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The north runway at Heathrow, used for departing flights yesterday, can be no more than a hundred yards or so from the car park of the Renaissance hotel, on the other side of the perimeter road, and it was while I was decamping from the car to go to the England captain Kevin Pietersen's press conference that two successive planes took off, each bearing the insignia of SAS. Chennai-bound, I thought. Even by the standards of the England cricket team, that is taking things a bit far.
OK, it is easy to joke about the jittery demands of security that emanate from players these days (and not just in India either, for as I may have mentioned before, Australia two winters ago was a hoot). In Pakistan, when last we toured, such was the travelling entourage (never mind the troops stationed at hotels) that on disembarking from a flight to Faisalabad we journalists were pushed, shoved and generally manhandled out of the way by "security" - and you try manhandling Pringle - with the words, "Move, move, gotta get the guys off the Tarmac".
It was action-movie stuff and even the players saw the funny side of that, only the trouble being that after a while those being "protected" start to believe that their status demands this all the time, no matter the circumstance. It will not be long before there are contract riders, demanding only Perrier for the ice-baths, M&Ms with all the brown ones removed, and chicks in the dressing room (cancel the last one: that used to happen years ago but "S'curity" would stop it now).
This is by no means all the fault of the players, for the events of Mumbai, atrocious enough without embellishment, were nonetheless ramped up to suit the demands of the overseas media. Thus the insistence that British and US citizens were being singled out despite evidence to the contrary, that the attacks were not indiscriminate in terms of specific nationality (check the nationalities of those killed), something used as a plank for England's concerns. The more that it was touted, on the basis of a single early televised soundbite, it seems, the more it became fact. But like most people, the team see what they are allowed to see and read what they are allowed to read.
Next came the idea that they had been somehow close to death, as one player put it. But they hadn't been. The England team were 800 miles away, and a fortnight removed from the Taj Mahal Palace hotel. Michael Vaughan - whose newspaper column was given the sensationalist headline "Our kit was in the hotel, that's how close it was" - was in Bangalore, hundreds of miles away.
In reality they were no "closer" - in the terms in which they might couch it - than I, who, had my colleague David Hopps not been in India, would have been staying in the Taj myself.
I know the hotel well: I have a team picture in front of me now taken on the lawn by the pool. I saw the pictures but don't feel it was a lucky escape for me. If you were not in the vicinity of the hotels, or the station, or the Jewish centre, then you were not close at all, any more than happening on the aftermath of a motorway accident means you were lucky not to have been half an hour earlier.
We can all offer experience of what we perceive as near-misses, which in reality are not. Here are a couple of mine. In January 1966, the schools cricket team of which I was part, en route from Madras, as was, to London, were removed from our flight in Bombay, as was, because of overbooking and rescheduled. Air India flight 101 went on without us and crashed into Mont Blanc, killing all. I might have been on it but I wasn't, and it didn't stop me flying. In July 1982 I was driving into Regent's Park, by where now stands the mosque, when the IRA's bandstand bomb detonated. I still went for regular runs round the park.
What I am suggesting is that it is easy for thoughts to spiral out of control, particularly when the voracious demands of rolling news are for instant reaction. We saw it in Jamaica last year, where every sort of theory about poor Bob Woolmer's death, including the notion that he was murdered by his own team, were peddled as fact - "Bob died of booze and drugs" - with no regard for the reality that he was an overweight, worried man with a heart condition. No mileage in that.
So having been critical of the England and Wales Cricket Board for taking the players home, rather than to a base such as they are now occupying in Abu Dhabi, I can see now the sense in offering them a familiar environment away from the hysteria, and even the paranoia that a cloistered team atmosphere might offer. And if, as a result, they can now get the side in their entirety back to India on Monday to play their Test series, that would represent, in my book, a strong feather in the cap of an organisation that has copped a lot of flak in the past but which, led by Hugh Morris, has shown commendable responsibility and sense of purpose.


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Holliday details close encounter of insect kind
And so began one of the stranger news conferences of the year, as Holliday deadpanned his way through a conversation about his close encounter of the insect kind one night before. Holliday had to leave Monday night's game against the Dodgers when a moth became lodged in his right ear.
"It wasn't really all that painful," Holliday said. "It was more annoying. Like when you have water in your ear and you can't get it out. Except it was a bug."
The slugger joked that he had "bonded" with the now-deceased insect. Holliday, who still had the moth in a plastic bag in his locker, showed it off to reporters after he chatted. The bug was alive when it was removed from Holliday's ear -- a procedure done with tweezers.
"I figure we're friends," Holliday quipped. "We've bonded. He's not alive anymore, but I am."
It was just the latest episode in a strange season for Holliday, who has also missed time due to an appendectomy and a lower-back injury that he sustained while preparing to lift weights. He's hoping that it was the last such incident.
"I'm not sure if [the year] could get any weirder," he said. "Hopefully not."

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Dr. Raymond Kostromin might be expected to speak of hope and vindication after an Augusta judge last month dismissed a charge of government theft filed against him by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
For the first time in a year, the former primary-care physician at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center can see patients in the private sector free of the shadow of indictment.
Except the 50-year-old Army veteran can't seem to find justice in the pain he and former co-workers say the Augusta VA hospital caused him for being a "strong advocate" for his patients.
Four years ago, Kostromin spoke out against Augusta VA administrators failing to schedule thousands of screening, surveillance and diagnostic endoscopies referred to the gastrointestinal clinic by primary-care providers. Despite repeated warnings he said he sent his supervisor and the hospital's chief of staff about appointment requests being ignored, the list grew to 4,580 unresolved procedures and resulted in three cancer-related deaths in August 2012, records show.
Kostromin's dismissal letter says he was fired for "unprofessional conduct" and accusations that he fraudulently accepted $1,100 in medications and plastic surgery from the federal agency.
Though a Richmond Court Superior Court judge ruled in April that the allegations lacked sufficient evidence, those accusations remain active in the VA system.
"They almost ruined my career," Kostromin said. Today, he commutes weekly from Augusta to Columbus, Ga., to practice internal medicine at St. Francis Hospital.
"My only saving grace was the state Medical Composite Board keeping my license active, my family keeping me motivated and St. Francis Hospital for taking a chance on me," he said. "I owe them all a huge debt of gratitude."
More whistleblowers are coming forward nationwide amid new reports of deadly delays and alleged waiting-list manipulation at VA hospitals.
KOSTROMIN SAID HE started experiencing problems with referring his patients to gastroenterologists when he arrived in Augusta in 2000, and about five to seven years later, substantial backlogs began.
Kostromin says he e-mailed his supervisor in May 2010 with concerns that as many as 2,500 patients the primary care department had referred to the program were waiting a year, some closer to two, for procedures despite new requests every six months.
After three weeks with no response, Kostromin said, he e-mailed his concerns to the chief of staff. When three weeks passed without a response, he took his concerns to the acting interim director, who forced the chief of staff to meet with Kostromin.
Kostromin, who declined to provide names, said he was told in the meeting that Augusta officials had restructured the hospital's gastrointestinal clinic, added staff and turned some screening endoscopies into self-administered fecal exams.
"But still nothing was getting fixed," said Kostromin, who estimates that he referred 300 gastrointestinal patients annually. "The list was apparently growing and people were dying."
AFTER THE BACKLOG peaked at 5,100 unresolved consults in August 2012, Kostromin said, delays became a topic of conversation at every monthly staff meeting. At the last meeting he attended in 2013, administrators told primary care physicians that "bad outcomes" were on them, he said. As a result, Kostromin said, physicians began to advise Medicare patients to seek private gastroenterologists because of the long wait.
"They were leaving us out to dry," he said.
In a statement, spokesman Pete Scovill said the hospital cannot comment on personnel matters, including whether Kostromin e-mailed executive leadership. The statement said an administrative investigation commissioned two years ago by the director of the VA's Southeast network revealed delays in gastrointestinal care existed in Augusta before 2011.
The VA hospital dismissed claims that Kostromin was targeted for removal.
"No VA employee would be subject to discipline for identifying opportunities to improve veteran care," the statement said.
In affadavits filed in Richmond County Superior Court in April 2013, clinic coordinators, physician assistants, primary care doctors and veterans who worked with Kostromin said he "made waves" and angered VA bureaucracy because of his strong advocacy for patients.
That advocacy included going above VA pharmacists to get his supervisors to approve non-formulary prescriptions requested by patients that were pricier and not offered under the department's budget.
Don Clay, a retired physician assistant; Lori Evans, a clinic coordinator; and Dr. Shoba Battu, a primary care physician, wrote in affidavits that because of these acts, the VA targeted Kostromin for removal in early 2013.
The three either declined comment or did not return calls seeking comment.
LAST MAY, THE VA inspector general filed theft charges accusing Kostromin of receiving medications and plastic surgery through the VA's free-services program, for low-income veterans, between Jan. 12, 2010, and Aug. 8, 2011. In court papers, Evans called the charge "ludicrous." Clay, who helped Kostromin submit medicine requests to the VA, agreed, testifying that Kostromin was eligible to receive prescriptions though his private insurance and that pharmacists who assess applicant files to determine eligibility freely released medications for 18 months.
Kostromin provided payment reports that show his health insurance was billed $607 between February 2010 and August 2011 for non-narcotic medications that included antidepressant and erectile dysfunction drugs. Health records entered into the Augusta VA system Oct. 14, 2010, show the hospital removed a small cyst on his cheek. Kostromin said that was the plastic surgery he allegedly stole. Though the Augusta VA did not elaborate on Kostromin's eligibility, it confirmed he received a determination from the VA Health Eligibility Center for services and prescriptions, and that they were aware of it.
"I am horrified and embarrassed that Dr. Kostromin has been wrongfully accused when I fully know that it was not his fault," Evans wrote in her affidavit. "The VA has done him wrong."
KOSTROMIN APPEALED THE allegations and his firing to Augusta VA officials and the medical center's human resources chief Oct. 2, but four weeks later, the decision was upheld on charges of receiving services for which he was ineligible and unprofessional conduct.
"I have concluded that the sustained charges against you are of such gravity that mitigation of the proposed penalty is not warranted, and that the penalty of removal is appropriate and within the range of reasonableness," Michelle Cox-Henly, the chief nurse and interim director at the time, wrote in Kostromin's dismissal letter filed Oct. 28. She said she based her decision on Kostromin's appeal hearing, his personnel file, the seriousness of his crime, and any mitigating or extenuating circumstances.
Since then, Kostromin said he has contacted the VA inspector general, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson and the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to provide background on delays in Augusta and try to get his employment reinstated. All three offices have confirmed opening casefiles with the doctor.
"The Department of Veterans Affairs is thoroughly reviewing the situation and will provide a more complete response as soon as possible," a May 15 letter from the VA's Congressional and Legislative Affairs office stated to verify it is looking into Kostromin possibly being the victim of targeting and unlawful firing.
AFTER NINE YEARS as an Army physician and 11 as a veteran's doctor, Kostromin said he has no plans of returning to the VA, but hopes the review is completed sooner than later. The Augusta VA said it "plans to continue to adhere to personnel rules in managing matters related to Dr. Kostromin as we would for any other employee."
"They went to many lengths to put me in jail," he said. "I hope they do the same to review my case and possibly reinstate my employment history."


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While gold decline by Rs 85 to Rs 32,400 per 10 grams after gaining Rs 1,535 in last seven-sessions, silver lost 500 at Rs 61,600 per kg on reduced offtake.
Sentiment turned bearish in the absence of buying support as traders were in festive mood and opened their establishment only to perform Diwali puja, traders said.
They added that weak global trends on European finance ministers struggling to agree on Greek aid, strengthened the
dollar and curbed bullion's appeal as alternative investment.
Gold in New York, which normally sets price trend on the domestic front, fell 0.2 per cent to $1,726.70 dollar an ounce.
On the domestic front, gold of 99.9 and 99.5 per cent purity declined by Rs 85 each to Rs 32,400 and Rs 32,200 per ten grams respectively, while sovereign shed Rs 50 at Rs 25,500 per piece of eight gram.
In line with a general weak trend, silver ready fell by Rs 500 to Rs 61,600 per kg and weekly-based delivery by Rs 1,075 to Rs 61,325 per kg.
Silver coins followed suit and plunged by Rs 2,000 to Rs 76,000 for buying and Rs 77,000 for selling of 100 pieces.


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HOTKEY: LEFT CLICK or
Ammo: 25
Damage per shot: 5-17 (falls off with distance)
Headshot damage: 10-34 (falls off with distance)
Rate of fire: 10 rounds per second
Reload time: 1 second
Ability: bullet spread recovery happens after a short delay after firing
Soldier: 76's rifle remains particularly steady while unloading fully-automatic pulse fire.
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Direct damage: 120
Splash damage: 80 (falls off with distance, 40 max self damage)
Cooldown: 8 seconds
Tiny rockets spiral out of Soldier: 76's Pulse Rifle in a single burst. The rockets' explosion damages enemies in a small radius.
HOTKEY: LEFT SHIFT or
Speed: 33% increase to 8.25 m/s
Whether he needs to evade a firefight or get back into one, Soldier: 76 can rush ahead in a burst of speed. His sprint ends if he takes an action other than charging forward.
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HOTKEY: E or
Heal: 35 per second
Range: 5 meters
Duration: 5 seconds
Cooldown: 15 seconds
Soldier: 76 plants a biotic emitter on the ground. Its energy projection restores health to 76 and any of his squadmates within the field.
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Ability: Decreases reload time to 0.5 seconds
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Google managed to eke out slightly higher earnings in the fourth quarter, it said last night.
This was despite a financial drag caused by the Internet search leader's expansion into device manufacturing.
It also saw a decline in digital ad prices as more people use the smaller screens of smartphones.
The results pleased investors, helping to lift Google's stock by nearly 5% in extended trading.
More advertising poured into Google during the Christmas shopping season, fueling a moneymaking machine that has steadily churned out higher profits since the company went public in 2004.
Google's fourth-quarter ad revenue totalled $12.1 billion, a 19% increase from the previous year. Some of that money, though, has been shifting away from personal computers as advertisers try to connect with an expanding audience that relies on smartphones and tablet computers to reach Google's search engine, email and other online services.
By some estimates, about one-fourth of Google's search requests are now coming from mobile devices. So far, advertisers have been unwilling to pay much money to market their wares on mobile devices, largely because the smaller screens leave less room for commercial links and other marketing messages.
The trend is one of the reasons that the average price for the ads that Google shows next to its search results has fallen from the previous year in five consecutive quarters - including during the final three months of last year.
In a positive sign, though, Google's average ad prices in the most recent quarter dropped by just 6% from the same time in 2011. That is the smallest decline during the economic downturn.
Google said it earned nearly $2.9 billion, or $8.62 per share, during the fourth quarter. That compared to net income of $2.7 billion, or $8.22 per share, at the same time last year.
If not for the costs of employee stock compensation and certain other accounting items, Google said it would have earned $10.65 per share. On that basis, Google exceeded the average earnings estimate of $10.54.
It proved to be a difficult quarter to decipher because of an accounting quirk and the additions of new business lines that muddied the comparisons with the previous year.
Google did not own Motorola Mobility in 2011, having completed its $12.4 billion acquisition of the troubled handset maker eight months ago.Google is also bringing in more revenue from tablet computers, which it began selling under the Nexus brand during the final half of last year.
Things were further complicated by Google's recent agreement to sell a part of the Motorola Mobility division that makes cable TV boxes. That division is now accounted for as a discontinued operation whose revenue was not booked in the latest quarter, even though it will remain a part of Google until the $2.35 billion sale is completed later this year. Under that equation, revenue surged 36% from the previous year to $14.4 billion.
After subtracting advertising expenses, Google's revenue totaled $11.3 billion. That figure was well below the average analyst estimate of $12.1 billion, according to FactSet.
But many of the analyst forecasts included revenue from Motorola Mobility's set-top division, which Google excluded from its breakdown. Had the set-top division been included in Google's accounting, the company's net revenue would have matched analyst estimates.


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Chevron Press Release - Chevron Chemical Co. And Maraven To Conduct Feasibility Study
SAN RAMON, Calif., May 21, 1997 -- Chevron Chemical Co. today announced that it will conduct a joint feasibility study for the development of an integrated aromatics project at the Cardon Industrial Park on the Paraguana Peninsula, state of Falcon, Venezuela.
Chevron Chemical signed a Memorandum of Understanding to conduct the study with Maraven, a wholly-owned affiliate of Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA). The study is expected to be completed by March 1998.
"We look forward to working with Maraven and other PDVSA affiliates in evaluating the prospect of a world-class petrochemical facility in Venezuela," said Chevron Chemical President John Peppercorn. "This project fits very well with our strategic objectives. Chevron's technology and global marketing capabilities coupled with Maraven's feedstocks would provide the basis for a cost-competitive petrochemical complex."
The joint feasibility study continues Chevron's presence in Venezuela and builds upon a unique alliance formed between Chevron and Maraven in 1995. In July 1996, Chevron became operator of Venezuela's giant Boscan field.
Chevron Chemical, headquartered in San Ramon, Calif., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron Corp.
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As Paul Constantino putted on the practice green at Shamrock Golf Club, his 3-year-old daughter Marisa came running over for a hug.
She then ran back to her mother, standing and watching on the side, while Paul turned to help his 6-year-old son Jason sink a 5-foot putt.
This scene was a familiar one Friday, the first day of the 32nd Alamance County Parent/Child golf tournament at the course. More than 200 participants will hit the links this weekend, spending time with family and enjoying golf.
While Constantino and his son were playing, his wife and daughter were tagging along in a cart of their own, not playing but just watching. It�s the second straight year the family from Whitsett has participated in the event. Last year, they played with a father and son who were the same age as them.
�It�s a fun tournament,� Paul Constantino said. �It�s really family-oriented � and just relaxing. We�re not trying to win anything, just having fun.�
It has been a fun tradition for Jay Clayton, 38, of Burlington, who first played in the event at age 11 with his father. He had his first job � a cart boy � at Shamrock when he was 13, and now brings his sons, 10-year-old Jake and 7-year-old Tyler, to the course and the tournament.
There are pictures that resemble a staircase with his father and his sons together at the course. Clayton said his oldest son is slowly but surely improving to the point where he could take the reins as the best in the family.
�Definitely full-circle,� Clayton said. �We�ll have a changing of the guard at some point.�
The game of golf is a good change of pace for Clayton, who worked earlier Friday before arriving at the course. He played nine holes with Tyler, took a short break, and then hit course for nine more with Jake. His wife and daughter were there too, watching him and his sons hit some balls on the driving range before heading to the first tee.
�The pace of the game gives you a chance to talk and socialize,� Clayton said. �It�s not real fast-paced. You can enjoy others� company as well as playing the sport.�
Rob Dowell, 43, and his 11-year-old daughter Kayla were sporting matching purple shirts as they got ready to tee off Friday. They�ve been golfing together for five years.
�It�s good time together,� Rob Dowell said. �Just enjoying the beautiful weather in North Carolina. There�s nothing better.�
A committee of six meets once a week starting in January to plan and organize the event. The committee is aided by 30-40 volunteers who help conduct the tournament.


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BAD BLOOD / 'Queen' is a silly, overwrought vampire tale, and a creepy screen farewell for Aaliyah
Published 4:00 am, Friday, February 22, 2002
QUEEN OF THE DAMNED: Vampire thriller. Starring Stuart Townsend, Vincent Perez, Aaliyah and Lena Olin. Directed by Michael Rymer. Written by Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni. (R. 97 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)
Oh, the torture of eternity. That deep, lonely void. It's tough being a vampire, as the charismatic Lestat moans in "Queen of the Damned," a toothless,
overwrought adaptation of Anne Rice's 1988 novel -- the third in her "Vampire Chronicles" series.
In "Queen," Lestat (Stuart Townsend) has just emerged from a century's sleep and reinvented himself as a Goth-rock superstar. Ghostly white and androgynous, he devours unsuspecting groupies, angers his mentor Marius (Vincent Perez), seduces a librarian (Marguerite Moreau) and awakens Akasha (Aaliyah), the ancient vampire queen.
In flashbacks, we see how Lestat, an 18th century French nobleman, was trained and groomed by Marius ("the man who made me"). A fiend for blood since his conversion, Lestat is transformed by the taste of it but learns never to drink that last drop, to hold back from killing.
Directed by Australian filmmaker Michael Rymer, who showed promise in the low-key "Angel Baby," "Queen of the Damned" is self-serious, pointless and silly. It's getting more attention than it merits only because it marks the final screen appearance of Aaliyah, the singer-actress who died, at 22, in a plane crash in August.
Aaliyah doesn't show up in "Queen" until the last 40 minutes and hasn't much to do but undulate, show off her flat tummy and reveal a dental appliance that gives her saberlike eyeteeth. Her costume, with its metal breastplate, shell skirt and elaborate headdress, does most of the work for her.
It's more a modeling job than an acting assignment. Aaliyah's voice sounds mechanical and dubbed, and when she appears at Lestat's outdoor rock concert in Death Valley -- where else? -- she makes a spectacular entrance on a fog- enshrouded hydraulic lift. Just like Cher in her "Believe" tour.
Had Aaliyah lived longer and become a good actress, it wouldn't be the result of anything she learned in "Queen of the Damned." Although her presence has a built-in curiosity factor, it takes on a morbid edge as the violence escalates and her character leaves a trail of corpses in her wake and is ravaged by rival bloodsuckers.
An extra dimension, never intended by the filmmakers but unavoidable given the actress' death, is embedded in those scenes. What might have been a campy little romp becomes something else: a premature farewell, sobering and sad and,
given the material, a tad creepy.
It isn't just Aaliyah and her legacy that are ill served by "Queen of the Damned." Anne Rice doesn't fare any better, and neither do the rest of the actors: not Townsend, whose part is equally ornamental and superficial; not Perez, who looks bored and confused; not Lena Olin, who has a few take-the- money-and-run moments as Moreau's tragic vampire aunt.
The music hits a sour note as well. Jonathan Davis, lead singer for the neo- metal band Korn, collaborated with Richard Gibbs on the score -- he also sings Lestat's role -- and the result is a collection of dark, overproduced songs that sound like discards from old Billy Idol records. . Advisory: This movie contains violence, partial nudity and sexual situations.


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Foreclosure rates in Jackson and Mississippi as a whole have decreased for the month of December over the same period last year, new data from CoreLogic shows.
California real estate research firm CoreLogic data reveals that the rate of Jackson area foreclosures among outstanding mortgage loans was 2.41 percent for December 2011, a decrease of 0.22 percentage points compared to December of 2010 when the rate was 2.63 percent. Foreclosure activity in Jackson is lower than the national foreclosure rate which was 3.37 percent for December 2011.
Statewide, the foreclosure rate for December showed a decline of 0.22 percent, dropping from 2.41 percent in December of last year from 2.63 percent in December 2010.
Also in Jackson, the mortgage delinquency rate has decreased. According to CoreLogic data for December 2011, 7.58 percent of mortgage loans were 90 days or more delinquent compared to 7.83 percent for the same period last year. On a year-over-year basis, the mortgage delinquency rate has decreased 0.25 percent, CoreLogic data shows.
Statewide, the rate of mortgages tardy by 90 days or more declined to 7.58 percent in December of last year from 2.63 percent in December 2010, according to CoreLogic.


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A Nebraska man is suing Medtronic, alleging defects with the wires on the defibrillator he received, flaws that he says made him worry about his life and forced him to get a replacement.
Ed McGill says in his federal lawsuit filed Monday that the world's largest medical-device maker misled doctors about the safety of its Sprint Fidelis lead wires, which were recalled in 2007. Medtronic has said 13 patients may have died because of problems with the wires.
McGill's lawyer Mark Weber says McGill had to have his defibrillator replaced in 2009 after he received a series of inappropriate and painful shocks.
Medtronic spokesman Chris Garland declined to comment on the lawsuit Tuesday, citing patient-privacy concerns. The company is based in Minneapolis.
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Me and the sexy Anna Myst gave our slave one simple task: jerk-off and cum for us or suffer the consequences. After failing to blow his load as commanded, we make good on our word by punshing him with two massive strap-on cocks. Bending him over a table in the back yard, I shove my huge rubber dick in his mouth and make him suck it until he gags while mistress Anna slides her cock in his tight asshole and fucks him from behind. It's double penatration and double his humilation as we voilate him from both ends and laugh in devious delight as we do it. Trading places, it's my turn to tear open his virginal asshole and he writhes in agony and shame as I ram my cock in and out of him while Anna makes him choke on hers. Maybe this will teach this loser a lesson!
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FM News talk 97.1 – St. Louis "The Dana Show"
Dana Loesch is the top-rated afternoon news talk program in the St. Louis- Metro East market.
Yesterday, we exclusively discussed the national news story of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission requiring and paying for up to 76 government employees to attend Rainbow PUSH National Headquarters on Saturday, March 3rd where House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi endorsed Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. in a contested primary.
Dana and I discussed the heroism of the whistleblower. She's inspiring all of us with her raw courage.
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Formation of the 3rd branch of the CCA at Teaching hospital Karapitiya was held on 18th of August 2011 .It was initiated by Dr.Upul Ekanayake and Dr.Iresh Jayaweera.Event was blessed by the presence of Dr.Samadhi Rajapakse.Fourty new members were present on that day.Officials were selected and a display of Sacred relics of Lord buddha and Rahulo thero along with Rewatha Thero occurred after the meeting.
Main activities highlighted
Building a shrine room in the cancer unit premises.
Building Hospice for the terminally ill and the day therapy patients, a land in the hospital premises will be provided by the director.
Home visits by a team-to care for the terminally ill.
A pinkama(meritorious activity) at the Yatagla Raja Maha Viharaya-where a descendent bo tree of Jaya srimaha bodhiya is situated with the involvement of patients.Date on 15.09.2011 at 6.30 pm.


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Sunday, November 6, 2011 from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM (CST)
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All Beauty professionals (makeup artist, hairstylist, aestheticians, nail technicians, beauty bloggers) are invited to attend.
As a bonus, all attendees will receive a lavish swag bag! Some of the brand sponsors are; Johnson & Johnson, Actifirm, Creme of Nature, Softlips, Smashbox, Vitale, August Bloom, Smoke and Mirrors Beauty (lashes), Dermablend and much more! We also have lots of great giveaways!
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Can a Zebra roar?
It has never been known for soccer.
Until now.
Defying all expectations, the Botswana national team, long the whipping boy of African international play, stormed through AFCON qualifying, topping group K with a remarkable 17 points (5-2-1) and becoming the first team to book a trip to Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
It was the first time the Zebras had ever qualified for the AFCON finals.
The improbable run began in the usually impregnable fortress of Tunis on July 1, 2010 as the attention of the soccer world was directed to South Africa and the continents first World Cup.
Botswana triumphed 1-0 behind a Jerome Ramatlhakawne goal and a disciplined defense, a successful formula the team would repeat. The Zebras went on to defeat Chad at home, draw Malawi away, defeat Togo at home, and top Tunisia in Gaborone to seal the deal.
Goalkeeper coach Thabo Motang described the dawning awareness that something had changed.
When we started, we just wanted to see how far we could go. We didnt actually focus on coming here [to Gabon]. But then as time went on, we realized we could actually achieve what we wanted.
After our first game, beating Tunisia, that game gave us motivation, but then the second game, we played Chad, we realized, no, no, no, we stand a chance here. Beating Togo at home, thats when the Botswana people realized the team is going far here.
Support for the national team has been so strong that the local company given the contract for replica jerseys has been unable to meet the demand.
The transformation from ridicule to respect is the story of a homegrown coach and a veteran team.
Stanley Tshosane was an assistant coach with the national team, left to coach the Army team in the domestic league, where he had played, then returned to take the reins when Englishman Colwyn Rowe was sacked in 2008.
The Botswana FA granted the new coach full control and Tshosane imprinted a defensive mindset on the team, selecting players who could mark well and usually deploying four defensive-minded midfielders.
The team has also benefited from being together throughout Tshosanes tenure and is as locally bred as the coach. Although six of Botswanas players earn a living in neighboring South Africa, most play semi-pro ball at home, and no one plays off the continent. AFCON 2012 may be the last showcase for many of the team's starters, whose average is 29.
The teams moment in the limelight has not been without controversy. Before leaving for Gabon, the players complained publicly about inadequate bonuses, and the Botswana FA has inexplicably failed to offer the 55-year-old Tshosane a contract extension.
Botswana also had the misfortune of drawing into Group D, the toughest group at AFCON 2012, joining Ghana, Mali, and Guinea.
Captain and central defender Mombati Thuma reflected on the difference between qualifying and now.
We expected a different mood from our qualifying games. These games are very, very, very tough. There is no weak team in this group.
The Zebras opened against Ghana, the favorite of many to take the cup, falling 1-0 to a John Mensah goal off a corner kick, the teams only defensive lapse of the night.
The road to the quarterfinals wont get any easier. The Zebras faced an athletic Guinea side in Franceville Saturday then finish group play in Libreville against well-balanced Mali.
The Zebras will welcome back Diphetogo Dipsy Selowane, their team leader and most creative player, who missed the Ghana match because of accumulated yellow cards during qualification.
Selowane broke down the challenge for Botswana going into the Guinea match.
Our guys have a lot of fight, a lot of character, so it is important to bring a whole lot more of that. The Guinea guys are very physical, very fast, so we have to match them with that, but try to use our skill at the same time.
As the team trained at the modern stadium in Bongoville, a tranquil hamlet 40 minutes outside Franceville near the birthplace of the late Omar Bongo, Gabons long-tenured president, the mood was one of quiet determination.
The Zebras have two games to prove that their arrival on the big stage was more than a whisper.
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If Brooklyn Dreams Charter School opens in Flatbush, P.S. 217 will suffer, parents say.
Brooklyn Dreams, which was approved by the State University of New York (SUNY) Charter School Institute and is currently awaiting the state Board of Regents' final approval, has been eyeing the St. Rose of Lima School building at 269 Parkville Avenue.
Parents of students at P.S. 217, 1100 Newkirk Avenue, fear Brooklyn Dreams will attract P.S. 217's students. This would pose a problem for P.S. 217, as funding is allocated based on the number of students enrolled.
"There's 1,300 kids at 217 right now. The money funds a lot of wonderful academic and enrichment programs — music, art and theater," said Patrick Thornton, who has a fifth-grader at P.S. 217. "When you lose funding, the first things that go are all those additional programs."
Fewer students and less funding could also mean fewer teachers.
"The principal of the school has done a great job of attracting new and talented teachers. They would be the first ones to go," Thornton said. "It would be a loss if the population of the school goes down."
William Girasole, co-lead applicant for Brooklyn Dreams and the owner of Girasole Real Estate in Dyker Heights, did not return calls for comment for this story. However, he has insisted that Brooklyn Dreams does not want to harm any existing schools.
State Assemblyman James Brennan's office is preparing to send a letter to the Board of Regents expressing P.S. 217's concerns.
Regardless of where Brooklyn Dreams opens — it has already failed to secure space in southwest Brooklyn — any nearby schools could suffer, said Christopher Spinelli, president of School District 22's Community Education Council (CEC), which represents Mill Basin, Bergen Beach, Manhattan Beach, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach and parts of Midwood, Flatbush and Sheepshead Bay.
"It poses the same problem for any public school that it opens across from," Spinelli said. "If 100 or 200 children from whatever public school go to the charter, that's that much less money that the school will be given to operate. It is ultimately going to drain resources from the school."
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Letter: Nation's leaders are real bullies toward citizens
Nation's leaders are real bullies toward citizens
It is no wonder there is so much bullying going on in and out of our schools. Our children see our national leaders bullying the nation, threatening force to get others to agree with them, harming hundreds of thousands of innocent people and spending billions each day to keep our government hostage.
They say they are doing it to help our country! How can they be helping us by costing innocent government workers their salary and, consequently, costing the nation billions a day?
They say they are holding the nation hostage and hurting hundreds of thousands to reduce our medical expenses. All the while not to move forward toward changes in our medical care costs us more each day. Every day the uninsured are not covered by medical insurance, they cost us in this area $1,200 to $1,500 each time they go to the emergency room rather than their own physician.
They say we are being forced to pay for insurance. And we should. Everyone receives emergency medical treatment. Why shouldn't everyone contribute to the cost of health care? Those same people don't say we shouldn't pay taxes or for driver's insurance or any other socially required fee we currently pay.
But the big issue is bullying to get their way. Stop the bullying.
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Fox News
October 5, 2013
The family of a woman who was shot to death outside the U.S. Capitol after trying to ram her car through a White House barrier said Friday they want to know why she had to die.
Speaking at a press conference late Friday in Brooklyn, Miriam Carey's sister Amy Carey-Jones said Friday that her sister "seemed OK" the last time they spoke more than a week ago.
"We're still very confused as a family why she's not still alive," Amy Carey-Jones said late Friday, speaking of her 34-year-old sister. "I really feel like it's not justified, not justified."


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The Kingsbury Manx: Bronze Age
The Kingsbury Manx has twisted its sound in fresh ways over the years, but Bronze Age is their most adventurous album and their finest set of tunes to date.
The Kingsbury Manx
Bronze AgeUS Release: 2013-03-05
Label: Odessa
UK Release: 2013-03-04
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On the surface, the Kingsbury Manx is a band built for today's music world. They're part of a thriving local music scene -- in the Triangle of North Carolina -- and they shifted four years ago from releasing albums on local indie label Yep Roc to putting out albums on Odessa, a label run chiefly by band member Paul Finn. It's a common, heartening story we hear of the resilience of local music and smaller markets in the face of ongoing major-label and distribution chaos.
On the other hand, though, the Kingsbury Manx are a throwback to pre-digital days, days of street-level promotion and, mostly, of putting out a record when you're good and ready. This is a band that takes its time, which explains the four years since 2009's excellent Ascenseur Ouvert!. That kind of time is an eternity in the digital age, as our immediate consumption of music has pushed us to demand the kind of output even Waylon Jennings and the link couldn't crank out in their heyday. But Bronze Age, the Kingsbury Manx's latest (and best) record finds no four-year hangover, no signs of stagnation, no signs of being overworked. It falls into none of the traps of an album long worked on and pushes their broad palate of sounds into new and fresh directions at every turn.
Some of the beauties of this record won't be a surprise, but that doesn't make them any less striking. The vocal melodies and harmonies are as impeccable as ever on the pastoral glide of "Glass Eye" or the sunburst shuffle of "Handsprings". And there are the subtle accents you'd expect, link a cascading piano lead or warm horns filling out tracks. But the album also moves into more hard-charging territory, stuff you might not expect from the hazy sway of this band's past work.
They've delved into more rock 'n' roll territory before -- see the guitar breakdown of "Pelz Komet" from Aztec Discipline -- but the turn here is different. If the album is titled after an ancient time, it seems eager to charge into tomorrow, with spacey power-pop numbers that inject the album with an impressive propulsion and volatile energy. Despite the mention of "easy-does-it campfire tunes" on opener "Weird Beard & Black Wolf", the album avoids such quaint pleasantries on "Future Hunter" a beefed-up song swelling with swirls of Moog and Wurlitzer. Later "In the Wurlitzer" takes similar tones into murkier, swampier territory, while "Solely Bavaria" spreads it out into a gauzy expanse of sound that mimics the wandering and exploration in the lyrics. These are all new tangents for the band, and they've of a piece with one another, a new muscle to the band's still sweet sound, but none of them tread the same ground.
In fact, it's that idea of what ground to tread that drives the album. It's easy when a band enters its 14th year to start talking about how their music addresses aging. But that's not Bronze Age. Instead, it's a smaller look at how we move forward day-to-day, how we recover from this mistake, or how we get through this day, or how we take in this experience. There's certainly error and regret floating around, the catharsis found, on "Weird Beard & Black Wolf", in when the narrator "rearrange[s] his face" is a short-lived one. "Handsprings", meanwhile, doesn't deal in the same drama. It admits to small mistakes ("I'll screw up and misspell all the names I knew so well") without giving into them, while still readying to "make some plans for ringing in another year". There's some travel as therapy here -- see "Solely Bavaria" or "Custer's Last" -- but it's also in service of finding perspective. These songs take stock of the past, honors its pleasures and account for its darker moments.
If there's no conclusion, the music itself seems to offer a sort of closure. That closure, though, comes in remaining wide open. Bronze Age looks over its shoulder, but for the last time, readying not to settle but instead for the next future to hunt. No wonder, then, that when these songs don't crunch with newfound rock heft, they churn with murky texture. "Handsprings" unwinds into a slow, boggy breakdown, while mid-album standout "How Things Are Done" stirs up an overcast, bittersweet atmosphere of organ and guitar layers that stretch to some sonic border way in the distance.
These are the new parameters of the Kingsbury Manx. They've honed their sound, twisting it in fresh ways over the years, but Bronze Age is their most adventurous turn yet, and results in their finest set of tunes to date. It's as meticulous and beautiful as past records, but there's an abandon to this sound that serves them well, that hints at the possibility the songs aim for, that reminds us of the hungry sounds of bands pock-marking the city with flyers before you could send emails, that show us the sound of a band doing things in their own terms, terms we, as listeners, can't help but agree to considering what they yield.


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Piling On: A lot of New Orleans Saints; a lot of stuff at Louis Vuitton Spring 2010.
Bomb: A pass from New Orleans Saints' Devery Henderson; The Seventies Midi that crashed.
Double Coverage: The Saints double up on a receiver; Layered knits from Alba and Arlotta Spring 2010.
Pigskin: A football; Alexander Wang's Spring 2010 bag.
Flag: Signaling a penalty; Georgia May Jagger for Hudson Jeans' Fall 2009 campaign.
Chains: Checking for a first down; Chain fringe bag by Roger Vivier Spring 2010.
Helmet: New Orleans Saints headgear; Christian Dior Pre-Fall 2010.
Offensive Line: Indianapolis Colts set for play; Emanuel Ungaro Spring 2010.
Clipping: Hitting from below the waist; Mary Quant getting a haircut by Vidal Sassoon in the Sixties.
Sack: Peyton Manning getting sacked; Cristóbal Balenciaga's famous sack dress from 1957.
Secondary: Indianapolis Colts' Antoine Bethea; A Spring 2010 look from Donna Karan's secondary line, DKNY.
Snap: New Orleans Saints' Drew Brees takes the snap; Alexander McQueen Spring 2010 bag with snap-in glove.
Tight End: New Orleans Saints' Jeremy Shockey; Rodarte Spring 2010.


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PARENTS have criticised a move to cut the number of senior staff at an overcrowded primary school.
Hillhead Primary School's parent council is concerned about moves to cut either two principal teachers or one deputy headteacher. They say the usual complement is three deputy heads and three principal teachers.
The council says this comes on top of the removal of three temporary positions - an acting deputy headteacher and two acting principal teachers installed over the past two years.
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They say that when the headteacher applied to have these posts advertised and made permanent, he was rejected on the basis that the school "did not have sufficient points". The council allocates points to schools for the purposes of calculating management size, based on the numbers of pupils.
The parent council has written to Glasgow City Council asking for the decision to be reconsidered, and also to Education Secretary Mike Russell, asking him for to take action in the face of the "ever increasing number of constraints" being placed on headteacher Francis Donaghy and his staff.
Ruth Downes, parent council chairwoman, said the move "creates the absurd situation that the school is being asked to manage a roll of 680 children with less management personnel than when there were 550 on the roll."
A council spokeswoman said: "We are sympathetic with the views of the parents and the school but we have introduced, in consultation with unions and staff, a management points system for primary schools which mirrors the points system we have in secondary schools. We need to work within the agreed approach."


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HP EliteBook 6930p: a rugged rover
HP have positioned the EliteBook 6930p as the ultimate road warrior's notebook claiming outstanding battery life (of up to 24 hours) business ruggedness and all the processing power a business user would need.
The EliteBook 6930p certainly looks the part with its brushed metal lid tough recessed hinges and front panel clip which stops the lid from accidentally opening. The lid folds back a full 180 degrees which butts against the base making it virtually impossible to strain the hinges. Although the base of the unit is plastic it is well built and seems to support HP's claims that the notebook has been tested in extreme temperature environments and âmeets the Military Standard 810F for vibration dust humidity altitude and high temperature.â This is one of the few notebooks that I believe would actually survive a tumble in the clothes dryer!
The 6930p should ship with 32-bit Vista Business with an optional downgrade to Windows XP however our review unit was only supplied with XP SP2 so we could not fully test all of the Vista functionality. Based on the specifications we expect this unit would perform well with Vista having 2GB of RAM 160GB of hard disk and ATI 3450 graphics chip with 256MB of dedicated graphics RAM and a reasonably powerful T9400 Core2Duo processor. Of course the less demanding XP flies on a machine with these specs so as expected performance was excellent.
Being a business machine there is considerably less crapware and trialware than what ships on a consumer notebook. On the XP image there is XP SP2 (so you will need to download SP3 yourself) the HP webcam application Office 2007 (60 day trial) and HP ProtectTools Security Manager which allows you to authenticate logon using the fingerprint reader or optional HP Smart Card. By comparison the Vista image comes loaded to the hilt with HP Recovery Manager several connectivity applications Win DVD Roxio Creator Business McAfee total protection and Windows Live Messenger. No wonder HP sent us a unit with the lightweight XP image!
Weighing in at over 2.1kg the 6930p is not the lightest notebook around. Add the optional HP high capacity battery and the unit starts to get really heavy but then again it is worth the weight when you consider that you could get up to 24 hours of use before needing a recharge.
One of the first things you will notice about the 6930p when you turn it on is that the screen is not very bright. In a normally lit room we found it difficult to see especially when on battery power. Thankfully you can turn up the brightness but doing so considerably shortens battery life as our tests (which involve continuously playing a DivX CD at what we consider to be a watchable brightness) only managed to achieve just over 2.5 hours on battery. HP do include an ambient light sensor to automatically adjust the screen brightness depending upon room conditions but even with this feature activated on we found the screen a little too dull for our liking. Once you do turn up the brightness the screen is nice and sharp with a non glare coating that significantly cuts down on reflections.
The 6930p is certainly well endowed when it comes to ports and connectivity. On the left of the notebook are two USB ports a firewire (1394a) port an Express Card 54 slot as well as sockets for microphone and headphones. There is also the heat vent which thankfully does not get too hot so you could use this notebook whilst wearing shorts and not burn your legs.
The front of the unit has the speakers and an SD/MMC card slot as well as the button to release the notebook lid. On the right is a multi format DVD burner with Lightscribe and a slot for an optional Smartcard for secure authentication. There is also another USB port an Ethernet port and a socket for the inbuilt fax modem. The back of the notebook has the power socket and VGA connector. As well as a Kensington key lock. Underneath the unit is a proprietary expansion port for an optional HP docking station and a socket for a 3G modem (which is not yet available in Australia).
The keyboard is well spaced out and comfortable to use although the amount of key travel is less than some other notebooks we have tested and does give the feeling of typing on a netbook rather than a full size notebook. At front of the unit slightly off centre to the left is the trackpad with two buttons underneath. Like with the keyboard the buttons don't have as much travel as we would like giving a somewhat spongy feel. In the middle of the keyboard is a mini joystick so if you don't like trackpads you have a choice. It is a pity that other notebook manufacturers don't also include the mini joystick as it is a very convenient way of using the computer especially when space is at a premium (such as in economy class!)Â Above the keyboard is the power switch and indicators for power wireless connectivity presentation mode sound and speaker volume. The indicators also double as switches to allow you to easily mute or adjust volume without having to press various function key combinations. At the bottom right hand side of the notebook is the fingerprint reader which in conjunction with HP's software provided a biometric form of authentication.
At the top of the screen is the webcam a small microphone and a tiny LED lamp which allows you to see the keyboard in darkness.
Whilst no notebook packs a punch in the sound department the audio from this unit's tiny front mounted speakers is surprisingly good. You won't scare your fellow passengers with too much doof doof but at least they won't think you are listening to a tin can on the end of a string. Of course you would most probably listen through headphones but at least you can play back a video during a presentation and your colleagues will be able to hear it.
Whilst we would love to really see just how rugged the EliteBook 6930p is our insurance policy had other ideas. Looking at it we believe that this unit will go the distance and would be ideal for someone who needs a notebook that can tough it out in the real world (or at least in a plane when another passenger dumps their heavy backpack on it). The screen is good but if you are using this notebook in daylight you will need to crank up the brightness even at the expense of battery life. If however you work at night this notebook is ideal with its ambient light sensor and mini keyboard light. Connectivity is not an issue as most ports are available and whilst not the fastest notebook on the planet there is enough RAM processor and video grunt even in the standard model to be able comfortably run Vista. It is not priced at the bargain end of town but if you want ruggedness this notebook could well be the one to get!


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Review for Save The Ta-Tas Foundation, West Hills, CA, USA
As a Project Coordinator for a community medical publication in the Buffalo NY market, I found working with the Save the TaTas Foundation a wonderful experience! As they say, "laughter heals" and our readers can attest to that. We put together a spectacular Save the TaTas Search A Word Puzzle for our readers to work on, some as they sit in doctor's waiting rooms, treatments and such. We were bombarded with replies, many with personalized notes to say" Thank you " they were never exposed to this organization (no pun intended) others who loved what the foundation stood for, etc.. One of our largest contest returns ever!!
I'm proud to say, our relationship continues and now we'll be representing a Save the Tatas booth at our upcoming Health EXPO at the end of the month. Our mission: To expose as many Western NYers as possible to a great cause, a great organization and of course...Tatas.
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Martin "Marty" Mason, 62, of Riverton, died on Sunday, March 17, 2013, at the Riverton Memorial Hospital. Services will be held on Friday, March 22, 2013 at 2:00 pm at Davis Funeral Home. Pastor David Haynes will officiate of the Riverton Christian Church. Burial will follow at Mountain View Cemetery. A viewing will be held on Thursday, March 21, 2013, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm at Davis Funeral Home.
Martin Ryan Mason was born on January 16, 1951 in Storm Lake, Iowa to Roger Costella and Margery Jean Mason. He graduated from Storm Lake High School with the Class of 1969. While in high school, he worked as a plumbers' assistant.
He married Candace "Candy" Elaine Christensen on September 4, 1970 in Peterson, IA.
He worked in the construction business before going into partnership with his Dad and brother in a Coast-To-Coast Franchise. After he advanced in the Coast-To-Coast Corporation to District Manager in January of 1983, he moved his family to Wyoming. He later changed positions to corporate computer system sales and retired in 2011.
Marty was of the Christian faith and attended the Riverton Christian Church. He participated in Bible studies and other church activities. While his children, Misty and Matt, were in high school and college, he enjoyed attending their many athletic events. Motorcycles, walking and hiking with his dog - Maggie, barbequing, and holidays with his family were all things he enjoyed. In recent years, the joy of his life was his granddaughter, Addison Marie Mason.
He is survived by his wife, Candy of Riverton; his son, Matt and his wife Amy Mason of Riverton; his daughter, Misty and her husband Kyle Smith of Lawton, OK; his sister, Beneta Witt of Battle Creek, IA; his sister-in-law, Cheryl and her husband Bill Struve of Noblesville, IN; his brother-in-law, Calvin "Dewey" Christensen and wife Becky of Sioux City, IA; and his granddaughter, Addison Marie Mason.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Roger and Margery Mason; and a brother, Mark Mason.
Memorials may be made to PAWS for Life through Davis Funeral Home, 2203 W. Main Street, and Riverton WY 82501.
On-line condolences for the family may be made at www.TheDavisFuneralHome.com
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I very much doubt you're going to get access to Ishtar without killing any water magicians. In fact, you have to complete almost every major Hashishin questline to get that 75%. To get such rep, you basically need to "complete cities" by getting high enough reputation to speak to whoever leads the city, and then complete his/her quest.
Like I said, I doubt it's possible to do it without killing any water magicians, but you could always try by doing the quests for every other major Hashishin leader (except the guy that gives you the water magician quest).
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Dawn Richard Electrifies Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse' With 'Unicorn Remix'
Dawn Richard is busy crafting the comeback Danity Kane album and her next solo LP, 'Blackheart.' However, that doesn't mean she's not having some fun in the process. The songstress has put her own spin on Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse.'
'Dark Horse (Unicorn Remix)' slows down the original track's tempo for a rhythm with less bounce. This is a song for those that like to slow whine. Richard's vocals are also distorted and give a robotic layer to to the effort — it sounds a lot like Imogen Heap's 'Hide and Seek' and carries a haunting effect.
"It's always fun in the lab with NoisecastleIII," the Diddy-Dirty Money singer writes on her SoundCloud page. "We were working on Danity Kane project and decided to randomly take a break and this happened lol… For s—s and giggles… Something only the hearts can appreciate. We always do things with our little twist. Done in true heart music form. Xo"
While there is still no release date for the Danity Kane record or her follow-up album to 'Goldenheart,' it's nice to see that she finds the time to give her "Hearts" — the affectionate name for her supporters — a taste of what she's cooking up in the studio.
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I was recently berating a senior executive at one of the car companies (my only pleasure in this job) about fuel economy claims.
Every manufacturer purports to have the best fuel economy in some class or other. How can they all be best? What's a customer to believe, let alone a bewildered journo?
Occasionally you will read in tiny, tiny print at the end of the ad that "our" car was the super-economy model with the seats removed running downhill in a tail wind while "their" car was the 7-litre V-8 with mud tires climbing Pike's Peak towing a horse trailer. But not always; generally the claim is made unqualified and with no supporting evidence.
"Not us," yelped the chastised exec. "We are purer than the fresh fallen snow." Or words to that effect.
The exec went on to explain that there are government guidelines in place about the claims one can make about fuel economy but these standards are voluntary. He or she then whipped out 50 pages of Transport Canada gibberish from 2008 (you'll note I'm protecting my source as there is good stuff still to come) which did spell out precisely how manufacturers should state and qualify their claims. If they all followed the guidelines, I wouldn't have a beef – but they don't.
This whole fuel economy business is becoming more and more important to car customers who are getting tired of emptying their wallets at the gas pumps. Tougher new measures coming in 2016 will make playing fair with customers all the more important. So the manufacturers have signed on to the Transport Canada guidelines but they're voluntary, non-binding and unenforced. If you have a complaint – tough. Go take it up with the Advertising Standards Council and see how far you get.
Don't think the manufacturers aren't aware of what's going on here. After more admonishment from me, my source reached into a dusty briefcase and pulled out an expensive report done by a media monitoring agency that logged and analyzed fuel economy claims in print and TV ads and on manufacturers' websites last October and November.
It was fascinating reading and substantiated the point I was making in the first place.
Let's start with some of the print ads. They took exception to a compact car ad with "Wrong Highway value listed. According to Fuel Consumption Guide 2011, it is 50 mpg but is listed as 54." For a pickup truck, "Engine and transmission choice not listed." For a crossover, "Does not state which models are being compared."
The report found nine different TV ads from that period that were characterized as Non Compliance or Misleading Compliance. "Caption claims more pickup owners are switching to X. There is a very small disclaimer that is not legible." Another found, "Comparison was between a 1.6 L/4 Cyl and a 1.5 L/4 Cyl." Finally, on the websites the hired agency uncovered numerous examples of "No supporting evidence for this claim."
False advertising is clearly illegal, but deceptive advertising is harder to nail down.
Customers have the right to know what they are buying. If you buy a bagel in New York, they have to state exactly what's in the thing, including the exact number of calories you're about to consume. But if you buy a car in Canada, you'll undoubtedly be confused by some of the advertised claims.
It's interesting that Advertising Standards Canada just launched a series of ads (what else) in a campaign called "Truth in Advertising Matters." They're cutesy situations that have been exaggerated, followed by the statement that dressing it up doesn't make it true.
In announcing the campaign, ASC president and CEO Linda Nagel said, "We all know that maintaining consumer confidence in advertising is essential. That's why Advertising Standards Canada exists. Truth in advertising is equally important to the advertising industry and the public."
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That green window is gorgeous!!! It looks so nice with your cotton wreath. Glad your house didn't go up in flames for the sake of a photo shoot 🙂
Love your home! I'm so excited to be sharing in Farmhouse Fridays this year! And it's so great to connect with you again Allison – I used to read your blog daily back when I read blogs all the time before I got too busy to read much at all! Love your style and your blog looks awesome! And that wreath! I want one now!
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So happy you joined us for Farmhouse Fridays!! Love the touches of green in your home and speaking of green … I'm super envious of your cotton wreath!!
Perfect, cozy, rooms — love the style! It says coziness everywhere!
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I just love love love everything about your pictures! So cozy and pretty. It was wonderful being in this blog hop with you!
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According to the UK Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, new car market climbed 11.3% to 149,191 units in November.
UK new car market rose 5.4% to 1.92 million units during the January to November period.
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SUMMIT COUNTY — Firefighters at the High Park Fire in Larimer County, Colorado said Sunday they made good progress in containing the fire's latest surge to the north — but not before the fire destroyed an additional 57 homes in the Glacier View – Hewlett Gulch area during a furious run last Friday that burned an additional 15 square miles.
According to the Larimer County Sheriff's Office, the 83,200-acre fire has now destroyed a total of 248 homes, the most ever affected by a single fire in Colorado. The fire grew only by about 3,000 acres during the weekend, but hundreds of residents in the area are still under evacuation orders. Continue reading "Firefighters slow northward run of High Park Fire"


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Network Knowledge versus Cluster Knowledge- The Gordian Knot of Knowledge Transfer Concepts
Both management scholars and economic geographers have studied knowledge and argued that the ability to transfer knowledge is critical to competitive success. Networks and other forms for cooperation are often the context when analyzing knowledge transfer within management research, while economic geographers focus on the role of the cluster for knowledge transfer and creation. With the common interest in knowledge transfer, few attempts to interdisciplinary research have been made. The aim of this paper is to outline the knowledge transfer concepts in the two strands of literature of management and economic geography (EG). The paper takes an analytical approach to review the existing contributions and seek to identify the benefits of further interaction between the disciplines. Furthermore, it offers an interpretation of the concepts of cluster and network, and suggests a clearer distinction between their respective definitions. The paper posits that studies of internal networks transcending national borders and clusters are not necessarily mutually exclusive when it comes to transfer of knowledge and the learning process of the firm. Our conclusion is that researchers in general seem to increasingly acknowledge the importance of studying both the effect of and the need for geographical proximity and external networks for the knowledge transfer process, but that there exists equivocalness in defining clusters and networks.
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- Peter B. Doeringer & David G. Terkla, 1995. "Business Strategy and Cross-Industry Clusters," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 9(3), pages 225-237, August.
- Anders Malmberg & Peter Maskell, 2002. "The elusive concept of localization economies: towards a knowledge-based theory of spatial clustering," Environment and Planning A, Pion Ltd, London, vol. 34(3), pages 429-449, March.
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Lenovo has officially unveiled the latest in their ThinkPad lineup. The latest is an ultrabook and arrives as the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The X1 Carbon is a 14-inch notebook and will be available beginning on August 21st. As far as the pricing goes, Lenovo has the ThinkPad X1 Carbon priced from $1,399, however as we have seen in the past — that price will vary depending on the configuration you choose. As to what you will get for the base price — a 1.7GHz Core i5-3317U processor, integrated Intel HD graphics, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD.
Of the upgrades, you can step up to a $1,499 price point and add in a 1.8GHz Core i5 processor, go up to $1,649 and get that previously mentioned 1.8GHz processor along with 256GB of SSD storage or go all the way up to $1,849 and get a 2GHz Core i7 processor with a 256GB SSD.
Otherwise, as the carbon in the name would imply, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon is just that — an ultrabook with a carbon fiber casing. A few of the other perks include a display resolution of 1600 x 900, a thickness of 0.71 inches and a weight of just 3 pounds.
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Linebrink looking at longer DL stint
Linebrink looking at longer DL stint
"I'm hoping mid-August," Linebrink said. "We've already pretty much wasted a week in July. So middle of August will be a good three weeks, and hopefully it's not too much longer.
"When you talk about not touching a ball for seven days, that's half of it right there. I don't think once we do start playing catch, I don't see a week later me being on the mound or in a game.
"It probably will be a couple of weeks of a throwing program and a bullpen," Linebrink added. "They might want me to go on a rehab assignment. It all depends how I look when I start throwing [bullpens]."
Linebrink, who has been sidelined by shoulder soreness since July 23, played catch in Detroit this past Friday. He doesn't expect to throw lightly again until this weekend.
In the interim, Linebrink intends to use the down time for extra conditioning.
"Obviously I have to get my shoulder back in shape," Linebrink said. "But I want to keep everything else in shape and take advantage of this time now, so when we do start the throwing, I'm not starting from scratch."
Octavio Dotel figures to replace Linebrink in the eighth inning, although White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said he intends to use Dotel at what he deems the most crucial stage of the game. While Linebrink looks forward to coming back with his shoulder "loads better than what it was," Dotel looks forward to pitching in a high-energy series like the current one at the Metrodome.
"Yeah, I love it," Dotel said. "Those series make me pumped up because we know what we need to do. We know what we're looking for. We know how we got to play teams like the Minnesota Twins."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Discovery Channel's 'Sons of Guns' Stars Stephanie Hayden and Kris Ford Will Be at Sportsman's Expo 2013
Stephanie Hayden and Kris Ford from Red Jacket Firearms in Baton Rouge and the hit Discovery Channel TV show "Sons of Guns" will be at this year's Sportsman's Expo in Shreveport.
The husband and wife will bring their love of firearms and expertise to the Shreveport Convention Center, July 19-21.
Click here for our interview with Stephanie Hayden
Stephanie Hayden's Bio:
Stephanie Hayden grew up learning about hunting and the outdoors from her dad, Will. For her 18th birthday, Will made her his partner and the business manager for Red Jacket. Now 28, she is known as the brains behind the Red Jacket operation. She manages the day-to-day business including the vast amount of paperwork involved in purchasing firearms, and keeps the orders running smoothly. However, Stephanie isn't just an administrator. She knows her guns too. In fact, she probably knows as much or more than many of the walk-in customers. Her favorite weapon depends on what she's shooting at the time, but she's fond of anything that Red Jacket builds — particularly the Suppressed AK-47.
Even though when it comes to spare time she's quick to say: "Welcome to Red Jacket, we don't have spare time," she does, however, manage to squeeze in a few vacations and likes to rock climb, horseback ride, write and take photographs.
One passion that has been growing recently is her support for Voice of the Wetlands, a volunteer group dedicated to the preservation of the wetlands in southern Louisiana. In 2011 Stephanie married Kris Ford in a private ceremony in Las Vegas. While they both have full time work at Red Jacket, they also share a keen interest in advocating for gun safety and weapons training.
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Despite coming from a family of hunters and gun enthusiasts, Kris Ford didn't consider himself a gun person. That all changed in 2009.
That year, Kris met Will's daughter Stephanie Hayden at a party. Kris was in need of a job and Stephanie offered him an apprenticeship at Red Jacket. He started out by sweeping floors and under Will's tutelage learned how to build guns from "weapon-grade steel." While Kris was building guns in the shop, his friendship with Stephanie grew from casual to lifelong. He married Stephanie in Las Vegas and Will welcomed his transition from employee to son in law.
Kris shares Stephanie's love of the Louisiana wetlands and likes to write and play music. However, he says that his main job will always be "happily saying 'Yes Sir!' to Will."


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