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Man tells of carjacking that ended in murder The husband of a newlywed, murdered on her honeymoon in South Africa, has described how he pleaded with armed carjackers not to separate him from his wife. Shrien and Anni Dewani had been married for just two weeks when their taxi was targeted in a township on the outskirts of Cape Town on Saturday night. The gunmen drove off with the couple inside, and forced Mr Dewani, 31, out of the window of the vehicle after driving around dark streets for 20 minutes. With a gun held to his head, he was told that his partner would not be harmed. But the body of his 28-year-old Swedish wife was found the next morning. "The first we knew the cab was being attacked was when we heard the banging," Mr Dewani said in a newspaper interview. "I don't want to go into detail, because I will probably start crying. But they were so cold. They put a gun in my ear and pulled back the trigger - it really was the stuff of movies. "The men kept on saying 'We are not going to hurt you. We just want the car.' That was a lie. "I held on to Anni as I said to them 'If you're not going to hurt her, why don't you let us go?'" Mr Dewani, from Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol, said they decided to venture outside of the normal tourist areas. He said: "Anni grew up in Sweden, and she had never been to Africa before, so she suggested that we should have a look at the'real Africa'."
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I meant to say that the two dates given straddle the summer solstice, not the equinox. So the article is actually wrong. I'll dig around on the USNO site, and fix it. Thanks for the info. uFu
error: "On May 28 and July 12 the sunrise and sunset are aligned with the street grid lines, so that the sun is visible at the horizon from street level." This statement is still incorrect. The sun may be visible on the said dates only when setting in the west. The corresponding rising dates in the east would be around the winter solstice (approx. 6-months from the setting dates), since the 'east-west' street grid points to the southeast. The sun does not rise in the southeast during May and July. I don't have the exact dates, but a cursory calculation for the said setting dates seems accurate. I will remove the word sunrise from the article, but it would be nice if someone with the proper calculation software could add the correct rise dates. J. Crocker
Okay, it's taken me a year, but here's what I've got. According to this page, the approximate deviation of Manhattan avenues from true north is +28.9. By the foregoing discussion, that gives us a sunrise azimuth of 118.9, and a sunset azimuth of 298.9. Using a little trial-and-error here to determine when the sun's altitude is zero when its azimuth equals these values, I get dates for 2006 of Jan 11 and Dec 2 for the sunrise, and May 25 and Jul 17 for the sunset. That should be accurate to within one minute and 1/10 of a degree. uFu
Article should mention that the island was bought from a neighboring tribe, and not the ones Manhattan belonged to (The Choctaws). == Photo arrangement ==
Anyone like the new photo arrangement? I myself was looking at getting the Times Square one full right, but server was acting up, so I gave up. Now I see somebody put all photos at top. I hope everyone likes what I did - there are no more large gaps in the text caused by the photos, and I made them all the same width for a more professional look. I like the fact that there are a lot of great photos in the article, but this can cause weird layout issues. Paradiso
On my screen (1600x1200), ALL the photos are up top and the first paragraph is squeezed into 8% of the screen width on the left. After that there are no more photos. Maybe try putting them all in one table no wider than the widest jpg
I fixed it for me - photos were NOT inside table before
" {| align =right
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== Uptown/downtown ==
In Manhattan, uptown means north and downtown means south
Not quite. Manhattan has a concept of "north on the grid" (of streets), which is different from due north (or magnetic north, for that matter). As the map shows, Manhattan is a long, narrow island; most streets are laid out parallel or perpendicular to the long sides of the island. Going northeast along a long street is called going "north on the grid" (or just "north", more commonly). Uptown means north on the grid, and downtown means south on the grid. —msh210
Technically, Msh210, you're right. But, seriously, who thinks "north" in Manhattan means due north? == Etymology? ==
I was under the impression that manhattan's etymology came from a corruption of the word Manahachtanienk
Of course, noone really knows the correct etymology. Those two are the main "theories", although I think there are also a couple of other possible interpretations. I added an alternate etymology of "place of intoxication" into the article, but I imagine the reference to a specific drunken party the name is supposed to refer to is probably even more dubious than an essentially unknowable etymology. I read somewhere that this was an interpretation of the Lenape document Walum Olum or of a sequel to the Walum Olum, as noted in some book entitled Red Record, or something like that. — Rickyrab | Talk 30 June 2005 02:41 (UTC)
== Sunrise/Sunset? ==
The article states "On 28 May and 12 July the sunrise and sunset are aligned with the street gridlines, so that the Sun is visible at the horizon from street level."
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Pakistan progress as Dutch crumble Holland's World Twenty20 dream was cruelly shattered as Pakistan thrashed them by 82 runs at Lord's to progress to the Super Eights. Set 176 to win the match, the Dutch began their chase knowing reaching 151 would be enough to send them into the second stage alongside England, due to their superior net run rate. Having surprisingly overhauled the tournament hosts' 162 for five on the same ground last Friday, Jeroen Smits' predominantly amateur side would have fancied their chances at the halfway stage. But they were blown away by the Pakistan spinners and all-rounder Shahid Afridi in particular during a spell of seven wickets for 32 runs in just six overs. They had progressed to 42 for one when Afridi was introduced into the attack for the eighth over and he highlighted the gulf in class between the teams when he produced a yorker first ball which fizzed under the bat of Bas Zuiderent. Unable to get the spinners away, the middle-order batsmen then fell in quick succession to shots of increasing desperation. Tim de Grooth, hero of the opening night chase against England with an aggressive 49, was one of the quartet to perish to Afridi, who finished with figures of 4-0-11-4. With the Dutch batsmen regularly drawn out of their crease in their bid to up the run rate, wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal saw plenty of action and finished with four stumpings, including one stunning take off Afridi's quicker ball. Although they played without fear in their first outing of the competition, with a target in front of them, Holland choked. Only Darron Reekers, whose beefy early blows gave brief hope, and Ryan ten Doeschate, who hit the only six of the pursuit, scored at better than a run a ball. Copyright PA Sport 2009, All Rights Reserved
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Travel views: June 30-July 6, 2012 Editor's note: The Foreign Office currently advises against all travel to rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir other than Ladakh; and all but essential travel to Srinagar and Imphal. Tate tours I enjoyed Alistair Sooke's description of Chicago with the Tate ("On tour with the Tate," June 30). We read about the Tate holiday to Chicago a couple of months ago, but were appalled by the price and didn't think the hotel they were featuring sounded very good. So we did it ourselves and it came out at just less than half the price of the Tate holiday. This included seven nights in Chicago, not the five offered by the Tate. We enjoyed six expeditions with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, including the river cruise featured in the Tate programme. Of course, we missed out on the private view of the Roy Lichtenstein and the private art collection of the Stokols, but we did get to see the Impressionist collection at the Art Institute on their late-night opening on a Thursday. Disabled travellers How wonderful to see the small paragraph "Access for guests with disabilities" ("Hotel Watch," June 23). Since my husband had a stroke, we have found it extremely frustrating to read advertisements for hotels which do not provide such information. I am sure that the disabled and their carers would be extremely grateful for the inclusion of such a paragraph, or indeed for the disabled badge symbol to be a necessary inclusion in any advertisement for accommodation. Mrs P E Whitmore, Merseyside Bears in Scotland James Graham's article ("Just back," June 30) reminded me of the disappearance of a bear on the Isle of Harris [actually on Benbecula, an island in the Outer Hebrides, in 1980]. Hercules, a large grizzly bear, went missing one day, after evading his keeper. Despite a large-scale search and national publicity, he was missing for more than two weeks. Eventually, he was spotted on a lonely beach by a crofter. After reporting the presence of the bear, the gentleman was later called to face the press for interview. He was asked by one reporter, "You were standing outside your house, looking along the beach, and saw this bear coming towards you. What on earth did you think about that?" The crofter paused thoughtfully and replied, "I thought he would have been white." Italy by rail We have travelled many times by Eurostar Standard Premier, and on a number of occasions with Great Railway Journeys, and have yet to encounter "gourmet food" and "unlimited wine" ("Escorted travel: Italy by train," June 30). Last month, breakfast was a cold croissant and a hard roll. On our return, dinner was coronation chicken and pasta salad, and wine was strictly limited to one mini bottle each. Certainly a fast and convenient way to travel, but gourmet food and drink? I don't think so. Barney Humphris, by email One-way flights I read the travel supplement every Saturday, but in this current recession I wonder how many families can afford the prices for holidays, when some of them start at £1,000 each. But what puzzles me most are the adverts trying to sell you a flight with the price stating "only £48 one way." Is this a special offer to people contemplating divorce, who hope that the other half won't be coming back? Send us your feedback and win flights to Barcelona How to enter To enter the competition, email relevant feedback to [email protected], or write to Travel Views, Travel Desk, The Daily Telegraph, 111 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 0DT. See here for terms and conditions. Please keep submissions to 200 words or fewer, and include contact details. The deadline is midnight on Tuesday July 10. Here are some articles published this week, on which you may wish to comment How to escape airport pick-up charges
Kate Humble visits Eyjafjallajökull
The world's best volcano tours
Keep holidaying in the Maldives, tourists told
Turkey: a journey along the Meander River
Airlines to scrap'surprise' debit card charges
Argentina by train: among amigos on La Trochita
Oslo: tracing Edvard Munch's steps
Canada: Calgary's Wild West Stampede marks 100 years From easyJet The United Kingdom's largest airline, easyJet, is offering a Daily Telegraph reader the chance to win a pair of return flights to Barcelona from London Gatwick airport. The airline operates flights six times daily to Barcelona from Gatwick with fares starting from just £28.99 (one way, including taxes), providing flexibility and choice for business and leisure passengers.
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(Gödel 1931 reprinted in Davis The Undecidable 1965:10-11)
The above would need explanation of how, after the "formula" comes into existence, that a "function" makes use of the "formula". My sense of it is this: "the function" "assigns to output Y" (as symbolized by an "equals" symbol, or a assigned to
More thoroughly Y(x1, x2,..., xn) assigned to
Even possibly (Kleene 1952, Godel 1931): There exists a sequence of primitive recursive functions (schemata) that starts with one of the three initial functions, and yields at each "step" either via the substitution function or the primitive recursion function, a primitive recursive function as an "immediate consequence". The Turing machine equivalent of the above. The lambda-calculus or other similar equivalent of the above. wvbaileyWvbailey
But is this "function" to be viewed merely as yet another string of symbols, or as/in_context_of a "computer/computor" interpreting the symbols? The word "function" comes from L. functus pp. of fungi to perform. My sense is (in particular see Minsky 1967:132ff) that an active agent is in here somewhere. And the agent must know beforehand what symbols the "variables" are, where to find numbers to stuff into the variables, and how to do all this good stuff... The same problem exists at algorithm. With regards to good writing, and the number-theoretic notions of power series,, Fourier expansions, "algebraic function", "transcendental function" etc. I called Britannica for permission to cc here the first page of their CD-article so we can look at it. It's always good to see what the competition is doing. They're supposed to send me an e-mail granting permission, or not. wvbaileyWvbailey
Wvbailey, I did not write the new "Inverse function" section. It was written by KSmrq. I wrote a previous much shorter version. I just edited the first paragraph of KSmrq's new version (see explanation above). Paolo.dL
Sorry. Anther has spoken too, as shown below. Set theory's three-liner:
* DEFINITION 6. converse(A) = { : y A x }
wvbaileyWvbailey
Britannica article strikes me as too narrow in scope, and at the same time, rather devoid of actual mathematical content. On the other hand, the section on inverse functions here is monstrously long and unfocussed. The first three paragraphs need to be edited for clarity, and the rest should go. We also need a (sub)section on implicit functions, possibly, before inverse functions. Arcfrk
Unfocused and long but very interesting. I agree that "the rest should go", but I hope it can be used somewhere else. Paolo.dL
Yes, it was I, KSmrq, not Paolo, who wrote the present overlong section on inverse functions. Ironically, I also wrote the short-and-sweet opening for inverse function, which probably says all we need to say for this section. First sentence:
I believe this sentence concisely states the essence of an inverse, yet carefully avoids wording that would commit to a specific flavor. Is B a codomain or a range? We can choose. Must a round trip start at A or at B? We can choose either or both. Is an inverse unique? That's left open; we see only "an" inverse, not "the" inverse. Not shown here, the next sentence does warn that we are not guaranteed existence. (I realize that competent mathematicians see all these possibilities at a glance, but this page has other readers.) In fact, I have said privately that here is perhaps not the ideal place for the curve example. So why write it? Because Paolo was repeatedly mangling both articles trying to "fix" language and definitions of the various forms of inverse, and this seemed a way to put a stop to that. To my sorrow, the attempt has failed; Paolo persists. As for the exploration, does it lack focus, or is it simply too condensed? I tried to cover half a dozen issues in one extended example.
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Ross Lydall: Brown has little to celebrate on his anniversary GORDON Brown became Prime Minister two years ago this week. It is an anniversary the country appears to have decided not to celebrate, a collective acknowledgement perhaps of reverse schadenfreude: that there is little joy to be had in our own misery. Mr Brown's time in 10 Downing Street has been dominated by two great scandals (the banking excesses that caused the credit crunch, and MPs' abuses of their parliamentary allowances) and one dire recession, which official figures yesterday suggested h...
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Glasgow Hawks beat Hawick amid controversy HAWKS won the battle of the newly-promoted RBS premiership teams, edging home in a six-try thriller to chalk up their first victory in a game that was tainted by controversy towards the end when Hawick scrum half Bruce Campbell was sent off for stamping at the rear of a disintegrating scrum. Scorers: Hawks - Tries: Steven, Boyer (2), Adamson. Cons: Adamson (2). Hawick - Tries: McLeod, Anderson. Con: Hunter. Pens: Hunter (2). Referee: G Wells. Advantage was played at the time, allowing Hawks scrum half Patrick Boyer to break away, chip over the heads of the defence, catch the ball and dive over for his second and Hawks" fourth try. Only then did the referee respond to his touch judge's call and flash the red card in what seemed to be little more than a tangle of legs among much pushing and shoving. It meant Hawick played out the last 10 minutes when they were more or less camped in the Hawks half at a numerical disadvantage Coach Chris Leck said: "It was an appalling decision on the sending off. If you then transfer it onto playing with 14 men and transfer that our final attacking scrum with a scrum half who has never played scrum half and never had to put the ball in before, you'd surely expect a bit of leniency. "I'm fairly certain it turned the match and that will be the burning question because it was a great game, an even game. Both sides wanted to play rugby. Both sides played really well. I thought Hawks deserved the win overall. If you give people 12 points of a start you can't expect to win, but lots of character to come in at half time in front. But you can always do what ifs. I don't do what ifs." Hawks coach Jamie Dempsey said: "We scored our final try when they had 15 men on the park so the sending off didn't affect the game. I think it was a very harsh red card, but I wouldn't want it to detract from the game because both teams went at it hammer and tongs. "Our games in the last few seasons have been very close and that is the first time in four seasons we have beaten Hawick on our own patch and that is great because they are a well-coached, well-drilled team with a positive spirit about them. "We played some terrific attacking rugby and the lads showed good composure after going behind to come out and be a lot more clinical in the second half. It was very pleasing to get our first win." Hawks had looked good value for the win early on with two tries in the first seven minutes as they raced into a 12 point lead. First winger Tim Steven scored in the left corner, then Boyer got his first try ghosting round the edge of a pile of bodies on the line to the right of the posts. Hawick rallied and rapidly turned things around, greatly helped by the influence of Edinburgh pro Gregor Hunter at stand off. He kicked a couple of penalties and set up a try for centre Scott McLeod with an intelligent diagonal kick that rolled up to the line and sat up and begged to be touched down. The second try was a solo effort by winger Greg Anderson who saw a wild pass bouncing on the turf, grabbed it and ran from inside his own 22 to go under the posts. The conversion by Hunter made it 12-18. They didn't know it then but there would be no more scoring by the visitors. Hindsight suggests that the watershed came, not with Campbell's red card, but with Hunter limping off just before half time and Hawick reshuffling their backs who would always struggle to find the same edge again. Their downfall in the second half was trying to play the ball out of defence and dropping it at the feet of veteran stand off Mike Adamson, who gleefully snapped it up and touched down, adding the conversion himself. By the time Boyer produced his piece of individual skill for the late killer try, Hawick were already beaten and both sides had just about run themselves into the ground, demonstrating more than enough evidence along the way to justify their places in the Premiership and to give more fancied opponents cause to worry when they come up against them.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was speedy close. Nominator blocked as a sock puppet of Thisbites. Ron Ritzman (talk)
===Magick (Ryan Adams and the Cardinals song)===
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Redirect to Cardinology. De728631 (talk)
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Cricket: England is the most likely destination for this summer's IPL after the BCCI decided to move this year's tournament out of India Indian cricket supporters will not now be able to watch the IPL in their own country this year. Photograph: R S Iyer/AP After weeks of dilly-dallying from the home ministry and the various state governments, the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) has lost patience and decided to shift the Indian Premier League out of the country. Sources told The Guardian that England is the preferred destination, though South Africa is also being considered. A final decision will be made in the next 24 hours. Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman, confirmed that the tournament dates (10 April to 24 May) and the 59-game format would not be changed. Modi also insisted that the "integrity" of the tournament would not be affected and he reacted angrily to suggestions that the move out of India had commercial considerations. "You have no idea what you're talking about," he told a reporter. "We will end up spending a lot more money and may not even make a profit. But that doesn't matter. "The Indian audience can watch the matches at 4pm and 8pm as they did in the inaugural season," he added. "All the club owners are in tune with the decision. We are going ahead and finalising the schedule. We could not have a truncated tournament. We will cover all costs and are not concerned with profit and loss." The BCCI took the decision this morning after the home ministry and some state governments had expressed reservations about providing adequate security for the event. The main issue was the clash of dates with the parliamentary polls, to be held in five phases between 16 April and 13 May. The news will come as a severe blow to the government after the first edition of the competition had earned them more than £13m in taxes. Cancelling the competition would have cost the IPL and the various stakeholders anything between £60m and £120m, mainly in television rights and sponsorship deals, and though the cricket board offered three different schedules, the government continued to dither on security. The BCCI's working committee meeting was attended by Sharad Pawar, the former board chief who is also a the union minister for agriculture, and afterwards, Shashank Manohar, the BCCI president, lashed out at the attitude of some state governments. "Because of the attitude of the government that they are not ready to spare security forces for the cricket tournament, we are forced to take the decision to move the event out of India," he said. "We are in discussion with other boards who are willing to host the event. "I apologise to the people of India for moving the tournament out. But we're are going ahead with the event so that they can at least watch the event on television." Manohar saved most of his ire for the state governments of Andhra Pradesh (home to the Deccan Chargers) and Maharashtra (the Mumbai Indians). "The Andhra Pradesh government revoked its earlier permission, and the Maharashtra chief minister wrote a letter that we can't host matches in that state until 13 May," he said. "We had scheduled 18 matches for Maharashtra." A press release from the BCCI spoke of how no other window existed to host the competition. "The BCCI is conscious of the general elections, which will be held between 16 April and 13 May 2009," it said. "The BCCI has had several discussions with the Ministry of Home Affairs on the scheduling of IPL matches. It is pertinent to understand that within the present international calendar of events, there is no other window for IPL to be played during this year. "Immediately after the IPL, the teams will be in England on 25 May for the ICC Twenty20 World Cup commencing from 2 June. After the ICC Twenty20 World Cup, the Indian team will play four ODIs in the West Indies after which the team will tour Zimbabwe for a tri-series involving Zimbabwe and South Africa. In September, India would play [the] Champions Trophy in South Africa, following which would be the Champions League. Between October 2009 and March 2010, there are three home series against Australia, Sri Lanka and South Africa."
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The theme of poet as legislator reached its grandiose peak in the Romantic era, epitomised in the view of the lonely, alienated poet as 'unacknowledged legislator' to the whole world. However the concept had a long prehistory in Western culture, with classical figures like Orpheus or Solon being appealed to as precedents for the poet's civilising role. ==Classical origins==
Plato's opposition to poets in his ideal Republic was predicated on the contemporary existence of Homeric expounders who claimed that "a man ought to regulate the tenour of his whole life by this poet's directions". Plato only allowed the already censured poet to guide the young, to be an acknowledged legislator at the price of total external control. Less threatened by the poetic role, the Romans by contrast saw poetry, with Horace, as primarily pleasing, and only secondarily as instructive. ==Renaissance and Augustan views==
Building the view of the fiftteenth century Florentine Neoplatonists on the poet as seer, however, Sir Philip Sidney developed a more powerful concept of the poet as overtopping the philosopher, historian and lawyer to stand out as "the monarch...of all sciences. Such a viewpoint was more or less institutionalised in Augustan literature, Johnson's Rasselas maintaining for example that the poet "must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind" - a fully public, even patriotic role moreover
==Romantic peaks==
By contrast the Romantic view of the poet as unackowledged legislator emerges at the turm of the century in the writing of William Godwin, with his anarchic view of the poet as "the legislator of generations and the moral instructor of the world". It received its most memorable formulation however in Shelley's 1820 A Defence of Poetry. Shelley maintained that, through their powers of imaginative understanding, poets (in the widest sense) were able to identify and formulate emerging socio-cultural trends; and were as a result "the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...the unacknowledged legislators of the world". ==Modernist irony==
The grand claims of the Romantics began to give way in the twentieth century to a more ironic stance - ] speaking for his calling in general when he wrote "We have no gift to set a statesman right". What remained of the Shelley claim was to be further diminished by Postmodernism's distrust for grand narratives, if not perhaps destroyed entirely. ==See also==
== References ==
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Bolna may refer to:
==Places==
Bolna, Rana, a mountain in Rana municipality, Norway
Bolna Station, a station on the Nordlandsbanen railway line in Rana, Norway
==Music==
Bolna (album), an album by Hridoy Khan
Waqt Par Bolna, an album by Hariharan
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Heidi Klum Helps Save Son, Nannies From Riptide in Hawaii
Noel Vasquez/Getty Images for Extra Supermodel Heidi Klum's 7-year-old son and two nannies reportedly were sucked into a riptide before being helped to safety by Klum and her boyfriend. The incident happened Sunday while the family was vacationing in Oahu in Hawaii. RELATED: Klum Says She'll Never Marry Again Pictures of the incident were posted in ETonline.com, and they show the "Project Runway" host pulling her son, Henry, from the roiling waters. Klum also ended up rescuing two of her nannies who'd gotten into trouble when they went into the water to try and help Henry, according to reports in Us Weekly magazine and People magazine. Klum's boyfriend and bodyguard, Martin Kirsten, helped get Henry and the nannies to safety. In a statement to Us weekly, Klum said: "We got pulled into the ocean by a big wave. Of course, as a mother, I was very scared for my child and everyone else in the water. Henry is a strong swimmer and was able to swim back to land. We were able to get everyone out safely." RELATED: Heidi Klum Sizzles in New Burger Ad for Hardee's, Carl's Jr. Klum, 39, has four children - one from Klum's previous relationship with Italian businessman Flavio Briatore, and three with the singer Seal, her ex-husband. SHOWS: Good Morning America
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The Messenger was a U.S. newspaper published Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays in Mount Airy, North Carolina. It was delivered free to homes in the Surry County area. The Messenger began as a weekday broadsheet whose first edition was printed on July 9, 2007, after the purchase of the The Mount Airy News and Elkin's The Tribune by Heartland Publications, LLC. Several staffers, including the publishers of both The News and The Tribune, left their respective newspapers to launch The Messenger as a community newspaper for the area. Combined, the publisher, Michael Milligan, and editor, Rebel Good, have more than 75 years of experience in community journalism and between them have published more than 10 newspapers and magazines. In January 2009, the paper cut back production to three days per week and switched from broadsheet to tabloid format due to a tough economic market. In July 2009, a lawsuit filed by Heartland LLC against The Messenger's'' owners and principals was dismissed without prejudice in Surry Superior Court. On January 3, 2010, the paper ceased publications with no notification in their last issue, and closed all its operations shortly thereafter. After the community learned that the paper had closed, it was eventually reported that there were several reasons for the closing, but the continuing recession was a primary factor in their decision. ==References==
Newspapers published in North Carolina
Publications established in 2007
Surry County, North Carolina
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A mainline flight is a flight operated by an airline's main operating unit, rather than by regional alliances, regional code-shares or regional subsidiaries. In the USA, examples of mainline passenger airline flights include those operated by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and US Airways but it would not include flights operated by regional airlines American Eagle Airlines, Executive Airlines, Piedmont Airlines, or PSA Airlines with Regional jets or the services of mainline "non-airline" regional airline marketing brands such as AmericanConnection, Delta Connection, United Express, or US Airways Express aboard lower-capacity narrowbody jets and turboprop aircraft, such as those produced by Embraer or Bombardier, that do not have transcontinental range. Often US mainline airline carriers operate in-house brands such as United p.s. to cater to business segments such as the short-range air shuttle, low-cost, or premium-service flights which normally would not support the traffic or revenue yield needed for the traditional operation of larger mainline aircraft with over 100 passenger seats between selected city pairs. All of the - mainline legacy - airlines listed below operate international, intercontinental, or transoceanic airline services using jet airliners. Additionally, all the - mainline legacy - carriers listed happen to be within the group of United States airline carriers known to statistically be major carriers. All of the following legacy airlines and their holding companies operate using secondary regional carriers via airline marketing sub-brands commonly marketed as "Express" or "Connection" services. All of the following airlines in some form operate in association with a regional component. All legacy carriers are among the group of US airlines known as "mainline" carriers. Notes:
(*) These airlines operate mainline equipment but do not wholly "own" regional airlines or have "non-owned" regional affiliates. ==See also==
Flag Carrier
==Notes==
==References==
, AA and early references to mainline, regional and B-scale
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However, Feng Ba's favorite concubine Consort Song wanted to have her son Feng Shouju (馮受居) inherit the throne, and therefore told Feng Yi that Feng Ba would soon recover and that he should not be so anxious to take over authority; Feng Yi agreed and retreated to his palace. Consort Song then falsely issued orders in Feng Ba's name cutting off communications with the outside, and Feng Yi and Feng Ba's other sons, as well as imperial officials, were not allowed to see Feng Ba. Only one of her trusted officials, Hu Fu (胡福), was able to enter the palace to be in charge of security. However, Hu was secretly resentful of Consort Song's ambitions, and he informed Feng Hong of her intentions. Feng Hong immediately attacked the palace and seized control of it. Feng Ba, hearing up this, died in shock. Feng Hong then took the throne himself and, after defeating Feng Yi's troops, slaughtered all of Feng Ba's sons. He used the title "Heavenly Prince" (Tian Wang). ==Reign==
What appeared evidence late in Feng Ba's reign, but even more so in Feng Hong's reign, were incessant attacks by the neighboring rival Northern Wei. This appeared to be particularly true after Northern Wei annexed all of the territory of Xia in 431 and therefore no longer had a major western rival to deal with. Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei made periodic attacks to pillage Northern Yan territory and then withdraw, draining Northern Yan of food supplies and other resources and weakening it. While Feng Hong was the Duke of Zhongshan, his wife was Lady Wang, who bore him at least three sons, Feng Chong (馮崇), Feng Lang (馮朗), and Feng Miao (馮邈), and Feng Chong was his oldest son. However, in 431, Feng Hong created Lady Murong princess instead, and in 432, he created Princess Murong's son Feng Wangren (馮王仁) crown prince. In fall 432, Northern Wei's Emperor Taiwu made the first major attack of Feng Hong's reign, heading for Northern Yan's capital Helong (和龍, in modern Jinzhou, Liaoning). Feng Hong tried to appease the Northern Wei emperor by delivering gifts of beef and wine to his army, to no avail. 10 Northern Yan commanderies surrendered to Northern Wei, and Northern Wei forces captured a number of Northern Yan cities and put Helong under siege. However, two months later, Emperor Taiwu withdrew after capturing 30,000 households from Northern Yan and relocating them to his You Province (幽州, modern Beijing, Tianjin, and northern Hebei). Feng Hong's official Guo Yuan (郭淵) suggested to Feng Hong that he offer to be a Northern Wei vassal and send a daughter to be Emperor Taiwu's consort, but Feng Hong refused, stating that the enmity between the states were so deep that he would be killed anyway even if he surrendered. (While Northern Wei was sieging Helong, the Northern Wei general Zhu Xiuzhi (朱脩之), who had been captured from Liu Song, plotted to assassinate Emperor Taiwu and then join Feng Hong, but his plot was discovered, and he fled to Feng Hong, who in turn sent him back to Liu Song, seeking Liu Song aid. Henceforth, Liu Song and Northern Yan were informal allies, although Liu Song provided little actual help.) Around the new year 433, Feng Lang and Feng Miao, believing that Northern Yan was on the verge of destruction and believing that Princess Murong was planning to have them killed, fled to Liaoxi (遼西, in modern Tangshan, Hebei), where Feng Hong had sent their older brother Feng Chong to be the commanding general of. They persuaded Feng Chong to surrender to Northern Wei, and Feng Chong sent Feng Miao to Northern Wei to offer his allegiance. Feng Hong, in response, sent his general Feng Yu (封羽) to put Liaoxi under siege. In spring 433, Emperor Taiwu sent his younger brother Tuoba Jian (拓拔健) the Prince of Yongchang to relieve Liaoxi, and further created Feng Chong the Prince of Liaoxi with a number of other honors, to try to encourage other defectors. Tuoba Jian's forces soon surrounded Feng Yu and forced his surrender, and then withdrew with 3,000 captive households. Feng Chong then requested permission to go to Helong to persuade Feng Hong to surrender, but Emperor Taiwu did not grant such permission.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was redirect to Skitszo. Lankiveil (speak to me)
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Group claims to have hacked iPhone 5S
Hackers in Germany say they have successfully hacked the new iPhone 5S They photographed a fingerprint and used image to create a fake "finger" to unlock the phone Spokesman: "Fingerprints should not be used to secure anything" Website has offered cash bounty for first person to hack the phone's Touch ID system (CNN) -- A group of hackers in Germany says it has found a way to bypass the fingerprint-sensor security system on the new iPhone 5S. The hackers claim they fooled the Touch ID biometric security of the iPhone 5S by photographing a fingerprint left on a glass surface and using the resulting image to create a fake "finger" which unlocked the phone. They demonstrated their exploits in a video posted Sunday to YouTube. "We hope that this finally puts to rest the illusions people have about fingerprint biometrics. It is plain stupid to use something that you can't change and that you leave everywhere every day as a security token," said Frank Rieger, a spokesman for the group, the Chaos Computer Club, in a post online. In the post, the hackers said they snapped a high-resolution photo of a fingerprint, inverted it and laser-printed it with extra toner onto a transparent sheet. Then they smeared pink latex milk or white woodglue into the fingerprint pattern, lifted a thin latex sheet from it and placed it onto the sensor to unlock the phone. "As we have said now for... years, fingerprints should not be used to secure anything. You leave them everywhere, and it is far too easy to make fake fingers out of lifted prints," said a hacker, who goes by the nickname Starbug, on the Chaos Computer Club's site. Apple marketing director Phil Schiller explains Touch ID, the iPhone 5S's fingerprint-reading security tool. Apple did not respond to a request from CNN for comment. Starbug and the Chaos Computer Club are being rewarded for their efforts. They were named the winners of an online contest offering a bounty of cash and other prizes to the first person or group to successfully hack the new iPhone's Touch ID system. The contest, IsTouchIDHackedYet, was created by Nick DePetrillo, an independent computer security researcher known for demonstrating hacks of smartphones, and Robert David Graham, owner of Errata Security, a cybersecurity firm. It invites donors to contribute to the bounty, which so far includes an assortment of cash, bitcoins (a form of digital currency), several bottles of booze and "a dirty sex book." "It's official. Starbug of the CCC has been declared the winner of #istouchidhackedyet Congrats! Video to come soon," DePetrillo posted on Twitter Monday afternoon. The total cash bounty topped $16,000 at one point, although one donor has since reneged on a promised $10,000 donation, according to the site. According to terms DePetrillo posted on Twitter, to collect the bounty a hacker had to lift a fingerprint from the phone or elsewhere and reproduce it in such a way that will allow the hacker to unlock an iPhone 5S in less than five tries. All the steps had to be documented on video. "The whole point of #istouchidhackedyet was to put up or shut up with regards to criticisms of Apple's Touch ID security and implementation," DePetrillo said Saturday on Twitter. The iPhone 5S, which went on sale Friday, has a fingerprint sensor in its Home button for added security. Apple calls the new security system Touch ID. Phone owners must "register" their print with the device, after which they can unlock the phone by placing a finger or thumb on the button. Other users' fingerprints will not unlock the phone, which protects it from thieves. How secure is your iPhone 5S fingerprint? The Touch ID system is meant for human fingerprints, of course, but it apparently works with animals, too. A Minnesota man posted a video Friday to CNN iReport that showed him using the paw of his pet Chihuahua to unlock his new iPhone. DePetrillo and Graham are so-called "white hat" hackers who investigate and expose security holes that have yet to be plugged by makers of new computer systems. Tech companies generally appreciate being alerted to such security issues, which they can then patch before users' personal information is compromised.
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Celebrity squares - Telegraph "People are terribly nostalgic about them. They have immense emotional appeal, and also feed our very British obsession with ownership, land, gardens and privacy." These properties have always drawn the rich and famous. Only last year, the Academy-Award winning actress, Cate Blanchett sold her home on Bryanston Square, one down from Montagu, which itself played home to Ringo Starr, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. But these are only some of the most recent celebrity buyers in a long tradition. In his book, Longstaffe-Gowan examines the evolution of squares from the 17th century. "It was the most natural thing in the world for country people, to sit around an open space," he says in his eager, professorial tones. "They were more interested in views, than in the garden itself." It was for this reason that many so-called squares, including Cavendish and Hanover, in the West End, were originally built on three sides. A "square" was a descriptive term for crescents, circuses and polygons. As for the trees that are such a selling point for buyers today, they were introduced only in the 19th century. Landowners were guided by the classical notion of rus in urbe, or bringing nature to the city. Exclusivity was always part of the package, long before the Parliamentary Enclosure Acts of the 18th and 19th centuries. "The wish was to enclose in order to embellish," says Longstaffe-Gowan. Their design evolved over the years. In Georgian times, most squares were made from red brick and unpainted stucco. The Victorians preferred a wider range of styles, including Queen Anne and Jacobean architecture. The gardens have been used for many things apart from private recreation. During the early days, residents of Lincoln's Inn complained about the disgusting mess that Cromwell's troops had left after they had assembled there. In the 18th century squares were identified as potential "Wilderness-Works," places where birds and wildlife would flourish, and which would improve the quality of the air. Later on, however, "wilderness" took on a second meaning, as squares became forums for illicit sexual activities. In the 19th century, the focus turned to their health-promoting qualities. Industrial London was covered in thick smog, and many green spaces had already been sold off. Town planners tried and failed to get garden owners to open them, but the public went to great lengths to gain access. "Sick children were lowered over the railings of Portman Square for fresh air," says Longstaffe-Gowan. "Elsewhere, babies were wrapped in silk, like Moses, and left." Yet the keys have always been tightly controlled. "There's usually a dragon or two who run the garden committee. They guard the access," he adds. This protectiveness also means there has always been a market in false keys. "Beadles used to sell them for money, and owners were told to hide their keys from their servants. The square keeper knew everyone by name and would invigilate the space." Later, in the Second World War, many squares did their bit. St James" Square was dug up and given over to vegetable growing, Belgrave Square became a tank park, and American soldiers used Hereford Square as a baseball pitch. Air raid shelters were built in Soho and Manchester squares. Squares aren't just a feature of life in London, either. They're all over the UK, from Glasgow to York to Bath. For several years I lived in Lewes Crescent, a Grade I listed Georgian terrace overlooking Brighton's seafront, as Lewis Carroll once did. A tunnel led under the main road from the five-acre private garden, and spewed you out, like Alice in Wonderland, on to the beach. That very same property is now for sale. Then, as now, these squares offered a rare freedom for parents and children. Television producer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, who grew up in Montagu Square, near Marble Arch, in the late Sixties and Seventies, recalls how "ownership of a golden key gave you access to a Narnia-style play land. There were Cowboys and Indians and hose fights in summer." Not all garden square veterans are so keen on the screaming of tiny lungs, however. Social commentator Peter York lived in Montagu Square, and was once "the very, very bad" chairman of its committee. Children, he tells me, were its only carbuncle. "I wanted to drive them out. I saw any concession to children as the thin edge of the wedge."
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Family Denies 49ers' Fan Who Died Was Drunk The parents of a man who died after falling from a pedestrian overpass outside Candlestick Park before a San Francisco 49ers game are denying accounts from witnesses that their 32-year-old son was drunk and stumbling. Kevin Hayes had a "few" beers while tailgating, but wasn't so intoxicated that he couldn't walk straight, Janet and Dennis Hayes said Wednesday. They said their son he had walked up a ramp and was turning onto a staircase where the rail was lower when he slipped and fell. "Kevin put his hand out thinking the rail was going to be there, but he slipped, tried to grab the rail, and went over the side," Janet Hayes told The Associated Press, citing the account provided by her son, Jeffrey, who was with his older brother when he fell. The Hayes family visited the site Tuesday, trying to piece together what happened. Jeffrey Hayes said he was less than 2 feet from his brother when the accident suddenly occurred. Racing down to the sidewalk, he called his parents as rescuers were loading his brother into the ambulance. His brother already was dead when they arrived at San Francisco General Hospital. Police Chief Greg Suhr has described the death as a sad, tragic accident and said it was not clear if alcohol played a role. Toxicology reports from the coroner's office are not expected for several weeks. The family said they have not heard directly from the city, the 49ers, coroner or any agency. Janet Hayes said they have no plans to contact an attorney or pursue litigation. "I refuse to think about that part right now," she said. "That is way too negative and my son would be ashamed of that." Kevin was supposed to be the best man at his brother's wedding this weekend, a celebration the family decided will occur as planned. "If he were here, he'd be kicking our butts and telling us to stop crying and move on, we've got a wedding to celebrate," Janet Hayes said. "He'd be overwhelmed by the love and support pouring in." The family has been 49ers season ticket holders since 1946, when the team was part of the All-America Football Conference. Kevin and Jeffrey Hayes had been going to games since they were babies. Last Sunday, as always, Kevin was wearing his 49ers cap and T-shirt, his parents said. Kevin Hayes lived in Hayward, across San Francisco Bay from Candlestick Park, and worked as a welder and machinist. He grew up in San Mateo, attending Hillsdale and Aragon high schools and Chabot College. Janet Hayes said the family still passionately supports the 49ers but she was unsure when they would return to Candlestick Park. "It's going to be hard to go to a game in the near future," she said. "We're not ready yet. We have to have some time."
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Prince Hall Freemasonry is a branch of North American Freemasonry founded by Prince Hall in the 18th century and composed predominantly of African Americans. There are two main types of Prince Hall Freemasonry, one of which consists of independent Grand Lodges, some of which are considered regular by the United Grand Lodge of England and the Prince Hall National Grand Lodge. ==History ==
=== Interest ===
The Masonic fraternity was attractive to some free blacks like Prince Hall because freemasonry was founded upon ideals of liberty, equality and peace. === Petitions for admittance into existing lodges ===
Prior to the American Revolutionary War, Prince Hall and fourteen other free black men petitioned for admittance to the white Boston St. John’s Lodge. They were turned down
=== Grand Lodge of Ireland ===
Having been rejected by colonial Freemasonries, Hall and 15 others sought and were initiated into the Masonry by members of Lodge No. 441 of the Grand Lodge of Ireland on March 6, 1775. The military lodge was attached to the 38th Foot (renamed "The 1st Staffordshire Regiment") in 1782. The Lodge was attached to the British forces stationed in Boston. Hall and other freedmen founded African Lodge No. 1 and he was named Grand Master. Other African Americans included Cyrus Johnston, Bueston Slinger, Prince Rees, John Canton, Peter Freeman, Benjamin Tiler, Duff Ruform, Thomas Santerson, Prince Rayden, Cato Speain, Boston Smith, Peter Best, Forten Horward, and Richard Titley, all of whom apparently were free by birth. When black men wished to become Masons in the new nation the white members of the Lodge had to unanimously vote to accept a petitioner to received Masonic degrees. If one white person voted against the petitioner that person would be rejected. In a letter by General Albert Pike to his brother in 1875 he said, "I am not inclined to mettle in the matter. I took my obligations to white men, not to Negroes. When I have to accept Negroes as brothers or leave Masonry, I shall leave it." Masonic and Grand Lodges generally excluded African Americans. Since the votes were anonymous, it was impossible to identify the member who had voted against accepting a black member. The effect was the black men who had legitimately been made Masons in integrated jurisdictions could be rejected. Racial segregation existed until the 1960s and still persists in some jurisdictions. The black Masons therefore had limited power. When the military lodges left the area, they were given the authority to meet as a lodge, take part in the Masonic procession on St. John’s Day, and bury their dead with Masonic rites but could not confer Masonic degrees or perform any other essential functions of a fully operating Lodge. === Grand Lodge of England ===
Unable to create a charter, they applied to the Grand Lodge of England. The Grand Master of the Mother Grand Lodge of England, H. R. H. The Duke of Cumberland, issued a charter for the African Lodge No. 1 later renamed African Lodge no. 459 September 20, 1784. The lodge was the country's first African Masonic lodge. Due to the African Lodge's popularity and Prince Hall's leadership, the Grand Lodge of England made Hall a Provincial Grand Master on January 27, 1791. His responsibilities included reporting on the condition of lodges in the Boston area. Six years later, on March 22, 1797 Prince Hall organized a lodge in Philadelphia, called African Lodge #459, under Prince Hall’s Charter. They later received their own charter. On June 25, 1797 he organized African Lodge (later known as Hiram Lodge #3) at Providence, Rhode Island. Author and historian James Sidbury said "Prince Hall and those who joined him to found Boston's African Masonic Lodge built a fundamentally new "African" movement on a preexisting institutional foundation. Within that movement they asserted emotional, mythical, and genealogical links to the continent of Africa and its peoples. In 1788 John Marrant became the chaplain of the African Masonic Lodge. The lodge met in the “Golden Fleece”, located near Boston Harbor, during the 1780s and 1790s. They later met at Kirby Street Temple in Boston. === Intervisitation attainment ===
By 1797 there were at least thirty-four members in the Boston black lodge, but still the lodge was overlooked by mainstream Boston Masons. Integration with the American white Masons was not imminent. Since they were unable to attain integration, the blacks concentrated on recognition from white Masons that black Masonry, descending from Prince Hall of Massachusetts, was legitimate and not "clandestine".
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Rihanna, Chris Brown: Is the alleged Twitter affair getting ugly? Rihanna and Chris Brown's possible Twitter love affair took a new turn over the New Year's weekend -- now what was all sweetness and light looks to be turning into a digital simulation of the neighbors having a loud fight with the windows open. After Brown rang in the new year in Las Vegas with girlfriend Karrueche Tran, pics of the couple together reportedly didn't sit right with Rihanna, who tweeted Monday, "How can you lie to her, while u lay with me???.....If you don't have an answer, you don't have to answer." Of course, Rihanna could be tweeting about her dog for all we know, but she does have a recent history of sending out suspiciously timed love tweets that are just minutes behind Brown's similarly vague love tweets. There's been no responding tweet from Chris Brown, so maybe he doesn't have an answer. Or maybe he's expanded on his resolution to stay away from the media in 2012? Also no word on Twitter from Brown's girlfriend, Tran. But that may be because she's too distracted by all that food on her plate. If there's any love triangle going on here, it may be between Brown, Tran and McDonald's.
Ladies still love Chris Brown, despite his mistakes Chris Brown and Rihanna sending each other love tweets? Rihanna named sexiest woman alive; says she's still a Chris Brown fan -- Patrick Kevin Day Photos, from left: Chris Brown in concert at KIIS-FM's Jingle Ball; Rihanna in concert in June. Credits: Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times; Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times
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A Sandy Hook Parent Finds His Voice When Mark Barden considers Adam Lanza, the young man who murdered Barden's 7-year-old son, Daniel, and 25 others in the Sandy Hook school massacre, he is struck by what he calls "a sad parallel." In his short life, Daniel made a habit of seeking out and befriending youngsters he spotted sitting alone, a virtue that his teachers praised at Sandy Hook Elementary. "The young man who killed my son was the little boy that sat alone," says Mr. Barden with rueful certainty. "Maybe if there was a little Daniel Barden that came along in his growing up, perhaps things could be different." This is as far as Mr. Barden goes in speculating on the shooter as he finds his family and community struggling through what feels to be a darkly upended life of great and sad unknowns. "We're an unlikely group of unwilling colleagues in a fraternity we never wanted to be in," he says, including the ever-growing national cohort of families left suffering in other shooting rampages in places like Aurora, Colo. "It's never going to be normal the way we knew it. Our existence is completely different." The tragedy gave Mr. Barden, who is a musician, a voice he never wanted as a victimized parent now committed to buttonholing legislators for gun safety laws and speaking out as a member of a group - Sandy Hook Promise - that formed here in the wake of the shootings. It aims to wield grass-roots grief to create something positive and head off future tragedies - to move beyond what Mr. Barden calls "the darkest horror of it all" and apply common sense and simple kindness to a variety of endeavors, from social bonding to gun safety. "There were lots of watery eyes in the halls of Congress," Mr. Barden recalls of visits to sympathetic-sounding senators who, for all the tears, voted down President Obama's gun safety proposals. Some grieving residents have sought to confront the nay-voters at public meetings. Mr. Barden's approach is not to "shame them" but to keep visiting Washington and urging lawmakers to take up the issue once more. This may be chimerical as Capitol Hill senses the nation's shift to fresher concerns and headlines. Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, hopes to revive the issue later this year, but Mr. Barden concedes that he worries people will "kind of put this behind them and move on." He still bristles that Newtown parents were dismissed as White House "props" by Senator Rand Paul, usually a champion of citizen petitions, at least when the Tea Party exercises it. But lobbying in Washington is so driven by money and smooth professionals that grieving parents petitioning firsthand might have struck lawmakers as an unpleasant intrusion. Mr. Barden is resolved not to quit intruding into the "sausage making." "I don't have the luxury of waiting for the next one," he says, fearing a future gun massacre. The Barden family still loves Newtown's close-knit community and will stay here. "We cry every day," Mr. Barden says of his wife, Jackie, a schoolteacher, and their children, 13-year-old James and 11-year-old Natalie. "I'm trying to explain to them that it's all right for us to cry," he says, sounding worn. "I don't know what to expect. We're all in therapy." For all the failure in Washington, the Bardens draw comfort from a busy family Web site - whatwoulddanieldo.com - that emphasizes society's need for the kind and simple outreach that was Daniel's specialty.
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It Might Get Loud (PG) (Rated 2/ 5) Reviewed by Anthony Quinn Plectrums at the ready: this hagiography of three guitar heroes will have axe-aficionados everywhere striking a pose in the name of amplified rock. The virtuosi in question, Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White, roughly span the generations, and the gimmick of Davis Guggenheim's documentary is to gather the trio on an empty soundstage to riff, to rock, to reminisce. Interleaved with this are biographical snippets (Page as an eager young schoolboy on early 1960s television) and concert footage of each player in his prime (White's fingers bleeding over the fretboard; The Edge standing meekly in the shadow of Bono's messianic stage cavorting). Of course, the fundamental idea of such profiling is flawed, because musicians are far less interesting in what they say than in what they play. All three seem decent enough blokes, but they are not fascinating talkers - unless, that is, you happen to be obsessed with the double-neck guitar, custom-built microphones or the intricacies of effect pedals. Offensive or abusive comments will be removed and your IP logged and may be used to prevent further submission. In submitting a comment to the site, you agree to be bound by the Independent Minds Terms of Service.
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The statue, dedicated in 1922, has an inscription on the marble pediment that reads:
throp, Hutchinson became the reason for all of the difficulties that the colony had gone through, and with her departure, any other lingering issues were swept under the carpet. Winthrop's account has given Hutchinson near legendary status, and as with all legends, what exactly she stood for has shifted over the centuries. To Winthrop, Hutchinson was a "hell-spawned agent of destructive anarchy". To 19th century America she was a crusader for religious liberty, as the nation celebrated its new achievement of the separation of church and state. Finally, in the 20th century she became a feminist leader, credited with terrifying the patriarchs, not because of her religious views, but because she was an assertive, highly visible woman. Historian Michael Winship calls Hutchinson "a prophet, spiritual adviser, mother of fifteen, and important participant in a fierce religious controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638." Upheld equally as a symbol of religious freedom, liberal thinking and Christian feminism, Anne Hutchinson is a contentious figure, having been lionised, mythologised and demonised by various writers. In particular, historians and other observers have interpreted and re-interpreted her life within the following frameworks: the status of women, power struggles within the Church, and a similar struggle within the secular political structure. As to her overall historical impact, in his 2005 book on Hutchinson and the Free Grace Controversy, Winship writes, "Hutchinson's well-publicized trials and the attendant accusations against her made her the most famous, or infamous, English woman in colonial American history." == Memorials and legacy ==
In front of the State House in Boston, Massachusetts stands a statue of Anne Hutchinson with her daughter Susanna as a child. The statue, dedicated in 1922, has an inscription on the marble pediment that reads:
hrop, Hutchinson became the reason for all of the difficulties that the colony had gone through, and with her departure, any other lingering issues were swept under the carpet. Winthrop's account has given Hutchinson near legendary status, and as with all legends, what exactly she stood for has shifted over the centuries. To Winthrop, Hutchinson was a "hell-spawned agent of destructive anarchy". To 19th century America she was a crusader for religious liberty, as the nation celebrated its new achievement of the separation of church and state. Finally, in the 20th century she became a feminist leader, credited with terrifying the patriarchs, not because of her religious views, but because she was an assertive, highly visible woman. Historian Michael Winship calls Hutchinson "a prophet, spiritual adviser, mother of fifteen, and important participant in a fierce religious controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638." Upheld equally as a symbol of religious freedom, liberal thinking and Christian feminism, Anne Hutchinson is a contentious figure, having been lionised, mythologised and demonised by various writers. In particular, historians and other observers have interpreted and re-interpreted her life within the following frameworks: the status of women, power struggles within the Church, and a similar struggle within the secular political structure. As to her overall historical impact, in his 2005 book on Hutchinson and the Free Grace Controversy, Winship writes, "Hutchinson's well-publicized trials and the attendant accusations against her made her the most famous, or infamous, English woman in colonial American history." == Memorials and legacy ==
In front of the State House in Boston, Massachusetts stands a statue of Anne Hutchinson with her daughter Susanna as a child. The statue, dedicated in 1922, has an inscription on the marble pediment that reads:
rop, Hutchinson became the reason for all of the difficulties that the colony had gone through, and with her departure, any other lingering issues were swept under the carpet. Winthrop's account has given Hutchinson near legendary status, and as with all legends, what exactly she stood for has shifted over the centuries. To Winthrop, Hutchinson was a "hell-spawned agent of destructive anarchy". To 19th century America she was a crusader for religious liberty, as the nation celebrated its new achievement of the separation of church and state. Finally, in the 20th century she became a feminist leader, credited with terrifying the patriarchs, not because of her religious views, but because she was an assertive, highly visible woman. Historian Michael Winship calls Hutchinson "a prophet, spiritual adviser, mother of fifteen, and important participant in a fierce religious controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638."
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== Year in baseball template ==
Hello, Richard! I just noticed that the template needs to have the "this year =" parameter added to it like the has. Is it possible to have the bot add this? Rgrds. A belated thx for completing the template conversion. The pages look better with navboxes. Good work! Rgrds. == LivingBot 5 ==
Would you mind have a look at task 5's BRFA? It hasn't had a BAG comment yet. I know it's not time-sensitive, but I just hate to be sat here waiting (for a log only run of proposed edits to complete) when I could be doing something. Also, feel free to point out holes in the code! :) - Jarry1250 (t, c)
Blast - the old IP blocked problem seems to have risen from the dead. I don't know what I can do (it just seems to go away on its own last time around)... Any ideas? - Jarry1250 (t, c)
Okay, so Rodhullandemu seems to have fixed that (very kindly), so it's onto question 2: change the template before or after the (trial) edits? Either way something's going to break... After would result in the filename and not the image showing up on unchanged articles; before is less predictablewould result in the image displaying, but with " actually don't see why it's necessary to have any default image at all. Wikidea
Sorry, Richard, it seems I overlooked situations where editors have already specified an alternative image using the "Image" parameter. The bot should only strip out "Image" parameters which are blank. — Cheers, JackLee –talk–
== List of cases ==
These are the ones in my watchlist that have been messed up, but I expect there are more. Sorry, I don't know how to show you the watchlist itself. Of course you can just delete all this:
(large list commented out to preserve page width) RichardΩ612 Ɣ ɸ
Richard, please put it back. It was never discussed on the Infobox talk page, and I'm creating more pages using this thing than anyone else. I've posted the message I gave you on Magioladitis's page, but please go ahead and revert. Wikidea
Thanks Richard. I know you're trying to help out and everything, but I'm wondering what was wrong with the Infobox in the first place! Wikidea
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Not sure what those are Richard. If it's solving some bugs, then I'm sure that's fine. When I wrote all the cases, I never noticed problems: but if you've identified something...
What's an example of where there's this bug? Wikidea
== Techy stuff ==
Hi Richard, this is the template for cases that I work from. It looks like none of that will be affected, and if that's the case, no objection from me. Best, Wikidea
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What is the 0612 bit in your name? =Nichalp «Talk»=
Heh, thanks.
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Europa League: Scott Parker keen to pick up a medal he can call his own Scott Parker is desperate to win the Europa League with Tottenham Hotspur, so that he has a medal which he can call his own. This evening, Parker's Spurs will face FC Basel in the quarter-finals of the Europa League. After a long season they are just four games away from a European final in Amsterdam in May. Parker, understandably, would be desperate to be there. He has tasted success before, but only as a peripheral part of the Chelsea squad which won the League Cup and the Premier League in 2005. Parker was awarded two medals that season, but does not feel particularly attached to either of them, and does not know where they are. "In the Carling Cup, I played in a few games before that and then I got to the final and I got injured," Parker explained, yesterday. "That was the one where I just thought I contributed quite a bit. But still didn't really feel at the bottom of my heart - and it was the same in the league - I didn't really feel I had any sort of contribution to it. I got a League medal as well but I don't know if it was official because obviously you have to play a certain number of games." Parker, who made just four league appearances that season, does not even know where it is. "There were four of us who didn't play enough games but I think the club got replica medals made. I wouldn't know where it is now, though. I wouldn't have a clue. It says a lot I suppose, doesn't it?" So Parker is desperate to win something which he can be proud of and if Spurs are Europa League champions this year he would certainly have been a big part of that. Then he might feel more confident about putting a medal on display. "It would have to go on the fireplace, wouldn't it?" Parker joked. "That would go somewhere a little bit more special. I'm not like that, but I'm sure I would treasure that a little bit more than my league one." And Parker, now 32 years old, must be aware that he does not have infinite time left at the top level. "It's something that I'd love to do and at the end of my career, to look back and say 'This is what I did and this is the time we had'." Parker's focus to win this trophy is matched by his manager, who has always been a frank supporter of the Europa League. "He told us from the outset that we were going to try and win it, that we were going to go strong and it was a part of our season that we needed to look at," Parker said. "It's a big competition, there's big teams in it as well. If you've come away at the end of the season and you've won this competition you've done bloody well. You deserve a lot of credit, as a squad and as a team to achieve that. Because it's difficult, playing Thursdays and Sundays, there's big teams coming into it when the Champions League boys get knocked out. It's a very tough competition." A real winning mentality would help Spurs but Parker feels the emergence of one after recent results. "Winning becomes a habit," he explained. "When I was at Chelsea we used to ground out results when we weren't playing well. There's a know-how. On Saturday [at Swansea] that was the case. I don't think we deserved to win the game but we did." Tottenham v Basel KO 8.05pm, White Hart Lane
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Probe as Charlie Sheen gets police escort to gig Published Date: 23 April 2011 Officials are investigating why actor Charlie Sheen was given a police escort, with lights and sirens, from the airport to his show in Washington DC, for which he was running late. Sheen tweeted about the ride and included a picture of a speedo reaching about 80mph. Last Updated: 22 April 2011 10:33 PM Source: The Scotsman Location: Edinburgh
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FBI interviews among evidence to be released in Zimmerman case By Vivian Kuo, CNN July 12, 2012 -- Updated 0622 GMT (1422 HKT) Trayvon Martin's family and supporters say George Zimmerman racially-profiled the teen before the shooting.
George Zimmerman is accused of second-degree murder Prosecutor Angela Corey is expected to hand over evidence to Zimmerman's attorney Anticipated material includes details about FBI interviews The interviews are part of Justice Department investigation (CNN) -- Florida's state attorney is expected to release FBI reports Thursday that may shed light on whether race played a role the night George Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed teen. The investigative reports are amid evidence in the second-degree murder case expected to be released by Special Prosecutor Angela Corey to Zimmerman's attorney, according to court documents filed in June. The U.S. Department of Justice took up a civil rights investigation following allegations that race played a part in the killing of Trayvon Martin, 17, in February in a gated community in Sanford. Shooting leaves community divided An official conclusion in the Justice Department's investigation is not expected as part of the evidence release, though details about some of the interviews will be turned over to Zimmerman's attorney. Martin's family and supporters say Zimmerman racially-profiled the teen, describing him as "suspicious" during a 911 call and ignoring a police dispatcher's request that he not follow him. The 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer, who is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting, has said he killed Martin in self-defense, saying the teen punched him and slammed his head into a sidewalk before the shooting, according to family members and police. Trayvon Martin memorial removed but preserved Among the evidence to be released are details about federal interviews with more than 30 people, including key members of the Sanford Police Department and Zimmerman's friends, according to court documents. Also expected to be released are details about interviews with agents of the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, who arrested Zimmerman in 2005 on suspicion of battery against a law enforcement officer and obstruction of justice. A timeline of events The charges against Zimmerman, who was accused of pushing an undercover agent, were later dropped after he entered a pretrial diversion program and completed an anger management class. Additionally, according to the court filings, details about Zimmerman's MySpace account, surveillance video and e-mails between Zimmerman and ousted Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee will be released as part of the evidence handover. Zimmerman was released on $1 million bond last week. An initial bond of $150,000 was revoked last month after a judge learned that Zimmerman and his wife failed to disclose more than $150,000 in donations from the public. Part of complete coverage on Trayvon Martin shooting May 9, 2012 -- Updated 1250 GMT (2050 HKT) The police chief in Sanford, Florida, said communities should "take a good, hard look at who is selected" for neighborhood watch programs. April 19, 2012 -- Updated 0210 GMT (1010 HKT) The judge in George Zimmerman case has received high ratings from defense lawyers but isn't known as a "soft touch." April 11, 2012 -- Updated 2226 GMT (0626 HKT) State Attorney Angela Corey is known to be ready to pursue what she believes is right, even amid media glare and public pressure. National attention on the Trayvon Martin shooting has put Sanford in the spotlight. Residents agree the death is tragic yet remain divided when it comes to racism. Law firm search
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Dywedodd Mr Osborne y byddai'r newidiadau hyn yn arbed £350m y flwyddyn - gyda'r arian hwnnw yn cyllido cefnogaeth ychwanegol i helpu pobl fewn i waith. Daeth y datganiad i ben am 1:23pm.
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Factory activity expands in June, jobs decline WASHINGTON U.S. manufacturing activity grew in June behind a pickup in new orders and stronger production. The increase suggests factories could rebound in the second half of the year and help the economy grow. The Institute for Supply Management said Monday that its index of factory activity increased to 50.9 in June. That's up from 49 in the May, which was the lowest reading in four years. A reading above 50 suggests growth, while those below indicate contraction. Still, a measure of manufacturing employment fell in June to 48.7, its lowest level since September 2009. That suggests that Friday's June employment report will show that factories cut jobs for the fourth straight month. The mostly positive survey of U.S. manufacturing in June contributed to strong gains on Wall Street and followed mixed reports of factory growth overseas. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 162 points in the first hour of trading, while broader stock indexes also gained. China's manufacturing sector weakened in June, according to two separate surveys, hurt by falling orders from the U.S. and Europe and by efforts by China's regulators to slow lending. But in Japan, large manufacturers reported a positive outlook for the first time in nearly two years in June. The quarterly "tankan" survey also showed that the outlook for services firms also increased. The positive reading suggests that businesses are reacting positively to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to revive the nation's stagnant economy. U.S. manufacturing had slowed this year after providing crucial support to the economy for the first three years after recession ended in June 2009. Europe's slump has weighed heavily on U.S. exports. And businesses cut back on their investment in machinery and equipment in the first quarter. There have been other signs recently that U.S. manufacturers could be starting to recover. U.S. businesses stepped up their orders for factory goods in April and May. And a category of orders that's viewed as a proxy for business investment plans -- which excludes the volatile areas of transportation and defense -- rose 1.1 percent in May, the third straight gain. Consumers also spent more in May on cars and trucks, which should keep auto factories humming. Sales at auto dealers rose in May by the most in six months, according to the Commerce Department. The U.S. economy expanded at only a 1.8 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, the Commerce Department said this week. That was much slower than its previous estimate of a 2.4 percent rate. The main reason for the lower figure was consumers spent less on services than initially thought. Still, spending on long-lasting factory goods, such as cars and appliances, remained healthy. Economists expect growth remained tepid in the April-June quarter. Most estimates range between a rate of 1.5 percent and 2 percent.
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Tahrir Taken, Some Egyptians Look for 'Third Square' to Resist Islamists and Army As hundreds of thousands of Egyptians crammed into dueling rallies in different parts of Cairo on Friday, responding to calls for support from rival political factions around the army and the Muslim Brotherhood, activists who mistrust both the military and the Islamists were left wondering how best to register their disgust. With Tahrir Square packed with flag-waving supporters of the defense minister, Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, and a rally outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque across town calling for the reinstatement of the deposed Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, many dissenters avoided the streets and mocked both sides from afar online. The activist filmmaker Aalam Wassef, who made subversive Web videos during the Mubarak era under the pseudonym Ahmad Sherif, released a bleakly comic music video that showed him sitting out Friday's demonstrations at home, doing his laundry in front of a banner with a single word on it: "Resist." The song's lyrics summed up the topsy-turvy sense of a world turned sideways and then upside down, scrambling the positions taken by three groups during Egypt's 2011 revolution - the revolutionaries; the "felool," or "remnants" of the regime of Hosni Mubarak; and the "Couch Party," made up of citizens who watch political disputes unfold on television. "Today the revolutionaries are members of the Couch Party," Mr. Wassef's collaborator Mariam K. sings, "the Brotherhood are felool and the felool are playing revolutionaries." And that, Mr. Wassef chimes in, is "the surreal story of Egypt." Another dissident, Omar Robert Hamilton - a leader of the Mosireen media collective, which grew out of an effort to document the 2011 revolution - wrote on Twitter that he had visited Tahrir Square to collect five minutes of footage for the archive, but found "the blind uniformity of this nationalism" extremely depressing. Mr. Hamilton also drew attention to ironic contrasts he noticed on the streets on Friday, like Egyptian soldiers deployed next to a mural dedicated to the activist Mina Daniel, who was killed by troops during the notorious Maspero massacre of mainly Coptic Christian protesters in late 2011, when Egypt was under direct military rule. Volunteers from Tahrir Bodyguard, a group set up to protect female protesters from sexual assault during demonstrations in the square, posted an alert on Twitter saying that they would not be present on Friday. A small number of activists did take to the streets, however, displaying banners in Sphinx Square with red lines through the faces of both General Sisi and Mr. Morsi. As the Egyptian-British blogger Sarah Carr reported for Mada Masr, an English-language news site, the dozens of protesters in Sphinx Square "refer to their movement as "The Third Square." " In a leaflet distributed in the protest they describe themselves as "a group of Egyptians who protested on January 25 against the corruption of the Mubarak state... protested against [the former head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein] Tantawi's men, who gave the army a bad name during the transitional period, and protested against Morsi and religious fascism in order to call for early elections." The leaflet says that they are protesting today against the army playing a role in politics and against "the defense minister calling for an authorization to kill Egyptians on the pretext of fighting terrorism when fighting terrorism does not require a mandate because that is the duty of the Armed Forces." One protester, Marwa Ibrahim, told Ms. Carr: "I refused the June 30 coup not because I loved Morsi but because it was a violation of revolutionary legitimacy. We want a civilian president." She added that her main priority was getting justice for all of the protesters killed since Jan. 25, 2011. Other bloggers who were in Tahrir Square for the uprising that drove the former air force commander, Hosni Mubarak, from office, registered their dissent, and journalists noted with amazement the scenes of pro-military fervor on the streets of Cairo on Friday. Others drew attention to the paradoxical fact that the American-financed Egyptian military seemed to be drumming up support by casting itself as a bulwark of defense against the United States. Some posters drew on the widely embraced conspiracy theory that the Muslim Brotherhood was secretly supported by the Obama administration. The media even reported a rumor that an imminent American invasion had been prevented only by the might of Egypt's Air Force. As the political commentator Bassem Sabry noted, some well-printed banners displayed on Friday even referred to the United States government's decision this week to hold back delivery of new fighter jets to Egypt after the defense minister called for a popular mandate to "fight terrorism."
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For every 100 females there were 88.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.1 males. The median income for a household in the village was $43,409, and the median income for a family was $49,375. Males had a median income of $35,859 versus $30,750 for females. The per capita income for the village was $20,320. About 1.3% of families and 2.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.1% of those under age 18 and 8.0% of those age 65 or over. ==Fire Department==
The Round Lake Hose Company was founded in 1886 as the M.B. Sherman Hose Company, with a Constitution that required active members have ‘good moral character’ and live within a mile of the community. The first firehouse was situated on Troy Avenue near the intersection of Burlington Avenue. A two wheeled cart carried two sizes of hose, which were rolled up on a wheel axle and had a long pole with enough handles for seven men to pull it along if necessary. Another two wheeled cart, with a bell mounted on the axle, would proceed ahead of the hoses to sound a warning. The modern Round Lake Hose Company operates two fire stations, housing a total of eight pieces of apparatus. The membership consists of 60 dedicated, volunteer men and women who continue to respond to emergencies in this quaint little village as well as within the town of Malta and town of Ballston. Additionally, a 1926 Childs fire truck which was purchased from the village of Ballston Spa in 1945 is maintained as a unique parade piece representing their history. == See also ==
Round Lake Library
List of Registered Historic Places in Saratoga County, New York
== Notes ==
==References==
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Village of Round Lake
Round Lake and Malta early history
Round Lake Fire Department
Round Lake Auditorium
Villages in New York
Historic districts in New York
National Register of Historic Places in New York
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Scary Perry Isn't a Winning Strategy As a child in Paint Creek, Texas, Rick Perry was not great at clod fights, the rural Texas version of snowball fights that involve throwing clumps of dirt at one another. "He couldn't hit the side of a barn," his fellow Boy Scout Riley Couch told the San Antonio Express-News in 2001. But, "Tricky Ricky," as he was often called in his hometown (that and "Pretty Ricky"), was a master practical jokester. His fellow Scouts suspected it was Perry who left a dead snake in their clubhouse. And on a troop trip to Dallas, Perry squeezed toothpaste into sleeping boys" hair. Fast forward 50 years to CNN's Las Vegas GOP presidential debate Tuesday night and Perry, the impish trickster, has reemerged. For the last four debates, everyone has been waiting for Perry to show a pulse. On Tuesday night he did. Perry launched a double broadside against front runner Mitt Romney. With assists from former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and former Speaker Newt Gingrich, he attacked Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts and went after Romney's employment of undocumented immigrants to tend to his gardens. Romney claimed he didn't know at the time and that he promptly fired the crew when he found out. A flustered Romney stuttered: "I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals." Which kind of begs the question, if he weren't running for office, might he have kept them on? Perry drew blood and reasserted himself on the debate stage. But he also came off somewhat desperate: grasping for words, sputtering in his outrage. It's not the smartest strategy. Perry's problem isn't taking down Romney. Already 70-75% of GOP voters don't like Romney. The fact that Perry lost 22 points last week, Cain gained 20 and Romney picked up zero shows that there's a considerable group of Republicans primary voters out there who just aren't convinced that Romney is their guy. Perry doesn't need to scare them: they're already looking for any viable non-Romney option. "Rick Perry entered the race in first place not saying a single word about Mitt Romney because folks are searching for the anti-Mitt," says Matthew Dowd, a former adviser to President George W. Bush. "And Perry dropped down not because of Mitt but because of his performance problems and that's what he needs to focus on." By making such personal attacks against Romney, Perry broke Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment: Thou shall not speak ill of any fellow Republican. Personal attacks usually come at the end of a campaign (though, if New Hampshire and Iowa move to early December, one could argue we're already in the final sprint) when a candidate is within striking distance and he or she needs an extra edge. Perry needs to define himself first. He needs to show he's got gravitas, can deliver a presidential speech and that he's a feasible alternative to Romney. If his image is only a scary, angry guy, that's as hobbling as the wallflower performance he's put on for the last eight weeks. Perry can't win through being a trickster; he'll have to beat Romney in a fair clod fight or not at all.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was delete. Indiscriminate list. Jayjg (talk)
===List of XMPP client software===
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Delete Indiscriminate list of external links. See NOTLINK. Wikipedia is not meant to be used by people to advertise their products/projects. That is the sole purpose of this "article". AlistairMcMillan (talk)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Keep. With some cleanup, this would provide a useful index to notable XMPP clients. Suggest that we remove all external links except the one to the XMPP site & then wikilink all clients. Red links can be allowed to stay on the list for a short time to encourage stubs, but can be purged if it is clear they are not notable. So your argument is that we should keep the list because it is USEFUL? Is that our purpose here, to provide a list of useful external links? I thought Wikipedia was not a web directory? AlistairMcMillan (talk)
Please read both USEFUL and my comments before wiki-lawyering! "Information found in tables in particular is focused on usefulness to the reader. An argument based on usefulness can be valid if put in context. For example, 'This list brings together related topics in X and is useful for navigating that subject.'" This is precisely why I said this page can serve as an index. I also argued that the list article could be kept & the external links can be removed. External linkspam has been removed. I'd encourage you to be less liberal in deletion, when cleanup is relatively trivial (especially when you found this page on another talk page, to prevent any accusation of POINT). Really. Where is the informative part that helps people navigate the subject? All I see is NAME, SUPPORTED PLATFORM and SUPPORTED PROTOCOLS. None of it backed up by sources. Do you genuinely think anyone has put any effort into this article except to go "Hey cool, I'm gonna add my project to the list too." AlistairMcMillan (talk)
And another point I meant to mention in the nomination that I forgot. What does this article get us that isn't better provided by categories? AlistairMcMillan (talk)
Lists and categories are not meant to be mutually exclusive. The fact that the list informes us about platform and protocol makes it better than a category already. You might refer to other AfDs re. list articles. It has been said time-and-again that lists are not redundant to categories. This list is useful over categories for the same reasons that other software lists are, including:
It provides additional sub-categorization/clarification (in this case, license, platform, and other miscellaneous notes)
Some red-linked entries are notable products & this encourages the creation of stubs. Delete per nom, indiscriminate list of non-notable titles. JBsupreme (talk) ✄ ✄ ✄
Keep - No different from many other software list articles. It is clearly not indiscriminate, it seems to list only notable entries (all bluelinks), if some entries are not notable they can be removed and so, being an issue dealt with editing, we do not delete for this reason alone. The "advertisement" reasoning of the nom is unproven and smells of failing AGF. Lists are meant to be useful, in structuring information for searching and easiness purpose. The advertisement reason is unproven? Did you look at the edit history? AlistairMcMillan (talk)
Yes, but 1)please point me at where blatant advertisement pops out and 2)since when promotional edits are considered a reason to delete a whole article? Delete - IINFO applies. This list is unlikely to be completable on any level. Claritas §
Apart that there is nothing indiscriminate about the list (it has a clearly defined topic with a clearly defined inclusion criteria), why do you think it is "unlikely to be completeable", and why do we need it to be completed right now?
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Yocco's Hot Dogs is a regionally-famous and cheesesteak establishment with six restaurants, each located in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Yocco's was founded in 1922 by Theodore Iacocca, uncle of Lee Iacocca. Its corporate headquarters is located in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. ==History and locations==
Yocco's was originally established in 1922 at its current center city Allentown location at 625 Liberty Street. Its original name was the Liberty Grill. Beginning in the 1970s, five additional Yocco's restaurants were opened. The first, known as Yocco's West, was opened at 2128 Hamilton Street. The Second, known as "South", was opened in Emmaus, at Pennsylvania Route 29 and Buckeye Road. The third location was opened in Fogelsville, on Route 100. In 2002, a location was opened further west along Hamilton Street at Route 222 in Trexlertown. The most recent location is on Catasauqua Road in Allentown, near Lehigh Valley International Airport in the Valley Plaza shopping center. Yocco's is known for many of their famous fast food favorites, such as hot dogs, cheese steak sandwiches, French fries, and perogies. Yocco's is currently run by Gary Iacocca, the third generation owner. The fourth generation is now active as well. The company's corporate headquarters is located in Emmaus. The name Yocco's was derived from the name "Iacocca," after the family who owns the establishment. However, because the Pennsylvania Dutch could not pronounce Iacocca (an Italian name) and said Yocco instead, the name was changed to reflect their pronunciation. ==Zippy the Pinhead==
Yocco's has made several appearances in "Zippy the Pinhead," a nationally syndicated comic strip. ==See also==
Historical and Notable Sites in Allentown, Pennsylvania
== References ==
Where Have All The Leaders Gone. By Lee Iacocca. ==External links==
Yocco's page at HollyEats.com. Yocco's page at RoadFood.com. Photo of "King Yocco" at the original Yocco's in Allentown and Yocco's page at flickr.com. "The Secret's in the Sauce", Yocco's article. Yocco's Official Facebook Page
1922 establishments in the United States
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The move replaced former morning co-hosts Scott Miller and comedian Jeff Blanchard, along with show producer Dave Jockers. Regarding their dismissal, Program Director Bill Louis commented, "sadly, this a bottom-line business." WNCX cancelled The Maxwell Show on August 25, 2011, less than ten months after the show's arrival at the station. Local media speculated that, in addition to "flagging ratings," WNCX cancelled the show to make room for "a new, high-profile, multi-person morning show" at sister station WKRK-FM (92.3 FM) as that station transitioned to a new sports format. On August 29, 2011, the morning shift was assigned on an interim basis to local radio personality Nard (Dom Nardella) – the former DJ and Program Director of WNCX sister station WKRK-FM during its years as an alternative rock outlet. The show was the first music-oriented morning show to air on WNCX since at least 1992, the year Howard Stern first began to air on the station. On November 7, 2011, radio personality Slats (Tim Guinane), formerly heard on WNCX rival WMMS and WNCX sister station WXTM (now WKRK-FM), took over the WNCX morning shift. The new morning show is the sixth to air on WNCX following Stern's move to Satellite in 2006. ==Current programming==
Local personality Slats (Tim Guinane) hosts the weekday morning show. Also on weekdays, WNCX personality Bill Louis hosts the midday shift; Michael Stanley hosts afternoons; and Paula Balish hosts evenings. Saturday programming includes The Beatle Years hosted by Bob Malik (via Dial Global) airing in the early morning, local DJs Sue Csendes, Chris V., and Mr. Classic (Walt Garrett), who hosts the Saturday Night Live House Party request show. Sunday programming includes Time Warp with Bill St James, classic rock shifts hosted by Csendes, Chris V. and Mr. Classic; and Little Steven's Underground Garage hosted by Steven Van Zandt (via United Stations Radio Networks). The HD2 digital subchannel broadcasts a classic rock format under the brand The Album Pod. As of May 1, 2013, WNCX is a co-flagship station for the Cleveland Browns, sharing coverage with sister station WKRK-FM, as well as AM sports station WKNR. ==References==
==Further reading==
==External links==
Cleveland Broadcast Radio Archives: WNCX timeline
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A: Well, I'll say yes, though of course I've only lived one life. Having grown up Mormon, I can say that it's a people of the book. In some corners, a somewhat anti-intellectual strain, but certainly in the corners that I felt drawn to, Mormons read a lot and they read closely. Every morning during high school I would wake up early and go to seminary, an hour of scripture study and Bible before school. Those pitch-black, cold Massachusetts mornings, my twin sister and I would flip a coin to see who had to go start the car, and let it warm up. We'd drive the twenty minutes to church and sit there and pay very close attention to those wonderful, rich Biblical texts. So yes, I do think that the prose of particularly the King James Bible has been an influence, and I've tried to take the best of that and update it for a contemporary prose style. Also just the economy and the really magical arcs that those Biblical stories manage to accomplish in such a short amount of space really influenced me....I did imbibe some of that. (Reporting by Elaine Lies, editing by Paul Casciato)
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Daredevil who parachuted into the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony dressed as James Bond killed in jumping accident Mark Sutton, 41, was wing-diving in the Swiss Alps yesterday He crashed into a ridge and is understood to have been killed straight away Mr Sutton was one of 20 other wing-suit flyers taking part in an event Wing-suit flying uses jumpsuit to enable to wearer to glide towards ground By Jill Reilly
Tragic: Mark Sutton is thought to have died instantly in the accident in the Swiss Alps The daredevil who amazed the world when he parachuted into the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony dressed as James Bond has been killed in a jumping accident. Mark Sutton, 42, died yesterday after crashing into a mountain ridge in the Swiss Alps after jumping from a helicopter in a wing-diving suit. The former army officer is thought to have died instantly in the accident near Martigny, close to the Switzerland-France border. Mr Sutton jumped with a friend from a height of 10,826ft (3,300m) at around 11am yesterday. The pair had planned to land in a field close to the hamlet of Le Peuty, near Trient. The reason for the crash is unclear and Swiss police have launched an investigation - it could be an unexpected gust of wind pushed Mr Sutton off course. Mr Sutton, who served with the Gurkha Rifles, was one of 20 other wing-suit flyers taking part in an event filming an extreme sports video - it is not clear if he was taking part in the film when he was killed. It is believed he arrived in Chamonix a few days ago with partner Victoria Homewood, 39, and had posted videos of himself on Facebook wing-suiting in the region, according to The Sun. Scroll down for video Killed: Mark Sutton, centre, the daredevil who amazed the world when he parachuted into the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony dressed as James Bond has died after a stunt went wrong. Pictured here with Gary Connery, right, the skydiving 'Queen' last summer Her Majesty's Secret Service: Mr Sutton and Mr Connery drop into the stadium - the result was the most talked-about sequence of the Olympics Opening Ceremony In action: The moment Mr Sutton arrived in the east London stadium was watched by people from around the world The Queen greets 007 at Buckingham Palace with the words 'Good Evening, Mr Bond' in the film sequence leading up to her parachute 'jump' Smooth operators: James Bond actor Daniel Craig and the Queen in the helicopter Just ten days ago he posted a photo of himself taken seconds before the Olympics leap. He wrote: 'Just a year ago. What an adventure that was!' After news of his death emerged, Gary Connery, who dressed as the Queen during the stunt last year tweeted: 'All you jumpers/flyers out there, stay safe, make wise choices and know your limits and your locations live to tell your stories one love.' Mr Connery, told The Sun he had lost a close friend who was'smart, articulate and funny'. TRIBUTE: 'James Bond' daredevil jumping in the Swiss Alps 2012
Modern wing-suits, also known as birdman suits, were first developed during the 1990s and allow jumpers to cover huge amounts of ground at speeds well over 200mph. The practice uses a special jumpsuit with webbing between the limbs to add surface area to the body and give it lift to enable to wearer to glide towards the ground. The wingsuiter uses their body to control forward speed, direction and lift. As they approach the ground that is when a wing-suiter will deploy a parachute. According to wingsuitcity.com, it is generally accepted that wing-suiting adds a degree of complexity to skydiving, with risks such as uncontrollable spinning, hitting an aircraft's tail on exit and extra material to manage. 'In any sport where you share a common bond you can make friends in a heartbeat that last a lifetime,' he said. 'My relationship with Mark was like that.' Wing-suit flying, first developed in the 1990s, uses a special jumpsuit with webbing between the limbs to add surface area to the body. This gives it a lift to enable to wearer to glide towards the ground before deploying a parachute. Police in the Swiss Valais canton confirmed that a 42-year-old British man had died after jumping with a friend from a helicopter while wearing a wing-suit above the Grandes-Otannes area, close to the French border. In a statement they said the pair jumped from a height of 10,826ft (3,300m) at around 11am yesterday. They said they had planned to land close to the hamlet of Le Peuty, near Trient.
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IBM boosts 2012 outlook after first quarter results Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:41pm EDT (Reuters) - IBM raised its full year outlook after it posted a 15 percent rise in first quarter earnings on strong demand for its software services and growth in emerging markets. The company said on Tuesday that revenue was flat at $24.7 billion compared with the previous year and net earnings were up 7 percent at $3.1 billion in the first three months of the year. International Business Machines, which has been shifting its focus from hardware to higher-margin services and software over the past decade, said that earnings per share, excluding items, was $2.78 -- beating average analysts' earnings per share estimates of $2.65 and in line with revenue expectations of $24.78 billion. IBM raised its full year target to at least $15 adjusted earnings per share from previously at least $14.85. Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu wrote in a recent note that there was a "fair likelihood" IBM would "modestly raise" its outlook. IBM competes with business software makers Oracle Corp and SAP AG as well as outsourcing company Accenture and computing giant Hewlett Packard. (Reporting By Nicola Leske; Editing by Bernard Orr)
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George Osborne needs to get a grip on tax row Well, an ISA allows you to avoid tax in order to encourage a certain type of behaviour - in this case, investing more in your future. In exactly the same way, companies are allowed to avoid tax using capital allowances to encourage a certain type of behaviour - investing more in their future (and as a result your future too, by way of more jobs). Costs incurred improving a business can be used in future years to reduce taxable profits, but only at a controlled rate. It's an incentive. Why can individuals have them but not companies? Or a loss incurred in one year can be offset against a previous profitable year or carried forward over subsequent years to smooth out tax payments over what can be volatile and risky periods for employers and encourage investment, fairness and entrepreneurship. All pretty sensible, legal and moral. Yet companies that have done these things for decades, often on a large scale given the nature of the investments and job creation projects that the UK economy needs, are now starting to be vilified and dragged into a tax row that is fast becoming puerile and simply anti-business, anti-employers and anti-jobs - in other words, counter-productive to recovery. Tui Travel was mentioned critically in this context on Tuesday, having spent money restructuring its business in previous years to keep it going and securing jobs during the worst consumer slowdown in living memory. Now, in the case of Starbucks, Google or Amazon they may be making use of other tax breaks. One is transfer pricing that allows a company here to pay an overseas parent a royalty, thus reducing its UK tax bill. Members of the PAC, or anyone else for that matter, may feel it unnecessary and argue for its closure. But remember, anything we can do to the UK subsidiaries of overseas companies, countries abroad can do to ours. And I wager the UK economy receives enormous sums in such transfer pricing remitted back home from operations overseas. As an open, free-trade economy such arrangements are often the lifeblood of many UK-based, tax-paying companies, large or small, employing countless people. We could, unilaterally, upset international tax arrangements but suffer retaliation in equal or greater measure as a result. This would be against our national economic interest and certainly damaging to tax revenues. At the same time, the foreign-owned companies we attack here would be more likely to withdraw their investments from the UK, which would include jobs. Nothing about this tax war would be supportive of free trade and growth. It's possible that some loopholes should be closed - but that's the job of government. It's true that some of the companies involved in these arguments could do more to at least recognise why emotions run high on this topic. But, ultimately, influential bodies such as the PAC should not be venting their spleen on law-abiding companies, but on the bloated and contradictory tax code that throws up fiscal anomalies. It's vital that George Osborne gets a grip on this row. He can make a start in Wednesday's Autumn Statement by bringing some rational, political influence to bear and raise this crucial discussion above the politically myopic. Manufacturing issues are a long-term priority There could not be a more sobering message for David Cameron and George Osborne on Wednesday morning than that delivered by Ratan Tata, one of our most important industrialists. Tata is Indian and has built a vast global industrial conglomerate, but much of it is based here. However, the investments he's made here over the years - in IT, food, car making and steel production - might not have seen the light of day in more recent years. The costs of doing business here are rising and our supply chain (another term for the UK's skills base) is declining. There has been a political failure to "wave the flag" for manufacturing, says Tata, despite the rhetoric. Tata is retiring so has no particular axe to grind. But it's depressing that the same arguments that he's making now have been made time and time again but the Coalition, and Labour before it, have ignored such long-term priorities for typical Westminster short-termism. Xstrata executive won't be the last to jump ship There will be few tears shed by Xstrata shareholders that finance director Trevor Reid is off. He was supposed to take on the same job after Xstrata and Glencore merged. Only shareholders voted down vast retention bonuses for Xstrata management so the deal's gone through without them. There is a perfectly good finance director over at Glencore in the form of Steven Kalmin so Reid's decision to quit, after a worthy spell at Xstrata, won't put the deal in any peril. The enlarged company only ever needed one finance director and Kalmin's well qualified. Expect more empty-handed Xstrata executives to jump ship in the months to come.
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Aspirin may help older colon cancer patients live longer By Katherine Hobson
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older adults with colon cancer who were prescribed a daily aspirin were less likely to die than those who weren't, according to a new study. While the results need to be confirmed with more rigorous studies, they add to the evidence linking aspirin use to longer survival for cancer patients. Studies have also suggested the inexpensive drug can prevent some types of the disease from occurring in the first place. Medical guidelines currently endorse the use of low-dose aspirin to prevent heart disease, but not to fight or prevent cancer. The new study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, included more than 500 colon-cancer patients in the Netherlands aged 70 and older. More than 100 were prescribed daily low-dose "baby" aspirin for heart protection after their cancer diagnosis. Between 1998 and 2007, the death rate for those prescribed aspirin was about half that of the non-aspirin users. The effect was biggest in people with more advanced cancer and in those who received no chemotherapy. Anything that might improve survival in elderly adults with colon cancer would be welcome, since there is no consensus on whether to use chemotherapy in those patients, according to the study. Previous studies have also associated aspirin use with increased survival. Research published in October in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that aspirin therapy could extend survival for colon cancer patients whose tumors had a specific genetic mutation. Still, more scientifically rigorous randomized controlled trials will be needed to confirm the findings of studies that are based on observation after the fact, and therefore less definitive about what actually causes the effect seen. "We're pretty sure this is a real effect, but we're not sure of the magnitude," said Dr. Gerrit Jan Liefers of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, an author of the new study. He said he didn't expect randomized trials would show such a large survival advantage. Liefers is working to develop such a trial in the Netherlands. One limitation of the study is that it looked at aspirin prescriptions, not actual use of the drug. (Low-dose aspirin for heart-disease protection isn't available over the counter in the Netherlands.) It's possible that heart benefits from aspirin might have helped the patients live longer, but the study authors said that alone couldn't account for the big difference in death rates. Also, there might be differences between the groups unaccounted for by researchers that led to the improved survival among the aspirin users. Liefers said it's not completely clear how aspirin might combat colon cancer. One likely route: blocking the enzyme cyclooxygenase-2, or COX-2, which is involved in inflammation and is expressed in about 70 percent of colon tumors. Boris Pasche, director of the hematology and oncology division at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said it would be helpful to figure out who would benefit from and who could skip daily aspirin. "It's a fairly benign drug, but it has side effects," including bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract and the brain, Pasche said. He said patients should discuss with their physicians whether it makes sense to take aspirin at this point. "This supports the concept, but we need a prospective randomized trial," he said. SOURCE: bit.ly/TFEnSF Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, online November 23, 2012.
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== Why is Everything Sexual? Why do we view the body disgusting? ==
Why does everything go back to being something sexual? Such as nakedness. And why do we find the human body so disgusting? Such as someone saying we shouldn't be naked because its gross. It's you right therefore you are saying you are disgusting. Not everything is sexual. When you take a shower is that disgusting, is that sexual? Thank You
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Regarding the first question, I believe it is the society that leads us to that conclusion. Advertisements show people getting what they want by eating the promoted chocolate to give the impression anyone can get what they want by simply eating a candy. Just as in the dark ages everything had to do with witchcraft, or when Dungeons & Dragons and metal music began to get recognized everything had to do with the devil, nowadays society thinks (or even wants) everything to have to do with sexuality. I would even quote 4chan "Rule 34": If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions. About the second question, again society is the one that leads us to believe the naked body is disgusting. Original tribes didn't cover their bodies because they thought they were disgusting, but because of feeling cold or warmth. You can largely thank a man named Sigmund Freud for Western culture's belief that everything must have a hidden sexual undertone. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, though. And sometimes it's a penis. You win some, you lose some, with Freud. But really there is nothing sexual about being naked. Sometimes the naked body is used for sexual desires, but other times it doesn't. Our bodies are our temples. Do we really want to look at our temples as sexual and disgusting beings?71.143.3.182 (talk) Cardinal Raven
What leads you to think that most, or even many people do regard nudity as being sexual? What makes you think that most people even regard sexuality as being disgusting? As for the question of why everything is about sex, this can be easily explained by evolution. A species that does not propagate will die. Therefore sex is fundamental to the way we view the world. From a humanist point of view it is our purpose in life. The majority of our society is religious, therefore leading me to think most people do regard nudity as being sexual. Many religious friends when I ask why someone can't be naked in public and they reply "because its disgusting." The naked body just doesn't mean sex. Yes, evolution does control most of what we view as sexual and non sexual. I watched a show about how woman wanted breast feeding mothers to feed there child in a restroom and somewhere nonpublic because they thought that seeing another womans breast is gross. Breast feeding your child isn't gross. Our world has a problem with viewing the body. In English dubbed versions they cut out unnecessary things such as someone taking a shower. Nudity is nudity. Sex is sex. As long as it isn't being used in a sexual way it should be all right to be naked.71.143.3.182 (talk) Cardinal Raven
I agree with you that nudity doesn't mean sex (incidentally, I'm an atheist). Perhaps when Christianism is almost completely wiped out in Europe (in a couple generation's time?) the equation nudity = sex will make no sense to most people, I guess.
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Company with Guy you know?]] Delete. As currently written, fails to establish notability per CORP and appears to be little more than advertising. Delete as non-notable corporation. Brian G. Crawford
Delete per above. Delete, nn software company. Delete per everyone above. — Saxifrage ✎
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Blagoj Jankov Mučeto (Macedonian: Благој Јанков Мучето) was a Macedonian partisan who was declared a People's Hero of Yugoslavia. He was born in 1911 in Strumica and died on 14 July 1944 at the gates of the city park in Strumica while being chased by the Bulgarian police. The house where he was born and lived is now a memorial dedicated to him. ==References==
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page. The result was keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me
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Keep I have not seen the movie yet, but the IMDB listing makes him sound like a main character in the movie Corpx
Keep 3rd billing on a Hollywood film which grossed $75 million seems notable enough to me. He seems to have appeared on Leno and other talk shows and done quite a few magazine interviews so he's not just a bit player. He gets 275,000 ghits and I doubt there's many other Christopher Mintz-Plasses knocking about. Nick mallory
Keep. 3rd billing, as said above, and, he is on one of the film's posters with the other two actors. All Hallow's Wraith
Keep. 3rd billing, very well known. He is basically oscar-worthy in superbad, and will surely be a big thing in the future. -Famguy3 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Famguy3 (talk • contribs)
Keep He had a large supporting role in a major motion picture that is a big success at the box office. He is very recognizable as well, and could possibly win some awards for his role. There is a high chance that he will get roles in other movies based on his performance. Aoa8212
Keep Actor in a very successful movie 69.122.119.111
Keep Plays a major role in a very notable movie. Underorbit
Keep Mintz-Plasse's character, 'McLovin', may become a pop-culture icon for this generation, along with his co-stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera. I went on wikipedia to find out more about him because I thought his performance in Superbad was awesome. I'm sure I won't be the only one to do the same. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.20.179.175 (talk)
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It's a jungle out there: Art event brings the wild to capital Organisers hope to raise £1m by placing 120 statues of wild animals around Edinburgh, the city's biggest outdoor art event. On a trip to India, our reporter discovers it's all in a very good cause FOR Lakshmi Amma, going to sleep each evening in her home in a remote area of Kerala state in India once meant wondering if she would be disturbed in the night by some unwelcome guests. Until recently the 69-year-old lived on a traditional migratory route of the Asian elephant, a strip of land covering more than 2000 acres and acting as a bridge between feeding sites, one used by thousands of elephants, who stick resolutely to their favourite routes regardless of what, or who, is in their path. Amma was one of a number of people in India who live their lives in the path of elephants. Half of all the Asian elephants living in the wild are in India, where they're generally revered; however, a rapidly growing human population has seen people and elephants living in closer and closer proximity, leading to more than just the straining of a once-harmonious relationship: incredibly, every day one person and one elephant dies in India as a result of this growing conflict. Step forward Elephant Family. As loss of habitat is the No 1 threat to the endangered Asian elephant, and to many of the animals sharing that habitat, the charity teamed up with the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) to fund "elephant corridors" an initiative which helps people like Amma to relocate voluntarily to brand new homes nearby. It allows them to live peacefully without having their crops disturbed by elephants â which, in turn, are able to migrate safely. Eighty eight of these centuries-old corridors have been identified in India alone and Amma lived on one of the most important, which connects 6,500 elephants (a quarter of the country's wild population) between two key forests. Until recently it was blocked by five human settlements.
In order to raise much-needed funds which will go towards securing these corridors, this year Elephant Family will turn their attention to Edinburgh for an ambitious project to "take over" the whole city with sculptures of Asian elephants and their jungle neighbours â from orangutans to tigers â all of which will be decorated by artists from across the globe. In August, animals will arrive in the Royal Botanic Garden before migrating for Jungle City in September, setting up residence everywhere from Princes Street to Bristo Square, after which they'll be auctioned off. "The growing human population in Asia and the demand on the land and resources means it really is loss of habitat that's a big problem for the Asian elephant," says Dan Bucknell, the head of conservation at Elephant Family. "These are routes they have taken over many generations, so when they're severed the elephants will still try to find a way round, whether that means crossing a railway line or going through a plantation. "The elephant is a revered animal in India so people in rural areas who can't really afford to lose their crops will stomach some loss but with this happening, and on a repeated basis, the attitude towards elephants is deteriorating, leading to some quite deadly encounters." After living alone for the past 17 years in the Begur range forests of Wayanad Wildlife Sanctury, Amma was given the keys to her new home, in the village of Panavaly, last year. Like many people living in India, she has great respect for elephants despite the danger they've posed to her, and her statue of Ganesh â the Indian deity which takes the form of an elephant â was one of the few prized possessions she took with her when she relocated. Through the WTI, money raised by Elephant Family has helped to set her up with a new home, more than £1,400 and a quarter of an acre on which she can grow coffee, pepper and coconuts. "Initially I thought that I would never get the chance to be living outside forest with some good land and a respectable house," she says. "But WTI made it possible. Now we are sleeping safely without the fear of elephants." Amma's is the fourth such settlement to be secured, leaving just one to go before the whole corridor is fully protected and can be handed over to the State Forest Department to become an extension of the Wildlife Sanctury. When the project began, the corridor area was inhabited by 54 families but â through voluntary relocation of villagers, as well as the purchasing of land â it is slowly being secured.
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Wynne Prakusya (born 26 April 1981 in Surakarta) is an Indonesian tennis player. Prakusya's first appearance in a professional tournament occurred in 1996, when she was 14 years old. She formally went professional in 1998. Over her career, she has won 2 WTA doubles titles, 9 ITF singles titles and 17 ITF doubles titles. As a junior, her highest achievements includes reaching the 1998 Australian Open junior finals and the 1998 Wimbledon and US Open junior quarterfinals. Her first appearance at a WTA event took place in April 1999 at the Japan Open. The first time she won a match in a WTA event was in the 1999 Wismilak International in Kuala Lumpur. In 2000, Prakusya began to attempt qualification for the main draws of Major tournaments. She also began to appear primarily at WTA rather than ITF events. Her first win in the main draw of a Major came in the 2001 Australian Open, in which she and partner Janet Lee reached Round 2 in the women's doubles. Her first tournament win on the WTA Tour was in the women's doubles of the Standford tournament in 2001, again with partner Janet Lee. She and Lee also qualified for the WTA Tour Championships in Los Angeles in 2002. She represented Indonesia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, this time partnered by Angelique Widjaja. Prakusya successfully represented Indonesia at the 2002 Asian Games, the 2005 Southeast Asian Games and the 2007 Southeast Asian Games, winning seven medals in total. She was part of the Indonesia Fed Cup team in every year from 1996 to 2005. She was part of the 2004 team which saw Indonesia return to the Fed Cup World Group: in that year, Prakusya won 11 of her 12 Fed Cup matches. She has been inactive on the professional tennis circuit since 2007. ==WTA Tour finals (7)==
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==ITF Singles Titles==
==Grand Slam singles performance timeline==
To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. ==Grand Slam doubles performance timeline==
To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. ==Grand Slam mixed doubles performance timeline==
To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. ==See also==
Indonesian Chinese
==External links==
Official site
1981 births
People from Surakarta
Indonesian people of Chinese descent
Living people
Indonesian female tennis players
Asian Games medalists in tennis
Tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Tennis players at the 2002 Asian Games
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He told the Pope that he was not sure that he believed in God, but that he was scared of Him. The Pope responded by saying, "I believe in God, but the only thing that scares me is Muhammed Faye!" The fan then turned to Kaiser Sose, as his head exploded at the mere mention of Faye's name. 29. Faye played a game of 1:2 against both Superman and Batman, at the same time. The loser had to wear his underwear on the outside of his clothes. 30. In public forums with GT fans, Coach Paul Hewitt has mentioned Faye briefly. All he has said was that he's another new player, he has practiced this past year with the team and he is now eligible to play. CPH said he definitely benefited greatly from the year of practice and will contribute. He did NOT mention his 145 inch vertical jump, his 84% 3-point shooting percentage, or his ability to walk on water. (That's shooting from the opposite 3 point line, of course!) 31. Faye's "Fission Vision" has proved to be a problem for Mouhammad lately. He has recently acquired from Los Alamos a pair of Atomic Diffuser goggles until he learns to blink. Growing up he never blinked and consequentially contributed to the growth of the Sahara near his native land. After vaporizing most of North Georgia's BB goals he was forced to face Florida while dribbling up court in pick up games. This was discontinued, however, when forest fires started raging out of control there recently. Argonne National Laboratory is now working on developing his anti fusion goggles next so when Faye has a cup of coffee in the morning after he has a good night's sleep he doesn't turn the training table into the surface of the sun. Argonne Labs has requested that no one associated with Faye surprise, shock, or present him with any incredible material that may cause a wide-eyed response until these goggles are fully developed. Because of this, Faye is no longer permitted to view BOTD posts on the Hive's Water Cooler. 32. Acronyms: a. Fantastically Amazing Yellowjacket Extrordinaire, b. Freakishly Athletic YoYo Embodiment Source: APAMF - Arbitrary Post About M. Faye. === Sources ===
http://www.radarhoops.com/basketball_camp.html
http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200605190928.html
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news?slug=rivals-16277&prov=rivals&type=lgns
to prevent this messy side effect. As an incentive for increased giving, A-T is making available special glasses with a rapture filter to all A-T members with 500+ points. These fans can gaze on Faye's prowess without fear of cranial eruption. Members with 50 to 500 points will be given hand mirrors with which to observe Faye over their shoulders while sitting backwards in their seats. Under 50 point members and students will be given ear and nose plugs. 23. Aside from long arms, his primary talent is that he can create seams in the space time continuum. This allows him to warp, or translaocate himself from one end of the court to the other in the blink of an eye. Don't be surprised if the averages 40+ fast break points per game and 12-13 blocks. Warping the space time continuum makes the clock irrelevant to the game, thus giving the team the additional benefit of never worrying about running out the clock or running out of time as Faye can "back to the future" a last second shot as many times as necessary to let it go in. We control the time component in the game. This has been attempted once before with great success by a crack team of Behind the Iron Curtain Scientists. Hence the name: The :"Faye - 72 Russian Olympic Team Effect". 24. Its Muha's ability to control minds that amazes most people and will change the approach to the game. Dickie V. has already named him the only daiper dandy for '06/07, but after seeing Faye this year, he was unable to speak for the rest of the game. ESPN called it a throat problem, but we know the real reason. A cousin of the friend of a fan who once saw Faye said that he has found oil and prices will drop tomorrow. 25. It's been rumored that McDonald's High School All-American PG Jaravis Crittenton has said he is going to redshirt because of Faye's crazy good PG skills.
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Seasick man runs out of money in attempt to swim from Land's End to John O'Groats A man who suffers from seasickness is close to completing a 1,000-mile swim from Land's End to John O'Groats - a feat which has never before been attempted. Sean Conway, 32, has just 150 miles left to go in his endurance effort, but has had to issue an urgent appeal for extra donations after delays mean he has run out of money to fund a support team. To cover the distance in the budgeted time, Mr Conway would have had to swim the equivalent of an English channel crossing every day. "Delays have been caused by bad weather, unpredictable tides and unforeseen logistical issues," he wrote in an appeal on www.sponsume.com, a project sponsorship website. Mr Conway is a seasoned endurance athlete, having already competed in a round-the-world cycling challenge, and said he was shocked to find that no one had attempted to swim the length of Britain before. "Being the first at something is fraught with these issues as I've had no-one to ask for help and have been very much working it out as I go along. "Most people laughed me off at the early stages saying I was going to die and it wouldn't be possible." Now he is a month over the scheduled time for the swim - and Scotland is only getting colder. The self-confessed seasickness-sufferer - whose equipment sponsors include P&O Ferries - has asked for the help of "the Great British and Irish public... once again." He is offering a selection of items and services in exchange for sponsorship - including his used swimming goggles and caps, copies of the book he will be publishing about the experience, and the chance to have Mr Conway himself appear to give talks at functions. "I need help financially to get me a new skipper, feed the crew, buy fuel for the boat and get myself to John O'Groats," he said. To follow Mr Conway's progress visit www.swimmingbritain.co.uk
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BBC Sport - Turkey 1-0 Northern Ireland A goal by Mevlut Erdinc in first-half injury-time gave Turkey victory over Northern Ireland in a keenly contested friendly game in Adana. Mevlut latched onto a long ball from Bilal Kisa and took advantage of a misunderstanding between Roy Carroll and Chris Baird to nip in and score. Oliver Norwood had chances for NI but fired over the bar and saw a right-foot shot saved by Tolga Zengin. Aaron Hughes almost scored an own goal while Burak Yilmaz hit the woodwork. Northern Ireland travelled to Adana in the hope of putting a disappointing World Cup qualifying campaign, which yielded just one win from 10 matches, behind them. Turkey finished fourth in their World Cup qualifying group behind the Netherlands, Romania and Hungary and had Fatih Terim starting his third term in charge of the national team. Despite working with a squad depleted by injuries, NI manager Michael O'Neill selected an experienced line-up in a 3-5-2 formation for his first game in charge since agreeing a new two-year deal which will see him remain at the helm for the Euro 2016 qualifiers. Adem Gulum and Martin Paterson vie for possession Turkey exerted all the early pressure and Roy Carroll was forced into a good save from Bilal Kisa in the opening minutes. The home side had the ball in the net twice but on the first occasion the flag went up for offside against Arda Turan and then a referee's assistant ruled that the ball had gone out of play before nestling in the back of the net. Northern Ireland's goal continued to live a charmed life as Steven Davis headed off the line from Adam Buyuk's initial effort and then Norwood headed onto the underside of the bar from Ersan Adem Gulum's follow-up attempt. The visitors' best chance of the opening half fell to Norwood, but he fired over the bar after some intricate football from O'Neill's side. Just before the break, Bilal saw his left-foot drive fly wide of the post, before St Etienne forward Mevlut found the net for his fifth international goal with the final touch of the first half. Bilal chipped the ball forward from midfield and Mevlut took advantage of a failure of communication between Baird and Carroll to poke the ball home with his left foot. After the break, Norwood's curling shot from just outside the box fell into the hands of Tolga and then Hughes almost scored an own goal when the ball came off his foot while defending a Melvut cross and cannoned off the post. Substitute Burak saw his left-foot strike come off the woodwork while soon after a Davis volley from Ryan McGivern's cross was blocked. Chances were few and far between in a second half punctuated by a raft of substitutions but Martin Paterson fired well over late on when the ball broke to him in the penalty area. The match did however mark the international debut of New York Red Bulls midfielder Jonny Steele, who replaced Niall McGinn after 67 minutes. So Northern Ireland's last game of 2013 ends in defeat and manager O'Neill's record now reads one win, six draws and eight defeats from his 15 games in charge. Turkey 01 Zengin 07 Gönül (Camdal - 72') 18 Erkin 08 Ozyakup (Yilmaz - 45') 02 Kaya 22 Gülüm 21 Büyük (Ucan - 67') 15 Topal 19 Erding (Töre - 77') 05 Kisa (Sahan - 83') 14 Turan (Dogan - 89') Substitutes 03 Dogan 04 Demir 06 Ucan 09 Bulut 10 Sahan 11 Töre 12 Kirintili 13 Ciftçi 16 Aziz 17 Yilmaz 20 Sararer 23 Ayvaz 24 Camdal 26 Kara 27 Altinay 28 Karabulut Northern Ireland 01 Carroll (Mannus - 45') 02 Hodson 03 Lafferty (McGivern - 76') 05 Evans 06 Baird 18 Hughes 16 Norwood Booked 10 Clingan (McKay - 75') 09 Paterson 07 McGinn (Steele - 67') 08 Davis Substitutes 04 McArdle 12 Mannus 14 McKay 15 Grigg 17 Steele 19 McGivern 20 McPake Also related to this story
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E.M.M.A were a Swedish girl group, mostly popular in Sweden. The group was founded by Keith Almgren who also wrote all the lyrics for their debut album. They have released three albums and eight singles. The group went on several small tours in Sweden. They came into existence in 2001 and officially broke up on 26 October 2005. The members were Elin Klingfors (born 25 December 1990), Martina Ståhl (born 1 December 1988), Mari-Linn Almgren Klevhamre (born 10 May 1992) and Alexandra Pettersson (born 22 February 1990). ==Discography==
Single "En hemlighet" - 2001
Single "Varje gång" - 2001
Album "E.M.M.A" - 2001
Single "Bubblar i mej" - 2002
Single "SMS" - 2002
Album "Vänner" - 2002
Single "Vi ska alltid vara vänner" - 2003
Single "Bamses födelsedagsvisa" - 2003
Single "Precis som du är" - 2004
Album "Tur & Retur" - 2004
Single "Sol, vind och vatten" - 2004
==B-Tween==
In the Spring of 2006, two of the former band members (Martina Ståhl and Alexandra Pettersson) formed a new group since the breakup of E.M.M.A. The group was named "B-Tween" and are labelled as singing pop/disco house/R&B style music. As of January 2008, "B-Tween" had two songs listed on their website, "Dangerzone" and "Reaching for the Stars". It is unknown when, or if, a release will be made by this group in the future. ==References==
==External links==
Popgruppen E.M.M.A Official Website (Offline)
Archive.org of E.M.M.A website as of 5/06
Swedish girl groups
Musical groups established in 2001
Musical groups disestablished in 2005
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Father of wall collapse girl feels 'heart's ripped out' 8 May 2013 Last updated at 17:02 The father of a four-year-old girl who died when a concrete shed collapsed on top of her said he feels like "his heart has been ripped out." Surranna Stonestreet was playing in the back garden of her home in Bath when a 6ft wall collapsed on top of her. Karl Stonestreet was dismantling the doorframe of a shed when the wall caved in at about 16:00 BST on Friday. He said that he had thought Surranna was playing on a trampoline at the house on Haycombe Drive. 'So cut up' "She had six big breeze blocks on her, which I had to move quickly off of her to get her out and to take her up to the house," he said. "It just feels like your heart has been ripped out and just chucked, literally, I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy." Mr Stonestreet's cousin, Andy Bristow, said reports claiming Mr Stonestreet was knocking down the wall with a sledgehammer were wrong. He said Mr Stonestreet was doing the work because he was worried that the shed - made before the family moved into the house - would fall down. "Every story in every paper have put that Karl was using a sledgehammer to knock the wall down, he didn't hit the wall down at all," he said. "He was just prising the doorframe away from the wall so he could gradually take the wall down, bit by bit. "We want to get the facts straight. He is so cut up, everybody is looking at him and blaming him, he is blaming himself as it is. "He needs to get it out and straight. I think the family have gone through enough as it is." Family members and paramedics carried out emergency life support, but Surranna died shortly after arriving at hospital. Avon and Somerset Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious and has been referred to the Avon Coroner.
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The 2009 Las Vegas 51s season will be the franchise's 27th year of existence and first as the top minor league affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. It will involve the 51s attempting to win the Pacific Conference - South Division and improve on their 74-69 record and 2nd place finish. The 51s will attempt to have consecutive winning season for the first time since the 2002 and 2003 seasons. The 2009 season will be Las Vegas' final season with the 51s moniker, as the new owners of the team plan to change the team's name before the 2010 season. == Roster ==
==Off-season==
The 51s and the Los Angeles Dodgers severed relations after eight years of affiliation. The Dodgers stated that the Cashman Field's lack of adequate facilities, including an on-site weight room and indoor batting cage, were reasons for not renewing the player development contract (PDC) for a ninth and tenth year. Los Angeles would subsequently sign a two-year PDC with the Albuquerque Isotopes. The 51s would eventualy sign a two-year PDC with the Toronto Blue Jays. Toronto became Las Vegas' third major league affiliate in the club's 27 year history and the 51s became Toronto's only the second Triple-A affiliate in the Blue Jays 33 years of existence. On October 8, 2008, the Toronto Blue Jays named Mike Basso as the 51s manager for the 2009 season. Basso becomes the 19th manager in the club's history. Basso replaces Lorenzo Bundy who had a 141-146 record in two seasons. Basso had played for the Las Vegas Stars over 4 seasons (1988, 1990, 1992-93). Basso had previously managed Toronto's High Single-A affiliate, the Dunedin Blue Jays in 2003 recording a 78-62 record and leading Dunedin to the Florida State League Finals. Basso would then coach Toronto's previous Triple-A affiliate in 2006, recording a 64-79 and a sixth place finish. Before being appointed as Las Vegas' manager, Basso had spent 2007 and 2008 as Toronto's Coordinator of Instruction for the club's minor league system. On January 16, 2009, the Iowa Cubs announced that their August 9th game against the 51s would be played at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois; home of their major league affiliate, the Chicago Cubs. This will be the second time (first with Triple-A teams) that the Chicago Cubs would host a minor league game at their ballpark. The Cubs organization uses the annual game to promote their minor league affiliates, while the Cubs are playing out of town. The first edition saw Chicago's Single-A affiliate, the Peoria Chiefs play the Kane County Cougars (Oakland Athletics affiliate) in front of nearly 26,000 fans. ==Regular season==
The Las Vegas 51s will begin their 27th season on an eight game road trip against the Colorado Springs Sky Sox and defending Pacific Conference - North Division champion Salt Lake Bees, beginning on April 9th in Colorado Springs. The 51s will open their 27th season at Cashman Field on April 17th against Colorado Springs. The 2009 All-Star Break will run from July 13th–15th, with the 2009 Triple-A All-Star Game being played on July 14th at PGE Park in Portland, Oregon, featuring the Pacific Coast League All-Stars against the International League All-Stars. The 51s final home game of the season will be on September 3rd against division rival, the Fresno Grizzlies, followed by their season finale series on the road against the Portland Beavers from September 4th–7th. === Game log ===
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Man remanded on murder charge A 29-year-old man appeared in court charged with the murder of a married father-of-two who was found injured near a cinema in Burton upon Trent. Zenon Garbaty, of Branston Road, Burton upon Trent, was remanded in custody at the town's magistrates' court, accused of killing Przemyslaw Humaniak. Garbaty was ordered to appear at Stafford Crown Court next Monday for a preliminary hearing. Mr Humaniak, a member of Burton's Polish community, died on Sunday a short time after being found with head and facial injuries outside Burton's Cineworld complex. Three other men arrested following the death of the 30-year-old were released without charge. Copyright (c) Press Association Ltd. 2009, All Rights Reserved.
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Purdy Crawford Appointed as Chairman
TORONTO, June 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Maple Leaf Foods announced today that the Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Purdy Crawford Non-Executive Chairman of the Board effective June 22, 2011. Prior to the passing of the Company's long serving Chairman, Mr. G. Wallace F. McCain on May 13, 2011, Mr. Crawford was Vice Chairman and Lead Director. The appointment of Mr. Crawford to the chairmanship ensures continuity of leadership at the Board. Mr. Crawford, who will be retiring from the Board by the Company's next annual meeting in April 2012, will serve as Chairman until the annual meeting or such earlier time as determined by the Board. The Board has appointed a committee composed of four independent directors with Dr. Chaviva M. Hošek as Chair to review and make recommendations to the full Board on the position of Chairman of the Board on an ongoing basis. Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is a leading food processing company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The Company employs approximately 21,000 people at its operations across Canada and in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia. The Company had sales of $5.0 billion in 2010. SOURCE Maple Leaf Foods Inc.
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Sprint king in Bolt's shadow Hopeful: Former 100-metre sprint world record holder Asafa Powell believes he can be the best again. Photo: Sebastian Costanzo Before there was Bolt there was Asafa. Only Asafa. He was Bolt before Bolt. He has not gone away but he has, like the rest of the sprinting world, been largely eclipsed by Usain Bolt. But sprinters are believers and Asafa Powell believes he still has it in him to be the best in the world again. That might mean, like another Jamaican, Yohan Blake, taking advantage of a bad day for Bolt, such as when he false-started and was disqualified from the 2011 world championships, clearing a path for Blake to win the gold. Or it might simply mean Powell getting faster and doing to Bolt what Bolt did to Powell. Powell is a different sprinter to the man who took his world record. Both are tall - Powell 190 centimetres to Bolt's 195 centimetres - but they run contrasting races. Powell is explosive out of the blocks, still the quickest man in the world over 60 metres, whereas Bolt gathers in anyone in front of him once he unfolds his body into its stride. Powell has run more sub- Advertisement 10-second 100-metre sprints than anyone else, having done so 88 times, and he believes he will this year run the sub-10 for the 100th time. He still has it in him to beat Bolt, but knows to do so he has to get down into the low 9.7s again. "The way the sport has changed, now you have to be running in the 9.7s or below 9.7s to really be very confident of being on the podium," he said. "Everyone is improving, the sport is changing, there is a lot of development going on. I don't know what the future holds but I know people can run very fast. I don't know if the record will be lower. I know my best is yet to come." For three years Powell was the fastest man in the world. He remains one of the quickest ever. He has won relay gold with Jamaica at the worlds and Olympics but the stars never aligned for him when as the world record holder he competed in the individual sprints at those meets. He won Commonwealth gold here in Melbourne but that is small consolation set against an Olympic or world championship gold. His body has always failed him at crucial moments, such as last year's Olympic final when he led the field only for his groin to rip again and force him to pull up in the race. "Sometimes I look at it and wonder if it is bad luck but it is just the way my body is whenever I push too hard, this is what happens because I start so fast - I am a great starter - so my body goes through extra pressure," he said. "I think I am a very strong individual because I always manage to come back from these things positive and I am confident I am working towards my goal." His groin has always been the problem, stopping him competing at the 2005 and 2011 world championships and pulling him short last year. Surgery might repair the problem, but it might not. "It's a 50-50 chance that I will come back from any surgery on the groins and I don't want to take that risk," he said this week. "It is just constant strengthening of it... That is what it takes." At a time when doing whatever it takes has become a distasteful motto post-Lance Armstrong and locally with the experiences of AFL and NRL teams, Powell said he could only comment on his own behaviour in saying that he believed athletics was now clean. "I can only speak for myself that I am clean and I have been clean all of my career but I can't really speak for anyone else," he said. Powell has returned to Australia to compete this weekend at the Stawell Gift, Australia's richest and most famed footrace. Stawell has a history built on those who come searching for gold. It will suit Powell as he confronts the year ahead and hopes to break through in Moscow for his first individual world championship title. "We have a few more months to go and anything can happen in a few months, we just have to be patient and make sure you are ready to compete because if you are not 100 per cent it is hard to really compete against the other guys that are running very fast and are ready to compete," he said. "Our trials is a world championship itself, a lot of guys are running sub-10 seconds as well. It is very comforting to us to move on from the nationals trials to the world championship. It is more competitive with the Americans coming in. "Definitely I am going for it this year and hopefully over the next year I can bring it even further."
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Windows deal'milestone' for Arm
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Celtic fans welcome home SPL champions
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I've noticed (and I'm clearly not the first), that many users are leaving the boilerplate text in their auto-created user pages, which means not only that the user page is misleading, but also that the interface is not working as intended, and that the new users are not even reading their new user pages. For more discussion, please see here, and also the earlier discussions here and here
Could something please be done to stop this from happening? The current state of affairs is clearly less than optimal. Update: I've edited Common.js to remove the words in question, hopefully without breaking anything else. Thanks for your kind words. The reason the boilerplate text was there, was to inspire people to write something about themselves and to show them what kind of information they could enter. I know there's been some problems with that, and I'll gladly test your version for a while to see if that improves things. I do hope that people will still write things there. Another thing we could do is to make the text vanish as they click on it. Let's test that as well.//Hannibal (talk)
Or make the command button deactivated until the user has actually changed the text in the text box? Fut.Perf. ☼
I don't know if that possible without technical support from the Wikimedia Foundation, but if it is, we should definitely test that as well. Good suggestion.//Hannibal (talk)
: Should be possible, since apparently we local admins can modify Common.js. We'd just need to find an admin with.js skills. I'm not a big programmer, but apparently the input box element has an "onChange""onKeyPress" event to which one can attach a script function. That function could compare the current value of the textarea with the default value, and switch the "activated" status of the submit button accordingly. Fut.Perf. ☼
=== Proposal to remove remaining unedited bolierplate from auto-generated user pages ===
I'm proposing to remove the remaining unedited boilerplate text from those user pages that it was left in, limited to just removing the bit about snakes etc. where left unedited by the user, and leaving everything else on the user page. This will be accompanied by a non-bitey edit comment, and also a friendly message on the user's talk page, letting them know that they can write something on their user page to improve it. This should remove the confusing/misleading text from around 9000 user pages, and hopefully also help those users who are still editing here engage a bit more with the community. Can you tell me whether that seems reasonable? This is a very good suggestion! It means renewed contact with many new users in an efficient manner, which increases the chances of them returning. I like it very much. So how about we draft the text that goes on their user pages right here? My first draft for the message on the talk page(and please feel free to improve it):
Thanks for the help, The Anome//Hannibal (talk)
You're welcome. I've made a start on this process: see Bots/Requests for approval/The Anomebot2 2
Very good. It doesn't seem to be a big question, since there is only one response so far. What do you think about the message I proposed above?//Hannibal (talk)
== A barnstar for you! ==
Gee, thanks. *a tear is forming at the corner of my eye* It's always nice to be appreciated. And, as you say, the area is so important. Thanks again.//Hannibal (talk)
== Discussion about the account creation screen ==
See here. I'm sure you know something I don't; please see my question section. ASCIIn2Bme (talk)
== Article creation & review interfaces ==
I suppose you're aware, but I'm letting you know anyway that there's a WMF drive to revamp another core function (at Article creation workflow), the article creation interface, in tandem with revamping the new-article patrol/review interface (at New Page Triage it seems). That's a much tougher aspect to get right because it involves not only human-computer interaction, but also human-human interaction, i.e. writer-reviewer.
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This page is a list of the user books Cailil has created. If you want to leave him a message please click here!. == Myth and literature ==
Cailil/Books/Nibelung
Cailil/Books/Queens of the Heavens
== Theatre ==
Cailil/Books/Sarah Kane
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Yet are they any more plausible than the report by The Daily Telegraph on Thursday that Virgin Media had been using ferrets to lay underground cables? The clue that it was an April fool was the picture. It's always the picture, which will be far too elaborate. But training ferrets seemed a pretty good idea to me. On Friday the Telegraph admitted its prank. It also reported that, in some areas, police community support officers were patrolling only one side of a street because the other side wasn't officially their patch. What's more absurd: that or the ferrets? Back in the 1950s there were strict standards of behaviour. People knew more or less what to expect. But now, heaven knows, anything goes. The truth is so habitually absurd that the BBC has turned it into a comedy quiz called The Bubble, in which celebrities are asked to spot bogus news reports. What else is that but April 1 turned into a television format: official recognition that truth is now stranger than fiction? Most of the time, anyway, because I read recently that an MP had had his moat cleaned and claimed it on his expenses. Believe that and you'll believe anything.
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The 25th Nova Scotia general election may refer to
the Nova Scotia general election, 1871, the 24th overall general election for Nova Scotia, for the (due to a counting error in 1859) 25th General Assembly of Nova Scotia,
the Nova Scotia general election, 1874, the 25th overall general election for Nova Scotia, for the 26th General Assembly of Nova Scotia, but considered the 3rd general election for the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, or
the Nova Scotia general election, 1963, the 47th overall general election for Nova Scotia, for the 48th Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, but considered the 25th general election for the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia general elections by number
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"But I say to the SNP if you're serious about winning the referendum why not put yourself at the head of this campaign. "All you have to do is amend the Housing (Scotland) Act to outlaw evictions. "And to every individual, I want you to become personal organisers of the biggest civil disobedience campaign since the days of the poll tax." Protester Alan Smart was outside the conference again today after he was arrested while singing a song urging "English Tories" to go home yesterday. He said: "Prior to my release I was specifically warned by the arresting officer that if I sang the song again in Stirling today I would immediately be arrested again. Well I am singing it. Please do arrest me." Police estimate that around 400 people attended today's rally, double the attendance of Prime Minister David Cameron's keynote speech to conference yesterday. There were no arrests.
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NOTES: The Braves send RHP Brandon Beachy (7-2) to the mound to face Nationals RHP Chien-Ming Wang (3-3) on Saturday. The teams wrap up the three-game series Sunday, with LHP Mike Minor (5-2) pitching for Atlanta against LHP Ross Detwiler (3-5).... Bourn stole two bases, raising his season total to 58.... Washington's five-game winning streak - including a four-game sweep at NL East champion Philadelphia - ended.... The Nationals plan for Strasburg to pitch once more this season: in their last game, at the Florida Marlins on Wednesday.... Atlanta RHP Peter Moylan was diagnosed with a torn labrum and rotator cuff by a team doctor. He'll get a second opinion from Dr. James Andrews on Monday.... RHP Tommy Hanson (DL since Aug. 7; right shoulder) pitched two innings - one fewer than scheduled - in a rehab appearance in Florida. He felt pain in his right shoulder blade.... Braves INF Alex Gonzalez was not in the starting lineup Friday; he hasn't played since leaving Tuesday's game with a strained right calf muscle.... Fredi Gonzalez said RHP Kris Medlen, recovering from elbow surgery, could be activated this weekend.... RHP Jair Jurrjens (right knee) will throw 50 pitches in a rehab appearance Saturday. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Jonathan Serrie " Liveshots Jonathan Serrie is an Atlanta-based correspondent with FOX News. He covers stories in the Southeast ranging from politics to hurricanes. He joined FOX News in 1999 and covered military operations in Kosovo and Afghanistan. Read his full bio. Find him on Facebook.
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Homemade Cannon Murder Charge: No Evidence Killing Intentional, D.A. Says
The California man who allegedly killed his girlfriend with a homemade cannon had previously served prison time on weapons and auto theft charges and had pleaded guilty to domestic violence against the woman. His history with the law could be why Richard Dale Fox is facing a first-degree murder charge, even though San Diego County Deputy District Attorney C.J. Mody has said there was no evidence the killing was intentional. Fox, 39, pleaded not guilty Thursday in the death of Jeanette Ogara, 38. Ogara died instantly when shrapnel from the device went through the couple's trailer in Potrero, San Diego County, and struck her early Tuesday morning. In a tearful 911 call he made to police after the device detonated, Fox can be heard sobbing and hysterically describing what happened, saying it was an accident. In a jailhouse interview following his arrest, Fox - who sustained shrapnel injuries to his right leg - said he was sorry and wished he had been the one who caught the blast, rather than Ogara. " (Fox's) emotion won't make or break the charge, but the fact that the prosecutor is saying we don't think this is intentional makes you wonder well then, why did they feel the need to pursue a murder charge?" ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams said today on "Good Morning America." Court records show Fox served prison time for gun possession charges and auto theft in the 1990s. Fox also pleaded guilty in 2009 to a misdemeanor battery charge against Ogara, and was ordered to participate in a year-long domestic violence recovery program, in addition to probation. The probation and a limited protection order against Fox expired in January. "The best case scenario for him as this case moves forward is that jurors and prosecutors feel sorry for him and say this is a guy that clearly didn't mean to do this and is completely heartbroken," Abrams added. Fox, Ogara and some friends had been drinking late Monday night, and Fox allegedly went outside and lit the cannon filled with explosives. The barrel of the device exploded, sending shrapnel flying through the air. One piece of shrapnel went through the wall of the trailer, hitting Ogara in the chest, ABC News affiliate KGTV in San Diego reported. Fox is also charged with the explosion of a destructive device and child endangerment. The couple's 4-year-old daughter was in the trailer at the time and was not hurt. She is now staying with her grandparents. Fox, who is being held on $3.5 million bail, faces a possible life sentence without parole if he is convicted. SHOWS: Good Morning America
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Closer to top of Space Needle
SEATTLE -- After Friday's reported signing of Robinson Cano, the Seattle Mariners team store at Safeco Field already had three wall racks of replica jerseys bearing the number 24 available. Of course, those were Ken Griffey Jr. jerseys, and they outnumbered all other jerseys on display except for those of Felix Hernandez. Meanwhile, a nearby discount circular rack had replica jerseys of Michael Morse (traded away in August), Chone Figgins (last Mariners game in 2012), Mike Sweeney (last game in 2010) and Casey Kotchman (last game in 2010) available for 25 percent off the last discounted price ($89-$115). That the Mariners still offer the jerseys of those latter three departed players -- Figgins? Really? -- serves as a good explanation for why Seattle reportedly signed Cano to a $240 million, 10-year contract Friday. There was a time when the Mariners were the team in this city. They drew 3.5 million fans in 2001 when they won a record-tying 116 games, then drew even more the next year. But those days are long gone. The Mariners haven't reached the postseason in 12 years and have finished last in the AL West in seven of the past 10 seasons. Last year's attendance was 1.76 million, the lowest for a full season since 1992, when Seattle still played in the Kingdome. The Mariners are now probably the third or even the fourth most popular team in town -- and that's with the Sonics gone. The Seahawks are so outrageously popular that everything from the Washington state ferries to a Boeing plant has the 12th man logo proudly and boldly displayed. The University of Washington Huskies are popular as always, and the FC Seattle Sounders soccer team drew almost half as many fans (819,363) as the Mariners despite playing only one quarter as many home games (19). Thus, the Mariners desperately needed to do something to restore their local cred, even if it meant overpaying for Cano. Will the $240 million contract eventually seem like a bad deal? Perhaps. Contracts beyond six years often look bad in the end (Barry Zito, Mike Hampton, the second A-Rod deal), especially when the deal extends into the player's 40s. Cano will be turning 41 when the contract ends, but he will help in the near term. Since becoming a full-time player in 2007, he has averaged 160 games, a.307 batting average with a.508 slugging percentage, an.866 OPS, 25 home runs, 97 RBIs and 94 runs. A five-time All-Star, he has finished third, fourth, fifth and sixth in the MVP race the past four years. Plus, Seattle had to do something. King Felix was excellent as usual last season, as was Hisashi Iwakuma. But, aside from third baseman Kyle Seager, the rest of the team was pretty much a disaster. Dustin Ackley, Justin Smoak and Michael Saunders showed little reason to think they will finally develop into stars, and rookies Nick Franklin (terrible second half) and shortstop Brad Miller (fielding) also have question marks. The bullpen struggled, and the outfield is a mess. Furthermore, the Mariners have the money -- even including Cano, their current payroll commitments are still in the $65 million range for 2014. Arbitration will bring that higher, as will other signings, but the payroll still is expected to be below $100 million, perhaps significantly below. And signing Cano also will make Seattle a more appealing destination for other free agents. Will the Cano signing finally turn the Mariners around? We'll see. But Cano definitely should help more than bringing back Willie Bloomquist. "The news has to excite the city," said longtime fan Ron Beck, who was eating lunch at Pyramid Alehouse across the street from Safeco Field. "It's been a sad story for a lot of years. We all remember the 1995 season with Griffey, and that was a fun time. And we remember 2001, when we won 116 games. "But it's been tough lately. They keep talking about getting hitters on the team, and we need some hitters with power who can hit in the clutch and can get runners home." This was a big week for sports news in Seattle. The Seahawks routed the New Orleans Saints on "Monday Night Football," and Steve Sarkisian left the Huskies to coach USC. Then, on Friday, the Mariners agreed to terms with Cano and Washington hired Boise State coach Chris Petersen to replace Sarkisian. And, thanks to the Cano and Petersen signings, the Seahawks were virtually an afterthought on local sports talk radio Friday. For the first time in a long time, people were talking about baseball and the Mariners more than football and the Seahawks.
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Feeling like fish out of water Feeling like fish out of water A year after 300,000 Nigerians had to leave the Bakassi Peninsula following its handover to Cameroon, the BBC's Sam Olukoya for travels to one of the areas where the Nigerian government resettled the former Bakassi residents to see how they are coping. The village of Akpabuyo is a two-hour drive west of Bakassi. It is a flat forest area dotted with farmlands and the very opposite of the fish-rich 3,000km-long Bakassi Peninsula. " Since my husband died I have no-one to help me "
Grace Asuquo, Akpabuyo village It is a tough new way of life for the thousands of resettled families. Chief Achibong Edem speaks for his former fishing community when he says: "I am starting my life all over. I have left my livelihood which is fishing to come and stay here where there is no fishing port and no river to fish. It is exactly like removing a fish from river to upland." Reminiscing: "Fish, fish, fish, fish all my life, since I left school, I tell you, 40 years ago. It is difficult in fact. I miss it a lot." No alternative Chief Edem acquired a small piece of land in February to farm. It is 30 sq m and costs $30 to rent for the year. He had never farmed before. "It's like a mechanic going to do carpentry work. But there is no alternative. You have to do it for survival," the chief explains. He wishes he had a bigger plot but to buy is too costly for him and the other former fisherman because they do not have any money. Land owners are cashing in with the influx of new residents. This has in turn driven up the cost of accommodation - an extra problem for Grace Asuquo. Back in Bakassi, Grace and her family owned their own home but when they had to leave they could only take what they could carry. Nor could they sell their home before being relocated. Grace is newly widowed and now has the responsibility of paying the rent. Her husband, formerly a fisherman, tried to learn how to harvest palm fruits to sell for an income. But his new occupation took his life. Grace laments the tragic accident: "The man fell down and died." She does a variety of small weeding and gathering jobs to try to provide for her family but she only makes enough for them to eat. To keep a roof over their heads, her children had to drop out of school. "Since my husband died I have no-one to help me. So life is very difficult for me with children as a widow," she says. New skills Some of the former fishing families do not even have homes. " The world rose for tsunami. We believe the world should also rise for Bakassi "
Fidelis Ugbo Bassey Akpeyong, 38, left Bakassi with nothing but a few personal possessions. "We are just homeless. Right now I don't have a house. I am staying in a primary school. What we miss cannot be quantified. It's just like war comes, you run away leaving everything you had behind." The government wants to introduce schemes that will provide the former fishermen with new skills. Inside a small tin shop at the Akpabuyo village market, sit three sewing machines. They are part of a delivery of tools and equipment by the Cross Rivers State Emergency Management Agency - the body responsible for empowering the Bakassi people in their new environment. Chairman Vincent Aquah says: "We are actually preparing to empower them, to ensure that those who could not return to the sea have some upland occupation to do." Marsh area Another plan the government has is to resettle some of the fishermen in a marine environment similar to their Bakassi homeland.
Nigeria ceded the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 The handover of the territory ended a long-standing dispute The International Court of Justice ruled in Cameroon's favour in 2002 The ruling was based on an early 20th century colonial agreement between Britain and Germany Nigeria challenged the ruling but agreed to relinquish the territory in 2006 90% of the territory's 300,000 population were Nigerian fishermen Bakassi's offshore waters are thought to contain substantial oil fields Fidelis Ugbo, who is secretary to the Cross Rivers state government which is responsible for resettling the Bakassi people, explains it was complaints from some of the former fishermen that brought about this consideration.
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All D.C. high school students will now have the option of getting tested for sexually transmitted diseases. The school system plans to expand a pilot program that began last year and found large numbers of infected students. The program was in place at eight high schools and found that 13 percent of about 3,000 students tested positive for an STD. Most of the children were infected with gonorrhea or chlamydia. The program requires students to attend a lecture about STDs. Students are then invited to provide a urine sample, but they're allowed to say no. The D.C. Appleseed Center for Law and Justice is hailing the testing program as a positive step in the city's efforts to reduce its AIDS rate, which is the highest in the nation. D.C. Appleseed advocates for increased AIDS outreach and education in schools.
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Afghanistan: A Moderate Defies the Taliban Not so long ago, Agha Jan Motasim was one of the most important men in the Afghan Taliban. That was before he was sacked as head of the ruling Quetta Shura's political committee - and before the day last August when someone pumped him full of bullets and left him for dead on a street in Karachi. No one has claimed responsibility for the broad-daylight assassination attempt, but it's clear that hardliners in the group wanted him out of the way, and Motasim believes he knows why. He dared to suggest that the group should respect the civilian population's humanitarian needs and should open peace talks. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast from his current home in Ankara, Motasim talked about what went wrong. "Due to a lack of understanding, some of my colleagues and friends did not agree with my concept that the Taliban should be a political movement as well," he says. "My differences of opinion were not with the rest of the shura but with a few Taliban hardliners." His conversation with The Daily Beast was the Western media's first on-the-record interview with a senior Taliban minister and leader since the 2001 U.S. invasion. Last year the Quetta Shura finally approved peace contacts with America and the West. The talks are currently suspended, but the insurgency still seems to be tearing itself apart in a fierce dispute over whether to engage in negotiations and with whom. Those who defy the Quetta Shura's strict line are risking arrest by the council's enforcers - or possibly even death. Only last month, the powerful southern commander Maulvi Ishmael, a former head of the shura's Military Committee, was arrested and imprisoned by Taliban forces for allegedly sponsoring unauthorized contacts between local Taliban officers and representatives of the Kabul government's High Peace Council. Motasim's Taliban credentials were no less impressive. Until the collapse of the regime, he served as Mullah Mohammad Omar's minister of the treasury. After the movement was driven into exile, Motasim was one of the first leaders to begin organizing and raising funds for the Afghan insurgency inside Pakistan's tribal area. As a member of the the Quetta Shura and head of the ruling council's key political committee, he had access to the Taliban's biggest donors in Pakistan and in the oil-rich Gulf states. That ended in 2009, after he reportedly was tried and found guilty by a Taliban council on charges of embezzlement and opening unauthorized contacts with Western representatives. For years he had been suspected of absconding with millions of dollars from the state treasury when the regime fell, although he still insists he never stole a penny and denies that the council found him guilty of anything. He tells The Daily Beast he handed over everything to the appropriate people before fleeing Kabul. But embezzlement wasn't his only alleged crime. In fact, his biggest sin seems to have been his penchant for independent action outside the Taliban's decision-making hierarchy. He particularly made enemies in the movement by urging peace talks with the Americans and the West. "Motasim was the first to realize that besides military power the Taliban must have a political and peace program," says a high-ranking Taliban official, requesting anonymity for security reasons. "He was the first to open back channels to the West, years ago." Motasim's fall from grace began in 2007 when he unilaterally opened secret peace contacts with European representatives in the Gulf. "A political settlement is a must for the Afghan conflict," he tells The Daily Beast. "More war will only bring more mourning and danger to the people of Afghanistan," Nor does he share the hardliners" desire to restore Omar's regime to full power in Afghanistan. "I think a complete Taliban regime is not the solution," he adds. "The solution is to take on board the other groups and parties in Afghanistan": "I did not leave the Taliban," he says. "I am a Talib, I was a Talib, and will remain a Talib." Even beyond those challenges, Motasim says he incurred the extremists" wrath by urging that humanitarian relief groups be allowed to carry out development work in in Taliban-controlled areas. "We realized some NGO work could provide real assistance to the poor people of Afghanistan," he says. "Schools are a must and shouldn't be burned out. Common Afghans should not be stopped from an education. Those NGOs do not have a political agenda and are eager to serve the poor people of Afghanistan."
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Missing woman's father-in-law arrested on child voyeurism charges By the CNN Wire Staff updated 4:18 PM EST, Fri September 23, 2011
Steven Powell is charged with 14 counts of voyeurism, involving two child victims His arrest comes nearly a month after his home was searched in a missing woman's case His arrest in unrelated, beyond the fact that material seized prompted a new probe (CNN) -- The father-in-law of a missing Utah woman is under arrest, having been accused of voyeurism involving children, police said. Steven Powell, 61, was taken into custody less than a month after authorities from the Pierce County, Washington, sheriff's department and West Valley City, Utah, police department searched his home as part of the investigation into the case of Susan Powell-Cox, who has not been seen in nearly two years. His arrest on Thursday is "not related" to the woman's disappearance, West Valley City police said in a statement. However, material seized in the August 25 search of the Puyallup, Washington, house shared by Steven Powell, his son Josh Powell and the two young sons of Josh and the missing woman -- including several photos and video recordings -- set off a different investigation. On September 13, West Valley City detectives told their law enforcement colleagues in Pierce County, which includes Puyallup and Tacoma, "that they had discovered numerous images and recordings of adult and juvenile females," according to a release from the Pierce County sheriff's department. Those pictures "appeared to be obtained without the consent or awareness" of those depicted, the department added, with some "taken in public places" and others in private homes. Some of the videos and images had nudity, including focusing on female's private areas. Four days later, Pierce County authorities got another search warrant, allowing them to review the material seized by the Utah police. That culminated in charges being levied this week against Steven Powell, including 14 counts of voyeurism involving two child victims, and one count of possessing depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. "Pierce County sheriff's detectives were able to identify and contact several victims, including minors and adults," the department said. "None of the alleged victims said they had granted permission to, or were even aware of, being photographed or videotaped in their homes." The accused man's son, Josh Powell, says he last saw his wife on a cold December night in 2009 as he and his two sons -- then ages 2 and 4 -- left after midnight to go camping in below-freezing weather in a desert area in Tooele County, Utah. Powell-Cox's sister eventually reported the mother, who would now be age 29, as missing. A month later, Powell and his children moved to the state of Washington. In the time since, authorities in Utah have conducted a sweeping investigation and intensive search in the case. While there have been no arrests or charges filed in the case, Josh Powell is the lone "person of interest," according to Sgt. Mike Powell -- no relation to Josh or Steven Powell -- of the West Valley City police. Steven Powell has spoken publicly on the case, including claiming in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" that he and the missing woman, Susan Powell-Cox, had a flirtatious relationship.
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Markets: Wall Street cheer crossed the ocean to push Japanese stocks to a six-year peak and saw Hong Kong stocks flirt with near three-year highs. (Financial Times) US Vice-President Biden will tell Chinese leaders next week the recent establishment of an air defence zone is "unsettling" to its neighbours and raises questions about its broader international behaviour. Mr Biden is expected to use a week-long visit to Asia starting on Sunday to press China about last weekend's announcement of a set of flight restrictions over an area including a disputed chain of islands in the East China Sea. (Financial Times) Thai PM survives no confidence vote: Despite the anti-government protests that have gripped Bangkok for weeks, prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has survived a no confidence vote. Members of the lower house voted 297 to 134 to reject a petition to censure her. (FastFT) US Regulators schedule dates for Volcker vote: The CFTC and the FDIC are among the regulators scheduling dates for a vote on the highly anticipated Volcker rule, according to people familiar with the matter. The FDIC plans to meet on December 10 to consider the rule aimed at banning proprietary trading, which involves banks trading from their own accounts. The CFTC has tentatively marked the same day to vote on Volcker, but that could be delayed depending on whether the rule is finalised by then. (Financial Times) Michael Steinberg, a former portfolio manager with SAC Capital, asked his analyst to get "early, proprietary information" about companies that he could trade for profits, a key government witness testified during an insider trading trial. Jon Horvath, the former SAC analyst, said that during the summer of 2007, after a string of losing trades, Mr Steinberg pulled him aside one evening with new marching orders. "You need to talk to your contacts," at companies, banks, consulting firms and peer network, to "get me that information," Mr Horvath alleged he was told. (Financial Times) (WSJ) "Ernst & Young agreed to pay investors $99 million to settle litigation over its auditing of the bankrupt Lehman Brothers, according to a filing in federal court in Manhattan. [The deal] would resolve claims of investors who bought certain securities issued by the firm from June 12, 2007, to Sept. 15, 2008, the date Lehman filed for bankruptcy, according to the filing. It requires the approval of U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan." (Bloomberg) "Barclays Capital has been ordered to pay $2.1 million to a New York-based trader it fired last year in connection with the alleged rigging of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, according to arbitration documents." (Reuters) Brazil has raised its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 10 per cent, pushing it into double digits for the first time since March last year as the Latin American country grapples with stubbornly high inflation. The central bank hiked the Selic rate late on Wednesday for the sixth time in a row, extending what has become the world's biggest tightening cycle. (Financial Times) "Guangdong, China's most populous province with more than 100 million people, is to launch a carbon permits market next month that will be the world's second biggest after the European Union. The scheme... will cap carbon dioxide emissions from 202 companies at 350 million tons for 2013, according to a statement on the website of the provincial Development and Reform Commission." (Reuters) Vale has agreed to pay Brazilian authorities R$22.3bn ($9.6bn) to settle a decade-long dispute over back taxes, bringing an end to an issue that has scared away investors from the world's largest iron ore miner. The Rio de Janeiro-based company said late on Wednesday that it would accept the terms of the government's Refis tax amnesty programme, reducing an initial $14bn claim against the miner by about 30 per cent. (Financial Times) Judge clears American-US Airways merger: The long-running effort to merge US Airways and the bankrupt parent of American Airlines looks close to success after a bankruptcy court judge threw out a last-minute private effort to block the deal and cleared it to go ahead. US Airways and AMR Corporation said they expected the two companies to merge on December 9 before markets opened. They anticipate the merged airline to be the US's largest by sales. (Financial Times) Charter Communications has discussed a $25bn financing package that would put weight behind its increasingly public battle to acquire rival cable-TV provider Time Warner Cable. Charter, which has been circling its larger rival since the summer, has been in talks about debt financing for the deal with banks including Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, according to people familiar with the process. (Financial Times)
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Baldwin is an unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The United States Postal Service has assigned Baldwin the ZIP Code 21013. Until 1958, this community was served by the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad at milepost 18.4. Hidden Valley Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. ==References==
Populated places in Baltimore County, Maryland
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Pantelimon is a working-class neighbourhood located in south-eastern Bucharest, Romania, in Sector 2. Outside Bucharest, there is an adjacent town named Pantelimon, administered separately. The Pantelimon district is named after Saint Pantaleon (Pantelimon in Romanian), and hosts Stadionul Naţional, the largest football stadium in Romania. Pantelimon Avenue is the backbone of the district. A Cora hypermarket is situated in this neighbourhood. Several car showrooms (Renault & Dacia, Peugeot, Skoda, Fiat) have been built in the east side of the district. A famous area of the district is "Capătu' lu' 14" (or "Capu' lu' 14", literally "the terminus of (tram) line 14"), which is situated in the east side of the neighbourhood. This area is the setting of a popular legend among locals, "The Children's Fall." The story — which dates back to the mid-1950s, when the area suffered from gangster and racketeering problems — details the supposed decline of the neighbourhood's children from being "legit" to being "dangerous". Pantelimon is also famous in Romania because of the hip-hop group B.U.G. Mafia. As children, the members of the band lived on Pantelimon Alley and Socului, near "Capătu' lu" 14". Tataee, a member of B.U.G. Mafia stated in various interviews that both he and Uzzi and Daddy Caddy still live in the neighbourhood. The east side of the neighbourhood was build on the domains of the Mărcuța Monastery. The old Mărcuţa church built in 1587 still exists today on the banks of Pantelimon lake. Pantelimon is served by the Pantelimon and Republica subway stations, as well as tram lines 14, 36, 46, 55 and bus lines 101, 104, 330, 335. Currently, there are 5 primary and 2 secondary schools (Lucian Blaga Theoretical High School and Saint Pantaleon Industrial School Group). ==References==
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Ohayocon is a three day anime convention held during January in Columbus, Ohio at the Hyatt Regency Columbus and Columbus Convention Center. Ohayocon's name is from the similarity between "Ohio", the convention's location, and, which in the Japanese language means "Good morning". ==Programming==
The convention typically offers an AMV contest, costume contests, formal ball, masquerade, musical events, panel discussions, rave, and video gaming. ==History==
In 2007 the Midwest premier of The Shadow Chronicles occurred at the Arena Grand Theatre during Ohayocon. In 2010 crowding was a problem during the rave due to space issues. The convention shared the Columbus Convention Center with other events and only used about an fourth of the available space. The conventions dance was moved to the convention center ballroom in 2012 to alleviate crowding issues. ===Event history===
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Ohayocon Website
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2001 establishments in Ohio
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Salmond confident of student vote First Minister Alex Salmond believes he can "count on the SNP" attracting a strong student vote at the election. The SNP leader rejected suggestions on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that students may not believe his pledge to avoid introducing tuition fees, in light of his failure to deliver a vow to scrap outstanding student debt made at the last election. Mr Salmond said: "Students right now can trust the party that abolished tuition fees, which will continue to keep education free in Scotland, as opposed to the Labour Party who introduced tuition fees in England and Scotland, or the Tories and the Liberal Democrats who are putting them up to £9,000 a year in England. "I think you can count on the SNP being pretty strong in the student vote at this coming election." Mr Salmond said he would fund free education "partly" through further efficiency savings. He added: "We've had rigorous efficiency savings which have been successful. We believe we can invest in our education system without burdening students with generations of debt. It's simply against the Scottish tradition, and a bad thing to do, and therefore we're holding out for the Scottish tradition of free education." Mr Salmond cited the £89 million investment in Strathclyde University's Technology and Innovation Centre for research into renewables as an example of the SNP's commitment to education. He also gave an assurance that he would maintain his no compulsory redundancy policy in central government administration, and urged local government to do the same despite a claim by Cosla (the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities) that this policy would be "unworkable." Mr Salmond said: "We hope that this week, with our own public sector unions in the central government administration in Scotland where there's a 10% decline in revenue funding, the most severe in any across the public sector, we'll still be able to announce the continuation of our no compulsory redundancy policy. "Cosla have a 2.6% cut in funding, by contrast, because we protected local services, but we've still got work to do to persuade people in Cosla that this is the right thing to do." Copyright (c) Press Association Ltd. 2011, All Rights Reserved.
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Sir Degrevant is a Middle English romance from the early fifteenth century. Generally classified as a "composite romance," that is, a romance that does not fit easily into the standard classification of romances, it is praised for its realism and plot. The poem is preserved in two manuscripts along with a variety of secular and courtly texts, one of which was compiled by the fifteenth-century scribe Roberth Thornton. It is notable for its blending of literary material and social reality. The titular character, while a perfect knight in many respects, is initially reluctant to love. His life changes when he seeks redress from his neighbor for the killing of his men and damages done to his property. He falls in love with the neighbor's daughter, and after she initially denies him her love, she accepts him. They both convince the overbearing and initially violent father to grant Degrevant his daughter's hand in marriage. ==Plot==
The plot of Sir Degrevant revolves around the titular character and his neighbor, an earl, whose daughter Myldore falls in love with Sir Degrevant. While there is a "perfunctory connection" with King Arthur and his court, the romance is devoid of the usual marvels associated with Arthurian literature. Sir Degrevant is the "perfect romance hero": intent on hunting and adventures, he is young, handsome, and strong; most importantly to the plot, he is not interested in the love of a woman. While he is on a crusade, his neighbor, an earl, does great damage to Degrevant's property and kills the foresters who oversee his deer park. Degrevant hurries back from Granada, repairs the fences and the other damage done, then addresses a letter to the earl seeking legal redress. When the earl refuses to make reparations, Degrevant avenges himself by attacking the earl's hunting troop and then his castle. During this latter engagement, the earl's daughter, Melydor, watches from the castle walls and Degrevant falls in love with her. Melydor initially rebuffs Degrevant's attempt to declare his love, but later grants it to him. Her father sets up a tournament to promote the chances of another suitor (the Duke of Gerle), but Degrevant defeats him thrice. The lovers meet secretly in her splendidly decorated bedroom (it contains paintings of saints and angels, and such details as glass from Westphalia and "curtain cords made of mermaids' hair won by Duke Betyse," a reference to a duke from a fourteenth-century chanson de geste Les Voeux du paon), but they remain chaste until marriage. Finally, the earl agrees to his daughter's engagement with Degrevant, convinced by his daughter and his wife's pleas and by Degrevant's obvious chivalry and strength. The couple have seven children and enjoy a happy and prosperous life together. When Melydor dies, Degrevant returns to the crusade and dies in the Holy Land. ==Characters==
Sir Degrevant—young, handsome, and strong, he embodies all the values of knighthood. The beginning of the narrative finds him crusading, where he is fighting for personal fame. He is also a landowner, and as such has legal and economic concerns as well. He is initially referred to as a nephew of King Arthur and Sir Gawain, opening up the possibility that he is Agravain—his name possibly being a misreading of the Old French d'Egrivaunt. Melydor—the earl's beautiful daughter. While also a beauty in the traditional sense of romance, she is not devoid of practical sense: when Degrevant attempts to seduce her, she responds by saying "Thou touchest non swych thing / Or thou wed me with a ryng, / And maryage fulfille." Her name is possibly influenced by the name of Duke Betyse's lover Ydorus. Earl—the unnamed earl is in many ways the opposite of Degrevant: he takes advantage of his neighbor's absence, and does not act in a chivalrous manner until the end of the story. Degrevant's squire—a clever and educated assistant who functions as a messenger to the Earl and a go-between for Degrevant and Melydor
Melydor's maid—instrumental, with the squire, in bringing about the encounters between the lovers
Countess—the Earl's wife, who pleads with him in vain that he stop harassing his neighbor's land and settle the conflict. ==Composition==
The poem is dated in the early fifteenth century.
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Kozin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Giżycko, within Giżycko County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south of Giżycko and east of the regional capital Olsztyn. Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (East Prussia). ==References==
Kozin
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Gans: You have to promote a whole different set of values. At this point, it's going to get worse. To say it takes so much work, the question is if the people will perceive that that work is necessary.
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Wife's search for husband's'mind the gap' announcement Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. 10 March 2013 Last updated at 19:03 Help
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German nuclear cull to add 40 million tones CO2 per year LONDON (Reuters) - Germany's plan to shut all its nuclear power plants by 2022 will add up to 40 million tones of carbon dioxide emissions annually as the country turns to fossil fuels, analysts said on Tuesday. The extra emissions would increase demand for carbon permits under the European Union's trading scheme, thereby adding a little to carbon prices and pollution costs for EU industry. "We will see a pick-up in German coal burn," said Barclays Capital analyst Amrita Sen. "Longer term, they will be using more renewables and gas but this year and next, we should see a lot of support for coal burn." The phase-out is seen as more political than technical as German Chancellor Angela Merkel tries to capture anti-nuclear sentiment in the aftermath of Japan's Fukushima crisis. Environmentalists welcomed the shift, although some demanded a faster phase-out, hoping it would spur a shift to renewable energy which they view as less harmful by avoiding radioactive waste. But analysts say the move will also see an increase in planet-warming greenhouse gases equivalent to the annual emissions of Slovakia, as Germany uses gas and coal to plug a power generation gap, both of which are more carbon-emitting than nuclear power. That calculation implied some skepticism with the coalition's assertion it would cut power demand and expand the use of renewables such as wind and solar power. Deutsche Bank analysts estimated an extra 370 million tones of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions through 2020, compared with Societe Generale's extra 406 million tones. Matteo Mazzoni, analyst at Italy's Nomisma Energia, estimated an extra 20-29 million extra tones of CO2 per year. "This is not likely to drive prices much higher in the medium term, unless the price of power comes under pressure," Mazzoni said, referring to the price of emissions permits called EU allowances (EUAs). Socgen analyst Emmanuel Fages increased his third quarter 2011 EUA price forecast by a modest 0.5 cents to 17 euros per tone, and would reassess other prices. The benchmark EUA contract for December 2011 delivery was trading at 17.24 euros ($24.63) per tone Tuesday lunchtime, up 35 cents or 2 percent on the day. "Carbon prices should obviously also get an uplift due to the sentiment born from the decision, but it will be limited and temporary," Fages said, adding "The market remains largely oversupplied (EUAs) for two years to come, capping any significant price increase in the short run." The EU trading scheme is meant to limit industrial emissions by allocating a fixed quota of EUAs to some 12,600 factories and power plants but recession in 2009 left a glut of permits. (Writing by Gerard Wynn; editing by James Jukwey)
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Charles Murphy
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|Liberal
|Alfred Goulet
|align="right"| 8,419
|Conservative
|Duncan Cameron Merkley
|align="right"|6,328
|}
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|Liberal
|Alfred Goulet
|align="right"| 9,062
|Conservative
|Wilfrid Thivierge
|align="right"|4,876
|}
|-
|Liberal
|Alfred Goulet
|align="right"| 9,551
|Conservative
|Alexandre Marion
|align="right"|7,964
|}
|-
|Liberal
|Alfred Goulet
|align="right"| 5,041
|Independent
|John Rudolphus Booth
|align="right"| 2,897
|Reconstruction
|Marshall Rathwell
|align="right"| 1,423
|Conservative
|Mathias Landry
|align="right"| 1,368
|Independent
|Joseph Alvary Brisson
|align="right"| 862
|}
|-
|Liberal
|Alfred Goulet
|align="right"| 6,045
|National Government
|Frederic-A. Caillier
|align="right"|2,961
|}
|-
|Liberal
|Joseph-Omer Gour
|align="right"| 5,519
|Progressive Conservative
|Frederic-A.
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Quality teaching will fashion far better outcomes EDUCATION Minister Christopher Pyne is correct to argue the Rudd government's Gonski-inspired school funding model and related National Education Reform Agreement are flawed and incapable of strengthening schools and raising standards. Worse than the fact the Rudd government's promise of additional funding was on the never-never is the reality that Labor's command and control model of education contradicts key recommendations of the Gonski report.
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Brutal Budget Battle Presses William M. Daley Into Political Combat Stephen Crowley/The New York Times William M. Daley, President Obama's chief of staff, is haunted by a failed deal to cut the nation's debt by $4 trillion. WASHINGTON - When President Obama recruited William M. Daley, a business-friendly banker with a Democratic pedigree to be his chief of staff 10 months ago, Mr. Daley seemed like the right man for a White House determined to cut deals with resurgent Republicans in Congress. Now Mr. Daley finds himself commanding a White House staff that has put its president on war footing with the opposition. It is an awkward turn of events for a man who seems more comfortable negotiating with Republicans than excoriating them, as Mr. Obama has over the last couple of weeks, as cold-hearted defenders of the rich. "The nation is being pushed into that, by the Republican primaries, by the type of "my-way-or-the-highway" language in Congress," Mr. Daley said in an interview, sounding less like an eager warrior than a frustrated negotiator pressed into combat. Burned by Washington after failed budget talks with House leaders, he and another influential White House adviser, David Plouffe, are hoping to chart a presidential comeback that relies less on legislative accomplishments than on selling a vision of America that contrasts sharply with that of the Republicans. Whether the two men succeed and engineer a second term for Mr. Obama, will depend on what lessons they absorbed from a brutal year in the White House and whether a new strategy can win back Democrats and other voters frustrated by the idea that the president wasted time trying to strike deals with lawmakers who showed little interest in helping him achieve results on anything other than their terms. "Thirty Tea Party House Republicans are being put before 300 million Americans," said Mr. Plouffe, referring to the lawmakers he blamed for blocking a grand bargain between the president and Speaker John A. Boehner that would have reduced the nation's debt by $4 trillion over two decades. "It's a big problem for the country." Both officials are haunted by that failed deal - a missed opportunity that seems to loom larger in the White House with each passing day. It was the biggest of several miscalculations by the White House - the messy effort to schedule Mr. Obama's speech to Congress serving as an embarrassing coda - and it left the president's advisers looking like they failed to appreciate the depth of Republican resistance to his proposals. But the greatest casualty may be the president's cherished image as a post-partisan leader, one carefully cultivated since he first stepped on to the national stage in 2004 vowing to heal the rift between red and blue America. On Tuesday, in Texas, Mr. Obama was a full-throated partisan, assailing the House Republican leader, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, for not allowing a vote on the administration's $450 billion jobs bill. "Does he not believe in tax breaks for small businesses or efforts to help our veterans?" the president said to a whipped-up crowd at a college near Dallas. The new approach, officials said, is being driven by polling data that shows that when Mr. Obama lays out his differences with Congress in a vivid fashion, voters tend to embrace the president's approach. While Mr. Daley and Mr. Plouffe are the two men most directly responsible for this new strategy, with help from outside advisers like David Axelrod, they come at it from sharply different perspectives. Mr. Daley, 63, a commerce secretary in the Clinton administration whose father and brother were legendary Chicago mayors, is desperate to restore the confidence that he says was lost after the failure to reach a bipartisan agreement on the deficit. He said he pushed for the biggest possible job-creation bill to prevent the economy from relapsing. In his West Wing corner office, Mr. Daley keeps his television tuned to CNBC to keep track of how the fiscal battles in Washington are playing in the financial markets. Mr. Plouffe, 44, the disciplined strategist who managed Mr. Obama's last campaign and is now his senior political adviser, only switches on the TV in his office down the hall when the president is speaking. More so than Mr. Daley, who did not know Mr. Obama well before taking his job, Mr. Plouffe is deeply, emotionally invested in the president's re-election.
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In a few months, the 2010 census form will arrive by mail at every U.S. household. It will ask how many people are living in this house, and what is the person's sex, age. What it won't ask is this: Are you a U.S. citizen? Republican Senator David Vitter says it should. He's pushing an amendment to force the Census Bureau to add that question to the 2010 census. SEN. DAVID VITTER, (R) LOUISIANA: It simply says, sure, count everybody, but ask if this person is a citizen or a non-citizen, so we simply know what we're dealing with. COSTELLO: The Constitution says the government must count the whole number of persons in each state. It's important the census get an accurate count because it determines how many lawmakers represent each state. Vitter, who represents Louisiana, says his state is projected to lose one of its seven seats in the House of Representatives after the 2010 census. He says it's because Louisiana has few illegal immigrants and states like California have a lot. He says that's not fair. VITTER: We don't put the population of France into the count or the population of Brazil, so why would we factor in non-citizens in determining how many U.S. House members every state gets? COSTELLO: Some Democratic lawmakers say Vitter's effort is unconstitutional and immoral. REP. BARBARA LEE, (D) CALIFORNIA: But we cannot allow lawmakers to use divisive tactics to scare people into not participating in the 2010 census. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's 1920, and census time in the United States. COSTELLO: Counting all people has long been a struggle for the U.S. Census Bureau. Many minorities, legal and illegal, mistrust the government. This urging minorities to participate came out in the old news reel days. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Census taker checks citizens of Japanese extraction, and somewhere else, the Chinese population is added to totals.
COSTELLO: Dr. Robert Groves heads up the U.S. Census Bureau. But would you object to that question on the 2010 census form? GROVES: We can't do a census with that question. COSTELLO: Not because he necessarily objects to it, but because 425 million 2010 census forms have already been printed up. Groves says Sen. Vitter's request comes too late. GROVES: My problem is we have an April 1, 2010 census date. We can't meet that deadline with a change in the questionnaire. COSTELLO: Still, the senator is not giving up, even if it will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to add that simple question: Are you a U.S. citizen?
Quick Vote AZUZ: Speaking of counting, we have a tally on that poll we posted on our blog yesterday. We asked what you would do if you found a lost, diamond ring in your Halloween basket. So far, 73 percent of you say you'd return it. 19 percent say you'd keep it. And 9 percent say they're not sure what they'd do. The poll and the blog post are up on our page, so keep the comments and votes coming. Test your Knowledge AZUZ: There's probably someone in your class who thinks he or she owns our Shoutouts; who regularly plays trivia and brags on the score. I'm calling you out! We've got a new challenge for you -- some online Q & A -- and it's anything but easy.
AZUZ: So, we're here at the CNN SmartBoard to illustrate the CNN Challenge. You can get to this one of two ways: Go to CNN.com and click on either the Entertainment or the Living page. And that way you can get there; you'll see CNN Challenge near your right rail here. Click on that bad baby, and away you go. Now, the first thing you do in the Challenge is to select your anchor. Now, I'm not one of these folks, but this is a slew of our anchors here at CNN. I usually select Wolf Blitzer because he says he trimmed his beard for the occasion, and I'm all about looking your best. So, we'll go ahead with Wolf and move forward here.
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== greek cypriot? what the hell. ==
arabic has no influence on greek cypriot what so ever. greek cypriot is a kinde of greek slang. if ever turkish cypriot has influences of arabic. get it right. == Sudanes arabic ==
According to Charles A. Ferguson,the following are some of the characteristic features of the 'koine' that underlies all of the modern dialects outside the Arabian peninsula the is some features aren't applied to Sudanese Arabic :
Change of a to i in many affixes
Conversion of separate words lī "to me", laka "to you", etc. into indirect-object clitic suffixes
changes in the cardinal number system, e.g., ḫamsat ʾayyām → ḫams tiyyām (it's ḫamsat ʾayyām in sundaes Arabic)
beside some of these feature are applied to modern dialects inside the Arabian peninsula like:
emphatic ṭ in the numbers 13-19
and there is some lexical items like ʾēš (in Yamen)
also I don't know about ɮ sound in Arabic. I am Sudanese born in Saudi Arabia.
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Bosnian Forensic Experts Search Mass Grave Forensic experts have found 10 bodies as they began to excavate a mass grave where Muslim Bosniaks killed during the 1995 massacre in the eastern town of Srebrenica are believed to have been hidden. Srebrenica was the worst massacre in Europe since World War II and took place in an area that was officially under U.N. protection during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The execution of over 8,000 men and boys has been defined as genocide, and Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, who commanded Serb troops who conducted the massacre, is now on trial before a U.N. tribunal. In addition to the 10 bodies recovered Wednesday, the team expects to find at least 10 more in the grave. Such searches continue to attract Bosniaks whose relatives disappeared during the war.
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