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On a stupendous European summer morning in July 2009, I was perched on the side of a mountain in the Pyrenees, watching the Tour de France peloton climb from Barcelona to Andorra, hoping for a glimpse of
The seven-time winner of the world's greatest bike race was making his professional cycling comeback that year and, like millions of cycling fans around the world, I was transfixed by the possibility that he might make it eight maillots jaunes when the three-week race arrived in Paris.
On my wrist was a yellow plastic band that I had bought for €1 during the pre-race caravan by his cancer charity, the Livestrong Foundation. Back in Sydney, I'd been riding a Trek bicycle for years, because, well, that was the brand that Lance rode.
Somehow, Armstrong's achievements had caused a strange suspension of disbelief, despite years of rumours that his feats on the bike had been assisted by performance enhancing drugs. And so, when his career came crashing down so spectacularly last year and the extent of his lies revealed, I was incredulous.
Given the brazenness of his cheating, how did his deception last for so long, and how did I fall for it? A new book out this month, Wheelmen, satisfyingly goes a long way towards answering these questions.
This is a racy page-turner by Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'Connell, both reporters on The Wall Street Journal, who were ahead of the press pack reporting Armstrong's downfall, including breaking the news of the explosive emails sent to United States authorities in 2010 by his former teammate Floyd Landis. They detailed years of systematic doping by the US Postal Service-sponsored team – and that provided investigators with the evidence to set the eventual Armstrong train wreck in motion.
Arrogance and narcissism laid bare
In forensic detail, the book lays bare Armstrong's blatant disregard for ethical standards and illustrates the arrogance and narcissism that not only defined the way in which he approached his sport, but also his personal relationships.
Armstrong's 14-year lie was an elaborate enterprise, the product of his own aggressive intransigence against doubters and also the burgeoning commercialisation of professional cycling. A gamut of hangers-on sought to profit from cycling's growing popularity in the US in an era during which sport has become more a global entertainment business than a competition.
The authors' pedigree is important: as reporters for the WSJ, covering white-collar crime and corporate malfeasance, they view Armstrong's tale as a business story. While Wheelmen is filled with the minutiae of elaborate doping programs and fly-on-the-wall accounts of cycling politics and race tactics, it's the detail about Armstrong's corporate enablers – a group of elite American businessmen who wanted the US to not only conquer cycling in a competitive sense but also commercially – that provides the most insight into what kept Armstrong going in his deceit.
The cast includes Thom Weisel, a high-flying banker to Silicon Valley (his Montgomery Securities floated Yahoo! among other tech deals) and founder of Tailwind Sports, which managed the US Postal team, and agent Bill Stapleton, who set up a sports management practice from his law firm in Austin, Texas, and aggressively pursued companies including Nike and Oakley. On Armstrong's behalf, Stapleton signed them up for multimillion-dollar deals, earning 15 to 25 per cent for himself.
Former pro-cyclist-cum-salesman at Wells Fargo, Mark Gorski, also pursued sponsors, including signing the US Postal Service which sponsored Armstrong's team between 1988 and 2004. There was also David "Tiger" Williams, the founder of hedge fund Williams Trading, who took a stake in Tailwind Sports and became a supporter of Floyd Landis.
The draw of the cancer-survival narrative
By leveraging off these corporate connections, Armstrong was able to raise big bucks; Bloomberg estimates Armstrong made more than $US218 million ($234 million) over his career, with $US180 million coming from endorsements. Nike, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Trek and American General Insurance were among the companies that profited handsomely from their association with him. Meanwhile, the narrative of his cancer survival transcended the rumours that his exceptional performances were being enhanced by banned substances.
Given the drugs – recombinant erythropoietin (EPO), testosterone, human growth hormone, cortisone and steroids – had not only turned Armstrong into a cycling machine but also a money-making one, those with a vested interest in the business that Lance had become vigorously sought to control his story. Compliant journalists propagated the myths and lawyers obscured the truth.
It's little wonder we cycling fans were duped.
When Armstrong fronted
It's clear from the book that mass doping in cycling preceded the Armstrong era; US cyclists were transfusing blood ahead of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, paranoid that if they did not, they would be beaten by the juiced-up Russians.
Certainly, by the time Armstrong arrived in Europe in the early 1990s, drug use was rife and Armstrong believed that in order to be competitive, he needed to join the fray. But it is also clear that Armstrong took things to an extreme level. He hired Michele Ferrari, the Italian sports doctor who once declared that "EPO is no more dangerous than orange juice" to design his doping program and advise on injecting techniques to evade drug testers.
Indeed, so brazen was the US Postal team's subterfuge that at one point during the 2004 Tour de France, the team bus driving between stages faked a breakdown on a mountain road so it could be transformed into a blood transfusion unit. Over many years and countless races, blood and drugs were smuggled across borders in camper vans or motorcycles with cooled panniers, evading the authorities.
A celebrity-worshipping culture
Wheelmen is one of many works exploring this modern parable. Armstrong's stratagems are further examined in a new documentary which opened in American cinemas last week.
Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney (whose work includes Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) initially intended his Armstrong film would become a feel-good look at his 2009 comeback. It was to be called The Road Back.
Like countless others, including myself, Gibney had been sucked into the Armstrong myth. He told Reuters last week that during the 2009 Tour – the same one I followed – he also found himself rooting for Armstrong during the penultimate stage, which climbed Mont Ventoux.
"I wasn't the objective, distant journalist," Gibney said. "I had followed him on this ride to some extent . . . I had developed an affection for him."
But during the editing process for the film, Gibney heard about the Landis emails. He was gobsmacked. Then, a month before Armstrong appeared on Oprah's show, Armstrong called Gibney to admit he had lied during earlier interviews for the film. Gibney recut it, retitling it The Armstrong Lie.
That so many were played for fools by Armstrong and his coterie has added an extra dimension to Armstrong's fraud. It points not only to his failings but our own gullibility.
As Albergotti and O'Connell write in the epilogue to Wheelmen: "Lance is the inevitable product of our celebrity-worshipping culture and the whole money-mad world of sports gone amok. This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and justify the wrongdoings of the rich and powerful, which makes every lie bigger and widens its destructive path."
Like Narcissus, who became entranced by his own reflection, was unable to tear himself away from his own beauty and eventually died, Armstrong insisted on controlling his image but ultimately lost control. Yet this whole saga has to have that additional dimension, leading to deep introspection by all of us who once believed.
It has also provided a salutary lesson that, in the modern world, sport and business are intertwined, and that the pursuit of money distorts ethics, leading people astray.
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Here's that single from her debut project "Once Again":
From a media release:
New Single Soon...
Featured on the Voice and picked by Adam Levine within 8 seconds of hearing her sing, Mathai made it very far in the show before eventually being voted off.
Now she is managed by Outkast's Ian Burke and Stone of Icon Studios in Atlanta. She'll be dropping a single very soon and then a debut indie album to capitalize off all of the buzz she has had since her The Voice debut. We'd like Okayplayer to be apart. On her own her videos generate around 100-200k views per video, and her The Voice debut video is approaching 6 million views, with reactions and comments daily.
Born on November 27, 1992 in Queens, NY, Mathai is the first generation of her family (who hail from India) born in the United States. She was only 3 years old when she started singing, primarily in church events and at the age of 10 her family moved to Dallas, TX to raise the family in a safer area and better school system.
During the next 9 years, Mathai would attend Coppell High School where she maintained her status in the top 10% of her class throughout all four years. Subsequently, she earned a scholarship to study Nursing at Texas Women's University, and worked hard for a 3.98 GPA.
Mathai had always been driven towards the medical profession and, growing up in a South Asian family of medical professionals; there was never any other expectation for her career path.
Never thinking music would get her anywhere; singing was always considered more of just a hobby for Mathai. Classically trained in jazz during her childhood, Mathai started developing her unique vocal style around the age of 16 with a sound reminiscent of such artists as Billie Holiday, Norah Jones, Nelly Furtado and Adele.
During the winter of 2010 she had the opportunity to perform during the popular AMTC convention in Orlando, FL where she was discovered by two entertainment executives, and soon thereafter took a break from school to move to Atlanta to pursue her music career.
Her parents, who were once completely against her decision, are now warily but lovingly supportive after seeing how people reacted to their daughter's talent during the blind auditions for NBC's hit television show, The Voice Season 2. They realized that there was a definite calling on their daughter to share her gift with the world.
Mathai has been busy since her appearance on The Voice. While prepping her new project, she was tapped by Atlanta's Q100 "The Bert Show" to record a special song for the "Bert's Big Adventure" charity event.
The song is called "This Is Me" and it's in a style that Mathai normally doesn't do, but it definitely shows her versatility! This song has more of a pop vibe, something that the kids whom this charity will benefit will definitely love!
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"This Is Me" is available on iTunes. Be on the look out for Mathai's first official single that will drop shortly after!
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Jordan finalizing e-gov agreement with Microsoft
Vice president of software giant Microsoft, Jonathan Murray, met the Jordanian deputy prime minister and minister of state for economic affairs, Mohammad Halaiqa, on Thursday. The two discussed finalizing an agreement for employing Microsoft systems in public sector offices and introducing e-governance to the Kingdom.
The talks also focused on Microsoft's investment projects in Jordan and the training of Jordanian personnel to implement the e-government project.
Halaiqa elaborated on the government's plans to gear up the administrative infrastructure in order to successfully mount the challenges of globalization, saying that one of the key strategies is the adoption of e-governance, as called for by King Abdullah.
The minister further emphasized the government's dedication to implementing this project, which should enable Jordan to advance in delivering higher quality public services and information access, and expressed hope that Microsoft would take up considerable investment projects in the country to facilitate the initiative.
In the meeting, attended by minister of telecommunications and post, Fawwaz Zo'bi, and head of the Information unit of the prime ministry, Issa Etoum, Halaiqa briefed Murray on the private sector's role in the IT field.
Murray said Microsoft executives are interested to invest in Jordan for setting up e-governance, as they see its potential to become a model for the system. He said his company is considering expanding its operations in Jordan. ― ( Jordan Times )
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Just got wind of this and wanted to pass it along- you can catch Kevin Lynch's Thursday keynote at SPARK (http://www.sparkeurope.com/), Europe's premier Flash event in Amsterdam. I sure wish I could be in two places at once- but this sure helps!
The details:
When – Thursday, November 17th @ 7pm CET (Central European time)
Where – http://spark.fabchannel.com (includes time zone info)
What – Live keynote broadcast by Fabchannel.com. The SPARK REMIX party (right after) and other show sessions will be posted as well.
Fabchannel.com is one of the biggest online concert archives in the world. During this event they'll also be launching their new website using Flash 8 and Flash Media Server 2.


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* Gold set for 1 percent drop on week
* ETF holdings contract further
* Correlation to dollar softens
* Coming up: Thomson Reuters-GFMS PGM survey; 1200 GMT
* Gold set for 1 percent drop on week
* ETF holdings contract further
* Correlation to dollar softens
* Coming up: Thomson Reuters-GFMS PGM survey; 1200 GMT
By Amanda Cooper
LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) - Gold eased on Thursday, under
pressure from a decline in the euro ahead of a rate decision
from the European Central Bank, while concern about Spain's
ability to finance itself simmered after yields shot up at a
debt auction.
The ECB meets in Barcelona to discuss monetary policy and is
expected to resist pressure to do more to fight the debt crisis
by maintaining its bond-buying programme to help Spain, which
has fallen into recession.
Spain attracted solid demand for its three- and five-year
bonds at auction, but saw its borrowing costs jump, reflecting
investors' concern about Madrid's ability to finance itself and
avoid a more protracted economic slowdown.
Gold has fallen by about 1 percent so far this week, having
dropped for three out of the last five weeks, prompting
shorter-term speculators and longer-term investors to curtail
their holdings of the metal both in the futures market and in
exchange traded funds (ETF).
Spot gold was down 0.5 percent on the day at
$1,644.90 an ounce by 0958 GMT, having declined by 1 percent so
far this week.
Most-active U.S. June futures were down 0.5 percent
at $1,645.70 an ounce.
"There has been a drop in ETF holdings and the more
short-term investors seem to have withdrawn from the market
somewhat," Commerzbank analyst Daniel Briesemann said.
"Besides the firmer U.S. currency, the high correlation of
gold to riskier asset classes is probably the most important
factor putting pressure on prices right now," he said.
Holdings of gold in the world's largest exchange-traded
funds have fallen by nearly 1 million ounces since hitting a
record high of 70.89 million ounces on March 16.
ETFs have lost 576,575 ounces of metal over three
consecutive months, marking their longest string of outflows
since early 2010, when holdings fell by 1.88 million ounces in
three months.
The euro was trading down 0.2 percent on the day on the EBS
trading platform after Spain sold 2.5 billion euros in
three- and five-year bonds at auction, at the top end of its
targeted amount, although yields rose sharply from the last sale
of debt of this maturity, despite strong demand for the paper.
Gold usually trades inversely to the U.S. currency and in
tandem with the euro, as a decrease in the value of the single
European currency makes it more profitable for euro-based
investors to sell their gold in exchange for dollars.
This correlation between gold and the euro/dollar exchange
rate has softened in the past few weeks, reaching its least
positive in almost a month, at +48 percent, from a four-month
high around +69 percent two weeks ago, meaning gold is less
likely to move perfectly in sync with the euro right now.
Gold priced in euros was down 0.4 percent at
1,251.30 euros an ounce, set for a better performance this week
than its dollar-denominated counterpart, with a decline of just
0.1 percent so far.
"Overall as I say, I'm feeling a bit bearish today, which
worries me slightly seeing as we are near the lows again, but
the market feels heavy and in the absence of any positive news I
think we can slip," David Govett, head of precious metals at
Marex Spectron, said.
"However with plenty of releases today, it will pay to be
quick to get in and out if necessary."
Physical demand for gold from top consumers in Asia has been
restricted by the brief rally in the price towards $1,670 an
ounce earlier this week, while a weakening in the rupee rate
dampened consumer offtake in India, the world's largest bullion
In other precious metals, silver was down 0.8 percent
at $30.40 an ounce.
Platinum was down 0.5 percent on the day at $1,549.49
an ounce, while palladium traded down 1.1 percent at $658.58 an
Metals consultancy Thomson Reuters GFMS releases its review
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A pair of dim-witted brothers plan to open LA's trendiest nightclub.
If dorky comedy can, as both Wayne's World and Bill And Ted emphatically proved, be achingly funny without being utterly brain dead, it begs the question as to why director Fortenberry feels the need to dumb down his film's humour to within a hairsbreadth of the puerile. American audiences will no doubt be familiar with the Roxbury Guys, the two sartorially-challenged, personality bypassed, wannabe hipsters created by Ferrell and Kattan for their regular gig on Saturday Night Live. And that, ironically, is exactly what this is: an over-extended, over-indulgent skit in which the duo bounce lines off each other with well rehearsed regularity. That a handful of the gags ("You're mad cow-ing on me!") actually hit the mark is more down to the law of averages than inspired writing.
By day, Doug and Steve Butabi are unwilling employees in their father's fake flower emporium: by night they strut their St.Vitus-like stuff on the dance floor with such terminal uncool you'd think they were wearing babe repellent. Tired of being turned away from all the trendiest nightspots they dream of opening their own place and find an unlikely ally in Chazz Palminteri's meteorically successful club owner - though Steve's proposed nuptials threaten to put paid to the brothers' nocturnal gallivanting.
A glimpse of Amy Heckering's (Clueless) name amid the opening production credits fills one with the false hope of being treated to another affectionate satire on Beverly Hills' modes and manners, yet the odd piquant aside on cosmetic surgery ("Come downstairs; the Sandersons are here to see your mother's new chin") and physical culture not withstanding, we have to survive on a diet of low calorie slapstick and quick-fix buffoonery.
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Following House passage today of SB 413, a bipartisan agreement to accept federal funds in order to expand access to health coverage, Governor Maggie Hassan released the following statement:
"Today's House vote in favor of our bipartisan health care expansion plan will improve the health and financial well-being of more than 50,000 hard-working people who deserve the security of health insurance.
"By expanding access to health insurance, we will help reduce uncompensated care and cost-shifting on New Hampshire businesses, encourage cost-saving primary and preventive care, and provide substance abuse and mental health treatment to thousands while injecting $2.5 billion in federal funds into our state's economy.
"This bipartisan plan is a uniquely New Hampshire solution and it exemplifies New Hampshire's tradition of collective problem-solving, demonstrating what is possible when we remain focused on solutions and reach across the aisle to achieve progress for our people. I thank Speaker Norelli, Representatives Rosenwald and Sherman, and the House of Representatives for passing this important piece of legislation, as well as Senate President Morse and Senator Larsen for their leadership in the Senate to reach this compromise.
"I look forward to signing this bill into law as quickly as possible and to working with members of both parties throughout the implementation process in order to maximize the benefits of health care expansion for our people and economy."
Source: http://www.governor.nh.gov/media/news/2014/pr-2014-03-25-expand-health-coverage.htm


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Recruitment services available to local business
The Ventura County Job and Career Centers offer free employee recruitment and other professional services to employers in Ventura County. Services are designed to make the challenge of finding and retaining the right employees easier.
JCC account executives are available to meet with employers to understand their recruitment needs and offer online and in-person candidate screening options. The centers supply free meeting rooms for employers to conduct job interviews and host job recruitment events.
The centers offer other free services to businesses, including worker retention programs, confidential work force transition planning, work force reduction services, career workshops, customized training programs and dislocated worker support.
The centers also have access to the latest labor market, labor law and tax credit information and are able to provide referrals to no-cost and low-cost business consulting services.
These services are available at no cost to employers.
Employers can post free job openings and review resumes online through the website www.venturacountyjcc.org.
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Amazon's New Kindle Shows E Ink Progress
Reading the news about the new Amazon Kindle, what stands out to me is that despite all the hype about LCD-based slate computers, there seems to be plenty of room in the market for devices running electronic ink-style displays.
The new Kindles, which include a wireless version for $189 and a Wi-Fi only option at $139, are part of a trend toward lower-cost electronic readers. Recent announcements have also seen big price reductions from Barnes & Noble with its Nook reader, the Sony Reader family, and the Kobo readers. All of these should make e-readers available to many more people, and that's a great trend. Moving the price of e-readers from $399, the price of the first Kindle three years ago, to $139 is a big jump.
But what sounds particularly good is the improved E Ink screen. As before, this is a bistable black-and-white display, though this version is said to have 50 percent better contrast. While I like the E Ink display, it's always felt more like black on gray than black on white, so more contrast is a big deal.
Amazon also said the Kindle has a new "waveform" technology that uses electronic pulses to move the E Ink particles around to create a gray level for images, a new controller that makes page turning 20 percent faster, and new custom fonts, which Amazon said should improve legibility. I didn't think fonts were a problem with the older Kindles, though image quality certainly was. I'm looking forward to seeing how well this works.
E Ink and other bistable technologies have advantages and disadvantages compared with LCD displays. They use ambient light, just like paper, so they look good in bright light, whereas LCDs can sometimes get washed out. And they don't need a backlight, so they can deliver much better battery life.
On the other hand, LCD displays are very crisp, can be very bright, are typically offered in color, and have much faster performance, allowing for features like video. That makes devices such as the iPad more flexible, though they don't work as well for reading in bright sunlight.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos explained why the Kindle does not use an LCD screen.
"For the vast majority of books, adding video and animation is not going to be helpful," Bezos said. "It is distracting rather than enhancing. You are not going to improve Hemingway by adding video snippets."
He's right, though I would argue that good color and better resolution do make LCDs better for reading newspapers and magazines.
I've written a lot about new display technologies coming in the e-reader market, including new color displays. Most of these aren't ready for primetime yet, though we should see more next year, and it's possible that we'll see a color bistable display on a mainstream e-reader this fall. There have been a few niche products, but nothing broadly marketed.
With the new Kindle, Amazon is betting on better black-and-white and a lower price point being the key to mass market adoption, and that makes sense to me. I'll never completely give up paper books, but I do like the flexibility of being able to carry many books around at once, and to collect and organize notes about what I'm reading.
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– The Winnipeg Sun in Canada may have spoiled Chris Jericho's WWE return. They wrote the following today:
"Chris Jericho is bringing the WWE to Winnipeg.
The World Tour is coming to MTS Centre March 7.
Other stars coming to Winnipeg include CM Punk, Big Show, R-Truth, The Miz and Daniel Bryan.
Tickets will be available on wwe.com and Ticketmaster, but are not yet for sale."
There has been no word from WWE or Jericho about a return. In recent interviews and Twitter comments, Jericho maintains that he is not returning any time soon.


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The photo of the St. Vincent Orphanage in Davenport that appeared in the Feb. 22 Salute section brought back memories for Ruby Hopper of Clinton, Iowa.
That photo accompanied a story about an exhibit of religious sisters in America, and it showed St. Vincent's, several members of the Congregation the Humility of Mary in old-fashioned habits, some chickens and six children standing in a row.
Hopper says she is the girl on the far left in the row and that the girl next to her is her sister, Peggy, who lives in Des Moines.
Hopper, her sister and their four brothers were placed in the Humility-run orphanage in the mid-1950s after their father died and their mother could not care for them, she said. Hopper, whose maiden name is Phillips, was at the home for eight years, and her memories are not entirely pleasant, she said.
Eventually, her brothers and her sister were all adopted or placed elsewhere; Hopper was the last to leave at the age of 16.
In 1974, the family had a reunion organized by a brother who lives in Montana and tracked everyone down, she said. The reunion included a fifth baby brother who was adopted but was not at St. Vincent's.
Hopper's mother died in 1996.
Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm
The story about the exhibit of religious sisters in America also reported on four orders of sisters who are based in the Quad-City region.
Although the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm have their mother house in Germantown, N.Y., Sister Lois of Davenport wants people to know that there are five members of her order living in, and helping to administer, the Kahl Home for the Aged and Infirm, 1101 W. 9th St., Davenport.
The order was founded in 1929 in New York by a sister of a different order who wanted to begin a new congregation specifically to minister to the aged and infirm. There now are 191 sisters around the world, ministering to the elderly in long-term health-care and independent and assisted-living facilities in the United States as well as one in Ireland, said Sister Lois, assistant administrator of the Kahl Home.
The Kahl Home had its start in the mid-1950s when V.O. Figge and his wife, Elizabeth Kahl Figge, donated their stately mansion to the Diocese of Davenport to be used for a charitable purpose. (V.O. Figge was a Davenport business leader who forged the former Davenport Bank & Trust Co. (now a Wells Fargo) into Iowa's largest and most profitable bank. His wife was a daughter of Henry C. "Hummer" Kahl, a noted building contractor and the developer of both the Kahl Building and Capitol Theatre in downtown Davenport.)
In 1954, the bishop of the Davenport Diocese contacted the Carmelites and asked whether they would open a nursing home here, Sister Lois said.
Originally, the home was for women only, but money was raised and an addition was built in 1963 that made it possible to care for men as well. Another addition was built in 1987, bringing total space to 135 beds, Sister Lois said.
The original house is used as a residence by the sisters, and there is space for offices and guests.
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Dear all,
I am very happy to inform you that the 5th European Family Conference (Middle Europe) of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church will be held at the Syrian Orthodox Cultural Centre, Leopoldauerplatz 92,93, 1210 Vienna, Austria on 18th to 20th September, 2009. "Abide in Christ" (St.John 15:4) is the Theme of this year's Conference. The main objectives of the Family Conference are to strengthen our faith and spirituality among our European Diaspora, to nurture strong and healthy family culture of the Syrian Christians and to help its members to face the challenges that they are facing in Europe. In this three-day conference, there will be separate sheduled programmes for Adults, youth and Children .Under the leadership of HG.Dr.Kuriakose Mor Theophilose Metropolitan, Patriarchal Vicar of the Central Europe, this European Family Conference is the 5th of its kind. In this year, Very Rev.Dr.Adai Jacob Cor-Episcopos, Principal of MSOT Seminary, Mullamthuruthy, will be the Chief Guest of the Conference and will take main classes for the adults as well as the youths. Dr.Johann Marte, President of the Pro oriente, and Rev.Dr. Rudolf Prokshi, Rector of the Thomas College and Professor of Patrology in the Vienna University, will be our guests of honour and Very Rev.Dr. Immanuel Aydin Cor-Episcopos, Vicar, St. Eprem Syrian Orthodox Church, and Very Rev.Joseph Elia Ramban will be our Special Guests. Rev.Fr.Dr. Thomas Jacob, Germany, Rev.Fr.Jomy Joseph, Switzerland and Rev.Fr.Biju.M.Parekkattil, Vienna will also attend the conference and lead its different sessions.
St.Mary's Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, Vienna, celebrates its 20th annuasary in this year and brings out a souvenir to mark this auspicious occasion and which will be unveiled at the Public Meeting and Cultural Evening of the Family Conference on 19th September, 2009. For more details of this Family conference, please visit our Church's Website: www.stmarysvienna.at.
with greetings and prayers
Fr.Biju.M.Parekkattil, Vicar, St.Mary's Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, Vienna.
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Months ago, on a Saturday afternoon long before the freak Halloween snowstorm arrived and knocked our power out for several days, we happened to drive by a road side farm stand. The farm stand was set on a gravel lot next to a corner car dealership. There were half a dozen 4 x 4 foot wood crates filled with the usual winter squash suspects: blue hubbard, buttercup, butternut, sugar pumpkin. There were palates stacked with yellow onions and bins with green and red peppers and green and purple cabbage too. But, when I saw the fifty-pound bag of potatoes, I saw every sort of potato dish that would get us through winter. As the one vegetable everyone in the house eats, I was thrilled. I bought one large sack of the Yukon Golds and for a moment, contemplated a second.
Last weekend, I decided to dig into the bag and make a potato gratin. I brought my favorite chartreuse green plastic bowl (left at my apartment years ago at a potluck) downstairs and filled it with a pound of potatoes. The supply has dwindled down to about ten pounds or so which at this point is good, a few too many have sprouted eyes and have grown soft to the touch. The winter before when we hauled a winter storage share down to the corner pantry, the carrots and cabbage didn't make. So I had my reservations about composting another heap of rotten smelly vegetables.
The woman at the stand was spot on. We put the potatoes on a basement shelf stored inside the ventilated paper sack they came in and with the exception of a few gnarly softies; they survived.
Also, I recently learned from my mom who has worked in a number of large kitchens, that if you individually wrap each potato in newspaper, then slip them back into their sack that the paper wrapping prevents the whole bag from rotting if one happens to go. A good tip for us New England dwellers to keep in mind for next winter's haul.
This gratin recipe is a riff off one I usually make from Bon Appétit for Thanksgiving and occasionally Easter dinner. It employs a similar technique of layering a mix of thinly cut sweet and Yukon Gold potatoes with cheese, salt, and pepper. Next add a layer of cream sauce goes on top and repeat those steps. I suppose that's where the similarity ends. I came up with a leek and shallot cashew cream seasoned with fresh ground nutmeg along with parsley and thyme leaves. I also use a tofu-based cream cheese in this one, but dairy would be just as nice.
The cashew cream sauce imparts an unexpected richness that I hope you'll like. We certainly did as the empty dish in the kitchen sink can attest to—if it in fact could speak.
One of the keys to this recipe is to get the potatoes sliced paper-thin with the slicing blade in a food processor or with a mandolin. If neither are available, use the slicing side of a box grater or a sharp knife and try to cut them in even thin slices so they cook evenly and nearly melt into the sauce. The other is the leek and shallot cashew cream sauce. As I the sauce warms in the pan, I like to add the seasonings to taste adding a pinch more salt, a few more thyme leaves, or extra black pepper. I recommend you do the same.
Yukon Gold and Sweet Potato Gratin with Leek & Shallot Cashew Cream Sauce
Makes 4 to 6 hearty servings
3 cups thin cashew cream (1 cup raw cashews ground to a powder then blended in a food processor or blender with 2 cups of water)
2 tablespoons olive oil plus more for baking dish
¼ cup sliced leeks (rinse, cut into rounds, wash in a bowl of water, drain)
¼ cup finely chopped shallots
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
1 pound sweet potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
1 pound Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 sprigs chopped fresh thyme leaves
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves plus more for garnish
1 ½ cups cream cheese (use your favorite tofu or dairy-based brand, divided)
½ chopped sunflower seeds
Preheat the oven to 375º F. Oil a 3-quart baking dish.
Combine the peeled and sliced potatoes and place in a large bowl of water to prevent the potatoes from browning; set aside.
To make the cashew cream, grind the cashews to a powder in a food processor or a high speed blender, add the water and blend until smooth and creamy; place the cream in a medium size saucepan and gently warm it over low heat.
While the cream warms up, heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the leeks, shallots, and a pinch of salt and pepper and a splash of water; stir and cook for about 5 to 7 minutes until tender, then add them to the saucepan of warm cashew cream. Season the cream with nutmeg, black pepper, the fresh thyme and parsley leaves. Add a few pinches of salt, taste, and adjust the seasoning if needed.
Drain the potatoes, then pat them dry with a kitchen towel. Layer half the potatoes on the bottom of the gratin dish; sprinkle with sea salt and black pepper. Using a teaspoon, scoop the cream cheese then dot the potatoes layer evenly with half the cream cheese. Pour half the cashew cream sauce over the potatoes. Repeat with another potato layer, followed by the other half of the seasoning, cream cheese, and cashew cream sauce. Sprinkle the chopped sunflower seeds evenly over top.
Place the gratin on the middle oven rack and bake, undisturbed until the potatoes are tender when pierced with a knife and the top is browned, about 55 minutes to 1 hour. Garnish with chopped parsley leaves and serve right away or keep warm in the oven.


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Little over a month ago I bought a couple 1911`s
A colt 1911 chambered in 9mm and a
Kimber ultra pro in .45
Sorry no pictures of targets, while they both hit targets well it was more"fun" shooting then anything.
The kimber was amazing, shots were accurate, trigger was/is a bit heavy, probably do a trigger job, it didn't feel smooth really, got better the more I fitted it but I expected better.
The only real negative I have about this gun, the sights they were black on black while I'm not as old as some my eye sight it's not the best with out glasses, it was tough to pick up the sights on the black target.
Overall loved the gun will change out sights and trigger, it has already replaced my S&W .40 as eod.
Now for the colt.....
It's a colt right! Sadly there was problems.
I was not raised around guns but feel the people who helped teach me did a good job, one said treat the gun"mean" don't be gentle basically.
Get the gun loaded for the GF as it's likely going to be her carry gun, anyways loaded up she shoots a few times, bam FTE, ok it happens fix it, next mag bam happens again. Again I fix it, well damage was done GF says she doesn't want it.
So I load the mags up again, rack it and it shoots great!! About 300 rounds though the gun and I love it more each round.
Other the the FTE I loved this gun, sights, trigger you name it, it was beautiful, come to find out the GF was a bit scared so she was lightly pulling the trigger which from what I know can't cause a FTE but I don't think she let go of the trigger one pulled, I wad told that that could cause the FTE either way, I roughed her up a bit and she did what was asked.
I wonder if your GF was limp wristing it a little bit.
I wanted to see TARGETS!!
Most women don't know that your off hand should be holding about 70% of the weight of the pistol. That way all your dominant hand has to do is pull the trigger.
My wife loves my 1918 model 1911 and at 15 yards will not get out of the 9 ring on a B-27 target.
I've seen this happen quite a bit with women shooting 1911's. My buddy's GF even does this with his .40 S&W. Every time she tries to shoot it there's an FTE.
Bet it came from the internet :)
No but really, my bet is also limp wristing on the GF's part.
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Guys iam not organising a SEO Meet this season but planning to attend one! Well its time when we can have a small gathering and have some small quick discussions at hyderabad : the place of nizams. The BarCamp team has announced another meet and this time its at Google Hyderabad on feb 16th 2008 with a theme of Social web and beyond.
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- ― Carla the Jackal confronts 007.
Carla the Jackal is the code name of a fictional unnamed professional assassin. Employed by industrialist Adrian Malprave, the character appears in the 2001 James Bond video-game 007: Agent Under Fire and was voiced by Erin Cahill.
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Her true identity unknown to the world's intelligence agencies, Carla the Jackal made a name for herself as a thief with extraordinary abilities for evading capture. She drifted in and out of the shadows of international terrorism and was spotted in Paris, Jakarta, Lisbon, Tripoli and Miami before being photographed in Hong Kong with her latest client, industrialist Adrian Malprave. After tricking James Bond into rescuing a clone of CIA operative Zoe Nightshade, Malprave sends the Jackal to assassinate him and recover a set of vials he took from her Identicon laboratories. Launching a rocket at the agents, Carla unintentionally kills the clone, but manages to temporarily recover the vials.
Later, the assassin is tasked with kidnapping Dr. Natalya Damescu, formerly in the employ of Malprave, and now under protection at the British embassy in Bucharest, Romania. She leads a raid on the embassy and takes hostages inside the building. Inside, she and Bond have a showdown in a warehouse full of crates and an operable crane. Armed with an M4 Carbine with an under-barrel M203 grenade launcher, the Jackal is eventually overwhelmed by 007 and is knocked into a nearby fan using the crane, killing her instantly. After this, bond will remark, "She's fallen for me." Players also have the option to shoot her to death instead, obtaining her FSU-4.


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October 27, 2005
Humboldt Bay | McKinleyville | NoHum High Schools | Klamath-Trinity Schools | Prop. 77
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NoHum high school district race far from quiet
by HELEN SANDERSON
MORE THAN A FEW SLEEPY SCHOOL BOARDS across Humboldt County do not have enough people running to fill the vacated seats. The Northern Humboldt Union High School District is another matter. Eight candidates are scrapping for three spots on a school board that has often been at odds with itself.
Vying for the three seats are incumbent Sarie Toste, a former teacher and administrator, and challengers Don Avant, a retired hospital administrator; Shane Brinton, a student and writer/co-editor; Steve Cole, an engineer; Dan Johnson, owner of Danco Construction; Becky Kurwitz, a money manager for elderly and disabled people; Steve Lorenzo, a business owner; and Mike Pigg a real estate agent and former professional athlete.
The district runs two major county high schools --- Arcata High and McKinleyville High --- as well as two continuation schools and an adult education program.
In a more exaggerated repeat of the 2003 election, campaigning has revealed a rift between the contenders, with a conservative faction of supporters standing behind certain candidates --- namely Pigg, Toste and Johnson --- and progressives behind others, like Brinton, Avant, Cole and Kurwitz.
The divide has been attributed to, among other things, opposing political values between somewhat conservative McKinleyville constituents and liberal Arcatans.
While sexual education, declining enrollment and nutrition remain highlights and at times points of contention in board business, a debate on military presence boiled over into the ugly zone during a recent meeting.
A resolution, penned by Board Member Kathy Marshall, that would have kept recruiters on a tight leash on campus and allowed students to guard their private information from the military, was drastically revised and passed 4-1 at an Oct. 11 meeting, with Marshall dissenting. The debacle spurred harsh words from conservative board member Jim Welsh and random residents, and stirred current candidates to take a stance on the issue.
Shane Brinton, 18, the most active campaigner and arguably the most candid candidate, called Marshall's original resolution "amazing" and described the revision as "watered down."
In response to an e-mail query, Brinton, who recently graduated from an Arcata charter school, said that the option to opt out of military recruiter contact should be widely publicized by the board and administration.
"Right now our young people are being asked to make the ultimate sacrifice," Brinton wrote. "The least we can do is make sure that high school students have the information they need to make an informed choice."
Brinton touts his youth as an advantage.
"I know the strengths and weaknesses of our high schools. I've been in the classrooms, talked to the students and teachers and most importantly, I know the climate of today's schools."
Kurwitz and Avant both voiced their disapproval of military recruitment efforts.
Kurwitz, 64, a grandmother and past president of Mad River Youth Football, said that she was pleased that military recruiters must now sign in when on campus. However, she said recruiters should not be serving as tutors at NHUHSD high schools. Beyond that, she said that board meetings have become mired in bickering and that the trustees are losing sight of what's important: students' education.
Avant, 77, who has served on a number of public boards, kept it short and snappy.
"Nothing was resolved that meets the needs of the majority of the community," he said. "The board seemed to come to its decision on the basis of legalities. The issue should be revisited."
Lorenzo, 40, said he is running simply to volunteer his time and his past experience as a school board member, and that one of his top priorities is to reduce the pressure students experience from recruiters, colleges and trade schools. He offered an example.
"When I was in high school, a trade school told us that their school was located in an area that had a population of seven girls to every guy," he wrote. "This is a method of persuasion that is not appropriate."
Other candidates seem more centrist on the issue. In an e-mail, Dan Johnson, 41, said that he appreciated the board's hard work and that, more or less, the revised resolution appears sufficient, though it may be too early to judge.
"It seems to provide a clear choice and I think that is our basic responsibility," Johnson said.
Also opining somewhere in the middle was Cole, 60. In regards to the Oct. 11 meeting, he said the atmosphere was "acrimonious" but in general, the board does not seem overtly political.
"I have not noticed any more politics than I would expect in any public meeting," Cole wrote in an e-mail. "I would classify the current school board as conservative in their politics, but this in itself is not bad. One can be conservative in politics and still have the best interests of students at heart."
Other candidates' reasons for running have little to do with the recent debate over military recruiting or politics.
In campaign literature, Pigg, 38, stated that one of his top goals is to be a good listener and that he has no political ties or agendas.
Toste, 69, the sole incumbent, has supported the founding of a history program, an arts institute and an orchestra within the district. She said she believes the revised recruiting resolution is effective as it provides two opt out notices to parents.
"I feel that this issue has been resolved and that we as a board should move on to other issues" concerning education, she stated in an e-mail.
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4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Fear, despair, determination
As a clock ticks off the seconds, the camera stares as a pair of college roommates, Gabita and Otilia, engage in an apparently ordinary conversation. The camera slowly pulls back to reveal a narrow, cramped dorm room at the opening of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, and follows Otilia down a dismal hallway to a communal washroom, then to the dorm room of a student running a thriving black market in cigarettes and into another room where she buys hand cream from girls operating a cosmetics bazaar.
There are few clues of what's going on during the first half-hour. Otilia is noncommittal about dinner with her boyfriend's parents that night because she's keeping a secret. She is not off to buy illicit cigarettes, but to find an abortionist for her frightened roommate. Gabita is carrying an unwanted child in a country where abortion is neither safe nor legal. Many thousands of women are said to have died from botched abortions in Communist Romania, where condoms were apparently scarcer than American tobacco. Mother and abortionist could spend years in prison if caught.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a grim, unflinching examination of the ends to which desperation can lead. Laura Vasiliu as the downcast, trembling Gabita and Anamaria Marinca as the resilient, determined Otilia endow their characters with humanity unadulterated by the false notes and rank emotionalism of Hollywood. Gabita and Otilia appear as full-fledged people, not stick figures from a screenwriter's drawing board. The panic and determination in their eyes, the unrelenting sadness and regret, show more than any ream of dialogue could ever say.
Even the supporting characters, including the abortionist, reverberate with reality. He is alternately professional and crass, a careful practitioner and a jerk driving a hard bargain over the price. On the way to the hotel room where the abortion will take place, he stops at his mother's, chiding her to go inside before she catches a chill.Mungiu's film is also a painstaking recreation of its time and place in the paint-peeled, rusted hulk of failed Communist programs. The lobby of the hotel resembles an Edward Hopper interior, the flickering light bulbs adding a hint of David Lynch.


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The House of Duras is a long-lasting family of treacherous and manipulative Klingons in the fictional Star Trek universe. The name "Duras" refers both to the family as a whole and to individual members.
Several episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise, including "The Expanse", include a 22nd century character named Duras who pursues a personal grudge against Captain Jonathan Archer.
According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Sins of the Father", Duras' descendant Ja'rod assisted in the Romulans' 24th century attack against the Khitomer outpost, dying in the assault along with all but two of the colonists. One of those survivors was Worf, who learns of Ja'rod's betrayal and confronts Ja'rod's son, Klingon High Council member Duras, when Duras accuses Worf's father of being the traitor. Worf accepts discommendation in order to prevent the schism that would arise if Ja'rod's betrayal became public knowledge.
In the episode "Reunion", Duras is one of two nominees to succeed K'mpec as chancellor. Worf kills Duras in revenge for Duras' murder of K'Ehleyr.
Duras' illegitimate son, Toral, continues his father's pursuit of the chancellorship with the aid of his aunts, Lursa and B'Etor, in "Redemption, Parts I and II". The Romulans back Lursa and B'Etor in the ensuing civil war, which is ultimately thwarted in part by Starfleet intervention.
In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "Past Prologue", Lursa and B'Etor work with a Bajoran terrorist. Although Lursa is pregnant in "Firstborn", the child's fate is unknown. In Star Trek Generations, the sisters align with Dr. Tolian Soran and are killed in a battle with the USS Enterprise-D.
Toral later pursues the titular Sword of Kahless in a Deep Space Nine episode in the hopes that it will help him gain prestige in the Empire.
Family treeEdit
Family membersEdit
Template:Infobox Star Trek character Ja'rod was the leader of the House of Duras in the early 24th century, and the father of Duras, Lursa, and B'Tor. He was the greatest rival of Mogh, the father of Worf.
In the 2340s, Ja'rod was stationed at Khitomer. He had at some point become involved with the Romulan Empire. Mogh followed Ja'rod to Khitomer, suspecting that he was the traitor working with the Romulans. When the Romulans attacked the outpost, Ja'rod lowered the outpost's shields. Ja'rod died during the attack along with about 4,000 other Klingons. Only a few survived, one of whom was Mogh's son, Worf.
About twenty years after the Romulan attack on Khitomer, the Klingon Empire captured a Romulan ship. They found proof that Ja'rod was guilty of betraying the Klingons at the outpost to the Romulans. The High Council suppressed this evidence, and framed Mogh for the attack. The Council did this because they felt the Duras family was too powerful, and it would split the empire. This injustice was not corrected until Gowron became Chancellor.
Duras sistersEdit
Template:Infobox Star Trek character The sisters Lursa (played by Barbara March) and B'Etor (played by Gwynyth Walsh) are collectively known as the Duras sisters, first appearing in Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Redemption, Part I." Like the other members of the House of Duras, they are villains; throughout their appearances, the characters attempt to destabilize the Klingon High Council and its relations with the United Federation of Planets. The pair are daughters of Ja'rod and sisters of Duras (TNG: "Redemption, Part I"). They are known among "Star Trek" fans for their distinctive costumes, which include holes in their armor to display their cleavage.
TNG's "Firstborn" establishes that Lursa is older than B'Etor along with the fact that Lursa was pregnant with a son whose fate is unknown. Both sisters are killed during the orbital battle near the end of Star Trek Generations.
Duras, son of Ja'rodEdit
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Duras, son of Ja'rod (played by Patrick Massett) was the leader of the House of Duras from his father's death until his own demise in 2367. Before his death, Duras was a politician who served on the Klingon High Council.
Khitomer controversyEdit
For many years, the truth behind the Romulan massacre of the Klingon colony on Khitomer remained a secret. In 2366, the Klingons were able to capture a Romulan vessel which had records of Romulan activities during the surrender. This included revelations that a Klingon had sent the colony's defense codes to the Romulans and destroy the colony; 4,000 Klingons died. Among the casualties were Mogh - father of Worf and leader of the House of Mogh - and his wife. Ja'rod also died during the attack. The council found out that it was Ja'rod who betrayed the colony to the Romulans.
Following this revelation, ordinarily Duras and the rest of his family would have been held responsible for Ja'rod's crimes. But the Duras family was politically powerful. The council feared that if Duras was held to account it would split the council and cause civil war. As a result, Duras and the council conspired to find Mogh guilty of the crimes, and judge Mogh and his family traitors.
Worf's brother Kurn - who had not gone to Khitomer with the rest of the family - came to Worf through an officer exchange program. He revealed to Worf that he had been raised by a friend of Mogh's as this friend's son. He also told Worf of the council's decisions regarding their father. The USS Enterprise-D came to Qo'noS so that Worf could challenge the council's ruling, even though it meant Worf would pay with his life if his challenge failed. Duras then tried to have Kurn - who agreed to stand with Worf as his Cha'DIch, or his second - assassinated. Kurn was seriously injured in the attempt. Worf then asked Captain Picard to be his Cha'DIch. Picard was able to uncover a witness to the massacre when Duras sent assassins to kill Picard. Picard however was able to defend himself.
Picard brought the witness - Worf's nursemaid Kahlest - to the council chambers. Chancellor K'mpec demaded that Worf, Picard, Duras, and Kahlest join him in his office. Despite finding the truth that Mogh was not a traitor, K'mpec was still unwilling to clear Worf's name. Worf decided that he would accept discommendation to prevent a civil war on the condition that Kurn's true bloodlines would remain hidden.
Worf accepted discommendation, but not before striking Duras and telling him that he was the son of a traitor. Once the discommendation was complete, Worf returned to the Enterprise.
Vying for leadershipEdit
Soon after Worf had challenged the council's ruling, someone began spiking K'mpec's Bloodwine with small amounts of the poison Veridium Six. Over several months the poison built up in K'mpec's system until reaching toxic levels. It was suspected, but never proven that Duras had poisoned K'mpec. Because K'mpec's killer had not shown his face, but resorted to using poison, the death was considered a dishonorable act. Realizing that he was dying, he set out to meet Captain Picard. He told Picard about the poisoning, and asked him to be the Arbiter of Succession. Picard was initially reluctant to do so, until he learned that one of the two strongest candidates to succeed K'mpec was Duras; a short while later K'mpec was dead.
Duras and Gowron met the Enterprise. During the Sonchi ceremony, in which the candidates, Picard, and K'Ehleyr met to establish legally that K'mpec was dead, Duras set off a bomb in an attempt to assassinate Gowron.
Later K'Ehleyr began to discover the truth about Duras' actions. Duras soon learned that she was attempting to access restricted council information, and set off to confront her. He attacked and fatally wounded her, then returned to his ship. With her dying breath, K'Ehleyr was able to tell Worf that Duras had attacked her.
Worf went abord Duras' ship; he challenged Duras to combat - claiming the Rite of Vengeance as K'Ehleyr was his mate. In the fight that ensued, Worf soon got the better hand and struck a killing blow against Duras with his bat'leth.
Worf maintained that he had acted within Klingon law and custom, as did the Klingon government - who regarded the act as a lawful killing. Picard however issued a formal reprimand against Worf for his actions. Even though Duras died in disgrace, Mogh and his family were still officially held responsible for the Khitomer Massacre. Picard asked Worf why he continued to remain silent, but Worf said it was not the time as the entire council had taken part in the conspiracy against his family.
Even though Duras was dead, his family would continue to be influential over the course of the next year. As the year 2368 approached, Duras' sisters Lursa and B'Etor came forward and announced that Duras had an illegitimate son named Toral, and maintained that Toral had a claim to the Chancellor's office. Picard dismissed the Duras family's claim, and installed Gowron as the new Chancellor. This caused a brief civil war within the Klingon Empire.
At first the Duras family seemed to have the upper hand. It was because Lursa and B'Etor were receiving secret help from the Romulan Empire. Starfleet was able to expose the Duras family's Romulan support. With that the Duras family lost nearly all their support within the Empire.
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Toral was the illegitimate son of Duras, son of Ja'rod, named for his 22nd century ancestor. He was seen in Redemption, parts I and II, as well as the Deep Space Nine episode "The Sword of Kahless".
Toral was played by J.D. Cullum on Star Trek: The Next Generation. During his appearance on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Toral was played by Rick Pasqualone.
Klingon Civil WarEdit
After Duras died at the hands of Worf in 2367, Toral was left in the care of his aunts Lursa and B'Etor. As Duras had been a candidate for the Chancellor's seat at the time of his death, Toral maintained that he had a claim on the seat as the son of Duras. It was at this time that a genetic scan was done, which confirmed Toral was indeed the son of Duras. His claim for leadership was rejected by Captain Picard in his role as Arbiter of Succession. Picard's rejecting was based on the grounds that there was no precedent in Klingon law that would allow Toral to claim leadership as he had not won any battles or met the other traditional requirements for the office. Picard further stated that when Duras had died that his claim died with him.
Forces loyal to Duras soon began a civil war against the newly installed Chancellor Gowron. At first it appeared that the Duras family had the upper hand. But once the fact that the Duras sisters were working with the Romulans was revealed, support fell away from them. Soon after the family's final defeat, Toral was captured by Worf and Kurn while his aunts both escaped to safety.
Captain Picard then appeared before the High Council to make a report about the Duras-Romulan connection. At the conclusion, Toral was brought before the Klingon High Council, where Gowron judged him guilty of treason. As it was Worf's family who had been wrongly held responsible for the Khitomer massacre, Gowron offered to let Worf kill Toral. Worf found that he was unable to do so. He told the council that Toral had never harmed him, and that he would not kill the boy for the crimes of his family. He also refused to let Kurn kill Toral. Worf asked for permission to return to Starfleet, and Picard granted this permission. As Picard and Worf left, the council surrounded Toral, with the clear implication that it was now his turn to have a proclamation of discommendation issued against him.
The Sword of KahlessEdit
Six years later, in 2372 Toral once again attempted to take control of the Klingon Empire. This time he was doing this on his own, after his aunts had been killed in battle with the Enterprise-D. He had met the legendary Klingon Kor at a bar on Torna IV. Kor, who was quite drunk, told Toral and his party that he had been given the Shroud of the Sword - the shroud that had covered the Sword of Kahless. Toral sent a Lethean to probe Kor's mind on Deep Space 9, and discovered the details of the sword's final resting place.
Toral followed Kor, Jadzia Dax, and Worf to the planet where the sword was being held. He attempted to take the sword, believing that it would enable him to win back control of the Empire. When he first confronted Worf, he asked if Worf regretted letting him live.
Toral ultimately failed to recover the sword. He made no further appearances in Star Trek movies or television series, but in the computer game Star Trek: Armada Toral made another attempt to take over the Empire.
- Enterprise
- "Judgment" - Duras (Son of Toral)
- "Bounty" - Duras (Son of Toral)
- "The Expanse" - Duras (Son of Toral)
- "Sins of the Father" - Duras (Son of Ja'rod)
- "Reunion" - Duras (Son of Ja'rod)
- "Redemption, Parts 1 and 2" - Lursa, B'Etor, and Toral (Son of Duras)
- "Firstborn" - Lursa and B'Etor
- Star Trek Generations - Lursa and B'Etor
- "Past Prologue" - Lursa and B'Etor
- "The Sword of Kahless" - Toral (Son of Duras)
External linksEdit
- The House of Duras Timeline at the official site StarTrek.com
- Ja'rod, Duras, Lursa, B'Etor and Toral biographies at StarTrek.com
- Duras, son of Toral, Ja'rod, Duras, Lursa, B'Etor and Toral at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek Wiki
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YEAR 4 children at High Wycombe CofE Combined School were shown how to produce a newspaper front page during a visit this morning from Bucks Free Press editor Steve Cohen.
Mr Cohen showed them how to make up six different splashes with exactly the same material – and then he asked pupils to chose their favourite one.
The front page was a spoof story containing a picture of the same Year 4 class that had been sent to him in advance.
The article told how Mr Cohen was so dull that his talk sent children to sleep – and they then had to be rescued by police because he was boring them so much.
The BFP chief said: "Hopefully, the story isn't any way true. I gave exactly the same talk to Mr Mason's Year 4 class last year, and they invited me back today – so I couldn't have been that boring, could I?"


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Johannesburg - I'm left with more questions than answers when I walk out of my interview with illusionist Ilan Smith.
What I have witnessed in the past hour has been unexplainable. I have seen banknotes levitate, a solid R2 coin being bent without being touched and witnessed Smith perform a card trick that even Dynamo the magician would be proud of.
But he gave me no answers or clues about how he performs the jaw-droppers.
"Magicians and illusionists do not reveal any of their secrets to the public," Smith says.
"Though we (magicians) do exchange tricks and ideas with each other."
From that response, I know that Smith will not shed any light on how he correctly predicted the World Cup final result last weekend.
The Joburg magician and illusionist was flung into the spotlight when he correctly predicted the outcome between Germany and Argentina.
While live on SuperSport, Smith correctly predicted the scoreline and the goal scorer of last weekend's final.
His spot-on prediction caused a stir on Twitter and South Africans are describing Smith as "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow".
Although chuffed by his nickname, the 34-year-old is frank with me, admitting he cannot predict the future.
"My prediction of the World Cup final is the result of magic and illusion," he says.
"I am not able to tell you what will happen in the future, neither can I tell you what this week's winning Lotto numbers are, although I would love to know," he laughs.
Smith says all we witnessed was an illusion.
"It was something to amaze, delight and give a sense of wonder to the public, that's all."
Smith correctly predicted many other sports results, including the 2010 World Cup final. But that's not all he does.
The father of two is a master of levitation and specialises in jaw-dropping illusions of the mind and breathtaking sleight of hand.
The illusionist, who grew up in Pretoria, says he began learning about magic at age 8. His father bought him his first magic trick set at a flea market in Durban and he was hooked.
Over the years Smith has been mentored by two of South Africa's magical greats, George Moss and Graham Kirk. He is also a member of three magic clubs, among them the International International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM) and the South African Inner Circle of Magic.
At the IBM club, Smith says, he came across many famous magicians and illusionists, such as Dynamo the magician and David Blaine.
"At these conferences we share ideas with each other and talk about the latest tricks we are working on. I met Dynamo a very long time ago, way before he became famous. We chatted for a while and shared ideas. It was great."
Smith says the reason Dynamo is rated as one of the best illusionists in the world is because of his dexterity.
"He is a very talented guy, amazing with his hands, and hence he is one of the best in the industry."
Smith has travelled the globe performing magic shows in many countries, among them the US, England and Israel. He says he loves his job, despite it being a tough one.
"I can spend weeks, months, or even years trying to perfect a trick," Smith says.
When he is not performing on stage, Smith says he is just an average Joe who is stuck behind a desk doing admin work.
"Being a full-time magician is not as fun as you think. The fun comes in when I am performing. When I am not, I am behind a desk working."
What is Smith's next big trick after his incredible World Cup prediction? He says he's working on a trick that will blow South Africans away.
"I cannot give you details, but I can guarantee South Africans will be amazed."
Saturday Star


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Louisiana will receive more than $1.4 million from a civil settlement with Toyota Motor Corp. over issues related to what has been termed "unintended acceleration" with some Toyota vehicles, a state Attorney General's Office spokeswoman said Friday.
A court-filed copy of the settlement states that Louisiana, 28 other states and American Samoa will share $29 million as a result of settlements with the Japanese automaker. Toyota announced the settlement with the states last week.
The Louisiana Attorney General's Office accused Toyota in a Feb. 13 lawsuit of violating the Louisiana Unfair Trade Practices Act by failing to "warn of a known danger" and failing to "share critical safety related information and decision making between Japan and North American Toyota officials."
Amanda Larkins, a spokeswoman with the Louisiana Attorney General's Office, said Louisiana's portion of the settlement is $1,457,058.
The agreement says the money can be used for, among other things, civil penalties, attorneys' fees and other costs of investigation and litigation, or can be placed in a consumer protection law enforcement fund or local consumer aid fund.
The settlement in the Louisiana suit also states that Toyota, at its own expense, agrees to — for a period of one year after entry to the final judgment — "consider in good faith customer requests for reimbursement" for such items as reasonable taxi fares, towing costs, rental car costs or other similar expenses.
The settlement does not release Toyota from private rights of action, criminal liability or claims of property damage.
Court documents note that the Agreed/Stipulated Final Judgment does not constitute evidence of any liability, fault or wrongdoing by Toyota.
"Toyota is entering into this Agreed/Stipulated Final Judgment solely for the purposes of settlement, and it is the intent of the Parties that nothing contained herein may be taken as or construed to be an admission or concession of any violation of law, rule, or regulation or of any other matter of fact or law or of any liability or wrongdoing, all of which Toyota denies," the judgment reads.


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