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Last night someone told me our love story was beautiful and sweet. Too bad its demise was tragic. I know you don't see what I see, but what I felt was felt because of what you put out there. Your touch was gentle, your soul was kind, your eyes twinkled. The way you touched me, held me kissed me. You said you saw the baby bear in the sky, I asked where all of his/her family members were you said poppa bear and momma bear were right here. It was so sweet. The eskimo kisses, the intertwining of bodies, the way you held my hand and kissed my cheek, and bit my nose, ears and toes. Now you're gone. I sent your life back to you, and all I got was a "thanks a bunch, I got the box". Funny, I wasn't sure how we would ever end, I hoped we never would, I never thought the last thing you would say to me was "thanks a bunch, I got the box". I won't text or email you, I have nothing to say. I told you I loved you, and you walked away. the next shot is yours to take, i'll be waiting.
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It's been almost ten years since we first met. In ten years I've forgotten so much of the everyday things I've done. When I move house and find little momentos of these things I'm amazed by how much can lay dormant in my brain awaiting a little trigger.
I still remember that night we met, and so many little things from that night act as triggers. Cranberry Juice. A red beret. Town Hall steps. The buzz of the air in springtime at dusk.
The way you danced, the cheeky smile and the natural groove. I could see you knew how to find the rhythm in the music and match it to your body's way.
When I see a girl dancing for attention, scripted by the latest filmclip and seeming all out is sync, I think of you. I think of how natural and vital you were and I see my girlfriend at the time trying to dance away her sadness. I tried the best I could to hide the effect you'd had on me, but she knew. She could see the change in my face.
From that night everything about you echoes through my day. The passion for social change and the care of others. The way you can step in with both feet. Your concern with your weight and my insensitive comments. I couldn't understand your worry because you are perfect to me.
We had times together that will always stay with me, even if I get old timers and can't remember my name, I'll remember them.
The night you came back to kiss me.
I couldn't because I knew how much he loved you too.
I couldn't because I didn't think I could be what you deserved.
I should've, but I wasn't brave enough to jump with both feet.
Now you live in a place I'd love to be. On the other side of the world. Where my sister found and lost her true love.
I remember thinking that when all the busy years had flown, we'd find eachother again. I thought that in time the poles would flip. We'll fit together in cuddles and my mind will no longer be dormant.
Dance Buddies
Posted in Letter to my ex, Letters to exes, Unsent Letters for Loves, tagged dating, firsts, fling, flirting, fuck buddy, hook-up, hooking up, making out, Relationships, smooching on April 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I saw you come into the bar and give the bouncer the hugest hug. I love it when men are affectionate with each other, so I noticed you instantly. You had scruff and a flannel shirt and the best dance moves. I was watching you, but we never spoke or danced together.
Apparently you noticed me noticing you. You told me later that's why you asked for my number.
We texted a bunch here and there but never got around to hanging out until months later.
We finally went out for an epically long date, though I wasn't sure it was a date the entire time. You are witty and fun and we got along, despite the fact you are super religious.
We awkwardly half kissed goodbye in a pretty non-sexual way. I've been told so many times that I come on too strong, so I was sort of letting you take the lead in this situation. I assumed you wouldn't contact me ever again.
But two weeks later, we hung out again. I went to your house and we had relatively awkward sex. Certainly not the worst, but not the best either.
And that was it. I think if I texted you, you would politely invite me to go out dancing. But I think if I didn't text you, I'd never hear from you again.
I cannot figure out what just happened, even a little.
Maybe you just aren't that into me.
But we seemed to get along, and you kept pursuing me. The next day you told me it was fun and we vaguely referred to future hang out times. I feel like if you just wanted to hook up, you would have approached it differently.
It makes me inclined to think that maybe you just aren't that into ladies.
But maybe that's just because I'm used to boys who are feminists.
Maybe you think I'm too fat.
You are really into working out.
Maybe it's that we became facebook friends and now you think I'm whorish.
But probably you just aren't that into me.
For what it's worth, I'd totally hang out with you more if you wanted to figure it out.
Or we could just become dance buddies, which I suspect is what you wanted all along.
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We were roommates. You are my favorite person to snuggle with in the entire world. I loved coming home from work at 2am and you'd be on the couch watching infomercials or PBS and I'd just curl up next to you on the couch for a good snuggle. Perfection.
There has never been anything between us.
You came to town and needed a place to stay. Naturally you could just sleep in my bed. I had work in the morning, you went out. I gave you the keys. You came home at 4am.
You took off all your clothes, wet with rain from the bike ride home, and left them outside my door. You got in my bed saying you were fucked up on coke & super drunk. You half slept and half chatted with me until you sleepily started making out with me.
I know you didn't want to cheat, so I wanted to protect you from yourself. I know we would never date.
But the thing is, I would totally make out with you. Why not? It wouldn't ruin anything and we wouldn't fall for each other.
I couldn't let you decide that drunk, so I told you I had to go to work and you fell asleep.
I really wonder if you remember. We will never discuss it. I hope you don't feel rejected, because in that sense, I would never reject you. I would do you dead sober.
Posted in Letter to my ex, Letters to exes, tagged dating, desire, love letter, Relationships, unsent love letters on February 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I have no idea how you spun your web and tangled me yet again, though this time is quite different. I have been telling you for 3 weeks when my birthday was, we spoke all night Thursday you seemed pretty clear that you understood this was my birthday weekend, when I called you Friday, you were so unsure we cancelled. I was furious at you….you always have a way to make it all better, but do you really?
You make promises but never keep them actions speak louder than words, and your promises mean nothing. You think I am in love with you, guess what I am. You told me you really wanted to see me, that if I came to you, you could guarantee I had a perfect birthday, well my birthday was far from perfect but it was great without you.
You have broken my heart in so many ways. When I told you if you did not show on Saturday for my birthday I was never speaking to you again, then you gave me some sob story and said you would make it up to me, and that you really wanted to see me, and you really liked me, but this just was not a good time for you.
We have not seen each other in 7 months, we live 8 hours away from each other, we are worlds apart, so why am I still hanging on? Why are you? When I send you your stuff back, it's because I will no longer need a reminder of you, I will never love anyone the way i loved you, you have this piece of my heart that you will have forever. Why would you ask me why I would love someone like you. You are the most sensitive man, when I say things that are mean you fuse them in the sweetest way. I was about to tell you I hated you so much and I am glad I didn't. I liked that you took a break from our argument and came back an hour later, you knew how mad I was at you.
Now I am worried you will never speak to me again, so I text you again last night to tell you I forgive you, and still want to be your friend and maybe I over react but you bring out all my wildest emotions and you have so much control over them. You always say the right things, I know you are honest with me. Someone told me sometimes even people in love cannot be together and I just cannot compute that yet. One day I will see it, not just because of our vast age difference I will understand- that you may love someone, and not be able to be with them.
When I was your age I went back and fourth with a relationship for 7 years, I cannot do that now, I know what love is, and I love you with my whole heart. Even though we are so different, i love that the most. our differences are what make me love you more than you will ever know. I just feel this connection to you.
When did forever get so short?
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The day dragged on the same as every other day prior with your face imbued in my mind like a mascot of defeat and despair, the image of what I once believed would bring eternal happiness now stuck hanging in the halls of my memory collecting dust where it once hung a banner of inspiration and joy, a trophy to all men. When the sun ceases to shine, when the moon fails to glimmer, when life takes on a perpetual sheen of gray the only pass time becomes an introverted assessment of our memories, the constant unanswerable question of where did it all go wrong? When did forever get so short? At what point did love become not enough?
But being brought up with the concept that love will always reign supreme given time you learn to push these incessant thoughts to the back of your mind to lay in wait till the time of your next inevitable breakdown. So I sat and desperately clung to all the passionate kisses, the romantic love letters, the daring adventures, the love making, the future plans, as if they were life itself. Just when misery became the closest thing to happiness that I could hope to achieve I received a text from the only person capable of curing my plight it should have revived me and brought me back to the living but instead it pushed me below rock bottom, the text informed me of a change in the dynamics of the situation, she was happily in a relationship with some guy. A million images raced through my mind, her holding his hand the way she held mine, her kissing his cheek the way she kissed mine, her loving him the way she loved me. The world had stopped spinning I was stuck in purgatory my chest got tight, my hands started shaking, my vision went blurry, I was swamped with an overwhelming sense of nausea I reached for the only thing that had sustained me this far, to my horror the bottle was empty chucking the bottle at the wall I scrambled for the carton of cigarettes, empty. I'm not sure how I made it through that night if truth be told I don't remember anything after that point just the comforting warmth of nothing.
The next two months I wasn't alive I was in some form of a coma, yes I was there I would hear you and I would answer, but I wasn't there not a hint of emotion, not sadness, not happiness, just nothing. Word reached me that she had broken up with her now former flame, the relief was instant. It was as if someone had stabbed me in the chest with an adrenaline needle, I allowed myself the privilege of hope. We began to talk again, at first I was reserved till I came to the conclusion that I had to be the old me, the one she had fallen in love, with not the deteriorating carcass of that man. Like all great actors I had to convince myself of the part I had to be the part so I resumed my social life I think I even found myself again at least for a time. We talked about the old times and how we still loved each other and how we were meant to be. From there it evolved into me bringing her flowers sleep overs the stupid laughs the endless kisses, til the next devastating blow to my heart was dealt, she had a new boyfriend. My shock was palpable to all around my mutilated heart visible to all to see. Still I was ensured that we would eventually be together, then it dawned on me we were over our era had ended the fairy tale had come to a tragic closing it was never again going to happen, I was merely the half time show, the fluffer in between scenes, and thats when I decided once was enough for one lifetime.
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I still see you, you know.
In my dreams, you're staring at me with those seemingly empty crystal blue eyes and telling me, "no more".
When I open my eyes,
I adjust my body as if you were still there,
reaching across the mattress to lay my arm gently over my pillow and pull it between my legs.
My body aches to be intertwined with yours.
Especially in the morning sunlight.
I see you on my way to work.
Laughing, or arguing, but most likely in groggy silence,
in the December air, while driving to Cambridge.
With the window down, I can still smell your cigarette smoke.
In the evenings, I see you at my front door.
Rosy cheeks and shivering, a meek smile, your shiny gold back pack.
A light kiss and lingering hug.
I want it to linger longer.
At the kitchen sink, soapy water bubbles over brims of bowls
As I feel your skinny fingers reach for me and fumble around my waist
You rest your warm cheek against my neck
I am holding you up.
And I shiver with the pressure.
I climb the stairs to my bedroom, your ghost does not follow.
The air is heavy, it weighs down hard on my chest.
Frantically, I push the tears back from eyes.
You hate it when I cry.
In bed, thoughts of you with your head between her legs seduce me like the devil clawing his way through my brain.
All consuming pain rushes through me.
Creeping from my chest, to the pit of my stomach, to the tips of my toes.
"Sleep," you say.
"Goodnight," I whisper to myself in the dark, hoping you hear me.
You are dead to me.
But I still see you.


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GENEVA – The Kane County Board will be asked a second time to approve a $13,000 sign that should help northbound traffic find the Kane County Government Center.
The proposed monument sign is part of a $47,000 signage project intended to make the Geneva campus, at 719 S. Batavia Ave. in Geneva, easier to navigate.
In a narrow vote, the County Board last month sent the proposal to the Administration Committee for further consideration after member Becky Gillam, R-West Dundee, raised concerns about the $13,000 sign planned for South Batavia Avenue.
She suggested the monument sign be replaced with a black directional arrow sign.
In a 3-2 vote Thursday, the Administration Committee forwarded the original proposal despite those concerns. Gillam was not in attendance.
Committee Chairman Ron Ford, D-Aurora, said a sign in that location is justified.
He advocated for the monument sign because it should last for decades. He said he would hate to install a less expensive option and be asked why the county didn't invest in a better quality sign.
"This is not something we're doing for a short time," Ford said.
Board members Phil Lewis, R-St. Charles, and Doug Scheflow, R-Elgin, voted against the project as proposed.
Lewis asked if it makes sense to spend $13,000 on a sign when there is one 50 yards away.
"Once you get here the first time, you know where [the government center] is," he said.
He reminded the committee that the majority of the full board sent the proposal back to committee.
"There is value in listening and responding to your colleagues," Lewis said.
Ford said he has seen the board approve items after initially being rejected.
He encouraged committee members to talk with their colleagues about their support for the project.


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Thailand is the only country in south-east Asia to have escaped colonial rule. Buddhist religion, the monarchy and the military have helped to shape its society and politics.
The 1980s brought a boom to its previously agricultural economy and had a significant impact on Thai society as thousands flocked to work in industry and the services sector.
Although Thailand's recent governments have been civilian and democratically-elected, the country has seen turbulent times. The military governed, on and off, between 1947 and 1992 - a period characterised by coups, coup attempts and popular protests.
The collapse of the south-east Asian economic boom in 1997 led to public disillusion with free-market policies and encouraged the rise of populist Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was reviled by the urban elites but enjoyed widespread support among the poor, particularly in rural areas.
In September 2006, opposition to PM Thaksin came to a head and the military once again stepped into politics, carrying out a bloodless coup against him.
The move kicked off a period of seesaw politics, marked by frequent attempts by pro-Thaksin "red-shirts" and anti-Thaksin "yellow-shirts" to use mass protests as a lever to eject the other side from power.
Elections held at the end of 2007 as part of the military junta's transition back to civilian rule handed power straight back to pro-Thaksin forces, who managed to stay in power for only a year before being ousted by mass anti-Thaksin rallies.
The resulting anti-Thaksin coalition weathered frequent pro-Thaksin demonstrations - often by dint of military force - for four years before losing power in elections to a government led by Thaksin's sister, Yingluck Shinawatra.
Yingluck Shinawatra managed to avoid triggering violent opposition on the scale of the protests that brought down several previous governments until late 2013, when an attempt to pass a political amnesty bill - which would have allowed Mr Thaksin to return from exile - brought mass protests back to the streets of Bangkok.
The constitutional court ousted Yingluck Shinawatra in May 2014 over nepotism allegations, leaving the government and country in political turmoil before the army once again seized power.
Conflict in south
Thailand has a minority Muslim, ethnic Malay population concentrated in its southern provinces.
A decades-old separatist struggle in the region - which abated in the 1980s - flared again in 2004. The violence has claimed more than 5,000 lives.
Thailand's capital, Bangkok, expanded rapidly with the influx of workers during the boom years. It is one of Asia's most vibrant and heavily-congested cities.
The large-scale sex industry that flourishes there contributed to the incidence of HIV infection - a major concern for the government.
Thailand has taken the lead in the region in distributing cheaper generic drugs for Aids sufferers and awareness campaigns are credited with reducing the number of new infections.
Since 2009, Thai troops have sporadically clashed with Cambodian forces in several disputed areas along the two countries' border.
Head of State : His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Head of Government : Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra
Capital : Bangkok
Language : Thai
Currency : Baht
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand Website: www.mfa.go.th
Source : ASEAN Official Website / BBC
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Echo, Das (Periodical)
Das Echo, originally Lehigh Echo, was started in 1897 as a four-page German weekly Mennonite newspaper, edited, published, and printed by Jacob J. Wiebe, Lehigh, Kansas. It carried news, information, and publicity of interest to the Mennonites of the prairie states. The last issue of this weekly found in the Mennonite Library and Archives at Bethel College is dated 1 January 1909. It is likely that Das Echo was discontinued soon afterwards.
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 140. All rights reserved.
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Dmgrossblatt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 68 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Swimming Pool Quotes
We are the leading online service connecting consumers with local swimming pool builders for free estimates and designs.
Consumers interested in receiving free in ground swimming pool estimates and designs from local swimming pool builders.
We have two sites that we use now for lead generation: http://www.SwimmingPoolQuotes.com and http://www.quickpoolquotes.com. The 3 page flow for this project is like the 1st, 2nd and 4th page of http://www.quickpoolquotes.com (the third page is just a placeholder for the system to match the consumer with pool pros for a quote). Another example of the 3 page flow is 1st, 2nd and 3rd page of swimmingpoolquotes.com.
We are looking for the next version of this site. We drive lots of search traffic to the landing page. The site's click to lead conversion rate(the percentange of visitors visit the landing page and complete the 3 page form) is by far the MOST important element and every design decision should be made with that in mind.
The single most important thing about this page is that it gets the visitor to enter their zip code into the search box and press enter.
The second page asks the consumer for details about their project. we prefer the look and the actual questions on http://search.swimmingpoolquotes.com/step2 but we strongly prefer the look and feel of the second page on http://www.quickpoolquotes.com. We also love the poolprofinder and like something here that helps make he consumer feel that they are getting instant response for adding additional information. The 3rd page is the page where we tell him that we made a connection for them and need their contact information to complete their request.
http://www.quickpoolquotes.com - you should use this site as your starting point and improve the design in ways that you think will improve conversion.


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The Dallas Zoo announced Tuesday the successful birth of a new Asian small-clawed otter pup who beat the odds to survive the first few months of her life.
Tasanee, a single otter pup, was born Jan. 25 but needed help from zookeepers to survive being a lone pup, according to the zoo.
Tasanee is the first female single pup to survive longer than 30 days.
Otters typically give birth to three or four pups at a time, and according to the zoo, the survival rate for single otter pups is extremely poor, "possibly due to their mother's insufficient milk production and lack of stimulation from littermates."
With her birth, Tasanee's mother, Daphne, became the oldest female otter in the national Species Survival Plan's breeding population to give birth. Her dad, Jimmy, was born at the Dallas Zoo in 2006.
U.S. & World
Tasanee weighed a little over 2 ounces at birth and was about the size of a C battery, according to the zoo. Now she's a healthy 2.3 pounds and was introduced to the otters' outdoor habitat last week.
Tasanee means "beautiful view" in Thai, and you can see her in the Betty Moroney Norsworthy Otter Outpost.
More: Dallas Zoo on Facebook: Otter Pup 'Tasanee' Beats the Odds


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When the Java programming language first became publicised, it was heralded as the dawn of a new age of writing cross-platform programs. "Write once, run everywhere" they said. Now, 16 years after 1996, which was roughly when the Java hype started, I'd like to check if it delivered on this promise, by seeing if one can easily write a cross-platform GUI (= Graphical User-Interace) application using it. What I'm looking for is a Java GUI library that: 1. Compiles. 2. Is cross-platform. 3. Does not suck. Teaser: I was not able to find one.
The standard Java SWING toolkitis out-of-the-question due to its weird look and feel and crappy behaviour everywhere. Joel on Software has this to say about SWING:
If you still think that something as small as how long you hold down the Alt key when you activate a menu command doesn't matter, well, your software is going to make people unhappy. These tiny inconsistencies are what makes Swing applications so unbearably annoying to use, and in my opinion it's why there are virtually no commercially successful Java GUI applications.
(From the book reviews, there's more criticism of it in "Lord Palmerston on Programming".)
I too have been frustrated by the unusable Java SWING GUIs, and in one of the latest projects I am contributing to, which has already been written in Java, I ran into a particularly buggy SWING UI.
The Eclipse people implemented something called SWT, but according to the wikipedia, it has several limitations, and require writing a lot of platform-dependent code.
Next are the Qt bindings to Java - Qt Jambi. These require customising the build.properties (whereas the error and documentation says one should edit the buildpath.properties file), and after that fails compiling with this error:
[make] ../../generator/out/cpp/com_trolltech_qt_core/ qtjambishell_QFutureIterator.cpp:21:15: error: no matching function for call to 'QFutureIterator
Next I looked into java-gnome, but apparently it does not work on Windows, so it's not cross-platform.
And the Java bindings for wxWidgets offer wxJava, which is Windows-only and unmaintained, and wx4j and jwx!, which are unmaintained and no longer build.
So I think that leaves us with nothing. How sad. Compare that to the comprehensive coverage of Mono's GUI toolkits, many of which are cross-platform, and to the situation in other languages such as Perl or Python, and you'll see that Java sucks the most in this respect.


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CTAN is the critical central point in the TeX world. Some of its main pages:
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See also the list of TeX journals and publications, and the AMS lists of TeX resources and TeX-related publications.
Finally, the TeX category in the Open Directory Project has a large list of links.
Some notable TeX implementations that are entirely, or least primarily, free software:
The AMS also maintains a list of freeware and shareware TeX implementations.
If you want to inspect Knuth's original sources for educational or other such purposes, without any of the scaffolding and enhancements that have come to surround them in current systems, you can get them from Stanford; all the material is also mirrored on CTAN.
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ConTeXt, Hans Hagen's powerful, extensive TeX macro package; a serious contender for those wanting a production-quality publishing system. Integrated support for XML, MetaPost, and much more. The ConTeXt Garden Wiki is a good place to start. Also, Aditya Mahajan writes regular introductory ConTeXt articles for TUGboat: fonts, tables, tables II, indentations, Unicode/OpenType math, conditional processing (modes). paper setup, images. Dave Walden has also written on ConTeXt: Trying ConTeXt and A bigger experiment.
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TeXoMaker, free software for teachers to create and manage exercise sheets in LaTeX.
MathType and the Equation Editor in MS Word. MathType is a WYSIWYG equation editor that outputs TeX.
Label & card printing resources with TeX and LaTeX, a discussion of packages to print labels, envelopes, etc.
Multi-lingual typesetting in scripts and languages around the world:
More web-related projects:
Supporting (La)TeX equations within HTML, etc.:
JavaScript engine with output using CSS and web fonts or SVG.
mimetex.cgi, equation typesetting for web pages via a cgi script.
GtkMathView for TeX-quality formatting of MathML, by Luca Padovani.
Formula Freehand Entry System (FFES), a pen-based equation editor.
InftyReader, OCR for equations with LaTeX output.
mathurl, render LaTeX to an image and generate a short url for use in email, IM, etc.
webmath, equation typesetting for web pages via an applet.
Yet more:
Markup Shredder, document conversion from HTML to PDF using TeX.
ASTER demo (spoken mathematics)
EquPlus: Science and Math Equations, displaying code for science and math equations in TeX, MathML, and MathType, including constants, symbols, and SI units.
Verbosus is an online LaTeX editor (free to use), including PDF generation.
tbookdtd, XML DTD for LaTeX documents, and HTML generation
Techexplorer, a Web browser plugin from IBM which renders TeX markup
Related software:
If you are interested in math and XML, look info MathML, the proposal for math on the Web, and a standard DTD.
The AMS TeX pages have a list of Commercial TeX implementations. This list includes many additional shareware and otherwise nonfree packages and projects.
Applied Symbols,
OpenType Computer Modern and Unimath, an OpenType math font.
CMacTeX for Macintosh, by Tom Kiffe
DiffDoc, shareware for comparing html, pdf, and other documents.
GrindEQ Math Utilities, for importing/exporting (AMS)(La)TeX documents to/from Microsoft Word.
LaTeXBase, online collaborative writing and publishing.
Mackichan Software, Inc. sells Scientific Word for Windows and Mac, a WYSIWYG program using TeX in the background.
Overleaf for collaborative writing and publishing.
Personal TeX Inc. sells and supports a complete TeX product for Windows.
Publicon, from Wolfram Research, has sophisticated technical publishing, including export to LaTeX, AMSTeX, REVTeX, XML, and much more.
OzTeX for the Macintosh, by Andrew Trevorrow, released as freeware.
True TeX is a TrueType based TeX for Windows.
VTeX includes a TeX IDE, visual tools, HTML, PDF, PS and SVG backends, and many math and text fonts.
WinEdt, a very powerful TeX editor and shell for Windows.
word2tex, shareware from Chikrii Softlab for converting Word documents to LaTeX and from LaTeX to Word.
Y&Y was a TeX system for Windows; they're out of business now, but their web pages are still available here.
3B2: made by Advent Publishing Systems, Ltd., high-end professional publishing with built-in WYSIWYG TeX support and full SGML conformance. Offices in the UK, Ireland, USA.
See also the excellent pages on Journals Accepting Manuscripts written using LaTeX by Gabriel Valiente, and Publishers who use TeX/LaTeX by Tom Schneider.
A number of publishers provide ready-made style packages.
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5 Inspiring "Kid-Starter" Fundraising Projects on Piggybackr
5 Inspiring "Kid-Starter" Fundraising Projects on Piggybackr
Meet the web 2.0 version of the lemonade stand: Piggybackr. The site, which publicly launched this week, is helping kids raise money for the projects, groups, organizations, and teams they're a part of. Piggybackr is like crowd-funding platform Kickstarter with a youth-friendly twist. The site offers tools and tips to fundraise successfully, fun achievement badges, and a focus on efforts rather than physical products.
Piggybackr is designed for young people at all levels of education. The site's emphasis on safety restricts the information shown about the fundraisers on their pages and restricts communication from supporters. Piggybackr has attracted quite a few ambitious youngsters already hard at work raising funds for their projects. Take a look at the five most inspiring Piggybackr projects in the gallery and, if you're feeling a little extra generous today, donate to one of their causes!


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Best of the Bottom Shelf: Will Gordon's Top Cheap Booze 2012
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
It was a pretty fair year here on the Bottom Shelf. As I looked through the archives, I found far more (relative) hits than misses. This could be because I burned through most of the truly disgusting novelty stuff in 2011, and it could be because my tongue has been slapped so silly by this job that I can no longer tell right from wrong. But let's say it's because cheap liquor quality is trending upward, and 2013's going to be The Year of the Drinkable Malt Liquor. At any rate, these are some of my fondest memories of another year trolling the depths.
Crabbies Alcoholic Ginger Beer might have been my favorite new drink of 2012. It's very highly carbonated and smells and tastes overwhelmingly of ginger. The label recommends serving it with a slice of lemon or lime, but ginger's one of my favorite foods so I prefer to take my Crabbie's straight. It's sweet but not overly so, and the 4.8% alcohol is dangerously well integrated. I don't know that I could pick this out as the adult beverage if it were slipped into a tasting of nonalcoholic ginger beers: It doesn't taste like ginger beer with alcohol added; it tastes like a better version of ginger beer. Drink it straight from the bottle or mix it with dark rum.
Beer 30 Light has a distinctive metallic fruitiness that isn't as off-putting as it sounds; it enables Beer 30 Light to fake a fresh cleanliness not often found in beers that come from Cincinnati wearing purple aluminum, much less those that throw themselves around for $13 per 30 pack. In fact, I would pay $19 for 30 of these, which makes Beer 30 Light a very good deal.
Toro Azul Reposado is aged for 11 months in American oak, which makes it nearly an anejo (tequila only has to sit for 60 days to jump from blanco to reposado), though it's no darker than your average reposado. I love the smell, which is fruitier than any tequila I've encountered. I've seen it described as "honeyed pineapple, roasted fennel, and sweet potatoes." I concur on the honey and pineapple, and you could talk me into the fennel. The taste is a bit sharper than expected, but there's no burning and none of the sweaty compost funk I associate with cheap tequila. This is an unusual drink, much sweeter than its peers, and that may not be to everyone's taste and it could throw off your cocktail recipes. But for sipping straight from the jug, it's hard to beat a $13 bottle of Toro Azul Reposado.
Booth's London Dry Gin is fantastic booze for the money. It opens with the standard onslaught of juniper, with other traditional herbs and spices showing up later--predominantly coriander and lemon peel, plus a small dose of mint. If you're looking for a specific flavor profile, then by all means pay more for a Hendrick's or an Aviation (two of my favorite off-beat gins) or what have you, but if you're in the market for a classic "-and tonic" London dry, I'm not sure you can beat Booth's combination of purity and price.
McAfee's Benchmark Bourbon is both less stingy and less sting-y than most 80-proofers in its price range. There are strong notes of honey and vanilla on the nose, with a little bit of sour orange and wheat joining the mouth party. This is the rare budget bourbon good enough to drink neat, and it's perfect in a Drambuie-spiked whiskey sour.
Jim Beam Rye was a pleasant surprise. I avoided it for years because I don't care for Beam's bourbon, but the rye is quite all right. It's very rye-like in its spicy pepper nose, and while it's not very complex, it opens with a light sweet orange note before the spice reasserts itself for the follow-through.
Canadian Mist Blended Whiskey has a gentle aroma of sweet citrus perfume, light and floral without any sting. The flavor is unique in my experience with blended Canadian whiskies, which tend to replace the generic vanilla-caramel blandness of cheap American whiskey with a sugary-yet-acrid tire-fire element clearly intended to scare the Yanks away.
Indio, an amber lager that's been big in Mexico for over a hundred years, is just now inching its way north via Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and a lot of Texas. Indio is pretty good stuff and I expect that you'll all be able to get it soon enough. It's not as flavorful as the copper color tries to make you think, but it's got a heck of a lot more going on than most Mexican beers I've tried. The predominant flavor is sweet caramel, with a little bit of toasted malt and some faint hay business at the end.
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On its good days, science is incredible, enlightening and amazingly informative. On its bad days, science is gross, disturbing and downright bizarre. We had to sift through some pretty murky waters to compile this list of odd questions science has tried to answer. Talk about typing a word into the Google machine for perfectly innocent reasons and getting completely perturbing results for your efforts.
Diamonds concocted from tequila, panda poop used as compost, uncontrollable coffee mugs, strangely swishy ponytails and the brain activity of dead salmon were some of the tame ones. Once we hit "how to make sure a patient receiving a colonoscopy doesn't explode" we were ready to call it a day.
And yet we persevered, sorting through all the gory consequences of these ill-advised searches just for you. Here's what came out of that shudder-inducing process.
Does the way you stand affect your ability to estimate?
If you're leaning a little to the left, you're also probably going to be a little on the low side when it comes to guesstimating all sorts of approximations. Whether that's how many people live in a certain city, how much alcohol is in a particular bottle of booze, how many top-10 hits a band has released or how tall a specific building is -- if you're tilted slightly to the left, that number is more likely to be less than what it really should be [source: Eerland].
Participants in a study at Erasumus University Rotterdam didn't even know they were tilted during the experiment. But with a tad tip to the right, the numbers were higher, and with a little lean to the left the opposite was true. Interestingly, the difference between when people were leaning right versus standing upright wasn't significant – perhaps because all the participants were right-handed. We need more science, stat!
If you name a cow, are you going to get more milk?
It might not be all in a name, per se, but one study came to the conclusion that when stock managers know all the cows in a herd individually, the amount of milk those better-beloved cows can crank out is quite a bit higher. It came to about 68 gallons (258 liters) more a year, based on a survey of 516 stock managers on U.K. dairy farms [source: Bertenshaw, Rowlinson].
There are still some causation and correlation questions to be pondered regarding this conclusion, and more fieldwork to be done to verify the results. But if your preferred milk of choice comes from a cow who's a happy camper, you've probably got a lot more of it coming your way.
Why don't pregnant ladies tip over?
It's the sort of question a child wonders out loud – usually very loud – in line at the grocery store, much to the horror of mom or dad. Still, how do pregnant women manage to haul their baby-filled bellies around without falling over?
Well, science is here to inform you, in the form of a study published in the journal Nature. Ladies can do something fancy with their backbones that men can't – they can compact the vertebrae in their lumbar area more easily. That means the bones in their lower backs are shaped more like wedges than those of males. So as women become increasingly pregnant, they can rock back on their spines to support and balance the additional weight [source: Whitcome]. Good thing too, for our species, don't you think?
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck?
Woodchucks aren't actually fond of wood (well, of eating it anyway – they might get all Bob Ross if they tried painting happy little trees) so their reputation for "chucking" isn't particularly accurate. But, if a woodchuck were so inclined, what would his rate of his fibrous chomping be?
Answer: 22.0859393 cubic inches (361.9237001 cubic centimeters) of wood per day. Yep. You heard it here first. An average of 22 cubic inches met a grisly fate each day researchers plunked a piece of lumber into a hungry woodchuck's enclosure [source: Scientopia]. The little groundhogs subjected to this culinary madness had a limited menu during the 12-day study (a two-by-four a day keeps the doctor away) so luckily the study was wrapped up pretty rapidly. And oddly decisively.
This study was so improbable that it made its way into the world in the Annals of Improbable Research.
Are cabbies' brains better than the rest of ours?
Thanks to everything from bad weather to cranky passengers, driving a cab must be challenging under the best of conditions. That could make driving a cab in a metropolitan labyrinth of lousy street planning an absolute nightmare. So how do taxi drivers manage it? By expanding pertinent parts of their minds.
London cab drivers have to pass some rigorous exams to command one of the cabs that dots London thoroughfares. Some of the memory-storing parts of the drivers who pass are more developed than those of the drivers who fail, says a five-year study conducted at University College London. The hippocampi of the successful sedan savants grew decidedly more developed in certain respects than those of us who simply push the peddles to get to the nearest grocery store [source: Jabr].
Can you make a bra that works as a gas mask?
You can! One for you and one for the person sitting next to you. Just be sure you put your C-cup on before assisting other passengers. As silly as this sounds, though, the reason behind the research is much more sobering. After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, people could have been spared from exposure to large quantities of iodine-131 (a source of radiation sickness) if they had had fast access to gas masks [source: Daily Mail].
So since most ladies don said lingerie on a daily basis, arming them with bras that could double as lifesaving devices made practical sense. And it's not just nuclear fallout that could make these underwear oddities marketable products – there are lots of life-threatening scenarios in which a bugged-out bra could come in handy in a pinch. In pretty much any situation where air quality is seriously compromised, these babies will be there for the win.
Is it possible to take blink-free photos?
If you're looking to capture a photo of a group of people in which everyone has their eyes open, you're probably going to be snapping more than one shot in order to hedge your bets. Every family has a couple of chronic blinkers, after all.
So how many should be necessary? According to an equation laid out by two Australian researchers, for low-light photos of less than 20 people, you need to divide the number of people by two and take that many pictures to guarantee that one will have all eyes open. If the photo is taken in a well-lit setting, you can get by with dividing the number of people by three. Factors in the equation apart from the number of people and the lighting conditions are the shutter speed and blink frequency [source: Cheung].
Do chickens prefer hot humans?
Calm down. Chickens aren't about to throw us on a barbeque. It's not that kind of hot. They might, however, critique us in what would have to be the world's most awkward swimsuit competition.
It seems that chickens, like college students, tend to prefer the smoking hot among us. (Or at least the most desirable composite facial images researchers in Stockholm could cook up.) According to what one study found, the chickens' preference for the most attractive faces was overwhelming. We can't know for sure whether the chickens were really jazzed about the computer-generated faces they viewed, but it might be a good idea to fancy up the next time you set out to plunder a chicken coop. It's only fair [source: Ghirlanda].
If you hear yourself talking, will you want to shut up?
Yes. Apparently, hearing your own voice delayed and repeated back by even just few hundred milliseconds is enough to drive even the chattiest person more than a little bit nuts.
A device invented by the Japanese duo Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada – the SpeechJammer – creates what is called delayed auditory feedback. It has a few uses (and most could be perfectly useful in business settings, for example) but the really delicious fun has to be the possibility of infuriating raucous people in quiet places. Whether that person is close to you or far from you, you can adjust the settings to dial up the annoyance factor to mega-obnoxious – just like them!
Is it better to be hit with a full beer bottle or an empty one?
The answer to this question really should be "neither." It's better to avoid getting hit in the head with a beer bottle altogether. But assuming that's just not possible, would it be better to get clunked over the head by a full beer bottle or one that's already been emptied?
Well, according to research published in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, you've got a couple of things to consider. First of all, full beer bottles will break with 25 percent less force than empty beer bottles. Unfortunately, though, full beer bottles are strong enough to crack your dome. They break more easily, but they pack 70 percent more striking force [sources: Troop, Bollinger].
So perhaps what it really comes down to is, do you feel luckier chancing a sharp trauma (from broken glass) or a blunt trauma (from unbroken glass), or do you want to go for broke and try to see your brains (which could happen either way)? Not great options all around, unless you're the zombie sitting off in the corner. He's seriously hoping for option three.
Would Sonic the Hedgehog Be Able to Survive His Own Speed?
Could Sonic the Hedgehog realistically handle supersonic speeds? HowStuffWorks explores what else Sonic might need to survive his speediness.
Author's Note: 10 Oddball Questions Scientists Have Genuinely Tried to Answer
Writing this article was a lot of fun because zany, weird and nonsensical science is as hilarious as it is absurd. And, at times, surprisingly useful. Kudos all around, Science People, kudos.
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- Alleyne, Richard. "Silly Science: Ig Nobel Prizes celebrate weird and wacky research." Telegraph. Sept, 21, 2012. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9557317/Silly-science-Ig-Nobel-Prizes-celebrate-weird-and-wacky-research.html
- Bertenshaw, Catherine and Rowlinson, Peter. "Exploring Stock Managers' Perceptions of the Human-Animal Relationship on Dairy Farms and an Association with Milk Production." Anthrozoos. March 2009. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/anthroz/2009/00000022/00000001/art00006
- Bollinger, SA et al. "Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?" Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. April 2009. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19239964
- Cheung, Karen. "Australian Scientists Develop Formula for Blink-free Photos." DigitalCameraInfo.com. Jan. 5, 2007. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://www.digitalcamerainfo.com/content/australian-scientists-develop-formula-for-blink-free-photos.htm
- Eerland, Anita et al. "Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller: Posture-Modulated Estimation." Erasmus University. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://www.academia.edu/843300/LEANING_TO_THE_LEFT_MAKES_THE_EIFFEL_TOWER_SEEM_SMALLER_POSTURE-MODULATED_ESTIMATION
- "Friday Weird Science: how much wood could a woodchuck chuck..." Scientopia. Oct. 5, 2012. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2012/10/05/friday-weird-science-how-much-wood-could-a-woodchuck-chuck/
- Ghirlanda, Stefano et al. "Chickens prefer beautiful humans." Stockholm University. April 15, 2004. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://cogprints.org/5272/1/ghirlanda_jansson_enquist2002.pdf
- "Ig Nobel awards: A bra that converts into a gas mask and how panda poo helps recycling." Daily Mail. Oct. 2, 2009. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1217594/Ig-Nobel-awards-A-bra-converts-gas-mask-panda-poo-helps-recycling.html#ixzz29IMgoMip
- Improbable Research. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html
- Jabr, Ferris. "Cache Cab: Taxi Drivers' Brains Grow to Navigate London's Streets." Scientific American. Dec. 8, 2011. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=london-taxi-memory
- "Names give cows a lotta bottle." Newcastle University. Jan. 28, 2009. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/names-give-cows-a-lotta-bottle#.UHiPOG_Af9Y
- "Pregnant women standing on their own two feet." Science Blogs. Dec. 17, 2007. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2007/12/17/pregnant-women-standing-on-the/
- Prigg, Mark. "Why leaning left can make the Eiffel tower look smaller, and how to jam speech: Annual Ig Nobel awards for weird and wonderful discoveries announced." Daily Mail. Sept. 21, 2012. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2206752/Annual-Ig-Nobel-awards-weird-wonderful-discoveries-announced.html
- "IgNobel Prize winner in Acoustics: The SpeechJammer. The shut up machine for the passive aggressive." Scientific American. Sept. 21, 2012. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2012/09/21/ignobel-prize-winner-in-acoustics-the-speechjammer-the-shut-up-machine-for-the-passive-aggressive/
- Troop, Don. "Winning an Ig Nobel Beats a Sharp Blow to the Skull." The Chronicle. Oct. 1, 2009. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://chronicle.com/article/Winning-an-Ig-Nobel-Beats-a/48669/
- Whitcome, Katherine et al. "Fetal load and the evolution of lumbar lordosis in bipedal hominins." Nature. Dec. 13, 2007. (Oct. 27, 2012.) http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3743553/27881641.pdf?sequence=1


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Gina miner, a towel of strength of the old school
TOO much towel whipping. That's the problem with the ''sordid boarding school'' that Canberra has become, according to one of the biggest Gina Rinehart fans.
Sydney Mining Club chairman Julian Malnic is one of the two admirers of Her Roy Hill Highness to contribute to her new book.
The other is antediluvian adman John Singleton, who says Rinehart's book, Northern Australia, and then some, ''puts our future under the brightest light I have ever seen''.
While Gina's words of wisdom were kept strictly schtum before a grand unveiling in front of the cream of Sydney's mining nobility on Thursday night, there's plenty to be learnt from Malnic's contribution.
''As Gina Rinehart's book is launched, our national capital seems like a sordid boarding school, where the political towel whipping in the corridors commands far more attention than nation building our great North - or anything at all,'' he writes.
''The great Labor-Swan era of pointing the bone at mining, and of fiscal bingeing, will be long remembered as a grim signature of the year this book was born.
''But by the time the book reaches its first birthday, we pray it will be over, and it will be time to nation build once again.''
Malnic also has kind words for the notion that Gina, Queen of the Desert, famously immortalised in poem: a special economic zone, aka an internal tax haven.
''Feel the North, feel the energy of its people, imagine a special economic tax zone where your kids will be hanging out to go and make their first million,'' Malnic exhorts.
''Dream, and connect with the other half of your continent.''
Ten's moments
PAUL Henry, the host of Ten Network ratings write-off Breakfast, is fast turning into the least welcome import since the cane toad.
Piling on to the anti-Henry bandwagon is the Australian Shareholders Association, which has turned TV critic in a position paper released ahead of Ten's annual meeting in a fortnight.
The ASA says not to worry about Ten's other bombs, the cringeworthy reality TV effort The Shire and talent show Everybody Dance Now, fronted by Sarah, the wife of Ten chairman Lachlan Murdoch, because these were ''the type of disasters everyone has''.
''Much less excusable, it took 10 months to kill off the $7 million-a-year Breakfast program, which had only one 20th of the combined audience of Seven and Nine, and then there was the primetime disaster of the Renovators,'' the ASA says in a note headed ''Costs being saved while ratings dive''.
''At the end of the day controlling costs may be important, but without the ratings you don't have anything,'' the ASA says.
The ASA says next year Ten is relying on MasterChef: The Professionals, with uberchef Marco Pierre White, and asks: ''If that doesn't work, what next?''
It recommends shareholders give the thumbs down to the remuneration report and the appointment to the board of Siobhan McKenna, who runs Lachlan's investment vehicle, Illyria. Breakfast will be euthanised on November 30.
Byrnes' unit probe
WHERE will police start in investigating the drive-by shooting at the home of colourful Sydney business identity Big Jim Byrnes in the early hours of Thursday?
After all, it's not as if over the years the former adviser to Alan Bond has accumulated any enemies. He's only been banned twice by the corporate watchdog, jailed on drug offences, convicted of assault, acquitted of fraud, and smashed up a solicitor's window with a baseball bat.
In this latest episode, two shots were fired at the Byrnes
family home in leafy Bellevue Hill. Byrnes promised CBD
a statement but none was forthcoming by close of business on Thursday.
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IT WAS a sombre gathering on Thursday when the country's major retailers had brekky together at the 2012 Australian Retail Awards breakfast in Pyrmont, Sydney.
Given the dismal nature of the retail sector, the biggest noise coming out of the Doltone House function rooms at Darling Island Wharf was the clattering of cutlery.
But fortified with strong coffee and perhaps a sense of ''we will fight them (the internet) on the beaches'', the stellar crowd of retail luminaries perked up when it came time for some old-fashioned back slapping.
Joanne Ryan, of Super Retail Group, won the big gong as the FCB Australian Retail Practitioner of the Year, for seemingly defying the sector's malaise.
Attendees were also treated to a keynote address from Myer chief Bernie Brookes, who told the audience that he was ''absolutely thrilled to be addressing a room of fellow industry enthusiasts who were not only passionate, but also achieving excellence in Australian retail every day''.
This the day after Click Frenzy, the much-promoted push by bricks 'n' mortar retailers into the newfangled world of the interwebs, turned out to be more of a Click Fail.
Brookes' passion may have soon disappeared. He was spotted walking about Pyrmont, Sydney, looking a tad lost - or maybe it was ruse and he was looking around the casino and media-dominated area for some space to lease.


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The Baltimore police supervisor who shot a recruit during an unauthorized training exercise in Owings Mills was expected to have a live firearm, his lawyer says in court documents, while acknowledging that he meant to pick up and fire a practice pistol instead.
Officer William Scott Kern's defense attorney argued in recent filings that the police officer was required to carry his gun to protect the participants in an exercise at the shuttered Rosewood Center for the developmentally disabled.
Kern is scheduled for a criminal trial this month, and the court documents provide the first look at the 18-year veteran's account of the Feb. 12 shooting that severely injured University of Maryland police recruit Raymond Gray, who was training with city police.
Baltimore police have acknowledged commanders were not aware of the exercises at the facility and that the city did not have permission to use the state-owned site. As a result of the incident, six academy officials were suspended and Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts briefly suspended training exercises.
Baltimore County prosecutors charged only Kern in the shooting. He is scheduled for trial Oct. 15 on charges of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment, both misdemeanors.
A city police spokesman declined to comment about whether Kern was authorized to carry a live weapon, citing the pending trial. Police have previously said the session didn't follow departmental safety protocols that could have prevented a loaded gun being carried into the training site.
A separate civil lawsuit filed by the family of the recruit contends the environment was unsafe and authorities should have known that at least some instructors were armed. Gray was shot in the head and blinded in one eye; he was hospitalized for months.
Neither Kern's attorney, Shaun F. Owens, nor Baltimore County Deputy State's Attorney John Cox, who is prosecuting the case, responded to requests for comment.
Prosecutors say Kern acted irresponsibly by pointing a weapon at the recruit and pulling the trigger — even if he thought the gun was fake. Kern's defense says that during off-site training exercises, academy instructors are responsible for the safety of others and therefore authorized to carry a firearm.
Police officials have previously said they used the shuttered Rosewood Center to simulate real-life situations.
Baltimore County police had permission to use the facility for training, documents show, but not city police. Baltimore County police said they used Rosewood for simulated, "active shooter exercises," in which no ammunition or live weapons were allowed and a designated safety officer was required on site.
During training, Baltimore police use "simunition" weapons, which look and feel similar to service weapons but fire ammunition that is similar to paintballs.
Owens said in court documents his client was permitted to carry his live weapon, along with the simunition gun. The documents also say Kern was carrying his live weapon in a holster on his waistband and that simunition training guns may have been tucked into a pocket or waistband.
The court documents filed by the defense attorney do not say why Kern shot at the victim.
People with knowledge of the investigation have said Gray was peering through a window when Kern fired at him. They said the shot may not have been fired as part of the training exercise but that Kern playfully pointed his weapon without intent to harm anybody.
Kern, who has worked at the training academy for at least 12 years, didn't notice the different color grip on the fake gun, Owens said in his filings. The grips of the simunition guns being used for the exercise were painted blue.
"Police are taught to look down the sights of their weapon. Police officers are not taught to look at any other component of the weapon before firing," the document said.
A. Dwight Pettit, an attorney retained by Gray's family, said he doesn't see the shooting as an accident.
"I don't buy it," Petit said. "From the information that I was gathering on the ground level ... it might have been some horsing around."
Documents filed by prosecutors show the state will likely call an academy instructor, city police officer Efraim Edwards as a witness. Kern's attorneys said in court filings that Edwards was also authorized to carry a live weapon during the exercises but did not the day of the shooting.
Prosecutors plan to present an interview with Edwards, discussing his conversations with Kern the day of the shooting. The state also plans to call Dr. David Vitberg, the associate medical director for the Baltimore County Fire Department.
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene owns Rosewood, a former psychiatric facility that dates to 1888 and was closed by Gov. Martin O'Malley in 2009. It once housed as many as 3,000 patients with developmental disabilities.
Kern is the third officer being prosecuted by the Baltimore County State's Attorney's office this year.
In June, a Baltimore County police officer was acquitted in the death of a Randallstown teenager last year. Another county officer entered a guilty plea in July to misconduct in office after an investigation found he filmed himself engaging in sex acts and neglected calls while on duty.


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Keep 'em coming and we might have to make this a Sunday tradition!
Bob Barr – Right Time, Right Party, Wrong Man
***Rebekah said...
***I also think it's just a bit suspicious that a media which completely ignored Ron Paul would be giving him SO much positive coverage.***
I noticed that, but even when Barr gets all the good face time, he still looks like a tool. Thank God for the equalizing power of the internet.
***Chip said...
***I almost wonder if he planned it this way for all the extra media coverage he would get. I mean here we are after the press conference and what are we talking about, but Bob Barr who wasn't even there.***
Good observation, but I'm chalking this one up to ineptitude. (He did used to work for the CIA.) This is not the first time he has demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of the Freedom Movement and the libertarian philosophy.
***Stefan said...
***He and his running mate had the balls to ask RP to join them. That was a bold move of leaders; if RP accepted, the revolution would be coming much faster.***
Ron Paul had said repeatedly, even before Barr was nominated, that he would not run for a third party. It wasn't a bold move of leaders, it was a pandering move of calculating hacks trying to reach out to a demographic that is too smart to fall for it.
***Dave Nalle said...
***What Ron Paul did at his press conference was to endorse third parties which support everything from forced redistribution of wealth to giving up US sovereignty to foreign powers. It was a betrayal of everything the liberty movement has tried to achieve. Paul rendered himself irrelevant once and for all. Barr, on the other hand, did the right thing by not playing along with Paul's egotistical grandstanding and he deserves our support for putting liberty ahead of political opportunism. www.republicofdave.com***
Wrong! Ron Paul did not ENDORSE any of the other candidates. If the Freedom Movement wants to achieve anything, it needs to be willing to work around issues with allies of differing ideologies. I would even define the Freedom Movement to be as broad as anyone who would sign on to the four-point platform. "Egotistical grandstanding" for Ron Paul at this point would look like announcing an independent run for president, and holding his own press conference. Wait, isn't that what Barr did?
***Doob said...
***You are a true Patriot. I think Bob Barr is a plant who was meant to bring the LP down. Never again. By the way, your speech at the Rally in Minneapolis made me cry like a baby.***
As long as it makes you want to fight like a rabid wolverine!
***Anonymous said...
***Adam, thank you again for everything you have been doing since your return from Baghdad. I am not happy that you had to go thru this situation, however, if McCain wins, we all will have many many more 'situations' to go thru... Please, a vote for Obama may hurt, but hey, if Ann Coulter can stomach a vote for McCain, whom she loathes, surely you can spare a vote for the man who is promising to bring home our brothers and sisters.***
Damn! How many times do I have to say this: I cannot in good conscience vote for a pro-war candidate. Obama wants to keep 40k troops in Iraq indefinitely, on permanent bases, add more Blackwater mercenaries, and have a surge in Afghanistan. If that's not pro-war, I don't know what is.
McCain and Obama will both perpetuate the decline this country is on at about the same rate. The difference is that Obama will do it smoothly, sing you a lullaby, and after four years we might be more screwed as the public will be lulled into submission. McCain will do it erratically and clumsily, piss people off, and get more of the public engaged, if only because of their shared disgust for him. Both are "situations" that are not good for this country. I will be voting third party or writing in Ron Paul.
***Mike Blankenship said...
***I can't believe you're still running around with your IVAW t-shirt on acting like you're going to get anything accomplished in stopping the war in Iraq. We're on our way to Victory in Iraq, no thanks to any of you anti-war pukes. Or haven't you all figured that out yet?***
You'd better mother-f'in' believe it! Does it make "Victory" more likely when you capitalize it? Or haven't you figured out that you can't win an occupation?
***Doug Burlison said...
***Adam, I do not know you, you do not know me, but as a fellow lover of Liberty, I urge you to reconsider the status of your Barr endorsement. Granted, those of us in internet land are not as close to this issue as you are, and perhaps that gives us a different perspective about this whole matter. I am saddened by how things have transpired in both the Barr and the Paul camps, and I feel that in the interests of Liberty in America, it is time for some bilateral leadership from both sides. It seems that you are in a unique position to make this happen. . . . None of us are perfect, yet somehow, we need to come together. Can you help this struggle by providing that kind of leadership?***
I am also saddened by these recent developments which will harm the movement in the short-term and perhaps mid-term too, but in the long run, we are better off without Barr, and with a higher standard of leadership and cooperation.
If by "the Barr and the Paul camps" you mean their actual staffers, they represent only a minute part of this movement. We don't need "bilateral leadership" to unite these camps. We need leadership like what Ron Paul demonstrated by bringing some powerful people together on important issues. There is a lot still to be done, and I'm working on it!
***mariana said...
***I love Ron Paul. But he's just a man. An incredible man, but the idea of Liberty, now that's something you can't keep down. Liberty is an eternal principle, has no lifespan, and is only limited by *our resolve* to bring it to the fore. . . . I want maximum Liberty, maximum personal responsibility, and to be divested from a "Government" that uses the fruit of my labor to oppress, occupy and murder hundreds of thousands of people. Ron Paul came the closest, but I'm not giving up because I have no one to "rally under". . . . Don't get me wrong. I'll certainly promote candidates who support my dreams and vision for America (indeed, the world). But I won't blindly associate with a party (such as the Libertarian party), vote for a candidate as sleezy as Barr, just to assure ballot access for the LP candidate in four years. There's so many better ways to go about getting what we want. Campaign for Liberty supporters aren't lost if they associate their freedom with responsibility. They're only lost if they think they need Ron Paul to lead them or tell them what to do. I don't :) To quote an awesome bumper sticker, we don't need leaders, we need Liberty. I don't mean we shouldn't get behind those who stand a chance of representing us. I'm just never going to hand my power over completely to someone else and expect them to do the whole job. It's my job. It's your job. Jump in, the water's fine.***
F'in' a, right on! Thank you.
A Slap in the Face, Courtesy of the Department of Veterans Affairs
***SimonNolan said...
***I wish that every person who puts a yellow ribbon magnet on the back of their car would actually do something to support our soldiers-- at least write their congressman demanding reform. Otherwise that cheap magnet is nothing but a hollow platitude that only makes the owner self-righteous.***
You're not the only one who feels that way. A lot of vets get really pissed off when they see yellow ribbons because it's not even a message of support, it's a directive, an order, telling someone else to support the troops. One of my veteran friends hates them so much that whenever he sees one he takes it. He's got quite the collection on his fridge now.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who put comments of support on this post. It definitely helped to read them as I was still dealing with this. It's also beautiful to see that the brotherhood of veterans transcends politics. (Thanks TSO)
Pissing In McCain's Kool-Aid
***Pen said...
***Did you get wrapped up in the chaos in the streets of St. Paul, MN while you were sticking it to McCain? It was appalling. Nearly three hundred people: protesters, innocent bystanders, and media were rounded up like cattle, pinned to a bridge, and then arrested for unlawful assembly. Civil liberties out the door. Sickening. You made a guest star appearance in my tribute video to those who were braver than me to try to be heard. I hope that is okay? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp7AUQJMOKw***
I didn't see much of the chaos, since I was busy working from the inside. That video is more than ok, it's an honor to be included!
***Anonymous said...
***Right when McCain was speaking and I saw the cut to you holding the sign I literally spit out my pepsi all ovr the floor and scremed out "HOLY SHIT THATS ADAM KOKESH!!!" My finace jumped off the couch and got mad at me for screaming so loudly . . . After watching your speech at the March and at the Rally I think it is best for you to run for congress. If you do, i'll drop $2,300 in your campaign. :)***
I have heard a lot of stories like that and I'm glad that I achieved the goals that my sponsors in the soft drink and carpet industries laid out for me. I plan on running for Congress eventually, but you'd better send me some contact info or tell me the check is in the mail!
***Anonymous said...
***Sure would love a written transcript of the speech you gave last night....word for word. Can you post it on your site.***
It doesn't exist. That was straight off the cuff.
***DanDan said...
***How do you feel as a soldier who put his life on the line to fight for his country about people who burn the American Flag?***
The flag is just a symbol. Burning it is just symbolic. It saddens me that someone would do such a thing to trash our country, but it is no different than chanting "death to America," and just as childish. I still consider it a means of self-expression, and the freedom of speech means nothing without the right to say what others don't want to hear, so I would never do anything to encroach on someone else's right to destroy their own property, or express themselves in whatever way they see fit so long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else's rights. In fact, I will still fight to the death to defend it.
***World Power Network said...
***I loved your speech. It was very enlightening that our troops swore to uphold the constitution, not the government. I would suggest that you lay off the take up arms against the government angle. That is liable to get you thrown in jail and we don't need to take up arms against the government. We just need the military to refuse to take up arms against US citizens and other things which violate the constitution. The fascist state rules through fear. If the members of the Military disobey orders, stand down and will not cause fear, the fascist will fold like origami.***
I agree, but I never advocated that we take up arms against the government. There may be isolated incidents of violence in our revolution, as there have been throughout our history, and we must be ready to defend ourselves, but when the time comes to physically challenge the government, I have no doubt that the troops will be on our side. The point is that we must bring the same dedication and commitment and be ready to make the ultimate sacrifice as undoubtedly, some of us will be called upon to do. Not ALL of the troops will be on our side, but we must have the courage to look them all in the eye just the same.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
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