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The Lightning's success last season was no mirage, said Pierre McGuire, an NBC analyst and former Whalers coach who sees Tampa Bay with "a real opportunity to create a lot of havoc in the Eastern Conference." Added former Penguins coach and current TV analyst Eddie Olczyk: "Their confidence has to be sky high. … From the forwards to the defense, I think they're rock solid." And so it goes for the Lightning, which in one year went from an afterthought in its market to a team worthy of national attention. You can understand the high expectations. Taking the eventual Stanley Cup champion Bruins to Game 7 of the East final created an impression the team is ready to take the next step. But coach Guy Boucher is too smart to be caught in a trap of diminishing returns. "Nobody is going to take me there," he said. "That's where you lose yourself. That's when you have the bad pressure we talk about. That's when the guys are focused on the result instead of the process. If we start looking at last year's results and feel we're at a different level in terms of (where we are) on paper, that is where we're going to get lost."
Is the Lightning better than it was last season? Can it be a serious Stanley Cup contender?
The latter is an interesting question, not only because Tampa Bay fell one goal short of the Cup final, losing Game 7 of the East final 1-0 — and considering the way the Canucks played against Boston for the Cup, Tampa Bay had a real shot if it got in — but because of how much this season's team resembles 2010-11's.
Think about it. There are questions at forward, where general manager Steve Yzerman admitted he did not find a replacement for free agent departure Simon Gagne.
There are questions about defensive depth, especially with Mattias Ohlund on injured reserve, and goaltending, specifically if Dwayne Roloson, the league's oldest player who turns 42 Wednesday, can hold up physically.
Tampa Bay isn't going to surprise anyone, either, which means the work-harder attitude that overcame many of last season's shortcomings (going 23-7 in one-goal games in regulation means you are working hard) and the discipline to play within Boucher's 1-3-1 trapping system will need to be in full effect.
"So, when people talk about playoffs, finishing first, the Stanley Cup, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa," Boucher said. "Let's make sure we focus on the process."
Let's break it down
This is the Lightning's Achilles' heel, most outsiders believe.
"Last year he played really well," NBC analyst and former Bruins coach Mike Milbury said of Dwayne Roloson, who after his January acquisition from the Islanders was 18-12-4 with four shutouts, a 2.56 goals-against average and a .912 save percentage that jumped to .924 in the playoffs.
"But you start to hit 42 and 43 (years old), you have questions. I have questions if Dwayne Roloson can play as well as he did. I always root for the old guys, but Father Time stops for no man."
Roloson, though, is in tremendous shape, and with Mathieu Garon, 33, a veteran backup slated for about 30 games, Roloson should be fresh enough for a playoff run.
"We'll manage Roloson," coach Guy Boucher said.
One thing is sure: Tampa Bay's goaltending headed into this season is in a lot better shape than it was entering 2010-11, when it began with Mike Smith and Dan Ellis.
With Mattias Ohlund (knee) on the shelf for tonight's opener with the Hurricanes at the RBC Center, and perhaps longer, the pressure is on. It's not so much on the top pairing of Victor Hedman and Eric Brewer, but on the pairings of Matt Gilroy and Brett Clark, and Pavel Kubina and Marc-Andre Bergeron, both of which will face opponents' second lines.
GM Steve Yzerman signed Gilroy and Bergeron for their speed. The question: Can they do the job defensively while playing expanded minutes? The Lightning, which basically swapped Mike Lundin and Randy Jones for Gilroy and Bruno Gervais, stressed team defense with a five-man pack mentality to help its blue-liners last season. It will do the same this season.
Steven Stamkos, Marty St. Louis, Ryan Malone, Teddy Purcell and Vinny Lecavalier remain. But with the losses of Simon Gagne and Sean Bergenheim to free agency, the Lightning is not as deep up front because it has no obvious replacement in the top six for Gagne.
"It's part of the game. You're not going to get everybody back," Lecavalier said. "But that just means everybody has to step up and make things work the way they did last year, or better."
Ryan Shannon, who had 12 goals in 2010-11 for the Senators, might match Gagne's 17. But rookie Brett Connolly, 19, impressive in camp, will face a different intensity in the regular season.
On the other hand, who saw Bergenheim (nine playoff goals) coming?
Give Yzerman this
The GM has assembled a team that meshes well off the ice. There does not seem to be cliques, something forward Ryan Shannon said he appreciated as a newcomer. That camaraderie served Tampa Bay well last season, when it took a massive step forward. Is it ready to take another?
"We need to be aware of who we are," coach Guy Boucher said. "The minute we work a little less than the other teams, we're going to lose."
Damian Cristodero can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow his coverage at lightning.tampabay.com and on Twitter at @LightningTimes.


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While PEPFAR funds abstinence-only programs, SIECUS finds the program's target countries desperately need basic sexual health information.
SIECUS today releases our
2008 PEPFAR Country Profile Updates. Designed to supplement the original 2005 PEPFAR Country
Profiles, these updates together track the impact and progress of
the prevention components in the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS
Relief, or PEPFAR, in the 15 designated "focus countries" around
the world.
There is no doubt that PEPFAR
provides assistance for care and treatment in countries most devastated
by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. But that admission does not require
us to turn a blind eye toward its destruction of a comprehensive prevention
agenda – the third part of the emergency response – in the focus
When PEPFAR was reauthorized
earlier this year, the popular press and advocates of a "more money
whatever the cost" approach failed to recognize what our new updates
continue to show: the ideological underpinnings in PEPFAR's prevention
portfolio stand in the way of a good program from being a great program.
The various restrictions and
limitations in PEPFAR's prevention portfolio are well known to many,
and include the disproportionate emphasis on Abstinence-only and "Be-faithful"
programs (AB) while downplaying the importance of correct and consistent
condom use (C). The original law also required 1/3 of prevention
funding to go to AB programs while the reauthorized law strongly suggests
focus countries not to fall below a 50% threshold for AB.
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The impact of this particular
silliness is entirely serious on the ground.
Tanzania is a disturbing example. Just
over 6% of people ages 15- 49 in Tanzania are HIV-positive
and about 80% of infections occur through heterosexual sex. The
country's own strategy, laid out in what is known as their National
Multi-Sectoral Strategic Framework, embraces a comprehensive approach
to prevention and recognizes the key role of condoms. (And, just
so it's clear that they have their work cut out for them, only about
40% of males and 45% of females in Tanzania could correctly indentify
ways to prevent HIV transmission and reject misconceptions about how
the virus is spread.)
Nonetheless, in responding
to Tanzania's epidemic, PEPFAR prevention funding misses the mark.
According to the country's operational plan for 2007, a total of 25
programs received funding, but only three of these were reported to
be promoting correct and consistent condom use. Making matters
still worse, one of these reported that it only reached 70 people (in
a country of more than 38 million people).
A similar disconnectedness
can be observed in Botswana. Botswana is, a country with an HIV prevalence
of nearly 24% (the second highest in the world), and while 25 organizations
received PEPFAR funding to prevent sexual transmission of HIV in 2007,
only two promoted correct and consistent condom use.
Botswana also exemplifies the
open-door policy of PEPFAR to faith-based organizations that allows
them to withhold any information they deem contrary to faith teachings.
So who is getting PEPFAR funding in Botswana? True Love Waits
– a program whose central pillar is a virginity pledge that has been
disproved as an effective intervention. Moreover, this particular
program instructs people that safe sex is wrong and that condoms have
defects in them. This, in a country where nearly one in four people
carry the virus. True Love Waits also received PEPFAR funding in Kenya
and in South Africa.
There is additional, disturbing
evidence about what certain faith-based grantees are doing with
U.S. tax-payer money. For example, in South Africa, a country with about 18% HIV prevalence,
one grantee, called Scripture Union, describes its vision "to introduce
young people to Jesus" and ensure a "commitment to Jesus and also
to abstinence, whichever comes first." To be sure, this is a
missionary organization that uses PEPFAR funding to proselytize and,
in 2007, they received nearly $1 million of U.S. money to do that.
These are just a few of the
issues that surfaced in our extensive research and lead us to offer seven policy recommendations. We call for: 1) an end to disproportionate
emphasis for ineffective abstinence-only programs; 2) increased transparency
of how funds are actually being used; 3) increased oversight to combat
proselytizing, to prevent faith-based organizations from exempting themselves
from discussing information on condoms/contraception, and to review
the influence of the U.S. government in the development of country plans
on prevention; 4) an end to the war on prevention efforts for sex workers;
5) increased focus on integration of HIV/AIDS and reproductive health
care services; 6) increased investment in indigenous prevention program
providers; and 7) an end to legalized discrimination in the program
that allows grantees to deny care, treatment and prevention services
to whomever they choose based on moral beliefs.
2008 Updates contain much useful information, but what was so striking
to us at SIECUS was one consistent theme that emerged in nearly every
country: the way in which the HIV epidemic targets the most vulnerable
members of society. In country after country, young women, commercial
sex workers, injecting drug users, and men who have sex with men disproportionately
suffer from the HIV/AIDS. These are the people who are most in
need of help and medical interventions, but who often slip through the
cracks. As we face the challenges of reaching out to traditionally
underserved communities, we need PEPFAR to be more open and less blindly
moralistic in the way it distributes its resources.
SIECUS has developed updates
for all 15 of the focus countries: Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia,
Guyana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa,
Tanzania, Uganda, Viet Nam, and Zambia.
To see both the 2008 PEPFAR
Country Profile Updates and the 2005 PEPFAR Country Profiles,
go to www.siecus.org/countryprofiles.

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With the current heat wave we're stuck in, one must be vigilant of the extreme temperatures while working out. Don't push yourself and listen to your body while working out in the heat, but here's a few tips you also should be aware of:
- Stay hydrated. Whether you're stocking up on H2O or Gatorade it's important to keep the liquids flowing to prevent dehydration. Replenishing your electrolytes is beneficial to keeping you strong and hydrated.
- Catch shade. (Even if it's just for a few minutes.) Getting out of the sun will prevent your body from over-heating. It's much easier to catch your breath and revitalize without the sun beaming down on you.
- Wear sunscreen. If you're determined to exercise outside in the heat, make sure you wear waterproof sunscreen with an SPF 30 or above. It will protect your skin and block the sun's harmful rays.
- See sunrise. During the summertime it's best to get up early and workout in the morning when it's still cool or even after sunset. Midday is when the temperature hits a high so if it's a lunch-time workout: maybe stay indoors.
- Don't push it. If you feel like you're getting dizzy or faint take a rest. Extreme heat can case exhaustion so it's important to listen to your body.


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Cape Town - President Jacob Zuma's promise of "far-reaching interventions", to fix the frail economy, has been welcomed by both the City of Cape Town and the Western Cape government leaders in economic investment.
Head of investment in the Mayor's Office Tim Harris told the Cape Argus on Wednesday: "The president re-committed to accelerating economic growth to 5 percent in five years, working with business to remove constraints to investment, boosting trade in Africa, and implementing a new national broadband strategy to reduce the costs of connectivity.
"If these commitments translate into actual action by national government, then this programme will align with the City of Cape Town's efforts to turn ours into an 'opportunity city'.
"If there is no implementation, then our city government will be left to do much of the heavy lifting to drive growth higher and extend opportunity in Cape Town."
The Western Cape's Minister of Economic Opportunities, Alan Winde, said: "We will continue to focus on economic growth and jobs.
"The president spoke on two of our main growth sectors, being agriculture and tourism. We are working hard to create jobs in both these spaces and we hope to see the same commitment from the national government."
But Winde warned the ANC had actively "disrupted the agriculture space by fuelling conflict between employers and employees, politicised an important job-creation tool like the Industrial Development Zone and threatened to take successful tourism events away from the Western Cape and hold them in other provinces".
Regarding specific projects cited by Zuma, Winde said they supported the raising of the Clanwilliam Dam, and agreed with the National Development Plan that irrigation projects and infrastructure were "key job creators".
On the tourism sector, Winde reported in the second quarter of last year the Western Cape got 23.6 percent of South Africa's total tourist spend.
"Over the next three years, the province is set to welcome 3.6 million international visitors. Tourism spend is set to total R39 billion between now and 2017.
"By giving tourists more reasons to visit the Western Cape, we aim to increase the industry's contribution to the province's GDP from 10 percent to 15 percent."
And Winde agreed with the president the agriculture sector remained "one of very few viable industries in the South African rural areas".
"The million jobs the president mentioned relates to the National Development Plan 's take on agriculture. The basic argument of the NDP is that labour-intensive, export-oriented irrigation farming should be the foundation of employment and wealth creation in the rural areas. This type of agriculture is already well established in the Western Cape.
"We can still expand through increased water use efficiency, a focus on appropriate crops and the construction of new irrigation schemes."
Winde called for top-level meetings with the national agriculture ministry to make this happen.
"In terms of the land reform, there are 81 equity share schemes that are growing and creating jobs. We are asking the national government to reconsider financing this model. An independent audit recently found in terms of other land reform projects, 62 percent of these projects are sustainable."
Cape Argus


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The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
Let me start by saying, I am a fan of Anne Tyler. If she writes it I will read it. Having said that, I am nearly always disappointed with her endings. So, why do I keep coming back? Because I believe her work. I know her characters, even if I don't always like them, I believe in them. If I want more for them than they get in the end, that's just me trying to impose my values on them. The character has a life of his/her own, and I recognize the worlds they inhabit. In her new book The Beginner's Goodbye Aaron Woolcott is mourning the tragic and unexpected death of his wife Dorothy. He is devastated until he begins to run into her again. This is not a ghost story and she has not faked her death. Dorothy is really dead but she's not so much haunting him as keeping him company. This is a story of boundless grief and the way one man works through it. There are no huge revelations but for Aaron there is a shift in values that helps him get on with his life, and shows the reader a path to hopefulness through loss and despair.
Sherri M.


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Charles and Anne Varni, Washington, will celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary on Nov. 2, 2013, at St. Francis Borgia Jesuit Hall with family and friends, hosted by their children.
The Varnis were united in marriage May 19, 1973. Charles is a registered pharmacist and Anne is a retired registered nurse.
The Varnis' children are Mary Varni, New Haven, Ben and Anne (Varni) Hanneken, Villa Ridge, and Phil and Janet (Varni) Sokolich, St. Louis.
They have six grandchildren.


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Westmoreland fishermen missing
The Westmoreland police are now searching for two fishermen who have gone missing at sea.
They are 27-year-old Carlington Sinclair and 38-year-old Nathaniel Levy, who are both of Whitehouse addresses in the parish.
It's reported that Sinclair and Levy left for sea early Sunday morning, but relatives say they have not been seen or heard from them since.
Sinclair is of dark complexion, medium build and about 5 feet 8 inches tall while Levy is of dark complexion, slim build, and about 5 feet 7 inches tall.
The Westmoreland Police say as the search for the two men intensifies, marine interests are being urged to be on the alert, and to contact them with any information that may assist in the search for Sinclair and Levy.
They may contact the Whitehouse Police at 963-5220, Police 119 emergency number or the nearest Police Station.


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A young Filipino-Australian man stabbed and beat his stepfather to death following months of arguments over matters such as not using a knife at the dinner table and leaving a towel on the bathroom floor, a Sydney court has heard.
Michael Villalon, 29, is on trial in the NSW Supreme Court for the murder of Keith Owen Chaney, 69, in the southern Sydney suburb of Mascot on February 28, 2012.
Mr Villalon does not deny that he killed his mother's partner, but says that he should be found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder because he was affected by a mental condition that reduced his ability to understand what he was doing or to tell right from wrong.
In his opening address to the jury on Monday, Crown prosecutor Giles Tabuteau said Mr Villalon had inflicted a series of stab wounds to the older man's face, neck and torso with two knives, and then beat him over the head with a hammer.
After the killing, Mr Villalon allegedly told police: "I just exploded - I take full responsibility ... A couple of weeks ago, he hit me - he punched me in the face."
He later told police "the humiliation had to stop".
Mr Villalon moved from the Philippines to Australia in April 2009.
He and his sister began living with his mother Maria and Mr Chaney in their small two-bedroom home on Gardiner's Road, Mascot, in 2011.
Initially, the pair appeared to get along well, the court heard.
But Mr Tabuteau said there had been growing animosity between Mr Villalon and Mr Chaney.
Mr Chaney began "nit-picking" Mr Villalon, hitting him with a towel when he did not hang it up and accusing Mr Villalon of being lazy.
The two men allegedly argued on a regular basis over domestic matters, with Mr Villalon complaining that he was being nagged.
On one occasion, the court heard that Mr Chaney also punched Mr Villalon twice in the jaw.
On another occasion, Mr Chaney allegedly became angry at the young man for taking nuts that were roasting in the oven.
"There was also an argument over a towel not being put back," Mr Tabuteau said.
"On another occasion, there was an argument at the dinner table over the accused not using a knife when he ate his meals. Mr Chaney also told Michael Villalon he was lazy and should get a job."
The pair also allegedly clashed over the fact that Mr Chaney watched a lot of pornographic movies, including child pornography - a crime he was briefly jailed for in 2009.
He also allegedly attempted to kiss Mr Villalon's sister.
Then on the morning of February 28, 2012, Maria Villalon left the two men at home to work.
When she returned home that evening she found Mr Chaney on the kitchen floor.
"His face was covered in blood. A knife was still in place just below his left eye," Mr Tabuteau told the jury.
She called triple-0 and said Mr Chaney had been killed.
After the killing, Mr Villalon told police that, on the day of the killing, Mr Chaney had become angry at him for closing the bathroom door - something the older man had objected to strongly in the past.
The older man had then threatened him with a hammer, Mr Villalon said.
He admitted to then stabbing and beating the 69-year-old to death. But he now says he was affected by a mental disorder that impaired his ability to tell right from wrong.
The court heard that Mr Villalon had been depressed and complained about hearing voices before the killing, and had cut his wrists and taken sleeping pills and mild pain killers immediately afterwards.
However, assessments of the young man's mental state in the days after the attack suggested that he had been aware of what he was doing.
However, he then experienced a psychotic episode in jail.
"The central issue in this case will be the capacity of the accused to understand whether his acts were right or wrong, or to understand the events, because of an underlying condition," Mr Tabuteau said.
"If there was a substantial impairment, it is up to you to decide whether it is significant enough to reduce his responsibility from that of being guilty of murder to being guilty of manslaughter.
"The Crown says you would not find that is the case."
The trial continues.
- with AAP


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Categories for the awards range from Best Films for Family Audiences to the Grace Awards, which are handed to actors or actresses whose performances best exemplify God's glory and mercy.
According to Dr. Ted. Baeher, founder of Movieguide, the awards are for those who continue to promote positive values within the motion picture industry.
"Since we've been doing this, the number of R-rated films has dropped from 82 percent to about 30 percent. The number of movies with positive Christian content has gone from 1 percent to 60 percent and movies with moral content has gone from 10 percent to 80 percent. We see the studios wanting to make money."
Dr. Baehr handed out over 25 awards on Friday night, including the coveted $100,000 Epiphany Prizes that are given to one movie and one television program epitomizing "man's love for God for understanding of God."
The winner of the Epiphany Prize for the Most Inspiring Movie of 2010 is The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader from 20th Century Fox Pictures. The movie, which is based on the C.S. Lewis classic, focuses on the Christians' struggles with temptation from sin.
Amish Grace received the Epiphany Prize for the Most Inspiring TV Program of 2010. Based on a true story, Amish Grace, which premiered on Lifetime Television, depicts what transpires when a gunman senselessly takes the lives of five girls in an Amish community.
The prestigious Grace Award for Most Inspiring Performance in Movies was awarded to Kevin Sorbo for What If, a film about a man's journey back to God after the man abandoned Him years earlier in pursuit of a life of glitz and glamor. The Grace Award for Most Inspiring Performance in Television went to Madison Mason for Amish Grace.
Toy Story 3 from Pixar and Disney Pictures was Movieguide's pick for Best Movie for Families, followed by Despicable Me, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Shrek Forever After, Tangled, What If, How to Train Your Dragon, Letters to God, and Megamind.
For Best Movie for Mature Audiences, the winner was Secretariat from Walt Disney Pictures, followed by The Book of Eli, The King's Speech, True Grit, Letters to Juliet, Mao's Last Dancer, Iron Man 2, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Alice in Wonderland, and Get Low. Secretariat is based on the true story of a race horse and the woman who owned him.
Mao's Last Dancer earned the Faith and Freedom Award (for movies) for promoting positive American values. The film was a very worthy candidate for this award since it told the true story of professional dancer Li Cunxin, who, on a visit to the United States, defected from China and made a life for himself. Christmas With a Capital C, which aired on the Gospel Music Channel, received the Faith and Family Award for television programs.
It seems each year that the number of family and Christian-based films continues to grow, and as such, the Movieguide Awards grow in popularity. As families flock to the theaters and tune into these quality films on their television, they send the mass media conglomerates the message that Americans continue to have a taste for Christian values.
Graphic: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader poster


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He fought the law and the law is winning. Jack Thompson, hot off the heels of a Florida Bar recommendation that he be disbarred for ten years for 27 violations of professional misconduct, is again testing if the pen is mightier than the sword. In a letter written to Chief Judge Federico Moreno, Thompson claimed his recent trial was a mockery of the system and demanded a fair trial.
"We find yesterday that enemy combatants at Guantanamo are to get more due process from federal judges than what I am to have. I guess my "mistake" was not killing 3000 people to make my point ... I demand a hearing," Thompson wrote in the letter to Moreno.
Judge Moreno responded to the shocking letter by dispatching two U.S. Marshals to the home of Mr. Thompson. "The purpose of that visit was to intimidate and harass me," Thomson wrote to Moreno following the incident.
As the Florida Bar continues to seek disbarment for the controversial lawyer, Thompson is now seeking a meeting with the House Judiciary Committee in Washington to complain that the Justice Department is harassing him.
Jack Thompson is famously known in the gaming community for his stance against violent videogames, particularly titles from Take Two Interactive; publisher of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto franchise.
[via Game Politics]


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Civil War era Steinway Concert Grand Restored With Modern New Style Action
This piano was built by Steinway in 1866, just after the end of the Civil War. When this piano was built, the majority of pianos built by Steinway were square grand pianos, with only a small fraction of Steinway pianos being of the grand or upright type. It is made of the desirable cabriole leg style with carved music rack and pedal lyre.
Steinway grand pianos this early are quite rare, and the majority of surviving instruments are not in playable condition. This instrument has been restored with an entirely new action of modern design so that it plays and sounds like a newer conventional concert grand piano. It is truly a spectacular instrument to see and hear.
In 2009, Steinway re-introduced a limited number of reproduction Rococo style grand pianos patterned after this original instrument. The new reproduction Rococo Steinways are retailing for about $110,000.
If desired, this piano can be equipped with the Pianomation player system, and can play by itself by streaming music live on an iPod, computer, iPad, etc.
The matching bench is included.
Steinway & Sons Illustrated Sales Catalog. Circa 1882


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Wright (aka "Bad John") b 17 May 1844 Letcher Co, KY d 30 June 1931
Pound, Wise Co, VA, at 87 years of age. John was the son of Joel Ellis Wright and
Eliza Agnes Bates.
Flora Custus 'Dussey' Wright b 22 Apr 1876 m. Emmitt Cantrell.
Eliza "Liza" Wright
b 29 July 1878 Pike Co KY d 26 Jan 1929 East
Jenkins, Letcher Co KY m. 5 Apr 1901 to Henry Melvin Samuel Vanover b 17
Dec 1877 East Jenkins Letcher Co KY d 5 Feb 1964
Pike Co KY s/o Henry Vanover and Jane Bentley.
Alice Wright
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Ratliff m. James Bryant.
Wright b 10 June 1886 m. Riley Mullins.
Samuel Preston Wright (living status unknown).
Wright (living status unknown).
John Wesley 'Devil John'
Wright and Ellen Sanders had the following children;
Joel Wright b 29 June 1883, m. 3 Jan 1907 to
Mary C Reynolds, b 15 Jul 1882 d 19 Nov 1961 at age 79 yrs 4 mos 4 days, d/o Joseph Coleman Reynolds and Mary Manerva Morgan.
1st Obituary of Mary Reynolds
REYNOLDS, Mary d/o J. C. and
Nerva Reynolds, b: Jul 15 1882 d: at age 79 yrs, 4 mos and 4 days; md: Joel
WRIGHT, Jan 3 1907 (d: Nov 19 1961) he was the s/o John Wesley and Ellen
(Sanders) Wright; no children. She leaves, two brothers, Billy, Pound, Va,
Colman Reynolds, Washington; 3 half sisters, Mrs. George Rogers, Lexington, Ky,
Manda Triplet, Washington, and Aggie Potter, Oak Hill, Ohio. Member of the Old
Regular Baptist Church. (Source).
2nd Obituary of Mary Reynolds
REYNOLDS, Mary was b: Jul 15 1882 d: Nov 19 1961; the dau of J. C. and
Nerva Reynolds; md: Joel WRIGHT, Jan 3 1907; no children. She leaves 2 brothers,
Billey Reynolds of Pound, Va and Coleman Reynolds of state of Washington. Member
of the Old Regular Baptist Church.
Wright b 23 May 1885 m. Melvenia Mullins d/o Booker Mullins and Charlotte, Charity 'Chat' Wright.
Healthy Wright b 2 May 1887 m. John Benjamin Mullins b June 1897 s/o Booker Mullins and
Charlotte, Charity 'Chat' Wright.
Ira Ellis
Wright b 12 June 1889 Jenkins, KY d 7 Feb 1955
Huntington, WV m. 17 Oct 1917 (divorced 8 Jun 1929) to Martha
Vermillion. Ira Ellis Wright m. 30 Apr 1945 to 2nd Vianna Early. Ira
Ellis Wright and Martha Vermillion had the following children;
John Wesley 'Devil John' Wright and Alice Lee Harman had the following children:
Frank Wampler Wright (still alive).
Bertha Wright b 26 Jan 1896.
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AN Alloa-based firm has bought global mineral exploration giant Boart Longyear's UK drilling services division and plant.
The Mulraney Group, which owns and operates a number of building and engineering businesses, formed GeoSonic Drilling following the purchase.
The new firm has the largest fleet of independently owned and operated sonic drilling rigs in Europe and is projected to make more than �5 million in its first year.
Sonic drilling uses high frequency energy to take samples below ground.
GeoSonic Drilling will specialise in site investigations for the environmental planning, construction, mining and renewable energy sectors, owns and operates a total of nine rigs. Its eight "mini" or small rigs can drill to depths of 80 metres while its large rig is capable of drilling to depths of 200 metres.


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Skandia International, the offshore business of Old Mutual Wealth Management, announces the launch of the Royal Skandia GBP Protected FTSE TM 100 Fund. The aim of the new fund is to offer full capital protection and an investment return of 152% of the average growth of the FTSE 100 index when held for five years until maturity. The fund, which is predominantly aimed at Sterling investors, could be attractive to those concerned with the current volatility in world stock markets but still want the potential to benefit from any future increases in valuation levels.
26 January 2012
In a recent study* conducted by Skandia International, a significant 80% of financial advisers stated that as a result of the ongoing stock market volatility they are more likely to recommend protected products to their clients now than they had ever done before. Almost 20% indicated they would allocate up to 20% of a client's portfolio to these vehicles, whilst over 15% felt they would advise as much as 30% of clients' assets is placed in protected funds. Over 81% of respondents believe the most appealing feature of structured products to be the protection of capital.
The Royal Skandia GBP Protected FTSE TM 100 Fund is available exclusively through the Royal Skandia Executive and Collective Offshore Bond products.
The protection element is provided by Morgan Stanley, renowned for its expertise in the structured products sector and currently rated 'A-' and 'A2' respectively by the Standard & Poor's and Moody's rating agencies.
The fund, which is available to new and existing investors, is open for investment from the 25th January 2012 for a period of eight weeks at the end of which the proceeds will be invested for five years. At maturity, the value of the holding will be switched into the Royal Skandia GBP Deposit fund and thereafter, investors will have access to the full range of assets available to the Royal Skandia Executive and Collective Bond products.
Phil Oxenham, marketing manager at Skandia International, comments:
"The current economic predictions seem to suggest that 2012 may prove to be yet another unstable year for investors. The continued volatility in global stock markets is adding to the prevailing investor nervousness and this can be detrimental – especially when markets stabilise and settle on an upward trend.
'The ideal choice for many investors is a vehicle that allows them to enjoy growth should markets rise, but which is designed to protect and return their original capital should markets fall.
'The Royal Skandia GBP Protected FTSE TM 100 Fund has been designed with the aim of meeting that need. This fund aims to capture the positive performance of the FTSE 100 Index while returning at least 100% of the contribution at the end of a five-year term.
'We are delighted to be enhancing the range of Portfolio Bond assets further by offering new and tailored protected investment options."
*The Offshore Adviser Confidence Barometer research was conducted by Skandia International in Q4 2011 and attracted responses from over 450 advisers from around the world – Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, UK, Europe, Africa and Latin America.
This press release is for journalists only and should not be relied upon by financial advisers or customers.


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CKRL 89.1FM metal radio show "Démentièllement Vôtre" has posted more than 60 pro-shot photos of METALLICA's October 31, 2009 concert at Colisée Pepsi in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The pictures, which were taken by well-known photographer Olivier Jean, can be found at Dv-metal.com.The band's setlist was as follows: 01. That Was Just Your Life
02. The End Of The Line
03. For Whom The Bell Tolls
04. Holier Than Thou
05. One
06. Broken, Beat And Scarred
07. Cyanide
08. Sad But True
09. Turn the Page
10. All Nightmare Long
11. The Day That Never Comes
12. Master Of Puppets
13. Damage, Inc.
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman
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16. Breadfan
17. Phantom Lord
18. Seek and Destroy METALLICA's two shows at the Colisée Pepsi in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada on October 31 and November 1 are being filmed by the band's longtime friend and collaborator, famed video director Wayne Isham. It is not presently clear if there are any plans to release the footage. Wayne Isham, 51, is an American movie director who has directed music videos of many popular artists such as MÖTLEY CRÜE, SIMPLE PLAN, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, PANTERA, 'N SYNC, SHANIA TWAIN, GODSMACK, BRITNEY SPEARS, LEONA LEWIS, PINK FLOYD, SHERYL CROW, JOSS STONE, MADONNA, AVRIL LAVIGNE, DEF LEPPARD and BON JOVI, among others. Previous METALLICA videos that were directed by Wayne Isham: * "Enter Sandman"
* "Wherever I May Roam"
* "Sad But True"
* "Fuel"
* "No Leaf Clover"
* "Nothing Else Matters" (from "S&M")
* "I Disappear"
* "Frantic"
* "Broken, Beat And Scarred" METALLICA has set November 23 as the release date for "Francais Por Une Nuit", or "French For One Night", the full-length concert DVD that the band filmed in Nimes, France on July 7, 2009. The show took place at a historic Roman amphitheatre called the Arenes de Nimes. In addition to the band's complete 18-song set, the disc also includes interviews with the group and five video clips shot by members of the audience. Although initially announced as a France-only release, fan demand has led to Metallica also making the set available through their web site, Metallica.com, as well as the site of the French branch of the band's record company. A statement posted on the band's web site said, "ALL aspects of the project are French as the show was filmed, recorded, and edited with French camera and recording crews, the artwork on the package and special box set (more on that in a minute!) were created by a French design team; even the credits are in French." The DVD will come in three formats: standard DVD or Blu-ray in a digipack including a 16-page booklet, and a deluxe limited edition box set that includes the DVD, a copy of "Death Magnetic" on CD, a T-shirt, laminated pass, and five exclusive photos.


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How do I fix Alt-Tab in KDE?
I'm running Debian etch with latest KDE 3.5.4. At some point instead of the lovely traditional box with the list of open windows when I press alt+tab or atl+shift+tab, it simply switches me immediately back and forth between the two most recently used windows.
I'd really prefer to actually fix this if anyone knows how it might possibly be done. I really hate deleting ~/.kde and then having to set my desktop up (a fix I've discovered works well for KDE issues when I'm too impatient/lazy to find a real solution).
--- rod.
Are you allowed to use the gui tools if you're a Debian user? :D ;)
If so, keyboard shortcuts are in the accessibility section of the Kde part of the System configuration menu. Perhaps you have the kde control centre?
Edit: Quite by chance, I came across a reference which may be preferred by people who like to do things the difficult and time-consuming way: man:/xmodmap
The keybindings are stored in ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals but that probably contains the correct assignment. FWIW, I would try a different assignment until the next reboot, then change back. :twocents:
Have you by any chance de-selected the option on the Window behaviour module "Traverse windows on all desktops"? That would result in alt+tab only traversing windows on the visible desktop.
Kde also has a keyboard layout module with a tab Xkboptions. :study:
I'd like to reopen this thread as I am experiencing the (mostly^1) same problem as the OP: 'walking' through open applications on one desktop with "alt-tab" only toggles between the current and most recently used applications. (I have only one desktop in use.)
KDE version 3.5.5, Kubuntu 6.10, kernel 2.6.27-10-generic.
I expected "alt-tab" to popup a small window with the apps list, highlighting the 'next' open app. Pressing "alt-tab" again would highlight/select the 2nd 'next' open app, etc.
^1: This actually works on the REVERSE action "shift-alt-tab", but not on the forward action. Having two or ten apps open makes no difference.
As for keyboard shortcuts, the defaults are in place, as listed below. I added the "Win+Tab" 2nd/alternative method as part of troubleshooting (it makes no difference).
from: /home/<user>/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
Walk Through Windows=default(Alt+Tab);Win+Tab <--this FAILS
Any suggestions or solutions?
Thx for reading.
same issue except with walk through desktops
I experience the same behavior as well under 3.5.6 kubuntu edgy, except in my case with walk through desktops.
one thing i've learned about this is that people who notice the problem are people who like to use the right alt-key when they are performing their Alt+Tab key combination
my keyboard, like many others, has two alt keys, a left and a right, and they do not act the same when being used to create an Alt+Tab combination -- in KDE (3.5.5) the [left]alt-tab cycles through all windows but [right]alt-tab flips between the last two only
some idiot somewhere decided it would be cool to make the two act different, simply because he could
i will continue looking for a way to make [right]alt-tab cycle through all windows -- if i find one i will post it here -- please do the same for me...
I had the same problem... Deleting the following line from your ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc should restore your switch box!
You have to have selected "Click on focus" or "Focus under mouse" option on windows behaviour menu in order to have the windows list menu shown. Otherwise, use the ALT + F5 shortcut.
It's in Settings -> Desktop -> Window Behavior -> Navigation ... listed as "Show window list while switching windows".
Enabling this will allow alt+tab window previews to be displayed while switching.
I'm using Gutsy Gibbon, and I don't get the window list when I hit Alt-Tab. In window behavior, "Show window list while switching windows" is checked, but is greyed out. Is there another option I can try?
Does it switch applications when hitting alt+tab?
If not, make sure you are using an applicable keyboard shortcut scheme.
I generally don't change much in KDE except to disable all effects and load compiz-fuzion and emerald. Selecting the keyboard scheme and ticking that box are about all the post-modifications I make.
I use ArchLinux http://www.archlinux.org
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At the same time, Jason comes to Maxie's rescue as Spinelli manages to sneak out of Ian's room undetected. Jason grows more suspicious of Ian and orders Spinelli to dig into his bank accounts. Johnny and Claudia offer Ian money to leave town but he thinks that would prove to Jason that he's guilty of shooting Michael. Ian warns Claudia that he'll take her down with him if Jason figures out what he did.
Meanwhile, Diane beseeches Alexis to intercede on her behalf with Sonny. Ric interrupts Alexis and Diane's argument with the news that he's now acting as Anthony's attorney. Sonny warns Alexis and Diane that Anthony can never go free. The day winds down as Carly refuses to accept the fact that Michael might never come out of his coma. Robin fears she's underestimated what she's in for being a mother. Sam tries to cozy up to Ian.
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Thermax Ltd's stock has gained 56% this calendar year, the best performing constituent of the BSE Power index barring JSW Energy Ltd. What could be the reason for this exceptional rise?
One reason for the run-up—as with some other stocks in this space—is the reform push by the government, at least on paper. With pundits forecasting that the Reserve Bank of India will cut rates in the January-March quarter, there is optimism that investment demand will pick up in the coming months.
Thermax itself won a Rs.503 crore order on 3 December from a government company. In the three months ended September, after five straight quarters of decline, the company managed to increase its order inflows by 4% from a year ago to Rs.1,320 crore.
However, despite this seeming bullishness, even investors aren't all that convinced. On the day Thermax won the government order, the stock momentarily climbed to a 52-week high of Rs.639.90 before closing at Rs.605.50.
The reasons for this caution are not hard to find. These also explain why the rally in the Thermax stock may not be sustainable.
For one, the investment cycle among private sector companies is yet to take off. As compared with 60-70% of new orders between 2009 and 2011, this year, only 30% of orders originated from the private sector.
That is owing to the familiar reasons of fuel availability, land acquisition issues, environmental clearances and so on.
Moreover, in a discussion with Edelweiss Capital Ltd, the management itself said it "expects the CPP (captive power plant) market to drop by 15-20% to 1,200 megawatts in FY13E". If capital goods companies are getting orders, it is mainly from the government sector, which may not be sustainable.
Secondly, the weak order inflows in the preceding quarters are starting to bite.
In the September quarter, Thermax's revenue fell 8.5% from a year ago to Rs.1,192.4 crore and its operating profit fell 13.5%. Brokerage firms estimate that the company needs to get order inflows of Rs.1,500-1,600 crore every quarter to show revenue growth.
Add to this, problems such as declining margins owing to higher competition and underutilization of a new supercritical factory because of a lack of bids for products.
In that scenario, earnings will continue to remain under pressure in the medium term.
Hence, Thermax may find it difficult to justify valuations with the stock trading at over 21 times 12-month forward earnings, not only above its long-term average, but also at a premium to rivals such as Larsen and Toubro Ltd.


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A comprehensive package of election reforms dubbed the Voters Bill of Rights was proposed Monday as a way to boost turnout in municipal elections and move toward total public financing of political campaigns.
Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar said he will introduce the package at today's council meeting with the hope that three City Charter amendments needed to implement the plan could be on the ballot next month.
A fourth proposal that would allow applicants to register to vote on Election Day would require a change in state law.
"We have had several forums where we have looked at how we can improve elections in the city," Huizar said. "We hope these reforms can be placed before voters … that we hope will save money and increase voter confidence in our elections."
One of the elements would change the city's matching fund program in a way to encourage candidates – who increasingly have rejected it – to accept public funds for their campaigns. Huizar said it would not change the $12 million cost per election, but would end the need for candidates to spend so much time raising money.
However, he acknowledged, it would have no impact on the role of independent expenditure committees that have had an increasing influence on city elections.
A second proposal would institute a form of instant runoff elections, in which voters would rank candidates on a ballot so an election would be decided in one day rather than having a primary and runoff election.
Under ranked voting, voters would list their preference for a candidate. If the top candidate does not get more than 50 percent of the vote, the lower ranked candidates would be eliminated until the top vote getter does get a majority.
This proposal has run into some opposition from those who are in office and had to come from behind to win.
A third proposal would allow for all vote-by-mail elections.
Kathy Feng of Common Cause said this proposal would have voters receive an absentee ballot and be given the choice of mailing it in or turning it in on Election Day to regional vote centers.
"This is an effort to lay the foundation for reform to increase participation," Feng said, adding city elections in recent years have been as low as 7 percent.
Huizar said the idea behind the package is to deal with voter fatigue from having so many elections and making it easier for voters to cast their ballot.
The final proposal for same-day registration has drawn criticism from those who fear voter fraud. Huizar said he believes there could be enough safeguards put in to deal with the issue.
Not among his proposals, but one he is considering, is an increase in how much money candidates are allowed to raise from a single source. Currently, City Council candidates are limited to $500 per donor, while citywide candidates can raise $1,000.


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As matters become more complicated, Spenser's longtime love, Susan, begins offering some input by analyzing Eisenhower's behavior patterns in hopes of opening up a new avenue of investigation. It seems that not all of Gary's women are rich. So if he's not using them for blackmail, then what is his purpose? Spenser switches tactics to focus on the husbands, only to find that innocence and guilt may be two sides of the same coin.
With its eloquently spare prose and some of the best supporting characters to grace the printed page, The Professional is further proof that t]here's hardly an author in the crime novel business like Parker (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).


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The Queen's Bench Court for Saskatchewan recently applied the Saskatchewan International Commercial Arbitration Act (SICAA) and the UNCITRAL Model law
The Ontario Superior Court recently decided two important issues relating to construction liens. In Wellington Plumbing & Heating Ltd. v. Villa Nicolini
The Supreme Court of Canada has recently refused leave to appeal in Trevor Nicholas Construction Co. Ltd. v. Canada
If an arbitration agreement states that there is to be no appeal from the award under the agreement, can a party seek judicial review on the ground that the award is unreasonable?
On October 10, 2012, I gave a speech at an Advocates' Society program
Is a party to a contract obligated to mitigate its damages at the same time that it is asking the court to order specific performance?
Canada has recently signed a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) with the People's Republic of China
The decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Progressive Homes Ltd. v. Lombard General Insurance Co of Canada is a seminal decision with respect to the application of CGL policies to the construction industry
A clause obliging the insurer to defend an insured, or pay for the insured's defence, is a well know feature of liability insurance policies
Courts are often unwilling to hold that an agreement is unenforceable for uncertainty when, by all appearances, the parties intended to make a contract


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Our desire to reach people wherever they are any time of day has radically changed the way we communicate with constituents, colleagues, and friends in the last decade. The infographic Power to the Online People, shows how effective online organizing can be if you have the right strategies in place. For example, when Congress was considering to support the SOPA bill earlier in 2012, nonprofits and businesses organized over 10,000,000 people to sign online petitions and send over 3,000,000 emails to Congress. Users on Reddit also crowdsourced ideas to draft new Internet legislation in place of SOPA.
And when the Egyptian people protested against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, over 90,000 Egyptians on Facebook said they were planning to join to the demonstrations on January 25th. On January 27th, Facebook saw six times more traffic than Google as the world watched these protests unfold online.
As you ring in the new year, and begin planning your campaign strategies for 2013, how will you be leveraging online organizing to make an impact on the ground?


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Question about mag for SA 1911 A1
I havce been hearing people say that there is a double stack mag out for the SA 1911 A1... Is the double stack mag able to go into the 1911 A1 or do you have to buy a 1911 A1 that takes the double stack mag...
there are 10 round mags you can get. i think mccormick makes one type but they stick out the bottom of the frame a bit. i do have a 20 round magazine that hangs out the bottom of the gun like a SMG mag heh. fun toy at the range. that mag likes to jam up in the column with the spring getting stuck but its fun when it works.
the majority of the magazines i have are from SA or are from WW2 vietnam and korea era. my commander in the army gave me a mixed box of 50 of em out of our armory when we switched from the god given 1911 to that shtfkd berreta crap. they were just gonna toss em so i asked and got em for free.
(dont get me started on what i think of that gdmn berreta 92...)
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Beware of technicians offering low-cost air-duct cleaning, Solano County officials warn.
District Attorney Donald du Bain's office is warning residents about a spate of scams involving too-good-to-be-true air duct cleaning offers.
A reputable company will charge between $400 and $1,000 to clean the ducts of a typical 2,000 square foot house, officials said. A proper job will take two professionals using special equipment between eight to 12 hours, they said.
So, if, as some Solano County residents have reported, you are contacted by a company offering to clean your air ducts for as little as $49.99, it is likely a scam, du Bain's office said.
What tends to happen to people who make appointments with such companies, is that the technicians find a slew of other work that must be done to improve the home's air quality, jacking the initial price up, often, by thousands of dollars, officials said.
Officials said the U.S. environmental Protection Agency reports no connection between duct cleaning and reduced health problems, du Bain's office notes.
The EPA suggests getting your air ducts cleaned if:
* There's substantial visible mold growing inside hard surface (like sheet metal) ducts or other components of your heating and cooling system.
* The ducts are invested with vermin like rodents or insects.
* The ducts are clogged with excessive amounts of dust and debris and/or particles are actually released into the home from your supply registers.
To find a reputable duct cleaning service:
* Avoid those making sweeping health-benefit claims.
* Ask for and check references.
* Check your city or county consumer affairs office or the Better Business Bureau for complaints against the firm.
* Interview potential service provider and make sure they're experienced working with your type of system, will use procedures to protect your family, pets and home from contamination and comply with agency standards; and if your ducts have fiber glass, have a North American Insulation Manufacturers Association recommendations.


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Prior to Scholarship Competition, submit a 1-2 page letter describing your writing experience, the kind of writing you prefer, and the kind of literature you most enjoy reading. Your letter should include an explanation of why you want to major in English and your career aspirations. Email this letter as a Word attachment to Gary Tandy at email@example.com.
The Scholarship Competition on campus will consist of two parts:
Part 1 will be a faculty-led discussion based on an essay that you will read prior to the discussion.
Part 2 will consist of individual interviews with several department faculty.
If you have questions on any component of the competition, contact Gary Tandy at email@example.com.


text: Oke. I just ordered a complete standard A2 upper from sableco. If i get a free float barrel tube later, so my grip isnt clamped to my barrel, do i need anything else special to freefloat it? A special grip, front sight etc..? Do i need a removable front sight?


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There have been several one-volume works on World War II published over the past 40 or so years. Liddell Hart's authoritative History of the Second World War (1970) and Gerhard Weinberg's A World at Arms (1994) readily come to mind. But Max Hastings' searing new work, Inferno: The World at War, while reflecting upon the big military-geopolitical picture, also illuminates the war's lesser-known regions and vividly shows its overpowering effect upon the lives of ordinary civilians and soldiers in a hellish conflict in which at least 60 million people died miserably.
Hastings, previously a foreign correspondent and editor of Britain's Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph, and author of more than 20 books including Overlord, Armageddon and Retribution, begins his assiduously researched work with Hitler's attack on Poland. The author informs us that Germany's immediate "justification" for the attack was the following: At 8 p.m. on Aug. 31, 1939, Alfred Naujocks of the German security service led a party of German troops, including a dozen convicted German criminals — all in Polish military uniforms — in a mock assault on a German radio station at Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia, Poland. SS machine gunners killed the convicts, whose bloody corpses were then displayed to foreign correspondents as "evidence of Polish aggression."
At 2 a.m. on Sept. 1, mounted units of the German Wehrmacht began their strike against Poland. World War II had begun.
Using diary entries as he does throughout this book, Hastings shows us one of the invasion's heartrending casualties. Polish nurse Jadwiga Sosnkowska recalls a 16-year-old girl, a bombing victim, lying on a hospital table. "She had a glorious mop of golden hair, her face was delicate as a flower, and her lovely sapphire-blue eyes were full of tears. Both her legs, up to the knees, were a mass of bleeding pulp … both had to be amputated above the knee. … I bent over … to kiss her pallid brow. … She died quietly … in the morning."
Intimate, moving scenes such as this abound throughout the book.
In the larger historical sphere, Hastings describes in detail how 8 million French citizens abandoned their homes — "the greatest mass immigration in western European history" — in the month following the German invasion (June-July, 1940). How in 1939-40 the Finnish Army, woefully undermanned and underarmed, managed for a time to drive back Stalin's forces consisting of 120,000 troops, 600 tanks and 1,000 large artillery pieces. How Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, resulted in 27 million Russian deaths in 1941-43. And how the United States' strategically incredible and bloody "island-hopping" campaign across the western Pacific ultimately defeated Japan.
In the more individual, personal realm, the author shows us clearly what it was like in the cockpit of a Spitfire fighter plane during the 1940 Battle of Britain. Here's RAF pilot Geoff Wellum closing in for a Nazi kill: "Bloody front gunner. My target, concentrate, the target. Looking at him through the sight .... Sight on, still on, steady ... fire NOW! I press the gun button and all hell is let loose."
On the Eastern Front, where starvation always threatened, Stephen Kuznetsov, a Soviet soldier, wrote, "All our soldiers ... look like ghouls — emaciated by hunger and cold." But in Leningrad, which was surrounded by German forces for 2 1/2 years, from 1941 to 1944, things were a lot worse. Hastings tells us that in late 1941, after the pigeons, crows, gulls, rats and household pets were eaten, people resorted to cannibalism.
On Feb. 4, 1942, in hardly an isolated case, one woman, a witness said, "utterly worn out and desperate," told police "that when her husband fainted through exhaustion and lack of food, she hacked off part of his leg to feed herself and her children." She faced execution for her crime, the author writes.
Hastings also examines the infamous Bengal famine in India, exacerbated by the war in 1943-44, and shows how Britain's callous, racist policies, its "final epitaph of British rule" according to nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru, ultimately led to India's independence in 1947.
As Hastings brings us toward the Armageddon-like horror of World War II's conclusion — Berlin's fall, Hiroshima, Nagasaki — we are shown the mass of millions of German refugees fleeing westward from the Soviets and certain rape and/or death. The surreal, "snowclad landscape of eastern Europe," Hastings writes, "was disfigured by tens of thousands of corpses." One young German mother with two small children would not give up, however: "I had set myself a task — to take the children to safety and see them grow up. How? I did not know. I just tackled each day as it came."
Bracing in its attention to ordinary human beings, yet comprehensive in historical scope, Max Hastings' revealing Inferno could be considered the definitive one-volume history of World War II.
Chris Patsilelis has reviewed books on military subjects for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle.


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Hi Experts
I have windows server 2003 sp1 64 enterprise edition installed on my laptop. I would like to know which office version can i install without running into issues. I would not like to update windows server 2003 sp1 64 enterprise edition.
I am average computer user and hence don't want to touch stable windows server 2003 sp1 installation.
However I do need excel on this laptop as well.
Pls advise.
I am having issues to install office 2010 noth 64 bit and 32 bit and tried certain options but cannot get it to install.


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With the foul line still their best friend, the New Mexico Lobos beat a ranked team and won the Paradise Jam basketball tournament in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, on Monday.
UNM didn't shoot well from the floor but was a perfect 21-for-21 from the foul line and beat 23rd-ranked Connecticut 66-60. New Mexico is unbeaten at 4-0 and has a good chance of moving into the national rankings next week. The Lobos have outscored their opponent at the foul line in every game this season.
The Huskies, who dropped to 3-1, had a 55-53 lead with two minutes to go. Down the line, UNM outscored the Big East team 13-5. In the rally, Hugh Greenwood hit a 3-pointer and scored on a layup, Chad Adams scored on an offensive rebound and Tony Snell hit four free throws.
New Mexico's Kendall Williams was voted the tournament's MVP and Snell was chosen all-tournament. But Greenwood was probably the star in the title game. The sophomore guard from Australia had 12 points and led UNM in rebounding with seven.
The Lobos did not shoot well. They started the game by missing their first nine shots and finished by shooting just 39.6 percent. But they worked hard on defense and at halftime New Mexico was on top 30-27.
Their perfection at the foul line made up for it. Junior Cameron Bairstow had made 18 of 20 free throws this season for 90 percent.
``Our shooting percentage again wasn't great, but the big shots went in,'' said Williams. ``I just wanted to carry some leadership with this team. I'm happy for us. This is a great win.''
Greenwood was happy with the outcome. ``I'm doing whatever I can to win. As the game goes, my confidence improves.''
UNM head coach Steve Alford wore a broad grin after the game. ``I thought we really guarded. Our program has done a lot in a short time, but we've never won a holiday tournament. It is great to get a holiday tournament in our resume. This means a lot to beat a nationally ranked team.''
``I thought that was our best 40 minutes,'' Alford continue ``A trip like this brings out of weaknesses. To win three games and find weaknesses we need to work on at the same time is good.'
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Specific features include separate corporate and personal personas for data and applications that reside on a device, the ability to wrap security policies around a given application, and a single portal for an end user or administrator to make any changes to the service or to add devices.
In addition, for enterprises and organizations seeking a premise-based platform for managing mobile devices and applications, MobileIron's portfolio can now be sold to organizations by Verizon Enterprise Solutions account representatives that are based in the U.S. Later this year, the resale agreement will be extended to Verizon clients in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
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The computer, called the Witch (short for Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell), is from the 1950s and was used to replace adding machines.
The Witch was first designed and and built in 1949 to help the UK's Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell in Oxfordshire with calculations. In 1951, the 2.5 tonne computer was ran for the first time. However, at that point, the Witch was called the Harwell Dekatron.
The Harwell Dekatron took up to about 10 seconds to multiply two numbers, and was used about 80 hours per week. But in 1957, smaller and faster computers hit the scene, and the Harwell Dekatron was moved to the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College to teach programming. This is where it acquired its new name, the Witch.
Later, in 1973, it was donated to Birmingham's Museum of Science and Industry, where it was displayed until 1997 when the museum closed. From there, the Witch was taken apart and stored.
The Witch had been forgotten until a trustee from The National Museum of Computing, named Kevin Murrell, noticed the Witch's control panel in a photograph brought in by another computer conservationist. He recognized the parts after having seen the Witch many times as a teenager.
This led to the restoration effort for the Witch, where it's piece were found in storage and reassembled. After cleaning it up and replacing a few parts, the Witch is alive again. About 480 relays and 828 Dekatron tubes are all original on the computer, making the Witch nearly completely original to its former 1950s self.
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One section of the report pointed to the developmentally disabled, saying the state spends six times what private companies do. But digging deeper into that claim, NBC 10 learned it's two different kinds of patients.
Hundreds of developmentally disabled children and adults spend their work days at Access Point, one of many private companies in the state that serve this community.
The cost is a lot less than at the state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital, but the state hospital has to deal with more severely impaired patients.
"You have patients on ventilator beds. You have patients with a whole host of medical services that are not applicable to the nursing home arena," said Steven Costantino, secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
The private operators know that. They would like to serve as many people as they can, but not the criminally insane or the long-term acute care patients.
"In developmental disabilities, there are very few providers who have that kind of a specialty. There may be people who from time to time who move from the hospital into a DD group home, but that is based on them no longer needing that hospital level of care," said Tom Kane of Access Point.
The discrepancy between the cost of state patients versus private patients is explained, says the state, more by the different level of services required by the patients than it is by inherent inefficiencies in the state system.
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Legislators have called for a study into why the state pays so much more for care for its patients, but it may be as simple as the type of patients in the state system.
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The sum of $100,000 was raised at the opening dinner of the United Palestine Appeal campaign at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel here. Seven hundred men and women attended the dinner which inaugurated the campaign for $300,000 Philadelphia's quota in the campaign.
Louis E. Levinthal is chairman of the drive. Dr. John Haynes Holmes of the New York Community Church was the principal speaker at the dinner. Judge William M. Lewis, national chairman of the U.P.A., made the appeal which resulted in one-third of the quota being raised.


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In April 2010, SW Boston Hotel Venture LLC and certain related entities filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Prior to the Chapter 11 filings, Borrower was indebted to both Prudential Insurance Company of America and the City of Boston. Prudential held the senior facility. In connection with such loans, Prudential and the city entered into an intercreditor agreement whereby Boston expressly agreed to assign its voting rights in any borrower bankruptcy case.
In support of plan confirmation, the City of Boston voted in favor of the plan, as did every other voting creditor class except Prudential. Prudential objected that the plan failed to enforce the intercreditor agreement and subordination of the city's voting rights. Prudential argued that the city lacked standing to vote based upon the express assignment of its voting rights.
Prudential further argued that the city should not receive any payments until Prudential was paid in full. Moreover, according to Prudential, because the intercreditor agreement required the city to assign its voting rights in any bankruptcy case involving SW Boston, Prudential held the city's vote and cast it to reject the plan. As a result, Prudential sought to invalidate the City of Boston's acceptance of the plan, and obtain a ruling that the city's vote was to reject.
In response, the City of Boston argued that the purported assignment of its voting rights was unenforceable as the parties couldn't contractually annul provisions of the bankruptcy code. The city further argued that it held additional collateral subject to its security interests and that such collateral was outside the scope of the intercreditor agreement. The City of Boston asserted, therefore, that Prudential had no right to insist on payment in full before the city could receive payment on account of the claims secured by the additional collateral.
Judge Joan N. Feeney of the Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court found that the assignment of Boston's voting rights to Prudential was unenforceable. Judge Feeney, while noting that 11 U.S.C. section 510(b) provides for the enforceability of subordination agreements, held, however, that "such agreements cannot nullify provisions of the Bankruptcy Code." As a result, the court invalidated the assignment of voting rights provision in the intercreditor agreement, and went on to confirm the plan using the cramdown provisions of 11 U.S.C. section 1129(a)(10) of the Bankruptcy Code.
As acknowledged by Judge Feeney, there is a split of authority regarding the "bankruptcy waiver" provisions granted by junior lenders in these types of second lien financing transactions. While Judge Feeney wasn't willing to enforce such provisions, other courts haven't questioned their enforceability and routinely approve similar agreements holding that the express assignment of voting rights in subordination agreements are presumptively valid under 11 U.S.C. section 510(a).
At some point, the issues must be resolved, but until then, senior lenders should beware that an express agreement assigning voting rights in a bankruptcy case won't always be enforced.


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