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Update (5/15/09): I have working binaries available in my PPA repository. Directions for adding it to your package manager are available here.
Here are directions to download and install the latest development code for HandBrake that can take advantage of the revolutionary new psychovisual additions to the x264 codec (known as psychovisual rate distortion [psy-rd] and psychovisual trellis [psy-trellis]).
Step 1: check out the latest source code from SVN:
To apply the patch, move it into the HandBrake directory and type into a terminal:
Step 5: compile as usual:
Step 1: check out the latest source code from SVN:
svn co svn://svn.handbrake.fr/HandBrake/trunk HandBrakeStep 2: navigate to the new directory
cd HandBrake/contribStep 3: edit the download location for the x264 codec in your favorite text editor (I prefer nano):
nano version_x264.txtthen, either delete or comment out (put a # in front of it) the address that is already there and replace it with this:
http://download.m0k.org/handbrake/contrib/x264-r979-6d4af8d.tar.gzStep 4: return to the HandBrake directory:
cd ..If you just want to use the CLI version (Linux users have no choice), you're almost finished and can go straight to Step 5. If you are using OS X or Windows, though, you can update the GUI interfaces to reflect these new options by applying the appropriate patch (for OS X or for Windows)
To apply the patch, move it into the HandBrake directory and type into a terminal:
patch -p0
Step 5: compile as usual:
makeThat should get you all set. The new options require a subme value of ≥6, which should be the new default (and should be reflected in the GUIs and presets). If you have any questions or concerns, leave me a comment and I'll try to help.

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|Cumberland County HS
One of several seniors expected to provide leadership to the cross country and track & field teams in 2013-14...a true distance runner who will have an impact in several events during the spring.
AT TECH (In 2013-14): Amelia was a consistent contributor during her senior season of cross country, running in all six meets...was team's third finisher in both the Vanderbilt and UNC Charlotte meets...posted her 5K career-best of 19:55.16 at the Jacksonville State meet, finishing fourth on the team, beating her previous career-best by just under a second.
(In 2012-13): Amelia was on the course in all seven cross country meets as a junior, with a best finish of fourth on the squad in the Huntsville meet to open the year...season-best time of 20:40.6 came at the OVC Championships...ran the mile, 3,000m and 5,000m events indoors and raced in the 3,000m, 5,000m, and 10,000m events outdoors...posted career-best times in five of her six events...ran her best indoor mile of 6:08.61 at Virginia Tech...career-best of 11:56.97 came at the OVC Championships...also had a best at OVC in the 5,000m of 21:01.73...outdoors, she had a career-besst of 19:37.42 at Vanderbilt in the 5,000m and ran a career-best 42:51.88 at the OVC 10,000m run.
(In 2011-12): Amelia ran in all seven cross country meets in 2011, finishing as high as third on the team..ran a personal best 5K time of 19:56 at Jacksonville State and was Tech's third finisher...lowered her time in each of her first four meets...was Tech's fifth finisher at the NCAA South Regional with a 6K time of 25:11.
(In 2010-11): Amelia ran in all seven meets the Golden Eagles participated in during the fall cross country season...ran several really strong meets...placed second on the squad in the opening meet at Sewanee and closed the season by placing second at the NCAA South Regionals...set her career-best time of 20:09.29 at Evansville...competed in the 3000m, 5000m, and 10,000m in track and field...posted a season-best time of 11:39 in the 3000m at Vanderbilt.
HIGH SCHOOL: Amelia competed in her prep career at Cumberland County High School in nearby Crossville...lettered four seasons in cross country and three seasons in track for coaches Pat Koehl and Louie DeLorenzo...named MVP for the Jets' cross-country squad all four years, and also named MVP of the track team, all section, in her freshman through junior seasons...also an achiever in the classroom.
PERSONAL: The daughter of Kibbee McCoy and Kimberly Tollett...born August 10, 1992...full name is Amelia Morgan McCoy...majoring in biology.


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Helpful family research for Williams County, Ohio located in NW corner of the state.
23 July 2012
A Tale of Two Newspaper Accounts - Altorfer
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- Pamela Lash said...
This is from Roger firstname.lastname@example.com
Regarding 23 July 2012- A Tale of Two Newspaper Accounts - Altorfer
I think the name actually is Altorfer and they are not related to us unless we get across the ocean.
I just looked the following marriage up on John Jacob Altorfer, but everything else down below was recorded by us in the mid 1970's early 80's, and was backed up by the courthouse records and the obit mentioned.
Jacob Altonfee & Rebecca Beal married 2 Dec 1862 in Lenawee Co., MI- LDS Record but not actual view.
Mary married William Mattox, 29 Dec 1892 Williams Co., Ohio
Susan married James H. Lantz 11 March 1893 Williams Co., Ohio
Rose married William Umstead- my family as you have it.
Cora Adella married Franklin A. Lloyd 17 Sep 1895 Williams Co., Ohio
Flora Ella married John Gurlinger 2 Nov 1895 Williams Co., Ohio
I have William married Amelia Thierry 8 March 1892 Defiance Co., Ohio
They had a son Floyd William b. 5 Oct 1893 in Highland, Defiance Co., Ohio
Amelia (Thierry) Altorfer married Preston Hightower 1 Dec 1894 Defiance Co., Ohio
This was on LDS-
The family notes possibly prepared by Lori Anderson, indicate that Amelia married a man called "Hightower" was her first marriage and to William Henry Altorfer as her second. In fact, her marriage to William was her first marriage. She and her son (Floyd William) lived out in the "country". She met "Hightower" through her singing at weddings, funerals, etc., and they subsequently were married, by within three to five years, he started drinking, becoming abusive and so Amelia got a divorce. (Don't know if divorce was final, and will check with country courts to confirm also see if marriage license for Amelia and Hightower exists).
Mary Altorfer, wife of Wm Mattox, died 21 July 1955 in Pioneer and was buried in Bryan at Fountain Grove Cem. I have all these siblings referenced to her death date as surviving or not, but I can find the obit right now.
Also, I am relation to the Beal, Beals, Beale- I sometimes think they all guessed at the spelling.
David Beal's 2nd wife was Lucinda Severn.
- September 11, 2012 at 11:15 AM


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Since our inception as a division of the National Geographic Society in 1915, National Geographic Maps (originally the Cartographic Division) has routinely published maps that illustrate the news of the world. Our first supplement map, which appeared in the May 1918 issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, titled the Western Theatre of War, served as a useful reference for overseas military personnel and soldier's families alike. Similarly our February 1967 map of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, and recently, our Iraq and the Heart of the Middle East titles filled similar roles.
Maps are an excellent tool for the newshound, providing an accurate sense of place to issues local and abroad. To assist those that are interested in further understanding global news stories through good maps - we're pleased to announce a new monthly feature here on Contours that will highlight maps pertinent to today's news stories.
:: December 2009, Maps of the News ::
Afghanistan and Pakistan. Revised in Fall of 2009, this political map of the region contains thousands of place names, ideal for following news stories and deployed family members. Like all National Geographic cartography, our new Afghanistan and Pakistan map was carefully researched and edited and contains thousands of place names.
Iraq, Iran and the Middle East. This region dominates daily news stories. Our Middle East wall map covers over 18 nations in the region including: Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and more.
Philippines. Follow the recent eruption of the Mayon volcano in the Philippines, with our Asia classic and executive style wall maps for the continent.
Vancouver and the Winter Olympics. A detailed city guide, perfect for global travelers attending the 2010 Winter Olympics.
December 17, 2009
Maps of the News - December 2009 Edition -
Posted by Mike Dyer
Filed under:
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National Geographic,
reference and wall maps,
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2 comments:
- Greenlight said...
Happy New Year, Mike!
I'm confused about the reference to May 1918 as the first map supplement to the magazine. There's a bibliography of NG Magazine maps that mentions 1889 as the first map supplement. The link is here. Can you please clarify?
- January 4, 2010 at 2:33 PM
- Mike Dyer said...
Greenlight - Good catch, my post warrants some further clarification...
The first supplement map prepared entirely by the National Geographic Cartographic Department was the 1918 "Western Theatre of War" map, which was released in the May issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.
However, there were two notable supplement maps which were included in the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC prior to that.
The first, as you pointed out, was in the October 1889 issue, and was the U.S. Geological Survey quadrangle map, "North Carolina - Tennessee - Asheville Sheet."
The second supplement was released in August 1914, just as World War I erupted. "Map of the New Balkan States and Central Europe" was prepared beforehand by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor, who saw war looming, and stored in the basement. This begins a National Geographic tradition of timely map supplements published during periods of world crisis.
A year later, in 1915, Albert H. Bumstead, formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey and Hiram Bingham's expedition to Machu Pichu, establishes the Cartographic Department within the National Geographic Society. Bumstead becomes the Society's first Chief Cartographer.
Hope this sheds some further light on NG Maps history. Thanks for reading and the comment!
- January 8, 2010 at 6:33 AM


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I started this poem on the flight over to Holy Loc to relieve the Gold crew. This was sometime in March of 1968. It was my first patrol cycle.
There was a lot going on that year in the way of protests. The Vietnam War was cranking up big time, and there were protests against nuclear powered vessels entering ports. Scotland was no exception.
I could not understand the changes that were happening all around me. It was separating me from what I thought were good friends. Men that I saw as brave and patriotic were being ridiculed by people I thought I knew.
I think the confusion of that time comes out in this poem. I have tried to edit it several times, but I finally realized that I would be unable to make any sense of the events of the time nor my emotions. So here it is......Step back with me in time to 1968. Was this your poem as well???
The Question
Let me ask you,
What is happening?
I look around and feel lost;
It seems everything was suddenly tossed
And landed out of place.
People just follow the crowd these days,
Ignoring their own will;
They are pulled into an endless maze
Without an effort to stand still.
What's really happening?
Look around you, this isn't a race;
Yet it seems so from the deadly pace.
What's the hurry anyway?
Does anyone know what's going on?
© August 2013 Roy Mack Bowen
The Question
Many exercised their creative talents during downtime on patrol by writing poetry or prose. Here's a spot to share yours.
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While much of the ongoing national debate over gun control has focused on laws regulating the sale of so-called assault weapons or more thorough background checks of potential gun buyers, the sale of illegal firearms continues largely unabated.
According to a Times-News story published last week, it remains relatively easy for anyone to buy a gun at any time. In fact, it might only take a few hours for someone in Alamance County with cash in hand to find and purchase about any kind of handgun or rifle that�s on or off the market without any trouble at all.
�Guns are available if you�ve got the money,� Alamance County Sheriff�s Office spokesman Randy Jones said pointedly.
The problem, those in law enforcement say, is that bringing down those who buy and sell illegal firearms isn�t nearly as easy as finding them. Illegal gun dealers are not usually part of some vast crime network. Drug operations, for example, are frequently well staffed criminal organizations that oversee the illicit trade from start to finish. Undercover officers work through informants to gain access to these operations. In fact, the route to illegal guns is often through arrests on drug charges.
On the other hand, those who deal illegally in weapons are often one-person operators who work from the back of a vehicle or a variety of locations. It�s one step above, �psst, buddy, come here.�
That doesn�t make it less dangerous, just more troublesome to police. Burlington Assistant Police Chief Chris Verdeck told the Times-News that weapons operations are difficult to infiltrate. He estimated that city police have been involved in undercover gun operations via informants three or four times in the last several years.
The result is not surprising. Access to stolen weapons is arming criminals, authorities say. While felons are barred from owning guns and aren�t able to buy them legally, it�s not difficult for a felon to purchase a stolen gun.
None of this builds confidence as national leaders debate ways to make guns more difficult to obtain legally, something that will no doubt create an even larger demand for illegal weapons.
It is incumbent upon the ATF and other federal agencies to redouble efforts to target the sale of stolen or other illegal firearms. That�s one step. But owners of legally obtained guns have a role as well. Make sure weapons in homes aren�t easy to find. And if a gun is stolen, always report it to law enforcement. Be sure to have its serial number, make and model. It�s the kind of information that can help authorities crack down on illegal firearms.
Gun control is a debate worth having and one that will occupy national leaders for the next few weeks. But it won�t matter much unless illegal weapons are also placed under the same kind of microscope.


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MURRAY — With the way the Spartans were swinging the bats, you might've thought it was a slow pitch softball game.
But it was Murray High's baseball team that was making all that noise Friday afternoon at Ken Price Field.
"We always talk about putting back-to-back hits together, but today we did it," Murray High head coach Marce Wilson said following his team's 12-2 win over Skyline. "It's tough to stop a team when they're putting hits together like that."
Tough to stop indeed.
The Spartans put a 7-spot up on the scoreboard in the second inning, when their first eight batters reached base by spraying base hits all over the ballpark. The big blow came when Zach Collins launched a three-run bomb over the left-center field fence.
"It felt pretty good," Collins said of his homer, which he knew was gone the moment it left his bat. "I've been hitting it pretty good and I'm doing my job, usually.
"Our game plan was to come out with a lot of energy and be sure we jump on them. And we did a really good job at that. We tried to keep on pushing and try and get a bigger lead."
It was more of the same for the Spartans in the third inning, when their first six batters reached base and winning pitcher Cam Howe lofted a two-run shot of his own to roughly the same spot Collins did beyond the park's borders.
The Spartans scored four runs in that frame, helping pave the way for an impressive victory over defending 4A state champion Skyline in a Region 7 rout that was called after five innings due to the 10-run rule.
"Our approach at the plate changed," said Howe, whose team had slipped past this same Skyline team by a score of 10-9 two days earlier. "Guys were getting pitches they wanted to hit instead of chasing.
"It wasn't just a few of us; the whole lineup was hitting today, and that's what helped, getting kids on base and letting the middle of the lineup pick up the RBIs."
At the plate, Howe reached base all four times on two walks, his homer and a single, and he scored three runs. On the mound, he scattered four Skyline hits, allowing just one earned run with six strikeouts and no walks.
"I didn't have as much command today as I normally do with my fastball, so I was getting behind in some counts," said the senior right-hander, who ran his sparkling record to 7-0. "But my defense was playing good for me today, and when you have a 10-run lead, you can just go out there and have fun and don't have to worry about too much — just go out there and throw and have fun."
With its ninth-straight win, Murray ran its region record to 10-2 and its overall record to 14-3, staying in line for a possible league title.
The Spartans slapped around Skyline's pitchers for 17 hits in all, including three each by Collins, Bo Shipley and Logan Jones. Shipley had an RBI double in the first inning and a run-scoring single in the second, and he scored a couple of runs. Jones had a run-scoring single and scored twice, too, while Nick Smart and Preston Hannay each had two hits.
In that second-inning outburst, Chase Topham smacked a two-run single; Jones and Shipley each stroked RBI singles, and Collins crushed his three-run homer.
In the third, after Howe hit his homer with Jones aboard, Hannay drilled an RBI double, and Sage Sutherland dropped in a run-scoring single for the Spartans' 12th run.
Coach Wilson was mighty pleased to see his team's performance in the batter's box.
"If you take the right approach to the plate, like these guys have been taught and they've been working on it and they did today, they were able to string those hits together and it made a big difference," he said. "We came into the game just hoping to string a few hits together and get a lead and keep our lead. But when a 7-spot gets put up on the board, that makes it a little bit easier on the pitching staff.
"It's always nice to have one of your better pitchers on the mound going. Cam's had a good year for us. He's one of our staples on the mound and he competes and he doesn't give in. He always wants the ball. He's one of those kind of pitchers, so it's always nice to have him going for us.
"We know we've got to get 12 in a row (for the league title), but we play it one game at a time and we play Hillcrest next week," Wilson said. "We'll come at them hard and that's what we need to do if we want a chance at the region championship. We knew three weeks ago that we can't lose another game, so that's what we'll be shooting for and that's what we're working hard for."
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26 January @ 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
Paul Kidby has designed the Discworld book jackets for award-winning writer Sir Terry Pratchett since 2002. Our exhibition includes many of Paul's drawings, oil paintings and watercolours of favourite Pratchett characters as well as other fantasy artwork. Paul finds inspiration in the British landscape and folklore.
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I suppose when a state is as big as Alaska, it needs more than one place for its archives. Alaska has three archive collections, at the state government, the state library, and the state university. You need a hunting license to find them all.
Alaska State Archives. This is an Archives in the old fashioned sense, focusing on records management procedures for the state, and keeping most of its collection in file drawers. Its online collection is rather small, but does include one sizable document of note, the Probate Records of Alaska, 1885-1960...a names list of 17,000 probate cases from Alaska's early court system.
For family history researchers, the rest of the Archives collection can be a valuable resource, even though the bulk of their materials are offline. See their Alaska Genealogy page for a description of what's available, and procedures for requesting information.
Behind door #2, you can find Alaska's Digital Archives, from the University of Alaska, with a wealth of historical photographs, albums, oral histories, moving images, maps, documents, physical objects, tribal histories, and other materials from libraries, museums, tribes, villages and archives throughout the state.
Materials here are divided into two broad areas, Native Cultures, and Alaska Statehood:
Pathways for Alaska Native Materials includes categories for:
The materials can also be browsed by Region or by Timeline.
Lastly, we have the Online Resources of the Alaska State Historical Library. Their collection includes a number of indexes, which largely consist of names of people and an indication of where to find more information. For example, the Index for Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers, 1850-1950, v. 1-5, (opens as a Word document) includes many thousands of names, with a pointer to offline records.
Other Indexes & Guides include:
You'll also find links to some very nice Photo Collections, Online Exhibits, & Teaching Tools:
More historical archives and research materials can be found at these excellent resources:


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Photoionization rates are obtained by convolving the radiation field with the photoionization cross section. Cross sections are included for all levels of every ion for a wide range of photon energies occurring in our model. The cross sections where taken from the Opacity Project ([Seaton, et al., 1993], [Cunto et al., 1993]), then averaged over resonances as in [Bautista et al. 1997] and split over fine structure according to statistical weights.
For inner shell photoionization not yet available from the opacity project we use the cross sections of [Verner and Yakovlev 1995]. Inner shell ionization in X-ray illuminated clouds is enhanced by Auger cascades. This process can result in the ejection of up to eight extra electrons (in the case of iron) in addition to the original photoelectron. We include this effect by treating each inner shell ionization/auger event as a rate connecting the ground state of one ion with another level of an ion (in general not adjacent to the initial ion). The rates for inner shell ionization/auger processes are calculated using the relative probabilities of the various possible outcomes of an inner shell ionization event from [Kaastra and Mewe 1989]. These yields are multiplied by the appropriate inner shell photoionization cross section in order to calculate a rate for each inner shell ionization/Auger cascade individually. Our level scheme also includes levels with inner shell vacancies, which are populated by inner shell/Auger events. Populations of these levels are calculated in the customary way, and the decays from these levels produce inner shell flourescence lines.


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This movie has moved up my review list because I haven't been able to get it out of my head.
Compliance is the kind of movie that's so crazy and so against all common sense that you have to keep reminding yourself that it's based on a true story. It is inspired by the infamous strip search prank calls that swept across the United States a few years ago, and more specifically, by the Mount Washington case in 2004 where things went further than anyone could have ever imagined.
The film takes place in a fictional fast food franchise called ChickWich (the real life one was a McDonald's), which is run by a middle-aged store manager called Sandra. On this day she receives a call from a man identifying himself as police officer Daniels, who claims a girl whose description matches a store employee stole money from a customer. What happens from there is both bizarre and ridiculous, as the call escalates from one improbable incident to the next.
Compliance premiered at the 2012 Sundance Festival and was met with mixed reactions and a number of walkouts. Some thought it was a masterpiece, a fascinating study of human obedience and submission to authority that works and feels like a horror movie. Others thought it was stupid, exploitative and simply too implausible to swallow.
While I didn't quite think it was a masterpiece, I was captivated by this film from start to finish. Part of it was because I knew of the background and that it was very closely based on the true story. So every time I saw something that stretched my boundaries of incredulity I just told myself — this really happened. If I didn't know that I probably would have felt the same way as those who walked out.
Part of the reason the film felt believable was because of the performance of Ann Dowd, who plays the manipulated Sandra. She came across as a typical unintelligent, gullible store manager, and the way she reacted to the caller, including to his praise and in her desire to please him, just seemed so real to me.
Less convincing was Dreama Walker (pretty sure I've seen her on Gossip Girl), who plays the teenager worked caught up in the mess. I'm not sure if it was her performance or the script (by writer and director Craig Zobel), but she didn't seem naive or stupid enough to do some of the things she was told to do towards the very end. I haven't seen the surveillance footage of the real life incident, but there appears to be a sizable gap between some of the tamer and more extreme things the psycho caller gets her to do.
My verdict on Compliance is that it's definitely a worthwhile film to catch if you get the chance. It's a surreal, provocative, frustrating and often bewildering 90-minute experience that will likely remain locked in your memory long after the credits finish rolling.
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hues splash at shop windows and magazine pages.
Burgundy...can't be away these several years, dusty green...oh, my fave,
and gold! Yap, brass gold looks so fresh to me and it add an seasonal spice
to your wardrobe like ginkgo leaves.
dress: zara(similar here)
choker: asos(similar here)
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Here's my abridged version of The Phantom Menace in case people want a laugh.
HOODED MAN: Tell them we're here even though they know.
CAPTAIN: Yes'sir. [In Comm:] Here we come.
GUNRAY: We're not lying about the blockade being legal or wanting you here.
HOODED MAN: Okay, cool.
OBI-WAN: I have an idea that some dark force is behind all this.
QUI-GON: Psh! Yeah, right, kid. Shut up.
OBI-WAN: But Master Yoda said--
QUI-GON: "But Master Yoda said--But Master Yoda said!" Enough! God! We need to only hint at the Sith's involvement; not solve the mystery of the entire prequels in the first ten minutes of movie one!
OBI-WAN: *downtrodden* Yes, Master.
GUNRAY: JEDI?! No way! They're so cool!
PALPAT--ER--SIDIOUS: Kill them.
GUNRAY: But--
SIDIOUS: Do it, dangit! That kid will ruin my plans!
GUNRAY: And your home planet?
SIDIOUS: Meh--destroy it. I'll clean it up here in the Senate since I'm a senator—WAIT!! No, I'm a Sith Lord, not a senator!
DROIDEKAS: *Bzzzzt! BLAM!*
QUI-GON: Apparently we can't destroy droids in this scene.
OBI-WAN: Let's use the Force power from the video games.
QUI-GON: 'Kay! We have to get to the planet!
JEDI: *Force speed*
JAR-JAR: Sup, man?! Try this psychedelic weed, man!
QUI-GON: Move, moron! Big giant tank!
JAR-JAR: Dude! Totally!
QUI-GON: Take us to your city.
JAR-JAR: Can't man. I'm a dumbass.
OBI-WAN: Take us to your city.
JAR-JAR: Sh'yeah, dude. 'Kay.
BOSS NASS: Leave!
QUI-GON: Give us a sub.
BOSS NASS: Aight, we get the dumbass.
QUI-GON: Naw, we take him too.
BOSS NASS: Tch! Fine!
JEDI: *Lightsabers flash*
DROIDS: *break*
JAR-JAR: *falls*
QUI-GON: Queenie, let's take your tight-ass ship and leave.
JAR-JAR: Ooooo…shiny.
CAPTAIN: No gas, man. Gotta land on Tatooine.
AMIDALA: I heard the Hutts make some sweet bikinis here.
QUI-GON: We'll go get parts.
AMIDALA: Oh! I'm coming!--er--I mean… my… handmaiden is going. She looks nothing like me… *looks around nervously*
WATTO: Let me cheat you, moron.
QUI-GON: *rolls eyes and follows* I'm taking my droid.
R2-D2: [Dude, we haven't figured out how to do the stairs yet]
ANAKIN: You're pretty.
ANAKIN/PADME: [More asinine, Lucas-inspired dialogue]
ANAKIN: I'm gonna marry you.
PADME: Yeah--that'll never happen. I don't date slaves.
ANAKIN: I'm a PERSON!
PADME: Oh, in that case--see me in ten years.
JAR-JAR: Dude! I got the munchies, man.
SEBULBA: You ruined my chicken noodle soup, dude!
ANAKIN: Leave him alone or I'll make more idle threats I have no way of backing up.
SEBULBA: Good thing my sinuses are acting up. Psh!
ANAKIN: Come have a slumber-party, guys!
SHMI: The only way to get money is to race.
QUI-GON: Race? In a space movie? Um…okay.
[LUCAS: What?! I liked Ben-Hur! It's MY movie, damnit!]
QUI-GON: We win; we get the boy and parts.
WATTO: I get the pod and the mom then!
QUI-GON: Okay, that'll work. She won't start his downfall or anything.
PODRACE: *Anakin Wins* (Yeah… that's all you need to know out of that 15-minute sequence)
DARTH MAUL: *no dialogue*
QUI-GON: Agh! A guy in black! Must be bad!
QUI-GON/MAUL: *fight*
QUI-GON: *escapes* To Courscant!
QUI-GON: Anakin, meet the dude who'll try to kill you.
ANAKIN: Hiya!
QUI-GON: Obi-Wan, meet the dude you'll let kill you.
OBI-WAN: Pleasures all mine.
QUI-GON: Let's take the kid to the Council.
YODA: To be a Jedi you want, eh?
MACE: Tough crap, kid.
ANAKIN: *pouts*
PALPATINE: Welcome back. I wasn't trying to kill you or anything.
AMIDALA: Never, you're my pal. Like a close uncle or something.
PALPATINE: Yeah! Go with that. Stay here and out the way.
AMIDALA: No, I'm going back to get my shoes.
NABOO: We're not worthy! We're not worthy!
BOSS NASS: We can't really help you, but we'll die as a distraction.
AMIDALA: Um--Sounds good to me!
BOSS NASS: And they think we're stupid! Ha-ha-ha-ha!
QUI-GON: Stay in this starfighter, Anakin. That can't possibly be a bad place for a nine year old.
OBI-WAN: We'll take the Sith.
AMIDALA: We'll take the Viceroy.
ANAKIN: I'll take the…um…control ship and save the day? *rolls eyes*
BRAVO SQUAD: *some live/some die*
ANAKIN: "Spinning's a neat--"… George, do I really have to say that?
[LUCAS: Yes! MY SCRIPT! MY WAY!]
PADME: We have you now Viceroy!
VICEROY: I think not.
BODY-DOUBLE: Quick! Over here!
VICEROY: Get them!
PADME: Okay, now we have you!
VICEROY: …crap…
DROID ARMY: *fires, massacres, destroys*
GUNDAN ARMY: *dies*
JAR-JAR: *hides and somehow manages to destroy things… ri-i-i-i-i-ight…*
ANAKIN: Oops, I flew through ray shielding somehow and into the ship.
DROIDS: [Uh, you order take-out, man?]
ANAKIN: What's this button do? Oops, shot your ship, man.
R2-D2: [We have to leave, idiot.] *takes the ship out*
DROIDS: …crap…
SHIP: *explodes*
DARTH MAUL: *silent, but deadly*
QUI-GON: *can block lightning-fast bars of energy, but not a punch in the face*
DARTH MAUL: *strikes*
QUI-GON: *impaled through the heart, but manages to live until he talks to Obi-Wan*
OBI-WAN: NO-O-O-O-O-O! *gets all bad-ass*
MAUL: *Force-pushes Obi-Wan into a vast pit* (What is it with Lucas and vast pits?)
OBI-WAN: *jumps up, gets lightsaber, and slices*
MAUL: *is now half-price*
OBI-WAN: Master!
QUI-GON: Train him.
OBI-WAN: Who? Jar-Jar?
QUI-GON: No, you moron, the boy.
PALPATINE: We've arrived for the funeral. Ignore all the very bad stand-in actors in the background that look nothing like the real actors portraying the Jedi.
AUDIENCE: *confused*
PALPATINE: Goo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ood!
QUI-GON: *burns*
ONLOOKERS: *cry*
PALPATINE: *smiles*
YODA: Always two Sith.
MACE: Could the other be in this room now?
YODA: Nah! Impossible it is.
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Hosts & Guests Revisited: Tourism Issues of the 21st Century
Valene L. Smith and Maryann Brent
Valene L. Smith and Maryann Brent
- Anthropology and Tourism
- Indigenous Peoples and the Ethnographic Present
- The Study of Tourism
- Economic Growth and Impacts of Tourism
- "Tourism Needs More Respect": The Statistical Dimension
- WTO Tourism Satellite Accounts
- Economic Value Versus Sustainability
Chapter 1. Stone Age to Star Trek
Valene L. Smith
- Definitions of Tourism
- Tourism Elements
- Tourism Through Time
- Global Trends
- Summary
Jafar Jafari
- Evolution of Thought on Tourism
- The Scientification of Tourism
- Training and Education
- The Awaiting Future
Nelson H. H. Graburn
- Tourism: Rituals of Reversal
- Tourism, Ritual, and Time
- The Structure of Ritual and Tourism
- Entries and Exits
- The Tourist Experience: Liminality and Communitas
- Variations on a Theme: Different Strokes for Different Folks
- Plus ça Change, Plus c'est la Même Chose (The More Things Change, the More It's the Same Thing)
Chapter 4. The Nature of Tourism
Valene L. Smith
- Tourist Motivations
- Research Interests
- Academic Motivational Research
- Tourist Classifications
- Tourism in Perspective
Chapter 5. Gambling Into the 21st Century
Charles F. Urbanowicz
- Background
- Competition
- The Effect of Communication Technology
- Sources of Gambling
- Symptomatic of the Times?
- Meeting the Competitive Challenge: Las Vegas
- Conclusions
Tom Selänniemi
- Playa del Ingles
- The Southbound Masses
- A Diary: Days in Playa del Ingles
- Ambiguous Places at Curious Times
- The Liminoid South
- Conclusions
Maryann Brent
- Context
- Time: Atlantic City Heyday, 1886
- Space: Selected Atlantic City Land Uses in 1886
- Discussion
- Conclusion
Chapter 8. Tourism Change and Impacts
Valene L. Smith
- Tourism: Blessingor Blight?
- Tourist Culture: Bridging the Gap Between Resources and Consumer
- The 4 H's of Tourism: Habitat, History, Heritage, and Handicrafts
- Psychographics: The Five Generations
- Psychographic Evaluation: The Five Generations
- Looking Ahead
Chapter 9. Tourism on the Maya Periphery
Oriol Pi-Sunyer, R. Brooke Thomas, and Magalí Daltabuit
- The Development of Quintana Roo
- Mexico and the Price of Progress
- Tourism Development in Yucatan
- The Maya and Marginality
- The Elements of Social Change
- Conclusions
Valene L. Smith
- Filipino Heritage
- Boracay: The Development of Tourism
- Boracay Compared: 1986 and 1996
- Power and Ethnicity
- Tourism Culture and the Product Life Cycle
- Conclusions
Robin Heath
- The Resource Base
- National Parks and Safari Areas
- Recreational Parks
- Sanctuaries, Botanical Reserves, and Botanical Gardens
- The Growth of Foreign Tourism to Zimbabwe
- Tourism Within the Parks and Wildlife Estate
- Safari Operators and Professional Hunters
- Wildlife-Based Tourism Benefits for the Rural Economy
- Pricing Policies and Domestic Tourism
- Regional Development
- Conclusions
Anne Marie Van Broeck
- Background
- Methodology
- Perceptions of the Kaya Family
- The Entrepreneurial Spirit
- The Impact on Family Life
- The Social Position of Women
- Relationships Between Villagers and Female Tourists
- Community Bonds
- Declining Hospitality<\#0150>Rising Commercialism
- Changes in Food, Clothing, and Lifestyle
- Elders and Tourism
- Tourism as the Cause of Observed Changes
- Conclusions
Roel Puijk
- Tourism in the 19th Century
- Host and Guest Relations
- Towards a New Tourist Structure
- Tourist-Related Activities
- Local Tourist Initiatives
- Tourism at Finse
- Conflicts Between Finse and Ulvik
- Conclusion
Chapter 14. Sustainability
Valene L. Smith
- Sustainable Tourism
- The Historical Roots of Sustainability
- Task Forces and Guidelines
- The Challenge of Sustainability
- Other Industry Initiatives
- Ecotourism: Benefits and Costs
- Heritage Tourism
- Heritage and Authenticity
- Heritage Tourism and Indigenous Peoples
- Conclusion
Chapter 15. Tourism as a Protective Barrier for Old Order Amish and Mennonite Communities
Michael Fagence
- The Anabaptist Communities
- Tourism Interest in the Anabaptists
- Intrusion, Invasion, Exploitation
- Outcomes of Invasion, Intrusion, Exploitation
- The Focal Concentrations of Tourist Activity
- Tourism Planning to Provide Protection
- Conclusion
Rudi Hartmann
- New Challenges in the 1990s
- The Anne Frank House: From a "Secret Annex" to a Showcase Historic Site
- Visitors to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam 1960–1998
- Holocaust Memorials: Individual Experiences or Group Fates?
Margaret Byrne Swain
- Tourism and the Sani Yi in Yunnan China
- Sani Handicraft Production
- Making Dolls
- Doll Makers
- Doll Issues
- Issues in Indigenous Tourist Arts
- Ethical Issues
- Conclusions
Steven Parker
- Reef Tourism
- Management Tools
- Enforcement and Implementation
- Industry Self-Regulation
- Research
- Conclusion
William J. Trousdale
- Tourism, Impacts, and the Developing World
- Impact Assessment: Trends and Opportunities
- ATIA as a Practical Alternative
- Using an Active Approach
- The Kaniki Point Resort Case Study
- General Impacts and Regional Planning
- Enhancement, Mitigation, and Management Responses
- Conclusions
Trevor H. B. Sofield
- Empowerment
- Pilgrimage
- Heritage and Social Identity
- The UNDP Partnership for Quality Tourism Program
- The Indigenous Newar Community of Kathmandu Vally
- Svayambhunath and Changu Narayan
- Institution Building at Svayambhunath
- Changu Narayan and the PQTP
- Decentralization and Dissonance at Changu Narayan
Chapter 21. The Culture Brokers
Valene L. Smith
- Marginal Men and Women
- The Culture Brokers
- Conclusion
Chapter 22. Where Asia Wore a Smile: Lessons of Philippine Tourism Development
Linda Richter
- The Lessons of the Marcos Era: 1965–1986
- Learning the Lessons, Picking up the Pieces: Tourism Policy in the Aquino and Ramos Administration
- Conclusions
J. M. Tim Wallace
- Definig Tourist Destinations: Guests Versus Hosts
- Negotiating a Definition of a Tourist Destination
- Lake Balaton: The Hungarian Sea
- Early History
- The Beginning of Balaton Tourism
- From the Adriatic sea to the Hungarian Sea
- Balaton From the 1980s
- The Ebb and Flow of Water Quality Issues in Balaton Tourism
- Tourism in the Kis-Balaton
- More Cracks in the Negotiation
- Conclusion: Processing and Sustaining Tourism
Myra Shackley
- The Legend of Robin Hood
- Myths and Heritage Tourism
- Nottingham and Robin Hood
- Does Authenticity Matter?
Friedrich M. Zimmermann
- The Research Team
- European Union Regional Policy and Tourism Development
- The Historical Dimension of the Three Borders Area
- Tourism Attractions Focusing on Culture and History
- The Tourism Dimensions of the Three Borders Area
- Cross-Border Tourism as an Innovative European Concept
- The Tourism Keystones
- Marketing Issues
- Conclusion
Chapter 26. Tourism Issues of the 21st Century
Valene L. Smith
- 2000: A Psychological Time Marker
- 2000: A Technological Threshold
- The Critical Issues
- Globalization
- Urbanization
- Urban Tourism
- Tourism and the Urban Poor
- Other Global Issues
- Personal Security
- The PEST Analysis
- The Future: War and Peace
Chapter 27. From Kitty Hawk to the ISS Hilton
Maryann Brent
- The Persuasion
- What We Already Know: Selected Experiences
- Problems to Solve
- Staunch Supporters
- Conclusions
Valene Smith
- Crime
- War
- The Temporal Nature of War
- Wars of the 21st Century
- Terrorism and Ethnic Cleansing
- Civil Disturbances in the 21st Century
- Conclusion
Dean MacCannell
- Why Leave Home
- Is it Possible to Experience "Otherness" While on Tour?
- Tourism Changes its Destinations
- The Culture of Tourism Is Becoming World Culture
- Does the Change in Tourism Lead to a Change in the Motive to Travel?
- Will the Reason for International Travel Eventually Disappear?
- The Next Tourism
- Summary
List of Figures
1.Map of Northwest Alaska
2. Choris (1882), artist on the Kotzebue Expedition, sketched Kotzebue Sound Eskimos
3. Evolution of the economy
4. Umiak with tourists aboard
5. Speed of human travel
6. International arrivals and gross receipts: 1950–2010
1.1. Summer camp, Hotham Inlet 1884
1.2. Amtrak route map
1.3. Flying Tigers Squadron over Salween River Gorge (Burma), May 28, 1942
2.1. The multidisciplinary foundations of tourism studies
2.2. Tourism education–training continuum
3.1. The ritual of tourism
4.1. Psychographic positions of destinations, 1991
4.2. Suggested steps in tourists' travel careers
4.3. Dreamworld demographics: Recent levels of enjoyment
4.4. Main pilgrimages on foot to Jasna Góra in August 1987
5.1. The "crazy girls" of the Riviera Hotal and Casino
5.2. Treasure Island Hotel
5.3. Luxor Hotel
6.1. Map of Gran Canaria
6.2. The charter trip as a journey to the liminoid
7.1. Butler's resort cycle
7.2. Cumulative growth and rate of growth of Atlantic City: 1860-1990
7.3. Tourists riding donkeys
7.4. Epicycloidal diversion
7.5. The boardwalk and rolling chairs
7.6. Map of Atlantic City residences and tourist accommodations, 1886
8.1. New Guinea native with a ballpoint pen through his septum
9.1. Map of the Yucatan Peninsula
9.2. Tourists at Tulum
9.3. Workers reconstructing a Mayan site
10.1. Map of the Philippines
10.2. Growth of permanent residents compared with tourists in Boracay: 1986–1997
10.3. International visitor arrivals in Boracay, selected nationalities: 1986 and 1996
10.4. The classes of consuming public
11.1. Map of the parks and wild life estates in Zimbabwe
11.2. Too many elephants
11.3. Map of Zimbabew's CAMPFIRE projects
12.1. Roman theater of Hierapolis near Pamukkale
12.2. The thermal pools near Pamukkale
12.3. The modern Motel Gül transformed from a homestay
12.4. Woman washing utensils
12.5. Reception desk and gift shop
13.1. Location map of Ilvik, Norway
13.2. Ulvik residents dressed in the bunad
14.1. Painting of Yellowstone by Thomas Moran
16.1. The Anne Frank house in 1940 and 1998
16.2. Visitation to the Anne Frank house 1950–1998
16.3. The Anne Frank museum 1999
16.4. Map of selected Holocaust sites
17.1. The first Sani doll
17.2. Doll makers en groupe
17.3. Margaret Swain with Sani doll makers in Kunming
18.1. Map of Australia and the Great Barrier Reef
18.2. Small reef pontoon
18.3. Excursion boat
19.1. Map of the Philippines and Kaniki Point Resort
19.2. Kaniki Point coral gardens
21.1. Culture brokers as mediators
21.2. Worldwide export earnings: 1998
23.1. Map of modern Hungary with Lake Balaton
23.2. Top country destinations for international arrivals: 1996
23.3. Map of Lake Balaton and surrounding towns
23.4. Festetics family palace near Keszthely
23.5. The abbey at Tihany overlooking Lake Balaton
23.6. Keszthely, cultural center of Lake Balaton
23.7. Balaton farmhouse with thatched (reed) roof restored by German vacationers
24.1. Statue of Robin Hood outside Nottingham Castle
24.2. Poster of Robin Hood
25.1. Location map of the Three Borders Area
25.2. Skiing in the Three Boarders Area
26.1. Mega-cities around the globe
27.1. Suborbital and orbital travel
27.2. Earth rising over the Moon's horizon
28.1. The war cycle
28.2. Military "shoppertainment"
List of Tables
2.1. Advocacy platform on tourism influences
2.2. Cautionary platform on tourism consequences
4.1. Twelve types of travel appeals
4.2. Eighteen important travel motivations
4.3. Social characteristics of cluster groups
4.4. Mean scores of holiday destination attributes
4.5. Comparison of tourist type classifications: 1977–2000
6.1. Age comparison of Finish tourists
6.2. Comparison of the educational levels of Finish tourists
6.3. Frequency of visitation choices: Athens, Rhodes, and Playa del Ingles
7.1. Chronology of Atlantic City's evolution
7.2. Atlantic City population data
8.1. Independence of former colonial possessions: Post-World War II
8.2. Selected cost–benefit factors of tourism
8.3. Analysis of the 4 H's for tourism
8.4. Five generations of US travelers
13.1. Ulvik hotel guests' nationality
14.1. Hypothetical costs and benefits of ecotourism
19.1. Tourism impacts considered
19.2. Kaniki Point Resort objectives
19.3. Data collection and analysis methods
19.4. Sample of impact summary matrix for Kaiki Point Resort
19.5. Specific mitigation and management responses
26.1. World population, urbanization, and international arrivals 1950–2050
26.2. Population shifts in MDCs and LDCs in 1998 with 2050 projections and selected top 40 countries as destinations, earners, and spenders
26.3. A PEST analysis of possible future trends for tourism
27.1. Space vehicle characteristics


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Natural gas conference in town's front yard
Summit hopes to lure gasline to Port Valdez
City officials are working nearly around the clock to put the finishing touches on "AlaskaLNG Summit 2012," as part of its ambiguous and aggressive campaign to secure Port Valdez as the export terminus for a future natural gas pipeline to export the state's vast quantities of undeveloped natural gas.
"Why Valdez?" Sheri Pierce, Valdez city clerk, said is the question officials hope to answer when registered participants flock to Valdez to see its existing infrastructure and what they believe is the town's unparalleled suitability for the project. Gov. Sean Parnell has said he favors a natural gas pipeline to tidewater, but fell short of naming a port for the terminus.
"It's not specific to Valdez, it says tidewater," Pierce said.
Increased worldwide demand for natural gas and a glut of natural gas due to increase "fracking" in the Lower 48 has peaked interest in Alaska's natural gas for export to potential overseas markets. State government has been divided over how natural gas development should proceed and competing government bodies and pieces of legislation have clouded the issue.
It is hoped that tours of US Coast Guard vessel tracking facilities and existing oil export infrastructure – along with ample representation from the Alaska Gasline Port Authority, which holds many of the state and federal permits needed to build a gasline to Valdez - will sway elected officials, international buyers and industry officials that Port Valdez offers the best existing option in Alaska.
Alaska delegates in Washington DC are slated to appear by live feed options during the summit, which is coming to the Valdez Civic Center September 13-14. Summit is open only to registered participants. Information is available online at http://www.Alaska-lng.com .


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Folbigg deserves jail time, says family
FOR more than a decade John Folbigg has respected his family's wish for a ''cone of silence'' about his sister-in-law Kathleen Folbigg killing four babies.
But, with his brother Craig Folbigg's consent, he is breaking that silence after prominent Newcastle woman Helen Cummings told the Newcastle Herald she believed Kathleen Folbigg was innocent after a year visiting her in jail.
Ms Cummings is leading a campaign to have Folbigg's case reviewed, and has written to NSW Attorney-General Greg Smith to say she has ''no doubt at all about her innocence''.
The suggestion of innocence astounds and angers John Folbigg, who said Ms Cummings ''clearly didn't live the life we lived, and didn't see what we saw''.
The word ''innocent'' was ''offensive to the family'', he said after talking with Craig Folbigg and other family members on the weekend.
''What does she know, to come to a decision like that, that we don't know?'' he said. ''The thing I know, because I was there for all that time, is there's absolutely no doubt she should be in jail.
''To come to the conclusion she's innocent just by talking to her?
''What I'm asking is how did she determine she's innocent, apart from talking with Kathleen?
''Has she read the transcript of the trial? Has she read the diaries?'' he said, referring to the diaries kept by Folbigg which were a significant factor in her being found guilty.
''That's a big step on her behalf. When I make a decision I don't do so until I've got all the information, and that's all Craig and I are saying.
''How can anybody say she's innocent?''
Mr Folbigg said Craig Folbigg, his youngest brother, did not want to say anything publicly about the campaign for a review of Folbigg's case, or the opinion of forensic science legal expert Gary Edmond that her convictions were tainted by unreliable, misleading and outdated medical evidence.
''Craig's not going to put himself out there. He's moved on. He's got a life,'' John Folbigg said.
His new life includes a wife and seven-year-old son.
''With what he already relives on a day by day basis, he doesn't need to go out there and start jumping up and down about what people are saying.
''When I spoke with Craig after that story appeared in the paper, he told me not to get upset, and I'm trying not to.''
Craig Folbigg had consented to his brother making it clear the Folbigg family, including Craig, did not support a review.
''Where Craig stands is that nothing was wrong with the trial or what happened in the first place.
''It gave the family answers and the chance to move on.''
John Folbigg said he did not support a review, but the family respected legal process and would accept a review if the need for one was established.
''If people want to go out there and say the trial was wrong, that's fine, as long as they leave an avenue to have a trial again, because she's not innocent.
''Everyone deserves a fair trial. We would hate to think anyone is locked up for something they didn't do, so if it's been wrongly done, OK, undo it, and do it again properly.
''If that's the legal system, so be it, but as far as I'm concerned, don't waste taxpayers' money.
''Laura [the fourth Folbigg baby to die] lived 18 months as a healthy baby. An hour before she died she was running around in Craig's office in Singleton.
''He waved Kathy and Laura goodbye, and an hour later he's getting calls.
''If people say she's innocent, we need them to show us what happened to those babies.''


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A heavily intoxicated man fell on top of his 2-month-old baby girl early Sunday in Montgomery County, then put her in her baby swing to sleep where she later died, authorities said.
Edward J. Doyle, 28, of Upper Moreland Township, was charged Monday with child endangerment and was sent to Montgomery County Correctional Facility on $1 million bail.
According to a criminal complaint:
Upper Moreland Township police were dispatched at 9:33 a.m. to an apartment in the 2500 block of Horsham Road to investigate an unresponsive 2-month-old baby. The baby was located on the bed in the master bedroom and had red swelling on her forehead and bruises and cuts to the bridge of her nose. She was taken to the hospital, but was pronounced dead.
Police spoke to the baby's parents, Doyle and Nicole Lavelle, 30. The two have two daughters, one 15-months old and the other 2-months old.
Doyle told police he came home from work at 11 p.m. Saturday and went to the America Legion to celebrate a friend's birthday. He said he had about six beers and came home around 2:45 a.m. or 3 a.m., playing cards with friends when he returned. He said his wife went next door to get a DVD and he made something to eat, turned off the lights and fell asleep in the living room.
He said his daughter was on the swing set in the living room. He said when he woke up, he found her "white as a ghost" and limp and called police.
He later changed his story, telling police after returning from the American Legion, he and his wife went to their neighbor's apartment where they got into an argument about their tax return and finances. He said he returned home and the baby was crying in her baby swing.
He said he removed her from the swing and cradled her in his arms, but he tripped on the swing set and he fell on top of the baby. He said he checked to see if the baby was still breathing and put her back in the swing. He said he checked on her again at 7:15 a.m. and gave her a "binky." He said he believed she grabbed the pacifier, but he was groggy, so he wasn't sure.
Doyle said he called 911 when he found her unresponsive. Doyle told a detective he shouldn't have been caring for the baby since he "drank too much."
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Police: Dad who "drank too much" falls with baby in arms, killing her
A heavily intoxicated man fell on top of his 2-month-old baby girl early Sunday in Montgomery County, then put her in her baby swing to sleep where she later died, authorities said.


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This Day in Sports History — June 8
Here are just some of the notable sports moments that happened on June 8:
1921 — Babe Ruth was arrested in New York for speeding, fined $100 and held in jail until 4 p.m., yet he still played for the New York Yankees that evening. (More info.)
1935 — Jockey Willie Saunders rode Omaha to the Triple Crown with a victory at the Belmont Stakes. (More info.)
1955 — The Brooklyn Dodgers optioned future Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda to make room on their roster for future Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax. (More info.)
1966 — The NFL and AFL announced plans to merger by 1970. The leagues also agreed to begin playing the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, later known as the Super Bowl. (More info.)
1969 — The New York Yankees hosted Mickey Mantle Day, when the team retired the No. 7 jersey of the future Hall of Fame slugger. (More info.)
1982 — The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Philadelphia 76ers, four games to tow, to win the NBA Championship. (More info.)
1986 — The Boston Celtics beat the Houston Rockets in the sixth game of the series to win the NBA Championship. (More info.)
1991 — Former New York Jets defensive lineman Mark Gastineau won his first pro boxing fight by knocking out Derrick Dukes in 12 seconds. (More info.)
1992 — Pitcher Steve Howe, then of the New York Yankees, was banned from Major League Baseball for a seventh time because of drug use. Howe was the first to be banned for life because of drugs, but he was later reinstated. (More info.)


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The Miami Dolphins revamped their look, so why not the Minnesota Vikings?
The Vikings announced Thursday that changes are coming to the organization's long-running purple and gold uniforms. The franchise plans to unveil their new duds during a Miller Lite Vikings Draft Party at Mall of America Field on Thursday, April 25.
Minnesota's new look is under lock and key (we won't leak this one -- promise). In the meantime, we offer you the "Vikings Uniform Insider," an online portal allowing fans to unlock a series of 12 sneak peeks at the new garb. You can sign up here.
Late April promises to be a heady time for our very own "Uniform Monitor" and all who adore change: The Dolphins launch new unis on April 18 and the Jaguars will follow suit on April 23.
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The Justice Department needs a week to complete its review of a 2004 CIA inspector general's report before releasing it in redacted form to civil liberties advocates, officials said yesterday.
Government lawyers notified the American Civil Liberties Union of the delay yesterday afternoon, citing a longer-than-expected review process at the CIA. Activists requested the report as part of a longstanding Freedom of Information Act lawsuit focusing on the U.S. government's detention and treatment of terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
CIA officials sought to redact many sensitive and classified elements of the lengthy report, including details about the use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other harsh measures against detainees. The report by the agency's internal watchdog raised questions about the legality of the CIA's strategy and ignited a fierce debate within the agency and the Bush administration after it was completed five years ago.
Tension over how much to disclose in the fight against terrorism continues to roil the highest levels of the Obama administration. After a behind-the-scenes fight, authorities released earlier this year four memos by the Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel that paved the way for information-gathering techniques that critics assert are torture. But at the urging of Defense Department officials, the White House has sought to bar the release of photos depicting detainee abuse on the ground that they could incite violence against U.S. forces.
The report is the most definitive official account to date of the CIA's interrogation system. A heavily redacted version, consisting of a dozen or so paragraphs separated by heavy black boxes and lists of missing pages, was released in May 2008 in response to the ACLU lawsuit. The broad conclusions of the report, as well as its specific assertion that some interrogators exceeded limits approved by the Justice Department, have been disclosed.
Administration officials have been cool to the idea of a congressionally chartered "truth commission" that would explore the origins and effects of the interrogation program. But they have repeatedly been forced to respond to lawsuits they inherited, filed by interest groups that seek sensitive government documents from the Bush era.
New leaders at the Justice Department generally lean toward disclosure, but they are playing a secondary role in the case of the CIA inspector general's report because they did not have a hand in investigating or preparing the report.
Amrit Singh, an ACLU lawyer, said the group is disappointed by the delay. "We can only hope that this delay is a sign that the forces of transparency within the Obama administration are winning over the forces of secrecy and that the report will ultimately be released with minimal redactions," she said. "The CIA should not be permitted to use national security as a pretext for suppressing evidence of its own unlawful conduct."
CIA spokesman George Little said the process "is working just as it should." He rejected the ACLU's allegations of suppressed evidence as "wrong and offensive."
Staff writer Joby Warrick contributed to this report.


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For the SEFS graduation celebration this Friday, June 14, we are extremely pleased to welcome Professor Thomas Maness, Dean of the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, as the keynote speaker. A SEFS alumnus, Maness is a leading voice in forestry research and education, and he brings an incredible wealth of professional and academic experience from across the United States and Canada.
We caught up with Dean Maness this week as he prepares to address the latest class of SEFS graduates. Reflecting on his time as a doctoral student at UW in the 1980s, he spoke of the promising career landscape today's students can find in the forestry and natural sciences fields.
"Right now there's a huge opportunity for graduates because so many people who had started their careers in the 1970s and '80s are retiring now," says Maness. "I remember when I graduated, the problem was that the pipeline was full and it was difficult to get promoted. That's not true now. You see it everywhere, in land management and public agencies or private companies, it's all the same—there are a lot of opportunities for promotion and career advancement."
One of the keys to success as a new applicant or employee, he says, will be your approach to work. "I think attitude is everything. Graduates are coming out and they now know the language, but they have to learn the culture. They have to work hard, be responsible and want to learn. That's what companies are looking for: People who can socialize into their organizations really quickly and be decision-makers."
Just as important in this profession is being able to present yourself and your ideas, he says. "I think communication is key. To survive in natural resources, you have to have really good communication skills. It doesn't matter if you're an economist or an ecologist, you've got to be able to connect with people."
We won't scoop his talk any further, and we look forward to hearing more on Friday!
The SEFS Graduation Celebration will run from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in Kane Hall 120. A reception will directly follow in the Anderson Hall courtyard.
About the Speaker
Maness, who lives in Corvallis, Ore., with his wife Nicole, earned his Bachelor's degree in forest management from West Virginia University in 1979, and then a Master's in forest operations at Virginia Tech in 1981. He then headed west to work for Weyerhaeuser Company as a forest engineer in the Klamath Falls region of Oregon. His responsibilities ranged from developing forest-planning models, to conducting financial analyses for large-scale capital projects, to designing and installing manufacturing optimization systems for West Coast sawmills.
From Weyerhaeuser, Maness returned to school and earned his doctorate in forest economics from the College of Forest Resources at UW (now SEFS). He then joined the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, where he served in various capacities for 20 years.
His career highlights are many, including founding the Canadian National Centre of Excellence in Advanced Wood Processing, as well as the BC Forum on Forest Economics and Policy. He led an effort to design and implement a completely new undergraduate program at UBC, which won the Yves Landry Foundation Award for the most innovative Canadian university-level manufacturing technology program in 2002. Later, in 2008, Maness served as senior policy analyst with the U.S. Forest Service in Washington, D.C., researching and writing on climate mitigation and wood energy policy. He joined OSU's College of Forestry in 2009 and in 2012 became dean of the College of Forestry and director of the Oregon Forest Research Laboratory.
Maness' research interests include developing innovative forest policies and practices to balance the production of traditional forest products with society's expanding need for ecosystem services, energy and climate mitigation. He has also developed and taught courses in Forest & Conservation Economics, Sustainable Forest Management and Quality Management.
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Cal Baseball Tops UC Santa Barbara, 2-0, In Rain-Shortened Game
Feb. 26, 2006
BERKELEY, CALIF. - Behind the stellar pitching of freshman right-hander Tyson Ross, the California baseball team (6-5) completed its sweep of UC Santa Barbara (3-6) with a rain-shortened 2-0 victory Sunday afternoon at Evans Diamond. After an hour and 46 minute rain delay to start the game, the Golden Bears and the Gauchos played five innings before rain ended the contest. Cal earned its sweep by defeating UCSB, 3-0, Friday and, 4-2, Saturday. It was the Bears' first sweep since winning three straight over Washington State last season, Mar. 24-26.
Ross (2-1) had his second consecutive superb pitching performance, throwing 5.0 innings with three hits, no runs, one walk and eight strikeouts. He had thrown 6.0 innings with six hits, one run, four walks and nine strikeouts in his last outing versus Long Beach State Feb. 12 at Evans Diamond. Ross is now 2-1 with a 3.38 ERA and has recorded 21 strikeouts in 16.0 innings.
The losing pitcher for UC Santa Barbara was starter Bryan Fleming (1-2), who threw 5.0 innings with three hits and two unearned runs. Cal scored its first run when Allen Craig reached on a throwing error by Gaucho shortstop Chris Valaika in the first inning and later scored on an RBI ground out by Josh Satin. The Bears tacked on their second run in the third inning when sophomore catcher Travis Howell reached on an error by UCSB second baseman Alden Carrithers and eventually scored on Brett Munster's RBI groundout.
Cal is next scheduled to play an exhibition game against Keio (Japan) University on Monday, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. at Evans Diamond. The Bears then are set to host Sacramento State on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. at Evans Diamond, before hosting Bay Area rival Stanford in a three-game non-conference series, beginning Friday, Mar. 3 at 2 p.m. at Evans Diamond.
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UCSB: None.
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Fernhill House's own home grown veg used in cookery masterclass
Vegetables grown from seed in Fernhill House's own potting shed and planted in its sensory garden were used to help create a delicious pan-fried seabass dish as part of a cookery masterclass hosted by award winning chef Chris Williams.
Hospitality manager Chris, who has worked with Marco Pierre White and Heston Blumenthal in the past, demonstrated how to create a simple yet stunning main course at a lunchtime demonstration in the grounds this week.
An organic and home grown produce enthusiast Chris, who grew the vegetables himself from seed, wanted to incorporate as much of Fernhill House's own produce as possible in the dish – with many of the other ingredients grown nearby.
Although being the Midlands made sourcing the seabass locally a geographical impossibility of course! Fernhill House's own home grown produce included courgettes and courgette flowers, peas and pea shoots, while among the locally sourced ingredients were potatoes and tomatoes.
Chris completed the masterclass with his own take on Eton Mess. The twist in his variant, 'Fernhill Mess', is that is contained honey infused artisan gin.


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Video of Married Couple Singing 'Livin' on a Prayer' on Jay Leno's 'Pumpcast News' Goes Viral
A video of a fun-loving married couple from Burbank, Calif., who surprised the Tonight Show's fictional "Pumpcast News" with their made for TV rendition of two hit songs from the 1980s at a gas pump, has turned the duo into the latest Internet stars and revived the popularity of the songs.
The video, published on YouTube last Thursday had been viewed more than 7.5 million times on Monday while Bon Jovi's "Livin on a Prayer" and the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" have been experiencing a bit of a revival because of the couple's act. One YouTube video of "Livin' on a Prayer" is now pushing nearly 60 million views while another of "Sweet Dreams" is closing in on 20 million views.
Actor Tim Stack, who plays a fictional news anchor for the fake news station that only airs on gas station pumps, is usually the one doing the surprising on the "Pumpcast News" segment of the "Tonight Show," but it was the couple, Will and Monifah Sims, who surprised him this time around with their uninhibited show.
"Whoever you are, you can make me a star. I'm ready for my spotlight," said Monifah, a fitness trainer, in a clip that began with her husband Will singing to himself at the gas pump, and snowballed into an impromptu and surprising Karaoke show when Stack stepped in and promised a free tank of gas.
"You sir at pump 16 in Burbank," called Stack from the monitor as Will sang a low tune oblivious to the call.
"Yeah the gentleman singing, real nice singing voice," Stack continued, trying to attract Will's attention.
It wasn't until Stack insisted a third time with "yeah good morning sir, pump 16!" did Will respond with a startled and abbreviated "oh shhh" and looked up at the screen and acknowledged him with a "hey!"
"How you doing?" asked Stack.
"How are you!?" said Will with a chuckle.
"You've got a good voice."
"Oh, thank you," said Will who works as a bartender.
"Yeah, do you do that professionally?"
"No, just karaoke."
"Just karaoke? Guess what buddy, you came to the right gas pump. I'll tell you what, go ahead and pay for your gas, I've got a little karaoke for you," said Stack.
"What you want?" asked Will.
"What you got?" replied Stack.
Will then tells Stack he is an '80s kid and they agree on Bon Jovi's "Livin' on Prayer."
With Cheers from the Tonight Show audience in the background and his wife, Monifah, laughing away in the car, Will belted out the song drawing a small audience. When he was done with his solo, Will suggested doing a duet with his wife who refused at first until Stack suggested she would be doing it for a free tank of gas.
She quickly exits the car and performs the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams." At some point during the show, she tells Stack that she is ready for her close up and he reveals to her that he is from the "Tonight Show."
"We're working on it, get ready," said Stack in the video. "You're gonna be on Jay Leno on the 'Tonight Show,'" he announced to the excitement of the couple.
In the eventual introduction of the couple, who have been married for 12 years to his audience, Leno explained why he felt they were so special.
"Usually when we do this at the gas station we usually have four or five couples but these people were so entertaining and it's so nice to see a happy couple, we brought them here tonight. Welcome Will and Monifah," said Leno as the audience screamed.
"What a nice way to start your morning," said Leno as he greeted the couple who came onto the show dancing to lively band music.
"You know this almost seems like a plant, we had no idea these people were coming here correct?" said Leno.
"I wouldn't have looked like that," said Monifah. "That wasn't my best look after working out."


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Learning to consider prior prejudice
Together, all of these studies support the theory of "motivated reasoning": The idea that our prior beliefs, commitments, and emotions drive our responses to new information, such that when we are faced with facts that deeply challenge these commitments, we fight back against them to defend our identities. So next time you feel the urge to argue back against some idiot on the internet … pause, take a deep breath, and realize not only that arguing might not do any good, but that in fact, it might very well backfire.
From the unfortunately titled yet both provocative and intriguing "Here are 5 examples of facts making people dumber" article on Grist.
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