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While we recognize that it is almost impossible to please everybody all the time, we strive to meet our responsibilities and well beyond. Below are a few comments from our authors.
- Thank you for going the extra distance on my project. I feel very fortunate to have individuals such as yourselves helping me. — James (Taylor)
- The editors did an amazing job cleaning up my text! I went through your list and made those changes (while enjoying your jokes) and then read through the whole thing again and cleaned it up some more. I especially appreciated the improvements to the X chapter. I’m extremely thankful for the work done; you really did roll up your sleeves on it.Thank you so much for the excellent comments, suggestions, and editing work! – Tom (Donovan)
- Regarding your question about why I would want to go it alone, the answer is simple. While there are several reasons [. . .], perhaps the biggest motivator is that I don't like you. Let me be clear - I don't mean "you" in the abstract sense. I mean "you" as in Martin DeMers specifically. My experience working with you was often filled with combative vitriol. I remember your communicative style to be unsupportive and very acerbic. For all of these reasons and more, I deeply regret not taking the option given to me [by you] a few years ago to back out of our agreement.
Since publication, I have been approached by at least one other author asking about my experience with Algora, and I was very honest with him. As you would likely surmise, it wasn't a flattering opinion. I can't imagine that changing anytime soon. — Jeremy Joseph Dyken
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- I am working round the clock to give a final shape to the manuscript. While it was almost in a ready stage, going through your author guidelines, I have had to make considerable changes. In line with one of your statements '.. don't give opinions, prove it' I had to take many of my chapters back to the drawing board and the process actually led me to some different conclusions. It was an excellent brief.
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The Case for the Living Wage, and Minimum Wage Policy in Great Britain and the United States
July 22. 2008
Dear Sir or Madam:
I accept with equanimity your editor's rejection of my manuscript. I must, however, confess to some discomfit by your editor's handwritten remarks. Over the years, I have been accused of being many things, most often a "do-gooder," a communist or a socialist. I have never before been accused of "dilettantism."
If to avoid that epithet, one must be employed as an academic who teaches a narrow academic speciality - "Algora concentrates on analytical, academic-type manuscripts, mainly in the area of political, economic and social history" ( see rejection notice attached) - then Algora is, in fact, elitist in the worst sense of that word and the editor's use of the pejorative noun "dilettantism" is profoundly condescending. The suggestion that academics - because they are not "dilettantes" - are better equipped to address issues of history, philosophy or politics is inimical to the core concepts of democracy and an informed citizenry. The suggestion is also indefensibly anti-intellectual because it implies that the possession of a particular set of credentials or a proven-track record of publication, no matter how abysmal, esoteric or incomprehensible, are more important than the quality of ideas.
Based upon your acquisition editor's subjective criteria as to what constitutes a serious work of scholarship, as opposed to a work which reflects the efforts of a dilettante, most prominent thinkers before the nineteenth century - since few were employed as full-time academics - would also have to been dismissed as dilettantes.
The inability to make serious distinctions, linguistically and intellectually, is further evidence that, in academia and in the media as well as in American popular culture, the numbers' crunchers, measurement people and behaviorists - all of whom are temperamentally "small idea" people too timid to ask the larger questions about politics and the human condition - remain dominant today.
Their continued ascendancy, as I argue in my manuscript, is inversely correlated to this culture's continued vitality.
Very truly yours,
[...] On another note, you are the best publishing house I have dealt with so far. You are also an excellent team. The quality of the works you put out and the details you pay attention to make your product way above everyone else's. The accolades we received, among others, in the most prestigious Cambridge University published Journal of African History is, to a large degree, due to the professional excellence of the Algora team.
Thanks again and best regards,
The Battle of Adwa
- I must admit that I am surprised at how fast, efficient and responsive your press is. I approve of everything, I could not ask for more. I hope we may do business with many more of my projects in the future.
Good job, you guys were very easy to work with compared to others I have experienced.
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- Thanks for the nice, personal reply. Sorry you did not accept the book but you show a lot of class by the type of reply you sent. Good luck in the future. N. C.
I would like to know if you would like to publish a book with the thesis that is: the present world intenational (sic), industrial, monetary, military, nation state, entrepeneur world social order should be dismantled and a world communal social order, Joint World Tenancy (JWT) should be installed ?
What I mean to say is would you ? Thank you, P. A. B.
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Have you not been waiting for it? I bet you have. We are glad to be able to bring you another freebie, the team of Freepik, our friends from sunny Spain, put together exclusively for you, Noupe’s dear readers. Today we have 250 symbols compiled in an “Ultimate World Monuments Icons Pack” for you to download. All these little icons represent well-known monuments from somewhere around the world. They are completely vector-based and you can use them freely for any type of project, but you can only get them here (and our sis Dr. Web)…
250 Ultimate World Monuments Icons Pack: 250 Great Places as PNG, AI, EPS, PSD and SVG
Don’t tell me you don’t know Freepik. We have had them on our and therefore your radar quite frequently already. Just check out the articles under “Related Links” below this post. It is merely two months ago, that we were able to share another exclusive with you, Freepik’s Flat Icon Set with 200 pictograms.
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Today’s 250 icons are very special and don’t represent the average icon bundle in any way. The 7,9 mb heavy download package in ZIP format contains all icons as PNGs in three different sizes. You’ll find PNGs with full transparency in 32, 64 and 128 pixels squared. In addition to that, you’ll also find the raw design files in not only AI and EPS, but also in PSD and SVG formats. These are completely unrestricted, you’ll only have to ungroup some of the vectors in Adobe Illustrator to be able to play around with the full source. Create to where your creativity leads you. Most obviously you are able to make the icons available in any size you need that way.
The Whole Set
Our 250 monuments pack represents famous buildings and places from around the world. There are not only the usual suspects such as the Statue of Liberty or the White House. Freepik literally roamed the world to bring you monuments from Indonesia, China, Europe, South Africa, India, Russia or Japan – just to name a few. This pack is a must-have for any backpacker or other globe-trotter out there, not to speak of those designers on international missions.
The licensing will not surprise you. You are allowed to use the icons for private and commercial purposes alike. You are not allowed to redistribute the set from third-party websites. And you are not allowed to claim copyright or even imply you are the creator. But that should be simple rules of fair play and as such self-evident.
That said: Have fun with our 250 Ultimate World Monuments Icon Pack by Freepik…
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- The nice guys from Spain who created the set | Freepik
- Exclusive Freebie for Noupe’s Readers: 500 Icons in our Freepik Web Mega Bundle | Noupe Magazine
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We are more match fit, say Mariners
The Central Coast Mariners have ramped up the mind games ahead of Sunday's sell-out A-League grand final, suggesting their high-flying opponents from western Sydney might be underdone.
While the Mariners have battled through a frantic close to their season, complicated by Asian Champions League (ACL) fixtures, Tony Popovic's Western Sydney Wanderers have had plenty of time to rest and contemplate the fairytale of winning the league title in their debut season.
But the Mariners insist this might work against the Wanderers.
"They have played only one game in 22 days," said Mariners coach Graham Arnold, referring to the Sydney team's 2-0 preliminary final win over Brisbane Roar.
"Footballers like routine. They like playing regularly. So hopefully we will go in much more match-hardened."
If the Mariners do break their grand final hoodoo and win on Sunday, there will be no time for celebrations.
They fly to South Korea on Monday morning for an ACL match the following night, an indication of the sort of hectic schedule the Wanderers might face next season.
But the Mariners have mind games of their own to win in the meantime.
They face jibes that they are "chokers" who have lost all three of their previous A-League grand finals, including the "unloseable" decider two years ago when they surrendered a two-goal lead at the death.
They dismiss any suggestion this has placed a monkey on their back.
"People talk about the past three grand final (losses) but we can't do anything about them," Arnold said as the Mariners trained in front of hundreds of their supporters at Tuggerah on Thursday.
"We are fresh and motivated, and as long as we execute our game plan we will be fine."
Midfielder Oliver Bozanic said the so-called hoodoo "doesn't mean anything to us".
"You have to move on," said Bozanic, who scored one of his team's goals in that nightmare grand final loss to Brisbane Roar.
"I have good memories of us scoring a couple of goals, and bad memories of us losing. They are memories I don't want to repeat again this week. We're going to win."
Bozanic, Australia's under-23 captain, might well be given a starting role due to the absence of the suspended Nick Montgomery, the Mariners only casualty.
But Arnold could also turn to promising Anthony Caceres or Trent Sainsbury.
One thing most observers agree on is that the grand final pits the season's best two teams against each other - and the best two defences.
Arnold doesn't want a penalty shoot-out to decide it but, just in case, he had his players practicing spot kicks in front of an enthusiastic crowd on the Mariners fans day to replicate a big match atmosphere.
"You have to be prepared for every what-if scenario and any eventuality," said Arnold, who will be looking to players like Michael McGlinchey and Bernie Ibini to provide plenty of punch up front.
He said the way his players survived the club's recent financial crisis, before new owner Mike Charlesworth stepped in and saved the day, showed their mental strength and toughness.
"I've got huge belief in this group. They can handle anything," he said.
"We came through with flying colours. The players have mortgages, and bills, and kids to feed, but while we weren't getting paid we still won two games in a row.
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April Pools Day
April Pools Day is an annual event whereby children and families may go to a local pool and learn valuable water safety skills and knowledge. A variety of water activities and games make this event non-stop fun for everyone!
April Pools Day is Saturday, April 16, 2016. Some pools may hold their April Pools Day event on a different day. See a list of over 20 participating pools (PDF).
Learn more about April Pools Day planning and promotion.
Low-Cost Life Jacket Sale at Green Lake
Have fun and be safe around the water. Come to Green Lake in Seattle for custom-fit life jackets for the whole family. This program is in partnership with Seattle Children's, Seattle Parks and Recreation, Coast Guard Auxiliary and Mustang Survival.
- When: Saturdays May 21, June 18, July 16 and August 20, 2016, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- May–July: Outside Green Lake Pool, 7201 E Green Lake Dr. N, Seattle, WA 98115
- August: Green Lake Summer Splash Event, Small Craft Center, 5900 W Green Lake Wy. N, Seattle, WA 98103
- Cost: $20 for infant, child and youth, $30 for adult sizes
- Sizes available: infant to adult. The person for whom the jacket is being purchased must be present for proper fitting. Children must be at least 6 months old and 18 pounds to be fit.
- For more information, call Seattle Parks’ David Belanger at 206-684-4961 or email him.
This statewide water safety event is for families, children and all those that want to be safe and prepared when at beaches and outdoor water facilities and on open water. Whereas April Pools Day is for swimming pool facilities, Summer Splash-Tacular is for outdoor water facilities.
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Dr. Ronald M. Evans is known for his discovery of the superfamily
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and metabolic pathway in animals and humans. It has provided
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the unexpected existence of a nuclear receptor superfamily.
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hormone response. The unexpected discovery of the so-called "orphan"
receptors opened up new areas of physiology resulting in the
identification of the first orphan ligands, many of which are
simple metabolic products of common dietary lipids such as cholesterol
and free fatty acids. These discoveries have led to a series
of new drugs for diseases such as cancer, obesity, hypertension,
diabetes, and atherosclerosis.
Dr. Evans has received numerous awards, most recently: the
Fred Koch Award from the Society for Endocrinology (1999), the
First Bristol-Myers Squibb Award in Metabolic Research (2000),
City of Medicine Award from Duke University (2002), the March
of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology, the General Motors Cancer
Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Medal, the Keio Medical Science
Prize (2003), the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
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Re: Da Book Recommendations Thread inda Houze..
|Originally posted by TranceGiant |
Sorry for the Ali G. accent.
Anyway, inspired by Nadi's desire for good Nietzsche stuff I had the idea of opening a thread where all of you Intellectuals could share and reommend books which you consider special and unique, books that have had a great impact on you and that helped shaping certain attitudes of yours and your world view in general.
So.....what are in your opnion must-reads in the fields of politics, economy, arts and culture, philosopy etc....You can name novels, too!
Without any hesitation, THE best book I have ever read is Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson by George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, a mystical man. This a unique book about philosophy, esotericism and religion.
His task is "to destroy, mercilessly and without any compromise whatever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world".
"And so, cheerful and swaggering candidate for a buyer of my "wiseacrings," having warned you that I am going to write not as professional writers usually do but quite otherwise, I advise you to reflect seriously before you embark on reading my further expositions, and only then to undertake it.
Otherwise, I am afraid that your hearing and other perceptive as well as digestive organs may be so thoroughly automatized to the "literary language of the intelligentsia" prevailing at the present time on Earth that these writings of mine might affect you very, very cacophonously, and thereby you might lose . . . do you know what? . . . your appetite for your favorite dish, and that special psychic feature of yours which particularly "titillates your vitals" on catching sight of your neighbor, the brunette.
That my language, or rather the form of my mentation, can produce such an effect I am, thanks to repeated past experiences, as much convinced with my whole being as a "thoroughbred donkey" is convinced of the rightness and justice of his obstinacy".
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Its official , Saturday 31st March 2012, Australian nationwide mobile photography photo walk & Canberra photo walk
Calling ALL Australian photographers. At 7am (AEDT) there will be an official Google+ photo walk in capital city, and some regional cities all over Australia. The event will receive national coverage from Channel7′s Weekend Sunrise program and will feature every half hour photo’s that we have taken. The nation wide walk will officially finish at the end of the Weekend Sunrise program at 10am (AEDT).
Canberra route and details coming soon – check back here closer to the event.
I encourage everyone to take their mobile phone cameras with them and post the photos to their Google+ streams using the hash tag #TheWalkDownunder
Not on Google + then visit https://plus.google.com/up/start/ and sign up
The following link is your link to register for the walks
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What is catalytic hydrogenation?
Catalytic hydrogenation refers to the process in which petroleum fractions can be hydrogenated with the help of the hydrorefining catalysts. Catalytic hydrogenation can be classified into three categories.
1) Hydrorefining. The feedstocks can be from gasoline to crude oil. The process purpose is to remove sulfur, nitrogen and oxygen contained in their compounds to improve the quality of the oil products. As for the oil products from secondary processes olefins can be saturated and the aromatics can be hydrogenated. Heavy metals acting as poisons can be removed from the catalytic reforming stock. Therefore the catalytic reforming catalysts can be protected from being poisoned. The hydrorefined oil products are not only good in quality, but also high in yields.
2) Hydrocracking process. Most of heavy distillate oils including FCC recycle oil and coker distillates are used as feedstocks. The final products from this process include gasoline, jet fuel, diesel oil to isopentane and isohexane.
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I am a huge Twilight fan but didn't really care for Breaking Dawn. This story begins where Eclipse leaves off, with Edward and Bella still together as vampire and human. This story is both romantic and suspenseful, full of twists and even a new vampire clan threatening the Cullen's way of life. What would happen if Bella hadn't become a vampire yet? There's only one way to find out!
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“Sorry Bella,” Alice said apologetically. “I should have seen him coming.”
I could feel Edward’s eyes on me but I couldn’t look. The room was so quiet you could hear the tension.
“Um, well, I guess I will leave you two alone. You have lots to talk about.” You could hear the awkwardness in Alice’s voice. “Ok, well, I will see you later then.”
I could see Edward out of the corner of my eye, leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. When I finally got the courage to look up at his face, I couldn’t tell from his expression what he was thinking, what he read in Alice’s mind, or what all he knew.
With one eyebrow raised, he finally spoke, “Evidently it appears we have something to talk about. May I sit and join you?” His voice and demeanor were very calm. He walked across the room slowly and sat down next to me on the pink, furry couch Alice had in her room.
“Yes we do, but first let me ask you, what are you doing back so soon? Did you pretend to go out hunting just so you could spy on me?”
“Is that what you think I was doing?” He looked hurt. “Bella, I have far too much respect for you to do that. I admit, in the past, that I may have overstepped my bounds from time to time but that was only when I thought you were in danger. I would never intentionally disrespect your privacy unless it was to protect you.”
“Then why are you back so soon?” I wanted to believe what he was saying but what other reason could there be?
“I came back because of something Alice was thinking. I was seeing some of her visions, something I have been trying to do for the past day or so but she has been blocking me out. I was seeing you fade in and out of them and it frightened me. When I saw you one minute and then you were gone the next, I had to come back to be sure you were ok.”
“OK, sorry I jumped to conclusions. But how come all of a sudden you were able to see what Alice was thinking again?”
“I can always get in Alice’s head, Bella, but she has a very clever way of blocking things out of her mind. Whenever she sensed I was trying to read her, and with her gift she always knows when I am going to try, she would mentally start singing When the Saints Come Marching In. After a while I would give up because I couldn’t bear to hear it anymore. It was quite irritating. Anyway, when she was talking to you, I started seeing what she was seeing but it wasn’t clear. It didn’t make any sense why she kept seeing you and then losing you a minute later.”
“So you don’t know what we were talking about? You didn’t see any of that?” I was almost hoping he did because I didn’t want to have to tell him myself.
He raised his one eye brow again and looked like he was trying to be serious but I couldn’t help but notice he had a little glimmer in his eyes, “Once I was here I believe I was able to see enough through Alice to pretty much understand what is going on.”
“Oh.” I was trying to read his face but I couldn’t tell what he was thinking.
“That is all you have to say for yourself? Oh? You don’t want to marry me and all you can say is Oh?”
“Edward, of course I want to marry you! I….I……I just need to be with Charlie right now. Don’t you think this decision is killing me? Don’t you understand I want to start forever with you more badly then I have ever wanted anything before?”
I was surprised when Edward grabbed me and kissed me while he was mischievously laughing quietly. “Bella, it is so fun to tease you.” He put his arms more tightly around me and kissed me again. He knew right now that would be the only thing that was going to shut me up.
“Sweetheart, did you actually think I was going to be mad at you? Did you really think I wouldn’t understand?”
“I don’t know, maybe, I guess. I mean this was the one and only condition you asked me to fulfill in order to start our new life together.”
“Bella, my condition was that you were to marry me, not marry me this week. If I am to be perfectly honest with you, I am actually relieved that this is what you decided. You know I was never in a hurry for any of this to happen.”
It felt like a knife was just stabbed through my heart. This was my worst fear, what I worried about. Edward is relieved he doesn’t have to commit to me for eternity. I could feel the tears coming. “Are you crying?” Edward sounded surprised.
“What did you expect Edward? This is exactly why I was worried about postponing the wedding. That it would give you more time to change your mind about everything, about me. Evidently you didn’t need that much time.”
Edward chuckled a little as he leaned over to kiss my tears away. “You silly, emotional, wonderful girl. I thought we were passed your questioning how much I love you. When I said I was relieved, it wasn’t because I changed my mind. I still have every intention of making you my wife and living up to my end of our agreement, whether it is next week or, next year. I am relieved because I was worried your impatience to become a monster and your unrelenting human hormones were going to stop you from doing the right thing. You see Bella, if you would have decided to go through with everything and not be there for Charlie, you would have regretted it for all eternity. You would have also grown to resent me for it as well. I could not live with that.”
“How is it you always know the right things to say?” I couldn’t help but laugh a little through the tears.
“That is easy. I see you more clearly than you see yourself.” He lifted his hand onto my cheek to wipe away the few tears that were remaining.
I laid my head on his lap and he stroked my hair. “So, I guess we should pick a new wedding date.” Even though we were going to wait I didn’t want to wait too long. “Carlisle said Charlie should be back on his feet in about three weeks, so how about September 15th?”
“Bella, I know you are in a hurry but there is no need to be. I know you have some insane notion that every day you are getting older than me but the truth is you will never be older than me, at least as far as life experiences go. And I hardly think you will be developing crow’s feet and needing false teeth in the next couple of years. I am fairly certain you will look just as young and beautiful as you do now when you are 20, 21 or even 25. Why don’t we just play it by ear and see how things progress.”
I couldn’t really argue with him this time, even though I wanted to. I did want to be around for Charlie until I knew for sure he was going to be alright.
“How about Christmas Eve? That gives us 4 months. That is plenty of time for me to be sure Charlie is ok. And is it perfect that we will be on our honeymoon for Christmas and you can finally give me my present.” I couldn’t help smiling just thinking about it. He couldn’t help looking worried.
He argued for a minute that he still thought I was rushing things but I wasn’t going to budge. Even though I knew I was doing the right thing for Charlie I still didn’t like that our plans were delayed. He finally realized I meant business and wasn’t going to take no for an answer so with a heavy sigh Edward had agreed.
The next day Edward drove me to the hospital to pick up Charlie. When we got home we explained to Charlie that we were pushing the wedding date out a few months because we wanted more time to plan. Two weeks to plan a wedding wasn’t much time, even for Alice. We knew that if we told him I wanted to be there to take care of him that he would have insisted he didn’t need a babysitter and that we went ahead with the wedding as originally planned.
During the next couple of days Edward and I contemplated our college options since there was no way I could leave Charlie alone right now and go all the way to New Hampshire to attend Dartmouth. This was trickier to get past Charlie but we ended up convincing him we wanted to get our feet wet here first before we dove into an Ivy League school. We would go to Dartmouth next year. He didn’t like it but finally gave in and said we were old enough to make our own decisions. We would have to come up with something after the wedding, after I was changed, as to why we changed our minds and were moving to New Hampshire mid-school year, but we would cross that bridge when we came to it.
We ended up deciding on Peninsula College located in the Olympic Mountains in Port Angeles. They had a late admittance policy and were more than happy to welcome students that had been accepted into an Ivy League school. It was going to be a commute, about an hour each way for normal people, but probably only half an hour for us the way Edward drove. Unfortunately on sunny days, even though they are few and far between, I would have to drive myself to class for obvious reasons. Alice and Jasper had agreed to join us. They said they already had more Ivy League experiences then they needed and were looking forward to a place that wouldn’t be so demanding.
I hated to admit it but I was happy things were moving along like they were. Alice had assured me that my future as a vampire was still there. I could be with Edward, with the same limitations unfortunately, be here for Charlie, and I was even looking forward to starting Peninsula next week. It didn’t even really bother me much anymore that I was going to be another few months older than Edward by the time I joined him in immortality. Everything seemed to be working out effortlessly. After all we had been through in the past two years; it was almost too good to be true.
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Jazz Non Stop Call Masti Free Call After 2nd Minute
Mobilink introduce a new offer “Jazz Non Stop Call Mast”Its seemes to “Bemisaal Ramdan” offer which allows free on-net calls after two minutes – round the clock.
As apparent from its name, ‘Jazz Non Stop Call Masti’ is said to be a response to Ufone’s ‘Non Stop Offer’.
Jazz Non Stop Call Masti is offered to Jazz Octane subscribers only; hence daily rental of Rs.1 plus tax is applicable in order to avail the offer.
- All On-net calls free after 2nd minute
- Daily Subscription Fee: Rs. 1 plus tax per day
- All other calls will be charged as per regular Jazz Octane Tariff
How to Subscribe:
Dial *105*1# on mobile screen and press send
How to Un-subscribe:
Dial *105*4# on mobile screen and press send
If you have any other package than Jazz Octane, then
- Call 123 from Jazz connection.
- Press 3 for package settings.
- Press 0 for package selection
- Press 2 to select Jazz Octane
Note: For the convenience of customers, the package conversion will be absolutely free during the promotion duration
Terms & Conditions
- During first minute, on-net calls will be charged at Rs 1 per 30 seconds
- On-net calls to three F&F numbers will be charged at Rs 0.45/30 sec and will also be free after 2nd minute
- Off-net calls will be charged as per regular Jazz Octane tariff
- Package daily fee of Rs 1 will be applicable to all Jazz Octane subscribers in addition to the daily subscription fee of Jazz Non Stop Call Masti offer
- Daily subscription will be renewed automatically until unsubscribed
- For Jazz Octane LNO subscribers On-net calls will be charged at Rs 4 for first minute between 12am-7am
- 19.5% tax apply on the above mentioned price
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The hour-long event will feature a formal program introducing the U.S. Navy Blue Angel pilots and crew, along with a video presentation highlighting various aerial maneuvers and formations. The event will be a great opportunity for the community to meet and greet the Navy Blue Angel pilots, who will share their thoughts on flying, leadership and what it means to serve our country.
In addition, the U.S. Navy will showcase a SEAL dune buggy and trailer, both of which will be parked in the Eccles Fine Arts Center west parking lot, as part of the event for the public to view.
For more information, please contact the DSU Public Relations Department at 435-652-7544 or Dan Puleio at Navy Recruiting District (NRD) Denver Public Affairs at 303-866-1984, ex. 323.
The “Thunder Over Utah” Air Show will be held at the new St. George Airport on Saturday and Sunday, July 26-27. The event features the United States Navy Blue Angels, single-ship military demonstrations, classic warbirds, civilian performers, static aircraft displays and fun activities for kids and families. For tickets and more information please visit www.ThunderOverUtah.com. | <urn:uuid:63bb4674-f484-43ac-b621-9743926087e7> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://kcsg.com/bookmark/25429953 | 2016-05-30T01:04:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049282327.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002122-00001-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915165 | 250 | [
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TROLLFEST, the self-proclaimed "true Norwegian Balkan metal" band which eschews musical convention by combining local folk sounds from their native Norway with those from the Balkans and mixing them together with occasional melodies that could originate anywhere from the Latino countries to the Middle East, will enter the studio this month to begin recording its fifth album, "Brumlebassen", for an early 2012 release via NoiseArt Records. The group will track the drums, bass, guitar and main vocals over a three-week period beginning on November 7 at Strand Studios with engineer Marius Strand, after which they will move on to their own Trollskogen recording facilities to record the extra vocals, choirs, and instruments.As with all TROLLFEST's previous releases, "Brumlebassen" will tell a story involving Trolls and a certain amount of drinking. Without wanting to give too much away at this early stage, a spokesperson for the band said that the storyline will revolve around a brewer called Brumlebassen who is charged with making the mead much beloved by the Trolls. Cover art for the album will once again be in the hands of Swedish artist and cartoonist Jonas Darnell and designer Terje "Andy Wartroll", both of whom have worked with the band for several years, and whose work on the group' last CD, "En Kvest For Den Hellige Gral", has yet again proved to be a huge hit with the fans and an integral part of the overall TROLLFEST "experience."
TROLLFEST, which comprises members of URGEHAL, PANTHEON I, UNTIME, MELCH, SARKOM, HALLUCINATIONS and POWERSWORD, has already written ten metal tracks and a handful of acoustic ones, and will decide which to include on the album once recording is completed. There will also be guest musicians, who will be announced at a later date. | <urn:uuid:1a3a2490-aaf9-403e-85be-99e2d88584ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/trollfest-to-begin-recording-next-album/ | 2016-05-30T01:10:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049282327.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002122-00001-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967657 | 407 | [
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Custom 1951 Mercury - Metalman's MercWritten by on October 19, 2006 Contributors: Kevin Lee Terry Hegman's 1951 Mercury
Customizing by definition means taking something and making it different or unique and improved, and Terry Hegman's '51 Mercury is the recipient of all that and a whole lot more. Terry's ride is also a lesson in patience and proof that such greatness cannot happen overnight, or even over a couple years. Terry's own story goes back to the '50s when he was a kid and saw his first customized Mercury cruising down his block. It was an experience that forever hooked him on customs. He would sneak his pocketsize rod magazines into elementary school classes and dream of the day when he could have a custom of his own. As the tastes and styles of the early '60s changed, Terry stayed true to his custom car yearnings and was eventually cruising in his own mild custom '50 Merc. He also tried slicing a top on another Merc, but found the task to be too advanced for his skills at the time-a situation that would be much different later in his life.
As the 1960s drifted into the '70s, Terry became more involved with his work as a custom painter of psychedelic vans and wild street machines, among other things. At the same time, he honed his skills at massaging metal and eventually made a shift from life on the East Coast to the West Coast and hung up his paint gun to become one of the most talented metalmen in the country.
At the end of the 1990s, Terry faced the new millennium with a very strong desire to build a Mercury that would use a majority of his favorite custom tricks he had so long envisioned. Step one was locating a car. Being on the West Coast, it didn't take long before an absolutely rust-free, never-cut '51 Mercury was sitting in his driveway. Terry got the project started by changing the front fender lips and yanking all the springs and setting the suspension up with wood blocks to achieve the desired ride height. This gave him just enough inspiration to take the big leap of slicing the top, which happened late one night after working on customer projects. When Terry stepped in the shop the next morning, he instantly knew he had a problem-the top was not cut enough. That night he chopped it again "until it looked right," which translates to approximately 3 inches in the front and 4 inches in the rear.
For the next seven years, Terry was making constant progress on the '51, refining and customizing bits and pieces to achieve his vision. "I always had something on the bench," Terry says of the work on the Merc. That time was spent on details some may never even notice, like the N.O.S. side trim he made better than factory by removing the slightest imperfections and redoing the sloppy factory folded ends with new ends meticulously welded in place and then smoothed to perfection. On deciding what should and should not go on the car, Terry says, "It's just stuff I liked, and I've always believed less is more." A partial list of additional work that could only be spotted by the most knowledgeable includes reworked and modified bumper guards and massaged inner window frames that were chrome-plated once they passed Terry's inspection.
The time finally came when Terry had massaged every inch of the Merc and sent the pieces off to be painted or chrome-plated. Doug Jerger at Squeege's in Arizona handled the rich blue metallic paint while Christensen's Plating worked on the shiny stuff. As the pieces went back together, Terry's life-long dream was being realized. The whole thing came together when friend Tom Sewell in Cambria, California, stitched up the crme and blue interior in the classic style used in the early days by the Carson Top Shop.
You might think the story ends when Terry carefully cradles the car from show to show on a quest for trophies to applaud his fine workmanship, but actually nothing could be further from the truth. "I built this car to drive it," Terry says, and so far he has put over 3,000 miles on the clock. When asked how long it took to work the bugs out, Terry says he's still working on them. Hard to imagine this car ever had any bugs, but that's all part of being custom.
Fountain Valley, California
Terry's whole intent when building his Mercury was that he would drive the wheels off of it when it was finished. For that to happen, a nice reliable drivetrain would be the only option. A stone stock 1998 Chevy 350ci/300hp small-block keeps the maintenance to a minimum, and he mated that to a '69 Camaro three-speed manual gearbox with overdrive. Dressing up the engine is a set of chrome-plated 1953 Oldsmobile valve covers and matching air cleaner. Finishing off the power package is a 9-inch Ford rearend fitted with 3.50:1 gears.
The chassis was one of the major components to receive the least customizing. Up front the mods were limited to a pair of dropped spindles and clipped coils while the rear uses de-arched leaf springs and 3-inch blocks with a C-notch to allow full travel of the rearend.
Wheels & Tires
Dayton 215/75R15 wide white radial tires wrap around a set of steel wheels wearing a set of perfect, yet unrestored, '53 Oldsmobile flipper hubcaps.
Body & Paint
What Terry looked to achieve with his car was to combine all the best elements of his favorite early customs into one car. Starting at the front of his '51 is a pair of frenched '54 Mercury headlight rings flanking the shaved hood with rounded corners over a molded '49-50 Mercury grille surround housing a '54 Pontiac grille. Moving back on the front fenders is a pair of '57 Plymouth front fender lips Terry elected to use because he felt the more commonly used '52-54 Merc/Ford lips are too large and stick out too far. The doors were shaved and above them the top was chopped-3 inches in front and 4 inches in the rear. More meticulous than some, Terry kept all the original components like driprails, wind wings, and stainless window trim intact during the chop process. At the rear of the roof, Terry swapped out the '51 rear window for a '50 unit, which makes it flow much better with the chopped roof. The trunk was shaved and a pair of '54 Mercury taillights was fitted as an homage to the early work of the Barris brothers. Once the owner handled all the bodywork, the car was taken to Arizona so Doug Jerger at Squeege's could spray the multiple coats of rich metallic blue paint, a color borrowed from late-model GM pickups. After the paint was dry, all the brightwork, such as the massaged N.O.S. side trim and bumpers with the shortened and massaged bumper guards, was reattached one last time. The finished product is simplified automotive beauty at its best.
Terry worked hard to keep the integrity of the period car inside the Mercury by only modifying what was necessary and maintaining the look and feel of the early customs. A Lincoln steering column with a restored '51 Lincoln steering mated to it (with a custom skull horn button) sits under a fully restored original dash. The original front seat has been lowered just slightly to match the chopped top, and custom wood panels and the rear seat make up the rest of the interior by Terry. Covering the interior is custom stitching by Tom Sewell in Cambria, California, that perfectly evokes the style and simplicity of the early jobs by the Carson Top Shop seen in all the golden era customs. Final elements are more of Terry's handiwork, with the highly massaged and chrome-plated window frames and the one-off rear speaker grille in the package tray. | <urn:uuid:d7fbb283-a076-48dc-8c61-583f168269ab> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.hotrod.com/cars/featured/0701rc-1951-mercury-custom/ | 2016-05-30T01:13:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049282327.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002122-00001-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976644 | 1,651 | [
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The political picture is off-kilter after Tuesday’s elections. People all over Colorado are talking about the big congressional shake up.
The Democrats took a major blow, losing control of the House. However, that party is still holding onto the Senate.
In Colorado, it is no longer a matter of blue or red as many say the state is a combination of the two parties. "It doesn't matter what party you are, we're all in one big boat here," said Colorado Springs resident Cynthia Pulham.
The Governor and Senate seats stayed to the left, but several Congressional offices went to the right.
"The picture is a bit mixed, it's not clear that it's still a blue state," said Josh Dunn, a Political Science Professor at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He said had there not been so many GOP gaffs this year the Democrats would have been wiped off the board.
"Well that's our system of checks and balances, I believe," said Colorado Springs resident Cindy Lange.
"If the Democratic message had resonated with our community and our country there would have been no Republican take-over," said Colorado Springs resident Delia Armstrong Busby.
"Regardless of who gets in office, and who gets elected and what party it is, those guys and women have got to start to learn to work together," Pulham said.
That's exactly what President Obama and top GOP leaders said they want to see. "Without any Republican support, it's going to be difficult to get things done," President Obama said.
The President is taking responsibility for the Democratic loses and Republican gains.
“There's no doubt that this was a referendum on his past two years," Professor Dunn said.
Despite announcements of cooperation from both parties, the Republicans said they'll challenge the Obama administration on major issues like spending and taxes.
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Sunrise Dolphins and BBQ on the beach....
Trip Start Mar 25, 2011
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There is 11 of us from the group on this early trip and were split into two boats... well I say boats... more like a motorized canoe on a bamboo frame!
This tour is rated in the top 5 for things to do in Lovina and so much so that a large concrete crowned monument has been erected in honour of the over-touted cetaceans.
We set off and I was taken back by the sunrise which was absolutely beautiful.. as for the dolphins of course they are lovely.. and so far have been lucky enough to see many and swim with one last year, so seeing them is just fab
Lily the lady selling everything on the beach was there to greet me off the boat and I happily paid for the this sarong for one of the girls that I agreed to yesterday... (they don't forget your name or face! We are all happy with our bargain!!
Back from the trip and its time for breakfast before a lazy day ahead... some of the group have decided to go and visit some hot springs... but I've done these to death and so I find a place on the beach and soak up those rays... the women that often annoy you.... I mean ask if you wish to buy... give you cheap price.... discount... as I had already brought they just came to say hello!!
The heat is absolutely exhausting and after just a hour it was back 2 mins to the pool! The girls came back from the springs and Carmen, myself and Valentina had lunch by the pool and relaxed all afternoon!! Bali bliss!!!
I then took the opportunity to catch up with my blog... its been 5 days since I wrote and posted an entry... I've had so little time and its non stop touring..
I'm still behind with my entries but hope to catch up soon... it was then time to collect my laundry... a little shop across the road... for just over £2 for 3.5 kilos of washing... its returned washed, dried and ironed... lush!!!
Now its time to get ready as we are having a private BBQ on the beach with Balinese dancing!
Other than one of the girls who is suffering from Bali Belly, all of us are enjoying the private dining at this super location, the food is just amazing... however chili sauce is so much hotter than normal... mine and a few others are experiencing numb lips and that burning sensation... but that aside its a good meal and the entertainment is provided by three Balinese children and its very enchanting to watch.... a great evening!
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Thandie Newton and husband Ol Parker have welcomed a third child into their lives. The “Rogue” actress announced on Twitter that she gave birth to baby boy Booker Jombe Parker on March 3.
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Planning a funeral at the time of a loved one’s death can be very difficult. Prearranging a funeral in advance helps you make your wishes known and gives you a chance to gather vital information that is hard to recall when your family is distressed.
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Depression was associated with decreased survival for hospital patients who were seriously ill
Question For hospital patients who are severely ill, is self reported depression associated with mortality after adjusting for functional status and severity of illness?
Cohort study with 4 year follow up (Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments [SUPPORT]).
3529 patients (median age 63 y, median education level 12 y, 58% men, 78% white, 52% married) admitted to hospital with a serious illness. The projected 6 month survival for the group was 50%. Exclusion criteria were not speaking English; having AIDS, head trauma, or burns; being pregnant; <18 years old; expected hospital admission <72 hours; death within 48 hours of admission; or transfer from another hospital.
Assessment of risk factors
Depressed mood was measured using the shortened version of the Profile of Mood States depression scale. Severity of illness was measured by the acute physiology subscale of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) III scale, number of comorbid conditions present at hospital admission, and a study specific scale that used clinical indicators (SUPPORT model). Other risk factors were age, sex, marital status, years of education, activities of daily living, and primary diagnosis.
Main outcome measure
Patients and families were contacted and national databases were used to calculate survival time from date of admission to the study.
More serious depression was associated with younger age (p≤0.001), worse levels of physical functioning (p=0.001), and greater severity of illness (p=0.001). When all risk factors were simultaneously entered into a hazards model predicting survival, self reported depressed mood was independently related to increased mortality as were being a man, more comorbid illnesses at baseline, decreased activities of daily living, increased age and 6 month estimate of survival (table).
Depressed mood was independently related to mortality of hospital patients after adjusting for severity of illness, physical functioning, and patient characteristics.
- John Dyer, RMN, MA
Previous research has shown that depression, poor functional status, and severity of illness are associated with mortality.1 It has been unclear, however, whether depression is independently associated with mortality or whether it is simply closely associated with disease severity. The study by Roach et al makes 2 important contributions: firstly, it confirms that poor functional status and greater severity of illness are indeed associated with worse depressed mood scores; and secondly, it determines that depressed mood has an independent effect on mortality. They found that with every unit increase in depressed score (range of scores: 0–4 with higher score signifying more depression) the odds of mortality increased by 13%.
Strengths of the study are (1) the inclusion of a demographically and medically diverse group of acutely ill hospital patients which increases the generalisability of the study findings and (2) the use of a powerful statistical model that permitted testing of the independent effect of depression on survival. Limitations were the exclusion of patients who were too severely ill to complete the depression interview, and the inability to make a causal link between depression and mortality because data regarding depression were not collected before hospital admission.
Rather than attempting to diagnose depression in terms of psychiatric illness, Roach et al have tested the hypothesis that feeling depressed can affect recovery. They attempt to consider the patient as an entity rather than as a condition. The depressed mood inventory takes only a few minutes to apply and is easy to score. It determines the extent to which patients feel unhappy, sad, blue, hopeless, discouraged, miserable, helpless, and worthless. The authors have shown that a simple inventory can assess depressed mood and identify those severely ill hospital patients at increased risk of mortality. Further research is needed to determine whether interventions aimed at relieving depression in these patients reduces the risk of death.
Source of funding: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Published June 8, 2012
Among his claims to fame, MP Árni Johnsen successfully lobbied for legalising vanity plates on vehicles in Iceland and became the first proud owner of one when he snagged “ÍSLAND” in 1996. Today there are 5.295 vehicles with such plates, which is about two percent of all vehicles in Iceland.
Much like there are rules governing the naming of people in Iceland, there are rules governing the “naming” of vehicles, which reflects the ease at which Icelanders (and citizens of other Nordic countries) give up their personal freedoms for the greater good of society.
In the case of the vanity plates, both English and Icelandic words are permitted, but if an Icelandic word is used, the law states that it must follow correct spelling and grammar rules.
Furthermore, the law states that vanity plates should not anger or make people feel uncomfortable. However, much like the condition that people’s names may not cause their bearer embarrassment, this is a rather subjective rule and it’s up to a committee to make the call.
Since 1996, the committee has rejected thirty or so plates. The plates “POLICE” and “KILLER” were amongst the first to be rejected because they could “make people feel uncomfortable.” Additionally, the plate “KILLR” was rejected three years later because it was too similar to “KILLER.” The plates “STUNT,” “STUNTS,” “DEVIL,” “SATAN,” “Ó GUД (“OH GOD”), and every variation of “FÍKNÓ” (NARCO) have also been rejected for this reason. “We try to follow ethics and be sure that plates are not hurtful or insulting,” Vehicle Inspection Director Karl Ragnars told a newspaper reporter in 1996.
Perhaps it’s the freedom of not being required to use the English language correctly or the fact that many Icelandic words are just too long, but a perusal of registered vanity plates reveals that a great number of them are indeed in English.
So we decided to make a short list of vehicles to perhaps follow and get to know better and others to avoid at all costs if possible. Interestingly, suggesting that you’re an alcoholic or just plain insane does not give the Committee reason to believe that some people might feel uncomfortable. | <urn:uuid:100470bd-b0e4-43a0-9e68-79e62e23e6a5> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2012/06/08/23-awesome-or-not-so-awesome-vanity-plates/ | 2016-05-24T23:27:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049273946.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002113-00191-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969439 | 522 | [
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Three candidates vying for two seats on the La Cañada Flintridge City Council will speak at an election forum on Feb. 6 at Flintridge Preparatory School.
City Councilman Dave Spence, Planning Commissioner Jon Curtis and 24-year-old accountant Joe Layton will answer questions from the audience. Flintridge Preparatory School Headmaster Peter Bachmann will moderate.
The event is sponsored by the La Cañada Flintridge Coordinating Council and the Kiwanis Club of La Cañada. The forum is public and free of charge.
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Maternal admiration and the timeless beauty of Audrey Hepburn
Time Out Dubai staff
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Before robbing the rich to give to the poor, Robin Longstride (Russell Crowe) is a random archer in the army of Richard the Lionheart (Danny Huston). When Lionheart is killed on his way back to reclaim the throne, Robin and his band of merry men choose to desert, and inadvertently come across a plot to murder the already-dead king by the smooth-tongued Sir Godfrey (Mark Strong). Through a series of convoluted events, Robin is forced to pose as Sir Loxley, returning the fallen king's crown and bringing a sword to Loxley's father (Max Von Sydow) and his widow, Marion (Cate Blanchett). During his stay in Nottingham, Godfrey's plan kicks into high gear, and Robin finds himself at the center of a brewing battle between the public, the newly-crowned King John (Oscar Isaac), and Godfrey, who is busy ravaging the countryside with the strength of the French army behind him.
One of my biggest worries as a film critic is, while I'm knowledgable about filmmaking and film minutia, I don't possess much scholarly knowledge. Analyzing what I felt worked and didn't work about an individual film I can do, but I'd rarely raise my hand if someone was asking me to analyze a movie within a director's ouevre. Even so, I'm pretty confident in saying that Ridley Scott's Robin Hood is unlike any movie he's tried to make before: a purely and completely commercial one. I feel even more confident in saying that Scott is not particularly good (or, more importantly, personally invested) when it comes to this kind of blockbuster-izing, and the result is a weird, awkward mess that rarely takes a smart step.
Clearly, Scott is no stranger to Hollywood. The man has been making movies for almost 40 years, and many of them "play along", boasting big stars and catchy hooks. Matchstick Men, for instance, a fun, sly film that easily embodies the kind of mass-appeal product that major studios like to make, while at the same time serving as a perfect place for bits that go beyond the twitchy Ocean's Eleven premise. I'm sure Scott took on a project like that and had no trouble making it on his own terms, focusing on the things he felt were important, and at the same time, the film's mainstream appeal just came together naturally. In comparison, I don't think that Robin Hood was flat-out forced onto the director's plate, but the movie shows Scott purposefully playing into (or too tired to fight off) the desires of focus groups and demographic surveys rather than actual audiences.
As what will no doubt be a common complaint, Robin Hood plays more like Robin Hood Begins, taking its cue from endless superhero origin stories to tell the "legend before the legend". It's not that it's a terrible idea in and of itself to show how Robin came to be the man he is, but there's almost nothing here worth knowing. The film often feels like a name-drop session (particularly the introduction of Mark Addy as Friar Tuck) as everyone waits around for something important to happen. To fill in the gaps, Scott and screenwriter Brian Helgeland offer plenty of goofy one-liners between Crowe and Blanchett, which suggests to me that Universal executives have been watching Iron Man more often than Kingdom of Heaven.
The performances are problematic across the board. For starters, Crowe barely seems awake, let alone interested in making the movie. From time to time he moves around to assure the audience he's still alive, but for the most part he's a blank slate, which, of course, is not very interesting. Opposite him, Blanchett, who appears much more savvy about this kind of movie than Crowe, does her best with the material, imbuing Marion with a lot of crowd-pleasing, post-feminist spunk (haha, she said she'd cut his manhood off!), but she can't wrest anything out of Crowe no matter how hard she tries. Really, with a more engaging (or engaged) leading man, Robin Hood might have been mildly successful, but Crowe remains steadfast and stonefaced. In the background, Isaac plays John as a wild, over-the-top caricature (seriously, this guy could be cut out and stuck in a comedy without changing a second of his performance), and William Hurt stands around with a concerned look on his face, as if he's just figured out he doesn't have anything to do. At least Sydow acquits himself nicely with grand old-man silliness.
Above all this, we have Scott's direction, which inspires the mental image of the director playing darts. The movie hops between drama, comedy, and action at a moment's notice, and it's impossible to tell how seriously Scott wants us to care. There's no overall tone here, just a hodgepodge of scenes all wildly doing their own thing. Melodramatic moments such as Robin finding out about his father clash with clunky romantic banter about Robin and Marion sleeping in the same room, and Scott willfully allows things like The Big Speech to occur without any attempt to lessen the corniness of it all. He still shows some panache when it comes to staging the battle scenes, but even then, he's been beaten to the punch by Lord of the Rings and even his own Heaven; there's nothing new in the "epic" department the audience hasn't already seen.
Of course, my audience ate it up, roaring at all the jokes, wincing at the violence, and even applauding at the end, so maybe Scott is smarter than he looks. It's not going to make anyone's worst-of-the-year lists. Still, it feels mildly irresponsible: Robin Hood is rumored to have cost nearly $200 million, and yet it's vividly clear that nobody here cares much about the quality of the final product. The best thing I can say about Robin Hood is that it's consistent: unlike the hit-and-miss Iron Man 2, Robin Hood is half-baked through and through.
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Total disbelief as Pacquiao robbed of title by the judges
Manny Pacquiao was robbed Saturday night, and so was I.
I thought I paid $75 to watch the Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley fight, but instead paid $75 to watch the sport of boxing receive a black eye from yet another pack of judges who, by now, may be on the lam.
Those judges may be the newest additions to Las Vegas’s infamous black book.
These so-called judges were dead wrong when they awarded Bradley the victory over Pacquiao in Saturday night’s WBO welterweight title fight. There is simply no way Bradley won. I thought it might be the night Pacquiao would lose, but he didn’t lose. He was robbed.
My friends and I were in total disbelief when the ring announcer read the judges’ scorecards. For a second, I thought maybe I had one too many gin and tonics. But I was not alone in uttering obscenities afterward. I could hear comments like “ridiculous,” “despicable,” and much worse from reporters calling the fight.
Round after round, Pacquiao threw and landed more punches and made Bradley weak in the knees more than once, almost knocking him down in the fourth round. The two judges who scored the fight for Bradley obviously were watching a completely different fight. I hope this is a case where they just got it wrong, and nothing more.
The talk of the town isn’t that Bradley won. It’s that Pacquiao was robbed of a fight he clearly won. It makes Bradley a paper champion. He won the fight in the eyes of two judges, but lost the fight in the eyes of millions of viewers.
Pacquiao was dumped on by a sport he helped bring out of the gutter and into the forefront of the sporting world.
I love boxing, always have, and the end result of Saturday night’s fight has given the sport another blemish, just when it seemed it had finally recovered from the antics of Mike Tyson staying in the sport way too long after he feasted on Evander Holyfield’s ear during a battle he was clearly losing. Then an out-of-shape Tyson was humiliated by Lennox Lewis. He admitted he was only strapping on the gloves to score a big payday to help him return to a lifestyle he threw away.
Pacquiao saved boxing when boxing needed to be saved.
He pounded once-brilliant Oscar De La Hoya like one of his training bags until the former champion chose not to come out for the ninth round.
That night in 2008, a new king was crowned and gave boxing a desperately needed shot of adrenaline.
Even before he dismantled De La Hoya, Pacquiao was breathing life back into boxing, beating the likes of Erik Morales (twice) and David Diaz to win the WBC Lightweight title. And all of a sudden, it was all Manny Pacquiao all the time. He became the face of boxing and lived up to his reputation with win after win.
Despite only two knockouts in his previous six fights, Pacquiao still dominated his opponents.
With Pacquiao, you get ultimate endurance, speed and power, and it’s riveting. He doesn’t need to send his opponent’s mouth guard into the sixth row with a crushing left hook. He brought a new approach to winning — superior skill, knowledge and timing.
So, with Pacquiao’s first loss since 2005 — his fourth in 62 fights — Bradley has to know he didn’t win, or at least question his so-called win a day later when the entire sporting world and beyond has used social media as a sounding board for complaints, disbelief and hatred, cursing the judges and accusing them of everything from corruption to cheating.
Bradley put up a good fight, but not enough to win. The stats speak for themselves — Pacquiao landed nearly 40 percent of his punches. Bradley, who almost went down in the fourth round and barley escaped the fifth round by wrapping up Pacquiao and hanging on for dear life, landed 30 percent of his punches.
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Sounds like the old Sparky truism was all over the radio about looking at where a team is at after the first forty games. We’re at the quarter point of the season, and the Tigers have the best record in the majors. At least they’ll be tied if the White Sox beat the Devil Rays tonight.
I heard this on the radio and didn’t confirm it, but the Tigers have only started at least 27-13 in five previous seasons. The last time it happened was 1984, and we all know what happened that year.
I commented on this on my Tiger column at the Hardball Times, but I just keep waiting. Most of it is conditioning because as Tiger fans, we’ve been disappointed for so long. Just to put things in perspective though, I went to a game with my dad on June 20, 1993. The Tigers beat the Brewers and it was the team’s eleventh win in the previous fourteen games and the Tigers were 43-25. The Tigers stood two games ahead of the Blue Jays and things were looking good. Ten games later, all of which were losses, the Tigers found themselves down by 4 1/2 games and the team was in third place. The Tigers later flirted with first place but ended the season in fourth place at 85-77.
So things can happen fast. I’m hoping Jim Leyland will be able to keep the players in line, but in so many ways, especially with regard to the rotation, the Tigers are blowing away expectations.
What a game yesterday. I was going to go, then a friend cancelled so I gave up the tickets. My favorite kind of game is a pitcher’s duel and I missed a great one. What’s even funnier was, i was watching the game and was annoyed that Leyland didn’t hit Pudge for Vance Wilson, who then hit the game winning two run shot. Once again, that’s probably why Leyland’s in the dugout and I’m not. It still boggles the mind though.
The Tigers have won seven straight. I heard this on the radio as well and didn’t confirm it, but the last time they had that long of a winning streak was 1993.
Interleague play starts and outside of a series next week against the Royals, the Tigers face some high powered hitting teams so that pitching staff will be put to the test. The Reds have dropped off after a five game losing streak, but with guys like Adam Dunn and Austin Kearns, this lineup can do some damage. Best case scenario is, we’re talking about a ten game winning streak on Sunday. | <urn:uuid:ddf3b927-c0e4-4d66-8cae-7a26b1aa1703> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.tigerblog.net/27-13/ | 2016-05-27T16:09:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049276964.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002116-00106-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980794 | 557 | [
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TAMPA -- At home on Memorial Day weekend, Circuit Judge J. Rogers Padgett sat in his beige recliner, a stack of letters in his hands. On TV, the Weather Channel was predicting clouds, but the judge had the sound muted.
The letters he read were a discordant chorus of voices. Each wanted justice for Valessa Robinson, convicted in his court of murdering her mother, Vicki. But each writer had a different vision of justice.
One letter came from a mother of seven who had followed the trial and was now pleading for a harsh sentence.
Please, for the sake of all teenagers -- and mothers, don't let them down, they need to know the consequences of their actions. Let it be known, for Vicki's sake.
And from the other side, Valessa's stepmother, just as steadfast in her belief:
Valessa should not spend another hour in jail much less be sent to an adult facility. She should be released to her father's custody and allowed to enter the therapy programs we have researched.
In a few days, Padgett would sentence the 17-year-old for her part in the murder. Valessa's former boyfriend already was on death row for attacking Vicki Robinson with a bleach-filled syringe and then a knife. A third defendant was serving 25 years.
Since the jury had rejected the charge of first-degree murder for Valessa and convicted her of third-degree, the judge had great latitude. He could place her in a juvenile facility until her 21st birthday. He could send her to adult prison.
In one of the letters, a relative who had known Valessa since birth had no trouble making up her mind.
Please your honor, don't let her off easy.
Valessa Robinson's father expected the worst.
"It's a done deal," Chuck Robinson was saying last weekend. "Everybody's made up their mind about what they're going to do."
Tuesday morning, Judge Padgett did exactly as Robinson predicted, sentencing Valessa as an adult instead of a juvenile. He gave her the maximum punishment of 20 years in prison: 15 for the count of third-degree murder and five more for stealing her mother's minivan.
"It's the court's decision that you be sentenced as an adult, the adult that you actually are," Padgett said. "A young adult perhaps, but an adult nevertheless."
The tension of the day came not from the sentence, but from the sweep and intensity of emotions that spilled forth during the 41/2-hour hearing at the Hillsborough County courthouse.
Valessa was brought into the courtroom in shackles and her orange jailhouse uniform. Donna Klug, Vicki's 75-year-old mother, sat in the front row, holding a pink rose in memory of her daughter.
Mrs. Klug had been preparing for this day since the verdict five weeks ago. After the trial, as her husband drove them home to Michigan, she sat in the back seat, scribbling notes on scraps of paper from her purse, thinking of points that Vicki's family should articulate in their letters to the judge.
Now, after months of measured silence, it was time for family and friends on both sides to speak. The defense went first, calling witnesses to address the judge on Valessa's behalf.
"Please state your name," Assistant Public Defender Dee Ann Athan asked one witness.
"Michelle Leigh Robinson," said the young woman.
"Are you related to Valessa Robinson?"
"I'm her sister."
"Are, were you related to Vicki Robinson?"
"I was her daughter."
Michelle Robinson had already lost one person she loved and was fighting not to lose another. She told the judge how much her mother loved Valessa and how important it was that Valessa get some help in the years ahead, before she left prison and returned to society.
"What do you think she will be like when she is finally released?" Michelle, 19, asked. "Let's start dealing with this now by getting Valessa the treatment she needs."
"That was the point that I wanted to emphasize, your honor."
Others close to Valessa -- her father, her stepmother, her best friend since second grade -- echoed the sentiments. They talked about Valessa's love of writing, her hopes of someday going to college, her need for professional help to allow her to move forward with her life.
"I think she can be a productive citizen. I really believe that," said Chuck Robinson. "I believe that we have a person that obviously is way over her head."
Robinson also talked about the public perception that his daughter feels no remorse. That is simply not true, he said; his daughter has shed many tears.
"She's lost her mother, and she's grieving, too," he said. "It may be very difficult for this court to understand that."
As soon as we heard Vicki was missing, those friends who were closest to her suspected foul play and that Valessa was most definitely behind it. Valessa was not a young naive child who absently and ignorantly assisted in her mother's murder. She was a clever and manipulative young lady who knew full well the consequences of her actions.
-- Letter to Judge Padgett from Deborah Sartor-Englert, one of Vicki Robinson's best friends.
I believe in her innocence -- she was not involved in her mother's death.
-- Venessa Robinson, Valessa's stepmother.
We should have been able to attend each of our children's weddings, enjoy each other's grandchildren some day. . . . Why this family tragedy? I don't understand.
-- Kathy Garlow, Vicki Robinson's older sister.
The prosecution came back focused and brief.
Countering the defense's portrayal of Valessa as a vulnerable child, Assistant State Attorney Pam Bondi read aloud several passages from Valessa's journal, revealing sexual activity and aggressive behavior long before Adam Davis arrived on the scene.
Throughout the trial, Vicki's family had shouldered into two rows of seats behind the prosecution. Now, Tom Klug, Vicki's younger brother, stood and walked alone to the podium.
"I want to talk about Vicki," Klug said.
He sketched out his sister's Michigan childhood of sports, church and Sunday dinners. "We did everything as a family. We piled into the station wagon."
It was like a home movie: Vicki playing the clarinet in high school band, Vicki sailing on a Michigan lake. The memories brought smiles from her friends in the courtroom. Some rummaged for tissues. Vicki had come back to life.
But the Kodak moments quickly turned to anger. Klug described how his sister's body had been dumped headfirst in a trash can and left for a week in 90-degree temperatures.
Klug, a 49-year-old lawyer, addressed suggestions that Vicki had not done enough to protect her daughter. He questioned Chuck Robinson's role in his daughter's life after his divorce from Vicki.
"The one that should have protected her was Chuck," Klug told the court. He mentioned one episode when Valessa proved too rebellious for her father during a summer visit, causing him to shiphis daughter back to Vicki after only a few days.
Klug accused the defense of putting on a "dog and pony show" during the trial. He worried about Valessa's ability to heal.
"I'm really concerned about rehabilitation when you have a public defender become personally involved," Klug said, his voice irritated. "The hugging, and saying, "I'm going to now be your surrogate mom.' What's going to happen five years from now, when they're busy on other cases?"
And then Klug turned to his right, toward the defense table. It was clear he was speaking to Athan.
"Well, public defender," he said, "I have news for you. You'll never replace my sister."
Vicki's former boss at Re/Max Realty gave a blistering summationof the crime: the utter waste of it.
"Valessa had too many chances, her mother had none," said Rebecca Eckley. "She could have taken the van and run away. But she chose not to."
Eckley, to whom Vicki had confided her problems with Valessa just weeks before the murder, read from two pages she had typed on her computer. "Valessa needs to pay to the full extent of the law. And she will still be out on the streets at a younger age than her mother was allowed to live."
"What was this event anyway?" Eckley asked the judge. "A control game gone bad? This was the brutal murder of an angel: a mom, a daughter, a sister, a friend; and, unlike the defense or the jury, we did know Vicki."
The true Valessa was knowable, too, Eckley said. She urged the judge:
"Look deep into this girl's eyes. The answer is clear."
Valessa was always a rebel. She was never happy unless everything was going exactly the way Valessa wanted. She could be the sweetest girl when things were going her way and then downright evil when they were not.
-- Letter to Judge Padgett from Jami M. Bowman, one of Vicki Robinson's nieces.
Valessa is not a criminal. She was allowed to have friendships with older men who easily influenced her, a young, vulnerable, easily influenced girl. Valessa is also a victim in this situation.
-- Charles Robinson, Valessa's father.
I think that it was Valessa's intent to be with Adam Davis, no matter what it took.
-- Hillsborough sheriff's Detective Jim Iverson.
Dee Ann Athan was incensed.
The moment the state was finished, she struck back at those who had criticized her passionate defense. She said that she was Valessa's advocate. Anyone who had a problem with that simply did not understand how a courtroom worked.
"I take offense at -- " she began.
"No, no," Padgett said, cutting her short. "We're here to sentence Ms. Robinson."
Athan turned to a 19-page sentencing memorandum she had already submitted to the judge. She began to quote from the memo's introduction.
Again, the judge interrupted.
"You're not going to read this, are you?" he said.
Across the courtroom, the benches filled with Vicki's supporters burst into laughter. Through two weeks of trial, they had watched Athan seize center stage, hugging Valessa in front of thecameras and calling her a "little girl" in front of the jury. Now they were obviously enjoying seeing her upbraided.
At the defense table, Athan tried to recover. Exasperated, she told the judge that she was not going to read the memo. Then she launched into a lengthy discourseduring which she recited paragraph after paragraph of the memo.
Athan continued for almost an hour. She said that she had advised Valessa to make no comment at the sentencing and that therefore she had to speak for her client. She reviewed Valessa's birth, her upbringing, her adolescent travails with sex and drugs.
On and on she went. She talked about how naive her client was, how immature, how easily she had been controlled and dominated by Adam Davis. She said that Valessa had reached out to Vicki's family after the murder, writing them letters, but that these attempts had been met with hostility. She talked about the anger Vicki's family feels toward Valessa, their desire to see her admit that she had held down her mother and helped Adam Davis and Jon Whispel kill her.
"They're not going to hear what they want to hear. They're just not," Athan said. "Because she didn't do those things."
Athan said she knew that many in the community smelled blood. They wanted Valessa to be sentenced harshly.
Her client, she said, did not deserve it.
"It would not be justice for Valessa," Athan said. "It would not be justice for society. But most of all, it would not be justice for Vicki Lyn Robinson."
Judge Padgett listened attentively throughout, his hands folded on the bench, his face betraying nothing. When Athan was done, he asked the defendant to stand.
Without any theatrics or speeches, he told Valessa that he was sentencing her as an adult. He was giving her a total of 20 years for the murder and the grand theft auto. Sentencing guidelines had called for a maximum of 18 years, but the judge went higher because of the cruelty of Vicki's death.
Valessa would get credit for the two years she has already spent in jail.
"Any questions about that?"
"No, sir," Valessa answered, softly.
That was it. The hearing had taken hours. But Padgett had required only 62 seconds to hand down his decision.
The bailiffs took Valessa to theback of the courtroom, fingerprinted her, then led her away in chains. Athan walked with her for a moment, smoothing her hair.
Tears in her eyes, Athan headed for the front row to hug Chuck Robinson and others who had spoken on Valessa's behalf. Athan tried to comfort them, talking about how they would appeal and keep fighting. She talked about the judge's sentence.
"We knew it was coming," she said. "That's what he wanted. He's sorry he can only give her 20."
Valessa was sent back to the Hillsborough County Jail. In a week or two, she will be transferred into the state prison system. Under the law, she must serve 85 percent of her 20-year sentence -- or 17 years. Since she has already been in jail for nearly two years, that leaves 15 years to serve.
Even if her appeal fails and she serves a complete sentence, she is likely to be out of prison at age 32.
The same age Vicki Robinson was when she first became a mother.
I will never forget how important it was for Vicki to start a family. That was the one thing in life that was most important to her.
What a great tragedy that bringing a life into this world is what cost Vicki hers.
-- Letter to Judge Padgett from Joelle Marie Bowman, one of Vicki Robinson's nieces.
-- Research: John Martin. Transcription: Michael Canning.
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After half a day of numb disbelief, Hungary’s flabbergasted politicians, religious groups and citizens criticized a lawmaker who said in parliament late Monday that the country should draw up a list of its Jewish citizens because some of them threaten the nation’s security.
Marton Gyongyosi, the Jobbik party’s deputy parliamentary group leader, raised the issue at a debate discussing the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip.
“It’s high time to make a list, related to such a conflict, to see how many people there are with Jewish origins living in Hungary, and especially among the MPs and in the cabinet, who pose a national security threat to Hungary,” he said.
Jobbik, a right-wing party is in opposition and has 44 out of the 386 parliamentary seats. Its support was at 8% among the total adult population in early November, according to pollster Ipsos. The next general elections will be held in spring 2014.
Mr. Gyongyosi later apologized on the party website for being “unclear” and said his intentions were only to challenge the government’s “one-sided support” of Israel in the Gaza Strip conflict and to “call the attention to the threat posed by government members and in parliament by Hungarian-Israeli dual citizens.”
This hardly made things better. Some organizations, such as the European Jewish Congress, demanded his and his party’s ouster from parliament.
The government distanced itself from the Jobbik MP.
“The government follows the policy it has on any notions of this kind: it strictly condemns any extremist, anti-Semitic or racist comments,” Andras Giro-Szasz, a government spokesman, said Wednesday.
Many organizations and other opposition parties said they were disappointed by the government’s initially half-hearted response to the incident. “The House Speaker didn’t take a strong line against the anti-Semitic MP,” the Together 2014 Movement, led by ex-Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, and two other associations said in a joint statement.
Some observers have said that the governing Fidesz party, which has a sweeping majority in parliament, has tried to take the wind out of the Jobbik party’s sails by trying to appeal to the party’s voter base.
In Hungary, about 565,000 Jews were killed in extermination camps in World War II, according to Mazsihisz, the Hungarian association of Jewish religious communities. The country’s chief rabbi Tamas Raj estimated the current Jewish population at 80,000-100,000 people.
Demonstrations have already taken place in Budapest. In one, participants wore yellow stars similar to those Jews were forced to wear in and before World War II under Nazi rule. More protests are coming—the ‘Together All for Jerusalem’ Fund set one for Sunday in front of parliament, with religious groups and non-governmental organizations saying they would attend. | <urn:uuid:aa3e8eb0-01fe-42b3-9055-ccb42d08e2cf> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2012/11/28/outrage-in-hungary-over-jewish-list/ | 2016-05-25T08:36:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274191.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00211-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964159 | 634 | [
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He needs to be crated when you're not home to monitor him. For his safety and your sanity.
Some folks will be along with more direct advice. Maybe NILIF would help. I had to keep my rescue crated for a couple of years when I wasn't home. Got him as an adult rescue too.
A good trainer, one that works with GSDs may help you work through these and the other issues more efficiently. | <urn:uuid:a807190c-74f1-451d-a640-a0e3a3d04331> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/5357857-post2.html | 2016-05-25T07:27:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049274191.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002114-00211-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.99383 | 92 | [
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Who hasn't been called a geek at some time or another? Whether it was for wearing floods in high school or standing in line for the opening of Lord of the Rings, everyone has felt the sting. But, depending on what you're into, being a geek can be cool, smart and hip. Some people even flaunt it. Here are a few locals who have made their geekiness part of their identity — and name. — Susan Thurston [email protected]
The Happy Geek
To Chad Whitermore, geeks aren't just nerdy. They're happy.
Hence his title: Head Happy Geek.
Whitermore, 25, owns The Happy Geek website design company in St. Petersburg. He started it four years ago to help small and mid-size companies create a strong web presence.
What makes him a geek? Just about everything. He studied computer programming at the University of South Florida. He works on computers all day and dabbles in remote controlled helicopters. When his wife sees him going into an Apple store, she knows it's going to be awhile.
"I have just about every Apple thing they have,'' he said.
He started playing with computers at age 12 and making money as a geek when he was 14, fixing the computers at his dad's office. A soldier in the Army Reserve, he earned the nickname "Gadget'' from his unit administrator.
Geek Pride Day is a highlight of his year. On May 25, his website (thehappygeek.com) gets a spike in hits from celebratory geeks worldwide who stumble upon his site.
This year, Whitermore plans to tweak his logo and post a Top 10 list of geeky things to do. He'll buy a new gadget and wear large, black-framed glasses and a geeky shirt like Mario Brothers.
After work, he'll host a Star Wars movie night at his house.
The Savvy Chic Geek
Cara Bernstein Chernoff learned the basics of being a savvy, chic geek from her mother, who shunned paying retail. She gets a thrill exploring something new without having to invest a lot and loves the social media aspect of marketing.
Bernstein Chernoff, 28, combined the two to create thesavvychicgeek.com, a month-old website devoted to connecting people with good deals online.
The Carrollwood resident finds bargains through Living Social, Groupon, Dealsurf and other deal sites and blasts them out to family and friends.
"There's some savvy deals out there and people don't know where to find them,'' she said.
Her research pays off, usually in the form of half-price or better. She was certified in scuba diving for $149 and bought a canvas print of her wedding photo for $45. Anything she wants to do, she looks for a deal first.
A newbie from Atlanta, she said hunting for discounts has helped her discover restaurants, stores and services. She found Datz Deli through Groupon, and the Tampa Pitcher Show.
She keeps track of store sales and tests products through bzzagent and other social-marketing companies. In the world of daily discounts, she knows the value of patience.
"If you can plan ahead for something you can get it a good price,'' she said.
Tracy Bentley Jagiello says if you think you're a geek girl, you probably are.
And she ought to know. She co-authored IBM Redbook: Deploying a Secure Portal Solution on Linux using WebSphere Portal V5.0.2 and Tivoli Access Manager V5.1.
Huh? If you have to ask, you probably won't appreciate it anyway.
Bentley, 34, is a technical sales manager for IBM and director of Women in Technology International's Central Florida network.
Through WITI, she organizes monthly Geek Girl Happy Hours and career advancement events for woman in the science and technology fields. They make no apologies for liking motherboards and Macs. It's part of their DNA.
Bentley says she became a Geek Girl in college when she got hooked on AOL for communicating long distance with family and friends. She was intrigued by the technical aspect and wanted to understand the magic behind it all.
She joined IBM 12 years ago and now heads a Southeast team that sells software to Fortune 500 companies. Though fascinated by gadgets, she has a particular interest in the social network side of computers. In less than a year, she grew her WITI group to 120 women exclusively through Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
"I just love seeing how quickly you can bring people together,'' said Bentley, who works out of her home in Safety Harbor.
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NASHVILLE - State lawmakers have reconvened the 108th Tennessee General Assembly in a legislative session that is expected to feature debates over creating a school voucher program and whether to allow supermarkets to sell wine.
House and Senate speakers gaveled in around noon today for a session they are hoping to wrap up as quickly as possible so lawmakers can focus on their re-election bids. All 99 House seats are up for re-election this year, along with 17 of 33 seats in the Senate.
But lawmakers will first have to approve the state's $33 billion annual spending plan amid flagging state revenues. Through the first five months of the current budget year, general fund revenues were running $175 million below expectations.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services
Administration recently awarded an $862,532 Advanced Nursing Education Grant to Judy LeFlore, a professor and interim
associate dean for research of the UT Arlington College
of Nursing. The funding reflects the growing popularity
of interprofessional education and the important role social workers and nurses
play in treating patients holistically, she said.
is a realization from the federal government all the way down to academia that
education of health care professionals in silos is not very effective or
efficient. We need to shift the task of learning to work together as a team to
the education end, rather than the service end,” LeFlore said.
will work with School of Social Work professors Gail Adorno and Joan Blakey,
as well as fellow nursing professors Mindi Anderson, Patricia Thomas and
Sharolyn Dihigo and clinical instructors Lindy Moake and Sara Moore.
in Fall 2013 and again in Fall 2014, about 40 graduate students, from the
School of Social Work and the pediatric and neonatal nurse practitioner
program, will be selected for the grant program. They will work together in small
groups for a year to come up with care plans for selected case studies. Professors will teach the students about each profession’s
roles and responsibilities, distinct professional values, as well as
identifying barriers to teamwork between social workers and nurses in the
“There aren’t many models for how to teach nurses and social
workers to work collaboratively. Yet, great working relationships between
nurses and social workers translates into patients receiving better, more comprehensive care,” Adorno said. “This
initiative with nursing will allow us to develop a unique model of
interprofessional education enhanced by technology in a specific practice
setting – neonatal and pediatric health care.”
addition to in-person collaboration, the student teams will use the virtual
world of Second Life to meet and work together on projects. They’ll also work
through simulations with computerized patients in UT Arlington’s Smart Hospital ™, a
state-of-the-art clinical lab with 32 high-tech simulation stations. The
program also will have a service-learning component, which will include
volunteer work at SafeHaven of Tarrant County, a domestic violence shelter with
locations in Arlington and Fort Worth.
and the research team hope to use what they learn to design a course on team
dynamics for social work and nursing graduate students to take together in the
future. They believe the model they establish could be applied to other areas
of care, such as the growing field of geriatrics.
University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing has become one of the
largest and most successful nursing programs in the nation, with preliminary
figures for Fall 2012 showing enrollment of 7,562 students. Visit www.uta.edu/nursing/ to learn more.
The University of Texas
at Arlington is a comprehensive research institution in the heart of North
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This is an examination appeal.
During the examination proceedings, the Examining Division (ED) objected in a first communication dated 29 September 2008 to the claims on file. The objections concerned lack of unity, lack of clarity, unallowable amendments, lack of novelty and of inventive step.
The applicant amended the claims.
Objections against the new claims were raised in a communication dated 12 February 2009. After the applicant filed new claims, the ED summoned it to oral proceedings (OPs) and sent, annexed to the summons, a communication dated 4 September 2009. In this communication, the ED raised objections under A 84 and A 123(2) to the claims then on file.
On 21 September 2009 and again on 7 December 2009, the applicant’s representative contacted the examiner by telephone and inquired whether the outstanding objections could be discussed over the phone. The examiner indicated on both occasions that a discussion over the phone prior to the appointed OPs was not considered appropriate.
With a letter dated 10 December 2009 the appellant submitted a revised set of claims and stated that there was a misunderstanding on the part of the ED and that it was not possible for it to understand where the misunderstanding lay. In the last paragraph of the letter it requested cancellation of the OPs and continuation of the proceedings in writing. The reason was that “... the applicant does not consider it beneficial to attend the forthcoming OPs”.
During a telephone conversation on 1st January 2010, the examiner again explained to the representative that the ED needed to discuss in OPs, and not just in an informal telephone conversation, whether the recently filed claims really satisfied the requirements of clarity, added subject-matter and, subject to a clear claim formulation, of novelty and inventive step.
Despite this explanation, the representative informed the ED by letter dated 8 January 2010 that he would not attend the OPs scheduled for 12 January 2010. Instead he requested that a decision under R 111(2) be issued on the basis of the submissions filed so far.
At the end of the OPs, held in the absence of the applicant, the ED issued the decision under appeal. The application was refused because claim 1 did not fulfil the requirements of A 84 and A 123(2) EPC.
The appellant requested that the decision be set aside and that the appeal fees be reimbursed.
The Board found the main request on file to comply with both A 123 and A 84 and then dealt with the request for reimbursement:
[3.1] In the present case, the Board considers that the conduct of the applicant in the first instance proceedings was such that it is not equitable to reimburse the appeal fee even if it were assumed in its favour that a substantial procedural violation occurred.
[3.2] The reimbursement of the appeal fee under R 103(1)(a) is subject to three conditions:
i. the Board of Appeal considers the appeal to be allowable;
ii. a substantial procedural violation occurred during the proceedings before the first instance department;
iii. the reimbursement is equitable.
[3.3] According to the jurisprudence of the Boards of Appeal, the conduct of the appellant can render the reimbursement of the appeal fee not equitable (cf. condition iii) even if a substantial procedural violation occurred, in particular if the appellant made no use of opportunities given to it to participate in the initial proceedings (cf. decisions cited in Case Law, 6th edition, 2010, VII.E.17.3.2).
[3.4] It is generally recognised that the purpose of OPs is to settle as far as possible all outstanding questions relevant to the decision and to speed up the procedure (see Visser, The Annoted EPC, 19th edition, A 116, point 1; Benkard, EPÜ, 2nd edition, A 116 note 2; Singer-Stauder EPÜ Kommentar 5th edition, A 116 note 2; and also the “Notice from the EPO concerning non-attendance at OPs before the ED”, published in OJ EPO 2008, 471).
Accordingly, A 116(1) foresees that OPs shall take place not only at the request of a party but also at the instance of the EPO if it considers this to be expedient.
This provision and the use of the word “shall” in it has three important procedural consequences:
i. It follows from this provision that the parties have not only a right to OPs when they request them but also a duty to participate in OPs, where this is considered expedient by the Office in order to assist the Office to bring the proceedings to a close.
ii. It also follows that parties do not have a right to a solely written procedure.
iii. It further follows that under the EPC OPs are in themselves a procedural opportunity for a party to present comments and for the Office to present objections, even if these were not communicated beforehand. Whether in such a case a party who duly attends the OPs has the right to an interruption or even to a postponement of the OPs to answer these new objections will depend on the particular case. However, this is not the issue in the present case because the party did not attend the OPs.
The consequence of the non-observation of the duty to attend the OPs when they take place at the instance of the Office is set out on the one hand in R 115(2), according to which if a party duly summoned to OPs before the EPO does not appear as summoned, the proceedings may continue without that party, and on the other hand in the “Notice from the EPO concerning non-attendance at OPs before the ED”, published in OJ EPO 2008, 471, which also makes it clear that a duly summoned party who chooses not to attend OPs has to expect that a decision will be taken at the OPs even if it has submitted amended claims on which no communication was issued.
In fact, this Notice, together with R 115(2), make it clear that the OPs are themselves an opportunity for the applicant to present its comments, in accordance with A 113(1). They confirm that, if a party decides not to attend the OPs without a serious reason, it chooses not to make use of the opportunity to comment at the OPs on any of the objections raised during them and, as explained above, it has no right to make additional written submissions.
[3.5] As is apparent from the file, the ED repeatedly explained to the applicant that it considered the OPs to be necessary in order to clarify all the problems of the claims on file. It also appears from the file that it was clear to the appellant that the ED had difficulty in understanding the case submitted by it and considered OPs necessary to clarify the matter (see the letter of the appellant dated 10 December 2009).
It was clear to the appellant that the OPs were appointed not only at its request but also because the ED considered it expedient.
Thus, the applicant had an obligation to attend the OPs as explained above under point [3.4].
[3.6] Despite this clear situation, the applicant did not attend the OPs and did not give any serious reasons for not attending.
In fact, the only reason for not attending was given in its letter dated 8 January 2010 which states that “... the applicant does not consider it beneficial to attend the forthcoming OPs.” It confirmed in the appeal proceedings that this was its only reason for not attending OPs.
Serious reasons which could justify non-attendance at OPs are the same reasons that could justify postponement and have been exemplified in the Notice of the Vice-President of DG3 of the EPO dated 16 July 2007 concerning OPs before the Boards of Appeal (OJ EPO 2007, Special edition No. 3, 115). Although this Notice is directed to OPs before the Boards of Appeal, the criteria set out therein are generally valid for all departments of the Office. From the examples given in this Notice, it can be seen that serious reasons are personal or social circumstances which prevent the party or its representative from personally attending the OPs.
The Board does not consider the reason submitted by the appellant to be a personal or social circumstance which would have prevented it or its representative from personally attending the OPs.
[3.7] The appellant was very well aware of the consequences of its conduct. In its statement setting out the grounds of appeal it submitted: “As it turns out, the applicant’s fears as to what might occur at the OPs were fully realised …”. Therefore, it cannot be said that in view of the objections previously raised it was taken by surprise.
The appellant submits that its conduct was correct, because it had asked for a discussion of the case over the phone and this was refused.
However, a telephone conversation with one examiner cannot be considered to be a replacement for OPs because it does not allow the case to be concluded since the other members of the ED are not present.
[3.8] The appellant also appears to believe that it is up to the party to decide whether the proceedings should be conducted only in writing or over the telephone or in OPs, and the Office has to adapt itself to its wishes. As explained above, although the parties have a right to OPs when they request them, this does not mean that they have the right to decide in which way the proceedings as a whole are to be conducted.
[3.9] It follows that the appellant not only consciously did not make use of a procedural opportunity given to it to present its comments but also acted in a way which was contrary to its procedural duty to assist the Office in bringing the case to a close.
This amounts to a conduct which contributed – as did the conduct of the ED – to the procedural situation which arose in the OPs and to the alleged procedural violation. Furthermore, it cannot be ruled out that the appeal could have been avoided if the applicant had attended the OPs before the first instance.
[3.10] G 4/92 was cited by the appellant. This opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal, which did not deal with the question of the equitableness of the reimbursement of the appeal fee, concerned inter partes cases and a theoretical situation in which,
- first, one party files new facts or evidence for the first time during OPs,
- second, these facts or evidence are admitted by the opposition division although the late filing constitutes an abuse of procedure, and
- third, the other party does not attend the OPs although it should be noted that the reasons for the non-attendance were not dealt with by the Enlarged Board.
In fact, the duty to hear the absent party was the consequence of the late filed submissions being admitted (see points and of the Opinion). Thus, the procedural situation under consideration in G 4/92 is a very specific one and, according to this Board, this opinion cannot form the basis for a general modification of the duty established in A 116(1).
Decision T 197/88, also cited by the appellant, is not applicable because in the present case the ED did give the applicant an opportunity to present comments. Decision T 951/92 is not relevant because it did not deal with the question of whether the reimbursement of the appeal fee was equitable.
[3.11] For the above reasons the reimbursement of the appeal fee is not equitable. […]
The case is remitted to the department of first instance with the order to proceed with substantive examination of the application on the basis of claims 1 to 5, filed at the OPs of 24 October 2012.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
European Commission Vice President Siim Kallas, who is responsible for transport, has issued a menu of short and medium-term policy options for the European Commission to pursue in order to assuage the social and economic damage wrought during the so-called "volcanic ash crisis." See Press Release, Europa, Commission Outlines Response to Tackle Impact on Air Transport, MEMO/10/152 (Apr. 27, 2010) (available here). In addition to revising international procedures to deal with the fallout of volcanic activity and accelerating the implementation of the Single European Sky, Kallas's recommendations included affording latitude to Member States to provide air carriers with loans and other financial guarantees at market rates. Kallas noted, however, that any State aid from EU Members "must be granted on the basis of uniform criteria" and "cannot be used to allow unfair assistance to companies which is not direcly related to the crisis."
Even with a green light for limited aid, it's unclear how far EU Member States are willing to go to compensate their airlines for costs related to the crisis when other industrial sectors in the EU were adversely affected as well. Last week, Peter Ramsauer, Germany's Transport Minister, said he "would resist any appeal to the State" for aid. See Tony Barber, German Minister Opposes Airline State Aid, Fin. Times, Apr. 19, 2010 (available here). Of course, with EU airlines now saying that their total losses will be in excess of $2 billion while laying a majority of the blame for the disordered nature of the airspace closures on Member State Governments, the pressure for State aid grants is increasing.
Regardless of the form any Commission approved aid guidelines take, there will certainly be room for abuse. Given the record losses the EU air transport industry has suffered in the last year, some Member States may use any flexibility afforded by the Commission to "prop up" their failing carriers. At the very least, the infusions of aid will raise monitoring costs for the European Commission and could result in protracted investigations if indeed the Member States decide to test the plasticity of the forthcoming aid guidelines.
Finally, even if there is a credible chance that some EU air carriers will go bankrupt from the crisis unless they receive the benefit of State aid, it is unclear that it constitutes a problematic development. The EU market remains saturated with airlines; further consolidation may be what the sector needs before it can begin operating in the black again. | <urn:uuid:23568367-6153-4258-b2b4-85fb30f4ebb6> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/aviation/2010/04/state-aid-on-the-way.html | 2016-05-28T00:42:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277286.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00126-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937942 | 505 | [
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5th Annual Phylomania Workshop on Theoretical Phylogenetics
Organized by Barbara Hollandhttp://ow.ly/pVL3x
11/06/2013 - 11/08/2013
The University of Tasmania
Phylogenetics is concerned with the problem of reconstructing the past evolutionary history of organisms from molecular data, such as DNA, or morphological characters. There is ongoing interest in the further development of the mathematics that underlies computational phylogenetic methods. Hidden from view, in the software packages used by biologists, are algorithms performing statistical inference using Markov models on binary trees. The mathematics involved represents a unique confluence of probability theory, discrete mathematics, statistical inference, algebraic geometry, and group theory. Phylomania brings together phylogenetic researchers with a strong theoretical leaning, with the aim of discussing some of the more pressing problems.
This conference series showcases work at the intersection of mathematics and evolution.
• Barbara Holland, School of Maths and Physics, University of Tasmania
• Jeremy Sumner, School of Maths and Physics, University of Tasmania
• Karen Bradford, School of Maths and Physics, University of Tasmania
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Soft-spoken and unassuming, Jodie Foster in person seems anything but the daredevil. But you don't get to be one of Hollywood's only actress-directors by being afraid to take chances. Being fiercely intelligent doesn't hurt, either.
When she was not quite 13, Foster played a teenage prostitute opposite Robert De Niro (her favorite actor) in Taxi Driver. That same year, she portrayed a salty speakeasy queen in Bugsy Malone. A year later she was cast as a young murderess in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. Evolving from child star to leading lady, Foster won her first Best Actress Academy Award as a gang-rape survivor in The Accused. She took home her second Oscar as FBI investigator Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (a role turned down by Michelle Pfeiffer because she thought the serial-killer subject was too grisly). After making her directorial debut in Little Man Tate, Foster took on the unique challenge in Nell of playing a woman raised in the woods who speaks her own language because she's had no human contact except with her speech-impaired mother. Even as the urban vigilante in The Brave One, Foster brought a pathos to her role that elevated the movie above its Death Wish pedigree.
Now, with The Beaver, Foster has topped herself, directing and starring in one of the most unusual tales to come out of Hollywood in years. The Beaver tells the story of Walter Black, a once-successful toy executive and family man who suffers from suicidal depression. No matter what he tries, Walter can't seem to get himself back on track...until he begins talking to people through a beaver hand puppet he finds in a Dumpster.
"Originally, the story was a novel," Foster relates. "The writer [Kyle Killen] got halfway through it and realized he wanted to write a screenplay. I read the script and loved it. The beaver was the perfect metaphor for somebody who builds something and destroys at the same time."
Foster plays Walter's long-suffering wife, Meredith, who buys into him as the beaver because it makes her socially withdrawn younger child, Henry (Riley Thomas Stewart), come alive. Only the couple's 17-year-old son, Porter (Anton Yelchin), who resents his father, finds the idea ridiculous.
Bringing such a bizarre script to the screen is daunting enough, though for Foster the task was made easier by her passion for the story. Upping the ante is the fact that Walter is played by Mel Gibson. The similarity between Walter's experiences and Gibson's recent real-life domestic troubles give the actor's performance an intriguing resonance. Despite his megawatt star power, Gibson has decided not to do interviews for the film. (After the release date was delayed several times, The Beaver finally opens nationally on May 20.) In a montage sequence, we watch as the news media simultaneously report and exploit Walter's beaver-puppet persona when his toy company starts to make money again. It's an eerie sequence that echoes all the negative press coverage Gibson got this past year.
Foster doesn't view this fascination with celebrity scandal as a social illness. "I don't look at it as a sickness," she says. "It's a normal human reaction that's been magnified by all the technology that increasingly is blurring the line between news and entertainment. Watching someone go through a personal agony...it can be exploited and trivialized by the process of being a media celebrity."
Gibson and Foster have been friends since they costarred in Maverick in 1994. Whatever Gibson's personal problems, he remains a fine yet underappreciated actor, perhaps because his offscreen behavior has tended to overshadow his achievements. His performance in The Beaver is completely convincing despite the weirdness of having to talk through a hand puppet.
"He's an amazingly talented person," Foster enthuses. "We all know the strength he shows on the screen. He's also witty. He can be funny and charming. I knew he would bring an affability to the role of Walter. He's a soulful, interesting guy who knows a lot about struggle. And he's very articulate about that and is interested in all the things Walter is interested in. Transformation. Change. The relationship with his son."
Walter's use of the beaver puppet as a form of self-therapy isn't as absurd as it sounds. "Most therapists who work with children use puppets," Foster says, "especially with children under three years old. You have to think of the beaver as a survival tool. Walter grows up with a lot of money and is swallowed up by his emotions. If Walter really wants to change, then the personality he adopts, the way that he communicates, has to be a totally different one from himself. The beaver is like a working-class South London scrapper who is a leader and is confident and is kind of removed from emotion. He's got a handle on things. He's totally in control. These are all the things Walter needs to be."
With Foster at the helm, The Beaver swings from comedy to drama to tragedy and even horror. The auteur theory of filmmaking states it's the director's responsibility to give a movie a unified tone. In the case of The Beaver, though, that's probably undesirable, given the different moods that are allowed sway to jerk the viewer's emotions around.
"This is not a disease-of-the-week movie. It's challenging. We ask the audience to go for something that's high concept. It's a fable and very witty. There's a lot of comedy even to the base idea. Then we ask them little by little to abandon that. I think it's great, but it is unusual. Sometimes we had a scene that played too funny for where it was in the movie. And there were a couple of scenes we took out that I loved. They were comic but came too late, when the movie's dramatic trajectory had taken hold."
The tonal challenges came into play especially in postproduction. "Trying to get the tone right. Trying to get everybody used to the fact that it's a drama. Trying to honor where the film needed to head and assuage everybody's fears about that. It wasn't easy."
Although the film has comic elements, Foster is emphatic that her movie is about depression and how it can wreak havoc on a family. Despite all the strange twists and turns, it tells in very direct terms how a fractured family finds a way to heal itself. "For instance, Walter can't connect with his younger son because he's too exhausted," Foster says. "That's what depression does to you. So when Henry, his little boy, gets something back that feels genuine and loving, what does he care whether it's a puppet or not? In fact, maybe it's easier in some ways."
The film's shifts in tone parallel Walter's emotional swings, which of course impact on his wife and kids. "In a family where somebody suffers from depression, everyone else is touched by it. A family is a web, this weird tapestry where we're woven together. That's something that fascinates me. This frustrating web. What is beautiful and horrible about marriage is when you love somebody, you're stuck having to go through their feelings and constantly making decisions about whether it's worth it. Walter's wife has to change too. She wants to go back, go back to the past, when she and Walter were fun, were young, and were joyful. Walter loved her and everything was okay and she wants to do that again. And Walter's answer is that man's dead and they have to move into the future. And if she can't move into the future with him, he can't move with her. I think every longtime couple goes through that moment where someone is clinging to the past and someone else will want to move into the future."
Porter, the couple's teenage son, expresses his animosity toward his father by hanging Post-its in his bedroom that remind him of all the reasons he doesn't want to grow up to be like Walter. There's the hint that this OCD-like behavior means he may be headed for his own bout with depression. At the same time there's a filial bond between father and son that makes it difficult if not impossible to sever ties completely. Foster dramatizes the minuses as well as the pluses of this delicate bond. And she makes no secret of the fact that the film struck a personal nerve.
"Sometimes I don't want to be like my mom, and yet I am like her. It's something you can't really escape. There's a part of you that's connected to your parents either in a dark way or in a light way. When Porter was a little kid, all he wanted was to be like his dad. Then he grew up and he wanted to be anything but him. The movie explores whether he's ready to recover, stop running away from what he is afraid of, and start running toward what he is. Everybody goes through that with their parents. The process of growing away from them and growing back."
Foster's first self-directed film, Little Man Tate, told the story of a child intelligent beyond his years and how his single, working-class mom tries to give him a normal life. The autobiographical echoes to Foster's own childhood are there. Foster was amazingly mature at an early age, acting in Disney movies as young as age five and being exposed early to experiences on the set that allowed her to think about directing someday, a vocation few actresses dream possible.
"One day I came to the set of The Courtship of Eddie's Father and Bill Bixby was directing one of the episodes. I remember being amazed because I didn't know actors were allowed to direct. I was so excited and thought it was the greatest thing. I thought I could do that too someday."
Foster points to Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar (for 2009's The Hurt Locker), as a hopeful sign that opportunities for women to direct will increase. Films by women that would make hundreds of millions of dollars would help too. In the late '80s and early '90s, Penny Marshall directed two movies, Big and A League of Their Own, that grossed more than $100 million. "Women directors are not just personal directors or indie directors," she says. "Yes, I make personal movies. That's because they're what I'm interested in."
Being your own director has its drawbacks. "You plan stuff as a director and the actress in you is privy to all that information, which is fantastic. Things go much faster because you know what you want and then you achieve it. The problem is, you don't get any surprises. You don't get as many choices. That's what many director-actors lament: They wish they had more material to work from."
In chronicling one family's battle with depression, The Beaver offers no easy answers, but it does conclude on a hopeful note. "Life is hard, and everyone experiences that and has to process things that are difficult to process," Foster says ruefully. "If something tragic happens, there's no little pill that can take the feelings away, but you don't have to be alone."
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Clayton Williams was running for governor of Texas 22 years ago when he made a remark about rape which the New York Times described as “off-the-cuff” when they reported on his subsequent apology. What he said was, “If it’s inevitable,” meaning the rape, “just relax and enjoy it.” Given what has transpired with Rep. Todd Akin in the last two days, I’m sure you now get why I’m bringing this up now.
What’s clear from Williams’ mea culpa is that he understood the effect of his remarks on his campaign, but not on people. He gave one of the classic “if anyone was offended” non-apology, and went on to offer the setting as an excuse for that ”That’s not a Republican women’s club that we were having this morning…It’s a working cow camp, a tough world where you can get kicked in the testicles if you’re not careful.” But the comment that struck me in the Times recap was the rather black-and-white defense from Williams’ wife, Modesta:
If the word rape was in a joke, if sex was in a joke, it was just a joke,” Mrs. Williams said. ”He’s about as much of a gentleman, a caring person, as there is.”
Several weeks ago, Melissa took an extensive look on the show at the Daniel Tosh controversy, in which the Comedy Central host responded to a woman heckling him by joking about her being gang-raped. We had a lively debate about the merits of joking about things that, by and large, offend a lot of folks. One of the things that emerged from that discussion, and that controversy, for me was simply a reminder of a simple truth: a joke not something simply that the comedian utters from a position of power, but also something which the audience receives.
I’ve been thinking about the Tosh situation in relation to Akin’s for a few reasons. First time it popped in my head, obviously, is when Akin made his “legitimate rape” remark and I thought back to all the other stupid things said about rape in recent memory. But when I came across my friend Irin Carmon’s column yesterday at Salon, begging for Akin to stay in the race because it might actually cause Republicans to be held to account, I thought of Tosh again:
Let’s carry these views on women’s bodies to their ultimate conclusion. A few starting questions: If Todd Akin has his way and the morning after pill is banned for everyone, what happens with all those unintended pregnancies? More to the point, how should women be punished when abortion is banned on the logic that it’s murder? And how will we pay for the massive prison expansion that will entail? Let Akin and his ideological comrades — much of the House GOP — answer for it.
Part of this has to do with how we operate in our American media culture: one person says or does something, and we seize upon that to create a larger National Conversation™ about the topic. That tendency is a positive one in a lot of ways, but I get why both politicians and comedians would hate it. It pressures them to be on their p’s and q’s about every potentially offensive word they say, for fear it blows up into something they can’t contain, and distracts from their intended message.
This isn’t to say that Tosh and Akin should shut up, or that they deserve a pass; no, they’re free to say whatever really sexist, stupid stuff they like, and we have the freedom to criticize it. Only people drunk on privilege might have an issue with having to be accountable for what they say that is offensive to others.
But Tosh, being a comedian, wasn’t accountable to anyone but his sizable fanbase, Comedy Central, and their corporate overlords. Moreover, Tosh didn’t represent the view of all or even most comedians on this. For Republicans, there is no laughing off what Akin said, or burying him under the bus, no matter how hard they try. They know that unlike the Tosh controversy, this isn’t a news-cycle distraction that will go away – because Akin is one of them. They know he’s more Clayton Williams to McCaskill’s Ann Richards, poised to lose a race in which he had a built-in advantage.
Two days after Akin’s remarks and after dissing him twice previously, Presidential nominee-to-be Mitt Romney courageously followed the massive anti-Akin wave in his party by finally calling for his departure from the Missouri Senate race. Of course, this came hours after Akin had already released the apology ad you see above, and reaffirmed to conservative radio host Mike Huckabee in a rather defiant interview that he is indeed staying in the race. (It also came after reports revealed that a doctor whose still pushes the pseudo-science Akin cites endorsed Romney for president back in 2007 – and Romney was geeked about it).
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus threw Akin overboard (again) and making a poor attempt at damage control on our own “Jansing & Co.”, attempting to shield his almost-official presidential ticket from Akin’s stink by repeating “we’re a pro-life party” several times and insisting that most women voters actually prefer that. While our Lean Forward blog debunked that last assertion, the first thing he said is somewhat true. (An aside: the term is “anti-abortion,” Chairman Priebus.)
Evidence that it’s true is found in the Republican Party platform they’ll unveil at their upcoming convention in Tampa. CNN offered a peek:
Republicans drafting their party’s official policy platform on Tuesday ratified a call for a Constitutional ban on abortion that makes no exceptions for rape or incest. The vote to endorse the party’s long-standing opposition to abortion and support for a “human life amendment” took place at a meeting of the GOP’s official platform committee in Tampa, the site of next week’s Republican National Convention.
This is less news than it is color to the Akin story, given that this language has been in past editions of the platform – one that also will include an abstinence-only amendment. (They were in the 21st century long enough yesterday to strike language comparing illegal immigrants to “cattle.”) There’s yesterday’s example of Rep. Steve King saying something else stupid about rape-induced pregancies, but he’s always an outlier in my book. When the no-exceptions abortion language is in the party platform, along with the standard call for a Constitutional amendment to make it so, this isn’t about Republicans like Steve King, or even Todd Akin. It’s about the whole lot of them.
Republicans were already about to nominate a vice-presidential nominee who shares Akin’s views on abortion and redefining rape well before they kept a Constitutional no-exceptions abortion amendment in their party platform. And I noted yesterday and last year, on The Maddow Blog, Republicans have been proud to attempt to redefine rape with H.R. 3, their third bill in their newly Republican House. Considering that, and the fact that they’d like to see abortion done away with, why should they get away with scapegoating Akin because he phrased their own positions inarticulately?
At least Akin phrased them at all – our own Andrea Mitchell concluded her conversation yesterday with EMILY’s List president Stephanie Schriock by noting that they’d love to have had a Romney campaign viewpoint, but that the campaign felt “they don’t have an appropriate spokesperson” to address the issues. I wish I was kidding. It will be a marvel to see what Romney does when a moderator does his or her job and asks him about this during a debate with President Obama, with no spokesperson lifeline to call.
And the thing Republicans are forgetting is that once you’ve burned a guy, he doesn’t owe anything to you. Akin is, as we often say in the #nerdland offices, going pure honey badger right now – doing a ton of morning TV today and revealing that vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan did call him to ask him to withdraw.
Do you think Akin cares that he has put women’s issues and reproductive freedoms back on the front page, even though it’s clear that a Romney campaign that can’t even talk about them? It’s clear Akin the honey badger doesn’t care what Romney, Priebus, or any other Republican thinks, or wants. (He apparently cares about the voters of Missouri, which is hilarious for another reason I’ll explore a little bit later today.)
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Muff Two: The Chafening
Welcome to the moment in which I risk damage to the lady-garden over 42.2 Ks; that's 26 miles in the old money.
Did they use miles in classical antiquity? I DON'T KNOW. I do seem to recall the Marathon messegner dude carked it when he delivered his message, didn't he? Oh. I don't know this either.
But I do know that a horribly chafed muff is a pain well worth enduring for the sake of a great arse. Man. You should see my arse. You could crack eggs on that bad-girl.
Being buoyed by the promise of a wonderful bottom can only be beat by the simple feeling that I am running SLASH wheezing to do some good for someone other than myself.
Of the organisations available for me to choose, I have selected the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. I’ve had a poke ‘round and this foundation looks good; it seems like a concern short on admin and big on building a meaningful program of education for kids and adults living, for the most part, in remote communities.
Of course, my motivation here—as always—is selfish. I believe that if we can help implement an engaging program that results in better literacy skills for Indigenous children and adults, we increase our chances of producing a public intellectual or two and, goodness knows, our country is running short on those.
I am doing this because I want something more interesting to read and someone more stirring to whom I might listen. I want more erudite Indigenous voices because, frankly, there’s sufficient white ones. Bit more interesting all ‘round.
So. If you fancy, support selfish Helen on her selfish run. And, feel free to offer me training, race-day and arse maintenance advice.
And muff liniment. TOGETHER WE CAN BEAT THE CHAFENING. (And if I keep my goal pace up after these months of stinky training, I can beat the Prime Minister's crappy marathon time of 4 hours and 51 minutes. GOODNESS but I'd love to beat Abbott's time.)
Indigenous Literacy Foundation
"The Indigenous Literacy Foundation is helping to open the door to our young people's dreams," Sally Morgan, Ambassador. Help us address literacy and improve the lives and opportunities of young Indigenous children growing up in the remotest parts of Australia. The Indigenous Literacy Foundation advocates and raises funds to deliver culturally appropriate books to over 200 remote communities across Australia. The foundation is working in a small number of communities trialling an early literacy project aimed at babies and preschool children. It also translates books into local language and works hand in hand with remote communities on literacy projects. ILF was established in 2006 by educator and bookseller Suzy Wilson and is an initiative of the Australian Book Industry. "...for some of the parents this is the first time they have sat down and read a story with their child, so it is great that we have these wonderful books available for them" Port Augusta Community Group.
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Marilyn Cohen, Contributor
The news from the municipal bond market continues to be mind-numbing. A cup of
Simply read and follow the new 10 Commandments of Municipal Bond Investing and thou shalt have the where-with-all to survive the credit crisis.
Thou shalt know that municipal-bond credit quality must stand on its own.
Your best defense is to buy only General Obligation Prerefunded or Escrowed to Maturity bonds, Water and Sewer Revenue bonds and essential-purpose municipals.
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Thou shalt assume municipal bond insurance is worthless unless the insurer is FSA (presently under scrutiny),
Investors evaluate an insurer’s claims-paying ability by the reserves and investments it has for all of its insured customers. This means a company that insures all types of real estate–commercial, industrial and residential–must be able to pay claims to allits divisions. It doesn’t mean that if things go horribly wrong in commercial real estate, then residential is out of luck, and the company can still maintain its credit rating.
Recent insurer downgrades point out what an outright farce we were fed about MBIA
The mantra from the New York Insurance Commissioner and Wall Street was, “They must be saved in order to save the municipal bond market.” That was the big lie of 2008. Saving the monoline insurers was (and still is) all about saving the banks. Downgrades cause the banks to take additional write-downs. Then the banks have to raise the capital necessary to shore up their pathetically decimated balance sheets.
Thou shalt never buy or sell municipal bonds in the secondary market without using TRACE.
The TRACE system shows recent trading activity in particular bonds. It’s a free service accessible on the Web (www.investinginbonds.com) sponsored by the Securities Investor’s Financial Manager’s Association. TRACE gives individual investors almost the same pricing information as the brokers. Not only does TRACE list the most recent prices, it also gives a history of the pricing trends.
Using TRACE, individual investors can see the trading pattern of a particular bond in relation to other bonds with a similar credit rating or within the same industry. All these features combined allow individual investors to better gauge their entry and exit points. Not using TRACE when you buy or sell bonds is like trying to drive your car blindfolded–not advisable.
Thou shalt always negotiate prices in the secondary market and never take your broker’s first offer as the final gospel.
When buying and selling bonds, your broker is not your friend. As nice a person as they may be, brokers will always place their own best interests before yours. They have no real incentive to give retail clients the best price. They won’t see the money again until the bond is called or it matures; that could be years into the future. So they need to make their mark-up for themselves on each transaction right now. Individual investors not using TRACE suffer the results.
Thou shalt always determine liquidity by knowing issue size and maturity size.
We professionals define bond liquidity by the size of the total issue and also by the size of the maturity in which we’re interested. Issues too small don’t have enough buyers and sellers to make an orderly market. When that happens, prices and availability can swing dramatically. Neither bodes well for individual investors.
Credit quality also has a bearing on an issue’s liquidity. Bonds having a high credit quality–high ratings–generally have more liquidity because they fit more investors’ risk profiles. With greater liquidity, investors can enter and exit the bond easily.
Thou shalt always consider the taxable equivalent when buying municipal bonds.
Taxable-equivalent yield makes the municipal bond market go ’round. This is the amount of money you would have to earn from a taxable investment like a Certificate of Deposit to be competitive with a tax-free muni. The calculation is easy:
Taxable-equivalent yield = Muni-bond yield / (1 – Federal Marginal Tax Rate)
For example, say we have a yield on a tax-free muni of 4.5%, and the investor’s federal tax rate is 35%. The taxable equivalent yield is 6.92% (.045 / (1-0.35) = 6.92%). Said a different way, you would have to earn 6.92% on a CD or a taxable bond to get the same return as a 4.5%. If you can’t, buy the bond.
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Thou shalt expect market volatility in leveraged, closed-end municipal bond funds.
Closed-end mutual funds typically borrow using auction-rate preferred stocks. If you’re a regular reader of the Forbes Tax-Advantaged Investor, we warned you about the danger of auction-rate preferreds early on. As the subprime chaos affected the credit worthiness of the municipal bond insurers (MBIA, AMBAC, FGIC, et al.), worries grew about the quality of the collateral within the closed-end funds. Investor willingness to hold auction-rate preferreds dried up. Many remain frozen until the fund sponsors can find alternative funding sources. Interest rates on these instruments have soared.
Thou shalt not traffic with the pagan municipal-bond hedge funds, for they are the work of Satan.
The muni hedge funds imploded when the bond insurer’s liabilities grew and the credit crisis became acute. As a result, investors who had been enjoying 8% to 10% annual returns from the hedge funds employing an arbitrage strategy using structured municipal-bond trades suddenly found themselves suffering huge losses of principal.
Any thoughts of a positive return dried up when the underlying hedge funds sank to the bottom. Any strategy that depends on a continued imbalance between supply and demand and that assumes a continued difference in the short and long ends of the yield curve will likely have short-lived success–if any.
If thou has less than $200,000 for a municipal bond portfolio, an open-end muni fund shall be your house of worship.
We professionals preach diversification in our clients’ bond portfolios. We spread money around a number of issues. We spread money around issues that are insured by the three top bond insurers. We also buy varying types of rated and unrated bonds.
This requires a certain minimum amount of capital to do properly. Our firm, Envision Capital Management, requests a minimum account size of $500,000 in order to sufficiently distribute a client’s portfolio. Those individual investors with less than $200,000 can still participate in the muni bond market–we just recommend they do it using an open-end, low-fee muni fund.
Thou shalt follow these 10 Municipal Bond Commandments or face communion with a portfolio of questionable credit quality and mediocre returns.
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Vernon K. Robbins. Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation. Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 1996. x + 148 pp. $15.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-56338-183-6.
Reviewed by Grant Boswell (Brigham Young University)
Published on H-Rhetor (June, 1997)
The Textures of Interpretation
One area of rhetorical study that has burgeoned in the last decades is in biblical studies, in particular New Testament studies. The result has been provocative and revealing analyses of the rhetorical function and structure of scriptural texts. Since Amos N. Wilder's Haskell Lectures delivered in 1962 at Oberlin College and culminating in his Early Christian Rhetoric (1964), biblical scholars have steadily investigated scriptural texts using rhetorical critical methods. For more than a decade, Vernon K. Robbins has been a major contributor to the rhetorical turn in New Testament studies, and his book Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation is another milestone in the field. Although the intended audience for the book is students and scholars of the New Testament, the relevance of this book need not be limited to New Testament criticism. Scholars and students of rhetorical criticism, socio-linguistics, and cultural history will find much to reward their time and efforts in this book.
The scope of the book is suggested in its title: to explore the textures of texts. Robbins uses the metaphor of textures within a larger metaphor of tapestry. The richness of a tapestry is best appreciated when beheld from several perspectives, each different from the others and each revealing something unique about the composition of the whole (pp. 2-3). In many ways, Exploring the Texture of Texts is the instructional counterpart of his analysis of the discourses of early Christianity, The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse: Rhetoric, Society and Ideology (Routledge, 1996). The metaphor of tapestry is apt because Robbins presupposes that meaning is multivalent in "that words themselves work in complicated ways to communicate meanings that we only partially understand" and in "that meanings themselves have their meanings by their relation to other meanings" (p. 132). Given these presuppositions, any serious reader will benefit by exploring the multiple layers or the many textures of texts.
Robbins' socio-rhetorical interpretation draws upon work from several disciplines. "Socio" refers to interpretative strategies developed in sociology, anthropology, and socio-linguisitcs. Occasionally, Robbins uses the adjectives "deep" and "thick" to describe the results of socio-rhetorical analyses (pp. 2, 5, 130), and in these adjectives one can hear echoes of Clifford Geertz's classic essays "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture" and "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" (The Interpretation of Cultures 1973). Robbins complements the insights from social science with rhetorical criticism of the Bible and with rhetorical sources such as Aristotle, Rhetorica ad Herennium, Quintillian, Hermogenes' and Theon's progymnasmata, and Burke. The result of this interdisciplinary approach is an impressive array of interpretive tools for the scholar and student.
Robbins' purpose in Exploring the Texture of Texts is "to build an environment for interpretation that provides interpreters with a basic, overall view of life and language as we use it" (p. 2). This goal presupposes the complexity of the interpretive task as well as the abilities that we as interpreters of life and language already possess. His focus, therefore, "is to bring practices of interpretation together that are often separated from one another" and "to integrate skills people use in ordinary life with exploration of the intricacies of language in a text" (p. 2). This goal involves all the language strategies people use to negotiate meanings, but it also includes an awareness of how social and historical locations as well as personal interests affect the interpretive process. Robbins confesses that final interpretations of texts are impossible, and his approach does not claim to yield finality or completeness (p. 2). As a result Robbins has made accessible to anyone who wants to read carefully a rich array of interpretive tools with unlimited potential.
Robbins identifies five textures of texts. They are: 1) inner texture, 2) intertexture, 3) social and cultural texture, 4) ideological texture, and 5) sacred texture. With the exception of the last, all textures could easily be applied, with minor adjustments, to any text. Each chapter analyzes texture focusing primarily on the same passage in the Gospel of Mark 15:1-16:8. Chapter One is devoted to inner texture, or the "features in the language of the text itself" (p. 7). Chapter Two explains intertexture, or the relation of the text to other texts, oral, written, cultural, social, and historical. Chapter Three develops social and cultural texture, or the ways texts encourage readers "to adopt certain social and cultural locations and orientations rather than others" (p. 72). Chapter Four explores ideological texture, which "concerns the biases, opinions, preferences, and stereotypes of a particular writer and a particular reader" (p. 95). This chapter recounts a fascinating situation in which three different interpretations of the same passage of scripture are given by three different interpreters with different ideological commitments, showing how each ideology applied to the same textual data yields a different interpretation. Chapter Five explains sacred texture as the way in which readers use texts to relate human life to the divine (p. 120).
Each chapter concludes with a study guide that takes readers carefully through the textures of other biblical passages. These guides are thorough and helpful in leading students through the socio-rhetorical approach. Robbins insists that the five textures need not all be applied to any given text, that there is no order to the levels of texture, and that not all the resources of socio-rhetorical analysis need to be applied (p. 5). The reader is free to pick and choose from the textures and the kinds of analysis the interpretive tools that best suit the text, the interpretive purpose, and the rhetorical situation.
Within each of the five textures, Robbins lays out several textural constituents. For example, the inner texture consists in the familiar elements of literary and rhetorical close reading. Specifically, Robbins encourages readers to become acutely aware of "words, word patterns, voices, structures, devices, and modes in the text, which are the context for meanings and meaning-effects that an interpreter analyzes with the other readings of the text" (p. 7). Robbins identifies inner texture as consisting of repetitive, progressive, narrational, opening-middle-closing, argumentative, and sensory-aesthetic textures and patterns.
Robbins demonstrates the virtue of the socio-rhetorical method by putting one layer of texture against another to provide new insight into how the text works. For instance, many detailed analyses at the level of inner texture never answer the question "So what?." It sometimes appears as though detailed analysis is an exercise in its own right. Not so in Robbins' analysis. In an analysis of the inner texture, Robbins suggests making tables of repeated words and concepts. Along the horizontal axis, the critic lists the topics of repeated words and concepts. Along the vertical axis, the critic charts the sequence of the text. The result is not just a list of repetitions, but a table of significant topics and their progression. That is, the table of repeated words and concepts becomes a tool for determining how the repetitive texture and pattern of a text complements and enables the progressive texture and pattern. This kind of inter-relational analysis is typical of Robbins' socio-rhetorical method and substantiates his supposition that interpretation is a matter of relating levels of meaning.
With respect to inner texture, Robbins' analyses are not unfamiliar to most readers aware of literary formalism and rhetorical criticism and resemble the kind of analysis of sacred texts one could find in the rhetorical tradition in such texts as Augustine's De Doctrina Christiana, Book Three, or in Joachim Camerarius' Notatio figurarum sermonis in libris quatuor euangeliorum (1572) or in Salomon Glass's Philologia sacra (1653). In other textures, however, Robbins uses familiar rhetorical terms such as "topics" and gives them new meaning and life by incorporating research from sociology. The common social and cultural topics, for instance, are not patterns of inference as in Aristotle, but are instead values, patterns, or codes that help interpreters avoid ethnocentrism and anachronism in their interpretations. For example, interpreters of the New Testament need to be aware of the cultural topics characteristic of their own time and place as opposed to those operative in the Mediterranean region during the first century CE. This would require an understanding of the difference between "individualist, guilt-oriented values" and "group-oriented, honor-shame values" (pp. 75-76).
In all, Robbins' socio-rhetorical approach is interdisciplinary but not haphazardly so. The range and depth of what he offers does, in fact, provide the tools for thick and deep, and I must add, insightful interpretations of texts. The book is straightforward and could easily be used as a textbook for literary or rhetorical criticism or for any course in which interpretation is requisite. Its appeal may be limited because all examples are taken from the Bible and presumes some familiarity with Christianity. Nevertheless, Robbins has succeeded in bringing together an abundant repertoire of interpretive strategies and has presented them in a way illuminating for scholars and students alike.
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Lane Bryant to Celebrate Plus Size Models With Las Vegas Fashion Show
If your commercial is deemed too hot to TV, what's a reputable fashion brand to do? Head to Las Vegas and host your own catwalk, of course. And that's just what Lane Bryant is doing. Early last year, the brand ran a commercial with a plus sized model whose boobs were apparently deemed too big for TV by Fox and ABC.
The ad featured 5'4" 22-year-old Ashley Graham who is a 38D...apparently far too enormous for the networks to handle. They need to get out more. 38D is really not that big if you just look around a bit. But we digress.
On February 20 at Planet Hollywood, Lane Bryant will stage its first fashion show in almost a decade. And, yes, Graham will be there along with other lane Bryant models Lizzie Miller and Sydni Sales.
Commenting on Graham's appearance in last year's commercial and why plus size models should be as equally showcased as Victoria's Secret models, Lane Bryant VP of Marketing Jay Dunn said, "When Ashley Graham sauntered out of the house in last year's Cacique commercial wearing only red lingerie and a trench coat, she slammed the door on the long-held societal perception that size can't be sexy. Curves not only can be sexy - they are sexy. Our Red Bra ad campaign was never about creating controversy - it was about proving a point: more than half of American women are plus size and they have every right and reason to proudly show off their assets and feel beautiful and confident. This fashion show is a 'coming out party', a celebration of fashion and fearlessness - not only for the Lane Bryant and Cacique brands, but for the millions of women who have joined the groundswell of support to rewrite the rules and throw the world a curve."
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ATTORNEY FOR APPELLANT
David W. Stone IV
ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE
Attorney General of Indiana
Joseph A. Samreta
Deputy Attorney General
SUPREME COURT OF INDIANA
TRACY SUE CRAWFORD, )
Appellant (Defendant Below), )
v. ) Indiana Supreme Court
) Cause No. 48S00-0103-CR-166
STATE OF INDIANA, )
Appellee (Plaintiff Below). )
APPEAL FROM THE MADISON SUPERIOR COURT
The Honorable Thomas Newman, Jr., Judge
Cause No. 48D03-0003-CF-00060
ON DIRECT APPEAL
June 26, 2002
Tracy Crawford was found guilty, but mentally ill, for the murder of her
husband and sentenced to sixty-five years imprisonment. She raises six issues for
review, which we restate as five. She contends: (1) the trial court
erred by allowing expert witnesses it appointed to examine her to be called
out of order at trial; (2) the trial court erred by admitting her
husbands journal into evidence; (3) the trial court erred by preventing her from
calling rebuttal witnesses; (4) the trial court imposed an improper restitution order; and
(5) the trial court imposed an improper sentence. We affirm Crawfords conviction
for murder and remand with instructions to reduce Crawfords sentence to fifty-five years.
Factual and Procedural Background
On March 5, 2001, Crawford shot and killed her husband Kent while he
slept in their Madison County home. After her attempt to dispose of
his body failed, she drove off with the couples child. A passerby
stopped to aid Crawfords car, which was parked on the side of a
Michigan road with help written on a diaper in the window. Crawford
asked for the police and initially told investigating officers that a couple had
broken into her home and abducted her and her son. She also
asked the police to check on her husband.
Crawford later admitted that she had killed Kent. She told police that
Kent had repeatedly abused her sexually and that he had threatened to take
their child away when she told him she had filed for divorce.
She admitted having taken the gun she used to kill Kent from her
grandparents home because she wanted to be able to protect herself. She
shot Kent, she said, hours after he had forced her to perform oral
The State charged Crawford with murder, and a jury found her guilty but
mentally ill. The trial court imposed the maximum sentence of sixty-five years
and awarded $9,960.40 to Kents estate for funeral expenses.
I. Order of Witnesses
Indiana Code section 35-36-2-2 states that when a notice of insanity defense is
filed, the court shall appoint two (2) or three (3) competent disinterested psychiatrists,
psychologists endorsed by the state psychology board as health service providers in psychology,
or physicians, at least one (1) of whom must be a psychiatrist, to
examine the defendant and to testify at trial. The statute is explicit
as to when those appointed mental health professionals are to testify at trial:
This testimony shall follow the presentation of the evidence for the prosecution and
for the defense, including testimony of any medical experts employed by the state
or by the defense. Ind. Code § 35-36-2-2 (1998).
The meaning of this statute is not in doubt. Court-appointed mental health
professionals are to testify after the prosecution and defense have concluded their presentations
of evidence. We have held as much since at least 1954, when
we stated that it is the clear intent of the statute that an
expert appointed by the court shall not be permitted to testify on the
subject of the sanity or insanity of the accused until after the presentation
of the evidence of the prosecution and the defense.
Henderson v. State,
233 Ind. 598, 602, 122 N.E.2d 340, 342 (1954). In Blackburn v.
State, 260 Ind. 5, 25, 291 N.E.2d 686, 698 (1973), this Court stated,
The reason for the final sentence in the statute . . . is
clear. It relieves both parties of the burden of having the court-appointed
physicians become their witnesses with the result that they would be bound by
such testimony. In Palmer v. State, 486 N.E.2d 477, 482 (Ind. 1985),
we held that [t]he statute requires that these witnesses be called following all
the evidence presented by the State and by the defendant. And two
weeks later, in Thomas v. State, 486 N.E.2d 531, 533 (Ind. 1985), we
stated that the clear purpose of the statute in requiring this particular order
of proof is to separate the evidence relating to the substantive crime from
that related to the issue of sanity.
Because of scheduling conflicts, the trial court called the experts it appointed to
examine Crawford before the close of Crawfords case. In so doing, it
ignored the statute and controlling precedent. The State contends this was not
reversible error because there was no prejudice to Crawford. Crawford argues first
that she need not demonstrate prejudice in this case because [t]o hold otherwise
renders the statutory provision so much surplusage which may be disregarded with impunity.
She also contends that the trial courts decision prejudiced her case because
the witnesses testimony was presented at the time when it was most likely
to nullify the evidence of the defendants expert witnesses since it was presented
immediately after their testimony.
We agree with Crawfords concerns. The trial court relied on
State, 273 Ind. 542, 406 N.E.2d 237 (1980), as a basis for it
to proceed despite the statutory mandate and despite the holding of Phelan itself
that allowing a court-appointed physician to testify prior to the close of the
defendants case was error. In Phelan we held there was no reversible
error because the defendant in that case did not demonstrate prejudice. The
trial court here assumed that its proceeding in error also would turn out
to be harmless. When Crawfords attorney objected to the trial courts decision,
the following exchange took place:
DEFENSE COUNSEL: [T]he reason youre going to do it, although the Supreme Court
said it was err[or] is because in that particular case it didnt prejudice
the defendant. So youre just going to make an assumption here that
whatever happens here is not going to prejudice the defendant. Youre going
to ignore the law and youre going to ignore a Supreme Court opinion
from 1980 that says its err[or] to do it. Is that my
understanding of your interpretation?
TRIAL COURT: Yes, maam.
II. Kents Journal was Hearsay
Although the trial court presumably meant well in its attempt to accommodate the
witnesses schedules, neither the statute nor case law provides an exception to the
mandated witness order in this situation. A courts indifference to clearly stated
rules breeds disrespect for and discontent with our justice system. Government cannot
demand respect of the laws by its citizens when its tribunals ignore those
very same laws. This is one of the fundamentals of our Code
of Judicial Conduct. Ind. Code of Judicial Conduct Canon 2A (A judge
shall respect and comply with the law and shall act at all times
in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of
Although Crawford raises valid concerns, and although a trial court that chooses to
disregard the law leaves itself open to disciplinary action, the issue on appeal
remains subject to the harmless error standard of review. Errors in the
admission or exclusion of evidence are to be disregarded as harmless error unless
they affect the substantial rights of a party. Fleener v. State, 656
N.E.2d 1140, 1141 (Ind. 1995); Ind. Trial Rule 61. Crawford argues that
the presentation of the court-appointed experts prior to the close of her case
nullified the testimony of her own experts, who testified immediately before. This
situation is similar to Blackburn, where this Court noted that jurors might just
as likely have been influenced to a greater extent had the testimony of
the court-appointed physicians been presented at the close of evidence, leaving unfavorable testimony
fresh in their minds prior to deliberations. 260 Ind. at 25-26, 291
N.E.2d at 698. In Blackburn, as in this case, there was no
affirmative showing of prejudice to the defendant as a result of the error.
All we are presented with is Crawfords speculation as to the effect
of the court-appointed experts testimony. In sum, Crawford points to nothing showing
that the sequence of the evidence likely had a prejudicial effect on the
jurors. Although the trial courts error was blatant and intentional, we cannot
say it affected Crawfords substantial rights. Retrials involve significant emotional and financial
costs to many innocent parties, including witnesses, victims, and their families. In
the absence of any showing of prejudice they should not be lightly imposed.
Whether this matter is grounds for action in another forum is not
for this Court to resolve in the first instance.
The State introduced into evidence a diary kept by Kent purporting to document
Crawfords treatment of Kent two years before his murder. The trial court
admitted the diary over Crawfords hearsay objection. The State relied on the
diary to prove that Crawfords claim of mistreatment by her husband was false,
and that in fact she was the one who treated her spouse poorly.
The diary included the following entries:
5/22/98 My life stinks. Tracy has moved into the other bedroom
(3 weeks ago) The sale of 10th Street has fallen through, I
am fearful that we will not have enough money to live on, I
am so stressed about my marriage. . . . [M]y marriage
is extremely difficult, I get no respect! I have jumped up and
down trying to get someone to see how terrible Tracy treats me, but
no one seems to sympathize with me. . . . God
seems to say, wait and have faith. But I am getting slapped
around. If God can create the universe in 6 days, why cant
he fix Tracy?
6/10 Tracy and I are not doing well. We got into
a big fight last night about me not calling about the Dr. appt.
she had that day. God keeps saying wait. But there is
nothing to hope for. I feel completely empty. . . .
Please God, restore my marriage. Help Tracy to forgive and forget.
6/25/98 Life has been difficult. Tracy and I are still struggling.
She doesnt respect or trust me. She has told me that
time and time again. Sunday, I told her the way I felt.
. . . She was very hateful and embarrassed me in
front of Dr. Jackson. I think Dr. Jackson felt uncomfortable and hopeless.
At trial, the State conceded the diary was hearsay, but contended it was
admissible because Crawford had asserted an insanity defense. It is true that
when the defense of insanity is raised, otherwise inadmissible evidence may be admitted.
Garner v. State, 704 N.E.2d 1011 (Ind. 1998). However, to fall
within this doctrine, otherwise inadmissible evidence must be relevant to the mental state
of the defendant. Id. at 1014. Unlike Garner, the quoted portions
of Kents diary do not pertain to Crawfords claim of insanity. They
merely document Kents assertions that Crawford treated him poorly and that the couples
marriage was troubled. Although Crawfords insanity claim was related to her claim
of spousal abuse, Kents private assessment of their relationship two years before his
murder had no bearing on the issue of Crawfords mental state.
III. Rebuttal Witnesses
This Court will not reverse the trial courts decision to admit evidence if
that decision is sustainable on any ground.
Cf. Jester v. State, 724
N.E.2d 235, 240 (Ind. 2000). On appeal, the State abandons the argument
it made at trial and instead argues that the diary fell within an
exception to the hearsay rule for statements of the declarants then existing state
of mind, emotion, sensation, or physical condition (such as intent, plan, motive, design,
mental feeling, pain and bodily health). Evidence Rule 803(3). The State
contends that the journal shows Kents state of mind regarding his marriage.
Although the journal entries convey Kents feelings about his marriage, we see no
issue to which they are relevant. Moreover, the State used very specific
assertions to attempt to prove the underlying facts, not Kents state of mind:
Crawford moved into a separate bedroom; Crawford treated him terribly; Crawford and he
fought; Crawford embarrassed him at a counseling session.
Although error, we conclude the admission of the diary was harmless. Several
witnesses, including Crawford, testified that relations between her and Kent were strained.
The erroneous admission of evidence that is merely cumulative of other admissible evidence
is not grounds for reversal.
Tobar v. State, 740 N.E.2d 106, 108
A letter from Kent to Crawford was introduced by the defense. Crawford
testified that the last time she saw the letter it was in a
lavender folder on the sewing machine desk in a spare room. In
rebuttal, the State recalled witness Joey Johnson. Johnson and several others were
responsible for gathering financial documents from the Crawfords home after the murder.
Johnson testified that he believed he found the letter in a leather portfolio
in Kents car. The trial court denied Crawfords request to present testimony
rebutting Johnsons account of the location of the letter. Crawford argues that
a major component of the States case was its attempt to prove Crawford
was a liar. She contends that denying her the chance to present
testimony that would contradict Johnson as to the location of Kents letter was
This Court reviews a trial courts exclusion of evidence on relevance grounds for
an abuse of discretion.
Schwestak v. State, 674 N.E.2d 962, 964 (Ind.
1996). Given the issues in this case, we cannot say excluding Crawfords
rebuttal evidence was an abuse of its discretion. The location of the
letter was not an issue in this case, and denying the opportunity to
present evidence on peripheral matters in rebuttal is not error. Baker v.
State, 483 N.E.2d 736, 738 (Ind. 1985). Although Crawford is correct that
her credibility was a central issue, there is no indication that Johnsons testimony
about the location of the letter led the jury to consider Crawford less
credible. The State made no mention of this discrepancy in its entire
closing argument, despite its lengthy portrayal of Crawford as a liar in other
Pursuant to Indiana Code section 35-50-5-3(a)(4), the trial court ordered Crawford to pay
$9,960.40 in restitution for her husbands funeral and burial expenses. Crawford argues
that she should be given credit toward that amount for assets she assigned
to the estate in exchange for an agreement by the estates beneficiaries not
to sue her for wrongful death. This Court reviews a trial courts
restitution order for an abuse of discretion.
Roach v. State, 695 N.E.2d
934, 943 (Ind. 1998). A trial court may consider a civil settlement
when deciding whether to impose a restitution order, or the amount of restitution
to order. However, civil settlements have no bearing on decisions of criminal
punishment. Wininger v. Purdue Univ., 666 N.E.2d 455, 457 (Ind. Ct. App.
1996) (Imposition of a restitution order is a form of punishment, and an
order of restitution is as much a part of a criminal sentence as
a fine or other penalty.) (citations omitted); Dupin v. State, 524 N.E.2d 329,
331 (Ind. Ct. App. 1988) (Settlements in civil cases can have no effect
upon sentences meted out in criminal cases.). We affirm the trial courts
Crawford claims the trial court erred when it imposed the maximum sentence of
sixty-five years for murder. Ind. Code § 35-50-2-3 (Ind. 1998). This
Court reviews trial court sentencing decisions for an abuse of discretion.
v. State, 709 N.E.2d 3, 9 (Ind. 1999). If a trial court
uses aggravating or mitigating circumstances to enhance or reduce the presumptive sentence, or
to impose consecutive sentences, it must (1) identify all significant mitigating and aggravating
circumstances; (2) state the specific reason why each circumstance is determined to be
mitigating or aggravating; and (3) articulate the court's evaluation and balancing of the
The trial court found three aggravating factors which we restate as: the nature
and circumstances of the crime, including her killing Kent while he slept; and
Crawfords need for correctional treatment. The court stated that the nature of
the crime was rather heinous and found that Crawfords stealing her grandparents gun
to use against Kent indicated that it was premeditated. The court also
noted Crawfords lying to police after the fact, and eventually seeking to justify
her acts through her allegations of abuse.
The court found two mitigating factors: the unlikelihood that Crawford will commit a
similar crime, and Crawfords lack of criminal history. However, it determined that
those mitigators carried little weight because they are factors usually present in murder
cases. The court stated:
The mitigating circumstances which have been addressed, circumstances unlikely to recur in a
murder case, thats always been the case because obviously the victim is not
going to be around to be killed again. . . .
So even though its listed as a mitigating circumstance, I dont think its
very rational or practical in this case. . . . The
fact that there is no criminal history is true. But I hardly
think its a justifiable mitigator in this case because as records many many
times show, murders [sic] arent person[s] who commit a lot of other types
Although the trial court also noted the jurys finding that Crawford was guilty
but mentally ill, it did not appear to weigh the finding in its
sentencing decision, or at least found it unpersuasive as mitigation. The court
The mental condition which has been referred to in this case, the jury
did find the defendant guilty but mentally ill, its interesting to note the
testimony of the professionals regarding this situation. Its also interesting to note .
. . the fact that shes been examined by so many professionals and
not one of them had seen fit to prescribe any particular medication for
her to overcome any mental conditions that she may have or to prescribe
any particular therapy for her to overcome any mental conditions that she would
have. And it would seem that being incarcerated in the Madison County
jail since being arrested that mental conditions would probably be heightened because of
incarceration, depression, the upcoming trial, the potential of incarceration and none of that
seems to be [of] concern at this point to the professionals.
Crawford contends the trial court erred by not considering her mental illness a
significant mitigating factor. We agree. Crawfords experts testified, and the jury
apparently agreed, that Crawford was mentally ill at the time she murdered her
husband. We have previously held that a verdict finding mental illness, combined
with a defendants lack of criminal history, is a significant mitigating circumstance.
Mayberry v. State, 670 N.E.2d 1262, 1271 (Ind. 1996). Further, in finding
that Crawford was in need of correctional treatment, the trial court stated that
Crawford did not appreciate the fact that there is a process available for
people in her situation . . . well, she did appreciate it because
she started the divorce proceedings, but abandoned those and took matters into her
own hands and committed murder, rather than to continue the divorce proceedings.
However, the trial court did not articulate how this fact indicated that Crawford
was in need of correctional treatment beyond that prescribed by the presumptive sentence.
Walter v. State, 727 N.E.2d 443, 447 (Ind. 2000); Wooley v. State,
716 N.E.2d 919, 930 (Ind. 1999). Finally, witnesses testified to Crawfords character
and Crawford expressed remorse for what she had done. Yet the trial
court made no mention of this evidence when imposing sentence.
In sum, we find no significant aggravating factors, and some mitigating. Giving
deference to the trial courts minimal finding based on the circumstances of the
crime, pursuant to Article VII, Section 4 of the Indiana Constitution, we revise
Crawfords sentence to the presumptive fifty-five years. Crawford also contends her sixty-five
year sentence was manifestly unreasonable. Because of our decision revising her sentence
to fifty-five years, this claim is moot.
We affirm Crawfords conviction for murder and remand with instructions to reduce Crawfords
sentence to fifty-five years.
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AL ARABIYA
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday that Iraqi authorities were still running a jail they said had been shut over a year ago after reports of prisoners being beaten and electrocuted, but the government denied this, saying the site was empty.
The New York-based watchdog and other critics of the administration of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki accuse it of pushing Iraq back towards authoritarianism by cracking down on protests, harassing opponents and torturing detainees.
The rights group called for Baghdad to start an independent investigation into allegations of torture and mistreatment, as well as other issues, at Camp Honor and other jails.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the prison, known as Camp Honor, is inside Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone, an area that houses most government offices and foreign embassies.
Camp Honor is a former U.S. military base of more than 15 buildings that was handed over to Iraqi forces in 2006. The last U.S. forces left the country in December.
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Dave Wojeski / For The Recorder 2/27/2014 Glens Falls Assignment Amsterdam's Bryan Stanavich get a shot of over Scotia-Glenville's Mike Palleschi during Thursday nights Section 2 semifinal game at the Glens Falls Civic Center.
Recorder file photo Amsterdam's Marcus Prichard battles Catholic Central's Christian Englund for a rebound during their game last season.
Recorder file photo Amsterdam's Anferny Aponte goes up for a shot between the arms of two Mekeel Christian defenders during the Gloversville Holiday Tournament last season.
By MICHAEL KELLY
There is a slate of fall season sports that just started Monday, but head coach Tony Orapello is already excited for this winter's campaign for the Amsterdam High School Running Rams basketball team.
"They're all stepping up," he recently said of his players. "They've gotten taller, too. This is going to be the biggest team we've had in a long time."
A talented one, too.
"I've got people that can really play," said Orapello. "We've got depth."
Orapello's players went their separate ways this spring to play on a variety of AAU teams throughout the area. Then, this summer, the Rams came back together for a month's worth of early-morning workouts and a short season of hoops in a Schenectady-based league.
Forward Marcus Pritchard, who started last season as a junior, said the offseason had helped the Rams in multiple ways. First, the chance to play AAU with different teammates helped each AHS player to develop new skills; then, the opportunity to come back together for a summer league helped the group begin to mesh and crave the winter's season.
"The thing about summer league is that ... after school ball gets over, you play AAU and that keeps your love of the game going," said Pritchard. "But, coming off AAU, getting to play with your real team, it lights your flame again. It gives you that ... taste of what's coming next."
The Rams' summer ended with a literal look at what is to come for the squad. Amsterdam made it to the semifinals in its summer league before losing to Scotia-Glenville -- the same round and foe which felled the Rams in the 2014 Section II Class A playoffs.
AHS moves to the Tartans' league for this upcoming winter, and the Rams' first Foothills Council opponent is scheduled to be S-G, at AHS.
The Tartans are coming off an undefeated season and a state championship, and S-G figures to be a similar force in 2014-15.
Orapello said he liked the way his squad competed against the Tartans in the summer league, using a physical style of defense to match up with S-G's elite shooting and ball movement.
"We were not intimidated," Orapello said.
A lot of that physical play came from the players hoping to make the leap from the Rams' junior varsity to the big club. The upcoming AHS junior class is filled with forwards, and Orapello said he was happy to see guys like Gehrig Garner and Ben Rhodes mixing it up throughout the summer.
"They all play hard and they will not take it from anybody," said Orapello. "That's what I noticed from the JVs last year."
The coach was encouraged with the way his prospective returning players developed this summer, too. Besides Pritchard, starters Kory Bergh and Bryan Stanavich are expected to return, along with likely starting point guard Andrew Druziak -- who missed nearly all of 2013-14 with an injury -- and others.
Both Orapello and Pritchard spoke glowingly about the way Bergh improved this summer after a breakout campaign in his first varsity season. As a sophomore, Bergh led the team in scoring and made 3-pointers to earn all-league honors, but the guard spent much of his offseason working on his dribbling and passing.
"Kory really became a ball-handler this summer," said Orapello. "He was working on distributing the ball and I didn't even tell him to do that."
Pritchard said he thought a lot of the improvement had to do with last year's JV players joining the mix, as they were the guys Bergh grew up with as teammates.
"He has that special connection with them," said Pritchard. "The thing I like a lot is that Kory -- and [Stanavich], too -- is getting to play with their guys again."
At some points this summer, Orapello said he had to remind Bergh that the club needs him to shoot the ball instead of looking to pass so much. The guard said he understood, and that he is on the same page with his coach.
"We're trying to get things together so we can get a good team," said Bergh. "We're trying to build things for [this winter], and that's what both Coach and I want."
After needing to play a frenetic style with constant four-guard lineups in 2013-14, Bergh said he expects the squad to use bigger lineups with multiple post players this upcoming season.
"Last year, we shot a lot (of 3s), more than going into the post," he said. "So, I'm definitely going to have to change my game a bit."
The Rams will start informal workouts in the coming month to finish preparing for the winter. There is a lot of work to do for all of the prospective players, Orapello said, as the squad has enough talent that cuts are going to be inevitable to trim the roster to his desired 13 or 14 players.
"Something's got to give," Orapello said.
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Qu Rengui offers Dalian the ultimate compliment: It feels like being abroad! In a country where breakneck development has generally meant polluted skies, congested streets and decaying infrastructure, this port city in China's northeast is doing something right--and becoming a model for China's 21st-century development. Gushes Qu, a visitor from Chongqing, the gray industrial metropolis on the Yangtze River: Dalian is so clean you need a shoe shine only once a month. If Dalian is an exemplar, it has a model leader: 50-year-old Bo Xilai, who became mayor of this city of 5.4 million in 1993. With solid political pedigree--he's the son of Long March veteran Bo Yibo--and oodles of charisma, Bo seems genuinely popular. Almost alone among big-city bosses, he has sought to reconcile rapid economic growth with environmental protection. From 1993 to 1997, the GDP of Dalian grew an average 15% a year. Yet the streets are tidy, and the air is clean. At the downtown Zhongshan Plaza, turn-of-the-century colonial-style buildings blend smoothly with new marble-and-glass skyscrapers. City streets are lined with ginkgo trees, and roadway intersections are adorned with flower beds and sculptures. China's environmental protection agency cites Dalian as one of China's cleanest cities; it's now exempt from annual nationwide pollution inspections. Bo's ideas derive in part from trips abroad. While in Japan he learned that elevating sidewalks can protect trees. In Europe he got the idea of putting non-polluting trams back in service. In the U.S. and Britain, he became inspired to tear down walls around state buildings to make room for parks and promenades. The idea is to design the city so that one steps into a garden as soon as one steps out of the house. Bo often intervenes when anyone violates environmental standards. I call up and demand action, even if I have to wake someone, says Bo. People carry out orders if they come from the mayor. | <urn:uuid:911d043a-b54f-4d49-85c4-e0945d9cf79a> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054495,00.html | 2016-05-28T08:01:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049277475.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002117-00146-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949116 | 431 | [
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Chelsea forward Lucas Piazon has stated that he may have to go out on loan next season to continue developing his career.
The 19-year-old Brazilian forward has had few chances at Chelsea and was sent on loan to Malaga last season. He is still yet to score a senior career goal.
The player is hoping to get some chances at a Premier League team next season as he may not get a look in at his parent club.
When speaking to ESPN Brasil, he said: "It's hard to say how often I will play or if I will play at all. We have to wait and see if any Premier League clubs are interested."
Piazon also welcomed the second coming of Jose Mourinho as Chelsea manager and is looking forward to the opportunity of working under the famous Portuguese coach.
"I am excited, everything will change," Piazon added. "It will be good working with someone like Mourinho."
Personally I would like to see the forward at Stamford Bridge next season, perhaps playing in the cup competitions when it would be better to give the likes of Fernando Torres a rest.
However, with the Spaniard out to prove his critics wrong he will probably be wanting to get as much game time as possible in the coming season after ending the last one in the best possible fashion - with a goal in the Europa League final.
Piazon does need to get some Premier League games under his belt to start experiencing the pace and power needed to survive at England's top league.
Maybe one of the promoted teams would be interested in taking a chance with the Brazilian starlet - or even Sunderland who struggled in front of goal last season.
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A volunteer worker at the National Archives found this letter in the records of the American Expeditionary Forces (10th Division) earlier this year. In the note, concerned citizen Thomas J. Hartman wrote to Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, then in charge of training at Camp Funston, Kan., where the 89th and 10th Infantry Divisions prepared for service in Europe.
Hartman, a resident of Raymond, Kan., identified three soldiers from his hometown who had been bragging about leaving training. This obviously bothered Hartman, who offered to turn in even more “slackers” if the general would send “a good man” along to chase them down.
At the beginning of the United States’ involvement in World War I, the military was in desperate need of manpower. The Selective Service Act of 1917 allowed for conscription of registered men to fill the armed forces’ needs. Between September 1917 and November 1918, almost 3 million men were inducted through Selective Service. It’s possible that the brothers Price and “Shipler” (identified only by surname)—obviously unwilling soldiers—were draftees.
Hartman’s feeling of animosity toward these men was evidently personal as well as patriotic. Hartman added a small drawing of a service flag with two stars at the bottom left-hand corner of his note, lending moral weight to his request by mentioning the service of his own two sons: “One in France one in Sec. L Base Hosspital [sic] Ft. Riley Kans.”
Clearly a wary dweller of a very small town, Hartman asked to remain anonymous and added that he had made a special trip to mail the letter, as the postmaster was not to be trusted.
A transcript follows after the image.
Raymond, Kans. Oct. 12, 1918
Major General Wood Funston Kans.
Dear Sir. Joe Price and Shipler came Home from Funston today said they sneaked out and got someone to answer their roll call. I was informed that Jess Price pulled off the same stunt two weeks ago he is from Raymond also. Said he was a cook, and was to [sic] smart to carry a rifle The two Prices was reclassified I thought it was my duty to notify you I want you to keep my name out of this.
There are a lot of slackers around here, If you will send a good man here to me, I will surely tell who to go after. Your man may be his own Judge. There is something wrong. Let me know when your man will be here.
Can’t trust Postmaster so will male [sic] it some where else.
Thos. J. Hartman
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posted on Nov, 27 2012 @ 04:57 PM
reply to post by OutonaLimb
So a guy who made people happy with his music is from a bad reptilian family??
I thought they wanted people to feel like crap with negativity and stuff??
This is so far out there I want to bash my head against a wall for even reading it.
You can't even prove reptilians are real,Elvis is alive or the idea that demons have an active role in society and possess us,I think thats more tv
and internet garbage that you apparently seem to believe is real.
I have a few magic beans for sale if you are interested.
Contact me for them and for the right price,they are yours.
Also,the men that surround Elvis...they do it because HE IS ELVIS!!!!!!
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Physicians may be able to detect and treat Alzheimers Disease (AD) in its earliest stages, when patients are experiencing only mild degrees of cognitive impairment, thanks to new diagnostic criteria proposed by an international group of researchers.
Published in Lancet Neurology, the development of new guidelines was co-led by Dr. Howard Feldman, head of the Div. of Neurology in the University of British Columbias Faculty of Medicine. Feldman, who directs the Clinic for Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders at Vancouver Coastal Health, co-authored the paper with French researcher Dr. Bruno Dubois and investigators from countries that include Japan, the U.S. and England. Feldman is a member of Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI).
The proposed criteria are based on examining the structure and function of the brain using advanced brain imaging techniques as well as looking at spinal fluid for the imprint of the disease. Early detection will allow researchers to test vaccines that might be used preventively or to treat fully affected individuals, or other drug treatments that are directed at the earliest stages of the disease the best time to reduce symptoms.
Existing criteria, established in 1984, involve a two-step approach of evaluating functional disability and then looking for a cause, meaning diagnosis and treatment is delayed until patients have significant dementia symptoms. Integrating the profound neurobiological advances of the last 20 years allow for diagnoses based on more than declining functional ability, says Feldman, a senior investigator with the Brain Research Centre (BRC) at UBC Hospital. We now have advanced diagnostic tools distinctive and reliable biological indicators that can be detected before the patient crosses the dementia threshold of disability.
The new criteria the researchers are proposing to the scientific community via the article represent a significant shift and will direct scientists and clinicians to a different focus than has been pursued over the last decade, he adds.
New diagnostic measures include a clinical core of early, progressive and significant episodic memory loss plus one or more abnormal biomarkers (biological indicators) characteristic of AD, including atrophy (wasting) of the temporal lobe as shown on Magnetic Resonance Imaging; abnormal amyloid Beta protein concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid; a specific pattern showing reduced glucose metabolism on Positron Emission Tomography scans of the brain; and a genetic mutation for AD within the immediate family.
AD is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive deterioration and is the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Society of Canada estimates that the disease affects more than 238,000 Canadians and that by 2031 about 750,000 Canadians will suffer from AD and related dementias. Approximately $5.5 billion per year is spent caring for persons with AD and related dementias in Canada. The Alzheimers Association in the U.S. estimates there are approximately 500,000 Americans younger than 65 with Alzheimers or other dementia.
Validation studies are needed to further explore the criteria and improve their sensitivity, specificity and accuracy, say the researchers.
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Multicore processors (CMPs) represent a good solution to provide the performance required by current and future hard real-time systems. However, it is difficult to compute a tight WCET estimation for CMPs due to interferences that tasks suffer when accessing shared hardware resources.We propose an analyzable JEDEC-compliant DDRx SDRAM memory controller (AMC) for hard real-time CMPs, that reduces the impact of memory interferences caused by other tasks on WCET estimation, providing a predictable memory access time and allowing the computation of
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Midwest League Top 20 Prospects
By Jim Callis
The low Class A Midwest League's talent level this summer didn't quite swell to its historic levels of two years ago, but it came awfully close. These players won't move as fast, yet their ceilings are nearly as high.
After thrilling MWL fans in 2000, Albert Pujols was BA's Rookie of the Year while Josh Beckett and Adam Dunn finished 1-2 in our Minor League Player of the Year race the following season. Eleven of the thirteen best prospects in the league in 2000 reached the majors by 2002, a group that also includes Juan Cruz, Austin Kearns, Jake Peavy and Chris Snelling.
Those kinds of crops aren't harvested every summer, as the MWL learned in 2001. But the league abounded in prospects again in 2002, with a notable upgrade in pitching. Any of the first 16 players on this year's Top 20 list would have ranked in the top six a year earlier.
This year's players were young and talented. Seven members of the Top 10 were teenagers, and only Scott Hairston was older than 20. Joe Mauer, the No. 1 overall pick in 2001, was as good as advertised. So were several fellow members of his draft class, including Brad Nelson, Casey Kotchman, Hairston, Jeff Mathis and Mike Jones.
1. Joe Mauer, c, Quad City River Bandits (Twins)
Interestingly, managers raved about his skills behind the plate while scouts believed his offense was ahead of his defense. Both camps agreed he only needs time to become an all-around catching star.
Mauer should be a .300 hitter capable of 20-30 homers per year. He went deep just four times in 2002, but he's strong and his power will develop as he learns to pull more pitches. His stroke and approach are solid, and he walked more than he struck out.
"He hits like Adam Dunn did when Adam Dunn was in Rockford in 1999," Beloit manager Don Money said. "Adam Dunn didn't pull the ball. He hit the other way, hit the other way, hit the other way like Joe Mauer did. Now look at him."
A Florida State quarterback recruit and high school basketball star, Mauer is extremely athletic for a catcher. He has a strong, accurate arm and quick, effortless release, which allowed him to rank third in the MWL by throwing out 42 percent of basestealers. His biggest needs are learning to call a game and handle a pitching staff.
2. Jason Stokes, 1b, Kane County Cougars (Marlins)
Plagued by back and hamstring injuries in his 2001 pro debut, Stokes played through a painful cyst in his left wrist until shutting down in August to have surgery. He's merely a decent first baseman, is pull-conscious and sometimes strikes out in bunches, but the offensive payoff is worth it.
"He was the best player in the league by far, a man among boys," said Fort Wayne manager Tracy Woodson, who vividly recalled a matchup between Stokes and Wizards closer Rusty Tucker, whose fastball sits in the mid-90s. "We wondered if he could hit a good fastball, and we sent Tucker in and said we'd find out. He took Tucker out to right-center, way out of the park. It was a line drive that got out in a hurry."
3. Dontrelle Willis, lhp, Kane County Cougars (Marlins)
That wasn't possible in the MWL, where he dominated for four months before moving on and doing the same to the high Class A Florida State League. Willis' command and location are more impressive than his stuff. Quad City manager Jeff Carter's club faced him twice and saw a total of three pitches above the waist.
"If you just grade his pitches, you'd say I don't know," a National League scout said. "If you watch his command and how hitters react, it's something entirely different."
Batters don't get good swings against Willis' lively 88-93 mph fastball, plus curveball and changeup. He pitches to both sides of the plate and generates deception with a slightly herky-jerky delivery.
4. Donald Levinski, rhp, Clinton LumberKings (Expos)
Levinski was easily the best righthander in the MWL, repeatedly showing three plus pitches. His 88-90 mph two-seamer is his best offering, as batters can't do anything but pound it into the ground. They don't get much of a break when he throws a four-seamer that can reach the mid-90s or a power curveball.
Like most young pitchers, Levinski can improve his control and his changeup.
5. Brad Nelson, 1b, Beloit Snappers (Brewers)
He has good hitting actions, and Cedar Rapids manager Todd Claus likened Nelson to Sean Casey with considerably more power. He got pitched around at Beloit and needs to develop the patience to take walks. An ordinary defender, he's part of a Brewers first-base glut that includes all-star Richie Sexson in the majors and 2002 first-round pick Prince Fielder, who replaced Nelson at Beloit when he was promoted to high Class A.
6. Casey Kotchman, 1b, Cedar Rapids Kernels (Angels)
Because his father Tom is a longtime manager and coach in the Angels system, Kotchman has been around pro ball for years. Little wonder, then, that he's extremely advanced in all phases of the game. He was considered both the smartest hitter and the best defensive first baseman in the MWL.
Kotchman walked more than he struck out and drilled 30 doubles in 81 games, a preview of the above-average power he'll develop. He drew comparisons to Todd Helton, another slick fielder who was known more for line drives than home runs until he turned 25. Kotchman won't reach that age until 2008.
7. Scott Hairston, 2b, South Bend Silver Hawks (Diamondbacks)
There are no questions about Hairston's offense. The ball jumps off his bat to both gaps, and he controls the strike zone, leading the league with a .426 on-base percentage. He tied for the minor league high with 73 extra-base hits and reminded West Michigan manager Phil Regan of Gary Sheffield.
Hairston's makeup and glove also were reminiscent of Sheffield, and that's not a compliment. One scout said he never saw him run out a grounder or put any effort into defense. Most observers didn't think he could handle the middle infield, and his arm may not be strong enough for third base, so he could wind up in left field.
8. Shin-Soo Choo, of, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (Mariners)
Choo is a line-drive hitter with a solid stroke and command of the strike zone. He's not a burner, but his instincts allow him to steal bases and play center field. Whether he'll stay in center as he moves up the ladder remains to be seen, but managers rated him the MWL's best defensive outfielder. He also has a strong arm.
The bigger question on Choo is how much power he'll develop. The Mariners believe he has more raw pop than anyone in their system, but he has just 11 homers to show for 1 1/2 pro seasons. One scout said he doesn't think Choo's 5-foot-11 build will accommodate much more bulk, so he might have to settle into the 15-20 homer range--just like Kotsay.
9. Jeff Mathis, c, Cedar Rapids Kernels (Angels)
Mathis' work ethic and leadership abilities drew as much praise as his physical tools. Scouts said he's better defensively than Mauer right now. Mathis, also a former high school quarterback, is a plus-plus receiver with an above-average arm. He threw out 37 percent of basestealers to rank fifth in the MWL.
Mathis has some offensive potential as well. Using a squatty stance like Jeff Bagwell's, he has a nice stroke and should have at least average power.
10. Mike Jones, rhp, Beloit Snappers (Brewers)
He made a number of improvements after the league all-star break, allowing more than three earned runs just once in 15 starts. Jones also starting snapping his curveball better and continued to make progress with his changeup. His fastball remained his strength, and one scout said that pitch alone would make him a solid No. 3 starter.
11. Angel Guzman, rhp, Lansing Lugnuts (Cubs)
Guzman's maturity and mechanics are outstanding for a 20-year-old. He throws a 93-94 mph fastball with little effort, and his changeup was his second-best pitch in the MWL. His curveball improved after he moved up to the FSL.
"He has outstanding makeup," said Regan, who managed Guzman in Venezuela last winter. "He has a pretty good fastball, but the thing I like is he'll get to 3-2 and drop a curveball over and get you out. He changes speeds well and competes."
12. J.D. Durbin, rhp, Quad City River Bandits (Twins)
Durbin still has a lot of work remaining. His changeup lacks consistency, though he does show some feel for it. His arm action is long in the back of his delivery. That makes it tough for him to throw on a downward plane and to repeat his motion, which costs him control.
One scout compared him to Jason Marquis and thought Durbin might be better off coming out of the bullpen and going full bore for shorter stints. His intensity would translate well to a late-inning role.
13. Johan Santana, rhp, Cedar Rapids Kernels (Angels)
Because he's so youthful, the quality of Santana's stuff varies from outing to outing. When at his best, he has a 91-94 mph fastball that tops out at 98, a plus slider and an average changeup that promises to get better. His mechanics are impressive, as he pitches without effort and gets the ball on hitters quick.
14. Dallas McPherson, 3b, Cedar Rapids Kernels (Angels)
McPherson fits the prototype at third base. He has a big, strong body and has very projectable lefthanded power. He still shows a strong arm, and managers rated him the MWL's best defender at the hot corner. As a bonus, he has average speed and some basestealing aptitude.
He still has room for improvement. McPherson strikes out too much and needs to adjust to inside breaking pitches. Defensively, he must better his footwork and shorten his arm action, which detracts from the accuracy of his throws.
15. Edwin Encarnacion, 3b/ss, Dayton Dragons (Reds)
His plus-plus laser arm and quick hands play well at either position, though managers weren't sold that his instincts and range were enough for shortstop. That won't be a problem, because he'll hit enough for the hot corner. Encarnacion has a quick bat and drives the ball to all fields.
Encarnacion will have to tone down his aggressiveness at the plate. Pitchers began to exploit that weakness, holding him to a .243 average with 45 strikeouts over his final 58 games. He also needs to cut down on his 40 errors.
16. Dan Haren, rhp, Peoria Chiefs (Cardinals)
Four of the last five spots on the Top 20 are occupied by Chiefs, and catcher Yadier Molina and shortstop John Nelson also received consideration. Peoria's best prospect may have been lefthander Chris Narveson, who ranked No. 5 on this list a year ago but missed much of this season recuperating from Tommy John surgery. He didn't pitch enough innings to qualify for the Top 20.
The Cardinals aren't shy about working their pitchers hard, and Haren proved his durability by leading the minors with 194 innings between the MWL and the high Class A Carolina League. More than just a workhorse, Haren owns three potential plus pitches in his 92-93 mph fastball, his curveball and his changeup.
He'll also mix in a slider and splitter. He has good command and has quickly adapted to pitching inside against wood bats. Haren projects as a solid No. 3 or 4 starter.
17. Shaun Boyd, 2b, Peoria Chiefs (Cardinals)
He made a triumphant return to Peoria, re-establishing himself as a prospect the second time around. He shortened his swing and did a better job of using the entire field. Boyd can hit any fastball and is a high-percentage basestealer. With a little more discipline, he'll fit nicely at the top of a batting order.
Boyd's bat will have to carry him. He's more athletic than Hairston, but Boyd is slow on the double play and lacks quick feet. He also made 40 errors, three more than any other MWL second baseman. Boyd started his pro career as an outfielder but probably won't have the power to be a major league regular at that position.
18. Justin Pope, rhp, Peoria Chiefs (Cardinals)
Pope couldn't find much fault in himself other than missing nearly three months after having bone chips removed from his elbow. He never allowed more than three earned runs in any of his 12 starts, and he reached double-digit strikeouts in three of his last five regular-season outings.
He touched 91-92 mph with his sinking fastball and could sit there regularly once he regains full strength. His tight slider is his best pitch, and his changeup can be a plus pitch as well. Pope is all about command and movement, and like Haren he made a quick transition to pitching inside.
19. Josh Barfield, 2b, Fort Wayne Wizards (Padres)
He was the best defender among the MWL's second-base prospects but still has work to do with the glove. He needs to focus better and improve his footwork and double-play skills. Offensively, he started to avoid chasing low breaking balls out of the strike zone, yet he also must recognize the benefits of drawing a walk.
20. Tyler Johnson, lhp, Peoria Chiefs (Cardinals)
"He may need to come up with another name for this thing," Sheaffer said. "It's that wicked."
Johnson pitches off his curveball with a high-80s fastball that has late tail. He'll need to make some adjustments to remain a starter. One scout predicted his upright delivery could lead to shoulder problems. He tips off his changeup by slowing down his delivery.
Top 10 prospects five years ago
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There's already rumors about Big Ben being traded. If he's sidelined for 6 games, he won't be of much help to them anyway for this season.
Maybe he should take tips from Tiger. None of his women screamed foul until Elin brought it out in the open (I'm being facetious). Seriously, though, these guys are young, given too much, and believe they're some type of demi-gods. He does need counseling and I hope he'll obey the orders to seek it.
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Woman 'breaks into house, cleans it and leaves bill for $75'
The Ohio Cleaning Fairy: Susan Warren allegedly broke into a home to clean it
A woman has been accused of breaking into a house, washing the dishes, tidying and vacuuming before leaving a bill with her name on it for $75.
When police confronted Susan Warren, 53, about the alleged early-morning break in, she told them she 'does it all the time'.
Warren allegedly broke into the home in Westlake, Ohio after picking the house at random while driving down the street, she said.
When the homeowners' 18-year-old daughter woke up to find the house had been cleaned, she assumed her parents had organised a maid.
The woman had taken out the trash, vacuumed the carpet and cleaned up the playroom, victim Sherry Bush told WKYC.
'There were some coffee mugs that my husband had out,' she said. 'She had washed them all.
'She wrote a note [on a napkin] and
left it on the table, saying, "$75 I was here to clean", and left her
name and number,' Bush said.
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Bill: Warren left a handwritten note on a napkin which read 'I was here to clean' along with her name, address and '$75'
When her daughter mentioned the cleaner, Bush said she had not oragnised one, and assumed a cleaning service sent someone to the wrong house.
So she was stunned when she called the number left on the note and the woman told them it had been intentional.
'I think our jaws just dropped to the ground,' Bush said. 'I said, what happened, did you get the wrong house? She said, "no, I do this all the time".'
'I said, "what do you mean?" She said, "I just stop and clean your house".'
Scene: Warren allegedly broke into the home, before vacuuming the carpet, tidying the playroom, taking out the trash and washing the dishes
Stunned: Sherry Bush initially thought a cleaning service had sent a cleaner to the home by mistake - so was shocked when the woman said it was intentional
Last month Warren was charged with criminal trespassing at a home in Beachwood, police records show.
A friend living at Warren's home told WKYC the woman is always working and owns her own business. Sue Warren Cleaning can be found online.
Nothing was stolen from the homes, but police expect to charge her with felony burglary in court.
'This may be a pattern of behavior for her,' Westlake Police Department captain Guy Turner told Fox 8.
Warren is in Cuyahoga County Jail and has not yet posted bond as of Thursday afternoon.
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WE LOVE them, yeah, yeah, yeah and next year the whole region will celebrate the world’s best known band with the inaugural The Beatles Festival in Port Macquarie.
Appropriately, planning for the festival, which will take place on March 1, 2 and 3, has begun 50 years after the release of Love Me Do, the song credited with launching the fab four’s career.
The idea for the festival began with former Port Macquarie-Hastings administrator Neil Porter, after conversations he had with committee organisers of the annual Parkes Elvis Festival.
It is envisaged the three day festival will become an annual event to rival the Parkes homage to the King.
Committee member Janette Hyde said it is hoped The Beatles Festival will gain a reputation like Tastings on Hastings and bring people to the area.
“It’s going to be a fun weekend of nostalgia with lots of local bands and entertainment, street parades, rock ‘n’ roll dancing, markets and more,” Mrs Hyde said.
On Friday, March 1, Laurieton will host the first events including a show by acclaimed The Beatles tribute band The Beatnix at Laurieton United Services Club.
Saturday will see a vintage car display at Westport Park and The Beatnix will play at Port Macquarie Panthers.
A street parade up Horton Street on Sunday will end at the Town Green where a jumping castle and other kids activities, market stalls and a stage will rock on throughout the day.
“The local bands will play music from the ‘60s and ‘70s and rock ‘n’ roll dancers will encourage everyone to get up and dance the afternoon away,” Mrs Hyde said. Mr Porter, Mrs Hyde and the rest of the committee met last night to sign off on some more of the details which the Port News will reveal in the coming weeks as the idea gathers momentum. | <urn:uuid:3be08895-0ef0-4046-9c69-35f0b3dc4a7b> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.portnews.com.au/story/1164615/our-own-beatles-festival/?cs=257 | 2016-05-26T00:39:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275429.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00006-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932395 | 405 | [
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Lot 188 View Catalog
Remarkable inlaid Arts and Crafts pool table that has plaque labeled "W.P. Alexander Worcester, MA. With geometrically crafted accents. Please note that the veneer on a couple legs is missing so the legs were stained to make this missing veneer less noticeable. This table is 1 or 3 matching pieces. We also have the wall mounted cue rack holder as well as the wall mounted ball holder made by W.P. Alexander. Dimensions: 5ft x 10ft Age: C. 1910 Material: Walnut
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228 F2d 640 De Vegvar v. Gillilland J M
228 F.2d 640
97 U.S.App.D.C. 126
Edith Neuman DE VEGVAR, Appellant,
Whitney GILLILLAND, Pearl Carter Pace, and Henry J. Clay,
Constituting the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the
United States, and George M. Humphrey as Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States of America, Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.
Submitted Nov. 19, 1955.
Decided Dec. 22, 1955.
Writ of Certiorari Denied March 26, 1956.
See 76 S.Ct. 543.
Mr. Ernest Angell, New York City, of the bar of the Court of Appeals of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Mr. Percy A. Shay, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellant.
Mr. Samuel D. Slade, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Mr. Leo A. Rover, U.S. Atty., was on the brief, for appellee. Messrs. Edward H. Hickey and William P. Arnold, Attys., Dept. of Justice, and Lewis Carroll and Rufus E. Stetson, Jr., Assts. U.S. Attys., also entered appearances for appellee.
Messrs. Philip Levy, Joseph W. Wyatt, Robert T. Reynolds, Washington, D.C., and Samuel A. McCain, New York City, filed a brief on behalf of Victor K. Anninger; Steven Ausnit; Walter Petschek; Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc.; Karel Charles Stiassni; and Francis Price, Jr. and Dennis G. Karzag, Executors of the Estate of William Zimdin, as amici curiae, urging affirmance.
Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and WILBUR K. MILLER and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges.
WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.
Mrs. de Vegvar brought suit in the District Court against the members of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, [97 U.S.App.D.C. 127] seeking to compel reconsideration of a decision of the Commission denying her claim to a share in the fund administered by that body known as the Yugoslav Claims Fund. The Secretary of the Treasury was also made a party defendant, and plaintiff asked that he be restrained from paying the amounts awarded to other claimants by the Commission, as this would so reduce the fund that her claim could not be paid.
The Yugoslav Claims Fund consists of moneys paid by Yugoslavia to the United States pursuant to an executive agreement,1 this payment to be in full settlement and discharge of certain claims of our government against Yugoslavia and of all claims 'of nationals of the United States against the Government of Yugoslavia on account of the nationalization and other taking by Yugoslavia of property' between September 1, 1939, and the date of the agreement. The agreement provided that only persons who were nationals of the United States 'at the time of nationalization or other taking' by Yugoslavia were to be eligible to share in the Fund. It also provided that claims against the Fund were to be adjudicated by an agency to be established or designated by the United States Government, and that distribution was to be made 'in accordance with such methods of distribution as may be adopted by the Government of the United States.'
Congress passed the International Claims Settlement Act of 19492 to implement the executive agreement just described and any similar agreements which might later be negotiated. The Act set up the International Claims Commission3 and gave it jurisdiction to make 'final decisions with respect to claims' against the Fund. 22 U.S.C.A. § 1623(a). Such decisions were to 'constitute a full and final disposition' of each claim considered. 22 U.S.C.A. § 1623(b). The Act then went on to say in Section 4(h) that the 'action of the Commission in allowing or denying any claim under this subchapter shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by the Secretary of State or any other official, department, agency, or establishment of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise.' 22 U.S.C.A. § 1623(h).
Mrs. de Vegvar, as one of those who filed a claim against the Fund, was given a hearing by the Commission. Most of the evidence she presented was admitted, but the Commission excluded certain proffered evidence relating to the laws of Yugoslavia. The Commission later rendered its Final Decision, holding that plaintiff's property had been taken by Yugoslavia on January 19, 1946, a date prior to the time when plaintiff became a naturalized citizen of the United States. One Commissioner dissented, on the ground that the Government of Yugoslavia had not obtained title to the property, under the laws of Yugoslavia, until November, 1947, by which time plaintiff had become an American citizen. Mrs. de Vegvar then brought this action in the District Court. A motion to dismiss was made by the defendants-appellees, and was granted by the Court. This appeal followed.
Appellant's main reliance is on Section 4(a) of the Act, which directs the Commission to 'apply the following in the following order: (1) The provisions of the applicable claims agreement as provided in this subsection; and (2) the applicable principles of international law, justice, and equity.' 22 U.S.C.A. § 1623(a). Appellant says that the Commission failed to examine and give effect to the Yugoslav statute relating to confiscation of property, and that this was a failure by the Commission to exercise [97 U.S.App.D.C. 128] the jurisdiction conferred on it by the Act. She further says that the refusal by the Commission to receive the evidence offered by her, to the effect that the decree of the Yugoslav court which purported to confiscate her property was null and void under the Constitution and laws of Yugoslavia, was a failure to apply the required standard of international law, and was an arbitrary act in excess of the jurisdiction of the Commission.
The Government's principal reliance is on the provisions of Section 4(h) of the Act, quoted above, precluding judicial review of the determinations of the Commission. The legislative history of that section shows that Congress intended this prohibition to be of broad scope and effect.4 Congress knew that if each claimant could take his claim to the courts the Fund could not safely be distributed until every last litigation had been terminated. Considerations of both domestic and foreign policy called for the prompt distribution of the Fund and the ending of disputes between Yugoslavia and the United States.
No doubt the provisions of Section 4(h) do not bar certain types of judicial action. The Government brief, speaking of these provisions, says: 'There are no constitutional or other reasons for inferring any limitations thereon, and appellant has raised none.' And further: 'It is here assumed that, were this an area in which constitutional rights were or might be involved, Congress could not prevent the vindication of such rights in a judicial tribunal. Congress recognized, however, that no constitutional rights were involved in the distribution of the Yugoslav Claims Fund and that the nonreviewability provision could therefore be as broad as the situation required.' We may assume for purposes of argument that the provisions of Section 4(h) would probably not prevent judicial relief in the situation-- to illustrate-- where a claimant is denied consideration by reason of his race, creed or color. No violation of constitutional right is suggested here: plaintiff-appellant makes no contention, for example, that the United States has taken her property without paying for it. What happened was that Yugoslavia took plaintiff's property; the United States undertook to obtain moneys from Yugoslavia from which certain sorts of claims of United States nationals could be satisfied; a Commission was established to deal finally with such matters; plaintiff made a claim and was determined not to be in the class entitled to participate. Errors in the result reached, or errors in the admission of evidence or in the making of a legal ruling-- assuming such errors to have been made-- are not grounds for judicial intervention in the face of the congressional fiat that the Commission's determinations shall be free of judicial review. Plaintiff is barred by the statutory prohibition.
The Government also urges that, apart from the statute, the courts would deny judicial review of the matters complained of. The creation and distribution of the Fund, it says, were within the realm of foreign affairs: the citizen obtained only such status for his claim as his government succeeded in obtaining for him and decided to give him. The Government urges that such settlements of international claims-- absent clear congressional intent to the contrary-- give rise to no right of judicial review, citing Z. & F. Assets Realization Corporation v. Hull, 1941, 311 U.S. 470, 61 S.Ct. 351, 85 L.Ed. 288. We need not, for present purposes, pass on this contention.
For the reasons given, the judgment of the District Court dismissing the complaint will be affirmed. The injunctive order which this court entered pending the appeal will remain in force until our mandate is issued.5 The mandate will [97 U.S.App.D.C. 129] be stayed for ten days to permit appellant to take such further steps as she may be advised.
WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge, dissents.
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2 64 Stat. 13, 22 U.S.C.A. §§ 1622-1627.
3 The functions and jurisdiction of that Commission were later transferred to the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission. Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1954 effective July 1, 1954, 19 Fed.Reg.3985, 22 U.S.C.A. § 1622 note.
4 See Congressman Ribicoff's statements at 95 Cong.Rec. 8840, 8854.
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Bloomberg Breaks His Own Law
In February, with much fanfare, Mayor Bloomberg joined with City Council Speaker Quinn, Education Committee Chair Jackson, and legions of immigrant parents and education advocates to announce new Chancellor's Regulations that require schools to provide interpretation and translation services to limited English proficient parents. In a City where one in four parents are still in the process of learning English, and where parental involvement has been promoted as key to boosting student achievement, the new regulations were hailed as representative of a new day at the Department of Education. Mayor Bloomberg spoke at length about the commitment of his administration to ensuring equal opportunity for involvement to immigrant parents.
Once the cameras got turned off, the DOE's commitment seemed to fade. A promised task force to stay on top of this issue was never convened. Last week, a report from Advocates for Children, the New York Immigration Coalition and others, showed that the DOE is failing to comply with the new regulations they drafted.
The report shows that high school registration centers throughout the city failed to provide required translation and interpretation services. Similarly, parent coordinators, the official liasons between parents and the DOE, were found to be unaware of the schools' obligations under tthe new Chancellor's Regulations.
Mayor Bloomberg was right to highlight the importance of the issue. He was right to champion new law on this issue. He deserves praise for moving the City's commitment to equity forward. Promises, though, are not enough. Immigrant parents need him to make sure that the Department of Education does the work to come into compliance with the new law. | <urn:uuid:a051a8dc-0b69-4869-a8c3-5655aeede33d> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.dmiblog.com/archives/2006/10/bloomberg_breaks_his_own_law.html | 2016-05-28T15:59:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278042.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00166-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972131 | 318 | [
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Favourites Germany may have just missed out, but it is still no surprise to see the final of the inaugural FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup contested by USA and Korea DPR: winners of the last Women's Olympic Football Tournament and FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup competitions respectively. Proof if it were needed that the women's game is flourishing in both countries.
In order to reach the title decider in Auckland, the North Koreans held their nerve to edge out an England team buoyed by their epic quarter-final victory over tournament sensations Japan. The Americans, meanwhile, continue to improve with every game. Having gone one down to the Germans after just six minutes, they stormed back with two second-half goals to turn the result on its head.
The big match
Germany 1-2 United States
This eagerly awaited encounter between two superpowers of the women's game started brightly, with the US defence caught cold with the first corner of the match. From Dzsenifer Marozsan's pinpoint delivery, Alexandra Popp underlined her fine aerial ability by planting a header past Taylor Vancil to give her side an early advantage. Though Germany coach Ralf Peter had previously told FIFA.com that his team's repeated early strikes owed a lot to good fortune, goals in the opening six minutes of each of their last four games are testament to his players' maturity and powers of concentration.
USA refused to buckle, though, showing tremendous heart to throw everything at the goal expertly defended by goalkeeper Anna Sarholz. Having been saved by the woodwork twice in the first half, Sarholz was finally beaten just after the hour mark. Vicki DiMartino, a scorer in every game here at New Zealand 2008, levelled the match before Courtney Verloo grabbed the winner with just nine minutes of normal time remaining.
The other match
The reigning FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup champions, Korea DPR are still on course for a remarkable double. Their U-17 side booked a place in the final by overcoming an England team that battled hard, but paid the price for their quarter-final exertions. Indeed, after a promising start, hesitant defending from the Lionesses enabled Ho Un Byol to wriggle free before firing past Lauren Davey from a tight angle. The Asians went on to double their lead before the break, Jon Myong Hwa stealing in for her fourth goal of the tournament.
Lois Fidler's charges did not throw in the towel and were handed a lifeline with a quarter of an hour still remaining, Rebecca Jane finishing well from Lauren Bruton's clever pass. Unlike the match against Japan, however, there was to be no stoppage-time equaliser for the brave English, who now need to lift themselves for Sunday's play-off for third place against Germany.
Vicki DiMartino (USA)
The USA striker is running like clockwork here in New Zealand and has scored in each of her five matches so far. Her latest goal could not have been more vital, cancelling out Germany's opener and helping her side into the final. Can she keep her remarkable run going in the decider?
What they said
"We've had a lot of criticism here for coming out on top in games when we've not been the better side, but on this occasion I think it was the other way round. But we wish the Koreans all the best in the final and we'll prepare for the third place game as we would have for the final," Lois Fidler, England coach.
All the results
Korea DPR 2-1 England
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PixMachineMac 1.0.9 fixes a problem that causes it to crash when attempting to edit a non-existent news server. It also addresses various interface concerns.
PixMachineMac is an automatted news reader. PixMachineMac makes it easy to download large files and multipart files. What is even better is that all the parts of a large multi-part post do not need to be present on the server. PixMachineMac is able to assemble and decode these files even if the parts arrive days apart.
TechSono has also released PixNewsMacFREE, a totally free application that lets you quickly download images from Usenet newsgroups. PixNewsMacFREE sports a minimalist interface that makes it very easy to set up and use. PixNewsMacFREE is available for MaOS X and MacOS 8.6 and later.
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Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2012
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in ISBN/ISSN:
0883929249282, 0780696603, 9780780696600, Language:
DVD release of the 2012 motion picture
Special feature: Backstage on Magic Mike
Matthew McConaughey, Channing Tatum, Adam Rodriguez, Olivia Munn, Matthew Bomer, Alex Pettyfer, Joe Manganiello
Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money
MPAA rating: R; for pervasive sexual content, brief graphic nudity, language and some drug use
DVD, region 1 ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English, French and Spanish) and 2.0 stereo (English)
In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with optional subtitles in Spanish or French; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
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Additional Credits: Soderbergh, Steven, 1963-Carolin, ReidWechsler, NickMcConaughey, Matthew, 1969-Tatum, ChanningRodriguez, Adam, 1975-Munn, Olivia, 1980-Bomer, Matthew, 1977-Pettyfer, Alex, 1990-Manganiello, JoeWarner BrosWarner Home Video (Firm)
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PORTLAND, Ore.—The crown for the world's brightest nanoparticles has been claimed by the inventor of mesoporous silicon-dioxide (silica) nanoparticles, which have proven to be 34-times brighter than the brightest quantum dots—previously the world's brightest nanoparticles. The transparent silicon-dioxide hulls harbored fluorescent nanoparticles inside—rather than use quantum-confinement like quantum dots—enabling much brighter operation, according to their inventors at Clarkson University (Potsdam, New York).
The mesoporous silica nanoparticles have potential applications in medicine, biology, material science, and environmental protection, according to Clarkson University Physics professor Igor Sokolov, who claims that his brighter particles will allow much finer detection of environmental pollutants, biosensors and homeland defense detectors.
Fluorescent nanoparticles work by absorbing light of one wavelength, the emitting it at another. By functionalizing the particles so that they fluoresce only when in the presence of the substance to be detected, ultra-sensitive nanoparticles can detect smaller amounts of the pollutant or toxin that would otherwise be possible. To date, quantum dots were the world's brightest nanoparticles, but Clarkson University now claims that its mesoporous silica nanoparticles have won that crown.
Sokolov’s process securely seals a large number of organic fluorescent molecules inside nanoporous silicon dioxide hulls, which can range from 20 to 50 nanometers in diameter. As an example of their brightness, Sokolov claims that nanoparticles of just 40 nanometers in diameter are brighter than 25-30 nanometer water-dispersible quantum dots—the brightest reported quantum dots to date.
The ultra-bright particles were synthesized with the help of postdoctoral fellows Shajesh Palantavida and Eun-Bum Cho (now an assistant professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology) along with a doctoral candidate at Clarkson, Dmytro Volkov.
Funding for the project was provided by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Army Research Office.
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When I saw this recipe on A Good Appetite, I was a bit skeptical. I wasn’t sure that garlic and cinnamon would make for a good combination. I did have a bottle of white wine and some chicken breasts, though, so I figured I would give it a go. Turns out, it was delicious! The cinnamon adds a nice, sweet flavor to the garlic and brings the dish to a whole new level. I also love anything that’s cooked in wine, it always tastes so flavorful. The end result is a bit like a chunky pasta sauce. I piled it on top of some whole wheat egg noodles and threw some Parmesan cheese on top of that (I actually liked it better without the cheese). I also liked that this recipe had spinach, because sometimes it’s so hard to get vegetables into meals! As always, you’ll find the recipe after the jump!
The ingredients you’ll need.
Mix together the cinnamon, salt, and black pepper. Rub it into the chicken pieces.
Add the chicken to the pan and cook until no longer pink.
When cooked, remove to a plate or bowl and set aside.
Add the garlic and onion to the skillet and cook until the onions are just starting to brown.
Add the white wine and scrape up any browned bits at the bottom of the pan.
When the wine has evaporated, add the water, tomato paste, whole garlic clove, and chicken to the pan.
Cover and simmer for 20-30 minutes and cook your noodles while you wait.
When finished simmering, add your spinach and cook until wilted.
Serve over your whole wheat egg noodles and enjoy!
- 3 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 3 garlic cloves (2 minced and 1 peeled and left whole)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion, coarsely chopped
- ¼ cup dry white wine (you can substitute chicken broth if you didn't have wine)
- 1 cup water
- 3 oz. tomato paste
- 2-3 cups spinach leaves, roughly torn
- ½ cup grated Romano/Parmesan/etc. cheese
- 1 package whole wheat egg noodles
- Mix the salt, cinnamon, and pepper together. Rub the mixture on the cut up chicken pieces to completely coat them.
- Heat the oil olive in a large, skillet with a lid over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook until it is no longer pink. Remove the chicken from the skillet andset aside.
- Add the onion and minced garlic to the skillet. Cook until the onions are soft and beginning to brown. Add the wine and scrape any browned bits from the bottom of the skillet. Let the wine cook until it is evaporated.
- Add the water, tomato paste, whole garlic clove, and chicken to the pan. Reduce the heat to low, cover and let simmer for about 20-30 minutes, until the chicken is tender. Cook your noodles while you wait.
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The new Qantas lounge at Los Angeles' international airport sets a benchmark for both the airline and the airport.
A threat by Qantas to take its planes elsewhere was the catalyst for Los Angeles World Airports' multi-billion dollar redevelopment of Tom Bradley International Terminal.
Speaking at the launch of Qantas' new Business Lounge in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Los Angeles World Airports executive director Gina Marie Lindsey said LAX was "an airport that hadn't had a major upgrade since the mid '80s, and the world had moved on and passenger expectations had changed."
She said Qantas was "clear that if something didn't happen to LAX; their passengers were becoming increasingly dissatisfied ... they might take big planes elsewhere".
"The mayor listened," she added. "We have delivered this terminal which caused a lot of blood, sweat and tears."
LAX's new international terminal opened to the public in September 2013. It features new Westfield-run retailers, which complements the complete renovation of Terminal 6. Major airfield improvements has also meant the terminal can now accommodate new and larger aircrafts, such as the Qantas A380s from Melbourne and Sydney, now flying into LAX, with a lot more infrastructure works to come.
And on Wednesday, Qantas said thanks, debuting what will be (when finally completed), the biggest of all lounges at the revitalised Tom Bradley International Terminal and one of the biggest in North America.
The new Qantas Business Lounge, which has been in operation for a week, accommodates 400 people. When completed in early 2015, it will fit 600 people. Add in the coming new Qantas First Class Lounge, it will be more than double the size of the former space. It follows the recent openings of Qantas's new business lounges in Singapore and Hong Kong.
The impressive, expensive-looking Woods Bagot-designed facility (the cost of which has not been divulged) is shared with customers of Qantas's One World partners, Cathay Pacific and British Airways. Hospitality will be run by Sofitel, and it will feature a '60s-inspired fire pit and California-cool style elements, such as hip mid-century American furniture.
The chef jokingly dubbed the Neil Perry Rockpool Group menu as "the first Neil Perry restaurant in America" during official launch proceedings. Inspired by LA-multicultural and Mexican street food, it represents a new direction for lounge catering, as food will be served by wandering waiters as well as the existing traditional buffet arrangement.
Given Qantas has late-night flights leaving daily for Australia, the menu will align with the pointy end of the inflight service format of finer dining, offering patrons the option of a full dinner experience in-lounge so they can go straight to sleep after takeoff.
Qantas North America's Senior Vice President Vanessa Hudson described the launch as "a significant moment for Qantas in North America".
Hudson said with Qantas recently celebrating its 60th year of service between the US and Australia, making the airline the longest server of that route, "the US has never been more significant in our network and our presence never been stronger".
Qantas currently runs 40 services a week, from Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne to Los Angeles.
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From ANDREA BUFFA
Apollo News Service
How can we make sure green jobs are good jobs? One approach to this much discussed question is to make green jobs union jobs, which typically offer higher wages and better benefits than non-union jobs. Another is to require that contractors who receive public funding for green projects pay their workers family supporting wages and provide health insurance. In Cleveland, Ohio, a new and different path is being forged toward high-quality, green jobs—through worker-owned cooperatives, where the workers are not only being paid well, but also can accumulate wealth for themselves and their communities as partial owners of profitable green businesses.
“If you can link wealth building and ownership opportunities to the creation of green jobs, then you maximize benefits to workers and you stabilize communities,” said Ted Howard, founding executive director of The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland and one of the architects of Cleveland’s groundbreaking Evergreen Cooperative Initiative.
The idea for the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative came out of a partnership between the Cleveland Foundation and several local hospitals and universities that are situated in the Greater University Circle area of Cleveland, a one-square mile area surrounded by neighborhoods where the unemployment rate is 20-25 percent and 30 percent of the residents are living in poverty… More at Apollo News Service→ | <urn:uuid:f0904a23-aefb-43aa-94ae-3663ca865a44> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | https://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/evergreen-cooperatives-forge-an-innovative-path-toward-high-quality-green-jobs/ | 2016-05-26T08:44:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049275764.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002115-00026-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955791 | 269 | [
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We caught up with the man who has been gracing our London streets with his stylistic photorealism, the man behind the ‘bubble’ effect pieces – introducing Jimmy C.
Hit more for the interview.
Tell us a little bit about you and your style.
I am an artist originally from Australia and currently living in London, working on the street and in the studio. My work tends to explore the human subject in the context of the urban environment. The style I developed was a form of pointillism, which I called the drip paintings, where the image is made up of individual drips of spray paint.
How did your distinctive ‘bubble’ style develop?
This was a development of my drip paintings, I started to enlarge the dots or drips into circles, and then I started to play with the idea of the circles becoming spheres, like atoms, a kind of atomic pointillism, where the subject started to break apart or atomise. Some people see them as bubbles, and I like when the work becomes suggestive or open for interpretation in this way.
Are your characters based on real people?
Almost all of the time they have been inspired from real people, and for a long time I was interested in the marginalised human subject, such as the homeless people in the city.
So are they a comment on society?
A lot of them are, but in a more subtle and poetic way. I have often looked at the individual (marginalised) in society and how they find meaning in their life.
Did you study art?
I did go to art school, and most of what I learnt was through my own travels and visits to art museums, with an interest at that time in oil painting and figurative realism.
You paint in the streets but have also been exhibiting for over 10 years now; where did it all begin?
The street is actually where I started painting over 20 years ago, but I have had a recent return to painting on the street in recent years. I started painting around 1989 as a graffiti writer and later went to art school, and for the next 10 years or so I was doing a lot of mural commissions and co-ordinating aerosol art workshops in Australia. I was exhibiting in galleries also, and then after moving to London, I was inspired to reconnect to the street again.
Do you prefer producing work on canvas for shows or the throwaway nature of creating street art?
They both have their values, and for me I seem to have a good balance between working on the street and in the studio. Painting on the street is liberating for me, because in a sense you give the work away, and you cannot be precious about it in anyway. The street also creates completely different formal qualities for the work in terms of scale and textures, which can be nice but sometimes it can also be a hindrance. Working with galleries can be good also in terms of bringing the work to a different audience, and having to consolidate a body of work.
What’s next for you – any shows coming up?
I have currently have an exhibition in Paris, and here in London I am putting new work on the street. I will try to get an exhibition done for Australia at the end of the year.
Anything else you think we should know?
I recently got back from Berlin where I painted a few walls across the city, including a new version of my Artist’s Tears painting, first painted exactly 10 years ago. This is an important piece to me as it merged my interests in figurative realism with graffiti and street art, so it was good to reintroduce it to a new audience.
I’ve also just finished a new wall in London near Brick Lane, which is kind of comment/homage/critique of the current Damian Hirst show at the Tate, in particular his diamond skull, For the Love of God. I have painted my own version of a skull in a street pop style using fluorescent paint made up of hundreds of individual dots, and this one has been painted on the street for free!
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Pakistan 243-6 (Ahmed Shehzad 64) beat
West Indies 242-7 by four wickets
Fifth One-Day International, Saint Lucia
Pakistan won the fifth and final One-Day International against the West Indies by four wickets with two balls remaining to take a 3-1 series victory.
In another closely-fought match, Pakistan reached 243 for six in the final over after the home side had posted 242 for seven.
A late blast of 48 in 27 balls from West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo was the best the hosts could muster before half-centuries from Misbah-ul-Haq (63) and Ahmed Shehzad (64) set Pakistan on course for the win.
However, the late dismissals of Misbah and Umar Akmal (37) threatened to undermine their chase until Shahid Afridi, unbeaten on 13, and Saeed Ajmal, on one, saw them home.
Pakistan elected to field first and Junaid Khan (3-48) struck quickly to remove Devon Smith (7) and Darren Bravo (9) before Johnson Charles' 43 and Marlon Samuels' 45 helped launch the recovery.
It was slow going, however, Charles occupying the crease for 71 deliveries and Samuels taking 89 balls. Mohammad Irfan removed both and West Indies launched the charge through Chris Gayle (21), Lendl Simmons (25) and Bravo, who hit five fours and three sixes.
Darren Sammy smacked 29 not out in 18 balls as Ajmal also returned two wickets by removing Simmons and Bravo.
Pakistan openers Nasir Jamshed, who made 23, and Shehzad, whose 64 came from 100 balls, then put on 51 together before Jamshed was run out by Gayle and Mohammad Hafeez's poor series ended when he was caught by Simmons off Sammy for 11 in 22 balls.
Misbah and Shehzad then put on 69 for the third wicket to take the score to 123, when Shehzad dismissed by Tino Best.
Haris Sohail made a fluent 17 in 22 balls but when he departed, caught by Simmons as Best struck again to return three for 48, the match - like most in the series - could have gone either way.
Misbah then formed a crucial partnership with Akmal which turned the game in Pakistan's favour. The former stroked 63 in 93 deliveries while Akmal hurried to 37 in 28, exiting in the 48th over when he skied an attempted pull off Best and was caught by Kemar Roach.
That left Misbah with the job of shepherding Pakistan to the finish line but he couldn't quite stay to finish off the job, caught by captain Bravo off Jason Holder with the scores level, leaving Afridi and Ajmal to complete the formalities in the final over.
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Watson’s powerful, claustrophobic tale has his shattered protagonist waking from a night’s sleep, convinced there’s something not quite right. There’s a man in her bed, a stranger who smiles at her and tells her that he’s Ben, her husband. But she doesn’t want to hear him or even believe what he is saying: “You had an accident, a bad accident. You suffered head injuries and you have problems remembering things.”
Christine’s loss of memory has affected her life profoundly. Nothing stays with her; even the memories of how she met
and married Ben are dead on arrival. Even more bizarre is that she still thinks she’s in her mid-twenties. There seems to be nothing in between but a long, silent emptiness that has led her to this bed with this mustached man in this strange, bland, smartly comfortable house in Crouch End, North London.
Christine sees little else but a void in her mind where vast gaps and “tiny islands of memory” seem to have vanished from her reality. Is this really her life; is this who she is? As Ben attempts to encapsulate her with care and security, Christine has the distinct impression she’s about to go into battle, "or that some kind of battle is inching slowly towards her.”
Watson’s psychological novel unfurls in tense, protracted detail as Christine tries desperately to pull her fractured memories back into place. Caught between self-doubt, mistrust and fear, plagued by singular complications, Christine goes bravely in search of connections. Suddenly she’s remembering the breakfast she shared with Ben and the sunny afternoon atop Parliament Hill, the shapes of London’s skyline appearing before her without quite knowing why.
Dr. Nash, Christine’s therapist, tells her that progress is difficult to quantify but that she should continue to write down the day’s events in her brown leather journal. As Christine’s mind starts to come alive “like sparks of electricity,” the book becomes her salvation, unlocking dark secrets that until now have seemed like fiction. More memories hit her, each striking more violently, the image of a scarred, bearded stranger the most terrifying while the pages of the journal take on even greater meaning, paralleling Christine’s ever-increasing paranoia that Ben is protecting her from the truth of her accident.
Clouded skies and London's monochrome, rain-drenched streets encapsulate a tale acerbated by peril and very real danger, the plot complicated by a violent turn of events. We follow Christine’s circuitous route
leading her to the seaside town of Brighton where she was found all those years ago, where the brutal, sadistic truth of who stole her life and memory from her is finally revealed.
Filtering the action though Christine’s splintered memories, a bouquet of flowers and a bottle of champagne are the author’s only clues to his heroine's unlikely fate. Strangers crisscross Christine’s life, connecting and disconnecting,
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noun (plural yogis)
A person who is proficient in yoga.
- Descended from a long line of respected yogis in Yoga Vedanta philosophy, Swamiji was born in Rajasthan in Northwestern India where he has established a school and other social welfare facilities.
- The sued yogis point out that yoga is a 5,000 year old tradition, and find it hard to understand how you can copyright a ‘pose’.
- Each December, the guru leaves his Manhattan studio to run a seven-Day Miami beach yoga intensive for yogis of all levels.
Words that rhyme with yogibogey, bogie, dogie, fogey, hoagie, stogy
For editors and proofreaders
Line breaks: yogi
Definition of yogi in:
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
When I thought..... all the last drawings and amendments to text for the book have gone off to France and I could breathe a sigh of whatever, I find out this morning that Editions de Saxe have been bought by another company. The General Manager has gone ( he was the one I dealt with) and there is a new one. The contract is signed but I only sent it on the day I left Europe- so it should be there- they had already signed. We had amended the contract as I wanted to keep the English rights until such time as they published the book in English. So now what?? I was hoping the advance would pay for my trip to Europe in January. Hopefully I might find out more tonight- but it just shows how precarious things can be and if the thing is scrapped I will have to cancel my trip :-(
So I decided to make some more of my griot dolls and sone of the cats (one as a thank you gift to some acquaintances in Austria who kindly sent soem Halloween things for the kids). I sold a couple of the dolls when I was overseas- people seem to genuinely like them . So I decided to sell them through the blog as well.! They are $55 US inclusive of postage (airmail). I carved a new figure as I want a variety of faces and patterning as well.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
I haven't created anything new since being back because I have had to sit and do all the working drawings for my book Seventy Two Ways which will be published in French in January. Serves me right- I thought I would get away with drawing by simply sewing- but not so- they also wanted drawings as well as drawings indicating sewing directions. So I have had to sit and draw these very neatly ( and you know my drawing with the sewing machine is much better than by hand!) it is done- I also had to be more instructional in the descritpions accompanying each square- in the english version I sort of presumed that the people who would be buying the book would already know some of the things, however Editions de Saxe caters to a much wider market than I might reach, so I have had to be much more didactic than I might ordinarily have been. But it is all done- all I have to do is load some images of some of my machine quilted pieces onto a cd and it is ready to send off tomorrow!.
I leave a lot of my things in Europe at my aunts- I get snagged by way too many books- you know how it is- fishing line with attractive book at the end and when I was in Syria I was given a number of artists books as well. I brought one of them home this time. The book was released to accompany the exhibition of the work of Abdullah Murad and is wonderful. I share two images here. The blue one was entrancing- it was quite big and had I had the money I would have bought it. It is composed of so many layers, so many drifts of ideas, a langauge beyond langaue and yet it also captures the presence of Syria/of a Syrian artist working with layers of story and history- I loved it. The other thing I much admired in Murad's work was his masterly use of yellow- it reminded me so of Bonnard whose use of yellow is wonderful.
One of the things I noticed when I visited Artisan Bookshop in Melbourne just before I left, was how miserly the books on quilting are. By this I mean they were all soft back slim volumes on one technique yet many of the other books in the shop also relating to areas of art and craft were substantial weighty beautiful books. I think we are selling ourselves short- by allowing publishers to dictate the quick and speedy way of publishing. I don't mind if it relates to one technique but when the book contains substantial work it desreves better than a slim soft cover volume. So this thought has been ruminating in my mind- as I have been trying to think of ways I can make a catalogue to accompany my exhibition in Munch next year- and I am leaning to hand made books- I know it is a kind of expensive exercise- but if the content is good and the work even goes vaguely halfway to capturing what I have been imagining then it is worthy of something more than a mere invite. Anyway I have still got the thinking cap on , and maybe it is too big an ask. I am thinking limited edition catalogue. Ok off for a glass of champers!
Thursday, October 25, 2007
The first photo is of a piece of Kuba cloth which scomes from the Congo. I bought it at Val d'Argent.It is a technique peculiar to the Kuna people , and I have not heard of any other people working with this particular technique. The ground fabric is woven from raffia and then embroidered with raffia- the embroidery is then cut to create the chenille effect. I love the slight irregularity of the shapes which gives it a certain motion. I was very happy to get a piece of Kuba as slowly I am building up a small collection of all sorts of indigenous textiles.
the se=cond piece is some fabric I dyed the day I met with Laura and Annette Jeukens. I couldn't take it with me at the time as it was still wet but Laura kindly sent it to me. It is painted with Trapsuutjies opaque textile paints and fabric liners( copper is the colour I used) I really like this piece of cloth but have not decided what i shall do with it. Oh and btw Trapsuutjies website is now also in English ( and hopefully soon in French as well)
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
The photos above are from a small textile museum in Hard near the Boden See in Austria.This particular area developed as a textile printing area after a person moved to this area from the great Mulhouse printing factories sometime in the 1700's. The area was chosen for it's pure water which was also ultimately to cause its demise in the 1860's with local town councillors voting to close the industry due to the polluting of the water system. The museum is small but well worth a look if you are in the area- they had a very good video showing the carving of the blocks and transfer of designs and showing the actual printing process and mordanting process for silks ( and much of the mordanting of natural dyes uses urine- for example woad uses bovine urine, and workers associated with the industry often had derogatory names assigned to them because of the odour of urine) as well as a very nice collection of printing blocks and fabrics printed in the region.Wood block carving was a much sought after profession in that it paid three times the money than ordinary work in the textile industry and was done in well lit warm and dry environments. One did a three year apprenticeship upon which one was given or bought ( I am not sure which as my German is a bit rusty)a box of tools as seen in the photo. This enabled woodblock carvers to travel with their tools to various areas and of course resulted in a cross fertilisation of patterns and designs.
I am back after a long journey home not helped by a train strike in France ( my intended way of getting to the airport which had to be changed to hire car as I did not want to miss my plane as it had been incredibly difficult to get a fare home in the first place), to being told the plane was too full and that I would have to fly with a partner airline( which was fine by me) to being told at the last minute they did have a seat for me, arriving in Doha late and having to scuttle to catch the next leg of my flight to find my luggage missing on arrival in Bangkok. I was a bit overwhelmed by Bangkok-the noise and dirt and its skyscrapers- giving an outward appearance of western affluence ( why is this so desired- I find modern western cities soulless) but concealing poverty- and the number of shops selling designer clothing ( how many of these outlets are there worldwide of these overpriced items- there are whole cities that exist on selling hotels and designer malls to tourists- Dubai, Doha, Singapore, Bangkok and no doubt many others).I had hoped to buy some silks but I didn't get to the markets . Then I flew home on Jetstar- and from my point of view never again! The plane was fine but having to pay for meals and drinks on a reasonably long haul flight when you are tired and just want to get home is not my cup of tea. Not only that I used my frequent flyers points for this leg- and my grumble is -- I earned those points on more expensive fully catered flights - yet I get to spend them on a lowcost flight with no services!Thanks Qantas!
So I am home- have to finish drawings for my Seventy Two Ways book to send to France- my book contract is signed for the French edition of the book! Also waiting upon my arrival home was lovely already coloured lutradur/polyester non-woven fabric purchased by one of my students from Paris ( Thank You Catherine!)in a Toto of all places ( though in a sense not surprising as Toto's seem to have all manner of things fabric). Catherine sent me yellow, orange and red- which saves me having to colour the first application before applying the next layer of colour/designs with transfer paints.
Marion tagged me for a meme- but as i can't think of an unsual fact about myself and I haven't yet got around to thinking of any other facts.
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Roper offers stylish western wear apparel for the fashion savvy cowgirl. This Women’s Roper Top features an easy-wearing spread collar. Two-snap sawtooth flap chest pockets. White pearlized snap closures at front placket, pockets, and cuffs. Women’s shirt is made of 100% cotton. Sizes: S(2-4), M(6-8), L(10-12), XL(14-16), 2XL(18). | <urn:uuid:c3a12646-2a1f-4d1f-8284-0937472c991e> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.sheplers.com/Roper-Green-Plaid-Floral-Print-Western-Shirt/10043.pro?relationType=crossSell&cross-sell=true | 2016-05-31T17:17:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464051417337.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524005657-00101-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902239 | 101 | [
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- Buranda, T. and Wu, Y. and Perez, D. and Jett, S. D. and BonduHawkins, V. and Ye, C. Y. and Edwards, B. and Hall, P. and Larson, R. S. and Lopez, G. P. and Sklar, L. A. and Hjelle, B., Recognition of decay accelerating factor and alpha(v)beta(3) by inactivated hantaviruses: Toward the development of high-throughput screening flow cytometry assays,
Analytical Biochemistry, vol. 402 no. 2
pp. 151--160 [doi] .
(last updated on 2013/06/21)
Hantaviruses cause two severe diseases in humans: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS). The lack of vaccines or specific drugs to prevent or treat HERS and HCPS and the requirement for conducting experiments in a biosafety level 3 laboratory (BSL-3) limit the ability to probe the mechanism of infection and disease pathogenesis. In this study, we developed a generalizable spectroscopic assay to quantify saturable fluorophore sites solubilized in envelope membranes of Sin Nombre virus (SNV) particles. We then used flow cytometry and live cell confocal fluorescence microscopy imaging to show that ultraviolet (UV)-killed SNV particles bind to the cognate receptors of live virions, namely, decay accelerating factor (DAF/CD55) expressed on Tanoue B cells and a(v)beta(3) integrins expressed on Vero E6 cells. SNV binding to DAF is multivalent and of high affinity (K-d similar to 26 pM). Self-exchange competition binding assays between fluorescently labeled SNV and unlabeled SNV are used to evaluate an infectious unit-to-particle ratio of approximately 1:14,000. We configured the assay for measuring the binding of fluorescently labeled SNV to Tanoue B suspension cells using a high-throughput flow cytometer. In this way, we established a proof-of-principle high-throughput screening (HTS) assay for binding inhibition. This is a first step toward developing HTS format assays for small molecule inhibitors of viral-cell interactions as well as dissecting the mechanism of infection in a BSL-2 environment. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. | <urn:uuid:edd58876-fba2-4599-9502-f222a45879f8> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://fds.duke.edu/db/pratt/mems/faculty/gabriel.lopez/publications/217587 | 2016-05-26T16:30:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049276131.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002116-00046-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.848952 | 527 | [
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On Monday, September 9, it’s off the beaches and onto buses for students in Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools (MVPS) and the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School for the start of a new school year. Although Island schools traditionally start a few days after Labor Day, the opening date was delayed this year to avoid conflict with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which starts the evening of September 4.
New MVPS teachers report to their classrooms for orientation on August 29 and 30. Other staff members return on September 3.
The incoming freshmen at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS) have a half-day to themselves to learn the ropes on Wednesday, September 4, from 7:45 am to noon. Orientation activities include a school scavenger hunt. There is no school on September 4 and 5.
Opening day information for Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools is available online at www.mvyps.org, which also includes links to the individual schools. Parents can check in with schools for bus routes and stops or contact Transportation Manager Jimmy Flynn at MVRHS at 508-693-1033, ext. 253. Information about bus routes, school schedules, and notices for MVRHS students may also be found online at www.edline.net. Information for the Charter School is available online at www.mvpcs.org. | <urn:uuid:c8402c81-1ecf-4f36-b54d-63f0c8041531> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.mvtimes.com/2013/08/28/high-school-freshmen-new-teachers-head-back-next-week-17089/ | 2016-05-29T07:57:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278417.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00206-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950154 | 296 | [
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Why do you still keep using "volume" to differentiate the iSonics? The 122 has only 114 liters anyway, same with the other boards. Why not use the board with, much more important in my opinion?
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About this photo: We're launching a new Thematic Photographic theme, on the road, with this photo. Please click here if you'd like to learn how this weekly Written Inc. feature works.I think travel intrigues me because it gives me a chance to see and experience places that would otherwise remain out of reach. When I think about the kind of things I want to see, however, they aren't always the typical ones that everyone else flocks to. Zipping from one carefully scheduled tour to another on a bus filled with camera- and fanny pack-toting sexagenarians just so I can say I saw [insert name of globally-recognized tourist trap here] doesn't do it for me.
My philosophy is a little different: I see what I see. And it may or may not be iconic in the conventional sense. Either way, what matters most to me is that my family and I derive joy - or a similar benefit - from the experience. Jen, who pens the excellent blog, Cheese in my Shoe, shared this in a comment last week - and it's been resonating in my brain ever since:
"Photography gives us that gift of sucking the marrow out of a moment."Right on, Jen. And when I'm on the road, I hope that whatever I capture through the lens helps me - and anyone who sees the result - suck the marrow out of that moment. For the coming week, I hope you'll share photos of your on-the-road experiences.
Your turn: Please post a picture taken while you were on the road - feel free to interpret this as liberally as you wish. Paste a link to the entry in a comment here, then visit other participants to share the photographic happiness. Repeat as often as you wish. And have fun, since that's what this is all about. For more info on Thematic Photographic, click here. | <urn:uuid:8288e4c1-0ec9-46ac-a089-78122b3821bb> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://writteninc.blogspot.com/2010/02/thematic-photographic-87-on-road.html | 2016-05-31T23:49:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464053252010.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524012732-00121-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960131 | 400 | [
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The family of a Waggaman man who drowned in the Harvey Canal on Wednesday is searching for answers about his death, even as they remember the kind, generous and hardworking life he lived. Randy Harris, 47, drowned about 3 p.m. while working at Total Marine Service of Jefferson Inc. in the 2000 block of Destrehan Avenue in Harvey. Harris fell into the canal while trying to retrieve a tow boat that had drifted away while he was working, said Col. John Fortunato, a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman. Harris worked at a marine repair business as an operator.
Harris became distressed in the water and a co-worker tossed him a life preserver. Harris was unable to reach the device, went underwater and never resurfaced, Fortunato said. Authorities searched for his body for hours and finally recovered it Wednesday evening.
The Jefferson Parish coroner's office completed an autopsy on Harris on Thursday, and found no other health conditions that led to his drowning.
However, Harris' family finds it hard to believe that he would simply drown. They say he was an "excellent" swimmer who spent a lot of time outdoors as an avid hunter and fisher. They are also confused by the different stories that emerged after the incident, and are concerned that officials took so long to notify them of what happened. They wonder why none of Harris' co-workers jumped in the water to save him, or why he wasn't wearing a life jacket as a rule while working near water.
"It's just hard for me to see him drowning," said Relinda Harris, the victim's wife.
Harris had worked for the company for 10 years, and family members said he was serious about his job. He made a point of always being on time, and working hard.
That same work ethic was evident in how he maintained his home, and worked various side jobs for money. But, he wasn't only concerned with lining his pockets; he also helped his neighbors, family and friends whenever they needed assistance, his family said.
"Anything he could do for somebody he did it," his wife said.
Family members say Harris was well-known in his neighborhood and always had a kind word for everyone, particularly the children of the community. One neighbor was in tears as she talked with his family about how he would keep watch over her daughter as she walked to the Live Oak library near his home. Harris was quiet, but loved joking around. He had two daughters and several grandchildren.
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If you’ve ever attempted to get a home mortgage modification through Bank of America, this news will likely not surprise you. If it’s true, Bank of America is a disgusting, horrible company. And I’m inclined to believe it is true, since SIX people are saying this is how things went down when homeowners applied for loan modifications under the federal Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP)…
It doesn’t take much to explain what happened. The former employees of bank of America say that they were encouraged to “lose” paperwork from homeowners, and then later deny their modifications because they “hadn’t submitted their paperwork.” Employees received bonuses (ranging from gift cards to cash) for lying to homeowners and improperly denying modifications under HAMP.
William Wilson, a former BOA case management team manager, detailed how Bank of America would receive documents from homeowners in a timely fashion, but then not act on the mortgage modification requests for months. He said BOA claimed the “… documents were incomplete or missing when they were not, or simply claiming the file was ‘under review’ when it was not.”
Theresa Terrelonge, a former collector for Bank of America says that employees “… were instructed to inform homeowners that modification documents were not received on time, not received at all, or that documents were missing, even when, in fact, all documents were received in full and on time.” They were also instructed to close loan accounts and decline loan modifications based on failure to provide documents or information, even when the homeowners had provided all documents.
Steven Cupples was an underwriter and team leader at Bank of America. He says that employees were not informed that documentation from borrowers could could be maintained in five separate systems. Thus, borrowers were declined loan modifications for not sending documents, when the documents were sent and maintained in a system the employees hadn’t checked. He also says that BOA lied to the government about the number of loans in the modification process, and employees who challenged the ethical practices of BOA were fired.
Simone Gordon, a former senior collector at Bank of America says that homeowners would call to inquire about their modifications, and even though they submitted all their documentation and made their required trial payments, they were told that documents were not received. She says, “We were told that admitting that the Bank received documents would “open a can of worms” since the Bank was required to underwrite the loan modification within 30 days of receiving those documents, and it did not have sufficient underwriting staff to complete the underwriting in that time.”
Recorda Simon, a former home retention specialist for BOA, says that the bank had many people marked as delinquent in the computer system, even when they had modification agreements in place and were making payments as agreed. She says she saw borrowers who were current on their permanent loan modifications being sent foreclosure notices. Simon says she was told to lie to borrowers about the status of their modification applications.
Erika Brown, a former customer service representative at BOA, says that she was told to tell every homeowner that their file was “under review,” regardless of the actual status of it. Even loans that were modified were still shown in the computer system as delinquent, reported to credit agencies as delinquent, and p0ossibly sent to foreclosure.
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This stunning centerpiece was put together by RAZ and shown in the Winter Palace Collection for 2011. A collection of ornaments, frosted greenery and white feathers are nesting among some basic brown with clear light, lighted branches. The lighted branches are in stock now and come in a set of three stems, all connected by one wire that connect to adaptor that is plugged into the wall. The branches can be bent and flexed to make your creation. (Though don’t bend too severely to damage wires.)
This tabletop decoration could also be created with fresh greenery (No water around the branches of course.), natural pine cones or other materials. Something like a wicker basket could be substituted for the sleigh. I love the way the pine cones are just sort of drifting off the side of the container.
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But in the end, he became the first Bucco pitcher of the spring to work into the sixth frame. McDonald finished in a groove, nailing 14 of the last 17 Jays he faced. His line today was 5-1/3 innings worked, giving up three runs on five hits and two walks with five K.
The Pirates didn't give him a lot of support against Mark Buehrle. In the third, they conjured up a little two-out lightning. Starling Marte collected his second hit, a triple, and Russell Martin walked. A Cutch single plated Marte, but the game-tying run was cut down at home a batter later. Russell tried to score on Gaby Sanchez's knock to left, but Melky Cabrera's toss home to Mike Nickeas barely beat the Bucco catcher.
The game went quietly into the sixth. With one out and one on, Mark Melancon took the ball from J-Mac. MM walked his first batter, and Nickeas dropped a fly single into right with two down to plate Adam Lind. The Jays got an ugly unearned tally in the seventh. Melancon started the inning surrendering an infield knock and walk; an out later, Vin Mazzaro came on. He got back-to-back grounders, one that the Buc infield couldn't turn for two and the other a boot by Ivan DeJesus at third, allowing another two-out run.
Toronto gave the Bucs a golden chance in the eighth, but they failed to take full advantage. Alex Presley opened with an infield single off Neil Wagner, and Jared Goedert got aboard on a drop by the centerfielder. DeJesus K'ed, but Josh Harrison looped a single into center.
A run scored and the Bucs ended up on second and third after the throw. But JT, with the table set, whiffed on a foul tip. Jordy Mercer followed with a walk to juice the sacks, leaving Tony Sanchez with the chance to be a hero. Alas, his bouncer to second ended the inning with the Bucs a knock short of tying the game.
The Bucs did D up in the ninth to keep it close. With an out, Jared Hughes gave up a walk to ex-Bucco Jim Negrych, followed by a double to put runners at second and third. Like the Bucs the inning before, the Jays didn't cash in; with the infield in, Mercer grabbed a grounder and gunned the ball home to nab Negrych, and another bouncer ended the frame.
The Bucs cut it to one when Felix Pie led off the home half of the ninth with a homer to right off Tyson Brummet, and Lucas May followed with a walk. Dan Grovatt came in to run and went to second on a Presley bouncer to first. Goedert K'ed, followed by a DeJesus infield knock to put runners on the corners. Harrison came up big with a two-out ground rule double to send the game to extra innings; if it stayed in play, the game may have been over.
Fortunately, that bounce into the stands didn't come back to bite them. Kyle Waldrop came on in the tenth, and gave up a leadoff double to Andy LaRoche. But he left him at second handily.
Tommy Hottovy came on and hit Mercer to open the Bucco half. A failed bunt by Tony Sanchez forced him at second, but Hottovy followed by plunking Pie, too. Kelson Brown ran for Sanchez, and pinch hitter Carlos Paulino dropped a fly into center for the walk-off knock.
Back at it tomorrow after another nice come-from-behind win when Kyle McPherson faces the Phillies in Clearwater. Pittsburgh, after a slow start, has won four in a row and is now 8-10 in Grapefruit League play.
- Jeff Karstens should be close to returning. He took the bump for a couple of frames at minor league camp against the Phillies AAA club Lehigh Valley and tossed goose eggs, giving up a hit and whiffing one while throwing 26 pitches.
- The game drew a crowd of 8,439 at McKechnie Field today, the largest attendance in the franchise's 90 year history.
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Animals and flowers,
Birds, and plants, and trees …
All that you can name like this --
You can see God in these.
Stop and take a moment.
Pause long enough to sit.
Then focus on an object
And say, “God is in it.”
“God is that, and God is that,”
Say it as you move your gaze,
And doing this you’ll start to see
God manifest in many ways.
Then find a group of people
And do this for all you see.
Say, “God is that, and God is that,”
Then say, “And God is me.”
In this way you’ll strengthen
Your connection with all things
And find the joy and oneness that
This understanding brings.
Note from Suzanne: I love this! It fits right in with the phrase "I AM THAT I AM." I did as the poem said ... sat and moved my gaze from the glorious Grand Tetons to the birds, a chipmunk, the wildflowers, saying "God is that ... God is that ... God is that ... " Then I saw some people and said the same thing, letting it sink in. Then I finished by saying, "And I AM THAT." Powerful. (It's also interesting to change the name God to various names and repeat the exercise ...Great Spirit, Infinite Intelligence, Consciousness, The Source, etc. ... and see how it feels.) Love to all ...
About the Poetry
All of the poems in this blog are spirit-inspired. Every word came to me each day for a full year while in deep meditation. I simply wrote what I heard onto a pad of paper in my lap with eyes closed – meaningful, multi-stanza verses in mere minutes. I was unaware of each poem’s theme until I transcribed it later word for word. Each day brought new and wondrous discoveries about the world beyond our five physical senses, incredible wisdom, and messages of hope which I share with you in this blog. The last poems received are displayed below on this page, but the entire collection of 365+ poems are archived here in the left-hand column. You can search by topic or keyword using the search box in the upper left corner. May you find among them just the right message which speaks to your heart. | <urn:uuid:a98cb196-4396-41d4-aeed-38d6b7fca7dc> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://suzannegiesemannsblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/poem-340-in-all-things.html | 2017-06-22T11:55:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319265.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622114718-20170622134718-00396.warc.gz | en | 0.950718 | 500 | [
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Jacksmelt is a scrabble word? Yes (24 Points)
Jacksmelt has worth 24 Scrabble points. Each letter point as below.
There are total 9 letters in Jacksmelt, Starting with J and ending with T.
Total 262 words created by multiple letters combination of Jacksmelt in English Dictionary.
Words that starting with Jacksmelt
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Posted 7 years ago
About four months ago I scanned a picture of a postcard advertising a show with the Grateful Dead and the New Riders of the Purple Sage at a short-lived club in San Rafael called the Euphoria. I attended that show and managed to hang onto the card for all these years. Here's a link to that Show & Tell:
Here are postcards for the shows that preceded and followed that one. I attended both. July of 1970 was a fun month.
The first show featured Big Brother and the Holding Company as the headliner, but Janis Joplin had left the band by then. Nick Gravenites was the lead singer that night, and while I always liked him, Janis was a tough act to follow. Don't remember much about A.B. Skhy, but Joy of Cooking was always a favorite. Randy Tuten did the art on this one, I believe.
The second card was for a Youngbloods show. We saw them many times when we were kids. I especially liked Banana's playing, but Young had the voice. Art on this one is by Robert Fried.
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Victoria Jaiani in the Joffrey Ballet's Othello (by Cheryl Mann)
It’s not just luxurious extensions and delicate port de bras that make the Joffrey Ballet’s Victoria Jaiani such a mesmerizing performer. She has that intangible “It” factor that marks a true prima ballerina—and makes her impossible not to watch, whether she’s embodying a heartbroken Dying Swan or an exuberant Juliet.
A native of Tbilisi, Georgia, Jaiani started training at Georgia’s V. Chabukiani Tbilisi Ballet Art State School at age 10. As a teenager, she moved to the U.S. to study at NYC’s Joffrey Ballet School. After winning the bronze medal at the 2003 New York International Ballet Competition, she joined Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet. Since then, Jaiani has danced many coveted roles, including the title role in Cinderella and Terpsichore in Apollo. Catch her this month in the Joffrey premiere of La Bayadère at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University in Chicago. —Helen Hope Rolfe
Dear young Victoria,
Please don’t think you’re a weird girl because you spend all of your time in the studio.
It’s such a great place to learn about yourself, and an amazing place to grow up. As you continue to strive for more, you will see your work result in some amazing opportunities. Don’t be so hard on yourself. You know what they say: “Patience is a virtue.”
Speaking of having patience, remember to chill out every once in a while (except when it comes to your feet—keep working hard on those, and they’ll get there!). It’s normal to want more, but take a step back and appreciate what you have.
Victoria Jaiani as a young student (courtesy Victoria Jaiani)
You need to know that not everyone is going to be supportive. Remember to trust yourself, and learn how to see the difference between someone giving constructive criticism and someone just trying to take you down.
You have really good instincts, so let go of any apprehension about fitting into “the box.” You don’t need to fit in. Being different is what makes you special.
I know how well you focus. Keep it up—it’s such a great tool to have, not only at school but also in a professional dance career. You’ll need it inside the studio and out.
Remember how not so long ago you moved to the U.S., and everything was so different? I’m proud of the way you’ve soaked up a new culture, language and life. It will get easier. You’ll see.
Keep those you love close. Give thanks to the strong women in your family. And remember: Your loved ones love you no matter how well you did your pirouettes today.
With best wishes and love,
Sure, dance is fun, but these performers have other skills they’re putting to good use:
Alexandra Johnson in Sidra Bell's House Unrest. (Jubal Battisti)
Sidra Bell Dance New York
Hobby: Reupholstering furniture
“My mother has always been into sewing and she’s worked in interior design, so I latched on to her interests. Now, I own a lot of furniture that I’ve reupholstered. People don’t realize that reupholstering isn’t hard if you’re willing to take time to do it—and it saves money!”
Sarah Braverman and Ian Spring (Lois Greenfield)
Hobby: Learning Italian
“I decided to take up Italian because two of the dancers I work with speak the language and we spend a lot of time together. Plus, Italy just happens to be on Parsons’ tour schedule! At the end of a long day it feels good to have something spark my interest that’s outside of the dance world. Keeping your mind open makes your dancing more informed.”
Jermaine Terry (Eduardo Patino)
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Hobby: Costume design
“I discovered costume design in college. I had choreographed my senior piece and my roommate suggested I buy slips and add to them for costumes. So that’s what I did. I started to do it professionally later by accident. In rehearsal one day, I was wearing a pair of jazz pants I had made. The choreographer liked them and asked if I would make the costumes for his piece. People have been asking me to make things for them ever since.”
Shelby Elsbree in Christopher Wheeldon’s Sleeping Beauty (David Amzallag)
Royal Danish Ballet
Hobbies: Blogging, cooking and photography
“A little over a year ago, my sister encouraged me to do something with my free time besides working out. I invested in a camera and took a picture of a chocolate cake baked by my sister. It was the most beautiful picture ever. I love food and cooking, so I combined these side passions with dance and started a blog. Tutus & Tea was born.”
Sona Kharatian in The Great Gatsby (Brianne Bland)
The Washington Ballet
“During Nutcracker season, I’ll knit scarves and socks to give as Christmas presents. If someone has me as their Secret Santa, they know they’ll get something knitted.”
Suluashvili and his wife, fellow Joffrey dancer Victoria Jaiani. Suluashvili says his favorite piece he’s crocheted is a shawl for Jaiani! (Herbert Migdoll)
“One day I decided to pick up crocheting needles and see what happened. I thought it could be a fun challenge. With crocheting you can do a little at a time—a few minutes here, a few minutes there, and before you know it you have a scarf or legwarmers!
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Citation: Gonzalez, C., & Elliott, M. (2016). Faculty attitudes and behaviors toward student veterans. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 29(1), 35-46.
Why Is This Study Important?
There is a growing presence of student veterans on college campuses. Many veterans who return from active duty in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other recent areas of conflict are enrolling in postsecondary education. Physical and/or psychological injuries including such diagnoses as PTSD, TBI, and depression are requiring disability based accommodations in college settings.
Student veterans with disabilities face unique challenges in the college environment. Research on the experience of student veterans in college has identified barriers such as being uncomfortable in crowded auditoriums and having a feeling of not fitting in on campus. Some student veterans have expressed discomfort with interactions with faculty who voice liberal views on military issues. To date, research has focused on student perspective and experience, but what do we know about other factors? How do faculty experiences and attitudes influence this interaction?
Carlene Gonzalez from the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and Marta Elliott from the University of Nevada, Reno conducted a study to explore this topic. They wanted to know more about what predicts how military -related issues are treated and supported in college classrooms.
Research Methods in a Nutshell
The authors surveyed college faculty from two campuses, one a community college and one a four-year university. They sought out faculty who taught courses that met general education requirements (e.g., English 101) since that would increase the likelihood of getting input from faculty who were teaching student veterans.
The researchers developed a survey instrument with questions for faculty related to three broad areas: (1) how much contact they had had with the military throughout their lives, and including close friends and family in the military; (2) information about on the job contact with student veterans including how they viewed student veterans in comparison to other students; and (3) the manner in which the military came up in class.
Some Key Findings
Contact with the military. Not surprisingly, the more contact with the military a faculty member had experienced throughout his/her life the more often military issues came up in class. These faculty were also more likely to be supportive and willing to help student veterans if needed.
Faculty perceptions of veterans. Faculty who indicated they thought highly of veterans (e.g., they were more deserving of a college education given their military service) were more likely to bring up military issues in class and be willing to provide support.
Institutional differences. Faculty respondents from the community college reported being more willing to help student veterans and support their success.
Unrelated faculty characteristics. Equally important in the findings of this study was the fact that gender, age, job rank, years teaching, political party affiliation, fiscal conservatism, and social conservatism were not related to the manner in which military came up in class or the faculty member’s willingness to help student veterans in their classes.
The authors identified some possible weaknesses of the study. They noted the sample size was small (n=160) and they considered the response rate to be low (51%). There was a possibility they had overrepresented faculty who had served in the military or worked in a community college setting. They also observed in retrospect that the survey questions had perhaps not been subtle enough to distinguish between positive and negative student experiences in the classroom. They merely asked faculty about the frequency in which military issues came up in class.
The authors recommend some approaches to addressing the issues identified by the study. Provide training for faculty and staff on topics related to military service. Greater awareness of topics such as mental health and transitions from military to civilian life can serve to enhance campus sensitivity to these issues. Identifying individuals as campus liaisons for student veterans helps students navigate the postsecondary environment by having an informed and supportive network. Increase faculty awareness and sensitivity of non-visible disabilities that may be experienced by student veterans. One strategy the authors recommend is to include a statement in class syllabi encouraging student veterans to privately self-identify to instructors. The authors caution that the goal of training should be to increase faculty sensitivity and awareness of these particular student issues, and not an attempt to change faculty members’ opinions regarding the military.
Want to Know More?
Read the full report of findings as well as additional suggestions for enhancing the college environment at: https://www.ahead.org/publications/jped/vol_29
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