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OverRun mode is a class-based mode in which players take on the role of both COG and Locust troops. The two teams of five players compete in objective-based matches. The video tutorial made it look a bit like League of Legends.
PowerUp Rewards members who pre-order Judgment at GameStop will receive the demo on March 15th at 11:59 PT. If you pre-ordered through GameStop before today, you'll also get access. The early access period ends on March 18th at 11:59 PT. The demo will be available to all Xbox Live Gold members on the following day.
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Moustakas would earn a $10,000 bonus under Tuesday's deal if he has 550 or more plate appearances.
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Accused of intentionally running down two men, including a friend.
Hernandez faces life imprisonment if convicted.
Investigation finds foul-tasting, but harmless, bacteria in draft lines at Houston bars.
The suit says the Lohans want the segment taken off Hannity's website. They're also seeking unspecified damages.
From Kansas City, Kansas, have pleaded guilty to armed robbery at a bank in a small northwest Missouri town.
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Great hotel with quirky rooms in a historic building, Staff were great.
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A great place to stay, historical place built in 1450, Lady Sarah Jane Gray was crowned Queen there in 1555 on the very balcony I walked on also Charles Rolls & the Queen Julian of Netherlands stayed there, Black Oak beams everywhere.
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This is an amazingly old place with bags of character.
The food was good solid fare and the bar was lively (it was karaoke night). We stayed in room 207 which, even though it needed a refurb, was clean although the bed was very uncomfortable. In a building this old don't expect even floors and walls - this is all part of its charm. However if you are a tall person, my husband is 6' 4", it may be worth checking the ceiling height of your room as there was no part in which he could stand straight. That said, staff were friendly and we enjoyed our stay.
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Lovely olde world hotel, very friendly and helpful staff, very good food at competitive prices.
hotel conveniently located nice comfortable rooms. Good varied selection of food and drink. Only slight drawback is there is no on site parking but there is a car park only a short walk away.
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This hotel is fab.
Feels really old and historic, complete with beams, bulging walls and sloping floors. The young man on reception (not Alex) was great, ordered us a taxi then came to find us to let us know it had arrived. The bed was comfy and the bathroom was clean. Just don't expect a premier inn. This is as much an experience as a bed for the night.
We had food in the bar which was good and the buffet breakfast was delicious. Would definitely stay here again.
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Room 220 was newly refurbished, at the back and so very quiet.
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We stayed on a Saturday night was warned by the reception that they had karaoke 12 midnight.
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Think labor and delivery is brutal? Imagine giving birth at 30,000 feet with no doctors in sight! This past week, an airline passenger had a baby during her flight. The new mom then named the infant after an airline attendant who helped to deliver her.
ABC News reported on Armina Babayan's story. This past weekend, she gave birth to a baby girl on a flight from Siberia to Armenia. She got on the plane claiming she was only six-and-a-half months pregnant. Apparently, this was not exactly true.
The official recommendation is that a pregnant woman should not fly after 36 weeks. After that point, she is too close to her due date to safely travel via airplane. Besides, most airlines will not allow a heavily pregnant woman to board.
But, Babayan managed to pass muster on the Armenian airline. Mid-flight, airline attendant Asmik Gevondyan noticed that Babayan seemed to be in labor. The flight was still about two hours away from landing in Armenia. So, along with other attendants on the plane, including one male, they safely delivered the baby girl who her mom named after Gevondyan.
It is hard to fathom having to deliver a baby on the spot! These flight attendants really rose to the occasion. But the point is, there is a reason expectant moms are advised not to fly so close to their due dates. In this case, baby Asmik was delivered safely without complications, but clearly both she and her mom are very lucky.
Imagine if there had been a problem during the birth! Would the plane have had to make an emergency landing? Babayan put everyone on the plane, including herself and her baby, in danger when she decided to fly while so far along in her pregnancy.
What would you do if an airline passenger had a baby on your flight?
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Adriene Hill: Now to China, where leaders say they'll consider doing more to help resolve the European debt crisis. But, when it comes to how much to help, China is treading very cafefully.
Marketplace China bureau chief Rob Schmitz reports.
Rob Schmitz: Premier Wen Jiabao says China wants to help solve the EU debt crisis. But how much money China will contribute is anybody's guess.
William Hess: I think it'll be significant, but it won't put china in the position of being a savior to the EU.
William Hess is director of PRC Macro Advisors in Beijing. Hess says China's trying to figure out the magic amount it'll take to gain political favors from the EU in return. Favors like easing trade restrictions and curbing WTO complaints against China. Hess says Beijing's in a tough position.
Hess: Big spending to bail out welfare states in Europe when China's social safety net is still weak—it just doesn't look very good.
It's not looking good to Shen Ying, a 30 year-old deliveryman in Shanghai.
Shen Ying: This is the people's money and they're wasting it. If we give the Europeans money, this will improve their goods and resources. Then we'll have to buy those goods at higher prices. In the end, all the money ends up in the hands of the foreigners.
And for Shen and for millions of other Chinese, that doesn't seem fair.
In Shanghai, I'm Rob Schmitz for Marketplace.


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Bill Johnson Statement on the Supreme Court's Immigration Decision
Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Marietta) released the following statement today reacting to the Supreme Court's ruling to uphold a key provision of Arizona's immigration law (S.B. 1070) that allows Arizona's law enforcement to check a person's legal status in the course of enforcing other laws.
"Today's Supreme Court decision to uphold a key part of Arizona's immigration law is an important step forward in enforcing America's immigration law, and highlights President Obama's failure to lead on this critical issue. Because of the President's failure, Arizona had to step up and do what the federal government won't do – take steps toward securing America's borders and protecting our citizens. The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the rule of law is a major step toward an immigration policy that protects Americans and begins the process of fixing what President Obama chooses to neglect."


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A team from Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital has made it into the finals of an apprenticeship challenge, beating off stiff nationwide competition.
After three months of competition between more than 100 teams, the Brathay Apprenticeship Challenge finalists were announced at a House of Commons reception.
As part of the competition the Queen Elizabeth Hospital team built a reminiscence room to help patients in the hospital with dementia.
The team also visited schools to talk about the benefits of apprenticeships – giving young people the chance to earn while they learn.
The other finalists are :Barrow Engineering Projects –Oxley Group, British Airways High Flyers, e2v Technologies, Pepsi Co, QinetiQ, South Worcestershire College, Virgin Media.
Henry Bellingham, North West Norfolk MP, said: "It's brilliant news that a small district general hospital team have go to the final alongside the vast multinationals."
The finalists will continue to raise awareness of apprenticeships and conduct fundraising until Monday, June 9, when the challenge will culminate in a series of team building, logistical and physical challenges. The winner will be announced on Wednesday, June 11.


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Properly applying the standard to medical development and integrating third-party software will pay dividends down the road.
Editor's note: This is a two-part article. Part 2 will focus on systemic problems.
For many years, the medical device industry has operated without a consistent and internationally recognised regulatory process. In the U.S., companies have needed compliance to FDA guidelines, which some have lambasted for unnecessary delay while others complain about its lack of rigor. Others heartily approve of the FDA, but argue for government legislation that gives the FDA more power to hold company executives responsible when they don't follow the FDA guidelines with due diligence.
In Europe, government approval of a medical device is through its corresponding Competent Authority (CA). Although this process is said to be more rigorous than the U.S. guidelines, companies can typically get their products to market faster in Europe—a fact that galls American-based businesses.
With the ratification and update of IEC 62304, a standard for design of medical products recently endorsed by both the European Union and the U.S., medical developers throughout the world are asking if IEC 62304 should form the foundations of a medical device standard that enables all countries to follow good development practise and to produce high-quality software for the medical community.
Certainly, there's no turning back in the adoption of medical devices as they have become essential to medical practitioners who use them constantly to diagnose with ease and accuracy. What's needed is a universal development process that ensures the safety and quality of such devices. To address the need for quality software development, let's look at the unique challenges associated with developing sound medical devices and how IEC 62304 addresses these challenges. We will then look at how to bring legacy products into compliance since another significant challenge involves upgrading legacy code without introducing errors that adversely affect the safety of the medical device.
Unique Med Device Development Challenges
Medical devices rely heavily on legacy software, often referred to as software of unknown pedigree (SOUP). This legacy software forms the basis of new developments, which may now be subject to new medical device requirements or modern coding standards imposed by government, client demands, or simply a policy of continuous improvement within the developer organization. The need to leverage the value of SOUP, while meeting new standards and further developing functionality, presents its own set of unique challenges.
An analysis of 3140 medical device recalls conducted between 1992 and 1998 by the FDA reveals that 242 (7.7%) are attributable to software failures. Of the software recalls, 192 (79%) were caused by software defects introduced after software upgrades. This clearly reveals that many of the medical device faults stem from product upgrades. The high percentage of errors introduced during product upgrade has caused government agencies responsible for the medical device regulation to focus not only on development, but on subsequent maintenance and the impact of software changes to the existing system.
In response to this, many companies are changing their approach to improve their software processes as well as to adopt IEC 62304. This standard introduces a risk-based compliance structure—Class A through C where the failure of Class C software could result in death or serious injury—that ensures that medical applications comply with the standards suitable for their risk assessment.
IEC 62304 Focuses on Five Software Processes
The IEC 62304 standard provides a framework of software development lifecycle processes with activities and tasks necessary for the safe design and maintenance of medical device software. This standard basically identifies five main processes:
IEC 62304 Software Development Lifecycle
IEC 62304 focuses on the software development process, defining the majority of the software development and verification activities (see IEC 62304 Focuses on Five Software Processes). This process includes activities such as software development planning, requirement analysis, architectural design, software design, unit implementation and verification, software integration and integration testing, system testing, and finally software release.
This standard not only outlines requirements for each stage of the development lifecycle, but also takes care of the maintenance process, the impact of software change to the existing system, and the risk involved in implementing the software change. The standard also discusses in detail the effect of the SOUP items, including planning, requirement analysis, architectural design, maintenance, and risk management.
Legacy and SOUP software that can be reused in the development of new devices has become prevalent since medical devices now tend to be built on general-purpose embedded hardware. The use of SOUP in medical devices has its advantage in that the manufacturer can concentrate on the application software which needs to run device-specific functions.
SOUP is often developed for general-purpose applications, and using this general-purpose software in medical devices adds challenges. Most SOUP modules are provided by third-party vendors who may not follow any specific software process, software standards, or even document the code.
While SOUP addresses platform concerns, thereby saving programming time, it also brings with it a number of dangers. For example, projects are initially subjected to functional system testing which usually offers poor code coverage, leaving many code paths unexercised. When that code is applied in service, the different data and circumstances to which the code is then exposed are likely to use many such paths for the first time and hence unexpected results can occur.
The European System and Software Initiative "Performance of Errors through experience-driven Test" (PET) investigated this phenomenon and agreed that deployed code often possesses many errors. Their findings demonstrated that the number of bugs that can be found by newer methods of testing, such as static and dynamic analysis, is large, even if that code has been through functional system testing and subsequently been released.
1. Even code exercised both on site and by functional testing is likely to include many unproven execution paths. Code enhancements are prone to call into service combinations of data not previously encountered, resulting in the possibility of tapping into those previously unexercised paths.
The legacy software previously subjected to functional testing is then deployed for further tests. Even if it worked well, some part of the code may not be exercised, even when the product is in the field. When legacy code needs ongoing development for later revisions or new applications, previously unexercised code paths are likely to be called into use by combinations of data that were never previously encountered.
To counteract this potential weakness, a detailed structural coverage analysis needs to be undertaken to ensure that there is no unexercised code in the legacy software. IEC 62304 mandates functional coverage (i.e., ensuring the software functions per system design requirements) and structural coverage (i.e., all code sections are exercised and shown to work properly) of the legacy software along with a detailed analysis of the risk that could be introduced by the addition and use of such software.
It's the device manufacturer's responsibility to specify the functional and performance requirements of the SOUP items that are necessary as well as the system hardware and software needed to support the proper operation of the SOUP item. Any changes to the SOUP item need to be analyzed to determine whether the software modification could interfere with existing software and introduce new risks. As highlighted earlier, IEC 62304 addresses SOUP items during software planning, requirement management, architectural design, integration testing, system testing, risk management, maintenance, and change management phase.
Software planning calls for a detailed plan of the SOUP items to be used. This plan should define how these items are to be integrated within the existing system, how to manage the risk associated with the SOUP, and how software configuration and change management might affect the system. Requirement management plays a pivotal role in ensuring the medical device's functional and performance requirements, including any SOUP items, are met and verified. Because many errors have been introduced in medical devices when new functionality is added, IEC 62304 extensively details how maintenance and change management must be done.
As you can see from our discussion so far, IEC 62304 outlines sound software development practise for medical devices from planning, requirement analysis, implementation and verification, integration, and software release. The standard ensures that the risks associated with third-party SOUP items are regulated at all stages of the software development lifecycle.
Industry regulators hope that, by implementing IEC 62304 safeguards, medical devices will receive the thorough functional and structural coverage analysis that leads to better software quality. With a more maintainable system, the SOUP items in medical devices will remain safe when exposed to later revisions.
Anil Kumar is a technical consultant with LDRA in India, specialising in the development, integration and certification of mission- and safety-critical systems. With a solid background in development tools and real-time operating systems, Anil guides organizations in selecting, integrating and supporting their real-time embedded systems from development through to certification.
Mark Pitchford has over 25 years' experience in software development for engineering applications, the majority of which have involved the extension of existing code bases. He has worked on many significant industrial and commercial projects in development and management, both in the UK and internationally including extended periods in Canada and Australia. For the past 10 years, he has specialised in software test and works throughout Europe and beyond as a Field Applications Engineer with LDRA.


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Brooklyn, New York — The members of The Council of St. Vincent and The Grenadines Organizations USA, Inc (COSAGO) have selected Chairman of The Board of The Garifuna Coalition, Jose Francisco Avila, as one of two people to be honored at COSAGO's annual Luncheon commemorating the Independence of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. St. Vincent is the ancestral land of the Garifuna people. The luncheon will take place on SUNDAY October 28th 2012.


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Русский > Места > Места из романа > Дом Грибоедова
When Ivan, after the decapitation of Berlioz, starts his chase of the strange trio he met at Patriarch's, Ponds, for some unclear reason he thinks that the strange professor must be at Griboedov's, home base of MASSOLIT. "To Griboedov's! Beyond all doubt, he's there". So he runs to the writers' house in his underwear. He tries to explain his unusual dressing to the people present by telling the story of the day, but he got tied up, and transported to doctor Stravinsky's psychiatric hospital.
Bulgakov describes a "two-storeyed, cream-coloured house" as Дом Грибоедова or the house of Gribojedov at the Ring Boulevard. That's where he situates the Moscow Literary Club MASSOLIT of which Berlioz was the chairman.
Bulgakov was rather tough in his judgment about this club: "Massolit had settled itself at Griboedov's in the best and cosiest way imaginable. Anyone entering Griboedov's first of all became involuntarily acquainted with the announcements of various sports clubs, and with group as well as individual photographs of the members of Massolit, hanging (the photographs) on the walls of the staircase leading to the second floor."
On the door to the very first room of this upper floor one could see a big sign: 'Fishing and Vacation Section', along with the picture of a carp caught on a line"
The real person giving his name to the house is Alexander Sergeevich Griboedov (1795-1829), author of one of the most famous Russian theatre plays, Woe from Wit. But the Griboedov house never really existed. When following Bulgakov's routemap, we arrive at Tverskoy Boulevard 25. There's a house that fits the description: the Herzen house, where Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (1812-1870), another Russian author, was born in 1812.
The role of the original Herzen house corresponds to Gribodeov in the book. This house at Tverskoy Boulevard 25 was the home of many literary organizations in the twenties. The Российская Ассоциация Пролетарских Писателей (RAPP) or the Russian association of proletarian writers, the Московская Ассоциация Пролетарских Писателей (MAPP) or the Organisation of proletarian writers of Moscow and the Литературный Организация Красной Армии и Флота (LOKAF) or the Literary Union of the Red Army and the Marine. De names of these organisations are real: much hideous abbreviations were commonly used in the Soviet Union. Bulgakov based the fictive MASSOLIT on the RAPP and the MAPP.
In the book he gives no explanation to the abbrevation. But it could be the Мастери Социалистической литературы or the Masters for Socialist Literature, by analogy with the Мастери Коммунистической Драмы (MASTKOMDRAM) or the Masters for Communist Drama, an organisation that really existed in the '20's.
Until 1931 there was a writers' restaurant in the Herzen house. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1894-1930) criticized it heavily in his satirical poem Herzen house. Since 1930 it is the home of the Maxim Gorki Literary Institute, where aspirant-writers are trained.
At the end of the novel the cat Behemoth and Koroviev visit the writers' restaurant and start a fire there.
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Israel - Netanyahu Vows To Send Back Thousands Of African Migrants
Jerusalem - Israel's prime minister says thousands of Africans who have infiltrated into Israel will be sent back home.
Benjamin Netanyahu declared Wednesday that Israel has halted the flow of African migrants into Israel over the past seven months. He spoke while visiting the fence Israel built on border with Egypt to keep migrants out.
He said he will soon begin "repatriating the tens of thousands of infiltrators in Israel to their countries of origin."
About 60,000 Africans have entered Israel in recent years, some seeking asylum and others looking for work.
Sigal Rozen, whose group assists migrants, says it's unlikely Israel can repatriate them, since many come from conflict zones or countries that have no ties with Israel.
She says Netanyahu's pledge could be political posturing ahead of Jan. 22 elections.
More of today's headlines"Hawaii - President Barack Obama has signed a bill that boosts taxes on the wealthiest Americans, while preserving tax cuts for most American households. The bill..." Hawaii - Obama Signs Cliff Deal, Boost Taxes On Wealthy Americans "Los Angeles - Al-Jazeera, the Pan-Arab news channel that struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, boosting its reach nearly ninefold..." Los Angeles - Al-Jazeera Buys Current TV From Al Gore
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Jan 03, 2013 at 07:33 AM
About time. They have done enough damage already!!
Jan 03, 2013 at 09:42 AM
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have made their aliyah plans and will be living in tents outside the PM's office to protest.
Jan 06, 2013 at 09:28 AM
If they caused big damage, then that's a shame. Then i would have to agree they should enegetically be attempted to be sent back. But if not, then i would say they should be sent back more humanely on a one by one basis, after examining what the predicaments would be in each case.
It would be good if Israel gets a good name that many thousands chose Israel as a safe place to come to, even if illegally.
But can you do you that if Israel sends back 90% of them? If not, then send 100% back, or none!


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Angular, bespectacled feature reporter Norm Uhl, 44, familiar to Houston viewers for his "Norm at Work" video columns profiling folks with unusual vocations, picked up the first hints he might be looking for a new job himself late last fall. KHOU Channel 11 station manager Peter Diaz began dropping hints at staff meetings about "going after a younger demographic," and a supervisor suggested Norm might not be able to keep up with younger colleagues on breaking news stories.
"Obviously, I proved I could keep up with the daily grind," says Uhl of the period after he was taken off features and assigned hard news. "In my last month, I had four or five exclusives they thought were good enough to lead with."
Forty-eight-year-old space-beat veteran John Getter, who along with a formidable store of experience had put on a few pounds in recent years, detected the message via a drumbeat of comments from senior station managers to the effect that "you old people can't change, can't cut it, can't keep up." Never mind that Getter's reports were leads nearly every day of his last week at the station in December.
Both Getter's and Uhl's contracts were not renewed by the station in December. Getter had spent 16 years at KHOU -- in all, he'd had a 31-year TV career that began as a teenager in Dayton, Ohio. Uhl was nearing his 13th anniversary at KHOU after coming to Houston from WAVE-TV in Louisville, Kentucky. They and a half-dozen other KHOU staffers over 40 forced out of their jobs have taken their beef to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Houston.
The EEOC has opened an investigation into hiring and firing practices at the self-dubbed Spirit of Texas. A similar probe at KPRC Channel 2 has been ongoing for more than a year. KHOU's Diaz declined to comment on what an intermediary termed "personnel matters." KPRC general manager Steve Wasserman acknowledged that EEOC lawyers had queried station management about age discrimination in the news department, but said he knew of no complaints filed with the federal agency by former staffers.
The latest television staff upheavals demonstrate a hard fact of media life: For on-air television personalities, the adjective "old" applies to people several decades sooner than it does in other employment sectors. Wrinkles and paunches may have nothing to do with intellect or delivery, but in the rapidly dumbing-down world of local TV news, they're a career killer. Accomplishments like the two prestigious statewide environmental awards Uhl won for KHOU in his final year, or the unparalleled expertise on the NASA beat that Getter had accumulated, proved no guarantee of job security.
With Diaz's arrival last year, a new age dawned at Channel 11, and Getter and Uhl claim it's a world designed strictly for the under-40 set. If so, it's a distinct change of direction for the Belo-owned station located on Allen Parkway just west of downtown.
For most of the '90s, under news director Dave Goldberg, KHOU prided itself on being the thinking person's television news alternative in Houston, in contrast to Disney-owned KTRK Channel 13's slightly daft stable of personalities like consumer crusader Marvin Zindler and weatherman Ed Brandon.
Out the Southwest Freeway, the Hobby family had peddled KPRC Channel 2 to the Newsweek television empire. New station manager Steve Wasserman presided over a radical makeover of perhaps the most tradition-bound local news outlet, once epitomized by Ray Miller, Ron Stone and Jack Cato, into the hyperactive News Buzz format that media doctors routinely prescribe for patients suffering from attention deficit disorders.
Not coincidentally, most of the veteran KPRC staff was forced out and replaced with newcomers like suicide anchor Rob Johnson, who specializes in risking his neck in stunt stories. Or rising anchor and former traffic reporter Dominique Sachse, whose gaffes, including cheerily introducing a black weatherwoman as "our resident monkey," dwarf her news expertise.
After challenging Channel 13 for the top spot in the market several years ago, KHOU sagged back into a comfortable number two in the market. Wasserman's KPRC operation has yet to break into the top tier, in terms of ratings, but Getter claims it had a noticeable impact on Channel 11's management after Peter Diaz took over as general manager.
"Steve Wasserman has done a great psych job on his competitors," observes Getter. "He has not been successful yet, from the standpoint that they are still third and fourth and sometimes fifth in the ratings.... Yet he has been successful in getting his competing general managers to be very concerned about him, and begin to follow his lead, even though he's behind them."
Getter recalls a bemused friend at Channel 13 puzzling over Wasserman's influence. "Let me understand this," said the newswoman. "Channel 11 is a strong number two, Channel 2 is a number three and Channel 11 wants to be more like Channel 2? That's just great!"
Getter also is struck by the fact that television news has always resisted diversification, first with women and then blacks. He sees the current drive to dump older employees in favor of young, pretty faces as just the latest manifestation of discrimination.
"Every time the business as a whole has taken a position like this, it's been proved absolutely wrong," says Getter. "Because the diversification of the work force is strong, good marketing. It helps grow the audience." Getter cites the predominance of Channel 13 as evidence that diversity of all kinds strengthens a news operation.
"Who's number one?" he asks. "It's the station with a 50-plus-year-old anchor man [Dave Ward], a 40-plus-year-old anchorwoman [Shara Fryer], a 50-plus-year-old weatherman [Ed Brandon] and a 76-year-old feature reporter [Zindler]. And they are backed up by reporters who appear to range in age from about 28 to 62."
Citing office policy, Houston EEOC Director Joan Ehrlich would neither confirm nor deny that an age-discrimination investigation of KHOU and KPRC is under way. EEOC involvement in such cases in the media is very rare, comments Ehrlich, who recalls only one other case, where a male news anchor at KGO-TV in San Francisco claimed age discrimination and sued with EEOC assistance, winning a quarter-million-dollar judgment last year.
Ehrlich says she's privately counseled many on-air Houston television personalities who lost their jobs due to suspected sex or age discrimination. All of them eventually decided not to sue their former employers.
"These are very high-profile people who will face subtle or not so subtle retaliation if they file," explains Ehrlich. "People choose not to file, and go on and do something else, because otherwise their name is mud in the business."
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Neither Uhl nor Getter holds much hope of rejoining The Spirit of Texas staff. Uhl is considering working as a media representative for a statewide candidate in next fall's campaign, while Getter is pursuing freelance television-production projects.
Uhl hopes his complaint against KHOU plays a part in staving off the trend to replace veteran television journalists, with accumulated experience and seniority, with younger reporters paid far below market rates.
Getter looks to the EEOC investigation and possible future lawsuit for a fair and reasonable settlement to meet the needs of his family, "those that I thought would be met by a long and successful career at KHOU. And at the same time, perhaps help them learn as a company that discrimination, no matter what kind it is, stinks."
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First-time playwright Stephen Beresford mines familiar themes in his piercing drama "The Last of the Haussmans," presented by London's National Theatre and broadcast to cinemas worldwide, but this former actor handles them with such depth that they seem fresh. A dysfunctional family, conflict over a beloved house, and rivalry in love have been employed millions of times before. Beresford works detailed new variations on these tropes so that his script is much more than an updated "Cherry Orchard" or "Seagull." These are real people dealing with problems that are in one sense unique to them and in another are shared by all families. There are flaws—the play is a good 20 minutes too long and some of the characters' recent pasts could use some filling in—but the balance sheet definitely shows a dramatic profit.
The setting is the rundown domicile of the titular clan on Britain's Devon coast. Matriarch Judy is an elderly former political activist who spends her days drinking and reliving her 1960s glory days, when she protested against the establishment and blissed out at an Indian ashram. The action begins with her adult children rootless. Bitter Libby and drug-addicted, flamboyantly gay Nick have returned to care for Judy after she has been diagnosed with cancer and the local council has ordered that her chronically cluttered house be cleaned. There's plenty of emotional debris as well, with Libby carrying on an affair with Judy's doctor Peter; Nick developing a crush on Daniel, a hunky teenager who uses the Haussmann pool for swimming practice; and Summer, Libby's moody daughter, also attracted to Daniel and full of rage at her mother.
Emotions reach the boiling point when Judy refuses to apologize for abandoning her offspring to be raised by her parents while she went off to India and the ownership of the house comes into question. The play could easily have descended into a long shouting match, as there are so many high-decibel confrontation scenes, but director Howard Davies and a masterful cast keep the feelings beneath the screaming so honest that it seems as if we're watching a slightly heightened version of a real-life family at a crucial moment.
Rory Kinnear embraces Nick's flightiness without going over the top. This witty yet pathetic character could have been played as a stereotype—the tragic swishy queen—but the actor and playwright recognize that Nick's homosexuality isn't the cause of his unhappiness; it's his massive insecurity. Julie Walters comes on a bit strong as Judy, but that's the part. She's loud, domineering, and self-centered, and the actor conveys those qualities, as well as a kernel of maternal affection beneath the bluster. A luminous Helen McCrory provides the emotional center of the play as Libby, whose demanding roles as mother, daughter, and lover threaten to pull her apart. Isabella Laughland makes Summer a complex kid, Taron Egerton imparts the laconic Daniel's churning yearnings with soulful expression, and Matthew Marsh is a perfectly vacillating and spineless Peter.
"The Last of the Haussmans" is another triumph for the NT Live broadcasts.
Presented by National Theatre Live. For a complete list of U.S. dates, times, and locations, visit www.ntlive.com.
Critics' Grade: A-


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The weekend before Christmas 2011 witnessed the most surreal of parties – for the guests all harked from 1980s cartoons or TVprogrammes and onlookers were treated to the sight of a giant pink Care Bear dancing with Mario, in turn Mario was actually married to his brother Luigi and in the corner of the bar My Little Pony was seen swishing her mane seductively at Shredder.
This shindig was an awesomely themed surprise party thrown for my friend Shredder's (real name Andi) 30th Birthday by his rather sexy My Little Pony (Debbie) wife and with him being a die-hard Transformers fan (he has an Autobot tattoo on his arm to highlight his complete devotion) Debbie knew exactly the cake he would love – Optimus Prime – but of the classic 1980s design!
I could not wait to get started on this cake and was eagerly anticipating attending the party in my SuperTed guise with my husband as Mumra (he refused to be my sidekick Spotty – spoilsport!!) Frustratingly things did not quite go to plan on all counts as just after the cake had been collected both my kids came down with a sickness bug meaning we could not send them to their Grandparents for the evening . So as it turned out SuperTed and Mumra would not be dating each other that evening and they instead sat at home wrapping Christmas Presents!! (Of course we still donned the outfits – how could we not?)
The cake itself threw up a LOT of challenges, I had originally wanted to make a fully standing complete model of Optimus, budget and time constraints put paid to that, and in hindsight this was a good thing as even just the bust of him there are LOTS of straight angles and sharp corners to perfect!! He was a tricky old cake to make it has to be said!
To add an extra Mamma Jamma edge to him I turned to my trusty food colours and cross hatched Mr. Prime which really brought him to life before my eyes – I feel it added a depth and dimension to the finished piece. The board was covered in vintage edible images, comic strips and stats of Optimus Prime.
The best part is that Shredder LOVED the cake so the only downside was not getting to attend the party; One day, SuperTed, you SHALL go to the ball
Oh yeah and also Andi's awesome Shredder outfit was made secretly by his wife from Papier Mache – how cool is that? Talented lady!!


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Sony's platforms got the biggest helping of new content this week, but you're not completely out of luck on Xbox or PC.
Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed (PS3, Vita) – August 12Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited (Vita) – August 12Gravity Crash Ultra (Vita) – August 12Hohokum (PS4, Vita) – August 12Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds (Vita) – August 12Risen 3: Titan Lords (360, PS3, PC) – August 12Surgeon Simulator: Anniversary Edition (PS4) – August 12
Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro's Silent Hills teaser P.T. also released this week on PlayStation 4, but considering the
bizarre nature of the game, and the fact that it is a small teaser, I
wasn't sure if it constituted inclusion on this list. If you haven't
played it yet though, start your download now so you can start playing
when it gets dark outside.
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Chattanooga to Run Entire City Diesel Fleet on B20
2 May 2007
The Chattanoogan. The city of Chattanooga, Tennessee will shift its entire 385-vehicle diesel fleet to run on B20 biodiesel in the next couple of months.
"We've started with B5 and will operate the fleet on that blend for a short period, then move to B20 when everyone is satisfied with the first step," said Brian Kiesche, Fleet Manager for the city. "Everything we've got, from refuse trucks, dump trucks and heavy equipment like earth movers, bulldozers, front-end loaders, backhoes, to light- and medium-duty diesel pick-up trucks, will run on the biodiesel blend."
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What's missing in most discussions regarding Keizer is the voice of its youth.
Keizer prides itself as being a great place to raise a family, a good place for kids and teens to grow up. Unfortunately, their voices are rarely heard when the city discusses issues that affect our children. For example, there have been scant few people under the age of 18 who have appeared to testify before the Keizer City Council on issues such as sports fields. The city has a duty to reach out and listen to what Keizer's youth have to say.
The place to start is to reread the responses from the youth forum segment of 2009's Keizer Compass Community Vision report.
The youth forum proved that kids are cognizant of their surroundings; they are generally proud of their community and have a sense of pride being Keizerites. Two striking points of the forum was that Keizer youth appreciate the city's small size and they want to keep it that way; and, they want more opportunities for community service. Those are two points that get lost in the politics of governing and planning.
In the coming discussions of expanding the Urban Growth Boundary, the voice of tomorrow's leaders should be heard. In the youth forum in 2009, participants stated that it was important to them that Keizer maintain its small town feel; they didn't want the city to get too big. For them, they get their big city fix from either Salem or Portland.
From the mouth of babes often comes wisdom that is too easy to dismiss. Over the past three decades Keizer has created a city that people want to live in. Many of those young people want to preserve open and green space; they want to see green strategies implemented to ensure enivronmentally-compatible development. They think of growth in termss of vertical rather than horizontal, and they don't like traffic anymore than their elders.
It is good that many of our youth want to make Keizer their forever home. Having grown up here they will have the emotional connection with the community and want to help maintain its status as one of the most desired addresses to have in the valley.
Our kids have opinions and points of view about our city we should not ignore. The city council has a non-voting seat for a student member, but that's just one position. Keizer leaders should seriously consider adding a youth seat to city commissions and boards—a youth seat on the Traffic Safety/Bikeways/Pedestrian Committee seems a natural.
It doesn't have to be the city alone. The youth organizations (KYSA, KYBA, et al) should have youth representatives culled from those high school-age youth who played those sports. A 16-year old's perspective on a game he/she played when they were 10 years old makes sense.
Our children are our greatest natural resource. Let's use that resource wisely in government and elsewhere.


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BLYTHEWOOD, S.C. -- Steve Spurrier has more regrets over his all-Southeastern Conference ballot: That he took his omission of Florida's Tim Tebow from the first team so seriously and that he involved one of his most trusted staffers.
The South Carolina coach said Thursday he made way too big a deal of not voting for the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback at the Southeastern Conference's annual media gathering. Spurrier also made it clear he took responsibility for the incident and that his director of football operations, Jamie Speronis, was not to blame.
"We got into too much detail," Spurrier said after his annual summer golf outing. "We should not have gotten Jamie Speronis involved at all because he does a heck of a job as director of football operations. He's an important, key guy."
Spurrier's admission was perhaps the denouement to the biggest whodunit at SEC gathering in Hoover, Ala. The media had asked each league coach if they were the one who failed to place Tebow, who led the Gators to a national championship last fall, on the preseason first team.
Finally, Spurrier admitted the oversight, offering how sick he was when he realized he hadn't put his fellow Gator Heisman Trophy winner as his No. 1 choice. Spurrier then detailed what happened, including why Speronis had gone with Mississippi quarterback Jevan Snead over Tebow.
Spurrier called Tebow to apologize and had the SEC redo his ballot to include the Florida star as his choice.
"Sometimes, you look back and say, 'Why did we give them too much detail?"' Spurrier said. "It was an oversight, first list we sent in, it was my fault, and then we corrected it. That's all we needed to say."
Speronis has been Spurrier's director of football operations at South Carolina, with the Washington Redskins and at Florida. The two have been together 18 seasons.
Spurrier's SEC explanation put the affable right-hand-man in the spotlight. "I hope he didn't get too much grief," Spurrier said.
South Carolina's cross-country coach, Stan Rosenthal, said when he returned from Serbia a person at the airport saw his Gamecock shirt and mentioned how Spurrier "was in the news again" over Tebow.
South Carolina has lost its past three games to Florida since Tebow was there.
The Gamecocks get one last chance against him at Williams-Brice Stadium on Nov. 14.
Spurrier said he wishes he hadn't made his goof bigger than it was. "We made way too big a deal out of it," he said. "I wish I could handle it over, but can't so just say that and move on. Don't need to talk about that anymore."
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Jason Biggs is perhaps best known for playing geeky Jim Levenstein, who does something naughty with an apple pie in the first of the American Pie films. No doubt Biggs has suffered a tad from typecasting as a result. Worse, he good-naturedly asserts," some people confuse me with the character I play. But those movies are the best thing that ever happened. They've given me freedom. I don't want anyone to misconstrue that. Have I not gotten parts because of what I've done? Absolutely! You get some, you lose some. It's called a career. I hope to have a career. I hope to have longevity. Do I want to diversify? Sure. And I think I have. But I won't turn into a Nic Cage overnight. If there is a certain Jason Biggs character that I do, and if that has kept me in a certain kind of world for most of my career, so be it." Currently, Biggs is playing one of the three male leads in director Michael Greif's Off-Broadway revival of Howard Korder's Boys' Life, produced by Second Stage Theatre.
Though here too he's playing a nebbish, Biggs says there are levels of complexity in Korder's rite-of-passage play that he has never faced before as an actor. He cites the emotional arc of his character, Phil, from a weak to a strong beta male who, though still a beta male, can at least stand up for himself. Phil is also a performer. "He doesn't understand his sadness yet revels in his melancholy and wants people to identify him with it," Biggs says. "He's playing a role too, and that's another acting challenge. I like to think I'm more positive, more optimistic than Phil. I used to think of myself as a cynic. But now that I'm playing this role, I realize I'm a beacon of optimism compared to Phil." Korder's play was first produced in1988 — by Atlantic Theater Company at New York's Lincoln Center Theater — but Biggs finds it timely and full of personal resonance: "I wondered if it would be dated and have to be reset.
But it's not dated at all. It's about three guys straddling the time between childhood and adulthood, trying to grow up yet refusing to grow up." Now 30, Biggs married actor Jenny Mollen last April, "and I'm as happy as a clam," he says. "But this play touches on the big questions that you face as you take the big steps in life."
In addition to the American Pie comedies, Biggs has starred in such films as Jersey Girl, Anything Else, Loser, Over Her Dead Body, and the recent My Best Friend's Girl, co-starring Kate Hudson and Alec Baldwin. The latter has "a very funny script with a cool role for me," Biggs says, adding that it's "a bit more adult than what I've done before. The challenge was keeping a straight face and working with serious actors like Kate and Alec, who are consummate professionals. You have to beat the top of your game."
But Biggs is no stranger to theatre. When he was not quite 14, he opened on Broadway in Herb Gardner's Conversations With My Father, which won Judd Hirsch a Tony Award. Other prominent stage credits include Broadway's The Graduate, opposite Kathleen Turner and Alicia Silverstone, and Daniel Goldfarb's Modern Orthodox, an Off-Broadway production in 2004 with Molly Ringwald and Craig Bierko. Though there was a10-year gap between Conversations and The Graduate, Biggs says he never stopped looking for theatrical projects. Indeed, after The Graduate, he says, he made up his mind never to allow another decade to pass without returning to the stage.
Pushing Past Purgatory
Biggs grew up in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J. He slipped into acting serendipitously when the manager of his older sister — who was attempting her own acting career — suggested he audition for a commercial seeking acute young boy. "I had big eyes and curly hair," Biggs says. "I think the manager called and asked for me." He emphasizes that his parents never aggressively pushed their kids into acting, and when Biggs' older and younger sisters both dropped out of the business, that was fine with Mom and Dad.
At one point during his teenage years, Biggs also considered calling it a day. He was in that transitional period between teenager and young man, and despite a résumé that included a host of commercials, a TV series, and a healthy run in Conversations With My Father, the work abruptly dried up. "I was still auditioning and I was an actor, but I was not acting," he recalls. "And I was not having a quote 'normal social high school life' unquote, either. I was between two worlds, and it was purgatory." Biggs attended New York University before a TV gig surfaced and he relocated to L.A., where he worked steadily until landing his career-altering role in American Pie.
To be sure, the actor doesn't consider Jim Levenstein his most challenging role. That honor goes to Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate, "mostly because of the shoes I had to fill. I'm not Dustin Hoffman, and I'm not capable of doing what he did. But also, the play requires a different performance from the film. The movie is darker; it's all about the subtleties and the intimacy of the comedy that's not going to work on stage. It's a different read, and we were doing a bigger version comically and performance wise.
We were going for the jokes. At the same time, we wanted to maintain the integrity of the film and the novel by Buck Henry." Another challenge: "I was offstage for only one scene." Biggs says he doesn't have a particular approach to acting — beyond not "overthinking, which is a roadblock." He's also a champion of preparation, memorizing his lines even for auditions.
And yes, despite his high-profile career, he does audition, maintaining that many roles he has wanted have eluded him. When he was younger, he believes, Holden Caulfield of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye would have been a plum role for him, though the reclusive author has never allowed his seminal novel to be filmed. "Now, of course, I'm too old for it," Biggs says. "Part of me would like to do something no one would ever expect from me, like an action movie. But at the end of the day, I like comedy. I like making people laugh, though I've done dramatic work, and a lot of the comic work I've done has had dramatic elements."
Biggs is currently developing a TV show with Mitchell Hurwitz, who created Arrested Development. "It's about a family that loves too much," the actor says. "We'll use a single camera, and there will be no laugh tracks, no studio audience."
And what would he be doing if he weren't acting? "There was a time I wanted to be a marine biologist," Biggs confides. "For a minute I was interested in finance. I wanted to be a pilot. I still want to fly. But for me it's all about acting. If not acting, I'd probably be in porno."
Boys' Life runs through Nov. 16 at Second Stage Theatre, 307 W. 43rd St., NYC. Tickets: (212) 246-4422or www.2st.com.
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Appeared on As the World Turns, earning a Daytime
Emmy nomination for outstanding younger actor in a
drama series
Was featured on the TV shows Drexell's Class and Total Security
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Title: Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
Author: Lisa Napoli
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Type: Non Fiction
Released: February 8, 2011
Length: 277 pages
Lisa Napoli was in the grip of a mid-life crisis when a chance encounter led her to the adventure of a lifetime. Leaving behind her job in public radio and her life in Los Angeles, she moved to the tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan to volunteer at the country's first youth radio station. Along the way, she found the world is a beautiful and complicated place, and learns to appreciate life in a way she never imagined.
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Imagine that sneezing, coughing, fever and just plain achy allover feeling. You know it's the flu coming on. You want to take some medication and crawl into bed until you feel better.
Now imagine that you have no medication nor money to buy it. You don't have a bed nor a home to put it in. You're on the street.
If you're homeless—whether because of screw-ups, addictions or just bad luck—being sick makes you even more vulnerable to the dangers of the street. Things improve around the holidays when lots of attention is paid to the less fortunate and the shelters dish hearty and healthy meals. But in January, most people go on with their comfortable lives and the homeless go back to scrounging—even harder to do when you're sick as a dog.
Homeless Outreach Medical Service
Homeless Outreach Medical Service (HOMES) is a joint program between Parkland Memorial Hospital and the city of Dallas that sends mobile units offering medical care to people at homeless shelters and havens for battered women and children. The successful service has such a low profile that few outside the shelters and soup kitchens know anything about it.
That changed during the Katrina evacuation, when several of the vans were parked at Reunion Arena, and last August the program received a donation from the Crystal Charity Ball allowing it to buy a state-of-the-art mobile medical unit for $379,000.
The homeless often present different medical problems than the run-of-the-mill patient, such as spider bites and physical attacks. They have higher rates of substance abuse and mental illness than the general population and may not understand how and when to take their medications.
Many have diabetes, a disease which is very difficult to control if you are homeless. Diabetics have a tough time making sure they give themselves insulin on time and keeping the drug from overheating in the summer. Failure can mean the loss of a foot or leg. People with high cholesterol and high blood pressure must subsist on the meals served at shelters, usually high-fat, high-sodium foods that fill people up, but few fruits and vegetables except around holidays. They're at risk of heart attacks and strokes.
If they end up in the emergency room, their belongings might be stolen or thrown away along with their medications.
And on the more mundane side, what do you do with a man who has severe athlete's foot and only one pair of socks? Staffers spend a lot of time coming up with creative solutions. Nutritionist Kathleen Shaw rotates among the vans to give training on what kinds of foods to eat when they do have a choice.
But the cough-and-cold season and a visit to the Austin Street Shelter illustrate the program's one major deficiency.
The big blue doctor's office on wheels, the oldest of the five HOMES vans regularly in use, pulls up in front of the shelter on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On a recent Thursday, a handful of people were standing and sitting on the sidewalk, bundled up against a wet chill, by the time the van arrived at 8 a.m. A side window opens. Shirley Henderson, a stylish woman wearing gold jewelry and fur-trimmed boots, leans out.
"You here, Annie?" calls Henderson, a financial counselor who handles the patients' paperwork. She's as peppy as if she is herding patients at the office of a North Dallas OB/GYN. "You're next."
"Annie" hauled herself onto the 40-foot mobile medical unit and sat in the "waiting room," a bench seat in about 10 square feet behind the driver. Henderson, whose back is to the windshield, sits next to him. Wearing mismatched clothes, Annie is a small woman anywhere from 40 to 70 years old. Her tangled hair is swept back, her skin is red and weather-worn and most of her front teeth are missing. She's coughing, trying to cover her mouth while gripping a coat and a tote bag.
"Where have you been?" asks Henderson as she taps on her laptop computer. "I've been looking for you." Annie needs some medical tests and hadn't appeared that morning on time. "Did you fast like you were supposed to?" Henderson asks.
Annie mumbles an answer; she's deaf and reads lips. But Henderson understands her. She writes up the necessary paperwork and then sends Annie a few steps to the nurse. Darla Page, a cheerful, round-faced woman in bright scrubs, takes her vital signs. Then Annie walks down a short hall and is seen by Susan Chaney, a nurse practitioner.
"I told them to put you up a plate," Henderson says as Annie gets ready to leave.
"What are they having?" Annie says.
"Chicken, dressing, green beans, candied yams," Henderson says.
"The good stuff," Annie croaks.
"You go eat and lay down," Henderson says.
"I can't rest," Annie says. "Not till 2:30." The shelter does not allow people a cot until that time.
The nurse practitioner writes a note asking the shelter managers to allow Annie to claim a cot as soon as she eats. Annie goes off with some antibiotics and instructions to drink 10 to 12 glasses of water a day.
But the nurse has nothing to give Annie for her cough and allergies.
No Tylenol.
No decongestant.
No cough syrup.
No over-the-counter medications at all. It's not in the budget. The patients can't get them at Parkland unless they are admitted.
Annie will continue to cough, spreading her germs to others in the shelter.
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This Christmas, the 40 members of the HOMES staff did their usual holiday party. By tradition, they exchange white elephant gifts with each other and collect necessities such as OTC meds and socks. Some will sweep through a dollar-store to pick up pain and cough medications, sanitary pads and vitamins to build up a stockpile to hand out to their homeless clients.
Some, like Annie, are citizens of the street. Other patients are like the mother and four children who visit the brand-new van during a Thursday night clinic at Family Gateway. Aunesha, Christi, Porcha and Derrick are seen by nurse Debbie Phillips and Dr. Susan Spalding, a pediatrician who oversees the HOMES program.
The clinic does a lot of immunizations and physicals for children who stay at the Vogel Alcove, a day care for the homeless. There are children suffering from abuse or neglect, but for the most part, Spalding sees the usual childhood complaints: ear infections and lots of colds and fevers.
On this Thursday night, a father with a pre-teen autistic daughter comes aboard. The girl has a runny nose and congestion. After making sure the girl has no other symptoms, Phillips has to explain that they have no cough syrup, Children's Benadryl or even cough drops. He shrugs and eases his daughter outside.


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Hamilton cuts down on chasing bad pitches
Hamilton cuts down on chasing bad pitches
NEW YORK -- Manager Ron Washington said he has figured out why Josh Hamilton is heating up at the plate again.
"He's not chasing balls a mile out of the zone," Washington said. "He's only chasing a half-mile out of the zone."
Hamilton went into Monday's game 9-for-18 with three home runs and nine RBIs in his last five games. He has also driven in 15 runs over a 10-game hitting streak. Prior that, Hamilton hit .197 with eight home runs and 27 RBIs in a 48-game stretch.
"I am confident he's out of his bad stretch," Washington said. "I don't think he needs to refine anything. Josh is doing fine. Leave him alone. What he's doing is driving in runs. If he wants to chase a couple balls out of the zone, that's fine. But I don't think he'll be chasing like before."


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I need help.
I design primer for PCR:
Forward primer: at cag tCC ATG gga aca ggc tca caa g [CCATGG is NcoI restriction site]
Reverse primer: tat GTCGACTTA TTC GTG CCA TTC GAT TTT CTG AGC CTC GAA GAT GTC GTT CAG ACC GCC ACC CCA AAT GGC TCC C [GTCGAC is SalI restriction site]
Because I need to add an Avitag to C-terminal of my protein, so I designed in that way with 2 RE cutting site.
However, after PCR, double digestion, ligation and transformation, I got lots colonies, however, none is the positve result.
Could somebody help me with this matter?
did you get nice sharp band after the PCR? If so, I wouldn't suspect PCR being faulty. However, your reverse primer is quite long.
How did you do the double digest, ligation and transformation?
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: PCR
Agree with Jackbean,
Reverse primer is too long. Primers are usually 20-30 nucleotides long. Your reverse is about 76 nucleotides. Also it is better to check your PCR, digestion etc. with agarose gel so you can go on controlledly and find which step the problem is.
Good luck
Yes, I finally checked out it is the problem of primer. Thanks a lot!
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By comparison, the average fund in our Morningstar World Stock peer group holds 147 different equities, over four times the number of companies held in Mundoval.1While diversifying investments can have positive effects, mutual funds that are spread too thin run the risk of diluting the returns of their top stock selections. In fact, several studies have linked concentrated portfolios to greater performance over time:
- Emory University professors found that portfolio managers who ran concentrated portfolios outperformed more diversified funds by 4% each year.2
- Yale researchers developed a measurement called "Active Share" to determine the proportion of a mutual fund that did not overlap with its index. More concentrated funds generally held fewer stocks in common with their index and scored a higher active share as a result. The study further found that concentrated, high-active share funds consistently outperformed more diversified funds and their benchmarks, even after fees.3
1. Morningstar.com, Premium Fund Screener, April 2011. 2. Baks, Busse, Green, Fund Managers Who Take Big Bets: Skilled or Overconfident, Emory University, March 2006. 3. Cremers, Petajisto, How Active Is Your Fund Manager? A New Measure That Predicts Performance, Yale School of Management, January 2007.
You should consider the investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses of the fund carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other information about the fund. You may obtain a
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Taizhou Dongye Electric Motor Co., Ltd.
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|Business Type:
|Zhejiang, China (Mainland)
|Main Products:
|Electric motors,single phase induction motor,three phase induction motor,induction motor,WORM GEAR REDUER
|Total Employees:
|51 - 100 People
|Year Established:
|Top 3 Markets:
|Eastern Europe 33.33% Eastern Asia 33.33% South America 10.00%
|Product Certifications:
Taizhou Dongye Electric Motor Co., Ltd. Is located in Daxi Town, which enjoys the convenient transpo...
Taizhou Dongye Electric Motor Co., Ltd. Is located in Daxi Town, which enjoys the convenient transportation of land, air, and sea of the nearby. It is an ideal place for producing and marketing.
We have the markets over 15 countries and regions, such as Philippines, Korea, Viet Nam, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Iran, Peru, Ukraine, Russia, Italy, Spain, Poland, etc.
Currently, DONGYE welding machine has formed more than 40 models, which including inverter welding machine, AC arc welding machine, AC/DC functional welding machine, Air plasma cutting machine, battery chargers, etc.
Our company's main products also consist of YC, YL, YCL, YY, JY, MC, MY single phase induction motors and Y, Y2, YS, MS, YCT, YB2,YEJ2 series three phase induction motors, hub motors for e-bicycle and grinding machine for food processing.
For all products information, please logon our website: www.dongyemotor.com for your reference.
We have already got "CE" "CCC" & "ISO 9001" quality certificates.
We have been possessed with rich technical ability and guarantee products quality from precision of production and quality management system. We always consider "Best quality, Highest Reputation, Important clients" as our belief.
Sincerely welcome to visit our company, we would like to cooperate with all the customers over the world to create the splendid future.
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|Units Produced (Previous Year)
|Highest Ever Annual Output
|Unit Type
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Trade & Market
|Main Markets
|Total Revenue(%)
|Eastern Europe
|Eastern Asia
|South America
|Western Europe
|Export Percentage:
|81% - 90%
|No. of Employees in Trade Department:
|3-5 People
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Belgrade Maps - Printed maps are available to buy at larger book stores. A good online map of Belgrade is www.planplus.rs.
Tickets - Electronic BusPlus tickets have entirely replaced the old paper tickets. The BusPlus system is similar to the Oyster
card system in London, the Octopus card in Hong Kong and systems in other
capital cities.
You can buy a plastic credit card sized card valid for three years. This can be personalized or non-personalized cards and cost a fee of 250 dinars. Credit can then be added to this card at Štampa outlets which include many of the common street kiosks (selling news, drinks, and cigarettes) throughout Belgrade. Alternatively temporary paper cards are available and are valid for three months, at a cost of
When entering the bus you must swipe your card (plastic or paper) against the reader located near the door. The price of the ride will be deducted from the card's credit. Currently, 60 dinars to ride within the first zone and 95 dinars for the second zone. The card reader/validator only works when the vehicle is stationary, so be sure to swipe on entry. There is no need to swipe your card on exiting.
Book by SMS text - Several companies accept bookings sent by SMS – see
above for numbers. Text your location address to the taxi
company. You will shortly receive one of the following replies:
List of equipment that everyone should have in their vehicles:
Public Transport - Belgrade has an increasingly efficient public transport system. With its network of buses, trolley buses (these run on routes with electric wires overhead) and trams (these run on tracks) the entire city, including New Belgrade and Zemun is covered. In some places in the center, the tram tracks share the same roadway with cars. GSP / ГϹП, runs most public transport.
Transportation Maps - www.gsp.rs/english/main.htm - the website has maps and lines for buses, trolley buses and trams. Note, that it is not always totally up to date. Maps with bus lines are available in some book shops.
Buses tend to pull away quickly so make sure you are holding on. People are good at giving up seats for old people/children/pregnant women. On the other hand, it is not typical for a man to give up his seat for a woman who is not pregnant or elderly.
You can buy a plastic credit card sized card valid for three years. This can be personalized or non-personalized cards and cost a fee of 250 dinars. Credit can then be added to this card at Štampa outlets which include many of the common street kiosks (selling news, drinks, and cigarettes) throughout Belgrade. Alternatively temporary paper cards are available and are valid for three months, at a cost of
40 dinars. Credit needs to be added.
Plastic cards can be credited as many times as you want, with any amount, much like your cell phone, while paper cards can be credited with up to 500 dinars.
Plastic cards can be credited as many times as you want, with any amount, much like your cell phone, while paper cards can be credited with up to 500 dinars.
Citizens who rarely use public transport or tourists will have an option, which is buying tickets for one ride from the driver inside the vehicle, which will cost 120 dinars in the first zone or 145 dinars in the second zone. This is not commonly done and more hassle than it sounds.
There are regular ticket inspectors who impose on the spot fines (3000din at present!) on passengers without validated tickets.
Private mini buses - operate on the same routes as the GSP, plus some extra routes. They also accept BusPlus tickets and cost slightly more than normal buses.
Buses, trolleys and tramways operate from 04:30 – 23.30 at intervals of 3-20 min.
There are no specific time schedules.
Night Lines operate at far longer intervals and with slightly modified bus numbers.
For all information on city lines contact: tel. 011/629-019 / 625-582
Transport of handicapped persons: tel. 011/625-582
Metro - There is a limited Metro with just one line at present. The line connects Pančevački Most station with Novi Beograd station in 16 minutes travel time. The line has 5 stations - Pančevački Most, Vukov Spomenik, Karađorđev park, Beograd Centar and Novi Beograd. Trains run every 30 minutes; every 15 minutes during rush hour. An extension of this line to Zemun and Batajnica and also a new line from Resnik is planned.
Taxis - are everywhere in Belgrade, although not cheap they are affordable. Fares are metered so do ensure that the taxi driver is using his meter and that it is correctly set at the start of the journey. The official tariff must start at 140RSD. Depending upon the time of day, rates vary per kilometre. Tariff 1 is within Belgrade, 6am-10pm, 55RSD/km; Tariff 2 is within Belgrade from 10pm-6am , & holidays 70RSD/km; Tariff 3 is for the outskirts of Belgrade , 110RSD/km.
Only use a taxi displaying a sign (usually on the roof) with the name of the taxi company and a separate sign with its registration number (usually 4 digits). Without both of these, your taxi is likely to be unregistered and operating illegally. Avoid taxis displaying only a 'taxi' sign and no company name. These are called "private" taxis. If they happen to be first in a taxi line, it is okay to go to the next taxi and explain that you don't want a private taxi.
Taxi from Airport - Beware of taking taxis to/from the airport; check in advance how much the fare is going to be as some 'cowboys' operate on this route. This is not so much of a problem since 2011, when the City of Belgrade and the Belgrade Airport adopted a zone system for taxis from the airport to one of five different zones (fares ranging from 1,500-7,000 dinars). Senjak and Dedinje are in Zone 1 which is 1,500 dinars. Passengers arriving in Belgrade can take a taxi receipt at the TAXI INFO desk (located near the exit of the airport building) which states the name of your destination and appropriate price before proceeding to the taxi stand. For complaints, contact 011-32-27-000 or 011-22-89-375.
Booking a Taxi – It is often convenient to call for a taxi by phone for no extra cost. You can't book hours ahead of your journey, taxis will arrive within 10 minutes of you making a call. However, if it's rush hour or bad weather (rain/snow), it is harder to get a taxi.
Tips are not expected but rounding up the fare is appreciated.
¶ Beo Taxi 011/ 970 SMS: 9700
Beogradski Taxi 011/ 9801
Zuti Taxi 011/9802
¶ Pink Taxi 011/ 9803
Maksis Taxi 011/9804
Plavi Taxi 011/ 9805
Alfa taksi, 011/9807
Bel Taxi 011/ 9808
¶ Lux Taxi 011/ 30 33 123 SMS: 3033
¶ top rated companies
Vozilo broj 613, stize za 3 minuta. = Taxi number 613 will arrive in 3 minutes.
Nista slobodno. = Nothing available.
If you receive this message, wait 2-3 minutes and try again.
Motor Vehicles
Vehicle Registration - Foreign cars must be registered in Serbia within thirty days of clearing customs. Foreigners can register their cars with the transportation department of the nearest local police station.
Documents required:
Proof of customs clearance
Proof of ownership
Proof of foreign registration translated into Serbian
Serbian visa, as appropriate
Work permit (if applicable)
Proof of temporary residence in Serbia
Results of technical examination or inspection of the car
Foreign cars used by tourists in Serbia (in cases when the simplified procedure of customs clearance without documentation was applied) do not need to be registered as long as the inspection certificate is still valid.
Car Insurance - You will need third party insurance for the journey out, including a "Green Card", to cover you once you get across the border. Some Western European and American insurance companies will cover you in Serbia, but many don't. If your company doesn't, you can buy third party insurance when you come across the border. There are various kiosks next to the Bureau do Change ("Menjacnica" in Serbian). Dunav Osiguranje and Generali are good companies. They normally accept Dinars or Euros. Get 4-6 weeks worth of insurance to cover you until you get re-registered.
Most embassies recommend purchasing comprehensive and collision insurance from your home country and Third Party liability insurance in Serbia.
For more information about importing a car into Serbia:
Driving - New driving laws came into effect in 2009, in an aim to reduce road deaths in Serbia. A summary can be seen at the website below.
Most of the laws follow common sense good driving practice, and bring Serbia in line with the rest of Europe. Fines can be issued at the scene of the violation, however these fines will not be payable at the scene of the violation; you will have 8 days to pay them.
Below are a few of the new laws which may be less obvious:
· Drivers must wear a seatbelt. Failing to do so incurs a penalty of 5,000 dinars.
· It is mandatory to have the short/side lights on at all times when driving. The penalty is 3,000 dinars for no lights.
· The use of mobile phones is strictly forbidden, if the hands are engaged. The use of mobile phones is allowed only if the phones are hands-free and/or the Bluetooth is connected. Failing to obey this rule will result in a 5,000 dinar fine.
· The speed limit on the highway is 120 km/h. The speed limit in inhabited areas it is 50 km/h, and 30 km/h in a school zone. You can be banned from driving for a month for speeding. Speed cameras are slowly being installed on some routes.
· If a pedestrian crosses the street on a red light, the penalty is 5,000 dinars. If the pedestrian is accompanied by a child that is less than 12 years old, the penalty is 6,000 - 20,000 dinars.
· No child under the age of 12 is allowed in the front seat.
· You are allowed to park only 3 minutes at a non-parking spot, but the driver must remain in the car, or next to it for those three minutes. The penalty for inappropriate parking is 5,000 dinars. If the driver doesn't admit the violation, the driver could be fined 6 to 20 thousand dinars if found guilty.
· When stopped by a policeman neither the driver nor the passengers can leave the vehicle unless permitted to do so. Doing so will incur a 5,000 dinar penalty.
· When broken down the vehicle must be marked with a reflective triangle. The triangle has to be put at least 50m behind the vehicle when outside inhabited areas and 10m when in inhabited areas. All 4 indicators must be on and the driver must wear a fluorescent vest
· Mild intoxication is indicated at 0.03% blood alcohol level. Moderate intoxication is defined at 0.031% - 0.050% blood alcohol level. This incurs a mandatory 5,000 dinar fine and the driver is prevented from driving for at least 12 hours. Higher levels of blood alcohol incur increasingly stiff penalties. Effectively the rules here can be interpreted as "no alcohol for drivers".
· Starting in 2011, from the 1st November, it will be a legal requirement to have winter tyres on all four wheels of your car during the winter months (1st November - 1st April). This is strongly recommended anyway for driving in the snow, as very few residential roads are plowed.
Mandatory equipment (at all times):
1. Spare tyre
2. Safety triangle
3. First aid kit size "B" (standard SRPS Z.B2.001)
4. Reflective safety vest
5. Towing rope
6. Set of reserve light bulbs and reserve fuses
7. The European Damage Report is mandatory to have in your vehicles. The paper will give the driver an opportunity to make an agreement with the driver of the vehicle they had collision with, without involving police. That will be possible only with minor car damages and with no human casualties/injuries.
If you do have an accident, cars are to be left in the position they collided (do not remove from the road). Police are then called to the scene. It is worth taking photos of the accident with your phone/camera for future reference.
Be aware of motorcycles overtaking you on the right or left, and between lanes of traffic. They appear to have different rules than cars.
- Parking is cheap, but not plentiful. There are few car parks and most parking is on the street.
There is a list of some car parks/ garages on this website.
In the city centre parking on the street is divided into zones (red, yellow,green).
Zone 1 (red), parking for 1 hour maximum.
Zone 2 (yellow), parking for 2 hours maximum.
Zone 3 (green), parking for 3 hours maximum.
Parking, text to:
Zone 1 (red): 9111
Zone 2 (yellow): 9112
Zone 3 (green): 9113
Parking can be paid by text from your mobile phone.
· Check which zone you are parked in on the street sign;. It costs between 30-50din/hour.
· Send a message with your car's registration number (without any spaces or dashes) and the last two digits (which are the year of registration) eg. BG123YZ13
For diplomatic plates you must add the BG, so if your car registration number is for example BG 30-A-031, you should type BG30A03113 (for those who have no. 13 at the end of their plates).
You will immediately receive a message back saying "Za vozila broj BG123AB123 vi ste kupili carte…" which means you have successfully paid for parking until the date and time noted in the message. If you get a different message, check that you have correctly entered your registration number and try again.
· You will receive a reminder SMS, 5–10mins before your parking expires. You may then send another message to renew your parking up to the parking time limit. If you know you will be parked for 2 or 3 hours, you can send 2 or 3 messages (in Zones 2 and 3 respectively) all at once to avoid missing the reminder and possibly paying a ticket (about 1500 dinars!).
TOP TIP – make a text message template on your phone with your registration number, and save the zone numbers; then you can quickly pay for your parking with only a few clicks.
In other areas including Zemun you may need to pay & display from a machine for your parking, check on the parking sign. Phone number for SMS payment is displayed on the sign.
If you do receive a parking ticket, it is advisable you verify the time it was issued. Some have found that tickets were issued in error and were able to call the parking ticket office to contest this. Others have noted that the parking official entered the license plate incorrectly. Keep saved in your cell phone the SMS messages which you received which say you are allowed to park until such-and-such time as proof that you are legally parked.
Car Towing - There is a fleet of tow trucks which tow illegally parked cars. This seems to happen rapidly and regularly in certain hotspots, especially at Maxi supermarket at Pink TV and Sveti Marcovi church near Tašmajden Park. The trucks are known as the 'spider'.
The fine for a towed car is approximately €120.
There are several locations where they take towed cars, and annoyingly they may not know in which one your car is located. Ada Cingalija, Slavija, Vidin kapija, or Staro sajmiste. You can use the following website to find the location of your car:
You can also call the tow truck to tow a vehicle blocking your property/car. Tel: 011/303 5400.
Car rental
Avis, Obilicev Venac 25, tel. 011/629-423, 620-362
Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 94, tel. 011/433-323
Budget, Nikola Tesla Airpot tel. 011/311 3050
Europecar, Hyatt Regency Hotel tel. 011/137-703
Masters, Hotel Slavija tel. 011/450-842
Putnik Rent-a-Car, Hotel Putnik, Palmira Toljatija 9, New Belgrade tel. 0695-225, 319-3805
Sixt, Airport Nikola Tesla, tel. 011/2286-356
Zorza Klemansoa 19, tel. 011/3286654
Unis, Cara Uroša 10, tel. 011/634-766
VIP, Humska 1, tel. 011/369-1890
Yu hertz, Jugoslavija Hotel, tel. 011/2692-339


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I created my own theme an recognized, the search functionality doesn't work. I red the search tutorial - the necessary code is already in the Page.php file.
If I use 'blackcandy' the search works, if I use my own theme, it does not.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
We're retiring the forums!
The SilverStripe forums have passed their heyday. They'll stick around, but will be read only. We'd encourage you to get involved in the community via the following channels instead:
Have you got a Page_results.ss template for the result listing in your custom theme? This is the template for the results page - so if you don't have one you won't see any results. If thats not the issue you might want to explain a bit better what isn't working.
I have a Page_results.ss in my template.
And I don't know why, but after switching back to my template, it works. Yesterday I tried serveral hours to get it work, cleared the cache, rebuildt the db and so on. Is there any other option I have to set (that may be automatically is done when switching the template)?
So long, thank you for your reply.
I try to modify things with searching - translation and layout - and the same behaviour like upstairs described occurs.
After some tests the SearchForm jumps to my homepage and don't show results.
If I switch the theme to blackcandy and back everything works fine, again...
Does anybody has a explaination for that?
My theme directory looks like this:
--------[dir] Layout
I found out, that the HTML form-tag isn't filled, if I use my own theme. If I switch to blackcandy the following form tag is rendered:
<form enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get" action="/contact-us/SearchForm" id="SearchForm_SearchForm">
In my template it only looks like this:
I have no idea, what's the reason for that.
Thank you in advance,
Oh my god, I'm so stupid...
I wrapped the form in my template within an empty form tag, I used for test reasons...


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From Top_Tampax@hrh_in_waiting.gov (via email)
Sir, One's current spouse is a devotee of this internettal thingy of yours and has drawn the princely peepers to a curious 'Dorking Review' slapstick video on 'One's Tube'. What an intriguing chap this Martin Chuzzlewit is! Reminiscent of a fascinating dreadlocked albino cove, 'Prince Rasta Pasta', one met in Mustique while on hols with Aunt M. (or 'Pickled Lily' as the firm affectionately called her) many moons ago.
Now, to cut to the chase. One's media-savvy staff have seen an opportunity for some whizzo 'Duchy Organic Originals' product placement sponsorship for Chuzzlewit's amusing filmic forays and are keen to 'seal a deal'(shudder) with him. One can envisage the formidable Mrs. Chuzzlewit passing a 'Duchy' from the left hand side to Mr C, who tries to light said clotted cream brandy snap, mistakenly thinking it to be one of his 'roll-ups'. Whilst, perched precariously on his noggin, is a family-sized 'Duchy Original Cornish Old Spot' Pork Pie!! Marketing gold!
Chortle! Put one's staff in touch, there's a good chappie.
PS. Whilst on the topic of comedy, one's never forgotten a precious piece of advice dear old Spike Milligan said to one many years ago; "You're standing on my fucking toe you half-wit buggerlugged cunt!" A lesson there to all aspiring comedy writers methinks!
Sir, I find myself temporarily unemployed and wonder if Mr Cuttleshock would care for the services of a 'personal advisor'?
A. Werrity, Foxholes, North Yorks.
From @DrBilgewater™ (via email)
'Who watches the Watchmen?'
Can we believe anything said here? People who talk about themselves in the third person?
Dr Bilgewater™ doesn't think so. Neither does Mrs Dr Bilgewater™, nor the Dr Bilgewater™ Shih-Tzudoodle (see attached jpg™).
But if we all agreed we would surely all be wrong. Clique-claque!
Limey cordially yours,
Dr. Bilgewater™, Pismo Biatch, CA.
'Some fell on stoney ground.' [Matthew 13:5. Trans. Bilgewater(Dr)™]
From @Puzzled_of_Pangbourne (via email)
[Haven't a clue. :-S Ed.]
Dear Sir, I've viewed Mr Skittleclock's Dorking Review films with considerable excitement! In my professional opinion they contain much of value!
As an antiques expert with over thirty years experience, I'm particularly interested in the charming rustic welsh dresser and the exquisite art-nouveau lamp featured in clip #6. Now, Mr Skittleclock and his good lady could opt to put them onto ebay and take their chances, but I would be more than happy, for a small fee, to come round and evaluate said items. My eye has also been drawn to the homburg featured in clip #5 and the framed landscape print from clip #1. I have a select portfolio of clients who would be most interested in purchasing these curios.
Yours, in ormolu and tea-bagged patina,
Gavin Smarm Esq., 'Ye Olde Twee & Spree Emporium', Chipping-on-the-Vase, Glos.
Dear sir,
If I may address the last letter directly?
Mr Smarm, sir, I fear you have fallen victim to what we doctors call 'Dorking Syndrome'. Neither the 'Shuttleclocks' nor the fantasy town of 'Dorking' exist.
However, I have a Clarice Cliff ceramic teasmaid that you are welcome to come and value the next time you are passing by Lilliput.
Dr Limmington Spur Lilliput, Isle of Man.
From @Fermatts_Last_Theorem20 (via email)
Re 'The Dorking Review' YouToob videos: In F.W. Murnau's seminal post-expressionist film 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' (1917)*** the angst-ridden protagonist has...
...Herman Cain's boxer shorts and a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig.
Yours, F_L_T20 MIT, Mass, USA
PS. Please don't cut this down man. I'm starting to get seriously pissed.
[Sorry again @FLT. Crashed my mailbox limiter. You really must try and keep the word count under a million. Had to trim it a bit. Ed.]
I'm sick [We know. Ed.] of this!!! It's exactly how that Nasi Goreng behaved!
Your's, Lady Esmée Twatt Labradoodle, Canada
PS I meant that Nazi, Goering!! LOL!
[Yawn. Lady, Twatt off. Ed.]
(via Skype) Legs_&_Co_69
View Earlier Messages... don't worry about last night my chunky monkey ;) Hey, you're a busy guy and these things crop up, or... this time it didn't. nevermind, i'll have something hot to stoke your 'arder' 2nite (geddit?) ;)))
[@L&C_ Thanks babes. Usual time. I think it must have been too much to drink, it's never happened to me before. Honest. :-{ Ed.]
I would like to express my concern that this 'Letters to the Editor' section appears to have been taken over by charlatans and mountebanks claiming to be 'Doctors', 'Professors' and members of the aristocracy with multiple degrees and qualifications, thereby attempting to add weight, import and absolute authority to their points.
This trend is reprehensible and, in your capacity as editor, must be suppressed.
Yours sincerely,
Archbishop Mac Arios (PhD, DPhil, MA, MSc, VC, MOT Approved), Ashby-de-la-Tush, Leics
Dear Sir,
How right your last correspondent is! Mrs Hodgkiss and I are sick to the back teeth of so-called 'Professors and Doctors' (Notably Messers 'Prof' Lammington Spar and 'Dr' Limmington Spur!!!) and their ludicrous assertions that the epitome of all that is green, pleasant and English - Dorking - is a work of fiction. I am so pleased that, er, Archbishop Arios has picked up on this as well!!
PS The offer of a foursome with Mr & Mrs Shuttlecock still holds good. Wednesday night at Dorking Badminton club, St Botolph's recreation hall. We can put you up, if you wish?
Yours, still in concussion,
Ernest Hodgkiss, Plomley Villas, Dorking, Surrey.
[Ernest - You can't expect me to check the credentials of every contributor. Just don't believe a word anyone says. Works for me! Ed.]
To be continued...?


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