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QUÉBEC CITY, Canada - Eugenie Bouchard gave her home crowd something to cheer about Friday night, upsetting No.2 seed Kristina Mladenovic in straight sets to reach the Bell Challenge semifinals.
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Bouchard, who is the No.5 seed at the International-level event, stormed out to a 63 30 lead and, after Mladenovic closed the gap to 63 32, reeled off another three games to seal the victory, 63 62.
"The surface is very fast and we were both hitting pretty hard," Mladenovic said. "But she was more solid - on the serve, on the return, in the rallies - she just played a really good match tonight."
"I'm very happy with the match tonight," Bouchard said. "I started well, breaking her early in the first set, and then I kept playing well from there, not losing serve until midway through the second set. But I just kept putting pressure on her and I'm happy I could close the match out in straight sets.
"She played well tonight too - I think it was a very high level of tennis out there."
The victory over Mladenovic not only puts Bouchard in the second WTA semifinal of her career - she was a semifinalist at Strasbourg earlier this year, losing a tight three-setter to Alizé Cornet - but the Canadian, currently ranked No.53, is now projected to break into the Top 50 for the first time.
Bouchard will have to beat another higher seed in the semifinals, with Lucie Safarova up next. The No.3-seeded Czech rallied from a break down in the second set to beat Lauren Davis earlier on, 62 64.
"It was a good match," Safarova said after the match. "I played very aggressively from the beginning and took the lead, and in the second set I just kept the pressure on her. I don't think she liked that. But it was nice to play out there with the great crowd - they've been great all week, and it's really nice."
Unlike Bouchard, Safarova is no stranger to finals - she has been to 11 of them before, and she's a former finalist here too, in 2009. "Genie is a great player - it's going to be tough, but I'm looking forward to it," Safarova said. "I played well today, so I hope I can keep my level up in the next one too."
Safarova and Bouchard will be playing against each other for the first time.
"It's going to be a tough match - she's very good and it's never easy playing a left-hander - but I hope I can keep playing like I did tonight," Bouchard said. "We'll see what happens tomorrow."


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Srinagar, Feb 3 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir police Crime Branch (CB) has registered a case under section 420-B RPC against every resident of Chandigrah and Jammu for cheating people.
According to reports, the accused cheated people lakhs of rupees on the promise to send them to European and other Gulf countries for employment.
It said the CB received a compliant from Mohammad Zubair Khan and C A Khan alleging that they had paid lakhs of rupees to the accused after they promised to send them to Canada for employment.
They further alleged that neither they were send to Canada nor their money was returned to them by the accused.
The CB, after initial investigation, has registered FIR 05/2008 under section 420-B RPC against the accused.

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Over the course of a 75-year career, Valentine (Val) Werier was a Winnipeg newsprint warrior. His prose, although written in the style of an easy-going, well-informed neighbour, dealt with civil liberties, social justice, city architecture, the importance of family, the delights of Lake Winnipeg and, particularly, the need to protect water and forests. In many ways Mr. Werier was prescient, calling his readers' attention to environmental issues long before they became mainstream concerns. His 1985 columns were instrumental in the cessation of logging in Atikaki Provincial Park, a place he described as "an area of rushing rivers and pristine beauty."
Mr. Werier admired urban activist Jane Jacobs, interviewed his hero, the socialist politician Tommy Douglas, was admitted to both the Order of Canada and Order of Manitoba and won numerous awards. In 2012, he received The Winnipeg Press Club Presidents Award for Someone Who Made a Difference. He said, "I've received over 30 honours in my life. This one really touched me. My peers decided I was something special." He died on April 21. His final column in the Winnipeg Free Press, a year before his death at the age of 96, was a rumination on his own unusual moniker, and the humorous occasions when Val was mistakenly thought to be short for the female name Valerie.
Valentine Werier was born in Winnipeg on June 29, 1917. He said he was named, "after some Russian poet." Teased by schoolmates, he soon shortened his name to Val, although thereafter claimed Valentine's Day as his own.
Social conscience flourished within the Werier family. Mischa Werier, Val's Russian father, had attempted to organize a union for barrel makers in Odessa. When he was sentenced to exile in Siberia for his activities, he fled to Canada. In 1908, accompanied by his wife, Mary, Mischa Werier settled in the north end of Winnipeg. He opened a grocery store on Selkirk Avenue, extending credit to families in need and rarely collecting money. When the store failed, he eked out a living as a travelling salesman. Val's mother, one of the few professional women of her day, trained as a nurse and midwife. She eventually had her own brood of six, of which Val was the fourth.
Mr. Werier's parents were rich in culture, speaking several languages between them and appreciating books and music. In one of his columns, Mr. Werier wrote, "neighbours gossiped about my mother who bought a second-hand upright Heintzman piano before she bought any furniture for the dining room."
Without funds for university, Val Werier dropped the idea of becoming an architect and turned to an early passion. He wrote, "I caught the writer's bug when I initiated a classroom paper at Machray School at the age of 13 and later as editor of the Aberdeen Voice at Aberdeen High School." In 1939, he began submitting articles to The Winnipeg Tribune. He felt he had a better shot at the city's underdog populist paper than the more widely circulated Winnipeg Free Press. His strategy to crack the reporter game was to cover nocturnal arrivals of people travelling by train. Until then, the papers covered only daytime arrivals in what was referred to as the hotels and rails beat. The young Mr. Werier made friends with CPR and CNR passenger agents and desk clerks at the city's two swankiest hotels. He finagled interviews. One of them was with Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Werier described him as "a short man with a goatee and big ego, fortified by his family's fortune in Beecham Liver Pills." Despite being warned by Sir Thomas not to disturb a passenger listed as Lady Cunard, Mr. Werier went ahead and knocked at her door. He wrote, "it was opened by Sir Thomas Beecham who, in a bluster of rage, slammed the door shut. 'Lady Cunard,' a fictitious name, was his mistress accompanying him from England."
Initially, Mr. Werier was paid 20 cents a column inch, hardly, he said, "a munificent income." His finances improved in 1941 with one of the happiest calls of his life. The city editor of the Tribune hired him as a reporter. He wrote, "I was in raptures."
The rapture of reporting was interrupted by the Second World War. Mr. Werier joined the RCAF as a navigator with the rank of flying officer. His Lancaster bomber, hit by enemy fire over Germany, crashed on return to base, killing two members of the crew. The impact left Mr. Werier with lifelong back and leg injuries. The date was Nov. 11, 1944. In a Remembrance Day column written 59 years later, Mr. Werier cautioned, "we must take care not to impart nobility and glory to war for war is an institution that sanctions death and destruction." He went on to add that there were exceptional circumstances when war was necessary but praised Canada for its refusal to be stampeded into war with Iraq. He wrote, "the Canadian position was one of integrity."
After the war, Mr. Werier resumed his reporting position at the Tribune, rising to become city editor, news editor, associate editor and columnist. For 15 years, he wrote a daily column titled Behind the News. He was his own boss, choosing topics that appealed to him. He believed that the press was a powerful platform for improving life in a community. He proved it by helping bring about a bylaw requiring landscaping around commercial parking lots. Known as a tree lover, he advocated that the province cover an ugly parking lot with trees. He was proud when the trees were planted. As they matured, he referred to them as "my trees." The quickest reform for which Mr. Werier was responsible occurred after he criticized the Manitoba Telephone System for charging $1.50 for a special light to alert the hard of hearing to a call. The day after the column appeared, MTS removed the charge.
Mr. Werier was a slight, attractive man with a thick head of curly hair and bushy eyebrows. Somewhere along the way, he acquired the rakishly tilted beret that became his signature look.
In January, 1949, he married Eve Lev, a slim, delicate, dark-haired secretary and the love of his life. The couple had three children, Michael, Jonathon and Judy. As parents they were even-tempered and tolerant, enjoying each other's company, reading books, discussing politics and encouraging their children's ambitions. Their daughter, Judy, says her father never used profanity but occasionally her parents swore at each other in Yiddish.
During the postwar years life was good, but then Eve's frequent headaches turned out to have a sinister cause. In 1974 she died, at the age of 52, of a brain tumour. Michael Werier says his father got through the tragedy with incredible strength. Daughter Judy says he never really recovered.
In 1980, the Tribune unexpectedly folded. Judy Werier recalls that day, Aug. 27, as being almost like another death in the family. "Dad came home and we all just sat there in shocked silence. The Tribune had been his life for 40 years." Mr. Werier rebounded from the blow by freelancing for The Winnipeg Free Press. By then in his 60s, he cut his output down from five columns to three columns a week, allowing himself more leisure time. He loved to walk. He turned outings, no matter how bad the weather, into a science by calculating routes based on wind direction and avoiding head-on gales. He delighted in greeting people and stopping for a chat. At age 70, he bought a cottage and transported readers to it with words bordering on the poetic. "I gaze at the lake from my cottage and enjoy the rapture of nature. The lake is soothing and theatrical, the fluid of existence."
Though a keen observer, Mr. Werier remained undaunted by the onset of macular degeneration. By his mid-70s, he was blind. His daughter helped research and transcribe the columns that he continued to thump out on an old-fashioned typewriter. She says he was a total Luddite, unable even to set an alarm clock. Her father remained a stickler for accuracy and for language, however. "He disliked words like 'stakeholder' and qualifiers for adjectives like unique," she said. He told her, "Something can't be 'very' unique. It's either unique or it's not." Despite his blindness, Val Werier continued to walk in his beloved neighbourhood by Winnipeg Beach. He knew it by heart. In 2007 he told a reporter, "I've had a pretty good life and it's all been in Winnipeg. We don't appreciate what we have here."
Val Werier lived independently until age 94. Judy Werier said, "He was determined to the end. Even as his health deteriorated and his energy waned, he was still thinking up ideas for yet another column."


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I've had some frustrating experiences on public land here in Michigan... And being 25 myself i always get rolling eyes and condescending looks at the local clubs from the old hats...So I hear you brother.
I feel your pain on both accounts. I am only 26 and I feel very out of place in the couple of shooting clubs I have checked out; maybe in another 10 or 15 years I will fit right in with the other OFWG's but till then.
In regards to shooting, count yourselves lucky that MI is a bit more gun friendly than over in the Northern IL/Southern WI area.
I get harassed even when shooting on private land, my family has some property up in Wisconsin. Too many Urban transplants around who cannot wrap their heads around lawful shooting. So about every other time or so when I shoot the cops show up. Its a pretty small police force so they don't even come bug me anymore. I usually just see the cops talking to whoever called.
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I have a friend, he's passed away now. His name was Paul Strobel, and when I met Strobel I was a young manager.
Strobel was probably 70 at the time. He was an old, crusty guy, you know? Imagine Santa Claus in street clothes at about 5-foot-tall. He looked exactly like Burl Ives.
I didn't know Strobel. I just knew he was a consultant and he was around. So I walk in the door and across the table from the door sat Strobel. He says, "Hello, Mr. Elmore, have a seat."
Strobel leans over the table, and he says, "Mr. Elmore, two things: Number one, you need to go to charm school and you need to learn how to treat people. Number two, there's a book you should read. It's called the Bible."
Then he starts walking around the table. He gets to the end of the table and he's coming over to my side and he says, "Mr. Elmore, stand up. I'm gonna give you a hug."
He hugs me and I'm just standing there with my arms down to the side and he goes, "Mr. Elmore, I didn't tell you that stuff to emasculate you or embarrass you. I told it to you because someone needed to." And he sat down and we had an hour-long conversation and then, from then on, he was my greatest mentor.
You should seek counsel and not advice because that's what I got from Strobel. I got counsel from Strobel. That wasn't advice he was giving me. That wasn't take-it-or-leave-it. He was telling me, "If you don't do these things, you will not succeed." How did he know? Because he's been there and done that.
Anyone and everyone can give you advice, and anyone and everyone will give you advice, but advice is basically an opinion. Counsel only comes from people who have been there and done that and those are the people I wanna listen to.
Most of our owner/operators are under $500,000. What we try to do is we try to take 'em out of the mentality of "I own a green industry business." We wanna create professional selling organizations with our franchisees.
You have to become a professional selling organization that does landscape management. You can't be a landscape management company that sells.
When I learned to be an HVAC technician, one of the first things I learned was how to put a set of gauges on a system. That's your accounting system – when it's done by a qualified person, not your sister's brother-in-law's cousin who's the payroll clerk at the chicken plant.
In an HVAC business, your most expensive piece is your labor. That's a big deal because any service business, the margins are pretty thin unless you really manage your labor and materials, and then the other side of that is on the top line, which is sales.
The way businesses work together is really gonna be the big innovation in this industry over the next five years. There're several franchises now, there're several trade organizations, there're several association-type organizations. Not consolidators, but consultants. That external help for the small business owner in the green industry is really where we're gonna see a lot of impact.
Maybe someday they're gonna develop a mower that does something really cool and really awesome that's gonna revolutionize the industry but, typically, intellectually is where all the innovation happens and all the growth happens.
I'm an analyst and a problem-solver. I don't have all the answers but one thing I am is very tenacious when it comes to finding things out. My wife hates it. We watch a movie and I know all the trivia about the movie before it's over.
You never ask anybody to do anything you're not willing to do. From a leadership standpoint I've proven that I'll be in the trenches with people, and I'm willing to get dirty to get it done if that's what it takes.
I've made plenty of mistakes. Most of my mistakes come from speaking before I think. That's a problem that affects a lotta people. I'll own up to it, though.


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HP OpenVMS Systems Documentation
OpenVMS Programming Concepts Manual
24.2.5 Disabling and Enabling Control Characters
Two run-time library routines, LIB$ENABLE_CTRL and LIB$DISABLE_CTRL, allow you to call the CLI to enable or disable control characters. These routines take a longword bit mask argument that specifies the control characters to be disabled or enabled. Acceptable values for this argument are LIB$M_CLI_CTRLY and LIB$M_CLI_CTRLT.
24.2.6 Creating and Connecting to a Subprocess
You can use LIB$SPAWN and LIB$ATTACH together to spawn a subprocess and attach the terminal to that subprocess. These routines execute correctly only if the current CLI is DCL. For more information on the SPAWN and ATTACH commands, see the OpenVMS DCL Dictionary. For more information on creating processes, see Chapter 2.
24.3 Access to VAX Machine Instructions
The VAX instruction set was designed for efficient use by high-level languages and, therefore, contains many functions that are directly useful in your programs. However, some of these functions cannot be used directly by high-level languages.
The run-time library provides routines that allow your high-level language program to use most VAX machine instructions that are otherwise unavailable. On Alpha machines, these routines execute a series of Alpha instructions that emulate the operation of the VAX instructions. In most cases, these routines simply execute the instruction, using the arguments you provide. Some routines that accept string arguments, however, provide some additional functions that make them easier to use.
These routines fall into the following categories:
The VAX Architecture Reference Manual describes the VAX instruction set in detail.
The variable-length bit field is a VAX data type used to store small integers packed together in a larger data structure. It is often used to store single flag bits.
The run-time library contains five routines for performing operations on variable-length bit fields. These routines give higher-level languages that do not have the inherent ability to manipulate bit fields direct access to the bit field instructions in the VAX instruction set. Further, if a program calls a routine written in a different language to perform some function that also involves bit manipulation, the called routine can include a call to the run-time library to perform the bit manipulation.
Table 24-3 lists the run-time library variable-length bit field routines.
Three scalar attributes define a variable bit field:
Figure 24-1 shows the format of a variable-length bit field. The shaded area indicates the field.
Figure 24-1 Format of a Variable-Length Bit Field
Bit fields are zero-origin, which means that the routine regards the first bit in the field as being the zero position. For more detailed information about VAX bit numbering and data formats, see the VAX Architecture Reference Manual.
The attributes of the bit field are passed to an RTL routine in the form of three arguments in the following order:
The following BASIC example illustrates three RTL routines. It opens the terminal as a file and specifies HEX> as the prompt. This prompt allows you to obtain input from the terminal without the question mark that VAX BASIC normally adds to the prompt in an INPUT statement. The program calls OTS$CVT_TZ_L to convert the character string input to a longword. It then calls LIB$EXTZV once for each position in the longword to extract the bit in that position. Because LIB$EXTVZ is called with a function reference within the PRINT statement, the bits are displayed.
24.3.2 Integer and Floating-Point Routines
Integer and floating-point routines give a high-level language program access to the corresponding machine instructions. For a complete description of these instructions, see the VAX Architecture Reference Manual. Table 24-4 lists the integer and floating-point routines once up front.
24.3.3 Queue Access Routines
A queue is a doubly linked list. A run-time library routine specifies a queue entry by its address. Two longwords, a forward link and a backward link, define the location of the entry in relation to the preceding and succeeding entries. A self-relative queue is a queue in which the links between entries are displacements; the two longwords represent the displacements of the current entry's predecessor and successor. The VAX instructions INSQHI, INSQTI, REMQHI, and REMQTI allow you to insert and remove an entry at the head or tail of a self-relative queue. Each queue instruction has a corresponding RTL routine.
The self-relative queue instructions are interlocked and cannot be interrupted, so that other processes cannot insert or remove queue entries while the current program is doing so. Because the operation requires changing two pointers at the same time, a high-level language cannot perform this operation without calling the RTL queue access routines.
When you use these routines, cooperating processes can communicate without further synchronization and without danger of being interrupted, either on a single processor or in a multiprocessor environment. The queue access routines are also useful in an AST environment; they allow you to add or remove an entry from a queue without being interrupted by an asynchronous system trap.
The remove queue instructions (REMQHI or REMQTI) return the address of the removed entry. Some languages, such as BASIC, COBOL, and Fortran, do not provide a mechanism for accessing an address returned from a routine. Further, BASIC and COBOL do not allow routines to be arguments.
Table 24-5 lists the queue access routines.
In BASIC and Fortran, queues can be quadword aligned in a named COMMON block by using a linker option file to specify alignment of program sections. The LIB$GET_VM routine returns memory that is quadword aligned. Therefore, you should use LIB$GET_VM to allocate the virtual memory for a queue. For instance, to create a COMMON block called QUEUES, use the LINK command with the FILE/OPTIONS qualifier, where FILE.OPT is a linker option file containing the line:
A Fortran application using processor-shared memory follows:
A BASIC application using processor-shared memory follows:
In Fortran, the address of the removed queue entry can be passed to another routine as an array using the %VAL built-in function.
In the following example, queue entries are 10 longwords, including the two longword pointers at the beginning of each entry:
24.3.4 Character String Routines
The character string routines listed in Table 24-6 give a high-level language program access to the corresponding VAX machine instructions. For a complete description of these instructions, see the VAX Architecture Reference Manual. For each instruction, the VAX Architecture Reference Manual specifies the contents of all the registers after the instruction executes. The corresponding RTL routines do not make the contents of all the registers available to the calling program.
Table 24-6 lists the LIB$ character string routines and their functions.
The OpenVMS RTL String Manipulation (STR$) Manual describes STR$ string manipulation routines.
This COBOL program uses LIB$LOCC to return the position of a given letter of the alphabet.
24.3.5 Miscellaneous Instruction Routines
Table 24-7 lists additional routines that you can use.
The LIB$CALLG routine gives your program access to the CALLG instruction. This instruction calls a routine using an argument list stored as an array in memory, as opposed to the CALLS instruction, in which the argument list is pushed on the stack.
The LIB$CRC routine allows your high-level language program to use the CRC instruction, which calculates the cyclic redundancy check. This instruction checks the integrity of a data stream by comparing its state at the sending point and the receiving point. Each character in the data stream is used to generate a value based on a polynomial. The values for each character are then added together. This operation is performed at both ends of the data transmission, and the two result values are compared. If the results disagree, then an error occurred during the transmission.
The LIB$CRC_TABLE routine takes a polynomial as its input and builds the table that LIB$CRC uses to calculate the CRC. You must specify the polynomial to be used.
For more details, see the VAX Architecture Reference Manual.
This section discusses routines that allocate processwide resources to a single operating system process. The processwide resources discussed here are:
The resource allocation routines are provided so that user routines can use the processwide resources without conflicting with one another.
In general, you must use run-time library resource allocation routines when your program needs processwide resources. This allows RTL routines supplied by Compaq, and user routines that you write to perform together within a process.
If your called routine includes a call to any RTL routine that frees a processwide resource, and that called routine fails to execute normally, the resource will not be freed. Thus, your routine should establish a condition handler that frees the allocated resource before resignaling or unwinding. For information about condition handling, see Chapter 9.
Table 24-8 list routines that perform processwide resource allocation.
24.4.1 Allocating Logical Unit Numbers
BASIC and Fortran use a logical unit number (LUN) to define the file or device a program uses to perform input and output. For a routine to be modular, it does not need to know the LUNs being used by other routines that are running at the same time. For this reason, logical units are allocated and deallocated at run time. You can use LIB$GET_LUN and LIB$FREE_LUN to obtain the next available number. This ensures that your BASIC or Fortran routine does not use a logical unit that is already being used by a calling program. Therefore, you should use this routine whenever your program calls or is called by another program that also allocates LUNs. Logical unit numbers 100 to 119 are available to modular routines through these entry points.
To allocate an LUN, call LIB$GET_LUN and use the value returned as the LUN for your I/O statements. If no LUNs are available, an error status is returned and the logical unit is set to -1 . When the program unit exits, it should use LIB$FREE_LUN to free any LUNs that have been allocated by LIB$GET_LUN. If it does not free any LUNs, the available pool of numbers is freed for use.
If your called routine contains a call to LIB$FREE_LUN to free the LUNs upon exit, and your routine fails to execute normally, the LUNs will not be freed. For this reason, you should make sure to establish a condition handler to call LIB$FREE_LUN before resignaling or unwinding. Otherwise, the allocated LUN is lost until the image exits.


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We keep hearing about amazing health benefits of "superfruits." What's the appeal? Superfruits demand super prices — sometimes 20 times higher than "traditional" fruit.
Are they worth it? Here's a rundown from Barbara Quinn, a registered dietitian and diabetes educator in California:
Agave nectar is the juice from agave, a fruit native to Mexico. Agave nectar is a "natural sweetener," as are the juices of other fruits. Its benefit, say promoters, is that it is high in fructose, which is absorbed slowly into the body. Agave nectar thus has a low glycemic index, which means it causes lower rises in blood sugars. But it's worth realizing that the high fructose content of agave nectar is seen as a benefit while the same fructose in high-fructose corn syrup is viewed by some as the plague. In fact, agave juice is higher in fructose (85 percent) than apple or pear juice (66 percent) or high-fructose corn syrup (55 percent), according to food chemist Julie Miller-Jones.
Goji berries (pronounced go-gee) are delicate red-orange berries related to tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant. A native fruit of China, goji berries are rich in vitamin C and beta carotene, potent antioxidants that help keep our body cells intact and healthy. And like other brightly colored fruits and vegetables, goji berries are said to rank high in "Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity," or ORAC. This measurement was developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to quantify the antioxidant capacity of certain foods. Problem is, I couldn't find goji berries listed on the latest USDA ORAC list of foods.
Acai (ah-sigh-ee) is a small purple berry native to the Amazon rainforest. Acai berries are especially rich in vitamins and minerals and are reported to be extremely high in antioxidant properties that protect cells from oxidation damage. Because the acai berry is so delicate, it is mostly marketed as a juice.
Mangosteen is not related to the mango. It is a purple-skinned tropical fruit with a white pulp. It is the bright-colored skin of the mangosteen that contains most of its phytochemicals, natural plant substances with health benefits. Studies on animals show that mangosteen may help relieve inflammation, a condition related to chronic diseases like arthritis and heart disease.
So, are these foods really super foods? Or are they just other fruits in our arsenal of plant foods known to have beneficial effects on our health? Unfortunately, human research is lacking and anecdotal information is rampant.
If you can afford them, go for it. But locally grown, brightly pigmented produce is always the healthiest choice.


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Wayne Rooney to return from throat infection for Spurs v Manchester United
Wayne Rooney is set for a return to action ahead of Sunday's clash between Spurs and Manchester United.
Rooney had been suffering from a throat infection which ruled him out of United's win over Norwich and England's defeat against Holland this week.
However, according to Sir Alex Ferguson , Rooney 'is fit and trained all week'. It looks set to provide a real boost for United who currently trail league leaders and rivals Manchester City by two points.
It is also a timely return to action given that Sir Alex could well be without a host of other players for his side's trip to White Hart Lane.
Tom Cleverly (foot) and Antonio Valencia (hamstring) will both be absent while Chris Smalling 's head injury sustained during England's friendly on Wednesday means he is a major doubt.
'There's no concussion but he's got quite a nasty cut,' Sir Alex commented.
'Whether we can patch it up, I'm not quite sure. We need to tread carefully and see what he's like tomorrow.'
Smalling sustained the injury during a heavy clash of heads with Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar.
Injuries aside, Rooney's return will be warmly welcomed by United fans for what Sir Alex has described as his side's 'hardest away game' of the season.
Spurs will be looking to recover from their 5-2 setback against North London rivals Arsenal last Sunday.


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Elk !...............
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Deer must be really, really big in MO. Huge.
The hunter thought the Elk antlers were on an Eastern White Tail? :rolleyes:Does he also do a lot of "Sound" shots?:eek:
Well, at least it wasn't a cow. i have a friend that paints the word "COW" in bright orange on the side of his holstiens and jerseys ever deer season. Yep, there are some effing geniuses in his area every opening day. :rolleyes:
I was elk hunting in eastern WA when a guy shot his own horse. It had a blaze orange saddle blanket too. That hunt was a nightmare and my last hunt. I was not willing to go out in the woods with those crazies again and I did not have access to private land.
I agree with you guys, I am ashamed to say this guy was from Missouri !..............
Haha this reminds me of a story about 15 years ago I was up in the hills here in California stopped at a little store and a guy pulls in and with what he thought was a deer straped across his hood he was so happy he just got his first deer.
But wait for it wait for it lol it was a goat!!!!!!!!!!!
True story. It was raining in WA when a hunter pulled into a cafe and saw the game warden sitting at a table. He sat down at the counter and started bragging about this huge doe he shot and had out in his pick up. The game warden slipped out into the rain to go look at the illegal doe before confronting the hunter. Sure enough it was a doe but it had antlers. The game warden went back into the cafe wet, a little angry and he knew he had been had.
He going to have a very short life as a hunter !!
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What Robert Kiyosaki Won't Tell You About the E Quadrant
In 2001, I came across a book that revolutionized the way I thought about work and money. Until then, I was living by the edict, "Go to school, study hard, and get a good job." Being the overachiever that I am, I excelled. I got my Master's, graduated magna cum laude, and got a great job with IBM. I did better than anyone in my family did by that age.
By my family's standards, I was successful.
Then I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and I felt immensely resentful. How could they withhold such valuable information from me!!! This whole going to school and getting a good job is such a farce. I'll be in the E Quadrant FOREVER!!!
While the E (Employee) quadrant is not as sexy as the B (Business) or I (Investing) quadrants, I've come to appreciate it. It provides free training, steady income, benefits, capital, structure, and a REAL social network.
When you are living in the E quadrant, you're on a fixed income. It's an opportunity to internalize the basics of financial intelligence. With earned income, you can learn how to budget and save. For someone like me who had zero financial education and thought that money is made to be spent, learning what to do with earned income was a significant accomplishment.
What does all this have to do with being a mystic? Acceptance and appreciation for where you are! The longer and harder you resist where you are right now, the longer you will be there. Resistance includes trying with all your might to get out because you absolutely can't stand it here. It includes prematurely leaving where you are without the bridge to the next step or the tools to get there. Resistance includes beating yourself up for being where you are.
Take a moment to stand where you are and just observe it objectively. There's good there. What can you use in the situation to help you get where you want to be? What nuggets are ripe for the plucking? Do you see any silver linings?


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This then means using Linksys gear, with SPA2102 or WRP400 the obvious options. I'm aware that either of them supports two FXS ports, and that the VFX provisioning would lock down the 'Line1' configuration. My own Fritz!Box allows me to specify up to ten (or even more) different VoIP accounts. I've also set up two separate ports: one connected to a DECT phone and the other one using the existing in-house cabling, which has up to three corded phones attached. I could choose to let either the first or the second port respond to incoming calls from any given VoIP provider, but to keep things simple I'll just let them all ring for all incoming calls.
After this explanation I now wonder whether my friends can have at least one more VoIP provider (e.g. in the UK) which would also be connected to the one cordless phone that they are currently using. Or do they need to plug in an additional phone (into 'Line2' I guess) because the Linksys gear is only supporting a strict 1:1 relationship between the VoIP accounts and FXS ports? I guess I might be a bit "spoilt" and have too high expectations as my own gear provides all this mini-PBX functionality, but do those Linksys devices support calls between the two FXS ports?
I've tried to search for the answer to these questions in the SPA2102 Admin Guide (and also in this forum here), but I could not get bottom of it. OTOH I'm pretty hopeful that the "usual suspects" can help me straight away.


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Countdown to College
National Decision Day is here.
If your college choice wasn't obvious, you probably made the pro/con lists and maybe even revisited a few campuses during Accepted Students' Days. But where did the financial factors fit into the decision-making process?
"They expect us to pay what? They can't be serious." That's a fairly typical reaction to a so-called award letter from a college's financial aid office. Colleges base their awards on the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid (www.fafsa.ed.gov) and the CSS Profile (www.student.collegeboard.org/css-financial-aid-profile).
Many parents are confused about the financial aid process and how to help their children make this very important decision.
Here are some of their questions:
"Is it worth it to take out loans if my child has no idea what they want to major in?"
"Should I force them to identify a practical major that has a strong likelihood of leading to a well-paying job?"
"Will there be enough of a significant payoff for that brand-name school?"
"Will they be better off possibly struggling academically at a more prestigious school or perhaps find themselves insufficiently challenged at a less selective school?"
"I want my child to have some 'skin in the game' so they take their college education seriously, but do I really want my 22-year-old saddled with $20,000 to $50,000 in debt at graduation?"
"What about grad school – who is paying for that?"
"If I take out loans with my oldest child, am I bound to commit the same investment to my younger children?"
With private school costs (tuition/room/board/fees) now hovering between $50,000 and $65,000 a year, many parents are focused on their ROI, return-on-investment.
George Cronson, a Charlotte, N.C., parent of a college sophomore and a high school senior, said, "With many colleges costing upward of $200,000 over four years, you'd be silly not to wonder what's going to happen after they graduate."
Cronson continued, "In today's job market, you need to think about graduate school. Many times the high-paying jobs require an advanced degree. If you spend all your money on the undergraduate education, you may not have anything left for graduate school."
Some interesting financial aid factoids:
"Aid" often means loans and work-study. Be sure to read your letters carefully so you understand your complete financial commitment over four years.
The definition of need differs depending on the college. Wealthy colleges with huge endowments such as Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, etc., provide need-based aid (not merit) to families making more than $200,000 per year.
A number of colleges, including Davidson, Bowdoin (Maine), Pomona (California), Harvard (Massaschusetts), and Swarthmore (Pennsylvania), meet full demonstrated need with no loans.
Some good resources: www.studentaid.ed.gov and www.finaid.org.
Lee Bierer is an independent college adviser based in Charlotte, N.C. Visit her website at www.CollegeAdmissionsStrategies.com.


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Bill of material (BOM) management is an extremely complex process.�Whether it should be primarily keyed off the functional use of a part or the specific part number itself is a tension that has existed since bills of material were created, when man married an axle to a wheel. Why do people care whether the BOM is driven by part numbers or the part's function? The answer is that each has certain advantages. Driving the BOM by actual part numbers is very useful for purchasing and manufacturing and when an engineer is focusing on an individual piece of hardware. However, when the engineer or a product manager moves from one product to another, a function-driven BOM allows him to compare components more easily. The ability to compare BOMs has huge implications for the ability of engineering to successfully reuse parts. Reuse lowers both the cost of the hardware itself (by reusing tooling and increasing production volumes) while also reducing the engineering time needed to design a new part. Reuse has been the great white hope of the engineering community since time immemorial, but it is very challenging. Although�product lifecycle management�software vendors talk about reuse, most companies do a very poor job.� Trying to manage reuse without intelligent part numbers and a functional way to look at the BOM is like searching for a single item in a hoarder's basement that's jammed full of boxes with no labels. Eventually you give up, go to the store, and buy a new one! That's one of the big reasons why reuse has struggled in the engineering community. So how do we balance the tension between these two things? Here is a simple framework for thinking about the BOM that I call Form, Fit, and Function. By function, I mean what the part is actually doing, what its purpose in life is. By form, I mean the specific piece of hardware or part that we're dealing with. Figure 1 is a simple example of how function and form relate to each other.� Typically, the superset will be function. The function in this case is to provide rear vision to a driver of a vehicle. The function is the result of the part operating correctly. The part itself is the form that�"delivers"�that function. In this case, we might provide rear vision by designing a mirror, a camera, or some sort of sensor.
The third part of the framework is the fit of the part. However, by fit I don't mean the actual geometric tolerances or real estate that the part occupies. �Rather, what are the unique attributes of the part that make it "fit" the function, i.e., accomplish the function?"�Figure 2 shows another example of a functionally controlled BOM. In this case, it deals with the propulsion of a vehicle, or perhaps a jet aircraft. We show propulsion as a top level Function, along with sub-levels of the powerplant, how the power is transferred, and the cooling system. The coolant is the Form that satisfies the Function of the cooling system. We assign an�intelligent part number�for the specific coolant. One might ask, "When do I move from a Function to a part number (Form)?" The answer to that is, whenever it is convenient. It will take a little bit of time for your team to develop a functional BOM that has a manageable level of hierarchy in it. There is a many-to-many relationship between the Function and the Form (part). Depending on how far down the Function tree we go, we may need to attach more than one Form (part) to satisfy a function. On the other hand, if our functional tree is deeper, on certain products there may be one assembly (Form) that satisfies more than one Function on the functional tree. Moving to Fit, we see that each Form may have multiple attributes (ways of fitting the function). The coolant "fits" our functional need with the attributes that it has. In general, there will be a one-to-many relationship between Form (part) and Fit (attributes), respectively. Form, Fit, and Function is a simple way to look at how we structure our products. It lends itself well to reuse of parts, but also for the reuse of�work break-down structures�that are used in aerospace and defense. Some companies are now working on constructing skeleton "starter" or "universal" BOMs that they reuse for each new product. The idea is to start with a generic BOM and then add and delete to match the needs of a new product. The goal is for the company to have one universal BOM or one for each unique product group. This is a great idea in theory, but it's not trivial to execute. To do this in your own company will likely take your engineering team, product management, and a consultant a year or more to find a structure that suits your needs.� However, once this is done, the speed and reuse advantages should be significant. Hopefully, the Form, Fit, and Function BOM framework will give you a simple way to think about it! � Eric Hiller is the managing partner of�Hiller Associates, an operational and strategic consultancy specializing in�product cost management, financial modeling, operations, business planning, software product management, and product development. This article was originally published on�Engineering.com�and is republished with permission. For more stories like this please visit�Engineering.com.�
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Gask, Arthur: The Dark Mill Stream (1947)
Arthur Cecil Gask (10 July 186925 June 1951), dentist and novelist, was born on 10 July 1869 at St Marylebone, London, fourth of five children of Charles Gask, merchant, and his wife Fanny, née Edis.[1]
Gask emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia in 1920, where he set up practice as a dentist. He began writing crime fiction while waiting for his patients and in 1921 paid for the publication of his first novel, The Secret of the Sandhills, which was an immediate success.
Over a period of forty years Gask wrote over thirty books as well as contributing short stories to The Mail in Adelaide. Most of his novels described the activities of a detective, Gilbert Larose, in solving crimes. Gask's work was translated into several European languages, serialised in newspapers and broadcast on radio. He also wrote short stories.
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A large sum of money was stolen from a London bank and hidden in an old mill in a lonely and unfrequented part of Essex. It is found by two men already deep in crime, and the dreadful murder of one of them follows.
Gilbert Larose, the one-time great international detective, when discovery seems well-nigh impossible, nevertheless, picks up the trailalmost from what he hears in the whisperings of the windand it leads him to an important country gentleman living in an historic mansion in Norfolk.
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Nicotine Poisoning on the Rise
U.S. health officials have reported a dramatic increase in the number of nicotine poisonings linked to electronic cigarettes over recent years as the products have become more popular.
215 Nicotine Poisoning Calls Made in February
"We have not had an unintentional poisoning death from e-cigarettes yet in the United States that we know of, but the potential is there given the amount of concentrated nicotine in these solutions – it would not take a lot for a child death to occur." – Dr. Tim McAfee, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office on Smoking and Health as published by HealthDay
According to HealthDay, the number calls made to poison control centers in 2010 in connection to nicotine poisoning from e-cigarettes was limited to roughly one a month; however, that number has jumped drastically over the past three years with 215 calls being made in February alone.
Even more alarming is that 51 percent of the calls made to poison control centers involved children aged 5 and younger. 42 percent involved people over the age of 20.
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Tom Frieden claims that children may be drawn to e-cigarettes and liquid nicotine because of the candy and fruit flavors.
Proposed Electronic Cigarette Regulations
Dr. Tim McAfee director of the CDC Office on Smoking and Health noted that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is working on legislation that would regulate how e-cigarettes and liquid nicotine are packaged. This would include the need for childproof caps and warning labels.
McAfee stated that poisoning from liquid nicotine can happen in three ways:
- Ingestion
- Inhalation
- Absorption
Once in a person's system, the nicotine can result in vomiting, nausea and seizures. McAfee urges that the nicotine be handled with the same caution has a person would handle bleach, stating that in some ways, the chemical is more toxic than bleach.
Despite the sharp increase in liquid nicotine poising rates, e-cigarette products still account for less than 2 percent of overall tobacco product sales.
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We are forever being schooled in the nature and discipline of our species. We understand the synaptic rush that allowed us to observe the stars and planets, and to grasp the subsequent knowledge that flowed therefrom. And we are aware of the evolutionary leap that outdistanced our physical features; expanding our bodies and leaving us cloaked in the fading evidence of our primitive identity.
There are the wide swatches of fuzz that circle our torsos and much of our heads, a weatherproofed reminder of a time spent solely in the elements and yet, with strips of vibrant colors entwined within the soft brush, an enticement to comely appearance and decorative distinction.
There are the black, slender rods that protrude from our foreheads. Left over from an extinct antenna system their pulse is dormant, save an occasional twinge. Some suggest these wiry projections endow them with telepathic powers, while others contend mystical gifts of unusual variety. Though most of us find that ridiculous and unproven, they do flex with subtle movements that, to a discerning eye, can communicate intimate emotions.
Other remnants from our archaic past such as lumps and patchy spots are less noticeable and easily tolerated. It's only our wings that are difficult to accept. These dry, withered appendages with their roots buried into our backs hang from us like cast shackles on a condemned life. Sometimes they discharge an odor of rotting bark; other times become rigid and curl at the edges, slicing into our bodies as we sleep. Periodically they scale and flake and, if not properly groomed, leave behind an unsightly pile of yellowish dust.
Repulsed by their hideousness, we devised our fashions to conceal their outline. Our spun fabrics are created into broad capes and gowns that flow and spread with exuberant style. Bright, intricate designs are woven throughout to channel our interests, perfumes of delicate scents to divert frigidity. Bedecked in our silken finery, we preen and parade past one another in grandeur. We ennoble ourselves with pomp and ceremony. We pretend our wings don't exist.
Yet, despite the therapies and teachings and languid bravado, they still manage to rear their undeniable presence. Just to have them glimpsed sends some into a fit of hysterical humiliation while the cruder amongst us deliberately expose them as an insult and enticement to violence. Our wings are the dark impetus of our society. Rules, religions and cults circulate around their suppression, and, where once this openly spawned inquisition and persecution, there now festers the unspoken bias of hidden superstitions. To discuss their existence is offensive to most, though I'm sure there are many of us who secretly wonder at the trade off of intellectuality for a social order of indifference and self loathing.
But of all the vexations provided by our affliction, the worst are the tremors; uncontrollable seizures that come without warning, bringing wave after wave of depression, doubt and the maddening siren call to yield to an ageless claim. There are words we chant, images we conjure, remedies we ingest to ease the shaking and repel the notions of eternal loneliness. But no matter how deeply we purge our thoughts and strengthen our resolve, the void is always present - the door always open. Never could I imagine a time when I would willfully cede to that abyss.
This morning, the beginning of our sixth week in search of a marauding species, we came upon a watery barrier that threatened the progress of our mission. Hanging low over the north slopes were the clenched fists of dark clouds with bluish veils dangling beneath them, dumping a torrent of rain upriver. Without hesitation, I ordered a crossing, and although the water in the deep places came to our chests, not a soldier nor an animal was drowned.
I felt reassured as we assembled safely on the muddy banks of a wide flat land - until I turned to survey the terrain. We were seventy meters from an inverted V-shaped tree line, with the broad side of its shadowy thicket spreading out like a waiting embrace, beckoning to us across a sandy stretch of sparse grasses, mud holes, river debris and an ominous hush. I ordered the troopers to mount and proceed, and as we began our advance, the woods erupted with fire and smoke.
A multicolored barrage of vaporous trails came from the dense green, and the animals bucked wildly, throwing some riders and scampering off along the water's edge. A half dozen soldiers were blown out of their saddles and thrown back into the river. I watched as their flailing bodies bobbed over the quickening rapids and headed toward the river's bend. There, concealed beneath a layer of strewn bushes, glistened the taut line of the collecting net that had been strung across the water.
It was a well laid trap. Despite our jammed sensor detectors and clogged feeler pads, the diabolical twist of their plan was that it hinged on my decision to forge the river at this place and time. They must have been watching us along the trail of our long march, dissecting our abilities and gauging my strategies. How else could they have exploited our impulses toward punctuality and persistence?
Those remaining of us dismounted, tied our animals to beached logs and took cover behind boulders and in low ditches. Plumes of yellow smoke streamed over our heads and a flaming ball hit a rock in front of me, bursting into a halo of falling sparks and burning embers. I threw two security emitters into the air, but they only hovered a few seconds, then sputtered away in erratic directions. They were from the previous hostilities. In fact, everything in my kit was from previous hostilities. Hive elders! I couldn't remember the last time they made a decent trade.
The howls and manic squeals started up and soon the woods sounded like the guttural growl of one enraged beast. Our return fire was met with a cackling taunt at our ineffectual weaponry. We could hear the shattering of wood, the cracking noise of thick branches and small trunks as they prepared to advance on our position.
There could be no surrender, and retreat into the swollen river would assure our capture in their collecting net. We were out of options and in danger of losing to their superior mass. I could not bear the thought of my brave soldiers being carried off to the enemies' nests - dragged through the slimy corridors of their underground grottos - dumped into the fetid holding pits where their young and their nurturing mothers could pick over the paralyzed bodies floating in the sticky soup of regurgitated others. I was determined that our carcasses would not become the staple of their nourishment.
Against all laws and declarations, against all sacred and ceremonial rites, against our inured disciplines and forced suppressions, I resorted to the primal instinct - I ordered my soldiers to unsheathe wings and prepare for flight. A sad moan echoed through the ranks, and I myself wavered in the face of transgression. But the situation was so dire that it took only an affirming nod to repeat the order.
We threw our garments to the ground and shivered with convulsions as our arms moved feverishly over our wings, massaging the arid veins and pulsating stiffness into the limp, silvery cloaks.
There came a great sense of freedom to the whole grooming process, but, when my stretching wings began to tense and twitch, I was overwhelmed by a soaring elation that seemed unending. My strength increased tenfold, my reflexes responded with an astounding quickness that transformed nature itself. Another fiery ball came streaming toward me and I merely stepped aside and watched it float past until it fell into the river with a long ripping sizzle.
How glorious and omniscient it felt to invoke the ancient lore. What a magnificent acceleration! And yet, this was the forbidden journey, the portentous gateway to an insane labyrinth no one should dare travel. But others had. I saw one of them myself.
Long ago, in the central hexagon, I came upon a startled crowd, transfixed, gazing upward, watching the absurd acrobatics of a 'mutant cross-over'. She was zigzagging along the upper levels, stopping to examine the dark depression of a balcony or the lit crack of a closed doorway, then racing off through open corridors and circular stairways. In a frantic search for some unseen pathway, her frustration mounted and she panicked like a lost bird, grazing abutments and banging into transparent partitions until she stunned herself and fell to the marble floor.
We drew into a close circle around her, certain of finding a fractured and bloodied heap. But she was whole and uninjured, and in a motionless state that gave us the courage to lean closer and gawk at her nakedness. Of course, it was her wings that fascinated us. Wings that billowed with symmetry and glowed with firm ropes of purple arteries that branched into a maze of tiny, throbbing vessels. Suddenly, her body jerked, and we jumped back as she began squirming on her belly, gyrating in the throes of some long forgotten circle dance. It was an obscenity to me and I tried turning away but became enraptured by her fixed stare. It was a crazed, insightful glare that both pleaded and condemned, binding me to the common link of our half dreamt confusions.
I stood helpless and weak as she was subdued, covered with heavy cloth and carried off. The usually reclusive elders appeared from nowhere to explain her disposition. They said there was nothing left for her in the hive, that our world had become alien to her. They told us she would be taken to the far wilderness and released to live out her life in exile. 'To forever labor in the repetitive cycle of her diminished perceptions,' they said.
That night, my comrades and I huddled around small flames, swearing vows and sealing covenants never to forsake the elders teachings; never to yield to the primal tug that was our constant craving. But, as I stood on the shore, engulfed in that dazzling wash of unleashing energy, I was convinced that what I had witnessed long ago was only a ruse, another demonstration designed by the lecturers of control who continuously created new methods to remind us of the primitive sin. Did the elders covet their stature so that they conspired to deny their own citizenry their culture? Were they that fearful of rebellion? Then fearful they should be! My army would rise here and make quick and brutal work of the floundering enemy massed before us. I would return home as conqueror and sage. I would right the wrongs and settle the scores and deliver my brotherhood from the elders' oppression. I would serve all domains and subjects with generous beneficence. I would receive adoration with humility.
While strutting along the shoreline, ranting the praises of our new doctrine, it came to me in the form of a blunt, solid fear. I understood with radiant clarity that this would be the last time I understood anything. On the horizon of my consciousness fluttered the inky shadows from our ancestral dark, obscuring the delicate strands of reasoning and the fragile increments of a gathered logic. Loyalty and duty slipped behind a lazy haze, and the enemy I had come to engage became nothing more than a threatening object to avoid.
No longer could I fathom the desire I once had for burdensome possessions: for properties I had to defend, for goods I had to store, for a social order of convoluted rules protecting the hoax of prosperity.
Simple patterns emerged, and a new calm descended, free of the bonds of corrective assertions and petty obedience. Shadow and light shifted and meshed as they crossed through each other, then settled upon a glittering world of altered illuminations. Colors that were once bland unfurled with lavish markings like secret maps to lost treasures. The air thickened with telltale scents and whispering vibrations. A million fluorescent pathways went weaving into the tranquil foliage. I wanted to go tumbling through each one of them, immersing into the green fuse, inhaling every fragrant particle until I dispersed like a droplet returning to a stream.
After the layers of civility fell away like molted skin, only the homing urge lingered as the final necessity. A loud, whiny buzz shrieked along the shoreline as our powerful wings flexed and rattled, revving up to an intensity that blurred their own motion.
We rose upon a storm of dust and assembled into a swarm over the roiling brown water. As we slowly moved inland we could hear our enemies' profane wail, and through the canopy of the dense woods, we saw the flickering images of their black, shiny bodies scurrying in agitated chase. Some came climbing up the trees and perched on the high thin limbs, while others conjoined with them to reach beyond the tree tops; their drooling jaws chopping desperately at their escaping prey. Perhaps the threat of starvation would lead them to cannibalism and self destruction, or they might learn to cultivate for themselves and become docile and content. Whatever their fate, I remained blissfully unconcerned.
Home is an instinct, and by the time we arrive the metamorphosis will be complete. The warm and familiar places we all knew will be as unrecognizable to us as we will be to friends and family. Instead of rejoicing at the return of a victorious army, they will grieve for the lost and bewildered minions hovering in the scream of a chaotic swirl. They will subdue us with smoke and nets and take us to the wilderness and lay us dazed amongst the clover and brier.
One by one we will shake off the anesthetized fog and ride the winds in search of forest clearings and sun-flowered plains. We will fly a nomadic course and follow the sole beacon of our ancient calling: to sift through the saturated air of drifting atoms; to labor ceaselessly in the garden.
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(1China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094; 2Archaeology Institute of Hunan, Changsha, Hunan 410008)
(Acta Agronomica Sinica, 1998(24-4):416-420. July report. Formatted/scanned by G. W. Leir, ed. by B. Gordon & Weier Zhou)
Abstract. Four 12,000-14,000 year-old rice grains were found in 1993 and 1995 in Yuchanyan site, Dao County, Hunan Province. Their length resembles O. rufipogon, width is between japonica and indica, while L/W ratio, glume hair length and glume shoulder angle are between O. rufipogon and indica. The bi-peaked-tubercle is like japonica but the rice is awnless. As this original cultivated rice has O. rufipogon, indica and japonica traits, its name "Yuchanyan ancient cultivated rice" is proposed.
Key words Ancient cultivated rice; Yuchanyan; Dao County, Hunan
Yuchanyan is in Shouyan Town, Dao County, Hunan Province, China. 25º30'N. Lat. & 111º30'E. Long. It is in a karst limestone crag surrounded by planted pine forest and rice paddy. This crag site dates to the Palaeolithic (Fig. 1).
Team vice-leader Yuan Jiarong of the Hunan Culture and Archaeology Institute excavated in 1993 and 1995, finding 10,000 year-old (C14) rice grain with potsherds, animal bone, spiral & freshwater mussel shells and plant seed. Two grains found Nov. 17, 1993, in washed T1-3H soil supplement two found Nov. 18, 1995, in a thick calcareous layer in T9-2b6-3b1. This layer also had a bone hairpin (Fig. 2), while T9-3E layer had ancient potsherds (Fig. 3).
For reference, length of 8 local indica grains range 7.22-8.74 mm (mean 8.30), 10 japonica range 6.81-8.18 mm (mean 7.46) and 9 common wild rice from Dongxiang, Jiangyong, Chaling, Guangdong and Guangxi range 7.94-9.39 mm (mean 8.74). The trend is from common wild rice to indica to japonica. As Yuchanyan grain length ranges 8.67-9.33 mm (mean 9.0 mm), it surpasses japonica to between common wild rice and indica, but on average, it resembles common wild rice.
Width of 8 indica grains range 2.70-3.20 mm (mean 2.92), 10 japonica range 2.94-3.62 mm (mean 3.40) and 9 common wild grains range 2.04-2.96 mm (mean 2.58). The trend is from japonica to indica to common wild rice. As Yuchanyan grain width ranges 3.10-3.25 mm (mean 3.18), it is wider than common wild rice, reaching the upper limit of indica but within japonica. On average, it is wider than common wild rice and indica, but its narrowness resembles japonica.
L/W ratio of 8 indica range 2.58-3.18 (mean 2.76), 10 japonica ranges 2.02-2.38 (mean 2.19) and 9 common wild rice range 3.03-3.89 (mean 3.39). The trend is from common wild rice to indica to japonica. As Yuchanyan L/W ratio ranges 2.80-2.87 (mean 2.84), it surpasses japonica, follows common wild rice and slightly higher than the indica mean.
The above suggests Yuchanyan grain is larger, slowly evolving from common wild rice in width, a variation possibly altered via human choice (Fig. 4).
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Glume shoulder angle of 7 indica range 61-102º (mean 84.3), 8 japonica range 80-111º (mean 102) and 7 common wild rice range 59-81º (mean 73. 4). The trend is japonica to indica to common wild rice. Yuchanyan 80º angle is near common wild rice upper limit, japonica lower limit and midway for indica. Its mean between common wild rice and indica shows an evolution from wild rice to indica.
It was difficult recognizing 1993 Yuchanyan rice bipeaked tubercle due to its poor grain surface, but those of 1995 were clear and complete. Fig. 5 compares bipeaked tubercles, with Yuchanyan's bipeak straighter, like Jiangyong common wild rice and white shell rice, a local japonica variety. But it differed from Xiangzhongxian No.2 whose bipeak was V-shaped.
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Table 1. Yuchanyan rice bipeaked tubercle on lemma traits
Bipeak distance m m
Col depth m m
b. d/c. d
Peak angle
Col angle
Yuchanyan rice
Jiangyong (wild rice O. rufipogon)
White shell rice (japonica)
Xiangzhongxian No.2 (indica)
Table 1 compares bipeaked tubercles, with shallow Yuchanyan col depth (2.4 m m) and high distance/depth ratio (13.3) and peak (80.5º) and col angles (163º). The "obtuse" bipeaked tubercle traits resemble Jiangyong wild rice and japonica white shell rice. But Xiangzhongxian No.2 (indica) col depth is deeper (5.1 m m), with smaller distance/depth ratio (4.6) and peak (62.5º) and col angles (132.8º). Its "sharp" bipeaked tubercle is very different from Yuchanyan rice.
The distinguishing function of bipeaked tubercles are: Yuchanyan (-2.62), Jiangyong (-2.50) and white shell rice (-3.56); all "obtuse". But Xiangzhongxian No.2 is 9.06 or "sharp". Yuchanyan and japonica bipeaked tubercle are similar, but this may be an inherited form of wild rice, like Jiangyong county wild rice.
1993 Yuchanyan rice lemma surface has a "spore group", its size even, identical, round or elliptical, with surface pits and mean diameter 2.85±0.3m m (Fig. 6).
Compared to paddy rice pollen, mean diameter of indica pollen is 33.14±2.47 m m, japonica is 32.78±1.4 m m, or 10x larger than the spore. As it is also round with one germinating hole, we may affirm this "spore group" is not paddy rice pollen. Its size and shape differs from lotus, Bluka and aquatic plant pollen [4, 5] .
As spore diameters of 12 moss varieties range 15-20 to 100-200 m m and bryophytes are l0-20 m m, samples could not possibly be moss spores.
Comparison was also made with fungus spores and paddy rice bacterium[6,7]. In diseases like rice blast, dry grain, flax spot, etc., common fungus spore shape differs, while diameter is much bigger. In dry white leaf and strip & brown spot bacterium, mycelia differ and diameter is much smaller. Paddy rice dry grain disease conidia are oval or elliptical and smaller and can squeeze out. Their ties are belt-shaped and survive the winter on diseased seed, invading grain the following year to infect flower and glume. "Spore group" shape, ecology and traits resemble 1993 Yuchanyan rice lemma surface, possibly belonging to one kind of dry grain mycelium, but thorough research is needed.
Figure 6
Yuchanyan rice shape and trait analysis show length resembles common wild rice, width between japonica and indica (trend to japonica) and L/W at indica upper limit. Yuchanyan glume hair length is within range of common wild rice and indica, but nearer common wild rice. As glume shoulder angle is between common wild rice and indica, there was an evolutionary reduction.
Yuchanyan bipeaked tubercle shape and other traits resemble japonica, while Jiangyong common wild rice initial state is maintained.
As Yuchanyan top surface of lemma is awnless, completely unlike common wild rice, cultivation had begun.
The above suggests Yuchanyan rice has concurring wild, indica and japonica traits of very primitive cultivated rice, which evolved from common wild rice, its most remarkable trait being "large grain". As a food source, ancient gatherers planted paddy rice to increase grain size, a variation worth attention. They did not care about adult plant shape and yield per unit area, only grain size. Wild rice grain length and width inevitably received attention, with intentional or unintentional choice an evolutionary factor in changing primitive cultivated rice to longer wider rough grain. As Yuchanyan rice expresses this evolutionary stage, it has important status and function in research on the origin and evolution of cultivated rice, a reference coordinate in its different periods. Thus, we propose the name "Yuchanyan ancient cultivated rice" for academic discussion.
1 Ding Ying, 1957, Agriculture Journal, 8(3):243-257
2 Chief Editor: Ying Cun Shan, 1993, China Rice Seed Resources, China Agriculture Science and Technology Publishing House, Beijing
3 Zhang Wen Xu, 1995, Beijing Agricultural University Journal, 21(2):143-146
4 Chief Editor: Ni Xue Ming, 1987, China Lotus, Scientific Publishing House, Beijing
5 Zhao Zuo Cheng, 1988, China Sieves (Bluka) Plant System Classification, Wuhan University Publishing House, Wuhan
6 China Crops Plant Disease Editorial Board, 1979, China Crops Plant Disease, Agriculture Publishing House, Beijing
7 Wei Jing Chao, 1982, Fungus Appraisal Handbook, Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House, Beijing
8 Ten New Important Archaeological Finds in 1995: (2) Yuchanyan Site, Dao County, Guangming Daily. 5th ed., Mar. 26th, 1996
9 Zhang Wenxu, Tang Shengxiang, 1995, Chinese Research Newsletter, 3(3), 2-3


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Good friend Bill Hanstock was watching old baseball highlights on YouTube this morning, just like he imagined when he graduated from college, and alerted us to this spectacular tag avoidance from the year 2009, a year most notable for being the year before every single act of human motion was instantly converted into a GIF. (Here is a GIF of a man sleeping.) Watch this baseball player avoid this tag, and then keep reading to find out the awesome twist in the story:
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I don't understand why Juan Castro even went for the tag. The ball is not in his glove.
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This is what I thought too. I'm not even sure he was going to go for the tag *until* Sandoval started into the splits. The splits alerted Castro's attention to the existence of the baserunner.
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It is a very strange moment for Castro. I give him loads of credit, though, for *acting* like the ball was in his mitt the whole time, as he reaches in as though he needs to take the ball out after the "tag". It's sort of brilliant, if totally unsuccessful.
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If "slavery" is defined broadly to include bonded child labor and forced prostitution, there are upward of 25 million slaves in the world today. Individuals and groups are freeing some slaves by buying them from their enslavers. But slave redemption is as controversial today as it was in pre-Civil War America. In Buying Freedom, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl bring together economists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers for the first comprehensive examination of the practical and ethical implications of slave redemption.
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