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UNICEF welcomes Jordan's offer of education to Iraqi children
For the first time, when Jordanian public schools start classes on 19 August, they will open their doors to these children, regardless of whether they possess a residency permit or not. Previously, formal education was available only to Iraqis holding residency permits.
UNICEF has been supporting education of Iraqi children in Iraq and through the region, and in July launched a joint, $129 million appeal with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to support host governments such as Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon in providing schooling for 155,000 Iraqi children for the 2007-2008 academic year, including 50,000 in Jordan. These funds are needed urgently to allow children to begin the school year in a little over a week, and also to ensure that they can continue their education into 2008.
Education is a right for all children, including those in emergencies. Schools restore a sense of normalcy to children whose lives have been disrupted by violence and/or displacement, and provide the forum to deliver interventions beyond education.
About UNICEF
UNICEF is on the ground in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The worlds largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May 13, 2008) - The ETSU volleyball team recently held its first annual awards banquet honoring the players hard work and good play in 2008.
Freshman McKayla Barber (Columbus, Ind.) was named the team MVP after an All-Tournament Team and All-Freshmen Team selections. Junior Kristan Provchy (Norton, Ohio) earned the team Academic MVP for the second straight year, while Whitney Cogburn (Kingsport, Tenn.) received the coach's award. Lauren Baufield (Plymouth, Minn.) received the Buc Heart award and Jen Neice (Allen, Texas) was named the team Defensive MVP.
The team also held the first ever ETSU Volleyball Buc Olympics where the players were put through several different physical and technical challeneges. Sophomore Desiree Dyck (Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan) came away with the gold, while Baufield won the silver and Amanda Youell (Middleburg, Fla.) won the bronze.
The Bucs return a very experience squad in 2009 as they look to make the Atlantic Sun Tournament for the fourth straight year.
Please visit www.ETSUBucs.com for more information on ETSU volleyball and all other Buccaneer athletic news.

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Torres, Sharks get past Kings in shootoutby Eric Gilmore
SAN JOSE -- It was just minutes after the San Jose Sharks beat the Los Angeles Kings 3-2 in a shootout Tuesday night at HP Pavilion, and Sharks captain Joe Thornton was asked about a potential first-round playoff matchup between these Pacific Division rivals.
"Every game against these guys is electric and fans get into it and all the guys get into it," Thornton said. "Who knows? We'll see what happens."
Although the Sharks and Kings still have five regular-season games left, they went at each other as if the playoffs had already begun. When the wild and physical game ended, both team had 53 points; the Kings owned fourth place in the Western Conference because they have more non-shootout wins than the Sharks.
Sharks forward Raffi Torres scored the only goal in the shootout, beating Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick in the third round by sliding a backhander through his legs. Sharks goaltender Antti Niemi stopped all three shots he faced, denying Jeff Carter, Anze Kopitar and, finally, Mike Richards.
Brent Burns and TJ Galiardi, who skated together on the Sharks' first line, scored San Jose's goals in regulation. Captain Dustin Brown and defenseman Jake Muzzin scored for the KIngs.
"It was crazy," Galiardi said of the game. "Back and forth all night. They have so much talent on their team, and we have a lot on ours, too. It was a seesaw battle, but we pulled that extra point."
They got it thanks to Torres, who said he was stunned when coach Todd McLellan chose him for the shootout.
"It's been a couple of years since I've got a chance to go in the shootout so I was a little nervous," said Torres, who came to the Sharks from the Phoenix Coyotes in a trade deadline deal. "I just trusted my hands and trusted what I've been doing in practice. I just went in there nice and slow and got him to bite on the shot and slid it under him."
McLellan said he liked Torres' career numbers in the shootout -- he converted on four of 11 attempts before Tuesday.
"When you look at his past and what he's done, he has pretty good numbers in the shootout. He has quick hands and I just went with a hunch," McLellan said.
Niemi, coming off a 4-0 shutout of the Phoenix Coyotes on Monday night, made 41 saves in his 21st straight start. Quick stopped 33 shots.
"They are so good with their penalty-killing and their goaltending," Kings coach Darryl Sutter said of the Sharks. "Niemi gets to credit, but he has more than 20 wins. Their penalty kill has put them at the top of the league. He reflects their home record."
The Sharks improved to 15-1-5 at home, while the Kings lost their fourth straight road game.
Niemi's biggest save came when he stopped Jeff Carter on a 2-on-1 break with just over two minutes left in overtime.
"At this time of the year, sometimes it's really the team that deserves to win and usually does," Kings forward Justin Williams said. "I don't think we deserved to win tonight. The result of the multitude of chances they had tonight was us not being able to sustain a lot of pressure in their zone. They play a very tight defensive box, and we weren't able to penetrate as often as we wanted to."
The Sharks and Kings entered the third period tied 2-2 after a wild second period in which each team scored a pair of goals.
Dwight King had a great chance to put Los Angeles ahead early in the third after a turnover by Sharks captain Joe Thornton, but Niemi caught his blast from the low slot. Niemi made another great save late in the third on Carter's shot off a breakaway. Quick turned away two Galiardi shots late in the third, one on a rush and another after taking a feed from Thornton.
After a scoreless first period, Burns and Galiardi scored in a span of 42 seconds midway through the second, giving the Sharks a 2-0 lead. But the Kings answered with second-period goals by Muzzin and Brown to pull even before intermission.
Seconds before Burns' goal, Kings forward Dustin Penner had the puck along the boards in the Los Angeles zone, facing his own goal. He never saw Burns coming. In a flash, Burns raced in, stole the puck, moved toward the slot and ripped a shot past Quick for an unassisted goal at 8:48.
Burns has scored eight goals, all of them since McLellan switched him from defense to a first-line wing.
"I consider him a rover. He has the ability to play both," McLellan said. "What he's done for our team is a lot like (Colin) Kaepernick with the 49ers, he said of San Francisco's quarterback." He has the ability to roam around and be somewhat reckless at times, but we feel comfortable putting him back there on the power play. If we need him in-game, he's ready to go back there, but he's a utility guy that's able to play all over."
The Sharks quickly made it 2-0 when Galiardi took a cross-crease pass from Burns and scored from close range at 9:30. The goal was Galiardi's fourth of the season and third in the past eight games. Burns and Thornton earned assists. It was Thornton's 500th assist as a Shark and 785th overall.
Muzzin scored a power-play goal at 13:59, cutting San Jose's lead to 2-1. Niemi had already killed off all 1:15 of a 5-on-3 power play with Galiardi in the penalty box for tripping defenseman Drew Doughty and defenseman Jason Demers for cross-checking Jarret Stoll. But with 32 seconds left on Demers ' penalty, Muzzin blasted a shot from the blue line through traffic, beating Niemi.
With the Kings and Sharks skating 4-on-4, Brown rammed home a shot from point-blank range past Niemi when he couldn't cover a rebound. The goal was Brown's 14th of the season and third against the Sharks.
The Sharks were playing on back-to-back nights, and the Kings hadn't played since Saturday night. After blowing a two-goal lead, San Jose could well have lost the game.
"A lot of teams might fold there, but we came in and regrouped," Galiardi said. "We got a lot of good leaders on our team, guys who have been there before. They just set us back to neutral. We went out and had a great period."
Defenseman Scott Hannan, in his second stint with the Sharks, was in the lineup for the first time since coming to San Jose from Nashville in a trade on April 13. Hannan, who had been sidelined by a neck injury, played his first game as a Shark since May 7, 2007, a second-round playoff loss to the Detroit Red Wings. Hannan took rookie defenseman Matt Irwin's spot in the lineup and skated with Dan Boyle.
In an odd switch, the Sharks wore their road white uniforms at home while the Kings wore their home black uniforms on the road. The reason? According to a Sharks spokesperson, the Kings requested the switch, and the Sharks agreed.


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0install 2.0 is out today. Zero Install is a decentralised cross-platform software installation system, allowing software developers to publish programs directly from their own websites, while still supporting shared libraries, automatic updates, dependency handling and digital signatures. It complements, rather than replaces, the OS' package management. Departing from its traditional use of installing desktop applications, many of the new features were driven by requirements from the Ryppl project, which is using 0install as the package manager in a modular build system for C++ projects.


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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Random Testing
I have run across a few references to Paul Dietz's Common Lisp test suite over the past few months, the latest being from Juho Snellman's blog where he describes how the suite caught some errors in his new SBCL register allocator code.
Paul describes his work on the suite in his own blog, the 13-September entry of which had this to say:
To go beyond simple 'does function FOO do X when called on arguments Y' kinds of tests, I've also started experimenting with a random tester. I've taken the approach of William McKeeman (favorite quote: "Excellent testing can make you unpopular with almost everyone.") I generate random lisp forms that are guaranteed to be well-defined when a set of free variables have integer values. The forms are wrapped in two lambda expressions, one with type declarations for the free variables and one in which optimizations are inhibited. The functions are compiled and their outputs compared on a set of random inputs.
This approach is very simpleminded (and a lot easier to do in Lisp than in C, as McKeeman did), but it immediately found new bugs in every lisp implementation on which I tried it. The beauty of this approach is that it exploits increasingly cheap CPU cycles to save the increasingly relatively expensive programmer/tester cycles.
In my experience, random testing of just about anything is a really good thing. I have always found it effective at finding those elusive corner cases that are so difficult for people to envision themselves. The computer can generate such perverse test cases that it really makes you wonder why people don't do this more often.
For instance, when I was at HP in the late 1980s working on the PA-RISC series 700 workstation products, I knew one of the engineers in the CPU group who was designing the next round of IEEE floating point co-processors for PA-RISC. If you aren't fully aware, the IEEE FP spec is very precise, but has a number of very hairy corner cases. In particular, things like rules for rounding in the last bit of precision are called out very clearly. This engineer, who I always thought was pretty smart, built himself a software simulation of his chip design and proceeded to generate random test vectors for the new design. Simultaneously, he ran those same vectors through his trusty Motorola 68K FP copro and had the system stop and dump the vectors that produced any mismatches.
When he first fired up the simulation, it ran for only a few seconds before it found a problem. He fixed the problem and restarted. It ran for a minute. He fixed the problem and restarted. It ran for a few minutes. He fixed the problem and restarted. It ran for an hour or two. He fixed the problem and restarted. It ran for 24 hours. He fixed the problem and restarted. It then ran non-stop.
Note that if he had just done this, he actually couldn't have been sure that his processor was bug-free, only that it had exactly the same bugs as his 68K FPU. To ensure that he didn't miss a bug, he also compared with earlier PA-RISC FPUs.
What is most interesting about this example is that if Intel had done the same basic testing on the original Pentium, they would not have suffered the massive FPU bug debacle in the 1990s.
I have used the same technique in testing network protocol implementations. Protocol decoding is notoriously error-prone and bugs here can result in huge security holes. In this case, I try to generate real data streams and then write a program to corrupt the data slightly. Often, because protocols involve various packet integrity algorithms, you have to generate something that will make it all the way through different parts of the stack and not just get thrown out at the lowest levels, otherwise you aren't testing much other than the lowest layers of your system. For instance, if you capture IP packets and corrupt them, recompute the IP and TCP checksums such that things don't get bounced right at those checks but actually make it to different parts of the stack.
Others have successfully used the technique to test UNIX (and here) and Windows utilities.
In short, I don't think I have ever seen a case where a random input tester didn't reveal a bug of some sort, unless the system had already been subjected to such a tester previously.
Update: Here is a good description of William McKeeman's work using random testing on the DEC C compiler. I think that Paul's blog referenced this but it dropped out when I did the cut/paste and I think Paul's link was also stale.
Random testing was used on the Pentium, but the incompleteness of testing (even random testing) allowed the bug to remain undetected.
A few weeks ago there was a bit of surprised activity around probably-exploitable crashes in popular web browsers found with random testing (the author calls his technique "razor sharp html fragments"):
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/378632The key is generating content that is random at the proper level. You touch on this issue when you mention getting the TCP and IP checksums correct; the web browser testing illustrates another instance of this problem. I've tried replicating the crashes shown by the Bugtraq post by a cgi script that just throws up random binary garbage, but that doesn't cause the crashes that are seen almost immediately with the razor-sharp html test. Even random ascii garbage doesn't trigger crashes. (When I have time, I guess the next step is some sort of non-deterministic FSM that's been trained on a large collection of real-world html files)
I guess what I'm saying is that random testing is hard. Maybe not as hard as creating the product under test, but not necessarily easy either. You have to know how to get down to the appropriate level of encoding before injecting your randomness, which when testing a completely finished product can be difficult.
(The date this article's been posted suggests little change of this comment being seen but)
a quick search of the McKeeman paper on the DEC C compiler testing showed a bunch of 404 links; a hint on where it could be had would be appreciated.
Bogdan, there may not be a good source. I'm guessing that the originals got crunched as the result of the merger of Compaq with HP. Other than Googling for it, I have no idea where it might be found. If anybody is able to locate a reference, please post a comment.
Differential Testing for Software
This sort of testing is not a solution. The way it works is that if no bugs are found in the time alloted to bug finding you can feel 'good' about it. It has nothing to do with actually finding the bugs.
The only way I have heard of doing this in a manner that approaches 'right'-ness is to formally prove your program correct.
See "A Mechanically Checked Proof of the Correctness of the Kernel of the AMD5K86 Floating-Point Division Algorithm" http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/53148.html
I'd be more willing to bet that FP division in AMD's K5 is better than the equivalent function in PA-RISC's or Intel's chips of the day.
Sure, provable algorithms are certainly preferable. But how many pieces of code do you know that have been proved correct? How many do you know that even can be?
Until provability makes huge leaps forward in usability, then we're left with either human testing, where a test engineer tries to develop "interesting" inputs in an attempt to break the code, or techniques like random testing. I submit that no technique is foolproof and that both are required. The machine can sometimes be much more clever at finding the corner cases that can a human, but a human can also help the machine work past various limitations and can utilize the randomness in ways that the machine can't come up with itself.
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Nook vs. Nook
I would like to get my mother a Nook Color. Are they near to releasing a new Nook Color? What are the differences with the Nook Tablet? Can't you surf the Web with Wi-Fi on the Nook Color?
I know of no plans by Barnes & Noble to release a new Nook Color. Yes, the Nook Color can surf the Web, but it's the lesser, and older, of the company's two color Nooks. The newer Nook Tablet is lighter, has longer battery life, a faster processor and comes in two models, one with greater built-in memory. The Nook Color costs $30 less than the Nook Tablet with the same built-in memory.
I purchased an iPad 2 in December 2011. Today, the camera does not work. It shows the lens closed and then goes black. Today and for a couple of days past I cannot get updated emails even though I am connected to the Internet and can receive those emails on my computer. What should I do?
For years, I have stressed that digital devices should be treated like any other appliance you buy—if they malfunction, take them back, or send them back, to the merchant. There may be a simple way to get your iPad 2 working properly, but I can't diagnose it remotely. And you don't sound like the kind of tinkerer who would relish searching the Web for solutions and fiddling with it.
So, I would reboot the unit, plug it into a PC or Mac running iTunes to make sure the operating system is up-to-date, and, if it's still not working right, take it to an Apple store or wherever you bought it for fixing or a replacement, especially if you bought a warranty. If you want to troubleshoot it yourself, try this website: http://bit.ly/Kd6ljz.
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I have used XAMPP for a few years now without problems.
I recently built a new PC and due to the hardware on it, I needed to upgrade my OS.
I was using XPpro 32bit, I was told that the 64bit was not that good and I have never liked Vista, so I took the plunge and got Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.
Now some of you will already be saying why XAMPP is not working. This is probably because it only ships as 32bit.
That said, it installed without problems and I set it up as I always have on my second drive.
But if I navigate to localhost, it just says "waiting for response from localhost", but nothing ever happens.
So I have two questions.
Is there a fix to get up and running?
When will a 64bit XAMPP be available?
If anyone has other advice as well, you are welcome.
WILL ANYONE SAY SOMETHING ?!? [ something helpful that is ]
5 months and nothing.......
SO an update in case someone actualy reads this.
IIS, Skype and any other program that might interfere , I turned off/on for testing (well what I know of at least). Also tested EasyPHP and WampServer incase it was the software but with same results. I tried Microsoft's own IIS package as well to see if thier own would work ( did not ). I even tried changing the hosts file as recomended in some forum sections with no change.


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Global College will coordinate, develop programs, services abroad
August 14, 2013
Elliott Peppers
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Lisle, Illinois ~ Companies, institutions and cities want to be global because it builds net worth and brand value internationally. However, globalism also means being able to service a need at home as well as abroad. Service should be the greater focus, which is why Benedictine University has grown nationally and internationally.
Responding to the desire to serve a need and not just a desire to be bigger, Benedictine University developed partnerships with universities in China more than a decade ago. University officials determined that the school's values-centered liberal arts education would be in high demand in China – a world export powerhouse and consumable goods juggernaut.
"Our international efforts in Asia have grown by developing 'deep partnerships' with major universities in China for jointly delivering graduate programs in business and more recently public health," said Donald B. Taylor, Ph.D., Benedictine's provost and vice president for Academic Affairs.
The University is constantly changing and adapting to meet the demand for quality, values-based academic programs at home and abroad. As a result, Benedictine is adding a sixth college to serve its growing overseas community.
Benedictine University's Global College will coordinate and develop its many programs and services abroad, including administration of master's programs in China and Vietnam and partnerships with colleges and universities throughout the world.
Benedictine recently received permission from the Ministry of Education (MOE) in China to begin offering its Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) program. The University has offered a Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Management Information Systems in China since 2004 and in Vietnam since 2009.
Nearly 20 Benedictine faculty recently trained, taught and studied with counterparts in China to assimilate the best of both cultures in their teaching methodologies. Prior to the trip, the group met biweekly during the spring semester as part of a China Studies Faculty Seminar that involved scholarly readings, discussions and presentations by faculty on topics related to China.
"During the China excursion, Benedictine faculty gave presentations, visited classes, engaged in dialogue with Chinese faculty in similar and related disciplines, and developed professional relationships for possible future collaboration," said Wilson Chen, Ph.D., an associate professor of Language and Literature at Benedictine and a seminar participant.
The visiting Benedictine faculty also created a digital blog (http://benufacultyblog.wordpress.com/) to document and create dialogue about the experience as well as interact locally and internationally with others.
Benedictine continues to expand its academic programs abroad and has branch campuses in Springfield, Ill., and Mesa, Ariz. – the first four-year Catholic university campus in Arizona.
Now Benedictine offers a Chinese (Mandarin) minor with a Chinese Culture track option. The Chinese Language minor will foster students' awareness of the increasingly global and multi-linguistic nature of society, allow them to connect specific issues in Chinese culture and history to current trends in Chinese society, and prepare them to communicate effectively in the context of another culture.
The University believes that students are better prepared for the global marketplace if they are able to blend their degrees with an in-demand language or a study abroad experience.
"Our students are wonderfully prepared in the sciences, education and the arts, but now they will have a very distinct advantage when they enter the workforce," said Benedictine University President William J. Carroll, Ph.D. "They will have the added benefit of assimilating the University's relationship with China into their own unique expertise."
"Imagine two recent business graduates applying for a job," Carroll said. "Both have the traditional preparation that studies in business provide. Both have similar grades and work experience. However, the Benedictine graduate has something extra: a significant exposure to China. As the world gets smaller and China continues to emerge as a major international player, Benedictine students' China experience will give them an added advantage in the search for jobs."
The minor will also allow students to explore more study abroad opportunities in China. The University has formed 14 partnerships with Chinese universities. Benedictine offers master's degrees in China and has approximately 1,000 alumni from these programs. In addition, a growing number of Chinese students are attending Benedictine and a reciprocal number of Benedictine students are traveling to China. Many of these U.S. students have received Chinese government scholarships to study in the country.
As student populations grow, so do college campuses. Higher education institutions need to weigh any expansions – domestic or abroad – under the same principles where expansion is a response to fulfilling a need and not simply the pursuit of public acclaim.
###Benedictine University is an independent Roman Catholic institution located in Lisle, Illinois just 25 miles west of Chicago, and has branch campuses in Springfield, Illinois and Mesa, Arizona. Founded in 1887, Benedictine provides 55 undergraduate majors and 17 graduate and four doctoral programs. Benedictine University is ranked No. 1 among the country's fastest-growing campuses between 2000-2010 in The Chronicle of Higher Education's list of private nonprofit research institutions, and Forbes magazine named Benedictine among "America's Top Colleges" for the third consecutive year in 2013. Benedictine University's Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program is listed by Crain's Chicago Business as the fifth largest in the Chicago area in 2012.


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More tests in Brecon Beacons soldier death probe
Further tests will be carried out concerning the deaths of two soldiers - including one who lived in London - during SAS selection training in the Brecon Beacons.
Edward John Maher and Lance Corporal Craig John Roberts collapsed on one of the hottest days of the year while climbing south Wales' highest mountain.
An inquest at Brecon Law Courts in Powys, mid Wales, gave the medical deaths of the pair as "unascertained".
Brecon reservist 'died in pursuit of his dream'
A reservist who died alongside a colleague during an assessment for the Territorial Army's SAS section on the hottest day of the year was pursuing his dream, his family said today. Lance Corporal Craig Roberts died during a military exercise in the Brecon Beacons on Saturday.
In a statement issued through the Ministry of Defence today, Mr Roberts's father Kelvin said:
Family of Brecon reservist 'devastated by loss'
The family of Lance Corporal Craig Roberts, who died during the selection process for the Territorial Army's SAS section, today said they are devastated at their loss, but he had died "in the pursuit of his dream".
School holds special assembly for Brecon teacher
Staff and students at the school in which a reservist, who died over the weekend during a Territorial army assessment, have held a special assembly in memory of Lance Corporal Craig Roberts.
In a statement, Trinity College in Lewisham said:
Military to support parents of Brecon Beacons reservist
The parents of a south east London reservist who died alongside a colleague during an assessment for the Territorial Army's section of the SAS at the weekend, have paid tribute to him today.
Lance Corporal Craig Roberts' parents Kelvin and Margaret were said to be heartbroken at their son's death. Mr Roberts told the Daily Mail:
Tributes paid to soldier who died in Brecon Beacons
Tributes have poured in for part-time soldier Lance Corporal Craig Roberts from Lewisham described as a "true gentleman" who died during a military training exercise on one of the hottest days of the year.
Friends of Mr Roberts, a maths teacher originally from Penrhyn Bay near Llandudno in North Wales, took to social media to pay homage to a man described as a "caring, genuine guy".
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MoD names soldier who died training in Brecon Beacons
Training pushes soldiers 'to the edge of their endurance'
James Hopkinson, a former instructor at the Infantry Battle School in Brecon, has described the challenging conditions that the two soldiers who died would have been up against.
He said that military exercises in the Brecon Beacons were designed to push soldiers "to the edge of their endurance," but that measures would "undoubtedly" have been put in place to mitigate the effects of the hot weather.
He added that while the exact circumstances of the deaths remain unclear, such endurance training is needed to make the British Army "the best in the world".
Brecon soldier named as Lewisham maths teacher
One of the Territorial Army soldiers who died on the Brecon Beacons on Saturday was a Maths teacher from Lewisham.
Lance Corporal Craig Roberts was taking part in a military training exercise, believed to be part of selection for the TA's section of the SAS.
Gang tried to make bomb from terror manual
The Luton terrorist group were trying to make an an improvised explosive device (IED) based on instructions in an al Qaida manual entitled "Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom - by the al Qaida chef", the court was told.
Covert recordings of the pair heard Iqbal suggesting attaching the bomb to a remote controlled toy car and sending it under the gap of a gate to a Territorial Army (TA) centre in Luton.
The men were arrested following a series of raids at their homes in April last year after an intelligence-led joint operation by the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command and the British Security Service (BSS).


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Sweden's Borg Says U.K. Is Better Off Inside EU
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg warned that the U.K. needs to realize that leaving the European Union could fatally weaken its influence on global finance. Mr. Borg said Sweden was concerned about talk of an exit in an interview with Dow Jones's Geoffrey Smith.
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In the past, we tended to speed through this somewhat rustic burg in southern Vermont on our way to Okemo Mountain Resort. No doubt, Okemo, the popular ski resort, was — and still is — the main attraction in this hard-working area. But, in recent years, Ludlow's gotten bigger and better, with a sprawl of new restaurants and shops and a laid-back, friendly, outdoorsy vibe. Today, this 150-year-old mountain town is worth more than a mere pass-through.
Step into the Governor's Inn (86 Main St., 802-228-8830, www.thegovernorsinn.com, $159-$299) and you're immediately transported to a bygone era of Victorian elegance and charm. A pair of splendid fireplaces flanks the front parlor, and rooms, full of lace, lush bed linens, and ornate furniture, offer a comfy oasis. The rambling, old-fashioned Echo Lake Inn (2 Dublin Road, 800-356-6844, www.echolakeinn.com, $189-$279), about 10 minutes from downtown, has a slew of room styles, from nest-like, single bedrooms to condos, most filled with antiques (think cast iron beds and chenille spreads). The inn's cozy, award-winning dining room is a longtime favorite, and the downstairs tavern, with stone walls, bar, and pool table, is a fun place to hang out. If you're looking for simple, value-packed lodging, you won't go wrong with the family-owned Timber Inn Motel (112 Route 103 South, 802-228-8666, www.timberinnmotel.com, most rooms $89-$159), with ultra clean, knotty pine-paneled rooms, an outdoor hot tub, and ski shuttle bus stop right out your door.
It's no wonder The Downtown Grocery (41 South Depot St., 802-228-7566, www.the
downtowngrocery.com, $14-$34) has created such a stir. This lively bistro, grounded in a farm-to-table, head-to-tail ethos, serves shockingly good dishes, such as the house-made braised duck ravioli with Vermont marscapone cheese, pheasant cassoulet, and crispy pork trotter (but only if a fresh pig was delivered that day). If you're craving red meat, head to Sam's Steakhouse (91 Route 103, 802-228-2087, www.samsteak.com, $14-$45), with a classic menu of steaks and chops, and a huge salad bar. The something-for-everyone menu, big portions, and reasonable prices
draw a loyal following to DJ's (146 Main St., 802-228-5374, $16.95-$23.95), despite its somewhat dreary, throwback atmosphere. For hearty Italian fare, consider Bella Luna (68 Route 100, 802-228-6666, $13.95-$17.95), offering unsurprising but tasty dishes, like their homemade meat lasagna, pasta Bolognese and veal Parmesan. Join the locals for diner-style breakfast at The Hatchery (146 Main St., 802-228-2311, www.thehatcheryvt.com, $3.50-$11.50); if you're in a hurry to get to the slopes, you can't beat the $2.99 bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich to go. You'll find a hipper, coffeehouse ambience at Java Babas (57 Pond St., 802-228-7810, www.javababas.com, most sandwiches $6.95-$7.95), with breads, bagels, muffins, and house-made sandwiches, soups, and salads.
There are 650 acres of snow sliding terrain (119 trails and nine lifts) at Okemo Mountain Resort (77 Okemo Ridge Road, 802-228-4041, www.okemo.com). Don't ski or snowboard? Check out Okemo's Mountain Coaster ($13 driver, $9 rider), a twisting, stomach-lurching, roller-coaster-style ride through the woods; slide down the slopes at the resort's multi-lane Snow Tubing Park ($12 an hour), or take the two-hour Sawyer's Sweep Zipline Tour ($79). You can cover some ground in the backcountry on a speedy, guided ride with Snow Country Snowmobile (96 Winery Road, Proctorsville, 802-226-7529, www.snowcountryvt.com, $75 an hour, $25 passenger). It's worth spending a few hours in town browsing shops, like the Wine & Cheese Depot (46 Depot St., 802-228-4128, www.thewineandcheesedepot.com), with weekly wine and everyday cheese tastings, and a smart selection of more than 500 wine labels, and the Depot Street Gallery (44 Depot St., 802-228-4753), showcasing the works of more than 120 artists. Blue Sky Trading Co. (160 Main St., 802-228-2280, www.blueskyvt.com) is full of Vermont-made jewelry, soaps, syrups, trinkets, and T-shirts.
Some of the liveliest après-ski action takes place at Tom's Loft Tavern, right at the base of Okemo Mountain (300 Mountain Road, 802-228-5638). The loud, packed, come-as-you-are hole-in-the-wall is a great place to kick back and meet new friends, with a great selection of beer and surprisingly good bar food (don't miss the chicken wings, considered the best in Okemo Valley). You'll also find lots of local action at The Killarney (44 Pond St., 802-228-7797, www.killarneyvt.com), decorated nearly floor to ceiling with patches from police and fire departments across New England and beyond. The pub hosts open-mike and trivia nights and live bands playing original and traditional Irish music. Food is decent pub grub and Irish fare (burgers, meatloaf, bangers and mash, and shepherd's pie), and there's about 15 beers on tap and more than 30 bottle selections. For a really cool experience, take the Snowcat Groomer Ride ($39) at Okemo Mountain Resort. You'll ride a big 'cat as it claws its way up and down the dark slopes, stopping at the summit for a nighttime view across the valley. You can also combine a ride on a snowcat with a five-course dinner at Epic Restaurant ($125).Diane Bair and Pamela Wright can bereached at bairwright@


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Senseless act kills father of three
It was going to be a fantastic weekend. Gary and Lisa Naquin, married since 2001, together since 1997, had a surprise in store last Friday, Jan. 27, for their two boys, 11-year-old Tylor and 5-year-old Caden. Both had received straight A's on their report cards the week prior, and Gary wanted to do something special for them.
"He got off work early that day," said Lisa Naquin, 33. "We had rented a cabin at Boomtown and we were going to take them fishing. They've got a little place there to build a fire, so we were going to build a campfire and roast marshmallows. That was our reward to them."
The groceries had been bought, the fishing poles were in the back of the truck – which Gary had just bought a week earlier – and the boys had just been picked up from school Friday afternoon in Groves and the Naquins were headed to Boomtown in Rose City. Gary, 34, was driving his 2006 Dodge Ram, Tylor was sitting behind him and Lisa, who was in the passenger seat, and Caden was sitting behind her in the back seat when Gary merged onto US-69 northbound from Highway 73 westbound.
"We were joking around and talking about who was going to catch the biggest fish," Lisa said of the conversation in the truck just before their lives changed instantly.
Traveling in the left hand lane of the highway, where the speed limit is 70 mph, Gary's truck slammed into the back of a 2004 Freightliner truck operated by Kansas City Southern, which had slammed on its brakes after Zola Wilson's Hyundai Accent had come to an abrupt stop on a busy highway at 3:30 on a Friday afternoon.
Wilson would later tell police that she was upset after a "rock from the tire of the KCS truck hit her windshield and cracked it." According to a probable cause arrest warrant, Wilson stated that after the rock hit her windshield, she turned on her emergency flashers, passed the truck in the right-hand lane and then got "directly in front of the vehicle" the warrant states. Wilson then "applied her brakes in front of the KCS truck, almost coming to a complete stop. The driver of the KCS truck, due to Wilson abruptly applying her brakes, struck Wilson's vehicle, causing this three-vehicle major accident."
Attempts to reach Wilson, who was charged last Friday with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury, were unsuccessful as of Wednesday. However, Wilson, who is free on bond pending possible manslaughter charges after Gary Naquin died from his injuries Monday, was very combative when reached by phone at her home in Port Arthur Wednesday night.
"My attorney is talking to the press! Bye-Bye!" Wilson said before hanging up the phone and declining to give her attorney's name. When reached again by phone a few minutes later, the person answering, when asked for Wilson's attorney, altered his or her voice and said, "I don't know who you're talking about; I think you have the wrong number" and promptly hung up.


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Judge Rejects Shareholder Motion in Sprint-Clearwire Deal Case
A Delaware judge has ruled against a shareholder motion to move up the start of its lawsuit against Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp., according to people familiar with the ruling.
Delaware Chancellor Leo Strine Jr. rejected a "motion to expedite" the case that Crest Financial had sought at a hearing Thursday, the people said. The ruling was "fairly narrow," one person said, and Chancellor Strine told Crest it could refile the motion.
UPDATE: A spokesman for Crest said that "We're encouraged that the Court recognized the seriousness and validity of our lawsuit" and that the firm "intends to press forward."
Sprint reached a $2.2 billion agreement to buy the half of Clearwire it doesn't already own last month. Crest, which owns 8.3% of the class A Shares of Clearwire or 4% of the voting rights when Class B is included, is looking to stop the deal.
The issue at the hearing, which was closed to media, was when the trial would begin. Crest was seeking to start the trial in the middle of April, according to a court document. The fund said the earlier start date would allow its claims to be heard before the anticipated closing of Softbank Corp.'s purchase of Sprint, which was anticipated in mid-2013. Sprint expects to close its purchase of Clearwire later in 2013.


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Clomid — How Long is Too Long?
Posted on March 4, 2011
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For most women, the first line of medication defense will be a prescription for clomid, but many will find themselves taking this oral drug for months on end, without success. So, how do you know when to move on to other medications which might be more effective for you?
Dan Williams, M.D. of the Houston Fertility Institute addresses this issue in this short video.
This video is made possible by a grant from Attain Fertility® Centers, an IntegraMed Specialty and provider of the Attain® IVF Programs.


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But does nursing still hurt? That is my biggest concern....
Jack Newman has some videos of what he calls "good drinking." You can check those out, but remember all babies are different. http://www.nbci.ca/index.php?option=...id=6&Itemid=13
But I hesitate to have a mom decide her baby is not getting enough based entirely on her perception of the babies suckle and behavior. Swallows at this age can be very subtle and quiet. Many babies at this age nurse for 45 minutes or more, and/or appear "unsatisfied" after nursing. Many will take any supplements if offered, needed or not. Many will comfort nurse as part (or most) of a nursing session. The active suck/swallowing portion is only part of a normal feeding, typically it may come and go during a feeding as a mom may letdown more than once (and many moms never feel any letdown.) Behavior and what mom can observe at the breast are certainly clues, they can be important, but they often do not tell the whole story.
If baby is gaining at the breast and pooping enough at the breast, then baby is getting enough at the breast. If not, then baby is not, and in that case the 'best' first thing to do would be to have breastfeeding assessed by a lactation consultant and nurse more often if possible. Instead, what is usually done is baby is immediately put on supplemental feedings. If baby is being supplemented (with anything but particularly with formula) that will throw a whole other dimension into what is going on that will potentially mess with a baby's normal cues, feeding patterns, sleep patterns, and a moms milk supply and her confidence.
This does not mean to not supplement if baby needs it! But be sure baby needs it and how much (generally) is really needed. (And just because baby needed supplements last week does not mean baby needs them this week.) Be aware of how supplementing will change normal nursing behavior. It is important to be proactive about weaning off supplements when it is time, because otherwise, many moms find themselves falling down the more and more supplementation/less and less nursing at the breast rabbit hole.
In your first post, you asked:So I ask, what did the LC see that told her all was ok? Did she think baby was having difficulty transferring milk? And if so, what were her recommendations? And supplementing because baby needs supplements on a nutritional level is very different than giving supplements to quiet baby and get rest. I understand the impulse for the latter, but only the former would be considered necessary supplementing.Have I ruined everything by giving her formula to quieten her and get some rest? I have been to see a LC and she seems to think we will be ok but,
I would add to mommals suggestions breast compressions. http://www.nbci.ca/index.php?option=...tion&Itemid=17


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Posted 1.9.2013
The following archive recognizes Weatherhead School of Management alumni achievements. The notes included here date back to September 2012 to the current month and year. Submit an alumni note for yourself or for a fellow classmate by accessing the Alumni Update Form.
Class of 1965 Retired Senior Electrical Engineer of M K Ferguson Company, Henry Frank, MBA passed away in August, 2012. Class of 1985 Federal Reserve Banks' Financial Service Policy Committee (FSPC) Support Office, which works out of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, appointed Terrance (Terry) Roth to Senior Vice President. Roth brings 39 years of experience to his new role, including three years in the Financial Services Policy Committee Support Office, nine years in the Federal Reserve System's Retail Payments Office, and the balance of his career in the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's Marketing, Quality, Check, and Data Systems Support departments. Roth was named assistant vice president in 1989 and vice president in 1997. He was instrumental in designing the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's payments products and pricing strategies and in developing the Federal Reserve System's Check 21 product portfolio. Class of 1990 Christopher A. Coughlin, MBA was appointed Group President, Mobile & Process Industry of The Timken Co.
Greg Maluch, MBA was appointed Erie Shores Market President at FirstMerit Bank.
EMBA graduate Jeffrey Ponsky, MD has taken on a new role as the Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. An accomplished alumnus, surgeon and teacher, Dr. Ponsky will serve to broaden and strengthen relationships with alumni of the Medical School and develop opportunities to engage its global network of alumni as advocates, partners and philanthropic supporters.
Class of 1992 Mark Froimson, MD, EMBA, Quality Review Officer for the Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Health System, has been elected to the board of the Arthritis Foundation's Northeast Ohio Chapter. Dawn Minotas Gainer, who specializes in accounting for small businesses and income tax preparation for small businesses and individuals, started her own fir m called Minotas Financial Solutions. Class of 1993 Deborah Miller was appointed as Senior Advancement Officer at Baldwin Wallace University. Prior to this position, Miller was Director of Development at Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center for seven years. Class of 1994 Safeguard Properties named Sandy Opacich, MBA '04, vice president of human capital. Opacich is stepping into a newly created executive position, where she will handle talent acquisition, employee development, compensation, benefits and general human resources.
Opacich previously served Medical Mutual in Cleveland as director of human resources services and brings extensive experience from her time at LakeWest Group, where she served as executive vice president of human resources. Class of 1995 Ted Evans, MBA '95, was elected secretary of the Board of Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Northern Ohio Chapter. In addition, he was recently elected to the board of the Cleveland Zoological Society and to the board of Rainbows for All Children in Chicago. Evans is Director of Business Development at Newry Corp. Class of 1999 Michael Barnes, EDM has been named founding Dean of the School of Business and Economics at Tan Tao University, Vietnam. Class of 1998 David Bouffard, EMBA was promoted to Vice President, Public Relations at Sterling Jewelers, Inc. Class of 2001 Rose Abood, MBA was named Director of Marketing and Communications at Tucker Ellis.
Richard Simon, MBA was appointed Manager, Assurance Services for Schlabig & Associates LTD, a professional accounting firm.
Class of 2002 Innovia Films announced Dan Galovic, MBA as a new addition to lead its Americas Labels Team. Michael Brink, MBA was appointed to President of the Board of Trustees for the HELP Foundation, Inc., a non-profit social services agency that assists individuals with mental retardation and development disabilities in Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, and Summit counties. Michael is Counsel in the Cleveland office of Tucker Ellis LLP. Class of 2003 Brent M. Pietrafese, partner at Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP, was appointed Co-Chair, Board of PlayhouseSquare Partners. Dr. Patricia J. Mintz, DM '03, is the first editor of Leading Nonprofit Organizations (LNO), an online practitioner newsletter that serves a "how to" and "how to better" function for practicing leaders of nonprofits. LNO focuses on how to best lead nonprofits, and offers articles by DMs, PhDs, Master of Nonprofit (MNOs), Executive Directors of nonprofit organizations, as well as people in all areas of the nonprofit sector who are interested in an opportunity to communicate with their colleagues about leadership issues they deal with. LNO looks forward to a dynamic exchange of knowledge and expertise to address today's challenges in the nonprofit sector. As a practitioner-scholar, Dr. Mintz continues to engage in professional relationships with graduate students, faculty and alumni as a member of the DM Nonprofit Research Affinity Group. She is the principal strategic adviser for PJM & Associates and serves as a volunteer board member for three nonprofit organizations. Class of 2005 EMBA graduate Aram Nerpouni has been named Interim President of BioEnterprise. Class of 2007 Susan Pho Burnoski, MSACC was appointed Audit Manager for Apple Growth Partners. Jason Bogniard, MBA has been named Shareholder Principal of Apple Growth Partners, an accounting and business advisory firm in northeast Ohio. Class of 2008 Perry Stuckey, III, MPOD, currently vice president, global human resources for Eastman Chemical Company, will become senior vice president, chief human resources officer. Class of 2009 Western Reserve Partners LLC appointed Tom Creegan, MSACC as Associate. Class of 2010 MACC graduate Jill Malone has been named Customer Service Representative at Paytime Payroll Processing, a professional payroll service company. Class of 2012 Dawn Ellen Meyer, MSASS was named Vice President of Neighborhood Alliance.
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Voices from the Natick Veterans Oral History Project
Voices from the Natick Veterans Oral History Project
"The men I served with, guys who didn't survive, I wanted to keep their memory alive." - Jim Hastings, Marine Corps, during Vietnam War
"Every veteran has a different story to tell, and you can learn amazing things from them." - Viviana Cordoba, Army Reserve, during Iraq War
"We thought [the French] hated us. They love us." - Frank Rines Jr., Merchant Marine, during World War II
"Fifty years from now somebody could say "I remember Harry from way back" and they could check out what I did." - Harry Seaholm, Navy, during World War II and Korean War
"The most important thing . . . was it began a formal closure to what really was still pretty raw." - Connie Nippert Walsh, Navy Nurse Corps, during Vietnam War, with clown Emmett Kelly


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News, notes and quotes following the Raiders 24-7 loss to the Dallas Cowboys at Cowboys Stadium:
— "Stop, stop, boom."
That's how Raiders defensive tackle Tommy Kelly described an Oakland defense that spent the week working on preventing big plays, and then gave up a staggering 384 yards on 10 snaps against the Cowboys.
It all started when running back Tashard Choice, taking direct snap from center, found a hole up the middle and ran 66 yards in the first quarter.
The Cowboys had 195 yards on 25 carries with 144 of those coming on three plays _ the run by Choice, a 46-yard touchdown run by Felix Jones and a 32-yard run by Marion Barber.
In the passing game, Miles Austin caught 145 yards worth of passes on seven receptions, with a long of 49 yards. Tight end Jason Witten, playing at left than full speed with a foot sprain which nearly kept him out of the game, had five catches for 107 yards including a 44-yard reception and a 37-yard reception.
Cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha and Cowboys coach Wade Phillips seemed to be of the opinion that the Raiders man-to-man defense made things too easy for the Cowboys.
"We've had a few games like this year, people scheming us and finding big plays on us," free safety Michael Huff said. "I think once one comes, we start to think more and play outside our game, and then they hit us with another one and another one. I don't really know what it is. We'll watch film the next day and see what happened, but as its going on, we don't realize it."
Said Richard Seymour, who may as well have been reading from the same script from years past as Warren Sapp, said: "I think it all starts in practice, understanding where you're supposed to be, doing what you're supposed to do and taking care of your job. I can't take care of someone else's job and someone else can't take care of mine. Everybody has to take responsibility for their play on the field and we have to get better as a group."
— Read why the Thanksgiving Day loss was particularly galling to Raiders owner Al Davis in my column for Bay Area News Group-East Bay.
— On offense, the Raiders too a handful of shots downfield and came up with little, with most of the damage coming underneath and on shorter patterns. Not surprising, really, because the Raiders have not been a good deep throwing team all year and it's not what is best suited for starter Bruce Gradkowski.
"There were plays there to be made downfield and I didn't make them," Gradkowski said.
— The Raiders unveiled a new defensive wrinkle by starting Trevor Scott at weakside linebacker in place of Thomas Howard, although Howard played plenty as Scott played in different areas of the defense.
On some plays, Scott was designated as an "elephant" pass rusher, a term the 49ers used for Charles Haley when John Marshall was defensive coordinator with the 49ers.
Only twice, however, did Scott line up with his hand down like a defensive lineman.
"A few days ago they said they wanted me to start at (Will) this game so I was like, `all right, let's run with it,' " Scott said. "If it's an opportunity to get on the field, so be it. Some guys don't feel comfortable in a two-point stance, so if they stick with it, great."
Scott had five tackles, two sacks, three tackles for losses, three quarterback hurries and made a special teams tackle.
He also collided with Tyvon Branch pursing a Tony Romo deflection on a play which could have resulted in a touchdown return for Branch.
— Running back Darren McFadden had 43 yards on 14 carries and had a 16-yard catch out of the slot. It was the most snaps McFadden has seen split wide this season.
— Cornerback Chris Johnson remains a true believer.
"Once we get back to sound football and doing everything like we're supposed to, I still stick to my guns," Johnson said. I don't think there's a team that can actually beat us if we play sound football.
— The Raiders opened the game strong on the ground, with Justin Fargas gaining 52 yards on six carries in the first quarter and only " yards on six carries afterward. Michael Bush, after last week's fumble, was de-emphasized, with just eight yards on three carries.
— Darrius Heyward-Bey got his first touchdown on a 4-yard catch from Gradkowski, with his next step catching a deep ball. He added a 17-yard reception later in the game. He got solid reviews from his quarterback and Cable. He has nine receptions for 124 yards in 10 games.
— Punter Shane Lechler kicked nine times for a 54.8 average and 46.3 net and is currently at 51.9 for the season, ahead of Sammy Baugh's all-time mark of 51.4 set in 1940.
— More misery on kickoff returns _ Gary Russell replaced Jonathan Holland and had 15 yards on his only attempt, essentially stopping at a wall of defenders at the 17. Tony Stewart fielded a short kick for 11 yards.
— The Raiders overcame a 15-yard chop block penalty on Robert Gallery to persevere an score on their lone scoring drive, something they almost never do.
Gradkowski hit Murphy on a 23-yard pass to the 1, with Gallery's penalty pushing it back to the 13. Gradkowski had a 21-yard scramble which helped the Raiders make up some of the yardage.
— Defensive end Greg Ellis didn't finish the game because of swelling in his knee. He had just two tackles in his homecoming game.
"I don't know what happened. I just know swelling, a lot of pressure, going down my leg, going down my knee down my shin and my calf. I don't know if I did something during the game,'' Ellis said. "It started off swelling some but that's to be expected coming off the scope but when we started playing, it was just killing me.
"That's pretty much it. I don't have a lot of answers for it. Obviously I hate it, coming back to my ext-team and can't play the whole game. That's not good.''
Anthony Spencer, the player who replaced Ellis and has been under some heat because he came into the game with no sacks, had two of the Cowboys' three against Gradkowski. DeMarcus Ware had the other against Mario Henderson.
Ware generally got the better of Henderson all day, with four quarterback hurries.
Cornerback Tyvon Branch, who came up huge last week against Cincinnati, had just two tackles and a pass defensed. He also drew a stare from Johnson, who was expecting help inside, on a 6-yard pass from Romo to Roy Williams for a touchdown.


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I've never been a fan of The X Factor, but when I first heard that Britney Spears was joining the show as a judge I was like, sweet, they hired the wackiest chick in the entertainment biz. What'll Brit-Brit do? Shave her head? Hit the contestants with an umbrella? Flash her crotch, talk in an inexplicable British accent, and pound a bag of Cheetos while gyrating around with an albino python? My god, the options are endless! I AM TOTALLY GOING TO WATCH THAT CRAPPY-LOOKING SHOW SO HARD NOW!
Of course, she did none of these things, because this is the New Britney Spears. The well-behaved, vagina-covering, Purple-Drank-abstaining Britney Spears. The possibly heavily medicated Britney Spears.
Sadly for viewers, the new Britney Spears is … well, kind of boring. So boring, in fact, word on the street is that she's about to lose her X Factor gig. According to a source, producers are seriously pissed they paid her $15 million to "to say 'amazing' and offer half-claps."
No one's confirming anything yet, but I wouldn't be remotely surprised to see Britney get the boot. These singing competition shows can't seem to settle on long-term judges for anything, and maybe that's on purpose -- swapping out judges each season keeps viewers coming back just to see if the new faces add anything new to the increasingly tired format. Plus, the never-ending rumor-mongering creates free press for the shows. I mean, did you hear that an West African manatee is going to join American Idol? They're supposedly making a special tank and everything!*
(*Total bullshit. OR IS IT???)
Still, it's got to be way more fun when you have all the power in your contract negotiations because you're such a popular judge. In Britney's case, fellow judge and show co-creator Simon Cowell is reportedly more than a little disappointed in the blah Britney he hired, and plans to hand over her pink slip any day now.
Poor Britney, if this was supposed to be her big comeback it really didn't work in her favor. On the other hand, she pulled in $15 MILLION DOLLARS for one season's worth of sitting her non-crazy ass in a chair. Hello, winning. And while she may not be remembered for the energy she put into her judging, her facial expressions made history:
The girl has really put her best face forward – and by "best," we mean worst. She cringes, she pouts, she gasps, she stares vapidly, and she constantly makes duckface at the camera. But no look was more priceless than the face she made when it was revealed that Fifth Harmony beat out Emblem3 for a spot in the finale.
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February 10, 2009Bids Go Out For License Offices in Blue Springs, Grandview, O'Fallon, Sikeston, Springfield & Union; Helpful Alterations Made To Bidding Process
JEFFERSON CITY – In his continuing effort to make government more efficient and responsive, Gov. Jay Nixon today announced that the management of six more local license offices will be put up for bid and awarded to the person or group with the best management plan.
"Missourians are required to get their driver licenses, titles and license plates from the state," Gov. Nixon said. "We therefore have the responsibility to make sure the offices are being run to the best of their capabilities, and not awarded to someone just because they belong to a particular political party."
The six offices for which bid proposals were released this week are Blue Springs, Grandview, O'Fallon, Sikeston, Springfield (Glenstone Avenue location) and Union.
Once a bid proposal has been made public by the state's Office of Administration (OA), bidders will have five weeks to submit a plan that details how the office will be managed. Criteria such as customer service, financial stability, employee qualifications and office security/accessibility are just some of the parameters that the Department of Revenue will evaluate.
Karen King Mitchell, director of the Department of Revenue, also announced that some alterations have been made to the bidding process to accommodate prospective bidders. The first change involves the line of credit that bidders must obtain to prove their financial viability. The new line of credit has been reduced from 50 percent of an office's annual estimated processing fees to 25 percent.
The other change to the process is that many of the current license offices will be available for tours by prospective bidders. This change will allow bidders to get a better feel for how an office is run and should help them prepare their proposals. Current fee agents can't be required to offer a tour of their facilities since most of the offices are on private property. However, most agents are accommodating the request.
"It is not unusual to make small changes as the bidding process progresses," Mitchell said. "Our hope is that we will receive better bids and, in return, better service for future customers."
The line of credit change is in effect for the bids released this week, all future bids and all of the bid proposals released prior to this week. Tours will be attempted to be held at as many of the local license offices as possible.
Copies of the Request for Proposals (RFPs) that bidders will use to submit their proposals can be viewed at https://www.moolb.mo.gov/. To review an RFP, select "Guest" on the home page, click on "Open Bids By Agency," and then scroll through the list of bids until you locate the appropriate one. (Bid numbers for this week's offices are listed below.) Additional information regarding the bidding of license offices can be obtained at http://oa.mo.gov/purch/vendorinfo/DORoffices.pdf or by calling OA at (573) 751-2387.
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|5 out of 10 : Below Average
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|2009-08-20, 02:39
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阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv168
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Belgium, Brussels
Age: 32
The following red truths are from the VN that were used in the anime, but since I can't exactly bring a pin point accurate translation to these, I will just leave notes to mention if there was any change or not.
-when I speak the truth, I will use red. (different in the anime)
-Regardless of whether they were living or dead, the six people definitely entered through the door. (very slight variation)
-Only one key to the chapel exists (exactly the same)
-It is impossible to unlock the lock to the chapel without the chapel's key (they added something)
-That which was inside the envelope I entrusted Maria with, was definitely the key to the chapel (exactly the same)
They skipped the following red statements:
-When the door to the chapel is locked, it prevents any and all methods of entry or exit
-Six people definitely entered through 'this front door'
-This morning, Rosa definitely took an envelope out of Maria's handbag, and thereby obtained the genuine key to the chapel
-The letter that I handed over to Maria and the one Rosa opened are the same thing
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|2009-08-20, 03:50
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 33
Found a decent RAW.
The Bad:
1. They cut out a a good chunk of the conversation with Beatrice, Jessica and Kanon. Well... those scenes really helped define Kanon and Jessica for this arc at least so it sucks they cut it out.
2. Some of the animations were horrible. Maria's creepy faces looked completely out of perspective. They probably blew the episode's budget on Kanon fighting the goats.
The Good:
1. I don't really mind Asmo's voice, mostly because Yui Hirasawa is the goddess of rock. Actually the high pitch voice may complement the flirtatious nature of Lust. In contrast, I think Satan sounds perfect for her role. Not too extreme but controlled enough for said Wrath.
2. I don't exactly mind that Dread of the Grave wasn't on. There are more and greater chances for it to be played out there.
3. Some of the animations were great especially during the fight scenes. The problem of course was when everything else suffered some from the budget blowout.
More comments later when I see subs.
|2009-08-20, 05:23
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Join Date: Apr 2009
I was quite impatient to see the red text so I watched raw and it seems they chosed the least interesting way to put in red text. Really I was hoping for something more interesting. I will wait till subtitles come out and they I will post what was my idea.
Battle scene was quite nice, but overall less interesting than in VN. What really pissed me is that they left out room full of golden butterflies that try to suffocate Jessica - instead they made absolutely unncessary battle with horde of goats that are actualy looking worse than in novel. Argument that anime art is better looking than VN art fails hard in this case).
I must say that Studio Deen have no artistic taste at all.
They should finally burn down before they ruin another franchise with stupid adaptation.
I am voting for Bad - As a standalone anime episode this could be better than average, but as an adaptation its really painful to look at.
|2009-08-20, 06:56
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Join Date: Nov 2007
I'm rather disappointed in the first twilight. The impression the game gave me had a lot more colors in my mind, and a lot more decorations. This one didn't look nearly as impressive or complicated enough for Beato to pull off. It looks like anyone could have slapped this one together, but I was imagining something more elaborate.
|2009-08-20, 07:07
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
Wow! This may be a minor change of wordings but it causes a very big difference in the kind of counter argument you can make.
This red truth prevents any possibility for any method that could open the door, instead of simply any other key.
But I guess you could still stubbornly imagine that a mechanism that "locks" the lock could still exist XD, unless the japanese text implies that as well.
|2009-08-20, 07:37
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Belgium, Brussels
Age: 32
Errr, it was always like that in the VN.
The list of red I've put are from the VN, but these aren't exactlyt the same in the anime, hence the notes. I didn't translate them since I'm really not good with detail and accurate translation, better people like chrono or rias that should translate it more accurately.
The red you quoted should have 1-2 extra detail, for your instance.
*sigh* sorry for the confusion, going to edit a bit my post as result
|2009-08-20, 07:44
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
Lol I've just confronted with my notes and that part only said that there isn't any other "key" that can open that door XD
So I thought your quote were from the anime. Nevermind then. Apparently I have another translation of those red truths. I should update them...
|2009-08-20, 08:31
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: France
Age: 28
Watched the raw.
The bad :
- Pretty lame animation sometimes.
- As always, lack of horror feel. The characters cry a bit, and then they are all calm (Rosa mostly, I miss the throw up scene, not that I thought it was going to be in the anime though).
- Still felt quite rushed. I also have the feeling that there was quite a lot of small changes.
- Didn't like the goat fight scene. The duel in the VN was better, and I didn't like how they just disappear into golden butterfly, it feels like Kanon is just cutting into butter. They really look weak.
- Battler/Beatrice mind fight really lacked impact because of : weak soundtrack and cheap animation. This still shot with Battler pointing is finger while Beato is talking was lame. Also, Battler wasn't cool as he should have been during is objection-pointing poses.
The good :
- The first twilight scene looks good, maybe not as colorful as I imagined it. I hope there will be a raw without censorship.
- The first Meta world scene was fine.
- Stakes! No problem with their voices for me. The jumping Asmodeus was good, I guess that's the best Deen can do with fight scenes (*sight*). The SpinSatan was weird. But why did they change the stake's apparition between the preview and the actual episode? It was far better in the preview :
Left : preview. Right : episode.
- The scene with Kanon and Jessica lying on the ground was by far the best scene in this episode, if not in the entire serie. It was really well done. Their faces were really expressive (and it's not really common in the Umineko anime).
- Red text is nicely done.
Conclusion :
Not really satisfied with this episode. The subbed version usually makes me less negative, but I don't think this episode will get better than a 7.
|2009-08-20, 08:49
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
they might leave that in the DVD but i think the reason is simple, the actual episode shows more skin than the preview.
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Rokkenjima stage
|2009-08-20, 13:42
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Germany
Age: 27
Gave it a 6/10... sad scene with Kanon x Jessica, but that was about the only thing I liked - and I liked it only because it was such a hint. The two girls are cute... but that's all. The murder was boring... would have wanted more of it. And I hate censor <.< all in all, not that much to my liking..
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When my wife and I had kids, people always told us how you would be amazed how quickly boys gravitate towards mom and girls do the same with dad. Yeah right, I thought, I work in sports for a living, my son's gonna love me.
He does, but he will kick dirt on my shoes and shove me out of his way to get to his mom. Grrr.
Fortunately, since day one, my daughter's really been a daddy's girl. Maybe it's because my schedule is/was flexible enough that it was always me driving her to ballet or gymnastics or soccer. Before her little brother was born, we'd probably spend at least one Saturday or Sunday a month going to the movies together or a zoo while mommy cooled her jets.
But a couple of weeks ago, she turned seven. She's getting to be more girl by the day. Not in a bad way, but in a way that sort of shuts me out more than I'd care to. It reminds my of a column I wrote about a year ago, just before she started kindergarten.
We have this connection, one that will never go away, but one that is changing. Enjoy.
So my daughter starts kindergarten tomorrow. Chances are pretty good, someone in my house is going to be a blubberin' mess. Maybe not "Hey, dad, are you ready to walk me down the aisle?" blubberin' mess, but probably not too far off.
What's that got to do with sports? Not a whole heck of a lot really, but you've got to remember, this kid's been through the grinder with me.
A few years ago, I was fortunate to have a flexible enough schedule that she was able to go to a lot of events with me. Most weeks in the fall went like this: Girls soccer game on Monday, cross country or field hockey on Tuesday, boys soccer on Wednesday, home Thursday, football on Friday. Other than football, she was with me more than half of the time.
I'd set up my chair behind the goal of the old Danville soccer field, dump out a pile of coloring books and toys and it was game on, for both of us. I would sit and watch the game, she would use markers to make her legs look like rainbows.
On good days the coach's daughter would come, too. They'd color, talk about life, you know, typical two-year old stuff. Eventually my wife would show up and take her home. I would get yelled at because my kid had 23 different colors on her legs.
Good parent: "You were watching, right?"
Ambivalent parent: "Watching? Watching what? Oh, yeah, I told her to stop."
That was just the fall. We didn't do too much in the winter because the games started too late, but the spring, it was more strollers and backpacks and snacks and baseball and track.
Oh, we love track. At the age of two, she wanted nothing more than to be the best long jumper in the world, not a realistic goal when you're in the 15th percentile in height. When we would come home, she would run in the grass as fast as she could and leap, landing a record-breaking 2 feet, 3 inches away.
She and Danville track coach Jeff Brandt were practically on a first-name basis. If I showed up without her, I would get questioned.
This routine went on for a couple of years until I got my current gig. It was in another town, really put a crimp into our style, but it paid the bills.
So we had to find other interests. If there is a bigger five-year old — sorry, five-and-a-half-year-old — Bucknell basketball fan in the world, I have yet to meet them. She's got a foam finger, a floating rubber ducky that looks like a basketball and says "Bucknell" on the front of it, a Bucknell T-shirt that almost fits me.
She begs and begs and begs to go to each game. She goes a couple of times a year, which is enough. She got to see Richmond two years ago and now, every time we make the drive on 15 to Lewisburg, she asks if we're going to see the "Richmond Spiders."
Every. Single. Time.
I don't think it's the basketball though. Just ask her why she likes Bucknell hoops and if the first word out of her mouth isn't "popcorn" it's probably "nachos."
But hey, it's father-daughter time, which is about to get cut in a big-time way. She's starting to get "girl" interests, which don't necessarily translate into "daddy" interests. I went to close her blinds the other day and stepped on four Barbies on the way to the window, which makes me wonder if my four-month old son will ever know about G.I. Joe or He-Man, or will they end up clad in pink, too? I sit down to watch the Phillies for five minutes and it's "Dad, can you put on Strawberry Shortcake for me?"
I do, because I love her. And five minutes from now, she'll be heading off to college.