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Baltimore running back Ray Rice (27) looks for room to run as tight end Ed Dickson takes out the Browns' Joe Haden in the second quarter of Sunday's game in Cleveland. The Ravens won 24-10.
The Steelers' Antonio Brown celebrates after returning a punt for a touchdown during the second quarter against Cincinnati during Sunday's game in Pittsburgh. The Steelers routed their division rival 35-7.
Cardinal Mooney's Ryan Farragher has the ball knocked away by Springfield Shawnee's Drew Young during the Division III state championship game Friday at Canton's Fawcett Stadium. The Cardinals held on for a 21-14 victory.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy leave the building after their meeting in Strasbourg, France. Sarkozy and Merkel will meet in Paris today to unveil a proposal for closer political and economic ties among the 17 countries that use the euro. Though the leaders diff er on some of the details, their
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December 24, 2010
My dearest Liza,
Christmas is just around the corner and I am so glad that I am spending it with you. It is our first Christmas together as husband and wife and it is so much more special because of a loving wife like you.
I am so blessed to have you as my wife. Through all my shortcomings, you never left my side. During times when I felt weak, you were my strength; when I felt sad, you gave me happiness. I know that sometimes I have failed you as a husband. Thank you for understanding and forgiving me.
I thank the Lord everyday for giving you to me – there is no other gift I want for Christmas except your happiness. I pray that we would always be strong in the face of trials in our married life.
Have a wonderful Christmas and a blessed new year, honey! I look forward to more Christmases with you.
All my love,

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Sketches are a great way to get started on your project – they are even better when you can tweak them a little bit to make the sketch your own. Here I found a great sketch over at Clean & Simple Stamping Blog.
For my card I used myStamp Box – Backgrounds Stamp, myStamp Box – Funky Circles and myStamp Box – Lines of Life.
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Grant Clitsome did a double take as he walked into the Winnipeg Jets locker room.
"I'm not used to this," Clitsome said as a hoard of media waited by his stall.
Probably not.
Clitsome arrived in Winnipeg Wednesday after being picked up off waivers Monday from the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Jets made the move just before trading defenceman Johnny Oduya to the Chicago Blackhawks. Clitsome, also a defenceman, has four goals and 10 assists in 51 games with the Blue Jackets this season.
Oduya, 30, was set to become an unrestricted free agent this summer and he is being paid about $3.5-million (U.S.) this season. Clitsome, 26, still has a year left on his contract that pays roughly $1.25-million annually.
Clitsome, who grew up in an Ottawa suburb, said he and his family were happy about the move back to Canada.
"I opened a Twitter account two days ago, ever since I got picked up on waivers, and it has just blown up," he said.
As for his time in Columbus, Clitsome said it has been a difficult, tumultuous season for the Blue Jackets.
"It was a tough season in general for the whole team and I think that really affected individual players all around," he said. "I think if you look up and down our whole roster in Columbus guys underachieved and it was a tough, disappointing season."
The coaching change, the controversy over a possible trade of forward Rick Nash and the unloading of Jeff Carter left many players feeling almost hopeless, he added.
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He added that despite all the turmoil, the Blue Jackets' locker room remained upbeat. The mood in the locker room "has been good," he said. "Off the ice, guys are trying to stay positive."
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The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: Gojan Station (– Gongdan/Choji Station – Ansan Station) – Oido Station
Filed under: Korea, Railways, Suwon - Inchon
The original Suwon to Inchon line (수인선 협궤열차) ran all the way from Inchon harbour to Suwon (수원) station, but by the end of the existence of the line this was no longer the case. But like other parts of the line which were still there long after the railway had been closed the part from Ansan (안산) station to Inchon was completely demolished (save for a few bridge and some shorter stretches of line) only relatively recently when the new subway line from Oido (오이도) to Songdo (송도) was constructed on top of the old line. Even more recently other parts were demolished in order to contruct an interchange with the new Daegok-Sosa-Wonsi Line, meaning that a new station (Choji, 초지역) will come into existence soon, replacing Gongdan (공단) Station. Even then however there are still remnants left out there, between Gojan (고잔) station and Ansan station.
The rest of the article including maps and satellite pictures after the break.
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The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: Using topographical maps to discover strange things
Filed under: Korea, Railways, Suwon - Inchon
After a visit to the Korean topographical services in Suwon I ended up with a lot of maps (both 1:25.000 and 1:50.000) of the whole length of the Suwon to Inchon narrow gauge railway. The office had created 3 map sets for me: 1975, 1987 and 1996, or effectively the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Besides those historical sets (which can only be bought in Suwon) I also bought the current set of maps. This meant I now had highly detailed maps of the entire line. And then I noticed some strange effects… An example can be found on map NJ-52-9-18. This map is part of the 1:50.000 series and is available from a series of years. In this particular example I am showing the 1974, 1985/1987 and 1987/1996 versions of this map.
The whole area in present day Ansan in 1974 (click on the picture for a larger size). During this period Chinese characters were still very common in official publications and maps were no different. The stations on the SuIn line can be seen quite readily on this map, but not every station has been explicitly named. One name, 일리(역) or Illi station, can only be found on this map and the 1985 version of the map, after the opening of the commuter line this became Handaeap Station (한대앞역), by which name it can still be found on the map today.
The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: Suwon to Ansan (Part 2: Omokcheon to Ansan Outskirts)
Filed under: Korea, Railways, Suwon - Inchon
The line from Suwon to Omokcheon is mainly through build-up area, but after Omokcheon the country really opens up. The dominating feature here is the KTX viaduct built to allow the high speed railway run without interruption from Seoul to Busan. This area is now relatively busy, there are now quite a few people living in the area and many roads are now crossing through the valley. These roads of course were the main reason why the railway was abandoned to begin with: first the buses and later private ownership of cars dealt the final blow to the railway in this area. However, ironically it is the construction of the new commuter line that has destroyed the line in parts of this area.
The map below shows the whole line between Suwon and Ansan. The first article described the part between numbers 1 and 2. This second article describes the line from just to the west of (2) and to the south of (4), mainly around (3).
The rest of the story is available after the break.
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The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: Suwon to Ansan (Part 1: Suwon to Omokcheon)
Filed under: Korea, Railways, Suwon - Inchon
A walk on the former narrow gauge line ("수인선") from Suwon (수원) to Ansan (안산) (in parts). This line was last used on the last day of 1995, but most of the track can still be seen in the country side. However, part of the line is now used to build the new subway line from Suwon to Ansan (and onwards to Inchon), so most of the line will disappear soon. The signs are (literally) all over the place: part of the track bed near the high speed railway line bridge has already been demolished completely and in Omokcheon many signs can be find on the track telling people that their gardens are illegal.
The Naver map below shows the complete route of the narrow gauge line between Suwon (1) and Ansan (5). This article describes the part between Suwon (1) and Omokcheon (오목천) (2), which is mainly in suburban areas. The grey thin line close to the numbers is the new commuter line (currently under construction) between Ansan and Suwon, but since it mostly follows the alignment of the old line it is quite a good indicator of the old line. The line from Omokcheon (2) to Maesong (매송) (3) and Ansan (5) is part of the next article, while the line at Sari (사리) (4) is now completely demolished and nothing can be seen here in this area of Ansan. (Click on the map for a larger size.)
The easiest point to get on the line is near Suwon station, on the western side of the main railway line. On the Google map below that is near Pyeong-dong (평동) (2). The line ends at the Korail mainline (1), and between (1) and (2) the line runs next to an airfield which is also used by the air force, taking pictures here might be illegal… In Gosaek (3) the track can easily be found, while in the fields (4+5) between Gosaek (고색) and Omokcheon the line runs through the country side. In Omokcheong (6) it is not always easy to discover the line, but a lot of it is still there.
The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: walking from the (future) Sari Station to Gojan Station
Filed under: Korea, Railways, Suwon - Inchon
A major part of the narrow gauge line from Suwon to Inchon ran through Ansan and surrounding area. This area was until 25 years ago country side: none of the buildings in these pictures existed at the time! Even by the end of the existence of the line, in 1995, most of this area was still country side, although most of line 4 had already been built.
This series of pictures is the line in Ansan from a point between approx. Handaeap Station (한대앞역) and the (future) Sari Station (사리역) under the Yongsingoga Road (용신고가차도) all the way to a point to the west of Gojan Station (고잔역). On the map below (copyright: Naver, this is the location of the map) this is the route of the line 4 (the light blue line) between the two red lines, starting at 1 and walking towards 5. The grey line at 6 is the old narrow gauge line running towards Suwon (the top left of the map is towards Inchon, the bottom right is the Suwon side), but during 2013 and 2014 the new commuter line is under construction here, so nothing can be found there any more.
The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: The old bridge at Soraepogu Station
Filed under: Korea, Railways, Suwon - Inchon
Near the present day Soraepogu Station (소래포구) on the current Suin (commuter) line from Oido to Songdo a long bridge of the former narrow gauge Suin line can still be found. This bridge is simply named "Sorae Railway Bridge" (소래철교) and as such can be found on the online Naver, Daum and Google maps.
The easiest way to reach this spot is to walk from Soraepogu Station (소래포구) towards the water front. Next to the waterfront the Sorae History Museum can be found, which contains a lot of information about the railway, including an actual carriage from the line! In front of the museum is engine 7 (see a previous article).
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The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: the shortest stretch
Filed under: Korea, Railways
The shortest individual stretch on the SuIn line which can still be found is the short part of the line within Suwon city between the main railway line and the Deogyeongdaero (덕영대로). This part of the line was the connection between the line running through Suwon to the station and the country side. The bridge over the main railway line was lifted after 1995, right after closure. But the track bed and everything else is still very visible there. The pictures were taken in July 2013.
This part of the line can easily be seen on Google Earth by zooming in at this location (switch to satellite view as well). The former line is the grey railway line in the map, and this part is the stretch between the (blue) railway line (the Korail main line) and the (yellow) main road to the right of the former line. The length of the track bed here can't be more than approx. 100 meters.
More pictures after the break.
Narrow gauge in Korea: the Inchon – Suwon – Yeoju line
Filed under: Korea, Railways
While reading an excellent book about the situation in Korea between 1945 and 1950 ("The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning" by Allan Millett") I noticed on one of the maps that there were at that time in Korea several narrow gauge railway lines. On the Ongjin peninsula, to the west of Haeju, there used to be several narrow gauge lines, built in the Japanese colonial period. With the current economical situation in North Korea it is unlikely that trains are still running on these lines, but they are certainly not narrow gauge anymore, having been regauged a long time ago. According to the book "Communist logistics in the Korean War" by Charles Shrader in 1950 there were 523 miles of narrow gauge in the whole of Korea. Luckily this book can be found at Google books, see here for the relevant pages.
How the Moluccans offered themselves to the Koreans
Filed under: Korea, Stamps
These days the Korean alphabet is being exported abroad as a possible letterset for nations without their own set of characters. If that initiative is going to make it or not has to be seen, but the only minor success so far has been amongst a group in Indonesian, the Cia-Cia on the island of Buton. But this is not the only connection between Indonesia and South Korea in recent history. The Indonesian car industry was basically Korean for instance. But there is another story, which neatly combines exile stamps with the Korean war, two subjects of particular interest to me.
Korea in the 50s: the full set
Filed under: Korea, Maps
For a map aficionado having complete sets of cartographical data is fantastic, especially when you can have them for free! So, in the spirit of sharing here is what Korea (north and south) looked according to the knowledge of the US Army map service in the 1950s.
The full set can be found at the website of the University of Texas (Austin) in the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, which can be found here online. However, these maps are full sized JPEG which are not always easy to navigate when you are looking for something specific, in my case looking for (former) railways.


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What a finish! Luciano Emilio scores the game-winner in stoppage time (while down a man!) to give United its first road victory since last year. The guys were, understandably, pumped in the locker room after the final whistle. I think you'll agree that the team fought hard for 90 minutes and arguably put together its best game of the year. If not for a few great saves from Fire goalkeeper Jon Busch, we could have been up by a couple goals in the first half. What a phenomenal result for the team, though, after so many missed opportunities early in the year. Tonight's game is the team's last League road game until August 10, with four games at home (and at least three SuperLiga matches at home in July) leading up to that match with New York.
The reserves will face Chicago tomorrow morning at 10 a.m., while the first-teamers will head back to D.C. first thing in the morning.


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SAN MARCOS —— An aggressive campaign to continue the upward enrollment trend at Palomar College is paying dividends based on early data for the fall semester, college officials said Wednesday.
Enrollment is up more than 4 percent compared with the same time in August 2004, according to Herman Lee, Palomar's director of enrollment services.
Lee attributed the enrollment increase to several factors, including the stabilization of tuition costs, a greater variety of classes, more high school students taking enrichment classes, and efforts by Palomar to convince previous students to return to the college this fall.
"We sent reminder postcards to 20,000 students who had taken classes before," said Lee, noting that the practice is new and goes beyond sending a course catalog to previous students. "We also made phone calls to previous students who had received financial aid."
Michelle Nelson, a member of the Palomar College governing board, applauded the new campaign and said it was prompted by a slump in enrollment numbers that college officials noticed a few weeks ago.
"Not as many students were re-enrolling this fall, so we had to make extra calls and contacts," Nelson said.
With school set to open Monday, nearly 19,500 students have signed up to take at least one class at Palomar's main campus in San Marcos or one of its eight satellite campuses. Based on the total number of course units those students have decided to take, Palomar will have 7,576 full-time-equivalent students, Lee said.
The number of full-time-equivalent students at this time in August 2004 was 7,267, which translates to an increase of 4.25 percent this year.
Such growth is on top of a 3.4 percent increase in enrollment during the 2004-05 school year, which allowed Palomar to barely meet its annual state growth target.
That enrollment success yielded $2.1 million in additional revenue for the college, and if the school meets its 5.35 percent growth target this year, it will receive an additional $3 million budget boost, according to college President Robert Deegan.
Nancy Chadwick, president of the governing board, said Deegan's arrival in January and the new faculty contract forged in March have created a new atmosphere at Palomar that has helped stimulate enrollment growth.
"The approach with our new president and faculty contract is to make sure that enough class sections, particularly the ones students need most, are available," said Chadwick. "In the past, the faculty was unhappy and they wouldn't make this happen."
Chadwick said faculty members were now more willing to teach classes at different sites and that they also agreed in the contract to teach slightly larger classes.
Julie Ivey, co-president of the Palomar Faculty Federation, said faculty members were taking pride and satisfaction in the recent enrollment growth at the college.
"The faculty agreeing to take in extra students allowed this type of thing to happen," she said.
Lee said the larger classes and additional courses were key factors in the new growth. He said significantly fewer classes are full this fall. The school is offering more online classes this fall, Lee said, and the number of high school students taking classes has spiked.
However, Lee cautioned that the early numbers were far from a guarantee that the school will meet its annual enrollment target next summer, which is called a "growth cap." Many students may drop classes in the first few days or weeks this fall, and enrollment in the spring semester is typically lower, he said.
But these numbers are still extremely good news because they are a comparison against the exact same time period of uncertainty last year, Lee said.
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[1]Regulators are loosening limits on a diabetes drug[2] from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK[3]).
In 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) imposed strict restrictions on the use of Avandia, which had been one of the top-selling diabetes drugs worldwide, after researchers raised safety concerns. The restrictions, which included requiring patients to join a special registry to get the drug, caused its sales to drop sharply, the Associated Press notes.
The FDA now says that additional analysis of existing research indicates that patients taking Avandia do not show a higher risk of suffering heart attacks compared to those using other diabetes treatments. The FDA restrictions were imposed after the agency was pushed by activists and lawmakers.
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Integrating Delaware: The Reddings of Wilmington tells the story of Delaware's most nationally influential African-American family and reflects the story of the American black middle class in the twentieth century. Patriarch Lewis Redding arrived in Wilmington in 1900. He earned a hard-won place among the city's small black middle class after overcoming numerous hurdles presented by race. He shepherded four children through college and into careers as a lawyer, an author, and two schoolteachers. These siblings would feel the weight of race throughout their lives as they struggled against various physical and emotional obstacles. Moreover, as middle-class African Americans—a minority within a minority—the Reddings often failed to connect to their own heritage and to the poor black minority. Yet, they dedicated their lives to battling the laws, customs, and ignorance that had plunged black Americans into a permanent underclass. The Reddings took the lead in integrating Delaware, and played a hand on the national stage, as well. Theirs is a compelling story of the victories, missteps, sacrifice, and pain of an extraordinary American family.
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Kidney holding Heaslip hope
Ireland coach Declan Kidney still hopes Jamie Heaslip will be fit to play in the team's RBS Six Nations opener against Italy.
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Ireland coach Declan Kidney still hopes Jamie Heaslip will be fit to play in the team's RBS Six Nations opener against Italy.
The Irish have a worryingly long injury list as they prepare to travel to Rome for their opening Six Nations clash against Italy on Saturday February 5.
Heaslip is struggling with an ankle injury but will have tests and see a specialist on Wednesday to discover if he has any chance of making the trip to Rome.
At the tournament launch on Wednesday, Kidney said that winger Tommy Bowe would also be discovering the condition of his knee injury on Wednesday as he seeks a medical opinion.
Flanker Stephen Ferris is expected to recover from his ankle problem, and although time is against Heaslip, Kidney is keen not to rule out the number eight just yet.
"Jamie and Tommy are seeing a specialist today. We won't know more until tonight or tomorrow morning," said Kidney.
"We just want to see exactly where Jamie is. We wouldn't like to say he's definitely out - not until we get the report from the specialist.
"The money is probably against him but we'll keep our options open until the news is definitely bad. Stephen Ferris looks like he has a good chance of being okay for next week."
Ireland's injury list heading into the Six Nations continues to grow, with the likes of John Hayes, Shane Horgan, Geordan Murphy, Andrew Trimble, Rob Kearney and Jerry Flannery all absent.
Kidney is keen to look on the bright side though and says the injury worries will help Ireland see where they are in terms of the younger players coming through.
"You never like to see guys injured - we know how much playing for Ireland means to those guys," said Kidney. "They'd be gutted were they to lose out at this stage of the season.
"But we've also tried to build a squad over the last few years and this will be the test of that. I have a huge belief in the way Irish rugby comes from the grass roots up.
"Of course there won't be as much video analysis on the new guys so that will be an advantage."


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Japanese plane seat maker admits falsifying safety dataTOKYO, Feb 9, 2010 (AFP) - Japanese airplane seat maker Koito Industries has said it had fabricated safety data on 150,000 seats used by 32 carriers, the latest trouble to hit the country's reputation for reliability.
The seats manufactured by the Yokohama-based firm are used in about 1,000 Boeing and Airbus aircraft, including more than 300 planes of the two major Japanese carriers Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways. Its international customers include Air Canada, KLM, Scandinavian Airlines and Singapore Airlines.
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"I deeply apologise," company president Takashi Kakegawa told a news conference late Monday.
"The whole section in charge was systematically involved in it," he said. "We did wrongdoing on concerns that we would delay our delivery if we failed in tests."
Japan's transport ministry has already instructed the company to improve its business operations, but stressed there was no problem with the planes continuing to fly.
The manufacturer omitted part of a test process and used figures from past tests, the ministry said, adding that the data falsification could have been going on since the mid-1990s.
The nation's largest plane seat maker was ordered by the ministry to retest the products to confirm their safety and would fix them if necessary, the company said.
The company is a subsidiary of Koito Manufacturing, an auto parts maker affiliated with Toyota Motor, now under fire over recalls of millions of vehicles worldwide due to problems with accelerator pedals and floor mats.
The world's largest automaker is expected to pull as many as 300,000 Prius hybrid vehicles as early as Tuesday because of a problem with the braking system.
Toyota Motor has no direct equity stake in Koito Industries.
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FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (CBS Tampa) — A 10-year-old child was arrested and charged with felony burglary after stealing a bicycle while leaving his tricycle at the scene of the crime in order to get away successfully.
According to the Fort Walton Beach Police Department, a local woman had her bicycle stolen, along with her son's air rifle.
Responding officers found the suspect, Daryl Pitts, near the victim's home and in possession of a bicycle whose serial numbers matched those of the one that was stolen.
Daryl had returned to the scene of the crime on his tricycle after first taking the gun, which he left there in order to ride away on the bike.
The victim's fiance saw Daryl after he returned to get his temporarily abandoned tricycle, and was able to describe him to authorities.
"[He] eventually admitted to stealing the … pistol from the garage … then returning later to steal the bicycle," the incident report, provided to CBS Tampa by authorities, states.
He had initially claimed the bicycle, worth a reported $400, was his.
"I read the juvenile defendant … his Miranda Warning in the presence of his stepmother," the report adds. "[He] knowingly and intentionally committed burglary to an occupied dwelling by entering the garage on two separate occasions."
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If security personnel reach a live person they will confirm this person's authorization by asking for their pass-code. If they receive no answer, or an incorrect pass-code is given, the central station will immediately alert the authorities. They will then contact a designated key-holder, someone within the company who will determine whether a break-in has occurred.
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Warning: Graphic images Vision has emerged of a man with bloodied hands armed with knives on a London Street. Courtesy ITV News
FIRST came a car crash and then what appeared to be two black men helping a white man they had run over.
But what followed in Woolwich, south east of London, has sent shockwaves around the world.
Armed with machetes and knives, the two men started hacking into the young man on the ground in broad daylight.
The attackers then started ranting "we swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you".
Witnesses have given terrifying accounts saying the men went at the man, identified as a serving British soldier, ''like a piece of meat''.
"They were hacking at this poor guy, literally," said one witness, identified only as James as he fought back tears.
"They were hacking at him, chopping him, cutting him. These two guys were crazed."
The soldier was so badly butchered that it looked as if ''they were trying to remove organs'', according to one man who saw the first terrorist murder on British soil in eight years.
When they finally finished beheading and mutilating the soldier's body, they appeared to say a prayer ''as if it was a sacrifice'', one witness said.
A 42-year-old council worker who saw what happened said: ''They were trying to decapitate him for 15 minutes. There was a six-year-old boy there who saw it all, he was crying and shaking. He said he could see the body but not the head.''
The men, described as "animals", then apparently stood around the body and demanded shocked witnesses take photographs of them.
Incredibly, some bystanders courageously went to the body to see if there was anything they could do, The Telegraph UK reports.
James said: ''There were brave women with the body on the floor. They were trying to shield him and covering him. The attackers with the knives they were standing over these women.
''There was people filming it on their phones. The guy with the gun, the tall guy with the beanie, he was going over to the bus asking people 'take photos of me'. As if he wants to be on TV. He was proud of what he'd done to this poor guy.''
At one point one of the men fired shots into the air.
Joe Tallant, 20, a van loader who lives near the scene, said: ''I was in a shop and I heard gun shots so I came out to see what was happening.
''And I saw a guy with no head lying on the ground. He had been decapitated.
''There were two black guys walking around his body saying 'This is what God would've wanted'.
''My friend and her mum were walking up the hill and the mum came straight to the victim.
''She asked the black guys 'can I help him?' And one of them said he was already dead but she could go.
''Then one of them said 'No man is coming near this body, only women'.
''She was so brave, she didn't care what happened to her - she knelt down by his side and comforted him.
''She held his hand and put her other hand on his chest. I think she might have been praying.
''My friend (the woman's daughter) was crying her eyes out.
''The attackers kept on walking around. They had already fired warning shots into the air - that was the shots I heard.
''They were going up to people with cameras just so they could be seen and filmed. They wanted people to know who they were.''
When police arrived the attackers lunged towards the police, witnesses said.
Julia Wilders, 51, who lives nearby, said: ''The man with two machetes ran at the police when they arrived and the police shot him. I saw him fall. The other one looked like he was going to go for his gun, so they shot him too.''
Another witness said a female firearms officer shot one of the men ''like Robocop'' when he ran towards her with a machete.
Another witness, Shane Webb, 48, an electrician who lives in a tower block overlooking the scene, says he looked out of the window of his flat after hearing a loud bang.
"There was a white man lying in the middle of the street. He was definitely dead. He was wearing a bomber jacket," he told Britain's Daily Telegraph.
"As I was watching a police car pulled up and two cops got out.
"They both just raised their guns and fired. There were about five or six shots very fast and one of the black guys just went down. I don't know if he was dead or not, but he just collapsed, just went down.
"They were firing at both of them and I think the other was hit as well, but I couldn't see that very well."
Local rapper Boya Dee described the events on Twitter.
"The first guy goes for the female fed [police officer] with the machete and she not even ramping she took man out like robocop never seen nutn like it," he wrote.
"Then the next breda try buss off the rusty 45 [gun] and it just backfires and blows mans finger clean off... Feds didnt pet to just take him out!!"
He went on: "Mate ive seen alot of s*** im my time but that has to rank sumwhere in the top 3. I couldnt believe my eyes. That was some movie s***."
Then the next breda try buss off the rusty 45 and it just backfires and blows mans finger clean off... Feds didnt pet to just take him out!!— Boya Dee (@BOYADEE) May 22, 2013
Another witness, Luke Huseyin, who lives on the street, said he heard a bang and looked out his window to see a blue car had crashed, apparently into the soldier.
He then described how two black men got out of the car dragging the white man, aged in his 20s, across the road before stabbing and slashing him with a machete and a knife.
"I don't think it took long before he was dead," he said.
"There were people passing by who were screaming and running away. I've never seen anything like it."
The 32-year-old described how they then dragged their dead victim back into the middle of the road then waited for police and charged at them when they arrived.


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LAWRENCE (CBS) — Acting Chief Brian Murphy told Mayor William Lantigua Thursday night that he is stepping down as acting fire chief after the Lawrence City Council voted to give more power to the mayor over Murphy's position, and remove it from civil service.
Murphy told the council that the position should be kept under civil service because it would become too political. He also claims that the mayor has put him under a "gag order" with a legal threat because he has been warning about dangerous conditions in the city.
Now, Mayor Lantigua is speaking out in response.
WBZ-TV's Karen Anderson reports.
"We were elected to make fundamental changes and that part of what I'm trying to accomplish. It's just part of my job," he said. "I was elected to make fundamental changes. I'm not rejoicing at this issue, I'm not looking at it as a personal gain, another victory. It's just another step in the right direction to bring the city along where it should go."
Mayor Lantigua says the fire chief was the only department head in the city not approved by the Mayor and City Council. He says 289 other communities in Massachusetts already have fire chief's outside of civil service.
"We came in with a deficit close to $25 million, and we need people who put the interest of the citizens first, not the interest of the union." The mayor said, "Mr. Murphy is a great person, but I think his role as fire chief is a role he has not yet understand. He cannot take the hat of the union representative, and put the hat of the manager, protecting his own workers at the time. That's a problem. He has had a big problem trying to make that distinction between one job and another."
In response to Murphy's claims that Lantingua "gagged" him from speaking out about unsafe conditions, Lantigua says, "No city official representing the city is to make comments that scare the community. And every meeting he went to, that's what he was doing. Literally telling people the safety of the city and that's against the law. I said this is the law you do it again, and you will be suspended."
Lantigua says he will have a widespread search for a new fire chief. "We are making progress. If you look at the books, for the first time in 20 years we are balancing the books on time and in real numbers. With real projections for revenue, not false expectations."


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Why the US is suing the S&P
Richard Eskow, Campaign For America's Future joins Thom Hartmann. So this might be less about actually holding Wall Street suits accountable, and more about revenge for embarrassing our nation. Or - did President Obama get the message from the last election - which is the American people are sick of the crimes on Wall Street and actually want to see some suits thrown in prison?


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No knock out
We must recognize the lack of symmetry in the current situation
For once it was not a sneering put-down, but a serious comment from a younger Christian, looking for something solid to hold on to. 'I still haven't found a single knock-down argument against women bishops.' 'And you never will,' was all the reply I could make.
Lesson number one: there are no knock down arguments against women bishops. Do not look for one; do not believe in one if an ally suggests it; do not rise to the bait if an opponent taunts you to produce one. There is not a single knock down argument against.
One of the most important considerations in this debate is that we should understand not merely 'the argument' but also the form of the argument, for it has changed significantly since 1992. 'Women bishops' is not 'women priests round two', and dusting off old speeches and articles will not work this time. The debate cannot possibly be won, this time around, on a single arguments-for-and-against basis. There is no longer any symmetry.
Lesson number two: there are knock down arguments in favour of women bishops. They may not be correct, but they exist, they are understood and they are widely accepted. The Rochester Report discusses four of them (self-evident; widespread support; women's experience; justice) only to dismiss them as serious foundations, in favour of a more overtly theological approach [ch.3]. Nevertheless, The Call of Women Bishops relies almost exclusively upon them, and on its own terms it has every right to do so.
Stop arguing
No such option is available on the side of the angels. In a modern world of sexual equality, of human rights, of secular democracy, there can be no simple, obvious knock down reason as to why women should not aspire to and become whatever men already are.
We can go further. Not only are there no knock down arguments against, there is, in some sense, no argument of any kind against. No argument. There is, in the words of Consecrated Women?, only the given-ness of revelation. It is the whole of what God has revealed through his Word, that makes women bishops impossible, as well as the manner in which he has revealed it.
Our natural sense of justice (note the irony!) suggests (to us) that this is unfair, that all the arguments, all the instruments of debate, are in the hands of our opponents – like a duel in which the other man takes both pistols. But we miss the point if we fall back on whingeing.
Lesson number three: there is no symmetry in this present debate. We stumble into a trap if we think so. It will be an opponent who cries, 'Can you think of a single knock down argument against? No? Well, here is one in favour. And another. And another.' As Isaiah [30.15] keeps reminding us, 'In stillness and in staying quiet, there lies your strength.'
Staying quiet
What is the nature of the debate, we have to ask ourselves, if all the knock down arguments are on one side only?
Lesson four: it is not an argument. We have not been called to argue, for in the end this is not a debate. It is about the nature of the Christian faith. We are called therefore to witness to it, to state calmly (and we hope graciously) our faith as we have received it. Whether others will listen is not for us to know. We are simply martyrs, that is to say, witnesses to the Gospel.
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Mercy: Expansion plan not solely competitive
Bea, president and CEO, said Mercy Hospital & Trauma Center has 16 patient rooms in its emergency department. Because the facility is a Level II trauma center, it receives severe cases that tie up rooms for hours.
�That whittles down the number of rooms we have available,� he said.
Nearly two weeks ago, Mercy announced it will build a $6 million emergency department and clinic on 24 acres it bought in 1999 on Deerfield Drive, just north of what today is Home Depot.
In making the announcement, Bea said Mercy intends to open the 20,000-square-foot facility by the end of the year.
That timetable would have the new Mercy facility opening just ahead of St. Mary�s Janesville Hospital and Dean Clinic Janesville, which is scheduled to open in early January.
Bea said Wednesday that earlier comments he made about Mercy�s facility not being a competitive response to St. Mary�s Janesville Hospital might have been misconstrued.
He said Wednesday that Mercy needs more rooms for emergency treatment, and that�s the impetus for the new facility. In addition, he said, the new department will be able to treat patients from Janesville�s north side and the Milton area much quicker.
�We determined that we need eight more rooms, but we�re landlocked (at Mercy Hospital & Trauma Center),� he said. �Our ER here abuts our cancer center, and the only way to expand it here would be to knock down part of the cancer center, which is illogical.
�So we determined that we need to build a satellite facility�one licensed emergency department with two locations.�
The new facility�Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center Emergency North�will be a 24-hour emergency department that Bea said would be an extension of the hospital and trauma center on Mineral Point Avenue.
Plans call for a helipad at the site.
Bea said the eight emergency rooms will bring Mercy�s total at the two facilities to 24. The 12 emergency rooms at St. Mary�s Janesville Hospital will bring the city�s total to 36, which Bea noted is not many more than the 27 rooms at the hospital in Beloit, a city that�s just more than half of Janesville�s size.
�Is Beloit right-sized? I don�t know, but I know what Mercy needs,� Bea said, adding that Mercy�s philosophy is to keep moving forward.
�It�s not to lay out specific strategies or counters to keep the competition from doing something. If the argument or rationale for doing the new emergency department was simply to counter what St. Mary�s is doing, we would have done this a couple of years ago.�
Bea did acknowledge Wednesday that the construction timetable for the new facility can be construed as a competitive move.
�When we arrived at the need for eight more emergency rooms, we decided that as long as we�re going to do it, we�re going to try to get it done before St. Mary�s opens,� he said.
The reason, Bea said, is to treat people in the Mercy network in Janesville and lessen the chances they would be transported to St. Mary�s and then flown out of the city for treatment of severe injuries and illnesses.
�Is the timing competitive?� he asked. �It is in the sense that we want to treat people locally.�
City officials are reviewing plans for the new Mercy clinic and emergency department.
Mercy said the new facility would be the first phase of a three-part plan for the Deerfield Drive property that eventually could include specialty clinics and an inpatient hospital.
Gale Price, the city�s manager of building and development services, said staff needs to review potential stormwater drainage and traffic issues from the perspective of the initial project and how it might tie into future Mercy projects.
Bea said Wednesday he realizes the six-month timetable is aggressive, but he believes it can be met. Mercy has put together an architectural and construction team that�s worked together on several other projects.
�We don�t have to go through the process of getting to know each other,� he said. �It can be done by the end of the year. That�s our goal.�
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MT. PLEASANT —After a 45-minute discussion about terms and a call to the Washington County Attorney, Jack Seward Jr., Washington County Supervisor, turned a check over to the Regional Utility Service Systems (RUSS) to pay for the debt from the Richmond/Rubio project with no "strings" or terms attached to the check.
At the beginning of the discussion on the agenda item at Wednesday's RUSS board meeeting, Seward told the board he had the check in the amount of $386,194.43 and was willing to turn it over, as long as RUSS agreed to terms that Washington County had come up with.
"This check is cut and all you have to do to take it and add it into your bank account is sign this little piece of paper that says you are receiving it, but that if we find out that there is anything that has been approved that was inappropriate or unreasonable that we should be able to argue to get it back," Seward told the board.
RUSS executive director expressed concern over Washington County's terms in that there was no specific time frame for Washington County to make the claims, that the invoices in question should be made known to the board and that it should be noted that the check does not cover all of the up-to-date interest.
"I think those three things are important to consider," said Hudson. "If I am going to sign off on something I think it is important to look at it. I will sign it if you all — the board — want me to sign it."
"My response to that is that from the start of this my position representing Washington County is that we would pay, honor our obligations, for everything that was reasonable and appropriate," said Seward. "This check represents good faith and everything that I think satisfies our obligations. Some of those things in the invoices that we questioned were some things that look like they may have been double billed. There may be a complete and good explanation for that because we just haven't sat down to do that.
"I hesitate to sit down and spend another I-don't-know-how-many hours and add that much more money to the project when it is only going to be a relatively small amount. How much more do we spend just to argue about stuff?" Seward continued.
Several of the other board members expressed concern that there was no definitive time period presented with Washington County's terms and that extensions have already been given to the county to look over the invoices.
"First of all," said Ernie Schiller of Lee County, "you know what the deadline has been."
"Yep," replied Seward.
"And we have even extended it for you guys graciously because I think the board wants to remain friendly and get this resolved," said Schiller. "I guess from my perspective, we have given you ample time to do things. We gave you an extension because we wanted to make sure we remained friendly because we are all here working for the better good.
"The second thing I want to say is about improper billing," continued Schiller. "Things are audited every year. And the thing with the USDA is audited and I am sure anything that could be double billed has probably already been scrutinized to the Nth degree. Now, maybe it is not to your satisfaction, but I think from our satisfaction I can't imagine anything you would find if you had more time or even an unlimited amount of time to go through things."
After a lengthy part of the discussion, the board took a break so that Seward could call the Washington County attorney and see what could be done about the terms to receive the check.
Upon resuming the meeting, the discussion ended with Seward telling the board they could have the check with no terms, but that he wasn't happy about it.
"What I am going to get you guys to understand right now is that I am going to deliver the check because I don't think the argument and what it is going to cost us by withholding the check some more is going to be worth it. I am handing this check over to you today and taking the receipt with the notation made that I protest your conditions," said Seward.
The next RUSS meeting will be on Dec. 11, at 1 p.m. at the Henry County Emergency Management building.


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ALT builds and renovates energy-efficient, quality homes for sale to people earning up to 80 percent of the area median income, currently $45,200 for a family of four. As a community land trust, ALT uses a "dual ownership" housing strategy. The organization holds the land permanently and sells just the house. This protects the affordability of the home.
ALT leases the underlying land to the homeowners through a 99-year renewable ground lease. This gives them the right to use the land for as long as they wish. They can leave the house, as well as the lease, to their heirs. If they decide to move, the ground lease requires that they sell the house back to ALT or to another income-qualified buyer at a price that reflects its appreciated value but remains affordable.
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We work closely with all our potential homebuyers before they are included on our waiting list. First-time buyers participate in classes that cover everything from buying a home to managing household finances. They must be able to obtain a mortgage they can afford, as well as pay insurance and taxes. A measure of the strength of this approach is that land trust homes across the United States are six times less likely to go into foreclosure than other homes.
An important benefit of this homeownership model is that it preserves the community's investment in work force housing for generations to come. ALT's housing program is funded through a combination of public and private funds, and because ALT homes remain affordable no matter how often they are sold, that investment remains with the home, making it a fiscally sound way to help meet Athens-Clarke County's affordable housing goals.
Since the founding of ALT in the mid-1990s, our organization has leveraged those diverse funds into $9 million in tax-assessed properties we either own or have developed, including the 120-unit Fourth Street Village, generating more than $100,000 annually in property tax revenue for Athens-Clarke County. The house on Tara Way is a well-constructed, quality home that was independently appraised by Athens Appraisal and Realty Services and valued at $147,700.
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It's that time of year, when retail stores roll out the latest and greatest merchandise in hope that something will catch a consumer's eye for a holiday gift.
Analysts are expecting a tough year for retailers, but some local stores maintain high hopes for the 2008 Christmas shopping season.
According to the National Retail Federation, U.S. consumers plan to spend an average of $832.36 on holiday-related shopping, which is up 1.9 percent from last year's $816.69. This is the smallest increase in consumer spending since the survey began in 2002.
"No one is canceling Christmas because money is tight, but consumers will be sticking to their budgets and looking for good deals when deciding where to spend this holiday season," foundation President and CEO Tracy Mullin said in a news release.
Despite the forecast, several area retailers are hopeful that shoppers are still in the holiday gift-giving spirit.
"I think as far as toys go, parents and grandparents don't want children to feel the effects of what's going on with our economy," said Juli Means, the owner of The Toy Box in Surrey Center.
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Ms. Means doesn't think the economy will significantly affect toy stores, but she isn't sure about other retailers.
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Though Ruben's suit business is the same as last year, sales of accessories, including shoes, ties and handbags, are up, he said. Men's and women's hats, both casual and dressy, are also hot items.
"We've found this year that people are more interested in buying dress-up clothes than going out buying a T-shirt and jeans," he said.
Shoppers are bargain-hunting this year, and 40 percent of National Retail Federation survey participants said that "sales or promotions is the largest factor in determining where to shop."
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"Last year was a busy holiday season. We're expecting with the economy for it to be a bit slower, like everybody else," Ms. Booker said. "I think we'll be OK. Like other businesses, we'll just have to putter along with it."
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The Institute of Medicine is calling on the government to mandate sodium reduction.
From margaritas to margherita pizza, just about everything we eat has salt. Studies show that Americans eat 1.5 teaspoons of salt every day, more than twice the amount of sodium the body needs.
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The head of the Food and Drug Administration said the agency is working with food producers to voluntarily lower the sodium in foods. But the Institute of Medicine wants mandatory national standards for the sodium content.
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BALTIMORE -- Orioles pitcher Randy Wolf has been dealing with left elbow discomfort since the last inning of his start Saturday at Fenway Park and, after seeing team orthopedist Dr. John Wilckens, the plan is for Wolf to have an MRI on Tuesday morning.
Manager Buck Showalter said the medical staff is also leaning toward giving Wolf a cortisone shot, which would shut him down for a few days, but that likely won't be determined until after he gets the MRI.
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The fate of Africa's huge crude oil reserves is important not just for Africans but also for Americans -- who already use millions of barrels of oil imported from Africa every day. The Boston Globe's Africa bureau chief, John Donnelly, has written a three-part series about the issue. Here is a summary of the key points in the series, in question-and-answer form.
Q: How does Africa's oil affect Americans?
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For the United States, Africa's oil also is useful because it is mostly "sweet" crude, with low sulphur content, which is easier and cheaper to refine into gasoline or other products. Also, transportation costs to the US East Coast are lower from Africa than from the Middle East because the distance is shorter for supertankers.
Q. How does oil help Africans?
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Q: How much money are they pulling in?
A: Take Angola as one example. It expected $6 billion in oil revenues this year. But the spike in oil prices, which for a while pushed a barrel of crude over $60, means that the government likely will earn $10 billion this year. And now the country hopes to expand production from 1.3 million barrels of oil a day to 2 million by 2008. After decades of civil war, Angola has been at peace since 2002 and will hold elections next year. So some hope the oil wealth could contribute to the rebuilding.
Q: How does the corruption occur?
A: Consider Nigeria: One of Nigeria's challenges is that its oil isn't off-shore, as in Angola. It is underneath the swamps of the Niger Delta, a densely populated and environmentally sensitive region in the country's southeast. The government's own anti-corruption watchdog commission estimates that 45 percent of Nigeria's oil is wasted or stolen, often by criminal gangs operating in the swamps of the delta. Sabotage occurs daily on oil lines in the delta: residents use hacksaws to cut through pipes, and sophisticated thieves tap into pipelines and divert thousands of barrels of oil a day into waiting tankers. This theft often causes oil spills in the delta, damaging the fish population.
Q: Is anyone making progress against corruption?
A: The Republic of Congo-Brazzaville has put thousands of documents on the Internet, but even international accountants have a hard time deciphering the information. The government hopes the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will forgive much of its billions of dollars in debt. But investigators found glaring holes between what the government received in oil money and its expenditures. In addition, some senior officials also run private oil trading companies. The officials appear to sell the country's oil to themselves and then peddle it to legitimate oil traders.


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