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Gone are the days when you'd have to pay a pretty penny for a decent sound editing and mixing application. For the best part of a decade, Audacity has carved a niche for itself as a powerful, yet usable tool for sound editing. It's capable of recording live audio, digitising your old vinyl and cassette collection, editing a wide range of audio formats (including Ogg Vorbis, AIFF, WAV and MP3).
The interface also makes it easy to cut, copy, splice and mix sounds together, alter a recording's speech or pitch, plus apply various filters to cut out distortion or introduce special effects. In fact, Audacity is so versatile, you'll often find it bundled with hardware devices such as ION's range of turntables.
For a number of years Audacity has been available in two separate versions: an elderly, stable 1.2.6 release that doesn't work on newer versions of OS X and Windows, and a long-running beta series that reached version 1.3.14 before it finally morphed into this, Audacity 2.0, more than six years after it first appeared.
That's right, Audacity 2.0 is little more than a stable version of the long-running beta That means if you're currently running the latest version of the beta you won't see anything radically different from what you've been used to by upgrading to version 2.0. However, it's worth upgrading to for one critical reason: it's an official, stable release.
If you've religiously stuck with version 1.2.6, or are running an older 1.3.x beta build, then you'll find there are plenty of reasons to update, from interface tweaks like improved toolbar docking, the ability to have multiple clips per track (while collapsing or expanding tracks in the workspace), repair and equalization effects, timer recording, improved drag and drop, plus project saving and recovery.
Note: while Audacity can import MP3 files, you will need to download and install the LAME MP3 Encoder plug-in if you wish to export your recordings in MP3 format.
Audacity 2.1.1 brings these improvements (as well as a number of bug fixes):
- Scrubbing and seeking, including backwards play.
- Updates to Quick-Play also help with finding a precise position in the audio.
- You can now install plug-ins without restarting Audacity or add and remove any effect or generator from the menus.
- Over 50 bugs have been addressed with this release. Edits are now processed much faster in longer projects of a few hours duration.
- Effects now have presets. A new Limiter replaces the Hard Limiter effect. There's a new version of Vocal Removal, a cross-fade effect for combining clips on the same track and 'classic filters' available as an opt-in effect.
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Washington, Mar 30 (ANI): Lady Gaga was seen being carted away in her new Louis Vuitton wheelchair in Chicago on her 27th birthday on Thursday.
The 27-year-old singer has been recovering after she underwent a hip surgery, a few weeks ago, TMZ.com reported.
Gaga had previously been spotted cruising around in a 24-karat gold plated wheelchair. (ANI)

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Mayor of Paris removes urban motorways to give banks of Seine back to walkers and cyclists
- By London Cycling Campaign on at 1:19pm 31 August 2012
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From Saturday 1 September 2012, Parisians will be able to enjoy a large new people-friendly section of the riverside north of the River Seine.
The changes include narrowing the road between Hotel de Ville and Quai Henry IV to create new pedestrian corridors, riverside walkways, along with new cafes and bars.
In spring 2013, an even larger scheme will be completed that will remove a 1.5-mile section of urban motorway from the opposite riverbank, creating what's hoped will be a walking and cycling paradise.
The riverside transformations are the latest of Mayor Bertrand Delanoe's projects to reclaim portions of the city away from motor vehicles, following his expansion of cycle routes and introduction of the Velib cycle hire, which was the model for London's successful scheme.
Delanoe has had to fight against national politicians and motoring groups to make sure the £30 million project succeeds, but planners have assured motorists that journey times are only likely to be marginally affected.
The riverside project comes in the wake of the successful Paris Plages, which saw Voie Georges-Pompidou transformed each summer into a seaside resort, complete with sand, parasols and palm trees.
What about London?
As far back as 1986, Richard Rogers produced a visionary plan to redesign London's Embankment between Westminster and Blackfriars as a people-friendly space, to replace the four-lane urban motorway that exists now.
Mayor Boris Johnson signed up to LCC's Love London, Go Dutch campaign in May 2012, committing to creating three flagship walking and cycling projects in the capital.
In May of this year he announced Greenwich and Vauxhall as the first two locations.


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Here's the run down. I shot a nice 8-point last November and took it in to a Michigan Taxidermist to be mounted. He told me it would take 2 months. I did not hear from him for 3 months, so I called him. He said he just started working on it the day that I called, and it should be done in about 3 weeks. I did not here from him for another 2 months and could not get ahold of him (did not return calls). I finally went to visit him, and told him that I was not mad that it took longer because I know it takes a while, but it made me mad that he told me 2 months when he could not deliver that. JUST TELL ME THE TRUTH! he apologized and said he would work on mine next. It sould be ready in 2 weeks. I did not hear from him for another 2 months so I have been calling and he keeps telling me next week, next week. He says its mounted, but still has to be finished. I am so pissed off that I am thinking about just going and getting my deer in what ever shape it is in and taking it to someone who wants my buisness. What is the best way to deal with this? I sure as hell am not giving him more money to work on it faster. If he gives me a hard time about getting it what are my options.
Thanks for your help, I should have just paid more and dealt with a better buisness who cares about their customers and thier reputation.
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Hay don,
If you can get your hide that has been taned and your rack feel free to bring them too me and i will put together a great deer for you. some times we get behind in our work but i always give honest lead times. I shoot for 6 months and try to deliver in 5. If your hide is taned i can have this done for you in a metter of a couple weeks. I am located in Kalamazoo, MI. Feel free toemail me for more information.
Ryan Olson
A Sportsmans Dream Taxidermy
I think you learned you're lesson with you're last line of you're post.
Why did you choose this taxidermist? Was he the cheapest when you were shopping around for prices? I notice that many taxidermists will advertise a 2 or 3-month turn around just to land the jobs. While the good taxidermists that are booked, will tell you the truth and quote 6 to 12 months. So naturally the hunters go with the fast turn around, but doesn't think that the taxidermist goal is to land a years amount of work during the short hunting seasons. So every hunter is told that the faster he gets it in to him the sooner he gets it back. The phone calls that I get are, what do you charge and how soon can I get it back? Very few say to take my time and make it nice. If you are tired of dealing with this guy, man up and go and take it back in whatever condition it's in, and try to find someone that will finish it. But don't tell the next taxidermist that you couldn't wait a year; he or she may turn you down and suspect you as an unwanted customer.
The cheapest bidder is never the best way to go, and why do hunters spend $4000 on a 4 wheeler, big pickup truck, gun with scope and all the extras, $1000 in an archery setup, tons of dollars on sent lock camo clothing, and want the taxidermist to do a trophy mount for under $300. And then cant wait to have it done?
Don, i wonder if we are dealing with the same guy. I have just about the same thing going with a guy in the U.P. of michigan. Is your taxidermist in the u. p.?
One thing you can do is to post his name & busiesss here to put others in Michigan on notice of how the guy operates. I sure would appreciate knowing who he is...eh?!
Well not all us Yooper Taxidermists are bad! If your shopping for a new guy, take a look at my website www.initaxidermy.com. But I am 9 months on deer. That is 9 months from the date I get your deposit of 50%, not the date the deer came in.
Mistake, was to believe that any descent taxidermist can have a deer ready in two months.
What he only had your deer to work on ?
I would have to hear his side of the story, and I know something is wrong if he told you 2 months, at least here in florida it takes me 6 weeks just to get a cape to dry enough so that I can send it to the tannery, since I don't do dry preserve junk.
any decent taxidermy shop that has plenty of work can be 6 months to 8 months behind, at least that is my case.
So don't send it to me, send it to the two above taxidermist ,iam sure they can screw it up as well as I can,LOL
On a serious note go over there and tel the Jerk to show you the head if it is not done , then pick it up ,it is yours you know?
It is your property, period! You do have the right to stop work, ie. fire the contractor. 1/2 down and balance due at pick up. That seems to be the standard. 1/2 down is to cover time and materials. In most shops (mine) this is not refundable.
I'm not wanting to, nor will I take in this mount. Probably best to let him finish or lose the deposit. You can re-cape it with this years skin if its a real hack job. Maybe it'll look good, but I have my doubs from what Im reading (Mr.T's words were very elegantly put!)
We are not all like that as you can probably tell by now. Hope that it works out well for you.
Trappers Taxidermy
Dearborn Height Mi.
Sorry for not getting back sooner, but he was indeed one of the cheaper ones I checked into. I was refered to him by my cousin who had him do a mount last year. The guy does good work (no dry preserve). I think that I have learned from my mystakes and will take my next mount to a more profesional shop. I caught him at his shop the other night and intended to get my deer back then, but it was not there. He says that it is at his other shop (where he finishes his mounts) and that it is done. I was supposed to meet him somewhere tonight to go get it, but I got out of work a little late and showed up about 15 min late. He was not there! I think he said he was going out of town for the weekend, so hopefully I will get ahold of him next week and this will all work out.
He is not from the UP, he is actually located in the lower part of the thumb. I think I will wait and see if I get the deer back next week before I post his name on here. I will post it after that though.
Thanks again, and I will let you know what happens.


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I think a shuffle/boost championship with a higher PP (perhaps somewhere around 600) so it's fast would be quick and easy to organise, and extremely fun.
Super Nice Bob in Free Practice 3 – http://www.twitvid.com/YARMQ
Love the pictures. I'm up for anything, be it 2 hours of nurburgring or something different.
The thing is that the LM24L was so epic that I'm sure an attempt to do anything else could end up being a disappointment. I don't think I'd want to do long races too often, I'd rather compete in a championship or something.
Love the pics though, especially the one of me sideways into Indianapolis. I managed to pass someone round the outside of that corner towards the end. So much awesomeness.
Nurburgring is a pretty boring track, I know it like the back of my hand
All 140 odd corners??
All 140 odd corners??
Sure do.
I know everything up until the exit of Karussell, then it just becomes a blur.
The thing is that the LM24L was so epic that I'm sure an attempt to do anything else could end up being a disappointment. I don't think I'd want to do long races too often, I'd rather compete in a championship or something.
Exactly. Wait until next year for the next enduro. We shouldn't spoil it.
I'm also pretty good with the Nordschliefe – especially the section after the Karussell. Nailing that in a decent car feels fantastic.
If I were to set up a GT5 series, how long would people want races to be? 30 minutes? 45 minutes? Maybe even a 10 minute 'sprint' race followed by a 30 minute reverse grid 'feature' race?
What about cars? A single-make Race Modified series? A set PP limited series? A 'themed' series, like nothing but WRC cars or LM Prototypes or even a 'gimmick' series where we use different cars for each race, like Tesla Roadsters one week and Minis the next?
Give me some thoughts, people.
(Although, that said, I am going to be relocating half-way round the world in a month's time, which will probably limit my ability to compete in anything.)
Hi guys, i would be interested being in the next race, so ill give my input when ever needed.
On the issue of the next race, i think 30 – 45 mins is enough, with restricted PP t0 650 – 700.
I like your idea geof of the themes, like wrc, car make.
I like the idea of themed races – NASCAR, WRC, Super GT, good road cars, bad road cars, Ferrari F1 etc.
I don't mind what the format is, either one long race or two short races totalling about 40 minutes I suppose, and then 10/15 minutes for qualifying.
Personally, I'd prefer a mix between the themed and gimmicky series – maybe have a race where we all use rally cars and then a race straight after it where we're all in C4s. Sounds a little complicated, but I'm sure it would work out (both races would be on the same track). As for race length, I think the longest I'd want to race on GT5 online is half an hour – for the F1 races we did it was only 30-45 minutes, wasn't it?
Yeah, I think the strength of racing online with GT5 is its variety, so it would be great to go through the extremes of using racing cars with Racing Soft tyres to rubbish cars from the 80s with Comfort Hard tyres, and some in the middle.
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The Library of Spanking Fiction: Wellred Weekly
ArticlesItems of interest regarding all things spanking
The Governess
There are many spanking stories featuring a governess as the key protagonist, either as one who administers corporal punishment to her charges, or who receives it herself from her employers. The governess is depicted as a kind of surrogate mother, expected to suppress any desire for the possibility of her own marriage or motherhood. Not that there would be any time to pursue her own interests, as in addition to educational supervision, she was responsible for the social and moral development of her charges. Children carried their experience with their governesses well into adulthood. By then, they might have been either traumatized by cruel and sadistic instructors, or filled with fondness and admiration for the women who were invariably closer to them than their own mothers, based on the sheer amount of time they had spent together during the child's formative years and beyond.
I have often wondered why the erstwhile figure of the governess holds such fascination in the present day. Could it be attributed to the way in which the governess has been portrayed in fiction and film - as a stereotype of a generally impoverished woman, neither servant nor family member, yet who constantly emerges as the heroine, often escaping a prim middle-age by marrying the local curate or the master of the house? With the help of an internet search engine, I decided to do some digging. And this is what I found.
Printed publications
From 1830 to 1865 there appeared in fiction every conceivable type of governess. The year 1847 marked the arrival of the governess at the very heart of the English novel where a middle-class woman employed to teach the daughters of those better off than herself appeared as the central character in a major work. First we have Becky Sharpe in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair; and later that same year was published Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
In her book The Victorian Governess, Kathryn Hughes looks at the vast array of novels featuring a governess which appeared between 1814 and 1865, noting that the way the governess was portrayed in the novel shifted as the century progressed, saying that "The transformation of the governess into a major literary character was inseparable from the wider process of feminisation which the novel had been undergoing since the middle of the eighteenth century."
During the 1840s and 1850s a range of periodicals of the time touched on the plight of the governess, which was described as a combination of low pay and poor working conditions. Such articles illuminate the way in which the tensions which the governess seemed to embody (social respectability, sexual morality and financial self-reliance) touched a raw nerve with a huge swathe of middle-class Britain. The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine had a reputation for being a respectable publication ... yet there is evidence to show that flagellatory erotica could be found within its pages. For example, reader's were invited to write in and give their opinion on the topic of corporal punishment for girls. Many of the magazine's 'Reader's Letters' which found their way into print had not been penned by readers but had been lifted from more scurrilous sources! How shocking! For example, it is doubtful that the following extract published in the December 1868 edition was sent in by 'a loving mother'.
The eldest was first taken to her dressing room and prepared for the rod, and then conveyed to the boudoir by the governess, who at once administered the discipline. The younger one was then prepared and received a wholesome flagellation [on the bare posterior], the delinquents being tightly strapped to an ottoman during the castigation, at the conclusion of which they had to kiss the rod and thank the governess, when they were permitted to retire.
Much of the pornography of the period is marked by an obsession with flagellation or the English Vice. The circulation of pornographic material concerned with spanking, flogging and whipping reached epidemic proportions during the Victorian era - and many were the tales of schoolroom spankings. In this case the setting was either a girls' boarding school or a private classroom and the plot typically involved a governess whipping her pupil, who might be an adolescent girl or boy, for some petty misdemeanour such as sullenness.
The social landscape
A lot of spanking/flagellation erotica of the Victorian period imitated the debates over corporal punishment in school and domestic settings, some manifest as tongue-in-cheek parody. And outside the fictional context were people like Theresa Berkley (see The Flagellation Brothels of Old London by Februs in Vol.1, No.5.) who ran high-class flagellation brothels specialising in chastisement and whipping. Such women acting out the role of a strict governess made a good living by administering vigorous discipline to their clients. During this period, governesses were sometimes linked with fallen women. Why? Because like the prostitute, many a governess was propelled into the domestic heart of the upper and middle classes from the world of financial desperation and reduced circumstances.
Perhaps raised initially as a lady with prospects and groomed to expect a life of leisure, some of these women subsequently deprived of adequate funds were then obliged to descend the social ladder all the way down to the schoolroom. This difficult transition involved falling from their previous genteel state whilst continuing to cling to the social forms of behaviour which marked their former state. These women were also expected to discipline their charges, given that an unruly or badly-behaved child reflected badly on the governess; as such, they clearly would not wish to appear incompetent and lacking control as this would pose a threat to their continued employment.
Thus the governess would step in to correct any bad or immoral behaviour. The rod was seldom spared and even petty acts of mischief were dealt with diligently. A firm belief of the time was that obedience was the highest of all the virtues. With a regular dose of corporal punishment, children were made to learn obedience at a very early age.
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The Markham Project
I feel I have to mention the so-called Markham Project, because as fascinating as it may sound, it is likely to be a complete fabrication. Stoltz Sinatra in his brief essay The Markham Project - Fact or Fiction?, explains the project was allegedly named after a professional Victorian governess and educationalist called Elizabeth Markham. Between the 1880s and the early part of the 20th century she aimed to encourage best practice in the training of governesses and the education of young women by creating a network of like-minded governesses and others who who were trying to set-up some sort of academy to further their aims. They supposedly "advocated corporal punishment of young women over the age of 16 and unmarried ladies up to a late age."
Elizabeth Markham's philosophy was to show that women were not frail creatures and that spanking, caning, birching and other "robust forms of punishment" were essential for discipline and the well-being of "females of all social conditions wishing to better themselves."
Whilst the above can certainly spice up a few fantasies, I can find no evidence to indicate that Elizabeth Markham ever existed.
The Governess Today
It is no surprise that today's lifestyle disciplinarians and dominatrixes often masquerade as a governess who invites her clients into her world of very strict corporal punishment, using their prerogative to remove adult privileges and apply any number of strict measures. I have it on good authority that clients pay a handsome fee to be spanked, caned, whipped, paddled and humiliated by a stern governess!
Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret were taught at home by a governess but their children and grandchildren attended school. It would seem that the governess has mostly died out as a profession, yet the image she leaves behind continues to spark interest.
Contemporary Spanking Stories
Various authors of contemporary spanking fiction have written a number of stories featuring the governess. Here are a few extracts from some of the governess stories available in the Library of Spanking Fiction. Many of us appreciate stories where the tables are turned, resulting in the disciplinarian being in a position of chastisement. In The Governess by Flogmaster, the boy Bobby delights in spanking his governess.
Without giving Miss Angelica time to recover, Bobby smacked the opposite cheek. This time the woman was quiet, but it was obvious she was in a lot of pain. She winced and writhed at every wallop, and Bobby kept it up vigorously. After every swat he yelled and hollered, and then delivered the next one even harder.
In my own story A Cane For A governess a voyeur observes the governess receiving discipline from the master of the house.
What a sight. What a glorious sight! The governess was bending over the couch, her bottom elevated, and her long skirts lifted high over her shoulders. The master moved into position behind her and undid the ribbons on her white drawers. They pooled in a creamy froth by her feet. Her bottom was bare, with beautifully sculpted and firm buttocks. Her skin was pale and had an almost translucent quality.
Something similar takes place in The Colonel and the Governess by Cal33.
Miss Glenwood's face had become as red as fire; her eyes flashed with anger. "You sir, are no gentleman," she hissed, "to force a lady to strip almost naked, like a common trollop! Is humiliation a part of my punishment as well?"
In The Governess by John Benson, Miss Nash's new employer outlines certain conditions to be met.
"You will punish my daughter whenever you feel you must, and I'll never interfere. But on any day you've had to whip Alice, you will report to me after she's in bed, and I'll do the same to you."
Caroline is the governess in the story by DJ Black called The Master, His Daughter and The Governess. After romping naked in the river with her charge, Amelia, their clothes are stolen, and they are discovered by Amelia's father, who holds Caroline fully responsible. He chastises her (Well of course he does. How disappointing it would be if he didn't!).
"I am ready sir," she said meekly.
js_anon has a talent for writing verse, and some of his poems feature the governess, as in The Governess and The Cane; The Governess - Much Angrier; and The Husband's Governess. The latter concludes with:
My job is done. His discipline
Rollin's serial The Mills Governess has an unusual sci-fi element as Gordon Mills designs a machine to take him back in time. His interest, however, is not purely scientific, as he wants to witness a birching. The time trip successful, Gordon finds himself in the mind of a 14 year old boy called Richard, and goes on to have some very interesting experiences.
Richard froze, which prompted a disgusted Miss Harwell to jerk the towel away. She gripped the blubbering boy by the earlobe and forced him, squealing, face down over her knee. She grabbed his right hand and twisted it up behind his back while simultaneously lifting her right leg. This forced Richard's nose toward the floor and raised his buttocks vulnerably pointing the unblemished cheeks upward. While Richard's response was one of deep shame at being upended nude over Miss Harwell's lap, Gordon's was one of fear. He had never felt a spanking before.
In my serial The Governess, teenagers Jacob and Amelia meet their match in the guise of the steely Miss Eversham, who very soon takes control.
Cook looked up in surprise at the unexpected intrusion into her kitchen.
In Georgina and the Governess by Neil, disgraced daughter Georgina is taken in hand by the stern no-nonsense Miss Grant.
Miss Grant raised her eyebrows, and Mrs Jackson gave a curt nod. Suddenly Georgina found herself whisked off the chair and over the bony knees of Miss Grant. Her skirt was flipped up, and a muscular hand descended several times upon her shapely young buttocks.
All of the above, plus other similar themed stories help to maintain an interest and fascination for the traditional Victorian governess. That's got to be a good thing!
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LAS VEGAS The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show formally wrapped its four-day run yesterday in Las Vegas. In the final analysis, C.E.S., the world's largest consumer technology trade show, drew about 2,500 exhibitors—including a record 330 new ones—introducing 20,000 new products. The event also packed in more than 120,000 attendees, a modest increase over last year, after falling from more than 140,000 before the economic downturn. (In 2009 CES hosted 113,085 verified attendees.) International attendance also increased by more than 1,000 attendees.
In a snaking taxi line on Friday afternoon, one airport-bound attendee remarked that a lingering effect of the recession was that people may be leaving the show earlier than in the past, ahead of typically slower weekend programming—but in most industry players' minds, the show remains too important to skip altogether.
More than 5,000 reporters, analysts, and bloggers were among the show's attendees, generating significant global media coverage. (The Consumer Electronics Association, which owns and produces the show, conducts an independent attendance audit and expects to release the final verified figures in the spring.) Contributing to the considerable press coverage attracted by C.E.S. were the celebrities and sports figures on the show floor, including Taylor Swift, Lady GaGa, Dr. Dre, Drew Carey, P. Diddy, Tommy Lee, Bette Midler, and others.
"The innovations unveiled this week at the 2010 International C.E.S. brought new optimism and opportunity to our industry and the global economy," said C.E.A. president and C.E.O. Gary Shapiro. "This show exceeded expectations with its innovation, optimism, and excitement."
Importantly, exhibitors felt their show experience was positive, after last year's rough environment. Gibson Guitar Corp C.E.O. Henry Juszkiewicz said in a statement, "This is where we chose to showcase two fundamental innovations. At C.E.S. we get opinion leaders, press, bloggers, and influencers. No other show or event allows us this exposure and ability to brand build."
Echoing the exhibitors' and attendees' overall positive sentiments was a New York Times report that noted, "The mood at last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was decidedly more upbeat than at the previous year's show. At that exhibition, the chatter on the floor was less about innovation and breakthrough technologies than about how to weather the economic storm that would impede the kind of discretionary spending much of the electronics industry relies on. This year's show was a return to optimism."


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MIAMI - You can tell how much a human life means to Anthawn Ragan by just watching a few seconds of the surveillance video. He and another heartless, soulless thug with a gun had already gotten what they came for -- the belongings of the nail salon clients they had cowering in fear.
Why would he shoot into the salon as he was leaving out the door? Because he could? Because the people inside mean nothing to him? Because he sees no future for himself, so he wants to make sure no one else has one?
He cut short the life of a beautiful little boy named Aaron Vu. He broke the collective heart of Aaron's family.
So where is the outrage?
Where is the anger that our neighborhoods are capable of spawning someone so deadened and dangerous? Where are the pastors and national action figures usually so ready to take up the bully pulpit? Where is the disgust that clearly identifiable criminals can be cycled from court back to the streets over and over again?
Not the first time
Anthawn Ragan turned 19 years old Tuesday, the day he was arrested for murdering 10-year-old Aaron Vu. Ragan had been an adult, in legal terms, for only a year. But he already had an arrest record.
He was 17 a year ago May when he was arrested for armed robbery, one of the same crimes he's now accused of, again. But he was also charged with possession of a firearm by a felon, which means he had committed other felonies before that. Because he was a juvenile at the time, those cases are not public record.
The record shows there was boot camp, trial dates set, subpoenas sent, continuances requested. One day last July, the judge denied a continuance. The charges were dropped. Anthawn was free to leave.
Culture of violence
His father wasn't around for him, never was. We know that because Anthawn Sr. (pictured) is serving a life sentence at the state prison in Okaloosa. He is a murderer. A Miami-Dade grand jury indicted him in December 1994, just two weeks after his son and namesake was born.
That kind of criminal culture will never be changed by vigils, prayers or rallies to "stop the violence." It just won't. To turn that tide, there has to be some outrage. And action.
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Jarod Wilson wrote:
Perhaps a new third result for initscripts. Instead of just [ok] or [Failed], maybe a new one like [Unneeded] or [N/A] or something.Everyone please kindly read the cpuspeed initscript before continuing to hypothesize about it. It does indeed already look for necessary support, and silently exits without doing a thing it its not present. /me is the cpuspeed maintainer... :)
Might help people realize that these things are running instead of giving them the impression that they are running and using system resources.
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The Theatre Union will bring a new play into the Civic Repertory Theatre on December 10, and on the same evening will present "Stevedore," now running on Fourteenth street, at the Garrick Theatre in Philadelphia.
The new play is "Sailors of Cattero," by Friedrich Wolf, translated by Keene Wallis. It has an all-male cast. Irving Gordon of the Theatre Union will direct. He was assistant director of "Stevedore" and stage manager for both Theatre Union plays last season.
Next to Egypt, the most important land of Africa from the point of view of Jewish history is Cush (Ethiopia).


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NEW YORK (Jul. 4)
A scene showing Argentine neo Fascist anti-Semites attacking a Jewish picnic party has been eliminated from the Argentine film, "The Roof Garden," prior to its showing in a Berlin, Germany film festival, the trade paper, Variety, reported in its current issue.
The scene ran for about two and a half minutes. The cut was made by Leopold Torre Nilsson who directed the film, at the request of Alfred Bauer, director of the film festival. Herr Bauer, the paper said, thought it would be "an error of judgment and taste for such a scene to be shown in Berlin." The paper said the director readily agreed to the cut.


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The 10th Anniversary of Eragon by Christopher Paolini is now published!
I cannot believe how time has passed—so quickly it is almost painful. I first met Christopher before Random House published the hardcover of his debut book, having reached out to the young writer after reading an ARC. Since that time, we have been friends. And during the more than ten years between, I've been able to watch him write and finish one of the most read fantasy series of all time.
To celebrate those years and Christopher's many successes, Random House has published a collector's edition of the first book. The 10th Anniversary Edition of Eragon is a beautiful volume, leatherbound, and features new interior art from some of today's best artists.
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In honor of the 10th Anniversary of Eragon, a special edition of the runaway bestseller with a blue faux leather cover, six pieces of exclusive artwork from award-winning artists and the author and a new essay from Christopher about how art has inspired his work.
Ten years ago, fans first met Eragon—Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider. A decade and four books later, readers are as enthusiastic as ever. This 10th-anniversary edition celebrates the journey that Eragon, Christopher Paolini, and his millions of fans have all made together.
This edition features six glossy, full-color original illustrations by award-winning artists John Jude Palencar (original artist of the Inheritance Cycle book covers), Michael Hague, Donato Giancola, Ciruelo Cabral, and Raoule Vitale, as well as Christopher Paolini himself. Christopher worked with all artists, giving his insight when needed. In addition, the book features an essay written by Christopher reflecting on this tenth anniversary milestone and on the artists who have inspired his work on the Inheritance Cycle and beyond.
The blue faux-leather cover features new artwork by Ciruelo Cabral. As I said, I love leatherbound books and this edition of Eragon will be put on my shelves. I have a dream of owning leatherbound editions of all my favorite books one day, bookcases of them.
Would make for one helluva library!
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Lorraine still eats 'like a piglet'
Lorraine Kelly has confessed that she still eats "like a piglet", despite dropping a dress size.
The GMTV presenter – who went from size 14 to 12 after training for the London Marathon earlier this year – demonstrated her fitness alongside soldiers, sailors and airmen as she launched Scottish Armed Forces Day events in Glasgow. The 50-year-old was winched from a helicopter and climbed on top of a tank, before speeding down the River Clyde, to highlight the work of serving and retired members of the Armed Forces.
But the TV star said her biggest challenge was keeping her weight at bay.
She said: "I'm still eating like a piglet. I was eating well but I was eating a lot. I think it was because I ran the marathon. It was the training."
Lorraine went on: "What I have got to do now is try to keep it off and that's going to be quite hard. I don't think I'm going to be running 10 or 15 miles a week, that's just not going to happen.
"It's all about balance. I certainly feel better so fingers crossed I can keep it off."
Several events will be held across the country in June and July to pay tribute to Army personnel and veterans.


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Gujar Garhi is a rough neighbourhood of Mardan, a low-income settlement that did not have proper drains or latrines or garbage collection. Most inhabitants did not realise that proper household latrines could control the spread of diseases. The incidence of diseases such as diarrhoea, eye infections and scabies was high and the local people just could not afford to improve their lives. However, in the midst of such squalor, an NGO called the Paradise Environmental and Community Welfare Society that is based in Peshawar tried to clean up the streets and educate people about the importance of health and hygiene with funding from the UNDP's Grass Roots Initiative Project (GRIP).
A walk around Gujar Garhi reveals that the drains in most places are filled with stinking waste, runoff water and garbage. The water remains stagnant and breeds flies and mosquitoes.
Then one arrives at the part of the settlement where the Paradise NGO has completed its work and there is a visible difference in the environment. "There are now eight large containers for throwing away the garbage and a tractor comes and takes it away to a nearby landfill. Earlier people would dump their waste just about anywhere. We really had to motivate the community to throw their rubbish in these containers. We had to get the elders of the area and the Imam of the local mosque on board to convince the people that it was for their own benefit," explains Sher Muhammad, Chairman of the NGO. The Paradise Welfare Society was registered in Peshawar in 1994 and has a good track record of working with the people of this province, especially during the 2005 earthquake and the Swat conflict.
Those who suffered the most from the bad living conditions and lack of toilets in the congested areas of Gujar Garhi, however, were the women and young girls. Since this is a conservative area, it is difficult for the women to go out into the open fields to defecate. They desperately needed both privacy and improved hygiene. According to the provincial government only 30 per cent of the people have access to hygienically safe sanitation in Khyber Pukhtunkwa so it is an immense problem.
Thanks to the GRIP funding, the project managed to install 400 pour flush latrines in households that needed them the most. Dilara, a young housewife with four children, now has a brand new pour flush latrine in her small house. "My husband is a labourer who works on daily wages so we just could not afford to build this latrine on our own. Now we are so grateful to the NGO. The children have stopped falling sick and I myself am very careful about keeping the toilet clean and washing my hands with soap".
A social organiser who works with the Paradise Welfare Society, Noreen, was sent from door to door to educate the women about the importance of health and hygiene. "I also explained to them to keep their dishes away from the latrines and to boil the water for drinking. I visited the schools as well and taught everyone the importance of washing hands after using the latrine," she explained. "We even taught them to put their garbage in bags and to throw them away in the designated garbage places".
The NGO provided the most deserving households with the materials like cement and bricks, and the people built the latrines themselves with technical guidance. It cost around Rs10,000 to make one latrine. The toilets that were completed back in 2011 are so far well maintained and the villagers are clearly looking after them. The project area was divided into 10 zones and 10 committees comprising 18 to 20 members look after each zone. Khalid Khan is the chairman of one of the committees and he explained, "There are around 5,000 households in just one zone of Gujar Garhi and we tried to select the neediest families, often headed by females, for the latrines. The people are very happy with their latrines and the clean streets — the government couldn't do this for us. There are some very poor people living here and they are praying for us for helping them". The committees were also provided with wheelbarrows, spades, buckets and brooms to clean up the streets.
Ijaz Rahim, the local high school's headmaster added: "This is a very neglected area of Mardan and thanks to the efforts of the Paradise NGO, the people have become more aware now about hygiene and cleanliness. The people have clearly benefited from this project and they have realised that it is good for them to continue this work on their own". The people of Gujar Garhi have now been motivated to improve their lives by working together to clean up their environment — all because of the dedicated work done by the Paradise Welfare Society.


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Sorry this is long winded but I think its necessary info:
I suppose I am fortunate that I live in Silicon Valley however, Im 28 years old and have been working in an IT company for almost 9 years before getting laid off, ( mismanagement out of my control ) before that job I worked retail.
I don't have any certifications here but have had plenty of experience. Installing OS's, Installing Hardware, upgrading systems, troubleshooting hardware and software, replacing components in laptops, desktops, printers, scanners.
I also have experience in setting up and installing LAMP/Apache server stacks, and packages like Wordpress, Magento and Zen Cart (Open source php packages), and thier customization, along beginners knowledge creating or modifying mysql and php code.
Mean while, during the last year, received my AS in Physical Science, which is at its core Physics consisting, Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Magnetism and Electricity, Light and Heat and Modern (Atomic Physics) as well as Calc I, Calc 2, and linear algebra. and like 2 courses away from a second AS in Engineering.
I also have taken programming classes and done Java and Java Data Structures, C and Data Structures in C, and am on the way to working to get my bachelors in Computer Engineering.
I would like to aim at careers that put my new abilities to use as well as my previous, but have no clue in what to look for? Does anyone have any suggestions or insight to offer? My aim is for something in the computer engineering or computer science field. (Tech industry) where I can gain needed experience.
Which skills are you trying to focus in on? The physical sciences would lead me to suggest research type support but that will also require more schooling. A programming would go hand in hand with the research support positions but you need a portfolio of work to present to bolster your proof that you can do the work they will be geared towards. The third option based on your experience tells me that you are a desktop type position with some possible branching into systems admin at a junior level.
I would suggest looking for a junior sys admin type role to bolster your future in computer engineering unless your intention by computer engineering is actually coding and then I would suggest focusing on getting into a programming job.
Well I do need a job in the next semester and a half before my savings are drained too badly. My hope is to continue and go into a computer engineering field that I hear there is need for keeping up on the programming knowledge to say flexible.
I don't have any certifications, are these very necessary to get a job as system admin, would it help to get them in the long run as a computer engineer? I mean I don't mind it as if continuing in this helps as a stepping stone to the computer engineering field.
You keep saying "computer engineering" without defining the role you want to work in. Computer engineering typically means programmer (software engineering) but can also mean hardware design, system architect, database design, or a myriad of other things within the IT space. Please define what you are looking to do and we can work from there.
What specifically do you want to do?
Well either hardware that I don't know much about except with end user stuff ( PC components ), or software development which I need to get experience in too. I was under the impression a career in this area meant knowing a little of both.
Looking at many of the internships online people want you to have 1 year experience, is this common?
I thought the whole point of that was to get experience, how does this stuff work exactly.
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Looking at many of the internships online people want you to have 1 year experience, is this common?
I thought the whole point of that was to get experience, how does this stuff work exactly.
Generally that is used as a marker for an initial sift through resumes where "zero experience" goes into the trash and "anything over zero" goes to the "next filter" level. There is a 99% chance you are fine here, outside of incredibly short-sighted HR depts who literally want a minimum of 1-year in the exact job with the exact skills etc.
Assuming this is the right way to start off I don't really have any personal connections, that can get me into places like other people.
I don't really have any personal connections, that can get me into places like other people.
You worked somewhere for 8 years, have taken numerous relevant classes, and you think you don't have connections? A lightbulb should be going off now.
Connections? I dunno how that stuff is a connection. Don't see how that's like knowing someone in a tech company and having them get you a position
Getting a direct hire is great, sure. Knowing people who can put you out there, who know of connections with open positions, etc., is just as great. I got my current position from someone 2 steps away (friend of a colleague).
Consider that you have skills, other people out there are looking for someone with those skills, and you need to put the map together to get from A (you) to C or D (them). You go through B (friend/colleague/boss/etc) to get to C/D. It requires communication skills, the ability to be open/honest/forward with yourself and the fact you're looking for work, etc.
Networking is an acquired skill, sure, but don't act like you don't have connections. Everyone has connections. You just need to learn how to utilize them.
a layoff can be an ideal network opportunity.. everyone who knows how good you are at your job is now scattered over many different companies. which means your opportunities and possible connections have just multiplied like crazy. it's important to keep in touch and find out where people are at now. personally i love LinkedIn for this. you also have classmates, instructors, friends, family, a dentist, neighbours, etc. have a short "i was working in IT and i now have physics and programming skills and i'm exploring what jobs put those things together" pitch.. and see what people say.. they may not have a clue about those fields but then again, they may come up with "my brother-in-law works for NASA and he was just saying they were looking for a student.."! they may mention you to someone later, or hear something, or have a good idea of where you could look that you haven't thought of. keep bringing it up. you're not necessarily asking for a *job*(although of course you hope it goes there eventually), you're asking for a conversation, any experience or information they could share, and that they keep you in mind. the more people who know you're looking, the better. you could see if there's a physics, comp sci, comp eng, or programming meetup group locally.
apply to internships even if they say they require experience. you *have* a TON of experience. you know how to behave in a work environment, solve problems, communicate, learn on the spot, etc. you're way more valuable than most new grads even if you don't have a year of work experience in whatever specific field they're talking about.
i can understand your being up in the air about what to do next, so just brainstorming here:
-lots of science researchers need simple programming done to analyze data. talk to profs and grad students and see if they need an assistant. also look online for "data science" or "data analyst" jobs.
-look for IT positions with research companies or labs/schools. people appreciate having someone who understands the bigger picture and is interested in it, and you'll be making possible connections for future work.
-lab tech? corporate or academic, maybe even hospital? they set up equipment, maybe run experiments, troubleshoot, etc (i have a physicist friend who works in radiation and Xray calibration, and there's tons of IT at hospitals too. i have another physicist friend who solders electronic test boards for particle detectors)
-science museums? or summer science camps? depending what's local to you. there might be IT, or behind the scenes projects they're working on.
There is a ton of work in hospitals, but one warning - you'll be servicing equipment for radiological techs for example who really are at the beck and call of doctors. You're pretty far down the food chain so to speak. Doctor's get really testy when their equipment doesn't work. Knowing quite a few doctors myself - I frequently have to endure their rants about "how IT sucks". Not pleasant, and not considerate of them - since I'm a software engineer and basically in IT... So if you need a job, I'd say yea - go for it. Just make some back up plans since it isn't really an awesome place to work long term (unless you get some stellar status among all the doctors as the guy who just get it done and they appreciate you and are nice to you).
Hehe, Oh I can so see hospitals are that way. I have been up in the air about this, Its the first time that I have had to actually throw myself out there and seek a job and have not a clue. Good point on LinkedIn too, I do have an account and I will be leveraging that.
Is "Information Technology and Service Pro" too generic for a LinkedIn Professional headline?
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You keep saying "computer engineering" without defining the role you want to work in. Computer engineering typically means programmer (software engineering) but can also mean hardware design, system architect, database design, or a myriad of other things within the IT space.
I've never heard of computer engineering used to refer something like database design or generic SW engineering -- while it's certainly inter-disciplinary, IME it's always used for designing computer hardware and/or strongly related software (firmware, device drivers etc.)
Please define what you are looking to do and we can work from there.
What specifically do you want to do?
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Is "Information Technology and Service Pro" too generic for a LinkedIn Professional headline?
IMO, yes. And way too generic for someone with 9 years experience.
does it really matter? Do people search for candidates via their professional headline?
My professional headline encompasses me, not my jobs


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About the Author
Lori Bryant Woolridge is a fifteen-year veteran of the television broadcasting business. She spent seven years at ABC as a presentation and speech writer, eventually becoming their Director of Project Literacy U.S. (PLUS) Outreach, and also worked at PBS and Black Entertainment Television. She won an Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Writing in 1983. She lives in New Jersey.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Four years after the last installment of its runaway-hit Shrek franchise, DreamWorks ( DWA) is in need of another animated goldmine. Despite relative critical success, the movie studio's latest kids' flick, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, wasn't it.
In its first quarter ending March, the company recorded a net loss of $42.9 million, or 51 cents a share, compared to profits of $6.1 million, or 7 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. The results gapped from expectations of a net loss of $13.58 million, or 14 cents a share, according to analysts polled by Bloomberg.
Gross sales for the quarter climbed 9.3% to $147.2 million, higher than analyst estimates of $137.4 million.
A wider-than-expected loss was due to a $57 million impairment charge recorded on the performance of Peabody at theaters globally. The film, based on characters from the 1960s animated TV series Rocky and His Friends, grossed $261 million at the worldwide box office since its release March 7. However, it contributed only $3 million in revenue and remains in an "un-recouped position" with DreamWork's main distributor.
"The box office shortfall of Mr. Peabody & Sherman is evidence of the current challenges we face within our feature film segment, and restoring the strength in our core business is my number one priority today," said CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg in a statement.


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One Day That Shook the Communist World:
One of the most perceptive, if also the most controversial, observers of events before and during the Hungarian revolution of 23 October to 4 November 1956 was Leslie B. Bain, the American journalist of Hungarian extraction. In his 1960 book on Eastern Europe, he wrote: "No event in recent history has been so much lied about, distorted, and besmirched as the Hungarian Revolution."1
These words are a very apposite description of the reports and the long-standing debates about the dramatic events that, due mainly to the Kádár regime's disinformation propaganda, have been partly obscured and partly presented in a blatantly deceptive light. The numerous books and studies published prior to the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet system in 1989–1991 by Hungarian expatriates and Western historians about the course and consequences of the uprising and the national war of independence could rectify the facts and analyze the motives behind the decisions in Hungary and abroad only to some extent, because the most important documents held in the secret archives in Budapest, and above all in Moscow, were inaccessible to them.
The fact that today we can present by and large reliable conclusions about the fifty-year-old drama and its global consequences is due primarily to the efforts of the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, established in Budapest in 1991. Two Hungarian historians, the recently deceased founding director György Litván and János M. Rainer, his successor since 1999, together with their colleagues, have published numerous studies and research papers on the events leading up to the revolution, as well as on its course and its aftermath (admittedly predominantly in Hungarian). It is only thanks to their commentaries and supplements that we can now properly classify and check the veracity of the document collections compiled from the former Soviet archives by Russian historians in 1993 and 1996. The exceptional significance of the three handbooks published in 1996 by the Institute on the Chronology, the Bibliography and Retribution and Recollection, as well as the two-volume biographies of Imre Nagy (by János M. Rainer) and János Kádár (by Tibor Huszár), cannot be overestimated.2
Even fifty years after the event, the Hungarian people's uprising, revolution, and freedom fight still attract surprisingly keen interest in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (as well as in other countries), but by no means only within the ranks of the older generation. Yet in spite of the memory of the world-historical significance of the Hungarian Revolution, the course and background of those events are only sketchily known, probably due primarily to the language barrier.
Although I have only briefly described the revolution of 1956 both in my memoirs and in my book on Hungary's history, the triumph and tragedy of the Hungarian uprising have had, as in the case of so many of my compatriots, a crucially formative influence on my life in a multitude of ways. Even though I left Hungary for good on 13 January 1957, I was able, in the midst of events at the Kilián Barracks, to experience in the flesh how world history was being made and the desire for freedom brutally stifled by a foreign army. Contemporary witnesses could not, of course, perceive the background. Still, up to this day the sense of "having been there," namely the direct personal experience, does play a unique role. I was closely acquainted with some of the key personalities of Imre Nagy's circle, such as Miklós Gimes, executed in 1958, and Miklós Vásárhelyi, sentenced to five years' imprisonment, but also with some of the important political and economic spokespersons of the long-lasting Kádár regime. Thanks to the particularly close relationship prevailing between Hungary and Austria, I was able, during the seventies and eighties—albeit consistently monitored and spied on—to report on Hungary for the Financial Times as well as for Austrian, Swiss, and German papers and later on in my capacity as editor in chief and director of Austrian television (ORF). Thus I also had the opportunity by way of many private conversations, encounters, and experiences in Hungary personally to observe the phases of the much-discussed amnesia, the "collective repression," as the psychologist Ferenc Mérei, who was sentenced to ten years in prison in 1959, put it.
This special personal background made me decide to write in depth about those great topics—uprising and revolution, freedom fight and oppression, reprisal and submission—which have kept me under their spell for some fifty years. It is this framework into which the analysis of such complex personalities as of Imre Nagy and János Kádár fits, as well as the dialectic between heroism and treason symbolized by their contrasting roles. The attitude of public opinion then and now is yet another fascinating chapter in contemporary Hungarian history.
Even though there are still some gaps in our knowledge owing to the closed archives of the State Security Service and the Interior and Defense Ministries in Moscow and to some extent in Budapest, on the basis of the currently available sources, we can shed light on such previously fiercely disputed questions as the responsibility for the "cry for help" to the Soviet Union; the siege and capture of the Radio Building by the insurgents; the background of the first Soviet military intervention; the delay and the turnaround in the attitude of Imre Nagy; the "disappearance" of Kádár and his attitude before and after the second Soviet intervention; the zigzag course taken in the Kremlin; the controversial broadcasts by the U.S. radio station Radio Free Europe in Munich and the American aloofness during and after the revolution; the duplicity and betrayal by the Tito regime of the group around Nagy during the three-week asylum in the Yugoslav Embassy; and, finally, the role played by Kádár in the trial of Nagy and his associates.
Above and beyond documents and personal impressions, I was also able to draw for my research for this work on interviews carried out in Moscow with the former head of the KGB, Vladimir Kryuchkov; the long-serving Soviet expert on Hungary and until the end of 2005 Russian ambassador in Budapest, Valeri Musatov; the former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger (with the assistance of the ORF office in Washington); as well as prominent Hungarian personages, such as Árpád Göncz (president, 1990–2000); member of Parliament Imre Mécs; the recently deceased poet Istvan Eörsi; the widow of General Pál Maléter, Judit Gyenes; the former chairperson of the Federation of Political Prisoners, Jenö Fónay; and Ödön Pongrátz, one of the legendary brothers (who is still fostering the tradition of the Corvinists in his museum).
The Hungarian Revolution was the greatest challenge to Soviet hegemony in post–World War II Eastern Europe and at the same time a widely visible symbol of the bankruptcy of Soviet-style socialism. It was an international event, which to this day has engendered a profoundly positive image of Hungary in the eyes of the world. It was a "victorious defeat,"3 an authentic "anti-totalitarian"4 revolution, and perhaps above all a "fantastic story."5 It is a paradox, yet true: The ethical significance of this Revolution of Hopelessness has been, and is, better perceived and more appreciated abroad than in Hungary.
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James Bond has nothing on Dusko Popov. A double agent for the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI during World War II, Popov seduced numerous women, spoke five languages, and was a crack shot, all while maintaining his cover as a Yugoslavian diplomat....
On a cool August evening in 1941, a Serbian playboy created a stir at Casino Estoril in Portugal by throwing down an outrageously large baccarat bet to humiliate his opponent. The Serbian was a British double agent, and the money - which he had just stolen from the Germans - belonged to the British. From the sideline, watching with intent interest, was none other than Ian Fleming.
The Serbian was Dusko Popov. As a youngster he had been expelled from his London prep school. Years later he would be arrested and banished from Germany for making derogatory statements about the Third Reich. When World War II ensued, the playboy became a spy, eventually serving three dangerous masters: the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI.
On August 10, 1941, the Germans sent Popov to the United States to construct a spy network and gather information on Pearl Harbor. The FBI ignored his German questionnaire, but J. Edgar Hoover succeeded in blowing his cover. While MI5 desperately needed Popov to deceive the Abwehr about the D-day invasion, they assured him that a return to the German secret service headquarters in Lisbon would result in torture and execution. He went anyway....
Into the Lion's Mouth is a globe-trotting account of a man's entanglement with espionage, murder, assassins, and lovers - including enemy spies and a Hollywood starlet. It is a story of subterfuge and seduction, patriotism, and cold-blooded courage. It is the story of Dusko Popov - the inspiration for James Bond.
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"Tantalizing History"
Extraordinarily detailed with non stop intrigue. I couldn't stop listening. Never had I thought about the sacrifices and difficulties that a spy would have to endure. Also, found the sections concerning J. Edgar Hoover both facinating and infuriating. I wish all history was a thrilling as this book.
"very dry ...."
this was too dry of a read, not interesting.
I dunno but I couldn't keep my attention on it. I read War and Peace, no problem, but this was a real bore
"Amazing Spy Story"
If you ever read a true life spy story, make it this one. This man was incredibly courageous, intelligent and highly skilled at his craft. The James Bond comparison doesn't do him justice but is a good indication of his life. The story is a bit hard to follow at times but well worth it. The narrator did a great job and made it easy to listen to. This book is highly recommended to anyone who likes true life stories.
"Never Thought James Bond Could be Boring"
Reads like a history textbook. I usually try to push thorough slower chapters in books that cover exciting subject matter, but this was a complete snore-fest. If you want to know more about all the people standing in a room when Popov enters rather than a story about espionage, then this book is for you! Wish I didn't waste one of my credits from my Audible trial on this, I ended up deleting it halfway through.
I had heard the author interviewed on a podcast which inspired me to listen to the book. No complaints about the narration, but the story seemed fragmented. Interesting material, but just ok delivery.
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It's a bit hard to follow as an audiobook. I think it would be easier to read instead of listening to it. It did whet my appetite to learn more about the inspiration for James Bond and espionage in general during WW2.
"interesting piece of history"
Great story of a side of ww2 i wasnt aware of. The only criticism i have is it is quite hard to follow sometimes as the author constantlt switches between codenames, first, and last names. still great story well read.
A little challenging to keep up with the players in an audio book format. Interesting story.
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Loftus is to be commended for the way in which he takes a subject that might easily become dull with detail and causes it to read like a spy thriller.
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This was a great book and very interesting. It is sometimes hard to follow if you are doing anything but sitting down. Would recommend
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Gardening is a form of resistance in the age of the instant. There is no "instant" reward here other than the reward that comes from good ole hard work and anticipation of what your work and dedication will mature into.
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I do believe it was Pascal who said that we should always endeavor to keep something beautiful in the mind. There is much wisdom in that statement. If beauty can help us to endure during times of bleakness and challenge, why wouldn't we put activities that cultivate beauty at the top of the "to do" list?
It's time to put the devastating myths of the age of the instant to the side....and get about the business of finding a way of being that can really nourish us and sustain us and can teach us how to live well inwardly and outwardly....taking our time....giving ourselves time.


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Our high desert climate is typically warm and dry. Stay with us for a great winter escape from colder climates such as Utah, Colorado, Wyoming or Idaho.
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The Eureka Resort Casino is led by the senior executive team of Greg Lee – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Andre Carrier – President and Chief Operating Officer, and Frank Toddre – General Manager.
Founded in 1997 by the Lee family and sold to the employees in Nevada's first 100% employee-owned casino in 2015, the management team brings a diverse and lifelong commitment to hospitality and empowering people.
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The Eureka is the only 100% employee-owned hotel casino in Nevada. Located in Mesquite, Eureka, has sought to provide value as a member of the community since building the resort in the early 1990s.
Formed in 2012, the Eureka Community Initiative is a direct result of the desire to find solutions to problems and the will to help people realize their full potential. We believe, together, our best selves can be a conduit to transform the lives of others.
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Gregory T.H. Lee is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eureka Casino Resort, in Mesquite, Nevada, He co-founded the business with his father, Ted, in 1988. Lee remains involved in the Lee family businesses, but focuses his energy on building Eureka into a market leader and improving the Mesquite community.
Lee works to improve the Mesquite market by serving on the board of the Mesquite Resort Association, the Mesquite Health and Wellness Foundation and established the Eureka Community Initiative creating scholarship programs for graduating seniors to attend UNLV.
Lee has been the architect for the repositioning of the Eureka Casino Resort into the Mesquite market leader. He opened the property in 1997 and incrementally transformed it from a small and simple operation to a modern, multi-faceted resort and casino.
Prior to entering the gaming industry, Lee practiced law in New York City, where he met his wife, Dana. Lee is an active member of the Las Vegas community, serving on the boards of the LVCVA, the UNLV Foundation, Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, Problem Gambling Center, the Governor's Advisory Committee for Problem Gambling, the Meadows School, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, the Nevada Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization and the Harvard Club of Nevada.
In 2003, the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce awarded Lee the Community Achievement Award for Hospitality. In the same year, he was recognized by the Problem Gambling Center for its founding of the program to assist families of pathological gamblers. In 2012, Mesquite's Elks Lodge awarded him Citizen of The Year and through his leadership the company was awarded the Mesquite Chamber of Commerce's 2013 Business of the Year award.
Lee is a graduate of Harvard College where he studied architecture and art history and played on four undefeated and Intercollegiate Championship Varsity squash teams. He later earned a J.D. from the University of Southern California.
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In September 2005, Carrier became Chief Operating Officer of the Golden Nugget Las Vegas and Golden Nugget Laughlin. He remained with the Golden Nugget until 2007, when he joined long time friend, Greg Lee, to assist in the operation and future development of Eureka Casinos and Resorts.
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Toddre began his casino career at Binion's Horseshoe, and developed his management skills and philosophies under Steve Wynn at the Golden Nugget, The Mirage and later at Bellagio.
Wynn recognized his keen business sense, with his infectious smile and sense of humor, and selected him to lead his Golden Nugget property in Laughlin as its president in 1996, and later sent him to lead an opening team for the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino, in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1998.
Toddre enjoys a wide range of interests, from athletics to community service. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Laughlin Chamber of Commerce and the Laughlin Tourism Committee. He enjoys the outdoors and spends much of his free time hunting and fishing in Southern Utah.
Toddre played football and baseball while attending college in Utah. During his college years, he met his wife, Rachel, who is from Hawaii. They have a son, who is a recent graduate of UNLV's Boyd School of Law.


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Former Contractor Indicted in Alleged Bid-Rigging Conspiracy at New York Hospital
A federal grand jury in Manhattan has indicted a former re-insulation contractor for allegedly participating in a bid-rigging scheme at New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Department of Justice announced.
The indictment also alleges that former contractor David Porath and co-conspirator Andrzej Gosek filed false tax returns for their participation in a conspiracy. The three-count indictment, filed under seal on Feb. 18, was unsealed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
According to the indictment, between 2000 and March 2005, NYPH awarded several re-insulation contracts to Porath's company. The indictment alleges that Porath and his co-conspirators created the false appearance that NYPH was awarding contracts based on competitive bids by submitting fraudulently high bids by competitors, which allowed Porath's company to appear to be the low bidder.
The indictment charges that Porath and Gosek, the owner of a Langhorne, PA, company that provides asbestos abatement services, conspired to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. Between October 2000 and February 2005, Porath allegedly gave Gosek checks made out to companies in Brooklyn, NY, purportedly for work done at NYPH by those companies as sub-contractors to Porath's company. In fact, the companies had not performed the work, according to the Department of Justice.
The Brooklyn companies cashed the checks and Gosek delivered the cash back to Porath, who reportedly took false deductions on his company's and his personal federal tax returns. Porath is also charged with filing a false federal tax return on or about Feb. 17, 2005, according to the government.
The bid-rigging violation carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence and a $1 million fine. The tax fraud conspiracy violation carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The charges are the result of an ongoing federal investigation of bid rigging, fraud, bribery, and tax-related offenses relating to contracts administered by the Facilities Operations Department and the Engineering Department at NYPH and the Engineering Department at Mount Sinai Medical Center. So far, eight people and three companies have pleaded guilty to charges arising from the investigation.
NYPH did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the charges.


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TAMPA — Alexis Hornbuckle is the hero once again.
The Tennessee senior guard, who hit a huge 3-pointer to seal a region final victory over Texas A&M last week, hit another big shot down the stretch Sunday night.
With time running out on the Vols' season and their bid for consecutive national championships, Hornbuckle grabbed a rebound of a Nicky Anosike miss and laid it back in with 0.7 seconds remaining to give Tennessee a 47-46 victory over SEC nemesis LSU in the second semfinal at the St. Pete Times Forum.
The Vols (35-2) play Stanford on Tuesday night for the national championship. Tennessee goes for its eighth national title.
Stanford is responsible for one of Tennessee's losses this season (73-69 at Stanford on Dec. 22).
"It's going to be a big challenge for us, but we're excited to be back in the national championship game," coach Pat Summitt said.
"I'm just proud of this team for fighting through some adversity when things didn't go our way for whatever reason. We're back where we wanted to be, and it's because they fought through adversity and never quit."
Leading 43-42, Tennessee senior forward Alberta Auguste scored with 51.5 seconds remaining to give Tennessee a 45-42 lead but missed a subsequent free throw after being fouled on the play.
LSU responded with four consecutive points by senior guard Erica White. She scored with 40.7 seconds remaining to pull LSU within 45-44. Then White, who was 6-of-6 from the free-throw line in the final two minutes in a region final win over No. 1 seed North Carolina, stepped to the line and hit two to give LSU a 46-45 lead.
"I felt pretty good about (LSU's chances)," White said.
But Hornbuckle's heroics followed. After an LSU timeout, the Vols inbounded the ball and senior Candace Parker brought it down the court and passed to Anosike. She missed a layup, but Hornbuckle grabbed the rebound. Her winning shot was her only basket, and her only points, of the game.
"Of course I realized I didn't make a shot all night," said Hornbuckle, who entered the game averaging 10.3 points "It was frustrating, but at the same time, I knew I couldn't give up on myself and my team.
"It's bigger than yourself when you come to the Final Four. I just wanted to stay positive, and I crashed the boards, and I looked up, and I said, 'I don't want to pull this down; with my luck, I might as well try to tip it in.' And luckily it went in."
Parker, wearing a brace over the left shoulder she dislocated in last week's region final, struggled but persevered. She was 6-of-27 from the field, with 13 points and 15 rebounds.
"I want to say how proud I am of my team," said Parker, who admitted she played hesitantly because of her shoulder, particularly early in the game. "They really stepped up and gutted it out."
Free-throw shooting cost the Tigers; they were 7-of-19 from the line. LSU's Sylvia Fowles, the all-time leading rebounder in LSU and SEC history, finished with a team-high 20 rebounds and 24 points, the most she has scored against the Vols in nine games. LSU first-year coach Van Chancellor was nearly inconsolable about his team's loss.
"I felt bad that some way, somehow, I wasn't able to help them win," Chancellor said.
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"It is always unnerving to me when I meet middle and upper middle class teenagers who don't feel a sense of responsibility or a desire to improve the world, help the poor, protect the vulnerable (whether human or nonhuman), make humane choices, or be of service to others. Our culture today seems to foster a sense of entitlement that I find damaging not only to our world, but to our children whose lives are diminished by a focus too intent upon the self.
So how does one foster a service ethic and sense of responsibility toward others among children? Waiting until the teen years is often too late. Service should begin very early on."
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Author of Most Good, Least Harm, Above All, Be Kind, and The Power and Promise of Humane Education
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