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"I always said that someone on the senior management team of Gleneagles should be a non-golfer, because otherwise the danger is it runs like a golf club and it is run for passion not business. It served us well. I have played, but it is just not my thing." And what after? Lederer, still svelte and energetic at the age of 64, plans to continue in his role focusing on his passion for getting young people into work. Currently he is the chairman of the Saltire Foundation, which runs a international internship programme for talented Scottish graduates. Once the Ryder Cup is over, he will be involved in the development of a programme for Diageo called Learning For Life, a skills development effort backed by £5m over five years that will launch by the end of the year. The project will be piloted in Scotland and be expanded out across Europe. "My passion has always been trying to get young people started in business, particularly at the moment," he says.
Born: London, 1950 Education: City of London School, four-year hotel and catering management course at Hendon College, advanced management programme at Insead Kindle or book?: "As a dyslexic, both are a struggle. Reading is not something I tend to do a lot. I can keep a lot of things up in the air and going quite easily, whereas focusing on one thing like a book is difficult. I don't have a Kindle but I will take a book on holiday." Ambition while at school: "To be a psychologist. But because of my dyslexia I couldn't go to university, so that was out the window." Car you drive: Audi Claim to fame: chairman of VisitScotland from 2001-10 What makes you angry: Negativity.
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Hollywood star supports baby unit Mr Cage was joined by the Heartbeat actor Jason Durr whose twins were born at the hospital. "If you ever wanted to find a place where there are little angels on earth then it's here and they come and care for your children," he said.
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intellectual charabia (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/charabia)
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== THis is the subject! ==
You ALL ARE HOMOS! lol
== Early Life of Balls ==
Yupp. Lingustics are gay! Just like you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.192.10.50 (talk)
== Those Vandals ==
Hey, I dont know what the section is suppossed to be called about pragmatics, but I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be called "How to get Pregnant" so I'm going to change it to "Pragmatics"--98.213.247.135 (talk)
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== Scenario edits ==
Some anonymous user put up some very factually incorrect scenarios. Before editing the scenarios, please make sure you're aware of the tiebreakers on the gooup page. A three way tiebreak is decided by point difference accross all matches. Nlsanand (talk)
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Arunbrainy (talk • contribs)
Sorry, this page is for helping people with using wikipedia, and not with general questions. You can perhaps ask over at the reference deskTiggerjay (talk)
== File Histories ==
Would it be possible to make it so that on side Wikipedia's control. PrimeHunter (talk)
== reporting inappropriate photo ==
please check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 for an inappropriate photo at the bottom of page 124.182.18.165 (talk)
That was caused by vandalism, which was removed less than 2 minutes later, and the user who did it has been blocked from editing. If you're still seeing it, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447?action=purge to force a refresh. Cheers, Chzz ►
== ARUNBRAINY'S QUERY ABOUT CHEMICAL ==
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE CHEMICAL ADHESIVE/SEALANT USED TO ENCAPSULATE OR COVERING THE COPPER WIRE COIL,IN SUBMERCIBLE PUMP, WHICH IS VERY HARD AND BRITTLE DARK GREEN GLOSSY COMPOUND.. THE PUMP IS USED IN Evaporative air
cooler IN INDIAN TERRAINS.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arunbrainy (talk • contribs)
Sorry, this page is for helping people with using wikipedia, and not with general questions. You can perhaps ask over at the reference deskTiggerjay (talk)
== File Histories ==
Would it be possible to make it so that on ide Wikipedia's control. PrimeHunter (talk)
== reporting inappropriate photo ==
please check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 for an inappropriate photo at the bottom of page 124.182.18.165 (talk)
That was caused by vandalism, which was removed less than 2 minutes later, and the user who did it has been blocked from editing. If you're still seeing it, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447?action=purge to force a refresh. Cheers, Chzz ►
== ARUNBRAINY'S QUERY ABOUT CHEMICAL ==
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE CHEMICAL ADHESIVE/SEALANT USED TO ENCAPSULATE OR COVERING THE COPPER WIRE COIL,IN SUBMERCIBLE PUMP, WHICH IS VERY HARD AND BRITTLE DARK GREEN GLOSSY COMPOUND.. THE PUMP IS USED IN Evaporative air
cooler IN INDIAN TERRAINS.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arunbrainy (talk • contribs)
Sorry, this page is for helping people with using wikipedia, and not with general questions. You can perhaps ask over at the reference deskTiggerjay (talk)
== File Histories ==
Would it be possible to make it so that on de Wikipedia's control. PrimeHunter (talk)
== reporting inappropriate photo ==
please check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 for an inappropriate photo at the bottom of page 124.182.18.165 (talk)
That was caused by vandalism, which was removed less than 2 minutes later, and the user who did it has been blocked from editing. If you're still seeing it, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447?action=purge to force a refresh. Cheers, Chzz ►
== ARUNBRAINY'S QUERY ABOUT CHEMICAL ==
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE CHEMICAL ADHESIVE/SEALANT USED TO ENCAPSULATE OR COVERING THE COPPER WIRE COIL,IN SUBMERCIBLE PUMP, WHICH IS VERY HARD AND BRITTLE DARK GREEN GLOSSY COMPOUND.. THE PUMP IS USED IN Evaporative air
cooler IN INDIAN TERRAINS....
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ViXS Expands Its Advanced Media Processing Solutions Offering New System-On-Chip Multimedia Processor Newest product in the XCode (R) 4200 series offers dual high definition (HD) decode, advanced 3D graphics, 3D TV and internet protocol (IP) content decoder TORONTO, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ - ViXS Systems Inc., a leading provider of smart network multimedia processors that enable a rich video entertainment experience, today announced the expansion of its XCode (R) 4200 family of multimedia processors with the introduction of the XCode (R) 4205. The XCode (R) 4205 further strengthens ViXS' offering in the Blu-ray and set-top box market and is designed to enable manufacturers to rapidly design and deploy next generation broadcast content; playback of 1080p high definition video; Blu-ray 3D TV MVC decode; and Over-The-Top (OTT) delivered content. The XCode (R) 4205 is highly adaptable and scalable, allowing manufacturers to build a range of Blu-ray and set-top box receivers - from basic solutions to full featured high-end PVR set-top boxes. ViXS believes this highly integrated system-on-chip (SOC) also brings a new level of concurrency and integration to the set-top box, simultaneously delivering dual channel HD with advanced 3D graphics. In addition, the XCode (R) 4205 supports a full suite of both legacy 3D TV and full HD 3D TV through ViXS' advanced media processing. The XCode 4205 (R) also enables IP OTT video services, as well as a wide range of digital rights management (DRM) and conditional access (CA) security. "The XCode 4205 (R), with its high performance processing, enables ViXS' customers to support not only current passive viewing Blu-ray playback and set-top box features, but also high value interactive and new revenue generating services such as OTT, video streaming and 3D TV," said Ms. Sally Daub, President and CEO of ViXS Systems Inc. "ViXS' new set-top box SOC architecture is adaptable and upgradeable, which we believe will allow our customers who deploy products incorporating the XCode 4205 (R) to keep pace with new technologies as they enter the market without having to upgrade devices." Key features include: - Dual HD decoders for picture-in-picture display.
- Advanced 3D graphics supporting Full HD 1080p resolution compliant to
OpenGL-ES2.0 with support for Android (TM), Adobe (R) Flash (R) and web
browsers.
- Full HD 3D TV with Multi-View Coding (MVC) allowing true 3D TV Blu-
ray quality decoding in the set-top box. Supports all standard and
proprietary legacy and true HD modes, including Blu-ray and MVC.
- Powerful applications and network processors delivering 3,000 DMIPS.
- High system throughput over Ethernet - up to 400 megabits real
socket-to-socket throughput to allow interfacing and controlling high
bandwidth HD networking.
- Independent concurrent IP codec content decoder for OTT video
decoder/processor.
- Full suite of peripherals, including: dual SD memory card support,
dual Serial ATA, dual gigabit Ethernet, video in/out, HDMI, and
video.
- ViXS Xtensiv (TM) Software Stack - designed to allow our customers
faster time-to-market. The XCode (R) 4205 is available for customer sampling. Please contact our sales department for pricing and further information at [email protected]. About ViXS Systems Inc. ViXS is a multimedia solutions innovator providing technologies for processing, managing, securing and distributing high quality video and audio allowing seamless control, conversion, and connectivity between many classes and sizes of digital entertainment devices. ViXS supplies advanced System-on-Chip semiconductors, software solutions and hardware reference designs for the world's top manufacturers of Digital TVs, DVDs, Set-top boxes, Personal Video Recorders, PCs, Network-Attached Storage devices, Residential/Home Gateways, Blu-ray players/recorders, as well as Broadcast and Professional Equipment OEMs. ViXS is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with global operations and offices in Europe, Asia and North America. ViXS has filed more than 240 patents worldwide with over 70 patents being issued to date. Listed for four years running as one of Deloitte's fastest growing North American companies, ViXS is setting new standards in the way digital entertainment is viewed and transmitted across an endless array of multimedia products.
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Laura Joyce Moriarty (talk • contribs)
I suggest that before you proceed any further, you read the Wikipedia notability guidelines - in particular AUTHOR. I see nothing in your article so far to indicate that you would meet the guidelines, and unless you do, a biography on you would not be accepted. Note that we need evidence from third party published reliable sources to indicate the level of notability required. Were you to meet the guidelines, the article would in any case need substantial rewriting - it reads more like a resume than an encyclopaedia biography. I would also recommend reading Autobiography - we strongly discourage autobiographical articles, and generally advise that if people are of sufficient notability to merit a Wikipedia article, it is best left to others to write. AndyTheGrump (talk)
Dear Mr. Grump,
My understanding of the sandbox was that it was "play/practice" area and I read nothing about sandbox files that had to remain permanent and uploaded. I was also of the understanding that the sandbox areas were not accessible to anyone outside of my account. My intention was to prepare something for when I die. I have already had a biography written by a professional in a university and it is fine except for the fact it is filled with minutia errors. So my intend was to create a sandbox so the details are available for my children/next biographer to work with and that I approve of when I'm dead, and if at that time there is a need to create a biography, they don't have to look up and organize data or learn Wikipeadia formats. I have NO intention of posting/uploading my biography while I am alive. I didn't know it was a requirement to send sandbox files as live files. I assumed it would take me a couple of years considering I have very little time to devote to this, to organize pics I like etc. You have mistaken my question for "how to" and/or "can it be done" as one of being accepted into Wikipeadia by your adjudication. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.188.171.228 (talk)
Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia. It is not a free webhosting service. We do not provide private workspace - and nor is there any guarantee that material in a sandbox will remain undeleted. I suggest that you copy your biography to a secure place. AndyTheGrump (talk)
The question of "how to" and "can it be done" is inseparable from the question about being accepted into Wikipedia, as Andy's answers show. BTW, you're not actually working in the Sandbox, which is a public test area frequently overwritten, but in a user sandbox, which is a place mainly for working on content intended for publication. Your user sandbox content is visible to everyone (I can see it) and subject to all the usual rules governing inclusion and deletion. Any pictures you add to it will likewise be public, because they must first be uploaded under a suitable licence permitting public reuse, which may not be what you want to do with your pictures. I concur with Andy's appraisal of your sandbox content and his advice to copy it elsewhere if you want to keep it. If it sits there for a while it may well be deleted as a STALEDRAFT, even if it is not nominated for deletion on other grounds. Preparing something "for when you die" is not really feasible at Wikipedia, where death does not confer notability and where the subject of an article has no right of approval over the content. - Karenjc
Thank you. I did not realize the content in the account was publicly accessible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.188.171.228 (talk)
==What happened to HotCats?==
It appears to be turned off on all the language versions that I use, even though I have it check-marked under the Gadgets. I've attempted to turn it off and back on, but it still doesn't work! Can someone fix the HotCats issue? Have you tried VPT?— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions ·
== eric owens ==
by his own words - just last wednesday - i heard eric (as did 35 others) credit the great steven smith with being his most important teacher...yet you mention him nowhere in your list of the great bass-baritone's teachers. what's up with this??????? can you rectify this lacuna?????? thanks, chris walling.
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Manhattan Skyline is a Norwegian mathcore band. Manhattan Skyline may also refer to:
"Manhattan Skyline (song)", a song by Norwegian band A-ha
"Manhattan Skyline", an instrumental piece composed for the film Saturday Night Fever by David Shire
The skyline of Manhattan, New York City
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Scottish Business Briefing - Wednesday 21/09/2011 - Scotsman.com There will be no fire sale of Clydesdale says owner NAB
THE Australian owner of the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks has poured cold water on talk of an imminent sale of the businesses to NBNK, the banking venture headed by Lord Levene (Scotsman). Lloyd's of London reports loss after disaster claims
Lloyd's of London, the world's largest insurance market, says major catastrophes made the first half of 2011 the most expensive on record. Lloyd's reported a loss of £697m for the six months to June, against a profit of £628m last year (BBC). Read all today's banking news from scotsman.com Scots legal giant D&W in London merger talks
SCOTTISH legal giant Dundas & Wilson (D&W) has entered into merger talks with London-based Bircham Dyson Bell as it looks to increase its footprint south of the Border (Scotsman). Read all today's economics news from scotsman.com 'Excited' Faroe boss talks up results
OIL and gas explorer Faroe Petroleum yesterday unveiled a four-fold rise in interim turnover as chief executive Graham Stewart said he was "excited" about this autumn's drilling programme in Norwegian waters (Scotsman). Read all today's energy and utilities news from scotsman.com Highland Toffee hits a sticky patch as iconic sweet faces end of the line
The fortunes at one of Scotland's most famous confectionery brands have turned sour, putting at risk the future of the Highland Toffee bar, as well as nearly 200 jobs. New McCowans Ltd, the makers of the iconic chewy bar, have called in the administrators amid growing concern its candied legacy could be near an end (Scotsman). Read all today's food, drink and agriculture news from scotsman.com United looking at 'oil industry' flights from Aberdeen to Houston
UNITED Airlines is running the rule over a direct flight to link the oil industry hubs of Aberdeen and Houston after committing itself to maintaining its routes between New York and Scotland's two largest cities (Scotsman). Read all today's transport news from scotsman.com
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The General Electric Passport (formerly called TechX) is a high bypass turbofan engine currently under development by GE Aviation. It is designed to produce power in the thrust category, such as the Bombardier Global 7000 and 8000. It is being developed in parallel with the larger CFM International LEAP-X, and includes many similar technologies, like blisks and NOx reducing combustors. GE sees potential in using the engine both on large cabin business jets and regional aircraft, where it will replace the CF34 in GE's product line. ==Development==
GE is developing the core from the LEAP-X eCore technology, using a lean combustor and a metal fan blisk, the first such application of such technology on an engine this size. In addition to eliminating the need to balance a hub and blade system, the blisk eliminates air leaks around the fan blades, thus improving its aerodynamic efficiency. The testing of the engineering cores began in 2010, with a second core set to be ready in 2011. On May 16, 2011, the TechX was renamed the Passport. ==Specifications (TechX)==
==See also==
==References==
==External links==
GE Passport page
Betting Big on Business Aviation
High-bypass turbofan engines
Turbofan engines 2010–2019
Passport
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Aust shares higher at noon
The Australian market is more than one per cent higher, rebounding from Thursday's heavy losses. At 1209 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 56.5 points, or 1.13 per cent, at 5,036.6 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 54.3 points, or 1.09 per cent, to 5,052.9 points. On the ASX 24, the March share price index futures contract was up 49 points at 5,016 points, with 26,459 contracts traded. On Thursday, $36 billion was wiped from the value of Australian shares after the local market posted its largest one-day decline in nine months, sparked by investor concern over a big drop on Wall Street and weaker metals prices. Advertisement But, by noon on Friday, $16 billion had already been returned to the market. "I think a lot of people just thought yesterday was significantly overdone," said Chris Weston, a dealer at IG Markets. "I think people saw the federal minutes (of the US Federal Open Market Committee) as pretty hawkish yesterday. On second glance, people have had a reread and seen they aren't going to be cutting asset purchase anytime soon, and if you drill down there was some quite dovish rhetoric in there. "So, I think there was a bit of a knee-jerk reaction." Locally, however, the mining giants were all lower at noon. BHP Billiton was 17 cents lower at $37, while Rio Tinto had dropped 17 cents to $67.13. "BHP has been moving up from the June/July lows but it hasn't performed anywhere near as well as the banks have, for example, or the higher yielding stock," Mr Weston said. "The cyclicals haven't enjoyed a big move up throughout this whole rally anywhere near what we've seen from the more defensive-natured yield players." Santos on Friday posted a drop in full year net profit, but the oil and gas producer said it still expected to meet its production targets in 2013. At 1215 AEDT Santos was up 24 cents, or 2.02 per cent, to $12.14. Billabong shares fell close to their all-time low after the surfwear retailer said it had suffered a $537 million first half loss and downgraded its expectations for underlying earnings in the full financial year. It's shares hit a low of 84.5 cents after the result was released, close to its lowest ever price of 79 cents but had rebounded to 88 cents by 1232 AEDT. All four banks continued to help lead the market higher. ANZ gained 33 cents, or 1.18 per cent, to $28.31; Commonwealth Bank lifted 12.5 cents, or 1.93 per cent, to $66.06; NAB was up 54 cents, or 1.84 per cent, to $29.96; and Westpac put on 65 cents, or 2.2 per cent, to $30.14. At 1220 AEDT, national turnover was 401.6 million securities worth $3.08 billion.
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"I've spoken to a lot of educators who are typically straight-ticket Republicans that have said to me that they won't ever vote for another Republican because of how this bill's been pushed through and the democratic process has been abused," she said as she awaited the Senate's vote. State Rep. Robert Hagan, a Democrat from Youngstown, took issue with the notion that the bill was aimed at saving money. "Don't ever lie to us and don't be hypocritical and don't dance around it as if it's finances, because you know what it is: It's to bust the union," Hagan told his fellow lawmakers. Contentious debates over restricting collective bargaining have popped up in statehouses across the country, most notably in Wisconsin, where the governor signed into law this month a bill eliminating most of state workers' collective bargaining rights. The Ohio bill has drawn thousands of demonstrators, prompted a visit from the Rev. Jesse Jackson and packed hearing rooms in the weeks before the Senate passed an earlier version of the measure. Its reception in the House had been quieter, even with the several hundred protesters on Wednesday. The roughly four-hour House debate on the bill began with boos, shouts and laughter from protesters in the House chamber who oppose the legislation, prompting the House speaker to slam his gavel to bring order. Democrats offered no amendments to the bill in either chamber, saying it was too bad to fix. In the House, they delivered boxes containing more than 65,000 opponent signatures to the House labor committee's chairman. Kasich has said he won't make a spectacle of the moment he signs the bill because he knows its passage is difficult for union supporters. "We think we have a program here that's going to allow local governments to deal with fewer dollars, it still protects the right of collective bargaining on things that we think are legitimate and will help people be able to cope in a period of time when we do have fewer resources," Kasich told reporters Wednesday at a separate bill signing. Batchelder said House Republicans were launching a website, sb5truth.com, to correct what they see as falsehoods about the measure.
Associated Press writer Julie Carr Smyth contributed to this report. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Stocks mixed after GDP drop gets trimmed NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks are mixed after the government said the economy shrank in the first quarter at a slower pace than initially estimated. The Commerce Department said gross domestic product fell 5.7 percent, smaller than the 6.1 percent estimated last month. But the contraction is slightly larger than analyst forecasts, and personal spending was revised lower. In the first minutes of trading Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average is up 21.11 points, or 0.3 percent, at 8,424.91. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 1.86, or 0.2 percent, at 908.69. But the Nasdaq composite index is down 0.39, or less than 0.01 percent, at 1,751.40. As Wall Street starts the last day of trading in May, the Dow is on track for a third straight monthly gain. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. NEW YORK (AP) - The stock market is set for a higher open Friday after the government said the economy shrank in the first quarter at a slower pace than it initially estimated. The Commerce Department's report on first-quarter gross domestic product brought mixed news. The GDP's contraction of 5.7 percent was slightly larger than analyst forecasts, and personal spending was revised lower. But the drop was smaller than the 6.1 percent estimated last month, and the data showed corporate profits rising. The report "points to recovery," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at the brokerage house Avalon Partners Inc. "And what you have here is a market that continues to look for recovery." Later, investors will focus on May readings on consumer sentiment and business activity in the Midwest. Analysts expect them to show improvement. As Wall Street starts the last day of trading in May, the Dow Jones industrial average is on track for a third straight monthly gain. The index would have to drop 236 points Friday to finish the month lower. May, however, has been the shakiest month since the market's rally began in early March. Investors' enthusiasm about the economy's stabilization has turned into skepticism about how strong growth will really be once a bottom is hit. New worries are weighing on investors now: Climbing interest rates, a weaker dollar and rising commodity prices. Crude oil prices recently hit a six-month high above $65 a barrel, while the dollar on Friday sank to multi-month lows against the euro and British pound. Some analysts say these developments are simply the consequence of a recovery in the economy and the financial markets. But others warn these trends could threaten the economy's health in the long-term. Before the market's open, Dow futures rose 41, or 0.5 percent, to 8,425. Standard & Poor's 500 index futures rose 4.30, or 0.5 percent, to 909.40. Nasdaq 100 index futures rose 4.50, or 0.3 percent, to 1,422.50. In earnings news, Dell Inc. late Thursday said its profit in the most recent quarter sank 63 percent on crimped computer sales. The report did not paint a rosy picture for the computer market, but the profit came in slightly better than expected. Government bonds slipped in early trading, pushing down yields. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.59 percent from 3.62 percent late Thursday. The 10-year yield hit a six-month high of 3.75 percent on Wednesday. The spike in interest rates earlier this week have stoked concerns about Americans' ability to borrow and refinance mortgages. As the dollar tumbled, gold rose. Energy company stocks have been getting a lift as oil prices hit six-month highs, but some investors are growing more worried about inflation. Light, sweet crude rose 93 cents to $66.01 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That's nearly double the lows reached in March, when crude tumbled below $35 a barrel. Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 0.8 percent. In afternoon trading, Britain's FTSE 100 rose 1.6 percent, Germany's DAX index rose 0.9 percent, and France's CAC-40 rose 1.3 percent.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Brelan (O. Fr. brelenc, hence a name for a card player, gambler or the name of the place where the game was played. ), is a famous French vying game with rapidly escalating bets from the seventeenth to nineteenth century. The game is quite similar to the game of Bouillotte, but it is not played anymore. ==History==
The game of Brelan, even breland for the name and the rules varied over time, also appears in an edict of Lille, France, of 1458. Crébillon's 1763 novel Le Hasard du coin du feu,the game of "Brelan" takes center stage. It is often considered as sharing roots with a Renaissance game of Primero and Primo visto. In England, Brelan eventually developed into the game of Brag, also Bragg, where the possibility of bluffing is an important part of the game. It evidently derived from the game of Brelan and later evolved into Bouillotte, which flourished during the French Revolution. Most experts believe that all these earlier card games played an important part in the formation of modern Poker, the most famous representative of a very ancient and always very popular family of games, all of which can be traced even further back to the old French game of Gilet (Gillet, Gile or Trionfetti), which may be considered the most ancient European ancestor of Poker. ==The game==
Brelan, is played by three, four or five players, with a 32-card pack, each receiving 3 cards and a fourth turned from the stock. The best hand is a brelan carre, or four of a kind, made with the aid of the turn-up card on the table, followed by a simple brelan or prial. Brelan favori is a pair royal composed of 2 cards in the hand and the card turned. In Brelan Cavé, the game is limited to a certain number of rounds, the bouillotte, on the contrary, lasts as long as there are players in the game and who still haven't lost their stakes. ==See also==
Primero
Brag
Bouillotte
Post and Pair
Put (card game)
Ambigu
Gilet
==References==
Comparing card games
Gambling games
French card games
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Man Begins Life Sentence for Killing Wife, Kids A Massachusetts man who stabbed and beat his wife and mother-in-law to death in their home and then turned on his two young children has begun serving a sentence of life in prison without parole. Thomas Mortimer IV was scheduled to go on trial next week on four counts of first-degree murder. He abruptly changed the plea of not guilty he entered more than two years ago as Thursday approached. That day marks his ninth wedding anniversary to Laura Stone Mortimer. He was immediately sentenced to life in prison without parole for slaying his mother-in-law, Ellen Stone; his wife; and their two children, 2-year-old Charlotte and 4-year-old Thomas Mortimer V, nicknamed Finn. Prosecutors say Mortimer killed the victims between late June 14 and early June 15, 2010 - shortly after his parents left their home after babysitting his two children. They described in court a gruesome attack that left his wife with dozens of stab wounds as well as a broken nose from a frying pan. Authorities say Finn watched as the killings took place. "If redemption is even possible for you in the face of these atrocities, you have taken the first step in that direction by accepting responsibility and pleading guilty and admitting these horrendous crimes," Woburn Superior Court Judge S. Jane Haggerty said while sentencing Mortimer on Wednesday.
Thomas Mortimer IV arrives for his hearing at Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, Mass., Wednesday Oct. 3, 2012. Mortimer plead guilty to the first-degree murder of his wife, mother-in-law and two young children after an argument over a bounced check. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, Patrick Whittemore, POOL) Close Defense attorney Denise Regan said Mortimer chose to plead guilty and accept the maximum sentence under Massachusetts laws because he accepts responsibility for his actions and wanted to spare others the trauma of a trial. Prosecutors disagreed. Mortimer was pushed to plead guilty because there's overwhelming evidence against him, including notes he left at the scene and admissions he made to his parents over the telephone shortly after he was arrested, District Attorney Gerry Leone said. Still, the judge said the plea has spared the family and friends of the victims, Mortimer's parents, and those who responded to the crime scene "from re-telling and reliving the unimaginable and gruesome details of the massacre of your family." In a note, Mortimer said he flew into a rage after he and his wife argued over a bounced check he sent to the Internal Revenue Service. "Ultimately, I did these horrible things because I could not cope with the responsibilities I took upon myself. I was too cavalier with life, especially others' lives," he said. "I do have remorse with what I have done. I wonder what life would be like if I did not chicken out." Prosecutors said emergency responders found the victims' bodies in pools of blood after Mortimer's sister-in-law, Deborah Stone Sochat, reported that her mother and sister had not answered repeated phone calls. The children's throats were slashed. Mortimer's mother-in-law was killed near the doorway, apparently as she tried to flee the home, Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Lynch said in court. Mortimer, who grew up in Avon, Conn., was caught the next day in northwestern Massachusetts. He indicated in the written confession he left behind that he was in turmoil after the killings. "I can't think of much else. Actually I can think of a lot.... Ashamed, frightened, relieved, surprised that I murdered my family. Disgusted with myself," he said in the note. Stone Sochat gave a tearful statement Wednesday, calling her mother and sister her best friends.
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==Untitled==
come see me on youtube
the magic pro momo
by mikael labrecque
t-bone
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God Bless Fiji
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Which is why WWWWSS could not have been in Expo, as you pointed out, because FFL replaced it. Your updates to the article are nice, Snowman Guy. One suggestion? Lose the "Replaced by:???" ones. If there isn't a known replacement, having nothing there would look better. In most cases of the shows, there might not have been a replacement. 121.208.180.8 (talk)
::OK, i'll get to work on it. Thanks. ::: That's much cleaner, thanks. 121.208.180.8 (talk)
== The Simpsons Ride ==
The grand opening date has been verified. At the grand opening of A Major Motion Picture Ride...Starring You! Bill Davis said that Simpsons was opening around March 15. Maybe this should be mentioned in the article, which currently says "Spring 2008". == Overkill ==
I've been following the article for some time now, and I really thing the amount of information presented here is getting out of hand. Former shops that are essentially re-themed to match the attractions nearest them aren't really noteworthy, and neither is a themed drink machine stand in World Expo. The table of contents is almost one screen deep on its own. We really need to either (a) justify every entry here for its noteworthiness or (b) start culling information. Encyclopedia articles should be concise, to the point and not delve into minutiae. No, this isn't my article, but I would like to hear what others think belong here. Thanks. Update: I like the List of former Universal Studios Florida attractions article, so I decided to be bold and move the former dining and shopping services to a new subhead under that article. I cut and paste from one to the other, so nothing should be lost during the move. Any questions? == Horror Make-Up Show ==
Does anyone mind creating an article for the Horror Make-Up Show? == Move Request ==
No consensus for move. Parsecboy (talk)
Name was changed several years ago to Universal Orlando Resort since they now focus more on the aspect of the theme park then they do on television and motion picture productions. Rosie, Queen of Corona (talk)
Oppose... Universal Orlando Resort represents the entire complex, of which Universal Studios Florida is a distinct part. This would not be an appropriate merge/move. Oppose as well. I agree with McDoob. == Harry Potter ==
why no information on the new Harry Potter themed section? does anyone know when it opens? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.178.228.188 (talk)
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is opening in Islands of Adventure, USF's neighbor park. Any information on it will be in that article. == Lucy: A Tribute: No longer open at Universal Studios Florida? ==
This Wikipedia page for the Universal Resort Florida has the 'Lucy: A Tribute' exhibit on the page for current attractions at the park, and not in the former attractions, yet other websites I have checked say it closed in 2008 to make way for a more general, Universal Studios museum. Some websites don't mention a closure, but they don't seem to have been updated in a while, and the general consensus is that it closed back in 2008. I would have thought the Wikipedia page would have been updated on this since 2008, so is it a mistake and the Wiki page needs to be updated? Or are these other websites (not official websites) false? BritishHobo (talk)
It was the Universal Studios Hollywood version of the attraction that had been closed, not the Orlando version. This probably doesn't follow the guidelines for the talk page, but I love you right now. Thank you very much. BritishHobo (talk)
== Character Appearances ==
During the rewrite of this article I have noticed the overlap of several character appearances amongst different themed zones. Should they be included in the one generic section to prevent repetition? Themeparkgc Talk
I concur, they should be in a generic section. However, From what I remember the last time I visited USF, I only remembered seeing each character in only one area. I believe a mistake was made by an IP editor on the article. == Corrections ==
The rewrite for the article is going fine, however, there are two corrections I wish to point out. 1. Richter's Burger Co. is not tied in with the Disaster! ride, but rather the former Earthquake rendition.
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There is also a person called "The Truth Please" that you'll note has ONLY edited the Cygnus Business Media page and consistently adds editorial. In this:
This was a private sale and ONLY the principals know the exact price. I edited out the amount and now it continues to show up. It is not fact and I wrote that in the comment section. This is misrepresented and is inflammatory:
Paul and Rich did not leave because of the Standard and Poor's report which looks at debt and other things when it makes its reports. It has nothing to do with operations. Other problems:
Companies reorganize all the time, I'm sure Bob and Paul would not like to be used in this way, quotes should be take n away from "brand directors"
Again, estimated. This is just another way for our former employees and competitors to paint us in a bad light. The bloggers all remained anonymous so it is unfair to state this. This memo below was done as "tongue and cheek"
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.32.213 (talk)
The passages above are cited, with the exception of the sale amount, but I found and added a citation for that. You've obviously admitted a COI here; while that editor may indeed be a disgruntled employee, they're only echoing what's already been published in other sources. I did remove the last part, as the source didn't mention any kind of backlash. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs)
== Artichoker keeps deleting and undoing my contribution to a article ==
I have tried to contribute to the Kanto (Pokémon) article over and over. Artichoker keep undoing my contribution calling it speculation and non notable when I have provided proof on the matter. The dispute is over a small easter egg or feature in the Pokémon Games where in Vermilion City has a Truck located in the port. Though it has had many false rumors about the truck, the truck is real and is one of the only vehicles I know of in the Pokemon games except for the moving van in Sapphire, Rubby, and Emerald. The user has continued to say the information is speculation despite the many references i have posted, even putting a picture of the truck up ] (talk) )
Vertigo315 seems to think that all Wikipedians are stupid enough to believe that he has been on for 3 or more years when actually he hasn't been on for 1. I'm sick and tired of Vertigo315 that I just wish that editing wasn't allowed on this website any longer due to the fact that Vertigo has started 3 of the 5 edit wars this week alone. Vertigo315 game me outdated sources and I gave him up to date references which he simply ignored. (Planecrash111 (talk) )
I don't want to see Vertigo get blocked, but I would want him to show more respect, use good faith, don't use my age as a personal attack, and just go on with his life. (Planecrash111 (talk) )
Okay, having taken a good look at the article and both of the user talk pages (and past contributions), I am arriving at pretty much the same advice I was going to offer at the beginning. I feel kinda goofy giving it because I am not always that good at following it myself. I will offer them point by point, so that if you decide I and my advice totally sucks, you can rip into me number by number:
. Calm down - You guys need to calm the heck down. Wikipedia is supposed to be fun. You are not getting paid or officially recognized for any of the work you are doing here, so why in the Holy Name of the Flying Spaghetti Monster are you essentially taking part in a Monty Python sketch?. Put yourself in the other guy's shoes - Both of you are currently engaging in activity that is not going to convince the other person of how terribly wrong they are. They are not going to join a monastery and give you all their possessions, and go forth in a hair shirt, telling people how wonderfully intelligent you are. One of the most difficult facts to accept when editing in Wikipedia is that you (in the infinitive sense of the word) are not the smartest person in the room. Ever. The snide comments and not-so-subtle attacks on each other doesn't make either of you want to suddenly up and say, 'omigod, he's right - even if he is. By cutting them down, you've effectively removed their ability to backtrack on an incorrect statement. Be gracious; you will all too often need this same sort of retreat path yourself..
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Chevrolet announces new small SUV Chevrolet has released a picture of its forthcoming new small SUV, the Trax, which is expected to be seen in the metal for the first time at the Paris Motor Show in September. The Trax features the distinctive Chevrolet "face" that is being standardised across the manufacturer's line-up as it knits together its US and Korean ranges to produce a global brand, and shares its deep grille with models such as the Cruze, Orlando and the Captiva. Chevrolet says that the new car will provide room for five passengers and generous luggage space but has released few other details. As well as the Trax, Chevrolet will introduce this year an estate version of the Golf-sized Cruze, and a new Malibu; the larger Malibu model is traditionally aimed mainly at the US market but the latest version is based on the same platform as the Vauxhall/Opel Insignia and is designed to appeal more widely to customers in other countries as well.
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Uncounted Votes in Arizona Raise Controversy Three days after the election, the outcome of several Arizona races was unknown as officials struggled to count a record number of early and provisional ballots, many of them cast by voters who believed they had registered but whose names were not on the voter rolls. Lily Canedo, center, held a stack of papers with more than 20,000 signatures from people protesting the uncounted votes outside the Maricopa County Recorder's office in Phoenix on Friday.
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Matt Tullos is a writer and minister who has written over 700 dramatic sketches for worship, 10 books and numerous video projects. He has served in various roles at LifeWay Christian Resources. Tullos' dramatic collections, Aha Moments for Worship and Actors Not Included compile his works from 1983-2002. He was the vangaurd editor of Let's Worship magazine produced by Lifeway Church Resources. Tullos was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1963 where his father served as a minister of music at Florida Boulevard Baptist Church. His family later moved to the Los Angeles area. Later they returned to Louisiana. After serving at First Baptist Church in Mandeville, Louisiana and Coulter Road Baptist Church in Amarillo Texas, he was invited to join the editorial division of LifeWay. He worked with Lifeway in various capacities for 15 years. In 2006, he began serving as transitional pastor at Bluegrass Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee. In January, 2008, Tullos resigned his position at Lifeway to pastor at Bluegrass Baptist. Matt is currently serving at Bluegrass Baptist Church in the year 2011 as the fulltime church pastor and has a tendency to really help people when they are in dire trouble with help from the Lord. He has four sons. Isaac, Jacob, Nathan and Caleb. Matt's wife, Darlene, is also a writer and actress and runs a performing arts academy at Bluegrass called Epiphany Performing Arts Academy. (www.EpiphanyPerformingArts.com)
Tullos is known for strongly evangelical sketches. He has often referred to e. e. cummings, J. D. Salinger, and T. S. Eliot as stylistic influences. ==References==
==External links==
Matt Tullos' blog
1963 births
Living people
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Obama vetoes ban on Apple product sales A man uses an Apple iPhone. Samsung says Apple has refused to pay licensing fees for its patents. Photo: Bloomberg The Obama administration has vetoed a ban that would have forced Apple to stop selling some iPhones and iPads in the US next week. The US International Trade Commission in June ordered a ban of older-model Apple products that worked with AT&T's network, including the iPhone 4 and 3GS, after determining that Apple had violated a patent that Samsung owned related to transmission of data over cellular networks. The rare White House intervention comes amid a heated patent war between the global electronics giants over claims that each is violating the other's exclusive design and technology rights. The decision marked the first time that an administration has vetoed an International Trade Commission ban since 1987, said Susan Kohn Ross, an international trade lawyer for Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, when Ronald Reagan intervened in a case involving Samsung computer memory chips. Advertisement Michael Froman, the US Trade Representative and Mr Obama's adviser on international trade, said he based his decision on the fact standards patents were at the core of Samsung's case and the Obama administration has expressed concerns that "potential harms" can result if patent holders use those as leverage against competitors. Companies that work to establish standards - in this case, Samsung developing a particular method of transmitting data - have the advantage of knowing their inventions have to be used in all products in an industry. In turn, they pledge to license any relevant patents on fair and reasonable terms. Apple argued that Samsung had committed to licensing its patents related to wireless technology standards, but was refusing to keep that promise. Samsung, however, said Apple refused to pay licensing fees for its patents. Samsung, based in South Korea, said it was disappointed by the White House veto, adding: "The ITC's decision correctly recognised that Samsung has been negotiating in good faith and that Apple remains unwilling to take a licence." Kristin Huguet, an Apple spokeswoman, said: "We applaud the administration for standing up for innovation in this landmark case. Samsung was wrong to abuse the patent system in this way." Mr Froman said his decision did not mean that Samsung was "not entitled to a remedy. On the contrary, the patent owner may continue to pursue its rights through the courts." The two companies in recent years have been filing various claims against the other in the United States and other countries over the design and function of their tablets and smartphones. Last year, a California jury awarded Apple $US1 billion in damages after deciding that Samsung had violated the US company's mobile patents. The amount was later reduced to $US599 million. Ms Ross said the veto will effectively remove a major bargaining chip for Samsung that could have disrupted Apple's manufacturing facilities for making iPhones and iPads. New York Times, Bloomberg
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Rovelli's derivation of RQM uses three fundamental postulates. However, it has been suggested that it may be possible to reformulate the third postulate into a weaker statement, or possibly even do away with it altogether. The derivation of RQM parallels, to a large extent, quantum logic. The first two postulates are motivated entirely by experimental results, while the third postulate, although it accords perfectly with what we have discovered experimentally, is introduced as a means of recovering the full Hilbert space formalism of quantum mechanics from the other two postulates. The 2 empirical postulates are:
Postulate 1: there is a maximum amount of relevant information that may be obtained from a quantum system. Postulate 2: it is always possible to obtain new information from a system. We let W\left(S\right) denote the set of all possible questions that may be "asked" of a quantum system, which we shall denote by Q_i, i \in W. We may experimentally find certain relations between these questions: \left\{\land, \lor, \neg, \supset, \bot \right\}, corresponding to {intersection, orthogonal sum, orthogonal complement, inclusion, and orthogonality} respectively, where Q_1 \bot Q_2 \equiv Q_1 \supset \neg Q_2. ===Structure===
From the first postulate, it follows that we may choose a subset Q_c^{(i)} of N mutually independent questions, where N is the number of bits contained in the maximum amount of information. We call such a question Q_c^{(i)} a complete question. The value of Q_c^{(i)} can be expressed as an N-tuple sequence of binary valued numerals, which has 2^N = k possible permutations of "0" and "1" values. There will also be more than one possible complete question. If we further assume that the relations \left\{\land, \lor\right\} are defined for all Q_i, then W\left(S\right) is an orthomodular lattice, while all the possible unions of sets of complete questions form a Boolean algebra with the Q_c^{(i)} as atoms. The second postulate governs the event of further questions being asked by an observer O_1 of a system S, when O_1 already has a full complement of information on the system (an answer to a complete question). We denote by p\left(Q|Q_c^{(j)}\right) the probability that a "yes" answer to a question Q will follow the complete question Q_c^{(j)}. If Q is independent of Q_c^{(j)}, then p=0.5, or it might be fully determined by Q_c^{(j)}, in which case p=1. There is also a range of intermediate possibilities, and this case is examined below. If the question that O_1 wants to ask the system is another complete question, Q_b^{(i)}, the probability p^{ij}=p\left(Q_b^{(i)}|Q_c^{(j)}\right) of a "yes" answer has certain constraints upon it:
1. 0 \leq p^{ij} \leq 1, \
2. \sum_{i} p^{ij} = 1, \
3. \sum_{j} p^{ij} = 1. \
The three constraints above are inspired by the most basic of properties of probabilities, and are satisfied if
p^{ij} = \left|U^{ij}\right|^2,
where U^{ij} is a unitary matrix. Postulate 3 If b and c are two complete questions, then the unitary matrix U_{bc} associated with their probability described above satisfies the equality U_{cd} = U_{cb}U_{bd}, for all b, c and d.
This third postulate implies that if we set a complete question |Q^{(i)}_c \rangle as a basis vector in a complex Hilbert space, we may then represent any other question |Q^{(j)}_b \rangle as a linear combination:
|Q^{(j)}_b \rangle = \sum_i U^{ij}_{bc} |Q^{(i)}_c \rangle.
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==Baden==
I changed the biography entry from Baden, Germany to Baden bei Wien, Austria, based on circumstantial evidence. Baden in Germany is a state, not a city (the city is called Baden-Baden). And since he started working for the Viennese insurance company it is more plausible that he moved to the Viennese suburbs than ~400 miles away. Can anyone verify? ~ trialsanderrors
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World class players such as Pierre van Hooijdonk, Mário Jardel, Nicolas Anelka, John Carew, Milan Baroš, Radomir Antić, Óscar Córdoba, Lincoln, Mateja Kežman, Kleberson, Roberto Carlos, Zoran Simović, Frank de Boer, Giovani dos Santos, Franck Ribéry, Harry Kewell, Dani Güiza, Guti, Quaresma, Gheorghe Hagi, Jô, Abdul Kader Keita, Shabani Nonda, Lucas Neill, Lorik Cana, Giga Popescu, Jérôme Rothen and many more have played at some point or continue to play in Turkey. Turkey is currently bidding to host UEFA Euro 2020. ==Athletics==
Athletics is another fast improving sport. Süreyya Ayhan set the 1500m world record in 2003 and Elvan Abeylegesse set a new 5000m record in 2004. In 2010 European Athletics Championships Alemitu Bekele and Elvan Abeylegesse won gold and silver medals respectively in Women's 5000 metres and Elvan Abeylegesse also won gold medal in Women's 10000 metres. Nevin Yanıt won first European Championship in a sprint race for Turkey by winning gold in Women's 100 metres hurdles. In 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships Kemal Koyuncu won silver in Men's 1500 metres and Halil Akkas won bronze in Men's 3000 metres. ==Basketball==
Basketball is also gaining popularity in Turkey. Turkey came second in European Basketball Championship in 2001 in Istanbul. Turkey also came ninth in the 2002 FIBA World Championship. Four Turkish nationals, Ersan İlyasova, Hedo Türkoğlu, Mehmet Okur, and Semih Erden, have achieved success in the prestigious National Basketball Association of North America, generally considered the world's top basketball league. Turkey's greatest success in international basketball came when it hosted the 2010 FIBA World Championship, finishing second to the USA. Türkoğlu captained the side and made the all-tournament team. Turkey also advanced to the quarter-finals in the 2006 FIBA World Championship, achieving a non-expected sixth place. Turkey women's national basketball team won silver medal in EuroBasket Women in 2011. Galatasaray Medical Park (women's basketball) have won gold medal in FIBA EuroCup 2008-09 season and bronze medal in 2007-08 season also was runner up in 2009 FIBA Europe SuperCup Women. ==Beach handball==
2010 Beach Handball World Championships were held between June 23–27 in Antalya. Turkey national team won twice the silver medal at the world championships in 2004 and 2006, and the bronze medal in 2010. Turkey women's national team also won the silver medal at the 2004 world championships. ==Fencing==
Turkey hosted the 2009 World Fencing Championships realized Between September 30-October 8 in Antalya. ==Fishing==
Fishing cannot be done from any boat without a license, even if you're an amateur. You must apply to have one by submitting some I.D. cards and paying a fee 150 Turkish Lira for two years. Details concerning fishing zones, the minimum sizes of fish that can be caught, and the numbers of fish that can be caught per person can be obtained from the Department of Fisheries at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Aegean and Mediterranean seas are rich fishing areas. ==Flying==
Plane gliding, hang gliding, parachuting, paragliding and single engine flights are catered for as well as services that provide instruction courses. Best areas are Fethiye, Eskişehir, Pamukkale and Istanbul. ==Motorsports==
Motorsports have become popular recently, especially following the inclusion of the Rally of Turkey to the FIA World Rally Championship calendar in 2003, and the inclusion of the Turkish Grand Prix to the Formula One racing calendar in 2005. Other important annual motorsports events which are held at the Istanbul Park racing circuit include the MotoGP Grand Prix of Turkey, the FIA World Touring Car Championship, the GP2 Series and the Le Mans Series. From time to time, Istanbul and Antalya also host the Turkish leg of the F1 Powerboat Racing championship; while the Turkish leg of the Red Bull Air Race World Series, an air racing competition, takes place above the Golden Horn in Istanbul. Surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding, paragliding and other extreme sports are becoming more popular every year.
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Bizarre Home Cures That Really Work 10 Bizarre Home Cures That Really Work Ease Pesky Health Issues with Vodka, Duct Tape and More By Lauren Gelman
Prevention July 16, 2012 - Of course there are some health staples you should never be without -- bandages or OTC pain relievers come to mind. But you can treat or cure a surprising number of minor ailments with these unexpected household objects and foods. Bizarre Home Cures That Really Work Your Stinky Feet Home cure: Vodka Use it for: Foot odor If your feet smell less than swell, wipe them down with a vodka-soaked washcloth to get rid of the stench. It's the same principle as rubbing alcohol (which works equally well if you'd rather drink your Grey Goose). Vodka contains alcohol, which is antiseptic and drying, so it destroys odor-causing fungus and bacteria and dries out the moisture that lets these organisms grow. Read More: 16 Surprising Things That Make You Smell Bizarre Home Cures That Really Work Your Throbbing Head Home cure: Pencil Use it for: Headaches When you're stressed or anxious, you subconsciously clench your jaw and teeth; this strains the muscle that connects your jaw to your temples and can trigger a tension headache. A solution: "Put a pencil between your teeth but don't bite," says Fred Sheftell, MD, director of the New England Center for Headache in Stamford, CT. You automatically relax your jaw muscle to do this, which can prevent the pain. Read More: The Best Natural Remedies for Pain Bizarre Home Cures That Really Work Your Halitosis Home cure: Yogurt Use it for: Bad breath Preliminary research shows that the live bacteria in yogurt can suppress levels of bad breathâcausing bacteria. "Good" bugs in yogurt may crowd out the "bad" stink-causing bacteria or create an unhealthy environment for it, says John C. Moon, DDS, a cosmetic and general dentist in Half Moon Bay, CA. Read More: 13 Strange Body Quirks Explained Bizarre Home Cures That Really Work Your Painful Blisters Home cure: Listerine Use it for: Blisters The classic breath freshenerâand powerful antisepticâcan also do a number on blisters. Moisten a cotton ball with Listerine and dab it on your blister 3 times a day until the area dries out and no longer hurts, says Janet Maccaro, PhD, CNC, a holistic nutritionist and certified nutrition consultant in Scottsdale, AZ. Read More: 5 Ways to Prevent Blisters Bizarre Home Cures That Really Work Your Barking Dogs Home cure: Tennis ball Use it for: Achy feet For an easy, free mini massage that stretches and soothes your arches, slip off your shoes and roll each foot over a tennis ball, golf ball, or soup can for a minute or two. To cool throbbing feet, roll them over a bottle of frozen water. Read More: Tips to Prevent Foot Aches and Pains Bizarre Home Cures That Really Work Your (Hic!)... Excuse Me, Your (Hic!) Home cure: Sugar Use it for: Hiccups A teaspoon of sugar swallowed dry can stop hiccups in minutes, says Andre Dubois, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine in the emerging infectious diseases graduate program at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. The sugar is believed to modify the nerve muscles that would otherwise tell the muscles in the diaphragm to contract spasmodically and contribute to hiccups. Read More: 10 Weird Body Clues You Shouldn't Ignore Bizarre Home Cures That Really Work Your Seasickness Home cure: Olives or lemons Use it for: Motion sickness Motion sickness causes you to produce excess saliva, which can make you nauseated, some doctors say. Compounds in olives called tannins dry out your mouth and can help soothe the queasies. Pop a couple at the first hint of nausea; sucking on a lemon can also do the trick. Read More: 7 Foods That Should Never Cross Your Lips Bizarre Home Cures That Really Work Your Fragile Fingernails
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Local Digest - washingtonpost.com AOL resumed life as an independent Internet company Thursday as it completed its spinoff from Time Warner and closed the book on one of the most disastrous business combinations in history. Today's AOL is much different from the company once known as America Online, which got big in the 1990s by selling dial-up Internet access and then used $147 billion of its inflated stock to buy Time Warner. AOL, which is now worth about $2 billion, is trying to get most of its money from running advertisements on its portfolio of Web sites. Those sites include the AOL.com home pages, Mapquest and tech blog Engadget. AOL isn't keeping the entertainment site TMZ, which is staying in Time Warner. When AOL bought Time Warner in 2001, the companies bet that Time Warner's TV and magazine content would complement AOL's Internet business. Instead, broadband Internet connections began to kill off AOL's main source of revenue and drag down the whole company. The company was once known as AOL Time Warner but dropped AOL from the name in 2003. That was a sign of what was to come: Time Warner announced AOL's spinoff last May after years of trying to integrate the two companies. -- Associated Press
Ciena reports larger loss than expected Shares of Ciena tumbled 11 percent Thursday after the computer networking equipment maker posted a wider-than-expected loss for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year as costs offset strong revenue results. The Linthicum, Md.-based company said it lost $26.7 million (29 cents per share) for the three months ended Oct. 31, compared with a loss of $25.4 million (28 cents). Revenue fell 1.9 percent, to $176.3 million.
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Santa Claus Soaks Up Florida Sun at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort Guests can grab a sighting of Santa in his swim trunks and sandals before he heads out for his big night of work LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Paparazzi seeking THE photograph of the holiday season will have the opportunity to catch one of the world's most beloved celebrities out of his element this December. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091125/FL17456) Santa Claus, who among the world's most experienced travelers, has decided to enjoy some rest and relaxation and is taking off to spend the weeks leading up to Christmas at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort. Temporarily ditching his red suit for some swim trunks and tropical shirts, Santa will be laying back at the Grotto pool, resting up on his Heavenly Bed and indulging at the resort's 17 restaurants and lounges. And while the elves are preparing his winter sleigh, he'll be riding around in style in his personalized golf cart. It won't be all play for Santa during his Florida vacation though, he will be taking the time to meet with boys and girls of all ages, gathering wish lists and taking photos in his Florida tiki hut, his customized Florida base complete with beach chair, holiday lights, mail box for letters to Santa, flamingos and reindeer on surf boards. "The North Pole winters are frigid. Even I like to get away and spend some time in the Florida sun," said Santa. "I'll be finishing up my list while on vacation, so I invite everyone to come and visit me at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin. Ho, ho, ho!" Santa arrives and will start appearances at the resort on Dec. 3. Guests can visit with him every Thursday through Sunday until Dec. 23 when he has to get back to work. Anyone who would like to vacation with Santa at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort can take advantage of a special holiday offer leading up to Christmas (12/25) with rooms starting at $122.50 per night through Dec. 24. In addition, those who purchase an entree at one of the resort's signature restaurants will receive a free photo with Santa. For details guests can visit www.santasfavoriteresort.com. To book please call 1-800-227-1500 and ask for rate code "SANTA." Meeting Santa is just one reason to celebrate the holidays at The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort this season. Located in the heart of the Walt Disney World Resort, the resort provides convenient and complimentary transportation to the Disney theme parks and special Disney holiday events including The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights at Disney's Hollywood Studios, the Candlelight Processional at Epcot, and Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party at the Magic Kingdom. Other holiday activities taking place at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort throughout December include cookie decorating, carolers performing in the lobbies and smore camp fires on the beach. The resort will also showcase its signature 45-ft. tall Christmas tree in the Dolphin lobby. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the whimsical Garden Grove restaurant will offer a special Christmas buffet with guest appearances by Disney characters. In the heart of the Walt Disney WorldÃ"® Resort, the award-winning Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort is your gateway to Central Florida's greatest theme parks and attractions. The resort is located in between EpcotÃ"® and Disney's Hollywood Studios (TM), and nearby Disney's Animal KingdomÃ"® Theme Park and Magic KingdomÃ"® Park. Come discover our 17 world-class restaurants and lounges, sophisticated guest rooms with Westin Heavenly BedsÃ"® and the luxurious Mandara Spa. Enjoy five pools, two health clubs, tennis, nearby golf, and many special Disney benefits, including complimentary transportation to Walt Disney World Theme Parks and Attractions, and the Extra Magic Hours benefit. The resort can be reached at 800-227-1500 or www.swandolphin.com. SOURCE Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort
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Public housing built on arsenic-contaminated land in Queensland town of Eidsvold Trish Pope, who used to live in one of the Eidsvold houses where arsenic was found in the soil, says her children were constantly sick while they resided there. PIC: Paul Beutel Source: Supplied THE State Government built welfare housing in the central Queensland town of Eidsvold on land where cancer-causing arsenic levels were 71 times the acceptable level. Public servants told the Minister for Environment Andrew Powell that the contamination from a nearby gold mine may result in a risk to public health and two families whose homes were built on contaminated fill from a disused mine have been relocated. Mr Powell blamed the Bligh Government for not tackling the issue when the mining lease was revoked in 2002. "It was only when the company finally attempted to demonstrate their rehabilitation efforts in November last year that soil samples were taken, and this issue was discovered," he said. The Government has also admitted that it only has $17,000 allocated to clean up the site but has been told it could cost millions, while a program designed to clean up abandoned mines can't be used because of red tape. "It is likely that houses owned by the Department of Communities were constructed on top of tailings sand adjacent to (the mining lease)," a ministerial briefing note obtained by The Courier-Mail said. "The residual mining contamination of land may result in a risk to public health and increased public concern in relation to potential land contamination in the Eidsvold area. "Relocation of people from houses alleged to be built on historical tailings sand may exacerbate these issues." Ismay Law was recently removed from the four-bedroom red brick home she occupied for 14 years after authorities declared the property unsafe. Her neighbour, Georgina Gooda-Gee and twin daughters Shadowe and Summer, 2, were also moved after tests revealed a toxic environment. Queensland Health did blood and urine tests and told the tenants they were clear. Trish Pope who lived in one of those same houses for six years to 1994 remembers there was no top soil when they moved in. "There was all this ashy stuff and it took us a long time to get green grass, it wouldn't grow," said Ms Pope. "We got council to dump some top soil so we could get it green." Experts warn the arsenic contamination poses a high risk for children who often play in dirt or in yards where exposure is possible while studies have found the melanoma risk for men was 50 per cent higher in areas of high arsenic levels. Adults were also at risk from inhaling dust or from dirt carried back into the house, but University of Queensland toxicologist Professor Jack Ng said it would depend on the concentration and length of exposure. "It is certainly a concern that requires more investigation," Professor Ng said. "It is a well proved carcinogen." But he also said there would be a lot of Queensland gardens with "hot spot" arsenic levels particularly those with timber fences treated with arsenic to prevent termites. Melbourne University research fellow from the School of Global Health Dora Pearce said an ecological study in the goldfields region of Victoria found significant increases in cancer risk associated with increasing soil arsenic. Dr Pearce also said it was just the tip of the iceberg, with dozens of sites in mining towns likely to have similar problems and she would not like her family living in such an environment. She said arsenic, which occurs naturally around gold in the environment, also had a long latency and cancer could develop years after exposure. She said the overall cancer risk for men and women living in areas with the highest soil arsenic level increased by 20 per cent and 8 per cent, respectively. But the State Government's investigation launched since November only traced people who had possibly been exposed in the six weeks before the discovery of arsenic levels. Mr Powell said his department was carrying out a thorough assessment of the site, but it was unlikely to be able to prove who was to blame because mining had been carried out on the site for more than 100 years. "The property will remain on the Environment Management Register to ensure residential developments are not approved in the area in future," he said.
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During the shutdown, Senator Bernie Sanders said "Right now, as we speak, in the House of Representatives there are people who are being threatened that if they vote for a clean CR that huge sums of money will be spent against them in the next election." Michigan Rep. Dan Kildee said Republicans "would be more apt to compromise if they were not absolutely petrified of the Koch brothers spending millions of dollars to unseat them." The White House believes that even without delaying or defunding the Affordable Care Act, the continuing resolution already represents a significant compromise. The White House proposed a budget that funded discretionary spending at $1.203 trillion. The continuing resolution provides $986 billion. According to Ezra Klein of The Washington Post, while the Obama administration was willing to accept this significantly lower level of spending, it felt that a new demand by House Republicans to delay or defund the Act represented "nothing less than an effort to use the threat of a financial crisis to nullify the results of the last election." Klein continued: "As the White House sees it, Speaker John Boehner has begun playing politics as game of Calvinball, in which Republicans invent new rules on the fly and then demand the media and the Democrats accept them as reality and find a way to work around them." According to Klein, President Obama believes that "he will be handing his successor a fatally weakened office, and handing the American people an unacceptable risk of future financial crises, if he breaks, or even bends, in the face of Republican demands." Lobbying group the United States Chamber of Commerce called for the election of "people who understand the free market and not silliness". By the end of the shutdown, public and behind-the-scenes disagreements over the strategy to defund the ACA led to reports of a "civil war" within the Republican party. High-ranking party members were angry that colleagues forcing a shutdown had backed them into a corner and left them shouldering much of the blame. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stated party leadership had come to the conclusion in July that defunding the ACA had no chance of succeeding, while senator Kelly Ayotte started a "lynch mob" against Ted Cruz in a closed-door meeting with other Republican members, demanding that he and his backers stop attacking party members for not supporting the defunding effort. Many other Republicans publicly criticized Cruz, including John McCain, Lindsay Graham, and Bob Corker. Tea Party members responded: Cruz blamed the failure to get meaningful concessions from Democrats on moderate Senate Republicans for refusing to back their colleagues in the House, the Senate Conservatives Fund began sending out emails attacking McConnell for his role in ending the shutdown, and Sarah Palin suggested high-ranking moderate Republicans who voted in favor of the final bill would be targeted by Tea Party members in primary challenges. Representative Peter T. King suggested this in-fighting was aiding Democrats, and has led to questions over whether "friendly fire" could jeopardize Republican chances of winning the Senate and maintaining control over the House. ===Financial markets===
U.S. financial markets rose the next day as investors weighed the effects of the shutdown. In the U.K. markets fell. On October 7, a week after the start of the shutdown, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below 15,000 to end at 14,936, but recovered at the week's end to finish at 15,237 on October 11. ===Public opinion===
====Prior to the beginning of the shutdown====
Prior to the shutdown, surveys of public opinion had shown that general sentiment among the American public about the Affordable Care Act was divided, with slightly more opposed to the act than in favor of it. For example, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey in September 2013 found that approximately 43% of Americans opposed the health care reform law while 39% viewed it favorably, numbers largely unchanged since 2011. Half of the public also said in September 2013, just days before major provisions of the law were scheduled to be implemented, that they did not have enough information about the law to know how it would affect their families; and 68% mistakenly believed or were unsure whether the law would establish a government-run health insurance plan (often referred to as a "public option") to compete with plans from private health insurance companies—which it would not. Surveys conducted in September as congressional budget negotiations stalled showed that, despite the reservations many had about the Affordable Care Act, most Americans were opposed to the possibility of a shutdown, and most wanted the funding for the health care law to be handled separately from the negotiations over funding of general government operations. A CBS/New York Times poll found that 80% of Americans overall said threatening a government shutdown was not an acceptable way to negotiate.
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From Shipwreck in Italy, a Treasure Now Beckons In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian crystal glassware, thousands of art objects including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master. In other words, a veritable treasure now lies beneath the pristine Italian waters where the luxury liner ran aground last month. Though some objects are bound to disintegrate, there is still hoard enough to tempt treasure seekers - just as the Titanic and countless shipwrecks before have lured seekers of gold, armaments and other riches for as far back as mankind can remember. It may be just a matter of time before treasure hunters set their sights on the sunken spoils of the Costa Concordia, which had more than 4,200 people on board. "As long as there are bodies in there, it's considered off base to everybody because it's a grave," said Robert Marx, a veteran diver and the author of numerous books on maritime history and underwater archaeology and treasure hunting. "But when all the bodies are out, there will be a mad dash for the valuables."
FILE In this undated file photo released by the Italian Fire Brigade, Vigili del Fuoco, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, firemen scuba divers check one of the propellers of the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia that run ashore off the Tuscany island of Isola del Giglio, Italy. A veritable treasure now lies beneath the pristine Italian waters where the massive cruise liner ran aground last month. In the chaotic evacuation of more than 4,200 people from the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian crystal glassware, thousands of art objects and even 300-year-old woodcut prints by a Japanese master. (AP Photo/Vigili del Fuoco) Close The Mafia, he said, even has underwater teams that specialize in going after sunken booty. The Costa Concordia was essentially a floating luxury hotel and many of the passengers embarked on the ill-fated cruise with their finest clothes and jewels so they could parade them in casinos and at gala dinners beneath towering chandeliered ceilings. On top of that was massive wealth belonging to the ship itself: elegant shops stocked with jewelry, more than 6,000 works of art decorating walls and a wellness spa containing a collection of 300-year-old woodblock prints by Katsushika Hokusai, a Japanese artist most famous for his work of a giant wave framing Mount Fuji in the distance. "It's now a paradise for divers," said Hans Reinhardt, a German lawyer who represents 19 German passengers seeking compensation for their loss. He said some of his clients traveled with diamond-studded jewels and other heirlooms that had been in their families for generations. "They lost lots of jewelry - watches, necklaces, whatever women wear when they want to get well dressed," Reinhardt said. "They wanted to show off what they have." The massive cruise liner itself is worth €450 million ($590), but that doesn't take into account the value of all other objects on board, said Costa Crociere, the Italian company that operated the Costa Concordia. Among the sunken objects are furniture, the vast art collection, computers, wine, champagne, as well as whatever valuables were locked away in safes in private cabins, the Costa Crociere press office said. The company still legally owns the ship and the passengers own their sunken objects. "Quantifying this is impossible because unfortunately the ship has sunk," Costa Crociere said. "Until the ship is recovered there's no way to know what can be saved and what can't."
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==Cricketers pictures==
but are not those pictures for public. I mean that website is not privately owned by an individual nor a company. Everything that is on that website can be used by normal people, Right. Thank You Salman
Unfortunately no, the pictures there are copyrighted to AFP news agency or Getty Images, who are commercial photographers and media who use the pictures to make their livelihood, so we aren't allowed to use them. If they are pictures released by the organisation in order to publicise their work then we can use them. For instance http://www.usocpressbox.org is the website of the United States Olympic Committee have images of all of their athletes, and the pictures are labelled as promotional - it tells us that the pictures of the US athletes are there for non-profit distribution to highlight the work of the Olympic team. In this case it is the work of corporate media who sell the rights to Cricinfo, BBC Sport etc, so cannot be used for Wikipedia. Many regards, Blnguyen | rant-line. == Thank you ==
For removing a personal attack from my talk page. :) Kimchi.sg
I would think 48 hours for a first-timer is a bit harsh. (The second response might have been his way of saying "You're kidding me".) I'll lessen it to 24 hours if you have no objections. Sorry for the delayed response, I was deleting images without copyright info. =.= Kimchi.sg
Sure, that's fine - I guess the attack was on you not me, but they were quite strident.Blnguyen | rant-line
== Personal attack ==
What the heck was that on Khoikhoi's user page?? Don't people have anything better to enjoy theirselves? You sure responded fast though :) DeliDumrul
By the way, can you take a look at this past vote and tell me if there is anything I can do about it based on this argument? Sorry for asking this kind of help from you, but you look like you never dealt with articles about that area, so I think you'd be neutral. Thanks DeliDumrul
Khoikhoi and I not always agree on everything, but I think he's trying his best to stay neutral and honest. :) DeliDumrul
Oops. I didn't mean to ask you to do anything about it. I just wanted to ask what I can do about it. Anyways.. Thanks DeliDumrul
== I have decided to retire ==
Hello Blnguyen. I just wanted to come here and thank you for everything before I retire from wikipedia. I have decided not to stay for various reasons, mostly from the past. I have seen what this place has done to people, and I have decided to not let it happen to me. I don't know if I will come back, but regardless I wanted to thank you. You were always nice to me, and for that I am forever greatful. Thank you my friend for everything. Matt B. "aka" Thetruthbelow
==Thanks for your support in my RfA!==
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==Beaten by a second!==
Do I need to "unblock" my 3 hour ban so as not to supercede your 24 hour ban? OhNoitsJamie Talk
== Carola ==
I would like to draw your attention, as an administrator and prominent member of WikiProject Eurovision, to the Carola Häggkvist article. As you might know, Carola is to some extent controversial due to her past involvement in religious movements, as well as certain declarations and actions in the media. Especially the gay activists in Sweden and to some extent rest of Europe reacted very strongly to reports by Swedish gay magazine QX, as well as other, mostly tabloid media, of her alleged anti-gay remarks (or at least remarks not viewed as favorable by the gay activist community). Carola's winning Melodifestivalen in 2006 spurned another massive campaign against her during which some activists tried to argue she is strongly homophobic.
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"Ceremony" director Max Winkler - latimes.com When Max Winkler set out to make a movie, he made one thing clear: He didn't want any help from his Hollywood veteran father, no matter how tempting the prospect. Editing his directorial debut, "Ceremony," out of his boyhood bedroom put Winkler mighty close to Dad - Henry Winkler, still remembered best as the Fonz from "Happy Days." "I would walk down the hall and I would have a spring in my step knowing [Max] was nearby, but as I turned to come in the room, I would see the door almost in my face," the elder Winkler recalled. "You can only give him a suggestion if he asks. There is no room for unsolicited suggestions. He's a very strong-willed human being." But that persistence has paid off for his son. Over the weekend, nearly a month after it was released on video-on-demand, "Ceremony," which the 27-year-old Winkler also wrote, hit theaters. The movie centers on a young man (Michael Angarano) who has fallen for an older woman (Uma Thurman) and rushes to her wedding in an attempt to steal her away from her betrothed. It's a deeply personal story, Winkler acknowledged. "It's a pretty brutal account of probably the worst and most selfish parts of someone who thinks they're a lot older and more original than they are," he said, perhaps obliquely referring to himself. "At a certain age, you feel like you have a monopoly on suffering and heartbreak and that no one can really understand what it's like. But that's not true." That moment came in his own life, Winkler said, after he graduated from film school at USC and realized how difficult it would be to break into the industry. "I had no idea what I was going to do, and thought I was going to get a'real' job. You leave school with, like, a black-and-white 'Karma Police' [Radiohead] music video. And you realize that's not going to get you paid," he said, sitting in the tea room at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, which houses an eccentric collection of possessions ranging from decaying dice to portraits of canines who have traveled to outer space. It was in the Culver City museum that Winkler was finally able to buckle down and focus after graduation. He and a writing partner Matt Spicer spent months there, penning the first script they ever sold, "The Ornate Anatomy of Living Things," which is still in development at Fox Searchlight. The project attracted the interest of longtime friend and filmmaker Jason Reitman ("Juno," "Up in the Air"), who went on to executive produce "Ceremony." "Really, I just found myself talking to a young man I'd known since I was a child who was about to start the same journey I had just begun," Reitman wrote in an e-mail. "I tried to relay pitfalls and obstacles that I had encountered. [But] the truth was that Max had the complete movie in his head and knew how to make it." In person, the diminutive Winkler, who looks almost identical to his father except for his red hair, hardly exudes such confidence. Putting "Ceremony" out into the world has been a nerve-racking prospect, he said. Heading to the Toronto International Film Festival, where the movie later found a distributor in Magnolia Pictures, sent Winkler into a panic. "I didn't enjoy any of it. I just had to medicate," he said, only half-joking, adding that he hasn't been able to bring himself to watch the movie since then. On set, star Angarano, himself only 23, said he was comforted by Winkler's first-time jitters. "I was surprised by the fact that he was so close to me in age. But the fact that he was so young was conducive to the fact that we had a great rapport," the actor said. "He could come up to me and whisper things in my ear and it would uplift me. There was never a question if he was the captain of the ship." Though "Ceremony" marks the first time Winkler has directed big names, he's been around them since he was a kid. He has counted actor Jonah Hill as one of his best friends since the two met in high school. "We used to do the bar mitzvah circuit together... getting kicked out. We were like little rotten maniacs," he said. And though he grew up among the famous, having a celebrity as your dad isn't as exciting as everyone imagines, he said.
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That would be like asking China (being the most numerous of all) to write Britanica's entry on United Kingdom, just makes no sense. Outsiders opinions are of course VERY "interesting", and should be heard, but in a separate forum. So ok, some countries have ridiculous systems, Zimbabwe, China, Sudan, Afghanistan, but it's still their own country. If not by providing a separate forum for outside opinions, maybe at least have some kind of translation tool, so people can access local information and not only Americanised/Francised information. Because that is the reality, French are most numerous in WP:FR so it has a France slant, USers are most numerous on WP:EN so it has an American slant, and so on, there is no such thing as objectivity in these situations, the only option should be plurality instead of forced consensus' by demographic weight. :::: I don't think that the ability to write a good article has much to do with your nationality of mother tongue. Much more so with your knowledge of the subject and your ability to write. :::: Given the standard of fr:, I am not no a hurry to give some sort of proeminence to the people who write there. And as you point yourself, your suggestion will lead to having no information on some countries. By the way, what are you going to do with Britanny, have it described by French people, or Breton nationalists? If the later, which ones, the pro-nazi ones or the far-left who sleep with the ETA? Rama
::::Wikipedia is a collaborative work, between people with different backgrounds and origins, I would hate the article on France being only written by French people (like myself). The whole point is to obtain neutrality and objectivity (if it can exist), through editions and corrections, and sometimes arguments through talk pages. Granted, French people are more aware of what's going on in their own country, but it is as valuable to have and external view on the matter, which can only be provided by non-French contributors. This can also avoid all lyricism about the "Grandeur" of the country and other chauvinistic rubbish. I'm probably not the only one who is fed up with the schoolboys vandalism, but this is no way a justification to reserve the editing only to French people. First and foremost because it is against the philosophy of Wikipedia. Then because it is technically impossible to prove if an editor is French or not. Finally, it is a form of nationalism, I can already hear the sound of the boots. Blastwizard
== Productivity ==
I don't think is true: "Despite figures showing a higher productivity per hour worked than in the US..." Is there a source for this? If not, it should be removed. Headraine
Look at the following table List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita_per_hour, there are some detailed publishing by the OECD but I don't think these are freely available. It is not that surprising when considering the high level of unemployment and short working hours in France in regards to its GDP. Blastwizard
Oh ok, the difference is really slight. I guess that needs to be mentioned. Headraine
== Algeria & North Africa ==
We should add this section? All the French massacres and enslavement of North African people deserves that I suppose. These people were never enslaved. Much as the rest of the Arab world and/or 3rd world, they were colonized. Compared to the Spanish and England Empires? France did less 'damage' compared to them, yet England sugarcoat it's own history to make it's own history 'positive' and spreading democracy brings 'peace'. Just look at Iraq very peaceful ;) Phu2734
Gentlemen, wikipedia is not about bashing each other and counting how many skeletons the other has in his closet, it is about facts and neutral point of view. As far I am concerned, I don't think this section should go in the France article, I don't think there are sections in other countries articles listing all their wrongdoings either. On the other hand, a balanced article on colonialism relating specific facts about exactions by all the different colonial empires (Portugal, Spain, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy, Ottoman Empire, Germany,...) belongs to wikipedia. Also, why only Algeria and North Africa? After all, France had colonies in other parts of the world (there are well documented exactions by France in other of its colonies such as Madagascar and Indochina); this looks like a bias from the start.
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Waitman T. Willey House is a historic home located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built in 1839-1840, and is a 1 1/2 story, "L"-shaped brick residence in the Classical Revival style. The front facade features a one-story pentastyle portico with five fluted wood Doric order columns and a high pitched triangular pediment. It was built for Waitman T. Willey (1811-1900), noted lawyer, orator, and statesman. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. ==References==
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Neoclassical architecture in West Virginia
Houses completed in 1840
Houses in Morgantown, West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Monongalia County, West Virginia
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Eads Taking Leave From 'CSI,' Return Uncertain The investigators on CBS's "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" will be without forensic scientist Nick Stokes for a while. CBS said Wednesday that George Eads is taking a leave of absence after appearing in the show's first three episodes of the upcoming season. Eads has portrayed Stokes since the series premiere in 2000. It's unclear when or if he'll return. CBS won't comment on a Hollywood Reporter story that Eads got into an argument with a writer on the show about his character. Eads' manager hasn't returned messages seeking comment. "CSI" was the 20th most popular show on TV last week, watched by 5.8 million people.
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Ex-Sen. Bob Dole released from Army hospital Ex-Sen. Bob Dole released from Army hospital Jan 8 04:23 PM US/Eastern TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A spokeswoman for the Dole Institute of Politics in Lawrence says former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole has been released from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. Heather Anderson told The Topeka Capital-Journal on Saturday that Dole left the hospital Friday. She says she learned Thursday that Dole had been admitted to the hospital late Tuesday. She says she has no details about his condition. Anderson did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press. The 87-year-old Dole spent 10 months at Walter Reed last year after suffering pneumonia following knee surgery. He left the facility in mid-November. Dole was elected to the U.S. House in 1960 and the Senate in 1968. He was the Republican nominee for president in 1996 but lost to Bill Clinton. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Another factor is the Noble Eightfold Path: (1) knowledge of the truth; (2) the intention to resist evil; (3) saying nothing to hurt others; (4) respecting life, morality, and property; (5) holding a job that does not injure others; (6) striving to free one's mind of evil; (7) controlling one's feelings and thoughts; and (8) practicing proper forms of concentration. New converts to Buddhism usually join because they already agree with these principles. Violent and restless people don't gravitate toward Buddhism. Having said these things, Buddhists are still human beings. They can never be perfect. The more devout and experienced the Buddhist, the greater their discipline. The most disciplined Buddhists, especially those who claim to have achieved enlightenment, have complete control over their bodies and minds. They can tolerate anything you throw at them, including torture. The core teaching of buddhism is that all suffering stems from attachment to "unrealities". If you approach a Buddhist monk and insult his mother, try to bully him, or etc, the monk should (ideally) recognize that your actions are not "real": i.e., your statements about his mother are untrue and designed to inflame, your attempts at bullying are based in unreal conceptions of authority and social interactions, and both stem from your own misunderstanding of the true nature of reality. He should, in fact, feel compassion towards you because you are so thoroughly lost in your own suffering that you feel the need to try to inflict suffering on others. How it actually pans out is a function of his meditation practice, his current state of mind, and etc. - even those who are enlightened are not enlightened all the time. Torture is effectively the same, with the distinction that physical pain (like pleasure and other sensations) is real. Ideally a practicing monk would experience the pain of being tortured without being attached to the outcome. in fact, the real 'torture' part of torture has less to do with the physical pain than with the fears and hopes that people cling to while being tortured - torturers want to put their victims in a place where they believe their only escape (attachment of hope) from further torture (attachment of fear) lies in cooperating with the torturer. In medieval Japan, some Buddhist monasteries took an active military role during periods of political disintegration and breakdown of law and order. Currently, some Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka have the reputation of being aggressive and militant supporters of Sinhalese nationalism. AnonMoos (talk)
"Indifference" doesn't seem like the right word, as it implies not responding. The Buddhists I've met who have been practicing intensely for years are all extremely engaged in the world. What's the point of compassion if you don't do anything about it? How would one of these people react if you deliberately insulted them? Who knows. Perhaps a punch in the face is exactly what you need. Pfly (talk)
== Any sports/games where the player is drowned in vegetables/salad etc ==
I am looking for info on any sport (may be a 2 memebr team) where one of the players is lying on a table and vegetables/fruits/salads are thrown on hers à litote to speak about it : "Les Anglais ont débarqué" ("The englishmen have landed")...:-) ) T.y. Arapaima (talk)
There are certainly a number of Gilray cartoons using the term; however the French wore white uniforms before the revolution and blue afterwards. To be fair to the French, they often take the joke in good part. A French president, (Mitterand?) when asked how the Channel Tunnel rail link was built through the French countryside more quickly than in England replied that you don't ask the frogs before you drain the pond! Alansplodge (talk)
I had a quick look and found that while most of his troops wore blue, Napoleon's mounted troops did indeed wear dark green... which of course proves nothing, but I thought I'd mention it. 81.131.66.164 (talk)
Hahaha. Because of redcoats, obviously. 81.131.66.164 (talk)
The sound correlation shouldn't be completely ignored. If you say "Frank" (as in Frankish) with a french accent, like, it does sound a lot like 'frog', particularly with some English accents. Steewi (talk)
== Music ==
Hi. I've been playing music since I was very young, and now I'd like to learn how to recognize different types of music.
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NHL: Chicago 5, Atlanta 4 (SO) ATLANTA, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Viktor Stalberg's shot past Ondrej Pavelec in the fifth round of a shootout Saturday boosted the Chicago Blackhawks past Atlanta 5-4. Satlberg's game-winner was set up when Atlanta's Dustin Byfuglien missed the net in the top of the extra shootout frame. Jonathan Toews notched a pair of goals and racked up two assists and Patrick Kane tallied two goals and an assist for the Blackhawks, who won for only the second time in five games. Blackhawks goalie Marty Turco turned aside 33 shots to earn the victory. The Thrashers, who lost for the third game in four games, got a goal and an assist from Nik Antropov. Alexander Brumistrov, Evander Kane and Rich Peverley each added goals for Atlanta.
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Phoenix Futures residential treatment home means addicts can be reborn from the ashes of their lives FOURTEEN weeks ago, Thomas Leith, a sad-eyed grandfather from the Calton, took up a pint glass and smashed it, rim-first, into his face three times, cutting an artery in his forehead and carving his nose up like butcher meat. "I hated myself," he says. "I just didn't like who I had become with the drugs." The exact circumstances change. The precise blend of intoxication, self-loathing and horror. But this is the sort of state in which addicts often find themselves before they come to live at Phoenix Futures, a residential rehab centre in the north of Glasgow. Each day in rehab begins with a "huddle" - residents gathering in the community room and saying in unison the Phoenix philosophy, which begins: "We are here because there is no refuge finally from ourselves." They stand in a circle, arms around each other's shoulders, some with eyes closed. Afterwards there is applause and hugging. People congratulate one another on another day clean and wish each other strength for the struggles ahead. Thomas Leith lifts a petite middle-aged woman in a pink velour tracksuit and burls her round for the sheer joy of another morning free of heroin, valium and coke, another morning when he isn't robbing his mother to feed his habit. When he first arrived at Phoenix, he'd have struggled to lift his own head up, never mind anyone else. He was seven-and-a-half stone, a bag of rattling bones, scarred inside and out. "Coming in here," he says, "is the best thing I've ever done." Phoenix Futures is a large modern building on Keppochhill Road, an area of warehouses and waste ground not far from the canal. It is one of around 20 residential drug treatment centres in Scotland. The drug problem in this country is huge, with a record 584 deaths in 2011, a rise of 76 per cent over a decade, and an estimated 61,000 problem drug users nationwide. Given these statistics, one might think that all rehabs would be full to capacity. Not so. Numbers in many places are in decline. Phoenix has room for 39 residents, but at present only 18 of the beds are occupied. According to Rowdy Yates, head of Scottish Addiction Studies at Stirling University, Scotland's residential rehab sector is "dying." GPs and local authority care workers are far more likely to put an addict on a heroin substitute such as methadone rather than refer them to residential care. Why? Partly cost. Residential drug rehab in Scotland costs, on average, in the region of £500 to £800 a week. A weekly prescription of methadone comes in at around £28. Yet methadone merely replaces one drug with another, and a life on meth can, in its way, be as miserable, narrow and chaotic as a life on smack. Methadone kills more Scots than heroin. Rehab is at least an attempt to get people off drugs altogether. Yet if numbers in rehab continue to decline as they are, Yates says, many centres will be forced to close, meaning that intensive, abstinence-based drug treatment will become available only to those who can afford private clinics. "All that will be left are the residential treatment equivalents of public schools, which are only really catering for the well-off and the middle-class," he says. "The not-for-profit agencies will disappear. They can't continue to operate on those levels of occupancy. It can't go on for much longer." To spend a day in rehab, talking to staff and residents, is to understand the severity of the drug problem in a way that the statistics, grim as they are, cannot convey. It is the difference between being shown a photograph of a knife and feeling its edge on your skin. One thing the people here have in abundance is stories. The man who won £100,000 on bingo and blew it soon after. The man who spent nine years living beneath the railway bridge that spans the Clyde on the way into Central Station, climbing up the rivets each night, wearing 12 jackets against the cold, and sleeping on a steel rafter so narrow that had he rolled off he would have fallen to his death.
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Unemployment rises in UK by 28,000 to 2.67m, ONS reports
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== Summary ==
Cover to the Carpenters' 2000 compilation. == Licensing ==
== Fair use in The Singles: 1969-1981==
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
It's a low resolution copy of a CD/album cover. It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD/album in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales. Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD. The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof. The image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist. ==Source==
Derived from a digital capture (scan/photo) of the album/CD cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the record company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.
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Bagh Anar-e Milas (باغ انارميلاس, also Romanized as Bāgh Anār-e Mīlās) is a village in Milas Rural District, in the Central District of Lordegan County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,258, in 442 families. == References ==
Populated places in Lordegan County
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Some people were alloted land in southern Punjab and Sindh; however, only the influentials were able to take possessions and the entitlement. The main issue, the allotment of the land, still exists. Also, the royalty fund of the Tarbela power dam has not been awarded to the affectees of the project. == Society of KTS ==
Society of Khalabat is very rich in culture and establishment of traditions. The Hujra and Jirga still exists in the town. In their daily life, the Pathan of Khalabat still follow Pathanwali traditions. People of Khalabat are sports-loving, and they enjoy playing volleyball, association football, field hockey, cricket, kabaddi, Cards, Ludo and snooker and fishing
==Industry==
When Khalabat Township was under construction in early 1970s, the Government announced a tax-free industrial zone, and this announcement attracted lots of industrialists. In this industrial zone, companies like Kawasaki motorcycles, Rehana woolen mills, Orion television, Ashi marbel, Jhon steel mills, Shafi woolen mill, Tarbela Cotton and Spinning mills were set up. Except Tarbela Cotton and Spinning mill, which is still running, the rest have closed down their business and have moved out. The steel mills have dissolved, and on that place, the Merit Schooling System is located there. == Education ==
Most of the people in the Khalabut Township are educated either they are male or female. There are a number of Government boys and girls school, with a good number of private schools. In recent years, a number of higher education institutes have been set up by the government, and there is one degree college for boys in sector 1. There is a Government Technical College in sector 4, a Women Degree College in sector 3. Some of the famous private schools: are Rehman public school since 1989 in sector no 2, Universal Public School (Darband Chowk, Sector 4), Quaid-e-Azam Public School & College Sector 2, Rising Stars Public School, Sector 3, Pakistan Public School and Montessori, Model Public School, Dawn Public School, Faizan Public High School, sector 3, Iqra Academy School, sector 2,Jinnah hall public school, sector 1, Dawn Public School, Sector 2, Iqra Public High School, sector 4, Progressive International Academy, sector 4, and Sand Hawks Academy in sector 2. == Tribes ==
The major tribes dwelling in Khalabat Township are Tanoli, Dilazak, Dawlatzai, Utmanzai (tribe), Khan Khel, Yousafzai, Tareen, Jadoon,Shilmani, Qureshi, Syeds, Gujjars, Abbasi, Awans, Mughal, Sheikh and others. == Languages spoken ==
The major languages spoken in Khalabat Township are Hindko, Urdu, and Pashto. == Social and Welfare Organizations in KTS ==
== Famous places ==
Chaman Park, Akhtar Nawaz Khan Stadium and Tarbela Lake are the famous places in Khalabat Township. The lake is a picnic spot, and boats can be hired by the visitors to have a tour of Tarbela Lake. Also local people use the boats to get to the villages, at the mountains for fishing and hunting. Visiting picnic spots and eating out, especially during public holidays, used to be an effervescent trait of Pakistani society, but over the years, socio-economic pressures, law and order and above all the terrorist activities, have equally disturbed the life of the hoi polloi in Pakistan. However, the habit and desire remain as many still yearn to spend a few minutes with family, either on the lakeside, or some other tourist spot. In the face of tiresome and multiplying problems, every citizen want to reinvigorate their spirit by visiting tourist spots, a perspective is corroborated by the growing number of tourists at almost every picnic point. == Climate ==
Khalabat has temperature changes for all four seasons of the year; i.e., summer, winter, autumn and spring. Summers are hot but pleasant, and winters are too cold. Lively weather prevails in spring and autumn. == References ==
== External links ==
www.qalamqirtas.org
www.khalabat.com
Union councils of Haripur District
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Gen Petraeus: US to begin sending troops home from Afghanistan in July The commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan said that although success remained "fragile and reversible," the advance of the Taliban had been halted in key parts of the country. "The momentum achieved by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2005 has been arrested in much of the country and reversed in a number of important areas," he told a hearing of the Senate armed services committee. He said the US military would be able to begin sending home troops in July 2011, as promised by President Barack Obama, though he provided no further details. The Pentagon was also on course to achieve its target of handing over the leading role in security to the Afghans by the end of 2014. There are currently 97,000 US forces on the ground fighting alongside 45,000 troops from Nato countries, including 9,500 from Britain, as part of the international coalition put in place after US-led troops ousted the Taliban from power in late 2001. Gen Petraeus' comments came as a poll for the Washington Post showed that 64 per cent of Americans now thought the war was not worth fighting for, up from 44 per cent in late 2009.
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"Everything from the original artwork to the actual code that was written for the games to the actual box art and the whole marketing plan," he says. "It's just a very undervalued and underappreciated art form."
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Gilberto Valle allegedly 'longed to butcher and cook female meat' This undated photo submitted into evidence by Assistant Federal Defender Julia L. Gatto shows Gilberto Valle, who is accused of conspiracy to kidnap a woman and unauthorized use of a law enforcement database, with his daughter. (AP Photo/Assistant Federal Defender Julia L. Gatto) Source: AP A NEW York City police officer and a butcher in India chatted online about the officer's plans to torture and cook his soon-to-be wife and a former college roommate, an FBI agent testified today. "I have longed to butcher and cook female meat," Officer Gilberto Valle, 28, told the man identified as Aly Khan early last year, according to the testimony of FBI Agent Corey Walsh. Khan offered to provide a place in Pakistan to kill the woman once she was brought to India, Walsh said. The exchange was among numerous Internet chats offered by prosecutors to support charges that Valle conspired with others on the Internet to kidnap, rape, kill and eat women that he knew. Also charged with illegally accessing a government database to research potential victims, Valle could face life in prison if convicted. Cannibal cop is no monster, says his mom No women were injured, and defence lawyers have argued he was merely fantasizing on the Internet with no intent to harm. For two days, Walsh has testified about chats Valle participated in last year with a New Jersey co-defendant and two co-conspirators: a man in Great Britain and Khan, both of whom posed on the Internet as veterans of cannibalism who could teach Valle the skills he would need. New York City police officer Gilberto Valle and his estranged wife, Kathleen Mangan-Valle. Picture: Facebook In several emails read by Walsh, Valle seemed eager to make the woman he would marry a few months later an offering of sorts to Khan, though he added: "She is a sweet girl. I like her a lot. But I will move on." Valle wrote that he could talk her into going on a trip to India before they took her to Pakistan, where they could gag her and take her to a basement, where they could hang her from her feet and take turns sexually assaulting her before slitting her throat and cooking her. "I just love the thought of stringing her upside down," Valle wrote in an email displayed to the jury. He also said he would like "to see her suffer" and "slowly roast her until she dies." In a later email, Khan taunted Valle for failing to deliver a woman - "Are you really into it?" he asked. "Yes," Valle answered. Kathleen Mangan hides her face as she is driven from federal court in New York after giving testimony against herestranged husband, New York City police officer Gilbert Valle. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) "Are you sure?" Khan asked. "Definitely," Valle said. Khan, apparently pleased with the response, said: "Get your mind ready. I will guide the rest." As the instant messages progressed over a series of weeks, Valle began discussing plans to attack a 27-year-old Ohio woman he knew in college. "I want her to experience being cooked alive," he said in one exchange. "She'll be trussed up like a turkey.... She'll be terrified, screaming and crying." He wrote that her death would "definitely make the news" and there will be "plenty of suspects" because she is a prosecutor. The woman, Andria Noble, testified Tuesday (AEST) that she never knew Valle to be violent when they were at the University of Maryland together. Under cross examination, defence attorney Robert Baum attacked the FBI agent's statement that 40 of the thousands of Internet communications of Valle that he reviewed contained "elements of real crimes." Baum aimed to show little or no distinction existed between chats or emails the FBI deemed real evidence of a crime and those dismissed as fantasy. The agent conceded both had similar elements: Valle discussing how to cook women, how much it would cost to abduct them and which women would make good targets. Walsh, the agent, conceded that some chats or emails considered fantasies contained photographs and names of real women and dates and references to past crimes, the kind of factual information that prosecutors have insisted proves Valle meant to carry out gruesome crimes including kidnapping, rape, torture, murder and cannibalism. The agent also conceded that no women were kidnapped or harmed and that Valle never had contact with his supposed co-conspirators outside the Internet.
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Stef Dusseldorp (born 27 September 1989 in Winterswijk, Gelderland) is a Dutch racing driver. He started a career in formula cars in 2007, having competed in series such as Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup (5th in 2008) and the German Formula Three Championship (2nd in 2009, 4th in 2010). Dusseldorp switched to the FIA GT1 World Championship for 2011, where he finished 7th driving an Aston Martin DBR9 for Hexis Racing together with Clivio Piccione, collecting a win and four podiums. In 2012, he and Frédéric Makowiecki collected five wins and resulted vice-champion, now driving a McLaren MP4-12C. The driver switched to the Blancpain Endurance Series for 2013, continuing as a Hexis driver. ==Complete GT1 World Championship results==
Season in progress. ==References==
==External links==
1989 births
Living people
People from Winterswijk
Dutch racing drivers
Formula Renault 2.0 NEC drivers
Italian Formula Renault 2.0 drivers
German Formula Three Championship drivers
FIA GT1 World Championship drivers
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The fascination of Kill the Referee is that it's an unmediated view of refs. We see and hear them before matches, when many of them look so nervous that you think they're about to throw up; we see them on the pitch, during half-time and when they're being debriefed by UEFA officials. We know they are aware that their every decision is being pored over around the world and that an error can change their lives. There is nothing contrived about the refs' behaviour. They've got more on their minds than trying to look good for the film-makers. "I was there [at Euro 2008] for four weeks. The first week, I wasn't used to the camera. I'd say: it's the camera, the camera again," Frojdfeldt recalls. "For the last three weeks, you didn't recognise it." The film-makers reveal the contradictions in top referees' professional lives. These are men not without their vanities. They like to be centre stage. During Euro 2008, they were all vying to be put in charge of the final. At the same time, they realise that if they're conspicuous, it will inevitably mean that they are having a bad match. There is a tension at the heart of Kill the Referee. UEFA wanted a documentary that would perform what Roberto Rosetti calls "a sympathy operation" on referees. The film-makers' agenda was more complex. They were looking for colour and incident. That's why Webb was so pivotal to the film. When Webb gave a penalty against Poland in the dying minutes of a Euro 2008 group match against Austria, the Poles reacted with fury. "Fucking disgrace... English referee!" was the response from the Polish officials. The Polish Prime Minister even suggested that he would like to kill Webb. The incident provided the documentary with the narrative spark it needed. All of a sudden, this was an embroiled human story. Hinant says that the Yorkshireman was his favourite character among the Euro 2008 refs and likens him to someone in a Ken Loach movie. "He's a great guy and he's a tough guy." You can see why he warmed to Webb. The former police officer is a personable and articulate whistleblower with a very British understatement and just a hint of Brian Glover about him. He was very open. Unlike Rosetti, he was prepared to be filmed at even the most fraught moments. It helped, too, that Webb's father was such a compelling screen figure: a bluntly spoken Yorkshireman who is immensely proud of his son and was perplexed by the brickbats that came Howard's way in the wake of that fateful Poland match. "It was an interesting experience," Webb tells me of his rollercoaster ride at Euro 2008. "We did have that incident in the Poland game that obviously impacted on my family as well due to the reaction of some people." It takes a moment to realise that he is referring to a period in which the entire Polish nation, from emigres in the UK to top politicians in Warsaw, seemed ready to lynch him. "The overriding memory of Euro 2008 is of a positive experience - a somewhat challenging one, I guess, but a positive one overall." Ask Webb how he reacts when he has nearly 60,000 people chanting that he's not fit to referee - as happened at the Emirates last December when Arsenal were playing Liverpool and he mysteriously sent off Arsenal's then player Emmanuel Adebayor - and he suggests it's all in the line of duty. "You learn to accept that sometimes that will happen... I know that the abuse I get is not personal. The comments are directed at my position as a referee. Quite often that abuse is totally unfounded. It's about a decision that might be a totally correct one." Webb acknowledges that his background as a policeman has helped him. "If you look at the number of referees who come from policing backgrounds or teaching backgrounds, they're the type of occupations where you are interacting with people all the time. In a different sphere, of course, the way that people behave on the field of play is not dissimilar to the way someone might behave on a Saturday night when tensions are running high. As a policeman or a referee, you have to very quickly analyse what is happening and what you are going to do about it. You have to stay calm under pressure." Webb's remarks are instructive. The referees at the film's premiere often sounded like Zen philosophers as they pondered their profession. Peter Frojdfeldt told me that before the England vs Croatia game in 2007, he blocked the importance of the match out of his mind. "If you go in thinking it [the match] is worth a lot of money to the FA, you'd be crazy. I have a mental preparation. I didn't write in my book that it was England against Croatia. It was a white team against a blue team... it's just 11 against 11."
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Just as baffling as the Iowa corn ads - at least to the uninitiated - were some commercials Colbert produced taking the side of the owners during the recent N.B.A. lockout. These were also sponsored by Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but they were "made possible," according to the voice-over, by Colbert Super PAC SHH Institute. Super PAC SHH (as in "hush") is Colbert's 501 (c) (4). He has one of those too - an organization that can accept unlimited amounts of money from corporations without disclosing their names and can then give that money to a regular PAC, which would otherwise be required to report corporate donations. "What's the difference between that and money laundering?" Colbert said to me delightedly. Charles McGrath is a writer at large for The Times. His most recent article for the magazine was about the novelist Nicholson Baker. Editor: Dean Robinson
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Soon after, he feels his mind outshoot “naked frailty” and his senses wavering “dim.” Due to his “naked frailty,” the speaker is reminded of his own mortality. So he pokes the groundhog with “loathing” and a “angry stick.” His frailty is “naked” because he is sincerely afraid of dying and his sense becomes “dim” because he is overwhelmed by anguish and despair. He becomes indignant as nature shows no remorse for the groundhog’s death. He believes nature to be “ferocious.“ This indignation is seen as he notices the “maggots’ might” on the groundhog while the sun shines with “Vigour“ and “immense energy.” He capitalize vigour to state that the nature is cruel to those who die. As he leaves the groundhog, the speaker prays on his knees to find “joy in the sight of decay.” This shows that the speaker views decay and nature as cruel and merciless. In Autumn, the speaker returns to the groundhog. He notices the groundhog’s sap has “gone out” and its “bony sodden hulk” remains. However, his emotions and perceptions towards death have changed since June. As the weather in Autumn is benign, he does not despise nature for being “ferocious” towards death. Everything the speaker has felt in June “had lost its meaning.” The speaker says the groundhog’s sap has “gone out” because the speaker’s anguish and despair have also “gone out.” Thus, the speaker loses his “loathing” for death as he has become “Mured up in the wall of wisdom.” The speaker is beginning to mature emotionally. During the next summer, the speaker returns to the groundhog. He sees “only a little hair” and “bones bleaching in the sunlight.” By now he has changed completely since his first visit. He does not experience anguish, melancholy, or despair at the sight of the groundhog. Watching the groundhog’s bones as if it was “architecture” or a “geometer,” the speaker finally begins to see the beauty in nature and decay. The speaker visits the groundhog the following summer. He sees “no sign of the groundhog” in the “whirling summer.” As he is indifferent to the annihilation of the groundhog‘s existence, nature is not merciless or cruel to suffering, but it is just indifferent. Then he feels his “withered heart” and think of Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great, Michel de Montaigne, and Saint Theresa. He realizes that no amount of money, power, faith, or fame can stop one’s fate to die and decay. The speaker in “The Groundhog” is a man who experience extraordinary change. His “senses shook” and could only think about his mortality as he first saw the decaying groundhog. But as time passes by, he matures emotionally and his views on decay changes dramatically. He is fully able to understand the inevitability of decay. He realizes that everything one lives for will eventually die and decay. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Canadiancofee (talk • contribs). ==Disputed fair use rationale for Image:1102824.jpg==
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== hus, Gatsby has decorated his home with expensive and priceless decorations. However, he is “gaudy” as the primary colors are red, green, and yellow. His home is not sophisticated, but it’s like an amusement park.
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Lawmakers (some of them) have student loans too (MoneyWatch) Among the millions of Americans who are still paying off college loan debt are 46 members of Congress, who owe somewhere between $1.8 million and $4.3 million. Five U.S. senators and 41 members of the House of Representatives are paying off student loans, according to an investigation by the Center for Responsive Politics, which is a nonpartisan research group that tracks money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. The amounts are given in ranges because lawmakers only must divulge such broad indications of their finances. The lawmaker who owes the most money -- somewhere between $155,001 and $300,000 is freshman Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA), a physician who has earned three degrees after getting his bachelor's degree from UCLA. Ruiz, who beat Republican Mary Bono, the widow of Sonny Bono, in the November general election, has a medical degree and two other graduate degrees from Harvard University. Much of the borrowing appears to be for the politicians' own college education though some of the debt is for spouses or children. Top 10 student loan debtors in Congress In Congress, all of the biggest borrowers are representatives: Rep. Raul Ruiz (D) $115,002 - $300,000 Rep. James Bridenstine (R) $100,001 - $250,000 Rep. John Carter (R) $100,001 - $250,000 Rep. Grace Meng (D) $100,001 - $250,000 Rep. Tom Rooney (R) $100,001 - $250,000 Rep. Kevin Yoder (R) $80,003 - $200,000 Rep. Louis B. Gohmert Jr. (R) $70,001 - $130,000 Rep. Pedro Pierluisi (D) $65,002 - $150,000 Rep. Tom McClintock (R) $60,001 - $115,000 Rep. Gerry Connolly (D) $55,003 - $165,000 5 U.S. senators who owe student debt Mike Lee (R) $10,000 - $15,000 Angus King (I) $15,001 - $50,000 Elizabeth Warren (D) $15,001 - $50,000 Christopher Murphy (D) $15,001 - $50,000 (And same debt range for his wife) Tammy Duckworth (D) $50,001 - $100,000 Congress and student debt It's a good development for the country that some members of Congress, who as a whole are wealthier than most Americans, are repaying student debt. Two new senators -- Elizabeth Warren and Christopher Murphy -- will serve on the Senate Education Committee, which last year had no student debtors on the panel. With more firsthand experience repaying student debt, Congress may be more likely to look favorably at remedies that address the growing student debt level that now exceeds credit cards.
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Buffett donates $1.5 billion to Gates Foundation
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investor Warren Buffett has donated another $1.5 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, part of his plan that began in 2006 to donate 99 percent of his wealth. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Buffett donated on Thursday 19.34 million Class B shares of his insurance and investment company Berkshire Hathaway Inc to the Gates Foundation. The B shares closed up $1.25 at $77.77, while Berkshire Class A shares closed up $1,840 at $116,640. Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft Corp and a Berkshire director, and his wife Melinda created the Gates Foundation to address education, health and poverty problems. Buffett, 80, annually donates smaller sums at about the same time of year to four family charities. These include the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named for Buffett's late first wife, and foundations for their children Howard, Peter and Susan. Berkshire was not able to immediately provide further information about these donations, which are typically disclosed in SEC filings. Buffett is the world's third-richest person, with a $50 billion net worth, Forbes magazine said in March. The Gates Foundation said it employs 927 people, spent $2.6 billion last year, and has a $37.1 billion endowment. Buffett expects the foundation to spend his gifts, which have totaled roughly $9.5 billion. The number of shares that Buffett donates declines by 5 percent each year. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel; editing by Andre Grenon)
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'Outcasts': Television review - latimes.com We could take it as a compliment. On Saturday, BBC America debuts the failed British sci-fi series "Outcasts" in the odd but not unappreciated hope that the non-action-filled, post-apocalyptic drama will not bore Americans as much as it did the Brits. Anything's possible, I suppose. "Ugly Betty" fans will be happy to see Eric Mabius as a creepy quasi guru, and there appears, at times, a far-off glimmer of "Battlestar Galactica," if only in that flat metallic light so popular with interior sci-fi shots. But even accounting for the expositional demands of the pilot, a few episodes in one can't help but feel that creator Ben Richards is, for reasons of his own, forcing a perfectly well-conceived show to talk itself to death. Set in 2040, "Outcasts" begins 10 years after a group of pioneering humans have fled Earth to establish the settlement Forthaven on the planet Carpathia (named for the vessel that picked up many of the Titanic survivors.) As Forthaven President Richard Tate (Liam Cunningham) makes contact with one of the long-awaited transports from Earth, expeditionary Mitchell Hoban (Jamie Bamber) returns home. Clearly dissatisfied with the way things are trending - there has been a weapons ban among other things - Hoban, a former hero, plans to take his wife and young son, as well as a group of similarly minded people, and start a new colony. Which is pretty bad timing for Tate, as he waits for what may be the last shipment of humans, including the daughter of Stella Isen (Hermione Norris), the very tense though apparently brilliant woman who heads up the Protection and Security Team (PAS). Nothing goes as planned, of course, and Tate and Isen must come to terms with their personal losses, past mistakes (i.e. vengeful clones) and the arrival of one Julius Berger (Mabius) who has gained quite a following on the transport despite the fact that he is quite obviously a mad-eyed psychopath. You would think that these ingredients, with the addition of Fleur (Amy Manson) as the lovely young idealist, her pragmatic colleague Cass (Daniel Mays) and a few other well-cast if rather stock characters, would keep things interesting - there's even a clone baby! But before anything can happen, Richards feels the need to have several scenes in which two of his characters talk to each other at great length in urgent tones and that quickly becomes a real drag. This is not a David Mamet play, this is a sci-fi drama. These folks are misfit colonists on a planet that, as they keep telling us, they have only begun to understand; surely they have something better to do all day than chat about all the things that have happened, could happen and should happen. I know I do.
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Weatherford to cut debt by up to $5 billion in two years By Braden Reddall Tue Nov 5, 2013 12:05pm EST (Reuters) - Weatherford International (WFT.N) will cut its debt by up to $5 billion in the next two years as it boosts cash flow and divests assets, the oilfield services company's CEO said on Tuesday. Buoyed by higher-than-expected quarterly earnings on Monday and the announcement that day of a settlement of U.S. investigations that go back six years, shares of Weatherford hit their highest since March 2012. Chief Executive Officer Bernard Duroc-Danner said he expected Weatherford's debt level to drop by between $3 billion and $5 billion by the end of 2015. Net debt now stands at $9 billion. The company, the smallest of the sector's big four, will tighten its focus by divesting businesses with a combined $3.5 billion in revenue. These include its land-rig contracting unit via a potential initial public offering in the fourth quarter of 2014. The unit, with 183 drilling rigs, 284 workover rigs and 14,000 employees, will generate 2014 revenue of $1.8 billion to $2 billion and earnings of $350 million to $400 million before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, Weatherford said. "Rigs as a product line aren't a required component of our strategy anymore," Duroc-Danner said on a conference call. "The rigs have tremendous potential in their own rights. (The unit) has strong presence in all of the key markets of the Eastern Hemisphere where activity over the next 10 years will thrive." Other units to go are wellheads, drilling fluids, pipeline and specialty services, and testing and production services. But the company will stay in pressure pumping, a key part of the hydraulic fracturing boom. It ranks eighth in North America by pumping horsepower, but Duroc-Danner does not plan to buy any of the extra capacity that has left the market glutted. "I don't believe in consolidation in pressure pumping because the barriers to entry are too low," he said. The settled U.S. government charges include Foreign Corrupt Practices Act breaches, violations in the Iraq oil-for-food program, and work in sanctioned countries. Weatherford stuck with estimates of total fines of $253 million, and Duroc-Danner said if the deals are approved by the courts and regulator, the final announcement could come in four to six weeks. Weatherford shares were 2.5 percent higher at $16.87 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Analysts also welcomed the arrival of the company's new chief financial officer, Krishna Shivram, who joins from oilfield service industry leader Schlumberger Ltd (SLB.N). Also, Chief Administrative Officer Dharmesh Mehta will be promoted to chief operating officer with the retirement next month of Peter Fontana, the current COO. (Reporting by Braden Reddall in San Francisco; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
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The Hearts of Athletes (1 Letter) To the Editor: Re "Focus on Heart Deaths in Student-Athletes" (Vital Signs, April 12): Physicals that rely on stethoscope, personal and family history do not adequately identify many whose lives are at risk for sudden cardiac arrest. Most athletes who die on the field have experienced no symptoms prior to their death. Communities should insist on automated external defibrillators (A.E.D."s), CPR/A.E.D. training and emergency response plans wherever youth play. We have the tools and technology available to save young lives. We should be using them, or live with the fact that kids will continue to die while we debate whether they're worth saving. Michele Snyder Northbrook, Ill. Science Times welcomes letters from readers. Those submitted for publication must include the writer's name, address and telephone number. E-mail should be sent to [email protected]. Send letters to Science Editor, The New York Times, 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018.
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Archival of Wikipedia:Recent additions to a subpage is done by moving approximately the oldest 50 edits of the main page (a picture item still needs to be on top). Hope this makes things somewhat clearer. - Mgm|(talk) 12:52, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
Oldest edits are being... at the bottom or the top? I can write a bot so that there are exactly 50 did you know lines (including pictures) and continuously archive any excess lines into the approprate archive. The assumption that I will have to make is that the related (if any) image preceeds the did you know line. Oldest items are at the bottom. ay between the sandbot's initial page get and the time it takes to correct the header. It just so happened that in the rare moment, you posted new content while the sandbot was doing its header re-enforcement check. == Did you know archival bot ==
Can you explain the DYK process more clearly? Like, tell me clearly the step by step process you take to move content to the archive pages? Did you know has a header "ARCHIVE USED SUGGESTIONS HERE" under which used suggestions are bulleted and included in reverse chronological order in blocks of items which where featured together. The top of this items is followed by a link of the picture that was used in the update should be added to this block of items in Recent additions. In contrast to this section, Recent additions items are not bulleted. To compare coding of the sections, please check the edit history as that explains it far better than I do. Archival of Wikipedia:Recent additions to a subpage is done by moving approximately the oldest 50 edits of the main page (a picture item still needs to be on top). Hope this makes things somewhat clearer. - Mgm|(talk) 12:52, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
Oldest edits are being... at the bottom or the top? I can write a bot so that there are exactly 50 did you know lines (including pictures) and continuously archive any excess lines into the approprate archive. The assumption that I will have to make is that the related (if any) image preceeds the did you know line. Oldest items are at the bottom. y between the sandbot's initial page get and the time it takes to correct the header. It just so happened that in the rare moment, you posted new content while the sandbot was doing its header re-enforcement check. == Did you know archival bot ==
Can you explain the DYK process more clearly? Like, tell me clearly the step by step process you take to move content to the archive pages? Did you know has a header "ARCHIVE USED SUGGESTIONS HERE" under which used suggestions are bulleted and included in reverse chronological order in blocks of items which where featured together. The top of this items is followed by a link of the picture that was used in the update should be added to this block of items in Recent additions. In contrast to this section, Recent additions items are not bulleted. To compare coding of the sections, please check the edit history as that explains it far better than I do. Archival of Wikipedia:Recent additions to a subpage is done by moving approximately the oldest 50 edits of the main page (a picture item still needs to be on top). Hope this makes things somewhat clearer. - Mgm|(talk) 12:52, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
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[09:00:09] Neil Hume: The Privat Group, or Privatbank Group (Ukrainian: Група "Приват") is an influential business group in Ukraine grouped around the Privatbank. The group is controlled by the Ukrainian businessmen Henadiy Boholyubov, Oleksiy Martynov, and Ihor Kolomoysky (the latter being the leading partner, best known to public). Privat Group controls steel, oil, chemical, energy and food industry companies in Ukraine, Russia, Romania and the United States. Most businesses of the group (including Privatbank itself) are based in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, which is regarded as its "homeland." Being a business oligarch entity, Privat Group controls several Ukrainian media, maintains close relations with politicians and sponsors professional sports.
that's from wikipedia
so, this company bascially controls the Ukraine
or large chunks of it
just the sort of thing that should be listed on the main market in London
Do please stop the bickering below - otherwise I am going to hand out some one week suspensions
And Finley's got a point - FHMville
shall we have a quick look at Unilever
biggest riser in the FTSE 100 at the moment
actually make that the former best riser in the FTSE 100 Legal and General Group (LGEN:LSE): Last: 72.90, up 7.5 (+11.47%), High: 74.40, Low: 67.50, Volume: 39.27m
anyback to consumer goods, with an Anglo Dutch flavour Unilever (ULVR:LSE): Last: 1,434, up 120 (+9.13%), High: 1,438, Low: 1,368, Volume: 5.09m
for once it is has beaten forecasts
which is slightly ironic because the new CEO
the guy they brought in from Nestle
yeah, Paul Polman, is going to do away with them
see the story in today's paper
anyway brokers are saying this is a Unilever in a "shock profit beat scandal"
and here's how it managed that
only skimmed through the statement but by the looks of things
(Tolstoi - hadnt realised that had happened. Will investigate)
volumes have come in a bit stronger than expected - q1 LFL 4.8%, margins are a little bit better than expected -30bps vs cons -50bps in spite of raw material pain.
and most of the gains have come from a decent performance in emerging markets and an improving trends in the US that has helped Unilever
have a few bits of analyst comment that may help explain things further
As anticipated, Unilever reported a poor set of Q1 results with negative volumes in all regions including Western Europe, Americas, and Asia/ Africa/ Central & Eastern Europe, and pressure on margins (down 30 basis points). "We will further step up innovation and brand support from the Q2 and expect this to drive an improved volume performance. This will be achieved while protecting cash and margins for the year." The market was primed for disappointment particularly following February's announcement of no guidance for 2009E and the removal of targets for 2010E. Ahead of this morning's conference call, we do not envisage any material changes to our forecasts. The stock has underperformed the food sector by 7% and the market by 16%, since the beginning of January. It has been the worst performing stock in large-cap food. We maintain our UNDERPERFORM rating.
Overall a decent set of results relative to expectations. We would expect the stock to be up this morning on support that strategy is beginning to work, with hints of higher A&P spend to improve volumes. Some of this though is likely to be tempered by Polman's apparent reluctance to provide guidance on a longer term basis. Numbers +2% higher than our forecast at the EBIT level, though 6% below at the EPS level (higher financing costs predominantly).Little change to EBIT estimates at this stage, some down ward pressure on EPS.
Unilever's Q1 headlines are better than expected. Organic sales growth of 4.8%
is ahead of our 2.2% forecast and the consensus of 4.1%. In addition, consensus
seemed to have moved lower in the last week or so, as Bloomberg's published
figure yesterday was 3.1%.
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Cover story: Why we can't stop watching Charlie Sheen, shown here leaving court in March 2010, was outspoken Monday during appearances on ABC, NBC and TMZ.
Charlie Sheen has been making the rounds and speaking out Book author says Sheen currently lacks a strong support system to step in and help Media critic says he worries that Sheen is being allowed a national stage (CNN) -- In 24 hours, actor Charlie Sheen managed a marathon of appearances that kept viewers enthralled. The troubled "Two and a Half Men" star was interviewed early Monday on "Good Morning America" and "Today," and later on TMZ's live webcast, talk radio program "Loose Cannons" and CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight." The next day, he chatted on Howard Stern's radio show. He's also on the cover of the new People magazine. During the interviews, the actor let loose a number of very quotable comments, saying that he's not bipolar but "bi-winning," that he "was bangin' seven-gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll," and that producers of his hit show "picked a fight with a warlock." The common consensus quickly became that Sheen may well have issues beyond the current hiatus of his hit CBS sitcom. Yet as uncomfortable as some of the moments may have felt for fans, Sheen's appearances made for compelling television that many of us couldn't turn away from. "It's seeing somebody that has more than us, having less than us," said Dr. Lillian Glass, author of the book "Toxic Men." "We are watching this, and you feel like 'Hey, I may not have the millions, but I've got my act together.' " Dr. Drew Pinsky, whose new show premieres on HLN on April 4, told CNN's Piers Morgan in an earlier interview that he believes Sheen's issues have moved beyond substance abuse. "The problem with him now is he's getting so impaired psychiatrically that eventually -- provided he doesn't get really medically ill or harm himself or somebody else and the legal system step in -- eventually, the psychiatric system is going to step in," Pinsky said. Reacting to similar comments by Pinsky, Sheen told Piers Morgan "To like have a prognosis about somebody you've never been in the same room with, based on his image in a media setting? He should be ashamed of himself...got to dismiss these clowns. " It's not as if this type of very public unraveling hasn't been seen before. Celebrity meltdowns are as old as Hollywood, and in the age of the 24-hour news cycle, the events are more buzzed about than ever. Names like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan have become almost synonymous with the concept of troubled stars enduring very personal hardships very publicly. But Glass said that unlike those young celebs, Sheen appears to currently lack a support system that could step in and help him. Consequently, she said, Sheen is out there in full glory -- appearing gaunt and speaking angrily against many, from his show's creator to the media. "When Britney Spears was having a meltdown, she had this great family support that was behind her," Glass said. "But when your team abandons you like [his publicist], like your producer. CBS is making millions and millions, so it would be in their best interest to keep him, but they can't because he is so out of control." Sheen's publicist, Stan Rosenfield, resigned Monday after his client's many appearances. "I have worked with Charlie Sheen for a long time and I care about him very much," Rosenfield said in a statement. "However, at this time, I'm unable to work effectively as his publicist and have respectfully resigned." For years, the actor has been a darling of the tabloids for his colorful lifestyle: There have been marital breakups, rehab stints and public admissions of dalliances with prostitutes, which initially came to light in a high-profile trial involving accused Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss in 1995. In October 2010, police were called to a New York City hotel where a porn actress was found locked in Sheen's hotel bathroom. Sheen was transported to the hospital for what his publicist called an "adverse allergic reaction." A few months later, production on his show was halted as Sheen began an at-home treatment program. On February 14, Sheen said on the syndicated radio program "The Dan Patrick Show" that people should avoid crack unless they can "manage it socially." About 10 days later, he told the "Loose Cannons" radio show that he was at war with the creators and producers of his hit CBS sitcom. But his more recent appearances have ratcheted the Sheen machine to another level.
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Justice Adam Leak (born September 1, 1979) is an American film, television and stage actor best known for his portrayal of Harland Osbourne in the 2007 film The Great Debaters. ==Biography==
===Early life===
Leak was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama by parents George, a police officer, and Doris, a middle school teacher. He attended Montgomery's Jefferson Davis High School and says he was very shy until he was chosen to lead the school's marching band as a drum major, which he cites as being "the beginning point for coming out of [his shell". He studied at a Texas university, but later transferred to Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama to study mass communication; when the communications program became low on funding, he changed his major to theatre arts. At Auburn's drama department, he was helping a student practicing her lines for an audition for The Crucible when the stage director approached Leak and told him that he should audition himself as he would suit one of the lead roles. He won the university's "Best Actor" award and was nominated for two Irene Ryan Awards for his numerous performances. ===Career===
After obtaining his degree from Auburn University, Leak relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. He was signed to an agency which landed him a number of roles in commercials (such as for Verizon Wireless), television shows and independent films. He appeared in films such as Stroke of Genius, The Cure and Watermelon Honey, and television shows such as K-Ville, Moonlight and Women's Murder Club, which he described as his "training ground" for becoming a professional actor. His agent sent Leak's résumé to the producers of The Great Debaters. When he met Denzel Washington, the director and also an actor in The Great Debaters, in a follow-up callback audition, Leak says "It was one of those moments. I knew my life was about to change." He was given the role of Harland Osbourne, the Harvard University liaison who receives the Wiley College debate team. When he accepted the role in May 2007, he ended his acting stint on Atlanta's longest-running play, Peachtree Battle. Leak appears in the 2008 film Balancing the Books, and stars in the 2012 film Implanted, which he completed before The Great Debaters and which he is most proud of. ===Personal life===
Leak and his older sister Liberty were named for their father's love of the criminal justice system. He is trained in ballet, jazz dance, videography and drum-playing. ==References==
==External links==
1979 births
Living people
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male stage actors
Auburn University alumni
Male actors from Montgomery, Alabama
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FBI's secret files on Marilyn Monroe On The Road: Asking strangers for a kidney As part of our continuing series "On The Road," Steve Hartman visits Larry Swilling in Anderson, S.C., who has been asking complete strangers to donate one of their kidneys in order to save his wife of the last 56 years.
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Foxconn plans to expand manufacturing to U.S. Americans may see more electronics with the stamp "Made in the U.S.A." Electronics manufacture Foxconn says that it is planning to expand to the United States because of customer demand for products made in America, Bloomberg reports. "We are looking at doing more manufacturing in the U.S. because, in general, customers want more to be done there," Foxconn spokesman Louis Woo told Bloomberg. 14 Photos Inside Foxconn, where Apple iPads, iPhones are made Foxconn manufactures about half of the world's electronics, for clients like Apple, Samsung and Microsoft, and has been at the center of controversy over working conditions and labor violations. Part of the reason for opening a factory in the U.S is proximity, Bloomberg reports. Foxconn would be able to save on shipping time and costs. Foxconn did not release any specifics or comment on possible clients. Nor is there a timeline of when the factories might open. Foxconn's news comes on the heels of Apple CEO Tim Cook saying the company would manufacture a line of Macintosh computers in the U.S. in 2013. However, critics were quick to point out that Apple's Mac line is the smallest of its core product lines, which include the iPhone, iPad and iPod. "Apple sold 18 million Macs in the past four quarters, compared to 125 million iPhones," CNN Money's David Goldman reports. But the return of manufacturing jobs to the U.S. could be a sign of things to come. And if Apple is successful with its Mac line, an argument could be made that the company could inspire the tech industry to follow its lead. A recent report in the Atlantic suggests that outsourcing may not be as cost-effective as it once was, due to the rising of wages in China and increase in shipping costs. Foxconn is one of the world's largest employers. According to Businessweek, the company employs 1.6 million people worldwide.
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Fiona Mollison (born 9 January 1954
in Java, Indonesia) is a British television and theatre actress. Her father managed a rubber company in British Malaya, and sent Fiona to England to a boarding school. She attended Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts to learn ballet, but then switched to Central School of Speech and Drama to studying acting instead. Early in her career she appeared in 22 episodes of Strangers as WDC Vanessa Bennett. In 2000–2001 she played Victoria Hutchinson on the soap opera Hollyoaks. Mollison also has appeared on episodes of Lytton's Diary (as Catherine Lytton), On the Up (as Jane Webster), As Time Goes By (as Sally Curtis), Hollyoaks, Hazell, Boon, Minder, The Bill,
Inspector Morse (in "Last Seen Wearing"), Trial & Retribution (in "Siren"), and Midsomer Murders. ==Family==
Mollison is married to the director David Gilmore. She met Gilmore when she got a part in a play he was directing, Move Over Mrs Markham, where she played the au-pair. They have three sons, Charles, George and Edward, and live in Wimbledon, London, England. They also have a house in France, and she enjoys yoga and interior design in her spare time. ==References==
1954 births
British stage actresses
British television actresses
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Obama: Process 'ugly,' reform will pass WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday said he is confident Congress will pass healthcare reform legislation, but he conceded the process is "ugly." In an interview with Fox News Channel, Obama said he was confident of passage "because it's the right thing to do." The president said the debate on healthcare "ends up being a little frustrating because the focus entirely is on Washington process." "And yes, I have said that is an ugly process," Obama said. "It was ugly when Republicans were in charge, it was ugly when in Democrats were in charge." Asked whether he was concerned his presidency might suffer if the measure doesn't pass, Obama said, "Well, if it doesn't pass, I'm more concerned about what it does to families out there who right now are getting crushed by rising healthcare costs and small businesses who were having to make a decision, 'Do I hire or do I fix healthcare?'" Many opponents of reform under consideration in Washington argue it will mean a government takeover of one-sixth of the U.S. economy. Obama said "this is one-sixth of the economy that right now is a huge drag on the economy" and said the legislation would fix that problem "in a way that is sensible, that is centrist." Administration officials have called Fox News Channel an arm of the Republican Party. Fox officials defended its news department, taking great effort to draw distinctions between its reporters and its stable of political commentators, The New York Times said Wednesday. During a news briefing Tuesday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was asked whether Obama's appearance on Fox would change any minds about the healthcare debate raging in Washington. He said it was "certainly worth a shot."
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Stanford and Cornell Favored for N.Y. Engineering School With less than two weeks left to apply in the competition for $400 million in land and subsidies to build a science and engineering graduate school in New York City, some of the world's great universities continue to change plans and jockey for position, and there is a growing view among them that Cornell and Stanford have emerged as the favorites. City officials discourage the idea that there are any front-runners, but the president of Stanford, John L. Hennessy, says bluntly that his school and Cornell - both seeking the same piece of city-owned land on Roosevelt Island - have the best chances, and officials at some of the competing institutions privately agree. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has roiled the field by suggesting lately that he might anoint by year's end not one winner but two, which has bolstered the hopes of Columbia and New York University, which are both seeking to expand without using the free land the city has offered. But university administrators say they are unsure whether the talk of multiple winners might mean approving two proposals for two separate sites, or forcing a shotgun marriage between competing institutions, and city officials will not say. With Cornell emphasizing its connections to the city, including its medical school on the Upper East Side, Stanford last week announced an affiliation with City College of New York, and dropped a proposed alliance with City College's parent, City University of New York. N.Y.U. said the coalition it is leading - including CUNY and several other institutions - wants to build on land in downtown Brooklyn that is not among the sites the city has offered. People briefed on the universities" plans, whose cost estimates exceed $1 billion in some cases, speculate that one or more of the contenders will try to improve their standing by forgoing the city's offer of up to $100 million to upgrade roads, water and power supplies, offering to pay those costs themselves. Stanford and Cornell, both rated among the best in the country in computer science and engineering, have been the most aggressive contenders, hiring public relations and political consultants to press their cases with city officials and journalists. David J. Skorton, Cornell's president and a physician, and Mr. Hennessy, an electrical engineer, have devoted significant time and effort to personally shaping their proposals and selling them to alumni, faculty, business leaders, government officials and donors. Each has labeled the new campus one of his university's top priorities for the next generation. "I think if we're not going to do this to the hilt, we shouldn't do it," Dr. Skorton said. "This is the future of our university." Both Stanford and Cornell plan to submit proposals by the Oct. 28 deadline that are significantly bigger than plans they outlined earlier this year - approaching two million square feet of classrooms, laboratories and housing to be built over the next generation. "If Stanford and Cornell are prepared to develop two million square feet that don't exist now or aren't already in the works, and that's the criterion, they may be the only ones," said John E. Sexton, president of N.Y.U. "It may well be if the question is drawn that narrowly, then Stanford and Cornell are the only two players." Stanford proposes to replicate the role it has played in the growth of Silicon Valley, as an incubator of high-tech talent, innovation and business. "We know how to get young people involved in start-ups," said Mr. Hennessy, whose campus has spawned Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, Yahoo, Google and countless smaller tech companies. "Cornell's disadvantage is all its start-ups put together are smaller than Google." Cornell's plans are more tailored to New York's particular economy, with four hubs: technology for cleaner and more efficient building; information science and engineering for health care; social mobile networking, particularly in fields like media and advertising; and what it calls "intelligent trustworthy systems," which include areas like cloud computing and information security. The rules of the competition offer points for working with local institutions. Officials of Stanford said last week that it was not entering a partnership with City College but would channel top engineering students from there to the new campus. Some competitors suggested that this would not be a substantial enough affiliation to satisfy the judges of the competition or the City Council, which will have to approve some aspects of the winning plan.
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Shean identified the dead as the grandfather and uncle of one of the special needs children, an 11-year-old autistic boy. His 9-year-old sister, who was not special needs, also was on board, Shean said. He did not know the identities of the other passengers or their relationship to the two deceased men. That account conflicts with initial information from authorities, who said the two special needs passengers were young adults and not the children. The police also listed the age of the girl as 10, not 9, and said both children were wearing life jackets. The discrepancies could not be immediately resolved. Sailing is good therapy for special needs children, Shean said, and parents often report changes in their children after a trip. "It really is therapy for these kids. We've heard reports that they become more outgoing, that it improves their mood, it has improved their motor coordination," he told the AP. "These are reports from the people that know these children the best." Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. More from US news
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The trajectory of Reagan's disapproval ratings in his second year paralleled the trend in joblessness - the unemployment rate rose to 10.8 percent by the end of 1982. In April 1981, the public favored Republicans over Democrats as the party "best for prosperity" by a 41 percent to 28 percent margin. By June 1982, the Democrats led on this key measure 43 percent to 34 percent, and this was ultimately reflected in the outcome of the mid-term elections. The G.O.P. lost 26 seats in the House. Fortunately for Reagan, by November 1984 unemployment had receded to 7.2 percent, inflation had dropped below 4 percent and his approval rating was close to 60 percent. Declaring a new "morning in America," he won re-election in a landslide. Yet absent the economic turnaround, both the slogan and election outcome would have been very much in doubt. From this vantage point, the most important lesson for Barack Obama is that the public will be patient with their new leader in his dealing with an inherited problem - as long as things do not get substantially worse on his watch. The jury is still out on Mr. Obama. Pew Research's April survey finds that most Americans (53 percent) believe that his economic policies had not yet affected economic conditions. Twenty-six percent say they have made conditions better, while 16 percent say they made things worse. But with many economists predicting further rises in unemployment and a slow recovery, President Obama, like Reagan, may find the public's patience wearing thin, with predictable consequences at the mid-term elections and perhaps beyond. Andrew Kohut is the president of the Pew Research Center.
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Risk necessary for scientific progress, says AC Grayling By Richard Savill
Published: 7:21PM BST 10 Jul 2009 The philosopher and author told the annual Ways with Words literary festival at Dartington Hall, Devon, that no one should be afraid of "trying to get the benefits of certain possibilities." He said: "Meddling with nature is a genuine concern, for example with genetically modified crops, but it is also the case that human intelligence is a product of nature. "We are ourselves a product of nature. The things we do to ourselves and to our environment is a natural outcome of the fact that we are creative, intelligent and exploratory. "We should not be afraid of trying to get the benefits of certain possibilities. A certain kind of courage or risk taking is worthwhile." He said the creation of human sperm using stem cells could help infertile men who would really love to be fathers." Prof Grayling was the opening speaker at the nine-day festival which is sponsored by The Daily Telegraph. Other speakers include Charles Moore, the Daily Telegraph columnist and former editor, Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, and Roy Hattersley, the former Labour minister. Kate Adie, the former BBC chief news correspondent, who frequently has frequently donned a flak jacket, in her war reporting, spoke about those doing "really dangerous jobs," whom she interviewed for her book Into Danger: Risking Your Life for Work. They included people involved tasks such as mine clearance, bomb disposal, hostage negotiation, diving and collecting snake venom. She said: "They all had a sense that they knew why they did what they did, whatever was driving them. "My job had its risks but it was not inherently dangerous. Every journalist has a choice. But if you are doing bomb disposal work you can't suddenly decide I won't do it."
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== Icknield Way and Icknield Way Path ==
The Icknield Way and Icknield Way Path articles have hatnotes that explain how one article is about the old footpath and the other is about the modern footpath. However, in both articles the lead and infobox seem to describe the modern designated trail (activities include cycling and the length is about 100 miles). I assume that the split should be similar to that between Watling Street and A5 road (Great Britain). I have changed the lead and infobox accordingly, created a new section on modern paths, and removed a few categories. JonH (talk)
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Philadelphia officer wounded in shooting- U.S. news Philadelphia officer wounded in shooting The Associated Press updated 7:14 a.m. ET April 5, 2010 PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police say an officer escaped serious injury by pushing a gun away when a man pointed it at his head. Police say 46-year-old Sgt. Robert Ralston was shot around 4 a.m. Monday when he approached two men in West Philadelphia. Investigators say one of the men aimed a gun at the officer's head, but Ralston was able to disrupt the shooter's aim by pushing the weapon away. Police say the men fled along a set of railroad tracks. One of the suspects may have been injured when Ralston returned fire. Ralston was treated at a hospital and released a couple hours later with a minor wound to his left shoulder. Police are searching for the two men. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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A leader in developing engaging, quality toys that capture children's imaginative spirit and provide endless "Fun For The Future," Bandai America Incorporated is the manufacturer and master toy licensee of some of the most popular brands in children's toys and interactive entertainment today. The Bandai America brand family includes Power Rangers®, ThunderCats™, Ben 10™, Harumika®, and Pocoyo™, among other boys, girls, preschool and hobby product lines. Bandai America Incorporated is a subsidiary of NAMCO BANDAI Holdings (USA) Inc., an entity that resulted from the integration of Namco Ltd. and Bandai Co. Ltd. of Japan. Global interests encompass three strategic business units: Toys and Hobby, Amusement Facility and Contents. The company is headquartered in Cypress, California. Find out more about our expertise in connecting with kids in fun and fresh ways at www.Bandai.com. Bandai logo: ® and © 2011 Bandai. All Rights Reserved. Power Rangers: ® and © SCG Power Rangers LLC. ThunderCats: TM & © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Ted Wolf. (s11) Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: TM and © CARTOON NETWORK. All Rights Reserved. Harumika: ® and © SUNRISE, Layup. All Rights Reserved. Pocoyo: TM & © 2005-2011 Zinkia Entertainment S.A. Licensed by Granada Ventures Limited. All Rights Reserved. About Roary the Racing Car™ Roary the Racing Car is a turbo-charged pre-school series that follows the adventures of Roary™, a bright, loveable and energetic single-seater, and his amazing and diverse group of racing car friends at Silver Hatch race track. Roary's™ enthusiasm and curiosity often leads him into trouble, but he's a novice with a heart of chrome under his hood, always willing to make amends. Children join Roary™ on his journey, learning lessons as they go: how to do the right thing, how to be positive and helpful to others, road safety, the environment, ways to share and communicate, problem-solving and the importance of exercise and healthy living. The series uses a cutting edge combination of CGI, stop frame animation and colorful sets to convey a real sense of speed with all the thrills and spills of the race track. For more information, please visit www.roarytheracingcar.com SOURCE Bandai America Incorporated
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Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas relishes life in English football's madhouse "All of us have our ups and downs,"" replied Villas-Boas. "I've had mine in the Premier League. All of us want to become better people with better values. Everyone gets stick for various reasons. It is a normal situation." Terry's future, certainly with the national team, will effectively be decided by whether any other players corroborate claims that Anton Ferdinand, the QPR defender, was racially abused. In times of controversy, football often stages the Silence of the Lads, the sound only of dressing-room doors being slammed shut. The FA needs a player to break rank, ignoring the usual rules of omerta, for anything to happen. Asked if Chelsea's "black players were behind Terry," Villas-Boas said: "First of all, there is no separation to any of the players. "They have been quiet about it because we know what happened and we know there is nothing to discuss. It (the allegation) is tremendously serious, but that does not mean it isn't speculation or a big misunderstanding. It is not a distraction. There's no siege mentality. "Speculation about a negative situation is something that disappoints us in that you (the media) try to sustain a couple of things based only on speculation." Time will tell on the speculation front, and the onus remains on Ferdinand's side to provide the evidence, but Villas-Boas was quick to reiterate his loathing for racism. "It is something that should be banned from the game. We are all fans of the anti-racism campaigns, and the club, and most (sic) of the players. Our players will always be available to fight these situations. It was a problem in Spain and Italy but everyone is fighting it. If it happens, it is a disaster. "The fight against racism strongly started 50 or 60 years ago and a tremendous improvement has been made in human rights. There is still room for improvement, but we are on the right track, especially here, with the campaigns that have been launched. But campaigns should be gestures more than words, actions more than publicity. Things that all of us can do in our personal lives different than the others. To do something that shows you fight against the situations." Chelsea showed a little too much fight against QPR, having Bosingwa and Didier Drogba dismissed, and earning a £20,000 fine for players surrounding Foy. "We never confronted the referee, we were never aggressive towards the referee, we never tried to influence the decision of the referee,"" countered Villas-Boas. "We haven't lost control, we haven't lost discipline. We know how to behave." The stats say different. Chelsea sit bottom of the Premier League disciplinary table with 24 yellows and three reds (with Arsenal next amongst the bad boys with 18 yellows and three reds). Saturday will be billed as the 'Dirty Derby' yet for all the concerns over behaviour there is no doubting that Chelsea play good football, just as Arsene Wenger's visitors do. "It looks to me like they attack a lot,"" said Wenger, speaking before training at London Colney. "But Carlo Ancelotti was [attack-minded] as well. I cannot say Ancelotti was a defensive coach. "I liked him as a man and as a manager but maybe Chelsea have a bit more creative potential than last season. Last year Torres was not completely himself. This year he looks back to what he was before. Mata combining with him makes them a bit more creative. I like Mata - for his final ball."" Villas-Boas returned the compliment, lauding Gervinho, before answering why his own team seemed almost liberated this season. "It comes by the freeing of talent,"" he said. "We decided to free the players in their decision-making and that has given us more fluency."" He has undoubtedly been a welcome addition to English football. Not a name that lends itself naturally to iambic pentameters, let alone terrace chants, Villas-Boas has been well received by Chelsea fans. They hope to be singing his praises again on Saturday as the English madhouse opens early for business.
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Pershing LLC (member FINRA/NYSE/SIPC) is a leading global provider of financial business solutions to more than 1,500 institutional and retail financial organizations and independent registered investment advisors who collectively represent more than five million active investors. Located in 21 offices worldwide, Pershing and its affiliates are committed to delivering dependable operational support, robust trading services, flexible technology, an expansive array of investment solutions, practice management support and service excellence. Pershing is a member of every major U.S. securities exchange and its international affiliates are members of the Deutsche Boerse, the Irish Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange. Pershing LLC is a BNY Mellon company. Additional information is available at www.pershing.com. BNY Mellon is a global financial services company focused on helping clients manage and service their financial assets, operating in 36 countries and serving more than 100 markets. BNY Mellon is a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals, offering superior investment management and investment services through a worldwide client-focused team. It has $26.3 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $1.3 trillion in assets under management, services $11.8 trillion in outstanding debt and processes global payments averaging $1.7 trillion per day. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available at www.bnymellon.com and through Twitter @bnymellon.
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Levein livid at ref Dougal CRAIG LEVEIN watched his Dundee United side fall a further point behind Hearts last night as his side went down 2-1 at Parkhead â but it was the referee's treatment of Lee Wilkie which incensed him the most. The United boss had scathing criticism for Stuart Dougal after the referee refused to allow injury-prone defender Wilkie treatment following a clash with Scott McDonald which left him with stud marks on his leg. Dougal waved play on and Wilkie was only belatedly allowed treatment before Dougal and Levein had a pitchside confrontation. "He lost his composure, stuck his finger in my face and told me to shut up," the United boss told reporters. "In all my time in football, no other referee has ever done that. If it happened in the pub on a Saturday night to any of you guys, the guy would have got a punch in the face." Glenn Loovens headed Celtic into a first-half lead before Georgios Samaras' shot deflected off Wilkie just after the interval. David Robertson's strike ensured a tense end to the game but the home side hung on to go one point above Rangers who play Hibs tonight. The full article contains 202 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.
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Lakers beat Pistons 108-83 behind Gasol Lakers beat Pistons 108-83 behind Gasol Jan 5 01:58 AM US/Eastern AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - Pau Gasol scored 21 points and the Los Angeles Lakers finally found a sub.-500 team they could beat easily, winning 108-83 against the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday night. Kobe Bryant added 17 points, moving him past Dominique Wilkins into 10th on the NBA's career scoring list with 26,671. Andrew Bynum finished with 13 points after scoring eight of the Lakers' first 14 points of the game. Lamar Odom had 16. Tracy McGrady and Greg Monroe scored 14 points each, and Tayshaun Prince added 12 for the Pistons, who lost their fifth straight to the Lakers and fell to 3-16 on the road. The Lakers had lost four of their previous six, including three at home. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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ESL is a common abbreviation for English as a Second Language. ESL may also refer to:
==Companies==
Electronic Sports League, a competitive gaming company that runs live gaming tournaments such as the Intel Extreme Masters and other gaming related events. Major sponsors include Intel, BenQ, Raidcall, Patriot Memory. ESL Incorporated or Electromagnetic Systems Laboratories, a former technology company in the United States, founded by William Perry
ESL Music, a record label
Elbit Systems LTD, an Israeli-based defense contractor
Enduring Solutions Limited, a company supplying aftermarket Engine Control Units for the classic Subaru Impreza. Finance
ESL Investments, a company founded by Edward Lampert
ESL (investment company), an international investment company
ESL Federal Credit Union, formerly Eastman Savings and Loan, a credit union based in Rochester, New York
==Technology concepts==
Electronic Shelf Label, a system used by retailers
Electronic system-level, an electronic design methodology
Electrostatic loudspeaker
Enterprise Service Layer, a term used in service oriented architecture (SOA)
Equivalent series inductance, a concept in electronics
Equivalent static loads, also known as ESLM (Equivalent static load method), method for optimization of systems subject to dynamic loads
Electron stimulated luminescence, a lightbulb technology
==Other meanings==
e.s.l., a folk pop music group from Vancouver, Canada
ESL Sports Centre, former name of the Bill Gray’s Regional Iceplex, in Rochester, New York
Estonian Sign Language
Ethnological Society of London, 1843-1871
Super League, the premier rugby league competition in Europe
ESL is an abbreviation for East St. Louis, Illinois
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Spain, Portugal hit with anti-austerity protests Sergio Perez / Reuters Protestors shout slogans as they fill up Neptuno Square during a demonstration against government austerity measures in Madrid. By NBC News wire services MADRID - Tens of thousands of Spaniards and Portuguese rallied in the streets of their countries" capitals Saturday to protest enduring deep economic pain from austerity cuts. In Madrid, demonstrators approached parliament for the third time this week to vent their anger against tax hikes, government spending cuts and the highest unemployment rate among the 17 nations that use the euro currency. The boisterous crowds in the Spanish capital let off ear-splitting whistles near parliament and yelled ""Fire them, fire them!"" -- referring to the conservative government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Rajoy's administration presented a 2013 draft budget on Friday that will cut overall spending by 40 billion euros ($51.7 billion), freezing the salaries of public workers, cutting spending for unemployment benefits and even reducing spending for Spain's royal family next year by 4 percent. Pablo Rodriguez, a 24-year-old student doing a master's in agricultural development in Denmark, said the austerity measures and bad economy mean most of his friends in Spain are unemployed or doing work they didn't train for. Andres Kudacki / AP A picture of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is seen during the demonstration in Madrid. Spain's unemployment rate is almost 25 percent, and more than half of people under 24 are jobless. ""I would love to work here, but there is nothing for me here,"" Rodriguez said. ""By the time the economy improves it will be too late. I will be settled somewhere else with a family. One of the disasters in Spain is they spent so much to educate me and so many others and they will lose us."" He doubts he will put his education to use in Spain until he is 35 or 40, if ever, will probably get job abroad and stay. In Lisbon, retired banker Antonio Trinidade said the budget cuts Portugal is locked into in return for the nation's €78 billion ($101 billion) bailout are making the country's economy the worst he has seen in his lifetime. His pension has been cut, and he said countless young Portuguese are increasingly heading abroad because they can't make a living at home. ""The government and the troika controlling what we do because of the bailout just want to cut more and more and rob from us,"" Trinidade said, referring to the troika of creditors -- the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. ""The young don't have any future, and the country is on the edge of an abyss. I'm getting toward the end of my life, but these people in their 20s or 30s don't have jobs, or a future."" In Spain, Rajoy has an absolute majority and has pushed through waves of austerity measures over the last nine months -- trying to prevent Spain from being forced into the same kind of bailouts taken by Portugal, Ireland and Greece. The protests near Spain's parliament turned violent Tuesday and Wednesday nights when protesters clashed with riot police, who barricaded entry to the streets surrounding government buildings. Dozens of people were arrested and injured. Investors worried about Spain's economic viability have forced up the interest rate they are willing to pay to buy Spanish bonds. The country's banks hurting from a property boom that went bust are set to get help soon from a €100 billion ($129 billion) financial lifeline from the eurozone, and Rajoy is pondering whether to ask for help from the ECB to buy Spanish bonds. Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro said Saturday that the budget cuts for next year were necessary to ease market tensions and try to bring down high interest rates Spain must pay to get investors to buy its bonds. More world stories from NBC News: Follow World News from NBCNews.com on Twitter and Facebook
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US, Europe and Russia Face Similar Challenges in the Years to Come WASHINGTON, February 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Srdja Trifkovic, has said that the US and Russia must work together to fight aggression in the world, despite the recent unveiling of the US' new Defense Strategy. Trifkovic said: "The Obama Administration's "Defense Strategic Guidance" (DSG) was unveiled on January 5 as part of the broader programmatic document, Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense. Presenting the DSG, President Obama spoke of "enduring national interests" in maintaining the unparalleled U.S. military superiority, "ready for the full range of contingencies and threats" amidst "a complex and growing array of security challenges across the globe." "The DSG further asserted that in the decades ahead it will be the task of the United States to "confront and defeat aggression anywhere in the world." The ideological framework behind the concept was evident in Obama's State of the Union address three weeks later, when he repeated Madeleine Albrigtht's irritating dictum that "America remains the one indispensable nation in world affairs." "As long as I am President," he added sternly, "I intend to keep it that way." This is some light years away from candidate Obama bewailing "the consequences of a foreign policy based on a flawed ideology, and a belief that tough talk can replace real strength and vision." "The implications of the DSG for Russia's strategic planners are clear: the rhetoric in Washington may vary from one administration to another, but the substance is constant. Obama made no attempt to support his claim that the security threats to America are growing, or to provide his own definition of "enduring national interest," because he sees the entire world as a legitimate sphere of interest of the United States. The DSG is intrinsically a challenge to Russia and other powers outside the U.S. orbit, and that challenge may only become more acute if Mitt Romney wins in November. A sober reassessment of the "reset" will be needed soon after V.V. Putin's expected return to the helm of the Russian Federation. U.S.-Russian relations over the past two decades reveal a remarkable role reversal. The Soviet Union came into being as a revolutionary state that challenged any given status quo in principle, starting with the Comintern and ending three generations later with Afghanistan. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, however, Russia has been trying to define her policies in terms of traditional national interests: stable domestic institutions, secure borders, friendly neighbors. The old Soviet dual-track policy of having "normal" relations with America, on the one hand, while seeking to subvert her, on the other, gave way to sometimes naive attempts to forge a "partnership" with Washington. "By contrast, the early 1990's witnessed America's strident attempt to assert her status as the only global "hyperpower." This ambition was inimical to post-Soviet stabilization. Washington refused to accept that Russia has any legitimate interests in her near-abroad, while reserving the right to meddle in her internal affairs. In essence, America adopted her own dual-track approach. "Contemporary U.S. strategic doctrine is reminiscent of an old blueprint for Soviet policy: the Brezhnev Doctrine. It was defined by its author as the principle that the sovereignty of a socialist country is limited by the will of the Kremlin: "The norms of law cannot be interpreted narrowly, formally, in isolation from the general context..." The key difference between Brezhnev and the leaders of modern America is the limited scope of the Soviet leader's self-awarded outreach. His doctrine applied only to the "socialist community," as opposed to the unlimited scope of meeting "security challenges across the globe" by the "indispensable country." No "interests of world socialism" could beat "universal human rights" when it came to determining where and when to intervene. The "socialist community" led by Moscow stopped on the Elbe. It was replaced by the "International Community," led by Washington, which stops nowhere. "Under President Obama, this remains the self-referential framework for the policy of permanent global interventionism. Sooner or later, however, U.S. foreign policy will collide with reality-Iraq and Afghanistan appear not to have been sufficient wake-up calls-and Washington, shorn of its ideological blinkers, will finally embrace the foreign policy imperative of the 21st century: Solidarity and strategic cooperation between the United States, Europe and Russia on the basis of their shared moral, intellectual and cultural foundations, as they face similar challenges in the years to come." Srdja Trifkovic is Foreign Affairs Editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, and Executive Director of The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies
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The Asturicani are a tribe mentioned by Ptolemy (v. 9. § 7) as dwelling adjacent to the Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea). William Smith equates them with the Aspurgiani. ==References==
Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1857). Ancient peoples
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Capaldi named as the new Dr Who-the-#&$@-do-you-think-I-am Can't wait to see the transformation: Glasgow-born actor and Oscar winner Peter Capaldi has been unveiled as the 12th incarnation of Doctor Who, the BBC announced tonight.
Capaldi was such a sweet boy when we first saw him:
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Message delivered by Theo's Little Bot (opt-out)''
== WikiProject Military history coordinator election ==
Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election, which will determine our coordinators for the next twelve months. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September! Kirill
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The White Sox rallied in the top of the fifth, true to their "Win Or Die Trying" mantra of 2005, starting with a Joe Crede lead-off homer. Uribe, on first after hitting a single, scored on a Tadahito Iguchi base hit with one out, followed by Scott Podsednik coming home on a duck-snort single by Jermaine Dye. Pierzynski hit a two-out double to Tal's Hill, driving in two runs, scoring Iguchi and Dye giving the White Sox the lead. The Astros rallied in the last of the eighth with two outs when Lane's double scored Ensberg with the tying run after back-to-back walks by Ensberg and Mike Lamb, giving Dustin Hermanson a blown save. Houston tried to rally to win in the ninth, but stranded Chris Burke at third, after he had walked, reached second on an error and stolen third. The Astros tried again in the tenth as well as in the eleventh, but failed each time. In the top of the fourteenth, after the Sox hit into a spectacular double play started by Ensberg, Geoff Blum (a former Astro) homered to right with two outs off Ezequiel Astacio. After two infield singles by Rowand and Crede that went a total of 150 feet according to Tim McCarver, Uribe and Chris Widger walked thanks to Astacio's sudden wildness. The Astros then tried to rally with the tying runs on first and third and two outs after a Uribe error, but Game 2 starter Mark Buehrle earned the save for winning pitcher Dámaso Marte when Everett popped out, bringing the White Sox one game closer to their first World Championship in 88 years. Buehrle became the first pitcher to start a game in the Series and save the next one since Bob Turley of the Yankees in the 1958 World Series. Many records were set or tied in the game besides time and innings: The teams combined to use 17 pitchers (nine for the White Sox, eight for the Astros), throwing a total of 482 pitches, and walking 21 batters (a dozen by Chicago, nine by Houston); 43 players were used (the White Sox used 22 and the Astros used 21), and 30 men were left on base (15 for each team), all new high-water marks in Fall Classic history. Scott Podsednik set a new all-time record with eight official at-bats in this game. One tied record was total double plays, with six (four by the Astros, two by the White Sox). ===Game 4===
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas
Before the game, Major League Baseball unveiled its Latino Legends Team. The fourth game was the pitchers' duel that had been promised throughout the series. Both Houston starter Brandon Backe and Chicago starter Freddy García put zeros on the scoreboard through seven innings, the longest since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series. Scott Podsednik had a two-out triple in the top of the third, but Tadahito Iguchi grounded out to second, thus snuffing that threat. The Astros had the best chance of scoring in the sixth, but Jason Lane struck out with the bases loaded to end that rally. The White Sox had a chance in the top of the seventh with runners at second and third and two out, but shortstop Juan Uribe struck out to snuff the rally. The White Sox were able to break through in the next inning against embattled Houston closer Brad Lidge. Willie Harris hit a pinch-hit single. Podsednik moved Harris to second with a sacrifice bunt. Carl Everett pinch-hit for Iguchi and grounded out to the right side to allow Harris to move over to third. Jermaine Dye, the Most Valuable Player of the series, had the game-winning single, driving in Harris. Things got a little sticky for the Sox in the Astros half of the eighth when reliever Cliff Politte hit Willy Taveras, threw a wild pitch, sending Taveras to second, and walked Lance Berkman. After Morgan Ensberg flew out to center, the White Sox manager Ozzie Guillén brought in Neal Cotts to finish the inning. Cotts induced pinch-hitter José Vizcaíno into a ground out to Uribe. Bobby Jenks, the 24-year-old fireballer, started the ninth inning. He allowed a single to Jason Lane and a sacrifice bunt to Brad Ausmus. Chris Burke came in to pinch-hit; he fouled one off to the left side, but Uribe made an amazing catch in the stands to retire Burke. The game ended when Orlando Palmeiro grounded to Uribe.
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== Possible copying ==
The "unique" style of capitalization and the consistent non-encyclopedic tone of the article make me concerned that it was copied from an outside source, possibly The History of the Northern Rhodesia Police (ISBN 0-9530174-4-3) mentioned in the References section. Unfortunately, it's not widely available; WorldCat indicates that no library in the Greater Boston area has a copy. It is listed on Google Books, but only in "snippet view"; one snippet showed half a sentence worth of identical text and generally showed similar style, but that's not exactly damning evidence. The template links to the last version by the article creator for clarity. If anyone has access to the book, it would be greatly helpful if you could look for similar/identical passages. Until then, the entire article is suspect, so neither removal nor further improvement seem justified. Noophilic (talk)
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Cherryville is an unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. It is about six miles east of Sandy on U.S. Route 26, near the route of the Barlow Road. The name of the community is said to have come from the wild cherries that grew in the area. Cherryville post office was established in 1884 and closed in 1958. In 1915 Cherryville had a population of 50, a public school, and a church. The church building is now gone, but the church cemetery still exists. ==References==
Unincorporated communities in Clackamas County, Oregon
1884 establishments in Oregon
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Teaching With the Presidential Debates President Obama and Mitt Romney will meet face to face onstage on Wednesday in the first presidential debate of election 2012, and the event provides teachers with one of the best opportunities to engage students with this year's election. Debates offer the potential for suspense and can be a departure from the carefully tailored campaign messages because they happen live, onstage and in real time with millions of people watching -- something that even less politically minded students can appreciate. For starters, you can ask your students to watch the debates. If you're looking to go further than that, we have several suggestions on how you can use the debates as an effective teaching and learning tool. 1. Invite Student Reaction With Our Special Student Opinion Question: On Wednesday afternoon, we'll post an open-ended Student Opinion question that asks students,What was your reaction to the debate? Invite them to post comments, observations and insights on our blog during the debate itself, during class on Thursday, or anytime thereafter. Not only will this offer students a chance to formulate their thoughts for others to read, it will also help them see what students around the country are thinking. 2. View Memorable Moments in Debate History: The Times video "Presidential Debate Moments" provides a brief history of televised presidential debates, including how they took a 16-year hiatus between 1960 and 1976, and how they since have become a mainstay of the election cycle. You can watch the video with your class and then discuss: Do you think the presidential debates are an important part of the election cycle? Do you think debates provide voters with useful information, either about the character or politics of a candidate, that they cannot get (or cannot get as easily) from other media? 3. Keep Score: When students watch the debate, you might want to have them keep an eye out for memorable moments or game-changing zingers or slip-ups. The debate scorecard (PDF) from Lynn University is one way for students to keep track of who they think wins or loses the debate. Or, brainstorm with your students what they will be looking for during the debates, and create your own class scorecard or BINGO sheet (PDF). (Related: our Midterm Election Bingo sheet and lesson plan.) 4. Shift Outcomes? Read and discuss the article "Debates Can Shift a Race's Outcome, but It's Not Easy." You may also want to watch the seven video clips embedded in The Guardian article "The Best Presidential Debate Moments: A Video History" that capture pivotal moments in debate history. You can ask students: Do you think a debate can make a difference in the election outcome? What are some examples from past debates? What can you imagine could happen during this debate that might have an effect on voter opinion? 5. Debate the Issues: In our four-part Election Unit, we explain how to prepare students for their own classroom debate about election issues. Students research where the candidates stand on important issues in this election using Web sites like ProCon.org. Then they hold their own classroom debate. Half the class could be President Obama and the other half Mitt Romney. Or, if that feels too unwieldy for your class, the class could be divided further, with some students representing Mr. Obama, Mr. Romney, the moderator and the audience. Alternatively, students could take turns representing the candidate for each question. We provide additional instructions and ideas for guiding students through issue research and holding a class debate in our post "Election Unit, Part 2: What Are the Issues?" 6. Give Advice: Give students a chance to offer advice to the candidates. Ask students what they would want to see or hear from the candidates in order for them to change their opinion. Or, if they have already made up their minds about which candidate they prefer, ask what would they would like to see their candidate say or do to best win over voters. Your class can read "Debate Advice From the Beltway" to hear what strategists from both sides are saying about what the candidates should do during the debates. 7. Consider Youth Activism: The last time a woman moderated a presidential debate was in 1992, and three teenagers in New Jersey organized a campaign earlier this year to make sure that at least one of this year's presidential debates has a female moderator. Watch the Times video of Jodi Kantor interviewing the three high school girls above with your class or read the related article. Then, read the follow-up article "Gender Split for Debate Moderators" and ask for students' responses. If you're interested in going further, students can look at the girls' original online petition on Change.org, and you can ask what petition they would like to write to make a positive change in the world. 8. Play With Expectations:
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Sound Solkemon, please give us the specific reasons why the Maar information should have any more weight than these other aspects of the article. And please explain beyond the response "it's well sourced". "Well sourced" and "notable enough for the lead" are not interchangeable concepts. Everything on Wikipedia should be well sourced, but everything in an article does not belong in the lead. Ward3001 (talk)
Regarding this RfC, for what it's worth I agree with the arguments presented by Grcaldwell and Ward3001 above. In my opinion, this theory is not a fundamental aspect of the book's notability; as such, while certainly worth noting in the "Sources and links" section, it doesn't warrant coverage in the lead. Yes in the article, no in the lead. Not important enough. Jumble Jumble (talk)
== Possible error in article summay ==
The first paragraph says, "...first written in English and published in 1950 in Paris, later translated by the author into African and published in 1958 in New York." However, I do not believe that Nabokov spoke any languages besides Russian, French, and English, and,, even if he did, "African" is still far too vague. Perhaps the writer meant "American", although that is hardly a language either. Although Nabokov did translate the book into Russian, this was not until 1967, as the bottom portion of the article agrees. Nevertheless, I have not yet changed anything, for I am still unsure whether it is necessary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.232.94.124 (talk)
== Bad English in Plot summary section ==
I started reading the "Plot summary" section of this article as I wanted to find out about the book, and was disappointed. Has anyone spotted the appalling English in that section? It is comparable to the raw output of a web translation engine. Occasional spelling mistakes can be forgiven and even corrected, as I was about to do, but I gave up on this one as I have not read the book. Samples:
1) "The story starts with a forwards..." - What is "a forwards"? The introductory remarks section at the beginning of a book is called a "foreword" in English. (note spelling, see Oxford Dictionary)
2) "He states that the novel itself is very sexual and unusual but in the future will provide great inight to psychologists of the behaviors of individuals because of the personalities of characters in: "the panting maniac" "wayward child" and the "egotistical child"." - All this in one sentence without punctuation. What is "inight"? "behaviors" (why plural?) I can't work out what the rest of the sentence means. 3) "... set up travel to Americas." - Why is "America" plural? Please, this is not good enough. It is as if somebody been vandalising by adding the letter "s" to the end of words, and worse. If you wrote this section or if you have read the book, and would like to improve this article, please do so. P0mbal (talk)
At least some of the sections were added today, just before you noticed them. They had not been there long enough for anyone to notice and fix. You are completely empowered to fix it yourself. I don't have the time now, but will check in the morning. (John Jwy talk)
==Too much English in plot summary section!==
The real problem with this section is that this novel seems to attract fans who love to summarize! Every week or so a new editor seems to add his own paragraph or couple of sentences, and it gets longer and longer and more and more disjointed over time. Dybryd (talk)
==Disgusting==
This is just an attempt to make child molestation legit as just another lifestyle choice. This book should be banned just like other child porn is and certainly Wikipeida shouldn't promote it in anyway except to clasify it as a weak way to expose children to adult manipulation and make child porn and NAMBLA a legit choice
99.53.169.153 (talk) honrea
Please read NPOV and SOAP. Clem (talk)
I take it you haven't read the book. It's not any more supportive to its protagonist as The Telltale Heart is to its. You can talk about a subject without promoting it. I mean, the guy comes off as some kind of deranged lunatic. The Bible is probably kinder to Satan than Lolita is to Humbert Humbert.
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== Summary ==
Copied from the company's website: http://www.benson.com. Converted to PNG
== Licensing ==
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