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Broncos Win 6th Straight, Beat KC 17-9-Daily Sports Update
The Denver Broncos won their 6th straight by beating AFC West rival Kansas City 17-9 on Sunday. Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning threw for 285 yards and 2 touchdowns. Jacob Tamme caught one and Demaryius Thomas caught the other touchdown pass. The Chiefs (1-10) have now lost 8 in a row. The Broncos (8-3) host Tampa Bay (6-5) this Sunday.
The Wyoming Cowboys concluded their football season on Saturday afternoon just like they started, with a loss as they were beaten by San Diego State at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie 42-28. For the third straight game, the Pokes offense looked good in the first half and produced very little in the second half. The Cowboy defense has struggled the entire season and allowed the Aztecs to run the ball for 400 yards, 255 of those from Adam Muema who also had 4 touchdowns. The Cowboys finish at 4-8 and a very disappointing 1-5 at home. San Diego State gets a share of the Mountain West Conference championship going 7-1 in league play and 9-3 overall.
In men's college basketball, the Wyoming Cowboys are now 6-0 after beating Cal Bakersfield at the AA Saturday night 63-49. The Pokes held Bakersfield to 27 percent shooting from the field. The Cowboys were led in scoring by Leonard Washington with 13 points. They'll be at UC-Santa Barbara on Wednesday night.
The Wyoming Cowgirls posted 2 big wins last weekend beating Seton Hall and then Pepperdine in the Pepperdine Tournament. The Cowgirls beat the host school 72-50 on Saturday thanks to 26 points from Kaityln Mileto. The Cowgirls will be at Colorado on Wednesday.
The Casper College men's team posted 3 wins in their Thanksgiving Classic held over the holiday weekend at Erickson Gym. They capped the weekend sweep with a hard fought 79-65 win over Lamar, Colorado on Saturday. The T-Birds (7-2) travel to Western Nebraska in Scottsbluff on Tuesday night with that game on AM 1400 ESPN with Marcus Hayden and Chris Crossen. The Casper College women will be action this weekend when they play in the Air Force Prep Tournament in Colorado Springs. Those games can be heard on AM 1400 ESPN.
Here's Monday's Daily Sports Update with Frank Gambino.

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Traditional Peach Cobbler
Jan Psenda of Palisade, Colo., wowed the judges at last year's Palisade Peach Festival in Colorado with this uniquely prepared treat.
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Level: Moderate
Yield: 12 servings
Serves: 12
- 1 c. sugar
- 3 tbsp. cornstarch
- 8 c. peaches
- 1 c. white wine
- 1 cinnamon stick
- ¼ tsp. almond extract
- of 1 lemon
- 2 c. flour
- ½ c. sugar
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. salt
- 6 tbsp. butter
- 1 c. buttermilk
- In a large bowl, mix 1 cup sugar with the cornstarch. Stir in peaches and wine (or juice). Cover and refrigerate at least 30 minutes.
- Drain the peaches in a colander set over a bowl. Measure out 3 cups of the drained juices (purée extra peaches in a blender if you need more liquid to get to 3 cups). Place liquid in a saucepan and bring to a boil; simmer with the cinnamon stick over medium heat until thickened. Discard cinnamon stick and add almond extract.
- Place drained peaches in a 9" x 13" baking pan; pour the hot liquid over them and sprinkle with lemon zest.
- To make topping, preheat oven to 425ºF and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Whisk together flour, 6 Tbsp. sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Cut in the butter with two knives used scissor-fashion until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Pour in buttermilk and stir until dough is just mixed.
- Spoon 12 biscuits onto the cookie sheet at least 11/2 inches apart. Sprinkle the remaining 2 Tbsp. sugar over biscuits; bake 15 minutes, or until lightly browned.
- Arrange the hot biscuits over the warm peaches and bake until filling is bubbling and biscuits are golden brown, about 10 minutes. Serve warm with ice cream or whipped cream.
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Psychometric properties of a Korean version of the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale-20 in chronic pain patients
Cho, S. K., Lee, S. M., McCracken, L. M., Moon, D. E. and Heiby, E. M., 2010. Psychometric properties of a Korean version of the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale-20 in chronic pain patients. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 17 (2), pp. 108-117.
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The Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS-20) consists of 20 items designed to assess four aspects of pain-related anxiety: cognitive anxiety, escape-avoidance behaviors, fear of pain, and physiological symptoms of anxiety. Although the PASS-20 is a well-established measure of pain-related anxiety in Western samples, different cultures may yield a different factor structure or different associations with pain-related outcome variables. The purposes of this study were (1) to examine the factor structure of a Korean language version of the PASS-20 (KPASS-20); (2) to examine reliability and construct validity of the KPASS-20; and (3) to compare the findings of this study with those of the original psychometric study using a Western sample. A total of 166 patients seeking treatment in a university pain management center located in Seoul, Korea participated. Results indicated that the KPASS-20 consists of three factors, "fearful thinking," "physiological response," and "avoidance," and has adequate reliability and construct validity estimates. On the mean total score of the KPASS-20, the Korean sample had a significantly higher score than the original Western sample. In addition, in correlation analyses between the total score of the KPASS-20, physical functioning, and pain severity, the Korean sample had significantly higher coefficients, whereas similar differences were not found in the analyses of psychological functioning and depression. The findings provide preliminary support for the reliability and validity of the KPASS-20.
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Vitex grows easily, provides blooms, attracts butterfliesJune 13, 2014 Updated: June 13, 2014 3:51pm
Q: I am interested in vitex. Can I root from a cutting? Pros and cons?
J.W., Houston
A: Vitex is an easy-to-grow, deciduous small tree or large shrub; I find it a rewarding plant with no cons.
If spent flowers are removed, it blooms spring to frost and attracts butterflies. Vitex is typically pest free and grows best in sun or part sun and a well-draining soil. I snip spent flowers throughout the summer and trim overvigorous small branches.
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'Montrose Purple,' with plump flower spikes, is one of the showiest cultivars. I grow the dainty cut-leaf vitex.
Vitex can be propagated from seed or cuttings. The ideal time to try rooting cuttings is July into fall. Cut several 4- to 6-inch semi-hardwood pieces and remove any flower buds. Dip cut ends in rooting hormone and stick about a third deep into a moist, well-draining medium.
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Q: My vitex tree is in full bloom but is terribly overgrown. When can I have it cut back, and how much can I take off without damaging the tree?
M.T., Houston
A: My vitex tolerates severe pruning. I often reduce the height and width at least a third and remove lower lateral branches so it will retain a V-shape, multitrunk tree form. Some prefer a full, shrublike look.
During the summer, I snip spent blooms to get another round of flowers, remove any suckers from the base to keep the clean, multitrunk tree look and trim overly happy stems as much as I please to maintain a decent-looking shape.
You could trim yours after it flowers - a little or quite a bit. If you wish to reduce the size but create a pleasing shape, perhaps you could remove a fourth and see if that is adequate. If not, trim more. Pruning, rain and warmth will encourage lush, bushy new growth. This green-stemmed growth takes awhile to develop into woody stems.
Q: Except for one flower this year, my 20 agapanthus plants have not bloomed for about the past four years. Prior to that, I had blooms on each plant for four or more years. Any suggestions?
D.C., Houston
A: Agapanthus blooms best in sun to part sun and in organically enriched, well-draining soil. Are yours in considerable shade?
The plant also multiplies and naturalizes, so perhaps it's time to divide. Although agapanthus often blooms best when it's slightly crowded in a bed or pot-bound, it can benefit when divided every four or five years. Dig the clumps in spring or fall: Carefully separate divisions with roots, cut the foliage by half and replant.
Water well before the May-June bloom season. Water less in winter. Fertilize in early spring and after flowering. Avoid using a high-nitrogen formula, which produces foliage but fewer blooms.
Q: We have a magnolia that was growing in our garden when we moved to Timbergrove 35 years ago. Now the leaves have white powdery spots. A tree man sprayed the lower branches and applied something systemically, but the tree is still sick. I've bagged the fallen leaves and discarded them to slow re-infection. Can you diagnose my ailing tree?
K. R., Houston
A: That's scale, a common magnolia pest, on the leaves in your photo. Repeat treatments are usually necessary to fight this persistent insect.
Scale are mobile when young, then attach themselves to the leaves' tops and bottom. They drain plant juices, and as they do, they secrete a sticky substance called honeydew that drips on the upper sides of the leaves below. Then a black, sooty mold develops on the honeydew.
While the mold is not that harmful, a heavy scale infestation is not desirable. Continue picking up fallen leaves. Applications of horticultural oil can help, but you may need an arborist to spray a large tree, this time reaching higher branches. Apply to top and bottom of leaves and stems.
Keep the tree as healthy as possible. We've had good rains in recent weeks, but should an extended hot/dry weather return, water the tree slowly and deeply every 10 days or so as needed.
You might spread compost beneath the canopy (but not against the trunk). It will boost soil nutrients when it breaks down. If you wish, you can top this off with another layer of mulch to conserve soil moisture and moderate soil temperature.
Q: I planted six tomato varieties in my raised-bed garden on March 8. All the plants are more than 5 feet tall, dark green with no yellow leaves, even at the bottom. However, they have hardly any blossoms and only a few green tomatoes. I've only harvested two red tomatoes so far, and usually at this time of the year, I'm giving them away. What might be the problem?
J.S., Crosby
A: Several factors may have played a part in the poor flowering: too much nitrogen fertilizer, which promotes vegetative growth at the expense of blooms; not enough sun; too much or irregular water; and night temps below 50 degrees as we had during the spring. Nurseries that host tomato contests moved their events to later this month because of the crazy spring.
Provide at least 6 to 8 hours of sun. Hold off on the nitrogen fertilizer. You might even remove some of the lower leaves. Are these varieties tried-and-true from past seasons? It's fun to experiment, and sometimes new types are great. But if the varieties aren't those proven types from years past, perhaps you might include the productive ones next season.


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Providing Right Expertise, Customer Service Blend, Offers Strategy For Competing With Giant Corporations
The changing fortunes of two computer equipment and service stores in New Jersey points up the importance of customer service when David meets Goliath in business.
At a time when retail giant CompUSA is closing 10 of its 11 stores in the Garden State, Micro Center, a small computer chain with a big reputation for service and expertise is opening its 20th nationwide location.
The Ohio-based Micro Center chain plans to open its 20th store in April in a new retail development that can draw customers from a wide area. The 35,000-square-foot store, located in an enterprise zone, will sell video game consoles, HDTVs and cellphones, as well as esoteric computer parts for cyber-geeks who like to "build their own." Exactly the same audience CompUSA was created to serve. The store is within 10 miles of two such giant stores about to close.
Retailing experts point to Micro Center's reputation for having knowledgeable sales staff trained to help as a key component of the companys growth. These same experts report that CompUSA has, in recent years, failed to build customer loyalty with service. The result is declining sales in the bigger chain while Micro Center is gaining a reputation for quality service coupled with more complete product offerings.
In addition, other experts see a change in the way Americans view the utility of so call warehouse-style big-box stores. Many of these locations are lightly manned and have few sales staff members who can advise customers.
Marketing experts say they are detecting a need, not only in product but also advice and suggestions from sales staff. This need appears to growing and is necessary to supplement the information provided by the Internet, particularly at the time of sale.
Certainly we are not seeing the end of the big box, no-frills store, said Dr. Kenneth E. Lehrer, a Houston, TX, economist. What we are seeing is a continuing need for the smaller enterprise with specific expertise to serve a consumer and industrial sector that wants information the old fashion way, at the point of sale.
While computers have become ubiquitous and available just about everywhere, the need for knowledgeable sales staff has not abated. At the same time, Micro Center also brags that its stores carry a larger selection than the biggest of the big boxes.
Customer service and skilled salespeople are the chain's claims to fame, and the secrets, it says, to annual sales estimated at more than $1 billion by Forbes magazine, which puts it at 307th on its list of the Top 500 Private Companies.
The 19 other stores in the chain average $55 million each in revenue.
"Micro Center modeled itself after high-satisfaction department stores like Nordstrom, where customer satisfaction is very important," Marketing Communications Manager Ed Lukens said. "What we try to do with the salespeople is to get people who are really geeks with good people skills."
Micro Center was the only computer retail chain to be recommended for both service and selection three years in a row by Consumer Reports magazine. A survey by the magazine last November gave the chain the second-highest customer satisfaction score, after Apple stores.
"They're a lot different than CompUSA. This is a different animal," said Doug Olenick, an editor at TWICE, a leading consumer electronics trade publication.
"Their salespeople, compared to others in the industry, are extremely well-trained. When you walk into their store, someone will walk up to you and offer to help, and be adept at doing so."
The first Micro Center store opened 28 years ago in a vacated department store in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, near Ohio State University and the scientific think-tank Battelle Memorial Institute. Those two institutions drew potential customers to the store and made it easy to find computer-literate salespeople.
The privately held chain has expanded at a glacial pace compared with other retailers.
It waited until 1988 to open its second store, and has added just 17 stores since then. In contrast, CompUSA is five years younger than Micro Center, but had more than 200 stores a decade after opening its first.
"Because they're so few and far between, most people don't know about them," Olenick said.
The chain, he said, doesn't cluster stores near each other, so it is unlikely they would open other stores in North Jersey any time soon.
"They consider themselves a destination," he said. "They think a person will drive miles to get to their stores."
New Micro Center stores "tend to do well," Olenick said. "They do a lot of research prior to selecting a location. You don't hear of their stores closing."
The Paterson store, at 263 McLean Blvd., is in the new Route 20 Retail Center, developed by Rushton Industries of Fairfield.
The center includes a 167,000-square-foot Lowe's hardware store and a 20,000-square-foot Pep Boys store.
Rushton Vice President Rick Rushton said company executives have visited Micro Center stores in other parts of the country and they believe the store will draw eager customers. "It's really a great store," he said. "And the people who work there are really knowledgeable."
Another advantage for Micro Center and one that other smaller enterprises should consider is locating in so-called urban enterprise zones. In New Jersey, stores located in such zones get a 50% sales tax reduction from the state.


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PLA Portfolio Assessment Course Subjects
- Nonverbal Communication (COM-361) 3.00 s.h.
Course Description
The effects of space, body language, environment, objects, voice quality, dress, gesture, and human artifacts on communication.
Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:
- Identify the various manifestations of nonverbal communication;
- Recognize the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication in regard to how nonverbal may complement or contradict verbal communication;
- Describe the optimal role of nonverbal communication in functioning with verbal communication;
- Identify obstacles to effective nonverbal communication;
- Recognize the nonverbal aspects of verbal communication.
- Dynamics of One to One Communications (COM-308) 3.00 s.h.
Course Description
This course is designed to examine the dynamics of one-to-one communication through reading and experientially: The course will further develop personal goals for optimizing personal communication and assist in establishing strategies for the attainment of these goals.
Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:
- Describe the differences between--and implications of--the dynamic vs the static nature of one-on-one relationships
- Recognize the variety of objectives of one-on-one communications and show an understanding of how the objective determines the flow of communication.
- Identify challenges to achieving desired results in interpersonal communication.
- Describe the role of nonverbal communication in advancing or thwarting effective communication.
- Demonstrate ability to analyze effective and ineffective one-on-one communication--e.g., in a media interview, a job interview, a performance appraisal.
- Recognize the role of good listening in achieving successful one-on-one communication; identify "good listening skills."
- Describe the role of "rapport" in the one-on-one communication process
- Leadership Communication (MAN-376) 3.00 s.h.
Course Description
Leadership Communication is an introduction to the study and practice of leadership from a communication perspective. The course focuses particularly on understanding leading as a symbolic process. Students will examine communication concepts and skills that will increase their effectiveness as leaders in a variety of leadership contexts: small group, organization, community, and society. Students will also learn how to deal with issues of culture, gender, and ethics, as well as how to handle crises and participate in leader development. The course provides the opportunity for students to assess their leadership communication styles, behavior, and skills as well as apply course concepts to real world settings.
Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:
- Explain leadership communication theories and concepts.
- Differentiate between leadership communication demands in group, organizational, and public communication contexts.
- Analyze the role of communication in promoting diversity, encouraging ethical behavior among both leaders and followers, managing crises, and developing leaders.
- Assess your own leadership (and followership) styles and behaviors.
- Devise strategies for improving your leadership and followership skills.
- Demonstrate written communication competency.
- Apply course concepts to real world settings.
- Communication in Criminal Justice (AOJ-116) 3.00 s.h.
- COMMUNICATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE - Barriers to effective communication in the field of criminal justice. Development of effective intradepartmental & interdepartmental communications well as communication with the community & within the courtroom.
- Fundamentals of Speech I (COM-108) 3.00 s.h.
Course Description
The student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the foundations of human communication, the self and communication, the listening process, verbal and nonverbal messages, interpersonal communication, group dynamics, and public speaking.
Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:
- Define three communication models describing the corresponding elements or components of the communication process and illustrate each through a schematic.
- Discuss at least five principles or axioms of interpersonal communication and provide supporting examples.
- Discuss the role of the self and perception in human communication and illustrate your discussion with two or more examples.
- Illustrate an understanding of the stages of listening with at least four scenarios.
- Illustrate comprehension of at least four functions of verbal messages and four functions of nonverbal messages through examples of each.
- Compare and contrast four positive and negative characteristics of small groups.
- Create three patterns of organization for an informative speech using proper outline formatting for three speeches.
- Critique the use of three appeals in a published persuasive speech indicating the degree to which each is successful.
- Advanced Speech Communications (COM-207) 3.00 s.h.
- Develops improved proficiency in composing and presenting various types of speech communication. Presents communication theory and communication theory models.
- Interpersonal Communication (COM-330) 3.00 s.h.
Course Description
In Interpersonal Communication we examine the process of interpersonal communication from various perspectives, including dyadic interactions, how we perceive others, listening skills, emotions, language, and nonverbal communications. By applying and mastering the concepts of interpersonal communication, you can improve your listening and interaction with others, handle conflict and human differences more positively and productively, and form more tractable and supportive relationships in a variety of contexts.
Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:
- Explain interpersonal communication as it compares to communication in general and in other settings (small group, one to many, etc.).
- Describe ways in which interpersonal communication depends in large measure on human perception and particularly person perception.
- Explain how human emotions arise, impinge on, and affect interpersonal communication, and specify ways in which they can be managed for greater personal effectiveness in interpersonal communication.
- Outline and describe ways in which language can either facilitate or inhibit success in interpersonal communication.
- Demonstrate the significance of nonverbal communication, including such usually less-noticed factors as tone of voice, the use of space, etc.
- Demonstrate how listening is critical to interpersonal success and how listening skill goes beyond hearing to an active strategy in conversation with others.
- Categorize the varieties of human relationships and specify how and why they vary and where the various sorts most often appear.
- Contrast different communication climates (e.g., defensive vs. supportive), and specify how those climates arise, are diagnosed, and can be made more positive.
- Assess the varieties of conflicts that arise in human intercourse, and discriminate which approach to a conflict may be most successful and appropriate, given its essential cause and nature.
- Elements of Intercultural Communication (COM-335) 3.00 s.h.
Course Description
Elements of Intercultural Communication presents a theoretical and practical approach to the study of intercultural communication. The course focuses on the many elements and processes involved in the sending and receiving of messages across cultures. The aim of the course is to increase your sensitivity to and understanding of intercultural differences and similarities so that this awareness can lead to more effective communication. The course covers basic concepts, principles, and practical skills for improving communication between persons from different ethnic, racial, religious, and cultural backgrounds.
Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:
- Explain the communication process and relate it to communicating with cultures different from your own.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how cultural differences in world view, family experience, and history shape perceptions, behaviors, and communication patterns.
- Analyze and articulate the variables in the intercultural communication situation (attitudes, social organization, patterns of thought, roles, language, space, time, nonverbal communication, ethnocentrism, world view).
- Describe specific verbal and nonverbal communication patterns that are reflected during human interaction. Explain the influence of culture on communication in at least three settings where intercultural exchanges are most likely to occur: the workplace, school, and health care environments.
- Identify and implement ways to improve the intercultural communications in various professional, academic and social settings.
- History of Communication I (COM-343) 3.00 s.h.
- An overview of the history of communication.
- Communication in Families (COM-438) 3.00 s.h.
Course Description
Emphasis on the role of communication in families; theoretical perspective of family interaction, current family issues, intercultural aspects of family interaction, effects of changing career/ family roles and intergenerational interaction.
Learning Outcomes
Through the Portfolio Assessment process, students will demonstrate that they can appropriately address the following outcomes:
- Explain verbal and non-verbal communication and the importance of each in relation to various family members
- Explain communication problems in the family unit
- Discuss your understanding of gender differences in communication and the effects of these communication patterns in various family units
- Compare and contrast theoretical perspectives of family interaction
- Demonstrate understanding of communication patterns in relation to the traditional and contemporary family
- Compare and contrast cultural difference of communication in families
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Big Story Weather – July 16, 2012
redOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly
Big Story Weather from July 13-15: Friday was not very active on the severe weather front with only a few hail reports in Iowa, Minnesota and out west in Washington. Strong gusts resulted from thunderstorms in places like Oklahoma and Kansas. On Saturday an isolated tornado was reported out on the Atlantic Ocean section of Virginia along with a wind report over 75mph in the Western portion of South Dakota. Sunday brought another day with one tornado starting out as a waterspout and then making a brief transition as it crossed over land on the eastern shores of Maryland. Also this weekend the heavy rain continued along the Gulf Coast, especially in Eastern Texas and Western Louisiana. This weekend also brought a return to the heat in the middle section of the country with temps soaring back over 100 for many locations. Another extreme event that is taking shape is a massive drought that is spreading across half of the United States with the severity starting to take its toll on many crops in the Midwest. This could start to have impacts on our pocket books at the grocery store.
Big Story Weather Outlook: The Northeast will enjoy a nice day with temps in the Mid 80´s. Places such as Boston and New York will see sunny to partly cloudy skies. The Mid-Atlantic will also enjoy partly cloudy skies and temps in the Mid 80´s. The Southeast will see a return flow around the Bermuda-Azores high which will lead to higher humidity along with thunderstorms in the afternoon and temps in the Upper 80´s for places such as Atlanta. An area of low pressure moving through the Western Great Lakes will bring scattered thunderstorms to place like Duluth MN and into WI with temps in the Mid 80´s to lower 90´s back west in the Plains. The central part of the United States will remain dry and warm with temps heading into the 90´s along with some isolated 100´s. The West Coast will enjoy a nice day with temps in the lower to mid 70´s up and down the coast from Seattle to San Diego. High pressure in the Pacific will bring partly cloudy skies to most of Alaska for today.
Big Story Weather International Outlook: A weak area of high pressure will begin to move into the Western Korea´s bringing with it partly cloudy skies from the Korea´s eastward into Japan. A weak frontal boundary will extend across Southeast China bringing a few thunderstorms to places like Hong Kong. The monsoonal trough over India will again provide rain to the region of Southeast Asia. There is a slight chance of rain to extend through the Northern part of the Middle East for places like Tehran and into parts of Kabul. High pressure will bring partly cloudy skies to places from London southward into Spain and France. High pressure over Southeast Australia will bring partly cloudy skies to the region along with another area of high pressure slowly moving in from the west will bring partly cloudy skies to the western region of Australia.
Big Story Weather Oceans: Emilia continues to track towards the south of Hawaii with winds under 30kts and a pressure near 1005mb. There should be no impact to Hawaii as it continues to die out. Hurricane Fabio continues to turn out in the Pacific just to the southwest of the Baja region. It will also continue to weaken as it begins running into colder waters over the next two days. This morning winds are estimated at 70kts and a pressure of 984mb. The Western Pacific also has a newly formed Tropical Storm Khanun which has winds near 35kts and a pressure of 1000mb. This storm will track northward towards the Korean peninsula. The remainder of the tropics are quiet this morning.
(The following map is courtesy of F-5 data).
Tropics Watch: Tropical Storm Khanun will be traveling through waters in the 27-29C range early in its life. However, as it moves rapidly northward the water temps will sharply drop off into the lower 20C range. Because of this Khanun will not get a chance to strengthen too much over the next few days.


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http://media.blubrry.com/getpublished/p/www.michellplested.com/wp-content/uploads/GetPublished/GetPublished-Episode129.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSI had the privilege to talk to David Laderoute. David is a Geologist, retired Lieutenant Colonel from the Canadian Army Reserves, entrepreneur and a writer. He has several short stories in print in various small press publications and has written extensively for role-playing games. He is active on Wattpad and his debut novel, Out of Time was released by Five Rivers Publishing in December of 2013. We had a great conversation that I think you will get a lot out of. I've also been working my way through first revisions of Mik Murdoch: The Power Within for my editor for almost two months now. I won't deny that […]Read more
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Get Published Episode 99 – eBooks and Enthrill Distribution
http://media.blubrry.com/getpublished/p/www.michellplested.com/wp-content/uploads/GetPublished/GetPublished-Episode99.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSHappy Holidays, everyone! I hope you are all getting a break from the workaday and are spending some quality time doing what you enjoy. In today's episode I am happy to have President of Enthrill Distribution, Kevin Franco talking about Enthrill's excellent eBook gift card product. I first came across it at When Words Collide and then again at World Fantasy Convention. I think it is a fantastic way to market and sell eBooks and I'm very glad he agreed to come on the show. I've also had more success with promotion through the simplest means possible: talking to people. I discuss this in more detail during the […]Read more


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Incase you haven't heard, well, you have heard. We all have.
Prince William and Kate Middleton are getting married! It's so magical I don't even know what to call it!
Wait…let's call it the Royal Wedding!
Aside from the British followers and fanatics, the American culture has also played a part in this overwhelming obsession with the overseas couple that has become the talk of the town, state, providence, country, world, what have you.
The amount of play the Royal wedding is getting in the U.S. seems to be a bit extensive considering the other legitimate news coverage that should be reported in its place. (I.e. the excruciatingly high gas prices and/or our president deciding that it's time to quit playing hide and seek with his birth certificate).
In the past week, coverage of the royal wedding has been reported on The Today Show as well as multiple other television news shows, the E! channel, and even unrelated shows like The Price is Right.
When you Google "royal wedding," I can assure you you'll find what you're searching for. I mean, everyone who's anyone knows all the hot gossip about this fabulous wedding! Just check out www.officialroyalwedding2011.org or www.theroyalweddingwilliamkate.com.
Looking for some royal wedding souvenirs? Take a look at the "Knit Your Own Royal Wedding" puppet book or perhaps pour your tea into a good ol' British teacup with William and Kate's faces at the bottom.
Come on, people. Can't we just be excited about one of the 2.2 million weddings that take place in the U.S. each year?
Or are we really not excited for any of these weddings at all, and is the news media pressuring us to believe that we truly do care about how lavish and lovely the royal wedding will be?


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38 days – "This sucker could go down" - Debate night: McCain keeps Mississippi waiting – BULLETIN: Lindsey Graham suggests McCain is coming
Jonathan Weisman to WSJ to cover politics and the White House transition – Dee Dee Myers joins CBS as political analyst -- Katie Couric will do 11 p.m. ET Webcast after network leaves air
Good Friday morning. CNN is altering its Electoral Map, shifting Michigan and its 17 electoral votes from tossup to "lean Obama."
Story Continued Below
Quote of the month -- President Bush, behind closed Cabinet Room doors in the bailout summit: "If money isn't loosened up, this sucker could go down." (WashPost and N.Y. Times)
DRIVING THE DAY: Now it's Senator McCain who needs a bailout. Markets were down sharply around the world overnight and the conventional wisdom turned against Senator McCain, after a tentative bailout deal among leaders unraveled as he arrived in D.C. Negotiators meet again at the Capitol at 11:30 a.m. A Senate leadership official claims they're "close." AND MCCAIN, who had not showed his cards, WORKED OVERNIGHT TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR THE DEAL.
McCain pool report: "Sen. McCain will go to his Senate office this morning. No further travel yet confirmed."
UPDATE -- A House Republican leadership aide: "The McCain folks are acting sort of as a go-between between the White House and the House, trying to push negotiations along, They want a deal but I haven't felt pushed. They seem okay with our position. But anyone who gets the fact that there were not enough votes for Paulson, knows that House GOP is being scapegoated by Dems for 'blowing' up a non-existent deal. It is weird that campaign staff is negotiating legislation, but they are doing a good job. Prob a story for a different day, bad precedent that campaigns are developing policy."
That would get McCain off the hook of his vow to boycott tonight's opening presidential debate – 9 p.m. Eastern at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford.
SIREN – Reuters, "Futures plunge on bailout impasse, bank collapse: U.S. stock index futures fell Friday after congressional talks on a $700 billion financial sector bailout stalled and authorities seized the largest U.S. thrift, heightening worries about the fallout from the credit crisis, … with stock markets falling in Asia and in Europe. In another worrying development, U.S. banking authorities closed Washington Mutual in by far the largest failure of a U.S. bank. Wampum had about $307 billion of assets and $188 of deposits. Its banking assets were sold to Program Chase & Co for $1.9 billion."
The cover of THE ECONOMIST is Secretary Paulson as Uncle Sam: "I WANT YOUR MONEY -- Will Paulson's plan work?"
TOP TALKER: David Letterman drilled McCain at length for a second night in a row for canceling on Wednesday, saying at the top of his monologue: "Paris Hilton is on the program tonight -- unless she needs to rush to Washington to fix the economy. … Paris Hilton was actually McCain's first choice for running mate … I was thinking about this: John, here's how it works. You don't come to see me, you don't come to see me? Well, we might not see you on Inauguration Day. That's how it works. You see?"
BREAKING -- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) lowered the bar on "Today," saying all it would take is "AN OUTLINE OR PROPOSAL that will protect the taxpayer." Yesterday, the campaign had told the N.Y. Sun's Russell Berman it would take a "locked-down agreement."
Graham: "What's more important than anything that when we go to Mississippi tonight, both candidates can say that the Congress is working, back in business, that we have an outline or proposal that will protect the taxpayer and save the country from financial Pearl Harbor, as Warren Buffet called it. We are not there yet, but we will get there."
***NBC's Tom Brokaw said on "Today" that he read Graham's comments as a clear indication that McCain will make it. Brokaw: "It's been like this from the very beginning of this campaign: We've had one unexpected development after another."
REPUBLICANS LOVED -- Chris Cuomo, ABC News: "A little surprising for you to hear the Democrats saying, 'This came out of nowhere, this is all about the Republicans. We had nothing to do with this.' Nancy Pelosi saying it. She signed the '99 Gramm Bill. She knew what was going on with the SEC. They're all sophisticated people. Is that playing politics in this situation?"
President Clinton: "Well, maybe everybody does that a little bit. I think the responsibility the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
******TVNewser.com: "Insiders tell Viewer former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers has signed on with CBS News to be a political analyst. Myers joins Joe Tripp and Dan Bartlett as analysts during the home stretch of the 2008 election."
******Patrick Gavin's Fishbowl: "Jonathan Weisman Leaving WaPo for Wall Street Journal … He's been at the paper since 2002. At the Journal, he'll cover politics and the White House transition after November."
WHY McCain WILL PROBABLY GO: Haley Barbour has as much swat as any Republican governor, and would take a no-show personally. And a strong debate showing is Senator McCain's best hope of changing a brutal narrative. Participants at the White House meeting say they couldn't tell which side he was on during the summit with President Bush, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said McCain "did nothing to help … He only hurt the process." House Financial Affairs Service Chairman Barney Frank: "He kind of … rambled on." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tells ABC's Chris Cuomo: "Senator McCain's involvement is sort of a blip. … He hasn't been involved in this."
Meredith Vieira, to Lindsey Graham on "Today": "Where was his leadership, sir? … Why was he silent during that summit meeting?"
Andrea Mitchell on "Today" "This is now a game of giant political chicken. McCain's advance team IS here on the Ole Miss campus and there ARE signs that he does plan to come. But there has to be some progress in these bailout talks."
N.Y. Times banner: "Day of Chaos Grips Washington; Fate of Bailout Plan Unresolved."
Politico Congressional Bureau Chief Tim Grieve write in The Huddle that the plan "appears further from passage this morning than it has at any point in the last week."
Politico's David Rogers reports that at the White House, Treasury Secretary Paulson "even went down on one knee as if genuflecting, to which Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) is said to have joked, 'I didn't know you were Catholic.'" He's Christian Scientist.
Rep. PAUL RYAN (R-Was.) gets the marquee bite at the top of "Today": "Rather than having the TAXPAYERS pay for this bailout, we think WALL STREET should pay for their own bailout."
Politico's John Bresnahan and Ryan Grim: "Four of the five parties involved in the deal — House Democrats, Senate Democrats, Senate Republicans and the White House — had agreed to the general outlines of a plan, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conan.) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said after the meeting ended. That left one remaining obstacle: House Republicans. Or maybe two. Although John McCain hasn't said whether he supports the bipartisan, bicameral compromise struck earlier in the day Thursday, one of his leading Senate surrogates – Lindsey Graham of South Carolina – said Thursday night that McCain joined House Republicans in opposing that proposal."
THE CANTOR PLAN -- Bloomberg News' Alison Vekshin and James Rowley: "Lawmakers were to meet again today in Washington after some House Republicans led by Virginia's Eric Cantor, said they wouldn't back a plan based on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's approach. .… The plan circulated by Cantor calls for a mortgage-backed security insurance fund, rather than taxpayer-funded purchases of those securities. … It also suggests that regulators call on financial institutions to suspend dividends, along with other steps to address liquidity problems."
"Deal or No Deal" is used by "Nightline" (no question mark), "Today," "USA Today" (banner; question mark), and we're sure others.
MIXED SIGNALS -- Politico's Ryan Grim reports around 9:30 p.m.: "Sen. Lindsey Graham – one of John McCain's closest Senate allies – just told reporters at the Capitol: 'The Paulson plan is dead.' It wasn't clear whether Graham meant the $700 billion plan Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson proposed earlier this week or the modified, compromise plan congressional negotiators came up with Thursday afternoon. But no matter -- Graham said both plans are 'going nowhere.'"
AP's Charles Babington, with "McCain's Gambit" for AMs: "Sen. John McCain's self-portrait as a bold leader willing to set politics aside to save an endangered financial bailout plan took a pounding Thursday from top Democrats and even some fellow Republicans. His efforts to re-energize his presidential campaign will partly turn on who wins the public relations battle, destined to play out for days. Things didn't go too well for McCain on Thursday.
And Chuck drills him again for PMs: "Even for a party whose president suffers dismal approval ratings, whose legislative wing lost control of Congress and whose presidential nominee trails in the polls, it was a remarkably bad day for Republicans. A White House summit meeting on Thursday meant to shore up John McCain's shaky campaign 'devolved into a contentious shouting match.' And that's how McCain's own campaign described it."
BRUTAL -- The N.Y. Times' Adam Nagourney and Elisabeth Bumiller, in a front-page News Analysis: "[The day's events succeeded most of all in raising questions about precisely why Mr. McCain had called for postponing the first debate and returned to Washington to focus on the bailout plan, and what his own views were about what should be done. …[By nightfall, the day provided the younger and less experienced Mr. Obama an opportunity to, in effect, shift roles with Mr. McCain. For a moment, at least, it was Mr. Obama presenting himself as the old hand at consensus building, and as the real face of bipartisan politics."
WHAT THEY'LL SAY -- Politico's Jonathan Martin, already making the scene in Oxford – "McCain camp raising town halls again as pressure builds: In what could be groundwork for the possibility that they have to skip [the] debate, both John McCain and his top aide used similar rhetoric … to downplay the importance of the first presidential forum. If Barrack Obama had agreed to McCain's summer proposal to do joint town halls, the candidate and Steve Schmidt said, this would only be one more of many sessions featuring the two major party nominees. 'I understand that there is a lot of attention on this but I also wish Senator Obama had agreed to ten or more town hall meetings that I had asked him to attend with me,' McCain told ABC's Charlie Gibson when asked in [a 'World News Tonight'] interview … whether there would be a debate Friday in Mississippi as planned. 'Wouldn't be quite that much urgency if he agreed to do that, instead he refused to do it.'
"Talking to the campaign pool reporter later, Schmidt said McCain hoped to make it to Oxford before shifting the conversation. 'He had actually hoped this would be the 11th debate of the campaign, not the first,' Schmidt said. 'He's very disappointed in Sen. Obama about that because this could have been the 11th debate. Sen. Obama said he would debate anywhere, anyplace, anytime. He refused to do that.' McCain's campaign recognizes the danger in skipping a long-agreed-to debate when the host, debate commission and their opponent is going forward as planned. The rhetoric tonight from McCain and Schmidt reflects a search for some measure of political cover, something that can muddy the waters."
APRÈS LE DEBATE -- At 11 p.m., following prime-time coverage on the network, Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," will anchor live, Web-exclusive specials on CBSNews.com and Netcom each night, "following the success of the debut Convention web casts," per a release: "The Web cast will last approximately 30 minutes and feature interviews, special guests, real-time reaction from uncommitted voters and extended analysis from the CBS News political team. The CBS News team will respond to viewer questions submitted online… The web casts will also be fed to CBS Radio News affiliates for insertion into their own programming or for pod casting." She has a preview video up now.
COURIC-KAPLAN NEWSCAST CALLED "MOST SUBSTANTIVE" -- "Full Court Press" columnist Charles Kaiser writes on Radar Online: "Katie Couric has finally found her stride. With the help of veteran TV newsier Rick Kaplan as her executive producer, she is now anchoring the most substantive evening newscast on network television." Linking to that, The New Yorker's Hendrix Hertzberg says simply that Katie's "CBS Evening News" is has "become the best of the big three."
It's Michael Kennedy's Birthday, Observed. Itinerary includes Hires Big H and bowling. Will be bust out the cashmere he's taken to wearing to football games? Will he double-book for his own birthday, AGAIN?
The N.Y. Post continues to cast the bailout as a favor to the little guy, showing Uncle Sam with two fistfuls of cash: "Feuding polls wreck $700b rescue."
WashTimes cover is a magazine-like photo of the Cabinet Room meeting, run margin-to-margin across all six columns under the banner, "Summit ends with no deal."
Newsday is the Capitol dome at night – "HOUSE OF FEAR."
"MEET THE PRESS" on Sunday – Former President Bill Clinton.
PUNDIT PREP – AP – "BAILOUT-CEO PAY: With a Wall Street bailout looming that will almost certainly limit CEO pay, some of the poster boys of the financial crisis have already fled the scene, taking millions of dollars in severance packages with them."
Bloomberg, "Wall Street Executives Scored $3 Billion as Banks Rose and Fell": "Wall Street's five biggest firms paid more than $3 billion in the last five years to their top executives, while they presided over the packaging and sale of loans that helped bring down the investment-banking system. Merrill Lynch & Co., once the largest U.S. brokerage, paid its chief executives the most, with Stanley O'Neal taking in $172 million from 2003 to 2007 and John Thain $86 million after a month's work last year. The company agreed to be acquired by Bank of America Corp. for about $50 billion on Sept. 15. Bear Stearns Cos.'s James 'Jimmy' Cayne made $161 million before the company collapsed and was sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co. in June. ...
"The five biggest -- Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Merrill, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns -- paid their 185,687 employees $66 billion in 2007, as problems with sub prime mortgages mounted, including about $39 billion in bonuses. That amounts to average pay of $353,089 per employee, including an average bonus of $211,849."
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO, received about $111 million between 2003 and 2006, the article notes.
Charles Krauthammer is FOR the bailout: "I have little doubt that some, if not many, cases of malfeasance will emerge. But what we conveniently neglect is the fact that much of this crisis was brought upon us by the good intentions of good people. … Were there some predatory lenders? Of course. But only a fool or a demagogue -- i.e., a presidential candidate -- would suggest that this is a major part of the problem. Was there misbehavior on Wall Street? The wheels of justice will grind. But why wait for justice? If a really good catharsis will allow a return of rationality to Capitol Hill -- yielding a clean rescue package that will actually save the economy -- go for it. Capping executive pay is piffle. What we need are a few exemplary hangings. Public hangings. On television. Pick a few failed investment firms, lead their CEOs in chains through the canyons of Manhattan and give the mob satisfaction."
HOT SPOT – AP, "Pakistan warns US troops after exchange of fire": "Pakistan warned U.S. troops not to intrude on its territory Friday, after the two anti-terror allies traded fire along the volatile border with Afghanistan. Thursday's five-minute clash adds to already heightened tensions at a time the United States is stepping up cross-border operations in a region known as a haven for Taliban and al-Maida militants. The clash — the first serious exchange with Pakistani forces acknowledged by the U.S. — follows a string of other alleged border incidents and incursions that have angered many here."
THE LEFT WILL LOVE – DAILY DAMIEN -- N.Y. Daly News cover is a smiling Rudy -- "TOUCH OF CRASS: Rudy's law firm to help firms get bailout aid," By David Saltonstall: "Rudy Giuliani is positioning his law firm to cash in on Wall Street's train wreck - a move that has become a gift to political enemies of his pal John McCain. Even as the nation's $700 billion, taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailout was still being hashed out, the former mayor announced Thursday his high-powered law firm has set up a task force. Its mission: to help corporate clients get a piece of the action - or keep the federal wolves from the door. 'Our team of former government officials and experienced attorneys in the fields of legislation, enforcement and finance are equipped to guide institutions in this quickly evolving and complex environment,' Giuliani noted in a press release from his law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani.
"Giuliani is not the only one poised to profit from opportunities created by the mega-meltdown, but he is the most politically famous. Giuliani is a prime surrogate for Republican McCain … Democrats argued that Giuliani's latest business pitch reflected poorly on the Arizona senator, a longtime friend who chose the former mayor to give the keynote speech at the GOP convention. 'Brace well & Giuliani's crass opportunism raises serious questions about whether John McCain is comfortable with one of his most visible campaign surrogates trying to cash in on what Alan Greenspan called a once-in-a-century economic crisis,' Democratic National Committee spokesman Damien LaVera told the Daily News."
SPORTS BLINK – KEVIN SMITH'S ALMA MATER -- In football, Oregon State upsets US – The (Portland) Oregonian: "Beavers stun No. 1-ranked Trojans 27-21 as Quiz runs wild: "The Beavers -- 26-point underdogs -- believed to a man they could knock off No. 1-ranked US Thursday night at Riser Stadium, and they did it. Thousands of students poured onto the field following Soul's improbable 27-21 win, and quarterback Lyle Movie was happily swallowed up by the mob."
DESSERT -- Ed McMahon portrays a rapper in ads for FreeCreditReport.com – Reuters: "The 85-year-old celebrity, who recently faced foreclosure on his Beverly Hills mansion and is a high-profile victim of the current U.S. housing slump, has found a new job -- portraying a rapper in a video advertisement about how to avoid bad credit. A company that sells credit rating data to consumers said Thursday it had hired McMahon, well known as Johnny Carson's longtime sidekick on 'The Tonight Show' and as the host of TV talent contest 'Star Search,' to portray himself -- as a rap singer -- in two videos it plans to launch on the Web in early October. …
"In photos taken from the video, McMahon is dressed in baggy clothes and wears flashy gold jewelry. In the first video, titled 'Big Check,' McMahon and his bodyguard cruise through a neighborhood looking for past winners of a million-dollar sweepstakes McMahon once promoted to see if they will give some money back to McMahon. Part two is 'Ed Canasta,' and it finds McMahon having undergone a financial rebirth because the company has helped him put his financial house in order. Charles Harris, senior vice president of marketing for FreeCreditReport.com, said his company got the idea after watching McMahon appear on the 'Larry King Live' TV talk show this summer when he discussed his foreclosure problem and took the blame for not managing his debt better."
****** A message from Business Roundtable: Continued economic growth depends on expanding – not restricting – international trade. Business Roundtable member companies collectively employ more than 16 million American workers. The ability to grow and create more jobs for the American people depends on a modern and competitive U.S. trade agenda that expands free and fair trade removes unfair barriers. Business Roundtable CEOs welcome the opportunity to work with the Trump Administration on trade policies that ensure a healthy, prosperous, and growing American economy for years to come. See what CEOs are saying about the importance of international trade at trade.brt.org. ******


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Over the last few years any conscious citizen must have noticed that, lots of mass transport, specially four wheel vehicles of different sizes and shapes have appeared on the roads of Dhaka City under Public Transport suggestions of Dhaka Urban Transport Plan (DUTP), most of which are low quality Indian vehicles.
If we go back to the root of our transport problem in Dhaka City, we will find absence of standard criterion of routes, vehicles, fare, and service and about environment. We must understand that, our objective is to have congestion free transport facility and to achieve that we need to ensure the following:
Standard criterion of routes (this is also linked to overall zoning plan of the city, which is non-existent in Dhaka city).
Followed by standard criterion for vehicles, fare, service and about environment.
To maintain the set standard.
To bring about continuous improvement in the standards for public transport and overall system under open and fair competition.
We have to realise that, who are getting benefited out of the proposals under DUTP & DTCB at the expense of general public. Decision is ours whether we, the general public will live with donor/foreign agency proposal guided by interested lobby group. Or influence,our planners and make them accountable for basic services that they are responsible to provide as per our requirement.


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Killer Husband Who Burned 11 Wives Stalks Paris Exhibit
Remember "Monsieur Verdoux," Charlie Chaplin's marriage swindler? Meet his real-life model, Henri Desire Landru.
"Landru -- 6H10 -- Clear Sky," the title of the show at the Musee des Lettres et Manuscrits in Paris, is a quote from the diary of Anatole Deibler, the executioner who guillotined him on Feb. 25, 1922.
The diary is one of the items on display along with police files, court records, photographs of the killer, his victims, photographs of the crime scenes and the trial transcripts.
Old newspaper front pages remind us this was one of the most spectacular trials of the 20th century, not least because of the remarkable sangfroid of the accused: When a lady couldn't find a seat in the audience, Landru rose to his feet and politely offered her his seat in the dock.
You look in vain, however, for the most important exhibits in the trial -- Landru's notebooks containing the names of the 169 ladies with whom he corresponded and the oven in which he burned his 11 victims.
Landru, who was born in 1869, started his criminal career with minor swindles and forgeries which earned him seven prison sentences. When he was not locked up, he seems to have been an exemplary husband and doting father to his four children.
War Widows
During World War I, Landru discovered a new field of activity. While an entire generation of men fought in the trenches, got mutilated and killed, he found a way to exploit the women left behind.
Under various pseudonyms, he placed marriage advertisements in newspapers, presenting himself as a widower "with comfortable income, affectionate, serious and moving in good society."
A police document in the show lists 14 of the names he used in his vast correspondence.
Whenever a lady seemed worthwhile, he proposed to her and invited her to join him, along with her savings and belongings, in his isolated house outside Paris -- first the "Lodge" in Vernouillet, then the "Ermitage" in Gambais.
Later, a ticket agent recalled that Landru always bought a return ticket for himself and a one-way ticket for his companion.
In April 1919, Landru was arrested after the sister of one of the vanished ladies had recognized him with a new bride in a Paris shop.
Missing Bodies
It took more than two years before the trial opened because police were unable to uncover bodies or remains of his victims. What they found, however, were plenty of their clothes, furniture and personal papers left behind.
His neighbors confirmed that around the time when the brides disappeared, Landru's chimney had issued putrid black smoke.
Confronted with the evidence, Landru pretended that the ladies had "gone south" to begin a new life, leaving their belongings in his care. He challenged his accusers by saying "If I killed those women, show me the corpses!"
Most of the time, though, he remained silent. He seemed to believe that, without the bodies, he couldn't be convicted.
He was mistaken.
The exhibition runs through Sept. 15. Information: http://www.museedeslettres.fr.
Don't forget to also have a look at the museum's permanent collection which includes letters by Napoleon to Josephine, by Chopin to George Sand, Alfred Hitchcock's storyboard for "Stage Fright" and Eisenhower's telegram informing the Supreme Command that the "Mission of the Allied Forces was fulfilled 02h1, local time, May 7th, 1945."
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A woman has filed a claim against the city, alleging a previously embattled Albany police lieutenant dragged her out of the Washington Avenue Armory in January. Filed in April, the claim alleges that Lt. Paul E. Kirwin dragged 24-year-old Tiara M. Kennedy out of the Armory by her hair. The Times Union obtained video footage of the incident, which is at the bottom of this post. Kirwan had previously been suspended for punching a handcuffed man.
From Brendan J. Lyons' story:
In a notice of claim filed in April, in which Kennedy preserves her right to pursue a lawsuit against the city, she alleges that officers shoved her to the ground "and proceeded to drag her out of the building (and) while she was still on the ground caused contusions and trauma to her entire body."
The Times Union obtained video footage and police reports of the incident through Freedom of Information Law requests. Kennedy, whose occupation is listed in court records as a "manager," was charged with disorderly conduct, a violation. Her case is pending in City Court.
The incident took place at about 1 a.m. on Jan. 26 as hundreds of patrons exited the building at the end of a large dance party. As the crowd exited someone using a cellphone captured video images of Kennedy confronting and apparently arguing with police officers. An officer can be seen pushing her toward the front doors and Kennedy fell to the ground before being dragged outside and held down on the sidewalk as police officers surrounded her.
No police officers were disciplined or suspended as a result of the incident and it's not clear from the video if any departmental policies were violated. Albany Police Chief Steven Krokoff said an internal investigation is continuing.
Read the full story here. Video below.


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: After the War by Sarah MacKay
Short Novel, Completed! *CONTAINS SPOILERS* What happened to our beloved characters after the great battle? How do they pick up the pieces of their lives and live to find happiness? Has the threat of danger passed? Takes place in the summer after the war. Over 70,000 reads, Merlin's Pants! Thank you all so much, you guys rock! *Story is currently being edited to fix mistakes. :)
Genres: General, Romance, Angst Era: Post-Hogwarts Characters: Arthur, George, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Molly, OtherCanon , Ron, Shacklebolt Pairings: Harry/Ginny, Arthur/Molly, Ron/Hermione
Advisory: Mild Language, Mild Violence, Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature, Sensitive Topic/Issue/Theme, Contains Spoilers
Published: 2007.08.06 Latest Chapter: 2011.09.08 Updated: 2011.09.08 Status: COMPLETED (63414 words)
: Babysitting Teddy by DragonGirl
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Teddy is staying over for the weekend, and Harry knows it's going to be a busy three days. However, what he didn't know was that he would be receiving some interesting 'help' from a four-year-old. So his plans to propose to Ginny didn't quite go the way they were supposed to. All he knows is that anything can happen when you're babysitting Teddy.
Genres: General, Humor Era: Post-Hogwarts Characters: Ginny, Harry, Teddy Pairings: Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione
Advisory: Scenes of a Mild Sexual Nature, Substance Use or Abuse
Published: 2010.01.10 Latest Chapter: 2010.03.11 Updated: 2010.03.11 Status: COMPLETED (6260 words)


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Around the Farm: August 17, 2013
Around the Farm takes a quick look at some of yesterday's performances by Indians prospects throughout the system. The positions listed below are where the player was playing in yesterday's game.
Clint Frazier: CF, AZL Indians: 3-for-4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K:
You have to temper everything with the fact that Frazier is playing in the rookie league, which tends to inflate numbers. Frazier's .315 average is only 11th in the league. With that said, Frazier certainly isn't doing anything to hurt his hype as a top prospect. He has a four game hit streak, with three of the four games being of the multi-hit variety. He hasn't hit for much power in the home run department, but his slugging is at .521, which is fifth in the AZL, thanks to 11 doubles and five triples. The one area of concern is his selectivity. He's never walked more than once in a game, and only has two walks since August fifth, an 11 game stretch. He's struck out 16 times in those 11 games, with six of those games of the multi-K variety. He needs some work, but if he can temper the K's with more walks, this kid really could be something special.
- Trevor Bauer: SP, Clippers: L (6-6), 2 IP, 6 H, 6 R/ER, 4 BB, 3 K, 1 HR: Bauer's consistency for Columbus has been similar to badly made oatmeal, and today's start was a clear setback for his future prospect fortunes. In two innings, Bauer made 66 pitches, with only 37 of them strikes. He's young and has a long way to go, but 2013 has really been a major disappointment. Hopefully, he can turn things around in 2014.
- Matt Langwell: RP, Clippers: 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R/ER, 2 K: Langwell continued his dominant stretch in July and August, having given up only four runs in 19 1/3 innings overall in both months combined. Langwell is often overlooked versus many of the power arms in the system, but continues to be one of the best relievers overall.
- Blake Wood: RP, Columbus: 1 IP, 2 H, 2 R/ER, 1 BB: It was a mess of a fifth inning for Wood. He gave up a lead-off walk, then followed with back-to-back one-out singles to load the bases. A Wood wild pitch and a sac fly allowed the two runners to score. Wood had been nearly perfect since a rough outing on July 26th, having given up only two hits and a walk in the 5 1/3 innings since.
- Vinnie Pestano: RP, Columbus: 1 IP, 3 H, 1 BB, 1 K: Pestano was bailed out by his defense. He gave up a one-out single and a walk, and with two on, gave up another one-out single, but Matt Carson would gun down the runner at home, for the second out in the inning. He then gave up a two-out single, when Tim Fedroff gunned the runner down at home as well. Your welcome Vinnie.
- Jose Ramirez: 3B, Akron: 2-for-4, 2 R, SB: Ramirez got his third start at third base over the past five ballgames, and continued to hit the baseball while doing it. He had an eight game hit streak snapped on Friday, but picked things right back up on Saturday with two more hits. He's hitting .341 during that stretch, with two doubles, two RBI and three stolen bases. He now has 36 stolen bases on the season.
- Tyler Naquin: CF, Akron: 2-for-4, 1 R, 1 2B, 2 K: Naquin has hits in three of his first four Double A games, and had his first multi-hit game in his Akron career, as well as his first double. Many thought that Naquin's bat would get him to Columbus this year, but that hasn't been the case. He has a long way to go to prove that he's worthy of a number 1 pick.
- Jesus Aguilar: 1B, Akron: 2-for-4, 2 R, 1 2B, 3 RBI: Aguilar may be the hottest player in the system right now, and he proved it again with another big game for the Aeros. Since August sixth, Aguilar has had seven multi-hit games out of 11 total games. Since the sixth, Aguilar is hitting .372, with two doubles, two homers and 14 RBI. He's had hits in 18 of 20 games, and is only three RBI away from 100 on the season.
- Toru Murata: SP, Akron: 6 IP, 5 H, 2 R/ER, 2 BB, 6 K, 1 HR: Murata has been consistently good for Akron this year, striking out 94 hitters in his 115 1/3 innings, while walking only 18 batters. He'll never play for the Indians, but is an important piece to the organization in the minors. You wonder when a guy like Murata might head back to Japan to try and pitch for their top league, rather than wallow as a bounce-around guy in the minors here in the States.
- Bryce Stowell: RP, Akron: 1 IP: There was a time when Matt Langwell and Stowell were moving through the system together, with Stowell as the high end prospect and Langwell as the fringe guy. Things have certainly changed, as injuries have derailed the former top prospect's chances as a big league reliever. This was his second appearance since June 22.
- Dorssys Paulino: SS, Lake County: 2-for-5, 1 R, 2 K: Paulino has more-or-less struggled all season long in his move up to Lake County, but things may finally be start clicking for one of the Indians' top prospects. Paulino upped his current hitting streak to six games, which is tied for his longest streak of the year. It's not a clear-cut breakout for Paulino, but he is hitting .327 in August, which is a good sign for a kid who doesn't turn 19 until November.
- Jeremy Lucas: DH, Lake County: 1-for-2, 1 R, 1 HR, 1 RBI, 3 BB: Lucas extended his seven-game hit streak, continuing his best season as a professional. He's been particularly good since the all-star break, hitting .339 during the 37-game stretch. He also has 40 walks, against only 41 K's. He's not a top prospect by any stretch, but the former 12th rounder certainly has become interesting. We'll see if any of his offense can translate to Carolina next year.
- Joe Sever: 1B, Lake County: 2-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K: Sever has four multi-hit games since August 9, continuing a solid season in which he's hit .288 at Lake County, and .316 at Carolina. Sever just turned 23, so obviously he's old for the league, but a good story none-the-less.
- Eric Haase: C, Lake County: 1-for-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 1 K: Haase is an interesting prospect because he's a catcher, but he's really not had the type of season that folks were expecting. Many thought that he would break out this year, and while he's hit 13 homers on the season, he's struggled overall offensively, hitting only .216 against righties.
- Robbie Aviles: SP, Lake County: W (4-3), 5 IP, 3 H, 3 R/1 ER, 3 BB, 1 K: Aviles won his first game since July 7, but his ERA is under 3.00 since July. There's intrigue there as he continues to return from his Tommy John surgery, but he's not overpowering (27 K's in 61 innings), and that's likely not a good thing.
- DJ Brown: RP, Lake County: S (1), 4 IP, 2 H, 1 BB, 3 K: Brown has had a phenomenal season, especially considering he was a 39th rounder. He's about to turn 23 in Low A, but you still have to like the numbers. He has 61 K's in 56 1/3 innings, and can handle multiple innings out of the pen. Another intriguing arm in the bullpen.
- Dace Kime: SP, Mahoning Valley: 2 IP, 1 R/ER, 6 BB, 2 K: Kime is an interesting pitcher, and the Indians are clearly high on him. This was not his shining moment. He's walked 12 batters over the last ten innings, while striking out ten. Over his first five games, he struck out 13 batters, while walking only three. Perhaps stamina is an issue right now with the Indians trying to extend him into a starter.
- Matt Whitehouse: RP, Mahoning Valley: 2 IP, 2 H, 1 BB, 1 K: Whitehouse was selected in the 19th round, and since then, has been about untouchable. He's given up only one run since turning pro, while walking only three. He could be another interesting arm in the Indians system.
- Breily Puerta: RP, Mahoning Valley: H (3), 2 IP, 1 H, 3 K: Puerta is an interesting prospect going forward. He's been dominant in Mahoning, and the Indians have been bringing him along slowly. This season, he's struck out 30 in only 28 2/3 innings, while walking only eight hitters. He's small, but if he continues to develop, he could be another outstanding closer, or starter, for the Indians down the line.
- David Cooper: DH, AZL Indians: 2-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB: Cooper's overmatching the rookie league, and for good reason. He's 26, and spent time in the majors. If he gets his back healthy, he really could be an asset to the organization. The Indians have through the end of the month to add him to the roster, and he could be the ultimate answer to Mark Reynolds.
- Grant Fink: 1B, AZL Indians: 2-for-5, 1 2B, 2 RBI: Fink was drafted in the 23rd round by the Indians out of Missouri Western State University. Fink is 22, and is finally starting to take advantage of the youth in the Arizona League. He's hitting .326 in August, but you have to take it with a grain of salt until he moves up.
- Scott Barnes: RP, AZL Indians: 1 IP, 3 H, 3 R/ER, 1 HR: Well, this just isn't good at all, and that's all I really have to say about that. Barnes is talented, but you have to wonder if his time of being potentially effective is over.
- Kieran Lovegrove: SP, AZL Indians: 4 IP, 4 H, 5 R/ER, 2 BB, 5 K: Lovegrove is young and promising, but to say he was having a good season would be an overstatement. He's struggled as he continues to learn how to be a professional. He'll be fine with time.
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As for Naquin, projecting him to reach Columbus was really an accelerated timetable, and a solid argument can be made that Naquin should have been up to Akron sooner, but that couldn't happen because of the logjam of OFers at Akron. Many thought that Moncrief and/or Holt could have reached Columbus by now, but neither have, and it seems that outside of a very late-season call-up, neither may reach it until next season. Therefore, Naquin not reaching Columbus this year, a large part of that was out of his hands in my opinion.


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Miranda Lambert, Kelly Clarkson Talk About Blake Shelton's 'Not so Family Christmas' TV Special [VIDEO]
Monday night December 3rd, Blake Shelton's first ever TV special will air on NBC "Blake Shelton's not so Family Christmas". Knowing Blake's sense of humor this could be a really funny show and you've probably heard it's probably going to push the boundaries as far as off color humor. This shouldn't shock true Shelton fans who have seen his messages on twitter, but to the person who only knows him from the show The Voice it might. There are superstar guests like his wife Miranda Lambert and good friend Kelly Clarkson who will sing songs from the Blake Shelton Christmas CD and appear in Saturday Night Live type skits.
Take a look at what Miranda, Kelly and Blake's mom have to say about the special.


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That money will be on top of the $4 billion to $5 billion American and coalition commanders estimate will be needed to invest into the country's nascent national security forces, Afghanistan's Central Bank Governor Noorullah Delawar said Tuesday.
U.S. commanders estimated Kabul would need between $4 billion to $5 billion a year to maintain the security gains coalition forces fought for in central and southern Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in the country, told Congress in March.
"I have heard from Afghan government ministers, somewhere from $6 to $9 billion assistance is required. I think, I see it at about $6 [to] $7 billion a year without military, it's just economic assistance, that should help us to go over, and continue our economic growth," he told Reuters.
Delawar's comments Tuesday come as members of Afghanistan's military and domestic ministries plan to meet with officials from the United States and other world powers to hammer out the details on a postwar financial support plan.
The meeting, set for later this year in Tokyo, will build upon the base postwar deal reached between Afghan president Hamid Karzai and President Obama in May.
The deal outlines the parameters of future U.S. military and financial support to the Afghan government over the next 10 years, beginning in 2014. That is when the final cadre of American soldiers are scheduled to leave the country.
The plan struck between Washington and Kabul in May did not include any specifics on U.S. financial contributions to the country after the 2014 withdrawal deadline.
In the negotiations running up to the postwar agreement reached in May, Karzai had demanded the Obama administration include funding guarantees into the deal.
During those talks, Karzai indicated he wanted the United States to shell out between $1 billion to $2 billion annually to help train and equip the Afghan National Security Forces.
American lawmakers, including Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl LevinCarl Milton LevinSen. Gillibrand, eyeing 2020 bid, rankles some Democrats The Hill's 12:30 Report Congress needs bipartisanship to fully investigate Russian influence MORE (D-Mich.), were adamantly opposed to any postwar funding guarantees.
Given the U.S. budget problems and doubts about how the money will be spent in Afghanistan, any promise of U.S. financial support to Afghanistan would be a hard sell for members of Congress, Levin said at the time.
The Michigan Democrat also openly questioned whether including funding guarantees for the Afghans would circumvent Capitol Hill's traditional role overseeing the federal budget purse strings.


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A photographer's view of the homeless
Former Chronicle staffer presents work at new exhibit
Published 5:30 am, Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Photographer Ben Tecumseh DeSoto sees Understanding Poverty, a DiverseWorks exhibit that grew out of his years of documenting the lives of Houston's homeless, as a hybrid.
"I'm wearing three hats," says DeSoto, who was a staff photographer for the Houston Chronicle from 1981 to 2006. "I'm working as a journalist. I'm working as an artist. I'm working as a humanist."
The largest body of work in the show is devoted to Judy Pruitt and Ben White, whom DeSoto encountered in 1988 while on assignment for the newspaper.
Each became the subject of a Chronicle story — Pruitt in 1991 and White in 1994 — but DeSoto maintained relationships with them as their lives repeatedly took them to prison, to halfway houses and to the streets.
Pruitt eventually became a pastor, ministering to prison populations while struggling with liver cancer. White is in prison, where he says he feels safer, says Galveston Arts Center's Clint Willour, who curated the exhibition.
"If you're a convicted felon, not only can you not vote but you can't get food stamps, you can't get assistance of any kind from the government," Willour says. "You're back out on your own again and having to fend for yourself in the same way that you were before you were a felon. That's why Ben (White) really feels safer in prison."
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In addition to telling Pruitt and White's stories, DeSoto says he hopes to explain the root causes of homelessness.
"To really understand poverty, (people need) an understanding of the role of post-traumatic stress disorder — the trauma of living with an overwhelming and out-of-your-control experience," he says. "That makes homelessness a symptom — not the problem in itself but a symptom of the problem. The photographs ... I hope, bring that information together."
Another part of the exhibit focuses on institutions dealing with homelessness.
"The front wall (of photos) is really as much about the streets as it is about the institutions — or the failure of the institutions," says Willour, adding that another group of pictures addresses "the success stories of those institutions and how they're actually doing something right, we think."
DeSoto says he's particularly inspired by the work of Healthcare for the Homeless, an organization led by David Buck that provides homeless patients with such services as primary medical care, psychiatry and mental health counseling, dentistry, podiatry, tuberculosis testing and vision care, along with health education and referrals.
DeSoto says Buck's work helps to reduce the likelihood of "someone's return to the county jail by meeting their health-care needs, which is the same observation that George Orwell made back in the 1930s in his book Down and Out in Paris and London — how the vagabonds that he was traveling with were unable to work because of severe health problems or trauma-related problems."
The artist is also using Understanding Poverty to promote the work of several organizations that assist the homeless.
While the exhibit primarily consists of DeSoto's photos and text by writer Ann Walton Sieber, it also features several of DeSoto's collage-style assemblages and short films-in-progress.
Other pieces include a light installation made by Sarah Whatley Ayers from DeSoto's negatives, some of which are 20 years old.
Another artist, Forrest Prince, contributed Crucifix for a Homeless Alcoholic, a sculpture comprising a wooden cross, a shifting holographic image of Jesus Christ and a roll of toilet paper.


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While the GHMC is struggling to get its electric crematoriums functioning, a private-public initiative has opened a modern eco-friendly crematorium complex, markedly different in terms of upkeep and ambience.
'Swarg Vatika' has come up near an old open cremation ground on the road leading to Manasarovar Heights, the housing complex off RTC colony at Trimulgherry, Secunderabad. It has gassifier/bio-gas and LPG/CNG crematoriums, both located in a neatly kept building inside the walled facility.
The complex has a 30-ft high chimney, and the machinery is equipped with a wet scrubber pollution control system to prevent soot and foul odour from going out.
More importantly, the entire area has pleasant environs, with trees and plants, paved pathways, covered shelters, chairs, clean changing rooms and a parking lot.
"Our idea is to have a facility serving as an abode of peace and tranquillity unlike what we usually encounter," says D.N. Gauri, chairman, Swarg Vatika Trust, and the man behind the project, which is said to have cost more than Rs. 2.5 crore. Over the last four years, he had been liaising with the authorities and then Collector Navin Mittal for delineating the land. He also roped in top industrialists, doctors and eminent citizens to contribute towards the project spread across 13,000 square metres.
"There is no such PPP facility in any other city. I want it to be the best in the country. We will run the crematorium on a secular basis and is open to all castes and communities at a nominal cost. The poor will get free service," affirms Mr. Gauri, an ex-IAF officer, philanthropist and industrialist. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 23778803.
The facility has servant/staff quarters, mortuary, cold store, ashes room and vehicles to transport the dead. For those opting for conventional firewood funeral, the trust has developed five platforms.
The donors include K. Satish Reddy of Dr. Reddy's Lab, J. Ranjith Rao of My Home Group, C. Malla Reddy of Malla Reddy Group of Institutions, Sunil Talwar of Talwar Hyundai and doctors Somaraju, Mohana Vamsy, Guruva Reddy, Kasu Prasad Reddy, Gokhale and B. Narsaiah.
'Swarg Vatika', a modern eco-friendly crematorium, constructed under PPP mode comes up near Manasarovar Heights at Tirumalgiri


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