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The door to the Shrieking Shack burst open, snow following the way of the door, the couple already making out like rabid, horny rabbits. Yes, this seemed to happen a lot these past few weeks with these two. Always going at it, seriously; it was pretty bad, especially considering who they were. No one would ever imagine that Ron Weasley would catch these two snogging the hell out of each other on the blood-stained stairs of the �most haunted house in England�. But, that�s exactly what happened when Ronald Bilius Weasley walked into the doorway to see none other than Draco Malfoy lying on top of, groping and kissing Ron�s girlfriend, Miss Hermione Granger herself. As Ron stood in the doorway, Hermione noticed his flaming red hair and instantly pulled herself away from Draco and gasped deeply. At this, Draco turned around, too, his eyes going wide and standing up, helping Hermione up, as well.
�Really, Weasley, it�s not what you-�
�Not what I think?! How could it not be what I think?! You�re snogging my girlfriend, you sick fuck!!� At this, Ron lunged for Draco, sending the tall blonde into the doorway near the stairs, his body slamming hard against the wooden wall. Hermione yelped, not sure what was really going on at the moment. It had all happened so fast- the first kiss, the first date, her first time, this � everything had happened so fast. She wasn�t quite sure if she could � could �
And in that moment, Hermione Jane Granger passed out, her limp body falling to the wooden floor. And as the two boys rushed to her side, she could see it all. Everything. She saw everything happen from the beginning- when it all started in Diagon Alley before school.
�Just go away, Malfoy! I don�t even know why you�re here to bother us, anyway! They�ll never let you back into school after what you did!� Hermione Granger�s face scrunched up in rage, growling as she turned away from the blonde git, hoping he fell into a random hole in the universe that randomly appeared where he was standing. Oh, why did she tell Harry and Ron to go on ahead to Fred and George�s shop and she�d meet up with them later after she got her school books? The Malfoy heir only smirked and leaned against the bookcase containing shelf upon shelf of Charms books. Rolling her eyes, she grabbed the nearest book and opened it, hiding her face from his piercing silver view.
�Oh c�mon, Granger, I did nothing. I didn�t even kill hi-�
�Oh, but you sure as hell tried to kill him! That would be the word of the day, here, Malfoy- t-r-i-e-d! You tried all year to kill him! We know what you did, Malfoy, so don�t play the innocent card with me,� she snapped back, icily. Oh, she could slap him right now � just close the book and slap him with the 462 page textbook. He had to be the most annoying person on the planet. Period. That had to be the only reason he decided to bug her right now. Otherwise, he wouldn�t waste such time on a �Mudblood like her� would he? No. He wouldn�t. Usually that�s what he said, being the �prince� he was.
�Come off it, Mudblood, I was only doing what I had to do to stay alive. I mean, if you were being threatened by Voldemort, would you just ignore him?� His tone was defiant and sure of himself. Though, he was always sure of himself. That was just the way Draco was. He was self-confident, arrogant and quite the conceited guy. Arching a dark eyebrow, it disappearing behind his white-blonde locks, he gave her a smirk, which she didn�t acknowledge at all. That was one thing that was starting to piss Draco off considerably. She tried not to acknowledge him, even when he was being a pestering, spoiled brat. His father couldn�t even hold his own when Draco started to pester. His mother certainly couldn�t, that was for damned sure. She caved in as soon as he let out a whine of protest to anything- clothes, toys, trinkets, sweets, girlfriend options, parties. Like I said- anything.
�No, I would not ignore him, nor would I join him. I would defy him and help Harry defeat him, you stupid git.� Rolling her eyes, she placed the book back on the shelf and grabbed the one she really needed. Great, now one more to go- Advanced Defence Against the Dark Arts. As she moved to the DADA section, Draco followed her, much to her distaste. Rolling her eyes, she placed the Charms book under her arm and searching for a copy of Advanced DADA; Year 7. Draco sighed, pulling the very copy she needed out of the shelf as she reached for it and started flipping through its pages, a bored look on his face. Furrowing her eyebrows, Hermione tapped her foot impatiently, staring him down and waiting for him to look up.
�Give it here, Malfoy. I need that book,� she spat, trying to be as calm as she possibly could. Draco simply flipped through the pages, stopping on Chapter Fourteen and pausing. He seemed to be ignoring her, and it was starting to wear on her patience. Merlin, why was he so annoying?! And why did he feel the need to attack her? That just simply wasn�t fair. �Come on, Malfoy, give me the book! I need it!�
�I need this copy, too, Granger! I am going back to Hogwarts, you know,� he spat, just as icily as she had before. She winced at his words, and then gave him a curious glance. Wait � did he just say he was going back to school? He can�t go back to school! He tried to murder Professor Dumbledore! That should be the best reason for permanent expulsion! Who the bloody hell agreed for him to come back?!
�What do you mean you�re going back to school?! You attempted to mur-�
�Because, Granger, the Ministry had no where else to dump me and didn�t feel like �baby-sitting� very much, so they wrote an appeal to Headmistress McGonagall and she agreed to it- so long as I had Ministry officials at my side. That�s why, you nosey little wench,� he sneered, slamming the book shut and smirked at her. Amazed, and offended, Hermione Granger wrinkled her nose and slapped his pale face so hard, he dropped his book. Eyes widening instantly, she regretted doing that in a heartbeat. She hadn�t meant to slap him � okay, well, maybe she did � just not that hard! She only wanted to slap him for insulting her. �I-I�m sorry, Dr-Malfoy � I didn�t mean to slap you so hard. It was a reflex.� Hermione reached a hand up, but quickly pulled it away. Draco just stood there, not moving until he brought a hand up to his now-reddened cheek. He didn�t say anything, just sat there, and it made Hermione nervous. It made her too nervous. She felt her hands and arms shaking out of nervousness, out of fear of what he would do next. And those fears were answered when he slammed the petite Gryffindor against the bookcase, his face less than an inch away from hers. Hermione�s breath caught in her throat, and she looked at him through shocked caramel-orbs. His silver eyes remained locked on hers, cold and dark. She could tell by his actions that he wouldn�t be a changed man this year at all- just the same Draco, plus some homicidal issues to deal with. She could feel his staggered breath on her face, trying to wriggle out of his grasp, but that only made the tall blonde Slytherin tighten his grip on her, causing a whimper to fall from the girl�s lips.
�Don�t you dare slap me again, Mudblood. You will regret it. I won�t warn you the next time. You�ll just � get the punishment,� he smirked, something in his dark eyes changing, though Hermione didn�t recognize it. She�d never seen that look in anyone�s eyes before. �Now, for your punishment for that slap,� he spoke, his voice brought down to a murmur. And as a pale, cold hand snaked its way down her side, under her skirt and over the back of her left thigh, Hermione tried screaming in his hand, which only became a muffled yelp against his other hand. She tried fighting him off, tried as hard as he could, but she couldn�t compete with his vigour. As she tried squirming out of his grasp, he ran one finger along her bum, the shadows in his eyes now recognizable. It was lust, that�s what the change she couldn�t recognize. She felt her eyes start to water as she shook her head, snivelling becoming weaker. Draco noticed this and arched a refined brow.
�Awwww, what�s the matter, Mudblood? Finally giving in?� He chuckled, this heaviness in his voice that scared Hermione beyond her means. Tears splashing over her face and the hand over her mouth, she jumped when his finger became a little too close to her � well � you know. Instantly, she kicked her leg up and found it collide between his legs. His eyes grew very wide and he let go of her mouth, falling to the ground and muttering too many obscenities and something about �stupid filthy Mudbloods.� She grabbed the DADA book from the floor and ran back to the cash register, where the rest of her schoolbooks sat, giving the man behind the counter her money and running out of the store. When the door closed behind her, she caught her breath. Checking her bag, making sure she had everything, she looked back to see a very livid Draco quickly walking toward the door. Running from the doorway of Flourish and Blotts, she made her way to Weasley�s Wizard Wheezes and pushed the door open as hard as she could, causing the Weasley family to give her a curious glance. Pink and out of breath, she gave them a weak smile before walking toward the concerned family, the door behind her opening quickly and Draco slamming the girl into the door. He looked pissed, beyond pissed. Harry and Ron saw this and ran over, pulling Draco off of Hermione and Ginny pulling the shaken girl away.
�What the hell is your problem, Malfoy?!�
�Yeah, what the hell�s gotten into you?!�
But Draco didn�t answer; he simply gave Hermione a sly smirk, their eyes locked again. He mouthed a warning to the frazzled Mudblood- �This isn�t over.� At that time, three Ministry officials took the pale boy from the others grip and gave them an emotionless stare.
�We�re terribly sorry for the trouble this one may have caused. He slipped away from us and we�ve been trying to find him. Our apologies,� they said to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, who nodded as each placed a hand on Hermione�s shoulders. The Ministry officials tugged the young Malfoy out the door and back to Flourish and Blotts. Hermione stood there for a moment, unmoving, before finding herself sobbing on Molly�s shoulder, wishing her parents had come with her to go shopping this year.
A/N: More to come when I get a good day/muse going. XD R&R please!
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Here in San Francisco, if you want to appear inconspicuous in public, the best way to do so is to wear leather, dye your hair in fluorescent colors, and have all your visible skin tattooed, pierced, or both. I exaggerate, of course—but let's just say that body art is big in this town. Personally, I don't find the notion of permanently altering my appearance appealing. My tastes in clothing, hair styles, and so on change over time, so I don't want to lock myself into a look I might feel less enthusiastic about in a few years. There's also the whole issue of pain, which, all things being equal, I prefer to avoid. If I ever were to have a tattoo, though, it would have to be both discreet and very meaningful—something more than mere decoration.
One artist is using tattoos on human skin as a medium for literature rather than images, and in an extremely unconventional manner at that. New York author Shelley Jackson has written a 2,095-word story titled "Skin," which she refers to as a "mortal piece of art." By the time the project is finished, each word of the story will have been tattooed on a different person's body; over 1,700 of the tattoos had been completed by late 2004, using participants from around the world.
I Give You My Word
Someone who encounters one of the "words," as she calls the participants, will be able to read at most one word, along with any adjacent punctuation. Volunteers must sign a contract stating that they will receive a tattoo of whichever word Jackson assigns them (in black ink and in a classic book font) and that they will send her a photograph of the finished tattoo as well as a portrait of themselves that does not show the tattoo. Jackson further stipulates that if a volunteer receives a word that could be considered a body part ("back," say), that word must be tattooed on another part of the body. Only after the tattoo is finished does the participant get a copy of the entire story, which, according to the contract, must be kept secret.
Jackson's intention is that the complete story never be published or revealed to the general public in any fashion; only those who receive the tattoos get to read the entire piece. However, when the work is finished, Jackson hopes to arrange portraits of the participants (not showing the tattoos) in the order in which their words appear in the story, complete with paragraph breaks. When a "word" dies, according to Jackson, the story will change—and she will attempt to attend the funeral, though she expects most of the words to outlive her. When all the words have died, the work as a whole will be dead.
Going With the Flow
The idea for Jackson's human work of literature came partly from the art of Andy Goldsworthy, the subject of the 2001 documentary Rivers and Tides. Goldsworthy uses only natural materials for his pieces, including icicles, leaves, rocks, and dirt. Many of his works melt within hours, disappear with the next tide, or float away in the river (hence the film's title). And yet the ephemeral nature of the art is precisely what he means to explore. In Jackson's story, meanwhile, not only is the work as a whole temporary, but all of its components are also autonomous.
Although my tastes in art tend toward the conventional—and I still do not have the slightest interest in getting a tattoo myself—I find something about these organic works of art strangely compelling. If Jackson decides to do an even more ephemeral sequel called "Nails" or "Hair," perhaps I'll volunteer to become a word myself. —Joe Kissell


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django-gitlab-logging 0.2.1
A logging handler that opens GitLab issues on server error.
Latest Version: 0.2.2Django GitLab Logging
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Useful for production deployments, where you want to move the flood of 500 errors you get in your mailbox to your GitLab issue tracker.
Django GitLab Logging is smart enough to recognize similar errors, thus not opening blindly a new issue everytime. It is also capable of re-opening closed issues that are encountered again.
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* Add `gitlab_logging` to your INSTALLED_APPS.
* Drop **those lines of configuration in your settings.py**, taking care of filling everything:
# GitLab options
GITLAB_HOST = 'https://gitlab.server.tld' # Beware: no trailing slash there!
GITLAB_USER = 'gitlab.user'
GITLAB_TOKEN = 'USER_GITLAB_TOKEN' # Get this from GitLab user account information
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GITLAB_ASSIGNEE_ID = 2 # Get the assignee ID from the DB (optional, you can drop this parameter)
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* **Proceed either** a `syncdb` or a `migrate` (depending on if you're using South or not)
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'handlers': {
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'gitlab_issues': {
'level': 'ERROR',
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'django.request': {
'handlers': ['all_console', 'django_file', 'gitlab_issues'],
'level': 'DEBUG',
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But, in the long-term, Weir-Daley's goal is to prove he has a future at the City Ground - by forcing his way into Colin Calderwood's plans when he returns in the new year.
'I am happy with the faith the club have shown in me because I've been here a long time and it was good of them to give me a new deal,' said Weir-Daley, who signed a one-year contract in the summer.
'I think I've shown in training and in the small part that I've played that I can do it here. I can play a part.
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"We built great team camaraderie, great team chemistry on and off the court," said forward Patrick Patterson, one of just five holdovers from last season. "We built a great base this past week on the offensive end, getting everything set, learning to play with one another on the court, knowing what each other likes as far as jump shots, rolling to the basket and how each other plays. We got a good vibe for one another. This is just a steppingstone in the right direction to be a better team."
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Pacific Suite
By Douglas H. Chadwick
Off the west coast of British Columbia's Vancouver Island, Bob Van Pelt tramped ahead across a smaller isle named Meares. We were in woods as old, quiet, green, and wet as a forest can be. Even the air felt soaked. It was hard to tell how much of the moisture came from the chilly rain, how much was fog, and how much was steam rising off the burly figure of a bearded Van Pelt, also known as Big Tree Bob. "I'm hot," he said with a shrug. "Big trees energize me."
When we reached a giant that the locals call Big Mother, Van Pelt, a researcher from the University of Washington College of Forest Resources, took precise measurements with a laser and announced that this western red cedar would probably rank among the ten largest known on the continent. A true ancient, 60 feet around at the base, the cedar had a grove of full-size hemlock trees growing out of her sides and shrublands of huckleberry, salal, and false azalea arising from clefts in her bark high overhead. Thick epaulets of moss padded Big Mother's great limbs. Liverworts and ferns piled out of the mosses, and lichens coated and colored everything in between. She was a forest community all by herself, an organic apartment tower, and the closest thing I had ever seen to the fabled tree of life.
You can try to understand the living world with your head, but sometimes the heart is a truer field guide. Here in Vancouver Island's Clayoquot Sound, a million-acre natural amphitheater where mountainsides embrace a fjord-fingered, island-strewn reach of the sea, you don't have to choose, for every way of knowing nature seems to come into play.
One day I put on scuba gear to descend into another hushed tangle of green not far from Big Tree Bob's Big Mother. I'd been watching mink along the shore, intrigued by the way they swam out to scamper along floating strands of bull kelp. They kept diving like otters among the giant algae to emerge with crab legs waving from their mouths, and I wanted a closer look.
The water was cloudy with plankton, but a strong morning sun made the depths glow. Sliding overboard from my boat was like being absorbed in chilled jade. Before long I was pulling myself from stalk to frond through a submarine jungle festooned with kelp crabs, decorator crabs, helmet crabs, sharp-nosed crabs, and red rock crabs. I felt like a slow-motion Tarzan in the Lost Kingdom of Mink Meals.
Looking up from the bottom through the kelp-forest canopy with its clouds of surfperch and young rockfish, I could make out overhanging branches of cedar and lichen-draped Sitka spruce. As if the interweavings of ocean and land in this place weren't obvious enough, an acquaintance told me of a harbor seal in the lower boughs of one spruce, the animal having settled in when the tide was high and snoozed on long after it went out.
The most prolific parts of our biosphere are not necessarily tropical rain forests, as many people assume. Although coastal rain forests in temperate latitudes are much rarer, covering only a fraction of one percent of the Earth's land surface, they hold twice as much organic material per acre as the tropics. Those kelp forests just offshore in the Pacific Northwest can also grow as much biomass per acre as any tropical rain forest, and the region's river mouths and estuaries are wonderfully fertile as well. In Clayoquot, habitats meet and mingle, swapping species and nutrients. The result is an ecosystem that is extravagantly rich and intriguing.
We often speak of Earth's natural wealth. Modern societies spend more and more time arguing over how to preserve it, in what has become one of the most important issues of our age. But what does natural wealth actually consist of? What are the forces behind it? How does it get put together? And why does it tend to accumulate in certain areas? With a superabundance of life-forms both above sea level and below, Clayoquot Sound seemed like a perfect spot to go looking for answers. I was equally curious about the connections between these wild communities and human ones—especially the native Nuu-chah-nulth bands, who have made their home in Clayoquot for at least 2,500 years—and eager to learn how the local people planned to deal with such treasures in the decades to come.
One sure way to diagnose the condition of an ecosystem is to check on the big predators. If the original array is still around and doing well, then the predators must have a healthy variety of prey species, which means that the underlying habitats supporting lower levels of the food chain are in good shape too. The success of the large, toothy end of the wildlife spectrum in Clayoquot is hard to ignore. Orca fins appear in the channels, locals make a living catching dogfish sharks (sold abroad as Pacific rock salmon), sea lion calls echo across inlets, and Vancouver Island's forests have seen two dozen attacks on humans by mountain lions since the 1960s—more than any other site in North America.
Though it has only 1,400 inhabitants, the small port of Tofino near the sound's southern end ranks as a population center and commercial hub. From it, you can see Vargas Island to the northwest, where wolf packs come and go—paddling across at least half a mile of open salt water each time they do. Black bears and Columbian blacktail deer swim between islands as well. Deer numbers on Vargas have recently dropped, reducing a food source for the wolves. But this being Clayoquot, where biological possibilities appear to multiply along the blurred boundary of land and sea, the wolves are able to stay on by taking gulls plus the washed-up carcasses of other seabirds, seals, sea lions, and an occasional gray whale.
The indigenous Nuu-chah-nulth people of Clayoquot currently number around 700, spread among several villages. "You have to remember," a young woman said, "we had ten times the population a couple of centuries ago." Back then, before diseases introduced by white colonists swept through the native bands, a village chief's principal responsibility was to care for his territory and sustain the natural bounty therein. Management of those living resources was inseparable from spirituality. For instance, if someone needed wood from a tree—weather-resistant red cedar for building or yellow cedar for carving—he would first pray to the tree to thank it. Then he would cut what was needed from the leeward side so the tree would heal more readily than if it were exposed to the wind. Since cedars can live for a millennium, to walk in Clayoquot's forests is to be in the company of some scarred old veterans that likely sheltered the Nuu-chah-nulth here throughout Europe's Middle Ages.
Clayoquot hosts the largest collection of ancient woods left on heavily logged Vancouver Island. Although parts of the area were safeguarded over the years—in Clayoquot Sound and Strathcona Provincial Park, at the northern end of Pacific Rim National Park, and in small ecological reserves—most of the old-growth forests lay on Canadian provincial lands open to cutting. Beginning in the late 1970s, lumber companies targeted them in earnest. In 1993 thousands of citizens, many from the mainland, arrived to blockade the roads and bulldozers. More than 850 protesters were jailed. Many say it was the biggest display of civil disobedience the nation had ever seen and made Clayoquot a symbol for the fate of rain forests all along the British Columbia coast.
In May 2000, Canada's Prime Minister, Jean Chrétien, dedicated nearly 900,000 acres as the Clayoquot Sound unesco Biosphere Reserve. Ironically, because such reserves allow sustainable resource use, logging continued. Now, however, it was done by a new company called Iisaak, a joint venture 49 percent owned by Weyerhaeuser, an international timber giant, and 51 percent owned by Nuu-chah-nulth bands. Iisaak is their word for respect.
If you look north from Tofino, you can see old clear-cuts sweeping up and over the shoulders of mountains near Clayoquot's Catface Range. The structure and multiple ecological functions of the ancient rain forest have been erased together with the canopy. In their place, bare ground and brushfields stand exposed to the elements while creeks run choked with runoff sediments and debris. The contrast with the original woodlands around them is striking. Yet when I flew over those woodlands with Eric Schroff, then Iisaak's general manager, he showed me fresh logging sites within the seemingly untouched ranks of conifers.
"It took a social cataclysm in Clayoquot to shatter the old mold," Schroff said, reminding me that some of the widespread protests that brought a halt to indiscriminate logging were initiated by tribal leaders. After our plane landed on floats near Catface, he led the way on foot to show me the latest version of timber management—cutting units that resembled small openings within the forest caused by natural forces such as windthrow, root rot, or a minor slump of earth on a hillside.
"First, you go out and protect resources by putting streamsides, coastlines, and key wildlife habitats off limits," he told me. "Then, and only then, do you go logging. OK, some trees are gone now. But the forest is still here. We take logs out by helicopter so we don't have to build many new haul roads. Our costs are higher than some commercial operations, but you'll find a lot of support around here for trying to do things right."
Given the public scrutiny focused on Clayoquot, the first sites sawed by Iisaak were intended as showcases. How long such extra selective logging will continue in the face of demands to bump up production is anybody's guess. Nevertheless, it certainly qualifies as one of the best attempts yet to harvest trees from a temperate coastal rain forest while also giving every other living thing its due.
Ten feet of moisture falls out of the sky here annually. Some spots nestled below cloud-catcher peaks see more than 20 feet. That much precipitation translates into a billion gallons of raindrops per square mile in a typical year. "My home is in Tofino," goes a local saying, "but I live in rubber boots." Winter storms through in infinite shades of gray. There are weeks when you don't even think of it as raining until the constant drizzle gives way to larger dollops. While summer skies can be brilliant blue, that still doesn't mean the coast is clear. Ask the surfers at Long Beach in Pacific Rim Park. They don't say August; they call the month Foggest.
The richness of life in Clayoquot's forests is largely tied to abundant water. Here is the reason spruce can rise 200 and 300 feet tall and cedars bulge as big around as living rooms. Water is why the epiphytes, or guest plants, on one of those titans may weigh much more than the tree's own foliage. Along with some alders and cottonwoods, big-leaf maples send roots from their own trunks and limbs to tap the soil that develops beneath all the ferns and mosses and other vegetation thriving there.
Part of the stupendous productivity of temperate rain forests comes from tree-dwelling lichens. Some have the ability to perform the everyday miracle of absorbing nitrogen gas from the atmosphere and transmuting it into organic compounds essential to growth. Eventually dropping onto the forest floor like manna from heaven, the lichens are a key winter food for Clayoquot's deer and herds of Roosevelt elk. At the same time, they can supply one-quarter to one-half of the nitrogen that fertilizes rain forest soils. The tiny, often overlooked players in an ecosystem power much of its grandeur.
More than 500 lichen species flourish in Pacific Northwest rain forests. A number of them were discovered by Trevor Goward, a specialist affiliated with the University of British Columbia. When we hiked the coast together, he pointed out types named lipstick pixie, fairy puke, and seaside centipede lichen, along with dust lichens that painted chartreuse shades over stones, cedar trunks, and even the wooden handrails on a park boardwalk. He told me that scientists have identified more than 700 chemicals made by these organisms and that some show promising pharmaceutical properties. The amount and variety of lichens tend to increase as a woodland ages; parts of Clayoquot's forests have probably flourished intact for three or four thousand years.
Technically, a lichen is a symbiotic partnership between a fungus and either algae or cyanobacteria. "You could call them fungi that discovered agriculture," Goward said during our ramble. "But the result is neither a fungus, plant, nor animal. I think of lichens as a kind of doorway between organisms and ecosystems. Look out one direction, and you see individual things; look the other way, you see processes, relationships—things together. This is the next level in understanding biology."
Rich as a rain forest's epiphyte load is, the cool-climate jungle only gets richer underfoot. Precisely where the ground begins is hard to say, though, because the first few feet are a crisscrossed chaos of moldering wood.
Clayoquot's largest virginal watershed is that of the Megin River, which runs from the crest of the Vancouver Island mountains down through Strathcona Provincial Park to Shelter Inlet in the heart of the sound. During a kayak trip on the Megin's cold, clear windings, I kept going ashore between the rapids for exploratory strolls in the bottomland forests. Except that I never could stroll. Instead, I hoisted myself over logs, sank right into some gone soft as soufflé, and wished I were one of the coast's red squirrels that spends most of its life traveling from branch to branch far above the rain forest floor.
My explorations that day convinced me that there is at least as much life in a huge conifer after it has fallen as when it was standing. A cedar on the ground may take five centuries to disintegrate. During that time, it will accumulate two to three times its original allotment of nitrogen and phosphorus, thanks to all the worms, mites, beetles, and other organisms slurping their way through the wooden carcass. The fallen tree also stores tons of water like a sponge, helping maintain the high humidity and moderate temperatures crucial to the life cycles of so many other species from liverworts to tree frogs.
The cool, moist conditions of this western red cedar/hemlock zone also support a spectacular diversity of fungi—several thousand species of mushrooms and molds. "Our rain forest is like a tropical forest turned upside down," said Bryce Kendrick, a fungi expert overseeing a research project in Clayoquot. "Instead of most of the action being in the plants, it's underground. There are several kilometers of fungal threads in a pinch of soil here." Many form symbiotic relationships with the roots of vegetation. Known as mycorrhizal fungi, they collect moisture and nutrients via their own rootlike networks and pass them along to plants in return for some of their energy laden sugar.
Plants invested in this kind of joint venture grow faster, handle environmental stress better, and enjoy higher rates of survival than those without. Often, the microscopic threads link plants belonging to entirely different species: small trees to larger ones with greater soil resources. In fact, nearly all vascular plants use fungi to tap into food collected by their neighbors. Join this vast, hidden network, and you're tied into the forest in a whole new way—one that makes it harder than ever to say where the individual ends and the community begins.
In natural systems, everything finally partners with everything else to some degree. The more linkages, the faster biological wealth spreads and multiplies. One autumn day I lay among bright stones on the bottom of Kennedy River in the eastern part of Clayoquot, breathing through a snorkel and pondering anew where the forest ends and the ocean begins. Nearby, seals that had swum miles upriver were chasing sockeye salmon through the fresh water pooled in Kennedy Lake. All kinds of nutrients collected from distant reaches of the sea were thrashing upstream and bumping my legs in the form of more sockeyes on their way to spawn. And pound after pound was heading overland as black bears wading on either side of me caught the scarlet fish, took them to the woods to eat, then left the carcasses to compost along with extra nitrogen concentrated in urine and dung.
Out of the corner of my face mask I saw Steller's jays gliding down from cedar branches to wade after loose salmon eggs aswirl in a shallow eddy. I also saw eagles, gulls, ravens, mink, otters, and raccoons dining on the fish or their eggs or both. Deer and ducks would come to nibble the salmon carcasses; even little chickadees and winter wrens have been seen pecking at them. A local guide told me of watching trout bang the sides of gravid female salmon, forcing out eggs to gulp.
In all, more than 130 species of vertebrates eat salmon at some stage of the fish's lives. Many transfer those nutrients into the forest, boosting the growth rate of vegetation. Studies show that recycled salmon can account for an average of 20 percent of the nitrogen in streamside vegetation (up to 40 percent in the case of huckleberry bushes), and 25 to 50 percent of the carbon and nitrogen in aquatic insects and salmon fry. Like a fallen rain forest tree, a spawning salmon doesn't die so much as begin serving the ecosystem in different ways. From that perspective, some of Clayoquot's monumental evergreens embody hundreds of generations of big, sea-grown fish and of the bears, eagles, wolves, and other animals that transport them. Likewise, young salmon embody the forests' roots, leaves, lichens, and grazing slugs that feed organic wealth back into streams and their estuaries.
A separate pulse of nutrients comes from the ocean to the far reaches of Clayoquot's bays each spring when the herring spawn. As recently as the middle of the past century, the schools that swept through left much of the intertidal zone silver with their eggs, pasted to rocks and seaweed.
Overfishing seriously thinned herring numbers. Yet Vera Little, a Nuu-chah-nulth elder I met on Flores Island, told me that family members still place boughs along the shore and haul them up coated with roe. Sold to Japan as a delicacy, eggs are the main product of British Columbia's commercial herring industry today. The gutted fish are used for bait or animal feed.
The sound also supports salmon farming. Farmed salmon are now British Columbia's largest agricultural export, amounting to about 45,000 tons annually, twice the weight of wild salmon caught in the province in 2001. Not that everyone regards having nearly two dozen large pen-rearing operations in Clayoquot as something to be proud of. Critics worry about the buildup of wastes and possible spread of diseases to wild fish stocks.
Clayoquot's wild salmon feed upon the area's silver shoals of herring. The little fish are also a mainstay for the largest predators in the ecosystem, humpback whales. Once hunted by native crews in long canoes, the humpbacks in turn helped sustain the Nuu-chah-nulth, who savored the meat and traded the giants' rich oil for goods from other tribes. But industrial whaling by whites took over and depleted populations of humpbacks until late in the 1960s. On the increase today, these whales once again plunge through the outer waters of the sound, joined in the fish-chase by tufted puffins, rhinoceros auklets, and other seabirds from breeding colonies on the rocky isles scattered offshore.
Gray whales are more common, having recovered earlier from the commercial slaughter, and they tend to stick closer to the coast. Jim Darling, who has a home in Tofino, is a leading authority on Pacific grays. "The other day," he told me, "I ran across Two Dot Star, a whale I first saw here in 1974. I usually identify 35 to 50 grays in Clayoquot Sound through the summer. This is part of a larger Pacific Northwest population." Most migrate to Mexico for the winter, but now and then a gray will stay around all year. Whale-watching brings an estimated five million dollars (U.S.) annually into Tofino. For the boat operators these animals are practically spouting cash.
Later, we watched the million-dollar mammals plow cloudy trails through shallows where they barely had enough water to float. "These are whales that make much of their living on the beach," Darling commented. "It's just that they use it at high tide." The whales withdrew with the water, and their feeding grounds soon stood revealed as a vast mudflat with waves of migrating shorebirds skittering across it. Thousands of shallow pits the length of rowboat hulls patterned the surface. Each represented a mouthful sucked in by a whale that then used its tongue to force the sediments out through baleen plates, trapping a tasty tangle of ghost shrimp and
clams. With every shrimp came creatures that had shared the space inside its muddy burrow—scale worms, more clams, pea crabs, and tiny gobies—plus copepods living under the shrimp's exoskeleton and others clinging to its gills.
Strange how ecosystems and economies work. Grown from a mix of nutrients flowing out of forest rivers and in from the sea, these tiny, gunk-eating, mud-tunnelers and their even more obscure roommates are really the wildlife that help nurture the business folk, from local watermen who have jumped into the whale-watching business to motel owners, bankers, and grocery clerks ashore.
Each organism in an ecosystem is bound to every other in more ways than we can fully understand. Our wildlife heritage lies as much in organic processes and communities as in the individual creatures that tend to catch our attention. The further science probes the nature of things, the closer it comes to time-honored native concepts about living beings transforming into others, a worldview summed up by the Nuu-chah-nulth as
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BCS Championship Picture 2012: Title Game Candidates After Week 4September 23, 2012
After four weeks of the 2012 college football season, the talk is starting to shift toward figuring out how the BCS Championship picture will look at the end of the season.
While it may still be a few months off, every team's purpose and goal is to make it to the BCS National Title game, and the focus started months ago. With that said, it's never too early to figure out which teams deserve the honor.
All of the following programs have proven that they are the cream of the crop, but only two will have the chance at national championship glory in 2012. These are the top BCS Title candidates after Week 4.
Florida State
There was little doubt that the No. 4 Florida State Seminoles would face their toughest test of the season in Week 4 when they took on ACC foe, No. 10 Clemson Tigers.
Not only did the Seminoles pass their test—winning the game 49-37—Florida State proved that they must be considered serious contenders for a BCS National Title game appearance. If any of the top three teams in the nation slip up, FSU will be there to steal the glory.
With only one ranked team left on the schedule, the likelihood that the Seminoles could win out is very high. If Florida State gains victories in each of their remaining games and beats the Florida Gators in the final week of the season, they will be in the national title game.
While the first half of the Ducks' 49-0 win over the Arizona was a defensive struggle, Oregon finally broke the No. 22 Wildcats in the second half. They scored 36 points after halftime.
As impressive as the offensive onslaught was, it was the stingy Ducks' defense that proved Oregon is a serious contender in the BCS title picture.
There is likely to be an SEC team in the national title game, so Oregon's defense will need to be playing as well as they did Saturday to contend and even possibly steal the show with the win.
With an incredibly tough schedule remaining, if the Ducks finish the season as one of the top five teams in the nation, they will have earned every drop of their BCS National Title consideration.
Most college football fans look at the SEC as the closest thing to NFL football the game has to offer, but Alabama is the best of that bunch. With so much talent in that conference, the fact that the Crimson Tide can separate themselves like they have proves how truly talented they are.
After giving up 21 points in four games, it is clear that the growing pains many experts believed would come from the huge turnover on the Crimson Tide offense and defense hasn't been there.
The NFL Draft may have watched loads of Alabama players selected, but Nick Saban knows how to keep his team full of star athletes. As seen by the school's 4-0 start to the season, they picked up right where they left off.
Alabama's second-half schedule is much tougher than the first half, but if the Crimson Tide stay unblemished until they play LSU and promptly beat the Bayou Bengals, there is no question that they will be in the BCS National Title game.
Check back for more on the NCAA Football as it comes, and don't miss Bleacher Report's College Football page to get your fill of college football.


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Monday, July 17, 2006
Shopping and socializing
People who shop online can now do so and socialize at the same time, thanks to Watertown resident Philip Jacob.
Jacob, a data security consultant, recently launched a new web site, StyleFeeder, which allows people who shop online to bookmark the bargains they find and then share them with friends, the Globe reports today.
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Last week in Utah, I had the pleasure of seeing what can happen when communities come together to solve their mutual challenges. The TRAX Light Rail Extension to the City of Draper is the final leg of a seven-year plan that invests in the future of the entire Salt Lake Region.
It is exactly the kind of thinking we need to see in communities across America, and DOT is proud to have played its part.
The projects in the Utah Transit Authority's "Frontlines 2015" initiative have supported roughly 5,000 jobs a year during construction. They've added 70 miles of rail--more than doubling the length of the TRAX light rail system. They've improved access to jobs for hardworking men and women--and allowed commuters to spend less time stuck in traffic on I-15 and more time with their families. They've helped reduce the burden of emissions that a growing population would add to the Salt Lake environment.
And they have prepared the Salt Lake City region for a brighter future.
Because when commuters have an easier time getting to and from jobs, employers and small businesses can locate without having to worry about access to the workplace. Where there are jobs and a healthy environment, families can live and work without having to worry about the quality of the air their kids will breathe.
The TRAX Light Rail system is a ladder of opportunity. And today--thanks to the State of Utah, the County of Salt Lake, and the cities of Salt Lake, Sandy, and Draper--that ladder has a few new rungs.
This is how we build stronger communities. It's how we build a stronger nation, and it's how we move America forward.
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Insider trading probe ensnares 14 more
Fourteen people were charged with fraud and conspiracy in a dramatic widening of an insider trading scandal that has ensnared hedge fund managers, top Silicon Valley executives and a bevy of white-shoe advisers.
In complaints that read like scripts for the TV series The Sopranos, investigators alleged suspects dropped off bags full of cash, used prepaid cellphones to dodge wiretaps, and used nicknames such as the Greek and the Octopussy.
Some of the defendants -- taking a page from the drug dealer's playbook -- deliberately used anonymous, hard-to-trace, prepaid cellphones in order to avoid detection, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara told a news conference on Thursday.
When sophisticated business people begin to adopt the methods of common criminals, we have no choice but to treat them as such, he added.
Federal prosecutors have alleged $40 million of insider trading profits from their investigation so far. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has alleged $53 million of illegal profits in its own civil investigation. The SEC total includes some profits not reflected in the criminal probe.
The latest charges involve some of the same companies and individuals implicated in the Galleon Group insider trading scandal that broke three weeks ago. It was unclear whether the illegal networks were linked.
People will probably ask just how pervasive is insider trading these days? Is this just the tip of the iceberg? Bharara said. We aim to find out.
In the largest branch of the investigation, Zvi Goffer, manager of New York-based trading firm Incremental Capital, was accused of leading an insider trading ring that netted $11 million.
Prosecutors said they had uncovered illegal profits of more than $20 million, on top of the $20 million that authorities say was pocketed by the Galleon Group.
The Galleon case is already the biggest hedge fund insider trading scheme in Wall Street history, and in Thursday's complaint one of the suspects admitted to years of insider trading apparently overlapping with his time at a former job at SAC Capital, perhaps the nation's best-known hedge fund.
Raj Rajaratnam, Galleon's billionaire founder, is accused of masterminding the operation. He lost a bid to have his $100 million bail reduced, though a U.S. magistrate judge agreed to ease his travel restrictions.
The Galleon case is turning into one of the biggest insider trading rings since the Ivan Boesky scandal of the 1980s led to the end of a gilded age for Wall Street and ultimately brought down Michael Milken's Drexel Burnham Lambert.
Investigators' aggression in the current probes contrasts with the years of failure to spot the Ponzi scheme masterminded by Bernard Madoff.
The regulatory cops are saying in a very loud voice, 'We're back on the beat,' said Michael Holland, founder of the money management firm Holland & Co in New York.
Prosecutors introduced a new group of suspects including Goffer, who previously worked at Galleon, and Michael Kimelman, an Incremental Capital co-founder and former Sullivan & Cromwell LLP merger lawyer.
A former Moody's Corp analyst, an executive with a wireless networking firm, and others were among those charged with leaking confidential information about takeovers and other activities.
Calls recorded by law enforcement officials were littered with nicknames, like the Greek and the Rat, and jokes about getting information from a guy fixing a pothole. Targets were code-named the Hilton Hit and the Apple.
Someone's going to jail, going directly to jail, so don't let it be you, OK? Goffer said according to a criminal complaint. That's a ticket right to the (expletive) Big House.
Also arrested were Ropes & Gray LLP lawyer Arthur Cutillo; Craig Drimal, who worked in Galleon's office; Emanuel Goffer, Zvi's brother; Jason Goldfarb, also a lawyer; and David Plate, both also associated with Incremental Capital.
Investigators said Zvi Goffer, 32, identified as the Octopussy for his supposed ability to gather information, provided tipsters with prepaid cellphones to minimize the chances of getting caught.
He worked for almost all of 2007 at Schottenfeld, a New York-based broker dealer that has been tied to previous allegations of improper trading. investigators said. He then moved to Galleon in 2008, where he worked for about eight months before quitting to start Incremental Capital.
His scheme involved shares of network equipment maker 3Com Corp, telecom equipment maker Avaya Inc and drugmaker Axcan Pharma Inc, according to the criminal complaint.
Prosecutors also charged Deep Shah, a former Moody's ratings analyst, and Ali Hariri, a vice president at wireless networking chipmaker Atheros Communications Inc, with leaking confidential information.
The government said Shah, 27, lives in India. A spokeswoman for Bharara's office declined to say whether prosecutors would seek Shah's extradition.
Moody's spokesman Michael Adler said Shah had not worked at the company since 2007. Moody's will cooperate with investigators, and has strict policies against divulging confidential information, he added.
Hariri, 38, was arrested in San Francisco. Atheros said it put him on leave pending the results of an internal probe into his alleged insider trading.
Another five individuals, who were previously charged, have pleaded guilty to insider trading charges, prosecutors said, including current or former executives of hedge funds S2 Capital and Spherix Capital LLC.
Also pleading guilty was Roomy Khan, a convicted felon and former Intel employee widely cited as a central cooperating witness in the Galleon probe.
Ali Far, the founder of Spherix, a California-based hedge fund, and Richard Choo-Beng Lee, its former president, have admitted to engaging in illegal insider trading for many years, according to their cooperation agreements.
In the case of Lee, the agreements suggest that he engaged in illegal insider trading while working at Steven Cohen's SAC Capital, a Connecticut-based hedge fund. SAC did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
At a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Theodore Katz, bail was set for Cutillo, Drimal, Emanuel and Zvi Goffer, Goldfarb, Kimelman and Plate at between $100,000 and $500,000 each, with limited travel including the surrender of passports. The defendants were arrested in the pre-dawn hours.
(Writing by Steve Eder and Christian Plumb; Additional reporting by Elinor Comlay, Anupreeta Das, Steve Eder, Edith Honan and Dan Wilchins in New York; Svea Herbst-Bayliss in Boston; Alexandria Sage in San Francisco, and Gina Keating in Los Angeles; editing by John Wallace, Gary Hill and Leslie Gevirtz)


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Tennessee vs. Florida is the best college football game of the weekend (sorry Notre Dame and Michigan State). ESPN sideline reporter Samantha Steele was in Knoxville today, interviewing Vols' star receiver Justin Hunter. Tennessee QB Tyler Bray had the pleasure of meeting Steele, and was so happy, he tweeted about it. Georgia QB Aaron Murray – who might top Matt Barkley as the best college QB tweeter – was quick to respond.
After practice got to meet @samantha_steele. Been a good day so far.
— Tyler Bray (@tbrayvol8) September 11, 2012
"@tbrayvol8: After practice got to meet @samantha_steele. Been a good day so far." maybe a little jealous over here
— Aaron Murray (@aaronmurray11) September 11, 2012
@aaronmurray11 haha gorgeous
— Tyler Bray (@tbrayvol8) September 11, 2012
Sidenote: Love the Vols this weekend at -2.5. [H/T @GoVolx]


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Paris and Nicky Hilton Look Hot on Orange Carpet
There are so many A-listers at the Kids' Choice Awards this year! When Paris and Nicky Hilton showed up on the Orange Carpet, we couldn't believe our eyes! These sisters are hott in their lacy dresses. (Sidenote: sparkles and sequins seem to be the biggest trend this year on the carpet! The Hiltons might be the two ladies NOT wearing sparkles!)
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In his new book, "Courage and Consequence", Karl Rove, the patron saint of Republican politicians, expresses regret that Bush was not aggressive enough challenging those who charged that Bush "lied" to the American people about the reasons for the Iraq War.
Not aggressive enough? My God! How much more aggressive could that confederacy of criminals be? What they did to Valerie Plame was as aggressive as one could get while stopping short of murder.
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Recall that her husband, Joe Wilson, uncovered Bush's lie that Iraq was getting uranium from Niger, so in retribution Bush's thugs exposed the fact that Ms Plame was a CIA agent (a felony in itself), causing her to lose her job and endangering CIA operatives worldwide.
Bush lied about how he and Cheney falsified intelligence to justify attacking Iraq and he subsequently lied repeatedly about Iraq's response to UN inspection demands. He claimed that Saddam Hussein barred UN inspectors from his country - a lie of epic proportions. He continued reciting this bogus history from right after the invasion until the end of his presidency.
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The competition was graced by many world class competitors such as Silvia Farigu of Italy, Christian Oriolani of Spain, Leon Brydone and Padraig O Connor of Ireland and Libor Machen of the Czech Republic. The black belt sections were large and extremely competitive. This was demonstrated by the fact that only five entrants achieved gold in both sparring and patterns. These were Martin Luckey (England), Jordan Dalton (Ireland), Brian Van De Brand (Netherlands), Shannon Murphy (Ireland) and Silvia Farigu (Italy). The five mens weight sections were won by five different countries: Valentino Atenzi (Itlay), Adam Swain (England), Leon Brydone (Ireland), Henry Blocks, (Netherlands), and Libor Machen (Czech Republic). The ladies sections were won by Silvia Farigu (Italy), Claire O Sullivan (Ireland), Emma Deakin (England), Iva Martincova (Czech Republic) and Stacey Weatherer (England). The IUTF and ITF Ireland pride themselves on a well run tournament with fair judging and this is demonstrated by the results and attendance levels each year. The final medal count for black belts was as follows:
1. Ireland 70 medals
2. England 52 medals
3. Czech Republic 10 medals
4. Italy 9 medals
5. Spain 6 medals
6. Scotland 6 medals
7. Netherlands 6 medals
8. Belgium 1 medal
9. Wales 1 medal
The Celtic Team Cup
The Celtic Team Cup was also held on the same day as the individual black belt sparring and pattern. There were team sections in junior and senior sparring. The senior and junior ladies teams were won by England. The senior ladies team final was between the old rivals England and Ireland with last years champions England winning in the last bout. The Dutch boys won a large junior section with a strong team under the tutelage of Mr. Tim Kool. It was the first team win for the Dutch at the Celtic Cup. The mens team sparring came down to Ireland and the Czech Republic. This was to be held on the following morning prior to the colour belt championships. The four foreign judges took up position and with Mr. Alek Milanov of Bulgaria as centre referee both team got ready. With the hall packed to the brim the first two bouts were won by the Czechs. Very few Taekwon-Do practitioners get the opportunity to compete in front of such a large audience with such a wonderful and electric atmosphere. The vocal support spurred on the home nation to two wins on the trot with Padraig O Connor and Shane Fitzgibbon both victorious. It all came down to the final nail biting bout which Leon Brydone won after his relentless attacking forced his opponent to concede. The crowd was ecstatic. It was a fitting end to Europes premier Taekwon-Do tournament.
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Under 12s 1st Jordan Dalton Ireland
2nd Austin King Ireland
3rd Fionn Murphy Ireland
3rd Eoin Fitzgerald Ireland
Age 13/17 1st Degree 1st Jeremy Dijkstra Netherlands
2nd Jonathan Miloudi Ireland
3rd Daniel O Sullivan Ireland
3rd Josh Veitch England
Age 13/17 2nd Degree 1st Brian Van De Brand Netherlands
2nd James Stack Ireland
3rd Richard Forde Ireland
3rd Daniel Dowling England
Age 13/17 3rd Degree 1st Martin Luker England
2nd Carl O Brien Ireland
1st Degree 1st Petr Linc Czech Republic
2nd Marc Barnes Spain
3rd Jan Formanek Czech Republic
3rd Zdenek straka Czech Republic
2nd Degree 1st Matteo Lecca Italy
2nd Darren Twelvetree England
3rd Adam Swan England
3rd Lewis Baker England
3rd Degree 1st Michael Whitlock England
2nd Philip Whitlock England
3rd Ashley Atkinson England
3rd Simon Needle England
4th/ 5th Degree 1st Kevin McCabe Wales
2nd Christian Oriolani Spain
3rd Shane Fitzgibbon Ireland
3rd DarrenHolmes England
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Under 12s 1st Isabel Brider England
2nd Lili Mannion Ireland
3rd Emma Flanagan Ireland
3rd Romy Mottershead England
Age 13/14 1st Shannon Murphy Ireland
2nd Dayna Jones England
3rd Feral Ashworth Ireland
3rd Lauren Flavin Ireland
Age 15/17 1st Lorna Eden England
2nd Zoe Mattacks England
3rd Aisling Yataki Ireland
3rd Alison Gartside Ireland
Age 13-17 1st Veronica Placido Italy
2nd Natalie McColl England
3rd Leighanne McCarthy Ireland
3rd Carly Atkinson England
1st Degree 1st Anne Marie Rooney Ireland
2nd Simona Hrabalova Czech Republic
3rd Jana Bohackova Czech Republic
3rd Kathy Connellan Ireland
2nd Degree 1st Naomi Pearson England
2nd Corrine Sri Wadadw England
3rd Karen Douse England
3rd Anna Ross England
3rd Degree 1st Jennifer Friends England
2nd Emma Deakin England
3rd Claire O Sullivan Ireland
4th Mary Mannion Ireland
4th/ 5th Degree 1st Sylvia Farigu Italy
2nd Julie Scott Scotland
3rd Barbara Siraut Belgium
3rd Stacey Weatherer England
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Under 12s (Light) 1st Jordan Dalton Ireland
2nd Austin King Ireland
3rd Fionn Murphy Ireland
3rd John Luke England
Under 12s (Heavy) 1st Eoin Fitzgerald Ireland
2nd Max Motherhead England
3rd Wayne Mulhall Ireland
3rd Cillian Howard Ireland
Age 13-17 (-42kg) 1st Stephan Bohan Ireland
2nd Adam O Connell Ireland
3rd Jason Costello Ireland
3rd Kenneth Duignan Ireland
Age 13-17 Micro 1st Johnathan Miloudi Ireland
2nd Cathal Kilbane Ireland
3rd Daniel O Sullivan Ireland
3rd Joseph Wood England
Age 13-17 Light 1st Mart Luker England
2nd Ryan Quinn Ireland
3rd Ben Dale England
3rd Dylan Lacey Ireland
Age 13-17 Middle 1st Brian van de Brand Netherlands
2nd Ciaran Cassidy Ireland
3rd Ciaran Doyle Ireland
3rd Adam Quinn Ireland
Age 13-17 Heavy 1st Jack England England
2nd Niels Wildschut Netherlands
3rd James Stack Ireland
3rd Jeremy Dijkstra Netherlands
Age 13-17 Hyper 1st Daniel Dowling England
2nd Richard Forde Ireland
3rd Edward Coleman Roberts England
3rd Cory Stephen Ireland
Over 35s 1st Karl Kavanagh Ireland
2nd Stefano Bulla Italy
3rd Phil Mottershead England
3rd Michael kirkhan Scotland
Seniors Micro 1st Valentino Atzeni Italy
2nd Matteo Lecco Itlay
3rd David O Mahony Ireland
3rd Thomas Robertson Scotland
Seniors Light 1st Adam Swain England
2nd Ben England England
3rd Gustavo Oyarzo Spain
3rd Andrea Picciau Itlay
Seniors Middle 1st Leon Brydon Ireland
2nd Christian Oriolani Spain
3rd Vincent Coakley Ireland
3rd Karl Davis England
Senior Heavy 1st Henry Blocks Netherlands
2nd Shane Fitzgibbon Ireland
3rd Pilip Whitlock England
3rd Richard Harze England
Senior Hyper 1st Libor Machen Czech Republic
2nd Padraig O Connor Ireland
3rd Michael Whitlock England
3rd Jan Formanek Czech Republic
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Under 12s 1st Nicole Swani Ireland
2nd Emma Flanagan Ireland
3rd Lilli Mannion Ireland
3rd Romy Mottershead England
Age 13-17 Light 1st Shannon Murphy Ireland
2nd Veronica Placido Italy
3rd Carly Atkinson England
3rd Aisling Dowling Ireland
Age 13-17 Middle 1st Dayna Jones England
2nd Jessica Flanagan Ireland
3rd Shannon Holland Ireland
3rd Lorna Eden England
Age 13-17 Heavy 1st Alice Wood England
2nd Aisling Yataki Ireland
3rd Emma Loedel Scotland
3rd Lisa Lonnergan Ireland
Age 13-17 Hyper 1st Natalie McColl England
2nd Alison Gartside England
3rd Neidin Coulahan Ireland
3rd Ciara O Shea Ireland
Over 35s 1st Sophie Barnett England
2nd Corinne Barnett England
3rd Sandra Doyle Ireland
3rd Sandra Murphy Ireland
Senior Micro 1st Sylvia Farigu Italy
2nd Kathy Connellan Ireland
3rd Julie Scott Scotland
3rd Jennifer Francis Ireland
Senior Light 1st Claire O Sullivan Ireland
2nd Aoife O Sullivan Ireland
3rd Laura Lupon Spain
3rd Karen Dowse England
Senior Middle 1st Emma Deakin England
2nd Liz McKenna Scotland
3rd Ann Marie Rooney Ireland
3rd Alison Webb England
Senior Heavy 1st Iva Martincova Czech Republic
2nd Moira McElligott Ireland
3rd Andrea Kinsella Ireland
3rd Simona Hrabalova Czech Republic
Senior Hyper 1st Stacey Weatherer England
2nd Sarah O Connor Ireland
3rd Jana Bohackova Czech Republic
3rd Aida Conde Spain
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Senior Female: England
Junior Male: Netherlands
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Manchester United Transfer News: Luke Shaw Deal Imminent Ahead of World CupMay 12, 2014
Manchester United are understood to have secured the capture of Luke Shaw in a £27 million deal, according to reports.
The Southampton left-back, who is expected to be included in England's World Cup squad on Monday, is set to be rewarded for a fantastic season with a bumper Old Trafford deal, per David McDonnell of the Mirror:
United have reached agreement with Southampton for the signature of the left-back, who has been included in England's World Cup squad.
Personal terms are understood to be a formality between Shaw and United, with the teenager set to treble his wages to £75,000-a-week in a five-year deal.
Shaw's potential move is also reported by Simon Stone and Nabil Hassan of BBC Sport, who report United "are refusing to comment," while the Telegraph's Jeremy Wilson and John Percy believe Shaw "is on the brink of becoming one of the most expensive teenagers and full-backs in football history."
Howard Nurse of BBC Sport also confirmed the news of a bid via his colleague Dan Roan:
Les Reed, Southampton's football director, previously suggested no player has been given permission to speak to other clubs, per the Southern Daily Echo:
Reports that we are about to close deals on certain players are totally misinformed, misleading and are not true. No club has been given permission to talk to any of our players so reports that some of our players are in the process of negotiating stellar transfer fees or contracts are absolutely misinformed and inaccurate.
United's interest in Shaw has been long-standing. Although Chelsea are also said to be considering a move for the 18-year-old, per Gary Jones of the Mirror, the situation is right for the Red Devils to secure one of English football's most exciting talents.
Chelsea are consciously battling UEFA's financial fair play rules. Jose Mourinho—who needs a new striker, per BBC Sport—is unlikely to want to spend such a hefty sum on a left-back. Cesar Azpilicueta has performed admirably in the position this year, and right now, Ashley Cole remains at the club.
Shaw's second season of Premier League football was a success. He made 35 appearances for Mauricio Pochettino's side, assisted one goal, and he showed the kind of ambition United expect from their full-backs, per WhoScored.com. His pace and energy down the left side ensured the Saints stretched many Premier League opponents, allowing Shaw the space to mobilise his crafty dribbling skills.
The youngster performed admirably against Adnan Januzaj, his possible future team-mate, during Southampton's last game of the season. Although Shaw needs to work on defensive positioning, his qualities would slot straight into the United line-up. Patrice Evra posted a poor campaign, one riddled with laziness and personal mistakes, suggesting his time could be up.
United are expected to announce their new manager this week, reported by Alex Richards of the Mirror. It seems the potential Shaw deal follows on from David Moyes' era, but despite not currently possessing a permanent boss, United fans will be more than pleased to land the promising starlet.
Shaw is exactly the type of signing needed at this time of transition for the club. His energy, enthusiasm and willingness to improve can drive United toward future success, starting with Champions League qualification.


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TED RAY BRANNAN v. STATE OF TENNESSEE Court:TCCA Attorneys: Thomas C. Faris, Winchester, Tennessee, for appellant, Ted Ray Brannan. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General & Reporter; Elizabeth B. Marney, Assistant Attorney General; J. Michael Taylor, District Attorney General; and Stephen Blount, Assistant District Attorney General, for appellee, State of Tennessee. Judge: SMITH First Paragraph: The defendant, Ted Ray Brannan, was found guilty by a Franklin County jury of aggravated burglary and theft of property. Accordingly, the trial court sentenced him to an effective sentence of twelve years, ten years as a Range III persistent offender for his aggravated burglary conviction to be served concurrently with his twelve year sentence as a career offender for his theft of property conviction. The defendant appealed his conviction to this Court, and we dismissed the appeal, finding that the appeal was not properly before this Court because the defendant had failed to file a timely motion for new trial or a timely notice of appeal. See State v. Ted Ray Brannan, No. 01C01-9704-CC-00148, 1998 WL 242453, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. at Nashville, May 15, 1998). The defendant then sought post-conviction relief, and the post-conviction court found that the defendant was deprived of a direct appeal because his counsel was ineffective in failing to file a motion for new trial or a notice of appeal. Accordingly, the post-conviction court granted the defendant a delayed appeal. However, the court found that the defendant's other allegations of error were meritless. The defendant is now before this Court on a delayed appeal challenging the post- conviction court's finding that his other post-conviction issues lacked merit. Although we find that the lower court should have dismissed the post-conviction petition when granting him a delayed appeal, in the interest of judicial economy, we will address the issues pertaining to the post- conviction petition as well as those in his direct appeal. Having found that all the issues in this appeal lack merit, the judgment of the circuit court is affirmed. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/brannanted.wpd
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. LARRY BROWN Court:TCCA Attorneys: Tony N. Brayton, Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Larry Brown. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Renee W. Turner, Assistant Attorney General; William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and Steve Jones, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee. Judge: WELLES First Paragraph: The Defendant, Larry Brown, was convicted by a Shelby County jury of theft of property with a value over $500.00 and evading arrest. After a sentencing hearing, the trial court sentenced him to six years for the theft charge and eleven months and twenty-nine days for evading arrest. The trial court ordered the sentences to be served consecutively. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. We affirm the Defendant's conviction for evading arrest and reverse and dismiss his conviction for theft of property. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/brownl.wpd
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. WILLIE J. COWAN, JR. Court:TCCA Attorneys: William C. Gosnell, Memphis, Tennessee, for the Appellant, Willie J. Cowan, Jr. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; John H. Bledsoe, Assistant Attorney General; William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and John Tibbetts, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee. Judge: WEDEMEYER First Paragraph: The Defendant was convicted by a Shelby County jury of vehicular homicide by intoxication and reckless driving. He received an effective sentence of nine and a half years in the Tennessee Department of Correction. The Defendant now appeals, arguing the following: (1) that insufficient evidence was presented at trial to convict him of the charged offenses and (2) that the trial court erred in sentencing the Defendant. Finding no error, we affirm the judgment of the trial court. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/cowanwj.wpd
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. COLLIN J. JOHNSON and JASON S. PORTERFIELD Court:TCCA Attorneys: Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; David H. Findley, Assistant Attorney General; William C. Whitesell, Jr., District Attorney General; and Paul A. Holcombe, III and John W. Price, III, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellant, State of Tennessee. John G. Mitchell, Jr. and John G. Mitchell, III, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for the appellee, Jason S. Porterfield. Judge: RILEY First Paragraph: The state brings this interlocutory appeal in which it challenges the order of the Rutherford County Circuit Court authorizing the admission into evidence of certain testimony relating to the prior sexual behavior of the alleged rape victim. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for further proceedings. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/porterfieldjs.wpd
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. LARRY D. SIMMONS and TYCE RENARD JACKSON Court:TCCA Attorneys: Collier W. Goodlett, Assistant Public Defender, Clarksville, Tennessee for appellant, Larry D. Simmons. Stacy A. Turner, Clarksville, Tennessee, for appellant, Tyce Renard Jackson. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General & Reporter; David H. Findley, Assistant Attorney General; John Carney, District Attorney General; Lance A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney General, for appellee, State of Tennessee. Judge: SMITH First Paragraph: The appellants, Tyce Jackson and Larry Simmons, were initially charged with delinquency in a juvenile petition filed in the Juvenile Court for Montgomery County. This petition arose out of two separate car jackings occurring in October of 1997. A hearing was held in the juvenile court upon the State's petition to transfer the appellants to criminal court for trial as adults. Finding that the appellants should be tried as adults, the juvenile court transferred the case to the Montgomery County Criminal Court. The appellants appealed their transfer by way of a petition for the writ of certiorari filed in the criminal court. The criminal court denied the writ. The appellants were indicted on two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping, two counts of carjacking, two counts of aggravated robbery, two counts of illegal weapon possession and one count of aggravated assault. Both appellants ultimately entered guilty pleas in criminal court to one count of aggravated kidnapping and one count of aggravated assault. They each received concurrent sentences of ten and six years respectively. As part of the plea agreement the appellants reserved a certified question of law concerning the standard used by the juvenile court in transferring the appellants for trial as adults. The appellants claim that because proof at the transfer hearing showed them to be "voluntarily committable" to an institution for the developmentally disabled or mentally ill they were not subject to transfer for trial as adults. In addition, Appellant Simmons alleges that the evidence at the transfer hearing failed to adequately identify him as a perpetrator of the offenses. We find that while Tennessee Code Annotated section 37-1-134(a)(4)(B) prohibits the transfer to criminal court of juveniles who are "involuntarily committable" to a mental health facility, no such prohibition exists with respect to juveniles whose mental disorders might make them subject to voluntary admission to a mental health facility. In addition, we find that Appellant Simmons has failed to present this Court with a record sufficient to permit review of the issue concerning his identity as a perpetrator of the offenses at issue in this appeal. The judgments, conviction and sentences are therefore affirmed. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/simmonsjack.wpd
Constitutionality of HB 2479 Date: May 6, 2002 Opinion Number: 02-059 http://www.tba.org/tba_files/AG/OP59.pdf
Appointment and Confirmation of Tennessee Regulatory Authority Directors Date: May 7, 2002 Opinion Number: 02-060 http://www.tba.org/tba_files/AG/OP60.pdf
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A BRITISH Transport Police sergeant was today sentenced to two years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.
Mick Defries, 58, of Barnham, appeared at Lewes Crown Court today (Friday, January 10) after pleading guilty to two counts of sexually assaulting a girl under 13 at a hearing in December.
Sentencing, judge Michael Lawson QC, said his punishment should reflect the 'public disgust' at his actions.
The offences occurred in 2008, and the victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, went to police in November 2013.
A statement from the victim said she felt 'disgusted and violated' at Defries actions, and that now she felt 'safe again'.
Defries was also given a sexual offences prevention order, banning him from contact with girls under 16.
Following his first court appearance, a British Transport Police spokesman said: "BTP can confirm that Sergeant Defries, who has served with the force for ten years, has been suspended from duty following his arrest and charge by Sussex Police.
"BTP's professional standard's department is assisting Sussex Police with their investigation."


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Maybe it was NBA Showtime that did it. Five years ago, Hector Fernandez was playing mascots versus mascots and wondered why basketball action didn't go even more over the top. Was a street mode as crazy as it got? Why not three hoops, four hoops, six hoops? And so HoopWorld was born.
Fernandez, the chief creative officer at Streamline Studios, showed off his upcoming Xbox Live Arcade title today at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif. HoopWorld is far from finished, but already the title looks to be the most over-the-top, ridiculous basketball experience ever conceived, and that could be a good thing.
HoopWorld combines elements of NBA Showtime, kung-fu brawling, and the ancient Mesoamerican game of Tlachtli. What's all that mean? Well, on multi-tiered basketball with a number of different baskets in environments like jungles and deserts, you can play three-on-three hoops. Matches last only three minutes, and players build up trick points by chaining together charge moves, dragon punches and a variety of special moves, and then scoring a basket. No basket, no points. On defense, you can fire missiles and slide tackle to force turnovers. The team with the most trick points when time runs out wins.
The controls are simple. You move with the left stick. Face buttons unleash different tricks, jumps and shot. The shoulder buttons and triggers are modifiers, which includes a turbo-meter called the "Ruckus Meter."


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The HypnoLight is a 12 foot long light string made of 50 RGB LEDs.
HypnoLight features:
We've got these with either black or white wire. Turns out the item variants feature on our store is a bit busted, so until we can get that fixed let me know when ordering if you have a preference. If I don't hear from you I will send you black (which seems to be the more popular color.)
International customers: Please note that the included power adapter is 100-240VAC compatible, but has a US-style plug on it so you may need a physical plug adapter.