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Speaking at a news conference at Fourchon Beach in Louisiana, Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, said that attempts to plug the oil leak with a mixture of mud and debris had done nothing to stem the flow. The attempt was later abandoned.
"I don't think the amount of oil coming out has changed," said Mr Suttles. "Just by watching it, we don't believe it's changed."
He added: "After three full days, we have not been able to stop the flow. We don't believe we'll achieve success so we're moving on. We have the decision to move to the next option."
Meanwhile, a bad storm hit the area, raising fears that more oil could be blown ashore.
A company source told The Sunday Telegraph that the "top kill" tactic – the best prospect for ending the devastating leak - has been unsuccessful and that BP would now need to look at other strategies. "It seems at this stage that the 'top kill' has not worked," the source said. That means the crisis is now entering a new stage as BP exhausts its preferred solutions to plug the leak.
The company last night deployed an underwater robot with a saw in an attempt to slice off the leaking pipe and place a cap and seal over the opening – an extremely complicated manoeuvre.
In practice, it now seems almost certain that the oil from the worst spill in American history is likely to continue to flow until a relief well is drilled - an operation expected to take several more weeks.
News of the latest setback came as it emerged that BP executives could face a criminal investigation into their actions.
Senior federal prosecutors and agents are taking the first steps toward a formal criminal probe. A high-level justice department team is assessing whether the company may have broken safety regulations before the disaster.
BP already faces a welter of civil damages lawsuits as a result of the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
The investigators have been conducting interviews in Louisiana and warned attorneys for BP and Transocean, the rig's owner, that they should retain all documents and other internal records relevant to the spill.
The company has been informed of the inquiry, which is a standard preliminary step before prosecutors decide whether to launch a criminal investigation.
For BP, the moment of make or break is fast approaching as public anger rises rapidly. If oil continues to pour into the ocean at the current rate for several weeks it will be devastating to the company.
But anger with the US government is also high – forcing President Barack Obama to visit the coast on Friday. In the beleaguered resort of Grand Isle, he stood on a beach closed to the public and pledged his solidarity with residents, saying he was ordering a tripling of manpower in areas hit by the spill.
BP has been fighting a slick of 130 miles by 70 miles with burn-offs and chemical dispersants, but the first oil has started washing ashore in the fragile ecosystem of the bayou (coastal marshes).
And what Mr Obama's choreographed four-hour visit did not show him was the most damaging impact on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and those crucial wetlands.
A couple of miles away, where Frank Lensmyer's small fishing boat bobbed amid patches of ugly fudge-coloured oil in Barataria Bay, it was the silence and stillness that was the most disturbing.
At this time of year, the waters here should be churning with trout and redfish chasing shrimp; large pods of porpoises elegantly rising from the waves, and terns and pelicans swooping on prey.
Home to dozens of offshore oil rigs, the bay would also normally be dotted with large shrimping trawlers and dozens of craft carrying sports fishermen preparing to celebrate Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the summer season.
But the waters are closed to fishing. And as Mr Lensmyer, a cigar-chomping tugboat owner, gave The Sunday Telegraph a tour of this unnaturally empty expanse, the only other vessels were those deployed by the British oil giant BP in the battle to contain the spill.
From his boat, 60 miles south of New Orleans, the only signs of life were a few seabirds and the occasional porpoise skirting oil. A chemical-like odour stung the throat.
"These waters should be jumping with fish and shrimp, and there's just nothing there," said Mr Lensmyer, 55, as he surveyed the desolate scene. "I've been fishing here for 25 years and I've never seen anything like this. It's very, very sad. You would normally look out here and see dozens of fishing and shrimping boats fishing. Now it's just us."
Our journey out to the bay had brought home the spill's impact on the bayou marshes as we passed large clumps of reeds clogged with oil.
"This is a disaster on many levels," said Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). "About 90 per cent of gulf fishing is dependent on these wetlands. Fish spawn here, blue crabs and other sea life which are a key part of the food chain rely on the marshes, the oyster and shrimp populations rely on healthy wetlands."
The disappearing bayou is also a crucial protective barrier from storms for communities such as New Orleans. For a population still recovering from Hurricane Katrina, the implications are understood.
The damage here is insidious – and devastating to the livelihoods and lifestyles of the gulf's residents. The chilling lack of life that is so evident to the human eye is explained by the fact that larger fish, the porpoises and the birds have headed away from the stink and pollution of the spill.
Deep-water cameras sent out on an NWF boat last week showed reefs that should be teeming with fish were near devoid of life but thick with oil globules. Scientists believe much of the plume has never even reached the surface. "When things are this bad, the larger fish get out of town," said Dr Martin O'Connell, director of fish research at the University of New Orleans. But the oysters and shrimp in polluted areas will not have escaped, nor will smaller fish and other organisms that rely on the wetlands for survival. "The impact on the food chain will be felt for many years."
BP has laid thousands of miles of absorbent booms in an operation commanded by the US Coast Guard. But in many cases, the barriers are already soaked with oil and were apparently put down too late to protect the marshes.
The US Geological Survey on Thursday estimated that between 12,000 and 19,000 barrels has spilled into the gulf each day after the rig explosion on April 20. The figure is significantly higher than the previous 5,000 barrels per day estimate reached by government oceanic scientists and used by BP. It translated to between 18 and 28 million gallons – exceeding the 11 million gallons that gushed out of the Exxon Valdez tanker off Alaska in 1989.
BP's chief executive, Tony Hayward, was forced to admit on Friday that the leak was an "environmental catastrophe". He had previously been excoriated by the US media for referring to the spill as "tiny" relative to the size of the gulf.
For the residents of the gulf, that debate is about much more than numbers. Mr Lensmyer knows there will be no chance for the foreseeable future to fish for the speckled trout he should be landing. As a sign held up by a woman in Grand Isle during Mr Obama's visit declared: "I'd rather be fishing".


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Markets Served
The components of Health Navigator, either individually or collectively, serve a variety of markets including medical call centers, medical answering services, consumer eHealth, telemedicine providers, digital health assistants, physicians and medical students, and electronic health record companies.
Our platform is unique because the components – Clinical Vocabulary, Natural Language Processing, Clinical/Symptom Documentation Support, Triage Symptom Checker, and Diagnosis Symptom Checker – can be utilized in total or independently to meet an organization's business objective. Our team of professionals will work with you to determine a best-fit solution and integration approach for your workflow.
Answering Services
Provides a clinical safety net for non-clinicians when capturing a caller's reason for call
The primary responsibility of most physician answering service personnel is to answer the call and document a message for the physician. Many times the call center personnel may not be able to identify the urgency of the situation with the caller. Based on the "reason for the call", Health Navigator's Natural Language Processing engine can identify the coded chief complaint(s) ranked by acuity. This process provides the non-clinical personnel with a safety net. In other words, the answering service staff doesn't have to rely on their own judgment regarding the urgency because the Health Navigator tool set will provide them guidance.
Provides a standardized and structured call flow
The Health Navigator suite of products provides a standardized call flow yet completely configurable user interface. The product components are delivered via API allowing you to build the content into your existing application. A standardized call flow ensures that no matter who is speaking with the patient, the information will be documented in the same manner.
Provides an acuity-ranked list of coded chief complaints for the medical provider
Health Navigator was designed to assist telemedicine providers with quickly identifying and capturing a patient's chief complaint while also codifying the encounter. Prior to Health Navigator there wasn't any taxonomy of chief complaints. ICD9 and ICD10 codes are diagnosis terminology not presenting problem terminology. The Health Navigator database of coded chief complaints covers 99.8% of the reasons for visits.
Consumer eHealth
Delivers patient-friendly and consistent health information to patients
The Health Navigator modules of Natural Language Processing, Clinical Documentation Support and Diagnosis Engine combine to provide a powerful symptom checking application. Questions regarding symptoms are displayed in patient friendly language and can be presented in groups or individually.
Since the content is being consumed via API into your application, you can choose how to present the health information to patients. The database also provides information for every diagnosis regarding what type of provider/specialist they should see and where the particular condition can be seen and handled; urgent care vs retail clinic, for example.
Provides a standardized and structured call flow
The Health Navigator suite of products provides a standardized call flow yet completely configurable user interface. The product components are delivered via API allowing you to build the content into your existing application. A standardized call flow ensures that no matter who is speaking with the patient, the information will be documented in the same manner.
Positions eHealth providers as leaders in clinical quality
We know that every medical encounter begins with a chief complaint – why are you seeing the doctor? Through use of Natural Language Processing to capture the patient's complaint(s), a coded chief complaint is presented to the provider also providing them with the associated ICD9, ICD10 and SNOMED codes. Along with the 16,000 alternate terms (including Spanish alternate terms) in the database, the provider is assured of accurate coding and documentation. The database also contains 5,000 PubMed references that cross-walk back to the diagnosis and over 20,000 credible Internet resources that are cross-walked back to the chief complaint.
Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Provides an acuity-ranked list of coded chief complaints for the medical provider
In an electronic health record which includes a patient portal, a patient may type in a message to his or her doctor. The integrated Natural Language Processing engine can extract the chief complaint along with the associated acuity or urgency and ICD10 code. This additional information, along with the patient's comments about why they are requesting a call with their physician, gives the provider a heads-up on urgent situations and also jump starts their documentation.
Reliable, turnkey front-end solution that improves the physician's workflow
Quality documentation and ease of use are two things providers look for in an EHR. By integrating Natural Language Processing and Rapid Medical History into an EHR, both of these goals can be accomplished. In a patient messaging portal, a patient could type in a message to his or her doctor and the integrated Natural Language Processing engine would extract the chief complaint. The application from within the patient portal could then ask the patient if they would be willing to answer additional questions about their problem or condition. The application would then use the integrated Rapid Medical History to capture additional responses. The data driven results would then be passed into the EHR and on to the provider. What was once a simple request for a visit based on a symptom or two is now clinically important data answering questions the provider will want to know.
Supports client engagement and patient satisfaction
Many electronic health records have patient portals and EHR companies are looking for ways to increase the utilization of their portals. By providing tools to the physician allowing him or her to be more efficient in processing symptom-based requests and providing a differential diagnosis, patients are more likely to be satisfied with the encounter and stay engaged with the patient portal. And, with the integration of Health Navigator components into the EHR, the Rapid Medical History and Diagnosis Engine results can even be combined into the patient's portal.
Medical Call Center
Provides a clinical safety net for non-clinicians when capturing a caller's reason for call
In a medical call center, telehealth or nurse advice environment, you might have non-clinical personnel taking the initial call from a patient. If the service representative or agent is unable or uncomfortable with identifying the urgency of the situation, Health Navigator's Natural Language Processing engine can identify the coded chief complaint(s) ranked by acuity for them. This allows the call to be handled efficiently and effectively in a clinically-sound manner.
Reduces "Red Flag" rate
In a medical call center, telehealth or nurse advice environment where non-clinical personnel take the first call from a patient, sometimes the calls are "red-flagged". This means that they are high priority calls for a nurse and should be next in his or her work queue. Non-medically trained front end agents tend to over use the red flag criteria because they are just not sure what might be an urgent situation. Health Navigator's Natural Language Processing engine can identify those patient complaints that have a higher acuity or urgency rating which can be passed along to the nurse work queue. One call center in the midwest reduced their red flag rate from over 40% to 12% through use of the Natural Language Processing tool.
Increases staff satisfaction
By utilizing the Rapid Medical History component, non-clinical personnel can provide 2nd level triage before the call is passed to a nurse. He or she can collect additional data about the patient's symptoms in a non decision-making format to provide additional information to the nurse prior to their interaction with the patient. By having this additional information before speaking to the patient and having the encounter color-coded by acuity, the nurse is more informed and satisfied with the interaction. Also, the non-clinical staff feel like they have contributed more to the efficiency of the encounter and have not had to make a clinical judgement call regarding the urgency of the call.
Does your telemedicine platform have a complete set of clinical documentation tools?
Companies that develop telemedicine platforms need robust evidence‐based clinical content that can be quickly and easily integrated into their product. They also need structured data to facilitate medical coding and reporting analytics.
The right documentation tools can improve both the patient and health care provider experience: better quality, safer patient care, improved workflow and operations.
Health Navigator provides solutions to help telemedicine companies develop or enhance their existing platforms.
- A proprietary clinical vocabulary for capturing and storing the chief complaint.
- A natural language processing engine that converts patient symptoms into structured data.
- Nearly 500 multi‐lingual, symptom‐ based, rapid medical history templates for patient e‐visit self‐intake.
- Documentation checklists to support telemedicine providers (doctors, NPs, PAs).
- A diagnosis engine that generates a list of possible causes, based on age, gender and symptoms.
- Care advice written in plain language.
- Resources, including relevant internet sources and PubMed abstracts.
Patient and health care provider satisfaction is important. Delivering safe, high-quality and efficient care is essential. Health Navigator can help your organization:
- Automate & improve workflows;
- Build an efficient patient intake process;
- Improve health care provider documentation & reduce medical risk; and
- Deliver sound, standardized & easy-to-read patient education.
And, it integrates quickly into your platform, with a well‐designed and documented application programming interface (API).

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Chinese President Hu Jintao is calling for closer economic and cultural relations with Taiwan to maintain peace in the region, and to curb what he calls the island's "secessionist activities."
China's official Xinhua news agency says Mr. Hu made the comments Saturday in Beijing at a forum on China and Taiwan business ties.
Xinhua says that during the forum, the Chinese leader met with the honorary chairman of Taiwan's main opposition party, Lien Chan.
About 500 participants are attending the two-day event. They are expected to discuss issues including direct flights from Taiwan to the mainland.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 following a civil war. But Beijing still considers the island as part of its territory and has threatened to use force if necessary to reunite the two sides.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.


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The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Museum was a dream, then a passion of Amelia Peters Bingham, in which she saw the opportunity to highlight the rich indigenous culture and historic significance of the Town of Mashpee, on Cape Cod, known as the Land of the Wampanoag.
The idea also coincided with the 100th anniversary of the 1870 incorporation of the Town of Mashpee. The Native Community embraced the concept of self-determination to show the world who we are and how we survived the conquest of America.
The Bourne-Avant house situated on Snake Pond Road, also known as Main Street or Route 130, was chosen as an ideal historic structure to start this small museum. This building is one of the oldest remaining homesteads located near the historic center of town, adjacent to the Mashpee River and the Herring Run across from the Mill Pond and within close proximity to the Mashpee Wakeby Lake. It was originally built approximately 1793 by Sherjashub Bourne, great grandson of the missionary Richard Bourne.
Since that time there have been many occupants of this historic dwelling the last being George and Mabel (Nakoomis) Avant. For many years Mabel fulfilled a variety of roles including Town Clerk, Tribal Historian, and mortician. This house was considered the story telling center as Mabel is remembered for this very important role.
The Museum is the geographic core of the Mashpee Wampanoag people. Eighty-five percent of Wampanoag people live within 20 miles of the Museum.
Through Our Doors…
Through the door of our Museum the history and culture of the Wampanoag from the Stone Age to the present is carefully detailed through a range of exhibits. First established under the guidance of the Mashpee Historical Commission, the Museum is the only one in existence devoted exclusively to Wampanoag history.
Housed in a fine example of an old half Cape Cod house, the Museum contains displays of ancient artifacts and other Native American heirlooms that form a chronological commentary on life among the Wampanoag for thousands of years. Displays include a variety of tools, baskets, hunting and fishing implements, weapons and domestic utensils. The focal point in the exhibits is a large diorama depicting a typical scene from an early Wampanoag settlement.
The Restoration…
During the May 1997 Annual Town Meeting it was unanimously voted to transfer this building and its contents to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council.
This major renovation project is expected to exceed $220,000 and will include a new roof, gutters, sills and windows. A separate project will be to renovate the parking lot and create a drainage system to protect the Mashpee River from road runoff. The Museum was placed on to the National Register of Historic Places in January 1999.
The return of our Museum, housed in this historic building provides exciting opportunities to portray our history from our own perspective. The museum will be the centerpiece of a long-range plan that includes the Parsonage across the street, the Herring Flume recreating the Bourne Mill and a Traditional Village setting on adjacent private property.
For this endeavor to come to fruition, it will be necessary to initiate an aggressive fundraising campaign. This campaign will concentrate not only on the building renovation at hand, but also to develop new and innovative exhibits and educational programs. We can only achieve this goal with a network of friends and supporters.


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This week marks the tenth anniversary of the end of Friends, which is, basically, the only sitcom I've ever really fallen in love with. In college my best friend/suite-mate/eventual roommate Bethany had the entire series and we watched it endlessly. I'm usually not a fan of sitcoms at all, but Friends is different. Since I'm feeling nostalgic about the fact that it's been TEN WHOLE YEARS since it ended, I decided to post about my favorite friendships in literature.
Scout, Jem, and Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird
Runner-up: Scout, Jem, and Dill, especially the movie version of Dill.
Jess and Leslie in Bridge to Terabithia
Anne Shirley and Diana Barry in Anne of Green Gables
The real-life friendship between Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy, portrayed in both Truth and Beauty and Autobiography of a Face
Johnny Wheelwright and Owen Meany in A Prayer for Owen Meany
Gene and Phinny in A Separate Peace
Idgie and Ruth in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
All of the mothers in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Karou and Zuzanna in the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series
Beth and Jennifer in Attachments
Who are your favorite literary friends?


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Why do we change our ideological and political allegiances? Is it out of mere opportunism? Not necessarily, cautions Daniel Oppenheimer in Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century; that doesn't explain the personal torment and social ostracism some of us are willing to endure as a result. Genuine conviction? That's often a factor, but one that presumably also influenced our original allegiances and can't account for the timing of the metamorphosis. The answer, Oppenheimer argues, usually lies in the interplay between personal issues and wider sociopolitical circumstances at critical moments in our lives, a phenomenon that can generate a fundamental shift in belief.
To explore how such a sea change might affect not just the individual at its center but the course of history, Oppenheimer delves into the psycho-intellectual makeup of six people "who reckoned with themselves at the most terrifyingly fundamental level" and emerged from this crucible possessed of politico-ideological convictions at variance with, and sometimes even diametrically opposed to, those that had long galvanized them. While sympathetic to these figures, the author doesn't necessarily aim to validate their personal narratives (either before or after their metamorphoses), but rather to determine how and why they assumed the form they did. That such a project carries with it the risk of overreach is clear, and the obvious alternative would have been for Oppenheimer to restrict himself to analyzing our ideological wayfarers' intellectual arguments for or against this or that belief system. He does interrogate those arguments but also probes his subjects' tortured psyches in search of more visceral urges. After all, "no man is the sum of his intellect."
The six (male) figures profiled here, five intellectuals and one politician, include Whittaker Chambers, a committed Communist and linchpin of a Soviet spy ring in the 1930s who, as a born-again Christian, would write the influential book Witness about his underground life; James Burnham, a Trotskyist leader who later served as a senior editor of the conservative magazine National Review; Ronald Reagan, the Hollywood actor with decidedly liberal leanings and a deep admiration for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt — stalwart Democrat and orchestrator of the New Deal — who would become a Republican icon as president; Norman Podhoretz, under whose decades-long stewardship Commentary magazine went from being left-liberal and countercultural to neoconservative, mirroring his own transformation; David Horowitz, the Marxist and Black Panther fellow traveler of the 1960s and '70s who morphed into a far-right cultural critic and author of the self-reproachful memoir Radical Son; and Christopher Hitchens, the British-born (non-doctrinaire) socialist and rapier-witted journalist who became a champion of U.S. politico-military intervention against tyrannical regimes, foremost among them Saddam Hussein's in Iraq.
Exit Right is the first book by Oppenheimer, who serves as director of strategic communications at the University of Texas at Austin. It emerges as powerful and self-assured, even when addressing the exceedingly complex matter of why we believe what we believe. Oppenheimer, who approaches this undertaking from a non-ideological standpoint, cautions that "the grounds of our beliefs are more contingent than we could possibly ever account for." He nudges his readers to keep in mind certain salient features of human nature, as well as specific incidents that may well have impinged on his subjects' major life decisions.
Would David Horowitz have stayed on the left if a colleague hadn't been killed by Horowitz's allies in the Black Panther Party? . . . Would Norman Podhoretz have turned to the right even if his good friend Norman Mailer had written an enthusiastic review of Podhoretz's memoir [Making It] rather than the critical one Mailer did in fact write? . . . What if Ronald Reagan's movie career had been more successful, and he'd never gone to work for General Electric [where he fell under the spell of GE executive Lemuel Boulware's pro-free enterprise and anti−New Deal views]? Would he have remained the New Deal liberal he was to that point? . . . Without the lever of the Iraq War would Christopher Hitchens have been separated from the left?
Oppenheimer guesses at the answers (and comes up with different ones). That's precisely his point; educated guesses are all we can manage. Fascinatingly, however, it is during the unmoored "in-between" periods, "when the bones of one's belief system are broken and poking out through the skin," that otherwise committed ideologues/apologists tend to produce their most insightful material. For, as the author explains, "there's a certain kind of political writing and thinking that can be done only by someone who is in tension" — a tension almost wholly absent when the subjects of this book were ensconced on either side of the left/right ideological divide.
That ideologically rigid readers (including reviewers) from both the left and right will find much to object to in this book is a given. Yet Oppenheimer, whose opinions reveal an incisive albeit non-dogmatic mind-set, nevertheless deserves some criticism. For example, his contention that Hitchens's rightward shift derived in part from a desired "return to the family legacy of military valor and service to empire" is a clear stretch. (Another conjecture, in which Oppenheimer guesses that Hitchens believed he now had "a chance to see force deployed on the side of the downtrodden after so many years of writing furiously about force being applied against them," rings truer.) Meanwhile, the notion that Horowitz was among those who "reshaped the American century," as the book's subtitle puts it, is fanciful if not absurd. Horowitz probably suffered more mental anguish over his choices as a leftist than the other figures discussed here combined. His story of disillusion with the Black Panthers and feelings of guilt over their apparent murder of his friend Betty Van Patter, whom he had steered toward their employ, is a searing one. But if anything, his move to the right (and further right, and then further yet) has proved so drastic that it has marginalized him. Horowitz, who is one of the two men Oppenheimer profiles alive today — the other being Podhoretz — doesn't just rail against hardcore leftists. Indeed, he has found new targets: liberals (Frontpage Mag, the webzine he founded, declares, "Inside Every Liberal Is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out") as well as Muslims, most if not all of whom he apparently considers extremists, a position that has earned him a spot on the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Anti-Muslim Inner Circle."
A more significant drawback is that Oppenheimer makes little effort to meld his material into a cohesive whole. Indeed, Exit Right is a collection of penetrating yet discrete character studies linked by an overall theme — leftists who turned to the right — as opposed to a single large-scale excavation of American political culture. The different circumstances and time frames in which Oppenheimer's subjects operated is doubtless one reason for this; their paths rarely crossed, though Burnham and Chambers — the latter briefly — would both end up writing for National Review, Reagan would be influenced by Chambers's Witness, and Hitchens would extol Burnham's book The Managerial Revolution. And with the full exception of Hitchens and the partial one of Reagan, the author takes his leave of each figure immediately following his final exhaustion as a leftist, yet before any decisive shift to the right.
Nevertheless, Oppenheimer teases out certain similarities between his subjects that serve to (loosely) hold the book together: a Manichean worldview that admits of little nuance (Hitchens — especially before his rightward shift — differed somewhat in this regard); a stern moralism; and a desire to embark on a heroic crusade for the forces of good and against those of evil. Such parallels might one day contribute to a broader study of radical politico-ideological metamorphoses in American culture. In the meantime, they help us in our quest to consider six otherwise disparate men collectively.
Perhaps the most important commonality Oppenheimer traces is the desire to do something heroic — not because of vainglory but rather due to an underlying sense that one's generation or country or even the world is in pressing danger. This sometimes vague yet insistent feeling drove Chambers and Burnham to Communism, Hitchens to socialism, and Podhoretz to try to become the voice of an American generation. Even Horowitz, a "red-diaper baby," didn't retain his Marxism into adulthood due to inertia but because he was consumed with a need "to rescue Marxism from the mistakes his Communist Party parents and their comrades had so disastrously made," so that he might restore it to its proper trajectory.
Ideological transformation did not diminish this somewhat messianic tendency. Chambers "still felt the calling to fight for the redemption of humanity," but now that mission entailed fighting Communism. For Horowitz, it remained the case that "the world had to change as a result of what he said and did," though by this time he had begun saying and doing very different things. And Reagan? He still wanted to save America, but by defeating global Communism and what he considered domestic manifestations of socialism. Hitchens remained just as motivated by his sympathy for certain long-beleaguered peoples — among them the Kurds in Iraq and other countries — but became convinced that U.S. politico-military might could be harnessed to liberate them.
Interestingly, whereas Chambers and Horowitz openly acknowledged their ideological about-faces, Podhoretz, Reagan, and — to a lesser extent — Hitchens attempted to obfuscate their transformations, instead claiming to have remained consistent. Reagan, for example, insisted that he hadn't changed — the Democratic Party had. Burnham adopted a middle-of-the-road interpretation of his personal journey, one that his writings as a Trotskyist largely bear out. While he admitted his move away from Marxism, he pointed to the fact that he'd long questioned some of its accompanying assumptions and had even called for jettisoning any of its much-vaunted "scientific" propositions that proved false when tested against empirical data.
In his brief yet powerful introduction, Oppenheimer urges readers "to recognize that political belief, if we're to act on it, should be hard-earned. It should bear evidence of confrontation with the abyss." This is sound advice; but so that such soul-searching doesn't result in self-righteousness on our part should we subsequently come across people with questionable ideological allegiances, we might want to keep in mind that not everyone has engaged in that daunting "confrontation with the abyss" that (hopefully) disabused us of our own ingenuousness. This is the perfectly innocent explanation for why so many people do not renounce belief systems some of whose tenets they would find shocking were they to examine them.
That guy wearing the hammer and sickle T-shirt isn't about to subject us and our friends to a Stalinesque Great Purge, and it's doubtful that he embodies Marx's unsound doctrine. This should be obvious, but the realization nonetheless escapes some of us; witness our tendency to conflate adherent and ideology. Worse yet, if that ideology — as evidenced by its foundational texts — features belligerent material, we are often quick to conclude that most or all of its followers are willing to put into practice those violent teachings.
Given today's atmosphere of anti-Muslim hysteria, a good deal of which is whipped up by the likes of David Horowitz following terrorism committed by Muslims in the name of Islam, this is a problem. What to do? There are no easy answers. Nonetheless, we might start by absorbing the pithy yet profound lesson imparted by the title (if not necessarily the content) of a poem called "I Am Not My Ideology," and take a moment to ponder the sobering reality that not all of us are willing to face the oftentimes terrifying abyss of which Oppenheimer writes.
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Every Colibri module has an unique Serial Number.
This number is fix connected to the MAC Address of the module. For more information about the relationship see: MAC Address
You can find the Serial Number on the bar code sticker on the Colibri Module.
There are different version of this stickers some of them have a 1-D bar code and some have a 2-D bar code.
In addition to the Serial Number, you can also find information about the type of the processor, speed and HW version on the sticker.
It is possible to read the serial number from user space.
For all modules, the serial is available in
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep Serial# orcat /proc/cpuinfo | grep Serial | cut -d ':' -f2
For device-tree enabled modules, the serial number is available in
cat /proc/device-tree/serial-number
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An Edmonton mother accused of killing her five-year-old daughter was denied release Friday in a bail hearing full of shocking, never-before-released allegations in the tragic case.
Lauren Lafleche, 29, faces charges of second-degree murder and assault with a weapon in connection with the October 2015 death of her daughter, Shalaina Arcand.
LaFleche was arrested and charged this October as the result of a lengthy investigation by the medical examiner's office.
Defence lawyer Peter Royal sought Lafleche's release on bail after noting the cause of death in the autopsy report was not conclusive and his client, who has no previous criminal record, had been at large in the community for more than a year.
Royal said there is "some real doubt" as to the cause of the head trauma that led to the victim's death.
"This is certainly a very weak case of murder," said Royal, adding that it could end up with a finding of manslaughter.
"This is not one of those heinous crimes that puts the community at risk," he said.
However, Crown prosecutor Laurie Trahan painted a very different picture, detailing allegations of prior child abuse against both the victim and her two siblings, conflicting versions given to police as to what happened and an attempted escape at the time of arrest.
Trahan also spoke of the victim being found in an "emaciated" and "malnourished" condition and allegations that the little girl used to forage at night through the garbage at home looking for food.
The prosecutor told court the autopsy report was delayed 13 months because the medical examiner sought a second opinion from a neurologist in Ontario.
She said the report noted the victim suffered "extensive blunt force trauma" to her head, which is believed to be the cause of death, and contusions to her body, with some so deep they injured her liver.
Trahan said the medical examiner investigated various theories relating to the cause of death as suggested by Lafleche, which included the victim falling out of bed and hitting her head on a dresser, an earlier fall that night in another room or being injured in a playground fall four days earlier.
However, Trahan said the report says that, while the other possible causes can't be completely ruled out, they are believed to be "highly unlikely," and "inflicted trauma" is the more likely cause.
The prosecutor told court the victim was found by emergency medical personnel with a "large purple goose egg" on her forehead and extensive bruising was found on her arms, neck, chest and legs. She also had red marks and bruises on her back and buttocks.
"Her entire forehead was swollen and bruised," she said.
Court heard a radiologist also found evidence of older injuries on the victim's body.
Trahan noted Lafleche didn't call 911 for 90 minutes and her other daughter, who was 11 at the time, said she helped her mother give the victim a bath and put her in clean clothing during that time. Court heard Lafleche was also cleaning her apartment then.
Trahan said the 11-year-old and her then four-year-old brother told authorities that their mother used to hit both them and the victim with a belt and a spatula. The older girl also said Lafleche used to restrain the victim to a bed with a belt and strike her in the head.
The prosecutor told the judge that when Morinville RCMP went to the Alexander Band reserve to arrest Lafleche for the killing, she first denied who she was, then fled from the home before being nabbed running across a field.
She also spoke of Lafleche's involvement with child welfare and said the three children were earlier taken away due to allegations of alcohol and crack cocaine abuse and incidents of verbal and physical abuse involving the children.
Court heard the children were later returned to her, but there were still concerns about anger management issues and possible abuse.
After hearing the submissions by Royal and Trahan, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Ken Nielsen denied Lafleche bail, saying it was a "serious" and "grave" offence and he was concerned about the public losing confidence in the administration of justice.
No publication ban was issued on the evidence presented at the hearing.
Court has heard paramedics responded to a residence near 116 Avenue and 124 Street during the early morning of Oct. 13, 2015, and took the victim to the Stollery Children's Hospital. She died three days later after being taken off life support.
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text: Colorectal cancer remains one of the most common cancers in the US with 146,970 new diagnoses and 49,920 deaths estimated for 2009 (Jemal 2009). Colon cancer is also one of the most familial of cancers. Individuals with a first-degree relative with colon cancer have a 2- to 3-fold increased risk, and those with more than one first-degree relative with colon cancer or a single first-degree relative affected at age d 50 years have a 3- to 6-fold greater risk than those with no family history. The most prominent high-risk colorectal cancer susceptibility genes, APC, MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2, and PTEN, were all discovered more than a decade ago. Currently, mutation screening of these genes, plus a short list of additional genes that are responsible for a very small fraction of colorectal cancer, plays an important role in the clinical management of individuals with a strong family history of the disease or syndromic evidence for the presence of a gene mutation. At the other end of the risk spectrum, genome-wide association studies have identified a number of common alleles with very modest effects on colorectal cancer risk; their clinical utility has yet to be established. However, taken together, the known spectrum of genetic effects only explain about one quarter of the overall familial excess of colorectal cancer. It should be emphasized that, at present, the vast majority of individuals seen at familial cancer clinics are counseled on the basis of their family history alone because they do not have mutations in the known susceptibility genes. Accordingly, the long-term objective of this project is to identify the majority of genes responsible for the unexplained component of inherited colorectal cancer risk. Over the last few years, new DNA sequencing technologies - referred to as "next generation" or "massively parallel" sequencing - have matured rapidly. They are now ripe for application to research questions in genetic susceptibility for which linkage analysis is confounded by extensive genetic heterogeneity. Taking advantage of unparalleled familial cancer genetics resources available through the Utah Population Database, two massively parallel sequencing strategies will be used to pursue the long term objective of this project: 1) candidate genes will be identified by sequencing all of the gene exons in the human genome from a series of colorectal cancer cases who have a very strong family history of colorectal cancer that is not explained by one of the currently known high-risk susceptibility genes; and 2) colorectal cancer susceptibility genes will be validated by case-control re-sequencing of the candidate genes from step #1 in a much larger series of colorectal cancer cases who have family history of colorectal cancer in comparison with a series of cancer-free controls. The multidisciplinary team assembled for this project has access to an unparalleled resource for studying cancer genetics, has statistical and bioinformatic skills required to analyze massive re-sequencing data, and has the ability to translate findings almost directly to clinical cancer genetics. Thus this team and project are poised to take a huge step towards solving the "problem of missing heritability" in colorectal cancer genetics.


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THE extraordinary events which agitated continental Europe in the early months of 1848 naturally made a strong impression on the people of this kingdom. In Great Britain, where the commercial crisis of the previous autumn had thrown multitudes out of employment, the people were easily persuaded that their social advancement could readily be secured by political changes. In Ireland, the calm which had been temporarily established by Lord Clarendon's administration was ruffled by the fall of Louis Philippe. The discontented resumed their agitation ; their leaders sent a deputation to M. Lamartine to beg for the sympathy and aid of France; their organs used language inciting to violence; Lord Clarendon declared that civil war was imminent; and Lord John, moved by these circumstances, on March 30 drew up the following memorandum :—
STATE OF IRELAND. March 30, 1848.
The increasing danger of an outbreak in Ireland, and the prospect of the misery it would occasion, make it necessary for the Government to give their urgent attention to such measures as may be best calculated for such a crisis. Lord Clarendon points out the humanity and the economy of immediate steps, but it may be doubted whether those he suggests are sufficient to meet the evil. I will not point out here the quick spread of disaffection, the equal danger of trials for high treason and of leaving at large the instigators to rebellion, the misery prevailing in the country, the heavy rates now levied, the position of the Roman Catholic clergy, the successful risings of Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Milan, and Sicily. It is sufficient to glance at these things. But to the course to be adopted. We might suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, and call out yeomanry or volunteers from the North.
But this would be to rely entirely on the Protestants, and would probably unite the whole Roman Catholic population against us. We might proceed in our present course, only adding measures of conciliation to our present prosecutions. But it seems to me that this course would give an open road to the conspirators, and allow them to mature their plans. I should therefore propose— 1. That a Bill be brought in to control ejectments, on the principle I have already stated to the Cabinet. 2. That the repayments made to the Government upon the loans of the two last years be laid out in further loans, as already agreed upon between Sir Charles Wood and the Irish members. 3. That a million in Exchequer Bills be advanced to the Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioners for the purpose of making useful works in Ireland, especially works of drainage. 4. That the Habeas Corpus Act be suspended for one year. 5. That a sum of 400,oool, a year be levied by a land-tax in Ireland, and paid over to the Roman Catholic members of the Bequests Commission, to be laid out by them, either in the purchase of glebe houses and glebe lands, or in the payment of the parish priests of Ireland. I have made these propositions large and decided, as I do not believe that less will suffice for a disease so deep-seated and so threatening. I say nothing of the Landlord and Tenant Bill. It may go to a select committee, but I cannot expect any real good from it. J. RUSSELL.
Thus, in March 1848, Lord John was again reverting to the policy which he had desired in the previous autumn ; and proposing to couple a large measure of precaution with still larger measures of conciliation and reform. But he soon found that difficulties, which were almost insurmountable, interfered with this policy. The Cabinet—or at any rate the four members of it, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Palmerston, Lord Grey, and Sir C. Wood, whose opinions are preserved— agreed that his minor recommendations were desirable if they were practicable. But they leaned to the opinion that any interference with the right of ejectment would require to be very carefully guarded ; and that any proposal for the endowment of Roman Catholicism should only be made after previous concert with the head of the Roman Catholic
Church. Remedial legislation, on large and broad foundations, was for the moment impossible. Protective legislation was almost equally difficult. Lord Clarendon, writing on the 1st of April, told Lord John that, if Parliament would at once assent to the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, he thought the time was ripe for this measure; but he waived his demand for it because in the opinion of the Cabinet the Bill could not be carried without long and protracted debates. Thus the condition of Ireland naturally excited grave anxiety; and on the 3rd of April, Lord Jocelyn, who was acting with the knowledge both of Lord Clarendon and of Lord John, drew public attention to it. He said—
I believe there is not a single man in this House who has not seen with indignation and disgust the language of certain mischievous and traitorous men ; avowedly with the object of overturning the institutions of the country—avowedly with the object of levying war upon her Majesty's Crown, by exciting to overt acts of rebellion her Majesty's subjects in that country. I believe it is with similar feelings that the public of this loyal country have seen that men have been found in Ireland so void of their own and of all national honour as to be at this moment seeking in a foreign country for foreign arms to carry out their traitorous purposes. . . . I would ask the noble Lord whether he thinks that there is sufficient power still vested in the Government to crush in its birth this rebellious spirit; or whether he does not think that the time has come . . . when it is the duty of Parliament to give the Executive Minister in Ireland power to enable him to meet with vigour and effect whatever the emergency may require.
Lord John replied—
It is quite true that language of the nature described has been used in Ireland—language exciting to rebellion against the Crown . . . with a view to establish Ireland as a separate nation independent of the Crown of these realms . . . That language has been followed by the manufacture of pikes, by the formation of rifle clubs, and various other preparations, which are openly avowed by the press of that country with a view of creating a civil war in Ireland. . . . It is, however, a most difficult and most delicate matter for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to consider what steps he should take. . . . I hope I need not assure the House that, whilst the Lord Lieutenant is anxious to put down disaffection and rebellion, it is his earnest wish
to listen to complaints, and to apply, so far as is in his power, a remedy or an alleviation to any distresses or evils that exist. , . But the noble Lord may rest assured that it is the full determination of her Majesty's Government, having the utmost confidence in Lord Clarendon, and in his administration of public affairs, to do all that is in their power to support the law in Ireland, and maintain the peace of that country; and, furthermore, that we shall not shrink, should it prove necessary so to do, from asking this House for the grant of any further powers that may be requisite.
This reply gave great satisfaction to Lord Clarendon, who at once thanked Lord John for his 'stout declaration. It gave less satisfaction to Conservative politicians, who then, as ever, thought that the true remedy for Irish discontent was English coercion. But, as a matter of fact, the Cabinet was already deliberating on the powers which the disturbed condition of Ireland made necessary; and four days afterwards Sir George Grey introduced a measure, which is known in history as the Crown and Government Security Bill, by which the provisions of an Act of 1796, introduced by Mr. Pitt, and of an Act of 1817, carried by Lord Castlereagh, were extended to Ireland. By the advice of Lord Campbell, offences against these Acts were declared to be not treason but felony, punishable with transportation ; but
A new provision of unprecedented severity was imported into the law, and any person who, by open and advised speaking, compassed the intimidation either of the Crown or of Parliament, was made guilty of felony.
To the first portion of this Bill no one raised any objection. It applied to Ireland a law which was already in force in England; and it mitigated the savage punishment awarded to high treason. To the second part of it grave objections Were at once made. It was resented as an interference with the liberty of speech, and Lord John was constrained to promise that its duration should be limited. With this concession the Bill became law. But before it actually passed, at the end of April, the tension in Ireland had become less severe. The Irish, in fact, were discouraged by the rebuff which their
' I am here, as elsewhere, reproducing language I have previously used - History of England, iv. 331.
leaders received in France, and by the failure of the Chartists in England. In the former country M. Lamartine told an Irish deputation that it was not meet for France to intervene in the affairs of a country with which she wished to remain at peace. In the latter the energetic measures of the Government prevented the monster procession which had been intended to carry a petition from Kennington to Westminster. Lord John in the first instance had thought that the Chartists might have been permitted to cross Westminster Bridge; and, after delivering their petition at the doors of Parliament, have been turned off by the police to Charing Cross and the Strand." But reflection and consultation showed the dangers of this course; and a Cabinet was hastily summoned, which the Duke of Wellington was invited to attend, at which it was determined to prevent the procession from crossing the bridge. After the Cabinet, the Duke saw Colonel Rowan, one of the Commissioners of Police, and wrote
to Lord John— London: April 6, 1848.
My dear Lord, Since I came to the Horse Guards I have seen Col. Rowan, and we can be prepared to support him in stopping the procession into the town at whatever point may be most convenient to the police and the Government. My own opinion is that it is desirable that the procession should be forced to detach its deputation with its petition at as great a distance as possible from this centre of the communications of Government with the troops and with Parliament, and of the members of both Houses of Parliament. It will be creditable to Government that these communications should not be liable to interruption. It appears to me that the place at which the procession shall be stopped is entirely at the option of Government. Ever yours most sincerely, WELLINGTON
So wrote the first soldier of his generation, with a confidence in his own resources which his successors have not always displayed. On the same evening the Home Secretary stated publicly in Parliament that the Government had directed a Proclamation to be issued warning all loyal and
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- 06 Jul 1924
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- Paris 1924, Athletics, South Africa
Kinsey pips Atkinson in dramatic hurdles final
There's something about the sprint hurdles which creates excitement on the biggest stage, and at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris the story was no different.
Whether it be Gail Devers falling at the final hurdle while storming clear at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, or fellow American Lolo Jones doing the same at the penultimate hurdle 14 years later in Beijing, there is always the possibility of high drama in the event.
And so it turned out in Paris.
South African Sydney Atkinson was the favourite, comfortably clocking the fastest time in the eight heats.
Atkinson was a muscular runner who had metronomic timing over the obstacles and he sauntered through his semi-final in a similarly impressive time.
Kinsey meanwhile was a highly proficient hurdler and won the Intercollegiate title in the US before taking his place in the American squad for the trip to France.
He likewise won his heat and semi-final and was expected to be a strong contender for one of the medals.
In the event, Atkinson made an excellent start to the final but Kinsey matched him stride for stride.
It appeared Atkinson was edging ahead in the closing stages but the big South African clipped the final obstacle and Kinsey, in the lane outside him, had sufficient momentum to carry him over the line first.
Kinsey looked as surprised as anyone at his success as he shook Atkinson's hand before the world's press. Atkinson righted the wrong four years later however winning the gold medal at the Amsterdam Games.


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The Muskoka area is famous for its natural beauty - lush forests, granite rocks, and clear lakes. Spring offers the year's best Moose viewing and you typically don't have to search very hard to see Moose. The application of salt to Highway 60 during winter road maintenance operations, attracts Moose to roadside ditches. Moose with salt deficient winter diets, capitalize upon this unnatural source of salt and chances are you'll see a half dozen or more of these magnificent animals during a leisurely drive along highway on a spring morning or evening.
Hiking in Algonquin Park:
There are so many trails to explore and wildlife to see! We can spend all day exploring the wilderness. It's the perfect time of year to get lots of great moose pictures.
Which are our favorite hikes?
1) Peck Lake Trail
Peck Lake Trail is a 2.3 km loop trail goes completely around the shoreline of Peck Lake.
2) Algonquin Park Visitor Center
Opened in 1993 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Algonquin Provincial Park and the entire Ontario provincial park system, the Algonquin Park Visitor Center has world class exhibits on the Park's natural and human history, a relaxing restaurant and an excellent bookstore. A theater presentation sums up the Park story and then takes you out to the viewing deck from where you can admire a breathtaking panorama of wild Algonquin landscape.
3) Beaver Pond Trail
Beaver Pond Trail is a 2.0 km loop trail that yields excellent views of two beaver ponds while the guide provides an introduction to Algonquin's fascinating beaver pond ecology.
4) Lake of Two Rivers Trail
Two Rivers Trail is a 2.3 km loop trail includes an easy ascent to a pine-clad cliff, and introduces the importance of change in the natural forest of Algonquin.
5) Booth's Rock Trail
Booth's Rock Trail is a 5.1 km loop trail that visits two lakes and a spectacular lookout, returning via an abandoned railway. The guide discusses man's impact on the Park.
6) Lookout
Lookout Trail is a 2.1 km loop trail that is fairly steep and rugged, but rewards the hiker with a magnificent view of several hundred square kilometers of Algonquin. This guide discusses the geology of the Park.
As the group, you will decide on the day of the trip, which hiking trail we will choose. It's also depended on the trail conditions.
8.00 am - York Mills Subway Pick up, meeting in front of Starbucks
8.30 am - Dufferin Mall Pick up, meeting is in front of the Beer Store
9.30 am - 9.45 am - Tim Horton's Barrie stop
11.30 pm - 5 pm - Hiking
Please note that arrival time back to Toronto can be changed depending on traffic situation, weather conditions etc. The latest arrival time should be 11 pm so please plan your day around this time of arrival.
What to take with you?
• Backpack
• Rain Jacket
• Hiking/running shoes
• Bug spray
• Water
• Snacks
This is a one day trip.
Meal included
Cold Cut Sandwich, snack, water
Please note, that we can't guarantee to see the moose as they are wild animals.
PRICE $139pp
12 seats van or minivan transportation
Park fees
Guided hiking
Moose watching
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Why Twitter is the new TV reviewer
The social media site is now a place for instant reviews, and can also persuade braodcasters to make changes far more quickly, says Mark Jefferies
I think 2014 can be defined as the year television critics officially lost their power to inform and dictate schedules and successes.
Channel bosses no longer wait to read the reviews and comments of acclaimed TV writers days after programmes end. And nor do viewers.
People have turned to Twitter and instant reviews, and we are now at a point where Twitter comments have a huge impact and cause changes on screen, sometimes within 24 hours.
The best example of this new age was some months back when BBC1 period drama Jamaica Inn's first episode aired.
Viewers complained instantly on Twitter about the sound quality. And whereas in the past it may have taken bad reviews in the following days to make a difference, the BBC reacted to the news within hours and re-edited the sound to make the next day's episode slightly easier on the ear.
At the weekend, poor Phil Neville saw his debut as a co-commentator go down badly with football fans watching England at the World Cup.
In this case he took the abuse on the chin, and possibly buoyed on by some confidence boosting words from BBC bosses and a statement released to journalists, returned as a pundit 48 hours later and gave a polished performance.
Again, in previous years he may not have made such a swift change without getting harsh advice on Twitter. Something that may have dragged on was changed virtually overnight.
There are other occasions where Twitter can help a show.
I was one of many people raving about crime drama Happy Valley on BBC1 last month.
It started with just over six million viewers and initially the first four episodes averaged to 5.8m
Lots of people then started to watch it on catch-up, and Twitter slowly became awash with nothing but praise for the series. I know because I was amongst those urging people to tune in.
Thanks mainly to word of mouth rather than old fashioned reviews, millions caught up with the series, and the final episode consolidated with 7.8million viewers, significantly more than earlier episodes, along with 8.1 million episode requests on iPlayer.
It is not just the BBC that cares, either. Channel 4 boss Jay Hunt is a fan of Twitter and I know she monitors how her output is received on social media. At the start of the year, Benefits Street was a particularly hot topic and that certainly didn't do that series any harm.
People will still read TV reviews, and guides like Radio Times have a healthy life for some time yet as people like to view the full schedule.
And we also have to beware of the bandwaggon effect of social media. Since the Phil Neville criticism, every football match at the World Cup seems to have some fan complaining about a commentator. So a big pinch of salt is needed when reading some opinions.
But the impact to encourage viewing habits and inform and change what we watch, well, that job now appears to be carried out more and more by Twitter and what is trending.
Mark Jefferies is Showbiz Editor at the Daily Mirror


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The first evening was too dark to make a positive ID, and they were flying quite high. Their flight was swift. Tern?
The second night, they were low enough to see their brown coloring and detect the white bar on their wings. That's no tern! Then, there was the frog like sound, but it was coming from the sky! Wow, could it be that we're finally seeing a bird from the Goatsucker family?
Yes..... It's a Nighthawk! Noting the white wing bar was a great field mark. All these years of hearing and never seeing Whip-poor-wills and Chuck-will's-widows (say that 5 times fast) we, at last, got to see a relative! I was thrilled :)
I've only seen one Nighthawk, one time, since we've been back. They are one of the first to migrate. I'm wondering if these birds were taking a mini break from their voyage south to bulk up on Bluffton's insects. I say, "Thank you for spending time with us, for your entertaining dog fight flight, and for keeping our insect population in check! Safe travels!"


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- Three year old JCountry eating the Christmas tree bulbs. Not so funny at the time but we now laugh a lot about all the things he ate back then: 1/2 tray of brownies while sitting on top of the refrigerator; dog food out of the bin, at the store and the bag, at home; and, light bulbs. For a while, we followed him around with white bread (poison control said that was all we could do).
- While we are on food, the joy of throwing up on Christmas even because I ate the whole package of chocolate covered wafer cookies, while everyone else decorated the tree. Hey, I was a kid and it beats me eating so much liver sausage at grandma's house that I threw up in the car, on the way home.
- Last year, at Teacher daughter's, watching her new shelter dog lick everything in sight. Mia especially liked the new grandchild, whose mother so patiently bit her tongue at dog spit on her child for days. We love you Francis!!! Okay, maybe that was last summer, but it was still fun.
- Mia also entertained us with her immitation of a short range missle tracking a lazer point on the floor. When said lazer pointer was turned off, Mia spent the next hour/s trying to find the missing red dot. 'Sniff, Sniff, Oh, it's not between the chair and the cabinet, it must be under the rug. Dig, dig, dig, nope, not there either. Where's the dot? Where's the dot?'
- There was the Christmas that we had to turn back from visiting my sister's house as the snow was too bad so we joined my aunt at her house instead. Her turkey ended up on the floor, but she had a great story about her husband's temper. Seems he got really mad about the floor not being clean and waxed , so on the way to work, he went to get his lunch out and yanked the refrigerator door really hard and pulled the whole thing over on himself. (he wasn't hurt and that's not the funny part), he was late and only had time to change his pants and not his underwear. When he got to work, and went to change into work clothes, he realized the beets had done quite a spill on his boxers and his fellow employees ribbed him for months about it. But, the floor was clean enough we could eat the turkey.
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The search for Frozen Brownies and Guns
Posted in Home Again in Indiana, My Weird Family, Reasons I'll need Therapy, tagged baggies, brownies, bullets, dad, gun, Tell me Lies by Jennifer Crusie, twist ties on August 25, 2008| Leave a Comment »
It really is incredible the things you find, or find out, when cleaning.
One of my favorite books is a mystery; Tell Me Lies, a novel by Jennifer Crusie. Any book that starts with "One hot August Thursday afternoon, Maddie Faraday reached under the front seat of her husband's Cadillac and pulled out a pair of black lace bikini underpants. They weren't hers." Is gonna be good. And, I read it when it was labeled a mystery (which my copy is), not a romance. Of course my copy doesn't have candy hearts on the cover. At least I don't think it does, since it is one of the things I keep cleaning in the hopes of finding.
The scene I love in this book, and I am very much digressing because it has nothing to do with cleaning, is Maddie Faraday, going in and finding the only comfort food that is available to her is a centuries old brownie in her freezer. I have gotten desperate enough to toast a marshmallow, with a steak knife, over the stove top but who thought of toasting a frozen brownie? Brilliant!
Get on topic again, Sheryl. — Okay, I helped my parents clean out my aunt's apartment, when she had to move into a nursing home. We found baggies and twist ties in every drawer. What we did not find was one single thing she had put in her will to leave to other people. I am hoping she had already passed on some of these items, to their new owners, long before.
When I was cleaning out some of my father's things, after his death, I found a little tag on a string, like those you put on an item to price it. This tag, with my dad's tiny scribble on it, lay at the bottom of a small box of assorted items, with bullets (yes, gun bullets) rattling around in the bottom. The tag read:
"Do not even think of looking for the gun.
I took it with."
I am wondering how long that tag was in the box and why my paranoid father, even in his wildest dreams, ever thought a burglar would listen to this warning on a mini tag. Actually, why would he even take the time to read it?
Or–did my dad somehow find a way to actually take the gun with him, on his final journey? If so, I assure you, I would have taken a frozen brownie before I ever took a gun.


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Pinestone Resort & Conference Centre
Peaceful, elegant, and set against the backdrop of the breathtaking Haliburton Highlands in Ontario, Pinestone Resort, Conference Centre, Spa and Golf Course welcomes you with friendly service, well appointed accommodations, and a wealth of activities that will delight the entire family.
The resort is the largest full-service hotel in Haliburton County, with 102 rooms, suites, villas and chalets. We offer excellent amenities including indoor and outdoor pools, a fitness centre, mouth watering contemporary cuisine at Heatherwood Restaurant , and complimentary wireless Internet access throughout the property – setting the stage for a truly memorable resort experience.
Weddings at the resort are nothing short of magical; exchange your vows in our breathtaking fairytale setting, at the ponds edge with rolling hills of the highlands in behind. Hit the links on our 18-hole championship golf course, or treat yourself to a spa treatment at Alberto's Spa & Salon. And of course, there is no shortage of exciting things to do here in the Haliburton Highlands – from hiking and mountain biking to canoeing, skiing and more.
For more information visit: www.pinestone-resort.com


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Palin Promises Not To Take Away Man's Bulldozer
(POLK CITY, FLA.) - Stump speeches can get repetitive for Sarah Palin, as she tours her way across Florida's I-4 Corridor, reading the same lines off of her teleprompter at each event. So at an airport rally here, she took a couple of moments to go briefly off script as she looked out onto the crowd of about 2,700 people.
"Look at this sign, too: 'They can't have my religion, my gun, or my bulldozer,'" Palin said, as she pointed out into the crowd. "So says 'Jay the Contractor.' Jay, we won't take your bulldozer."
A few minutes before Palin vowed not to take away Jay's bulldozer, she noticed another sign in the crowd.
"I see your poster over there—God bless you, she's 103 years old-- he's 103," Palin said. "Sir, we are going to be working for you and we thank you for growing this country. We honor you."


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Peer groups meet periodically so participants in the program can compare notes and talk through problems they encounter
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has returned to Pakistan for the first time since being shot by Taliban militants. Ms Malala, now aged 20 and a vocal human rights activist, was shot in the head by a gunman for campaigning for female education in 2012.
She said, 5 years ago, I was shot in an attempt to stop me from speaking out for girls' education. Today, I attend my first lectures at Oxford.
She is expected to hold meetings with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. Details of the trip have been kept secret "in view of the sensitivity", an official told AFP news agency.
Islamabad's International Airport under tight security
Pakistani television broadcast video that appeared to show her with her parents at Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport under tight security.


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The Story – Underworld Unleashed #1 – 3 (1995-1996)
In a classic tale of temptation and duplicity, Neron, a demon from Hell, assembles the villains of the universe and offers them their "heart's desire" in exchange for their souls. As each criminal individually accepts the damned bargain, the heroes of Earth are suddenly overpowered and easily defeated by their evil adversaries. But the augmented villains soon learn the horrible price they must pay as Neron uses his unwitting pawns in an attempt to take over the entire universe. Now with Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, the Flash and the rest of the heroes of the world helpless, the fate of all existence rests on the shoulders of the Trickster, the one man who might outdeal the devil.
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Avoid Summer Getaway Rental Scams
Rental scams among top complaints to the FBI
En español | As summer vacations near, you may be hot into your search for a Shangri-la. So watch out that the beachfront condo, mountain retreat or big-city hotel doesn't give you a different kind of R&R: the "ruse and rip-off" of a vacation rental scam.
See also: Volunteer on vacation.
Rental scams were among the top complaints to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2010.
The swindles typically start with phony advertisements for rentals at affordable, sometimes rock-bottom prices. They're posted on such well-known websites as Craigslist, but also on fly-by-night ones that purport to be the online homes of legitimate real estate brokers or rental companies. Others turn up in newspaper classifieds and online chat boards.
The ads are sometimes dressed up with photos and property descriptions stolen from home sale listings on legitimate real estate websites.
When you inquire, the scammers may reply using a real broker's name to give the fraud more legitimacy, the FBI warns. You may be asked to submit an application form. Through email or telephone exchanges, a deal is struck. And then you're told that you need to pay upfront, with a wire transfer or personal check.
You may receive keys, a rental agreement or other indicators of a legit transaction, but it's all a ruse. When you arrive at your paid-for getaway, you learn that the dwelling is occupied, doesn't exist or that you were mailed nonworking keys. Your money's gone, and info you put down on that application form may leave you open to identity theft.
But with a little homework — and common sense (especially in not being taken in by promises of below-market prices) — you can avoid this fast-growing scam.
- Let a search engine be your guide. If you don't know a local who can check out the property on your behalf, do an online search of its address, as well as of all names, emails and phone numbers of any person who responds to your query about an ad you've seen. This search may turn up accounts from victims of a particular group of scammers.
- Copy and paste into a search engine whole chunks of the ad's descriptive text to see whether it's been copied from elsewhere online, suggests the New York Times' "Frugal Traveler" Seth Kugel, who personally fell victim to this scam. Fraudsters often copy real ads, with the exception of the price, which they lower.
- Do a Web search on the prospective property's address. This should reveal whether it's for sale, not for rent — a red flag for you. An online search engine's map function should provide an aerial view. There may also be a street-level photo of what's at that location, if anything.
- Pay only with plastic. The surest sign of a vacation rental scam, says the Federal Trade Commission, is a request for a wire transfer for rent, deposit or application fee. Bogus owners or agents often claim to be traveling abroad and need a transfer, but legitimate ones should accept credit cards. And if you get bilked, you stand a better chance of a refund from your credit card provider than with a transfer or personal check.
- Deal by phone. There's no guarantee that a rental rip-off artist isn't using a "pay-as-you-go" cellphone (often tossed in a month or so), but those who want to communicate only by email, especially from free Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail accounts, should be avoided. Talking is also better for getting answers to questions that can be ignored when posed by email.
- Stick with legit lodging specialists. Travel agents, visitor bureaus, realtors and other organizations in your vacation destination may be able to direct you to vetted lodging options.
- Go-to websites include Airbnb, Vrbo and, for Caribbean rentals, Wimco. You can also try condo associations and timeshare resorts, which often have online newsletters listing rentals.
Or check third-party timeshare rental websites such as Redweek or TUG, which charge an annual fee.
Craigslist has many legitimate rental ads, but be careful. Anyone can post and there is no vetting — note the site's own warning about scams.
Sid Kirchheimer is the author of Scam-Proof Your Life, published by AARP Books/Sterling.
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This 4.62 pinion has the #382 on it. Dial gauge indicates 1.900 from bearing center line to pinion. Plan is to measure the used 3.90 set before i disassemble it and than get the same measurement in the starion housing and than set backlash and check pattern.
The problem is the 4.22 gear set is new and i don't have the luxury of using the dial gauge reading as a starting point. Can the correct dial gauge reading be calculated from the # i hope to find on the 4.22 pinion? The 4.22 starion rear is already assembled by a previous owner but has never been run. The preloaded are that tight we can barely turn it. I will check the pattern before i proceed.
Do the pinion bearings interchange between the the truck and starion rears?
Any pointers from those who have do the swap. I assembled Mack truck rears years ago so i do have some experience with gear set up.
Early on i thought the pinion depth gauge would minimize the trial and error. I had the 3.90 pinion in two different starion housings and it was telling me the 3.90 sat .035 lower than it did in the truck housing. I rolled the dice and added the .035 to the original shim. It was not even close, way to many shims. I then tried the original starion housing .065 shim (truck housing shim was .064). That was to little, went to .075,that was to much. Ended up at .069. In all 9 pinion shim changes.
When i put the new bearings on and it threw of the pattern, the gauge would have given me an ideal how much, but i had not taken a reading before the change. Repeat ability with the gauge was good in the same housing. I don't know where the error came from.
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CBS Smears Romney Over Olympic Uniforms
This is just too hilarious. The media is in full attack mode on Romney. Now, they're attempting to smear Romney with blame for the Olympic uniform debacle. CMR buddy Matthew Balan reports:
In an online article on Tuesday, CBS's Lucy Madison all but pointed the finger at Mitt Romney for the decision to produce the uniforms of the 2002 U.S. Winter Olympic team in Burma. Madison cited left-wing website The Huffington Post as a main source: "In 2002, when Romney was at the helm of the Salt Lake City Olympics, the outfits were produced in Burma, as the Huffington Post pointed out last night."
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To say that August 29, 2015 was the best day of my life is definitely an understatement!
To be totally honest, I have trouble writing about our wedding. I simply don't have enough faith in my word-craftsmanship. Trying to depict that beautiful day through my writing would be like attempting to recreate the statue of David with a chainsaw, or the Mona Lisa with a twelve-pack of Crayolas.
It's hard to write about our romance, to translate such a radiant feeling onto the dull glow of a Macbook. It's hard to capture the magnificence, the pure white blooming swirling worshipping sparkling bubbling overflowing joy of that day.
In fact, I must have re-written the extremely brief reference to our wedding in my About Me at least twenty-nine times… and I still don't love it.
I'll let the photos and film speak for me, but all I can say is that the past eight months and six days have been hands-down the best of my life.
Every day with this man is a special occasion. Every day with him is The Trevathan Celebration!
Our wedding film rendered me speechless the first time I saw it. I hope you love it too!
Mrs. Stephen Robert Trevathan
We Couldn't Have Done it Without:
Film: Silver Tie Films
Photography: Carmen Holt Photography
Officiant: My Dad <3
Dress: Julie Ireland Dressmaking (The gown was beyond my wildest bridal dreams!!!)
Veils: Paris Connection SF
Makeup: Olga Pirmatova (We met at a shoot!)
Hair: My sister/MOH Sophia <3
Tuxedos: Men's Wearhouse
Venue: The San Francisco Theological Seminary
Flowers: Village Green
Catering: Debbie Ghiringhelli
Cake: Red Hill Cake and Pastry
A Bit of Everything: Meine Mami <3
Wedding Planner: My Bridezilla self!
I had help from my wonderful mother, father, sister, best friend, bridesmaids, in-laws, flower girl moms, and the Day-Of Coordinator provided by the Seminary. And of course my sweet hubby who dealt with Golden Gate Bridge traffic and many perfectionist meltdowns with the patience of Job and the lovingness of… well, of Stephen!
I also have to give a shoutout to all the guests who lent a helping hand taking flowers and leftover food back to the hotel, and were just generally amazing, kind and lots of fun!
And if you're curious about the details…
My Shoes: Kurt Geiger
My Earrings: Givenchy
Bridesmaid Dresses: David's Bridal (the color was "Biscotti")
Flower Girl Dresses: David's Bridal
Ring Bearer Tuxedo: Men's Wearhouse
Getting Ready Robes: Sandy Waters
Flower Girl Bows: The Sassy Tot Etsy Store
Nole Garter: Avysm Etsy Store
Ring Bearer Pillow: MXO Woodworking Etsy Store
"Party Like a Seminole" and "Trevathan Celebration" signs: Handmade by me!
Rock Candy: Amazon
I think that's everything… At least everything relevant to the video! This turned out to be a bit of a photo sneak peek as well, so stay tuned for more to come.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask! I like to talk about my wedding more than necessary/healthy/socially appropriate 😉


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Here's a recap of all the costumes I wore throughout my "31 Days of Halloween" costume challenge.
(There are more than 31 photos……I'm an overacheiver.)
Lessons I learned throughout this Halloween month costume challenge:
-Dressing up in costumes for 31 days straight will make you BRAVE.
-I can do a lot with a little.
-Makeup isn't as scary as I thought. But, I still prefer naked face.


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About Ashley Haynes
Ashley Haynes grew up on Sullivan's Island, and he still lives here today which gives him an expertise in island real estate that is unmatched. Having spent so much of his life on Sullivan's Island and on the Isle of Palms, Ashley has gained a knowledge of the properties and the families that live here, making him a true expert in his field. When buying or selling property on a barrier island, you need to have the agent who is most familiar with all aspects of owning island property to avoid any future surprises, and choosing to hire Ashley and his thorough approach to a real estate transaction is the only prudent option. Being a beachfront property, waterfront property, and historic homes specialist, Ashley is the only chioice to make sure that you are well informed of any potential issues which also ensures the smoothest transaction possible. Give Ashley a call at 843-813-6079 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com to find or sell your island property today!
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Yearly Leader in Sullivan's Island and Isle of Palms Real Estate Sales
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