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As Asiana Flight 214 burned on SF runway, some helped others, some helped themselves
SAN FRANCISCO -- Rha Kyung Rhan experienced the best and worst of humanity during the crash of Asiana Flight 214: One man helped her with an extended hand and another hurt her when he yelled "Move!" then climbed over her and her teenage daughter in a panic to flee the smoking wreckage.
If you survived a plane crash, how would you behave?
We'd all like to think we would be brave, courageous, compassionate. But would we be?
The answer is almost impossible to predict. There are clues in our personalities and chemical makeup that can foreshadow how we might react in a disaster, experts say, but depending on the circumstances, we can surprise ourselves, for better or worse.
A week after the Korean airliner tumbled across a San Francisco runway, resulting in the death of three passengers, a remarkable 304 passengers and crew members are reflecting on how they coped with one of the defining moments of their lives, when character, courage and community did battle with confusion and chaos.
Ben Levy, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who helped Rha, her daughter and dozens of others escape from the back of the plane, had often wondered how he might behave in a disaster: What would he do if the Bay Bridge buckled beneath him in an earthquake?
"You ask yourself: What kind of person would I be? Would I be scared? Would I run away? Would I crumble?" he said in an interview Saturday.
He was able to answer that question in the midst of chaos on the runway when he said "gut instinct" kicked in. He thrust open the emergency exit door next to his seat, called for his fellow passengers and pulled them toward the inflated slide.
"I could have opened the door and jumped first," he said. "I wasn't fully realizing the danger we were in."
Two flight attendants, Yoon Hye Lee and Ji Youn Kim, lugged injured passengers on their backs off the burning hulk of the Boeing 777. Veteran San Francisco police Officer Jim Cunningham charged up the escape chute without a respirator to search for survivors. Coolheaded strangers, such as Levy, assisted others off the doomed airliner.
At the same time, however, some panicked passengers shoved their way out.
"They were pushing, screaming, lots of screaming. They were looking for things, getting bags out of their cubbies," a 13-year-old San Carlos girl who escaped near the front of the plane with her mother said a day after the crash. At the same time, she said, "a couple of people were helping one of the workers who got smashed" between a wall and an escape chute that inflated inside the plane.
Rha Kyung Rhan, already bruised and aching as she crouched protectively over her own daughter in row 32, got smacked in the back and stepped on.
"I don't know who it was. It was so crazy. He tried to get out of the plane, maybe afraid of fire, right after the plane stopped and everybody tried to escape," said Rha, a dentist in Santa Clara. "I tried to cover my daughter. He just passed by, he hit me, I don't know who."
Minutes later, Levy grabbed her hand and helped her and her daughter out the exit door and down the slide.
But Levy says he might have behaved differently if he had been traveling with his wife and young children, or if he had realized at the time that jet fuel was running up the airplane wings. "I thought the danger was behind me," he said.
Coincidentally, he also had just watched the in-flight movie "Love 911," a Korean action flick about firefighters rescuing people. "I was in the mindset of the movie," he said.
Research shows humans have a natural instinct to want to help others in distress, said Emma Seppala, associate director at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford. However, "when you are in a high state of stress or anxiety, that can make you very self-focused," she said. "The whole idea of 'let me get out of here,' a focus on yourself, is an instinct just to survive."
Past disasters reveal interesting patterns of behavior. During the Colorado shooting rampage a year ago at the midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises," three men, including two with military training, were killed while shielding their girlfriends.
Experts often point to the stark contrast among survivors after the Titanic struck an iceberg in 1912 and the Lusitania was hit by a German torpedo three years later. Both ships had similar numbers of passengers and crew with a similar range of ages, genders and backgrounds. But more women and children survived the Titanic, while more people in the prime age group -- from 16 to 49 -- survived the Lusitania. Why? The Titanic took two hours and 40 minutes to sink, researchers note; the Lusitania, just 18 minutes.
"In the Titanic, the slow sinking allowed our default social nature to override our animalistic self-preservation," said Ron Gantt, a safety consultant from San Ramon who co-authored a "Disaster Psychology" article in the American Society of Engineers magazine. "In the Lusitania, the sinking was so fast, there wasn't time for that. So the self-preservation took over and it was basically survival of the fittest."
In the crash of Asiana Flight 214 last week, if passengers feared "the fire was spreading quickly, they'd be much more likely to panic," Gantt said. "If they felt it was easy to get out and didn't see much fire -- regardless of their personality traits -- that would have determined whether people will be selfish or altruistic."
Alice Hoagland, of Los Gatos, a retired flight attendant whose son, Mark Bingham, died on Sept. 11, 2001, while charging the cockpit of hijacked United Flight 93, said the flight attendants on Asiana 214 were truly "remarkable." Not only did they take control of the evacuation when the pilots initially ordered the cabin to remain seated, but at least two of them carried injured passengers on their backs to safety.
"Some people are going to rise to the occasion and challenge themselves and truly help each other," Hoagland said. "Others will run to save their skin and their luggage."
Levy cautions that people on the flight who panicked or pushed shouldn't be judged; they may have perceived more of a threat than he did. Besides, he said, while much of the evacuation is still a blur, he is certain that many more people helped than hurt. The desire to help others, he said, seems innate.
When he got home after the crash, he pulled out a pair of toy fire engines he bought on his trip for his young children and managed to save. He didn't tell them what had happened that day -- he didn't want to frighten them -- so he was surprised by what one of them said as he played with the new truck:
"Let's go save some people, Daddy."
Contact Julia Prodis Sulek at 408-278-3409. Follow her at Twitter.com/juliasulek.


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Selena Gomez is fine after going to a Los Angeles hospital on Monday.
According to E! Online, the 20-year-old singer ended her recording session early due to a sore throat. She then went to the emergency room to get tested for strep.
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Jim Rogers ("Government workers deserve no sympathy," Dec. 11) denies sympathy to federal employees who complain about attacks on their pay and benefits. Truth is, federal employees have it good, like private-sector employees in those European "socialist" countries that our politicians denigrate. But over there, at least for northern industrial countries like Germany and France, private and public employee compensation is about the same (European Central Bank, Working Paper 1406) — public employees are ahead in southern Europe.
So why can they do this, and we cannot, especially when American private sector workers are as efficient as the very best in Europe?
I think the answer is in how the money is divided up here. Over there the ratio of CEO pay to average worker by country (Politifact.com) for largest private sector companies is 12:1 for Germany, 15:1 for France and 22:1 for Britain, and over here the public sector CEO (that's our President) has a ratio in the same range. The anomaly is in the American private sector where the ratio is 476:1. This disparity in income, and the declining purchasing power and employee benefits of the American worker, are well known.
What to do about this is the question of these times. While this is being written, the unions in Michigan are being busted — let's see if the ratio goes up to 477:1.
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Mortgage Applications Tumble as Rates Rise
Mortgage Applications Tumble as Rates Rise
Mortgage applications last week dropped 10 percent after rates soared to their highest level since March, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported in its weekly mortgage market survey for the week ending May 17.
The refinance index—which reflects applications for refinancing—fell 12 percent last week, while applications for home purchases dropped 3 percent. Still, applications for home purchases—viewed as a leading indicator of future home sales—were still 10 percent above levels for the same week a year earlier, MBA reports.
A rise in mortgage rates last week led to the largest single-week drop in refinance applications this year, says Mike Fratantoni, MBA's vice president of research and economics. The refinance index has dropped nearly 19 percent over the past two weeks. It is at its lowest level since late March.
MBA reports that the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rose to 3.78 percent last week, from 3.67 percent the prior week. Also, the average 15-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 2.96 percent from 2.88 percent a week earlier, MBA reports.


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"Omg! Insider" co-anchor Kevin Frazier spoke exclusively with Heidi Klum on Wednesday regarding the recent rumors that she and her bodyguard boyfriend Martin Kristen are engaged. The supermodel confirmed her relationship with Martin last September, just months after separating from her husband of almost seven years, singer Seal.
Gossip spread like wildfire that the former Victoria's Secret Angel and her boyfriend were ready to tie the knot after the two were spotted wearing matching Tiffany & Company diamond-and-gold bands on their ring fingers. But now she's setting the record straight.
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The Smartphone Battlemodo station has phones from Apple, Palm, Blackberry, HTC, and Nokia—representing all the major platforms—for you to compare and contrast and see for yourself which handset reigns supreme.
At 9p, KCRW's Music Director and host of "Morning Comes Eclectic" Jason Bentley will be spinning a live DJ set on the brand new Pioneer CDJ-2000 CD Turntables. It should be awesome. We'll be clearing out the gallery at 8p and letting people back in on a first come, first serve basis (around 100 people).
Livestream has created an, uh, livestream for us that aggregates six 3G cards and two WiFi cards to get a 1-2mbit stream going. We'll use it to transmit the show tonight at 9pm EST and the rest of Gizmodo Gallery.
And of course, we'll have plenty of other awesome shit, like live ArcAttack performances all day, Beatles Rockband on the 103-inch plasma, pancakes from the ChefStack (!!!), and some sweet action on the 3D Etch-a-Sketch. So stop by, there's not much time left to say you got to control a computer with mud.
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From Openmoko
Current version supports input using on screen keyboard. You can also use Bluetooth keyboards and with (battery) powered USB hub can also use USB keyboards.
Near computer can also use networking over Bluetooth or USB and then ssh into device or run X11 programs remotely and thus use whatever input possibilities other computer supports.
|Wishes warning! This article or section documents one or more OpenMoko Wish List items, the features described here may or may not be implemented in the future.
New input methods
- Another text input
- Dasher (Wikipedia link)
- Finger splash (Idea presented on OpenMoko community mailing list)
- HexInput
- MessagEaseST (YouTube demo)
- Morse Code
- Quikwriting
- Shape Writing
- Werner Almesberger's finger input suggestion (Draft layout as pdf)
- XMerlin
Patented input methods
- EdgeWrite
- Fitaly Keyboard
- Input method used by Garmin (Maybe patented?)
- SpeedScript
- TenGO
- AgileText
Other ways to enter text
- Once there is hardware with multi-touch screen support, gesturing with 2-3 fingers might offer interesting possibilities.
- Use voice to dictate text
- Use Optical Character Recognition on an image that exists on the file system or via a picture that has just been taken (even if it is a temporary picture only for this purpose).
Interesting hardware input devices
- Credit-card sized bluetooth keyboard (Note: apparently supports only Bluetooth Serial Port Profile and not HID; supportable, of course, but does Bluez handle these already as keyboards or would that require hacking?)
- Bluetooth laser virtual keyboard
- Frogpad
- Freedom Mini, apparently not manufactured anymore but still sold and works out of the box with Bluez' hidd. Has a spring-loaded hinge for squeezing a phone/PDA against the keyboard; seems like a Neo could attach nicely but don't have one to actually test. --Mjr 10:30, 15 May 2007 (CEST)


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Jim Corr
"Oh, it is one fine day to be nude!"
"Lovely day in the neighbourhood/lovely day in the neighbourhood/for a drive-by, I'm a wise guy..."
"I've been his pal for almost four (4) years, and I can honestly say that I get up to far worse each time I party with Frankie Valli and The Giant Jew Band, only to later find myself sucking weaver ants off the formaldehyde-smeared chest of a bearded Wendy's waitress in the Gambia."
"Crap yr. brains!"
Sir[1] Ted Flugent Aloysius "Jim" Mon Ter Corr, MBE (born July 31, 1964), also commonly known as The Reverend J.C., is an Irish bartender, socialite, and musician who is most famous for being the eldest son of U2 frontman Bono, for being the world's foremost patron of Hjungar-Garnis wigs, and for inciting mass riots on the streets of Tullamore in June 1996. In a bizarre incident, the big eejit spent the day totally smashed after drinking Austalian wine and at 5 o'clock that evening was brutally raped by the Gardai.[2] Since that unfortunate incident, Jim has been plagued by chronic self-esteem issues and spends most of the day bedbound, usually watching the special edition DVD of Happy Gilmore and getting his daily "super blowjob" from his German nurse Brunhild. As that statement suggests, that one I just said back there, as that one suggests: Jim. Has. AIDS. The devastating illness was officially diagnosed by Sarah Jessica Parker in 2003 at a gala in aid of comfortable underwear. Parker broke the news to Jim after having unleashed a terrifying rant upon him, during which she had broken several items of furniture, ordered a Chinese takeaway, screeched "Jim Corr is a cat fucker", broke wind, and made a series of uncomplimentary references to Corr's 'small pecker'.
- 1 Youth...
- 2 ... And Young Womanhood
- 3 Career
- 4 1995: Jim Corr's Big Guinness Drinking & Puke-Yer-Guts-Up Challenge
- 5 TV talk show The Mouth aka C'Mon The Mon! (working title)
- 6 1996 violent rape incident
- 7 Discography
- 8 Personal life
- 9 Uncyclopedia campaign
- 10 I Am Become Racist
- 11 Schedule
- 12 What Just Happened?
- 13 See Also
- 14 Notes
Flugent (hereby known as Mon) was conceived, born and raised in the quiet village of Killyloughballyhedgewindowstownfluff, which has been lost for over 300 years. The Mon was a good-natured youth and popular student in Hen's Cross school for boys until the age of 16. At this time, he became an unruly and stubborn adolescent. The Mon's intravenous ingestion of several batches of damp and fertile moss (a process known as fliffing) led to expulsion from school. The Mon became a hermit, moving out of town and living in a nearby mine shaft, which also housed several reclusive former members of the 60s skiffle band Spisode Eix. Drug frenzies were common in the crowded den. This strife probably contributed to the Mon's current lack of any memory of the first 22 years of his life. An unrelated masturbatory accident in 2005 has resulted in a loss of memory of the most recent 22 years; as he is now 44, this means that Jim, sadly, has no foreskin.
... And Young Womanhood[edit]
Consisted of the Mon wibbling around in a dainty, frilly, oh so frilly dress, wibbling like a Wibbly Wobbly Wonder and screeching, "Ooh! Huh! LAS VEGAS! Uh! Uh, LAS VEGAS - Vaay-Gas! Las VEGAS! Uh, uh LAS VEGAS!" As this was an unproductive time in Monaldinho's life (and yours, and mine), he decided not to remember it. With a quick wibble and a flash of his dazzling pink teeth, not to mention a click of his heels (for TOTO), Mon Atkinson was a memory-free man! Hey wait I've said all this before.
Kiny Kabinko![edit]
The Mon was mistaken for Osama bin Laden by a Canadian filmmaker in 1991, and was arrested and flogged for £9 in the Moore St. black market. The buyer was Roman Abramovitch. Since then, he has performed in burlesque shows across Europe and most of North America (except for Louisiana), always going on the road whenever his lonely LA friend Michael Flatley needs a buddy from the old country (Kill the piggy! Kill the piggy!). Mon opened a nightclub in 2001 in Nigeria called Rtsu Bktecu, which is an anagram of 'rust bucket' (probably). What the hell. This is fairly shit.
Flugent's Music[edit]
The Mon's musical career began in 1985 with a well-received debut album, strangely titled A Decade of Steely Dan. Themes such as war and redemption were covered extensively, most notably in the single Rinkydink Sailor, Nail Me To Your Waist, which shot to number 17 in the charts. A Decade of Steely Dan was a big success in Europe and in America, and provided The Mon with a lot of groupies, who he affectionately called 'floopies'. What a great record. The follow-up to this eclectic debut LP was less successful, however. Mon wrote and recorded the 1988 prog-rock bonanza, simply titled Unce, in just 3 days, a remarkable feat considering the album's 29 hour 41 minute running time. I'm sorry to say that this album "sucked the big one", according to Des Lynam. In 1998, after a decade of shame, chronic weight gain, and violent diarrhea, Flugent retired from the music industry. Critics claimed his career was memorable for being, and I quote, "un sac de merde" (shampoo salesman David Ginola), "terrifying" (Rab C. Nesbitt, a nobody), "quite... shit" (Michelle Obama, 'Rights for Whites' activist) and "tasteful in the most subtle way" (Des Lennis, evil twin of TV star Les Dennis).
In 2006 Corr was forced to make a statement in order to end persisting rumours of homosexuality. He made the heartfelt speech limp-wristed in front of Dublin's beloved spire. The statement was voted Gayest Speech of 2006 by Horse and Hound magazine. Corr reacted bitterly to the media backlash, retreating to his mansion deep under Dundalk bay.
In late 2008 Corr released his most acclaimed album to date, entitled In It For The Bitches Now Giz Us a Fiddle. The album was seen as a retort to growing doubts over his sexuality. Lyrics such as "I'm in the hay/how that make me a gay?" and "How can I be gay with my dick in my sister/invite over your ma, we'll play naked twister" went some way to clearing the vicious rumours surrounding his sexuality. However Corr did not anticipate seventh single, In the Club Thumpin, Now Get Down To Some Fist Pumpin being voted Gay Anthem of the Year 2008 by Horse and Hound magazine. He went on to record follow-up albums such as Push the Brown and Bald Balls to the Walls. He was rumoured to take over the mic in the upcoming T-Rex reunion, but turned it down to record concept album Paedophilia. He denied rumours of shagging 8 year-olds, stating that pubes are essential for "amasing" sex. "I'm not a fan of a tight shiny behind, push through hairy town, and there be pleasure you'll find", a lyric from hit album Bald Balls to the Walls, has been deemed particularly offensive by concerned mothers. Jim simply cited the public concern as a conceited effort to instigate a Corrs reunion.
In May 2009, The Mon released the first single from his forthcoming album, Jimagine, due for release in January 2010. Mon stated that the album was influenced by Chris Cornell's Scream and Michael Jackson's string of summer concerts in London, although he failed to explain how. The track, The Wind Blows Where My Rosemary Grows (Blow Your Nose!), failed to make an impact on the charts, peaking at only #44. However, several thousand copies of the single were stolen from HMV Grafton Street, which reassured Jim of the demand for his music. In a Rolling Stone interview, with typically poor grammar, Jim elaborated: "It's not as though nobody wanted 'em, they just weren't technically bought! They wasn't sold, but they wasn't NOT sold, was they? After all, you can't dust for vomit."
Sadly, Jim was embroiled in a race row when the new album's ninth single, Samantha Mumba (What Kind of Coon Name Is That Like?!) was premiered on VH1. The song featured Eric Clapton on drums, Michael Richards rapping through a quasimidi vocoder, Jim's 14-year old neighbour Frederick playing the octocontrabass clarinet, and his mother Mam Corr on the tin whistle. The lyrics were mumbled by a clearly-intoxicated Jim: "Hey, Hey, my n###ah! We've gotta ride the tide over the side, of the edge, of the square world, champ". The video featured footballer Paolo di Canio parading around his bedroom in a bathrobe, repeatedly giving the fascist salute while he gave Ron Atkinson a hum-job. For the Humvee.
In August 2009, Jim agreed to be interviewed by Ray Darcy on his radio show, to discuss the Mon's career revival and bizarre personal life. However, the interview did not go well and a severely inebriated Jim left the studio after just 2 minutes 34 seconds, but not before saying this:
|I just wanted to come on here and say to you people out there, all o' youse, that I can be a right minge merchant when I wanna be. Last night I got plastered with me mate Alan Sugar, who by the way is a proper piss artist, and I took a bird home for a bit o' messin'. Long-story short, I wake up the next day, with an arse like the back of Batman's car. And I see that she had a face like a bleedin' melted wheelie-bin! Madonna-mia! It would turn your bollocks square so it would! But still... She was a woman. She had a gee the size of the flamin' Battleship Potemkin! So I'm not a bufty. And Shuggs will back me up on that.
It was announced on tedflugentaloysiusjimmontercorr.com that Jim would perform at the Shaftesbury Dustbin Festival in November 2009. Jim received support act billing as rapcore act Crazy Town and a Grateful Dead tribute band called We're Dead Grateful! co-headlined, with Punch & Judy opening the show.
In 2012, Jim was paid €90 for just two weeks of work as a sign waver for the tasty rectangular treats Pop Tarts®. When asked about the exciting project, Flugent commented that he frequently enjoyed the delicious toaster pastries while watching American Pie. "Also, the name reminds me of my sisters!" he bellowed. "Just kidding! Ha ha ha! But seriously, these things are Joylicious™. Make sure and put that." The earnings were supposed to go towards Jimbo's new album, but he blew the lot by getting drunk in Dundalk (3 pints of Stella with the soup of the day). Then he bought the Only Fools and Horses DVD and two tins of Quality Street. These were quickly stolen by scumbags. Jim is currently broke.
1995: Jim Corr's Big Guinness Drinking & Puke-Yer-Guts-Up Challenge[edit]
AKA Jimbo's Big Bimbo Big Garden Jumbo Shindig, Ho-down near Motown (Windsor is just south of Detroit, Michigan), Jim Corr's Super-Sweet Chug-Fest, The Klunge Club, or Manto-Fest '95.
With the help of close friend Alan Partridge, who stepped forward as MC, El Monerino created a special one-off barbecue fundraiser in aid of debilitating illness BS. The box social took place in Jimo's front garden in his Windsor shag pad. The goal... is SOUL! - no it was actually to drink 14 cans of Guinness (no more, no less), clutch the testicles of the person to your left for 19 minutes, slap your ass loudly while saying "Pubic hair" and then finishing by puking for as long as you possibly can. The winner of the esteemed competition was Des Lynam (3 hours 17 minutes and 41 seconds). With a new world record time - beating the old one by over 3 hours - good ol' Des raised precisely $62 for BS charities. He also won a trip to rehab. Of course he is Irish, how could he not win? Very tricky, Dessy-boy! Very tricky!
The shindig culminated in a special auction of Jimbo's 1955 Cadillac, which was emblazened with the words Shaggin' Wagon. This was not a fitting title. The banger sold for $2,200, going to a mystery buyer known only as Mr. Robert Tiberius Milhouse David, residing at the Ear Nose and Throat Ward, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital, Windsor, Ontario. Phone number 519-735-4611. Ask for Bob.
Soon after the wonderful barbecue ended, Jim was spotted by neighbours on his hands and knees in his garden, digging frantically with his hands. Sweat ran freely from his brow, and his teeth were gritted as he unearthed his prize with frantic determination. By the time he had exhumed the little boy's corpse, he was unfortunately "no longer in the mood," as he told Oprah in 2001.
TV talk show The Mouth aka C'Mon The Mon! (working title)[edit]
The Mon briefly was the host, in his briefs, of UKTV Conquest's flagship chat show The Mouth, a talk show that broke with the convention of a host interviewing a changing rota of guests. Instead, The Mouth featured a series of interviews with Jim (as stated, he was clad only in his underwear), each conducted by a randomly chosen special guest celebrity interviewer. The show's unusual format, selective appeal, and dismal audience share meant that it only lasted for five episodes, each just 10 minutes long. However, Jim was quoted as having fully enjoyed such an "amasing" experience and had no regrets at the TV network's decision to leave his show "behind."
Episode One: A New Hope with Bill Cosby
Cosby owed a favour to an old friend who served as producer on the show, and so agreed to a one-off appearance. His interview with Jim did not go smoothly, as The Mon continually shocked Cosby with his drunken outbursts on why Martin Luther King was really a sexist. He then complimented Cosby on his performance in The Shawshank Redemption and invited him for a spot of fliffing.
Episode Two: Episode Harder with Bertie Ahern
The Bertie was left "flummoxed" after The Mon reacted badly to the former Taoiseach's appearance. The Mon roared "Traitor!" at the top of his voice for 5 full minutes, before calling Enda Kenny a "windbag" and saying that Irish politics was "nuttier than a shithouse rat".
Episode Three: Three's A Crowd with Meg Ryan
The Mon showed a more considerate and caring side in this 10 minute love-in, as Ryan proceeded to fall asleep on the couch while Jim fondly recalled (to no-one in particular) how he used to spend his childhood summer holidays in Kent, flashing the local pensioners ("with my willy!") and burning ants with a magnifying glass.
Episode Four: Stand By Me with Fatboy Slim
The series really kicked off with this masterpiece, as Fatboy and The Mon smoked skunk and each played an impromptu DJ set for the studio audience. They hastily announced plans to form a band together, and revealed their shared hatred of Russell Brand. Fatboy was arrested the next morning for puking on a blind man's guide dog, while Jim fell into a ditch in Meath and had to be rescued by mushroom farmers at 4am. Russell Brand was found tied-up and gagged in a Dublin hotel later that day, having been repeatedly sodomised by two masked intruders.
Episode Five: Monster Mash with George W. Bush
This interview was cancelled abruptly after just 9 seconds. The show was never screened again. The Mon was forbidden to come "within 500 yards of Mr. Bush, Mrs. Bush, any of their children, and especially not their traumatised Jack Russell terrier Bingo.
1996 violent rape incident[edit]
A life-changing event was to occur on 13 June 1996, or Black Thursday as it came to be known. The Mon was on the main street in Tullamore, on his way to Chartbusters to rent a film ("preferably one with some ridin' in it" as he later told Gerry Ryan), when disaster struck. Local gardai stopped The Mon at 5pm for alleged 'public drunkenness' and forced him to lean over the hood of their car. They carefully stripped him of his clothes and undergarments, beating him senseless with a wooden shoe, before penetrating the quivering Mon repeatedly with their fearsome man swords. One by one the ruthless Gardai spent their loads into The Mon, by this stage screaming himself into delirium. All nine guards had relations with Jim, before piling into their crowded Toyota and racing away in fits of laughter. Before they took their exit, however, it is believed that they complimented The Mon on his 'exquisite anus' and told him to give them a call should he require additional servicing - "Just call 999!"
As with most rapes, the public's perception of the victim was altered greatly following the event. Like all rape victims, Jim was deemed to be "asking for it" and "hurtin' for a squirtin'" by the media. This corresponded with a Sky News poll that revealed 98% of the public felt that rapes generally occurred because of women (or men) dressing in a provocative manner, rendering themselves irresistible to the 'rapers' and bringing it about through their own naivete. Of course, in Mon's case, some felt that he secretly wanted to be raped that evening, thereby explaining his attire, consisting of 6" platform shoes, blue hot pants, fishnet stockings, a Hulk Hogan-style feather boa and a low-cut halter top. Rumours that he also sported platinum earrings in the shape of a man's linus have yet to be confirmed.
...Basically his whole vibe screamed "RAPE ME BABY!!!", oh man it's so sexy.
- 1985 - A Decade of Steely Dan
- 1988 - Unce
- 1994 - Ted Flugent Aloysius 'Jim' Mon Ter Corr: Lies (live album)
- 2008 - In It For The Bitches Now Giz Us a Fiddle
- 2008 - Push The Brown
- 2009 - Bald Balls to the Walls
- 2009 - Paedophilia (collaboration with Pete Townshend)
- 2010 - Jimagine
Personal life[edit]
Married to Linda Martin since 1976, however, The Mon doesn't know this himself, so keep it under your hat. You'll get a right fuckin' hiding off of Packie Bonner if you blab. The Mon also carries no less than 22 condoms at all times, "one for every toe, one for every finger, one for my willy, and one left for spare," he frequently reasons. Sylvester Stallone also carries 22 condoms; however, this is because he has 22 penises and is prone to random spells of heavy ejaculation. So, em, basically... don't take steroids, ya dig?
Alcohol abuse[edit]
The Mon's tendency to sip a 'Cock-tail' made up of the German wine Hock and a quart of male sperm - donated to him by John Goodman - has caused problems for him in recent years. Mon frequents all the trendy LGBT bars in his hometown, and runs up huge tabs with his insatiable demand for booze and trannies. Loan sharks and debt collectors have his mobile number on speed-dial number 8. Tragically, his beloved penis was snapped off by a local gangster who was owed €44 by Corr. Locals overheard the mobster screaming "I'll give you what-for, you wine-and-spunk drinking son of a bastard!" He then took away The Mon's appendage; it is believed to be 'erected', if you'll pardon the pun, atop a flagpole in Dundalk town centre. Whenever The Corrs are played on local radio, the knob is flown at half-mast, out of pity.
...You see now he pees sitting down, like a cripple or a bitch.
Crossword puzzle addiction[edit]
The Mon has never completed a crossword in his life; this despite the fact that he spends every waking moment with his ridiculous nose buried in a crossword book. The longest clue he ever answered correctly was a 5-letter word, widely believed to be 'jelly'. The normally calm Mon Ter Corr becames quite ill-tempered when he fails his latest puzzle (sample quote: "Kiss my sweaty balls, ya fat fuck!"). The Mon will then remove his Hjungar-Garnis toupee and smear grapefruit juice across his bald dome, in an attempt to "make amasing brains"; however this technique has sadly proved quite ineffective.
Uncyclopedia campaign[edit]
It is believed that the Mon has wished for his entry on Uncyclopedia to be longer than any other.[citation needed] To accomplish this, he has employed a team of hacks to work round the clock, inserting random and unfunny data into the otherwise factual page. The falsehoods include references to his time in fictional spoof band The Corrs, as well as a preposterous lie regarding his opinions on 9/11, the Lisbon Treaty and other political matters. Jim's page currently consists of over 130,000 words, most of them gibberish, and you will have a hard time reading it, although it is still slightly better than wikipedia. Go'bless us, every one.
I Am Become Racist[edit]
Mon caused controversy with a June 2009 appearance on Have I Got News For You when he attempted to join in the witty colloquy of Jimmy Carr and Paul Merton with the following bizarre quip: "Have you ever noticed that if you rearrange the letters in 'illegal immigrants' and add a few more letters, it actually spells out: 'Fuck off and go home all you benefit-stealing, kid-producing, no-English-speaking cocksuckers, and take those hairy-faced, sandal-wearing, bomb-making, goat-fucking, mutton-eating, smelly raghead bastards with you!' How weird is that?!" Understandably, Carr and Merton were shocked by the remarks and immediately lambasted Corr for his ignorance, backwardness, and his chronic flatulence. The Mon looked hurt by the criticism and tearfully asked Carr, "How can you do this to me!" We have almost the same name! Bruther! Just take away the 'a'! And add an 'o'! You get Jimbo Corr! Oh Bruther! I guess it's true! Thunder only happens when it's raining!" On the plus side, Jeremy Clarkson laughed his head off at the funny.
To appease his fans, Brunhilde posted an account of a regular day in the life of Jim on his blog for him (Jim doesn't understand the internet). The blog was a big hit, getting over 400 views in just six weeks before being shut down by admins in March 2010 for the posting of disturbing poetry. More to follow, ya sneaky fukken prawns!
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Jim before Pilate[edit]
Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, reached a decision. They bound Jimsus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate. "Are you the king of the Corrs?" asked Pilate. "Yes, it is as you say," Jimsus replied.
The chief priests accused him of many things. So again Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of."
But The Mon still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.
Now it was the custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the people requested. A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising. The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
"Do you want me to release to you the king of the Corrs?" asked Pilate. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.
"What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Corrs?" Pilate asked them.
"Crucify him!" they shouted. "Why? What crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jimsus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
The Soldiers Mock The Mon[edit]
The soldiers led J.C. (Jim Corr aka Jesus H. Christ) away into the palace and called together the whole company of soldiers. They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. And they began to call out to him, "Hail, king of the Corrs!" Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him. And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
The Crucifixion[edit]
They brought Jimsus to the place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull). Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get. It was the third hour when they crucified him. The written notice of the charge against him read: THE KING OF THE CORRS. They crucified two robbers with him, one on his right and one on his left. Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!"
In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! Let this Mon, this King of Corrs, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
The Death of Jimsus[edit]
At the sixth hour darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour The Mon cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" —meaning, "My God, my God, I Never Really Loved You Anyway." When some of those standing near heard this, they said, "Listen, he's calling Elijah." But Elijah did not appear.
One man ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink. "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down," he said.
He spoke the soldiers: "Thou art forgiven but not forgotten." And then, with a loud cry, Jim Corr breathed his last.
The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood there in front of The Mon, heard his cry and saw how he died, he said, "Surely this man was the Son of God!"
Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome. In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.
The Burial of Jim[edit]
It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached, Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jim's body. Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph. So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint The Mon's body. Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, "Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?" But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
"Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jim the Mon, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you."
"Say what?" replied the women. "He hast runaway!" spoke the man.
Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
See Also[edit]
- ↑ He is a knight of the realm now, you know.
- ↑ Jim speaks.


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Bond Allocation--Louisiana Public Facilities Authority
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and Act 51 of the 1986 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature, Executive Order No. BJ 2008-47 was issued to establish:
(1) a method for allocating bonds subject to private activity bond volume limits, including the method of allocating bonds subject to the private activity bond volume limits (hereafter "Ceiling");
(2) the procedure for obtaining an allocation of bonds under the Ceiling; and
(3) a system of central record keeping for such allocations; and
WHEREAS, The Louisiana Public Facilities Authority has applied for an allocation of the 2013 Ceiling to be used in connection with the financing by Louisiana Pellets, Inc. of the acquisition, construction, improvement, and expansion of certain solid waste disposal facilities consisting of an approximately, 393,000 square-foot facility on approximately 334 acres of land to be used for a wood pellets production plant, the primary purpose of which is the processing of wood waste to manufacture biomass wood pellets (the "Project") to be located in the Parish of LaSalle, State of Louisiana, within the boundaries of the Issuer; and
NOW THEREFORE, I, BOBBY JINDAL, Governor of the State of Louisiana, by virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution and the laws of the State of Louisiana, do hereby order and direct as follows:
SECTION 1: The bond issue, as described in this Section, shall be and is hereby granted an allocation from the 2013 Ceiling in the amount shown:
Amount of Allocation
Name of Issuer
Name of Project
Louisiana Public Facilities Authority
Louisiana Pellets, Inc.
SECTION 2: The allocation granted herein shall be used only for the bond issue described in Section 1 and for the general purpose set forth in the "Application for Allocation of a Portion of the State of Louisiana's Private Activity Bond Ceiling" submitted in connection with the bond issue described in Section 1.
SECTION 3: The allocation granted herein shall be valid and in full force and effect through December 31, 2013, provided that such bonds are delivered to the initial purchasers thereof on or before September 3, 2013.
SECTION 4: All references in this Order to the singular shall include the plural, and all plural references shall include the singular.
SECTION 5: This Order is effective upon signature and shall remain in effect until amended, modified, terminated, or rescinded by the Governor, or terminated by operation of law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand officially and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of Louisiana, at the Capitol, in the city of Baton Rouge, on this 6th day of June, 2013.
Bobby Jindal
Tom Schedler
Secretary of State


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Turkmenistan (11/02)
Area: 229,060 sq. km. (188,417 sq. mi.).
Cities: Capital--Ashgabat. Other cities--Turkmenabat (formerly Chardjou), Dashowuz, Mary, Turkmenbashi.
Terrain: 80% covered in subtropical, sandy Karakum Desert, with dunes rising to the Kopet Dag Mountains in the south along the border with Iran; borders the Caspian Sea to the west and the Amu Darya River and Uzbekistan to the east; borders Afghanistan to the southeast, Kazakhstan to the north.
Nationality: Turkmen.
Population (July 2002 est.): 4,688,963.
Annual growth rate (2000 est.): 1.87%.
Ethnic groups: Turkmen 77%, Uzbek 9.2%, Russian 6.7%, Kazakh 2%, other 5.1%.
Religions: Muslim 89%, Eastern Orthodox 9%, unknown 2%.
Languages: Turkmen 72%, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%, other 7%.
Education: Literacy--98%.
Work force: 2.34 million.
Type: Republic.
Independence: October 27, 1991 (from the Soviet Union).
Constitution: May 18, 1992.
Branches: Executive--president. Legislative--Parliament; People's Council. Judicial--Supreme Court.
Administrative subdivisions: 5 Velayat (provinces)--Ahal Velayat (Ashgabat), Balkan Velayat (Nebitdag), Dashowuz Velayat (formerly Tashauz), Lebap Velayat (Turkmenabat, formerly Chardjou), Mary Velayat.
Political parties: Democratic Party of Turkmenistan (opposition parties are outlawed).
Flag: Green field with a vertical red stripe near the hoist side, containing five carpet guls stacked above two crossed olive branches similar to the olive branches on the UN flag; a white crescent moon and five white stars appear in the upper corner of the field just to the fly side of the red stripe.
GDP (2001 est.): Purchasing power parity--$21.5 billion.
Real growth rate (2001 est.): 10%.
Inflation rate (2001 est.): 10%.
Per capita income (2001 est.): Purchasing power parity--$4,700.
Unemployment rate: NA.
Agriculture: Products--cotton, grain, livestock.
Industry: Types--natural gas, oil, petroleum products, textiles, food processing.
Trade: Exports (2001 est.)--$2.7 billion: gas 33%, oil 30%; cotton fiber 18%; textiles 8%. Partners--Ukraine, Iran, Turkey, Italy, Switzerland. Imports (2001 est.)--$2.3 billion: machinery and equipment 60%, foodstuffs 15%. Partners--Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, U.A.E., France. Debt--external (2001 est.): $2.3-$5 billion.
The territory of Turkmenistan has been populated since ancient times, as armies from one empire to another decamped on their way to more prosperous territories. Tribes of horse-breeding Turkmen drifted into the territory of Turkmenistan from ancient times, possibly from the Altay Mountains, and grazed along the outskirts of the Karakum Desert into Persia, Syria, and Anatolia.
Alexander the Great conquered the territory in the 4th century B.C. on his way to India. One hundred fifty years later the Parthian Kingdom took control of Turkmenistan, establishing its capital in Nisa, an area now located in the suburbs of the modern-day capital of Ashgabat. In the 7th century A.D. Arabs conquered this region, bringing with them the Islamic religion and incorporating the Turkmen into Middle Eastern culture. It was around this time that the famous "Silk Road" was established as a major trading route between Asia and Europe.
In the middle of the 11th century, the powerful Turks of the Seldjuk Empire concentrated their strength in the territory of Turkmenistan in an attempt to expand into Afghanistan. The empire broke down in the second half of the 12th century, and the Turkmen lost their independence when Genghis Khan took control of the eastern Caspian Sea region on his march west. For the next 7 centuries the Turkmen people lived under various empires and fought constant intertribal wars amongst themselves.
From the 16th century on, Turkmen raiders on horseback preyed on passing caravans, pillaging and taking prisoners for the slave trade. After kidnapping Russians from the expanding Tsarist Empire, the Turkmen fell into trouble. Russia sent forces to Turkmenistan, and in 1881 fighting climaxed with the massacre of 7,000 Turkmen at the desert fortress of Geok Depe, near modern Ashgabat; another 8,000 were killed trying to flee across the desert. By 1894 imperial Russia had taken control of Turkmenistan. The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia and subsequent political unrest led to the declaration of the Turkmen Republic as one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union in 1924. At this time the modern borders of Turkmenistan were formed.
The Turkmen Republic was under full control of Moscow, which exploited its raw materials resources for the purposes of the Soviet Union. Sovereignty was only a formality, since Russia ultimately ruled all Soviet states.
Following the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union, Turkmenistan declared its independence on October 27, 1991. Saparmurat Niyazov became the first president of the new republic and still remains the supreme decisionmaker. On December 28, 1999, Niyazov's term was extended indefinitely by the Mejlis (parliament), which itself had taken office only a week earlier in severely flawed elections that included only candidates hand-picked by President Niyazov. Independent political activity is not allowed in Turkmenistan, and no opposition candidates were allowed. The Democratic Party of Turkmenistan (DPT) is the only legal political party. Political gatherings are illegal unless government sanctioned, and the citizens of Turkmenistan do not have the means to change their government democratically.
While the constitution provides for freedom of the press, there is virtually no freedom of the press or of association. The government has full control of all media and has recently moved to restrict foreign newspapers. International satellite TV is available.
The population is 89% Sunni Muslim. The constitution provides for freedom of religion and does not establish a state religion; however, in practice, the government continues to restrict all forms of religious expression. A law on religious organizations requires that religious groups must have at least 500 members in each locality in which they wish to register in order to gain legal status with the government. The only religions that have registered successfully under the law are Sunni Islam and Russian Orthodox Christianity, which are controlled by the government. The law has prevented all other religious groups, of which there are many, from registering. The government severely limits the activities of nonregistered religious congregations by prohibiting them from gathering publicly, proselytizing, and disseminating religious materials. The government's interpretation of the law severely restricts the freedom to meet and worship in private.
A Soviet-style command economy greatly limits equality of opportunity. Industry and services are almost entirely provided by government or government-owned entities, while agriculture is dominated by a state order system. Women face particularly strong discrimination in all social aspects, and their freedom is restricted due to traditional social-religious norms. All citizens are required to carry internal passports, noting place of residence, and movement into and out of the country, as well as within its borders, is difficult.
Corruption continues to be pervasive. Power is concentrated in the president; the judiciary is wholly subservient to the regime, with all judges appointed for 5-year terms by the president without legislative review. Little has been done to prosecute corrupt officials.
Principal Government Officials
President--Saparmurat Niyazov
Prime Minister--Vacant
Foreign Minister--Rashid Meredov
Ambassador to the United States--Meret B. Orazov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Turkmenistan maintains an embassy at 2207 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008; tel: (202)588-1500, fax: (202)588-0697
Turkmenistan was an important supplier of raw materials, especially cotton, oil, and natural gas, during the Soviet era. One-half of its irrigated land is planted in cotton, making it the world's 10th-largest producer; and it possesses the world's fifth-largest reserves of natural gas as well as substantial oil resources. Until 1993, Turkmenistan experienced less severe economic decline in comparison with other former Soviet states because it was able to sell its natural gas and oil at world prices. In 1994, the Russian Government refused to allow exported Turkmen gas to pass through Russian pipelines to hard currency markets. Industrial production of gas fell sharply, putting the budget into deficit--a deficit which has since continued to rise sharply. Currently, Turkmenistan is heavily dependent on Russian pipelines to reach markets in Europe; because oil and gas account for one-third of Turkmenistan's budget revenues, Turkmenistan is working to open new gas export corridors through Iran and under the Caspian Sea into Turkey.
After Russia's refusal to transport Turkmenistan's gas, a difficult investment environment, high rates of inflation, and heavy government regulations made further economic progress unlikely. In the absence of gas revenues, Turkmenistan turned to the export of cotton, but poor harvests had weak economic returns. In 1996 the economy bottomed out, and inflation rates continued to climb. Although the government avoided privatization, it attempted to fix the situation by creating a stabilization program aimed at a unified and market-based exchange rate, the allocation of government credits by auction, and strict limits on budget deficits. However, partial price liberalization, the end of subsidies from Moscow, and poor control over fiscal and monetary aggregates contributed to the high rates of inflation and significant drops in living standards. Despite these conditions, official statistics for 1998 indicated improvements in Turkmenistan's economy. In September 1998 Turkmenistan began exporting gas to Iran via its first pipeline not crossing Russian territory.
With an authoritarian post-communist regime in power, Turkmenistan has taken a cautious approach to economic reform, hoping to use gas and cotton sales to sustain its inefficient economy. Privatization goals remain limited. Between 1998 and 2002, Turkmenistan has suffered from the continued lack of adequate export routes for natural gas and from obligations on extensive short-term external debt. At the same time, however, the value of total exports has risen sharply because of higher international oil and gas prices. Prospects in the near future are discouraging because of widespread internal poverty, the burden of foreign debt, and the unwillingness of the government to adopt market-oriented reforms. Turkmenistan's economic statistics are closely held secrets, and published GDP and other figures are subject to wide margins of error. Turkmenistan has cooperated with the international community in transporting humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
Turkmenistan's declaration of "permanent neutrality" was formally recognized by the United Nations in 1995. Although the Government of Turkmenistan favors purchases from the United States, it has significant commercial relationships with Turkey, Russia, and Iran. The government worked closely with the Taliban regime in Afghanistan until September 11, 2001, and until that time had a growing cross-border trade with the regime in Afghanistan.
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan wrestle with sharing limited water resources and regional environmental degradation caused by the shrinking of the Aral Sea. Multilaterally accepted Caspian Sea seabed and maritime boundaries have not yet been established. Iran insists on division of Caspian Sea into five equal sectors while Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan have generally agreed upon equidistant seabed boundaries. Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan await the International Court of Justice decision to resolve sovereignty dispute over oil fields in the Caspian Sea.
For several years, Turkmenistan was a key player in the United States Caspian Basin Energy Initiative, which sought to facilitate negotiations between commercial partners and the Governments of Turkmenistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey to build a pipeline under the Caspian Sea and export Turkmen gas to the Turkish domestic energy market and beyond--the so-called Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TCGP). However, the Government of Turkmenistan essentially removed itself from the negotiations in 2000 by refusing all offers by its commercial partners and making unrealistic demands for multimillion-dollar "prefinancing."
The United States and Turkmenistan continue to disagree about the country's path toward economic reform. The United States has publicly advocated industrial privatization, market liberalization, and fiscal reform, as well as legal and regulatory reforms to open up the economy to unhindered foreign trade and investment, as the only way to achieve prosperity and stability.
Principal U.S. Officials
Ambassador--Laura E. Kennedy
Deputy Chief of Mission--Robert J. Tansey
Political-Economic Chief--John T. Godfrey
Public Affairs Officer--Shannon E. Runyon
Consular Officer--Jennifer Hall Godfrey
Administrative Officer--Daniel J. Hirsch
USAID Director--Bradford Camp
The U.S. Embassy is located at 9 Pushkin Street, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan; tel: [993](12)35-00-45; fax: [993](12)51-13-05.


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This page to to collect miscellaneous notes and pointers to changes coming up in the WTP 3.1 (Galileo) release. Its purpose it to be a central "jump off" point for those adopters of WTP 3.0 that are moving to WTP 3.1. Most of this information may be already contained in various mailing lists and Bugzilla reports, but it is believed best to have a central place to get people started.
Adopters: if you run into trouble or notice things that are not covered here, please let us know (email@example.com is a good place). This will not only help us keep these notes up to date, but will help us better learn, over time, the discipline of "platform development" and help make sure we learn to provide compatible APIs, migration instructions, etc., in the future. It is not always easy, but our intent is to make it as simple and painless as possible for adopters to use WTP as a true platform.
One thing we have learned in the past is that some adopters do not move with us to every new release. Some early adopters went from 0.7 directly to 1.5, for example. Unfortunately, it is hard for us to present the information in that way, covering perhaps multiple changes, but hopefully as we develop these for each release, they will all flow together to aid adopters.
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Versioning changes
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Following are some of the noteworthy 'minor' field changes.
Common Components
The Faceted Project framework needed to increment the minor version in the 3.1 code stream to reflect the changes that happened in that code.
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|1.3.100 -> 1.4.0
|1.3.100 -> 1.4.0
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Server Tools
Source Editing Components
Selection in the XML/HTML/JSP Editors
The XML (and HTML and JSP) Editor selection, which represents both the selected DOM Nodes and text selection, now allows for the selected Node to be an Attr Node (attribute). Listeners who were written to handle Element Nodes may wish to use Attr.getOwnerElement() in this case. Bear in mind that Node.getNodeType() is quicker at runtime than checking for the implementation of a particular DOM Interface.
Semantic Highlighting
SSE-based editors now support Semantic Highlighting via extension point.
In WTP 3.1M5, the org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui.semanticHighlighting extension point was added for adopters to contribute their own highlighting information. This extension point is used to define a "semantic highlighting" instance, declaring the content types the highlighting is valid for and the class that defines the consumable regions and preferences for the stylings.
<extension point="org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui.semanticHighlighting"> <highlighting class="com.example.highlighting.NamespaceHighlighting" target="org.eclipse.core.runtime.xml, org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.xmlsource"> </highlighting> </extension>
The class defined in the highlighting element must implement org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui.ISemanticHighlighting, and is responsible for identifying the consumable IStructuredDocumentRegions--which regions it affects. If a document region is consumable, the preference store returned by its getPreferenceStore() method is queried for styles using the keys from the get*Key() methods.
End users can enable Semantic Highlighting from the Structured Text Editors Preference page.
org.eclipse.wst.javascript.* plug-ins were removed
The old JavaScript support plug-ins, named org.eclipse.wst.javascript.*, which were deprecated in WTP 3.0, as mentioned in New Help for Old Friends III, have been removed from WTP 3.1M5.
Web Services Components
Upgrade to WSDL4J 1.5.1
The WSDL editor, model, and validator have been upgraded from using WSDL4J 1.4.1 to using WSDL4J 1.5.1. If your plugin has a dependency on org.eclipse.wst.wsdl.validator.* or org.eclipse.wst.wsi.* as well as javax.wsdl, please either update your dependency on javax.wsdl to 1.5.x or please ensure your dependency on the javax.wsdl plugin is stated before your dependency on the wsdl plugins in your manifest.mf file. If your plugin has a dependency on org.eclipse.wst.wsdl.* plugins as well as javax.wsdl, please update your dependency to javax.wsdl 1.5.x. Please see the following bugs for more details: Bug 197197 Bug 252257 Bug 252258
Removal of WSDL4J 1.4.x
After the above migration, WTP no longer requires the javax.wsdl 1.4.x plugin. This has been removed from the WTP zips.
Java EE Tools Components
- Deprecated resources in WTP 3.1(M6)
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.jca.archive.operations.ConnectorComponentExportOperation.export()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.jca.archive.operations.ConnectorComponentExportOperation.archiveString()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.web.archive.operations.WebComponentExportOperation.export()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.web.archive.operations.WebComponentExportOperation.archiveString()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.archive.operations.AppClientComponentExportOperation.export()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.archive.operations.AppClientComponentExportOperation.archiveString()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.archive.operations.EARComponentExportOperation.export()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.archive.operations.EARComponentExportOperation.archiveString()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.archive.operations.J2EEArtifactExportOperation.export()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.archive.operations.J2EEArtifactExportOperation.archiveString()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.archive.operations.J2EEArtifactExportOperation.getModuleFile()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.archive.operations.J2EEArtifactExportOperation.setModuleFile()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.ejb.archiveoperations/EJBComponentExportOperation.export()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.ejb.archiveoperations/EJBComponentExportOperation.archiveString()
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.ejb.archiveoperations/EJBComponentExportOperationcreateModuleFile()
- Removed resources in WTP 3.1(M6)
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.delete.DeleteModuleOperation
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.datamodel.properties.IJ2EEComponentCreationDataModelProperties
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.datamodel.properties.IJ2EEModuleImportDataModelProperties.EAR_COMPONENT_NAME
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.datamodel.properties.IJ2EEModuleImportDataModelProperties.ADD_TO_EAR
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.datamodel.properties.IJavaComponentCreationDataModelProperties
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.archive.ComponentArchiveSaveAdapter.saveToOutputPath
- org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.archive.operations.ComponentSaveStrategyImpl.saveToOutputPath
- org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.datamodel.properties.IComponentCreationDataModelProperties
JavaServer Faces
Removed resources in WTP 3.1(M6)
See also: New Help for Old Friends III, New Help for Old Friends II, and the original New Help for Old Friends


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Honors alumni make us proud and inspire us to strive even harder. They continue to carry the Ferris torch wherever they go, and their bright lights are spread throughout the state of Michigan and the world.
We at Ferris have been changed by their involvement, stimulated by their questions, impressed by their academic prowess, and touched by their volunteerism. The same qualities that made them shine here, continue to be the ones that cause them to shine in their careers. These are the people who made a difference. We believe they will continue to do so.
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Skype is already integrated with Facebook, with an app including instant messages, voice, and video calls. But Skype for Browsers won't be restricted to Facebook.
"Team Rendezvous at Skype is looking for passionate, team-oriented and self-motivated Developers to help us bring Skype experience on to the Web," Microsoft writes in the job postings. "You will have a chance to integrate existing Skype solutions on to the web with the support of the backend services built from the ground up using [the] latest Microsoft technologies. [The] result of your work will be used by hundreds millions of thankful users worldwide."
Microsoft closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype in October 2011. After the merger, Microsoft finally brought a Skype client to Windows Phone. In addition to building a new Skype client to Web browsers, we've written that Microsoft is likely to integrate the technology into many of its core desktop products.


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Detroit Lions call cops over a blogger's tweet everyone knew was a joke
ALLEN PARK, Mich. - It took the Detroit Lions 11 days to decide a tweet was a credible threat, but Allen Park Police wrapped up an investigation in a matter of hours via an email exchange.
The incident in question happened Jan. 16 when Jeff Moss, 41, replied to a tweet sent out by Detroit Lions online editor Chrissie Wywrot. He asked her to Photoshop an image of Lions owner William Clay Ford Sr. and Tim Twentyman, a reporter for DetroitLions.com, in a casket.
Representatives from the team did not respond to multiple requests for comment regarding the incident with Moss, editor of the website, The Detroit Sports Rag.
The full tweet said, @Chrissie5213 Can you make me a PhotoShop [sic] of William Clay Ford, Sr. and Tim Twentyman in a casket? Thanks ahead of time."
A few moments later, Moss sent another tweet asking Wywrot to Photoshop the Lions in the Super Bowl, "since that will never occur in real life."
Wywrot runs social media accounts for the team. According to a police report, Wywrot told Bill Cory about the tweet. Eleven days after the tweet was posted, Cory called the police and asked them to come to the training facility.
"The week that the Seahawks and the Broncos are preparing for the Superbowl, they are turning their fans into the police for making tasteless jokes," Moss said. "Then they made a cruiser come out instead of just driving over there. They asked a city that is under an emergency manager and is short staffed in their police department to send out a cruiser.
"Like it was so urgent that I was on my way to the training facility with a meat cleaver to come after an 89-year-old man."
What makes matters even worse, Moss said, is that the Lions front office staff knows him and that he wouldn't seriously threaten anyone. The tweets were in response to a Wywrot photo of new coach Jim Caldwell and a birthday cake inserted with Photoshop.
The West Bloomfield resident believes that upper management like team president Tom Lewand was not involved in notifying the police.
"Lewand's no dummy, I don't like the way he runs the football team. But the guy is an attorney and went to the University of Michigan. I don't think he knew anything about this. If they would have went to him and said should we awake this sleeping bear He would have said, 'You're going to report Moss? He'll put it all over this website if you do this. He's not going to be scared by this.
He said that just two days before the tweet was made the team had changed the security process to get into press conferences because they knew he would try to get into the Caldwell press conference.
"I had just appeared a month earlier at a Comerica Park press conference when the Tigers signed Joe Nathan," he said. "They found out that I was going to do the same thing and changed the process.
"I did ask as a joke (for credentials to the Caldwell press conference). I've been doing this for 11 years. For people who don't know the website, I would say it's like a Deadspin that's exclusively for Detroit. If you read Deadspin they have an adversarial relationship with ESPN and some of the people they cover."
When the police first contacted him, Moss didn't have a clue what they wanted to talk about. He said that the tweet had been a throwaway joke, and it didn't cross his mind as potentially being anything that would launch an investigation.
"I asked the detective before I talked to him if I needed my first amendment attorney present," he said. "He only wanted to talk on the phone."
An email exchange between Moss and Detective Jim Thorburn confirms that the department didn't consider it a credible threat.
"There is no criminal element to this," one of the Thorburn's emails to Moss said.
The same letter said the department was only trying to advise Moss of the situation and the conversation would only take "all of two minutes."
Moss has been the subject of a few other incidents, lately - getting into the Tigers press conference to ask about the Doug Fister trade and, more recently, being removed from a Detroit Pistons game for heckling Joe Dumars for not drafting Michigan star Trey Burke.
"I'm critical - I don't sit there like a blogger," he said, "like some of these guys who sit back and kiss the ass of the team and hope to get access. I don't really care about access. I want to tell the truth from my perspective as I see it. I don't think the mainstream media is doing it so I'm going to do it."
Moss, who has about 16,000 Twitter followers, receives between 5,000-10,000 unique views per day on his website which began in 2003.


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Posted on Tuesday, August 6, 2013
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Dr. Amy Camardese, Westminster College associate professor of education, was elected to a three-year term on the Board of the Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies (PCSS).
According to the PCSS website, "The PCSS promotes quality social studies education from kindergarten to higher learning by: advocating the social studies at all levels of education in Pennsylvania; promoting the analysis, dissemination and evaluation of social studies materials; examining and recommending certification requirements for teachers; assisting educators in organizing local social studies councils for professional development; and cooperating with schools, districts, intermediate units and other interested parties on social studies projects."
As a member of the Board, Camardese will participate in the organization's various standing committees. Camardese will assume her position in October at the conclusion of the 2013 PCSS Annual Conference in Harrisburg, and will be introduced as a new Board member at the annual board meeting on Oct. 19.
Camardese, who joined the faculty in 2001, earned an undergraduate degree from Ohio University, master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and Ph.D. from Kent State University.
Contact Camardese at (724) 946-7183 or email for additional information.


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Monarch Cagers Play Barton In Exhbition Opener Monday Night
By ODU Athletics
Nov. 1, 2009
NORFOLK, VA-- The ODU Monarchs play Barton College in an exhibition game Monday night a 7 p.m. in the Ted Constant Convocation Center.
Barton, who won the 2007 NCAA Division II National Championship is coached by Ron Lievense. Last year the Bulldogs reached the Southeast regional semi-finals and compiled a 25-7 record.
Leading Barton will be 6-3 senior forward L.J. Dunn who averaged 14.6 points and 9.2 rebounds per game. He shot .614 from the field. Junior guard Greg Mammel also returns with a 7.3 points per game average.
Monarchs are coming off a 25-10 season where they captured the Collegeinsider.com post season tournament crown. ODU lost only one lettermen in Jonathan Adams who graduated in May.
This year's CAA pre- season favorites were followed in the voting by Northeastern, defending CAA champion VCU and George Mason. Picked fifth was James Madison, followed by Hofstra, Drexel, Georgia State, Towson, William and Mary, Delaware and UNC Wilmington. ODU picked up a vote in the pre-season AP poll out earlier this week.
The Monarchs have advanced to postseason play for five consecutive seasons. Their 119 wins the last five years are the most of any Division I team in the State of Virginia.
ODU averaged nearly 24 victories over the past five seasons, return their top six scorers. Leading that group is senior All-CAA post player Gerald Lee, who contributed 15.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per game. Joining him in the frontcourt are junior Ben Finney (9.9 ppg/6.0 rpg), junior Frank Hassell (7.5 ppg/5.3 rpg), who was named the MVP of the CIT, and junior Keyon Carter (7.9 ppg/4.6 rpg). There is also experience in the backcourt with junior Darius James (6.9 ppg) and senior Marsharee Neely (7.1 ppg). Ben Finney received honorable mention selection
Tickets are $13 for adults and $9 for youth, senior citizens,military, ODU faculty and staff.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Please critique Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Please critique" reconrad40junior memberMember #Joined: 08 Dec 2012Posts: 3 Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 10:11 am I've been working on this for a few weeks off and on... and I really feel i need some feed-back from the art community. Please feel free to critique at your leisure. Of course it's not finished... I am taking a few steps back and looking at it to see where i may improve it. Thanks Back to top samhellmemberMember #Joined: 12 May 2007Posts: 310Location: Hellsinki Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 1:53 am Hi and welcome to Sijun! I'd recommend working on the values of the foreground and the background some more. At the moment, I think the bg is too uniform with the dragon, the foreground could pop out a lot more with more contrast. Also, the wings of the dragon look a bit flat currently with the lack of shadows/highlights. Some texture on the wings, on the nearest parts to the viewer might also help to provide more depth perception to the painting. Hope this helps. Back to top reconrad40junior memberMember #Joined: 08 Dec 2012Posts: 3 Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:10 pm Thank you for the advise. I will continue working on value as you mentioned and I'm not happy with the wings as they are. Would really nice if someone wanted to do a paint-over for the wings. Thanks again for your input. Back to top samhellmemberMember #Joined: 12 May 2007Posts: 310Location: Hellsinki Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 1:34 am You are welcome. And btw, I think that the shape of the wings is good but they might benefit from a bit smoother & looser brushwork. I believe that would help them look more dynamic... but that is only my opinion. Hope you make some progress soon. p.s. Whenever I seem to hit a wall I go to the speedpainting thread of Sijun for inspiration. So far, that has never failed to help. Back to top reconrad40junior memberMember #Joined: 08 Dec 2012Posts: 3 Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 9:33 am Thanks again Samhell... I feel the wings don't look functional. They need some serious work along with the rest of this painting. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Work in Progress All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Recent actions taken by FINRA include a cease and desist order and an expulsion, both over fraudulent conduct, and the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) regarding financial market surveillance and supervision.
Firm Expelled, CEO Barred Over Fraud
FINRA announced that it had expelled New York-based Hudson Valley Capital Management and barred CEO Mark Gillis from the securities industry for defrauding its clearing firm and customers by using their funds and securities to cover losses caused by Gillis' manipulative day trading.
FINRA found that in 2012, Hudson Valley, acting through Gillis, used the firm's Average Price Account to improperly day trade millions of dollars of stock. Gillis then manipulated the share prices of these stocks and withdrew the proceeds of his day trading through accounts he controlled.
When Gillis' fraudulent trading caused significant losses in the firm's account, he covered those losses by making unauthorized trades involving customer accounts. Gillis purchased thousands of shares of securities in the open market in the firm's account and allocated these shares to customers at markups between 177%–280%.
He also converted a customer's funds to pay for an unauthorized stock purchase and caused another customer to sustain a loss of approximately $400,000. When confronted about unauthorized trades that occurred in their accounts, Gillis lied to two customers about the transactions to hide his misconduct, and lied to FINRA staff during sworn testimony.
Hudson Valley failed to supervise Gillis' trading activities at the firm; thus, Gillis was able to conduct his fraudulent trading scheme without restriction. Gillis' scheme caused a net capital deficiency for Hudson Valley in excess of $350,000.
In a statement, Cameron Funkhouser, executive vice president of FINRA's Office of Fraud Detection and Market Intelligence, said, "FINRA strives to quickly address egregious broker misconduct. In this instance, FINRA fully investigated Mr. Gillis and Hudson Valley Capital Management within weeks of Gillis perpetrating his fraudulent scheme, and obtained evidence that led to the disciplinary action announced today."
Cease and Desist Order Filed on Fraudulent Sales
Michigan-based WR Rice Financial Services and its owner Joel Wilson were the targets of a temporary cease-and-desist order (TCDO) filed by FINRA. The action was taken to halt further fraudulent sales activities, as well as the conversion of investors' funds or assets. FINRA filed the TCDO based on the belief that ongoing customer harm and depletion of customer assets would likely continue before a formal disciplinary proceeding against WR Rice and Wilson could be completed.
FINRA also issued a complaint against WR Rice and Wilson, charging fraud in the sales of limited partnership (LP) interests in entities affiliated with the Diversified Group and American Realty Funds Corp., companies in which Wilson has ownership interest and control.
In its complaint, FINRA alleged that WR Rice, Wilson and other registered representatives at the firm sold more than $4.5 million in LP interests to approximately 100 investors from predominantly low- to moderate-income households, while misrepresenting or omitting material facts.
FINRA charged that Wilson and WR Rice raised funds promising that the proceeds would be invested in land contracts on residential real estate in Michigan, paying an interest rate of 9.9%. However, what actually happened, according to the allegations, was that investors' funds were used to make unsecured loans to companies Wilson owned or controlled.
In addition, FINRA alleged that WR Rice and Wilson failed to disclose to investors that Wilson extended the improper loans due to an inability to pay them as they became due. Wilson is also charged with providing fabricated documents to FINRA related to the LP offerings, and with failing to provide full and complete testimony during FINRA's investigation of him and his firm after he was confronted with the falsified documents. FINRA's rules provide the individuals and firms named in a complaint the opportunity to file a response and request a hearing before a FINRA disciplinary panel.
FINRA, AFM Sign MOU on Financial Market Surveillance and Supervision
FINRA announced that it had signed an MOU with the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) regarding the sharing of information aimed at strengthening and improving cooperation.
The memorandum, signed by Richard Ketchum, chairman and CEO of FINRA and Ronald Gerritse, chairman of the executive board of the AFM, establishes a formal basis for cooperation among FINRA and the AFM to more effectively conduct their oversight of regulated markets and financial firms.
In a statement, Gerritse said, "The AFM supervises the honest and efficient operation of the capital markets. Targeting possible market abuse is one of our main objectives. I consider the signing of this MOU as an important initiative to strengthen our supervisory cooperation, which is important for effective international oversight."
Ketchum said in a statement, "This agreement with the AFM strengthens our cooperation with The Netherlands in key areas, including investigations and market surveillance. Surveillance and transparency are more important than ever and demand close cooperation between regulators. I welcome this agreement and look forward to a long and productive partnership with the AFM."
The two main goals of the MOU are to organize the transmission of information between authorities regarding market surveillance and investigations into market abuse, and to facilitate the sharing of information on trading by firms coming within the two authorities' respective jurisdictions.
The agreement also provides for the AFM and FINRA to keep each other informed about practices in their markets and about issues concerning financial markets in general.


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Last Name: Jackson
First Name: Duke
Middle Name: Allen
Subject's City: Bangs
Subject's State: TX
Subject's County: Brown
Subject's Country: United States
Date: 1851-1900
Photographer: Unknown
Photographer's City: Bangs
Photographer's State: Texas
Comments: Duke Allen Jackson (Nee: ) | Bangs TX United States | 1851-1900 | Comments: Duke Allen (1850-1929) & wife, Mary Elizabeth Bishop (1856-1932) Jackson. "D.A." was the son of Thomas Jefferson and Martha "Patsy" Allen Jackson. Mary E. was the dau of Duke and Sally Langford Allen. Both were born in Hardeman Co., TN. After moving to Texas in the late 1870s, they had to make a stop at Granbury, Hood Co., for the birth of their first born son. After his birth, they continued on, settling at "The Gap" (now known as Santa Anna) Coleman Co., TX. Duke was instrumental in the founding of thefirst public school in the area. By 1888 he purchased land in the area of Bangs, Brown Co., TX. While at Bangs, he and family lived through "The Bangs Cyclone of 31 March 1892" - all of their children well remembered living in their dirt floor log cabin at the base of the Santa Anna Mountain, then called "The Gap", and their terrifying experience living through and watching the logs of their Bangs, Tx cabin being taken off row by row around their home by the what we call today, a tornado.
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