yard, where the foot of water left in the pool had morphed — devolved, really — into a murky cesspool of trash, including a small tire, a rubber ducky and a section of a wood fence that had collapsed on the property's rear boundary. Mosquitoes flew by. A covered, aboveground spa rotted nearby with more dirty water inside it.
As the number of foreclosures has increased annually in the past few years, so have the cases of stagnant swimming pools. Valley residents lodged 1,624 such complaints with the Southern Nevada Health District in 2007, up nearly 600 from the previous year, says Vivek Raman, supervisor of the district's vector control program.
Five months into 2008, the state's southern half has almost matched its tally for all of 2006. Through the first three weeks of May alone, the district received 401 complaints.
The fear is these pools can become havens for mosquitoes that can spread West Nile virus and other diseases.
"The pool program should be about a third of our work," said Raman of his eight-person department. "Right now, it's about 80 percent."
At last count, there were 446,358 Nevada households registered as members of HOAs, according to state figures. The state says it won't have a tally of how many of those are in Clark County until later this year, but given the population distribution and growth patterns around the state, it stands to reason that the majority of those HOA residences are in Southern Nevada.
But about a decade after so many valley neighborhoods sprouted under the watchful, Big Brother eyes of HOAs, foreclosures and vacancies are making a mockery of manicured-lawn mandates and otherwise strictly enforced rules. HOAs don't make neighborhoods blight-proof after all.
Cash-strapped homeowners can't pay HOA fees and fines, and the banks and lending companies don't have the mind-set to do so, says Richard Cherchio, president of The Parks HOA in the Aliante section of North Las Vegas. Krien acknowledges the banks can be slower to repay HOA fees, but only because of the lengthy change-of-ownership process and the fact that brokers often must front the expense for the new title holders.
A few cities in Southern California are now mandating that title holders — even if they're banks or lending companies — take care of their unoccupied properties so they don't detract from the value of neighbors' homes.
It apparently is helping.
"As recently as three months ago, lenders were not willing to help out. Now they are," says Rick Gibbs, mayor of Murrieta, Calif., one of the cities that adopted the new rule.
No comparable ordinance is being considered in Clark County, however.
Kenny Young, senior assistant to the city manager of North Las Vegas, believes a formalized process isn't needed. "It's up to the HOA to decide how vigorously they'll go after ... the bank," Young says.
The HOAs, however, may soon try to throw it back to the government if their policies — known as covenants, conditions and restrictions, or CC&Rs — are deemed to have insufficient teeth under state law.
"Our hands are tied statewide," Cherchio says. "Even when a house becomes vacant or falls into arrears ... we can only go back a certain amount of time to recoup money."
Indeed, many HOAs have little recourse against delinquent owners.
"The association's options are the same as for any other owner," says Elisabeth Shurtleff, spokeswoman for Nevada's Business and Industry Department. "Unfortunately, with the number of properties affected in the current economic climate, it becomes cost-prohibitive for associations to pursue legal action against the banks."
Government agencies and HOAs often aren't certain who holds the titles to these properties. Many of them depend on the county assessor's office to note the change in ownership, and those updates often lag.
When Raman's staffers are sent to a green pool, for example, they pour in a treatment to smother the mosquito larvae, then leave a note on the front door instructing the owner to fix the problem.
Of course, many of these homes are empty, so no one is there to clean up the pools.
Raman's workers must return a few weeks later to give the pool a second treatment, this one lasting three months. For that, they bill the property owner $117.
But who is the property owner? Often, the former owner is still listed as the homeowner of record.
"It becomes a very difficult scenario," Raman says.


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Why the biggest player on the market is not able to develop decent web browser?
Do somebody knows really what's the matter? I believe MS doesn't even care about Internet Explorer at all, or they do the worst job in the world if "a bunch of guys from Norway" or open source project is ahead of them for a decade.
I'm not angry at the moment, but I'm really thinking about NOT supporting IE7 AND IE8. No :first-child? Even IE9 not supporting text-shadow? No border-images? Come on!
I don't want to insult but do you know any EXPERIENCED pc users who use IE? I'm wondering how many SMART people use IE and how many of them are just front-enders doing tests or people searching for Firefox or Opera after formating? How many of them are school PCs? How many users are from poor countries in Asia, Africa or South America? How many of them are younger than 12 or older than 65? (I guess MOST OF THEM)
According to w3schools about 30% of Internet users still use IE. Many of these PCs are infected (because there are tons of exploits especially for IEs - check Secunia), wouldn't it be better if some companies will block IE users?
I don't want small bloggers or company sites to block IE connections because I know it WILL kill them and IE users will go somewhere else but I'd block every IE request to Facebook for example. Twitter too. Maybe Digg? Myspace? It's risky for Google because of Bing (they will never block IE ).
What do you think? Maybe not about "blocking" IE but about NOT supporting it at all or partial support?
i've been using computers professionally -- i.e. getting paid -- since 1971, and i've written css since netscape 4 and ie4
and i ~love~ ie8
I don't have any issues with IE7+ and IE is my default browser for everything.
I provide validated xhtml strict and css and very rarely nowadays run into browser incompatibility issues.
I support IE7+, FF2+, Opera 9+, Safari for Windows and Chrome.
I want you both dead
No, seriously, IE7? It's over 4 years old. Why do people even bother about IE6 or 7? Do you support also 800x600 screens? They were popular when IE7 got released
Come on. I can understand people who drive ancient cars, but few years old browsers? IE7 has at least 2 good documented highly critical, never fixed bugs that allow attackers to FULL system access from remote and the only way to prevent these attacks is to "avoid sites that you don't know" or "do not browse untrusted ones". Antivirus won't help. Firewall won't help. Nothing will.
IE8 also has one highly critical and one less critical hole (and this one will be never fixed because is known since the day IE8 was released, but nobody cared).
For example Opera has no unfixed critical holes for over a decade...
So it's not even about standards - you like your Internet Explorer like a man can like a woman - especially the easy one. But don't forget your woman has AIDS. And it will cause trouble, sooner or later.
And about standards - there are no "issues" with IE7 or 8? Right click even on sitepoint.com. Choose source. Figure out what "<!-- alex's ie specific styles -->" stands for. And all the stylesheets below?
And that's nothing compared to messy markup caused by IE compatibility (without last-child for example you still have to add different class for your last elements etc. etc.). Lots of superfluous ids, classes or even elements (and I'm not even starting talk about html5shiv...).
Additionally IE eats loads of memory and is SLOW (especially when it comes to JavaScript). So are you guys masochists or what?
I disagree
but don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to get you or anyone else to change your preferred browser.
everyone can choose whatever browser they are most comfortable with and I will continue to use IE as I see fit regardles of what browsers other people prefer to use until it gives me a valid reason to change to another default browser.
of course -- since that's what i use myself
Confess, Rudy... you looooove going against trends :lol:
As a browser, any will do... but it would be great if IE had a wider support for CSS as other browsers do. But I guess we will have to wait a few years more sigh
Microsoft has never been an innovator. Everything Microsoft has ever done has been thought up by others outside the company. Microsoft did not invent DOS, they resold it. Microsoft did not come up with the concept of a windowed GUI, Xerox did. Microsoft was blindsided by the internet and licensed their first browser. Microsoft did not innovate the video game platform, cell phones, multimedia software, search engines, or anything.
What Microsoft does well is use their operating system dominance to put the squeeze on those that do innovate. How many times has Microsoft copied something and failed to overtake the market? Think Silverlight versus Adobe Flash. Think about how the default search engine in IE was MSN. There are countless examples.
Microsoft is nothing more than a big bully that steals other people's ideas and uses its heft via its operating system monopoly to stifle innovation. If not for Firefox, most people would still be using IE6. The only reason Microsoft started developing IE again is because Firefox produced a superior browser that was stealing market share.
Computer technology has always built on previous technology. Look at linux, for the most part linux is a direct copy of unix. Like most technology companies Microsoft has done it's share of innovation as well as improving other technology. And they've done it pretty well, making a lot of other people jealous along the way.
I agree with you but I don't think that Linux is really a good example. Linux was created because Unix was unfamiliar to most users and they wanted it to be popular. That was not going to happen with a black screen OS. It needed to have the graphic GUI that Windows and Macintosh had so the learning curve was not so hard.
Basing your software on top on another is one thing. You recognized that it is based on it and you add something on top of it (in the case of Linux,the graphic interface)
Microsoft doesn't base their software... they do an exact copy although I have to say that they are great to improve user experience. And, of course, they would never say that what they do is based on someone else's software...
Over the past couple of years Microsoft have done pretty well in coming into markets with dominating forces. The Xbox is a highly successful console, even when they joined a saturated market with Nintendo and Sega the big powerhouses, and Sony looking to spend big on their console. Windows Phone 7 is also about to join a saturated market with iOS and Android, and so far it seems that WP7 might do pretty well for itself.
I don't think Internet Explorer will be good for a while, simply because it's designed by a large company with its own intentions. If I were Microsoft I'd go as far as to rewrite Internet Explorer from scratch, making it as upgradeable and extensible as possible. Microsoft won't produce a good browser until they take it out of the politics within Microsoft and look upon the project with new eyes.
I stopped using IE right before version 7 came out and it was all FireFox from there, now mostly Chrome. I have no clue what the difference between IE 6, 7, 8, or 9 are besides maybe the GUI a little. They all seem bulky to me. (I don't think I used 9 though)
I know FireFox is bulky too (compared to Chrome), but Explorer has a strange unique MS bulky feeling to it.
I get the exact same thing when I use any version of IE. I don't know if I would describe it as a bulkiness, but it definitely feels clunky. Pages in Firefox just work for me, whereas in IE it's almost like I'm trying to do a deal with the devil every single time I check.
It is funny how FF used to be quite light when it started, and now is really bulky. Of course, I love it. You can't have too many interest plug-ins :lol:
I hope that Chrome doesn't follow the same path though.
I agree with this. They are indeed bullies, they've been great at dominating the operating system, but any company that bullies, steals, and squeezes falls eventually. They are basically hanging on by their os.
Anyway, back to why they won't change. I don't think it's because they are "uncapable" of making one just as good as other mainstream browsers, if they really wanted to copy them they could easily. But the answer is THEY DON'T WANT TO. My reasoning behind WHY they wouldn't is because sites were designing specifically for ie6 for a period.. and forgetting about other browsers. Which means if it looks sh*tty in other browsers, and not theirs, it's good for microsoft. So I basically look at microsoft as "what's best in our interest", not "what's best in the user's interest and how can we change people's experiences for the better". OS groups do this, but not big money makers like microsoft. Don't take that as ALL big money makers, google for instance isn't like this at all. Their goal is to change the world for the better and business model is to do that first, make money second. So few companies are like this, that's why I love and trust google applications so much.


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LONDON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- A militant group known for its kidnapping of oil workers claimed responsibility Tuesday for the takeover of an oil rig off the coast of Nigeria.
Jomo Gbomo, a spokesman for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, known as MEND, sent a statement to Next.com saying MEND planned to release the names of the hostages within the next 24 hours, Timbuktu Media reported.
MEND took over the oil rig run by Transocean off the southern coast of Nigeria Sunday, injuring two of the crew members.
A spokesman for the rig's owner, London-based Afren PLC, said the injured workers had been shot in the legs and were reported in stable condition after being airlifted to a shore-based clinic.
The spokesman told CNN the attackers were holding two Indonesians, two Americans, two French citizens and one Canadian.
U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the United States is in contact with Nigerian officials.


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Baltimore moneyline bettors cashed on Saturday courtesy of a 3-2 win against the Los Angeles Angels at Camden Yards.
The Orioles were a -108 favorite in the win. The combined score dipped UNDER the total, which closed at 9.5.
Bradley Bergesen earned the victory for the Orioles, throwing 6 innings of work, striking out 3, walking 2, and allowing 6 hits and 2 earned runs. That effort was supported by 2 RBIs from Adam Jones in the win.
Los Angeles' starting pitcher Joel Pineiro worked 5 1/3 innings, giving up 11 hits and 3 earned runs while striking out 0 in the loss. They got 3 hits from Erick Aybar in a losing cause.
The battle of the bats favored Baltimore as they had 13 hits, while Los Angeles only had 8.
The game was closed out by Kevin Gregg who got the final outs in the victory. He allowed 1 hit, 0 walks and fanned 1 batter to earn the save.


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The quake was reported at 10:31 p.m. The epicenter was nine miles northwest of Julian.
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A JUDGE described as 'horrific' some of the abuse perpetrated by a now elderly man on four children in north Kerry during a 10-year period up until 1999.
John Honan (77) was jailed for four-and-a-half years by Judge Ray Fullam at Tralee Circuit Court on Thursday on 27 counts of indecent assault and sexual assault he perpretrated against two boys and two girls in north Kerry between 1989 and 1999.
At Thursday's sentencing, the court heard that one of the boys was forced to perform oral sex on him and that one of the girls was forced to masturbate him to the point of 'physical exhaustion'.
All four victims said their adult lives had been shattered by the abuse they suffered at the hands of Honan in childhood.
John Honan was found guilty of the 27 indecent and sexual assault offences by a jury on May 22 last following a trial that lasted almost a month.
Detective Garda Paul Walsh who investigated the case outlined how the offences took place during visits Honan made to north Kerry from his permanent address in the UK during the 10-year period.
Judge Fullam found the evidence in the case showed how Honan had lured the eldest of his two male victims into a relationship: "The evidence was that he was groomed or enticed into a relationship with the accused who gave him pornographic magazines, cigarettes, alcohol and clothes. The first acts led onto masturbation and, later, onto oral sex. The accused explained to [the boy] that this was a normal part of growing up and that this was harmless fun," the judge said in outlining the case evidence.
Honan began his abuse of one of his female victims by kissing her, ultimately leading to his gratification in getting the girl to masturbate him, Judge Fullam said on Thursday. Again, Honan assured his victim that this was 'normal' saying it 'happened in every house'.
"My note of evidence was that this form of abuse continued notwithstanding the fact that [the girl] was exhausted from attempting to perform the masturbation of the accused," Judge Fullam said.
"The evidence of the four victims as stated in the victim impact statements spoke of a breach of trust, the taking advantage of difficult home lives, being unable to concentrate in school and being told all of these activities were normal. The victim impact statements spoke of difficulties with relationships and in the case of [the eldest of the two male victims] a fear of going into public toilets where other men are present," the judge said.
He found their childhoods had been damaged and that the victims have been forced to live 'with long-lasting pain'. "The court must take into account the precise nature of the abuse. The details of the offences in [the eldest male victim's] case are horrific. He was subjected to performing oral sex and masturbating the accused," the judge said.
Honan's crimes against this victim merited a seven-year sentence. However, Judge Fullam said he was obliged to take into the account the convicted man's personal circumstances.
The court heard that Honan is plagued by ill-health, suffering from hypertension, diabetes, asthma, gout and a hernia as well having a history of depression and anxiety. Given these circumstances, Judge Fullam sentenced Honan to four-and-a-half years for his abuse of the eldest male victim; four years for his abuse of one of the female victims; and one year and nine months for his abuse of the other female and of the other male. The judge applied the sentences concurrently, saying the 77-year-old should serve no more than four-and-a-half years in jail.
The court heard the defendant was not likely to reoffend. Judge Fullam said that the 'impact of prison on such a person is obvious'.


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SUN VALLEY (CBS) — A 25-year-old woman was critically injured in a shooting in Sun Valley Wednesday evening, police said.
A 23-year-old man in the same car was hospitalized in stable condition, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Gregory Baek.
Stu Mundel, reporting for KCAL9, said the woman bore the brunt of the shooting but that the man was also in serious condition.
Police were called to Roscoe Boulevard and Webb Avenue at 6:34 p.m.
There was no suspect information, Baek said.
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On the day that voters in Colorado stood up for their right to keep and bear arms, some Missouri state senators failed to do likewise.
By a tally of 22-12, the vote in the state senate fell one short of the two-thirds necessary to override Governor Jay Nixon's veto of a bill that would have nullified federal attempts to infringe on the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
On the House side of the state legislature, representatives just crossed the constitutional threshold for a veto override by a vote of 109-49.
In July, Governor Nixon vetoed a bill passed overwhelmingly by both houses of the legislature.
With the issuing of a terse, constitutionally confused letter, Nixon notified the secretary of state of Missouri that he refused his assent to HB 436 and why he made that decision. HB 436 was entitled the "Second Amendment Preservation Act" and would have denied to the federal government the authority to enact any statutes, rules, regulations, or executive orders "which restrict or prohibit the manufacture, ownership, and use of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition exclusively within the borders of Missouri."
Now, with the state senate's failure to override Nixon's veto, one supposes, the federal government is free to impose its unconstitutional control of the God-given right to keep and bear arms within the formerly sovereign borders of the Show Me State.
In the letter accompanying his veto notification letter, Governor Nixon lists his objections under two headings: Supremacy Clause violation and First Amendment free speech clause violations. The explanation given under the second section is such a stretch as to obviate any need to deconstruct. As to the first, it demonstrates a common constitutional misunderstanding and thus merits correction.
A statement made by the governor just before the senate's unsuccessful effort to override his veto reveals he hasn't learned much about the Constitution since he refused to sign the Second Amendment Preservation Act.
"It's unconstitutional, it's unsafe and it's unnecessary," Nixon told the press gathered at the state capitol to record the vote.
In an article reporting on the events published on Wednesday, the Associated Press demonstrated the same lack of constitutional competency, writing, "the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution ... gives precedence to federal laws over conflicting state ones."
Governor Nixon and the AP need a quick refresher course on the basics of constitutional interpretation.
The Supremacy Clause (as some wrongly call it) of Article VI does not declare that federal laws are the supreme law of the land without qualification. What it says is that the Constitution "and laws of the United States made in pursuance thereof" are the supreme law of the land.
Read that clause again: "In pursuance thereof," not in violation thereof. If an act of Congress is not permissible under any enumerated power given to it in the Constitution, it was not made in pursuance of the Constitution and therefore not only is not the supreme law of the land, it is not the law at all.
Constitutionally speaking, then, whenever the federal government passes any measure not provided for in the limited roster of its enumerated powers, those acts are not awarded any sort of supremacy. Instead, they are "merely acts of usurpation" and do not qualify as the supreme law of the land. In fact, acts of Congress are the supreme law of the land only if they are made in pursuance of its constitutional powers, not in defiance thereof.
Alexander Hamilton put an even finer point on the issue when he wrote in The Federalist, No. 78, "There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the constitution, can be valid."
Once there are more legislators, governors, citizens, and law professors who realize this fact, they will more readily and fearlessly accept that the states are uniquely situated to perform the function described by Madison above and reiterated in a speech to Congress delivered by him in 1789. "The state legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operation of this government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a federal government admit the state legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty," Madison declared.
To the credit of the authors of HB 436, the bill, though now dead, contained an accurate recitation of the history of the creation of the federal government and the crucial role nullification plays in the check on federal usurpation. The bill reads:
Acting through the United States Constitution, the people of the several states created the federal government to be their agent in the exercise of a few defined powers, while reserving to the state governments the power to legislate on matters which concern the lives, liberties, and properties of citizens in the ordinary course of affairs;
The limitation of the federal government's power is affirmed under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which defines the total scope of federal power as being that which has been delegated by the people of the several states to the federal government, and all power not delegated to the federal government in the Constitution of the United States is reserved to the states respectively, or to the people themselves;
Whenever the federal government assumes powers that the people did not grant it in the Constitution, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force;
The several states of the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their federal government. If the government created by the compact among the states were the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers granted to it by the Constitution, the federal government's discretion, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of those powers.
Something most, though not enough, Missouri lawmakers understand is that the federal government is the creature of the states, not their creator. The states provisionally delegated a portion of their sovereignty to the federal government and they specifically enumerated that authority in the Constitution.
Federal exercise of power, as understood by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, is legitimate only if those powers were granted to the federal government by the people and listed specifically in the Constitution.
In the Virginia Resolution, Madison described any attempt by the federal government to act outside the boundaries of its constitutional powers as a "dangerous exercise," and reminded state legislatures that they were "duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil."
Considering, then, that the Second Amendment to the Constitution explicitly forbids the federal government from infringing on the right of citizens to keep and bear arms ("shall not infringe"), any movement by Congress or the White House in that direction certainly passes Madisonian muster for state nullification.
In Missouri, however, the feds just got a green light to go ahead and take away the rights given to citizens by God.
It's all but certain now that Attorney General Eric Holder will keep his promise to send federal agents to enforce President Obama's gun restrictions in states foolish enough to try to stand in the way of their federal overlords.
The scuppering of the state senate's attempt to uphold this fundamental aspect of freedom was apparently aided by the state attorney general's scare tactics. The AP reports:
Attorney General Chris Koster, a Democrat, also raised concerns last week about the ramifications of a potential veto override. He said a court likely would strike down the nullification provision but could leave intact other sections of the bill that could potentially prevent local police from cooperating with federal authorities on crimes involving guns. He said the bill also could open Missouri police to potential lawsuits from criminals if they refer gun-related cases to federal authorities.
Brian Nieves, a gun rights and nullification advocate, attributes much of his colleagues' failure to support the Second Amendment to Koster's propaganda. Koster, Nieves reportedly said, "literally scares the bejesus out of our great law enforcement community."
It remains to be seen how legislators in other states will react to the contradictory events in Colorado and Missouri. Citizens jealous of their liberty should make sure they contact their representatives and let them know they will hold them accountable for their votes, particularly those directly impacting their ability to enjoy constitutionally protected rights.


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When I picked up my LCR, I was aware of some folks complaining about short stroking the trigger. I've primarily shot SA over the years - mainly BP revolvers - but have also had experience with semi-autos and DA/SA revolvers.
I purchased the LCR for carry because I was not happy with the Bersa Thunder CC 380 I'd picked up used - it had been fooled with and while it was a great gun in my opinion, I didn't like the light trigger pull when it went to SA. For SD, I wanted something stiffer. I actually prefer a revolver as well. I'd looked at S & Ws - boyguard revolver and semi auto as well as several other brands and I felt that most of them had a long trigger pull as well.
I'm not trying to start up a controversy at all - everybody has their likes and dislikes. I'm just wondering if those that have problems with the long trigger pulls like the LCR and others have the problem because they are so used to shooting other revolvers with different pulls? I've got a S & W M & P Target 38 spl, a Colt Army Special and a Colt Python. I'm working on shooting them in DA but still prefer SA when shooting them and let's face it - the trigger pulls on those are miles away from the LCR. The thing that I like about my LCR is that I find that it has a smooth trigger pull (at least mine does) but yes, it's stiffer and longer - I view it as a SD piece and with that in mind, if it has to be fired, it's because you mean to, not because your finger twitched.
As I stated earlier, I have not dry fired mine - I became acquainted with it by firing it - but I am not knocking dry firing in any way. I've had handguns that I thought I wanted only to find out after getting them, there were things that I didn't like and out the door they went. I love my LCR and have six other Ruger handguns that I love . . . but if there is a doubt in a person's mind about reliability . . . then maybe they should look at other makes/models - peace of mind is everything. And, let's face it - any make/model can have a problem as already stated. I'd say the same thing about a Smith or a Python as well.
I'm just wondering if those that have issues/trouble with the longer/stiffer trigger pull on a pistol such as the LCR - do you have the same with the LCP, Smith Bodyguard models, etc.?
I do hope that the OP gets his problem taken care of - it's no fun when issues like that occur.
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On October 15, I wrote a short piece for the New York Times on the three American victims of the Bali bombing. One of them, of course, was Steven Webster. Webster lived in Huntington Beach, worked in Newport and was a mainstay in the lineup at 56th Street. Webster was a friend to a great many people, including Surfer publisher Kevin Meehan.
To find a little more about Webster, I phoned the home of his best friend Trent Walker. Who should pick up the phone but longtime former Jim Hogan, who surfed the world tour from 1981 to 1990. Turns out Hogan had been a longtime friend of "Webbie" too.
In the interest of telling you a little more about the guy than my short article was able to, I figured I'd put the interviews with both Jim Hogan and Trent Walker online.
The Jim Hogan Interview.
Chris Dixon: Jim, I suppose you've been to the Sari Club before.
Jim Hogan: It's amazing. I've been to Bali four times and I've sat in that same club with Rabbit Bartholomew, Tom Carroll and a number of other pro surfers. These things can just happen anytime.
CD. Sam George called this bombing an attack against surfing.
JH: Yeah, Kuta beach in general, I'd say 90 percent of their tourism is surfing.
We would always stay in Kuta and take the combi down to Padang Padang or Uluwatu or go outward from there.
CD: When's the last time you were there?
JH: 6 years ago. I know it's grown up a lot since then.
CD: Tell me a little bit out Stephen Webster
JH: Well, I'm 39. I've known him 22 or 23 years. Trent Walker has been my best friend since we were little kids — 2 or 3 years old. Walker and Webbie were roommates, and that's how I met Webbie way back then.
Trent still shares an office space with Webster down on 56th st. Down where they always were roommates, and the house is still right across the street from the beach. In between work, a bunch of boards were always there, and you could always stop in, grab a one and go out for a surf. Ever since I was 17, I'd come to his house to hang out with him. The place was just a great hangout.
There's a whole group of guys up here that Webbie was really tight with. Trent Walker and John Parodi, who is still in Bali and a really tight knit crew of guys who would always go golfing, fishing or surfing together.
Steve liked to live his life and have fun. He worked really hard, was totally dedicated to his family and would always look for a surfing adventure. They would take off once a year for a surf trip. Hawaii, Bali, wherever. That's basically who Webster was, and you know, you could never really go out in the water at 56th street without seeing him if the waves were good. It's been that way for 22 years.
CD: What did you think when you heard the news of the bombing?
JH: It's a nightmare. A nightmare that came true. And you know, there are a whole lot of Australian surfers who are missing as well. I wouldn't doubt if I know one or two of them. That's the kind of place the Sari Club and Kuta Beach is. Six years ago, while on a trip, we ran into Tom Carroll, Richard Cram and Rabbit. Of course, we all had once been on the tour together and the next thing you know we're hanging out at this club on the other side of the world.
CD : Do you think Webster thought he was taking any undue risks?
JH: No way. He was planning on going there and getting some reallly good surf, celebrating his birthday and having a good time. They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
John Parodi and Steve Cabler who were over there traveling with him. They're going to have a lot of healing to do mentally. It's just crazy.
CD: What are you guys doing now for a memorial?
JH: We're trying to put some stuff together for the funeral–a scrapbook from friends with pictures and quotes from his life. We'll probably paddle out at 52nd street for a big memorial on Saturday.
CD: This one really hit close to home in a lot of ways.
JH: You know, surfers are usually braver than anyone, and they'll go to exotic places like Indonesia, South Africa or other places where there are problems, but usually of course, it doesn't turn out like this.
Trent Walker
Trent Walker, was the best man at Stephen Webster's wedding, and Webbie was the best man at Walker's recent marriage too. They were lifelong friends.
Chris Dixon: Trent, tell me about your relationship with Stephen.
Trent Walker: We were best men at each other's weddings. We met as waiters at the Rusty Pelican years ago and there are still a number of us who remain friends after all these years. Steve and I just matured into a best friend situation.
CD: Where have you traveled with him?
Tahiti, Mexico, Hawaii, Costa Rica — quite a few spots. He was a guy who lived life to the fullest. He set his whole situation up so that he could surf, fish and golf whenever it was called for.
CD: What made him a friend of so many?
He had a huge circle of frineds. His nickname was "instabro". Because he's everyone's bro. I remember we went to Tahiti, and we were not in the hotel five minutes before he was riding down the street on one of the local's bikes and already bro's with everybody. A total character. Everybody between 52nd and 56th knew him.
He was one of those guys — if you needed to count on for something, he was there. If he came upon a traffic accident, he would be the first to stop and help. If he was on that plane that was supposed to hit the White House, he would have been one of the guys who would have taken the terrorists with him.
I remember one night when we were roommates, he was coming home from work late at night and a car had flipped on the road and there was no one at the scene yet. He jumped out and pulled the guy from the wreckage and held the guy by the neck until the paramedics got there. Most people would have driven right by.
And you know, he wasn't short on words about himself, but everybody knew that he had such a big heart they'd just kind of chuckle and say "Yeah, right Steve, we saw you in that barrel. The whole beach was on its feet giving you a standing ovation."
All the while, he'd be saying, "Did you see me? Did you see me?"
He was a very good surfer, a very good fisherman and a good golfer who carried a 6 handicap. He was prolific and passionate about everything he did. He got into making a salad, he got into eating a steak, I mean he got into the grade of the pepper grinded on his food.
CD: What about his family?
He was emotional and a free spirit, but he really cared. His wife Mona had a daughter from a previous marriage who he loved. And Dylan, his six year old son, was prematurely born after 28 weeks because part of the amniotic sac was wrapped around his foot and was cutting off the circulation — if they hadn't pulled him out, he might have lost his foot. He was pulled out C-section and Webbie always said, "well the reason he came out so soon was because he wanted to be a surfer not a kneeboarder."
As it stands right now, Trent Walker and friends are planning a 10 AM paddle out memorial at 52nd Street in Newport Beach on Saturday the 19th. They've also put up a memorial and a scrapbook for you to sign at the 56th street house.
To contribute to the trust fund to benefit Steve's children, make checks payable to the Trent Walker, c/o Steven B. Webster Family
Mail checks to:
Trent Walker
PO Box 15967
Newport Beach, CA 92659-5967
This trust was set up by Steve's close friends Trent Walker and Mike Hefner.