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A recently released report from the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic of Stanford Law School and the Global Justice Clinic at the New York University School of Law explores what it is like to live under drones and features firsthand testimony from civilians in Pakistan. The report, called "Living Under Drones," is the product of two investigation missions to Pakistan and features firsthand accounts from those who have been impacted by drones employed regularly by the United States.
Part 1 on what the report details on strikes against rescuers and funerals was already published here at Firedoglake. Now, here's Part 2, which examines drone surveillance, the effect that the presence of drones in the sky has on the mental health of Pakistanis and how drones breed distrust in Pakistani communities.
The constant presence of drones in the sky brings terror to the lives of the people of Pakistan. It is "harrowing" for children, grown-ups, women, and anyone who hears the sound of a drone and thinks they will be next. And in some respects, surveillance by drones is even worse than drone strikes because Pakistanis do not ever know for certain that a drone in the sky is just overhead to spy.
A humanitarian worker explained:
Do you remember 9/11? Do you remember what it felt like right after? I was in New York on 9/11. I remember people crying in the streets. People were afraid about what might happen next. People didn't know if there would be another attack. There was tension in the air. This is what it is like. It is a continuous tension, a feeling of continuous uneasiness. We are scared. You wake up with a start to every noise.
One person told researchers, "God knows whether they'll strike us again or not. But they're always surveying us, they're always over us, and you never know when they're going to strike and attack." Another interviewee who lost both his legs in a drone attack said that, "[E]veryone is scared all the time. When we're sitting together to have a meeting, we're scared there might be a strike. When you can hear the drone circling in the sky, you think it might strike you. We're always scared. We always have this fear in our head."
The fear makes anyone and everyone afraid of social gatherings. It makes people reclusive and afraid to leave their homes. As one man, who lost a cousin in a major drone strike on March 17, 2011, said:
We do not come out of our villages because it's very dangerous to go out anywhere. . . . In past we used to participate in activities like wedding gatherings [and] different kinds of jirgas, different kinds of funerals. . . .We used to go to different houses for condolences, and there were all kinds of activities in the past and we used to participate. But now it's a risk to go to any place or participate in any activities."
As Umar Ashraf was being interviewed for the report, he gestured at the small group interviewing him and said, "We do not sit like this, like friends." This does not happen anymore because people are afraid, "since [they] usually attack people when they sit in gatherings."
"The Drones Are All Over My Brain"
Anticipatory anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder occurs as a result of the terror Pakistanis experience from drones in the sky. The presence causes "emotional breakdowns." It leads people to run indoors and hide whenever drones are overhead. It makes people faint, causes nightmares, "hyper startled reactions to loud noises, outbursts of anger or irritability" and sometimes even loss of appetite. It makes people insomniacs too.
"Drones are always on my mind," a father of three told researchers. "It makes it difficult to sleep. They are like a mosquito. Even when you don't see them, you know they are there."
Saeed Yayha was injured by "flying shrapnel" in a major drone strike on March 17, 2011. He must rely on charity to survive. And, for him, drones are like demons or ghosts in the night:
I can't sleep at night because when the drones are there . . . I hear them making that sound, that noise. The drones are all over my brain, I can't sleep. When I hear the drones making that drone sound, I just turn on the light and sit there looking at the light.
There are Pakistanis, who do not eat when drones are flying overhead. Ajmal Bashir, "an elderly man who has lost both relatives and friends to strikes, told researchers, "Every person—women, children, elders—they are all frightened and afraid of the drones…[W]hen [drones] are flying, they don't like to eat anything." Another man said, "We don't eat properly on those days [when strikes occur] because we know an innocent Muslim was killed. We are all unhappy and afraid."
Doctors have treated PTSD. In one case, a female patient from Waziristan had "shaking fits" and "was screaming and crying." The psychiatrist discovered the woman had observed a drone attack that happened near her home. "She had witnessed a home being destroyed—it was just a nearby home, [her] neighbor's."
For children, the fear and stress can be just as profound. Noor Behram, a Waziri journalist who has investigated and photographed the sites of drone attacks, noted, "If you bang a door, they'll scream and drop like something bad is going to happen." This sort of psychological trauma in a child could have "long-term ramifications," one Pakistani mental health professional explained:
The biggest concern I have as a [mental health professional] is that when the children grow up, the kinds of images they will have with them, it is going to have a lot of consequences. You can imagine the impact it has on personality development. People who have experienced such things, they don't trust people; they have anger, desire for revenge . . . So when you have these young boys and girls growing up with these impressions, it causes permanent scarring and damage.
Drone strikes could very well radicalize these children and inspire them to take up arms against America when they are grown up. They might engage in what the US would consider to be terrorism
Children growing up and engaging in terrorism is a definite recipe for perpetual war.
On top of all this, the communities in North Waziristan do not handle mental illness well. There are only a limited number of "trained mental health professionals" and health infrastructure is poor, which "exacerbates the symptoms and illnesses" Pakistanis experience. Communities also have rather disturbing ways of handling mental illnesses caused by drone strikes.
"Some people have been tied in their houses," one man said. There are some, a man from Datta Khel—"which has been hit by drone strikes over three dozen times in the last three years alone"—who are "locked in a room." Others take tranquilizers to "save them from the terror of the drones" or prescription drugs that may barely soothe the pain.
The CIA Has Informants Planting "Chips"
There is a great impact on community trust, according to the report. A number of Waziris happen to believe "paid informants help the CIA identify potential targets." Additionally compounding the already-dystopian nightmare that is the US drone war, many Waziris believe these informants are planting "chips" or "sims" in vehicles or houses that are to be targeted by CIA drones.
Najeeb Saaqib explained to researchers how he thought these "chips" were working:
I think there are some other intelligence agencies, foreign intelligence agencies, also working there in the shape of our own people. They grow a large beard and take the same positions as our own people, working for those external agencies. They put a chip or something else in places, and then a drone strikes those places. That's what we think.
In 2009, "chips" were reported by Declan Wash for The Guardian. The report noted the US had launched more than fifty drone attacks in Waziristan in the previous eighteen months and "nine of the top twetny al Qaeda figures" had been killed. The success was attributed to "chips" or electronic devices Pakistanis called "pathrai" (the Pashto word for a metal device), which had "become a source of fear, intrigue and fascination." Residents and Taliban propaganda were suggesting the CIA was paying "tribesmen to plant the electronic devices near farmhouses sheltering al Qaeda and Taliban commanders." But, at no point during the investigation missions were researchers able to find evidence of these "chips."
This belief that "chips" are being planted by "informants" has created much mistrust, "as neighbors suspect neighbors of spying for the US, Pakistani or Taliban intelligence and of using drone strikes to settle feuds."
One resident of a community impacted by drones asserted, "People have internal enemies and conflicts with each other. [T]o get revenge [on] another party, they put chips on that house." This signals the house is a target. And, because someone can make your house a target at anytime by planting these "chips," communities are constantly alert and "suspicious of outsiders" or any strangers, who come into their villages.


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no, who told you to install it?? if you did. dont uninstall it tho
I've ordered my external HDD from comet it's a iomega 500gb should be here wednesday.
I just want to be sure I've prepared everything.
Wii v4.0
I have rev14 and the Hermes' IOS 222/223 installed.
Do I still need the IOS36-64-v1042.wad file installed?
no, who told you to install it?? if you did. dont uninstall it tho
I have not installed it.
Thanks for the clarification.
I have USB LOADER GX V1.0 installed.
Is that the latest version?
All the revisions are named USB Loader GX V1.0. It's the revision number that is updated; the latest is revision 746. Once you have your version installed, there's a option within the settings menu to update, if you want. Not all the latest revisions have been desirable-so don't jump too fast to keep your USB Loader GX up-to-date.

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On what started as an unremarkable Saturday afternoon at the Dallas Cowboys Valley Ranch training facility, team scout Rich Behm's life changed forever.
The practice bubble that served as Dallas' indoor training facility collapsed during a relentless, driving thunderstorm during a rookie mini-camp in early-May; special teams coach Joe DeCamillis suffered a fractured vertebrae requiring surgery.
Behm was left paralyzed, unlikely to ever walk again.
Only two months later though, Behm has other plans.
"[I'm] still going to walk again," Behm said this week, the first time he has spoken publically about the accident. "It's no big deal. That's a goal, and so I'm sticking to that."
This is both remarkable and, the more you learn about Behm as a person, completely predictable. This is a man, after all, who shocked many with his decision to return to work only a few weeks after the accident.
Wade Phillips remarked on Behm's progress, "You know, the players can't say they are tired and can't get back when a guy like Rich shows all the heart he's shown."
This is only another step in what has been, and will be, a long fight. "I'm still trying to learn how to deal with what's happened to me right now in terms of getting on with my normal life," Behm continued. "I can't even drive a car."
Behm recently hired high-profile Dallas attorney Frank Branson to explore a possible lawsuit against Summit Structures, the company that built the structure. It is unlikely that the team will be held responsible in the incident.
Published at 11:45 AM CDT on Jul 22, 2009 | Updated at 9:16 PM CDT on Jul 28, 2009


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Twin Palms Condo - Siesta Key, FL
1115 Point Of Rocks Road Unit # 1, Sarasota, FL 34242
(1 Block from the Most Beautiful Beach)
TripAdvisor names Siesta Key top U.S. Beach 2015
Voted # 3 Best Beach in the World by Conde' Nast and #1 in Florida
"The Best Sand Beach" from the Travel Channel
Siesta Key Beach
Siesta Beach quite possibly has the finest sand in Florida—and it's family-friendly too—with sandbars perfect for castle-making in shallow, calm waters.
Twin Palms Condominium - 1115 Point of Rocks Rd. - Siesta Key, FL 34242-2655
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August 19, 2011 BY Aaron Hope
Of course it looks like the Nike Air Force 1, but have you seen palettes like the ones used on this new set of A Bathing Ape Bape Stas, on a pair of Uptowns recently? The AF1 has released in more colorways than any model in history, so it's not too hard to think of models similar to these somewhere back a few years (some longer than others), but in 2011, these do a great job of blending Bape's high-contrast past with its apparently subtler present. Click through to see the soft nubuck uppers on these three pairs and get em straight from BAPE.
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Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock Trailer (1999)
Nine o'clock on Monday morning, August 18, 1969: while the work force was starting the day, Jimi Hendrix was taking the stage at Woodstock. While hundreds of thousands had already left, 25,000 people remained to see this incredible performance. Hendrix, along with drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox, offered masterly renditions of the songs of the recently disbanded Experience ("Hey Joe," "Foxey Lady"), and gave a preview of the blues-based Band of Gypsys ("Izabella," "Hear My Train A Comin'"), as well as Jimi's era-defining rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner." Though the weekend had witnessed some landmark performances by other great artists, this performance from Hendrix is regarded by many as the defining moment in a festival ripe with defining moments.
Watch the official Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock 1999 trailer in HD below or find more Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock videos on Vidimovie.


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Redmine/Rails email through Gmail SMTP
Here is a bit of help getting [Redmine](http://www.redmine.org/), or any Rails app, to send email over SMTP through an existing [Gmail](http://www.gmail.com) account.
It's quite easy to set up and you gain the usual perks of having everything centralized in a Gmail account. Note: this works with [Google Apps for your domain](http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html), too.
First you'll need to install the
smtp_tls plugin into your application's lib directory so you can correctly authenticate. For posterity, I've uploaded a copy [smtp_tls.rb](http://blog.expandrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/smtp_tls.rb) along with this post.
www@host:~/redmine$ cd lib
www@host:~/redmine/lib$ curl -O http://blog.expandrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/smtp_tls.rb
Redmine utilizes
email.yml to configure [ActionMailer](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ActionMailer). Here's what ours looks like:
delivery_method: :smtp
address: smtp.gmail.com
port: 587
domain: gmail.com
authentication: :login
user_name: email@example.com
password: password
Next, in
production.rb makre sure to
require 'smtp_tls'
That's it, you're good to go.
If you want to set up any old Rails app [using Action Mailer] to send mail via Gmail, add this to
require 'smtp_tls'
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp
ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true
ActionMailer::Base.raise_delivery_errors = true
ActionMailer::Base.default_charset = "utf-8"
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:domain => "gmail.com",
:authentication => :login,
:user_name => "firstname.lastname@example.com",
:password => "password",


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Space buffs hope to revive old NASA probe
WASHINGTON – When NASA launched a space-weather probe called ISEE-3 in 1978, Jimmy Carter was president, the Commodores' "Three Times a Lady" topped the charts and sci-fi fans had seen only one "Star Wars" movie: the original.
Thirty-six years and five "Star Wars" movies later, the NASA craft, unused by the agency since 1997, is again the talk of the space world.
A group of garage engineers – ranging from a 23-year-old former University of Central Florida student to an 81-year-old ex-NASA official – wants to get the bookshelf-sized probe working again when it whips by the moon this summer.
The aim is to restart its mission of monitoring space weather and – if the group can pull it off – send it to study an incoming comet in 2018.
"This is something that has never been done before," said Robert Farquhar, a former NASA manager who worked with the spacecraft in the 1980s.
But waking a NASA probe in space for nearly four decades is no easy task. Not only do team members have to figure out how to "talk" to the spacecraft and give it commands, but they'll also have to do it without NASA funding.
NASA is helping the campaign by releasing related documents, but the cash-strapped agency isn't spending any money on the project. Dwayne Brown, a NASA spokesman, said in a statement that "re-contacting ISEE-3 would have little scientific value" for NASA.
Still, supporters argue that any new data could be helpful and that reviving the craft could help get the public excited about space. That's why the team is trying to crowd-fund the project – having so far raised about 60 percent of the goal of $125,000.
The "vast majority of the donations are $10 or $50, (but) pocket change in large numbers can turn into something," said Keith Cowing, editor of the NASAWatch website and one of the project's directors.
Adding to the pressure is lack of time. Unless the team can get the probe working again by mid-June – and alter its current flight path – the spacecraft will sail by the moon in August and disappear into space. It won't come close to Earth again until 2029, said Dennis Wingo, another project director.
"It's do or die," Wingo said. "Every day is precious. Every hour is precious right now."
It's a strange new chapter for a spacecraft last seen on Earth on Aug. 12, 1978, the day NASA launched ISEE-3 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a mission to study space weather.
A few years into that initial mission, however, NASA officials, including Farquhar, commandeered the craft for an entirely different mission: chasing comets. So in the early 1980s, NASA fired the spacecraft's thrusters and sent it to follow a comet known as Giacobini-Zinner.
The hunt was successful, and in 1985 the craft made history by becoming the first probe to fly past a comet – getting as close as 5,000 miles from the core of Giacobini-Zinner. There it made measurements that confirmed scientists' suspicions that comets essentially were space's "dirty snowballs" – fast objects comprised of ice, rock and gases.
A year later, ISEE-3 did a similar flyby of Halley's Comet and afterward spent several years studying the sun until NASA stopped operating it in 1997.


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Orioles reinstate 2B Brian Roberts from the paternity leave list; INF Danny Valencia optioned to Triple-A Norfolk
By / MLB.com
The Orioles today announced that they have reinstated 2B BRIAN ROBERTS from the paternity leave list and have optioned INF DANNY VALENCIA to Triple-A Norfolk.
Roberts, 35, is batting .245/.283/.357 in 30 games for the Orioles this season. His wife Diana had their first child, a son, Jax, on Friday.
Valencia batted .216/.256/.500 (16-for-74) with five homers and 10 RBI in 25 games for the Orioles this season.
This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Sefko: There is always a chance the Dallas Mavericks trade Samuel Dalembert
Columnist Eddie Sefko held a chat on Tuesday. Here are some highlights.
Question: Any chance mavs trade sam dalembert prior to the deadline?
Sefko: Always a chance. But how much do you really think he brings in return? Even if you package him with Monta Ellis or Shawn Marion, the attractiveness of that would be in the eye of the beholder. Don't think you'd be able to come away with any players who would make a big impact for years to come.
Question: Eddie, wouldn't u rather see the Mavs not make the playoffs, get a high draft pick and begin rebuilding than become a perennial mediocre team like the cowgirls in Arlington ?
Sefko: I've always been in the camp that making the playoffs is always better than not making them. They put money in the owner's pocket and the players feel better about the season, no matter how long the playoff run. And you never know what can happen. One injury or one fluke can turn a playoff series and you have seen teams roll from the sixth seed or even the eighthseed deep into the playoffs. Not saying that's going to happen thiis year. But a 14th draft pick, even in a deep draft, does nothing to blow my skirt up.
Question: So what's the deal with a 32-year-old professional athlete oversleeping? He said he's taking steps to make sure that doesn't happen -- what does he mean by that? Has Dalembert had problems with punctuality and his sleep schedule before?
Sefko: He's had difficulties before, yes. He's not the only player who enjoys the NBA lifestyle, sometimes having a little too much fun. But being late twice in the first half of a season is too much of a trend to overlook. Next time, if there is a next time, I'd bet the punishment is much stiffer.


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RoleIcons is a tiny UI mod that adds Blizzard's party/raid role icons (tank/heal/dps) in several useful places in your UI, and provides several other related features.
Role icons are added to:
- The Blizzard raid tab. The role icons replace the level field for max level players.
- Game tooltip when you mouse over a player or raid frame
- Target frame
- HealBot unit frames
- HealBot and Vuhdo tooltip when you mouse over a raid frame
- Party/Raid chat (Blizzard chat frames, Prat, Chatter, WIM)
- NEW in 4.2: System messages that mention group members
- NEW in 4.3: Player popup context menus
- NEW in 4.4: Group member tooltips on map and minimap
Other features:
- Enhances the Blizzard Raid tab with role summary counts and class summary counts
- Adds a role-check button to the Raid tab
- Blizzard Raid tab can now be left-clicked to target a raid member
- Blizzard Raid tab can now be middle-clicked to set a raid member's role
- Automatically sets your role based on your spec when joining a raid or respeccing
- Automatically replies to role checks from the raid leader based on your spec
- Adds a tooltip showing the tier token breakdown for the current raid members
- NEW in 4.0: Displays the "hosting" realm name while in cross-realm groups, showing when it changes and why
- All features are optional and can be toggled using /ri
Basic Usage:
- Install as usual
- It Just Works! (tm)
Command Line Usage:
- /ri help - Get info on command-line options
- /ri check, /rolecheck - perform a Role Check (must be leader or raid assistant)
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Bug reports or feature requests
Forum thread for general discussion
#3 DrSnuggles Posted Jun 27, 2011
- Automatically sets your role based on your spec when joining a raid or respeccing
- Automatically replies to role checks from the raid leader based on your spec
is it possible to deactivate those 2 things?
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Korean cooking forum topics
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Great Korean / Japanese Restaurant!! Personally never had the Japanese part, but they do have Sushi there and looks great.
However their Korean is phenomenal. I have eaten there many times, they know me when I go in. Wonderful wait staff. Never had anything even remotely blah or un-tasty. Usually take friends there and they have all said one of the best places they have ever been. If in Toledo you have to try it!
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From the Abyss sends the player after a Prince of the Void in order to help Ogath understand the mysteries of the voidwalkers.
Objectives Edit
Kill Void Baron Galaxis and collect his soul shard. Take the shard to Ogath the Mad in Spinebreaker Post.
You will need:
- [Warp Rift Generator] (provided)
- [Galaxis Soul Shard]
Description Edit
My warp rift generator is complete. You can now use it to summon a true prince of the void, a creature whose soul shard will tell us much of what lies beyond.
Go south in Void Ridge and use my warp rift generator near the void stones. Look for a cluster of crystals near the edge of the abyss. A huge warp rift will form and Void Baron Galaxis will surely appear.
Destroy this creature and bring me his soul shard.
Details Edit
His spawn point is around coordinates 80,79. When he appears, he will also bring 2 additional weak voidwalkers with him. When Galaxis reaches around 20% health, he will absorb one of the voidwalkers to heal himself. Therefore it may be advisable to take out the voidwalkers first before you attack Galaxis.
There has also been an issue with Galaxis' body disappearing before you have time to loot it. This was supposedly fixed in Patch 2.1.0 although there are reports that the bug is still around. Players have also started that they've seen Galaxis spawn without any additional voidwalkers.
Reward Edit
You will be allowed to choose one of the following:
- Rod of the Void Caller
- Item Level 93
- Binds when picked up
- Staff
- Two-Hand
- Speed 2.80
- 121 - 193 Damage
- (56.1 damage per second)
- +13 Intellect
+48 Stamina
- Durability 85 / 85
- Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 18.
Equip: Increases spell power by 30.
- Sell Price: 7 27 96
- Circle of Banishing
- Item Level 93
- Binds when picked up
- Unique-Equipped
- Finger
- +18 Stamina
- Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 12.
Equip: Increases attack power by 39 when fighting Demons.
- Sell Price: 3 2 84
- Abyssal Shroud
- Binds when picked up
- Back
- 58 Armor
- +15 Stamina
+18 Shadow Resistance
- Equip: Improves resilience rating by 7.
- Sell Price: 1 75 38
Progress Edit
Have you destroyed Void Baron Galaxis yet?
Completion Edit
You have saved my life's work <name>.
They called me insane, they laughed at me, they thought I was mad for my obsession with the Void Ridge and Warp Fields. Now with this soul shard I can unlock the secrets of the voidwalkers. I will command the power of the abyss
Quest progressionEdit
- [61] The Warp Rifts
- [61] Void Ridge


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Thank you for celebrating with us!
Hello Ghouls and Boils,
Our '13 Days of Halloween' celebration has come to a close. I hope you all have had a terrorific time and will return to celebrate with us next year. We will be drawing names out of the hat over the next few days and will announce our winners by November 5th! Good luck to everyone who entered! I would also like to thank our sponsors for providing such phantastic prizes, please visit their websites: Dark Horse Comics, Arkham Bazaar, Sigh Co. Graphics, Dagon Industries, artist Liv Rainey-Smith, Bloody Pulp Books, and Guerrilla Productions.
The Staff at She Never Slept hopes you had a terrorific Halloween! Did you attended a costumed event this year? Don't forget about our Halloween Costume Contest! Submit your photo for a chance to win a grab bag full of prizes! Remember – you must send us your photos by November 5th! You can find all the details >>here<< !
Have you visited the She Never Slept forum yet? Please join us to chat about recent reviews, for SciFi – Strange Tales – Horror discussions, announcements from the staff, and much more! Registered users will be eligible for exclusive bi-monthly contests and exclusive content in the Cultists' Cavern. I am sure we'll all have a spooktacular time!
Below you will find the answer to our final trivia. I will be posting a new review tomorrow, so be sure to check back! Enjoy, my fiends!
Sarah L. Covert
13 Days of Halloween – Day Thirteen Trivia Answers
"May" directed by Lucky McKee and released in 2002
"Halloween III: Season of the Witch" directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and released in 1982
"Trick 'r Treat" directed by Michael Dougherty and released 2007
"Donnie Darko" directed by Richard Kelly and released in 2001


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<<< Plot >>>
When Kathryn Lyons is wakened by a knock at the door in the early hours of the morning by an airline union official, she senses immediately that her worst nightmare has transpired.
The trans-Atlantic passenger aircraft her husband, Jack, was piloting has crashed into the sea of the coast of Ireland. There are no survivors, and a salvage operation is underway for the plane's wreckage and the Black Box.
Kathryn and her teenage daughter, Mattie, are understandably distraught with grief, in their own personal hell. Robert Hart, the Union Official, remain close to them for support and to shield them from the intrusions of the Press and Media.
If circumstances aren't hard enough to endure, the cockpit voice recorder indicates that the crash was not an accident. All the evidence points to Jack bringing the plane down deliberately in a cruel murder/suicide taking the entire crew and all the passengers with him.
Kathyrn refuses to accept this theory, despite the evidence, and is determined to discover the truth behind her husband's death. The more she delves in to his life, the more she realises that large parts of him were a mystery to her and he had a side to him that was completely separate from the family life that they shared.
Who was the man she was married to? What were the secrets that he had concealed from her all those years? And what really happened on that fatal flight?
<<< My Opinion >>>
This was not the fast-paced thriller that the synopsis might suggest, but an altogether more leisurely paced novel with the mystery elements intertwined with a love story and explorations of the various relationships between the characters.
Kathryn and Jack's marriage and love story is largely painted by means of flashbacks and conversations between Kathryn and Robert. Kathryn sees their relationship as a strong and stable marriage, blessed by the daughter that they cherish, a close family unit. As she looks back, however, she identifies cracks that may have existed that she refused to acknowledge previously. May be the clues were there, but she chose to ignore them?
Kathyrn and Robert set out with a professional relationship, thrown together by the worst possible circumstances. Robert becomes her protector, keeping her safe from the media who hound her once the speculation as to her husband's involvement in the crash. An attraction exists between them, but seems wrong - wrong time, wrong reasons, just all wrong. Robert then becomes Kathryn's co-conspirator as she seeks the truth behind the crash - but is his motive as pure as it seems on the surface?
Kathyrn always believed that she had a very close relationship with her teenage daughter, Mattie, but she finds that the only way they can endure their misery is to almost put distance between them. I found this very interesting as I would have previously thought that togetherness would be more comforting in this circumstance. Did Mattie find Robert's presence too intrusive? Or was it just easier to be with her Great-Grandmother away from the glare of the media and the heartbreaking sight of her mother's desolation?
While I thought the plot was very good, it didn't have the cliff-hangers or twists that many of the thrillers I have been reading recently. The writing wasn't over-descriptive or flowery but the scenes were nevertheless set very convincingly and realistically. However it was the excellent characterisation that made this book especially enjoyable for me. I found that I developed a real empathy towards Kathyrn, the main character, and I really wanted to know the secrets that had been so deviously concealed from her over all those years. I can't even imagine the pain of the betrayal she must have felt as she gradually realised that her husband wasn't the man she always believed him to be. From a woman falling apart from the grief, she found a remarkable inner strength as she did what she believed she had to do in order to be able to move her life on from this unimaginable horror.
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Whilst I didn't find myself staying up until the wee hours reading "just one more chapter", I did find myself thinking about the book during the day, wondering what would happen next, when could I get half an hour to read a bit more......
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I was given this book and to be honest its not really the type of book I would normaly read.
Kathryn Lyons is the happy and succsessful wife of trans atlantic airline pilot Jack.
They live in a beautiful old house in Maine with their fifteen year old daughter Mattie who worships her father and vice versa.
Jack spends a lot of time away from the family home and Kathryn has a job in the local town as a teacher, she feels there is sometimes a distance between herself and Jack even when he is at home but puts it down to the fact they have been together for so long and have maybe become comfortable in each others company.
The story centres on the death of Jack in a mid air explosion on the plane he was piloting en route from London.
I loved the way the author used flashbacks to show us how the couple first met and fell in love.
We discover through the story that Jack was not an honest person and has actualy been leading a double life with another woman across the water.
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Eleven years ago, Larry Gibson went to an Extension meeting to learn how to winter cows a little cheaper on his ranch at Nowata, Oklahoma. The things he learned that day changed his life.
Gibson heard agronomists talk about fertilizing fescue for winter stockpiling and how to strip-graze for better efficiency.
"I came home from that meeting and thought, 'I might give it a try,'" Gibson says. "I'd sold a horse and had some money to buy the fencing supplies, and I had 32 acres right in front of the house I could subdivide.
"I started strip-grazing about November and come March 1, I hadn't fed any hay, and I still had lots of grass left," he says. "I could see the economics in that deal -- fertilize one acre of fescue and keep one cow all winter."
Gibson still buys and keeps a little hay for his cows, but most winters he feeds none. He's never put a dollar value on the near elimination of hay from his ranch, but researchers have put a value on it.
Auburn University research indicates at least a $28-per-cow savings in wintering cost from stockpiling and grazing fescue.
The University of Missouri's Forage Systems Research Center puts even higher value on the practice for fall-calving cows. It says stockpiled and strip-grazed fescue costs about one third the price of heavy winter haying -- 43 cents per day versus $1.23.
Gibson didn't stop with strip-grazing fescue, however. He could sense the advantages of managed grazing, and he wanted more. He began to subdivide his pastures into paddocks and develop water points for each paddock. He attended classes on management-intensive grazing at Missouri's Linneus forage center, the Noble Foundation at Ardmore, Oklahoma, and the Southwest Center at Mount Vernon, Missouri.
"If you don't know any more than I did starting out, you've got to get some help," Gibson says. "I was fortunate to learn from the best -- Jim Gerrish, R.L. Dalrymple, and Rick Crawford."
Just as he was getting his entire place into managed grazing, a piece of bad luck turned good, further convincing him he was tracking true. Gibson lost his lease on a 140-acre property where he kept 30 cows. He brought them home, thinking he would sell them soon if he couldn't find more land.
"I wound up not having to sell any of them," he says. Improved management coaxed additional forage from the land he already owned. "It was a real eye-opening event, I'll tell you," he says.
Gibson could push his cattle and forage harder and get even more from them, but that isn't what suits him best. He runs about a cow per 2.3 acres with almost no outside inputs. In a normal year, he allocates about two-thirds of his forage to his cows and one-third to his calves.
He still keeps two cow herds rather than one, even though a single herd would give him faster defoliation and longer recovery periods.
Gibson only has 15 permanent paddocks in his fescue-Bermuda grass cells and three permanent paddocks on the native grass. But he creates additional paddocks, as needed, with temporary fencing.
He shoots for a happy medium on his paddocks: Big enough that the time element is not critical and small enough that the cows don't repeat-graze fresh regrowth from the forage plants they've already bitten off. Typically, he says, the forage needs two weeks or a little more recovery time during rapid growth in the spring, and up to six weeks when the weather is dry and hot and regrowth is slowest.
The advantages from better grass management are many, Gibson says.
- He now keeps his calves several months longer, marketing in August when prices are usually highest. If the year is dry and he needs to, he can sell the calves earlier.
- Besides feeding very little hay to his cows, Gibson also feeds only a small amount of cubed protein supplement -- about 100 pounds over 60 days in the late fall while they are grazing dormant native grass. The cubes cost $12 to $15 per cow. This is before they go onto fescue.
- When it's wet he doesn't have to worry about sinking his hay truck in the mud. He just rolls out a new electric fence and takes one up.
- Grazing is easy to manage. "People say it takes a lot of time. But if you spend 10 minutes a day looking at your cattle, you can do this," Gibson says.
"I guess the most important thing I've learned is you just can't do things the way everybody's always done it," Gibson says. "Everything just costs too much -- feed, fertilizer. It all has gotten too expensive.
"I really think I'm probably a lot better off financially than I was because my cattle are making money; they were probably losing money before," he adds. "And it's a lot more interesting when you're making money than losing money."
Eleven years ago, Larry Gibson went to an Extension meeting to learn how to winter cows a little cheaper on his ranch at Nowata, Oklahoma. The things he learned that day changed his life.


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Technology companies are surprisingly positive about their expansion opportunities in the near future, despite wider economic concerns, a survey has found.
The first quarterly State of the Sector survey, carried out by technology trade association Intellect, showed that 67 percent of members plan to expand their businesses in the next six months, with 43 percent revealing that they were "very likely" to recruit new staff. A further 40 percent said it was "possible' that they would hire new people.
However, a lack of IT skills could hinder these growth plans, Intellect warned.
"One area where our members continue to express concern is around skills shortages, both in the short- and long-term, and this will have an impact on the ability of companies to turn their ambitions into real jobs," said Antony Walker, Intellect's deputy director general.
According to the survey, the recruitment plans of tech firms are positive in spite of 40 percent saying that their confidence in the state of the economy had declined over the past six months, while 52 percent said that their confidence level had stayed the same. Just 22 percent believed the economy would improve in a year's time.
Furthermore, 60 percent of respondents said that they had increased business investment over the past six months, with just over half (51 percent) saying that their business prospects had improved in the same period. Thirty-four percent said that their business prospects had been static.
Walker said: "Despite the difficult economy it appears that companies have invested during this year and are now looking to maximise that investment.
"However, if the storm clouds gather again across the wider economy, these gains could be quickly lost."
Meanwhile, although the tech industry supported Chancellor George Osborne's plans to make the UK the "technology centre of Europe", with 81 percent believing the country has the potential to achieve this goal, respondents were not convinced that the government really understands the UK tech sector.
The survey showed that none of the respondents believed that the government understood the tech industry 'very well', while 66 percent said that the UK tech industry was "not very well" understood by government.
"There is clearly a major challenge ahead for the chancellor to deliver confidence-boosting measures in his autumn statement, and we will be continuing to press him to put technology firmly at the centre of the government's growth strategy," said Walker.
Intellect surveyed senior figures at 86 of its member companies online in July 2012. Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of the respondents employed 250 or fewer people.


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---Constituents---Sabadilla contains several alkaloids, the most important being Cevadine, yielding cevine on hydrolysis; Veratrine, obtained from the syrupy liquor from which the cevadine has crystallized; and Cevadilline or Sabadillie, obtained after the extraction of the veratrine with ether.]
Two other alkaloids have been isolated: Sabadine, which is less sternutatory than veratrine, and Sabadinine, which is not sternutatory. Sabadilla yields about 0.3 per cent of veratrine. The seeds also contain veratric acid, cevadic acid, fat and resin.
---Medicinal Action and Uses---Sabadilla, or cevadilla, is an acrid, drastic emeto-cathartic, in overdoses capable of producing fatal results. Cevine was found to be less poisonous than cevadine, though producing similar symptoms. The powdered seeds have been used as a vermifuge, and to destroy vermin in the hair, being the principal ingredient of the pulvis capucinorum used in Europe. Cevadilla was formerly used internally as an anthelmintic, and in rheumatic and neuralgic affections. The highly poisonous veratria, which is derived from it, has been given in minute doses internally in acute rheumatism and gout, and in some inflammatory diseases, but it must be used with caution. Veratria is useful as an ointment in rheumatism and neuralgia, but is regarded as being less valuable than aconite. The ointment is also employed for the destruction of pedicule. Applied to unbroken skin it produces tingling and numbness, followed by coldness and anaesthesia. Given subcutaneously, it causes violent pain and irritation, in addition to the symptoms following an internal dose. The principal reason against its internal use is its powerful action on the heart, the contractions of the organ becoming fewer and longer until the heart stops in systole.
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A key vote to establish a new citywide rental licensing and inspection program will be delayed by at least a month.
City Commissioner Jeremy Farmer said he's not comfortable proceeding with the vote planned for next week until he gets more data on the performance of the limited inspection program the city currently runs.
"We've been riding our hearts on this issue," Farmer said. "I still think the program is a good idea and we need to do it. We need to protect vulnerable people, and that is a big reason I ran. But we also have to do our due diligence on this."
Commissioners were scheduled to vote on establishing the program at their meeting on Tuesday. But Mayor Mike Dever has now indicated that the item won't be on Tuesday's agenda. A date for the item to come before the commission hasn't been determined, although Farmer estimated it would be in early to mid-March.
Farmer is asking staff members to gather large amounts of new data on the city's existing rental licensing and inspection program, which covers only rental units that are in single-family zoned neighborhoods. Farmer said some of the data he has seen has created more questions than answers.
In particular, he notes a city memo that reports, for the first 11 months of 2013, the city had issued 890 violations as part of the rental inspection program, but the city has only been able to determine that about 35 percent of the violations have been corrected. Scott McCullough, the city's director of planning and development services, said the city hasn't had the staffing to conduct enough re-inspections to determine the status of the other violations.
Farmer said he's concerned about what will happen if the program grows in size.
"The very irresponsible thing to do would be to just say, let's make our current program multiple times larger, add a couple more people to the staff, and hope that things get better," Farmer said.
As proposed, the new rental licensing and inspection program would be expanded to all rental units in the city, although only a portion of the 18,000 rental units in the city would be inspected in any given year. The city plans to add four new positions to staff the program, which is expected to cost about $400,000 a year.
Farmer said he wants staff members to provide a more detailed set of statistics about how the current program, which inspects about 400 properties a year, is performing. He said he then wants to host a community meeting in late February to discuss the information. Farmer said the data may lead him to suggest changes to the proposed program — which would inspect about 2,600 properties per year — to ensure the city has enough time and resources to run the program efficiently.
Other commissioners haven't opposed Farmer's request for a delay, but that's in part because Farmer is widely viewed as the swing vote on the issue. Both Commissioners Bob Schumm and Terry Riordan have expressed support for the program as currently proposed. Dever and Commissioner Mike Amyx have expressed concern.
Riordan said he will be concerned if the delay stretches for more than a month on the issue, because he doesn't want to "lose steam" on the issue.
Farmer said he also wants to keep the issue on the front burner, but does think the extra time may help opposing sides on the issue come together.
"If we have to make a difficult decision, I will do that," Farmer said. "I'm still supportive of the program. But I also still want to work on a compromise."
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There could not have been a better time to hang Ajmal Kasab, at least for the ruling Congress-NCP alliance in the state. And, this execution will give the Democratic Front government, both, short and long term political dividends, Ketaki Ghoge reports.mumbai Updated: Nov 22, 2012 02:50 IST
There could not have been a better time to hang Ajmal Kasab, at least for the ruling Congress-NCP alliance in the state. And, this execution will give the Democratic Front government, both, short and long term political dividends.
For starters, the timing of Operation X was ideal: five days before the fourth anniversary of the attacks. It also comes just ahead of the winter session of the state legislature.
Over the past year, the ruling coalition has been on the back foot owing to a series of scams — from irregularities in irrigation clearances to land violations by senior politicians. On the security front too there have been several lapses, including the Pune blasts on August 1 and the violence at Azad Maidan on August 11. The government had little to showcase as an achievement.
But Wednesday's execution changed all of that. It could give the government a handle to take the sting out of the Opposition's criticism in the coming winter session.
Another plus for the ruling alliance is that the execution, carried out barely a few days after Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray's funeral, is likely to shift public focus away from the Sena and the grieving Thackeray family.
In the long term, Kasab's execution carried out by following our criminal justice laws will reverberate through the 2014 polls as one of the biggest achievements of the Congress-NCP government in the state. It has generated a trust and goodwill factor where there was none, said political observers.
"The way the entire operation was carried out, efficiently and in secrecy, despite working across several agencies and ministries shows political maturity. It was a well-orchestrated move that indicates that they (the government) are in control and can deliver the goods,'' said
B Venkatesh Kumar, a political analyst. For home minister RR Patil, who was removed from the same post in the aftermath of 26/11 attacks, the execution will help silence detractors within the party and in the Opposition.
"As a home minister and at a personal level, I think we had to show that our system works. We can abide by our criminal justice laws and punish those who have killed innocents and waged war against us. I feel satisfied that we have been able to do this," said Patil, who was reinstated in 2010.


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Why did you decide to write this book, "Couldn't Be Better"?
I was deeply impressed by what a small group of people could accomplish if they set their minds and hearts to it. So I wanted to share their accomplishments with a broader audience.
Growing upon a farm near Harvey, ND, how did this influence you in your writing this book?
Our farm, where I was growing up was rather an isolated place, and so I had lots of time to think about what I wanted my life to accomplish. I even had a flat rock, on the highest point on our farm where I would sit and do much of that thinking when I wasn't involved with the many farm chores. My thoughts always returned to putting myself in position to help people help themselves throughout the world.
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Has the Russian Farm Community Project been important to you personally?
It has given me the opportunity to work closely with outstanding people in Russia and America (without remuneration except for the satisfaction of accomplishment), to help the Russian people privatize their agricultural and rural communities and make them productive.
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It is probably as close as a man can ever come to carrying a child for nine months and giving birth.
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Comic Con is the ultimate nerd fest, but don't let the costumes bely the fact that it's a great opportunity for actors to network and learn more about their favorite shows! Here are 15 reasons why every actor should attend Comic Con.
1. Every actor loves to dress up in costume.
2. It's great to surround yourself with other artists, like comic book artists, writers, jewelry makers, costume makers, and figurine sculptors to name a few. Art feeds other art.
3. With comics being the jumping off point for huge franchises, it is like looking into a crystal ball of future film and TV projects.
4. Everyone is letting their freak flag fly. You would be hard-pressed to find a more accepting group of fun people.
5. The panels allow you to get the inside scoop on some of your favorite actors, directors, and projects.
6. It really is a place that anyone of any age can have a good time.
7. A love connection or two has been known to happen while at the con.
8. There are a surprising number of small, independent film projects with booths there. You might actually find a job.
9. With all the walking you will do—and it's a lot—you can skip the gym that day.
10. There are usually really great impromptu after parties at local bars.
11. Some of the most powerful people in Hollywood started off as comic book nerds. You could end up meeting the producer of the next "Walking Dead."
12. Just because they are nerds, doesn't mean they aren't sexy in their costumes.
13. Free stuff. Actors are always on a budget, and people are constantly giving away free swag.
14. You can meet some of your favorite actors. This year at New York Comic Con, Joel Grey was signing autographs!
15. But if you missed it this year, don't get mad. Next year's Con will be here before you know it.


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A stay at Al Diar Mina Hotel places you in the heart of Abu Dhabi, convenient to Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Abu Dhabi Mall. This hotel is within close proximity of Capital Garden and Khalifa Center.
Make yourself at home in one of the 90 air-conditioned guestrooms. Wireless Internet access (surcharge) keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and complimentary newspapers, and you can also request cribs/infant beds (complimentary).
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Make use of convenient amenities such as wireless Internet access (surcharge), concierge services, and a hair salon. Getting to nearby attractions is a breeze with the area shuttle (surcharge).
Enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's dining establishments, which include 3 restaurants and a coffee shop/café. From your room, you can also access 24-hour room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
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Featured amenities include express check-in, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available on request).
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- Reception Hours: 24 hours
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A scenario mirroring the congressional proposal to raise the minimum wage that President Obama has endorsed could reduce employment by 500,000 workers in the second half of 2016, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a report released Tuesday.
The scenario CBO considered, a three-stage increase in the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 to $10.10 by 2016, is similar to legislation proposed by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., which has the backing of Obama and seven Nobel Prize-winning economists.
The budget office said there was a good deal of uncertainty associated with its estimate, which had a two-thirds chance of falling between a "very slight" reduction in employment to one twice the size, 1 million workers, by the same time.
The budget office was careful to point out that the negative effects would come with positive ones: "Many more low-wage workers would see an increase in their earnings," the report said. "Further, a few higher-wage workers would owe their jobs and increased earnings to the heightened demand for goods and services that would result from the minimum-wage increase."
CBO also said the $10.10 proposal would reduce the number of people below the poverty line by 900,000 in the second half of 2016.


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Nov. 4, 2013
Source: Sanofi news release
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Commenting on the Group's performance in Q3 2013, Sanofi Chief Executive Officer, Christopher A. Viehbacher said,
"The third quarter marks an inflection point for Sanofi as the impact of the patent cliff ended in August. As a result, we returned to sales growth in September. Our growth platforms grew 5.5% in the third quarter despite the shortage of pertussis-containing vaccines in the U.S. until mid-October, the impact of the market slowdown in China and our recovering generics business in Brazil.
Growth platforms now represent 75% of our sales. We continue to make strong progress in R&D with recent approvals for Aubagio® and Lemtrada™ in EU, Nasacort® Allergy 24HR for OTC use and NexGard™ in the U.S. We also released positive results for the first Phase III with alirocumab and for a large study with Fluzone® High-Dose."
Sales of Animal Health products were €458 million, down 6.4% in the third quarter. Year-to-date sales of Animal Health products totaled €1,541 million, down 5.0%.
Sales of the Companion Animals franchise were €279 million, a decrease of 10.0% in the third-quarter reflecting a tough base for comparison for Heartgard® which benefited from a competitor supply issue in the third quarter of 2012 and increased Frontline® competition from prescription-only products and branded generic of fipronil.
In September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved NexGard™ (afoxolaner) Chewables for the treatment and prevention of flea infestations, and treatment and control of the American Dog tick in adult dogs and puppies, for one month. NexGard™, which has demonstrated excellent efficacy at the low dose, is the first and only soft beef-flavored chew approved to kill both fleas and ticks.
It contains the novel active ingredient afoxolaner, an isoxazoline based compound with a new and distinct mode of action. Merial is planning to make NexGard™ available to veterinarians in time for the upcoming flea and tick season.
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They may never have a life together' but they will have their moment. They will have this much. England' September 1934. Two young lovers' Catherine and Daniel' have trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton' an abandoned house in the English countryside. Hearing the sound of footsteps' they hide' and then witness the poet T.S. ('Tom') Eliot and his close friend Emily enter the garden and bury a mysterious tin in the earth.
Tom and Emily knew each other in America in their youth; now in their forties' they have come together again. But Tom is married' and his wife has no intention of letting him go. What is it that binds Tom and Emily together? What happens when the muse steps out of the shadows? In the enclosed world of an English village one autumn' their story becomes entwined with that of Catherine and Daniel' who are certain in their newfound love and full of possibility.
From one of Australia's finest writers' this is a moving' lyrical novel about poetry and inspiration' the incandescence of first love and the yearning for a life that may never be lived.
©2009 Steven Carroll; (P)2009 Bolinda
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake Trappers were honored Thursday at Spring Mobile Ballpark, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1987 season that saw a 29-game winning streak and Pioneer League championship.
Their celebratory presence couldn't help the Bees, who limped to an 11-7 loss Thursday night.
To this day, the 29-game streak remains the longest in American baseball history and likely to stay that way until the end of time.
Trappers manager Jim Gilligan was in attendance, and acknowledged that the streak will probably never be broken.
"Baseball is not a game to dominate like that. Check swings become game-winning doubles, and line drives become triple plays so the best team doesn't always win," said Gilligan. "Our streak was very unusual. We just did it so someone else could do it, but I doubt that your ever going to see a lineup like ours that was batting .320."
Trappers part owner Bill Murray was also in Salt Lake for the festivities, and credited team owner Van Schley as being the architect of the 1987 squad.
"Van (Schley) is really the guy to ask. He built that team. He found that team. He recruited that team. He was the architect of that team. He's the brains of that team. I basically just goofed off in the dugout," said Murray.
Schley mentioned that 1,000 players would be drafted to MLB after college, and the rest were left to find their own way. Those 'leftover' players would get their shot with the Trappers, and leave a legacy unmatched by their opponents.
"The college players that didn't have the specific skills that major league teams looked for at each position, and now they've changed their thinking," said Schley.
"Those are the type of players we had."
Trappers slugger Frank Colston said that for the longest time he never even thought about the streak.
"I really didn't put a lot of thought into it. Initially I thought someone would break it, and then I've gone through points where I thought nobody would break it," said Colston.
Although it sometimes fades in and out of his mind, Colston admitted that just being back with his former teammates was enough nostalgia.Comment on this story
"It's been great. Just this right here is priceless stuff for us guys. This city has been so gracious, and the organization here … I'm very grateful for what they have done for us."
Schley also commented on the Trappers presence in Utah, the legacy they left and how the team was just happy to find a home in Salt Lake.
"It changed the legacy of Independent baseball, but having the Trappers being successful helped getting support back for baseball in Utah," said Schley. "Salt Lake is a great baseball town. Triple-A was going to happen, but the Trappers were just a low in-between it because it's a Triple-A city. We were just lucky to get a little nook."
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|26 Jun 2001
|Filing date
|20 Mar 2000
|Priority date
|20 Mar 2000
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Sven Dobler
|Original Assignee
|Orlandi, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (16), Referenced by (27), Classifications (22), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
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Not Applicable.
This invention relates to fragrance samplers which are inserted in magazines or used in direct mailings.
Traditionally fragrance samplers were dry pre-scented blotter cards that had to be individually overwrapped to contain the fragrance for use in direct mail or magazine advertising. Beginning in the late 1970's, the micro-encapsulated Scentstrip� style magazine and direct mail insert was introduced. The Scentstrip insert is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,093,182 to Ross. This product was produced on wide web offset printing equipment and therefore offered significant cost efficiencies for mass marketing. However, this was still a dry sample since the water moisture in the deposited fragrance slurry would very quickly wick into the paper substrate and leave the product sample dry. In fact, the entire technology depended on this moisture wicking since the wet microcapsules would not bond to the paper and would not break upon opening of the sampler. The microcapsules only break and release the fragrance oil when they are dry and are bonded to the paper. The draw back with this product was that it did not replicate the actual wet perfume product very well. In order to sample the fragrances in its real life wet form, the moisture wicking of the wet fragrance slurry deposited in the wide web offset printing process needed to be prevented. This was most easily accomplished by using existing narrow web flexographic label printing technology to create a pressure sensitive product that incorporated a wet fragrance or cosmetic sample material between impervious barrier materials such as plastic films and foil structures.
Currently there are three main fragrance sampler patents that guide us in wet fragrance or cosmetic sampling in magazines and direct mail. One is U.S. Pat. No. 5,391,420 to Bootman, which describes a pressure sensitive label comprising two plies of a film or plastic material: one bottom pressure sensitive ply, a deposit of fragrance material and an overlay of a second ply which traps said fragrance deposit. The sealing is by heat seal. The draw back of this product is that the fragrance material is often forced into and through the seal areas under pressure from the stacking forces of many magazines or inserts in distribution.
The other patent is U.S. Pat. No. 5,161,688 to Muchin which perfects upon the Bootman product by introducing a center ply material which has a die-cut window. This window ply is introduced onto the bottom pressure sensitive ply and thus creates a well for the fragrance material. The top, third ply is then added and the result is that stacking forces are distributed on to the widow ply and the fragrance material is exposed to less forces that may lead to seal failures and leakage: a major defect in the original product. A modification of this second patent concept is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,622,263 to Greenland. Greenland uses a liquid polyethylene or other hot liquid plastic material that creates the above-mentioned well and also assists in the heat sealing process. The draw back of the Muchin patent is that the additional window ply involves additional cost and manufacturing complications for die-cutting and introducing the third ply in the process. The Greenland concept also adds additional material cost and slows the process as the liquid plastic material needs to be deposited and bonded to the top and bottom ply. Further, the hot liquid plastic material introduces foreign odor and can, in some circumstances, contaminate the cosmetic or fragrance sampling material.
The current invention creates a protective well for the cosmetic or fragrance material without the cost or slowdown of the additional third window ply of film or liquid polyethylene barrier wall deposit. The well is created by embossing, debossing or both embossing and debossing an interlocking double well wall into the two foil ply materials, thus creating a structure that is significantly stronger and can withstand stack pressure and forces experienced during distribution and mailing. The cosmetic or fragrance sampling material is deposited into the well. The top and bottom plies are bonded by a cohesive bond, by adhesive, or by heat seal bonding. Under stacking pressure in magazines, such described samples will maintain the seals better than the Bootman product and will be more cost effective than the Greenland or Muchin products.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a fragrance sampler of the present invention prior to assembly of the sampler;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the sampler when assembled; and
FIG. 3 is a schematic drawing of the sampler producing process.
Corresponding reference numerals will be used throughout the several figures of the drawings.
The following detailed description illustrates the invention by way of example and not by way of limitation. This description will clearly enable one skilled in the art to make and use the invention, and describes several embodiments, adaptations, variations, alternatives and uses of the invention, including what I presently believe is the best mode of carrying out the invention.
A sampler 1 of the present invention includes a top ply 3 and a bottom ply 5, both of which are preferably foil. The plies can alternatively be made of an acetate or other paper and plastic film laminated or non laminated barrier plies.
The top and bottom plies 3 and 5 each include top and bottom surfaces 3 a, 5 a and 3 b, 5 b. A wall 7 is formed in the bottom ply 5 which extends up from the bottom ply's upper surface 5 a. The wall 7 has an inner surface 7 a, an outer surface 7 b, and a top surface 7 c which define a channel 7 d in the bottom ply bottom surface 5 b. The channel 7 d is preferably rectangular in cross-section, and the wall 7 defines a "double wall." The wall 7 also defines a well 9 into which a wet fragrance sample 11 can be deposited.
An opposing wall 13 is formed in the top ply 3 and extends upwardly from the top ply bottom surface 3 b (with reference to FIG. 2. The wall 13 has an inner surface 13 a, an outer surface 13 b, and a bottom surface 13 c which, in combination, define a channel 13 d in the top ply top surface 3 a. As with the bottom ply channel 7 d, the channel 13 d is preferably rectangular in cross-section, and the wail 13 is a "double wall." As seen in FIG. 2, the wall 13 in the upper ply has dimensions slightly larger than the dimensions of the bottom ply wall 7, and the channel 13 d is slightly wider than the channel 7 d. Thus, the top ply wall 13 receives the bottom ply wall 7, as seen in FIG. 2, so that the walls 7 a-c defining the lower ply channel 7 d are substantially adjacent the walls 13 a-c defining the upper ply channel 13 d.
The walls 7 and 13 are preferably formed by an embossing/debossing process.
As can be seen in FIGS. 1 and 2, when the walls 7 and 13 are formed, the top and bottom plies each include a frame 15, 17 surrounding the walls 7 and 13, respectively. The top ply 3 and bottom ply 5 are adhered together to cover and close the well 9 so that the sample 11 will be sealed in the well 9 between the two plies. The plies can be joined by heat sealing the two plies together or using an adhesive to bond the top plies together. If an adhesive is used, the adhesive can be cationic cure coating adhesive, or other equally acceptable adhesive which will form a liquid tight barrier to prevent premature release of the fragrance contained in the well 9.
The process for producing the sampler 1 is shown schematically in FIG. 3. Webs of the top and bottom ply material are originally contained on rollers 21 and 23, respectively. The top ply material is pulled off the top ply roller 21 and passed through a printer station 25 and then through an embossing station 27. At the printer station 25 desired graphics are printed on the top surface 3 a of the top ply 3. The top ply wall 13 is formed at the embossing station 27. The top foil laminated ply is printed on a narrow web flexographic printing press such as a Hunkeler press, with all subsequent finishing steps performed in-line.
While the top ply is being processed, the bottom ply material is pulled off the bottom ply roller 23 and passed through an embossing station 29 where the bottom ply wall 7 is formed. A rotary embossing tool is used to push up or emboss the wall 7 on the bottom ply to form the well 9. The bottom ply embossing can be also be formed by intermittent flat bed embossing methods.
The bottom ply 5 is passed under an injection station 31 where a liquid fragrance sample is deposited in the wall 9. The sample 9 can be deposited in any other desired manner, such as extrusion, flexographic equipment or silkscreen.
After the top ply has been printed and after the wall 13 is formed in the top ply, the top ply is passed about a pair of rollers 33 and 35 to bring the top ply 3 into close proximity with the bottom ply 5. The path of travel of the bottom ply is preferably substantially horizontal, at least after the fragrance sample has been deposited in the bottom ply well 9, to avoid spilling of the sample. Thus, the top ply 3 is preferably brought to the bottom ply 5. However, the process could be designed so that the bottom ply 5 is brought up to the top ply 5. The two plies are then passed through a sealing station 37 where the two plies are adhered together to form a liquid tight seal which will contain the fragrance sample in the chamber 9. The sealing station interlocks with the raised well wall 7 with the top ply wall 13 to form a safe, closed well for the sample material 9. As can be appreciated, the webs of top ply and bottom ply material move at an indexed rate such that when the two plies are brought together at the sealing station, the top ply wall 13 will be in alignment with the bottom ply wall 7. The sealing station 37 is preferably is a heat sealer, and the top and bottom plies can be adhered or sealed together for example, by ultrasonic welding, or other standard heat sealing processes which will create a seal between the two plies. Alternatively, as noted above, the sealing station can utilize an adhesive, such as cationic cure coating adhesives, traditional cohesive seals, or adhesive seals, which will bind the top and bottom plies together to form the seal.
The joined plies are then passed to a die-cut station 39 where side portions of the frames 15 and 17 are removed from the formed samplers. The die-cutting step can be performed with either rotary or flat bed equipment. The formed samplers are then collected on a product roller 41. Product is delivered in roll form for automatic applications to other printed materials. The waste material can be collected on a waste roller 43.
As can be appreciated, the sampler 1 of the present invention is easily formed from only two plies of material. The walls 7 and 13 are substantially adjacent each other, and effectively form four walls (7 a, 7 b, 13 a, and 13 b), which are separated by the wall sections 7 c and 13 c. The walls 7 and 13 will thus carry the stacking or compression forces to reduce seal failures and fragrance leaks.
As various changes could be made in the above constructions without departing from the scope of the invention, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. For example, the top and or bottom plies may be alternatively embossed or debossed to create single walls versus interlocking double walls. Additionally, the top ply wall can be sized to surround the bottom ply wall, i.e., the bottom ply outer wall 7 b would be adjacent the top ply inner wall 13 d. In this instance, instead of both walls extending upwardly through the top surfaces of the two plies, the wall 13 would extend down from the bottom 3 b of the top ply. These examples are merely illustrative.
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|Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company
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|15 Jan 1985
|Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company
|Fragrance-releasing microcapsules on a see-through substrate
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|19 Aug 1986
|Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company
|On page fragrance sampling device
|24 Jan 1985
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|Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company
|Pad fragrance sampling device
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|8 Oct 2002
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|30 Jan 2002
|3 Feb 2004
|Mary C. Seabury
|Lipstick blotter
|13 Mar 2000
|17 Feb 2004
|Elizabeth Moeller
|Message-blanket package and delivery system thereof
|30 Aug 2002
|23 Aug 2011
|Orlandi, Inc.
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|19 Mar 2012
|12 Nov 2013
|Aki, Inc.
|Unitized package and method of making same
|17 Aug 2010
|3 Jun 2014
|Aki, Inc.
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|29 Dec 2009
|1 Jul 2014
|Aki, Inc.
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|24 Feb 2012
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|Orlandi, Inc.
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|10 Mar 2014
|18 Oct 2016
|Aki, Inc.
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|30 Aug 2002
|16 Jan 2003
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|17 Jun 2003
|20 Nov 2003
|Sven Dobler
|Fragrance sampler insert
|12 Jun 2003
|20 Jan 2005
|Marietta Corporation
|Product sampler packet assembly with enhanced burst strength and method of manufacture
|10 Nov 2004
|24 Mar 2005
|Sven Dobler
|Fragrance sampler insert
|27 Jul 2005
|2 Feb 2006
|Sven Dobler
|Removable sampler
|3 Jun 2005
|23 Nov 2006
|Perfect Scents Of Illinois, Llc.
|Advertising page containing micro-encapsulated material
|22 May 2006
|30 Nov 2006
|Sven Dobler
|Fragrance slurry pad
|21 Mar 2007
|19 Jul 2007
|Sven Dobler
|Fragrance sample insert
|5 Sep 2008
|26 Feb 2009
|Sven Dobler
|Fragrance sampler insert
|11 May 2009
|17 Sep 2009
|Sven Dobler
|Removable sampler
|30 Oct 2008
|6 May 2010
|Greenland Steven J
|Device for containing and releasing a volatile substance
|8 Sep 2010
|6 Jan 2011
|Sven Dobler
|Removable sampler
|3 Sep 2010
|6 Jan 2011
|Sven Dobler
|Fragrance slurry pad
|17 Aug 2010
|24 Feb 2011
|Greenland Steven J
|Unitized package and method of making same
|26 Jul 2001
|21 Nov 2002
|Sven Dobler
|Fragrance sampler insert
|17 Sep 2012
|28 Mar 2013
|Zamtec Limited
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|8 Oct 2013
|17 Apr 2014
|Zamtec Ltd
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|U.S. Classification
|424/400, 428/905, 206/484
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|13 Jul 2001
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Startline Secrets
The PWA Slalom Format's certainly got a buzz going on about racing worldwide.
With so much gear being developed to cut it at the top level budding racers are going to need some tactics to match their machines.
Perhaps the biggest area to consider for up-and-coming slalom starts is the start line.
Who better then to ask for advice than Karin Jaggi (F2 / North), our 31-yr old current Slalom Champ with 13 PWA world titles to her name, and windsurfing's most successful competitor ever, Bjorn Dunkerbeck (T1 / North) and his 35 world titles and over 100 single PWA event victories?
Before the start…
Bjorn – "Of course you'll hear the start is critical, and it is. But first and foremost you need to choose the right board and sail for the wind and water conditions to be in with even a sniff of a chance. The start is worth half the race in medium and strong wind, but in light winds it's even more even more important."
General things to consider…
Karin – "The start is half the race – no bullshit. It's worth at least 50%. Timing is everything: So keep it simple - the goal is to cross the line full speed when the clock counts down to zero.
Where should you position yourself at what time on the countdowns/flags sequences?
Karin – "4 min to start = red flag up: Then I'm at the boat taking the countdown from the crew as they call it out and sound the horn. From there I cross the start line and sail into the course.
At 3 min to start I gibe and head back to the start boat – at exactly two minutes I will therefore pass the start line again. That gives me the chance to see yellow flag go up (I check my watch is correct) and have a good feel for the wind as well (did the angle change?).
Now I do exactly the same to the other side, cruising – not at full speed.
Just before 1 min to start I gybe. Now it's time for tactics – which end? Do I show the others where I intend to start (go that direction early)?
30 seconds before the start I want to be fully planing but still cruising, 10 seconds before the start I turn it up to full speed.
Everybody does it exactly the same. From a spectators view it might not be clear what's going on – but out there it's war: the best place, the most space, the clearest wind, the perfect timing, the personal line, etc. etc.
Which end of the line should you start?
Bjorn – "I look at the line 4 min before the start, and 2 min before the start. Only after that do I decide where I'll cross the line. The wind might've shifted, and you don't know where everyone else is planning to go for it yet so it's best to judge it late in the sequence. You want to hit the line at full speed, but you don't want to be over the line or else it's game over!"
Karin – "There are several different things which determine what end I start from.
The shortest distance: which side has the shorter distance to the first mark?
My sailing style and skill: is my speed greater on a downwind course or on a reach (cross wind) compared to the other competitors?
The fleet: where do most other competitors start? A clean start with free wind (not covered by other sails) is a great advantage. I always tried to avoid the 'pack'."
Advice for new racers at the start line
Karin – "The trick is to concentrate on yourself and never let the others out of view. It's a bit like driving a car – where you look always ahead but have this round-vision switched on. From the corner of your eye you always see what the others are doing. But good starts you really have to learn – do as many as possible – and rather risk being over-early once than always just following the others."
Thanks guys - now get racing!
© PWA / Brian McDowell


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Oh, that "Evil Dead" remake again. Or as Bloody-Disgusting calls it, that "quasi-remake" (whatever the hell that means) of the Sam Raimi low-budget horror classic.
Yup, it's still alive, and moving forward as we speak.
The horror site reports that Sam Raimi has even found a director to remake his movie, with short film director Federico Alvarez making his feature film debut on the movie. The unknown Alvarez got pretty famous a few years ago when he unleashed his "Panic Attack!" short film on the populace. Check it out below.
Not the biggest fan of remaking this, and Raimi being so actively involved in it is disappointing, but not surprising. I love the guy's work, but Raimi has proven many times in the past that he's not beyond making a fast buck when the opportunity presents themselves.
Will Bruce Campbell return in some capacity? God, I hope not, but I suspect he might, if just as a lark. I grew up on the "Evil Dead" movies, and I'm dreading Campbell and Raimi sullying my memories of the original films. But alas, there's a reason they call it show BUSINESS…


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Written on: 10/11/2012 by PeterCharles (1 review written)
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