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(CNN)__Speaking at the historically black Bowie State University commencement Friday, first lady Michelle Obama called out African American youth for not challenging themselves to excel in school while instead fantasizing about being a "baller or a rapper."
"Today, more than 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, more than 50 years after the end of Separate But Equal, when it comes to getting an education too many of our young people just can't be bothered," Obama said. "Today instead of walking miles every day to school they're sitting on couches for hours playing video games, watching TV instead of dreaming of being a teacher or lawyer or business leader they're fantasizing about being a baller or a rapper."
Citing her husband, the first lady urged students to "reject the slander that says a black child with a book is trying to act white."
The first lady's address also focused heavily on praising the fortitude of leaders in history, such as Frederick Douglas, Martin Luther King Jr., and The Little Rock Nine, who fought to improve educational opportunities for African Americans, despite many challenges they faced.
"It is that kind of unwavering determination - that relentless focus on getting an education in the face of obstacles –that's what we need to reclaim, as a community and as a nation. That was the idea at the very heart of the founding of this school," Obama said.
According to a White House press release, the first lady spoke at Bowie State University "because of its legacy as Maryland's oldest historically black university." It was founded in 1865.
Obama's speech is one of many on her tour of graduation speeches this spring. Last Saturday she spoke at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. She will also be addressing high school graduating seniors at the Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet School in Nashville Tennessee on Saturday.
The speech took place in front of roughly 600 students on Friday at the Comcast Stadium in College Park, Maryland.


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The former editor of the Hong Kong daily newspaper Ming Pao is fighting for his life after being stabbed in Hong Kong this morning by an assailant on a motocycle.
Kevin Lau Chun-to was editor of the newspaper when it took part in an investigation published last month that exposed offshore tax havens that have helped the relatives of Chinese leaders hide wealth.
His removal as editor and his stabbing are prompting concerns about media freedom in Hong Kong, as China's influence grows over the semi-autonomous territory.
Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with Shirley Yam, vice-chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, and James Fallows, a longtime China watcher and national correspondent for The Atlantic.
- Shirley Yam, vice-chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
- James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic. He tweets @JamesFallows.
It's HERE AND NOW.
And there was an attack in Hong Kong today that ordinarily wouldn't make headlines in this country, but it did because it was an attack on a journalist who's investigated China's leaders. Now, just to remind you, Hong Kong was a British colony that was handed back to China in 1997 but remains a special administrative region, which is supposed to have freedom of the press.
So let's get to that attack. Kevin Lau Chun-to was stabbed this morning. He was an editor at Ming Pao, which was a newspaper that, last month, helped to expose offshore tax havens used by relatives of China's leaders to hide wealth. He lost his job after that report.
Joining us now is Shirley Yam, vice-chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association. Shirley, welcome.
SHIRLEY YAM: Thanks for having us.
HOBSON: Well, tell us more about Mr. Lau, first of all.
YAM: I've known Kevin for 30 years. We come from the same university. He is (unintelligible) journalist. He's certainly a very gentle personality. And knowing his background and his character, I simply cannot think of any reason why he get attacked.
HOBSON: So why do you think it happened then?
YAM: Our suspicion is that largely to do with the news coverage of Ming Pao. It has done lots of investigative reports recently. Ming Pao is the only news organization in Greater China that was invited by the ICIJ, which is an international investigative journalist organization, to investigate on the asset transfer overseas by China's state leaders and then prints things. So this is the type of publication Ming Pao is.
HOBSON: What is it like right now to be a reporter in Hong Kong?
YAM: Well, it is certainly very stressful in a sense that there is not just the threat of physical violence, there is also the invisible violence that we are seeing that comes in different form of sub-censorships. Interview ideas were barred. Some academics were blacklist, which means journalists should not speak to them or ask for their comment. Photos were added. Headlines were changed for different reasons and to please different persons.
HOBSON: So the idea that Hong Kong is this special administrative region that has more relaxed laws on press freedom than China - than Mainland China does - is not exactly the case.
YAM: If you're comparing to Mainland China, that's a very low starting point. But, of course, we do enjoy a much better press freedom than in the Mainland China. But if you compared with what the basic law - that is our mini-constitutions - has promised us, that is quite different. The mini-constitutions promised us press freedom. But in reality, as I've just said, it's quite different.
HOBSON: Just one last question. In the big picture, do you think that the Chinese government, right now, is opening up more or cracking down when it comes to free speech?
YAM: Let me tell you a story from one of those veteran journalists.
HOBSON: Sure.
YAM: They can speak face to face to Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang. That is the state leader in the '80s. We can no longer do that nowadays.
HOBSON: Shirley Yam is vice-chair of the Hong Kong Journalists Association. Shirley, thank you so much for joining us.
YAM: Thanks.
HOBSON: And for more on this, let's bring in someone who spent years in China. His latest book is "China Airborne." He's national correspondent for The Atlantic. James Fallows joins us. And, James, what do you make of what Shirley said there?
JAMES FALLOWS: I thought she put it in good perspective. On the one hand, the situation in Hong Kong is markedly different from the rest of Mainland China where there's not even a pretense of the free press, although some journalists do try hard to push at the fringes. On the other hand, the situation in China as a whole has been darkening recently in all kinds of freedom of expression issues, and that seems to be spilling over into Hong Kong.
Until recently, the main concern has been self-censorship. The firing of Mr. Lau earlier this year was a sign of something more than that. And, of course, if there is physical violence involved, then that's something even further. We don't know the exact cause of this episode, but that's the general picture.
HOBSON: Well, but isn't Hong Kong supposed to be a place where there still is press freedom? It does seem pretty alarming to have not just this attack, but others as well.
FALLOWS: Yes. Certainly, on the one hand, it is very different. As soon as you cross the border from Mainland China into Hong Kong, you notice that the press is much more raucous, and things still work differently there from the way they do in the mainland. It's in some ways to the advantage of the Beijing government to have Hong Kong operate on different, more international terms for the integrity of its financial system and all of that; it's is a way that the government can have it both ways. But there's been - in the last two years or so, criticism of all sorts seems to have been more under pressure within China, and that's spilling over into Hong Kong. On the other hand, there are huge mass protests about it there which just cannot happen in the mainland.
HOBSON: Now, we reached out for this story not just to Shirley Yam, who did speak with us, but to several news organizations. They didn't want us to talk to their people in Hong Kong about this episode. What does that tell you?
FALLOWS: I think that's one more point in this pattern of whether it's just seeming not worthwhile to rock the boat or make trouble for people and organizations in Hong Kong. Again, I should be clear, Hong Kong still, it seems dramatically different from a comparable city in the mainland. The universities still operate like real universities. There is a real electoral system. But it's the longer term trend of whether it just seems to be causing problems.
If there's things you know the mainland government doesn't want, especially investigations into the personal and family wealth of its politically powerful people, it just can become - there's an increasing in constriction there.
HOBSON: James Fallows, as you know, China seems very far away to a lot of Americans. You've done a great job in writing and trying to bring that world a little closer to us. But why should Americans care about this?
FALLOWS: It's - there is not an immediate impact on anything we do day by day. But I think that the Hong Kong situation is - it's in parallel with what's happening in Beijing and Shanghai, an indication of the next stage in development in China. It's always been a myth to imagine that as China got richer, it'll become naturally a liberal Western democracy. And people who assumed that didn't - hadn't paid closed enough attention. But in the long run it will matter in how we deal with China and how China exerts its influence around the world.
And I think the nervousness of the new government of Xi Jinping in China - now a year-plus old - on these matters of criticism suggests that it no longer cares about really winning a lot of friends in the Western world. That soft power charm initiative doesn't really matter so much. Solidifying his control within China and avoiding personal exposes of the leading families, that's more important to it now.
HOBSON: James Fallows, long-time China watcher. He's a national correspondent for The Atlantic, and his latest book about China is called "China Airborne." James Fallows, thanks so much.
FALLOWS: My pleasure. Thank you.
HOBSON: And that expose about Chinese leaders and where they're keeping their money that was published last month, we've got a link at hereandnow.org. This is HERE AND NOW. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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A coalition of religious and anti-gambling groups said Tuesday they will mount a fierce opposition to legislation to authorize "destination resort" casinos in Florida, including holding lawmakers accountable for their votes.
The groups said they will not only provide a vocal opposition to the bills being shepherded by Rep. Erik Fresen, R-Miami, and Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, but they will score and publish the voting records of all committee members, mail pledge forms to all 160 legislators, create an online "wall of shame" and research the financial contributions from the gambling industry to lawmakers and the governor.
"We will not sit back idly as the gambling industry attempts to buy out Florida and her elected officials with the corrupting infuence of gaming money,'' said John Stemberger, lobbyist for the conservative Florida Family Policy Council which will host the legislative report cards on its web site.
The group joined Florida Casino Watch, the Florida Catholic Conference, the Florida Baptist Convention and Reps. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, and Rep. Rachel Burgin, R-Riverview, in announcing their opposition to the proposal.
"We've never seen anything like this on this scale, this bold,'' Baxley said.
"There has not been a recent round of any form of gambling expansion where the spin by the proponents has not misled the people by stating that if we make this move or that move we will contain or we will reduce gambling in our state,'' he said. "Here we go again."
He noted that was the promise when the Seminole Indian Compact was signed but, if this bill were to become law, "the Seminoles may get off the hook of paying any state taxes and thus get a tax free ride."


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Got my first pictures on Sunday of Bulls scraping off their velvet. September can't get here soon enough. Anyone else seen any hard horned bulls!
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Wont be long now!! Good luck around Lewistown. I am ready to head out as well.
Saw a bull August 12th that was hard horned.
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Last couple pictures of bulls taken during the depredation hunt here in NV show one bull completely hard horned and the other mostly scraped off. Soon enough the night sky will be filled with song!!!
Just heard we have a 6x7 on a ranch we got permission to hunt on! Could be a good hunt with a depredation tag!
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Gibbs: Joseph and Alyssa (Boggio) Gibbs of Springfield are the parents of a daughter, Sawyer Rose, born Nov. 22 at Springfield Memorial Hospital in Springfield. She weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces, and measured 19 3/4 inches in length. Maternal grandparents are Keith and Denise Boggio of Granville. Paternal grandparents are Nancy Gibbs of LaSalle, and Wayne and Kathyrn Gibbs of Ottawa. Great-grandparents are Joseph Boggio of Hennepin, William Drennen of Granville, Alvin Behrens of Silvis, formerly of Manlius, and Betty Gibbs of Princeton.
Mucu: Arnoldo and Kim (Sears) Mucu of Granville are the parents of a daughter, Allyza, born Nov. 21 at St. Margaret's Hospital in Spring Valley. She weighed 10 pounds, 12 ounces. Maternal grandparents are Merle and Loretta Sears of Tiskilwa. Paternal grandparents are Alfredo and Elvira Mucu Che of Guatemala.
Waites: Jordan Waites and Whitney Cole of Wyanet are the parents of twins, Terrance Joseph and Mya Nicole, born Nov. 20 at St. Margaret's Hospital in Spring Valley. Terrance weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces, and measured 18 inches in length. Mya weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces, and measured 18 1/2 inches in length. Maternal grandparents are Tina Cole and Jamie Cole of Wyanet. Paternal grandparent is Sandy Waites of DePue. Great-grandparents are Mary Byrne of Spring Valley, Ralph Cole of Oklahoma, Sandra Martinez of DePue and Carlos Martinez of DePue.


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When will they realize that their entire polygraph system is flawed in principle? It's mumbo jumbo! Might as well be reading tea leaves. It only works if the person being "tested" believes that it works.
Now you've put all the readers of my tea leaves self-defense newsletter on a watchlist. Thanks!
Thank God for torrents, huh? I grabbed my copy from 22.214.171.124!
Oh, wait. Oh shit!
Why would someone want to buy or illegally download a book telling how to pass a polygraphic test, while there is one freely available. This books is called "The Lie Behind The Lie Detector", and it is available as a PDF here [antipolygraph.org]
I used this book back in the days to pass the polygraph test in the RCMP recruitment process, and I succeeded. I finally refused the job, but got through all the process pretty easily.
It's quite possible someone could 'react' to sensitive questions just out of fear. There's a lot at stake.
False positives, not so good--trash a probably innocent person. I think FMRI has a chance of determining truthfulness, but polygraphs, not so much.
Let's see if we can catch a dead salmon in a lie! [wired.com]
If our legal system was primarily driven by law then yes, but there is way too much politics involved here. Judges, the humans who get to decide such things, have a significant conflict of interests but will not recuse themselves, and it is unlikely they will rule against their own community's systematic behavior.
I think judges should elected from pools of defense attorneys — no former prosecutors. Defense attorneys are used to defending people's Constitutional rights, while prosecutors are used to suppressing evidence and skirting Constitutional limits in order to put away "bad guys" even when the defendant is actually a "good guy." Defense attorneys give the people the benefit of the doubt, as opposed to the (police) state.
I am confident that a nearly equal number of defense attorneys are guilty of the same offenses. While I agree that some attorneys go to far, both sides need a qualified proponent for the system to work. The prosecutor needs to represent the interest of the community, and the defense to represent the interests of the accused. A more interesting requirement would be to elect judges who have experience on both sides of criminal cases.
I have to disagree. As a lawyer myself, I have to chuckle about the popular conception of the "sleazy defense attorney" vs. that of the "crusading DA."
In my experience, criminal prosecutors tend to easily be the sleaziest of the bunch and often are deeply complicit in malfeasance by the police who provide them with their evidence. This is unsurprising given that the structure of the system encourages prosecutors, especially in small scale criminal cases, to view defendants merely as potential notches on their belts and to always be looking for the big score, no matter what the cost. Defense attorneys, on the other hand work intimately with their clients, who despite whatever heinous crimes they may have committed, are ultimately people, and tend to develop a better sense of what is a reasonably balance between justice and humanity, both in their tactics and in the ultimate outcome a case demands.
> Given that a polygraph is not a reliable way to catch lies
That's not really the point of the test. While the actual polygraph test isn't all that accurate, the test itself does provide benefits if the people taking it believe it's accurate. People will be more likely to admit discretions, lost or misplaced material, not properly following protocols, etc.
The preliminary questions that they claimed would be the "base line" really don't work because the system is flawed. It's kind of like claiming that meditation before the tea leaf reading makes reading tea leaves work.
40 years ago, we knew it was flawed (we knew long before your statement of 20 years). Certain agencies of Government (including Military) trained agents/soldiers to beat the Polygraph. It's a bit more than simply not believing in the machine's ability to catch a lie, mostly adding in relaxation and breathing techniques. Leaks of that training could have something to do with public knowledge about how to beat the polygraph, the techniques are the same. This is why certain government agencies (did|do) not use just a polygraph, they used a narcotics selection to reduce your rational thinking ability, induce emotion, and increase your heart rate. (you may have heard of LSD, Sodium pentothol, etc..)
Even with the narcotics selections, the Polygraph was beatable however. To most agencies, the polygraph became a fear technique long ago and was not seen as a real scientific tool like it was thought to be in the 50s and 60s. If they can scare you into thinking you will be caught in a lie, you may confess. They don't want the public to know that it's mumbo-jumbo though, because it's cheap and easy to use this old garbage to collect a confession.
Now what I don't get is why they are trying to bust people that are making the voodoo public knowledge. It was bound to happen sooner or later, and them busting people does not make the polygraph magically valid science. That part is what the scientific community should be outraged over, and petitioning the Government to end it's use and persecution of people exposing the fraud.
Yes, part of the process in a poly is to "lead up" to the real questions. There's the "baseline" established by answering questions truthfully part ("what is your name", "what is your occupation", etc.) and some lie questions. The myth that it is more effective if someone believes in it is also played on: "think of a number between one and ten. Don't tell me the number just think about... 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... 8... 9... 10..." and the operator will tell you the number you had picked. I tried to denote the long pauses between numbers. Basically, there is typically a gradual tension build up as the selected number is approached and relief/release when it has been passed. The long delays help to ensure a clear reading of this and the idea is that by demonstrating mind reading the subject will believe in the poly making it more reliable.
Too bad it just isn't so. That is, there is no clear, causative relationship between lying and what the polygraph measures. Belief in the poly (and I've met folks who are absolutely convinced in their reliability) provides no help in passing one when being truthful, or failing one when lying. It is immaterial.
Something people who haven't been around polys don't seem to be aware of and isn't something they think of is that subjects often fall asleep during a poly. They are slow and tedious. They take a long time. There's lots of waiting. You are required to lay there absolutely still. And if you fall asleep it negates the entire poly and it has to be redone.
Another thing is the pretense that the polygraph tells whether or not someone is lying. It does no such thing. Instead, it is a set of graphs that are correlated with questions. In a serious polygraph this data is provided to two examiners who work independently. The goal is to yield a pass/fail, not a "subject was lying on points A, B and C, but lying on D, E and F". If the two examiners reach opposing conclusions then the data is provided to a third examiner and his determination is the ultimate finding. So with a polygraph there cannot be an uncertain answer: it is either pass or fail, nothing in between. It is graded by humans who the system expects will frequently have opposing findings and instead of that resulting in equivocacy it is simply referred to a single examiner to provide that authoritative result.
It is hard to not see this as being the subjective, flawed system that it is, but for those that have a deep psychological and/or political need for it to be objective and accurate it appears to suffice.
I had to take a polygraph test and I kept failing questions seemingly randomly. I finally figured out why, too. If I was at the end of an exhale when the interviewer reached the end of a question, I had to stop for just an instant to think whether to answer the question or take a breath. That tiny hesitation was enough to set it off. When the interviewer allowed me to answer the questions by nodding or shaking my head, I passed with flying colors.
The moment that cronie's nephew's job isn't dependant on them not realizing it. So about the same time they realize arresting people over smoking flowers (which was also started as a jobs program since the FBN had fuck all to do after prohibition ended) .
"Flawed in principle" is putting it rather mildly. I'd put it as "complete and utter bullshit." Polygraphs are on a level with dousing and voodoo dolls.
"Flawed in principle" is putting it rather mildly. I'd put it as "complete and utter bullshit." Polygraphs are on a level with dousing and voodoo dolls.
We should really just go back to good old Phrenology. Imagine how sophisticated our discernment of the criminal type could be, now that we have rapid 3d scanning technology!
We could even have employees shave their heads, and do a daily scan as they walk in the door. If the bump indicative of 'leaking tendencies' or 'disloyalty' increases in size, we'll know something is up. This plan is practically infallible.
Even better. Short of attaching prosthetic plates to the outside of your skull, there is nothing really you can do about beating a phrenology test. There could be no phrenology lessons or lists people how buy books on how to beat a phrenology exam.
Change the shape of your skull in seconds!
"Flawed in principle" is putting it rather mildly. I'd put it as "complete and utter bullshit." Polygraphs are on a level with dousing and voodoo dolls.
I suspect that having a heavily subjective (but allegedly Super Scientific) mechanism for generating justification for hounding people you dislike for other reasons is quite useful indeed....
If we were using some sort of goofy 'truth' metric, they'd be useless; but things can be false as well as useful.
Consider the analogy to drug sniffing dogs: While far better that their jobs than polygraphs, it isn't news that they 'indicate' in response to non-drugs all the damn time. That's more a feature than a
> Polygraphs are on a level with dousing and voodoo dolls.
And yet like them, there is always that person who thinks they work.
I was recently in a particular crowd of people I know who are somewhat prone to such beliefs. I mentioned how some guy had been selling essentially dowsing rods to miliary forces in Iraq, claiming that they were bomb detectors (they had no sensor, it was just a plastic handle with a card slot and a telescoping antena on a swivel)
Of course, I said this expecting the meaning to be t
The polygraph adds stress, and it becomes more difficult to lie in a coherent manner. Of course the test can be beaten, but if the operator is observable and skillful the signs can be picked. So it's not so much (or not at all) about the actual graphing. Staring at the machine will not yield any usable result. The eyes are on the one being tested.
Nope, polygraphs DO work....but only because people THINK they work.
They trick people into confessing things they wouldn't otherwise confess, because "the machine will find out" anyway and at least there may be some mercy if they voluntarily confess.
All bullshit, of course, but it does work....just not for the reasons we assume it does.
It isn't a matter of realizing that the polygraph is flawed. The NSA uses the counterintelligence scope poly for all employees, the CIA uses the more invasive "lifestyle" poly, and so on. All of this despite the fact that the inventor of the polygraph was a charlatan, it has been thoroughly debunked by scientific investigation, and all though intelligence people who have sold out their country (such as Aldritch Ames) passed the poly.
The importance isn't in its efficacy, but in having something "tangible" to hold on to. The powers that be are like Linus -- they need a security blanket to hold on to and they have seized on the polygraph. When you are in charge of a department that is going to have access to the deepest and darkest secrets, the most politically damaging truths, you want -- as a person in charge -- you *need* for these things to remain secret. You do background checks, have agents investigate backgrounds, interview the person and people they know.
But a clever person can conceal past malfeasance so that it does not come to light during the investigation. All you have from the personal interview is a *subjective* assessment of the person's honesty, truthfulness, and so on. What is needed is something more, something objective, something with a *score* that passes or fails the person being considered for this very sensitive position.
That is where the polygraph comes in. Thanks to the salesmanship of the original charlatan, people who *need* it are willing to overlook the rather glaring flaws and falacies in its foundation. And once it gets embedded in the government you have bureaucratic inertia keeping it in place. So the security blanket is here to stay. Now more than ever those in power feel a need to have additional assurance that their employees won't turn on them. The demonstrated lack of efficacy in this regard just makes them all the more frantic.
One point: your statement leaves the reader with the impression that the polygraph can work, and does if the person believes in it. This is tempting and perhaps plays a role in the self-deceit on the part of those who purvey and utilize polygraphs. But it simply isn't true. It *never* works to detect a lie. By coincidence a person may fail the polygraph while lying, but it is just a coincidence. Polygraphs have been studied and debunked.
Polygraphs are less effective than voodoo where if someone brought up in a culture that believes in the efficacy of voodoo has a curse put on them they will become ill (of course, they have to *know* about the curse, but that is part and parcel of how voodoo works). In other words, strong indoctrination can invoke a placebo effect to cause harm. This same effect has not been successfully demonstrated with polygraphs and is implausible given there is no unique, causative mechanism between lying and the physiological effects being measured. And that's assuming there's *any* causative mechanism.
That is pretty shady that they seize his materials, use it to their advantage, but then don't charge him with any crime. That's basically tyranny.
it's robbery as well.
you know what would be funny? administer a polygraph test on the people who seized the materials and ask them questions about their motives.
and I mean, fuck, http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+beat+a+polygraph&sm=3 [youtube.com] do they really expect to keep a list of everyone who clicks that link?(yes they do, sadly).
That is pretty shady that they seize his materials, use it to their advantage, but then don't charge him with any crime. That's basically tyranny.
Commies like you have no faith in America. It's not like he had any reasonable expectation of security in his person, papers, and effects or anything, now is it?
That is pretty shady that they seize his materials, use it to their advantage, but then don't charge him with any crime. That's basically tyranny.
Commies like you have no faith in America. It's not like he had any reasonable expectation of security in his person, papers, and effects or anything, now is it?
Well we have the right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Of course, if you've let things go to the point where you're not secure in your papers and where who you assemble with is under minute scrutiny, it's not going to be easy to form a well-regulated militia.
That's basically tyranny.
That's not what we were taught in government schooling.
That is pretty shady that they seize his materials, use it to their advantage, but then don't charge him with any crime. That's basically tyranny.
+17 insightful.
It's been 9 months since they seized his records, and they haven't charged him with a crime? That proves that the criminal concerns were bull from the get go. They knew damn well what he was doing before they seized his records, and obviously knew damn well that criminal charges wouldn't hold up in court (either we have a few honest federal judges left, or they were worried about an actual jury of his peers).
Have you ever successfully completed a polygraph cheating course? If yes, we won't hire you anyway.
FYI, they ask that shortly after the 'what's your name' type questions.
FYI, they ask that shortly after the 'what's your name' type questions.
"Who is your daddy and what does he do?"
Thanks for the advertisement! Once that hits the 'tubes in ebook form, thousands or even millions of us will get a copy. They can't put all of us on the watch list, right? Right?
Good thing I never bought a copy of the Constitution . .
Yeah... In retrospect, this would have been a total waste of money.
"How to Sting The Polygraph" is not on The Pirate Bay yet, but there are several other titles along the same lines. And of course some porn with polygraph in the title, which I'm going to check out "for professional reasons only".
Hit them with copyright violation shit for copying his business records with their list of people that question this stupid polygraph voodoo.
Wishfull thinking... but facts are not protected by copyright, only forms of expression are.
I have blatantly admonished the polygraph as being junk science online for close to 20 years now. I've pointed out how traitors from Ames to Snowden all passed the Polygraph with flying colors. I've also pointed out how there isn't a courtroom in this country that will accept the use of one. I've talked about how the scientific community considers them absolutely rubbish and no better than snake oil. I really can't think of a better way of how to illustrate that security theater is an active danger to this country than by citing the polygraph as example number 1.
It makes me wonder if I'm on this list of theirs too...
Traitors like James Clapper presumably passed the polygraph with flying colors as well.
Unfortunately you are wrong on one point: at least some courts can and do accept polygraphs as evidence. I don't recall enough of the case I'm thinking of to get a citation, but where they generally come into play is when someone is duped into taking it under the condition that the results will be admitted as evidence. Basically, it can (in at least some jurisdications) be admitted if both sides agree on it before hand. Some defendants are conned into this, either by thinking they will "pass" because they are innocent or believing they can beat it.
Beating a polygraph isn't that hard, unless the examiner knows what the finding will be before he starts. In that case it is easy enough to find anyone as having failed.
Never, ever submit to a polygraph. Its equivalent to turning yourself in to the inquisition for "questioning". The Malleus Maleficarum should be required reading for polygraph examiners if it isn't already.
It's bullshit since it measures that you are under stress. Some people don't get visibly stressed while lying. In fact some people get *calmer* while lying and this is well known. Other people get stressed not because they committed the action but for other reasons (they find it repulsive, are afraid of being wrongly sentenced, whatever).
Some people don't get visibly stressed while lying. In fact some people get *calmer* while lying and this is well known.
Well sure, occasionally a sociopath or two will escape the dragnet...
Like someone else said here Aldrich Ames.
Next up: A watch-list of people who have failed to purchase dream-catchers, healing crystals, Ouija boards, homeopathic "medicine," magic 8-balls, or religious paraphernalia in the past ten years.
As long as the religious gimcracks scream "Conservative Christian" I'm sure you're fine.
Youtube search penn and teller bullshit lie detectors. It's all explained there. You don't need a book or a DVD to learn it.
So what you're saying is that Penn and Teller, the network that aired their show, YouTube (where the videos are uploaded), and anyone who has viewed the videos needs to go on the list also, right?
It might be easier for the NSA et all to just make a list of people they DON'T want to watch. "John Smith is utterly boring in every way. He just sits around all day watching reality shows. Whatever you do, don't monitor him."
(Teller was silent on the matter)
Of course he was.
coming soon...
New & Improved Polygraph: Now with 100% more butt-probe to detect butt cheek squeezing cheaters.
I thought this country was secured by constitutional right to privacy from registering individual book reading/buying.
Easy! convince yourself deep down that your lie is in fact not a lie. With enough training, you can internally legitimize even the most absurd nonsense you can think of. There are 6 million Mormons, living proof.
There are 6 million Mormons,
Sure. You'll take on the Mormons and the combined might of the Federal law enforcement bureaucracy.
Prove you're a tough guy and insult the CoS.
which is funny, because the Scientologists already use ohmmeters in their "auditing"...
"Here, hold these soup cans, and we'll help you be a god!"
Just more ammunition to justify a search warrant should they so desire. Pretty soon, we'll all be on a list of one sort or another.
Not on a list, you say? We have a list of your kind!
Every government wants to know who read books they don't approve of. Libraries (and library software) carefully protect borrower privacy by only keeping borrowers names recorded with the book borrowed until they have been returned.
This is the law in several privacy-protective countries, and to sell software, you have to adhere to the law. Other countries don't prohibit privacy, so the software is saleable everywhere.
If writers now feel it necessary to inform us when someone with whom any state employee is not perfectly pleased has not been arrested, we are in a sorry state indeed.
That should be the first question that crosses everybody's mind.
Put people on a watch list for doing something 100% legal? Sign me up.
Not only does it show those idiots we won't support that sort of nonsense (by which I mean the watch lists, although using a polygraph probably counts too) but it also drown them in noise, hopefully making the use of the list pointless.
And to answer my own question: you can place your order at Polygraph.com [polygraph.com], with prices ranging from $20 to $60 dollars. I don't know (or care) if his methods are effective or not but it's worth shelling out a few bucks just to remind self-important lawmen that their thuggery not only is not going unnoticed, but is ultimately also is ineffective.
As this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fingerprinting [wikipedia.org] article shows there is an alternative that works. Note: I am an acquaintance of Farwell.
As this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fingerprinting [wikipedia.org] [wikipedia.org] article shows there is an alternative that works.
You may need to ask your acquaintance to explain it better:
Also, unlike polygraph testing, it does not attempt to determine whether or not the subject is lying or telling the truth.
"This is lemma 1.1. We start a new chapter so the numbers all go back to one." -- Prof. Seager, C&O 351


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August 28, 2007 > Change Your Cholesterol, Decrease Your Risk for Heart Disease
Diabetes Matters Class Focuses on Diet and Lifestyle Changes
Typically, your blood sugar level is one of the first things that comes to mind when thinking about diabetes, a condition that occurs when the body does not produce or properly use a hormone called insulin, which is necessary to convert food like sugar and starches into energy needed for daily life.Your blood sugar level is only a piece of the picture. A diabetes diagnosis is also a major predictor of heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States and a major cause of disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)On Thursday, Sept. 6, Washington Hospital clinical dietitian Lorie Roffelsen, R.D., will present a Diabetes Matters class about the connection between diabetes and high cholesterol, a prominent risk factor for heart disease."I think the message is getting out to more people with diabetes that their overall lifetime risk for heart disease is very high - up to 80 percent, according to some studies," Roffelsen says. "The side effects of diabetes: inflammation, hyperglycemia and insulin resistance can cause changes in the layers of the cells that line the arteries, priming the body for increased risk of heart disease."In fact, after a person has been diagnosed with diabetes, often his or her physician will treat them as though they already have heart disease, Roffelsen says, as a preventive measure. If someone has high cholesterol levels, their body is more likely to develop deposits in the arteries around the heart, increasing the risk of high blood pressure, stroke and blockages.Lifestyle changes can help change cholesterolDietary choices affect cholesterol levels, Roffelsen explains, but so does heredity. For instance, if your mother or father developed heart disease or had high cholesterol levels, there is a likelihood you may as well. Many new drugs have been developed to help people whose genetics make it difficult to lower their cholesterol, but that doesn't mean people can stop eating healthy, Roffelsen warns."Some people with high cholesterol may think 'If I'm on the cholesterol lowering drugs, why do I have to make changes to my diet?'" Roffelsen says. "But in most cases, I think physicians would prefer that a patient try to eat healthy in addition to taking cholesterol medication because it may minimize the amount of medication taken."During her talk, Roffelsen will explain the ins and outs of cholesterol measurements and she will also identify the foods that raise cholesterol levels, as well as foods that can actually help the body reduce cholesterol."Food choices that are high in saturated fats and trans fats are the ones that might contribute to high cholesterol," Roffelsen says. "To contain cholesterol, the food must have been an animal or have been made from an animal. For example, milk, eggs and meat are all sources of cholesterol. In addition to cholesterol, there is fat in a lot of foods. Saturated fat is higher in red meat and full-fat dairy products. Saturated fats are ones that raise 'bad' cholesterol. When you look at fish, it's a source of cholesterol, but low in saturated fat. By substituting fish for red meat, you lower the saturated fat."On Sept. 6, Roffelsen will explain how people can lower their cholesterol levels and improve their overall health "one plate at a time." She will perform a "plate makeover," explaining how people can swap cholesterol-laden items for healthier ones. But she stresses that the changes that really count are the ones people can make over the long haul."To see a change in overall cholesterol levels, people have to make consistent changes," she says. "Heart disease may form over a long period of time. When you're starting out, just make one change a week, and if it's a change that will stick, then try following it with another change the next week."The good news, according to Roffelsen, is that making changes to lower cholesterol levels can have a positive impact on other areas, as well. By eating healthier, people who have diabetes can maintain a healthy weight, lower blood pressure and stay in control of blood sugar levels."People who come to the lecture have grandkids, daughters and sons or other family members who maybe their concerned about cholesterol, and participants can bring this information home to their loved ones," emphasizes Roffelsen. "This is good for everyone to follow, not just those who have diabetes. This information can benefit everyone in the family."Make a healthy changeTo learn more about cholesterol and heart disease risk in relation to diabetes, join Washington Hospital clinical dietitian Lorie Roffelsen and other members of the community for the Diabetes Matters presentation, "Change Your Cholesterol One Plate at a Time." The class will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Conrad E. Anderson, M.D. Auditorium located at 2500 Mowry Avenue in Fremont, followed by a group discussion from 8 to 9 p.m.For more information about diabetes-related educational programs at Washington Hospital, visit www.whhs.com, click on "Services and Programs," and select "Diabetes Services" from the drop-down menu.


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>>>box game one
>>>box game two
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Junior Lauren Potts (Gray, Ga.) ripped a three-run, pinch-hit home run in the sixth inning of game one, helping Georgia College & State University softball (4-2) to a split with the University of West Georgia (3-5) Wednesday (Feb. 17) at the Peeler Complex. The Bobcats took game one 5-4 and dropped game two 11-8.
The Bobcats hosted "Pack the Park in Pink" for breast cancer research sponsored by Zeta Tau Alpha.
In game one, Georgia College got two runs in the first, and that lead held up until the fifth inning, where the Wolves matched the score. UWG went in front 4-2 with a pair of runs in the sixth on a Kaley Sullivan single, setting up Potts' heroics in the bottom half. Sullivan finished 2-for-4 with a pair of RBI and a run. Second baseman Lindsay Ellenburg went 2-for-2 with a run.
After a leadoff walk to Haley Burnett (Columbus, Ga.), and a sacrifice bunt, Belourse Jean-Francis (Naples, Fla.) also reached on a walk. Potts pinch hit, taking a 1-0 pitch deep to left center and the 5-4 lead. Burnett set down the Wolves in order in the top half for the victory.
Burnett (3-0) tossed all seven innings, allowing four unearned runs on seven hits, striking out five. She also drove in a pair on an RBI single in the first. Ashley West (0-1) entered in the sixth, suffering the loss with one inning of work.
In game two, a few Bobcat rallies weren't enough to overcome the 11 runs put up by West Georgia. Georgia College responded to the Wolves' first inning run with four of their own, a two-run single from Burnett, and a two-run home run by Anna Parker (Columbus, Ga.), her first of the year.
The Wolves put five more on the board in the top of the second, taking over 6-4. The 'Cats brought it even with single runs in the third and fourth, the game-tying shot coming in an RBI single from Kelsea Martin (Dacula, Ga.) plating Kati Pickowitz (Keller, Texas) who reached on a single of her own.
West Georgia blew the game open with a four-run fifth, the big blow coming in a two-run single from Preseason All-Gulf South Conference (GSC) centerfielder Candice Brown. After UWG put another run on the board in the sixth on a Crissy Rainwater solo blast, GCSU got two in the bottom of the sixth on a Martin double and Wolf fielding error.
The Bobcats nearly had one more rally in them, putting the tying run at the plate with two down, but a pop-up ended the game.
Freshman Kristi Rodriguez (Marietta, Ga.) fell to 1-2 with six innings of relief work, allowing five runs on seven hits and two walks, fanning two. John Milledge Academy grad Haley Dunn (2-1) returned home and picked up the win for West Georgia with 3 2/3 innings of relief.
Martin was 2-for-3 with two runs and two RBI in game two, and Parker had a 2-for-4 game with the home run, three RBI and a run. Pickowitz also had a 2-for-4 game with the run scored.
The Bobcats hit the road for the Charger Chillout Tournament hosted by the University of Alabama-Huntsville in Decatur, Ala. this weekend. Georgia College starts the six-game, three-day tournament against the University of West Alabama Friday, Feb. 19 at 10 a.m.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Not sure how the pics turned out but I smoked this Brisket for about 8 hours on my Bubba Keg.
BBQ baked beans, ranch potato salad and pasta salad to top it off.
Wife and kids finished the whole thing by days end!!!!
I have cooked almost nonstop on this thing for months. I will post more pics later.


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The government is always talking about how Taiwan is a "scholarly society." With the now defunct Council for Cultural Affairs and its new incarnation, the Ministry of Culture, the government is also using the word "culture" on a daily basis.
This is interesting because, on average, people living in Taiwan only read — or at least buy — two books a year. That means, compared to the populations of other countries, the nation is being left choking in the dust of those hurtling ahead.
If the people living in a country have yet to formulate any cultural aspirations to speak of, one cannot really talk of that country as being advanced, no matter how economically prosperous it appears on the surface.
Reading is essential, whether speaking epistemologically or pedagogically. Reading opens up the mind — is this not how civilized countries and civilized societies, come to be?
Advanced societies place a great deal of emphasis on cultural aspirations for a good reason.
Taiwan was under the control of the Japanese colonial government for the half-century preceding World War II and then under the control of the foreign Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) for more than 60 years.
With the move from Japan's attempts at culturally assimilating the Taiwanese, to Sinicization under the KMT, there was a change in language and a political paradigm shift, and the impact of this on reading and writing was considerable.
Political interference during the Martial Law era and commercial interference since it was lifted have been pernicious cultural pathogens, riddling literature, contorting and distorting it, from the writing of it to the publication, printing, distribution and the reading thereof.
Taiwan as a scholarly society exists in nothing but name; it is an evocation to a phantom "culture." This is the problem we have in this "nation," that does not function as a nation at all.
Buying books is a commercial transaction between readers and the bookstores or other distribution outlets that provide them. That is the nature of their relationship.
Bookstores stock the books that people want, and bibliophiles browse their shelves, searching for hidden treasures.
Libraries have a different relationship with their readers: One could say they provide a kind of public service. The books are there to loan, you can read them without the need to buy.
The poet Joseph Brodsky (1940 to 1998), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987, believed that libraries were more important to empires than armies, saying on one occasion: "The empires of the past have been held together, not so much by the legions, but by language."
How right he was. Libraries must have had a special significance for this self-taught poet, raised in poverty, growing up in the despotic society of post-revolutionary Russia.
There are many areas in rural Taiwan in which people have no access to bookstores, while public libraries line their shelves with pap, not literature, obliged by limited resources to sacrifice quality and keep costs down.
Meanwhile, the government departments responsible for culture are exacerbating the situation, frittering away funds on projects like the Republic of China centennial musical Dreamers (夢想家), immensely costly ventures in praise of the party-state.
In more advanced countries, libraries buy in books based on how many times they are likely to be read, not because of price considerations. In Taiwan, exactly the opposite is done.
In Japan, the Nihon Toshokan Kyokai — the Japan Library Association — supplies libraries with a list of book recommendations every year.
And here in Taiwan? Do we not need to rethink our approach to culture?
Lee Min-yung is a poet.
Translated by Paul Cooper


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- September 24, 1914 - August 28, 2011
- Melrose, Massachusetts
of Effie's Passing
- Gifts in her memory may be made to:
The Kirkwood House, Activity Fund
202 Main Street
Wakefield, MA 01880
Memories & CandlesPrevious
"My Dear Auntie Ef,
You're in my heart always. I miss pulling stories from your memory and learning from your wisdom. May you find peace in the...Read More »
1 of 21 | Posted by: Marc Berry - Allentown, PA
Many years have gone by, but I still have very fond memories playing at your house when we were young. Your mother was always so kind and soft...Read More »
2 of 21 | Posted by: Marie Dugas Morrow - Everett, MA
"Dear Judy and David
I just learned about the death of your mother. I have never forgotten working with her at Am Mut. She was always a favorite of...Read More »
3 of 21 | Posted by: june lloyd - malden, MA
"Condolences to David and Judy,Aunt Effie was a wonderful person and will be greatly missed. She certianly is in Heaven. Love Phyllis,John,Rick and...Read More »
4 of 21 | Posted by: Rick Corrado - Lynn, MA - Aunt
"My condolences to the family of Effie Thistle she will be missed by all.. I remember her coming to Star meetings ( but it has been a while now ) you...Read More »
5 of 21 | Posted by: Kathryn J Graham PM Order of the Eastern Star Melrose # 14 - MA
"Judy-My condolences on the passing of your dear mother. May God's wings shelter her now and forever. Wendy Fisher
6 of 21 | Posted by: Wendy Fisher - Oneonta, NY
"Dave and Judy.We just heard of your mother's passing.Please accept our condolences.XTWtI
7 of 21 | Posted by: Roy & Linda Thistle
"Dear Judy and Dave,I was very saddened to hear of your mother's passing. She was a very important part of my life. I felt always close to her as I...Read More »
8 of 21 | Posted by: Robert Berry - Bandon, OR
"Judy and David,
Aunt Effie was a Special Lady to all of us. I grew up hearing Aunt Effie and Uncle Ol mentioned on many occasions. I'll always...Read More »
9 of 21 | Posted by: Gary and Lynn Hillyard
"I will miss effie so much she was a class act always the lady.I will miss going in each morning to give her her morning kiss i know she looked...Read More »
10 of 21 | Posted by: Betsy Mattuchio - Melrose, MA
"I had the wonderful opportunity to work with Effie @ American Mutualfor a short 5 year period up until the early 1980s. She was such a joyful...Read More »
11 of 21 | Posted by: Kim E. Brazis Kelly - Groveland, MA
"Judy and David: Thinking of you both! Aunt Effie-- The perfect Lady! That's how I will remember her. We { the girls} have lots of fond memories of...Read More »
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"Judy and Dave,
I'm so sorry for your loss. What a wonderful woman Effie was. I have so many memories of her that I've collected over the years. I...Read More »
13 of 21 | Posted by: Marc Berry - Allentown, PA
"Judy & David,
I am so sorry to hear about "Aunt Effie's" passing. I have fond memories of being over your house in Melrose on Holidays with your...Read More »
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"Judy and David
Aunt Effie had a smile big enough to light a room and a heart large enough to fill it.She will always be remembered with love.Our...Read More »
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"Dear Judy & David,
So sorry to hear of Aunt Effie's passing. She became my Aunt too with the girls from Newfoundland. I always enjoyed...Read More »
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"Judy, David and family are thoughts and prayers are with you during these difficult times. Effie was an incredibly giving and caring lady, the only...Read More »
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She was grace and kindness itself. Susan strang
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"Judy,David and family, Please know that my thaughts are with you at this most difficult time.I have fond memories of aunt Effie,when she visited with...Read More »
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"Judy and David - We are truly sorry for your loss. Aunt Effie was, without a doubt, one of the nicest and kindest people we have ever known. You...Read More »
20 of 21 | Posted by: Richard R. Murray - Lynn, MA
Just wanted to let you know that you are in my prayers at this difficult time.
21 of 21 | Posted by: Chuck - MA
Mrs. Effie M. (Smith) Thistle, of Melrose, formerly of Saugus, passed away peacefully in her 97th year on Sunday, August 28, 2011 at the Kirkwood House in Wakefield.
Effie Smith was born on September 24, 1914 in Somerville, one of seven children of the late George and Beatrice (Reid) Smith.
Effie was raised and educated in Saugus. She worked at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital and for many years at American Mutual Insurance Co. in Wakefield. She proudly served as an air raid warden in the civil defense during World War II. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Melrose and the Order of the Eastern Star, Melrose Chapter #14.
Effie will be lovingly remembered as an incredibly kind and loving person. She will be much missed by her family, friends, and the residents and caretakers at the Kirkwood House in Wakefield.
She was the beloved wife of the late Oliver Thistle. Devoted mother of the Reverend Judith A. Thistle of Worcester, NY and David O. Thistle of Melrose. Dear sister of Phyllis Corrado of Lynn, Doris Colorusso of NH, and the late H. Baxter Smith, Margarita Berry, George H. Smith and Winifred Murray. Also survived by many nieces and nephews.
She also leaves her cherished and most dear friends, Nicholas and Barbara DiLoreto of Melrose.
Funeral Service to honor and remember Effie's life at the Robinson Funeral Home, 809 Main St., Melrose, Saturday, September 3 at 11:00 AM. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. Visiting hours on Friday from 4-8 PM. Interment in Puritan Lawn Memorial Park, Peabody. Gifts in her memory may be made to the Kirkwood House, Activity Fund, c/o Robert Cushing, 202 Main St., Wakefield, MA 01880.
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(Cinemax on Comcast) Sarah Michelle Gellar puts her "Scooby-Doo" skills to the test, playing a nurse in Tokyo trying to find out why a house is haunted. Watching her run around this would-be freak-out stirs thoughts of Naomi Watts in "The Ring," but this Japanese horror remake is better. Still, it lacks a single potent shock. (PG-13; runs through Dec. 13)
Wesley Morris
(Comcast Movie Collections: All New Movies) For those who can't stop believin' and fans of bizarro Tom Cruise performances. This star-studded adaptation of the Broadway jukebox musical, dedicated to the enduring power of cheesy '80s pop-metal, alternates plastic bombast with moments of comic invention: It's karaoke night on a Hollywood budget. Cruise plays an Axl-like rock god; Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, and two dull ingénues also appear. (PG-13; runs through March 8)
Ty Burr
(Encore on Comcast) This outing with a galloping gang of four is expansive in spirit as well as geography. But it often seems synthetic, as if it consisted of recycled bits of other Westerns. This undercuts its entertainment value. (PG-13; runs through
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We robbed the hood last night of their candy.
And then after the kids went to bed, I stole my favorite chocolate out of their buckets. It's what I like to call a tax.
I ate a mini Kit Kat bar at 2 am. I sort of regret that.
I really thought about doing this, but we have enough drama.
Y'all have a great weekend!


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Edo Tensei Fukai (S) - Page 2
Naruto-Arena forces you to select 3 characters when you start a new game. This page gives you an overview of all characters available in the Naruto-Arena game. Not only can you view each character's skills, you can also discuss the characters by posting comments.
Edo Tensei Fukai (S)
Edo Tensei Fukai (S) has been summoned using the edo tensei jutsu. He is powerless to stop himself from rampaging.Requirement to unlock: Mission: A Previous Jinchuuriki
Chakra Arms
Edo Tensei Fukai (S) uses Chakra Arms on all enemies dealing 10 affliction damage. Continuous Tailed Beast Bomb and Jinchuuriki Telepathy will deal 5 more damage to all targets of this skill permanently. This effect stacks.
Cooldown: 1
Chakra required:
Classes: Chakra, Ranged, Unique, Affliction, Instant
Continuous Tailed Beast Bomb
Using Continuous Tailed Beast Bomb Edo Tensei Fukai (S) deals 30 damage to one enemy. Edo Tensei Fukai (S) gains 10% unpiercable damage reduction permanently when this skill is used. This effect stacks.
Cooldown: 1
Chakra required:
Classes: Chakra, Ranged, Unique, Instant
Jinchuuriki Telepathy
Edo Tensei Fukai (S) uses Jinchuuriki Telepathy on one enemy dealing 15 piercing damage. That enemy's chakra and ranged skills will be stunned for 1 turn.
Cooldown: 1
Chakra required:
Classes: Mental, Ranged, Unique, Instant
Chakra Cloak Defense
This skill makes Edo Tensei Fukai (S) invulnerable for 1 turn.
Cooldown: 4
Chakra required:
Classes: Chakra, Instant
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Free Brazilian Pool Party Returns to Times Square
Clinton Hill: "Seder in a Box" prayer kit available for $1 at St. Joseph's College. Bring it to one of the nontraditional Seder meals we recently recommended! [Clinton Hill Blog] Lower East Side: MySpace pages offer insight into why Falai Panetteria waitresses are so bitchy. [Gawker] Midtown East: No longer keeping their chin up: I-Chin has closed. [NYT] A Burger King on Fifth Avenue sues its landlord over rats, who were probably seeking a new food source after Hunan Fifth got shuttered. [NYS] Red Hook The beloved El Huipil is no more, but the new owners of the space will also serve Mexican food — made by a "hot chef." [Eat for Victory/VV] Times Square: "Reality dining" comes to Broadway when Spotlight Live opens on April 6. [NYT] The free Brazilian pool party at Hotel QT returns this Thursday, promising live music, cachaça specials, and skinny-dipping-themed pickup lines. [NewYorkology] Tribeca: Oh, dom: Dominic closes. [NYT] Turtle Bay: The U.N.'s all-you-can-eat Malaysian buffet kicks off in mid-April! [NewYorkology] Union Square: Union Square Café name sold to Tokyo group. Related: Tokyo has a Union Square? [NYT] Upper West Side: Ollie's Noodle Shop workers follow Saigon Grill deliverymen. [Eater]


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By Michael Aneiro
Treasuries are having a good afternoon Wednesday, moving higher shortly after midday with the ten-year Treasury note currently up 11/32 in price to yield 2.918%, per Tradeweb data.
A couple of factors at play here. First, several analysts had predicted earlier today that Verizon's (VZ) record-breaking $49 billion bond sale today would give a boost to Treasuries, as the pricing of the gargantuan deal would be accompanied by an unwinding of rate-lock agreements in which corporate bond issuers use the Treasury market to hedge against any last-minute movement in interest rates ahead of bond sales.
Second, the Treasury auctioned off $21 billion of ten-year notes this afternoon. The coincidental timing of these events made for an "outstanding" auction, according to Tom DiGaloma of ED&F Man Capital. And here's Adrian Miller of GMP Securities to break it all down:
The U.S. Treasury's re-opening of the 10Y UST note via an auction of $21 billion notes has been somewhat complicated by the massive Verizon Corp $49 billion bond deal. While we likely saw particular focus on the 5Y UST tenor via rate lock-up agreements, the 10Y UST has also been pressured of late due to the market positioning itself ahead of this VZ deal. Hence the unwind of the various lock up agreements on Wednesday has provided a boost to treasuries across the curve….
The auction was priced to yield 2.946%, the highest stop since June 2011, -2bp below the WI bid side yield and +33bp higher than the August auction. The bid-to-cover was very solid….
At this point the bond market has fully factored in the prospect of a September taper, even more than we think is warranted. With that, going into the Fed's FOMC meeting on September 17-18, yields should remain relative stable which should provide the basis for solid auction results this week.


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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Two 2002 Loire Chenins
What a great Loire Valley vintage - 2002. They have been some of my favorite Loire wines - ripe fruit, not '05 ripe but ripe enough for me, with edgy acidity and the distinctive minerality of the various Loire appellations. Last night I re-visited a couple of dry Chenin Blanc wines, one from Saumur and the other a Vouvray. Both had spent several days opened up and hanging out in the fridge.
Chateau Tour Grise Saumur Blanc 2002 -
Beautiful nose, that really improved dramatically from when it was first opened. Persimmons, orange marmelade, and red apples. Full-bodied and very dry flavors, with decent fruit intensity and a hint of white flowers. Once again, very dry, heavy-weight Chenin. A bit atypical on the palate, the nose says Loire Chenin but the palate might suggest something else. Interesting wine.
Domaine de la Fontainerie Vouvray Sec Cuvee 'C' 2002 -
Fresh orange blossom honey and a bit of chai spice on the nose. This one smells, and tastes, a bit sweeter, though it is still a sec style (and labeled as such). Perhaps 'sec tendre' would be a more appropriate description. Unfortunately this wine was slightly corked, though it did not show so much on the palate. Underneath the cork taint is a wonderful wine, with a deft balance of sweetness, acidity and chewy Vouvray minerality.
As good as Loire Chenin is, it happens to be very prone to cork taint. Oh well - I am more than happy to live with occasionally corked bottles, given the amazingly high quality and consistent value these wines offer.
Posted by Joe Manekin at 11/14/2007 03:44:00 PM
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- Jon said...
I am also prone to cork taint, but that's between me and my doctor.
- November 15, 2007 at 6:05 AM
- Joe M. said...
'Taint the taint of a man, but rather his character that matters most.
- November 15, 2007 at 8:49 AM
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The governor's state budget plan – including his call for extending temporary taxes with a June ballot measure to help erase the state's $25 billion budget deficit – was endorsed today by the governing council of the 325,000-member California Teachers Association.Educators meeting here are alarmed that, without an extension of current revenues, public schools and colleges would lose at least another $2.3 billion on top of the more than $18 billion in devastating cuts they have suffered over the past three years. The vote to support Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan came from the nearly 800 democratically elected teacher delegates on the CTA State Council of Education at their meeting in Los Angeles."Educators and all school employees are making a stand to protect our students and classrooms," said CTA President David A. Sanchez. "The governor's plan to extend temporary taxes for five years is a necessary and viable option to prevent further cuts to schools, public safety, health and other vital state programs. California voters must be allowed to decide whether they want to make our schools a priority and start rebuilding a world-class public education system or whether they want a world-class state budget catastrophe."Educators also approved their 2011-12 state budget principles. They oppose any mid-year or additional cuts to schools and colleges; support a balanced approach of cuts and revenues to resolve the budget crisis; support extending current temporary taxes for five years with a June ballot measure; support the governor's plan to eliminate redevelopment agencies – generating about $1 billion in new funding for schools; and oppose fee hikes for college students that are making a higher education unaffordable.More than 30,000 California educators and 10,000 other public school employees have been laid off over the past three years due to state cuts. Class sizes are soaring and entire school years are shrinking in many school districts. The state continues to rank at the bottom of all 50 states in the ratios of teachers, school counselors, librarians and nurses to students.CTA emphasizes that the governor's plan will not restore all previous cuts to education and does not adequately meet the long-term funding needs of our schools and colleges. CTA supports changes to the state's tax system to provide ongoing funding for education. To start a public conversation about how unfair tax policies are hurting school funding, CTA has launched an online resource of research and studies at www.cta.org/taxfairness. ###The 325,000-member CTA is affiliated with the 3.2 million-member National Education Association.
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Curated by the artist himself in collaboration with Elena Geuna, the exhibition Rudolf Stingel unfolds over the atrium and both upper floors of Palazzo Grassi, a space of over 5,000 square meters. For the first time, Palazzo Grassi is devoting the entirety of its space to the work of a single artist. It includes a site-specific installation as well as recent creations and previously unseen paintings. This is Stingel's largest ever monographic presentation in Europe.Conceived by Rudolf Stingel expressly for Palazzo Grassi, the project spreads over all the rooms of the building, where carpeting based on an oriental rug covers the entire surface of the walls and floors. The installation is part of Stingel's artistic research, which has always analysed the relationship between exhibition space and artistic intervention: for the artist, the carpet is a medium through which painting relates to its architectural context. The exhibition presents a selection of over thirty paintings from collections around the world, including the artist's collection and that of French billionaire François Pinault (born 1936, in Champs-Geraux, France).
Many of these works were created in the studios of Merano and New York specifically for this project. Born in 1956, Rudolf Stingel lives and works between New York and Merano, his hometown. His work has been at the centre of several exhibitions in numerous international institutions, including the Secession, Vienna (2012); the Neue National Galerie, Berlin (2010); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2004); the Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento (2001). He took part in the Venice Biennial in 1993 and 2003. At Palazzo Grassi, his work has been presented in the exhibitions Where Are We Going? (2006), Sequence 1 (2007), Mapping the Studio (2009-2010) and The World Belongs to You (2011). Elena Geuna, born in 1960, is an independent curator and contemporary art advisor. Her main curatorial museum projects include exhibitions Jeff Koons (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, 2003; Château de Versailles, 2008); Fontana: Luce e Colore (Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, 2008); Zhang Huan: Ashman (PAC, Milan, 2010); Arte Povera in Moscow (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2011). In 2012, she curated the exhibitions Quilling and Freedom not Genius. Works from Damien Hirst's Murderme collection at Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli in Turin.


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LEOMINSTER -- It looked as if the dispute between Mayor Dean Mazzarella and the American Little League was over last July, but even with an apparent agreement, a resolution over the relocation of a scoreboard has not been settled.
The City Council's City Property Committee called city Recreation Director Judith Sumner and members of the Recreation Commission to appear on a fact-finding mission Wednesday.
From the beginning, Committee Chairman Ward 3 Councilor David R. Cormier said the committee has no jurisdiction in the dispute, but the full council voted in November to have the commission appear, so it can foster conversation between the sides.
"As community leaders we all hear enough about it from community groups," Cormier said. "We all want to foster an ending to it, have everybody agree and put it behind us."
Sumner said the commission will vote at its meeting Feb. 11 whether to endorse relocating the scoreboard from Mazzarella's property about 30 feet to public property.
If the commission votes, the sign will be relocated in the spring, league President Rob Lora said.
"If they vote on it, I would think by April something could be done," he said after the meeting. "I'm on board to move this along -- we're going on a year."
After the meeting, which he didn't attend, Mazzarella said he prefers the scoreboard be moved more toward the undeveloped Milton Street to protect his property value, but will agree to the city property in right-center field.
"We would prefer it not go there but we would not object," he said.
His involvement in the dispute is as a city resident and not as mayor, he said.
Mazzarella said it is important the sign be installed securely and be well maintained because it will still be 5 feet from his property line and doesn't want it falling.
The city's building inspector wants a structural engineer to design the plans, Sumner said.
Sumner wants a letter from Mazzarella agreeing to the relocation before the commission takes a vote.
Mazzarella said he likes the idea of a written agreement of the plan.
Mazzarella and American Little League President Rob Lora reached a verbal agreement last July to move the sign about 30 feet to city property.
But a legal review of whether it could be relocated to the end of Milton Street and surveying property lines took until late October, and then winter set in, Sumner said.
The commission's preference for relocating the scoreboard is left field along the third base line, Sumner said
That would prevent the league from building enough seating to host state tournaments, and fly balls could damage it, Lora said.
It would also be far more expensive to run wiring to the scoreboard than moving it 30 feet, Sumner said.
Ward 4 Councilor Robert Salvatelli agreed with Cormier that the committee has no authority in the dispute but said it was a good meeting.
"I'm very uncomfortable with this meeting but the update was very good," he said. "I understand what is going on."
At-large Councilor Claire Freda said the dispute over the sign is a civil matter that doesn't belong in front of the council.
Ward 1 Councilor David Rowlands suggested the sign could be grandfathered, depending how long it has been in place, but the commission later agreed that would be an issue for the league to consider.
Commission Chairwoman Maureen Donatelli appeared with Sumner along with commissioners Tom Bissonnette, John Ciccolini and Richard Greene.
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With the advent of Arena season 2, a lot of people are looking forward to the new arena sets. But others are wondering if gear gained from the arenas should be better, worse, or equal to gear from raiding. Two forum topics -- "ARENA GEAR should NOT = RAIDING GEAR" and "Raiding gear should NOT = Arena gear" purport to pit PVEers against PVPers, even though most people seem to do a mix of both.
Basically, the argument goes like this:
- Raider: Anyone can get arena epics fairly easily just by PVPing a few matches a week, so why should they be as good as the drops I spent hours raiding for?
- Arena player: Any brainless monkey can mash a keyboard against programmed opponents. Facing other people is the real test of skill in WoW, so we should get the best gear.
- Everyone else: Hey, aren't the PVP sets better for PVP and the PVE sets better for PVE? What's wrong with that? It's not like that stamina and resilience are gonna do most people tons of good against Kael'thas.
Personally, as one of those elusive casual raiders, I like having the arena sets equal to raiding sets. It gets all the people who just want to gear up through raiding, then /gquit and PVP all the time out of raiding guilds. PVP gear should be best at killing other players, and PVE gear should be best at killing bosses. And when did doing Arena for a month to get ONE epic item become "easy epics"? It's only easy if you compare it to the old PVP honor system, which was life-destroying.
Drysc puts it pretty well in one of the threads: "You're not actually concerned that someone else is getting something easier than you, because you would go do it and wouldn't look back. You're either unable or unwilling to switch to what you perceive is the easier route, and want what you're invested in or willing to do made easier based on what you perceive matches the effort invested in the other." Basically, if you're raiding for gear and complain that Arena is easier, go do Arena, and vice versa.
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Are you a self-described daredevil? Are you always looking for the next thrill? Take the following test:
1. Assume that you have a critical test the next day:
a. You go and drive your car 100mph for the night.
b. You begin a night long study in preparation.
c. You go to a movie and entertain yourself.
2. Assume that you have a new job:
a. You spend your time doing exciting stunts for the excitement.
b. You spend your time studying and doing things to get you ahead.
c. You get a boyfriend/girlfriend and spend your money nurturing that relationship.
3. Assume that you are in a serious love relationship, and you know you want to make a good impression.
a. You spend all your free time seeking an adrenaline rush.
b. You spend all of your free time in showing how responsible you are — finances, being sensitive, improving communication.
c. You spend all of your time in sports.
4. Assume that you know people have an expectation of you.
a. You put your reputation and expectations aside and put yourself in dangerous situations like hanging out at bars and getting involved in dangerous plans.
b. You try to rise to the expectations by demonstrating good behavior and responsible deeds.
c. You avoid expectation but place priority on pursuing goals.
5. Assume that you are at a party and are getting drunk.
a. You continue getting drunk and drink to take risks.
b. You make arrangements to have someone drive you home and make arrangements to safeguard your date.
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Texas guard Myck Kabongo (12) looks to pass around Kansas uard Naadir Tharpe during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, in Lawrence, Kan. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
Sunday, February 17, 2013 12:28 am
Cold-shooting Texas routed by No. 14 Kansas 73-47
By KATHLEEN GIERAssociated Press
Whether it was the thrill of playing his second game after a 23-game suspension, or a last shot at redemption during a poor shooting night, Kabongo and the Longhorns refused to quit even with the game far out of reach.
Kabongo missed his first seven shots before finishing with 13 points, playing all but two minutes in the Longhorns' 73-47 loss to No. 14 Kansas on Saturday night.
"I'll let him play as long as he wants to play," said Texas coach Rick Barnes, whose team is in danger of missing the NCAA tournament for the first time in 15 years. "If you would have seen timeouts and huddles and seen them talking, it makes you proud. We're not going to quit."
The Longhorns (11-14, 3-9 Big 12), who were second nationally in field-goal percentage defense, went toe-to-toe with the only team better - and shot just 19 percent in the first half.
It didn't get much better after the break.
Texas finished the game shooting 21.8 percent from the field, and a dismal 2 of 21 from beyond the arc. The Longhorns made 21 free throws, nearly double their number of field goals.
"It really came down to execution and they were better," said Texas forward Ioannis Papapetrou.
Jeff Withey had 15 points and 11 rebounds while becoming the Big 12's career blocked shots leader. Elijah Johnson finished with 12 points for the Jayhawks (21-4, 9-3 Big 12), Travis Releford added 15 and Ben McLemore had 13, including a 360 jam in the closing minutes that capped off quite a show for more than a dozen former players in attendance.
Among them was Mario Chalmers, whose buzzer-beating 3-pointer forced overtime in the 2008 national title game won by Kansas. The Miami Heat guard was honored at halftime by having his No. 15 raised to the rafters, where it joined names such as Wilt Chamberlain and Paul Pierce.
Perhaps one day, Withey's name will reside there.
The senior center had his 265th block early in the second half to move past former Texas star Chris Mihm for the most in league history. The reigning Big 12 defensive player of the year even had four steals while making life miserable for the young, undersized Longhorns.
"It means something to me. I put a lot of hard work in it," Withey said, "but I have a lot more games to play. Hopefully I can put some distance between it."
Texas had already fallen behind 11-8 when they went the next 8-plus minutes without a field goal, missing 10 straight shots, three free throws and turning the ball over twice. By the time Papapetrou got to the rim for Texas, the Jayhawks had built a 24-11 lead.
It never got a whole lot better for Texas.
The Longhorns went another 6 1/2 minutes without a field goal before Demarcus Holland's steal and layup got them within 28-15 at halftime. That meant the final 15:55 of the first half, Texas had precisely as many shot-clock violations (two) as they had made field goals.
It was the Longhorns' lowest-scoring half of the season.
"We did a good job of making them uncomfortable on the offensive end," Releford said.
Kansas didn't waste any time delivering the knockout punch in the second half.
Johnson was the catalyst, scoring the Jayhawks' first seven points and finally starting to shake out of a season-long slump that has been frustrating and, at times, embarrassing for one of the key players on last season's national runner-up.
The senior guard started Kansas on a 13-4 run by getting to the basket and drawing a foul. He missed the free throw, but moments later did the exact same thing and converted the three-point play. Johnson finished off his own spurt with another basket, and by the time Releford scored in transition, the Jayhawks had built a 41-22 lead with 14:32 remaining in the game.
Texas coach Rick Barnes, whose team is in danger of missing the NCAA tournament for the first time in 15 years, was powerless to stop the onslaught even with a full complement of timeouts.
Kansas eventually pushed the lead to 55-28 when Withey scored six straight points, including a follow-up dunk off his own miss with just less than 8 minutes left in the game.
McLemore put the exclamation mark on a celebratory night for the Jayhawks when he got ahead of the fast break with about 4 minutes left and elevated for a 360 dunk that brought down the house and gave Kansas a 68-34 lead on the dazed, checked-out Longhorns.
Kansas, which rallied from 11 down to beat Texas in January, emptied the bench in the final minutes as it coasted to its eighth win in nine meetings with the Longhorns.
"We've been in this situation before," said the Longhorns' Connor Lammert. "We knew we had to say together. Myck Kabongo, he's our leader. He did the best job he could."


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A pregnant mother and her son have died after a tragic boating accident on High Rock Lake Saturday afternoon.
A pregnant mother and her son have died after a tragic boating accident on High Rock Lake on Saturday afternoon.
Melissa Chambers Britt, 32, and her son, William Jaiden Britt, 3, both of Oak Ridge, died in the accident according to the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. The accident occurred about 12:30 p.m. off of Hickory Point Road, said Reggie Lookabill, chief of the Davidson County Rescue Squad. Divers searched for about five hours until Melissa Britt's body was found Saturday.
The fatal accident involved two boats, one of which was a pontoon boat, and numerous people were on the boats, Lookabill said. Sgt. Tony Sharum of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission said four people, including Melissa Britt's husband, William Clayton Britt Jr., 33, of Oak Ridge, and her brother, Micheal Chambers, age unknown, of Stokesdale, were on the pontoon boat. The sergeant said Melissa Britt, who was three months pregnant, fell off the pontoon boat, and her husband, the driver of that boat, was not injured.
"It's a devastating loss for his family," Sharum said.
A spokeswoman with Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem said Monday that Chambers was listed in serious condition.
Davidson County Sheriff David Grice and Sharum said the power boat hit the pontoon boat head-on. Grice said the NCWRC was handling the investigation.
Sharum told The Dispatch the accident occurred as the two boats were traveling on Swearing Creek on High Rock Lake. He said the pontoon boat was traveling downstream at a slow speed with three adults and one child aboard. The power boat, he said, was traveling upstream at a speed in excess of 25 mph prior to impact.
Sharum identified the driver of the power boat as Micheal Lynn Greene, 52, of McCleansville. He said Greene had three juveniles on his boat, who included his daughter and two of her friends. The occupants of the power boat were not injured.
Sharum said the Britts and Chambers were cruising on the lake and had not been on the boat for very long before the incident occurred. The accident, he said, occurred right in front of Britts' lake house.
"It was a sad scene," Sharum said, as he noted children's toys were on the beach as parts of the boat were washing up.
The NCWRC had not charged anyone in the accident. Alcohol was not a contributing factor, Sharum said. The NCWRC believes possible operator inattention from Greene was the contributing factor. "It's an open investigation," Sharum said, adding multiple people witnessed the accident.
Sharum said the adults were not wearing life preservers, but it was unclear if the child had on a life jacket. He said the child died as a result of the impact of the power boat striking the pontoon boat and was not ejected into the water.
The family dog, who was also on the boat, has been found alive, Sharum said.
Sharum said one of the NCWRC's reconstruction experts would review the accident. The sergeant is expected to meet with the Davidson County District Attorney's Office sometime after Tuesday to present all information regarding the accident.
About 75 people took part in the rescue efforts. Agencies involved were the Davidson County Rescue Squad, Davidson County EMS, the Davidson County Sheriff's Office, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, the Thomasville Rescue Squad, the Fair Grove Volunteer Fire Department, Healing Springs Fire and Rescue, the Rowan County Rescue Squad and the Southmont Volunteer Fire Department.
Lookabill said a resident on the lake allowed the agencies to use sonar on his boat to help locate the woman. A cadaver dog from the Thomasville Rescue Squad and sonar from a Rowan County Rescue Squad boat were also essential in locating her, the chief said.
The deaths came two days after the Davidson County Sheriff's Office and other agencies held a press conference concerning boating safety on High Rock Lake.
Lookabill said Saturday's double-fatality on the lake was tough on everybody involved.
"We (the emergency responders) spent our Saturday down there but we realize what this family has lost," he said.
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INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Friday, 17th September 2010: Egyptian media published a picture of Hosni Mubarak at the Washington Middle East peace summit on the 1st September that had been heavily photoshopped. Mubarak was shown to be walking out on front of other leaders when in fact he had been trailing behind of the outer flank! These and other stories in today's international papers.