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St Albans Bowls Club clinched a 22-13 win over Harpenden in the district triples competition.
Pauline Gardiner, Maggie Kendrick and skip Doreen Gray steered their side to victory over Liz Bradley's team.
The ladies played their second triples league match of the season against Harpenden.
The home team was Gardiner, Joyce Wilson and Gray who won 34-13.
The away side was Marjorie Knight, Carole Ewer and Diana Tribe who lost 20-16 as St Albans won 4-2 on points.
The midweek men played Northaw & Cuffley with their opponents winning handsomely 123-58.
St Albans fared better on the next day when they played Radlett in a mixed match, winning 51-47.
The top rink was Sybil Steers, Knight, Tom Banfield and Jim McGregor 25-17).
Three St Albans teams played their first round of the St Albans & District Bowling Association Pair's competition. Alan Brittain & Ken Budd lost 20-12 to Townsend's Carl Robinson.
Ted Salvidge and John Bartlett lost 24-18 to Hatfield's Joe Darling.
Alan Turner and Dave Church went down 30-16 to Harpenden's Dave Brooks.
In the district officer's singles Ken Budd beat Fred Mulberry of Townsend 21-14 in the first round only to lose in the second round to Welwyn's Norman Muller 21-20.
St Albans picked up a 79-75 win over Batchwood in their friendly.
The top rink was Noel Godman (loaned from Batchwood), Alan Turner and Dave Church (22-15).


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Cunard Queen Victoria Panama: Queen Victoria Cruise Review by emlynhughes1
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Cunard Queen Victoria Panama
Destination: Panama Canal & Central America
Embarkation: Los Angeles
On arrival at LV we did have a slight problem with the transport to the hotel, first we had to go from one terminal to another to get to the mini bus that was to take us from the airport to the hotel, this did cause a problem as we were the last off, but when we got to the hotel the Venetian and we looked at the room we were lost for words as it was massive, we had three TV and two telephones a TV in the bathroom and a telephone in the toilet. LV is a city that never sleeps there is so much to see and do it is fantastic.
On leaving LV we flew to Los Angeles as the flight More was full we did not sit together but it was only about 1 hour, when we got to LA airport our only hiccup of the holiday occurred the transport to our hotel it took over an hour to get the transport to pick us up first of all, when we got to the hotel it was not what we expected The Crowne Plaza Beverly hills, certainly not 5 star we would only say 2 star.
Our time in LA was well spent on organised tour around the city but as it was the Oscar weekend we could not get to Hollywood Drive, dut overall LA was great.
The transport arranged to the cruise terminal was by private luminous and it got us there with about 15 mins before embarkation.
We were shown to the grills waiting lounge where we could have had hot drinks if required. we boarded the ship at about 12.15 and went straight to our stateroom, well we could not believe it the size was enormous we had a separate bathroom ans shower from the washroom and toilet,we had more wardroom space than we needed, the living area was also very big and on the balcony we had a table 2 chairs and 2 sunbeds.
What can one say about the Queens Grill dining room, the waiters were so attentive you only had to ask for something and it was at your table straight a way, The Metre D he was a perfect gentleman and the head waiter you could not fault him. the food in the grills - we had a different lunch and dinner menu each day and in addition we also had an AL a ca rte dinner menu which was supurd.
In the grills lounge you could get hot drinks all day long if required and on the seating area on the deck you could always get a sunbed no matter what time of the day
The entertainment on the ship was varied and the Cunard singers and dancer were brilliant, throughout the ship there was entertainment going on all day long, the daily lectures when the ship was not in port were excellent.
During the day when at sea there was so much todo, bridge, golf shuffle board dancing lessons, to name a few
It was our first time in the grills accommodation and we have said that it is the only way to travel, and we will be looking for our next cruise in this type of accommodation.
The only problem we have with Cunard is there pricing structure they say book early to get the best deals, but when you do yes you get the pick of your cabin but later on you could get the next cabin to yours with a price a lot less and an amount of on board spend, Please Cunard help your loyal customers and if people book early and you then reduce the price please give the customer a refund, other wise you will lose customers Less
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Train crashes into car on South Side
Published 8:08 pm, Friday, May 3, 2013
A train crashed into a car on the South Side on Friday evening, causing a traffic jam but no injuries.
The driver of the car stopped on the tracks at Interstate 35 and South Zarzamora St. and got blocked in by other cars and the closing railroad crossing arms, said San Antonio Police Sgt. Trey Roussel.
The car's lone passenger jumped out, as did the driver after impact as the car was pushed by the train, Roussel said. The train was going only about 20 mph, he said, and neither person was injured.
The train stopped soon after hitting the car, blocking the intersection for more than an hour, and police closed the Zarzamora exit off I-35.
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The driver was cited for stopping on a railroad crossing.


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Information for Season Six... at this point ...
The Apprentice 6 was confirmed on November 30, 2005. Like the other Apprentice seasons, Donald Trump is the executive producer and host in his quest to hire a sixth apprentice. As opposed to the previous five Apprentice shows, this one will be shot in Los Angeles, California. It will feature 18 contestants like the second season.[2] Originally it was called The Apprentice: LA Edition but given Trump's request to have the show take place in LA from this season and up until further notice, it was later called The Apprentice 6.[citation needed]
Ivanka Trump will make her debut as a full-time boardroom judge for this season (replacing Carolyn Kepcher).[3] Donald Trump Jr. also makes a debut as a full-time judge. George Ross, Trump's full-time boardroom judge from the first 5 seasons, will return mainly as a substitute judge when Donald Jr. is unavailable due to the show's Los Angeles filming schedule. [4]
In the sixth season the candidates will live in a mansion with a pool. Around the corner from the candidates mansion at the top of the hill Trump will live in a mansion. He will be able to look down on the candidates and see what they are up to. [citation needed]
The board room in season six features two tall skinny brown doors that have a flowery design on them, and room will have a more calm feeling because it is a bit brighter than the one in New York. [citation needed]
During the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Donald Trump announced that 12 Olympians (six men and six women) from Team United States 2006 would be vying for a spot on this edition. Voting continued throughout the entire Olympics concluding on the Closing Ceremonies.[5]
The twelve candidates and their sports were:
Allison Baver, short track speed skating
Travis Cabral, freestyle skiing
Casey FitzRandolph, speed skating
Todd Hays, bobsled
Chad Hedrick, speed skating
Danny Kass, snowboarding
Joe Pack, freestyle skiing
Speedy Peterson, freestyle skiing
Angela Ruggiero, ice hockey
Katie Uhlaender, skeleton
Seth Wescott, snowboarding
Chris Witty, speed skating
On May 30, 2006 it was announced that Ruggiero made it on the show.[6]


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Welcome to Albaniabridge!
We are urgently trying to raise money to build a new bridge in the small village of Ure e Shtrentje, in northern Albania.
The village is divided in half by a deep gorge, that has been cut into the mountain by the winter and spring rains. The villagers used to cross it via a large stone bridge. But just a few years ago, the torrents coming down the mountains were so strong and powerful that they tore the old bridge away. Now one half of the village gets cut off from the rest of the world for several weeks, every year, denying the villagers access to school, medical aid or the supply of fresh food.
Read more about the project...
Stiamo raccogliendo fondi per costruire un ponte nel piccolo villaggio di Ure e Shtrenjte, nel nord dell'Albania. Il villaggio è separato in due parti da una profonda gola attraversata dal fiume. Fino a qualche anno fa esisteva un ponte di pietra che è stato distrutto da una piena del fiume.
Read the Italian version here!
Albanian translation of this site
Site updated: 18 October 2009
The bridge has been built!!
It's been a long time since the last post. A lot has happened in our personl lives as well as with our jobs, but in the meantime something great has happened: the bridge has been built!
We weren't able to raise all the funds needed, but luckily Oxfam stepped in, matching the amount we raised to allow the project to start. Here are some recent images of the bridge, taken by Jon Stewart, an Oxfam copywriter who went out to Albania in September to visit various projects. If you click on the images below you'll be taken to his flickr.com pages where you can see more from that trip.
He's taken tonnes more pictures of the bridge which I hope he'll post online soon.
Site updated: 24 February 2008
Nearly at 30 per cent mark!
We've now raised £4,087! That's 29 per cent of our total target.
Here is an interesting reader comment:
I read your website and an addition to what the previous readers
pointed out about the word 'shtrenjte', in some villages (I would say
more northern Albania) the word is used to mean narrow. This would
make the meaning of the village NarrowBridge which makes a little more
sense to me...both other translations are right as well.
Site updated: 21 November 2007
Albania celebrates independence!
On 28 November 2007 is Albanian Independence Day (Wikipedia link). This year Albania is celebrating 95 years (1912 - 2007) of nationhood - and here we want to give you all a challenge: we want 95 people each to donate a little for each of Albania's 95 years of independence!
So far we have raised £3,488, which is 24.9% of our total... Come us guys! Let's get past the 25% mark!
The bridge itself is nearly finished, but we need to repay the loans taken out to get the project going. Please help if you can. Every little helps!
Site updated: 21 June 2007
Things are progressing!
But we still need more money! At the moment we get about 200 people visiting our website each month. If each of you could give just 5 dollars/pounds we would reach our target so much more quickly. Please, please, help if you can!
Latest pix:
Site updated: 1 March 2007
In the news!
This article appeared today in the Society Guardian's website:
Raising funds to build a river crossing for Albanian villagers has proved much harder than volunteer Rachele de Felice expected, but the people she met along the way made it all worthwhile.
Quick: see the main web page: society.guardian.co.uk/ (click the purple 'Bridge building' link in the header banner).
If everyone could give just $5, it would make such a difference! Or tell your friends about this project! We really want to make it work, and any help is much appreciated!
Thank you all for your support!
Site updated: 12 February 2007
Progress Report
Thanks to your generous support, so far we have raised £2,235 (about €3350/US$4350). This is just over 15% of our target: thank you! It's a great achievement, but unfortunately we still need your help to get to the £14,000/€20,000 to complete the job… so if you can, please donate to the project!
Everyone in the village is very excited about the new bridge, as they realise what a noticeable improvement it will bring to their lives. Isa Isufi told us, "I am planning to increase my goat flock, as I will have the chance to use the bridge to reach the mountain for their breeding" while 10-year old schoolgirl Saide rejoices she will be able to go to school: "I am very pleased that the bridge is going to be built. Now I won't be looking at the bus passing by, heading to the school and me not able to catch it because of this river in rainy days."
Report versions: (right-click to download)
The latest photos can be found here!
Site updated: 31 October 2006
In the papers!
See page 27 of this paper as a pdf file, or download the pull issue of the Gazeta Shqip newspaper (6 Mb file).
Blueprint available
But we STILL NEED MORE MONEY! We have so far raised over 10% (£1400) of what is needed to finish the job. So if you can spare anything - £10, £25 or more, please help us with your kind donation. If you can help in any other way, through links, by telling friends etc, please do! EVERY LITTLE HELPS!
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Engineers Without Borders builds library in Ghana
This summer five members of the Princeton chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) are traveling to Ashaiman, Ghana, to spend eight weeks finishing the construction of a library that will serve both as an educational center and a community gathering place.
This video chronicles the first phase of the EWB Ghana library project, which began in 2008. During the first phase, EWB members laid the concrete foundation and main structural elements of the library and collected more than 4,000 books.
EWB members plan to finish construction of the library, to outfit it with furniture and books, and to install a digital infrastructure including netbooks and Internet access. The EWB team is also formulating educational programming that aims to foster traditional and digital literacy.
The EWB Ghana undergraduate team for the first phase of the project included Mohit Agrawal '11, Kwesi Adarkwa '11, Nizette Edwards '11, and Jane Yang '11. The team for the second phase of the project includes Jeremy Blair '13, Akhil Reddy '13, Elizabeth O'Grady '13, Buse Aktas '14, and Cole Freeman '14.
Funders for the EWB Ghana library initiative include the Class of 1978 Fund, the Fred Fox '39 Fund, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, the Martin A. Dale '53 Summer Award, the Norman D. Kurtz '58 Fund, the Osu Children's Library Fund, the Princeton Environmental Institute, the Princeton Grand Challenges Initiative, World Partners for Development, the Woodrow Wilson School for Public Policy, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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By HAROLD M. SCHMECK Jr.
Published: March 31, 1987
GENETIC defects that contribute to important human diseases are being discovered at a remarkable and accelerating pace.
Within the past year scientists found the abnormal genes responsible for Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, a wasting muscle disease; retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eyes and chronic granulomatous disease, a disorder that leads to multiple serious infections and used to be uniformly fatal.
Just in the past few months important clues have been found to different genetic defects in some patients who suffer from common mental disorders: Alzheimer's disease and manic-depressive illness. Similar genetic clues, called ''markers,'' have also been found recently for several other less familiar diseases.
The roster of genetic discoveries expands greatly if the accomplishments of the past several years are included. Scientists have found the approximate locations of the genetic defects of cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, polycystic kidney disease and many others and are closing in on the actual identities of the genes themselves.
In some cases the discoveries have made it possible to identify healthy carriers of the disease trait who could pass it on to their children or to make prenatal diagnoses of the condition, particularly if someone in the family already has the disease. More such predictive tests are expected from the current research, but the scientific achievements are so new that many of the potential applications have not yet been achieved. These are triumphs of science, but they do not imply quick conquests of the diseases.
''Just the ability to do presymptomatic diagnostic testing for this whole range of inherited diseases will be very useful,'' said Dr. Helen Donis-Keller, an expert in this kind of study. ''It will give choices that were never possible before.'' Sheheads human genetics studies at Collaborative Research Inc. a biotechnology company in Massachusetts.
Doctors who treat patients who have genetic disorders speak commonly these days of parents who had given up the hope of having more children after seeing a child die after a few years of tortured life. Now, in many cases, if the couple does not have moral objections to abortion, they can try again, bearing the fetus if tests show it does not carry the defect but confident that the defect can be detected early if it is present.
However, as that example illustrates, the growing ability to identify and analyze genes will also raise new dilemmas and controversies, of which the abortion debate is an important one. There is also the problem of what to do with a test that predicts that a person will develop a fatal genetic disease when no treatment exists for the disorder and the reliability of the test is less than perfect.
In the future, some scientists believe, above-average susceptibility to major disorders such as heart disease and forms of mental illness will become identifiable through genetic tests. Although this has the potential of being of great value to the individual, such predictive ability could also invite serious invasions of privacy by government agencies, insurers and employers.
The recent discoveries, spanning a wide range of disease types, are highlighting the importance of genetic predisposition or susceptibility to many kinds of illness. The fact that disease often results from an unfavorable conjunction of both hereditary and nonhereditary factors has long been known. But environmental effects, such as infection, improper diet or imprudent life style have usually been emphasized because these factors were easier to understand and remedy.
Today some emphasis is shifting back to heredity; new research is clarifying its role and promises to do so even more in the future.
The ultimate goal is total understanding of the diseases and their prevention or cure. But although the revolution in biology is advancing almost explosively, it is still in its early stages. Few experts expect conquest to follow closely after discovery, even though the pace of scientific advance is far faster today than it has ever been before.
In recent years most of the research on genetic diseases has centered on disorders already known to be wholly hereditary and usually based on one or another single defective gene.
The discoveries concerning Alzheimer's disease and manic-depressive illness take the studies into a far broader realm; that of diseases probably caused by several different factors acting in concert.
Two studies of manic-depressive illness found genetic markers for the disease on two different chromosomes. That adds support to the belief held by many scientists that the disease, characterized by alternative periods of deep depression and frantic overactivity, is really not a single entity but a family of related disorders. Furthermore, the findings cast strong doubt on the old idea that such illness could be explained entirely by the stresses of life and similar psychological assaults.
In a group of Old Order Amish living in Pennsylvania, scientists found a genetic marker for the disease on chromosome 11. The other study, of Jews living in Jerusalem, found a correlation between the illness and a still unidentified defect on the X chromosome. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, all identified by number except the sex chromosomes; two X chromosomes in the female, and one X and one Y in the male.


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"Nobody Really Wants To See A Real Person On The Cover Of Vogue," Says UK Vogue Editor — But I Call Bullshit
The editor of UK Vogue, Alexandra Shulman, gave an interview this weekend and revealed very candidly how people who create fashion magazines like Vogue think. In an interview on BBC Radio 2, Shulman — who has been editor of UK Vogue since 1992 — spoke about what makes for a successful magazine cover. Here she is quoted by the UK's Telegraph:
"If I knew exactly what sold it would be like having the secret of the universe, but I'd say broadly speaking, if you're going to talk about a model or a personality, it's kind of a quite middle view of what beauty is. Quite conventional, probably smiling, in a pretty dress; somebody looking very 'lovely'. The most perfect girl next door." … People always say 'why do you have thin models? That's not what real people look like' But nobody really wants to see a real person looking like a real person on the cover of Vogue. I think Vogue is a magazine that's about fantasy to some extent and dreams, and an escape from real life. People don't want to buy a magazine like Vogue to see what they see when they look in the mirror. They can do that for free."
Exactly how does Shulman actually know that "nobody really wants to see a real person" on the cover of Vogue? The magazine has never actually had a "real person" on the cover. I perused a bunch of old UK Vogue covers online and surprise, surprise, most of the cover women are supermodels and actresses. Usually they are skinny, white women, or sometimes only a teenaged girl; they're pretty equally split between brunettes and blondes/redheads. (Although somehow "heroin chic" Kate Moss seemingly makes an appearance on, like, every other issue.) Occasionally Vogue features some diversity, sort of: plus-size singer Adele and women of color including Naomi Campbell, Beyoncé, and Alexa Chung have all appeared on covers. But it seems like what Shulman is really saying is that "nobody" wants to see other types of women — despite the fact the magazine has barely tried anything else.
Shulman has drunk the Kool Aid that women want these distorted, perfected images staring back at us from the check-out line. Yet it's understandable why she'd think that way in her line of business: a lot of lifestyle magazines (fashion, food, architecture, decorating, travel) are by nature "aspirational." Creating a consumerist need is at the core of their advertising-based business model. Readers are supposed to want to buy the products written about in the magazine, many of which pay for the ads that line the pages.
But here's what's different about fashion magazines: it isn't just the clothing that's "for sale." The celebrities and models themselves are on display, too: their clothes, yes, but also their hair, their skin, their nails, and most importantly, their bodies. Shulman freely admits that models are are very thin; in fact, the Telegraph notes that Shulman has said in the past that the tiny sample sizes (what models, who are often teenaged girls, wear on the runway) are "insane." That makes me wonder what these editors think women readers truly aspire to. Can something be "aspirational" if it is impossible? At the very best, it's Sisyphean.
I think Alexandra Shulman misjudges what women actually want. Some day, I may be able to own a Le Creuset French oven or go to the Maldives, but I'm never going to look like Karlie Kloss And more importantly, I don't want to. Why? Because I know it is futile. I know enough about makeup, skin care, and even weight loss to know that I'll never look like someone on a Vogue cover and therefore, I can't really relate to them. They may be pretty people, but they're just hollow images to me. I don't have a desire to look like them; I have apathy. And thank God that I do have apathy, because I know so many women my age and younger who struggle with eating disorders. If editors like Alexandra Shulman seriously think women like me want to aspire to look like those women, likely knowing as full well as I do that it's never going to happen, then they are hugely complicit perpetuating the negative body images of so many women in the Western world. I can appreciate that Shulman was being honest about how the business of fashion magazines may think. But as a woman and a consumer, I think she's totally wrong.
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Copperas Cove Police Officer Dexter Ferdinand was named Law Enforcement Officer of the Quarter last week by the Noon Exchange Club.
Pat Thomas, presenting the award, recalled an encounter with Ferdinand.
"I showed him my driver's license and don't know why I gave him my concealed handgun license, too. He asked whether I had it in the car, and I said no," Thomas said, leaving guests to wonder about the rest of his exchange with the officer.
Guest speaker Guy Beveridge, Coryell County constable, explained the role of constables in law enforcement.
"I've had a variety of positions prior to serving as constable," Beveridge said, citing a military assignment he had to protect two hostages, Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer, who were released by the Taliban.
Texas constables are fully empowered peace officers whose primary job is to serve civil and criminal papers, he said.
"The constable is considered the first organized law enforcement in Texas," Beveridge said.
An auction raised funds for a scholarship fund. Moderated by Inez Fasion, the auction raised $450.
Noon Exchange Club members were preparing for their next project, the Quad City Motorcycle Ride for a Child, on March 23. For more information about the event, go to https://nooner.clubexpress.com or call Mike Blount at (254) 547-6707.


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Terri Schiavo Was Unavailable For Comment
Jesus Wept:
People with severe brain injuries sometimes emerge from a coma awake but unresponsive, leaving families with painful questions. Are they aware? Can they think and feel? Do they have any chance of recovery?
A new study has found that PET scans may help answer these wrenching questions. It found that a significant number of people labeled vegetative had received an incorrect diagnosis and actually had some degree of consciousness and the potential to improve. Previous studies using electroencephalogram machines and M.R.I. scanners have also found signs of consciousness in supposedly vegetative patients.
"I think these patients are kind of neglected by both medicine and society," said Dr. Steven Laureys, an author of the new study and the director of the Coma Science Group at the University of Liège in Belgium. "Many of them don't even see a medical doctor or a specialist for years. So I think it's very important to ask the question, are they unconscious?"
In the United States, 100,000 to 300,000 people are thought to be minimally conscious, and an additional 25,000 are vegetative. In Belgium, the combined incidence of the two conditions is about 150 new cases per year, Dr. Laureys said.
An article about the new research was published on Tuesday in The Lancet.
Dr. Laureys and his colleagues studied 122 patients with brain injuries, including 41 who had been declared vegetative — awake but with no behavioral signs of awareness. People who are vegetative for a year are thought to have little or no chance of recovering, and the condition can become grounds for withdrawing medical treatment. Terri Schiavo, in a vegetative state for 15 years, died in 2005 in Florida after courts allowed the removal of her feeding tube.
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The court was told by Michael Schiavo that Terry had said that she would not want to live. Terry could not change her mind, if, in fact, she had said something to that effect? Terry had a strong will to live. It took 18 days for Michael Schiavo, the court and the police to starve Terry to death.
"Where did we go wrong?" "When you put the first innocent person to death." from the Trial at Nuremberg
So sad.
It's clear her husband didnt want the "burden" of caring for her on that state.
The PET scan is such a simple procedure, as they inject the radiation and wait around 45mins for it to travel in your body. I've had 3. And if that could have put to bed the argument that she wasn't conscious enough to be alive, then its heartbreaking.
God see's all. His Just Love cannot be fooled, and the parties that had her starved to death will answer to Him. God have mercy on their souls.
The Code of 1804 (Code Napoléon) provided a very simple definition: a person is dead, when a severed vein no longer bleeds.
Of course, when hospitals became chop-shops for transplant surgery, this definition was found inconvenient. One might have thought that clarity and certainty in such matters were very convenient indeed, but the article was amended notwithstancing
Thank you Donald McClarey. Will save the correct version.
Terry Schindler Shiavo's parents fought for custody of her in court. Was Terry allowed Holy Communion? Terry was treated as a non-person. The state does not give personhood. God does.
Michael wanted Terry dead. Michael Schiavo could have divorced Terry after the court gave custody to the Schindlers, who heartbrokenly had to watch their daughter starved to death. The court gave custody of Terry to the man who wanted her death.
Sorry typo, I meant "in" that state (condition), not "on" that state.
Thank you for the transcript Donald.
Im speechless. I had heard of Terri's case, but being outside of the US, didnt know the full details of her story.
Why didnt the nurse go to the police with evidence that her husband wanted Terri dead? That he was abusing her? That he was intimidating staff? That he tried to spike her sugar levels? That he was altering her records?
You wish smart phones were around at the time, as it would have been very easy to capture footage or audio of this mans filth.
I have a query: would you say that regardless of the volumes of evidence presented in court against Michael Schiavo, andin favour of Terri's consciousness, the state of Florida would have ruled in favour of Michael Schiavo, regardless? If so, why?
Ms. Sauer's testimony is disturbing.
This is the first time I've read it. Thank you Mr. McClarey.
As Terri suffered her starvation her advocate Pope JP II united his sufferings to that of our Lords on Good Friday 2000 plus years ago. Redemptive suffering for the intentions of what?
Holy souls in purgatory?
End of abortion on demand?
For Terri Schiavo possibly?
March 31st Terri died. Two days later our beloved Pope of whom championed the right to Life died.
The struggle for life and these two souls will always be united in my heart. Even though the right to life was denied Terri, the fight is far from over. Right to Life from natural conception to natural death.
Well the police didnt even investigate the nurses claims. Or they did, and were silenced themselves.
I wish there was a way to prosecute MIchael Schiavo, in light of the nurses testimony, post-Terris death….this man seems unfit to be living amongst free society.
And if the judge ruled them irrelevant, what on earth is "relevant" evidence, when it comes to the insincerity of her husband.
In the first weeks of our married life, we roomed with a couple who rented a room to an older person who had gotten hit by a streetcar and was in a coma for36 YEARS! He attended the old state school in Dixon, Ill. and worked at the old Marshal Field in shipping. He would travel all over the country on his vacations, by himself. I do not know if he had any living relatives, but he was happy, had a job to support himself, and a place to live, thanks to our landlady. I also have worked with many physically burdened people over my 40 years as a CNA and had to time and again educate the other workers to slow down, let a person eat, talk to them, in short, treat them as you would like to be treated. It is enormously cruel these days to see the lack of compassion in many nursing homes.
Thank you for providing the nurse's statement. My mother went to the ER on a Mon a.m. with a UTI. She was in her early mid 90s. I won't go into all the details but by Wed eve she couldn't communicate. I had to tell the nurse mom's breathing was raspy as in pneumonia because she said she couldn't hear it. By Thurs a.m. she was in the ICU. My MD brother kept in contact by phone but couldn't be there because of the hurricane. On her 11th day in ICU which was the day after the storm passed through, my mother passed to her eternal reward. Unlike Terry Schiavo, her priest was there with me and he gave her the Precious Blood and blessed her with the papal indulgence. Father saw a tear after the blessing and I, concerned that she might be in pain, rang for the nurse. In retrospect I think it was a tear of joy. Mother died an hour later with a kindly nurse reading the 23rd Psalm and I holding mom's hand and reciting the "Hail Mary…..now and at the hour of her death."
Here's the point of my comment: There are many in the medical field that practice, either elderly or passively, what we describe as elderly euthanasia, . My mother had an advanced medical directive which was in agreement with the teachings of our faith and my brother, an ER doc, and I shared responsibility for her medical treatment. She did not have a DNR. My brother had always advised against it as every case is different. He told us that he had seen instances of patients, not his, in the ER who had DNRs and thus were not given treatment when an antibiotic could have saved an elderly pneumonia victim or meds could have saved a heart patient. In my state a DNR form is bright yellow. Unfortunately the acceptance or refusal in my mother's case was on the back page.
In assisted living and hospitals even for any routine test as an outpatient, there is a push to have a Do Not Resuscitate. In the ICU it was the night duty dr., a non Christian, who called and talked about mother's DNR on 3 occasions. I would set the dr.r straight on NO DNR and refer her to my brother. Even some of the nurses in the ICU had not read mom's chart thoroughly and only grudgingly let me see it. There was much pressure not to have her intibated, but we did and mother breathed on her own after the treatments and continued to do so up to her death. As my brother said, we gave mother a fighting chance.
When the chief of service returned from leave I complained but by then it was too late.
A typo re elderly euthanasia, I mean to say practicing it either actively or passively, not elderly or passively.
Happy and Blessed Easter to all.
Thank you, Cam. Greatly appreciate this sharing. R.I.P. Cam's mother.
To add to the horror and shame of her murder:
And, while this all happened, Catholic Jeb Bush was silent, hiding under his desk.
Michael Schiavo and his mistress can fool the priest, but Michael Schiavo and his mistress cannot fool God. Maybe they deserve each other, worrying about who is going to kill off whom.
"Michael Schiavo and his mistress can fool the priest, but Michael Schiavo and his mistress cannot fool God. Maybe they deserve each other, worrying about who is going to kill off whom."
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) rose 6.71% to $30.54, up $1.92 from its previous close of $28.62, at the close of the trading day on Friday after the company reported first-quarter earnings that surpassed expectations.
The stock had a volume of 13,247,273, nearly five times its average of 2,772,930. It hit a high of $31.80 and a low of $30.27.
The company reported that its revenue for the quarter increased 11% year over year and 6% sequentially to $505.2 million, at 67 cents a share. The numbers surpassed both the company's first-quarter guidance and analysts' expectations. Non-GAAP operating income for the quarter totaled $141.8 million, up 24% from $114.8 million in the first fiscal quarter of 2013. Non-GAAP diluted earnings were 67 cents a share compared to 55 cents for the prior year's first fiscal quarter. GAAP operating income for the quarter was $116.0 million and diluted earnings were 49 cents a share.
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Struggling Groupon fires CEO Andrew Mason
Andrew Mason, founder of online deal site Groupon Inc. and a Mt. Lebanon native, was fired on Thursday by the struggling company because it reported a bigger-than-expected loss and a weak revenue outlook.
Mason rejected a $6 billion merger offer from Google in 2010 before taking his company public in 2011 for $20 a share, which valued the company at $13 billion. Mason was said to have fretted that a sale to Google would sap employee morale and alienate business clients.
Groupon's stock has lost about 77 percent of its value since the IPO, losing $1.45, or 24 percent, on Thursday to close at $4.53. The stock, which soared as high as $31.14 in its debut on Nov. 4, 2011, gained 4 percent in after-hours trading upon news of Mason's firing.
Mason's ouster was anticipated for months and happened amid worries that people are tiring of the myriad daily online restaurant, spa and Botox deals that Groupon built its business on.
Mason sent a memo to employees after he was fired. In part, he said:
"After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding — I was fired today. If you're wondering why ... you haven't been paying attention. From controversial metrics ... to two quarters of missing our own expectations and a stock price that's hovering around one quarter of our listing price, the events of the last year and a half speak for themselves. As CEO, I am accountable."
Groupon said Mason was not available for interviews. His parents, Robert and Lila Mason, declined to comment as they pulled out of the driveway of their home in Mt. Lebanon.
Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky and Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis were appointed to the Office of the Chief Executive while a replacement is found.
"Groupon will continue to invest in growth, and we are confident that with our deep management team and market-leading position, the company is well positioned for the future," Leonsis said in a statement.
Mason, 32, grew up in Mt. Lebanon before moving to Chicago for college. He earned a bachelor's degree in music from Northwestern University.
In a 2010 interview with the Tribune-Review, Mason described Groupon as "a local shopping site," tailored specifically to each city in which it operates.
"Every day, we feature one local business — it could be a restaurant, theater, spa, skydiving, just about anything cool to do in the city," he said. "And we sell a gift certificate at a huge discount — 50, 60, 70 percent off, that you can buy, but only on that day, and then it's treated like cash."
That August, Groupon sold 445,000 vouchers for retailer Gap, bringing in $11 million in revenue for the deal company's first-ever nationwide promotion. Groupon typically split revenue down the middle with its participating merchants.
The coupon offered $50 in Gap merchandise for $25, and demand was so high that Groupon's servers experienced technical difficulties.
The company quickly amassed 35 million registered users and a staff of 3,000, mostly in sales.
Groupon's explosive growth netted Mason a cover story on Forbes and an appearance on NBC's "Today" show.
The company's disappointing results and outlook fueled investor worry that people are growing fatigued with the online deals flooding inboxes daily and that the company's efforts to broaden into an e-commerce powerhouse haven't paid off.
Groupon said on Wednesday that first-quarter revenue will be $560 million to $610 million. Analysts on average had predicted $647.7 million, according to Bloomberg News.
Investors questioned whether Groupon's business model is sustainable and leads to growth over the long term — and whether the company can not only grow its customer base but make more from each subscriber.
Groupon had the advantage of being first. That meant brand recognition and investor demand, as evidenced by its strong public debut. But the model is easy to replicate. It spawned many copycats after its 2008 launch, from startups such as LivingSocial to established companies such as Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
Groupon has faced scrutiny about its high marketing expenses, enormous employee base and the way it accounted for revenue.
In his letter to employees, Mason said:
"You are doing amazing things at Groupon, and you deserve the outside world to give you a second chance. I'm getting in the way of that. A fresh CEO earns you that chance. The board is aligned behind the strategy we've shared over the last few months, and I've never seen you working together more effectively as a global company — it's time to give Groupon a relief valve from the public noise.
"... This leadership change gives you some breathing room to break bad habits and deliver sustainable customer happiness — don't waste the opportunity! I will miss you terribly. Love, Andrew."
The Associated Press and Trib Total Media staff writer Matt Santoni contributed to this report. John D. Oravecz is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-320-7882 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A CONTROVERSIAL trial of cameras on police uniforms has not started, despite Chief Commissioner Ken Lay expecting it to be finished by last November.
Police aimed to improve transparency by using the so-called uniform cams to record interactions with the public, but the Police Association said they had the potential to undermine trust in the force.
Audio and visual equipment would have been worn on the clothing of officers in the southern region, which includes Dandenong, Cranbourne, the Mornington Peninsula and bayside suburbs.
But the trial, which the union said was an Australian first, has been delayed by a range of concerns and it is now unclear when it will start.
The cameras are used commonly by US police and the trial is consistent with a trend towards more surveillance of police work. Some highway patrol cars are already fitted with video devices, and cameras will be fitted to Tasers, which will become standard issue.
Mr Lay said last July that he had approved the concept for the trial, which would last no more than three months, and he expected it to start in August.
Assistant Commissioner Derek Lamb said this week no date for the trial had been set.
''Victoria Police is still working through a number of factors in relation to a trial of body-worn recording devices, including cost, equipment, legalities, data security and storage,'' he said.
Police said last June it was envisaged the recording devices would not be operating at all times and they would be switched on at the discretion of the officer.
Police Association assistant secretary Bruce McKenzie said the union's concerns had grown since the trial was announced, as it was clear the funds used on uniform cams could be better spent.
He said the force was too stretched to spend money on new equipment when items such as in-car cameras had not been installed in all vehicles.
Fairfax Media revealed last year that footage from a police car was used to prosecute two officers in northern Victoria for bashing and kicking two men they had pulled over.
Mr McKenzie said delays in starting the trial highlighted legal complexities the union feared could lead to footage captured on the cameras being used against police in court.
''Our concerns have certainly not been alleviated by the fact they're taking more time before starting the trial. We don't want the trial to take place at all.''


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Suva (Fiji), Jan 25 (IANS) Australia's high commission here Friday announced sports development grants worth a total of over US$30,000 to three sporting organisations in the South Pacific island country.
Australia's acting High Commissioner Glenn Miles named the latest successful Australian Sports Outreach Program (ASOP) grant recipients as: the Fiji Hockey Federation, the Fiji Surfing Association and Australian Football League Fiji (AFL Fiji), reports Xinhua.
The program grants support to small community-focused sports projects which address the needs of people at the grassroots level, by enhancing sports knowledge and leadership skills.
The Fiji Hockey Federation was awarded a grant of around US$10,000 supporting a project aimed at re-igniting interest in hockey in the towns of Levuka, Savusavu and Fiji's third-largest island of Taveuni.
"The Fiji Hockey Federation plans to introduce regular competition for hockey enthusiasts in these areas," Miles said, "I am particularly pleased that this project targets communities which don't have access to funding that might be more readily available in the larger urban centres."
The Fiji Surfing Association will receive around US$10,000 for a project aimed at developing water safety awareness and skills in Fiji children by introducing adapted Australian surf rescue/swimming curriculum and qualifications.
"The project will focus on 8 to 16 year olds on Viti Levu (Fiji's main island of), introducing the highly successful 'Nippers' program to Fiji. This will teach valuable surfing and surf lifesaving skills, which we hope will help to address and reduce the incidence of drowning in Fiji," said Miles.
In addition to expanding local participation in Australian Rules football, AFL Fiji will use its grant of around US$10,000 to assist in the development of leadership skills training in the administration of the game in Fiji.
The Australian Sports Outreach Program is an Australian Government-funded program which began in 2006. It is managed by the Australian Sports Commission and aims to assist sports organisations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.


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The Dr. Knight Elementary Back to School Bingo event was a fun, successful night because of our generous community. Thanks to Dr. Knight's KEA for helping organize and fund the event; to Walmart for providing school supplies as prizes; to Gosch's, Randall for treats; to Eagle Court Apartments for use of their bingo machine and to Randall for the use of Bingo Park. The students had a great time and their parents did, too. — Emily Stenberg, Dr. Knight Elementary media specialist


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I cannot believe I'm already into my third trimester. The second trimester went by so quickly, I never even had the chance to sit down and write a post for it. It was a blissful last two months with minor aches and pains, almost no irritating symptoms (other than some heartburn) and a good supply of energy. I truly find the second trimester to be the absolute best period of my pregnancy. Now and with the twins…
At our 20 week scan, the doctor confirmed it to be a boy and even though for a couple of hours I was a little sad that I wouldn't have my dream of a little girl, I soon started making plans for his nursery theme and got excited at the idea of another little busy-body in my house.
In the last couple of weeks our baby boy has gone from little flutters to full-blown kicks, twists and turns and sometimes even surprises me with the force of his movements. I guess the twins couldn't move as much with having so little space, so this little one's full-body turns feel very strange to me some days. I can spend hours just feeling him kick against my tummy whilst daydreaming of what he might look like and what his personality will be like.
The twins are pretty much still clueless when it comes to the baby. They constantly ask to see my tummy, but then point at their tummies to show me their "baby" too. It's rather cute, I must admit. I'm not sure how to prepare them for the new one though, especially if they don't understand the concept of a baby. They've been around their baby cousin and understand when we tell them the baby is sleeping or drinking bottle, so I hope that makes a bit of a difference.
How pregnant am I? Not sure… Hubby and I keep coming up with a different date, so we'll just go with 28 weeks for now until our next doctor's appointment.
How big is baby? At this point baby should be weighing in at around 1.2 kg and measure around 40cm from head to toe. We should know exact details at our next appointment.
Weight Gain: I have no idea, and I really don't want to know either. Some days I feel bigger than I did with the twins, but the hubby keeps reassuring me that it's not the case at all.
Pregnancy Symptoms: Third trimester has hit me with a bang, and for the last two weeks I've been very uncomfortable. I've been getting random aches and pains in my lower abdomen combined with some slow burning backache. Heartburn and bloating have also been at the top of the list together with headaches and leg cramps.
Food cravings and aversions: I haven't really had any cravings or aversions since the first trimester. I tend to eat much smaller portions now, since I feel full much faster.
Any Movement? It's funny how we find any and everything to worry about. One day baby will kick almost constantly and quite vigorously and the next I'm worrying that I haven't felt him for a couple of hours. With the twins there seemed to be almost constant movement as either one was always moving or having hiccups. I'm still getting use to sometimes not feeling any movement due to baby sleeping.
Sleep: Sleeping has become a mission since everything from hip pains and leg cramps to heartburn has been keeping me up. Don't get me wrong, that certainly doesn't mean that I'm not tired enough to sleep soundly. I walk around like a zombie most days now.
Emotions: I'm still pretty much all over the place. I think it's more based on frustration at my body and tiredness though, compared to the first few months. I feel very sorry for hubby and the boys some days as I just don't have the patience, humour and energy to carry on with our day. Feeling like the worst mommy around right now and hoping the kids don't remember this part of me at the end of all of this.
Purchases: We've done all our big-ticket shopping for things like a pram, bouncy seat, curtains, etc. We've also started stocking up on nappies, wipes, formula and little sets of clothing.
Next is deciding on a colour to paint the room, actually finding the time to paint the room and putting up some of the cute décor that daddy has started making for the theme.
What I miss: I miss having the energy to run around playing with the twins each night after school. I feel like I might not be giving them all the attention they deserve.
What I'm looking forward to: Seriously looking forward to my maternity leave and some extra minutes of sleep every now and then.


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German Studies Recommended Course Sequence
Recommended course sequence
Course schedules vary widely depending on whether students enter Cornell with language credits or not. The following are guidelines:
- The schedule of courses is constructed so that students may begin GER 101 as late as January of their sophomore year and still complete a major in German. Nevertheless, it is advisable to begin earlier.
- We recommend that all students, whether intending to major in German or not, complete their language course requirement by the end of their second year.
- Majors should take Composition and Conversation I (GER 301) by the fall of their third year, though many will take this course sooner.


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The best livestock and produce of the season was on show on Monday at this year's Helston Fatstock Society Show.
Featuring the usual mix of cattle, sheep, corn, roots, fruit and vegetables, as well as a domestic tent full of floral art, home produce and photography, Although cattle entries were slightly down, overall numbers remained strong.
Overall champion was Chris Eddy from St Erth with his Blue cross Limousin bullock called, unusually, Sheep.
He also took the trophy for best beast of the opposite sex to the champion, in what proved to be a very successful debut to the show.
Gail Ellis held the reserve champion, with Mr and Mrs MJ Collins of Wendron winning the best local exhibitor trophy.
In the sheep, Neil Phillips too best butcher's single and pair, while Vivian, Matthew and Adam Care won best single and pair breeding ewe lamb.
Honorary secretary and treasurer Margaret Eva described the day as "very good," adding that the judges had praised the excellent standard on display.
She thanked Bob Cowell for once again providing his land on which to hold the show, at Franchis Farm between Helston and Wendron, saying without that the should couldn't go on.
Mrs Eva also thanked the sponsors and the committee, saying: "They worked together very well on the day, and it makes it possible."
A raffle and auction of items donated by local businesses raised £520 for CLIC Sargent,.
This year's show president was George Blake.


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This minimalist prefab called VIPP Shelter is simply breathtaking. Click through to IGNANT for more photos.
This SlideRunner takes an indoor staircase into a giant slide. Amazing, right?
Custom Made Hand Mosaics by Anne Derian
Anne Dérian, an architect by trade, is the force behind these beautiful mosaic art pieces. Originally from France, Anne now lives in Berlin and does mosaics on commission basis. In times where everything is about speed, I find incredible beauty in the slowness and thoughtfulness that the mosaic process represents. I'd hire her in a heart beat.
Luckey Climbers
A Luckey Climber is a three dimensional sculpture designed for children to climb on.
Made of bent plywood platforms that are suspended by steel pipes and cables, climbers are visually elegant works of art that are also part jungle gym and once alive with children they become what Thomas Luckey called "fountains of children."
Absolutely love this.
(Also, made me think of this episode…)
Upside Down Russian Home
A russian home built completely upside down. Made me smile.
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Studio Gang's WMS Boathouse
The WMS boathouse in Chicago could easily turn me into a row fanatic. It's that stunning.
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Black White Residence
These images over on Ignant of the Black White Residence by David Jameson took my breath away. It is located in Bethesda, USA, inhabiting the masonry shell of an existing house. Just look at that living room! Click here to see the full house tour. Stunning!
Pegboard Shelving
I am dreaming of an entire wall in my studio set up with this pegboard shelving system. Made by the Hornsby Berowra Men's Shed, discovered over on Apartment Diet.
Zen Bedroom
Beautiful minimal bedroom with built in storage designed by Studio Oink. Definitely will circle back to this image when we are tackling the project of building loft beds in our kids rooms.
Dymaxion House (1946)
Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House is all kinds of fascinating, especially the conveyer belt linen closet!
Hotello is a portable space, containing all the necessary elements for a minimal room: a desk, a lamp, a stool, a shelf, a locker. Hotello consists of a metal structure that supports double curtains (translucent and sound absorbant) as well as all the furniture needed to work and rest. Designed by Roberto De Luca and Antonio Scarponi.
Oddly charming.
Powerstation gone Rollercoaster?
Love this proposal by Atelier Zündel Cristea to turn an abandoned London power station into a playground and museum.
Famous Architects Dressed as their Buildings
Famous Architects Dressed as their Buildings in 1931. I heart this.
Mr. Mourao
The Modern Family: Part One
What a stunning house to raise kids in. It's located in Carmel, California, designed by Lake|Flato Architects.
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Hidden Bed
This is the Murphy Bed of my Dreams. Completely Hidden.
Value of Architecture
A passionate NYTimes article addressing the calamity that is Penn Station:
"To pass through Grand Central Terminal, one of New York's exalted public spaces, is an ennobling experience, a gift. To commute via the bowels of Penn Station, just a few blocks away, is a humiliation.
What is the value of architecture? It can be measured, culturally, humanely and historically, in the gulf between these two places."
Restore a Gateway to Dignity, by Michael Kimmelman
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Spaces, Etc.
These sculptural objects by New York based designer Ron Gilad are minimal three-dimensional outlines of various familiar shapes. As minimal as they are, they form spaces, rooms, shapes. It's fascinating how our mind finishes what his artwork has started.
20 Essentials
20essentials is a Belgium based pop-up concept with a selection of carefully picked products by a 'little more' or a 'special twist'. The products are different in their concept, shape, material and functionalities and are an attempt to meet 20 of our most basic, daily needs, such as sitting, sleeping, transport, …
20 Essentials is located in Knokke, Belgium. Wish I could stop by. Lovely idea.
(Thank you Pieterjan)
Rainbow Panorama
Olafur Eliasson's Rainbow Panorama Installation makes me want to book a flight to Denmark asap. RAINBOWTASTIC, as my color-loving studiomate Jessi would say!
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Rainbow Bank
This 'rainbow bank', as my reader Kirsten calls it, makes my heart beat a little bit fater. It was designed by Emmanuelle Moureaux. It's called 'Sugamo Shinkin Bank', a credit union located in Shimura, Japan. Te design, an offset volume of rainbow-like layers, is the third branch designed by Moureaux, with the first two located in Tokiwadai and Niiza. Read the original designboom post.
Stunning Bookshelf (shot by Selby)
Karl Lagerfeld's bookshelf system is crazy impressive (and big!) It's an older shot by Selby, who just came out with Edible Selby.
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Winy Maas on the Balancing Barn
In this short film made by Dezeen and Oliver Manzi of WopFilms, architect Winy Maas of Rotterdam firm MVRDV talks about Balancing Barn, a house in
Sussex Suffolk, England, completed late last year.
At some point in my life, I want to live in a house like the Balancing Barn and own a real Calder Mobile.


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A Case of the Redeye
Say you are a grunt on the 1960s battlefield and a Soviet MiG is coming to ruin your day. Well, you could either run, or give that Russki bad guy a severe case of the Redeye.
What was it?
After World War 2, when jets replaced propeller driven combat aircraft, the US Army realized that what they did for anti-aircraft artillery wasn't going to work. The odds of a good old .50-caliber M2 machinegun mounted on a jeep being able to shoot down a supersonic Soviet MiG passing at more than 600 miles per hour were pretty slim.
To catch up with Ivan and keep the boys safe, between 1959-68 Corvair (now General Dynamics) came up with a portable missile launcher. This launcher was clunky at 18-pounds and four-feet long, but it could be carried and used by a single foot soldier on the ground. Inside its tube was a two-stage missile that soft-launched so as to not scorch the Joe firing it as it left the tube. Once outside the launcher the missile would accelerate to Mach 1.7 and carry its 2.35-pound M222 Blast-fragmentation warhead almost three miles.
The Redeye had a 30% probability when fielded which perhaps was wishful thinking. Deployed in 2 -man teams the Redeye took to the field in a Jeep along with a dozen surface to air missiles. When needed, one soldier could drop off the primary user with the Redeye and a couple missiles then displace to a more camouflaged location to let the lone operator go mano-a-MiG.
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- Length 1.20 m (3 ft 11.5 in); M171 launcher: 1.26 m (4 ft 1.7 in)
- Finspan 14 cm (5.5 in)
- Diameter 7 cm (2.75 in)
- Weight 8.3 kg (18.3 lb); M171 launcher: 5 kg (11 lb)
- Speed Mach 1.7
- Ceiling 2740 m (9000 ft)
- Range 4500 m (14800 ft)
- Propulsion Atlantic Research M115 solid-fueled rocket motor; consisting of
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- Warhead M222 1.06 kg (2.35 lb) blast-fragmentation
- Length 1.20 m (3 ft 11.5 in); M171 launcher: 1.26 m (4 ft 1.7 in)
- Finspan 14 cm (5.5 in)
- Diameter 7 cm (2.75 in)
- Weight 8.3 kg (18.3 lb); M171 launcher: 5 kg (11 lb)
- Speed Mach 1.7
- Ceiling 2740 m (9000 ft)
- Range 4500 m (14800 ft)
- Propulsion Atlantic Research M115 solid-fueled rocket motor; consisting of
- - Booster (Ejector): 3.3 kN (750 lb) for 0.048 s
- - Sustainer: 1.1 kN (250 lb) for 5.8 s
- Warhead M222 1.06 kg (2.35 lb) blast-fragmentation
Convair produced more than 85,000 of these missiles in 1968-69. That was enough to supply one to every infantry squad in the US Army and Marines if needed. The Pentagon hoped these missiles would sweep the sky of low-flying Soviet and Warsaw Pact aircraft over Central Europe should World War Three come about. As such, they were fielded immediately to West Germany to hold the NATO end of the Iron Curtain if the balloon went up. Soon our NATO allies acquired them as well.
When the new and improved Stinger missile came out in 1981, the Army and Marines started pulling the Redeye off the line and sending them to National Guard units. This was the first man-portable surface to air missile used by many Guard and Reserve units. Finally, by 1995, the last Redeyes in the US were dismantled and demilled. Within a decade of that, our last overseas allies pulled them from service and the Redeye was no more.
Did they work?
They never saw combat with the US military but during the Regan-era about 50 were shipped to Afghanistan by the CIA and another handful to Nicaragua using the same 'we were never there, you can't prove anything' airline. In the hands of trained Muj and Contra operators, several Soviet aircraft were splashed with these primitive weapons. Win one for the Gipper!
You can buy your own Redeye launcher (sans missile), neutered, and demilled of course for about $500. They have been the subject of outlandish newspaper articles where one was seized from a former cop and another (mis-identified as a Stinger no less!) was loudly paraded to the press at a gun buyback in Washington.
If the guided missile made it too far from the operator without hitting a target, an on-board self-destruct blew it while still in the air to prevent unexploded ordnance falling back down on our boys heads (or into a curious enemy's hand). Should a Redeye be given away, stolen, sold, or what have you, they are perishable enough to not be a concern after a short while. Lifespan of an unsupported Redeye in the wild is pretty short. Because the weapon is very sensitive to humidity, its cooling system leaks argon, and its batteries are unique, odds are they will be so much junk within a few years of 'leaving the supply chain that keeps them working. Therefore, Redeyes given away to former friends in Afghanistan (and even to our allies abroad) are probably as dead as disco.
But you have to admit, the spent tubes make a cool prop for the man cave.
(And yes, the Redeye even made an appearance in Archer, photo from IMFDB)


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can't we just get a distributor here? somebody that doesn't care at all about scoring. Jennings is slightly better than DC, but Brandon strikes me as someone that only wants to put the ball in the basket. not what we need from the PG position.
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can't we just get a distributor here? somebody that doesn't care at all about scoring. Jennings is slightly better than DC, but Brandon strikes me as someone that only wants to put the ball in the basket. not what we need from the PG position.
I agree, but he is to short to guard the Kyle Korvers of the world if a SG needs to cover up for his defense. I hope it improves.
Jennings can create his own shot and thats something we lack badly, but I would rather have that person be a wing and let Collison continue to improve. Collison has a cieling of a championship level PG, Jennings has the potential of a Steve Francis level player who makes allstar games but never does anything in the playoffs.
Thats awsome Bullet, just simple awsome.
Taken a look at Hotspots and checking out some of the best players around the league...Danny is really special...wow...he can shoot from anywhere efficiently except, strangely at the top of the key area.
Thx bulletproof for posting the Hotspot...never seen that before.
It'd be nice if they'd update those NBA Live 08 ads.
We need scoring from the PG position right now, at least until we can get a secondary, maybe a third scorer. Collison was the team's second leading scorer, which speaks a lot to how much his points were a necessity. The team did well when he was able to do both, say 15 and 8, but no way we would be a better team simply fielding Mark Jackson in Collison's stead.
I thought Jennings might have had the potential to be something special in his rookie season, but after this season past season, it just became even clearer to me that he's a shoot-first PG who's overrated, who is too arrogant for what he really is as well.
You can't be serious.
"I had to take her down like Chris Brown."
-Lance Stephenson
I'd like to pass on this one, please. He's like a very terrible version of Stephen Marbury. His FG was 38 at one point, and he's been pretty stagnant this season. Why mess up something that doesn't need fixing? I think DC will play even better next year. I like our chemistry too, don't break our guys up.
I know that every time I watched Jennings...I was thankful DC was our starter.
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Shoot-first PG that only excels at creating bad shots for himself. No thank you.
With this roster? Who's going to score if you replace Collison with Jackson if your second leading scorer is Collison and he wasn't even a reliable scorer? It's not like the entire reason Hibbert averaged under 13 was because his PG didn't get him the ball enough.
I love Jackson, but I don't see how he, or any distributing PG, solves the root problem of not having any scorers. Plugging him in didn't solve anything in 96-97. Sure we'd win some of the games we lost when Collison couldn't get five points, but I see it all even out over an 82-game season. We're still going to lose some of the games we won when Collison got into the high teens.
I don't see how it's a stretch that even though Jackson is a better player than Collison, I don't see him being a good fit for this team.
You don't think a brilliant passer with a brain who is a floor general, resulting in less wasted possessions, the ball getting where it needs to go when it needs to get there, more assists, and more easy buckets wouldn't help our offense?
A true point guard, which you can count on one hand these days, makes EVERYONE better. Really who is a true pure Point Guard anymore?
Steve Nash
Chris Paul
Jason Kidd (although greatly diminished now)
Deron Williams
Who else?
Its a very rare commodity.
I think its a mindset, type of person as much as skills.
You have to
1.) See the play two ticks before it happens and set it up to come to fruition.
2.) like to make the assist more than score, intrinsically.
For #1, its a special special skill, you have to recognize the situation, assess the advantage, then exploit the situation/advantage or you have to move the defense or the defender with your subtle actions. All in less than 2 seconds.
I remember a story when Magic when he first came in the league was hitting guys in the back of the head with passes because he saw the play when his teammate still didn't know what was going on. After several passes to the back of the head, they started gaining better recognition. A pass first Point Guard/player is a pretty big deal.
THIS is why Rubio is soooooo intriguing to me.
Edit: I guess #3 should say completely selfless; meaning only caring about getting your team a bucket, not who or how they score it. #4 would be leadership, willing to tell guys or direct guys on where to be and how to maximize what happens on the court. Also, leadership in understanding if Joe Blow hasn't touched the ball the last 3 times down, we may want to involve him in someway to keep him engaged fully on defense (and identifying who needs this type of attention), leadership/selflessness means the trust of your players too, that you have the teams interest in mind, not some other agenda.
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Andre Miller Borderline, I was a big Andre Miller guy because I thought he was this guy early in his career, but in Portland he looks different to me.
Billups is a shadow of himself to me, but I see the understanding there for sure for him.
Calderon is somewhat but not to the degree you'd want, also he's such detriment to other parts of the game, its tough.
I'd disagree on Hinrich, he's defensively selfless in a point guard way, but I don't see him as a Pass first/make guys better point guard.
I guess Pass first is kind of a misnomer, in my mind. I mean guys who make players around them significantly better by being pass first and all that goes with the 2 things I listed before.
Larry Bird fit this category and he wasn't a point guard in any way. Larry was one of the best passing/make-guys-around-you-better players maybe of all time, imo.
I'm completely stunned that there is anyone (albeit surely only one) that thinks we would not be a noticeably better basketball team with Mark Jackson in place of Darren Collison.
He only averaged 13 points a game! That scoring could be made up.
Not to mention, Jackson actually scored more and did so at a higher efficiency than Collison when you compare their 2nd NBA seasons.
But even washed up, 35 year old Mark Jackson was better than Collison. Sure he only averaged 8 points per game. He also averaged 8 assists. He directly contributed to at least 24 points per game. Collison? 13 and 5. He directly contributed to 23 a game.
This doesn't even account for all the other things a team orientated passing player brings.
I'm flabbergasted.
"I had to take her down like Chris Brown."
-Lance Stephenson
It really says something when you manage to shoot less than 40% on layups.
I just don't think offensive struggles, especially in regards to Roy, Tyler, and Mike, had entirely to do with the set up Collison was giving them. You can only do so much as a PG before the job to scoring falls on the player with the ball. The Pacers were too streaky over 87 games for me to think it's a problem easily solved simply by upgrading setups and court vision.
Neither has Hinrich.


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|Reviews for Letters to a Senator
| silveralana chapter 1 . 8/17/2015
Oh My Gosh! This was wonderful! Heartbreaking and wonderful!
| The Hufflepuff Bookworm chapter 1 . 5/18/2015
I loved Ryoo and Pooja's letters "I'm sorry for calling you fat aunt Padme" "can you bring us more paint?" They make me laugh :)
| NewBornBaby chapter 1 . 10/13/2014
Great idea, very entertaining. And the last one was so sad and powerful... Seriously when I read your SW's fic I realise even more how horrible Sidious was. His death was to quick lol.
| ibelieveintruelove chapter 1 . 9/9/2009
I loved it :) The letters were very entertaining, and they really reflected the personalities of the different characters. Anakin's were so funny, "our last visit was stimulating. I enjoyed it a lot." Hahaha I bet you did! Oh, and her dad's notes were funny too, short and to the point.
And I love being in on the mystery ;-)
| JonAndCompanyOffToFightTheDead chapter 1 . 3/18/2009
A great story. Very good.
| The One And Only Lobster chapter 1 . 11/19/2008
Oh, this was wonderful! I definitely laughed quite a few times, and the ending was wonderful. It's a bit hard to imagine him doing that, though. Not writing the letter or thinking of her constantly (though I think he also very well might have tried hard to forget) but visiting her grave. It might have been a dangerous thing for him to do. Maybe not. It was still ridiculously sweet. :) And there WAS good in him, of course.
| Vader's Fallen Angel chapter 1 . 10/3/2008
Very nice. Little snippet's of every day life, fragments of ordinary during a time that was extraordinary. A few laughs, a few tears, a few smiles, a few sighs.
Poor Anakin!
| Alex0821 chapter 1 . 8/13/2008
Ooh, I enjoyed this quite a bit! Great work.
| WolfCipher7 chapter 1 . 10/15/2007
This was really good. A very cool idea! I'm adding it to favorites. :-)
~Alien Roxi~
| Kyana-Morgaine chapter 1 . 7/27/2007
Great idea! I really enjoyed it!
| Now Unused chapter 1 . 6/25/2007
Nice job, very well written. The last letter was a great closing.
| BeshterAngelus chapter 1 . 6/25/2007
Wow...I even like the dress maker reference. As a historian, you poor over simingly innocent letters like this all the time to piece together the lives of people, and I think this story was VERY well written from that regard. Very good!
| x Rajah x chapter 1 . 6/25/2007
Oh. VERY VERY GOOD. *faves*
| Nautica7mk chapter 1 . 6/25/2007
That was kind of cool. Sad but genuine.
| HC0 chapter 1 . 6/25/2007
VERY interesting idea. That last letter could be a fic unto itself.


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January 2010
Questions/Answers: The National Anthem at Goshen College
What did Goshen College decide regarding the national anthem?
The President's Council accepted the recommendation of the National Anthem Task Force to play an instrumental version of the Star-Spangled Banner before select sports events on campus, followed by prayer.
When will the decision take effect?
At the start of the spring sports season, with the first time that both the baseball and softball games are happening at home on the same day -- March 23.
Why did the President's Council decide that the anthem should be played?
The President's Council stated that they believe playing the anthem:
- Offers a welcoming gesture to many visiting our athletic events, rather than an immediate barrier to further opportunities for getting to know one another.
- Is one way that is commonly understood to express an allegiance to the nation of one's citizenship. We have shown that in the past in a variety of other ways, such as flying a flag on campus, praying for all men and women serving our country, welcoming military veterans as students and employees, annually celebrating the U.S. Constitution, and encouraging voting.
- In no way displaces any higher allegiances, including to the expansive understanding of Jesus – the ultimate peacemaker – loving all people of the world.
- Opens up new possibilities for members of the Goshen College community to publicly offer prophetic critique – if need be – as citizens in the loyal opposition on issues of deepest moral conviction, such as war, racism and human rights abuses.
Is the decision consistent with the college's long-held position of putting God before national and patriotic allegiances?
Yes. One of the greatest U.S. freedoms is that we can express our faith and love of country in different ways, and we recognize that Christians differ in how to do that. Historically, playing the national anthem has not been among Goshen College's practices primarily because of our Christ-centered core value of compassionate peacemaking seeming to be in conflict with the anthem's militaristic language. Although Goshen College is owned by Mennonite Church USA, we have a diverse student body that comes from 40 different Christian denominations, several world religions, 35 states and 25 countries and all races and ethnicities. The college believes being faithful followers of Jesus calls us to regularly consider how to be a hospitable and diverse community.
Is the college changing its commitment to peace?
Absolutely not. As the President's Council made this decision, the college community continues to – more publicly, boldly and explicitly – declare its commitment to Christ, to compassionate peacemaking, to servant leadership, to global citizenship and to passionate learning. Its "Culture for Service" remains as strong as ever. These core values are being integrated in new ways into the college's curriculum, student learning outcomes, hiring decisions, employment practices and board orientation. They also are being embedded in the deep structures of Goshen College.
What did the anthem task force propose?
To allow the practice of using an instrumental version of the national anthem prior to Goshen College varsity sporting events.
Did students, faculty, and staff have the opportunity to provide feedback?
Yes. This decision was made after prayerful deliberation and with input from the campus community over several months.
Why change now?
Did the national media attention about the anthem last year prompt the anthem proposal?
Goshen College has wrestled with this historic practice for many years, but has decided now is the time to make a change at the recommendation of the task force. The change was in no way prompted by media coverage, but it did delay the timing of the conversation.
Will the anthem be played before all varsity sports events?
An instrumental version of the anthem will be played prior to games where it is culturally routine, as determined by the Athletic Department. This will include at least basketball, baseball and softball games.
Will a U.S. flag be present?
Yes. A U.S. flag will be placed on the court or by the field for the duration of each competition that the anthem will be played.
Will people who attend sports events be required to stand for the playing of the anthem?
Spectators will be asked to respectfully stand during the playing of the anthem and the prayer. They will be free to show their support/respect at whatever level they feel comfortable (such as simply standing silently, singing the words, placing a hand over their heart, etc).
Is this matter a big deal for the college?
The college handled the issue in a way that allowed students, faculty and staff to engage at any level they wanted or to ignore the issue entirely. We know this is a very important issue for some on both sides of the issue, but does not matter to others. However, given the significance of this change in practice, we chose to encourage engagement from the campus community.
Did the college consider alternatives, such as playing America the Beautiful?
Yes, but alternatives were not accepted by the task force, nor by the President's Council. America the Beautiful was played before basketball games several years ago on a trial basis, but feedback and complaints were similar to playing no song.
Will a prayer be said after the anthem is played?
Yes, the Peace Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi will be read.
What do other Mennonite colleges/universities do about the national anthem and the U.S. flag?
There are different practices at Mennonite colleges/universities when it comes to flying the flag, playing the national anthem and other patriotic observances. Some fly the U.S. flag and sing or play the national anthem. Some fly the flag but don't play the anthem. A few do neither.
Was the Goshen College Board of Directors involved in making this decision?
The President's Council has the authority to make this decision. As part of that process, board members were invited to provide feedback. They also engaged the decision at their mid-February quarterly meeting and developed a statement.
What is the official position of Mennonite Church USA on the playing of the national anthem at Mennonite colleges?
Mennonite Church USA has not taken an official position on this issue.
Will there be further conversations about faith and patriotism?
Yes. Goshen College is always in dialogue about important issues and we strive to do so respectfully. This is part of being an institution of higher education, but even more so because we are a college committed to making peace in all of its forms – with ourselves, with each other, with the world, and with God. Though the President Council has made a decision on this matter, it continues to welcome dialogue as a campus, as a community and as a church about how to be more faithful as citizens of this world and God's Kingdom. To learn more, read the statement by the college's Board of Directors.
—Goshen College President's Council, January 2010 (updated 3.10.10)


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